You fuckers wouldn't be having these problems if you was using elm and vt100 like email was supposed to be.
Mod me up, mod me down. Label me a troll or call me flamebait. Agree or dissagree with me, it don't matter. Nothing you can do will change the truth of my statement.
There used to be dumb ass like that when I was working in Huntsville. I would be getting off I565 going to work at 4:00 in the morning. The street I was driving down didn't have any street lamps on it so it would be pretty dark. Then out of no where a black man dressed in all black riding a black bicycle with no reflectors would dart out of a side street in front of me.
He did this about two or three times in one week. We got to talking about it at work and it seems I wasn't the only one he did it too. This went on for about 6 months. Then one day he dissappreared. After about 6 months another black man showed up on the same street riding a black bicycle that look a lot like the other. Except this one was wearing a orange safty vest and the bicycle had lights on it, lots of lights.
Another "toy" that was a fad: burning plastic. Yes, just the simple fun of watching pieces of plastic combust and form sizzling, bubbling, congealed masses dangling from the end of a stick. I remember my friend moronically started whizzing the stick around with the sizzling plastic dangling and some flew on his hand causing a blister.
Oh yeah, I remember burning plastic. Did you and your friends ever use the black pvc pipes, drip them in water to make interesting scultures and shit?
On of the more stupider things that we did was soak a tennis ball in gasoline. Then we would set it on fire and play hand ball with it. God, how stupid was that?
I'm afraid that in the end it might require a does of vigilante justice. Maybe one day some spammer will spam someone with the resources to track him down and without that annoying morals problem to do something about it. Maybe one day a spammer will spam some mob bosses sweet little girls mailbox with adds for perverted porn and penis enlargement pills. Just maybe said spammer will wind up in the east river then.
Most of you should be able to tell what this does. Basically, if you don't have a fully qualified domain name then I don't want to talk to you. Since most of these bots are running off of machines that don't have fqdn then most of this shit is dropped at the the front door.
This solution is not perfect, some still gets through but its only one or two a week. Those that do are easily blocked in header_checks or body_checks. I only run a small personal server that gets about a 10 emails a day so I don't know how well this would scale up.
I may not know now but I plan to find out how it will scale up. I've convenced my company to let me switch the mail servers to postfix and put this in place. We get 300,000+ emails a day, 1.5 GB a day, and 80% of that is fucking shit.
My option is if you want to host your own server then you should have a fqdn. Domain names are cheap now, around 5 bucks for 2 years, so there is no longer an excuse not to have one. By simply rejecting email from "illegal" senders we can kill most of the functionality of these bots.
And if your isp doesn't let you register your own domain? Tough, find one that does if you want to host your own mailserver. Otherwise use your isp mailserver and shut the hell up.
So these dumb asses want to tax that castle of mine in WoW. Doesn't that mean I can write off that castle when the dragon burns it down? How about those 4 space craft worth of spaceweed that I lost in X3? That is at least 400,000,000 million credits I lost there. Can I write that off?
But on the other hand I lost that in the argos sector where hauling spaceweed is illegal. Are they going to ship my ass off to jail for that?
You have never had something put together by professional carpenters then. My dad and I, not professional, nailed up porches on the front and back of my house. After a few years the nails are working lose and the front one squeaks. It took us 3 days to do it.
When they put up the deck around my pool, at least 4 times as much work as what my dad an I done. Four men that knew what they where doing showed up about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Using nail guns they put the deck up in 4 hours and the fucker is rock solid.
Point being, in the hands of amatures screws are usually better. But get someone out there that knows what they are doing and nails are just as good as screws.
It will be never. I've been hearing shit like this for years about diabetes. "A cure is right around the corner." "Just a few more years." Same shit over and over.
Point being there is to much money is not curing diabetes than there is curing it. If they just develop a treatment they can keep people hooked on the drugs that keep them alive for a life time. Where if they cure it that is a one time income shot.
One fee for the cure vs a life time of treatment for 40 or 50 years.
KDE is slower when compaired to running a unencumbered fvwm2 desktop. Don't get me wrong, KDE and Gnome are very nice projects. They have done wonders to help the transition to linux from winblows. But there is just something to building a desktop from scratch and watching it run like a cat with a bottle rocket up its arse.
Every company does something to surprise us every now an then. Even one as evil as sony. I think with the root kit, the drm, and other bullshit sony has pulled we can safely say that sony is now an evil company.
Beware of sending anything into Sony to have the warrenty work done on it. Fuck that, beware of anything having to do with Sony.
Let me tell you a tale of my Sony PDA, a Th-55. As far as PDA's go I though sony made the best, the sony th-55 was great. Well I had mine for a few months then it died. It was still under warrenty so I shipped it off to Sony to be fixed. A few MONTHS later they told me it was going to cost 695 bucks to fix it. Fix something still under warrenty.
After fighting through the phone maze seems that it was a problem with the battery and it was covered under warrenty even though they couldn't prove it. Seems they figured someone opened the pda and damaged the battery. I know I never opened it so it had to be done at the factory.
So if you ship you shit off to sony beware that sony will do everything they can to get out of fixing it. Even damaging it more to make sure its not worth fixing and telling you to fuck off.
