If you register your domain with a registrar using a unique email address, and your registrar has no Whois availability, spammers are going to have one hell of a time spamming the email address you registered with.
It also keeps nasty mean people from the Internet (IRC, Usenet, etc..) from harassing you.
I could start an entirely new identity through one of those domains. If you chained emails through multiple registrars with limited or no whois availability, you at least have a chance of foiling the casual observer's attempt to trace you.
I'm not personally concerned if the agencies know about my secret email accounts or not -- I'd have to have a higher profile with them in order to be worried.:)
Robots.cnn.com is a load balancing mirror for CNN. How long till they go barebones again?
Current headline:
An American Airlines plane has crashed in the Queens borough of New York City. The FAA identifies the flight as American flight 587, an Airbus A300 from JFK airport to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Thick smoke was billowing over the area, and local media reported several houses on fire.
When I was 5, my parents got an Apple IIe and several hundred floppy disks in boxes from Goodwill. By age 6, I had learned what cracked software was, and they'd upgraded me to an Apple IIgs - Remote Access but no modem, and a built-in disassembler! I learned assembly language and BASIC that year.
When I was 8, my grandfather gave me an 8088 with a modem in it.
Age 8, BBS path.
That year I called the only BBS in the phone book. 7 years later, I went to work for the sysop of that BBS, who still runs a successful ISP.
That BBS had a directory of nearly 40 BBSes in my local area.
Within the year, my active BBS list (logged in to the account more than three days a week) was at 200 phone numbers. Another 100 were frequented no less than once a week. Oh, and there were probably 20 out of that which required pay access that I did not use.
By the time I was 10, I had read thousands of adult, hacking, and conspiracy text files, as were popular at that time. I'd also interacted with several people through online games and message boards, gaining full access by befriending the sysop of each board I logged onto. Throughout my years on BBSes, I believe I contributed $5 once to the BBS - one I also worked for from age 13 through 17.
By age 14, the BBS scene had died. There were effectively two BBSes that remained up, active, and public; both were large, multi-line systems that eventually went Internet, and later died. I was the co-sysop and hardware/network tech for one of them.
Age 8, Internet path.
Age 8, I found my first Internet provider. It was a local freenet, dedicated to providing Internet access to those who were low-income. As a side effect of doing this all by electrons, they had no records or voice conversations that would lead them to believe I was 8.
By age 9, they had invited me to join their "Ask-A-Nerd" mailing list. I became a tech support volunteer, offering help when I needed to, and getting guidance privately and publicly when my words or behaviour seemed childish to them.
As it turned out, they were unconciously teaching me how to interact with people on the Internet without aggression. Incredibly useful.
Around age 11, I started exploring IRC. Four thousand users on EFNet/IRCNet, one thousand channels. Those were the days. I never did realize there was a split around 1996, either.
Ten years later, I'm still using IRC. Last year, I migrated to a new network, and I've not been back to EFNet since.
Around age 13, I went in to their office to pick up my copy (paid for by my parents) of the first edition of Programming Perl. After they got over their initial shock about my age, they got me the book and I went back home with my father.
Within three days I read that book cover to cover, and then took the weekend to read the function reference again. Those were the days.:)
Merge time paths.
Ten years after I hit IRC, I realize I've never been in any dangerous situation. I never let on that I was a kid except to people who were good confidants - the sysops of a BBS would watch over me when I logged on, and over time they introduced me to the dark sides of the world and offered guidance in such forms that I wouldn't realize they had involved themselves until I could appreciate their help.
They succeeded tremendously, and I wish I could thank them for their guidance in my life.
As a side note, my parents never did take an active hand in what I did. They watched my development and almost instant attachment to any computer, but somehow I never remember them saying no.
Oh, I do remember once my grandmother asked me not to play Wolfenstein on our new 486 because it was very violent and based on a bad plot premise; I agreed with her until such time as we could discuss why she was concerned. As it turns out, I'm glad she did - I understand what made her unhappy, and still don't enjoy playing Wolfenstein - if they hadn't been Nazi Germans (iirc), it would have been different. Oh well.
Well, six months until twenty one. I'm happy, crazy, stable, and Internet-friendly. I talked with my parents yesterday before I got a wisdom tooth pulled - they offered to come up if I needed the company.
One thing I realize - I never did see that it could be possible to "give away your real name" on IRC - why would you do that? I never told them my address - why would you do that? IRC just wasn't the place for it.
