Sounds like a great way to launder large amounts of cash. Rocco spends a ton of money in-game from a non-extraditable country, and 'sells' it all to Vinnie's character, who cashes out, happily legal and flush.
The only problem with this is that in order to put money into the game, you have to have a credit card.
If you can get your dirty money into an off-shore bank account and get credit card to use for it, what the heck do you need to launder it for?
I used TheDraw quite a lot too. I mainly had to use it when AcidDraw would muck up the Ansicodes that the BBS software I ran used. I was no Sysop for 7 years, but was for about 2. From 1993-1995, then I stopped and went online. IRC kicked ass compared to a single node BBS.
In the Art scene (Ansi/Ascii), it was not uncommon for us to have a 1000 line banner as an entrance onto the BBS. For kicks, you might want to check out some of the old Acidpacks from cdrom.com (ftp.cdrom.com/pub/artpacks). 1996 was probably my favorite year.
Indeed, I did forget that TheDraw saved to C/Pascal, now that I think about it, it was also the only one to let you record animations. Hooptie's drawing program may have also let you do animation, but it's been so long that I can't remember.
All in all, good memories. Let me also give you a couple of my favorite ansi artists (well, favorite off the top of my head). Lord Jazz, Killahertz, Beastie, Jed... hrm, well, go look at those, while you're looking, you will see plenty;)
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Wrong. Thedraw's only supported 25line Ansi, or was it 50? AcidDraw had a 1000 line limit, along with almost all of TheDraw's features. It would even let you view the ANSI as a GIF, meaning it would basically just raise the resolution on the picture. It was pretty sweet. Note, I'm not even saying that AcidDraw was better than TheDraw, Hooptie's program was the best, and I can't even remember what the heck it was called. How do I know all of this? Click on my name to view my info, you'll see.
Let's be honest about it: music is just a branch of the sex industry.
Oh really? I'm damn sure not thinking about sex when I'm listening to Rachmaninov, or any of Mozart's operas. Fear Factory doesn't make me think about sex, it makes me want to kick someone's ass, or yell at them. Opeth, Therion,.... I'm listening to them in my head right now, waiting for a hard-on, but it just isn't going to happen.
Do you think music is nothing more than MTV? Britney Spears is nothing more than a pair of singing, bouncing tits on your TV? Fine, but don't be honest with us, be honest with yourself.
Don't confuse musical creativity (or whatever it passes for in 90% of all music) with anything related to sex. It is possible that a song was written by someone hoping to get laid, but that's not the same thing.
I used to be an assistant editor at Marvel Comics, and if you let "Spiderman" get into print, you would fear for your job. Something about diluting the trademark...
Can you please explain this? Isn't there a comic called "Spiderman" ? How does referring to it in print dilute it?
C'mon, where are the obligatory Quake3/UT FPS statistics? I want to know if I'm going to get 1,000,045 FPS or 1,000,0053 FPS. Don't they read Tom's Hardware?
Wouldn't that be funny? They wait for the police to get into full riot gear, then they slime. The padding in the gear would probably stop the majority of broken bones.
Imagine if people protesting outside of an abortion clinic have this kind of stuff. Some of those people wouldn't think twice about breaking someone else's bones, but want to stop abortion at all cost.
Bank robbers could use this to get away; a cop gets in your way, slime him/them and off you go, preferably in the opposite direction.
This stuff could be used in any type of chase, kind of hard to follow when you can't walk or run.
wherein you prepay for mp3 credits at a price of 20 downloads for $14.97
Damn, $14.97 for 20 songs, and you get NO media? Where are the production costs in that? The song is already recorded, all they have to do is just let you download it once. Sounds like a huge ripoff to me.
I'm not sure if you mean "who delivers the eulogy", or maybe you're making some European reference to the person who creates a page about their demise and puts it into Google's cache?
Either way, eugoogly is pretty funny. 'Yougooglie'
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are some great products:
LBCs - Lazy Boy in a Can, for the soldier out on the battlefield that needs to relax for a while. Can be used with the...
SBCCs - Superbowl Commericals in a Can, for the soldier caught out in battle and unable to tune into the superbowl. After all, who cares who wins or loses, the commercials are what count!
BJCs - Blowjob in a can. This was created by the sex toy industry, and was licensed by Uncle Sam for the "protection" of our boys overseas. (Has been tested under battlefield conditions.)
