Screw root@127.0.0.1..... All you have to do is put in the email address of your representative whenever something on the Internet asks for an email address =). All you gotta do is get them on a few mailing lists... then the spamers will trade the addresses around =).
"Sonny, you clearly circumvented technological security mechanisms by using illegal software (MS didn't give it a run-license) to install Linux. You clearly broke the law and now it's federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for you. Don't drop the soap, sucker! I despise scum like you."
I hope people will keep in mind what legislation of technology does when they whine to their congressmen about spam. When you beg the government to make certain emails illegal, they have to define "illegal email". Now are you sure you would like the US Congress to define "illegal email" _for you_?
1.) Create a robots.txt file. Include a file named email_addresses.html.
2.) Create the email_addresses.html file, and put in email addresses of people who may be on your poop list (billg@microsoft.com, president@whitehouse.gov, hrosen@riaa.com, etc)
3.) Hopefully you are hosting a major site (that lots and lots of spambots love to crawl). After a while, take a gander at your logs, and squeal in joy when you imagine how many messages your cough*friends*cough will receive with "special offers" or telling them how lucky they may be. Ok, maybe dont squeal that loud...
I can say that spam does cost. Many calls I get have me spending time walking clueless people through the steps necessary to enable the server-side spam filter and the client-side mail rules.
It doesn't end there, either. From what users are saying, it seems like spammers trade their mailing lists which cause users to recieve increasing amounts of spam. Some users complain that it takes too long to download the spam. I kindly remind them that not only does our mail server have to download the mail but also transmit the mail to them.
Figure you are on a bit of mailing lists, and you receive 500K of spam per day (some messages are html with images). The ISP has to use 1000k (say a megabyte) for that user. Multiply that by 4,000 users, and you have 4 GB of data transfer. Think of it as a T1 simultaneously using maximum up and down bandwidth for almost THREE HOURS.
That is not even mentioning the users who get on a billion mailing lists and never check their mail/delete their messages. Say (a conservative figure) 50 users got 500K of spam per day. That's almost 750 MB/month. 9 gigs of hard drive gone in the name of unread spam in a year. It all adds up folks.
Screw the Do-Not-Call list, I would rather have had a Do-Not-Email list _first_. When an occasional telemarketer calls my home or my workplace, there is a ~30 second distraction. End of story. Nothing like a day of 20 minute phone calls walking users through setting up spam filters and explaining to them why they get so much spam. Although my job is a part-time one, I figure around $150 in labor is paid by both parties per day (the ISP and customers) to set up a *workaround* (which sometimes isn't enough for high-volume victims of spam).
It is virtually impossible to do work without rewarding yourself in some way, whether watching TV, posting on/., etc.
With me, I have a dual boot system, but if I want to do college work, I boot into Mandrake 9.1. There are limited games which will amuse, but not for long. If you use a Linux distro for work, and avoid spending too much time on forum sites like/. when there is work to do.
Although you could get pretty bored with Mandrake, don't forget DivX capabilities built in;). Personally, I like anime, and will use BitTorrent to get fansubs. Takes a while, but I have a reward after a few hours. Every 20-50 minute distraction means 3-5 hours of work done. Not a bad deal. Screw around with Windows all you want, but if you want to actually do business turn to Linux - it helps.
I am going through all the comments seeing complaints about TV not being interactive. While Interactive TV still IMHO can never be as good as the Internet, I still wonder what is going on with it.
I think that there should be a new cable modem standard. One that requires many more frequencies and can deliver much more bandwidth. Then, the cable companies could take a survey of what channels people really like and dump channels nobody likes (like Home Shopping Network?). Seems if this were to happen, cable internet could easily compete with high bandwidth SDSL if not surpass SDSL speeds.
All the cable company would need would be provider equipment, and a fiber connection to the net. In metro areas, they could make a killing.
the Windows world tells itself and believes Linux is not a threat? If Linux weren't a threat, M$ would probably stop fixing the bugs in some operating systems, forcing an "upgrade" since they (think they) are the only viable option.
