I got one last week that was identical to a legit Citibank email, except that it went to http://citibankgroup.biz instead of https://citibank.com.
Verifying the sender using SPF or any of the other systems being adopted right now, will solve this problem.
I fail to see how. Since citibankgroup.biz really does belong to the phisher, they can just publish SPF records. The problem isn't (usually) that the URL points to someone else's domain, the problem is that some people are too goddamn stupid to realize that citibankgroup.biz isn't the same as citibank.com, and might not be run by the same people.
And disabling HTML email (among the worst design decisions ever made, IMHO), would also help a lot.
Disabling stupid users, preferably by applying a hammer to their fingers until you have jam, would help a hell of a lot more.
Er, dude, NASA did this about 40 years ago. This flight is functionally identical to Mercury 1, or the first X-15 flight with the Big Engine.
That said, while this is an important first step for truly private space launches, it's not all that impressive. The difference between this kind of suborbital flight and going in to orbit is about an order of magnitude of energy. That means ten times as much fuel, plus even more fuel to launch the fuel, etc., etc., etc. We're still a long way from orbital hotels.
So you're saying google is just a "search function"?
No, I'm saying Google has already been done. Doing it again isn't "advanced technology research."
You do realize that papers published by americans in scientific journals has been steadily declining in the last 10 years.
So? The reasons are a lot more complex than that America sucks, and only vaguely related to the amount of research being done.
The amount of published chinese research is increasing constantly.
By "research," do you mean learning new stuff that wasn't known before, or moving your programming staff to a country where you can buy cheap slave labor? Do you mean learning stuff that wasn't known before, or porting your database application to a new language?
In America being a lawyer or a MBA is the most prestigious things you can/do work wise.
Do you get aroused when you chant "AMERICA SUCKS!"
In Asia being an engineer is bigger than being a lawyer or a pointy hair boss.
Engineers do not "advanced technology research." Scientists do research. Engineers do shit that's already been done by scientsts. Which is rather my point.
Every empire must decline eventually no matter how glorious or advanced. Just admit it and go with it.
It just pisses you off that the US runs the world, doesn't it?
These awful excuses about why China sucks just looks like some kind of sore loser stuff.
Feel free to quote where I said China sucks, dumbass. I said the story sucked, because the writer (who is as stupid as you are) doesn't know what "advanced technical research" is, much less who is doing it.
Porting a software package to Chinese is "advanced technology research"? Writing a new search function is "advanced technology research"? I don't see any other examples of what this "advanced technology research" consists of, other than Nokia moving its programming operations to China, which is also not "advanced technology research."
"Within five years China could overtake Britain, Germany and Japan as a base for corporate research, leaving it second only to the United States."
Yeah, maybe, if you define "corporate research" as "learning how to use ten year old technology."
The system you describe is, from what I understand, trivial to defeat with a hex editor. Simply flip the if/then check on the key, so that the program only works when it can't check the key.
Personally I think if you have not voted in the past 3-4 elections you should begin to lose your rights as a citizen of the United States.
Personally, I think anybody who wants to decide who gets to vote and who doesn't should be sodomized with a broom handle. I guess it's a good thing for you I don't get to make such decisions. And a good thing for everybody that you don't.
It is illegal to prevent an employee from voting by not giving them time off. If they can make it outside of work hourse, there is no requirement to let them take time off. If they *can't* get to vote outside working hours (usually, apparently, 2-3 hours of poll time outside work hours), nearly all states require time off without repercussion. Many require paid time off.
I can't help but wonder is maybe somebody explained to him that his service is inherently illegal for collectio agencies to use, since lying is specifically illegal under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act:
Spammers already use automated systems to sign up for dozens of domain names at a time, using fake contact info. Nothing can be done about that, because the after life of a spam domain is less than the time it takes to detect the bogus contact info anyway. And the whole thing likely operates through a zombied proxy, making it impossible to track down the real point of origin. Add in a stolen credit card number (spammer would never do something criminal, would they?), and you have a system where adding in SPF records is one extra line of code to the section that adds in the other DNS records.
SPF will do nothing to stop, or even slow down, spam. And the more people who use SPF to whitelist, the more it will increase spam getting through.
How could anyone possibly have thought SPF would reduce spam in any way?
No system that is under the technical control (like SPF) will reduce spam, since the spammers will simply comply. In the case of SPF, all the need do is add in a new section to the script they use to automate signing up for dozens of new domain names at a time, to add the SPF records. (These scripts already add in the other DNS records, so this is trivial.)
