Good idea, but is it viable? If this is used, then wouldn't OCR become more viable for the spammers? A URL must be pretty easy to parse for the OCR software they use. Thus, the need to use the pr0n powered sign-ups disappears, and OCR based signups (which I'm sure would be faster) would flood us with spam...
This sort of comes to the nub of the problem. Authentication. If Joesixpack is a good guy - he should be able to send email to anyone - and if he is not a good guy we will find out fairly quicky and we can fine him or pull his priviliges.
There are mechanisms for this already. POP-before-SMTP, anyone? If you have to verify your identity prior to sending a message, then SPF will become much more useful as part of an anti-spam toolset (it's not a panacea on its own).
One way to implement something that will work is via issuing a certifiation. At the time joesixpack signs up with his ISP - the ISP could act as a CA and certify him as a good guy. They can record his identiy just as they recorded that he paid his bill. At this time they could install a cert for JoeSixpack into his email client - AND - bond it to his machine. There are many ways to bond it - including using a dongle or smartcard. But a practical way would simply bond it to the hard drive. I'm sure ways can be invented so that certs cannot be simply pulled from one machine and stuck into another.
Too hard! Very few ISPs will want to support this, as it will increase their tech support requests, not to mention the administrative headaches of keeping track of users and their certificates.
3. all negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use.
Any other thing? My hands, my beautiful hands!!! Not to mention my computer, my desk, my chair, my house... how general do they want to be? Sheesh!!
Fax.com founder Kevin Katz claimed that "all the lawsuits" are responsible for driving away most of Fax.com's business.
I feel for them, I really do.... NOT! People fighting back are winning this one.. keep it up!! Once one junk fax company goes out of business, maybe others will realise that it's a bad idea...
I've always thought there was a difference between "advertising" and "marketing". The purpose of advertisment is to let people know that you are selling something so they know where to get it. Informative without being pushy. The purpose of marketing is to convince you that you should buy what they are hawking whether you really need it or not.
I think your definitions are only a little off the mark:
marketing n. 1. The act or process of buying and selling in a market. 2. The commercial functions involved in transferring goods from producer to consumer
advertising n. 1. The activity of attracting public attention to a product or business, as by paid announcements in the print, broadcast, or electronic media. 2. The business of designing and writing advertisements. 3. Advertisements considered as a group: This paper takes no advertising.
Disclaimer: This is not my work, I got it in an email and thought it was relevant to "president" Bush's Homeland policy building:
Consider the following, it's an old tactic: Adolf Hitler presided over a major national disaster (the burning of the Reichstag, the national parliament building) which he was discovered later to have participated in creating. That event gave him the opportunity to declare an emergency and expand his dictatorial powers further. He used the war-terminology "homeland" often, and whipped up fervent patriotism to support his wars. He used war as a means to distract people from domestic troubles and issues, kept the population of the country in constant fear, and exploited that fear for his own purposes. Hitler said in his writings that if you cannot create war then at least continue to propagate the idea that war is coming. -- R. E. Bell
"Never leave people in peace, because when they are in peace, you are nobody. Then they don't need you; your very purpose is gone. They need you only when there is danger; so create danger. If there is not real danger, at least create the climate of a false danger." -- Adolf Hitler
Bloomberg's SCOX Page - take a look at the number of shares listed in the "Short Interest" box... confidence in SCOX? I think not...
FYI: Short interest Total number of shares of a security that investors have sold short and that have not been repurchased to close out the short position. Usually, investors sell short to profit from price declines. As a result, the short interest is often an indicator of the amount of pessimism in the market about a particular security, although there are other reasons to short that are not related to pessimism. For example, hedging strategies for mergers and acquisition as well as derivative positions may involve short sales. -- Taken From the Bloomberg Glossary Pages
IAN (I Am Norwegian), so here's what I hope will be a reasonable translation:
Okokrim har valgt a ikke anke straffesaken mot Jon Lech Johansen. Dermed blir frifinnelsen av DVD-Jon staende.
Okokrim, The Economic Crime Unit has decided not to appeal the innocent verdict found for Jon. Thus the verdict will stand.
Min klient er fortsatt pa ferie i Frankrike, og jeg har ikke fatt snakket med ham enna. Men vi diskuterte jo dette utfallet som en mulighet for han reiste avgarde. Derfor vet jeg at han vil bli veldig fornoyd med a slippe og tenke mer pa dette, sier DVD-Jons forsvarer, advokat Halvor Manshaus, til TV 2 Nettavisen.
