Password length isn't the only weapon, it's just the particular one being raised by "RD". Captcha, random test questions (what is this site about?), and forum admin reviewing registration requests, are just some of the weapons that are in use. Spammers end up using more sophisticated tools to work around the "defenses" meant to stop them. Arms Race.
Ah, the old "you can beat up prostitutes because they can't complain to the cops" principle.
That's one way to exaggerate it. Keep in mind that these "prostitutes" are the spammers filling up his forums with spam, some of which is child porn and fake pills.
Doesn't sound like he's breaking into the accounts on other people's sites. He's just setting a vacation message ("Out of Office" for those stuck with Outlook) on the e-mail accounts that are used for spamming. The message only gets sent in response to e-mails that the account receives (according to his website).
Unauthorized Access is against the law in quite a few juristictions.
The only issue there is by suing "RD", they would be identifying themselves and making themselves an easy target for a return lawsuit. It's a stalemate.
I dislike people who have their POP clients set to download email every minute and process it using filters to put any email from me into a special folder. Does that give me the right to then hack their email accounts and take them over? Using the logic RD outlined above, it very much does. Which should show just how spurious his logic is.
The POP using people you describe are taking their email and sorting it how they want to within their own mailbox. You may not like it, but it's their space.
The forum spammers you're comparing them to use their e-mail address and software with the sole purpose of invading his website, which he pays real money for, and spends time maintaining, and which other people use to have conversations. The spammers further use this software to stuff his website with ads for pills, child porn, and other nastiness. This slows down his server (due to the load of fake accounts registering and posting) and can make his forums unreadable, driving away users. If his forums use ads, driving away users means a monetary loss
Your comparison is invalid, and your attempt at logic is laughable. They broke into his property, he kicked them out and took away their crowbar, which they signed up for under false pretenses.
TFA is four paragraphs long. 4. Less then five, more then three. It's not a long read, it would take you less then a minute to find "Tresset and Khaorapapong have approached the art in a new way, as Ladies&Gents must focus on limbs and silhouettes rather than faces."
I've yet to meet an executive so far gone that he believes you can overcharge your customers and then repay the principal when you get caught. They like to be a lot more subtle than that.
Besides, the executives plan on not getting caught to begin with.
They slipped a ring around all the issues they were having, and they just disappeared, later to be stabbed to death by these horsemen in black cloaks...
The point is that now it will be the same volume measured by *average level*. So one big explosion in CSI doesn't give the advertisers card blanche to blast their ads at you.
IIRC, our Phillips Magnavox large screen CRT TV had a "Smart Sound" feature that basically just normalized the volume all the time. I have to say it worked pretty well. I'd always notice watching TV at someone elses house that some ads played REALLY loud compared to the program. We had that TV from about the mid 90's I think.
Why don't more TVs have it? (rather, I know "cost" is probably the main reason, but it should be a good enough feature to be fairly standard today, you'd think)
Cost probably IS the main reason. It costs them money to put it in the TV, whereas the ad companies or networks are likely paying TV makers a small amount to keep the normalizers out of the TVs.
Does this sort of thing really need to have the law getting involved? It's only a small irritant.
Is it a bit of deflection from the real issues that are going on at the moment?
When you are watching a action packed movie, and have the surround sound turned up as high as you can comfortably stand without pissing off the neighbors, and a *BLARING* commercial pops on that doesn't retreat on the volume, and you're scrambling to find the remote while you can't even hear the voice in your head, it needs to stop.
If the complaints of the people go ignored, then since the government is supposed to be "for the people, by the people", why wouldn't the law get involved? Deflection? Probably. Appreciated by the masses? You betcha.
Because people in general (especially in the U.S.) are selfish bored sheep. They don't care about the *machine*, they just care about pulling their brain out of reality as often as possible.
Or maybe netflix users. I replaced cable with internet video including netflix, I bet I am quite the heavy downloader.
I bet you'd barely register on the graph. The kind of pirates that would "heavy downloaders" in this instance run their connection 24/7, with a queue of downloads. If talking about movies, the quality that they download at wouldn't stream across the internet, Netflix walks a fine line between quality and speed of download, while the pirates are downloading at a high quality divx or whatever the flavor of the month codec is.
