I think I finally understand what SCO is up to. They want to be in show business. They're writing a script for an episode of The Powerpuff Girls. Darl will be played by MojoJojo.
1) It's nothing new. Just an incremental improvement over existing tracking bracelets that have been in use for years.
2) It's not RFID tags. Not even remotely the same. RFID tags cannot have a range of more than a few feet, or they cease to have any use. These are satellite tracking devices.
"Though I believe they are a reputable company, they are doing some things I do not think are good: checking for the domain names on the TLD servers once per second, downloading various files from the site once per second, and sending email to themselves once per second.
They are not a reputable company. They are a bunch of retards who should be driven out of the industry with sharp sticks. More to the point, they should be reported to the FBI for conducting a malicioius attack against your network - and you have tangible damage to prove it.
Our first response was to talk to them and explain what we needed them to do, including a list of IPs that we used for customers so they could adjust their monitoring to suit what we thought was reasonable. They chose to ignore the first discussion and continued to abuse the servers. After the email server required a half-day of cleanup, the CTO simply shut them off at the firewalls. Rather than using the contact information they had, they chose to complain to our mutual customers instead. (I should note we do significant monitoring of the servers ourselves, and typically know if something is wrong within minutes of the event.)
Is this typical behavior of monitoring service companies? I know some of them are not reputable at all (due to spamming) however these guys seem to know what they are doing, and yet managed to effectively attack our mail and web servers, as well as doing some things I would not do to the TLD servers. It is hard to feel justified to shutting off someone else's cash-flow, but at the same time we need to defend servers from over zealous monitoring."
Here's a hint for you: Do they offer web hosting services themselves? You may have to dig real deep to find the connection, but if I had to guess, I'll bet they do. And I'll bet they offer it to your customers, based on the fact that they crashed your servers. "Your current service seems to have a lot of downtime. Perhaps you should consider moving to another host. We can make recommendations."
If you find any evidence that they offer any kind of competition to your hosting, report them to the FBI. They may well be a criminal organization engaging in a well orchestrated scam.
Or maybe they're just fucking stoopid. It's hard to tell from here.
Some even want the way asteroids are assessed to be completely overhauled."
What needs to be overhauled is how the astronomers interact with the press. Perhaps they should simply not hold press conferences on "maybes". Especially when certainty will be available within a few days anyway.
The problem isn't the system, the problem is the people. Glory hungry amateurs and stupid journalists, feeding off of each other.
The key thing to being judgement proof is to simply not have any assets that can be taken. Generally speaking, they can't take any tools you use for your profession, they can't take your last vehicle, they can't take your primary residence, and they can't reduce your income below a certain level.
It isn't tough to be judgement proof, but you'll be living well below the poverty line if you are.
If they get a judgement, and you have anything of value, then yes, they can take your property and sell it at auction. If you have a job, they can garnishee your paycheck.
It's possible to be judgement proof, but it involves eating a lot of 29 cent macaroni & cheese.
On the other hand, if you're willing to change jobs every few months, you can easily make it more expensive to collect than how much they get.
Actually, DMCA makes it a federal crime to distribute a tool capable of circumventing any copy protection scheme, regardless of whether or not it is ever used illegally.
Yes, it's illegal to buy software that can break copy protection on your own documents.
This is entirely about MS forcing people to use MS products, and not open source products.
I suspect it will backfire, though, and reduce the number of new Office licenses, not increase them. I certainly hope so.
This took from around 3pm to around 8:30pm today. I'm just bewildered that Dell corporate policy is that users need to lie to use their new laptops, and to agree to legal agreements that it's completely impossible to have read.
If you can't read it, legally, you can't agree to it. It is unenforceable, period. Since it is unenforceable, and invalid on its face, that means the user is bound only by Title 17 copyright law.
Very simple situation.
Perhaps Dell is doing it on purpose because Microsoft is forcing them to use an unacceptable EULA, and this is their way to working around it.
In any event, this isn't exactly a new issue. It's been well covered by contract law for decades, even centuries.
You can't be held to an agreement you weren't allowed to understand.
RFID tags are more about controlling inventory than anything else. To the extent that they are about security, they are about stopping shoplifting by customers.
The bag nazi at the door is there to look for employee theft, not shoplifting. And they don't accomplish that, either.
The movie industry is blaming poor sales of such movies as Gigli, The Hulk and Charlies Angels not on the fact that they were poor quality, but because people text message other people telling them that the movie stinks.
Really? Well, let's examine the possibilities. Either people are telling their friends a new movie stinks because it stinks, or because there is a massive conspiracy to lie about a good movie. Nah, it couldn't possibly be because the movies stink.
