The Christian POV is that witches don't necessarily realize that they've made a pact with the devil: a demon will be the slave of the witch during the remainder of their lifetime on Earth (the demon is the source of their powers), and when they die their soul will become the slave of the demon in Hell for eternity.
Is there any examples of anyone in the Bible getting powers from demons, making a pact with the Devil, having a devil as their slave, or themselves becoming a slave in the afterlife?
I downvoted this story but it still got through. The title overgeneralizes and there's no evidence in the summary that anyone, techie or not, actually uses the service and if anyone does, it's not likely to be a technically literate person.
I upvoted it because it was funny - and there was fuck all else on the agenda unless you count pathetic single-line attempts at binspam.
I mostly agree with you there. But, there ARE some women who meet qualifications. The US Marine Corps has not yet had a woman who passed the physical for combat officers - but a handful have come pretty damned close. That handful are almost certainly better soldiers than I could be. In all my life, I've not had the upper body strength and stamina to pass that course.
You know, and I know, that it is a rare women who has greater upper body strength and stamina than a healthy man - but why should we hold those rare women back? Let them do whatever they are good at.
As you've noted - most men won't qualify for the U.S. Marines. But that's a false standard and it presupposes that because someone can, they would wish to (I note that qualifying as a Marine doesn't mean you automagically qualify as a Ranger, no disrespect to Marines).
There are SpecOp units with women. Russia's 5th Spetsnaz, France's 11th Parachute Brigade, 13th Parachute Dragoon Reg., Israel's Sayeret Matkal. SpecOp Reconn units like Britains SRR, South Koreas 707th, and that's a far from complete list of units with much higher physical and psychological selection criteria than general infantry (and my military experience is 15 years out of date, more elite units have allowed women since then). There are also women who have passed the physicals for SpecOp groups that don't admit, officially at least, women e.g. COM1. Same physical selection criteria as SAS (they trained them originally), you want a small group that can pose as sheep herders for a short term and perform surgical strikes - send the SAS. When you want a hammer you send COM1 (don't let the apparent part-time nature fool you - qualifying for the SAS doesn't qualify you for COM1, the reverse is possible). You want a group that can operate individually for long periods under authentic deep cover - you select from COM1 - and yet most Marines would not pass the physical (by design, like Ranger selection). The US probably has their own small and quiet equivalent (or has had).
Ranger physical selection tests is as hard as that for Australian COM1, COM2, SAS, and the British SAS. So far 3 women have made it to the climb stage of the US Ranger selection. A tiny percentage of general US infantry would make it that far, and very few Marines.
While less women may achieve a standard set to exclude most male physiques - dead is dead, and even child combatants of either gender can do that. I'm told that the Russians would have lost to the Germans if not for women (see WWII pictures of those large, heavy, hirsute, tattooed, pipe smoking tank crews), so perhaps coldfjords, um, somewhat biased views, only appear true for the general average of the USA.
Because unlike humans, trolls of the same gender do produce offspring.
How does that work biologically?
Like flies on shit.
Note that there is only one gender of trolls, and yet they increase in number. Proof!
Witling faecus the rightfully endangered, potty-mouth troll. Habitat: under bridges, in sewage systems, amongst the cruft of computer systems. Dark places close to humans. Weaknesses: Humour, facts and sunlight. Humour causes them pain. Exposure to sustained Facts or strong Light are fatal. Appearance: Various aberrations. Recognisable by the unique pin-like growth on their neck - the only visible feature that reliably distinguishes them from sentient bipods. No pictures exist due to their sensitivity to light of any form Artists impression History: A hydrogen-sulphide based life-form, possibly originating from the interaction of decomposing faeces and swamp gas. Whether they in fact qualify as a life form, or possess sentient capabilities is uncertain. It's theorised that they appeared when the first ancestors of humans developed intelligence, and that trolls have been devolving ever since. The theory is much debated and purely hypothetical as the only historical records are in the form of ancient legends due to the lack of fossil record. They have no backbone and upon death leave only a nasty stain and a foul odour. Biology:
Their "closed-loop" digestive system allows them to survive their entire life eating only their own excrement. As their brain is composed of only two cells (neither of which function) they are unable to support any distro other than Windows - and even then, only the sliding kind. Additional references: Troll study, Suler, J.R. and Phillips, W. (1998). Deviant Behavior in Multimedia Chat Communities.
