My co-located server has been blacklisted by SPEWS for months now. And it's only because of a spammer elsewhere on my two-providers-up-the-chain regional ISP. And the spammer is on a different C-class entirely, yet my IP range was still included as punishment to the ISP. The fact that I suffer as a result doesn't matter to these people. Changing providers is not an option for me at this point (long story) so I've just had to live with it. I can't email several friends, and regularly field complaints from people who host on my server.
I believe in fighting spam, and I think that blacklists are a good idea to a certain degree, but I've always felt that SPEWS was too draconian, and had no option for recourse for those of us who were (as they put it) "collateral damage".
I posted to the referred newsgroup a few times, and got nothing but venom from the locals.
I've been using it for a few weeks now, and while it has problems and little annoyances, it's by far the best P2P client I've found (for Windows only though).
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Actually those are in-game screenshots, as the developers and media at E3 were able to confirm.
Do your research..
Turning a blind eye to the problem is partly what has caused this type of thing to increase.
I don't think waiting for it to die down is any kind of intelligent solution.
"The human genome project will be handled most likely like any other huge and potentially dangerous human advance. People will first misuse it, they will get burned very badly, and then they will learn how to control it and how to use it in such a way as to benefit them and not burn them. "
The problem here is that this is a technology that has the potential to burn beyond recognition if care is not taken.. It's one thing to misuse it at first and then learn from your mistakes, but dead people don't learn much..
Think about nuclear weapons, which are much more immediately destructive. At first, nobody really know the extent of their power, and we had to nuke somebody to find out. Nowadays, we're using those advances for nuclear power and nuclear science, and getting by with the advantages and refraining from destroying ourselves. We have for the most part reached a reasonably stable state with nuclear power, EXCLUDING the possibility of crackpot governments nuking everybody back to the stone age.
Umm.. and how many people suffered and died so that we could get to this point? Trial and error is easy to excuse when you don't have to deal with the errors..
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"As long as we sit behind our computers and just bitch about these things and not take direct action of making public statements outside geek forums like slashdot we are all guilty of getting what we get. I was watching c-span tonight and I saw corporate interest after corporate interest represented but no one with an other prospective; the consumers perspective. This was a joint senate house committee on technology and economic policy."
Tell me how I can show up and be heard on that show and I'll be there.. Barrier to entry is a real fact that most people forget.. Feel free to stand on a street corner and yell out "The software companies are ripping you off!".. Most people just don't care.. It's sad, but it's the truth.. And to make sure that those people keep on not caring, companies will never let people like us get a loud enough voice.. It's not called _MS_NBC for nothing you know.. Do you really think that a corporate news network is going to let someone go on the air and bash their corporate buddies? Not likely.. but that's another problem altogether..
cutting the wheat from the chaff..
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"The libertarian ethic that has always defined much of the Internet associates government with threats to liberty. Traditionally, the libertarian is concerned about reducing the power of government. But threats to liberty change: in our time, they increasingly arise from corporate, not governmental power. And there is no mainstream political movement primarily concerned with that, in part because corporatism has acquired much of the press and now provides the primary funding for the political system."
This is probably the most important statement in that entire essay.. Government and political bribery is now legal in the U.S.. Why should a company worry about controlling it's interests, when it can just pay the government to do it for them..
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The Dilbert strip makes a good point.
I have a Canon SD-10, 4 megapixel camera. It's actually smaller than my Sony Ericsson cell phone.
My co-located server has been blacklisted by SPEWS for months now. And it's only because of a spammer elsewhere on my two-providers-up-the-chain regional ISP. And the spammer is on a different C-class entirely, yet my IP range was still included as punishment to the ISP. The fact that I suffer as a result doesn't matter to these people. Changing providers is not an option for me at this point (long story) so I've just had to live with it. I can't email several friends, and regularly field complaints from people who host on my server.
I believe in fighting spam, and I think that blacklists are a good idea to a certain degree, but I've always felt that SPEWS was too draconian, and had no option for recourse for those of us who were (as they put it) "collateral damage".
I posted to the referred newsgroup a few times, and got nothing but venom from the locals.
I'm not sad to see them go.
They should also rename the show "Starfleet Troopers"..
Aliens destroy part of the earth, humans race off after them..
Bring in Michael Ironside and we're in business!
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231,995 users online, sharing 20,357,000 files (91,722.0 GB).
I've been using it for a few weeks now, and while it has problems and little annoyances, it's by far the best P2P client I've found (for Windows only though).
Actually those are in-game screenshots, as the developers and media at E3 were able to confirm. Do your research..
Turning a blind eye to the problem is partly what has caused this type of thing to increase. I don't think waiting for it to die down is any kind of intelligent solution.
There are other sections on Slashdot??? Geez I guess I'm not the only one who may have just realized this, seeing the number of posts.
Keep your door locked then. If it is, then there is no problem, if it's not, it's your fault.
The problem here is that this is a technology that has the potential to burn beyond recognition if care is not taken.. It's one thing to misuse it at first and then learn from your mistakes, but dead people don't learn much..
Think about nuclear weapons, which are much more immediately destructive. At first, nobody really know the extent of their power, and we had to nuke somebody to find out. Nowadays, we're using those advances for nuclear power and nuclear science, and getting by with the advantages and refraining from destroying ourselves. We have for the most part reached a reasonably stable state with nuclear power, EXCLUDING the possibility of crackpot governments nuking everybody back to the stone age.
Umm.. and how many people suffered and died so that we could get to this point? Trial and error is easy to excuse when you don't have to deal with the errors..
Tell me how I can show up and be heard on that show and I'll be there.. Barrier to entry is a real fact that most people forget.. Feel free to stand on a street corner and yell out "The software companies are ripping you off!".. Most people just don't care.. It's sad, but it's the truth.. And to make sure that those people keep on not caring, companies will never let people like us get a loud enough voice.. It's not called _MS_NBC for nothing you know.. Do you really think that a corporate news network is going to let someone go on the air and bash their corporate buddies? Not likely.. but that's another problem altogether..
This is probably the most important statement in that entire essay.. Government and political bribery is now legal in the U.S.. Why should a company worry about controlling it's interests, when it can just pay the government to do it for them..