Salvage. There's centuries of International law dealing with abandoned property adrift on the high seas. A little editing s/seas/skies/, no problem. (Of course, there are excepts to those laws which can be summed up by the principle of "my cannonball, your ass!")
I tried to look at the entire site, but the rest of the pages were busted. (Odd.) I didn't say he was a spammer, just that he used a kludged term that's one of the Deadly Warning Signs of spammers. There were a few spam news.admin.net-abuse.sightings posts for that domain, but mainly a few years ago.
No, "double opt in" is what spammers and the DMA say when they mean confirmed opt-in. When you give your user name and password at a login, do you call it "double login"?
"Double opt in" is spammer-speak to imply that there's something special or extra-hard about their process rather than a normal procedure, and frequently their confirmation step is borkked too.
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Oh sure, I can definitely see where it would be useful for highlighting the important stuff in a sea of logs, and easier for crafting a general solution rather than a pile of rules and regexs.
For my firewall sound effects program, I basically tail the ZoneAlarm logs, and play a selectable sound effect depending on the port/type. It's cute and even useful for detecting patterns (if you don't mind the noise), but I'm thinking about if Bayesian filtering could be applied to a real security report. It might be tricky since importance depends on patterns and trends more than single events.
BTW, One thing they really need on Trek is a cron'ed scan of who's where. It'd be nice if the computer would mention "Lt Spooge has disappeared from the ship" before someone has to ask where he is.
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Or add sound effects. All movie and TV computers have sound effects!:) (Even if you don't need SFX for ZoneAlarm, the zip on my page has a fair collection of wav files.)
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01:37 Overheat in plasma injector #1.
01:56 Plasma injector #1 offline, switching to #2 backup.
02:23 Overheat in plasma injector #2.
02:44 Failure to shutdown plasma injector #2.
02:58 Overheat in reactor core.
03:20 Containment weakening.
03:25 Containment weakening.
03:30 Containment weakening.
03:35 Five minutes to containment failure. 03:40 FIVE SECONDS TO WARP CORE BREACH!!!
Better be careful to train the filter about those warnings that don't happen very often, but when they do, you really want to know about them.
If they have to use IE then they probably need Javascript switched on too. That seems to be a major entrance for malware, and with all the legal wrangling over Java with Sun, I doubt MS is giving it much priority. I always install Sun's Java engine/plug-in for IE, and in process it scrapes away MS's Javascript code (Java != Javascript, of course).
At one point in May-ish, with a fresh install, I brought everything up to date, set the security settings, but forgot to trash MS's Javascript.. and promptly picked up a bad case of CoolWeb. With the change, I was CoolWeb-immune. I forget Sun's URL for it, but installing Robocode is always a good start and a fun learning game!
"Double opt in"? Uh-oh. That phrase is a bad sign. Only spammers and direct marketing people use that. Everyone else calls it "confirmed opt in", just "opt in" or even "non-fscked opt in". If I want off the list, do I have to opt out twice?
How come the xequte.com site seems to be borked except for that one page? There some spam sightings for "Smart Pix Manager has all the features you need for viewing and managing your
Porn collection:", but those are mainly from 1999.
What's the confirmation step for your mailing list software when an address is added?
Large networks where the border mail relays don't know if an inside mailbox exists or not are a problem, true. I was thinking more of late spam and virus filters that generate idiot bounces. (Most virus scanner bounces are just disguised advertising or spam themselves.) At that point tag it, bag it in a spam folder, or even/dev/null it, but don't bounce it.
And if I ever get something from someone's lame challenge/response system, I will respond to it so that the spammer's next load goes through to the other end.:)
What about bounces from mail you did send? You'd probably want to know when that ASAP email you sent hit a full mailbox or their server was struck by lightning.
Back in the old days, a bounce email to the "sender" of the email was the proper way to do things. Now, a straight 5xx rejection response should be given as much as possible.
All software development has a cost; ignoring that will get you a world of hurt from Adam Smith's invisible boot. It might get paid from donations of time and effort by people, it might be paid corporations that need a return on their money or go under.
We have some choice in how that cost is paid, but it always needs to be paid. That's not ideology, that's economics.
