That's not quite accurate. The morman church does keep their temple ordinances secret, but in my experience no one denies this. In fact, it's common knowledge and taught in Sunday school that these ordinances exist and that every member is expected to go through them as part of their preparation for adulthood and marriage. This isn't dependant on climbing some hierarchy. All you need to do is be in good standing with the church (which isn't difficult) and be old enough. BTW, any mormon who wears garments (the "magic underwear") has gone through the temple ordinances.
I disagree with the practice of keeping these a secret, and think it's one of the holdouts from when the mormon church was a lot more cultish than it is today, but this isn't some big secret that the church denies.
That is, unless you were talking about something other than the temple ordinances. If so please provide more information.
Disclaimer: I grew up in the LDS church but became atheist before I was old enough to go through the temple stuff.
The ISP I worked for just recently folded up due to AT&T's DSL pricing structure. The writing had been on the wall for years, but we hung on as long as we could.
Back in '99 Ameritech was our ILEC, and as they were preparing to roll out their DSL network they actually said that they wouldn't be competing in the DSL market themselves, but would instead do the wholesale side and have other ISPs do the internet services side. That was probably BS, but it didn't matter anyway because they were shortly bought by SBC.
SBC dragged their feet for years, with a very limited initial roll-out in our area. As of now there are still a number of remote terminals in our LATA that haven't been equipped with RDSLAMS, and it seems never will. SBC used their deployment schedule as a bargaining chip against the states that were doing things they didn't like, such as allowing communities to deploy their own telecom infrastructure.
Now AT&T is rolling out their new U-Verse fiber to the neighborhood service. Competing ISPs have no way to get this much faster service wholesale, and AT&T is actively pushing people to convert from their DSL to U-Verse. Our speculation is that no further DSL DSLAMS or RDSLAMS will be rolled out, and that their DSL network and support will continue to degrade. Their answer to any customer that complains will be to switch to U-Verse.
At the same time as the U-Verse roll-out they announced they will be raising the base circuit cost to ISPs by 50%. That was the nail in the coffin for us. The rate we paid for just the individual circuit was already about what the end-user could get the full service at the same speed directly from AT&T. That was before paying for the back-haul circuits to AT&T, our backbone charges, staff, equipment, and other facilities. As a result we had to price our DSL much higher than AT&T, and although our service and support was much better than AT&T's it was extremely difficult for customers to see beyond the bottom line (though many regretted it after it was too late).
SBC / AT&T has been lobbying hard to get out of the Telecomunications Act of 1996, especially the provision that they had to provide access to their DSL service. The first blow was back around 2001 IIRC when they managed to remove DSL as a tariffed product, so they could charge competing ISPs different rates than they charged their own ISP. The next blow was when they got the FCC to classify DSL (and future internet service offerings like U-Verse) as a data service in FCC Order 05-150, which completely removed the requirement for AT&T to provide ISPs wholesale DSL products. If it was politically feasible I'm sure AT&T would turn off every competing ISPs DSL right now, and it would be (mostly) legal to do so. Instead, though, it seems they are going to slowly phase out DSL by offering a faster service that they never had to allow ISPs to use, and to make the transition faster keep bumping up the wholesale rates until all the DSL providers are forced out of business.
I wish LinkLine Communications all the luck in this case. It's clear to anyone who has dealt with SBC / AT&T wholesale DSL that AT&T is doing what they can to push out the competing ISPs who use their network. I can't say I'm optimistic that they will win, or even if they do that it will do any good. The FCC and the state governments were bought and paid for a long time ago.
True, the worst thing that can happen is that your home directory is wiped out, but if you logged in and saw that all your files were gone you would immediately log off and log in as a different not infected user and could easily clean up your system, so the virus would have a very short time to spam the world or whatever it was released to do. So it wouldn't wipe out your files, but would instead try to hide, and it wouldn't have very many places to do so.