It should come out of the war budget, hell, we should suck it out of the military budget. I read some where that the military budget is going to breach 400 billion bucks this time. $4 hundred fucking billion bucks!! Do you know many cheese nips I can buy with that? I'm no peace nick, I really believe in the motto "Peace Through Superior Firepower" but damn.
Lets shave a 100 billion off this dough pile and put it into energy research. The navy can do without a few new aircraft carrers.
Of course no OPEC nations are going to get in on this. It's in their interest that this project fail. The promise of cheap energies in almost unlimited quantities will forever end the energy strangle hold they have on the world. With out the enormous income that middle east oil supplies the middle east basically has nothing to offer the world. Some countries are down right scared of fusion and have the audacity to demand tribute and payments if fusion becomes a reality.
I, for one, will be glad when/if fusion takes us off the opec oil tit. With out that source of income most islamic terrorism will have no funds. With out the oil need there will be no reasons to keep troops in the middle east and we can let them go back to killing each other than trying enforce their backward religion on the rest of us.
I'm not saying keep quiet, I'm saying don't panic. Even if someone doesn't come up with a patch to fix this there are always alternitives. MacOS, linux or even freeBSD come to mind.
You are so wrong on the second part. As a group we are smarter than they are simply because there are more of us than they are of them. On that same note there is no revolution in recent computing that can be traced to one single person. Almost every project in the last 15 years has been a group effort. Linus didn't write Linux by himself but he did contribute the vision, concept, and a shit load of code to it. The modern linux computer wouldn't be possible with out the work of the BSD and GNU teams.
That is a good point but we can go back farther than that. People talked trash about windows 2000 years ago. Many people today, including some that where trashing it here, concider it to be the best windows mickysoft has made.
I guess what I'm saying is don't trash vista before the final release comes out. We where suprised once, we may be surprised again.
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You fuckers wouldn't be having these problems if you was using elm and vt100 like email was supposed to be.
Mod me up, mod me down. Label me a troll or call me flamebait. Agree or dissagree with me, it don't matter. Nothing you can do will change the truth of my statement.
Fucking sweet. I have to try that. First I need to get a sixpack. If you don't hear from me in 24 hours all I ask for is a moment of silence.
Invisible Pedestrian Costume??? LOL!!!
There used to be dumb ass like that when I was working in Huntsville. I would be getting off I565 going to work at 4:00 in the morning. The street I was driving down didn't have any street lamps on it so it would be pretty dark. Then out of no where a black man dressed in all black riding a black bicycle with no reflectors would dart out of a side street in front of me.
He did this about two or three times in one week. We got to talking about it at work and it seems I wasn't the only one he did it too. This went on for about 6 months. Then one day he dissappreared. After about 6 months another black man showed up on the same street riding a black bicycle that look a lot like the other. Except this one was wearing a orange safty vest and the bicycle had lights on it, lots of lights.
And what about those that do kill you? Look at the list of toys in the article - most of them killed several people at least.
What about "that which does not kill us only makes us stronger?" How about natual selection?
Another "toy" that was a fad: burning plastic. Yes, just the simple fun of watching pieces of plastic combust and form sizzling, bubbling, congealed masses dangling from the end of a stick. I remember my friend moronically started whizzing the stick around with the sizzling plastic dangling and some flew on his hand causing a blister.
Oh yeah, I remember burning plastic. Did you and your friends ever use the black pvc pipes, drip them in water to make interesting scultures and shit?
On of the more stupider things that we did was soak a tennis ball in gasoline. Then we would set it on fire and play hand ball with it. God, how stupid was that?
Very nice.
I'm afraid that in the end it might require a does of vigilante justice. Maybe one day some spammer will spam someone with the resources to track him down and without that annoying morals problem to do something about it. Maybe one day a spammer will spam some mob bosses sweet little girls mailbox with adds for perverted porn and penis enlargement pills. Just maybe said spammer will wind up in the east river then.
And this would be a problem? We would be rid of two problems at once. Microsoft woudl sail off into space and spam would be gone.
I'm running postfix on my personal mailserver an started getting these image spam. I added these lines to my main.cf and poof most of them went away.
smtpd_helo_required = yes
smtpd_helo_restrictions =
permit_mynetworks,
reject_invalid_hostname,
reject_unknown_hostname
reject_non_fqdn_hostname
strict_rfc821_envelopes = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,reject_unauth_destination
Most of you should be able to tell what this does. Basically, if you don't have a fully qualified domain name then I don't want to talk to you. Since most of these bots are running off of machines that don't have fqdn then most of this shit is dropped at the the front door.
This solution is not perfect, some still gets through but its only one or two a week. Those that do are easily blocked in header_checks or body_checks. I only run a small personal server that gets about a 10 emails a day so I don't know how well this would scale up.
I may not know now but I plan to find out how it will scale up. I've convenced my company to let me switch the mail servers to postfix and put this in place. We get 300,000+ emails a day, 1.5 GB a day, and 80% of that is fucking shit.
