Personally, I think the only interesting facet of WAP is that it's geographically aware - your cellphone can work out where you are by the base stations you're connected to.
My service provider (Orange) offers WAP services to find your nearest cash machine, restaurant, etc. A small, cheap alternative to GPS solutions, that can also work indoors.
I've been using Spamcop on my personal accounts for a while now, and blocking all email from China, Brazil, Argentina, etc. Analysing the held queue now and again, it was amazing how much of this crap was coming out of China.
Guess it shows that if enough organisations are prepared to ignore their torrents of junk, things start to happen.
I wouldn't think that the US would want something like this to exist. Think what some of these could do in a large city.
And they propose to drop them on the ground in unfriendly areas, where anyone can come along and pick them up!
-1 Idiotic
I was under the impression that they're not just dumb jamming devices, and will be built to be specifically controlled by US Command and Control centres - which will tell them whether they are to operate as listeners or jammers.
The joke about outrunning the slowest target is on par here...
I think there's some truth in that...
At least here in the UK, I can't believe that some retailers print the full card number AND expiry date on CC receipts. You usually see a few scattered on the pavement outside the store...
Minicabs are a relatively recent invention (70's I think) which are NOT allowed to be hailed on the street, have much simpler vehicle rules and the drivers don't have to do 'the knowledge'. Minicabs (legal) can often be pretty grotty. Often you get unlicensed (illegal) minicabs hanging outside pubs and clubs - these can be even more dodgy.
In the touristy parts, their drivers walk up to you to offer their services. Like in Soviet Russia, the cab hails YOU!
Well, true. It think it would be great if we had the option to apply some of the moderation features to Usenet (which, as others have pointed out, has the s/n ratio of Slashdot at -1).
Maybe popular news clients could enhance their filtering rules to allow this.
Problem with killfiles is that they're a bit of a retroactive step.
How about if you could mark a list of 'friends' in particular newsgroups, fishing from the news header their email address and news server as a 'key'. Then, if a couple of the trusted respond to a troll/spam with the word 'junk' or something, your newsreader could supress the offending parent.
Would this work? Doesn't seem like major heart surgery for news clients, and wouldn't have to break any standards.
The downside to this is that its depressing to see what happens when people interact in what they view as a completely anonymous and consequence free medium...says a lot about basic human nature and none of it good.
I think that's a generalisation that keeps cropping up.
I follow a number of newsgroups pretty much every day. In one, I can't remember seeing a flame. In another, it happens every other topic.
(I've also found that in really bad cases you can suck a bit of ink through the printhead, but it doesn't taste too good, although on the bright side it doesn't seem to stain your mouth as long as you rinse it out right away...)
??!! Sounds like you've been snorting toner, too...:-)
I know what you mean about mail to domains... I've registered 13 domains (some for clients) over the last few years, and want to monitor postmaster@, webmaster@, abuse@ etc. Used to get mountains of spam addressed to these aliases, together with some others that I don't want blocked off (enquiries@, info@).
I've found spamcop to be a fantastic service. I just forward mail from all my domains to my spamcop address, which filters it according to a (configurable) selection of blacklists, etc. The spamcop account then forwards the "clean" mail wherever I want it.
Out of all the crap sent to 13 domains, it's unusual to have more than one slip through a week (YMMV, of course). No false positives so far, either.
Whenever I've got an idle minute, I review the held spam through a web interface and select the offenders for automated reporting. They've probably moved on by that point, but it might make a small difference. Gets potential relays tested too.
Why would you buy something you can acquire for free?
For some time, people have been able to get the product "free" by simply taping it from a radio station. But if you buy the product in a shop rather than taping in this way, it's more convenient, and you get a better quality product. That was the incentive.
If they sold the product through high-bandwith servers at a sensible price, the purchaser could be sure that a) it wouldn't be trickling down at 0.3kb/s from some guy's dialup connection b) Would be encoded at a high bit rate c)Wouldn't be mislabeled, truncated, or a rough sounding bootleg
Balance the incentives against the cost, and the market is there (IMHO). The trick is not to be greedy.
As heartless as it sounds, an unstable world where nation states are allowed to take unilateral, pre-emptive military action to pursue their own narrow minded nationalistic interests
1. Like the Iraqui invasion of Kuwait?
will cause more evil and suffering than a piss-ant dictator in a third world country could ever achieve.
2. Not when said piss-ant dictator has a nuclear device to back him up. Now revisit point 1.
Slashdot Mirror
Good point...you're right -
But how about 'x' messages with 'y' total recipients within message during 'z' seconds?
Just curious - was wondering about the spam clients that give the SMTP servers the firehose treatment...
I've often wondered how feasible it would be to have an algorithmic mode in popular SMTP server software, to try to target just the spammers.
So if it receives 'x' messages with 'y' bcc recipients within 'z' seconds, you ignore connections from that IP address for a period of time...
And in today's world, where phones are part of normal teenage attire, banning phones altogether may not be an option.
I still can't see why this would be the case in an exam hall...
And in Britian the BBC is run by the government, so I am sure that most people here can figure out were their biases go.
That's a "fact", is it?
Bzzzt! Thanks for playing...
It was John Atkinson, that legendary ornithologist, who first pointed it out: "Have you noticed how frequently you see women using the iPod?"
Ah, you see, it's the same colour as kitchen appliances.... <ducks and runs>
( Hmm.. didn't mean that WAP is intrinsically geographically aware, of course... :-} )
I agree about WAP's shortcomings...