This is why using a system with clear privilege compartmentalization makes viruses much less of an issue. Once infected they are easier to detect and much, much easier to clean. Sure you can reinstall Linux if rooted, but you can almost as easily reinstall Windows. If the security model is set up correctly, though, normal use shouldn't put you at risk of having to reinstall your OS just to clean it up.
If the end user is the security risk they should be running in a mode that minimizes the risk to the total system. This is why a stock install of most Linux distributions *are* more secure than stock Windows distributions.
Just because sendmail, exim, and postfix don't adhere to the RFC doesn't mean that qmail shouldn't either. If the protocol needs to be changed, then change the protocol. Ignoring the protocol just because someone else already did just leads to problems down the road.
Like it or not, the protocol specifies that lines must end with CRLF. RFC 2821 says:
2.3.7 Lines
SMTP commands and, unless altered by a service extension, message
data, are transmitted in "lines". Lines consist of zero or more data
characters terminated by the sequence ASCII character "CR" (hex value
0D) followed immediately by ASCII character "LF" (hex value 0A).
This termination sequence is denoted as in this document.
Conforming implementations MUST NOT recognize or generate any other
character or character sequence as a line terminator. Limits MAY be
imposed on line lengths by servers (see section 4.5.3).
In addition, the appearance of "bare" "CR" or "LF" characters in text
(i.e., either without the other) has a long history of causing
problems in mail implementations and applications that use the mail
system as a tool. SMTP client implementations MUST NOT transmit
these characters except when they are intended as line terminators
and then MUST, as indicated above, transmit them only as a
sequence.
Of course they aren't going to let you stay connected 24/7, especially if they are small and watch their port / user ratio closely. Unless you pay them enough to cover the cost of the line and the equipmenent to terminiate it, they have no reason to provide you service.
I work for a smallish ISP which provides ISDN access. $25 for one channel, and $40 for two. Our costs for the line and equipment come out to a little under $100 a port. We do provide dedicated access, for a price that covers this type of service, and the local ISPs you've tried probably do too.
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That's not quite accurate. The morman church does keep their temple ordinances secret, but in my experience no one denies this. In fact, it's common knowledge and taught in Sunday school that these ordinances exist and that every member is expected to go through them as part of their preparation for adulthood and marriage. This isn't dependant on climbing some hierarchy. All you need to do is be in good standing with the church (which isn't difficult) and be old enough. BTW, any mormon who wears garments (the "magic underwear") has gone through the temple ordinances.
I disagree with the practice of keeping these a secret, and think it's one of the holdouts from when the mormon church was a lot more cultish than it is today, but this isn't some big secret that the church denies.
That is, unless you were talking about something other than the temple ordinances. If so please provide more information.
Disclaimer: I grew up in the LDS church but became atheist before I was old enough to go through the temple stuff.
The ISP I worked for just recently folded up due to AT&T's DSL pricing structure. The writing had been on the wall for years, but we hung on as long as we could.
Back in '99 Ameritech was our ILEC, and as they were preparing to roll out their DSL network they actually said that they wouldn't be competing in the DSL market themselves, but would instead do the wholesale side and have other ISPs do the internet services side. That was probably BS, but it didn't matter anyway because they were shortly bought by SBC.
SBC dragged their feet for years, with a very limited initial roll-out in our area. As of now there are still a number of remote terminals in our LATA that haven't been equipped with RDSLAMS, and it seems never will. SBC used their deployment schedule as a bargaining chip against the states that were doing things they didn't like, such as allowing communities to deploy their own telecom infrastructure.
Now AT&T is rolling out their new U-Verse fiber to the neighborhood service. Competing ISPs have no way to get this much faster service wholesale, and AT&T is actively pushing people to convert from their DSL to U-Verse. Our speculation is that no further DSL DSLAMS or RDSLAMS will be rolled out, and that their DSL network and support will continue to degrade. Their answer to any customer that complains will be to switch to U-Verse.
