No need to block the letters. Just block all 4-letter words. That will keep stock symbols from appearing. As a bonus, it will neutralize most swear words, making email "safe" for children and christians.
And the best part: the solution doesn't sound like contrived RIAA propaganda. I mean, really. Who ever heard of mp3 files that infringe copyrights? Turns into:
No to block the letters. block all 4-letter words. stock symbols appearing. As a bonus, it neutralize swear words, making email "" for children and christians.
And the: the solution doesn't sound contrived propaganda. I, really. Who heard of mp3 files infringe copyrights? Now it matches the spam I get grammatically...
Then the kid should leave a note on the table that says "Change your lock." An anonymous letter that clearly demonstrates that what is in the letter is true.
Therefore, someone should hack into the 911 system and leave a report of bad security on 911 systems. It is undeniably true, and completely anonymous if you covered your tracks well.
Maybe this commercial company wants to have their homebuilt TiVo in the breakroom. Maybe it's not a TiVo, it's a cash register, and they want to use it, not sell it. Maybe commercial companies have software that they use, rather than sell.
If there were word Nazis, you'd have been in the 'Do not allow to procreate' section of the eugenics program.
First of all, yes, I understand that the U.N. isn't going to do anything about this, and that they'd be hard pressed to do anything about it anyway. However, they can apply sanctions due to the economic hardship of dealing with all this crap, and 'convince' Russia to start making changes. It isn't completely inconceivable that something like this could potentially get passed if enough representatives got numbers for the real costs of spam in their countries.
Second of all, at the first threat of armed response to these servers, Russia will start posturing and threatening, the U.S. will posture and threaten back, Russia will make some Cold War reference, the U.S. will decide not to send in server-killing strike teams, but make it clear that we chose not to send in strike teams because of bean-counters or something, not because we take seriously any threat from Russia. Somewhere in there will be a horde of "OMG Cenzorship WTF?!?!" posts on Digg, Slashdot, and Fark.
I honestly do believe that this sort of thing is not going to be taken care of by peer pressure. AT&T and Verizon and Charter and Comcast and everyone else are not going to be able to block the spam. They are not going to be able to force the spammers to change their ways. This is a problem that will need to be taken care of governmentally, but likely won't be.
Like I want AT&T to be able to decide what parts of the internet are "off-limits" to me? Like there's any reasonable way of doing this anyway? The Internet was developed with the goal of routing around broken segments in mind. This is not a problem with a market solution. This is a problem where the U.N. tells Russia to get its shit together, and stop these guys from doing things that piss off the rest of the world. Nigeria can get the same treatment. If there's some other group behind all the foreign lottery scams that are apparently being sent out by botnet, then I'd like to get them locked down too.
Lindows was going to win, but eventually settled under the threat of being sued in every country where Lindows and Microsoft both had a presence. Lindows got some money, and switched to Linspire.
I'm looking at the many potential possibilities for wearable computing, and this is a major thing for me. 5 watts means that batteries last forever, and that heat will be low. Small form factor means that it could easily be converted into something that you just take with you. Freedom of OS means that I can pick whatever will have the best drivers for the most peripherals.
I'm all sorts of interested in this, especially with that kind of price point.
Hey, I accept that Windows has the lion's share of viruses. But the AC I was responding to claimed that viruses were all Bill's fault, and I wanted to disillusion him. Honestly, the viruses from pre-Windows days were the preferred examples for discrediting his claims.
Personally, I feel that the majority of viruses run on Windows for many reasons, including that it's a bigger target, a softer target, and, by and large, a dumber target. The average Linux user is much more tech-savvy than the average Windows user. If all of those tech-savvy people switched to Windows, they would still not be the people getting viruses. I run Linux on my laptop, and XP on my desktop (for games). I don't get viruses on either of them.
In actual use, sometimes Tasers replace talking. Where police would once try to talk someone down (6 year old threatening to cut himself with a broken piece of glass) they might now jump straight to applying voltage to the situation. If you want a fairly tame and not unreasonable slippery slope tacked on to that, as Tasers become used even more often, the police will begin to lose the skill of talking to defuse situations. You can't just Taser the guy on a window ledge. You state that Tasers are less dangerous than the means they replace, but there are cases where no police officer would even think of using a gun or baton where the Taser comes out as standard procedure.
Gandhi wasn't exactly on good terms with the British. It's not inconceivable that he might have had an ulterior motive on that 'let the Nazis win' suggestion.
