I'm pretty sure no matter how you put it in there, the frame would still be.... well.... less than comfortable.:)
A friend of mine had a book that showed all kinds of weird xrays. They were all real, of various objects put where they didn't belong. One was the infamous quick dry cement and pingpong ball. I'd guess the cement wasn't too bad, and for this guy the ping pong ball wouldn't have been rough, but once the cement hardened to form a full cast of his colon, it couldn't have been very comfortable. The article indicated it was removed as one piece. ouch.
I guess once you've passed a cement cast of your colon, there isn't much you couldn't hide up there.
It won't just be a firing. There'd be complaints (and likely lawsuits) attached to it.
Sexual harassment isn't limited to subordinates. It can be making anyone uncomfortable. A customer can sexually harass an employee. Sexual preference doesn't matter. If guy A makes dirty jokes to guy B, and guy C is offended, he can file a complaint, even though he wasn't involved in the least, other than being aware that it happened.
Context is skewed by implied meaning. There could be a photo of a server rack, and you could say "nice rack". If she took that as a personal comment rather than a commentary on the photo.
Here's a real example. I got it from someone involved in the case. A man working at the company told a woman who worked at the same company, "You look nice today." She had dressed up particularly nice that day. She pressed sexual harassment charges because of that comment.
Here in the land of litigation, you can get screwed any which way you go. If someone wants to sue, they will. The real intent has nothing to do with it. It's the interpreted intent that'll make you lose.
In the "rack" comment, that can be said completely wrong too.
"That's a nice rack. I'd love to stick my equipment in it. I could put it in, and take it out all day. Oh, that would be great. I bet I could shove my biggest piece in there, and it'd take it."
Voila! Sexual harassment by only talking about putting servers in a server rack. You didn't even direct the conversation towards her.
Myself, I like a rack where it's easy to install and remove equipment.:)
If someone is looking for an excuse to scream sexual harassment, they will. It doesn't even have to be a word. "He always looked at me like he wanted to molest me." In reality, that could just glancing because she walked into the room. You can't win though. If you intentionally never make eye contact, and/or never look lower than her neck, it's all in what she says.
It's funny when people don't see the legacy implementations of things, because of the new names given to them.
Of course, any that you listed are kinda one-use weapons (since they kinda explode at the end of their trip), but that's the biggest difference between a UAV and a cruise missile.:)
The V-1 and cruise missile actually fly. The ICBM's were, well, ballistic. You still had to maintain a course on the way up to the apogee. Then gravity took care of the rest.
And sadly enough, I found pictures to prove it. One lady inserted a revolver, but it got stuck and had to be surgically removed. It appears to be a.38, but I could be wrong. She should have gone with something like a Kel Tec P-3AT. If someone was bringing me one, I'd prefer a good old Colt 1911 with a couple extra loaded magazines, but I'm pretty sure that would be uncomfortable.:)
Ummmm.. More of store them in places that should be exit-only. You'd be amazed what someone will shove up their butt for the right price.
Narcotics can be swallowed in a condom or balloon, but they run the risk of it rupturing in their stomach and ingesting a lethal dose. In the butt can still be lethal, but there's an awful lot less for it to get eaten away by. And, swallowing drugs, you have to wait for it to pass. A direct insertion, it comes out on the first movement.
Some people have a bit more liberty with sizes there than normal people. For someone like me, you could try to shove a lump of coal up, but all you'd get back is a diamond.:)
Well, that's what I was saying about the fact that I couldn't get through their cart. If I went straight to plans, it showed me everything including voice.
If I remember right (which it's been quite a few years), they were different frequencies, so we were just out of luck.
As contrary as I may have sounded, I am all for the portability of cell phones. I always considered it asinine that I had to make an investment on a cell phone, just to be locked into that company for as long as they'd like.
Now, I'm not quite in the same position. I bought a cheap prepay phone. Their plan is unlimited everything, so I can chatter away as needed without worrying that they'll tag me for extra fees. If I don't pay the bill when it's due, they cut me off. They don't send me to collections. They don't make mistakes in billing and I have to spend hours on the phone trying to straighten it out. There's nothing for them to screw up, and I'm really good with that.
