Your remarks remind me of a story I heard quite a while back. It may be true but I am not sure.
Some programmer at some company somewhere (it was probably Microsoft) was introduced to somebody.
The programmer's reply to the somebody he was being introduced to: "Do I need to know you?"
Then, on a related note, Bill Gates was quoted as saying, essentially, "churchgoing (or attending any worship service) is a waste of time."
And don't forget Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer proclaiming "I...love...this...company! Yeeeessss!" at the end of the (in)famous 'monkeyboy' video clip.
In the end, it all ultimately boils down to this:
[24] No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. -- Matthew 6:24 of the KJV Bible at umich.edu
Verdict: A free ad for LucasFilm and a free ad for Apple
Case in point:
Looking at the current stories listed on the Slashdot.org homepage, did these known for-profit companies 'buy an ad' to be featured in a news story on the Slashdot.org home page?
Perhaps the two companies above purchased advertising to appear on Slashdot in the past....
Properly written news stories are primarily news first and advertising a serendipidous second. The rule of thumb is that 'if your press release reads like an ad, it needs to be rewritten' and that good press releases 'answer the who, what, when, where, why, and how questions'.
Also, the goal of press releases is to inform. The goal of advertising is to persuade.
Which do you prefer? Information or manipulation?
Slashdot's ad rates are $CALL--you have to contact a marketing representative to get them.
Remember the old saying?
If you have to ask how much something is, you probably cannot afford it.
If a user runs a executable that contains a virus, they have facilitated it themselves.
If the programmers of 'virtualstripper.exe' deliberatly hid a (undetectable) virus in it, then the user have facilitated their own system compromise.
However, unless I am not following your reasoning, I assert the following:
If the virus from 'virtualstripper.exe' seeks out other program files to infect and infects, for example, Acmeco's inoccuous 'helloworld.exe', should Acmeco be held responsible for what the programmers of 'virtualstripper.exe' did to their program via malware? Again, I say 'no' due to the remotely unlikely 'ubervirus' defense I mentioned earlier where an 'ubervirus' defeats a program's antitamper code and then infects the program.
If I am mistaken about what you truly mean, could you spell your argument all out in detail? I am not trying to be a smartass and am trying to conduct an honest, meaningful debate on this issue. This issue is very important to anyone who uses software: Case in point - Sun warns users in the JAVAsoftware license agreementNOT to use it in a mission-critical and/or life-critical environment where software failure means disaster, injury, and death.
Re:DomainKeys will not work. Crypto costs time and (Score:1) by B2382F29 (742174) on Friday September 17, @04:57AM (#10274977)
Your approach to describe your approach sucks
How does CF13-POP3(TM) work? 1) It is hostile to spammers and computer crackers. 2) It is simple to use and fast. 3) It is extremely reliable when operating under nominal conditions. Now, how DOES it work? 1. Being hostile is not a proper description of an algorithm. 3. What are the nominal conditions? Not receiving anything?
CONCLUSION: Bullshit-O-Meter says: Stay away from that, it's probably a trojan or something similar.
The explanation is long, detailed, exhaustive, and should contain the information you are looking for.
The webpage is set up in a 'pyramid' fashion--information is revealed/conveyed in as efficient and terse manner as possible. If you need 'all the answers', they are available at the bottom of the page in the mirror copy of the Slashdot post mentioned above.
Re:DomainKeys will not work. Crypto costs time and (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 17, @04:42AM (#10274938) Your software doesn't appear to give much in the way of details as to how it works. Coupled with the rather childish URL you provide, it's very difficult to take it seriously at all...
My point is, they do have control how the program is used. They did write it after all, they know what it's capable of, and it's their own damned fault if it's broken.
Then all programmers would have to add 'antitamper' code to their software to get it to quit or 'hang' if it detects tampering in its program file. This is not easy or trivial to do correctly and properly. The problem with that is that an 'ubervirus' could disable such code when it attaches itself to the host program file. This scenario is highly unlikely but remotely possible. Because of this, I assert that the current industry standard software 'disclaimers' still apply....
Someone here on Slashdot mentioned DomainKeys as an antispam solution.
It won't work!
Cryptography costs time and money to use! Just look how long it takes to bring up a secured webpage (HTTPS)....
