I really don't think too many employers will take the time and trouble to regulate friendships outside the office, or even inside in most cases.
It's not that they'll follow you around. Like so many laws that are on the books, it's just another hammer to hit you with if they've thought you've done something wrong.
What would prevent a spammer or phisher from creating the necessary setup to pass verification?
Nothing. In fact, we want them to do that.
Things like SPF and Sender-ID are good for stopping (or at least warning about) mail that some spam clown sent with a forged From: address
That's the whole point. We're blocking that route to address forgery. At some point having a SPF or Sender-ID record will be expected or required just like it's expected these days that you not have your MTA openly relay.
which both SPF and Sender-ID ultimately do, in that they allow malicious senders to set up systems so that tests are passed for spam and phishing mails and the like
It doesn't matter if tests pass. What's important at this point in time is if the test fails.
No, that's not how it works. A work is copyright by someone when they create it, whether or not it's registered with a copyright office. So that everyone can use it without infiging on their copyright, they license it for use. The license in this situation is the GPL. Now it's true that the details of the GPL cover distribution terms and not use terms. However, you must still accept their license to use the software. If you don't accept the license and continue to use it then you are infringing on their copyright. Make sense?
More than likely there is something missing from the story that we're not hearing. The Register is the National Enquirer of the IT world. I wouldn't turn to them for quality journalism.
Then configure your MTA to use your ISPs SMTP server as a smarthost. All your outgoing mail will be routed through your ISPs mail server and won't be rejected by AOL and others.
I've been using a whitelist. I have the following in my procmailrc with FILTER_WHITELIST containing the path to a text file with one email address per line:
:0 * ? formail -xFrom: | fgrep -iqsf $FILTER_WHITELIST { # Learn this message as non-spam for the bayesian classifier. This is # better than depending solely on SA's autolearn feature. :0c: | sa-learn --ham
# Add a header so that I know this email address was in the whitelist. :0f: whitelist-header.lock | formail -A 'X-Whitelisted: Yes'
# into the INBOX. :0: $DEFAULT }
I'm using several RBLs in sendmail. The thing that's made a huge difference is milter-sender. It's cut the amount of spam I get by over 60%. I tried doing the bayesian thing but it only works for a while. I get very little legitimate email. I'd say about 30-50 messages a month versus about ~400-500 a day of spam (before milter-senter). Things would be good for a while but then slowly even legitimate emails would start to get higher bayesian scores. It seems that the SpamAssassin bayesian DB only holds so many tokens and after a while the spammy tokens start to outnumber the hammy ones. That's what it looks like anyway.
If you're using sendmail you should give milter-sender a look.
Oh, and I should add that I don't think that this is the end of email. Email will still be useful, and it is. I just think that it'll be a while before we see a good fix. I just hope that everyone has the patience to work out a good solution. The thing that I'm most afriad of is people that say "we have to do *something*, now!" I'd rather see the right thing done rather than "something." I feel SPF is a step in the right direction but we'll still have a way to go before we're spam and forgery free.
I gave up on email two years ago. Yeah, I still have an account that I almost never check. SpamAssassin does a fine job of keeping most things at bay but I'm tired of dealing with it. All SA does it sort it. I still have to double check it and delete it. What a waste of time. I've tried getting my own domain, setting up email accounts for different companies, etc. I tried hiding my email address from web sites. I even tried switching addresses. It's worse than ever now. With all the viruses and spyware, I know that some of them are harvesting email addresses from users Outlook mailboxes and sending them to spammers. I have clients or acquaintances that get infected and even though I've created email addresses just for them to email to, I start getting spammed within a few weeks of their box getting infected.
People say it's an arms race, and they are right. It's definitely a race and I'm fucking exhausted. My hat is off to those of you who can keep up with it all.
</rant>
On the other hand, instant messaging has become an email replacement for me. It's quick, and I can usually send files with it. Either that or I use my cell phone for communication (ringer set to vibrate, thank you). Phone plans are inexpensive now and most include long distance as part of the package. It's much easier, and more pleasant, to talk to my friends and family that are on the other side of the country. I stay in touch with a lot more people these days than I used to just four years ago, thanks in part to my cell phone.
