I always parsed that as "Immodiun 236 space demodulator" meaning a heavy isotope of Immodium AD. (well-known laxative in the US). In other words, your shit will soon occupy a *lot* of space, but will have no form.
Why couldn't I just use my soundcard line inputs? Not trying to be an asshat here, just reminding people that modems and soundcards basically *are* A/D devices. If you have the $$$ to spend, you can find A/D cards here, they supply pro stuff. Yeah, I'd like to try this under Linux, but I need to ask: does anyone know a good way to re-code the VB into C/C++? This is not the kind of project I normally consider, but its just too damn interesting. Thanks.
OK, adding to a list that is for sale may not be all that effective up front, but what about the addresses they currently use? And wouldn't the bandwith costs go up regardless? Yeah I'm sure the lower-quality lists are generated. Also, I still think the idea would work over a longer period of time simply due to attrition; the valid addresses in the list would eventually change or drop, potentially increasing the "noise ratio" for a given list.
I wouldn't waste the time telling him. He clicks attatchments from OutHouse Express when they "come from somebody he knows", which is why worms like this are so effective IMHO. Why would msn behavior be any different? or Trillian using msn protocol?
Rarely. Yeah he should be pretty safe. I'm a bit worried about Trillian being installed too. Also, this is a persom who *always* clicks on attatchments from names he knows; the "social engineering" aspect of this worm is what makes it so effective against him. I imagine its the same way for millions of other users.
I believed in the regexp idea until last week. The reason why? Because I noticed a new trend in my 95%-per-day pile of spam for Viagara, Par1s Hilt0n, and biz offers.
Newer subj. lines are using recognizable english words forming "nonsense" english sentences. They offer no clue as to the content. So now the filters will have to learn and parse english, it seems. It may just be time for me to switch to whitelists instead. Yeah I use mozilla/bayes, but its a bit slower than normal at catching these.
I still wonder about the possibility of "poisoning" these address databases with automated tools, rendering the info useless. I think that tech like that in addition to legal and financial methods would be required overall to reduce spam. In other words, no one thing can do it, it will require all three methods (tech, legal, financial) working *together*.
Hrmmm. now all I need is a mailserver on a *real* big pipe to generate zillions of bogus addresses and a handful of bots to respond to spams with these addresses. Of course, those addresses wouldn't exist the next day or week or whatever... Set it all up and leave it runing like that for a year or something...
Try XDrive. My brother works there, and no you couldn't possibly generate enough data in your lifetime to fill it up.
Pretty easy too; open a browser into your xdrive account and click/drag or use the file selection dialog after you hit the "Upload" button. There's a "high security" (ssl) option and they host it all in datacenters with redundant OC-192's and backup power generators, etc. Take a look at it at least - its a great way to send each other huge files, etc.
Yes, I agree about the rocket technology. Obviously you need an oxidizer or something. I do wonder about the economics of using jets of *some* kind to do the boosting in the atmosphere, but rocket stages would be required after that. FWIW I heard that the Russians use a very cheap, low-tech approach (compared to NASA): They inject kerosene or diesel fuel with liquid nitrogen. Basically like a "controlled" AGFO bomb.
Sort of like the SR-71 Blackbird. Which is now 40 years old. Which is cool in a way because I've always wanted to see somebody do a Blackbird-like project with modern materials, computers, etc.
Posts like yours make me want to change my default mod to +2, Insightful. Overall I agree, but I disagree on one point, not that it would change the way I mod:
"Spam won't 'go away' until there are fundamental changes in how the Internet is structured." No, I believe that spam won't 'go away' until there are fundamental changes in how human nature is structured. Of course we're not one big happy family. That's what needs to change. All of my own experience plus recorded history shows that this probably won't happen.
Just guessing here, but this is what I'd do if I was a spammer.
I would bet that an IRS crackdown would show nothing - he might be gainfully employed and drawing a salary from "shell" companies or corporations which he owns *or controls*. In the case of a US company, his salary might actually be protected under the laws of incorporation. There's probably more than one company involved. Said companie(s) may or may not be LLC or incorporated in the US - they could be anywhere, in legal terms. Its very unlikely that they are publically traded, hence no fear of investor lawsuits.
The important point (I think) is that incorporating in the US not only gives a company the legal status of a fictitious person; it also absolves responsibility for the company's actions from the people in it, to some degree. Remember, he may have many companies in many places; different jurdistictions. In other words, you cannot be held responsible for someone else's actions, even if "someone else" is a legal fiction (a company). Sounds crazy, but hear me out - people will start screaming about Enron, Andersen, etc. here, *but there's a big difference*. Mainly, big publicly traded companies have accepted some liability in exchange for quick cash (the stock market, retirement, etc.) Private companies have not. They have a lot more freedom in some ways, and a lot less in others.
