"How many of us have to do business with Russian sites? So block the whole range of Russian IPs until the Russian government wants to do something about it. Same thing with Nigeria and so on. "
Funny. I have been doing this for years, but more inclusively by firewalling the entire world other than North America for the very reasons you cite. (A very effective strategy, by the way. It reduces spam by 98 percent.) But every time I have mentioned/advocated it on/., I got modded down as "Flamebait" or "Troll."
Maybe somebody with mod points and a bad attitude doesn't like me--or "works" in Russia.
I have no idea why anyone would mod down the parent. I came to this thread with the notion of posting that exact thought. In Texas alone there are rural expanses that eclipse the size of Japan. It is not cost effective to provide broadband infrastructire in such locales. And I say this to my chagrin as a telecommuter and resident of such a rural area.
To put another spin on the parent's comment: If the hospital sucessfully proves that employess released private patient records, it will be providing evidence against itself and said employees for federal CRIMINAL charges. HIPPA has some serious teeth. It was initiated to quell the release of information regarding AIDS paitents and prevent discrimination based thereon. In any event, for a healthcare worker or facility to release without consent any form of private patient information is to risk not only livlihood but federal imprisonment as well.
If the site serving the ads does not have to use the bandwidth to serve up the ads, then it costs less when an AdBlock user is viewing the content. Since Firefox/ad blocking are a minority of viewers, the number of ad-blocking users is therefore low. Hence, the majority of non-ad blocking (i.e., well, IE users), they are costing the site more money, while effectively subsidizing the ad-blockers.
2. Build the list "manually" by checking originating IP addresses through the ARIN datatbase http://www.arin.net/whois/
Using the latter method, simply pasting the originating IP address (example, 116.24.118.9) into the search field yields that the address block 116.0.0.0 - 116.255.255.255 is admintrated by APNIC, and therefore "foreign" (to North America). So, simply block that entire range.
Other foreign registries include AFRINIC (Africa et al), LACNIC (Latin America), and RIPE (Europe).
Trust me, this kind of blocking really does work and is a viable tool for many North American mail servers--Karma be damned.
RTFA before you post. He called no one a crackpot, but called the work "crackpottery."
FTFA: "It seems no expense was spared getting it published, which is in contrast to the content, and is unusual for such flagrant crackpottery. It may well be popular among creationists, who can always be trusted to favor glossy superficialities over substance."
I looked for an opportunity to reply (and tell the site operators to go fuck themselves), but there was none.
Who the hell is behinf this web page and what is their motivation?
Reality check: I (and most other people) either "channel surf" or mute TV commercials (unless they are entertaining, e.g., the Geico "Caveman" spots). We also block intrusive ads, popup pages, and other annoying web content. Guess why? Because said ads either overwhelm the reason we visited the web page or watched the TV program, or were so booo-oooring! that it caused a brain tumor to watch/view them.
If you want your ad viewed, come up with something worth viewing. Otherwise, "go fuck yourself."
The parent is wholly on-topic, polite (note the word "please"), and rational. So why the Troll mod? Children or religious zealots (Pantheists) with mod points would be my guess. Either way, an injustice is afoot.
Ah, no, but were it an OS thing, that would be omicron sigma, unless discussing the papal seat in Redmond, in which case it would be mu sigma. The heretical lambda, iota, nu, chi sigma would be another thread in that the first letter resembles and upside-down peace sign.
"For a very long time "X" was seen as a symbol for christ because of the cross. "
Part of the reason is that the Greek alphabet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet letter "Chi" is represented by the symbol "X" and was the first letter in the Greek spelling of "Christ" (chi, rho, iota, sigma tau). It is also the basis for the Roman cross http://www.canterburypewter.com/mailers/chirho.htm established by Constantine, Rome's first Christian emporer; it was comprised of the Greek letters chi and rho, which resemble "X" and "P".
This is an excellent example of why extreme left (Australia, in modern times) or extreme right (Germany, in history) politics are very, very bad things.
I'd say odds are that her phone just sucks and has little to do with service area.
Years ago,I had an old Audiovox phone. It worked great, and I could pick up a tower and make/receive calls from inside my house (located in a remote rural area). After the Audiovox became unusable due to a broken charger connector, I was forced to "upgeade" to a Motorola phone with all the kiddy bubble-gum-and-trendy-athletic-shoes "features." I then had to go outside in the yard to make/receive calls. Sometime later, I was forced to make another phone "upgrade." I now have to drive two miles down the road to a hilltop to make/receive calls.
