Re:Earthlink Abuse Department Rejoices
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Spam, Milord
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Good job... Were do I send the beer money?
Years ago I offered a cash reward for info leading to the arrest and conviction of a spamer but I paid that out so the fund is a bit dry, but I think I can scrape up something.
The silver market is no longer a currency standard at all. A few years ago (in the middle of the dot com rise), Warren Buffet became the 1st person to actually corner the silver market and he turned it from a mostly historical currency standard into a metal commodity. It may have had something to do with it being needed for so many maunfacturing processes (many that are also owned by Buffet) and he got tired of having to play stupid speculation games. Now the prices is stable.
Are you sure they didn't find a collector that wanted it? I expect a fake $10 would be worth more than $10. Its the fake $100 that aren't worth anything. The US mint gave Iran some of the old printing presses and Iran made billions of good fake $100 (did someone remember to take the plates out?).
The last time I was in Egypt, they wouldn't take real US $100 bills. They prefer the fake ones because thats what they see all the time.
Why would I want a $2 coin? It would just increase the inflation rate of everything sold in a vending machines (anything less than $2 will go for $2 and stuff that was $2.5 would go for $4). No thanks.
Australia has $1 and $2 coins (which happen to be about the same size but opposite of what New Zealand uses) an I prefer to carry $10 in one dollar bills than $10 in coins.
The US money should be different sizes. That would stop the bleaching issue. Just make the $1 bill smaller than the $100.
Aussies use plastic money. Its very strong and almost impossable to destroy. The only problem it has is that it tends to tear when its been soaked with beer. Its also easy to counterfit according to the signs at all the fast food places.
uucp mail would be better. I've played with taking email messages and finding out how far their/24 is from a list of known usenet sites (from the top 1000) and that gives me a very good metric for spam. If they are close, its most likly not spam. Maybe its time to dig out the uucp-paths code and plug it back into sendmail.
Someone should come up with a list of judges that are pro-spam and are in positions where they have get votes to stay in office. I would be willing to help pay to get them kicked out of office.
If you look at how many tribunal cases (like US small clames court) there are, combined with all the other court cases you will find that Aussies sue more than Californians.
Immigration is a key point requirement of the retirement pyramid scheme as the illegals make legal babies and they their parents become legal tax payers. It also has an effect on housing price increases. At some point its going to crash and I expect it will be in my lifetime.
One of the many rumors... there were a few earthquakes, and other disasters that caused prices to jump. At one point there were a few people hitting the usenet groups about how prices were going through the roof. It was kind of funny that they all were posted from the same company that made dram.
If you've got enough ram for your database to fit in, why not mmap it and do a simple search? It tends to take up much less memory than a database and you can search a whole lot of records in the time it takes to do a context switch (which is what you get when you use a socket to talk to the database program).
The Brits had a base 10 system but they gave up centuries ago. The French decide that there are 10,000,000 from the pole to the equator but can't get their figures right.
It turns out that the meter isn't a good "human" unit for most applications. All day I've been working on building a computer room in Australia. They used to use a foot as unit of measure but now use metric and have for 20+ years. The problem is none of the locals now know metric or imperial. I had a flatemate that was an architecture student at Melboure Uni. Not one of her friends who where in the same program could tell me how wide the lounge room was within 2 meters (its 16 ft as built in the finest tradtions in the 1850's). To me this is very scary considering they are all at least 3 years into an architecture degree.
The plywood flooring we bought was 3.6m by.9m and it was but some of the other bits that were sold as some x.y meter were infact even feet down to.001 while they were not close to the sold as size.
All the bolts are in inch sizes but the drill bits are metric. Its a real mess.
I'm quite happy to deal with the metric system nearly everywhere execpt when it comes to building materials and in that case feet work much better. I know builders in the US that never need to write down measurements, the locals need a spreadsheet to keep the numbers together for small projects.
