With this many patents, Microsoft will win. Their intent is to kill all competition/freeware by patenting everything remotely interesting to them.
But if a programmer publishes their freeware on the Internet and reveals their ideas on a webpage that has an explicit, dated 'prior art' notice on it, will their efforts remain unpatentable and free for all to use? Otherwise, what's the point if such a 'prior art' notice has no legal weight in the court of law for a patent dispute.
All Western music is 'ripped off' in that it's all intrinsically based on a set of 12 notes.
However, it is the way these notes are permuted and increased/decreased in pitch that makes music what it is.
Music composing is a lot like writing....
One takes the notes/letters and string them into motives/words. Put a few motives/words together in a noteworthy way and get a leitmotif/phrase. Mix all this stuff up in an interesting way and you can get a complete, extraordinary music score for a set of scenes in a movie like Adventures On Earth from E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) by John Towner Williams (1932 -- ) which I am listening to as I type this.
On a related note, If Episodes 7-9 are made, they'll have to shoot them like Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy if there is the remote(?) chance that Williams will still be alive to score them as he has the past 5(soon to be 6?) STAR WARS films. I've heard it said that 'Williams is a hack, etc, etc'. If that is the case, why is he (still?) the most sought after film music composer on the face of this earth? Added to that, look at the longevity of his first *GREAT* (most popular at the time) melody: the sharkmotif from Jaws (1975). Used in three sequels (1978, 1983, 1987), it is still in use today as it is used in (the trailer for) Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
Should he 'pass on', perhaps the producers will give Jason Graves a chance to 'finish up' as he can and has composed in the Williams style with his Sinister March
Copies of W32/Rbot-GR sent by the virus itself via email to people like me will either result in automatic, summary deletion of the email or the extracted attachment winds up as a 'harmless text file' that can be safely scanned for malware and deleted if infected or desired.
I am malware-free and effectively spam-free since 2004-07-15. Once the rates of email spam and malware become 'nonexistent', then my programs would have served their purpose. Until then, they are available to all who would want to use them.
Now can we do something about TCP/IP malware like Blaster and MyDoom and whatnot as that is the bigger threat to the internet now that an effective solution to email malware is available for use now?
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Tools/internet options/security options/custom level(for all internet zones).
Disable anything mentioning Java(script) and ActiveX. Do the same thing on the advanced tab.
Click 'OK'/'Apply' as needed on the dialogs.
For safety, restart your computer for all the changes to take effect properly.
Viola! IE is secure against Java(script)/ActiveX security breeches. Alas, you may still be vulnerable to this web browser exploit so be careful with your sensative information!
NEVER EVER GIVE OUT SENSITIVE INFORMATION VIA EMAIL! USE A SECURED HTTPS CONNECTION ON A BRAND-NEW WEB BROWSER WINDOW TO DO THIS! BE SURE TO TYPE THE 'TIP-TOP' WEBSITE ADDRESS (E.G. HTTP://WWW.EXAMPLE.COM/) IN THE ADDRESS BAR AND NAVIGATE THE SITE AS NEEDED!
Sorry for yelling, but being 'phished' out of sensitive information could hapen to anyone!
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Re:I solved the spam problem. Seriously. Intereste (Score:1) by ShepyNCL (740977) on Monday August 23, @12:33PM (#10046155) Yo quote your site: 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. Doesnt exactly answer how this works? I am interested in your software, and if its as good as you claim, then count me as a buyer / donator / whatever you classify it as.
Thank you very much for your interest in CF13-POP3(TM), ShepyNCL. Below, I answer your questions about the program. If the information below lives up to your expectations, please by all means spread the word about both programs and give others the URL to this post. I *HATE* email spam and malware and tried to make it 'almost impossible' to spread. My solution is, I belive, the best possible, least complicated, and least expensive solution to the spam/malware problem that I am using it myself to check my own POP3 accounts.
How does CF13-POP3(TM) work?
1) It is hostile to spammers and computer crackers.
This is done by the use of the SpamByte code, by 'neutralizing' unsafe HTML content, and by 'renaming' all incoming file attachments to 'text files'. Allow me to explain these points in further detail:
The SpamByte code is a number from 0 to 255 that is calculated for all messages that are processed. It represents the presence or absence of the eight 'halmarks' of spam. They are, in decreasing order of 'spamminess':
1) File attachments 2) HTML 3) Quoted printable content (usually used with HTML to encode 'unprintable' characters) 4) Percent signs (% - used in commerce and a potentially 'expensive' web browser exploit) 5) Dollar signs ($ - used in commerce and in assembler source code listings) 6) Numbers (0123456789) 7) URLs ( http://www.example.com example.com ) 8) Email addresses ( user@example.com )
These attributes are assigned a numeric value like so:
Therefore, my SpamByte code of 7 indicates I want emails with numbers, URLs and email addresses in them. If you add up the numerical values assigned to these three attributes, you get the sum of 7. The SpamByte scanner 'scores' all email using the above information. The SpamByte of the email is compared with the user-defined SpamByte code using this one simple rule:
All email containing content unwanted by the user is treated as spam.
CF13-POP3(TM) is a command line program. Here is the relavant part of the programs 'startup blurb':
usage: cf13pop3 svr port login pw SpamByte wantspam
svr - server address (e.g. 127.0.0.1 or mail.example.com) port - server listening port (usually 110) login - user login (e.g. user@example.com) pw - user password (e.g. secretpassword) SpamByte - numeric sum of all email content wanted by user (e.g. 7) 128-attachments wanted 64-html wanted
32-quoted printable wanted 16-percent signs wanted
8-dollar signs wanted 4-numbers wanted
2-URLs wanted 1-email addresses wanted Some content may be inaccurately identified due to improper content or formatting. IMPORTANT: ANY EMAIL CONTAINING ANY UNWANTED CONTENT WILL BE DELETED IF WANTSPAM=N! wantspam - Y=User wants spam without attachment extracted.
