Well I'm not going to get another username/password pair just to satisfy you. Until slashdot gets openID support, I am forced to be anonymous.
Forced to be anonymous? Yes, of course slashdot is using their own registration system for the sole purpose of pissing you off. And it seems to be working pretty well, I'd say.
I have so much sympathy for people who are both too lazy to register and too oblivious of how the system works to realize that their comments will be constantly scored 0. I'd say that the majority of registered users here would have just simply ignored you from the start, which is a good idea, frankly.
If you actually want to question someone, then take the extra minute of your time and register, rather than hiding in anonymity.
Do you have a link to back up that quote, or are you just trolling?
Fascinating! An anonymous coward accusing a member of trolling. Can we say "pot calling kettle black"?
If the verisign DNS servers track foreign domain names (*.cn, for example), then it would be worth having. I've seen plenty of spamvertised domains that are from foreign registries, and often the registrars over there don't play by our rules. If the verisign registry gave us that data, we could at least figure out who is responsible for the existence of such crap.
And yes, I do recognize that getting something done about it is a different issue entirely. But if the data was at least available, it could help.
That the decrease in crime in the 90's was clearly due to trickle-down economics. Even though it was implemented by Ronald Ray-gun in the 80's, it clearly had such dramatic and sweeping downstream effects that the reduction in 90's crime must have been due to it.
... with the endless supply of Quake/Doom/Wolfenstein3d clones? I didn't read TFA, but on the basis of the fact that the past several years have been flooded with FPS games, with very few significant games of any other genre released, I would agree that we've gone downhill.
For comparison, look at the variety of games that were available for the Atari 2600 or even the Colecovision. Hell, even the 8 bit consoles had a wide variety of gaming genres available. But the most technologically advanced consoles out now (xbox360 and PS3) are largely flooded with only two genres of games - sports and FPS. Hell, if you exclude the wii, the most innovative controller to come out for console games in the past several years is the guitar for guitar hero - and its not really that innovative when you look at it.
Personally I'm a *big* fan of the improvements that ATX gave us over AT - Mostly that I'm no longer likely to electrocute myself by touching the live power switch in AT machines. Ouch.
The ATX standard is nice, yes. But I was never a fan of the impossible-to-test ATX power supplies. With the old AT boards, if you built a system and it wouldn't turn on, you could test the power supply on its own to rule it out. With an ATX, if you don't get anything when you press the power, it could be power supply, mobo, CPU, RAM, or who knows what else.
They took what was previously a nice system for singling out variables and made a mess. Though i will concede that the standardized ports on the rear were a nice improvement (though I don't think the screwy power supply setup was a necessary prerequisite).
There's probably some FAA regulations, but basically, it has to have customs services.
That's what I suspected. But then when you have an "international" airport that never has any international arrivals, they drop their customs services. Why then does the airport still carry the "international" title?
I see that wikipedia says that the international designations for airports come from the "International Civil Aviation Organization". So maybe someone forgot to implement a mechanism to revoke it? The airport I am talking about hasn't even seen a plane carrying more than 169 passengers land here on purpose in years...
When do you not get a meal on the flight? The only times I've not had one has been on very short flights, and they've always had a snack of some kind.
You also need to take into consideration the location of the airports you are flying in and out of. If you happen to live somewhere that has only a smaller airport (hence not a hub for anyone), you will end up with at least 1 connection. Connection flights almost never feed you anything better than a 1 ounce bag of pretzels. And if your destination is then less than 1,000 miles from the hub, you probably won't get food on that leg, either.
I moved from a metropolitan area of over 2 million residents to an area with less than 500,000. I don't even remember the last time I saw a 747 land at the local "international" airport.
On a tangent, does anyone know how an airport qualifies as "international"? Our local "international" airport hasn't had a direct flight to or from anywhere outside the continental US in a very long time - even Canada. I can drive to several large Canadian cities from our city in less than half the time it takes to fly there, due to connections and routing nonsense.
