If you'r buying a Lindows box with the intention of runing XP, you either already own XP or plan to pirate it.
Or you read that with a Lindows box, you can get XP for $50 rather than $200. Assuming that Lindows costs less than $150, this is an extremely good deal! Looks like a good way to get Windows users to try out Linux;-)
I wouldn't imagine spam email address harvesters respecting an unenforced point of etiquette.
That's the point. Near the top of your mainpage you put an invisible link to a canary trap page (<a href="canary.cgi"></a> ), and you also put it into your robots.txt. As soon as a client fetches canary.cgi you blacklist him, preventing him thus to reach the email.html link that's later in the page...
The trick is that no legitimate viewer ever gets to the script:
human readers don't see the link (remember, there's nothing between the a tags)
legitimate spiders (search engines, etc.) won't go there, since it's listed in robot.txt
==> result: only spammers fetch the page, no false positives.
The spam indestry is pritty much completly illegal, so i really don't see how anything suggested thus far will help.
Yes, it is illegal, but most people (district attorneys included) only consider it as a mere annoyance, rather than a serious crime. Thus, no DA is committing serious resources to tracking down a spammer.
Now tack some "it's all about the kids" phrase on it, and suddenly it becomes much more important to enforce the law. So, yes, a law forbidding to send porn spam to minors would be a good thing, because that law might actually be enforced.
I think he means: "Included in the price of the room", not "free".
This is a "test" room, and as such not more expensive than a "normal" Hilton room. Hilton gets valuable feedback from guests who stay in this room, so that they can take the appropriate decisions to design the real rooms in their new hotels a couple of years from now (of course, at that time, you probably won't find all the features united in one room... and if there will be broadband, it will probably cost)
When something like a worm relies primarly on user stupidity to spread, it will hit stupid people, regardless of what software they use.
Yes, but stoopid people are too stoopid to run Mozilla. So, writing a virus target at Mozilla would be a loss of time (because most of its users wouldn't click on the attachment anyways), which means that if you run Mozilla, you are safer.
I once took some monitors from a skip and someone said "better check with the owners".
Given the high price of recycling old CRT monitors, I'd think you'd only need to check with the owners if you left a couple more, rather than taking some;-)
where people started claiming their unborn children on tax returns for the year where they were in the womb, and female prisoners claiming that their unborn children were unlawfully imprisoned because the mother was?
Actually, such an argument has been made in all seriousness in the Laci Peterson case. Scott was indicted for double murder, one cound for Laci, and the other for their unborn child!
Ok, so the laptop still gets stolen. The thief never turns it on. He sells it to the hock shop (after maybe removing the sticker). The hock shop never notices that it may be unsellable merchandise, as the sticker is now gone, and they don't have any more technical experience than the thief either. The hock shop in turn sells it to an "unsuspecting" who'll get screwed in the end.
Customer (who wasn't really so unsuspecting, the deal having been to good to be true...) prefers to throw it into the trash, rather than raising a fuss.
I'm just happy that pointy-head metric zealots don't seem to have much pull in the real world of regular people. Keep on ranting, dudes.
Yeah, those pointy-head metrics are even worse than the jackass penguins. Real patriots use Windows, measure their dick in inches, have a cellphone running CDMA, fill up at Exxon, and do their yearly pilgrimage to Disney World. Everybody else is just a terrorist.
In real life, I run a movie theatre. When I'm selling tickets and it gets close to showtime, I have people walking in, literally throwing a wadded-up bill at me, and continuing right on into the theatre without ever stopping. And the next twenty or thirty or fifty guys behind them do exactly the same thing. Stop and check each bill for anything?
In that kind of situation, why even bother with counterfeiting. Just throw a 1$ bill instead of a 5$, and by the time the clerk notices, you're already too far away to do anything about it...
Next time throw in RIAA and Microsoft for real fun!
Actually, the site does indeed run asp. I wonder how much time until it gets hacked (must have a nice Sequelserver database behind it. Yum, single quotes!).
On a side note, I don't now if they have followed through on this or not but the original plan was to have no toilets on site as well! Keeping the toilets cleaned and maintained put the costs up too much!
