I use TMDA with spamassassin - it works great! TMDA is set to let through anything that SA doesn't think is spam. I then set my filters fairly paranoid.
If someon sends me a message that gets marked as spam, he will get a confirmation message back to make sure the from address is not spoofed.
Also, any replies to messages I send get dated (automatically bypass filters), I can use keyword addresses and sender addresses to make sure people and sites I need to send me mail can reach me (I can always revoke them later), and most (95% or so) never have a challenge at all. It just works.
I blow through over 1800 spam messages per day. Never lost one legit one yet (to the best of my knowledge).
You obviously don't know Cox. Just today, I got blacklisted for "spamming", because someone added my IP to a header and sent it to them (it looks like webmail - they don't allow port 25). My _job_ is mail servers - people buy them for the anti-spam functionality. I think spammers should die.
I also once had it disconnected for "cheating". I write anti-cheat software! (Granted, I also write cheat software, but I don't run it on other people's server.) When I want to be god, I have my own server.
NOTE (a little caveat): If it's over $250, don't use USPS. You need online signature tracking, which is a pain, but it _is_ documented in the policy. If you want someone to cover the chargebacks for you, you should at least read the policy.
For merchants with a Merchant Account, guess what? When there is a chargeback, they take the money out too. Plus, you have to wait 2 weeks to a month to get it in the first place. People can do the same sort of crap you mentiion to almost any online merchant.
> You're saying South Park, Enterprise, JAG, and Navy NCIS are "pure crap?" That's what it looked like to me, and I would have to agree.
For one thing, South Park just hasn't been the same since Kenny died.
I am a devout trekkie, (own the borg cube dvd set, several hundred books, yada yada yada), and Enterprise most definatly sucks. It was kind of almost decent the first couple episodes, now it's just another DS9.
I figure those whole stations are worth about $0.37 to me. If it adds more than that to my monthly bill, good riddance. It's just not worth it.
Actually, DirecTV does a pretty good job with theirs. I ordered some pay-per-view (for the family) - the box was showing it no more than 15 (think it was like 3 - can't be sure) seconds after I told it to do it online. Same for channel adding removing etc.
Absolutly. For any publically traded business, the goal is (should) be to make money. For most businesses, it's easier to make money if you [appear to] obey the law.
For the mafia, that is most certainly not the case, nor are they publically traded (although they do make plenty of money). By the standards in the United States, the mafia is a very successful business.
This would be done as a plugin/wrapper/etc. to any offending p2p app. Under linux, you could do a NFS loopback partion or something.
Anyhow, when the remote user wants file X, it generates a public key, and sends it to the local user. Local user generates a turing test, crypts it to public key, sends it back. When the user passes the test, file is sent (again crypted to remote user's public key).
As the wrapper/plugin/whatever is outside the realm of control of the P2P software, they cannot be made to make it check if the file is illegal or not. As for the P2P app itself, everything it sees is crypted.
You have misunderstood me, greatly. He _should_ be punished for his crimes (and yeah, I've used webtv too). He most definatly should pay for the damages, and serve a punishment in accordance with the law.
He should also be punished for the risks he caused others due to the 911 DoS. Reckless endangerment. That he knew about and had control over. That still doesn't make him a terrorist.
A number of the clips use clips from (or at least available in the) Prelinger Archives.
All of these videos require you to attribute their work should you build on it. It would be nice if they would provide credit to their sources as well (although, as public domain, they are not required to).
The guy was a victim of drunk driving - sad, and whoever made the call is at least partially to blame.
Regardless, terrorism is a matter of intent, not circumstances. There are no "accidental" terrorists. You can hardly say "this man would have been a terrorist, but nobody died" any more than you can say "this man should have _known_ that a drunk driver would kill that ambulance driver". You can blame him for the lack of foresight, but whether he's a terrororist or not does not depend on the victims out of his direct control.
