In the three weeks since I inherited the admin position at my office, the sternest warning I ever got from ClamAV was from log messages saying I had an outdated version but "DON'T PANIC." So, I think to myself, it says don't panic, so don't panic--we're going to be building a new mail server in a few months anyway, so why worry? It's not like good open-source developers would ever pull a b.s. Microsoft move like intentionally throwing a kill switch on old versions of their software.
Yeah, caveat emptor, you get what you pay for, etc. I know.
"...horse races sell money." You raise a good point. The emphasis on this story was the "Obama tilt," but down in the third paragraph, I find the statistic of "1,295 horse-race stories and 594 issues stories" even more troubling.
Don't underestimate the fanaticism of old-school video gamers. Rumor has it that the record-breaking game of Asteroids begun in 1983 is still in progress.
Right up until the Google purchase, GrandCentral would allow people to customize their "RingShare" ringback tones in a way that was, I think, unique and unprecedented: You could upload your own MP3s and have GrandCentral play them to callers while your number was ringing.
It lasted less than a week for me. Apparently, part of the Google deal was removing the custom MP3 feature. Now there is just a lame "library" of pre-selected ringback tones. Google, RIAA, thanks for nothing.
(1) This is a virtual world that has the power to draw in the user's imagination as if they were participating in a real world. Can a rape-like experience in a virtual world be emotionally traumatizing to the victim? I definitely think so. But as much so as in real life? I doubt it.
(2) There is a much different dynamic between two anonymous people who interact on-line than there is between two people on-line who have a history with each other (on-line or off). Negative behavior in the latter situation has more emotional and potentially traumatic potential than the former.
(3) Then there is the question of the player whose sole purpose for playing is to get off on simulating rape with other players.
I think current criminal law already covers cases like (2) and (3)--stalking and harassment laws, etc.
I do not buy the "just log off" argument, because by the time that happens, the victim already knows what is going on and the damage has been done.
Such a policy is not without precedent. Tonga's NIC has kept registration information private for years.
Then again, Tonga's NIC also has a healthy anti-spam policy, including a provision for revealing registration info for domain names canceled for violating that policy.
But does keeping registration info private really help shield spammers? Who's to say that spammers are providing valid registration info in the first place? They abuse public registration records both ways: they falsify their own info to shield their identities, and they appropriate and abuse the info of honest people doing the right thing.
I am all for private registration records. If Russia enacts their law, they will have the exact opposite policy of the United States. And, damn, will I envy those Russians for it.
Gosh, I've invested all this money in this leaking roof, but it still keeps leaking. I guess I should just throw more money into it and hope it'll stop leaking eventually, rather than replace it with something of a superior design. Yeah, that just might work.
You are right. The term "Islamofascist" seems to have been coined specifically so the administration can draw comparisons between Islamic terrorists and the Nazis, which they've started doing heavily sometime over the past couple of weeks. See, everyone knows that Nazis are bad. Unless, of course, they're wealthy men with a stake in the oil industry. In that case, they are good, honest, trustworthy folks, and we should stop worrying our little heads and believe everything they tell us.
Actually, if memory serves, the Segway patents already cover a number of possible wheel/ball configurations, including a single ball. I can see the IP lawyers flaring nostrils and raising hackles already.
Actually, that's exactly what I understood Blue Frog to be doing--going to the Web sites offering the products advertised in the spam, then filling out the order forms with words to the effect of "stop spamming Blue Frog users."
I'm sure you're right. I have an entire domain registered with Blue Security, but it looks like the spammer has only been hitting some well-worn addresses I have seen other spammers using. I'm sure whoever it is "cleaned" his list, looked at what addresses got filtered out, and singled out those addresses for "special" treatment.
Now, *IF* they were talking about a new transport class (like http:/// and ftp:// for encapsulating telephone numbers, such that a link to tel://8675309 would get me Jenny on the line, that *might* be useful.
In fact, "tel:", "fax:", and "modem:" URL schemes were proposed six(!) years ago by a Nokia researcher (RFC 2806), but no one seems to have paid them much mind.
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In the three weeks since I inherited the admin position at my office, the sternest warning I ever got from ClamAV was from log messages saying I had an outdated version but "DON'T PANIC." So, I think to myself, it says don't panic, so don't panic--we're going to be building a new mail server in a few months anyway, so why worry? It's not like good open-source developers would ever pull a b.s. Microsoft move like intentionally throwing a kill switch on old versions of their software.
Yeah, caveat emptor, you get what you pay for, etc. I know.
Since when is a homepage featuring book covers for The Haunted Vagina and Ass Goblins of Auschwitz considered SFW at all?
Just sayin'. :-)
I am mighty pleased to learn that these are the folks behind Shatnerquake.
