I'm sure it took Mark more than a day to get a reward for his work.
And I'm sure he wasn't working on the case full-time. It'd take a few hours to write up your case and file it, perhaps a few more hours sitting in court. Most of the time you're just sitting around waiting for the hearing, so why not have five or more cases on the go simultaneously..?
Here's a business plan for you;
post generously to usenet and/or a few web forums using your real address.
OPT-OUT of everything. Keep records.
pick out one or two 'local' spams per day from the 200+ that you'd soon be getting.
spend a few hours per day either at court, or documenting your next case.
Collect about $500 per day tax free, for very little effort.
Yeah.. I think that anyone who has learned Japanese will have a better understanding of how to speak French, anyway.
And you'd be right.
Learning a second language is very hard. Learning a third or fourth language is MUCH easier. If you've already learned Japanese, you'll be able to pick up French relatively easily.
If I lived in the USA I would definately register myself as a corporation. Then I could pay ZERO taxes (microsoft.com) and KILL people (union carbide / dow.com) and flood p2p networks with crap (riaa.com) and all kinds of other shit that would have a regular person in the slammer faster than you can blink...
Good point; if we had a slashdot poll of "why we're buying less CD's", and the options were:
Because there's no good music, at best you get perhaps two good tracks and the rest sucks.
Because I refuse to support a corrupt music industry.
Because I can't play them on my PC or rip them to MP3 for my portable player.
Because they're too expensive.
It's too late now because the story's already run, but if that'd been last weeks poll I imagine the last option would've scored about three percent. Does that make the RIAA right?
Another point of view; The RIAA know that they're not really selling less CD's. They're making less CD's and selling more of each on average. 97% of the population are clueless and just buy whatever Clear Channel's been paid to put on the top 100 this week..
Set up your servers with a different IP for each route. Set up DNS inside your network so that the DNS server on one interface returns IP addresses that go through that interface, and vice-versa.. with a short expiry time.
If the main link goes down, so does the primary nameserver. The secondary nameserver (on the backup link) then returns IP's that are routed through the backup link.
This should work, but it probably goes against several RFC's..
Or you can probably download the full retail version of Adobe through edonkey or kazaa.. normally I wouldn't advocate warez, but Adobe's a special case. Think Dmitry.
I'd probably render the pdf into a very high res ppm then use pnmcrop to cut it down to individual pages. Unless gs can do the whole thing directly; I didn't actually bother to check.:)
So what's wrong with putting it up on a website somewhere? Charge either a flat rate for some reasonable number (hundreds, not 10-25!!) of downloads, or a small (10c, not $1?) fee per song.
Right now they're making NOTHING off music they refuse to sell. Making it available would cost peanuts, make people like me happy, and they could make slightly greater than nothing from it. What's the problem?!!
And it'll get shared? I wish! I'd rather pay 10c and get one guaranteed good copy than go to kazaa, find almost nobody has it, download three mislabled and/or corrupted tracks, and finally settle for a copy that sounds like it was recorded at 64kbps and resampled to 160kbps to make it look bigger.
Well, in terms of Spamassassin, you could create rules which subtracts a particular number of points from the spam score of any particular message, rather than letting it through automatically, which gives it a better chance to go through if it's a pretty un-spam-like content.
You mean like this?
USER_IN_WHITELIST (-100.0 points) From: address is in the user's white-list
Nobody wins an election by tampering with one or two votes. If a couple of hundred or even a couple of dozen people claim their vote was recorded wrong, that's mighty suspicious. Take it to the press, whatever. Then a few more people will check. Someone's going to have some difficult questions to answer. Knowing there might be a problem is a step in the right direction; right now there's no real confirmation of how your vote ACTUALLY got counted. A bit of paper that says what button you pressed is worthless unless voters can prove that same choice went right through to the final count..
The computer assigns them a unique (some digits are unique to this machine, the rest the machine keeps track of so it never gives out the same number twice) pseudorandom number and they make a vote. The number and their vote gets sent to wherever votes get officially counted, and at the same time both are printed out on a reciept for them to take home.
After the election the entire list of random numbers and corresponding votes is made available to the voting public, preferably in electronic form. I'm thinking a large text file on CD; a 50 digit random number and the results of about 50 different 'options' as a single alphanumeric character each, one line per vote, is less than 128bytes. 8 votes per KB. 4,800,000 voters per CD without compression.
Walk into your local courthouse and have the raw votes for burned to CD in 10 minutes.
Anyone who wants to can count those votes and make sure that they get the same result as the official government vote counters. Not too hard if the election results are available as a flat text file.
They can also check that the total number of votes matches the reported 'voter turnout' on the day.
And anyone who wants can also search through the file for their own unique number and make sure the correct votes have been recorded next to it.
The system is about as simple as any I can think of, completely transparent, still anonymous, and I predict it will never happen in America for exactly those reasons.
No, kiss goodbye rigging the elections and nobody being able to prove you did it.
Here's a hypothetical example. Some guy runs for his state; nobody really likes him that much and all the pre-election predictions are for the other guy. Then he wins, although the 'exit polls' suggest that most people were actually voting for the other guy. Then it turns out that he used to be the CEO of the company that makes the all-electronic voting machines used in this election, and a few people think this is mighty odd but there's no way to prove anything because his machines don't include any kind of audit capability.
.. That could happen, but it's certainly no more likely than hacking [secure-downloads.com], changing the file, and having the new trojanned binary delivered from their own server through a secure connection signed with their own key.
Slashdot Mirror
Just in case Google ever gets slashdotted, here's a mirror
Stupid question. Check google of course!!