N=Spam email is deleted.
Use with care as non-spam messages could be deleted.
Sample command line parameters would look like this:
This is likely flamebait or trollish but hear me out....
Fed up with the insanity and indignities of airport security after 2001-09-11?
Simple solution to this mess....
Boycott the airlines--all of them--even the package delivery services that use airplanes.
Stop sending stuff by airmail through government postal services.
Contact the above and tell them you refuse to use their services until air travel security measures are returned to the way they were before 2001-09-11.
Once the airline and package delivery industries have lost enough money, they can put pressure on 'the powers that be' to get airport security back the way it was before '9/11'. Money talks!
You cannot have perfect security in a free society!
Although El-Al's security methods are quite impressive and should be used as a template for real airline security measures throughout the entire airline industry....
My fast, efficient, method is very light on system resources and attacks spam by detecting one or more common attributes of spam and taking the appropriate action.
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
My SMTP mailserver does, as far as I can tell, everything it can to tie up spammers time and prevent them from getting to use the SMTP DATA command to send their spam. I could have used 2 simple, elegant rules to quash spam:
1) Check if the connecting IP address is a bonafide MX'ed mailserver on file with the DNS system.
2) POP3-BEFORE-SMTP for all other IP addresses at the MAIL FROM command to restrict SMTP access to the mailserver to only authorized users who are not connecting remote mailservers. Another 'siderule' would prevent 3-rd party relay abuse by prohibiting email from a third party domain from being passed through one of the two domains who take part in an SMTP session. In a perfect internet, only bonafide, properly DNS registered mailservers would transfer email like so:
1) Sender sends email to sender's mailserver. 2) Sender's mailserver forwards the sender's message to the recipient's mailserver. 3) The recipient's mailserver accepts the sender's message from the sender's mailserver. 4) The recipient's mailserver sends the sender's email message to the recipient.
Doing this would simplify tracing emails as there is no apparent reason for a non mailserver IP to 'talk' to anyone other than their own ISP's mailserver. Blocking port 25 outbound does nothing but funnel the spammers spam through the ISP's mailserver. By the time the complaints come and the spammer's account is suspended/terminated, the spammer has likely moved on to another acount at another ISP to repeat the process all over again.
3) If either test fails, drop the TCP/IP connection.
I know rule number 1 doesn't work in real life as I have 2 examples I know of:
1) My email domain, hotpop.com, uses 'hidden mailservers' not on file with the DNS system that appear in the 'Received:' lines of past email messages I've received.
2) The last time I checked, the mailservers at hotmail.com service both hotmail.com and msn.com -- there aren't any mailservers at the msn.com domain (Microsoft's Online Community).
Because of this, I have to use elaborate, but effective ways to stop the spammer from spamming. For starters, I limit all remote IPs to 1 connection. Any more than that will result in a long delay and a 'already connected' 421 error message sent back to punish multithreaded spambots. Next is filtering against a IP and/or sender email/domain blacklist. If found on either blacklist, the spammers time is wasted and a 'blacklisted' 421 message is sent. Should they spam by using the DATA command, the message, like all messages received by my mailserver at this point, is 'safed' of all potentially hostile content and scanned for 'spammines' and their time is wasted after sending the spam in proportion to the 'spamminess' of the message denoted by the message's SpamByte 'score': the spammier the message, the longer the spammer has to wait for their spam to be processed by the mailserver. If the spammer disconnects before the delay expires, their spam is summarily discarded. This will reduce the influx of spam to the mailer daemon part of the program. Sending legitiamte email will result in little or no delay. Surviving email have their spam score inserted on the email subject line. This allows recipients to 'preview' a message at the email header level before downloading it. This will also permit *MUCH SIMPLIFIED* rules-based filtering in the email client. Local email delivery is attempted by the mailer daemon part of the mailserver by comparing the SpamByte score of the message with the SpamByte 'mask' of the recipient.
Any email containing content unwanted by the recipient is 'deleted' and *NEVER* appears in their inbox! Automatic, recipient-based email filtering!
As a result, system resources are conserved as mail is refused to recipients that are 'over quota' as well. Incoming email messages that are processed are logged and saved to disk. This can
Because of posts like this and this, as well as my own exasperation at the email spam/malware problem, I wrote these two programs that make email spam/malware 'almost impossible'. One of them is 100% freeware because the end user email recipient needs an effective, efficient solution to their email spam/malware problems. The companion program, a shareware SMTP mailserver contains the same spam/malware filter as the freeware POP3 email client. The press release for these two programs have yielded at last count the following:
PRESS RELEASE STATISITCS
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers....
BASIC STATISTICS
Statistic Count Description
Reads: 10,688 - This number tells you how many times your press release was accessed from our site and other distribution points where we have the ability to measure a click through. This number does not include the number of journalists that have received your release through email. In addition there are online distribution points that we currently have no ability to track.
Estimated Pickup: 117 - This number estimates the number of times your press release was picked up by a media outlet. This does not tell you how many times your story appears in the media. It simply attempts to estimate media interest of your release.
Prints: 1 - This is the number of times that someone has printed your press release. We measure this by the number of times that the "printer friendly version" link is pressed. In reality, only a small percentage of users actually click this link before printing a release.
Forwards: 0 - This is the number of times that someone has forwarded your press release to a third party using the link on your press release.
