Well I know lots of companies that because of this reason they use a computer as a fax machine and then the fax's are forwarded via email as an attachment pdf or ps file.
I still think it's obligatory that if you do know the reply to number of the spammers. Take 5 pieces of black construction paper, tape them all together, making one long sheet, feed it into the fax machine when the top comes out tape it to the bottom and make a continuous black loop... hehehehehe that's "poetic justice"...
I guess that would be a way to compare them, but what I've seen is fax machines that run out of paper and just turn themselves off and important faxes are missed. I think if someone just goes delete happy then they really need to have a few more patience and set up some type of email filter rules...
See I've seen companies like this hold up medical faxes and important contract faxes before. Because usually these things are a few pages. I also know people who have resorted to turning their fax machines off when they aren't using them because of the huge waste. The other thing that is really annoying is that these machines sometimes get the wrong number and will give those wonderful fax tones in your ear when you pick up the phone.
The damages from faxing are aparent in costs of paper and toner, along with tying up the machine itself. Email while annoying doesn't neccessarily impede you from downloading the rest of your email in a timely manner. The only way I can see a comparison would be if there were more email spams that were attachments that were in the megabytes. Those are always a real treat to download when your on dialup, and I can see where it would be comparable.
Basically this sets a precidence that will be followed in the future. Spammers beware... we can only take so much. Right now I average about 80 spam messages a day. While I just sort them into the trash, it is becoming a trend which is getting rather annoying. And I can attest that quite a few of them all come from the same PLACE, not the same email server. If it's an advertisement for the same sex site then they should be held accountable, last I checked there wasn't any free advertising packages available.
But how about a whistle?? I mean I don't know how much arm movement she has, but I'm sure she can breath. If not a whistle how about a switch that is controlled by blowing into a straw of some kind. Sometimes you have to think outside the box. Obviously a button would be nice, but doesn't make much sense, but if she can make a semi-air-tight seal around a whistle, I'm thinking a $.50 trip to the toy section of your local department store will do the trick. If getting to the whistle is a problem you could affix it to her chest or shoulder with a headgear mounting. Kinda like a hat with a whistle hanging down on the front of it. Basically I can see this done with a little under $5.00.
Or you could make some type of eye gesture recognition linux box thing... hehehehe I think the whistle could even be gpl'd if you wanted it to be. hehehe... speaking of gpl... all ideas are officially free to the public... hence why I posted them to a public forum... clever monkey eh?:-)
This really is very neat indeed. There are quite a few people who use BSD everyday, me. And they know that people might want to brush up their skills or read about things they might not have previously known about. I really like the fact that slashdot gave them a little boost in traffic.
While it may be an advertisement, it's a free service and the entire e-zine is based on OSS... so... everyone who keeps with the "this is stupid post articles from them" and "BSD is dead"... chill
I really despise the type of people who register a domain name in hopes that some company will want it. And I think it's hallarious that register.com, along with other registrars, will help you pick an alternate name if the original is already taken.
Hmmm... should I pick a slightly different domain name and advertise it to my clientel and potential clientel, or go through the hassel of arguing with some 14 year old about how $4K is absurd to buy. Basically squatters became screwed when register came out with its "alternative name engine". And here's what's left of it.
What would have been even more interesting is to see how many of the expired domains were listed on EBAY. I can still today see domains on the auction block for over thousand dollars, it's insane. The only time that I've ever heard of ANYONE buying a domain is when two companies basically had the same trademark (usually acronyms) and the one with more flash money bought it from the other. Any other time I've just seen them sued away.
So I guess it's gone from squatting to "potentially going to court!"
Here's what you do when you're in a boat or at a fish market.
ENJOY BEING AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!
It is possible to enjoy the ocean without mp3's or email access. Pack a laptop up in a duct tape sealed trash bag and leave it there for when you get to shore. When on shore check your email or download whatever... then when you get back on the boat... wrap the thing back up and enjoy where you are.
If someone were to ask me how to get a computer on a sail boat I would find reasons as to why I wouldn't want to have one.
