Just read the article you linked about Alyx Sachs and her cohort. To quote her: "These antispammers should get a life," she said. "Do their fingers hurt too much from pressing the delete key? How much time does that really take from their day?"
By contrast, she said, "70 million people have bad credit. Guess what? Now I can't get mail through to them to help them."
Did anyone else reading that feel a powerful compulsion to punch her in the face? As someone who recieves anything up to 200 pieces of spam a DAY now, I know I did.
SMTP is not broken and does not need to be fixed. For example, this virus would never succeed on my windows system. First, my IP address, 10.0.0.11, would not be of much use to the spammer. (And if you know anything about networks, you know why, and why I can post it and not worry.)
Second, in between my windows machine and the rest of the internet I have a firewall. THAT'S what really renders the virus moot. Nobody connects to any machine I have from the outside, period, ever. (Now of course there's ways to defeat a firewall, but that's also a much more difficult task.)
I'm sorry, but you're so unbelievably wrong here, it's difficult to know where to begin...
Firstly, it doesn't matter what your machine's IP is on your local network; 10.x.x.x, 192.168.x.x or anything else. If your machine can reach the net, then (obviously) so can a piece of software running on your machine (ie, a virus).
Secondly, you can have the best firewall in the world, but if a trusted host behind it is compromised then it's "game over". The attacker doesn't have to connect to your machine through your firewall. The compromised machine can connect out and initiate a backchannel - literally punching a hole through the firewall. This would normally be to an IRC server, but could be anywhere really, using any protocol allowed out by the firewall.
So, to sum up; a firewall and local network is not going to protect a machine from a stupid user opening a virus on the machine.
Funny, since the original RTCW runs faster on my Linux box than my Windows machine, despite the Windows machine having a faster CPU (same RAM + gfx card). Maybe you're not running an accelerated 3D driver on your linux machine?
After parking, make sure you "forget" to lock your car doors in full view of the CCTV cameras, with all your personal documents strewn over the seats where anyone can get at them.
Well, though I couldn't give a toss about Dreamweaver; FireworksMX and FlashMX are about the last apps that really tie me to Windows. Everything else is available for me in Linux now. Well; aside from a good "video capture from the desktop" tool, and some audio app close to CoolEdit pro 2.0 I guess...
Although I wouldn't want to see another Judge Dredd film, obviously, I'd like to see "Bad Company" or "Ace Truckin' Co" on the big screen. Even Robo-Hunter. I thought those stories were particularly original, and the last two pretty damned funny!
Dude you were duped if you only just bought the 7210;-) The 7250 was launched a short while ago - it's essentially a 7210 with a camera for the same price the old 7210 used to be. Of course, if you managed to get the 7210 for next to nothing that's all well and good! BTW, the 7210 is a horrible phone for java developers, and very slow compared to the 60 series phones (3650/7650 at present). The 60 series also run symbian apps, and can play sampled sounds and midi which is great for games, recording film clips and annoying ringtones!
I used one for a couple of years (SGI 320) - the graphics were ok, but nothing amazing, certainly slower than the Geforce 2 for games use. Also it was very much tied to Windows NT/2000. Nothing else will run on them as far as I know. RAM was ludicrously expensive due to the shared memory pool I guess. USB ports were non-standard (voltages were slightly different AFAIK).
In short, it was "alright", but certainly not worth the price, IMO. I only had a single 450mhz P3 in mine though, so maybe a dual CPU would have changed my opinion;)
:-) That's the first image that came into my mind when I saw it! Ozzy stabbing away at his LCD remote control, looking aup at the TV every now and then shouting "Fucking thing.... need a fucking degree in... computers to change the fuckin' channel" or something like that anyway. Classic moment!
The law makes it illegal to hide the information from a service provider without the service provider's permission.
Hmm, so when I go shopping for my pants (that's "boxer shorts" to you Americans I think), I'll have to wander around the store in the nude to make sure they have enough information?
Why don't they sue the individuals paying the spammers to send the emails?
Well the most obvious reason would be that a company's rivals could pay a scumbag to send out spam just to ruin their reputation and see them taken to court. I'm sure most of the pr0n/scam companies advertised in the spam have a pretty cavalier attitude toward keeping track of their finances, so it'll be difficult to follow an audit trail to prove guilt.
Surely they could also sue for "wire fraud", sue to the ridiculous and blatently untrue claims in most of the spam. Then there's the pyramid schemes, 419 scams etc. I'd think in those cases, it would be more lucrative to lodge complaints about the contents of the spam the scumbags are sending rather than the spam itself. "73 million counts of wire fraud" sound good to me!
I can't believe they would leave thousands of dead machines powered up and taking up rack space. Surely it would be more economic to hire anyone to swap them out or at least remove them and save paying x-thousands per week hosting costs... In any case, presumably someone originally made the descision to buy all these machines, so they would be replaced anyway eventually.
Well no it couldn't; sure, you could increase the gear ratios, but then the bike would top out at around 30mph.
Do you honestly think a corvette with a 400hp engine could pull a 40 tonne trailer up an incline at anywhere near the same rate as a 400hp articulated lorry?!
