"I've had to fish, haha, a few false positives for actual, real PayPal emails out of my trash."
I don't have this problem. I registered both PayPal and eBay in french. So to tell whether it's fishing or not it's extremely simple. If it's in french, it's genuine, if it's in english, it's phishing.
Oh, I think I see what you're saying. Well yeah, as I said, it must be damn hard to tell by yourself whether it's genuine or not, but on a technical side, it can be done.
As someone else said earlier, I think the best solution to phishing is to make sure that enterprises don't ever ask you for anything the phishers ask for, and let anybody know.
Well ok, it's like saying that the best solution to prevent AIDS from spreading is to educate people, but on paper, it could work.
But wait, isn't there viruses out there that can get on a victim's computer and spam from there? If so, will all spams sent from the victims account will be considered non-spam, or will any mail sent from the victims account considered spam and the victim would only have to change of account because nobody could get his mail?
Simple workaround. You make some kinda virus that gets into some people's computer and sends tons of emails from there. The spammer don't pay a thing, the victim and his ISP pay it all (it's not clear in your proposition who between the sender and the recipient has to pay the third cent). I think that type of program already exists.
If the recipient has to pay for the mail he receives, does he have to pay for spam too?
In my opinion, such a program that involves charging will only make spamming more interesting, as it would introduce new ways of frauding for money.
Take 5 minutes to imagine how this system could be frauded for someone's benefit and try to picture what thousands (i guess) of spammers with much more time to think about it can come up with.
Making spamming less lucrative/interesting could be an aspect of a solution against spam, your solution would only make it more lucrative, but I guess you didn't think much about how your bright system could be frauded
"registered a domain that fitted into other domains the bank had"
wait wait.. what does it mean? fitted into other domains the bank had? a domain actually belongs to the bank or doesn't, idk what you mean by "fitted in other domains the bank had" but that one thing is easy to check.
Maybe someone can get fooled, but not some filter.
Phishing is easy to recognize, well at least for us the leet slashdot geeks.
But I still wonder why mail providers don't scan the typical phishing mails (PayPal and eBay) and check whether the links point to ebay or paypal's site or some obscure IP.
I'm pretty sure that checking such typical phishing mails for their authenticity this way would help getting inboxes rid of it. My two cents..
Oh crap, that's completly dumb. I sometimes open about 300 tabs (ok, not everyday, but it happens), visit one page on them, and close. And then I wonder why I get to 300 MB memory usage like that.
It's dumb to me, mostly that whereas someone would simply click a link to access it, I would open the link in another tab and close the tab i'm in to get to the tab I just opened.
Why do I do that? Not sure, but I think I do that so I can stay on the first page while the other page loads. So that feature is quite annoying to me. Often makes me have to close/reopen Firefox (with SessionSaver enabled) to gain back my memory.
If it's a feature, how can i disable it? (and if it's in TFA, well, i'm about to read it, so don't RTFA me)
Alright Mr. I can answer to anything (*wink wink*, i dont want to you misinterpret my tone and start a flame war), so why do adults consider video games a waste?
Lol, Vim being much worse than Emacs. To me sounds like saying that Mac OS X is much less secure than Windows. What's up with Emacs fanboys anyways? How can anyone who has used Vim before like, show support to Emacs and be proud of using it??;-)
Euro doesn't have alot to do with tht change, in case you don't know. It's all about the Bush administration policy to lower the dollar value for some stupid reason (make the debt smaller, i think, or was it to favor exports?)
My first computer, I had it when I was about 1, around 1987 I think. I barely even remember it, but it was great, it was in color, it didn't need any battery or power plug, all you needed to do was to scroll the big button on the right side, and cool images and kinda of animations would scroll from bottom to top. I don't really remember what it showed, but that was totally awesome! I wonder what happened to it.:-(
Other than that, my first electrical computer was an Apple Performa 6200 with Mac OS 7.5.1.
