I've been using custom email addresses to track where spammers harvest my email address from.
I get a lot of spam from a special offer I signed up for via mp3.com a while back for a diamond ria contest.
Any email address I have ever posted on a web page receives spam. Any email address I've used to post to a large mailing list also receives spam.
I have never opted-in for any special email offers so I know that they are lying when they say that I did. A large percentage of the spam I receive contains words like "You opted in" and is addressed to an address that identifies to me which site it was harvested from.
I'm glad that extra protection is in there. Of course in the email program I use (KMail), you have to save the executable and set the permissions to executable before any execution happens.
Don't click on executable attachments in your email. Please. (Outlook team: Please don't execute everything I click on) Also. Don't send me messages that are really just plain text in either html or word document format.
Microsoft does have people actively working to discredit Linux. I went to a presentation by a Microsoft representative at a Microsoft user's group meeting that was discussing Linux.
It basically amounted to "Linux isn't as popular as you might think so you better stick with Microsoft." (They didn't really discuss a comparison of quality of the products).
As for the weird trolling type posts, don't be too quick to ignore the possibility of a bored, twisted person but I would be extremely surprised if Microsoft doesn't have at least one employee assigned to Slashdot monitoring and responding full time.
Just wait until he has all that copy protection built into your OS (XP)
Done. Video capture cards will not capture from a Macrovision source. DVD output to video or svideo must have Macrovision on it or fail to display.
, TVs
Digitally encrypted HDTV is on the way according to a recent slashdot article, and DVD players (DVD/DVD2)
DMCA makes trafficing in "circumvention technology" illegal, even if that "circumvention technology" is simply something you need to view the DVD you purchased legally, at the store, with real money and everything, www.intel.com
I don't know anything about this one.
Of the 2 big uprisings I can think of 1 was successful and 1 failed. The Revolutionary War (War for Independence from Britain) was successful and the Civil War (Confederacy's War for Independence from the Union) failed.
Interesting. So you are claiming that your obvious exhibition of some freedom proves that no freedoms have been removed?
There is not an exact relationship. A country of 100 people could have a dictator or it could be equally governed by all 100 people. However a government in a country of 250 million people will obviously have to deal with many things that most of those people will not even know about.
China might be a good example of a large country lacking in individual freedoms. The US has made individual freedoms a priority since day one but they still do suffer sometimes.
You certainly are a smug one. Are you one of those nuts that uses the phrase "God cannot create a rock too big for him to lift therefore he is not omnipotent" as a silly circular argument to claim there is no God? And how would you know what things are like in the "real world"? Have you visited there recently?
It is happening now. I'm claiming it will be worse under a world government.
Many countries, America and Muslim countries included, have legislated morality (which I view as telling someone how to think) in many forms. How much of the human body may be legally uncovered is a common one.
As far as making political change, I don't want to have to do that. I want to be able to quietly observe my own beliefs without interference.
A one world government will just reduce my ability to have any control over my life to almost nil. That is what I care about. The ability to think for myself, make my own decisions, etc. I don't want to be told what to think about god, sex, political correctness, etc.
Also a one-world government will create a class of people with ridiculous amounts of power (and, get this, they might not all be good people). Try stopping them. Your uprising will be squashed like a little bug rebellion. (they'll probably favor gun control too. meaning your little uprising will take place with sticks and stones and your kid's little Nerf crossbow.)
Too bad Nader and consumer advocates in general don't have billions of dollars in profits on their side. I don't agree with everything Nader says but I might if he had an expensive marketing department that specialized in manipulating people's ideas.
I agree that we should value our national sovereignty above any of the Wxx organizations. (Can you imagine Germany suing the USA for copying its jet plane ideas without proper patent licensing during WW2?)
I'm not sure I like this idea but it isn't too bad.
Some ISPs block outgoing port 25 connections so that a spammer operating on their system will be unable to send outgoing mail except through their mail server. It seems to work OK. I haven't seen a lot of spam originating from Netzero which by its design should be a spammer haven.
If you do need to send email, from, say, your work account, your work should either set up a vpn or a relay on a high numbered port (not an open relay either).
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Dropping all of China wouldn't be much loss right now.