Personally, I think the only interesting facet of WAP is that it's geographically aware - your cellphone can work out where you are by the base stations you're connected to.
My service provider (Orange) offers WAP services to find your nearest cash machine, restaurant, etc.
A small, cheap alternative to GPS solutions, that can also work indoors.
This feels good...
I've been using Spamcop on my personal accounts for a while now, and blocking all email from China, Brazil, Argentina, etc. Analysing the held queue now and again, it was amazing how much of this crap was coming out of China.
Guess it shows that if enough organisations are prepared to ignore their torrents of junk, things start to happen.
I wouldn't think that the US would want something like this to exist. Think what some of these could do in a large city.
:-)
And they propose to drop them on the ground in unfriendly areas, where anyone can come along and pick them up!
-1 Idiotic
I was under the impression that they're not just dumb jamming devices, and will be built to be specifically controlled by US Command and Control centres - which will tell them whether they are to operate as listeners or jammers.
Of course, I guess you read the article too...
The joke about outrunning the slowest target is on par here...
I think there's some truth in that...
At least here in the UK, I can't believe that some retailers print the full card number AND expiry date on CC receipts. You usually see a few scattered on the pavement outside the store...
Glad I went for the cross-cut shredder solution.
I remember someone mentioning the scam to me about a decade before the movie was released...
Minicabs are a relatively recent invention (70's I think) which are NOT allowed to be hailed on the street, have much simpler vehicle rules and the drivers don't have to do 'the knowledge'. Minicabs (legal) can often be pretty grotty. Often you get unlicensed (illegal) minicabs hanging outside pubs and clubs - these can be even more dodgy.
In the touristy parts, their drivers walk up to you to offer their services.
Like in Soviet Russia, the cab hails YOU!
Slashdot is just a Usenet dressed up.
Well, true.
It think it would be great if we had the option to apply some of the moderation features to Usenet (which, as others have pointed out, has the s/n ratio of Slashdot at -1).
Maybe popular news clients could enhance their filtering rules to allow this.
Problem with killfiles is that they're a bit of a retroactive step.
How about if you could mark a list of 'friends' in particular newsgroups, fishing from the news header their email address and news server as a 'key'. Then, if a couple of the trusted respond to a troll/spam with the word 'junk' or something, your newsreader could supress the offending parent.
Would this work? Doesn't seem like major heart surgery for news clients, and wouldn't have to break any standards.
The downside to this is that its depressing to see what happens when people interact in what they view as a completely anonymous and consequence free medium...says a lot about basic human nature and none of it good.
I think that's a generalisation that keeps cropping up.
I follow a number of newsgroups pretty much every day.
In one, I can't remember seeing a flame. In another, it happens every other topic.
Where did you park your Victorian time machine?!
Release all your music free on the net, then tell people to send you money if they want to!
As evident from the meteoric success of shareware...
Doesn't seem very fair - the upkeep of the roads is meant to be the purpose of the road fund license (tax disc).
What's next? A careful examination of how to defend against someone ringing your doorbell and running away?
:-)
Again, sounds like my postman...
Also, each passenger received a gift, (on this flight it was a 1994 date planner.)
:-)
On the reverse, it said "I spent £3,000 on a plane ticket and all I got was this lousy calendar".
(I've also found that in really bad cases you can suck a bit of ink through the printhead, but it doesn't taste too good, although on the bright side it doesn't seem to stain your mouth as long as you rinse it out right away...)
:-)
??!! Sounds like you've been snorting toner, too...
I know what you mean about mail to domains... I've registered 13 domains (some for clients) over the last few years, and want to monitor postmaster@, webmaster@, abuse@ etc. Used to get mountains of spam addressed to these aliases, together with some others that I don't want blocked off (enquiries@, info@).
I've found spamcop to be a fantastic service. I just forward mail from all my domains to my spamcop address, which filters it according to a (configurable) selection of blacklists, etc. The spamcop account then forwards the "clean" mail wherever I want it.
Out of all the crap sent to 13 domains, it's unusual to have more than one slip through a week (YMMV, of course). No false positives so far, either.
Whenever I've got an idle minute, I review the held spam through a web interface and select the offenders for automated reporting. They've probably moved on by that point, but it might make a small difference. Gets potential relays tested too.
$30 a year, but has saved me a fair bit of time.
Build a simple news management and delivery system
Generate a sustainable revenue stream from advertising
Implement an online visitor poll
Create a fully featured discussion forum
?????
Profit!!
Agree...
Jack Valenti (MPAA) saith:
Why would you buy something you can acquire for free?
For some time, people have been able to get the product "free" by simply taping it from a radio station. But if you buy the product in a shop rather than taping in this way, it's more convenient, and you get a better quality product. That was the incentive.
If they sold the product through high-bandwith servers at a sensible price, the purchaser could be sure that
a) it wouldn't be trickling down at 0.3kb/s from some guy's dialup connection
b) Would be encoded at a high bit rate
c)Wouldn't be mislabeled, truncated, or a rough sounding bootleg
Balance the incentives against the cost, and the market is there (IMHO).
The trick is not to be greedy.
As heartless as it sounds, an unstable world where nation states are allowed to take unilateral, pre-emptive military action to pursue their own narrow minded nationalistic interests
1. Like the Iraqui invasion of Kuwait?
will cause more evil and suffering than a piss-ant dictator in a third world country could ever achieve.
2. Not when said piss-ant dictator has a nuclear device to back him up. Now revisit point 1.
Ah, fair enough.... Recalled it vaguely, and googled for the quote!