I wonder if the Nimitz defenses can stop 13 inch MAVs? ("Sir! We sent out 5 drones.. 500 are coming back!") It would be more of an interdiction attack to make everyone keep their heads down and not launch planes. Blocking drone communications would be effective only if they need any.
(I leave the problem of how to get close to a carrier group and survive long enough to launch a swarm of drones as an exercise...)
But that's not the way email was designed and it predates TCP/IP. And TCP/IP was designed so that a small limited elitest club could communicate with each other. If you had a connection, you could be trusted because you were a PEER of the elite.
When you talk about original principle, you ignore the net of trust that went with it and no longer exists. Now there are even spamgangs hijacking large bogon address blocks!
TCP/IP wasn't some revolutionary manifesto. And when we finally go IPv6 and my toaster has an IP address, it's not going to accept your email either.
Email existed before the Internet, and when you were several UUCP relay hops away from any kind of backbone, you knew that there were the privledged folk and the rest of the scum. When email worked, it was really cool but there weren't many people that you wanted to send to. (And we had to send email uphill both ways!;)
If ISPs could be trusted to only unblock customers who knew what they were doing (and cut them off fast if they spammed), then that would be great. But we're in this fix because most can't be trusted to do that.
My ISP gives me control over what filtering it does. (Mainly mark the subject line with *** SPAM ***.) If they were doing blocking that I didn't know about, I assume they would give a 5xx rejection and you would get a notification. If you didn't have my phone number, we obviously didn't have much of a relationship.:^)
You can run any old server you want (and your ISP allows), but no one else is obligated to accept connections or email from you without a contract. Why don't you just have your home mail server directly contact your destination's home mail server?
The problem with home mail servers is the number of home machines that get zombied and used to attempt to send mail. A good DSL connection can pump a lot of spam.
Looks like/. does really ugly things to an archive.org link. Here's the text version:
A ding ding ding ding dididing ding bing bing pscht,
Dorhrm bom bom bedom bem bom bedom bom bum ba ba bom bom,
Bouuuuum bom bom bedahm, Bom be barbedarm bedabedabedabeda
Bbrrrrrimm bbrrrrramm bbbrrrrrrrrraammmmm ddddddraammm,
Bah bah baah baah ba wheeeeeee-eeeee-eeeee!
That's disappointing. Kick-ass sound has always been an important part of big walking machines even before Imperial AT-ATs. I hope that, with a 250cc motor, they didn't leave out the sound because it's http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/dengdeng.swf">re ally annoying.
No, they're worried about accidently backing up over some Martian lifeform. Can you imagine what a long costly court case would do to the budget? There's no telling if the Martians have any ears to hear the beep-beep-beep as it backs up.
Sadly the actual article keeps flipping between copyright and trademark:
"A man can disparage a hair-restoration company on a Web site using the company's name without violating copyright law"
Slashdot Mirror
I was wondering what the spammers at the Discount Home Shopping "The Club That Spam Built" needed with a privacy board.
What if the protestors counter-swarm with anti spy-drone drones?
(I leave the problem of how to get close to a carrier group and survive long enough to launch a swarm of drones as an exercise...)
When you talk about original principle, you ignore the net of trust that went with it and no longer exists. Now there are even spamgangs hijacking large bogon address blocks!
TCP/IP wasn't some revolutionary manifesto. And when we finally go IPv6 and my toaster has an IP address, it's not going to accept your email either.
Not according to Wikipedia. (Which doesn't make it true, but it sounds good.)
I imagine that duct tape would have many uses in space, but not this one in zero-G. (At least not as much.)
If ISPs could be trusted to only unblock customers who knew what they were doing (and cut them off fast if they spammed), then that would be great. But we're in this fix because most can't be trusted to do that.
He could flip the shows between conservative and liberal viewpoints, but Tesla already invented alternating current.
My ISP gives me control over what filtering it does. (Mainly mark the subject line with *** SPAM ***.) If they were doing blocking that I didn't know about, I assume they would give a 5xx rejection and you would get a notification. If you didn't have my phone number, we obviously didn't have much of a relationship. :^)
The problem with home mail servers is the number of home machines that get zombied and used to attempt to send mail. A good DSL connection can pump a lot of spam.
peer1.net .. oh. You know, having a strong AUP and enforcing it are two different things.
Why didn't the colo facility shut down the 'deserving' people?
Incoming, certainly. Always check to see if you can adjust the filtering/blocking your ISP does on your incoming email.
Outgoing? Nope, not under your control. The other end can refuse it for whatever reason.
Is the address space really yours now? i.e. if I start drilling down from ARIN, will it show the block belongs to you or your upstream?
Why were you sending email directly from a home IP address?
And here's the Slashdot article on it.
Looks like /. does really ugly things to an archive.org link. Here's the text version:
A ding ding ding ding dididing ding bing bing pscht,
Dorhrm bom bom bedom bem bom bedom bom bum ba ba bom bom,
Bouuuuum bom bom bedahm, Bom be barbedarm bedabedabedabeda
Bbrrrrrimm bbrrrrramm bbbrrrrrrrrraammmmm ddddddraammm,
Bah bah baah baah ba wheeeeeee-eeeee-eeeee!
That's disappointing. Kick-ass sound has always been an important part of big walking machines even before Imperial AT-ATs. I hope that, with a 250cc motor, they didn't leave out the sound because it's http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/dengdeng.swf">re ally annoying.
I'm not sure if their rovers are still drivable, but the sites for The Planetary Society's LEGO® rovers are still up.
Ye gads! And we thought they were finding evidence of water and ice! The sensors probably can't detect other mixers like cola or orange juice.
You could start looking at the Maestro site.
No, they're worried about accidently backing up over some Martian lifeform. Can you imagine what a long costly court case would do to the budget? There's no telling if the Martians have any ears to hear the beep-beep-beep as it backs up.
Yeah well, yer great white is known for its disarming personality.
My brain uses older technology. I just hold my head upside-down and shake it.
Sadly the actual article keeps flipping between copyright and trademark: "A man can disparage a hair-restoration company on a Web site using the company's name without violating copyright law"