I've tried that build and I was unable to get it to recognize any Ghostscript implementation I installed on the system. (Of course, I used fink to install the various Ghostscripts) ImageMagick needs Ghostscript for marking up a graphic with text. Maybe it's worth another try...I sort of gave up mirroring my whole web server environment under OS X, and just stay hooked up to a trusty Intel box running Linux. Unfortunately, the subtle implication here is I can't camp out at the coffee house and tap out code cuz it costs too much to stay connected. Where do these hotspot guys get the bill-by-the-minute idea from anyway?
there are still some programs, like ImageMagick, that are total hair-pullers under OS X and fink doesn't make it easy either, cuz fink unstable is earlier than current distro of xyz app...
I'm not sure about this however I've heard (maybe a ul, and IANAL btw) that a blackbelt using his/her hands in any type of hand-to-hand combat constitutes assault with a deadly weapon, and such an assualt no doubt implies deadly force.
You sir (or mam, pardon me), are definitely taking my comment out of context. I did not suggest nor did I intend to infer that any lawyer who may be an object of this discussion has any kind of a drug habit. I meant only to say as an example that a Bar Association would not summarily disbar an evidently felonious lawyer, and further I stated that making untrue claims in a law suit was not even felonious. This was all in my attempt to suggest the naivete' of the poster to whom I originally replied, who suggested disbarment proceedings were a logical approach.
As to your comment about jurisdiction, this is precisely why they chose to sue European-based antispam outfits. It is harder for them to defend themselves. American Law can do a lot to foreigners too. For example, Spamhaus will likely have to post a bond to cover the alleged damages or risk summary judgment. Rendering a judgment against foreign nationals is within the power of US Courts; enforcment is a different matter, although a win for the spammers will enable them to fly across the pond and start a case over there. Whether UK jurists will summarily accept the judgment of an US Court is another question whose answer remains to be seen, although IANAL I have heard that it helps to win in one country before going to the defendants homeland.
yeah good luck...only a band of lawyers (your local Bar Assoc.) can impose disbarment upon another. likely? i think not... as my friend puts it, one can be a filthy lying coke fiend lawyer with a $1000/day habit, and get disbarred only by misappropriating a client's trust account.
alleging incorrect statements in a motion is not perjury; if so, all lawyers would be in prison. the burden in a civil case is different than that which you are used to watching on The Practice. besides isn't that the very definition of allegation? to assert without proof or before proving. anyway the point of a motion like this is to bury the other side by getting them to answer each and every point in an effort to quash the motion.
and YES it is an abuse of the legal system and there are Anti-SLAPP laws on the books in many states although for some reason I sort of believe Florida, being one of the most backward states in the union, probably doesn't have them. i may be wrong about that, and i really hope i am because a prevailing defendent in an anti-SLAPP action gets costs plus bonuses and possible punitives.
the thing for spamhaus to be careful of is somewhere in one of those allegations is probably a snooker tactic to get them go on record taking a position that will later prove indefensible. is there a legal fund getting established? dude better not try to fight this on his own, he'll get diced and sliced and cut into hundreds of julienne fries.
anyway IANAL, what i write is based on swapping war stories with my best friend who IAL. he has successfully won some anti-SLAPP actions in California.
When the brand new Defender machine showed up at the arcade where I used to play hookey in the 8th grade, I remember thinking "man I want to make something cool like this". Shortly after that, I started to pursue computer programming, studying Basic then C in the computer lab before and after school, and while cutting classes throughout the day. I never got involved in video game programming, but I have earned my living (continuously, I might add) as a programmer for the past twenty years.
I get distorted reality from Battlefield in that when I see some jackass who doesn't know how to drive their SUV, I visulaize myself tossing a couple of grenades under their urban tank and then imagine it exploding like a vehicle in Battlefield. I chuckle, then go along my merry way.
Macs are not for people who want to do things to their computers. They are for people who want to do things with their computers.
If you want to hack a computer together, visit your local nameless commdtity computer shop, go download some slackware or debian iso's, and get busy. Better yet, why not run Plan 9 on it?
On the other hand, if you really want an economical solution for running Mac software, visit the "Special Deals" section on the Apple Store. Refurbs can be had for not much more money than bargain basement wintels. If economy is your primary concern, I would like to point out spending your time on a venture like building a Mac from scratch is a false economy.
Oh yeah, and I proactively call bullshit on any follow-ups proclaiming the joy of hardware hacking. If that's the case, you really don't need a stinking adapter for a power plug.
