We don't make it a noticeable issue. This past election I went to EFF.org to see what candidates they endorsed. I couldn't find any. I even bothered to e-mail them to see if they advocated anyone. No response. I did a bit of hunting around and could not find anything on it.
All the other issue groups rate the candidates & grade their past voting records. e.g. http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.ph p?can_id=CNIP0616
Until we start doing the same & start getting the information out to the public, it will continue to fly under the radar screen.
OK. You might say with all the other issues going on in the world why would any sane person make their decision based on EFF issues? It's easy, no candidate is ever a perfect match. EFF ratings would be one more thing to consider when rating a candidate. I know on one candidate race I was looking at information like that would have changed my vote.
Cool. How well does it work out? I'd love to have a system like that here in the US but the question is how many idiots won't be able to figure out how to do it.
Any links on papers or info on preferential voting & it's results?
Are people seriously going to vote for the better candidate on copyrights and making backup copies of software?
For President? No.
For Senate or House? You bet your @ss! But no one rates the candidates based on copyright, DMA, Electronic Freedoms etc. I just spent the past 3 hours looking for some ratings. Nothing.
I run a flat BB system too. Right now I am looking for software that includes a Karma type Friend/Foe filtering solution. SCOOP has been considered by it's more of a news/slashcode type system.
I am still digging through options of different Content Managment Systems myself here: http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
Let me know if you find a software solution that works for you.
Scene: 4th grade Sally singing happy birthday in a public place. Copyright weasel jumps out.
CWeasel: You owe me $19.95 for that! Cough it up.
Sally: But I was just singing...
CWeasel procedes to mull little Sally's face, turn her upside down & shake money out of her dress pockets.
CWeasel: "And don't let me catch you doing it again."
Is it simply fewer people reporting/people reporting fewer spam, or is it a sign that actual spam is going down or at least being better handled?
I know I have stopped reporting all my spam. It took too much time. Now I just target the ones that make it past my spam filters (OK, I have kind of given up on that too).
But I have noticed a drop in spam recently. Maybe spammers are on spring break.
OK. Here is my hair brained scheme. If they put out a "Do Not Spam" list then all the spammers have your e-mail address.
So, instead of doing that, how about any e-mail address that has ".ns." in it would be considered a flag that the individual does not want to be spammed. e.g. username.ns.domain.com
This way, the spammer (if caught) could be penalized in the same manner as the Do Not Call list. And this would not provide spammers with your e-mail address.
The down side is that anyone one who would like to add the ".ns." or "No Spam" designation to their e-mail address would have to change their e-mail address. But, if I could get the power of a "Do Not Call" list & law enforcement behind my new e-mail address for a 1 time change I would do it in a heart beat!
Heck, I'm going to have to change my e-mail address every 2-3 years anyway (damn viral spammers).
OK. Just to get a jump on things, I've gone down the check list. I still think the down sides or by far outwayed by the positives. AND IT'S OPTIONAL! & It's no worse than changing an e-mail address.
My post advocates a ( ) technical (*) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected MY RESPONSE: No worse than us changing our e-mail address now to avoid spam & it's a 1 time deal. (*) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money MY RESPONSE: Sometimes yes, Sometime no. I'll take my chances with some good solid laws backing my *ss up. Free speach is protected & so is my right not to hear it. ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (*) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ** OK. So they don't have to "sign up" for it. They can keep their old e-mail addresses. Then again, how difficult would it be for an old customer to add a ".ns." to oldemailadress.ns.domain.com? ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (*) Open relays in foreign countries **OK, but at least we can nail the US spammers & marketers. ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats (*) Jurisdictional problems **OK, but at least we can nail the US spammers. If it's popular, maybe other countries will sign up with similar plans to create a web of legistation to &(#@%)_@ spammers to the wall. Except for China of cours. ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
I agree with most at slashdot that your delima is confusing. Windows does not overwrite access rights, they are reserved. We will need more details to answer your exact problem.
But, if you are interested, in another solution, about 8-9 years ago I worked for a non-profit organization. To protect us from overusing licesnes, I created batch files for people to run (instead of directly using the executable). The batch file would look in a boxoffice folder to see if there was a ticket available (e.g. wp51_001.tkt, wp51_002.tkt, etc) if it wasn't availble, it would say "sorry not enough licenses available" & not allow the person to run the program. If it was available, it would copy the ticket over to an inuse folder & execute the program. When the user is finished, the program would copy the ticket file back. You could probably whip something up in a couple of hours. Most users will take the given icon to click on to run the program. The only downside is that if people cancel out the program then the ticket will still be listed in use when it is not. But that is easily resolved by copying the ticket back.
