There is no prescedent for banning speech simply because it is annoying or offensive.
The ban should not be on the content, but on the method of delivery. Thus, you're not banning the "speech", you're banning the act of spamming -- deliberately sending unsolicited mass messages at the recipients'expense.
Naturally the penalty for violating such a ban should be death.
Don't pipe to/dev/null I'm wondering if there's a method of rerouting incoming connections to port 25. Say if someone from a specific host tries to connect to port 25, your server acts as a transparent redirect, reconnecting them to their own mailserver so that they end up overloading themsleves.
I'm probably not thinking that through all the way, but one of the best methods, IMO, of countering spam is with methods that cause the spammer's mailservers to crash in mid-run.
...the only solution is to kill the spammers. DoubleClick has stated an intent to send unsolicited bulk e-mail, thus it should be considered justifiable to destroy their corporate HQ and kill the CEO as a preemptive strike.
Barring that, who hosts DoubleClick? Don't they have an anti-spam policy? If not (or if so and they choose to ignore it for DC), wouldn't it be prudent to configure your routers to drop all packets from their owned IP blocks?
Somehow I don't think that you could make that hold up in court, though IANAL. Something about your car being parked illegally warranting police action.
Possibly file charges (perhaps in small claims court) for trespassing and vandalism (ie, littering on your property) or, depending on where you live, use physical violence to remove her from your property. Personally I believe that the latter is perfectly acceptable if other, more reasonable, effort has already been made and failed.
Actually, I'd always heard that windshield wiper flyers were considered littering, but if I can nail the companies responsible on trespassing charges, I'll happily report it and press charges.
The only real solution to the spam problem is to kill spammers brutally, horribly and publically -- placing their heads on pikes as a warning to others. The US should encourage foreign governments to do the same under threat of airstrikes (though said airstrikes should only be centered on the locations of known spammers).
Yes, I'm serious about this. I despise spam and wish all spammers DEAD.
Apparently you haven't seen the screener DVD-sourced bootleg SVCD set of FotR. Very nice quality, considering that it's a bootleg (still has MPEG artifacting, because SVCD MPEG2 isn't as flexible as DVD MPEG2 and the sound is only 2-channel -- that's apparently the fault of the rippers, because AFAIK the DVD had 5.1 audio).
It's bootlegs like those that warrant such strong encryption. After all, with copy protection standards that FotR bootleg wouldn't exist.
Well, most people don't actually buy HDTVs with internal decoders, they buy HD-capable monitors with the understanding that an external decoder is required for decoding HDTV signals and displaying them on the TV. That, at least, was my understanding and I didn't get the impression that it was being presented in any kind of ambigious way.
As such, I purchased my TV with the understanding that extra money would be required for an HD decoder box, and thus I wasn't upset about it. I will be very upset if, once HD is actually broadcast (assuming that I've not died of old age before that happens) I cannot view the signal at anything better than 480p because of unneeded DVI "standards", and I'll happily look into any illegal mods that would allow a set-top decoder to output the analogue signal in a 1080i format.
Could it be possible for someone to reverse-engineer the workings of the chip to create a set-top box that takes the DVI as input and outputs an analogue component video signal and presumably some form of audio signal (either analogue or digital)?
I'd pay for that, even if it was on the black market.
Really? I'd like to see documentation of this, since I did extensive research on progressive scan players before making a purchase and one of the key factors in all of the reviews was in how well the player was able to "de-interlace" the interlaced source image.
I'm not aware of any DVD player that outputs in 720p. Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see the purpose of "upconverting" a signal that starts at 480i to 720p -- I can't imagine that it would look much better than 480p.
In any case, 480p is the lowest end of the HD spectrum (if it is even in the HD standard -- it might still be at the DTV standard level). Also, the DVDs themselves are not 480p -- the image is encoded at 480i. The hardware of the progressive scan player adds extra lines (using different methods for different hardware, and sometimes different methods for different video source) to produce a 480p image, and as such it still isn't as "defined" as a true 480p image would be.
Also note that most TVs that support 480p display already do line-doubling for interlaced sources (my TV actually increases image resolution by up to 4x). As such, the quality of a progressive DVD player output might not be as noticable depending on its ability to deinterlace as opposed to the TV's internal hardware.
Mind you, my player (the Panasonic RP56 -- a great progressive player for a very low price) does a better job than my TV at 3-2 pulldown -- and typically progressive DVD players will do a better job because they are dedicated for the task.
Right now the only common consumer electronic device that I'm aware of that supports HD output is the X-Box, which can reportedly do 1080i output (Even the GameCube only does 480p, IIRC). Still, a game has to take advantage of that resolution -- and MS made the dumb decision *not* to give DVD playback progressive scan, so you don't even get the benefit there.
Bleh, it's expensive and I have absolutely no use for one, but this story makes me want to go out and buy one on principle. I also need to get my hands on a Dreamcast serial cable.
I get a lot of e-mails that assure me that they are only being sent because I "opted-in" to a mailing list...
