It seems the interviewer knows _NOTHING_ about the subject:
[...]if an individual were to download "Serenity", and play it successfully on his or her Power DVD player - and never updated the software - would it be immune from any Hollywood counterattack?
You can play an unencrypted movie wherever you want; an update of the encryption-scheme will not magicalle re-encrypt the movie. DUH!
Do you see Microsoft Vista's implementation of HDCP being an obstacle to playing compromised HD movies in high definition?
An unprotected movie does not require HDCP; HDCP has _NOTHING_ to do with this.
You forget point 3:
3. We will develop weapons that work in space. Weapons that are designed to knock satelites out. Purely for "defensive purposes". Trust us!
I am the Son of a Diplomat. This means that every 4 to 5 years, we went to a different country as a family. We _ALL_ managed to learn the foreign language in ~12 months (this means that we could function normally in school, understood the local television and had no problems reading newspapers). After 24 months, one can master the language to the point where literature-studies are not harder in any language.
Of course, it helps to really live _IN_ the country among locals, not in some kind of gated community where everybody speaks your language. And we never got satelite-TV, so all TV-chanels were in the local language.
End effect is that my whole family is multi-lingual. Even my parents, who where significantly older than 5 when they learned these other languages.
We are talking about spam-bounces, not the spam itself.
Of course using SPF as sole spamfilter is useless (spammers quite frequently kite domains and set up an SPF-record allowing everybody to send mail for that domain). But most spam-filters know that a false-positive with SPF is not possible (if you ignore email-forwarding, of course) and won't bounce the mail to the innocent domain.
Two of my domain-names are in several spammer-tools and i was inundated by spam-bounces (and auto-replies).
With SPF, i am down to one bounce every now and then.
Had you said "Debian" to include Debian/Ubuntu/Knoppix/all the other derivatives, I would agree. The other communities are likely much larger. Red Hat seems to be quite a bit smaller than it used to be, especially outside the United States. While the Gentoo community definitely isn't the largest, our documentation surely is some of the best out there.
This article does show one of the major downfalls of Gentoo. There are a large number of "fanboys" who post false claims about Gentoo, and make the entire distribution look bad, as a result. Gentoo is primarily a developer platform, written by developers, for developers. It takes a very different approach to package management than other mainstream distributions, and provides tools to allow for greater customization easier than most others. Of course, there's nothing you can do on Gentoo that you cannot do elsewhere, it's just generally easier under Gentoo for those that know what they're doing. We provide tools that you use to tailor the distribution to suit your needs. For some people, that is exactly what they want, for others, it's too much work, and there's nothing wrong with that. We fill a specific role.
I wholeheartly agree with you. I am a gentoo-user btw.
The article gives all the wrong reasons to use gentoo as a linux-beginner os.
1. Theoretically, faster than any other distro.
Yes, theoretically. Practically, you don't see or feel the difference. Citing this as #1 reason to use gentoo is stupid. 2. Modular distro, so you have full control over the installation.
Oh yeah, because the other distros dictate which software you have to install 3. It teaches you more about Linux.
Yes, because watching compiler output scrolling by for 8 hours gives me super linux skillz! 4. You can update it whenever you want, don't have to wait for the latest version of the distro like Fedora Core 5/6, Yellow Dog Linux 5
Ah, you mean it's like with the other distros who let you download the latest and greatest. Debian testing is usually pretty bleeding edge, and Debian is considered to be one of the slowest distros to upgrade.... 5. Huge community of people, and the best documentation among all Linux distros, so you'll never have unsolved problems.
Hmmm. Google "gentoo problem": 1,520,000 results
Huge community? I would say Ubuntu or SuSe or Red Hat all have far bigger communities.
With PPP you can have one company owning the cable and several ISPs competing for the internet-acces.
We got this situation in Germany where the T-COM owns the cable (and you pay them 16/month for access) and you can choose whichever Provider you want. Depending on the username/password you use, a different provider bills you.
It is true, IMAP does offer search. However, the search-options incuded in IMAP seem to be not enough for the grandparent. The only way to change that would have to make an extension to IMAP or have direct access to all the mails, which of course would not work when you have multiple clients.
- very responsive client for reading mail
- very responsive client for writing mail
- effective communication between client and server that doesn't require the user to wait
As long as each email has to be fetched from the server, it won't be possible. Network access always means delay
My needs for an email system are:
- data should be stored on the server (centralised backup, provision for web mail when you need it, ability to have an administrator control it, access from multiple hosts) The only way to do that is by IMAP. I know you don't like it, but unless someone writes a new protocol, you will have to live with it.
- server-side spam filtering which can also take easily feedback from the client on what proved to not be spam, or what was and was missed. I have the following setup:
Spamassasin filters my emails on the server and moves spam into the spam-folder. I open said spamfolder with thunderbird and let thunderbirds Junkfilter do its work (moving spam into the Junk-folder). The remaining mails are read and if necessary either moved into the ham-folder or the junkfolder. Every night a cronjob runs which learns the content of the ham-folder as ham and the content of the Junk-folder as spam. The Junk-folder then is cleared of all mail.