It just appears that way because it's logarithmic. 100 lawyers will net you 2 good ones, 1000 lawyers 3 good ones and so forth.
I think that comment probably deserves to be modded both 'funny' and 'insightful'.
Though I have to wonder how that math holds up if groups are brought together. For example, if a group of 10 has one good one, and you bring together 3 groups of ten, you should come out with less than 2 good ones (log 30 ~ 1.4).
What, therefore, happened to the 1.6 additional good lawyers that we had before we brought the groups together?
Last week, a friend of mine on gmail sent an email, no, rather, a "voicemail" to my gmail address from his own. When you get the "voicemail" through gmail, it comes through as an mp3 itself. Perhaps these spammers are trying to figure out if they can spoof that and hit gmail users before the voicemail thing becomes more widespread?
But just as I've said before, the spammers are just going to continue to get more creative as long as we keep trying to counter spam with filters and other such nonsense. We'll never stop spam until we actually manage to remove the economic incentive that drives it. Even the offshore banking accounts that are netting profits off these pump-and-dump scams should belong to someone. And if we can figure out who, we can start to stop this machine.
And I'll be willing to wager that whatever shady financial institution is helping to hide these lowlifes is taking a cut off the action as well.
Geez...get any 10 lawyers together, one will be a real decent person, the other nine will be total asshats.
Are you sure you can find one decent lawyer when you only have 10 total? I think you need a much larger collection of lawyers before you'll accomplish that...
Thats what I was hoping for when I saw the title as well. Or even better, a mass market arcade box in a cabinet from a company I actually like.
What this machine has to do with arcade gaming, beyond giving you a copy of one game from the 80s, is beyond me. At least I never saw Uno in the arcade before...
Yes, because as 9/11 taught us, a valid ID is a 100% guarantee of non-malicious intent.
Ah, yes, Mr. Guiliani, it looks like you forgot to take your tourette's meds today. Oh well, I'll answer your comment anyways.
The point I was making is that many of the spamvertised domains are registered to prolific spammers. We don't need to worry about the intent of new people registering domains nearly as much as we should pay attention to repeat customers. If the crooked registrars like pacnames.com and bizcn.com would actually track their customers they would find that they are repeatedly selling domains to criminals. And if they were held liable for this, they may even consider not doing it. But if instead they just take money and turn to look the other way, then the spammers will always have safe harbors to turn to, to keep their enterprises running.
TrollMods say "Troll" means "I disagree with you, but can't argue".
Though as you know,/. doesn't allow moderation and posting to the same discussion. Therefore "Troll" could also mean "I disagree with you, but I want to use my mod points instead of saying why in a message".
how about setting up a "waiting period" for getting a domain name?
I think the spammers would happily wait for their domain names to clear and then start using them nefariously.
So if you want my opinion (and I'll give it to you either way) on registration, I think the registrars should be forced to keep true and accurate records of who they sell domains to. There are well-known spammers who are known to use aliases when registering domains, and they seem to know complacent registrars that will let them do that. If the registrars actually required accurate identification for each customer - even if they didn't make it publicly available through WHOIS - they could watch out for repeat offenders. The spammer known as "Leo Kuvayev" , aka "BadCow" , aka "Alex Rodrigez", has registered thousands of domain names through a handful of registrars. If the registrars were obligated to actually watch who they sell to, they could stop this problem at the registrar level and it would largely go away.
But as it is, the registrars are of course getting a cut of the pie - at least in registration costs. So there is no incentive for them to stop selling to the known offenders. If we could make it no longer profitable for the crooked registrars to do this, we could start bringing the machine down.
Are you stating that filtering spam is ineffective, like the "war on drugs", or are you stating that removing the economic incentive would be ineffective like the "war on drugs"?
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We can't stop it because we aren't addressing the real problem. Spam is an economic problem. People send out spam because they make money off of it. And they will therefore continue to send out spam as long as they make money off of it.