And I'm sure he wasn't working on the case full-time. It'd take a few hours to write up your case and file it, perhaps a few more hours sitting in court. Most of the time you're just sitting around waiting for the hearing, so why not have five or more cases on the go simultaneously..?
Here's a business plan for you;
Yeah.. I think that anyone who has learned Japanese will have a better understanding of how to speak French, anyway.
And you'd be right.
Learning a second language is very hard. Learning a third or fourth language is MUCH easier. If you've already learned Japanese, you'll be able to pick up French relatively easily.
If I lived in the USA I would definately register myself as a corporation. Then I could pay ZERO taxes (microsoft.com) and KILL people (union carbide / dow.com) and flood p2p networks with crap (riaa.com) and all kinds of other shit that would have a regular person in the slammer faster than you can blink...
Check out my Analog Hole
It's too late now because the story's already run, but if that'd been last weeks poll I imagine the last option would've scored about three percent. Does that make the RIAA right?
Another point of view; The RIAA know that they're not really selling less CD's. They're making less CD's and selling more of each on average. 97% of the population are clueless and just buy whatever Clear Channel's been paid to put on the top 100 this week..
How about Stupid White Men?
You work for Microsoft? :)
"RFC's - Rules For Competitors"
Set up your servers with a different IP for each route. Set up DNS inside your network so that the DNS server on one interface returns IP addresses that go through that interface, and vice-versa.. with a short expiry time.
If the main link goes down, so does the primary nameserver. The secondary nameserver (on the backup link) then returns IP's that are routed through the backup link.
This should work, but it probably goes against several RFC's..
Good point. Fuck adobe. Use ghostscript!
Or you can probably download the full retail version of Adobe through edonkey or kazaa.. normally I wouldn't advocate warez, but Adobe's a special case. Think Dmitry.
I'd probably render the pdf into a very high res ppm then use pnmcrop to cut it down to individual pages. Unless gs can do the whole thing directly; I didn't actually bother to check. :)
So what's wrong with putting it up on a website somewhere? Charge either a flat rate for some reasonable number (hundreds, not 10-25!!) of downloads, or a small (10c, not $1?) fee per song.
Right now they're making NOTHING off music they refuse to sell. Making it available would cost peanuts, make people like me happy, and they could make slightly greater than nothing from it. What's the problem?!!
And it'll get shared? I wish! I'd rather pay 10c and get one guaranteed good copy than go to kazaa, find almost nobody has it, download three mislabled and/or corrupted tracks, and finally settle for a copy that sounds like it was recorded at 64kbps and resampled to 160kbps to make it look bigger.
Just compress 4 minutes and 33 seconds of /dev/null into an mp3, and you'll qualify!
`alias kn="killall -9 netscape-navigator"`
Not so much for the popups (although it helps) but just because netscape is a bitch and locks up way too often.
..the first recorded blog ?, the first mail promising increased penis size?
When google groups went up, the did specifically mention the first major 'spam' (C Greencard) in their press release.
It all went to shit after that.
Well, in terms of Spamassassin, you could create rules which subtracts a particular number of points from the spam score of any particular message, rather than letting it through automatically, which gives it a better chance to go through if it's a pretty un-spam-like content.
You mean like this?
USER_IN_WHITELIST (-100.0 points) From: address is in the user's white-list
ramzak2k+site:slashdot.org might work better..
Nobody wins an election by tampering with one or two votes. If a couple of hundred or even a couple of dozen people claim their vote was recorded wrong, that's mighty suspicious. Take it to the press, whatever. Then a few more people will check. Someone's going to have some difficult questions to answer. Knowing there might be a problem is a step in the right direction; right now there's no real confirmation of how your vote ACTUALLY got counted. A bit of paper that says what button you pressed is worthless unless voters can prove that same choice went right through to the final count..
Pay attention.
The computer assigns them a unique (some digits are unique to this machine, the rest the machine keeps track of so it never gives out the same number twice) pseudorandom number and they make a vote. The number and their vote gets sent to wherever votes get officially counted, and at the same time both are printed out on a reciept for them to take home.
After the election the entire list of random numbers and corresponding votes is made available to the voting public, preferably in electronic form. I'm thinking a large text file on CD; a 50 digit random number and the results of about 50 different 'options' as a single alphanumeric character each, one line per vote, is less than 128bytes. 8 votes per KB. 4,800,000 voters per CD without compression.
Walk into your local courthouse and have the raw votes for burned to CD in 10 minutes.
Anyone who wants to can count those votes and make sure that they get the same result as the official government vote counters. Not too hard if the election results are available as a flat text file.
They can also check that the total number of votes matches the reported 'voter turnout' on the day.
And anyone who wants can also search through the file for their own unique number and make sure the correct votes have been recorded next to it.
The system is about as simple as any I can think of, completely transparent, still anonymous, and I predict it will never happen in America for exactly those reasons.
Exit polls are like the canary in the coal mine.
Your canary's just dropped dead, and you're telling me "well, you know canaries don't always live that long. Perhaps it was just old."
Times like this I'm glad I live in a country that still has hand-counted paper ballots.
No, kiss goodbye rigging the elections and nobody being able to prove you did it.
Here's a hypothetical example. Some guy runs for his state; nobody really likes him that much and all the pre-election predictions are for the other guy. Then he wins, although the 'exit polls' suggest that most people were actually voting for the other guy. Then it turns out that he used to be the CEO of the company that makes the all-electronic voting machines used in this election, and a few people think this is mighty odd but there's no way to prove anything because his machines don't include any kind of audit capability.
I wish this was actually hypothetical.
http://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/courses/
.. That could happen, but it's certainly no more likely than hacking [secure-downloads.com], changing the file, and having the new trojanned binary delivered from their own server through a secure connection signed with their own key.