- server-side addressbook I use the Adressbook-synchronizer Extension fo rThunderbird (http://www.ggbs.de/extensions/)
- should deal only with plain text - non plain text should be flattened to plain text. It would be nice to automatically bounce office files with a message to tell the person to send stuff as PDF or plain text. Thunderbird can be configured to display only cleartext. I have no idea concerning the automatic bounce (and i would not use it unless you really want to piss of people)
- effective searching
- very responsive client for reading mail
- very responsive client for writing mail
- effective communication between client and server that doesn't require the user to wait Not possible with IMAP.
The development is NOT frozen. The Packages going into Etch are frozen, meaning that the current versions will get into etch with all the necessary bugfixes. development is on full steam.
Basically, my "hatred" (*hate* is such a strong word... i would prefer disgust) stems from several different things:
-stagnation: Microsoft is responsible for a stagnation of innovation on the pc. Ranging from the _very_ late adoption of technologies (example: USB) to the complete ignorance of standards(html, css), they have hurt innovation
-interoperability/lock-in: the small changes in the SMB-protocol from version to version are jsut there to block interoperability. same goes for NTFS.
-sucky products: none of their releases are good. Almost every single product they have released begins to get useful a year after the release, when the most annoying bugs have been fixed. I could tolerate that with a small software-hut which _needs_ the money NOW, but Microsoft as enough money to wait till the product is really ready for the market.
-sucky products/bloat: I don't think that luna should eat away 140Mb of my RAM. I don't think that Word 2004 offers enough new features to warrant a tenfold increase of RAM-usage compared to Word 97
-lies: Microsoft lies. See their FUD about linux. See what the "great business deals" and "alliances" have gotten the companies Microsoft partnered with: every single company that worked with Microsoft lost.
-Content industry's bitch: DRM in every format, downscaling of videos, etc. _I_ am the customer, not the MPAA.
-arrogant CEO: Balmer must go.
-arrogant company: A company that want's to crush and kill everybody else is mad. Competition yes, killing for the killing's sake: NO.
Would you report someone who committed a crime against you, knowing that it would result in their imprisonment?
No, definitely not. I am insured against as many crimes as possible, so why would it matter if the "evil doer" was caught or not? So that the evildoer can be prevented to make another victim?
Wow. Looking at it from that angle, that research project would make sense. Thanks for that explanation.
However, this report about adblocking does not generate any useful info. It is clearly obvious and non-trivial to deduct from
-people normally don't like ads
-technology to block ads becomes easier to use and more effective
that more people are blocking ads.
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It seems the interviewer knows _NOTHING_ about the subject:
You can play an unencrypted movie wherever you want; an update of the encryption-scheme will not magicalle re-encrypt the movie. DUH!
An unprotected movie does not require HDCP; HDCP has _NOTHING_ to do with this.
I have bookmarked this comment; i _will_ check back!
You forget point 3: 3. We will develop weapons that work in space. Weapons that are designed to knock satelites out. Purely for "defensive purposes". Trust us!
You mean their debris is as dangerous as the hundred of tons of american debris in orbit?
Nope, they destroyed an outdated, no longer used _CHINESE_ weather satelite.
Obviously English is not my primary language. Sorry, for the error! In German, the word "Sohn" (son) is always capitalized.
Of course I was talking about the whole family - including my mother, who stayed at home and did not work at that time. We kids learned _much_ faster.
I am the Son of a Diplomat. This means that every 4 to 5 years, we went to a different country as a family. We _ALL_ managed to learn the foreign language in ~12 months (this means that we could function normally in school, understood the local television and had no problems reading newspapers). After 24 months, one can master the language to the point where literature-studies are not harder in any language. Of course, it helps to really live _IN_ the country among locals, not in some kind of gated community where everybody speaks your language. And we never got satelite-TV, so all TV-chanels were in the local language. End effect is that my whole family is multi-lingual. Even my parents, who where significantly older than 5 when they learned these other languages.
We are talking about spam-bounces, not the spam itself. Of course using SPF as sole spamfilter is useless (spammers quite frequently kite domains and set up an SPF-record allowing everybody to send mail for that domain). But most spam-filters know that a false-positive with SPF is not possible (if you ignore email-forwarding, of course) and won't bounce the mail to the innocent domain.
Two of my domain-names are in several spammer-tools and i was inundated by spam-bounces (and auto-replies). With SPF, i am down to one bounce every now and then.
I never claimed that the other Distros are better; i said that the authors claim "There are _NO_ Problems with Gentoo" is simply untrue.
1. Theoretically, faster than any other distro.
Yes, theoretically. Practically, you don't see or feel the difference. Citing this as #1 reason to use gentoo is stupid.