You'd be a case in point. Though it may be that the club of knowledge, appropriately wielded may have some enlightening effect. Can't hurt to try - well, it might hurt you, but that's a small price to pay.
Of course you can have more mass. Just not lithium batteries (the kids might swallow them). Take lead acid batteries instead.
Now I know what to do with all those old 2V storage batteries I was planning on sending to scrap - just hook up eight in series so I can continue to use my laptop the next time I fly. Sure there'll be some inconveniences, like getting them on and off the plane - but if I weld a bigger base onto a fork trolley I can just wheel them on and off, and park them in the aisle. I know there'll be some complaints about exceeding the carry-on size but it's only fair after all those years of only taking a down jacket and a laptop bag. The bonuses will more than make up for those minor inconveniences - no more trying to get a battery charge in-flight, no more carting around that stupid little plane power adaptor cable, and they should give me more than enough charge to get me between here and the USA, maybe even a return flight.
Of course if they really want to reduce the risk of fires on planes they should stop making them out of aluminium and magnesium, and having all that NaClO (with powdered Fe) about the place - those cylinders of oxygen underneath could also be a problem.
No. It would be a terrible waste of money. Just telling you about how lax registration is where I live. It's insane. FYI - I live in South Australia.
OK, thanks for that, I wrongly assumed it was somewhere in the USA. It's a long time since I lived in SA (Hallett Cove Beach). Insane is right if it's as you describe. Certainly more complicated and expensive than here.
We (ACT) have to take the car to the Motor Registry ($60) or an authorised inspector (a bit more). There are regular "stop every second car going past and inspect it" days. If you get defected they can blame the "authorised" inspector - which keeps the certificate issuers honest (plus the ACT is very small). Same rules in Victoria.
NSW must be pretty slack. I frequently see smoking bombs with bald tires in Queanbeyan and Goulburn. The AFP pull them over pretty quick if they cross the border.
We don't have rego stickers because cop cars have licence plate scanners - they also tell the cops the id of the registered owner, and whether they are licence. It catches a lot of unlicensed interstate drivers.
One weird thing about NSW - splashing a bus passenger with mud after driving through a puddle is a $165 fine. It's OK if they didn't just get off a bus.
Lately I have noticed quite a fair bit less of the typical trolls.
An increase in numbers has resulted in an increase in their diversity - plus there's so little time when they've so many places to go in their desperate battle for attention. The troll union proposed hot-bedding and time-sharing but, for obvious reason, were unable to get the propositions ratified.
Noted troll think tank UnderTheBridgeWatch, recently published a report predicting that the recent balkanization of troll unions due to a large number of them getting married (the others just want to sleep around) under the new gay marriage laws will further increase the diversity of their appearance. Because unlike humans, trolls of the same gender do produce offspring.
The majority of spam I receive is coming from Linux servers.
But keep Slashturbating like it's 1999, while never updating your fucking CMS or properly fucking configuring sendmail, you cunts.
All sorts of OS get botted, both physical and virtual. And those bot farms do all sorts of things from bitcoin farming to spamming. But to return to the subject from the fanboi tangent - if the internet fairy waved his magic wand and made bot farms disappear you wouldn't see much difference in the amount of spam being delivered, and shortly thereafter levels would return to "normal".
As long as it pays to send spam it will continue to exist. If people stopped buying shit from spam, and people stopped paying for products sold by spam - the problem would disappear. These are the reasons why an earlier proposition in this story to charge for email is stupid. Creating another ICANN wouldn't work because those that make money from spam can buy favorable justice.
That doesn't mean that the disappearance of bot farms wouldn't be a good thing. And before some dipshit suggests it - a computer drivers license would have no effect (not that it'll stop the pro-certification-for-everythingtards).