I wouldn't be able to use the Google phone with it (not GSM), but there are prepaid accounts for others, so I could change as often as I'd like.
I liked your link. Wikipedia has This List of GSM frequencies and what countries they're serviced in. There are actually 14 bands used. I assume the Nexus One will be a 4 band phone, so it will work almost everywhere. That will limit it's usefulness in some countries though. Well, you can't satisfy everyone.:)
Some people have asked me why I don't have a Blackberry, iPhone, or Android phone. Well, I don't want to get tied into a contract. The way the economy has been, I don't know that I can pay for service a month from now, much less 2 years from now. What happens if I move into a poor coverage area again, like I did with Nextel. They didn't want to let me out of the contract. I fought with them for weeks. Like, an hour a day for over two weeks. I stood by the statement, "If you provide service in my area, so I can use the phone, I'll pay you." I ended up paying a token amount, but not their outrageous early disconnect fee. They realized they weren't going to get anything, so getting at least something from me was easier than letting it go to collections where I'd never pay (and I told them so).
I actually like the Blackberries. Two different companies I worked for gave me one. The T-mobile phone worked for the most part, but my house was a weak coverage area. The other was a Verizon phone, which worked very well at home. With the Nexus One, I'd be able to say "This won't work for me", and just buy another sim and be on the new network. It may take some time experimenting, but in the end, I would have a phone that worked well for me.
Don't forget that most things won't work down 400 miles of anything. They'll need relay points along it.
I've known people in the US who are in the same situation. They can't get power run out to their homes, so they run on generators. They don't have phones, and they use well water. Needless to say, they'll never read this, because they can't get Internet service either.:)
Unlocking works if your phone is capable of working on other networks. That's why the manufacturers advertise how many networks they work on.
I had Nextel back in the day, before Sprint bought them and started raping their customers with extra fees. (I was getting $300 for various things, even though there was no service at my house, and the phone sat on my desk with a dead battery). A friend of mine bought two unlocked Boost Mobile phones, because she thought they looked nicer. She gave me one, and I used it on the Nextel network without problems (like, since they were the same network anyways).
Even a nice world wide "standard" like GSM, has 14 different frequency bands, so your phone may or may not work in a particular location.
A long time ago, I bought a GSM phone in Europe. It only worked on that provider, in that country. After I got back to the states, I gave it to a friend who was traveling to another country in Europe. Even though that provider had service in that country, it wouldn't work. It was the cheapest prepaid phone I could get my hands on that day, so I didn't really expect much of it. It suited it's purpose (having a cell for the week I was there).
Some phones are more cooperative, because they work with multiple frequencies, or they happen to use the same frequency. I knew someone who lived in Europe, who would come to the states, and his phone became a US phone as soon as he got off the plane.:) They were completely unrelated providers, but it worked, so he was happy.
Check the fine print on those. "Unlimited" is 5Gb/mo.
It look like Tmobile's price is higher than that too. That's a teaser price. Their site is messed up today, so I can't go through the paces of trying to purchase one to see the details. It won't let me add their USB wireless device to a cart, to get the data only pricing. (doesn't work in Chrome, Firefox, nor MSIE). It does show it's more like $79 for unlimited data, with unlimited voice also.
It really depends on who you are. If you're 18, just out of high school, and all your friends are still in town, then not you. For someone like me, I have friends all over the country (and in a few other countries), so my phone book almost looks like an index of all the area codes in the US.
The old restrictions on dialing long distance were annoying and costly, so I used to shop for who gave me the best plan. Now, most cell phones are free long distance, and many landline providers offer a cheap upgrade for unlimited national long distance, so it's a lot easier.
I was shopping for unlimited data plans on wireless devices. Good luck there. All of them I looked at limit you to 5Gb/mo, so if you were to work a lot (like I would with it), I'd be hit with huge overages. Boost mobile does offer unlimited data with no limits, but it's the old iDEN network, and it's slower than dialup. I tethered a phone to my laptop just to see, and it was pathetically slow, even in an area with excellent coverage. I was shopping for USB devices, not tethering, so someone may offer something good on the phone's plan itself.
