the power companies were not able to raise the prices for their customers even though the energy they were buying was skyrocketing. Had they been able to pass the costs on to the consumer, the demand would have decreased, and the prices would have dropped.
Actually, more people would have been ragingly pissed off a whole lot sooner and the criminal schemes that led to the prices in the first place would have been uncovered a lot sooner.
I believe in free enterprise -- I also believe in swift and harsh punishment for people that dishonestly fuck around with it.
referencing Ultima IV ("most of the interesting parts of the game were actually unlocked by ethical development")
The storyline was advanced by noncombat means, but every single point of experience was awarded for combat, and the path to almost every goal was littered with monsters for you to hack your way through. Ultima VII actually had a great deal less combat, though it really failed to challenge me in any way...
I don't know that I can call being combat-oriented a bad thing any longer, it's just the way CRPG's are made. It certainly beats The Sims.
"It can stand up to the heat of re-entry to the earth's atmosphere, and then they can simply wash it off."
But for the fact that atmospheric reentry isn't a handheld blowtorch, but friction. i.e. it does a pretty good job of "washing off" most things that hit it, to the point of disintegrating them.
Might be good under the tiles mind you. I do carry a healthy skepticism of inventors who crow to the media in his particular fashion, but assuming it stands up to rigorous testing, great.
> This [habeas.com] sounds like it might actually work.
Oh please. Haiku? I suggest a solution that might have some chance of actually working because the trusted sender pays up first instead of some goofy legal posturing. Run an aggressive filter, and let anything through with a bond, so you don't have to worry about those FP's. Locksmiths already have to post a big bond. Why shouldn't marketers be the same if they want our trust?
> It costs me less than a penny a piece to deal with an individual spam. Hit delete, turn on my filter, etc. Is it really such a nuisance that we have to waste billions of dollars to "solve" it?
What is your IT cost for mail storage? Double it. Spam is 50% of all email.
I attempted to switch from IE to Firebird, but I got turned off by some of its behavior. My job is done through a web app, and the way I work with it is to copy out regions in the app, and work with it in emacs (basically i unmunge spam and either turn it into a regular expression filter or find some other pattern common to the spam).
Each line is in a span, and the spans are grouped by divs. In IE, I simply control-click on one of the lines, and it will expand the selection to the whole div. Firebird knows nothing about control-click. Additionally, I can drag the mouse through more than one span, and it will extend the selection like normal. FB confines it to the span.
Granted, that's simply an idiosyncrasy I just got used to that I wasn't really "entitled" to, but the insanity really begins when I try to drag out an area outside the spans, or in general, drag out areas outside of the text, near the edge of the page. Most browsers go a little wiggy with selection when you do that, and extend the selection in large chunks beyond what you wanted until you finely adjust it to what you need... sort of a mouse finagling skill people get used to. What Firebird does, and what is completely unacceptable to the point of making it unusable is to jump-scroll to the end of the selection. That means if I hilight an area and miss some invisible section boundary, the screen flickers as it zips back and forth, moving me off what my attention was on and completely screwing me up. It'd be like using vi and having it jump to random sections of your document when you moved the point to the end of the line.
This isn't just a bug, it's design... bad UI behavior that IE doesn't exhibit. IE simply doesn't scroll the window on drag selection unless the cursor is being dragged past the window boundaries. There's simply no reason for things to jump around on a drag like they do with FB. It's really hard to adequately describe this behavior until you've come across it... suffice to say that to fix it I have to write various javascript tricks to perform hilighting that was simply intuitive in IE. I haven't had time to do so, and for that reason, I'm still using IE.
If convicted, Carlson faces a maximum possible sentence of 471 years imprisonment, $117,250,000 in fines and a special assessment of $7,800
Sure he can soak up a measly hundred seventeen million dollar fine, but that special assessment close to eight grand is gonna put him under for sure...
> I know there could be problems with this, but it'll help reduce the chaff, and improve the S/N ratio. Just a thought
Actually, it would likely have the opposite effect of what you intended -- people who already read the article before it was posted to slashdot, or otherwise already understand the issue in depth would be penalized for not clicking through, resulting in more noise.
You could force people to take a quiz, which might even be appropriate for an academic forum with a panel of people whose time you don't to waste... but not for a blog like slashdot.
