Sheesh, here at the office, if IT is called to disinfect a PC, we'll spend maybe an hour to twiddle with SpyBot, RegEdit, etc. If it isn't clean by then, we fdisk the beast, reinstall from master image, firewall, windows update. Way less than 10 hours.
If I've got a few seconds to spare while reading a page, I'll look at any Google adwords and click them to new tabs, under the following conditions:
I'm on a site that deserves a few more cents,
and
the advert sells something that I oppose.
For example, if I'm on VersionTracker looking for Mac shareware, I'll click the ads for Windows crapware. If I'm on a Libertarian site, I'll click the ads for W Ketchup or stupid fake polls like peel.com
To quote from MacFixit: AirTunes decodes your music on the local computer and then re-encodes it using Apple Lossless format before broadcasting it to the AirPort Extreme.
Then AP Extreme converts from Lossless to standard audio. Makes sense now?
Ah, I see I missed the earlier part of the conversation where you brought up Waco.
Yes, Clinton screwed up, as did Reno and everyone down the chain of command to whoever was in charge of the original raid and the later siege.
However, the comparison is NOT equal. Losing control of an armed standoff is negligent, but torturing prisoners repeatedly over several months is international war crime.
Given that no Libertarian will attain federal office in this decade, Divided Government is the only way to prevent the growth of new bureaucracies (typically social welfare on the Dem side or corporate welfare on the Rep side).
Neither side is able to screw us over as much if they need agreement from the other side to do it.
Bah. IRV is just a scam to trick 3rd party voters into ranking one of the Top Two somewhere on their list, thereby giving them your vote. The system completely and utterly goes to hell if there are more than two viable candidates -- we're talking insane shit like if you switch a ranking from 1st place to last, they can change from losing to winning.
Of course, the jihadists probably wouldn't be jihading if we weren't so dependent on fossil fuels. We wouldn't be impinging on their turf, and they wouldn't have the cash to buy weapons.
you can get a perfect digital copy with no analog degradation
Only if you save the audio stream to a lossless format. Save it as MP3/AAC/OGG/etc and you get transcoding artifacts. Yes, this breaks DRM 99%, but it's not perfect.
Breaking DRM 100% means removing the wrapper and saving the decrypted bits of the original music file, like what PlayFair does.
Actually, no it's not. It's a theorem that can only be determined by relying on a particular set of axioms (e.g. the Peano Postulates). Choose different axioms and 2+2 could have any number of other results. The reason we prefer Peano is that it fits the known evidence of our senses with reasonable accuracy. But it could be wrong, if later evidence shows otherwise.
Science is an iterative process. Evolution fits the known evidence of biochemistry, archaeology, etc, better than any other testable theory thus far.
I'd much rather find the absolute reality than settle for a single unproven theory.
Well, it must suck to be you. We might find some absolute truth when we die, but until then unproven theories are all that you get.
We fans of the "bloated" original Mozilla are once again left in the dust by Firefox. Loading the test page results in:
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: http://www.nd.edu/~jsmith30/xul/test/browser.xul Line Number 20, Column 1: <window id="main-window" ^
In seriousness, that's probably just an artifact of Firefox-specific XUL in the example, and could be fixed by a dedicated black hat. I agree with Lanoo, all versions of Moz should disable javascript toolbar-hiding by default.
Amelia Tyagi on NPR's "Marketplace" had a disgustingly smirky feature story about computer voting machines. She flat-out laughed at the notion of computer fraud, specifically mentioning that everyone trusts ATMs, why not e-votes? (answer: IT'S THE PAPER TRAIL, STUPID!) She also threw a straw man argument about 91-year-old Tillie, volunteering at the local polling place, secretly being a 1337 HAX0R and rigging the election for County Clerk. I wanted to reach into the radio and slap her face.
There's a second crime here that should also be prosecuted: installing a car TV display in a location that can be easily watched by the driver. It should be contributory negligence, or reckless endangerment, or accomplice to manslaughter, or something like that (IANAL).
Seriously, how stupid is that? It's like selling a children's pinata game that has a pattern-folded katana instead of a padded stick. You're just asking for trouble.
Yeah right. The great majority of email users don't even know what a whitelist is, much less how to use one.
And even if everyone did suddenly learn to whitelist, how many weeks do you think it would take before spammers make maps of the trust networks (starting with the tens of thousands of trojaned PCs they 0WNZ0R) and spoof accordingly?
I wish the ABM guys the best of luck, but personally I don't think their idea will ever be implemented on a wide scale.
send an email to the list subscription address, and when you do, your bond is collected
Again, this pre-assumes strong authentication of senders. If we had that, we wouldn't need bond money. The only reason for all the complicated maillist signup procedures now is to verify that the sender address really did send the request. Eliminate forgery and the problem goes away.
