What? Some one sues you in some obscure court in Hong Kong, and the court does not reject it out of hand saying it does not have jurisdiction, and you are liable for any summary judgement awarded because you did not appear in Hong Kong?
against people who throw away their junk mail without reading them. This adversely impacts the freedom of expression of the local pizzaria, the local grocery store, those carpet cleaning guys, the 12.99 oil change people, and the used car salesmen.
Also I want that judge to decalre the "do not call" list created by the US Govt illegal. If someone talks to you, you have to drop everything and listen. If someone sends you a piece of junk mail, you must read it.
I just want to express my views on that matter. And it comes under my freedom of speech. That too individual speech not corporate speech. So no ISP should block my email to that judge. I realize if million other slashdotters also send such emails to that judge, his mail server will bomb. But that is his problem. All I want is my freedom to express all kinds nonsensical opinion about things I know nothing about protected 100%. Also I want my right to shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre restored. I am sure the judge will agree with me, because he thinks even spam should not be stopped.
Bad analogy continues. It was not merely "dominant seller" like GM. It is a de-facto monopoly. A monopoly convicted of using its monopoly power unfairly in competition against Netscape. The rules are different for monopolies. Otherwiser competition will be stifled.
Yup, and futher, when the Great Omniscient Designer made a covenant with Noah, never to unleash a Flood on the mankind, He also signed a little publicized rider, promising to replenish the oil supply as and when needed.
Someone at yahoo misunderstood the context when they heard that "TCP/IP protocol is univesally adopted everyone supports them". Yahoo, please sit down, or you might hurt yourself. Those real Klingons and Vulcans and Deltans are not likely to "get" the communication protocol.
The local CTO (Commercial Tax Officer) will see the light and revoke the tax once these private ISPs pool enough money together and visit him in his home and offer a little maamool ;-)
Does anyone remember Olean? The oil that is indigetable by humans but feels, tastes and fries like real oil.
What happened to it? All I remember is it used to cause "anal leakage" or something gross.
Yeah, there are bots and they keep sniffing. That is not news. How many of these known attacks actually succeeded? If none, it is pretty good. If one, "Redmond, we have a problem". I assume they OS they simulated was the one that gets shipped right now, not some original unpatched pre SP2 WinXP. If it was an old OS that is not being shipped by OEM vendors currently, then the test is bogus. It is anti MSFT FUD. All FUD is bad, whether it is anti-MSFT or anti-Linux.
What you just have one password? One password for all your accounts? The same password for the accounts in your work, for your accounts with your bank and brokerage account, and for the web mail and for the rarely visited "registration required" sites? That is insane.
My personal password policy: I have four kinds of passwords. The highest and most secure ones are for the work accounts and my financial institutions. The next ones are for the web merchants who know my mailing address and credit card numbers. The third kind is the one where there is no money involved and thus not attractive to hackers like my webmail or slashdot. The fourth one is for home network, the router, the dsl PPPoE account, home machines administrator passwords.
No two account I have use exactly the same password. Even if a bent sys admin snags my password, he/she cant damage anything more than account.
That was the world's first endless loop, Remember "it was turtles ALL the way down".
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Yeah, the author of the article had to use his prior knowledge about which sites load toolbars on visitors. In Firefox you dont need any prior knowledge. Mozilla.org has conveniently collected all the tool bars and makes it available to you. Tell me if IE7 allows drive by downloads, allows dangerous code to be executed without the user's knowledge or content, makes it difficult to change your mind if you have clicked once. None of that happened. All he has proved is a dumb user can clutter up the browser with tons of useless toolbars. What is so strange about it? Would slashdot run a thread on the dumb user who saves every damn document to the desktop? That could create clutter too. How many doctors and PhDs are saving every document to My Documents folder without any subfolder or any hierarchy? Wasn't there a CIA chief or assistant chief who took work home in a floppy disk and copied it to a generic no protection home computer or something?
