I would be interested in finding out why you believe that violence among youth is at its lowest since the depression?
It appears that the worst problems schools had to face in the 1940s were talking out of turn, chewing gum, etc. Now the worst problems are rape, drugs, etc.
-Adam
Creed of the Engineer: Measure with micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with axe, hammer to fit, paint to match...
Anyone who honestly believes that violent games don't encourage violent tendencies is lying to themselves.
But one cannot say that video games alone are what is causing people to murder other people. It takes years of careless crafting by unloving parents to create a real killer. I suppose some people are more disposed to violence than others. In that case the video game can be the straw that breaks the camel's back, but the real problem in this society is that parents are not raising their children well.
Are you simply trying to reach a new audience by this change, or are you retargeting your entire operations to focus on this new audience? Was this the result of "Everyone else is doing it", or do you honestly believe that this isn't just a fad, that it will be the new paradigm?
Desktops and laptops are one thing, but the instant you want to make a 'pad' you run into the immutable wall of family life. Your pad needs to be as durable as the TV guide or remote control, if you want it to reside on your coffee table. People will sit on it, throw it around, bang it against tables/chairs/walls, set things on it, spill things on it, flex it, smother it (heat buildup), beat it, punch it, slam it, dunk it - within 2 weeks of getting it home. Not to mention trying to find it.
Of course we'll be careful with it, but unless the average consumer can use it, and let their kids bang on it, it isn't going to succeed. The average LCD screen simply won't stand up to everday use and abuse. Eventually some will enter the market, especially with transmeta, but they will be placed on high shelves, and not used as they were meant to be used.
If you study how companies design consumer appliances, you wonder why they seem to overbuild everything. If they didn't, everything would be returned in the 90 day period. WEBtv and other set-top boxes are a good start, but the remote and the keyboard are both easily lost, and the attention span of the consumer is too short to really go looking for it.
The next issue it battery size and weight. The LCD needs to be at least 5mm thick. Fitting all the electronics and battery around the edge, while feasible, is not practical, so the electronics go under the LCD. If you have everything custom made (down to the chip) then you perhaps might be able to make the electronics about 5mm thick. The shell needs to be another 5mm thick a least (not a very durable shell, either) so you end up with a 1.5cm thick web pad, not including the battery. Assuming we saved some space around the edges, you could probably fit a line of AAA size lithium-ion or NiMH batteries around the edge, but if you want decent power you'll end up with a custom flat pack, or AA size, either of which may increase the thickness of the pad. You now have a pad with low battery power, that weighs 1-3lb. This is too heavy to hold with one hand, using the other hand for input for long periods of time. Resting it against a knee or lap would work, but it would likely be at a less than ideal angle, and you get to deal with glare, wrist fatigue (ever tried taking notes on a notepad in your lap? You have to bend your wrist at an odd angle) etc.
This means it needs to be fast. The user doesn't want to wait to see the TV listings, nor wants to hold it while they wait. The wireless networking is going to be a bear, but it is necessary. Where does it connect to? The home computer? Now we need to assume a base station, which has a 56k modem in it, and 10baset. The modem for those who don't have computers and a network hookup, and the 10baset for those who do. And we need a charging stand of some sort.
So, what we have now is a flat base station, which mounts on the wall like a telephone, and which the pad can be placed into for charging, and use on the wall. The pad is about 2cm thick, and weighs about 2lb. We made it thicker, and are using a plastic which is *very* stiff, but not brittle, and cover the LCD with a clear, similar plastic and a touchscreen. As long as the consumer doesn't give it any sharp impacts (elbow to the screen, bang it against a corner, etc) then it will last for awhile. Between all of the design, manufacturing and other costs, this pad now costs $800, just twice as much as a new high-end palm or visor. We'll toss in a $400 dollar discount for those who signup with a 3 year contract to our internet service.
While this is reasonable, it would still take.5-1.5 years to develop, and we still don't believe consumers will buy it. EVERYTHING is custom. We aren't adapting another platform to this, there isn't anything that fits. We can use the crusoe, but it is untested, and even working closely with transmeta it still takes forever to get a bug or issue fixed. On a new platform this will take forever.
So, in short, we don't have pads because of durability, battery, and design reasons.