It requires that source code for the binaries be distributed with the binaries.
Wrong. The GPL states that if you distribute binaries that you have to make the source code available. It doesn't require you to ship the source code with the binaries. You have that option but you can also choose not to do so and wait until a user asks for a copy of the source. From section three of the GPL:
3.
You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a)
Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b)
Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
c)
Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
There's a place down the street from my apartment in San Francisco called MacAdam. They have a poster in their window saying that their Apple reseller status was revoked because they were complaining about the warranties. According to their poster warranties for apple computers begin on the day of manufacture not the day of sale to the customer.
Are there any Mac people here that have had this experience? I've been thinking hard about getting a Powerbook as my next computer.
Why on earth do we still give journals the right to act as gatekeepers for our information, when they give us almost nothing (basically just a referral service) in return?
Well, as a scientist you're the one creating the information that the journals publish. So you tell me. Just why are you still giving the journals that power? Publish your information whatever way you see fit.
I've never understood what this saying is supposed to mean. Aren't you supposed to eat cake? What good is it if you can't eat it? Do you just stare at it and drool? Cake is food. It exists to be eaten.
Slashdot Mirror
500 marketing gigabytes = ~465 real gigabytes.
No, that's not how it works. A work is copyright by someone when they create it, whether or not it's registered with a copyright office. So that everyone can use it without infiging on their copyright, they license it for use. The license in this situation is the GPL. Now it's true that the details of the GPL cover distribution terms and not use terms. However, you must still accept their license to use the software. If you don't accept the license and continue to use it then you are infringing on their copyright. Make sense?
j/k
More than likely there is something missing from the story that we're not hearing. The Register is the National Enquirer of the IT world. I wouldn't turn to them for quality journalism.
Then configure your MTA to use your ISPs SMTP server as a smarthost. All your outgoing mail will be routed through your ISPs mail server and won't be rejected by AOL and others.
If you're using sendmail you should give milter-sender a look.
Oh, and I should add that I don't think that this is the end of email. Email will still be useful, and it is. I just think that it'll be a while before we see a good fix. I just hope that everyone has the patience to work out a good solution. The thing that I'm most afriad of is people that say "we have to do *something*, now!" I'd rather see the right thing done rather than "something." I feel SPF is a step in the right direction but we'll still have a way to go before we're spam and forgery free.
I gave up on email two years ago. Yeah, I still have an account that I almost never check. SpamAssassin does a fine job of keeping most things at bay but I'm tired of dealing with it. All SA does it sort it. I still have to double check it and delete it. What a waste of time. I've tried getting my own domain, setting up email accounts for different companies, etc. I tried hiding my email address from web sites. I even tried switching addresses. It's worse than ever now. With all the viruses and spyware, I know that some of them are harvesting email addresses from users Outlook mailboxes and sending them to spammers. I have clients or acquaintances that get infected and even though I've created email addresses just for them to email to, I start getting spammed within a few weeks of their box getting infected.
People say it's an arms race, and they are right. It's definitely a race and I'm fucking exhausted. My hat is off to those of you who can keep up with it all.
</rant>
On the other hand, instant messaging has become an email replacement for me. It's quick, and I can usually send files with it. Either that or I use my cell phone for communication (ringer set to vibrate, thank you). Phone plans are inexpensive now and most include long distance as part of the package. It's much easier, and more pleasant, to talk to my friends and family that are on the other side of the country. I stay in touch with a lot more people these days than I used to just four years ago, thanks in part to my cell phone.
Exactly. The GPL is a license that covers distribution, not use.
Classical music is good, but don't forget about copyrights. Although the music itself may be in the public domain the performance may not be.
Trick question. Real admins install from source.
Are there any Mac people here that have had this experience? I've been thinking hard about getting a Powerbook as my next computer.
Can Firefox disable animated images now? Or stop them when you hit the ESC key?
It seems like it'd make more sense if it was worded "you can't eat your cake and have it too." Thanks for the clarification, though.