When you sign up to distribute a vendors' wares, typically this is done under the terms of a contract. The contract is a written documentation of the terms agreed to by both parties.
Most vendors will put a revision clause in, "subject to modification with 90 days notice" (which is generous IMO). Which means that the vendor can terminate the contract with 90 days notice, if merchants refuse to accept a new contract.
So what's to bitch about? Any GW merchants signed a contract, showing their agreement with the terms. Nobody held them at gunpoint when signing.
I didn't know about the DOM Inspector in Mozilla. I've been using a very handy script from BrainJar called DOM Viewer. The key advantage is it works cross-browser. Also enables you to see what object properties are available on one browser vs. another.
I felt the post to which I was replying was pretty foolish, saying "Connectix/Microsoft can't readd video card support because of endian issues.". I don't see that there actually would need to be any endian translation as the driver HAS to give data to the card in *its* native format, although I admit I have not researched the topic in depth. Besides, if reordering is actually needed, what? we can't call swab()?
I allowed the fact that it received a +3 Interesting to drive me to sarcasm. The hard part in emulating (and yes, I've worked on an emulator before) is the volume of code needed to pretend to be each and every opcode of the target machine, and correct replication of undocumented "features" (I call them bugs), *NOT* swabbing the bytes. But then again, why would I expect any kind of sanity in a sub-thread that heads off with someone wishing they could play Battlefield 1942 on a Mac under VPC? Note: I am a Mac user, and I use my P4 machine for playing bf1942.
Anyway, the sarcasm was intended to obviate the twitfulness of such a comment. I thought the punch about patenting it would drive it home as obviously humorous. I apologize for having mislead you...this is always a risk with sarcasm.
Of course not...it is only possible to emulate instructions of another CPU, and impossible to re-order words from one architechture to another. If anyone figures this algorithm out, better patent it quick!
My thought exactly...Just increase the number of sending threads.
The tarpit idea will only work if in tarpit mode a bunch of "nop" style replies are sent back to the spammer to increase their bandwidth usage. Hopefully, this would be on the order of 10 bytes back to them for each byte they send to us. This would actually slow them down, or if not, at least increase their bandwidth bill. If it hits hard enough in the pocketbook, maybe they'll employ countermeasures to disconnect when they see the flood coming back their way...In that case, problem solved.
Which leads to another idea...disconnect when spamminess reaches a certain threshhold, then block sending IP ala PortSentry. Combined with some automated-whitelisting (like whitelist every domain my server sends to) to avoid false-positives, this could be effective.
Slashdot Mirror
I've tried that build and I was unable to get it to recognize any Ghostscript implementation I installed on the system. (Of course, I used fink to install the various Ghostscripts) ImageMagick needs Ghostscript for marking up a graphic with text. Maybe it's worth another try...I sort of gave up mirroring my whole web server environment under OS X, and just stay hooked up to a trusty Intel box running Linux. Unfortunately, the subtle implication here is I can't camp out at the coffee house and tap out code cuz it costs too much to stay connected. Where do these hotspot guys get the bill-by-the-minute idea from anyway?
most amateur counterfeiters get caught
Evidently neither did the Aussie gov't webmaster either cuz now the page is 404.
there are still some programs, like ImageMagick, that are total hair-pullers under OS X and fink doesn't make it easy either, cuz fink unstable is earlier than current distro of xyz app...
I think it says we'd rather let 1000 guilty people go free rather then imprison 1 innocent person.
I'm not sure about this however I've heard (maybe a ul, and IANAL btw) that a blackbelt using his/her hands in any type of hand-to-hand combat constitutes assault with a deadly weapon, and such an assualt no doubt implies deadly force.
Candidate for Bartlett's Famous Quotations?
As to your comment about jurisdiction, this is precisely why they chose to sue European-based antispam outfits. It is harder for them to defend themselves. American Law can do a lot to foreigners too. For example, Spamhaus will likely have to post a bond to cover the alleged damages or risk summary judgment. Rendering a judgment against foreign nationals is within the power of US Courts; enforcment is a different matter, although a win for the spammers will enable them to fly across the pond and start a case over there. Whether UK jurists will summarily accept the judgment of an US Court is another question whose answer remains to be seen, although IANAL I have heard that it helps to win in one country before going to the defendants homeland.
