Lots of congressional and senate offices actually respond to email. There was a recent post here by someone working at a rep's office. That office took email just as seriously as faxes or phonecalls. My reps send me letter based on email, so I know they've at least read my messages
Sample letters are tolerated too, as you will usually get a sample letter back anyway. Roughly, aides tally up constituent complaints and hand over the stats to the rep regardless of what format they came in.
If you're unsure if your rep reads their email go the fax or mail route.
If the EFF were to start taking donations to lobby politicians, they would be just another group of washington scum getting paid to help politicians buy elections by sucking up to the right people.
So its okay for you political opposite to be lobbying but not for you? That's pretty self-defeatist. If you want to play in Washington you have to play by their rules. Last time I checked donations to politicians were legal and its the most effective way to be heard.
If you don't like the system, you should just say so and stay out of politics. If you want to make a change start a lobby.
Its the Microsoft "all-in-one" solution as much as it is the server. Once you get into asp, activeX, etc you're entering a more patch intensive environment. Patch the IIS, patch the client, patch the OS, and so on.
Granted, a bad admin is a bad admin, but if you had to hedge your bets you'd also go with Apache. That's what the Gartner Group does, it tells you where to place your bets.
The most important factor is the estimate of future exploits. For IIS its pretty high, for Apache not so much.
In MS's defense their new securty tools are pretty nifty and there has to be some kind of boiling point where even the lowliest user knows the importance of patches after the 10th time their machine has been wiped due to a virus. That day may never come, or it may be next week, but no one is holding their breath.
"Too bad we aren't learning from the British and Soviet mistakes."
How do we know that the United States military isn't learning from British and Soviet mistakes?
Considering the Russians were fighting the US supplied and trained Afghanis, the lessons have been learned. Without major backing from another superpower Afghan resistance isn't much to worry about.
If someone goes through the trouble of downloading/buying Linux and setting it up as a public server they're probably a lot more computer literate than most windows users. They certainly would understand the need for patches and probably read some kind Linux news site to keep up.
Now if Linux had windows' market share, it would have to come pre-installed with a new PC and not require the user to do much more than just use the GUI. Which is fine as far as I'm concerned, but we can also assume a Linux dominated universe would be full of unpatched servers too.
Maybe untreated Windows exploits are heading toward exinction. Its easy access to the internet that has created such a huge market for anti-virus software. Maybe we'll start seeing Windows shipping with an MS or a third party patch manager in the near future. Or something like NAV with a patch checker. "No viruses found, you are open to these attacks, please goto this URL to download the patches."
I was just asking someone why ISPs don't do this. Why should the subnet I'm get get punished because of users who don't know what they're doing. Obviously they're going to call tech support and then get a quick lesson on how to download and install an MS patch.
I'd rather have the infected parties make some effort instead of the AT&T approach of just closing port 80 and letting the ignorant go unenlightened.
Or open up the list of rejected articles someplace for everyone to poke at./. is getting all these submissions for free, follow the open source spirit and post them someplace.
I'd like to see the psychological testing on two average pilots in their steel shell watching passenger after passenger being executed until they do what they're told. Obviously crashing into a building would be counter-productive but telling the pilot to, say , land in NY instead of LA would probably work.
Pilots are people and I'd like to see the success rate of remote control landings on big airliners.
I really don't buy the red scare theory you've just tossed out. Right-wingers, especially those with military experience would be suspect number one for domestic terror. They're organized in militias, have the will and equipment to do it, have the rhetoric, etc.
I say, reward our children for their good deeds with positive reinforcement. The violence is completely unnecessary, and can warp an impressionable young mind.
If this game involved the murder of others than yes it is violent. Unfortunately, its a game with badly rendered tanks. I really think its important to realize the difference between reality and fantasy. The more PC thugs try to blur that line the more confused kids we have.
Children are notoriously suceptible to the power of suggestion,
Ever consider that your assumptions might be doing to the impressionable?
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The eff has sample letters, easy to read action items and links to easy to use resources like 'write your rep.' It doesn't get much easier than that.
Try some caffiene.
Lots of congressional and senate offices actually respond to email. There was a recent post here by someone working at a rep's office. That office took email just as seriously as faxes or phonecalls. My reps send me letter based on email, so I know they've at least read my messages
Sample letters are tolerated too, as you will usually get a sample letter back anyway. Roughly, aides tally up constituent complaints and hand over the stats to the rep regardless of what format they came in.
If you're unsure if your rep reads their email go the fax or mail route.
You can have this rendered on the static page with links to actions alerts and updates.
If the EFF were to start taking donations to lobby politicians, they would be just another group of washington scum getting paid to help politicians buy elections by sucking up to the right people.
So its okay for you political opposite to be lobbying but not for you? That's pretty self-defeatist. If you want to play in Washington you have to play by their rules. Last time I checked donations to politicians were legal and its the most effective way to be heard.