If you want to stop spam, you have to remove the economic incentive. To do that, you need to cut off the co-conspirators that are allowing the spamvertised domains to be established and hosted. If you can either prevent them from getting a cut off the action, or punish them severely for taking their cut, then you can stop spam.
Until then, if all we do is try to filter spam out, we'll just continue to see the costs of inaction. Beyond that, we're ignoring the fact that filtering has real costs, as well. Filtering doesn't prevent the spam from traversing the internet, and furthermore it requires human time to update as the spammers change their tactics.
Come on, what dorky kid in the 80's didn't imagine having a grappling hook arm after playing the original game? The wii controller might let us flesh out that imagination just a little further...
If the government was going to execute the bionic commando, who I recall largely only could be killed by falling into the bottomless pits, does that mean the government has found a way to build bottomless pits?
Spammers use hacked wordpress and joomla sites. The domains just happen to be the ones of the sites they hacked. I presume you're thinking of the domains that the spam is sent from. I was talking about what domains were being spamvertised. Some porn peddler was making money by way of the references through the spam. I would like to find out the history of the domains for these porn sites, as they are some of the ones that I call co-conspirators in this situation.
I would expect that the sites that were actually selling the porn were originally set up to sell porn, as opposed to hacked sites that suddenly found themselves selling porn. Furthermore, I'd expect that they follow a similar pattern to the bogus internet pharmacies, where a domain (usually with an incomprehensible name) is registered, then spamvertised, and then discarded not long after (the the pattern repeated ad naseum).
And if you can find that, then you'll likely find there were complacent registrars and ISPs that were also in on the deal. Almost every bogus internet pharmacy that has spammed me has followed that plan to the letter.
Unfortunately many of those type of sites are located in Eastern European/other countries with relatively lax law enforcement which makes it hard to go after the domain owners.
That is true some of the time. However, there are other times when the money can be traced back to 1st world countries, and companies within that are willing to chance the law to turn a buck. It would be interesting to see a list of the spamvertised domains to try to sort out who is responsible for their registration. In particular, if the domains were.com, then the list of registrars is finite and controlled by internic. And a good portion of the dominant.com registrars are located in 1st world countries, where the laws are generally not so lax on some of these offenses.
more than 60 percent drop in Time Warner's stock as customers dropped dial-up Web access.
Am I the only person surprised to see this? Considering AOL used to be the top ISP in the country (IIRC), and now the cable companies are instead (like Time Warner), I would have expected that AOL-TimeWarner would have broken even on the deal. Or maybe even come out ahead, considering how much more they can charge for high speed cable modem access, with presumably an easier network to maintain than the phone network that is otherwise beyond their control.
I don't think there was any great exodus of AOL customers switching to satellite for internet service or anything...
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Forced to be anonymous? Yes, of course slashdot is using their own registration system for the sole purpose of pissing you off. And it seems to be working pretty well, I'd say.
I have so much sympathy for people who are both too lazy to register and too oblivious of how the system works to realize that their comments will be constantly scored 0. I'd say that the majority of registered users here would have just simply ignored you from the start, which is a good idea, frankly.
If you actually want to question someone, then take the extra minute of your time and register, rather than hiding in anonymity.
Fascinating! An anonymous coward accusing a member of trolling. Can we say "pot calling kettle black"?
If the verisign DNS servers track foreign domain names (*.cn, for example), then it would be worth having. I've seen plenty of spamvertised domains that are from foreign registries, and often the registrars over there don't play by our rules. If the verisign registry gave us that data, we could at least figure out who is responsible for the existence of such crap.
And yes, I do recognize that getting something done about it is a different issue entirely. But if the data was at least available, it could help.
That the decrease in crime in the 90's was clearly due to trickle-down economics. Even though it was implemented by Ronald Ray-gun in the 80's, it clearly had such dramatic and sweeping downstream effects that the reduction in 90's crime must have been due to it.
No other possible explanation, move along now.
... with the endless supply of Quake/Doom/Wolfenstein3d clones? I didn't read TFA, but on the basis of the fact that the past several years have been flooded with FPS games, with very few significant games of any other genre released, I would agree that we've gone downhill.
