The only plugin that could be said to cater to an otherwise neglected niche is Flash. And hopefully with browsers natively supporting SVG, someday it's usefullness will wither, too.
Plugins are just excuses for Adobe Acrobat in the browser window bullshit. For all those fools that put up Word and PDF all over the place, get a clue already.
Lately I've been wondering about roulette. People have cheated with machines, timing the spin, speed of the ball, and beating the odds. Why can't a person do what the machine does?
Better yet, encode your own generic magstripe cards. Dispose of them after single use. They would be blank, wouldn't look like ATM cards, and the relevant numbers aren't printed on the card. Make sure not to leave a fingerprint on the card, and drop it right in front of the ATM machine.
This minimizes the "caught with it on you" aspect.
Ok. But at this point, we've only moved the target of interest from raw email addresses, to private keys. Aunt Bertha certainly won't think a new key is trivial (whether or not it is), and I expect her to be hurt more than you or I, meaning she'll have reason to do it more often. Plus, in some PKI schemes, at least, the whole point of public/private keys is to centralize the public keys, so I don't have to email you to get yours. If such is used, it's yet another burden on her part, making sure her new key is available (possibly a burden assumed by automated software). And don't forget about updating CRLs either.
The only true way to fight spam, is to make email less useful. We need to sever global email, and make smaller, more private systems. Your work email will only interact with your employer's mail servers, and maybe a few approved vendors. This will be a bitch if your job is to do research about new products, or if your wife can't reach you on the phone because your daughter is at the hospital, and her email that would have hit your blackberry is blocked. But short of such drastic measures, I don't believe we'll see any lasting, significant improvement.
The alternative? Let spam take over until smtp email is abandoned because it has become all but useless. The only question left then, will even a single spammer wake up and say "Damn, I used to like email (for some reason other than scamming for money), wish we never killed it." ? I'm fairly certain the answer will be "No".
True, but the center of gravity of the whole thing is still roughly in geosync orbit... so it stays put, on a relative scale. The snap upward could be anything from inches on up to a few hundred yards, I would think. It doesn't get flung to Jupiter. People would scramble to re-anchor it, and you can't minimize the urgency or difficulty of that, but you aren't starting over from scratch, either.
Sure, you're in control of your whitelist... until the worm hits your machine. Besides, if you say, the worm/zombies go into "collect whitelisted addresses" mode.... you'd never be able to whitelist poor Aunt Bertha again.
In effect, we have to look at this without any whitelisting at all. Is the scheme as viable now?
Wrong type of strength, and the material is probably too reactive to the high energy of an anti-tank weapon. Tensile strength is how much it resists stretching (and breaking). For armor, you're more worried about how it compresses, and dissipates energy laterally. Also probably failure modes... concrete is rather strong this way, but you don't want it spraying chunks of broken concrete everywhere (metals tend to dent). Keep in mind, I'm a high school dropout and an amateur, so don't flame me too much if I've glossed over things or gotten them wrong. I tend to talk out of my ass alot.
It would end 60,000 miles up. You wouldn't have to ride to the top, the important orbital destination will be halfway up, and likely a big space station. You could ride to the top, build a spaceship to go to mars docked at the end, and then just unclamp it when ready, and let the earth fling it there.
Or you could stay awhile, moon australia, and then take a car downward.
You could make a amateur satellite out of tin foil and fig newtons, and push it out an airlock in the middle. Wow, Cletis is now capable of putting objects into geosync orbit.
We could build several elevators, and then "bridge" them together in the middle, and put an incredible amount of real estate into action.
In short, it would never end. It would be the first step in a journey to just about anywhere. Though for now, most people think locally, and its a road to high orbit.
Why not? This thing could be built out so huge, so thick, than any reasonable amount of cargo could be put on it (on up to the 10s of tons). Why not a a passenger car not unlike on trains? Even allowing a hefty fraction of mass for radiation shielding, it could be quite fun. Can't exactly call it slow, 1-2 days for a distance far exceeding the circumference of our planet. The space station at the end of it could become incredibly huge, with surface to orbit rates so low... am I wrong, or is there no problem with the station expanding laterally at geosync?
With all the force of fluttering newspaper. It would take hours to come down, and would be more of a pollution problem than a catastrophe. Of course, this assumes failure at the thickest portion of the cable, just around geosync somewhere. The thinnest part, most likely to fail I'd think, if it were to fail, would leave it hovering just above the ground waiting to be duct taped back in place.
If there is a catastrophe to be had here, I'd think, it would be it burning (do nanotubes burn very well?). What sort of electrical storms are there that far up? The electrical potential between sky and ground can be huge, and we're stretching a non-insulator across the two.
