Have a ranking system that would base trust off the number of certificates, the age of the certificates and complaints from users.
So basically a centralized authority that gives out free or cheap (as in as cheap as domains) certificates.
You sign up with them as a reseller. All of your customers buy certs from you.
I'm thinking of this in terms of being a hosting provider as I am.
So I sign up with this centralized authority and purchase certificates for my customers.
Browsers could have a blacklist check on certs. So you try to hit one of my sites, it validates against your list of blacklisted sites that you updated last month and either: A. Shows up with a good rating. B. Doesn't show up because it's too new.
The user could then set a threshhold of trust and if the cert passed that threshhold it wouldn't warn them.
This idea isn't very thought out, just an idea I threw together. Run with it.
Won't spam always be more traceable than murder though?
I mean, it has to be sent across a network, if we can completely validate the users on the network I would think we could completely trace back to the abusive user.
Sure there will be networks that don't play by the rules, but they're easily blocked in their entirety.
There are potential customers using AOL. A significant percentage of my existing client base either is using or have used AOL since before they became a client.
I really don't like the idea of ISPs blocking ports. That should be the responsibility of the end user.
Instead of blocking ports why don't they force users to sign an agreement that they won't send spam and if they do they'll pay each recipient $50/incident.
Then if a bonehead sends spam they can go after them and enforce their TOS. I believe AOL requires a valid credit card number to even do the free trials, but I'm just guessing.
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But then again I blocked mail from the entire 66.197.x.x subnet.
"It is like telling AOL to ship MSN8 with their latest distro...."
Not necessarily. It's not like AOL created a product called AOL-MSN that works similar to MSN.
Microsoft made their own version of Java. If they had called it something else and made it so that it only ran their Java, (and didn't try to pass it off as Sun's Java) they could have gotten away with it.
Imagine if Adobe decided to make Adobe Flash and it was capable of creating and processing Macromedia Flash files. That would be the same situation. If they called it Adobe Anime and it had it's own file format that would be okay. If they wanted to export to flash and they had the approval of Macromedia to do so, that would be okay as well.
I dunno. I don't know if I agree with it or not. I definately prefer Sun's java over Microsoft's but it does seem odd to force them to include it.
Sprint has been delivering voicemails late more and more frequently. This is extra bad since it's a business plan. We've had voicemails up to two weeks late. They'll suddenly come through 9 at a time.
No offense, but this seems like a backwards way to do it.
1. Who is going to qualify what fits under.spam? 2. Who isn't going to block/filter.spam? 3. Who actually WANTS to read.spam? 4. Who pays for all the bandwidth wasted by.spammers? 5. Who's going to revoke their domain/IPs? 6. How are you going to stop them from getting a new domain/IP? 7. How are you going to punish those outside the U.S.? 8. Why not just say we're finished with truly unsolicitied email and put the fine on it right then and there?
I want to be whitelisted for x number of days. Or maybe a setup similar to DHCP where I've got a lease for x number of days that doesn't expire until I haven't used it for y number of days.
This would allow email to remain FREE like it should be and solve the problem at the same time.
I'm still a little bitter that I can't pop in a quarter and call when I need to. Honestly the only time I really ever used payphones was from high school to call mom to pick me up after sporting events.
I didn't post this as a means for everyone to pirate Home Depots cd keys. I just noticed it and thought it was interesting. Thanks for clarifying though!
"Even a 500MHz cpu could do all this andrun the ignition/injection system used to operate the engine."
Wouldn't the failure rate on a faster CPU be much higher than the processors that are currently running ignition systems?
Intel/AMD architechture is probably not the best platform for controlling critical devices on a vehicle.
However, it would be really cool to INTERFACE with the cars computer using an Intel/AMD based computer. I'd love to log the info from my (98 Cobra) car's EEC-V computer. Or even better, modify values that it uses such as ignition advance, leaning out the air/fuel ratio etc.
But a auto manufacturer wouldn't want me doing those things, lean it out too much and you've got holes in your pistons. Too much ignition advance and you've got detonation as well.
They probably wouldn't care if I logged my GPS coordinates though.
By locking down, I think they mean students can go in and randomly format the drive like they could in a stock Win9x setup.
They also mention that they like linux because it's easy to give to students. They don't have to worry about costs or licensing, they just hand the students a CD and they're on their way.
"We'd rather explain how things work. We do that by taking things apart and putting them back together again, rather than just showing people how to use particular GUIs that other people have designed. It's our belief that open-source software better explains those concepts," he said.
That seems pretty logical to me. The article really wasn't about taking away freedom at all.
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I can't possibly see them putting this into every tire... It would raise the cost too much making them uncompetitive.
I could *maybe* see them putting this into the highest of high performance tires as security devices.
Have a ranking system that would base trust off the number of certificates, the age of the certificates and complaints from users.
So basically a centralized authority that gives out free or cheap (as in as cheap as domains) certificates.
You sign up with them as a reseller. All of your customers buy certs from you.
I'm thinking of this in terms of being a hosting provider as I am.
So I sign up with this centralized authority and purchase certificates for my customers.
Browsers could have a blacklist check on certs. So you try to hit one of my sites, it validates against your list of blacklisted sites that you updated last month and either:
A. Shows up with a good rating.
B. Doesn't show up because it's too new.
The user could then set a threshhold of trust and if the cert passed that threshhold it wouldn't warn them.