But cleaning the toilets is still cheaper than cleaning the floors or the seats. Ewww!;-)
The exhibition took place in 2001, but many of the cows still exist today (they were merely moved to different places, where they are still publically visible).
A number of viruses disguise themselves as resumes. Does this law also force companies to keep those? Do companies still have the right to disinfect these mails?
Now, I really wonder how many of these so-called South Korea attacks where really originatin from there, rather than just using an open proxy located in South Korea. Personnally, whenever I go after an annoying spammer's broken.asp scripts, I always use a proxy (or several of them, chained together). And South Korea just has so much choice there. Russia has quite a number of open proxies as well, and makes for a quite convincing point of origin too!
After all cops are pointing their instruments at me every day, recording my speed as evidence for potential tickets, without reason or supeona. whats the difference if the vehicles turns that over, or if they contnue constantly monitoring speed manually as they do today.
The difference? Usually it doesn't really happen every day, but only very occasionnally. They only catch you if you speed at that very moment. If you know the hot spots (cops often tend to set up their speed traps at the same places...), or if you have sharp enough eyes to spot the cruiser in a distance, or if a friendly fellow driver warned you with his headlights, you'll be able to slow down in time. Like lottery, it's a tax on the stupid;-)
However, if the cops have the possibility to look at your driving history of the last 30 days, it becomes much harder to avoid that ticket. Unless you never ever speed...
And just let's hope that they won't be able fine you for each time you sped during the last month. Or else: 50 speeding offences recorded = 50 times the price of a normal speeding ticket!
For crying out loud, if someone is speeding and causes an accident, they deserve to get stiffed by the law because they are a dangerous, arrogant, son-of-a-bitch.
Apparently, you didn't read Sean's comment til the end. While it is ok to use the data to find out the cause of an actual accident, it's definately over the top for cops to download it routenly on random traffic stops.
Having a box that records five seconds worth of data is not a problem.
Nowadays, the boxes do indeed only record a very limited amount of data, but who says that storage capacity won't go up in the next couple of years. In 5 years from now, storing 30 days of data will definately be economically feasible, and that prospect is quite worrysome!
don't you have 'no claims bonuses' in your part of the world?
Yes, but that's quite different. These are based on your actual accident history, and not on how somebody thinks that you drive dangerously because you drive fast.
Some people are better drivers than others, and can afford to drive faster. Their accident-free driving history proves it, and allows them to get lower premiums. If insurance companies start basing their premiums in what accidents you might get into, rather than those that you really had, we get into trouble.
I know that on some states (maybe all) you have to declare if the milage is accurate on the title when you transfer ownership.
What if the mileage is inaccurate unintentionnally? Suppose you have a garage entrance with a ramp that is too steep. You mount larger tyres on your car to avoid bumping into the ramp when entering/leaving the garage. As the odometer basically counts rotations of wheels, it will record a mileage that is too small (because the wheels are larger than expected).
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Or you read that with a Lindows box, you can get XP for $50 rather than $200. Assuming that Lindows costs less than $150, this is an extremely good deal! Looks like a good way to get Windows users to try out Linux ;-)
That's the point. Near the top of your mainpage you put an invisible link to a canary trap page (<a href="canary.cgi"></a> ), and you also put it into your robots.txt. As soon as a client fetches canary.cgi you blacklist him, preventing him thus to reach the email.html link that's later in the page...
The trick is that no legitimate viewer ever gets to the script:
- human readers don't see the link (remember, there's nothing between the a tags)
- legitimate spiders (search engines, etc.) won't go there, since it's listed in robot.txt
==> result: only spammers fetch the page, no false positives.Yes, it is illegal, but most people (district attorneys included) only consider it as a mere annoyance, rather than a serious crime. Thus, no DA is committing serious resources to tracking down a spammer.
Now tack some "it's all about the kids" phrase on it, and suddenly it becomes much more important to enforce the law. So, yes, a law forbidding to send porn spam to minors would be a good thing, because that law might actually be enforced.
