Don't like how creditors treat you? PAY YOUR FUCKING BILLS.
How are you supposed to do that if paying said bills will put you at risk of:
1) Not having proper food to eat. 2) Not having proper clothing to wear. 3) Not having proper shelter to live in.
Yes, one should fufill all their financial obligations, but to do so at the expense of one's health and well-being is stupid!
How can one 'PAY [THEIR] FUCKING BILLS' if they are dead, too sick, or otherwise unable to work to earn money to pay said bills? That is the inevitable outcome when one does not pay food/clothing/shelter bills first!
Then, in another thread, the poster said he got $300,000.00 in medical care to save his life. He can't 'pay in full' as his estate is only worth $70,000.00 What should he do?
To address the bigger issue....
Should the American health care system be 100% totally moved to an 'ability to pay' setup to avoid giving needed health care to 'lives not worthy to be lived' because the ones in need cannot afford the health care they need to stay alive!
Then there is the horrific true(?) story of the dying kid who was 'kicked out' out of the emergency room and left to die in an alley(?) on the side of the hospital -- anybody have a URL to that story as I wanted to link to it but couldn't find it via Google.
When you try to counter sue for libel/slander/whatever, they'll just say to the court 'Entrapment', the case will be dismissed (or tied up on appeal 'forever minus a day'), and that will be that.
Remember kids: In a government corrupted by corporate interests, Money Talks.
The best way to fight back is to boycott the ??AA's goods and services. 'Speak' to them in the only language they understand: Money Talks.
If everybody on the internet stopped running 'hidden' SMTP mailservers and logged them properly with the DNS system, spam would effectively disappear from the internet. By only talking with fellow DNS-verified SMTP servers, you eliminate the bulk of email spam and malware that is spewed by (ususally) 'compromised Windows boxen' and the 'chickenboner' blasting out spam from a stolen/throwaway dialup account.
After that, to block, tag, and/or delete the remaing spam would require a comprehensive, multifaceted approach such as the one I came up with.
I am 'eating my own dog food' and using my own software to filter out the junk sent to me at iamcf13@hotpop.com Recently, I got a reminder notice from a website I did business with quite a while back. I got the email because it contained no 'spammy' content. You see, spammers need 'spammy content' to hawk their wares--by filtering with that criteria in mind, it becomes (almost) impossible for spammers to communicate (and computer crackers to spread their malware). The ease of use and the connectivity of the internet via email is taken away from spammers. They can still spam but it will be effectively pointless as it is too inconvenient to 'decode' URLs and email addresses and type them into webbrowsers and email clients for further use--the ultimate aim of email spam laden with HTML, quoted printable content, %s, $s, numbers, URLs, and email addresses. As an added bonus, the computer crackers are silenced by filtering all malware out that come in the form of email attachments, or hostile HTML presented to HTML-aware email clients. By doing this, the spread of malware by email is minimized.
Since this post could be ultimately construed as spam, I offer these closing words:
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. -- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
Victory Celebration and Finale was much better, musically speaking, in ROTJ '97 than Ewok Celebration and Finale in ROTJ '83. I liked the new ROTJ ending so much I 'created' Star Wars Trilogy Finale out of the end title music from Episodes 4-6. This 'work' is truly amazing in that it was composed over nearly 20 years and sounds like like a single, musicaly unified piece of symphonic music. Credit must be given principally to John Williams, Herbert W. Spencer, Eric Tomilson, and the London Symphony Orchestra for making Star Wars Trilogy Finale possible.
Perhaps I'll do the same thing with the prequel trilogy once the soundtrack to Episode III comes out sometime next year....
Use the Diffie-Helman key exchange method to securely transmit the parameters to a Blum-Blum-Shub pseudorandom number generator from one party to another party.
Once that is done, the BBS output can be used (in paranoid '1-bit only' mode for maximum security) to encrypt, send, and decrypt information between both parties.
There wasn't an explicit prohibition against anime.