My option is if you want to host your own server then you should have a fqdn. Domain names are cheap now, around 5 bucks for 2 years, so there is no longer an excuse not to have one. By simply rejecting email from "illegal" senders we can kill most of the functionality of these bots.
And if your isp doesn't let you register your own domain? Tough, find one that does if you want to host your own mailserver. Otherwise use your isp mailserver and shut the hell up.
The "proper" solution would be to find the jackass repsonsible for all this shit and beat him with in a inch of his fucking life.
Holy Shit! That almost split my head wide open. Bury that link.
So these dumb asses want to tax that castle of mine in WoW. Doesn't that mean I can write off that castle when the dragon burns it down? How about those 4 space craft worth of spaceweed that I lost in X3? That is at least 400,000,000 million credits I lost there. Can I write that off?
But on the other hand I lost that in the argos sector where hauling spaceweed is illegal. Are they going to ship my ass off to jail for that?
Fuck Katz (figure of speech) who is going to play me? I really can't think of anyone in hollywood sexy enough to cover it.
You have never had something put together by professional carpenters then. My dad and I, not professional, nailed up porches on the front and back of my house. After a few years the nails are working lose and the front one squeaks. It took us 3 days to do it.
When they put up the deck around my pool, at least 4 times as much work as what my dad an I done. Four men that knew what they where doing showed up about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Using nail guns they put the deck up in 4 hours and the fucker is rock solid.
Point being, in the hands of amatures screws are usually better. But get someone out there that knows what they are doing and nails are just as good as screws.
It will be never. I've been hearing shit like this for years about diabetes. "A cure is right around the corner." "Just a few more years." Same shit over and over.
Point being there is to much money is not curing diabetes than there is curing it. If they just develop a treatment they can keep people hooked on the drugs that keep them alive for a life time. Where if they cure it that is a one time income shot.
One fee for the cure vs a life time of treatment for 40 or 50 years.
Sequels? There where sequels. Damn I had blocked all those out. Damn You for making me remember that!
KDE is slower when compaired to running a unencumbered fvwm2 desktop. Don't get me wrong, KDE and Gnome are very nice projects. They have done wonders to help the transition to linux from winblows. But there is just something to building a desktop from scratch and watching it run like a cat with a bottle rocket up its arse.
Thank you Zeus, Budda, God, one of you guys was listening.
Every company does something to surprise us every now an then. Even one as evil as sony. I think with the root kit, the drm, and other bullshit sony has pulled we can safely say that sony is now an evil company.
Beware of sending anything into Sony to have the warrenty work done on it. Fuck that, beware of anything having to do with Sony.
Let me tell you a tale of my Sony PDA, a Th-55. As far as PDA's go I though sony made the best, the sony th-55 was great. Well I had mine for a few months then it died. It was still under warrenty so I shipped it off to Sony to be fixed. A few MONTHS later they told me it was going to cost 695 bucks to fix it. Fix something still under warrenty.
After fighting through the phone maze seems that it was a problem with the battery and it was covered under warrenty even though they couldn't prove it. Seems they figured someone opened the pda and damaged the battery. I know I never opened it so it had to be done at the factory.
So if you ship you shit off to sony beware that sony will do everything they can to get out of fixing it. Even damaging it more to make sure its not worth fixing and telling you to fuck off.
It should come out of the war budget, hell, we should suck it out of the military budget. I read some where that the military budget is going to breach 400 billion bucks this time. $4 hundred fucking billion bucks!! Do you know many cheese nips I can buy with that? I'm no peace nick, I really believe in the motto "Peace Through Superior Firepower" but damn.
Lets shave a 100 billion off this dough pile and put it into energy research. The navy can do without a few new aircraft carrers.
Good dog when will it end?
Of course no OPEC nations are going to get in on this. It's in their interest that this project fail. The promise of cheap energies in almost unlimited quantities will forever end the energy strangle hold they have on the world. With out the enormous income that middle east oil supplies the middle east basically has nothing to offer the world. Some countries are down right scared of fusion and have the audacity to demand tribute and payments if fusion becomes a reality.
I, for one, will be glad when/if fusion takes us off the opec oil tit. With out that source of income most islamic terrorism will have no funds. With out the oil need there will be no reasons to keep troops in the middle east and we can let them go back to killing each other than trying enforce their backward religion on the rest of us.
I'm not saying keep quiet, I'm saying don't panic. Even if someone doesn't come up with a patch to fix this there are always alternitives. MacOS, linux or even freeBSD come to mind.
You are so wrong on the second part. As a group we are smarter than they are simply because there are more of us than they are of them. On that same note there is no revolution in recent computing that can be traced to one single person. Almost every project in the last 15 years has been a group effort. Linus didn't write Linux by himself but he did contribute the vision, concept, and a shit load of code to it. The modern linux computer wouldn't be possible with out the work of the BSD and GNU teams.
So, yes, as a group we are smarter than they are.
That is a good point but we can go back farther than that. People talked trash about windows 2000 years ago. Many people today, including some that where trashing it here, concider it to be the best windows mickysoft has made.
I guess what I'm saying is don't trash vista before the final release comes out. We where suprised once, we may be surprised again.