Its called zero-sum-gain and its taught well. Most games you have a winner and a loser. Most board games are that way and I have found people don't like playing games that are non-zero-sum-gain. An example of this is Monopoly. If you play by the rules, its a non-zero-sum-gain until someone over extends them self however people can't stand that and put the fines into a free parking pool which turns it into a zero-sum-gain game based on the outcome of the dice. Chess is another game where strong players can do non-zero-sum-gain.
Our modern capitalism system's growth is based on non-zero-sum-gain transactions and an introduction of new resources into the pool. Most of the rest is simple zero-sum-gain.
They did know it was there, they did know where to find much of it and they know how to get to some of it. In fact Egypt has been exporting oil for over 4000 years. The Romans were importing oil from the middle east 2000 years ago. The Greeks used it as weapon.
What the American did was go there and work at depleting the Arab oil before depleating their own as well as providing enough info to keep the ruling powers in powers. Those two things are what are upsetting the poorer Saudis as well as the millions of Arabs that work in the country.
I have a friend that has a pc that she brings over for me to "fix" when it gets broken. This tends to happen way too often and years ago after 2nd or third time I rebooted it, I started a "reboot sheet" that hides inside it. Everytime I reboot it while fixing it, I put a mark down. The proecdure now is slap the drive in a real computer, suck down her documents, dd the image back over to the old drive. Reboot, hook it to the cable modem and do the updates while marking every reboot. Once its stable, I copy her files back, mirror the disk over again.
I've rebooted that thing over 200 times. How many people are going to keep doing "windows update" when they have to reboot, run it again, reboot again? Over dial out that would take hours. Whem I'm fixing it, its in my lab and it may take a day or too to get it back running but the real world where people count on these things is a real mess.
Next time it comes in, Its getting a new OS. I wonder if she'll notice.
It scans the body of the message for ^TVqQAAMAAAAEAAA and the kills the message if its found. It works great because thats the start of a base 64 encoded version of a.exe.
They calculated angular difference from one edge of a signal to the the other of a very dynamic object. The absolute location is irrelevant when your using mortars and small arms. Absolution location of a target only matters if you want to use a cruise missile. I don't think it would be so hard to build a system where you put up 2 antennas for the same reciever and fire two mortar shells with a small transmitter. One to the left side of the field, one to the right. The system then could figure out the range and angles using something almost exactly like LORAN. You know that system that wa s doing sub meter in harbors back in 1945 with tube based amps and timing circuts and analog computers. Loran of the day only used two recivers to get a fix once it decided which side of the line it was on.
The hard part of detecting one of these wired soldiers is detecting the very weak spread spectrum signals but once their chipping code is mostly figured out, it won't be to hard to build a radio to look for them.
I still think detecting wired soldiers can be done by most countries in the world but then again the US isn't going to be fighting most of them however many of them are willing to sell the equipment to anyone with the cash to buy it.
If your in any army you have a topo map to give elevation. Sub nanosection timing is trivial today. Two antennas a few meters apart and a forward spotter is all you need to calibrate it. Radio astronomers have done 2 m DF at a distance of 6000 lightyears. If thats state of the art, how many orders of magnitude easier is it to 1 m at 1 km (which is in the range of mortars) ?
This will work because the US has been targeting low tech areas. Anyone that can do good electromagnetic detection can use these systems to target the soldiers. If you can isolate a single signal at two different locations at the same time, you can id the target down to sub meter at distances over a hundred km.
the USPS is already starting to implement ZIP+4 codes for outbound international mail to speed up sorting in-country. They have been doing this for years. Letters I get from the US are zip coded 00194-3000. (3000 is the post code for melbourne and I expect 00194 is Australia) If anyone who can print a bar code wants to waste a stamp to verify this, please contact me.
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Its the same with red wine and the old French customs. Most places in France don't get very hot but there are silly Americans (from the midwest and south) and Australians that think that red wine should be servied at room temperature even in the summer. Red wine isn't good at 40 deg C (thats 104 for the Texans).
Where do you get your facts from because I don't think they are right. A recent study showed that accidents only involved 5% of the fastest cars on the road but did involve the 65 or so of the slowest cars on the road.
