"Based on my experiences helping neophytes do web work, my guess is that 90% of the web-using public doesn't even notice the little key icon"
True that. Further, those who know and count on the validity of a security certificate are probably the exact same ones that wouldn't fall for such a scam. Those who would fall for it likely know nothing about secured certificates.
Looks almost exactly how I envisioned it (and wanted to 'invent') 13 years ago. Except, I had an actual buzzer go off when it detected someting in the blind spot WHEN you turned on your turn signal (this one uses a display in the side mirror, it looks like). Also, mine would only work when the car was moving, not stationary.
I was on edge reading that, thinking my new bayesian filter system I am using and singing the praises of, is now useless. But then this line was later in the article: "Baxter and Linford said that spammers' use of hash busting is definitely on the rise, but such tricks can rarely circumvent a well-trained Bayesian filter."
Kinda funny. I initially read the last line that said, "Here is a detailed article from The Japan Times." as "Here is a derailed articale from the Japan Times"
The story stated it was the IP address. While the MAC address may have been the simplest form of tracking, it doesn't mean the FBI already had the MAC address of that machine in it's database. Wells Fargo could simply have a software program on all their laptops designed to always send out a notice when they are logged into the Internet. When they get a laptop stolen, they simply await that specific laptop's ID (yes, and perhaps that ID is the MAC address) to be received, and when it is, it alerts the Wels Fargo security division of the originating IP address. Wa-la, they then call the police, who obtain a search warrant for the house that is listed as the address of the user who is/was utilizing that IP address at the time it was logged in.
While it is possible that the FBI has a list of all known MAC addresses of all known users of the Internet, and thus simply tracked that MAC address with no help from Wells Fargo, it is not likely.
I use Sprint PCS for my cell service and have the 2000 minute plan, which gives me their 'vision' for free, unlimited*. Using a third party data cable, I get unlimited wireless access (where ever I can get a Sprint signal)to my laptop. I am posting from my laptop now in a remote part of N. Carolina, having traveled here from Columbus, Ohio. With a full signal, I get a transfer rate of about 25KB/sec, about 5 times faster than 56k.
OhioJoe
*"unlimited" is not completely true. If I were to use this to download files 24/7, it'd catch Sprints attention, and I've heard stories that they will shut off the service. But, since I don't use this so heavily, I am not using as much bandwidth as someone who contantly checks sports scores on their cell phone.
I've been saying the same thing as well, to friends and family just getting into the 'internet' scene. I explained that AOL is one room of a colossal mansion (the mansion being the Internet) that has a 'little taste' of most things on all the other rooms, but they don't advertise that it's a 'little taste' and instead portray it as the real thing.
I just was setting up some technical consultation with a towing company owner and asked him what ISP he was using. He answered "AOL", because my son gets into those chat things". I recall years ago after having used IRC, going into AOL's chat rooms and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Everyone had to speak in code constantly to avoid the censors. It was amazing to me that these people had no idea what IRC was, and had no concept of 'chatting' outside of AOL.
The single worst pox of naivete upon the Internet behind WebTV is AOL.
You might as well have replied, "You're wrong, because purple kangaroos never use Colgate toothpaste." Your reply did not address how the photo is of use when non-factual representation, intentional or not, is part of the data.
..It's saved everyone's butt because no one took it seriously. Once terrorists make a grand plan to take out power, cell phones, and the Internet, they'll say "Ah, Habib, recall the HAM radio bail out of the great black out? It was a sleeper agent of the devil, so let's add it to the list."
Also, I called a girl I know who was in Cleveland right at the black out on her cell phone. She was jammed in traffic by result of the power outage. Got through just fine. Maybe I contributed to the overload of cell phone circuits. (shrug).
I live in Columbus, Ohio. The before picture shows Columbus, Ohio lit, and the after picture shows it dark. Columbus did not have a black out. Doctored photo? Not sure, but still wonder why it shows Columbus blacked out.
"Users would only be able to read a certain portion of the text from any one book"
So, if it is just pre-cut snippets from the book that can be searched, big deal. But if it only shows you the portion in which the text was contained, it wil be a matter of hours before a program is written to deliberate search for every 40th word (or whatever the threshhold is for Amazon to 'snip' the text) and copy that text on and on until it compiles the whole book in electronic format. Then, it's distributed.
