The feds spend vastly more amounts [sic] on defense than they do on education.
Well, duh! The key word there is the feds. The feds shouldn't necessarily be spending anything on education... the states and localities should be the ones funding education. Last time I checked, the Constitution mentioned the federal government providing a national defense, but didn't say anything about the feds taking care of education.
The river is the Columbia River, an important transportation and power supply for the region.
No significant barge transportation happens on this section of the river or north of it. Due to the depth of the river passing the Hanford site, no significant barge traffic CAN happen. Most barges coming this far up the river are delivering spent reactor cores from submarines, or something similar, and only go as far as the south end of the site.
Note, before anyone starts whining about nuclear power not being clean, that Hanford isn't about nuclear power, but about nuclear weapons.
True. But just an added note. Here we (I living within commuting distance from the site) also have a reactor that we call "Number 2". It's a BWR run by this company and cranks out 1 billion watts of electricity that (they told me) is sold to California. Something to consider for anyone (especially in CA) thinking about shutting down all the nuclear operations here at Hanford. Gotta love them rolling blackouts.
It's not a complete fix, but making your 'captchas' larger and putting your trademark and website identity inside the 'captchas' would make it pretty obvious if anyone is doing this to you. The text to echo back should be at a random location in the image, so the spammer cannot crop it in an automated fashion. Also, a URL in the image to report to if it's seen on a site where it's not expected would be good.
I like OnStar for being able to track, and stop my car if it is stolen.
Since the system is installed in a uniform and consistant manner, it won't be long until car criminals know how to quickly disable it. For a theft system to be robust, there needs to be many variations in how and where it's installed. Otherwise, snip-snip, the usual wires are cut, or the antenna is covered.
Of course, you can do what my WISP did and get the apartment complex/housing area to ban all private APs ($300 per day of operation fine, ouch!)
I'm curious as to how they could get away with such a ban. Are you contractually bound by a covenant? If not, they're a non-government agency trying to take over the FCC's jurisdiction.
On the other hand side wasn't there a treaty signed sometimes in the 60's that forbade the claim for extraterrestrial property?
IIRC, the treaty was that no nation or government could claim ownership of an extraterrestrial object, or 'land' on that object. The lawyer speak in it was that it did not forbit an individual or non-govt entity from claiming ownership. That's the loophole that those selling lunar property or the like are claiming.
I'll assume I'm remembering correctly of I get modded up.
Spam is another form of Speech. Yes, it is grossly abused and outright annoying, but it is still protected here in the U.S. (except for pending anti-spam legislation).
Therefor me coming into your home and screaming in your ear is protected too, since screaming is another form of speech.
It's not the speech part of spamming that makes it unethical, it the theft of others' (computer and time) resources.
While the 69/8 netblock has been long known to be reserved, and has been subsequently been "used" by script kiddies and the like for DoS attacks...
Part of the blame belongs to the ISPs which let IP packets source from their network that should have been obvious (to the ISP) were forged. Specifically, letting packets out to the upstream with an address forged into the source IP that is obviously not on their network.
Because of the sloppiness, apathy, or ignorance of such ISPs, it's only natural that other ISPs would protect their incoming links to packets that were certainly forged (at the time).
Theres a ton of companies sitting on class A blocks and doing nothing with them. Anything from 4.0.0.0 and up is hardly used. Redistribute these as a temporary solution until IPv6 is mainstream.
Exactly. Here are a few of the class A's that I don't see valid reason for the holder of them to have a block of such size:
019/8 Ford Motor Company (a car company)
040/8 Eli Lily and Company (a drug company)
048/8 Prudential Securities Inc. (an insurance company)
051/8 Deparment of Social Security of UK (a government department in a relatively small country that has a ridiculously unproportional share)
The fact that these companies are cyber-squatting on more than they could resonably need torques me off to the point that, if I run out of unroutables (10/8, 192.168/16, etc) for my intranetworking, I'm going to lay claim to a block or two of those class A's for my intranet and firewall them [existing squatters] off to the outside.
Instead of using such technology to build something, how about cleaning up the space junk mess first. If a radio wave can be used to apply a force against an object, then instead of precision manipulating it, just push it into a decaying orbit. That'll be a good start in learning to manipulate objects in such a fashion, and will help clean up the space junk mess.
I too would like to see some evidence to put this theory to rest. Here's my suggestion of how to prove we did land there...
I'll start off by saying that we had to land on the visible (from Earth) side of the moon. The lunar module was out of radio contact when it orbited around the back side of the moon (IIRC, and I'm to young to to have watched it live), so if we'd landed on the back side, there would have been no live video signal.
So if we landed on the visible side, take a good telescope and look for the garbage we left behind... the rover, the base of the landing module, etc. We don't need something that'll read the license plate on the rover *grin*, just a picture to show something man made there. We have commercial satellites in Earth orbit that can see something near 1m resolution on Earth, and that's WITH the optical abberation from the atmosphere. Point the Hubble there. Point a spy sattelite there. Point any one of the many +10m land based telescopes there. Publish the location so the conspirist, and the average Joe, can see for themselves.