The FUSSP assumes that your attention is so important that strangers will pay money to send you mail.
Spammers won't ignore, subvert, or exploit the FUSSP if you publish it as an RFC
The FUSSP won't be effective until it has been deployed at more than 60% of SMTP servers and that's not a problem
You think that a violation of an RFC by an SMTP client or server is good and sufficient reason to reject all mail from the system's domain
The FUSSP requires a small number of central servers on the Internet to handle certificates, act as "pull servers" for bulk mail, account for mail charges, or whatever, and that is good thing or not a problem
The central servers required by the FUSSP to handle all mailing list subscriptions, digitial signatures for mail and so forth will be run by a non-profit organization. It will be easy to find or create a non-profit organization that everyone will trust
The FUSSP requires that anyone wanting to send mail obtain a certificate that will be checked by all SMTP servers
You know that certifying that a user legitimately claims a name and has never used some other name is cheap and easy
There are probably other bullet points that also apply. Bond systems require strong authentication. If you have strong authentication deployed worldwide, then spam has already stopped.
And I haven't even STARTED on the horrors of trying to run a free mailing list (with or without a confirmation email at signup).
The OS on the end-user PC is irrelevant. Any serious spam-BLOCKING proposal (as opposed to spam-FILTERING) takes action long before the mail hits your inbox, much less gets displayed.
So you ask, why not run spam blocking on all open source MTAs? Simple: it takes two to tango. Email is a communication medium, emphasis on that prefix "co-". Your new Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem is useless if the other guy's server doesn't support your protocol. And I suspect most of us are unwilling to cut off all email with half of our friends/family/business just because their mail admin isn't as smart as yours. Anyone with that philosophy is already using SPEWS.
Just yesterday I got multiple "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)" messages from postmaster@mail.hotmail.com, informing me that stupid spams could not be delivered. The headers show they were sent from 62.231.179.13 (in Novokuznetsk Russia) and claimed to be from my employer's domain (in eastern USA).
Now if only our anti-spam group would add SPF records. They're deep in the Redmond camp, so the phrase "Microsoft is doing it" should convince them.
Is not Hawking a believer in time travel and is not time travel crackpot stuff?
Not Really, and Definitely Not.
1: Hawking is the one who formalized the Chronology Protection Conjecture, which states that even if time travel is theoretically possible at a quantum level, macro-scale physics will always prevent it from being used. Note: the conjecture is void if parallel universes exist and can be accessed, but this new black hole theory makes that case less likely.
2: most of the currently plausible theories about the nature of space-time have nontrivial real solutions that imply time travel. Studying these cases is an excellent way to test whether the theories are valid or not.
Conclusion: will someone please mod down Louis Savain for flamebait?
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Those two on VersionTracker don't use any Google APIs. They're just ordinary screen-scrapers, with the curl and the grep and the pipes, mm-hey.
Sheesh, here at the office, if IT is called to disinfect a PC, we'll spend maybe an hour to twiddle with SpyBot, RegEdit, etc. If it isn't clean by then, we fdisk the beast, reinstall from master image, firewall, windows update. Way less than 10 hours.
- I'm on a site that deserves a few more cents,
- the advert sells something that I oppose.
For example, if I'm on VersionTracker looking for Mac shareware, I'll click the ads for Windows crapware. If I'm on a Libertarian site, I'll click the ads for W Ketchup or stupid fake polls like peel.comand
AdWords as a force for social justice...
Then AP Extreme converts from Lossless to standard audio. Makes sense now?
Ah, I see I missed the earlier part of the conversation where you brought up Waco.
Yes, Clinton screwed up, as did Reno and everyone down the chain of command to whoever was in charge of the original raid and the later siege.
However, the comparison is NOT equal. Losing control of an armed standoff is negligent, but torturing prisoners repeatedly over several months is international war crime.
- a partial list of torture-related program activities
- Alberto Gonzales telling Bush what he can get away with
- John Ashcroft telling Bush what he can get away with
When the President is basing his decisions on "how do I avoid criminal prosecution for this?" then I think there's a problem.Given that no Libertarian will attain federal office in this decade, Divided Government is the only way to prevent the growth of new bureaucracies (typically social welfare on the Dem side or corporate welfare on the Rep side). Neither side is able to screw us over as much if they need agreement from the other side to do it.
IRV is (slightly) better than Plurality, but I approve of Approval Voting.
You're several months slow, Mr Blue.
Speak for yourself. Lots of us have known this for years.
