By proving who sent the email (or, more precisely, which server did), Email Certification can hold the server owner responsible. If they send spam, they get de-certified, which means in all likely hood, they lose the ability to email anyone at all. Spammers who can't get certified can't send emails anyone will see.
I see you've never had your server compromised. And of course nobody can spoof an email header or perform a Joe Job.
These are just two obvious holes. There are certainly more.
And contrary to popular fear that Morse Code would disappear, there are now more CW conversations than any time in history. The bands are fairly alive with CW day and night.
The AG's office should defend the laws on the books and allow Congress and the courts to decide on the laws.
Only if you still think it's a Federal government for the people. I think the track record shows that is no longer the case and hasn't been for a while.
Earlier this week, I thought I'd upgrade my HTPC to Windows 8. I've been using WMC on W7 now for a couple of years and it has been working great using HDHomeRUn tuners for local broadcast reception and recording/time shifting.
Imagine my surprise. No WMC. It's a paid upgrade. Ok, I'll bite. Where to I upgrade it? Clicky linky. Sorry, the licensing server is not available.
So I said to myself, Self... Let's see what else this WIndows 8 has to offer. This user interface is a total abortion. After fumbling around for an hour and feeling like a fool, I eventually clicked some of the colored boxes on the screen. Not a single thing would launch with the exception of IE9. Reason? My TV is 720 lines of resolution, not 1080. Every stinkin' app said I didn't have the required resolution.
My HTPC is now running Windows 7 again. And will be for a long time to come. It's way too good of a television to discard for a new operating system.
High SWR does not cause the finals to heat up. High SWR causes excessive voltage on the output device and at some point will cause catastrophic failure. It's generally not gradual.
Are you saying the French would cut off their nose to spite their face over power or that Google would?
What does Google have to lose by cutting off the French? In my opinion, nothing. Quite the opposite. Google would soon have a perfect example why a foreign government shouldn't do insipid things like that. Useful for parading in front of the next would be power grabber.
What does the French have to gain by invoking a new law and Google cutting them off? They lose power because they were seen as inconsequential. The newssites lose readers which means they lose profit. I'm not seeing the real win here for the French politicians or the newssites. Oh, they can stand on principal. They've done that before. But that won't stop the huge internal pressures for the French politicians to redact the law. It would be a hell fire for the politicians that plunged their population into the internet stone age.
There's power and there's wanna be power. Guess who has which?
The FIRST thing I would do would be to find some POS software where the terminals switch to standalone mode WHEN the server/network goes down (not IF). Then I would work on getting the server and network to a point where that is necessary less often.
Just like it's been proven time and again that I can tell you when there's a speed trap ahead on the road, I can tell you when a commercial is about to begin.
That and me telling you when the coast is clear or the commercial has ended completes the loop, but the conveyance of all that type of information is protected by Freedom of Speech under the US Constitution.
My first thoughts would revolve around Noise, Heat, Electricity, Connectivity and Physical Security.
Electricity: Minimally, a 110 V 20A twist lock receptical for each server rack. Realistically, that might mean 6000 watts of heat that you need to take away.
Cooling: You need more cooling than the number of watts that can be dissipated through the electrical system leading into the room. There are standard conversions for watts of heat to BTU. Then add the ASHRAE standards of heat for the number of people that will be in the area. If you can't get this much cooling, stop right there.
Sound: Racks of servers sound like jet airplanes taking off. All the time. You do NOT want to be near them at the place you call your office without some serious sound control. They are loud and annoying and you will not want to be near them for any length of time. If you haven't been around server racks, then you'll have to take everyone's word for it. If you have, you already know.
Connectivity: You'll want overhead wiring trays to route power, fiber, coax and Cat cables from the walls to the racks overhead. I like dedicating a rack to connectivity distribution so I can close the door on the mess it always becomes. A 4x8 sheet of plywood on one wall will serve to mount punchdown blocks.
Physical Security. Get a solid wood core or metal door on the server room and put a lock on it. Seal it for sound. That door stays locked all the time. Part of the physical security is also fire control, so you'll need some way to control fire and report it to a central station. Also, the door should be under access control if possible.
Each of these topics leads to much more complexity and you'll need to explore each of these quite a bit before you start purchasing.
