The best way to stop this, is on the ISP end. The article discusses how many comprimised PC's around the world are sending out the spam for many of these groups. Here at our office, (small community college with about 200 PC's) only the SMTP servers are allowed to send outgoing port 25 through the router, all others are dropped and logged (port 135 too). This makes us a nice net neighbor, and allows us to quickly identify a machine that has been comprimised with a virus. If more ISP's added these 2 lines to their router access lists, the amount of crap would drop a huge amount.
I'm not blind, by my co-workers little boy is. I've spent some time with him, trying to get a 10 year old blind boy on the internet. That is difficult enough.. The real bitch is that many government offices, local, state, and fed, only produce PDF's for things. That is their standard. There are ways to convert PDF's, mostly involving linux, an OS that I love, but Linux is definately not set up for the blind. Now, try to imagine researching laws on discrimination of the handicapped, when all the government docs are published in PDF, which is not handicapped accessible.
My main point I'm trying to make is that we have other tools to do it, why choose PDF? Take a few minutes, and do some reading on accessability standards for the web, and then look at some sites that follow them. For example, OSU I'm not a student there, but I do do some research on their site occasionally. They have been pushing accessability on everything pretty hard at that college. That web page is so much easier for everyone to navigate now, becuase it isn't designed with just marketing in mind, but with everyone. It loads faster, less crap, more consistant, and every image has an ALT tag description. by making it accessable, it works easier for everyone. And the hard part for them was just changing the mindsets of people to consider these things.
PDF files are great in some applications, such as the manual for my motorcycle. But a press release as a PDF? Why not just post a 5MB flash as your homepage, so that it looks the way you want it to? You could, but its waaaay overkill..
Because they don't like handicapped people, especially the blind.. I recently attended a seminar on web access for the disabled, and it was an eye opener. There is no good tools (screenreaders) to read PDF's, and adobe has had their project on the back burner for the last few years.. I have now dropped most of the PDF use at our company.
Dell makes an Optiplex line of desktops, which are garunteed to be compatible with each other for at least 1 year. I have some Dell Optiplex GX260's that were bought a year apart, and had previously met with our dell rep and set what would be our default workstation config. The only thing different between these computers bought 1 year apart is the processor speed. Even the Front Side bus is the same. Also, the Optiplex line is tool-les, you can crack it open and swap the hard drive with your bare hands. I use these desktops all the time, I have three models, So I have to keep around 3 ghost images, but its not to bad. On a company, they can probably cylce their ~180 machines on a stricter schedule than the small community college I work for can afford.
no, the threat of getting sued is often enough alone. Most small businesses can't afford the lawyers fees, they just fold up.. Its really a pathetic thing.. Big company (or rich person) sues a small company over something they wouldn't win. Small company knows they will win, but that it will cost $x amount of dollars for a lawyer, and the company can't afford to pay $x. So, they give in, and the evil people win, without having to go to court, because it costs a fortune to prove you are right. Why can't we go to a loser-pays system here in the US??
First rule of driving in Southern California. On the highways, cut off the sports cars.. their breaks are better and their owners are more motivated to miss you!;)
Actually, it was 4 or 6, the memorial plaque is about 5 miles from here (Klamath Falls, OR, the land that god forgot!), in a park up in the woods. There are aparently still some nasty gashes in the big tree from the shrapnel. A family went out for a picnic, and the kids found something neat, and playing with it caused it to go off.
Keep in mind that thousands of these were launched, and only a few hundred were found, many of them are probably still sitting around on the west coast..
There was also a japanese plane that launced from a sub, and tried to drop incediaries in the forest of the oregon coast mountain range. Of course, forest fires don't happen in Oregon in winter, we don't tan, we rust!!
Oh, and a torpedo was launched from a japanese sub at Camp Rilea (Spelling??, now a national gaurd base) but they didn't take into account the slow slope of the beach, and the torpedo just ran up on the beach and never went off.
