Until the anarchists also upload CAD drawings for cartoon characters, flowers and fluffy bunnies to decorate the guns so that more 5-year-olds can kill their 2-year-old siblings. Way to improve society, guys.
Because countries without governments tend to resemble Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and so on.
When a properly designed system could provide direct democracy
Right, because we all know how well e-voting works.
I think that those who favour no government and those who favour large intrusive governments should get to live in Somalia and North Korea, respectively, just to see where their extreme positions lead.
I was unaware of that ruling, being aware only of the previous decision by the three-member panel. Thanks.
Not sure about the US, but when I returned to Canada one time I was asked to power up my laptop and let the agent look at it. He was searching for kiddy porn (I guess) and after five minutes of eyes-glazing holiday snaps, he let me go. I didn't feel like finding out what would happen if I refused his request to see the files on my laptop.
So if you found their security less invasive, it's most likely because you don't have the wrong name/skin color/country of origin/family background.
Absolutely true. Given the situation in the Middle East, they'd be insane not to profile.
And no matter how politically-correct you are, all security involves profiling. There simply aren't the resources not to profile. So while it may not be as obvious in the US or Canada, you can bet your bottom dollar you're being profiled.
I traveled through Ben Gurion airport in 2011 and I have to say, I found the security there a lot less invasive and arbitrary than security at US airports. They didn't make me take off my shoes or walk through a body scanner. And they didn't confiscate my bottle of water.
What they did do was actually spend time talking to me and watching me. I think the security there is really security, not security theatre.
As for demanding to read your email, that's probably crossing the line. I likely would have refused. But really, it's no worse than the US which can confiscate your laptop at the airport and go through all your files.
Why are you so bitter? Lots of people leave a job and stay on very good terms with former employers.
And only my first two customers were former employers. The next batch were through networking with peers, the local LUG, etc.
Now my business is big enough that we can advertise and hire people to do cold-calling.
It's not rocket science.
TO build the name.
Writing and distributing Free Software is a great way to do that. It worked fantastically well for my company. I grant you that not everyone has the skills needed to write and maintain software, but if you do.. go for it.
One more thing.. if you have the skills, a great way to become known is to write and give away Free Software. I wrote three GPL'd software packages: RP-PPPoE, Remind and MIMEDefang which got me far more business leads than $100,000 worth of ads.
Connections matter and anyone that jumps into a new business without connections is doomed to failure.
That is true. And that's why it's vital to stay on good terms with former employers. You never know when they might become consulting clients and/or send business your way.
My first customers were my former employers. I did consulting for them.
I spread the word around my local LUG and got my next set of clients that way. Once I had a core group of clients, the rest came through word of mouth.
I run a very profitable company that started out as a Linux consulting shop.
I started my company back in 1999 when Linux really wasn't
on business's radar. The keys to success were:
Promote Linux where it makes sense. I set up plenty of firewalls,
file servers, mail servers, web servers, etc. for my small business clients.
But don't be religious. I certainly didn't waste my breath trying
to convert them away from Windows on the desktop.
But on the third had, do have some religion. There's no way I would
have installed a Windows server for anyone. I would have politely declined
their business, stating that my specialty is Linux. No-one ever actually
asked me to do that... I made it clear up front I was a Linux guy willing
to coexist with Windows machines, but not actually work on them.
Keep your ears open and figure out what your clients want. Back in
2000, one of my clients wanted mail filtering, from which was born
MIMEDefang and eventually my
commercial anti-spam company that has a dozen or so employees (and, btw,
that runs completely on Linux, including servers, desktops, phone system,
and even my Nokia N900.)
For me, it has been a terrific 14 year ride with a great future
ahead. Not a losing proposition by a long shot.
I'm not sure what you mean by "breakage notifications"
If you're referring to automated alerts and the like, obviously you don't greylist those because you know (or should know) either the originating IP address, the envelope sender, or both.
... though they are not publicly-accessible; only accessible to our customers. Here's how they work:
Using our reputation-collection protocol, we receive a constant stream of events from our customers. An "event" is something like "IPv4 address x.y.z.w sent to a nonexistent recipient" or "IPv6 address abcd::1234 sent something that a human voted as spam"
Currently, we have a database of just under two billion events. Once an hour, we go through our database and categorize IP addresses as:
Greylist Stumblers: Machines that seem to have trouble passing the greylist hurdle.
Dictionary Attackers: Machines that seem to send to a lot of nonexistent addresses.