I'm not an optical engineer, but I am an electrical engineer. (Yeah... nothing to do with the task at hand, but I have some scientific background.) So all y'all astronomers out there... how about it? What size telescope is it gonna take to see the mess we left?
I have a phone through ATTWS, and I pay for messages over my alloted amount. I used to have an unlimited quota, but now I don't. I was forced into a new plan to get a break on another pricing issue, and I was told that unlimited messages were no longer an option. i.e. Once I switched plans, I COULD NOT GO BACK to an unlimited SMS pricing plan.
And M$ knows you're doing this? And you haven't been deluged by lawyers combing over the terms of your licensing with M$?
I'd be interested in seeing confirmation of this, for the purpose of, "[this] company does it, why can't you". I'd also like to know if you're indeed tied to the same contract terms with M$ as Dell is.
"The majority of the junk mail (is) not created in China, so why (should) they block mail from China?" said Zeng Xiaozhen, a professor at Jilin University in the northeastern province of Jilin.
Obviously starting out on a clue-by-four free foundation.
He said spam was a global issue and China should make a law to punish creators of junk e-mail.
Just what we (anyone who isn't China) want... China violating our sorverignty with their laws. Well, I may be open to extraditing a few select spammers.
Peter Lovelock, director of Beijing-based consultancy MFC Insight, said the National People's Congress might be swayed to pass laws calling for more rigorous management of Internet-linked servers in China in order to avoid international embarrassment.
Now here's something with a real clue. Them passing laws on their own citizens to secure their own computers. Maybe they'll run over the clueless admins and insecure servers with tanks.
I still think the private sector solution is just fine, though. "deny 202.0.0.0/8" A few lines like that seems to solve the problem.
Of course, the amount of time it will take to be delisted should be equal to the amount of time it took them to fix the problem. (IANS) See ya in 2010, the year we make contact.
Also, from what I've read of the various cases, if you sue the spammers and they don't send anyone to court, that's contempt of court and can be considered jail time.
No, it just makes it VERY easy to get a default judgement. Contempt of court is when you act contrary to an order of the court.
So, my line provisioning order was personally faxed to USWest by me with a 119 page FCC ORDER that pretty much spells out any Bell has to condition lines for CLEC service.
Was this order specific to your case, or a general regulation? If it's a general regulation, I'd like a reference, such that I may fax it too.
This is nothing. Just wait till the aliens come to blow us up after the RIAA pisses them off and sues them under the same statute. The talk that I've heard in the alien chat room was that the Napster persecution was "grexnor", and "furkel das RIAA".
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Well, duh! The key word there is the feds. The feds shouldn't necessarily be spending anything on education... the states and localities should be the ones funding education. Last time I checked, the Constitution mentioned the federal government providing a national defense, but didn't say anything about the feds taking care of education.
No significant barge transportation happens on this section of the river or north of it. Due to the depth of the river passing the Hanford site, no significant barge traffic CAN happen. Most barges coming this far up the river are delivering spent reactor cores from submarines, or something similar, and only go as far as the south end of the site.
True. But just an added note. Here we (I living within commuting distance from the site) also have a reactor that we call "Number 2". It's a BWR run by this company and cranks out 1 billion watts of electricity that (they told me) is sold to California. Something to consider for anyone (especially in CA) thinking about shutting down all the nuclear operations here at Hanford. Gotta love them rolling blackouts.
Zoom out to '2 years' on the links provided in the parent post. The trend appears very different then.
It's not a complete fix, but making your 'captchas' larger and putting your trademark and website identity inside the 'captchas' would make it pretty obvious if anyone is doing this to you. The text to echo back should be at a random location in the image, so the spammer cannot crop it in an automated fashion. Also, a URL in the image to report to if it's seen on a site where it's not expected would be good.
Since the system is installed in a uniform and consistant manner, it won't be long until car criminals know how to quickly disable it. For a theft system to be robust, there needs to be many variations in how and where it's installed. Otherwise, snip-snip, the usual wires are cut, or the antenna is covered.
I'm curious as to how they could get away with such a ban. Are you contractually bound by a covenant? If not, they're a non-government agency trying to take over the FCC's jurisdiction.
IIRC, the treaty was that no nation or government could claim ownership of an extraterrestrial object, or 'land' on that object. The lawyer speak in it was that it did not forbit an individual or non-govt entity from claiming ownership. That's the loophole that those selling lunar property or the like are claiming.
I'll assume I'm remembering correctly of I get modded up.
Therefor me coming into your home and screaming in your ear is protected too, since screaming is another form of speech.
It's not the speech part of spamming that makes it unethical, it the theft of others' (computer and time) resources.
That would be the scary part. Bill having the power to incarcerate anyone.
My point is one of principle, not necessary my actual circumstances.
Part of the blame belongs to the ISPs which let IP packets source from their network that should have been obvious (to the ISP) were forged. Specifically, letting packets out to the upstream with an address forged into the source IP that is obviously not on their network.
Because of the sloppiness, apathy, or ignorance of such ISPs, it's only natural that other ISPs would protect their incoming links to packets that were certainly forged (at the time).
