Remember that the "public figure" defence against a libel case is USA-local, as are laws about threats. Elsewhere your laws will vary. (Not a factor in this case, but it's always something to keep in mind on the Internet.)
everyone learns how to track down the spammers ISP and kick them off it.
All of my LARTs are personally hand-crafted, but learning all the tricks that spammers use to obscure the origin of the email and hide where their real website is took time to learn. It wasn't a waste, I've learned a lot about how the Internet works in the process, but I can't see everyone taking the time to do this.
Hell, I'd be happier if everyone learned how to secure their boxes against worms, viruses and trojans first. ("Security updates" to my Usenet posted spamtrap is most of my spam load these days.)
Listwashing. Each single complaint represents thousands(?) of people that Just Hit Delete or filtered it to/dev/null. After a while, Snotty's mailing list has a lot of the people who will complain about spam tagged as "do not send" as well as "confirmed good email". Then he'll sell his lists to other spammers with the first tag stripped off...
If technology in this
document is included in a standard adopted by IETF and any claims of any
Cisco patents are necessary for practicing the standard, any party will be
able to obtain a license from Cisco to use any such patent claims under
reasonable, non-discriminatory terms, with reciprocity, to implement and
fully comply with the standard.
I guess we'd have to trust them as to the meaning of reasonable or reciprocity eh? (Does reasonable mean "just don't fsck with us and we won't fsck with you" or is it "Give me the map and you might walk out of here on human limbs"?)
If it was Usenet, someone could just quote your message and add some joke about cruise missles. Then it could be used in court against you. That has already happened to Keith Henson.
Meanwhile, the real Don Emilio Fulci is laughing his ass off in his secret lair. "All it took was a few million dollars in bribes at Sega to have myself added to a video game, then a careful leak to the FBI. Now no US government agent will dare to say that he suspects Emilio Fulci. BWAHAHAHA!":^)
In part, Mr. Benioff said, he has no choice. He sells the kind of product that only a sales executive could love: a simple, efficient way of tracking a company's customers and prospective clients.
Actually sales executives love it because it tracks their own sales people: Do they keep busy, are they hustling for new business, do they keep their sales funnel loaded,.. do they have all their information in the system so that we can fire them next week?
Google can be gamed--in the short run. Look at Scientology's attempt to game Google by registering many hundreds of domains with cookie-cutter sites that linked to each other, mainly running off of a handful of servers.:^) They did well for a little while until Google adapted to their bombing. Then CoS tried a bogus DMCA attack which back-fired. They've even tried blogbombing with little results. Their only non-failure is to buy a lot of Adword placements.
How much do you want to pay or change your habits? The problem is smoothing out of the peaks and valleys of use and generation.
One nice trend is that power companies (and technology) are making it easier for individuals to dump a surplus into the grid for credit. This would allow a home owner to dump power during the day when no one is home, and pull it back at night when the air conditioning, stove, TVs, etc are on, and the sun is down.
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Remember that the "public figure" defence against a libel case is USA-local, as are laws about threats. Elsewhere your laws will vary. (Not a factor in this case, but it's always something to keep in mind on the Internet.)
All of my LARTs are personally hand-crafted, but learning all the tricks that spammers use to obscure the origin of the email and hide where their real website is took time to learn. It wasn't a waste, I've learned a lot about how the Internet works in the process, but I can't see everyone taking the time to do this.
Hell, I'd be happier if everyone learned how to secure their boxes against worms, viruses and trojans first. ("Security updates" to my Usenet posted spamtrap is most of my spam load these days.)
A Google for "Dead spammers" turns up this news item (covered on Slashdot at the time).
Listwashing. Each single complaint represents thousands(?) of people that Just Hit Delete or filtered it to /dev/null. After a while, Snotty's mailing list has a lot of the people who will complain about spam tagged as "do not send" as well as "confirmed good email". Then he'll sell his lists to other spammers with the first tag stripped off...
Evil was a reasonable man. :)
Well, you could inquire at The Martian Embassy, but avoid the tea.
Was anyone testing over Mexico in March?
It's not that they're evil, just that corporations are psychopaths. (Their conclusion is debatable, but worth thinking about.)
Now that's just plain creepy! "And then, when the special program came on the TV, all the dolls went to the kitchen to get the knives..."
That was true when Microsoft made a Z80 card for the Apple ][ to run CP/M.
That's just the joke version. Everyone knows that they keep the real one in a different location.
If it was Usenet, someone could just quote your message and add some joke about cruise missles. Then it could be used in court against you. That has already happened to Keith Henson.
Meanwhile, the real Don Emilio Fulci is laughing his ass off in his secret lair. "All it took was a few million dollars in bribes at Sega to have myself added to a video game, then a careful leak to the FBI. Now no US government agent will dare to say that he suspects Emilio Fulci. BWAHAHAHA!" :^)
But will we recognize Phillip K. Dick's work in the coming movie? :)
I thought of that too--then I checked to see if anyone else had mentioned it. Rather waste a search, here's another good link.
Actually sales executives love it because it tracks their own sales people: Do they keep busy, are they hustling for new business, do they keep their sales funnel loaded, .. do they have all their information in the system so that we can fire them next week?
Tracking customers is a nice spin-off.
You just have to sell a soul to the devil. Maybe he used someone's else soul registration code?
The running gag on Ernie now is the comic strip.
Google can be gamed--in the short run. Look at Scientology's attempt to game Google by registering many hundreds of domains with cookie-cutter sites that linked to each other, mainly running off of a handful of servers. :^) They did well for a little while until Google adapted to their bombing. Then CoS tried a bogus DMCA attack which back-fired. They've even tried blogbombing with little results. Their only non-failure is to buy a lot of Adword placements.
Has anyone looked at optimizing ranking on Booble?
If you have a DVD drive/TV tuner card, yes, why not?
"Solar challenge" is probably the best search to find everything.
One nice trend is that power companies (and technology) are making it easier for individuals to dump a surplus into the grid for credit. This would allow a home owner to dump power during the day when no one is home, and pull it back at night when the air conditioning, stove, TVs, etc are on, and the sun is down.
Prefixed by "If copyright is repealed (for example) 30% of the economy vanishes overnight". What does this bill have to do with patent and trademarks?