Newsflash! There are dumb computer users! Stop press. Run 12 inch headlines.
Gimme a screen shot of Firefox please
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Now go to mozilla's website. Download and install every damn extension there is for Firefox. Take a screen shot and post it please. I am no MSFT supporter. But TF(antastic)Article is just stupid.
Just give a day or two. The Discovery Institute is studying the new evidence and is working hard on how to mangle it to fit the Intelligent Design Theory. There is no evidence to suggest the Great Overintelligent Designer, has not killed these monsters so that humans created His image would not be killed. Since we dont identify the G.O.D. explicitly it is not a religious theory masquerading as science and it needs equal time in science classes.
It is a big deal for the mathematicians. That is all
The N-S Eqn has been "solved" in 2D using Velocity Potential, Stream Function approach. But in 3D stream function does not exist and the method does not extend. But in practice the only problem that is really "solved" even in 2D was was this driven cavity problem, a box with a moving wall.
Take the much more simple to solve for a hundred years, the Heat Equation. Analytical solutions exist for simple domains like a semi infinite plate or a box with Dirichlet boundaries. But in practice ANSYS sells numerical solutions to Heat Equations and the industry has been buying millions dollars worth every year. Similarly FLUENT (Recently acquired by ANSYS) does not have to worry its market has fallen out of the bottom. For real life geometries we will be using numerical solutions of NS Eqn for the foreseeable future.
Further though I could not see any geometry restrictions in the paper, it appears as though they have just proved solutions exist, and not actually solved it. Depending on the assumptions made and terms neglected, engineers may be able to build better turbulence ing out of this.
Caveat: Though I started out in CFD I have not read CFD papers for some 12 years. and frankly I dont understand much of the math in this paper.
Let us say MSOffice and someother product CrossOver, or OO or whatever are perfectly interoperable. It costs the user nothing to swich from MSOffice to another system other than the cost of the replacement. All the documents are readable, all macros work in the new software and if you dont like the new one you can come back and all the docs created in the mean time are perfectly compatible with MSOffice. Just like trying a different brand of soap or toothpaste or duct tape or any other product. What would be price MSFT can charge for its product? Let us call this price X.
But in reality switching from MSOffice to a competitor involves exporting all documents to some format, reimporting it in the new system making sure nothing is lost in export and reimport. This cost has nothing to do with the superiority of MSFT's product. This is the cost of "vendor lock in". MSFT can price its product a tad less than the switching cost, which is much much higher than the hypothetical price X.
So I think it is incorrect to say MSFT is selling at a lower price than its competitors. It is not.
OK let us assume for a second Google is the defacto monopoly in search engine business. MSFT is the defacto monopoly in OS business. Are they same?
I dont think so. Google operates in a field where the switching cost to the user is zero. If GOOG does not deliver, it is extremely easy for the user to switch to a competing search engine. So I dont feel threatened by GOOG. But MSFT monopoly was created by increasing the switching cost to the user. It realized long before its customers, the key to revenue is lock them in. MSFT effectively confused interoperability with IBM-PC compatibility and later Windows compatibility and got bulk of the users locked in. As long as it prices its products, mainly MS Office a tad less than what it would cost the corporations to switch t a competing product they will keep raking money in. And they use the money to make sure that the playing field does not get leveled ever again.
So GOOG can keep its only if it constantly innovates and provides a better service than its competitor. As long as there is competitive pressure on a company, I dont begrudge any billions they rake in. But I strongly resent even pennies made by unfair companies that do not have the burden of competition. Cable monopolies, electicity utilities, MSFT, teacher unions, anyone who found a way to dodge the pressure of competition irks me. Because I am under so much pressure to constantly learn and fight off competitors 20 years younger than me who are gunning for my job.
yeah, go after Dunn and the corp executives. But the telephone companies that released the records without adequate verification or authentication will go scot free. Why? Why isn't there a proper procedure in the phone companies to check who is requesting the info? Why aren't they saying, "we will mail a copy of the report to the registered mailing address. But not to any fax number you say on phone." We are saddling the doctors and clinics with all kinds of privacy requirements. I call my doctor's office, who knows me by very well, to ask about the stupid cholesterol test of my wife, and they tell me there is some new HEPA law or something and they cant tell me my own wife's cholesterol level. And the phone companies are dishing out dirt to anyone who calls. Get them too.
