The ones I know when faced with decisions like that, decide it is much safer to avoid vendors who have BS contracts like that. Risk and uncertainty scare corporations and contracts like that are high on both counts.
If you've ever dealt with PHBs the sure way to get their attention is 'risk' and 'bottom line'.
plutonium and neptunium are _not_ chemically toxic in any way. in biological systems they are chemically inert as no cells are capable of processing it, and it cannot substitute for any element used in biological systems (unlike radium, which can substitute for calcium).
they are however _radiologically_ toxic.
as for the "toxic as botulism toxin", i call bullshit again. eat 1 mg of plutonium and 1 mg of botulism toxin and see who dies first.
any multi-story building with large windows will kill birds. the total number of birds killed by windows vastly outnumbers the number of birds killed by windmills.
DLT and AIT are far more reliable than hard drives.
Unlike hard drives, I don't worry about losing all my data if I drop a DLT on the floor. You can practically run over the DLT cartridges with a tank and not worry about data loss.
DLT and AIT are specifically designed to last a long time and avoid tape wear.
You can pick up a 35gb DLT IV drive off ebay for ~250 and a stack of tapes for ~100. Turn off the built-in drive hardware compression, run your data through bzip2, and sleep soundly knowing your DLTs are far more reliable backup than any hard drive.
Don't trust your important data to DAT -- the rube goldberg tape mechanism means many munched tapes.:-(
... to make them to get off their lazy asses and start cleaning up their networks.
if you get spam from them, it's your problem, and they have zero incentive to do anything about it.
however, if their customers are suddenly unable to reach you, then it becomes their problem and voila, suddenly they have a reason to finally dump their abusive customers and clean up their networks.
blacklists are used because they work, and because they are the only things that do work. if network opterators werent so fucking lazy, there would be no need for blacklists.
That's why cassini passed through the huge empty gap between the F and G rings.
In the denser rings, baseball-sized ring particles are about a meter or so apart. Most ring particles are much smaller than that though.
This is why the cassini radio transmissions were so strongly attenuated when it passed behind them -- the rings are dense enough to do that. If the ring particles really were km's apart, there would be virtually zero attenuation of the radio signal.
Had cassini passed through a ring instead of a gap, the mission would have been shortened rather dramatically.
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:35:54 -0400 From: Matthew Crocker To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" Subject: Re: E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible
I know Brad Councilman, This all happened in my back yard. He ran a competing ISP with me (www.valinet.com). Not only was he reading his customers e-mail and harvesting Amazon.com orders he also hacked into 4 of the local area ISPs. I still remember the day I received a call from the FBI office in Boston. 'Sir, you are not in trouble but we would like to talk to you about an important matter. I'll be out tomorrow, when will you have time?' He came in with a old copy of my/etc/passwd file (this was hacked from me back in '95,'96). I was happy when the arrested him, he is a jerk. The ISP he ran has since been sold to another company, still local and run as an honest business.
Sorry for the rant, I just wish he got more than a slap on the wrist. They didn't prosecute him on the hacking attempts because the e-mail theft was a bigger crime.
They live in the USA, they are american citizens. They just spam using servers in china to try to hide the true origin.
Very few spammers actually bother to move outside US borders. And even then, unless they officially renounce their citizenship, they are still US citizens and can still be deported + prosecuted -- no matter where in the world they may be.
The US courts can sieze their assets. Their house, their cars, their computers, etc. Ever wonder what all those government auctions are? Most of them are auctioning off siezed property from criminals. There is serious $$ there.
So yes, there's plenty the US courts can take from them, unless they're living underneath a bridge in a cardboard box.
With a spam bounty system, it could work like this:
The feds put up 'info wanted' notices for specific spammers. It would eliminate the objections people have of vigilantes going after innocent legitimate marketers. The feds would be asking for information about specific spammers, much like the FBI's most wanted list.
You call in leads, the feds prosecute, you get $$$.
The idea here being that there are often people out on the internet who are far more skilled or have far better connections than law enforcement, in tracking down miscreants.
There are likely a lot more net-skilled individuals out there than there are law enforcement officials with good net skills.
