For 20 years of occasionally losing sleep and mucho work time to dealing with the various virii that have popped up on your shoddily-secured operating system. I'm certain we're in for at least 20 more years while we await your demise. It'll be slow in coming but sure.
Adding to this, Chinese gold farmers have this nasty habit of ninja looting the blue and purple items if you're not set to master loot. I can't tell you how many times I've grouped with someone who obviously didn't speak English, who hit need of the first blue item that pops up, then ungrouped and hearthed immediately.
Sorry, but my opinion of non-English-speakers is pretty well set in stone. They suck.
Based upon my logs and those of two other machines that I do mail admin for, I'm not seeing that at all. If anything, there are more infected Winboxen out there than ever before, spewing tons of trash, and it's usually the Russians, Soloway, or some mysterious spammer hosted in a block of Chinese servers, all sending via these compromised Winboxen. If anything, my numbers are down at home, though that's because I can be a bit more restrictive about my firewall rules. Spamassassin is doing a very good job at filtering a large majority of this drek.
Children's Email Address Registry and had a rough time. It's buried a few layers deep from the main michigan.gov site. It's no wonder there are so few email addresses registered when it's not well-publicized or noticeably posted and easy to find.
are being tossed right out the window. We're being conditioned to be silent sheep, fat for the slaughter on too much food and television.
Kinda cool, the power you can weild as a University administrator, silence your critics by taking away everything good they've worked their ass off for.
Alan Ralsky Scott Richter Alexy Panov Alex Blood Robert Soloway
and the rest of the pinheads listed on the Spamhaus Registry of Known Spam Operations? Most of the stuff that I'm seeing is from Panov and Blood, with some dribblings from the rest on my server and the LUG server that I oversee. Shut this group of idiots down and I might see some peace and quiet for a change.
I keep wondering where I can find one of these jobs where management is open enough to let the staff have fun. Everywhere I go, including working for a friend's business, the people running the company have been stuffed shirts with no sense of humor and no concept of the word "fun." Then again, living in the auto manufacturing capital of the world, where just-in-time practices keeps everyone on a razor-thin edge of keeping or losing a job due to a scheduling fuck-up, it's no huge surprise that no one can allow fun.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Too bad not many employers realize this.
I personally was hoping one of the terms was that Ballmer be prohibited from throwing any more chairs. He really needs to get a handle on that temper. One day, he will die of a heart attack if he keeps that shit up.
Yep, I call bullshit. I'm still seeing spammers hitting the mail servers at home, for work, and for the LUG whose server I admin. It's not the same old spammers, but it's mostly Russians and Chinese, which really is kinda the same, when you consider that the American spammers have all outsourced and moved their operations offshore to these two countries, both of which have lax laws re: spam that are never enforced. The only thing that's improved in my situation is that I've become more familiar with filtering methods, so I don't see as much of the spam. I'm still seeing bounces from Earthlink's idiotic confirmation crap, which it sends forged addresses in spam runs. I continue to have my vanity domain forged in spammer's drek, so I'm seeing the backscatter from that.
Sure, CAN-SPAM has been successful in that it's shut down Scott Richter and a few other players, but has it quelled the problem entirely? Not by a long shot.
Yet another fine reason to avoid using proprietary software made by a criminal monopoly. Can't provide the legal specifications for all the code you're providing. How wonderful.
What's to learn? OOo is so much like the Monopoly Office suite that there's not much to learn, really, so the point is moot. If the monopoly would listen to their customers and simply implement support for OpenDoc in their products, it won't be a problem, will it?
In a rare display of indignation, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly demanded an explanation from Microsoft's lawyers and told them, "This should not be happening."
Well, if the Justice Department had done it's job, this criminal monopoly would not be in existence to perpetrate such acts. Oh, and by the way and while you're at it Judge K-K, would you mind pokin' yer nose into the Massachussets legislature and ask a few questions about why there's a sudden surge of political unrest regarding the MA State IT department adopting OpenDoc Format over Monopoly Office Suite product formats, even though this is "an administrative matter that's not subject to legislative proceedings?" Maybe a little behind the scenes political brib... ahem, er.. manip... no, lobbying is taking place on behalf of said criminal monopoly?
Am I reading you right? You're saying that the only outfit that should bear the costs of these problems is the ISP, correct? And Joe Consumer doesn't have to or shouldn't have to take up his fair share? It shouldn't cost him money?