If the local police hear that a suspect is 5'10, they figure +/- 2 inches while if someone says 180 cm they figure +/- 20cm (thats 4x larger than 2 in)
Realestate in Australia is sold in "square" units (a square, not a square something but simply a square) that only one out of 20 people know about. It could be a quare meter or an acre and most people wouldn't have a clue.
Most people under 20 in Australia have never delt with non-metric (except for how tall people are an how heavy babies are) and couldn't tell you how big a foot is if they had too but they aren't much better for metric. The Kiwis are about as bad (so I'm not just picking on the Aussies, I just know more of them)
I propose that a metric foot be a nano-light second (about.299m). That would give the metric world a decent unit for measurement for building.
Which songs are comercials and which aren't? Ever notice the relationship between the band thats showing up and the air play of songs the radio station would would never play?
You can sit here and rattle off definitions of "theft" and "piracy" and "copyright" all day long, but the bottom line is that you're gaining enjoyment off of my work and hard-earned money without paying for it.
Go lookup Payola and learn about the record business. If some people don't get to enjoy your stuff for free (via radio or other means) you won't ever recover your expenses. Of course even if you do sell nearly a 1/2 million CD's you might not recover your expenses either. That how it works and if you don't like it, try a different line of work. If CCR can't make money in the business how do you expect to?
Software bugs have killed people (check out Risk Digest for many examples). Its about time that "software engineers" were introduced to the real world of engineering.
It may have knocked out up to three planes -oops. It missed most of the small pathetic slow short range smaller than skud missles that it was suppoed to hit.
And one of patriot radars got blown away with a HARM which is much slower than a nuke. Something says the thing isn't going quite as advertised.
I heard Stephen King talk about the big book stores and he doesn't like them. He dislikes Wal-mart even more. He calimed that the NYT best seller list was a result of thousnads of small book stores all over the US sending in a list of what sold. Then Walmart would go out and buy anything in the top 20 that they didn't have. The results were scewed because of their own sales. He also claims most popular American authros couldn't get publised today. His wife's works were published because of her relationship to him, not that (in his opinion) she is a better writer. If you ever get a chance to hear him speak, go lisen to what he has to say. Its quite interesting. The book store that paid to have him talk was a very large independant that was soon sold out to borders.
ebay is doing ok because they used stock holder money to destroy virtually every small book store in the US by selling at a loss for so long. The result is that now in small towns, there is no place to buy any books except online or at the local Wal-mart which may be an hour away.
The reason we are running out of IPv4 addresses isn't technical, its a poor implementation of routing by Cisco that is mostly to blame combined with a political mess.
99+% of the net today can look at the reset of the world as a "default route". That means for most of the world, the/19 minimal allocation is a complete waste of resources.
A very small number of companies fit in the dual homed category. While they may need better routing, most of the time its not for efficiency of the routes but redundancy. Note that is is virtually impossible for a small business to be dual homed and have things work when one of the links goes down.
The remaining is the core routers. A core router shouldn't be using routing tables they way they are done now. For most routes in a core routers, its just a switch. Stuff to 1.2.3/24 goes to interface 2 and that's it. There tend to be a few dynamic routes for some of the stuff that's close but everything else is far away and very static (relative to the routers ability to change all of it). Since no one is switching far away traffic in smaller groups than a/24, that means for 15 interfaces I need 8 meg of memory to decide where the packet goes for mostly static tables.
Ipv6 isn't going to fix any of this. It doubles the amount of bits that are needed for the hardware routing and then double that for the local address. That doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
I would like to play with IPv6 on a public network but Racksapce (where I keep a server) won't give me an IPv6 address.
Is this the same gravity that we understand so well, that we can't explain some slowing of GPS sats, slowing of all the deep space probes, funky stuff with pendulums durring an eclipse?
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Good job... Were do I send the beer money?
Years ago I offered a cash reward for info leading to the arrest and conviction of a spamer but I paid that out so the fund is a bit dry, but I think I can scrape up something.
The US gave the printing presses to Iran. I wonder if they remembered to take out the plates first.
