Do you have a *good* reliable geographicIP delegation table? I can never find one, and if I do, it's old, or grossly inadequate.
I'd love to have one; I wouldn't necessarily *blacklist* APNIC, but I would definitely rate-limit the entire APNIC to 28.8kbps into my network. I'm not sure it would "end" anything, but it would slow down spammers and/or cause them to give up on us.
In following that logic, If you steal a car from an auto dealer you should still be able to get service on that vehicle. Or presume there is a recall on that vehicle, you should be allowed to get the repair taken care of ?!? NO F'n WAY!
The question is whether the theft removes all the manufacturer liability for defective products. I don't believe it does.
Let's assume that I own a 2004 Ford Exploder and Ford issues a recall for faulty master cylinders that could cause a total loss of braking ability. Now, let's also assume that due to my self-important schedule I put off the recall work; the shop told me it'd be there a week, they have a ton of vehicles to fix, and I've got work, family, etc. obligations and I decide to wait to get it fixed.
Now, let's assume that someone steals the vehicle from my yard six months later. I still hadn't gotten the recall fixup (lazy, busy, whatever), and the theives crash my Exploder into a minivan full of 5th graders on the way to a soccer game due to the master cylinder problem from above.
Who's at fault, here?
You'd like to blame the thieves, but basic accident forensics shows that the master cylinder failed -- it wasn't reckless driving, speeding, etc. How about Ford? Well, they supplied the vehicle but they made a good effort to get it fixed. What about me? I blew it off, but because Ford's terms were so unacceptable, and I neither drove the vehicle in the accident nor did I create the defect.
The lesson for MS is that if we allow that the defect is ultimately at fault and the manufacturer held responsible, even the piracy of their software shouldn't eliminate their liability for defects, even if their products are used in a manner inconsistant with copyright law.
If MS wants to get back at crackers who use Windows Update, have it disable the network. Not only does this make the computers essentially worthless for most people, it shuts out the viruses, spyware and other crap. Refusing to provide ANY patches for them just feels like finger pointing by MS, and denial of any liability.
My guess is that it was all they could get ahold of.
1) File lawsuit against spammer.
2) File motion to freeze spammers assets. Make case that spammer has shown willingness to be sneaky, underhanded, pushing fraudulent products, etc and that its necessary to ensure spammer has viable assets should plaintiff win.
3) Win case. Spammer's business assets are near zero except for car, which couldn't be sold due to freeze. Everything else is leased/rented or of zero salable value. AOL agrees to take car before spammer decides to park it on street with keys in ignition to spite AOL.
4) Spammer goes to farm field owned under another corporate umbrella, digs up cash vacuum sealed in plastic sacks stuffed in PVC pipes. Pays attorney and re-starts spamming business.
5) AOL sells car, claims "victory" in war on spam.
"The Office" and other BBC America shows, many of the movies on IFC and Sundance, I'd like for all the major news programs (networks, CNN, Fox) to be in HD, especially their field reports.
Basically I consider about 10-20% of TV content to be at all worth watching, and maybe 20% of that is offered in HD.
I'm glad I get it, HBO Sunday is great, but overall the odds that something you will want to watch *right now* is in HD are pretty low.
Sports, popular TV shows, and most of the movies on HBO really aren't that compelling, which is why I said that. HD PPV is hardly universal, and the selection isn't that compelling anyway.
Besides, if your cultural diet is satisfied by spots, popular television and popular cinema, you're not that compelling, either.
HD is a wasteland right now. Some of the networks are in HD some of the time, if network sitcoms and a few sporting events is your idea of watching TV. There's HBO and Showtime, if you get either one, and then there's a PBS and a Discovery HD which are almost just a loop. Beyond that and the re-hashed crap on HDNet there really isn't anything terribly compelling in HD.
Type/Creator may have been more "secure" but they were a PITA to change back in the day. Yes, there were extensions and utilities to change them, but nothing as easy as renaming a dos extension.
