It doesn't take a rocket scientist to trace back a spammer, where is it coming from? There really aren't too many blind relays left so unless there is one of those puppies involved and the spam is fresh it is a simple matter of tracing back IP's. If that isn't good enough and you are getting an in ordinate amount of mail, either change emails (sure it isn't fair, but what can you do), do you own the domain that is getting spammed? how is your sendmail setup configed?
As for needing money to sue, you really don't, you can go to court without a huge lawyer, you just need to follwo protocol, there are many books on representing yourself in court.
Most spam doesn't come from things you sign up for either, most spammers (not all) scrap the web, news groups, buy lists etc etc etc etc.
On a final note, this is how I handle spam:
1. I own my own domain which I have funneled into another email account I don't give out, all email not matter what address gets funneled. 2. I have my own mail server, locked down all nice so it can't be a spam box, and to further prevent that I monitor the logs and such (admin 101 type stuff). 3. when it comes to signing up for things I enter an email of siteIamsigningupfor@mydomain.com, so if and when I get spam I know who sold my info and I either A: email them and get rectification, B: if they don't work with me I block that address in my sendmail config 4. I have found most spam doesn't come from sites I have signed up from, it is randmly dumped on domains, or it is from email addresses I have used on websites or within usenet.
In conclustion, at least from my experiance, passport really wouldn't help, since the majority of my spam doesn't come from sites I have signed up from.
Where are there laws against spam? I belive there is some minor state level legislation in Oregon or Washington or something? But nothing national and nothing that outlaws it outright. If you can site some actuall laws I might agree with you. But just says there are laws and we need passport doesn't make it so.
As for examples of what I am talking about, I live in Texas which resently enacted an "Opt out telemarketing" approach, basically for a couple bucks you can get on a state conrtolled "do not call list" which ALL telemarketers are required to buy, if they call you and you are on the list, they get like a 500 dollar fine, suffice to say I used to get several calls a day, now I get NONE!!! We just need to do the same for spam, and I know for a fact that no similar law exists for spam.
Where are there laws against spam? I belive there is some minor state level legislation in Oregon or Washington or something? But nothing national and nothing that outlaws it outright. If you can site some actuall laws I might agree with you. But just says there are laws and we need passport doesn't make it so.
As for laws and other type of spam (ie telemarketing), I live in Texas which resently enacted an "Opt out telemarketing" approach, basically for a couple bucks you can get on a do not call list which ALL telemarketers are required to buy, if they call you and you are on the list, they get like a 500 dollar fine, suffice to say I used to get several calls a day, now I get NONE!!! We just need to do the same for spam, and I know for a fact that no similar law exists for spam.
How is a system like passport going to stop mail? You lost me totally when you made that statement. As for the referances to the current SMTP system being the issue I would have to say I DISAGREE, you are blaming a system for its abuse, stop the abusers, don't change the system. Enact laws to prohibit spammers, just like states have enacted laws to curtail phone solicitaion. Once it becomes unprofitable to send spam, via legislation to control or outlaw it, SPAM will slowly stop.
Not sure what universe you live in but you need to keep up on patches on any OS you use, whether it is OpenBSD/Solaris/Linux/Winblows etc etc etc. Granted most Unices don't need the level of patching that a Winblows box needs but it is a good admin who keeps his/her eyes open for issues that need to be resolved. But if that isn't your method for admining would you mind posting the IP's for boxes you manage, I need something to root;)
You are suggesting using scp, sftp or encrypted/key'd ftp for an anonymous server? Somewhat excessive don't you think? I agree I wouldn't use it for anything involving system passwords but unencrypted ftp still has a place in bulk file distribution. As for Wu-ftpd being the worst? I would have to say it isn't that bad, and has some features pro-ftpd doesn't. Just keep up with your patches and things aren't that bad.
At first when I read this I was a little against it, now that I thought about it I am all for it, too many people just leave services open and get hacked. So the less that is loaded the less that can be hacked.
If you want FTP, download the latest version of ProFTPd or Wu-FTPd and load those, same with Apache.
Here is a patent suit by the owner of the patents that PanIP claims. It is a good read because American Airlines was found to not be infringing because they were not using ALL the features the patent was for.
All joking and attempting to dispute the patent aside it might be worth a look to see if your company is violating everything in the patent, if not you can get off (though I am no lawyer).
Maybe a lawyer out there can comment on this, but seems the owner of the patent has filed many other suits on some of his other patents (including ones against American Airlines).
This looks like a patent that would let them SUE any website that has a search function and sells anything online? What the hell is wrong with the patent office?