OBLCs - Osama Bin Laden in a Can, developed by army engineers with help from the "Dolly" project, this secret device will be used if we are unable to locate the real Osama Bin Laden. Everyday soldiers can have fun with their Osama in a Can by making him do silly stunts, and recording the insane hijinks on....
CCC - CamCorder in a Can. Send in your funny battlefield tapes to America's funniest Battlefield videos, and win an MRE!
Ebay is fraud prone, that's why I *protect* my transactions by using
Paypal!. I have never been let down with Paypal, and I protect ALL of my online figurine buying power using Paypal.
Oh wait, checking email..... WHAT? I paid $1000 for a figurine and didn't get it? DAMN!
The main difference is that since something like that wouldn't happen at the client level, you couldn't set it up unless you had server access (or you created user controls for something like this). Sure, at the server level you could create an alias for it, but that's it (Or is it?). Something that is differentiated by something located in the body of the email(ie in this case, a nametag) is something that a client is has more control over.
Another thing is that when Hotmail.com sells your email address, they can't sell your nametags. (Unless they start checking all of the outgoing mail, which isn't impossible, but impractical).
Your idea has merit, but I dislike it because a spammer wouldn't be required to change anything in their software to grab it. (Of course, the flipside of that is that neither would anyone else). This makes me wonder if maybe an obfuscated email address that is a complete MD5 hash like d6e6cb19e3b9c02f89d6cd54cfa7c613@example.com is the answer. But again, I come to think that it's just something that can be added (easily) to a spammer's list.
Bleh. I think I'm for changing the email standard to something that makes spam something almost impossible. Something that could be done at the client level. I'm open for ideas, I guess;)
Well that's the point! Put another way: How is this scheme of warding off spam any different from not publishing your email address in the first place?
I disagree. What about when you get spam even though you haven't published your email address anywhere, or to anyone? (Spammers can just connect to an email server, and start picking names and sending those addresses spam) The difference is that you would still get the spam email, but that it wouldn't be in your normal email box, or even seen at all (or you could bounce non-correct nametag email back to sender asking for a correct nametag, or even suggesting a nametag).
And it wouldn't really stop you from getting unsolicited email, just unsolicited email from people who don't have a valid name tag. The difference? Wherever you post your email address, include the nametag that you want people from that particular place to use.
This scheme would be open to Replay attacks? Well, anyone getting cc'd my email would probably be someone who I wouldn't mind giving it to anyway, (I say this because I have never heard of any of the people I send email to forwarding it to a spammer), but a business that you email with a nametag, if you start getting spam back with that nametag, you retire it and also stop using that business. How's that?
I still don't see why anything other than the email client would need this functionality. To the server, it would still be the same old email. I don't see a need to modify the email header, even though that probably wouldn't hurt. It could just be a part of the body. Nametag:"Md5hashhere". That as part of a.sig would be no problem.
It is different because the name tag would be an MD5 hash. If you're not sure what an Md5 hash is, look it up. The main difference is that prudan+business@example.com is a plaintext address, whereas prudan@example.com nametagsomewhere in email:{d6e6cb19e3b9c02f89d6cd54cfa7c613} is a lot different, and doesn't immediately stand out that it's the business name. Also, that's the md5 hash for "Business".
submitted what I'm pleased to say is our first apple.slashdot.org story
Sizable Apple population? Where the hell is windows.slashdot.org? Sizable population there too! Linux.slashdot.org? I imagine that it could be construed that slashdot.org IS linux.slashdot.org. Go ahead, moderate me as a troll, but this begs the question!
You have to inform everyone that you're communicating with of your name.
That's part of its strength. Heck, you said yourself that you have to inform everyone of your email address, I mentioned in my original comment that you would tell them your "name" at the same time. How is that hard? How is that any different than giving them your email address to begin with? What this would do would be to reduce the amount of unsolicited email you see, yet people that write to you that have your "name" and address would be people who probably have something to say other than "I have a great offer for you!", and would be people that have atleast seen your name somewhere besides a Spammer's hotlist.
Yes, adding it to every email client would be far from trivial. But adding to any "standard" requires upgrades of software. If you think about it, almost everything from browser upgrades, to OS upgrades are all non-trivial, but they are still done, and done often. Who's to say that Outlook couldn't support this in its next version?
And yes, it will not reduce bandwidth consumption, but if you think about it, it has more of an ability to reduce the value of spam over all, which could reduce bandwidth consumption itself.
