> Authenticated" senders will be, I think, the only way to a final solution. And I do believe that, if widely enough employed, that solution will drive a nail into the spam coffin.
What scares me most is that once it's widely employed, they'll make automatic tools (a one-line perl program:) )that simply reply to your e-mail, so the spammer gets autenticated.
I still think the best solution will be anti-spam laws. Vote YES for spammers death penalty! Spammers deserve a painfull death.
I'm sorry, but this may the only for of pressure of some people. And by receiving lots of complains, they can realize that their ideas are not too popular and the company image is being burned. And, if they have a clue, change their approach.
I don't think it's wrong to complain. And do you really think an e-mail to compains@riaa.org will make it to the director board ? If one wants to be listened, send it to the right person.
And, yes, the people who are receiving these e-mails are real live persons - who are either reponsible or supportive of such ideas. If they didn't agree with these ideas, they wouldn't work there. For instance, I would never work on a tobacco company, because I simply don't agree with killing people. The same way I don't agree with the methods used by most media companies. And if they receive these e-mails during working hours, they'd be doing nothing more than their work.
You said you work on a media company. RIAA and MPAA are the incarnation of evil, and totally abuse their consumers. Some media companies just push the limits and want to make rules, such as hacking into users machines looking for MP3s , making CD's that break computers, etc. This kind of stupid things MUST be fought.
E-mail and petitions can sometimes be the only weapons regular people have to fight something wrong.
Because of this fact, added to the fact that you didn't disclose your company name, nor exactly what idoes, chances are your company really deserves it. In this case, keep your head down and just accept it.
Hi. I am a swing researcher, and in my advanced studies to find out how kids swing, I came to the conclusion that 99.38% +-0.62 of the average american kid has swong sideways, at least once in his lifetime. This study was conducted with careful observation of 2.495.487 kids swinging, and took 10 years of my life.
So I guess my research pretty much conflicts with patent # 6,368,227 (Olson April 9, 2002).
Here in Israel many schools have banned cell phones because little Johnny was using them to run an AK-47 business or to get in touch with the local terrorist, against palestins and peace treats.
-Where were you last night, Cindy ? -I slept at Linda's. mom. -Don't lie to we saw everything on GPS PERSONAL LOCATOR (TM). -Ok, I saw Steve again. -I told you to get rid of that dweeb. We don't like him.
Now the parents are going to know every step of their kids. While it can be good for pre-teens, it can be a hassle to teens.
A question for the other./'s: when you were teens, did you have boy/girlfriends that you didn't want your parents to know ? How would you feel if your parents knew exactly where you are ? I'd feel suffocated.
On how and what you do with your machine. Forget it if you work with desktop publishing, use heavy graphics...
Now if you want to do light stuff, such as instant-messaging you can use ICQ Lite, a web-based ICQ client.
For e-mail you can use any webmail. There are thousands.
If you want to compile small programs, you can quite easily make a CGI that does this. It would get the program as input in a form and send back the compiled version.
But, as already mentioned, VNC would be very helpful, as it let you access your own machine from anywhere. And do you know that you can have an Unix VNC server and use windows as client ? The opposite is also true. Heck, you dont even have to install a client. You can access if via a java applet through a browser. So VNC would help a lot on your quest.
Youd better be happy your SysAdmin is not a BOFH. Otherwise, youd have alredy been LARTed.
Ooops, and what is this high-voltage cable doing so close to your antenna? And why have all your files on the campus network been erased ? Oh, and what about the girl you like ? After receiving some e-mails she now thinks youre engaged with another man.
On a clear dark night, the stars can seem to be very close indeed and they all seem to be simply hanging in the sky. Measuring the distances to the stars has been virtually impossible without modern telescopes and measurement techniques.
We now know that the stars are at incredible distances from us. Not only is there a considerable range of distances to all of the different stars and other objects within our galaxy, but there are also billions of other galaxies. In this topic we shall investigate how to measure the distances to the stars.
Measuring how far to nearby stars - the parallax technique The distance to a nearby star can be measured using its apparent change in position against the far distant stars over six months. During a six month period, the Earth travels halfway around the Sun. By sighting a nearby star when we are on one side of the Sun and again sighting it against the background of stars six months later, an estimate of how far it is to the star can be made.
