You mean, except that they both provide blacklist services right? Since the BL service market is kinda like the wild-west at the moment, you should expect them to be lumped together a little bit by the casual observer. BTW, when I told people about SPEWS and advised them to drop them, it was with the recommendation to use Spamhaus.
I think this NASA project is more of a hobby, did you see the K10? It looks like a microwave with tractor wheels. When you're building a proof-of-concept sometimes a couple hundred can put you over budget.
I can already think of a couple hundred thousand patents they much have violated while traveling and no doubt, communicating on their journey here. Oh, they'll pay for their crimes, they'll pay!
An even more interesting quandry: What if a large, well-recognized organization with deep pockets gets put on the list by mistake in the same fashion? Any bets as to how long it would take before they get removed?
My last employer was one of the ten largest banks in the world. Our outbound SMTP servers where blacklisted by a "dedicated group of spam fighters" providing a blacklist service - SPEWS. I'm not sure how Spamhaus works, but I can tell you the SPEWS admins did not care much for our plight. They were chasing a particular spammer and to eliminate the problem they blocked a whole freaking subnet owned by MCI - we just happened to have our IPs in that subnet. I found that in this case, the blacklist admins were lazy (for blocking a whole subnet) and non-responsive (poor contact information is provided and pleas for removal where large ignored or flamed - following their procedure of posting in a forum to get removed). The whole process can be VERY frustrating.
Our saving grace was advising those email customers to drop SPEWS which 100% of them where willing to do.
As for this case, even though the "victim" is based in the US it really comes down to where the "crime" took place - on individual email servers using the Spamhaus BL around the world. I'm sure SH would argue in UK court that they offer a list, they don't enforce it and the onus lies on email administrators wherever they might be.
Agreed, and not that I want to defend MS, but that "quirky" piece of software is still the market leader in the browser business and since everyone must interface with/. using a browser it should be factored into the new discussion system.
I'm assuming that the parent is working in an environment where he can't load Firefox because of lack of admin rights to his workstation? If so, try installing it into your profile where you do have rights, it runs OK for me that way.
Its a shame this post is labeled Flamebait, since its fairly accurate. To the victors go the spoils and when a nation is war torn and occupied, many of it's citizens accomplishments will be diminished as the world power's busy themselves with carrying off it's own heroes.
I first became interested in cryptography from the novel "Enigma" by Robert Harris in the mid-nineties, next time you have a long flight with a lay over check it out. Nothing overly technical, but its interesting to read a story with such a "technical" setting, Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress" comes to mind as well. Again, just something to read when you're forced to ride the cattle haulers.
OK Mr. Smarty Pants, take all the FUD out of the news and then what? Huh? There'd be nothing for us to post on, and then what? Huh? Work? Are you freaking serious?
Although I must concede your point and would have modded it up if it wasn't already a +5.
You can't use logic or fact to argue with a decades worth of "I'm smarting then you" finger wagging. Its far easier to sit back, take pot shots and feel superior.
Well sure, although an RC can be considered a final draft.. its a still a draft so it can be expected to be both "more stable" (or further along then we were expecting) and "not ready for prime time" (but not quite there yet).
Their nickel & dime strategy has been working for decades, I'm surprised they backed down - after all, with no direct competition for users what is the recourse?
My favorite telco trick is still call waiting. You inevitably answer the call just long enough (a few seconds?) to say you'll call them write back and the company gets to charge the connection fee and 1 minute of airtime. I guess voicemail was sucking them dry, yay the free market!
The only thing the Constitution prevents is government interference in the practice of religion
Contrary to what you may believe, you've made my point. Government interference, as in the making of a law that would infringe on a citizen's right to practice their religion freely (as in teach and otherwise hand down the rites, rituals and customs of said religion).
Knowing this, what legal case might a group of scientists bring against a church? Of course the same first Amendment that guarantees this, also ensures scientists (or anyone else for that matter) the freedom of speech to criticize (I didn't say otherwise).
BTW, nice job posting a comment after reading the headline. No one is expecting you to RTFA before going off all half-cocked, but at the least RTFS - rather then forcing posters to put keywords in all caps or otherwise draw attention for your understanding I'd recommend you read the summary twice, or the article once, before posting. Thank you for your continued support.
With 80% of today's traffic being spam, a better punishment might have been a requirement to have only one email account not use any spam filtering for the term of 10 years. I'm thinking an AOL account with Outlook Express might be in order just to rub it in.
