I don't care how you moderate me, that article was rubbish. At best it was an advertisment for some video editing software and the fact that computers and cameras are now cheap enough for anyone to get in to making terrible vid-clips of bits of their lives that no one else cares about.
They may have cut production, but an estimated 70-90% of the worlds illegal opiate product still originated from Afghanistan. Someone in power, somewhere (in Afghanistan), was allowing farmers to grow opium poppies, which was my original point.
I do live in a country where gambling on ANYTHING (well almost, no dog fighting and cruel sports) is allowed, drinking 24x7 is just fine, and if you need a shag you CAN just head down to the local whore house.
I can't say I've ever been known to traffic in Lolita's for rape with my enlarged penis that I paid for by remorgaging my house and/or selling cheap toner. I know that that because I'm such a smart guy with 27 degrees from Yale/Harvard/Oxford/Cambridge that I bought for $30 each.
I'm no longer a chunky monkey though because filtering out the weight loss ones is a bit hard - they use such normal English.
The chinese/Korean ones are easier 'cos they use double bit entry, which usually puts a whole string of 'à' characthers in the subject line.
And I never filter by body-text, just subject line. It blocks 99% of spam without a need for extra software.
In local news today... A class action brought against Florida based company over "anti-spam" laws netted a group of Russian/Chinese/Bulgarian businessmen $1.3m, half of which was paid to the lawyers who took up the case on their behalf. After sucessfully claiming that 2600 unsoliceted messages had turned up on their mail server from the local direct marketing company...
Need I say more? People would just end up profiteering from the spammers, which would lead to laws protecting marketing business from said practices.
Again, vicious circle. Except this time it's the crooks taking other crooks to the cleaners.
Even if this thing was global, there would still be a safe haven somewhere. Someone would just legalize it, and tax it, and have a monopoly on spam. Then they'd wonder why no one get's their point of view about making money out of something everyone else abhors (sp??).
Opium cultivation is illegal in every counrty, but the Taleban still tolerated it 'cos that was basically their government budget float.
Unofficially the Burmese Army are also reported to cultivate opium in large quantities but since it's very hard to check on 'Rogue States', these practises are still widespread yet denied by the Government.
I don't think the spam problem is as bad as Heroin, but the people that deal in it are there soley for one thing - profit. Damn Ferengis!
PS, comment above/below RE: 99% of my spam is from the US. 100% of commercial spam is US, p0rn spam is a little broader.
Well if the goverment made as much money out of cracking down on spammers as say, speeding fines, with 'spamming fines', how much more aggressive do you think law enforcement would be on spammers? Then how many people would still do it?
How about imposing things like JAIL TERMS on people convicted of 'serial spamming'.
I read an article once about a guy who lives in a multi-million dollar house in one State and just burns though trial ISP accounts in other states that can't properly prosecute (if that's the right term, since most States don't yet have decent laws against spam).
Big Karma bonus for the governors of NV though, 41-0 on passing laws to nail the perpetrators AND finig them $500 for each successful plaintif in court.
Oh yes, I see the day when I no longer need the words 'rape, enlargement, mortgage, lolita, diploma and toner' in my filter list for 'Permanantly delete'.
Call the FBI and ask them how much they'd pay you to tell them how to save 3000 American lives and the destruction of the WTS in NYC. Save some lives AND get paid for it!
And make sure you got some really serious dirt on George W. in his 'wilder' years so you could smear him in to never being a worthy Presidential candidate.
I wouldn't change my life, but I'd at least try to avert all this crap we're going though now.
Footnote: At comment 1550 and counting, I bet no one gets to read this.
Almost all you say? I know two (yes a whole two!) lottery winners, and one very rich person, but I don't think I'd end up like any of them, lottery winner or not.
Case one. Parents ended up in divorce and I think and the father in question is now dead (Too many cigs and JDs). He was a carpet layer - the money was "invested" in a chicken farm to give the family something that would sustain them for life. How many carpet layers know how to farm chickens AND make money from it... Anyway, they're all (with the exception of the two daughters) much worse off than before they "had nay a worry in the world".