Why not put that talent to use, a bounty is great incentive (besides the satisfaction of putting spammers out of business).
...but really, I dont see how it improves usability at all.
The video just confirmed my suspicions.
I mean really, rotating your windows upside down does anything for usability?
How does sticking notes to the back of windows help usability at all, when you can't see them without flipping each window around? How is this better than normal sticky/postitnotes applications?
There's still as much clutter as normal desktops -- actually more, the minimized windows take up more screen real estate than traditional minimized windows and they dont really convey any more information.
If there's anything truly practical and innovative about Sun's LG, its the use of opengl in the UI. Now that has some serious applications. The rest is just fluff.
Anyway, LG is very cute and all, but I think i'll pass.
Lieberfarb added billions of dollars to the company's value, says David Boise, his star lawyer, adding, "The question of how a company treats someone who has created that kind of value is interesting."
Not really. They didnt treat him any differently than they treat anyone else: with utter contempt.
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The ones I know when faced with decisions like that, decide it is much safer to avoid vendors who have BS contracts like that. Risk and uncertainty scare corporations and contracts like that are high on both counts.
If you've ever dealt with PHBs the sure way to get their attention is 'risk' and 'bottom line'.
I wonder if there isn't a way the average joe can abuse the DMCA to destroy the system itself, or destroy companies who abuse the DMCA.
In other words, fight fire with fire. Use their own guns against them.
No copyright protection mechanisms were circumvented.
They bruteforced a password.
This password was not protecting access to any copyrighted works. It was not circumventing copyright access mechanisms.
No trade secrets were revealed. The controls were only bypassed.
They created a forged ID file from scratch.
This ID file was not protecting access to any copyrighted works. It was not circumventing copyright protection mechanisms.
In neither case were they bypassing or circumventing copyright protection mechanisms.
storagetek will lose just like the automobile manufacturers lost.
...he would be held liable if he didn't fix it, and the manufacturer is protected from all liability for defective heart stimulators anyway.
so everyone loses except the manufacturer.
plutonium and neptunium are _not_ chemically toxic in any way. in biological systems they are chemically inert as no cells are capable of processing it, and it cannot substitute for any element used in biological systems (unlike radium, which can substitute for calcium).
they are however _radiologically_ toxic.
as for the "toxic as botulism toxin", i call bullshit again. eat 1 mg of plutonium and 1 mg of botulism toxin and see who dies first.
but don't just take my word for it. try here.
Think about where tides come from. If you can stop _that_, then you're really on to something.
I'm curious what evidence you have that wind power 'screws with wind patterns'?
I wonder how much maintenance the turbines at eg glen canyon or hoover dam take then?
any multi-story building with large windows will kill birds. the total number of birds killed by windows vastly outnumbers the number of birds killed by windmills.
DLT and AIT are far more reliable than hard drives.
:-(
Unlike hard drives, I don't worry about losing all my data if I drop a DLT on the floor. You can practically run over the DLT cartridges with a tank and not worry about data loss.
DLT and AIT are specifically designed to last a long time and avoid tape wear.
You can pick up a 35gb DLT IV drive off ebay for ~250 and a stack of tapes for ~100. Turn off the built-in drive hardware compression, run your data through bzip2, and sleep soundly knowing your DLTs are far more reliable backup than any hard drive.
Don't trust your important data to DAT -- the rube goldberg tape mechanism means many munched tapes.
I dunno - perhaps the owners of that mental health site were worried their precious web pages would become dirtied by TCP/IP packets from Macedonians?
it certainly stops all the attacks originating from macedonian hosts.
... to make them to get off their lazy asses and start cleaning up their networks.
if you get spam from them, it's your problem, and they have zero incentive to do anything about it.
however, if their customers are suddenly unable to reach you, then it becomes their problem and voila, suddenly they have a reason to finally dump their abusive customers and clean up their networks.
blacklists are used because they work, and because they are the only things that do work. if network opterators werent so fucking lazy, there would be no need for blacklists.
it may delay whisker production, but it won't prevent it.
cohen offered to eat the same amount of plutonium as nader would eat caffeine.
f f. html
http://www.atomicinsights.com/may95/plutonium_e
unsuprisingly, nader never took him up on his challenge.
