Not quite. Fortunately the alert emails are (usually) just text, and not some several-kilobyte attachment. They may be doubling the messages, but certainly nowhere *near* the bandwidth used.
But they are doubling the sockets, file descriptors, and inode entries in the mail spool on mail servers all over the internet. The bandwidth utilization is not what brought my mail servers to their knees. It was resource exhaustion. This in turn, increased bandwidth as my servers started responding with 4xx temp fail codes, causing many, many messages to get retransmitted several times before making it through.
Term worked pretty good, if you could figure out the right escape sequences for your particular dialup shell account. Remember when having a Netcom shell account was cool?
Contrary to what some people say, the existing technical SMTP protocols are perfectly adequate for spam-free email: you just need a virtual email network using smtp, to which anonymous users are not admitted.
But there is no mechanism in the SMTP protocol to do that. You have to add something on to it. Now it isn't SMTP, it's anonymized SMTP on a virtual network, for which there is no RFC. Your solution is just as ad-hoc as any others.
The key point is anonymity. If you can send email anonymously, you can send spam, legally or illegally.
And you can send non-spam anonymously. Anonymity is worth preserving, even if it means some people can't make as much money as they'd hoped. Let's not throw the baby out with the bnath water. This is the freakin Bush administration's (Homeland security, TIA, etc.) FTC chairman we're talking about here, and he wants to call anonymity the problem, and ignore the fraudulent business activity. Doesn't that make you just a little suspicious?
No other press releases that I can find on prnewswire.com have had their company website URL link made inactive. Looks like the MPAA/RIAA can strongarm Prnewswire to remove what they allege are offending links from press releases, even if its a corporate website.
Watch out Apple, your press releases may be next to have links disabled.
Issa bankrolled the petition effort. Hired signature gatherers did the work for a fee.
I bet less than 10% of the people who signed the petition actually showup at the polls. Unless, of course, they move the polling to the Wal-Mart parking lot, where the petitions were signed.
The really hilarious part of all this, is that the Republican leaders that are behind the recall effort initially approached Schwarzenegger to cough up the cash, but Arnold declined. Then they hit up Issa, the car-alarm millionarie, who thought he'd get a run at Governor. Then The Terminator announces, and Issa is abandoned by the cabal and everyone else who fell all over themselves to endorse Arnold.
Poor Issa was crying on TV. And I was laughing my ass off!
"I have always been a fierce enemy of the Microsoft update feature, because I just don't like the idea of someone else -- particularly Microsoft -- controlling my system," said Bruce Schneier, co-founder of Counterpane Internet Security Inc. "Now, I think it's great, because it gets the updates out to the non-technically savvy masses, and that's the majority of Internet users. Security is a trade-off, to be sure, but this is one trade-off that's worthwhile."
And that concludes our evaluation of Counterpane's security consulting services. Have a nice day. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Bruce.
CMOS was introduced because it's cheaper than CCD. The quality you perceive in the output from a CMOS-based camera comes from the fact that they can put a lot more pixels on it, for the same or less cost.
CMOS has a number of disadvantages compared to CCD such as poor low light performance and high noise levels. Software can compentate for the noise, but not much for the poorer sensitivity. You need a flash for that.:)
All electronic imagers have sophisticated image-processing firmware, even CMOS cameras. All of them have to deal with aliasing artifacts. The Canon produces amazing images mostly because of its huge number of pixels, thanks to cheap CMOS technology.
Several of the Nikon Coolpix cameras, like my 995, have been using CCDs with 4-color CYGM filter mosaics for some time now. In fact, the CP995 uses a Sony chip, the ICX252AK (pdf). This is a 3-year old chip design.
Yep. I remember having to learn, while in the US Navy as a nuclear engineering tech, to bring generators online with a manual throw of a circuit breaker. You watch the phase meter, and (it takes some practice!) throw the breaker at just the right time so it comes online in phase.
