You really should have used the money as a down payment for your own home, condo, something other than rental property.
Renting really is throwing away money each month, whereas at least with a mortgage a percentage each month is added directly onto your net worth.
The funny thing is for many areas you will actually end up paying less in mortgage than you would renting a similar dwelling in the area. Where we live our mortgage is $400/month (we upped that some to pay it off faster tho) and rent in the area for a similar house would easily be $700+.
Then again, you could move to Saskatchewan and get a house for $35,000CDN (about $25,000US).
Out here on Vancouver Island we have an indepenedent chain (http://www.qualityfoods.com/) who started the online shopping very early on, they've also stuck with it and now offer the service from all their chain of stores.
I know they purchased about 6 2ton cube vans last year all painted up with their logos and online hints.
These guys were also the first grocery outfit to start using those customer loyalty cards everyone else now uses, they have always been quite progressive at retaining customers.
I trust them more when I have gone over all thier top secret communications and I know they aren't planning to nuke me.
And the door swings both ways, so just as soon as the US feels like opening up their behemoth pile of "top secret" stuff I'm sure the rest of the planet will be sure to follow.
Let me be first to request a guided tour of Area51 to start with!:-)
I agree, it is troubling indeed that the Echelon folks are "troubled" that the rest of the world doesn't necessarily like them listening in.
My own country is a member (Canada), and while I know there are laws in place to stop each country from listening in on it's own citizens the facts are they skirt this by listening in on each others citizens instead.
I've had business calls from Iran, you could practically hear the FBI or whomever breathing in the background, there was a 2+ second delay as well, it was quite spooky. Granted the call from from an actual Iranian government agency but still, it was spooky being quite aware that there was a really good chance a third party was monitoring the call without my knowledge.
And no I never did enter into any business arrangement with the Iranians either.. the logistics involved these days don't make such a venture worth it. They did offer to open me an Iranian bank account mind you, and I would have been an Iranian millionaire first invoice:)
I think it also comes down to the historical role musicians played (pretty much what our local musicians still do), they played live gigs to make ends meet.
The recording industry has made it possible for many others to leech off the product and has created this "star" industry which has gone from artistic to basically who can sell the most even if it means getting half nekkid instead of actually having real talent.
Recordings should be used to promote bands and musicians, in turn those musicians should earn their keep actually performing those recordings live.
The Internet is a new distribution method that the RIAA cannot compete with, they know it and it worries them.
I got the card when I signed up for satellite internet, it was $99USD at the time, now you can find those cards online for about $89USD, cheaper on Ebay.
It wasn't that great for Internet but it sure is nice for music and some video purposes.
Living out in the boonies I was looking for a satellite internet connection, I signed up with an outfit called cband.net which let's me use my big dish to download (upload via modem). What they sent me was a DVB-PCI card that was not only useful for the internet connection but had the added bonus of including a FTA (free to air) tuner in it, meaning it can be used for watching video channels and of course audio.
I've long since stopped subscribing to the internet service as it wasn't that good but my card certainly gets a workout with the free stuff it can get. Right now I've got Sirius' The Vault playing, with the software I use it has a 200MB timeshift buffer so I can actually go back about a dozen songs if I want and can record it if I wanted.
The cards are readily available in North America as well, www.dvbmaster.com, www.dvbcanada.com, www.dvbwest.com and a few other places have them. You should be able to find a used satellite dish locally or those too can be found online. There are also standalone receivers but those are a little higher priced and quite honestly can't touch the stuff you can do with the computer card.
Check www.lyngsat.com's digital listings to see what is available on the birds, for a relatively small investment you can have a lot of streaming audio in your office.
I think the problem the music industry has is the many avenues that exist that actually does give away their products (to consumers that is), things like radio for example. This lessens the value of the product if you ask me.
Then there's also the consumer perception of the artists producing the music, let's face it, few of the major label acts are starving while many consumers are stretching their budgets and doing without some things they would surely enjoy.
A good example of giving it away exists for all in North America to enjoy, did you know that by installing a DVB-PCI card in your computer and then pointing an 18" satellite dish at Echostar7 you can listen to over 120 FREE audio feeds? In fact recently they added the 61 Sirius Satellite Radio music channels which are also unencrypted on the bird. You can also enjoy free audio feeds on several other satellites, these cost nothing beyond the initial purchase of equipment (less than $100).