More distant stars - using absolute brightness The farther a star is from us, the smaller the angle through which it will seem to move as the Earth orbits the Sun. Stars that are approximately 1% of the distance across our galaxy are too far for their distances to be measured using the parallax technique.
However, astronomers have devised other methods of distance measurement, which typically rely on analysing the light of stars - or clusters of stars - to find how bright they really are, then inferring their distance by observing how bright they appear to us. This could be likened to finding how bright a torch globe really is, and then shining it towards an observer. Armed with knowledge of the real brightness, the observer could find the distance to the torch by measuring its brightness as seen from his location (the farther away it is, the fainter it would appear to him).
Very distant objects - the red shift technique When astronomers peer toward distant galaxies, they can see very few - or none at all - of its individual constituent stars. Another technique is used which relies on an important discovery made early in the 20th century. Astronomers found that, on a large scale, the galaxies are moving apart from one another due to the overall expansion of the Universe. In addition, there is a connection between the distance to a galaxy and the speed at which it is moving away from us: the more distant galaxies are receding more quickly.
The speed of recession from us can be found by observing the galaxy's light: by measuring how much the light is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum, it is possible to find its speed (a galaxy with blue-shifted light would be approaching us). The distances to galaxies can therefore be inferred using this technique.
Light years Stars and other distant objects are so far away that we do not measure their distances in kilometres or even billions of kilometres, but in "light years". A light year is the distance that light can travel through space in one year. Light travels at 300 000 km/sec and over a year this is equivalent to 9.5 trillion (thousand billion) km!
The nearest star Alpha Centauri, is 4.3 light years from Earth. The furthest object yet found is a quasar, 12 billion light years away. That is, the light has taken 12 billion years to get to us! This quasar probably does not even exist any more. Astronomers like to say that they are not looking though space at these distant objects, but back in time.
University of Illinois has a very good article (with pictures!) about Proton conduction, proton channels, proton wells on water.
This page about Victor Petrenko, a little more technical than Slashdot's article
This one is brief, but says: "PROTONIC CHIPS NEVER FORGET
Researchers at the University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories are investigating the use of protonic memory for making cheap forget-me-not computer chips. In 1995, they noticed during experiments on silicon wafers that protons deep within the wafers were responding to electrical signals on the surface. "Nobody had seen these moving protons before," says one scientist. Further research showed the protons can be precisely controlled with standard microcircuits -- and are thus able to store data. Protonic chips won't need the fancy processing used in "flash" and other so-called nonvolatile memory chips, and can operate at very low power levels, thus prolonging battery life in laptops. Protonic chips currently are being tested at Texas Instruments.
This PDFexplains the Mechanism of proton diffusion in the solid state protonic conductor Rb3H(SeO4)2, wich I assume is somewhat equivalent to the ice (haven't read the whole article yet)
This
Yes. It would create a time-space distortion that would disrupt the time continuum destroying all known universe.
Now, seriously, what's the problem with electricity and water ? For starters, pure water is a bad conductor. If it has ions on it, then it can conduct electricity. So what ?
The only catch is that these "slight concessions" include an array of the latest generation of gryroscopes, a bleeding edge NASA lase-guidance system, wich detects a half inch deviation of the course, and, of course, military grade GPS, airbags, brakes with ABS, fly-by-wire technology, redundant hydraulic system, and so on...
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You do have to go from babelfish. Or change your referer. Hey, BTW, is there any browser that automatically changes the referer to the very own page you're accessing ? This would prevent these sort of problems, but would screw lots of logs:)
Slashdot Mirror
He is a troll
That's a terrific idea. I put this page as my startup page, and will acess it daily.
> Authenticated" senders will be, I think, the only way to a final solution. And I do believe that, if widely enough employed, that solution will drive a nail into the spam coffin.
:) )that simply reply to your e-mail, so the spammer gets autenticated.
What scares me most is that once it's widely employed, they'll make automatic tools (a one-line perl program
I still think the best solution will be anti-spam laws. Vote YES for spammers death penalty! Spammers deserve a painfull death.
Next in Slashdot:
Linux: A Threat To The Big Operating Systems Vendors ?
and
Apache: A Threat to Commercial HTTP servers ?
I'm sorry, but this may the only for of pressure of some people. And by receiving lots of complains, they can realize that their ideas are not too popular and the company image is being burned. And, if they have a clue, change their approach.
I don't think it's wrong to complain. And do you really think an e-mail to compains@riaa.org will make it to the director board ? If one wants to be listened, send it to the right person.