Creating more bureaucracy to fix the failure of systems is the triumph of optimism over experience. In both cases: spam; and bot farms - there are existing mechanisms that can solve the problem, they just aren't employed. Fix the system problems - just because they aren't completely successful doesn't make it less unlikely that building new ones to replace them will be more successful (there's an engineering analogy there somewhere). Hint: most people don't buy as the result of spam, most companies don't employ spammers, most hosting companies won't tolerate spammers - if that changed we'd see a shit load more spam.
Where I live I could get registration papers and new license plates for a car that was upsaide sown and on fire without a problem in the world. It probably wouldn't get into any accidents but it sure as s**t isn't roadworthy.
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Lawsuits against companies for illegal spam also reduces spam.
Agreed. Occasionally ACMA reluctantly sends a warning letter to spammer here - that's the "authority" charged with prosecuting spammers. Once or twice they've reluctantly taken legal action (they're corrupt and lazy). Sending unsolicited commercial email is an offence in Australia - none of that "opt-out" bullshit. I've filed thousands of complaints with them - and provided comprehensive documentation on the parties involved and the number of spams they've sent, as well as organise many others to do the same. Maybe I should try civil action - though our legal system is completely different to yours.
When you sue the advertisers, they may terminate some of the spammer and the advertisers get some of the money from the spam networks that they use. At the very least, spam lawsuits get you on the spammer's suppression lists.
A big one is mail-nutrilife-australia.com they operate a phishing scam for email addresses they resell to spammers, they pose as a competition and use Virgin, BP, Caltex, and Woolworths as part of the scam - maybe those companies could be convinced to take legal action against them. The servers are based in Luxenberg, but the principal is based in the USA.
Thanks for the ideas, and especially for doing something.
Perhaps everything is not lost, it seems the EU high court still respects basic human rights.
News to me that the "Right of Privacy" is written into the Australian Constitution [reads Constitution again]. Nope - not here. The only "right" is to "free trade between states" - which is bullshit or I'd be able to freely trade between different states.
Order a Penthouse magazine from Melbourne when in Northern Territory? No. Order a radar detector from anywhere in Australia but Western Australia? No. Order tobacco from Queensland when in any other state with paying the local state tax? No.
Perhaps they refer to Australian obligations to recognise International Agreements which we have ratified?
Having read the referenced article I know the summary is bullshit - the source is referring to the Human Rights Act 1998 - an international agreement that our Constitution says takes precedence over Federal law. Given that the main contender to replace our current Prime Minister is a Constitutional Law expert that is even more right-wing than Tony the Abbott I'm not optimistic. Especially given the way immigration camps were moved offshore to avoid having to comply with the same Act.
Never under estimate the ability of an efficient economy car to nearly get the enviornmental savings of what anelectric gets at 1/2 to 1/5 the price.
Did you factor health costs into that economic rationalisation? Out of sight might be out of mind but all it does it delay the impact - even with entrapment schemes.
I know it's a whacky idea - but maybe costing transmission losses is partially redundant given that the generation source is already located away from cities - in location that would also see more electricity consumed if there were more electric cars. So maybe additional transmission capacity may only be required in cities. Then there's the fact that the highest demand for power to recharge batteries is at the time consumers use the least - at night.
Reduced petroleum requirements would also reduce the power required to produce it. About 4-7.5 Kwh per gallon.
Reduced petroleum consumption means reduced road maintenance costs.
To be fair I've also considered the impact on the medical system - and though the health effects of battery production don't come anywhere near those of burning coal, oil, and petrol - there's still plenty of unsatisfied demand for medical treatment.
There are still a couple of hundred million XP machines running. As that number declines so does the amount of spam, but there's a long way to go.
The number of XP boxes on the internet has little to do with spam. It did when cheap VPS, cloud and broadband was uncommon. Blame their owners for a lot of things - but blame for spam is misplaced (the main exception being Michael Lindsay's "customers"). It's far cheaper, and easier to either rent a host or pay a mailing service than it is to rent (or build) a bot-net of sufficient size to produce a measurable amount of the worlds spam. SPF, DKIM and DMARC has also considerably reduced the viability of bot-nets for spamming as the major email providers reject their unauthenticated headers, or quickly identify them as spam.