Case two. Single guy, goes out and buys loads of stuff and lives it up for about five years. The bills to maintain everything eventually strip him back to exactly the same predicament he was in at the start of it all. At least he had fun though.
The one person I know who was given decent advice my their father in HS... In 1975, just as this girl was going to college, her Dad says "Get in to computers. They'll be running this world one day". She is now worth over $80 mil.
Good advice is one thing, winning the lottery is another. I don't know exactly what I'd do if I won loads of cash, but I don't think my happiness would be affected too much. I'm pretty good with where I'm at now, but not having to worry about where my next dollar is coming from would give me a bit more time to explore a bit more of the world. I'm on lap 3 already and I'm 25, but there still loads more to see and do.
When was the last time you went to a market/swap meet? The majority of the people there who are buying blank DVD/CDs in bulk (200+) are usually using them for one of three things.
Even the local PC shop around the cornere from me knows it's best market. 60% of the stuff on the flyer they put out each week is CD-R/DVD-R related. Even 30% of the shop floor is stacked to eye height with blank media.
So while I don't agree that lobbing a tax on blank media is the solution, there is definitely a massive and rampant problem with digital media.
Wise up and smell the coffee. Anyone who tries to argue that the MAJORITY of CD-Rs they use are for data backup are either telling less-than-half-truths, seriously non-informed about what you can put on a CD (can you say DivX?), or legitimate business users. Like always, it'll only be legitimate business users that get shafted, not Joe public.
I admit it, I go though about 100 CD-Rs a year and about one of those would be for data. The rest are movies and other stuff, usually downloaded from the internet.
I have a mate who tries to 'see' around the corner of his display when playing any RTS.
It used to crack us all up watching his head bob up/down/left/right when playing Warcraft II. He used to always wonder why we were laughing, as though some mage would be about to cast a blizzard on his unsuspecting horde of Ogres.
By the time you read this, it will be at 'too many connections', and in an hour, say 5pm GMT, the whole thing will 404 or be server not found - or some bright spark may redirect to a "Piss off, we've been/.ed"
Maybe your PDA/MP3/etc. player generates enough heat to raise the temp in the card slot to 5C - I know my lappy definitely does. In fact, most of the cards I have pulled out of a laptop are pushing the limit of being too hot.
I don't think cool winters will be as much of a problem as hot summers, eg. Oz.
Maybe in cars with large engines, but a 1.3 - 1.6 engine will only have a very small battery. A "Yank Tank" will have a much larger battery due to the increased load of turning a 5.7 over to start it.
You'll find also that since the US DoD owns and operates the GPS satellites, they can pretty much do anything they want with them, including turing them off over certain regions for those without US sactioned military access.
The whole system used to have a Selective Availability (S/A) feature permanantly switched on, which screwed up the accuracy. In Feb 2000 it was turned off for civilian use - however it's still there, and can be turned on (and arced up in to the bargain) over "enemy" territory.
So, as you say, there is no reason to jam the signal when you can just make the accuracy only good for about +/- 100 miles for the "enemy", and +/- 10 feet for yourself.
Basically, if you can sit with someone and watch what they do for a good 8 hours, you should get enough of an idea of the main bits you're going to need. A book at night might help you understand what you're doing, but if you need to learn fast, "monkey see, monkey do".
After that, just make sure you're not on any important machine when you start experimenting with your new knowledge, and play around with it.
I've never used VMS, but then again I've never read any books on DOS and (would think) I'm still pretty damn good at the CLI bashing (esp. under NT/2k), so I reckon second hand knowledge is better than any book.
You are speaking the truth there. I work(ed) for an outsource IT company and even they found it hard to keep work as clients were cutting IT budgets like nothing else (40% in the place I worked).
I've given up, I'm off to work in the Alps for the winter and get some quality snowboarding time.
And you think the your boss is bad. Ain't got nothing on most of the PA's to Bank execs. PA - "I'm a VIP. Fix my blah blah blah." Me - "I'm sorry. That's how the software was written." PA - "...I'm a VIP, just fix it." Me - "I can't. It's designed to do that." PA - Pauses for a bit - "You must be able to do something. Me - "No, I can't do anything. Now if you'll excuse me I have other calls to attend to." PA - "I'm a VIP. Don't you walk away on me!"