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
Nope, no force or violence, no real intimidation (annoyance perhaps), no attempt to coerce. Seems fairly straightforward. Since not even one person was intimidated, coerced, or threatened, it doesn't matter how many it takes - it still wasn't reached.
Also, if we make the definition of terrorism apply to one person, we make pretty much all major crimes (murder, extortion, rape, etc.) into terrorism. This is not the way it should work. Sometimes there is no logical place to draw the line, and it's up to the law (or the judges) to find a reasonable one.
> You are amazingly astute in your ability to extract a criminal's intentions from the limited information provided in that article.
Ok, if I blow up a mailbox, how do you know that it's not a test run for a large-scale plan to blow up half the buildings in town? You don't, and the law doesn't either. And unless I leave some compelling evidence lying around that is my intent, the law will prosecute me for whatever is appropriate, but I would be no more a terrorist than this guy is.
In this society, people are innocent until proven guilty. What he did was not an act of terrorism, plain and simple. If they can show an appropriate amount of evidence he _was_ planning a terrorist attack, and convince a jury, then he would be a terrorist.
Regardless, this is still not an act of terrorism. What it's a precursor to is a completly seperate issue, and up to the courts to decide.
How's this for a number: 1. As in the number of people you actually attempt to control through terror.
This involved no fear, no terror. It placed a few prank 911 calls, but there is no evidence that anyone was physically or emotionally hurt.
It didn't even scare one person. So, just like many laws have a threshold (civil versus criminal traffic tickets, fraud, etc.), this isn't terrorism if you set the threshold to even one person.
I guess you could just set the threshold to zero people, but then we are all terrorists.
I once had a shell script I was working on which did "rm -rf/$var", and var was supposed to be set by an earlier program. Thanks to some bad RAM, the program segfaulted without setting $var, and some very very bad things happened.
Note: This was _years_ ago, and I have learned my lesson. I think.
I've got a friend with over 3000 (yes, 3 thousand) VHS tapes with anything imaginable recorded. I've also borrowed DVDs. Both of these work in rural areas (of course, you need friends who have these sort of resources).
When I didn't have cable, and really wanted to watch certain shows, I bought a Tivo, and left it over at a neighbors house. I came by periodically to dump the shows to another Hard Drive.
1) Some merchants charge fees. Many don't as it's cheaper than credit.
2) Some merchants offer cashback as an _incentive_ to get your business.
3) If you clean out the register at a medium to large shop (small shops can be different), you've saved them the trouble. That's that much less cash for them to send out to be converted electronically. Also, it's less cash to send out on armored cars (depending on the size of the merchant).
4) For the places that eat the $0.20 fedwire (Automated Clearing House) fees, it's typically less than the cost of a credit card, and they often don't have to pay a percentage. Buying nothing more than a pack of gum means they lose money, but they run that risk with a Credit Card too.
> I just won't watch TV. It will suck, but I will adjust. I am not a slave.
Actually, I quit TV not through any concerted effort, but because it was crap, and I just started watching it less. I've been using Binary Boy to download a lot of my favorite shows, as well as SuprNova for the torrents.
It's really liberating to watch an hour long show in just 40 minutes (sometimes, I crank up the speed and watch it in 35). I watch what I want, when I want, how I want, commercial free.
I've just finished watching seasons 1-7 of the X-Files (bought 6 and 7 used dirt cheap, borrowed 1-5). Life without broadcast TV is (at least to me) more enjoyable than that crap they call entertainment. Of course, they don't want you to think that.
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Their specific version is under copyright, as is the header. Remove their header - you now have the Public Domain text.
>I remember rather recently proposed leglisation that would make commiting a crime and involving encryption to automatically have a stiffer sentence.
Notes to mom are now illegal?
Ya need "mod points", which the server gives you when it feels like it. By posting, you lose the right to mod that thread.
You'll figure it out when the points come - if you don't manage to get yourself blacklisted first.
I use TMDA with spamassassin - it works great! TMDA is set to let through anything that SA doesn't think is spam. I then set my filters fairly paranoid.
