No, completely disallowing open relays is precisely what I meant. Open relays are the way spammers currently get a lot of it out onto the network.
That's so... 1998.
Most spam is sent via trojanned Windows machines, a vast army sitting on every broadband network in the world, created by several rounds of viruses over the last few years.
Most of the rest is sent by dedicated spam factories using various tricks to make it look like it's really coming from dial pools or 3rd world countries, or pretending to be "opt-in" so they can safely spew directly from MCI or Savvis or SBC or other spam-friendly ISP's.
Open SMTP relays are well-mapped by the DNSbl's and hardly used for spam at all these days.
This is makes me think that some payola was involved.
duh. CAN-SPAM was bought and paid for by the DMA. It never had anything to do with actually reducing spam, but was intended to supplant more effective state laws and indirectly legitimize big-company spam.
You seem to believe they are only coming for the "bad guys". No one said there weren't genuine bad guys, there always are, and there always will be. It's what you give up to get them that counts.
I have complained to ISP's all over the world. Not once have I ever received a response from a Russian ISP, nor have I ever witnessed them discontinuing service to the spammer or other abuser as a result of complaints. I'm not saying it doesn't happen; in fact, I believe Russian ISP's are probably better than those in China, Korea, Brazil and any number of other cesspools, but I can say it hasn't happened for me. Some of that is probably a language problem, but again, I can't do anything about that.
And, FWIW, I work for a Canadian ISP part-time, handling abuse matters, and I guarantee that a Russian complainant would receive the same response from me that any other complainant does - if I can confirm the abuse, the abuser gets terminated. Period. Although, in our case, we don't really get spammers signing up, but we do get trojanned systems and the like that need to be firewalled until they can be cleaned up. That happens as fast as possible.
As long as you waive the same rights when you eat at McDonald's, or drink beer, or drive over the speed limit, or participate in dangerous sports.
Oh, not interested? Guess what, living is dangerous. That's why we have emergency rooms. Not that I particularly think they should be taxpayer funded, but excluding only your pet peeve is stupid.
Many sysadmins are enabling blind filtering on national IP ranges. And which networks end up in the blacklists most of the time? You name it: chinese, african and eastern european.
Yeah, we are, because your ISP's don't follow the rules, don't respond to abuse messages, and don't do anything about the spammers and other scum using your networks to attack ours.
I block mail from Savvis and SBC/Ameritech and a few other North American ISP's that have the same problem.
If you want to play on the Internet, follow the rules.
And yes, I know there is jack that you, as an individual, can do to fix the problem, and I feel bad about that, but we have to protect our networks from the non-stop DDoS that comes from the "dark side" of the Internet these days.
what boggles my mind is that I doubt we would have to work half this hard in a hunter gatherer society
You would also live until maybe 30, assuming you survived early childhood. The smallest injury could prove fatal. You would have essentially no education other than the knowledge needed to survive. In an average life you would experience several broken bones, all of which would heal badly and cause you permanent pain and suffering.
Yeah you might have 10 hours a day free instead of 5 (although you wouldn't have weekends off), you would have essentially nothing to do for entertainment or to expand your horizons.
There would be room for at most about 20 million people in the whole world, so essentially everyone would have to die.
I'll take my 8 hours a day of work that won't cripple me, thanks.
To be honest, I'm not in favour of unchecked gambling, but then I'm not in favour of unchecked alcohol abuse either, but you don't see church and state bringing the roof down on that ballgame, do you?
Well, you may recall that in the US (and Canada), they tried. Turns out people really, really like to drink. Prohibition didn't stop drinking, but it did make organized crime incredibly rich and therefore powerful. Just like the prohibitions on drugs and gambling do today.
That is not true. If the domain is not REGISTRAR-LOCK then any other registrar can request a transfer of the domain. If the current registrar does not explicity deny the request, the domain automatically gets transferred after 5 business days.
Any claims concerning the age of the universe are based on the flawed idea that we can extrapolate information on ages and distances from a relatively small sample.