That really depends on the drug. Cocaine, Crystal Meth, other various amphetamines, PCP, or LSD, definitely won't help calm the population. If they're smuggling in Xanax, Valium, and pot, that would be a completely different story.
Contraband can include cell phones, shanks (improvised knives), guns, ammunition, etc. You'd be amazed what people try to get into a jail.
When I was in law enforcement school, one of my classmates was working at a state prison. He brought a carton of cigarettes in to an inmate. That day, instead of going home, they took him to intake, and put him in the orange jumpsuit. I don't quite know all the details, because he should have been taken to a county jail first for intake. It think it was just for the extra embarrassment value, so no other CO's would think it was a bright idea to bring in contraband.
That's pretty much the way we did it. If you hadn't already done the work, I would have said to use mailscanner.:) I used an addon withit, that logged in a database for me. The iptables rules were done with another script that ran once a minute to block new spammer. Either way.:)
You might want to check out graymilter. If I remember right, you could whitelist known good senders, and it would whitelist good ones on it's own. I believe it's rules were dropped (other than your defined whitelist) if it was restarted. Pretty much, there would be a little hiccup in mail delivery when you first start it, and then it would run fine forever, or until you restarted the graymilter daemon or rebooted the machine.
I know I looked at a whole bunch of solutions for graylisting. Some worked well. Some worked terribly. This one worked just as I'd like.
After I got everything set up and tuned perfectly, I did get complaints. People said they weren't getting anywhere near as much spam as they usually got, and to them that showed how well the mail server was working.:) Graylisting for 30 minutes is effective, but graylisting for 30 seconds makes it so people barely notice. The first message is delayed for a relatively short time (depending on the remote server), but usually only about 5 minutes on the initial message, and no delay after that.
Now, I don't run anything near as robust as this, because I'm not in control over any mail servers that have a need like this. The biggest mail server I run now has up to a 15 second delay, as it scans every inbound message, drops the high spam score messages, and delivers the low score messages. If they're remotely spammy, it tags them, so the client can decide how to deliver it, with it's own filters.
I'm afraid he does. Look at the passenger door. He replaced the orange sponge with a gold-like mesh from a Radio Shack PA microphone.... and for more Mr. Microphone goodneww, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOMTN39N7d8
What does he expect he's going to do with that? Not drive it. I'm pretty sure he's exceeded the carrying capacity of it. He doesn't have room to get his legs in to work the pedals. There's too much equipment too close to the steering wheel to be able to drive safely.
and.....
There's no way he's running that much gear simultaneously on the available power in that vehicle. I counted at least 50 distinct pieces of equipment. I'm pretty sure that's a 1988 Dodge Colt, so it should have something like a 75A 12V alternator on it. That'd give 1.5A per unit average, not including incidentals like running the engine and lights.
I'm fairly confident that a lot of that stuff could be reduced down to one handheld transceiver. I'm pretty sure there are two or three regular CB radios in there too.
It looks like he went to every junk sale he could, and strapped anything resembling a radio into his car. For example, the VOM and LCD TV on the drivers door, and the gold-like plated PA microphone on the passenger door.
If he did run it all, *and* he didn't kill off his battery and alternator, he still wouldn't be able to figure out what any of the noise coming in was. It would be so much chatter, that it would be white noise.... and I thought I had a lot of gear, with a roll cage, fire extinguisher, stereo equalizer, CB, and radar detector.:) At least I could sit in my car without damaging myself.
One day I was sitting in the hills under the Hollywood sign. I took shots for a 360 degree view, and stitched them up at home. That was a trick, considering the resolution of the pictures, and the speed and memory available on PC's at the time. I never bothered to calculate out the megapixel size, but it would have been pretty big. I would have never considered it to be a huge shot. I considered it an interesting collage.
