..I send out spam for your company maliciously? I send out forged-header spam advertising the product of a company I hate, causing that poor company millions in fines.
The company in question would say "Nope, we didn't do it." Depending upon severity and repeatednesss (Fool me once...), an investigation would be launched. Since this would be a criminal thing, it would be US law enforcement agents who would be doing the investigating. To foster good will, it would be in the spamhaven's best interest to help track down the person sending spam fraudulently (as opposed to the spamhaven's seeming normal modus operandi, sending fraudulent spam).
Re:Pump&Dump stock spam
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The amount of pump&dump stock spam I get is on the rise. How do you track that back to the source?
Sorry, what's pump&dump? If they're trying to sell you something, then, until anonymous secure transactions are working, they *have* to provide you with a means to get money to them. That channel through which they expect to get money is the channel through which you track them.
A national do-not-spam list, coupled with a spam bounty bill, would mean an end to (US based) spam.
Re:Dang it, there goes my stomach lining...
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If such a list existed, you can bet your bottom dollar that every spammer will pay very close attention to it. It would be a list of 100% valid email addresses! Normally they would have to pay for lists of email addresses, and here is one that is free and guaranteed to be accurate.
In order for unsolicited *commercial* email (read: spam) to be effective, there *must* be a product/service to purchase and a method to contact the seller.
Yell at/Fine the seller. They will know which campaign did the spamming. Then fine the spammer.
In order for the spammer (or the company the spammer is spamming for) to get my money, they have to provide a way for me to contact them. It doesn't matter if they use open relays on Mars, they still, ultimately, have to provide a method for me to contact them.
That means that a national opt-out list, coupled with a spambounty (or some other kill-the-spammer type legislation) *would* matter, and it would *not* be business as usual.
I wrote: Of the western countries (excluding the US), You wrote: Misleading nonsense. The major claimant is Kuwait, which
The last time I checked, Suadia Arabia and Kuwait were not generally considered to be western countries.
You again: If you calculate out the Kuwaiti and Saudi claims, the remaining debt becomes quite manageable.
I agree. It *is* quite managable to a country with the resources of Iraq. Which is why I think that the US's push to cancel the 7 billion in debt Iraq it owes to Russia (and a similar figure to France) to be more of a slap against the interests who were against the US deposing Sadaam than it is of a financial boost to Iraq.
Seven billion US dollars is nothing to the US, and not that big of a deal to France (less than one percent of their annual revenues), but to Russia, who only brings in $46billion a year, seven billion is a lot of money. Talk about the US twisting the knife.
1) Iraq has a mountain of debt to pay because as a result of the end of the war everyone is coming in with their bills. INCLUDING the US.
There is a UN resolution on the floor (authored by the US, of course) that basically states that Iraq doesn't owe money to countries that supported the former, presumably evil regime of Sadaam, naming specifically France and Russia.
Of the western countries (excluding the US), France and Russia hold more Iraqi debt than all other countries combined.
3) The GSM standard is not just a French standard, but a worldwide standard.
Yes, but the French do use it. Iraq using CDMA would preclude them from using French companies to support and install infrastructure. Also, Iraq using CDMA would help to isolate the country from its neighbors (everyone else in the region (except Qatar? not sure) is using GSM) and become more reliant on CDMA countries (read: US).
There's a couple of developers who are actively on the list. Report a (linux specific) bug, the developer checks it out, and fixes it, usually with only a one day turn around.
Mozilla developers on the other hand, (and most big open source projects, now that I think about it) aren't responsive at all.
File a bug report. They might get around to looking at it. Or not. The problem with scratching itches is that the festering gangrenous wound is ignored while the itch between the shoulder blades has been rubbed until raw. (mozilla/firebird is *still* a bloated dog (and becoming more so), but there's a *TON* of widgets that start the coffee pot based on a mouse gesture). </fanboy>
Do ultrasonic deterrents really keep rodents out of your house?
No. Not at all. What they do is make the environment less attractive to the rodents. If you are in a duplex, the rodents run next door. If you own your own house, they get used to it (how long did it take you to ignore the traffic/train/plane while you are sleeping?) What is the range?
See above "no" answer. Do they last, or do the rodents eventually return?
See above answer. Are they truly innocuous to dogs and cats?
The mouse chirpers bug the crap out of my dog. On a more important note, they bug the crap out of me. (my wife would say "insert obvioius pest joke here") The mosquito ones are the worst, but I can definitely hear all of the "pest control" ultrasonic gizmos. Maybe I'm just picking up on a weird harmonic, but they're more annoying than the high pitched whine of older TVs, to me.