Why mod down AKIRA (1988) just because 'its a cartoon from Japan'--it eminantly qualifies as science fiction as does Gunbuster (1988).
However, I think the distinction of the '#1 work of human art of all time' is:
Grave Of The Fireflies (1988).
It is in a class all by itself. I haven't seen anything quite like it before or since (only AKIRA, Metropolis (2001), and Voices of a Distant Star (2002) come close)
Even dubbed in English, GotF is still powerful cinema!
Amazing! Three legendary pieces of Japanese animation from 1988!
Fabulous music score by James Horner. Too bad he is (in)famous for 'recycling' his earlier compositions into later film scores--pretty blatant at times.
On the other hand, John William's is subtle when he 'rips himself off'.
Music from Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) are 'quoted' in Superman (1978) and E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Both times this approached work for different reasons.
In Superman, a lone oboe sounds out the first few notes of The Force Theme in a way that made total sense in the piece. My guess is that Williams used it because it fit not because it was famous.
As an injoke, music associated with Yoda was used in E. T. because 'on the screen' at the time was a young child dressed up for Halloween as the wizened old Jedi Master.
With the recent passing of Jerry Goldsmith, I'll bet the market will be flooded with more movie 'songtracks' instead of real, proper motion picture soundtracks....
Mathematics is not a crime. -- James Turpin (789479)
Mr. Turpin's signature was likely commenting on the right and ability to use 'strong encryption' to secure ones 'thoughts and posessions' at all times.
Here in America, encryption is treated like a weapon instead of a digital envelope. Added to that, 'real encryption' in its purest form is nothing more than grade-school math applied to very large numbers.
So I guess Mr. Turpin is 'asking':
Is it a crime to use math (via strong cryptography) to have privacy and security?
Host (for example) a arcade-version Street Fighter tournament at the movie theater and tap the game's A/V signals and route them through the theater's sound system and image projector to make the action appear on the movie screen. Charge a modest spectator fee to fill the seats (and likely offer a cut of it as prize money) and knock yourself out!
Note that classic games like PAC-MAN and TEMPEST won't do as they are played in 'portrait' mode and not the 'landscape' mode that is the same as the orientation of the movie screen.
Of course, we also generate lots of low level radioactive waste (contaminated tools, clothing, instruments, neutron sources, etc) but much of this stuff really isn't harmful, it's just that since we know it's more radioactive on it's way out of the plant than on the way in, we have to exercise ridiculous controls.
My software attacks the structure of spam, not the content of it. It allows the user to select the level of filtering desired. All email containing content unwanted by the user is treated as spam. At SpamByte code 0 (which is displayed along with your email address and a notice that 'all email content containing unwanted email will be summarily deleted or reported as spam'), the only spam that gets through will look something like this....
Visit my spam site http : / / spamsite . example . com spammer @ spamsite . example . com
It is spam that got past my program's filtering routine but is inconvenient for the user to use. Because it is written like this to evade the filters (in spite of the email sender warning above), the sender must be a spammer and the message can be reported as spam and deleted without further thought. Once this task becomes overwhelming, 'close' your inbox for a while then 'reopen' it later--Let the spammers deal with the bounces of 'unavailable' mailboxes.
And anyway, the one misclassified message mentioned in the article could have been a real email treated as spam, unacceptiable performance in a business or otherwise mission-critical environment.
It was press released on 2004-08-16, one week before the 2004-08-23 date in the article
An earlier version of one of the software programs using a different (now discarded) approach was submitted as a Slashdot story but was rejected.
A long while back, I've heard/read that hackers (computer crackers?) at L0pht Heavy Industries (now apparantly http://www.atstake.com/) claimed that they could bring down the Internet within a half hour or so. My guess is that their plan involved attacking the DNS root servers. They didn't carry out their 'threat' which proves that they are being responsible with their 'dangerous' knowledge.
"Worm solutions are an all-or-nothing thing. If your worm defense is going to work and work evidently, so your CEO doesn't notice, it can't be piecemeal or incremental,"
-- Tom Ptacek, product manager at Arbor Networks of Lexington, Massachusetts, a network security technology company.
