The other day I took apart an old HD-DVD player (I wanted the Toslink transmitter out of it for a MythTV box I'm working on) and noticed that they ran a bead of epoxy around the edges of certain chips. Mostly it was RAM and Flash chips, and they even remembered to epoxy the unused pads of a dual-padded chip location. I was amused that they also epoxied around the Realtek ethernet chip.
You probably (if you tell the truth) just commented on a several-month-old blog post, nobody checks the spam filters of those.
One of the little known good features of Slashdot is that all threads go to archive mode in two weeks. This removes one of the biggest problems with blog spam, which is dropping SEO bait at the end of old comment threads, like bird poop on a car that's been parked under a tree for a few months. It also avoids the problem of people who can't be arsed to check the dates on threads, and post in dead threads as through there was still a conversation going on.
What, you think they write most of the summaries? Go to http://slashdot.org/recent and see for yourself. Most of them come straight from submitters, though every now and then they add a blurb at the end.
Doctor Show: wrong diagnosis - commercial - wrong diagnosis - commercial - wrong diagnosis - commercial - save the patient.
One of the main cliches of House was that any diagnosis before:50 after the hour would be wrong, unless they were intentionally breaking from the format (such as a two-episode story, or A Very Special Episode). But the show wasn't about the Disease of the Week, it was about Dr. Gregory House and his behavior and interactions with other people. The medical drama was just a substrate on which to base the interpersonal drama.
In the Secret Agent Diving School, they're not dive buddies, they're dive CHUMS! Remember, you don't have to out-swim the shark, you just have to out-swim the other guy being chased by the shark!
They're probably more likely to get cancer from smoking too much. Japanese men tend to smoke like chimneys. Only recently has there even significant progress in banning smoking inside buildings.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (X) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (X) Asshats (X) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (X) Extreme profitability of spam (X) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (X) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
It's been so long since goatse was new, and I don't exactly check it weekly... or even yearly... I was sure it was "receiver.jpg", but I guess "receiver" was just in the text. (Yes, goatse.cx had text along with that picture.)
Well then, I'm glad I have at least one thing in common with Matt Smith.
And The Doctor (the character) apparently isn't very impressed with Twitter either:
Amy: Have you seen my phone?
The Doctor: Your phone?
Amy: Yeah.
The Doctor: Your mobile telephone. I bring you to a paradise planet two billion light years from Earth and you want to update Twitter.(This line is delivered with wonderfully gushing disgust.) Amy: Sunsets, spires, soaring silver colonnades. It's a camera phone.
The Doctor: On the counter by the DVDs.
Amy: Thank you.
(From 6-10 "The Girl Who Waited") The line in question is part of the main promo commercial that my local PBS station currently uses, so I get to hear it a lot.
More likely that they believe you can strap a bunch of fixed magnets to your body and have any sort of positive effect. (Other than simply from the extra weight you're carrying around, etc.) Yes, that's a thing.
It would probably be simpler to put an old-school chirp transponder like on wildlife tracking collars. You could probably use inductive charging to avoid the need to open the ball. If the golf course was next to the transmitter for a radio station, you could even get away without needing a battery.
He recalled in the interview often passing out cigarettes to workers in a heavily used smoking room beside the bunker during the disaster and once joked: “We don’t have the US army fire trucks we need but at least we have got smokes.” Fukushima boss Masao Yoshida breaks silence on disaster -- The Australian
Actually, what if the whole planet is doomed? We should build giant space arks to find a new planet to live on... you guys can go first while we valiantly hold the doom back for you to get away! (This time, though, we'll keep the telephone sanitisers.)
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The other day I took apart an old HD-DVD player (I wanted the Toslink transmitter out of it for a MythTV box I'm working on) and noticed that they ran a bead of epoxy around the edges of certain chips. Mostly it was RAM and Flash chips, and they even remembered to epoxy the unused pads of a dual-padded chip location. I was amused that they also epoxied around the Realtek ethernet chip.
You probably (if you tell the truth) just commented on a several-month-old blog post, nobody checks the spam filters of those.
