approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (*) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
I just sent in my application to conducting school. By the time I graduate, all the conducting jobs will be outsourced to robots. Oh well, I guess we should have all seen it coming, much like what happend to assembly and manufacturing plants in the 80s.
I own my hard drive. I don't have a license to use it. Whatever is on there is mine to do with as I choose.
That's not a very good analogy. Just because you have something does not automatically mean you own it or have the right to have it. That's like saying "I own my house. It's full of stolen dvd players and they are mine to do with what I choose."
The three biggest cities in the PNW are Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, BC. Seattle is halfway between Portland and Vancouver. Plus there are far bigger cities to the south of Seattle like Tacoma, Olympia and Vancouver, Wa. Also, Linux needs to ditch its 'dirty hippy' culture and Bellingham is dirty hippy central. It might as well be the Linux/Hemp/Howard Dean convention and it might as well be held at a campground.
There is nothing to stop the EU from retrying them and upping the fine if they keep it up. That's like saying you should get life for your first parking ticket.
Anyone can go to any public university library and make copies of articles from journals. Articles which the scientist has paid a good amount to get published in terms of research not to mention paying the journal to publish it (even if a journal accepts your article, you still have to pay the costs of the layout, figures, reprints, etc.) I worked in life sciences research at the University of Washington for 10 years and I have seen this personally.
This is totally OT but when I was a freshman I had a blind neighbor in the dorm who subscribed to a braille version of Playboy. It came in a cardboard box because it took four bound paper volumes for each edition - each one was at least an inch thick. Of course, we made all the obvious jokes about the pictures being in braille.
Slashdot Mirror
Because they seem to have a severe case of story diarrhea today.
Openness and security are mutually exclusive
Shhhhhh. Don't let the OSS community hear that, it may discourage them.
I get tons of spam these days with stuff like this at the end of the message. These are all slipping through my filters.
_WORD . cavernous , bentley clint , haney . shrub . read , gus sachs , pickett . deerskin . coliseum , coltsfoot derelict , grownup . impact . ash6 , brenda7 envelope , counterproductive . dilemma . ephesus , lariat rostrum , cabdriver . goer . drunk , munificent nomadic , cornfield . andromache . bulky , scorch eratosthenes , bathurst . confuse . fermium , inexhaustible judicature , deafen . architectonic . compressible , euphrates penicillin , edifice . fluency . cognate , gasohol sediment , ampersand . abbreviate . phalanx , gilmore glucose , mannerism . nightshirt . certitude , precious coven , cantle . entomology . godsend , infighting auxiliary , contemplate . grace . paint , capital concise , preserve . abusive . continua , schist barycentric , sidemen . facile . knox , paranoiac bagpipe , flee . navajo . bosonic , barefoot knurl , conscript . connie . singable , herpetology0 peninsula , asteroid . cardiac . lac , ha local , buchwald . midshipman . johann , afterword molybdate , dignitary . luxe . grenoble , pup hue , furious . lanky . bryn , ditzel scab , conception . estuary . aberrant , denote boogie , bitumen . apart . ammunition , lawgive hotel , condominium . braniff . funereal , newspaper gibe , artery . concomitant . bromide , callaghan petticoat , bevel . boomerang . anhydrous , deferral datsun , inconsequential . conservation . advert , bantam efface , arrogant . istanbul . bamberger , doherty salute , hawley . ellipsis . hideout , plum secondary , deemphasize . emeritus . rostrum , sea coupe , diurnal . butterfield . consolation , animadversion orphic , calcareous . atavistic . burbank , medford
Your post advocates a
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(*) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Wasn't the whole idea of having robots to put them to work in incredibly boring and repetitive tasks
Agreed. They should be working on robotic audience members so we don't have to sit through a symphony.
I just sent in my application to conducting school. By the time I graduate, all the conducting jobs will be outsourced to robots. Oh well, I guess we should have all seen it coming, much like what happend to assembly and manufacturing plants in the 80s.
Which of the 5 richest kings of Europe owns it?
I own my hard drive. I don't have a license to use it. Whatever is on there is mine to do with as I choose.
That's not a very good analogy. Just because you have something does not automatically mean you own it or have the right to have it. That's like saying "I own my house. It's full of stolen dvd players and they are mine to do with what I choose."
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
Duh, the the plural of 'anecdote' is 'Slashthink'.
Post your address so I can come over to your house and paint a giant goatse on your roof.
Sun became $un.
Smart but annoying. Like many a Slashdot poster.
This story is almost as interesting as the latest case-mod story or the latest news about the state of the Linux x-box port.
The three biggest cities in the PNW are Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, BC. Seattle is halfway between Portland and Vancouver. Plus there are far bigger cities to the south of Seattle like Tacoma, Olympia and Vancouver, Wa. Also, Linux needs to ditch its 'dirty hippy' culture and Bellingham is dirty hippy central. It might as well be the Linux/Hemp/Howard Dean convention and it might as well be held at a campground.
It should be in Seattle or Vancouver. Might as well be at a campground or just off to the side of the road at mile post 57 next to Cooter's Garage.
I like to call them "eyes".
"Ah, Chew.....If only you could see the things I have seen with your eyes."
It's called a cam corder
Why, yes, I do:
From West Plains, Missouri:
1: Start out going Southwest on COURT SQ toward E MAIN ST. 0.1 miles
2: Turn RIGHT onto MO-17/AID AVE/S MAIN ST. Continue to follow MO-17. 0.8 miles
3: Turn LEFT onto US-63 S. 148.5 miles
4: Merge onto I-55 S toward MEMPHIS. 19.0 miles
5: Take I-40 E toward MEMPHIS/NASHVILLE. 7.0 miles
6: Merge onto I-240 S toward JACKSON MISS. 1.1 miles
7: Take the LAMAR AVE exit- exit number 29- toward CRUMP BLVD. 0.3 miles
8: Turn LEFT onto LAMAR AVE/TN-4/US-78. 0.5 miles
9: Turn LEFT onto CENTRAL AVE. 4.3 miles
10: Turn RIGHT onto PATTERSON ST. 0.1 miles
11: Turn LEFT onto VETERANS AVE. 0.1 miles
12: Turn RIGHT onto HERZOG ST. <0.1 miles
You are now at the University of Memphis which has some big libraries.
There is nothing to stop the EU from retrying them and upping the fine if they keep it up. That's like saying you should get life for your first parking ticket.
Anyone can go to any public university library and make copies of articles from journals. Articles which the scientist has paid a good amount to get published in terms of research not to mention paying the journal to publish it (even if a journal accepts your article, you still have to pay the costs of the layout, figures, reprints, etc.) I worked in life sciences research at the University of Washington for 10 years and I have seen this personally.
This is totally OT but when I was a freshman I had a blind neighbor in the dorm who subscribed to a braille version of Playboy. It came in a cardboard box because it took four bound paper volumes for each edition - each one was at least an inch thick. Of course, we made all the obvious jokes about the pictures being in braille.
That explains why my dog has been moping around all day. His dreams have been crushed.
Doom 4 vs Quake 7 meets Daryl McBride in Castlewolfenstein (Only Available for Linux)
Are we talking 10^9 bytes or 2^30 bytes? They wouldn't be fooling us with the cheap type of gigabyte would they?
WoooHooo! So someone is finally going to try to unseat Microsoft for the most failures!