And, after all that is laid out, you can use some of the left over space to create a nice office that is not in the same room as the servers. There were lots of good points made above and I hope you have enough square feet to pull this off correctly. If you don't, make a nice server room and beg an office somewhere else in the building.
Other things to consider. Data Backups (offsite too), UPS Power, Emergency Power, Spare Parts, Disaster Recovery, Redundant Connectivity, Lighting, Out of Band control, Contingency Fund, Storage, Work Bench, etc....
I'm an extra class operator and I have been running code practice sessions for the last year on a local repeater in an attempt to get more people into General class or above.
One thing I have seen is perfectly good operators who are unable to grasp this mode. Either they can't hear it or can't decipher it. The vast majority of these Techs are moral people who will now have a chance to become first class citizens of HF instead of being stuck at the higher frequencies.
I plan to announce the end of my code practice sessions this Sunday evening at 9 pm.
Now, if someone wants to learn code, I'll go one on one with them and we'll get it done, but for many people, it's mud. And, now it's no longer required.
Someone brought up an interesting analogy between learning Morse Code and learning to drive.
Having to learn Morse Code to talk on the radio is like having to learn to shoe a horse to get your drivers license.
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By proving who sent the email (or, more precisely, which server did), Email Certification can hold the server owner responsible. If they send
spam, they get de-certified, which means in all likely hood, they lose the ability to email anyone at all. Spammers who can't get certified
can't send emails anyone will see.
I see you've never had your server compromised. And of course nobody can spoof an email header or perform a Joe Job.
These are just two obvious holes. There are certainly more.
Since the line for treason gets drawn by the government he is exposing, of course the answer is yes.
The question is, does he care?
Would you really use amateur radio to convey that?
Don't confuse encoding with encryption.
And contrary to popular fear that Morse Code would disappear, there are now more CW conversations than any time in history. The bands are fairly alive with CW day and night.
73 de N4CR
The AG's office should defend the laws on the books and allow Congress and the courts to decide on the laws.
Only if you still think it's a Federal government for the people. I think the track record shows that is no longer the case and hasn't been for a while.
You really think that these huge megacompanies hire law firms and don't have their own legal staff?
Legal is mostly a fixed expense at this level.
Shut up, Topper.
...is no longer included in Windows 8.
Earlier this week, I thought I'd upgrade my HTPC to Windows 8. I've been using WMC on W7 now for a couple of years and it has been working great using HDHomeRUn tuners for local broadcast reception and recording/time shifting.
Imagine my surprise. No WMC. It's a paid upgrade. Ok, I'll bite. Where to I upgrade it? Clicky linky. Sorry, the licensing server is not available.
So I said to myself, Self... Let's see what else this WIndows 8 has to offer. This user interface is a total abortion. After fumbling around for an hour and feeling like a fool, I eventually clicked some of the colored boxes on the screen. Not a single thing would launch with the exception of IE9. Reason? My TV is 720 lines of resolution, not 1080. Every stinkin' app said I didn't have the required resolution.
My HTPC is now running Windows 7 again. And will be for a long time to come. It's way too good of a television to discard for a new operating system.
High SWR does not cause the finals to heat up. High SWR causes excessive voltage on the output device and at some point will cause catastrophic failure. It's generally not gradual.
I believe the failure mode for tin whiskers is generally catastrophic and not gradual.
And yes, there's plenty of evidence that tin whiskers are killing our electronics.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/21/toyota-sudden-acceleration-tin-whiskers_n_1221076.html
Sure it is. You just need to get your Amateur Radio license.
I wish I was as young as you think I am...
Are you saying the French would cut off their nose to spite their face over power or that Google would?
What does Google have to lose by cutting off the French? In my opinion, nothing. Quite the opposite. Google would soon have a perfect example why a foreign government shouldn't do insipid things like that. Useful for parading in front of the next would be power grabber.
What does the French have to gain by invoking a new law and Google cutting them off? They lose power because they were seen as inconsequential. The newssites lose readers which means they lose profit. I'm not seeing the real win here for the French politicians or the newssites. Oh, they can stand on principal. They've done that before. But that won't stop the huge internal pressures for the French politicians to redact the law. It would be a hell fire for the politicians that plunged their population into the internet stone age.
