Paranoid, uneducated sentiments like yours are exactly why development of safer, cleaner, and more efficient nuclear energy technologies aren't persued more vigorously.
Nuclear energy isn't perfect, but it's a far more viable alternative to fossil fuels than what Greens want to throw money at.
Posted 11:16 PM by Anurag De-Spamming The Inbox: The Hard Way
Even after using precautions like dummy email address in public forums, I have been plagued by the spam mails for long time now. Two years back it used to be a few per day. And since then it has been a steady increase in the volume. As a result, till last weekend I used to get around 200 spam mails a day on my Institute's life-time email account. Then, one fine day (well, actually we were given notice 3 weeks in advance) our Institute decided to upgrade the Exchange mail server to the latest version. Hence the mail server was shut down for approximately 2 days/48 hours (4th Dec evening to 5th Dec noon). During that time, all the mails sent to my mail account were of course bouncing. Between the time when the system was shut down and the time when the system came back online on 5th noon, something miraculous had happened: My spam traffic had reduced considerably. After John finished with me, he reached over onto the nightstand and brought out what we prepared earlier. Five raw eggs, emptied and drawn into a turkey baster. John excitedly inserted the baster into my ass and squeezed. Thoughts of sanitation quickly left my mind as a rush of pure pleasure came over me. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, I realized the laxative I had taken just an hour earlier had kicked in. I tried with all my willpower to hold on. I could feel the warmth of John's breathing, and I knew his open mouth was right behind me. After what seemed like an eternity, I just let go. In a split second, a beautiful cocktail of raw egg, excriment, and man-juice erupted from my rear, coating John's face and hair and running down his body. A perfect end to a perfect evening--almost as perfect as when a troll like this gets modded up on Slashdot. Now I am receiving 'only' (!) 5-6 spam mails everyday! That is a 97.5 % drop in spam traffic! Interesting, eh? So what's happening is that the spammer dudes are dropping the bounced mail IDs like a mad-cow disease affected, well, cow. There doesn't seem to be a second try from spammers: Apparently they don't use the bounced email IDs again. I would assume that after the two-day shut-down/start-up of mail server, my spam traffic would have become zero. My current 'very low' spam traffic is only probably because of my email being available in public domain on webpages where I can not remove it from (damn my early Internet days' Naivete).
Essentially, for this De-Spamming methodology we can draw an analogy with the routine detoxing of the body. Example: On the basis of specific relgious beliefs, people fast once in a while. More than the religious custom, fasting has a scientific reason behind it: It detoxifies whole internal system by a) giving the body some much-needed rest and b) by cleansing the traces of toxins (as there's no fresh inflow, the bodily processes work on the left-over inventory and makes sure that it is digested properly and taken care of to give a fresh start the day after the fast).
So, is De-Toxing (De-Spamming) the Inbox by fasting/starving! (shutting down the Mail Server) a good idea? Well its effetive for sure, but it has its costs. You lose the genuine mail traffic for the duration of shut-down. Hence, if you are in a desperate need of De-Spamming your Inbox, here's what you should do. Let's say you plan to shut your mail sever down on Date T and you plan to bring it back to life after Y days. The question is for how long do you shut down the mail server? Well, I think most mail programs try to re-send the mail for a maximum of 48 hours. If the message doesn't go through even in 48 hours, the mail program gives up and finally returns error to the sender. Hence, to be on the safer side I would say, shut the mail server down for at least 48 hours (2 day). So once you have decided on a shut-down date and duration, here's the how-to guide to shutdown survival and resurrection thereafter! 1) T-30 (days) : Include in your mail signature at the top the "Please
I didn't mean to imply that security through obscurity was a problem here. In fact, I'd say it's not such a bad idea, given the information presented in this particular article, anyway. What is the benefit of publicly announcing a software vulnerability before the developer has had time to produce a patch?
"This means that they reckon that weaknesses will be exploited in a matter of hours of being announced, rather thant the weeks and months that we're seeing now."
Kinda makes you think twice about publicly announcing vulnerabilities in your software before you have time to fix them, does it not?
So until someone forcably yanks your head out of the sand, you will happily believe that the minority of modded console owners use them play games they haven't paid for?
Just like the majority of P2P music downloaders are only downloading songs they've already bought on CD?
Common sense tells me that the grandparent is closer to reality than your blissful ignorance.
I'd take more time replying to your scenario, but it has no basis in reality. Here's what's more likely to happen to School A.
School A spends $5 million on a state-of-the-art sports complex. Expectations are high, but athletes remain mediocre. Ticket and advertising revenue falls far short of expectations. State-of-the-art sports complex becomes a money pit, and the district is forced to cut educational programs and increase local taxes to pay for it. Eventually, sports complex falls into disrepair due to budget shortfalls. Kids are still dumb as a bag of doorknobs, and the community has pissed away $5 million plus expenses.