"My client is still on holidays in France, and I haven't talked with him yet. But we discussed this result as a possibility before he left. Therefore, I know he will be very happy that he won't have to think about this anymore" says defence attorney Halvor Manhaus to Nettavisen.
Betenkningstid Den 22. desember ifjor konkluderte Borgarting lagmannsrett med at anken fra Okokrim i saken mot Jon Lech Johansen skulle forkastes. Okokrim tok deretter betenkningstid, men har na bestemt for ikke a anke videre.
Cooling off period The Court decided on 22nd Dec 2003 to dismiss the appeal in the case against Jon. The Economic Crime unit took some time to consider this, and has now decided not to appeal this case further.
Det har gatt fire ar siden denne saken startet og Jon var da 15 ar. Han har baret denne tunge byrden med seg gjennom viktige ar i livet og det har vaert en tung belastning. Men jeg synes han har taklet det veldig bra, sier advokat Halvor Manshaus.
"It has been 4 years since this case began and Jon was 15. He has carried this heavy burden well, through important years of his life. I think he has handlet it very well" says attorney Halvor.
Det var 6. januar ifjor i Oslo tingrett at DVD-Jon forst ble frifunnet og dermed vant den forste seieren over Okokrim.
It was 6th Jan 2003 in Oslo tingrett (court) that DVD-Jon was first found innocent, and thus won the first victory over Okokrim.
Ventet fire ar Okokrim gikk til aksjon mot Johansen for fire ar siden fordi han hadde lagt et program ut pa internett som gjorde det mulig a bryte den innebygde kopisperren CSS i DVD-platene. Som 15-aring klarte Johansen a knekke sikkerhetskoden. Han ble pagrepet i januar 2000.
Waited four years Okokrim took action against Johnsen four years ago because he had put a program on the internet which made it possible to break the copy protection on DVD discs [my note: NOT true! DeCSS just makes it possible to PLAY the DVD] As a 15 year old, Johansen managed to break the code. He was arrested in January 2000.
Den na 20 ar gamle Johansen har selv hevdet at programmet DeCSS ble utviklet for a kunne avspille DVD-filmer pa andre operativsystemer enn Microsoft Windows.20. Han har hele tiden hevdet at hans eneste motiv var et onske om a se DVD-filmer pa PC-er som bruker operativsystemet Linux.
The now 20 year old Johansen has claimed that the DeCSS program was developed to be able to play DVD movies on other operating systems besides MS Windows. He has always claimed that his only motive was a wish to watch DVDs on PCs running the Linux OS.
Saken har vakt mye oppsikt i IT-miljoer i bade inn- og utland, og de aller fleste har uttrykt sin stotte til DVD-Jon.
The case has gotten a lot of attention in the IT world, both domestically and abroad, and most people have expressed their support for Jon
Berettiget til kopi Fra dommen i lagmannsretten i desember ifjor fremgikk det at DVD-Jon hadde kjopt sine DVD-er lovlig og at han saledes hadde rett til a spille disse av.
Right to copy From the judgement in December last year it was decided that Jon had bought his DVDs legally and therefore has the right to play them.
Lagmannsretten legger til grunn at en DVD-plate er sa utsatt for a fa
I have read an original, production copy of the first Matrix movie (gratuitous name-drop: it was Hugo "Agent Smith" Weaving's script - my friend is Hugo's brother-in-law) and it states that "The Machines have discovered a new form of Fusion and required a small amount of energy to start it" (I'm paraphrasing as I don't have the script in front of me). Does this get mentioned in the movie at all? I don't remember hearing it. IIRC, in the script, Morpheus tells Neo this when they are reviewing the known history of the Matrix.
Now, we all know about the Laws of Thermodynamics, but if a small amount of energy was used to trigger and maintain a fusion reaction (a tiny amount of power from each human "battery"), it becomes more believable.
I still think that recycling the dead to feed the living might just bend the Laws, but it is after all a movie, so I choose to suspend my disbelief..
For a great overlap of flashy action movies and books, read Matthew Reilly's books. The latest one is "Scarecrow" and certainly matched his previous books in pace and action. I couldn't put it down until I finished it!
Matthew, in my opinion, is the best novel writer in Australia.