So, consumers can listen to free music on the radio, they can receive free music via satellite and for some reason they are supposed to believe that downloading the song from the net is "theft"? I mean I could legally hit "record" on my DVB app here and get the very same song for free and at 192kbit as well!
The Bible is a collection of tales told throughout the eons, sure there are some good bits on how to live your life, but there are a lot of bad bits too. If you believe in the Bible word for word then you endorse selling your daughter into slavery, you endorse stoning disobedient children to death, you endorse death penalty sentences for those working on the "sabbath", etc.
Face it, it's a human written collection of fables passed down and ammended by many over the centuries.
Look at what some folks believe now about Elvis and it's only 25 years since he died. Imagine what the stories will be in 2000 years.
Everyone says what an excellent set of rules they are, but I don't know anyone that has managed to keep them.
Right, funny how those that preach the Bible also pick and choose which rules to follow eh?... examples follow thanks to Penn & Teller:)
"Exodus 21:7 - And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do."
So it's ok to sell your daughter into slavery apparently.
"Exodus 35:2 - Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to death."
Looks like death penalty for working on the sabbath.
"Corinthians 11:14 - Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?"
See any paintings of Jesus lately?:)
"If you believe it's your God, and your God is infallible, you can't throw out some of the rules just because you don't like them." Penn & Teller 2004.
Love the show myself too.. last week they tore apart the Bible as well, as they say, more people should read the Bible from cover to cover, we could use more Athiets:)
I agree, for hunting they are quite handy, these days we're at a point in civlization where hunting isn't as much of a requirement to survive but it still should be an option for those who need it.
Handguns on the other hand.. they have pretty much one purpose, killing other humans and really we don't want those at school:)
if you think high school kids don't carry weapons, you are very much out of step with the world
They tackled this "problem" too, it is much less a problem than the media makes it out to be, the fact is kids just aren't going to school armed like freaking Rambo.
It is the isolated cases that do happen that make the news, just because some warped kids go shoot up a school doesn't mean every school has gun issues. Indeed they even said that overall school violence has dropped since the 70's or something, can't recall the dates.
Of course if the parents would get rid of the guns at home this problem would be gone pretty quick, but that won't happen in cowboy land.
Penn & Teller's Bullshit show on Showtime recently covered that raid and showed the video, they also had a quick interview with one of the officers in charge, they basically called the cops scumbags in this instance and also said it was rediculous that in a country such as the US the law can act in such ways.
They pointed out how rediculous it was for all the cops to be running around with guns pulled at "low ready stance" in a freaking school full of kids. They also pointed out nothing was found at the school at all, the raid was basically a blind search.
The video was quite disturbing, they actually tackled one kid in one scene, as Penn & Teller said, many of the folks in law enforcement should not be there because they have serious power trip issues, anyone who has watched Cops on Fox has seen plenty of that.
Quite funny hearing Penn call the cops a bunch of assholes though... hope he doesn't get pulled over much I guess:-)
So true, I run a couple of mail servers for ISPs and we have 3-5MB limits imposed on incoming file sizes. This is for a couple of reasons, firstly we shouldn't have to load up the virus scanner even more with huge files, as it stands the scanners will skip over files over a certain size, but I'm sure the virus writers are eventually going to note this and start sending multi-megabyte virus files.
Next is the dialup issue, if any of you have ever done tech support for a dialup pool you will have run across the clueless user who gets some huge attachment that will take at least 30 minutes to download, but clueless user is so used to his mail checks taking 30 seconds or less he never lets it download and at that point his email becomes "stuck" he thinks because everything behind said attachment is never being downloaded, nor is the attachment being deleted as it should.
Finally let's not forget here that email is one of the worst methods for moving files around, especially largish files, I mean the overhead required to encode the file in text format for sending means you practically double the original size of the attachment to send it. Throw in some bounces and you waste megabytes of bandwidth.
Interesting response and I'll come back with answers or comments on the 3 points you found.
1) Could not all of those events have happened out of your own resourcefulness? Luck? Random chance?
I have a wife and we didn't need Jesus to help us meet, sure if we'd met through a mutual faith group I could point at him but we didn't and we still met.
I do feel you are free to use your faith for your life events but I'd be wary of using them to explain your life events entirely.
2) It also does not make them correct does it? These are faiths, they rely on the followers having faith in something with no real proof or evidence to support what they are being asked to believe.