Oh wait...:P
Seriously though, every time Microsoft says "upgrade or you will be hacked to death" they force people to evaluate whether they should pay tons of cash, get hacked to death, or try something else.
Plus, the idea of renting software... it just causes people to do some rethinking. Perhaps a business might have specialty software that WINE can't handle. However there are other cases where a business wants to run a secure web site, and has to decide whether or not to have a $4000 expense.
Yes, I am dead serious... Lets just say Charter's cable Internet in my area lately really stinks. I would almost rather be on a 14.4k modem - no joke. I am not the only user... I get lag spikes of over 3000ms when not doing anything, and almost dropped connections. Good thing DSL recently became available in my area =D. One less Charter Pipeline subscriber.
The reason just windows is because that as much as we hate it, we are in the minority of computer uses, they are not going to Bata test a new technology on a system that only a maximum of 5% of computer users will have (and yes I am being overly optimistic here) if this works for them the next platform will be Mac. Linux may never get it, unless more people use Linux, and I doubt that they would want to open up the code to the voting system that could create a large number of people trying to skew the results so that the results are not accurate
Why the hell would politicians want to encourage/.reader-like-people to vote conviniently by supporting Linux? These kind of people are ones who look at background, campaign contributions, etc. Many candidates would probably rather not have us vote.<BR><BR>If I were designing a voting center system, I would have the local polls combine one huge text file with each field in the vote having the full name/SSN of the person voting and the name of the chosen candidate. Then calculate the MD5 checksum before sending the text file to one server and the MD5 checksum to another.<BR><BR> For stuff this serious and mission critical, the government should hire people like the ones who work on BSD. Bulletproof security should be the number one priority, not money. Do we really want Chinese hackers (as an example) deciding who our President will be?
I think he was thinking of evacuating an appropriate amount of air. It should be just as easy to breathe, because traveling very fast would cause a greater percieved air pressure. It wouildn't be just the same as breathing normal air at a standstill, but you should be far from sufficating (unless the air is evacuated to a point of being a vaccuum;) )
Other companies and industry analysts would pick up on that fast. The industry is almost like a chess game sometimes. Say for example, IBM predicts that the demise of the Mandrake distro would destroy their Linux initiative. Do you think IBM would twiddle their thumbs while SCO sued Mandrake?
SCO can barely afford the battle with IBM - it certainly would not be able to oppress Mandrake into oblivion that easily. More would be at stake to the Linux community than simply one distro; such judicial precident would spell trouble for everyone.
Remember: - Many plans bill you $0.10 per SMS message. - You can send free SMS messages from the carrier's web site. - Spammers can use programs to post hundreds, perhaps thousands of SMS send message requests to carrier web sites. - If a spammer sends 1,000 SMS messages from AT&T's web site per minute, AT&T makes $6,000/hour from that spammer.
Seems like a win/win system, doesn't it? Spammers get to spam for cheap, and your carrier makes big bucks as well. If corporate interests aren't at stake, why should U$ courts become involved or even care?
Best part of it all, some phones cannot even outright disable SMS messaging, and phone reps can't even turn it off. Another corporate Gotcha!
Too bad nobody really knows about Linux...
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I am not trying to fuel a flame here, but I don't really think there are that many "common people" such as plain old managers who know about Linux. IT people are the ones who would be most effective.
Too bad some IT managers view the choce as "Linux = no counterstrike". The network administrator for my Cable ISP really sucks at Counterstrike, but he loves to play it while on the clock.
Many tech support people are worse though. For example, when trying to get my friend's DSL modem to work with Mandrake Linux 8.0, I had to call up tech support. After the guy had me on hold for a while, he comes back on and says "You're trying to get your DSL modem to work with your Lexus, right?"
As far as Linux vs. Windows goes, I believe OpenOffice.org is a great office suite and almost any buisiness can use Linux for all their office administration tasks. If the company wants to focus on their business, not the computer, Linux distros make for good operating systems. If the people in charge of a company favor having fashon makeover software instead of saving hundreds per seat for MS Office and Windows, so be it.
