Is go after the companies that sell ("rent") your information to the spammers. I know I didn't register for the national do-spam-me list, and I only gave my email out to "reputable" sights, so someone gave it away somewhere despite their privacy policy. You'd think there'd be a way to backtrack how these companies get this stuff.
Likewise there's a difference between intelligence and common sense. If something's too good to be true, it probably is. If you get an email selling you a $700 product for $50 and you believe it, you're stupid. If I goto the mechanic and they offer to sell me an air filter for $500, I'm going to double check them. Its common sense.
last job I worked at the mail admin was lazy so he'd prompt people to click the remove rather than block the mail at the server. Then he was confounded when the amount of spam went up. Goverment employee intelligence.
an intelligent person who bought something off a spam. These are the same people who are getting herbal viagra while dreaming of a larger penis while writing up their resignation since they'll get so much money from that nice Nigerian man.
See this article from the August 2000 issue of Japan, Inc which talks about paying for vending machine purchases this way. The technology has also been adopted by convenience stores, etc. I don't think south korea is exactly breaking any new ground here.
since I run a mail server at home I know that most places won't let you through unless you have RDNS lookup which doesn't point your ip to user-1-22-33-456-local-dsl-ip.com
Which, like someone already said, you usually can't get RDNS mapping from your ISP unless you have the mecha expensive business account.
Blocking on this method seems kinda silly since most of the spammers have ips and hostnames in China and have no problem getting around this protection anyway. At least if you got spam from a user-1-22-33-456-local-dsl-ip.com account it would seem a lot easier to track them down.
good point, but I think if I were microsoft and had a website capable of applying patches to my operating system, I'd want control of the browser that does it. Some mishandled code by a third party browser could really bork a system. Though I guess the point is moot once they get their overlord patch behind your back system going.
so you're thinking that microsoft will let some hacker put malicious code on their update site? If updating windows is all you use it for I don't see a problem.
If its something that I have a hole punched through the firewall for I'll patch it right away, like ssh, apache, bind, etc. Something that affects 135 or 137 or a linuxconf exploit which is behind the firewall I'll take a bit more time to do.
So why is McDonalds any less resposnsible, when they sell a product which is just as addictive?
Yeah, uhh...last time I checked, McDonald's wasn't physically addictive. I can't recall the last time I've seen someone shaking and puking their guts out from McNugget withdrawal. From eating them yes, from withdrawal, no.
when's the last time someone came and pointed a gun at your head and made you eat McDonald's? The guy who's bringing the lawsuit against them because his kids are fat took them to McDonald's for a meal every day. The blame with fast food isn't the restaraunts fault any more than a brewer is responsible for an alchoholic. If you can't use things responsibly and in moderation than you should just get a chip implanted because you're not smart enough to think on your own.
I believe that several companies are working on morphing wing designs which eliminate the sonic boom altogether, which was one of the nails in the coffin of the Concorde. According to this article Boeing might have a super sonic plane in service around 2008. Couple the new wing design with high effeciency engines and you'll have an environmentally (noise and pollution wise) and cost-effective means of breaking the sound barrier.
Wow, get a ton of spam or alienate the few people who don't have javascript capable browsers. Tough choice. I had the email address as just an image on the site where the user could simply read the address on the jpg and type it into their mail client, but the average user seems to be really confused if they don't have something to click on.
The one email address that I had that was not obfuscated by the javascript still receives a few hundred spam attempts per day even though I took the account off the mail server over a year ago.
