um... yeah, I've gotten mail from a.biz e-mail address that wasn't spam. Star Wolf Enterprises uses a.biz (starwolf.biz) and is a legit business the offers Game (MU*) and website hosting services.
(Yes, I run the Mail Server, and we have a very strict UCE/UBE/SPAM policy... in simple english: You Spam, we shut you down, and charge you for each complaint... and if you don't pay we call a collections agency, You agreed to this with the Terms of Service.)
I think it's both immature and irresponsible to block a whole TLD just because you don't think it should exist. It's like saying that (In Good US political BS of the day) "Everyone from Syria is a Terrorist, and should be shot on sight/Not allowed in the country"
oh, and BTW: I have never gotten any e-mail from a.dk that wasn't spam
I think Robert A. Heinlein put it best in a few different ways.
"A dictatorship is based on the assumtion that one man is smarter than a million men. One Question: Who Decides?
A Democracy on the other hand is based on the assumtion that a million men are smarter than one man. How's that again?" (Time enough for love)
Then also of course "At the end of the 20th century, the people realized that in a demoracy they could vote themselves bread and circuses, and the world went to hell afterwards" (Beyond the sunset)
Though personally I like the observation that in any group of people the total intellegance is the lowest intellegance devided by the number of people in the group.
you could argue though, that through the "Great Firewall of China" they have redefined the internet (in the context of being inside china) as being internal to China
except that he can't try linux, becuase in his claiming that the GPL is void (which linux is distributed under...) he has revoked his own lisence to use linux
We'd better be careful with these frequent Patent articles... next thing you know slashdot will be declared a terrorist organization for taking part in the "electronic terrorism" of attacking an official government website.
If anyone is deserving of a serious slashdotting it is them.
well, a few things: a) I'm sure that they expect to get a good psudo-slashdotting (not from slashdot, but from the virus/worm/etc)
b) It'll just push the number of hits they get up higher, making it seem like they are being more successful that they really are which will make them do this kind of thing more often
and c) when does anyone deserve a good slashdotting?
I Don't know exactly how this works for faculty, but at most universities that nice "AUP/TOS/Student agreement" you signed when you were accepted has a clause that says anything you create while at/enroled in the school, or anything that you send across the network automatically becomes the [intelectual] property of the school.
I can only assume that the same holds true for faculty/staff.
Also most corperate entities have similar clauses in contracts.
So, your desktop-usage consists mostly of starting, restarting, restasting and restarting you GUI over and over again? You can't wait for few seconds for the GUI to start?
Actually, yes it does. For some reason that I can't quite fathom yet (probably an XFree86 issue) my laptop won't sleep in X, only when it's in the Command prompt will it sleep, and yes I've tried just having the console be at vc/1 while having X running, but that didn't work either, so a few seconds shaved off of the load time will be nice.
my vote has to go for satilite. if only becuase I live out in the boonies, where I *Can't get* cable. Cable stops about 10 miles down the road, as does DSL, and any other form of supossed "Civilized" communication...
so I'd say satalite has some big points going for it there
yesterday I emerge rsync, and then emerge mozilla downloading and installing 1.5, and spend oh a few hours compiling... now this morning I wake up, and what do I find? they released 1.6 while I was compiling 1.5/rant
but seriously, it's good to see that improvements continue, and at a faster rate than M$ IE
hrmm... random thought here... The power lines are really big antennas (Dipoles pretty much, my dad was OE3JBU and a part of 4U1VIC) and if they are producing interfereance, doesn't that work both ways?
here's my thought... in areas where BPL is being set up, get all the ham opperators together, and crank up your sets, and generate interferance for the power-line broadband... in theory that should work, making BPL less usable... any comments?
Even Eliminating open relays won't solve the problem...
dig -t mx spamtarget.TLD
oh look, their mail servers are dontspamme.spamtarget.TLD junkmailtarget.spa mtarget.TLD etc...
You don't need an open relay to send to those, telnet dontspamme.spamtarget.TLD 25, and be your own SMTP server... yeah it's easily traceable, but if you're coming from korea, who cares? or if your ISP doesn't care, who cares... if you've got a proxy somewhere that allows you to proxy to port 25, who cares...
now, I'm not saying that I advocate blocking SMTP connections to "known" SMTP servers, thus requiring all e-mail to go through a registered ISP's e-mail server. That would be a Bad Thing, becuase all of us small companies out there, wouldn't be able to have our own, less restrictive e-mail server settings (less specific spam checking for example (though why we'd want to...))