This is a "test" room, and as such not more expensive than a "normal" Hilton room. Hilton gets valuable feedback from guests who stay in this room, so that they can take the appropriate decisions to design the real rooms in their new hotels a couple of years from now (of course, at that time, you probably won't find all the features united in one room... and if there will be broadband, it will probably cost)
Now, if only you could change that into Re:Mozilla displacing IE?...
Well that excuse sure enough doesn't work with the SEC...
Yes, but stoopid people are too stoopid to run Mozilla. So, writing a virus target at Mozilla would be a loss of time (because most of its users wouldn't click on the attachment anyways), which means that if you run Mozilla, you are safer.
Given the high price of recycling old CRT monitors, I'd think you'd only need to check with the owners if you left a couple more, rather than taking some ;-)
Actually, such an argument has been made in all seriousness in the Laci Peterson case. Scott was indicted for double murder, one cound for Laci, and the other for their unborn child!
Frist Psot?
You, Sir, are a moron
There is a new European law reducing the size of a "Humpen" (beer) from 33cl to 30cl. This also has caused some stir.
Result: same number of laptops stolen
Yeah, those pointy-head metrics are even worse than the jackass penguins. Real patriots use Windows, measure their dick in inches, have a cellphone running CDMA, fill up at Exxon, and do their yearly pilgrimage to Disney World. Everybody else is just a terrorist.
In that kind of situation, why even bother with counterfeiting. Just throw a 1$ bill instead of a 5$, and by the time the clerk notices, you're already too far away to do anything about it...
Actually, the site does indeed run asp. I wonder how much time until it gets hacked (must have a nice Sequelserver database behind it. Yum, single quotes!).
Also, some of their FAQs are quite fun.
But cleaning the toilets is still cheaper than cleaning the floors or the seats. Ewww! ;-)
- Zurich (Switzerland)
- Chicago
- Luxembourg
The exhibition took place in 2001, but many of the cows still exist today (they were merely moved to different places, where they are still publically visible).Isn't it illegal to mod down trolls that are employment ads? Especially in this economy!
A number of viruses disguise themselves as resumes. Does this law also force companies to keep those? Do companies still have the right to disinfect these mails?
Especially not electronic books!
Now, I really wonder how many of these so-called South Korea attacks where really originatin from there, rather than just using an open proxy located in South Korea. Personnally, whenever I go after an annoying spammer's broken .asp scripts, I always use a proxy (or several of them, chained together). And South Korea just has so much choice there. Russia has quite a number of open proxies as well, and makes for a quite convincing point of origin too!
The difference? Usually it doesn't really happen every day, but only very occasionnally. They only catch you if you speed at that very moment. If you know the hot spots (cops often tend to set up their speed traps at the same places...), or if you have sharp enough eyes to spot the cruiser in a distance, or if a friendly fellow driver warned you with his headlights, you'll be able to slow down in time. Like lottery, it's a tax on the stupid ;-)
However, if the cops have the possibility to look at your driving history of the last 30 days, it becomes much harder to avoid that ticket. Unless you never ever speed...
And just let's hope that they won't be able fine you for each time you sped during the last month. Or else: 50 speeding offences recorded = 50 times the price of a normal speeding ticket!
Apparently, you didn't read Sean's comment til the end. While it is ok to use the data to find out the cause of an actual accident, it's definately over the top for cops to download it routenly on random traffic stops.
Having a box that records five seconds worth of data is not a problem.
Nowadays, the boxes do indeed only record a very limited amount of data, but who says that storage capacity won't go up in the next couple of years. In 5 years from now, storing 30 days of data will definately be economically feasible, and that prospect is quite worrysome!
don't you have 'no claims bonuses' in your part of the world?
Yes, but that's quite different. These are based on your actual accident history, and not on how somebody thinks that you drive dangerously because you drive fast.
Some people are better drivers than others, and can afford to drive faster. Their accident-free driving history proves it, and allows them to get lower premiums. If insurance companies start basing their premiums in what accidents you might get into, rather than those that you really had, we get into trouble.
What if the mileage is inaccurate unintentionnally? Suppose you have a garage entrance with a ramp that is too steep. You mount larger tyres on your car to avoid bumping into the ramp when entering/leaving the garage. As the odometer basically counts rotations of wheels, it will record a mileage that is too small (because the wheels are larger than expected).