Anyway, that's just my (uneducated) guess as to what's really going on.
Whoops, its cheesy to follow my own post, but I forgot to mention that New Near's day, 1970 was a leap-second. So maybe the beginning of the epoch doesn't exist in one sense?
Ummm, IIRC the CNN article mentioned that something similar happened at Diebold. Yes, damage control happens. (Shit happens...) How much does anyone here want to bet that the same individual/organization is responsible? I'm not normally *that* paranoid, but 2x the same type of event is more than coincidence in my book. Especially when it comes to the types interested in tipping national/global power. Comments, anyone?
but not because of anything humans did. Will we see a global warming and smaller ice caps? Yes. Will we see strange weather because of this? Yes.
Here's why: Solar activity will be doing a number on the ozone holes over the polar caps, allowing things to warm up a bit. Solar winds, gravity, and geo-magnetics, anyone? Lets add in some volcanic activity just to put things in perspective.
Personally I think its a bit presumptuous for people to think that we can really change things much on a global scale, maybe we can on a state or national scale. Nature has far more energy available than anything we can do, its just hard to see because its *very* distributed, even within the same system or front.
"Just because IBM supports Linux doesn't mean its motives are pure (not financially driven)." Last I checked, nobody said anything about pure motives - maybe its just a mutually beneficial relationship.
"I think the rest of your post is either biased (assuming IBM only intends this article for a technical audience that won't use it for business decisions)" Yes. To both technical and business decisions.
"I need something more empirical than this assertion. I don't see kernel developers spending weeks duplicating IBM's results just to verify that Linux is as good as IBM says." Bummer, all that efort being duplicated by HP, NEC, etc. at OSDL. Of course, you could just fund some 3rd party testing yourself.
SEE SUBJECT: I'd actually be interested in seeing Microsoft publish several evaluations of linux, since I don't trust them with evaluations of Windows. Interestingly, I haven't seen any such thing recently.
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BwahahahHaha... One of my favorites, thanks.
I always parsed that as "Immodiun 236 space demodulator" meaning a heavy isotope of Immodium AD. (well-known laxative in the US). In other words, your shit will soon occupy a *lot* of space, but will have no form.
Wow... the tracking station in Canberra (AU) was happy to do it at 10 bits/sec? I feel like such a pigopolist now... that's fuckin impressive.
Why couldn't I just use my soundcard line inputs? Not trying to be an asshat here, just reminding people that modems and soundcards basically *are* A/D devices. If you have the $$$ to spend, you can find A/D cards here, they supply pro stuff. Yeah, I'd like to try this under Linux, but I need to ask: does anyone know a good way to re-code the VB into C/C++? This is not the kind of project I normally consider, but its just too damn interesting. Thanks.
Maybe he could pour some liquid nitrogen on it and make it go faster?
That's one thing I love about the space stories here - cuz stuff like this has *got* to be the ultimate hack IMHO.
OK, adding to a list that is for sale may not be all that effective up front, but what about the addresses they currently use? And wouldn't the bandwith costs go up regardless? Yeah I'm sure the lower-quality lists are generated. Also, I still think the idea would work over a longer period of time simply due to attrition; the valid addresses in the list would eventually change or drop, potentially increasing the "noise ratio" for a given list.
I wouldn't waste the time telling him. He clicks attatchments from OutHouse Express when they "come from somebody he knows", which is why worms like this are so effective IMHO. Why would msn behavior be any different? or Trillian using msn protocol?
Rarely. Yeah he should be pretty safe. I'm a bit worried about Trillian being installed too. Also, this is a persom who *always* clicks on attatchments from names he knows; the "social engineering" aspect of this worm is what makes it so effective against him. I imagine its the same way for millions of other users.
Newer subj. lines are using recognizable english words forming "nonsense" english sentences. They offer no clue as to the content. So now the filters will have to learn and parse english, it seems. It may just be time for me to switch to whitelists instead. Yeah I use mozilla/bayes, but its a bit slower than normal at catching these.
Hrmmm. now all I need is a mailserver on a *real* big pipe to generate zillions of bogus addresses and a handful of bots to respond to spams with these addresses. Of course, those addresses wouldn't exist the next day or week or whatever... Set it all up and leave it runing like that for a year or something...