If you don't like the system, you should just say so and stay out of politics. If you want to make a change start a lobby.
Its the Microsoft "all-in-one" solution as much as it is the server. Once you get into asp, activeX, etc you're entering a more patch intensive environment. Patch the IIS, patch the client, patch the OS, and so on.
Granted, a bad admin is a bad admin, but if you had to hedge your bets you'd also go with Apache. That's what the Gartner Group does, it tells you where to place your bets.
The most important factor is the estimate of future exploits. For IIS its pretty high, for Apache not so much.
In MS's defense their new securty tools are pretty nifty and there has to be some kind of boiling point where even the lowliest user knows the importance of patches after the 10th time their machine has been wiped due to a virus. That day may never come, or it may be next week, but no one is holding their breath.
What kind of nutcase think's it's a good idea to pay $2500 to throw litter on the moon?
The US and Russian governments perhaps? Golf balls, a rover, a flag, a plaque, and various spacecrafts/probes amongst other things.
Moon-men would probably deny humans ever landed on the Moon if we didn't act in character.
"Too bad we aren't learning from the British and Soviet mistakes."
How do we know that the United States military isn't learning from British and Soviet mistakes?
Considering the Russians were fighting the US supplied and trained Afghanis, the lessons have been learned. Without major backing from another superpower Afghan resistance isn't much to worry about.
goto www.eff.org for sample letters and info.
The EFF makes a few good points and offers sample letters and links to your rep. and sen. Enjoy.
Almost as fun as baking brownies in the microwave.
Image how much those would go for.
Now a good second step would be to grow weed and later test it on a willing subject. Now that's an astronaut's diary I'd like to read.
With the DMCA, most senators didn't even realize that anybody was even opposed to this law. That can't happen again.
They knew exactly what they were getting into and purposely chose a voice vote so we can't pick on those who said Aye.
Sad really.
You're kidding right? Very few retail outlets will let you get away with that regardless of the reason.
If someone goes through the trouble of downloading/buying Linux and setting it up as a public server they're probably a lot more computer literate than most windows users. They certainly would understand the need for patches and probably read some kind Linux news site to keep up.
Now if Linux had windows' market share, it would have to come pre-installed with a new PC and not require the user to do much more than just use the GUI. Which is fine as far as I'm concerned, but we can also assume a Linux dominated universe would be full of unpatched servers too.
Maybe untreated Windows exploits are heading toward exinction. Its easy access to the internet that has created such a huge market for anti-virus software. Maybe we'll start seeing Windows shipping with an MS or a third party patch manager in the near future. Or something like NAV with a patch checker. "No viruses found, you are open to these attacks, please goto this URL to download the patches."
I was just asking someone why ISPs don't do this. Why should the subnet I'm get get punished because of users who don't know what they're doing. Obviously they're going to call tech support and then get a quick lesson on how to download and install an MS patch.
I'd rather have the infected parties make some effort instead of the AT&T approach of just closing port 80 and letting the ignorant go unenlightened.
New slogan? Patches are the new killer app!
They tried their damndest to get the Church of Satan to remove "Made with a Mac" or an apple logo removed from their pages.
At least MS is coming outright and tell users what they can't do, as opposed to picking on certain groups because it might upset the herd.
Most americans couldn't care less about free speech and the corporations know this, and now they're exploiting it.
Or open up the list of rejected articles someplace for everyone to poke at. /. is getting all these submissions for free, follow the open source spirit and post them someplace.
I'd like to a review from non-zealots as well.
(sorry, babelfish doesn't help).
That's a babelfish phrase if I've ever seen one.
I like the Nation but even they get it wrong:
There are now two kinds of computers in the world: Windows computers... and free software computers
Macs anyone? Are Apple's numbers so insignificant next to Linux that they don't deserve a mention?
Best software in the world free? That's more arguable opinion than fact. Both sides have their winners and losers.
He's a millionare that runs a sophisticated terrorist network consisting of cells all over the world.
Yes, Dorothy, there are computers in the third world.
I'd like to see the psychological testing on two average pilots in their steel shell watching passenger after passenger being executed until they do what they're told. Obviously crashing into a building would be counter-productive but telling the pilot to, say , land in NY instead of LA would probably work.
Pilots are people and I'd like to see the success rate of remote control landings on big airliners.
I really don't buy the red scare theory you've just tossed out. Right-wingers, especially those with military experience would be suspect number one for domestic terror. They're organized in militias, have the will and equipment to do it, have the rhetoric, etc.
Where are the leftist militias?
I say, reward our children for their good deeds with positive reinforcement. The violence is completely unnecessary, and can warp an impressionable young mind.
If this game involved the murder of others than yes it is violent. Unfortunately, its a game with badly rendered tanks. I really think its important to realize the difference between reality and fantasy. The more PC thugs try to blur that line the more confused kids we have.
Children are notoriously suceptible to the power of suggestion,
Ever consider that your assumptions might be doing to the impressionable?