Location has less to do with function than does the phone itself--which with each "improvement" gets worse at doing what a phone is supposed to do: make and receive calls.
"The point of the nonsense spam is to mess with adaptive spam filters."
True.
"The idea is to train the filters so that the relative weight of whether the message looks like gibberish or not is high compared to other factors. Then you make the spam messages you want to actually reach the recipient look like legitimate messages."
Ah, no. The idea is to get past the spam filter with gibberish text but hawk the spamvertized item in a GIF or JPEG that the filter cannot see, but a human can (at least when reading email in HTML rather than straight text mode).
I suspect the grandparent sees only the gibberish because his email clien defaults to plain taxt rather than HTML viewing mode. Smart move, that, for a number of reasons I am sure most here already know.
FTFA: "Those who choose not to abide by the law will be subject to penalty."
1. I tell state to fuck off and do not buy health insurance 2. State issues fone for non-compliance 3. I tell state to fuck off and do not pay fine 4. State puts me in prison for not paying fine 5. State provides my health care while in prison 6. Profit!
Otional scenario:
4. State seizes my home and assets to recoup fine 5. I am now below poverty level and qualify for free health care 6. Profit!
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What the International Court says is irrelevant. The U.S. is bound by its constitution, not some foreign court's whims.
"How many of us have to do business with Russian sites? So block the whole range of Russian IPs until the Russian government wants to do something about it. Same thing with Nigeria and so on. "
/., I got modded down as "Flamebait" or "Troll."
Funny. I have been doing this for years, but more inclusively by firewalling the entire world other than North America for the very reasons you cite. (A very effective strategy, by the way. It reduces spam by 98 percent.) But every time I have mentioned/advocated it on
Maybe somebody with mod points and a bad attitude doesn't like me--or "works" in Russia.
"Isn't that a bit off topic?"
Uh, no.
I have no idea why anyone would mod down the parent. I came to this thread with the notion of posting that exact thought. In Texas alone there are rural expanses that eclipse the size of Japan. It is not cost effective to provide broadband infrastructire in such locales. And I say this to my chagrin as a telecommuter and resident of such a rural area.
Has anyone ever looked into how google-analytics.com (formerly Urchin) works? This blogger http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/11/prevent-google-analytics-from-tracking.html gives a bit of info--and it does not appear to comply with the Google "do no evil" mantra.
To put another spin on the parent's comment: If the hospital sucessfully proves that employess released private patient records, it will be providing evidence against itself and said employees for federal CRIMINAL charges. HIPPA has some serious teeth. It was initiated to quell the release of information regarding AIDS paitents and prevent discrimination based thereon. In any event, for a healthcare worker or facility to release without consent any form of private patient information is to risk not only livlihood but federal imprisonment as well.
Someone with mod points please give the parent an "Insightful."
If the site serving the ads does not have to use the bandwidth to serve up the ads, then it costs less when an AdBlock user is viewing the content. Since Firefox/ad blocking are a minority of viewers, the number of ad-blocking users is therefore low. Hence, the majority of non-ad blocking (i.e., well, IE users), they are costing the site more money, while effectively subsidizing the ad-blockers.
Seems quite reasonable and equitable to me.
I use two ways:
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1. Resources such as http://www.apnic.net/db/ranges.html and http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-spac
2. Build the list "manually" by checking originating IP addresses through the ARIN datatbase http://www.arin.net/whois/
Using the latter method, simply pasting the originating IP address (example, 116.24.118.9) into the search field yields that the address block 116.0.0.0 - 116.255.255.255 is admintrated by APNIC, and therefore "foreign" (to North America). So, simply block that entire range.
Other foreign registries include AFRINIC (Africa et al), LACNIC (Latin America), and RIPE (Europe).
Trust me, this kind of blocking really does work and is a viable tool for many North American mail servers--Karma be damned.
If you live in North America, the solution is simple: Firewall the rest of the world.
For years, I have used this practice and by so doing eliminated spam and malware by 95-plus percent.
So what if somebody in Lower Slobovia cannot communicate with me? I/my business have no interests in Lower Slobovia.
Zero loss, huge gain.
It works for me.
Uh, can somebody please explain why the parent is modded "Flamebait"?
RTFA before you post. He called no one a crackpot, but called the work "crackpottery."
