This is exactly why I sneak all my electronic bits into some company's dumpster, or break it apart to the point it is not obvious to the garbage guys and mix it with my coffee grounds and so on.
That way, the poluting elements stay in landfills in 1st world countries where they can be somewhat dealt with. Who knows, maybe some day someone will figure out a way to dig that stuff up, process it and get a pile of various raw materials. They were put in the electronics at some point, so they are used....
Seriously, why pay 30 bucks to "recycle" something that's going to get thrown in the trash anyway. It's just a scam by some cities to punish rich people. All this fuss about lead in monitors when it is LEADED GLASS that has the lead mostly locked away. Nobody fusses when a broken leaded glass wine goblet gets thown out... Plus, big evil computers are the problem, not fourty-million crappy consumer electronics, car parts, or whatever else the regular Joe Sixpack throws out. Throw out a boom box, no biggie, throw out a computer or HD and the local treehugger wench gets all upset.
Until these issues are worked out, I call BS on all of it and will continue to do whatever is easiest. There is NO reason doing the right thing (putting stuff in a place it can be dealt with) should cost me a couple hundred bucks a year.
Unless he is doing something really novel, like relying on computational power elsewhere to do the compression.
I have seen articles about algorithms that allow you to calculate the value of any decimal place in Pi.
Plus, additional ones that allow you to prove (in a mathematical way) that any given string of characters you care to wish for are present in some location somewhere in the Pi decimal string.
SO the first point allows you to decompress knowing the beginning and ending values, and the second point allows you to pick some pretty long strings.
That would not really be compression, but more of a lookup table or code that allows anybody to have the table (or recompute it as necessary).
I agree, completely bogus. For one, you would need to pay lots of attention to the quality of the paper and resolution of the printer to the point it would BE the point of this method of data storage. Paper, is a piss poor medium for really precise images. Plastic or foil would be much better. But this guy mentions that only in passing.
I recall lots of talk of holographic storage and how a cube of some size stores X. So far real practical data storage has not come of that either.
Send your investment checks elsewhere, in other words.
The purchase of the product pushed in spam is not the method. Its the Spammer selling 20,000 page impressions to the hapless dumbass small business owner, or other crook.
Basically, the spammer gets paid to send the email, they have no preference or not if anyone actually buys anything as a result.
Actually, CO2 is used because the folks that work in a lot of such places are usually pretty hapless and don't really understand stuff can kill them. (Talking production side breeding here, not researchers.)
CO2 is safe, as long as you don't replace all the O2 in the area too an extent too great. Plus, it's cheap too.
Pretty much everything else, you'd get dead mexicans and dead kenyans all the time. (Only white folk there for long are in management.)
CO2 is also easier to handle (liquid, common) than nigrogen.
So with a few tanks, a few boxes of garbage bags, and a couple hours you can kill 10,000 rats. Do that with any other gas and you're making regular deliveries to the county morgue as well.
(Yes, I worked at one too and I agree with the description of the CO2 killing.)
Let me guess. 10 lines of odd looking porn links in the "Comments" or text area field, and randomly generated names in the name area, default in the rest?
That's a combo spider/human bot.
See someone came through and submitted garbage in all the forms on my server.
Then a couple weeks later, this stuff started. Only thing is, the submission bot is a configuration file somewhere. If you rename a field, it misses it for a week or two until someone comes back.
I think it's a human/bot spammer with humans making the configuration.
Rename the file and it'll stop too, for a while.
It's being run on a botnet, so you will get IPs from all over the world on it. Blocking by IP is therefore pretty much a waste of time.
I think they are searching for form tags in search engines. You can't get to my sites via IP address, and only a handful of sites are getting it despite having pretty similar forms.
Uhm, the article mentions "cybercrime" as "commiting a crime while on the Internet" pretty much means there are existing laws and existing crimes, just that the "Internet" part seems to confound and be totally beyond law enforcement abilities.
And for the most part, the posters are right. When it comes to tech and the Internet, the cops have no clue.
But of course, a stupid bible thumping shitbag like yourself will miss all the finer points of the details on pretty much everything anyway unless it helps prop up your neo-fascist christian/muslem ideals.