My approach filters out or 'renders harmless' ALL mass-mailing email malware. It only has 2 flaws:
1) The Windows registry setting affecting '.txt files'must not be compromised. 2) The user must not rename decoded email file attachments unless they know for sure the file is not malware. If the attachment is/contains malware, renaming it (and clicking on it) will run the malware and compromise the computer system.
Nobody here is bellyaching about registering to read a New York Times article for a change! As for me, I finally got tired of the few spams I got, so I set my SpamByte code to 0 to shut the spammers up effectively for good!
The end of the article mentioned Russia as becoming the new 'capital of spam' in the wake of the crackdown on spammers here in the USA. To that I say: "Spam away. I'll just automatically delete it anyway after I download and scan it for 'spammines' and I'll never see it." If my SpamByte-enabled mailserver program was in widespread use on the internet, such spam wouldn't be in people's inboxes in the first place so no time is wasted downloading spam email messages only to waste more time (and money) later deleting them by hand.
So, you're absolutely right -- Google's ads aren't worth the trouble to block.
Google's AdSense ads are conveyed via a 5KBish JavaScript. As they are not physically imbeded in the HTML page proper, they are as much a waste of bandwidth to dialup users as graphical banner ads, Flash, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't like how creditors treat you? PAY YOUR FUCKING BILLS.
How are you supposed to do that if paying said bills will put you at risk of:
1) Not having proper food to eat.
2) Not having proper clothing to wear.
3) Not having proper shelter to live in.
Yes, one should fufill all their financial obligations, but to do so at the expense of one's health and well-being is stupid!
How can one 'PAY [THEIR] FUCKING BILLS' if they are dead, too sick, or otherwise unable to work to earn money to pay said bills? That is the inevitable outcome when one does not pay food/clothing/shelter bills first!
Then, in another thread, the poster said he got $300,000.00 in medical care to save his life. He can't 'pay in full' as his estate is only worth $70,000.00 What should he do?
To address the bigger issue....
Should the American health care system be 100% totally moved to an 'ability to pay' setup to avoid giving needed health care to 'lives not worthy to be lived' because the ones in need cannot afford the health care they need to stay alive!
Here are some 'horror stories' of such thinking
John Q (2002)
License To Kill / Hospitals reserve the right to pull your plug
Then there is the horrific true(?) story of the dying kid who was 'kicked out' out of the emergency room and left to die in an alley(?) on the side of the hospital -- anybody have a URL to that story as I wanted to link to it but couldn't find it via Google.
That movie was incredible!
The music score by Basil Poledouris was exceptional!
Paul Verhoven sure knows how to put bite into sci-fi movies!
I was thinking of that as a kind of ultimate security device for the 'Port-A-Nuke'
But your idea is a possibility as well, Coupons.
Yes there is.
10 particles of air per cubic centimeter of space.
This is according to an old science book put out by the Time-Life guys years and years ago.
Problem is, there is so little air in space it is effectively a vacuum.
...And straberry jam on toast!
I think I still have that book somewhere....
Select a copy from one of these 'mirrors'.
I think of it as Dr. Strangelove compressed down into a 90-second animated masterpiece!
This and Broken Saints prove that Flash can be used for serious storytelling as well as annoying online advertisements.
I say don't bother setting them up.
When you try to counter sue for libel/slander/whatever, they'll just say to the court 'Entrapment', the case will be dismissed (or tied up on appeal 'forever minus a day'), and that will be that.
Remember kids: In a government corrupted by corporate interests, Money Talks.
The best way to fight back is to boycott the ??AA's goods and services. 'Speak' to them in the only language they understand: Money Talks.
After that, to block, tag, and/or delete the remaing spam would require a comprehensive, multifaceted approach such as the one I came up with.