Before people start modding this down as flamebait or troll, remember that Gandhi was reasonably skilled politically, and could easily have espoused taking the high road with the knowledge that there wasn't a way the British could defeat the Nazis and defend themselves from his condemnation. He would also have known what the British people would choose, and been able to use their rejection of his plan to further demonize them in India in the lead up to his request for the UK to Quit India.
According to the psychotic Baptist minister I work with, God has appointed all rulers of men. This includes people like Hitler and Stalin according to him. He also believes that the Earth is a maximum of 15,000 years old, and that using that number puts him on the liberal side of reality. Carbon-dating doesn't work, because when they carbon-dated rocks from the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980, carbon-dating suggested that the rocks were millions of years old, rather than just 27. This is the tip of the iceberg when dealing with this guy.
Because the Anarchist's Cookbook and its kin (Jolly Roger's Cookbook, etc.) present these things as recipes, and make no mention of the fact that following these recipes have a great chance of costing you your hand. Textbooks provide all the necessary information, but in a format that requires some understanding of the information. Someone who has the necessary understanding to be able to mix up some nitroglycerin from a science textbook will generally know not to drop it.
The various Cookbooks are the chemistry equivalent of the hacking tools a script kiddie might use, imparting recipes rather than information and understanding. When that happens with chemistry, hospital bills accrue.
Your neighbor might get hit with some of the shrapnel after the instructions lead you to collect a bunch of volatile chemicals and mix some into unstable explosives?
Some hospital worker might be traumatized when they see what you managed to do to your face and your arms below the elbows?
Arson is a crime, even when you're some stupid teenager who thinks mixing potassium chlorate and sulfuric acid is a good idea because some text file told him to?
I was talking about future generations gaining new traits and abilities, like the whole ignoring antibiotics thing that has some bacteria becoming very scary indeed.
After the first 900 mg of caffeine, your kidneys will stop caring about it for a while. Popping penguin mints is a mostly psychological exercise as far as wakefulness goes.
I have very wide feet: size 10 6E. Around here, I cannot walk into a store and find shoes, they have to be ordered. This increases the price dramatically, so that I can't buy a pair of shoes for under $100. I haven't even checked on steel-toes...
Mostly. But there have been plenty of buried alive tricks, if Jesus was only mostly dead and comatose when put in a rock tomb. Some of them even escaped straitjackets that could be compared to funeral shrouds.
There is also a not insignificant chance that the dead guy stayed dead, and future viewings were a double or impostor. Human resurrection sets off my Fake-o-meter slightly less than talking snakes and donkeys, and slightly more than locusts on demand. I find the Matrix easier to swallow than some of the basic tenants of Christianity.
The Bible is not a history. It is a book which contains history intermingled with stories. I have no trouble believing that there was likely a man named Jesus who was born approximately 2000 years ago, who formed a cult by claiming to be the target of several prophecies that played a major part in an existing dominant religion. He may have performed feats that have, since then, mostly been duplicated by stage magicians and faith healers.
When the Bible is claimed as a completely accurate historical source, questions come into my mind that they often find awkward. With all the satellite coverage and local photographs of so many locations, why have we been unable to discover a tower with the heavens as its top? Or a mass grave at the bottom of the Red Sea? Or any literature from the Egyptians that tells the tale of a slave uprising and a dead pharaoh? What about a garden being guarded by cherubim and a sword of flame? How was the pre-Babel history passed to the post-Babel people, with the whole multitude of languages thing? Given the religious claim that evolution does not happen in living organisms (viruses apparently don't count), how do we have more genetic diversity than would be possible if we all had Noah as an ancestor? How do we trace Jesus' lineage all the way back to the specific son of Noah that would fulfill the necessary prophecies, and yet could not do better than a wild guess for anyone alive today? Those 6,000 years or so of people paid more attention to genealogy than today's scholars?
How about a loving and caring God? This is the same God that, as I recall, spent a fair amount of time hardening the Pharaoh's heart against Moses so that he had plenty of excuses to keep playing with his plagues. He could have had his slaves released quite a bit earlier. We are either looking at a God who does things that in humans would be called violent and probably sadistic, or we are looking at a story instead of a history.
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And the best part: the solution doesn't sound like contrived RIAA propaganda. I mean, really. Who ever heard of mp3 files that infringe copyrights? Turns into: No to block the letters. block all 4-letter words. stock symbols appearing. As a bonus, it neutralize swear words, making email "" for children and christians.