It's sort of like swinging a tennis racket or a baseball bat to hit the ball just right.
And I'm supposed to trust their methods and products with my enterprise?
No. You are supposed to pay through the nose, and then not even hear about the break-in, since that information would be classified as a trade secret by a commercial vendor.
Allowing others to make digital copies of music, pictures, movies, books, or any other form of data for which you do not hold the copyright to is illegal.
Making copyrights last forever is illegal.
If you had respected this from the beginning, the DMCA, et al. would have never even been conceived.
If you had respected the constitution, civil disobedience would not be necessary.
Filing a lawsuit and taking the other party to court is how we substantiate allegations, and priovide for a remedy. Of course the allegations are unsubstantiated. The case has not yet gone to trial.
How long would it take for your employer to detect your tampering? A week? 6 months? A year? The real problem here seems to be that Acxiom had no audit procedures to detect this activity. But I wonder if it's even possible to detect tampering or unauthorized access by a programmer insider.
(Here's another with site with some photos, --one including a shot of a placard with a date stamp, reading "Jun 00", presumably indicating a construction date shortly after Shrub's election. This particular set of photos is of an un-manned camp, hence the ability to take photos).
It's also not in Mississippi as the site claims. Look further down the list of photos: there's a STOP sign with with lettering STANI. There's also a mile-marker sign showing 17.4 km to Srebrenica, and 0.5 km to Kadanj.
This camp is in Bosnia-Herzegovina, not Mississippi.
That said, after you've gone though the full install (I'm talking stage 1, none of that stage 3 wimp stuff) you will have learned a LOT more about how Linux works than you will from a text based installer.
I have to disagree with that. I installed Gentoo 1.4pre-release, and was hardly at the machine for most of it, so what it installed and how it installed it, I didn't see. I don't think I would have known what was going on, in fact, unless I had previous exposure to Linux installations.
But then my first Linux install was Slackware 1.0 with kernel 0.98pl12. I think you can learn more about how Linux works by building your own router floppy. Learning what you can get away with throwing out is more instructive, I think, than watching all the crap you can toss in get tossed in.
That's because if a Republican makes a legimate stupid mistake, everyone, including Republicans, jump on their case.
"It's only 16 words, we didn't go to war pover 16 words."
Liars. It's 10 words, and we did go to war over them, and over all the other lies. Do I see the Republicans falling all over themselves to censure the President for misleading the public and Congress - NOT.
If your loony bin perspective has any resemblance to reality, the Republicans should be calling for Bush's impeachment this afternoon. But I am not holding my breath.
I think the article meant to say that the Senator himself was a former roadie. Which doesn't lend any more credence to what the Senator said, but there you go.
The source code for the software used in one voting machine was discovered on the Internet, on an unprotected FTP site belonging to Ohio-based Diebold Election Systems Inc. The software, when compiled and run in tests, showed that it appears to be the code used in the company's AccuVote-TS touch-screen terminals.
This software has been analyzed in detail at Truthout.org: How to Rig an Election in the United States. I think your stomach will start turning just a couple paragraphs in. No, let me start it turning for you: the backend database for this state-of-the-art touch-screen votiong machine is Microsoft Access. But that's only part of the story. Wait until you read about the hidden tables. More details here: How We Discovered The Backdoor. The actual code from the FTP site is here: Original Data.
I don't know about you, but I became a little nauseous reading this.... It's quite the yee-opener.
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Not quite. Fortunately the alert emails are (usually) just text, and not some several-kilobyte attachment. They may be doubling the messages, but certainly nowhere *near* the bandwidth used.
But they are doubling the sockets, file descriptors, and inode entries in the mail spool on mail servers all over the internet. The bandwidth utilization is not what brought my mail servers to their knees. It was resource exhaustion. This in turn, increased bandwidth as my servers started responding with 4xx temp fail codes, causing many, many messages to get retransmitted several times before making it through.