Now imagine if the entire World Wide Web was that way....
Not everybody on the internet have the fastest systems available for use. Even then, such systems would be overwhelmed by all the crypto they have to do in order to process email using the DomainKeys system.
Instead of time consuming crypto, why not use fast, simple, effective spam filtering like my approach.
If you won't get a decent ISP or email, I think you bring spam upon yourself.
I haven't been with AOL in years (yet they still send me their CDs which I scratch up and throw away on sight) yet a while back I had to ride out a flood of phish emails due to a compromise at eBay quite a while back. Added to that, all the malware-by-email I used to get was because email-based malware scraped email address from the victim's computer system (someone else other than me) or had its own built-in 'dictionary attack' email address generating engine.
AOL is great for internet newbies. Once you become 'net savvy', get away from them, ASAP!!!
PS: You might want to 'lock in' your long distance phone provider before you sign up with them. I have first-hand knowledge of AOL 'slamming' people who try out their online service....
Short answer: if people install or write software on their computer that allows holes that allow these types of compromises possible, they should be bludgeoned for it. If the vendor fucks up, they should be liable. Of course, I think it's important to differentiate between free and commercial programs, as a free program would fall into the first category.
Not all freeware is insecure. Example: Apache webserver.
Not all commercial software is secure. Example: All 'home' versions of Windows before Windows 2000.
Even then the standard disclaimers still apply because once the software leaves the control of the programmer, they have no control over how the program is used. For example, I could write a 'Hello, world!' that only prints 'Hello, world!' on the screen when run. When this program is infected by a destructive computer virus and is later run and trashes the user's computer system, am I responsible for the damage? I am not if the program was 100% malware free at the point of sale and/or distribution. After that, I have no control over the software. However, I would have made sure the program 'works as advertised' with NO surprises provided the program itself is not subsequently compromised by malware.
Easiest way to stop spammers (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 16, @10:58PM (#10273756) Read their mails and look at their sites... If everyone did that the bandwidth costs alone would cripple their buisness and would more than likely put off anyone hosting them
This would have to be automated to be effective.
But that would waste time, bandwidth and money.
Won't work.
It is best to simply ignore the spam via filtering like I do.
Anyway, if molecular manufacturing became a safe, viable, reality, the food/clothing/shelter problem of society at large will be taken care of without need for money, the key to all of capitalism's strengths and weaknesses.
As it has been said in the past, email spam is ultimately a sociological problem. Since the hardcore spammers won't stop their abuse, filter them out for good!
As it has been said in the past, email spam is ultimately a sociological problem. Since the hardcore spammers won't stop their abuse, filter them out for good!
While Slashdot continues to posts more and more stories about malware outbreaks, why not stop said outbreaks 'for good.'
Once this is done, something can be done about malware sent via TCP/IP connections and not by email. Properly configured and resilient firewalls will stop these attacks leaving only unprotected computer systems to be compromised. In the past, it has been suggested that internet users who have their 'b0xen 0wned' like this are placed in a 'sandbox' when they go online after their system is compromised. All that would be available to them would be a tiny sandbox version of the internet containing webpages, email messages, and usenet posts that alert the user that their system has been compromised and tell them to fix the problem before they go online for real again.
I am actively using the Freeware part of my solution. 'Eating my own dogfood.' as it were.
My email address is not obsfucated. It doesn't have to be if virtually all the spam I get is automatically deleted!
I am persecuted at times for even mentioning it like this yet nobody complains about Slashdot stories about established antispam solutions that appear here.
Lately, an Anonymous Coward jeered me for basically re-inventing SpamAssassin. That is not true. Though both programs are email filters, they both take different approaches to the spam/malware problem.
For example:
SpamAssassin has over 900 rules to 'score' email.
My solution only uses 8.
Why so few rules?
My solution attacks the structure of spam and not the content of spam. Hence, hundreds of rules are not needed.
My solution 'renames' all known potentially hostile HTML tags and all file attachments that appear in the recipient's email.
By doing this:
1) Privacy is preserved. 2) No one is exposed to offensive images. 3) Malware is prevented from running and compromising the computer system.
