At least now the GOVERNMENT is stepping ni to decide our rights. I am not entirely sure this is GOOD, but it's sure nowhere near as BAD letting the corporations run over our rights unchecked.
I just wish voters were less apathetic so they could decide their own rights.
Also, the best way to kill piracy is to lower the price of DVD's below what it would cost to burn the stuff to DVD-RAM/ROM! Jeez. If a DVD costs $10, and the DVD media costs $15 or more, why would you pirate the thing?? Ok there is the Divx compression -> CD-Rom aspect, but now you're missing all the interactive features... ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
We don't like being bombarded with the fact that there are 300 species of snakes and spiders in Australia that are SO POISONOUS that people die just by looking at them from a distance.
I agree, what with the thousands of snakes and spiders we have in the US that can kill you just by looking at YOU from a distance. Chiefly:
The NSA ECHELON web spider
The Napster copyright scanning scorpion
The RIAA and MPAA Lawyersnake
Ever been bitten by one of those creatures? ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
The Gillettes and Shicks of the world give away, practically, the stick part because it is cheap in itself and it will give you an incentive to purchase their blades in the future. Eventually you will see third-party blades that fit the Mach3. And you may or may not like them.
Yes and then the third party blades will eventually get sued for patent/copyright/pms infringement.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Pick up an astronomy book and read up on the birthing process of a star, the death process of a supernova, and of a black hole. Study it very closely.
Now liken dust, radiation, and gas, to money and power.
A corporation is born with money and as it gets customers, it makes more money, lots more. It gets bigger in size and thus also power.
When its money supply is threatened by the government, bad market conditions, competitors, etc., the same thing happens as when a star consumes all the hydrogen at its core. The corporation reaches out like a red giant, attacking politicians and hiring lawyers, spewing out money in its self defense, like a star reaching out to consume hydrogen in its outer layers.
In other words, they start lobbying, covering up, and suing.
Finally, under too much pressure to clean up their act, they implode into black holes. Come anywhere CLOSE to the corporation with a hostile agenda and you wind up getting sued, or violating some law that company had passed after millions of lobbying dollars being thrown at Congress.
Conspiracies occur for the same reason that black holes do. Money and power wants more money and power and money and power will always defend money and power. Simple as that. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
As a Generation-X'er, I must say:
Those idiots who worked at Union Carbide got what they deserved.
They could have left and gone to a safer job, and if they're too mediocre to be able to switch jobs and find a safer workplace, well that's too bad.
Once again:
IT IS NOT THE CORPORATION'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CARE ABOUT YOUR SAFETY. It is their responsibility to care about 1 thing: profits. Profits. PROFITS, DAMMIT. Profits are the only thing that matters with a corporation.
You'll understand this when you are put out of a job because your employer had to spend too much money on safety regulations.
Maybe if those peons at Union Carbide would have gotten their Redhat Linux Certification or MCSE like me, or if they were able to code GIMP or the Linux Kernel like I can, they wouldn't have to work at such dingy places. The fact of the matter is, people without adequate job skills deserve to be stuck at dangerous work sites because they are too lazy to learn new job skills. Survival of the fittest. The wages of stupidity.
And those unskilled worthless peons did a great service by dying so that the rest of us industrialized people can enjoy our high standard of living. Don't insult their noble sacrifice by using Union Carbide as a cause for requiring corporations to provide safe work places.
Darned communists.
(PS: in case your blood is boiling, this post is a 100% PARODY. Nonetheless it tells the exact truth about the way that gutless lapdog kissass corporate statists think.) ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
It doesn't do rockridge format, so I don't even use it. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
[blockquote]Funny that in the American Form of Capitalism that even other working class people will defend the "right" of the elite class to screw their own. It is frightening that people in this country are brainwashed to the point that they think that Corporations should be free to do ANYTHING including ripping off their workers for their pay and we are just supposed to accept it. You can be DAMN sure that the execs of that company left with big fat "golden parachutes". [/blockquote]
This attitude is a recent abomination brought about by the rise of Generation-X. Generation-X typically favors the corporate "might is right" mindset.
This will be the only generation in the post industrial revolution history of man that will be known for saying that a corporation is free to not pay wages for work already done. The only generation in post industrial revolution history to delude itself into believing that the solution to a dangerous or sweat shop style workplace is to seek work elsewhere.
