By this ruling, if you were to lapse on payment for your domain registration, your registrar could "purchase" (by way of "paying" themselves) it for themselves and it would become their own property forever. They could sell it to you for an inflated price, or never sell it to you again if they felt so inclined.
And of course, they would likely list the registration of what used to be your domain through an obfuscation service, so that it would be unclear who the new owner is - which would then result in you having to pay multiple companies to get back what used to be yours.
they worked long before facebook boy was ever born (let alone since he came up with a great new way to waste time and resources)
Is Facebook actually wasting resources? It seems to me that it - and all the other virtual worlds on the Internet - are actually saving quite a bit of resources, since the people engaged in them thus has less time to, say, go to a joyride.
Cynical but true: living a virtual life instead of a real one is better for the world. A Matrix-like future where people are physically passive most of the time and instead live online is one possible way of solving the energy crisis
If people would rather be online than in the real world, that's fine by me. Those people would furthermore not be affected by not being able to use cell phones in the subway, since they wouldn't leave their houses anyways.
I'm not saying we need to shut down facebook or any of the ways people interface with it. I'm just saying that if we are truly concerned only about emergency communications in the subway, we just need emergency phones. You know, the same ones we've had for decades.
Of course, for some reason we know consider facebook updates to be "emergency" matters. I wouldn't want taxpayer money going to help someone post an up-to-the-minute "ZOMG! UR HAIR IS DA BOMB" on facebook from the subway.
What, pray tell, is taxpayer money supposed to be used for if not infrastructure, relief to the people in need and ensuring stability and security?
My point, if it was too difficult for your cowardice to grasp, is that an emergency call can be made with a phone. An emergency doesn't need text or video to get through to a dispatcher. A system of callboxes that go straight through to 911 would be more than adequate for actual emergencies. Such systems have worked for decades; they worked long before facebook boy was ever born (let alone since he came up with a great new way to waste time and resources) and will continue to work fine into the future.
I haven't been to that part of the country at all myself; do they have emergency callboxes available? Most other mass transit systems I am familiar with have call boxes available so people without cell phones can still make emergency calls.
Of course, for some reason we know consider facebook updates to be "emergency" matters. I wouldn't want taxpayer money going to help someone post an up-to-the-minute "ZOMG! UR HAIR IS DA BOMB" on facebook from the subway.
Seriously. Every time I hear about genes being crammed into some other species or amino acids being pushed where they "don't belong", something starts glowing. What's the deal with glowies, did they play too much WoW and now thing only if it glows it's epic or what?
Glowing is a way for scientists to monitor gene expression. You can't really watch it on its own, so you incorporate the gene you are working with with a fluorescent protein. Then the gene you are interested in will be expressed with the fluorescent protein, allowing you to see when and where your gene is being expressed.
That also gives you a way to monitor the noise of the system; if you are trying to deploy something with good control but your critter glows green all the time, you need to adjust something.
And in case you weren't already familiar with it, the protein of choice for most of the "glowies" you describe is Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) - a protein that is made naturally by some jellyfish. Some clever individuals isolated and manipulated it a while ago for biochemical work.
If you don't even think V for Vendetta is about politics then the Wachowski brothers failed even more miserably than I thought they did.
I am well aware it is about politics in a dystopian future. What I was after was that people are placing it in the classic "left-right" bullshit view that is (in spite of completely lacking in applicability) applied to the US political system.
Sometimes people are looking to place politics in films that aren't actually there; you remind me of the people who saw (clips of) The Day After Tomorrow, with the president who looked like FDR who was somehow declared to be a stand-in for Cheney.
Or have you somehow tricked yourself into thinking that the US followed the Bush Administration with a "left-wing government" - when in reality we are seeing just yet another Bush term?
No American has any idea why the 5th of November is significant unless they read comic books. At least that's the truth for me.
True, and the movie V for Vendetta did tragically poorly at the box office. It was one of the best movies made that year yet few people bothered to see it, and not many more saw it on DVD.
I can tell you at least this American knows about the 5th of November, though...
When did facebook receive exclusive rights to that name? Just because a movie was made about it under that name does not mean there is no other social network on the planet...
They should have licensed the rover to Burger King; we could be instead be seeing a Whopper-tunity rising over the crater (likely pulling The King on a snowboard or some such thing) and claiming Mars for the right to Have It Your Way.