1.) It's wet, electronics don't do well in wet. 2.) You can't use the laptop on the deck during the day, the glare will be horrible. (and why would you want to be below decks???) 3.) Power, enjoy being outside away from electronics and conserve what battery you have. If you're on a decent size sailboat there will be a generator, but who the hell wants to listen to a generator all day?
If those aren't reason enough for you then you have a really big problem. Enjoy being away from the computer... slashdot is archived so you won't miss out... The only thing I can see anyone missing out on is being able to be FIRST POST!.
Basically I see it like this, Karl Auerbach is a pain in the ass. And a good pain in the ass. He knows his way around the governing procedures that ICANN holds sacred and pisses on the "unwritten" rules of procedure whenever he feels like it. ICANN has a thorn that they placed in their own side, by opening elections they basically shot themselves in the foot. Now they're trying to hold on to what they once had before democracy came over and sideswiped them completely into submission. There seems to be some sort of thought that voting holds no power, if you think that, then you are just as much to blame as the rest.
While he may be leaving in November, do you really think that he will just go into submissive hiding? Hell no he won't, he'll go on to be one of the biggest advocates against ICANN, you can count on it.
Is this some type of new trend? Hell no it's not, basically it's a revolution, every now and then there needs to be someone to stir the pot up. It WILL happen in congress, it is ALWAYS happening in the supreme court, and well it's a little harder in the presidency, but has happened.
As usual, with anything ICANN related, it's time to plug OpenNIC again. Tired of ICANN, don't support them... duh:-)
They're using UUNET and Microsoft products... hehehe I think a DoS should be the least of their worries... I would almost go so far as to say it wasn't a DoS attack, but more a BSOD attack... heh heh heh
The OpenNIC is a user owned and controlled Network Information Center offering a democratic, non-national, alternative to the traditional Top-Level Domain registries.
Users of the OpenNIC DNS servers, in addition to resolving host names in the Legacy U.S. Government DNS, can resolve host names in the OpenNIC operated namespaces as well as in the namespaces with which we have peering agreements (at this time those are AlterNIC and The Pacific Root).
Membership in the OpenNIC is open to every user of the Internet. All decisions are made either by a democratically elected administrator or through a direct ballot of the interested members and all decisions, regardless of how they are made, within OpenNIC are appealable to a vote of the general membership.
Right there... they do um all plus their own. That's what's so great, you can use OpenNic, but you don't have to give up what you're used to.
When the AOL user can't resolve your domain, you point them to www.opennic.unrated.net... the same way that the new.net domains work. You can't just tell ICANN what to do, but you can inform the people who rely on ICANN about their other options.
The OpenNIC is a user owned and controlled Network Information Center offering a democratic, non-national, alternative to the traditional Top-Level Domain registries.
Users of the OpenNIC DNS servers, in addition to resolving host names in the Legacy U.S. Government DNS, can resolve host names in the OpenNIC operated namespaces as well as in the namespaces with which we have peering agreements (at this time those are AlterNIC and The Pacific Root).
Okay everyone, I keep reading the posts, ICANN is a non-profit organization that makes too much money and has too much power. If you think that, keep reading, if you want to go on about your day and think that this is something not worth fighting over, then that's your perrogative.
The internet was based off of the ideas of intellectuals and academics, and has turned into a world nearly exactly opposite of what it was initially intended to do. No I'm not against any porn sites or anything else that is "wrong" with the internet today, I'll leave that battle for the conservatives.
What we are seeing here is a group who likes the control they have and they will be damned if they are about to just give it up. And why should they, the only ones who are against them are the ones who have no real say in the matter, in terms of numbers. Have I purchased a few of the DNS entries that ICANN holds, of course, it's the only way that is widely accepted as a way to identify yourself on the internet.
So where do we go from here? Stop supporting ICANN and start supporting something worth supporting. I support OpenNIC, a free and democratic DNS root. And not some democracy that ICANN has created, a real democracy where everyone gets one vote and that's it. The most votes, wins. Simple majority rules type of governance. While they aren't widely advertised like some other Alternate TLD's I can say that they aren't interested in doing this for the money. They are interested in doing this to take away ICANN's power/influence on us all. If we stop financially supporting ICANN than there will really be no reason for them to exist, they will be a company without assests, which in the capitalistic society we Americans live in, sucks.