I hate to say it, but if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
I had a huge problem finding work last year until I did a 'George Costanza' (just turn up after the interview like you got the job). After a week I had found that all the other guys I was working with - it was a crappy NT4 rollout - had lied on their CV's and didn't know jack! Bah! I almost ended up running the thing, plus I was being paid less than some of the... offtopic, sorry.
So anyway, a few people I know who have found it hard to get work have simply lied about the last few months and put in a job overseas somwhere where no one is going to check up on you. I mean, who is going to call Europe and get the run around if you say you worked on a contract in Uzbekistan for 6 months for a UK oil company?
Anyway, just a sloution. Personally, I'm off IT. I can't stand most of the people I end up working with (see 'Office Space') and I'm over sitting in front of a non-LCD screen all day.
I'm actually surprised how intact the drive was. Considering it's (relatively) sensitive computer equipment, it all looks rather unscathed by the hits.
The 7.62 seems to have done it's usual and just punched a hole straight through, however a hell of a lot of the energy from the.357 seems to have been deflected. I guess that says something for the build quality of a Seagate drive (mechanically speaking).
I remember a high school physics experiment I did once with a.357. The first round wasn't jacketed and the lead just sprayed off the target everywhere and almost destroyed the camera. The last round was a 250gn w/c and that was the end of the 'capture' device, as well as half the stand, and consequently, the experiment.
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I don't care how you moderate me, that article was rubbish. At best it was an advertisment for some video editing software and the fact that computers and cameras are now cheap enough for anyone to get in to making terrible vid-clips of bits of their lives that no one else cares about.
Yaaawn...
We want real news!
You can't say I'm wrong...
They may have cut production, but an estimated 70-90% of the worlds illegal opiate product still originated from Afghanistan. Someone in power, somewhere (in Afghanistan), was allowing farmers to grow opium poppies, which was my original point.
Offtopic - sure, but I felt I needed to reply.
I do live in a country where gambling on ANYTHING (well almost, no dog fighting and cruel sports) is allowed, drinking 24x7 is just fine, and if you need a shag you CAN just head down to the local whore house.
I love Australia...
I can't say I've ever been known to traffic in Lolita's for rape with my enlarged penis that I paid for by remorgaging my house and/or selling cheap toner. I know that that because I'm such a smart guy with 27 degrees from Yale/Harvard/Oxford/Cambridge that I bought for $30 each.
I'm no longer a chunky monkey though because filtering out the weight loss ones is a bit hard - they use such normal English.
The chinese/Korean ones are easier 'cos they use double bit entry, which usually puts a whole string of 'à' characthers in the subject line.
And I never filter by body-text, just subject line. It blocks 99% of spam without a need for extra software.
'Cos that'd work...
In local news today... A class action brought against Florida based company over "anti-spam" laws netted a group of Russian/Chinese/Bulgarian businessmen $1.3m, half of which was paid to the lawyers who took up the case on their behalf. After sucessfully claiming that 2600 unsoliceted messages had turned up on their mail server from the local direct marketing company...
Need I say more? People would just end up profiteering from the spammers, which would lead to laws protecting marketing business from said practices.
Again, vicious circle. Except this time it's the crooks taking other crooks to the cleaners.
Even if this thing was global, there would still be a safe haven somewhere. Someone would just legalize it, and tax it, and have a monopoly on spam. Then they'd wonder why no one get's their point of view about making money out of something everyone else abhors (sp??).
Opium cultivation is illegal in every counrty, but the Taleban still tolerated it 'cos that was basically their government budget float.
Unofficially the Burmese Army are also reported to cultivate opium in large quantities but since it's very hard to check on 'Rogue States', these practises are still widespread yet denied by the Government.
I don't think the spam problem is as bad as Heroin, but the people that deal in it are there soley for one thing - profit. Damn Ferengis!