Industry executives say that this undermines a carefully crafted marketing image.
Perhaps Hollywood should try making movies, instead of making marketing images.
Actually, quite a bit is known already, if you know who to ask. A power station at Niagra shut down due ot overload, most likely from the heat wave and resulting use of air conditioners. A relay that regulated under-frequency failed to seperate a power station in Manhattan, which caused a cascade throughout the grid (and, while it may not have "caught fire," most certainly was not intended to belch clouds of black smoke, even if it failed).
It's a simple matter of a heat wave causing too much power to be used, and multiple equipment failures causing a cascade.
There are a number of scripts (going by such names as "Formfucker") foating around to generate random (and totally bogus) orders by filling in spammers' forms.
Chillisoft was in California, so California law probably applies.
Not on copyrights. Copyrights are governed by Title 17 of the US code.
The key thing is, what was done with the other assets of the company? Somebody got whatever remaining assets existed after everything else was disposed of.
. . . can use ordinary office printers to superimpose a glossy image on an ordinary printed document in a way that can't be photocopied or otherwise easily reproduced."
They claim that they will lose money by not calling people who have indicated that they do not wish to be called?
Yes.
So they are really saying that people who signed up do not know what is good for them, and they really would like to buy what the telemarketers are selling?
That's what they are saying, yes.
What an insult.
Not really. More a lie. You see, they don't care if they make sales or not. Their real income is charging someone else to make the call at all. In other words, the poor sap at the receiving end of the call isn't the only victim.
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Publish SPF records for your domain.
OK, why can't spammers do this?
I think I finally understand what SCO is up to. They want to be in show business. They're writing a script for an episode of The Powerpuff Girls. Darl will be played by MojoJojo.
It all makes sense now.
The RFID tag that can withstand 15 seconds on high in a mictowave hasn't been made, and never will.
Chicken Little.
1) It's nothing new. Just an incremental improvement over existing tracking bracelets that have been in use for years.
2) It's not RFID tags. Not even remotely the same. RFID tags cannot have a range of more than a few feet, or they cease to have any use. These are satellite tracking devices.
3) The sky is not falling.
4) Whoever submitted this is an idiot.
5) Whoever approved it is more of an idiot.
Now click that "OK" button four thousand times.
Ho hum.
Holy Christ of a flying goddamn crutch!
I've gotten at least four goddamn thousand copies of the fucking thing in the last 72 hours.
"Though I believe they are a reputable company, they are doing some things I do not think are good: checking for the domain names on the TLD servers once per second, downloading various files from the site once per second, and sending email to themselves once per second.
They are not a reputable company. They are a bunch of retards who should be driven out of the industry with sharp sticks. More to the point, they should be reported to the FBI for conducting a malicioius attack against your network - and you have tangible damage to prove it.
Our first response was to talk to them and explain what we needed them to do, including a list of IPs that we used for customers so they could adjust their monitoring to suit what we thought was reasonable. They chose to ignore the first discussion and continued to abuse the servers. After the email server required a half-day of cleanup, the CTO simply shut them off at the firewalls. Rather than using the contact information they had, they chose to complain to our mutual customers instead. (I should note we do significant monitoring of the servers ourselves, and typically know if something is wrong within minutes of the event.)
Is this typical behavior of monitoring service companies? I know some of them are not reputable at all (due to spamming) however these guys seem to know what they are doing, and yet managed to effectively attack our mail and web servers, as well as doing some things I would not do to the TLD servers. It is hard to feel justified to shutting off someone else's cash-flow, but at the same time we need to defend servers from over zealous monitoring."
Here's a hint for you: Do they offer web hosting services themselves? You may have to dig real deep to find the connection, but if I had to guess, I'll bet they do. And I'll bet they offer it to your customers, based on the fact that they crashed your servers. "Your current service seems to have a lot of downtime. Perhaps you should consider moving to another host. We can make recommendations."
If you find any evidence that they offer any kind of competition to your hosting, report them to the FBI. They may well be a criminal organization engaging in a well orchestrated scam.
Or maybe they're just fucking stoopid. It's hard to tell from here.
Some even want the way asteroids are assessed to be completely overhauled."
What needs to be overhauled is how the astronomers interact with the press. Perhaps they should simply not hold press conferences on "maybes". Especially when certainty will be available within a few days anyway.
The problem isn't the system, the problem is the people. Glory hungry amateurs and stupid journalists, feeding off of each other.
To hell with 'em all.