Basically I see it like this, if we can all band together and show that we as true computer intellectuals can become something great. A group that can out do the professionals. A group that is designed to have a fair DNS system. A group that is not ICANN. A group that is truly INTERNATIONAL. A group that knows that not everything has to be about money. Money is nice, but certainly some things are more important than money, and freedom happens to be one of them.
Okay, in all seriousness what you're asking for is OpenNIC. They have all the entries from ICANN along with their own. They also have entries from numerous other open roots across the world. Basically I see opennic as being the number one resource in taking away the power that ICANN holds. New.net had the right idea, but screwed it up when they popped themselves in with just about every bit of spyware out there, plus I don't know of anyone that actually uses their domains, no one mirrors them and they require a really funky plugin that messes up your TCP/IP in windows.
... I mean... we've all thoroughly read through all the EULA's we agree to, right? I mean it's not like we just click, sign, or higlight our acceptance without reading what we've agreed to, right? Wait one gosh darn minute, are you trying to tell me that people actually don't take the time to read the EULA that comes with the service they're buying?
Hey, fine print was invented for a reason, to screw the EU over.
Okay I like mozilla and I like what they're all about and I like just about everything about what they're doing. But I think if everyone is interested in the latest greatest opensource software releases that they can easily hop on over to freshmeat, you know a slashdot affiliate?
Here's my little soapbox and I'm a "highly modded" poster so I get the whole plus 2 before I'm modded as a troll some more. Mozilla may be a very capable browser, but shaping the article to play more into the fact that it has better language support than IE and still holds 99% of the functionality of IE would be a better story than just announcing every release and a brief summary of the changelog. The last thing I would like to see is a list of mirrors for software, I don't like having to wait 3 days because the only place I know to get the software is the link that slashdot posted that is far out of date. While this doesn't apply to distros and software like mozilla, it does apply to projects not hosted on sourceforge or that have a lot of bandwidth to spare.
I am very pleased to see that Mozilla is doing what some seemed would never happen and that's to make a browser that is not only free, but open source, runs on more platforms than I can name, and to top it all off, is actively developed on. I couldn't be happier with the way mozilla is working out, my main beef is that if/. wants to post PR articles or PR announcements at least say why the project is slashdot worthy, and moreso why the project is a benifit to all of us.
I use mozilla all the time, you know why? Because no matter what computer I'm on, I can run it. That's what I like about mozilla. I don't care if it isn't as fast as IE in page rendering, or if it eats up a lot of memory, or if someone thinks opera is better. I like mozilla and I think slashdot is really doing them an injustice by explaining that a new version is out and not the benifits of the project itself.
read your contract. The thing about broadband is they reserve the right to change the terms of agreement at anytime. If you don't like that then you really shouldn't use broadband.
Who's a monopoly. I know of at least 10 cable modem providers (now that @home is dead) and 3 times that many DSL providers. Where's that monopoly again??
Monopolies are a joke because no one forces anyone to do anything, it's the fact that people are stupid and lazy and use what's common that creates a "monopoly" of sorts. Windows is not a monopoly, how do I know this? Because I've got a mac right here that I use all the time with no windows OS on it at all.
Okay, I'm a troll, and you're a horrible poster to slashdot. Generalizations are unfair aren't they?
p2p blocking is what makes broadband worthwhile to the average person. Where did I say I was average? I use my broadband to update debian and mirror OSS projects (roughly 900 gigs of it). Though I really wouldn't call it broadband I would call it a T3, but that's beside the point it's a fast download.
Always on? That's a joke and a half. It takes less than a minute to connect via dialup, if your email is that important then you really need to find a hobby. A second pohne line with a dialup connection is actually far cheaper than a broadband connection.
I bet your TOS says that it can be changed at anytime, doesn't it? Yup!
As far as handguns, you are a simple minded fool for thinking such things. I want you to loose someone you love to a handgun and ask yourself how much that they are useful as security devices. No one hunts with a handgun, and if no one had a handgun there would be no reason for anyone to have one. The biggest argument for handguns is that someone else has one and you want to protect yourself.