Same way every one is talking about illegal immigration, border fence and this and that. The 800 lb gorilla who is completely ignored is the employers who knowing employ illegal immigrants to cut labor costs and avoid social security taxes and workman comp.
Every one is talking about identity theft, and this and that. The 800 lb gorilla there is the credit reporting companies that steadfastly refuse to let me lock my own credit info. They lobby congress and the law winding through congress will let only the proven victims of id theft to freeze their credit reports. Sort of like people can buy locks for their barn doors only after proving that their horse is stolen.
This is going on everywhere. Dont call it pretexting. It is impersonating. Get the detectives and those who authorized this. But dont let the phone companies off the hook. They should prove that they were not criminally negligent or something. (IANAL).
Too much of lobbying by big corps. Too little protection for the common man.
We need a bill of rights for the user.
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It is our computer, our desktop, our disk drive, our internet connection, my start up process. Just becuase I am installing the software does not mean the installer can install anything it wants and usurp all resources.
We need something like an installation controller. It would back up everything and monitor the installar and log every change to registry, disk, startup processes, changes to drivers, default handler assignments and everything. Then present to the user a simple standard user interface and allow the users to check and uncheck to allow and disallow changes. And all disallowed changes will be rolled back.
It would be initially confusing to many users. But the third party sites, help sites will slowly educate the users and eventually the people who hijack my resources will be black listed and go out of business.
It is true that there are vast botnets. And the spammers routinely change the bots. And most bots are on dynamic ip address that keeps changing. You are right in saying that I or you or most other companies would not have the resources to combat spam by tagging the ip addresses. But if there is a company that has the resources, both in terms of money and in terms of searching, organizing and finding patterns it would be Google.
Most legitimate mailservers are running on static ip addresses. Google will be able to compile a list of legitimate good mailservers rather quickly. Google is also an IP address registrar. It has the routing tables and other registration information and netblock ownership information. It will know the dynamic ip addresses by the block. Mailservers running on dynamic addresses, or relays running dynamic addresses are suspect immediately. It is not proof. But more like preponderance of evidence (IANAL).
Can they determine spam without callbacks in three months. No way. Can they reduce the number of callbacks to confirm legitimacy of email by atleast an order of magnitude? Yes, they can by collecting relay ip addresses, mail server ip addresses, netblock ownership data and putting them all together like "page-rank", "mailserver-rank". They might even find the bots and inform the ISP that they probably have a bot and the ISPs might even contact the boob with the infected machine. Good things can come out of this.
Will they? There you got me. Dont know if they will. But I hope they do.
Initially callbacks will be evil as you say. But if gmail implements a learning system and starts tagging which ip addresses in the call chain are routinely sending spam it can become better. So at some point it will detect spam without actually calling back. So give them some slack please.
But Netcraft is reporting that their website runs Windows Server 2003. Yeah, they wont use free market leading webserver Apache. And they think they can peddle alternatives to office.
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What? Some one sues you in some obscure court in Hong Kong, and the court does not reject it out of hand saying it does not have jurisdiction, and you are liable for any summary judgement awarded because you did not appear in Hong Kong?
Also I want that judge to decalre the "do not call" list created by the US Govt illegal. If someone talks to you, you have to drop everything and listen. If someone sends you a piece of junk mail, you must read it.
How asinine can any judge get?
