I remember seeing an article last year regarding China's Internet connectivity. Their copper wire phone system is so fractured, that they were moving to wireless access points.
Maybe they scrapped maglev, and are working on a Star Trek styled transporter.
I would imagine that everyone is an individual when it comes to tinnitus. In my case, I hear a constant high frequency squeal when away from the office. I would of answered earlier, but I've been doing a little work moving the cpu into another room and rerouting cables. I did change one of the fans recently, and noticed a decrease in the squeal for a while, but someone elses post about moving the cpu sounded good to me, no pun intended:)
The American Tinnitus Association has a wealth of information regarding hearing and tinnitus. It's well worth your hearing to do whatever you can to prevent hearing loss or damage.
I've suffered with tinnitus for years, and have changed fans several times looking for something quieter. It's amazing the amount of noise the average fan produces, and it would be well worth it to me to quieten down the office even more.
Of course, all those years going to rock concerts at the Grande in Detroit probably didn't help either.
The Pew Internet Life Project
issued a similar report recently, suggesting that Internet chat usage had shown only a modest increase.
We recently published our years end list of the top ten chat topics for 2003, and have seen a very good growth both in Chatmag and Internet chat and discussion sites in general. Two years ago, our estimate of functioning chat rooms were at about 750,000. End of 2003 estimates are at about 1,325,000. We now include 'blogs and discussion groups such as Yahoo! Groups and MSN Groups in our listings, to reflect the changes in social interaction.
Online game playing, while not in itself "chat" offers players the opportunity to talk to each other. According to statistics from 2002, an estimated 50 million people around the world were playing online games that year, and the number is expected to grow to 114 million by the year 2006. Online game playing is the Internet equivalent of "poker night" or board gaming with friends.
According to Alexa, the two year ranking for Slashdot rose from a low of about 1750 to todays rank of 881. In that same time, Chatmag's rank was at about 230,000 two years ago, with todays ranking of 43,656. Other social networking and related sites have shown a similar increase in users, suggesting that the reports do not delve into all aspects of social interaction.
When Pew and The World Internet Project look at usage, they do not consider sites such as Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Ryze, or Ecademy as "chat" sites, although the primary function of such sites are to promote dialog.
Social interaction is evolving from the traditional IRC chat room toward more focused integrated sites, such as interactive games, 'blogs and Slashdot-type sites.
The Pew Internet Life Project issued a similar report recently, suggesting that Internet chat usage had shown only a modest increase.
We recently published our years end list of top ten chat topics for 2003, and have seen a very good growth both in Chatmag and Internet chat and discussion sites in general. Two years ago, our estimate of functioning chat rooms were at about 750,000. End of 2003 estimates are at about 1,325,000. Online game playing, while not in itself "chat" offers players the opportunity to talk to each other. According to statistics from 2002, an estimated 50 million people around the world were playing online games that year, and the number is expected to grow to 114 million by the year 2006.
According to Alexa, the two year ranking for Slashdot rose from a low of about 1750 to todays rank of 881. In that same time, Chatmag's rank was at about 230,000 two years ago, with todays ranking of 43,656. Other social networking sites have shown a similar increase in users.
When Pew and The World Internet Project look at usage, they do not consider sites such as Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Ryze, or Ecademy as "chat" sites, although the primary function of such sites are to promote dialog.
Social interaction is evolving from the traditional IRC chat room toward more focused integrated sites, such as Slashdot.
If a user of Chatmag is viewing a pop up ad, it IS NOT being served by Chatmag.com but by one of several third party advertising servers. These third party advertising servers place a program on a users system, and then while browsing, serve ads from their servers.
If you have installed a file sharing program or "wallet", from such companies as:
Gator, (Note: Gator has changed their name to Claria) Kazaa, WhenU, BearShare, or AudioGalaxy, you may have downloaded an ad server as part of their software. These programs are authorized by you, when you read the agreement before you installed their software (you did read it, didn't you?). We realize most people do not read their agreement, and inadvertently download ad server software, which is now happily serving you pop up advertisements when you visit a Chatmag.com page.
We strongly advise getting and running Ad Aware, and dump all ad servers, unless you like pop up advertisements, and other web sites losing revenue by these programs.