1 and 3 above will prevent the increased spread of spam and malware if the system has not been compromised first and the recipient is cautious when handling emails with inert (but still hostile) content. As a bonus, 2 will prevent allegations of sexual harassment as pornographic images sent/linked via email and the IMG SRC HTML tag are simply not displayed by HTML-aware email clients.
Lastly, SpamAssassin is solely an email filter and requires Perl to run.
My Shareware solution is a complete email and antispam/antimalware solution, no other software is needed to be effectively free of spam and malware. Widespread, proper use of this program would eliminate most email spam and render all emailed malware 'useless'.
Ironically, I could tout my solution by email spam and possibly 'make a bundle' because it actually works!
But by doing that, I would be no better than the spammers that are already out there abusing the internet email system.
As it has been said in the past, email spam is ultimately a sociological problem. Since the hardcore spammers won't stop their abuse, filter them out for good!
...if an insider helped himself/herself to a private DVD copy of the 'original trilogy' AFTER restoration/cleanup but BEFORE the Special Edition 'enhancements' are added to the three films.
As an aside, I was under the impression that the negative to STAR WARS (1977) was destroyed during the Special Edition restoration process for its 20th anniversary re-release in 1997. Maybe I was wrong about that now....
Anyway, if the insider is smart, they will 'sit' on their copy of the 'original trilogy' and anonymously leak it out onto the internet and make it available as 'DVD warez' long after sales of the 'official trilogy' has died down to a large extent.
Of course, this act will likely ruin the restoration house as LucasFilm Ltd. sues them into oblivion but the masses finaly get what they want, right?...
The 1977, 1980, and 1983 versions of:
STAR WARS
The Empire Strikes Back
Return Of The Jedi
on DVD.
Just a thought...
PS: Maybe George Lucas will finally 'cave in' and put out an 'ultimate DVD box set' in 2007 (STAR WARS 30th anniversary) consisting of:
Episodes 1-3
Episodes 4-6 1997 Special Edition versions
Bonus: Episodes 4-6 Original 1977/80/83 versions
Steven Spielberg gave fans two versions of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) on DVD in the same package:
Re:Occam's Razor (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 12, @02:47AM (#10225852)
...It [Occam's Razor] is, however, used to discredit the belief that there is a supreme being. I (and a lot of other people) do reject the belief that there is a surpreme being.
There appears to be sufficient numbers of 'moral' people alive that the entire planet hasn't become an utter 'hellhole'. They appear to be the only ones preventing the world's ultimate slide into utter darkness....
Added to that, you have people dying in the past and now as martyrs for this 'morality'. Why give your life for something that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt isn't true?
In closing, I assert such matters of 'morality' cannot be proved or disproved by logic or applications of one's five senses so, according to Christianity, one of the dominant tenents of 'morality' on this planet, says:
[3] For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. -- Romans 12:3 KJV Bible at umich.edu
[6] But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. -- Hebrews 11:6 KJV Bible at umich.edu
Some final material, in closing:
"I don't believe it if I don't see it!"
An atheist once said in a debate that he could never believe in anything that he could not see, taste, hear, smell, or touch. His opponent asked him how he knew he had a brain, if he had never seen, tasted, heard, smelled, or touched it.
The atheist replied that even though he had never seen, tasted, heard, smelled, or touched his brain, the fact that brain experts had always found a brain in everyone they examined meant that the probability was high that he too had a brain. But he admitted that on this line of reasoning it was possible he may or may not have a brain, just as there may or may not be a God.
1) Making it 'almost impossible' to spam. 2) Any spam that 'gets into the system' is clearly marked as such on the email message subject line. 3) Emails sent to recipient accounts serviced by my software containing user-unwanted content are automatically 'deleted' and never appear in their inboxes. 4) Any emails containing any 'hostile' content whatsoever is rendered inert and safe to handle and scan for malware.
It autodeletes spam based on simple, user-specified criteria.
It is fast.
It is not Bayesian filtering and doesn't requre the resources of that method of spam filtering.
I use it to check my own email. I am genuinely surprised when I get a email that got past my filtering program. The last email I got that 'beat' the filter and wasn't autodeleted was a legitimate email.
One can be a purist and play the actual arcade game.
After 20 to 30-odd years of wear and tear and 'bit rot', that is becoming impossible.