If someon sends me a message that gets marked as spam, he will get a confirmation message back to make sure the from address is not spoofed.
Also, any replies to messages I send get dated (automatically bypass filters), I can use keyword addresses and sender addresses to make sure people and sites I need to send me mail can reach me (I can always revoke them later), and most (95% or so) never have a challenge at all. It just works.
I blow through over 1800 spam messages per day. Never lost one legit one yet (to the best of my knowledge).
6 out of 200 would be 3%, not 6%.
You obviously don't know Cox. Just today, I got blacklisted for "spamming", because someone added my IP to a header and sent it to them (it looks like webmail - they don't allow port 25). My _job_ is mail servers - people buy them for the anti-spam functionality. I think spammers should die.
I also once had it disconnected for "cheating". I write anti-cheat software! (Granted, I also write cheat software, but I don't run it on other people's server.) When I want to be god, I have my own server.
Or, a direct hotlink.
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Actually, if you follow their Seller Protection Policy, they will eat the chargeback.
NOTE (a little caveat): If it's over $250, don't use USPS. You need online signature tracking, which is a pain, but it _is_ documented in the policy. If you want someone to cover the chargebacks for you, you should at least read the policy.
For merchants with a Merchant Account, guess what? When there is a chargeback, they take the money out too. Plus, you have to wait 2 weeks to a month to get it in the first place. People can do the same sort of crap you mentiion to almost any online merchant.
The 800 number is for businesses - personal accounts have to call long distance (or local if they just happen to live local to it).
Nope - thanks to the Automated Clearing House, all they really need is an account number.
> You're saying South Park, Enterprise, JAG, and Navy NCIS are "pure crap?"
That's what it looked like to me, and I would have to agree.
For one thing, South Park just hasn't been the same since Kenny died.
I am a devout trekkie, (own the borg cube dvd set, several hundred books, yada yada yada), and Enterprise most definatly sucks. It was kind of almost decent the first couple episodes, now it's just another DS9.
I figure those whole stations are worth about $0.37 to me. If it adds more than that to my monthly bill, good riddance. It's just not worth it.
Actually, DirecTV does a pretty good job with theirs. I ordered some pay-per-view (for the family) - the box was showing it no more than 15 (think it was like 3 - can't be sure) seconds after I told it to do it online. Same for channel adding removing etc.
Absolutly. For any publically traded business, the goal is (should) be to make money. For most businesses, it's easier to make money if you [appear to] obey the law.
For the mafia, that is most certainly not the case, nor are they publically traded (although they do make plenty of money). By the standards in the United States, the mafia is a very successful business.
This would be done as a plugin/wrapper/etc. to any offending p2p app. Under linux, you could do a NFS loopback partion or something.
Anyhow, when the remote user wants file X, it generates a public key, and sends it to the local user. Local user generates a turing test, crypts it to public key, sends it back. When the user passes the test, file is sent (again crypted to remote user's public key).
As the wrapper/plugin/whatever is outside the realm of control of the P2P software, they cannot be made to make it check if the file is illegal or not. As for the P2P app itself, everything it sees is crypted.
You have misunderstood me, greatly. He _should_ be punished for his crimes (and yeah, I've used webtv too). He most definatly should pay for the damages, and serve a punishment in accordance with the law.
He should also be punished for the risks he caused others due to the 911 DoS. Reckless endangerment. That he knew about and had control over. That still doesn't make him a terrorist.
A number of the clips use clips from (or at least available in the) Prelinger Archives.
All of these videos require you to attribute their work should you build on it. It would be nice if they would provide credit to their sources as well (although, as public domain, they are not required to).
Perhaps I should be more clear - blowing up a mailbox while nobody is there. No, seeing the mailbox blow up in your face would certainly cause terror.
Coming out to my mailbox to see it blown up would mainly just annoy me.
The guy was a victim of drunk driving - sad, and whoever made the call is at least partially to blame.