And you know what was so great with that computer? the hard disk was so small (512 MB) that I plug it to my PC, took the image of its content, burnt it on a CD and use it in SheepShaver to emulate it.
The one less great thing was when my 512 MB were full and that I had to download 32 kbps MP3's of Napster on floppy disks.
"Why doing something on a console or computer is so different than sitting in front of a television I will never know"
I'm gonna tell you what's the difference, watching television is a passive entertainement activity, doing something on a console or computer is an active one (most of the time, at least as far as we're only talking about "games").
Having an active activity that doesn't bring you any money is a waste of time for an adult, it's a waste of your energy for real activities that will bring more money in your wallet. I can't see any other explanation
Souns good, but as far as I read M$'s doc about it, Windows does pretty much that to, about boosting priorities and all that. I guess it just doesn't handle it as nicely as the example you cited.
From TFA : "but I really would prefer my child read a book"
you're gonna replace an active entertainement activity by a passive one? Great idea, very smart. After all, everybody knows that a passive entertainement activity is much better than an active one!
Seriously, if you don't want your kid to play video games, make him play basketball or offer him a skateboard, but don't replace a gamepad with a book, aweful idea in my opinion.
There are times for passive entertainement, and others for active entertainement, period. And I base my claims on absolutly nothing.
"future performance improvements will be coming more from multiple cores and less from clockrate"
Yup, as I said in another post, they're striving to get to higher clockrates while maintaining a decent power usage so now they really do need an alternative to keep going while lowering the power usage.
Personally, I find the Escape Velocity games more repetitive and boring than really difficult. Not such a bad game, but you quickly end up wondering what's the point. And then, the emptiness of space and hyperspace jumps really makes me depressed
Indeed! Or even computing alot of big convolutions, or computing those distributed computing projects, or emulators (and with a 2 GHz Athlon I still can only run Red Baron from 1983 in MAME at 30% of its normal speed), or even running Vista and its hungry GUI.
Examples are countless, but if you only need to run Word under Windows 95, then alright, maybe you don't need a 3.6 GHz Pentium
Doesn't always work out good. Haven't you ever be stuck with a process with normal priority but that makes your system stuck anyways? Used to happen to me alot when previewing partial videos from eMule with VideoLan, even when I set VLC's priority to Low in the taskmgr. Could take me about 5 minutes to get to the taskmanager and to kill the process
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I don't have this problem. I registered both PayPal and eBay in french. So to tell whether it's fishing or not it's extremely simple. If it's in french, it's genuine, if it's in english, it's phishing.
Funnily, that low tech solution has never failed.
As someone else said earlier, I think the best solution to phishing is to make sure that enterprises don't ever ask you for anything the phishers ask for, and let anybody know.
Well ok, it's like saying that the best solution to prevent AIDS from spreading is to educate people, but on paper, it could work.
But wait, isn't there viruses out there that can get on a victim's computer and spam from there? If so, will all spams sent from the victims account will be considered non-spam, or will any mail sent from the victims account considered spam and the victim would only have to change of account because nobody could get his mail?
If the recipient has to pay for the mail he receives, does he have to pay for spam too?
In my opinion, such a program that involves charging will only make spamming more interesting, as it would introduce new ways of frauding for money.
Take 5 minutes to imagine how this system could be frauded for someone's benefit and try to picture what thousands (i guess) of spammers with much more time to think about it can come up with.
Making spamming less lucrative/interesting could be an aspect of a solution against spam, your solution would only make it more lucrative, but I guess you didn't think much about how your bright system could be frauded
wait wait.. what does it mean? fitted into other domains the bank had? a domain actually belongs to the bank or doesn't, idk what you mean by "fitted in other domains the bank had" but that one thing is easy to check.
Maybe someone can get fooled, but not some filter.
If only it could be possible, more playmates on TV and less people who cut other peoples head with a saw
But I still wonder why mail providers don't scan the typical phishing mails (PayPal and eBay) and check whether the links point to ebay or paypal's site or some obscure IP.