I just want to express my views on that matter. And it comes under my freedom of speech. That too individual speech not corporate speech. So no ISP should block my email to that judge. I realize if million other slashdotters also send such emails to that judge, his mail server will bomb. But that is his problem. All I want is my freedom to express all kinds nonsensical opinion about things I know nothing about protected 100%. Also I want my right to shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre restored. I am sure the judge will agree with me, because he thinks even spam should not be stopped.
Bad analogy continues. It was not merely "dominant seller" like GM. It is a de-facto monopoly. A monopoly convicted of using its monopoly power unfairly in competition against Netscape. The rules are different for monopolies. Otherwiser competition will be stifled.
Yup, and futher, when the Great Omniscient Designer made a covenant with Noah, never to unleash a Flood on the mankind, He also signed a little publicized rider, promising to replenish the oil supply as and when needed.
Someone at yahoo misunderstood the context when they heard that "TCP/IP protocol is univesally adopted everyone supports them". Yahoo, please sit down, or you might hurt yourself. Those real Klingons and Vulcans and Deltans are not likely to "get" the communication protocol.
The local CTO (Commercial Tax Officer) will see the light and revoke the tax once these private ISPs pool enough money together and visit him in his home and offer a little maamool ;-)
Does anyone remember Olean? The oil that is indigetable by humans but feels, tastes and fries like real oil. What happened to it? All I remember is it used to cause "anal leakage" or something gross.
Then they said, in unison, "one word for you young man, Plastics".
And you inherit all the security holes of IE in FireFox.
Yeah, there are bots and they keep sniffing. That is not news. How many of these known attacks actually succeeded? If none, it is pretty good. If one, "Redmond, we have a problem". I assume they OS they simulated was the one that gets shipped right now, not some original unpatched pre SP2 WinXP. If it was an old OS that is not being shipped by OEM vendors currently, then the test is bogus. It is anti MSFT FUD. All FUD is bad, whether it is anti-MSFT or anti-Linux.
My personal password policy: I have four kinds of passwords. The highest and most secure ones are for the work accounts and my financial institutions. The next ones are for the web merchants who know my mailing address and credit card numbers. The third kind is the one where there is no money involved and thus not attractive to hackers like my webmail or slashdot. The fourth one is for home network, the router, the dsl PPPoE account, home machines administrator passwords.
No two account I have use exactly the same password. Even if a bent sys admin snags my password, he/she cant damage anything more than account.
That was the world's first endless loop, Remember "it was turtles ALL the way down".
Newsflash! There are dumb computer users! Stop press. Run 12 inch headlines.
Now go to mozilla's website. Download and install every damn extension there is for Firefox. Take a screen shot and post it please. I am no MSFT supporter. But TF(antastic)Article is just stupid.
Just give a day or two. The Discovery Institute is studying the new evidence and is working hard on how to mangle it to fit the Intelligent Design Theory. There is no evidence to suggest the Great Overintelligent Designer, has not killed these monsters so that humans created His image would not be killed. Since we dont identify the G.O.D. explicitly it is not a religious theory masquerading as science and it needs equal time in science classes.
It is a big deal for the mathematicians. That is all
The N-S Eqn has been "solved" in 2D using Velocity Potential, Stream Function approach. But in 3D stream function does not exist and the method does not extend. But in practice the only problem that is really "solved" even in 2D was was this driven cavity problem, a box with a moving wall.
Take the much more simple to solve for a hundred years, the Heat Equation. Analytical solutions exist for simple domains like a semi infinite plate or a box with Dirichlet boundaries. But in practice ANSYS sells numerical solutions to Heat Equations and the industry has been buying millions dollars worth every year. Similarly FLUENT (Recently acquired by ANSYS) does not have to worry its market has fallen out of the bottom. For real life geometries we will be using numerical solutions of NS Eqn for the foreseeable future.
Further though I could not see any geometry restrictions in the paper, it appears as though they have just proved solutions exist, and not actually solved it. Depending on the assumptions made and terms neglected, engineers may be able to build better turbulence ing out of this.