I am 'eating my own dog food' and using my own software to filter out the junk sent to me at iamcf13@hotpop.com Recently, I got a reminder notice from a website I did business with quite a while back. I got the email because it contained no 'spammy' content. You see, spammers need 'spammy content' to hawk their wares--by filtering with that criteria in mind, it becomes (almost) impossible for spammers to communicate (and computer crackers to spread their malware). The ease of use and the connectivity of the internet via email is taken away from spammers. They can still spam but it will be effectively pointless as it is too inconvenient to 'decode' URLs and email addresses and type them into webbrowsers and email clients for further use--the ultimate aim of email spam laden with HTML, quoted printable content, %s, $s, numbers, URLs, and email addresses. As an added bonus, the computer crackers are silenced by filtering all malware out that come in the form of email attachments, or hostile HTML presented to HTML-aware email clients. By doing this, the spread of malware by email is minimized.
Since this post could be ultimately construed as spam, I offer these closing words:
Perhaps the greatest compliment paid to Admiral Rickover is the U. S. Navy submarine that bears his name
Victory Celebration and Finale was much better, musically speaking, in ROTJ '97 than Ewok Celebration and Finale in ROTJ '83. I liked the new ROTJ ending so much I 'created' Star Wars Trilogy Finale out of the end title music from Episodes 4-6. This 'work' is truly amazing in that it was composed over nearly 20 years and sounds like like a single, musicaly unified piece of symphonic music. Credit must be given principally to John Williams, Herbert W. Spencer, Eric Tomilson, and the London Symphony Orchestra for making Star Wars Trilogy Finale possible.
Perhaps I'll do the same thing with the prequel trilogy once the soundtrack to Episode III comes out sometime next year....
Use the Diffie-Helman key exchange method to securely transmit the parameters to a Blum-Blum-Shub pseudorandom number generator from one party to another party.
Once that is done, the BBS output can be used (in paranoid '1-bit only' mode for maximum security) to encrypt, send, and decrypt information between both parties.
It's not OTP but its the next best thing, yes?
I like that explanation.
It has balance.
This isn't off topic.
There wasn't an explicit prohibition against anime.
Why mod down AKIRA (1988) just because 'its a cartoon from Japan'--it eminantly qualifies as science fiction as does Gunbuster (1988).
However, I think the distinction of the '#1 work of human art of all time' is:
Grave Of The Fireflies (1988).
It is in a class all by itself. I haven't seen anything quite like it before or since (only AKIRA, Metropolis (2001), and Voices of a Distant Star (2002) come close)
Even dubbed in English, GotF is still powerful cinema!
Amazing! Three legendary pieces of Japanese animation from 1988!
Not all sci-fi films
Fabulous music score by James Horner. Too bad he is (in)famous for 'recycling' his earlier compositions into later film scores--pretty blatant at times.
On the other hand, John William's is subtle when he 'rips himself off'.
Music from Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) are 'quoted' in Superman (1978) and E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Both times this approached work for different reasons.
In Superman, a lone oboe sounds out the first few notes of The Force Theme in a way that made total sense in the piece. My guess is that Williams used it because it fit not because it was famous.
As an injoke, music associated with Yoda was used in E. T. because 'on the screen' at the time was a young child dressed up for Halloween as the wizened old Jedi Master.
With the recent passing of Jerry Goldsmith, I'll bet the market will be flooded with more movie 'songtracks' instead of real, proper motion picture soundtracks....
If you've seen Airplane (1980), you know the scene I'm talking about!
Quite daring for a PG movie....
Was the MPAA asleep at the wheel when they gave Airplane A PG rating in spite of this scene?
Mathematics is not a crime. -- James Turpin (789479)
Mr. Turpin's signature was likely commenting on the right and ability to use 'strong encryption' to secure ones 'thoughts and posessions' at all times.
Here in America, encryption is treated like a weapon instead of a digital envelope. Added to that, 'real encryption' in its purest form is nothing more than grade-school math applied to very large numbers.
So I guess Mr. Turpin is 'asking':
Is it a crime to use math (via strong cryptography) to have privacy and security?
Just 'ask' PGP creator Phil Zimmerman about his experiences with cryptography and the United States Federal Government....