What you fail to see is that spam costs money, real money, for ISPs and end users alike. I can imagine that my internet account would be tons cheaper if the ISP didn't have to pay for technical solutions to a social problem.
For the majority of individuals, I maintain my point that it's a worn-out excuse.
Okay, here's another hypothetical for you...
You own a manufacturing company and employ 10 individuals in the administrative and sales departments. Your employees receive anywhere from 5 to 50 spam emails a day, and they depend on email to get their jobs done, taking orders and communicating together. Each one of these employees has an email monitor on their desktop, which lets them know when an incoming email has arrived, and it is each employee's duty to respond to email ASAP.
Now, how much time and money is wasted in this scenario, both in terms of lost productivity and the costs of storage for the spam email for each user?
Another one...
You live out in the middle of nowhere, for example's sake let's say a little town just north of Gaylord, Michigan. The best internet access you can get is dial-up on a 56k line. Unfortunately, in order to keep his costs down, the ISP has to place a disk quota on each user's email account, say only 2 meg, a reasonable amount for most folks if they only receive text and only a few images. Mr. Spammer gets ahold of our user's email address because some idiot starts forwarding it around in the silly little joke emails, and sells his address to every spammer he knows. Pretty soon, our unwitting user is receiving enough mail to fulfill his quota twice over within a week.
Now how much time and money are wasted for this individual? For the ISP that has to store this trash?
Yes, and junk mail it also costs money to send rather than receive. Email is the other way around.
This is just a worn-out excuse. I have never heard of any individual who was actually damaged financially by spam. Unless you have dialup, it makes no significant difference whatsoever. The spam messages I receive are so pitifully small that it would take hundreds of them per second to make any significant dent in my bandwidth. Do they send you several page emails complete with 10 meg uncompressed photograph attachments? If so, then I would have a much easier time seeing your point.
The real cost that spam causes individuals is time, not bandwidth. And if you spend some of that time setting up a filtering system, less time will be wasted reading and deleting spam. Further, the USPS is a government agency so you indirectly pay to receive snail mail through taxes. Yes, it's mostly self-sufficient, so the cost to you is very small, but the cost to receive spam is also very small.
You've never run a mailserver that handled lots of mail for lots of people, have you? You've never been up in the middle of the night, cleaning the spool directory because some idiot spammer decided to email 15 different offers to a majority of your userbase, which then overran the available storage on that server, have you?
Sure, it doesn't cost money or waste time. It doesn't drive up bandwidth costs for people running large mail servers at all. It doesn't snow in December in Michigan, either.
4. Most ads are flash-based, which makes them flip and spin and wiggle, which is irritating, distracting, cluttering, etc.
Yeah, I know, it's an extension of 2. But it's the main reason I block ads, because they distract me from the content of the site I'm surfing. Of course, that's their intent, to distract me enough to consider looking at the ad, but it usually only causes me to trigger the adblocker, certainly not to buy anything.
It would be wonderful if what was advertised on websites was truly relevant, but I find that the ads are rarely for anything I'd ever consider buying, let alone have any use for.
Why should Microsoft build applications for an operating system directly competing with their own? Heck, I wouldn't even build notepad for Linux if I thought it would cause people to leave my main product.
Because your customers are asking for it. And the customer is always right.
OpenOffice.org is a sufficient replacement for MS Office, so the real question is, why bother with the MS products?
Good point. Another good point to consider is that when they do go and look around and start mining all this material, who's going to say it's safe for import to Earth? We have no idea if there is life on Mars, but I'd bet my slim fortune that if there is life on Mars, it's microbial and probably not too friendly with our own biological systems. For all we know, it may even be downright dangerous, highly infectious, and could wipe out all life on Earth.
Who's going to be in charge of ensuring the safety of our planet when these yahoos go out and start dragging rocks home? Sure, Moon rocks were brought back to Earth without any grave consequences since the Moon is a sterile cinder floating in vacuum, but we just don't know enough about Martian biology to start considering bringing back *anything*.
Knowing what I know about how private industries operate, I wouldn't trust them to ensure our planetary ecosystem's safety.
Functional medicine is defined as medicine that is applied to the patient as a whole being with multiple inter-related systems, not just a batch of symptoms to toss therapies at. Doctors practicing this take into account gut health, endocrinology, and all of the body systems as a whole, and try to figure out the actual root of problems rather than toss band-aids and aspirin around.