Micropayments are like the egg (or chicken) in the proverbial chicken and the egg concept. The counterpart to Micropayments (to be the chicken, or egg relatively speaking) will be a widely accepted means of putting money into a universal Internet account that is NOT PayPal, or similar service. I am referring to a Universal Internet Micropayment account that is 'funded' through services you perform on the Internet (answer a tech question in a tech forum, for example) and you are compensated small amounts (maybe, 2 cents for that answer) where eventually, you may actually have $1.43 in your account (from various services you have performed around the Internet), and that's a lot of micropayments. This Universal Internet Micropayment account will only be good for micropayments since it is unlikely to get very high (even $10 would be a "fortune" in micropayments, but little use anywhere else). Once this universal account becomes mainstream, micropayments will work wonderfully. But again, the Universal Internet Micropayment account will only be born if micropayments themselves have a demand.
One way to do this is for various tech services boards to offer 1 or 2 cents for approved tech answers, but you get none if you don't have the Universal Internet Micropayment Account.
Long ago, I simply told Hotmail to trash every sender who had an "@" symbol in their email address. But preceded that 'rule' with instructions to allow certain email addresses (known friends/family) and certain oft-used domains of my friends/family members/associates, and finally, allow any emails with the word "banana" in the subject. My spam has been reduced to next to nothing, and I get all the emails I need to get. If I give out my email address at Hotmail, I check to see if the sender will be sending from a known domain, or tell them to put 'banana' in the subject to get to me. Fortunately, I don't use my Hotmail account for anything important, but since it is a 4 letter name, and my last name to boot, it's fairly unique and easy to remember. SO I use it occasionally when I meet new people but are not ready to give them me REAL vanity email address, which is my firstname@lastname.com.
Well, when you see a tractor pulling a load up a hill, and it is gaining speed, you're likely to believe it is going to crest the hill. That is what is going on with stem cell research. They keep learning more and more, and just when you think it will be another 10 years before the next big find, whamo, they've hit another big find.
And for the record, there are few if ANY stem cell researches (SCR) who wish to work on "embryo's", unless you say blastocyst's are embryo's. And if you do, than 1 out of 4 females' body discards an embryo in further stages of development than what SCR scientists are working with, and she doesn't even know it. SCR scientists want Invitro Fertilzation Clinic 'blastocysts' that are being discared due to 'non prime specimen' reasons. In other words, SCR scientists want to intercept the blastocysts on their way to the dumpster. Where are all the picket signs outside of IVR clinics?
Fefe hammered home: "Some recent viruses mass mailed themselves using other people's domains at random. You might not have noticed this, but my traffic more than quadrupled because of me getting all the bounces -- over 18000 per day."
True. True. I have implemented a whitelist, that sends all rejected emails (i.e., not a friend or family on my whitelist)an atuo-reply, explaining they failed my filter, and to put "NotSpam" in the subject line to get into my 'Pending' list. This works wonderfully (I never have to peruse the 'rejected' pile to see if friends got rejected, since they will get a reply explaining how to get through my filter), and I have only seen about 2 spams out of about 1600/month I get (and those are from traceable domains, since it took "intelligence" to get past my filter). The downside is what you say, my traffic triples in that I SEND an email for every rejected email, and I get a bounce from over 99% of them (they all use bogus return addresses, by the way, my whitelist proves it, contray to some people's claims that "Oh my! you're letting them know you have a live address!!"). Last, if my 'NotSpam' gets compromised, it's not a big deal. I simply change the rule from "notspam" to "antispam" and edit my "spamreply.eml" to reflect the change. Anyway, my whitelist is awesome and works, depsite the nay sayers who have no idea I've been using it for over a year and have proven is works. It just requires an initial time commitement to write the rules, and second to adminsiter valid emails getting rejected for the first few weeks, but after that, it's dreamy.:)
If I could just get someone to write a plug in to do all the rules (keep in mind, I need separate rules for "Message Undeliverable" and 'out of office" responses so that my autoreply doesn't keep replying to them. Also, every time I get someone in my Pending folder I want to add to my whitelist, I have to fly through 7 or so steps to do that. It'd be nice to have a radio button or "right click-Add-to-whitelist" option. A plug in or stand alone could do that, it's make mroe people want to use it since it is easier, and if lots of people started using it, it'd make spam uneffective.