The only drawback to that shot was that you had to scroll across it to see it. If you loaded it in a web browser, you'd scroll right for what seemed like forever. For those who'd never been to Los Angeles, they really enjoyed seeing what it really looks like there, versus what you see in the media (news, TV and movies). It was a fairly clear day, but you could still clearly see the smog. In that though, because there was a little wind blowing, when you see close to where I was sitting, there are distinct lines where the grass moved between shots.
Folks who do a lot of mail find out the hard way that without SPF records, there are plenty of places that bounce them. I've had them on my domains for years.
For my old network, where we got a huge amount of spam, we used both graylisting and our own custom blacklist. I didn't trust the blacklist providers, so we did rolling blacklists based on the amount of detected spam (with mailscanner and friends), which worked with the firewall. It set it's own firewall rules, so all traffic was dropped from that IP. On the first offense from an IP, it was blocked for a day. If there were multiple spams detected from the same/24, the whole/24 got blocked. If they were repeat offenders, the durations increased. It protected the mail server from about 90% of the spam, and didn't generate a single complaint. There was a tremendous amount of inbound mail also that was legitimate, so we would have had complaints after their automatic block was lifted.
It also used some honeypotting. Messages to old dormant accounts that only received spam automatically had the sender blocked. It's not like the accounts were a few days unused, we're talking about more than 5 years, and they were some of the highest traffic accounts on the server.
An offense was carefully defined, so as not to block legitimate traffic. It worked amazingly well. For it to work though, you have to have a high-load environment, that the spammers are already hitting hard. We would receive upwards of 100k emails/day, which was then reduced to 10k and most were legitimate.
My old shop, we were a very tight operation. I helped other people clean up their problems though.:)
My last shop? Well.... That's a totally different story. Lets just say that they changed their method of shipping machines to production environments with the root password of "password" after a bad experience. They still hadn't gotten away from the bad habit of leaving SSH on port 22.
I had heard about a base in Alabama also, so I went looking for more information. (I'm just an information whore).
The US Army operates the RQ-5A Hunter, the RQ-7 Shadow, the Stryker, the RQ-8 Fire Scout VTOL, and the UCAR out of Fort Rucker, Alabama.
They work in conjunction with other bases, including Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Fort Eustis, Virginia; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Lee, Virginia; Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; JCoE at Indian Springs, Nevada; and the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
The Navy is working with Fire Scout, BAMS, J-UCAS and Close Range UAVs (Scan Eagle, Dragon Eye, and Neptune programs)out of PAX River NAS, Maryland.
The US Air Force is working with Predator and Global Hawk UAVs out of Nellis AFB / Creech AFB Nevada. They are also working with Dark Star and Global Hawk UAVs and micro UAMs (MUAVs) out of Edwards AFB.
Holloman AFB has some involvement in PSL's UAV. I saw signs along I-10 near White Sands that warned of low flying UAV traffic (Please disregard the funny planes flying over your head.) . That probably related to the work being done at Holloman.
But, just because work is being done at a lot of bases doesn't mean that they all get each other's feeds. I don't know how focused they can make their downlinks.
Is the feed going to the DCGS being reflected straight from the UAV's, or is it being fed back to their home base, for dissemination to the appropriate field troops? It would seem to make more sense to provide what is required to the field, rather than the raw data. It gives you a lot more comfortable space to leave people parked in front of monitors watching for stuff. I'd expect, if not now, sometime in the future, they would pass it through just a handful of specialized locations. It's a lot easier to have 100 people watching the feeds who are well trained in what they are looking for, rather than 10,000 spread out through various theaters world wide.
For $1.07 billion, I'm pretty sure we could come up with a way to track it. So, they have one day of no extra income, but make an extra billion from there on. I think I'd want residuals on that though.:) With a team of 10 people, that's only $100 million each. I think we'd settle for $1m/day residual income.
