But avoid SPEWS like the plague. They have a wonderful policy of blacklisting entire 16-bit IP ranges because one machine in an enormous server park has been used to send spam.
They know this causes massive collateral damage to machines administrated by totally independent companies, many of them small and liable to suffer severe hardship because of this arbitrary action. That's precisely the idea: they keep hurting non-spammers to make them lobby the server parks to deal with the spammers.
Bullshit. SPEWS policy is extremely simple: one spam will list THE IP, and it is only if abuse complaints regarding spam are NOT resolved that the listing is escalated until the whole ISP is blacklisted.
SPEWS is a list of spam-tolerant ISPs.
The hardship cast upon smaller clients of the ISP is brought to them only by their indirect support of spammers through their direct support of spam-friendly ISPs.
Now if one wants a less aggressive blacklist, one can always look at Spamhaus.
Recently in the renovation of the floor above it, the construction crew needed to poor a new floor. It didn't occur to them to plug the holes that had been drilled through the old floor over time, or cap the stubbed in conduit that had been put in. As a result of this the switch with it's ports facing upwards was filled with concrete.
Not IT, but similar. A part of subway tunnel maintenance in Paris involves injecting concrete into cracks. One such crack extended into a famous restaurateur's wine cellar. After a night of furious concrete pumping, all his prized grand crus classés bottles ended-up being preserved for eternity inside a huge concrete block...
running the water at any sort of regular interval will keep the u-bend full. For the U-bend to evaporate would take weeks or months probably.
Some decades ago, I shared an appartment in Paris with a total technical ignoramus (a philosophy professor). When I arrived, I found that the bathroom reeked. Upon investigation, the smell came from a washing machine drain which was not used (no washing machine), and hastily plugged with balls of crumpled paper and a totally ineffective piece of plastic held by an elastic.
Removing the blockage and pouring several glass of water in the drain did the trick...
So a tiny bit of water has to be dripped into the drain to keep up with evaporation. There are special "drip valves" for this.
I was surprised to see, in a large warehouse store, some automatic urinal flush reservoirs (they flush the toilets every so often) whose output was hooked to about 30 small half-inch pipes going into the floor. The reservoirs were installed about 20 feet high on columns.
Some amount of cogitation was needed to realize that each of those small pipes was headed to the traps of the floor drains installed throughout the store...
Now that's a (plumbing) hack in the true meaning of the term!
Experience has shown that the police does not give a rat's ass when it comes to civil liberties.
And why should they? It's not their job - their job is to enforce the law.
The police is very selective when it comes to enforcing laws. For example, laws that guarantee civil liberties are giving very short thrift; police will routinely violate those laws by conducting illegal searches through deception, counting on people not knowing their rights, outright lying or simply with brute force.
It is only a matter of time before the police will block sites they disagree with that has nothing to do with child pr0n...
You really think so? Or do you mean the legislators rather than the police? The police do what they are told - laws are passed by the three levels government, so if you have a beef, sounds like it should with them, not the police.
No, I mean the police. They will routinely lie to advance their own agenda, they constantly suspect everyone of wrongdoing, trust no one at all.
This is the reason why there are laws that define what police can do and cannot do, because left to their own, the police would jail everyone "for their own good".
I immediately spotted her, as she was coming down the stairs to the beach. She was wearing no top at all, as the European custom calls for. Her bikini bottom was quite small, and held very tight by strings on each side, pulled very tight.
She had quite an awesome cameltoe: her shaved pussy crack was entirely occupied by the yellow fabric. As she walked lusciously, her pussy lips moved against each other, immediately drawing to her crotch almost half the eyes who are on the beach.
She made the slowest possible beeline towards me, as she had spotted me. My huge erection was hard to miss, given my extremely tight lycra bathing suit...
As she came towards me, her eyes were unmistakably drawn towards my exploding crotch. As I slowly arose, the other half of the eyes on the beach were drawn to my own erection. As she passed by me, the way she turned around her head was unmistakable: she wanted meat!
I picked up my stuff, and ostensibly followed her back to her hotel, which was right by Snarky's bar. As soon as I closed the door behind her, she was pulling down on my shorts, popping up my shaved cock on her chin.
Within picoseconds, two hot pair of lips were on my shaft, very effecively stroking it along with very expert tongue motion. But not enough to make me explode; she just stopped short of the orgasm, only to throw herself onto the bed, pulling aside her bikini bottom enough to reveal her oozing crack.
I jumped on the occasion, and started heavily licking the dangling parts, while untying the side strings. As I was heaving my tongue in and out, my erection could not wait anymore, so I jumped up on the bed, but as I got ready to penetrate her, she said NO!