That's nice, but the only people who argue seriously against the Earth being billions of years old do so because of one book of fables written down over a period of centuries, with absolutely no scientific evidence to support their viewpoint. Science has hundreds of interlocking and supporting theories from many fields that together present a reasonably solid case that the Earth is billions of years old, and the Universe is much older still.
If you have scientific data to challenge the currently accepted scientific view of the universe, please present it. Arguing that the current models are incorrect without data to prove your theory is foolish.
Humans often like to think themselves as the most successful animal yet they are not the most successful by the criteria of numbers or biomass.
Yeah, I believe that distinction goes to ants. Who are highly cooperative, within family/clan groupings. Much like humans, actually, before the advent of agriculture.
a) put bureaucrats out of work. Their enormous unions then strike, shutting down the rest of government, pissing everyone off.
b) reduce the power of politicans, especially senators and congressman in charge of powerful committees.
c) reduce the amount of money available to defense contractors and other companies dependent on tax dollars. Their lobbyists will then withhold money from the politicians' next campaigns, further threatening their power.
Since all these groups are in a position to basically dictate their terms to you, the taxpayer, shrinkage of government will never happen. The best you can hope for is to slow year to year growth, but even that process has broken down in recent decades.
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No, completely disallowing open relays is precisely what I meant. Open relays are the way spammers currently get a lot of it out onto the network.
... 1998.
That's so
Most spam is sent via trojanned Windows machines, a vast army sitting on every broadband network in the world, created by several rounds of viruses over the last few years.
Most of the rest is sent by dedicated spam factories using various tricks to make it look like it's really coming from dial pools or 3rd world countries, or pretending to be "opt-in" so they can safely spew directly from MCI or Savvis or SBC or other spam-friendly ISP's.
Open SMTP relays are well-mapped by the DNSbl's and hardly used for spam at all these days.
This is makes me think that some payola was involved.
duh. CAN-SPAM was bought and paid for by the DMA. It never had anything to do with actually reducing spam, but was intended to supplant more effective state laws and indirectly legitimize big-company spam.
If all the ice on Antarctica and Greenland melted, global sea level would rise about 80 metres. There is 30 million km3 of water in Antarctic ice.
The ice is miles deep on Antarctica.
It would have to get pretty damned hot to melt all that though.
You seem to believe they are only coming for the "bad guys". No one said there weren't genuine bad guys, there always are, and there always will be. It's what you give up to get them that counts.
Mmmm .. never. They bought themselves a CAN-SPAM act that accomplishes exactly that.
That will be trillions of year from now. That's a lot of life and potential to throw away now.
I have complained to ISP's all over the world. Not once have I ever received a response from a Russian ISP, nor have I ever witnessed them discontinuing service to the spammer or other abuser as a result of complaints. I'm not saying it doesn't happen; in fact, I believe Russian ISP's are probably better than those in China, Korea, Brazil and any number of other cesspools, but I can say it hasn't happened for me. Some of that is probably a language problem, but again, I can't do anything about that.
And, FWIW, I work for a Canadian ISP part-time, handling abuse matters, and I guarantee that a Russian complainant would receive the same response from me that any other complainant does - if I can confirm the abuse, the abuser gets terminated. Period. Although, in our case, we don't really get spammers signing up, but we do get trojanned systems and the like that need to be firewalled until they can be cleaned up. That happens as fast as possible.
Ask them. They are supposedly competent adults, and it is up to them, not some nanny-state, to tell the difference.
If the women involved don't have a problem with it, I don't see why I should.
If they are being forced, then naturally it's a different problem.
The Civil War amptly demonstrated how much states' rights count for in the USA.
As long as you waive the same rights when you eat at McDonald's, or drink beer, or drive over the speed limit, or participate in dangerous sports.
Oh, not interested? Guess what, living is dangerous. That's why we have emergency rooms. Not that I particularly think they should be taxpayer funded, but excluding only your pet peeve is stupid.
