"zero-day" meant you have something effective before release, e.g. "zero-day keygen" means you have a keygen that works before the product goes retail such that on the first day of distribution people can use it.
"Zero-Day exploits are released on the same day the vulnerability -- and, sometimes, the vendor patch -- are released to the public. The term derives from the number of days between the public advisory and the release of the exploit. The term 'zero-day exploits' is sometimes misused to indicate publicly known exploits for which no patches yet exist." [reference].
Now, I'd be sympathetic if you said it was a sucky term, but that's the accepted usage for better or worse.
If you plan on going truly green you should check your potential supplier's investment record. Many so-called 'green' electricity providers just resell existing hydro-electric power with no actual infrastructure. Here in the UK the only green supplier who invests a sizeable proportion of their profits into building more renewable sources is Ecotricity. Thus no matter how much energy you use you're actually helping the planet. And the planet really does need help.
Thanks for the tip, I'll be back in the UK next year. Here, I'm with Meridian Energy who have significant hydro and wind power schemes and are building more wind turbines.
Just because you don't know any doesn't any doesn't mean they don't exist:)
I can place two of your ten I think - the inventor of the Saxophone and the guy who drew Tintin. But that's only because one of my close friends is Belgian..Hercule Poirot is probably the most famous Belgian I can think of. If your most famous compatriot is fictional, that's a bad sign.
I'm waiting for the project that will have me use all of the spare time for my incredibly overpowered home CPUs (and with it ample amounts of electricity) to 'fight global warming'!
Why not change to an electricity supplier that uses renewable sources? Seriously.
I mean, I can and I live in Hicksville, New Zealand so I'm sure you can in most places.
"Measurement is a crucial component of performance improvement since reasoning and intuition are fallible guides and must be supplemented with tools like timing commands and profilers." - Kernighan and Pike
"You cannot tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so do not try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is." - Rob Pike
And what would they know about programming? I'm waiting until I hear it from Bill Gates.
If a company is sending spam why isn't the ISP for that company shutting them down? Isn't it against the AUP of most providers or at least the big carriers?
Because the spammer is often paying the ISP large sums of cash, lovely cash for the T1 lines they use to vomit their filth all over the rest of the 'net.
I can't bear to think of all the freaks coming out of the woodwork right now on news.admin.net-abuse.email - like it hasn't enough anyway. "My God! It's full of trolls."
It will be interesting to see if the US court tries to get extradition of the Spamhaus board to the US, and if our heroic government, pledged as they are to defend our rights, cave in to them as they did over Enron.
IANAL, but this is a civil not criminal case, so I don't think extradition isn't an issue. Also, I believe a reasonable number of HM Government's mail servers are using the Spamhaus Block List so I don't think there's too much to worry about here.
My company was listed by mistake once. A spammer was using one of our domains on their IP info.
SpamHaus corrected the mistake within 24 hours.
In my experience, they are by far the most professionally run blocklist ever.
Seconded, and the only one I feel happy about deploying to do a SMTP reject. No false positives at a Uni where we were dumping ~60% of our total 1 million messages per month.
From where did this "Islamofascist" expression came? I'm not a native english speaker, and this expression makes absolute no sense, except if I'm missing some context-dependent information that is out there.
I am a native speaker, and you're right. It makes no sense. Feel free to mentally substitute Emmanuel Goldstein[1] if it makes you feel better.
It painted a pretty good argument FOR GM food... to feed the millions who are otherwise dying because it's hard to get crops to grow in their parts of the world.
Since there are now more overweight people than undernourished people, GM is only one of several possible solutions here - another being to distribute food more efficiently. And isn't most GM designed for broadband pesticide resistance rather than drought conditions?
"Pharming is a hacker's attack aiming to redirect a website's traffic to another (bogus) website. Pharming can be conducted either by changing the hosts file on a victim's computer or by exploitation of a vulnerability in DNS server software."
From the same article "The full top 20 looks like this: 1. SOUTH KOREA 2. TAIWAN 3. HONG KONG 4. Belgium 5. Canada 6. Denmark 7. Germany 8. SINGAPORE 9. JAPAN 10. Sweden.... "
Other data puts NZ, Australia, Japan and S. Korea in the top 20 per head of population.
If you're running the mail servers for a business, how prudent is it to run a spam filter in the first place? While using something that relies on checking the content of the mail may be useful in getting rid of the most egregious spam, you don't want to block all items identified as spam. You can't run the risk of blocking your customers.
The firm that I work for gets something like 160,000 emails from external sources a day. Roughly 10% of these are legitimate. How prudent is it to force users to sift through 90% crap in order to get to the legitimate 10%. Currently, we use Postini as our primary MX host. They forward legitimate messages directly to our Exchange server, filter out 100% guaranteed spam, and drop the remainder into a quarantine that we check every few hours. Basically, all I am getting at is that spam filtering is necessary for enterprise environments and that there are actually some good tools to acheive it.