She turned around, and said "I want it in the ass!!!"
As long as americans will be culturally drawn to making money with the least amount of work, they will become lawyers or stock brokers or any of those parasitic occupations that merely moves money about without creating any wealth.
And as long as religion will have a chokehold on americans' brains, science does not stand a chance.
Better leave Science to atheist countries who have a healthy disdain for money, such as France, Russia or Germany...
He idea of blocking outbound port 25 traffic without exception is stupid! I have a co-location server that handles my email along with other things,I want to handle my own outgoing email as well so that my filters will auto-whitelist people I email, and will learn from the content I send as well as what I receive. Set it up from work, and everything was nice, plugged my laptop in at home, no dice. Called my ISP, and they simply told me that port 25 was blocked for all users, no way they can open it up for one person! Now, if other broadband providers were available in my area I'd be happy to change, but my solution had to be to open another instance of my mail server on a higher port...
Move to a real, serious ISP. Mine blocks port 25, but since I pay $10 extra for a fixed IP to run my own server, they made no fuss when it came to unblock port 25.
The crux of the problem is the penny-pinching network executives who prefer to run spam sewers where zombies thrive without any supervision.
Competent sysadmins are expensive, and the idea of, say blocking outbound port 25 would never occur to them, or is brushed-off for stupid reasons.
The only way out is to exerce pressure on those network owners and the best way to do so is by simply blocking them left and right until they are left with nothing but their huge intranets.
They spent all their time learning about useless crap like advanced multivariable calculus, matrix theory, and other math crap instead of learning how to program.
You must be a Visual Basic code monkey that programs pretty stuff GUIs for medical insurance applications, eh?
A little math goes a long way in siplifying algorithm coding. Oh, sorry, you're not an analyst, you're just a programmer.
If I leave a stack of copied CDs (ones I own myself) that I made for backup purposes (since my CDs quite easilly scratch) accidentily on a table in a foodcourt and someone takes them with them, would I be sueable for infringement of copyright?
More up here. Not only you can copy all the CDs you borrow (be it from a friend or a library), but you can share them online, too (says the Supreme Court).
In once case, a vital piece of mail sent to a state taxing authority couldn't get through on a month-end calendar deadline, causing much grief.
That grief is well deserved. E-mail is **NOT** reliable, and delivery is **NOT**, **CAN NOT** and **WILL NOT** be guaranteed. So anyone stupid enough to entrust "vital" communication to e-mail rightly deserves to have his arse whipped real good.
Myself, a month ago I missed an opportunity to collaborate on a TV miniseries. Why? Because the moron who asked me for my collaboration absolutely trusted e-mail, and it was **THE** message that bounced thanks to a network glitch, and that moron didn't think of calling me on the **PHONE**. Well, if they were stupid enough to trust e-mail like that, they probably would have made a crappy miniseries anyways.
For casual communications, there is e-mail.
For vital ones, there is registered mail, fax or phone.
With a friend, who had access to a machine shop, we made several plates, and I added the webbing and two tank straps. Another friend had the bladder custom-manufactured in Italy.
Total cost was less than $80 (without tank, regulator & console), which is not bad compared to the retail price which would be in the vicinity of $700-$800.
Irrellevant. The point is, the customer has no respect for the retailer's property and didn't ask permission. Just because the retailer does not have an open one for demo and just because they won't let you open it does not give you the right to open the product in the first place. If you want to see it so bad, buy it., find a different retailer or find another way. But do not tear into the packaging and then whine and complain when packaging becomes designed to withstand your rude behaviors.
What is rude is assinine retailers who want to give crappy service, like not allowing people to make sure that they really buy what they want or making returns so difficult that they are effectively impossible. And most of those assinine retailers are the fabled "mom and pop" stores, so it's not surprising that people will shop at Wall-Marde, where returning merchandise is not a cardinal sin.
Seriously, the packaging exists, and retailers demand it because so many customers have no respect for other people's property. It never ceased to amaze me during my time in retail the number of people who would walk into a store, see something they like and start unpackaging it right there on the floor just so they could get a closer look. Didn't even ask anyone if there was one open they could look at, just tore into the box.
And of course, it never occured to you that whenever one "asks for an opened one to take a closer look", the retailer looks at them like if they asked to dance naked in the middle of rush-hour traffic in the winter???
If only jews were truly treated like the true terrorists they are...
After all, 90% of the cause of middle-east terrorism is because of the US's support of the zionist occupation of Palestine, thanks to the jews ' manipulation of the US media.