Besides the point you really need to think about what a troll really is. Someone who makes a sound argument is not a troll. I have been posting to slashdot for quite a while now and change my UID more than once, but you need to realize that not everyone is a 13 year old trapped in their basement with nothing to do and that there truly are people posting to slashdot who want to make their comments known.
You are absolutely right, I have no right at all to tell you how to use the broadband connection you have. BUT that doesn't mean that you can use the connection for anything that you want to, hence the terms of agreement. I think what everyone is failing to realize is that this is the ACLU going after a private entity which can put any stipulation on their service that they want to. I think a large portion of the slashdot community has forgotten that one cannot tell a company what to do unless they own that company.
These aren't government controlled lines, these are privately owned lines. Hence why I was questioning why the ACLU was even getting involved. Then I answered my own question by stating the ACLU is scraping for things to whine about.
My government in my free country knows that private businesses are private until they are unfair or illegal in their business practices. The ACLU has no right to tell broadband companies what to do, and I mean that they have no right even if they think that as the ACLU they can define the bill of rights to suit them as they have done in the past.
I think the ACLU is a joke, we have the supreme court to do what the ACLU thinks is their job. Oh well I guess I'm just not an American because I trust the system of government that is in America and I trust the supreme court, so that leaves no room for the ACLU.
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I still think it's obligatory that if you do know the reply to number of the spammers. Take 5 pieces of black construction paper, tape them all together, making one long sheet, feed it into the fax machine when the top comes out tape it to the bottom and make a continuous black loop ... hehehehehe that's "poetic justice" ...
I guess that would be a way to compare them, but what I've seen is fax machines that run out of paper and just turn themselves off and important faxes are missed. I think if someone just goes delete happy then they really need to have a few more patience and set up some type of email filter rules...
The damages from faxing are aparent in costs of paper and toner, along with tying up the machine itself. Email while annoying doesn't neccessarily impede you from downloading the rest of your email in a timely manner. The only way I can see a comparison would be if there were more email spams that were attachments that were in the megabytes. Those are always a real treat to download when your on dialup, and I can see where it would be comparable.
Basically this sets a precidence that will be followed in the future. Spammers beware... we can only take so much. Right now I average about 80 spam messages a day. While I just sort them into the trash, it is becoming a trend which is getting rather annoying. And I can attest that quite a few of them all come from the same PLACE, not the same email server. If it's an advertisement for the same sex site then they should be held accountable, last I checked there wasn't any free advertising packages available.
Or you could make some type of eye gesture recognition linux box thing ... hehehehe I think the whistle could even be gpl'd if you wanted it to be. hehehe ... speaking of gpl ... all ideas are officially free to the public ... hence why I posted them to a public forum ... clever monkey eh? :-)
While it may be an advertisement, it's a free service and the entire e-zine is based on OSS ... so ... everyone who keeps with the "this is stupid post articles from them" and "BSD is dead" ... chill
Hmmm ... should I pick a slightly different domain name and advertise it to my clientel and potential clientel, or go through the hassel of arguing with some 14 year old about how $4K is absurd to buy. Basically squatters became screwed when register came out with its "alternative name engine". And here's what's left of it.
What would have been even more interesting is to see how many of the expired domains were listed on EBAY. I can still today see domains on the auction block for over thousand dollars, it's insane. The only time that I've ever heard of ANYONE buying a domain is when two companies basically had the same trademark (usually acronyms) and the one with more flash money bought it from the other. Any other time I've just seen them sued away.
So I guess it's gone from squatting to "potentially going to court!"
ENJOY BEING AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!
It is possible to enjoy the ocean without mp3's or email access. Pack a laptop up in a duct tape sealed trash bag and leave it there for when you get to shore. When on shore check your email or download whatever ... then when you get back on the boat ... wrap the thing back up and enjoy where you are.
If someone were to ask me how to get a computer on a sail boat I would find reasons as to why I wouldn't want to have one.
1.) It's wet, electronics don't do well in wet.
2.) You can't use the laptop on the deck during the day, the glare will be horrible. (and why would you want to be below decks???)
3.) Power, enjoy being outside away from electronics and conserve what battery you have. If you're on a decent size sailboat there will be a generator, but who the hell wants to listen to a generator all day?