But for now, I get to be virtually spam free. It'd just be nice if MS would implement an option whitelist set up like I described.
You can drug people all you want, but I'd rather drag them (drug out on the street" should read ""dragged out on the street"). Anyway, I hope they lose their asses. Gator adware is intrusive as hell. I hope they go bankrupt.
Type these words into a google search, and there you will find an unbiased report that found empirically that an armed populace means less violent crime. Professor John Lott, University of Chicago, looked at all federal, state, and local law enforcement data as well as economics (Eric Mustard's purpose) since economics play a part in crime rates independent of guns. All other guns studies ignore the natural ebb and flow of crime rates, and thus erroneously report the effect of concealed carry legislation.
The better thing, instead of giving you a tone during LESS than 10ms ping reply's, would be for the system to create a tone when there is a ping reply of MORE than 10ms (or some set amount). In other words, you only hear a sound when your connection is suffering, not when it is doing good. Further, it could beep with more frequency (one beep per 10ms above 40ms, for example), the worse the conection... i.e., it would 'interrupt' you (depending on your settings) but that is okay, because what you are sending isn't getting through anyway.
I know for a fact that Ameritech holds back certain mumbers. Absolutely ALL numbers that have ANY type of repitition are 'reserved' because they know they will get more moeny for them (I.e., 888-0088, or 724-9999). I just recently moved to a new house and tried to get ANY number that sounded cool.. I litterally tried over 200 numbers before I just gave up and took what they gave me (a stupid one). I was trting everytthing from 888-1010, 794-9909, ANYthing with two digets that matched. No chance. It was redicluos, and infuriating. When I asked the phone company why those same numberes when called, said they were not in service, I was told they were 'reserved'.
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"Based on my experiences helping neophytes do web work, my guess is that 90% of the web-using public doesn't even notice the little key icon"
True that. Further, those who know and count on the validity of a security certificate are probably the exact same ones that wouldn't fall for such a scam. Those who would fall for it likely know nothing about secured certificates.
Looks almost exactly how I envisioned it (and wanted to 'invent') 13 years ago. Except, I had an actual buzzer go off when it detected someting in the blind spot WHEN you turned on your turn signal (this one uses a display in the side mirror, it looks like). Also, mine would only work when the car was moving, not stationary.
My wife must be cheating on me with you. She just read both of those books in that order about two weeks ago. :)
Joe
I was on edge reading that, thinking my new bayesian filter system I am using and singing the praises of, is now useless. But then this line was later in the article: "Baxter and Linford said that spammers' use of hash busting is definitely on the rise, but such tricks can rarely circumvent a well-trained Bayesian filter."
Whew.
Back to singing it's praises..
She closed after 7 years because she started it when she was 33. :)
Kinda funny. I initially read the last line that said, "Here is a detailed article from The Japan Times." as "Here is a derailed articale from the Japan Times"
..for vulnerablities. "We're just trying to do it FOR you".
Joe
The story stated it was the IP address. While the MAC address may have been the simplest form of tracking, it doesn't mean the FBI already had the MAC address of that machine in it's database. Wells Fargo could simply have a software program on all their laptops designed to always send out a notice when they are logged into the Internet. When they get a laptop stolen, they simply await that specific laptop's ID (yes, and perhaps that ID is the MAC address) to be received, and when it is, it alerts the Wels Fargo security division of the originating IP address. Wa-la, they then call the police, who obtain a search warrant for the house that is listed as the address of the user who is/was utilizing that IP address at the time it was logged in.
While it is possible that the FBI has a list of all known MAC addresses of all known users of the Internet, and thus simply tracked that MAC address with no help from Wells Fargo, it is not likely.
I use Sprint PCS for my cell service and have the 2000 minute plan, which gives me their 'vision' for free, unlimited*. Using a third party data cable, I get unlimited wireless access (where ever I can get a Sprint signal)to my laptop. I am posting from my laptop now in a remote part of N. Carolina, having traveled here from Columbus, Ohio. With a full signal, I get a transfer rate of about 25KB/sec, about 5 times faster than 56k.
