Actually, Taiwan IS China. That bunch of commies on the mainland between Russia and India say they're China, but they're just full of it...
And am I the only one who thinks we should have handed Hong Kong over to the real China, the one we actually had the lease agreement with in the first place, as opposed to said commies who are only pretending to be China?
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- I was an extra in Pulp Fiction, you insensitive clod! - FilmCowboyNeal
Just want to pipe in and say you are right on the money. We acquired our IP block from a telecom only to find that the IP range was listed in SPEWS. We have had the IP range for 3 years now, and it is still listed in SPEWS.
Which entry is it? Chances are it's your ISP that's the problem. If a provider continues to support spam (giving spammers several free runs before nuking them, ignoring complaints (or worse, forwarding them to the spammer), helping them listwash, etc) then SPEWS have been known to list the ENTIRE network, not just the spammer or even just the/24.
Anyone who sends bulk email with intentionally deceptive subject lines is not likely to actually obey removal requests - spammers who DO obey removel requests, without then reselling the address (or re-selling it to themselves) aren't spammers - they are mailing list operators. Because you'll stop getting mail from them if you ask.
No, they're still spammers. Here's a scenario:
1) I post to USENET.
2) My email address is found by some marketer
3) That marketer starts advertising at me
Now, are they spamming? I would say yes, definitely. I didn't ask to be sent this stuff. I shouldn't be asked to opt out of something I didn't opt into in the first place. There are millions of small businesses in the world - am I to opt out from all of them?
The ONLY people who have any right to send me advertising by email are the people I have explicitly given permission to. Nobody else. And even some of them can be spammers, if they don't make sure the subscription request was genuine by sending a confirmation email before the first newsletter.
If you send no confirmation email, or send one that assumes that no reply means 'OK, I meant to subscribe, start sending', then you're setting yourself up for script kiddies with mass forge subscribes, or at best to be mailing nonexistent addresses for eternity because of a typo... remember the cautionary tale of Nadine.
I took a screen shot which indicated time/date AND IP but the cableco tech morons said that they couldn't do anything about it? Right... How about revoking access? Perhaps it was the cableco themselves selling this service?
Spam via SMB is quite the new thing, I gather. This has the potential to _really_ piss people off.
But it could turn out to be a good thing. The reason we can't stop spam by blocking port 25 is that we need to accept email from people who have legitimate reasons to send it. But who has a legitimate reason to connect to SMB on a desktop machine via the Internet? Nobody. Ever.
If this leads ISPs to block the ports involved, the world will be a better place, with no more script kiddies owning Win98 machines via smbclient.
But the other message was a complaint from WorldCom. A WorldCom customer had reported an "alleged violation" of the company's policy that prohibits spamming. "We request you take whatever measures you deem appropriate which will ensure no further violation will occur," the e-mail from WorldCom said.
WorldCom lets spammers get away with 'first offence'.
Mr. Connell typed a response: "Problem solved. This guy won't receive anything from us again." He flagged the name of the offended e-mail recipient on Ms. Betterly's list so that person wouldn't be contacted again.
WorldCom helps spammers listwash.
WorldCom says that if problems with a spammer persist, the company will send increasingly stern notices and eventually cut off service.
WorldCom will let spammers get away with spamming several times before actually doing anything about it.
Paging SPEWS. SPEWS to the white courtesy phone, please...
If you country had lost 3/4 of a million men and most of it had been turned into one big muddy field only 20 years previously, youd think twice about fighting to the last. France had been bled dry before, and wasnt about to do it again.
Three quarters of a million? Are you taking the piss? If France had got away with losing such a small number they'd have been positively ecstatic. Casualties were in the millions; ISTR it was something like three or four million each for Britain and France, six million for Germany and something ghastly for Russia.
If so, couldn't we find some way to tap into the vast thermal power at the earth's core? Or do they not go deep enough?
The Earth's crust is only a few kilometres thick, so in principle they could get through to the hot mantle below. The problem is heat and pressure. First, we have no material capable of surviving in such conditions - the robot would be crushed and melted. Second, once you break through into the magma below the solid rock, it would be like popping a champagne cork - instant mini-volcano.
Geothermal power works fine on the temperature difference between the bottom and top of a mineshaft, or running off some volcanic vent like in Iceland, but until we get some really _serious_ material science done there'll be no access to the core itself.
The real purpose of these robots would be to get down through the Martian permafrost or the Europan global glacier to investigate the (warmer? wetter? life-infested??) region below...
You can get really high scores in this game by finding the "bug": I'll keep the hint minimal, but if you push hard on his foot, and try to push it down and back into the stairs, there's a chance he'll get stuck for a few seconds... resulting in very high scores.
Do not listen to him, he is mistaken.
