It's almost tempting to believe this is simply neuroscientists trolling for DHS dollars - a ruse by those socialised medicine types in Europe to get US military dollars to fund the next generation of MRI technology and practitioners. Fiendish!
WTF is "unauthorized use" of a car, and how is it different from stealing?
Actually, there's a big difference, and it's especially relevant when attempting to use car analogies to discuss copyright infringement : for a "theft" to occur, the owner must be permanently deprived of the item. So those who take cars for "joyrides" are never charged with theft offenses; in the UK, such offenders are even known as TWOCcers (TWOC = Taken Without Owner's Consent)
Sigh. I'll quote a larger fragment of the sentence : "a quick trip to Wikipedia would show that there are a few more folks out there who have stated their opposition to the current 'consensus' on Global Warming, including those who doubt there is a global rise in temperatures". Not "creative", just "concise". Again, there is *no* debate that temperatures on the up. None. Nada. Zilch. Only those with vested political interests continue to willfully spread the no-warming FUD, and you seem to have drunk deeply from the kool aid.
a quick trip to Wikipedia would show that there are a few more folks out there who...doubt there is a global rise in temperatures
You should have made that trip yourself before your ill-informed speculation. Quote "Since 2001, no climate scientists have expressed skepticism that warming, of the magnitude described by the IPCC, has occurred." Now, maybe you know of "folks" who don't believe there has been a global temperature rise, but they are not climate scientists. Your "biggest problem" with Global Warming is that you yourself are reducing it to bumper sticker politics, because that's a way you can comfortably ignore the facts and remain ignorantly rooted in your own political mudhole.
Thanks for posting this. It really helps me narrow down my protests to the guilty council
You're welcome. Title is a g000glbmb for future searches on the name "Victor Zuniga" the BSA LA Area Council PR Director who sold 52,000 scouts to the MPAA
Since you've opted for pedantic...The most "secure" system is one that has been turned off, encased in cement and dropped into the deepest part of the ocean
Congratulations on choosing the pedantic option. Commiserations on your failed definition. The system you describe would not be appropriatelyavailable, which is a fundamental quality of a "secure" system
...hatespeak-related jailing we discussed on Saturday...getting a lot of media attention
How so? Is the submitter of this story attempting to make things up?
TFA mentions guns and GANGS, which would suggest that it is probably GANG related
You're right, I think that, this particular case is BAU for Moss Side. But Zonk perhaps could be forgiven for sensing that there is indeed a heightened emphasis on racial tensions - there are lots of other nasty incidents and racist attacks, the hard right UK Independence Party claims to be centre-ground. Feelings are running high all round.
I'm the submitter, and the title is mine, not Zonk's. And I stand by the language I used. This guy was charged with "incitement to racial hatred" - that's what the crime actually is called in the UK - and I don't think my shorthand for that as "hatespeak" is at all misrepresentative. I don't understand what you mean by "diverted away from the topic" - I posted this precisely because the slashdot community has strong interest in freedom of speech, and being imprisoned for three years for something someone said/wrote seems exactly on topic. Look, I hate racist thugs as much as any normal person, and this 'tard was especially disgusting, but I can't help thinking that if he'd gone out and actually physically assaulted someone, he would have got less than three years. That's the issue here and that's why I posted the story.
I'm the submitter and it's true I missed out an "almost" in front of "three years". Nevertheless, I don't think that makes my summary misleading - it's not like he wasn't given about three years. This seems to me rather an irrelevent nit, given the seriousness of this case - perhaps that's why the GP was modded Troll?.
I'm sorry but BS wasn't solving the problem, despite your desire that it would
The evidence simply doesn't support your assertion - unless you are claiming that the spammers retaliated against Blue Security despite the fact that BS's activities were not affecting the spammers.
I assume that in India, the manual labor required to count all the paper ballots is cheaper than it would be in the U.S.
Ask for volunteers. It works in other countries. Despite US turnout rates being lower than, say, Afghanistan, there surely must be enough civic-minded citizens to perform the job.
It's mind-boggling that the US system can make such a dog's breakfast of an activity that is simply counting.
Half of the joy of blocking ads is not wasting bandwidth on them.
