what is really telling is the countries who are missing, who were part of the gulf war coalition. namely the following:
France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Oman, Pakistan, UAE, Qatar, Senegal, Belgium, Bahrain, Argentina, Greece, Norway, Egypt, Morocco, Canada, Bangladesh, New Zeland, Sierra Leone, Congo, Thailand, Sweden, Niger, Oman
Which arab nations support this war? The support for the gulf war among arab nations was considerable, this war it's nearly nonexistent. Despite the fact saddam is right in their backyard.
It should also be noted that while the "governments" like spain supported the war, their population did not.
the one thing that gives them nightmares and keeps them up at nights.
it's not p2p or theft or piracy or even used CD/DVD sales.
their biggest fear is that you tune out and stop watching/listening altogether. that would mean not only no sales, but no advertising revenue either.
if this happens on any scale, i expect the mpaa/riaa to push through 1984/maxheadroom style legislation requiring a TV in every house turned on 24/7, and make it illegal to turn them off.
1) their product was a criminal scam. hell, they were making nearly $400,000 a month via this fraud. 2) they most likely sent their spams through thousands or millions of compromised hosts. same as breaking & entering, destruction of property, etc. the economic burden of this on this number of victims is huge.
pretty clear it should be a felony. the only thing i disagree with is the pittance fine of $7500. it should have been several million at least.
they comitted criminal fraud on top of just spamming. their "product" was a scam. so the punishment reflects that. they not only ripped people off, they used a an extremely abusive criminal means to advertise it.
imo the jail term should have been shorter and the fine 1000x larger. because they'll just start spamming again once they get out of prison. they made nearly $400,000 in one month through their criminal scam. a $7500 fine is nothing to them.
Spam is easily filtered with spamassassin and friends (I should know, it gets rid of thousands of spams daily for me)
doesn't this tell you something? one shouldn't be forced to run spamassassin just to get a usable mailbox. spam outnumbers legitimate email by a huge margin these days. that is a huge amount of wasted bandwidth, a huge number of compromised hosts, a huge financial burden on the victims.
hopefully this conviction is one step towards returning the smtp spam:signal ratio back towards a sane number, rather than the 90% spam that it is now.
next thing you'll be telling us is "just hit delete" right?
they sunk billions into itanic, thus wasting valuable company resources (engineers, fabs, marketing, etc) that could have been better put to use on their mainstream chips.
then they blew it by designing p4 to purely target a mhz goal, expecting that advances in materials and fabs would easily let them scale to 10ghz.
basically, intel was overconfident and then refused to abandon a ship (itanic) when it was obvious it was in trouble, instead desperately trying to save face and keep it afloat.
while they were busy mending their doomed ship, the popularity of amd64 completely caught them off guard. now amd is eating their core markets for lunch.
in the meantime, intel's itanic partners are beginning to abandon ship. this has to be really alarming to intel.
intel is trying to go too many directions at once, all of them wrong.
amd took the safer bet (amd64) while intel was pooh-poohing and ridiculing them over it. that decision has now come back to haunt intel.
the secret service investigate and prosecute forgery. read it on their web site:
http://www.secretservice.gov/investigations.shtm l
"The Secret Service was established as a law enforcement agency in 1865. While most people associate the Secret Service with Presidential protection, our original mandate was to investigate the counterfeiting of U.S. currency--which we still do. Today our primary investigative mission is to safeguard the payment and financial systems of the United States. This has been historically accomplished through the enforcement of the counterfeiting statutes to preserve the integrity of United States currency, coin and financial obligations. Since 1984, our investigative responsibilities have expanded to include crimes that involve financial institution fraud, computer and telecommunications fraud, false identification documents, access device fraud, advance fee fraud, electronic funds transfers, and money laundering as it relates to our core violations."
now watch the RIAA prosecute the secret service under the DMCA for illegally distributing copyrighted music through a website operated by the secret service...
Why are you getting your knickers in a bunch because some federal agents are doing their job?
Because they weren't doing their job. Their job was to determine the validity of the complaint, which they utterly failed to do. Hence, they failed to do their job.
If anything, the infringer was the manufacturer -- not the retailer. They did not go after the manufacturer, they went after a retailer. Again, they failed in their duties.
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your country attracts more attention from nigerians. it's been a growing problem for years.
deal with those motherfuckers first!
what is really telling is the countries who are missing, who were part of the gulf war coalition. namely the following:
France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Oman, Pakistan, UAE, Qatar, Senegal, Belgium, Bahrain, Argentina, Greece, Norway, Egypt, Morocco, Canada, Bangladesh, New Zeland, Sierra Leone, Congo, Thailand, Sweden, Niger, Oman
Which arab nations support this war? The support for the gulf war among arab nations was considerable, this war it's nearly nonexistent. Despite the fact saddam is right in their backyard.
It should also be noted that while the "governments" like spain supported the war, their population did not.
"Most of the rhetoric in your post is easily refuted."
go ahead then, refute it. we're waiting.
the one thing that gives them nightmares and keeps them up at nights.
it's not p2p or theft or piracy or even used CD/DVD sales.
their biggest fear is that you tune out and stop watching/listening altogether. that would mean not only no sales, but no advertising revenue either.
if this happens on any scale, i expect the mpaa/riaa to push through 1984/maxheadroom style legislation requiring a TV in every house turned on 24/7, and make it illegal to turn them off.
it's dead.
didnt take long...
add another digit or two to that.
they made nearly $400,000 in a single month while operating this scam.
if they were operating it for any length of time, it's easy to see they defrauded people of millions.
