That worked back in the say when you could say "Syracuse Unversity's gotten hit with the latest worm. So, don't trust any mail that comes from 128.230.x.x." but these days mail comes from one address per organization or household. Most corperations expose only one mail server IP address to the world, and some smaller companies have hundred-user systems and only one IP to show for it. So, who you're next to doesn't hold much water in predicting whether the message is spam.
The problem with ANY "predictive" statistics (like racial profiling, for one glaring example) is that even when they become accurate enough to produce useful information, they tend to produce too many false positives.
This isn't going to work in the real world. Too many users you want to hear from at an ISP won't like it when the virus-victim spammers gets their whole network preventatively banned.
Stop fixing the mail protocols we have today. It's time to replace with some form of sender authentication.
Your own caching resolver will submarine you for a while, but eventually it has to come up from air and trust some other DNS resolver to see if the info hasn't changed.
Have you been following this story. It's not sites that need the patch, it's DNS servers. Site owners are powerless if the ISPs fail to protect their domain name from the an entry leading to the spoof site's IP address.
This has to be the worst time ever to be a web surfer. How long until we see the major networks broadcasting the legit IP quads of sites we want to reach?
TiVo's idea is not to distract you from what you're watching, but just to pair up items plugged on popular shows with items Amazon sells, and throwing something like a "Press ThumbsUp for more info." to see the price, sign in Amazon account info, and get a 1-click purchase in.
If they were able to fully sell out the service, then the minute-long content will go away. It's been in a steep decline ever since the service launched as they've found more sponsors.
The satellite channels are only a slight step above the HD Radio HD2 channels in terms of being inaccessable to most people. Simply put, the recievers aren't in the hands or cars of users yet. It's hard to sell advertising when there's nobody listening. So, off they go providing more content per hour than standard radio...
How's this? I'm watching my TiVo's recording of Current TV's InfoMania show right now. I'm pressing 30-second skip my typical 4 times for a two minute break, and overshooting by 60 seconds! Yep, that's right.. nobody's heard of an appointment viewing show on a digital channel most people haven't heard of and even those who have don't watch. More content for those of us who do.
What these streams are is the "HD2" channel's content being streamed at whatever bandwidth they can afford to give it. Nearly every station that has an "HD2" has an Internet stream of it.
XM has six music channels programmed by Clear Channel that play a small ammount of ad content per hour. When these formerly ad-free channels went commerical, XM countered by adding a replacement similarly-formatted channel (XM Hitlist to challenge Kiss-XM, for example) that is commerical free.
There's also several CC-owned talk channels that mostly air Premire Radio Networks talk shows like Talk Radio, America's Talk, America Right. These play commericals in every minute that their format allows, with a small handful of PSAs taking up what isn't sold.
Other than that, XM's music channels are commerical free, and the advertising are so infrequent on talk stations that XM has a library of content produced for to fill the gaps in syndicated programs, and when talkers on a commerical free station like POTUS '08 need to regroup. A good chunk of the ad time on those channels go to telling listeners what's going on elsewhere on the XM service.
It's not that hard to explain how the address fell into "the wrong hands". AOL/AIM names that are not used for a certain length of time expire back into the pool that anybody can register.
That just establishes spam as $10 CPM ads. That'll clear out the inbox so the more profitable things (including things that can't get ads elsewhere in the USA because they're taboo) will get even more visiblity.
They have the credit card numbers of these people, no? Add a $1000 (or more) charge to the TOS each time someone gets caught spamming through them. That should make a pretty clear point.
You just don't get it. Spammers can make more than $1000 per instance of malware or spam blast if their hook is effective enough. Pay the penalty and spam again is what they'll do in that situation. Any profit can be duplicated repeatedly and that's how these guys work.
Amazon can't let these people back in the game after a short timeout or fine... they've got to ban them. Otherwise, the blackhole keepers will rightfully have reason to list them.
And all those Red Sox and Celtics road games on the Boston superstation, WSBK TV38...
Hey, wait a second. Those all moved to NESN and what's now known as Comcast Sports Net New England (formerly Fox Sports Net New England, formerly SportsChannel New England).
It used to be you had the option of seeing the home games on those two as pay channels for $20-$30 a month, 1/15 or so took them up on that. Now everybody with expanded basic service gets them, but the bills went up $3-5 a month as a result.
Nope, there's the exact opposite. Once you hand your computer over to a tech, you've given them the blanket right and even sometimes a requirement that they hand over everthing from any data storage device attached.