The majority of those services provided by a small number of companies (in order of volume):- softbank.co.jp, unicom-bj, unicom-sc, drpeng.com.cn, webexxpurts.com, gmo.jp, kddi.ne.jp, kyivstar.net, uplus.co.kr, softcom.com.
The majority of spam is commissioned by a small number of arseholes (a significant number of them are bases in North America since China cleaned up it's act). In order of volume:-
Canadian Pharmacy - Ukraine. A long time running pharmacy spam operation. They send tens of millions of spams per day using botnet techniques. Probably based in Eastern Europe, Ukraine/Russia. Host spammed web sites on botnets and on bulletproof Chinese web hosting.
Dante Jimenez / Aiming Invest - United States. Spamwarez, lists, "bulletproof" hosting in the finest South Florida tradition. Working with worst cybercriminal botnet spammers. Now mostly involved in massive botnet spamming with hosting on hacked servers and Eastern European hosters.
Yair Shalev / Kobeni Solutions - United States. High volume snowshoe spammer from Florida, (former?) partner-in-spam of ROKSO spammer Darrin Wohl. Son-in-law of ROKSO listed spammer Dan Abramovich. Sued by FTC in 2014 due to fraud.
Yambo Financials - Ukraine. Huge spamhaus tied into distribution and billing for child, animal, and incest-porn, pirated software, and pharmaceuticals. Run their own merchant services (credit-card "collection" sites) set up as a fake "bank."
Mike Boehm and Associates - United States. Snowshoe spam organization that uses large numbers of inexpensive, automated VPS hosting IPs and domains in whatever TLD is currently cheapest to send high volumes of spam to extremely dirty, scraped lists. Operates under many business and individual names.
Michael Persaud - United States.
Long time snowshoe type spammer.
Michael Lindsay - United States. Lindsay's iMedia Networks is a full-fledged spam-hosting operation serving bulletproof hosting at high premiums to well known ROKSO-listed spammers. His customers spam via botnet zombies with spam payloads hosted offshore, tunneled back to his servers. He and the gang have been hijacking (stealing) IP address space from companies for years to spam from. Illegal in the USA.
Jagger Babuin / BHSI - Canada. Romanian spammer now living in Vancouver BC. Also known as the "Dr Oz" spammer.
First Place SEO & financial fraud spam gang - United States. Seem to be either Northern New Jersey or San Diego, California based scammers. They rent endless numbers of servers and buy endless domains to then pump out "SEO", search-engine-rankings and financial fraud scam spams.
Josh Henderson or Nicholson - bulletproofvps.com - Canada. Offshore Bulletproof Hosting is his thing.
Top 10 countries that produce and export spam, in order of significance:- United States, China, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Japan, United Kingdom, India, Germany, Brazil, Turkey
The other difference is that Yahoo and Google [sic and every other BP email provider] have locked down email so that legitimate email isn't getting delivered. Now other providers are following the same rules. When you block a lot of email, it never gets delivered.
There are certain people I just can't mail anymore.
Then implement SPF, DKIM and DMARC - it's not hard compared to correctly configuring a mail server. As a bonus halfwits with a spare 10 minutes won't be able to spoof your email address.
But until you do something other than complain you remain part of the problem instead of part of the solution.
It also doesn't provide a graph of spam rate over time. Just three pie charts showing changes over the last three months.
Agreed, remarkably short of information. Usually their reports are accompanied by press releases, and marketing. I wonder what's different this time.
Note that while Symantec uses figures from their email scanning products - it doesn't correspond with figures from larger monitors e.g. Senderbase - which shows a slight increase of 234.53 billion av.pd (85.93% of global traffic) for the last 12 months, against 222.88 billion av. pd (86.00% of global traffic) for the last 6 months, and 187.14 billion av. pd (86.41% of global traffic) for the last month (nowhere near half). Securelist 3rd qtr 2014 (note the drop during that period), and 1st qtr. 2015
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i've heard about these ground based power systems before with microwaves and lasers but what about the inverse square law?