(Oh, and before modding me down, please note that I can end up in jail for saying this; the first amendment stops at the US border, and I am beyond those...)
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SPEWS is a list of spam-tolerant ISPs.
The hardship cast upon smaller clients of the ISP is brought to them only by their indirect support of spammers through their direct support of spam-friendly ISPs.
Now if one wants a less aggressive blacklist, one can always look at Spamhaus.
Removing the blockage and pouring several glass of water in the drain did the trick...
Some amount of cogitation was needed to realize that each of those small pipes was headed to the traps of the floor drains installed throughout the store...
Now that's a (plumbing) hack in the true meaning of the term!
This is the reason why there are laws that define what police can do and cannot do, because left to their own, the police would jail everyone "for their own good".
It is only a matter of time before the police will block sites they disagree with that has nothing to do with child pr0n...
Anyone who does the above will not be the most popular guy around.
Are you sure it isn't the Slashdot effect???
I immediately spotted her, as she was coming down the stairs to the beach. She was wearing no top at all, as the European custom calls for. Her bikini bottom was quite small, and held very tight by strings on each side, pulled very tight.
She had quite an awesome cameltoe: her shaved pussy crack was entirely occupied by the yellow fabric. As she walked lusciously, her pussy lips moved against each other, immediately drawing to her crotch almost half the eyes who are on the beach.
She made the slowest possible beeline towards me, as she had spotted me. My huge erection was hard to miss, given my extremely tight lycra bathing suit...
As she came towards me, her eyes were unmistakably drawn towards my exploding crotch. As I slowly arose, the other half of the eyes on the beach were drawn to my own erection. As she passed by me, the way she turned around her head was unmistakable: she wanted meat!
I picked up my stuff, and ostensibly followed her back to her hotel, which was right by Snarky's bar. As soon as I closed the door behind her, she was pulling down on my shorts, popping up my shaved cock on her chin.
Within picoseconds, two hot pair of lips were on my shaft, very effecively stroking it along with very expert tongue motion. But not enough to make me explode; she just stopped short of the orgasm, only to throw herself onto the bed, pulling aside her bikini bottom enough to reveal her oozing crack.
I jumped on the occasion, and started heavily licking the dangling parts, while untying the side strings. As I was heaving my tongue in and out, my erection could not wait anymore, so I jumped up on the bed, but as I got ready to penetrate her, she said NO!
She turned around, and said "I want it in the ass!!!"
It's too bad the project is axed; the soldiers would have looked pretty hot in that spandex...
What for? There are limits to croporate paranoia. How many people are genuinely untrustworthy?
As long as americans will be culturally drawn to making money with the least amount of work, they will become lawyers or stock brokers or any of those parasitic occupations that merely moves money about without creating any wealth.
And as long as religion will have a chokehold on americans' brains, science does not stand a chance.
Better leave Science to atheist countries who have a healthy disdain for money, such as France, Russia or Germany...
Competent sysadmins are expensive, and the idea of, say blocking outbound port 25 would never occur to them, or is brushed-off for stupid reasons.
The only way out is to exerce pressure on those network owners and the best way to do so is by simply blocking them left and right until they are left with nothing but their huge intranets.
A little math goes a long way in siplifying algorithm coding. Oh, sorry, you're not an analyst, you're just a programmer.
The deepest pockets will win, since it is the rule in the extraordinary corrupt US judicial system.
The deepest pockets will win, as it is the rule in the extraordinary corrupt US judicial system.
Myself, a month ago I missed an opportunity to collaborate on a TV miniseries. Why? Because the moron who asked me for my collaboration absolutely trusted e-mail, and it was **THE** message that bounced thanks to a network glitch, and that moron didn't think of calling me on the **PHONE**. Well, if they were stupid enough to trust e-mail like that, they probably would have made a crappy miniseries anyways.
For casual communications, there is e-mail.
For vital ones, there is registered mail, fax or phone.
(Front view) (back view).
With a friend, who had access to a machine shop, we made several plates, and I added the webbing and two tank straps. Another friend had the bladder custom-manufactured in Italy.
Total cost was less than $80 (without tank, regulator & console), which is not bad compared to the retail price which would be in the vicinity of $700-$800.
After all, 90% of the cause of middle-east terrorism is because of the US's support of the zionist occupation of Palestine, thanks to the jews ' manipulation of the US media.
(Oh, and before modding me down, please note that I can end up in jail for saying this; the first amendment stops at the US border, and I am beyond those...)
There is a single-payer universal health-care system that covers 100% of the people for all the covered procedures. Period.