And no system that is under the control of someone other than the domain holder will ever be used. (Like the.mail scheme from Spamhaus, where the registrar controls your DNS records.) Only insane people will tolerate that.
The solution to spam involves dark alleys and cattle prods, not wacky technical solutions that won't do anything.
To protect the structure, he trademarked it in both title and structure.
No. You can't trademark ideas. You can patent them. But you can't trademark or copyright them. The name is another matter, and a legitimate trademark (as long as it is still in use).
MST3K is still in use, since they are still selling DVDs, and is a valid trademark.
They're still full of crap, however, in this case, as there is no chance of confusion over who is who.
At the Comic-Con panel, they refused to rule out any possible future projects, but it sounded to me like they would most like to do a movie for theatrical release, rather than more television.
article seems to suggest that this will make insurance cheaper
No plan the insurance industry puts for will ever make insurance cheaper for the consumer. If there was a plan to do so, the insurance company would bury it very deeep, indeed. How could it be otherwise? Actually reducing the cost to the consumer would reduce profits, and deliberately reducing profits - shareholder value - would be criminal.
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I got one last week that was identical to a legit Citibank email, except that it went to http://citibankgroup.biz instead of https://citibank.com.
Verifying the sender using SPF or any of the other systems being adopted right now, will solve this problem.
I fail to see how. Since citibankgroup.biz really does belong to the phisher, they can just publish SPF records. The problem isn't (usually) that the URL points to someone else's domain, the problem is that some people are too goddamn stupid to realize that citibankgroup.biz isn't the same as citibank.com, and might not be run by the same people.
And disabling HTML email (among the worst design decisions ever made, IMHO), would also help a lot.
Disabling stupid users, preferably by applying a hammer to their fingers until you have jam, would help a hell of a lot more.
Just a little more juice and some steering and this thing could be orbiting the earth for a bit of time...
No, actually, about 20 times more juice, and expense, and planning. And, from what I hear, the engines SS1 uses absolutely will not scale up that far.
15 years ago, when NASA did this. . .
Er, dude, NASA did this about 40 years ago. This flight is functionally identical to Mercury 1, or the first X-15 flight with the Big Engine.
That said, while this is an important first step for truly private space launches, it's not all that impressive. The difference between this kind of suborbital flight and going in to orbit is about an order of magnitude of energy. That means ten times as much fuel, plus even more fuel to launch the fuel, etc., etc., etc. We're still a long way from orbital hotels.
Let me see if I have this straight: This bill will make it possible to prosecute someone who is knowingly, but unwillingly distributing files?
Why does that make no sense at all?
Shouldn't the law treat those forced to distribute copyrighted material against their will as victims?
It makes you wonder why the government pushes ahead with electronic voting when they know there are problems.
I used to wonder. This makes me certain.
I'd rat out spammers if I had to pay to do it. If only someone cared.
So you're saying google is just a "search function"?
/do work wise.
No, I'm saying Google has already been done. Doing it again isn't "advanced technology research."
You do realize that papers published by americans in scientific journals has been steadily declining in the last 10 years.
So? The reasons are a lot more complex than that America sucks, and only vaguely related to the amount of research being done.
The amount of published chinese research is increasing constantly.
By "research," do you mean learning new stuff that wasn't known before, or moving your programming staff to a country where you can buy cheap slave labor? Do you mean learning stuff that wasn't known before, or porting your database application to a new language?
In America being a lawyer or a MBA is the most prestigious things you can
Do you get aroused when you chant "AMERICA SUCKS!"
In Asia being an engineer is bigger than being a lawyer or a pointy hair boss.
Engineers do not "advanced technology research." Scientists do research. Engineers do shit that's already been done by scientsts. Which is rather my point.
Every empire must decline eventually no matter how glorious or advanced. Just admit it and go with it.
It just pisses you off that the US runs the world, doesn't it?
These awful excuses about why China sucks just looks like some kind of sore loser stuff.
Feel free to quote where I said China sucks, dumbass. I said the story sucked, because the writer (who is as stupid as you are) doesn't know what "advanced technical research" is, much less who is doing it.
Porting a software package to Chinese is "advanced technology research"? Writing a new search function is "advanced technology research"? I don't see any other examples of what this "advanced technology research" consists of, other than Nokia moving its programming operations to China, which is also not "advanced technology research."
