Some people here have complained that this might not work because everyone on the planet would need to use it and even then spammers could use their own domains.
Certainly it's true that nearly everyone will need to get on board for this to work. Fortunately, it should be an easy update on both the MTA and DNS ends.
The real advantage here, I think, is that it will make filtering and blacklisting much easier. Instead of trying to filter on 18 zillion weird rules and scads of IP addresses, some of which may have some valid users, you just need to filter on domain names.
For this to work, we will need one or more trustworthy registries of bad domain names. And it should probably be distributed, with a way to continually update it by automatically propagating the list of bad domains to all clients. There should be a way to get a domain into the blacklist very quickly if anyone receives spam from that domain.
Alternatively, a system could be in place to treat all new domains as bad by default. That has obvious problems though -- how would you get your domain trusted? Would it require a VeriSign like identification process? I would oppose that -- I think people should be able to buy domains and freely run email servers on them without paying some central "authority."
My biggest concern with this idea is that I run a domain where I give out POP email addresses to people. I'm still trying to figure out how that will affect me.
I've shorted stocks before and have never seen a predetermined date that I had to buy them back nor have I had to pay a fee to the broker I borrowed it from (besides normal brokerage fees for the transactions).
Here in Salem, OR, Comcast was $45/month. A few months ago, they jacked it up $10, but gave you a $10 discount on any cable TV package. I didn't have any cable TV because I don't watch TV enough to justify paying for it, but basic cable is $10/month, so I was effectively forced to get it. I'm not particularly happy about it, but it's nice to be able to watch Jeopardy!, the only good thing on TV...
> (all the while mired in a preventable recession)
How exactly was the recession preventable? Cycles happen. Everyone understands that the tech sector sent our economy skyrocketing at unsustainable levels n the late 90s. Eventually it had to pop. And if you're blaming the recession on Bush, please remember that the slide really got going by April 2000, several months before the election.
Having said all that, as a mostly conservative guy, I *am* pretty ticked. I've been supporting Republicans most of my life on the apparently mistaken notion that they supported reducing the size of government. Guess it's time to switch to the Constitution Party...
Wouldn't PVR recorders tend to watch the commercials for products they are interested in and skip the ones that would obviously not apply?
And if they watched a commercial for a product they're interested in but missed a detail like an address or phone #, they could go back and retreive it.
So overall, it probably won't be as big a loss as is stated.
Now, if only advertisers would make commercials we want to see. Does anyone besides me make a mad dash for the Mute button every time Detrol's "gotta go gotta go gotta go right now" commercial comes on???
What if, say, a consultant uses GPL code as the basis for code developed for a customer. He gives the customer the executable and said offer for source code.
Now if I, as a third party, simply know of the existence of that deal, having nothing else to do with it, I can go ask for the source code?
Is there a way for the customer to keep the derived code for himself, if he does not wish to distribute it? (I understand that if he does distribute it, it must be under the terms of the GPL.)
If our Internet bill helped to fund the music industry, I would suddenly have an attitude that I can copy and download music freely without restriction.
Currently I believe that it is important to respect the owner's copyright and that music should be payed for, if the artists ask for payment.
My biggest gripe with 2.6 is that when I reboot, ethernet seems to be hosed, and I have to physically power the computer off and on or it just hangs while fetching DHCP info.
Background: God repeatedly told the ancient Israelites that if they disobeyed His law, they would be driven out of their promised land. But not permanently. Indeed that happened.
In spring or summer of the year 606 BC (verified historically), Israel lost its independence and the first deportation to Babylon occurred. The prophets predicted that this deportation would last 70 years, and indeed that was the case. A prophetic year in the Bible is always 360 days, not 365.25. 70 prophetic years/69.0 calendar years later, in 537 BC, Israel was allowed to return to their land. But some Israelites decided to stay in Babylon because they enjoyed the pagan life there.
In Ezekiel 4:3-6, it is clearly pointed out that Israel's punishment for this would be 430 years of captivity. The original 70 years were included in this, so we have 360 prophetic years left. Indeed, in the second century BC, Jews had more independence than normal, if not a full-blown kingdom. But, alas, they did not repent and return to God.
In Leviticus 26 verses 18, 21, 24, and 28, it is pointed out that the punishment for any continued disobedience would be multiplied by seven. If you take the 360 years that most of the Israelites were punished for continuing to live in their sin and multiply it by seven, you get 2520 prophetic years, or 907,200 days, or almost 2484 calendar years.
If we add 2484 calendar years to 537 BC, taking into account that there is no year zero, we end up with 1948.
Question for the history gurus: Do we know what happened in the spring of 1948?
Right -- Israel became a nation again, thus ending the number of years of captivity that Ezekiel prophecied -- right down to the season (spring)!