If they just broke ground on it recently, I'm curious to know if it is supposed to be ready before, say, winter.
Of course, being Texas they don't really have winter. Temperatures probably go from "Jesus Christ on roller-skates it's unbearably hot!" to "hey, my face is no longer melting off, but it is still miserably hot!".
That is a possibility I hadn't been too concerned about. If we were to assume that all traffic originating from the IP range starting with 119.63.196 and identifying as "Baidu" is legit, then all the "Baidu spider" traffic I have seen thus far has indeed been from the Baidu spider.
Of course, that may or may not be a reasonable assumption. I can't read Chinese anywhere near well enough to read the Baidu web page that has more information on how their spider works. I also don't know how IP addresses are distributed in China; that seems like a pretty large block to me so there may well be some addresses in that range that are not theirs. Currently I am not seeing any readable text (in any language) when I look at the page their spider tells me to read.
I could of course check my ssh logs to see what IP addresses liked to try to hack my system the most often - frequently I saw Chinese IPs those times - and compare it to the presumed range of Baidu to look for overlap. But I'm not that concerned about this right now, and most script kiddies just spend time bashing away mindlessly at common passwords for root, which aren't useful when ssh is set to not allow root login anyways (which they would know if they read my sshd banner).
I have noticed on my home webserver that I have had a lot of spider traffic lately form the Baidu search engine, and very little from the googlebot. From my perspective it looks like the competition is ramping up its search engine database building...
Since the Jeep Wrangler is the official frat boy car, that shouldn't be too hard. They all have the same personality, drink the same beer, and listen to the same music.
Does Boeing pay their interns (although in this case life insurance might be the more important bit)?
Since the market price for the trip is $20~35 million they are paid much better than the Boeing CEO. They are getting in one week the value of what's paid to the CEO in a year
I think you're on to something here!
Let's send the Boeing CEO in to space, and let him pay back the company the cost of the trip out of his own paycheck! And while we're at it, if we can send one CEO to space, let's send all our CEOs into space!
I've seen rather intensive internships in my days, but never anything quite that demanding. Working interns for 18+ hours a day is one thing, but locking them into work for a week or more is quite a bit different. Does Boeing pay their interns (although in this case life insurance might be the more important bit)?
It will definitely be interesting to see what happens this season. I'm surprised they aren't rebroadcasting the last couple episodes from last season first to re-familiarize people with what just happened; anyone who missed last season's finale might be a bit lost in this coming season... But either way it looks like this next season should be dramatically different from what we've seen up to this point.
screw it up like every other good show they've aired in the past decade
FOX has yet to screw up Fringe, which is one of the best shows on TV - broadcast or cable - aside from moving it to Friday nights. But since every good geek has some sort of DVR (and would be home on a Friday night anyway) that doesn't matter too much for this series.
If they screw up Fringe, though, then a pox on all their families. And a plague on their villages for good measure!
You have the idea much more so than most around here - or at least most that reply to my comments about the economic roots of spam.
In fact you are so close to what I have been saying for some time I should warn you someone may come and accuse you of being a sock puppet to me.
A RICO prosecution targeting everyone involved would be highly beneficial. Even if the above accessories to spam weren't actually prosecuted, an FBI investigation involving grand juries, subpoenas and a host of negative publicity might have a deterrent effect on its own, discouraging those businesses from dabbling in spam businesses.
That is pretty close to what I have been advocating, although I wouldn't often bother with the FBI or any other particular agency of a single nation. After all, most spam is international in nature; including ISPs, registrars, web server hosting companies, CC processors, mail relays, and other such facilities scattered around the world. A registrar based in China, for example, won't sweat an FBI investigation much - for that matter I rather doubt you could talk the FBI into initiating one anyways.
However, there is a common language between all of it, the language of money. Everyone is in on the take, you just need to interrupt it and they'll find their role is dramatically less profitable. There was a recent study on drug spammers that found that 90% or more of all their credit card processing was done by a short list (on the order of 3 or 4) groups. Clearly if no transaction clears, nobody gets paid; targeting the credit card processor is a very effective way to ensure this.
Similarly there are some groups - registrars in particular - who actively assist and pull money from the deal. While you can argue that mail relay managers and some web hosting services might not know what is going on, the registrars almost universally know what is going on. After all, they collected registration data - and in some cases intentionally obfuscated it to prevent the domain owner from being found.
