that doesn't seem to be stopping blacklist database maintanence from supporting anti-spam products and services. the margin of error is already there, but so far all we do is lose mail over it. why don't we make it count? some people get lazy maintaining these blacklists because the only bad side-effect of their lethargy is somebody doesn't get their email christmas card (or does, bagh!)this way they will try to keep their lists viable rather than face potentially their favorite news or entertainment server from going down.
i think it's a better idea than responding conversationally as another user suggested we all do.
i would join your distributed network if:
1. the 'attack' (hereafter referred to as 'distributed activity') could not be construed as malicious, i.e. "we thought they really wanted all of us to request that url at the same time repeatedly and frequently -- why shouldn't we?" collective ass should be covered by pointing out that the recipient of the distributed activity was actually hoping to profit from it and expected it, just look at their business plan. if they weren't ready to do business with the world, they shouldn't have advertised.
2. any people hoping to beat your system couldn't just put urls they hate, or your favorite urls, or slashdot.org, into spam and mass-mail it, hoping that the system will turn against you. there would have to be some official board set up to verify that some spam was definitely spam hoping to profit by ignoring the recipient of the mail's concerns, and that they aren't just trying to juke you out. i suppose they could maintain and share spam blacklists as already occurs for some products and services, and use those as the basis for the distributed activity.
3. the program would have to intercept the url request responses and ditch them. i don't actually want to process the content of the site, i just want them to have to do the work of sending it to me and the 1,000,000 other participants in the distributed activity.
that being said, i'd like to sign up for your distributed activity as a beta tester.
much of spam, if you reply to it will result in your response being bounced back to you. they don't want to hear from you -- they want you to generate 'points' for them by clicking on the contents of the mail, believing it to be worthwhile. many of them get points for clickthroughs but a lot also get points just if you view the message and cause some images to be called from servers which track where the image was being requested from, so just looking at some spam will verify for the spammer that you exist on the other end. if you want to cram the spammer, you should just bounce back all their crappy spam but keep in mind that clogs the net, too. and most spammers don't even keep track of if their messages are bounced back to them or not, they keep sending anyways knowing that there are programs like mailwasher that give windows users options to bounce all their mail. they obviously can spare the time and throughput it takes to spam so many damn people that they can ignore the 'bugs' and just keep amassing larger and larger mail lists, and probably not hit a 'bump' until they are at around the 100,000 address mark. so, the idea of also wasting human time and ingenuity in responding to spam conversationally is bad.
alternately, 1. nano injected at 1:1,000 per toxin 2. nano bind 1,000th of toxins 3. blood reaches external reservoir; magnetise nano; empty chamber; swish nano and electricute to return to open state, unbinding toxin; collect toxin and free nano, seperate in centrifuge; meanwhile introduce seperated re-free nano into bloodstream 1:999 per toxin (see 1)
hopefully step 3 can be automated to only take a few minutes, cleaning up and readying auxiliary nano while freshly readied nano are reintroduced into the blood. this takes care of your clotting problem.
this new research grant seems to follow pretty closely on the heels of new activity occuring at yellowstone national park, described here, here, and here (where you can also buy your own survey equipment.)
apparently, yellowstone park is right on top of a vent or something that has exploded catastrophically and according to some is overdue to do the same soon.
Grants totaling $319 million from the National Science Foundation have been awarded to cover the first five years of the major new project, called EarthScope. Work has already begun on its array of instruments and facilities, which will provide the tools for decades of future detailed studies.
... has eveything to do with attempting to determine just how soon and how badly North America is going to be covered with ash and oochi-hot burning lava. Cool, or what?
the other part of the premise was that the enemies were robotic undead aliens anyways, wasn't it? who cares about desecrating the bodies of the undead? it's like holy. and xenophobia rocks, so do guns. if robots ever have feelings, they'll take over the world, so none of that. more guns! blood!
anyways, weren't there some drawings of busty women in there? the real question is will leaving those in make or lose money for the company!
by 'actual language' i meant language-use. contextually this is obvious since i was contrasting it to the idea of 'language rules' which i portrayed as obviously stagnant, illustrated by analogy of 'updates'. wow, it would suck having to explain contexts like this. cornell must suck.
One will be required to think and to phrase oneself alike Ray Romano or Paddington Bear in order for software to fully 'understand', and for one to understand the software's response. Which sucks. Why bother trying? Are we really up to seeing if 'language rule updates' can keep up with changes in actual language? Or, will we find that language stagnates just because somebody makes a dictionary vocally conversational?
At least in Michigan, the laws on secondhand store and pawnshop purchases is that the seller's identification has to be taken down, they have to be thumbprinted, the information along with a description of the item and its SN have to be filed with the police, and the device has to sit for awhile (pretty sure it's a month, or was it two weeks,) so the police have time to do their checks on it before it gets a new owner.