> Has a single prediction fortold in either that or the bible come true yet?
Yes. Lots and lots and lots of them. In fact, I challenge you to find something that has NOT been fulfilled, excepting the prophecies that talk about the end times or "the Day of the Lord." And those are starting to be fulfilled too, as this story points out.
> The word "rapture" isn't in the Bible, either, but it's a future event.
Actually, the greek Rapturo *is* in 1 Thesselonians 4, where it talks about us meeting the Lord in the air. It just isn't usually translated to Rapture in English.
Wait, so are you saying that if a copy of, say, Autocad or Mathematica were to mysteriously appear in my apartment (without me doing anything), I could legally use it?
> If you still find yourself occasionally watching tv and are annoyed at misleading ad campaigns, do what I do: dial the 1-800 number repeatedly over the course of the commercial's airing, making the advertiser's efforts counterproductive and sending a message that you're tired of being bombarded, emotionally manipulated and lied to.
What does that have to do with spam? At least a company is paying for TV time, paying for 800# phone lines, paying for operators, and there are ways of knowing exactly which company is advertising.
If their product is a scam, you can go after them through the FTC. If you don't want to watch their ad, change the channel.
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Some people here have complained that this might not work because everyone on the planet would need to use it and even then spammers could use their own domains.
Certainly it's true that nearly everyone will need to get on board for this to work. Fortunately, it should be an easy update on both the MTA and DNS ends.
The real advantage here, I think, is that it will make filtering and blacklisting much easier. Instead of trying to filter on 18 zillion weird rules and scads of IP addresses, some of which may have some valid users, you just need to filter on domain names.
For this to work, we will need one or more trustworthy registries of bad domain names. And it should probably be distributed, with a way to continually update it by automatically propagating the list of bad domains to all clients. There should be a way to get a domain into the blacklist very quickly if anyone receives spam from that domain.
Alternatively, a system could be in place to treat all new domains as bad by default. That has obvious problems though -- how would you get your domain trusted? Would it require a VeriSign like identification process? I would oppose that -- I think people should be able to buy domains and freely run email servers on them without paying some central "authority."
My biggest concern with this idea is that I run a domain where I give out POP email addresses to people. I'm still trying to figure out how that will affect me.
If you like Risk, there's always TEG. No 3D graphics or even sound, but somehow I got addicted to it.
Just get version 0.10.x (for Gnome 1) because 0.11 (for Gnome 2.x) crashes under Gnome 2.2 and 2.4 (only works in 2.0).
> The real issue was letting Halliburton and other corporations that gave millions in "campaign contributons" access to Iraq's oil.
If you really believe that, you have an unjustifiably low view of Bush.
I'm not Bush's biggest fan, but to think this whole war effort was JUST to reward rich campaign contributors is ridiculous.
Of course, if they GPL's Solaris, you can bet that SCO would be after them quick for IP violation. :/
I've shorted stocks before and have never seen a predetermined date that I had to buy them back nor have I had to pay a fee to the broker I borrowed it from (besides normal brokerage fees for the transactions).
Or you could just use Twisted and make it relatively easy ...
Here in Salem, OR, Comcast was $45/month. A few months ago, they jacked it up $10, but gave you a $10 discount on any cable TV package. I didn't have any cable TV because I don't watch TV enough to justify paying for it, but basic cable is $10/month, so I was effectively forced to get it. I'm not particularly happy about it, but it's nice to be able to watch Jeopardy!, the only good thing on TV...
> (all the while mired in a preventable recession)
How exactly was the recession preventable? Cycles happen. Everyone understands that the tech sector sent our economy skyrocketing at unsustainable levels n the late 90s. Eventually it had to pop. And if you're blaming the recession on Bush, please remember that the slide really got going by April 2000, several months before the election.
Having said all that, as a mostly conservative guy, I *am* pretty ticked. I've been supporting Republicans most of my life on the apparently mistaken notion that they supported reducing the size of government. Guess it's time to switch to the Constitution Party...
I agree. This is just making SSC look bad. Perhaps some of us could write them and persuade them to do the right thing and drop this?
A fight like this is the last thing the community needs.
Wouldn't PVR recorders tend to watch the commercials for products they are interested in and skip the ones that would obviously not apply?
And if they watched a commercial for a product they're interested in but missed a detail like an address or phone #, they could go back and retreive it.
So overall, it probably won't be as big a loss as is stated.
Now, if only advertisers would make commercials we want to see. Does anyone besides me make a mad dash for the Mute button every time Detrol's "gotta go gotta go gotta go right now" commercial comes on???
Whoa, I wasn't aware of that.
What if, say, a consultant uses GPL code as the basis for code developed for a customer. He gives the customer the executable and said offer for source code.