As far as the companies who buy MS products and then lock the computers with Secure PC or Foolproof, management either is very rich and loves the Windows logo, or is probably leading the company downhill.
At work (today was first day working at an ISPs comp repair bench), my computer runs Windows. I *might* install the latest and gratest distrobution of Mandrake, but I may also keep Windows on the box, simply for the sake of testing procedures (if customer asks what menus to click on Outlook express, I can tell them). Perhaps I will install Cygwin, or perhaps I may give into the temptation of Mandrake.
Theres a few slackware guys where I work.. better be careful or the command prompt will own me (more than it already does)!
I have noticed that people tend to talk much louder on their phones than they normally talk. This is what ticks me off - when I am in a quiet setting like maybe a restauraunt and then someone uses their at-a-soccer-game voice.
and sign with more ethical ones. Seems to be the only solution to this Chinese finger trap.
Remember: 1 If RIAA makes money, gives some artist pawn a deal to make kazaa (Napster) users feel bad about themselves. While not that effective, it causes #2. 2 If people boycott, RIAA blames losses on P2P, starts to sue. 3 RIAA sues developers of file search indexes
Watch out - they might sue you for having a site which goes against Intelectual Property. Hey, you might have a link to download Kazaa. After all, why shouldn't an artist's grandson's grandson be fat off of royalties for a copyright?
All I remember about Beta was the eaten tapes. I know someone who saves _incredibly_ huge JPEG files for good quality (non yucky text). PNG has resonably good browser support, and I use the format with any graphics with text in them.
JPEG isn't a portable network graphic when you have to make huge files to get the same quality of other formats. Precisely why the Slashdot logo is in GIF format.
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Who at the first glance of the title thought of the 2.6 linux kernel?
Screw root@127.0.0.1..... All you have to do is put in the email address of your representative whenever something on the Internet asks for an email address =). All you gotta do is get them on a few mailing lists... then the spamers will trade the addresses around =).
Anti-spam country, here we come.
I can see all the thick-skulled cops now..
"Sonny, you clearly circumvented technological security mechanisms by using illegal software (MS didn't give it a run-license) to install Linux. You clearly broke the law and now it's federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for you. Don't drop the soap, sucker! I despise scum like you."
I hope people will keep in mind what legislation of technology does when they whine to their congressmen about spam. When you beg the government to make certain emails illegal, they have to define "illegal email". Now are you sure you would like the US Congress to define "illegal email" _for you_?
Microsoft is clearly not a monopoly on the PC market. Why, what... with compeditors like....... err
Wouldn't be the first time the EU abused it's monopoly...
It has been written...
1.) Create a robots.txt file. Include a file named email_addresses.html.
2.) Create the email_addresses.html file, and put in email addresses of people who may be on your poop list (billg@microsoft.com, president@whitehouse.gov, hrosen@riaa.com, etc)
3.) Hopefully you are hosting a major site (that lots and lots of spambots love to crawl). After a while, take a gander at your logs, and squeal in joy when you imagine how many messages your cough*friends*cough will receive with "special offers" or telling them how lucky they may be. Ok, maybe dont squeal that loud...
4.) ???
5.) Profit!
I can say that spam does cost. Many calls I get have me spending time walking clueless people through the steps necessary to enable the server-side spam filter and the client-side mail rules.
It doesn't end there, either. From what users are saying, it seems like spammers trade their mailing lists which cause users to recieve increasing amounts of spam. Some users complain that it takes too long to download the spam. I kindly remind them that not only does our mail server have to download the mail but also transmit the mail to them.
Figure you are on a bit of mailing lists, and you receive 500K of spam per day (some messages are html with images). The ISP has to use 1000k (say a megabyte) for that user. Multiply that by 4,000 users, and you have 4 GB of data transfer. Think of it as a T1 simultaneously using maximum up and down bandwidth for almost THREE HOURS.
That is not even mentioning the users who get on a billion mailing lists and never check their mail/delete their messages. Say (a conservative figure) 50 users got 500K of spam per day. That's almost 750 MB/month. 9 gigs of hard drive gone in the name of unread spam in a year. It all adds up folks.