It's been reported that nearly all car repair places will copy every bit from any disc left in your car onto a police-issued server. The cops basically force co-operation by threatening not to protect anybody that doesn't comply.
Anybody notice something missing from the broadcast (over-the-air) channels from the last few years?
10-20 years ago... you would find nearly half of your local NBA, MLB, and NHL games on broadcast, and as time went on the other half (mostly home games) would show up on HBO-like pay cable. Now, nearly all the games not on national TV are found on one basic cable network at least partly owned by the team. And cable bills went up a few dollars a month when that network moved from pay to basic status or got started in the first place.
News coverage has been cut back too. The idea of having a studio in every country we had friendly relations with has gone by the wayside. Longform presantations of things like the political conventions have been shifted to basic cable networks.
There used to just be "The People's Court" for court shows. Now there's enough syndicated judge-personality shows on broadcast to fill an entire daytime lineup. Cheapest to produce wins, the only thing cheaper is Jerry Springer and his knockoffs.
It's said what our seniors are getting for television signals these days, no wonder why those of us that can afford it get cable or DBS.
Not to mention, retired people don't like to pay for excessive things like extra TV signals. They'll take the channels they can get via rabbit ears and read the newspaper.
TechTV.com did a full write-up, only to give in to a request to delete it by the cops. CNET's coverage was gone the next day too. MSNBC mentioned the situation on their station as well, pulled in because they had two former TechTVer's on-air. (One was at the anchor desk, and a former host of CyberCrime was working at the Laci Peterson trial.)
Reminds me of the time the SF Police raided TechTV (while TechLive was on the air) because the company had been associated with something called "CyberCrime". Cops thought they had the dumbest criminals ever, they actually had a canceled investigative news show.
The concept is that those who downloaded owe more than the purchase price because not only did they get the benefit of whatever they would have needed to buy, they did it illegally and we don't want them doing that again.
It's called punitive damages.
Slashdot Mirror
That worked back in the say when you could say "Syracuse Unversity's gotten hit with the latest worm. So, don't trust any mail that comes from 128.230.x.x." but these days mail comes from one address per organization or household. Most corperations expose only one mail server IP address to the world, and some smaller companies have hundred-user systems and only one IP to show for it. So, who you're next to doesn't hold much water in predicting whether the message is spam.
The problem with ANY "predictive" statistics (like racial profiling, for one glaring example) is that even when they become accurate enough to produce useful information, they tend to produce too many false positives.
was in the Boston-area news today pushing a MA state bill that would force annutity-selling insurance companies to pay equal retirement benefits to women as they do to men. Presently, the companies pay less to women for equal dollars put into the plan because an average woman is expected to live longer than an average man.
This isn't going to work in the real world. Too many users you want to hear from at an ISP won't like it when the virus-victim spammers gets their whole network preventatively banned.
Stop fixing the mail protocols we have today. It's time to replace with some form of sender authentication.
Now they're left with nowhere to go and are taking their idiocy all over the internet!
We almost routed them to the right place. This is it.slashdot.org, they actually fit in at idle.slashdot.org.
Your own caching resolver will submarine you for a while, but eventually it has to come up from air and trust some other DNS resolver to see if the info hasn't changed.
Ever think that the government would let us have an unhackable Internet-used protocol for anything? If it was all secure, how'd the NSA get in?
unpatched websites
Have you been following this story. It's not sites that need the patch, it's DNS servers. Site owners are powerless if the ISPs fail to protect their domain name from the an entry leading to the spoof site's IP address.
This has to be the worst time ever to be a web surfer. How long until we see the major networks broadcasting the legit IP quads of sites we want to reach?
TiVo's idea is not to distract you from what you're watching, but just to pair up items plugged on popular shows with items Amazon sells, and throwing something like a "Press ThumbsUp for more info." to see the price, sign in Amazon account info, and get a 1-click purchase in.
If they were able to fully sell out the service, then the minute-long content will go away. It's been in a steep decline ever since the service launched as they've found more sponsors.
The satellite channels are only a slight step above the HD Radio HD2 channels in terms of being inaccessable to most people. Simply put, the recievers aren't in the hands or cars of users yet. It's hard to sell advertising when there's nobody listening. So, off they go providing more content per hour than standard radio...
How's this? I'm watching my TiVo's recording of Current TV's InfoMania show right now. I'm pressing 30-second skip my typical 4 times for a two minute break, and overshooting by 60 seconds! Yep, that's right.. nobody's heard of an appointment viewing show on a digital channel most people haven't heard of and even those who have don't watch. More content for those of us who do.
