But a nice idea for Tom Clancy to use in his next book:)
Too late -- he did the bistatic radar thing (transmitter on a Japanese super-AWACS, receiver in the fighters) in Debt of Honor, a few books ago.
The illustration on the site isn't terribly informative, but their artist's interpretation is kinda cute; they made a sort of a cross between an F-22 and the original Have Blue.
Gee, when I heard that some folks wanted to include such artificial alphabets as Klingon and Elvish in Unicode, I thought that was a bit over the top; but with more than 1 MILLION 'data points' to play with, maybe providing a few for fan fiction isn't such a bad idea.
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Stock ownership is the one way to have your cake and eat it too. The money doesn't "go away" as it does when you buy a boxed distro; it becomes capital, it earns dividends (well, that's the idea...) and next year you can take it all back and put it to work somewhere else.
Always assuming the company hasn't gone under, of course....
I like Mandrake, and even though I don't own ANY stock at the moment, if this actually happened I think I'd make an exception for them.
Damn right! AT&T is dangling all sorts of carrots trying to get people to save them money by paying online -- but when I went to their page to sign up, one of the carrots is an SPAMazon gift certificate.
So I told AT&T that they were just going to have to keep sending my bill in the mail every month. More important, I told them WHY.
From the article, buried nicely in the reasons why "opt-in" isn't as bad as the DMA paints it:
A new entrant, though forced to beseech consumers for information-permission, could do so inexpensively through mass e-mailing.
The sheer absurdity of sending out mass email to find out whether someone is willing to opt-in should be apparent.
The fact that I am willing to pay for a email account rather than accepting a "free" one (supported by advertising) should make it possible to establish a market value for my address. Impinging on that address by sending unsolicited mail, or by placing my address on an "opt-out" list against my will, is clearly taking away from that market value. Multiplied by the many thousands of other addresses so affected, the amount is in the realm of grand theft, no matter how small the value of any single address.
The problem with unsolicited email is not its
commercial nature. It is the fact that it is both (a) unsolicited and (b) sent in bulk.
Other than peer pressure, there is no system of checks and balances to force a spammer to behave rationally. If someone decides to spam one hundred people, it is just as easy to spam a million. In the absence of natural enemies, spammers are worse than the semi-mythical rabbits in Australia: Only shoot-on-sight antispam efforts have kept the bulk mailers from consuming the commons down to bare earth.
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I didn't, for one, because I'm in New York. (Duh.) As Steven Wright once said, "It's a small world, but I'd hate to have to paint it."
That's one of the nice things about the 'net -- we *don't* all have to be there. (And John doesn't have to lug as many t-shirts.)
I'm damned with the ability to see both sides of this. If you want to trademark a name, you have to leave a generic name for people to use to refer to it -- thus we have "Kleenex(R) brand tissues," or "BandAid(R) brand bandages." "SSH(R) brand ssh" doesn't pass that test.
But having followed Bugtraq over the last couple of weeks, I can also see this guy's frustration at OpenSSH keeping v1 of the protocol alive despite him saying over and over ~"It's deprecated, it's br0ken, MOVE TO v2 ALREADY!"~
The Most Disturbing Thing(tm) I ever saw in New York City was an honest-to-deity ASPCA ambulance, complete with red lights and siren. Considering how often ambulances taking human beings to the hospital have accidents, the idea of someone running red lights to take Fido to the vet makes me ill.
Maybe this is one step toward putting a stop to that.
I was at MSU in 1970, so I can reconstruct the Dallas Egbert III situation pretty well.
Egbert's family hired a private investigator who delivered a reasonably accurate account of his activities and acquaintances: there were D&D players, AND the local Society for Creative Anachronism, AND some kids who liked to explore the steam tunnels. Three groups, some overlap, and Egbert was on the fringes of all three, not being much of a joiner.
But the parents read this report as "[crazy] people who role-play at King Arthur and devil worship, and have sword fights IN the steam tunnels." All three real-life groups got mixed up into one fictional one, and in the scariest possible way.
(That's also how we ended up with "Rona Jaffe's Monsters and Mazes", in case you're a fan of the young Tom Hanks.)
The most fundamental right is to right to bear arms, which allows one to turn words into actions.
Gandhi and Martin L. King weren't known for their frag counts. When someone has the power to redefine what can and can't be thought, the power of a single rifle is put into perspective. More important is the mind that chooses the target, and the ideas that guide that mind.
That's why I believe in both the First and Second Amendments, in that order.
You won't live forever; neither will I. Who is teaching your children and grandchildren, and where do they stand, on free speech and the RKBA?
Censorship is bad, don't take me wrong, but free speech is not exactly the most important basic human right out there.
Wrong. It is both the most important and most basic human right. Once you grant it, all others follow. Once it has been denied, no others can stand.
It needs to be balanced with others, like for instance the right to life, dammit, and that right isn't furthered by the idiots who stand at the next street corner and shout "kill the f*cking foreigners"
No one lives forever. Only our ideas, expressed in well-chosen words, can.