Yes, the MP3 is a copy and even though it's lossy, it's an infringing copy. Check out this link for more info.
Term worked pretty good, if you could figure out the right escape sequences for your particular dialup shell account. Remember when having a Netcom shell account was cool?
Contrary to what some people say, the existing technical SMTP protocols are perfectly adequate for spam-free email: you just need a virtual email network using smtp, to which anonymous users are not admitted.
But there is no mechanism in the SMTP protocol to do that. You have to add something on to it. Now it isn't SMTP, it's anonymized SMTP on a virtual network, for which there is no RFC. Your solution is just as ad-hoc as any others.
The key point is anonymity. If you can send email anonymously, you can send spam, legally or illegally.
And you can send non-spam anonymously. Anonymity is worth preserving, even if it means some people can't make as much money as they'd hoped. Let's not throw the baby out with the bnath water. This is the freakin Bush administration's (Homeland security, TIA, etc.) FTC chairman we're talking about here, and he wants to call anonymity the problem, and ignore the fraudulent business activity. Doesn't that make you just a little suspicious?
No other press releases that I can find on prnewswire.com have had their company website URL link made inactive. Looks like the MPAA/RIAA can strongarm Prnewswire to remove what they allege are offending links from press releases, even if its a corporate website.
Watch out Apple, your press releases may be next to have links disabled.
Issa bankrolled the petition effort. Hired signature gatherers did the work for a fee.
I bet less than 10% of the people who signed the petition actually showup at the polls. Unless, of course, they move the polling to the Wal-Mart parking lot, where the petitions were signed.
The really hilarious part of all this, is that the Republican leaders that are behind the recall effort initially approached Schwarzenegger to cough up the cash, but Arnold declined. Then they hit up Issa, the car-alarm millionarie, who thought he'd get a run at Governor. Then The Terminator announces, and Issa is abandoned by the cabal and everyone else who fell all over themselves to endorse Arnold.
Poor Issa was crying on TV. And I was laughing my ass off!
"I have always been a fierce enemy of the Microsoft update feature, because I just don't like the idea of someone else -- particularly Microsoft -- controlling my system," said Bruce Schneier, co-founder of Counterpane Internet Security Inc. "Now, I think it's great, because it gets the updates out to the non-technically savvy masses, and that's the majority of Internet users. Security is a trade-off, to be sure, but this is one trade-off that's worthwhile."
And that concludes our evaluation of Counterpane's security consulting services. Have a nice day. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Bruce.
CMOS was introduced because it's cheaper than CCD. The quality you perceive in the output from a CMOS-based camera comes from the fact that they can put a lot more pixels on it, for the same or less cost.
:)
CMOS has a number of disadvantages compared to CCD such as poor low light performance and high noise levels. Software can compentate for the noise, but not much for the poorer sensitivity. You need a flash for that.
All electronic imagers have sophisticated image-processing firmware, even CMOS cameras. All of them have to deal with aliasing artifacts. The Canon produces amazing images mostly because of its huge number of pixels, thanks to cheap CMOS technology.
Several of the Nikon Coolpix cameras, like my 995, have been using CCDs with 4-color CYGM filter mosaics for some time now. In fact, the CP995 uses a Sony chip, the ICX252AK (pdf). This is a 3-year old chip design.
So what's the big deal?
Yep. I remember having to learn, while in the US Navy as a nuclear engineering tech, to bring generators online with a manual throw of a circuit breaker. You watch the phase meter, and (it takes some practice!) throw the breaker at just the right time so it comes online in phase.
It's sort of like swinging a tennis racket or a baseball bat to hit the ball just right.
And I'm supposed to trust their methods and products with my enterprise?
No. You are supposed to pay through the nose, and then not even hear about the break-in, since that information would be classified as a trade secret by a commercial vendor.
First Post?
Alright, flamebait. I'll rise.