Enter emulation and the (dubious?) success of MAME--'arcade in a PC'. The weak point is that the arcade game ROMs that 'power' it are (likely) still copyrighted and is illegal to have them unless you have the corresponding arcade game hardware.
So some arcade fans/programmers avoid all that and program 'remakes' that play (almost?) exactly like the originals.
The problem with that is that the copyright/trademark owners may/will come after you.
Case in point: Look at the way the 'Tetris' people crack down on all the tetris clone games that are out there--including the historic original IBM PC version that was first coded in Russia and was hosted at an informative 'Tetris History' website.
So all that is left is to get official, sanctioned emulated versions such as the 85 games-in-1 CD Atari is putting out in order to 'stay legal'.
In the end, isn't 'staying legal' what's it all about?
I prefer the original version of It's My Life by the 1980s British Pop band 'Talk Talk'.
Yeah, they played it a lot on MTV during their golden years (about 1981-1987).
The No Doubt version sounds so much like the original version to me, why bother.
It is just another way for the record labels to get you to pay twice for the same song.
Why don't all the world's record labels offer their entire catalog online for download in lossless and lossy formats for payment and download iTunes style without the DRM BS?
That way, you only pay for the best, most popular tunes and bypass the fluff and junk.
Classic Napster worked and increased CD sales when it was around.
Now everything is a disorganized mess:
Kazaa, eMule, eDonkey, and other P2P networks on the one hand and
allofmp3.com in Russia and iTunes, its DRM encumbered equivalent in the USA on the other.
Sheesh. Guess I'll stick with my existing CD music library.
Why use products like DeepFreeze after the malware has run and (irreperable?) damage is done when you can stop the malware from running in the first place.
Since malware by email is extremely popular, my approach simply treats all file attachments as 'text files'. 'Running' a text file on an uncompromised machine will cause the file to be loaded into another (trusted?) program.
These 'text files' can be safely handled, scanned for malware by trusted antivirus software, then deleted if infected or renamed back to their original extention.
As the old saying says:
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Why not focus on malware that doesn't use email to spread itself around and solve that problem instead?
Re:Carlin on voting - idea: public service draft.
on
Did You VoteOrNot.org?
·
· Score: 1
It was done in the past to fill the ranks in armed forces during wartime....
Why not do the same thing for Washington, D.C., the seat of America's power.
Simply assign numbers (not SSN#!) to every living American citizen and RANDOMLY SELECT Americans who are old enough, are sound in mind and body, and properly qualified per the U.S. Constitution for one and only one term of duty as:
1) President Of The United States 2) A Supreme Court Justice (4 years max--no more lifetime appointments nonsense!) 3) A U.S. Senator 4) A U.S. House of Representatives representative
Then scrap all manner of the election process at this level by Constitutional Amendmant (i.e. Electoral College, popular vote, etc).
As a pre-reqisite, all Americans are to 'internalize' the Constitution Of The United States so they will be prepared for the job should they be randomly chosen.
This idea is likely pie in the sky, but it would go a long way to stop corruption, influence peddling, and 'career politicians' in Washington, D. C.
Slashdot Mirror
Some programmer at some company somewhere (it was probably Microsoft) was introduced to somebody.
The programmer's reply to the somebody he was being introduced to: "Do I need to know you?"
Then, on a related note, Bill Gates was quoted as saying, essentially, "churchgoing (or attending any worship service) is a waste of time."
And don't forget Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer proclaiming "I...love...this...company! Yeeeessss!" at the end of the (in)famous 'monkeyboy' video clip.
In the end, it all ultimately boils down to this:
News stories == press releases in disguise.
One glaring, recent example:
378 Terabytes Of Star Wars on 600 G5s
Verdict: A free ad for LucasFilm and a free ad for Apple
Case in point:
Looking at the current stories listed on the Slashdot.org homepage, did these known for-profit companies 'buy an ad' to be featured in a news story on the Slashdot.org home page?
AOL
Microsoft
Perhaps the two companies above purchased advertising to appear on Slashdot in the past....
Properly written news stories are primarily news first and advertising a serendipidous second. The rule of thumb is that 'if your press release reads like an ad, it needs to be rewritten' and that good press releases 'answer the who, what, when, where, why, and how questions'.
Also, the goal of press releases is to inform. The goal of advertising is to persuade.
Which do you prefer? Information or manipulation?