Royalties are due, of course, for commercial uses of the song, such as playing or singing it for profit, using it in movies, television programs, and stage shows, or incorporating it into musical products such as watches and greeting cards; as well, royalties are due for public performance, defined by copyright law as performances which occur "at a place open to the public, or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered."
The fact they are learning the hows of a skill does not mean they will use the skill maliciously. In fact, when educated, most people will use their powers for good, not evil..:)
I know for a fact that CompuServe Pacific has also blocked Telstra Bigpond email. For those not in the know, AOL owns CompuServe, and I suspect they use the same anti-spam filters. A close friend works on the CompuServe Pacific tech-support line and has been flat out answering complaining users about this problem. Let's hope it gets cleared up soon!
So your attitude would be: "wait until the drought hits before you dig the well"?
I think it's important to realise that what we are doing (and NOT doing) right now is going to affect us in coming years. And our children. And their children...
Does the thought of your children and their children living in a world where the only 'clean' air available is from a filtering system in your home.
A home with no windows, because the solar radiation is too dangerous (since the ozone layer went "in grandpa's days")?
A world where you cannot have simple pleasures like going for a walk on the beach, or in a park, unless you wear your air-filter and cover every inch of skin from the sun?
That is an executive position and far more analogus to the responsibilities of the President than any of Gore's offices.
WTF? Being governor is more analogous to President than Vice-President??? Surely you jest?
People made similar accusations of Reagan, yet he had an undeniable ability to persuade Congress and the Press.
Reagan had charisma, Bush does not.
Part of Bush's problem is that much of the reasoning behind his policy doesn't take well to soundbites.
So what you are saying is that he fails to communicate his ideas to the people.
That's an opposite view to a few lines earlier: but he communicated his (somewhat hard to stomach) ideas across relatively well. So, which is it? Does he or doesn't he communicate well?
I fail to see how someone who 'counts [oneself] amongst.. a significant number of intelligent, educated, and politically knowledgable people..' can make such a poor argument for his/her chosen candidate?
--
Just because it is written does not make it fact.
I agree, having just read "The E-myth Revisited" by Michael Gerber.
There the point of three personality types needed to run a business is emphasised quite heavily.
The book is a great read for anyone thinking of starting a company, and those in their own company now.
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That's one reading you don't want to confuse with your own co-ordinates.. could get messy...
1. SCO has customers???
2. Security by obscurity..? Nice one, SCO, that'll save you (for a few minutes)...
Good idea, but is it viable?
If this is used, then wouldn't OCR become more viable for the spammers? A URL must be pretty easy to parse for the OCR software they use.
Thus, the need to use the pr0n powered sign-ups disappears, and OCR based signups (which I'm sure would be faster) would flood us with spam...
There are mechanisms for this already. POP-before-SMTP, anyone? If you have to verify your identity prior to sending a message, then SPF will become much more useful as part of an anti-spam toolset (it's not a panacea on its own).
Too hard! Very few ISPs will want to support this, as it will increase their tech support requests, not to mention the administrative headaches of keeping track of users and their certificates.
The screenshots have been removed due to bandwidth issues... Maybe it was Slashdotted?
... there's a fairly prominent
Dell recommends Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Professional
on the site....
But $1 Million donated to, say, FSF or EFF can go a long way towards helping more than 500,000 people.
Any other thing? My hands, my beautiful hands!!!
Not to mention my computer, my desk, my chair, my house... how general do they want to be? Sheesh!!
I feel for them, I really do.... NOT!
People fighting back are winning this one.. keep it up!!
Once one junk fax company goes out of business, maybe others will realise that it's a bad idea...
I think your definitions are only a little off the mark:
marketing n.
1. The act or process of buying and selling in a market.
2. The commercial functions involved in transferring goods from producer to consumer
advertising n.
1. The activity of attracting public attention to a product or business, as by paid announcements in the print, broadcast, or electronic media.
2. The business of designing and writing advertisements.
3. Advertisements considered as a group: This paper takes no advertising.
Thanks to http://dictionary.reference.com/ for the clarification...