Screw the Do-Not-Call list, I would rather have had a Do-Not-Email list _first_. When an occasional telemarketer calls my home or my workplace, there is a ~30 second distraction. End of story. Nothing like a day of 20 minute phone calls walking users through setting up spam filters and explaining to them why they get so much spam. Although my job is a part-time one, I figure around $150 in labor is paid by both parties per day (the ISP and customers) to set up a *workaround* (which sometimes isn't enough for high-volume victims of spam).
would sure make for a happy Chinese counterstrike clan.
It is virtually impossible to do work without rewarding yourself in some way, whether watching TV, posting on /., etc.
/. when there is work to do.
;). Personally, I like anime, and will use BitTorrent to get fansubs. Takes a while, but I have a reward after a few hours. Every 20-50 minute distraction means 3-5 hours of work done. Not a bad deal. Screw around with Windows all you want, but if you want to actually do business turn to Linux - it helps.
With me, I have a dual boot system, but if I want to do college work, I boot into Mandrake 9.1. There are limited games which will amuse, but not for long. If you use a Linux distro for work, and avoid spending too much time on forum sites like
Although you could get pretty bored with Mandrake, don't forget DivX capabilities built in
I am going through all the comments seeing complaints about TV not being interactive. While Interactive TV still IMHO can never be as good as the Internet, I still wonder what is going on with it.
I think that there should be a new cable modem standard. One that requires many more frequencies and can deliver much more bandwidth. Then, the cable companies could take a survey of what channels people really like and dump channels nobody likes (like Home Shopping Network?). Seems if this were to happen, cable internet could easily compete with high bandwidth SDSL if not surpass SDSL speeds.
All the cable company would need would be provider equipment, and a fiber connection to the net. In metro areas, they could make a killing.
the Windows world tells itself and believes Linux is not a threat? If Linux weren't a threat, M$ would probably stop fixing the bugs in some operating systems, forcing an "upgrade" since they (think they) are the only viable option.
:P
Oh wait...
Seriously though, every time Microsoft says "upgrade or you will be hacked to death" they force people to evaluate whether they should pay tons of cash, get hacked to death, or try something else.
Plus, the idea of renting software... it just causes people to do some rethinking. Perhaps a business might have specialty software that WINE can't handle. However there are other cases where a business wants to run a secure web site, and has to decide whether or not to have a $4000 expense.
for my cable Internet connection at home.
Yes, I am dead serious... Lets just say Charter's cable Internet in my area lately really stinks. I would almost rather be on a 14.4k modem - no joke. I am not the only user... I get lag spikes of over 3000ms when not doing anything, and almost dropped connections. Good thing DSL recently became available in my area =D. One less Charter Pipeline subscriber.
The reason just windows is because that as much as we hate it, we are in the minority of computer uses, they are not going to Bata test a new technology on a system that only a maximum of 5% of computer users will have (and yes I am being overly optimistic here) if this works for them the next platform will be Mac. Linux may never get it, unless more people use Linux, and I doubt that they would want to open up the code to the voting system that could create a large number of people trying to skew the results so that the results are not accurate
/.reader-like-people to vote conviniently by supporting Linux? These kind of people are ones who look at background, campaign contributions, etc. Many candidates would probably rather not have us vote.<BR><BR>If I were designing a voting center system, I would have the local polls combine one huge text file with each field in the vote having the full name/SSN of the person voting and the name of the chosen candidate. Then calculate the MD5 checksum before sending the text file to one server and the MD5 checksum to another.<BR><BR>
Why the hell would politicians want to encourage
For stuff this serious and mission critical, the government should hire people like the ones who work on BSD. Bulletproof security should be the number one priority, not money. Do we really want Chinese hackers (as an example) deciding who our President will be?
http://www.cotse.com/pftherl/grep.html
I like this one the best =D
I think he was thinking of evacuating an appropriate amount of air. It should be just as easy to breathe, because traveling very fast would cause a greater percieved air pressure. It wouildn't be just the same as breathing normal air at a standstill, but you should be far from sufficating (unless the air is evacuated to a point of being a vaccuum ;) )
Other companies and industry analysts would pick up on that fast. The industry is almost like a chess game sometimes. Say for example, IBM predicts that the demise of the Mandrake distro would destroy their Linux initiative. Do you think IBM would twiddle their thumbs while SCO sued Mandrake?