And the: the solution doesn't sound contrived propaganda. I, really. Who heard of mp3 files infringe copyrights? Now it matches the spam I get grammatically...
This is why NBC rewind is so nice. I don't need TV for Heroes, just broadband.
Then the kid should leave a note on the table that says "Change your lock." An anonymous letter that clearly demonstrates that what is in the letter is true.
Therefore, someone should hack into the 911 system and leave a report of bad security on 911 systems. It is undeniably true, and completely anonymous if you covered your tracks well.
Maybe this commercial company wants to have their homebuilt TiVo in the breakroom. Maybe it's not a TiVo, it's a cash register, and they want to use it, not sell it. Maybe commercial companies have software that they use, rather than sell.
If there were word Nazis, you'd have been in the 'Do not allow to procreate' section of the eugenics program.
First of all, yes, I understand that the U.N. isn't going to do anything about this, and that they'd be hard pressed to do anything about it anyway. However, they can apply sanctions due to the economic hardship of dealing with all this crap, and 'convince' Russia to start making changes. It isn't completely inconceivable that something like this could potentially get passed if enough representatives got numbers for the real costs of spam in their countries.
Second of all, at the first threat of armed response to these servers, Russia will start posturing and threatening, the U.S. will posture and threaten back, Russia will make some Cold War reference, the U.S. will decide not to send in server-killing strike teams, but make it clear that we chose not to send in strike teams because of bean-counters or something, not because we take seriously any threat from Russia. Somewhere in there will be a horde of "OMG Cenzorship WTF?!?!" posts on Digg, Slashdot, and Fark.
I honestly do believe that this sort of thing is not going to be taken care of by peer pressure. AT&T and Verizon and Charter and Comcast and everyone else are not going to be able to block the spam. They are not going to be able to force the spammers to change their ways. This is a problem that will need to be taken care of governmentally, but likely won't be.
Like I want AT&T to be able to decide what parts of the internet are "off-limits" to me? Like there's any reasonable way of doing this anyway? The Internet was developed with the goal of routing around broken segments in mind. This is not a problem with a market solution. This is a problem where the U.N. tells Russia to get its shit together, and stop these guys from doing things that piss off the rest of the world. Nigeria can get the same treatment. If there's some other group behind all the foreign lottery scams that are apparently being sent out by botnet, then I'd like to get them locked down too.
Lindows was going to win, but eventually settled under the threat of being sued in every country where Lindows and Microsoft both had a presence. Lindows got some money, and switched to Linspire.
I'm looking at the many potential possibilities for wearable computing, and this is a major thing for me. 5 watts means that batteries last forever, and that heat will be low. Small form factor means that it could easily be converted into something that you just take with you. Freedom of OS means that I can pick whatever will have the best drivers for the most peripherals.
I'm all sorts of interested in this, especially with that kind of price point.
Hey, I accept that Windows has the lion's share of viruses. But the AC I was responding to claimed that viruses were all Bill's fault, and I wanted to disillusion him. Honestly, the viruses from pre-Windows days were the preferred examples for discrediting his claims.
Personally, I feel that the majority of viruses run on Windows for many reasons, including that it's a bigger target, a softer target, and, by and large, a dumber target. The average Linux user is much more tech-savvy than the average Windows user. If all of those tech-savvy people switched to Windows, they would still not be the people getting viruses. I run Linux on my laptop, and XP on my desktop (for games). I don't get viruses on either of them.
Yes, because no malware exists on any other systems
The computer was WOPR. Joshua was the backdoor username.
In actual use, sometimes Tasers replace talking. Where police would once try to talk someone down (6 year old threatening to cut himself with a broken piece of glass) they might now jump straight to applying voltage to the situation. If you want a fairly tame and not unreasonable slippery slope tacked on to that, as Tasers become used even more often, the police will begin to lose the skill of talking to defuse situations. You can't just Taser the guy on a window ledge. You state that Tasers are less dangerous than the means they replace, but there are cases where no police officer would even think of using a gun or baton where the Taser comes out as standard procedure.
Gandhi wasn't exactly on good terms with the British. It's not inconceivable that he might have had an ulterior motive on that 'let the Nazis win' suggestion.