Because of the Boulder Pledge and my unwillingness to become a spammer myself to promote these two programs, I ask you all this question: Will you reward my efforts and purchase my shareware mailserver program after trying it out first? When properly installed and configured, see for yourself how it blocks spammers altogether or 'safes' hostile email content and clearly and symbolically identifies the message's 'spamlike' attributes on the email message 'Subject: 'line. Email containing content unwanted by the recipient is automatically 'deleted' and *NEVER* appears in their inbox! In doing so, you will help reduce email spam and malware and reward my efforts to provide you the tools to do so. If both programs were in wide use on the internet, spam and malware would be 'almost impossible' to distribute.
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Re:Umm (Score:4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 18, @11:16AM (#10001854) Spammers send millions of email a second, imagine if for every email they had to do some sums that took 2 seconds, before the server would accept the email...suddenly the rate of emails per second falls.....
Without changing/breaking the SMTP email standard, my mailserver program scores incoming messages for 'spamminess' and delays processing of the message appropriately. If the spammer disconnects before the delay expires, their message(s) are *NOT* processed!
This applies to all messages process by my mailserver. All 'non-spammy' messages will have little or no delay and will be process immediately.
The 'delay factor' is user settable and the default suggested value will result in an approximately one minute delay for an incomming email message with 'maximum spammage' (any longer and Outlook will 'complain').
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
No more 'spammy' email that could be construed as containing email addresses, URLs, file attachments, HTML, quoted printable content, numbers, $'s and %'s.
That way, spamvertised websites can be totally ignored...
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
The car ad with the snazzy music and the disclaimer 'Professional freerunners. Do not attempt.' The ad sorta looks like an action sequence in an expensive Hollywood movie. Are they selling cars or an experience at the movies?
The Sealab 2021 2-DVD set. A masterpiece montage of idiocy I find compelling whenever I see it: An explosion of unrelated images most of which have nothing to do with Sealab 2021! Genius and madness on display in the same ad! By the way, I have no intent on buying this DVD set, I just sincerely admire effort (and desparation?) that went into this ad.
Well, if ads were done like truly informative press releases (not thinly disguised ads), they would be cheaper and shorter and there would be more time available to the programming content.
In closing, the goal of good advertisng is to inform, not persuade. In the effort to 'grab cash' from consumers, most commercials play to the comsumers feelings and attitudes toward themselves and others, not logical rational thinking. As a result, such ads are superficial, specious, and ultimately demeaning for all involved with it.
Such are my views on this matter,
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam
-- begin quote -- Adi Shamir once proposed the following hash function:
Let n = p*q be the product of two large primes, such that
factoring n is believed to be infeasible.
Let g be an element of maximum order in Z_n^* (i.e. an
element of order lambda(n) = lcm(p-1,q-1)).
Assume that n and g are fixed and public; p and q are secret.
Let x be an input to be hashed, interpreted as a
non-negative integer. (Of arbitrary length; this may be
considerably larger than n.)
Define hash(x) = g^x (mod n).
Then this hash function is provably collision-resistant, since the ability to find a collision means that you have an x and an x' such that
hash(x) = hash(x')
which implies that
x - x' = k * lambda(n)
for some k. That is a collision implies that you can find a multiple of lambda(n). Being able to find a multiple of lambda(n) means that you can factor n.
I would suggest this meets the specs of your query above.
Cheers,
Ron Rivest
Ronald L. Rivest Room 324, 200 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139 Tel 617-253-5880, Fax 617-258-9738, Email -- end quote --
My question is that does such a hash function live up to Shamir's and Rivest's claims? If so, such hash functions are a lot simpler to understand, use, and implement in software. Apart from the 'factoring n' bit, I can see no problems with this hash function as well but I am not a 'hardcore' mathematician like Rivest and Shamir are.
PS: Please help me decode the following:
0x0d0a (568518) 's signature line:
US War on Terror victories: an old chess champion, a student volunteer forum moderator, a US-planted mole. Proud?
old chess champion = Robert James 'Bobby' Fischer.
So who are the other two?
I cannot ask 0x0d0a by email, he/she won't give their email address out.
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
I liked the part in the game where Ginsu^WGoemon sliced the helicopter up in the sewer system with his 'unbreakable' katana.
::Until I saw more Lupin III anime, Goemon was known as Ginsu to me for that scene in the game--refering to the knife set they hawked on late-nite TV years and years and years ago when the Cliffhanger game was out....
PS: Cartoon Network is showing Lupin III TV series. It is funny to watch--sometimes riotously so. I like how it is anachronistic at times for comedic effect.
PPS: Yeah, I managed to beat both Dragon's Lair (one time on one token/quarter) and Space Ace (blast that diabolically difficult 'rollerskating' sequence!) and that was the end of that -- I even vaguely remember watching the Saturday morning cartoon series for both of them....::
Stop, identify, and delete your spam automatically
on
Spam's U.S. Roots
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· Score: 1
(x) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
[The spam has been delivered and the bandwidth has been wasted. In response to this, some of the spammer's time
is wasted by the CF13-SMTP(TM) / CF13-POP3(TM) program, unwanted spam is filtered out by the user's SpamByte
code and never appears in their inbox. The remaining spam that isn't filtered out gets a SpamByte code tag in
the message subject line. In case of bad SpamByte code tags due to corrupted messages or spammers using rogue
software impersonating CF13-SMTP(TM) / CF13-POP3(TM), use the CF13-POP3(TM) email client to filter out such
improperly tagged messages via message file deletion.]
Therefore:
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers...
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
If the offending domain is on file at rfc-ignorant.org, sending an abuse report to them is a waste of time and resources.
Blacklist the offenders instead. (which includes major players like aol.com, rr.com, and comcast.net)
When enough people complain and 'jump ship' at the blacklisted domains, the income lost will motivate the 'powers that be' there to address the situation properly or else they will eventually go out of business.
This describes people like me who have the experience, have it listed on their resume, but don't have a college degree to show for their efforts.