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I'm pretty sure no matter how you put it in there, the frame would still be .... well .... less than comfortable. :)
A friend of mine had a book that showed all kinds of weird xrays. They were all real, of various objects put where they didn't belong. One was the infamous quick dry cement and pingpong ball. I'd guess the cement wasn't too bad, and for this guy the ping pong ball wouldn't have been rough, but once the cement hardened to form a full cast of his colon, it couldn't have been very comfortable. The article indicated it was removed as one piece. ouch.
I guess once you've passed a cement cast of your colon, there isn't much you couldn't hide up there.
That could be construed as a hate crime.
It won't just be a firing. There'd be complaints (and likely lawsuits) attached to it.
Sexual harassment isn't limited to subordinates. It can be making anyone uncomfortable. A customer can sexually harass an employee. Sexual preference doesn't matter. If guy A makes dirty jokes to guy B, and guy C is offended, he can file a complaint, even though he wasn't involved in the least, other than being aware that it happened.
Context is skewed by implied meaning. There could be a photo of a server rack, and you could say "nice rack". If she took that as a personal comment rather than a commentary on the photo.
Here's a real example. I got it from someone involved in the case. A man working at the company told a woman who worked at the same company, "You look nice today." She had dressed up particularly nice that day. She pressed sexual harassment charges because of that comment.
Here in the land of litigation, you can get screwed any which way you go. If someone wants to sue, they will. The real intent has nothing to do with it. It's the interpreted intent that'll make you lose.
In the "rack" comment, that can be said completely wrong too.
"That's a nice rack. I'd love to stick my equipment in it. I could put it in, and take it out all day. Oh, that would be great. I bet I could shove my biggest piece in there, and it'd take it."
Voila! Sexual harassment by only talking about putting servers in a server rack. You didn't even direct the conversation towards her.
Myself, I like a rack where it's easy to install and remove equipment. :)
If someone is looking for an excuse to scream sexual harassment, they will. It doesn't even have to be a word. "He always looked at me like he wanted to molest me." In reality, that could just glancing because she walked into the room. You can't win though. If you intentionally never make eye contact, and/or never look lower than her neck, it's all in what she says.
It's funny when people don't see the legacy implementations of things, because of the new names given to them.
Of course, any that you listed are kinda one-use weapons (since they kinda explode at the end of their trip), but that's the biggest difference between a UAV and a cruise missile. :)
The V-1 and cruise missile actually fly. The ICBM's were, well, ballistic. You still had to maintain a course on the way up to the apogee. Then gravity took care of the rest.
It's very common to call ships (boats, canoes, etc) "she".
And sadly enough, I found pictures to prove it. One lady inserted a revolver, but it got stuck and had to be surgically removed. It appears to be a .38, but I could be wrong. She should have gone with something like a Kel Tec P-3AT. If someone was bringing me one, I'd prefer a good old Colt 1911 with a couple extra loaded magazines, but I'm pretty sure that would be uncomfortable. :)
Ummmm.. More of store them in places that should be exit-only. You'd be amazed what someone will shove up their butt for the right price.
Narcotics can be swallowed in a condom or balloon, but they run the risk of it rupturing in their stomach and ingesting a lethal dose. In the butt can still be lethal, but there's an awful lot less for it to get eaten away by. And, swallowing drugs, you have to wait for it to pass. A direct insertion, it comes out on the first movement.
Some people have a bit more liberty with sizes there than normal people. For someone like me, you could try to shove a lump of coal up, but all you'd get back is a diamond. :)
Well, that's what I was saying about the fact that I couldn't get through their cart. If I went straight to plans, it showed me everything including voice.
If I remember right (which it's been quite a few years), they were different frequencies, so we were just out of luck.
As contrary as I may have sounded, I am all for the portability of cell phones. I always considered it asinine that I had to make an investment on a cell phone, just to be locked into that company for as long as they'd like.
Now, I'm not quite in the same position. I bought a cheap prepay phone. Their plan is unlimited everything, so I can chatter away as needed without worrying that they'll tag me for extra fees. If I don't pay the bill when it's due, they cut me off. They don't send me to collections. They don't make mistakes in billing and I have to spend hours on the phone trying to straighten it out. There's nothing for them to screw up, and I'm really good with that.