1) their product was a criminal scam. hell, they were making nearly $400,000 a month via this fraud.
2) they most likely sent their spams through thousands or millions of compromised hosts. same as breaking & entering, destruction of property, etc. the economic burden of this on this number of victims is huge.
pretty clear it should be a felony. the only thing i disagree with is the pittance fine of $7500. it should have been several million at least.
they comitted criminal fraud on top of just spamming. their "product" was a scam. so the punishment reflects that. they not only ripped people off, they used a an extremely abusive criminal means to advertise it.
imo the jail term should have been shorter and the fine 1000x larger. because they'll just start spamming again once they get out of prison. they made nearly $400,000 in one month through their criminal scam. a $7500 fine is nothing to them.
Spam is easily filtered with spamassassin and friends (I should know, it gets rid of thousands of spams daily for me)
doesn't this tell you something? one shouldn't be forced to run spamassassin just to get a usable mailbox. spam outnumbers legitimate email by a huge margin these days. that is a huge amount of wasted bandwidth, a huge number of compromised hosts, a huge financial burden on the victims.
hopefully this conviction is one step towards returning the smtp spam:signal ratio back towards a sane number, rather than the 90% spam that it is now.
next thing you'll be telling us is "just hit delete" right?
you voted for bush though...
1888 population: 50,156,000
2004 population: 293,027,571
586% population increase might have a teeny weeny bit to do with it?
don't buy an ipod. buy an iriver, rio karma, or any of a zillion other non-drm players out there.
then send apple a letter telling them you bought a competitor's product because apple cripples their products.
reminds me of the vacuous big hair metal bands of the 80's.
For something different, Machinae Supremacy instead. Nothing beats screaming guitars backed by a SID6581...
Not only that, MS have free downloads in ogg format...
What could Merkey.net do to get Jeff V. Merkey off their backs?
/etc/mail
assuming sendmail...
# cd
# echo "jmerkey@drdos.com REJECT" >> access
# make
they sunk billions into itanic, thus wasting valuable company resources (engineers, fabs, marketing, etc) that could have been better put to use on their mainstream chips.
then they blew it by designing p4 to purely target a mhz goal, expecting that advances in materials and fabs would easily let them scale to 10ghz.
basically, intel was overconfident and then refused to abandon a ship (itanic) when it was obvious it was in trouble, instead desperately trying to save face and keep it afloat.
while they were busy mending their doomed ship, the popularity of amd64 completely caught them off guard. now amd is eating their core markets for lunch.
in the meantime, intel's itanic partners are beginning to abandon ship. this has to be really alarming to intel.
intel is trying to go too many directions at once, all of them wrong.
amd took the safer bet (amd64) while intel was pooh-poohing and ridiculing them over it. that decision has now come back to haunt intel.
other sites have a much more experienced staff than tom's hardware, and a much wider dataset to compare against. eg anandtech.
when reading tom's hardware i often feel like i'm reading press releases rather than a hardware review.
...probably had a lot to do with it.
profiling is no longer wise for law enforcement. any precinct caught doing it usually gets slapped with very expensive lawsuits these days.
china's population is approx. 1.3 billion.
1.8 million internet bars means approx. 1 internet bar per 721 population.
to put that in perspective, a city of 30,000 would have 41 internet bars...
i'd like to know what counts as an "internet bar" though. anyone know what a typical chinese "internet bar" is like?
this is a fatal flaw in the linux software raid5 design.
real (read:industrial strength) raid5 designs dont mark the whole drive unusable, just the few blocks that had uncorrectable errors.
the linux raid5 driver really needs this feature, and i wouldnt recommend using it until it does.
why? gigabit copper is just as fast and ~50x cheaper.
the secret service investigate and prosecute forgery. read it on their web site:
m l
http://www.secretservice.gov/investigations.sht
"The Secret Service was established as a law enforcement agency in 1865. While most people associate the Secret Service with Presidential protection, our original mandate was to investigate the counterfeiting of U.S. currency--which we still do . Today our primary investigative mission is to safeguard the payment and financial systems of the United States. This has been historically accomplished through the enforcement of the counterfeiting statutes to preserve the integrity of United States currency, coin and financial obligations. Since 1984, our investigative responsibilities have expanded to include crimes that involve financial institution fraud, computer and telecommunications fraud, false identification documents, access device fraud, advance fee fraud, electronic funds transfers, and money laundering as it relates to our core violations."
now watch the RIAA prosecute the secret service under the DMCA for illegally distributing copyrighted music through a website operated by the secret service...
couldnt have happened to a more deserving group of people.
Why are you getting your knickers in a bunch because some federal agents are doing their job?
Because they weren't doing their job. Their job was to determine the validity of the complaint, which they utterly failed to do. Hence, they failed to do their job.
If anything, the infringer was the manufacturer -- not the retailer. They did not go after the manufacturer, they went after a retailer. Again, they failed in their duties.
right here
fascinating stuff. shows titan flat as a pancake for 100's of kilometers.