People like me who love to do this type of work are all but shut out from the 'big leagues' because we have no degree when we may have done more in the real world than the freshly-minted college graduate has.
So what do people like me do? The choices appear to be either self-employment doing something we love and find challenging or a monotonous 'easy' job working for someone else--likely some big impersonal corporation in the service sector where all you are to the executive staff is just another cog in the corporate profitmaking machine....
This shows that you are in your chosen field of expertise for the right reasons and have the real-life experience that may be more valuable than four years of college-level book learning, classroom instruction, and homework.
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
clambrac (722059): You need a degree to become a paid, hired code monkey for a company.
I don't have a degree.
I was ultimately hired as a computer programmer years ago due to what computer related information I knew at the time and this old MS-DOS program.
Today, I still don't have a degree now yet I wrote the two freeware/shareware programs on this page that solve a major problem that has been plaguing the Internet since May 1, 1978 or March 5, 1994 depending on who is doing the counting.
Now then, what is really more important when hiring your next computer programmer?
A degree and no real-world experience.
or
No degree and lots of real-world experience.
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
I've worked with tons of people that can produce prodigious amounts of code. However, the best programmers I've worked with produce less code, but code that does more. I've met lots of people considered to be "great" programmers by the companies I've worked for. Most produced tons of code--but very few produced well engineered code. This is the difference between a prolific programmer and a good programmer. These so-called "great" programmers are often nothing more than hackers (in the coding sense)--they can whip out some code that meets the purpose in less time than an engineer. But that code is often unmaintainable, inflexible, and has to be rewritten in a few years.
I've had to write LOTS of complicated mission-critical source code in the past with the help of the lead software designer. It was hectic and stressful with everchanging goals. How did I accomplish this? Simple.
I wrote the software as a 'sea' of short, simple, single purpose functions that were called from larger more complicated 'control functions'.
For the most part, to make a tiny but critical change in the application, all I had to do was to find and make a change in the proper single purpose function.
To even write such complicated software in the first place required breaking down the task algorithmically to something analagous to the single CPU instruction level. For an actual (demo) example, suppose I had gather information stored in variables into a line of text to save to a log file in Microsoft Visual C++....
fld.Format("%d",sum); str += fld;// concatenate string representation of sum str += "\n";// concatenate newline character(s) to separate lines of text in the output file
fnam = ".\\sumans.txt";// set output filename
AppendStringToFile(fnam,str);// function call that append a string of text (str) to the end of a disk file (fnam).
-- END CODE FRAGMENT --
See how painfully verbose everything is laid out.
Sure, I could have used a single CString.Format member function call (analgous to printf) but that would make it difficult and tedious to change this type of code around instead of the way it is. If I wanted to add another operand to the sum and its textual representation, I would have to make a copy of 3 lines of code and change a bit of the new text and a bit of the existing text to make the new version.
This type of software writing is painstaking and ridiculously over-detailed but it keeps everything in as obvious a form as possible and makes the process of making changes much easier.
PS: You also have to have the discipline to format the code with proper indentation and group blocks of statements together in a cluster to make the larger algorithmic sections of the code more apparent as what I did with the demo code above.
Outstanding post! A breakdown/elaboration of blanks's points:
What do you expect from a country where education and intelligence is not a "High priority"? "? Education is competition, meaning tomorrow's educated students, who become business men could be your next big competitor.
The end result of the 'pass the failures' attitude toward pre-college scholastic achievement. The USA has, in the broadest of terms, a populace that can barely read the newspaper, don't know their way around a map of the world, can't remember the facts for key moments in world history, and watches inane sitcoms on television paid for by often inane commercials that constantly interrupt them at every carefully crafted plot point cliffhanger!
And as everyone knows in the USA people don't matter, Big business does.
Here are the two best examples I can come up with to support this assertion:
Even the USA government couldn't get Microsoft broken up into smaller companies during its antitrust suit with the software giant. Maybe, deep down inside, if they were successful, they would have screwed up the world economy as a result--part of which provides their operating funds. Hence, in the end, nothing happened. Microsoft is still in one piece and business is conducted as usual....
Look at the bipartisan political system in the USA: two sides of the same corporate-funded coin. Essentially, if you are not a 'Republicrat', you don't matter in the USA political process--your 'wasted votes' for third/alternate parties do little more than to motivate the two dominate political parties to fine-tune their platform and message in order to get the votes lost to dissent at the next election.
Yes business's would not be around if people couldn't buy their products, so they (we) get paid just enough to buy their products. And for those who can't afford it, that's what credit cards are for.
John Kerry wants to raise the minimum wage in the USA to $7.00 an hour. I am sure big business will fight against this to keep their labor costs low and their profit margins high as they have been since the last minimum wage hike in 1997. What 'burns me up' is how it is legal for restaurants to pay its waitstaff LESS than the minimum wage with the diners subsidising the waitstaff's wages with their tip monies to make up the difference--a process ripe for deception and uncertainty. Years ago, I used to work as a dishwasher at a now defunct restaurant chain so I've personally heard some of the 'horror stories' that revolve around tipping. I fully expect that if Kerry's minimum wage hike is passed into law, big business will simply raise their prices to get that money back as they have in the past ('passing the added costs on to the consumer')--a simple case of greed and inflation at work. A much better idea would be for the working poor who earn poverty level wages to be exempt from all forms of taxation except maybe monies paid into the Social Security system....
Because of years of greed and inflation, we now have a proliferation of credit card and home equity loan offers by mail, TV, and radio and 'payday advance' firms 'everywhere' that will loan you money for a short time at usurious interest rates.
We are losing a battle, not just with the rest of the world dealing with education, business, ethics(?) but a battle of bettering ourselves and giving our children a chance to survive in the future.