OhioJoe
*"unlimited" is not completely true. If I were to use this to download files 24/7, it'd catch Sprints attention, and I've heard stories that they will shut off the service. But, since I don't use this so heavily, I am not using as much bandwidth as someone who contantly checks sports scores on their cell phone.
So how would tunyurl.com work? You just link to a tinyurl.com link that links to your AOL page. Would LiveJournal's info cling on to TinyUrl's info?
I've been saying the same thing as well, to friends and family just getting into the 'internet' scene. I explained that AOL is one room of a colossal mansion (the mansion being the Internet) that has a 'little taste' of most things on all the other rooms, but they don't advertise that it's a 'little taste' and instead portray it as the real thing.
I just was setting up some technical consultation with a towing company owner and asked him what ISP he was using. He answered "AOL", because my son gets into those chat things". I recall years ago after having used IRC, going into AOL's chat rooms and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Everyone had to speak in code constantly to avoid the censors. It was amazing to me that these people had no idea what IRC was, and had no concept of 'chatting' outside of AOL.
The single worst pox of naivete upon the Internet behind WebTV is AOL.
You might as well have replied, "You're wrong, because purple kangaroos never use Colgate toothpaste." Your reply did not address how the photo is of use when non-factual representation, intentional or not, is part of the data.
This is the moment in history where future civilization will point then they say, "Back then, the had no concept of "nilta"
..It's saved everyone's butt because no one took it seriously. Once terrorists make a grand plan to take out power, cell phones, and the Internet, they'll say "Ah, Habib, recall the HAM radio bail out of the great black out? It was a sleeper agent of the devil, so let's add it to the list."
Also, I called a girl I know who was in Cleveland right at the black out on her cell phone. She was jammed in traffic by result of the power outage. Got through just fine. Maybe I contributed to the overload of cell phone circuits. (shrug).
Columbus being showed as 'dark' when we did not have a black out, even if a legit anomale, just means the picture is worthless then, in my opinion.
OhioJoe
I live in Columbus, Ohio. The before picture shows Columbus, Ohio lit, and the after picture shows it dark. Columbus did not have a black out. Doctored photo? Not sure, but still wonder why it shows Columbus blacked out.
"Users would only be able to read a certain portion of the text from any one book"
So, if it is just pre-cut snippets from the book that can be searched, big deal. But if it only shows you the portion in which the text was contained, it wil be a matter of hours before a program is written to deliberate search for every 40th word (or whatever the threshhold is for Amazon to 'snip' the text) and copy that text on and on until it compiles the whole book in electronic format. Then, it's distributed.
Micropayments are like the egg (or chicken) in the proverbial chicken and the egg concept. The counterpart to Micropayments (to be the chicken, or egg relatively speaking) will be a widely accepted means of putting money into a universal Internet account that is NOT PayPal, or similar service. I am referring to a Universal Internet Micropayment account that is 'funded' through services you perform on the Internet (answer a tech question in a tech forum, for example) and you are compensated small amounts (maybe, 2 cents for that answer) where eventually, you may actually have $1.43 in your account (from various services you have performed around the Internet), and that's a lot of micropayments. This Universal Internet Micropayment account will only be good for micropayments since it is unlikely to get very high (even $10 would be a "fortune" in micropayments, but little use anywhere else). Once this universal account becomes mainstream, micropayments will work wonderfully. But again, the Universal Internet Micropayment account will only be born if micropayments themselves have a demand.
One way to do this is for various tech services boards to offer 1 or 2 cents for approved tech answers, but you get none if you don't have the Universal Internet Micropayment Account.
Long ago, I simply told Hotmail to trash every sender who had an "@" symbol in their email address. But preceded that 'rule' with instructions to allow certain email addresses (known friends/family) and certain oft-used domains of my friends/family members/associates, and finally, allow any emails with the word "banana" in the subject. My spam has been reduced to next to nothing, and I get all the emails I need to get. If I give out my email address at Hotmail, I check to see if the sender will be sending from a known domain, or tell them to put 'banana' in the subject to get to me. Fortunately, I don't use my Hotmail account for anything important, but since it is a 4 letter name, and my last name to boot, it's fairly unique and easy to remember. SO I use it occasionally when I meet new people but are not ready to give them me REAL vanity email address, which is my firstname@lastname.com.
