"We have raised your insurance premium by $400 because according to our GPS records, you go to the liquor store once a week."
Don't laugh, this sort of thing has happened - someone's claim was denied because of their shopping records.
FWIW, I haven't been in an accident I caused since I was a kid in high school. The only other one I've been in was a month ago when someone backed in to my car. No GPS unit in the world would have helped the situation. The best part, though, is that my insurance company wanted to raise my rates because someone else hit me. Others are similar - they ask you how many accidents you've been in regardless of fault and change the rate accordingly. My point is, insurance companies will do whatever they can to find a way to screw you AND the Stupid Klutzes of the world.
I didn't buy it in our market because they called/telemarketed me up a few times offering it to me. That was probably the last straw, I no longer answer that phone.
I'd love to see what would happen if an American friend of this guy logged in and fixed his site, and then changed the password to something none of them know.
Thereby negating any possible gains the Italian police achieved.
Don't discount porn too much. Porn is still a very large part of the Internet, and will always be a large part of Real and Microsoft Media Player's businesses.
More than likely you'll cost the provider of their answering machine-service money. But that's probably OK since they'd be able to go after the spammer for what they lose better than we could.
Even better to call up and just leave long messages conveniently forgetting to include your phone number to return your call. If everyone did this every spam they got, we'd see a lot less of that type of spam. They'd move on to something else and still spam, but at least they'd have to do something different.
Spam will soon be a lot more than 30 seconds of download a day if it isn't stopped now - the only reason the big boys (every insurance company out there, PCH, etc) haven't started massively spamming yet is because it could end up being illegal.
Once it is fully proven to be legal, and ISPs are forced to accept it by some First Amendment law, you can kiss your mailbox goodbye. It'll start being hours of downloads over your modem.
So yeah, I'll keep fighting spam the ways I can (sysadmin for an ISP, we shut off spammers).
"That made me feel better. Thanks! =)"
Heh, you're most welcome. I'm glad I could help someone on/. instead of just rant like I usually do.;)
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That's not doing something about the problem. That's hiding the problem. Some of us are not interested in hiding the problem since it solves nothing.
The people that don't want the spam are already doing their part by not buying from spammers and getting their connections shut off when possible. Spamassassin and the like won't help towards that goal - you think a spammer cares at all if they're not heard by those who won't buy from them anyways?
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Heh, at least you Ogg guys don't get the gross mistreatment FreeBSD gets:
FreeBSD 4.5 NOT Released (Updated) by timothy FreeBSD v.4.6 (NOT) Released by chrisd FreeBSD 4.6 by michael
It's so nice to have more "not released"s than "released"s - makes FreeBSD look real good eh?
"Fifteen years ago we knew that Sun insisted on shipping SunOS with a "+" in/etc/hosts.equiv which would open your system to any other server on the network. We edited that and other config files before a Sun went on the LAN."
They don't ship this way now, though, right? Sounds like they've learned something. Perhaps Microsoft could also learn something from this.
But they won't. The defaults will always be insecure, for sake of "features".
Yeah, if I'd lost a "loved one" because someone crashed a plane in to a building I'd be like "Hey, didn't you guys check their driver's licenses?!". Because obviously that would have stopped the plane from being hijacked and flown in to a building.
TiVo changed my TV-watching life. I don't surf and stuff any more either, I wasted a ton of time on that. Sure, I'm weak for needing a device to get me to stop:) but what can I say, it worked.
Of course, heh, you'll see a lot of people telling you your life is hollow and meaningless just because you own a TV at all. These are the book-reading elitists. Feel free to slap them around.:)
This isn't regexes but you might find it useful. In sh, at least on FreeBSD and I believe on Linux (bash) you can use ## and %% to strip out various parts of a variables contents. Such as:
As I see it, you really, really want to upgrade for some reason, but just not enough to pay for it. Well, it sounds like upgrading isn't worth it to you.
Where's the problem here? It's not like they're disabling your computer all of a sudden. Just don't upgrade.
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"We have raised your insurance premium by $400 because according to our GPS records, you go to the liquor store once a week."
Don't laugh, this sort of thing has happened - someone's claim was denied because of their shopping records.
FWIW, I haven't been in an accident I caused since I was a kid in high school. The only other one I've been in was a month ago when someone backed in to my car. No GPS unit in the world would have helped the situation. The best part, though, is that my insurance company wanted to raise my rates because someone else hit me. Others are similar - they ask you how many accidents you've been in regardless of fault and change the rate accordingly. My point is, insurance companies will do whatever they can to find a way to screw you AND the Stupid Klutzes of the world.
Fact: Insurance companies are test-marketing the idea of providing insurance based on actual tracked usage.
Fact: This particular "black box" device is being marketed to regular Joe's to let them track other people's usage.
Fact: Insurance companies are in it for the money - specifically, in it to pay out as little as possible to improve their shareholder's investments.
