Believe me, I've just received over 2,500 spams in a little over 3 hours so I want to everything possible against spam. Unfortently, most of it is directed at my "main-been used for 7years+" nodename on my ISP so it's very hard for me to "drop" those mailboxes and I can't do any server side filtering (even though I've got my own server in a datacenter with SpamAssassin on it). Coming home to 10,000+ emails everyday isn't fun - even with my automated "kill spam scripts". Blarg:(
Try - most of the spam I receive is routed through/has sites hosted on servers in China (china-network.net IIRC) but if you trace things back, you'll find out the spammer him/her/themselves are actually in the US. What you've got to remember is the goods have got to be shipped from somewhere and the credit card debited from somewhere: both of which will give a physical address.
Hang on - I've just had a brilliant idea. Let's start buying stuff from spammers on our credit cards - and a week later getting our CC companies to issue "chargebacks" and we can quite legitimetly claim that the advert was fradulant ("it claimed it came from billg@microsoft.tld who I trust, but I've since found out that's faked"): high number of chargebacks=spammers merchant account yanked. Of course, this does however mean giving your CC details to somebody you do not trust....
And how many times is the From: header correct? I've been joe-jobbed myself in the past (where a spammer has faked my domain name in the headers) and woken up to over 10,000 "Message to spammers@target.tld is undeliverable" style messages.
It's more like 52*52*52=140,608 and capitalisation does matter (POP vs PoP =Post Office Protocol vs Point Of Presence). Of course, then you've got to include numbers (to cover things like P2P) and that takes it up to 238,328 combinations - and then you get people who think they are being really smart by using punctuation in acronyms - that takes the possible combinations up to (number of characters in 16bit unicode)*(ditto)*(ditto)=too many.
Yes they do;)
Saying that, when I was in college (not too many years ago), we were told the PIN code was stored on the magnetic strip - at the time I thought that was garbage (as the bank issue me different PIN codes without changing my card and vice versa), but I thought "Well, my teachers are educated people who are being paid to teach this so I guess they know what they are doing"... That was a few years before a programming teacher told me that there was no way you could read the CTRL key status to make a basic WIMP system using "C". I ended up handing in a project around 3 times the size of everybody elses just to prove him wrong:D
Actually - that's a very good point. My house may be a mess: but I can find anything I need within a minute (or less: it just depends on how recently I used that item - if it's been a year or more, it'll be "somewhere in the attic/loft"). My Mother, on the other hand, is very "clean and tidy" yet it can take her 30minutes+ to find one item: a standing joke in my family is "Where's object Y?", "Your Mum has probably 'tidied it away' and we'll never see it again". Books, Magazines, christmas presents (she's still got no idea what she did with my Father's christmas present 2 years ago) all go missing. Me? 30 seconds and Viola: and that includes the time running up the stairs to get to the right room.
True, the internet did manage to "route around" affected areas - but obviously it couldn't "route into" them. It's a bit like a nuclear blast taking out Washington DC: the highway system would survive intact (well, mostly:) ) around the area and vehicles would be able to continue using it, but they couldn't drive into the area (unless, of course, you like mutations;) ).
Ah - the good old "open plan filing system" or "foot level single drawer solution": unfortently, my "preferred" way of filing as well.
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Same with magazine covers: Got a magazine for women? Get a nice looking woman on the front cover. Got a magazine about computers? Get a nice looking woman on the front cover. Got a mans magazine? Get a nice looking woman on the front cover... (note: there is an exception to this rule - magazines such as "Gay Times" which cater to the homosexual market usually have men on the cover, unless of course, they are doing a "lesbian special" or something similar when they'll probably have a nice looking woman on the front cover..)
Kinder Egg (the childrens chocolate with a toy) is probably the "really bad dub" one you are thinking of. Whenever it came on, it made me wince as the dubbing was so bad. Oh - and the pump'n'fresh advert with the oriental boy in the bathroom: I think he said around four words (and one of those was "Phewww") and that was badly dubbed as well.
Dear Leader,
I will be happy to pick lima beans for you so that you can build a nice spaceship in a barn for us to depart to Blisstopia.
