So you are saying you will discriminate people with the "wrong" accent?
If I can identify someone placing an order as being from Nigeria, you can bet that I will "discriminate". Corruption and fraud are the primary source of the country's income.
I've also heard about pranksters who will use a TTY service to have fun at the expense of the operator, such as calling an automated service to "leave a message" then cutting and pasting the entire Windows XP EULA (yes, someone did this, according to a report) into the input box (the TTY input was done via a web browser). The operator is required by law to continue speaking as long as text comes on, even if it's something utterly stupid like that, and there's nothing that they can do about it legally.
A few have been fighting back on the 419 and other scams, though. Many have been anonymously contacting the company to whom an obviously fraudulent order was placed (in cases where it was clear that the company was suckered by the scam artist) and warning them about the call. Not legal, but I'm not sure that it's necessarily unethical.
Spam results in a net theft of billions of dollars per year. It doesn't matter if a spammer is selling penis pills or computer parts, it's still theft of service and trespass to chattel.
Unless the virus takes down a major website, like Yahoo or CNN.com or a government website, the feds could care less. They don't care if a known criminal hijacks your computer and uses it for criminal activity, so long as no businesses or government agencies are inconvenienced.
Think I'm joking? Look up reports from people who have reported known computer breakins to the FBI. The FBI ignores them, the police ignore them.
I'm sick of pussying around with spammers. They've enraged me to the point where I will make serious statements like that. I mean it. I do believe that he and all other email spammers deserve to die. However, I am not going to actively seek out Mr. Richter, Alan Ralsky or any other known spammer. I have better things to do with my life.
Yes, I'm a little psychotic about it. I have my reasons.
As for what happens if he dies tomorrow, I'm never in a situation where I wouldn't be able to show that I was nowhere near him at the time of his death without committing perjury or forcing anyone else to commit perjury.
I'm surprised that no email spammer has been killed yet. Well, I heard about two who were involved in criminal dealings apart from spamming, but the murder was apparently over the other criminal dealings rather than from someone fed up with the spamming (note that it should never be surprising to find that an email spammer is also involved in other illegal dealings, as all spammers are criminals by definition).
However, at least Scott Richter is willing to do something that most other spammers won't... admit that he does it and is willing to talk about it.
What are you talking about? Lots of spammers are willing to admit what they do, to an extent. They admit that they send unsolicited email advertising. They won't admit, however, that they break a number of laws when doing it, because they don't care that they're breaking the law. They won't admit that they deliberately circumvent spam filters so that people who don't want their garbage receive it anyway. They won't admit that they are harassing and trespassing on private property. They will use the most absurd and obvioius lies to "justify" their criminal acts. All of the above are true for Scott Richter.
Scott Richter deserves to die. So does every other email spammer out there. If I ever met Scott Richter, I would kill him with whatever means I had available. He deserves horrible, painful death. That is the ONLY way to stop spammers; they are sociopaths and there is no way to convince them to change their illegal business practices short of a crowbar to the skull or similar alternative.
Those cases should be handled on an indivual basis, and it's not difficult to create a back-up system for this.
I worked at a grocery store with a computerized timeclock. In addition to the timeclock was a paper sign-in/out sheet for use if the timeclock system was down (which was rare, but could happen) or if we made an error in inputting our time or forgot to clock in or out for something.
The problem is, how do you recognize a spammer's domain?
Er, simple. Spammer sends email advertising "p3n|S enh4nc meant". Spammer directs recipient to http://goodpillmed4u.biz/ which is hosted in China. It's safe to say that 'goodpillmed4u.biz' is a spammer's domain.
In fact, it's typically a safe assumption that ANY.biz domain is a spammer domain. There are exceptions, but they are few and far in between.
Yes, it would require the expense of maintaining a PO box, but you won't be able to track someone down any further than the city in which they live (unless they choose to host their PO box in another city).
You don't just turn off the domain instantly. Attempt to contact the domain holder (they have to have *some* kind of valid contact known to the registrar). If calls/emails/letters are not answered, lock the domain. Tell the holder that if data isn't updated within a certain period of time, the domain registration is forfeit.
In the case of spammers' domains, take a few extra steps. First, lock the domain right away. Second, instead of attempting to inform the spammer that their domain is locked until the WHOIS data is updated, send an assasin to where they live to have them killed.
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I'm surprised that/. is reporting this as "news" (joke or not), since music-from-USENET is older than music-from-p2p.
And the thing you don't realize is this also means the muggers have guns.
As opposed to places like the UK, where the muggers are the only ones who have the guns (because they don't care about the law in the first place, or they wouldn't be muggers) and people in the UK are prohibited by law from defending themselves, lest they find themselves facing charges far more serious than would a mugger.
Some sequels represent a rehashing of an old idea with newer technology, sometimes to disasterous effect (Deus Ex: Invisible War, anyone?). Other times, a sequel is a good way for the developer to further flesh out the story, improving upon the previous game and still telling a very compelling story (Max Payne 2).