There really generic bandages, but I call em that, Oh, and I have a "Swiss-army" knife. Who the Hell Cares?? My aunt has AOL, ask her, she has the "internet at home"
Most new music is just a collection of random songs. Get a new CD, and there is no real continuity to the album. I ususally shuffle these songs, so I get a mix of different music. The difference lies in other albums. Take bands like Pink Floyd, or Dream Theater, these bands didn't write songs (in my humble opinion) they write albums. The songs flow from one to the next, and sometimes, it is hard to tell when the CD has changed tracks. Most of these CD's are my favorittes, and the ones I actually buy at the store. I think that developing Albums, instead of songs, has become a bit of a lost art in music production.
And talk about lawsuit material. Someone gets hurt, but can't call 911 on their cell phone because it is being jammed by this (or a similar) device.
What happens if there is an emergency, and you can't use your cell phone to call 911 because the nearest cell tower is overloaded/down for maint/broken? Do you sue the phone company? NO, hell, in my small town full of old buildings and hills, there are huge "radio shadows" where your cell phone just won't work. Theres schools and businesses there. ("Think of the children") Yet when car accidents happen, someone still calls 911. They might run to a payhphone, or inside a business and ask to use the phone for an emergency, but the ambulance does in fact show up! Cell phones are a convienience, just like a car. People assosiate both with "needs" and "rights."
I think the majority of the charge backs take the form of "No honey, I don't know where that $80 charge from HotDicksAreUs.com is for, someone must have stolen our credit card info, I'll refuse payment right away" followed by a quick kicking of the DVD further under the bed.
I, for one, will not be sharing my bandwidth for something that should be provided by the file's source
So, if for example, I write this need little GPL'd app that everyone loves, and release it as opensource, I should be responsible for hosting the file server for everyone? What if hundreds of thousands of people use it everyday, and a new patch comes out. Should I have to buy a T-1 (or something bigger) that costs an arm and a leg, to provide the file patch for a free program to others with no income for me? Or should I ask others to help out with their extra bandwith, and get a few seeders out there with bittorrent and run the tracker with the DSL line i have. I could pay $20 a month for a metered tiered connection in my town, but I pay $50 for an "unlimited" (notice the quotes). I know that not everywhere has these kinds of services, but you don't have to leave the torrent open forever either, or just leave the upload at 1k/s or something. It might slow down your download, but your still going to get access to the file..
If the stations are so unpredictable, perhaps you shouldn't listen to them. You have the greatest power in the universe, the power to take your money elsewhere. Radio lives off of advertising, advertising is based on market-share/listeners. Go listen to another station. Like another one of these replies, I also stopped listening to my favoritte station when howard stern replaced my favoritte rock morning show. Its not that I was offended, it was just that it was dumb. (hey, lets see if we can offend more people than we did yesterday). No local news, no music, same shit, different day.
I knew the F-word about 22 years ago, (I was 3!), do i use it all the time, NO, I would get grounded if I used that language as a child. At five, my favoritte song was one my dad had, George Thorogood's "One Burbon, one scotch, one beer" Am I an alcoholic? no, I might have 2 beers a week. I grew up watching horror movies and violence and sex on TV. Am i a murderer? no, but the temptation grows everyday that people cut me off while yakking on cellphones. How on earth could I have been constantly exposed to all these topics and not embraced them? my parents tought me the difference between right and wrong, and gave me a strict set of morals. They taught me by example. (I can't count the number of FUCKING parents i've seen that scold their child for swearing, when the child is just repeating what the parent said.)
Personally, I don't like to use the F-Word very often, and am dissapointed that it is used so much in everyday converstation. It is not because it offends me, its so that when I do swear at someone, it has much more of a "shock" affect, they know i'm pissed.
I couldn't agree more. Why the hell are you paying for work stuff? Its using your minutes, (think dollars) to monitor your companies equipment. Why don't you just buy your own computer and paper and pens for your desk too?
