They're probably worried about people recreating that classic SF car-chase scene from whatever that movie was.:^) (Bullet? Steve McQueen?)
There is a local mall that's near an elderly care centre, and it is a little unnerving when an attack wing of grannies on those electric trikes come whizzing down the mall at you on seniors' discount day.
I suppose all those people who wanted a Segway could get one of those electric trikes, slap on a grey wig and go for it... But I don't know if anything less agile than a bicycle, heavier too, should be mixing with pedestrians at 15 mph on the sidewalk. (And you just have know that they'll be riding their Segway while talking on their cellphone, admit it!) They haven't banned them from the roads, have they? Heh.
But I thought A Civil Campaign revolved around cheesy romance crap? Oh wait, there was some romance with cheesy bug vomit, and a whole lot of political maneuvering, plus the implications of advanced biotechnology to society on a backwater planet.:^) (But don't read it first.)
If you get a chance to meet her at a convention, do so -- well worth it! (But please don't just barge right up.)
The US has reportedly launched a military and intelligence effort to track down and possibly kill Saddam Hussein.
The plans emerged as the chief UN weapons inspectors ended two days of talks in Baghdad, during which they again urged Iraq to co-operate with their disarmament efforts.
USA Today newspaper said US special forces, CIA paramilitary units, satellite imagery, radio intercepts and airborne reconnaissance are all being used in the operation against Saddam.
After reading Slashdot, the CIA has also said that anyone who does discover the location of Saddam will receive a typical computer geek's prize of a case of Coke and $100 of Linux merchandise.
they know that this guy's already made up his mind about what this picture is, and won't stop badgering them until they say what he wants to hear
Maybe they refused to leave the office until they heard "Paging Buzz Aldrin" on the intercom?
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Once a year? heh-heh. There's a heavy bag of flyers stuffed through my door for the supermarket, hardware store, Canadian Tire, etc, ever week. And it costs them to print and have a crew flyer the building. Imagine if they could do it for almost nothing (for them)?
And then there's the pizza chains, chinese food, KFC, and on and on. If it was legal and cheap, why not? And the mom-n-pop italian place around the corner from me? why not? (I doubt they'd have a geographic database, so you're getting an advert from them too -- and me from your local places.)
To seriously pick 3000/day as a ballpark figure would require stronger drugs than Hunter S. Thompson would touch. I know you were using one email per year to show how bad it would be even if everyone sent the just slightest amount of spam, but a lot of people don't stop to think about the fact that once a year isn't going to happen. Even only once a week is optimistic. Ouch! I wouldn't want to try block 156,000 emails a day, never mind the overhead for filtering.
Of course, the Big Boys would make sure that only spam from DMA members was legal. Mom-n-pop would have to join. Gee, I wonder if they could afford it?
It might be some dynamic physical or electric behaviour in the CCD or optics.
I've gotten precisely those sorts of odd effects when taking digital pictures at night. The camera slows down the "shutter speed" to gather more light, and the slightest jiggle causes really odd effects.
I'd post a link to an example, but I have no wish to have my machine slashdotted!:^)
You could do this sort of reflection attack with just about any server using the SYN/SYNACK method, but this one is nasty because of the huge difference in size between the initial forged packet and resulting response. Reflection attack (Yes, that grc "end of the Internet".com again.:^)
What do you mean start scanning? I routinely get scan attempts to find an open proxy server. Blocking port 25 only stops the (really) stupid spammers that aren't up on the latest tricks.
Hmm, what about those anti-snatching watch/GPS/pager gizmos for kids? The snatcher jams the GPS, and grabs the kid. Unless the pager frequency was blocked too, the watch can only report the last known position.
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"Legal spam" wouldn't scale. What would happen if you had thousands of door-to-door salesmen knocking on your door everyday? Thousands of salesmen isn't possible in the real world (cost to hire them, travelling time, etc) but spam has no such limitation.
Certainly if they couldn't forge headers, you could block or filter them, but that would still be a hell of a lot of spam!
One question that I have is: Are they only poisoning the files that their members own the copyright for, or are they just generally poisoning everything?
If the latter, then companies that distrubute software this way, and indy artists who are trying to build popularity with free tracks are being hurt by this.
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George Alex Effinger's triology of books When Gravity Fails, A Fire In The Sun and are also interesting, with technology to plug-in personalities and skills. There's even a nod to Nero Wolfe in one of them.
They're defnitely not Happy Fun books, but what hard-boiled PI story ever is?
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I thought the review was interesting, but no mod points for stolen work! (This post cancels my mod. Hopefully others will do the same.)
