Let's also then remember oppressive laws like the US Patriot Act and any others The Czar Ashcroft will manage to slide in when people are too busy screaming "TERRORIST!".
First of all, you have no data on what the Chinese Government is planning on including or not including on these new computers, so leaping into conclusions to say they will contain Democracy Right Management systems and be used for propaganda are jumping the gun.
Second of all, even if they DID include all that, how long do you figure it'd take some hackers to remove all that stuff from the computers when imported to US?
For $10K, I'd hunt spammers full time and I would probably make $200K+ / year, easily . It's usually rather easy to find who they are. Most of them don't really hide who they are and most of the ones that try, fail miserably. The very few that successfully hide their tracks usually have a M.O. that can be identified with the help of resources such as ROKSO (http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/) or news.admin.net-abuse.email.
There's very few spammers that you can't track down nowadays. Even the most sneakiest ones can easily be tracked down by simply buying what they sell or pretending to be interested. Follow the money...
I sometimes send out order faxes to spamming scum and purposedly leave out the credit card number or obsfuscate it so that the scum has to call me back to get the payment information. Works every time. You can always count on the greediness of these people.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill spammers. The slower, the better. The more painful, the better.
First of all, SPEWS doesn't block anything. SPEWS only provides the list of scumbags. Its users then decide what they do with the information. Some block Email, some flag Email for filtering by end users, some use the list as evidence of anti-spammer evils.
Second of all, there is an appeal process. The spammer just needs to stop spamming.
Thirdly, he seems to imply that it would be common to be listed in SPEWS by mistake. This is simply not true at all. Usually a spammer has to exhibit a pattern of abusive behavior to get listed. There appears to be a human process involved in getting listed by SPEWS, which seems to be very effective in weeding out mistakes and joe-jobs.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill spammers. The slower, the better. The more painful, the better. Remember, knees first, so they can't run away.
Some spammers are evil; thieves, convicted criminals, child porn peddlers, scammers and joe-jobbing felons (joe-jobbing is forging a spam to appear to have been sent by the intended victim of the joe-job).
Spam, however, is ALWAYS evil regardless who sends it or why is it sent. The reason why spam is evil is here:
http://www.clifto.com/8345.html
For anyone who'se work revolves around the ability to receive and send Email, I think the above article should be obvious.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill spammers. The more painfully, the better
"The number of people without health insurance declined by 600,000 between 1999 and 2000, from 39.3 million to 38.7 million, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau reported today."
40M isn't too far off.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill ignorance
Re:Freedom and the USA
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You little shit, I'm not communist nor Russian.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill anonymous chicken-shit cowards
Re:Freedom and the USA
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I live in New York, taxation here is not reasonable, hence in your words I'm not free.
And don't claim I'm free, because I can move wherever I want to get rid of the oppressive taxation in New York, that's a straw man argument. By the same token, I could just as well move to Monaco (or that isle off the coast of England) and have no taxes.
In US my kids will not be free to choose adequate schooling, unless I make enough money to afford to put them into a good school. In the European country I come from, basic schooling (including High School) is free and superior in quality of that in the US. Higher learning is next to free, though arguably not as high quality as the $100K education on a top US University.
In the US elderly are bankrupt by the price of medical care and medication. In the European country I come from, medication to the elderly is paid almost in full by medical insurance.
In the US the poor (occasionally) die, because they don't have medical insurance (HMO). In the European country, you will be treated regardless of how much money you have and you won't be treated in the Poor People's Hospitals. You will be treated in the same hospital and by the same doctors the kid of an MP would be.
Dude, I can go on and on and on.
It is just NOT true what you say about the US being more free than "Europe" (whatever the hell that is, remember Europe is not a nation).
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I seem to remember being rather free in the European country I grew up. I certainly wasn't afraid a bad government goon was going to come in the middle of the night and arrest me for saying they suck. I also had the freedom to vote as I chose (including such "undesirable" parties as communists or nationalist populists aka racist bigots), freedom to gather with others to discuss whatever interested us and freedom to express my opinions without fear of harrassment by the authorities.
Keep coming up with these arrogant americanisms and continue to wonder why people in the rest of the world don't like you.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill ignorance
The conclusion is not quite right
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People are not more ready to throw their 1st Amendment Rights away.
They are more ready to throw other people's 1st Amendment Rights away.
Christians don't mind, if muslims are being monitored. US citizens don't mind, if foreign nationals are being monitored. Jewish people don't mind, if Palestinian people are being monitored (and vice versa).
Generally I agree with you on this (speed doesn't matter, features do), but Opera's speed has another implication.
It makes it perfectly suitable for use on computers that are slow or short on memory, e.g. old computers donated to inner city schools, computers used in developing countries and that old 386 PC your grandma is using to store her knitting instructions on:)
I was once forced to use one of those computers a few years ago when my own broke down and I didn't have access to other fast computers. Netscape and MSIE would just not run on the computer, at all. Opera did and was VERY fast.