Discover isn't completely bad. I just don't want to keep around any more credit cards than I need. Stores keep on trying to push cards into your wallet all the time. Not to mention the extra liability (stolen account numbers) affect of multiple cards on your credit rating). For me, it's all about the Thin Wallet! I don't need back problems like George Kastanza. Since Discover is not accepted overseas & Visa & Mastercard are accepted pretty much everywhere that drops Discover out of the picture. Not to mention I get 1% Cash back (or 1% gas back) on my other two credit cards vs. building up to 1% back on Discover.
I wasn't completly supporting Tiger Direct. I just like more supported information when somebody says something sucks. And you are right, their BBB report does suck. I think alot of people get kind of fooled by the ads for refurbished systems, but I've never had the problem. I tend to read the details completely of their systems completely.
Besides, a better detailed response is much more vaulable. For instance, now I've got 2 recommendations for Newegg.com in terms of price. You gotta love more detailed information.
Sunny Dubey,
I have been using Tiger Direct for serveral years. (Usually a purchase once every 6 months or so). For single items, to a full set of customized components to build version of a perfect PC. They have never disappointed me.
Now as the years go by, I do question if they are really staying competativly priced, but I know & trust them & find their site easy to navigate. Their return policy sucks, but so do many others.
If you are going to purchase on-line, use a one-time-use creditcard number generator. DiscoverCard has one (I wish Visa or Master Card had one too so I could bag Discover). It reduces the risk of you card number being stolen & used.
If you are going to bash a company, back it up with some stories of what happened to you or at least some links to websites explaining the troubles they have had with that company. Just doing a raw search on the internet doesn't always lead to trustworthy information.
Heck, a simple search on bbb.org provided me with at least some raw facts.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Governmen t
We don't make it a noticeable issue. This past election I went to EFF.org to see what candidates they endorsed. I couldn't find any. I even bothered to e-mail them to see if they advocated anyone. No response. I did a bit of hunting around and could not find anything on it.
h p?can_id=CNIP0616
All the other issue groups rate the candidates & grade their past voting records. e.g. http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.p
Until we start doing the same & start getting the information out to the public, it will continue to fly under the radar screen.
OK. You might say with all the other issues going on in the world why would any sane person make their decision based on EFF issues? It's easy, no candidate is ever a perfect match. EFF ratings would be one more thing to consider when rating a candidate. I know on one candidate race I was looking at information like that would have changed my vote.
It will sweep up the mess after it's done killing!
Cool. I voted for Nader last year and I live in a swing state.
...there goes all my Karma.\
Cool. How well does it work out? I'd love to have a system like that here in the US but the question is how many idiots won't be able to figure out how to do it.
Any links on papers or info on preferential voting & it's results?
Are people seriously going to vote for the better candidate on copyrights and making backup copies of software?
For President? No.
For Senate or House? You bet your @ss! But no one rates the candidates based on copyright, DMA, Electronic Freedoms etc. I just spent the past 3 hours looking for some ratings. Nothing.
If anybody has any leads, let me know.
If they were the first unwitting participants to Tar & Feather Kirk, cast & crew. Revenge on @sshat reality show j3rckoffs would be sweet.
Let's face it. They are told they aren't going to be made fun of right now. Wait until their show comes out. They were used through & through.
I run a flat BB system too. Right now I am looking for software that includes a Karma type Friend/Foe filtering solution. SCOOP has been considered by it's more of a news/slashcode type system.
I am still digging through options of different Content Managment Systems myself here:
http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
Let me know if you find a software solution that works for you.
Are you using any type of Content Mangement System in combination with that?
Would cable modems or ADSL connections be vulnerable to the sniffing at the local connection?
If you live in Ohio or California try this site:
http://smartvoter.org
It can be a little bland since it takes no stance but it has always been a great starting source for me and shows me what will be on my ballot.
The above is a pretty good site. Please mod up.
Scene: 4th grade Sally singing happy birthday in a public place. Copyright weasel jumps out. CWeasel: You owe me $19.95 for that! Cough it up. Sally: But I was just singing... CWeasel procedes to mull little Sally's face, turn her upside down & shake money out of her dress pockets. CWeasel: "And don't let me catch you doing it again."
I guess once the lawsuit option is played out there last hope to turn a profit is to make this into a made for TV movie & sell the story rights.
What if the poles really stay in the same place & it's the earth that flips? Ahhh.... Glaciers! Heat Wave!
Is it simply fewer people reporting/people reporting fewer spam, or is it a sign that actual spam is going down or at least being better handled?
I know I have stopped reporting all my spam. It took too much time. Now I just target the ones that make it past my spam filters (OK, I have kind of given up on that too).
But I have noticed a drop in spam recently. Maybe spammers are on spring break.
OK. Here is my hair brained scheme. If they put out a "Do Not Spam" list then all the spammers have your e-mail address.