It's the other way round : with "download, don't display" enabled, half the joy is knowing that the asshole is paying for the bandwidth, even though the ad never got displayed.
I RTFpdf and I don't see any mention of the single gaping hole in this proposed spam method, which renders it highly unattractive to spammers : the zombies will be short lived. Currently, zombies can only be identified by IP address (for those who can be bothered to dig through the spam email headers), but all that lets the target do is complain to the owner of the netblock on which the zombie lives - there is no way to contact the owner of the infected machine directly, via email. Netblock owners (typically ISPs) may or may not have the resources and motivation to follow up complaints.
With this proposed scheme, the recipient has an email address that ties directly to the zombied machine; they maybe even know the purported sender IRL. When the recipient receives such a spam, maybe even falls for the pitch and clicks through, the next thing they do is mail the owner of the zombie machine with a "wtf did you send me that for? are you infected with something?" Granted this won't happen/every/ time, but given the very nature of the relation between sender and recipient, follow-ups will occur very often - it's unlikely the zombie could get off more than a handful of such spoofs before the whistle was blown and the zombie machine's owner is alerted that something is afoot.
I can't see how zombies operating in the manner proposed could live undetected for very long at all; and I don't see the spammers valuing a very small number of deliveries in a very short time window (albeit with an increased chance of success), more than the thousands of potential deliveries over a long window that current zombies offer.
Adopting this technique would significantly reduce the average lifetime of a zombie infection, and therefore massively reduce the value of that zombie. I can't see the zombie gangmasters willingly slitting their own throats in this way.
Does anyone remember (and have a link?) the spoof password policy from *mumbles* years ago - it started off innocuously with things like "must not be a dictionary word" and "must include a number", progressed through things like "cannot repeat characters" and "characters must not be adjacent on the keyboard", until the last part was "There is only one password that meets these requirements - please ask your sysadmin to give it to you".
GDP is not a measurement of money, it is a measurement of wealth, specifically, wealth creation.
Utter nonsense. The main problem with GDP is that it counts all economic transactions, whether creative or destructive. So illness, crime, natural disasters all cause an increase in GDP.
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You're very kind, sir. Or madam.
It's almost tempting to believe this is simply neuroscientists trolling for DHS dollars - a ruse by those socialised medicine types in Europe to get US military dollars to fund the next generation of MRI technology and practitioners. Fiendish!
Guess you've never heard of Jonas Salk?
The University of Alberta is not in the US.
Actually, there's a big difference, and it's especially relevant when attempting to use car analogies to discuss copyright infringement : for a "theft" to occur, the owner must be permanently deprived of the item. So those who take cars for "joyrides" are never charged with theft offenses; in the UK, such offenders are even known as TWOCcers (TWOC = Taken Without Owner's Consent)
No discussion of currency destruction is complete without mention of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty of KLF burning one million pounds.
Sigh. I'll quote a larger fragment of the sentence : "a quick trip to Wikipedia would show that there are a few more folks out there who have stated their opposition to the current 'consensus' on Global Warming, including those who doubt there is a global rise in temperatures". Not "creative", just "concise". Again, there is *no* debate that temperatures on the up. None. Nada. Zilch. Only those with vested political interests continue to willfully spread the no-warming FUD, and you seem to have drunk deeply from the kool aid.
You should have made that trip yourself before your ill-informed speculation. Quote "Since 2001, no climate scientists have expressed skepticism that warming, of the magnitude described by the IPCC, has occurred." Now, maybe you know of "folks" who don't believe there has been a global temperature rise, but they are not climate scientists. Your "biggest problem" with Global Warming is that you yourself are reducing it to bumper sticker politics, because that's a way you can comfortably ignore the facts and remain ignorantly rooted in your own political mudhole.
Nonsense. A computer with a different OS in the same room would be more secure.
You're welcome. Title is a g000glbmb for future searches on the name "Victor Zuniga" the BSA LA Area Council PR Director who sold 52,000 scouts to the MPAA
Indeed, the MPAA-developed "curriculum" begins :
Intellectual dishonesty is no different than child abuse
It's local to LA, about 52,000 scouts, according to the MPAA press release
Congratulations on choosing the pedantic option. Commiserations on your failed definition. The system you describe would not be appropriatelyavailable, which is a fundamental quality of a "secure" system
You're right, I think that, this particular case is BAU for Moss Side. But Zonk perhaps could be forgiven for sensing that there is indeed a heightened emphasis on racial tensions - there are lots of other nasty incidents and racist attacks, the hard right UK Independence Party claims to be centre-ground. Feelings are running high all round.