Please note that Chatmag.com loses revenue by the use of any third party ad serving software, and we highly resent others being paid for our hard work and dedication to provide only relevant advertising, or none at all, depending upon the specific topic page.
That is true, class action suits do not really give the victims any real compensation. It does hurt the guilty party though.
I'm real familiar with the area Ralsky lives. My former father in law lives not too far from him, and it is one of the most expensive areas around Detroit for homes.
Considering what Ralsky has grossed over the years, he stands to lose a lot.
In a civil suit for damages, the traditional split is one third to the government (IRS), one third to the lawyers, one third to the litigants.
Which brings up the thought, why not sue Ralsky for damages in a class action suit?
I'm sure someone could run some figures and find out the total cost of damages, both financial and emotional, to participants in a class action suit.
In fact, I think I'm starting to feel a little stressed out over getting spam:)
Death to spammers has been the prevalent sentiment on the anti-spam message boards, including the Usenet group NANAE for some time.
The entire system of crime and punishment, at least in the USA, has been the notion of "let the punishment fit the crime". In it's purest form, the concept of modern law is to "set right that which was wronged", in other words, allow the law to compensate a person or other entity to the point before the offense. That is the concept of compensatory damages; punitive damages awarded the wronged serve to further punish the offender.
How a rational person can equate being wronged by receiving unsolicited emails calling for the death penalty for the sender, and say, the punishment that will befall the killer of Laci Peterson is beyond me.
There will come a time when some overzealous anti-spammer will decide to take the law into their own hands, and physically attack a spammer. A taste of that was seen last spring at the Federal Trade Commission summit on spam in DC. Others have made thinly veiled threats to destroy computer server centers, and it is only a matter of time before someone decides to act on their impulses.
If nothing else, any lawyer would counsel against making statements on public Internet sites that may come back to haunt a person later. The First Amendment is fine, it's up to the individual to decide when their statements are free speech, or incriminating evidence.
What punishment (provided Ralsky would be convicted on an offense) do I believe he should get? Compensatory damages equal to the total cost of bandwidth, server space, etc. that he has used sending out emails over the years, and punitive damages ten times the compensatory amount. In the end, instead of living in Bloomfield Hills, he'll be on the corner of Second and Forest, bumming for spare change.
It's the Congressional Members duty to keep their constituents informed. In a representative government, our elected officials must promote two way communication.
The Congress Online Project Nine Benefits of a good web site, number 3:
"Targeted communication with key audiences. Web sites can help build ongoing relationships with key audiences by providing targeted features and information. Timely, informative sections of a Web site devoted to a single issue, for example, can attract people who care about the issue and keep them coming back for more. And issue-based e-mail updates provide the opportunity to regularly communicate with people who subscribe."
In order to fulfill the requirements of the Congressional "Franking" priviledge, Members would have to clearly identify emails sent to their constituents, with proper headers, From address, etc.
Also, in order to provide documentation that they are reaching their constituents, they would most likely be required to maintain an email mailing list.
I highly doubt that the Members would use the shotgun email tactic of spammers.
I remember the same thing in post war Germany. What wasn't bombed out, had wires running everywhere. That was in the mid '50's when I first went to Europe. Later, in the '60's, it wasn't as bad, so I'm assuming it took Germany about 10 years to clean up the wire tangled cities.
I think that's the key phrase here. Apparently Scott is losing customers, and in order to retain them, or gain new ones, he has to tell clients he is "whitelisted". What reputable business would want to pay an email broadcast company, when that company is blocklisted. He couldn't possibly think to use this as a defence, saying that if Brightmail whitelists him, he must not be a spammer. But then again, from what I've seen regarding him, I wouldn't be surprised.
As far as I'm concerned, any business that uses Optin is just as sleazy as Scott.
If you click on the San Antonio link in the story, and read down the first picture description, you find a link: www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-l pd.htm
As we reported in our annual report of the top ten Internet chat topics for 2003, the U.S. Navy uses secure chat rooms for communication on board ships.
Apparently they missed securing their email server. I wonder if keelhauling is still allowed.