What these streams are is the "HD2" channel's content being streamed at whatever bandwidth they can afford to give it. Nearly every station that has an "HD2" has an Internet stream of it.
XM has six music channels programmed by Clear Channel that play a small ammount of ad content per hour. When these formerly ad-free channels went commerical, XM countered by adding a replacement similarly-formatted channel (XM Hitlist to challenge Kiss-XM, for example) that is commerical free.
There's also several CC-owned talk channels that mostly air Premire Radio Networks talk shows like Talk Radio, America's Talk, America Right. These play commericals in every minute that their format allows, with a small handful of PSAs taking up what isn't sold.
Other than that, XM's music channels are commerical free, and the advertising are so infrequent on talk stations that XM has a library of content produced for to fill the gaps in syndicated programs, and when talkers on a commerical free station like POTUS '08 need to regroup. A good chunk of the ad time on those channels go to telling listeners what's going on elsewhere on the XM service.
In other words... "Use the analog hole."
Ugh... where's spell check when I need it?
It's not that hard to explain how the address fell into "the wrong hands". AOL/AIM names that are not used for a certain length of time expire back into the pool that anybody can register.
It's gonna be a slow news night on Slashdot if they're pulling this one out.
That just establishes spam as $10 CPM ads. That'll clear out the inbox so the more profitable things (including things that can't get ads elsewhere in the USA because they're taboo) will get even more visiblity.
They have the credit card numbers of these people, no? Add a $1000 (or more) charge to the TOS each time someone gets caught spamming through them. That should make a pretty clear point.
You just don't get it. Spammers can make more than $1000 per instance of malware or spam blast if their hook is effective enough. Pay the penalty and spam again is what they'll do in that situation. Any profit can be duplicated repeatedly and that's how these guys work.
Amazon can't let these people back in the game after a short timeout or fine... they've got to ban them. Otherwise, the blackhole keepers will rightfully have reason to list them.
And all those Red Sox and Celtics road games on the Boston superstation, WSBK TV38...
Hey, wait a second. Those all moved to NESN and what's now known as Comcast Sports Net New England (formerly Fox Sports Net New England, formerly SportsChannel New England).
It used to be you had the option of seeing the home games on those two as pay channels for $20-$30 a month, 1/15 or so took them up on that. Now everybody with expanded basic service gets them, but the bills went up $3-5 a month as a result.
1. Have sports team
2. ??????
3. Profit!
Nope, there's the exact opposite. Once you hand your computer over to a tech, you've given them the blanket right and even sometimes a requirement that they hand over everthing from any data storage device attached.
It's been reported that nearly all car repair places will copy every bit from any disc left in your car onto a police-issued server. The cops basically force co-operation by threatening not to protect anybody that doesn't comply.
Anybody notice something missing from the broadcast (over-the-air) channels from the last few years?
10-20 years ago... you would find nearly half of your local NBA, MLB, and NHL games on broadcast, and as time went on the other half (mostly home games) would show up on HBO-like pay cable. Now, nearly all the games not on national TV are found on one basic cable network at least partly owned by the team. And cable bills went up a few dollars a month when that network moved from pay to basic status or got started in the first place.
News coverage has been cut back too. The idea of having a studio in every country we had friendly relations with has gone by the wayside. Longform presantations of things like the political conventions have been shifted to basic cable networks.
There used to just be "The People's Court" for court shows. Now there's enough syndicated judge-personality shows on broadcast to fill an entire daytime lineup. Cheapest to produce wins, the only thing cheaper is Jerry Springer and his knockoffs.
It's said what our seniors are getting for television signals these days, no wonder why those of us that can afford it get cable or DBS.
Not to mention, retired people don't like to pay for excessive things like extra TV signals. They'll take the channels they can get via rabbit ears and read the newspaper.
TechTV.com did a full write-up, only to give in to a request to delete it by the cops. CNET's coverage was gone the next day too. MSNBC mentioned the situation on their station as well, pulled in because they had two former TechTVer's on-air. (One was at the anchor desk, and a former host of CyberCrime was working at the Laci Peterson trial.)
Reminds me of the time the SF Police raided TechTV (while TechLive was on the air) because the company had been associated with something called "CyberCrime". Cops thought they had the dumbest criminals ever, they actually had a canceled investigative news show.
The concept is that those who downloaded owe more than the purchase price because not only did they get the benefit of whatever they would have needed to buy, they did it illegally and we don't want them doing that again. It's called punitive damages.