Yours,
H.Simpson
Let's face it - do we really want the votes of people who can't figure out how to make an "X" mark next to a name to decide the next president/prime minister?
If only you could contact WU for a specified "fake" number and inform them what you are doing and where you are going to be sending it. Have somebody at the other end (ideally security or police) wait for the WU number to be requested and bingo!
I know when I was "spam baiting" a 419er, I provided them with my name, address and telephone number. Co-incidentally, that was the same point where I imagined I was the Chief Constable of the local police force and my main address and phone number was that of the police station...
Hmmm, and what makes you think your going to heaven then? Last time I hacked into the "Afterlife Allocation List", your name certainly wasn't on the Heaven list, however, postion 59737659278878531 on the other list is another matter...
He is the Alpha and the Omega, the creator and the destroyer - for it was he that spawn Linux and, in a freakish time dilation effect with a parallel universe, fathered Darl McBride which will bring about the end of which we all hold true to our hearts.
It's out already? Cool - cheers for the reminder: my subscription "lapsed" with the last issue (the Burrell cover just as the Tory party vote was starting) - I'll have to grab a copy (I always let my subscription lapse as that way I get larger discounts/offers to renew).
Ah - good ol' Richard Skrenta - founder of the Open Directory Project and many other things - who did, indeedy, write the Elk Cloner virus for the Apple II in 1982. I thought the BBC had the anniversary wrong, but I didn't have anywhere to "moan" by skrenta missing his bit of limelight until now;)
Well, with cloning facilties (but no working artifical wombs), the females of this so called species can do without males: this is our way of proving that we can do without them. Of course, the future of the human species will therefore slip into terminal decline without reproduction - but hey - look on the bright side: at least we won't have to worry about that huge asteriod wiping us out!
"I have a plan to block out the sun" - "Professor Chaos" (aka Butters), South Park. First cartoon characters and now scientists are finding out that "The Simpsons already did it".
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Believe me, I've just received over 2,500 spams in a little over 3 hours so I want to everything possible against spam. Unfortently, most of it is directed at my "main-been used for 7years+" nodename on my ISP so it's very hard for me to "drop" those mailboxes and I can't do any server side filtering (even though I've got my own server in a datacenter with SpamAssassin on it). Coming home to 10,000+ emails everyday isn't fun - even with my automated "kill spam scripts". Blarg :(
Try - most of the spam I receive is routed through/has sites hosted on servers in China (china-network.net IIRC) but if you trace things back, you'll find out the spammer him/her/themselves are actually in the US. What you've got to remember is the goods have got to be shipped from somewhere and the credit card debited from somewhere: both of which will give a physical address.
Hang on - I've just had a brilliant idea. Let's start buying stuff from spammers on our credit cards - and a week later getting our CC companies to issue "chargebacks" and we can quite legitimetly claim that the advert was fradulant ("it claimed it came from billg@microsoft.tld who I trust, but I've since found out that's faked"): high number of chargebacks=spammers merchant account yanked. Of course, this does however mean giving your CC details to somebody you do not trust....
Alas, sending the same email to 1000 email accounts will probably take just a few seconds on a standard ADSL connection nowadays :(
And how many times is the From: header correct? I've been joe-jobbed myself in the past (where a spammer has faked my domain name in the headers) and woken up to over 10,000 "Message to spammers@target.tld is undeliverable" style messages.
Same here in Disney Land Europe (or EuroDisney as it was back then when I went).
It's more like 52*52*52=140,608 and capitalisation does matter (POP vs PoP =Post Office Protocol vs Point Of Presence). Of course, then you've got to include numbers (to cover things like P2P) and that takes it up to 238,328 combinations - and then you get people who think they are being really smart by using punctuation in acronyms - that takes the possible combinations up to (number of characters in 16bit unicode)*(ditto)*(ditto)=too many.
Whilst us poor Brits will just do everything President Bush's lapdog (aka Tony Blair) tells us to do.
