...tab's easy: it's ASCII - you can mail it very simply. Musical scores are graphical, but lend themselves to a standardised file format as otherwise you've got the aforementioned JPG scans...
whereas now they've just been pulled up for their hiring practices in mexico: forcing pregnancy tests on potential employees, banning the hiring of gay people, and people with political views. they're a big company, and they'd screw you just like MS if they were able to, it's just business...
...he's someone who has the skillz to build his machine from the Little Rubber Feet upwards as opposed to spending twice as much on a G5 just because some TV ad said it was "the fastest computer".
I'm not knocking Macs at all, I like them, but you can't criticise someone or call them cheap because they have the ability to build from scratch what you have to buy.
..or an omega seamaster (the "bond" watch).
it'll hurt for a month after you buy it as they're not cheap, but they'll last forever and you can hand it down to your kids. Plus everytime you look at your watch you'll get a little frisson of satisfaction which I keep telling myself means the price per look is worth it!
For the more practical among you, good mechanical watches are also a way of ensuring that whatever happens, you've got a months' rent round your wrist in the event of an emergency...
...you don't get blacklisted for a single spammer, you get blacklisted for being RFC ignorant and not working your abuse desk properly. You are wrong, full stop.
I call Godwin...
...but it's limiting.
say you've 2 webservers behind NAT. you can't run them both on port 80 as the port forwarding has to go to one IP address or the other.
or if you have 2 apps that use an overlapping port range - big problems.
it just doesn't *scale* but for home use, sure, NAT does the job.
No. It may be hard to take, but if you've signed a legal agreement on the dotted line, then you signify acceptance of the T&Cs in that document: it's no good moaning later.
Likewise, if your ISP had a clause in the T&C saying they were going to come round and shag your cat every once in a while, you couldn't complain when it happened if you'd signed up for it. The cat might, but it wouldn't really understand why it had happened: a bit like this argument.
You do not understand what you are frothing about.
Read, digest, and come back when you do.
I suggest hanging around in news.admin.net-abuse.email - post your opinions there and see how the pros treat you.
and whilst you whine about this, and look at contracts, and have meetings, ALL THEIR SHIT IS STILL POURING INTO MY MAILSERVER. I'm responsible for it, I'm running SPEWS blocks. You don't like it? Put me out of business: sign up elsewhere, until you're sick of the spam flooding your account and bringing your POP mail to a crawl, then go sign up with someone else.
You are not "stuck in a contract" with your ISP: if they breach the T&Cs YOU signed then you can leave when you want. If not, you should have read the small print.
And the president of the US doesn't run the flag up the whitehouse every morning either. The admins are professionals hired for their professional skills. If you think anyone would block their customer's mail just on a whim then you're dumber than you sound: it's been evaluated and taken as a business decision. These are big companies: they're not one man ISPs. Just *think* about what you're posting.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
No! The fly's dead, and the other flies know that if they step out of line, they're dead too. And their kids.
We've tried relaxing it, using smaller netblocks and it DOESN'T PROVIDE ENOUGH INCENTIVE TO WORK. If you get blocked because your ISP's blocked as they're an RFC-ignorant Spamhaus, then you'll take your business elsewhere. If you can't take it elsewhere then you'll shout and maybe change their minds.
No ISPs forced to use SPEWS: if they do, then it's the ISPs servers the spam's clogging up, and their choice to block based on any criteria they want to.
sheesh. they own it, they ask you to carry it, you agree, you turn it on when you're on call. they know where you are...
as for bill collectors, if you do something illegal (like wander off and ignore a court summons to pay your bill) then the police would be involved as usual and use the tools available to them to find you. this *is not* rocket science.
and there'll be a disclaimer with words to the effect of "you have responsibility for the car" much like you do with power steering and cruise control.
it's a STREET LAMP. Like, it's main purpose is to carry high voltage up itself to the lamp on the end. Taking a grinder to one would be a short, but salutary lesson to others to not try to destroy what they don't understand...
this reminds me of "Fix a man's computer, and it will be fixed for a day. Teach him how to fix his computer, and it'll be broken for life" .
Seriously though, going into space exploration isn't exactly a money spinner.
No way am I letting anyone wearing cowboy boots, string ties, a "got root?" t-shirt, a floppy-brimmed hat or a big black duster coat anywhere *near* my boxes...
Oh, and bouncing *stupidly* big messages is a good idea: in the days of Word not storing images in compressed format, but rather as a full BMP, secretaries were caught mailing out 40MB attachments *all the time* here.
Insightful? Insightful?
So a "Jupitor" trip is going to help world hunger? Are you insane? Perhaps spending the ONE TRILLION DOLLARS (insert pinky) on feeding people rather than on a jolly for General Dynamics and Haliburton would be more effective?
Or we could spend it on education: I'm sure it'd be of "emence" value.