If TVs and flourescent lights don't bother you, then this won't bother you, but be assured that your pets *will* notice. How do you measure success?"
Decrease in mouse turds always worked for me.
If you're seriously interested in getting rid of mice, get a cat. Get a female cat (spayed!) from the humane society. Keep it outside if you don't like cats (they like to roam, anyway).
Best rodent control are mousers. Female cats make the best mousers.
Do you have to mod in order to emulate? I'm currently longing for a "plug into the tv and it works" solution to run MAME. How did you do this for the xbox (I'm assuming you're using MAME)?
And that's why people who ride a bike tend to have an abundance of free time and money that those with 2 kids and a full time job simply do not.
It's getting pretty tiring, all this "everyone should be like me" crap around here.
Ride your bike, I dont care. I work 50 miles from my home, not because of poor planning, because that's where the better job is.
I drive over an hour, one way, to my job every day because, like you, that's where the better job is.
What I would like to do is bike down to the local (non-existant) train station, catch the train to the city, and then bike (segway?) to the office.
I don't think that I buy the "abundance of free time" argument. My personal experience is that it's the people who have the 2.5 kids and 60 hour a week job that are more likely to bike thirty minutes to work (instead of taking the car in rush-hour traffic and still taking twenty minutes to get to work). The bit of time before and after the work day is often the only time that they have to themselves.
Ever try and ride a bike with 10 bags of groceries?
That's why people who choose to use a bike to ride to the store typically only buy enough food for the next day or two.
Changing to a carless city requires a much larger change in thought than just answering "how do I get to work".
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That's no good either - what if it turns out the original computation was in error? Then you ask for a new answer to a new problem (and report to the problem clearing house that there was +1 answers that conflicted).
The odds that you'd get an additional bad answer (assuming that you're not trying to just fake an answer) decrease significantly with each new problem attempted. I'm more in favor of a "five strikes and you're out" approach. Give the sender multiple chances to solve problems before bouncing the mail as undevliverable.
Mailers that try to fake the answers will *(rightly) get rejected. Mailers that are legitimately trying to answer that don't come up with the "right" answer help to track down incorrect answers in the first place. (and the overhead of answering two or three problems instead of just one (in the event of a wrong answer) isn't significant for normal, legitimate mailers
Re:Puzzles = Waste of CPU cycles?
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Something like Folding@home involves puzzles for which the answers aren't yet known, so if the querying computer avoided solving it and just sent back a garbage solution the host machine wouldn't know the difference.
Ah, but if the problem to solve were simply to verify the computation of an already completed packet you would be solving a computationaly intensive problem *and* adding to the trust for a completed packet (assuming the same answer were obtained).
What has Sid done recently? Civ3 was Jeff Briggs. Alpha Centauri was Brian Reynolds, as was Civ2. Gettysburgh! and Anteitam! were both Sid+Brian. The last thing that was pure sid was that golf game that everyone heard was good, but nobody seemed to play.
Re:Yes they have advertised.
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TiVo's been advertising heavily in selected demographics. Mostly sports...
I suspect that the continued use of advertising is just result of the marketing department trying to justify their existence. I can honestly say that I do not know anyone who bought a TiVo because they saw an ad for it. Everyone I know that has bought one has bought it because they saw it in person.
There's nothing more impressive to friends than pausing at start of a hike to answer the phone and then resume the game when the calls over. (well, that and being able to replay a questionable call over and over (or that certain beer commercial with the swedish ski team over and over and...)
Re:Marketing mantra
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In theory, part of the DirecTiVo monthly fee is paid for by your DirecTV subscription. DirecTV already gives you TV listings for all of the channels. TiVo just extends that service (for an additional $4.95)
If you use some-one elses work in print publication, you have to cite them, even if it's only part of a phrase.
Why shouldn't musicians be required to do the same thing? It's one thing to be influenced by the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, and another to include the line "And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time" in your work.
Were you influence by? Fine. That's homage. Did you include someone elses work? If you don't cite them, then that's plagiarism.
Is there a musical counterpart to this? If not, there should be.
Nuff said. (but because enough is never enough) The cutscenes were interesting in that they added to the back story, but scrolling text would have worked just as well. I *really* like in-game cinematics. Going to Bink just serves to dissrupt my suspension of disbelief. The cutscenes were jarring and broke up the continuity that hours of play had built up.