No, it's not against the law to practice medicine in New Jersey. However, it is against the law to issue prescriptions for patients with whom you've never had personal contact and on whom you've never performed an exam.
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For 20 years of occasionally losing sleep and mucho work time to dealing with the various virii that have popped up on your shoddily-secured operating system. I'm certain we're in for at least 20 more years while we await your demise. It'll be slow in coming but sure.
Adding to this, Chinese gold farmers have this nasty habit of ninja looting the blue and purple items if you're not set to master loot. I can't tell you how many times I've grouped with someone who obviously didn't speak English, who hit need of the first blue item that pops up, then ungrouped and hearthed immediately.
Sorry, but my opinion of non-English-speakers is pretty well set in stone. They suck.
Based upon my logs and those of two other machines that I do mail admin for, I'm not seeing that at all. If anything, there are more infected Winboxen out there than ever before, spewing tons of trash, and it's usually the Russians, Soloway, or some mysterious spammer hosted in a block of Chinese servers, all sending via these compromised Winboxen. If anything, my numbers are down at home, though that's because I can be a bit more restrictive about my firewall rules. Spamassassin is doing a very good job at filtering a large majority of this drek.
Children's Email Address Registry and had a rough time. It's buried a few layers deep from the main michigan.gov site. It's no wonder there are so few email addresses registered when it's not well-publicized or noticeably posted and easy to find.
are being tossed right out the window. We're being conditioned to be silent sheep, fat for the slaughter on too much food and television.
Kinda cool, the power you can weild as a University administrator, silence your critics by taking away everything good they've worked their ass off for.
will they end up suing:
Alan Ralsky
Scott Richter
Alexy Panov
Alex Blood
Robert Soloway
and the rest of the pinheads listed on the Spamhaus Registry of Known Spam Operations? Most of the stuff that I'm seeing is from Panov and Blood, with some dribblings from the rest on my server and the LUG server that I oversee. Shut this group of idiots down and I might see some peace and quiet for a change.
I keep wondering where I can find one of these jobs where management is open enough to let the staff have fun. Everywhere I go, including working for a friend's business, the people running the company have been stuffed shirts with no sense of humor and no concept of the word "fun." Then again, living in the auto manufacturing capital of the world, where just-in-time practices keeps everyone on a razor-thin edge of keeping or losing a job due to a scheduling fuck-up, it's no huge surprise that no one can allow fun.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Too bad not many employers realize this.
I personally was hoping one of the terms was that Ballmer be prohibited from throwing any more chairs. He really needs to get a handle on that temper. One day, he will die of a heart attack if he keeps that shit up.
Yep, I call bullshit. I'm still seeing spammers hitting the mail servers at home, for work, and for the LUG whose server I admin. It's not the same old spammers, but it's mostly Russians and Chinese, which really is kinda the same, when you consider that the American spammers have all outsourced and moved their operations offshore to these two countries, both of which have lax laws re: spam that are never enforced. The only thing that's improved in my situation is that I've become more familiar with filtering methods, so I don't see as much of the spam. I'm still seeing bounces from Earthlink's idiotic confirmation crap, which it sends forged addresses in spam runs. I continue to have my vanity domain forged in spammer's drek, so I'm seeing the backscatter from that.
Sure, CAN-SPAM has been successful in that it's shut down Scott Richter and a few other players, but has it quelled the problem entirely? Not by a long shot.
Amen. Neither is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and I'm betting His Noodly Goodness had something to do with it all.
One simple factor that they've failed to take into account:
Most music today just plain old sucks. I wouldn't spend a plug nickel for a CD fulla the crap you hear on the radio lately.
Yet another fine reason to avoid using proprietary software made by a criminal monopoly. Can't provide the legal specifications for all the code you're providing. How wonderful.
Smell that? That's sarcasm.
exactly how?? This is typical Monolith Quality Assurance for ya.
Microsoft actually listens to customers? Will wonders never cease...
What's to learn? OOo is so much like the Monopoly Office suite that there's not much to learn, really, so the point is moot. If the monopoly would listen to their customers and simply implement support for OpenDoc in their products, it won't be a problem, will it?