The USA, for the most part, is a 'microwave' society. Only matters of national policy, national defense, or college level education are planned out more than three months in advance--if that! Everything else is temporary and subject to change at a moment's notice due to societal and market forces within its borders. As a result, we now have:
Wake up people! To most companies, the employees are ultimately treated like the annoying drain on their corporate bottom line they (likely) are no matter how hard, efficiently, or conscientiously they work. In some cases, companies are paid to hire someone to work for them via some form of (corporate) welfare [such as a tax-deductable expense account to wine and dine clients at taxpayer expense. I find this almost as bad as letting 'professional gamblers' write off their gambling losses as 'tax deductions']!
The only true way out of this mess is self-employment. Find a real need and come up with an effective, irresistable solution to that need and then the sales of the solution should follow and garner the solution creator their financial reward....
Of course the chances of success are (likely) slim to almost none but with success, the sky's the limit!
A 'profit is all, [forget] the workers' mentality in a corporate-fueled work environment leads ultimately to an unhappy, vindictive, possibly homicidal workforce....
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
That is if you have the voicemail service from the phone company (which costs additional money). The telemarketers can spam that as well. With my method, it is virtually impossible to be bothered by telemarketers/spammers/computer crackers.
Bryan Taylor iamcf13@hotpop.com SpamByte code: 7 (see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm ) All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
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With this many patents, Microsoft will win. Their intent is to kill all competition/freeware by patenting everything remotely interesting to them.
But if a programmer publishes their freeware on the Internet and reveals their ideas on a webpage that has an explicit, dated 'prior art' notice on it, will their efforts remain unpatentable and free for all to use? Otherwise, what's the point if such a 'prior art' notice has no legal weight in the court of law for a patent dispute.
All Western music is 'ripped off' in that it's all intrinsically based on a set of 12 notes.
However, it is the way these notes are permuted and increased/decreased in pitch that makes music what it is.
Music composing is a lot like writing....
One takes the notes/letters and string them into motives/words. Put a few motives/words together in a noteworthy way and get a leitmotif/phrase. Mix all this stuff up in an interesting way and you can get a complete, extraordinary music score for a set of scenes in a movie like Adventures On Earth from
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) by John Towner Williams (1932 -- ) which I am listening to as I type this.
On a related note, If Episodes 7-9 are made, they'll have to shoot them like Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy if there is the remote(?) chance that Williams will still be alive to score them as he has the past 5(soon to be 6?) STAR WARS films. I've heard it said that 'Williams is a hack, etc, etc'. If that is the case, why is he (still?) the most sought after film music composer on the face of this earth? Added to that, look at the longevity of his first *GREAT* (most popular at the time) melody: the sharkmotif from Jaws (1975). Used in three sequels (1978, 1983, 1987), it is still in use today as it is used in (the trailer for) Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
Should he 'pass on', perhaps the producers will give Jason Graves a chance to 'finish up' as he can and has composed in the Williams style with his Sinister March
Complete details here and here.
Copies of W32/Rbot-GR sent by the virus itself via email to people like me will either result in automatic, summary deletion of the email or the extracted attachment winds up as a 'harmless text file' that can be safely scanned for malware and deleted if infected or desired.
I am malware-free and effectively spam-free since 2004-07-15. Once the rates of email spam and malware become 'nonexistent', then my programs would have served their purpose. Until then, they are available to all who would want to use them.
Now can we do something about TCP/IP malware like Blaster and MyDoom and whatnot as that is the bigger threat to the internet now that an effective solution to email malware is available for use now?
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Open an IE browser window and do the following:
Tools/internet options/security options/custom level(for all internet zones).
Disable anything mentioning Java(script) and ActiveX. Do the same thing on the advanced tab.
Click 'OK'/'Apply' as needed on the dialogs.
For safety, restart your computer for all the changes to take effect properly.
Viola! IE is secure against Java(script)/ActiveX security breeches. Alas, you may still be vulnerable to this web browser exploit so be careful with your sensative information!
NEVER EVER GIVE OUT SENSITIVE INFORMATION VIA EMAIL! USE A SECURED HTTPS CONNECTION ON A BRAND-NEW WEB BROWSER WINDOW TO DO THIS! BE SURE TO TYPE THE 'TIP-TOP' WEBSITE ADDRESS (E.G. HTTP://WWW.EXAMPLE.COM/) IN THE ADDRESS BAR AND NAVIGATE THE SITE AS NEEDED!
Sorry for yelling, but being 'phished' out of sensitive information could hapen to anyone!
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Complete details here and here.
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Thank you very much for your interest in CF13-POP3(TM), ShepyNCL. Below, I answer your questions about the program. If the information below lives up to your expectations, please by all means spread the word about both programs and give others the URL to this post. I *HATE* email spam and malware and tried to make it 'almost impossible' to spread. My solution is, I belive, the best possible, least complicated, and least expensive solution to the spam/malware problem that I am using it myself to check my own POP3 accounts.
How does CF13-POP3(TM) work?
1) It is hostile to spammers and computer crackers.
This is done by the use of the SpamByte code, by 'neutralizing' unsafe HTML content, and by 'renaming' all incoming file attachments to 'text files'. Allow me to explain these points in further detail:
The SpamByte code is a number from 0 to 255 that is calculated for all messages that are processed. It represents the presence or absence of the eight 'halmarks' of spam. They are, in decreasing order of 'spamminess':
1) File attachments
2) HTML
3) Quoted printable content (usually used with HTML to encode 'unprintable' characters)
4) Percent signs (% - used in commerce and a potentially 'expensive' web browser exploit)
5) Dollar signs ($ - used in commerce and in assembler source code listings)
6) Numbers (0123456789)
7) URLs ( http://www.example.com example.com )
8) Email addresses ( user@example.com )
These attributes are assigned a numeric value like so:
128-attachments wanted 64-html wanted
32-quoted printable wanted 16-percent signs wanted
8-dollar signs wanted 4-numbers wanted
2-URLs wanted 1-email addresses wanted
Therefore, my SpamByte code of 7 indicates I want emails with numbers, URLs and email addresses in them. If you add up the numerical values assigned to these three attributes, you get the sum of 7. The SpamByte scanner 'scores' all email using the above information. The SpamByte of the email is compared with the user-defined SpamByte code using this one simple rule:
All email containing content unwanted by the user is treated as spam.