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There is a local mall that's near an elderly care centre, and it is a little unnerving when an attack wing of grannies on those electric trikes come whizzing down the mall at you on seniors' discount day.
I suppose all those people who wanted a Segway could get one of those electric trikes, slap on a grey wig and go for it... But I don't know if anything less agile than a bicycle, heavier too, should be mixing with pedestrians at 15 mph on the sidewalk. (And you just have know that they'll be riding their Segway while talking on their cellphone, admit it!) They haven't banned them from the roads, have they? Heh.
But I thought A Civil Campaign revolved around cheesy romance crap? Oh wait, there was some romance with cheesy bug vomit, and a whole lot of political maneuvering, plus the implications of advanced biotechnology to society on a backwater planet. :^) (But don't read it first.)
If you get a chance to meet her at a convention, do so -- well worth it! (But please don't just barge right up.)
Obviously the Austrialian PM's been aubducted by those UFO's spotted by by the SOHO space probe! :^)
May I suggest that we geeks should strike for higher pay? :^P
The US has reportedly launched a military and intelligence effort to track down and possibly kill Saddam Hussein.
The plans emerged as the chief UN weapons inspectors ended two days of talks in Baghdad, during which they again urged Iraq to co-operate with their disarmament efforts.
USA Today newspaper said US special forces, CIA paramilitary units, satellite imagery, radio intercepts and airborne reconnaissance are all being used in the operation against Saddam.
After reading Slashdot, the CIA has also said that anyone who does discover the location of Saddam will receive a typical computer geek's prize of a case of Coke and $100 of Linux merchandise.
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Maybe they refused to leave the office until they heard "Paging Buzz Aldrin" on the intercom?
And then there's the pizza chains, chinese food, KFC, and on and on. If it was legal and cheap, why not? And the mom-n-pop italian place around the corner from me? why not? (I doubt they'd have a geographic database, so you're getting an advert from them too -- and me from your local places.)
To seriously pick 3000/day as a ballpark figure would require stronger drugs than Hunter S. Thompson would touch. I know you were using one email per year to show how bad it would be even if everyone sent the just slightest amount of spam, but a lot of people don't stop to think about the fact that once a year isn't going to happen. Even only once a week is optimistic. Ouch! I wouldn't want to try block 156,000 emails a day, never mind the overhead for filtering.
Of course, the Big Boys would make sure that only spam from DMA members was legal. Mom-n-pop would have to join. Gee, I wonder if they could afford it?
I've gotten precisely those sorts of odd effects when taking digital pictures at night. The camera slows down the "shutter speed" to gather more light, and the slightest jiggle causes really odd effects.
I'd post a link to an example, but I have no wish to have my machine slashdotted! :^)
He might have crackpot ideas now and then, but the page isn't a bad overview explaination. (Have you read it?)
But I thought they were here to take our water? (V) And of course, Mars Needs Women!
And someone could easily use a horde of zombie machines to generate the packets, resulting in an unspeakable amount of data coming at the poor victim.
Don't be too sure. I'm not sure that SYN/SYNACK attack couldn't just request a TCP/IP socket. (Note the words "I'm not sure" please. :^)
You could do this sort of reflection attack with just about any server using the SYN/SYNACK method, but this one is nasty because of the huge difference in size between the initial forged packet and resulting response. Reflection attack (Yes, that grc "end of the Internet" .com again. :^)
What do you mean start scanning? I routinely get scan attempts to find an open proxy server. Blocking port 25 only stops the (really) stupid spammers that aren't up on the latest tricks.
Big deal if AOL blocks port 25. Then the spammer just uses an open proxy on port 1080, 8080 or others. I get scanned on those ports every week or two.
Hmm, what about those anti-snatching watch/GPS/pager gizmos for kids? The snatcher jams the GPS, and grabs the kid. Unless the pager frequency was blocked too, the watch can only report the last known position.
Certainly if they couldn't forge headers, you could block or filter them, but that would still be a hell of a lot of spam!
Take anything Dr. Helen Caldicott says with an ocean full of salt.
According to the article, they're talking about a nuclear reactor (Kiwi & Dumbo style) rather than an Orion bang-bang with sail.
If the latter, then companies that distrubute software this way, and indy artists who are trying to build popularity with free tracks are being hurt by this.
Are you sure that you want to deal with Spamazon?
They're defnitely not Happy Fun books, but what hard-boiled PI story ever is?
I thought the review was interesting, but no mod points for stolen work! (This post cancels my mod. Hopefully others will do the same.)
Sounds pretty good to me! This wouldn't be one of those alternate universes like where Spock didn't have a beard, would it?
The September that never ended...?