It was emarketersamerica.org operated by Mark Edward Felstein, an attorney in Florida, supposedly in the pocket of the South Florida spam gang. They pursued a SLAPP against:
SPEWS.ORG d/b/a THE HERMES GROUP;
SPAMHAUS.ORG d/b/a THE SPAMHAUS PROJECT;
CSL GMBH JOKER.COM;
STEVE LINFORD;
JULIAN LINFORD;
ALAN MURPHY;
SUSAN WILSON a/k/a SUSAN GUNN a/k/a SHIKSAA;
STEVEN J. SOBOL;
CLIFTON T. SHARP;
RICHARD C. TIETJENS a/k/a MORLEY DOTES;
ADAM BROWER; and
STEPHEN JOSEPH JARED a/k/a JOE JARED,
Defendants.
The real purpose of the suit was to determine the ownership of SPEWS, and as a secondary consequence, financially hurt those involved in fighting spam.
I don't think much of any attorney that aligns himself with DH spammers, and cannot find the real owner of SPEWS
From the "I'm trying to think, but nothing happens" department.
This reminds me of some MLM scam a few years ago, that featured a stripped down "Internet Appliance". They were sold by distributors, much like a MLM scam. I can't remember what they were called. Maybe the same people that had that went over to AOL.
AOL should get the contract for Iraq, they're still guillable over there.
King Crimson, one of my all time favorites, the first album only. Too bad they never carried the style forward. If I had mod points, I'd of modded you up for good taste in music!
I've got a collection over 1K of albums collected from 1963 onward, and saw King Crimson in London when they first started out. Good memories.
A 1999 study estimated
there are some 4 million
pounds of space junk in
low-Earth orbit, just one part
of a celestial sea of roughly
110,000 objects larger than
1 centimeter -- each big
enough to damage a
satellite or space-based
telescope.
It's no wonder the ISS was hit. All they need is the space equivalent of the "adopt a highway" program, and a lot of plastic bags.
Slashdot Mirror
I remember seeing an article last year regarding China's Internet connectivity. Their copper wire phone system is so fractured, that they were moving to wireless access points.
Maybe they scrapped maglev, and are working on a Star Trek styled transporter.
I would imagine that everyone is an individual when it comes to tinnitus. In my case, I hear a constant high frequency squeal when away from the office. I would of answered earlier, but I've been doing a little work moving the cpu into another room and rerouting cables. I did change one of the fans recently, and noticed a decrease in the squeal for a while, but someone elses post about moving the cpu sounded good to me, no pun intended :)
The American Tinnitus Association has a wealth of information regarding hearing and tinnitus. It's well worth your hearing to do whatever you can to prevent hearing loss or damage.
I've suffered with tinnitus for years, and have changed fans several times looking for something quieter. It's amazing the amount of noise the average fan produces, and it would be well worth it to me to quieten down the office even more.
Of course, all those years going to rock concerts at the Grande in Detroit probably didn't help either.
The Pew Internet Life Project issued a similar report recently, suggesting that Internet chat usage had shown only a modest increase.
We recently published our years end list of the top ten chat topics for 2003, and have seen a very good growth both in Chatmag and Internet chat and discussion sites in general. Two years ago, our estimate of functioning chat rooms were at about 750,000. End of 2003 estimates are at about 1,325,000. We now include 'blogs and discussion groups such as Yahoo! Groups and MSN Groups in our listings, to reflect the changes in social interaction.
Online game playing, while not in itself "chat" offers players the opportunity to talk to each other. According to statistics from 2002, an estimated 50 million people around the world were playing online games that year, and the number is expected to grow to 114 million by the year 2006. Online game playing is the Internet equivalent of "poker night" or board gaming with friends.
According to Alexa, the two year ranking for Slashdot rose from a low of about 1750 to todays rank of 881. In that same time, Chatmag's rank was at about 230,000 two years ago, with todays ranking of 43,656. Other social networking and related sites have shown a similar increase in users, suggesting that the reports do not delve into all aspects of social interaction.
When Pew and The World Internet Project look at usage, they do not consider sites such as Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Ryze, or Ecademy as "chat" sites, although the primary function of such sites are to promote dialog.
Social interaction is evolving from the traditional IRC chat room toward more focused integrated sites, such as interactive games, 'blogs and Slashdot-type sites.
The Pew Internet Life Project issued a similar report recently, suggesting that Internet chat usage had shown only a modest increase.
