I agree. I think the screensaver is a great idea. You can say what you want about ethics and all, but the fact is that the spammers are already mounting their own DDoS attacks on anti-spam sites. Did the authorities do anything? Nope. Think about it... if a guy sucker-punches you in a dark deserted alley, would you punch back or ignore him? Spammers have clearly declared war on anti-spam sites(and the general public). I liken the DDoS of SpamCop in November 2003 to Pearl Harbor. The only difference is that after Pearl Harbor, we defended ourselves and vanquished our opponent. What was the outcome of the SpamCop DDoS? "Well, you'll just have to invest in better filtering software and pray it'll work". I'm tired of hiding from spam. We have to fight back.
I read the reports here and there about a spammer getting jailed/fined/lynched, but my inbox still fills up. I'll bet that for each spammer that is jailed/fined/lynched, you have 5 new spammers filling the void. What is being done to stop this? Not a lot. Spamming is still a HUGE moneymaking opportunity with relatively few barriers to entry, and it is "legal"(as long as you cover your bases).
IMO, the best thing about this tool is that it will allow the common man to "get back" at spammers. I think people have lost their patience. They don't want to wait months for the next half-baked, loophole-laden piece of legislation that the spammers in other countries will just laugh at.
Another facet of this discussion is enforcement (at least in the US). Many sites say that it will open you up to legal trouble, which may be true by the letter of the law. But consider this - very few spam that I receive are "can-spam" compliant. This, coupled with the fact that the US is the biggest source of spam, indicates that the US Government is having trouble enforcing a law that it made specifically against spam. IANAL, but I don't think there is a federal law against DDoS'ing. I'm not saying it's OK to DDoS, I'm just saying that I think you'll be struck by lightning 3 times before you get nailed for DDoS'ing a spammer.
And about the DoS at the user-level... If Lycos only directs a user to DoS spammers in countries outside of the users' own country, does the spammer have any recourse other than to complain to the DOS'ers ISP?
The camera in the 600 is crippled by way of the software. A prog called "PickEm" lets you monkey with the settings. It's a slight improvement and a crude hack, but it's pretty cool all in all. Posted on the forum here
I have a Treo 600(PalmOS5) and it works with most palm games I have found. As far as 3D games go, it probably couldn't hack it... But I expect that Palm OS6 will change all of that because it seems to be more graphics-oriented.
Along the same line, I don't expect the N-Gage to go anywhere, because with all that processing power, you still aren't running a widely-supported OS. Don't get me wrong, Symbian seems pretty cool, but I gotta believe that more games would be written for it if it were really a good playform. I find new games for Palm every day, and some are more fun than the PC games I pay twice as much for. It's also cool that you can find any program under the sun for Palm. I can also do maps, e-mail, spreadsheets, word processing, and FULL HTML web browsing on the go. If you have the processor, you should be able to use it for more than games...
Take my word for it... there are great things outside of the Nokia Monopoly.
Hey, let's face the facts here and lay the prejudices aside (temporarily).
If HP didn't move jobs overseas, they would not be competitive and the company would die, only to be replaced by another overseas-outsourcing company.
For years, it's been said that "voting with your dollars" will make them care. Realistically, too few ppl do this to make a difference. The majority of consumers will ALWAYS go for a product with a lower price, and that's why you can't find a new TV that's made in the USA anymore.
If you really analyze the situation from an objective standpoint, it's Darwinism and adaptation at its best.
Look at this pic from crossmatch, the makers of the fingerprint system.
The hand in the pic has hair and veins sticking out. It's a guys hand with a woman's fingernail.
These are the people we are trusting to "secure" our airports? It sounds like an oxymoron on par with "Microsoft Security"!
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I'm not a scientist, but from what I understand there currently isn't a space elevator propulsion system fast and efficient enough to make a trip to the moon. If you suggest rockets, then why have the elevator structure in the first place?
Considering the fact that the earth-to-moon distance is FAR greater than any single distance we've covered thus far, it would take months(?) to get to the moon from earth on this thing....
Although I *must* admit it would be awesome to be the founder of the "100,000 mile high club"!
I HATE how windows messenger is pre-installed on WinXP, especially that outlook starts it indiscriminately...
SO...