...except that I never sign up for mailing lists, and I never recognize the names of the companies that send me such junk.
In some cases the e-mails are addressed to "darkstar@iglou.iglou.com" or "darkstar@iglou1.iglou.com" or some other variant of my e-mail address that only appears when I make USENET postings; the only way to have those addresses on a list is to harvest addresses from USENET. This of course means that any "opt-in" claims are bullshit.
Other times I actually see my real name on the e-mails. This means that some company had my information, including my name and e-mail address, and sold it as part of a mailing list. I have never granted permission to sell my e-mail address to marketers when signing up for anything, and as such I treat e-mails as any other spam and I make an effort to have the sender's account nuked. Unfortunately I can only "nuke" them inasmuch as getting them kicked from their ISP. In an ideal world all spammers would be rounded up, placed on an island and then vapourized in the blast of an thermonuclear detonation.
A single DVD-18 would probably hold all three movies, but it would hold little else and you would likely make sacrifices in video and audio quality to squeze everything on there. You would also have to get up at some point to flip the disc, as DVD-18 is dual-sided. You could even probably stuff everything onto a single-sided DVD-9, but kiss any video/audio clarity goodbye.
Personally I'll be quite happy with three discs with some nice extras, a good Dolby Digital (or dts for those with the support) soundtrack and a well-mastered anamorphic image.
I get it, even though I was very young at the time of Pac-Man.
I've seen it here on/. before. The guy who posted it then commented on how he was going to turn out the lights, put on some techno and play Quake III Arena while munching on Altoids.
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I used the preempt patch back when 2.4.14 was released and I kept getting consistent kernel panics. Mind you, I'd also applied an -ac patch, so I can't say for certain that preemption was the cause, but it was troubling and the panics went away once I disabled preemption.
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No, I was talking about me, though that point seems to have been lost on everyone who saw my first two sentences and assumed I was going off on a religious rant.
I am aware that there is another important birthday on December 25, and yes, I will be getting my grandfather a card.
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There is no prescedent for banning speech simply because it is annoying or offensive.
The ban should not be on the content, but on the method of delivery. Thus, you're not banning the "speech", you're banning the act of spamming -- deliberately sending unsolicited mass messages at the recipients'expense.
Naturally the penalty for violating such a ban should be death.
Don't pipe to /dev/null
I'm wondering if there's a method of rerouting incoming connections to port 25. Say if someone from a specific host tries to connect to port 25, your server acts as a transparent redirect, reconnecting them to their own mailserver so that they end up overloading themsleves.
I'm probably not thinking that through all the way, but one of the best methods, IMO, of countering spam is with methods that cause the spammer's mailservers to crash in mid-run.
Won't work for me. I route doubleclick.com and every domain associated therein to 127.0.0.1 (and I run a private webserver) on my box.
...the only solution is to kill the spammers. DoubleClick has stated an intent to send unsolicited bulk e-mail, thus it should be considered justifiable to destroy their corporate HQ and kill the CEO as a preemptive strike.
Barring that, who hosts DoubleClick? Don't they have an anti-spam policy? If not (or if so and they choose to ignore it for DC), wouldn't it be prudent to configure your routers to drop all packets from their owned IP blocks?
Somehow I don't think that you could make that hold up in court, though IANAL. Something about your car being parked illegally warranting police action.
Possibly file charges (perhaps in small claims court) for trespassing and vandalism (ie, littering on your property) or, depending on where you live, use physical violence to remove her from your property. Personally I believe that the latter is perfectly acceptable if other, more reasonable, effort has already been made and failed.
Actually, I'd always heard that windshield wiper flyers were considered littering, but if I can nail the companies responsible on trespassing charges, I'll happily report it and press charges.
Troll I'll buy (though I am dead serious about wanting spammers to die horribly), but Offtopic? Who the hell is moderating today?
The only real solution to the spam problem is to kill spammers brutally, horribly and publically -- placing their heads on pikes as a warning to others. The US should encourage foreign governments to do the same under threat of airstrikes (though said airstrikes should only be centered on the locations of known spammers).
Yes, I'm serious about this. I despise spam and wish all spammers DEAD.
Apparently you haven't seen the screener DVD-sourced bootleg SVCD set of FotR. Very nice quality, considering that it's a bootleg (still has MPEG artifacting, because SVCD MPEG2 isn't as flexible as DVD MPEG2 and the sound is only 2-channel -- that's apparently the fault of the rippers, because AFAIK the DVD had 5.1 audio).
It's bootlegs like those that warrant such strong encryption. After all, with copy protection standards that FotR bootleg wouldn't exist.
Oh, wait, it probably would. Nevermind.
Well, most people don't actually buy HDTVs with internal decoders, they buy HD-capable monitors with the understanding that an external decoder is required for decoding HDTV signals and displaying them on the TV. That, at least, was my understanding and I didn't get the impression that it was being presented in any kind of ambigious way.
