If you're not for space exploration they you must be for a conservation of resources.
Only if you're a liberal. If you're a conservative, you make sure your country remains the top military power. Then, you can take whatever you need from whomever you want.
what is commonly known as the "Rhythm Method", a form of contraception that has recently been shown to be very effective
Did you actually read the whole article before you posted? 95% is not what I'd call "very effective". You do understand that, given the quoted success rate, if you had sex an average of once a week, for a whole year, it's pretty much guaranteed you'll get pregnant. That's not what I'd realistically call "contraception".
Q: What do you call a couple who use the rhythm method for birth control?
dialup is a useful adjunct to even the spiffiest broadband access. And sometimes, it's the only access available.
I know this is a little off-topic, but I just had to respond to this statement.
It's nice to see I'm not the only one who believes this. I wish Comcast did. They don't provide dial-up backup so, when I'm out of town, I have to find a hotel that provides their own access. It's the only thing I don't like about my cable modem.
If Linux is not reaching any of the PHBs and if it's not being adopted by organization headed by these "idiots", why is MS bothering targetting them in advertising to smear it?
When you're used to having a lock in your market, four to five percent is a lot, especially when that percentage is (slowly) increasing.
To counter your point, the problem with threads in Unix is that they are as expensive to create as processes.
It's probably too late to contribute this, but here's a bit of anecdotal evidence.
A few years ago, my company created a way to access our product through a web server. One of the capabilities it needed to have was to download files from our customers' main data servers. We were concerned about security, so we forced connections through the web server, which forwarded them to the data server. When we first started deploying the web-based solution, we had a lot of trouble with customers who were using Windows for their main data servers. The customers who had Unix (or Linux) servers were fine.
After a *lot* of debugging, we finally found that, on Windows machines, the process would take too long to start up, causing the requesting process to time out. To fix it, we had to rewrite the forwarding program - the one running on the web server, which always ran Unix/Linux - to hold the socket open. That way, we managed to avoid the start-up penalty.
We still use it to this day and we call it the "keepalive" process...
It just occurred to me: I think we're having a communication issue, here. The title of this story is "Should we DDOS spammers." I interpreted that to mean "Should it be legal or illegal to DDOS spammers", while you, apparently, interpreted it to mean "Should we DDOS spammers, regardless of whether it's legal or illegal."
but earlier you said you didn't want to be involved because you were afraid of getting into trouble
Make it legal and I'll happily get involved.
So what you're saying... blah blah blah...
No, what I'm saying is that when half of a politician's constituents can't use the Internet because of the overload, maybe they'll get enough complaints that they'll make a law against spam that's actually worthwhile.
I receive too much spam every day, so I vote somebody else fights traffic with more traffic.
Well, nothing we've done so far has worked. If we finally bring the Internet to its knees, maybe people will decide to take real action against spammers. No one's going to pay attention until the problem affects them, personally.
I know that sounds a little simplistic, but maybe we need to practice a little "tough love", at this point.
As much as I feel this would be total vigilantism, I look at my spam statistics and see we're averaging between 50,000 and 100,000 spams per day and I feel that something has to be done - if only because of the sheer volume.
While I'd never DDOS a spam site myself, it's only because I'm concerned about the penalty. If I knew someone else who was doing it, I'd certainly have no problem looking the other way.
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If you're not for space exploration they you must be for a conservation of resources.
Only if you're a liberal. If you're a conservative, you make sure your country remains the top military power. Then, you can take whatever you need from whomever you want.
How often does Caps Lock get used relative to Ctrl?
Totally, *totally* agree with you. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Between the Ctrl/Caps Lock and DEL/BS, IBM really screwed the world, as far as keyboard layout is concerned.
The difference, of course, is that mold isn't smart enough to know when it has to change its actions.
Given what I've seen so far, neither are humans, apparently.
what is commonly known as the "Rhythm Method", a form of contraception that has recently been shown to be very effective
Did you actually read the whole article before you posted? 95% is not what I'd call "very effective". You do understand that, given the quoted success rate, if you had sex an average of once a week, for a whole year, it's pretty much guaranteed you'll get pregnant. That's not what I'd realistically call "contraception".
Q: What do you call a couple who use the rhythm method for birth control?
A: Parents.
dialup is a useful adjunct to even the spiffiest broadband access. And sometimes, it's the only access available.
I know this is a little off-topic, but I just had to respond to this statement.
It's nice to see I'm not the only one who believes this. I wish Comcast did. They don't provide dial-up backup so, when I'm out of town, I have to find a hotel that provides their own access. It's the only thing I don't like about my cable modem.
I think a higher percentage
Maybe, but...
If Linux is not reaching any of the PHBs and if it's not being adopted by organization headed by these "idiots", why is MS bothering targetting them in advertising to smear it?
When you're used to having a lock in your market, four to five percent is a lot, especially when that percentage is (slowly) increasing.
People with brains will realize what is propaganda and check Linux out on their own.
Of all the "people" out there who buy computers and software, what percentage do you think have brains? Four, maybe five percent?
To counter your point, the problem with threads in Unix is that they are as expensive to create as processes.
It's probably too late to contribute this, but here's a bit of anecdotal evidence.
A few years ago, my company created a way to access our product through a web server. One of the capabilities it needed to have was to download files from our customers' main data servers. We were concerned about security, so we forced connections through the web server, which forwarded them to the data server. When we first started deploying the web-based solution, we had a lot of trouble with customers who were using Windows for their main data servers. The customers who had Unix (or Linux) servers were fine.
After a *lot* of debugging, we finally found that, on Windows machines, the process would take too long to start up, causing the requesting process to time out. To fix it, we had to rewrite the forwarding program - the one running on the web server, which always ran Unix/Linux - to hold the socket open. That way, we managed to avoid the start-up penalty.
We still use it to this day and we call it the "keepalive" process...
Out of curiosity, what format do you usually use?
It just occurred to me: I think we're having a communication issue, here. The title of this story is "Should we DDOS spammers." I interpreted that to mean "Should it be legal or illegal to DDOS spammers", while you, apparently, interpreted it to mean "Should we DDOS spammers, regardless of whether it's legal or illegal."
Big difference, there.
but earlier you said you didn't want to be involved because you were afraid of getting into trouble
Make it legal and I'll happily get involved.
So what you're saying... blah blah blah...
No, what I'm saying is that when half of a politician's constituents can't use the Internet because of the overload, maybe they'll get enough complaints that they'll make a law against spam that's actually worthwhile.
he's managed to distill the current American mentality regarding dealing with problems into a single paragraph.
Wow, thanks! My first post as a registered user and I'm already making lots of friends.
I receive too much spam every day, so I vote somebody else fights traffic with more traffic.
Well, nothing we've done so far has worked. If we finally bring the Internet to its knees, maybe people will decide to take real action against spammers. No one's going to pay attention until the problem affects them, personally.
I know that sounds a little simplistic, but maybe we need to practice a little "tough love", at this point.
As much as I feel this would be total vigilantism, I look at my spam statistics and see we're averaging between 50,000 and 100,000 spams per day and I feel that something has to be done - if only because of the sheer volume.
While I'd never DDOS a spam site myself, it's only because I'm concerned about the penalty. If I knew someone else who was doing it, I'd certainly have no problem looking the other way.