The silver market is no longer a currency standard at all. A few years ago (in the middle of the dot com rise), Warren Buffet became the 1st person to actually corner the silver market and he turned it from a mostly historical currency standard into a metal commodity. It may have had something to do with it being needed for so many maunfacturing processes (many that are also owned by Buffet) and he got tired of having to play stupid speculation games. Now the prices is stable.
The ATM's already deal with different size currency and it reduceds the odds of loading up a $20 canister with $50s (which happens).
It also lets you sort out old bills faster to remove
them from circulation.
The new 20 should be a few mm smaller than existing bills.
Are you sure they didn't find a collector that wanted it? I expect a fake $10 would be worth more than $10. Its the fake $100 that aren't worth anything. The US mint gave Iran some of the old printing presses and Iran made billions of good fake $100 (did someone remember to take the plates out?).
The last time I was in Egypt, they wouldn't take real US $100 bills. They prefer the fake ones because thats what they see all the time.
Why would I want a $2 coin? It would just increase the inflation rate of everything sold in a vending machines (anything less than $2 will go for $2 and stuff that was $2.5 would go for $4). No thanks.
Australia has $1 and $2 coins (which happen to be about the same size but opposite of what New Zealand uses) an I prefer to carry $10 in one dollar bills than $10 in coins.
The US money should be different sizes. That would stop the bleaching issue. Just make the $1 bill smaller than the $100.
Aussies use plastic money. Its very strong and almost impossable to destroy. The only problem it has is that it tends to tear when its been soaked with beer. Its also easy to counterfit according to the signs at all the fast food places.
uucp mail would be better. I've played with taking email messages and finding out how far their /24 is from a list of known usenet sites (from the top 1000) and that gives me a very good metric for spam. If they are close, its most likly not spam. Maybe its time to dig out the uucp-paths code and plug it back into sendmail.
Someone should come up with a list of judges that are pro-spam and are in positions where they have get votes to stay in office. I would be willing to help pay to get them kicked out of office.
If you look at how many tribunal cases (like US small clames court) there are, combined with all the other court cases you will find that Aussies sue more than Californians.
Immigration is a key point requirement of the retirement pyramid scheme as the illegals make legal babies and they their parents become legal tax payers. It also has an effect on housing price increases. At some point its going to crash and I expect it will be in my lifetime.
The US military uses 900 Mhz so if they were needed in Europe again, the US mil frequencies wouldn't conflict with the ones used in Europe.
One of the many rumors... there were a few earthquakes, and other disasters that caused prices to jump. At one point there were a few people hitting the usenet groups about how prices were going through the roof. It was kind of funny that they all were posted from the same company that made dram.
After a context switch, you don't run again till the scheduler gives you a new timeslot. Thats whats expensive.
Remember that policy was from 2000, things have changed.
What I don't understand is how any self respecting male Texan could vote for a male cheerleader for a public office.
If you've got enough ram for your database to fit in, why not mmap it and do a simple search? It tends to take up much less memory than a database and you can search a whole lot of records in the time it takes to do a context switch (which is what you get when you use a socket to talk to the database program).
The Brits had a base 10 system but they gave up centuries ago. The French decide that there are 10,000,000 from the pole to the equator but can't get their figures right.
.9m and it was but some of the other bits that were sold as some x.y meter were infact even feet down to .001 while they were not close to the sold as size.
.299m). That would give the metric world a decent unit for measurement for building.
It turns out that the meter isn't a good "human" unit for most applications. All day I've been working on building a computer room in Australia. They used to use a foot as unit of measure but now use metric and have for 20+ years. The problem is none of the locals now know metric or imperial. I had a flatemate that was an architecture student at Melboure Uni. Not one of her friends who where in the same program could tell me how wide the lounge room was within 2 meters (its 16 ft as built in the finest tradtions in the 1850's). To me this is very scary considering they are all at least 3 years into an architecture degree.
The plywood flooring we bought was 3.6m by
All the bolts are in inch sizes but the drill bits are metric. Its a real mess.
I'm quite happy to deal with the metric system nearly everywhere execpt when it comes to building materials and in that case feet work much better. I know builders in the US that never need to write down measurements, the locals need a spreadsheet to keep the numbers together for small projects.
