If it's proper for an ISP to block email that has questionable or unwanted content (eg, spam), why is it not proper for that same ISP to block Websites that also have questionable or unwanted content
Because in the former, the initial requests/data originate from sources outside their control, and in the latter it is their own users instigating the requests.
Translation: MAPS put a persistent spammer's machines in the RBL. AboveNet and Teleglobe black-hole things in the RBL at the router level. Spammer doesn't like this.
I got the impression, FTA, that MAPS put a site that provided "spamware" (whatever that is - mailing list softwarre?) on the RBL list, and Abovenet were blocking user access to websites matching the RBL.
This had nothing to do with blocking incoming mail from those IP's, but silently blocking user's outgoing requests to those IP's - something totally different.
It's a little more convenient, but most of the time 4.7 GB is enough space for your data.
I have more than 160GB on my hdds. If I go through all of my files and delete those I think I may not need anymore I may be able to reduce my backup needs to 100GB, so I'd still need 20 single layer dvds to backup everything. And when I finally get a dslr camera my storage needs will be a lot higher. Now I realize not many people have these storage requirements, but there are some who do.
Let joy be unconfined! Hitachi has announced that it will introduce, in the next three months, a one-terabyte drive for desktop computers. Just to expand, that's one thousand gigabytes of storage, which you'll be able to buy for about $400 in the US (and, if experience is any guide, £400 in the UK), or about 40c/GB. Seagate plans a similar 1TB delight by the summer. ...
Salvation lies in the next-generation DVD formats. Not, however, in the way that the electronics makers want to tout to us. They'd like us to buy read-only high-definition discs that can store between 15GB and 50GB, and cost around $1/GB. Sorry, but that's useless to me. I want writable ones - for making backups. It's nice of Hitachi and Seagate to tempt us with so much space to fill. But we need sturdy egg boxes to put all our high-tech, personal eggs. If you want to know who'll win the high-def DVD war, it's the one which offers a writable version first. Geeks will leap on it for their hefty backups. It'll sell. And the market will take over. Meanwhile, I'll start saving up for that terabyte drive.
It would be interesting if all email server admins suddenly opened the flood gates for a day or two. Maybe then the general population will gain a better appreciate of the scale of the matter.
Which is why I'm surprised Spamhaus doesn't just "simulate" what life would be like without them... before we're without them.
Do people really think that the volume of spam received will increase that much?
Do Spamhaus have a world monopoly on spam blocking, such that if they fell down, there are no other measures to prevent spam?
I was under the impression that Spamhaus was one of a number of methods of marking/scoring spam, and that any sysadmin worth their salt do not rely on one source alone to determine what is spam and what isn't.
best yet, buy an extra initially and have a spare [toolkit snipped]
Well if you're buying a spare anyway, why not set up a RAID with it to begin with, then you don't have to start messing around inside the broken drive since you already have the data on the spare...
2) What do you do with the BSOD info displayed?? A true nooblar would write it all down. That's a waste of time, becuase its also in Windows' system log. Assuming you're going to Google for it, you would presumably reboot the machine, right? So why did we even need to see the error when it happened? The machine is up not, and the logs are visible...??
I've had occurances where the BSOD comes up before any UI that would enable one to look at the logs - memory parity errors was one case, another was a driver problem. There is some benefit to having this technical information available at the time of the problem.
Which one?
Granted it's not a lot of use to 'parents' however.
single-precision datatypes are only guaranteed for roughly seven decimal places
Close, but not quite - they're guaranteed to seven significant places. If you have more than one number before the decimal point, you lose precision after the decimal point. e.g. It is capable of storing 123,456.7 but would have difficulty storing 123,456.789
While it was not (yet) as bad as The Sun when I left the UK in 2002,
It's getting closer. Even to the point of having a couple of Page 3's a week (not entirely naked however - this is the middle class version of The Sun remember;)
It's interesting that Google News and Google proper only carry two reports of this, and there is no mention on the BBC web site (as of 21.38 PDT).
Which two were those? A search for 'tree dna arrested' only brought up Slashdot and one from 24Dash where the less sensational headline was "Three children arrrested and DNA tested after damaging a tree : http://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNews.php?na vID=7&newsID=8462 Strangely the Mail article didn't turn up.
Of course, we might speculate that the kids had saws and axes, but then we're stuck trying to explain why that wasn't mentioned by the police defending their actions.
Probably because the story wouldn't have been as sensational. The Daily Mail has a habit of omitting/distorting facts in order to hype up what would otherwise be a non-story. It is a tabloid after all.
http://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNews.php?na vID=7&newsID=8462 for example has the headline "Three children arrested and DNA tested after damaging a tree" - Much more low key than "arrested for playing in a tree" as The Mail described it. From 24Dash:
The spokeswoman said they were arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage and given a reprimand - the juvenile equivalent of a caution - which means their details will be kept on file for up to five years.