A: "heavy downloaders=pirates after all" is likely thier viewpoint
B: Your day to day youtube, vimeo, netflix, etc bandwidth is small change compared to a constantly running queue of torrents. You're still watching your vimeo after it's downloaded. The queue of torrents maxes out your connection 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, provided you have good peers. Nice try, but think before clicking submit.
Why do you need special software like WordPress? Why can't you just use standard MS Word or WordPerfect, convert it to HTML, and publish it online?
Maintaining a Wordpress style blog in Word or Wordperfect would be a nightmare. Sure, you could do a single page, but updating it would quickly become a nightmare. A purpose built tool like Wordpress also allows access from mobile phones. Also, do you want to allow people to post comments on your blog? Have fun getting that to work with Word. Take a peek, you'll realize that, like most things, there is more to it then there seems. http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress
Disclaimer: I am not a Wordpress user, but I am related to one.
Perhaps since he isn't getting paid to write the review and likely has neither infinite time nor money like most customers he's probably capable of discerning what is crap before he spends his time and money on it and therefore doesn't? If he was a gaming magazine that was responsible for reviewing ALL games then your parroting the ancient concerns over the media's game reviews would be on target, but since he's only responsible for reviewing the games he wants to play AND review anyways, it's no surprise the games usually register in the upper end of his scale.
Exactly what I was thinking. If I had mod points I'd spend one on this.
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Password length isn't the only weapon, it's just the particular one being raised by "RD". Captcha, random test questions (what is this site about?), and forum admin reviewing registration requests, are just some of the weapons that are in use. Spammers end up using more sophisticated tools to work around the "defenses" meant to stop them. Arms Race.
Ah, the old "you can beat up prostitutes because they can't complain to the cops" principle.
That's one way to exaggerate it. Keep in mind that these "prostitutes" are the spammers filling up his forums with spam, some of which is child porn and fake pills.
Still waiting on the mac version of directx
Here you go...
The biggest tell that this is an art stunt, and not an actual "creative robot", is that it goes out of its way to draw genitals and breasts.
Or maybe the sad state of affairs is, that for many people, those ARE limbs...
Doesn't sound like he's breaking into the accounts on other people's sites. He's just setting a vacation message ("Out of Office" for those stuck with Outlook) on the e-mail accounts that are used for spamming. The message only gets sent in response to e-mails that the account receives (according to his website).
I was thinking the same thing. Once a majority has the increased requirements, the automated account makers will too. It's an arms race.
Child porn and fake drugs are covered by a multitude of laws. These things being placed on a forum doesn't change this. Spammer does more time.
There is a reason why the laws are created by the society as whole and not a single person or a group with single interest.
I almost choked laughing at this line. You must be delusional. In what part of the world do you reside?
Unauthorized Access is against the law in quite a few juristictions.
The only issue there is by suing "RD", they would be identifying themselves and making themselves an easy target for a return lawsuit. It's a stalemate.
I dislike people who have their POP clients set to download email every minute and process it using filters to put any email from me into a special folder. Does that give me the right to then hack their email accounts and take them over? Using the logic RD outlined above, it very much does. Which should show just how spurious his logic is.
The POP using people you describe are taking their email and sorting it how they want to within their own mailbox. You may not like it, but it's their space.
The forum spammers you're comparing them to use their e-mail address and software with the sole purpose of invading his website, which he pays real money for, and spends time maintaining, and which other people use to have conversations. The spammers further use this software to stuff his website with ads for pills, child porn, and other nastiness. This slows down his server (due to the load of fake accounts registering and posting) and can make his forums unreadable, driving away users. If his forums use ads, driving away users means a monetary loss
Your comparison is invalid, and your attempt at logic is laughable. They broke into his property, he kicked them out and took away their crowbar, which they signed up for under false pretenses.
TFA is four paragraphs long. 4. Less then five, more then three. It's not a long read, it would take you less then a minute to find "Tresset and Khaorapapong have approached the art in a new way, as Ladies&Gents must focus on limbs and silhouettes rather than faces."