If the purpose of the schools was to make money, then A did.
If the purpose of the schools was to educate students, then B did.
And besides, if these schools' sports programs were self-sufficient (let alone generate enough revenue for the rest of the school) they wouldn't need taxpayer funding, now would they?
My point being, of course, is that schools here in the U.S. don't apply available resources to EDUCATION. They piss money away on things like football stadiums and swimming pools and social indoctrination, and don't pony up for things like qualified teachers.
"...be happy that we have public education at all."
Public education takes more and more out of my paycheck every year, but somehow our kids are still as dumb as a bag of doorknobs. What's there not to be happy about?
Maybe it's just my own perception, but Thunderbird seems to be a bit bulky, judging by how long it takes to open. Am I totally out of my league here, or is Thunderbird a little chunky?
Sure, it's obvious to us, but we're a little smarter than the average garage-band douchebag, I think.
They all think that, with the industry's help, they will become rich and famous and be on MTV, and will be the first to piss and moan when people don't want to buy their garbage "music".
Smart musicians can see beyond what TV shows them.
This lamenting about their ineffective and easily-exploited business model sounds very similar to the whining we all love to hate by certain media industry groups, doesn't it?
We all know how big of a pain that spyware can be, but it really as bad as these companies would have ignorant computer users believe? After all, there's a lot to be gained from making people think that they need these companies' product.
And the next step of The American Way(tm) would be to drop TiVo like a bad habit. But people seem to be too complacent, these days, to take action against even the most blatant bait-and-switch moves like this. It's a shame.
How many Slashdotters/TiVo users will have the guts to back their outrage with action?
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Paranoid, uneducated sentiments like yours are exactly why development of safer, cleaner, and more efficient nuclear energy technologies aren't persued more vigorously.
Nuclear energy isn't perfect, but it's a far more viable alternative to fossil fuels than what Greens want to throw money at.
AOL is Dying.
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Posted 11:16 PM by Anurag
De-Spamming The Inbox: The Hard Way
Even after using precautions like dummy email address in public forums, I have been plagued by the spam mails for long time now. Two years back it used to be a few per day. And since then it has been a steady increase in the volume. As a result, till last weekend I used to get around 200 spam mails a day on my Institute's life-time email account. Then, one fine day (well, actually we were given notice 3 weeks in advance) our Institute decided to upgrade the Exchange mail server to the latest version. Hence the mail server was shut down for approximately 2 days/48 hours (4th Dec evening to 5th Dec noon). During that time, all the mails sent to my mail account were of course bouncing. Between the time when the system was shut down and the time when the system came back online on 5th noon, something miraculous had happened: My spam traffic had reduced considerably. After John finished with me, he reached over onto the nightstand and brought out what we prepared earlier. Five raw eggs, emptied and drawn into a turkey baster. John excitedly inserted the baster into my ass and squeezed. Thoughts of sanitation quickly left my mind as a rush of pure pleasure came over me. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, I realized the laxative I had taken just an hour earlier had kicked in. I tried with all my willpower to hold on. I could feel the warmth of John's breathing, and I knew his open mouth was right behind me. After what seemed like an eternity, I just let go. In a split second, a beautiful cocktail of raw egg, excriment, and man-juice erupted from my rear, coating John's face and hair and running down his body. A perfect end to a perfect evening--almost as perfect as when a troll like this gets modded up on Slashdot.
Now I am receiving 'only' (!) 5-6 spam mails everyday! That is a 97.5 % drop in spam traffic! Interesting, eh? So what's happening is that the spammer dudes are dropping the bounced mail IDs like a mad-cow disease affected, well, cow. There doesn't seem to be a second try from spammers: Apparently they don't use the bounced email IDs again. I would assume that after the two-day shut-down/start-up of mail server, my spam traffic would have become zero. My current 'very low' spam traffic is only probably because of my email being available in public domain on webpages where I can not remove it from (damn my early Internet days' Naivete).
Essentially, for this De-Spamming methodology we can draw an analogy with the routine detoxing of the body. Example: On the basis of specific relgious beliefs, people fast once in a while. More than the religious custom, fasting has a scientific reason behind it: It detoxifies whole internal system by a) giving the body some much-needed rest and b) by cleansing the traces of toxins (as there's no fresh inflow, the bodily processes work on the left-over inventory and makes sure that it is digested properly and taken care of to give a fresh start the day after the fast).
