You, as an individual, can only detain them if you place them under citizen's arrest. You can only make a citizen's arrest if a felony is involved; it can not be used for misdemeanors. In most states, mine includes, theft under $500 is only a misdemeanor. So unless you see them walking out the door with your plasma TV in their bag you can't place them under citizen's arrest. You coffee maker doesn't cost enough. FYI.
FYI, you can not sign away constitutionally given rights. Ie, I can't sign a document agreeing to warrantless searches that would otherwise violate the 4th Amendment.
I remember Activision doing this when I was in college. To get support for their games you emailed their support line to get a auto-reply with a list of subject lines to use to get the right support dept. Then you sent your email with the right subject and it was auto-route it into the right mailbox. That then generated an auto-ack from that group with common support issues and whatnot.
I can't help but to think that something is going on here. Rove leaves. Now Gonzales. I think they're going to jump on the next GOP candidates bandwagon and try to ride back into Washington. I do not think that we've seen that last of either of them. Anyone else?
Good point. Then I'd say it falls on the field tech to discern for themselves. You could also do it on the billing side of things. A business of any reasonable size won't have an individual pay for Internet access. They'll try to claim it's residential, "and would you mind sending the bill to Company ABC at the same address? Thanks." Seen that before too. It's a tough one to solve. At my ISP I won't let them run a mail server on a dynamically-assigned account. For that matter I won't let them use any SMTP server (on tcp/25 at least) that's not our ISP's on a non-static account. That solves a lot of problems right there.
It can also be readily prevented by not permitting residential connections in areas zone for business purposes. Zoning data is very accessible these days and can easily be integrated into your telco's mapping system. We recently revamped our mapping system and this was a feature that was available (and we're very small in comparison to Cox or Bell). Zoning laws will prevent a business from being established in a residential area until the zoning specifications are amended.
You can also rely on your field techs to tell you if the location is a business or not. If a residential tech goes out to do a VDSL hookup and finds that the site is actually a business then they can call foul and the install stops.
As a partial solution to this problem DynDNS could *learn* valid email addresses for a given domain by scanning the outbound messages from said domain. My server-based spam filter does something similar for me. It's called Auto-Whitelisting. It automatically whitelists the recipients on email I send through the spam filter. It would be trivial to have it also scan for and learn valid sender addresses. This isn't a silver bullet but it helps.
If you would be so kind as to provide the domain and IP of your home mail server I would appreciate it. I would like to add you to the blacklist on all my mail servers. Clearly you are too ignorant to properly run a mail server. Many thanks.
"I am a (strictly technical) member of a large *nix systems admin team at a Fortune 150. Our new IT Management Overlord is a hardcore bean-counter from hell.
You're too smart to understand what he's talking about. You need to bring in some less intelligent to help bridge the gap between you and the bean-counter. Do you have any small children? No, strike that. How about an eldery relative with Alzheimer's? No, that would be cruel to Gramps. Do you have any pets?
Actually it's about $25/yr. I actually just renewed my sub. I waited until the 4th notice when they really sweetened the offer by making it a 2 for 1 deal with 2 years for $25. I sure hope my other $25 didn't put them out of business. I liked that magazine.
I would get just the CD except that I already have an old CD and the upgrade is only $20. I also just re-upped for a 2 year sub so the refund of a CD isn't quite up to snuff.
I tend to agree with part of this sentiment. However I strongly believe that non-private WHOIS details makes it significantly easier for domains to be hijacked. With a domain owner's name, address, and telephone records is would be fairly easy for a cracker to social engineer control of the domain away from the real owner through the registrar. Think that never happens? Just as the original owner of sex.com. It's a real problem without a real solution. The only work around right now is to not give out any identifiable information about the real domain owner. Do you need the real contact details? Sue. Acquire that information through the legal discovery process which is subject to judicial oversight and scrutiny. This will give the potential domain victim some means of finding out who sought out his information after the fact since the plaintiff will have to identify themselves to the court to file the case.