Most Gen-X'ers will not make it anyways. That was made plainly clear when their dotcom empire fell apart. They will learn the hard way that human rights are more important than corporate rights, when the working conditions go from bad to worse. They will find their paychecks not getting given to them, their paychecks bouncing, and they will find they aren't being hired because someone pirated their genetic information and used this pirated data to decide they are genetically unfit for a job. The jobs these losers will get, will require they work an extra 20 hours a week WITHOUT PAY. Free labor. And who will be there to save them? No one. They won't even be able to hop over to the NEXT job because that employer will smell blood in this market and subject them to the same conditions - if they'll hire them in the first place.
Generation-X'ers and their dotcoms were themselves notorious for sexual harassment and exclusion of women. Consider the typical Gen-X'er's view towards the corporate state. A woman sues her employer over a genuine case of "You're gonna get fired if you don't suck my ----". In the Gen-X mentality she should have quit her job, gone job hunting elsewhere because of the deluded Gen-X myth that there is "always another job", and let the next woman fall into this creep's gunsights. They think the company will be punished by karma. WTF!?? I have two words for these morons: Larry Ellisson. Wealth beats karma, folks. And in the end, if no woman presses a lawsuit, ALL the jobs will be like this because horny loser male managers will not have any deterrence from sexually harassing their women employees. So it will be that if you are a woman, you must have sex with your boss to stay employed. And if a woman sues, guess what - she's got a huge legal bill to contend with. The corporation has billion dollar attorneys to fight her in court, and they can also PAY THE JUDGE OFF. Anyone who looks at the FTC decision regarding Amazon.com, knows there is no possible way the FTC could have found Amazon to be not guilty of fraud. What happened was, Amazon paid the FTC off. And that is what will happen to this poor woman in a sexual harassment lawsuit. Hopelessly outgunned by the facts, the corporation will simply buy a favorable judgement. And then as a slap in her face they might even counter sue for libel/slander. AND... they will also blacklist her. Good luck finding another job. Women as corporate chattel. Welcome to Centauri Prime, Susan Ivanova (that's a Babylon 5 reference). THIS would have been the fate of womankind if Generation-X's mighty dotcoms had managed to survive.
Companies will laugh in their face as they sign service contracts with these apathetic Gen-X'ers, set a price for goods delivered in stone for the length of that contract, and then raise that price right in the middle of the contract. Take DSL. Whatcha gonna do? Not pay? Great. You lose your service. And no one else exists in your area to give you service. You can't sue the company for breach of contract because you can't afford the attorney and they won't take it on retainer. So the corporation will just breach your contract, piss in the face of contract law, and you will sit down and LIKE it. Or else you will be without service. Permanently. Even if you cam afford and win the case, the ISP can then cut you off and you still have no service. Whatcha gonna do......SUE 'em again?
And to be extra nasty that ISP will make your case public and your employer will see this and realize you're not a ball player and fire you for no reason. Right to work, baby.
WHOOPS!!!! All of this is already happening!!
These cowardly lapdogs that make up Generation-X will pay dearly for its cavalier, apathetic ways, as the corporations strip away from them every single human right that their parents once enjoyed. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Give someone over 18 the money to buy the game for ya. There is actually no law against this. (Yet.) ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
The thing is, geeks call jocks on their predisposition to commit rape, but come on, do you guys REALLY care about women?
All we talk about is nekkid chicks here. Natalie Portman, anyone?
When was the last time anyone gave PROPS to a woman who was technically inclined?
The tech industry is KNOWN for its disrespect of women workers.
Are we any different from the jocks, collectively, when the ball(s?) is in our court? ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Copy protected typing. Coming to a computer near you. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Does this DD-RW have any copy protection built in? ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I'd thank the dear Jesus that she turned those cheaters in. I'd hate to have one of them operate on me. Forget thaaaaaaaaaat!!! ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
QUIZ:
In Star Wars Episode 1, black actor Samuel Jackson starred as a ____ ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
First of all, AOL's AIM has the BEST protection. You can deny messages from absolutely ANYONE who is not on your "allow" list or your Buddy list. This is an iron clad defense against spam in an IM system.
ICQ also has a similar defense system: under the ignore tab in its Security & Privacy submenu, you can deny any and all messages from anyone not on your contact list. You can also go to SMS Messages (this submenu is a peer submenu to Security & Privacy) and opt to automatically decline any SMS requests from users not on your contact list. Woohoo! Game over, spammers.