You should _shove_ hard on his foot. Shove it down and back into the stairs. I am the pusher robot.
Remember that relativity is "just" a theory. Our understanding of gravity is just a "theory". By your reasoning, my "theory" that gravity is caused by invisible bungee cords has just as much validity as the current Theory of Gravity. Which is, of course, bull.
Isn't that basically what string theory boils down to?...
To return one of those probes back. It would provide a wealth of information on the effects of radiation and other space agents on various materials and electronics. May be stick a few automated experiments for scientific purposes.
We did get part of the Surveyor probe back; that was a robot moon lander. ISTR Alan Shepard brought bits of it home on Apollo 12. He was promptly disqualified for improving the lie of his ball, and thus his legendary golf shot never counted.
Bringing probes back from deep space is rarely an option - it's a matter of energy. Galileo is irrevocably trapped in the Jupiter system, and doesn't have the fuel to get out of that colossal gravity well; meanwhile Voyager is barreling out of the Solar System at a ridiculous speed, and hasn't a hope of turning round.
Perhaps we might have been able to bring Deep Space One home at the end of its planned mission, but instead it was decided to send it on a rendezvous course with a comet; a high-risk mission that paid off magnificently.
Burning up or freezing to death and returning data to the last has got to be a better fate for a probe than being grabbed by some astronaut and put in a museum...
Could someone explain what the EU has power to do? Seems to me like they couldn't do much...
They can't split Microsoft, because they're a foreign corporation. They can, however, impose conditions on Microsoft which they will have to obey if they want to continue doing business in the EU.
It's unlikely to come to a trade war; EU business is too addicted to MS software to allow Brussels to impose punitive tariffs, for instance. Chances are MS will be fined a comparatively small amount and told not to do it again...
Both Machiavelli and Pirates were by Microprose, and from the same era as Civ and Col. I liked Colonization... I used to ship Trade Goods and Tools to the Incas for Silver, then ship that home. Once the London price of Silver had collapsed, I'd start selling it to the Dutch - and keep a fleet of privateers off their coast to steal it straight back once they tried to get it back to Amsterdam. Then I'd sell it to them again...
I played Privateer 2 for a while a few years ago, and it's similar in concept to Elite, but doesn't feel quite the same somehow. Elite 4 is currently in Development Hell; if you want to play the original, co-author Ian Bell makes just about every version ever produced freely available.
It was ten years ago, and I was ten years old at the time (memories, particularly childhood memories, can easily become warped over time), but I'm pretty sure it was entirely based in Southeast Asia. The game was fairly simple (being written in BASIC), and I think all you could own was a ship (besides the goods you traded). You could buy upgrades (cannon, armour, etc.) to fend off pirates and you could upgrade your ship, but I think that was all you could do.
Sorry, I was a little ambiguous there. I didn't mean that Machiavelli was the game you meant - it's a far more recent DOS game. I was suggesting it as a trading game in a similar vein to yours and to Hansa.
Did you ever play Pirates, or Elite? Those were both games along the same lines. In Pirates you have a letter of marque from either England, France, Spain or Holland, and plunder the shipping of your nation's enemies. Find and loot the Spanish treasure fleet and you're wealthy for life. Sack and plunder Havana and you're _insanely_ wealthy for life.
Elite was a magnificent space trading and combat game back in the days of the BBC B. Ah, the countless pirates and aliens I took down in my old Cobra mk. III... 3D vector graphics, extremely impressive for the day. No politics in it, though; while in Pirates a particularly successful looting of a town might actually lead to it seceding to your country, your actions in Elite didn't affect the overall state of the universe.
...Taipan, a game where you ran a trading vessel in the South China Sea. It ran on my primary school's old Microbee computers (yay!).
Machiavelli, perhaps? You play the head of a Venetian merchant family, ship goods around the Old World, and manipulate Venetian politics and the Church for your own ends. Oh, and you can hire mercenaries and take over cities for yourself. Having a monopoly on trade with Florence was _profitable_...
the ubiquitous Duke Nukem Forever is also touched upon... This is the first time I've heard of something that doesn't exist yet, and that probably never will, being ubiquitous.
Anybody know if there are any planned missions to Jupiter's moon Europa? I read somewhere that there are water there and hence potential life ('Europeans' rather than 'Martians')
There used to be plans for a whole set of Europa probes - first an orbiter, then landers to use seismographs to determing the thickness of the crust and whether there's water down there, then eventually a submarine... Sadly, this all seems to have been cancelled.
The NASA page about the Europa project is still there, and loads - momentarily - before redirecting you to their updated site, from which all references to Europa seem to have been expunged...
Incidentally, there might be less confusion if you call them 'Europans' rather than 'Europeans'. There are about half a billion Europeans already, and we don't live anywhere near Jupiter.