Focus, coward, focus. Instead of following every direct tangent.
You are not going to find many Wiccan H1Bs; however, there are plenty of traditions in India that call for magical thinking.
And economists - the whole world over.
The Christian POV is that witches don't necessarily realize that they've made a pact with the devil: a demon will be the slave of the witch during the remainder of their lifetime on Earth (the demon is the source of their powers), and when they die their soul will become the slave of the demon in Hell for eternity.
Is there any examples of anyone in the Bible getting powers from demons, making a pact with the Devil, having a devil as their slave, or themselves becoming a slave in the afterlife?
Yes.
The Book of Faust.
I downvoted this story but it still got through. The title overgeneralizes and there's no evidence in the summary that anyone, techie or not, actually uses the service and if anyone does, it's not likely to be a technically literate person.
I upvoted it because it was funny - and there was fuck all else on the agenda unless you count pathetic single-line attempts at binspam.
Of course now I don't feel so good about it.
I mostly agree with you there. But, there ARE some women who meet qualifications. The US Marine Corps has not yet had a woman who passed the physical for combat officers - but a handful have come pretty damned close. That handful are almost certainly better soldiers than I could be. In all my life, I've not had the upper body strength and stamina to pass that course.
You know, and I know, that it is a rare women who has greater upper body strength and stamina than a healthy man - but why should we hold those rare women back? Let them do whatever they are good at.
As you've noted - most men won't qualify for the U.S. Marines. But that's a false standard and it presupposes that because someone can, they would wish to (I note that qualifying as a Marine doesn't mean you automagically qualify as a Ranger, no disrespect to Marines).
There are SpecOp units with women. Russia's 5th Spetsnaz, France's 11th Parachute Brigade, 13th Parachute Dragoon Reg., Israel's Sayeret Matkal. SpecOp Reconn units like Britains SRR, South Koreas 707th, and that's a far from complete list of units with much higher physical and psychological selection criteria than general infantry (and my military experience is 15 years out of date, more elite units have allowed women since then).
There are also women who have passed the physicals for SpecOp groups that don't admit, officially at least, women e.g. COM1. Same physical selection criteria as SAS (they trained them originally), you want a small group that can pose as sheep herders for a short term and perform surgical strikes - send the SAS. When you want a hammer you send COM1 (don't let the apparent part-time nature fool you - qualifying for the SAS doesn't qualify you for COM1, the reverse is possible). You want a group that can operate individually for long periods under authentic deep cover - you select from COM1 - and yet most Marines would not pass the physical (by design, like Ranger selection). The US probably has their own small and quiet equivalent (or has had).
Ranger physical selection tests is as hard as that for Australian COM1, COM2, SAS, and the British SAS. So far 3 women have made it to the climb stage of the US Ranger selection. A tiny percentage of general US infantry would make it that far, and very few Marines.
While less women may achieve a standard set to exclude most male physiques - dead is dead, and even child combatants of either gender can do that. I'm told that the Russians would have lost to the Germans if not for women (see WWII pictures of those large, heavy, hirsute, tattooed, pipe smoking tank crews), so perhaps coldfjords, um, somewhat biased views, only appear true for the general average of the USA.
This is sad news. I was starting to miss the GNAA and goatse.
Take heart, there is always gonorrhoea and syphilis. And Foxx News.
Because unlike humans, trolls of the same gender do produce offspring.
How does that work biologically?
Like flies on shit.
Note that there is only one gender of trolls, and yet they increase in number. Proof!
Witling faecus the rightfully endangered, potty-mouth troll.
Habitat: under bridges, in sewage systems, amongst the cruft of computer systems. Dark places close to humans.
Weaknesses: Humour, facts and sunlight. Humour causes them pain. Exposure to sustained Facts or strong Light are fatal.