As for email validation - LOL!!! Listen, guys. Email validation is useless if you are an experienced user. Why? Simple. Suppose my IP address 1.2.3.4 translates to dsl-1.2.3.4.verizon.sucks.net. Doesn't matter what your IP/alias is, as long as it's dynamic, but I'll use this one for symbolic meaning. The thing is, you can:
1) download and set up a mail server on your Linux box;
2) tell the instant message server that your email address is user@dsl-1.2.3.4.verizon.sucks.net;
3) receive your confirmation email from the IM server;
4) respond to the email;
5) SHUT DOWN YOUR MAIL SERVER.
Badda bing, badda boom, you have your IM account and password and no valid email.
The defense against this is, again, the draconian allow/deny system used by AOL/ICQ. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
"System query failed: unable to access RPM database".
Where can I get the actual RPMs for this thing? My RPM database has been working just fine thank you very much. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
If you're wondering why redundancy is so lacking nowadays, it might be because, well, imagine this.
The Island of Tonga decides to place any and all circumvention software banned under the US DMCA, on its government's archives. Then they put it on the web. Now, you have "illegal" software hosted on the site of a government no one else can legally touch.
Of course, the US Navy could just pound them from offshore, but what US President would want to face the public outrage over little ol' Tonga??
No, there's a BETTER way to handle this. Pay off an internet backbone to shut off their West Coast link to Tonga. Boom. Problem solved.
Or is it?
Redundancy means you can get to Tonga ANOTHER way, maybe by routing through Canada, or via Mae-East to Europe and through Europe to Asia and Asia to Tonga. Now you have the problem of telling everyone out there to cut off Tonga.
Redundancy is, again, the enemy of dictatorships. They have the greatest motivation of all, in keeping internet redundancy as weak as possible.
On a side note don't be surprised if the backbones leading out of the US, decide to install caching proxies (what's the official term for these, anyways?) that do like Junkbusters and edit out content from "banned" sites at the backbone level.
The other thing they can do to defeat redundancy at its foundation, is wipe it off the internet registry or DNS so that you get no such domain: "freedom.to" errors, or something.
Of course then you can just route to an ANONYMOUS PROXY in Europe or Asia and it'll bypass both problems:-)
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
This means we will not yet be able to see the courts rule on this issue and decide how American law (particularly the Civil Rights Act, and the ADA) will deal with genetic testing, once and for all.
This fight is definitely not anywhere close to being over. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
The Russian private TV network, NTV, the only one not controlled by the Government, has been bought out by Gazprom, the Russian state-dominated gas company due to the fact that they owe more than a billion dollars, mostly to Gazprom. To add insult upon injury, they sent a US businessman, Boris Jordan, to run the TV network.
The funny part was where Jordan said, "Now we will have free speech, now we will have independence of the media." The last independent TV station being taken over by the state run gas company. Yup, that's free speech and independence in the media alright. Hate is love. Ignorance is strength.
The sad part is, in America, we are going to soon learn that corporate conglomerates are no less dangerous to our freedom than Josef Stalin himself. ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
There is a system on some sites, like hotmail.com, for blocking certain email addresses.
Imagine if you could use a regular expression style filter on email, set at the ISP level, for a flat monthly fee? Each user would have their own settings, and then maybe MAPS would have a global list for everyone to download.
Or, the more likely and manageable (for ISPs) method - to put this filter into the email client itself. It causes more download time for the customer, but still, they would not EVER see the spam.
The filter would be a two way filter: accept only certain email addresses/paths/subjects (up to *@* if you want), and the same thing for deleting email. Also, if the email is from an address that doesn't exist, auto delete it. (I don't know how much this would strain the user's or ISP's system, though.)
Would that work?:) ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
LOL these spammers have the BALLS to go threatening people's physical safety?
Where do I sign up? I'll blast some spammers myself. Let's see if they can even FIND me. Then if they do find me, let's see who comes bringing the noise.
I've got six friends and they all run faster and hit harder than any punk who shows up on my doorstep. Oh man, being threatened by SPAMMERS, oh my god, I've seen it all.
The sad part is, since these SPAMMERS leave their personal (business) information as a means to contact them to buy their products, there is great opportunity here for anonymous "antagonists" to harass them. Heheh. I think I will go and figure out ways to strike them down with impugnity.:) ========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
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At least now the GOVERNMENT is stepping ni to decide our rights. I am not entirely sure this is GOOD, but it's sure nowhere near as BAD letting the corporations run over our rights unchecked.