Here's how to get rid of it:
from a command prompt, enter RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Although I haven't tried this part, this is supposed to fix an issue if you use outlook express:
In the registry key of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express add a new DWord value, name it "Hide Messenger" and give it a value of 2.
Personally, I think the whole Windows Messenger thing is a ploy to relive history when they integrated IE into their OS in order to beat out competition. They want to kill everyone else in the IM world, but I think their product sucks compared to AIM. Even if M$ cleaned up the program, it's too late. Everyone I know uses AIM, ICQ, or Yahoo.
Marc2k has a good point, and you also have to look at the cost of turning crude oil in the sand into gasoline at the pump.
You got wells to get it out of the earth, oil tankers to transport it to the refinery, a large staff at the refinery, and big-rigs/drivers bringing it to your local gas station. That would be the large "gas-engine" counterpart to the small loss encountered by the inefficiencies in the power grid. At the very least, this would cut down on the big-rigs on the road and the pollution/congestion they create.
The part that excites me is that it will open the door for alternative energy sources. The world will no longer have to rely on the middle east for oil to power the cars. If OPEC decides it wants to raise the price of oil again, we can just make more nuclear power plants(or some non-fossil-fuel plant).
Looking even farther into the future, consider the combination of these vehicles with fusion power, when it is perfected. Then, range would not be an issue. You could have a car that could do 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, and not have to be refueled for 200 years. And SOME company would be able to do it for well under $200k.
IMO, I think this vehicle is overpriced. Most electric motors will out-accelerate equivalent gas-powered ones. Here are some links to other fun electric vehicles that the common man can actually afford:
I think this is a great move, although I'm still voting yes on the recall of this nut.
It's the companies that profit from these spam campaigns, and this law is giving Californians (more) rights to go after these shady businesses.
Sometimes I go and research certain spam emails, and while it may be true that the spamming server is in Brazil, the company reaping the profits from the sale of the product is most often somewhere in the United States.
Hypothetical situation: Considering the fact that I get about 100 spam messages a day, it is therefore likely that I will receive 11 spam messages from California companies. I am a California resident. Moving right along, let's say that only two out of these 11 emails proves to lead to real, commercial, non-judgment-proof entities that will pay. After fees and my time, let's say I make $800 off of these two combined.
5 days in a work week * $800 a day = $4000 a week
$4000 a week * 4 weeks in a month = $16,000 a month
Not a bad monthly income, even if they DO tax the hell out of the rich. Am I missing something here?
I am the net admin at a company that owns/manages well over $200 million in assets. They don't care!
We used to be an open relay but I secured us.... relayers* still try to hijack our smtp, so I report them to their ISP*. I've kept track of who I threaten and it NEVER makes any difference - it's the same guys* all the time. I've called the FBI/NIPC when they're trying so much that they cause a DoS on my server, but still, they ALWAYS say "The attack must cause a verifiable dollar amount of loss before we will do anything".
I've seriously considered taking matters into my own hands. This is the way I see it: If someone shoots at you in front of a cop(who doesn't do anything about it) wouldn't you shoot back?
Alas, all I know about hacking is how to do a port scan... lame. I don't even know where to start when trying to learn how to hack.
*="In the United States". I realize that most offshore ISPs either don't care or don't "speaka english"
I don't know if you realize this, but you wrote what looks like a dissertation, about a TV show! Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this?
It's shows like this(and those boring "reality" shows) that remind me of why it's so cheap to buy a TV anymore. Maybe if I were 12 again, I would not care what was on tv, as long as it kept me away from my homework.
I ask of you, Where has the quality entertainment gone? Who stole it??
Last week, I mailed one of theose postage paid envelopes back to the people and did this:
I took one square of toilet paper, dipped my finger in a jar of nutella(yummy brown chocolate peanut-butter stuff) and wiped my finger on the square of toilet paper. Stuffed it into the postage-paid envelope and sent their tasty little pacgake off to them! In case you didn't get it, I mailed what appeared to be used toilet paper. Still makes me laugh to this day.