Well, obviously all of life's important questions can be solved by simply reading the bible. We shouldn't try to go out and come upon some of those all by ourselves.
Seriously, if your human condition is the shine on the BMW in your three car garage, you are a pathetic human being and need to get fucked. RF communication is used internally on our "advanced" civilization. Only a complete fucking idiot-tool would think we want to do some sort of two way chat. ET: "...." E-man: "hi how r u, A/S/L?" ET: "you look tasty, want to tentacle chat?"
JUST THE FACT THAT IT IS THERE WOULD BE A HUGE DISCOVERY.
Got it? Meathead?
There is a short list of really important stuff for "mankind to know" and life outside our solar system is one of them.
Something like:
1. Fire 2. Tools 3. Wheel 4. ET 5. Microbiology (ok, maybe swap this with 4)
The only real difference between this one, and the others we already have is we know the question before we have the answer.
Also, maybe access but _logged_ access. And then a process where someone views the logs to look for unauthorized browsing.
The DMV does it (every once in a while some bozo is fired from the state DMV for looking up minor celebrities information), I am sure many other less involved database systems can too.
WTF exactly is the "type to access this sensitive information"?
Access to that information is pretty much required and a given for SOMEBODY. Otherwise, you sorta can't build the system in the first place.
Having the ability to access that doesn't mean they DO. It's just that if the person happens to want to, the ability of accessing it is not a block if they do, in fact have access.
Submitter makes it sound like all IT types are nosy BOFH criminals, which is not the case. Sure, SOME are, but then again I bet there is a higher percentage of criminals in the accounting department and management itself.
If you cant trust your IT staff, fire them. It's a simple as that. Of course, it helps if they DO happen to access something it's not blackmail-able information. So keep your own nose clean too.
Gravitation collecting into a pile (i.e. a planet) causes heat from potential energy being converted of the fall in. So planets start hot (in general).
As a sphere, and being big, it takes a long friggin time for them to cool off.
Note, however, that cooling would have happened _looonngg_ ago for Earth and it would be more like Mars (solid core, no magnetisim, generally "cool" on the inside) were it not for radioactive decay of various sorts. Basically, if you are a heavy planet for your size, you get a greater percentage of radioactive stuff that can decay, and will have a hot core longer.
Other details like which elements (iron/nickel like Earth) you get has an effect too.
Earth has a lot of factors all adding up to the state it is in. A hot molten core is less of the norm than one might think at first glance.
Ooohhh. I am all for having a "no spam filter day. Someone want to pick one?
During a typical week, we have to adjust the spam filter settings about twice. Always on Mondays when the new crop of spam zombies, new domain names, etc. all hit the net.
Sometimes, we have to turn the filter off to let the queues clear.
Then the users call with a snarky attitude and complain about not having a filter for stock pump and dump scams that are one big GIF file. We explain we DO have a filter and have had one since they signed up and that some will always get through no matter what. (You that important? Hire someone to read your email for you and do the screening.) They care if they get an extra 4 per day, but think that the filtered state is the status quo. They have no idea there is lots and lots going on that gets stopped before it gets to them.
I think a big day of virus/kiddie porn spam/nigerian spam/ etc. would get all the "normals" half a clue and they might shut up for a while or call their legislator do ask that something better be done.
Spamhaus and other block-list pushers are a solution to spam that's worse than the problem.
Uhm... No. For me, they are a godsend. So go fuck yourself. You don't like them, don't use them.
Unfortunately many sources that ended up on these block lists are the common mail servers of other major ISPs, resulting in large volumes of false-positive emails being blocked.
Do you REAALLLYYY think the users of such lists do not understand this? They do, they don't care about your problem. It's YOUR problem. Call your ISP and bitch. Threaten to sue, whatever. You, and you doing business with your ISP is the problem. IF there was a reliable, fast, accurate, and extremely vengeful method of individually reporting users to ISPs and they actually acted, this secondary solution would not be necessary.
You: "Look! The Germans raped and killed and burned alive a bunch of people!"
Us: "Well, stop them."
You: "Nah. Too hard, I'll just kick them out first, then the Germans won't bother coming to my town."