Does it run linux? If so, would it be a customized distro with a phallic name?
I've yet to meet an executive so far gone that he believes you can overcharge your customers and then repay the principal when you get caught. They like to be a lot more subtle than that.
Besides, the executives plan on not getting caught to begin with.
They slipped a ring around all the issues they were having, and they just disappeared, later to be stabbed to death by these horsemen in black cloaks...
The point is that now it will be the same volume measured by *average level*. So one big explosion in CSI doesn't give the advertisers card blanche to blast their ads at you.
That's right, it takes two!
IIRC, our Phillips Magnavox large screen CRT TV had a "Smart Sound" feature that basically just normalized the volume all the time. I have to say it worked pretty well. I'd always notice watching TV at someone elses house that some ads played REALLY loud compared to the program. We had that TV from about the mid 90's I think. Why don't more TVs have it? (rather, I know "cost" is probably the main reason, but it should be a good enough feature to be fairly standard today, you'd think)
Cost probably IS the main reason. It costs them money to put it in the TV, whereas the ad companies or networks are likely paying TV makers a small amount to keep the normalizers out of the TVs.
Does this sort of thing really need to have the law getting involved? It's only a small irritant. Is it a bit of deflection from the real issues that are going on at the moment?
When you are watching a action packed movie, and have the surround sound turned up as high as you can comfortably stand without pissing off the neighbors, and a *BLARING* commercial pops on that doesn't retreat on the volume, and you're scrambling to find the remote while you can't even hear the voice in your head, it needs to stop.
If the complaints of the people go ignored, then since the government is supposed to be "for the people, by the people", why wouldn't the law get involved? Deflection? Probably. Appreciated by the masses? You betcha.
Because people in general (especially in the U.S.) are selfish bored sheep. They don't care about the *machine*, they just care about pulling their brain out of reality as often as possible.
heavy downloaders=pirates after all
Or maybe netflix users. I replaced cable with internet video including netflix, I bet I am quite the heavy downloader.
I bet you'd barely register on the graph. The kind of pirates that would "heavy downloaders" in this instance run their connection 24/7, with a queue of downloads. If talking about movies, the quality that they download at wouldn't stream across the internet, Netflix walks a fine line between quality and speed of download, while the pirates are downloading at a high quality divx or whatever the flavor of the month codec is.
A: "heavy downloaders=pirates after all" is likely thier viewpoint
B: Your day to day youtube, vimeo, netflix, etc bandwidth is small change compared to a constantly running queue of torrents. You're still watching your vimeo after it's downloaded. The queue of torrents maxes out your connection 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, provided you have good peers. Nice try, but think before clicking submit.
Question from non-blogger:
Why do you need special software like WordPress? Why can't you just use standard MS Word or WordPerfect, convert it to HTML, and publish it online?
Maintaining a Wordpress style blog in Word or Wordperfect would be a nightmare. Sure, you could do a single page, but updating it would quickly become a nightmare. A purpose built tool like Wordpress also allows access from mobile phones. Also, do you want to allow people to post comments on your blog? Have fun getting that to work with Word. Take a peek, you'll realize that, like most things, there is more to it then there seems.
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress
Disclaimer: I am not a Wordpress user, but I am related to one.
Their network is overloaded and it easier to trim the fat (heavy downloaders=pirates after all) then to build out their network.
Perhaps since he isn't getting paid to write the review and likely has neither infinite time nor money like most customers he's probably capable of discerning what is crap before he spends his time and money on it and therefore doesn't? If he was a gaming magazine that was responsible for reviewing ALL games then your parroting the ancient concerns over the media's game reviews would be on target, but since he's only responsible for reviewing the games he wants to play AND review anyways, it's no surprise the games usually register in the upper end of his scale.
Exactly what I was thinking. If I had mod points I'd spend one on this.
So when a deer in the road moves toward me because I shine my headlights down the road, my headlights are a tractor beam?
The message was received by UB-40, and they proceeded to drink red red wine.