Oh, and my teflon frying pans, photochromic sunglasses and my fricking Fisher Space Pen have bog-all to do with NASA, thank you very much.
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...tab's easy: it's ASCII - you can mail it very simply. Musical scores are graphical, but lend themselves to a standardised file format as otherwise you've got the aforementioned JPG scans...
whereas now they've just been pulled up for their hiring practices in mexico: forcing pregnancy tests on potential employees, banning the hiring of gay people, and people with political views. they're a big company, and they'd screw you just like MS if they were able to, it's just business...
what, you mean like start..run..winword.exe, or batch files? sheesh, it's there already and has been since the dawn of windows.
...he's someone who has the skillz to build his machine from the Little Rubber Feet upwards as opposed to spending twice as much on a G5 just because some TV ad said it was "the fastest computer".
I'm not knocking Macs at all, I like them, but you can't criticise someone or call them cheap because they have the ability to build from scratch what you have to buy.
H.A.N.D.
Perhaps you could make things better for everyone else by hiding his keys?
..or an omega seamaster (the "bond" watch).
it'll hurt for a month after you buy it as they're not cheap, but they'll last forever and you can hand it down to your kids. Plus everytime you look at your watch you'll get a little frisson of satisfaction which I keep telling myself means the price per look is worth it!
For the more practical among you, good mechanical watches are also a way of ensuring that whatever happens, you've got a months' rent round your wrist in the event of an emergency...
...if we can power vehicles using hydrogen, then what would be the point of invading all those oil-rich countries, anyway?
ahaa, that would be blacklisted for being an OPEN RELAY then, would it?
...you don't get blacklisted for a single spammer, you get blacklisted for being RFC ignorant and not working your abuse desk properly. You are wrong, full stop.
I call Godwin...
...but it's limiting.
say you've 2 webservers behind NAT. you can't run them both on port 80 as the port forwarding has to go to one IP address or the other.
or if you have 2 apps that use an overlapping port range - big problems.
it just doesn't *scale* but for home use, sure, NAT does the job.
No. It may be hard to take, but if you've signed a legal agreement on the dotted line, then you signify acceptance of the T&Cs in that document: it's no good moaning later.
Likewise, if your ISP had a clause in the T&C saying they were going to come round and shag your cat every once in a while, you couldn't complain when it happened if you'd signed up for it. The cat might, but it wouldn't really understand why it had happened: a bit like this argument.
You do not understand what you are frothing about.
Read, digest, and come back when you do.
I suggest hanging around in news.admin.net-abuse.email - post your opinions there and see how the pros treat you.
You are not "stuck in a contract" with your ISP: if they breach the T&Cs YOU signed then you can leave when you want. If not, you should have read the small print.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
We've tried relaxing it, using smaller netblocks and it DOESN'T PROVIDE ENOUGH INCENTIVE TO WORK. If you get blocked because your ISP's blocked as they're an RFC-ignorant Spamhaus, then you'll take your business elsewhere. If you can't take it elsewhere then you'll shout and maybe change their minds.
No ISPs forced to use SPEWS: if they do, then it's the ISPs servers the spam's clogging up, and their choice to block based on any criteria they want to.
sheesh. they own it, they ask you to carry it, you agree, you turn it on when you're on call. they know where you are...
as for bill collectors, if you do something illegal (like wander off and ignore a court summons to pay your bill) then the police would be involved as usual and use the tools available to them to find you. this *is not* rocket science.
and there'll be a disclaimer with words to the effect of "you have responsibility for the car" much like you do with power steering and cruise control.
You don't see critical updates for OpenOffice, do you?
it's a STREET LAMP. Like, it's main purpose is to carry high voltage up itself to the lamp on the end. Taking a grinder to one would be a short, but salutary lesson to others to not try to destroy what they don't understand...
but it can be used to write a patent letter by a human...
this reminds me of "Fix a man's computer, and it will be fixed for a day. Teach him how to fix his computer, and it'll be broken for life" .
Seriously though, going into space exploration isn't exactly a money spinner.
No way am I letting anyone wearing cowboy boots, string ties, a "got root?" t-shirt, a floppy-brimmed hat or a big black duster coat anywhere *near* my boxes...
Oh, and bouncing *stupidly* big messages is a good idea: in the days of Word not storing images in compressed format, but rather as a full BMP, secretaries were caught mailing out 40MB attachments *all the time* here.
So a "Jupitor" trip is going to help world hunger? Are you insane? Perhaps spending the ONE TRILLION DOLLARS (insert pinky) on feeding people rather than on a jolly for General Dynamics and Haliburton would be more effective?
Or we could spend it on education: I'm sure it'd be of "emence" value.
Oh, and my teflon frying pans, photochromic sunglasses and my fricking Fisher Space Pen have bog-all to do with NASA, thank you very much.