If those aren't reason enough for you then you have a really big problem. Enjoy being away from the computer ... slashdot is archived so you won't miss out ... The only thing I can see anyone missing out on is being able to be FIRST POST!.
While he may be leaving in November, do you really think that he will just go into submissive hiding? Hell no he won't, he'll go on to be one of the biggest advocates against ICANN, you can count on it.
Is this some type of new trend? Hell no it's not, basically it's a revolution, every now and then there needs to be someone to stir the pot up. It WILL happen in congress, it is ALWAYS happening in the supreme court, and well it's a little harder in the presidency, but has happened.
As usual, with anything ICANN related, it's time to plug OpenNIC again. Tired of ICANN, don't support them ... duh :-)
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The site www.riaa.com is running Microsoft-IIS/4.0 on NT4/Windows 98. FAQ
NT4/Windows 98 users include ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd, Gillette, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd and Ernst & Young International
Microsoft-IIS is also being used by www.dellhost.com, www.datapipe.com, Ferrari and Intel Corporation
Do you want to look for an SSL site at www.riaa.com ?
Uptime Charts and Statistics for www.riaa.com
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They're using UUNET and Microsoft products ... hehehe I think a DoS should be the least of their worries ... I would almost go so far as to say it wasn't a DoS attack, but more a BSOD attack ... heh heh heh
from the opennic website.
The OpenNIC is a user owned and controlled Network Information Center offering a democratic, non-national, alternative to the traditional Top-Level Domain registries.
Users of the OpenNIC DNS servers, in addition to resolving host names in the Legacy U.S. Government DNS, can resolve host names in the OpenNIC operated namespaces as well as in the namespaces with which we have peering agreements (at this time those are AlterNIC and The Pacific Root).
Membership in the OpenNIC is open to every user of the Internet. All decisions are made either by a democratically elected administrator or through a direct ballot of the interested members and all decisions, regardless of how they are made, within OpenNIC are appealable to a vote of the general membership.
Right there ... they do um all plus their own. That's what's so great, you can use OpenNic, but you don't have to give up what you're used to.
When the AOL user can't resolve your domain, you point them to www.opennic.unrated.net ... the same way that the new.net domains work. You can't just tell ICANN what to do, but you can inform the people who rely on ICANN about their other options.
From the www.opennic.unrated.net website
The OpenNIC is a user owned and controlled Network Information Center offering a democratic, non-national, alternative to the traditional Top-Level Domain registries.
Users of the OpenNIC DNS servers, in addition to resolving host names in the Legacy U.S. Government DNS, can resolve host names in the OpenNIC operated namespaces as well as in the namespaces with which we have peering agreements (at this time those are AlterNIC and The Pacific Root).
There ya go ... problem solved ...
Actually it's already being designed. here ya go... basically it's a plugin for mozilla/later netscape releases ...
The internet was based off of the ideas of intellectuals and academics, and has turned into a world nearly exactly opposite of what it was initially intended to do. No I'm not against any porn sites or anything else that is "wrong" with the internet today, I'll leave that battle for the conservatives.
What we are seeing here is a group who likes the control they have and they will be damned if they are about to just give it up. And why should they, the only ones who are against them are the ones who have no real say in the matter, in terms of numbers. Have I purchased a few of the DNS entries that ICANN holds, of course, it's the only way that is widely accepted as a way to identify yourself on the internet.
So where do we go from here? Stop supporting ICANN and start supporting something worth supporting. I support OpenNIC, a free and democratic DNS root. And not some democracy that ICANN has created, a real democracy where everyone gets one vote and that's it. The most votes, wins. Simple majority rules type of governance. While they aren't widely advertised like some other Alternate TLD's I can say that they aren't interested in doing this for the money. They are interested in doing this to take away ICANN's power/influence on us all. If we stop financially supporting ICANN than there will really be no reason for them to exist, they will be a company without assests, which in the capitalistic society we Americans live in, sucks.
Basically I see it like this, if we can all band together and show that we as true computer intellectuals can become something great. A group that can out do the professionals. A group that is designed to have a fair DNS system. A group that is not ICANN. A group that is truly INTERNATIONAL. A group that knows that not everything has to be about money. Money is nice, but certainly some things are more important than money, and freedom happens to be one of them.