CF13-POP3(TM) is a command line program. Here is the relavant part of the programs 'startup blurb':
usage: cf13pop3 svr port login pw SpamByte wantspam
svr - server address (e.g. 127.0.0.1 or mail.example.com)
port - server listening port (usually 110)
login - user login (e.g. user@example.com)
pw - user password (e.g. secretpassword)
SpamByte - numeric sum of all email content wanted by user (e.g. 7)
128-attachments wanted 64-html wanted
32-quoted printable wanted 16-percent signs wanted
8-dollar signs wanted 4-numbers wanted
2-URLs wanted 1-email addresses wanted
Some content may be inaccurately identified due
to improper content or formatting.
IMPORTANT: ANY EMAIL CONTAINING ANY UNWANTED CONTENT
WILL BE DELETED IF WANTSPAM=N!
wantspam - Y=User wants spam without attachment extracted.
N=Spam email is deleted.
Use with care as non-spam messages could be deleted.
Sample command line parameters would look like this:
This is likely flamebait or trollish but hear me out....
Fed up with the insanity and indignities of airport security after 2001-09-11?
Simple solution to this mess....
Boycott the airlines--all of them--even the package delivery services that use airplanes.
Stop sending stuff by airmail through government postal services.
Contact the above and tell them you refuse to use their services until air travel security measures are returned to the way they were before 2001-09-11.
Once the airline and package delivery industries have lost enough money, they can put pressure on 'the powers that be' to get airport security back the way it was before '9/11'. Money talks!
You cannot have perfect security in a free society!
Although El-Al's security methods are quite impressive and should be used as a template for real airline security measures throughout the entire airline industry....
My fast, efficient, method is very light on system resources and attacks spam by detecting one or more common attributes of spam and taking the appropriate action.
Complete detailes here.
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
1) Check if the connecting IP address is a bonafide MX'ed mailserver on file with the DNS system.
2) POP3-BEFORE-SMTP for all other IP addresses at the MAIL FROM command to restrict SMTP access to the mailserver to only authorized users who are not connecting remote mailservers. Another 'siderule' would prevent 3-rd party relay abuse by prohibiting email from a third party domain from being passed through one of the two domains who take part in an SMTP session. In a perfect internet, only bonafide, properly DNS registered mailservers would transfer email like so:
Doing this would simplify tracing emails as there is no apparent reason for a non mailserver IP to 'talk' to anyone other than their own ISP's mailserver. Blocking port 25 outbound does nothing but funnel the spammers spam through the ISP's mailserver. By the time the complaints come and the spammer's account is suspended/terminated, the spammer has likely moved on to another acount at another ISP to repeat the process all over again.
3) If either test fails, drop the TCP/IP connection.
I know rule number 1 doesn't work in real life as I have 2 examples I know of:
1) My email domain, hotpop.com, uses 'hidden mailservers' not on file with the DNS system that appear in the 'Received:' lines of past email messages I've received.
2) The last time I checked, the mailservers at hotmail.com service both hotmail.com and msn.com -- there aren't any mailservers at the msn.com domain (Microsoft's Online Community).
Because of this, I have to use elaborate, but effective ways to stop the spammer from spamming. For starters, I limit all remote IPs to 1 connection. Any more than that will result in a long delay and a 'already connected' 421 error message sent back to punish multithreaded spambots. Next is filtering against a IP and/or sender email/domain blacklist. If found on either blacklist, the spammers time is wasted and a 'blacklisted' 421 message is sent. Should they spam by using the DATA command, the message, like all messages received by my mailserver at this point, is 'safed' of all potentially hostile content and scanned for 'spammines' and their time is wasted after sending the spam in proportion to the 'spamminess' of the message denoted by the message's SpamByte 'score': the spammier the message, the longer the spammer has to wait for their spam to be processed by the mailserver. If the spammer disconnects before the delay expires, their spam is summarily discarded. This will reduce the influx of spam to the mailer daemon part of the program. Sending legitiamte email will result in little or no delay. Surviving email have their spam score inserted on the email subject line. This allows recipients to 'preview' a message at the email header level before downloading it. This will also permit *MUCH SIMPLIFIED* rules-based filtering in the email client. Local email delivery is attempted by the mailer daemon part of the mailserver by comparing the SpamByte score of the message with the SpamByte 'mask' of the recipient.
Any email containing content unwanted by the recipient is 'deleted' and *NEVER* appears in their inbox! Automatic, recipient-based email filtering!
As a result, system resources are conserved as mail is refused to recipients that are 'over quota' as well. Incoming email messages that are processed are logged and saved to disk. This can
Because of the Boulder Pledge and my unwillingness to become a spammer myself to promote these two programs, I ask you all this question: Will you reward my efforts and purchase my shareware mailserver program after trying it out first? When properly installed and configured, see for yourself how it blocks spammers altogether or 'safes' hostile email content and clearly and symbolically identifies the message's 'spamlike' attributes on the email message 'Subject: 'line. Email containing content unwanted by the recipient is automatically 'deleted' and *NEVER* appears in their inbox! In doing so, you will help reduce email spam and malware and reward my efforts to provide you the tools to do so. If both programs were in wide use on the internet, spam and malware would be 'almost impossible' to distribute.