How about TANSTAAFLware* which accounts for the development cost of the software? There's always a cost, even if the developers donate their time and effort to the common good and it should be accounted for. "This software is free (in all senses), but we plan to make back the costs of development by service contracts and customized sort-of-free versions."
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, Heinlein.
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Even if it really is a white worm, that's not always a good thing.
If someone gave me cake and presents every three months, I'd at least try to act surprised. Unfortunetly, trojan infections rarely involve cake.
Just so long as the name isn't Doctor Clippen "You seem to be having a heart attack. Can I cut off your head?"
Combine that with one of those wrist pulse and blood pressure units (try Radio Shack etc), and you're starting to get there.
And either program it to be happy without a name or just assign it one.
So what's the three-day weather forecast then?
In other words, "My cannonball, your ass!" :^) (I'm too tired to look for a Latin translation, but I'm sure it's much more profound that way.)
Except for maybe the quarter-mile wide strip that it goes over. (And I just know that those trains will hog the left lane!)
Salvage. There's centuries of International law dealing with abandoned property adrift on the high seas. A little editing s/seas/skies/, no problem. (Of course, there are excepts to those laws which can be summed up by the principle of "my cannonball, your ass!")
Yeah, those Russians managed to screw up the USSR's experiment along the same lines.
I tried to look at the entire site, but the rest of the pages were busted. (Odd.) I didn't say he was a spammer, just that he used a kludged term that's one of the Deadly Warning Signs of spammers. There were a few spam news.admin.net-abuse.sightings posts for that domain, but mainly a few years ago.
"Double opt in" is spammer-speak to imply that there's something special or extra-hard about their process rather than a normal procedure, and frequently their confirmation step is borkked too.
For my firewall sound effects program, I basically tail the ZoneAlarm logs, and play a selectable sound effect depending on the port/type. It's cute and even useful for detecting patterns (if you don't mind the noise), but I'm thinking about if Bayesian filtering could be applied to a real security report. It might be tricky since importance depends on patterns and trends more than single events.
BTW, One thing they really need on Trek is a cron'ed scan of who's where. It'd be nice if the computer would mention "Lt Spooge has disappeared from the ship" before someone has to ask where he is.
Or add sound effects. All movie and TV computers have sound effects! :) (Even if you don't need SFX for ZoneAlarm, the zip on my page has a fair collection of wav files.)
01:56 Plasma injector #1 offline, switching to #2 backup.
02:23 Overheat in plasma injector #2.
02:44 Failure to shutdown plasma injector #2.
02:58 Overheat in reactor core.
03:20 Containment weakening.
03:25 Containment weakening.
03:30 Containment weakening.
03:35 Five minutes to containment failure.
03:40 FIVE SECONDS TO WARP CORE BREACH!!!
Better be careful to train the filter about those warnings that don't happen very often, but when they do, you really want to know about them.
At one point in May-ish, with a fresh install, I brought everything up to date, set the security settings, but forgot to trash MS's Javascript .. and promptly picked up a bad case of CoolWeb. With the change, I was CoolWeb-immune. I forget Sun's URL for it, but installing Robocode is always a good start and a fun learning game!
"Double opt in"? Uh-oh. That phrase is a bad sign. Only spammers and direct marketing people use that. Everyone else calls it "confirmed opt in", just "opt in" or even "non-fscked opt in". If I want off the list, do I have to opt out twice?
What's the confirmation step for your mailing list software when an address is added?
And if I ever get something from someone's lame challenge/response system, I will respond to it so that the spammer's next load goes through to the other end. :)
What about bounces from mail you did send? You'd probably want to know when that ASAP email you sent hit a full mailbox or their server was struck by lightning.
Back in the old days, a bounce email to the "sender" of the email was the proper way to do things. Now, a straight 5xx rejection response should be given as much as possible.
We have some choice in how that cost is paid, but it always needs to be paid. That's not ideology, that's economics.
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, Heinlein.
Blocking port 25 outbound sounds good, but don't be surprised when a spammer still uses a zombie on that ISP for an asymetrical spam run. :)
So when does one of these newspapers sue eBay for the money that Craigslist is costing them?