I think you'd have better results complaining to The Better Business Bureau.
alleging incorrect statements in a motion is not perjury; if so, all lawyers would be in prison. the burden in a civil case is different than that which you are used to watching on The Practice. besides isn't that the very definition of allegation? to assert without proof or before proving. anyway the point of a motion like this is to bury the other side by getting them to answer each and every point in an effort to quash the motion.
and YES it is an abuse of the legal system and there are Anti-SLAPP laws on the books in many states although for some reason I sort of believe Florida, being one of the most backward states in the union, probably doesn't have them. i may be wrong about that, and i really hope i am because a prevailing defendent in an anti-SLAPP action gets costs plus bonuses and possible punitives.
the thing for spamhaus to be careful of is somewhere in one of those allegations is probably a snooker tactic to get them go on record taking a position that will later prove indefensible. is there a legal fund getting established? dude better not try to fight this on his own, he'll get diced and sliced and cut into hundreds of julienne fries.
anyway IANAL, what i write is based on swapping war stories with my best friend who IAL. he has successfully won some anti-SLAPP actions in California.
When the brand new Defender machine showed up at the arcade where I used to play hookey in the 8th grade, I remember thinking "man I want to make something cool like this". Shortly after that, I started to pursue computer programming, studying Basic then C in the computer lab before and after school, and while cutting classes throughout the day. I never got involved in video game programming, but I have earned my living (continuously, I might add) as a programmer for the past twenty years.
I get distorted reality from Battlefield in that when I see some jackass who doesn't know how to drive their SUV, I visulaize myself tossing a couple of grenades under their urban tank and then imagine it exploding like a vehicle in Battlefield. I chuckle, then go along my merry way.
YAY! MULE! I can't say tho it really "affected" me.
If you want to hack a computer together, visit your local nameless commdtity computer shop, go download some slackware or debian iso's, and get busy. Better yet, why not run Plan 9 on it?
On the other hand, if you really want an economical solution for running Mac software, visit the "Special Deals" section on the Apple Store. Refurbs can be had for not much more money than bargain basement wintels. If economy is your primary concern, I would like to point out spending your time on a venture like building a Mac from scratch is a false economy.
Oh yeah, and I proactively call bullshit on any follow-ups proclaiming the joy of hardware hacking. If that's the case, you really don't need a stinking adapter for a power plug.
Dude they had to say "trillion" or risk lookin' a fool like Dr. Evil.
Most vendors will put a revision clause in, "subject to modification with 90 days notice" (which is generous IMO). Which means that the vendor can terminate the contract with 90 days notice, if merchants refuse to accept a new contract.
So what's to bitch about? Any GW merchants signed a contract, showing their agreement with the terms. Nobody held them at gunpoint when signing.
I didn't know about the DOM Inspector in Mozilla. I've been using a very handy script from BrainJar called DOM Viewer. The key advantage is it works cross-browser. Also enables you to see what object properties are available on one browser vs. another.
Gnutella
Actually, Neither. It says you cannot obscure the "origin" of a communication. Forwarding allows you to obscure the "destination".
I allowed the fact that it received a +3 Interesting to drive me to sarcasm. The hard part in emulating (and yes, I've worked on an emulator before) is the volume of code needed to pretend to be each and every opcode of the target machine, and correct replication of undocumented "features" (I call them bugs), *NOT* swabbing the bytes. But then again, why would I expect any kind of sanity in a sub-thread that heads off with someone wishing they could play Battlefield 1942 on a Mac under VPC? Note: I am a Mac user, and I use my P4 machine for playing bf1942.
Anyway, the sarcasm was intended to obviate the twitfulness of such a comment. I thought the punch about patenting it would drive it home as obviously humorous. I apologize for having mislead you...this is always a risk with sarcasm.
Of course not...it is only possible to emulate instructions of another CPU, and impossible to re-order words from one architechture to another. If anyone figures this algorithm out, better patent it quick!
Oi! Green Flapper
It's necessary for CT to post a story out her to get people to bitch about him?
Truly though, detection and then blacklisting is the solution for open relays.
The tarpit idea will only work if in tarpit mode a bunch of "nop" style replies are sent back to the spammer to increase their bandwidth usage. Hopefully, this would be on the order of 10 bytes back to them for each byte they send to us. This would actually slow them down, or if not, at least increase their bandwidth bill. If it hits hard enough in the pocketbook, maybe they'll employ countermeasures to disconnect when they see the flood coming back their way...In that case, problem solved.
Which leads to another idea...disconnect when spamminess reaches a certain threshhold, then block sending IP ala PortSentry. Combined with some automated-whitelisting (like whitelist every domain my server sends to) to avoid false-positives, this could be effective.