Disclaimer: This is not my work, I got it in an email and thought it was relevant to "president" Bush's Homeland policy building:
Consider the following, it's an old tactic: Adolf Hitler presided over a major national disaster (the burning of the Reichstag, the national parliament building) which he was discovered later to have participated in creating. That event gave him the opportunity to declare an emergency and expand his dictatorial powers further. He used the war-terminology "homeland" often, and whipped up fervent patriotism to support his wars. He used war as a means to distract people from domestic troubles and issues, kept the population of the country in constant fear, and exploited that fear for his own purposes. Hitler said in his writings that if you cannot create war then at least continue to propagate the idea that war is coming. -- R. E. Bell
"Never leave people in peace, because when they are in peace, you are nobody. Then they don't need you; your very purpose is gone. They need you only when there is danger; so create danger. If there is not real danger, at least create the climate of a false danger." -- Adolf Hitler
I find this very interesting:
Bloomberg's SCOX Page - take a look at the number of shares listed in the "Short Interest" box... confidence in SCOX? I think not...
FYI:
Short interest
Total number of shares of a security that investors have sold short and that have not been repurchased to close out the short position. Usually, investors sell short to profit from price declines. As a result, the short interest is often an indicator of the amount of pessimism in the market about a particular security, although there are other reasons to short that are not related to pessimism. For example, hedging strategies for mergers and acquisition as well as derivative positions may involve short sales. -- Taken From the Bloomberg Glossary Pages
IAN (I Am Norwegian), so here's what I hope will be a reasonable translation:
Okokrim har valgt a ikke anke straffesaken mot Jon Lech Johansen. Dermed blir frifinnelsen av DVD-Jon staende.
Okokrim, The Economic Crime Unit has decided not to appeal the innocent verdict found for Jon. Thus the verdict will stand.
Min klient er fortsatt pa ferie i Frankrike, og jeg har ikke fatt snakket med ham enna. Men vi diskuterte jo dette utfallet som en mulighet for han reiste avgarde. Derfor vet jeg at han vil bli veldig fornoyd med a slippe og tenke mer pa dette, sier DVD-Jons forsvarer, advokat Halvor Manshaus, til TV 2 Nettavisen.
"My client is still on holidays in France, and I haven't talked with him yet. But we discussed this result as a possibility before he left. Therefore, I know he will be very happy that he won't have to think about this anymore" says defence attorney Halvor Manhaus to Nettavisen.
Betenkningstid
Den 22. desember ifjor konkluderte Borgarting lagmannsrett med at anken fra Okokrim i saken mot Jon Lech Johansen skulle forkastes. Okokrim tok deretter betenkningstid, men har na bestemt for ikke a anke videre.
Cooling off period
The Court decided on 22nd Dec 2003 to dismiss the appeal in the case against Jon. The Economic Crime unit took some time to consider this, and has now decided not to appeal this case further.
Det har gatt fire ar siden denne saken startet og Jon var da 15 ar. Han har baret denne tunge byrden med seg gjennom viktige ar i livet og det har vaert en tung belastning. Men jeg synes han har taklet det veldig bra, sier advokat Halvor Manshaus.
"It has been 4 years since this case began and Jon was 15. He has carried this heavy burden well, through important years of his life. I think he has handlet it very well" says attorney Halvor.
Det var 6. januar ifjor i Oslo tingrett at DVD-Jon forst ble frifunnet og dermed vant den forste seieren over Okokrim.
It was 6th Jan 2003 in Oslo tingrett (court) that DVD-Jon was first found innocent, and thus won the first victory over Okokrim.
Ventet fire ar
Okokrim gikk til aksjon mot Johansen for fire ar siden fordi han hadde lagt et program ut pa internett som gjorde det mulig a bryte den innebygde kopisperren CSS i DVD-platene.
Som 15-aring klarte Johansen a knekke sikkerhetskoden. Han ble pagrepet i januar 2000.
Waited four years
Okokrim took action against Johnsen four years ago because he had put a program on the internet which made it possible to break the copy protection on DVD discs [my note: NOT true! DeCSS just makes it possible to PLAY the DVD]
As a 15 year old, Johansen managed to break the code. He was arrested in January 2000.
Den na 20 ar gamle Johansen har selv hevdet at programmet DeCSS ble utviklet for a kunne avspille DVD-filmer pa andre operativsystemer enn Microsoft Windows.20. Han har hele tiden hevdet at hans eneste motiv var et onske om a se DVD-filmer pa PC-er som bruker operativsystemet Linux.
The now 20 year old Johansen has claimed that the DeCSS program was developed to be able to play DVD movies on other operating systems besides MS Windows. He has always claimed that his only motive was a wish to watch DVDs on PCs running the Linux OS.
Saken har vakt mye oppsikt i IT-miljoer i bade inn- og utland, og de aller fleste har uttrykt sin stotte til DVD-Jon.