What I think wrong is to let media companies go away unharmed after ideas like these: RIAA Wants Taxpayer-Funded IP Police, RIAA to DoS Pirates? or RIAA Wants Right To Hack. Or those copy protections that crashes computers, and, in top of that, they're so greedy that The RIAA Doesn't Like Paying Lyricists.
And, yes, the people who are receiving these e-mails are real live persons - who are either reponsible or supportive of such ideas. If they didn't agree with these ideas, they wouldn't work there. For instance, I would never work on a tobacco company, because I simply don't agree with killing people. The same way I don't agree with the methods used by most media companies. And if they receive these e-mails during working hours, they'd be doing nothing more than their work.
You said you work on a media company. RIAA and MPAA are the incarnation of evil, and totally abuse their consumers. Some media companies just push the limits and want to make rules, such as hacking into users machines looking for MP3s , making CD's that break computers, etc. This kind of stupid things MUST be fought.
E-mail and petitions can sometimes be the only weapons regular people have to fight something wrong.
Because of this fact, added to the fact that you didn't disclose your company name, nor exactly what idoes, chances are your company really deserves it. In this case, keep your head down and just accept it.
Errata: Above message title should be read USPTO instead of USPS. The rest of the message remains.
Here it is:
To: usptoinfo@uspto.gov
Subject: Patents
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:05:08 -0300
Hi. I am a swing researcher, and in my advanced studies to find out how kids swing, I came to the conclusion that 99.38% +-0.62 of
the average american kid has swong sideways, at least once in his lifetime. This study was conducted with careful observation of
2.495.487 kids swinging, and took 10 years of my life.
So I guess my research pretty much conflicts with patent # 6,368,227 (Olson April 9, 2002).
Shall I publicize my findings ?
Or can I be sued if I do so ?
TIA.
starts bulk-emailing spams that say something like: "Make muscles fast !"
It's a Sony !
Nothing beats THIS
Here in Israel many schools have banned cell phones because little Johnny was using them to run an AK-47 business or to get in touch with the local terrorist, against palestins and peace treats.
-Where were you last night, Cindy ?
./'s: when you were teens, did you have boy/girlfriends that you didn't want your parents to know ? How would you feel if your parents knew exactly where you are ? I'd feel suffocated.
-I slept at Linda's. mom.
-Don't lie to we saw everything on GPS PERSONAL LOCATOR (TM).
-Ok, I saw Steve again.
-I told you to get rid of that dweeb. We don't like him.
Now the parents are going to know every step of their kids. While it can be good for pre-teens, it can be a hassle to teens.
A question for the other
On how and what you do with your machine. Forget it if you work with desktop publishing, use heavy graphics...
Now if you want to do light stuff, such as instant-messaging you can use ICQ Lite, a web-based ICQ client.
For e-mail you can use any webmail. There are thousands.
If you want to compile small programs, you can quite easily make a CGI that does this. It would get the program as input in a form and send back the compiled version.
But, as already mentioned, VNC would be very helpful, as it let you access your own machine from anywhere. And do you know that you can have an Unix VNC server and use windows as client ? The opposite is also true. Heck, you dont even have to install a client. You can access if via a java applet through a browser. So VNC would help a lot on your quest.
Youd better be happy your SysAdmin is not a BOFH. Otherwise, youd have alredy been LARTed.
Ooops, and what is this high-voltage cable doing so close to your antenna? And why have all your files on the campus network been erased ? Oh, and what about the girl you like ? After receiving some e-mails she now thinks youre engaged with another man.
Oh, the joys of being a BOFH.
I was puzzled to find how they measured this distance. And then I found this text, wich is very interesting.
u b/stars2/stars2.htm
Extracted from http://benps.benallaps.vic.edu.au/Science/Earth/s
How far to the stars?
On a clear dark night, the stars can seem to be very close indeed and they all seem to be simply hanging in the sky. Measuring the distances to the stars has been virtually impossible without modern telescopes and measurement techniques.
We now know that the stars are at incredible distances from us. Not only is there a considerable range of distances to all of the different stars and other objects within our galaxy, but there are also billions of other galaxies. In this topic we shall investigate how to measure the distances to the stars.