In Melbourne Australia when they started installing the speeding cameras and the average fast lane speed went from 115km/hr to about 95km/hr the density of the traffic doubled (in line with that type of decrease) and the number of fatal accidents is still going up and the number of other accidents has risen a great deal.
You didn't get caught up in the figures where after speed limits were lowered, the accident rate may have gone down for some specifc areas did you? Those studies have a major flaw in that newer cars tend to be safer than the older cars so you can't do direct comparisons between accident rates as little as 5 years apart. 10 years in in Australia less than 1% of cars had an airbag. Now I expect that number to be approaching 20%. In some well off areas in the US, the numbers are over 75% today while that wasn't true a decade ago. How is that figured in?
Drink driving rules also aren't clear. Since you can't have a beer and drive (as used to be the Texas custom) drunk drivers are more likly to drink up before they go out and as a result have a different alcohol absorption curve. The guy sipping on the coors light while he drives his pickup truck is safer than the guy who has 4 beers over 4 hrs in a club and then gets behind the wheel but one is more accetable than the other by the law and peer pressure. There is a disturbing trend that shows that as the rules about how much is too much is lowered, it results in people who are on the edge (.05,.08 or whatever the law allows) are more likly to stay at the bar and have another one or two or three and then drive home and the result is the people in accidents seem to be having a higher BAC than they used to. It seems to me that progress sometimes isn't helped by well meaning rules.
When Oklahoma changed its speed limit from 55 to 75 the accidents went way down. The number of sleep drivers crossing into the other lane droped significantly and most of the stats show driving in Oklahoma is now safer even though there are even more cars and drivers.
Back in Melbourne, they recently changed all non-posted built up roads from 60km/hr to 50 and the number of accidents involving children has gone up. There is also far more use of non-main roads which leads toheaver use of residential streets and that results in more accidents. The slowing down simply resulted in higher density traffic and the resulting problems and increased accidents.
So in Oklahoma and Melbourne when a large number of people where speeding, the accident rates were lower than when a large number of people were following the speed limits.
No driving is a right and the goverments stand very firm on the "driving is a privilege" in order to control who can drive on the public roads. It is a matter of time before someone will take it to a high court and the court will decide that the very old "right of way" laws from British laws from as far back as the 1600's does apply if your going via car and not on foot or horse. Basic rights allow people to travel from one place to another by reasonable means. Until the 1960's a car didn't fit that but now cars are essentail in some of the newer housing developments which simply don't have any public transport and are more than 4 hrs walking time to a source of food. The "its a privilege" comes from the governments ability to regulate how one person can damage another. When they are done balancing the rights to harm others with older rights to do your own thing, then either smoking in public will go away or driving will be a legally be right. There is no difference between the risk of an unlicensed driver assulting someone in a car and smoker assulting everyone nearby. Once you remove alcohol use from the car, the risks to the general public are about the same.
I've still got my Grandfathers drivers licene. Issued by the state of Kansas and transferable to anyone and it wasn't revocable when it was issued back so long ago. I wonder how many of thouse are still out there.
The problem with running out of addresses isn't a technological problem, its an admin problem. Right now because cisco is clueless with manageing route tables, a typical router can't cope with more than 10,000 or so entries so the solution to that problem was to fix the allocation so nothing smaller than a/19 was allocated. Most groups don't need a/19 so its all wasted. You can't dual home on todays network (with todays ISPs) without your own/19 so whats with all thouse companies that wan't to dual home but only need a/26? They are out of luck or they pay the big bucks to IANA and get their own/19.
Also if a cisco can't see the world as 16 million/24 then how is it ever going to cope with the the IP v6 address space which is 4 times bigger? However they solve that, they could solve the IP v4 routing problem.