None-the-less ... check out opennic
ummm ... go here that's a link to OpenNic, which is exactly what you're asking for. Hell it goes one step further, everything is free.
Hey, fine print was invented for a reason, to screw the EU over.
On a side note, great picture. I just set it as my background :-)
Here's my little soapbox and I'm a "highly modded" poster so I get the whole plus 2 before I'm modded as a troll some more. Mozilla may be a very capable browser, but shaping the article to play more into the fact that it has better language support than IE and still holds 99% of the functionality of IE would be a better story than just announcing every release and a brief summary of the changelog. The last thing I would like to see is a list of mirrors for software, I don't like having to wait 3 days because the only place I know to get the software is the link that slashdot posted that is far out of date. While this doesn't apply to distros and software like mozilla, it does apply to projects not hosted on sourceforge or that have a lot of bandwidth to spare.
I am very pleased to see that Mozilla is doing what some seemed would never happen and that's to make a browser that is not only free, but open source, runs on more platforms than I can name, and to top it all off, is actively developed on. I couldn't be happier with the way mozilla is working out, my main beef is that if /. wants to post PR articles or PR announcements at least say why the project is slashdot worthy, and moreso why the project is a benifit to all of us.
I use mozilla all the time, you know why? Because no matter what computer I'm on, I can run it. That's what I like about mozilla. I don't care if it isn't as fast as IE in page rendering, or if it eats up a lot of memory, or if someone thinks opera is better. I like mozilla and I think slashdot is really doing them an injustice by explaining that a new version is out and not the benifits of the project itself.
well you have the supreme court to thank to be able to call me stupid. Funny how that works, isn't it?
Who's a monopoly. I know of at least 10 cable modem providers (now that @home is dead) and 3 times that many DSL providers. Where's that monopoly again??
Monopolies are a joke because no one forces anyone to do anything, it's the fact that people are stupid and lazy and use what's common that creates a "monopoly" of sorts. Windows is not a monopoly, how do I know this? Because I've got a mac right here that I use all the time with no windows OS on it at all.
p2p blocking is what makes broadband worthwhile to the average person. Where did I say I was average? I use my broadband to update debian and mirror OSS projects (roughly 900 gigs of it). Though I really wouldn't call it broadband I would call it a T3, but that's beside the point it's a fast download.
Always on? That's a joke and a half. It takes less than a minute to connect via dialup, if your email is that important then you really need to find a hobby. A second pohne line with a dialup connection is actually far cheaper than a broadband connection.
I bet your TOS says that it can be changed at anytime, doesn't it? Yup!
As far as handguns, you are a simple minded fool for thinking such things. I want you to loose someone you love to a handgun and ask yourself how much that they are useful as security devices. No one hunts with a handgun, and if no one had a handgun there would be no reason for anyone to have one. The biggest argument for handguns is that someone else has one and you want to protect yourself.
Besides the point you really need to think about what a troll really is. Someone who makes a sound argument is not a troll. I have been posting to slashdot for quite a while now and change my UID more than once, but you need to realize that not everyone is a 13 year old trapped in their basement with nothing to do and that there truly are people posting to slashdot who want to make their comments known.
You are absolutely right, I have no right at all to tell you how to use the broadband connection you have. BUT that doesn't mean that you can use the connection for anything that you want to, hence the terms of agreement. I think what everyone is failing to realize is that this is the ACLU going after a private entity which can put any stipulation on their service that they want to. I think a large portion of the slashdot community has forgotten that one cannot tell a company what to do unless they own that company.
My government in my free country knows that private businesses are private until they are unfair or illegal in their business practices. The ACLU has no right to tell broadband companies what to do, and I mean that they have no right even if they think that as the ACLU they can define the bill of rights to suit them as they have done in the past.
I think the ACLU is a joke, we have the supreme court to do what the ACLU thinks is their job. Oh well I guess I'm just not an American because I trust the system of government that is in America and I trust the supreme court, so that leaves no room for the ACLU.
hence p2p is useless for legal reasons.