OhioJoe
Well, when you see a tractor pulling a load up a hill, and it is gaining speed, you're likely to believe it is going to crest the hill. That is what is going on with stem cell research. They keep learning more and more, and just when you think it will be another 10 years before the next big find, whamo, they've hit another big find.
And for the record, there are few if ANY stem cell researches (SCR) who wish to work on "embryo's", unless you say blastocyst's are embryo's. And if you do, than 1 out of 4 females' body discards an embryo in further stages of development than what SCR scientists are working with, and she doesn't even know it. SCR scientists want Invitro Fertilzation Clinic 'blastocysts' that are being discared due to 'non prime specimen' reasons. In other words, SCR scientists want to intercept the blastocysts on their way to the dumpster. Where are all the picket signs outside of IVR clinics?
Fefe hammered home:
:)
"Some recent viruses mass mailed themselves using other people's domains at random. You might not have noticed this, but my traffic more than quadrupled because of me getting all the bounces -- over 18000 per day."
True. True. I have implemented a whitelist, that sends all rejected emails (i.e., not a friend or family on my whitelist)an atuo-reply, explaining they failed my filter, and to put "NotSpam" in the subject line to get into my 'Pending' list. This works wonderfully (I never have to peruse the 'rejected' pile to see if friends got rejected, since they will get a reply explaining how to get through my filter), and I have only seen about 2 spams out of about 1600/month I get (and those are from traceable domains, since it took "intelligence" to get past my filter). The downside is what you say, my traffic triples in that I SEND an email for every rejected email, and I get a bounce from over 99% of them (they all use bogus return addresses, by the way, my whitelist proves it, contray to some people's claims that "Oh my! you're letting them know you have a live address!!"). Last, if my 'NotSpam' gets compromised, it's not a big deal. I simply change the rule from "notspam" to "antispam" and edit my "spamreply.eml" to reflect the change.
Anyway, my whitelist is awesome and works, depsite the nay sayers who have no idea I've been using it for over a year and have proven is works. It just requires an initial time commitement to write the rules, and second to adminsiter valid emails getting rejected for the first few weeks, but after that, it's dreamy.
If I could just get someone to write a plug in to do all the rules (keep in mind, I need separate rules for "Message Undeliverable" and 'out of office" responses so that my autoreply doesn't keep replying to them. Also, every time I get someone in my Pending folder I want to add to my whitelist, I have to fly through 7 or so steps to do that. It'd be nice to have a radio button or "right click-Add-to-whitelist" option. A plug in or stand alone could do that, it's make mroe people want to use it since it is easier, and if lots of people started using it, it'd make spam uneffective.
But for now, I get to be virtually spam free. It'd just be nice if MS would implement an option whitelist set up like I described.
OhioJoe
You can drug people all you want, but I'd rather drag them (drug out on the street" should read ""dragged out on the street"). Anyway, I hope they lose their asses. Gator adware is intrusive as hell. I hope they go bankrupt.
... will find you what you need.
+Lott +Mustard
Type these words into a google search, and there you will find an unbiased report that found empirically that an armed populace means less violent crime. Professor John Lott, University of Chicago, looked at all federal, state, and local law enforcement data as well as economics (Eric Mustard's purpose) since economics play a part in crime rates independent of guns. All other guns studies ignore the natural ebb and flow of crime rates, and thus erroneously report the effect of concealed carry legislation.
The better thing, instead of giving you a tone during LESS than 10ms ping reply's, would be for the system to create a tone when there is a ping reply of MORE than 10ms (or some set amount). In other words, you only hear a sound when your connection is suffering, not when it is doing good. Further, it could beep with more frequency (one beep per 10ms above 40ms, for example), the worse the conection... i.e., it would 'interrupt' you (depending on your settings) but that is okay, because what you are sending isn't getting through anyway.
I know for a fact that Ameritech holds back certain mumbers. Absolutely ALL numbers that have ANY type of repitition are 'reserved' because they know they will get more moeny for them (I.e., 888-0088, or 724-9999). I just recently moved to a new house and tried to get ANY number that sounded cool.. I litterally tried over 200 numbers before I just gave up and took what they gave me (a stupid one). I was trting everytthing from 888-1010, 794-9909, ANYthing with two digets that matched. No chance. It was redicluos, and infuriating. When I asked the phone company why those same numberes when called, said they were not in service, I was told they were 'reserved'.