Still other times you have a "sequel" to something that is so old, that the developers can't help but reimagine it for the current technology, and you have what looks to be a very promising title, such as with the upcoming Sam & Max game......oh, wait. LucasArts cancelled that so that they could devote more time and energy to inane and purile Star Wars franchise rehashes.
I work in a US spinoff of a Japanese chemical company. As such, there are times when users here have to deal with documents from Japan, complete with Japanese fonts.
A rather nice lady reported a problem with an Excel document that contained Japanese fonts. The characters in the spreadsheet were appearing as squares rather than the proper Japanese characters. Naturally, this appeared to be a fonts problem, so my first attempt at a fix was to install the Japanese language set. Unfortunately, this didn't work, as the document STILL had nothing but squares where the Japanese characters should have been.
It looked as though it was a versioning issue. It looked like a document created with Japanese character with Excel 95 (the document seemed to have been created with that) could NOT display the characters properly in Excel 2000. I couldn't find any method of getting the document to show up properly in Excel 2000, and the solution seemed to be to install Excel 95, because that was the only application that would show the characters properly.
Then I remembered OpenOffice.
I didn't know if it would work, but I downloaded and installed OO 1.1. I opened the Japanese document, and to my surprise, I was greeted with the spreadsheet just as it should have appeared, complete with the Japanese characters. Not content to leave it at just that, I re-saved the document from within OpenOffice, then I opened it with Excel 2000. Lo and behold, the document appeared correctly! The only way that I could get a document created in Excel 95 to show up properly in Excel 2000 was with Open Office.
Needless to say, I related the solution to the network admin who had assigned me the task, recommending that OpenOffice be considered as an alternative or replacement to MS Office.
Mike Nelson was the one who made the call. Much as he deserves a crowbar in his skull, I don't think that he's going anywhere, apart from the hole in which he's driving LucasArts.
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I guess that, because you can't actually point out any flaws with the study, you must agree with it.
We have here a crime (since 2004-01-01) that causes, at most, annoyance.
Yes. It's just a three billion dollar annoyance.
Spammers deserve horrible, painful death. Nothing less.
legit spamming
Oxymoron. All spam is theft.
So you are saying you will discriminate people with the "wrong" accent?
If I can identify someone placing an order as being from Nigeria, you can bet that I will "discriminate". Corruption and fraud are the primary source of the country's income.
I've also heard about pranksters who will use a TTY service to have fun at the expense of the operator, such as calling an automated service to "leave a message" then cutting and pasting the entire Windows XP EULA (yes, someone did this, according to a report) into the input box (the TTY input was done via a web browser). The operator is required by law to continue speaking as long as text comes on, even if it's something utterly stupid like that, and there's nothing that they can do about it legally.
A few have been fighting back on the 419 and other scams, though. Many have been anonymously contacting the company to whom an obviously fraudulent order was placed (in cases where it was clear that the company was suckered by the scam artist) and warning them about the call. Not legal, but I'm not sure that it's necessarily unethical.
You know, if I only got 10 legit spams a day
Parse error: Oxymoron.
Spam results in a net theft of billions of dollars per year. It doesn't matter if a spammer is selling penis pills or computer parts, it's still theft of service and trespass to chattel.
Unless the virus takes down a major website, like Yahoo or CNN.com or a government website, the feds could care less. They don't care if a known criminal hijacks your computer and uses it for criminal activity, so long as no businesses or government agencies are inconvenienced.
Think I'm joking? Look up reports from people who have reported known computer breakins to the FBI. The FBI ignores them, the police ignore them.
I'm sick of pussying around with spammers. They've enraged me to the point where I will make serious statements like that. I mean it. I do believe that he and all other email spammers deserve to die. However, I am not going to actively seek out Mr. Richter, Alan Ralsky or any other known spammer. I have better things to do with my life.
Yes, I'm a little psychotic about it. I have my reasons.
As for what happens if he dies tomorrow, I'm never in a situation where I wouldn't be able to show that I was nowhere near him at the time of his death without committing perjury or forcing anyone else to commit perjury.
Shotgun slugs, to every spammer's head.
I'm surprised that no email spammer has been killed yet. Well, I heard about two who were involved in criminal dealings apart from spamming, but the murder was apparently over the other criminal dealings rather than from someone fed up with the spamming (note that it should never be surprising to find that an email spammer is also involved in other illegal dealings, as all spammers are criminals by definition).
However, at least Scott Richter is willing to do something that most other spammers won't... admit that he does it and is willing to talk about it.
What are you talking about? Lots of spammers are willing to admit what they do, to an extent. They admit that they send unsolicited email advertising. They won't admit, however, that they break a number of laws when doing it, because they don't care that they're breaking the law. They won't admit that they deliberately circumvent spam filters so that people who don't want their garbage receive it anyway. They won't admit that they are harassing and trespassing on private property. They will use the most absurd and obvioius lies to "justify" their criminal acts. All of the above are true for Scott Richter.