If anything they will be sold in 'flea markets' (a bunch of merchants who deal apparently outside of regulations meeting someplace like a parking lot, happens in Florida all the time,) or why not just take them to Mexico where the news will probably not have hit yet, and sell them dirt cheap to poor people who (who may or, then again, may not ask for a bench test,) who you'll hopefully never do business with again?
Yeah, but they're the kids of black market consumers so who cares? They deserve coal for their parents' sins! Besides, they will end up with healthier mentalities for not playing that brain-rot all day long. They will have healthier things to do like play in the cesspools outside their Mexican villas (in actual Mexico. Where else can you get rid of six pallets of junk without anyone asking if those are the six pallets that are broken?)
sounds like fun. this carries the potential for people to start up 'drunkard hall of fame' in their town and see who can stay 'on the charts' the longest. people will purposefully drive cars into one another, then splashing bottles of mad dog and mcmasters over their heads just to get 'top score'. remember that kid who rode down all those people on that busy night strip and then ran up and down the street cheering? well, top fucking score, man! first place! woo hoo! and best of all it'll probably end up cheaper than buying a new console and keeping yourself in new titles.
i don't suggest unbalancing your dangerously, erotically teetering marriage with anything more adventurous or challenging than 'minesweeper'. select 1-player and collaborate.
reporter: gojira is crippring the anarog towels! man: agghhh damn, gojira! woman: zap him with the cell towers and repeaters, he can't take it all in the-- !@#@!^*&$#^%!*#@&^#*@ --+-- colonel: and that... was the last we saw of their civilization. commander-in-chief: whut, no more shamoo-rice?
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that doesn't seem to be stopping blacklist database maintanence from supporting anti-spam products and services. the margin of error is already there, but so far all we do is lose mail over it. why don't we make it count? some people get lazy maintaining these blacklists because the only bad side-effect of their lethargy is somebody doesn't get their email christmas card (or does, bagh!)this way they will try to keep their lists viable rather than face potentially their favorite news or entertainment server from going down.
i think it's a better idea than responding conversationally as another user suggested we all do.
i would join your distributed network if:
1. the 'attack' (hereafter referred to as 'distributed activity') could not be construed as malicious, i.e. "we thought they really wanted all of us to request that url at the same time repeatedly and frequently -- why shouldn't we?" collective ass should be covered by pointing out that the recipient of the distributed activity was actually hoping to profit from it and expected it, just look at their business plan. if they weren't ready to do business with the world, they shouldn't have advertised.
2. any people hoping to beat your system couldn't just put urls they hate, or your favorite urls, or slashdot.org, into spam and mass-mail it, hoping that the system will turn against you. there would have to be some official board set up to verify that some spam was definitely spam hoping to profit by ignoring the recipient of the mail's concerns, and that they aren't just trying to juke you out. i suppose they could maintain and share spam blacklists as already occurs for some products and services, and use those as the basis for the distributed activity.
3. the program would have to intercept the url request responses and ditch them. i don't actually want to process the content of the site, i just want them to have to do the work of sending it to me and the 1,000,000 other participants in the distributed activity.
that being said, i'd like to sign up for your distributed activity as a beta tester.
much of spam, if you reply to it will result in your response being bounced back to you. they don't want to hear from you -- they want you to generate 'points' for them by clicking on the contents of the mail, believing it to be worthwhile. many of them get points for clickthroughs but a lot also get points just if you view the message and cause some images to be called from servers which track where the image was being requested from, so just looking at some spam will verify for the spammer that you exist on the other end. if you want to cram the spammer, you should just bounce back all their crappy spam but keep in mind that clogs the net, too. and most spammers don't even keep track of if their messages are bounced back to them or not, they keep sending anyways knowing that there are programs like mailwasher that give windows users options to bounce all their mail. they obviously can spare the time and throughput it takes to spam so many damn people that they can ignore the 'bugs' and just keep amassing larger and larger mail lists, and probably not hit a 'bump' until they are at around the 100,000 address mark. so, the idea of also wasting human time and ingenuity in responding to spam conversationally is bad.
alternately,
1. nano injected at 1:1,000 per toxin
2. nano bind 1,000th of toxins
3. blood reaches external reservoir; magnetise nano; empty chamber; swish nano and electricute to return to open state, unbinding toxin; collect toxin and free nano, seperate in centrifuge; meanwhile introduce seperated re-free nano into bloodstream 1:999 per toxin (see 1)
hopefully step 3 can be automated to only take a few minutes, cleaning up and readying auxiliary nano while freshly readied nano are reintroduced into the blood. this takes care of your clotting problem.
living in Michigan, not very far from slashdot itself, i somehow feel safe and cozy. mainly, knowing that
when the skies turn dark for days on end and for my very victuals i will must fend,
only nerds will oppose my wrathful blade, i'll cut them all down and take their vittles away.
