because the spammers that send 15 million emails to people in country 1 are not breaking the law in country 2. And Country 2 refuses to do anything about it.
But most of the spammers are in America, and sending spam to Americans. See ROKSO. That they're going via a server in "Country 2" should be irrelevant.
I would love to be able to run Linux on it at home without violating any rules or screwing up anything on the system. This would also allow me to show others at work how easy Linux is to use. A live CD is a potential approach, but it won't remember my config so I'd have to set it up from scratch every time which means it isn't worth it.
You probably have a laptop able to run Knoppix, much more powerfula nd fun than waht the OP can. See here for how to save your config data, either to a hard disk (You are allowed to just store data, aren't you?) or floppy, or any other drive.
Although spam is different from war and peace, I see the same issue here. If one rogue nation chooses to defy UN law, there's not too much they can do...
No country is going to defy the UN to protect spammers. Some might be too corrupt or inept to regulate them effectively, but with laws on the books there is a mechanism to harass them, or institute Internet "sanctions" to make business hard for theose who support them.
how, ahem, "effective" the paper tiger that is the UN has been...
The UN's overriding aim was to prevent another World War. It has done so, despite recent actions by a rogue nation which has ignored its processes. It's also done a few other things, like wiping out smallpox (except for those viruses held back by the USA and USSR that now threaten us again).
And of course the security staff are too stupid to realise that the file called marriah-carey-diva.mp3 is actually the company database. Wow, 200MB, that's a long song, but those "divas" do tend to waffle on a bit;-> What's to stop you simply encrypting the data, then wrapping it up or tagging it on the end of valid MP3 songs?
When Napster only allowed MP3 files, people used apps like Wrapster to make any file look like an MP3, complete with headers. As for a 200 MB MP3, a whole album rip at 320k is about 170 MB, so it's not outrageous.
if you work for a company like mine, where the data is the company's life-blood I can completely understand why they'd want to keep your USB and other storage devices (like iPods) out of their space.
Given the tiny size of USB thumb drives and the like, it's impossible to prevent someone bringing such in without a full rubber-glove search every time you came in. Much simpler to remove all the USB and firewire ports, or lock them down (physically) if you need them for keyboards, mice etc.
fusing Hydrogen requires incredible amounts of energy. Fusing a heavy element like Tritium would require an ungodly amount of energy.
Sorry, completely wrong. Tritium is hydrogen, with an additonal two neutrons than the normal form. It is used on hydrogen bombs, as it's easier to fuse than normal hydrogen. To fuse normal hydrogen you need much more energy and pressure to get the reaction going.
hat big flaming ball in the sky that you see everyday fuses Hydrogen to create Helium, the result is massive energy
Only because the sun is REALLY massive. Solar fusion isn't intense enough to use as an energy source, let alone a bomb.
Personally, I like the idea of trying to stabilize a fusion reaction by just poking it back every time it starts to go unstable...
I think a fusion reaction is going to be rather too fast for that, but that's how the original fission reactors worked, pushing rods into the pile to absorb excess neutrons. And in the Manhattan Project, they did some hair-raising (or losing) experiments with two masses of plutonium, slowly pushing them towards each other just to see if the chain reaction proceeded as predicted. "Tickling the dragon's tail", it was called. One scientist, Louis Slotin, got a lethal dose of radiation when the hemispheres accidentally touched.
Microsoft(r) Word for UNIX Systems Release 5.1 from SCO is the most powerful multiuser word processor available today. It brings the best MSDOS word processing features to multiuser UNIX Systems. Ideal for offices of any size, Microsoft Word 5.1 allows you to effortlessly combine text, graphics, and data to create virtually any type of document-with excellent formatting and printer support. Microsoft Word for UNIX Systems is designed for today's demanding professionals who want the best word processing features.
Apparently discontinued in 1996. Obviously, it could be ported to Linux trivially, Bill's dead body being the only obstacle.
Whe Word for Windows and Word for DOS version numbers were out of sequence and they unified them by eliminating the DOS version and moving the Windows version to 6.
Actually, there was also a Word 6 for DOS (the final one, I believe), and also Word 6 for Mac. I think the motive was more to do with WordPerfect being at 5.1. Obviously 6 must be better than 5.1. Same as the leapfrogging version numberss that Netscape and IE did for a while.
