What would be really impressive is if he can be taught the concept 'new'. If he can be told 'get the new toy' and realise that that's a different toy from the one that was new last month, then it's a whole different level of understanding - abstract concepts.
Can't you mark it RTS and dump it in a mailbox? Or complain to the people who sent it (who are readily identifiable)? Or put a 'no fliers' sign on your mailbox?
It might not be the buyers. Advertisers don't know for a fact that their advertisements have an effect on sales; they're usually making educated guesses.
Have you every filled in one of those "how did you hear about us" customer response forms? Do you see a "by badly-spelled unsolicited email" on there?
I would love to know whether it's really effective, or the marketing departments are just wasting their money on crooks.
I'm willing to accept the hypothetical scenario. There may be such sites with such a vulnerability, which makes it just as unacceptable as if it were me vulnerable.
Just because most people couldn't be attacked like this, doesn't make it OK.
That is a change. If you don't do it, you will get a bunch of misdirected challenges.
If you're going to advocate a solution, it has to be one where you do the work on your mailserver, not just say it's easy for others to do the work on theirs.
Either that requires everyone to change their mail server or be bombarded with false challenge messages, or I haven't understood you.
I can vaguely see an automatic reject at the header phase of the mail-accept, with an appropriate message, but anything else is not compatible with an older mail server as originator.
They don't really care if your laptop dies or not - so long as you don't blame them for it.
...so do you assume that your pen is going to fail and leak ink all over your letter, seeing as Bic doesn't really car about whether or not their pen works--so long as you don't blame them?
You think that the folks who made the alternator in your car just kinda half-assed it, in the hopes that you don't know enough about cars alternators to be able to trace the problem to their product?
You just gave two examples where the manufacturer of the faulty product will be blamed by the average consumer when it goes wrong.
For the pen, assume that the faulty product is the paper. The first pen that dies because the paper somehow gums up the ink nozzle, you'll blame the pen manufacturer. The second time, you might think about the paper, but you'll probably still blame the pen manufacturer. Only after repeated pen desctruction will you be sure it's the paper.
How many laptops do you think people will go through before they realise it's the insulating pad? Don't you think the pad manufacturer will make enough money before that point that they won't care?
I use an empty binder. This has the advantages that it allows plenty of airflow, room for heat dissipation, and it make the laptop tilted to a nice angle for using the keyboard.
the situation for those user's who can't or won't install SP2 will stay exactly the same as before. Those who do install it will improve. So, it will make life not worse, but better.
Not at all. The unpatched users are the ones spewing out spam. This affects everyone; even those who've patched, and even those running a different OS.
That would just increase the ratio of innocent victims to actual senders, since spam doesn't contain the actual sending address. Challenge / response is not a successful way to fight spam; it only looks that way to the receiver.
In the meantime, my son has never sent an email, nor has he given out his email address to anyone. As an experiment, I wanted to see if the spammers would find him. So far, they haven't.
What a useful email address! I'm sure he's thrilled!
I haven't passed judgement yet on the association of Ironport with Spamcop. It's possible (albeit a slim possibility) that Ironport are part of the good guys, but it remains to be seen.
Make it a paid for service, so you can't sue for being on the list
Why would that help? You have to pay for newspapers, but that doesn't protect them from libel (or is it slander?) laws. Why would paying for this list make any difference?
Yes, those sci-fi stories are such a great example, having been written by people with experience with such a culture.
Wait, what experience?
The point of sci-fi writing is for the author to state, given a set of technologies, how society will react. This means that the people who have done the most thinking about it, mostly think that stagnation will be the result of longevity/immortality. Since they're the closest thing to experts we have, we should at least be thinking about it as a potential problem and coming up with ways to counter it. That's just common sense, to me.
who decides what traits are engineered out of the species. Maybe you correct epilepsy, that would be great, do you also decide big noses are bad and decide to fix that. Do you decide blondes are preferable to brunettes and fix that too. Is being white preferable to being black?
The individuals with the traits are the only ones qualified to determine whether they are desirable. The one with epilepsy is probably going to decide it's not desirable. The brunette may or may not decide she'd rather be blonde. In the end, it probably won't matter.
The necessity for genetic diversity will probably be obviated anyway, since we'll be able to alter genes to fit circumstances. All that's required is keeping a record of the genes so that they can be re-engineered back again if needed.
No. People make short-term-beneficial decisions that negatively affect them personally in the long term. People are short-sighted, selfish and wildly optimistic.
Maybe we'd learn better through long experience, but I don't hold out a lot of hope.
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What would be really impressive is if he can be taught the concept 'new'. If he can be told 'get the new toy' and realise that that's a different toy from the one that was new last month, then it's a whole different level of understanding - abstract concepts.
Is this a case designed to test the waters to determine who has responsibility for web content? Did they go after the ISP as well?
Will they retry on the remaining charges? What will happen after he's deported? The whole situation is a little bit scary.
Can't you mark it RTS and dump it in a mailbox? Or complain to the people who sent it (who are readily identifiable)? Or put a 'no fliers' sign on your mailbox?
The fact that you don't suffer from a problem doesn't make those who do whiners.
That's spelled 'cirme'. Honestly, the younger generation these days...
Have you every filled in one of those "how did you hear about us" customer response forms? Do you see a "by badly-spelled unsolicited email" on there?
I would love to know whether it's really effective, or the marketing departments are just wasting their money on crooks.
My spam filter is quite effective, but I resent paying for the 70% of bandwidth wasted on this crap.
No. The US ISp refused to remove the material, precisely because he wouldn't declare that under penalty of pejury.
Metamods; this post was the earlier one on the subject and should not have been modded 'redundant'.
Just because most people couldn't be attacked like this, doesn't make it OK.
If you're going to advocate a solution, it has to be one where you do the work on your mailserver, not just say it's easy for others to do the work on theirs.
I can vaguely see an automatic reject at the header phase of the mail-accept, with an appropriate message, but anything else is not compatible with an older mail server as originator.
For the pen, assume that the faulty product is the paper. The first pen that dies because the paper somehow gums up the ink nozzle, you'll blame the pen manufacturer. The second time, you might think about the paper, but you'll probably still blame the pen manufacturer. Only after repeated pen desctruction will you be sure it's the paper.
How many laptops do you think people will go through before they realise it's the insulating pad? Don't you think the pad manufacturer will make enough money before that point that they won't care?
I use an empty binder. This has the advantages that it allows plenty of airflow, room for heat dissipation, and it make the laptop tilted to a nice angle for using the keyboard.
That would just increase the ratio of innocent victims to actual senders, since spam doesn't contain the actual sending address. Challenge / response is not a successful way to fight spam; it only looks that way to the receiver.
Sadly, being slashdot, no-one will even notice.
Wow - that must be a state of the art AI! It's got the sense of English, but... very surreal.
I haven't passed judgement yet on the association of Ironport with Spamcop. It's possible (albeit a slim possibility) that Ironport are part of the good guys, but it remains to be seen.
Do you buy insurance? You may never use it. It's private sector.
It doesn't mean we should chuck the idea, though.
The necessity for genetic diversity will probably be obviated anyway, since we'll be able to alter genes to fit circumstances. All that's required is keeping a record of the genes so that they can be re-engineered back again if needed.
Maybe we'd learn better through long experience, but I don't hold out a lot of hope.