This is mostly on topic, but a little off because it doesn't soley deal with Asian address blocking.
The idea goes like this:
Why not have a sort of "Name" tag in email. This tag could be an MD5 Hash of anything you want. If the people who sent you the email knew your name, or any valid name tag that you gave them (Multiple Name tags would be simple, just sort them into folders) You could just supply the "Name" with your email address, something like "Yeah, email me at prudan@example.com, name tag (prudan)" Anything that doesn't have your name tag would be sorted into a spam / unknown folder, or you could even bounce it back saying that the name was invalid.
Some pros and cons to the idea:
Pros:
It will require more processing power for spammers to send out lots and lots of spam. Each message would need its own checksum if they are guessing at a valid name tag.
This would really make it so that you have different email addresses, without all the aliasing. You want to use a business address? Make one of your name tags "Business", and assign that nametag to a folder just for that.
Adding this to email clients would be a trivial task.
Done at the client level, so it adds no server processing overhead.
Cons:
Spammers will start trading name tags too, so changing your MAIN name tag every so often would probably be necessary.
Getting this to be accepted everywhere would be quite a chore.
While some spam being transmitted by Asian servers appears to be sent by the locals, Western spammers are exploiting Asian mail servers and using them to relay mail.Many Asian systems often run old software or software that hasn't been configured securely or patched properly, experts say.
Well, if people can exploit the problem and get a response from the sysadmins saying "I can't do anything about it", maybe instead of us blocking their servers (quite easy to do), someone should put on a blackhat and go patch some of those holes. (This came up and was heavily discussed during the Code Red and Nimda attacks.)
I dunno, but I think a moral hacker would find it quite rewarding to screw up a spam creaters cash cow.
Getting your ip banned from Slashdot because someone used this service for unblockable? trolling. Heck, imagine some slick spammer figuring out a way to exploit this proxy into millions of free, anonymous spam. (How? I don't know.)
Hopefully the good will outweigh the bad, to that end I imagine that the test of time will tell.
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If you can get your dirty money into an off-shore bank account and get credit card to use for it, what the heck do you need to launder it for?
In the Art scene (Ansi/Ascii), it was not uncommon for us to have a 1000 line banner as an entrance onto the BBS. For kicks, you might want to check out some of the old Acidpacks from cdrom.com (ftp.cdrom.com/pub/artpacks). 1996 was probably my favorite year.
Indeed, I did forget that TheDraw saved to C/Pascal, now that I think about it, it was also the only one to let you record animations. Hooptie's drawing program may have also let you do animation, but it's been so long that I can't remember.
All in all, good memories. Let me also give you a couple of my favorite ansi artists (well, favorite off the top of my head). Lord Jazz, Killahertz, Beastie, Jed... hrm, well, go look at those, while you're looking, you will see plenty ;)
Wrong. Thedraw's only supported 25line Ansi, or was it 50? AcidDraw had a 1000 line limit, along with almost all of TheDraw's features. It would even let you view the ANSI as a GIF, meaning it would basically just raise the resolution on the picture. It was pretty sweet.
Note, I'm not even saying that AcidDraw was better than TheDraw, Hooptie's program was the best, and I can't even remember what the heck it was called. How do I know all of this? Click on my name to view my info, you'll see.
No kidding. Don't forget about Asia Carrera, who is a member of Mensa. I imagine that would make for some very nerdy pillow talk.
Do you think music is nothing more than MTV? Britney Spears is nothing more than a pair of singing, bouncing tits on your TV? Fine, but don't be honest with us, be honest with yourself.
Don't confuse musical creativity (or whatever it passes for in 90% of all music) with anything related to sex. It is possible that a song was written by someone hoping to get laid, but that's not the same thing.
Thanks!
Heh
Imagine if people protesting outside of an abortion clinic have this kind of stuff. Some of those people wouldn't think twice about breaking someone else's bones, but want to stop abortion at all cost.
Bank robbers could use this to get away; a cop gets in your way, slime him/them and off you go, preferably in the opposite direction.
This stuff could be used in any type of chase, kind of hard to follow when you can't walk or run.
Well said, and something that needed to be said. I agree wholeheartedly.
Heh.
Kind of funny that you have an account here but didn't know that.
Either way, eugoogly is pretty funny. 'Yougooglie'
LBCs - Lazy Boy in a Can, for the soldier out on the battlefield that needs to relax for a while. Can be used with the ...