I'm certain that going with Bink is a mistake that Bioware won't be repeating. (and hopefully, they'll switch to in-game cinematics or at least use an open format)
Hours and hours of entertainment for me. I could have run-and-gunned it (it works, try it), but the game, like Deus-Ex and Half Life, was a lot of fun to play "in character". I tried to complete every mission without taking someone's life (human only--the undead I slayed ruthlessly). There was one mission on Thief 2 where a guard had managed (dunno how) to sneak up on me. I just happened to turn around and about peed my pants when I saw that sword descending upon me.
I use cvsup on all of my production boxes. I've wrapped it up in some scripts (using ssh with authorized-keys) such that the developers can issue a single command and *poof* the production server is updated with the code tagged as PRODUCTION. It's my life as sysadmin/cvs lackey a lot simpler.
What, specifically, were you looking for as far as server configuration was concerned?
Placebo effect would be if *any* appeal to any divine power resulted in an increase in patient health. Arguments of the divine aside, this study shed light on the benefit of perceived patient self-efficacy. Patients who feel that whatever it is that they are doing matters (whether that be taking medication, doing exercises, or praying), get better sooner than patients who don't see the point.
More interestingly, a care-givers perceived efficacy affects patient care as well. Doctors and nurses who "believe" in the power of medication, prayer, physical therapy have better responses from their patients than care-givers who believe that the treatment is useless, that the patient isn't going to get better *EVEN IF* the exact same treatment is perscribed.
Call it (wrongly) placebo effect if you will, but patients, nurses and doctors who believe in the treatment given, believe that the patient will get better have better rates of success than those who do not.
It depends on what you mean by "forced". I *have* to pay for local number portability (it's a pittance, like a dollar a month, but all it adds up), whether I use it or not. And the network access fee. And the universal service fee. And.... Between taxes and "fees", my "one flat rate plan 24x7 all across the nation MCI The Neighborhood plan, my $50 rate turns into a $70 bill at the end of the month.
Anyhoo, LNP, whether I use it or not, is *YET ANOTHER* nickel-and-dime fee that I will have to pay., when it should be considered a basic part of service (do i have to pay extra to get a dial-tone? Yay capitalsim.
Do you American's think you are the only country that has freedom of speech. You hold up your Bill of Rights as if it is the only document world wide that gives people freedom. It's time some of you stopped being so insular and took a look at how the rest of the world works.
We don't have to care; we're Americans. </sarcasm>
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..I send out spam for your company maliciously? I send out forged-header spam advertising the product of a company I hate, causing that poor company millions in fines.
The company in question would say "Nope, we didn't do it." Depending upon severity and repeatednesss (Fool me once...), an investigation would be launched.
Since this would be a criminal thing, it would be US law enforcement agents who would be doing the investigating.
To foster good will, it would be in the spamhaven's best interest to help track down the person sending spam fraudulently (as opposed to the spamhaven's seeming normal modus operandi, sending fraudulent spam).
The amount of pump&dump stock spam I get is on the rise. How do you track that back to the source?
Sorry, what's pump&dump? If they're trying to sell you something, then, until anonymous secure transactions are working, they *have* to provide you with a means to get money to them. That channel through which they expect to get money is the channel through which you track them.
A national do-not-spam list, coupled with a spam bounty bill, would mean an end to (US based) spam.
If such a list existed, you can bet your bottom dollar that every spammer will pay very close attention to it. It would be a list of 100% valid email addresses! Normally they would have to pay for lists of email addresses, and here is one that is free and guaranteed to be accurate.
In order for unsolicited *commercial* email (read: spam) to be effective, there *must* be a product/service to purchase and a method to contact the seller.
Yell at/Fine the seller. They will know which campaign did the spamming. Then fine the spammer.
In order for the spammer (or the company the spammer is spamming for) to get my money, they have to provide a way for me to contact them. It doesn't matter if they use open relays on Mars, they still, ultimately, have to provide a method for me to contact them.
That means that a national opt-out list, coupled with a spambounty (or some other kill-the-spammer type legislation) *would* matter, and it would *not* be business as usual.
So are you arguing that the US deciding that Iraq will use GSM is biased in favor of the US or not?
Huh? Dude, are you looking for serious statements from a
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I wrote: Of the western countries (excluding the US),
You wrote: Misleading nonsense. The major claimant is Kuwait, which
The last time I checked, Suadia Arabia and Kuwait were not generally considered to be western countries.
You again: If you calculate out the Kuwaiti and Saudi claims, the remaining debt becomes quite manageable.
I agree. It *is* quite managable to a country with the resources of Iraq. Which is why I think that the US's push to cancel the 7 billion in debt Iraq it owes to Russia (and a similar figure to France) to be more of a slap against the interests who were against the US deposing Sadaam than it is of a financial boost to Iraq.