Stop coding and dedicate 110% of your time working with your coders to get them uptospeed. Work with them until they "get it".
Establish frequent meetings to oversee their progress, encourage them to come and ask you RIGHT AWAY, if they have problems with their work, actively stick your nose in their business until they get it.
It looks like the project doesn't include effective control measures to catch problems like this earlier. Two weeks and these people have no visible progress and you didn't know about it, that's very bad. Establish procedures that will catch that sort of stuff earlier.
Have the others submit daily status reports or set up a status meeting every morning before work starts or before work ends, if that's what it takes.
re: That doesn't mean they really do pay them the same.
Got any proof to back you up? You did know that the company hiring H1-Bs is obligated by law to publicly display the employment details of the H1-B worker in the workplace prior and during the employment of the employee. Those details include salary. Go check it out, they usually hang those things in the kitchen or "hang around" areas of the office.
I get paid more than most of the permanent residents with the same responsibilities in the company I work for, btw.
That would be poetic justice, but as I read the bill, it requires prior permission from The Department of Justice (Attorney General) at which point you would have to tell the court how exactly are you going to do the hacking.
I don't think you would get permission to DoS the FBI, MPAA or RIAA...
That doesn't, of course, prevent EVERYBODY from requesting such permissions from The Department of Justice. That'd probably be the easiest way to bog down this law...everyone REPEATEDLY requesting permissions to hack into everybody else's computers. Imagine the assholes processing 20,000 requests a day. Perfect!
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill MPAA and RIAA
Slashdot Mirror
"These were real criminals committing real crimes."
Inluding the FBI.
It would be poetic justice if the Russian counterpart lured the FBI agents to Russia and then promptly arrested them for computer crimes.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill hypocrisy.
It would not be a great career move to take a job just to sabotage the company.
:)
But, if you're 60 and readying for retirement...
Or a multimillionaire looking for something to pass your time
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill the RIAA
And there goes yet another ./er, who reads everything literally. *sigh*
Buy a brain.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill stupid people
Let's also then remember oppressive laws like the US Patriot Act and any others The Czar Ashcroft will manage to slide in when people are too busy screaming "TERRORIST!".
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill bigotry
Re: Chinese propaganda - the price of "freedom"
First of all, you have no data on what the Chinese Government is planning on including or not including on these new computers, so leaping into conclusions to say they will contain Democracy Right Management systems and be used for propaganda are jumping the gun.
Second of all, even if they DID include all that, how long do you figure it'd take some hackers to remove all that stuff from the computers when imported to US?
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill ignorance
For $10K, I'd hunt spammers full time and I would probably make $200K+ / year, easily . It's usually rather easy to find who they are. Most of them don't really hide who they are and most of the ones that try, fail miserably. The very few that successfully hide their tracks usually have a M.O. that can be identified with the help of resources such as ROKSO (http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/) or news.admin.net-abuse.email.
There's very few spammers that you can't track down nowadays. Even the most sneakiest ones can easily be tracked down by simply buying what they sell or pretending to be interested. Follow the money...
I sometimes send out order faxes to spamming scum and purposedly leave out the credit card number or obsfuscate it so that the scum has to call me back to get the payment information. Works every time. You can always count on the greediness of these people.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill spammers.
The slower, the better. The more painful, the better.
SPEWS does not "block with any appeal allowed".
First of all, SPEWS doesn't block anything. SPEWS only provides the list of scumbags. Its users then decide what they do with the information. Some block Email, some flag Email for filtering by end users, some use the list as evidence of anti-spammer evils.
Second of all, there is an appeal process. The spammer just needs to stop spamming.
Thirdly, he seems to imply that it would be common to be listed in SPEWS by mistake. This is simply not true at all. Usually a spammer has to exhibit a pattern of abusive behavior to get listed. There appears to be a human process involved in getting listed by SPEWS, which seems to be very effective in weeding out mistakes and joe-jobs.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill spammers. The slower, the better. The more painful, the better. Remember, knees first, so they can't run away.
It drives the cost of production up and will kill itself eventually.
We should encourage record companies to use this sort of stuff!
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill the RIAA
He claims he invented key Internet technologies, mainly the concept of data packets and packet
switching.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill dyslexia
Some spammers are evil; thieves, convicted criminals, child porn peddlers, scammers and joe-jobbing felons (joe-jobbing is forging a spam to appear to have been sent by the intended victim of the joe-job).
Spam, however, is ALWAYS evil regardless who sends it or why is it sent. The reason why spam is evil is here:
http://www.clifto.com/8345.html
For anyone who'se work revolves around the ability to receive and send Email, I think the above article should be obvious.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill spammers. The more painfully, the better
re: ...to work the same hours you do.
Brilliant! I am going to have to remember this next time the 15-hour workday happens to me.
thanks!
