I've had email rejected because we are SPF compliant.
If the sender verification is under the control of the domain owner, the phishers will just register domains (as they always have) that look "right."
If it's not under the control of the domain owner, no business in their right mind would use it. Especially a bank. I wouldn't do business with a bank that would.
Maybe it's differentin KY, but in California, the cops and fireman's associations tell you that any call you get asking for donations for any police or fire related charity should be reported immediately to the police, as they are guaranteed to be some kind of scam. Such scams are so common the cops and firemen simply don't solicit by phone any more.
Snail mail ads are easy to deal with. The Post Office has a "Form 1500", or application for prohibitory order, that you can file with a copy of any ad you consider obscene. Note that it is at the sole discretion of the recpient to decide what is obscene. The Post Office is not allowed to question it. The Supreme Court case law was over a dry goods catalog.
Once you file it, the Post Office is specifically required to compel the sender to stop sending you ads.
Or, you could just fill them all out and send them in. It costs them about $50 to pull a full credit report on you. This is a bad idea on cards that have an annual fee, of course, unless you're sure they'll reject you.
If it's working, one would expect there to be very few fines.
Most of the annoying calls coming in now are pretending to be "surveys," rather than sales calls. They're lying, of course, but the volume has gone down considerably.
However, telephone solicitation is very important to business, to charities, and to political organizations. How do we balance their needs with citizens' wants?
Simple. If they want to use my telephone to contact me, they can pay for it. Until they pay for it, it's my telephone, and I will determine how it can be used.
And once they do pay for my telephone, they can also pay me the going rate for my time to listen to their scam pitch. Otherwise, it's my time.
Charities can provide me with a lifetime or of hookers and booze if they want to waste my time with their annoying calls.
The only good thing about charity calls is that I can add each one to the list of charities I will never donate to, ever, under any conditions for any reason.
Ozone depletion is not, in any way, capable of affecting either the frequency or the severity of hurricanes, you idiot.
Global warming might affect both, but current consensus is that GM will make hurricanes less frequent, not more, and perhaps more severe, but not by a lot.
Either way, ozone depeltion isn't global warming, and you're an idiot.
Keep in mind, the worst case scenario on ozone depletion - that's worst case from the most luantic "end of the world" crowd - will more more UV exposure by an amount that is the equivalent to moving from northern Norway to southern France.
So you read every single spam? From beginning to end? If you don't, you are censoring those spammers! You, personally, are grinding those hard-working, ethikul bidnezmen under the bootheels of oppression!
Censorship is wrong. Blocking spam isn't censorship. That's your error.
It isn't altitude that costs the massive amount of energy needed to achieve orbit. It's speed. SS1 seems to have managed about Mach 3. That's roughly 3,000 mph. Orbit is six times that. Plus 60 miles vs at least 300 for any kind of stable orbit. It's literally ten times the energy to achieve orbit, over what SS1 did.
SS1 was a real milestone, certainly. It's significant progress in the privatization of space.
But we won't be seeing private orbital space launches for some time. Very little of the technology used in SS1 will be of any value at all for an orbital system. It was a valuable learning experience, and they developed a process that will serve them well. But the technology is hopeless.
You don't need to do everything the shuttle does to revolutionize space travel. In fact, it's probably easier if you don't try to.
You do, however, have to be able to achieve orbit, and return in one piece.
Rutan's technology simply isn't capable of it. Not enough delta-vee. In other words, the fuel they use can't launch it's own weight in to orbit.
Orbit takes about ten times as much energy per pound as the parabolic flight they did with SS1.
Plus, they technology they used to build the air frame could not possibly withstand the heat or mechanical stress of reentry at orbital speeds. It'd disintegrate on impact with the upper atmosphere.
They've got a long way to go for orbital capability.
Think of it, we have one company now that will soon be selling rides on a sub-orbital craft. How long will it be before a competitor steps up and offers LEO rides?
A long, long while. The technology used on SS1 is utterly incapable of getting anything to orbit. The amount of energy to achieve orbit is about ten times what it took for the parabolic flight SS1 managed. The fuel used simply cannot provide enough thrust to get itself to orbit, much less itself plus a spaceship plus a payload.
There are also huge differences in the mechanical stresses involved in reentering the atmosphere at suborbital speeds and at orbital speeds. SS1 hitting the atmosphere at orbital speeds, would be confetti in seconds.
