I think most of the open proxies were put there and aren't config issues. Too many of them are on the wrong ports. Besides word gets arround way too fast for an open proxy on very strange ports.
This is a recent change since November and the amount of spam I'm getting that fits into the new grouping is about double what the open smtp people were doing.
Of course I only check a few sorces of spam but the logs show the funny proxys are much faster at sending spam than the smtp relays. I'm wonding how long it will be before they start installing smarter software on the proxies.
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People do it because there isn't a single thing a person can do when they are slandered by a large company and SCO slandered the entire community. SCO should have expected to get hit back and they did but they didn't get hit very hard.
Now if a thousand Linux fans called a broker and asked to buy options on SCOX for say.10/share in 6 months, the volume would spook every investment banker holding the sock and the resulting dump would cause SCO to die the slow death of delisting.
I've been tring to get source out of 3com for a while since they stole GNU code I've contributed patches for. What can I do about it? Nothing, my name isn't on the copyright. If it was, their ISP would have gotten a DMCA section 210 letter and forced to shut them down till something could be worked out (ie. they put up the source) but as it is now, I can't do that. Maybe one of these days I can convince the holder to send one it.
Right now its clear that its trivial to grab GNU code and do anything you want with it and there is little or no risk to a company.
Last week I got a call from a jerk at Verisign.au who was slandering OpenSSL and SSLeay. He didn't know that they didn't compete with their cert program. That stupidity is going to cause me to take my business elsewhere but thats all that will come from it. What do the people who work on openSSL get out of it? A large "Trustable" company saying bad stuff them.
There is a point where people will decide they have taken enough crap from a company. Its in a companies best interest not to get to that point.
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The SMTP rewrite is called X.400 and it sucks. Everyone with an email address would have to register with someone that makes a verisign cert pricing look like a good deal.
The reason is that if your aveage spam has a threashold of 10, you will consider 5 as "safe". Now a month later, your finding spam that is over 100, will 5 feel "safe"? The answer is no, so you increase your threashold and see more junk.
With the reputation US immigration has now, there aren't too many Aussies or Kiwis who will go to the US. Out of the 40 or so people I know that are going to Europe this year, not one is going via the US but taking the trip through SARS country. It used to be about 1/2 would take the trip via the US and the other half would go via Asia.
Someone that recently went over to the US was detained for nearly a week because the computer showed she over stayed a visa (a few trips ago) even though the stamps in the passport says didn't. She was sent back and didn't get to do the show she had been paid to do. She will never ever go back to the US and now most of her friends won't either.
No wonder the US travel industry is heading to large scale backruptcy.
IBM can not lease you GPLed code unless they wrote it. They can lease the media its on and they can charge you for support but they can't charge you for the software. If the CEO of the company wants to think they are "leasing" the software from IBM (just like in the goold old days when computers didn't crash), thats fine but ifyou take a magnifying glass to teh small print on the contract, it will be that the software is given away (if the GPLSed stuff is mentioned at all) and the fees are for support.
Thats what "Pat Pending" is used for. They have no case against anyone till they send out a letter. If there is prior art and they know it, they are extorting and while charging them with extortion requires more proof than any one is going to get, theres the nice RICO act which can take down the SBC lawyers and some of the compaines officers.
This patent isn't about "<frames>", its about a concept much like frames but it applies them towards any sort of information browser or program. Teh examples they show in the patent application are very much windows like.
The patent shows the names of person at the patent office who approved this patent. They should be fired. People with their level of competence should not be working for the patent office.
Innd uses less memory and can move posts around 10,000 times faster than PHP message software. My news server transports about a quarter of a million messages a day and readers download about 3/4 of a million a day. That turns out to be nearly 25 million messages a month. Consider osdn only does about 160 million page views per month on all their vast array of servers, I think Innd does a very good job. In the past 2 months its used up 119 minutes of cpu time on a 300mhz system.