When I have a child someday, I hope she reaches a result that she is satisfied with after twenty years. But all I can do is guide her down the river, and maybe she'll never know that those sandbars are actually dangerous, because she'll find a way to deal with them that I can't foresee.
For those who wish to know in more detail, you're welcome to ask me via email about my life. I'll share happily:)
I've never received spam from the same user twice. Ever.
Ignore doesn't do me any good at all when I'm never going to receive a message from them anyways.
I can't block all messages from people not on my list because that keeps me from hearing from friends.
How about letting me do something complex, such as:
If a user not on my list sends me a URL message, do not show me the URL message until they send me another message.
That simple rule would block every piece of spam I have received in the past 12 months on ICQ. All of them have been URLs.
Of course, once this is implemented, they'll start using normal messages. Okay.
If a user not on my list sends me a message containing a URL, do not show me the message until they send me another message.
To work around that, spammers would have to stop putting "http://" into their messages, which removes the clickable link that makes them so effective - "Click here!" - "Goto URL!". This would cripple the effectiveness of the spam, as many users who would click to view spam won't write down a URL and retype it into their browser.
Someday, perhaps. Sounds like a good feature to be implemented in some free ICQ clone, though.
Re:Minors don't have full rights? Gov't bastards!!
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You know, I find that interesting - when I was 7, i worked out with my parents that as long as i stayed in my room and didn't come out (much), i was considered "in bed"; at a certain time, i would be asked to turn off the lights.
By the time I was 12, i would turn on the lights surreptitiously. I'm sure they caught this, but ignored me.
It doesn't occur to me that I was terribly unreasonable as a child. I find it very interesting, however, that the logical opposite of "follow the schedule i set for you to sleep" is "do not follow the schedule you set for me to sleep". I was never handed a fixed schedule to SLEEP - just a period of time when I needed to be in a specified location with restrictions on my behavior. Almost exactly like being at work, except I wasn't paid, and got to take long naps if I wanted to.
Perl has an interesting solution to that problem; it provides links to sub-manpages indexed off the main page. For heavy users, man perlfunc is quite effective at immediately isolating the section of the very large documentation set that is desired; you might find that a useful way to organize your man pages.
Someone's been surfing ebay and collecting spam addresses, and sending me lots of spam from different accounts at yahoo, msn, hotbot, compuserve, etc. Fortunately, I found a way to collect all their spam into one mailbox. Here's the perl regex for it. This matches about 90% of the spam I receive, but I guess I'm too careful with my email address - I only get 4 or 5 a week, max.
Amazing how they use the same logo and domain keyword ("slashdot") for different content. Almost like they want to take traffic from slashdot.org. Hmm.
> > A modular IP4 stack. Linux -should- be capable of running as an IPv6-only system.
> Why?
For the purpose of providing the user an ability to choose between IPv4 in kernel, IPv6 in kernel, both in kernel, or neither in kernel. Is this a problem with the current Linux 2.x architecture anywhere? It doesn't look to me like there's an IPv4 module, just an IPv6 module. That's not good - IPv4 should be modularized, unless doing so would give the competition a specific set of advantages over Linux if such a change was made.
People opposed to copy protected software would protest it by releasing instructions on how to create a device that bypasses "copy protection".
Like instructions to people in countries with monitored/forced-proxied/blocked Internet connections on how to create secured tcp/ip tunnels to proxies on the "open" Internet.
Like teaching a person how to build and use explosives on the Internet. Or armed weapons. Or blue boxes, or 2600 Hz tone generators.
Is a "crack" for bypassing copy protection in a "program" considered equivalent to a "device"? or a "bomb" that is used to "attack" the copy protection, or the "software", or both? Is it illegal to convey these "bombs" over the Internet, or the mail, or your pocket?
NPR will be posting the RealAudio 28/56 broadcast links on this page soon after the program is recorded; they don't appear to be doing a live broadcast of it, though. I'd expect it to be there some time between a couple hours from now and tomorrow, assuming they work quickly.
As for listening to it on the radio, here's a link and another link for you; it might help you find a radio station you can listen to. I'd suggest just spending a few minutes tuning the dial, though.
and I find it quite enjoyable that as a thread deepens, the points moderated to the sub-comments in the thread are lower, and the column width of the article on my 1024x768 10-pt size fonts is pretty much 10% of the screen. I can just scroll right past this entire thread without even worrying about missing a single message.
