Actually, they will have an increase in profit. The fountain drinks only cost a couple of cents to make. Adding some extra ounces won't increase that cost. But, they will charge you considerably more for the bigger cup.
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What two underrated pieces of entertainment would you put together to create a singularity of coolness?
Gaelic Football and my redneck neighbors. I am still working on how to combine the two.
Holy shit. I think putting these two over-hyped, lame peices of entertainment together has caused a singularity of lameness. An area so lame that it suck in and destroys all cool things with in its grasp. C'mon, Survivor? Fuck your corporate entertainment!
Um... You know that scanning, no matter how noble the reason, is aganst most ISP AUPs? MAil admins aren't going to like heir machines being scanned every day by Hotmail, or any one for that matter.
It is designed to block legit mail as colateral dammage. Use DUL, monkeys, and relays, but anything else blocks too much legit email to be used be a large provider.
The live everywhere. UUnet, Sprint, C&W, XO, Broadwing, Verison, etc... They are in Asia, Europe, N. America, S. America, Austrailia, hell I have even gotten spam from Africa. To say that all spam comes from UUnet is stupid to say the least.
Christ, it is bad enouth to have that plastered all over FuckedCompany, but do you have to do it here too? It was gay when I first saw it and it just gets gayer everytime you re-post it. It isn't funny.
Seeing how spam is maybe 1% of all traffic coming out of most NSPs, most backbones wouldn't even notice a drop in traffic, if all spammers just up and died.
Very little. Considering that a fraction of 1% of WorldCom's customers are spammers, they don't contribute that much to the traffic. Most traffic from WorldCom, or any large NSP, is legit traffic.
Fair enough, but who is going to collect this tax? I think any country that had this tax would find it hard to collect from everybody and people would stop emailing people in that country. So, it may solve the spam problem, but it would create bigger problems.
Sounds like a plan, but I can see one problem. ISPs are constantly at war with each other to get customers. The first ISP to do this will have all their competators saying: "Here at our ISP, there are NO mailing fees." You would have to get all ISPs to do this in the same manner at the same time, and have them stick to it. Plus you are assuming that spammers will send all their mail thru their ISPs mail servers. Spammers send their stuff thru open relays and proxies. Since, almost by definition, these machines are not maintained, getting them in on the plan is going to be an uphill battle.
You are assuming that he is actually making a product, most of what these guys sell is just a collection of websites or a photocopy of some plans they have. On a whim, I bought the "Cyber-detective" software, it is just a collection of websites that you could find in google. The Cable descramblers are a photocopy of a photocopy of some plans and a parts list from RadioShack.
Depends on the spammer. Some spammers try to be legit and use their own servers and get a big t1 or t3 to spam thru. But, most of the spam you get is, most likely, from a guy with a couple of cheap computers and a $20 dial-up. It doesn't take many sales for him to break even. Most of the spammers who have the big servers/pipes are spammers for hire, they get paid up-front; usually about $1000-5000 per run. They get paid even if there are no sales at all.
Consider what it takes for a spammer to send out his junk: A cheap computer with a modem ($200) and a dial-up connection ($20), so about $220. If the spammer is selling something at $20, all he needs is 11 people to buy to break even. If you take out the cost of a computer, all he has to make is one sale to break even. When the spammer send out 10,000,000 spams, if only 0.0000012 of those people buy his junk, he has made his 12 sales and thus made a profit.
There's traffic enforcement (don't drive a flashy car and don't drive faster than the rest of traffic), police profiling of drug couriers (hope you're not DWB- Driving While Black) and INS checkpoints 50-100 miles NORTH of the Mexican border (hope you're not DWB- Driving While Brown).
All these deal with breaking current laws. What is your point?
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Just put a few hundred in a savings account. In several hundred years, think of all the intrest you will have gained.
Actually, they will have an increase in profit. The fountain drinks only cost a couple of cents to make. Adding some extra ounces won't increase that cost. But, they will charge you considerably more for the bigger cup.
Gaelic Football and my redneck neighbors. I am still working on how to combine the two.
Holy shit. I think putting these two over-hyped, lame peices of entertainment together has caused a singularity of lameness. An area so lame that it suck in and destroys all cool things with in its grasp. C'mon, Survivor? Fuck your corporate entertainment!
Um... You know that scanning, no matter how noble the reason, is aganst most ISP AUPs? MAil admins aren't going to like heir machines being scanned every day by Hotmail, or any one for that matter.
It is designed to block legit mail as colateral dammage. Use DUL, monkeys, and relays, but anything else blocks too much legit email to be used be a large provider.
I am sure her auto-responder will get right on that. :)
Punch-cards. Lots of punch-cards.
Nothing against Mr. Perens, but if he is not going to go thru with it, he should not have made such a big fuss over it.
Isn't that the Slashdot theme song?
The live everywhere. UUnet, Sprint, C&W, XO, Broadwing, Verison, etc... They are in Asia, Europe, N. America, S. America, Austrailia, hell I have even gotten spam from Africa. To say that all spam comes from UUnet is stupid to say the least.
Christ, it is bad enouth to have that plastered all over FuckedCompany, but do you have to do it here too? It was gay when I first saw it and it just gets gayer everytime you re-post it. It isn't funny.
Seeing how spam is maybe 1% of all traffic coming out of most NSPs, most backbones wouldn't even notice a drop in traffic, if all spammers just up and died.
Very little. Considering that a fraction of 1% of WorldCom's customers are spammers, they don't contribute that much to the traffic. Most traffic from WorldCom, or any large NSP, is legit traffic.
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Fair enough, but who is going to collect this tax? I think any country that had this tax would find it hard to collect from everybody and people would stop emailing people in that country. So, it may solve the spam problem, but it would create bigger problems.
Sounds like a plan, but I can see one problem. ISPs are constantly at war with each other to get customers. The first ISP to do this will have all their competators saying: "Here at our ISP, there are NO mailing fees." You would have to get all ISPs to do this in the same manner at the same time, and have them stick to it. Plus you are assuming that spammers will send all their mail thru their ISPs mail servers. Spammers send their stuff thru open relays and proxies. Since, almost by definition, these machines are not maintained, getting them in on the plan is going to be an uphill battle.
You are assuming that he is actually making a product, most of what these guys sell is just a collection of websites or a photocopy of some plans they have. On a whim, I bought the "Cyber-detective" software, it is just a collection of websites that you could find in google. The Cable descramblers are a photocopy of a photocopy of some plans and a parts list from RadioShack.
Depends on the spammer. Some spammers try to be legit and use their own servers and get a big t1 or t3 to spam thru. But, most of the spam you get is, most likely, from a guy with a couple of cheap computers and a $20 dial-up. It doesn't take many sales for him to break even. Most of the spammers who have the big servers/pipes are spammers for hire, they get paid up-front; usually about $1000-5000 per run. They get paid even if there are no sales at all.
Consider what it takes for a spammer to send out his junk: A cheap computer with a modem ($200) and a dial-up connection ($20), so about $220. If the spammer is selling something at $20, all he needs is 11 people to buy to break even. If you take out the cost of a computer, all he has to make is one sale to break even. When the spammer send out 10,000,000 spams, if only 0.0000012 of those people buy his junk, he has made his 12 sales and thus made a profit.
Traffic norally goes the speed limit. If you are going faster than traffic, there is a good chance you are speeding.
AOL still uses UUnet POPs.
So, there he was just sitting in the wrong lane and they just dragged him out of his car and beat his ass for no reason what so ever.
All these deal with breaking current laws. What is your point?
Yes. Where did I make such an arguement?