My favorite part is how FBI agents will now "discretely" arrive at victims' offices.
Why is that? Because it's spelled wrong?
Well, more because an amorphous mass of FBI-flesh writhing obscenely and pulsating as it flows in a continuous stream through your office door can sometimes be distressing. The new method of FBI agents arriving as discrete individuals is far more friendly.
I too heard is has been canned. It seems strange, since it has replaced WWF as the dorm's TV of choice for the male-soap-opera.
Now what are they going to do? Build things with Mathematica?
Don't know about Battlebots, but UK Robot Wars isn't looking like getting pulled any time soon. And even if it was, it's spawned a robot underground - there are plenty of unofficial events going on all the time. You don't need TV endorsement to make a hobby worthwhile:-)
...MS decide this is illegal and start suing? I mean, clearly there's the whole DMCA thing. Does this decoder ignore MS's DRM system? I would have read the article, but I don't speak C...
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Actually, Taiwan IS China. That bunch of commies on the mainland between Russia and India say they're China, but they're just full of it...
And am I the only one who thinks we should have handed Hong Kong over to the real China, the one we actually had the lease agreement with in the first place, as opposed to said commies who are only pretending to be China?
Missing options:
- I was an extra in Pulp Fiction, you insensitive clod!
- FilmCowboyNeal
Which entry is it? Chances are it's your ISP that's the problem. If a provider continues to support spam (giving spammers several free runs before nuking them, ignoring complaints (or worse, forwarding them to the spammer), helping them listwash, etc) then SPEWS have been known to list the ENTIRE network, not just the spammer or even just the /24.
No, they're still spammers. Here's a scenario:
1) I post to USENET.
2) My email address is found by some marketer
3) That marketer starts advertising at me
Now, are they spamming? I would say yes, definitely. I didn't ask to be sent this stuff. I shouldn't be asked to opt out of something I didn't opt into in the first place. There are millions of small businesses in the world - am I to opt out from all of them?
The ONLY people who have any right to send me advertising by email are the people I have explicitly given permission to. Nobody else. And even some of them can be spammers, if they don't make sure the subscription request was genuine by sending a confirmation email before the first newsletter.
If you send no confirmation email, or send one that assumes that no reply means 'OK, I meant to subscribe, start sending', then you're setting yourself up for script kiddies with mass forge subscribes, or at best to be mailing nonexistent addresses for eternity because of a typo... remember the cautionary tale of Nadine.
Spam via SMB is quite the new thing, I gather. This has the potential to _really_ piss people off.
But it could turn out to be a good thing. The reason we can't stop spam by blocking port 25 is that we need to accept email from people who have legitimate reasons to send it. But who has a legitimate reason to connect to SMB on a desktop machine via the Internet? Nobody. Ever.
If this leads ISPs to block the ports involved, the world will be a better place, with no more script kiddies owning Win98 machines via smbclient.
WorldCom lets spammers get away with 'first offence'.
Mr. Connell typed a response: "Problem solved. This guy won't receive anything from us again." He flagged the name of the offended e-mail recipient on Ms. Betterly's list so that person wouldn't be contacted again.
WorldCom helps spammers listwash.
WorldCom says that if problems with a spammer persist, the company will send increasingly stern notices and eventually cut off service.
WorldCom will let spammers get away with spamming several times before actually doing anything about it.
Paging SPEWS. SPEWS to the white courtesy phone, please...
Three quarters of a million? Are you taking the piss? If France had got away with losing such a small number they'd have been positively ecstatic. Casualties were in the millions; ISTR it was something like three or four million each for Britain and France, six million for Germany and something ghastly for Russia.
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The Earth's crust is only a few kilometres thick, so in principle they could get through to the hot mantle below. The problem is heat and pressure. First, we have no material capable of surviving in such conditions - the robot would be crushed and melted. Second, once you break through into the magma below the solid rock, it would be like popping a champagne cork - instant mini-volcano.
Geothermal power works fine on the temperature difference between the bottom and top of a mineshaft, or running off some volcanic vent like in Iceland, but until we get some really _serious_ material science done there'll be no access to the core itself.
The real purpose of these robots would be to get down through the Martian permafrost or the Europan global glacier to investigate the (warmer? wetter? life-infested??) region below...
No, the US _loaned_ the UK the weapons and food. I think we're still paying today.
Do not listen to him, he is mistaken.
You should _shove_ hard on his foot. Shove it down and back into the stairs. I am the pusher robot.
Remember that relativity is "just" a theory. Our understanding of gravity is just a "theory". By your reasoning, my "theory" that gravity is caused by invisible bungee cords has just as much validity as the current Theory of Gravity. Which is, of course, bull. Isn't that basically what string theory boils down to?...