Appearance: Various aberrations. Recognisable by the unique pin-like growth on their neck - the only visible feature that reliably distinguishes them from sentient bipods.
No pictures exist due to their sensitivity to light of any form Artists impression
History: A hydrogen-sulphide based life-form, possibly originating from the interaction of decomposing faeces and swamp gas. Whether they in fact qualify as a life form, or possess sentient capabilities is uncertain. It's theorised that they appeared when the first ancestors of humans developed intelligence, and that trolls have been devolving ever since. The theory is much debated and purely hypothetical as the only historical records are in the form of ancient legends due to the lack of fossil record. They have no backbone and upon death leave only a nasty stain and a foul odour.
Biology: Their "closed-loop" digestive system allows them to survive their entire life eating only their own excrement. As their brain is composed of only two cells (neither of which function) they are unable to support any distro other than Windows - and even then, only the sliding kind.
Additional references: Troll study, Suler, J.R. and Phillips, W. (1998). Deviant Behavior in Multimedia Chat Communities.
Why is this stupid bullshit on the front page? Kick its ass back to idle if you absolutely have to have it on /. at all.
Um, interesting point of view coming from someone who chose the name warlock.
It's nonsense [...]
You'd be a case in point. Though it may be that the club of knowledge, appropriately wielded may have some enlightening effect. Can't hurt to try - well, it might hurt you, but that's a small price to pay.
Of course you can have more mass. Just not lithium batteries (the kids might swallow them). Take lead acid batteries instead.
Now I know what to do with all those old 2V storage batteries I was planning on sending to scrap - just hook up eight in series so I can continue to use my laptop the next time I fly.
Sure there'll be some inconveniences, like getting them on and off the plane - but if I weld a bigger base onto a fork trolley I can just wheel them on and off, and park them in the aisle. I know there'll be some complaints about exceeding the carry-on size but it's only fair after all those years of only taking a down jacket and a laptop bag. The bonuses will more than make up for those minor inconveniences - no more trying to get a battery charge in-flight, no more carting around that stupid little plane power adaptor cable, and they should give me more than enough charge to get me between here and the USA, maybe even a return flight.
Of course if they really want to reduce the risk of fires on planes they should stop making them out of aluminium and magnesium, and having all that NaClO (with powdered Fe) about the place - those cylinders of oxygen underneath could also be a problem.
No. It would be a terrible waste of money. Just telling you about how lax registration is where I live. It's insane. FYI - I live in South Australia.
OK, thanks for that, I wrongly assumed it was somewhere in the USA. It's a long time since I lived in SA (Hallett Cove Beach). Insane is right if it's as you describe. Certainly more complicated and expensive than here.
We (ACT) have to take the car to the Motor Registry ($60) or an authorised inspector (a bit more). There are regular "stop every second car going past and inspect it" days. If you get defected they can blame the "authorised" inspector - which keeps the certificate issuers honest (plus the ACT is very small). Same rules in Victoria.
NSW must be pretty slack. I frequently see smoking bombs with bald tires in Queanbeyan and Goulburn. The AFP pull them over pretty quick if they cross the border.
We don't have rego stickers because cop cars have licence plate scanners - they also tell the cops the id of the registered owner, and whether they are licence. It catches a lot of unlicensed interstate drivers.
One weird thing about NSW - splashing a bus passenger with mud after driving through a puddle is a $165 fine. It's OK if they didn't just get off a bus.
Lately I have noticed quite a fair bit less of the typical trolls.
An increase in numbers has resulted in an increase in their diversity - plus there's so little time when they've so many places to go in their desperate battle for attention. The troll union proposed hot-bedding and time-sharing but, for obvious reason, were unable to get the propositions ratified.
Noted troll think tank UnderTheBridgeWatch, recently published a report predicting that the recent balkanization of troll unions due to a large number of them getting married (the others just want to sleep around) under the new gay marriage laws will further increase the diversity of their appearance. Because unlike humans, trolls of the same gender do produce offspring.
The majority of spam I receive is coming from Linux servers.