We recently published our years end list of top ten chat topics for 2003, and have seen a very good growth both in Chatmag and Internet chat and discussion sites in general. Two years ago, our estimate of functioning chat rooms were at about 750,000. End of 2003 estimates are at about 1,325,000. Online game playing, while not in itself "chat" offers players the opportunity to talk to each other. According to statistics from 2002, an estimated 50 million people around the world were playing online games that year, and the number is expected to grow to 114 million by the year 2006.
According to Alexa, the two year ranking for Slashdot rose from a low of about 1750 to todays rank of 881. In that same time, Chatmag's rank was at about 230,000 two years ago, with todays ranking of 43,656. Other social networking sites have shown a similar increase in users.
When Pew and The World Internet Project look at usage, they do not consider sites such as Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Ryze, or Ecademy as "chat" sites, although the primary function of such sites are to promote dialog.
Social interaction is evolving from the traditional IRC chat room toward more focused integrated sites, such as Slashdot.
Excerpt from our Policy regarding Pop Up ads.
Chatmag.com DOES NOT USE POP UP ADS!
If a user of Chatmag is viewing a pop up ad, it IS NOT being served by Chatmag.com but by one of several third party advertising servers. These third party advertising servers place a program on a users system, and then while browsing, serve ads from their servers.
If you have installed a file sharing program or "wallet", from such companies as: Gator, (Note: Gator has changed their name to Claria) Kazaa, WhenU, BearShare, or AudioGalaxy, you may have downloaded an ad server as part of their software. These programs are authorized by you, when you read the agreement before you installed their software (you did read it, didn't you?). We realize most people do not read their agreement, and inadvertently download ad server software, which is now happily serving you pop up advertisements when you visit a Chatmag.com page.
We strongly advise getting and running Ad Aware, and dump all ad servers, unless you like pop up advertisements, and other web sites losing revenue by these programs.
Please note that Chatmag.com loses revenue by the use of any third party ad serving software, and we highly resent others being paid for our hard work and dedication to provide only relevant advertising, or none at all, depending upon the specific topic page.
That is true, class action suits do not really give the victims any real compensation. It does hurt the guilty party though.
I'm real familiar with the area Ralsky lives. My former father in law lives not too far from him, and it is one of the most expensive areas around Detroit for homes.
Considering what Ralsky has grossed over the years, he stands to lose a lot.
In a civil suit for damages, the traditional split is one third to the government (IRS), one third to the lawyers, one third to the litigants.
:)
Which brings up the thought, why not sue Ralsky for damages in a class action suit?
I'm sure someone could run some figures and find out the total cost of damages, both financial and emotional, to participants in a class action suit. In fact, I think I'm starting to feel a little stressed out over getting spam
Death to spammers has been the prevalent sentiment on the anti-spam message boards, including the Usenet group NANAE for some time.
The entire system of crime and punishment, at least in the USA, has been the notion of "let the punishment fit the crime". In it's purest form, the concept of modern law is to "set right that which was wronged", in other words, allow the law to compensate a person or other entity to the point before the offense. That is the concept of compensatory damages; punitive damages awarded the wronged serve to further punish the offender.
How a rational person can equate being wronged by receiving unsolicited emails calling for the death penalty for the sender, and say, the punishment that will befall the killer of Laci Peterson is beyond me.
There will come a time when some overzealous anti-spammer will decide to take the law into their own hands, and physically attack a spammer. A taste of that was seen last spring at the Federal Trade Commission summit on spam in DC. Others have made thinly veiled threats to destroy computer server centers, and it is only a matter of time before someone decides to act on their impulses.
If nothing else, any lawyer would counsel against making statements on public Internet sites that may come back to haunt a person later. The First Amendment is fine, it's up to the individual to decide when their statements are free speech, or incriminating evidence.
What punishment (provided Ralsky would be convicted on an offense) do I believe he should get? Compensatory damages equal to the total cost of bandwidth, server space, etc. that he has used sending out emails over the years, and punitive damages ten times the compensatory amount. In the end, instead of living in Bloomfield Hills, he'll be on the corner of Second and Forest, bumming for spare change.
It's the Congressional Members duty to keep their constituents informed. In a representative government, our elected officials must promote two way communication.