"...horse races sell money." You raise a good point. The emphasis on this story was the "Obama tilt," but down in the third paragraph, I find the statistic of "1,295 horse-race stories and 594 issues stories" even more troubling.
I thought it was the conservatives that treated the homeless like untouchables?
http://tinyurl.com/29x2q4
Don't underestimate the fanaticism of old-school video gamers. Rumor has it that the record-breaking game of Asteroids begun in 1983 is still in progress.
You forgot the part about keeping a sharply-peeled eye and making sure you are being served by live.com and not 1ive.com (with a numeral 1).
Right up until the Google purchase, GrandCentral would allow people to customize their "RingShare" ringback tones in a way that was, I think, unique and unprecedented: You could upload your own MP3s and have GrandCentral play them to callers while your number was ringing.
This was a lot of fun. At a website called Telephone World, I found a great recording of a phone call made through an old Western Electric switch and edited it down to an "old school" ringback signal to use on GrandCentral.
It lasted less than a week for me. Apparently, part of the Google deal was removing the custom MP3 feature. Now there is just a lame "library" of pre-selected ringback tones. Google, RIAA, thanks for nothing.
Cool. If they're willing to pay me $10 a month to go to the Dark Side, sign me up.0.00
But it has been coughing up blood for a long time.
(1) This is a virtual world that has the power to draw in the user's imagination as if they were participating in a real world. Can a rape-like experience in a virtual world be emotionally traumatizing to the victim? I definitely think so. But as much so as in real life? I doubt it.
(2) There is a much different dynamic between two anonymous people who interact on-line than there is between two people on-line who have a history with each other (on-line or off). Negative behavior in the latter situation has more emotional and potentially traumatic potential than the former.
(3) Then there is the question of the player whose sole purpose for playing is to get off on simulating rape with other players.
I think current criminal law already covers cases like (2) and (3)--stalking and harassment laws, etc.
I do not buy the "just log off" argument, because by the time that happens, the victim already knows what is going on and the damage has been done.
Such a policy is not without precedent. Tonga's NIC has kept registration information private for years.
Then again, Tonga's NIC also has a healthy anti-spam policy, including a provision for revealing registration info for domain names canceled for violating that policy.
But does keeping registration info private really help shield spammers? Who's to say that spammers are providing valid registration info in the first place? They abuse public registration records both ways: they falsify their own info to shield their identities, and they appropriate and abuse the info of honest people doing the right thing.
I am all for private registration records. If Russia enacts their law, they will have the exact opposite policy of the United States. And, damn, will I envy those Russians for it.
"So which is it. An article of general interest, or a rant because some ISP doesn't like your web-site?"
I take it this is your first encounter with Bennett's oeuvre.
...someone will be using Tinkertoys. :-)
"My bullshit detector is hovering at about '9'."
Mine's hovering at about 11. (Out of 10.)
Gosh, I've invested all this money in this leaking roof, but it still keeps leaking. I guess I should just throw more money into it and hope it'll stop leaking eventually, rather than replace it with something of a superior design. Yeah, that just might work.
A dramatic visual demonstration of this problem will appear in the movie Jackass 3.
I'm sure.
You are right. The term "Islamofascist" seems to have been coined specifically so the administration can draw comparisons between Islamic terrorists and the Nazis, which they've started doing heavily sometime over the past couple of weeks. See, everyone knows that Nazis are bad. Unless, of course, they're wealthy men with a stake in the oil industry. In that case, they are good, honest, trustworthy folks, and we should stop worrying our little heads and believe everything they tell us.
But I thought "pharming" was the word for growing crops genetically modified to produce pharmaceuticals.
Actually, if memory serves, the Segway patents already cover a number of possible wheel/ball configurations, including a single ball. I can see the IP lawyers flaring nostrils and raising hackles already.
Exactly. I remember when Friendster came out, thinking, "Cool! It's just like Six Degrees was! Only it doesn't suck!"
:-)
Except, over time, Friendster the website has come to suck, too.
Actually, that's exactly what I understood Blue Frog to be doing--going to the Web sites offering the products advertised in the spam, then filling out the order forms with words to the effect of "stop spamming Blue Frog users."
I'm sure you're right. I have an entire domain registered with Blue Security, but it looks like the spammer has only been hitting some well-worn addresses I have seen other spammers using. I'm sure whoever it is "cleaned" his list, looked at what addresses got filtered out, and singled out those addresses for "special" treatment.
The difference, though, is that BillMonk today is little more than an electronic IOU service. PayPal handles actual funds.
I can see the two complementing each other, though. In fact, I think it is BillMonk's goal to partner up with services like PayPal.
I love BillMonk, by the way.
In fact, "tel:", "fax:", and "modem:" URL schemes were proposed six(!) years ago by a Nokia researcher (RFC 2806), but no one seems to have paid them much mind.