Many sysadmins are enabling blind filtering on national IP ranges. And which networks end up in the blacklists most of the time? You name it: chinese, african and eastern european.
Yeah, we are, because your ISP's don't follow the rules, don't respond to abuse messages, and don't do anything about the spammers and other scum using your networks to attack ours.
I block mail from Savvis and SBC/Ameritech and a few other North American ISP's that have the same problem.
If you want to play on the Internet, follow the rules.
And yes, I know there is jack that you, as an individual, can do to fix the problem, and I feel bad about that, but we have to protect our networks from the non-stop DDoS that comes from the "dark side" of the Internet these days.
No kidding. I've heard of at least 2 jetliners that ran out of gas. I can only assume that putting gas in the plane is on the checklist?
Sure ... because criminals will never disable the sensors in the cars they steal.
what boggles my mind is that I doubt we would have to work half this hard in a hunter gatherer society
You would also live until maybe 30, assuming you survived early childhood. The smallest injury could prove fatal. You would have essentially no education other than the knowledge needed to survive. In an average life you would experience several broken bones, all of which would heal badly and cause you permanent pain and suffering.
Yeah you might have 10 hours a day free instead of 5 (although you wouldn't have weekends off), you would have essentially nothing to do for entertainment or to expand your horizons.
There would be room for at most about 20 million people in the whole world, so essentially everyone would have to die.
I'll take my 8 hours a day of work that won't cripple me, thanks.
Yep, you can do your shitty job _forever_, or at least until a robot comes along to do it better. Hah! Let's see what that does for suicide rates.
That's fine, if you need Oracle, then you need Oracle. Most people don't.
You're telling me that MySQL locks the entire table when I insert a row? You must be joking - that would bring a database to it's knees
Yep, it sure does.
To be honest, I'm not in favour of unchecked gambling, but then I'm not in favour of unchecked alcohol abuse either, but you don't see church and state bringing the roof down on that ballgame, do you?
Well, you may recall that in the US (and Canada), they tried. Turns out people really, really like to drink. Prohibition didn't stop drinking, but it did make organized crime incredibly rich and therefore powerful. Just like the prohibitions on drugs and gambling do today.
That is not true. If the domain is not REGISTRAR-LOCK then any other registrar can request a transfer of the domain. If the current registrar does not explicity deny the request, the domain automatically gets transferred after 5 business days.
The problem isn't GM, though, it's IP law. A lot of the anti-GM crowd are just opposed to science in general.
How did they compare to everyone else in Wal-Mart? Perhaps there is a correlation, just not the one you were thinking of ...
Any claims concerning the age of the universe are based on the flawed idea that we can extrapolate information on ages and distances from a relatively small sample.
That's nice, but the only people who argue seriously against the Earth being billions of years old do so because of one book of fables written down over a period of centuries, with absolutely no scientific evidence to support their viewpoint. Science has hundreds of interlocking and supporting theories from many fields that together present a reasonably solid case that the Earth is billions of years old, and the Universe is much older still.
If you have scientific data to challenge the currently accepted scientific view of the universe, please present it. Arguing that the current models are incorrect without data to prove your theory is foolish.
Humans often like to think themselves as the most successful animal yet they are not the most successful by the criteria of numbers or biomass.
Yeah, I believe that distinction goes to ants. Who are highly cooperative, within family/clan groupings. Much like humans, actually, before the advent of agriculture.
You would think that, but that would:
a) put bureaucrats out of work. Their enormous unions then strike, shutting down the rest of government, pissing everyone off.
b) reduce the power of politicans, especially senators and congressman in charge of powerful committees.
c) reduce the amount of money available to defense contractors and other companies dependent on tax dollars. Their lobbyists will then withhold money from the politicians' next campaigns, further threatening their power.
Since all these groups are in a position to basically dictate their terms to you, the taxpayer, shrinkage of government will never happen. The best you can hope for is to slow year to year growth, but even that process has broken down in recent decades.