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Without changing/breaking the SMTP email standard, my mailserver program scores incoming messages for 'spamminess' and delays processing of the message appropriately. If the spammer disconnects before the delay expires, their message(s) are *NOT* processed!
This applies to all messages process by my mailserver. All 'non-spammy' messages will have little or no delay and will be process immediately.
The 'delay factor' is user settable and the default suggested value will result in an approximately one minute delay for an incomming email message with 'maximum spammage' (any longer and Outlook will 'complain').
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
No more 'spammy' email that could be construed as containing email addresses, URLs, file attachments, HTML, quoted printable content, numbers, $'s and %'s.
That way, spamvertised websites can be totally ignored...
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
Advertising for the ADD MTV generation:
Both seen on Cartoon Network:
The car ad with the snazzy music and the disclaimer 'Professional freerunners. Do not attempt.' The ad sorta looks like an action sequence in an expensive Hollywood movie. Are they selling cars or an experience at the movies?
The Sealab 2021 2-DVD set. A masterpiece montage of idiocy I find compelling whenever I see it: An explosion of unrelated images most of which have nothing to do with Sealab 2021! Genius and madness on display in the same ad! By the way, I have no intent on buying this DVD set, I just sincerely admire effort (and desparation?) that went into this ad.
Well, if ads were done like truly informative press releases (not thinly disguised ads), they would be cheaper and shorter and there would be more time available to the programming content.
In closing, the goal of good advertisng is to inform, not persuade. In the effort to 'grab cash' from consumers, most commercials play to the comsumers feelings and attitudes toward themselves and others, not logical rational thinking. As a result, such ads are superficial, specious, and ultimately demeaning for all involved with it.
Such are my views on this matter,
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam
The relevant bit from:
Pure Crypto Project
which was 'cited' from:
http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune/crypto/13190
-- begin quote --
Adi Shamir once proposed the following hash function:
Let n = p*q be the product of two large primes, such that
factoring n is believed to be infeasible.
Let g be an element of maximum order in Z_n^* (i.e. an
element of order lambda(n) = lcm(p-1,q-1)).
Assume that n and g are fixed and public; p and q are secret.
Let x be an input to be hashed, interpreted as a
non-negative integer. (Of arbitrary length; this may be
considerably larger than n.)
Define hash(x) = g^x (mod n).
Then this hash function is provably collision-resistant, since
the ability to find a collision means that you have an x and
an x' such that
hash(x) = hash(x')
which implies that
x - x' = k * lambda(n)
for some k. That is a collision implies that you can find a
multiple of lambda(n). Being able to find a multiple of lambda(n)
means that you can factor n.
I would suggest this meets the specs of your query above.
Cheers,
Ron Rivest
Ronald L. Rivest
Room 324, 200 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139
Tel 617-253-5880, Fax 617-258-9738, Email
-- end quote --
My question is that does such a hash function live up to Shamir's and Rivest's claims? If so, such hash functions are a lot simpler to understand, use, and implement in software. Apart from the 'factoring n' bit, I can see no problems with this hash function as well but I am not a 'hardcore' mathematician like Rivest and Shamir are.
PS: Please help me decode the following:
0x0d0a (568518) 's signature line:
US War on Terror victories: an old chess champion, a student volunteer forum moderator, a US-planted mole. Proud?
old chess champion = Robert James 'Bobby' Fischer.
So who are the other two?
I cannot ask 0x0d0a by email, he/she won't give their email address out.
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
http://www.cf13.com/press-release.htm
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
I liked the part in the game where Ginsu^WGoemon sliced the helicopter up in the sewer system with his 'unbreakable' katana.
::Until I saw more Lupin III anime, Goemon was known as Ginsu to me for that scene in the game--refering to the knife set they hawked on late-nite TV years and years and years ago when the Cliffhanger game was out....
PS: Cartoon Network is showing Lupin III TV series. It is funny to watch--sometimes riotously so. I like how it is anachronistic at times for comedic effect.
PPS: Yeah, I managed to beat both Dragon's Lair (one time on one token/quarter) and Space Ace (blast that diabolically difficult 'rollerskating' sequence!) and that was the end of that -- I even vaguely remember watching the Saturday morning cartoon series for both of them....::
http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm
will do just that.
Therefore:
SpamByte: Game Over, Spammers/Computer Crackers...
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
If the offending domain is on file at rfc-ignorant.org, sending an abuse report to them is a waste of time and resources.
Blacklist the offenders instead. (which includes major players like aol.com, rr.com, and comcast.net)
When enough people complain and 'jump ship' at the blacklisted domains, the income lost will motivate the 'powers that be' there to address the situation properly or else they will eventually go out of business.
In short, unencrypted steganography isn't particularly useful, but encrypted, you can really hide things.
Would mass use of Ron Rivest's cleartext 'chaffing' technique offer suitable 'deniable encryption' to the masses?
Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption
This is the Ron Rivest of RSA fame...
This describes people like me who have the experience, have it listed on their resume, but don't have a college degree to show for their efforts.
People like me who love to do this type of work are all but shut out from the 'big leagues' because we have no degree when we may have done more in the real world than the freshly-minted college graduate has.
So what do people like me do? The choices appear to be either self-employment doing something we love and find challenging or a monotonous 'easy' job working for someone else--likely some big impersonal corporation in the service sector where all you are to the executive staff is just another cog in the corporate profitmaking machine....
smilheim (804292): I personally feel that working your way up from the bottom and attaining the knowledge on your own is much more valuable.
I am an example of this.
This shows that you are in your chosen field of expertise for the right reasons and have the real-life experience that may be more valuable than four years of college-level book learning, classroom instruction, and homework.