There was a video of some guy recording his browse by infection of IE a while back that was very revealing. Just visited a site and his computer was infected, he proceeded to try to pull the stuff out and noted the techniques the spyware authors used to keep a user from being able to uninstall it.
The critical difference in security though is not what the user can do (as he or she is probably running as administrator anyway) but what can be done without their permission. That's where the work needs to go. Not stopping someone from doing something they have to agree to (no matter how nefarious the wording is).
Some of us don't consider fighting for the the right to free speech an "inconsequential confrontation".
Might I suggest you move to China or North Korea for a society that better suits your personality?
Your argument makes no damn sense. You'll fight it in court? Like, what might happen after being arrested for exercising free speech?
Dude, you are a coward of the worst kind. You think you aren't and make all sorts of justifications to do what you do but really deep down inside you still feel the sting of the towel on your ass and just want it to stop.
Yes, because having an inalienable right to freedom of speech matters a lot when your balls are hooked to a car battery because some a-hole TSA agent didn't like the way you looked and you have a DCC card in your wallet.
Rights mean little when the republican party has had you killed.
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This is exactly why I sneak all my electronic bits into some company's dumpster, or break it apart to the point it is not obvious to the garbage guys and mix it with my coffee grounds and so on.
That way, the poluting elements stay in landfills in 1st world countries where they can be somewhat dealt with. Who knows, maybe some day someone will figure out a way to dig that stuff up, process it and get a pile of various raw materials. They were put in the electronics at some point, so they are used....
Seriously, why pay 30 bucks to "recycle" something that's going to get thrown in the trash anyway. It's just a scam by some cities to punish rich people. All this fuss about lead in monitors when it is LEADED GLASS that has the lead mostly locked away. Nobody fusses when a broken leaded glass wine goblet gets thown out... Plus, big evil computers are the problem, not fourty-million crappy consumer electronics, car parts, or whatever else the regular Joe Sixpack throws out. Throw out a boom box, no biggie, throw out a computer or HD and the local treehugger wench gets all upset.
Until these issues are worked out, I call BS on all of it and will continue to do whatever is easiest. There is NO reason doing the right thing (putting stuff in a place it can be dealt with) should cost me a couple hundred bucks a year.
Unless he is doing something really novel, like relying on computational power elsewhere to do the compression.
I have seen articles about algorithms that allow you to calculate the value of any decimal place in Pi.
Plus, additional ones that allow you to prove (in a mathematical way) that any given string of characters you care to wish for are present in some location somewhere in the Pi decimal string.
SO the first point allows you to decompress knowing the beginning and ending values, and the second point allows you to pick some pretty long strings.
That would not really be compression, but more of a lookup table or code that allows anybody to have the table (or recompute it as necessary).
I agree, completely bogus. For one, you would need to pay lots of attention to the quality of the paper and resolution of the printer to the point it would BE the point of this method of data storage. Paper, is a piss poor medium for really precise images. Plastic or foil would be much better. But this guy mentions that only in passing.
I recall lots of talk of holographic storage and how a cube of some size stores X. So far real practical data storage has not come of that either.
Send your investment checks elsewhere, in other words.
You are confused about what the product is.
Spamming, does indeed make money.
The purchase of the product pushed in spam is not the method. Its the Spammer selling 20,000 page impressions to the hapless dumbass small business owner, or other crook.
Basically, the spammer gets paid to send the email, they have no preference or not if anyone actually buys anything as a result.
Actually, CO2 is used because the folks that work in a lot of such places are usually pretty hapless and don't really understand stuff can kill them. (Talking production side breeding here, not researchers.)
CO2 is safe, as long as you don't replace all the O2 in the area too an extent too great. Plus, it's cheap too.
Pretty much everything else, you'd get dead mexicans and dead kenyans all the time. (Only white folk there for long are in management.)
CO2 is also easier to handle (liquid, common) than nigrogen.
So with a few tanks, a few boxes of garbage bags, and a couple hours you can kill 10,000 rats. Do that with any other gas and you're making regular deliveries to the county morgue as well.
(Yes, I worked at one too and I agree with the description of the CO2 killing.)
Let me guess. 10 lines of odd looking porn links in the "Comments" or text area field, and randomly generated names in the name area, default in the rest?
