Actually Russian pumps use RON for gasoline grades where as US pumps use (RON+MON)/2, so Russian 95 is equal to US 90-91. Price of gasoline in Russia has been about 10-20% less than in US (at least last 15 years).
The piracy in Russia is so bad because the prices for music and movies are too high for Russian consumers. When several years ago Russian movie distributors negotiated lower prices and DVD were not popular the average legal video cassette cost was $5 there was a huge boost in legal sales. Also many Russian computer game makers (see for example www.buka.ru) several years ago lowered their prices down to $3-10. They don't make huge profits but they work profitably.
Why isn't everyone setting up stores like this on Russian territory? They do, but they all have Russian only interface: http://club.mp3search.ru/ http://deli t.net/ http://mp3zzz.ru/ http://audiostore.ru/ http://www.mp3charts.ru/
Once again/. offers excellent analysis. spylog.com is not spyware. It's site statistics. In fact the article author says spylog.com is used to gather statistics. Slashdot editors don't read the articles?
Progress ship _can_ support the station for as long as needed. They are doing it for more than a year already (remember that the last Shuttle flew more than a year ago). I guess you're confused by how much propellant can Progress carry vs. Shuttle. Of course Shuttle can carry more, but that only means that you need more Progresses than Shuttles to support the station's orbit.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean "trust level": are you worried if your money will reach artists' pockets or your money will reach robbers' pockets? If the first see my first post, if the second I don't know for sure. I can only say they exists for two years and they also use secure methods of payments which I use (money.yandex.ru - unfortunately it's a Russian only system). I checked their site a minute ago, they also accept paypal payments, but I'm not sure how secure it is. In Russia we also have visa ec@rd, limited balance 6 month card for online payments, maybe your bank offers something like that.
Yes, I use them. I'm not involved with them, but I live in Russia and saw their ads on a Russian site.
You're right, legal side of their business is unclear. They refer to Russian Multimedia and Internet Society lincense. Quote from ROMS site: "ROMS is authorized by the Russian law on copyright and related rights as well as by its members and other copyright managers, including foreign, to issue user licenses on behalf of all Russian and foreign rightsholders."
I have seen ROMS label on inexpensive CDs and video cassets with Western music and films in Russia but right after the label there was always a writing: "To be distributed only in Russia". So I'm not sure how they distribute digital music on Internet. The price difference is also suspiciously big: average song price in AllOfmp3 is $0.01*5-10Mb=$0.05-$0.10. Whereas average ROMS labeled video cassete is $6. Compare it to Western prices. BTW, DVDs are still $20 in Russia.
Anyway I buy music there occasionally. I bought a lot of Jethro Tull music (UK band, I'm a fan of them) in that store a year ago. On the saved money:) I bought $120 worth of J-Tull stuff (t-shirts, posters), I heard artists get much more money on merchandise.
All Of mp3 - it's a store that offer music at $0.01/megabyte. They offer mp3,wma,ogg vorbis,mpc and acc formats. Some tracks are mp3 only, but they offer "online encoding" that lets you select format and bitrate (ogg vorbis up to 320kbit/sec!). If you use "online encoding" you pay $0.01/megabyte. There is also flat rate subscription $15/month/1000tracks but it doesn't cover "online encoding". They are a Russian shop but the site has English interface as well. I believe they were able to negotiate such low prices because of poor sales of RIAA music in Russia. RIAA just don't care about Russia (yet?)
But Russians sent two missions to Mars satellite and both failed. The second one failed in a mysterious way: read here http://www.skiesare.demon.co.uk/phob-3.htm or search with google for other articles.
This discussion (at gmane.org) clearly shows that the main problem is not technical but social. All proposals are good enough to make spammers' life harder. But people can't work together. That is why the unification fails, the is why SMTP can't be replaced in the near future, and that is why a simple SMTP sender authentication will take year to be implemented worldwide.
You're already allowing to send mail with your "from:" address from your ISP (in fact from any ISP). So SPF will help you make abuse of your "from:" address less likely in case #3.
It will work for you! Since you're an owner of your domain you can add an spf record to your domain stating that ISP(Cox Cable) can send mail with your domain "from:" address. Of course you risk that someone else using Cox Cable can send mail with your "from:" address. This risk is pretty low, since such sender is more easily tracable. Anyway you should also complain to you ISP that you can't make SMTP AUTH connection to your mail server!
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Actually Russian pumps use RON for gasoline grades where as US pumps use (RON+MON)/2, so Russian 95 is equal to US 90-91. Price of gasoline in Russia has been about 10-20% less than in US (at least last 15 years).