SBCCs - Superbowl Commericals in a Can, for the soldier caught out in battle and unable to tune into the superbowl. After all, who cares who wins or loses, the commercials are what count!
BJCs - Blowjob in a can. This was created by the sex toy industry, and was licensed by Uncle Sam for the "protection" of our boys overseas. (Has been tested under battlefield conditions.)
OBLCs - Osama Bin Laden in a Can, developed by army engineers with help from the "Dolly" project, this secret device will be used if we are unable to locate the real Osama Bin Laden. Everyday soldiers can have fun with their Osama in a Can by making him do silly stunts, and recording the insane hijinks on....
CCC - CamCorder in a Can. Send in your funny battlefield tapes to America's funniest Battlefield videos, and win an MRE!
I just had waaay too much fun with this ;)
Oh wait, checking email... .. WHAT? I paid $1000 for a figurine and didn't get it? DAMN!
Another thing is that when Hotmail.com sells your email address, they can't sell your nametags. (Unless they start checking all of the outgoing mail, which isn't impossible, but impractical).
Your idea has merit, but I dislike it because a spammer wouldn't be required to change anything in their software to grab it. (Of course, the flipside of that is that neither would anyone else). This makes me wonder if maybe an obfuscated email address that is a complete MD5 hash like d6e6cb19e3b9c02f89d6cd54cfa7c613@example.com is the answer. But again, I come to think that it's just something that can be added (easily) to a spammer's list.
Bleh. I think I'm for changing the email standard to something that makes spam something almost impossible. Something that could be done at the client level. I'm open for ideas, I guess ;)
And it wouldn't really stop you from getting unsolicited email, just unsolicited email from people who don't have a valid name tag. The difference? Wherever you post your email address, include the nametag that you want people from that particular place to use.
This scheme would be open to Replay attacks? Well, anyone getting cc'd my email would probably be someone who I wouldn't mind giving it to anyway, (I say this because I have never heard of any of the people I send email to forwarding it to a spammer), but a business that you email with a nametag, if you start getting spam back with that nametag, you retire it and also stop using that business. How's that?
I still don't see why anything other than the email client would need this functionality. To the server, it would still be the same old email. I don't see a need to modify the email header, even though that probably wouldn't hurt. It could just be a part of the body. Nametag:"Md5hashhere". That as part of a .sig would be no problem.
It is different because the name tag would be an MD5 hash. If you're not sure what an Md5 hash is, look it up. The main difference is that prudan+business@example.com is a plaintext address, whereas prudan@example.com nametagsomewhere in email:{d6e6cb19e3b9c02f89d6cd54cfa7c613} is a lot different, and doesn't immediately stand out that it's the business name. Also, that's the md5 hash for "Business".
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Yes, adding it to every email client would be far from trivial. But adding to any "standard" requires upgrades of software. If you think about it, almost everything from browser upgrades, to OS upgrades are all non-trivial, but they are still done, and done often. Who's to say that Outlook couldn't support this in its next version?
And yes, it will not reduce bandwidth consumption, but if you think about it, it has more of an ability to reduce the value of spam over all, which could reduce bandwidth consumption itself.
The idea goes like this:
Why not have a sort of "Name" tag in email. This tag could be an MD5 Hash of anything you want. If the people who sent you the email knew your name, or any valid name tag that you gave them (Multiple Name tags would be simple, just sort them into folders) You could just supply the "Name" with your email address, something like "Yeah, email me at prudan@example.com, name tag (prudan)" Anything that doesn't have your name tag would be sorted into a spam / unknown folder, or you could even bounce it back saying that the name was invalid.
Some pros and cons to the idea:
Pros:
It will require more processing power for spammers to send out lots and lots of spam. Each message would need its own checksum if they are guessing at a valid name tag.
This would really make it so that you have different email addresses, without all the aliasing. You want to use a business address? Make one of your name tags "Business", and assign that nametag to a folder just for that.
Adding this to email clients would be a trivial task.
Done at the client level, so it adds no server processing overhead.
Cons:
Spammers will start trading name tags too, so changing your MAIN name tag every so often would probably be necessary.
Getting this to be accepted everywhere would be quite a chore.
Maybe this won't work. I don't know.
I dunno, but I think a moral hacker would find it quite rewarding to screw up a spam creaters cash cow.
Hopefully the good will outweigh the bad, to that end I imagine that the test of time will tell.