Of course, the jihadists probably wouldn't be jihading if we weren't so dependent on fossil fuels. We wouldn't be impinging on their turf, and they wouldn't have the cash to buy weapons.Only if you save the audio stream to a lossless format. Save it as MP3/AAC/OGG/etc and you get transcoding artifacts. Yes, this breaks DRM 99%, but it's not perfect.
Breaking DRM 100% means removing the wrapper and saving the decrypted bits of the original music file, like what PlayFair does.Actually, no it's not. It's a theorem that can only be determined by relying on a particular set of axioms (e.g. the Peano Postulates). Choose different axioms and 2+2 could have any number of other results. The reason we prefer Peano is that it fits the known evidence of our senses with reasonable accuracy. But it could be wrong, if later evidence shows otherwise.
Science is an iterative process. Evolution fits the known evidence of biochemistry, archaeology, etc, better than any other testable theory thus far.
I'd much rather find the absolute reality than settle for a single unproven theory.Well, it must suck to be you. We might find some absolute truth when we die, but until then unproven theories are all that you get.
If you care about your vote, write a complaint to letters@marketplace.org.
There's a second crime here that should also be prosecuted: installing a car TV display in a location that can be easily watched by the driver. It should be contributory negligence, or reckless endangerment, or accomplice to manslaughter, or something like that (IANAL).
Seriously, how stupid is that? It's like selling a children's pinata game that has a pattern-folded katana instead of a padded stick. You're just asking for trouble.Yeah right. The great majority of email users don't even know what a whitelist is, much less how to use one.
And even if everyone did suddenly learn to whitelist, how many weeks do you think it would take before spammers make maps of the trust networks (starting with the tens of thousands of trojaned PCs they 0WNZ0R) and spoof accordingly?I wish the ABM guys the best of luck, but personally I don't think their idea will ever be implemented on a wide scale.
Again, this pre-assumes strong authentication of senders. If we had that, we wouldn't need bond money. The only reason for all the complicated maillist signup procedures now is to verify that the sender address really did send the request. Eliminate forgery and the problem goes away.
- The FUSSP assumes that your attention is so important that strangers will pay money to send you mail.
- Spammers won't ignore, subvert, or exploit the FUSSP if you publish it as an RFC
- The FUSSP won't be effective until it has been deployed at more than 60% of SMTP servers and that's not a problem
- You think that a violation of an RFC by an SMTP client or server is good and sufficient reason to reject all mail from the system's domain
- The FUSSP requires a small number of central servers on the Internet to handle certificates, act as "pull servers" for bulk mail, account for mail charges, or whatever, and that is good thing or not a problem
- The central servers required by the FUSSP to handle all mailing list subscriptions, digitial signatures for mail and so forth will be run by a non-profit organization. It will be easy to find or create a non-profit organization that everyone will trust
- The FUSSP requires that anyone wanting to send mail obtain a certificate that will be checked by all SMTP servers
- You know that certifying that a user legitimately claims a name and has never used some other name is cheap and easy
There are probably other bullet points that also apply. Bond systems require strong authentication. If you have strong authentication deployed worldwide, then spam has already stopped.And I haven't even STARTED on the horrors of trying to run a free mailing list (with or without a confirmation email at signup).
So you ask, why not run spam blocking on all open source MTAs? Simple: it takes two to tango. Email is a communication medium, emphasis on that prefix "co-". Your new Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem is useless if the other guy's server doesn't support your protocol. And I suspect most of us are unwilling to cut off all email with half of our friends/family/business just because their mail admin isn't as smart as yours. Anyone with that philosophy is already using SPEWS.
That's exactly what you're supposed to think
SenderID is a superset of SPF, it supports both SPF TXT records and MS XML records.
Now if only our anti-spam group would add SPF records. They're deep in the Redmond camp, so the phrase "Microsoft is doing it" should convince them.
Not Really, and Definitely Not.
1: Hawking is the one who formalized the Chronology Protection Conjecture, which states that even if time travel is theoretically possible at a quantum level, macro-scale physics will always prevent it from being used. Note: the conjecture is void if parallel universes exist and can be accessed, but this new black hole theory makes that case less likely.
2: most of the currently plausible theories about the nature of space-time have nontrivial real solutions that imply time travel. Studying these cases is an excellent way to test whether the theories are valid or not.
Conclusion: will someone please mod down Louis Savain for flamebait?the same way that it works in Earth's core
Bow shock is good, but even with a strong field Mars would still lose light gases to the void. Its escape velocity is less than half of ours.
And it's implicit that if Mars had more mass, it would have retained more core heat, which in turn means more magnetism.