I take it you don't have family or friends over there.
You don't want to buy from a spammer no matter where you live. They use dirty tactics to send their spam and you know they will cheat you out of your money at the first opportunity.
So don't stress out about not being able to buy the products. Be glad.
It is already illegal to sell using fraud. The problem is trying to track down and prosecute every spammer.
re's really only one use for a gun-- kill or injure people.
That's a load of bull. I could make a better argument about tobacco's only use being to kill and injure people with the number of poisons it contains. It addicts you and then poisons you til you die.
Guns are used for hunting (killing animals is still considered acceptable by huge numbers of meat eaters in this country), target shooting (the olympic biathlon event for one), and self-defense (OK, that is killing people but they were all bad).
I do agree with you that it is silly to sue the gun manufacturers. This country has had guns throughout its history and there are numerous ocassions when they were necessary (both for hunting to survive and self-defense to survive). To suddenly say that those who make guns are responsible for crimes with them is quite crazy.
The hosts file allows you control over a single address. So you could block, say, ad1.some_ad_company.com, but ad2.some_ad_company.com would still get through.
With the dns server you can add an entry for *.some_ad_company.com and block the entire domain. Personally I have those domains redirected to a web server that returns a 200 response for any URL thrown at it.
I like your idea about the ID. I'm not fond of the digital rights management features that prevent the fair use of music you have purchased when you wish to use it on your 2nd computer. (I refuse to purchase any music covered by such features.)
Consumer protection was never a goal of the DMCA. Corporate profits are the goal of the DMCA (Macrovision, RIAA, MPAA, etc). Screw the consumer. No consumers were involved in this legislation. Sometimes I think we need more consumer lobbyists. Oh yea, we do have the damn congressman we hired to represent us. What is up with that?
The problem I see with making the process for reporting vulnerabilities too organized is that anyone can locate a vulnerability. If the process becomes too complex they will just go somewhere else to report them and I, as a sysadmin, don't have the time to follow every black hat bboard.
He'd be very tired but he could get a fairly high number of them. I doubt Solomon would have been up to the task with his 1000 women, but a dozen is probably within reach. "Dozens" is probably out of reach.
Of course he could send in a substitute impregnator (they did have that technology back then) but that kinda defeats the purpose of having a harem.
It has been a while since I used MediaPlayer but I believe you can turn off cddb lookups. I am confused about the DVD thing since the entire reason for cddb lookups is to get the disk title and song titles and DVD already has all that information in the disk so the only reason I can see to communicate that info is evil monitoring. (I always turned of cddb lookups because as neat as it is to have the titles for my cds in there automatically, I don't like telling people I don't trust what CDs I have or have borrowed)
I run my own dns server so I can add entries like *.evilcompany.com 127.0.0.1
Hmmm. Every time a company writes a law it seems to have the effect of making that company rich at the expense of others (Though that is not automatically wrong).
Why not have lawmakers write the laws? Make them craft it by hand so they don't intrinsically benefit one company or organization but so that they benefit the people that elected the lawmakers in the first place.
OK. Say you work hard writing books and leave $40 million to your relatives. Then your book hits the public domain.
They still have $40 million. It wasn't taken away from them. (well maybe for taxes).
What about my right to choose what classic literature I read without fear of a lawyer showing up at my door? Can you imagine the cost of education today if every piece of literature, music, art, etc was still held captive by the heirs of the author? Teachers are underpaid as it is.
I do consider it to be an equally creative effort to create a program as to create a novel, picture, song, or movie. Look at the difference between corporate films and entertainment films for a comparison of films that are an exercise in logic with, perhaps, a bit of insight.
A good program requires a lot of creativity. Ideally it is as compact as possible and yet as powerful as possible. It is the type of program that your users thank you for writing because it made their lives infinitely easier. The type of program that sysadmins praise you for because it is secure, yet easy to roll out.
As far as the "special edition", my only point was that they could make money from it. Isn't that the point?
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I've been using custom email addresses to track where spammers harvest my email address from.
I get a lot of spam from a special offer I signed up for via mp3.com a while back for a diamond ria contest.
Any email address I have ever posted on a web page receives spam. Any email address I've used to post to a large mailing list also receives spam.
