we're an isp.. i remember the first time someone contacted me about this horrible thing.. they wanted us to redirect all our 404 traffic to a page that would spawn popup spam. seems like thats what half of my web browsing is these days. find a page with links. click a link. a window pops up, and one under. close both, and the main page says the page doesnt exist. *sigh* the next one will work, though.. although it too will spawn a few windows. it's disenchanting to work on these systems when most people are spoiling the experience with their spammy goo. (and no we never sold our 404 traffic). its kinda sad.. when i get to a plain old apache default error message these days, i get all teary eyed and remember the good old days.
now its all about finding open relays to megaphone your get rich quick idea that you copied from some other guy to 30 million people, praying that you get at least 40 back. course if you decide to bite just to mess with them, you find that they dont even check the box. whats the point? arggvhhh its just frustrating. its completely trashed the fun of having email. and the web.
and the ghost of the old web, the one with low noise, is not viewed as dead, merely its soul is an HTTP redirect to someone's digital billboard, completely unrelated and unwanted.
i wonder if it will have the option of setting up those hacked X windows libs so I can continue being lazy and still use my tv card. i love being lazy, and i love watching tv. i'd do anything to watch tv instead of learning how to install the drives to watch my tv with x windows and linux. quite the paradox no?
You just gotta accept that layer 7 of the OSI is a write-off at this point and hang out with all the cool kids on layer 2 and 3.. dont go near 4, though, that's still on the other side of the tracks.
its like anything, really. if head doctors, chefs using robotic arms, and well, whatever you can imagine, are available overseas for a fraction of the cost, people in this country will always end up losing out. tech jobs are being replaced like this cause its the very infrastructure we develop that enables the transition out. oh well. other occupations in the future will eventually end up getting shipped overseas, until everyone is on the same level, or.. whatever the end result would be.
the day i get a virus on my cell phone or pda is the day i throw said cell phone or pda into the windshield of whatever SUV it was that beamed it to me accidently whilst turning around to hit their children.
I asked for these from a girl at college a couple years ago, the day we were moving in, and she went balistic on me and told me to get my own. She was CS, too.. sad..
Why do ISPS always tell us what services we can and cant run on our computers?
While this isn't the reason, a reason is that if you are getting a dynamically shared public IP address, and you're running a web server on it, or better, an FTP server which is more likely to be advertised via IP address instead of by a host name, then people, maybe lots of people, are going to store that IP in their address books somewhere. And then three weeks later, you're on your 8th IP, and some cranky day trader with a personal firewall suite gets your old IP- he thinks he is being hacked. So he calls his ISP and crabs at them, and there's little recourse. So the ISP gets chewed out and they waste an hour calming the customer. They just spent whatever the (cost of their employee + overhead) * call duration is. If they decide to block the services like that, they avoid the cost of similar calls, and can reallocate that money into buying more bandwidth to satisfy all the P2P users that they haven't figured out how to deal with yet!
They're also being money grubbing assholes, but that's beside the point.
*shrug* I'd rather have my ISP make the money they need and stay afloat rather than let them not be money grubbing and fail, and then leave me with one ISP that can charge whatever it wants (if I'm lucky enough to be left with one) Most ISPs arent exactly floating in cash. Maybe the big ones are, though. The middle sized and smaller ones definitely are not.
ISPs make their money on a gamble. Most people will use about 1/8th of what they can, say. So an ISP will oversell by 8 times that to cover the cost of that one line and the overhead of getting it internetworked and maintained. Granted there needs to be a new model that covers people using 100% of their connection by default instead of 12%, but I haven't heard of too many options, other than paying 500 bucks a month for access (at which point you're a dedicated customer and your ISP already has a plan for you).
since the dawning of time evil men have thwarted to abuse the societies they dwell in. ever since the original urge to evolve from single celled space snots into the form of the human being, this evil force has compelled a portion of our fair species to evolve one step beyond the main stream. as early as the 1800s humans have developed simplistic vocal patterns used to convery root directives between what we refer to as "nodes". these nodes, when in a collaberative setting, can communicate rapidly, and the use of technology has only spread this disturbing pattern. eventually is is conceivable that these evil nodes will dominate the world with their bloodthirsty lust for communication.. modern day usage of "internet" relay chats indicates what we shall call "Big Trouble Ahead". If given time to spread, we may find that evil nodes of human clusters will continue their ravaging in search of the ultimate form of communication. we as reasonable members of the species must do everything we can to thwart this insidious infestation. Indeed, our very futures depends on it.