2. Modular distro, so you have full control over the installation.
Oh yeah, because the other distros dictate which software you have to install
3. It teaches you more about Linux.
Yes, because watching compiler output scrolling by for 8 hours gives me super linux skillz!
4. You can update it whenever you want, don't have to wait for the latest version of the distro like Fedora Core 5/6, Yellow Dog Linux 5
Ah, you mean it's like with the other distros who let you download the latest and greatest. Debian testing is usually pretty bleeding edge, and Debian is considered to be one of the slowest distros to upgrade....
5. Huge community of people, and the best documentation among all Linux distros, so you'll never have unsolved problems.
Hmmm. Google "gentoo problem": 1,520,000 results
Huge community? I would say Ubuntu or SuSe or Red Hat all have far bigger communities.
With PPP you can have one company owning the cable and several ISPs competing for the internet-acces. We got this situation in Germany where the T-COM owns the cable (and you pay them 16/month for access) and you can choose whichever Provider you want. Depending on the username/password you use, a different provider bills you.
Easy: people like myself who run their own mailserver won't pay for a cert. And if certs are free, every spammer will get one.
That's a good question. I think it has to do with the huge investments everyone has in IMAP. IMAP does the job well enough.
It is true, IMAP does offer search. However, the search-options incuded in IMAP seem to be not enough for the grandparent. The only way to change that would have to make an extension to IMAP or have direct access to all the mails, which of course would not work when you have multiple clients.
- very responsive client for reading mail
- very responsive client for writing mail
- effective communication between client and server that doesn't require the user to wait
As long as each email has to be fetched from the server, it won't be possible. Network access always means delay
The only way to do that is by IMAP. I know you don't like it, but unless someone writes a new protocol, you will have to live with it.
- server-side spam filtering which can also take easily feedback from the client on what proved to not be spam, or what was and was missed.
I have the following setup:
Spamassasin filters my emails on the server and moves spam into the spam-folder. I open said spamfolder with thunderbird and let thunderbirds Junkfilter do its work (moving spam into the Junk-folder). The remaining mails are read and if necessary either moved into the ham-folder or the junkfolder. Every night a cronjob runs which learns the content of the ham-folder as ham and the content of the Junk-folder as spam. The Junk-folder then is cleared of all mail.
- server-side addressbook
I use the Adressbook-synchronizer Extension fo rThunderbird (http://www.ggbs.de/extensions/)
- should deal only with plain text - non plain text should be flattened to plain text. It would be nice to automatically bounce office files with a message to tell the person to send stuff as PDF or plain text.
Thunderbird can be configured to display only cleartext. I have no idea concerning the automatic bounce (and i would not use it unless you really want to piss of people)
- effective searching
- very responsive client for reading mail
- very responsive client for writing mail
- effective communication between client and server that doesn't require the user to wait
Not possible with IMAP.
Do you mean the Courier-IMAP keywords? (http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/README.imapkeywor ds.html)
The development is NOT frozen. The Packages going into Etch are frozen, meaning that the current versions will get into etch with all the necessary bugfixes. development is on full steam.
Basically, my "hatred" (*hate* is such a strong word... i would prefer disgust) stems from several different things:
-stagnation: Microsoft is responsible for a stagnation of innovation on the pc. Ranging from the _very_ late adoption of technologies (example: USB) to the complete ignorance of standards(html, css), they have hurt innovation
-interoperability/lock-in: the small changes in the SMB-protocol from version to version are jsut there to block interoperability. same goes for NTFS.
-sucky products: none of their releases are good. Almost every single product they have released begins to get useful a year after the release, when the most annoying bugs have been fixed. I could tolerate that with a small software-hut which _needs_ the money NOW, but Microsoft as enough money to wait till the product is really ready for the market.
-sucky products/bloat: I don't think that luna should eat away 140Mb of my RAM. I don't think that Word 2004 offers enough new features to warrant a tenfold increase of RAM-usage compared to Word 97
-lies: Microsoft lies. See their FUD about linux. See what the "great business deals" and "alliances" have gotten the companies Microsoft partnered with: every single company that worked with Microsoft lost.
-Content industry's bitch: DRM in every format, downscaling of videos, etc. _I_ am the customer, not the MPAA.
-arrogant CEO: Balmer must go.
-arrogant company: A company that want's to crush and kill everybody else is mad. Competition yes, killing for the killing's sake: NO.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/11/29
No, definitely not. I am insured against as many crimes as possible, so why would it matter if the "evil doer" was caught or not? So that the evildoer can be prevented to make another victim?
yup, and there is an "or not" which does not belong there. However, as english is not my primary language, i don't care :-)
Wow. Looking at it from that angle, that research project would make sense. Thanks for that explanation.
However, this report about adblocking does not generate any useful info. It is clearly obvious and non-trivial to deduct from
-people normally don't like ads
-technology to block ads becomes easier to use and more effective
that more people are blocking ads.