Cool. And I lurk, so I can watch all the responses to this and laugh, and do nothing.:)
It's nice to know that there are women out there that think like this; I've been struggling around my life for years trying (and finally, I've started succeeding.. *pfft*) to figure out these magical "signals" and everything that people seem to use in their lives. It's so horribly frustrating to sit around and watch people talk about something random, while I sit there bored wondering why I don't have anything to say, and what I could say that wouldn't anger them for distracting from the conversation. But at least now I know there's hope.
Good luck in your searching; I hope you find happiness.
It seems to me that it would prove useful to investigate the use of this ability to generate coherent signals from a processor as a method of connecting wireless devices. Your Jini laptop could use the processor as a resource and interact as it wished with other Jini. Phone lines could be identified electronically by the phone company, detectable by any technician or competent person with access to tools.
Perhaps such things will come about. I remember reading an article once about networks of processors with switchable gates that could adapt to their surroundings; as I remember, they communicated through electromagnetic signals - interference, perhaps. Very strange; when they moved the processors, they stopped working. Ah, it was in Discover magazine [...] at one point; I'd recommend reading it with this information in mind; a room could be wired with a network of low-power sensors, for instance.
It seems to me that it would prove useful to investigate the use of this ability to generate coherent signals from a processor as a method of connecting wireless devices. Your Jini laptop could use the processor as a resource and interact as it wished with other Jini. Phone lines could be identified electronically by the phone company, detectable by any technician or competent person with access to tools.
Perhaps such things will come about. I remember reading an article once about networks of processors with switchable gates that could adapt to their surroundings; as I remember, they communicated through electromagnetic signals - interference, perhaps. Very strange; when they moved the processors, they stopped working. Ah, it was in Discover magazine [...] at one point; I'd recommend reading it with this information in mind; a room could be wired with a network of low-power sensors, for instance.
ftp://ftp.digiforest.com/mirrors/mozilla-m5/ ( link )
25 users because I've never mirrored something and posted the URL to slashdot before. If things go well and I don't get attacked I might mirror other things as well. It's a dedicated, Bay-compressed, PtP T3. Have fun.
Slashdot Mirror
It also keeps nasty mean people from the Internet (IRC, Usenet, etc..) from harassing you.
I could start an entirely new identity through one of those domains. If you chained emails through multiple registrars with limited or no whois availability, you at least have a chance of foiling the casual observer's attempt to trace you.
I'm not personally concerned if the agencies know about my secret email accounts or not -- I'd have to have a higher profile with them in order to be worried. :)
Here's a project that's doing this. They seem to have functioning code, too.
http://robots.cnn.com/2001/US/11/12/newyork.crash/ index.html
There's a direct URL, load balancing.
Robots.cnn.com is a load balancing mirror for CNN. How long till they go barebones again?
Current headline:
An American Airlines plane has crashed in the Queens borough of New York City. The FAA identifies the flight as American flight 587, an Airbus A300 from JFK airport to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Thick smoke was billowing over the area, and local media reported several houses on fire.
I'm mirroring what I can at crystalflame. Hopefully this will provide some usefulness to y'all for getting access to these pictures.
www.crystalflame.net is mirroring as much as I can possibly find, and linking to the large mirrors that aren't easily mirrorable.
When I was 5, my parents got an Apple IIe and several hundred floppy disks in boxes from Goodwill. By age 6, I had learned what cracked software was, and they'd upgraded me to an Apple IIgs - Remote Access but no modem, and a built-in disassembler! I learned assembly language and BASIC that year.
:)
:)
When I was 8, my grandfather gave me an 8088 with a modem in it.
Age 8, BBS path.
That year I called the only BBS in the phone book. 7 years later, I went to work for the sysop of that BBS, who still runs a successful ISP.
That BBS had a directory of nearly 40 BBSes in my local area.
Within the year, my active BBS list (logged in to the account more than three days a week) was at 200 phone numbers. Another 100 were frequented no less than once a week. Oh, and there were probably 20 out of that which required pay access that I did not use.
By the time I was 10, I had read thousands of adult, hacking, and conspiracy text files, as were popular at that time. I'd also interacted with several people through online games and message boards, gaining full access by befriending the sysop of each board I logged onto. Throughout my years on BBSes, I believe I contributed $5 once to the BBS - one I also worked for from age 13 through 17.
By age 14, the BBS scene had died. There were effectively two BBSes that remained up, active, and public; both were large, multi-line systems that eventually went Internet, and later died. I was the co-sysop and hardware/network tech for one of them.
Age 8, Internet path.
Age 8, I found my first Internet provider. It was a local freenet, dedicated to providing Internet access to those who were low-income. As a side effect of doing this all by electrons, they had no records or voice conversations that would lead them to believe I was 8.