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Is go after the companies that sell ("rent") your information to the spammers. I know I didn't register for the national do-spam-me list, and I only gave my email out to "reputable" sights, so someone gave it away somewhere despite their privacy policy. You'd think there'd be a way to backtrack how these companies get this stuff.
screw that, I want a browser that blocks flash ads
if you know enough to know what Photoshop is in the firstplace, you know enough to know it isn't gonna be cheap, quickdraw.
can't wait to see the case mods for these start rolling out
desktop publishing / journalism
Likewise there's a difference between intelligence and common sense. If something's too good to be true, it probably is. If you get an email selling you a $700 product for $50 and you believe it, you're stupid. If I goto the mechanic and they offer to sell me an air filter for $500, I'm going to double check them. Its common sense.
last job I worked at the mail admin was lazy so he'd prompt people to click the remove rather than block the mail at the server. Then he was confounded when the amount of spam went up. Goverment employee intelligence.
an intelligent person who bought something off a spam. These are the same people who are getting herbal viagra while dreaming of a larger penis while writing up their resignation since they'll get so much money from that nice Nigerian man.
Hard to see someone in an industry dominated by Macs having a pro-Apple slant.
Sending a lot of sensitive medical and other information overseas is the best idea since Clinton giving ICBM technology to the chinese.
X10 going backrupt? That's just as depressing as the eventual announcement that Darl McBride has looted the SCO accounts and fled to the Carribean.
add a warning that it 'could create a security and privacy risk
Hell, they should stick that on every bootable windows cd.
See this article from the August 2000 issue of Japan, Inc which talks about paying for vending machine purchases this way. The technology has also been adopted by convenience stores, etc. I don't think south korea is exactly breaking any new ground here.
Guess it depends on if its on a user's homepage or if its hosting that someone has paid for. Guess it would be cleared up if the article worked.
since I run a mail server at home I know that most places won't let you through unless you have RDNS lookup which doesn't point your ip to user-1-22-33-456-local-dsl-ip.com
Which, like someone already said, you usually can't get RDNS mapping from your ISP unless you have the mecha expensive business account.
Blocking on this method seems kinda silly since most of the spammers have ips and hostnames in China and have no problem getting around this protection anyway. At least if you got spam from a user-1-22-33-456-local-dsl-ip.com account it would seem a lot easier to track them down.
good point, but I think if I were microsoft and had a website capable of applying patches to my operating system, I'd want control of the browser that does it. Some mishandled code by a third party browser could really bork a system. Though I guess the point is moot once they get their overlord patch behind your back system going.
so you're thinking that microsoft will let some hacker put malicious code on their update site? If updating windows is all you use it for I don't see a problem.
If its something that I have a hole punched through the firewall for I'll patch it right away, like ssh, apache, bind, etc. Something that affects 135 or 137 or a linuxconf exploit which is behind the firewall I'll take a bit more time to do.
how many real computer nerds are actually going to leave their basements to go out and terrorize people anyway?
So why is McDonalds any less resposnsible, when they sell a product which is just as addictive?
Yeah, uhh...last time I checked, McDonald's wasn't physically addictive. I can't recall the last time I've seen someone shaking and puking their guts out from McNugget withdrawal. From eating them yes, from withdrawal, no.
when's the last time someone came and pointed a gun at your head and made you eat McDonald's? The guy who's bringing the lawsuit against them because his kids are fat took them to McDonald's for a meal every day. The blame with fast food isn't the restaraunts fault any more than a brewer is responsible for an alchoholic. If you can't use things responsibly and in moderation than you should just get a chip implanted because you're not smart enough to think on your own.
If you're looking to run PHP, or Apache/Tomcat/Java (which comes pre-installed), then Solaris x86 is a solid, stable platform.
Yeah, trying to install PHP on solaris is a freakin riot. Linux wins out just based on packages alone.
I believe that several companies are working on morphing wing designs which eliminate the sonic boom altogether, which was one of the nails in the coffin of the Concorde. According to this article Boeing might have a super sonic plane in service around 2008. Couple the new wing design with high effeciency engines and you'll have an environmentally (noise and pollution wise) and cost-effective means of breaking the sound barrier.
Wow, get a ton of spam or alienate the few people who don't have javascript capable browsers. Tough choice. I had the email address as just an image on the site where the user could simply read the address on the jpg and type it into their mail client, but the average user seems to be really confused if they don't have something to click on.
The one email address that I had that was not obfuscated by the javascript still receives a few hundred spam attempts per day even though I took the account off the mail server over a year ago.