I think, too, only economics can truly solve that. My idea is different from yours, but still... it looks like it's not going to be accepted. I'm not getting any response to it... what's wrong with my idea? I am surely overlooking something, but what exactly?
At the first glance I thought it was a "BNC vs. SMA" chess set, but upon a close examination of the pieces it turned out to be just a "nickel vs. gold" chess set. For an unexplicable reason, the set has become much less fun to me when I realized it.
I haven't seen spam from a legitimate but clueless company in years
You are obviously talking about American spam. Spam in Russian is ALL from legitimate businesses. They have no problem listing their phone numbers and locations, and apparently receive a lot of clients from sending spam. The spammers are not big corporations, but apparently succesfull small- and medium-sized businesses.
This 9-year sentence has celebrated on Russian news, too. Fines alone are not going to stop it: the spammers will just count them up to their business expenses. Jail time, please.
"Global Warming's treatment in the media is done in a biased way in the sense that they often present both sides viewpoint. The fact is, there IS NO OTHER SIDE. The scientific evidence that humans are affecting the climate with CO2 is as clear as day, and scientists who say otherwise are hired by special interest groups or oil companies. The media do the issue a great disservice by trying to be fair and covering both sides of the issue. We NEED to be concerned."
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I've recently installed ADSL in St. Petersburg, so I can give an accurate information on prices.
ADSL is the only "broadband" option for the most of the city, beyond plain dialup. There are two ADSL companies in the city. They don't even cover all of the city, just most of it.
One-time non-refundable installation costs are about $200 with both of them, while the monthly payment tactic differs:
ROL gives you unlimited traffic for $60/mo. I'd go this way, but they were stocked up with orders for months ahead in September, so I had to use their only competitor:
Web Plus gives you 0.5GB of download traffic every month for $34/mo on the billing plan I chose. Any traffic beyond that is about $80 per GB. For the record, the bandwidth on my connection is 30KB/s downlink and 15KB/s uplink. I was also severely upsed by their dishonest advertising that nowhere mentions VAT until you get your first bill (at which point you're already locked into them).
Comparing to 10 Mbps LAN w/unlimited traffic I had in my dorm in a student willage in Norway for $15/mo, this is certainly a rob off. But this is what we have here.
Tone dialing may or may be not available, depending on the time when your area's phone station was installed. In newer housing developments it's usually available on request, as well as a bunch of other phone services like redirection (yes pulse dialing is always the default, so not everybody may be aware of the options). Why would you need tone dialing, anyway? Pulse works just fine, thanks.
This satellite contains a container to dispense three even smaller (10x10x10cm, 1kg) microsatellites while in orbit. Here is one of them designed by students in Norway. Hey, some students from my department have been designing the communication subsystem for it. Good the launch has finally been arranged (NCUBE should have lifted off already according to the plans). If I recall correctly, one of the missions of the Norwegian microsatellite is to count reindeed (with little transponders) in Northern Norway, then dump the data back to the communication station on Earth. They are also putting a camera on it.
In the animal world analogy, if the economic solution is implemented the users who employ it become species without natural enemies in the habitat... like some large animals. In respect to spam, that is.
In my experience, you need to block sales@, info@ and webmaster@. After that, most of the email (and spam) will be coming to the single @ wich you are actually using. There will be occasional bounces to random usernames (from spam spoofing from: addresses), but not very many in my experience.
By the way there is no spam to unpublished postmaster@ addresses, probably because this is not an address spammers want to irritate:)
Some other users have complained that they got under a dictionary attack like you describe. But not me.
The only solution that would stop spam more or less automatically is removing the economic incentive. Stopping buying from spammers is not an option: some people will always do it once or more in their lifes, because of our human nature (impossible to change). However, introducing postage-based email is an option, if done properly.
Consider $0.1 average payment per spam email sent: P. Spammer has circa $27,000 in costs, $1280 in reveniue, no profit. He switches to something else, stops polluting the net. So does everyone else. Problem solved.
I'm specifically interested why you think about my outline of voluntary postage-based email. I know the idea is not new, but don't understand why it ultimately won't work and why, damn, we don't already see it implemented? What do you think about this plan?
Yes I am curious to get the obligatiry "anti-spam checklist" on it, but hey... try to be constructive and positive please. We are here to find a solution, not to shoot everything down.
Never use some keys? Keep pressing them accidentally? Just remove them.
I have removed key caps from Caps Lock and NumLock on my keyboard a long time ago. On most keyboards, the caps will likely come off if you pull them hard enough. Then, cut a piece of eraser and fit it into the hole such that it sticks out a bit and doesn't press the switch, and voila! (The key caps can be reinserted back if you ever need them later.)
Before that, Caps Lock was constantly getting into my way instead of the Tab key, and NumLock was switching off from time to time too.
Now, what I REALLY want is the Insert key to be ignored when it is not pressed in combination with other keys (I like to use Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins a lot, but NEVER switch into replace mode... it gets into my way all the time). Any ideas (for Windows NT 4.0)?