Before people start modding this down as flamebait or troll, remember that Gandhi was reasonably skilled politically, and could easily have espoused taking the high road with the knowledge that there wasn't a way the British could defeat the Nazis and defend themselves from his condemnation. He would also have known what the British people would choose, and been able to use their rejection of his plan to further demonize them in India in the lead up to his request for the UK to Quit India.
According to the psychotic Baptist minister I work with, God has appointed all rulers of men. This includes people like Hitler and Stalin according to him. He also believes that the Earth is a maximum of 15,000 years old, and that using that number puts him on the liberal side of reality. Carbon-dating doesn't work, because when they carbon-dated rocks from the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980, carbon-dating suggested that the rocks were millions of years old, rather than just 27. This is the tip of the iceberg when dealing with this guy.
I don't know who Jesus would frag, but Judas was all about the TK. Look, it's even the right game.
Because the Anarchist's Cookbook and its kin (Jolly Roger's Cookbook, etc.) present these things as recipes, and make no mention of the fact that following these recipes have a great chance of costing you your hand. Textbooks provide all the necessary information, but in a format that requires some understanding of the information. Someone who has the necessary understanding to be able to mix up some nitroglycerin from a science textbook will generally know not to drop it.
The various Cookbooks are the chemistry equivalent of the hacking tools a script kiddie might use, imparting recipes rather than information and understanding. When that happens with chemistry, hospital bills accrue.
Your neighbor might get hit with some of the shrapnel after the instructions lead you to collect a bunch of volatile chemicals and mix some into unstable explosives?
Some hospital worker might be traumatized when they see what you managed to do to your face and your arms below the elbows?
Arson is a crime, even when you're some stupid teenager who thinks mixing potassium chlorate and sulfuric acid is a good idea because some text file told him to?
Pick one, or make your own.
I was talking about future generations gaining new traits and abilities, like the whole ignoring antibiotics thing that has some bacteria becoming very scary indeed.
After the first 900 mg of caffeine, your kidneys will stop caring about it for a while. Popping penguin mints is a mostly psychological exercise as far as wakefulness goes.
I have very wide feet: size 10 6E. Around here, I cannot walk into a store and find shoes, they have to be ordered. This increases the price dramatically, so that I can't buy a pair of shoes for under $100. I haven't even checked on steel-toes...
Viruses. Bacteria.
In the Expanded Universe, he went to Dagobah because that cave was a nexus for the dark side, and helped hide him from the emperor.
Mostly. But there have been plenty of buried alive tricks, if Jesus was only mostly dead and comatose when put in a rock tomb. Some of them even escaped straitjackets that could be compared to funeral shrouds.
There is also a not insignificant chance that the dead guy stayed dead, and future viewings were a double or impostor. Human resurrection sets off my Fake-o-meter slightly less than talking snakes and donkeys, and slightly more than locusts on demand. I find the Matrix easier to swallow than some of the basic tenants of Christianity.
The Bible is not a history. It is a book which contains history intermingled with stories. I have no trouble believing that there was likely a man named Jesus who was born approximately 2000 years ago, who formed a cult by claiming to be the target of several prophecies that played a major part in an existing dominant religion. He may have performed feats that have, since then, mostly been duplicated by stage magicians and faith healers.
When the Bible is claimed as a completely accurate historical source, questions come into my mind that they often find awkward. With all the satellite coverage and local photographs of so many locations, why have we been unable to discover a tower with the heavens as its top? Or a mass grave at the bottom of the Red Sea? Or any literature from the Egyptians that tells the tale of a slave uprising and a dead pharaoh? What about a garden being guarded by cherubim and a sword of flame? How was the pre-Babel history passed to the post-Babel people, with the whole multitude of languages thing? Given the religious claim that evolution does not happen in living organisms (viruses apparently don't count), how do we have more genetic diversity than would be possible if we all had Noah as an ancestor? How do we trace Jesus' lineage all the way back to the specific son of Noah that would fulfill the necessary prophecies, and yet could not do better than a wild guess for anyone alive today? Those 6,000 years or so of people paid more attention to genealogy than today's scholars?
How about a loving and caring God? This is the same God that, as I recall, spent a fair amount of time hardening the Pharaoh's heart against Moses so that he had plenty of excuses to keep playing with his plagues. He could have had his slaves released quite a bit earlier. We are either looking at a God who does things that in humans would be called violent and probably sadistic, or we are looking at a story instead of a history.
I just want my women flexible, not convoluted.