So, what happens if a kid brings their netgear MR814 router with them and every time he gets cut off, he simply changes the Internet-side MAC address of the router through the handy-dandy html-based admin tool?
"Hm, seems port 17 on the switch has 287 MAC addresses behind it. Maybe we should monitor it a little more."
> One of the nicest ways is a "teergrube [iks-jena.de]" (tarpit) - a special SMTP server that is tuned to process incoming mail really, really slow, thus making the spammer's tools very ineffective.
Feel free to suggest such a solution to earthlink, MSN, and AOL. Here's a clue: spammers don't send hundreds of spams from single IP's anymore. That's what relay networks are for.
> Most spam is sent via open mail relays
No, it's usually open proxies now. Proxy talks to local network mail server, local network allows relaying. Very different problem. The emerging new method is viruses, c.f. the Sobig network. The very last (top to bottom) Received: line is usually forged, the interesting one is the one right before the last mail server you trust. Everything chronologically before that is suspect and probably bogus.
> Try to poison they address databases. Set up a web page invisible for human users that contains lots of addresses that don't exist.
These are weeded out fairly quickly. Better to seed it with "probes", aka honeypots or spamtraps, which helps identify spam senders proactively.
> I agree 100%. Either use something like formmail.pl, or write your own custom CGI program to handle emails
Ironic, that in order to stop spam to you, you would use the notoriously buggy and insecure formmail, turning your box into an open mail relay for spammers to use. Use a secure alternative (there's compatible versions, but really it's not hard to use MIME::Lite yourself). Matt has never fixed formmail to a satisfactory degree, and shows no inclination toward doing so.
If you roll your own, it'd probably still be more secure than formmail, as long as you don't allow it to take addressing information from the outside. Hardwire the configuration into the script, and break it out into a nonreadable config file if you have to. But don't use a "flexible" form mailer unless you know you've got it nailed down.
argh, snipped a sentence off there... Meant to say "what next has to happen is to get those filters to recognize subject matter through semantic analysis, so spam can be determined by the actual content, not by mere word proximities." I understand Apple of all people is working on such a beast.
> Bayesian filters (or similar) on the SMTP servers, analyzing and SPAM-rating e-mail on a line-by-line basis, as it is inbound to the server.
Bayesian filters are but one tool in the arsenal. I have seen them in operation for millions of spam (I work for an antispam company, and no I won't say which), and I can tell you that they're not a silver bullet. Spammers are increasingly padding the message nowadays with text snipped from books, news clippings, etc. Even if it doesn't outright fool the filter, it sure gives it fits. What next has to happen is to get those filters. Another thing going on now is that much spam is contained entirely within an image. Recognizing text out of the image within reasonable CPU time is definitely not an easy problem.
> what does the GPL say if I have a loadable module - yet the kernel now statically links it in as an optimization... I don't even want to go there
If it writes out a static kernel with a non-GPL driver linked in, you simply have a kernel you can't distribute under the GPL, not a "GPL-tainted" kernel.
Secondly, Linux has a specific exemption to the GPL for closed modules.
Seriously, I think most people who claim to have edited their web page in notepad really meant that they edited it with a basic text editor like emacs, metapad, vim, UE, PFE, whatever. Still, I long ago ceased to be impressed by people who consider it a measure of... anything, really. If I had to work with someone so insecure they had to put me down for using Dreamweaver, I'd really consider either foisting off the webmonkey work on them or doing it myself without consulting just so I wouldn't have to get into such inane pissing contests.
When you can speak corba with netcat, i'll be impressed, but HTML was never a terribly hard problem, and it doesn't really ring my bell to try to make it one.
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Why yes, everyone understands word associations. Forest is to sunrise as wabi-sabi is to ...
You have 10 seconds.
the power companies were not able to raise the prices for their customers even though the energy they were buying was skyrocketing. Had they been able to pass the costs on to the consumer, the demand would have decreased, and the prices would have dropped.
Actually, more people would have been ragingly pissed off a whole lot sooner and the criminal schemes that led to the prices in the first place would have been uncovered a lot sooner.
I believe in free enterprise -- I also believe in swift and harsh punishment for people that dishonestly fuck around with it.
> And you're aware of some elusive Open Source software program that "hardly ever" needs a patch?
/bin/true has been solid since its initial release...