"Within five years China could overtake Britain, Germany and Japan as a base for corporate research, leaving it second only to the United States."
Yeah, maybe, if you define "corporate research" as "learning how to use ten year old technology."
The system you describe is, from what I understand, trivial to defeat with a hex editor. Simply flip the if/then check on the key, so that the program only works when it can't check the key.
It's less than it costs to give them service, if they're only collecting 1/10th.
[Rob McCormick] disputed the figure of $2 million a month revenue from the spammers, and said the actual figure is only a tenth of that amount.
Which is to say, they bill $2 million, but spammers, being spammers, only pay 1/10th.
Can't help but how much that has to do with botting the lying thieves, and how much is the threat to block their entire network.
If you don't vote you have no right to complain, because you could have done something about it, and didn't.
Actually, according to the 1st Amendment, I do, in fact, have a right to bitch, whether I meet some arbitrary criteria from some nobody, or not.
Just as you have the right to not give a damn.
Personally I think if you have not voted in the past 3-4 elections you should begin to lose your rights as a citizen of the United States.
Personally, I think anybody who wants to decide who gets to vote and who doesn't should be sodomized with a broom handle. I guess it's a good thing for you I don't get to make such decisions. And a good thing for everybody that you don't.
result is that 80+% actually vote...
Or 40% vote twice. Or 20% vote four times. Or 10% vote eight times.
Can you tell the difference? If so, then you have some kind of voter registration, whether you call it that or not.
Just so long as you get to decide who is qualified and who isn't, eh?
It is illegal to prevent an employee from voting by not giving them time off. If they can make it outside of work hourse, there is no requirement to let them take time off. If they *can't* get to vote outside working hours (usually, apparently, 2-3 hours of poll time outside work hours), nearly all states require time off without repercussion. Many require paid time off.
In short, what you propose is already law.
You should have known that.
I can't help but wonder is maybe somebody explained to him that his service is inherently illegal for collectio agencies to use, since lying is specifically illegal under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act:
15 USC 1692e:
A debt collector may not use any false, deceptive, or misleading representation or means in connection with the collection of any debt.
Most spam comes from spammers who are already registering domains faster than you can possibly add them to a block list.
Why on earth are you not running your own DNS server? It's not rocket science. Hell, even spammers can (and do) figure it out.
Spammers already use automated systems to sign up for dozens of domain names at a time, using fake contact info. Nothing can be done about that, because the after life of a spam domain is less than the time it takes to detect the bogus contact info anyway. And the whole thing likely operates through a zombied proxy, making it impossible to track down the real point of origin. Add in a stolen credit card number (spammer would never do something criminal, would they?), and you have a system where adding in SPF records is one extra line of code to the section that adds in the other DNS records.
SPF will do nothing to stop, or even slow down, spam. And the more people who use SPF to whitelist, the more it will increase spam getting through.
How could anyone possibly have thought SPF would reduce spam in any way?
.mail scheme from Spamhaus, where the registrar controls your DNS records.) Only insane people will tolerate that.
No system that is under the technical control (like SPF) will reduce spam, since the spammers will simply comply. In the case of SPF, all the need do is add in a new section to the script they use to automate signing up for dozens of new domain names at a time, to add the SPF records. (These scripts already add in the other DNS records, so this is trivial.)
And no system that is under the control of someone other than the domain holder will ever be used. (Like the
The solution to spam involves dark alleys and cattle prods, not wacky technical solutions that won't do anything.
To protect the structure, he trademarked it in both title and structure.
No. You can't trademark ideas. You can patent them. But you can't trademark or copyright them. The name is another matter, and a legitimate trademark (as long as it is still in use).
MST3K is still in use, since they are still selling DVDs, and is a valid trademark.
They're still full of crap, however, in this case, as there is no chance of confusion over who is who.
Not that I actually know what I'm talkign about.
At the Comic-Con panel, they refused to rule out any possible future projects, but it sounded to me like they would most like to do a movie for theatrical release, rather than more television.
Nosferatu don't count as dead, despite not excatly being dead, either.
article seems to suggest that this will make insurance cheaper
No plan the insurance industry puts for will ever make insurance cheaper for the consumer. If there was a plan to do so, the insurance company would bury it very deeep, indeed. How could it be otherwise? Actually reducing the cost to the consumer would reduce profits, and deliberately reducing profits - shareholder value - would be criminal.