But keep Slashturbating like it's 1999, while never updating your fucking CMS or properly fucking configuring sendmail, you cunts.
All sorts of OS get botted, both physical and virtual. And those bot farms do all sorts of things from bitcoin farming to spamming. But to return to the subject from the fanboi tangent - if the internet fairy waved his magic wand and made bot farms disappear you wouldn't see much difference in the amount of spam being delivered, and shortly thereafter levels would return to "normal".
As long as it pays to send spam it will continue to exist. If people stopped buying shit from spam, and people stopped paying for products sold by spam - the problem would disappear. These are the reasons why an earlier proposition in this story to charge for email is stupid. Creating another ICANN wouldn't work because those that make money from spam can buy favorable justice.
That doesn't mean that the disappearance of bot farms wouldn't be a good thing. And before some dipshit suggests it - a computer drivers license would have no effect (not that it'll stop the pro-certification-for-everythingtards).
Creating more bureaucracy to fix the failure of systems is the triumph of optimism over experience. In both cases: spam; and bot farms - there are existing mechanisms that can solve the problem, they just aren't employed. Fix the system problems - just because they aren't completely successful doesn't make it less unlikely that building new ones to replace them will be more successful (there's an engineering analogy there somewhere).
Hint: most people don't buy as the result of spam, most companies don't employ spammers, most hosting companies won't tolerate spammers - if that changed we'd see a shit load more spam.
Marijuana is federally illegal, so no.
Huh, so the federal government can interfere with interstate commerce...
I guess thats its main purpose, interfering with the freedom of the states to interact with one another how they want.
That's because when people won't use a dictionary (or check their facts) "free" means whatever the fuck they want it to mean.
To paraphrase some dead Buddhist "the first step towards a better world is to take back the original meaning of words"
Where I live I could get registration papers and new license plates for a car that was upsaide sown and on fire without a problem in the world. It probably wouldn't get into any accidents but it sure as s**t isn't roadworthy.
Is that a good thing?
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Lawsuits against companies for illegal spam also reduces spam.
Agreed. Occasionally ACMA reluctantly sends a warning letter to spammer here - that's the "authority" charged with prosecuting spammers. Once or twice they've reluctantly taken legal action (they're corrupt and lazy). Sending unsolicited commercial email is an offence in Australia - none of that "opt-out" bullshit. I've filed thousands of complaints with them - and provided comprehensive documentation on the parties involved and the number of spams they've sent, as well as organise many others to do the same. Maybe I should try civil action - though our legal system is completely different to yours.
When you sue the advertisers, they may terminate some of the spammer and the advertisers get some of the money from the spam networks that they use. At the very least, spam lawsuits get you on the spammer's suppression lists.
A big one is mail-nutrilife-australia.com they operate a phishing scam for email addresses they resell to spammers, they pose as a competition and use Virgin, BP, Caltex, and Woolworths as part of the scam - maybe those companies could be convinced to take legal action against them. The servers are based in Luxenberg, but the principal is based in the USA.
Thanks for the ideas, and especially for doing something.
Perhaps everything is not lost, it seems the EU high court still respects basic human rights.
News to me that the "Right of Privacy" is written into the Australian Constitution [reads Constitution again]. Nope - not here. The only "right" is to "free trade between states" - which is bullshit or I'd be able to freely trade between different states.
Order a Penthouse magazine from Melbourne when in Northern Territory? No. Order a radar detector from anywhere in Australia but Western Australia? No. Order tobacco from Queensland when in any other state with paying the local state tax? No.
Perhaps they refer to Australian obligations to recognise International Agreements which we have ratified?
Having read the referenced article I know the summary is bullshit - the source is referring to the Human Rights Act 1998 - an international agreement that our Constitution says takes precedence over Federal law. Given that the main contender to replace our current Prime Minister is a Constitutional Law expert that is even more right-wing than Tony the Abbott I'm not optimistic. Especially given the way immigration camps were moved offshore to avoid having to comply with the same Act.
