MySpace can now use some of the lawyers fees they saved to hire a nice bunch of debt collectors to go after him. If Wallace sticks his head up *anywhere* they'll find him and he'll lose pretty much everything he owns to pay the judgment - house, car, computer, etc.
The large sum pretty much means that no matter how much money he makes between now and then he stands to lose all of it the moment he's found.
It's a form of coercion though, and it's *far* more effective than physical restraint. I was in a cult for 3 years.. not something I'd want to repeat (and I'd agree there's a *huge* difference between a religion and a cult). It taught me just how easy it is to be manipulated.. half the people in there were either students or graduates - smart people, entirely locked into a system that was damn near impossible to get out of.
Unfortunately so few ISPs support SPF it's not reliable. I've published SPF records for years on all my domains.. OTOH for incoming it merely gets a spam score - when SPF is used it is alas sometimes misconfigured so bouncing on it has too many false positives.
There's a reason - such a scheme breaks many anti-spam measures and is a particularly poor way to do it.
I've seen such crap in my logs and didn't realize what it was.. it fails sender verification and gets dropped as spam anyway. Lying about who you are to a mailserver is not the way to solve spam.
For spam even a 5xx is wasted... spammers don't care. File it in a spam folder or simply drop it on the floor. I agree replying to it with a new message (which is what these misconfigured servers do) is utterly moronic. Personally I just report such servers as spammers. Automated ones, but spammers nontheless.
I rarely ever see it. Spammers normally use made up email addresses.. they're just using your domain name, so as long as your MTA is not allowing emails to arrive to nonexistant users you'll filter 95% of it as a part of normal operation.
Static Speed cameras are optical (they take two photos at a fixed interval and measure the distance you've travelled.. it's really simple and undefeatable), and there are mobile optical versions too.. they just switch technology.
btw. those 'jammers' are useless. By the time they detect the radar it's way too late.
Personally I don't find it intuitive at all to use more than one finger in gestures. eg. the iphone - I used the pinch thing once and abandoned it (the double click action is much better).. it's just feels like a totally unnatural thing to do.. Same with using two fingers to double click on the MBP... just not a natural way of thinking about it.
Clarification to that.. though it was more complex.
You can drink from the age of 5 in your own home. You can drink in a bar from 16, provided you have it with a meal. Not sure if a packet of crisps counts. You can drink in a bar from 18 without the meal.
The problem is we're scared to bring that up too loudly because we all know what the government would do - raise the age of consent to 18.
At 16 you can have sex, have a smoke afterwards.. even get married (but not drink at the reception - that's illegal).
Of course everyone ignores the law. When the law is stupid that tends to be what happens.. I was regularly drinking at 15 as were most of my peers... and I have no doubt the proliferation of webcams has allowed many under 18s to be filmed in, err, compromising positions.
Oh crap just read TFA. It was one of Blunkett's ideas. That guy makes hitler look like a liberal. Luckily he's gone now but we're still suffering from his total asshattery.
It won't.. the lords will block it and provided there's no media fuss the commons will simply forget about it.
They've had their headline.. tough on pornography etc. There are more pressing issues in the papers now (that austrian thing will tie up the newspapers for weeks).
You can't even consent to be photographed topless until 18, let alone videos of sex.
OTOH if you've seen any of the stuff flying around the net you'll know that nobody takes any notice of that law whatsoever. It only gets enforced if someone complains.
- Declare war (Helps if someone obligingly invades your territory eg. Falklands, but realy doesn't matter if it's real.. cf. war on drugs, war on terror, etc.) - Support a popular sports event (Olympics, World Cup). This can turn bad if you lose, though. - 'out' one of your opponents (doesn't matter if it's the same party) as being gay/lesbian, smoked weed as a student, shagged their secretary, accepted a bride. It does not matter if you are also doing these things.
Once it becomes (nearly) universally accepted that merely possessing pictures or video can be as harmful (or in your example, more harmful) as the actual actions therein depicted, it's easy to make the logical leap that other forms of content must be restricted as well.
They made that correlation with kiddie porn years ago.. you're way too late on that one.
Ouch. Aren't there legal limits to detention without trial in the US? I know in the UK they're trying to extend the limit to 42 days (from 28 days, which IMO is already way too long) by waving the 'terrorism' flag - they may get away with it too.
That law exists in the UK but it's not as all-encompasing as it seems. You can be convicted of that if you lie to the police thus hindering an investigation, or deliberately withhold information that you know that could solve a case (ie. protecting a criminal). It doesn't force you to answer questions or allow the police to go on fishing trips.
The US has a similar concept called Obstruction of Justice.
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Enjoy paying for all those peak rate calls to russia...
It would be so easy to bankcrupt a site that tried this (phone number generator, script) that no sane site owner would try it.
Hell, in a lot of countries now it's you don't even pay to send it on most packages.
MySpace can now use some of the lawyers fees they saved to hire a nice bunch of debt collectors to go after him. If Wallace sticks his head up *anywhere* they'll find him and he'll lose pretty much everything he owns to pay the judgment - house, car, computer, etc.