Caveat: Though I started out in CFD I have not read CFD papers for some 12 years. and frankly I dont understand much of the math in this paper.
Or was it the result of a test run of the laser anti-sattelite weapon system being designed by the Chinese?
But in reality switching from MSOffice to a competitor involves exporting all documents to some format, reimporting it in the new system making sure nothing is lost in export and reimport. This cost has nothing to do with the superiority of MSFT's product. This is the cost of "vendor lock in". MSFT can price its product a tad less than the switching cost, which is much much higher than the hypothetical price X.
So I think it is incorrect to say MSFT is selling at a lower price than its competitors. It is not.
I dont think so. Google operates in a field where the switching cost to the user is zero. If GOOG does not deliver, it is extremely easy for the user to switch to a competing search engine. So I dont feel threatened by GOOG. But MSFT monopoly was created by increasing the switching cost to the user. It realized long before its customers, the key to revenue is lock them in. MSFT effectively confused interoperability with IBM-PC compatibility and later Windows compatibility and got bulk of the users locked in. As long as it prices its products, mainly MS Office a tad less than what it would cost the corporations to switch t a competing product they will keep raking money in. And they use the money to make sure that the playing field does not get leveled ever again.
So GOOG can keep its only if it constantly innovates and provides a better service than its competitor. As long as there is competitive pressure on a company, I dont begrudge any billions they rake in. But I strongly resent even pennies made by unfair companies that do not have the burden of competition. Cable monopolies, electicity utilities, MSFT, teacher unions, anyone who found a way to dodge the pressure of competition irks me. Because I am under so much pressure to constantly learn and fight off competitors 20 years younger than me who are gunning for my job.
Same way every one is talking about illegal immigration, border fence and this and that. The 800 lb gorilla who is completely ignored is the employers who knowing employ illegal immigrants to cut labor costs and avoid social security taxes and workman comp.
Every one is talking about identity theft, and this and that. The 800 lb gorilla there is the credit reporting companies that steadfastly refuse to let me lock my own credit info. They lobby congress and the law winding through congress will let only the proven victims of id theft to freeze their credit reports. Sort of like people can buy locks for their barn doors only after proving that their horse is stolen.
This is going on everywhere. Dont call it pretexting. It is impersonating. Get the detectives and those who authorized this. But dont let the phone companies off the hook. They should prove that they were not criminally negligent or something. (IANAL).
Too much of lobbying by big corps. Too little protection for the common man.
We need something like an installation controller. It would back up everything and monitor the installar and log every change to registry, disk, startup processes, changes to drivers, default handler assignments and everything. Then present to the user a simple standard user interface and allow the users to check and uncheck to allow and disallow changes. And all disallowed changes will be rolled back.
It would be initially confusing to many users. But the third party sites, help sites will slowly educate the users and eventually the people who hijack my resources will be black listed and go out of business.
Most legitimate mailservers are running on static ip addresses. Google will be able to compile a list of legitimate good mailservers rather quickly. Google is also an IP address registrar. It has the routing tables and other registration information and netblock ownership information. It will know the dynamic ip addresses by the block. Mailservers running on dynamic addresses, or relays running dynamic addresses are suspect immediately. It is not proof. But more like preponderance of evidence (IANAL).
Can they determine spam without callbacks in three months. No way. Can they reduce the number of callbacks to confirm legitimacy of email by atleast an order of magnitude? Yes, they can by collecting relay ip addresses, mail server ip addresses, netblock ownership data and putting them all together like "page-rank", "mailserver-rank". They might even find the bots and inform the ISP that they probably have a bot and the ISPs might even contact the boob with the infected machine. Good things can come out of this.
Will they? There you got me. Dont know if they will. But I hope they do.
Initially callbacks will be evil as you say. But if gmail implements a learning system and starts tagging which ip addresses in the call chain are routinely sending spam it can become better. So at some point it will detect spam without actually calling back. So give them some slack please.
Nothing to see here, move along.