-Adam
"Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom" - Plato
Well, I would like co-location, except the cost is so high. All I really want to buy is the bandwidth, electricity, and maybe 3 free incidents per month where one of your techs touches my box (reset, put in a floppy and reboot, disconnect the box and reconnect a replacement in its place, etc), and DNS service. I would end up configuring, testing, and sending my own box. I would like free physical access to my box during regular business hours, if needed.
Since the only thing you would have to monitor is the network connection and power, and my box would take up little space, I feel that you could offer some/very/ inexpensive services. But with DSL and cable modems going down to $40/mo, can you offer co-location with 1Mb/s for that little?
-Adam
If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... ...oh wait, he does.
I doubt they'll crash it when the millenium project is done. Many projects, such as this, get swiped by someone else who needs them. Some researcher, right now, is contacting NASA saying, "Hey, I've got this great project which can use your ship. I know it's only 30% functional, but that is acceptable to me, and the gov't will fund my project if I can bring the cost down. By using your ship instead of sending a new one, I'm shaving 10 years and 100 million off my project."
In fact, many researchers are sending their proposals in all the time for space equiment which is nearing its life cycle. This is how it works in that industry. Who knows, we may even sell it to another country who doesn't have the ability to send stuff into space.
-Adam
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein
So what, technically, is there preventing me from putting a DNS server on the internet, and encouraging others to add it to their list of DNS servers (after their regular servers, that way I'm not taking over any domains). I could add any TLD I like, and I could probably convince quite a crowd to add my server. I understand this has been tried before, did it die out because of lack of use?
A friend of mine is involved in the project putting up reflectors in farm fields at known locations and heights to calibrate this system(using a $60,000 military survey GPS system). The resolution is amazing at 1 meter square, and a height resolution if 30cm!! (just under a foot)
A big part of this project is for he military; you will never seen a large portion of the high resolution data as, in theory, it can be used by armies to find good encampment places, bluffs, etc. Currently USGS data surveys have a resolution of 1km x 1km with a height accuracy of around 5 meters, so this is a huge improvement.
-Adam
J. Willard Marriott Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
We would need to form an organization (anyone got itsy.org?) and then declare that it's memebers are all researching itsy. We can then trade resources, code and info back and forth and still be within their agreement.
Or we can just go it alone, and start from scratch with a totally open solution...
I have my preferences set up NOT to see jonkatz articles, and have been enjoying Slashdot ever since... And this pops up!?
My personal diatribe against JonKatz:
I find JonKatz articles and writings to be sickeningly sensationalist, blatantly boring, and outrageously outlandish. It is as though he picks the most mundane of subjects, and stares at a wall until he thinks of some way this affects society in a negative way. In this instance he looks to the internet two, and wonders what it will be like since it obviously is going to be defined by programmers. He then goes on to imagine that this is somehow different than the way the original internet started. They are starting essentially the same way with one major difference: Now they know what the net is actually being used for and what people want with it. Please, jon. The 'new internet' isn't going to make more homeless people, it won't cause people to lose their jobs, or rights, and it isn't going to be any less open than the current internet.
-Adam
Don't take this personally, there are lots of people in the world like you, and I ignore them too.
The intel line is a 32 bit max line... Crusoe is a 128bit
This means you could compare (roughly) a PIII 800 with a TM5400 200.
BONUS! I just got on the transmeta web site!!
-Adam
All power corrupts, but we need electricity...
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I would read it with the following thoughts in the back of my mind: "What do they want? How do they want to use the medium (internet) to their advantage? What do they see as a threat and how does all of this influence their views?" Whatever you do, consider the source of your information and the biases (sp?) this (source) introduces.
Hey, here's an idea, instead of reading a book (any book) just to try and find the author's motives, how about you read a book in order to learn? It's given that you might not find anything of use in a particular book, but even the book which represents the antithesis of your life/values/morals very likely has a nugget or two of wisdom which is useful to you, and could be applied to your life/values/morals without changing any of them..
This is not to say that you should accept ideas blindly, but you are closing your mind when you look at a book through your own filter. Pretty soon your filter becomes as censorous (ie, traitorous censor) as those censors you despise.
-Adam
Employee Review: This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
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Nice idea, but isn't responding directly to the spammer just confirming to them that your address works and thus making it more likely that you'll receive something in the future?
It does confirm that my email address works, and that I read my email. It also confirms that as the systems administrator of this small company I will take the time to persue them and their service provider if they do not stop sending me spam.