I just wish voters were less apathetic so they could decide their own rights.
Also, the best way to kill piracy is to lower the price of DVD's below what it would cost to burn the stuff to DVD-RAM/ROM! Jeez. If a DVD costs $10, and the DVD media costs $15 or more, why would you pirate the thing?? Ok there is the Divx compression -> CD-Rom aspect, but now you're missing all the interactive features...
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Wouldn't that make Junkbusters illegal?
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I agree, what with the thousands of snakes and spiders we have in the US that can kill you just by looking at YOU from a distance. Chiefly:
The NSA ECHELON web spider
The Napster copyright scanning scorpion
The RIAA and MPAA Lawyersnake
Ever been bitten by one of those creatures?
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Conspiracies are a function of nature, my boy.
Pick up an astronomy book and read up on the birthing process of a star, the death process of a supernova, and of a black hole. Study it very closely.
Now liken dust, radiation, and gas, to money and power.
A corporation is born with money and as it gets customers, it makes more money, lots more. It gets bigger in size and thus also power.
When its money supply is threatened by the government, bad market conditions, competitors, etc., the same thing happens as when a star consumes all the hydrogen at its core. The corporation reaches out like a red giant, attacking politicians and hiring lawyers, spewing out money in its self defense, like a star reaching out to consume hydrogen in its outer layers.
In other words, they start lobbying, covering up, and suing.
Finally, under too much pressure to clean up their act, they implode into black holes. Come anywhere CLOSE to the corporation with a hostile agenda and you wind up getting sued, or violating some law that company had passed after millions of lobbying dollars being thrown at Congress.
Conspiracies occur for the same reason that black holes do. Money and power wants more money and power and money and power will always defend money and power. Simple as that.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
As a Generation-X'er, I must say:
Those idiots who worked at Union Carbide got what they deserved.
They could have left and gone to a safer job, and if they're too mediocre to be able to switch jobs and find a safer workplace, well that's too bad.
Once again:
IT IS NOT THE CORPORATION'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CARE ABOUT YOUR SAFETY. It is their responsibility to care about 1 thing: profits. Profits. PROFITS, DAMMIT. Profits are the only thing that matters with a corporation.
You'll understand this when you are put out of a job because your employer had to spend too much money on safety regulations.
Maybe if those peons at Union Carbide would have gotten their Redhat Linux Certification or MCSE like me, or if they were able to code GIMP or the Linux Kernel like I can, they wouldn't have to work at such dingy places. The fact of the matter is, people without adequate job skills deserve to be stuck at dangerous work sites because they are too lazy to learn new job skills. Survival of the fittest. The wages of stupidity.
And those unskilled worthless peons did a great service by dying so that the rest of us industrialized people can enjoy our high standard of living. Don't insult their noble sacrifice by using Union Carbide as a cause for requiring corporations to provide safe work places.
Darned communists.
(PS: in case your blood is boiling, this post is a 100% PARODY. Nonetheless it tells the exact truth about the way that gutless lapdog kissass corporate statists think.)