The current cable TV system is more of a cooperative system than the subscribers realize. You may want ESPN while someone else wants Spike, MTV, Disney or the Hallmark channel. The other subscribers are helping to pay for your ESPN channel. You're helping to pay for their Disney channel. Without this cooperative system you'd only be able to afford 10 channels. Joe down the street could only after 5. Some big shot in a fancy house can afford 30. No one can afford the 100 or so channels they have now.
ESPN charges us I believe it's $3.25 a subscriber. The movie channels are even worse. I know this because one of the business that my company is in is cable TV and this is a frequent topic of conversation with our RF guy. We need some form of legislation to cap the price of over-priced channels before ala carte will ever work. One might argue that the free market will drive the price of broadcast content down. I argue that it hasn't managed to do so yet. The content producers have gotten a leg up on the broadcasters as well as the subscribers. We can't charge the subscriber more because they'll pitch a fit. We can't get a cheaper price from the content producers. We basically break even on our cable TV offering. We don't yet have PPV on on-demand. There's more margin in that. We make most of our $$ in Internet and long distance (we're also an ISP and telco).
Be careful what you as for. Ala carte isn't all it's cracked up to be. A critical component is missing.
I'm all for getting more teachers educated in the more technical arts but what about the rest of the educators? You can't discount the essentials taught to us by all good teachers whether they are band teachers, english teachers, wood shop teachers, art teachers or the more technical teachers. All teachers contribute to the education of their students, not just those who teach us the sciences. I say this as the son of a teacher, grandson of a teacher, nephew of a multiple teachers, and cousin of a teacher. I even taught summer school a few times.
Maybe Vista has been such a flop that they're actually selling more copies of XP than they ever thought possible. Now they're running out of valid product keys and have to change the algorithm to give them some more headway.
I'd be willing to bet that his real motivation for leaving is to lead another GOP campaign. That's the real problem here IMHO. From the Whitehouse there was only so much damage he could do without it being tied back to the Administration. Now, however, he's out there on his own and able to cause a lot more damage without the same kind of political fallout. That worries me even more than when he's in one place where we can keep tabs on him.
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You, as an individual, can only detain them if you place them under citizen's arrest. You can only make a citizen's arrest if a felony is involved; it can not be used for misdemeanors. In most states, mine includes, theft under $500 is only a misdemeanor. So unless you see them walking out the door with your plasma TV in their bag you can't place them under citizen's arrest. You coffee maker doesn't cost enough. FYI.
FYI, you can not sign away constitutionally given rights. Ie, I can't sign a document agreeing to warrantless searches that would otherwise violate the 4th Amendment.
I remember Activision doing this when I was in college. To get support for their games you emailed their support line to get a auto-reply with a list of subject lines to use to get the right support dept. Then you sent your email with the right subject and it was auto-route it into the right mailbox. That then generated an auto-ack from that group with common support issues and whatnot.
De nada. There's also an O'Reilly book that's helpful with some of these more advanced options: Sendmail Cookbook .
I can't help but to think that something is going on here. Rove leaves. Now Gonzales. I think they're going to jump on the next GOP candidates bandwagon and try to ride back into Washington. I do not think that we've seen that last of either of them. Anyone else?
Good point. Then I'd say it falls on the field tech to discern for themselves. You could also do it on the billing side of things. A business of any reasonable size won't have an individual pay for Internet access. They'll try to claim it's residential, "and would you mind sending the bill to Company ABC at the same address? Thanks." Seen that before too. It's a tough one to solve. At my ISP I won't let them run a mail server on a dynamically-assigned account. For that matter I won't let them use any SMTP server (on tcp/25 at least) that's not our ISP's on a non-static account. That solves a lot of problems right there.
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You can also rely on your field techs to tell you if the location is a business or not. If a residential tech goes out to do a VDSL hookup and finds that the site is actually a business then they can call foul and the install stops.