I've found that it slows the spam down quite a bit, especially with those who do not forge their headers. Many of the spammers today do it out of shear ignorance and stupidity... They get spam from 'direct marketters with over x million email addresses for only $49.95, with free bulk email processing software!!!' and don't really understand what it really is, or think that spam is just a 'way of life' on the internet. Hopefully my email helps them understand the bad nature of spam.
Those people who are die-hard spammers will forge their headers, and already know whether my email address is active or not, it's easy to find out through various other methods.
-Adam
Illiterate? Write today for free help.
This standard message seems to work well...
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When I have time I send the following message to: The person spamming, The domain the person belongs to at abuse/webmaster/hostmaster, And the domain who hosts their DNS servers at hostmaster/abuse/webmaster.
To whom it may concern:
I will not support any organization or person who sends me unsolicited email, nor will I support any organization which allows its users to do so.
**UPSTREAM PROVIDER**: The user at **DOMAIN** has sent unsolicited mail. According to your policy (**UPPOLICY**) this is not permitted on your servers. I am requesting that you re-iterate this policy to the following user. The email in question is included inline at the bottom of this email.
**DOMAIN**: This is your notice to remove the following email addresses from any list, database, or any storage method or medium under your control; and is intended to inform you that any further unsolicited email from you or anyone at your domain will be considered misuse of our email servers and associated computer equipment. If you received this email from a third party please indicated to them that they are to remove the following email addresses as well.
Any email address under the domain MYDOMAIN.COM
Thank you for your time.
-M. Adam Davis Systems Administrator MYCOMPANY
The full header of the message is available upon request.
After this kind of message is sent to two or three spammers, my incoming spam slows down for about a week.
Of course it doesn't work if they forge their headers, but if it's particularily annoying then I'll generally track them down using the header info that is left.
-Adam
The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will. Marvin J. Ashton
There are always a few addresses you can use...
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I suppose that those who host their DNS info really don't have anything to do with it, but it might be a reminder for them to know who their customers *really* are if we sent a *very* polite email referencing this article, and asking what their opinion of their customer's actions are... DNS Servers: NAME.ROC.FRONTIERNET.NET NAME.PHX.FRONTIERNET.NET NS1.IDEALAB.COM NS2.IDEALAB.COM
PLEASE be nice in any and all communications with anyone! (Man, I wish I didn't have to say that!) We can be nice and still express displeasure in someone's actions.
-Adam
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" - Napoleon Bonaparte.
Sorry, but every time John prints something it seems to consist of regurgitated and compiled slashdot comments. He probably reads all the comments the previous story on this subject, then feeds it back to us (with a few thoughts of his own).
Of course many of us like it, it is what we said two days ago!
Every article from him starts off by saying (in essence): This is what the media believes on this subject, but they are completely off target, my opinion is, of course, right on target and really at the heart of the matter.
-Adam
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
I was under the impression that network solutions disallowed single letter domain names. Is x.org grandfathered in as an older domain, or are there certian exceptions to the rule?
-Adam
Best ways to cut a meeting short, #3: Your wife is on line 1, your girlfriend is on line 2. Should I just let them talk to each other while they wait for your meeting to finish? -- TweetyBert
Yes, this was on all the major networks (paper, tv, internet, etc) over a year ago.
It's still cool though, and I for one would like an update. Anyone wanna send this professor guy some email and have him interviewed for slashdot?
Sample questions: How do you think script kiddies will use this new techbiology? Beowolf? Like, when can we 'jack in' to our computers, dude? Like, cause this is cool and I can become more of a couch potato, so, like, what? Next month?
After taking all this in, and absorbing the ideas presented here, I honestly feel a synthesis of ides like what follows is not only what would be best, but what probably will happen:
First of all, break the OS from Office. Secondly, force them to open the API, form an industry standards organization around it that includes many members of other OS companies, and make the MS OS group stick with those standards for at least one to two years so they see the competition.
This will do a few things: suddenly the office group will have to work a bit harder to keep their software in sync with the standards organizations, which would keep them busy enough to introduce a few more competitors in the arena which they could compete with. The OS group would have to work much harder on opening the API and then making their OS conform with the standard, leaving quite a bit of time for others to rise in this area, especially those poised to do so (WINE, OS/2, etc).
The downside being that they both would end up in a non-innovation mode for a few years while they regroup. But they would catch up because they would have reasons to run much faster than they have before, and to be bug-free more than they have been in the past.