The Soyuz design is a good one because it is proven, and very very simple. No fiddly bits. You could probably launch in a hurricane if you absolutely had to.
This is because Soyuz booster is based on an early days military design, or should we say multiple-use design. I believe at one time a couple of these boosters were on standby with nuclear warheards attached (until USSR installed better ICBMs). You don't want weather over the launch pad to preclude a nuclear strike, don't you? No wonder the boosters were designed to be all-weather from the beginning.
Also, not to diminish the achievements which I applaud, but to point out: the demonstration they did (B92 protocol with no reference pulse) in fact is not secure at all. These states can be detected unambiguously probabilistically and those where detection was successful can be re-sent with increased energy, which makes eavesdropping possibly given the low detection probability at Bob. They better do it with BB84 next time:)
May I suggest making a deposit to the central authority. You can only send as many emails as you have money deposited on your account at any time (note: if the recipient receives your email and you are on their whitelist or are marked manually as such upon reading the email, the bit of money associated with this email is instantly freed for use in your other outgoing emails).
Little users will make small deposits; thus, no large number of emails could be sent via their hijacked accounts.
Larger users or mailing list distributors will make larger deposits, and thus will care about their security.
The choice of central authority is a bit delicate question, but we already do have many central systems on the Internet that accept payments from everyone in the world. These are DNS authorities, and the system by and large does work.
This is about the most haunting soap opera I've been exposed to. Why does the SCO thing get posted again and again and again? It's a scam, period. Nothing to see here.
There's probably going to be some protection against unintentional 911 dialing, like: hold the 911 button down for five seconds, release it and hit the Send button within the next three seconds.
Time delay is becoming common distinction in the interface for buttons performing radical functions. To turn off the device hold the Off button down for a second or two (like in some monitors), to activate the alarm in an elevator hold the Alarm button down for 20 seconds, and so on.
Besides, involving more than one button in the call sequence prevents accidental calls. This is why we in Norway don't have an emergency number 111, only 110, 112 and 113.
Having said that, yes it's still a very bad idea to dedicate a separate button to an emergency number, unless it is to be dialed frequently by the user which is not the case with general population. Let me recall... I'm 29 now, and I've dialed an emergency number twice in my life. Once I called police when I was a kid; it was unnecessary as I was not in any danger, just confused by a gang of older angry kids banging on our door. Later my mother just talked to them and the issue resolved peacefully. The other call was to the ambulance; I should probably have waited a bit before placing it. When the ambulance arrived twenty minutes later, the man who hit his head falling down the stairs and lost consciousness, have already decided and walked away on his own (both times it was in Russia).
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Err... can you carefully rate my idea, please, if you have time?
You probably don't care very much - or don't know about - the false positives.
I think, too, only economics can truly solve that. My idea is different from yours, but still... it looks like it's not going to be accepted. I'm not getting any response to it... what's wrong with my idea? I am surely overlooking something, but what exactly?
At the first glance I thought it was a "BNC vs. SMA" chess set, but upon a close examination of the pieces it turned out to be just a "nickel vs. gold" chess set. For an unexplicable reason, the set has become much less fun to me when I realized it.
You are obviously talking about American spam. Spam in Russian is ALL from legitimate businesses. They have no problem listing their phone numbers and locations, and apparently receive a lot of clients from sending spam. The spammers are not big corporations, but apparently succesfull small- and medium-sized businesses.
This 9-year sentence has celebrated on Russian news, too. Fines alone are not going to stop it: the spammers will just count them up to their business expenses. Jail time, please.
"Global Warming's treatment in the media is done in a biased way in the sense that they often present both sides viewpoint. The fact is, there IS NO OTHER SIDE. The scientific evidence that humans are affecting the climate with CO2 is as clear as day, and scientists who say otherwise are hired by special interest groups or oil companies. The media do the issue a great disservice by trying to be fair and covering both sides of the issue. We NEED to be concerned." [source]
ADSL is the only "broadband" option for the most of the city, beyond plain dialup. There are two ADSL companies in the city. They don't even cover all of the city, just most of it.
One-time non-refundable installation costs are about $200 with both of them, while the monthly payment tactic differs:
- ROL gives you unlimited traffic for $60/mo. I'd go this way, but they were stocked up with orders for months ahead in September, so I had to use their only competitor:
- Web Plus gives you 0.5GB of download traffic every month for $34/mo on the billing plan I chose. Any traffic beyond that is about $80 per GB. For the record, the bandwidth on my connection is 30KB/s downlink and 15KB/s uplink. I was also severely upsed by their dishonest advertising that nowhere mentions VAT until you get your first bill (at which point you're already locked into them).
Comparing to 10 Mbps LAN w/unlimited traffic I had in my dorm in a student willage in Norway for $15/mo, this is certainly a rob off. But this is what we have here.Tone dialing may or may be not available, depending on the time when your area's phone station was installed. In newer housing developments it's usually available on request, as well as a bunch of other phone services like redirection (yes pulse dialing is always the default, so not everybody may be aware of the options). Why would you need tone dialing, anyway? Pulse works just fine, thanks.