That's a combo spider/human bot.
See someone came through and submitted garbage in all the forms on my server.
Then a couple weeks later, this stuff started. Only thing is, the submission bot is a configuration file somewhere. If you rename a field, it misses it for a week or two until someone comes back.
I think it's a human/bot spammer with humans making the configuration.
Rename the file and it'll stop too, for a while.
It's being run on a botnet, so you will get IPs from all over the world on it. Blocking by IP is therefore pretty much a waste of time.
I think they are searching for form tags in search engines. You can't get to my sites via IP address, and only a handful of sites are getting it despite having pretty similar forms.
Uhm, the article mentions "cybercrime" as "commiting a crime while on the Internet" pretty much means there are existing laws and existing crimes, just that the "Internet" part seems to confound and be totally beyond law enforcement abilities.
And for the most part, the posters are right. When it comes to tech and the Internet, the cops have no clue.
But of course, a stupid bible thumping shitbag like yourself will miss all the finer points of the details on pretty much everything anyway unless it helps prop up your neo-fascist christian/muslem ideals.
Glory, my ass.
Well, obviously all of life's important questions can be solved by simply reading the bible. We shouldn't try to go out and come upon some of those all by ourselves.
Seriously, if your human condition is the shine on the BMW in your three car garage, you are a pathetic human being and need to get fucked. RF communication is used internally on our "advanced" civilization. Only a complete fucking idiot-tool would think we want to do some sort of two way chat. ET: "...." E-man: "hi how r u, A/S/L?" ET: "you look tasty, want to tentacle chat?"
JUST THE FACT THAT IT IS THERE WOULD BE A HUGE DISCOVERY.
Got it? Meathead?
There is a short list of really important stuff for "mankind to know" and life outside our solar system is one of them.
Something like:
1. Fire
2. Tools
3. Wheel
4. ET
5. Microbiology (ok, maybe swap this with 4)
The only real difference between this one, and the others we already have is we know the question before we have the answer.
empire builders are now the businesses who order 10,000 Dell PCs and the 10,000 Windows licenses to go with them
Precisely the folks using site licenses and keys (or a server to hand them out) who don't need to do windows activation.
BZZZT. Come up with a new scenario this one fails the sniff test as having "no bearing whatsoever" on the issue of hardware changes and reactivation.
Yeah, well Beoing is not a cheap-ass airline trying to save money running stuff slower or running it when it doesn't work right.
Obviously you have not been on a plane where some biatch opens up some perfume and spills it or worse, uses nail polish remover or heck, even puked.
Air exchange might be high, but it's not fast enough to dilute whatever fast enough.
Pepper spray would be devastating to a lot of people on the plane.
Decreased drag due to smaller arms, and probably smaller mass of the arms.
Magnets or motors are moving the arms during read/write seeks, and if had less mass, would therefore take less energy to move, stop, and start.
Give me a fucking break.
Put up a torrent of that PDF if everybody should know it and you don't want to pay for the bandwidth.
"Feature for Premium Subscribers" for the download makes the writer look like a hypocritcial fool.
Also, maybe access but _logged_ access. And then a process where someone views the logs to look for unauthorized browsing.
The DMV does it (every once in a while some bozo is fired from the state DMV for looking up minor celebrities information), I am sure many other less involved database systems can too.
WTF exactly is the "type to access this sensitive information"?
Access to that information is pretty much required and a given for SOMEBODY. Otherwise, you sorta can't build the system in the first place.
Having the ability to access that doesn't mean they DO. It's just that if the person happens to want to, the ability of accessing it is not a block if they do, in fact have access.
Submitter makes it sound like all IT types are nosy BOFH criminals, which is not the case. Sure, SOME are, but then again I bet there is a higher percentage of criminals in the accounting department and management itself.
If you cant trust your IT staff, fire them. It's a simple as that. Of course, it helps if they DO happen to access something it's not blackmail-able information. So keep your own nose clean too.
It's a bit of both (decay and "presure").
Gravitation collecting into a pile (i.e. a planet) causes heat from potential energy being converted of the fall in. So planets start hot (in general).
As a sphere, and being big, it takes a long friggin time for them to cool off.