We did get part of the Surveyor probe back; that was a robot moon lander. ISTR Alan Shepard brought bits of it home on Apollo 12. He was promptly disqualified for improving the lie of his ball, and thus his legendary golf shot never counted.
Bringing probes back from deep space is rarely an option - it's a matter of energy. Galileo is irrevocably trapped in the Jupiter system, and doesn't have the fuel to get out of that colossal gravity well; meanwhile Voyager is barreling out of the Solar System at a ridiculous speed, and hasn't a hope of turning round.
Perhaps we might have been able to bring Deep Space One home at the end of its planned mission, but instead it was decided to send it on a rendezvous course with a comet; a high-risk mission that paid off magnificently.
Burning up or freezing to death and returning data to the last has got to be a better fate for a probe than being grabbed by some astronaut and put in a museum...
They can't split Microsoft, because they're a foreign corporation. They can, however, impose conditions on Microsoft which they will have to obey if they want to continue doing business in the EU.
It's unlikely to come to a trade war; EU business is too addicted to MS software to allow Brussels to impose punitive tariffs, for instance. Chances are MS will be fined a comparatively small amount and told not to do it again...
Both Machiavelli and Pirates were by Microprose, and from the same era as Civ and Col. I liked Colonization... I used to ship Trade Goods and Tools to the Incas for Silver, then ship that home. Once the London price of Silver had collapsed, I'd start selling it to the Dutch - and keep a fleet of privateers off their coast to steal it straight back once they tried to get it back to Amsterdam. Then I'd sell it to them again...
I played Privateer 2 for a while a few years ago, and it's similar in concept to Elite, but doesn't feel quite the same somehow. Elite 4 is currently in Development Hell; if you want to play the original, co-author Ian Bell makes just about every version ever produced freely available.
Sorry, I was a little ambiguous there. I didn't mean that Machiavelli was the game you meant - it's a far more recent DOS game. I was suggesting it as a trading game in a similar vein to yours and to Hansa.
Did you ever play Pirates, or Elite? Those were both games along the same lines. In Pirates you have a letter of marque from either England, France, Spain or Holland, and plunder the shipping of your nation's enemies. Find and loot the Spanish treasure fleet and you're wealthy for life. Sack and plunder Havana and you're _insanely_ wealthy for life.
Elite was a magnificent space trading and combat game back in the days of the BBC B. Ah, the countless pirates and aliens I took down in my old Cobra mk. III... 3D vector graphics, extremely impressive for the day. No politics in it, though; while in Pirates a particularly successful looting of a town might actually lead to it seceding to your country, your actions in Elite didn't affect the overall state of the universe.
Machiavelli, perhaps? You play the head of a Venetian merchant family, ship goods around the Old World, and manipulate Venetian politics and the Church for your own ends. Oh, and you can hire mercenaries and take over cities for yourself. Having a monopoly on trade with Florence was _profitable_...
Hansa looks interesting... conquer the world through EU financial hegemony! Muhahaha! Civ with fewer soldiers around; nice idea.
:-)
Shame about the large images... not good in mid-slashdotting
the ubiquitous Duke Nukem Forever is also touched upon... This is the first time I've heard of something that doesn't exist yet, and that probably never will, being ubiquitous.
Not to mention the methane and ammonia gas.
But apart from being about 200 degrees too cold, and consisting of entirely the wrong susbstances, yes, Titan's atmosphere would support human life.
There used to be plans for a whole set of Europa probes - first an orbiter, then landers to use seismographs to determing the thickness of the crust and whether there's water down there, then eventually a submarine... Sadly, this all seems to have been cancelled.
The NASA page about the Europa project is still there, and loads - momentarily - before redirecting you to their updated site, from which all references to Europa seem to have been expunged...
Incidentally, there might be less confusion if you call them 'Europans' rather than 'Europeans'. There are about half a billion Europeans already, and we don't live anywhere near Jupiter.
Why is that? Because it's spelled wrong?
Well, more because an amorphous mass of FBI-flesh writhing obscenely and pulsating as it flows in a continuous stream through your office door can sometimes be distressing. The new method of FBI agents arriving as discrete individuals is far more friendly.
Don't know about Battlebots, but UK Robot Wars isn't looking like getting pulled any time soon. And even if it was, it's spawned a robot underground - there are plenty of unofficial events going on all the time. You don't need TV endorsement to make a hobby worthwhile :-)
Toaster philosophy:
'If God is infinite, and the Universe is also infinite... would you like some toast?'
Lister ended up taking the thing out with an axe, IIRC.
...MS decide this is illegal and start suing? I mean, clearly there's the whole DMCA thing. Does this decoder ignore MS's DRM system? I would have read the article, but I don't speak C...