Now if I, as a third party, simply know of the existence of that deal, having nothing else to do with it, I can go ask for the source code?
Is there a way for the customer to keep the derived code for himself, if he does not wish to distribute it? (I understand that if he does distribute it, it must be under the terms of the GPL.)
If our Internet bill helped to fund the music industry, I would suddenly have an attitude that I can copy and download music freely without restriction.
Currently I believe that it is important to respect the owner's copyright and that music should be payed for, if the artists ask for payment.
Disagree.
It's news for nerds. I like hearing about this stuff, and Slashdot discussions about new distributions and new kernels are usually interesting.
Their wonderful IIS sure didn't stand up well to a Slashdotting.
Remind me again why I don't switch from Apache?
My biggest gripe with 2.6 is that when I reboot, ethernet seems to be hosed, and I have to physically power the computer off and on or it just hangs while fetching DHCP info.
I have a 3C905b. Hope they fix this!
With Gentoo you can be as experimental, or as stable, as you want.
:) Works great.
I'm running test10 and KDE 3.2beta, all emerged from ebuilds.
Huh. I recently compiled test10 with preempting on, and it works fine.
> If I remember correctly doesn't it also mean that anyone who does take the mark is damned?
There is evidence for that, yes.
BibleGateway search showing what will happen to those who accept the Mark and worship the image.
Here is one that IMHO is quite profound.
e zekiel_4_3.htm
c a/trinity/jerusalem.html (a follow up which aims to fix a perceived error in the above link)
Background: God repeatedly told the ancient Israelites that if they disobeyed His law, they would be driven out of their promised land. But not permanently. Indeed that happened.
In spring or summer of the year 606 BC (verified historically), Israel lost its independence and the first deportation to Babylon occurred. The prophets predicted that this deportation would last 70 years, and indeed that was the case. A prophetic year in the Bible is always 360 days, not 365.25. 70 prophetic years/69.0 calendar years later, in 537 BC, Israel was allowed to return to their land. But some Israelites decided to stay in Babylon because they enjoyed the pagan life there.
In Ezekiel 4:3-6, it is clearly pointed out that Israel's punishment for this would be 430 years of captivity. The original 70 years were included in this, so we have 360 prophetic years left. Indeed, in the second century BC, Jews had more independence than normal, if not a full-blown kingdom. But, alas, they did not repent and return to God.
In Leviticus 26 verses 18, 21, 24, and 28, it is pointed out that the punishment for any continued disobedience would be multiplied by seven. If you take the 360 years that most of the Israelites were punished for continuing to live in their sin and multiply it by seven, you get 2520 prophetic years, or 907,200 days, or almost 2484 calendar years.
If we add 2484 calendar years to 537 BC, taking into account that there is no year zero, we end up with 1948.
Question for the history gurus: Do we know what happened in the spring of 1948?
Right -- Israel became a nation again, thus ending the number of years of captivity that Ezekiel prophecied -- right down to the season (spring)!
References:
http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/
http://yfiles.com/y3nf.html
http://www.direct.
> Has a single prediction fortold in either that or the bible come true yet?
Yes. Lots and lots and lots of them. In fact, I challenge you to find something that has NOT been fulfilled, excepting the prophecies that talk about the end times or "the Day of the Lord." And those are starting to be fulfilled too, as this story points out.
See for yourself.
> The word "rapture" isn't in the Bible, either, but it's a future event.
Actually, the greek Rapturo *is* in 1 Thesselonians 4, where it talks about us meeting the Lord in the air. It just isn't usually translated to Rapture in English.
Wait, so are you saying that if a copy of, say, Autocad or Mathematica were to mysteriously appear in my apartment (without me doing anything), I could legally use it?
I dunno, but that doesn't sound quite right.
On the topic of blogs, I've recently had a brainfart idea that's in my journal. I want to see an open source CMS as an Apache module in C!
Linkage
As for ease of use, it would certainly require a geek to set up, but after that I don't think it would be particularly difficult to use.
I just think the current OSS CMSs fall short in some areas (performance being one) and this could really help.
> If you still find yourself occasionally watching tv and are annoyed at misleading ad campaigns, do what I do: dial the 1-800 number repeatedly over the course of the commercial's airing, making the advertiser's efforts counterproductive and sending a message that you're tired of being bombarded, emotionally manipulated and lied to.
What does that have to do with spam? At least a company is paying for TV time, paying for 800# phone lines, paying for operators, and there are ways of knowing exactly which company is advertising.
If their product is a scam, you can go after them through the FTC. If you don't want to watch their ad, change the channel.
Huh? OOo has quite a number of features that AbiWord lacks. And some of them will be important to large users.
AbiWord is fine for simpler documents though.
I *do* agree that Gnumeric is great, and it's prettier than OOo Calc.