It's a look that can be made to work, but it really takes the right clothes, accessories and makeup. And you have to do a little *something* with the hair to give a little bit of style. Just a long mop on top isn't enough.
I'm all in favor of a natural look, but that pale, straight-haired look doesn't really do much for me. It reminds me of tedious academic types with too many cats.
Maybe, but this might actually mean that the authorities will start putting some actual resources into finding SPAM outlets and shutting them down.
I doubt it. I think spam is too big of a money maker for "legitimate" businesses at this point; ISPs, banks, and of course a Slashdot favorite, marketing departments all are making a buck off of spam.
And don't think the possibility of using it for bad-guy communications will help; they'll just use it to limit freedoms, not actually remove the real problems.
Some network problems can be easily identified with any of the usually available tools (ethereal, tcpdump, etherpeek, even the tool built into Win2k server [limited to packets to/from it]), but which tools actually do some kind layer 7 analysis, and not just decodes, on the transactions for you?
Unless you're very well-versed in a specific protocol relative to what you're doing, I've often found that full protocol decodes don't really help all that much because I'm not enough of an expert in the underlying protocol to know what's wrong.
It'd be great to have something say "packet NNN response field FOO bad data" or something to understand what was really wrong or missing.
I use bogofilter and have a corpus of 20k spam messages, I always rescore misfiltered spam, and I still get messages that slip through the filter.
Almost all are messages with a ton of random garbage appended to the message, and one spammer was actually putting whole passages from some book about Abe Lincoln in the messages.
Jamming the message with non-spam words works too well around here.
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Is it possible to retune for maximum durability? I could give a shit how fast my car can go, but I really want it to last to 200,000 miles with minimal problems.
It's a Honda Accord V6, so I'm guessing it already is tuned that way, and that manufacturers probably favor durability over high performance anyway.
I don't get them either, and given many of the skins I've seen, I can't see how people do any real work with them. Garish color schemes, impossible to read fonts, and a lot of really bad artwork.
Public radio gets rants all the time from zealots complaining about all the non-PC choices they make in order to remain a viable entity.
I heard one guy complaing that public radio contributed more to smog than many other non-public businesses due to their massive consumption of electricity, almost of all of which comes from non-green sources like coal and nuclear.
African-American is about the stupidest PC label ever. First, as you rightly point out, it technically has no racial connotation and covers all the other racial groups who have lived in Africa for generations.
Secondly, a Kenyan I knew (who happened to be a black Kenyan), once told me never to call an African African. "There are no such things as Africans. There are not even Kenyans or other such nationalities, although I can tolerate being referred to as Kenyan since it is the best compromise between easily identifiable to foreigners and almost correct."
Technically my wife's boss and daughter are African-American, since both of them were born in South Africa. They're also white, and it would be side-splitting to have her report her "race" in college as African American. I'd wager there are more than a few college scholarships naively defined as being for African Americans, when they really mean blacks.
But isn't that the same thing that happens when a shared library itself is updated in the current shared library model? And worse, there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, since there is no application-specific library set you can specify as the default.
Perhaps making "use local libraries" the default would change this, but I really don't see how it would be any more chaotic than a shared library update generally.
Why do we have shared libraries at all? Is there some real benefit to the operating system or to applications to have them?
Wasn't it not that long ago that most apps were compiled to be statically linked (a.out) and didn't need any shared libraries at all?
Personally I'd rather waste memory and disk with all statically linked applications, but maybe I'm just misinformed. I know I have been nailed by library problems under Linux and Windows.
I'd like to see all apps ship with whatever library they came with, located in the apps directory. When an app launches, have the OS check to see if the libraries required are loaded. If they are, don't load the local libraries, just the unique ones. Make it a run-time option for all apps of something like "Always load local libraries" in the off case that there should be a problem.
This way you could still have systemwide shared libraries that are updatable, but it wouldn't be manditory to use them if it was a problem.
And even worse, those same apps had horrible parsers and often stepped all over a config.sys or autoexec.bat file that was very carefully crafted to make the best use of the various memory regions, TSR load order, etc.
