Where's the MTA/Milter that after detecting a spam, sends a guy to the spammers house who, upon arrival, shoots the spammer in the back of the head and then deposits a can of Hormel SPAM(tm) on the corpse?
I'd require no more than 1% false positives for spammer identification. Can't make an omelette and all that.
I can't agree with you more. I think about this whole tax infrastructure that's built up, and how much power the whole system has, and how ridiculously corrupt and crap it is.
It makes me want to start blowing up banks quite frankly.
I am not sure I agree. They are not competitive at all in the desktop space. In the notebook space they are closer.
However, that said - my current laptop is a PC.. An Athlon 2.4, 1gig.. I WANTED a Powerbook, quite badly. But the equivelant powerbook was $1000 (CDN) more than this machine.
I just couldn't justify that.
On the desktop side, they don't even try to make it cost-competitive.
Fine, agreed. However, when you let these guys chargeback on a payment they didn't make.. How about not winking and nodding and letting them keep their "defrauded" card.
I would be quite fine with the chargeback situation if every time one of these guys did it, they lost their card and had to wait for a replacement. That's what happens when you legitimately have a card stolen or misplaced - so why not when you say a charge mysteriously appeared?
Visa doesn't care - they make money either way. They actually make MORE money if the customer charges back.
Carded signups (from affiliate fraud) don't result in the member logging in, downloading all your content, and then retaining for weeks and weeks. That's consumer fraud, and it's the majority of chargebacks.
The leading cause of the Internet porn industry's large % of chargebacks is... wait for it..
Consumer Fraud.
That's not someone getting their credit card stolen. That's Joe Sixpack getting busted by Jane Sixpack for a charge on his CC statement and calling in to charge it back after having been a loyal member for months and months.
Most of the time the sites in question have detailed logs of this guys IP and such, but it doesn't matter. Visa (and MC) have made it perfectly clear that you are completely without obligation to pay for porn or other "high risk" charges on your CC.
Call in to your CC company, say "I didn't make these charges, blah"... Visa rep sees they're for porn and immediately lets you chargeback. Of course, they don't want to inconvenience the "poor" customer, so they don't invalidate the card. This raises a question: If you didn't make those charges, who did, scumbag?
Anyway, as you can see it's a hot button. There's a reason for chargebacks. It's the CC companies enabling consumer fraud, plain and simple. If you look at chargeback percentages, the numbers are actually HIGHER for industries that ship a tangible product, something like 11% - Visa requires us porn merchants to stay under 1%.
And to comment on Asscroft: Thank god this clown will be out of office in November.
Check out Suprnova or any of the other torrent sites (some specifically for TV).. Just about any decent show you want will be on BT an hour or two after it airs.
So Australian football will never be on there. But if it were, it'd be an hour, not a day after it airs. Live in the Now!
I see them quite regularly on Suprnova, but there's some little messageboard that they come from.. I'd suggest look through the past DS postings on Suprnova and see what sites they link to.
Not according to the law it isn't. Copyright infringement and theft have different constitutional bases, are covered by different statutes, fall under different jurisdictions, incur different penalties, require different types of proof, and are subject to a different range of acceptable defenses. In the law there is no overlap between theft and copyright infringement whatsoever.
I am totally stealing that for use on the next tard who tries to tell me that downloading mp3s is theft.
In Kim Stanley Robinsons ** Mars Series, the space elevator dodges satellites (one of them being Phobos or Deimos, can't remember which), by oscillating the cable with manuevering thrusters all along the length of the cable.
Interestingly, there was also meteorite defenses all along the cable and it was much thicker than they are proposing here (100m?)
Interesting read, that series, even if it does read like a physics/geology text for the majority of all 3 books.
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He said Vintage cars man. 86 is old, but not that old.
Where's the MTA/Milter that after detecting a spam, sends a guy to the spammers house who, upon arrival, shoots the spammer in the back of the head and then deposits a can of Hormel SPAM(tm) on the corpse?
I'd require no more than 1% false positives for spammer identification. Can't make an omelette and all that.
I'll pay $29.95 a month for that one.
I can't agree with you more. I think about this whole tax infrastructure that's built up, and how much power the whole system has, and how ridiculously corrupt and crap it is.
It makes me want to start blowing up banks quite frankly.
So, the reason you're not buying:
"I am downloading MP3s happily,"
Pirate.
NB: I own every Black Sabbath album (with Ozzy)
Sorry mate, but they suck. They aren't even good by contemporary metal standards.
I have a relative whos CD I could push in these threads, but I don't.