Bill Gates suggested buying enough to do the crash tests, but they had federal law changed instead.
I guess a congressman costs less than a Porche.
A license to be online is no different than a license to publish a newspaper, or a license to own a xerox machine.
Does anyone thing that's a good idea?
The key thing to being judgement proof is to simply not have any assets that can be taken. Generally speaking, they can't take any tools you use for your profession, they can't take your last vehicle, they can't take your primary residence, and they can't reduce your income below a certain level.
It isn't tough to be judgement proof, but you'll be living well below the poverty line if you are.
If they get a judgement, and you have anything of value, then yes, they can take your property and sell it at auction. If you have a job, they can garnishee your paycheck.
It's possible to be judgement proof, but it involves eating a lot of 29 cent macaroni & cheese.
On the other hand, if you're willing to change jobs every few months, you can easily make it more expensive to collect than how much they get.
Actually, DMCA makes it a federal crime to distribute a tool capable of circumventing any copy protection scheme, regardless of whether or not it is ever used illegally.
Yes, it's illegal to buy software that can break copy protection on your own documents.
This is entirely about MS forcing people to use MS products, and not open source products.
I suspect it will backfire, though, and reduce the number of new Office licenses, not increase them. I certainly hope so.
suggests using a 'Mail Policy Code' during the transaction to identify what kind of mail is being sent (administrative, personal, commercial, etc).
And we all know that spammers never lie!
Unless there is an enforcement mechanisms that involves cattle prods, this is a joke.
This took from around 3pm to around 8:30pm today. I'm just bewildered that Dell corporate policy is that users need to lie to use their new laptops, and to agree to legal agreements that it's completely impossible to have read.
If you can't read it, legally, you can't agree to it. It is unenforceable, period. Since it is unenforceable, and invalid on its face, that means the user is bound only by Title 17 copyright law.
Very simple situation.
Perhaps Dell is doing it on purpose because Microsoft is forcing them to use an unacceptable EULA, and this is their way to working around it.
In any event, this isn't exactly a new issue. It's been well covered by contract law for decades, even centuries.
You can't be held to an agreement you weren't allowed to understand.
Perhaps it's Something Awful that's doing it?
In their wettest dreams. Buncha wannabe script kiddies.
Perhaps you should look in to Project Pandora
RFID tags are more about controlling inventory than anything else. To the extent that they are about security, they are about stopping shoplifting by customers.
The bag nazi at the door is there to look for employee theft, not shoplifting. And they don't accomplish that, either.
The movie industry is blaming poor sales of such movies as Gigli, The Hulk and Charlies Angels not on the fact that they were poor quality, but because people text message other people telling them that the movie stinks.
Really? Well, let's examine the possibilities. Either people are telling their friends a new movie stinks because it stinks, or because there is a massive conspiracy to lie about a good movie. Nah, it couldn't possibly be because the movies stink.
Industry executives say that this undermines a carefully crafted marketing image.
Perhaps Hollywood should try making movies, instead of making marketing images.
Actually, quite a bit is known already, if you know who to ask. A power station at Niagra shut down due ot overload, most likely from the heat wave and resulting use of air conditioners. A relay that regulated under-frequency failed to seperate a power station in Manhattan, which caused a cascade throughout the grid (and, while it may not have "caught fire," most certainly was not intended to belch clouds of black smoke, even if it failed).
It's a simple matter of a heat wave causing too much power to be used, and multiple equipment failures causing a cascade.
Bad, but not mysterious.
I know people in the business. They tell me that black smoke is not a documented feature of automated shutdowns.
In other words, the Mayor is shoveling bullshit.
There are a number of scripts (going by such names as "Formfucker") foating around to generate random (and totally bogus) orders by filling in spammers' forms.
Can't help but wonder if this is the case here.
Chillisoft was in California, so California law probably applies.
Not on copyrights. Copyrights are governed by Title 17 of the US code.
The key thing is, what was done with the other assets of the company? Somebody got whatever remaining assets existed after everything else was disposed of.
. . . can use ordinary office printers to superimpose a glossy image on an ordinary printed document in a way that can't be photocopied or otherwise easily reproduced."
Unless you have an ordinary office printer.
They claim that they will lose money by not calling people who have indicated that they do not wish to be called?
Yes.
So they are really saying that people who signed up do not know what is good for them, and they really would like to buy what the telemarketers are selling?
That's what they are saying, yes.
What an insult.
Not really. More a lie. You see, they don't care if they make sales or not. Their real income is charging someone else to make the call at all. In other words, the poor sap at the receiving end of the call isn't the only victim.