Sure, but my point (that I admittedly didn't make very well;-) was that since diesel engines tend to generate large amounts of torque at lower revs, their hp figure will look low in comparison to a petrol engine:
Example car: 100hp@5600rpm ~110lbft torque Example truck: 100hp@1500rpm ~300lbft torque
So if the truck engine could rev as high as the car, the hp figure would look more impressive. This would also be why the hp figure for motorcycle engines would appear ridiculously high given their engine displacement. A 500cc cycle may have 125hp, but I'm pretty sure it would struggle to pull even a 1 tonne trailer up a hill...
If any user changes up a directory...does an ls -1p > spamlist.txt and then mails said spamlist.txt to their friendly neighborhood spammer who pays them 20$ [...] These inside jobs are easy, do not negatively affect the committed party (unless the school is logging every ls command)...
Actually even if they are logging the ls command you can still get a directory listing without it appearing in your command history. "ls/home/[TAB][TAB]" without pressing [RETURN] is the most obvious. Also writing a quick perl/bash/whatever script to list/home, then deleting the script...
I will attest that by the time about the 5th person started putting "NOSPAM" as part of the email addresses, some smart person started regexp'ing that out.
436Hp at the wheels is kind of insane, not as insane as the Hennesey Viper but still crazy. I mean the Sherman tank is only powered by a 400 horesepower engine and it is 32 tons!
A lot of people don't realise it's the torque in a tank/truck/train engine that's the important factor, not the horsepower. A car engine that makes around 100hp will make around the same amount of torque (lbs ft). A large diesel engine will make at least 3 times as much torque as hp. The larger the engine, the more torque is produced...
Well I have QT stretched as far as possible on my 1920x1200 monitor and it's playing fine on an Athlon 2000XP here (GF3). I'm pretty sure QT is not particularly optimised on intel hardware though (surprise surprise). Looks damned good too!
Now that would be quite cool to have on the phone's display.
Another option would be to allow people to send pictures of their faces to their friends' phones which could be used as a skin for the avatar when talking to them on the phone. If it could lip sync to the sound and be controlled remotely (ie, the other person presses a key to make their representation smile or frown etc) then that would be real cool;-)
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Just read the article you linked about Alyx Sachs and her cohort. To quote her:
"These antispammers should get a life," she said. "Do their fingers hurt too much from pressing the delete key? How much time does that really take from their day?"
By contrast, she said, "70 million people have bad credit. Guess what? Now I can't get mail through to them to help them."
Did anyone else reading that feel a powerful compulsion to punch her in the face? As someone who recieves anything up to 200 pieces of spam a DAY now, I know I did.
SMTP is not broken and does not need to be fixed. For example, this virus would never succeed on my windows system. First, my IP address, 10.0.0.11, would not be of much use to the spammer. (And if you know anything about networks, you know why, and why I can post it and not worry.)
Second, in between my windows machine and the rest of the internet I have a firewall. THAT'S what really renders the virus moot. Nobody connects to any machine I have from the outside, period, ever. (Now of course there's ways to defeat a firewall, but that's also a much more difficult task.)
I'm sorry, but you're so unbelievably wrong here, it's difficult to know where to begin...
Firstly, it doesn't matter what your machine's IP is on your local network; 10.x.x.x, 192.168.x.x or anything else. If your machine can reach the net, then (obviously) so can a piece of software running on your machine (ie, a virus).
Secondly, you can have the best firewall in the world, but if a trusted host behind it is compromised then it's "game over". The attacker doesn't have to connect to your machine through your firewall. The compromised machine can connect out and initiate a backchannel - literally punching a hole through the firewall. This would normally be to an IRC server, but could be anywhere really, using any protocol allowed out by the firewall.
So, to sum up; a firewall and local network is not going to protect a machine from a stupid user opening a virus on the machine.
Everyone KNOWS that REAL gamers play on Macs.
/me falls off chair laughing! Honestly, I didn't think there were ANY games available for OSX...
Funny, since the original RTCW runs faster on my Linux box than my Windows machine, despite the Windows machine having a faster CPU (same RAM + gfx card). Maybe you're not running an accelerated 3D driver on your linux machine?
After parking, make sure you "forget" to lock your car doors in full view of the CCTV cameras, with all your personal documents strewn over the seats where anyone can get at them.
Well, though I couldn't give a toss about Dreamweaver; FireworksMX and FlashMX are about the last apps that really tie me to Windows. Everything else is available for me in Linux now. Well; aside from a good "video capture from the desktop" tool, and some audio app close to CoolEdit pro 2.0 I guess...
Although I wouldn't want to see another Judge Dredd film, obviously, I'd like to see "Bad Company" or "Ace Truckin' Co" on the big screen. Even Robo-Hunter. I thought those stories were particularly original, and the last two pretty damned funny!
#1 Read Slashdot.
#2 Set up company exporting cheap UPS' to Ghana.
#3 Profit!
