"Otherwise find a different registrar."
Brilliant, but VeriSign is a registry, and there is no alternative registry for.com and.net. You cannot registry shop within a gTLD. The registrars are all beholden to their registry overlords.
He said largest, not strongest. However, you are correct, his does depend on how you measure size.
By number of troops, I believe that China is the largest.
Measuring via monetary units is inaccurate because US troops are paid, other countries are conscripted and do not earn comparable wages for their service. Since payroll is the largest expense in the US military this is not an equal comparison. The US defense budget would be markedly lower if soldiers were conscripts.
We're talking about the government with supposedly the most intelligence in possession of the most WMDs, the biggest army
I believe that Russia is actually the country documented with the most WMD, their biological reserves are quite vast.
I do not think the US Army is the largest, it was China the last time I checked.
they start a level three alert over a goddamned video game character
Level three alert? I must have missed this important distinction.
Further, how do we even know this is true? Looking at the other stories on this web site carrying the story makes you wonder how much of it is just sensational BS.
You apparently have not read S 877. The federal law does NOT pre-empt state law in cases where the header has been forged. See S 877, section 8, (b)(1)
(1) IN GENERAL- This Act supersedes any statute, regulation, or rule of a State or political subdivision of a State that expressly regulates the use of electronic mail to send commercial messages, except to the extent that any such statute, regulation, or rule prohibits falsity or deception in any portion of a commercial electronic mail message or information attached thereto.
While I sort of see the point of some posters here that there is a risk in allowing a non-corporate machine access to the network.
One IT type person noted that if said Powerbook was not secure and introduced a virus to the network that the IT people would be blamed.
I work in a company dominated by Windows and the above type comments make me laugh. A few weeks ago most of the laptops were crushed by silly worms like blaster and such. They all had to be "fixed" before getting back on the network. Meanwhile I was plugging away on my Powerbook.
While I understand the risk of the unkown machine, I offer this; Macs are much less likely to be infected with damaging bugs to begin with.
I am not sure of the validity of the suit brought by CI Host. I would say their overall reputation leaves some question.
I can say that without a doubt the logic that AOL uses in parsing email headers is seriously flawed at best. I had major problems with AOL adding my company's server to their internal RBL for seemingly no reason (we have an aggressive AUP which is diligently enforced). After multiple phone calls to their abuse desk I finally found the cause. When parsing email headers the software they use to automatically add IPs to the RBL looks at only the MTA that passed the message to their system. In our case we host user mailboxes. Some of these users elect to forward their mail to their AOL account. When their user clicks on the "spam" button in the AOL interface our server is targeted as the source of the spam. When I pointed out to the abuse desk person that this is a rather serious flaw in their logic they agreed and promised to follow up with me. Of course they never did follow up.
The problem is that they try to over automate the process and rely on this parsing as law. The people that wrote their parsing rules have incorporated bad logic, so this over confidence causes problems.
By virtue of forwarding mail to an AOL account at the request of their own users, their system believes we are spammers./shrug
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"Otherwise find a different registrar." Brilliant, but VeriSign is a registry, and there is no alternative registry for .com and .net. You cannot registry shop within a gTLD. The registrars are all beholden to their registry overlords.
He said largest, not strongest. However, you are correct, his does depend on how you measure size. By number of troops, I believe that China is the largest. Measuring via monetary units is inaccurate because US troops are paid, other countries are conscripted and do not earn comparable wages for their service. Since payroll is the largest expense in the US military this is not an equal comparison. The US defense budget would be markedly lower if soldiers were conscripts.
We're talking about the government with supposedly the most intelligence in possession of the most WMDs, the biggest army
I believe that Russia is actually the country documented with the most WMD, their biological reserves are quite vast.
I do not think the US Army is the largest, it was China the last time I checked.
they start a level three alert over a goddamned video game character
Level three alert? I must have missed this important distinction. Further, how do we even know this is true? Looking at the other stories on this web site carrying the story makes you wonder how much of it is just sensational BS.
You apparently have not read S 877. The federal law does NOT pre-empt state law in cases where the header has been forged. See S 877, section 8, (b)(1) (1) IN GENERAL- This Act supersedes any statute, regulation, or rule of a State or political subdivision of a State that expressly regulates the use of electronic mail to send commercial messages, except to the extent that any such statute, regulation, or rule prohibits falsity or deception in any portion of a commercial electronic mail message or information attached thereto.
While I sort of see the point of some posters here that there is a risk in allowing a non-corporate machine access to the network. One IT type person noted that if said Powerbook was not secure and introduced a virus to the network that the IT people would be blamed. I work in a company dominated by Windows and the above type comments make me laugh. A few weeks ago most of the laptops were crushed by silly worms like blaster and such. They all had to be "fixed" before getting back on the network. Meanwhile I was plugging away on my Powerbook. While I understand the risk of the unkown machine, I offer this; Macs are much less likely to be infected with damaging bugs to begin with.
I am not sure of the validity of the suit brought by CI Host. I would say their overall reputation leaves some question. I can say that without a doubt the logic that AOL uses in parsing email headers is seriously flawed at best. I had major problems with AOL adding my company's server to their internal RBL for seemingly no reason (we have an aggressive AUP which is diligently enforced). After multiple phone calls to their abuse desk I finally found the cause. When parsing email headers the software they use to automatically add IPs to the RBL looks at only the MTA that passed the message to their system. In our case we host user mailboxes. Some of these users elect to forward their mail to their AOL account. When their user clicks on the "spam" button in the AOL interface our server is targeted as the source of the spam. When I pointed out to the abuse desk person that this is a rather serious flaw in their logic they agreed and promised to follow up with me. Of course they never did follow up. The problem is that they try to over automate the process and rely on this parsing as law. The people that wrote their parsing rules have incorporated bad logic, so this over confidence causes problems. By virtue of forwarding mail to an AOL account at the request of their own users, their system believes we are spammers. /shrug