IP reputation and RBL will always be vulnerable because the attackers just hide within the population, like guerrillas or terrorists. If you block legitimate ranges or addresses because you saw a spam come from there, it's like bombing a village because someone shot at you from one of the houses. You may kill the bad guy but you make the population REALLY mad. This is consistent with recent findings that >50% of spam actually originates from "trusted domains."

Deja vu..... You'll recall that the Web was gonna kill the desktop, and client/server, but look around. Sure you'll see a TREND toward more Web/cloud stuff, but the use cases for the old stuff don't go away. Everyone's a top-down, absolutist on these things. If you think bottoms-up, based on customer use cases, you'll have mainframes, terminals, PCs, and client/server -- for good or for bad -- around forever.

That and ego/politics; few Type A managers are gonna give their sensitive data over to someone they can't choke. So you'll see more cloud, and yes a greater tolerance for the model overall. But you won't see everything go online. What remains to be seen is whether the cloud enthusiasm tempers progressively, or bursts like a bubble.

I have a domain I've owned and not used for almost 15 years, it's a .com that would be very attractive to anyone with a directory or yellow pages plan. Every so often I get a query on it but it's always.... wait for it... a domain squatter. I tell them it's $10k and never hear back. If I had a query from someone who really was going to do something with it, I would negotiate rationally.

So for those who say "registrant!=squatter" that's not my experience. (Well except for me, um, never mind.)

I thought I might have found the switch with the "back/forward" button at the lower right.... but it was just there to urge me to install Silverlight. Grrrr.....

Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling a pig in the mud. After a while, you realize the engineer enjoys it.

....and you both get dirty.

Here at IBM it is well known that it takes 20 minutes for everyone to join the e-meeting and/or track down the necessary "executives." So the 40 minute meeting just makes sure you use what's left.

Haven't really caught much Futurama but Billy West is one of the funniest and most versatile voice actors, evar. He was on WBCN Boston for most of the 80s (Charles Laquidara's "Big Mattress" program) and to this day I'm still re-using his shtick most days. If you ever heard him doing all Three Stooges in succession, you would agree. Or the old "Fool's Parade," where they would stage a complete virtual parade down Commonwealth Ave on April 1, just to see how many people would actually show up. I still smile thinking about the Somerville Float (to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree").... "Oh Sumville, oh Sumville, the people there are pissah!"

I still wish they'd been able to buy Yahoo. Now THAT would have efficiently diminished the checkbook-as-weapon strategy MS has perfected over the years.

Wow he's not kidding about the Monty Burns thing. http://www.visit-springfieldillinois.com/design/Simpsons/pic-MrBurns-z.jpg

Wow that font looks like ass. I went there hoping for a positive reaction, but are they serious?