Thats an absolute shame. Frivolous lawsuits should be punished for clogging our legal system and costing the defendants money with no gain, and I think that castration is a solution for the people pushing penis pills.
3. Aggressive rejection of email via blocklisting causes some legitimate
email to be rejected. However, that collateral damage is limited to
spam-friendly parts of the Internet. The sender knows full well it
was not read and can re-send the message via another channel if it is
important. This knowledge also allows them to take action to correct
blocking errors; and heightens awareness of who is not doing their
part to fight spam.
Anyone who reads somethingawful.com knows that this isn't necessarily the nobrainer that you think it is. They had a particular problem where people would be able to sign up for their forum accounts, but they could not be mailed back with the activation because of the SPEWS blacklist determining that the part of the internet SomethingAwful belonged to was Spammerville, USA. This meant that 10-20% of the people who tried to get a forums account couldn't be mailed back, and SomethingAwful could even mail them back to explain why!
Here's a nice link for the angry rantings of Zack "GeistEditor" Parsons on the subject. Yes, we should fight spammers at every turn we get, but the "collatoral damage" means that some people can't even find out why they never get a reply from their girlfriend/grandparents/long lost friend.
Most people can't understand computers so they think "Well it MUST be good. This is sophisticated and I'm too stupid to understand this so it must be well designed." Many people have problems with computers but they almost always think that THEY are the problem (I don't know how to use this, I must be doing something wrong.) not that the software is written badly.
Are you kidding me?! If this were the case, why are half of the tech support calls "Your software/hardware/service stinks, I want my money back when the only problem existed between the Keyboard and the Chair? Most people think that large projects that took forever to make must be great, because like their toaster, a lot of time was probably spent testing it to make sure that it wouldn't catch on fire and burn them. However, start giving them a few problems with it, even ones that they made up themselves, and just WAIT till they start telling you how stupid you are and how it must be poorly designed!
It doesn't help much that NASA keeps getting its funding cut every year. The reason we end up only sending space probes is because its all we can afford to send. Private companies have the money and ability to explore because visionaries see profit in the long term. If we went nuts and actually gave NASA the funding they needed I bet we could get a man on mars within 20 years, its just that the politicians see no reason to perform long term budgeting when there's more than enough porkbarrel projects just itching for them to sign so that they can stay in office and sign more porkbarrel projects.
Doesn't help that the public generally doesn't give a crap about space exploration anymore either.
Considering all of the traffic they expect, I doubt that anything less than a thousand 1337 h4x0rz performing a DDoS with a thousand machines for each of them would even make a dent. Besides, all those packets will just end up clogging the internet, making it slower for everyone.
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Thats an absolute shame. Frivolous lawsuits should be punished for clogging our legal system and costing the defendants money with no gain, and I think that castration is a solution for the people pushing penis pills.
3. Aggressive rejection of email via blocklisting causes some legitimate email to be rejected. However, that collateral damage is limited to spam-friendly parts of the Internet. The sender knows full well it was not read and can re-send the message via another channel if it is important. This knowledge also allows them to take action to correct blocking errors; and heightens awareness of who is not doing their part to fight spam.
Anyone who reads somethingawful.com knows that this isn't necessarily the nobrainer that you think it is. They had a particular problem where people would be able to sign up for their forum accounts, but they could not be mailed back with the activation because of the SPEWS blacklist determining that the part of the internet SomethingAwful belonged to was Spammerville, USA. This meant that 10-20% of the people who tried to get a forums account couldn't be mailed back, and SomethingAwful could even mail them back to explain why!
Here's a nice link for the angry rantings of Zack "GeistEditor" Parsons on the subject. Yes, we should fight spammers at every turn we get, but the "collatoral damage" means that some people can't even find out why they never get a reply from their girlfriend/grandparents/long lost friend.
Most people can't understand computers so they think "Well it MUST be good. This is sophisticated and I'm too stupid to understand this so it must be well designed." Many people have problems with computers but they almost always think that THEY are the problem (I don't know how to use this, I must be doing something wrong.) not that the software is written badly. Are you kidding me?! If this were the case, why are half of the tech support calls "Your software/hardware/service stinks, I want my money back when the only problem existed between the Keyboard and the Chair? Most people think that large projects that took forever to make must be great, because like their toaster, a lot of time was probably spent testing it to make sure that it wouldn't catch on fire and burn them. However, start giving them a few problems with it, even ones that they made up themselves, and just WAIT till they start telling you how stupid you are and how it must be poorly designed!
It doesn't help much that NASA keeps getting its funding cut every year. The reason we end up only sending space probes is because its all we can afford to send. Private companies have the money and ability to explore because visionaries see profit in the long term. If we went nuts and actually gave NASA the funding they needed I bet we could get a man on mars within 20 years, its just that the politicians see no reason to perform long term budgeting when there's more than enough porkbarrel projects just itching for them to sign so that they can stay in office and sign more porkbarrel projects. Doesn't help that the public generally doesn't give a crap about space exploration anymore either.
Considering all of the traffic they expect, I doubt that anything less than a thousand 1337 h4x0rz performing a DDoS with a thousand machines for each of them would even make a dent. Besides, all those packets will just end up clogging the internet, making it slower for everyone.