The case has gotten a lot of attention in the IT world, both domestically and abroad, and most people have expressed their support for Jon
Berettiget til kopi
Fra dommen i lagmannsretten i desember ifjor fremgikk det at DVD-Jon hadde kjopt sine DVD-er lovlig og at han saledes hadde rett til a spille disse av.
Right to copy
From the judgement in December last year it was decided that Jon had bought his DVDs legally and therefore has the right to play them.
Lagmannsretten legger til grunn at en DVD-plate er sa utsatt for a fa
I have read an original, production copy of the first Matrix movie (gratuitous name-drop: it was Hugo "Agent Smith" Weaving's script - my friend is Hugo's brother-in-law) and it states that "The Machines have discovered a new form of Fusion and required a small amount of energy to start it" (I'm paraphrasing as I don't have the script in front of me). Does this get mentioned in the movie at all? I don't remember hearing it. IIRC, in the script, Morpheus tells Neo this when they are reviewing the known history of the Matrix.
Now, we all know about the Laws of Thermodynamics, but if a small amount of energy was used to trigger and maintain a fusion reaction (a tiny amount of power from each human "battery"), it becomes more believable.
I still think that recycling the dead to feed the living might just bend the Laws, but it is after all a movie, so I choose to suspend my disbelief..
For a great overlap of flashy action movies and books, read Matthew Reilly's books. The latest one is "Scarecrow" and certainly matched his previous books in pace and action. I couldn't put it down until I finished it!
Matthew, in my opinion, is the best novel writer in Australia.
Incorrect. RTFA.
Royalties are due, of course, for commercial uses of the song, such as playing or singing it for profit, using it in movies, television programs, and stage shows, or incorporating it into musical products such as watches and greeting cards; as well, royalties are due for public performance, defined by copyright law as performances which occur "at a place open to the public, or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered."
A good old fashioned "web page" for a good old math problem...?
There's already a project for this.
http://freenetproject.org/
Why is it news that they want to reinvent the wheel?
An interesting real life example of low carb weight loss. (Found when googling):
http://www.lowcarbnz.co.nz/story.htm
The fact they are learning the hows of a skill does not mean they will use the skill maliciously. :)
In fact, when educated, most people will use their powers for good, not evil..
I know for a fact that CompuServe Pacific has also blocked Telstra Bigpond email.
For those not in the know, AOL owns CompuServe, and I suspect they use the same anti-spam filters.
A close friend works on the CompuServe Pacific tech-support line and has been flat out answering complaining users about this problem.
Let's hope it gets cleared up soon!
So your attitude would be: "wait until the drought hits before you dig the well"?
I think it's important to realise that what we are doing (and NOT doing) right now is going to affect us in coming years. And our children. And their children...
Does the thought of your children and their children living in a world where the only 'clean' air available is from a filtering system in your home.
A home with no windows, because the solar radiation is too dangerous (since the ozone layer went "in grandpa's days")?
A world where you cannot have simple pleasures like going for a walk on the beach, or in a park, unless you wear your air-filter and cover every inch of skin from the sun?
Is that really the legacy you want to leave?
That is an executive position and far more analogus to the responsibilities of the President than any of Gore's offices.
WTF? Being governor is more analogous to President than Vice-President??? Surely you jest?
People made similar accusations of Reagan, yet he had an undeniable ability to persuade Congress and the Press.
Reagan had charisma, Bush does not.
Part of Bush's problem is that much of the reasoning behind his policy doesn't take well to soundbites.
So what you are saying is that he fails to communicate his ideas to the people.
That's an opposite view to a few lines earlier: but he communicated his (somewhat hard to stomach) ideas across relatively well.
So, which is it? Does he or doesn't he communicate well?
I fail to see how someone who 'counts [oneself] amongst.. a significant number of intelligent, educated, and politically knowledgable people..' can make such a poor argument for his/her chosen candidate?
--
Just because it is written does not make it fact.
I agree, having just read "The E-myth Revisited" by Michael Gerber.
There the point of three personality types needed to run a business is emphasised quite heavily.
The book is a great read for anyone thinking of starting a company, and those in their own company now.
How much more will it cost to 'just use a computer', rather than pay an actor (and the various supports, like puppeteers,etc)??
Each frame of CGI takes an hour to render (an industry standard), so not only will this be more expensive (IMHO) but take longer too!
Wake up, George!