Pretty easy too; open a browser into your xdrive account and click/drag or use the file selection dialog after you hit the "Upload" button. There's a "high security" (ssl) option and they host it all in datacenters with redundant OC-192's and backup power generators, etc. Take a look at it at least - its a great way to send each other huge files, etc.
Now I'll have to explain to my Dad why I had to shut down his Win98/cable modem box. Again. *sigh*
Yes, I agree about the rocket technology. Obviously you need an oxidizer or something. I do wonder about the economics of using jets of *some* kind to do the boosting in the atmosphere, but rocket stages would be required after that. FWIW I heard that the Russians use a very cheap, low-tech approach (compared to NASA): They inject kerosene or diesel fuel with liquid nitrogen. Basically like a "controlled" AGFO bomb.
Sort of like the SR-71 Blackbird. Which is now 40 years old. Which is cool in a way because I've always wanted to see somebody do a Blackbird-like project with modern materials, computers, etc.
It might've worked if it was 100% wireless and if all the TV advertisers used it. I just thought it looked too phallic.
Greased Cue Cat anyone?
I, for one, do *not* need to click to enlarge...
"Spam won't 'go away' until there are fundamental changes in how the Internet is structured."
No, I believe that spam won't 'go away' until there are fundamental changes in how human nature is structured. Of course we're not one big happy family. That's what needs to change. All of my own experience plus recorded history shows that this probably won't happen.
Yah, $500 per mil (or $35k/day) might be his target. That doesn't mean he's actually achieving it. One can always hope.
I would bet that an IRS crackdown would show nothing - he might be gainfully employed and drawing a salary from "shell" companies or corporations which he owns *or controls*. In the case of a US company, his salary might actually be protected under the laws of incorporation. There's probably more than one company involved. Said companie(s) may or may not be LLC or incorporated in the US - they could be anywhere, in legal terms. Its very unlikely that they are publically traded, hence no fear of investor lawsuits.
The important point (I think) is that incorporating in the US not only gives a company the legal status of a fictitious person; it also absolves responsibility for the company's actions from the people in it, to some degree. Remember, he may have many companies in many places; different jurdistictions. In other words, you cannot be held responsible for someone else's actions, even if "someone else" is a legal fiction (a company).
Sounds crazy, but hear me out - people will start screaming about Enron, Andersen, etc. here, *but there's a big difference*. Mainly, big publicly traded companies have accepted some liability in exchange for quick cash (the stock market, retirement, etc.) Private companies have not. They have a lot more freedom in some ways, and a lot less in others.
Anyway, that's just my (uneducated) guess as to what's really going on.
Whoops, its cheesy to follow my own post, but I forgot to mention that New Near's day, 1970 was a leap-second. So maybe the beginning of the epoch doesn't exist in one sense?
any takers on what this might mean for date roll-over errors like the *nix epoch in 2038, or even this weird 29-bit thing?
Ummm, IIRC the CNN article mentioned that something similar happened at Diebold. Yes, damage control happens. (Shit happens...) How much does anyone here want to bet that the same individual/organization is responsible? I'm not normally *that* paranoid, but 2x the same type of event is more than coincidence in my book. Especially when it comes to the types interested in tipping national/global power. Comments, anyone?
Known troll, don't bother.
Here's why: Solar activity will be doing a number on the ozone holes over the polar caps, allowing things to warm up a bit. Solar winds, gravity, and geo-magnetics, anyone? Lets add in some volcanic activity just to put things in perspective.
Personally I think its a bit presumptuous for people to think that we can really change things much on a global scale, maybe we can on a state or national scale. Nature has far more energy available than anything we can do, its just hard to see because its *very* distributed, even within the same system or front.
"Just because IBM supports Linux doesn't mean its motives are pure (not financially driven)."
Last I checked, nobody said anything about pure motives - maybe its just a mutually beneficial relationship.
"I think the rest of your post is either biased (assuming IBM only intends this article for a technical audience that won't use it for business decisions)"
Yes. To both technical and business decisions.
"I need something more empirical than this assertion. I don't see kernel developers spending weeks duplicating IBM's results just to verify that Linux is as good as IBM says."
Bummer, all that efort being duplicated by HP, NEC, etc. at OSDL. Of course, you could just fund some 3rd party testing yourself.
SEE SUBJECT: I'd actually be interested in seeing Microsoft publish several evaluations of linux, since I don't trust them with evaluations of Windows. Interestingly, I haven't seen any such thing recently.
BTW, its "weathered", not "whethered".