If the end of the elevator is only at geosychronous, then it has thousands of tons of weight pulling it downward. But since anything *past* geosync actually flings the object away from the planet, you put just as much weight on the other side of geosync, performing a nifty balance. As for why its not 45k miles, I can't say. Seem to remember it tapering at the end quite a bit, for some engineering reason.
Best of all, go out to the end of it, let go.... you get a free trip out of orbit. Be sure to bring plenty of food and water.
Of course, I'm counting on a spam zombie that only nails the address book of the machine it is sitting on. I mean, bypasses this easily, preys on the most clueless, and potentially distributes the infernal job of spamming more discretely.
Yes, which means that since 95% of people are like that, including old Aunt Bertha and your boss at work (both running these zombies), will be able to spam you to hell and back.
But if you run the numbers, you'll find out that the number of zombies known, if run perfectly and full tilt, cannot generate enough stamps for all of the spam in the world today.
But how many of the zombies will be whitelisted to someone? How long before an email/html-javascript exploit whitelists spammers? How long before spam zombies send an innocent looking email that wouldn't trigger spam, but would set off an auto-whitelist mechanism?
How much bandwidth will spammers waste, trying to find ways around this?
We need an X-Prize like contest for model rocketry. Anyone capable of putting a mini-satellite that orbits the earth a few times would win it. Of course, with the way things are now, you'd have to ship it down to south america to not get in trouble...
We still get 6-20 mortgage, financial, satellite tv, and time-share calls per week. Often, they start off with a pre-recorded message, and ask you to dial an 800 number to "reach a representative", or ask you to transfer to someone who claims "we don't call anyone". Asking to speak to a supervisor, or complaining results in them hanging up.
Never are the caller ID numbers helpful, even if they show. Usually, they seem forged, or at least inaccurate. And it would cost $150 per month to put an ANI trap on the line.
The measures it would take to put an end to this aren't politically viable. The only reason the DNC list was implemented was for cheap political mileage, and to give telemarketers a big comprehensive list of people to annoy.
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The only plugin that could be said to cater to an otherwise neglected niche is Flash. And hopefully with browsers natively supporting SVG, someday it's usefullness will wither, too.
Plugins are just excuses for Adobe Acrobat in the browser window bullshit. For all those fools that put up Word and PDF all over the place, get a clue already.
I didn't know trolls submitted articles these days.
You were thinking of Kuro5hin
The world needs more hall-of-famer quarterbacks, and they're recruiting 5yr old peewee footballers.
For you apologists out there, keep in mind that I myself would only charge $2000, and you'd be at least twice as non-lame as these jokes.
Anything with root privileges, assuming something else hasn't binded (bound?) to the port.
Lately I've been wondering about roulette. People have cheated with machines, timing the spin, speed of the ball, and beating the odds. Why can't a person do what the machine does?
Have honed this first "fix" strategy to a science, often giving it away in the hopes of a quick, strong addiction.
Of course, even most drug dealers know a few virtues, I hate to see how Microsoft perverts this tactic.
Better yet, encode your own generic magstripe cards. Dispose of them after single use. They would be blank, wouldn't look like ATM cards, and the relevant numbers aren't printed on the card. Make sure not to leave a fingerprint on the card, and drop it right in front of the ATM machine.
This minimizes the "caught with it on you" aspect.
Ok. But at this point, we've only moved the target of interest from raw email addresses, to private keys. Aunt Bertha certainly won't think a new key is trivial (whether or not it is), and I expect her to be hurt more than you or I, meaning she'll have reason to do it more often. Plus, in some PKI schemes, at least, the whole point of public/private keys is to centralize the public keys, so I don't have to email you to get yours. If such is used, it's yet another burden on her part, making sure her new key is available (possibly a burden assumed by automated software). And don't forget about updating CRLs either.
The only true way to fight spam, is to make email less useful. We need to sever global email, and make smaller, more private systems. Your work email will only interact with your employer's mail servers, and maybe a few approved vendors. This will be a bitch if your job is to do research about new products, or if your wife can't reach you on the phone because your daughter is at the hospital, and her email that would have hit your blackberry is blocked. But short of such drastic measures, I don't believe we'll see any lasting, significant improvement.
The alternative? Let spam take over until smtp email is abandoned because it has become all but useless. The only question left then, will even a single spammer wake up and say "Damn, I used to like email (for some reason other than scamming for money), wish we never killed it." ? I'm fairly certain the answer will be "No".
True, but the center of gravity of the whole thing is still roughly in geosync orbit... so it stays put, on a relative scale. The snap upward could be anything from inches on up to a few hundred yards, I would think. It doesn't get flung to Jupiter. People would scramble to re-anchor it, and you can't minimize the urgency or difficulty of that, but you aren't starting over from scratch, either.
Yes, any neanderthals holding their breath down there are screwed.