One of the little known good features of Slashdot is that all threads go to archive mode in two weeks. This removes one of the biggest problems with blog spam, which is dropping SEO bait at the end of old comment threads, like bird poop on a car that's been parked under a tree for a few months. It also avoids the problem of people who can't be arsed to check the dates on threads, and post in dead threads as through there was still a conversation going on.
What, you think they write most of the summaries? Go to http://slashdot.org/recent and see for yourself. Most of them come straight from submitters, though every now and then they add a blurb at the end.
Maybe they should have called it the Wii II.
(Then I guess we'd get people mis-reading it as WWII, which would be even worse.)
All I can say is, nice metal umlaut, bro.
What is the Flynn Effect?
It was on some unknown blog with 5 readers, but that unknown blog is /.'s unloved stepchild, which is always begging for attention.
Doctor Show: wrong diagnosis - commercial - wrong diagnosis - commercial - wrong diagnosis - commercial - save the patient.
One of the main cliches of House was that any diagnosis before :50 after the hour would be wrong, unless they were intentionally breaking from the format (such as a two-episode story, or A Very Special Episode). But the show wasn't about the Disease of the Week, it was about Dr. Gregory House and his behavior and interactions with other people. The medical drama was just a substrate on which to base the interpersonal drama.
In the Secret Agent Diving School, they're not dive buddies, they're dive CHUMS! Remember, you don't have to out-swim the shark, you just have to out-swim the other guy being chased by the shark!
They're probably more likely to get cancer from smoking too much. Japanese men tend to smoke like chimneys. Only recently has there even significant progress in banning smoking inside buildings.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical (X) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(X) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(X) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
(X) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(X) Extreme profitability of spam
(X) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
It's been so long since goatse was new, and I don't exactly check it weekly... or even yearly... I was sure it was "receiver.jpg", but I guess "receiver" was just in the text. (Yes, goatse.cx had text along with that picture.)
Not until you mentioned it. Though I think making them link to goatse would be more appropriate for the /. crowd.
Automatic QR code scanning... bringing passive execution exploits to the world of paper and ink!
1999.has.returned
dot.com.bust
drkoop.flooz.webvan
cuecat.didnt.work
wasted.venture.capital
I know you're trying to be funny, but you're bringing back bad memories of trying to install Slackware back in '93 or so.
Well then, I'm glad I have at least one thing in common with Matt Smith.
And The Doctor (the character) apparently isn't very impressed with Twitter either:
Amy: Have you seen my phone?
The Doctor: Your phone?
Amy: Yeah.
The Doctor: Your mobile telephone. I bring you to a paradise planet two billion light years from Earth and you want to update Twitter. (This line is delivered with wonderfully gushing disgust.)
Amy: Sunsets, spires, soaring silver colonnades. It's a camera phone.
The Doctor: On the counter by the DVDs.
Amy: Thank you.
(From 6-10 "The Girl Who Waited") The line in question is part of the main promo commercial that my local PBS station currently uses, so I get to hear it a lot.
Well, ya know, if you bet on 37 enough times, eventually that roulette ball is going to land in 37, right?
More likely that they believe you can strap a bunch of fixed magnets to your body and have any sort of positive effect. (Other than simply from the extra weight you're carrying around, etc.) Yes, that's a thing.
It would probably be simpler to put an old-school chirp transponder like on wildlife tracking collars. You could probably use inductive charging to avoid the need to open the ball. If the golf course was next to the transmitter for a radio station, you could even get away without needing a battery.
That's like asking who is paying Drudge to post news about train wrecks and Michael Jackson. The bitcoin articles are here to amuse us.
I think you mean if they send each other their raw repository dumps. gig-git-y
Of course they would. Because he got it from smoking. He was a heavy smoker, which is common for Japanese men.
Furthermore, Japan loves to smoke. And this is one of the cancers that you can get from smoking.
A little google-fu turned up this article which shows that he was most definitely a smoker:
He recalled in the interview often passing out cigarettes to workers in a heavily used smoking room beside the bunker during the disaster and once joked: “We don’t have the US army fire trucks we need but at least we have got smokes.” Fukushima boss Masao Yoshida breaks silence on disaster -- The Australian
Actually, what if the whole planet is doomed? We should build giant space arks to find a new planet to live on... you guys can go first while we valiantly hold the doom back for you to get away! (This time, though, we'll keep the telephone sanitisers.)