Seven billion US dollars is nothing to the US, and not that big of a deal to France (less than one percent of their annual revenues), but to Russia, who only brings in $46billion a year, seven billion is a lot of money. Talk about the US twisting the knife.
1) Iraq has a mountain of debt to pay because as a result of the end of the war everyone is coming in with their bills. INCLUDING the US.
There is a UN resolution on the floor (authored by the US, of course) that basically states that Iraq doesn't owe money to countries that supported the former, presumably evil regime of Sadaam, naming specifically France and Russia.
Of the western countries (excluding the US), France and Russia hold more Iraqi debt than all other countries combined.
3) The GSM standard is not just a French standard, but a worldwide standard.
Yes, but the French do use it. Iraq using CDMA would preclude them from using French companies to support and install infrastructure. Also, Iraq using CDMA would help to isolate the country from its neighbors (everyone else in the region (except Qatar? not sure) is using GSM) and become more reliant on CDMA countries (read: US).
The opera-linux mailing list is amazing. (http://list.opera.com/mailman/listinfo/opera-linu x)
There's a couple of developers who are actively on the list. Report a (linux specific) bug, the developer checks it out, and fixes it, usually with only a one day turn around.
Mozilla developers on the other hand, (and most big open source projects, now that I think about it) aren't responsive at all.
File a bug report. They might get around to looking at it. Or not. The problem with scratching itches is that the festering gangrenous wound is ignored while the itch between the shoulder blades has been rubbed until raw. (mozilla/firebird is *still* a bloated dog (and becoming more so), but there's a *TON* of widgets that start the coffee pot based on a mouse gesture).
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Do ultrasonic deterrents really keep rodents out
of your house?
No. Not at all. What they do is make the environment less attractive to the rodents. If you are in a duplex, the rodents run next door. If you own your own house, they get used to it (how long did it take you to ignore the traffic/train/plane while you are sleeping?)
What is the range?
See above "no" answer.
Do they last, or do the rodents eventually return?
See above answer.
Are they truly innocuous to dogs and cats?
The mouse chirpers bug the crap out of my dog. On a more important note, they bug the crap out of me. (my wife would say "insert obvioius pest joke here") The mosquito ones are the worst, but I can definitely hear all of the "pest control" ultrasonic gizmos. Maybe I'm just picking up on a weird harmonic, but they're more annoying than the high pitched whine of older TVs, to me.
If TVs and flourescent lights don't bother you, then this won't bother you, but be assured that your pets *will* notice.
How do you measure success?"
Decrease in mouse turds always worked for me.
If you're seriously interested in getting rid of mice, get a cat. Get a female cat (spayed!) from the humane society. Keep it outside if you don't like cats (they like to roam, anyway).
Best rodent control are mousers. Female cats make the best mousers.
Do you have to mod in order to emulate? I'm currently longing for a "plug into the tv and it works" solution to run MAME. How did you do this for the xbox (I'm assuming you're using MAME)?
And that's why people who ride a bike tend to have an abundance of free time and money that those with 2 kids and a full time job simply do not.
It's getting pretty tiring, all this "everyone should be like me" crap around here.
Ride your bike, I dont care. I work 50 miles from my home, not because of poor planning, because that's where the better job is.
I drive over an hour, one way, to my job every day because, like you, that's where the better job is.
What I would like to do is bike down to the local (non-existant) train station, catch the train to the city, and then bike (segway?) to the office.
I don't think that I buy the "abundance of free time" argument. My personal experience is that it's the people who have the 2.5 kids and 60 hour a week job that are more likely to bike thirty minutes to work (instead of taking the car in rush-hour traffic and still taking twenty minutes to get to work). The bit of time before and after the work day is often the only time that they have to themselves.
Ever try and ride a bike with 10 bags of groceries?
That's why people who choose to use a bike to ride to the store typically only buy enough food for the next day or two.
Changing to a carless city requires a much larger change in thought than just answering "how do I get to work".
That's no good either - what if it turns out the original computation was in error?
Then you ask for a new answer to a new problem (and report to the problem clearing house that there was +1 answers that conflicted).
The odds that you'd get an additional bad answer (assuming that you're not trying to just fake an answer) decrease significantly with each new problem attempted. I'm more in favor of a "five strikes and you're out" approach. Give the sender multiple chances to solve problems before bouncing the mail as undevliverable.