-Adam
Aesop: The fox, chided for failing to catch a rabbit, said "I was only running for my dinner. The hare was running for his life."
I'm curious to know how many cyberlegs were sold just now because of the plug and link to their site... Hmmm... How do I get slashdot to mention my site? I promise I'll make it un-slashdottable!
The correct answer for #11 is that you would need safe unforgeable identities with strong encryption. Once others with similar boxes found out you were doing well (because you can follow instrustions on basic survival and medical care, and they are lazy and want to eat to fruits of your labor) you will need to have digital protection. DUH!
-Adam
J. Willard Marriott Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
Outside of the privacy of your own home, you can not change your environment without changing mine as well.
I understand that nearly everything I do and don't do affect you in some way or another. But the point I was making in that paragraph still stands true:
When we are sufficiently distanced (physically, socially, politically, culturally, etc) then the changes I make in my environment, be they large or small, will not affect you very much (almost insignificantly).
For instance, there is a small island in polynesia which has its own society and governing system. Should they choose to limit the availability of microsoft product, given that it is an island of under 200 people, it will have an insignificant effect on you and your environment.
So little, in fact, that you would have little reason to try and change their environment. We can assume that if they choose to change their environment in a way that crosses boundaries (physical, social, political, cultural or other) then it will affect other's environments. This is the case when you state, "burning toxic waste in your fireplace does affect your neighbors."
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I would be interested in finding out why you believe that violence among youth is at its lowest since the depression?
It appears that the worst problems schools had to face in the 1940s were talking out of turn, chewing gum, etc. Now the worst problems are rape, drugs, etc.
-Adam
Creed of the Engineer:
Measure with micrometer,
mark with chalk,
cut with axe,
hammer to fit,
paint to match...
Anyone who honestly believes that violent games don't encourage violent tendencies is lying to themselves.
But one cannot say that video games alone are what is causing people to murder other people. It takes years of careless crafting by unloving parents to create a real killer. I suppose some people are more disposed to violence than others. In that case the video game can be the straw that breaks the camel's back, but the real problem in this society is that parents are not raising their children well.
See more of my views here: Who is Raising Our Children?
-Adam
What's done to children, they will do to society.
Are you simply trying to reach a new audience by this change, or are you retargeting your entire operations to focus on this new audience? Was this the result of "Everyone else is doing it", or do you honestly believe that this isn't just a fad, that it will be the new paradigm?
-Adam
Desktops and laptops are one thing, but the instant you want to make a 'pad' you run into the immutable wall of family life. Your pad needs to be as durable as the TV guide or remote control, if you want it to reside on your coffee table. People will sit on it, throw it around, bang it against tables/chairs/walls, set things on it, spill things on it, flex it, smother it (heat buildup), beat it, punch it, slam it, dunk it - within 2 weeks of getting it home. Not to mention trying to find it.
.5-1.5 years to develop, and we still don't believe consumers will buy it. EVERYTHING is custom. We aren't adapting another platform to this, there isn't anything that fits. We can use the crusoe, but it is untested, and even working closely with transmeta it still takes forever to get a bug or issue fixed. On a new platform this will take forever.
Of course we'll be careful with it, but unless the average consumer can use it, and let their kids bang on it, it isn't going to succeed. The average LCD screen simply won't stand up to everday use and abuse. Eventually some will enter the market, especially with transmeta, but they will be placed on high shelves, and not used as they were meant to be used.
If you study how companies design consumer appliances, you wonder why they seem to overbuild everything. If they didn't, everything would be returned in the 90 day period. WEBtv and other set-top boxes are a good start, but the remote and the keyboard are both easily lost, and the attention span of the consumer is too short to really go looking for it.
The next issue it battery size and weight. The LCD needs to be at least 5mm thick. Fitting all the electronics and battery around the edge, while feasible, is not practical, so the electronics go under the LCD. If you have everything custom made (down to the chip) then you perhaps might be able to make the electronics about 5mm thick. The shell needs to be another 5mm thick a least (not a very durable shell, either) so you end up with a 1.5cm thick web pad, not including the battery. Assuming we saved some space around the edges, you could probably fit a line of AAA size lithium-ion or NiMH batteries around the edge, but if you want decent power you'll end up with a custom flat pack, or AA size, either of which may increase the thickness of the pad. You now have a pad with low battery power, that weighs 1-3lb. This is too heavy to hold with one hand, using the other hand for input for long periods of time. Resting it against a knee or lap would work, but it would likely be at a less than ideal angle, and you get to deal with glare, wrist fatigue (ever tried taking notes on a notepad in your lap? You have to bend your wrist at an odd angle) etc.