Why not do this 'right'....
Host (for example) a arcade-version Street Fighter tournament at the movie theater and tap the game's A/V signals and route them through the theater's sound system and image projector to make the action appear on the movie screen. Charge a modest spectator fee to fill the seats (and likely offer a cut of it as prize money) and knock yourself out!
Note that classic games like PAC-MAN and TEMPEST won't do as they are played in 'portrait' mode and not the 'landscape' mode that is the same as the orientation of the movie screen.
Of course, we also generate lots of low level radioactive waste (contaminated tools, clothing, instruments, neutron sources, etc) but much of this stuff really isn't harmful, it's just that since we know it's more radioactive on it's way out of the plant than on the way in, we have to exercise ridiculous controls.
Those controls are there for a reason.
Otherwise, disaster could strike like what happend in Japan back in 1999 on September 30th. where 'taking shortcuts' produced deadly results.
It allows the user to select the level of filtering desired. All email containing content unwanted by the user is treated as spam. At SpamByte code 0 (which is displayed along with your email address and a notice that 'all email content containing unwanted email will be summarily deleted or reported as spam'), the only spam that gets through will look something like this....
It is spam that got past my program's filtering routine but is inconvenient for the user to use. Because it is written like this to evade the filters (in spite of the email sender warning above), the sender must be a spammer and the message can be reported as spam and deleted without further thought. Once this task becomes overwhelming, 'close' your inbox for a while then 'reopen' it later--Let the spammers deal with the bounces of 'unavailable' mailboxes.
And anyway, the one misclassified message mentioned in the article could have been a real email treated as spam, unacceptiable performance in a business or otherwise mission-critical environment.
It was press released on 2004-08-16, one week before the 2004-08-23 date in the article
An earlier version of one of the software programs using a different (now discarded) approach was submitted as a Slashdot story but was rejected.
A long while back, I've heard/read that hackers (computer crackers?) at L0pht Heavy Industries (now apparantly http://www.atstake.com/) claimed that they could bring down the Internet within a half hour or so. My guess is that their plan involved attacking the DNS root servers. They didn't carry out their 'threat' which proves that they are being responsible with their 'dangerous' knowledge.
I think of them more as arsonists, and MS as the builder who keeps on making houses out of balsa wood and flash paper.
I got a chuckle out of that.
To avoid as much IE 0wnage as possible, one can do this.
How will you continue to make these "Obscure Aquateenhungerforce references" when you are _as cold as ice?_
....
Hmm, parent poster must be a foreigner
There are no safe browsers (yet?), just ones that haven't been picked on much.
One already exists:
The Off By One web browser
It contains no Java, JavaScript, or ActiveX support so *NO* problems can come from those areas by using Off By One.
My approach filters out or 'renders harmless' ALL mass-mailing email malware. It only has 2 flaws:
1) The Windows registry setting affecting '.txt files' must not be compromised.
2) The user must not rename decoded email file attachments unless they know for sure the file is not malware. If the attachment is/contains malware, renaming it (and clicking on it) will run the malware and compromise the computer system.
Finally.
Nobody here is bellyaching about registering to read a New York Times article for a change! As for me, I finally got tired of the few spams I got, so I set my SpamByte code to 0 to shut the spammers up effectively for good!
The end of the article mentioned Russia as becoming the new 'capital of spam' in the wake of the crackdown on spammers here in the USA. To that I say: "Spam away. I'll just automatically delete it anyway after I download and scan it for 'spammines' and I'll never see it." If my SpamByte-enabled mailserver program was in widespread use on the internet, such spam wouldn't be in people's inboxes in the first place so no time is wasted downloading spam email messages only to waste more time (and money) later deleting them by hand.
So, you're absolutely right -- Google's ads aren't worth the trouble to block.
Google's AdSense ads are conveyed via a 5KBish JavaScript. As they are not physically imbeded in the HTML page proper, they are as much a waste of bandwidth to dialup users as graphical banner ads, Flash, etc.