3) If we're so special and "chosen by God" then why are we so late at appearing on the planet? Our scientific research is showing us evolution is the most likely path to where we are now, this conflicts with the "then God made man" part of the bible entirely.
The only effect this seems to have on modern religion is they change the story as they go along, oh now the bible isn't meant to be taken that literally but it sure was back in the day of burning heretics and witches. Burning heretics and witches is a pretty convenient method of getting rid of those who may not believe in your beliefs, let's not forget the Church ran many countries for many years and persecution was a fact of life for anyone who may have had alternative thoughts.
I don't have a problem with religious believers, as long as they practice to themselves, I do have a problem when people like George W. Bush think they're on some mission from God and they happen to be running one of the most powerful nations to ever exist on our world.
you don't have a clue what a personal relationship with Jesus means
Last I heard he was dead a couple of thousands years ago, so explain how you could personally be in contact with him. You have proof of life after death now? If so, it's the proof I'm waiting for to go from agnostic to believing the fables a good majority of my fellow man seem to believe in.
If you haven't talked to him standing in front of you then you have no "personal relationship" with the guy, he's dead now you see. About the only relationship you can have with the guy is made up in your head.
It's not your fault though, I find most religious folks have been brainwashed since birth into the belief system. Myself, I enjoyed an upbringing with almost no religious overtones forced on me, leaving me to come to terms on my own with reality and realizing I'm stuck on a planet with 6 billion others who have some sort of wacko belief system that they are "special" under the eyes of some invisible "God" character.
Of course they all ignore that we're relative newcomers on a planet that's 5 billion years old, we've inhabited the surface of our homeworld for something like 1% of it's lifespan, we're special? You'd think we'd be one of the first lifeforms on the planet if we were "special" and created in the form of "God".
Actually, I think most pharma-corps work at developing treatments rather than cures, the problem with a cure is the patient only needs to purchase it once, while a treatment is something they could continually sell the person instead.
It's all about profit, it is likely the non-profit charity researchers will find the cure first since they are more inclined to actually create one for the good of the species rather than create a treatment for the good of the shareholders.
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Sending DNA is the only likely method of colonizing extrasolar planets.
I believe this has already been done... oops, did I let that secret out of the bag too soon??:)
Some of those are just redundant copies of each other but they all help cut back on the flood a bit, especially the ones that identify dynamic IP ranges for broadband trojan infections acting as SMTP relays.
What I've noticed is the more we block the harder they try to get stuff through, and apparently the stuff that makes it through is the Viagra, penis enlargement, etc. type ads that we really want to block the most.
Spam is getting worse, the incoming attempts to the ISP servers I manage has grown to more than double what it was in August 2003 already, one ISP I deal with in particular is rather pissed, he is dialup only and slowly but surely is losing users to broadband, he doesn't really care about that so much since I think he plans on just winding down operations once it is no longer profitable, however while he is losing clients his mail server requires more and more resources to keep up.
Now we use about 8 RBL checks at the gateway, this helps block about 90-95% of the incoming connections but still the spam gets past that, if we open the floodgates the users go nuts on us.
And as usual there are always a couple of users in the mix who actually want the spam, funny enough it is usually because it is the only email they get, nobody else sends them anything. Likely due to the fact those same idiots are the ones who forward every cute little dancing Santa they get.
You are so right, I use a few on all my servers and they work, cbl.abuseat.org works wonders at cutting down on the trojan spam.
I've also setup my own private RBL, any spam that makes it thru the public ones has the IP it originated from added with no hope of ever getting off it either since there is no contact info sent so spammers have no clue where the RBL is housed.
Just this morning I was forwarded the dynamic ranged from Shaw Cable here in Canada, we were getting hammered by the infected fools there and I complained to them to at least close port 25, instead they sent me the ranges I can safely block, sweet, now to work on Telus.
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You really should have used the money as a down payment for your own home, condo, something other than rental property.
Renting really is throwing away money each month, whereas at least with a mortgage a percentage each month is added directly onto your net worth.
The funny thing is for many areas you will actually end up paying less in mortgage than you would renting a similar dwelling in the area. Where we live our mortgage is $400/month (we upped that some to pay it off faster tho) and rent in the area for a similar house would easily be $700+.
Then again, you could move to Saskatchewan and get a house for $35,000CDN (about $25,000US).
Out here on Vancouver Island we have an indepenedent chain (http://www.qualityfoods.com/) who started the online shopping very early on, they've also stuck with it and now offer the service from all their chain of stores.