While it's good to see the scammiest spams being publicized and good to see scam equated with spam somewhat generally, the bad thing is that they don't focus on the more common, everday spam that clogs most inboxes and its scam/ID theft/ripoff/illegality.
It's like crime prevention generally -- if all you do is focus on the most outrageous aspects of crime, such as serial killers, you lose focus of the more corrosive, every day crimes like car theft and burglary.
If they would pick the most common/popular spams and then report on the chances of getting ripped off by them, hurt by them, or even arrested for buying something you're not supposed to (X A N A X, FR33 PAY P3R V13W!), it might have more of an impact on it.
I'm afraid that if all they focus on is ridiculous shit like 419s, people will just dismiss the problem as something only fools will fall for.
The real cure is to eliminate the status of the corporation as citizen. This should enable the corporation's executives and board members to more easily be held *personally* responsible for the corporations actions, be it monopoly behavior or environmental negligence.
It's hard to know if $600M means anything to Gates personally; it likely wouldn't effect anything he does, but the fact he was losing that money out of his own pocket might have a psychological effect.
For the vast majority of CEOs, $600M would be a devastating personal fine; many may have enough squirreled away in "safe" places that they won't starve or be on the street(cf. OJ Simpson's "pension"), but they might also not be on a 200ft yacht or travelling in a lear jet, either.
The next step is to make many of these corporate behaviors criminal offenses with jail time as a possible option. While no CEO wants to lose a personal fortune, even retaining a cushy cash safety net is meaningless if you're making license plates in an orange jumpsuit.
I don't get it. What's scary about a girl being on the pill?
Nothing, as long as you're sure she's on the pill. Like she's actually taken some from that pack in the bathroom. And you've seen her do that, every morning, for the past 28 days.
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Do you have a *good* reliable geographicIP delegation table? I can never find one, and if I do, it's old, or grossly inadequate.
I'd love to have one; I wouldn't necessarily *blacklist* APNIC, but I would definitely rate-limit the entire APNIC to 28.8kbps into my network. I'm not sure it would "end" anything, but it would slow down spammers and/or cause them to give up on us.
In following that logic, If you steal a car from an auto dealer you should still be able to get service on that vehicle. Or presume there is a recall on that vehicle, you should be allowed to get the repair taken care of ?!? NO F'n WAY!
The question is whether the theft removes all the manufacturer liability for defective products. I don't believe it does.
Let's assume that I own a 2004 Ford Exploder and Ford issues a recall for faulty master cylinders that could cause a total loss of braking ability. Now, let's also assume that due to my self-important schedule I put off the recall work; the shop told me it'd be there a week, they have a ton of vehicles to fix, and I've got work, family, etc. obligations and I decide to wait to get it fixed.
Now, let's assume that someone steals the vehicle from my yard six months later. I still hadn't gotten the recall fixup (lazy, busy, whatever), and the theives crash my Exploder into a minivan full of 5th graders on the way to a soccer game due to the master cylinder problem from above.
Who's at fault, here?
You'd like to blame the thieves, but basic accident forensics shows that the master cylinder failed -- it wasn't reckless driving, speeding, etc. How about Ford? Well, they supplied the vehicle but they made a good effort to get it fixed. What about me? I blew it off, but because Ford's terms were so unacceptable, and I neither drove the vehicle in the accident nor did I create the defect.
The lesson for MS is that if we allow that the defect is ultimately at fault and the manufacturer held responsible, even the piracy of their software shouldn't eliminate their liability for defects, even if their products are used in a manner inconsistant with copyright law.
If MS wants to get back at crackers who use Windows Update, have it disable the network. Not only does this make the computers essentially worthless for most people, it shuts out the viruses, spyware and other crap. Refusing to provide ANY patches for them just feels like finger pointing by MS, and denial of any liability.
My guess is that it was all they could get ahold of.
1) File lawsuit against spammer.