Dude you were duped if you only just bought the 7210 ;-) The 7250 was launched a short while ago - it's essentially a 7210 with a camera for the same price the old 7210 used to be. Of course, if you managed to get the 7210 for next to nothing that's all well and good! BTW, the 7210 is a horrible phone for java developers, and very slow compared to the 60 series phones (3650/7650 at present). The 60 series also run symbian apps, and can play sampled sounds and midi which is great for games, recording film clips and annoying ringtones!
I used one for a couple of years (SGI 320) - the graphics were ok, but nothing amazing, certainly slower than the Geforce 2 for games use. Also it was very much tied to Windows NT/2000. Nothing else will run on them as far as I know. RAM was ludicrously expensive due to the shared memory pool I guess. USB ports were non-standard (voltages were slightly different AFAIK).
;)
In short, it was "alright", but certainly not worth the price, IMO. I only had a single 450mhz P3 in mine though, so maybe a dual CPU would have changed my opinion
:-) That's the first image that came into my mind when I saw it! Ozzy stabbing away at his LCD remote control, looking aup at the TV every now and then shouting "Fucking thing.... need a fucking degree in... computers to change the fuckin' channel" or something like that anyway. Classic moment!
The law makes it illegal to hide the information from a service provider without the service provider's permission.
Hmm, so when I go shopping for my pants (that's "boxer shorts" to you Americans I think), I'll have to wander around the store in the nude to make sure they have enough information?
Why don't they sue the individuals paying the spammers to send the emails?
Well the most obvious reason would be that a company's rivals could pay a scumbag to send out spam just to ruin their reputation and see them taken to court. I'm sure most of the pr0n/scam companies advertised in the spam have a pretty cavalier attitude toward keeping track of their finances, so it'll be difficult to follow an audit trail to prove guilt.
Surely they could also sue for "wire fraud", sue to the ridiculous and blatently untrue claims in most of the spam. Then there's the pyramid schemes, 419 scams etc. I'd think in those cases, it would be more lucrative to lodge complaints about the contents of the spam the scumbags are sending rather than the spam itself. "73 million counts of wire fraud" sound good to me!
I can't believe they would leave thousands of dead machines powered up and taking up rack space. Surely it would be more economic to hire anyone to swap them out or at least remove them and save paying x-thousands per week hosting costs... In any case, presumably someone originally made the descision to buy all these machines, so they would be replaced anyway eventually.
Well no it couldn't; sure, you could increase the gear ratios, but then the bike would top out at around 30mph.
Do you honestly think a corvette with a 400hp engine could pull a 40 tonne trailer up an incline at anywhere near the same rate as a 400hp articulated lorry?!
How is this going to stop them in OTHER countries? How much spam is really sent from within the US of A?
From what I see "almost all of it". Well, unless these spammers are advertising for scumbag US "companies" out of the goodness of their hearts...
Sure, but my point (that I admittedly didn't make very well ;-) was that since diesel engines tend to generate large amounts of torque at lower revs, their hp figure will look low in comparison to a petrol engine:
Example car: 100hp@5600rpm ~110lbft torque
Example truck: 100hp@1500rpm ~300lbft torque
So if the truck engine could rev as high as the car, the hp figure would look more impressive. This would also be why the hp figure for motorcycle engines would appear ridiculously high given their engine displacement. A 500cc cycle may have 125hp, but I'm pretty sure it would struggle to pull even a 1 tonne trailer up a hill...
If any user changes up a directory...does an ls -1p > spamlist.txt and then mails said spamlist.txt to their friendly neighborhood spammer who pays them 20$ [...] These inside jobs are easy, do not negatively affect the committed party (unless the school is logging every ls command)...
/home/[TAB][TAB]" without pressing [RETURN] is the most obvious. Also writing a quick perl/bash/whatever script to list /home, then deleting the script...
Actually even if they are logging the ls command you can still get a directory listing without it appearing in your command history. "ls
I will attest that by the time about the 5th person started putting "NOSPAM" as part of the email addresses, some smart person started regexp'ing that out.
;-)
Hmm, maybe I should go register nospam.cx then
436Hp at the wheels is kind of insane, not as insane as the Hennesey Viper but still crazy. I mean the Sherman tank is only powered by a 400 horesepower engine and it is 32 tons!
A lot of people don't realise it's the torque in a tank/truck/train engine that's the important factor, not the horsepower. A car engine that makes around 100hp will make around the same amount of torque (lbs ft). A large diesel engine will make at least 3 times as much torque as hp. The larger the engine, the more torque is produced...
I presume you're one of the Doom 3 beta testers then?
Well I have QT stretched as far as possible on my 1920x1200 monitor and it's playing fine on an Athlon 2000XP here (GF3). I'm pretty sure QT is not particularly optimised on intel hardware though (surprise surprise). Looks damned good too!
Or perhaps I have more important things to talk about over beer with friends.
Which topic of conversation could be more important than Carrie-Anne Moss in a tight leather catsuit?
Now that would be quite cool to have on the phone's display.
;-)
Another option would be to allow people to send pictures of their faces to their friends' phones which could be used as a skin for the avatar when talking to them on the phone. If it could lip sync to the sound and be controlled remotely (ie, the other person presses a key to make their representation smile or frown etc) then that would be real cool