In many years of research, a NASA scientist at Cape Canaveral has found proof that neither the hydrogen in the hull nor a bomb was to blame, but the fabric of the Hindenburg's outer skin and a new protective coating. A single spark of static electricity was enough to make it burn like dry leaves.
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The best way to stop this, is on the ISP end. The article discusses how many comprimised PC's around the world are sending out the spam for many of these groups. Here at our office, (small community college with about 200 PC's) only the SMTP servers are allowed to send outgoing port 25 through the router, all others are dropped and logged (port 135 too). This makes us a nice net neighbor, and allows us to quickly identify a machine that has been comprimised with a virus. If more ISP's added these 2 lines to their router access lists, the amount of crap would drop a huge amount.
My main point I'm trying to make is that we have other tools to do it, why choose PDF? Take a few minutes, and do some reading on accessability standards for the web, and then look at some sites that follow them. For example, OSU I'm not a student there, but I do do some research on their site occasionally. They have been pushing accessability on everything pretty hard at that college. That web page is so much easier for everyone to navigate now, becuase it isn't designed with just marketing in mind, but with everyone. It loads faster, less crap, more consistant, and every image has an ALT tag description. by making it accessable, it works easier for everyone. And the hard part for them was just changing the mindsets of people to consider these things.
PDF files are great in some applications, such as the manual for my motorcycle. But a press release as a PDF? Why not just post a 5MB flash as your homepage, so that it looks the way you want it to? You could, but its waaaay overkill..
Because they don't like handicapped people, especially the blind.. I recently attended a seminar on web access for the disabled, and it was an eye opener. There is no good tools (screenreaders) to read PDF's, and adobe has had their project on the back burner for the last few years.. I have now dropped most of the PDF use at our company.
Seriously, It's only 1 down, but thats a start... Maybe this will have a chilling effect on the "Industry"
Dell makes an Optiplex line of desktops, which are garunteed to be compatible with each other for at least 1 year. I have some Dell Optiplex GX260's that were bought a year apart, and had previously met with our dell rep and set what would be our default workstation config. The only thing different between these computers bought 1 year apart is the processor speed. Even the Front Side bus is the same. Also, the Optiplex line is tool-les, you can crack it open and swap the hard drive with your bare hands. I use these desktops all the time, I have three models, So I have to keep around 3 ghost images, but its not to bad. On a company, they can probably cylce their ~180 machines on a stricter schedule than the small community college I work for can afford.
I cried when one of the ewoks died, of course, I was 7 or so..
Yes, just look at Corel...
With that much processing power, they should also have a chess program that is impossible to beat...
no, the threat of getting sued is often enough alone. Most small businesses can't afford the lawyers fees, they just fold up.. Its really a pathetic thing.. Big company (or rich person) sues a small company over something they wouldn't win. Small company knows they will win, but that it will cost $x amount of dollars for a lawyer, and the company can't afford to pay $x. So, they give in, and the evil people win, without having to go to court, because it costs a fortune to prove you are right. Why can't we go to a loser-pays system here in the US??
so what your saying is that:
"In orwells 1984, TV records you!!" hmm, that sounds familiar..
First rule of driving in Southern California. On the highways, cut off the sports cars.. their breaks are better and their owners are more motivated to miss you! ;)
Keep in mind that thousands of these were launched, and only a few hundred were found, many of them are probably still sitting around on the west coast..
There was also a japanese plane that launced from a sub, and tried to drop incediaries in the forest of the oregon coast mountain range. Of course, forest fires don't happen in Oregon in winter, we don't tan, we rust!!
Oh, and a torpedo was launched from a japanese sub at Camp Rilea (Spelling??, now a national gaurd base) but they didn't take into account the slow slope of the beach, and the torpedo just ran up on the beach and never went off.