They are more interested in the fact that demand for Linux continues to grow. Market researcher IDC reports that Linux's share of new server operating system software sold in 2000 -- the most recent figure available -- was 27 percent, compared with 41 percent for Microsoft and 14 percent for Unix.
i liked it when BLADE turned into that cartoon fighter, when he was fighting the two cyborg vampires, and he did MAD FLIPS and A FULL OLLIE off a TELEVISION. Then he BUSTED some HEADS with the POWER OF THE SUN. Blade is the all american hero, he's like a half dead GI JOE with better gear than BATMAN and cooler sunglasses than the freakin TERMINATOR. If I were BLADE I would open my own diner and call it Blade's Diner and I wouldn't serve vampires, either.
This one time on slashdot, there was this IBM ad... they were cocky enough to claim that they could BOX HACKERS OUT and still manage to BUILD TRUST IN.
as a fanboy otaku i can tell you its best to name all your machines after cutesey Japanese girl's names. ALL OF THEM. cause when they ping back, that means they really do love you, and no one can EVER take that away from you. ever. *snicker*
replying to this article as an isp with about 12k email accounts, I'd like to point out that the biggest thing holding an ISP back from implementing large global spam blocking routines is the fear of dropping more than zero legitimate emails. It's like that old legal thought, "better to let 10 guilty men go free than to jail 1 innocent man". If I blocked an email inviting someone's grampa to the family reunion and killed 500 pr0n spams, and found out about it, I'd feel miserable for days. (Not that such a ruleset would be that likely to trigger for both- if it did I'd prolly end up with a giant R branded to my forehead for "regex")
anyone ever responded to a spam pretending to be interested in the product? I get about a 20% turnaround on "serious inquiries". If I am using a real email address and look like a real customer, and they arent even writing back to me... they must be spamming several times what they could "legitimately" handle.
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i am green with the procmail recipies, but from what i understand from looking yesterday, procmail cant look at mime attachments? how come?
there's really no good way to filter this in the body or headers, due to the randomness, correct?
we're an isp.. i remember the first time someone contacted me about this horrible thing.. they wanted us to redirect all our 404 traffic to a page that would spawn popup spam. seems like thats what half of my web browsing is these days. find a page with links. click a link. a window pops up, and one under. close both, and the main page says the page doesnt exist. *sigh* the next one will work, though.. although it too will spawn a few windows. it's disenchanting to work on these systems when most people are spoiling the experience with their spammy goo. (and no we never sold our 404 traffic). its kinda sad.. when i get to a plain old apache default error message these days, i get all teary eyed and remember the good old days.
now its all about finding open relays to megaphone your get rich quick idea that you copied from some other guy to 30 million people, praying that you get at least 40 back. course if you decide to bite just to mess with them, you find that they dont even check the box. whats the point? arggvhhh its just frustrating. its completely trashed the fun of having email. and the web.
and the ghost of the old web, the one with low noise, is not viewed as dead, merely its soul is an HTTP redirect to someone's digital billboard, completely unrelated and unwanted.
i wonder if it will have the option of setting up those hacked X windows libs so I can continue being lazy and still use my tv card. i love being lazy, and i love watching tv. i'd do anything to watch tv instead of learning how to install the drives to watch my tv with x windows and linux. quite the paradox no?
I hear you can see these things in live action every single day up in Concord..
You just gotta accept that layer 7 of the OSI is a write-off at this point and hang out with all the cool kids on layer 2 and 3.. dont go near 4, though, that's still on the other side of the tracks.
its like anything, really. if head doctors, chefs using robotic arms, and well, whatever you can imagine, are available overseas for a fraction of the cost, people in this country will always end up losing out. tech jobs are being replaced like this cause its the very infrastructure we develop that enables the transition out. oh well. other occupations in the future will eventually end up getting shipped overseas, until everyone is on the same level, or.. whatever the end result would be.
the day i get a virus on my cell phone or pda is the day i throw said cell phone or pda into the windshield of whatever SUV it was that beamed it to me accidently whilst turning around to hit their children.
