but they can only sue the spammers they can track down and identify.
According to this list of the cases they have names of 11 of the 15 people or companies.
Doesn't say how, but I've always thought that commercial spam MUST give you a way to contact them, otherwise how would you buy anything? Usually the URLs are bogus or shortlived, but they give PO Boxes or phone numbers, which are a little more trouble to track down, but give a hard ID when you do.
I would have to restore over 60 gigs of data if my system got wiped...And yes, I could get it all back, but think of the time investment
Simplest thing is image to another hard disk -- either in an external case, or the cheap way to isolate it, just yank the cables when you aren't actually backing/restoring. Doesn't save you if the box is physically destroyed or stolen, but much better than no backup at all.
Biggest problem is the sheer variety of mobo makers / models out there
Right, as if the mobo manufacturers in China would all follow this suicide box standard -- they'd build them for export to the US, but no one else on the planet would want them.
If it stops even 1 person from killing a child crossing the street, it was worth it.
Mandate governors to prevent any vehicle going faster than 50 mph. Save thousands of lives -- seriously, this PREVENTS accidents, but the blackboxes aren't going to stop drunken assholes from speeding down suburban streets. At best, they may save some court time as they won't be able to argue the facts.
More hitech: have a variable governor tha enforces the local speed limit. Obviously, make it ilegal to tamper with it, as for anti-pollution devices. Cars kill far more peole than enything except cigarettes.
their rights (especially privacy) have been violated
The car is the scene of the crime -- in fact it could be considered the murder weapon. If suspect was detained at the scene of a death, I don't think that his privacy rights protect him from being searched, for the murder weapon and other evidence. Even blood samples can be demanded in many cases, particularly road accidents. Cars are routinely impounded after accidents for investigation now.
In this case they got a warrant prior to accessing the records anyway, so I don't see any avenue of appeal on those grounds.
If your 2-year old gets hit by a car doing the 30MPH residential speed limit, your 2-year old is very likely just as dead.
At 30 mph, as opposed to 114 mph, the driver has a much better chance of seeing and avoiding a child, and pedestrians have a better chance of gettng out of the way.
panakeia is the Greek spelling of the Greek word, and if you click on the submitter's link, you find that she's Greek, so this is not the standard Slashduh illiteracy, but a symptom of polyglottalism.
I'm sorry but management has every right to ask it's employees to step up their work effort in order to keep the company afloat.
"Ask" not "demand", and the problem is that they're not offering any compensation -- monetary or otherwise.
I worked for one asshole for far too long who did stuff like that till I eventually worked out I was never going to be rewarded for giving up my life (I an married, with a kid). So I just stopped working nights and weekends. And after a while, when my salary was even later than usual, I could claim under local legislation that I'd been effectively dismissed without cause and thus be eligible for long service payments (which I wouldn't if I had just quit). Even though I've suffered a big loss (hard to get a decent job here, which was what he was banking on) I feel much better not working for an exploitative scumbag (of course, it wasn't just me, everyone who worked for him got screwed, some of the females literally).
I have a secrete, I like to kill Mockingbirds. ... secret... unless there is some subtlety going over my head
My moral is that HTML from MSOffice is bloated like crazy and sucks badly in many other ways. I made a nice FAQ file, about 100k total, with some very simple CSS as the only styling. Another guy uses Word to edit it, it goes to 180k, and is so full of and nested and other tags that it's impossible to edit source any more.
I think this must hold the record for the geographic TLD with the lowest population -- zero. Larger area than some of the cities, though.
CIA factbook:
These uninhabited, barren, sub-Antarctic islands were transferred from the UK to Australia in 1947. Populated by large numbers of seal and bird species, the islands have been designated a nature preserve.
Monaco is in effect a city-state, but the "capital" is Monte Carlo
I didn't concern myself with the "country name" vs "city name". For instance, Hong Kong's capital is officially called Victoria, though hardly anyone uses that name any more. Just whether there was a territory that basically was one city and maybe some countryside. So whether, for instance Kuwait, falls into this "city-state" category is a matter of opinion.