Never under estimate the ability of an efficient economy car to nearly get the enviornmental savings of what anelectric gets at 1/2 to 1/5 the price.
Did you factor health costs into that economic rationalisation? Out of sight might be out of mind but all it does it delay the impact - even with entrapment schemes.
I know it's a whacky idea - but maybe costing transmission losses is partially redundant given that the generation source is already located away from cities - in location that would also see more electricity consumed if there were more electric cars. So maybe additional transmission capacity may only be required in cities. Then there's the fact that the highest demand for power to recharge batteries is at the time consumers use the least - at night.
Reduced petroleum requirements would also reduce the power required to produce it. About 4-7.5 Kwh per gallon.
Reduced petroleum consumption means reduced road maintenance costs.
To be fair I've also considered the impact on the medical system - and though the health effects of battery production don't come anywhere near those of burning coal, oil, and petrol - there's still plenty of unsatisfied demand for medical treatment.
There are still a couple of hundred million XP machines running. As that number declines so does the amount of spam, but there's a long way to go.
The number of XP boxes on the internet has little to do with spam. It did when cheap VPS, cloud and broadband was uncommon. Blame their owners for a lot of things - but blame for spam is misplaced (the main exception being Michael Lindsay's "customers"). It's far cheaper, and easier to either rent a host or pay a mailing service than it is to rent (or build) a bot-net of sufficient size to produce a measurable amount of the worlds spam. SPF, DKIM and DMARC has also considerably reduced the viability of bot-nets for spamming as the major email providers reject their unauthenticated headers, or quickly identify them as spam.
The majority of those services provided by a small number of companies (in order of volume):- softbank.co.jp, unicom-bj, unicom-sc, drpeng.com.cn, webexxpurts.com, gmo.jp, kddi.ne.jp, kyivstar.net, uplus.co.kr, softcom.com.
The majority of spam is commissioned by a small number of arseholes (a significant number of them are bases in North America since China cleaned up it's act). In order of volume:-
Top 10 countries that produce and export spam, in order of significance:- United States, China, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Japan, United Kingdom, India, Germany, Brazil, Turkey
Sources
The other difference is that Yahoo and Google [sic and every other BP email provider] have locked down email so that legitimate email isn't getting delivered. Now other providers are following the same rules. When you block a lot of email, it never gets delivered.
There are certain people I just can't mail anymore.
Then implement SPF, DKIM and DMARC - it's not hard compared to correctly configuring a mail server. As a bonus halfwits with a spare 10 minutes won't be able to spoof your email address.
But until you do something other than complain you remain part of the problem instead of part of the solution.
But . . . can you plug a guitar into it ?
Will it go to ELEVEN!?
Your GENNIUS award is in the mail. Wear it with pride.
Well, perhaps fault is the wrong word. Obviously drivers are ultimately responsible for their own vehicles.
That being said, distracting things are distracting [...]
[blink] [pause]. You are a fount of, um. Profu.. um, Profo... err, Profa.. (Holy crap) maybe it is font. Blessed bowl of bleeding obvious?
Battery, sound, signal. Had to be said.
Gold-tinged thingie-wheel so you can find that "sonic sweet spot"®.
"Makes it sound just like you're right there in the same auditorium as the tiny band".
It also doesn't provide a graph of spam rate over time. Just three pie charts showing changes over the last three months.
Agreed, remarkably short of information. Usually their reports are accompanied by press releases, and marketing. I wonder what's different this time.
Note that while Symantec uses figures from their email scanning products - it doesn't correspond with figures from larger monitors e.g.
Senderbase - which shows a slight increase of 234.53 billion av.pd (85.93% of global traffic) for the last 12 months, against 222.88 billion av. pd (86.00% of global traffic) for the last 6 months, and 187.14 billion av. pd (86.41% of global traffic) for the last month (nowhere near half).
Securelist 3rd qtr 2014 (note the drop during that period), and 1st qtr. 2015
Backgrounds for dartboards - the main offenders
I also wonder whether any reduction in email spam has just resulted in more spam via SMS and "social" networks (as well as mailing lists).