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I agree. I think the screensaver is a great idea. You can say what you want about ethics and all, but the fact is that the spammers are already mounting their own DDoS attacks on anti-spam sites. Did the authorities do anything? Nope. Think about it... if a guy sucker-punches you in a dark deserted alley, would you punch back or ignore him? Spammers have clearly declared war on anti-spam sites(and the general public). I liken the DDoS of SpamCop in November 2003 to Pearl Harbor. The only difference is that after Pearl Harbor, we defended ourselves and vanquished our opponent. What was the outcome of the SpamCop DDoS? "Well, you'll just have to invest in better filtering software and pray it'll work". I'm tired of hiding from spam. We have to fight back.
I read the reports here and there about a spammer getting jailed/fined/lynched, but my inbox still fills up. I'll bet that for each spammer that is jailed/fined/lynched, you have 5 new spammers filling the void. What is being done to stop this? Not a lot. Spamming is still a HUGE moneymaking opportunity with relatively few barriers to entry, and it is "legal"(as long as you cover your bases).
IMO, the best thing about this tool is that it will allow the common man to "get back" at spammers. I think people have lost their patience. They don't want to wait months for the next half-baked, loophole-laden piece of legislation that the spammers in other countries will just laugh at.
Another facet of this discussion is enforcement (at least in the US). Many sites say that it will open you up to legal trouble, which may be true by the letter of the law. But consider this - very few spam that I receive are "can-spam" compliant. This, coupled with the fact that the US is the biggest source of spam, indicates that the US Government is having trouble enforcing a law that it made specifically against spam. IANAL, but I don't think there is a federal law against DDoS'ing. I'm not saying it's OK to DDoS, I'm just saying that I think you'll be struck by lightning 3 times before you get nailed for DDoS'ing a spammer.
And about the DoS at the user-level... If Lycos only directs a user to DoS spammers in countries outside of the users' own country, does the spammer have any recourse other than to complain to the DOS'ers ISP?
Why don't you try posting on the Mozilla.org forums?
Nahh... this is better. Make them use the products they sell, one time for each message they send.
The camera in the 600 is crippled by way of the software. A prog called "PickEm" lets you monkey with the settings. It's a slight improvement and a crude hack, but it's pretty cool all in all. Posted on the forum here
I have a Treo 600(PalmOS5) and it works with most palm games I have found. As far as 3D games go, it probably couldn't hack it... But I expect that Palm OS6 will change all of that because it seems to be more graphics-oriented.
Along the same line, I don't expect the N-Gage to go anywhere, because with all that processing power, you still aren't running a widely-supported OS. Don't get me wrong, Symbian seems pretty cool, but I gotta believe that more games would be written for it if it were really a good playform. I find new games for Palm every day, and some are more fun than the PC games I pay twice as much for. It's also cool that you can find any program under the sun for Palm. I can also do maps, e-mail, spreadsheets, word processing, and FULL HTML web browsing on the go. If you have the processor, you should be able to use it for more than games...
Take my word for it... there are great things outside of the Nokia Monopoly.
...the enormous weight of all their books is too much...
Great. Obese American kids won't have to carry so much. Maybe we can set a world record for the fattest kid(but we probably already have it).
Hey, we also won't have to burden our "yank-tank" SUVs so much with all the weight of the extra books.
God bless you, Sony!
If HP didn't move jobs overseas, they would not be competitive and the company would die, only to be replaced by another overseas-outsourcing company.
For years, it's been said that "voting with your dollars" will make them care. Realistically, too few ppl do this to make a difference. The majority of consumers will ALWAYS go for a product with a lower price, and that's why you can't find a new TV that's made in the USA anymore.
If you really analyze the situation from an objective standpoint, it's Darwinism and adaptation at its best.
You may now resume blasting India...
Look at this pic from crossmatch, the makers of the fingerprint system.
The hand in the pic has hair and veins sticking out. It's a guys hand with a woman's fingernail.
These are the people we are trusting to "secure" our airports? It sounds like an oxymoron on par with "Microsoft Security"!
I'm not a scientist, but from what I understand there currently isn't a space elevator propulsion system fast and efficient enough to make a trip to the moon. If you suggest rockets, then why have the elevator structure in the first place?
Considering the fact that the earth-to-moon distance is FAR greater than any single distance we've covered thus far, it would take months(?) to get to the moon from earth on this thing....
Although I *must* admit it would be awesome to be the founder of the "100,000 mile high club"!
I HATE how windows messenger is pre-installed on WinXP, especially that outlook starts it indiscriminately...