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
clambrac (722059): You need a degree to become a paid, hired code monkey for a company.
I don't have a degree.
I was ultimately hired as a computer programmer years ago due to what computer related information I knew at the time and this old MS-DOS program.
Today, I still don't have a degree now yet I wrote the two freeware/shareware programs on this page that solve a major problem that has been plaguing the Internet since May 1, 1978 or March 5, 1994 depending on who is doing the counting.
Now then, what is really more important when hiring your next computer programmer?
A degree and no real-world experience.
or
No degree and lots of real-world experience.
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
The Mayor (6048) wrote:
I've had to write LOTS of complicated mission-critical source code in the past with the help of the lead software designer. It was hectic and stressful with everchanging goals. How did I accomplish this? Simple.
I wrote the software as a 'sea' of short, simple, single purpose functions that were called from larger more complicated 'control functions'.
For the most part, to make a tiny but critical change in the application, all I had to do was to find and make a change in the proper single purpose function.
To even write such complicated software in the first place required breaking down the task algorithmically to something analagous to the single CPU instruction level. For an actual (demo) example, suppose I had gather information stored in variables into a line of text to save to a log file in Microsoft Visual C++....
--BEGIN CODE FRAGMENT --
CString str, fld, fnam;
int op1, op2, sum;
op1 = 2;
op2 = 3;
sum = op1 + op2;
str = "";
fld.Format("%d",op1);
str += fld;
str += " + ";
fld.Format("%d",op2);
str += fld;
str += " = ";
fld.Format("%d",sum);
str += fld;
str += "\n";
fnam = ".\\sumans.txt";
AppendStringToFile(fnam,str);
-- END CODE FRAGMENT --
See how painfully verbose everything is laid out.
Sure, I could have used a single CString.Format member function call (analgous to printf) but that would make it difficult and tedious to change this type of code around instead of the way it is. If I wanted to add another operand to the sum and its textual representation, I would have to make a copy of 3 lines of code and change a bit of the new text and a bit of the existing text to make the new version.
This type of software writing is painstaking and ridiculously over-detailed but it keeps everything in as obvious a form as possible and makes the process of making changes much easier.
PS: You also have to have the discipline to format the code with proper indentation and group blocks of statements together in a cluster to make the larger algorithmic sections of the code more apparent as what I did with the demo code above.
Outstanding post! A breakdown/elaboration of blanks's points:
What do you expect from a country where education and intelligence is not a "High priority"? "? Education is competition, meaning tomorrow's educated students, who become business men could be your next big competitor.
The end result of the 'pass the failures' attitude toward pre-college scholastic achievement. The USA has, in the broadest of terms, a populace that can barely read the newspaper, don't know their way around a map of the world, can't remember the facts for key moments in world history, and watches inane sitcoms on television paid for by often inane commercials that constantly interrupt them at every carefully crafted plot point cliffhanger!
And as everyone knows in the USA people don't matter, Big business does.
Here are the two best examples I can come up with to support this assertion:
Even the USA government couldn't get Microsoft broken up into smaller companies during its antitrust suit with the software giant. Maybe, deep down inside, if they were successful, they would have screwed up the world economy as a result--part of which provides their operating funds. Hence, in the end, nothing happened. Microsoft is still in one piece and business is conducted as usual....
Look at the bipartisan political system in the USA: two sides of the same corporate-funded coin. Essentially, if you are not a 'Republicrat', you don't matter in the USA political process--your 'wasted votes' for third/alternate parties do little more than to motivate the two dominate political parties to fine-tune their platform and message in order to get the votes lost to dissent at the next election.
Yes business's would not be around if people couldn't buy their products, so they (we) get paid just enough to buy their products. And for those who can't afford it, that's what credit cards are for.
John Kerry wants to raise the minimum wage in the USA to $7.00 an hour. I am sure big business will fight against this to keep their labor costs low and their profit margins high as they have been since the last minimum wage hike in 1997. What 'burns me up' is how it is legal for restaurants to pay its waitstaff LESS than the minimum wage with the diners subsidising the waitstaff's wages with their tip monies to make up the difference--a process ripe for deception and uncertainty. Years ago, I used to work as a dishwasher at a now defunct restaurant chain so I've personally heard some of the 'horror stories' that revolve around tipping. I fully expect that if Kerry's minimum wage hike is passed into law, big business will simply raise their prices to get that money back as they have in the past ('passing the added costs on to the consumer')--a simple case of greed and inflation at work. A much better idea would be for the working poor who earn poverty level wages to be exempt from all forms of taxation except maybe monies paid into the Social Security system....
Because of years of greed and inflation, we now have a proliferation of credit card and home equity loan offers by mail, TV, and radio and 'payday advance' firms 'everywhere' that will loan you money for a short time at usurious interest rates.
We are losing a battle, not just with the rest of the world dealing with education, business, ethics(?) but a battle of bettering ourselves and giving our children a chance to survive in the future.
The USA, for the most part, is a 'microwave' society. Only matters of national policy, national defense, or college level education are planned out more than three months in advance--if that! Everything else is temporary and subject to change at a moment's notice due to societal and market forces within its borders. As a result, we now have:
- poorly educate
Or as an unavoidable drag on their bottom line.
A 'profit is all, [forget] the workers' mentality in a corporate-fueled work environment leads ultimately to an unhappy, vindictive, possibly homicidal workforce....
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.
That is if you have the voicemail service from the phone company (which costs additional money). The telemarketers can spam that as well. With my method, it is virtually impossible to be bothered by telemarketers/spammers/computer crackers.
Bryan Taylor
iamcf13@hotpop.com
SpamByte code: 7
(see http://www.cf13.com/game-over-spammers.htm )
All email containing unwanted content will be summarily deleted or reported as spam.