Allowing others to make digital copies of music, pictures, movies, books, or any other form of data for which you do not hold the copyright to is illegal.
Making copyrights last forever is illegal.
If you had respected this from the beginning, the DMCA, et al. would have never even been conceived.
If you had respected the constitution, civil disobedience would not be necessary.
Food for thought.
Eat me.
Filing a lawsuit and taking the other party to court is how we substantiate allegations, and priovide for a remedy. Of course the allegations are unsubstantiated. The case has not yet gone to trial.
How long would it take for your employer to detect your tampering? A week? 6 months? A year? The real problem here seems to be that Acxiom had no audit procedures to detect this activity. But I wonder if it's even possible to detect tampering or unauthorized access by a programmer insider.
(Here's another with site with some photos, --one including a shot of a placard with a date stamp, reading "Jun 00", presumably indicating a construction date shortly after Shrub's election. This particular set of photos is of an un-manned camp, hence the ability to take photos).
It's also not in Mississippi as the site claims. Look further down the list of photos: there's a STOP sign with with lettering STANI. There's also a mile-marker sign showing 17.4 km to Srebrenica, and 0.5 km to Kadanj.
This camp is in Bosnia-Herzegovina, not Mississippi.
Did they render that stuff on a freaking Xbox?
That said, after you've gone though the full install (I'm talking stage 1, none of that stage 3 wimp stuff) you will have learned a LOT more about how Linux works than you will from a text based installer.
I have to disagree with that. I installed Gentoo 1.4pre-release, and was hardly at the machine for most of it, so what it installed and how it installed it, I didn't see. I don't think I would have known what was going on, in fact, unless I had previous exposure to Linux installations.
But then my first Linux install was Slackware 1.0 with kernel 0.98pl12. I think you can learn more about how Linux works by building your own router floppy. Learning what you can get away with throwing out is more instructive, I think, than watching all the crap you can toss in get tossed in.
That's because if a Republican makes a legimate stupid mistake, everyone, including Republicans, jump on their case.
"It's only 16 words, we didn't go to war pover 16 words."
Liars. It's 10 words, and we did go to war over them, and over all the other lies. Do I see the Republicans falling all over themselves to censure the President for misleading the public and Congress - NOT.
If your loony bin perspective has any resemblance to reality, the Republicans should be calling for Bush's impeachment this afternoon. But I am not holding my breath.
Copyright infringement is not stealing, otherwise no additional laws would be needed to address it.
Stop calling it stealing. The law doesn't call it stealing. It isn't stealing. Your lies are a crime against civility, and your ignorance is willful.
I think the article meant to say that the Senator himself was a former roadie. Which doesn't lend any more credence to what the Senator said, but there you go.
Sorry, screwed up the link to the NY Times story. Here.
Black Box Voting
The source code for the software used in one voting machine was discovered on the Internet, on an unprotected FTP site belonging to Ohio-based Diebold Election Systems Inc. The software, when compiled and run in tests, showed that it appears to be the code used in the company's AccuVote-TS touch-screen terminals.
This software has been analyzed in detail at Truthout.org: How to Rig an Election in the United States. I think your stomach will start turning just a couple paragraphs in. No, let me start it turning for you: the backend database for this state-of-the-art touch-screen votiong machine is Microsoft Access. But that's only part of the story. Wait until you read about the hidden tables. More details here: How We Discovered The Backdoor. The actual code from the FTP site is here: Original Data.
I don't know about you, but I became a little nauseous reading this.... It's quite the yee-opener.
Some more on "problematic" election results:
Florida Ballots Project
Greg Palast's The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
NY TImes: Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say
The most stomach churning thing of all, I think, is the Christian Right connection to Deibold and ES&S.
If you find this stuff credible, spread the word around.
There's no way doing a popen() or system() should hang a multithreaded process.
Hahaha! You kill me. Why not just write a shell script? <snicker>
What about Linux and Open Source?