This idea isn't very thought out, just an idea I threw together. Run with it.
Won't spam always be more traceable than murder though?
I mean, it has to be sent across a network, if we can completely validate the users on the network I would think we could completely trace back to the abusive user.
Sure there will be networks that don't play by the rules, but they're easily blocked in their entirety.
Am I naive or is this accurate?
There are potential customers using AOL. A significant percentage of my existing client base either is using or have used AOL since before they became a client.
I really don't like the idea of ISPs blocking ports. That should be the responsibility of the end user.
Instead of blocking ports why don't they force users to sign an agreement that they won't send spam and if they do they'll pay each recipient $50/incident.
Then if a bonehead sends spam they can go after them and enforce their TOS. I believe AOL requires a valid credit card number to even do the free trials, but I'm just guessing.
But then again I blocked mail from the entire 66.197.x.x subnet.
It amazes me that anyone thinks they could get away with such a clause.
I could maybe understand if it were some confidential non-disclosure agreement, but it's not it's their off the shelf product/services.
Tell them to start doing more business in the USSR circa 1980 and maybe they could get away with such a stupid clause.
"It is like telling AOL to ship MSN8 with their latest distro ...."
Not necessarily. It's not like AOL created a product called AOL-MSN that works similar to MSN.
Microsoft made their own version of Java. If they had called it something else and made it so that it only ran their Java, (and didn't try to pass it off as Sun's Java) they could have gotten away with it.
Imagine if Adobe decided to make Adobe Flash and it was capable of creating and processing Macromedia Flash files. That would be the same situation. If they called it Adobe Anime and it had it's own file format that would be okay. If they wanted to export to flash and they had the approval of Macromedia to do so, that would be okay as well.
I dunno. I don't know if I agree with it or not. I definately prefer Sun's java over Microsoft's but it does seem odd to force them to include it.
Sprint has been delivering voicemails late more and more frequently. This is extra bad since it's a business plan. We've had voicemails up to two weeks late. They'll suddenly come through 9 at a time.
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It's been nearly 100% effective!
No offense, but this seems like a backwards way to do it.
.spam? .spam? .spam? .spammers?
1. Who is going to qualify what fits under
2. Who isn't going to block/filter
3. Who actually WANTS to read
4. Who pays for all the bandwidth wasted by
5. Who's going to revoke their domain/IPs?
6. How are you going to stop them from getting a new domain/IP?
7. How are you going to punish those outside the U.S.?
8. Why not just say we're finished with truly unsolicitied email and put the fine on it right then and there?
"And even if they did, the next day every spammer on the planet would relocate to china."
I like this idea. I've already got China firewalled.
So basically, sign up as an affiliate and then try to annoy people to the point of signing up.
I like this idea with some modifications...
I want to be whitelisted for x number of days. Or maybe a setup similar to DHCP where I've got a lease for x number of days that doesn't expire until I haven't used it for y number of days.
This would allow email to remain FREE like it should be and solve the problem at the same time.
I get advertisements for spamarrest on the bottom of my spam quite often.
This has got to be a spammer that runs it.
I'm still a little bitter that I can't pop in a quarter and call when I need to.
Honestly the only time I really ever used payphones was from high school to call mom to pick me up after sporting events.
Or actually... Why not make a bowling ball with a computer inside that keeps track of your individual score and allows multiple users.
You could truly keep track of your lifetime averages.
I wish I could purchase my phone number for life.
I know there are some services out there that do this, but they don't cover my area code.
Then I could freely switch from provider to provider without losing my number.
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This has been in effect for a while and they even follow up on complaints.
I VERY rarely get unsolicited calls anymore. Usually when I do, they are charities asking for money.
I still get junk faxes at 2am on occassion and according to this I'm screwed.
These were full blown Dell PCs.
I didn't post this as a means for everyone to pirate Home Depots cd keys. I just noticed it and thought it was interesting. Thanks for clarifying though!
They have all their Windows cd key labels taped to the side of their PCs throughout their store for anyone to read or record.
On the labels it specifically tells them not to remove the label either.
"Even a 500MHz cpu could do all this andrun the ignition/injection system used to operate the engine."
Wouldn't the failure rate on a faster CPU be much higher than the processors that are currently running ignition systems?
Intel/AMD architechture is probably not the best platform for controlling critical devices on a vehicle.
However, it would be really cool to INTERFACE with the cars computer using an Intel/AMD based computer. I'd love to log the info from my (98 Cobra) car's EEC-V computer. Or even better, modify values that it uses such as ignition advance, leaning out the air/fuel ratio etc.
But a auto manufacturer wouldn't want me doing those things, lean it out too much and you've got holes in your pistons. Too much ignition advance and you've got detonation as well.
They probably wouldn't care if I logged my GPS coordinates though.
By locking down, I think they mean students can go in and randomly format the drive like they could in a stock Win9x setup.
They also mention that they like linux because it's easy to give to students. They don't have to worry about costs or licensing, they just hand the students a CD and they're on their way.
"We'd rather explain how things work. We do that by taking things apart and putting them back together again, rather than just showing people how to use particular GUIs that other people have designed. It's our belief that open-source software better explains those concepts," he said.
That seems pretty logical to me. The article really wasn't about taking away freedom at all.
I tested a magnetic 802.11b antenna up to about 120 mph and not only was I getting a strong signal, it didn't move either!
You give me sendmail with the capability to do this and I will install it.