This makes my high school pranks of stink bombs and pumping pornography across the school's close-captioned television network on every channel seem weak.
It'd be funny until it came crashing down into Earth, but it would also give us an excuse to then do sequels to Armageddon and Deep Impact. With Affleck and Elijah Wood so big now, it's worth Hollywood's investment money to launch a mountain into orbit, so that they can them film movies about it.
Except that credit/debit cards aren't the beginnings of common acceptance of tools that will allow the government to track our every move, thirty years down the line.
What was that old jetpack, with all the white smoke, that used to get dragged out at Super Bowls? The one you kind of sat in, had the handle bars, and it could only keep you aloft for about a minute? I can completely picture it from an episode of The Fall Guy, but can't find it online.
OK, this is really cool, and makes me want to wire my house this way. My wife would kill me, though (although that would make for entertaining webcamming, that's for sure--live spousal beheadings).
Why even go forward with this? By starting at levels of chips FIVE years old, are they going to continue forward in such a way indefinitely? Their products will be running 2002 tech levels in 2007? They'd be better off making some sort of business alliance with a major producer that's much further ahead.
By their nature, Spews, Spamcop, et al have to "hard core" in their dealings, but Spamcop can at least be worked with (to varying degrees, I suppose, but still). Spews operates anonymously and has virtually no accountability. They're effective, but any body with that much power that operates with no realy oversight is a danger on some level. Ashcroft, Bush, Poindexter, Spews, Microsoft's endless lust for probing PCs, it's all different levels of the same thing--a lack of oversight.
Anyway, blocking entire IP blocks *is* a good tool. It is the responsibility of every ISP to deal with spammers within their network. If something.com is sending out 100,000 spam a day through a certain IP and just changes it, because they have a whole block available, what's wrong with cutting out the knees of the people letting them do this? Yes, it does hurt and inconvenience others, but ISPs have to responsible for and aware of what happens in their own network.
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I want to see footage of hard core Star Wars nerds trying their hand at this while being mocked by Triumph the Insult Dog.
About the abuse of America through the DMCA, or the abuse of the people by Dow overall? Lots of people, I'd wager.
This makes my high school pranks of stink bombs and pumping pornography across the school's close-captioned television network on every channel seem weak.
...each passing year that the DMCA is up and 'legal', there will be more and more such cases (and abuses). 2003 will put 2002 to shame.
It'd be funny until it came crashing down into Earth, but it would also give us an excuse to then do sequels to Armageddon and Deep Impact. With Affleck and Elijah Wood so big now, it's worth Hollywood's investment money to launch a mountain into orbit, so that they can them film movies about it.
Except that credit/debit cards aren't the beginnings of common acceptance of tools that will allow the government to track our every move, thirty years down the line.
This isn't a good thing, and is a step away from National ID Cards stamped with our ID numbers.
What was that old jetpack, with all the white smoke, that used to get dragged out at Super Bowls? The one you kind of sat in, had the handle bars, and it could only keep you aloft for about a minute? I can completely picture it from an episode of The Fall Guy, but can't find it online.
OK, this is really cool, and makes me want to wire my house this way. My wife would kill me, though (although that would make for entertaining webcamming, that's for sure--live spousal beheadings).
Why even go forward with this? By starting at levels of chips FIVE years old, are they going to continue forward in such a way indefinitely? Their products will be running 2002 tech levels in 2007? They'd be better off making some sort of business alliance with a major producer that's much further ahead.
Following this trend, this makes me want a "Bushes" White House add-on for the Sims.
Nothing for nothing, but I was advocating using Spamcop.net instead of Spews.
If we don't block all foreign IPs from the US, the terrorists have already won.
Wow, that was some horrid spelling. Is there a way to edit posts? Oh, and are there email notifications if someone replies?
Anyway, blocking entire IP blocks *is* a good tool. It is the responsibility of every ISP to deal with spammers within their network. If something.com is sending out 100,000 spam a day through a certain IP and just changes it, because they have a whole block available, what's wrong with cutting out the knees of the people letting them do this? Yes, it does hurt and inconvenience others, but ISPs have to responsible for and aware of what happens in their own network.
Why even bother with Spews? Why not Spamcop, who doesn't block half the planet?