If spam can be pushed further to the margins, its less profitable and higher risk.
You hit the nail on the head. Spammers can run from the law, but they will stop running when they run out of money. And when they stop running, and find they can't pull in more money via spam because their former co-conspirators won't do business with them anymore, then you can drive spam away.
You may not be able to stop spam 100%, but you may make it economically non-viable.
Which will be orders of magnitude more effective in the long run than filtering could ever hope to be.
So, the whole point of punishing criminals is to deter crime.
Sure, but not every country considers spam to be a crime. After all, we aren't talking about murder here. All a spammer has to do is live in a country where spam is not outlawed, and they can spam all they want. It doesn't matter if their spam is going to people in countries where it is illegal, or if it is going through computers in those countries, as long as the spammer lives someplace where spam is not illegal, they will be fine.
Killing the bot nets has definitely proven to reduce spam
Except it is temporary. Kill one botnet and another pops up. We find that there is less time now between the collapse of one botnet and the emergence of another. Killing one botnet is just a band-aid on a gushing head wound.
... I can tell you there is a lot of porn available for VOD. Often when I use the directory to search for shows by names, I end up with results porn results coming back when I am typing in the name of the show I am looking for.
I will say from reading the descriptions that they do a fairly good job of covering the various generic fetishes, too. Any ethnicity you can imagine wanting to watch do whatever you might want, it's there...
Although I can't imagine wanting to pay my cable company to watch that, even considering the fact that the cable bill comes out of my checking account automatically without a printed bill ever mailed to my house...
... was negligible at best. Throwing spammers in jail doesn't solve the spam problem. While I support seeing something done, we need to be careful not to go patting ourselves on the back whenever we punish a spammer.
And no, murdering them won't help, either. Plenty of people voice support for murdering (or executing) spammers but that won't help the case. We've seen spammers murdered in Russia and that didn't make a difference; indeed some spammers even moved to Russia to fill the void.
Until we actually go after the root economic problem behind spam, we won't see a real change in the matter. Spam is an economic problem, and requires an economic solution.
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By this ruling, if you were to lapse on payment for your domain registration, your registrar could "purchase" (by way of "paying" themselves) it for themselves and it would become their own property forever. They could sell it to you for an inflated price, or never sell it to you again if they felt so inclined.
And of course, they would likely list the registration of what used to be your domain through an obfuscation service, so that it would be unclear who the new owner is - which would then result in you having to pay multiple companies to get back what used to be yours.
By that ruling, Tucows owns it. They registered it previously, and the court says it is still theirs and theirs alone to do with as they please.
they worked long before facebook boy was ever born (let alone since he came up with a great new way to waste time and resources)
Is Facebook actually wasting resources? It seems to me that it - and all the other virtual worlds on the Internet - are actually saving quite a bit of resources, since the people engaged in them thus has less time to, say, go to a joyride.
Cynical but true: living a virtual life instead of a real one is better for the world. A Matrix-like future where people are physically passive most of the time and instead live online is one possible way of solving the energy crisis
If people would rather be online than in the real world, that's fine by me. Those people would furthermore not be affected by not being able to use cell phones in the subway, since they wouldn't leave their houses anyways.
I'm not saying we need to shut down facebook or any of the ways people interface with it. I'm just saying that if we are truly concerned only about emergency communications in the subway, we just need emergency phones. You know, the same ones we've had for decades.
Of course, for some reason we know consider facebook updates to be "emergency" matters. I wouldn't want taxpayer money going to help someone post an up-to-the-minute "ZOMG! UR HAIR IS DA BOMB" on facebook from the subway.
What, pray tell, is taxpayer money supposed to be used for if not infrastructure, relief to the people in need and ensuring stability and security?
My point, if it was too difficult for your cowardice to grasp, is that an emergency call can be made with a phone. An emergency doesn't need text or video to get through to a dispatcher. A system of callboxes that go straight through to 911 would be more than adequate for actual emergencies. Such systems have worked for decades; they worked long before facebook boy was ever born (let alone since he came up with a great new way to waste time and resources) and will continue to work fine into the future.
I haven't been to that part of the country at all myself; do they have emergency callboxes available? Most other mass transit systems I am familiar with have call boxes available so people without cell phones can still make emergency calls.
