the policy does suggest that the app store has swiss cheese security and a stealthily rooted phone could possibly download apps without paying for them or do damage to the store itself.
regulations can always be weakened or ignored by future (republican) administrations. A full single-payer system that scraps the entire health insurance industry would make that far less likely to happen, since there wouldn't be any health insurance companies to lobby for rules changes in their favor.
Even a cheap $30 APC backup has a USB connector and windows recognizes it automatically and can start a shutdown / hibernate immediately when power goes out
I saw some leaked CoS docs that indicated significant reductions in recruitment and revenue from the 4chan/Scientology war. Then again those could very well have been forgeries made by either side; the channers to rally the troops or the scientologists to get the channers to settle down thinking they "won"
you can replicate it yourself, leave a water bottle out in the garage when it's about 20 F out. take it inside and smack it against your hand, if the temperature is right you can watch the ice form. it works even better with non-carbonated flavored waters.
if you don't think you can call 911, grow a set of nuts and attack the perp. he can't fight very well with his pants down and his dick out. grab something heavy and bash him over the head or something sharp and run him through.
also, fused images can contain anything (fused images are when you append a zip or 7z file to the end of a jpeg file. this was used to distribute files on 4chan until a filter was put in place.
approach to fighting spam. The idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to the 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 ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) 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 (x) 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 ( ) 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
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) 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 (X) 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
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to this are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about them:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and they're a stupid people for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0les! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
No, but keeping the information on file for when any contributor or contributors become a thorn in the side of an Important Person(TM) would be far from impossible or unheard of. Say 5 or 6 years down the line your new software company is succdessfully kicking the ass of a company owned by the brother in law of $FEDERAL_AGENT
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the problem is that the LCI will trip even if the device is turned off
an industry that exists sole-ly to introduce inefficiency in health care? i have no problem scrapping that
facts won't confuse the right-tards, they have been disregarding those for ages
don't blame the environmental movement. corn ethanol gas was a republican corporate welfare program for the farm corporations.
more like apple needs excuses to go after jailbreaking, so they push the piracy rate high then try cracking down.
the policy does suggest that the app store has swiss cheese security and a stealthily rooted phone could possibly download apps without paying for them or do damage to the store itself.
a smart phone is a computer, the skype app is a computer program accessing the internet via a mobile data connection
regulations can always be weakened or ignored by future (republican) administrations. A full single-payer system that scraps the entire health insurance industry would make that far less likely to happen, since there wouldn't be any health insurance companies to lobby for rules changes in their favor.
herp derp.
not any more unconstitutional than things have been running for 100 years
Granted, a lot of /.ers are likely to be using proxies/TOR/other connections
I would be shocked if that number was more than 2.5-3% of visitors.
i could do the same thing with a frameset file (about 1000 frames) and F5. it would take me about 3 minutes to make.
Even a cheap $30 APC backup has a USB connector and windows recognizes it automatically and can start a shutdown / hibernate immediately when power goes out
I saw some leaked CoS docs that indicated significant reductions in recruitment and revenue from the 4chan/Scientology war. Then again those could very well have been forgeries made by either side; the channers to rally the troops or the scientologists to get the channers to settle down thinking they "won"
google calculator seems to be limited to results below 2^1024 ~ 10^308
you can replicate it yourself, leave a water bottle out in the garage when it's about 20 F out. take it inside and smack it against your hand, if the temperature is right you can watch the ice form. it works even better with non-carbonated flavored waters.
putting the kids into skivvies (even magical ones) wouldn't interfere with the plot
/b/torrent? What if i want to read something other than the lyrics of "Fresh Prince" or "Never Gonna Give You up"?
it's still the telnet protocol so no. if you can find a mud server that will let you use SSH that would be more secure.
an unsourced hypothetical situation is not a citation, it's just a circle jerk
if you don't think you can call 911, grow a set of nuts and attack the perp. he can't fight very well with his pants down and his dick out. grab something heavy and bash him over the head or something sharp and run him through.
you mean like go to church or carry a baby to term? oh wait....
also, fused images can contain anything (fused images are when you append a zip or 7z file to the end of a jpeg file. this was used to distribute files on 4chan until a filter was put in place.
You advocate a:
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. The idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to the 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
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) 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
(x) 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
( ) 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
(x) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) 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
(X) 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
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to this are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about them:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and they're a stupid people for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0les! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
No, but keeping the information on file for when any contributor or contributors become a thorn in the side of an Important Person(TM) would be far from impossible or unheard of. Say 5 or 6 years down the line your new software company is succdessfully kicking the ass of a company owned by the brother in law of $FEDERAL_AGENT
that sort of *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge* violation is the best way to get your ass tossed into prison for a long time.