The paranoia is justified, IMO.
Or do what one of our customers did and register a domain with your pager e-mail address as a contact handle.
Hooray for Viagra spam at 2AM!
Should submit a bug to bugzilla about that, been that way for a while unfortunately.
So do telemarketer's phones use a different system that they hear this tone, but regular folk can't hear it somehow? Is there a certain timing to it?
Ah, so this device "eats" the first ring? Still, if I was the caller and I heard it, I'd hang up. I don't understand the caller side.
TiVo's got some investors who would probably end up on the MPAA's side of the fence. Thus, TiVo will likely just conform.
The part I don't get is how regular people don't hear it? If it's just a recording of it, I'd hear it and hang up if someone I called had that.
I didn't buy it in our market because they called/telemarketed me up a few times offering it to me. That was probably the last straw, I no longer answer that phone.
Rebooting a box isn't necessary when using a database or a "serious web server", at least not on FreeBSD. Maybe it is on other OS's?
I mean, really, what good does rebooting do?
I'd love to see what would happen if an American friend of this guy logged in and fixed his site, and then changed the password to something none of them know.
Thereby negating any possible gains the Italian police achieved.
Don't discount porn too much. Porn is still a very large part of the Internet, and will always be a large part of Real and Microsoft Media Player's businesses.
More than likely you'll cost the provider of their answering machine-service money. But that's probably OK since they'd be able to go after the spammer for what they lose better than we could.
Even better to call up and just leave long messages conveniently forgetting to include your phone number to return your call. If everyone did this every spam they got, we'd see a lot less of that type of spam. They'd move on to something else and still spam, but at least they'd have to do something different.
Spam will soon be a lot more than 30 seconds of download a day if it isn't stopped now - the only reason the big boys (every insurance company out there, PCH, etc) haven't started massively spamming yet is because it could end up being illegal.
/. instead of just rant like I usually do. ;)
Once it is fully proven to be legal, and ISPs are forced to accept it by some First Amendment law, you can kiss your mailbox goodbye. It'll start being hours of downloads over your modem.
So yeah, I'll keep fighting spam the ways I can (sysadmin for an ISP, we shut off spammers).
"That made me feel better. Thanks! =)"
Heh, you're most welcome. I'm glad I could help someone on
That's not doing something about the problem. That's hiding the problem. Some of us are not interested in hiding the problem since it solves nothing.
The people that don't want the spam are already doing their part by not buying from spammers and getting their connections shut off when possible. Spamassassin and the like won't help towards that goal - you think a spammer cares at all if they're not heard by those who won't buy from them anyways?
Heh, at least you Ogg guys don't get the gross mistreatment FreeBSD gets:
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FreeBSD 4.5 NOT Released (Updated) by timothy
FreeBSD v.4.6 (NOT) Released by chrisd
FreeBSD 4.6 by michael
It's so nice to have more "not released"s than "released"s - makes FreeBSD look real good eh?
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"Fifteen years ago we knew that Sun insisted on shipping SunOS with a "+" in /etc/hosts.equiv which would open your system to any other server on the network. We edited that and other config files before a Sun went on the LAN."
They don't ship this way now, though, right? Sounds like they've learned something. Perhaps Microsoft could also learn something from this.
But they won't. The defaults will always be insecure, for sake of "features".
Yeah, if I'd lost a "loved one" because someone crashed a plane in to a building I'd be like "Hey, didn't you guys check their driver's licenses?!". Because obviously that would have stopped the plane from being hijacked and flown in to a building.
Duh.
A broken web server claiming "too many people are viewing" its contents at the same time? Yeah I bet that'll impress the airport security screeners!
TiVo changed my TV-watching life. I don't surf and stuff any more either, I wasted a ton of time on that. Sure, I'm weak for needing a device to get me to stop :) but what can I say, it worked.
:)
Of course, heh, you'll see a lot of people telling you your life is hollow and meaningless just because you own a TV at all. These are the book-reading elitists. Feel free to slap them around.
I wonder if Qwest will change their mind now that they're in such huge trouble with the SEC and will be the next WorldCom?
So then it'll be just as bad as Bugtraq?
Lil'HTTP Pbcgi.cgi XSS Vulnerability
Remote ICQ Sound Desactivation
AIM forced behavior "issue"
etc. Man. Bugtraq is barely useful.
This isn't regexes but you might find it useful. In sh, at least on FreeBSD and I believe on Linux (bash) you can use ## and %% to strip out various parts of a variables contents. Such as:
$ foo=bar
$ echo ${foo##ba}
r
Very useful stuff..
This is still something that would have been predicted by psychohistory - the release of the book and the delay it would create in the inevitability.
er, I've been reading too many books.
As I see it, you really, really want to upgrade for some reason, but just not enough to pay for it. Well, it sounds like upgrading isn't worth it to you.
Where's the problem here? It's not like they're disabling your computer all of a sudden. Just don't upgrade.