Re:SCO still packs a punch?
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"And if SCO is such a loser company why would IBM want to buy them? Fight them or pay them, there's no good reason to buy them unless it's to save face or unless they really believe there's value there."
The idea is that they become a very expensive problem. Between having to hire experts lawyers and the lost development time analysing the code it's going to be expensive and that's without adding the cost of the total lost sales from the FUD SCO is throwing. It's easy can see where people both inside and outside IBM will start begging them to buy them out.
Personally I'm hoping IBM has this case tossed so IBM and the injured Linux vendors can hurry up and sue them into oblivion.
But not in this case.. gasoline for all it's fluctuations in price hasn't actually kept up with inflation(unlike most of europe) and to top it off more fuel efficiant cars means theres a godo chance your actually paying *less* for gas taxes then you were 10 years ago.
There is also the problem of cars that don't run on gas whoes owners under the current system won't pay any tax. And what about your lawnmower? Your paying taxes for services your not even using!
Personally I think they should have done this years ago. It would have made sure everyone pays their fair share and could have avoided crap like having to add dye to heating oil and "farm gas".
Taxing cars instead of gas is simply a smarter way to do things.
But just because it's not flowing over the public IP network doesn't mean there are no risks involved. Even at the telco grade the equipment doesn't seem to meet the same standards as voice.
Case in point: Last year Worldcom found some sort of glitch in their cisco gear and that in turn crashed the border routers at several other ISPs. The fun happened when Group Telecom's routers went down hard taking their voip system with it.
No internet and no means of calling their helpdesk to see what is going on.
If this is going to work the standards for IP connectivity need to ne raised considerably.
It's a 2 step process: first she arms it then she hits a butten in the palm when she wants to zap whoever is touching the jaket.
But then you would have had to have RTFA to know that.
Re:considered the father of Linux?
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That was never really proven.. the complaint was that the structures in the headders looked the same. Given the fact that both drivers were for the same hardware that was a given.
I find I have better luck quoting the spam and asking them if that's really what they want their buisness associated with thier buisness and asking them to please close the open relay.
Works better than pretty much every other method I've tried.
I think instead of badgering ralsky some more(yes I agree it's funny) it's time we set up a blacklist of DMA members. These people need to realise there are consequences to working against the public's interests in favor of their own selfish goals.
The blacklists in the past have forced even the largest isps to clean up their spam policy and it's time we apply that preassure to the political realm as well.
Actually for awhile word and notepad supported the wordstar command keys. Don't know if they still do as I havn't used windows on a personal machine since 98.
Alternatly "joe" in Linux still uses the wordstar command set.
By removing the network code you optimise it for desktops but you screw anyone running terminals.
Terminals are a major way linux is sold to buisness since they vasty reduce the time spent administrating machines. And reduce the cost per terminal. I can get stateless Linux terminals for $300 USD.. that's stateless: no moving parts. Nothing to wear out and an office void of machine noise.
The danger is in step 3 because it's hard to know what URL is the spammers' they often hide the url by by various means and include other sites in the email.
The realay server is already likely unuseable from the load the spammer put on it. Spammers like to stuff open relays so full that they are backed up for several days. And the funny thing is the owners may not even realise why. It's sad but I've called them before and got total supprise.
The problem with bouncing though is that it doesn't affect the relay much and the final resting place of the bounce is likely to be the email account the spammer was spoofing and that person probably did nothing wrong and is not affiliated with either the spammer or the relay.
"because every time I get a spam from them I forward to uce@ftc.gov and then I bounce the message back (message cannot be deleviver user not found) Hoping other people will do this and flood the relaying mail server. "
You mean flood the poor person whoes email address they are spoofing.
Please make sure your countermeasures get the correct target.
No it's not indistinguishable and that's the reason I tend to buy a lot of cds. For me, downloads are at best a short trial or at worst a stopgap measure until next time I can budget in a few cd purchases.
Aside from the lower quality downloading also tends to be a huge pain. There are many problems: Unlistenable bitrates, maxed out servers, songs with parts missing etc. To make it worse there seem to be people out there who download so they can see how large a collection they can get and never actually care about how mangled the files are that they happen to be serviing because assuming they have even listened to it(they may not have) it's something that only shows up once a month on their playlist and they just don't want to go through the trouble of finding it. And that's only if I can actually find what I want . Most of what I listen to tends to be on the hard to find end of the scale.
Actually in the Columbine fallout those were pretty much all banned from many schools. There was even a kindergarten aged kid suspended for posessing the inch long gun from his GI Joe.
Lately there was even a kid suspended for having a laser pointer. Guess the teacher mistook it for a laser sight or something.
Never underestimate the people who will use any event to ram through their agendas while everyone else is too stunned to object .
I have yet to have a microwaved harmed by tossing a cd into it. I've done it a lot since it makes some cool sparks and a sweet looking pattern on the cd though.
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"And if SCO is such a loser company why would IBM want to buy them? Fight them or pay them, there's no good reason to buy them unless it's to save face or unless they really believe there's value there."
The idea is that they become a very expensive problem. Between having to hire experts lawyers and the lost development time analysing the code it's going to be expensive and that's without adding the cost of the total lost sales from the FUD SCO is throwing. It's easy can see where people both inside and outside IBM will start begging them to buy them out.
Personally I'm hoping IBM has this case tossed so IBM and the injured Linux vendors can hurry up and sue them into oblivion.
But not in this case.. gasoline for all it's fluctuations in price hasn't actually kept up with inflation(unlike most of europe) and to top it off more fuel efficiant cars means theres a godo chance your actually paying *less* for gas taxes then you were 10 years ago.