Well... lets count who the players are: 1) AT&T Easy right? No. There is Bell Labs and AT&T switching (whatever its called this week) who both maintain different versions. There is the terminal company that was spun off (TTY maybe?). Many compaines that came out of the bell breakup do have full rights to use and resell Unix [TM] even tough "main" control was sold off. 2) AT&T and Sun sort of did some cross breeding and Sun did get full rights to that as well. So add Sun to the list. 3) Cray computer company has a full license but they no longer exist but SGI and Sun own the remains. So add Sun to the list again. 4) Sun bought the rights from SCO or Novel for like $80 million. Full unquestionalbe rights. Add them in again but there was a reason they wrote the check. 5) SCO (who bought some rights from Novel or was it the other way around and aren't they related at some level anyway?) 6) All early bell licenses have rights and most of them have different rights. Many schools have rights. OU for example has license rights that few other schools had but the rumor is they used their 1st Unix tape to spiff up a Christmas tree. 7) UCB. They ended up in court. Ended up with rights and still pulled the old stuff out. They might have more rights though since Sys V was a blend between their stuff (through Sun again) and AT&T. 8) M$ had some rights that they blew away because of some pesky judge being insightful to their business model. Just how much those rights were released could be left as an exercise for a new judge but the last ruling may have done away with the 1st ruling. Opps. 9) Cowboy Neil might be in there somewhere too. I'm sure of it...
We fixed the VoIP problem. We built another network. It still has nasty hiss on the lines that I don't seem to remember from before the VoIP days.
The big place this will work is for the international compaines. Current VoIP voice rates from Australia to the US (or the UK) are AU$.019/min or about US$.68/hr. Compare that with full AT&T list price to someplace in central Africa. which can be several dollars per minute.
Think about car robberies. Years ago people would would just hot wire it and drive it away. Then they added the better locks and that resulted in cars being broken into and then hot wired. Then they started putting better security on cars and that resulted in car jackings.
From the insurance side of things you have the same risk to the car but you have a witness. Of course there is a massive increases of risk to the person paying the insurance company.
Years ago I worked for a group that ran a bunch of systems that didn't fit in with anything else in the MIS department. One of the systems was a very old IBM 3081. This thing had water cooling and boxes and boxes of storage devices. It was a serious bit of big iron.
Sometime in 1993 we had meetings where the clueless manager would ask us the uptime so should could put it on her report. Our group would report the different servers we ran with a 50 to 100 day uptime but the old guy who ran the 3081 would claim 4767 days or 13 years or 17 billion microseconds depending on the week.
At some point we were told everyone was going through "team training" and we were the second group scheduled. We made the people running the team training cry and the had to postpone it for a few days while they could collect their thoughts (and feelings?) A second revolt was led by the Old Bastard Sysadmin at teh mention of a group hug.
At the time I had been doign sysadmin work for 8 years but the Old Bastard Sysadmin taught me some of the finer points of being a BOFH.
The reason for the "protect military coms" is that years ago at teh end of WW2, NATO decided that the 800/900 Mhz should be split so that the military use one half and civilians get the other half. The US used and NATO used an opposite arrangement so that if US troops needed to go in to Europe, their military radios would not interfer with the local military radios.
This happeden on other frequencies as well but most of the WAN frequences are out of the rubbish heap.
2.4 is sort of no-mans land. Until recently it was a useless frequency because its noisy and water absorbs the signal. Because it was mostly unused and unusable it was assigned to the IMS band and opened up. Becaue it was free, the coordless phone people went after it and helped to develop ways of dealing with the issues that only happen at 2.4. Now Wifi does many of the same things.
There are some areas near 3.5 that are Non Line of Sight but only for interference but are very line of sight for the sight for the singal. For some reason a 1 W signal will only go about 2 miles LOS but interference can bounce around for over 30 miles. Most of the 3.5 was sold off to spectrum grabbers and there are a few people putting a few WISP using it since its useless for anything that doesn't have very strong error correction.
5.2/5.8 (802.11a) Is/was used for sat uplinks. Maybe some of them are militray but the US allows both while many places in SE Asia don't. For example Oz allows 5.8 but 5.2 can only be used indoors, NZ allows 5.2 almost like the FCC but 5.8 has some conditions on it.
It should have had words like these: "In addition, please keep in mind that excessive bandwidth costs from an open relay are not a business expense and can not be used as a TAX DEDUCTION. We have sent your company details to the IRS so they are aware of this problem."