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
It doesn't do rockridge format, so I don't even use it.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
[blockquote]Funny that in the American Form of Capitalism that even other working class people will defend the "right" of the elite class to screw their own. It is frightening that people in this country are brainwashed to the point that they think that Corporations should be free to do ANYTHING including ripping off their workers for their pay and we are just supposed to accept it. You can be DAMN sure that the execs of that company left with big fat "golden parachutes". [/blockquote] This attitude is a recent abomination brought about by the rise of Generation-X. Generation-X typically favors the corporate "might is right" mindset. This will be the only generation in the post industrial revolution history of man that will be known for saying that a corporation is free to not pay wages for work already done. The only generation in post industrial revolution history to delude itself into believing that the solution to a dangerous or sweat shop style workplace is to seek work elsewhere. Most Gen-X'ers will not make it anyways. That was made plainly clear when their dotcom empire fell apart. They will learn the hard way that human rights are more important than corporate rights, when the working conditions go from bad to worse. They will find their paychecks not getting given to them, their paychecks bouncing, and they will find they aren't being hired because someone pirated their genetic information and used this pirated data to decide they are genetically unfit for a job. The jobs these losers will get, will require they work an extra 20 hours a week WITHOUT PAY. Free labor. And who will be there to save them? No one. They won't even be able to hop over to the NEXT job because that employer will smell blood in this market and subject them to the same conditions - if they'll hire them in the first place. Generation-X'ers and their dotcoms were themselves notorious for sexual harassment and exclusion of women. Consider the typical Gen-X'er's view towards the corporate state. A woman sues her employer over a genuine case of "You're gonna get fired if you don't suck my ----". In the Gen-X mentality she should have quit her job, gone job hunting elsewhere because of the deluded Gen-X myth that there is "always another job", and let the next woman fall into this creep's gunsights. They think the company will be punished by karma. WTF!?? I have two words for these morons: Larry Ellisson. Wealth beats karma, folks. And in the end, if no woman presses a lawsuit, ALL the jobs will be like this because horny loser male managers will not have any deterrence from sexually harassing their women employees. So it will be that if you are a woman, you must have sex with your boss to stay employed. And if a woman sues, guess what - she's got a huge legal bill to contend with. The corporation has billion dollar attorneys to fight her in court, and they can also PAY THE JUDGE OFF. Anyone who looks at the FTC decision regarding Amazon.com, knows there is no possible way the FTC could have found Amazon to be not guilty of fraud. What happened was, Amazon paid the FTC off. And that is what will happen to this poor woman in a sexual harassment lawsuit. Hopelessly outgunned by the facts, the corporation will simply buy a favorable judgement. And then as a slap in her face they might even counter sue for libel/slander. AND... they will also blacklist her. Good luck finding another job. Women as corporate chattel. Welcome to Centauri Prime, Susan Ivanova (that's a Babylon 5 reference). THIS would have been the fate of womankind if Generation-X's mighty dotcoms had managed to survive. Companies will laugh in their face as they sign service contracts with these apathetic Gen-X'ers, set a price for goods delivered in stone for the length of that contract, and then raise that price right in the middle of the contract. Take DSL. Whatcha gonna do? Not pay? Great. You lose your service. And no one else exists in your area to give you service. You can't sue the company for breach of contract because you can't afford the attorney and they won't take it on retainer. So the corporation will just breach your contract, piss in the face of contract law, and you will sit down and LIKE it. Or else you will be without service. Permanently. Even if you cam afford and win the case, the ISP can then cut you off and you still have no service. Whatcha gonna do......SUE 'em again? And to be extra nasty that ISP will make your case public and your employer will see this and realize you're not a ball player and fire you for no reason. Right to work, baby. WHOOPS!!!! All of this is already happening!! These cowardly lapdogs that make up Generation-X will pay dearly for its cavalier, apathetic ways, as the corporations strip away from them every single human right that their parents once enjoyed.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Give someone over 18 the money to buy the game for ya. There is actually no law against this. (Yet.)
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
The thing is, geeks call jocks on their predisposition to commit rape, but come on, do you guys REALLY care about women?
All we talk about is nekkid chicks here. Natalie Portman, anyone?
When was the last time anyone gave PROPS to a woman who was technically inclined?
The tech industry is KNOWN for its disrespect of women workers.
Are we any different from the jocks, collectively, when the ball(s?) is in our court?
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Copy protected typing. Coming to a computer near you.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Does this DD-RW have any copy protection built in?
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
I'd thank the dear Jesus that she turned those cheaters in. I'd hate to have one of them operate on me. Forget thaaaaaaaaaat!!!
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
is gonna gitcha!!!
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
We have enough nukes to blow the earth into space dust x000 times over, but we don't have enough nukes to take out a small rock.
WTF?
Someone explain that to me.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
QUIZ:
In Star Wars Episode 1, black actor Samuel Jackson starred as a ____
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Tell that scare story to the makers of Divx.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
First of all, AOL's AIM has the BEST protection. You can deny messages from absolutely ANYONE who is not on your "allow" list or your Buddy list. This is an iron clad defense against spam in an IM system.
ICQ also has a similar defense system: under the ignore tab in its Security & Privacy submenu, you can deny any and all messages from anyone not on your contact list. You can also go to SMS Messages (this submenu is a peer submenu to Security & Privacy) and opt to automatically decline any SMS requests from users not on your contact list. Woohoo! Game over, spammers.