The large sum pretty much means that no matter how much money he makes between now and then he stands to lose all of it the moment he's found.
It's a form of coercion though, and it's *far* more effective than physical restraint. I was in a cult for 3 years.. not something I'd want to repeat (and I'd agree there's a *huge* difference between a religion and a cult). It taught me just how easy it is to be manipulated.. half the people in there were either students or graduates - smart people, entirely locked into a system that was damn near impossible to get out of.
Comms speed is measured in groups of 1000, data volume is measured in groups of 1024.. has always been so as far back as I cam remember.
Unfortunately so few ISPs support SPF it's not reliable. I've published SPF records for years on all my domains.. OTOH for incoming it merely gets a spam score - when SPF is used it is alas sometimes misconfigured so bouncing on it has too many false positives.
There's a reason - such a scheme breaks many anti-spam measures and is a particularly poor way to do it.
I've seen such crap in my logs and didn't realize what it was.. it fails sender verification and gets dropped as spam anyway. Lying about who you are to a mailserver is not the way to solve spam.
For spam even a 5xx is wasted... spammers don't care. File it in a spam folder or simply drop it on the floor. I agree replying to it with a new message (which is what these misconfigured servers do) is utterly moronic. Personally I just report such servers as spammers. Automated ones, but spammers nontheless.
I rarely ever see it. Spammers normally use made up email addresses.. they're just using your domain name, so as long as your MTA is not allowing emails to arrive to nonexistant users you'll filter 95% of it as a part of normal operation.
That's 4 busted, 1 plausible, 3 pass.
Not a good hit rate... but then it was never supposed to be - it's a TV programme.
Static Speed cameras are optical (they take two photos at a fixed interval and measure the distance you've travelled.. it's really simple and undefeatable), and there are mobile optical versions too.. they just switch technology.
btw. those 'jammers' are useless. By the time they detect the radar it's way too late.
Personally I don't find it intuitive at all to use more than one finger in gestures. eg. the iphone - I used the pinch thing once and abandoned it (the double click action is much better).. it's just feels like a totally unnatural thing to do.. Same with using two fingers to double click on the MBP... just not a natural way of thinking about it.
Clarification to that.. though it was more complex.
You can drink from the age of 5 in your own home.
You can drink in a bar from 16, provided you have it with a meal. Not sure if a packet of crisps counts.
You can drink in a bar from 18 without the meal.
The problem is we're scared to bring that up too loudly because we all know what the government would do - raise the age of consent to 18.
At 16 you can have sex, have a smoke afterwards.. even get married (but not drink at the reception - that's illegal).
Of course everyone ignores the law. When the law is stupid that tends to be what happens.. I was regularly drinking at 15 as were most of my peers... and I have no doubt the proliferation of webcams has allowed many under 18s to be filmed in, err, compromising positions.
Oh crap just read TFA. It was one of Blunkett's ideas. That guy makes hitler look like a liberal. Luckily he's gone now but we're still suffering from his total asshattery.
It won't.. the lords will block it and provided there's no media fuss the commons will simply forget about it.
They've had their headline.. tough on pornography etc. There are more pressing issues in the papers now (that austrian thing will tie up the newspapers for weeks).
17 aint kiddy porn, no matter how you cut it. I know the US has some odd laws but even they wouldn't call a 17 year old a child.
You can't even consent to be photographed topless until 18, let alone videos of sex.
OTOH if you've seen any of the stuff flying around the net you'll know that nobody takes any notice of that law whatsoever. It only gets enforced if someone complains.
Dammit.. typo of the century there. I meant bribe.
You forgot:
- Declare war (Helps if someone obligingly invades your territory eg. Falklands, but realy doesn't matter if it's real.. cf. war on drugs, war on terror, etc.)
- Support a popular sports event (Olympics, World Cup). This can turn bad if you lose, though.
- 'out' one of your opponents (doesn't matter if it's the same party) as being gay/lesbian, smoked weed as a student, shagged their secretary, accepted a bride. It does not matter if you are also doing these things.
Minor corrections.. it was multiplied by the number of high streets.
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Same bullshit, different number
Once it becomes (nearly) universally accepted that merely possessing pictures or video can be as harmful (or in your example, more harmful) as the actual actions therein depicted, it's easy to make the logical leap that other forms of content must be restricted as well.
They made that correlation with kiddie porn years ago.. you're way too late on that one.
murder implies premeditation and can't be a heat of the moment act by definition.
manslaughter is for those, and that carries a much lighter sentence (you can even get off if you can prove mental incompetence at the time).
Ouch. Aren't there legal limits to detention without trial in the US? I know in the UK they're trying to extend the limit to 42 days (from 28 days, which IMO is already way too long) by waving the 'terrorism' flag - they may get away with it too.
That law exists in the UK but it's not as all-encompasing as it seems. You can be convicted of that if you lie to the police thus hindering an investigation, or deliberately withhold information that you know that could solve a case (ie. protecting a criminal). It doesn't force you to answer questions or allow the police to go on fishing trips.
The US has a similar concept called Obstruction of Justice.
For a recent case see http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=479890&lng=1