Note, however, that cooling would have happened _looonngg_ ago for Earth and it would be more like Mars (solid core, no magnetisim, generally "cool" on the inside) were it not for radioactive decay of various sorts. Basically, if you are a heavy planet for your size, you get a greater percentage of radioactive stuff that can decay, and will have a hot core longer.
Other details like which elements (iron/nickel like Earth) you get has an effect too.
Earth has a lot of factors all adding up to the state it is in. A hot molten core is less of the norm than one might think at first glance.
Ooohhh. I am all for having a "no spam filter day. Someone want to pick one?
During a typical week, we have to adjust the spam filter settings about twice. Always on Mondays when the new crop of spam zombies, new domain names, etc. all hit the net.
Sometimes, we have to turn the filter off to let the queues clear.
Then the users call with a snarky attitude and complain about not having a filter for stock pump and dump scams that are one big GIF file. We explain we DO have a filter and have had one since they signed up and that some will always get through no matter what. (You that important? Hire someone to read your email for you and do the screening.) They care if they get an extra 4 per day, but think that the filtered state is the status quo. They have no idea there is lots and lots going on that gets stopped before it gets to them.
I think a big day of virus/kiddie porn spam/nigerian spam/ etc. would get all the "normals" half a clue and they might shut up for a while or call their legislator do ask that something better be done.
Yes they both use a list of some sort.
The differences are in how how mail servers get on and off the list. Methods vary between them, some are easy to forgive, some are not.
It's up to individual email admins to subscribe to one that fits their own situation and philosophy.
Spamhaus and other block-list pushers are a solution to spam that's worse than the problem.
Uhm... No. For me, they are a godsend. So go fuck yourself. You don't like them, don't use them.
Unfortunately many sources that ended up on these block lists are the common mail servers of other major ISPs, resulting in large volumes of false-positive emails being blocked.
Do you REAALLLYYY think the users of such lists do not understand this? They do, they don't care about your problem. It's YOUR problem. Call your ISP and bitch. Threaten to sue, whatever. You, and you doing business with your ISP is the problem. IF there was a reliable, fast, accurate, and extremely vengeful method of individually reporting users to ISPs and they actually acted, this secondary solution would not be necessary.
You: "Look! The Germans raped and killed and burned alive a bunch of people!"
Us: "Well, stop them."
You: "Nah. Too hard, I'll just kick them out first, then the Germans won't bother coming to my town."
So I repeat. Go fuck yourself.
Looks like the host took out the pictures.
(Some were large JPGs.)
Interesting text nonetheless.
There was a video of some guy recording his browse by infection of IE a while back that was very revealing. Just visited a site and his computer was infected, he proceeded to try to pull the stuff out and noted the techniques the spyware authors used to keep a user from being able to uninstall it.
The critical difference in security though is not what the user can do (as he or she is probably running as administrator anyway) but what can be done without their permission. That's where the work needs to go. Not stopping someone from doing something they have to agree to (no matter how nefarious the wording is).
It isn't paranoia if it is actually happening now is it....
Disliking the repeal of the Constitution of the United States is now "fear mongering"?
How bout, go fuck yourself. Read a history book moron. This shit is exactly how the Krauts got into it.
Yes. Clearly.
User arcite (661011) please report to "up against the wall". Your cooperation is essential to the liberty of the state. Thank you.
Some big fins?
Add some "Type R" crop shapes... a few craters for sub woofers and a couple copies of Vegas for lighting and you'd have...
RICER EARTH.
Eeerrhmmm....
Some of us don't consider fighting for the the right to free speech an "inconsequential confrontation".
Might I suggest you move to China or North Korea for a society that better suits your personality?
Your argument makes no damn sense. You'll fight it in court? Like, what might happen after being arrested for exercising free speech?
Dude, you are a coward of the worst kind. You think you aren't and make all sorts of justifications to do what you do but really deep down inside you still feel the sting of the towel on your ass and just want it to stop.
Yes, because having an inalienable right to freedom of speech matters a lot when your balls are hooked to a car battery because some a-hole TSA agent didn't like the way you looked and you have a DCC card in your wallet.
Rights mean little when the republican party has had you killed.
So. Are you still voting for Republicans then?