I know they purchased about 6 2ton cube vans last year all painted up with their logos and online hints.
These guys were also the first grocery outfit to start using those customer loyalty cards everyone else now uses, they have always been quite progressive at retaining customers.
I trust them more when I have gone over all thier top secret communications and I know they aren't planning to nuke me.
:-)
And the door swings both ways, so just as soon as the US feels like opening up their behemoth pile of "top secret" stuff I'm sure the rest of the planet will be sure to follow.
Let me be first to request a guided tour of Area51 to start with!
so-called friends and allies "troubling"?
.. the logistics involved these days don't make such a venture worth it. They did offer to open me an Iranian bank account mind you, and I would have been an Iranian millionaire first invoice :)
I agree, it is troubling indeed that the Echelon folks are "troubled" that the rest of the world doesn't necessarily like them listening in.
My own country is a member (Canada), and while I know there are laws in place to stop each country from listening in on it's own citizens the facts are they skirt this by listening in on each others citizens instead.
I've had business calls from Iran, you could practically hear the FBI or whomever breathing in the background, there was a 2+ second delay as well, it was quite spooky. Granted the call from from an actual Iranian government agency but still, it was spooky being quite aware that there was a really good chance a third party was monitoring the call without my knowledge.
And no I never did enter into any business arrangement with the Iranians either
I think it also comes down to the historical role musicians played (pretty much what our local musicians still do), they played live gigs to make ends meet.
The recording industry has made it possible for many others to leech off the product and has created this "star" industry which has gone from artistic to basically who can sell the most even if it means getting half nekkid instead of actually having real talent.
Recordings should be used to promote bands and musicians, in turn those musicians should earn their keep actually performing those recordings live.
The Internet is a new distribution method that the RIAA cannot compete with, they know it and it worries them.
I got the card when I signed up for satellite internet, it was $99USD at the time, now you can find those cards online for about $89USD, cheaper on Ebay.
It wasn't that great for Internet but it sure is nice for music and some video purposes.
Living out in the boonies I was looking for a satellite internet connection, I signed up with an outfit called cband.net which let's me use my big dish to download (upload via modem). What they sent me was a DVB-PCI card that was not only useful for the internet connection but had the added bonus of including a FTA (free to air) tuner in it, meaning it can be used for watching video channels and of course audio.
I've long since stopped subscribing to the internet service as it wasn't that good but my card certainly gets a workout with the free stuff it can get. Right now I've got Sirius' The Vault playing, with the software I use it has a 200MB timeshift buffer so I can actually go back about a dozen songs if I want and can record it if I wanted.
The cards are readily available in North America as well, www.dvbmaster.com, www.dvbcanada.com, www.dvbwest.com and a few other places have them. You should be able to find a used satellite dish locally or those too can be found online. There are also standalone receivers but those are a little higher priced and quite honestly can't touch the stuff you can do with the computer card.
Check www.lyngsat.com's digital listings to see what is available on the birds, for a relatively small investment you can have a lot of streaming audio in your office.
I think the problem the music industry has is the many avenues that exist that actually does give away their products (to consumers that is), things like radio for example. This lessens the value of the product if you ask me.
Then there's also the consumer perception of the artists producing the music, let's face it, few of the major label acts are starving while many consumers are stretching their budgets and doing without some things they would surely enjoy.
A good example of giving it away exists for all in North America to enjoy, did you know that by installing a DVB-PCI card in your computer and then pointing an 18" satellite dish at Echostar7 you can listen to over 120 FREE audio feeds? In fact recently they added the 61 Sirius Satellite Radio music channels which are also unencrypted on the bird. You can also enjoy free audio feeds on several other satellites, these cost nothing beyond the initial purchase of equipment (less than $100).
So, consumers can listen to free music on the radio, they can receive free music via satellite and for some reason they are supposed to believe that downloading the song from the net is "theft"? I mean I could legally hit "record" on my DVB app here and get the very same song for free and at 192kbit as well!
accuracy of the Bible
The Bible is a collection of tales told throughout the eons, sure there are some good bits on how to live your life, but there are a lot of bad bits too. If you believe in the Bible word for word then you endorse selling your daughter into slavery, you endorse stoning disobedient children to death, you endorse death penalty sentences for those working on the "sabbath", etc.
Face it, it's a human written collection of fables passed down and ammended by many over the centuries.