I have never opted-in for any special email offers so I know that they are lying when they say that I did. A large percentage of the spam I receive contains words like "You opted in" and is addressed to an address that identifies to me which site it was harvested from.
I'm glad that extra protection is in there.
Of course in the email program I use (KMail), you have to save the executable and set the permissions to executable before any execution happens.
I am successfully avoiding RIAA. I haven't been completely successful in avoiding MPAA but I have cut down my movie purchases quite a bit.
Don't click on executable attachments in your email.
Please. (Outlook team: Please don't execute everything I click on)
Also. Don't send me messages that are really just plain text in either html or word document format.
Microsoft does have people actively working to discredit Linux. I went to a presentation by a Microsoft representative at a Microsoft user's group meeting that was discussing Linux.
It basically amounted to "Linux isn't as popular as you might think so you better stick with Microsoft." (They didn't really discuss a comparison of quality of the products).
As for the weird trolling type posts, don't be too quick to ignore the possibility of a bored, twisted person but I would be extremely surprised if Microsoft doesn't have at least one employee assigned to Slashdot monitoring and responding full time.
Just to be clear on the above
Just wait until he has all that copy protection built into your OS (XP)
Done. Video capture cards will not capture from a Macrovision source. DVD output to video or svideo must have Macrovision on it or fail to display.
, TVs
Digitally encrypted HDTV is on the way according to a recent slashdot article,
and DVD players (DVD/DVD2)
DMCA makes trafficing in "circumvention technology" illegal, even if that "circumvention technology" is simply something you need to view the DVD you purchased legally, at the store, with real money and everything,
www.intel.com
I don't know anything about this one.
Of the 2 big uprisings I can think of 1 was successful and 1 failed. The Revolutionary War (War for Independence from Britain) was successful and the Civil War (Confederacy's War for Independence from the Union) failed.
Interesting. So you are claiming that your obvious exhibition of some freedom proves that no freedoms have been removed?
There is not an exact relationship. A country of 100 people could have a dictator or it could be equally governed by all 100 people. However a government in a country of 250 million people will obviously have to deal with many things that most of those people will not even know about.
China might be a good example of a large country lacking in individual freedoms. The US has made individual freedoms a priority since day one but they still do suffer sometimes.
You certainly are a smug one. Are you one of those nuts that uses the phrase "God cannot create a rock too big for him to lift therefore he is not omnipotent" as a silly circular argument to claim there is no God?
And how would you know what things are like in the "real world"? Have you visited there recently?
It is happening now. I'm claiming it will be worse under a world government.
Many countries, America and Muslim countries included, have legislated morality (which I view as telling someone how to think) in many forms. How much of the human body may be legally uncovered is a common one.
As far as making political change, I don't want to have to do that. I want to be able to quietly observe my own beliefs without interference.
A one world government will just reduce my ability to have any control over my life to almost nil. That is what I care about. The ability to think for myself, make my own decisions, etc. I don't want to be told what to think about god, sex, political correctness, etc.
Also a one-world government will create a class of people with ridiculous amounts of power (and, get this, they might not all be good people). Try stopping them. Your uprising will be squashed like a little bug rebellion. (they'll probably favor gun control too. meaning your little uprising will take place with sticks and stones and your kid's little Nerf crossbow.)
Too bad Nader and consumer advocates in general don't have billions of dollars in profits on their side.
I don't agree with everything Nader says but I might if he had an expensive marketing department that specialized in manipulating people's ideas.
I agree that we should value our national sovereignty above any of the Wxx organizations. (Can you imagine Germany suing the USA for copying its jet plane ideas without proper patent licensing during WW2?)
I'm not sure I like this idea but it isn't too bad.
Some ISPs block outgoing port 25 connections so that a spammer operating on their system will be unable to send outgoing mail except through their mail server. It seems to work OK. I haven't seen a lot of spam originating from Netzero which by its design should be a spammer haven.
If you do need to send email, from, say, your work account, your work should either set up a vpn or a relay on a high numbered port (not an open relay either).
Dropping all of China wouldn't be much loss right now.
I take it you don't have family or friends over there.