There are so many loud transformers out there these days. It seems no one can make a switching transformer that's quiet either. I've got a nokia 8310 and its noisy. I can hear the power supply in the phone hum away at 4khz or what ever its doing. The only time its worse is when I charge it and the transformer in the plug pack and the internal switcher supply start at a bit of argument. I can't sleep when its doing that.
There are a few companies in Taiwan and China that are working on Point of Sale ink jet printers. These printers tend to cost a bit more than a typical home printer but they must be cheap to operate or the merchants won't buy them. That's why you still see so many old 9 pin impact printers out there in cash registers. The problem is merchants want full color for receipts but they aren't going to pay much for it so it has to use cheap paper and cheap ink and still look good.
Once the POS market starts to take off again, these guys are going to ramp up their production and then its a matter of time before there is competition with larger bits of paper.
Remember Epson started out selling receipt printers and then went and undercut Centronics by a 1/3. I gives these guys about two years and the HP/Epson/Lexmark ink jet cartridge business will be dead.
The Path: line can't be forged. If you have several feeds, you can remove the spam from the database and your other feeds will give it to you as well. A single spam from 5 different sites will give you a very clear picture of a host or two that it came from and you also know who they talk to. The result is a few email messages and the spamer is located or a site is off the net. Thats all it takes in many cases.
Your news provider is broken. I don't have much spam on my server. I see less than a half dozen a week and most of them are dups that some how managed to get past the filters. I run my own server (which is #930 in the top 1000) so I have full control over what I toss out. I currently get all of sci.*, comp.* and three regional groups and I just don't get spam in them. I also don't do binaries.
Does any one else read/usr/src as "User / Source?" or am I just and old Unix guy and all the newbies see this as "U S R / S R C"? Another newbie thing is using ":wq!" in vi vs ":x!" which has done the same thing since before 1980.
What he should have proposed was to rename "usr" to "sys" since its now all system stuff there and then users could get their stuff back under "usr" where it belongs. Of course/usr/bin/cat and friends have a very long tradition. Users were moved to/home so that when they fill up the tiny disk, you can still put more stuff in/usr. That was clearly a great idea of a BOFH.
If I was doing a distro for newbies, I would stop tring to alias around their cluelessness. For example aliasing rm to rm -i is dangerous and I'm likly to fire any clown who thinks its a good idea because they "don't understand" and someday the fool will screw up real bad as root. If they want safty, alias "del" or "delete" to "rm -i" but never ever get in the habbit of building protections in a way that they will go away if you shell changes.
Aren't you paying attention? Its simple, the spinning disc was an anti-gravity device (like that Russian guy is building if they don't buy him out like they did with the 100 mile per gal carburetor guy) and that lead to a shift in the center of gravity and that messed up the stuff in the cockpit. You should have read the article in Provda. The next thing you'll be telling me is that Sony and Phillips invented the audio CD and it wasn't simply a misinterpretation of a device that was found at Roswell.
Patents do help drive some technology but only when they are low cost (how much did Edison pay for his early patents?) and the patent office does check for prior art. Unless the a patent office has a better database than google, they simply can't do their job.
Years ago I got a offer from Madera International (symbol WOOD) and they said their stock was going to hit $1.20 per share at any time. This was very early in the spaming game and I wanted to find out how much people would fall for this. I called up my broker and asked how much to buy this fine stock. She said it would be $25 in fees and the smallest lot I could buy was something like 400 shares since their value was so low. Due to some miscommunication, she took this as a request to buy 400 shares. Since it would cost me another $25 to unload it, I decided, I would keep it as a reminder to chart its progress over the next few years. From a high of nearly.06 a share it simply fell. Today I found that its value is now $0.00. Right now the 1st link from google is a SEC report about fraud and stuff. One of these days I think I'll write up this story to tell other people what kind of people are dealing with when they get stock tips from people they don't know.
Madera International started out importing assult rifles until a law stoped that. Then they went into the business of cutting down rainforest. For a while they had a nice web page up saying how you could give them $10 and they would plant a tree in the rainforest to replace one cut down by loggers. According to the SEC, that wasn't their only scam.