2) File motion to freeze spammers assets. Make case that spammer has shown willingness to be sneaky, underhanded, pushing fraudulent products, etc and that its necessary to ensure spammer has viable assets should plaintiff win.
3) Win case. Spammer's business assets are near zero except for car, which couldn't be sold due to freeze. Everything else is leased/rented or of zero salable value. AOL agrees to take car before spammer decides to park it on street with keys in ignition to spite AOL.
4) Spammer goes to farm field owned under another corporate umbrella, digs up cash vacuum sealed in plastic sacks stuffed in PVC pipes. Pays attorney and re-starts spamming business.
5) AOL sells car, claims "victory" in war on spam.
"The Office" and other BBC America shows, many of the movies on IFC and Sundance, I'd like for all the major news programs (networks, CNN, Fox) to be in HD, especially their field reports.
Basically I consider about 10-20% of TV content to be at all worth watching, and maybe 20% of that is offered in HD.
I'm glad I get it, HBO Sunday is great, but overall the odds that something you will want to watch *right now* is in HD are pretty low.
Sports, popular TV shows, and most of the movies on HBO really aren't that compelling, which is why I said that. HD PPV is hardly universal, and the selection isn't that compelling anyway.
Besides, if your cultural diet is satisfied by spots, popular television and popular cinema, you're not that compelling, either.
HD is a wasteland right now. Some of the networks are in HD some of the time, if network sitcoms and a few sporting events is your idea of watching TV. There's HBO and Showtime, if you get either one, and then there's a PBS and a Discovery HD which are almost just a loop. Beyond that and the re-hashed crap on HDNet there really isn't anything terribly compelling in HD.
What about dynamic typing, like using file(1)?
Type/Creator may have been more "secure" but they were a PITA to change back in the day. Yes, there were extensions and utilities to change them, but nothing as easy as renaming a dos extension.
It's a look that can be made to work, but it really takes the right clothes, accessories and makeup. And you have to do a little *something* with the hair to give a little bit of style. Just a long mop on top isn't enough.
She needs a stylist, badly.
I'm all in favor of a natural look, but that pale, straight-haired look doesn't really do much for me. It reminds me of tedious academic types with too many cats.
Maybe, but this might actually mean that the authorities will start putting some actual resources into finding SPAM outlets and shutting them down.
I doubt it. I think spam is too big of a money maker for "legitimate" businesses at this point; ISPs, banks, and of course a Slashdot favorite, marketing departments all are making a buck off of spam.
And don't think the possibility of using it for bad-guy communications will help; they'll just use it to limit freedoms, not actually remove the real problems.
Some network problems can be easily identified with any of the usually available tools (ethereal, tcpdump, etherpeek, even the tool built into Win2k server [limited to packets to/from it]), but which tools actually do some kind layer 7 analysis, and not just decodes, on the transactions for you?
Unless you're very well-versed in a specific protocol relative to what you're doing, I've often found that full protocol decodes don't really help all that much because I'm not enough of an expert in the underlying protocol to know what's wrong.
It'd be great to have something say "packet NNN response field FOO bad data" or something to understand what was really wrong or missing.
I use bogofilter and have a corpus of 20k spam messages, I always rescore misfiltered spam, and I still get messages that slip through the filter.
Almost all are messages with a ton of random garbage appended to the message, and one spammer was actually putting whole passages from some book about Abe Lincoln in the messages.
Jamming the message with non-spam words works too well around here.
Is it possible to retune for maximum durability? I could give a shit how fast my car can go, but I really want it to last to 200,000 miles with minimal problems.
It's a Honda Accord V6, so I'm guessing it already is tuned that way, and that manufacturers probably favor durability over high performance anyway.
I don't get them either, and given many of the skins I've seen, I can't see how people do any real work with them. Garish color schemes, impossible to read fonts, and a lot of really bad artwork.
Public radio gets rants all the time from zealots complaining about all the non-PC choices they make in order to remain a viable entity.