I'm pretty sure that checking such typical phishing mails for their authenticity this way would help getting inboxes rid of it. My two cents..
You just have to set browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0 in about:config, apparently
It's dumb to me, mostly that whereas someone would simply click a link to access it, I would open the link in another tab and close the tab i'm in to get to the tab I just opened.
Why do I do that? Not sure, but I think I do that so I can stay on the first page while the other page loads. So that feature is quite annoying to me. Often makes me have to close/reopen Firefox (with SessionSaver enabled) to gain back my memory.
If it's a feature, how can i disable it? (and if it's in TFA, well, i'm about to read it, so don't RTFA me)
I may be "addicted" to computing, but it's not destroying me, so it's fine.
As I said, just like sex!
Alright Mr. I can answer to anything (*wink wink*, i dont want to you misinterpret my tone and start a flame war), so why do adults consider video games a waste?
Lol, Vim being much worse than Emacs. To me sounds like saying that Mac OS X is much less secure than Windows. What's up with Emacs fanboys anyways? How can anyone who has used Vim before like, show support to Emacs and be proud of using it?? ;-)
Euro doesn't have alot to do with tht change, in case you don't know. It's all about the Bush administration policy to lower the dollar value for some stupid reason (make the debt smaller, i think, or was it to favor exports?)
Other than that, my first electrical computer was an Apple Performa 6200 with Mac OS 7.5.1.
And you know what was so great with that computer? the hard disk was so small (512 MB) that I plug it to my PC, took the image of its content, burnt it on a CD and use it in SheepShaver to emulate it.
The one less great thing was when my 512 MB were full and that I had to download 32 kbps MP3's of Napster on floppy disks.
Well ok, not really a job, but it makes you skilled enough so that you only need a formation of a few monthes to become a sysadmin.
I'm gonna tell you what's the difference, watching television is a passive entertainement activity, doing something on a console or computer is an active one (most of the time, at least as far as we're only talking about "games").
Having an active activity that doesn't bring you any money is a waste of time for an adult, it's a waste of your energy for real activities that will bring more money in your wallet. I can't see any other explanation
Souns good, but as far as I read M$'s doc about it, Windows does pretty much that to, about boosting priorities and all that. I guess it just doesn't handle it as nicely as the example you cited.
you're gonna replace an active entertainement activity by a passive one? Great idea, very smart. After all, everybody knows that a passive entertainement activity is much better than an active one!
Seriously, if you don't want your kid to play video games, make him play basketball or offer him a skateboard, but don't replace a gamepad with a book, aweful idea in my opinion.
There are times for passive entertainement, and others for active entertainement, period. And I base my claims on absolutly nothing.
Yup, as I said in another post, they're striving to get to higher clockrates while maintaining a decent power usage so now they really do need an alternative to keep going while lowering the power usage.
Actually he could get himself a $5 Mac Plus with Mac OS 6.0.8 and ClarisWorks 3. Some people even give away their Mac Pluses for free.
Personally, I find the Escape Velocity games more repetitive and boring than really difficult. Not such a bad game, but you quickly end up wondering what's the point. And then, the emptiness of space and hyperspace jumps really makes me depressed
The difference well.. it's mainly that I never heard of an OS scheduler before. I wouldn't spit on an explanation of what it is :-)
Examples are countless, but if you only need to run Word under Windows 95, then alright, maybe you don't need a 3.6 GHz Pentium
Doesn't always work out good. Haven't you ever be stuck with a process with normal priority but that makes your system stuck anyways? Used to happen to me alot when previewing partial videos from eMule with VideoLan, even when I set VLC's priority to Low in the taskmgr. Could take me about 5 minutes to get to the taskmanager and to kill the process
Yeah, it's kinda like working in a factory to me. The difference is that i'm not even getting paid for this