Slashdot's ad rates are $CALL--you have to contact a marketing representative to get them.
Remember the old saying?
If the programmers of 'virtualstripper.exe' deliberatly hid a (undetectable) virus in it, then the user have facilitated their own system compromise.
However, unless I am not following your reasoning, I assert the following:
If the virus from 'virtualstripper.exe' seeks out other program files to infect and infects, for example, Acmeco's inoccuous 'helloworld.exe', should Acmeco be held responsible for what the programmers of 'virtualstripper.exe' did to their program via malware? Again, I say 'no' due to the remotely unlikely 'ubervirus' defense I mentioned earlier where an 'ubervirus' defeats a program's antitamper code and then infects the program.
If I am mistaken about what you truly mean, could you spell your argument all out in detail? I am not trying to be a smartass and am trying to conduct an honest, meaningful debate on this issue. This issue is very important to anyone who uses software: Case in point - Sun warns users in the JAVA software license agreement NOT to use it in a mission-critical and/or life-critical environment where software failure means disaster, injury, and death.
Detailed explanation to my spam/malware software solution.
This post is mirrored at the bottom of this page.
The explanation is long, detailed, exhaustive, and should contain the information you are looking for.
The webpage is set up in a 'pyramid' fashion--information is revealed/conveyed in as efficient and terse manner as possible. If you need 'all the answers', they are available at the bottom of the page in the mirror copy of the Slashdot post mentioned above.
Detailed explanation of my solution to unwanted email.
'http://www.cf13.com/i-solved-the-email-spam-and-
Then all programmers would have to add 'antitamper' code to their software to get it to quit or 'hang' if it detects tampering in its program file. This is not easy or trivial to do correctly and properly. The problem with that is that an 'ubervirus' could disable such code when it attaches itself to the host program file. This scenario is highly unlikely but remotely possible. Because of this, I assert that the current industry standard software 'disclaimers' still apply....
Someone here on Slashdot mentioned DomainKeys as an antispam solution.
It won't work!
Cryptography costs time and money to use! Just look how long it takes to bring up a secured webpage (HTTPS)....
Now imagine if the entire World Wide Web was that way....
Not everybody on the internet have the fastest systems available for use. Even then, such systems would be overwhelmed by all the crypto they have to do in order to process email using the DomainKeys system.
Instead of time consuming crypto, why not use fast, simple, effective spam filtering like my approach.
I haven't been with AOL in years (yet they still send me their CDs which I scratch up and throw away on sight) yet a while back I had to ride out a flood of phish emails due to a compromise at eBay quite a while back. Added to that, all the malware-by-email I used to get was because email-based malware scraped email address from the victim's computer system (someone else other than me) or had its own built-in 'dictionary attack' email address generating engine.
AOL is great for internet newbies. Once you become 'net savvy', get away from them, ASAP!!!
PS: You might want to 'lock in' your long distance phone provider before you sign up with them. I have first-hand knowledge of AOL 'slamming' people who try out their online service....
Not all freeware is insecure. Example: Apache webserver.
Not all commercial software is secure. Example: All 'home' versions of Windows before Windows 2000.
Even then the standard disclaimers still apply because once the software leaves the control of the programmer, they have no control over how the program is used. For example, I could write a 'Hello, world!' that only prints 'Hello, world!' on the screen when run. When this program is infected by a destructive computer virus and is later run and trashes the user's computer system, am I responsible for the damage? I am not if the program was 100% malware free at the point of sale and/or distribution. After that, I have no control over the software. However, I would have made sure the program 'works as advertised' with NO surprises provided the program itself is not subsequently compromised by malware.
This would have to be automated to be effective.
But that would waste time, bandwidth and money.
Won't work.
It is best to simply ignore the spam via filtering like I do.
I spent all my mod points already.
Anyway, if molecular manufacturing became a safe, viable, reality, the food/clothing/shelter problem of society at large will be taken care of without need for money, the key to all of capitalism's strengths and weaknesses.
From the above link:
From the above link:
While Slashdot continues to posts more and more stories about malware outbreaks, why not stop said outbreaks 'for good.'
