And yes, blocking will win the race because all they have to do is download the ads and not display them, then the server really is none the wiser.
As a publisher I'm fine with that. At least then I still get paid.
By blocking ads you are punishing the site (which you probably care about a least a little if you are visiting it) that needs that money to exist, but hiding them it's just the advertiser (who you obviously don't care about) you are screwing over.
approach to fighting botnets. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money (X) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it (X) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from botnetters ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Asshats (X) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (X) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
I work for an ISP that offers ADSL. This is not the case.
You can have an adsl on a line with a phone number from any provider.
You can also have it with no phone line at all (dark adsl/naked adsl), but there is an extra monthly fee for that to cover the cost of powering the line, maintenance, etc.
The recent explosion in credit card fraud and identity theft confirms the imminent terrorist attack.
Network and computer professionals are attributing the increases to the recent outlawing of SSL, however The Home Office has dismissed these accusations as unpatriotic and arrested several professionals for supporting terrorism...
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yes they would. The government would have found another excuse.
As a publisher I'm fine with that. At least then I still get paid.
By blocking ads you are punishing the site (which you probably care about a least a little if you are visiting it) that needs that money to exist, but hiding them it's just the advertiser (who you obviously don't care about) you are screwing over.
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I like this too. All overpasses and on/off ramps.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (X) vigilante
approach to fighting botnets. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(X) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
(X) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from botnetters
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Asshats
(X) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
Just have a several wire cable with all the common voltages. The device only uses the ones it wants.
Baby: The other, other white meat.
I just hope the fully-virtualized IP stack within jails made it into 7.1, as well as a slightly more stable ZFS.
No virtual IP stack yet. ZFS is slightly more stable, but still has a ways to go.
It's a space station. You don't need a vacuum cleaner. Just open a window.
I work for an ISP that offers ADSL. This is not the case.
You can have an adsl on a line with a phone number from any provider.
You can also have it with no phone line at all (dark adsl/naked adsl), but there is an extra monthly fee for that to cover the cost of powering the line, maintenance, etc.
> java Virtual Machine written in java.
Link? This sounds completely useless, but it would be interesting to look at the source if available.
The last seasons of DS9 were good. A DS9 movie could work.
Or BSD.
It doesn't look good either way.
The Obama one looks fine to me.
What about Nibbles.bas?
No, they did that in vista. That was the problem.
If they are smart, they will go back to the BSD TCP stack.
Don't worry, they are easy to upgrade.
I already keep my taskbar autohide at the top of my screen you insensitive clod.
Thats silly. Spammers don't edit their lists. They just blast it out to all, valid or fake.
BBC News May 2nd 2010
The recent explosion in credit card fraud and identity theft confirms the imminent terrorist attack.
Network and computer professionals are attributing the increases to the recent outlawing of SSL, however The Home Office has dismissed these accusations as unpatriotic and arrested several professionals for supporting terrorism...
Tho I support the crushing, printing that much spam is a horrible waste of paper and ink. Won't somebody think of the environment?
"protect" and "children" together also works.
Server admin: We're running our of disk space.
PHB: Just delete a bunch of videos.
Won't somebody think of the kittens?
I'm open to alternatives.
'till some sort of useful micropayment system appears and becomes popular I don't see a lot of alternatives for most sites.