Here in Toronto, you can take a look at the roads at the
Compass site. Of course, it'll generally tell you that the highways are either slow but moving, or stuck.
Once a friend left my place, then cell phoned from a jam. I checked the page and told her that it would clear up in another mile or so...
they deliberately screwed up all the traffic signals (without the authorities telling anyone), brought Turin to a halt, and then had to find a way of filming dramatic car-chase shots in the middle of a lot of annoyed Italians.
My question is: How could they tell it from a normal traffic day in Turin?
You got your wish. Someone modded it down as over-rated, and someone modded it up as insightful. $DEITY I love mod-fights!
And yes, I am one of those people who has Slashdot email me on reply/mod, has email always on (15 min scan), and my "You've got mail!" is "I'm the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight! Bwahahaha!". I have stop off at the Life Store someday...
It's [213.29.62.36], but it's not even answering to a ping now. Either it got slashdotted out of existance or their plug has been pulled. (Damn, and around 8pm EDT I got the first few minutes before it stalled.)
Upstream from it:
NetGeo Results:
VERSION=1.0
TARGET: 213.29.62.1
NAME: SAFINEH
NUMBER: 213.29.62.0 - 213.29.63.255
CITY: TEHRAN
STATE: TEHRAN (province)
COUNTRY: IR
LAT: 35.67
LONG: 51.43
LAT_LONG_GRAN: City
I haven't been into any large hosting facilities since the September 11 deal, but before then I NEVER saw an armed guard in any of the facilities I went to. Not to say they aren't at some, but never were at Verio, level3, etc. Or I didn't see them...
I'm talking about a bank data centre. They take their physical security very seriously. I'd lay odds those man-traps are buttet-proof and explosive resistant. I'm not sure where the servers were, but I doubt they'd be on the ground floor, and security could probably switch off the elevators. By the time you got up the stairs, stole the data, and back down again, you'd find a lot of new friends waiting.
Okay, maybe if you were The One and had a kick-ass girlfriend with guns, lots of guns...:^)
Those Uzis won't get you very far. Guards, cameras, "smart" cards, and man-trap doors. And that was just the visible security in 1990. I'm sure it's tougher now.
" Extortion?? " Yup. We have found you can easily get off a blacklist with $1000 or more in hand, but if you simply ask to get off the list because you are not a spammer, "Nope. You got on there at some point for something, you must be!" No record check, no records at all. Your business name can be sullied if someone simply puts your URL in a piece of spam. Bribe or no bribe, they don't ask questions of the validity of the argument, but only one way will get you off the list. Not everyone does this, but not all spammers hide their identity or blast millions either.
Horse byproducts! Name a list that will allow a spammer to buy out -- and if you can prove it, most admins will drop it instantly.
And as for proof, I think you'll find that the case files at SPEWS are usually quite detailed.
And it's UCE spam even if they don't hide or blast.
There a few characters that are almost always in the Subject line. I tossed those into my hotmail spamtrap filters, and nothing has made it past in days.
Here's the characters: ± À ¼ Copy/paste into your filters. (Or if your email program is better than OE, filter on "Big-5" in the header.)
You gotta wonder what the average lifetime of a spammer is. As in, how long / how often does the typical spammer do his thing? How long till they give up?
A lot of the small-timers give it up pretty quick after they catch a clue-stick upside the head. (There's no end to the suckers who believe that a "marketing" company has real honest "double opt-in" mailing lists. Endless sob-stories on NANAE: "But they promised it was opt-in!") Others linger for a while, jumping from ISP to ISP. And then there's some hardened spammers who have been at since the mid '90's.
Block lists that block ISP ranges are now putting pressure on ISPs to chose between spammers and legitimate customers. Regretable, but it's the only thing that seems to work with clueless / unresponsive / spam-friendly ISPs. (Especially the ones that will hop the spammers around to get past lesser block-lists.)
"Unfortunately, it's much harder to track down the source of an e-mail than it is the source of a phone call."