This means it needs to be fast. The user doesn't want to wait to see the TV listings, nor wants to hold it while they wait. The wireless networking is going to be a bear, but it is necessary. Where does it connect to? The home computer? Now we need to assume a base station, which has a 56k modem in it, and 10baset. The modem for those who don't have computers and a network hookup, and the 10baset for those who do. And we need a charging stand of some sort.
So, what we have now is a flat base station, which mounts on the wall like a telephone, and which the pad can be placed into for charging, and use on the wall. The pad is about 2cm thick, and weighs about 2lb. We made it thicker, and are using a plastic which is *very* stiff, but not brittle, and cover the LCD with a clear, similar plastic and a touchscreen. As long as the consumer doesn't give it any sharp impacts (elbow to the screen, bang it against a corner, etc) then it will last for awhile. Between all of the design, manufacturing and other costs, this pad now costs $800, just twice as much as a new high-end palm or visor. We'll toss in a $400 dollar discount for those who signup with a 3 year contract to our internet service.
While this is reasonable, it would still take
So, in short, we don't have pads because of durability, battery, and design reasons.
-Adam
"Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom" - Plato
Well, I would like co-location, except the cost is so high. All I really want to buy is the bandwidth, electricity, and maybe 3 free incidents per month where one of your techs touches my box (reset, put in a floppy and reboot, disconnect the box and reconnect a replacement in its place, etc), and DNS service. I would end up configuring, testing, and sending my own box. I would like free physical access to my box during regular business hours, if needed.
/very/ inexpensive services. But with DSL and cable modems going down to $40/mo, can you offer co-location with 1Mb/s for that little?
...oh wait, he does.
Since the only thing you would have to monitor is the network connection and power, and my box would take up little space, I feel that you could offer some
-Adam
If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
I've not experienced any of the slow down you seem to be mentioning.
I'm on a PII 300, 96MB RAM and win98 (first release)
-Adam
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Well, a nice side effect of finally releasing 1GHz processors is the next step will be in .1 GHz increments, instead of 33 & 50 MHz increments.
I can't wait for 1.5GHz chips. By that time all these 600MHz chips will be dirt cheap.
-Adam
"Consider the two levers for moving men - interest and fear" - Napoleon
I doubt they'll crash it when the millenium project is done. Many projects, such as this, get swiped by someone else who needs them. Some researcher, right now, is contacting NASA saying, "Hey, I've got this great project which can use your ship. I know it's only 30% functional, but that is acceptable to me, and the gov't will fund my project if I can bring the cost down. By using your ship instead of sending a new one, I'm shaving 10 years and 100 million off my project."
In fact, many researchers are sending their proposals in all the time for space equiment which is nearing its life cycle. This is how it works in that industry. Who knows, we may even sell it to another country who doesn't have the ability to send stuff into space.
-Adam
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein
So what, technically, is there preventing me from putting a DNS server on the internet, and encouraging others to add it to their list of DNS servers (after their regular servers, that way I'm not taking over any domains). I could add any TLD I like, and I could probably convince quite a crowd to add my server. I understand this has been tried before, did it die out because of lack of use?
-Adam
Every vision has a provision for revision
A friend of mine is involved in the project putting up reflectors in farm fields at known locations and heights to calibrate this system(using a $60,000 military survey GPS system). The resolution is amazing at 1 meter square, and a height resolution if 30cm!! (just under a foot)
A big part of this project is for he military; you will never seen a large portion of the high resolution data as, in theory, it can be used by armies to find good encampment places, bluffs, etc. Currently USGS data surveys have a resolution of 1km x 1km with a height accuracy of around 5 meters, so this is a huge improvement.
-Adam
J. Willard Marriott
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
We would need to form an organization (anyone got itsy.org?) and then declare that it's memebers are all researching itsy. We can then trade resources, code and info back and forth and still be within their agreement.
Or we can just go it alone, and start from scratch with a totally open solution...
-Adam
CPU time is cheaper than programmer time.
I have my preferences set up NOT to see jonkatz articles, and have been enjoying Slashdot ever since... And this pops up!?