So, instead of doing that, how about any e-mail address that has ".ns." in it would be considered a flag that the individual does not want to be spammed. e.g. username.ns.domain.com
This way, the spammer (if caught) could be penalized in the same manner as the Do Not Call list. And this would not provide spammers with your e-mail address.
The down side is that anyone one who would like to add the ".ns." or "No Spam" designation to their e-mail address would have to change their e-mail address. But, if I could get the power of a "Do Not Call" list & law enforcement behind my new e-mail address for a 1 time change I would do it in a heart beat!
Heck, I'm going to have to change my e-mail address every 2-3 years anyway (damn viral spammers).
OK. Just to get a jump on things, I've gone down the check list. I still think the down sides or by far outwayed by the positives. AND IT'S OPTIONAL! & It's no worse than changing an e-mail address.
My post advocates a
( ) technical (*) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
MY RESPONSE: No worse than us changing our e-mail address now to avoid spam & it's a 1 time deal.
(*) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
MY RESPONSE: Sometimes yes, Sometime no. I'll take my chances with some good solid laws backing my *ss up. Free speach is protected & so is my right not to hear it.
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(*) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
** OK. So they don't have to "sign up" for it. They can keep their old e-mail addresses. Then again, how difficult would it be for an old customer to add a ".ns." to oldemailadress.ns.domain.com?
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(*) Open relays in foreign countries
**OK, but at least we can nail the US spammers & marketers.
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
(*) Jurisdictional problems
**OK, but at least we can nail the US spammers. If it's popular, maybe other countries will sign up with similar plans to create a web of legistation to &(#@%)_@ spammers to the wall. Except for China of cours.
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
a
I can't wait to get one of those suits for my girl friend. Cindy Crawford here I come!
Is this one of the reasons why the US DOJ recently announced it is going to be taking a closer look at the porn industry?"
That is an excellent idea. I think everyone here at slashdot should take this time to futher examine the on-line porn industry... and reflect on that.
It doesn't seem as if many slashdoters are paying attention to your question for some reason.
I agree with most at slashdot that your delima is confusing. Windows does not overwrite access rights, they are reserved. We will need more details to answer your exact problem.
But, if you are interested, in another solution, about 8-9 years ago I worked for a non-profit organization. To protect us from overusing licesnes, I created batch files for people to run (instead of directly using the executable). The batch file would look in a boxoffice folder to see if there was a ticket available (e.g. wp51_001.tkt, wp51_002.tkt, etc) if it wasn't availble, it would say "sorry not enough licenses available" & not allow the person to run the program. If it was available, it would copy the ticket over to an inuse folder & execute the program. When the user is finished, the program would copy the ticket file back. You could probably whip something up in a couple of hours. Most users will take the given icon to click on to run the program. The only downside is that if people cancel out the program then the ticket will still be listed in use when it is not. But that is easily resolved by copying the ticket back.
Discover isn't completely bad. I just don't want to keep around any more credit cards than I need. Stores keep on trying to push cards into your wallet all the time. Not to mention the extra liability (stolen account numbers) affect of multiple cards on your credit rating). For me, it's all about the Thin Wallet! I don't need back problems like George Kastanza. Since Discover is not accepted overseas & Visa & Mastercard are accepted pretty much everywhere that drops Discover out of the picture. Not to mention I get 1% Cash back (or 1% gas back) on my other two credit cards vs. building up to 1% back on Discover.
I wasn't completly supporting Tiger Direct. I just like more supported information when somebody says something sucks. And you are right, their BBB report does suck. I think alot of people get kind of fooled by the ads for refurbished systems, but I've never had the problem. I tend to read the details completely of their systems completely.
Besides, a better detailed response is much more vaulable. For instance, now I've got 2 recommendations for Newegg.com in terms of price. You gotta love more detailed information.
I haven't seen the geeks.com website in a long time. Who bought them out?
Sunny Dubey,
I have been using Tiger Direct for serveral years. (Usually a purchase once every 6 months or so). For single items, to a full set of customized components to build version of a perfect PC. They have never disappointed me.
Now as the years go by, I do question if they are really staying competativly priced, but I know & trust them & find their site easy to navigate. Their return policy sucks, but so do many others.
If you are going to purchase on-line, use a one-time-use creditcard number generator. DiscoverCard has one (I wish Visa or Master Card had one too so I could bag Discover). It reduces the risk of you card number being stolen & used.
If you are going to bash a company, back it up with some stories of what happened to you or at least some links to websites explaining the troubles they have had with that company. Just doing a raw search on the internet doesn't always lead to trustworthy information.
Heck, a simple search on bbb.org provided me with at least some raw facts.
"BBB Link on TigerDirect"