By age 9, they had invited me to join their "Ask-A-Nerd" mailing list. I became a tech support volunteer, offering help when I needed to, and getting guidance privately and publicly when my words or behaviour seemed childish to them.
As it turned out, they were unconciously teaching me how to interact with people on the Internet without aggression. Incredibly useful.
Around age 11, I started exploring IRC. Four thousand users on EFNet/IRCNet, one thousand channels. Those were the days. I never did realize there was a split around 1996, either.
Ten years later, I'm still using IRC. Last year, I migrated to a new network, and I've not been back to EFNet since.
Around age 13, I went in to their office to pick up my copy (paid for by my parents) of the first edition of Programming Perl. After they got over their initial shock about my age, they got me the book and I went back home with my father.
Within three days I read that book cover to cover, and then took the weekend to read the function reference again. Those were the days.
Merge time paths.
Ten years after I hit IRC, I realize I've never been in any dangerous situation. I never let on that I was a kid except to people who were good confidants - the sysops of a BBS would watch over me when I logged on, and over time they introduced me to the dark sides of the world and offered guidance in such forms that I wouldn't realize they had involved themselves until I could appreciate their help.
They succeeded tremendously, and I wish I could thank them for their guidance in my life.
As a side note, my parents never did take an active hand in what I did. They watched my development and almost instant attachment to any computer, but somehow I never remember them saying no.
Oh, I do remember once my grandmother asked me not to play Wolfenstein on our new 486 because it was very violent and based on a bad plot premise; I agreed with her until such time as we could discuss why she was concerned. As it turns out, I'm glad she did - I understand what made her unhappy, and still don't enjoy playing Wolfenstein - if they hadn't been Nazi Germans (iirc), it would have been different. Oh well.
Well, six months until twenty one. I'm happy, crazy, stable, and Internet-friendly. I talked with my parents yesterday before I got a wisdom tooth pulled - they offered to come up if I needed the company.
One thing I realize - I never did see that it could be possible to "give away your real name" on IRC - why would you do that? I never told them my address - why would you do that? IRC just wasn't the place for it.
When I have a child someday, I hope she reaches a result that she is satisfied with after twenty years. But all I can do is guide her down the river, and maybe she'll never know that those sandbars are actually dangerous, because she'll find a way to deal with them that I can't foresee.
For those who wish to know in more detail, you're welcome to ask me via email about my life. I'll share happily
coral (c+slashdot -at- crystalflame.net).
Ignore doesn't do me any good at all when I'm never going to receive a message from them anyways.
I can't block all messages from people not on my list because that keeps me from hearing from friends.
How about letting me do something complex, such as:
If a user not on my list sends me a URL message, do not show me the URL message until they send me another message.
That simple rule would block every piece of spam I have received in the past 12 months on ICQ. All of them have been URLs.
Of course, once this is implemented, they'll start using normal messages. Okay.
If a user not on my list sends me a message containing a URL, do not show me the message until they send me another message.
To work around that, spammers would have to stop putting "http://" into their messages, which removes the clickable link that makes them so effective - "Click here!" - "Goto URL!". This would cripple the effectiveness of the spam, as many users who would click to view spam won't write down a URL and retype it into their browser.
Someday, perhaps. Sounds like a good feature to be implemented in some free ICQ clone, though.
You know, I find that interesting - when I was 7, i worked out with my parents that as long as i stayed in my room and didn't come out (much), i was considered "in bed"; at a certain time, i would be asked to turn off the lights.
By the time I was 12, i would turn on the lights surreptitiously. I'm sure they caught this, but ignored me.
It doesn't occur to me that I was terribly unreasonable as a child. I find it very interesting, however, that the logical opposite of "follow the schedule i set for you to sleep" is "do not follow the schedule you set for me to sleep". I was never handed a fixed schedule to SLEEP - just a period of time when I needed to be in a specified location with restrictions on my behavior. Almost exactly like being at work, except I wasn't paid, and got to take long naps if I wanted to.
I miss those times, sometimes.
192k SDSL costs $150/mo. 640k ADSL costs $40/mo ($20 transport + $20 ISP) 1MB ADSL costs $169/mo ($99 transport + $70 ISP)
Perl has an interesting solution to that problem; it provides links to sub-manpages indexed off the main page. For heavy users, man perlfunc is quite effective at immediately isolating the section of the very large documentation set that is desired; you might find that a useful way to organize your man pages.