Ahh, but what's the point in sending spam if they don't give you a "payload" in the spam of some way to contact them? (email, web-page, phone number, snail mail address, etc) Granted spammers use all sorts of tricks like open relays, proxies, obfuscated URLs, fake headers, etc, but they can't hide forever. Google searches of net.admin.net-abuse.email & sightings can be helpful if someone has already tracked down the spammer.
Precidents like, hmm, Paetec v. AOL? AOL blocked the spam at the borders, Paetec sued over "restraint of trade", AOL sued back. Paetec got their asses handed to them, mainly over the private property issue.
There's probably been a few other cases establishing email servers as private property and that's there's no such thing as "the right to email".
The latest blocklists (SPEWS) go after the spamhausen ISP's IP-blocks as well as the spammer's IPs. It's a shame to block non-spammers as well, but they are supporting spam-friendly companies with their money. Hitting the ISPs in the pocket book is the best solution yet, because pin-point IP blocks just didn't work.
I don't need the points, but if someone wants to make the post more visible, go for it.:^)
I can't really think of too many of Disney's kid films that wouldn't have violated a forever copyright.
I'm not sure if Jungle Book was out of copyright by the late-ish '60's or not. Hunchback of Notre Dame, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Peter Pan, The Littlest Mermaid, too many others to remember. Sure, they're done in-house stories, but Disney has made Big Money strip-mining the free commonwealth of shared culture, something they couldn't have done if it was all locked down in perpetual copyrights.
They're hypocrites, and I bet they'd have the gaul to sue anyone else who dared make another Cinderella movie, in spite of various version of the tale going back hundreds of years. (Too bad they left out the red-hot iron shoes for the step-mother and step-sisters.)
This isn't so much the Sonny Bono law, as it is the Mickey Mouse copyright law.
Some kids have carried on their parent's work though - such as Chris(?) Tolkien and Chris(?) Browne (Hagar the Horrible). I don't know exactly how I should feel about that (but better them for a limited time than that some publisher should own the rights for eternity).
I have no trouble with the estate of an author holding the copyright for a limited period after the death of the author. (Especially when they build on the original work.) I have a problem with copyrights lasting for the life of a corporation. Does anyone else see the irony if "forever" copyright existed previously, Disney would never have been able to make Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, etc...
P.S. I have a recording of Thomas Edison from 1918. I wonder how EMI would feel if I made a record from that:-)
Go for it! The first motion picture, Fred Ott's Sneeze ought to be public domain too!
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They just have to monitor for things like "As for your proposal, I think that .. YAAAH! *CRUNCH*"
Once a friend left my place, then cell phoned from a jam. I checked the page and told her that it would clear up in another mile or so...
My question is: How could they tell it from a normal traffic day in Turin?
6502 tricks on the Sol would be tricky indeed! Getting that 8080 processor do the 6502's BCD mode, very tricky. :^)
Lutefisk!
And yes, I am one of those people who has Slashdot email me on reply/mod, has email always on (15 min scan), and my "You've got mail!" is "I'm the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight! Bwahahaha!". I have stop off at the Life Store someday...
Hmmm. $1 for a movie, extra for the night-scope to go?
Upstream from it:
NetGeo Results:
VERSION=1.0
TARGET: 213.29.62.1
NAME: SAFINEH
NUMBER: 213.29.62.0 - 213.29.63.255
CITY: TEHRAN
STATE: TEHRAN (province)
COUNTRY: IR
LAT: 35.67
LONG: 51.43
LAT_LONG_GRAN: City
Well at least all of Iran wasn't slashdotted! :^)
We had a Teletype, FTBL*** and STTR1.
Yep, Slashdotted. Could someone post it? :^)
I'm talking about a bank data centre. They take their physical security very seriously. I'd lay odds those man-traps are buttet-proof and explosive resistant. I'm not sure where the servers were, but I doubt they'd be on the ground floor, and security could probably switch off the elevators. By the time you got up the stairs, stole the data, and back down again, you'd find a lot of new friends waiting.