Apologies if I've offended, but really dude.
I am not sure I agree. They are not competitive at all in the desktop space. In the notebook space they are closer.
However, that said - my current laptop is a PC.. An Athlon 2.4, 1gig.. I WANTED a Powerbook, quite badly. But the equivelant powerbook was $1000 (CDN) more than this machine.
I just couldn't justify that.
On the desktop side, they don't even try to make it cost-competitive.
It works a hell of a lot better than any of the IM voip stuff we've tried. Effortlessly works through any manner of firewalls..
Get this - calling my friend in Thailand over Skype, the call quality is better over his 28.8k connection than me calling him on the phone.
Great piece of software.
Fine, agreed. However, when you let these guys chargeback on a payment they didn't make.. How about not winking and nodding and letting them keep their "defrauded" card.
I would be quite fine with the chargeback situation if every time one of these guys did it, they lost their card and had to wait for a replacement. That's what happens when you legitimately have a card stolen or misplaced - so why not when you say a charge mysteriously appeared?
Visa doesn't care - they make money either way. They actually make MORE money if the customer charges back.
Carded signups (from affiliate fraud) don't result in the member logging in, downloading all your content, and then retaining for weeks and weeks. That's consumer fraud, and it's the majority of chargebacks.
Affiliate fraud is MUCH easier to deal with.
To Be Clear:
The leading cause of the Internet porn industry's large % of chargebacks is... wait for it..
Consumer Fraud.
That's not someone getting their credit card stolen. That's Joe Sixpack getting busted by Jane Sixpack for a charge on his CC statement and calling in to charge it back after having been a loyal member for months and months.
Most of the time the sites in question have detailed logs of this guys IP and such, but it doesn't matter. Visa (and MC) have made it perfectly clear that you are completely without obligation to pay for porn or other "high risk" charges on your CC.
Call in to your CC company, say "I didn't make these charges, blah"... Visa rep sees they're for porn and immediately lets you chargeback. Of course, they don't want to inconvenience the "poor" customer, so they don't invalidate the card. This raises a question: If you didn't make those charges, who did, scumbag?
Anyway, as you can see it's a hot button. There's a reason for chargebacks. It's the CC companies enabling consumer fraud, plain and simple. If you look at chargeback percentages, the numbers are actually HIGHER for industries that ship a tangible product, something like 11% - Visa requires us porn merchants to stay under 1%.
And to comment on Asscroft: Thank god this clown will be out of office in November.
After the first couple times, you didn't think to back up the source and just re-checkin the good source in the morning?
Where've you been? This is already happenning.
Check out Suprnova or any of the other torrent sites (some specifically for TV).. Just about any decent show you want will be on BT an hour or two after it airs.
So Australian football will never be on there. But if it were, it'd be an hour, not a day after it airs. Live in the Now!
Except for the baby one, I would buy just about every one of them. ;>
Of course, this is missing the point that it would have been a Very Bad Thing if Apple had won that stupid look and feel lawsuit.
Do you really want to pay the Apple Overlords everytime you buy a program that Clicks(tm) a Widget(tm)?
He was a zombie that got his head blown off in the new Dawn of the Dead.
He took it in a very dignified way, and didn't get to eat anyones brains at all.
They have, it's called Savage.
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More correctly, they are charging you more if you don't use them.
Not that it doesn't amount to the same thing mind you.
You don't actually believe that do you?
Read my lips: No New Bushes.
;>
Or old ones for that matter.
Good post. Do you use these quiet boxes for media center PCs?
I'd think that you'd want a completely silent (or as near to it as you can get) PC for that kind of application.
I see them quite regularly on Suprnova, but there's some little messageboard that they come from.. I'd suggest look through the past DS postings on Suprnova and see what sites they link to.
This works fine as an anti-bot solution, but the key is to make sure the link is non-human visible. Humans would click that link, a lot.
Use a div tag or your container of choice with style="visible:false" or what have you.
The daily show is quite religiously posted on a couple torrent sites daily, so you're down to one. ;>
I am totally stealing that for use on the next tard who tries to tell me that downloading mp3s is theft.
(Pun intended.)
In Kim Stanley Robinsons ** Mars Series, the space elevator dodges satellites (one of them being Phobos or Deimos, can't remember which), by oscillating the cable with manuevering thrusters all along the length of the cable.
Interestingly, there was also meteorite defenses all along the cable and it was much thicker than they are proposing here (100m?)
Interesting read, that series, even if it does read like a physics/geology text for the majority of all 3 books.