For comparison, look at the variety of games that were available for the Atari 2600 or even the Colecovision. Hell, even the 8 bit consoles had a wide variety of gaming genres available. But the most technologically advanced consoles out now (xbox360 and PS3) are largely flooded with only two genres of games - sports and FPS. Hell, if you exclude the wii, the most innovative controller to come out for console games in the past several years is the guitar for guitar hero - and its not really that innovative when you look at it.
The ATX standard is nice, yes. But I was never a fan of the impossible-to-test ATX power supplies. With the old AT boards, if you built a system and it wouldn't turn on, you could test the power supply on its own to rule it out. With an ATX, if you don't get anything when you press the power, it could be power supply, mobo, CPU, RAM, or who knows what else.
They took what was previously a nice system for singling out variables and made a mess. Though i will concede that the standardized ports on the rear were a nice improvement (though I don't think the screwy power supply setup was a necessary prerequisite).
That's what I suspected. But then when you have an "international" airport that never has any international arrivals, they drop their customs services. Why then does the airport still carry the "international" title?
I see that wikipedia says that the international designations for airports come from the "International Civil Aviation Organization". So maybe someone forgot to implement a mechanism to revoke it? The airport I am talking about hasn't even seen a plane carrying more than 169 passengers land here on purpose in years...
You also need to take into consideration the location of the airports you are flying in and out of. If you happen to live somewhere that has only a smaller airport (hence not a hub for anyone), you will end up with at least 1 connection. Connection flights almost never feed you anything better than a 1 ounce bag of pretzels. And if your destination is then less than 1,000 miles from the hub, you probably won't get food on that leg, either.
I moved from a metropolitan area of over 2 million residents to an area with less than 500,000. I don't even remember the last time I saw a 747 land at the local "international" airport.
On a tangent, does anyone know how an airport qualifies as "international"? Our local "international" airport hasn't had a direct flight to or from anywhere outside the continental US in a very long time - even Canada. I can drive to several large Canadian cities from our city in less than half the time it takes to fly there, due to connections and routing nonsense.
Are you sure you're thinking of boric acid, and not Borat (the movie)? I'm pretty sure I was constipated after seeing it...
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'!hardhack'
I think that comment probably deserves to be modded both 'funny' and 'insightful'.
Though I have to wonder how that math holds up if groups are brought together. For example, if a group of 10 has one good one, and you bring together 3 groups of ten, you should come out with less than 2 good ones (log 30 ~ 1.4).
What, therefore, happened to the 1.6 additional good lawyers that we had before we brought the groups together?
Last week, a friend of mine on gmail sent an email, no, rather, a "voicemail" to my gmail address from his own. When you get the "voicemail" through gmail, it comes through as an mp3 itself. Perhaps these spammers are trying to figure out if they can spoof that and hit gmail users before the voicemail thing becomes more widespread?
But just as I've said before, the spammers are just going to continue to get more creative as long as we keep trying to counter spam with filters and other such nonsense. We'll never stop spam until we actually manage to remove the economic incentive that drives it. Even the offshore banking accounts that are netting profits off these pump-and-dump scams should belong to someone. And if we can figure out who, we can start to stop this machine.
And I'll be willing to wager that whatever shady financial institution is helping to hide these lowlifes is taking a cut off the action as well.
Geez...get any 10 lawyers together, one will be a real decent person, the other nine will be total asshats.
Are you sure you can find one decent lawyer when you only have 10 total? I think you need a much larger collection of lawyers before you'll accomplish that...
Thats what I was hoping for when I saw the title as well. Or even better, a mass market arcade box in a cabinet from a company I actually like.
...
What this machine has to do with arcade gaming, beyond giving you a copy of one game from the 80s, is beyond me. At least I never saw Uno in the arcade before
Ah, yes, Mr. Guiliani, it looks like you forgot to take your tourette's meds today. Oh well, I'll answer your comment anyways.
