As the subject says... Spambayes (with procmail) does my filtering, so it gets stashed in the training/garbage bin. Works great, with excellent accuracy.
I subscribe to Spamcop (http://spamcop.net) too, which gives me a spam-filtered public email address, and they also do reporting. You send them your spam, they look up whatever complaint addresses they can for the source, relays, and even the URLs linked to in the spam; it just needs a few clicks to shotgun your complaints to all the ISP admins, keeping the jerks hopping.
It's mainly about a checkers program, but not one with huge amounts of human strategy and catalogued moves programmed in. Rather, it's a program which was given the barest mechanics of the game, and was designed to teach itself. The authors of the program weren't expert checkers players, but their creation learned to play well enough to beat most people.
Lots of what's in there relates to chess as well, but it's an excellent read either way.
It isn't obvious that these guys need to hire anyone yet, so this is premature.
The company I work for started out as a couple guys, with one client. It's grown since, more like 225 people, but it grew only as needed. That time with some focus will help to iron out some kinks before growth makes those kinks bigger.
I would think that some structure is needed right away. Pick the boss, delegate the rest, and stick with it. It can't stay too democratic for long, as decisions do have to be made. Our CEO and Exec VPs were the original programmers, and some are still development-focused; the important thing is that they're all still here, years later.
Another thing, is find a business-oriented ally. My understanding here is that the original client became that ally, encouraging product development and sales to much larger clients than themselves.
HTTP compression won't help for images, which are already compressed in the case of GIF, JPEG, and PNG. If people are using uncompressed BMPs for web content, then of course they should be spanked mightily.
I like the idea of whacking the spammers' bandwidth, but I'm not really keen on validating the email address the bastards have reached.
So, why not follow the links, but change the parameter values? It's all something which we'd do programmatically anyway, so subtle variations in the value portion would still incur the expense of processing the input, even if it fails. Keep the path component of the URL, and the parameter names used, so it gets as far as possible before blowing chunks.
In Canada, one of the small-dish providers has a PVR-equipped box as one of the receivers availale. Has anyone actually used it, and better yet, compared it with the Tivo or ReplayTV?
re: "I don't think there is much of a point in boycotting a company who has clearly turned away from producting anything and now simply exists to litigate based on its IP."
Can anyone say "divine"? Of course, they just filed Chapter 11, but they were trying much the same with IP they acquired.
Here's what I do: reply, but use my own, incompatible encoding. Hell, there's even a free viewer available. It comes out like this:
eval {
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Since some people are fond of sending the most trivial e-mail in the
# form of bloated, proprietary attachments, I thought I'd do the
# same. It may not be readable by everybody, but it works on my
# system, and that's what counts, right? Anyway, the software you need
# is free, details at: http://www.perl.org
#
# Naturally, this attachment doesn't do anything to hurt your system,
# but you have to trust me on that, especially if you don't understand
# Perl. On the other hand, this may mean that you're a Windows user,
# so you are possibly used to trusting unknown programs, and possibly
# getting your system toasted. All I can say is that this works here,
# and, "Your mailage may vary".
Actually, I don't think that the bio/chem attacks are too likely for this sort of scenario. Think about it... terrorism is a tool of the weak, and the media plays a huge part. Sort of the "if a tree falls in the forest" sort of thing, so video impact is everything. You can't beat having one plane hit, so that everyone is watching when the second one comes in. Stealthy attacks can't compare.
One thing that most people haven't noticed is that JXTA isn't specifically a Java system, unlike Jini which uses Java classes. Jxta is a protocol, which can be implemented in whatever language is desired. Naturally the first implementation is in Java, but it doesn't depend on it.
The other thing is that this could greatly benefit Java performance on Linux, since the current threading model is something of a handicap. I checked out Allen Holub's "Taming Java Threads" session at JavaOne, and it was quite an eye-opener. Basically, you're always using threads in Java, whether you notice or not, so being able to use Sun's threading model on Linux Java would be sweeeeet.
Nah, this is ollldddd.
on
Flywheel UPS
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I did some contract work for a place that used a flywheel on their old CDC mainframe. It wasn't just for emergencies, it was the power-filter too. One little spike in the AC doesn't tweak a flywheel much, so being a UPS was only part of the use.