Spam Sources: Machines that send a lot of spam.
Mixed: Machines that send a lot of spam, but also a lot of ham (think Yahoo's servers, for example.)
Good: Machines that aren't on any of the other four lists and that seem to send a lot of ham
The whole system is 99.99% automated. The only manual intervention is when some requests delisting. If it seems that someone was the victim of a compromise and has now cleaned up his/her machine, we delist it for 45 days which is long enough for all events from that IP to expire. Then it goes back into consideration for automatic listing.
This system works really well. We have about 3.75 million IPv4 and 3300 IPv6 addresses on our lists; those are machines for which we have confidence that there's enough data to categorize them.
and all mails you get will be delayed by an hour or more
Only if you have a broken and/or stupid greylist implementation. A correct implementation will refrain (for a few weeks) from greylisting an IP address once it notices that it does retry. That makes the initial delays quite tolerable.
Infidel! Now you understand why there is war in the Middle East. You thin-crusters must be eliminated by the will of the Flying Spaghetti Monster; we thick-crusters alone have truth on our side!!!
I doubt that a few defaced web sites or a barely-noticeable DDoS would concern the IDF or Mossad. Anonymous are like a bunch of virtually-unnoticeable gnats; Israel has real security concerns like rockets from Gaza and instability in Syria to worry about.
Sure it does, but probably not to Anonymous members.:)
Seriously... I've ordered pizza in Jerusalem. But the Israeli pizza tends to be thin-crust like the European versions and not as yummy IMO as our North American pizza.
What did Anonymous "win"? Nothing. They simply reaffirmed that they're a bunch of jobless losers living in their mothers' basements who have a hard time getting laid. If that weren't the case, they'd direct their energies elsewhere.
We (Roaring Penguin Software Inc.) have an anti-spam system that has an archiving add-on if you're looking for commercial software. It's built on PostgreSQL, so supports searching including full-text body searches.
Searching is done via a Web interface; we don't have specific integration with particular email clients.
I have more than 13 years' worth of archived mail; I keep two bzip-compressed mbox files for each month: Sent-YYYY-MM.bz2 and Received-YYYY-MM.bz2
Searching is a bit slow, but I hardly ever have to search that far back so I don't mind. More recent mail (going back about a year) stays on the IMAP server. Also, my company produces an email archiving product that lets me search very quickly based on sender, recipient, subject, full-text body search, etc. which is great for mail going back up to about two years.
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Until the anarchists also upload CAD drawings for cartoon characters, flowers and fluffy bunnies to decorate the guns so that more 5-year-olds can kill their 2-year-old siblings. Way to improve society, guys.
Because now they're worried the guns will inadvertently kill the people who fire them.
And that's a problem... how?
So why do we need government again?
Because countries without governments tend to resemble Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and so on.
When a properly designed system could provide direct democracy
Right, because we all know how well e-voting works.
I think that those who favour no government and those who favour large intrusive governments should get to live in Somalia and North Korea, respectively, just to see where their extreme positions lead.
I was unaware of that ruling, being aware only of the previous decision by the three-member panel. Thanks.
Not sure about the US, but when I returned to Canada one time I was asked to power up my laptop and let the agent look at it. He was searching for kiddy porn (I guess) and after five minutes of eyes-glazing holiday snaps, he let me go. I didn't feel like finding out what would happen if I refused his request to see the files on my laptop.
So if you found their security less invasive, it's most likely because you don't have the wrong name/skin color/country of origin/family background.
Absolutely true. Given the situation in the Middle East, they'd be insane not to profile.
And no matter how politically-correct you are, all security involves profiling. There simply aren't the resources not to profile. So while it may not be as obvious in the US or Canada, you can bet your bottom dollar you're being profiled.
I traveled through Ben Gurion airport in 2011 and I have to say, I found the security there a lot less invasive and arbitrary than security at US airports. They didn't make me take off my shoes or walk through a body scanner. And they didn't confiscate my bottle of water.
What they did do was actually spend time talking to me and watching me. I think the security there is really security, not security theatre.
As for demanding to read your email, that's probably crossing the line. I likely would have refused. But really, it's no worse than the US which can confiscate your laptop at the airport and go through all your files.
Why are you so bitter? Lots of people leave a job and stay on very good terms with former employers.
And only my first two customers were former employers. The next batch were through networking with peers, the local LUG, etc.
Now my business is big enough that we can advertise and hire people to do cold-calling.
It's not rocket science.
TO build the name.