Until we have some reason to believe that life (in a morally meaningful sense of the word) begins at conception, we should ignore people who say so.
Here we go, do this experiment (if legal in your country)
Take cell samples from a 1 day zygote and another from a living 75 year old human.
May I sugest a third source - cell samples from (say) a 1 hour dead person (of any age).
Conduct a full range of biometric & DNA testing on each sample.
Send results for peer review, asking the question "Are these cells both from living human beings?"
The only meaningful scientific answer has to be the one that is stripped of all emotion and subjectivism and reduced only to highly repeatable observations, a clearly stated prediction ("that zygotes and 75 year old men are both human and alive") and an evidence based answer ("yes").
I'd be interested to see the difference between all three, and whether the dead person was "both human and alive"
The name "goto" is misleading, and often associated with BAD THINGS(tm). Because our proposed solution is not a real GOTO construct, we will instead reuse the "break" keyword, and extend it with a static label.
and bounce others with a message asking you to do something difficult to automate, eg pointing to a web page where they can type in a message, maybe with a captcha.
[the]investigation found that after Westminster Tories suffered a scare at the 1996 local elections, Dame Shirley [a tory politician] and several colleagues embarked on an illegal plan to ensure the party retained control of the borough.
Despite growing housing waiting-lists, vacant council properties in eight marginal wards were deliberately kept empty until they could be sold on the open market, [...].
I think if you look at the Guardian article more closely, it implies they used water supplied by the company called Thames Water, not water from The Thames:
[...]It goes something like this: take Thames Water from the tap in your factory in Sidcup, Kent; put it through a purification process[...]
I do hope the people who selected these aren't doing any research papers on anything important.
Perhaps related, bread more often falls butter-side down because it usually only has time to complete half a rotation in the distance it falls from your countertop.
Depends on whether it's tied to the back of a cat first:
I'm not trying to flame, but what if online freedom includes child porn? Or people being murdered while being taped and then the movies played out online? If we outlaw these isn't that a "freedom of experssion" also?
Since the acts being videoed are illegal (or I assume they are where you live) then, no, it has nothing to do with freedom of expression. Most certainly not if said videos were being hosted on a server in such a country.
Now if the videos were of (majority age in the case of porn) actors, then it's debateable, and we fall into the mire of 'nanny state' soundbites like our esteemed police chief in the article:
[chief] said on Tuesday that the most vulnerable people in society need to be protected from corrupting influences.
Perhaps if our police force would sort out such corrupting influences such as burglers/car thieves instead of well nigh impossible pipe dreams such as this, then maybe I'd take them a bit more seriously.
If hackers attempt to execute code from the data section of memory, they will fail. Windows will then detect the attempt and close the application.
Great. So the 'buffer-overflow protection' isn't really a fix - it's a (more than potential) DOS. Take, erm, the kernel for example. Buffer overflows, BSOD.
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This had nothing to do with blocking incoming mail from those IP's, but silently blocking user's outgoing requests to those IP's - something totally different.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/ 11/1427242
Do Spamhaus have a world monopoly on spam blocking, such that if they fell down, there are no other measures to prevent spam?
I was under the impression that Spamhaus was one of a number of methods of marking/scoring spam, and that any sysadmin worth their salt do not rely on one source alone to determine what is spam and what isn't.
Close, but not quite - they're guaranteed to seven significant places. If you have more than one number before the decimal point, you lose precision after the decimal point. e.g. It is capable of storing 123,456.7 but would have difficulty storing 123,456.789
Which two were those? A search for 'tree dna arrested' only brought up Slashdot and one from 24Dash where the less sensational headline was "Three children arrrested and DNA tested after damaging a tree : http://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNews.php?n
Credit checks are made.
http://blog.zopa.com/archives/2005/10/18/an-intro
http://blog.zopa.com/archives/2006/01/24/more-on-
This is a recognised way of making money out of CC's in the UK - http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/viewnews. cgi?newsid1076883546,34894,
Fury at dinner invite for Porter
Easy to tell...
who the 'bots are. Strike up a conversation with your fellow on-line players.
Until they start programming Eliza into their bots...
http://www.flippyscatpage.com/butteredcat.html
Since the acts being videoed are illegal (or I assume they are where you live) then, no, it has nothing to do with freedom of expression. Most certainly not if said videos were being hosted on a server in such a country.
Now if the videos were of (majority age in the case of porn) actors, then it's debateable, and we fall into the mire of 'nanny state' soundbites like our esteemed police chief in the article:
Perhaps if our police force would sort out such corrupting influences such as burglers/car thieves instead of well nigh impossible pipe dreams such as this, then maybe I'd take them a bit more seriously.
Great. So the 'buffer-overflow protection' isn't really a fix - it's a (more than potential) DOS. Take, erm, the kernel for example. Buffer overflows, BSOD.