I'm the submitter, and the title is mine, not Zonk's. And I stand by the language I used. This guy was charged with "incitement to racial hatred" - that's what the crime actually is called in the UK - and I don't think my shorthand for that as "hatespeak" is at all misrepresentative. I don't understand what you mean by "diverted away from the topic" - I posted this precisely because the slashdot community has strong interest in freedom of speech, and being imprisoned for three years for something someone said/wrote seems exactly on topic. Look, I hate racist thugs as much as any normal person, and this 'tard was especially disgusting, but I can't help thinking that if he'd gone out and actually physically assaulted someone, he would have got less than three years. That's the issue here and that's why I posted the story.
I'm the submitter and it's true I missed out an "almost" in front of "three years". Nevertheless, I don't think that makes my summary misleading - it's not like he wasn't given about three years. This seems to me rather an irrelevent nit, given the seriousness of this case - perhaps that's why the GP was modded Troll?.
I'm sorry but BS wasn't solving the problem, despite your desire that it would
The evidence simply doesn't support your assertion - unless you are claiming that the spammers retaliated against Blue Security despite the fact that BS's activities were not affecting the spammers.
Ask for volunteers. It works in other countries. Despite US turnout rates being lower than, say, Afghanistan, there surely must be enough civic-minded citizens to perform the job.
It's mind-boggling that the US system can make such a dog's breakfast of an activity that is simply counting.
Half of the joy of blocking ads is not wasting bandwidth on them.
It's the other way round : with "download, don't display" enabled, half the joy is knowing that the asshole is paying for the bandwidth, even though the ad never got displayed.
Even valleywag now seems to concede that this rumour is false. It was fun while it lasted.
Absolutely, it's still all nothing more than a single swirling rumour based on the valleywag IM, and the tantalising yet plausible contributions from some unknown poster on nanae.
But we all so want it to be true...
Indeed, I submitted this article with the headline "Spam King to Sing Like a Canary"
I RTFpdf and I don't see any mention of the single gaping hole in this proposed spam method, which renders it highly unattractive to spammers : the zombies will be short lived. Currently, zombies can only be identified by IP address (for those who can be bothered to dig through the spam email headers), but all that lets the target do is complain to the owner of the netblock on which the zombie lives - there is no way to contact the owner of the infected machine directly, via email. Netblock owners (typically ISPs) may or may not have the resources and motivation to follow up complaints.
With this proposed scheme, the recipient has an email address that ties directly to the zombied machine; they maybe even know the purported sender IRL. When the recipient receives such a spam, maybe even falls for the pitch and clicks through, the next thing they do is mail the owner of the zombie machine with a "wtf did you send me that for? are you infected with something?" Granted this won't happen /every/ time, but given the very nature of the relation between sender and recipient, follow-ups will occur very often - it's unlikely the zombie could get off more than a handful of such spoofs before the whistle was blown and the zombie machine's owner is alerted that something is afoot.
I can't see how zombies operating in the manner proposed could live undetected for very long at all; and I don't see the spammers valuing a very small number of deliveries in a very short time window (albeit with an increased chance of success), more than the thousands of potential deliveries over a long window that current zombies offer.
Adopting this technique would significantly reduce the average lifetime of a zombie infection, and therefore massively reduce the value of that zombie. I can't see the zombie gangmasters willingly slitting their own throats in this way.
Does anyone remember (and have a link?) the spoof password policy from *mumbles* years ago - it started off innocuously with things like "must not be a dictionary word" and "must include a number", progressed through things like "cannot repeat characters" and "characters must not be adjacent on the keyboard", until the last part was "There is only one password that meets these requirements - please ask your sysadmin to give it to you".
Utter nonsense. The main problem with GDP is that it counts all economic transactions, whether creative or destructive. So illness, crime, natural disasters all cause an increase in GDP.