I wouldn't be able to use the Google phone with it (not GSM), but there are prepaid accounts for others, so I could change as often as I'd like.
I liked your link. Wikipedia has This List of GSM frequencies and what countries they're serviced in. There are actually 14 bands used. I assume the Nexus One will be a 4 band phone, so it will work almost everywhere. That will limit it's usefulness in some countries though. Well, you can't satisfy everyone. :)
Some people have asked me why I don't have a Blackberry, iPhone, or Android phone. Well, I don't want to get tied into a contract. The way the economy has been, I don't know that I can pay for service a month from now, much less 2 years from now. What happens if I move into a poor coverage area again, like I did with Nextel. They didn't want to let me out of the contract. I fought with them for weeks. Like, an hour a day for over two weeks. I stood by the statement, "If you provide service in my area, so I can use the phone, I'll pay you." I ended up paying a token amount, but not their outrageous early disconnect fee. They realized they weren't going to get anything, so getting at least something from me was easier than letting it go to collections where I'd never pay (and I told them so).
I actually like the Blackberries. Two different companies I worked for gave me one. The T-mobile phone worked for the most part, but my house was a weak coverage area. The other was a Verizon phone, which worked very well at home. With the Nexus One, I'd be able to say "This won't work for me", and just buy another sim and be on the new network. It may take some time experimenting, but in the end, I would have a phone that worked well for me.
Don't forget that most things won't work down 400 miles of anything. They'll need relay points along it.
I've known people in the US who are in the same situation. They can't get power run out to their homes, so they run on generators. They don't have phones, and they use well water. Needless to say, they'll never read this, because they can't get Internet service either. :)
Unlocking works if your phone is capable of working on other networks. That's why the manufacturers advertise how many networks they work on.
I had Nextel back in the day, before Sprint bought them and started raping their customers with extra fees. (I was getting $300 for various things, even though there was no service at my house, and the phone sat on my desk with a dead battery). A friend of mine bought two unlocked Boost Mobile phones, because she thought they looked nicer. She gave me one, and I used it on the Nextel network without problems (like, since they were the same network anyways).
Even a nice world wide "standard" like GSM, has 14 different frequency bands, so your phone may or may not work in a particular location.
A long time ago, I bought a GSM phone in Europe. It only worked on that provider, in that country. After I got back to the states, I gave it to a friend who was traveling to another country in Europe. Even though that provider had service in that country, it wouldn't work. It was the cheapest prepaid phone I could get my hands on that day, so I didn't really expect much of it. It suited it's purpose (having a cell for the week I was there).
Some phones are more cooperative, because they work with multiple frequencies, or they happen to use the same frequency. I knew someone who lived in Europe, who would come to the states, and his phone became a US phone as soon as he got off the plane. :) They were completely unrelated providers, but it worked, so he was happy.
Check the fine print on those. "Unlimited" is 5Gb/mo.
It look like Tmobile's price is higher than that too. That's a teaser price. Their site is messed up today, so I can't go through the paces of trying to purchase one to see the details. It won't let me add their USB wireless device to a cart, to get the data only pricing. (doesn't work in Chrome, Firefox, nor MSIE). It does show it's more like $79 for unlimited data, with unlimited voice also.
It really depends on who you are. If you're 18, just out of high school, and all your friends are still in town, then not you. For someone like me, I have friends all over the country (and in a few other countries), so my phone book almost looks like an index of all the area codes in the US.
The old restrictions on dialing long distance were annoying and costly, so I used to shop for who gave me the best plan. Now, most cell phones are free long distance, and many landline providers offer a cheap upgrade for unlimited national long distance, so it's a lot easier.
I was shopping for unlimited data plans on wireless devices. Good luck there. All of them I looked at limit you to 5Gb/mo, so if you were to work a lot (like I would with it), I'd be hit with huge overages. Boost mobile does offer unlimited data with no limits, but it's the old iDEN network, and it's slower than dialup. I tethered a phone to my laptop just to see, and it was pathetically slow, even in an area with excellent coverage. I was shopping for USB devices, not tethering, so someone may offer something good on the phone's plan itself.