Okay, maybe if you were The One and had a kick-ass girlfriend with guns, lots of guns... :^)
Those Uzis won't get you very far. Guards, cameras, "smart" cards, and man-trap doors. And that was just the visible security in 1990. I'm sure it's tougher now.
Horse byproducts! Name a list that will allow a spammer to buy out -- and if you can prove it, most admins will drop it instantly.
And as for proof, I think you'll find that the case files at SPEWS are usually quite detailed.
And it's UCE spam even if they don't hide or blast.
Here's the characters: ± À ¼ Copy/paste into your filters. (Or if your email program is better than OE, filter on "Big-5" in the header.)
A lot of the small-timers give it up pretty quick after they catch a clue-stick upside the head. (There's no end to the suckers who believe that a "marketing" company has real honest "double opt-in" mailing lists. Endless sob-stories on NANAE: "But they promised it was opt-in!") Others linger for a while, jumping from ISP to ISP. And then there's some hardened spammers who have been at since the mid '90's.
Block lists that block ISP ranges are now putting pressure on ISPs to chose between spammers and legitimate customers. Regretable, but it's the only thing that seems to work with clueless / unresponsive / spam-friendly ISPs. (Especially the ones that will hop the spammers around to get past lesser block-lists.)
D'oh! Not Paetec. Another company with a similar name.
Ahh, but what's the point in sending spam if they don't give you a "payload" in the spam of some way to contact them? (email, web-page, phone number, snail mail address, etc) Granted spammers use all sorts of tricks like open relays, proxies, obfuscated URLs, fake headers, etc, but they can't hide forever. Google searches of net.admin.net-abuse.email & sightings can be helpful if someone has already tracked down the spammer.
Let them. Costa-Rica was a popular spam-haven until the whole country got black-holed in blocking-lists.
Even China and South Korea are slowly getting a clue. Now if only we [tinw] could mallet some sense into UUNET and Verio...
There's probably been a few other cases establishing email servers as private property and that's there's no such thing as "the right to email".
The latest blocklists (SPEWS) go after the spamhausen ISP's IP-blocks as well as the spammer's IPs. It's a shame to block non-spammers as well, but they are supporting spam-friendly companies with their money. Hitting the ISPs in the pocket book is the best solution yet, because pin-point IP blocks just didn't work.
Hormel are being Good Guys in this, so please respect their wishes.
Day 0: Cold
Day 1: Cold
Day 2: Cold
Day 3: Fuck it's cold. I'm going out, I may be some time.
"Hello? Hello! Stupid 3rd-planeters!" seismic event, seismic event. "Stupid POS!", decreasing after-shocks...
There was a Slashdot about the colour of the universe. You don't suppose...
I can't really think of too many of Disney's kid films that wouldn't have violated a forever copyright.
I'm not sure if Jungle Book was out of copyright by the late-ish '60's or not. Hunchback of Notre Dame, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Peter Pan, The Littlest Mermaid, too many others to remember. Sure, they're done in-house stories, but Disney has made Big Money strip-mining the free commonwealth of shared culture, something they couldn't have done if it was all locked down in perpetual copyrights.
They're hypocrites, and I bet they'd have the gaul to sue anyone else who dared make another Cinderella movie, in spite of various version of the tale going back hundreds of years. (Too bad they left out the red-hot iron shoes for the step-mother and step-sisters.)
This isn't so much the Sonny Bono law, as it is the Mickey Mouse copyright law.
I have no trouble with the estate of an author holding the copyright for a limited period after the death of the author. (Especially when they build on the original work.) I have a problem with copyrights lasting for the life of a corporation. Does anyone else see the irony if "forever" copyright existed previously, Disney would never have been able to make Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, etc...
P.S. I have a recording of Thomas Edison from 1918. I wonder how EMI would feel if I made a record from that :-)
Go for it! The first motion picture, Fred Ott's Sneeze ought to be public domain too!