In that scenario, I'm now more fearful of someone working at the DNA databank going on a crime spree and leaving droplets of me behind for the CSI unit (dressed all sexily with classic rock playing the background) to find me.
Taking it step further, is there an inherent danger in allowing Law Enforcement access to any and all DNA captured or stored by private companies?
The responsibility of the medical field (AFAIK) to protect patient information is only applicable to when something Identifying (or otherwise public like a name, DNA what have you) is correlated to something private (your diagnosis or prescriptions). If I endorse a check at the bank that requires my thumb print, I don't have an expectation that the Bank will take any extra precautions to protect it other then those surrounding the actual document I endorsed.
I guess I'm OK with DNA from a private company going to Law Enforcement since in itself, it can't prove anything (you'd need matching DNA at crime scene for the information to be valuable) and who knows, maybe it would prove someone's innocence.
One difference between Internet and telephone usage is the exposure to lawsuits (along the, taking prudent action to protect other employees) as it pertains to a passerby walking up and seeing your monitor filled with goatsex, or you hobby membership in a hate group, or the recipe to making a pipe bomb, or the like that reasonable might offend a coworker. This, in part, is because people think they are anonymous when using the Internet. Sure the same could happen with the telephone but its less likely someone is going to call the Natalie Portman Hot Grits hot line and put it on speaker - of course, those types of telephone service would also show on the monthly bill as a separate charge (where Internet traffic wouldn't) and raise the ire of the bean counters.
At this point, its not about staying. Its about making AOL look bad and improving the severance package. AOL fired him because of the action he took, he'll claim it was a code red and that he was acting in good faith that the proper AOL people approved it and he's the scapegoat. AOL has deep pockets and will work hard to make this whole transgression go away as fast as possible up to and including making paymnets to those that want to keep in the news.
Its not just governments, if you have a corporation dedicating a load of money towards some project the same will happen. Although the principles of project management, software development life cycles and security have matured, their adoption (of the processes) has not.
So you end up with directors forcing managers, PMs and the like to adopt the formalized procedures and their unfamiliarity with the process leads to cost overruns and issues. So you outsource it and inevitably (every case I've personally seen anyway), you get cost overruns and finger pointing - outsource company says internal resource aren't responsive enough, internal resources say outsource company wants to dominate their time with daily conference calls and meetings that inevitable forces delays to the work being done. The bottom line, is no one ends up taking ownership of the work - they'd rather talk about it and run the billable hours up.
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I want an application that generates a constant and never-ending stream of encrypted nonsense communications that runs as a deamon or service.
You mean, except that they both provide blacklist services right? Since the BL service market is kinda like the wild-west at the moment, you should expect them to be lumped together a little bit by the casual observer. BTW, when I told people about SPEWS and advised them to drop them, it was with the recommendation to use Spamhaus.
I think this NASA project is more of a hobby, did you see the K10? It looks like a microwave with tractor wheels. When you're building a proof-of-concept sometimes a couple hundred can put you over budget.
I can already think of a couple hundred thousand patents they much have violated while traveling and no doubt, communicating on their journey here. Oh, they'll pay for their crimes, they'll pay!
My last employer was one of the ten largest banks in the world. Our outbound SMTP servers where blacklisted by a "dedicated group of spam fighters" providing a blacklist service - SPEWS. I'm not sure how Spamhaus works, but I can tell you the SPEWS admins did not care much for our plight. They were chasing a particular spammer and to eliminate the problem they blocked a whole freaking subnet owned by MCI - we just happened to have our IPs in that subnet. I found that in this case, the blacklist admins were lazy (for blocking a whole subnet) and non-responsive (poor contact information is provided and pleas for removal where large ignored or flamed - following their procedure of posting in a forum to get removed). The whole process can be VERY frustrating.
Our saving grace was advising those email customers to drop SPEWS which 100% of them where willing to do.
As for this case, even though the "victim" is based in the US it really comes down to where the "crime" took place - on individual email servers using the Spamhaus BL around the world. I'm sure SH would argue in UK court that they offer a list, they don't enforce it and the onus lies on email administrators wherever they might be.
I'm assuming that the parent is working in an environment where he can't load Firefox because of lack of admin rights to his workstation? If so, try installing it into your profile where you do have rights, it runs OK for me that way.