Sure, you're in control of your whitelist... until the worm hits your machine. Besides, if you say, the worm/zombies go into "collect whitelisted addresses" mode.... you'd never be able to whitelist poor Aunt Bertha again.
In effect, we have to look at this without any whitelisting at all. Is the scheme as viable now?
The arab-looking guy said he only wanted to learn how to pilot the boat, not dock it...
Wrong type of strength, and the material is probably too reactive to the high energy of an anti-tank weapon. Tensile strength is how much it resists stretching (and breaking). For armor, you're more worried about how it compresses, and dissipates energy laterally. Also probably failure modes... concrete is rather strong this way, but you don't want it spraying chunks of broken concrete everywhere (metals tend to dent). Keep in mind, I'm a high school dropout and an amateur, so don't flame me too much if I've glossed over things or gotten them wrong. I tend to talk out of my ass alot.
It would end 60,000 miles up. You wouldn't have to ride to the top, the important orbital destination will be halfway up, and likely a big space station. You could ride to the top, build a spaceship to go to mars docked at the end, and then just unclamp it when ready, and let the earth fling it there.
Or you could stay awhile, moon australia, and then take a car downward.
You could make a amateur satellite out of tin foil and fig newtons, and push it out an airlock in the middle. Wow, Cletis is now capable of putting objects into geosync orbit.
We could build several elevators, and then "bridge" them together in the middle, and put an incredible amount of real estate into action.
In short, it would never end. It would be the first step in a journey to just about anywhere. Though for now, most people think locally, and its a road to high orbit.
Why not lift material to build the couterweight out as a traditional station?
Why not? This thing could be built out so huge, so thick, than any reasonable amount of cargo could be put on it (on up to the 10s of tons). Why not a a passenger car not unlike on trains? Even allowing a hefty fraction of mass for radiation shielding, it could be quite fun. Can't exactly call it slow, 1-2 days for a distance far exceeding the circumference of our planet. The space station at the end of it could become incredibly huge, with surface to orbit rates so low... am I wrong, or is there no problem with the station expanding laterally at geosync?
Anything past geosync pushes the other way, via centrifugal force. The trick is to have a substance strong enough to not get pulled in half.
With all the force of fluttering newspaper. It would take hours to come down, and would be more of a pollution problem than a catastrophe. Of course, this assumes failure at the thickest portion of the cable, just around geosync somewhere. The thinnest part, most likely to fail I'd think, if it were to fail, would leave it hovering just above the ground waiting to be duct taped back in place.
If there is a catastrophe to be had here, I'd think, it would be it burning (do nanotubes burn very well?). What sort of electrical storms are there that far up? The electrical potential between sky and ground can be huge, and we're stretching a non-insulator across the two.
If the end of the elevator is only at geosychronous, then it has thousands of tons of weight pulling it downward. But since anything *past* geosync actually flings the object away from the planet, you put just as much weight on the other side of geosync, performing a nifty balance. As for why its not 45k miles, I can't say. Seem to remember it tapering at the end quite a bit, for some engineering reason.
Best of all, go out to the end of it, let go.... you get a free trip out of orbit. Be sure to bring plenty of food and water.
Yes, unless it disables Norton and McAffee.
Of course, I'm counting on a spam zombie that only nails the address book of the machine it is sitting on. I mean, bypasses this easily, preys on the most clueless, and potentially distributes the infernal job of spamming more discretely.
Yes, which means that since 95% of people are like that, including old Aunt Bertha and your boss at work (both running these zombies), will be able to spam you to hell and back.
Of course, you can choose not to whitelist them.
But if you run the numbers, you'll find out that the number of zombies known, if run perfectly and full tilt, cannot generate enough stamps for all of the spam in the world today.
But how many of the zombies will be whitelisted to someone? How long before an email/html-javascript exploit whitelists spammers? How long before spam zombies send an innocent looking email that wouldn't trigger spam, but would set off an auto-whitelist mechanism?
How much bandwidth will spammers waste, trying to find ways around this?
So the next spam zombie worm will just whitelist everyone?
We need an X-Prize like contest for model rocketry. Anyone capable of putting a mini-satellite that orbits the earth a few times would win it. Of course, with the way things are now, you'd have to ship it down to south america to not get in trouble...
We still get 6-20 mortgage, financial, satellite tv, and time-share calls per week. Often, they start off with a pre-recorded message, and ask you to dial an 800 number to "reach a representative", or ask you to transfer to someone who claims "we don't call anyone". Asking to speak to a supervisor, or complaining results in them hanging up.
Never are the caller ID numbers helpful, even if they show. Usually, they seem forged, or at least inaccurate. And it would cost $150 per month to put an ANI trap on the line.
The measures it would take to put an end to this aren't politically viable. The only reason the DNC list was implemented was for cheap political mileage, and to give telemarketers a big comprehensive list of people to annoy.