As such, I purchased my TV with the understanding that extra money would be required for an HD decoder box, and thus I wasn't upset about it. I will be very upset if, once HD is actually broadcast (assuming that I've not died of old age before that happens) I cannot view the signal at anything better than 480p because of unneeded DVI "standards", and I'll happily look into any illegal mods that would allow a set-top decoder to output the analogue signal in a 1080i format.
Could it be possible for someone to reverse-engineer the workings of the chip to create a set-top box that takes the DVI as input and outputs an analogue component video signal and presumably some form of audio signal (either analogue or digital)?
I'd pay for that, even if it was on the black market.
Really? I'd like to see documentation of this, since I did extensive research on progressive scan players before making a purchase and one of the key factors in all of the reviews was in how well the player was able to "de-interlace" the interlaced source image.
I'm not aware of any DVD player that outputs in 720p. Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see the purpose of "upconverting" a signal that starts at 480i to 720p -- I can't imagine that it would look much better than 480p.
In any case, 480p is the lowest end of the HD spectrum (if it is even in the HD standard -- it might still be at the DTV standard level). Also, the DVDs themselves are not 480p -- the image is encoded at 480i. The hardware of the progressive scan player adds extra lines (using different methods for different hardware, and sometimes different methods for different video source) to produce a 480p image, and as such it still isn't as "defined" as a true 480p image would be.
Also note that most TVs that support 480p display already do line-doubling for interlaced sources (my TV actually increases image resolution by up to 4x). As such, the quality of a progressive DVD player output might not be as noticable depending on its ability to deinterlace as opposed to the TV's internal hardware.
Mind you, my player (the Panasonic RP56 -- a great progressive player for a very low price) does a better job than my TV at 3-2 pulldown -- and typically progressive DVD players will do a better job because they are dedicated for the task.
Right now the only common consumer electronic device that I'm aware of that supports HD output is the X-Box, which can reportedly do 1080i output (Even the GameCube only does 480p, IIRC). Still, a game has to take advantage of that resolution -- and MS made the dumb decision *not* to give DVD playback progressive scan, so you don't even get the benefit there.
Bleh, it's expensive and I have absolutely no use for one, but this story makes me want to go out and buy one on principle. I also need to get my hands on a Dreamcast serial cable.
Nevermind, just saw the "workaround" listed in the article.
Er, added what workaround? I've been curious about a few locks I've had in Tribes 2 -- though I don't know for certain if this bug was the culprit.
I get a lot of e-mails that assure me that they are only being sent because I "opted-in" to a mailing list...
...except that I never sign up for mailing lists, and I never recognize the names of the companies that send me such junk.
In some cases the e-mails are addressed to "darkstar@iglou.iglou.com" or "darkstar@iglou1.iglou.com" or some other variant of my e-mail address that only appears when I make USENET postings; the only way to have those addresses on a list is to harvest addresses from USENET. This of course means that any "opt-in" claims are bullshit.
Other times I actually see my real name on the e-mails. This means that some company had my information, including my name and e-mail address, and sold it as part of a mailing list. I have never granted permission to sell my e-mail address to marketers when signing up for anything, and as such I treat e-mails as any other spam and I make an effort to have the sender's account nuked. Unfortunately I can only "nuke" them inasmuch as getting them kicked from their ISP. In an ideal world all spammers would be rounded up, placed on an island and then vapourized in the blast of an thermonuclear detonation.
And _then_ this whole mess could have been avoided by both sides. (err, actually, probably not, the spammer seems pretty persistently dumb).
Calling a spammer "dumb" is redundant.
"Coffee & Cat"? Haven't seen this before. Does it imply laughing so hard you spill your coffee on the cat?
Yep, that's exactly what it refers to. I've gotten a few kooky lawsuite threats too...
Actually, what's odd about the loser in question is that he spelled "lawsuit" correctly. Usually they do spell it "lawsuite".
A single DVD-18 would probably hold all three movies, but it would hold little else and you would likely make sacrifices in video and audio quality to squeze everything on there. You would also have to get up at some point to flip the disc, as DVD-18 is dual-sided. You could even probably stuff everything onto a single-sided DVD-9, but kiss any video/audio clarity goodbye.
Personally I'll be quite happy with three discs with some nice extras, a good Dolby Digital (or dts for those with the support) soundtrack and a well-mastered anamorphic image.
Bah, ye of little faith. The site is slow to respond, but it comes up should the viewer posess the patience to let it load.
I get it, even though I was very young at the time of Pac-Man.
/. before. The guy who posted it then commented on how he was going to turn out the lights, put on some techno and play Quake III Arena while munching on Altoids.
I've seen it here on
I used the preempt patch back when 2.4.14 was released and I kept getting consistent kernel panics. Mind you, I'd also applied an -ac patch, so I can't say for certain that preemption was the cause, but it was troubling and the panics went away once I disabled preemption.
No, I was talking about me, though that point seems to have been lost on everyone who saw my first two sentences and assumed I was going off on a religious rant.
I am aware that there is another important birthday on December 25, and yes, I will be getting my grandfather a card.