That really depends on the drug. Cocaine, Crystal Meth, other various amphetamines, PCP, or LSD, definitely won't help calm the population. If they're smuggling in Xanax, Valium, and pot, that would be a completely different story.
Contraband can include cell phones, shanks (improvised knives), guns, ammunition, etc. You'd be amazed what people try to get into a jail.
When I was in law enforcement school, one of my classmates was working at a state prison. He brought a carton of cigarettes in to an inmate. That day, instead of going home, they took him to intake, and put him in the orange jumpsuit. I don't quite know all the details, because he should have been taken to a county jail first for intake. It think it was just for the extra embarrassment value, so no other CO's would think it was a bright idea to bring in contraband.
That's pretty much the way we did it. If you hadn't already done the work, I would have said to use mailscanner. :) I used an addon withit, that logged in a database for me. The iptables rules were done with another script that ran once a minute to block new spammer. Either way. :)
You might want to check out graymilter. If I remember right, you could whitelist known good senders, and it would whitelist good ones on it's own. I believe it's rules were dropped (other than your defined whitelist) if it was restarted. Pretty much, there would be a little hiccup in mail delivery when you first start it, and then it would run fine forever, or until you restarted the graymilter daemon or rebooted the machine.
I know I looked at a whole bunch of solutions for graylisting. Some worked well. Some worked terribly. This one worked just as I'd like.
After I got everything set up and tuned perfectly, I did get complaints. People said they weren't getting anywhere near as much spam as they usually got, and to them that showed how well the mail server was working. :) Graylisting for 30 minutes is effective, but graylisting for 30 seconds makes it so people barely notice. The first message is delayed for a relatively short time (depending on the remote server), but usually only about 5 minutes on the initial message, and no delay after that.
Now, I don't run anything near as robust as this, because I'm not in control over any mail servers that have a need like this. The biggest mail server I run now has up to a 15 second delay, as it scans every inbound message, drops the high spam score messages, and delivers the low score messages. If they're remotely spammy, it tags them, so the client can decide how to deliver it, with it's own filters.
Funny link. :)
I'm afraid he does. Look at the passenger door. He replaced the orange sponge with a gold-like mesh from a Radio Shack PA microphone. ... and for more Mr. Microphone goodneww, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOMTN39N7d8
Really....
What does he expect he's going to do with that? Not drive it. I'm pretty sure he's exceeded the carrying capacity of it. He doesn't have room to get his legs in to work the pedals. There's too much equipment too close to the steering wheel to be able to drive safely.
and.....
There's no way he's running that much gear simultaneously on the available power in that vehicle. I counted at least 50 distinct pieces of equipment. I'm pretty sure that's a 1988 Dodge Colt, so it should have something like a 75A 12V alternator on it. That'd give 1.5A per unit average, not including incidentals like running the engine and lights.
I'm fairly confident that a lot of that stuff could be reduced down to one handheld transceiver. I'm pretty sure there are two or three regular CB radios in there too.
It looks like he went to every junk sale he could, and strapped anything resembling a radio into his car. For example, the VOM and LCD TV on the drivers door, and the gold-like plated PA microphone on the passenger door.
If he did run it all, *and* he didn't kill off his battery and alternator, he still wouldn't be able to figure out what any of the noise coming in was. It would be so much chatter, that it would be white noise. ... and I thought I had a lot of gear, with a roll cage, fire extinguisher, stereo equalizer, CB, and radar detector. :) At least I could sit in my car without damaging myself.
I agree totally.
One day I was sitting in the hills under the Hollywood sign. I took shots for a 360 degree view, and stitched them up at home. That was a trick, considering the resolution of the pictures, and the speed and memory available on PC's at the time. I never bothered to calculate out the megapixel size, but it would have been pretty big. I would have never considered it to be a huge shot. I considered it an interesting collage.