I'm not quite sure how large the island of St. Helena is.
Other countries whose capital cities share the name of the country...
That wasn't the criterion I used. I listed "tiny" districts with basically one city and no hinterland. And not being familiar with all of them, quite likely some are shaky. Since I live in Hong Kong and have spent time in Macau and Singapore, I can vouch for those.
>Luxembourg is larger than a city.
>Nor is Hong Kong
HK is just over 1000 km2, a bit smaller than LA. It has a population of 6.8 million, a bit more than LA. Macau (.mo)is much smaller, but higher density.
I think it would be better to say that Los Angeles is the first city that is not also its own independent country to have a TLD.
Hong Kong (.hk), Macau (.mo), both in China. And LA of course DOESN'T have a TLD,.la belongs to Laos, and it could revoke any of these at any time. The.la names just being sold by some cheesy direct marketing company, nothing "official" (in the implied sense of being endorsed by the city of LA) about it.
Personally, the new TLD I'd like to see is "movie"...
Every movie has a web site now, and none of the URLs are consistent at all.
Most of the movie sites disappear shortly after first release. It's a drag when you hit on a lot of dead links to a movie you find on TV or DVD and want to find out more.
Sometimes the page just directs to something like "movietitle.sony.com", which would be fine, but aften that 404s too. So a ".movie" domain would just be a graveyard of evanescent sites. TLDs are just a way to sell addresses, totally unreliable to organise information. I just use a movie site like rottentomatoes, IMDB, or of course Google.
If ICANN had assigned a TLD to a city, THAT would be news.
Singapore.sg
Monaco.mc
Hong Kong.hk
Macau.mo
Gibraltar.gi
Kuwait.kw
Vatican.va
Luxembourg.lu
Saint Helena.sh
Of these, most are indpendent city-states (or village-states), except for HK and Macau, which were European colonies and are now Chinese ones, Saint Helena, and Gibraltar, British colonies.
And even beter, look at the source of the FA: The Online Newspaper of Record for Direct Marketers. They sound like a group we'd all like to help promote their scummy plan to deprive a whole fourth world country of their domain (yes, I know they bought it, so did 18th C slavers when buying their merchandise). So now there's a "yahoo.la", etc, etc. That really fills a need.
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According to this list of the cases they have names of 11 of the 15 people or companies.
Doesn't say how, but I've always thought that commercial spam MUST give you a way to contact them, otherwise how would you buy anything? Usually the URLs are bogus or shortlived, but they give PO Boxes or phone numbers, which are a little more trouble to track down, but give a hard ID when you do.
Yes, it wasn't in the obvious place. A pretty slapdash site all around. One hopes his actual work is more careful.
If you back up to the home page, you find the address info@addison4schools.net.
That's exactly the service Addison is selling.
Simplest thing is image to another hard disk -- either in an external case, or the cheap way to isolate it, just yank the cables when you aren't actually backing/restoring. Doesn't save you if the box is physically destroyed or stolen, but much better than no backup at all.
Right, as if the mobo manufacturers in China would all follow this suicide box standard -- they'd build them for export to the US, but no one else on the planet would want them.
It wasn't an analogy.
Adelaide Fairy Penguins
Mandate governors to prevent any vehicle going faster than 50 mph. Save thousands of lives -- seriously, this PREVENTS accidents, but the blackboxes aren't going to stop drunken assholes from speeding down suburban streets. At best, they may save some court time as they won't be able to argue the facts.
More hitech: have a variable governor tha enforces the local speed limit. Obviously, make it ilegal to tamper with it, as for anti-pollution devices. Cars kill far more peole than enything except cigarettes.
The car is the scene of the crime -- in fact it could be considered the murder weapon. If suspect was detained at the scene of a death, I don't think that his privacy rights protect him from being searched, for the murder weapon and other evidence. Even blood samples can be demanded in many cases, particularly road accidents. Cars are routinely impounded after accidents for investigation now.
In this case they got a warrant prior to accessing the records anyway, so I don't see any avenue of appeal on those grounds.