Writing and distributing Free Software is a great way to do that. It worked fantastically well for my company. I grant you that not everyone has the skills needed to write and maintain software, but if you do.. go for it.
HOW do you GET the people to BUY your services?
Initially: Through people I knew (basically, I networked like crazy.) Eventually, word of mouth.
HOW do you get them to BUY you anti-spam services?
A combination of advertising, reputation, word-of-mouth and cold-calling.
One more thing.. if you have the skills, a great way to become known is to write and give away Free Software. I wrote three GPL'd software packages: RP-PPPoE, Remind and MIMEDefang which got me far more business leads than $100,000 worth of ads.
Connections matter and anyone that jumps into a new business without connections is doomed to failure.
That is true. And that's why it's vital to stay on good terms with former employers. You never know when they might become consulting clients and/or send business your way.
If you want to call me a fraud... meh. Fine.
My first customers were my former employers. I did consulting for them.
I spread the word around my local LUG and got my next set of clients that way. Once I had a core group of clients, the rest came through word of mouth.
It's not rocket science.
Sorry, but exactly what do you do?!
Did you not read my comment? I started out doing Linux consulting, but now we develop and sell anti-spam software and services.
See my earlier comment.
I run a very profitable company that started out as a Linux consulting shop.
I started my company back in 1999 when Linux really wasn't on business's radar. The keys to success were:
For me, it has been a terrific 14 year ride with a great future ahead. Not a losing proposition by a long shot.
Why is it always MALES??
Because women don't suffer from testosterone poisoning.
I'm not sure what you mean by "breakage notifications"
If you're referring to automated alerts and the like, obviously you don't greylist those because you know (or should know) either the originating IP address, the envelope sender, or both.
... though they are not publicly-accessible; only accessible to our customers. Here's how they work:
Using our reputation-collection protocol, we receive a constant stream of events from our customers. An "event" is something like "IPv4 address x.y.z.w sent to a nonexistent recipient" or "IPv6 address abcd::1234 sent something that a human voted as spam"
Currently, we have a database of just under two billion events. Once an hour, we go through our database and categorize IP addresses as:
The whole system is 99.99% automated. The only manual intervention is when some requests delisting. If it seems that someone was the victim of a compromise and has now cleaned up his/her machine, we delist it for 45 days which is long enough for all events from that IP to expire. Then it goes back into consideration for automatic listing.
This system works really well. We have about 3.75 million IPv4 and 3300 IPv6 addresses on our lists; those are machines for which we have confidence that there's enough data to categorize them.
and all mails you get will be delayed by an hour or more
Only if you have a broken and/or stupid greylist implementation. A correct implementation will refrain (for a few weeks) from greylisting an IP address once it notices that it does retry. That makes the initial delays quite tolerable.
Infidel! Now you understand why there is war in the Middle East. You thin-crusters must be eliminated by the will of the Flying Spaghetti Monster; we thick-crusters alone have truth on our side!!!
I doubt that a few defaced web sites or a barely-noticeable DDoS would concern the IDF or Mossad. Anonymous are like a bunch of virtually-unnoticeable gnats; Israel has real security concerns like rockets from Gaza and instability in Syria to worry about.
Israel doesn't have pizza delivery.
Sure it does, but probably not to Anonymous members. :)
Seriously... I've ordered pizza in Jerusalem. But the Israeli pizza tends to be thin-crust like the European versions and not as yummy IMO as our North American pizza.
What did Anonymous "win"? Nothing. They simply reaffirmed that they're a bunch of jobless losers living in their mothers' basements who have a hard time getting laid. If that weren't the case, they'd direct their energies elsewhere.
This has gone on waaaay too long. It's like a tedious Kids In The Hall sketch that just won't die.
Hire someone with a sense of humor to do your next April Fool's gag, m'kay?
We (Roaring Penguin Software Inc.) have an anti-spam system that has an archiving add-on if you're looking for commercial software. It's built on PostgreSQL, so supports searching including full-text body searches.
Searching is done via a Web interface; we don't have specific integration with particular email clients.
I have more than 13 years' worth of archived mail; I keep two bzip-compressed mbox files for each month: Sent-YYYY-MM.bz2 and Received-YYYY-MM.bz2
Searching is a bit slow, but I hardly ever have to search that far back so I don't mind. More recent mail (going back about a year) stays on the IMAP server. Also, my company produces an email archiving product that lets me search very quickly based on sender, recipient, subject, full-text body search, etc. which is great for mail going back up to about two years.