SO...
Here's how to get rid of it:
from a command prompt, enter
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
Although I haven't tried this part, this is supposed to fix an issue if you use outlook express:
In the registry key of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express add a new DWord value, name it "Hide Messenger" and give it a value of 2.
Personally, I think the whole Windows Messenger thing is a ploy to relive history when they integrated IE into their OS in order to beat out competition. They want to kill everyone else in the IM world, but I think their product sucks compared to AIM. Even if M$ cleaned up the program, it's too late. Everyone I know uses AIM, ICQ, or Yahoo.
Geeze, do I need to draw a picture for ya??
I was referring to gas engines that were "equivalent" in price, size, and weight.
Marc2k has a good point, and you also have to look at the cost of turning crude oil in the sand into gasoline at the pump.
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You got wells to get it out of the earth, oil tankers to transport it to the refinery, a large staff at the refinery, and big-rigs/drivers bringing it to your local gas station. That would be the large "gas-engine" counterpart to the small loss encountered by the inefficiencies in the power grid. At the very least, this would cut down on the big-rigs on the road and the pollution/congestion they create.
The part that excites me is that it will open the door for alternative energy sources. The world will no longer have to rely on the middle east for oil to power the cars. If OPEC decides it wants to raise the price of oil again, we can just make more nuclear power plants(or some non-fossil-fuel plant)
Looking even farther into the future, consider the combination of these vehicles with fusion power, when it is perfected. Then, range would not be an issue. You could have a car that could do 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, and not have to be refueled for 200 years. And SOME company would be able to do it for well under $200k.
IMO, I think this vehicle is overpriced. Most electric motors will out-accelerate equivalent gas-powered ones. Here are some links to other fun electric vehicles that the common man can actually afford:
An electric crotch-rocket style motorcycle for $6800 at Electric Motorsport
An electric dirt-bike for $4699 at Electric moto
I think this is a great move, although I'm still voting yes on the recall of this nut. It's the companies that profit from these spam campaigns, and this law is giving Californians (more) rights to go after these shady businesses. Sometimes I go and research certain spam emails, and while it may be true that the spamming server is in Brazil, the company reaping the profits from the sale of the product is most often somewhere in the United States. Hypothetical situation: Considering the fact that I get about 100 spam messages a day, it is therefore likely that I will receive 11 spam messages from California companies. I am a California resident. Moving right along, let's say that only two out of these 11 emails proves to lead to real, commercial, non-judgment-proof entities that will pay. After fees and my time, let's say I make $800 off of these two combined. 5 days in a work week * $800 a day = $4000 a week $4000 a week * 4 weeks in a month = $16,000 a month Not a bad monthly income, even if they DO tax the hell out of the rich. Am I missing something here?
I am the net admin at a company that owns/manages well over $200 million in assets. They don't care!
We used to be an open relay but I secured us.... relayers* still try to hijack our smtp, so I report them to their ISP*. I've kept track of who I threaten and it NEVER makes any difference - it's the same guys* all the time. I've called the FBI/NIPC when they're trying so much that they cause a DoS on my server, but still, they ALWAYS say "The attack must cause a verifiable dollar amount of loss before we will do anything".
I've seriously considered taking matters into my own hands. This is the way I see it: If someone shoots at you in front of a cop(who doesn't do anything about it) wouldn't you shoot back?
Alas, all I know about hacking is how to do a port scan... lame. I don't even know where to start when trying to learn how to hack.
*="In the United States". I realize that most offshore ISPs either don't care or don't "speaka english"
I don't know if you realize this, but you wrote what looks like a dissertation, about a TV show! Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this? It's shows like this(and those boring "reality" shows) that remind me of why it's so cheap to buy a TV anymore. Maybe if I were 12 again, I would not care what was on tv, as long as it kept me away from my homework. I ask of you, Where has the quality entertainment gone? Who stole it??
Last week, I mailed one of theose postage paid envelopes back to the people and did this: I took one square of toilet paper, dipped my finger in a jar of nutella(yummy brown chocolate peanut-butter stuff) and wiped my finger on the square of toilet paper. Stuffed it into the postage-paid envelope and sent their tasty little pacgake off to them! In case you didn't get it, I mailed what appeared to be used toilet paper. Still makes me laugh to this day.