The only drawback to that shot was that you had to scroll across it to see it. If you loaded it in a web browser, you'd scroll right for what seemed like forever. For those who'd never been to Los Angeles, they really enjoyed seeing what it really looks like there, versus what you see in the media (news, TV and movies). It was a fairly clear day, but you could still clearly see the smog. In that though, because there was a little wind blowing, when you see close to where I was sitting, there are distinct lines where the grass moved between shots.
Thanks for your insight. I'm sure you could say more, but that'd risk your clearance (and freedom).
The watch is so pretty as it swings.
back and forth....
back and forth....
and I start feeling sleepy....
very sleepy....
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Folks who do a lot of mail find out the hard way that without SPF records, there are plenty of places that bounce them. I've had them on my domains for years.
For my old network, where we got a huge amount of spam, we used both graylisting and our own custom blacklist. I didn't trust the blacklist providers, so we did rolling blacklists based on the amount of detected spam (with mailscanner and friends), which worked with the firewall. It set it's own firewall rules, so all traffic was dropped from that IP. On the first offense from an IP, it was blocked for a day. If there were multiple spams detected from the same /24, the whole /24 got blocked. If they were repeat offenders, the durations increased. It protected the mail server from about 90% of the spam, and didn't generate a single complaint. There was a tremendous amount of inbound mail also that was legitimate, so we would have had complaints after their automatic block was lifted.
It also used some honeypotting. Messages to old dormant accounts that only received spam automatically had the sender blocked. It's not like the accounts were a few days unused, we're talking about more than 5 years, and they were some of the highest traffic accounts on the server.
An offense was carefully defined, so as not to block legitimate traffic. It worked amazingly well. For it to work though, you have to have a high-load environment, that the spammers are already hitting hard. We would receive upwards of 100k emails/day, which was then reduced to 10k and most were legitimate.
I agree totally.
My old shop, we were a very tight operation. I helped other people clean up their problems though. :)
My last shop? Well.... That's a totally different story. Lets just say that they changed their method of shipping machines to production environments with the root password of "password" after a bad experience. They still hadn't gotten away from the bad habit of leaving SSH on port 22.
I had heard about a base in Alabama also, so I went looking for more information. (I'm just an information whore).
The US Army operates the RQ-5A Hunter, the RQ-7 Shadow, the Stryker, the RQ-8 Fire Scout VTOL, and the UCAR out of Fort Rucker, Alabama.
They work in conjunction with other bases, including Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Fort Eustis, Virginia; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Knox, Kentucky; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Lee, Virginia; Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; JCoE at Indian Springs, Nevada; and the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
The Navy is working with Fire Scout, BAMS, J-UCAS and Close Range UAVs (Scan Eagle, Dragon Eye, and Neptune programs)out of PAX River NAS, Maryland.
The US Air Force is working with Predator and Global Hawk UAVs out of Nellis AFB / Creech AFB Nevada. They are also working with Dark Star and Global Hawk UAVs and micro UAMs (MUAVs) out of Edwards AFB.
Holloman AFB has some involvement in PSL's UAV. I saw signs along I-10 near White Sands that warned of low flying UAV traffic (Please disregard the funny planes flying over your head.) . That probably related to the work being done at Holloman.
But, just because work is being done at a lot of bases doesn't mean that they all get each other's feeds. I don't know how focused they can make their downlinks.
Is the feed going to the DCGS being reflected straight from the UAV's, or is it being fed back to their home base, for dissemination to the appropriate field troops? It would seem to make more sense to provide what is required to the field, rather than the raw data. It gives you a lot more comfortable space to leave people parked in front of monitors watching for stuff. I'd expect, if not now, sometime in the future, they would pass it through just a handful of specialized locations. It's a lot easier to have 100 people watching the feeds who are well trained in what they are looking for, rather than 10,000 spread out through various theaters world wide.
For $1.07 billion, I'm pretty sure we could come up with a way to track it. So, they have one day of no extra income, but make an extra billion from there on. I think I'd want residuals on that though. :) With a team of 10 people, that's only $100 million each. I think we'd settle for $1m/day residual income.