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I've taken the liberty of posting a mirror HERE. Go easy on me. (Hah, wishful thinking!)

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2. Not a single one of the IP numbers listed there sends spam. Let me repeat that: you could drop every one of those IP numbers off your network and it would not stop a single piece of spam from reaching you. Those are websites. Spamhaus and MAPS don't like ths products those websites are selling and that is why they (and over a thousand other websites) are blocked.

How do you know? Perhaps their machines (since they have their own IP addresses) do relay raping! If not, perhaps they're just IP-based virtual hosts (which is a fscking waste of IP addresses, but that's a topic unto itself).

The situation is analogous to a censorware company blackmailing a service provider into removing Holocaust-denial material, by blocking thousands of innocent websites. Now, I don't like Holocaust denial, but standing up for free speech means standing up for speech I don't believe in.

I believe Voltaire said it best; I paraphrase: I disagree with what you say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it.

However, spammers steal service and clog people's mailboxes with junk. Knowingly distributing software to do that is like owning a gun shop; a customer comes in and asks which gun and which bullet type go through flesh the best and cause the most damage. Selling the gun to them is illegal because you know they're going to use it to commit a crime. It's precisely the same reason these are sold "FOR TOBACCO USE ONLY".

At best, what Media3 is doing is wrong and unethical, and worst it's illegal (aiding and abetting).

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The Woz was featured on A&E's Biography last night. Excellent piece; talked about the plane crash, the Apple I/II, Captain Crunch and blue boxing, and loads more. I didn't see this mentioned on /. so I thought I'd mention it now since it's somewhat pertinent, given the topic.

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Here's an Wired article that discusses the need for stringent security practices on the credit-card company's end of the line as well. It is pretty decently done, so I thought I'd put up a link here.

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As an American you shoul get yourself an spell checker, man. As to the rest, I agree. Generall in Europe whenever you go with a different accent you have a hard time being accepted as something else than a tourist. Furthermore, as a tourist you feel pretty much welcome, whn it shows that you work there, it is totally different picture. If you are to stay there (permanent-like) it's even worse...

Three words for you: Pot, kettle, black.

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Christ, Wes... ;)

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Fuck off, bitch. Not everyone is American. I'm not, and I'm damned well glad.

Honestly, it was interesting the first... oh... day or so, but now that it's almost ONE MONTH after the fsking election, and you still haven't figured out who the fuck won (mainly because you're still using antiquated voting equipment), it gets a bit tiring.

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A better example would have been the 'introduction' of Europeans to the New World

Hey, Wes, are you calling us white boys nothing but mere ballast? ;)

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You go, Wes. :)

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Very recently (although I can't find a link for the life of me) there was a row about a distributed antivirus signature update system. If one node were to get poisoned or trojaned, all hell would break loose.

I can see that happening with the sort of thing you're thinking of... way bad idea.

I mean, the only explanation for sysadmins not patching months- (in some cases years-) old holes and bugs are laziness or incompetence. Period. One more automated thing will make it that much easier for chimpanzees to run webservers -- and we don't want that, do we?

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This is just the kind of news I could do without, having recently been persuaded to register with AIM and give GAIM a try.

Sorry, what did you say your screen name was again?

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I haven't heard a word of Spanish -- or Cantonese, or Japanese, or French, for that matter -- ever since I slipped my trusty Babel fish into my ear many years ago. It's great, really! You should try it...

(ba'bel fish, n.) "The Babel fish," said The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe... if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language."
- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy"

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Oh. Oops!

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I don't care if it's the best deal on earth and it cures cancer. If it's advertised by spam, I ain't buying one.

If it cures cancer, I'll sell myself to buy their entire production run, spam or no spam. (I mean, c'mon... you gotta draw the line somewhere!)

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Yes, fewer than 300. 284, to be precise.

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Aside from the obvious PR burn, their biggest loss is this: an 18% drop in their stock price in one day. Ouch.

Plus, no fewer than two major manufacturers were toying with the idea of launching Transmeta notebooks and later changed their mind. This certainly isn't going to help them change their minds back in the other direction...

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• http://swpat.ffii.org
• http://petition.eurolinux.org/

At the recently concluded meetings in Los Angeles, ICANN indicated that it may include JVTeam's .biz in their rootzone. That does NOT mean that BIZtld's .biz is going anywhere. We did not apply for entry into the ICANN rootzone and we plan to stay where we are and continue to resolve to the ORSC rootzone. We also plan to make this apparent to ICANN and the DoC and have e-mailed ICANN's Chairman, Vint Cerf to that effect.

Sure, it works if you're one of the very few people with ORSC's nameservers in your resolv.conf... if not, .biz is still vaporware!

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