Of course, for some reason we know consider facebook updates to be "emergency" matters. I wouldn't want taxpayer money going to help someone post an up-to-the-minute "ZOMG! UR HAIR IS DA BOMB" on facebook from the subway.
Seriously. Every time I hear about genes being crammed into some other species or amino acids being pushed where they "don't belong", something starts glowing. What's the deal with glowies, did they play too much WoW and now thing only if it glows it's epic or what?
Glowing is a way for scientists to monitor gene expression. You can't really watch it on its own, so you incorporate the gene you are working with with a fluorescent protein. Then the gene you are interested in will be expressed with the fluorescent protein, allowing you to see when and where your gene is being expressed.
That also gives you a way to monitor the noise of the system; if you are trying to deploy something with good control but your critter glows green all the time, you need to adjust something.
And in case you weren't already familiar with it, the protein of choice for most of the "glowies" you describe is Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) - a protein that is made naturally by some jellyfish. Some clever individuals isolated and manipulated it a while ago for biochemical work.
If you don't even think V for Vendetta is about politics then the Wachowski brothers failed even more miserably than I thought they did.
I am well aware it is about politics in a dystopian future. What I was after was that people are placing it in the classic "left-right" bullshit view that is (in spite of completely lacking in applicability) applied to the US political system.
Sometimes people are looking to place politics in films that aren't actually there; you remind me of the people who saw (clips of) The Day After Tomorrow, with the president who looked like FDR who was somehow declared to be a stand-in for Cheney.
Or have you somehow tricked yourself into thinking that the US followed the Bush Administration with a "left-wing government" - when in reality we are seeing just yet another Bush term?
No American has any idea why the 5th of November is significant unless they read comic books. At least that's the truth for me.
True, and the movie V for Vendetta did tragically poorly at the box office. It was one of the best movies made that year yet few people bothered to see it, and not many more saw it on DVD.
I can tell you at least this American knows about the 5th of November, though...
When did facebook receive exclusive rights to that name? Just because a movie was made about it under that name does not mean there is no other social network on the planet...
They should have licensed the rover to Burger King; we could be instead be seeing a Whopper-tunity rising over the crater (likely pulling The King on a snowboard or some such thing) and claiming Mars for the right to Have It Your Way.
If they just broke ground on it recently, I'm curious to know if it is supposed to be ready before, say, winter.
Of course, being Texas they don't really have winter. Temperatures probably go from "Jesus Christ on roller-skates it's unbearably hot!" to "hey, my face is no longer melting off, but it is still miserably hot!".
That is a possibility I hadn't been too concerned about. If we were to assume that all traffic originating from the IP range starting with 119.63.196 and identifying as "Baidu" is legit, then all the "Baidu spider" traffic I have seen thus far has indeed been from the Baidu spider.
Of course, that may or may not be a reasonable assumption. I can't read Chinese anywhere near well enough to read the Baidu web page that has more information on how their spider works. I also don't know how IP addresses are distributed in China; that seems like a pretty large block to me so there may well be some addresses in that range that are not theirs. Currently I am not seeing any readable text (in any language) when I look at the page their spider tells me to read.
I could of course check my ssh logs to see what IP addresses liked to try to hack my system the most often - frequently I saw Chinese IPs those times - and compare it to the presumed range of Baidu to look for overlap. But I'm not that concerned about this right now, and most script kiddies just spend time bashing away mindlessly at common passwords for root, which aren't useful when ssh is set to not allow root login anyways (which they would know if they read my sshd banner).
I have noticed on my home webserver that I have had a lot of spider traffic lately form the Baidu search engine, and very little from the googlebot. From my perspective it looks like the competition is ramping up its search engine database building...
Since the Jeep Wrangler is the official frat boy car, that shouldn't be too hard. They all have the same personality, drink the same beer, and listen to the same music.
Microsoft Write then Wordpad for all my assignments. Those are free
No.
Microsoft Write is not free. Just because it comes with the operating system you paid for does not make it free.
Does Boeing pay their interns (although in this case life insurance might be the more important bit)?
Since the market price for the trip is $20~35 million they are paid much better than the Boeing CEO. They are getting in one week the value of what's paid to the CEO in a year
I think you're on to something here!
Let's send the Boeing CEO in to space, and let him pay back the company the cost of the trip out of his own paycheck! And while we're at it, if we can send one CEO to space, let's send all our CEOs into space!