Exactly. It is not viable to deliver all email to user's inboxes at this stage. When I orked at the local Uni we were dropping ~60% of mail using SBL+XBL, and dropping anything from machines which HELO'd as us (this was impossible because the MX's only got external email).
This left a sane amount of email for MailMarshal to do content-filtering on - removing another ~50% of what was left.
Just to be pedantic, you used to be able to get an 800K floppy (for the Archimedes) with five or six public domain SoundTracker files on it. This would be 10-15 years ago. I'm sure there would have been the same for the Amiga as well.
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And yet 'Barbie Girl' by Aqua, to name an example, is still protected under copyright law.
Copyright is available for the expression of an idea. It does not have to be good expression, and it does not have to be a good idea.
You misspelt 'stable'.
"I like boring, it lasts." - Glod.
"Zero-Day exploits are released on the same day the vulnerability -- and, sometimes, the vendor patch -- are released to the public. The term derives from the number of days between the public advisory and the release of the exploit. The term 'zero-day exploits' is sometimes misused to indicate publicly known exploits for which no patches yet exist." [reference].
Now, I'd be sympathetic if you said it was a sucky term, but that's the accepted usage for better or worse.
Screw that! I'm going back to "telnet www.google.com 80"
And I'll do that within a VMware image running from a Live CD.
Thanks for the tip, I'll be back in the UK next year. Here, I'm with Meridian Energy who have significant hydro and wind power schemes and are building more wind turbines.
I can place two of your ten I think - the inventor of the Saxophone and the guy who drew Tintin. But that's only because one of my close friends is Belgian..Hercule Poirot is probably the most famous Belgian I can think of. If your most famous compatriot is fictional, that's a bad sign.
Why not change to an electricity supplier that uses renewable sources? Seriously.
I mean, I can and I live in Hicksville, New Zealand so I'm sure you can in most places.
And what would they know about programming? I'm waiting until I hear it from Bill Gates.
:p
That could be construed as unauthorised access to a computer system in most jurisdictions. I can understand why they didn't try it.
Because the spammer is often paying the ISP large sums of cash, lovely cash for the T1 lines they use to vomit their filth all over the rest of the 'net.
I can't bear to think of all the freaks coming out of the woodwork right now on news.admin.net-abuse.email - like it hasn't enough anyway. "My God! It's full of trolls."
IANAL, but this is a civil not criminal case, so I don't think extradition isn't an issue. Also, I believe a reasonable number of HM Government's mail servers are using the Spamhaus Block List so I don't think there's too much to worry about here.
You forgot $$foo where if $foo="bar" and $bar="baz", $$foo = "baz".
I think someone has already coined the phrase "syntactic strychnine". If not, I claim dibs.
Seconded, and the only one I feel happy about deploying to do a SMTP reject. No false positives at a Uni where we were dumping ~60% of our total 1 million messages per month.
I am a native speaker, and you're right. It makes no sense. Feel free to mentally substitute Emmanuel Goldstein[1] if it makes you feel better.
[1] No, not the hacker.
No offence, but if you're thinking of purchasing spam security software from Microsoft, you've got more pressing issues you should be worrying about.
Since there are now more overweight people than undernourished people, GM is only one of several possible solutions here - another being to distribute food more efficiently. And isn't most GM designed for broadband pesticide resistance rather than drought conditions?
O ye of insufficient cynicism: pharming is taken.
"Pharming is a hacker's attack aiming to redirect a website's traffic to another (bogus) website. Pharming can be conducted either by changing the hosts file on a victim's computer or by exploitation of a vulnerability in DNS server software."
Linus concludes Harvard remains third or fourth best.
Ahem. He said a web browser.
Jamie, who dimly remembers hacking web pages to work with MSIE3, Netscape, Mosaic and lynx all at the same time.
Sure. Except: The number of households and businesses worldwide with high-speed DSL Internet connections has hit 26 million -- with South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong leading the way..
From the same article "The full top 20 looks like this: 1. SOUTH KOREA 2. TAIWAN 3. HONG KONG 4. Belgium 5. Canada 6. Denmark 7. Germany 8. SINGAPORE 9. JAPAN 10. Sweden.... "
Other data puts NZ, Australia, Japan and S. Korea in the top 20 per head of population.
Whoever modded this Informative needs to drop less acid - or a lot more, I'm not sure which. Thanks!
Exactly. It is not viable to deliver all email to user's inboxes at this stage. When I orked at the local Uni we were dropping ~60% of mail using SBL+XBL, and dropping anything from machines which HELO'd as us (this was impossible because the MX's only got external email).
This left a sane amount of email for MailMarshal to do content-filtering on - removing another ~50% of what was left.
Just to be pedantic, you used to be able to get an 800K floppy (for the Archimedes) with five or six public domain SoundTracker files on it. This would be 10-15 years ago. I'm sure there would have been the same for the Amiga as well.
Fortunately, that's not an issue for ADVENTURE.
Jamie - will play Elite if pressed.