I could take those frames, pick a spot (like a street sign in 10 frames of scene 14), and use imagemagic to overlay the serial number over where the road name should be
he sign outside the car dealership they speed past in the chase says "Eddie's"? Then we know it's copy #9938.
Something like this means each of the 6000 copies of each of the hundreds of movies has to have a human spend at least a few minutes doing this -- I can't see how it could be automated. To get the disks out on time would need hundreds of technicans all working on the same movies at once. So... a new point of leakage is created; and all these people will know exactly how the watermarking works.
but it's hard to justify a higher risk unless one raises prices to exports to certain countries
Apparently I need to point out again that the article is about blocks to access websites, not just refusal to take orders. Anyway, I'm not in America, and not in an "evil" country either, but I've found most American companies either refuse to ship overseas at all, or want to charge amazing "shipping" charges; so I've never bought anything except a few pure net services. But that's another issue.
There is a big difference between refusing credit cards and cutting a country off the Internet.
The article was not just about refusing orders, but preventing people in some countries from even viewing websites, and not just sites selling stuff. So it IS about cutting a country off the Internet.
Can someone explain why you couldn't just record the output from the special DVD player? You would still have to worry about the watermarking, but that's not so hard, if oyu can get two or more disks.
but it just hides the real problem (insecure SMTP in this case) and hurts those who didn't do anything.
RTFA -- it's not email that's being blocked, but web access. Living in Hong Kong, for instance, I occasionally click on a link to find myself greeted by "440 Your country is blocked because of traffic reasons". Other times the page just never loads, leaving me unsure of the reason, though suspicious.
Brilliant. That's mentioned in the article, of course. But what the outcome is that any fraudsters can continue (though no evidence was offered of such), but the average home user will be stymied.
If you're going to try to correct people, don't get it wrong.
I am aware of the whole series of revolutions that took place in China between HK's becoming British in 1841/2, and its handover to the PRC in 1997. But I was just contrasting China then (Imperial) with now (PRC). The point being that the PRC is hardly a legal heir of the Emperors.
Also, another note about HK. Lots of people don't realize how much power didn't change hands with the return of HK to the PRC. Many of the previously appointed British officials still hold their offices. For instance, a British friend of mine has an uncle (also British obviously) who is still a magistrate in HK.
Magistrates and other public servants don't have much power. Those gweilos still in the government keep a low profile if they want a smooth passage to their pension. Those, like Anson Chan, former Chief Secretary, who are seen as being insufficiently patriotic; i.e. by standing up for the rights of HK people, are forced out.
But the tycoons who have had much influence over the territory, whether under British, Japanese or Chinese sovereignty, now have even more. Public housing schemes have been cancelled to keep the profits of the real estate billionaires up, for instance. They've been spreading money around in the Mainland for years to keep sweet with the cadres once they saw how the wind was blowing.
no matter how good the Lotus spreadsheet was, or how much market share it had by itself, Lotus didn't have a competitive word processor or email reader.
How about Lotus Ami Pro? Came out prior to 1990. As for email, I don't remember when Outlook was bundled with Office, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't in 1995.
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But most of the spammers are in America, and sending spam to Americans. See ROKSO. That they're going via a server in "Country 2" should be irrelevant.
You probably have a laptop able to run Knoppix, much more powerfula nd fun than waht the OP can. See here for how to save your config data, either to a hard disk (You are allowed to just store data, aren't you?) or floppy, or any other drive.
Anyone know what this is? Google searches are swamped by people whose name is "Mel".
No country is going to defy the UN to protect spammers. Some might be too corrupt or inept to regulate them effectively, but with laws on the books there is a mechanism to harass them, or institute Internet "sanctions" to make business hard for theose who support them. how, ahem, "effective" the paper tiger that is the UN has been...
The UN's overriding aim was to prevent another World War. It has done so, despite recent actions by a rogue nation which has ignored its processes. It's also done a few other things, like wiping out smallpox (except for those viruses held back by the USA and USSR that now threaten us again).
When Napster only allowed MP3 files, people used apps like Wrapster to make any file look like an MP3, complete with headers. As for a 200 MB MP3, a whole album rip at 320k is about 170 MB, so it's not outrageous.
Given the tiny size of USB thumb drives and the like, it's impossible to prevent someone bringing such in without a full rubber-glove search every time you came in. Much simpler to remove all the USB and firewire ports, or lock them down (physically) if you need them for keyboards, mice etc.