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill PHBs
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01- 162.html
"The number of people without health insurance declined by 600,000 between 1999 and 2000, from 39.3 million to 38.7 million, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau reported today."
40M isn't too far off.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill ignorance
You little shit, I'm not communist nor Russian.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill anonymous chicken-shit cowards
I live in New York, taxation here is not reasonable, hence in your words I'm not free.
And don't claim I'm free, because I can move wherever I want to get rid of the oppressive taxation in New York, that's a straw man argument. By the same token, I could just as well move to Monaco (or that isle off the coast of England) and have no taxes.
In US my kids will not be free to choose adequate schooling, unless I make enough money to afford to put them into a good school. In the European country I come from, basic schooling (including High School) is free and superior in quality of that in the US. Higher learning is next to free, though arguably not as high quality as the $100K education on a top US University.
In the US elderly are bankrupt by the price of medical care and medication. In the European country I come from, medication to the elderly is paid almost in full by medical insurance.
In the US the poor (occasionally) die, because they don't have medical insurance (HMO). In the European country, you will be treated regardless of how much money you have and you won't be treated in the Poor People's Hospitals. You will be treated in the same hospital and by the same doctors the kid of an MP would be.
Dude, I can go on and on and on.
It is just NOT true what you say about the US being more free than "Europe" (whatever the hell that is, remember Europe is not a nation).
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill ignorance
I seem to remember being rather free in the European country I grew up. I certainly wasn't afraid a bad government goon was going to come in the middle of the night and arrest me for saying they suck. I also had the freedom to vote as I chose (including such "undesirable" parties as communists or nationalist populists aka racist bigots), freedom to gather with others to discuss whatever interested us and freedom to express my opinions without fear of harrassment by the authorities.
Keep coming up with these arrogant americanisms and continue to wonder why people in the rest of the world don't like you.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill ignorance
People are not more ready to throw their 1st Amendment Rights away.
They are more ready to throw other people's 1st Amendment Rights away.
Christians don't mind, if muslims are being monitored. US citizens don't mind, if foreign nationals are being monitored. Jewish people don't mind, if Palestinian people are being monitored (and vice versa).
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill hypocricy
Fax.com makes $50M / year by breaking the law. $5.4 isn't enough.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill spammers!
Generally I agree with you on this (speed doesn't matter, features do), but Opera's speed has another implication.
:)
It makes it perfectly suitable for use on computers that are slow or short on memory, e.g. old computers donated to inner city schools, computers used in developing countries and that old 386 PC your grandma is using to store her knitting instructions on
I was once forced to use one of those computers a few years ago when my own broke down and I didn't have access to other fast computers. Netscape and MSIE would just not run on the computer, at all. Opera did and was VERY fast.
It's a private network. They can block whoever they want for whatever reason. It's their business.
If their users don't like what they do, they can choose another ISP. It's not like ISPs are a scarce commodity.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill RIAA/MPAA
re: I think not!
Oh yes, they have. Next time you send a spam complaint, cc the spammer. You've got about 1:5 odds he'll reply with a very entertaining rant.
If you get lucky, it'll appear to have been written by a five year old with tourette's syndrome.
Stop coding and dedicate 110% of your time working with your coders to get them uptospeed. Work with them until they "get it".
Establish frequent meetings to oversee their progress, encourage them to come and ask you RIGHT AWAY, if they have problems with their work, actively stick your nose in their business until they get it.
It looks like the project doesn't include effective control measures to catch problems like this earlier. Two weeks and these people have no visible progress and you didn't know about it, that's very bad. Establish procedures that will catch that sort of stuff earlier.
Have the others submit daily status reports or set up a status meeting every morning before work starts or before work ends, if that's what it takes.
re: H1Bs are hired 20% below the labour costs of a american.
Then you're breaking the law. Congratulations!
re: That doesn't mean they really do pay them the same.
Got any proof to back you up? You did know that the company hiring H1-Bs is obligated by law to publicly display the employment details of the H1-B worker in the workplace prior and during the employment of the employee. Those details include salary. Go check it out, they usually hang those things in the kitchen or "hang around" areas of the office.
I get paid more than most of the permanent residents with the same responsibilities in the company I work for, btw.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill bigotry
re: cheap labor
H1-Bs are NOT cheap labor. The H1-B program requires companies to pay the H1-B workers the same amount of money than permanent citizens.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill bigotry
Re: DoS the FBI
That would be poetic justice, but as I read the bill, it requires prior permission from The Department of Justice (Attorney General) at which point you would have to tell the court how exactly are you going to do the hacking.
I don't think you would get permission to DoS the FBI, MPAA or RIAA...
That doesn't, of course, prevent EVERYBODY from requesting such permissions from The Department of Justice. That'd probably be the easiest way to bog down this law...everyone REPEATEDLY requesting permissions to hack into everybody else's computers. Imagine the assholes processing 20,000 requests a day. Perfect!
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill MPAA and RIAA