Once this is done, something can be done about malware sent via TCP/IP connections and not by email. Properly configured and resilient firewalls will stop these attacks leaving only unprotected computer systems to be compromised. In the past, it has been suggested that internet users who have their 'b0xen 0wned' like this are placed in a 'sandbox' when they go online after their system is compromised. All that would be available to them would be a tiny sandbox version of the internet containing webpages, email messages, and usenet posts that alert the user that their system has been compromised and tell them to fix the problem before they go online for real again.
If interested, complete details here.
It is Freeware/Shareware.
I am actively using the Freeware part of my solution.
'Eating my own dogfood.' as it were.
My email address is not obsfucated. It doesn't have to be if virtually all the spam I get is automatically deleted!
I am persecuted at times for even mentioning it like this yet nobody complains about Slashdot stories about established antispam solutions that appear here.
Lately, an Anonymous Coward jeered me for basically re-inventing SpamAssassin. That is not true. Though both programs are email filters, they both take different approaches to the spam/malware problem.
For example:
SpamAssassin has over 900 rules to 'score' email.
My solution only uses 8.
Why so few rules?
My solution attacks the structure of spam and not the content of spam. Hence, hundreds of rules are not needed.
My solution 'renames' all known potentially hostile HTML tags and all file attachments that appear in the recipient's email.
By doing this:
1) Privacy is preserved.
2) No one is exposed to offensive images.
3) Malware is prevented from running and compromising the computer system.
1 and 3 above will prevent the increased spread of spam and malware if the system has not been compromised first and the recipient is cautious when handling emails with inert (but still hostile) content. As a bonus, 2 will prevent allegations of sexual harassment as pornographic images sent/linked via email and the IMG SRC HTML tag are simply not displayed by HTML-aware email clients.
Lastly, SpamAssassin is solely an email filter and requires Perl to run.
My Shareware solution is a complete email and antispam/antimalware solution, no other software is needed to be effectively free of spam and malware. Widespread, proper use of this program would eliminate most email spam and render all emailed malware 'useless'.
Ironically, I could tout my solution by email spam and possibly 'make a bundle' because it actually works!
But by doing that, I would be no better than the spammers that are already out there abusing the internet email system.
As it has been said in the past, email spam is ultimately a sociological problem. Since the hardcore spammers won't stop their abuse, filter them out for good!
...if an insider helped himself/herself to a private DVD copy of the 'original trilogy' AFTER restoration/cleanup but BEFORE the Special Edition 'enhancements' are added to the three films.
As an aside, I was under the impression that the negative to STAR WARS (1977) was destroyed during the Special Edition restoration process for its 20th anniversary re-release in 1997. Maybe I was wrong about that now....
Anyway, if the insider is smart, they will 'sit' on their copy of the 'original trilogy' and anonymously leak it out onto the internet and make it available as 'DVD warez' long after sales of the 'official trilogy' has died down to a large extent.
Of course, this act will likely ruin the restoration house as LucasFilm Ltd. sues them into oblivion but the masses finaly get what they want, right?...
The 1977, 1980, and 1983 versions of:
STAR WARS
The Empire Strikes Back
Return Of The Jedi
on DVD.
Just a thought...
PS: Maybe George Lucas will finally 'cave in' and put out an 'ultimate DVD box set' in 2007 (STAR WARS 30th anniversary) consisting of:
Episodes 1-3
Episodes 4-6 1997 Special Edition versions
Bonus: Episodes 4-6 Original 1977/80/83 versions
Steven Spielberg gave fans two versions of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) on DVD in the same package:
The politically correct, SFX enhanced, bonus-footage-added, 'walkie talkie', I'm-not-a-terrorist 2002 20th anniversary version.
And the original, treasured, beloved (unmodified?) 1982 version.
My approach curbs the onslaught of spam and malware spewed from compromized 'Wintel' zombie PCs.
Full details here.
For what its worth, I use the software I wrote myself to protect my PC from compromise via email.
I address this issue in this post:
Re:Occam's Razor - No God? Think again....
If that is true, 'morality' is a farce and pointless. With no reason to be 'good', everybody alive may as well 'Do whatever they want to whomever they want whenever they want.'
Do you want to live in a world like that?
I don't.
There appears to be sufficient numbers of 'moral' people alive that the entire planet hasn't become an utter 'hellhole'. They appear to be the only ones preventing the world's ultimate slide into utter darkness....