Actually, something like this burned some people with an airline promotion some time back. The details are probably in RISKS Digest. IIRC, what happened was that there was a deal where if you went somewhere on business, you got to take your spouse for free. Some people took their girlfriends instead, but in their wife's name. Later, the airline sent out a thank-you letter addressed to the spouse...
Some people have rotoscoped light sabers in Blender as well. Once the initial setup is done, it's probably easier than the Photoshop method. I can't find the first link that I'd seen it on, but here is another.
Downloading porn from the net will never be the same again...
Junior's mom walks in, while he's frantically trying to stuff something under the bed. She reaches past him under the bed, pulls something out, and screams.
One of the nicer things with CFS is that it doesn't require a dedicated, pre-allocated chunk of space ahead of time. I use it all the time for personal stuff (like GnuPG keys, documents etc.), and don't need to worry about using up some pre-set size limit or wasting tons of space.
It's nice too to be able to burn a CD of the encrypted files, along with a plain-text directory containing the crypto software, and not have to worry about who finds it.:-)
Add one corporate behemoth, with a whiny attitude and the bucks to inflict it on others.
Shake.
I wish some of this situation made sense, but it started badly with the DCMA, and has gone rapidly down-hill from there. Naturally, my first instinct is to holler "FUCK 'EM!" from the rooftops, but offering only moral support, it comes out more like, "*YOU* FUCK 'EM, while I watch from here in Canada." I've no spare cash, and no U.S. vote, so I'll be holding my breath, hoping that our own illustrious leaders don't get similar idiot ideas from yours. Good luck though!
What a wanker... The guy writes something good enough that he now works for Pixar, lets you use it for free, and even responds to newbie questions and feature requests in a timely manner, and for this you call him a weasel? Damn fine software that costs you nothing, on a free OS, and you complain. Grow up, and find something significant to complain about.
Slashdot Mirror
Spamcop could improve what is already good filtering, by automatically blocking crap from IronPort's SenderBase clients.
"All your SenderBase are belong to us."
As the subject says... Spambayes (with procmail) does my filtering, so it gets stashed in the training/garbage bin. Works great, with excellent accuracy.
I subscribe to Spamcop (http://spamcop.net) too, which gives me a spam-filtered public email address, and they also do reporting. You send them your spam, they look up whatever complaint addresses they can for the source, relays, and even the URLs linked to in the spam; it just needs a few clicks to shotgun your complaints to all the ISP admins, keeping the jerks hopping.
It's mainly about a checkers program, but not one with huge amounts of human strategy and catalogued moves programmed in. Rather, it's a program which was given the barest mechanics of the game, and was designed to teach itself. The authors of the program weren't expert checkers players, but their creation learned to play well enough to beat most people.
Lots of what's in there relates to chess as well, but it's an excellent read either way.
It isn't obvious that these guys need to hire anyone yet, so this is premature.
The company I work for started out as a couple guys, with one client. It's grown since, more like 225 people, but it grew only as needed. That time with some focus will help to iron out some kinks before growth makes those kinks bigger.
I would think that some structure is needed right away. Pick the boss, delegate the rest, and stick with it. It can't stay too democratic for long, as decisions do have to be made. Our CEO and Exec VPs were the original programmers, and some are still development-focused; the important thing is that they're all still here, years later.
Another thing, is find a business-oriented ally. My understanding here is that the original client became that ally, encouraging product development and sales to much larger clients than themselves.
But what about the taxis?
HTTP compression won't help for images, which are already compressed in the case of GIF, JPEG, and PNG. If people are using uncompressed BMPs for web content, then of course they should be spanked mightily.
I like the idea of whacking the spammers' bandwidth, but I'm not really keen on validating the email address the bastards have reached.
So, why not follow the links, but change the parameter values? It's all something which we'd do programmatically anyway, so subtle variations in the value portion would still incur the expense of processing the input, even if it fails. Keep the path component of the URL, and the parameter names used, so it gets as far as possible before blowing chunks.
Found some info here...
