An elderly relative of mine who apparently had his wifi wide open was raided by ICE agents who didn't find anything. After terrorizing them for 4 hours and trashing their home, the agent actually conceded that it was probably one of their neighbors. ICE has a shoot now, ask questions later policy that is despicable. Since, their warrants are all sealed and the innocents almost never talk, these thugs will probably continue to get away with this behavior.
I was recently in a similar situation where I had to choose. I worked for Hixardt Communications (in Pensacola, FL) - they are a pretty small "IT Firm".
I started seeing complaints come in to the abuse box from the upstream provider (Southern Light) about spamming from the Hixardt network. They were the scam-type "click here, you've won something". Apparently, the morons at Hixardt allocated 4/24 networks to only 6 systems to spam from hundreds of fake host names.
Southern Light gave these guys these ranges with the provision that they would not violate their ToS against spamming. Well, the owner of Hixardt and his buddies decided to do it anyway and received a 3 month letter from Southern Light that told them to stop it or pay them for the addresses. I was expected to help Hixardt out of this situation by moving them to Cox and lying about the # of addresses needed. I refused and was fired by Mike Hicks. But, at least I can sleep at night.
Yup. I used to work at AppRiver (a fairly 'large' e-mail provider) - they handle RackSpace clients. Anyway, they have thousands of customers who use them for spam filtering only (they charge extra for use of their Smart Hosts). Most of these customers are cable/dsl and cannot change their PTR records.
Anyway, I was surprised that no one their had any idea what SPF was - their head 'engineer' told me, "SPF is *sooooo* 2004" (this was 6 mos ago). I started helping customers create them anyway, regardless of the idiots working there.
A very simple way to do this is to create the following as a TXT record in your DNS zone:
Wow, I assume you are GNAA "members"(LOL), because even the typical tinfoil-hat slashdot poster isn't usually that moronic. There is a vote with public accountability. Basically, a new meta-moderation. It has nothing to do with McCarthyism.
Why doesn't slashdot have a vote on a list of proposed chronic troll posts. GNAA, et al. These posters will have their IP address, Browser, etc. revealed to all on slashdot.
Hatred makes people believe that every problem is caused by the target of their hate. Hence, *everything* is a conspiracy. In all reality, the original story was just a ploy by Taco to bash US policy. Slashdot is slowly turning into a left-wing version of Fox.
It's people trying to find *any* justification for their belief system. They disregard all the possibilities they don't agree with. This is why Bush/Clinton/Kerry are apparently responsible for everything wrong in the world.
Slashdot Mirror
No. Pluto is a dog.
An elderly relative of mine who apparently had his wifi wide open was raided by ICE agents who didn't find anything. After terrorizing them for 4 hours and trashing their home, the agent actually conceded that it was probably one of their neighbors. ICE has a shoot now, ask questions later policy that is despicable. Since, their warrants are all sealed and the innocents almost never talk, these thugs will probably continue to get away with this behavior.
This has nothing to do with Freedom of Speech.
Corporate Censorship has nothing to do with Freedom of Speech.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
This issue needs to be handled by ARIN as Sprint's decision to stop rebroadcasting Cogent's routes seems like run afoul with ARIN's AS policies.
I was recently in a similar situation where I had to choose. I worked for Hixardt Communications (in Pensacola, FL) - they are a pretty small "IT Firm".
I started seeing complaints come in to the abuse box from the upstream provider (Southern Light) about spamming from the Hixardt network. They were the scam-type "click here, you've won something". Apparently, the morons at Hixardt allocated 4 /24 networks to only 6 systems to spam from hundreds of fake host names.
Southern Light gave these guys these ranges with the provision that they would not violate their ToS against spamming. Well, the owner of Hixardt and his buddies decided to do it anyway and received a 3 month letter from Southern Light that told them to stop it or pay them for the addresses. I was expected to help Hixardt out of this situation by moving them to Cox and lying about the # of addresses needed. I refused and was fired by Mike Hicks. But, at least I can sleep at night.
According to their site, it's no street or drive - it's just, er West Wacker (sounds like a porn star)
77 West Wacker
Chicago, Illinois 60601-1692
Tel: 1.312.782.3939
Fax: 1.312.782.8585
Well, the lawsuit is about http://chicago.blockshopper.com/
The Jones-Day Chicago office are apparently handling the suit.
Jones Day is based in Cleveland, not Chicago. For such a simple fact, you think a techie would get it right.
Makes me wonder what else the submitter got wrong in the summary.
Techies should stick to writing code and leave the legal issues up to the lawyers.
The lawsuit is about http://chicago.blockshopper.com/
and Jones Day's Chicago office is handling it.
http://www.jonesday.com/locations/locdetail.aspx?locid=S8
He's in charge of the Chicago office:
http://www.jonesday.com/locations/locdetail.aspx?locid=S8
They are located on 'Wacker' Street!
That explains it all...
77 West Wacker
Chicago, Illinois 60601-1692
Tel: 1.312.782.3939
Fax: 1.312.782.8585
http://www.jonesday.com/locations/locdetail.aspx?locid=S8
Better yet,
contact the guy in charge:
Daniel E. Reidy
Tel: 1.312.269.4140
Fax: 1.312.782.8585
Email: dereidy@jonesday.com
Let 'em know what you think:
http://www.jonesday.com/contact/contact.aspx
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Yup. I used to work at AppRiver (a fairly 'large' e-mail provider) - they handle RackSpace clients. Anyway, they have thousands of customers who use them for spam filtering only (they charge extra for use of their Smart Hosts). Most of these customers are cable/dsl and cannot change their PTR records.
Anyway, I was surprised that no one their had any idea what SPF was - their head 'engineer' told me, "SPF is *sooooo* 2004" (this was 6 mos ago). I started helping customers create them anyway, regardless of the idiots working there.
A very simple way to do this is to create the following as a TXT record in your DNS zone:
"v=spf1 mx ptr a:mail.myserver.com ip4:my.ip.add.ress ~all"
Wow, I assume you are GNAA "members"(LOL), because even the typical tinfoil-hat slashdot poster isn't usually that moronic. There is a vote with public accountability. Basically, a new meta-moderation. It has nothing to do with McCarthyism.
Why doesn't slashdot have a vote on a list of proposed chronic troll posts. GNAA, et al. These posters will have their IP address, Browser, etc. revealed to all on slashdot.
When has slashdot ever not complained about the US?
(even pre-Bush)
Hatred makes people believe that every problem is caused by the target of their hate. Hence, *everything* is a conspiracy. In all reality, the original story was just a ploy by Taco to bash US policy. Slashdot is slowly turning into a left-wing version of Fox.
You mean it's not a conspiracy? I'm surprise you haven't been modded down for even suggesting that.
Not everyone here is decked out in tinfoil.
It's people trying to find *any* justification for their belief system. They disregard all the possibilities they don't agree with. This is why Bush/Clinton/Kerry are apparently responsible for everything wrong in the world.
It's the Bush Paradox. The same people that call him a bumbling idiot are the same people who also believe he is an evil super-villain.
I completely agree. I'm getting rally tired of the Michael Moore and Bill O'Reilly drones. Unfortunately, extremists are more inclined to bitch.
Yup, do what the bully says, he might not beat you up and take your lunch money.
The condescending and arrogant attitude of many in the left is what really cost Kerry this election.
Sending email is a felony now? Where has this country gone?
They're probably actually reading the article.