At 30 mph, as opposed to 114 mph, the driver has a much better chance of seeing and avoiding a child, and pedestrians have a better chance of gettng out of the way.
panakeia is the Greek spelling of the Greek word, and if you click on the submitter's link, you find that she's Greek, so this is not the standard Slashduh illiteracy, but a symptom of polyglottalism.
"Ask" not "demand", and the problem is that they're not offering any compensation -- monetary or otherwise.
I worked for one asshole for far too long who did stuff like that till I eventually worked out I was never going to be rewarded for giving up my life (I an married, with a kid). So I just stopped working nights and weekends. And after a while, when my salary was even later than usual, I could claim under local legislation that I'd been effectively dismissed without cause and thus be eligible for long service payments (which I wouldn't if I had just quit). Even though I've suffered a big loss (hard to get a decent job here, which was what he was banking on) I feel much better not working for an exploitative scumbag (of course, it wasn't just me, everyone who worked for him got screwed, some of the females literally).
I have a secrete, I like to kill Mockingbirds.
... secret ... unless there is some subtlety going over my head
My moral is that HTML from MSOffice is bloated like crazy and sucks badly in many other ways. I made a nice FAQ file, about 100k total, with some very simple CSS as the only styling. Another guy uses Word to edit it, it goes to 180k, and is so full of and nested and other tags that it's impossible to edit source any more.
These are Australian, not British.
I think this must hold the record for the geographic TLD with the lowest population -- zero. Larger area than some of the cities, though.
I didn't concern myself with the "country name" vs "city name". For instance, Hong Kong's capital is officially called Victoria, though hardly anyone uses that name any more. Just whether there was a territory that basically was one city and maybe some countryside. So whether, for instance Kuwait, falls into this "city-state" category is a matter of opinion.
I'm not quite sure how large the island of St. Helena is.
410 sq km, over several islands. (Half the area of Hong Kong.)The CIA World Factbook is good for all those basics, including simple maps. And here is a good list of TLDs and links.
That wasn't the criterion I used. I listed "tiny" districts with basically one city and no hinterland. And not being familiar with all of them, quite likely some are shaky. Since I live in Hong Kong and have spent time in Macau and Singapore, I can vouch for those.
Yes, and I said "Of these, most are indpendent [sic] city-states". So what's your point?
>Nor is Hong Kong
HK is just over 1000 km2, a bit smaller than LA. It has a population of 6.8 million, a bit more than LA. Macau (.mo)is much smaller, but higher density.
Hong Kong (.hk), Macau (.mo), both in China. And LA of course DOESN'T have a TLD, .la belongs to Laos, and it could revoke any of these at any time. The .la names just being sold by some cheesy direct marketing company, nothing "official" (in the implied sense of being endorsed by the city of LA) about it.
Most of the movie sites disappear shortly after first release. It's a drag when you hit on a lot of dead links to a movie you find on TV or DVD and want to find out more.
Sometimes the page just directs to something like "movietitle.sony.com", which would be fine, but aften that 404s too. So a ".movie" domain would just be a graveyard of evanescent sites. TLDs are just a way to sell addresses, totally unreliable to organise information. I just use a movie site like rottentomatoes, IMDB, or of course Google.
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A classy neighbourhood (or should that be 'hood)
In theory? In fact.
HK whois
Singapore .sg .mc .hk .mo .gi .kw .va .lu .sh
Monaco
Hong Kong
Macau
Gibraltar
Kuwait
Vatican
Luxembourg
Saint Helena
Of these, most are indpendent city-states (or village-states), except for HK and Macau, which were European colonies and are now Chinese ones, Saint Helena, and Gibraltar, British colonies.
And even beter, look at the source of the FA: The Online Newspaper of Record for Direct Marketers. They sound like a group we'd all like to help promote their scummy plan to deprive a whole fourth world country of their domain (yes, I know they bought it, so did 18th C slavers when buying their merchandise). So now there's a "yahoo.la", etc, etc. That really fills a need.