So, is De-Toxing (De-Spamming) the Inbox by fasting/starving! (shutting down the Mail Server) a good idea? Well its effetive for sure, but it has its costs. You lose the genuine mail traffic for the duration of shut-down. Hence, if you are in a desperate need of De-Spamming your Inbox, here's what you should do. Let's say you plan to shut your mail sever down on Date T and you plan to bring it back to life after Y days. The question is for how long do you shut down the mail server? Well, I think most mail programs try to re-send the mail for a maximum of 48 hours. If the message doesn't go through even in 48 hours, the mail program gives up and finally returns error to the sender. Hence, to be on the safer side I would say, shut the mail server down for at least 48 hours (2 day). So once you have decided on a shut-down date and duration, here's the how-to guide to shutdown survival and resurrection thereafter!
1) T-30 (days) : Include in your mail signature at the top the "Please
Are you saying that Captain Planet wasn't really a villain?
Talk about your surprise endings!
I didn't mean to imply that security through obscurity was a problem here. In fact, I'd say it's not such a bad idea, given the information presented in this particular article, anyway. What is the benefit of publicly announcing a software vulnerability before the developer has had time to produce a patch?
Kinda makes you think twice about publicly announcing vulnerabilities in your software before you have time to fix them, does it not?
IIRC, that's the first time the word "scrotum" has appeared in the front-page headlines. Congratulations, Slashdot, on a new milestone!
So until someone forcably yanks your head out of the sand, you will happily believe that the minority of modded console owners use them play games they haven't paid for?
Just like the majority of P2P music downloaders are only downloading songs they've already bought on CD?
Common sense tells me that the grandparent is closer to reality than your blissful ignorance.
Yes, because the store has no right to distribute copies of those games.
It's exactly like the people the RIAA are suing. They aren't suing people who are downloading the music, but those who are sharing it.
It's all about the distribution.
No ripped-off games here, no sir! We all know that people only use modded consoles for purely legitimate purposes.
What's that about 15 games pre-installed on the hard drive?? You're just a facist pig!!
I'd take more time replying to your scenario, but it has no basis in reality. Here's what's more likely to happen to School A.
School A spends $5 million on a state-of-the-art sports complex. Expectations are high, but athletes remain mediocre. Ticket and advertising revenue falls far short of expectations. State-of-the-art sports complex becomes a money pit, and the district is forced to cut educational programs and increase local taxes to pay for it. Eventually, sports complex falls into disrepair due to budget shortfalls. Kids are still dumb as a bag of doorknobs, and the community has pissed away $5 million plus expenses.
If the purpose of the schools was to make money, then A did.
If the purpose of the schools was to educate students, then B did.
And besides, if these schools' sports programs were self-sufficient (let alone generate enough revenue for the rest of the school) they wouldn't need taxpayer funding, now would they?
My point being, of course, is that schools here in the U.S. don't apply available resources to EDUCATION. They piss money away on things like football stadiums and swimming pools and social indoctrination, and don't pony up for things like qualified teachers.
Public education takes more and more out of my paycheck every year, but somehow our kids are still as dumb as a bag of doorknobs. What's there not to be happy about?
I know, I know. "Shut up and pay your taxes!!"
Perhaps instead of demanding more money, schools should evaluate how they are spending the money they already get.
HINT: I bet Czech schools don't spend millions of dollars (or preferred local currency) on state-of-the-art sports facilities and equipment.
Hey! Aren't you the guy who told me that the Americans were not in Baghdad, and that the brave resistance had repelled the infidels?
I'm afraid I can no longer consider you a credible source of information.
The income tax is already ridiculously progressive.
10%: $0 - $6,000
15%: $6000 - $26,250
27%: $26,250 - $63,550
30%: $63,550 - $132,600
35%: $132,600 - $288,350
38.6%: $288,350+
Stop spreading lies. It isn't working very well anyway.
Somehow I don't think that a Republican candidate would be inclined to hire a left-wing nutjob conspiracy theorist and fraud to do this kind of work for him.
But then politicians have been known to do dumb things from time to time...
Maybe it's just my own perception, but Thunderbird seems to be a bit bulky, judging by how long it takes to open. Am I totally out of my league here, or is Thunderbird a little chunky?
But at what point does it become abuse? 2 songs? An entire album?
Sure, it's obvious to us, but we're a little smarter than the average garage-band douchebag, I think.
They all think that, with the industry's help, they will become rich and famous and be on MTV, and will be the first to piss and moan when people don't want to buy their garbage "music".
Smart musicians can see beyond what TV shows them.
This lamenting about their ineffective and easily-exploited business model sounds very similar to the whining we all love to hate by certain media industry groups, doesn't it?
We all know how big of a pain that spyware can be, but it really as bad as these companies would have ignorant computer users believe? After all, there's a lot to be gained from making people think that they need these companies' product.
Can I wear it over my tin-foil hat?
And the next step of The American Way(tm) would be to drop TiVo like a bad habit. But people seem to be too complacent, these days, to take action against even the most blatant bait-and-switch moves like this. It's a shame.
How many Slashdotters/TiVo users will have the guts to back their outrage with action?