Exactly. Here are a few of the class A's that I don't see valid reason for the holder of them to have a block of such size:
019/8 Ford Motor Company (a car company)
040/8 Eli Lily and Company (a drug company)
048/8 Prudential Securities Inc. (an insurance company)
051/8 Deparment of Social Security of UK (a government department in a relatively small country that has a ridiculously unproportional share)
056/8 U.S. Postal Service (the opposite of email)
There are a handful more which you can see here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
The fact that these companies are cyber-squatting on more than they could resonably need torques me off to the point that, if I run out of unroutables (10/8, 192.168/16, etc) for my intranetworking, I'm going to lay claim to a block or two of those class A's for my intranet and firewall them [existing squatters] off to the outside.
The detailed version: http://www.research.att.com/~smb/papers/fnat.pdf
A nice simple version with pictures (I like pictures): http://www.icir.org/vern/imw-2002/slides/112-slide s.pdf
Instead of using such technology to build something, how about cleaning up the space junk mess first. If a radio wave can be used to apply a force against an object, then instead of precision manipulating it, just push it into a decaying orbit. That'll be a good start in learning to manipulate objects in such a fashion, and will help clean up the space junk mess.
I too would like to see some evidence to put this theory to rest. Here's my suggestion of how to prove we did land there...
I'll start off by saying that we had to land on the visible (from Earth) side of the moon. The lunar module was out of radio contact when it orbited around the back side of the moon (IIRC, and I'm to young to to have watched it live), so if we'd landed on the back side, there would have been no live video signal.
So if we landed on the visible side, take a good telescope and look for the garbage we left behind... the rover, the base of the landing module, etc. We don't need something that'll read the license plate on the rover *grin*, just a picture to show something man made there. We have commercial satellites in Earth orbit that can see something near 1m resolution on Earth, and that's WITH the optical abberation from the atmosphere. Point the Hubble there. Point a spy sattelite there. Point any one of the many +10m land based telescopes there. Publish the location so the conspirist, and the average Joe, can see for themselves.
I'm not an optical engineer, but I am an electrical engineer. (Yeah... nothing to do with the task at hand, but I have some scientific background.) So all y'all astronomers out there... how about it? What size telescope is it gonna take to see the mess we left?
(Partial)Bullshit.
I have a phone through ATTWS, and I pay for messages over my alloted amount. I used to have an unlimited quota, but now I don't. I was forced into a new plan to get a break on another pricing issue, and I was told that unlimited messages were no longer an option. i.e. Once I switched plans, I COULD NOT GO BACK to an unlimited SMS pricing plan.
ATTWS eastern WA state
From: government.people@usa.gov
Subject: SPEWS removal request
Our email is compliant with Senate bill 1618, and therefore cannot be considered spam. Please remove our spews listing.
And M$ knows you're doing this? And you haven't been deluged by lawyers combing over the terms of your licensing with M$?
I'd be interested in seeing confirmation of this, for the purpose of, "[this] company does it, why can't you". I'd also like to know if you're indeed tied to the same contract terms with M$ as Dell is.
"The majority of the junk mail (is) not created in China, so why (should) they block mail from China?" said Zeng Xiaozhen, a professor at Jilin University in the northeastern province of Jilin.
Obviously starting out on a clue-by-four free foundation.
He said spam was a global issue and China should make a law to punish creators of junk e-mail.
Just what we (anyone who isn't China) want... China violating our sorverignty with their laws. Well, I may be open to extraditing a few select spammers.
Peter Lovelock, director of Beijing-based consultancy MFC Insight, said the National People's Congress might be swayed to pass laws calling for more rigorous management of Internet-linked servers in China in order to avoid international embarrassment.
Now here's something with a real clue. Them passing laws on their own citizens to secure their own computers. Maybe they'll run over the clueless admins and insecure servers with tanks.
I still think the private sector solution is just fine, though. "deny 202.0.0.0/8" A few lines like that seems to solve the problem.
Of course, the amount of time it will take to be delisted should be equal to the amount of time it took them to fix the problem. (IANS) See ya in 2010, the year we make contact.
at least until she's your mother-in-law
Also, from what I've read of the various cases, if you sue the spammers and they don't send anyone to court, that's contempt of court and can be considered jail time.
No, it just makes it VERY easy to get a default judgement. Contempt of court is when you act contrary to an order of the court.
So, my line provisioning order was personally faxed to USWest by me with a 119 page FCC ORDER that pretty much spells out any Bell has to condition lines for CLEC service.
Was this order specific to your case, or a general regulation? If it's a general regulation, I'd like a reference, such that I may fax it too.
This is nothing. Just wait till the aliens come to blow us up after the RIAA pisses them off and sues them under the same statute. The talk that I've heard in the alien chat room was that the Napster persecution was "grexnor", and "furkel das RIAA".
With regards to melting icebergs, do this little experiment...
Put ice cubes in a glass, fill to the brim with water so that the cubes float above the rim of the glass, and wait for the cubes to melt. (north pole)
Ice caps (over solid land) are a different issue. (south pole)