SCO can barely afford the battle with IBM - it certainly would not be able to oppress Mandrake into oblivion that easily. More would be at stake to the Linux community than simply one distro; such judicial precident would spell trouble for everyone.
God Bless America! Please??? She needs it!
Remember:
- Many plans bill you $0.10 per SMS message.
- You can send free SMS messages from the carrier's web site.
- Spammers can use programs to post hundreds, perhaps thousands of SMS send message requests to carrier web sites.
- If a spammer sends 1,000 SMS messages from AT&T's web site per minute, AT&T makes $6,000/hour from that spammer.
Seems like a win/win system, doesn't it? Spammers get to spam for cheap, and your carrier makes big bucks as well. If corporate interests aren't at stake, why should U$ courts become involved or even care?
Best part of it all, some phones cannot even outright disable SMS messaging, and phone reps can't even turn it off. Another corporate Gotcha!
I am not trying to fuel a flame here, but I don't really think there are that many "common people" such as plain old managers who know about Linux. IT people are the ones who would be most effective.
Too bad some IT managers view the choce as "Linux = no counterstrike". The network administrator for my Cable ISP really sucks at Counterstrike, but he loves to play it while on the clock.
Many tech support people are worse though. For example, when trying to get my friend's DSL modem to work with Mandrake Linux 8.0, I had to call up tech support. After the guy had me on hold for a while, he comes back on and says "You're trying to get your DSL modem to work with your Lexus, right?"
As far as Linux vs. Windows goes, I believe OpenOffice.org is a great office suite and almost any buisiness can use Linux for all their office administration tasks. If the company wants to focus on their business, not the computer, Linux distros make for good operating systems. If the people in charge of a company favor having fashon makeover software instead of saving hundreds per seat for MS Office and Windows, so be it.
As far as the companies who buy MS products and then lock the computers with Secure PC or Foolproof, management either is very rich and loves the Windows logo, or is probably leading the company downhill.
Bah! I'm gonna wait for Mr. Wizard - that guy's a G!!! Him and Beakman!
At home, I only use Windows because of games.
At work (today was first day working at an ISPs comp repair bench), my computer runs Windows. I *might* install the latest and gratest distrobution of Mandrake, but I may also keep Windows on the box, simply for the sake of testing procedures (if customer asks what menus to click on Outlook express, I can tell them). Perhaps I will install Cygwin, or perhaps I may give into the temptation of Mandrake.
Theres a few slackware guys where I work.. better be careful or the command prompt will own me (more than it already does)!
I have noticed that people tend to talk much louder on their phones than they normally talk. This is what ticks me off - when I am in a quiet setting like maybe a restauraunt and then someone uses their at-a-soccer-game voice.
and sign with more ethical ones. Seems to be the only solution to this Chinese finger trap.
Remember:
1 If RIAA makes money, gives some artist pawn a deal to make kazaa (Napster) users feel bad about themselves. While not that effective, it causes #2.
2 If people boycott, RIAA blames losses on P2P, starts to sue.
3 RIAA sues developers of file search indexes
Watch out - they might sue you for having a site which goes against Intelectual Property. Hey, you might have a link to download Kazaa. After all, why shouldn't an artist's grandson's grandson be fat off of royalties for a copyright?
LOL was wondering about that... but then dismissed it.
:-/. Kwelstr had me thinking I had gone senile this whole time at the ripe old age of 18.
Bah... everything seems to provoke dejavu these days
All I remember about Beta was the eaten tapes. I know someone who saves _incredibly_ huge JPEG files for good quality (non yucky text). PNG has resonably good browser support, and I use the format with any graphics with text in them.
JPEG isn't a portable network graphic when you have to make huge files to get the same quality of other formats. Precisely why the Slashdot logo is in GIF format.