PS, comment above/below RE: 99% of my spam is from the US. 100% of commercial spam is US, p0rn spam is a little broader.
Well if the goverment made as much money out of cracking down on spammers as say, speeding fines, with 'spamming fines', how much more aggressive do you think law enforcement would be on spammers? Then how many people would still do it?
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It always about the money, or the budget.
Vicious circle I'm 'fraid.
But people will always speed
How about imposing things like JAIL TERMS on people convicted of 'serial spamming'.
I read an article once about a guy who lives in a multi-million dollar house in one State and just burns though trial ISP accounts in other states that can't properly prosecute (if that's the right term, since most States don't yet have decent laws against spam).
Big Karma bonus for the governors of NV though, 41-0 on passing laws to nail the perpetrators AND finig them $500 for each successful plaintif in court.
Oh yes, I see the day when I no longer need the words 'rape, enlargement, mortgage, lolita, diploma and toner' in my filter list for 'Permanantly delete'.
You have a slashdot ID under 10,000
Call the FBI and ask them how much they'd pay you to tell them how to save 3000 American lives and the destruction of the WTS in NYC. Save some lives AND get paid for it!
And make sure you got some really serious dirt on George W. in his 'wilder' years so you could smear him in to never being a worthy Presidential candidate.
I wouldn't change my life, but I'd at least try to avert all this crap we're going though now.
Footnote: At comment 1550 and counting, I bet no one gets to read this.
You know what really bites?
I tried to register as 'Dan' way back in '98 (obviously I got Dan B). User Dan (467) has never posted one single fucking time!
BTW, Who is User #1?
Almost all you say? I know two (yes a whole two!) lottery winners, and one very rich person, but I don't think I'd end up like any of them, lottery winner or not.
Case one. Parents ended up in divorce and I think and the father in question is now dead (Too many cigs and JDs). He was a carpet layer - the money was "invested" in a chicken farm to give the family something that would sustain them for life. How many carpet layers know how to farm chickens AND make money from it... Anyway, they're all (with the exception of the two daughters) much worse off than before they "had nay a worry in the world".
Case two. Single guy, goes out and buys loads of stuff and lives it up for about five years. The bills to maintain everything eventually strip him back to exactly the same predicament he was in at the start of it all. At least he had fun though.
The one person I know who was given decent advice my their father in HS... In 1975, just as this girl was going to college, her Dad says "Get in to computers. They'll be running this world one day". She is now worth over $80 mil.
Good advice is one thing, winning the lottery is another. I don't know exactly what I'd do if I won loads of cash, but I don't think my happiness would be affected too much. I'm pretty good with where I'm at now, but not having to worry about where my next dollar is coming from would give me a bit more time to explore a bit more of the world. I'm on lap 3 already and I'm 25, but there still loads more to see and do.
When was the last time you went to a market/swap meet? The majority of the people there who are buying blank DVD/CDs in bulk (200+) are usually using them for one of three things.
1. Pirate PC/Playstaion Games
2. Pirate DVDs
3. Copying Audio CDs
Even the local PC shop around the cornere from me knows it's best market. 60% of the stuff on the flyer they put out each week is CD-R/DVD-R related. Even 30% of the shop floor is stacked to eye height with blank media.
So while I don't agree that lobbing a tax on blank media is the solution, there is definitely a massive and rampant problem with digital media.
And every kid IS doing it.
Wise up and smell the coffee. Anyone who tries to argue that the MAJORITY of CD-Rs they use are for data backup are either telling less-than-half-truths, seriously non-informed about what you can put on a CD (can you say DivX?), or legitimate business users. Like always, it'll only be legitimate business users that get shafted, not Joe public.
I admit it, I go though about 100 CD-Rs a year and about one of those would be for data. The rest are movies and other stuff, usually downloaded from the internet.
I have a mate who tries to 'see' around the corner of his display when playing any RTS.
It used to crack us all up watching his head bob up/down/left/right when playing Warcraft II. He used to always wonder why we were laughing, as though some mage would be about to cast a blizzard on his unsuspecting horde of Ogres.