If the local police hear that a suspect is 5'10, they figure +/- 2 inches while if someone says 180 cm they figure +/- 20cm (thats 4x larger than 2 in)
Realestate in Australia is sold in "square" units (a square, not a square something but simply a square) that only one out of 20 people know about. It could be a quare meter or an acre and most people wouldn't have a clue.
Most people under 20 in Australia have never delt with non-metric (except for how tall people are an how heavy babies are) and couldn't tell you how big a foot is if they had too but they aren't much better for metric. The Kiwis are about as bad (so I'm not just picking on the Aussies, I just know more of them)
I propose that a metric foot be a nano-light second (about
Which songs are comercials and which aren't? Ever notice the relationship between the band thats showing up and the air play of songs the radio station would would never play?
You can sit here and rattle off definitions of "theft" and "piracy" and "copyright" all day long, but the bottom line is that you're gaining enjoyment off of my work and hard-earned money without paying for it.
Go lookup Payola and learn about the record business. If some people don't get to enjoy your stuff for free (via radio or other means) you won't ever recover your expenses. Of course even if you do sell nearly a 1/2 million CD's you might not recover your expenses either. That how it works and if you don't like it, try a different line of work. If CCR can't make money in the business how do you expect to?
And whats the reason behind the /19 reservations? Its because cisco routers can't cope with the entire world being /24.
Why is it bad? Do you make crap software?
Software bugs have killed people (check out Risk Digest for many examples). Its about time that "software engineers" were introduced to the real world of engineering.
It may have knocked out up to three planes -oops. It missed most of the small pathetic slow short range smaller than skud missles that it was suppoed to hit.
And one of patriot radars got blown away with a HARM which is much slower than a nuke. Something says the thing isn't going quite as advertised.
Opps, that was amazon, not ebay.
I heard Stephen King talk about the big book stores and he doesn't like them. He dislikes Wal-mart even more. He calimed that the NYT best seller list was a result of thousnads of small book stores all over the US sending in a list of what sold. Then Walmart would go out and buy anything in the top 20 that they didn't have. The results were scewed because of their own sales. He also claims most popular American authros couldn't get publised today. His wife's works were published because of her relationship to him, not that (in his opinion) she is a better writer. If you ever get a chance to hear him speak, go lisen to what he has to say. Its quite interesting. The book store that paid to have him talk was a very large independant that was soon sold out to borders.
ebay is doing ok because they used stock holder money to destroy virtually every small book store in the US by selling at a loss for so long. The result is that now in small towns, there is no place to buy any books except online or at the local Wal-mart which may be an hour away.
The reason we are running out of IPv4 addresses isn't technical, its a poor implementation of routing by Cisco that is mostly to blame combined with a political mess.
/19 minimal allocation is a complete waste of resources.
/24, that means for 15 interfaces I need 8 meg of memory to decide where the packet goes for mostly static tables.
99+% of the net today can look at the reset of the world as a "default route". That means for most of the world, the
A very small number of companies fit in the dual homed category. While they may need better routing, most of the time its not for efficiency of the routes but redundancy. Note that is is virtually impossible for a small business to be dual homed and have things work when one of the links goes down.
The remaining is the core routers. A core router shouldn't be using routing tables they way they are done now. For most routes in a core routers, its just a switch. Stuff to 1.2.3/24 goes to interface 2 and that's it. There tend to be a few dynamic routes for some of the stuff that's close but everything else is far away and very static (relative to the routers ability to change all of it). Since no one is switching far away traffic in smaller groups than a
Ipv6 isn't going to fix any of this. It doubles the amount of bits that are needed for the hardware routing and then double that for the local address. That doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
I would like to play with IPv6 on a public network but Racksapce (where I keep a server) won't give me an IPv6 address.
Is this the same gravity that we understand so well, that we can't explain some slowing of GPS sats, slowing of all the deep space probes, funky stuff with pendulums durring an eclipse?