Measuring how far to nearby stars - the parallax technique
The distance to a nearby star can be measured using its apparent change in position against the far distant stars over six months. During a six month period, the Earth travels halfway around the Sun. By sighting a nearby star when we are on one side of the Sun and again sighting it against the background of stars six months later, an estimate of how far it is to the star can be made.
More distant stars - using absolute brightness
The farther a star is from us, the smaller the angle through which it will seem to move as the Earth orbits the Sun. Stars that are approximately 1% of the distance across our galaxy are too far for their distances to be measured using the parallax technique.
However, astronomers have devised other methods of distance measurement, which typically rely on analysing the light of stars - or clusters of stars - to find how bright they really are, then inferring their distance by observing how bright they appear to us. This could be likened to finding how bright a torch globe really is, and then shining it towards an observer. Armed with knowledge of the real brightness, the observer could find the distance to the torch by measuring its brightness as seen from his location (the farther away it is, the fainter it would appear to him).
Very distant objects - the red shift technique
When astronomers peer toward distant galaxies, they can see very few - or none at all - of its individual constituent stars. Another technique is used which relies on an important discovery made early in the 20th century. Astronomers found that, on a large scale, the galaxies are moving apart from one another due to the overall expansion of the Universe. In addition, there is a connection between the distance to a galaxy and the speed at which it is moving away from us: the more distant galaxies are receding more quickly.
The speed of recession from us can be found by observing the galaxy's light: by measuring how much the light is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum, it is possible to find its speed (a galaxy with blue-shifted light would be approaching us). The distances to galaxies can therefore be inferred using this technique.
Light years
Stars and other distant objects are so far away that we do not measure their distances in kilometres or even billions of kilometres, but in "light years". A light year is the distance that light can travel through space in one year. Light travels at 300 000 km/sec and over a year this is equivalent to 9.5 trillion (thousand billion) km!
The nearest star Alpha Centauri, is 4.3 light years from Earth. The furthest object yet found is a quasar, 12 billion light years away. That is, the light has taken 12 billion years to get to us! This quasar probably does not even exist any more. Astronomers like to say that they are not looking though space at these distant objects, but back in time.
Mayotte
New Caledonia
Reunion
Saint Pierre & Miquelon
Tromelin Island
Wallis & Futuna
namely
Bassas da India Mayotte
Clipperton Island New Caledonia
Europa Island Reunion
French Guiana Saint Pierre & Miquelon
French Polynesia Tromelin Island
French Southern & Antartic Lands Wallis &
Futuna
Glorioso Islands
Guadeloupe
Juan De Nova Island
Martinique
Not only this. He also won't be able to french kiss. And forget french fries.
University of Illinois has a very good article (with pictures!) about Proton conduction, proton channels, proton wells on water.
This page about Victor Petrenko, a little more technical than Slashdot's article
This one is brief, but says: "PROTONIC CHIPS NEVER FORGET Researchers at the University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories are investigating the use of protonic memory for making cheap forget-me-not computer chips. In 1995, they noticed during experiments on silicon wafers that protons deep within the wafers were responding to electrical signals on the surface. "Nobody had seen these moving protons before," says one scientist. Further research showed the protons can be precisely controlled with standard microcircuits -- and are thus able to store data. Protonic chips won't need the fancy processing used in "flash" and other so-called nonvolatile memory chips, and can operate at very low power levels, thus prolonging battery life in laptops. Protonic chips currently are being tested at Texas Instruments.
This PDFexplains the Mechanism of proton diffusion in the solid state protonic conductor Rb3H(SeO4)2, wich I assume is somewhat equivalent to the ice (haven't read the whole article yet) This
Yes. It would create a time-space distortion that would disrupt the time continuum destroying all known universe.
Now, seriously, what's the problem with electricity and water ? For starters, pure water is a bad conductor. If it has ions on it, then it can conduct electricity. So what ?
Is The Great Wall of China on fire ?
The only catch is that these "slight concessions" include an array of the latest generation of gryroscopes, a bleeding edge NASA lase-guidance system, wich detects a half inch deviation of the course, and, of course, military grade GPS, airbags, brakes with ABS, fly-by-wire technology, redundant hydraulic system, and so on...
You do have to go from babelfish. Or change your referer. Hey, BTW, is there any browser that automatically changes the referer to the very own page you're accessing ? This would prevent these sort of problems, but would screw lots of logs
or does anybody else also think the guy that appears on that article looks like a Hanson brother ?