(cut them all down, and take their vittles away!)
somehow i messed up the third link. it is supposed to point to http://terrasearch.net
this new research grant seems to follow pretty closely on the heels of new activity occuring at yellowstone national park, described here, here, and here (where you can also buy your own survey equipment.)
apparently, yellowstone park is right on top of a vent or something that has exploded catastrophically and according to some is overdue to do the same soon.
i'm willing to bet that the funding discussed in the article i linked to above:
Grants totaling $319 million from the National Science Foundation have been awarded to cover the first five years of the major new project, called EarthScope. Work has already begun on its array of instruments and facilities, which will provide the tools for decades of future detailed studies.
... has eveything to do with attempting to determine just how soon and how badly North America is going to be covered with ash and oochi-hot burning lava. Cool, or what?
another ramp up in seismic survey was reported in this article in the san francisco chronicle.
it's slang for a wrench, so far i've heard it used by a british kid and a south african
the other part of the premise was that the enemies were robotic undead aliens anyways, wasn't it? who cares about desecrating the bodies of the undead? it's like holy. and xenophobia rocks, so do guns. if robots ever have feelings, they'll take over the world, so none of that. more guns! blood!
anyways, weren't there some drawings of busty women in there? the real question is will leaving those in make or lose money for the company!
when do they plan on releasing PAC-MAN?
by 'actual language' i meant language-use. contextually this is obvious since i was contrasting it to the idea of 'language rules' which i portrayed as obviously stagnant, illustrated by analogy of 'updates'. wow, it would suck having to explain contexts like this. cornell must suck.
it not ain't if i say 'boo-ya' up to the shizzo!! phooonkeee-pbbbt! mess with it.
One will be required to think and to phrase oneself alike Ray Romano or Paddington Bear in order for software to fully 'understand', and for one to understand the software's response. Which sucks. Why bother trying? Are we really up to seeing if 'language rule updates' can keep up with changes in actual language? Or, will we find that language stagnates just because somebody makes a dictionary vocally conversational?
So, is that the language in the Canadian Constitution? 'Double-dipping'?
dry diet make cow constipated? me no-know!
At least in Michigan, the laws on secondhand store and pawnshop purchases is that the seller's identification has to be taken down, they have to be thumbprinted, the information along with a description of the item and its SN have to be filed with the police, and the device has to sit for awhile (pretty sure it's a month, or was it two weeks,) so the police have time to do their checks on it before it gets a new owner.
If anything they will be sold in 'flea markets' (a bunch of merchants who deal apparently outside of regulations meeting someplace like a parking lot, happens in Florida all the time,) or why not just take them to Mexico where the news will probably not have hit yet, and sell them dirt cheap to poor people who (who may or, then again, may not ask for a bench test,) who you'll hopefully never do business with again?
is that to say one of those devices of satan comes with a bulletproof design? how dare they.
Yeah, but they're the kids of black market consumers so who cares? They deserve coal for their parents' sins! Besides, they will end up with healthier mentalities for not playing that brain-rot all day long. They will have healthier things to do like play in the cesspools outside their Mexican villas (in actual Mexico. Where else can you get rid of six pallets of junk without anyone asking if those are the six pallets that are broken?)
"Leading Edge Design next seeks to realize their ultimate ranger vehicle -- car-Voltron's left foot!"
to be loved by anyone!"
really though, wouldn't it just be an extension of their 'debt to society'?
to be loved by anyone! dweedoo dwedoo dee.
anyways doesn't it just count as an extension of 'debt to society'?
sounds like fun. this carries the potential for people to start up 'drunkard hall of fame' in their town and see who can stay 'on the charts' the longest. people will purposefully drive cars into one another, then splashing bottles of mad dog and mcmasters over their heads just to get 'top score'. remember that kid who rode down all those people on that busy night strip and then ran up and down the street cheering? well, top fucking score, man! first place! woo hoo! and best of all it'll probably end up cheaper than buying a new console and keeping yourself in new titles.
i don't suggest unbalancing your dangerously, erotically teetering marriage with anything more adventurous or challenging than 'minesweeper'. select 1-player and collaborate.
reporter: gojira is crippring the anarog towels!
man: agghhh damn, gojira!
woman: zap him with the cell towers and repeaters, he can't take it all in the--
!@#@!^*&$#^%!*#@&^#*@ --+--
colonel: and that... was the last we saw of their civilization.
commander-in-chief: whut, no more shamoo-rice?