Most small clueless compaines have no idea who the FTC is but they all know about the IRS.
The spamers are playign tricks that are upsetting the Bayesian filters.
Thats why you see so many random words thrown in as well as misspelled words. Someone needs to do a bayesian filter with soundex support.
One other trick that is going on is the spamers are tring to drive the spam threasholds up. If your spam program seems most mail as 0-10, where 10 is always spam, what happens when the program sees a score of 100? Then does the program assume anything less than 50 isn't spam?
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The spam compaines make money by "Renting" their email lists and their open relay lists or by sending out the spam themselves. They get paid upfront. The poor sucker that paid the spamer won't make any sales at all. 0% isn't a numbers game.
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XML isn't easy to parse. Everything is easy to parse when its right... its when its wrong that you have to deal with it and XML diverges into two directions, one requires an infinite amount of memory, the other an infinite amount of time.
All that has to be done is get sendmail, qmail and postfix to agree to do some authentication on port 26 and the rest of the world will follow. The problem is key managment.
My idea for it is get a few people (MAPS like groups) who will certifiy that my site isn't a spamer site. Then they add an IP address I give them into their DNS. When I do a NewSMTP connection to a remote server, I give it a list of 10 or so white lists I'm on. That speeds up its checking and there is no central verisign like group in charge. Of course the spamers will find bad whitelist providers but since they have to give me a list of sites when they connect, I can use that to to decide if I want to talk to them.
Just don't screw up email so some stupid manager can win at buzzword bingo.
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China is easy to block. Find the email address of the admin and write a nice letter (get your friends to do it too). Talk about how to take over a government and how to promote people on the inside. Use real examples from the French and American revlolutions to back up your claims. In time, who ever is running the box will go away from the net. The disadvantage is the FBI might show up at your place so keep the wording very patriotic.
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You can hit a politician in the pension. Force them all on to Social Security with a bounus tied to a vote 4 or 8 years after they leave office.
Its called zero-sum-gain and its taught well. Most games you have a winner and a loser. Most board games are that way and I have found people don't like playing games that are non-zero-sum-gain. An example of this is Monopoly. If you play by the rules, its a non-zero-sum-gain until someone over extends them self however people can't stand that and put the fines into a free parking pool which turns it into a zero-sum-gain game based on the outcome of the dice. Chess is another game where strong players can do non-zero-sum-gain.
Our modern capitalism system's growth is based on non-zero-sum-gain transactions and an introduction of new resources into the pool. Most of the rest is simple zero-sum-gain.
They did know it was there, they did know where to find much of it and they know how to get to some of it. In fact Egypt has been exporting oil for over 4000 years. The Romans were importing oil from the middle east 2000 years ago. The Greeks used it as weapon.
What the American did was go there and work at depleting the Arab oil before depleating their own as well as providing enough info to keep the ruling powers in powers. Those two things are what are upsetting the poorer Saudis as well as the millions of Arabs that work in the country.
I have a friend that has a pc that she brings over for me to "fix" when it gets broken. This tends to happen way too often and years ago after 2nd or third time I rebooted it, I started a "reboot sheet" that hides inside it. Everytime I reboot it while fixing it, I put a mark down. The proecdure now is slap the drive in a real computer, suck down her documents, dd the image back over to the old drive. Reboot, hook it to the cable modem and do the updates while marking every reboot. Once its stable, I copy her files back, mirror the disk over again.
I've rebooted that thing over 200 times. How many people are going to keep doing "windows update" when they have to reboot, run it again, reboot again? Over dial out that would take hours. Whem I'm fixing it, its in my lab and it may take a day or too to get it back running but the real world where people count on these things is a real mess.
Next time it comes in, Its getting a new OS. I wonder if she'll notice.
Try blocking the right stuff.
.exe.
I use these patches for sendmail and I haven't seen this virus at all in my mailbox.
It scans the body of the message for ^TVqQAAMAAAAEAAA and the kills the message if its found. It works great because thats the start of a base 64 encoded version of a
Here's the museum peice its going to replace.