There's power and there's wanna be power. Guess who has which?
Google isn't reading the newssites. The general public is reading the newssites.
Google is helping them by sending more readers. They really think that they get that service for free?
Are they really that dense?
I expect Google to flip that switch off when the law is passed.
Your digestive system senses volume, not calories.
Not true. Your digestive system senses volume and density. It's just not very good at sensing density of highly processed (condensed) food.
The FIRST thing I would do would be to find some POS software where the terminals switch to standalone mode WHEN the server/network goes down (not IF). Then I would work on getting the server and network to a point where that is necessary less often.
With the right searches, a determined public could keep the authorities so busy that they would eventually abandon the system.
Just like it's been proven time and again that I can tell you when there's a speed trap ahead on the road, I can tell you when a commercial is about to begin.
That and me telling you when the coast is clear or the commercial has ended completes the loop, but the conveyance of all that type of information is protected by Freedom of Speech under the US Constitution.
And that's the way I would defend it in court.
And that would make you a bad Conductor. Hence the problem.
My code is as good as I think it is. Your comprehension skills are not as good as you think they are.
My first thoughts would revolve around Noise, Heat, Electricity, Connectivity and Physical Security.
Electricity: Minimally, a 110 V 20A twist lock receptical for each server rack. Realistically, that might mean 6000 watts of heat that you need to take away.
Cooling: You need more cooling than the number of watts that can be dissipated through the electrical system leading into the room. There are standard conversions for watts of heat to BTU. Then add the ASHRAE standards of heat for the number of people that will be in the area. If you can't get this much cooling, stop right there.
Sound: Racks of servers sound like jet airplanes taking off. All the time. You do NOT want to be near them at the place you call your office without some serious sound control. They are loud and annoying and you will not want to be near them for any length of time. If you haven't been around server racks, then you'll have to take everyone's word for it. If you have, you already know.
Connectivity: You'll want overhead wiring trays to route power, fiber, coax and Cat cables from the walls to the racks overhead. I like dedicating a rack to connectivity distribution so I can close the door on the mess it always becomes. A 4x8 sheet of plywood on one wall will serve to mount punchdown blocks.
Physical Security. Get a solid wood core or metal door on the server room and put a lock on it. Seal it for sound. That door stays locked all the time. Part of the physical security is also fire control, so you'll need some way to control fire and report it to a central station. Also, the door should be under access control if possible.
Each of these topics leads to much more complexity and you'll need to explore each of these quite a bit before you start purchasing.
And, after all that is laid out, you can use some of the left over space to create a nice office that is not in the same room as the servers. There were lots of good points made above and I hope you have enough square feet to pull this off correctly. If you don't, make a nice server room and beg an office somewhere else in the building.
Other things to consider. Data Backups (offsite too), UPS Power, Emergency Power, Spare Parts, Disaster Recovery, Redundant Connectivity, Lighting, Out of Band control, Contingency Fund, Storage, Work Bench, etc....
Great. When you have figured out a law that will keep a criminal from acting, let us know.
I think, by definition, a criminal doesn't obey laws. That seems to be the real problem.
Now, add to that an estimated half a billion guns in the US.
Tell me how you are going to get them back and what kind of bloodbath that will involve. How many people do you think will die during that gun sweep?
You really need to work on your comprehension skills.
I'm an extra class operator and I have been running code practice sessions for the last year on a local repeater in an attempt to get more people into General class or above.
One thing I have seen is perfectly good operators who are unable to grasp this mode. Either they can't hear it or can't decipher it. The vast majority of these Techs are moral people who will now have a chance to become first class citizens of HF instead of being stuck at the higher frequencies.
I plan to announce the end of my code practice sessions this Sunday evening at 9 pm.
Now, if someone wants to learn code, I'll go one on one with them and we'll get it done, but for many people, it's mud. And, now it's no longer required.
Someone brought up an interesting analogy between learning Morse Code and learning to drive.
Having to learn Morse Code to talk on the radio is like having to learn to shoe a horse to get your drivers license.
Here here!!
This ability is sadly lacking in the majority of the population.
If you can do this and have learned basic Algebra and Accounting, you can function in most businesses.
Did I miss a design criteria that states that Linux is designed to meet unix specs? I don't recall seeing one...