You don't want to buy from a spammer no matter where you live. They use dirty tactics to send their spam and you know they will cheat you out of your money at the first opportunity.
So don't stress out about not being able to buy the products. Be glad.
It is already illegal to sell using fraud. The problem is trying to track down and prosecute every spammer.
The Marvel Universe has a lot more fighting than this universe.
Personally the folks I know that spend too much time in the Marvel Universe don't know enough about the real universe to be able to compare.
The parent post is supposedly "insightful", yet my direct reply to the parent post is "off-topic". Come on, think people!
re's really only one use for a gun-- kill or injure people.
That's a load of bull. I could make a better argument about tobacco's only use being to kill and injure people with the number of poisons it contains. It addicts you and then poisons you til you die.
Guns are used for hunting (killing animals is still considered acceptable by huge numbers of meat eaters in this country), target shooting (the olympic biathlon event for one), and self-defense (OK, that is killing people but they were all bad).
I do agree with you that it is silly to sue the gun manufacturers. This country has had guns throughout its history and there are numerous ocassions when they were necessary (both for hunting to survive and self-defense to survive). To suddenly say that those who make guns are responsible for crimes with them is quite crazy.
The hosts file allows you control over a single address. So you could block, say, ad1.some_ad_company.com, but ad2.some_ad_company.com would still get through.
With the dns server you can add an entry for *.some_ad_company.com and block the entire domain.
Personally I have those domains redirected to a web server that returns a 200 response for any URL thrown at it.
I like your idea about the ID. I'm not fond of the digital rights management features that prevent the fair use of music you have purchased when you wish to use it on your 2nd computer. (I refuse to purchase any music covered by such features.)
Consumer protection was never a goal of the DMCA. Corporate profits are the goal of the DMCA (Macrovision, RIAA, MPAA, etc). Screw the consumer. No consumers were involved in this legislation. Sometimes I think we need more consumer lobbyists. Oh yea, we do have the damn congressman we hired to represent us. What is up with that?
The problem I see with making the process for reporting vulnerabilities too organized is that anyone can locate a vulnerability. If the process becomes too complex they will just go somewhere else to report them and I, as a sysadmin, don't have the time to follow every black hat bboard.
He'd be very tired but he could get a fairly high number of them. I doubt Solomon would have been up to the task with his 1000 women, but a dozen is probably within reach. "Dozens" is probably out of reach.
Of course he could send in a substitute impregnator (they did have that technology back then) but that kinda defeats the purpose of having a harem.
It has been a while since I used MediaPlayer but I believe you can turn off cddb lookups. I am confused about the DVD thing since the entire reason for cddb lookups is to get the disk title and song titles and DVD already has all that information in the disk so the only reason I can see to communicate that info is evil monitoring. (I always turned of cddb lookups because as neat as it is to have the titles for my cds in there automatically, I don't like telling people I don't trust what CDs I have or have borrowed)
I run my own dns server so I can add entries like *.evilcompany.com 127.0.0.1
Hmmm. Every time a company writes a law it seems to have the effect of making that company rich at the expense of others (Though that is not automatically wrong).
Why not have lawmakers write the laws? Make them craft it by hand so they don't intrinsically benefit one company or organization but so that they benefit the people that elected the lawmakers in the first place.
I agree. Certainly not a topic worth commenting on.
OK. Say you work hard writing books and leave $40 million to your relatives. Then your book hits the public domain.
They still have $40 million. It wasn't taken away from them. (well maybe for taxes).
What about my right to choose what classic literature I read without fear of a lawyer showing up at my door?
Can you imagine the cost of education today if every piece of literature, music, art, etc was still held captive by the heirs of the author? Teachers are underpaid as it is.
I do consider it to be an equally creative effort to create a program as to create a novel, picture, song, or movie. Look at the difference between corporate films and entertainment films for a comparison of films that are an exercise in logic with, perhaps, a bit of insight.
A good program requires a lot of creativity. Ideally it is as compact as possible and yet as powerful as possible. It is the type of program that your users thank you for writing because it made their lives infinitely easier. The type of program that sysadmins praise you for because it is secure, yet easy to roll out.
As far as the "special edition", my only point was that they could make money from it. Isn't that the point?