Remember when it used to be easy to run your own email server? Before the spam pestilence made it necessary for software to read, analyze, and filter every email message.
First ran my own email server in college. It ran on a craptastic 386 sitting under my desk connected to a cable modem. DynDNS or such to make it reachable despite the dynamic IP. It performed just as well as the university's email system, at least for me and a few friends.
Then the spam began. Started having to add layer upon layer of anti-spam processing. Upgraded the host, but to no avail. By the time I gave up, it took >4 hours to deliver a single message, with the CPU pegged at 100% the whole time. And spam still got thru.
The very first wave of spam was commercial and obvious. "Buy Viagram now!!!!11!!" kinda stuff. But very quickly the spam became full of gibberish with no discernible commercial purpose, and much more numerous. More like a massive, never-ending denial of service attack. I've always wondered who's behind the spam.
Perhaps the single best thing about Slashdot is its filtering system. I almost always read/. at -1, because I like reading even the unpopular comments. It's hugely better than sites where unpopular content is just removed, with or without notice.
Let's see, in the upcoming presidential election we can choose from:
A totalitarian legalist running dog lackey of financial capital
or
A jingoistic egomaniac authoritarian capitalist with amusing hair
Does anyone really wonder why more people don't vote? The better question is why, with so much evidence to the contrary, some many people still believe they have a voice in government.
Because the owner bought his property 20+ years ago, before the insane increases in real estate price made mortgaging (let alone owning) a house inaccessible to most working people.
Tell that to the mob outside your house then this evening.
How is it worse to be killed by a crazed, bloodthirsty mob than by a crazed, bloodthirsty bureaucracy? Also, a lynch mob will only kill you, while the courts prefer long term torture.
You haven't done anything wrong?
Innocence is no assurance, and little defense, against legal persecution.
This isn't a country of vigilante justice, but rule of law, and we should be proud of that.
Why should we be proud of rule by lawyers? The courts are not now, and never have been, a "neutral" party. They represent the interests of the oligarchy and make it their business to destroy the life of any pleb who gets out of line. "Rule of law" has only one claim to legitimacy - the terrifyingly brutal violence with which the courts enforce their will.
Here in the USSA, out kangaroo kourts assert universal imperial jurisdiction. Unless you're residing in one of only two countries strong enough to retain actual sovereignty over their territory, it doesn't matter where you are, what citizenship you hold, or where your customers are located. Anger the American oligarchy and they WILL kidnap you, show you off in a monkey trial, and throw you into the torture camps of the Gulag to suffer and rot for decades.
At the last RSA Conference, a friendly salesman for a hardware company (not Intel or AMD) eagerly told me about his company's main product: They have a chip embedded in over a billion currently-deployed devices, including laptops and phones, that offers complete remote tracking and ownership functionality at the hardware level. Or so claims the salesman. He was selling it as a theft-recovery service for bigcorps, but more nefarious possible uses are pretty obvious.
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Remember when it used to be easy to run your own email server? Before the spam pestilence made it necessary for software to read, analyze, and filter every email message.
First ran my own email server in college. It ran on a craptastic 386 sitting under my desk connected to a cable modem. DynDNS or such to make it reachable despite the dynamic IP. It performed just as well as the university's email system, at least for me and a few friends.
Then the spam began. Started having to add layer upon layer of anti-spam processing. Upgraded the host, but to no avail. By the time I gave up, it took >4 hours to deliver a single message, with the CPU pegged at 100% the whole time. And spam still got thru.
The very first wave of spam was commercial and obvious. "Buy Viagram now!!!!11!!" kinda stuff. But very quickly the spam became full of gibberish with no discernible commercial purpose, and much more numerous. More like a massive, never-ending denial of service attack. I've always wondered who's behind the spam.
Perhaps the single best thing about Slashdot is its filtering system. I almost always read /. at -1, because I like reading even the unpopular comments. It's hugely better than sites where unpopular content is just removed, with or without notice.
Let's see, in the upcoming presidential election we can choose from:
A totalitarian legalist running dog lackey of financial capital
or
A jingoistic egomaniac authoritarian capitalist with amusing hair
Does anyone really wonder why more people don't vote? The better question is why, with so much evidence to the contrary, some many people still believe they have a voice in government.
In Soviet America, innocence proves your guilt!
we have seen the far right extremists key a tesla and others that will run up and actually kick them.
??!
More detail, please.
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Are these $50 to $200 "rewards" given as motivation, or as insults? Kinda like giving your waiter a fifty cent tip on a fifty dollar meal.
In my experience only people who can't program call it "coding".
Natural Logic by Neil Tennant - *before* learning to program.
In Soviet America, everyone is a criminal!
Hahahaha - good one!
In Soviet America you have all the rights you can afford to sue for!
Because the owner bought his property 20+ years ago, before the insane increases in real estate price made mortgaging (let alone owning) a house inaccessible to most working people.
Although you do have to have decent credit.
Translation: This option is available only to people from a certain socioeconomic background. "Credit" is just the new euphemism for "class".
Yay police state!
Fuck you, pleb, that's why.
Are the fries organic?
Is the Pope Catholic?
OF FUCKING COURSE you're going to be tracked. Fuck you, pleb, that's why.
Tell that to the mob outside your house then this evening.
How is it worse to be killed by a crazed, bloodthirsty mob than by a crazed, bloodthirsty bureaucracy? Also, a lynch mob will only kill you, while the courts prefer long term torture.
You haven't done anything wrong?
Innocence is no assurance, and little defense, against legal persecution.
We all knew the Republic had ended the day Our Masters started referring to America as "the Homeland".
R.I.P. Freedom, 1776 - 2001
This isn't a country of vigilante justice, but rule of law, and we should be proud of that.
Why should we be proud of rule by lawyers? The courts are not now, and never have been, a "neutral" party. They represent the interests of the oligarchy and make it their business to destroy the life of any pleb who gets out of line. "Rule of law" has only one claim to legitimacy - the terrifyingly brutal violence with which the courts enforce their will.
Here in the USSA, out kangaroo kourts assert universal imperial jurisdiction. Unless you're residing in one of only two countries strong enough to retain actual sovereignty over their territory, it doesn't matter where you are, what citizenship you hold, or where your customers are located. Anger the American oligarchy and they WILL kidnap you, show you off in a monkey trial, and throw you into the torture camps of the Gulag to suffer and rot for decades.
Revolution begins with the plebs no longer believing the fairy tales the elite tell to justify their predation.
Elites don't believe in democracy. No surprise here.
What do you expect from a VC-backed company? The big bucks are for people with the right family connections, not for lowly plebs like this kid.
At the last RSA Conference, a friendly salesman for a hardware company (not Intel or AMD) eagerly told me about his company's main product: They have a chip embedded in over a billion currently-deployed devices, including laptops and phones, that offers complete remote tracking and ownership functionality at the hardware level. Or so claims the salesman. He was selling it as a theft-recovery service for bigcorps, but more nefarious possible uses are pretty obvious.