I heard one guy complaing that public radio contributed more to smog than many other non-public businesses due to their massive consumption of electricity, almost of all of which comes from non-green sources like coal and nuclear.
At what point is it PC enough?
His daugter is African American because she was born in Africa and was born to a native-born African. Of course they're both white.
My wife and I don't have kids.
Why is it every time school bureaucrats are shown to be fools they have to lash out and suspend students?
African-American is about the stupidest PC label ever. First, as you rightly point out, it technically has no racial connotation and covers all the other racial groups who have lived in Africa for generations.
Secondly, a Kenyan I knew (who happened to be a black Kenyan), once told me never to call an African African. "There are no such things as Africans. There are not even Kenyans or other such nationalities, although I can tolerate being referred to as Kenyan since it is the best compromise between easily identifiable to foreigners and almost correct."
Technically my wife's boss and daughter are African-American, since both of them were born in South Africa. They're also white, and it would be side-splitting to have her report her "race" in college as African American. I'd wager there are more than a few college scholarships naively defined as being for African Americans, when they really mean blacks.
But isn't that the same thing that happens when a shared library itself is updated in the current shared library model? And worse, there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, since there is no application-specific library set you can specify as the default.
Perhaps making "use local libraries" the default would change this, but I really don't see how it would be any more chaotic than a shared library update generally.
Why do we have shared libraries at all? Is there some real benefit to the operating system or to applications to have them?
Wasn't it not that long ago that most apps were compiled to be statically linked (a.out) and didn't need any shared libraries at all?
Personally I'd rather waste memory and disk with all statically linked applications, but maybe I'm just misinformed. I know I have been nailed by library problems under Linux and Windows.
I'd like to see all apps ship with whatever library they came with, located in the apps directory. When an app launches, have the OS check to see if the libraries required are loaded. If they are, don't load the local libraries, just the unique ones. Make it a run-time option for all apps of something like "Always load local libraries" in the off case that there should be a problem.
This way you could still have systemwide shared libraries that are updatable, but it wouldn't be manditory to use them if it was a problem.
I think that's largely what you're advocating.
And even worse, those same apps had horrible parsers and often stepped all over a config.sys or autoexec.bat file that was very carefully crafted to make the best use of the various memory regions, TSR load order, etc.
While it's good to see the scammiest spams being publicized and good to see scam equated with spam somewhat generally, the bad thing is that they don't focus on the more common, everday spam that clogs most inboxes and its scam/ID theft/ripoff/illegality.
It's like crime prevention generally -- if all you do is focus on the most outrageous aspects of crime, such as serial killers, you lose focus of the more corrosive, every day crimes like car theft and burglary.
If they would pick the most common/popular spams and then report on the chances of getting ripped off by them, hurt by them, or even arrested for buying something you're not supposed to (X A N A X, FR33 PAY P3R V13W!), it might have more of an impact on it.
I'm afraid that if all they focus on is ridiculous shit like 419s, people will just dismiss the problem as something only fools will fall for.
The real cure is to eliminate the status of the corporation as citizen. This should enable the corporation's executives and board members to more easily be held *personally* responsible for the corporations actions, be it monopoly behavior or environmental negligence.
It's hard to know if $600M means anything to Gates personally; it likely wouldn't effect anything he does, but the fact he was losing that money out of his own pocket might have a psychological effect.
For the vast majority of CEOs, $600M would be a devastating personal fine; many may have enough squirreled away in "safe" places that they won't starve or be on the street(cf. OJ Simpson's "pension"), but they might also not be on a 200ft yacht or travelling in a lear jet, either.
The next step is to make many of these corporate behaviors criminal offenses with jail time as a possible option. While no CEO wants to lose a personal fortune, even retaining a cushy cash safety net is meaningless if you're making license plates in an orange jumpsuit.
I don't get it. What's scary about a girl being on the pill?
Nothing, as long as you're sure she's on the pill. Like she's actually taken some from that pack in the bathroom. And you've seen her do that, every morning, for the past 28 days.