PSF has given a grant to implement SNMPv3 in 2005. So your wish will probably will soon be fulfilled.
http://www.python.org/psf/grants/
The piracy in Russia is so bad because the prices for music and movies are too high for Russian consumers. When several years ago Russian movie distributors negotiated lower prices and DVD were not popular the average legal video cassette cost was $5 there was a huge boost in legal sales. Also many Russian computer game makers (see for example www.buka.ru) several years ago lowered their prices down to $3-10. They don't make huge profits but they work profitably.
http://www.citibank.ru/
They work in Russia too and they are pretty successful there.
Why isn't everyone setting up stores like this on Russian territory?i t.net/
http://www.mp3charts.ru/
They do, but they all have Russian only interface:
http://club.mp3search.ru/
http://del
http://mp3zzz.ru/
http://audiostore.ru/
Once again /. offers excellent analysis. spylog.com is not spyware. It's site statistics. In fact the article author says spylog.com is used to gather statistics. Slashdot editors don't read the articles?
Progress ship _can_ support the station for as long as needed. They are doing it for more than a year already (remember that the last Shuttle flew more than a year ago). I guess you're confused by how much propellant can Progress carry vs. Shuttle. Of course Shuttle can carry more, but that only means that you need more Progresses than Shuttles to support the station's orbit.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean "trust level": are you worried if your money will reach artists' pockets or your money will reach robbers' pockets? If the first see my first post, if the second I don't know for sure. I can only say they exists for two years and they also use secure methods of payments which I use (money.yandex.ru - unfortunately it's a Russian only system). I checked their site a minute ago, they also accept paypal payments, but I'm not sure how secure it is. In Russia we also have visa ec@rd, limited balance 6 month card for online payments, maybe your bank offers something like that.
Yes, I use them. I'm not involved with them, but I live in Russia and saw their ads on a Russian site.
:) I bought $120 worth of J-Tull stuff (t-shirts, posters), I heard artists get much more money on merchandise.
You're right, legal side of their business is unclear. They refer to Russian Multimedia and Internet Society lincense. Quote from ROMS site: "ROMS is authorized by the Russian law on copyright and related rights as well as by its members and other copyright managers, including foreign, to issue user licenses on behalf of all Russian and foreign rightsholders."
I have seen ROMS label on inexpensive CDs and video cassets with Western music and films in Russia but right after the label there was always a writing: "To be distributed only in Russia". So I'm not sure how they distribute digital music on Internet. The price difference is also suspiciously big: average song price in AllOfmp3 is $0.01*5-10Mb=$0.05-$0.10. Whereas average ROMS labeled video cassete is $6. Compare it to Western prices. BTW, DVDs are still $20 in Russia.
Anyway I buy music there occasionally. I bought a lot of Jethro Tull music (UK band, I'm a fan of them) in that store a year ago. On the saved money
All Of mp3 - it's a store that offer music at $0.01/megabyte. They offer mp3,wma,ogg vorbis,mpc and acc formats. Some tracks are mp3 only, but they offer "online encoding" that lets you select format and bitrate (ogg vorbis up to 320kbit/sec!). If you use "online encoding" you pay $0.01/megabyte. There is also flat rate subscription $15/month/1000tracks but it doesn't cover "online encoding". They are a Russian shop but the site has English interface as well. I believe they were able to negotiate such low prices because of poor sales of RIAA music in Russia. RIAA just don't care about Russia (yet?)
But Russians sent two missions to Mars satellite and both failed. The second one failed in a mysterious way: read here http://www.skiesare.demon.co.uk/phob-3.htm or search with google for other articles.
You're missing the point. ISPs will have to decide what to do: protect users from joe jobs or control outgoing smap.
This discussion (at gmane.org) clearly shows that the main problem is not technical but social. All proposals are good enough to make spammers' life harder. But people can't work together. That is why the unification fails, the is why SMTP can't be replaced in the near future, and that is why a simple SMTP sender authentication will take year to be implemented worldwide.
You're already allowing to send mail with your "from:" address from your ISP (in fact from any ISP). So SPF will help you make abuse of your "from:" address less likely in case #3.
It will work for you! Since you're an owner of your domain you can add an spf record to your domain stating that ISP(Cox Cable) can send mail with your domain "from:" address. Of course you risk that someone else using Cox Cable can send mail with your "from:" address. This risk is pretty low, since such sender is more easily tracable. Anyway you should also complain to you ISP that you can't make SMTP AUTH connection to your mail server!