If your computer helps to produce the result and they make billions off the result, I'm sure at least one atty will be willing to help you collect some of that. Of course the drug compaines will have more better paid lawyers but if you helped to provide the IP and there isn't a contract, there will be issues.
However I expect what is going on here is that they are looking for existing drugs that will work. They have the IP on those existing drugs.
A program called Partek is used by other compaines to search for patterns that will show if existing drugs are related to other conditions.
Its quite possible that its happens very quickly. For example a generic mutant that becomes the next species may be have several different properties. For example if a mutation chances the size of a creatures' offspring, they may also have different organs. Some changes are very rapid. This may explain why cats come in fixed sizes and there aren't any in the middle sizes. For some reason cats come in the same volume ratios as violins like instruments. Just like a something between the size of a violin and a viola won't work right, some size cats just don't work.
Which creation story do you follow? The 1st one in Genesis or the second one? After all there are two in the 1st two chapters alone. It seems to take nearly 26 verses before the story starts to conflict slightly. Maybe thats from the differences between the legend of the south Black Sea to the regions of Babylon.
The media compaines don't produce music. They sell little plastic bits that cost almost nothing to make and the rest is advertising to move that bit of plastic at its inflated price.
I hear people talk about how radio stations pay to play music, that is total BS. They pay to play music but they get paid to play that music as well (its called Payola). Now its not so much under the table but hidden under advertising deals. How much did Columbia Records pay to advertise Roger Waters' last concert? Isn't it odd that they continue to advertise after the shows are all sold out? Check the details on how other compaines advertise vs how the record compaines advertise -- there has to be some funny money deals going on. Did all the free tickets and other advertising help get other Columbia Records artists on the air? You bet it did.
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I think most of the open proxies were put there and aren't config issues. Too many of them are on the wrong ports. Besides word gets arround way too fast for an open proxy on very strange ports.
This is a recent change since November and the amount of spam I'm getting that fits into the new grouping is about double what the open smtp people were doing.
Of course I only check a few sorces of spam but the logs show the funny proxys are much faster at sending spam than the smtp relays. I'm wonding how long it will be before they start installing smarter software on the proxies.
Dr. Seuss was in on the propaganda angle too.
People do it because there isn't a single thing a person can do when they are slandered by a large company and SCO slandered the entire community. SCO should have expected to get hit back and they did but they didn't get hit very hard.
.10/share in 6 months, the volume would spook every investment banker holding the sock and the resulting dump would cause SCO to die the slow death of delisting.
Now if a thousand Linux fans called a broker and asked to buy options on SCOX for say
I've been tring to get source out of 3com for a while since they stole GNU code I've contributed patches for. What can I do about it? Nothing, my name isn't on the copyright. If it was, their ISP would have gotten a DMCA section 210 letter and forced to shut them down till something could be worked out (ie. they put up the source) but as it is now, I can't do that. Maybe one of these days I can convince the holder to send one it.
Right now its clear that its trivial to grab GNU code and do anything you want with it and there is little or no risk to a company.
Last week I got a call from a jerk at Verisign.au who was slandering OpenSSL and SSLeay. He didn't know that they didn't compete with their cert program. That stupidity is going to cause me to take my business elsewhere but thats all that will come from it. What do the people who work on openSSL get out of it? A large "Trustable" company saying bad stuff them.
There is a point where people will decide they have taken enough crap from a company. Its in a companies best interest not to get to that point.
The SMTP rewrite is called X.400 and it sucks. Everyone with an email address would have to register with someone that makes a verisign cert pricing look like a good deal.
The reason is that if your aveage spam has a threashold of 10, you will consider 5 as "safe". Now a month later, your finding spam that is over 100, will 5 feel "safe"? The answer is no, so you increase your threashold and see more junk.
Has anyone tried a Bayesian filter with an Soundex like system? I'm thinking it would help take care of some of thouse misspelled subject lines.
Welcome to 2003.... Most spam today isn't from open realys, its from hacked boxes that have had proxies installed.