The.xxx TLD will be completely useless for avoiding porn. There's no way in hell that you can force all porn sites in to it, and even if the government tried, it would be unconstitutional. Hell, there isn't even a legal definition of what pornography is. And the legal definition of obscenity is useless, since obscenity is, by definition, already illegal.
What will be more amusing is the inevitable lawsuit over a.xxx website that doesn't have porn for false advertising.
It's common for people to try fraud at multiple locations if they can't get it to work at one.
It's actually more common for them to try it at other locations if they do get it to work at one.
The professionals don't waste time hitting multiple stores in the same chain, once they find out there are policies in place that (if enforced) will prevent their crime. Instead, they'll look for better hunting elsewhere.
You're a thief, at heart. Your mother must be proud.
Net profit margins in retail are generally less than 5%, often less than 3%. A 2% shrinkage (that means you lose 2% of your income to various forms of loss, including theft and fraud) will put most retailers out of business.
In theory, having cookies to track where you go and what you do is a good thing. It allows marketers to target ads at you for stuff you are actually interested in. If they actually did that.
Unfortunately, they don't. They use it to bombard you with constant, endless ads for "related stuff", to the point where you can't actually see the content on the web page you want to read.
Or they decide that looking at Corvette pictures means you think your penis is too small, and therefore "natural male enhancement" is a "related product."
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I've had email rejected because we are SPF compliant.
If the sender verification is under the control of the domain owner, the phishers will just register domains (as they always have) that look "right."
If it's not under the control of the domain owner, no business in their right mind would use it. Especially a bank. I wouldn't do business with a bank that would.
Generally speaking, contract provisions that say you can't sue are unenforceable, among the easiest to challenge in court.
You can always challenge the contract as unfair. In court.
Maybe it's differentin KY, but in California, the cops and fireman's associations tell you that any call you get asking for donations for any police or fire related charity should be reported immediately to the police, as they are guaranteed to be some kind of scam. Such scams are so common the cops and firemen simply don't solicit by phone any more.
Snail mail ads are easy to deal with. The Post Office has a "Form 1500", or application for prohibitory order, that you can file with a copy of any ad you consider obscene. Note that it is at the sole discretion of the recpient to decide what is obscene. The Post Office is not allowed to question it. The Supreme Court case law was over a dry goods catalog.
Once you file it, the Post Office is specifically required to compel the sender to stop sending you ads.
Or, you could just fill them all out and send them in. It costs them about $50 to pull a full credit report on you. This is a bad idea on cards that have an annual fee, of course, unless you're sure they'll reject you.
If it's working, one would expect there to be very few fines.
Most of the annoying calls coming in now are pretending to be "surveys," rather than sales calls. They're lying, of course, but the volume has gone down considerably.
Sounds like a classic protection racket to me.
However, telephone solicitation is very important to business, to charities, and to political organizations. How do we balance their needs with citizens' wants?
Simple. If they want to use my telephone to contact me, they can pay for it. Until they pay for it, it's my telephone, and I will determine how it can be used.
And once they do pay for my telephone, they can also pay me the going rate for my time to listen to their scam pitch. Otherwise, it's my time.
Charities can provide me with a lifetime or of hookers and booze if they want to waste my time with their annoying calls.
The only good thing about charity calls is that I can add each one to the list of charities I will never donate to, ever, under any conditions for any reason.
Most of 'em are criminal scams anyway.
Slashdot really seems to be becoming the tabloid news outlet of the internet, which is rather unfortunate.
Becoming?
There was a time when they weren't?
Ozone depeletion does not lead to higher temperatures, moron. Try again.
Ozone depletion is not, in any way, capable of affecting either the frequency or the severity of hurricanes, you idiot.
Global warming might affect both, but current consensus is that GM will make hurricanes less frequent, not more, and perhaps more severe, but not by a lot.
Either way, ozone depeltion isn't global warming, and you're an idiot.
Keep in mind, the worst case scenario on ozone depletion - that's worst case from the most luantic "end of the world" crowd - will more more UV exposure by an amount that is the equivalent to moving from northern Norway to southern France.
In other words, it isn't that bad.