The Congress Online Project Nine Benefits of a good web site, number 3: "Targeted communication with key audiences. Web sites can help build ongoing relationships with key audiences by providing targeted features and information. Timely, informative sections of a Web site devoted to a single issue, for example, can attract people who care about the issue and keep them coming back for more. And issue-based e-mail updates provide the opportunity to regularly communicate with people who subscribe."
In order to fulfill the requirements of the Congressional "Franking" priviledge, Members would have to clearly identify emails sent to their constituents, with proper headers, From address, etc.
Also, in order to provide documentation that they are reaching their constituents, they would most likely be required to maintain an email mailing list.
I highly doubt that the Members would use the shotgun email tactic of spammers.
You know, I take my duties as the inspiration for "The Brain" from "Pinky and The Brain" very seriously.
It's supposed to be /.'ed. Just checking to see who's awake.
I keep all my vital info woven into posts, and hidden right here, its the only place I know that won't get ./'ed.
I found an interesting article with mention of the origin of NORAD tracking Santa..
Apparently, it was quite by accident.
A friend* of mine dated a geek girl.
He asked her home to show her his "hard drive" and she left disappointed. All she got to see was a 3.5" floppy.
*name deleted to protect the embarrassed
I've got to lodge a protest against that moderation also. OK, moderate it to "Offtopic", but certainly not "Flame Bait".
Merry Christmas to all.
I remember the same thing in post war Germany. What wasn't bombed out, had wires running everywhere. That was in the mid '50's when I first went to Europe. Later, in the '60's, it wasn't as bad, so I'm assuming it took Germany about 10 years to clean up the wire tangled cities.
*'A spammer's claim to his clients...*
I think that's the key phrase here. Apparently Scott is losing customers, and in order to retain them, or gain new ones, he has to tell clients he is "whitelisted". What reputable business would want to pay an email broadcast company, when that company is blocklisted. He couldn't possibly think to use this as a defence, saying that if Brightmail whitelists him, he must not be a spammer. But then again, from what I've seen regarding him, I wouldn't be surprised.
As far as I'm concerned, any business that uses Optin is just as sleazy as Scott.
I know, but it still looked funny, given the subject of the article :)
If you click on the San Antonio link in the story, and read down the first picture description, you find a link: www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ships/ship-l pd.htm
chinfo??? chin as in China???
As we reported in our annual report of the top ten Internet chat topics for 2003, the U.S. Navy uses secure chat rooms for communication on board ships.
Apparently they missed securing their email server. I wonder if keelhauling is still allowed.
It was emarketersamerica.org operated by Mark Edward Felstein, an attorney in Florida, supposedly in the pocket of the South Florida spam gang. They pursued a SLAPP against:
SPEWS.ORG d/b/a THE HERMES GROUP; SPAMHAUS.ORG d/b/a THE SPAMHAUS PROJECT; CSL GMBH JOKER.COM; STEVE LINFORD; JULIAN LINFORD; ALAN MURPHY; SUSAN WILSON a/k/a SUSAN GUNN a/k/a SHIKSAA; STEVEN J. SOBOL; CLIFTON T. SHARP; RICHARD C. TIETJENS a/k/a MORLEY DOTES; ADAM BROWER; and STEPHEN JOSEPH JARED a/k/a JOE JARED, Defendants.
The real purpose of the suit was to determine the ownership of SPEWS, and as a secondary consequence, financially hurt those involved in fighting spam.
I don't think much of any attorney that aligns himself with DH spammers, and cannot find the real owner of SPEWS
From the "I'm trying to think, but nothing happens" department.
This reminds me of some MLM scam a few years ago, that featured a stripped down "Internet Appliance". They were sold by distributors, much like a MLM scam. I can't remember what they were called. Maybe the same people that had that went over to AOL.
AOL should get the contract for Iraq, they're still guillable over there.
King Crimson, one of my all time favorites, the first album only. Too bad they never carried the style forward. If I had mod points, I'd of modded you up for good taste in music!
I've got a collection over 1K of albums collected from 1963 onward, and saw King Crimson in London when they first started out. Good memories.
A 1999 study estimated there are some 4 million pounds of space junk in low-Earth orbit, just one part of a celestial sea of roughly 110,000 objects larger than 1 centimeter -- each big enough to damage a satellite or space-based telescope.
It's no wonder the ISS was hit. All they need is the space equivalent of the "adopt a highway" program, and a lot of plastic bags.