I first became interested in cryptography from the novel "Enigma" by Robert Harris in the mid-nineties, next time you have a long flight with a lay over check it out. Nothing overly technical, but its interesting to read a story with such a "technical" setting, Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress" comes to mind as well. Again, just something to read when you're forced to ride the cattle haulers.
Although I must concede your point and would have modded it up if it wasn't already a +5.
You can't use logic or fact to argue with a decades worth of "I'm smarting then you" finger wagging. Its far easier to sit back, take pot shots and feel superior.
Well sure, although an RC can be considered a final draft.. its a still a draft so it can be expected to be both "more stable" (or further along then we were expecting) and "not ready for prime time" (but not quite there yet).
Maintaining your amateur status for the Olympics, are you?
My favorite telco trick is still call waiting. You inevitably answer the call just long enough (a few seconds?) to say you'll call them write back and the company gets to charge the connection fee and 1 minute of airtime. I guess voicemail was sucking them dry, yay the free market!
That's KChrist if your using the KDE desktop, I believe is Gnchristianity if your a Gnomer.
Contrary to what you may believe, you've made my point. Government interference, as in the making of a law that would infringe on a citizen's right to practice their religion freely (as in teach and otherwise hand down the rites, rituals and customs of said religion).
Knowing this, what legal case might a group of scientists bring against a church? Of course the same first Amendment that guarantees this, also ensures scientists (or anyone else for that matter) the freedom of speech to criticize (I didn't say otherwise).
BTW, nice job posting a comment after reading the headline. No one is expecting you to RTFA before going off all half-cocked, but at the least RTFS - rather then forcing posters to put keywords in all caps or otherwise draw attention for your understanding I'd recommend you read the summary twice, or the article once, before posting. Thank you for your continued support.
Don't loose focus, governments are solely graded on their Infant Mortality Rate. Here is how the World is graded - https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rank order/2091rank.html
With 80% of today's traffic being spam, a better punishment might have been a requirement to have only one email account not use any spam filtering for the term of 10 years. I'm thinking an AOL account with Outlook Express might be in order just to rub it in.
In that scenario, I'm now more fearful of someone working at the DNA databank going on a crime spree and leaving droplets of me behind for the CSI unit (dressed all sexily with classic rock playing the background) to find me.
The responsibility of the medical field (AFAIK) to protect patient information is only applicable to when something Identifying (or otherwise public like a name, DNA what have you) is correlated to something private (your diagnosis or prescriptions). If I endorse a check at the bank that requires my thumb print, I don't have an expectation that the Bank will take any extra precautions to protect it other then those surrounding the actual document I endorsed.
I guess I'm OK with DNA from a private company going to Law Enforcement since in itself, it can't prove anything (you'd need matching DNA at crime scene for the information to be valuable) and who knows, maybe it would prove someone's innocence.
How does it differ from Telephone and Bank records being sought by investigators when the telephone or bank are the subject of the investigation?
One difference between Internet and telephone usage is the exposure to lawsuits (along the, taking prudent action to protect other employees) as it pertains to a passerby walking up and seeing your monitor filled with goatsex, or you hobby membership in a hate group, or the recipe to making a pipe bomb, or the like that reasonable might offend a coworker. This, in part, is because people think they are anonymous when using the Internet. Sure the same could happen with the telephone but its less likely someone is going to call the Natalie Portman Hot Grits hot line and put it on speaker - of course, those types of telephone service would also show on the monthly bill as a separate charge (where Internet traffic wouldn't) and raise the ire of the bean counters.
At this point, its not about staying. Its about making AOL look bad and improving the severance package. AOL fired him because of the action he took, he'll claim it was a code red and that he was acting in good faith that the proper AOL people approved it and he's the scapegoat. AOL has deep pockets and will work hard to make this whole transgression go away as fast as possible up to and including making paymnets to those that want to keep in the news.
I for one welcome our quantitative and qualitative risk managing future predicting investment making overlords.
Sorry, someone had to say it.
So you end up with directors forcing managers, PMs and the like to adopt the formalized procedures and their unfamiliarity with the process leads to cost overruns and issues. So you outsource it and inevitably (every case I've personally seen anyway), you get cost overruns and finger pointing - outsource company says internal resource aren't responsive enough, internal resources say outsource company wants to dominate their time with daily conference calls and meetings that inevitable forces delays to the work being done. The bottom line, is no one ends up taking ownership of the work - they'd rather talk about it and run the billable hours up.
Screw Disney, my nerf and coat hanger science project is TOTALLY worthless now. I demand they reimburse me!