I have to say that %50 of the spam I get on a daily basis is probably some kind of rip-off scam made up by some guy sitting in his room running on a free hosting service with a domain used to gather CC info.
Does this mean that spammers will be considered terrorists? Will we have laws that will finally put these criminals in jail?
I hope this is the case. Since the last article I read about spammers, Ive been sending letters charging them for bandwidth ($50 a pop) if they continue to spam. Hopefully now I will be able to just send a little email to the FBI and say, hey, here is a terrorist for you to give hell to.:)
I would have to say the best thing to do is to use spamcop for the 1st or 2nd time, and then after that if the ISP still does nothing about the spammer, then find every address listed on the site, and forward the spam to it. That will make the admins listen.
I repeatedly recieved spam from a site called popsite.net, run by megapop.net, and repeadidly asked them to stop sending spam, or to stop providing free dialups to spammers, and they still din't listen. I got tired of it and called them. They still did nothing. I recieved another one, and decided to just annoy the hell out of them untill they did somthing about it. I forwarded the spam to EVERY email address listed on megapop.net: abuse@ support@ noc@ billing@ etc... every one. Then I forwared the auto-replys back to them. And finally a REAL person emailed me and said they had found the spammer, and mentioned that several people were pressing charges against him, and asked If I wanted to, and gave me his email address, AND his home phone number.
Now every now and then when im near a phone and bored, ill call the spammer and hangup, or play a recording of a Telemarketer; somthing along the lines of "Congratulations! You've qualified for the platinum card!". Every site that asks for an email address to download somthing, I just put his email address in it.
I have over 1,200 lines in access file for sendmail, and STILL I get spam from overseas servers. Mostly I will just block all of.co.uk, or.com.pt, or somthing to that nature, to prevent 9/10ths of the spam that comes in.
The best way to fight spammers/advertisers/telemarketers is to fight fire with fire.
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GSOD (G'S'O'D)
GSOD: A acronym for defining the Green Screen Of Death. Invented by Microsoft Corp, in 2001.
This is what is displayed when the XBox(R) crashes, and fails to load media. Mostly requiring a power cycle.
Is this talking about pages or requests? This is a world of difference. Most large sites, and even some small ones out there are using dynamic page generation based on php, perl, and some with asp. This idea wouln't seem to count images, but I wouln't like paying for annoying banner ads, or popups, and won't.
This is a very broad subject, and should be more specific. I am not exactly seeing what is defined as a 'page', since most arn't static anymore, and those popups are actually a small static page with a resized window.
Would this mean that I could start charging everytime someone went to my site/server for ATM/DSL bandwidth usage?
I did a small job working for Compaq installing NT4 boxen for the local SSAs (Social Security Agency)(s). They used a Centralized NT 4 server with SP3 (Yes, service pack 3) and the administrator password was... get this... "password1". The client machines loged in to the PDC on a TokenRing network which took minutes just to download a 50k profile. The man who was in charge of all of this was being overpaid, since I could tell that some of these older machines still had virii on them.:\ and the server crashed twice because of a tokenring bug in service pack 3, and they din't know what it was, nor did they know that SP6a was available. The assistant din't even know what Windows2000 was, much less BSD/Linux.
Yes, the governement does have very terrible security. I thought our taxdollars were paying for more than this? Im not bashing, or trying to be a troll, but wouln't some form of UNIX like BSD, or Linux reduce our tax rates, providing the admins know how to use it? I know they are paying thousands just for that ONE NT4 server running on a Pentium Pro 200, with 128mb ram.
I was watching a Jackie Chan movie once, the ones that show the words at the bottem of the screen when they are not speaking in English. I was reading what the woman was trying to say, when all of a sudden one of those things came up at the bottem of the screen and stayed there for like 2 minutes during the whole conversation between the 2. I missed the entire thing!
I agree that stopping this type of activity is a good thing. I can't watch a forign film, and understand it anymore, and thats just plain sad.