I've seen rather intensive internships in my days, but never anything quite that demanding. Working interns for 18+ hours a day is one thing, but locking them into work for a week or more is quite a bit different. Does Boeing pay their interns (although in this case life insurance might be the more important bit)?
It will definitely be interesting to see what happens this season. I'm surprised they aren't rebroadcasting the last couple episodes from last season first to re-familiarize people with what just happened; anyone who missed last season's finale might be a bit lost in this coming season... But either way it looks like this next season should be dramatically different from what we've seen up to this point.
Though in particular I hope they keep their keen ear for eclectic music choices. I've praised their music choices here in the past, as well...
screw it up like every other good show they've aired in the past decade
FOX has yet to screw up Fringe, which is one of the best shows on TV - broadcast or cable - aside from moving it to Friday nights. But since every good geek has some sort of DVR (and would be home on a Friday night anyway) that doesn't matter too much for this series.
If they screw up Fringe, though, then a pox on all their families. And a plague on their villages for good measure!
In fact you are so close to what I have been saying for some time I should warn you someone may come and accuse you of being a sock puppet to me.
A RICO prosecution targeting everyone involved would be highly beneficial. Even if the above accessories to spam weren't actually prosecuted, an FBI investigation involving grand juries, subpoenas and a host of negative publicity might have a deterrent effect on its own, discouraging those businesses from dabbling in spam businesses.
That is pretty close to what I have been advocating, although I wouldn't often bother with the FBI or any other particular agency of a single nation. After all, most spam is international in nature; including ISPs, registrars, web server hosting companies, CC processors, mail relays, and other such facilities scattered around the world. A registrar based in China, for example, won't sweat an FBI investigation much - for that matter I rather doubt you could talk the FBI into initiating one anyways.
However, there is a common language between all of it, the language of money. Everyone is in on the take, you just need to interrupt it and they'll find their role is dramatically less profitable. There was a recent study on drug spammers that found that 90% or more of all their credit card processing was done by a short list (on the order of 3 or 4) groups. Clearly if no transaction clears, nobody gets paid; targeting the credit card processor is a very effective way to ensure this.
Similarly there are some groups - registrars in particular - who actively assist and pull money from the deal. While you can argue that mail relay managers and some web hosting services might not know what is going on, the registrars almost universally know what is going on. After all, they collected registration data - and in some cases intentionally obfuscated it to prevent the domain owner from being found.
If spam can be pushed further to the margins, its less profitable and higher risk.
You hit the nail on the head. Spammers can run from the law, but they will stop running when they run out of money. And when they stop running, and find they can't pull in more money via spam because their former co-conspirators won't do business with them anymore, then you can drive spam away.
You may not be able to stop spam 100%, but you may make it economically non-viable.
Which will be orders of magnitude more effective in the long run than filtering could ever hope to be.
So, the whole point of punishing criminals is to deter crime.
Sure, but not every country considers spam to be a crime. After all, we aren't talking about murder here. All a spammer has to do is live in a country where spam is not outlawed, and they can spam all they want. It doesn't matter if their spam is going to people in countries where it is illegal, or if it is going through computers in those countries, as long as the spammer lives someplace where spam is not illegal, they will be fine.
Killing the bot nets has definitely proven to reduce spam
Except it is temporary. Kill one botnet and another pops up. We find that there is less time now between the collapse of one botnet and the emergence of another. Killing one botnet is just a band-aid on a gushing head wound.
... I can tell you there is a lot of porn available for VOD. Often when I use the directory to search for shows by names, I end up with results porn results coming back when I am typing in the name of the show I am looking for.
I will say from reading the descriptions that they do a fairly good job of covering the various generic fetishes, too. Any ethnicity you can imagine wanting to watch do whatever you might want, it's there...
Although I can't imagine wanting to pay my cable company to watch that, even considering the fact that the cable bill comes out of my checking account automatically without a printed bill ever mailed to my house...
... was negligible at best. Throwing spammers in jail doesn't solve the spam problem. While I support seeing something done, we need to be careful not to go patting ourselves on the back whenever we punish a spammer.
And no, murdering them won't help, either. Plenty of people voice support for murdering (or executing) spammers but that won't help the case. We've seen spammers murdered in Russia and that didn't make a difference; indeed some spammers even moved to Russia to fill the void.
Until we actually go after the root economic problem behind spam, we won't see a real change in the matter. Spam is an economic problem, and requires an economic solution.