Look at what some folks believe now about Elvis and it's only 25 years since he died. Imagine what the stories will be in 2000 years.
Everyone says what an excellent set of rules they are, but I don't know anyone that has managed to keep them.
... examples follow thanks to Penn & Teller :)
:)
Right, funny how those that preach the Bible also pick and choose which rules to follow eh?
"Exodus 21:7 - And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do."
So it's ok to sell your daughter into slavery apparently.
"Exodus 35:2 - Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to death."
Looks like death penalty for working on the sabbath.
"Corinthians 11:14 - Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?"
See any paintings of Jesus lately?
"If you believe it's your God, and your God is infallible, you can't throw out some of the rules just because you don't like them." Penn & Teller 2004.
Love the show myself too .. last week they tore apart the Bible as well, as they say, more people should read the Bible from cover to cover, we could use more Athiets :)
:-D
"Elvis never did no drugs!"
There is nothing wrong with owning a gun.
.. they have pretty much one purpose, killing other humans and really we don't want those at school :)
I agree, for hunting they are quite handy, these days we're at a point in civlization where hunting isn't as much of a requirement to survive but it still should be an option for those who need it.
Handguns on the other hand
if you think high school kids don't carry weapons, you are very much out of step with the world
They tackled this "problem" too, it is much less a problem than the media makes it out to be, the fact is kids just aren't going to school armed like freaking Rambo.
It is the isolated cases that do happen that make the news, just because some warped kids go shoot up a school doesn't mean every school has gun issues. Indeed they even said that overall school violence has dropped since the 70's or something, can't recall the dates.
Of course if the parents would get rid of the guns at home this problem would be gone pretty quick, but that won't happen in cowboy land.
Penn & Teller's Bullshit show on Showtime recently covered that raid and showed the video, they also had a quick interview with one of the officers in charge, they basically called the cops scumbags in this instance and also said it was rediculous that in a country such as the US the law can act in such ways.
... hope he doesn't get pulled over much I guess :-)
They pointed out how rediculous it was for all the cops to be running around with guns pulled at "low ready stance" in a freaking school full of kids. They also pointed out nothing was found at the school at all, the raid was basically a blind search.
The video was quite disturbing, they actually tackled one kid in one scene, as Penn & Teller said, many of the folks in law enforcement should not be there because they have serious power trip issues, anyone who has watched Cops on Fox has seen plenty of that.
Quite funny hearing Penn call the cops a bunch of assholes though
So true, I run a couple of mail servers for ISPs and we have 3-5MB limits imposed on incoming file sizes. This is for a couple of reasons, firstly we shouldn't have to load up the virus scanner even more with huge files, as it stands the scanners will skip over files over a certain size, but I'm sure the virus writers are eventually going to note this and start sending multi-megabyte virus files.
Next is the dialup issue, if any of you have ever done tech support for a dialup pool you will have run across the clueless user who gets some huge attachment that will take at least 30 minutes to download, but clueless user is so used to his mail checks taking 30 seconds or less he never lets it download and at that point his email becomes "stuck" he thinks because everything behind said attachment is never being downloaded, nor is the attachment being deleted as it should.
Finally let's not forget here that email is one of the worst methods for moving files around, especially largish files, I mean the overhead required to encode the file in text format for sending means you practically double the original size of the attachment to send it. Throw in some bounces and you waste megabytes of bandwidth.
Interesting response and I'll come back with answers or comments on the 3 points you found.
1) Could not all of those events have happened out of your own resourcefulness? Luck? Random chance?
I have a wife and we didn't need Jesus to help us meet, sure if we'd met through a mutual faith group I could point at him but we didn't and we still met.
I do feel you are free to use your faith for your life events but I'd be wary of using them to explain your life events entirely.
2) It also does not make them correct does it? These are faiths, they rely on the followers having faith in something with no real proof or evidence to support what they are being asked to believe.
3) If we're so special and "chosen by God" then why are we so late at appearing on the planet? Our scientific research is showing us evolution is the most likely path to where we are now, this conflicts with the "then God made man" part of the bible entirely.
The only effect this seems to have on modern religion is they change the story as they go along, oh now the bible isn't meant to be taken that literally but it sure was back in the day of burning heretics and witches. Burning heretics and witches is a pretty convenient method of getting rid of those who may not believe in your beliefs, let's not forget the Church ran many countries for many years and persecution was a fact of life for anyone who may have had alternative thoughts.