There really generic bandages, but I call em that, Oh, and I have a "Swiss-army" knife. Who the Hell Cares?? My aunt has AOL, ask her, she has the "internet at home"
Most new music is just a collection of random songs. Get a new CD, and there is no real continuity to the album. I ususally shuffle these songs, so I get a mix of different music. The difference lies in other albums. Take bands like Pink Floyd, or Dream Theater, these bands didn't write songs (in my humble opinion) they write albums. The songs flow from one to the next, and sometimes, it is hard to tell when the CD has changed tracks. Most of these CD's are my favorittes, and the ones I actually buy at the store. I think that developing Albums, instead of songs, has become a bit of a lost art in music production.
If i'm too drunk to walk home, I can't even hit the little buttons on my cell in the correct order, how the hell is that going to work?
What happens if there is an emergency, and you can't use your cell phone to call 911 because the nearest cell tower is overloaded/down for maint/broken? Do you sue the phone company? NO, hell, in my small town full of old buildings and hills, there are huge "radio shadows" where your cell phone just won't work. Theres schools and businesses there. ("Think of the children") Yet when car accidents happen, someone still calls 911. They might run to a payhphone, or inside a business and ask to use the phone for an emergency, but the ambulance does in fact show up! Cell phones are a convienience, just like a car. People assosiate both with "needs" and "rights."
Perhaps Ashcroft's next crusade will be against gluttony?? He doesn't exactly have the body of the republican govenor of California..
I think the majority of the charge backs take the form of "No honey, I don't know where that $80 charge from HotDicksAreUs.com is for, someone must have stolen our credit card info, I'll refuse payment right away" followed by a quick kicking of the DVD further under the bed.
So, if for example, I write this need little GPL'd app that everyone loves, and release it as opensource, I should be responsible for hosting the file server for everyone? What if hundreds of thousands of people use it everyday, and a new patch comes out. Should I have to buy a T-1 (or something bigger) that costs an arm and a leg, to provide the file patch for a free program to others with no income for me? Or should I ask others to help out with their extra bandwith, and get a few seeders out there with bittorrent and run the tracker with the DSL line i have. I could pay $20 a month for a metered tiered connection in my town, but I pay $50 for an "unlimited" (notice the quotes). I know that not everywhere has these kinds of services, but you don't have to leave the torrent open forever either, or just leave the upload at 1k/s or something. It might slow down your download, but your still going to get access to the file..
Hmm, I was wondering why SCO's legal practices seemed distantly familiar.. thanks..
Not a CEO because you were wrong, or because your publicly admitting it??
Pay your SCO Fee, they throw the computer in for free!!!
I knew the F-word about 22 years ago, (I was 3!), do i use it all the time, NO, I would get grounded if I used that language as a child. At five, my favoritte song was one my dad had, George Thorogood's "One Burbon, one scotch, one beer" Am I an alcoholic? no, I might have 2 beers a week. I grew up watching horror movies and violence and sex on TV. Am i a murderer? no, but the temptation grows everyday that people cut me off while yakking on cellphones. How on earth could I have been constantly exposed to all these topics and not embraced them? my parents tought me the difference between right and wrong, and gave me a strict set of morals. They taught me by example. (I can't count the number of FUCKING parents i've seen that scold their child for swearing, when the child is just repeating what the parent said.)
Personally, I don't like to use the F-Word very often, and am dissapointed that it is used so much in everyday converstation. It is not because it offends me, its so that when I do swear at someone, it has much more of a "shock" affect, they know i'm pissed.
I couldn't agree more. Why the hell are you paying for work stuff? Its using your minutes, (think dollars) to monitor your companies equipment. Why don't you just buy your own computer and paper and pens for your desk too?
In many years of research, a NASA scientist at Cape Canaveral has found proof that neither the hydrogen in the hull nor a bomb was to blame, but the fabric of the Hindenburg's outer skin and a new protective coating. A single spark of static electricity was enough to make it burn like dry leaves.