This seems more like an advertisment to sell disinfectant wipes. Assuming you wash your hands before you eat and aren't licking your keyboard you have little to worry about. There are bacteria everywhere, it is NORMAL for them to be EVERYWHERE, if anything trying to kill all the bacteria in your envionment might be detrimental.. If you start swabbing and culturing everything you will jsut end up OCD and living in a bubble. I mean hell, ever seen what grows when you swab money?
We had ordered a 6800 fron Sun for a crash project, we only had about a week to get everything going once we got the machine. So we had FedEX ship the box overnight (cost a fortune). But low and behold the next day there was no FedEX truck with our 6800. We called with the tracking info and they said basically that they had lost the box, but not to worry they would find it. Damn straight they would find it. Well a day later they still didn't know where it was. The next day they had said they found it but it was in their main distribution center in Tenessee (WTF?!?!), so they overnighted it from there and didn't charge us for the shipping for anything. Still screwed my weekend, not to mention the fact of how the hell you lose a 1000lbs machine.
This would help cut down on overall staffing costs, because rather then have a base of dedicated Unix/Solaris admins and Windows NT admins and Linux admins (or whatever combo of that). They can just use a single platform for all of it, and the best part for them is the interface is Mac. No offense to artists (my wife is one), but they aren't the most tech savvy, so the Mac enviornment (which sheilds em pretty well) is whats best for em and gives them a warm fuzzy.
Seeing as this technology uses tiny microwave emitters to excite sulfur ions what effect would it have on pacemakers? If they have to sheild it for pacemakers and stuff then shouldn't the effect be minimal or seeing as the 2.4 ghz area is open can they just dump as much radiation as they want into that spectrum? I mean I don't see problems when I use my 2.4ghz cordless of WiFi laptop when my microwave oven is running, so shouldn't the lights be sheilded to the same standard?
I agree with everything you complain about with the exception of the Dynsons-Sphere. While this is something we can't build with todays tech it is conceivable for a society more advanced then ours. And yes I know it would probably not look exactly like the one in the movie, but it is by no means an impossible object (like the transporter or time travel)
I tend to agree with the above post. The best would be if you can get in a protracted legal battle with them over nothing, then sue them back for defimation, lost wages, and pain and suffering. You could retire off that kinda lawsuit.
My main reason for why you don't use root entirely is eventually no matter how careful you are you WILL make a mistake. Be it rm, chmod, mv, it will happen. If you use another account and try to do as much as you can as a none root user and only su up you will be less likely to simply careless do something.
But that is my 2 cents, my advice would be to present your argument, if they don't want to listen and want to put their boxes at risk, let them. When they accidentally make a mistake bring their system down they will learn. If they don't learn from that and keep recommending bad admin practices to others, well they are morons. But that is another issue.
Ok, so if I get up and go to bathroom during the commercials or change channels does that also make me a thief? I guess only good comsumers are those that dutifuly sit through the commercials.
Funny that Max Headroom is coming back, in that reality it was illegal to turn your TV off, sounds like what the networks want.
So from now on you are only allowed to watch ONE channel when you sit down for TV time, and can only change channels after you have viewed the program and its sponsership in their entirety. Doing otherwise will result in stiff fines and possiblly being sent to "retraining camp".
Found this in google cache. Seems the orginal is inaccessible, anyone have any other info? Intresting to see that some species can survive an hour of autoclaving??!?! And can alter live off a bunch of differnt substances.
I live in an area without DSL, Cable or anything. So about a year or so ago when StarBand was first offered I made the plung. Initially it was kinda buggy and the latency was horrible, but I was able to hack the equipment and get a ethernet connection and share it amoung my systems. About 5 months or so ago they came out with a hardware upgrade that seems to keep signal a lot better, the latency doesn't seem as bad (cacheing? TCP param tuned). So to answer your question, yes it is good if you have no other alterantives, it beats modem connections, but isn't great for console functions or VPN (it works, just has some nasty clocking).
Well, seeing as the computer has a good clock, just use cron to either:
a. play an MP3/WAV/AU whatever over the sound card, which in turn is plugged into the speaker
b. make some noise over the PC speaker (if for whatever reason you don't have a sound card, course this would require a little wiring, but not a whole hell of a lot)
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to trace back a spammer, where is it coming from? There really aren't too many blind relays left so unless there is one of those puppies involved and the spam is fresh it is a simple matter of tracing back IP's. If that isn't good enough and you are getting an in ordinate amount of mail, either change emails (sure it isn't fair, but what can you do), do you own the domain that is getting spammed? how is your sendmail setup configed?
As for needing money to sue, you really don't, you can go to court without a huge lawyer, you just need to follwo protocol, there are many books on representing yourself in court.