Yes they do ;) :D
Saying that, when I was in college (not too many years ago), we were told the PIN code was stored on the magnetic strip - at the time I thought that was garbage (as the bank issue me different PIN codes without changing my card and vice versa), but I thought "Well, my teachers are educated people who are being paid to teach this so I guess they know what they are doing"... That was a few years before a programming teacher told me that there was no way you could read the CTRL key status to make a basic WIMP system using "C". I ended up handing in a project around 3 times the size of everybody elses just to prove him wrong
Actually - that's a very good point. My house may be a mess: but I can find anything I need within a minute (or less: it just depends on how recently I used that item - if it's been a year or more, it'll be "somewhere in the attic/loft"). My Mother, on the other hand, is very "clean and tidy" yet it can take her 30minutes+ to find one item: a standing joke in my family is "Where's object Y?", "Your Mum has probably 'tidied it away' and we'll never see it again". Books, Magazines, christmas presents (she's still got no idea what she did with my Father's christmas present 2 years ago) all go missing. Me? 30 seconds and Viola: and that includes the time running up the stairs to get to the right room.
True, the internet did manage to "route around" affected areas - but obviously it couldn't "route into" them. It's a bit like a nuclear blast taking out Washington DC: the highway system would survive intact (well, mostly :) ) around the area and vehicles would be able to continue using it, but they couldn't drive into the area (unless, of course, you like mutations ;) ).
Ah - the good old "open plan filing system" or "foot level single drawer solution": unfortently, my "preferred" way of filing as well.
Same with magazine covers: Got a magazine for women? Get a nice looking woman on the front cover. Got a magazine about computers? Get a nice looking woman on the front cover. Got a mans magazine? Get a nice looking woman on the front cover... (note: there is an exception to this rule - magazines such as "Gay Times" which cater to the homosexual market usually have men on the cover, unless of course, they are doing a "lesbian special" or something similar when they'll probably have a nice looking woman on the front cover..)
Kinder Egg (the childrens chocolate with a toy) is probably the "really bad dub" one you are thinking of. Whenever it came on, it made me wince as the dubbing was so bad. Oh - and the pump'n'fresh advert with the oriental boy in the bathroom: I think he said around four words (and one of those was "Phewww") and that was badly dubbed as well.
Dear Leader,
I will be happy to pick lima beans for you so that you can build a nice spaceship in a barn for us to depart to Blisstopia.
Yours,
H.Simpson
Let's face it - do we really want the votes of people who can't figure out how to make an "X" mark next to a name to decide the next president/prime minister?
If only you could contact WU for a specified "fake" number and inform them what you are doing and where you are going to be sending it. Have somebody at the other end (ideally security or police) wait for the WU number to be requested and bingo!
I know when I was "spam baiting" a 419er, I provided them with my name, address and telephone number. Co-incidentally, that was the same point where I imagined I was the Chief Constable of the local police force and my main address and phone number was that of the police station...
Hmmm, and what makes you think your going to heaven then? Last time I hacked into the "Afterlife Allocation List", your name certainly wasn't on the Heaven list, however, postion 59737659278878531 on the other list is another matter...
He is the Alpha and the Omega, the creator and the destroyer - for it was he that spawn Linux and, in a freakish time dilation effect with a parallel universe, fathered Darl McBride which will bring about the end of which we all hold true to our hearts.
It's out already? Cool - cheers for the reminder: my subscription "lapsed" with the last issue (the Burrell cover just as the Tory party vote was starting) - I'll have to grab a copy (I always let my subscription lapse as that way I get larger discounts/offers to renew).
Well, the network is always on - shame the server's a molten pile of metal and plastic now.
Ah - good ol' Richard Skrenta - founder of the Open Directory Project and many other things - who did, indeedy, write the Elk Cloner virus for the Apple II in 1982. I thought the BBC had the anniversary wrong, but I didn't have anywhere to "moan" by skrenta missing his bit of limelight until now ;)
Well, with cloning facilties (but no working artifical wombs), the females of this so called species can do without males: this is our way of proving that we can do without them. Of course, the future of the human species will therefore slip into terminal decline without reproduction - but hey - look on the bright side: at least we won't have to worry about that huge asteriod wiping us out!
"I have a plan to block out the sun" - "Professor Chaos" (aka Butters), South Park. First cartoon characters and now scientists are finding out that "The Simpsons already did it".
I disagree: I've always found pointing my fingers and somebody and shouting "Bang!" kills them as good as a gun does.