MHO, of course:
j pg
j pg
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA06093.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA06095.
That's why cassini passed through the huge empty gap between the F and G rings.
In the denser rings, baseball-sized ring particles are about a meter or so apart. Most ring particles are much smaller than that though.
This is why the cassini radio transmissions were so strongly attenuated when it passed behind them -- the rings are dense enough to do that. If the ring particles really were km's apart, there would be virtually zero attenuation of the radio signal.
Had cassini passed through a ring instead of a gap, the mission would have been shortened rather dramatically.
...they passed through the ring plane, in the huge gap between the F and G rings.
Passing through the rings themselves would likely have been disastrous.
Are you sure about that? An official windows XP advertisement from microsoft says 64 kilobytes! 256 kilobytes sounds too high.
(fingers in ears)
"la la la la la I can't hear yooooooou la la la la la la"
From a recent post on NANOG:
/etc/passwd file (this was hacked from me back in '95,'96). I was happy when the arrested him, he is a jerk. The ISP he ran has since been sold to another company, still local and run as an honest business.
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:35:54 -0400
From: Matthew Crocker
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'"
Subject: Re: E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible
I know Brad Councilman, This all happened in my back yard. He ran a competing ISP with me (www.valinet.com). Not only was he reading his customers e-mail and harvesting Amazon.com orders he also hacked into 4 of the local area ISPs. I still remember the day I received a call from the FBI office in Boston. 'Sir, you are not in trouble but we would like to talk to you about an important matter. I'll be out tomorrow, when will you have time?' He came in with a old copy of my
Sorry for the rant, I just wish he got more than a slap on the wrist. They didn't prosecute him on the hacking attempts because the e-mail theft was a bigger crime.
Grrrrr
-Matt
They live in the USA, they are american citizens. They just spam using servers in china to try to hide the true origin.
Very few spammers actually bother to move outside US borders. And even then, unless they officially renounce their citizenship, they are still US citizens and can still be deported + prosecuted -- no matter where in the world they may be.
The US courts can sieze their assets. Their house, their cars, their computers, etc. Ever wonder what all those government auctions are? Most of them are auctioning off siezed property from criminals. There is serious $$ there.
So yes, there's plenty the US courts can take from them, unless they're living underneath a bridge in a cardboard box.
...it worked like current bounty systems.
The police issue warrants for bail jumpers.
Bounty hunters get $$$ for bringing them in.
With a spam bounty system, it could work like this:
The feds put up 'info wanted' notices for specific spammers. It would eliminate the objections people have of vigilantes going after innocent legitimate marketers. The feds would be asking for information about specific spammers, much like the FBI's most wanted list.
You call in leads, the feds prosecute, you get $$$.
The idea here being that there are often people out on the internet who are far more skilled or have far better connections than law enforcement, in tracking down miscreants.
There are likely a lot more net-skilled individuals out there than there are law enforcement officials with good net skills.
Why not put that talent to use, a bounty is great incentive (besides the satisfaction of putting spammers out of business).
Pretty simple.
...they lied to you
I'm sure people said the same thing for color displays way back when.
Actually no, they didn't.
...but really, I dont see how it improves usability at all.
The video just confirmed my suspicions.
I mean really, rotating your windows upside down does anything for usability?
How does sticking notes to the back of windows help usability at all, when you can't see them without flipping each window around? How is this better than normal sticky/postitnotes applications?
There's still as much clutter as normal desktops -- actually more, the minimized windows take up more screen real estate than traditional minimized windows and they dont really convey any more information.
If there's anything truly practical and innovative about Sun's LG, its the use of opengl in the UI. Now that has some serious applications. The rest is just fluff.
Anyway, LG is very cute and all, but I think i'll pass.
Lieberfarb added billions of dollars to the company's value, says David Boise, his star lawyer, adding, "The question of how a company treats someone who has created that kind of value is interesting."
Not really. They didnt treat him any differently than they treat anyone else: with utter contempt.