With the reputation US immigration has now, there aren't too many Aussies or Kiwis who will go to the US. Out of the 40 or so people I know that are going to Europe this year, not one is going via the US but taking the trip through SARS country. It used to be about 1/2 would take the trip via the US and the other half would go via Asia.
Someone that recently went over to the US was detained for nearly a week because the computer showed she over stayed a visa (a few trips ago) even though the stamps in the passport says didn't. She was sent back and didn't get to do the show she had been paid to do. She will never ever go back to the US and now most of her friends won't either.
No wonder the US travel industry is heading to large scale backruptcy.
IBM can not lease you GPLed code unless they wrote it. They can lease the media its on and they can charge you for support but they can't charge you for the software. If the CEO of the company wants to think they are "leasing" the software from IBM (just like in the goold old days when computers didn't crash), thats fine but ifyou take a magnifying glass to teh small print on the contract, it will be that the software is given away (if the GPLSed stuff is mentioned at all) and the fees are for support.
Thats what "Pat Pending" is used for. They have no case against anyone till they send out a letter. If there is prior art and they know it, they are extorting and while charging them with extortion requires more proof than any one is going to get, theres the nice RICO act which can take down the SBC lawyers and some of the compaines officers.
This patent isn't about "<frames>", its about a concept much like frames but it applies them towards any sort of information browser or program. Teh examples they show in the patent application are very much windows like.
The patent shows the names of person at the patent office who approved this patent. They should be fired. People with their level of competence should not be working for the patent office.
Innd uses less memory and can move posts around 10,000 times faster than PHP message software. My news server transports about a quarter of a million messages a day and readers download about 3/4 of a million a day. That turns out to be nearly 25 million messages a month. Consider osdn only does about 160 million page views per month on all their vast array of servers, I think Innd does a very good job. In the past 2 months its used up 119 minutes of cpu time on a 300mhz system.
There are so many loud transformers out there these days. It seems no one can make a switching transformer that's quiet either. I've got a nokia 8310 and its noisy. I can hear the power supply in the phone hum away at 4khz or what ever its doing. The only time its worse is when I charge it and the transformer in the plug pack and the internal switcher supply start at a bit of argument. I can't sleep when its doing that.
There are a few companies in Taiwan and China that are working on Point of Sale ink jet printers. These printers tend to cost a bit more than a typical home printer but they must be cheap to operate or the merchants won't buy them. That's why you still see so many old 9 pin impact printers out there in cash registers. The problem is merchants want full color for receipts but they aren't going to pay much for it so it has to use cheap paper and cheap ink and still look good.
Once the POS market starts to take off again, these guys are going to ramp up their production and then its a matter of time before there is competition with larger bits of paper.
Remember Epson started out selling receipt printers and then went and undercut Centronics by a 1/3. I gives these guys about two years and the HP/Epson/Lexmark ink jet cartridge business will be dead.
Canter & Siegel's spam. Been there, done that Even got the t-shirt (thats a picture I found on the net). Never got sued for wearing it though.
The Path: line can't be forged. If you have several feeds, you can remove the spam from the database and your other feeds will give it to you as well. A single spam from 5 different sites will give you a very clear picture of a host or two that it came from and you also know who they talk to. The result is a few email messages and the spamer is located or a site is off the net. Thats all it takes in many cases.
Your news provider is broken. I don't have much spam on my server. I see less than a half dozen a week and most of them are dups that some how managed to get past the filters. I run my own server (which is #930 in the top 1000) so I have full control over what I toss out. I currently get all of sci.*, comp.* and three regional groups and I just don't get spam in them. I also don't do binaries.
Does any one else read /usr/src as "User / Source?" or am I just and old Unix guy and all the newbies see this as "U S R / S R C"? Another newbie thing is using ":wq!" in vi vs ":x!" which has done the same thing since before 1980.
/usr/bin/cat and friends have a very long tradition. Users were moved to /home so that when they fill up the tiny disk, you can still put more stuff in /usr. That was clearly a great idea of a BOFH.