They calculated angular difference from one edge of a signal to the the other of a very dynamic object. The absolute location is irrelevant when your using mortars and small arms. Absolution location of a target only matters if you want to use a cruise missile. I don't think it would be so hard to build a system where you put up 2 antennas for the same reciever and fire two mortar shells with a small transmitter. One to the left side of the field, one to the right. The system then could figure out the range and angles using something almost exactly like LORAN. You know that system that wa s doing sub meter in harbors back in 1945 with tube based amps and timing circuts and analog computers. Loran of the day only used two recivers to get a fix once it decided which side of the line it was on.
The hard part of detecting one of these wired soldiers is detecting the very weak spread spectrum signals but once their chipping code is mostly figured out, it won't be to hard to build a radio to look for them.
I still think detecting wired soldiers can be done by most countries in the world but then again the US isn't going to be fighting most of them however many of them are willing to sell the equipment to anyone with the cash to buy it.
If your in any army you have a topo map to give elevation. Sub nanosection timing is trivial today. Two antennas a few meters apart and a forward spotter is all you need to calibrate it. Radio astronomers have done 2 m DF at a distance of 6000 lightyears. If thats state of the art, how many orders of magnitude easier is it to 1 m at 1 km (which is in the range of mortars)
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This will work because the US has been targeting low tech areas. Anyone that can do good electromagnetic detection can use these systems to target the soldiers. If you can isolate a single signal at two different locations at the same time, you can id the target down to sub meter at distances over a hundred km.
If anyone ever spamed using a uucp address, I would know exactly who to lart. There is a web of trust hiding in those old paths.
the USPS is already starting to implement ZIP+4 codes for outbound international mail to speed up sorting in-country.
They have been doing this for years. Letters I get from the US are zip coded 00194-3000. (3000 is the post code for melbourne and I expect 00194 is Australia) If anyone who can print a bar code wants to waste a stamp to verify this, please contact me.
Its the same with red wine and the old French customs. Most places in France don't get very hot but there are silly Americans (from the midwest and south) and Australians that think that red wine should be servied at room temperature even in the summer. Red wine isn't good at 40 deg C (thats 104 for the Texans).
Where do you get your facts from because I don't think they are right. A recent study showed that accidents only involved 5% of the fastest cars on the road but did involve the 65 or so of the slowest cars on the road.
.08 or whatever the law allows) are more likly to stay at the bar and have another one or two or three and then drive home and the result is the people in accidents seem to be having a higher BAC than they used to. It seems to me that progress sometimes isn't helped by well meaning rules.
In Melbourne Australia when they started installing the speeding cameras and the average fast lane speed went from 115km/hr to about 95km/hr the density of the traffic doubled (in line with that type of decrease) and the number of fatal accidents is still going up and the number of other accidents has risen a great deal.
You didn't get caught up in the figures where after speed limits were lowered, the accident rate may have gone down for some specifc areas did you? Those studies have a major flaw in that newer cars tend to be safer than the older cars so you can't do direct comparisons between accident rates as little as 5 years apart. 10 years in in Australia less than 1% of cars had an airbag. Now I expect that number to be approaching 20%. In some well off areas in the US, the numbers are over 75% today while that wasn't true a decade ago. How is that figured in?
Drink driving rules also aren't clear. Since you can't have a beer and drive (as used to be the Texas custom) drunk drivers are more likly to drink up before they go out and as a result have a different alcohol absorption curve. The guy sipping on the coors light while he drives his pickup truck is safer than the guy who has 4 beers over 4 hrs in a club and then gets behind the wheel but one is more accetable than the other by the law and peer pressure. There is a disturbing trend that shows that as the rules about how much is too much is lowered, it results in people who are on the edge (.05,
When Oklahoma changed its speed limit from 55 to 75 the accidents went way down. The number of sleep drivers crossing into the other lane droped significantly and most of the stats show driving in Oklahoma is now safer even though there are even more cars and drivers.
Back in Melbourne, they recently changed all non-posted built up roads from 60km/hr to 50 and the number of accidents involving children has gone up. There is also far more use of non-main roads which leads toheaver use of residential streets and that results in more accidents. The slowing down simply resulted in higher density traffic and the resulting problems and increased accidents.