Freedom of speech is what allows you to point to that idiot on the streetcorner as the next Little Corporal. We've already seen what happens when you drive him underground instead of exposing him. The answer to 'bad' speech is more speech, not censorship.
Very nice to see all the extra links when you drill down, to various tweaks and install tips.
Interesting to see how I did purchasing without this guide -- turns out "my" VAIO got a 4.5. And of course, Linux compatibility was a _big_ factor in choosing it.
So I guess I ask my original question again: Why does everyone get so damn pissed off at spam?
Some of us were here before spam really got a foothold. (Someone recently said "What we did wrong when Canter & Siegel showed up, is one of us didn't walk up to the f*ckers and shoot them in the face." Now that is pissed.)
But it's not just nostalgia. When I write to my congresscritters, I explain to them how I once had to join a mailing list for families of cancer victims... people whose primary breadwinner was often the one in the hospital or hospice. Regular people trying to offer each other a bit of hope or support over AOL or MSN. No procmail, no Linux, no defense against the spammers jamming their lifeline and sucking up their connection fees.
Brother, when somebody spams a list like that, they deserve whatever they get.
And the point is a spammer doesn't know what my e-mail address is for. When he takes it over for his own benefit, he doesn't know whether it's a minor annoyance or a disruption of some person's entire life.
Recently, security lists (like Bugtraq) have been getting more and more traffic about "attacks" that turn out to be one proprietary outfit or another pumping out packets to "map" the Net. (Screw the admin who is trying to figure out what the hell they're up to; some of them wouldn't tell, even when asked directly.)
How do you get this sort of information in an e2e environment? Shouldn't there be a less wasteful way to determine this sort of thing?
The scene where the Reverend Mother tests Paul was the most unimpressively flat scene I've seen in my life.
That's the point where I switched off and left the VCR to carry on without me. In the Lynch movie, with (the incredible!) Sian Phillips and (the entirely adequate!) Kyle MacLachlan, that scene conveyed so much meaning. "Are you human?" Is it understanding or mere animal sense that controls your actions? If you are an animal, you die. Brrrr!
This Newman dweeb conveyed nothing in that scene. He all but shrugged when he pulled his hand out of the box unharmed. I almost expected him to say "Psych!" If the experience meant nothing to him, how is it supposed to mean anything to us? Pfeh!
Reuters, Dec 4 2003 - Paris, France
Unconfirmed reports that England has sunk into the North Sea continue to flood into the Paris EU disaster center. Speculation is rife that the British government's ill-advised attempt to record all Internet traffic, begun in 2001, was too much for the geology of the island nation.
Seriously. The Turing Machine is an abstraction, a "thought experiment." What it did was prove mathematically that, once you pass a certain very low level, ANY computer is equivalent to ANY OTHER computer -- it's just that some are (much) faster than others. There is NO computer we know how to build that can solve a different set of problems that the ultimately simple Turing machine.
That theoretical breakthrough provided the underpinnings for everything we know about computers and computing. The guy earned his props.
Ca. 1968, Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress had a (video)phone system where the "phone numbers" are ten-character alphabetic strings.
Approximate quote: "Pay minimum, get random letters. Pay a little more, get spell-sound, easy to remember. Pay premium, get your business name, good advertising."
Works for me! It would put a quick stop to this "new area code" nonsense, too, given 26^10 possible "numbers" in the identifier space.
(Since/. just had a review of his Stranger In a Strange Land, it seems valid to bring it up here.)
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Too late -- he did the bistatic radar thing (transmitter on a Japanese super-AWACS, receiver in the fighters) in Debt of Honor, a few books ago.
The illustration on the site isn't terribly informative, but their artist's interpretation is kinda cute; they made a sort of a cross between an F-22 and the original Have Blue.
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Gee, when I heard that some folks wanted to include such artificial alphabets as Klingon and Elvish in Unicode, I thought that was a bit over the top; but with more than 1 MILLION 'data points' to play with, maybe providing a few for fan fiction isn't such a bad idea.
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There were riots in the streets over this.
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Always assuming the company hasn't gone under, of course....
I like Mandrake, and even though I don't own ANY stock at the moment, if this actually happened I think I'd make an exception for them.
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So I told AT&T that they were just going to have to keep sending my bill in the mail every month. More important, I told them WHY.
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The fact that I am willing to pay for a email account rather than accepting a "free" one (supported by advertising) should make it possible to establish a market value for my address. Impinging on that address by sending unsolicited mail, or by placing my address on an "opt-out" list against my will, is clearly taking away from that market value. Multiplied by the many thousands of other addresses so affected, the amount is in the realm of grand theft, no matter how small the value of any single address.
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Other than peer pressure, there is no system of checks and balances to force a spammer to behave rationally. If someone decides to spam one hundred people, it is just as easy to spam a million. In the absence of natural enemies, spammers are worse than the semi-mythical rabbits in Australia: Only shoot-on-sight antispam efforts have kept the bulk mailers from consuming the commons down to bare earth.
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That's one of the nice things about the 'net -- we *don't* all have to be there. (And John doesn't have to lug as many t-shirts.)
Thanks for the article.