Mailers that try to fake the answers will *(rightly) get rejected. Mailers that are legitimately trying to answer that don't come up with the "right" answer help to track down incorrect answers in the first place. (and the overhead of answering two or three problems instead of just one (in the event of a wrong answer) isn't significant for normal, legitimate mailers
Something like Folding@home involves puzzles for which the answers aren't yet known, so if the querying computer avoided solving it and just sent back a garbage solution the host machine wouldn't know the difference.
Ah, but if the problem to solve were simply to verify the computation of an already completed packet you would be solving a computationaly intensive problem *and* adding to the trust for a completed packet (assuming the same answer were obtained).
This would be two birds with one stone.
I wonder if they can keep a nice balance as Sid
What has Sid done recently? Civ3 was Jeff Briggs. Alpha Centauri was Brian Reynolds, as was Civ2. Gettysburgh! and Anteitam! were both Sid+Brian. The last thing that was pure sid was that golf game that everyone heard was good, but nobody seemed to play.
1. Make "profit" jokes.
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
TiVo's been advertising heavily in selected demographics. Mostly sports...
I suspect that the continued use of advertising is just result of the marketing department trying to justify their existence. I can honestly say that I do not know anyone who bought a TiVo because they saw an ad for it. Everyone I know that has bought one has bought it because they saw it in person.
There's nothing more impressive to friends than pausing at start of a hike to answer the phone and then resume the game when the calls over. (well, that and being able to replay a questionable call over and over (or that certain beer commercial with the swedish ski team over and over and...)
In theory, part of the DirecTiVo monthly fee is paid for by your DirecTV subscription. DirecTV already gives you TV listings for all of the channels. TiVo just extends that service (for an additional $4.95)
If you use some-one elses work in print publication, you have to cite them, even if it's only part of a phrase.
Why shouldn't musicians be required to do the same thing? It's one thing to be influenced by the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery, and another to include the line "And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided
their time" in your work.
Were you influence by? Fine. That's homage. Did you include someone elses work? If you don't cite them, then that's plagiarism.
Is there a musical counterpart to this? If not, there should be.
Nuff said.
(but because enough is never enough)
The cutscenes were interesting in that they added to the back story, but scrolling text would have worked just as well. I *really* like in-game cinematics. Going to Bink just serves to dissrupt my suspension of disbelief. The cutscenes were jarring and broke up the continuity that hours of play had built up.
I'm certain that going with Bink is a mistake that Bioware won't be repeating. (and hopefully, they'll switch to in-game cinematics or at least use an open format)
Hours and hours of entertainment for me. I could have run-and-gunned it (it works, try it), but the game, like Deus-Ex and Half Life, was a lot of fun to play "in character". I tried to complete every mission without taking someone's life (human only--the undead I slayed ruthlessly). There was one mission on Thief 2 where a guard had managed (dunno how) to sneak up on me. I just happened to turn around and about peed my pants when I saw that sword descending upon me.
I use cvsup on all of my production boxes. I've wrapped it up in some scripts (using ssh with authorized-keys) such that the developers can issue a single command and *poof* the production server is updated with the code tagged as PRODUCTION. It's my life as sysadmin/cvs lackey a lot simpler.
What, specifically, were you looking for as far as server configuration was concerned?
Placebo effect would be if *any* appeal to any divine power resulted in an increase in patient health. Arguments of the divine aside, this study shed light on the benefit of perceived patient self-efficacy. Patients who feel that whatever it is that they are doing matters (whether that be taking medication, doing exercises, or praying), get better sooner than patients who don't see the point.
More interestingly, a care-givers perceived efficacy affects patient care as well. Doctors and nurses who "believe" in the power of medication, prayer, physical therapy have better responses from their patients than care-givers who believe that the treatment is useless, that the patient isn't going to get better *EVEN IF* the exact same treatment is perscribed.
Call it (wrongly) placebo effect if you will, but patients, nurses and doctors who believe in the treatment given, believe that the patient will get better have better rates of success than those who do not.
It depends on what you mean by "forced". I *have* to pay for local number portability (it's a pittance, like a dollar a month, but all it adds up), whether I use it or not. And the network access fee. And the universal service fee. And.... Between taxes and "fees", my "one flat rate plan 24x7 all across the nation MCI The Neighborhood plan, my $50 rate turns into a $70 bill at the end of the month.
Anyhoo, LNP, whether I use it or not, is *YET ANOTHER* nickel-and-dime fee that I will have to pay., when it should be considered a basic part of service (do i have to pay extra to get a dial-tone? Yay capitalsim.
You're kidding, right? You knew that the parent was tongue-in-cheek, didn't you? Didn't you? Or am I falling prey to the classic meta-troll attack?
We don't have to care; we're Americans.
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