Digital Home Canada
In Canada, one of the small-dish providers has a PVR-equipped box as one of the receivers availale. Has anyone actually used it, and better yet, compared it with the Tivo or ReplayTV?
re: "I don't think there is much of a point in boycotting a company who has clearly turned away from producting anything and now simply exists to litigate based on its IP."
Can anyone say "divine"? Of course, they just filed Chapter 11, but they were trying much the same with IP they acquired.
Here's what I do: reply, but use my own, incompatible encoding. Hell, there's even a free viewer available. It comes out like this:
.........
eval {
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Since some people are fond of sending the most trivial e-mail in the
# form of bloated, proprietary attachments, I thought I'd do the
# same. It may not be readable by everybody, but it works on my
# system, and that's what counts, right? Anyway, the software you need
# is free, details at: http://www.perl.org
#
# Naturally, this attachment doesn't do anything to hurt your system,
# but you have to trust me on that, especially if you don't understand
# Perl. On the other hand, this may mean that you're a Windows user,
# so you are possibly used to trusting unknown programs, and possibly
# getting your system toasted. All I can say is that this works here,
# and, "Your mailage may vary".
$my_attachment = "001000000010000000
[ much snippage here ]
01100101011100110111010000001010";
$unmunged = unpack("A*", pack("B*", $my_attachment));
print $unmunged;
};
Actually, I don't think that the bio/chem attacks are too likely for this sort of scenario. Think about it... terrorism is a tool of the weak, and the media plays a huge part. Sort of the "if a tree falls in the forest" sort of thing, so video impact is everything. You can't beat having one plane hit, so that everyone is watching when the second one comes in. Stealthy attacks can't compare.
One thing that most people haven't noticed is that JXTA isn't specifically a Java system, unlike Jini which uses Java classes. Jxta is a protocol, which can be implemented in whatever language is desired. Naturally the first implementation is in Java, but it doesn't depend on it.
The other thing is that this could greatly benefit Java performance on Linux, since the current threading model is something of a handicap. I checked out Allen Holub's "Taming Java Threads" session at JavaOne, and it was quite an eye-opener. Basically, you're always using threads in Java, whether you notice or not, so being able to use Sun's threading model on Linux Java would be sweeeeet.
I did some contract work for a place that used a flywheel on their old CDC mainframe. It wasn't just for emergencies, it was the power-filter too. One little spike in the AC doesn't tweak a flywheel much, so being a UPS was only part of the use.
Actually, something like this burned some people with an airline promotion some time back. The details are probably in RISKS Digest. IIRC, what happened was that there was a deal where if you went somewhere on business, you got to take your spouse for free. Some people took their girlfriends instead, but in their wife's name. Later, the airline sent out a thank-you letter addressed to the spouse...
Some people have rotoscoped light sabers in Blender as well. Once the initial setup is done, it's probably easier than the Photoshop method. I can't find the first link that I'd seen it on, but here is another.
Junior's mom walks in, while he's frantically trying to stuff something under the bed. She reaches past him under the bed, pulls something out, and screams.
One of the nicer things with CFS is that it doesn't require a dedicated, pre-allocated chunk of space ahead of time. I use it all the time for personal stuff (like GnuPG keys, documents etc.), and don't need to worry about using up some pre-set size limit or wasting tons of space.
:-)
It's nice too to be able to burn a CD of the encrypted files, along with a plain-text directory containing the crypto software, and not have to worry about who finds it.
Take one misinformed, idiot-born law.
Add one corporate behemoth, with a whiny attitude and the bucks to inflict it on others.
Shake.
I wish some of this situation made sense, but it started badly with the DCMA, and has gone rapidly down-hill from there. Naturally, my first instinct is to holler "FUCK 'EM!" from the rooftops, but offering only moral support, it comes out more like, "*YOU* FUCK 'EM, while I watch from here in Canada." I've no spare cash, and no U.S. vote, so I'll be holding my breath, hoping that our own illustrious leaders don't get similar idiot ideas from yours. Good luck though!
What a wanker... The guy writes something good enough that he now works for Pixar, lets you use it for free, and even responds to newbie questions and feature requests in a timely manner, and for this you call him a weasel? Damn fine software that costs you nothing, on a free OS, and you complain. Grow up, and find something significant to complain about.