Honesly, I think the best idea, is to require a PGP signature, and build up a web of trust. Yeah, PGP keys can be generated in a few minutes, but unless you have a trusted person sign them... they get sent to a holding tank.
maybe have a reverse web-of-trust... I trust that this is spam, and any other signatures signed by this key are also spam..., no holding pattern for you >/dev/null
That works fine except in a few situations: 1) your e-mail address is guessable i.e. robert@foobar.TLD 2) your mail server gets hit by companies that dont care about bounces... my mail server got hit a few times by a company that would litterally "dictionary attack" looking for valid e-mail addresses. one mail rule later, and a letter of complaint, no more mail from that company at all:-D
I'd say it's a scare tactic... but then again that might just be me. I'd be interested in seeing a screen shot of the actual message, and anything in that message that indicates that it did actually come from the RIAA
now... if anybody gets any such messages,reply to it, saying "I do not wish to be contected by you" keep a screenshot, (sign it, for a date stamp) and then if you get another one. sue the RIAA for harasment.
Slashdot Mirror
Let them tap my lines...
PGP-encrypted e-mail over TLS enabled servers
SSH conections for pretty much all of my work
SSL/TLS encrypted webpages.
While they might have the computing power to break that... it wouldn't be worth their time.
OB: Ben Franklin: "Those who give up a little freedom for security deserve, and will get, neither"
I suppose the moral of this story is: GO TO GRAD SCHOOL
Sorry... the droids are already doing that one
um... yeah, I've gotten mail from a .biz e-mail address that wasn't spam. Star Wolf Enterprises uses a .biz (starwolf.biz) and is a legit business the offers Game (MU*) and website hosting services.
.dk that wasn't spam
(Yes, I run the Mail Server, and we have a very strict UCE/UBE/SPAM policy... in simple english: You Spam, we shut you down, and charge you for each complaint... and if you don't pay we call a collections agency, You agreed to this with the Terms of Service.)
I think it's both immature and irresponsible to block a whole TLD just because you don't think it should exist. It's like saying that (In Good US political BS of the day) "Everyone from Syria is a Terrorist, and should be shot on sight/Not allowed in the country"
oh, and BTW: I have never gotten any e-mail from a
don't you mean when AT&T was "THE Phone company"?
I think Robert A. Heinlein put it best in a few different ways.
"A dictatorship is based on the assumtion that one man is smarter than a million men. One Question: Who Decides?
A Democracy on the other hand is based on the assumtion that a million men are smarter than one man. How's that again?"
(Time enough for love)
Then also of course
"At the end of the 20th century, the people realized that in a demoracy they could vote themselves bread and circuses, and the world went to hell afterwards"
(Beyond the sunset)
Though personally I like the observation that in any group of people the total intellegance is the lowest intellegance devided by the number of people in the group.
you could argue though, that through the "Great Firewall of China" they have redefined the internet (in the context of being inside china) as being internal to China
The "good-ole-U-S-of-A" doesn't own the internet, and hence can't regulate it...
That being said, they can regulate servers based in the US, but that's about it
maybe the supreme court will realize this... bah who am i kidding/what am I smoking
except that he can't try linux, becuase in his claiming that the GPL is void (which linux is distributed under...) he has revoked his own lisence to use linux
We'd better be careful with these frequent Patent articles... next thing you know slashdot will be declared a terrorist organization for taking part in the "electronic terrorism" of attacking an official government website.
Yeah, but depending on what's being hosted there, the problem might be the server process, rather than the pipe
well, a few things:
a) I'm sure that they expect to get a good psudo-slashdotting (not from slashdot, but from the virus/worm/etc)
b) It'll just push the number of hits they get up higher, making it seem like they are being more successful that they really are which will make them do this kind of thing more often
and c) when does anyone deserve a good slashdotting?
I Don't know exactly how this works for faculty, but at most universities that nice "AUP/TOS/Student agreement" you signed when you were accepted has a clause that says anything you create while at/enroled in the school, or anything that you send across the network automatically becomes the [intelectual] property of the school.
I can only assume that the same holds true for faculty/staff.
Also most corperate entities have similar clauses in contracts.
just my $0.02
The only thing missing from the "optinrealbig" site was a "Permanently remove my e-mail address" option.