So in Oklahoma and Melbourne when a large number of people where speeding, the accident rates were lower than when a large number of people were following the speed limits.
No driving is a right and the goverments stand very firm on the "driving is a privilege" in order to control who can drive on the public roads. It is a matter of time before someone will take it to a high court and the court will decide that the very old "right of way" laws from British laws from as far back as the 1600's does apply if your going via car and not on foot or horse. Basic rights allow people to travel from one place to another by reasonable means. Until the 1960's a car didn't fit that but now cars are essentail in some of the newer housing developments which simply don't have any public transport and are more than 4 hrs walking time to a source of food. The "its a privilege" comes from the governments ability to regulate how one person can damage another. When they are done balancing the rights to harm others with older rights to do your own thing, then either smoking in public will go away or driving will be a legally be right. There is no difference between the risk of an unlicensed driver assulting someone in a car and smoker assulting everyone nearby. Once you remove alcohol use from the car, the risks to the general public are about the same.
I've still got my Grandfathers drivers licene. Issued by the state of Kansas and transferable to anyone and it wasn't revocable when it was issued back so long ago. I wonder how many of thouse are still out there.
The problem with running out of addresses isn't a technological problem, its an admin problem. Right now because cisco is clueless with manageing route tables, a typical router can't cope with more than 10,000 or so entries so the solution to that problem was to fix the allocation so nothing smaller than a /19 was allocated. Most groups don't need a /19 so its all wasted. You can't dual home on todays network (with todays ISPs) without your own /19 so whats with all thouse companies that wan't to dual home but only need a /26? They are out of luck or they pay the big bucks to IANA and get their own /19.
/24 then how is it ever going to cope with the the IP v6 address space which is 4 times bigger? However they solve that, they could solve the IP v4 routing problem.
Also if a cisco can't see the world as 16 million
Well... lets count who the players are:
1) AT&T
Easy right? No. There is Bell Labs and AT&T switching (whatever its called this week) who both maintain different versions. There is the terminal company that was spun off (TTY maybe?). Many compaines that came out of the bell breakup do have full rights to use and resell Unix [TM] even tough "main" control was sold off.
2) AT&T and Sun sort of did some cross breeding and Sun did get full rights to that as well. So add Sun to the list.
3) Cray computer company has a full license but they no longer exist but SGI and Sun own the remains. So add Sun to the list again.
4) Sun bought the rights from SCO or Novel for like $80 million. Full unquestionalbe rights. Add them in again but there was a reason they wrote the check.
5) SCO (who bought some rights from Novel or was it the other way around and aren't they related at some level anyway?)
6) All early bell licenses have rights and most of them have different rights. Many schools have rights. OU for example has license rights that few other schools had but the rumor is they used their 1st Unix tape to spiff up a Christmas tree.
7) UCB. They ended up in court. Ended up with rights and still pulled the old stuff out. They might have more rights though since Sys V was a blend between their stuff (through Sun again) and AT&T.
8) M$ had some rights that they blew away because of some pesky judge being insightful to their business model. Just how much those rights were released could be left as an exercise for a new judge but the last ruling may have done away with the 1st ruling. Opps.
9) Cowboy Neil might be in there somewhere too. I'm sure of it...
We fixed the VoIP problem. We built another network. It still has nasty hiss on the lines that I don't seem to remember from before the VoIP days.
The big place this will work is for the international compaines. Current VoIP voice rates from Australia to the US (or the UK) are AU$.019/min or about US$.68/hr. Compare that with full AT&T list price to someplace in central Africa. which can be several dollars per minute.
Think about car robberies. Years ago people would would just hot wire it and drive it away. Then they added the better locks and that resulted in cars being broken into and then hot wired. Then they started putting better security on cars and that resulted in car jackings.
From the insurance side of things you have the same risk to the car but you have a witness. Of course there is a massive increases of risk to the person paying the insurance company.