But having followed Bugtraq over the last couple of weeks, I can also see this guy's frustration at OpenSSH keeping v1 of the protocol alive despite him saying over and over ~"It's deprecated, it's br0ken, MOVE TO v2 ALREADY!"~
Won't need 'em with this plan -- too many borglets in the way for any "rogue states" to launch an ICBM.
The Most Disturbing Thing(tm) I ever saw in New York City was an honest-to-deity ASPCA ambulance, complete with red lights and siren. Considering how often ambulances taking human beings to the hospital have accidents, the idea of someone running red lights to take Fido to the vet makes me ill.
Maybe this is one step toward putting a stop to that.
Egbert's family hired a private investigator who delivered a reasonably accurate account of his activities and acquaintances: there were D&D players, AND the local Society for Creative Anachronism, AND some kids who liked to explore the steam tunnels. Three groups, some overlap, and Egbert was on the fringes of all three, not being much of a joiner.
But the parents read this report as "[crazy] people who role-play at King Arthur and devil worship, and have sword fights IN the steam tunnels." All three real-life groups got mixed up into one fictional one, and in the scariest possible way.
(That's also how we ended up with "Rona Jaffe's Monsters and Mazes", in case you're a fan of the young Tom Hanks.)
Gandhi and Martin L. King weren't known for their frag counts. When someone has the power to redefine what can and can't be thought, the power of a single rifle is put into perspective. More important is the mind that chooses the target, and the ideas that guide that mind.
That's why I believe in both the First and Second Amendments, in that order.
You won't live forever; neither will I. Who is teaching your children and grandchildren, and where do they stand, on free speech and the RKBA?
Wrong. It is both the most important and most basic human right. Once you grant it, all others follow. Once it has been denied, no others can stand.
No one lives forever. Only our ideas, expressed in well-chosen words, can.
Freedom of speech is what allows you to point to that idiot on the streetcorner as the next Little Corporal. We've already seen what happens when you drive him underground instead of exposing him. The answer to 'bad' speech is more speech, not censorship.
Interesting to see how I did purchasing without this guide -- turns out "my" VAIO got a 4.5. And of course, Linux compatibility was a _big_ factor in choosing it.
Some of us were here before spam really got a foothold. (Someone recently said "What we did wrong when Canter & Siegel showed up, is one of us didn't walk up to the f*ckers and shoot them in the face." Now that is pissed.)
But it's not just nostalgia. When I write to my congresscritters, I explain to them how I once had to join a mailing list for families of cancer victims... people whose primary breadwinner was often the one in the hospital or hospice. Regular people trying to offer each other a bit of hope or support over AOL or MSN. No procmail, no Linux, no defense against the spammers jamming their lifeline and sucking up their connection fees.
Brother, when somebody spams a list like that, they deserve whatever they get.
And the point is a spammer doesn't know what my e-mail address is for. When he takes it over for his own benefit, he doesn't know whether it's a minor annoyance or a disruption of some person's entire life.
Recently, security lists (like Bugtraq) have been getting more and more traffic about "attacks" that turn out to be one proprietary outfit or another pumping out packets to "map" the Net. (Screw the admin who is trying to figure out what the hell they're up to; some of them wouldn't tell, even when asked directly.)
How do you get this sort of information in an e2e environment? Shouldn't there be a less wasteful way to determine this sort of thing?
Gee, Michael, don't hold back - how do you REALLY feel?
Seriously, it is a concern that just by calling this star chamber a "court" they get to claim that due process is satisfied. That does reek.
That's the point where I switched off and left the VCR to carry on without me. In the Lynch movie, with (the incredible!) Sian Phillips and (the entirely adequate!) Kyle MacLachlan, that scene conveyed so much meaning. "Are you human?" Is it understanding or mere animal sense that controls your actions? If you are an animal, you die. Brrrr!
This Newman dweeb conveyed nothing in that scene. He all but shrugged when he pulled his hand out of the box unharmed. I almost expected him to say "Psych!" If the experience meant nothing to him, how is it supposed to mean anything to us? Pfeh!
Unconfirmed reports that England has sunk into the North Sea continue to flood into the Paris EU disaster center. Speculation is rife that the British government's ill-advised attempt to record all Internet traffic, begun in 2001, was too much for the geology of the island nation.
Anything.
Seriously. The Turing Machine is an abstraction, a "thought experiment." What it did was prove mathematically that, once you pass a certain very low level, ANY computer is equivalent to ANY OTHER computer -- it's just that some are (much) faster than others. There is NO computer we know how to build that can solve a different set of problems that the ultimately simple Turing machine.
That theoretical breakthrough provided the underpinnings for everything we know about computers and computing. The guy earned his props.
Works for me! It would put a quick stop to this "new area code" nonsense, too, given 26^10 possible "numbers" in the identifier space. /. just had a review of his Stranger In a Strange Land, it seems valid to bring it up here.)
(Since
From the New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) hymnal, to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"
My Nest is a hotbed of Martians
And Michael just lies there and grins
Enwombed with his brothers and sisters
Oh, Foster, forgive us our sins!
Foster, Foster, oh Foster forgive us our sins,
our sins!