I understand that
This coming from the same person who said 640kb is more then enough for anyone?
He never said it. To this day no one has ever come up with a corroborated source for that quote.
I thought apple invented personal computing?
You realize that "Personal Computer" was a trademark of IBM? Apple made it pretty. I bet you think Apple invented the GUI too.
referencing Ultima IV ("most of the interesting parts of the game were actually unlocked by ethical development")
The storyline was advanced by noncombat means, but every single point of experience was awarded for combat, and the path to almost every goal was littered with monsters for you to hack your way through. Ultima VII actually had a great deal less combat, though it really failed to challenge me in any way...
I don't know that I can call being combat-oriented a bad thing any longer, it's just the way CRPG's are made. It certainly beats The Sims.
"It can stand up to the heat of re-entry to the earth's atmosphere, and then they can simply wash it off."
But for the fact that atmospheric reentry isn't a handheld blowtorch, but friction. i.e. it does a pretty good job of "washing off" most things that hit it, to the point of disintegrating them.
Might be good under the tiles mind you. I do carry a healthy skepticism of inventors who crow to the media in his particular fashion, but assuming it stands up to rigorous testing, great.
> This [habeas.com] sounds like it might actually work.
Oh please. Haiku? I suggest a solution that might have some chance of actually working because the trusted sender pays up first instead of some goofy legal posturing. Run an aggressive filter, and let anything through with a bond, so you don't have to worry about those FP's. Locksmiths already have to post a big bond. Why shouldn't marketers be the same if they want our trust?
> It costs me less than a penny a piece to deal with an individual spam. Hit delete, turn on my filter, etc. Is it really such a nuisance that we have to waste billions of dollars to "solve" it?
What is your IT cost for mail storage? Double it. Spam is 50% of all email.
Now imagine spam unabated.
Ever seen a joe-job?
Spam does real damage.
I attempted to switch from IE to Firebird, but I got turned off by some of its behavior. My job is done through a web app, and the way I work with it is to copy out regions in the app, and work with it in emacs (basically i unmunge spam and either turn it into a regular expression filter or find some other pattern common to the spam).
... sort of a mouse finagling skill people get used to. What Firebird does, and what is completely unacceptable to the point of making it unusable is to jump-scroll to the end of the selection. That means if I hilight an area and miss some invisible section boundary, the screen flickers as it zips back and forth, moving me off what my attention was on and completely screwing me up. It'd be like using vi and having it jump to random sections of your document when you moved the point to the end of the line.
... bad UI behavior that IE doesn't exhibit. IE simply doesn't scroll the window on drag selection unless the cursor is being dragged past the window boundaries. There's simply no reason for things to jump around on a drag like they do with FB. It's really hard to adequately describe this behavior until you've come across it ... suffice to say that to fix it I have to write various javascript tricks to perform hilighting that was simply intuitive in IE. I haven't had time to do so, and for that reason, I'm still using IE.
Each line is in a span, and the spans are grouped by divs. In IE, I simply control-click on one of the lines, and it will expand the selection to the whole div. Firebird knows nothing about control-click. Additionally, I can drag the mouse through more than one span, and it will extend the selection like normal. FB confines it to the span.
Granted, that's simply an idiosyncrasy I just got used to that I wasn't really "entitled" to, but the insanity really begins when I try to drag out an area outside the spans, or in general, drag out areas outside of the text, near the edge of the page. Most browsers go a little wiggy with selection when you do that, and extend the selection in large chunks beyond what you wanted until you finely adjust it to what you need
This isn't just a bug, it's design
> This is part of a collective Long March by which China aims to overtake the USA in almost every field of human endeavour.
Yeah, one could almost call it a Great Leap Forward.
Yeah I know, feeding the trolls, bad me.
Sure he can soak up a measly hundred seventeen million dollar fine, but that special assessment close to eight grand is gonna put him under for sure...
Screw business networks?
... ohforgetit.
No, no you got it all backwards
In Soviet Russia
If you have cygwin or even mingw, you can simply copy or redirect to /dev/clipboard
> I know there could be problems with this, but it'll help reduce the chaff, and improve the S/N ratio. Just a thought
Actually, it would likely have the opposite effect of what you intended -- people who already read the article before it was posted to slashdot, or otherwise already understand the issue in depth would be penalized for not clicking through, resulting in more noise.