Someone's been surfing ebay and collecting spam addresses, and sending me lots of spam from different accounts at yahoo, msn, hotbot, compuserve, etc. Fortunately, I found a way to collect all their spam into one mailbox. Here's the perl regex for it. This matches about 90% of the spam I receive, but I guess I'm too careful with my email address - I only get 4 or 5 a week, max.
Amazing how they use the same logo and domain keyword ("slashdot") for different content. Almost like they want to take traffic from slashdot.org. Hmm.
> > A modular IP4 stack. Linux -should- be capable of running as an IPv6-only system.
> Why?
For the purpose of providing the user an ability to choose between IPv4 in kernel, IPv6 in kernel, both in kernel, or neither in kernel. Is this a problem with the current Linux 2.x architecture anywhere? It doesn't look to me like there's an IPv4 module, just an IPv6 module. That's not good - IPv4 should be modularized, unless doing so would give the competition a specific set of advantages over Linux if such a change was made.
Blah, I should log in, but
People opposed to copy protected software would protest it by releasing instructions on how to create a device that bypasses "copy protection".
Like instructions to people in countries with monitored/forced-proxied/blocked Internet connections on how to create secured tcp/ip tunnels to proxies on the "open" Internet.
Like teaching a person how to build and use explosives on the Internet. Or armed weapons. Or blue boxes, or 2600 Hz tone generators.
Is a "crack" for bypassing copy protection in a "program" considered equivalent to a "device"? or a "bomb" that is used to "attack" the copy protection, or the "software", or both? Is it illegal to convey these "bombs" over the Internet, or the mail, or your pocket?
I'll be watching this further.
NPR will be posting the RealAudio 28/56 broadcast links on this page soon after the program is recorded; they don't appear to be doing a live broadcast of it, though. I'd expect it to be there some time between a couple hours from now and tomorrow, assuming they work quickly.
As for listening to it on the radio, here's a link and another link for you; it might help you find a radio station you can listen to. I'd suggest just spending a few minutes tuning the dial, though.
I read slashdot at:
:)
threshold=1&commentsort=3&mode=thread
and I find it quite enjoyable that as a thread deepens, the points moderated to the sub-comments in the thread are lower, and the column width of the article on my 1024x768 10-pt size fonts is pretty much 10% of the screen. I can just scroll right past this entire thread without even worrying about missing a single message.
Cool. And I lurk, so I can watch all the responses to this and laugh, and do nothing.
It's nice to know that there are women out there that think like this; I've been struggling around my life for years trying (and finally, I've started succeeding.. *pfft*) to figure out these magical "signals" and everything that people seem to use in their lives. It's so horribly frustrating to sit around and watch people talk about something random, while I sit there bored wondering why I don't have anything to say, and what I could say that wouldn't anger them for distracting from the conversation. But at least now I know there's hope.
Good luck in your searching; I hope you find happiness.
It seems to me that it would prove useful to investigate the use of this ability to generate coherent signals from a processor as a method of connecting wireless devices. Your Jini laptop could use the processor as a resource and interact as it wished with other Jini. Phone lines could be identified electronically by the phone company, detectable by any technician or competent person with access to tools.
Perhaps such things will come about. I remember reading an article once about networks of processors with switchable gates that could adapt to their surroundings; as I remember, they communicated through electromagnetic signals - interference, perhaps. Very strange; when they moved the processors, they stopped working. Ah, it was in Discover magazine [...] at one point; I'd recommend reading it with this information in mind; a room could be wired with a network of low-power sensors, for instance.
Cool.
It seems to me that it would prove useful to investigate the use of this ability to generate coherent signals from a processor as a method of connecting wireless devices. Your Jini laptop could use the processor as a resource and interact as it wished with other Jini. Phone lines could be identified electronically by the phone company, detectable by any technician or competent person with access to tools.
Perhaps such things will come about. I remember reading an article once about networks of processors with switchable gates that could adapt to their surroundings; as I remember, they communicated through electromagnetic signals - interference, perhaps. Very strange; when they moved the processors, they stopped working. Ah, it was in Discover magazine [...] at one point; I'd recommend reading it with this information in mind; a room could be wired with a network of low-power sensors, for instance.
Cool.
ftp://ftp.digiforest.com/mirrors/mozilla-m5/ ( link )
25 users because I've never mirrored something and posted the URL to slashdot before. If things go well and I don't get attacked I might mirror other things as well. It's a dedicated, Bay-compressed, PtP T3. Have fun.
And read the release notes!
R.