Adblock Plus doesn't prevent ads being sent from ad servers That may be true, but http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm, the MVPS Hosts File, works just fine on Linux as well, with a couple simple modifications. yay for 127.0.0.1
For media, I use http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ for DVDs, or Winamp for most everything else. All my mp3 players are USB Mass Storage, so I don't have to worry about special media management capabilities.
Isn't a central premise taught in database programming 101 about NEVER assuming any input valid, and doing your own validation even if it was validated prior by a supposedly trustworthy source? I've never taken any classes in programming, so I would have no idea.
Private emails? Nothing I've seen indicates that their private email was revealed -- only emails on their work-related accounts, which as far as I can recall, they have no expectation of privacy to (insert IANAL and other standard disclaimers here)
Now it would be a totally different matter if their gmail etc accounts were exposed, and they were doing that from home, to me.
Why couldn't Peter Jackson and some of Blizzard's cinematics team get together on it? I mean, Jackson DID take a large, well fleshed out world and adapt it to screen with AWESOME results.
I will never understand religious wars. I have Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Bhuddist, Wiccan, Zoroastrian, Rastafarian, and Satanist friends. Right faith for the person, that's all there is to it.
'WoW Glider definitely wouldn't work without WoW'. So... is Alcohol 120% derivative of Windows? Is Pidgin a derivative work of Linux, the GTK libraries, etc? Is a 'Hello world!' app that anyone could cook up in VB6 derivative of Windows?
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it (x) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists (x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (x) Asshats (x) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (x) Extreme profitability of spam (x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (x) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
2000 started hiding lesser-used items (called 'personalized menus' in start menu config). I assume ME as well; never dealt with it except to upgrade the unlucky users to 98 or 2k.
Do you want the convenience of being able to simply go into a store, grab most any piece of software off the shelf, and know that as long as you have enough CPU and RAM it'll run right? Go Windows. Let's see you Linux users buy, say Crysis and install it without having to configure a bunch of stuff.
Do you want the control that comes with being able to specify exactly what software, even down to the module/feature level, is installed on YOUR computer? Go Linux. Let's see you Windows users try to go to add-remove programs to remove WGA, the Windows GUI, or upgrade the kernel with one command?
Do you want to be secure in the knowledge that if you create something, you will most likely be able to read it in 50 years' time with a high degree of reliability (dependent on media)? Go Linux. Type up even a basic Word 2007 document and we'll come back to that in 50 years' time to see if it can be read on then-modern hardware.
A pellet rifle or.410 shotgun, depending on range, if employed properly, will cause close to 100% packet loss if an 1149-compliant method were implemented.
Assuming AC's right... "Intel compiler including optimizations for Intel CPUs" is not the same as "Intel compiler intentionally creating slowdown for non-Intel CPUs".
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Those companies, Ebay, Amazon, and Yahoo, have business presence in those countries. Facebook, as far as I know, doesn't.
Don't use the first generation of ANY product.
sh-3.1# kill -s SIGOHHYEAH 1
Sorry, couldn't resist when 'koolaid signal' was mentioned.
In regards to the PDF problem: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ Sumatra PDF. Licensed under GPLv2. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php Foxit Reader. Not opensource, but does have forms support, among other things.
For media, I use http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ for DVDs, or Winamp for most everything else. All my mp3 players are USB Mass Storage, so I don't have to worry about special media management capabilities.
Amazon has operations in other countries.
Mod parent up! May be a 'me too!' post, but this deserves some kind of positive moderation!
Isn't a central premise taught in database programming 101 about NEVER assuming any input valid, and doing your own validation even if it was validated prior by a supposedly trustworthy source? I've never taken any classes in programming, so I would have no idea.
Private emails? Nothing I've seen indicates that their private email was revealed -- only emails on their work-related accounts, which as far as I can recall, they have no expectation of privacy to (insert IANAL and other standard disclaimers here)
Now it would be a totally different matter if their gmail etc accounts were exposed, and they were doing that from home, to me.
Why couldn't Peter Jackson and some of Blizzard's cinematics team get together on it? I mean, Jackson DID take a large, well fleshed out world and adapt it to screen with AWESOME results.
I will never understand religious wars. I have Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Bhuddist, Wiccan, Zoroastrian, Rastafarian, and Satanist friends. Right faith for the person, that's all there is to it.
'Japanese cartoon... caused seizures"
Pokemon. Episode #038. "Electric Soldier Porygon". http://www.serebii.net/anime/epiguide/indigo/038.shtml
Would this be considered a Godwin?
'WoW Glider definitely wouldn't work without WoW'. So... is Alcohol 120% derivative of Windows? Is Pidgin a derivative work of Linux, the GTK libraries, etc? Is a 'Hello world!' app that anyone could cook up in VB6 derivative of Windows?
Your post advocates a
( ) technical (x) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(x) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(x) Asshats
(x) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
(x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(x) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
You stated a version number for IIS, but not for Apache. What version of Apache are you referring to?
2000 started hiding lesser-used items (called 'personalized menus' in start menu config). I assume ME as well; never dealt with it except to upgrade the unlucky users to 98 or 2k.
Do you want the convenience of being able to simply go into a store, grab most any piece of software off the shelf, and know that as long as you have enough CPU and RAM it'll run right? Go Windows. Let's see you Linux users buy, say Crysis and install it without having to configure a bunch of stuff.
Do you want the control that comes with being able to specify exactly what software, even down to the module/feature level, is installed on YOUR computer? Go Linux. Let's see you Windows users try to go to add-remove programs to remove WGA, the Windows GUI, or upgrade the kernel with one command?
Do you want to be secure in the knowledge that if you create something, you will most likely be able to read it in 50 years' time with a high degree of reliability (dependent on media)? Go Linux. Type up even a basic Word 2007 document and we'll come back to that in 50 years' time to see if it can be read on then-modern hardware.
New Adware Company Recruiting Poster: "Let us use your children, for fun (for them) and profit (for us)"
We have always hated Microsoft here at /..
Next week, though, we'll have always hated Google.
Problem with SMS verification:
Not everyone has cellphones.
A pellet rifle or .410 shotgun, depending on range, if employed properly, will cause close to 100% packet loss if an 1149-compliant method were implemented.
My own contribution to the cause.
GP is NOT a myminicity link. Parent is full of it.
Assuming AC's right...
"Intel compiler including optimizations for Intel CPUs" is not the same as "Intel compiler intentionally creating slowdown for non-Intel CPUs".