What he should have proposed was to rename "usr" to "sys" since its now all system stuff there and then users could get their stuff back under "usr" where it belongs. Of course
If I was doing a distro for newbies, I would stop tring to alias around their cluelessness. For example aliasing rm to rm -i is dangerous and I'm likly to fire any clown who thinks its a good idea because they "don't understand" and someday the fool will screw up real bad as root. If they want safty, alias "del" or "delete" to "rm -i" but never ever get in the habbit of building protections in a way that they will go away if you shell changes.
Aren't you paying attention? Its simple, the spinning disc was an anti-gravity device (like that Russian guy is building if they don't buy him out like they did with the 100 mile per gal carburetor guy) and that lead to a shift in the center of gravity and that messed up the stuff in the cockpit. You should have read the article in Provda. The next thing you'll be telling me is that Sony and Phillips invented the audio CD and it wasn't simply a misinterpretation of a device that was found at Roswell.
Patents do help drive some technology but only when they are low cost (how much did Edison pay for his early patents?) and the patent office does check for prior art. Unless the a patent office has a better database than google, they simply can't do their job.
If you don't keep the water clean, you get mold growing in the water and then when you turn it on, you spary modl spores all over the place.
Years ago I got a offer from Madera International (symbol WOOD) and they said their stock was going to hit $1.20 per share at any time. This was very early in the spaming game and I wanted to find out how much people would fall for this. I called up my broker and asked how much to buy this fine stock. She said it would be $25 in fees and the smallest lot I could buy was something like 400 shares since their value was so low. Due to some miscommunication, she took this as a request to buy 400 shares. Since it would cost me another $25 to unload it, I decided, I would keep it as a reminder to chart its progress over the next few years. From a high of nearly .06 a share it simply fell. Today I found that its value is now $0.00. Right now the 1st link from google is a SEC report about fraud and stuff. One of these days I think I'll write up this story to tell other people what kind of people are dealing with when they get stock tips from people they don't know.
Madera International started out importing assult rifles until a law stoped that. Then they went into the business of cutting down rainforest. For a while they had a nice web page up saying how you could give them $10 and they would plant a tree in the rainforest to replace one cut down by loggers. According to the SEC, that wasn't their only scam.
If your computer helps to produce the result and they make billions off the result, I'm sure at least one atty will be willing to help you collect some of that. Of course the drug compaines will have more better paid lawyers but if you helped to provide the IP and there isn't a contract, there will be issues.
However I expect what is going on here is that they are looking for existing drugs that will work. They have the IP on those existing drugs.
A program called Partek is used by other compaines to search for patterns that will show if existing drugs are related to other conditions.
Its quite possible that its happens very quickly. For example a generic mutant that becomes the next species may be have several different properties. For example if a mutation chances the size of a creatures' offspring, they may also have different organs. Some changes are very rapid. This may explain why cats come in fixed sizes and there aren't any in the middle sizes. For some reason cats come in the same volume ratios as violins like instruments. Just like a something between the size of a violin and a viola won't work right, some size cats just don't work.
Which creation story do you follow? The 1st one in Genesis or the second one? After all there are two in the 1st two chapters alone. It seems to take nearly 26 verses before the story starts to conflict slightly. Maybe thats from the differences between the legend of the south Black Sea to the regions of Babylon.
The media compaines don't produce music. They sell little plastic bits that cost almost nothing to make and the rest is advertising to move that bit of plastic at its inflated price.
I hear people talk about how radio stations pay to play music, that is total BS. They pay to play music but they get paid to play that music as well (its called Payola). Now its not so much under the table but hidden under advertising deals. How much did Columbia Records pay to advertise Roger Waters' last concert? Isn't it odd that they continue to advertise after the shows are all sold out? Check the details on how other compaines advertise vs how the record compaines advertise -- there has to be some funny money deals going on. Did all the free tickets and other advertising help get other Columbia Records artists on the air? You bet it did.