Years ago I worked for a group that ran a bunch of systems that didn't fit in with anything else in the MIS department. One of the systems was a very old IBM 3081. This thing had water cooling and boxes and boxes of storage devices. It was a serious bit of big iron.
Sometime in 1993 we had meetings where the clueless manager would ask us the uptime so should could put it on her report. Our group would report the different servers we ran with a 50 to 100 day uptime but the old guy who ran the 3081 would claim 4767 days or 13 years or 17 billion microseconds depending on the week.
At some point we were told everyone was going through "team training" and we were the second group scheduled. We made the people running the team training cry and the had to postpone it for a few days while they could collect their thoughts (and feelings?) A second revolt was led by the Old Bastard Sysadmin at teh mention of a group hug.
At the time I had been doign sysadmin work for 8 years but the Old Bastard Sysadmin taught me some of the finer points of being a BOFH.
The reason for the "protect military coms" is that years ago at teh end of WW2, NATO decided that the 800/900 Mhz should be split so that the military use one half and civilians get the other half. The US used and NATO used an opposite arrangement so that if US troops needed to go in to Europe, their military radios would not interfer with the local military radios.
This happeden on other frequencies as well but most of the WAN frequences are out of the rubbish heap.
2.4 is sort of no-mans land. Until recently it was a useless frequency because its noisy and water absorbs the signal. Because it was mostly unused and unusable it was assigned to the IMS band and opened up. Becaue it was free, the coordless phone people went after it and helped to develop ways of dealing with the issues that only happen at 2.4. Now Wifi does many of the same things.
There are some areas near 3.5 that are Non Line of Sight but only for interference but are very line of sight for the sight for the singal. For some reason a 1 W signal will only go about 2 miles LOS but interference can bounce around for over 30 miles. Most of the 3.5 was sold off to spectrum grabbers and there are a few people putting a few WISP using it since its useless for anything that doesn't have very strong error correction.
5.2/5.8 (802.11a) Is/was used for sat uplinks. Maybe some of them are militray but the US allows both while many places in SE Asia don't. For example Oz allows 5.8 but 5.2 can only be used indoors, NZ allows 5.2 almost like the FCC but 5.8 has some conditions on it.
It should have had words like these:
"In addition, please keep in mind that excessive bandwidth costs from an open relay are not a business expense and can not be used as a TAX DEDUCTION. We have sent your company details to the IRS so they are aware of this problem."
Most small clueless compaines have no idea who the FTC is but they all know about the IRS.
The spamers are playign tricks that are upsetting the Bayesian filters.
Thats why you see so many random words thrown in as well as misspelled words. Someone needs to do a bayesian filter with soundex support.
One other trick that is going on is the spamers are tring to drive the spam threasholds up. If your spam program seems most mail as 0-10, where 10 is always spam, what happens when the program sees a score of 100? Then does the program assume anything less than 50 isn't spam?
The spam compaines make money by "Renting" their email lists and their open relay lists or by sending out the spam themselves. They get paid upfront. The poor sucker that paid the spamer won't make any sales at all. 0% isn't a numbers game.
XML isn't easy to parse. Everything is easy to parse when its right... its when its wrong that you have to deal with it and XML diverges into two directions, one requires an infinite amount of memory, the other an infinite amount of time.
All that has to be done is get sendmail, qmail and postfix to agree to do some authentication on port 26 and the rest of the world will follow. The problem is key managment.
My idea for it is get a few people (MAPS like groups) who will certifiy that my site isn't a spamer site. Then they add an IP address I give them into their DNS. When I do a NewSMTP connection to a remote server, I give it a list of 10 or so white lists I'm on. That speeds up its checking and there is no central verisign like group in charge. Of course the spamers will find bad whitelist providers but since they have to give me a list of sites when they connect, I can use that to to decide if I want to talk to them.
Just don't screw up email so some stupid manager can win at buzzword bingo.
China is easy to block.
Find the email address of the admin and write a nice letter (get your friends to do it too). Talk about how to take over a government and how to promote people on the inside. Use real examples from the French and American revlolutions to back up your claims. In time, who ever is running the box will go away from the net. The disadvantage is the FBI might show up at your place so keep the wording very patriotic.