The point I was making is that many of the spamvertised domains are registered to prolific spammers. We don't need to worry about the intent of new people registering domains nearly as much as we should pay attention to repeat customers. If the crooked registrars like pacnames.com and bizcn.com would actually track their customers they would find that they are repeatedly selling domains to criminals. And if they were held liable for this, they may even consider not doing it. But if instead they just take money and turn to look the other way, then the spammers will always have safe harbors to turn to, to keep their enterprises running.
Though as you know,
I think the spammers would happily wait for their domain names to clear and then start using them nefariously.
So if you want my opinion (and I'll give it to you either way) on registration, I think the registrars should be forced to keep true and accurate records of who they sell domains to. There are well-known spammers who are known to use aliases when registering domains, and they seem to know complacent registrars that will let them do that. If the registrars actually required accurate identification for each customer - even if they didn't make it publicly available through WHOIS - they could watch out for repeat offenders. The spammer known as "Leo Kuvayev" , aka "BadCow" , aka "Alex Rodrigez", has registered thousands of domain names through a handful of registrars. If the registrars were obligated to actually watch who they sell to, they could stop this problem at the registrar level and it would largely go away.
But as it is, the registrars are of course getting a cut of the pie - at least in registration costs. So there is no incentive for them to stop selling to the known offenders. If we could make it no longer profitable for the crooked registrars to do this, we could start bringing the machine down.
Are you stating that filtering spam is ineffective, like the "war on drugs", or are you stating that removing the economic incentive would be ineffective like the "war on drugs"?
We can't stop it because we aren't addressing the real problem. Spam is an economic problem. People send out spam because they make money off of it. And they will therefore continue to send out spam as long as they make money off of it.
If you want to stop spam, you have to remove the economic incentive. To do that, you need to cut off the co-conspirators that are allowing the spamvertised domains to be established and hosted. If you can either prevent them from getting a cut off the action, or punish them severely for taking their cut, then you can stop spam.
Until then, if all we do is try to filter spam out, we'll just continue to see the costs of inaction. Beyond that, we're ignoring the fact that filtering has real costs, as well. Filtering doesn't prevent the spam from traversing the internet, and furthermore it requires human time to update as the spammers change their tactics.
Come on, what dorky kid in the 80's didn't imagine having a grappling hook arm after playing the original game? The wii controller might let us flesh out that imagination just a little further...
If the government was going to execute the bionic commando, who I recall largely only could be killed by falling into the bottomless pits, does that mean the government has found a way to build bottomless pits?
I presume you're thinking of the domains that the spam is sent from. I was talking about what domains were being spamvertised. Some porn peddler was making money by way of the references through the spam. I would like to find out the history of the domains for these porn sites, as they are some of the ones that I call co-conspirators in this situation.
I would expect that the sites that were actually selling the porn were originally set up to sell porn, as opposed to hacked sites that suddenly found themselves selling porn. Furthermore, I'd expect that they follow a similar pattern to the bogus internet pharmacies, where a domain (usually with an incomprehensible name) is registered, then spamvertised, and then discarded not long after (the the pattern repeated ad naseum).
And if you can find that, then you'll likely find there were complacent registrars and ISPs that were also in on the deal. Almost every bogus internet pharmacy that has spammed me has followed that plan to the letter.
That's just too far off topic for me to agree with you this time.
Though I will also say
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That is true some of the time. However, there are other times when the money can be traced back to 1st world countries, and companies within that are willing to chance the law to turn a buck. It would be interesting to see a list of the spamvertised domains to try to sort out who is responsible for their registration. In particular, if the domains were
Am I the only person surprised to see this? Considering AOL used to be the top ISP in the country (IIRC), and now the cable companies are instead (like Time Warner), I would have expected that AOL-TimeWarner would have broken even on the deal. Or maybe even come out ahead, considering how much more they can charge for high speed cable modem access, with presumably an easier network to maintain than the phone network that is otherwise beyond their control.
I don't think there was any great exodus of AOL customers switching to satellite for internet service or anything...