There is also the problem of cars that don't run on gas whoes owners under the current system won't pay any tax. And what about your lawnmower? Your paying taxes for services your not even using!
Personally I think they should have done this years ago. It would have made sure everyone pays their fair share and could have avoided crap like having to add dye to heating oil and "farm gas".
Taxing cars instead of gas is simply a smarter way to do things.
But just because it's not flowing over the public IP network doesn't mean there are no risks involved. Even at the telco grade the equipment doesn't seem to meet the same standards as voice.
Case in point: Last year Worldcom found some sort of glitch in their cisco gear and that in turn crashed the border routers at several other ISPs. The fun happened when Group Telecom's routers went down hard taking their voip system with it.
No internet and no means of calling their helpdesk to see what is going on.
If this is going to work the standards for IP connectivity need to ne raised considerably.
It's a 2 step process: first she arms it then she hits a butten in the palm when she wants to zap whoever is touching the jaket.
But then you would have had to have RTFA to know that.
That was never really proven.. the complaint was that the structures in the headders looked the same. Given the fact that both drivers were for the same hardware that was a given.
At the last place I worked I recall having a fight with the head of the marketing dept about her latest pick of advertising company.
Her arguements came down to "They say they are not spammers and all emails they send are opt-in"
These jerks take advantage of the people they are sending ads for. They promise larger returns than they actually get as well.
At least the CDs can be useful.. I have made hundreds of microwaved coasters and wall decorations.
Although it's a pity they don't send me floppies anymore. These days I actually have to buy disks for use as installers.
I find I have better luck quoting the spam and asking them if that's really what they want their buisness associated with thier buisness and asking them to please close the open relay.
Works better than pretty much every other method I've tried.
I didn't say known spammers I said DMA members. You know the ones with the political clout? That's AOL, Microsoft etc.
I think instead of badgering ralsky some more(yes I agree it's funny) it's time we set up a blacklist of DMA members. These people need to realise there are consequences to working against the public's interests in favor of their own selfish goals.
The blacklists in the past have forced even the largest isps to clean up their spam policy and it's time we apply that preassure to the political realm as well.
Actually for awhile word and notepad supported the wordstar command keys. Don't know if they still do as I havn't used windows on a personal machine since 98.
Alternatly "joe" in Linux still uses the wordstar command set.
Yeah he did say that.. but that's also the same Ralksy who talked my former employer into hosting and creditcard processing for his bestiality sites.
Ralsky was the single largest reason I quit working for 2KServices.
By removing the network code you optimise it for desktops but you screw anyone running terminals.
Terminals are a major way linux is sold to buisness since they vasty reduce the time spent administrating machines. And reduce the cost per terminal. I can get stateless Linux terminals for $300 USD.. that's stateless: no moving parts. Nothing to wear out and an office void of machine noise.
9999 isn't enough to generate revenue for them. Alan Ralsky once told me he sends a million emails per day per product.
And even that only generated about $20 000 USD per month per porn site.
The danger is in step 3 because it's hard to know what URL is the spammers' they often hide the url by by various means and include other sites in the email.
Keep in mind that your holding it up so it's not actually ballanced that way. The idea is that you let it fall back down when your done moving it.
It's much easier than actually trying to carry it but probably not as easy as people assume without trying it.
Considering the Opteron boards are much easier to manufacture I'm sure it's in their best intrest to do so.
I used to do that a lot.. but then my bank changed my interac number and pin so then *all* of my finer memory got screwed up.
Took me a week and a half to sort that out get all my passwords changed and retrain my fingers.
The realay server is already likely unuseable from the load the spammer put on it. Spammers like to stuff open relays so full that they are backed up for several days. And the funny thing is the owners may not even realise why. It's sad but I've called them before and got total supprise.
The problem with bouncing though is that it doesn't affect the relay much and the final resting place of the bounce is likely to be the email account the spammer was spoofing and that person probably did nothing wrong and is not affiliated with either the spammer or the relay.
It's happened to me so I know what it's like.
"because every time I get a spam from them I forward to uce@ftc.gov and then I bounce the message back (message cannot be deleviver user not found) Hoping other people will do this and flood the relaying mail server. "
You mean flood the poor person whoes email address they are spoofing.
Please make sure your countermeasures get the correct target.
No it's not indistinguishable and that's the reason I tend to buy a lot of cds. For me, downloads are at best a short trial or at worst a stopgap measure until next time I can budget in a few cd purchases.
Aside from the lower quality downloading also tends to be a huge pain. There are many problems: Unlistenable bitrates, maxed out servers, songs with parts missing etc. To make it worse there seem to be people out there who download so they can see how large a collection they can get and never actually care about how mangled the files are that they happen to be serviing because assuming they have even listened to it(they may not have) it's something that only shows up once a month on their playlist and they just don't want to go through the trouble of finding it. And that's only if I can actually find what I want . Most of what I listen to tends to be on the hard to find end of the scale.
That's funny but the democrats are guilty too.
Actually he was expelled for 1 year
Actually in the Columbine fallout those were pretty much all banned from many schools. There was even a kindergarten aged kid suspended for posessing the inch long gun from his GI Joe.
Lately there was even a kid suspended for having a laser pointer. Guess the teacher mistook it for a laser sight or something.
Never underestimate the people who will use any event to ram through their agendas while everyone else is too stunned to object
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I have yet to have a microwaved harmed by tossing a cd into it. I've done it a lot since it makes some cool sparks and a sweet looking pattern on the cd though.
It's also a good way of freaking out coworkers.