At the same time as the U-Verse roll-out they announced they will be raising the base circuit cost to ISPs by 50%. That was the nail in the coffin for us. The rate we paid for just the individual circuit was already about what the end-user could get the full service at the same speed directly from AT&T. That was before paying for the back-haul circuits to AT&T, our backbone charges, staff, equipment, and other facilities. As a result we had to price our DSL much higher than AT&T, and although our service and support was much better than AT&T's it was extremely difficult for customers to see beyond the bottom line (though many regretted it after it was too late).
SBC / AT&T has been lobbying hard to get out of the Telecomunications Act of 1996, especially the provision that they had to provide access to their DSL service. The first blow was back around 2001 IIRC when they managed to remove DSL as a tariffed product, so they could charge competing ISPs different rates than they charged their own ISP. The next blow was when they got the FCC to classify DSL (and future internet service offerings like U-Verse) as a data service in FCC Order 05-150, which completely removed the requirement for AT&T to provide ISPs wholesale DSL products. If it was politically feasible I'm sure AT&T would turn off every competing ISPs DSL right now, and it would be (mostly) legal to do so. Instead, though, it seems they are going to slowly phase out DSL by offering a faster service that they never had to allow ISPs to use, and to make the transition faster keep bumping up the wholesale rates until all the DSL providers are forced out of business.
I wish LinkLine Communications all the luck in this case. It's clear to anyone who has dealt with SBC / AT&T wholesale DSL that AT&T is doing what they can to push out the competing ISPs who use their network. I can't say I'm optimistic that they will win, or even if they do that it will do any good. The FCC and the state governments were bought and paid for a long time ago.
True, the worst thing that can happen is that your home directory is wiped out, but if you logged in and saw that all your files were gone you would immediately log off and log in as a different not infected user and could easily clean up your system, so the virus would have a very short time to spam the world or whatever it was released to do. So it wouldn't wipe out your files, but would instead try to hide, and it wouldn't have very many places to do so.
This is why using a system with clear privilege compartmentalization makes viruses much less of an issue. Once infected they are easier to detect and much, much easier to clean. Sure you can reinstall Linux if rooted, but you can almost as easily reinstall Windows. If the security model is set up correctly, though, normal use shouldn't put you at risk of having to reinstall your OS just to clean it up.
If the end user is the security risk they should be running in a mode that minimizes the risk to the total system. This is why a stock install of most Linux distributions *are* more secure than stock Windows distributions.
Just because sendmail, exim, and postfix don't adhere to the RFC doesn't mean that qmail shouldn't either. If the protocol needs to be changed, then change the protocol. Ignoring the protocol just because someone else already did just leads to problems down the road.
Like it or not, the protocol specifies that lines must end with CRLF. RFC 2821 says:
2.3.7 Lines
SMTP commands and, unless altered by a service extension, message
data, are transmitted in "lines". Lines consist of zero or more data
characters terminated by the sequence ASCII character "CR" (hex value
0D) followed immediately by ASCII character "LF" (hex value 0A).
This termination sequence is denoted as in this document.
Conforming implementations MUST NOT recognize or generate any other
character or character sequence as a line terminator. Limits MAY be
imposed on line lengths by servers (see section 4.5.3).
In addition, the appearance of "bare" "CR" or "LF" characters in text
(i.e., either without the other) has a long history of causing
problems in mail implementations and applications that use the mail
system as a tool. SMTP client implementations MUST NOT transmit
these characters except when they are intended as line terminators
and then MUST, as indicated above, transmit them only as a
sequence.
So the person you're cheating on doesn't see or get the calls from the person you're cheating with.
Neteller reached a settlement with the DOJ and is paying people back. I received my check months ago and it cleared.
Tell your buddy to request his cashout and maybe he'll pay you back.
Of course they aren't going to let you stay connected 24/7, especially if they are small and watch their port / user ratio closely. Unless you pay them enough to cover the cost of the line and the equipmenent to terminiate it, they have no reason to provide you service.
I work for a smallish ISP which provides ISDN access. $25 for one channel, and $40 for two. Our costs for the line and equipment come out to a little under $100 a port. We do provide dedicated access, for a price that covers this type of service, and the local ISPs you've tried probably do too.