My personal diatribe against JonKatz:
I find JonKatz articles and writings to be sickeningly sensationalist, blatantly boring, and outrageously outlandish. It is as though he picks the most mundane of subjects, and stares at a wall until he thinks of some way this affects society in a negative way.
In this instance he looks to the internet two, and wonders what it will be like since it obviously is going to be defined by programmers. He then goes on to imagine that this is somehow different than the way the original internet started.
They are starting essentially the same way with one major difference: Now they know what the net is actually being used for and what people want with it.
Please, jon. The 'new internet' isn't going to make more homeless people, it won't cause people to lose their jobs, or rights, and it isn't going to be any less open than the current internet.
-Adam
Don't take this personally, there are lots of people in the world like you, and I ignore them too.
Well, as a little peep at the capabilities:
The intel line is a 32 bit max line...
Crusoe is a 128bit
This means you could compare (roughly) a PIII 800 with a TM5400 200.
BONUS! I just got on the transmeta web site!!
-Adam
All power corrupts, but we need electricity...
I would read it with the following thoughts in the back of my mind: "What do they want? How do they want to use the medium (internet) to their advantage? What do they see as a threat and how does all of this influence their views?" Whatever you do, consider the source of your information and the biases (sp?) this (source) introduces.
Hey, here's an idea, instead of reading a book (any book) just to try and find the author's motives, how about you read a book in order to learn? It's given that you might not find anything of use in a particular book, but even the book which represents the antithesis of your life/values/morals very likely has a nugget or two of wisdom which is useful to you, and could be applied to your life/values/morals without changing any of them..
This is not to say that you should accept ideas blindly, but you are closing your mind when you look at a book through your own filter. Pretty soon your filter becomes as censorous (ie, traitorous censor) as those censors you despise.
-Adam
Employee Review:
This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
Nice idea, but isn't responding directly to the spammer just confirming to them that your address works and thus making it more likely that you'll receive something in the future?
It does confirm that my email address works, and that I read my email. It also confirms that as the systems administrator of this small company I will take the time to persue them and their service provider if they do not stop sending me spam.
I've found that it slows the spam down quite a bit, especially with those who do not forge their headers. Many of the spammers today do it out of shear ignorance and stupidity... They get spam from 'direct marketters with over x million email addresses for only $49.95, with free bulk email processing software!!!' and don't really understand what it really is, or think that spam is just a 'way of life' on the internet. Hopefully my email helps them understand the bad nature of spam.
Those people who are die-hard spammers will forge their headers, and already know whether my email address is active or not, it's easy to find out through various other methods.
-Adam
Illiterate? Write today for free help.
When I have time I send the following message to:
The person spamming,
The domain the person belongs to at abuse/webmaster/hostmaster,
And the domain who hosts their DNS servers at hostmaster/abuse/webmaster.
To whom it may concern:
I will not support any organization or person who sends me unsolicited email, nor will I support any organization which allows its users to do so.
**UPSTREAM PROVIDER**:
The user at **DOMAIN** has sent unsolicited mail. According to your policy (**UPPOLICY**) this is not permitted on your servers. I am requesting that you re-iterate this policy to the following user. The email in question is included inline at the bottom of this email.
**DOMAIN**:
This is your notice to remove the following email addresses from any list, database, or any storage method or medium under your control; and is intended to inform you that any further unsolicited email from you or anyone at your domain will be considered misuse of our email servers and associated computer equipment. If you received this email from a third party please indicated to them that they are to remove the following email addresses as well.
Any email address under the domain MYDOMAIN.COM
Thank you for your time.
-M. Adam Davis
Systems Administrator
MYCOMPANY
The full header of the message is available upon request.
After this kind of message is sent to two or three spammers, my incoming spam slows down for about a week.
Of course it doesn't work if they forge their headers, but if it's particularily annoying then I'll generally track them down using the header info that is left.
-Adam
The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.