As for email validation - LOL!!! Listen, guys. Email validation is useless if you are an experienced user. Why? Simple. Suppose my IP address 1.2.3.4 translates to dsl-1.2.3.4.verizon.sucks.net. Doesn't matter what your IP/alias is, as long as it's dynamic, but I'll use this one for symbolic meaning. The thing is, you can:
1) download and set up a mail server on your Linux box;
2) tell the instant message server that your email address is user@dsl-1.2.3.4.verizon.sucks.net;
3) receive your confirmation email from the IM server;
4) respond to the email;
5) SHUT DOWN YOUR MAIL SERVER.
Badda bing, badda boom, you have your IM account and password and no valid email.
The defense against this is, again, the draconian allow/deny system used by AOL/ICQ.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
Ximian's GNOME installer is very broke.
"System query failed: unable to access RPM database".
Where can I get the actual RPMs for this thing? My RPM database has been working just fine thank you very much.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
If you're wondering why redundancy is so lacking nowadays, it might be because, well, imagine this.
:-)
The Island of Tonga decides to place any and all circumvention software banned under the US DMCA, on its government's archives. Then they put it on the web. Now, you have "illegal" software hosted on the site of a government no one else can legally touch.
Of course, the US Navy could just pound them from offshore, but what US President would want to face the public outrage over little ol' Tonga??
No, there's a BETTER way to handle this. Pay off an internet backbone to shut off their West Coast link to Tonga. Boom. Problem solved.
Or is it?
Redundancy means you can get to Tonga ANOTHER way, maybe by routing through Canada, or via Mae-East to Europe and through Europe to Asia and Asia to Tonga. Now you have the problem of telling everyone out there to cut off Tonga.
Redundancy is, again, the enemy of dictatorships. They have the greatest motivation of all, in keeping internet redundancy as weak as possible.
On a side note don't be surprised if the backbones leading out of the US, decide to install caching proxies (what's the official term for these, anyways?) that do like Junkbusters and edit out content from "banned" sites at the backbone level.
The other thing they can do to defeat redundancy at its foundation, is wipe it off the internet registry or DNS so that you get no such domain: "freedom.to" errors, or something.
Of course then you can just route to an ANONYMOUS PROXY in Europe or Asia and it'll bypass both problems
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
This means we will not yet be able to see the courts rule on this issue and decide how American law (particularly the Civil Rights Act, and the ADA) will deal with genetic testing, once and for all.
This fight is definitely not anywhere close to being over.
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
It spells the end of
1) bullies
2) the scandalously mismanaged public education system
3) government funded mind control
hope this helps
========================
63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010414/l14329358_7.html
The Russian private TV network, NTV, the only one not controlled by the Government, has been bought out by Gazprom, the Russian state-dominated gas company due to the fact that they owe more than a billion dollars, mostly to Gazprom. To add insult upon injury, they sent a US businessman, Boris Jordan, to run the TV network.
The funny part was where Jordan said, "Now we will have free speech, now we will have independence of the media." The last independent TV station being taken over by the state run gas company. Yup, that's free speech and independence in the media alright. Hate is love. Ignorance is strength.
The sad part is, in America, we are going to soon learn that corporate conglomerates are no less dangerous to our freedom than Josef Stalin himself.
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
There is a system on some sites, like hotmail.com, for blocking certain email addresses.
:)
Imagine if you could use a regular expression style filter on email, set at the ISP level, for a flat monthly fee? Each user would have their own settings, and then maybe MAPS would have a global list for everyone to download.
Or, the more likely and manageable (for ISPs) method - to put this filter into the email client itself. It causes more download time for the customer, but still, they would not EVER see the spam.
The filter would be a two way filter: accept only certain email addresses/paths/subjects (up to *@* if you want), and the same thing for deleting email. Also, if the email is from an address that doesn't exist, auto delete it. (I don't know how much this would strain the user's or ISP's system, though.)
Would that work?
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
LOL these spammers have the BALLS to go threatening people's physical safety?
:)
Where do I sign up? I'll blast some spammers myself. Let's see if they can even FIND me. Then if they do find me, let's see who comes bringing the noise.
I've got six friends and they all run faster and hit harder than any punk who shows up on my doorstep. Oh man, being threatened by SPAMMERS, oh my god, I've seen it all.
The sad part is, since these SPAMMERS leave their personal (business) information as a means to contact them to buy their products, there is great opportunity here for anonymous "antagonists" to harass them. Heheh. I think I will go and figure out ways to strike them down with impugnity.
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,