Well, if the Justice Department had done it's job, this criminal monopoly would not be in existence to perpetrate such acts. Oh, and by the way and while you're at it Judge K-K, would you mind pokin' yer nose into the Massachussets legislature and ask a few questions about why there's a sudden surge of political unrest regarding the MA State IT department adopting OpenDoc Format over Monopoly Office Suite product formats, even though this is "an administrative matter that's not subject to legislative proceedings?" Maybe a little behind the scenes political brib... ahem, er.. manip... no, lobbying is taking place on behalf of said criminal monopoly?
Thanks.
Am I reading you right? You're saying that the only outfit that should bear the costs of these problems is the ISP, correct? And Joe Consumer doesn't have to or shouldn't have to take up his fair share? It shouldn't cost him money?
What you fail to see is that spam costs money, real money, for ISPs and end users alike. I can imagine that my internet account would be tons cheaper if the ISP didn't have to pay for technical solutions to a social problem.
Okay, here's another hypothetical for you...
You own a manufacturing company and employ 10 individuals in the administrative and sales departments. Your employees receive anywhere from 5 to 50 spam emails a day, and they depend on email to get their jobs done, taking orders and communicating together. Each one of these employees has an email monitor on their desktop, which lets them know when an incoming email has arrived, and it is each employee's duty to respond to email ASAP.
Now, how much time and money is wasted in this scenario, both in terms of lost productivity and the costs of storage for the spam email for each user?
Another one...
You live out in the middle of nowhere, for example's sake let's say a little town just north of Gaylord, Michigan. The best internet access you can get is dial-up on a 56k line. Unfortunately, in order to keep his costs down, the ISP has to place a disk quota on each user's email account, say only 2 meg, a reasonable amount for most folks if they only receive text and only a few images. Mr. Spammer gets ahold of our user's email address because some idiot starts forwarding it around in the silly little joke emails, and sells his address to every spammer he knows. Pretty soon, our unwitting user is receiving enough mail to fulfill his quota twice over within a week.
Now how much time and money are wasted for this individual? For the ISP that has to store this trash?
You've never run a mailserver that handled lots of mail for lots of people, have you? You've never been up in the middle of the night, cleaning the spool directory because some idiot spammer decided to email 15 different offers to a majority of your userbase, which then overran the available storage on that server, have you?
Sure, it doesn't cost money or waste time. It doesn't drive up bandwidth costs for people running large mail servers at all. It doesn't snow in December in Michigan, either.
You forgot some reasons:
4. Most ads are flash-based, which makes them flip and spin and wiggle, which is irritating, distracting, cluttering, etc.
Yeah, I know, it's an extension of 2. But it's the main reason I block ads, because they distract me from the content of the site I'm surfing. Of course, that's their intent, to distract me enough to consider looking at the ad, but it usually only causes me to trigger the adblocker, certainly not to buy anything.
It would be wonderful if what was advertised on websites was truly relevant, but I find that the ads are rarely for anything I'd ever consider buying, let alone have any use for.
Because your customers are asking for it. And the customer is always right.
OpenOffice.org is a sufficient replacement for MS Office, so the real question is, why bother with the MS products?
So I suppose I should be incarcerated and fined for buying my 15-y/o that copy of World of Warcraft, huh?
Fuck the asshole legislators who think up this idiocy.
Good point. Another good point to consider is that when they do go and look around and start mining all this material, who's going to say it's safe for import to Earth? We have no idea if there is life on Mars, but I'd bet my slim fortune that if there is life on Mars, it's microbial and probably not too friendly with our own biological systems. For all we know, it may even be downright dangerous, highly infectious, and could wipe out all life on Earth.
Who's going to be in charge of ensuring the safety of our planet when these yahoos go out and start dragging rocks home? Sure, Moon rocks were brought back to Earth without any grave consequences since the Moon is a sterile cinder floating in vacuum, but we just don't know enough about Martian biology to start considering bringing back *anything*.
Knowing what I know about how private industries operate, I wouldn't trust them to ensure our planetary ecosystem's safety.
Or start practicing medicine like this:
http://worldhealth.net/
http://functionalmedicine.org/
Functional medicine is defined as medicine that is applied to the patient as a whole being with multiple inter-related systems, not just a batch of symptoms to toss therapies at. Doctors practicing this take into account gut health, endocrinology, and all of the body systems as a whole, and try to figure out the actual root of problems rather than toss band-aids and aspirin around.
No, it's not against the law to practice medicine in New Jersey. However, it is against the law to issue prescriptions for patients with whom you've never had personal contact and on whom you've never performed an exam.
Huge difference.