By the time you read this, it will be at 'too many connections', and in an hour, say 5pm GMT, the whole thing will 404 or be server not found - or some bright spark may redirect to a "Piss off, we've been /.ed"
Maybe your PDA/MP3/etc. player generates enough heat to raise the temp in the card slot to 5C - I know my lappy definitely does. In fact, most of the cards I have pulled out of a laptop are pushing the limit of being too hot.
I don't think cool winters will be as much of a problem as hot summers, eg. Oz.
Maybe in cars with large engines, but a 1.3 - 1.6 engine will only have a very small battery. A "Yank Tank" will have a much larger battery due to the increased load of turning a 5.7 over to start it.
Here's the link to the article on the BASF website.
You'll find also that since the US DoD owns and operates the GPS satellites, they can pretty much do anything they want with them, including turing them off over certain regions for those without US sactioned military access.
The whole system used to have a Selective Availability (S/A) feature permanantly switched on, which screwed up the accuracy. In Feb 2000 it was turned off for civilian use - however it's still there, and can be turned on (and arced up in to the bargain) over "enemy" territory.
So, as you say, there is no reason to jam the signal when you can just make the accuracy only good for about +/- 100 miles for the "enemy", and +/- 10 feet for yourself.
Fair play. A car battery is roughly 30AH @ 12V, and my lappy battery is something like 4AH @ 15V, but about 1/32 the size and weight.
A bit more info on the batteries would be helpful but I have this feeling that the writer of the article 'aint that much of a techy.
Basically, if you can sit with someone and watch what they do for a good 8 hours, you should get enough of an idea of the main bits you're going to need. A book at night might help you understand what you're doing, but if you need to learn fast, "monkey see, monkey do".
After that, just make sure you're not on any important machine when you start experimenting with your new knowledge, and play around with it.
I've never used VMS, but then again I've never read any books on DOS and (would think) I'm still pretty damn good at the CLI bashing (esp. under NT/2k), so I reckon second hand knowledge is better than any book.
You are speaking the truth there. I work(ed) for an outsource IT company and even they found it hard to keep work as clients were cutting IT budgets like nothing else (40% in the place I worked).
I've given up, I'm off to work in the Alps for the winter and get some quality snowboarding time.
And you think the your boss is bad. Ain't got nothing on most of the PA's to Bank execs.
PA - "I'm a VIP. Fix my blah blah blah."
Me - "I'm sorry. That's how the software was written."
PA - "...I'm a VIP, just fix it."
Me - "I can't. It's designed to do that."
PA - Pauses for a bit - "You must be able to do something.
Me - "No, I can't do anything. Now if you'll excuse me I have other calls to attend to."
PA - "I'm a VIP. Don't you walk away on me!"
I hate to say it, but if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
I had a huge problem finding work last year until I did a 'George Costanza' (just turn up after the interview like you got the job). After a week I had found that all the other guys I was working with - it was a crappy NT4 rollout - had lied on their CV's and didn't know jack! Bah! I almost ended up running the thing, plus I was being paid less than some of the... offtopic, sorry.
So anyway, a few people I know who have found it hard to get work have simply lied about the last few months and put in a job overseas somwhere where no one is going to check up on you. I mean, who is going to call Europe and get the run around if you say you worked on a contract in Uzbekistan for 6 months for a UK oil company?
Anyway, just a sloution. Personally, I'm off IT. I can't stand most of the people I end up working with (see 'Office Space') and I'm over sitting in front of a non-LCD screen all day.
I'm actually surprised how intact the drive was. Considering it's (relatively) sensitive computer equipment, it all looks rather unscathed by the hits.
.357 seems to have been deflected. I guess that says something for the build quality of a Seagate drive (mechanically speaking).
.357. The first round wasn't jacketed and the lead just sprayed off the target everywhere and almost destroyed the camera. The last round was a 250gn w/c and that was the end of the 'capture' device, as well as half the stand, and consequently, the experiment.
The 7.62 seems to have done it's usual and just punched a hole straight through, however a hell of a lot of the energy from the
I remember a high school physics experiment I did once with a