So you read every single spam? From beginning to end? If you don't, you are censoring those spammers! You, personally, are grinding those hard-working, ethikul bidnezmen under the bootheels of oppression!
Censorship is wrong. Blocking spam isn't censorship. That's your error.
It says "you may not use the Software on any non-PC product or any embedded or device versions of the above operating systems..."
Everything else is examples of that.
If you laptop runs on the standard PC version of Windows, this clause doesn't apply.
This isn't rocket surgery. Really.
It isn't altitude that costs the massive amount of energy needed to achieve orbit. It's speed. SS1 seems to have managed about Mach 3. That's roughly 3,000 mph. Orbit is six times that. Plus 60 miles vs at least 300 for any kind of stable orbit. It's literally ten times the energy to achieve orbit, over what SS1 did.
SS1 was a real milestone, certainly. It's significant progress in the privatization of space.
But we won't be seeing private orbital space launches for some time. Very little of the technology used in SS1 will be of any value at all for an orbital system. It was a valuable learning experience, and they developed a process that will serve them well. But the technology is hopeless.
You don't need to do everything the shuttle does to revolutionize space travel. In fact, it's probably easier if you don't try to.
You do, however, have to be able to achieve orbit, and return in one piece.
Rutan's technology simply isn't capable of it. Not enough delta-vee. In other words, the fuel they use can't launch it's own weight in to orbit.
Orbit takes about ten times as much energy per pound as the parabolic flight they did with SS1.
Plus, they technology they used to build the air frame could not possibly withstand the heat or mechanical stress of reentry at orbital speeds. It'd disintegrate on impact with the upper atmosphere.
They've got a long way to go for orbital capability.
Think of it, we have one company now that will soon be selling rides on a sub-orbital craft. How long will it be before a competitor steps up and offers LEO rides?
A long, long while. The technology used on SS1 is utterly incapable of getting anything to orbit. The amount of energy to achieve orbit is about ten times what it took for the parabolic flight SS1 managed. The fuel used simply cannot provide enough thrust to get itself to orbit, much less itself plus a spaceship plus a payload.
There are also huge differences in the mechanical stresses involved in reentering the atmosphere at suborbital speeds and at orbital speeds. SS1 hitting the atmosphere at orbital speeds, would be confetti in seconds.
They've got a long way to go.
The .xxx TLD will be completely useless for avoiding porn. There's no way in hell that you can force all porn sites in to it, and even if the government tried, it would be unconstitutional. Hell, there isn't even a legal definition of what pornography is. And the legal definition of obscenity is useless, since obscenity is, by definition, already illegal.
.xxx website that doesn't have porn for false advertising.
What will be more amusing is the inevitable lawsuit over a
You raise an interesting idea. Perhaps the gene being tested for is actually a predispostition to commit workman's comp fraud.
My normal budget report method is one of the following:
Method #1: "Give me $xxx by this date, or our cash registers will go offline until you do."
Method #2: "Give me $yyy by this date, or I'll cry like a little sissy girl until you do."
Unfortunately, I've never had the opportunity to use Method #3: "Give me $x,xxx,xxx or you won't be able to download any more porn."
Though I know someone who has.
That's precisely what an RFID tag is for, at the retail level.
It's common for people to try fraud at multiple locations if they can't get it to work at one.
It's actually more common for them to try it at other locations if they do get it to work at one.
The professionals don't waste time hitting multiple stores in the same chain, once they find out there are policies in place that (if enforced) will prevent their crime. Instead, they'll look for better hunting elsewhere.
It's OK to steal, if you only steal a little?
You're a thief, at heart. Your mother must be proud.
Net profit margins in retail are generally less than 5%, often less than 3%. A 2% shrinkage (that means you lose 2% of your income to various forms of loss, including theft and fraud) will put most retailers out of business.
To be honest, that would actually be a pretty good presentation. At least at any business meeting I've ever been to.
At least it would keep them awake.
It wouldn't be so bad.
In theory, having cookies to track where you go and what you do is a good thing. It allows marketers to target ads at you for stuff you are actually interested in. If they actually did that.
Unfortunately, they don't. They use it to bombard you with constant, endless ads for "related stuff", to the point where you can't actually see the content on the web page you want to read.
Or they decide that looking at Corvette pictures means you think your penis is too small, and therefore "natural male enhancement" is a "related product."
To hell with 'em all.