As a partial solution to this problem DynDNS could *learn* valid email addresses for a given domain by scanning the outbound messages from said domain. My server-based spam filter does something similar for me. It's called Auto-Whitelisting. It automatically whitelists the recipients on email I send through the spam filter. It would be trivial to have it also scan for and learn valid sender addresses. This isn't a silver bullet but it helps.
This Google search will point in you the right direction.
If you would be so kind as to provide the domain and IP of your home mail server I would appreciate it. I would like to add you to the blacklist on all my mail servers. Clearly you are too ignorant to properly run a mail server. Many thanks.
You're too smart to understand what he's talking about. You need to bring in some less intelligent to help bridge the gap between you and the bean-counter. Do you have any small children? No, strike that. How about an eldery relative with Alzheimer's? No, that would be cruel to Gramps. Do you have any pets?
Actually it's about $25/yr. I actually just renewed my sub. I waited until the 4th notice when they really sweetened the offer by making it a 2 for 1 deal with 2 years for $25. I sure hope my other $25 didn't put them out of business. I liked that magazine.
I would get just the CD except that I already have an old CD and the upgrade is only $20. I also just re-upped for a 2 year sub so the refund of a CD isn't quite up to snuff.
The other content in the plastic sleeve was special bonus material like content on console servers or a section dedicated to Solaris topics only.
I tend to agree with part of this sentiment. However I strongly believe that non-private WHOIS details makes it significantly easier for domains to be hijacked. With a domain owner's name, address, and telephone records is would be fairly easy for a cracker to social engineer control of the domain away from the real owner through the registrar. Think that never happens? Just as the original owner of sex.com. It's a real problem without a real solution. The only work around right now is to not give out any identifiable information about the real domain owner. Do you need the real contact details? Sue. Acquire that information through the legal discovery process which is subject to judicial oversight and scrutiny. This will give the potential domain victim some means of finding out who sought out his information after the fact since the plaintiff will have to identify themselves to the court to file the case.
ESPN charges us I believe it's $3.25 a subscriber. The movie channels are even worse. I know this because one of the business that my company is in is cable TV and this is a frequent topic of conversation with our RF guy. We need some form of legislation to cap the price of over-priced channels before ala carte will ever work. One might argue that the free market will drive the price of broadcast content down. I argue that it hasn't managed to do so yet. The content producers have gotten a leg up on the broadcasters as well as the subscribers. We can't charge the subscriber more because they'll pitch a fit. We can't get a cheaper price from the content producers. We basically break even on our cable TV offering. We don't yet have PPV on on-demand. There's more margin in that. We make most of our $$ in Internet and long distance (we're also an ISP and telco).
Be careful what you as for. Ala carte isn't all it's cracked up to be. A critical component is missing.
PEBCAK. Sheesh. What an ID10T.
I'm all for getting more teachers educated in the more technical arts but what about the rest of the educators? You can't discount the essentials taught to us by all good teachers whether they are band teachers, english teachers, wood shop teachers, art teachers or the more technical teachers. All teachers contribute to the education of their students, not just those who teach us the sciences. I say this as the son of a teacher, grandson of a teacher, nephew of a multiple teachers, and cousin of a teacher. I even taught summer school a few times.
Maybe Vista has been such a flop that they're actually selling more copies of XP than they ever thought possible. Now they're running out of valid product keys and have to change the algorithm to give them some more headway.
A medical business resolve billing issues? That's the funniest damn thing I've heard this month!
So what kind of doe will this Opteron Threesome run me?
I'd be willing to bet that his real motivation for leaving is to lead another GOP campaign. That's the real problem here IMHO. From the Whitehouse there was only so much damage he could do without it being tied back to the Administration. Now, however, he's out there on his own and able to cause a lot more damage without the same kind of political fallout. That worries me even more than when he's in one place where we can keep tabs on him.
Yeah, the shuttle bus ride from the airport to the hotel probably won't be free.