I asked for these from a girl at college a couple years ago, the day we were moving in, and she went balistic on me and told me to get my own. She was CS, too.. sad..
not if your latency still sucks
While this isn't the reason, a reason is that if you are getting a dynamically shared public IP address, and you're running a web server on it, or better, an FTP server which is more likely to be advertised via IP address instead of by a host name, then people, maybe lots of people, are going to store that IP in their address books somewhere. And then three weeks later, you're on your 8th IP, and some cranky day trader with a personal firewall suite gets your old IP- he thinks he is being hacked. So he calls his ISP and crabs at them, and there's little recourse. So the ISP gets chewed out and they waste an hour calming the customer. They just spent whatever the (cost of their employee + overhead) * call duration is. If they decide to block the services like that, they avoid the cost of similar calls, and can reallocate that money into buying more bandwidth to satisfy all the P2P users that they haven't figured out how to deal with yet!
*shrug* I'd rather have my ISP make the money they need and stay afloat rather than let them not be money grubbing and fail, and then leave me with one ISP that can charge whatever it wants (if I'm lucky enough to be left with one) Most ISPs arent exactly floating in cash. Maybe the big ones are, though. The middle sized and smaller ones definitely are not.
ISPs make their money on a gamble. Most people will use about 1/8th of what they can, say. So an ISP will oversell by 8 times that to cover the cost of that one line and the overhead of getting it internetworked and maintained. Granted there needs to be a new model that covers people using 100% of their connection by default instead of 12%, but I haven't heard of too many options, other than paying 500 bucks a month for access (at which point you're a dedicated customer and your ISP already has a plan for you).
more accessible story [to Western audiences]
Tetsuo: Kaneda!!!!!
Kaneda: Tetsuo!!!!!
Tetsuo: Kaneda!!!!!
Kaneda: Tetsuo!!!!!
Tetsuo: Kaneda!!!!!
Kaneda: "I'm getting too old for this [expletive]"
since the dawning of time evil men have thwarted to abuse the societies they dwell in. ever since the original urge to evolve from single celled space snots into the form of the human being, this evil force has compelled a portion of our fair species to evolve one step beyond the main stream. as early as the 1800s humans have developed simplistic vocal patterns used to convery root directives between what we refer to as "nodes". these nodes, when in a collaberative setting, can communicate rapidly, and the use of technology has only spread this disturbing pattern. eventually is is conceivable that these evil nodes will dominate the world with their bloodthirsty lust for communication.. modern day usage of "internet" relay chats indicates what we shall call "Big Trouble Ahead". If given time to spread, we may find that evil nodes of human clusters will continue their ravaging in search of the ultimate form of communication. we as reasonable members of the species must do everything we can to thwart this insidious infestation. Indeed, our very futures depends on it.
And I wonder if their count was able to figure out which distros were linux even though their name doesnt have linux in the title. Or vice versa.
So what is counted as Unix? Solaris and ____...
who is the guy that is in the slashdot censor icon?
Do you have a link? I'd like to read more about what you say.
i liked it when BLADE turned into that cartoon fighter, when he was fighting the two cyborg vampires, and he did MAD FLIPS and A FULL OLLIE off a TELEVISION. Then he BUSTED some HEADS with the POWER OF THE SUN. Blade is the all american hero, he's like a half dead GI JOE with better gear than BATMAN and cooler sunglasses than the freakin TERMINATOR. If I were BLADE I would open my own diner and call it Blade's Diner and I wouldn't serve vampires, either.
"Oh yeah. Nah, I didn't die. What, you didn't know that? The vampires got me. Jeez pay attention kid."
This one time on slashdot, there was this IBM ad... they were cocky enough to claim that they could BOX HACKERS OUT and still manage to BUILD TRUST IN.
as a fanboy otaku i can tell you its best to name all your machines after cutesey Japanese girl's names. ALL OF THEM. cause when they ping back, that means they really do love you, and no one can EVER take that away from you. ever. *snicker*
ibm defaced my slashdot page! :'(
replying to this article as an isp with about 12k email accounts, I'd like to point out that the biggest thing holding an ISP back from implementing large global spam blocking routines is the fear of dropping more than zero legitimate emails. It's like that old legal thought, "better to let 10 guilty men go free than to jail 1 innocent man". If I blocked an email inviting someone's grampa to the family reunion and killed 500 pr0n spams, and found out about it, I'd feel miserable for days. (Not that such a ruleset would be that likely to trigger for both- if it did I'd prolly end up with a giant R branded to my forehead for "regex")
anyone ever responded to a spam pretending to be interested in the product? I get about a 20% turnaround on "serious inquiries". If I am using a real email address and look like a real customer, and they arent even writing back to me... they must be spamming several times what they could "legitimately" handle.
I agree that most sites suck when it comes to navigation, but i think the mantra of the matrix site is one of obfuscation...