I don't have a problem with religious believers, as long as they practice to themselves, I do have a problem when people like George W. Bush think they're on some mission from God and they happen to be running one of the most powerful nations to ever exist on our world.
you don't have a clue what a personal relationship with Jesus means
Last I heard he was dead a couple of thousands years ago, so explain how you could personally be in contact with him. You have proof of life after death now? If so, it's the proof I'm waiting for to go from agnostic to believing the fables a good majority of my fellow man seem to believe in.
If you haven't talked to him standing in front of you then you have no "personal relationship" with the guy, he's dead now you see. About the only relationship you can have with the guy is made up in your head.
It's not your fault though, I find most religious folks have been brainwashed since birth into the belief system. Myself, I enjoyed an upbringing with almost no religious overtones forced on me, leaving me to come to terms on my own with reality and realizing I'm stuck on a planet with 6 billion others who have some sort of wacko belief system that they are "special" under the eyes of some invisible "God" character.
Of course they all ignore that we're relative newcomers on a planet that's 5 billion years old, we've inhabited the surface of our homeworld for something like 1% of it's lifespan, we're special? You'd think we'd be one of the first lifeforms on the planet if we were "special" and created in the form of "God".
Actually, I think most pharma-corps work at developing treatments rather than cures, the problem with a cure is the patient only needs to purchase it once, while a treatment is something they could continually sell the person instead.
It's all about profit, it is likely the non-profit charity researchers will find the cure first since they are more inclined to actually create one for the good of the species rather than create a treatment for the good of the shareholders.
Sending DNA is the only likely method of colonizing extrasolar planets.
... oops, did I let that secret out of the bag too soon?? :)
I believe this has already been done
Here are the public ones we check against, we also have our own private whitelist and blacklist, a whitelist is handy to have and recommended :)
cbl.abuseat.org, sbl.spamhaus.org, xbl.spamhaus.org, dynablock.njabl.org, relays.ordb.org, list.dsbl.org, dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net, dnsbl.njabl.org
Some of those are just redundant copies of each other but they all help cut back on the flood a bit, especially the ones that identify dynamic IP ranges for broadband trojan infections acting as SMTP relays.
The more I block, the more incoming spam we get
What I've noticed is the more we block the harder they try to get stuff through, and apparently the stuff that makes it through is the Viagra, penis enlargement, etc. type ads that we really want to block the most.
Spam is getting worse, the incoming attempts to the ISP servers I manage has grown to more than double what it was in August 2003 already, one ISP I deal with in particular is rather pissed, he is dialup only and slowly but surely is losing users to broadband, he doesn't really care about that so much since I think he plans on just winding down operations once it is no longer profitable, however while he is losing clients his mail server requires more and more resources to keep up.
Now we use about 8 RBL checks at the gateway, this helps block about 90-95% of the incoming connections but still the spam gets past that, if we open the floodgates the users go nuts on us.
And as usual there are always a couple of users in the mix who actually want the spam, funny enough it is usually because it is the only email they get, nobody else sends them anything. Likely due to the fact those same idiots are the ones who forward every cute little dancing Santa they get.
They say it helps to have a backup plan, what's yours? :)
Funny, my IP is 192.168.1.10, on the internet however the best they'll find is ...
.. to make it more fun I'll usually run through ISP proxy servers I manage :)
X-Forwarded-For: 127.0.0.1
Amazing what a SSH tunnel to a remote server running Squid can do for you
Here ya go, this will help you keep out Shaw's residential customers ...
8 .0.0/160 /13
24.64.0.0/13
24.76.0.0/14
24.80.0.0/13
24.10
24.109.0.0/18
24.109.64.0/19
68.144.0.
Those ranges are safe to block, they have other ranges for the static business clients.
Of course another simply step the ISP can take is to block outgoing SMTP entirely for those ranges except to their own mail servers.
You are so right, I use a few on all my servers and they work, cbl.abuseat.org works wonders at cutting down on the trojan spam.
I've also setup my own private RBL, any spam that makes it thru the public ones has the IP it originated from added with no hope of ever getting off it either since there is no contact info sent so spammers have no clue where the RBL is housed.
Just this morning I was forwarded the dynamic ranged from Shaw Cable here in Canada, we were getting hammered by the infected fools there and I complained to them to at least close port 25, instead they sent me the ranges I can safely block, sweet, now to work on Telus.