Regardless, terrorism is a matter of intent, not circumstances. There are no "accidental" terrorists. You can hardly say "this man would have been a terrorist, but nobody died" any more than you can say "this man should have _known_ that a drunk driver would kill that ambulance driver". You can blame him for the lack of foresight, but whether he's a terrororist or not does not depend on the victims out of his direct control.
Let's check the dictionary
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
Nope, no force or violence, no real intimidation (annoyance perhaps), no attempt to coerce. Seems fairly straightforward. Since not even one person was intimidated, coerced, or threatened, it doesn't matter how many it takes - it still wasn't reached.
Also, if we make the definition of terrorism apply to one person, we make pretty much all major crimes (murder, extortion, rape, etc.) into terrorism. This is not the way it should work. Sometimes there is no logical place to draw the line, and it's up to the law (or the judges) to find a reasonable one.
> You are amazingly astute in your ability to extract a criminal's intentions from the limited information provided in that article.
Ok, if I blow up a mailbox, how do you know that it's not a test run for a large-scale plan to blow up half the buildings in town? You don't, and the law doesn't either. And unless I leave some compelling evidence lying around that is my intent, the law will prosecute me for whatever is appropriate, but I would be no more a terrorist than this guy is.
In this society, people are innocent until proven guilty. What he did was not an act of terrorism, plain and simple. If they can show an appropriate amount of evidence he _was_ planning a terrorist attack, and convince a jury, then he would be a terrorist.
Regardless, this is still not an act of terrorism. What it's a precursor to is a completly seperate issue, and up to the courts to decide.
How's this for a number: 1. As in the number of people you actually attempt to control through terror.
This involved no fear, no terror. It placed a few prank 911 calls, but there is no evidence that anyone was physically or emotionally hurt.
It didn't even scare one person. So, just like many laws have a threshold (civil versus criminal traffic tickets, fraud, etc.), this isn't terrorism if you set the threshold to even one person.
I guess you could just set the threshold to zero people, but then we are all terrorists.
That's not quite as as bad as a rm -rf /
/$var", and var was supposed to be set by an earlier program. Thanks to some bad RAM, the program segfaulted without setting $var, and some very very bad things happened.
I once had a shell script I was working on which did "rm -rf
Note: This was _years_ ago, and I have learned my lesson. I think.
I've got a friend with over 3000 (yes, 3 thousand) VHS tapes with anything imaginable recorded. I've also borrowed DVDs. Both of these work in rural areas (of course, you need friends who have these sort of resources).
When I didn't have cable, and really wanted to watch certain shows, I bought a Tivo, and left it over at a neighbors house. I came by periodically to dump the shows to another Hard Drive.
It worked for me, YMMV.
1) Some merchants charge fees. Many don't as it's cheaper than credit.
2) Some merchants offer cashback as an _incentive_ to get your business.
3) If you clean out the register at a medium to large shop (small shops can be different), you've saved them the trouble. That's that much less cash for them to send out to be converted electronically. Also, it's less cash to send out on armored cars (depending on the size of the merchant).
4) For the places that eat the $0.20 fedwire (Automated Clearing House) fees, it's typically less than the cost of a credit card, and they often don't have to pay a percentage. Buying nothing more than a pack of gum means they lose money, but they run that risk with a Credit Card too.
> I just won't watch TV. It will suck, but I will adjust. I am not a slave.
Actually, I quit TV not through any concerted effort, but because it was crap, and I just started watching it less. I've been using Binary Boy to download a lot of my favorite shows, as well as SuprNova for the torrents.
It's really liberating to watch an hour long show in just 40 minutes (sometimes, I crank up the speed and watch it in 35). I watch what I want, when I want, how I want, commercial free.
I've just finished watching seasons 1-7 of the X-Files (bought 6 and 7 used dirt cheap, borrowed 1-5). Life without broadcast TV is (at least to me) more enjoyable than that crap they call entertainment. Of course, they don't want you to think that.