FTFA: "It seems no expense was spared getting it published, which is in contrast to the content, and is unusual for such flagrant crackpottery. It may well be popular among creationists, who can always be trusted to favor glossy superficialities over substance."
I looked for an opportunity to reply (and tell the site operators to go fuck themselves), but there was none.
Who the hell is behinf this web page and what is their motivation?
Reality check: I (and most other people) either "channel surf" or mute TV commercials (unless they are entertaining, e.g., the Geico "Caveman" spots). We also block intrusive ads, popup pages, and other annoying web content. Guess why? Because said ads either overwhelm the reason we visited the web page or watched the TV program, or were so booo-oooring! that it caused a brain tumor to watch/view them.
If you want your ad viewed, come up with something worth viewing. Otherwise, "go fuck yourself."
The parent is wholly on-topic, polite (note the word "please"), and rational. So why the Troll mod? Children or religious zealots (Pantheists) with mod points would be my guess. Either way, an injustice is afoot.
Ah, no, but were it an OS thing, that would be omicron sigma, unless discussing the papal seat in Redmond, in which case it would be mu sigma. The heretical lambda, iota, nu, chi sigma would be another thread in that the first letter resembles and upside-down peace sign.
"For a very long time "X" was seen as a symbol for christ because of the cross. "
m established by Constantine, Rome's first Christian emporer; it was comprised of the Greek letters chi and rho, which resemble "X" and "P".
Part of the reason is that the Greek alphabet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet letter "Chi" is represented by the symbol "X" and was the first letter in the Greek spelling of "Christ" (chi, rho, iota, sigma tau). It is also the basis for the Roman cross http://www.canterburypewter.com/mailers/chirho.ht
This is an excellent example of why extreme left (Australia, in modern times) or extreme right (Germany, in history) politics are very, very bad things.
CPM86--best OS ever. True mutitasking/multi-screens, powerful CLI, and exceptionally fast.
Where, oh, where have you gone, Digital Research?
I'd say odds are that her phone just sucks and has little to do with service area.
Years ago,I had an old Audiovox phone. It worked great, and I could pick up a tower and make/receive calls from inside my house (located in a remote rural area). After the Audiovox became unusable due to a broken charger connector, I was forced to "upgeade" to a Motorola phone with all the kiddy bubble-gum-and-trendy-athletic-shoes "features." I then had to go outside in the yard to make/receive calls. Sometime later, I was forced to make another phone "upgrade." I now have to drive two miles down the road to a hilltop to make/receive calls.
Location has less to do with function than does the phone itself--which with each "improvement" gets worse at doing what a phone is supposed to do: make and receive calls.
Wow, I wonder if we combined a diamond-based fuel cell with the MIT spacesuit http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/1 6/2024242 would it create a Mister Freeze suit like Arnold wore in that whacked-out Batman movie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_%26_Robin_(fil m).
Geller reminds me of Peter Popoff http://www.bible.ca/tongues-popoff-39-17Mhz.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9w7jHYriFo , W.V. Grant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._V._Grant and other televangelists. Tools and charlatans all, preying on people's ignorance, greed, or desperation. All of them should be jailed for fraud.
"The point of the nonsense spam is to mess with adaptive spam filters."
True.
"The idea is to train the filters so that the relative weight of whether the message looks like gibberish or not is high compared to other factors. Then you make the spam messages you want to actually reach the recipient look like legitimate messages."
Ah, no. The idea is to get past the spam filter with gibberish text but hawk the spamvertized item in a GIF or JPEG that the filter cannot see, but a human can (at least when reading email in HTML rather than straight text mode).
I suspect the grandparent sees only the gibberish because his email clien defaults to plain taxt rather than HTML viewing mode. Smart move, that, for a number of reasons I am sure most here already know.
Don't you wish there was a -5 Bullshit mod for whole articles.
FTFA: "Those who choose not to abide by the law will be subject to penalty."
1. I tell state to fuck off and do not buy health insurance
2. State issues fone for non-compliance
3. I tell state to fuck off and do not pay fine
4. State puts me in prison for not paying fine
5. State provides my health care while in prison
6. Profit!
Otional scenario:
4. State seizes my home and assets to recoup fine
5. I am now below poverty level and qualify for free health care
6. Profit!
"But "mashup"?!? Who came up with that one? It sounds like it needs potatoes (!) or something."
Every time I see that I think of a "screwup" or "accident." Maybe because it rhymes with "smashup."
And not that it matters, but it sounds strongly like a British term. Anybody know the etymology?
[shrug]