You could force people to take a quiz, which might even be appropriate for an academic forum with a panel of people whose time you don't to waste... but not for a blog like slashdot.
> SQL Server 2000 is *entirely* C++
Didn't Slammer exploit a buffer overflow in SQL Server 2000? A mere 376 bytes with a few in the wrong place, all because of buffer overruns...
Beta versions of Visual Studio .NET were quite crashy, and when it did crash, it would pop up a dialog ... one of the buttons was labelled "Bummer!"
So, what happens if a kid brings their netgear MR814 router with them and every time he gets cut off, he simply changes the Internet-side MAC address of the router through the handy-dandy html-based admin tool?
"Hm, seems port 17 on the switch has 287 MAC addresses behind it. Maybe we should monitor it a little more."
48 hours or so later, one less student.
I wonder if by his expression that he knew he was ending up on this slide
> One of the nicest ways is a "teergrube [iks-jena.de]" (tarpit) - a special SMTP server that is tuned to process incoming mail really, really slow, thus making the spammer's tools very ineffective.
Feel free to suggest such a solution to earthlink, MSN, and AOL. Here's a clue: spammers don't send hundreds of spams from single IP's anymore. That's what relay networks are for.
> Most spam is sent via open mail relays
No, it's usually open proxies now. Proxy talks to local network mail server, local network allows relaying. Very different problem. The emerging new method is viruses, c.f. the Sobig network. The very last (top to bottom) Received: line is usually forged, the interesting one is the one right before the last mail server you trust. Everything chronologically before that is suspect and probably bogus.
> Try to poison they address databases. Set up a web page invisible for human users that contains lots of addresses that don't exist.
These are weeded out fairly quickly. Better to seed it with "probes", aka honeypots or spamtraps, which helps identify spam senders proactively.
> I agree 100%. Either use something like formmail.pl, or write your own custom CGI program to handle emails
Ironic, that in order to stop spam to you, you would use the notoriously buggy and insecure formmail, turning your box into an open mail relay for spammers to use. Use a secure alternative (there's compatible versions, but really it's not hard to use MIME::Lite yourself). Matt has never fixed formmail to a satisfactory degree, and shows no inclination toward doing so.
If you roll your own, it'd probably still be more secure than formmail, as long as you don't allow it to take addressing information from the outside. Hardwire the configuration into the script, and break it out into a nonreadable config file if you have to. But don't use a "flexible" form mailer unless you know you've got it nailed down.
Cite? Put up or shut up. Troll.
argh, snipped a sentence off there... Meant to say "what next has to happen is to get those filters to recognize subject matter through semantic analysis, so spam can be determined by the actual content, not by mere word proximities." I understand Apple of all people is working on such a beast.
> Bayesian filters (or similar) on the SMTP servers, analyzing and SPAM-rating e-mail on a line-by-line basis, as it is inbound to the server.
Bayesian filters are but one tool in the arsenal. I have seen them in operation for millions of spam (I work for an antispam company, and no I won't say which), and I can tell you that they're not a silver bullet. Spammers are increasingly padding the message nowadays with text snipped from books, news clippings, etc. Even if it doesn't outright fool the filter, it sure gives it fits. What next has to happen is to get those filters. Another thing going on now is that much spam is contained entirely within an image. Recognizing text out of the image within reasonable CPU time is definitely not an easy problem.
> what does the GPL say if I have a loadable module - yet the kernel now statically links it in as an optimization... I don't even want to go there
If it writes out a static kernel with a non-GPL driver linked in, you simply have a kernel you can't distribute under the GPL, not a "GPL-tainted" kernel.
Secondly, Linux has a specific exemption to the GPL for closed modules.
Seriously, I think most people who claim to have edited their web page in notepad really meant that they edited it with a basic text editor like emacs, metapad, vim, UE, PFE, whatever. Still, I long ago ceased to be impressed by people who consider it a measure of ... anything, really. If I had to work with someone so insecure they had to put me down for using Dreamweaver, I'd really consider either foisting off the webmonkey work on them or doing it myself without consulting just so I wouldn't have to get into such inane pissing contests.
When you can speak corba with netcat, i'll be impressed, but HTML was never a terribly hard problem, and it doesn't really ring my bell to try to make it one.