Added to that, you have people dying in the past and now as martyrs for this 'morality'. Why give your life for something that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt isn't true?
In closing, I assert such matters of 'morality' cannot be proved or disproved by logic or applications of one's five senses so, according to Christianity, one of the dominant tenents of 'morality' on this planet, says:
Some final material, in closing:
My software addresses this issue by:
1) Making it 'almost impossible' to spam.
2) Any spam that 'gets into the system' is clearly marked as such on the email message subject line.
3) Emails sent to recipient accounts serviced by my software containing user-unwanted content are automatically 'deleted' and never appear in their inboxes.
4) Any emails containing any 'hostile' content whatsoever is rendered inert and safe to handle and scan for malware.
Full details here.
Wide usage of my software will put into place the 'universal anti-spam framework' that you seek.
It autodeletes spam based on simple, user-specified criteria.
It is fast.
It is not Bayesian filtering and doesn't requre the resources of that method of spam filtering.
I use it to check my own email. I am genuinely surprised when I get a email that got past my filtering program. The last email I got that 'beat' the filter and wasn't autodeleted was a legitimate email.
If you are interested, complete details are here.
One can be a purist and play the actual arcade game.
After 20 to 30-odd years of wear and tear and 'bit rot', that is becoming impossible.
Enter emulation and the (dubious?) success of MAME--'arcade in a PC'. The weak point is that the arcade game ROMs that 'power' it are (likely) still copyrighted and is illegal to have them unless you have the corresponding arcade game hardware.
So some arcade fans/programmers avoid all that and program 'remakes' that play (almost?) exactly like the originals.
The problem with that is that the copyright/trademark owners may/will come after you.
Case in point: Look at the way the 'Tetris' people crack down on all the tetris clone games that are out there--including the historic original IBM PC version that was first coded in Russia and was hosted at an informative 'Tetris History' website.
So all that is left is to get official, sanctioned emulated versions such as the 85 games-in-1 CD Atari is putting out in order to 'stay legal'.
In the end, isn't 'staying legal' what's it all about?
I prefer the original version of It's My Life by the 1980s British Pop band 'Talk Talk'.
Yeah, they played it a lot on MTV during their golden years (about 1981-1987).
The No Doubt version sounds so much like the original version to me, why bother.
It is just another way for the record labels to get you to pay twice for the same song.
Why don't all the world's record labels offer their entire catalog online for download in lossless and lossy formats for payment and download iTunes style without the DRM BS?
That way, you only pay for the best, most popular tunes and bypass the fluff and junk.
Classic Napster worked and increased CD sales when it was around.
Now everything is a disorganized mess:
Kazaa, eMule, eDonkey, and other P2P networks on the one hand and
allofmp3.com in Russia and iTunes, its DRM encumbered equivalent in the USA on the other.
Sheesh. Guess I'll stick with my existing CD music library.
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Why use products like DeepFreeze after the malware has run and (irreperable?) damage is done when you can stop the malware from running in the first place.
Since malware by email is extremely popular, my approach simply treats all file attachments as 'text files'. 'Running' a text file on an uncompromised machine will cause the file to be loaded into another (trusted?) program.
These 'text files' can be safely handled, scanned for malware by trusted antivirus software, then deleted if infected or renamed back to their original extention.
As the old saying says:
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Why not focus on malware that doesn't use email to spread itself around and solve that problem instead?
It was done in the past to fill the ranks in armed forces during wartime....
Why not do the same thing for Washington, D.C., the seat of America's power.
Simply assign numbers (not SSN#!) to every living American citizen and RANDOMLY SELECT Americans who are old enough, are sound in mind and body, and properly qualified per the U.S. Constitution for one and only one term of duty as:
1) President Of The United States
2) A Supreme Court Justice (4 years max--no more lifetime appointments nonsense!)
3) A U.S. Senator
4) A U.S. House of Representatives representative
Then scrap all manner of the election process at this level by Constitutional Amendmant (i.e. Electoral College, popular vote, etc).
As a pre-reqisite, all Americans are to 'internalize' the Constitution Of The United States so they will be prepared for the job should they be randomly chosen.
This idea is likely pie in the sky, but it would go a long way to stop corruption, influence peddling, and 'career politicians' in Washington, D. C.