Scott Richter deserves to die. So does every other email spammer out there. If I ever met Scott Richter, I would kill him with whatever means I had available. He deserves horrible, painful death. That is the ONLY way to stop spammers; they are sociopaths and there is no way to convince them to change their illegal business practices short of a crowbar to the skull or similar alternative.
Sony bought Connectix, after losing every lawsuit that they could throw at the company.
1) Your domain is only gone if you falsify your WHOIS data.
.biz tld if you're not a spammer?
2) Why would you be running a penis pill website, hosted in China, in the
Those cases should be handled on an indivual basis, and it's not difficult to create a back-up system for this.
I worked at a grocery store with a computerized timeclock. In addition to the timeclock was a paper sign-in/out sheet for use if the timeclock system was down (which was rare, but could happen) or if we made an error in inputting our time or forgot to clock in or out for something.
The problem is, how do you recognize a spammer's domain?
.biz domain is a spammer domain. There are exceptions, but they are few and far in between.
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Er, simple. Spammer sends email advertising "p3n|S enh4nc meant". Spammer directs recipient to http://goodpillmed4u.biz/ which is hosted in China. It's safe to say that 'goodpillmed4u.biz' is a spammer's domain.
In fact, it's typically a safe assumption that ANY
Also suspect:
Yes, it would require the expense of maintaining a PO box, but you won't be able to track someone down any further than the city in which they live (unless they choose to host their PO box in another city).
You don't just turn off the domain instantly. Attempt to contact the domain holder (they have to have *some* kind of valid contact known to the registrar). If calls/emails/letters are not answered, lock the domain. Tell the holder that if data isn't updated within a certain period of time, the domain registration is forfeit.
In the case of spammers' domains, take a few extra steps. First, lock the domain right away. Second, instead of attempting to inform the spammer that their domain is locked until the WHOIS data is updated, send an assasin to where they live to have them killed.
I'm surprised that /. is reporting this as "news" (joke or not), since music-from-USENET is older than music-from-p2p.
It also can apparently survive being drenched with water, provided that you dry it out before turning it on.
Friend of mine had one next to a leaky air conditioner. Well, six feet. The thing really needs replacing. Got soaked, got dried, still works.
And if the mugger got shot, that's a BAD thing?
Actually, that's a great thing. The gun-grabbers get to add the shot mugger to their list of "gun violence statistics".
If the mugger is 25 or under, it's also a "youth involved in gun violence".
And the thing you don't realize is this also means the muggers have guns.
As opposed to places like the UK, where the muggers are the only ones who have the guns (because they don't care about the law in the first place, or they wouldn't be muggers) and people in the UK are prohibited by law from defending themselves, lest they find themselves facing charges far more serious than would a mugger.
Unfortunately, LucasArts has stopped producing quality titles (to the point of cancelling development on titles that look promising).
I liked X-Wing. I loved Tie Fighter. Something went missing in X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. Quality has gone downhill since.
Some sequels represent a rehashing of an old idea with newer technology, sometimes to disasterous effect (Deus Ex: Invisible War, anyone?). Other times, a sequel is a good way for the developer to further flesh out the story, improving upon the previous game and still telling a very compelling story (Max Payne 2).
...oh, wait. LucasArts cancelled that so that they could devote more time and energy to inane and purile Star Wars franchise rehashes.
Still other times you have a "sequel" to something that is so old, that the developers can't help but reimagine it for the current technology, and you have what looks to be a very promising title, such as with the upcoming Sam & Max game...
I work in a US spinoff of a Japanese chemical company. As such, there are times when users here have to deal with documents from Japan, complete with Japanese fonts.
A rather nice lady reported a problem with an Excel document that contained Japanese fonts. The characters in the spreadsheet were appearing as squares rather than the proper Japanese characters. Naturally, this appeared to be a fonts problem, so my first attempt at a fix was to install the Japanese language set. Unfortunately, this didn't work, as the document STILL had nothing but squares where the Japanese characters should have been.
It looked as though it was a versioning issue. It looked like a document created with Japanese character with Excel 95 (the document seemed to have been created with that) could NOT display the characters properly in Excel 2000. I couldn't find any method of getting the document to show up properly in Excel 2000, and the solution seemed to be to install Excel 95, because that was the only application that would show the characters properly.
Then I remembered OpenOffice.
I didn't know if it would work, but I downloaded and installed OO 1.1. I opened the Japanese document, and to my surprise, I was greeted with the spreadsheet just as it should have appeared, complete with the Japanese characters. Not content to leave it at just that, I re-saved the document from within OpenOffice, then I opened it with Excel 2000. Lo and behold, the document appeared correctly! The only way that I could get a document created in Excel 95 to show up properly in Excel 2000 was with Open Office.
Needless to say, I related the solution to the network admin who had assigned me the task, recommending that OpenOffice be considered as an alternative or replacement to MS Office.
Perhaps he is referring to the writings of Josepheus. Specifically, the writings that were forged in his name centuries after the fact.
Mike Nelson was the one who made the call. Much as he deserves a crowbar in his skull, I don't think that he's going anywhere, apart from the hole in which he's driving LucasArts.