1) No I didn't. 2) I know. YHBT
By you?
Sorry, completely wrong. Tritium is hydrogen, with an additonal two neutrons than the normal form. It is used on hydrogen bombs, as it's easier to fuse than normal hydrogen. To fuse normal hydrogen you need much more energy and pressure to get the reaction going.
hat big flaming ball in the sky that you see everyday fuses Hydrogen to create Helium, the result is massive energy
Only because the sun is REALLY massive. Solar fusion isn't intense enough to use as an energy source, let alone a bomb.
I think a fusion reaction is going to be rather too fast for that, but that's how the original fission reactors worked, pushing rods into the pile to absorb excess neutrons. And in the Manhattan Project, they did some hair-raising (or losing) experiments with two masses of plutonium, slowly pushing them towards each other just to see if the chain reaction proceeded as predicted. "Tickling the dragon's tail", it was called. One scientist, Louis Slotin, got a lethal dose of radiation when the hemispheres accidentally touched.
Well, I didn't know that. But SCO Unix was originally MS Xenix. Microsoft Word for UNIX Systems Release 5.1:
Apparently discontinued in 1996. Obviously, it could be ported to Linux trivially, Bill's dead body being the only obstacle.Actually, there was also a Word 6 for DOS (the final one, I believe), and also Word 6 for Mac. I think the motive was more to do with WordPerfect being at 5.1. Obviously 6 must be better than 5.1. Same as the leapfrogging version numberss that Netscape and IE did for a while.
Easy. Now do it 6000 times.
Something like this means each of the 6000 copies of each of the hundreds of movies has to have a human spend at least a few minutes doing this -- I can't see how it could be automated. To get the disks out on time would need hundreds of technicans all working on the same movies at once. So... a new point of leakage is created; and all these people will know exactly how the watermarking works.
Apparently I need to point out again that the article is about blocks to access websites, not just refusal to take orders. Anyway, I'm not in America, and not in an "evil" country either, but I've found most American companies either refuse to ship overseas at all, or want to charge amazing "shipping" charges; so I've never bought anything except a few pure net services. But that's another issue.
The article was not just about refusing orders, but preventing people in some countries from even viewing websites, and not just sites selling stuff. So it IS about cutting a country off the Internet.
Can someone explain why you couldn't just record the output from the special DVD player? You would still have to worry about the watermarking, but that's not so hard, if oyu can get two or more disks.
All dead as I type.
How would I know? Anyway, I have popups blocked by default.
You would emigrate over Internet connectivity?
Unless you happen to live in one of these marginal countries, as the author of the original article does.
You'd think so, but this one, for instance says 440.
RTFA -- it's not email that's being blocked, but web access. Living in Hong Kong, for instance, I occasionally click on a link to find myself greeted by "440 Your country is blocked because of traffic reasons". Other times the page just never loads, leaving me unsure of the reason, though suspicious.
Brilliant. That's mentioned in the article, of course. But what the outcome is that any fraudsters can continue (though no evidence was offered of such), but the average home user will be stymied.
I am aware of the whole series of revolutions that took place in China between HK's becoming British in 1841/2, and its handover to the PRC in 1997. But I was just contrasting China then (Imperial) with now (PRC). The point being that the PRC is hardly a legal heir of the Emperors.
Also, another note about HK. Lots of people don't realize how much power didn't change hands with the return of HK to the PRC. Many of the previously appointed British officials still hold their offices. For instance, a British friend of mine has an uncle (also British obviously) who is still a magistrate in HK.
Magistrates and other public servants don't have much power. Those gweilos still in the government keep a low profile if they want a smooth passage to their pension. Those, like Anson Chan, former Chief Secretary, who are seen as being insufficiently patriotic; i.e. by standing up for the rights of HK people, are forced out.
But the tycoons who have had much influence over the territory, whether under British, Japanese or Chinese sovereignty, now have even more. Public housing schemes have been cancelled to keep the profits of the real estate billionaires up, for instance. They've been spreading money around in the Mainland for years to keep sweet with the cadres once they saw how the wind was blowing.
How about Lotus Ami Pro? Came out prior to 1990. As for email, I don't remember when Outlook was bundled with Office, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't in 1995.