Yes, you're right and maybe this is the part I am having trouble coming to grips with. He seems like the last guy who should be spouting this line of rubbish. I feel like I'm in a bad B-rate horror movie and the body snatchers just got to the President...
Yes, you're right I have this ASCII text file created in 1997 and I can't find anything to read it...
OH WAIT ACTUALLY FUCKING *EVERYTHING* STILL READS IT.
Stop gargling Microsoft's balls so much and wipe off your chin. Proprietary data formats are THE PROBLEM. Stop trying to redirect public discourse with this thinly veiled bullshit.
This is inaccurate. Red Bull Flugtag generates a huge amount of publicity for Red Bull. Agile makes everyone who touches it quickly fade into obscurity.
Good catch. But couldn't the same business formula work, in theory, for causes if a similar organization (but with different terms of service than Kickstarter) were to be created?
Yea, he might be more paranoid for no reason, but I think we can all agree that whether that is the case or not, paranoid people are WAY more fun to fuck with.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(X) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money (X) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (X) Users of email will not put up with it (X) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists (X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (X) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (X) Asshats (X) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP (X) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack (X) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes (X) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (X) Extreme profitability of spam (X) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (X) Technically illiterate politicians (X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves (X) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering (X) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
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Seriously, why would Vincent Cerf not blame Microsoft?
+1 Underrated.
Yes, that's your first clue that schadenfreude is involved here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Yes, you're right and maybe this is the part I am having trouble coming to grips with. He seems like the last guy who should be spouting this line of rubbish. I feel like I'm in a bad B-rate horror movie and the body snatchers just got to the President...
+1 Underrated.
Yes, you're right I have this ASCII text file created in 1997 and I can't find anything to read it...
OH WAIT ACTUALLY FUCKING *EVERYTHING* STILL READS IT.
Stop gargling Microsoft's balls so much and wipe off your chin. Proprietary data formats are THE PROBLEM. Stop trying to redirect public discourse with this thinly veiled bullshit.
This is inaccurate. Red Bull Flugtag generates a huge amount of publicity for Red Bull. Agile makes everyone who touches it quickly fade into obscurity.
Good catch. But couldn't the same business formula work, in theory, for causes if a similar organization (but with different terms of service than Kickstarter) were to be created?
(The money got spent on War, mostly.)
I think we're talking about America here.
I simply meant that its obsolete for non-profits. Obviously, you're right its still working great for the lobbiests and lobbiers themselves.
Lobbying is obsolete.
So, basically they killed off all the ones that like sugar enough to die for it and they're calling it evolution?
You will get sued for that crap here.
Yea, he might be more paranoid for no reason, but I think we can all agree that whether that is the case or not, paranoid people are WAY more fun to fuck with.
The carbon wasn't "in the atmosphere for living things to use" it WAS the living things, you idiot.
How the hell do you fools moderate this crap up to +5 freaking insightful? Read a god damned book.
Uh, those signs are to say that the *building* contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.
Also, Radon isn't exactly what I'd call a "not-so-bad" chemical.
Not yet but I'm fairly certain it will be illegal to drive with these things on in California by the time a lot of them actually get sold.
"Released" is a bit strong a term; the port is still marked "beta."
Boycott stupidity.
Seconded.
Slashdot's comment filter kept me from responding "No"
Probably because that's where Hoffa's body is buried or something.
1) unfair comparison
2) old news
3) 100% nvidia's fault
Your post advocates a
(X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(X) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(X) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
(X) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
(X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(X) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
(X) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
(X) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
(X) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(X) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
(X) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
(X) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
(X) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
I'm pretty sure he's right, fyi. The key is the "non-random" part.