Does this mean that M$ will have to open the source to their protocol stacks? If the Halloween documents are true this will be a great advantage to all developers. This will prevent the re-happening of the Novell/Ms problems, and will open NT up the the Samba team! This will be a great time for those of us who use the 2 to work together. I noticed that they tried to stop ppl from using Samba when they released XP 2600. 2000 SP2 worked with Samba 2.2.1a. XP din't. Hmmm.
Anyway, the open protocol scheme is a good idea. This should have been thought of a lot earlier by the DOJ. I believe this will be a great thing for everyone, companys, closed source developers, open source developers, and anyone else who wants to write their own 'samba server'. This will open up competition again, and allow for people like me to have a easier time running M$ software with non-M$ software. A lot of people choose not to run NT for servers, and M$ will punnish them for it in the next release, or update. This won't happen again if this all works out!
"Rarely has software which contains security holes"
True. True. True. The thing with some other distros is that they muck with the package to benifit their distro, or to make it work with somthing, or add a feature etc... Slackware doesn't do this. They evaluate the software, make the package, and then put it in -current. Thats one thing I noticed about Slack. They don't really mess with the packages, or alter them. They leave them as they are untill it needs to be updated.:)
I think the package management has slowed. I have been trying to get the 2.2.2 build of Samba for Slack 7/8 but can't find it anywhere. usually I can get it from the site within 3 days, or even a few hours after it is released.
I really enjoy using Slackware. Im still using 7.0 version (oh yea, its updated):) but I have never had any problems with it, packages breaking etc... Like I did with the RPM management systems.
Also I would just like to add that I think Slackware does packages better than other distros. Its funny how redhat may have.... lets say around 2,000 or so packages (not really just a guess), and then you have Slackware that has around, 150 packages at most. Which one is easier to manage? Probably Slackware since its bare, and doesn't give you extra crap you don't need.
Ive been very satisfied with Slackware. I continue to support them, and buy every major release to support their efforts.
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I have to say that %50 of the spam I get on a daily basis is probably some kind of rip-off scam made up by some guy sitting in his room running on a free hosting service with a domain used to gather CC info.
:)
Does this mean that spammers will be considered terrorists? Will we have laws that will finally put these criminals in jail?
I hope this is the case. Since the last article I read about spammers, Ive been sending letters charging them for bandwidth ($50 a pop) if they continue to spam. Hopefully now I will be able to just send a little email to the FBI and say, hey, here is a terrorist for you to give hell to.
I would have to say the best thing to do is to use spamcop for the 1st or 2nd time, and then after that if the ISP still does nothing about the spammer, then find every address listed on the site, and forward the spam to it. That will make the admins listen.
.co.uk, or .com.pt, or somthing to that nature, to prevent 9/10ths of the spam that comes in.
I repeatedly recieved spam from a site called popsite.net, run by megapop.net, and repeadidly asked them to stop sending spam, or to stop providing free dialups to spammers, and they still din't listen. I got tired of it and called them. They still did nothing. I recieved another one, and decided to just annoy the hell out of them untill they did somthing about it. I forwarded the spam to EVERY email address listed on megapop.net: abuse@ support@ noc@ billing@ etc... every one. Then I forwared the auto-replys back to them. And finally a REAL person emailed me and said they had found the spammer, and mentioned that several people were pressing charges against him, and asked If I wanted to, and gave me his email address, AND his home phone number.
Now every now and then when im near a phone and bored, ill call the spammer and hangup, or play a recording of a Telemarketer; somthing along the lines of "Congratulations! You've qualified for the platinum card!". Every site that asks for an email address to download somthing, I just put his email address in it.
I have over 1,200 lines in access file for sendmail, and STILL I get spam from overseas servers. Mostly I will just block all of
The best way to fight spammers/advertisers/telemarketers is to fight fire with fire.
GSOD (G'S'O'D)
GSOD: A acronym for defining the Green Screen Of Death. Invented by Microsoft Corp, in 2001.
This is what is displayed when the XBox(R) crashes, and fails to load media. Mostly requiring a power cycle.
Also See Evil Empire
Is this talking about pages or requests? This is a world of difference. Most large sites, and even some small ones out there are using dynamic page generation based on php, perl, and some with asp. This idea wouln't seem to count images, but I wouln't like paying for annoying banner ads, or popups, and won't.