Though knowing spamers it'd just generate more spam... hrmmm... spam-trap address completely unguessable, now there's an idea
Actually, yes it does. For some reason that I can't quite fathom yet (probably an XFree86 issue) my laptop won't sleep in X, only when it's in the Command prompt will it sleep, and yes I've tried just having the console be at vc/1 while having X running, but that didn't work either, so a few seconds shaved off of the load time will be nice.
Gentoo has unmasked the e-builds, and so far the download is going well.
some of the mirrors haven't been updated yet (Tue Feb 3 15:10:47 EST 2004) but so far there has always been at least one working mirror.
I just hope that I manage to finish downloading everything before the servers are slashdotted to mars and back by everybody downloading it
my vote has to go for satilite. if only becuase I live out in the boonies, where I *Can't get* cable.
Cable stops about 10 miles down the road, as does DSL, and any other form of supossed "Civilized" communication...
so I'd say satalite has some big points going for it there
yesterday I emerge rsync, and then emerge mozilla /rant
downloading and installing 1.5, and spend oh a few hours compiling... now this morning I wake up, and what do I find? they released 1.6 while I was compiling 1.5
but seriously, it's good to see that improvements continue, and at a faster rate than M$ IE
Aparently congress unanimously voted to give the money to DIEBOLD instead.
in the unprecidented vote of 1638458 to 0
I can't find the exact text of the speach... but what ever happend to "We *Will* be there by then end of the dacade"?
now it's "we will try"
bah... I'd be more impressed by someone in NASA unveiling a plan, and by some congress-critter unveiling a plan to fund it, all at the same time
ob Dubya:"Those Luna-tics have WMD, we have to send in the military"
I write my documents in LaTeX, then a quick run through dvipdf later, I have a nicely formatted PDF, and it's all free too...
hrmm... random thought here... The power lines are really big antennas (Dipoles pretty much, my dad was OE3JBU and a part of 4U1VIC) and if they are producing interfereance, doesn't that work both ways?
here's my thought... in areas where BPL is being set up, get all the ham opperators together, and crank up your sets, and generate interferance for the power-line broadband... in theory that should work, making BPL less usable... any comments?
Even Eliminating open relays won't solve the problem...
a mtarget.TLD
dig -t mx spamtarget.TLD
oh look, their mail servers are
dontspamme.spamtarget.TLD
junkmailtarget.sp
etc...
You don't need an open relay to send to those, telnet dontspamme.spamtarget.TLD 25, and be your own SMTP server... yeah it's easily traceable, but if you're coming from korea, who cares? or if your ISP doesn't care, who cares... if you've got a proxy somewhere that allows you to proxy to port 25, who cares...
now, I'm not saying that I advocate blocking SMTP connections to "known" SMTP servers, thus requiring all e-mail to go through a registered ISP's e-mail server. That would be a Bad Thing, becuase all of us small companies out there, wouldn't be able to have our own, less restrictive e-mail server settings (less specific spam checking for example (though why we'd want to...))
Honesly, I think the best idea, is to require a PGP signature, and build up a web of trust. Yeah, PGP keys can be generated in a few minutes, but unless you have a trusted person sign them... they get sent to a holding tank.
maybe have a reverse web-of-trust... I trust that this is spam, and any other signatures signed by this key are also spam..., no holding pattern for you >/dev/null
That works fine except in a few situations: :-D
1) your e-mail address is guessable i.e. robert@foobar.TLD
2) your mail server gets hit by companies that dont care about bounces... my mail server got hit a few times by a company that would litterally "dictionary attack" looking for valid e-mail addresses. one mail rule later, and a letter of complaint, no more mail from that company at all
what if I downloaded it straight to /dev/null... am I still guilty of copying copyrighted material?
what if I also created a 1 (exa-byte?...) file called "Metallica_Enter_Sandman.mp3" via dd if=/dev/urandom?
since they want it to be a criminal trial... I think reasonable doubt can be provided
I'd say it's a scare tactic... but then again that might just be me. I'd be interested in seeing a screen shot of the actual message, and anything in that message that indicates that it did actually come from the RIAA
now... if anybody gets any such messages,reply to it, saying "I do not wish to be contected by you" keep a screenshot, (sign it, for a date stamp) and then if you get another one. sue the RIAA for harasment.
See if we can't put them out of business.