This satellite contains a container to dispense three even smaller (10x10x10cm, 1kg) microsatellites while in orbit. Here is one of them designed by students in Norway. Hey, some students from my department have been designing the communication subsystem for it. Good the launch has finally been arranged (NCUBE should have lifted off already according to the plans). If I recall correctly, one of the missions of the Norwegian microsatellite is to count reindeed (with little transponders) in Northern Norway, then dump the data back to the communication station on Earth. They are also putting a camera on it.
your next evil monopoly (expanding into other markets using its leverage in the main product).
In the animal world analogy, if the economic solution is implemented the users who employ it become species without natural enemies in the habitat... like some large animals. In respect to spam, that is.
Trondheim public library is using Mozilla on its public PCs (30 machines). I'm not sure if they switched from IE, however.
I control several domain names.
:)
In my experience, you need to block sales@, info@ and webmaster@. After that, most of the email (and spam) will be coming to the single @ wich you are actually using. There will be occasional bounces to random usernames (from spam spoofing from: addresses), but not very many in my experience.
By the way there is no spam to unpublished postmaster@ addresses, probably because this is not an address spammers want to irritate
Some other users have complained that they got under a dictionary attack like you describe. But not me.
There is something scary in slashdotting a nuclear-armed website owner.
postage-based email?
1 inch = 2.54 cm, exactly. There is no need to remember any other number than 2.54. Base all calculations on it and you'll be fine and accurate.
Consider $0.1 average payment per spam email sent: P. Spammer has circa $27,000 in costs, $1280 in reveniue, no profit. He switches to something else, stops polluting the net. So does everyone else. Problem solved.
Yes I am curious to get the obligatiry "anti-spam checklist" on it, but hey... try to be constructive and positive please. We are here to find a solution, not to shoot everything down.
You may want to read about "Teenage Illusion Module" (TIM). Whatever it is, your TIM is obviously working perfectly healthy for your age :)
I have removed key caps from Caps Lock and NumLock on my keyboard a long time ago. On most keyboards, the caps will likely come off if you pull them hard enough. Then, cut a piece of eraser and fit it into the hole such that it sticks out a bit and doesn't press the switch, and voila! (The key caps can be reinserted back if you ever need them later.)
Before that, Caps Lock was constantly getting into my way instead of the Tab key, and NumLock was switching off from time to time too.
Now, what I REALLY want is the Insert key to be ignored when it is not pressed in combination with other keys (I like to use Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins a lot, but NEVER switch into replace mode... it gets into my way all the time). Any ideas (for Windows NT 4.0)?
This is because Soyuz booster is based on an early days military design, or should we say multiple-use design. I believe at one time a couple of these boosters were on standby with nuclear warheards attached (until USSR installed better ICBMs). You don't want weather over the launch pad to preclude a nuclear strike, don't you? No wonder the boosters were designed to be all-weather from the beginning.
Also, not to diminish the achievements which I applaud, but to point out: the demonstration they did (B92 protocol with no reference pulse) in fact is not secure at all. These states can be detected unambiguously probabilistically and those where detection was successful can be re-sent with increased energy, which makes eavesdropping possibly given the low detection probability at Bob. They better do it with BB84 next time :)
Aaahhh! and it runs Linux. Mod me up.
("We are currently using a Linux operating system with custom drivers for the boards.")
May I suggest making a deposit to the central authority. You can only send as many emails as you have money deposited on your account at any time (note: if the recipient receives your email and you are on their whitelist or are marked manually as such upon reading the email, the bit of money associated with this email is instantly freed for use in your other outgoing emails).
Little users will make small deposits; thus, no large number of emails could be sent via their hijacked accounts.
Larger users or mailing list distributors will make larger deposits, and thus will care about their security.
The choice of central authority is a bit delicate question, but we already do have many central systems on the Internet that accept payments from everyone in the world. These are DNS authorities, and the system by and large does work.
This is about the most haunting soap opera I've been exposed to. Why does the SCO thing get posted again and again and again? It's a scam, period. Nothing to see here.
Time delay is becoming common distinction in the interface for buttons performing radical functions. To turn off the device hold the Off button down for a second or two (like in some monitors), to activate the alarm in an elevator hold the Alarm button down for 20 seconds, and so on.
Besides, involving more than one button in the call sequence prevents accidental calls. This is why we in Norway don't have an emergency number 111, only 110, 112 and 113.
Having said that, yes it's still a very bad idea to dedicate a separate button to an emergency number, unless it is to be dialed frequently by the user which is not the case with general population. Let me recall... I'm 29 now, and I've dialed an emergency number twice in my life. Once I called police when I was a kid; it was unnecessary as I was not in any danger, just confused by a gang of older angry kids banging on our door. Later my mother just talked to them and the issue resolved peacefully. The other call was to the ambulance; I should probably have waited a bit before placing it. When the ambulance arrived twenty minutes later, the man who hit his head falling down the stairs and lost consciousness, have already decided and walked away on his own (both times it was in Russia).