Most spam doesn't come from things you sign up for either, most spammers (not all) scrap the web, news groups, buy lists etc etc etc etc.
On a final note, this is how I handle spam:
1. I own my own domain which I have funneled into another email account I don't give out, all email not matter what address gets funneled.
2. I have my own mail server, locked down all nice so it can't be a spam box, and to further prevent that I monitor the logs and such (admin 101 type stuff).
3. when it comes to signing up for things I enter an email of siteIamsigningupfor@mydomain.com, so if and when I get spam I know who sold my info and I either A: email them and get rectification, B: if they don't work with me I block that address in my sendmail config
4. I have found most spam doesn't come from sites I have signed up from, it is randmly dumped on domains, or it is from email addresses I have used on websites or within usenet.
In conclustion, at least from my experiance, passport really wouldn't help, since the majority of my spam doesn't come from sites I have signed up from.
Where are there laws against spam? I belive there is some minor state level legislation in Oregon or Washington or something? But nothing national and nothing that outlaws it outright. If you can site some actuall laws I might agree with you. But just says there are laws and we need passport doesn't make it so.
As for examples of what I am talking about, I live in Texas which resently enacted an "Opt out telemarketing" approach, basically for a couple bucks you can get on a state conrtolled "do not call list" which ALL telemarketers are required to buy, if they call you and you are on the list, they get like a 500 dollar fine, suffice to say I used to get several calls a day, now I get NONE!!! We just need to do the same for spam, and I know for a fact that no similar law exists for spam.
Where are there laws against spam? I belive there is some minor state level legislation in Oregon or Washington or something? But nothing national and nothing that outlaws it outright. If you can site some actuall laws I might agree with you. But just says there are laws and we need passport doesn't make it so.
As for laws and other type of spam (ie telemarketing), I live in Texas which resently enacted an "Opt out telemarketing" approach, basically for a couple bucks you can get on a do not call list which ALL telemarketers are required to buy, if they call you and you are on the list, they get like a 500 dollar fine, suffice to say I used to get several calls a day, now I get NONE!!! We just need to do the same for spam, and I know for a fact that no similar law exists for spam.
A system like passport
How is a system like passport going to stop mail? You lost me totally when you made that statement. As for the referances to the current SMTP system being the issue I would have to say I DISAGREE, you are blaming a system for its abuse, stop the abusers, don't change the system. Enact laws to prohibit spammers, just like states have enacted laws to curtail phone solicitaion. Once it becomes unprofitable to send spam, via legislation to control or outlaw it, SPAM will slowly stop.
Not sure what universe you live in but you need to keep up on patches on any OS you use, whether it is OpenBSD/Solaris/Linux/Winblows etc etc etc. Granted most Unices don't need the level of patching that a Winblows box needs but it is a good admin who keeps his/her eyes open for issues that need to be resolved. But if that isn't your method for admining would you mind posting the IP's for boxes you manage, I need something to root ;)
You are suggesting using scp, sftp or encrypted/key'd ftp for an anonymous server? Somewhat excessive don't you think? I agree I wouldn't use it for anything involving system passwords but unencrypted ftp still has a place in bulk file distribution. As for Wu-ftpd being the worst? I would have to say it isn't that bad, and has some features pro-ftpd doesn't. Just keep up with your patches and things aren't that bad.
At first when I read this I was a little against it, now that I thought about it I am all for it, too many people just leave services open and get hacked. So the less that is loaded the less that can be hacked.
If you want FTP, download the latest version of ProFTPd or Wu-FTPd and load those, same with Apache.
Here is a patent suit by the owner of the patents that PanIP claims. It is a good read because American Airlines was found to not be infringing because they were not using ALL the features the patent was for.
c kwood.htm
http://www.kentlaw.edu/student_orgs/jip/patent/lo
All joking and attempting to dispute the patent aside it might be worth a look to see if your company is violating everything in the patent, if not you can get off (though I am no lawyer).
Maybe a lawyer out there can comment on this, but seems the owner of the patent has filed many other suits on some of his other patents (including ones against American Airlines).
. htm
http://www.ipcreators.org/SC/Kearns/kearns_amicus
Also some intersting notes like the this:
PatentEnforcement Fund (PEF) is a company that fund patent litigation. Didn't know such a thing existed.
This looks like a patent that would let them SUE any website that has a search function and sells anything online? What the hell is wrong with the patent office?
T O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r =1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=''5,576,951''.WKU.&O S=PN/"5,576,951"&RS=PN/"5,576,951"
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P
This seems more like an advertisment to sell disinfectant wipes. Assuming you wash your hands before you eat and aren't licking your keyboard you have little to worry about. There are bacteria everywhere, it is NORMAL for them to be EVERYWHERE, if anything trying to kill all the bacteria in your envionment might be detrimental.. If you start swabbing and culturing everything you will jsut end up OCD and living in a bubble. I mean hell, ever seen what grows when you swab money?