Marvin J. Ashton
There are always a few addresses you can use...
admin@etoys.com
abuse@etoys.com
sales@etoys.com
legal@etoys.com
webmaster@etoys.com
hostmaster@etoys.com
And, of course, they would be more impressed if we snail-mailed them and *gasp* called them or faxed them:
eToys
3100 Ocean Park Blvd., Suite 300
Santa Monica, CA 90405
US
Administrative Contact:
- Admin, eToys
- admin@ETOYS.COM
- (310) 664-8100 Voice
- (310) 664-8101 Fax
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
- eToys HostMaster
- hostmaster@ETOYS.COM
- (310) 664-8100 Voice
- (310) 664-8101 Fax
Billing Contact:
- Admin, eToys
- admin@ETOYS.COM
- (310) 664-8100 Voice
- (310) 664-8101 Fax
I suppose that those who host their DNS info really don't have anything to do with it, but it might be a reminder for them to know who their customers *really* are if we sent a *very* polite email referencing this article, and asking what their opinion of their customer's actions are...
DNS Servers:
NAME.ROC.FRONTIERNET.NET
NAME.PHX.FRONTIERNET.NET
NS1.IDEALAB.COM
NS2.IDEALAB.COM
PLEASE be nice in any and all communications with anyone! (Man, I wish I didn't have to say that!) We can be nice and still express displeasure in someone's actions.
-Adam
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" - Napoleon Bonaparte.
Sorry, but every time John prints something it seems to consist of regurgitated and compiled slashdot comments. He probably reads all the comments the previous story on this subject, then feeds it back to us (with a few thoughts of his own).
Of course many of us like it, it is what we said two days ago!
Every article from him starts off by saying (in essence): This is what the media believes on this subject, but they are completely off target, my opinion is, of course, right on target and really at the heart of the matter.
-Adam
"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
I was under the impression that network solutions disallowed single letter domain names. Is x.org grandfathered in as an older domain, or are there certian exceptions to the rule?
-Adam
Best ways to cut a meeting short, #3:
Your wife is on line 1, your girlfriend is on line 2. Should I just let them talk to each other while they wait for your meeting to finish?
-- TweetyBert
Yes, this was on all the major networks (paper, tv, internet, etc) over a year ago.
It's still cool though, and I for one would like an update. Anyone wanna send this professor guy some email and have him interviewed for slashdot?
Sample questions:
How do you think script kiddies will use this new techbiology?
Beowolf?
Like, when can we 'jack in' to our computers, dude? Like, cause this is cool and I can become more of a couch potato, so, like, what? Next month?
-Adam
One seldom sees a monument to a comittee.
After taking all this in, and absorbing the ideas presented here, I honestly feel a synthesis of ides like what follows is not only what would be best, but what probably will happen:
First of all, break the OS from Office.
Secondly, force them to open the API, form an industry standards organization around it that includes many members of other OS companies, and make the MS OS group stick with those standards for at least one to two years so they see the competition.
This will do a few things: suddenly the office group will have to work a bit harder to keep their software in sync with the standards organizations, which would keep them busy enough to introduce a few more competitors in the arena which they could compete with. The OS group would have to work much harder on opening the API and then making their OS conform with the standard, leaving quite a bit of time for others to rise in this area, especially those poised to do so (WINE, OS/2, etc).
The downside being that they both would end up in a non-innovation mode for a few years while they regroup. But they would catch up because they would have reasons to run much faster than they have before, and to be bug-free more than they have been in the past.
-Adam
Aesop: The fox, chided for failing to catch a rabbit, said
"I was only running for my dinner. The hare was running for his life."
I'm curious to know how many cyberlegs were sold just now because of the plug and link to their site... Hmmm... How do I get slashdot to mention my site? I promise I'll make it un-slashdottable!
-Adam
The beatings will continue until moral improves.
The correct answer for #11 is that you would need safe unforgeable identities with strong encryption. Once others with similar boxes found out you were doing well (because you can follow instrustions on basic survival and medical care, and they are lazy and want to eat to fruits of your labor) you will need to have digital protection. DUH!
-Adam
J. Willard Marriott Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
It really puts a few things into perspective.
-Adam
This sig goes live 11-NOV-99. Stay Tuned!
I understand that nearly everything I do and don't do affect you in some way or another. But the point I was making in that paragraph still stands true:
For instance, there is a small island in polynesia which has its own society and governing system. Should they choose to limit the availability of microsoft product, given that it is an island of under 200 people, it will have an insignificant effect on you and your environment.
So little, in fact, that you would have little reason to try and change their environment. We can assume that if they choose to change their environment in a way that crosses boundaries (physical, social, political, cultural or other) then it will affect other's environments. This is the case when you state, "burning toxic waste in your fireplace does affect your neighbors."
-Adam