This is a very broad subject, and should be more specific. I am not exactly seeing what is defined as a 'page', since most arn't static anymore, and those popups are actually a small static page with a resized window.
Would this mean that I could start charging everytime someone went to my site/server for ATM/DSL bandwidth usage?
Was playing in Evil Dead 1, and MoonTrap fun, even though these were low budget movies?
What was used for the Sound Effects in Evil Dead 2 for the 'invisible demon in the woods'?
Have you ever wanted to 'cut up' your wife with a chainsaw?
I did a small job working for Compaq installing NT4 boxen for the local SSAs (Social Security Agency)(s). They used a Centralized NT 4 server with SP3 (Yes, service pack 3) and the administrator password was... get this... "password1". The client machines loged in to the PDC on a TokenRing network which took minutes just to download a 50k profile. The man who was in charge of all of this was being overpaid, since I could tell that some of these older machines still had virii on them. :\ and the server crashed twice because of a tokenring bug in service pack 3, and they din't know what it was, nor did they know that SP6a was available. The assistant din't even know what Windows2000 was, much less BSD/Linux.
Yes, the governement does have very terrible security. I thought our taxdollars were paying for more than this? Im not bashing, or trying to be a troll, but wouln't some form of UNIX like BSD, or Linux reduce our tax rates, providing the admins know how to use it? I know they are paying thousands just for that ONE NT4 server running on a Pentium Pro 200, with 128mb ram.
This release contains a security flaw. This flaw will not be revlealed in the ChangeLog, and is protected under the DMCA!
I do pay. Its called a DirecTV bill. :)
I was watching a Jackie Chan movie once, the ones that show the words at the bottem of the screen when they are not speaking in English. I was reading what the woman was trying to say, when all of a sudden one of those things came up at the bottem of the screen and stayed there for like 2 minutes during the whole conversation between the 2. I missed the entire thing!
I agree that stopping this type of activity is a good thing. I can't watch a forign film, and understand it anymore, and thats just plain sad.
Fileplanet.com. I have SDSL. Downloaded it at 162k a sec. Of course there was a 4 minute wait... But hey... Lets Slashdot Fileplanet! :)
Does this mean that M$ will have to open the source to their protocol stacks? If the Halloween documents are true this will be a great advantage to all developers. This will prevent the re-happening of the Novell/Ms problems, and will open NT up the the Samba team! This will be a great time for those of us who use the 2 to work together. I noticed that they tried to stop ppl from using Samba when they released XP 2600. 2000 SP2 worked with Samba 2.2.1a. XP din't. Hmmm.
Anyway, the open protocol scheme is a good idea. This should have been thought of a lot earlier by the DOJ. I believe this will be a great thing for everyone, companys, closed source developers, open source developers, and anyone else who wants to write their own 'samba server'. This will open up competition again, and allow for people like me to have a easier time running M$ software with non-M$ software. A lot of people choose not to run NT for servers, and M$ will punnish them for it in the next release, or update. This won't happen again if this all works out!
"Rarely has software which contains security holes"
:)
True. True. True. The thing with some other distros is that they muck with the package to benifit their distro, or to make it work with somthing, or add a feature etc... Slackware doesn't do this. They evaluate the software, make the package, and then put it in -current. Thats one thing I noticed about Slack. They don't really mess with the packages, or alter them. They leave them as they are untill it needs to be updated.
I think the package management has slowed. I have been trying to get the 2.2.2 build of Samba for Slack 7/8 but can't find it anywhere. usually I can get it from the site within 3 days, or even a few hours after it is released.
:) but I have never had any problems with it, packages breaking etc... Like I did with the RPM management systems.
I really enjoy using Slackware. Im still using 7.0 version (oh yea, its updated)
Also I would just like to add that I think Slackware does packages better than other distros. Its funny how redhat may have.... lets say around 2,000 or so packages (not really just a guess), and then you have Slackware that has around, 150 packages at most. Which one is easier to manage? Probably Slackware since its bare, and doesn't give you extra crap you don't need.
Ive been very satisfied with Slackware. I continue to support them, and buy every major release to support their efforts.