We had ordered a 6800 fron Sun for a crash project, we only had about a week to get everything going once we got the machine. So we had FedEX ship the box overnight (cost a fortune). But low and behold the next day there was no FedEX truck with our 6800. We called with the tracking info and they said basically that they had lost the box, but not to worry they would find it. Damn straight they would find it. Well a day later they still didn't know where it was. The next day they had said they found it but it was in their main distribution center in Tenessee (WTF?!?!), so they overnighted it from there and didn't charge us for the shipping for anything. Still screwed my weekend, not to mention the fact of how the hell you lose a 1000lbs machine.
This would help cut down on overall staffing costs, because rather then have a base of dedicated Unix/Solaris admins and Windows NT admins and Linux admins (or whatever combo of that). They can just use a single platform for all of it, and the best part for them is the interface is Mac. No offense to artists (my wife is one), but they aren't the most tech savvy, so the Mac enviornment (which sheilds em pretty well) is whats best for em and gives them a warm fuzzy.
Seeing as this technology uses tiny microwave emitters to excite sulfur ions what effect would it have on pacemakers? If they have to sheild it for pacemakers and stuff then shouldn't the effect be minimal or seeing as the 2.4 ghz area is open can they just dump as much radiation as they want into that spectrum? I mean I don't see problems when I use my 2.4ghz cordless of WiFi laptop when my microwave oven is running, so shouldn't the lights be sheilded to the same standard?
http://www.fusionlighting.com/technology.htm
dysons-sphere
I agree with everything you complain about with the exception of the Dynsons-Sphere. While this is something we can't build with todays tech it is conceivable for a society more advanced then ours. And yes I know it would probably not look exactly like the one in the movie, but it is by no means an impossible object (like the transporter or time travel)
http://eri.ca.sandia.gov/eri/howto.html
I tend to agree with the above post. The best would be if you can get in a protracted legal battle with them over nothing, then sue them back for defimation, lost wages, and pain and suffering. You could retire off that kinda lawsuit.
Any word yet on Apple filing a trademark infringement lawsuit with NASA over this?
My main reason for why you don't use root entirely is eventually no matter how careful you are you WILL make a mistake. Be it rm, chmod, mv, it will happen. If you use another account and try to do as much as you can as a none root user and only su up you will be less likely to simply careless do something.
But that is my 2 cents, my advice would be to present your argument, if they don't want to listen and want to put their boxes at risk, let them. When they accidentally make a mistake bring their system down they will learn. If they don't learn from that and keep recommending bad admin practices to others, well they are morons. But that is another issue.
http://www.viatornetworks.com/base_pages/server_in stall.htm
Here is a company that provides the service to hotels that does what you want. Have no idea what is under the hood though:
: globaloop.i.pl/pdf/globaloop-ghotel.pdf+%22no+reco nfiguration+required%22&hl=en
http://globaloop.i.pl/pdf/globaloop-ghotel.pdf
Here is the google html of the PDF, as the server is SLOOOOW:
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:ylDnHL43FNIC
Ok, so if I get up and go to bathroom during the commercials or change channels does that also make me a thief? I guess only good comsumers are those that dutifuly sit through the commercials.
Funny that Max Headroom is coming back, in that reality it was illegal to turn your TV off, sounds like what the networks want.
So from now on you are only allowed to watch ONE channel when you sit down for TV time, and can only change channels after you have viewed the program and its sponsership in their entirety. Doing otherwise will result in stiff fines and possiblly being sent to "retraining camp".
Found this in google cache. Seems the orginal is inaccessible, anyone have any other info? Intresting to see that some species can survive an hour of autoclaving??!?! And can alter live off a bunch of differnt substances.
I live in an area without DSL, Cable or anything. So about a year or so ago when StarBand was first offered I made the plung. Initially it was kinda buggy and the latency was horrible, but I was able to hack the equipment and get a ethernet connection and share it amoung my systems. About 5 months or so ago they came out with a hardware upgrade that seems to keep signal a lot better, the latency doesn't seem as bad (cacheing? TCP param tuned). So to answer your question, yes it is good if you have no other alterantives, it beats modem connections, but isn't great for console functions or VPN (it works, just has some nasty clocking).
Well, seeing as the computer has a good clock, just use cron to either :
a. play an MP3/WAV/AU whatever over the sound card, which in turn is plugged into the speaker
b. make some noise over the PC speaker (if for whatever reason you don't have a sound card, course this would require a little wiring, but not a whole hell of a lot)