Hola, thanks for pointing out this to the AC above. I'm the current maintainer of the AHBL, Brielle.
After a while of maintaining a DNSbl, you start to refine your policies and how you handle things - unfortunately, with the amount of douchebags and assholes who operate mail servers and networks out there, those policies tend to get more restrictive and locked down to prevent abuse.
We used to offer a whitelisting service, where responsible ISPs could register to avoid auto-listing of their blocks. Had to nuke that due to being lied to and threatened (big surprise there). I used to provide free consulting to smaller ISPs who got listed to assist them in cleaning up their networks, securing their servers, etc. Had to nuke that program too - you can thank GoDaddy for that.
These ISPs, the ones that whine about being listed, usually have a good reason why they are listed. They won't publicly admit it obviously, but the almighty buck tends to override the common sense that you need to properly control and manage your own networks. If you are willing to allow your customers to spam, abuse, and just be downright shitheads from your IP space in exchange for money, then you need to be willing to accept the consequences.
The only reason why things are the way they are today, is because people don't know how to behave and be a good online neighbor. In other words...
I'm not sure, hence why I left it up to people here to see if they notice anything out of the ordinary, or if they can connect the info to something else.
Someone who is familiar with Photoshop, is the uuid: value truly unique to the Photoshop install?
Also, if you check the HTML code, you'll see references to 74.81.170.107, specifically https://74.81.170.107/xxxxxx. Take a peek at the security certificate it hands out (expired in 2006).
It seems to try and use piwik AND google analytics to track visits. It just seems _really_ shoddy and i'm leaning more towards this as a publicity stunt perhaps.
I wouldn't trust GoDaddy either - they will lie to save their own asses and bottom line.
Theres one method i've used fairly often in the past for getting mail out of an older client - provided the older client supports imap (lookout and lookout express do).
First, setup a new account on your imap server just for archival purposes (you can setup an imap server on any UNIX/Linux distro and even Windows with Cygwin fairly easily - dovecot is a good place to start). Make sure its using either mbox or maildir (preferred).
Second, setup said account on all the mail clients you'd like to archive. Make sure you are setting them up as imap and not pop3.
Third, drag the contents of each local folder/inbox/etc to a folder on the archive specific imap account. It will take a while, but the entire contents of your mailbox will be copied over, message by message, in imap's way of doing things, then deposited by the imap server into a the local format of your choice.
You've just created flat text versions of client specific archives. Create folders, sub folders, etc and organize things in your modern client which can easily do imap. You can easily search with any numerous free packages, archive and compress permanently with squashfs, or even just leave them available through imap to search with the new Thunderbird's (3.1) global indexer.
And when your contract is over at Microsoft, be prepared to be without a job for at least 3 months before they will consider rehiring you. Within those 3 months, you are not allowed to work in the computer field. I've had more then one friend who worked for MS on a contract basis and they were royally fucked over - alot of broken promises for full time non-contract work and being forced into a position they weren't hired for.
When we purchased our 42inch LCD last year, we had already figured out which TV we wanted, and went to the local BestBuy store to get it. First thing we did when we were approached by one of their people...
"We're here for this TV, and only this TV. We're not interested in extended warranties, or home theater systems and overpriced cables, and we're not interested in someone coming to our house to set it up. We're both experienced IT individuals, we've already got great HDMI and optical cables from monoprice, and a Sony 5.1 sound system that could knock the screens you have on the wall off at 50% volume. If you can't just ring us up, we'll find someone else who can."
He had us rung up and walking us out the door in 5 minutes with our new TV.
One thing we've learned, and it works equally as well with Dell and Verizon sales too, is that if you put it all on the table up front, and make it clear you will walk right then and there if they don't play by the rules, 9 times out of 10 there will be no issues. Hang up and call again, or find another sales person, there will always be someone willing to take your cash if the first person won't.
Because, unlike the rest of the employees I don't visit Anime sites during business hours, saturating the T1 on a deadline, install 'codecs' which are actually viruses, and then lie to the boss and IT that I got a malware virus while using juno webmail and that I was just checking during my lunch hour.
Nothing impresses the boss more then lying to his face when he's got the logs of your web browsing from the past month sitting in front of him and he knows about your interests in tentacle porn.
That, my friend, is the difference between IT and regular employees.
Where I am, there's a local surplus store that does robot workshops once or twice a month. Most of the motors, gears, etc come from scrap printers - they'll pile them out back, and recruit the kids and adults in the workship to rip them apart and collect the parts they need. Whats left over, is sent off for scrap/recycling.
Not only does it help teach the kids how to build things, but they learn the value of salvage and reusing components.
So, how much do you want to bet, that if the prosecution had found it, that they would have 'accidentally' forgot to tell the defense? Knee jerk reaction for a conviction is modus operandi for the police, regardless of if the person is guilty or not.
I love how the game law enforcement plays requires people to defend their innocence rather then the prosecution proving guilt.
If you didn't know, there is a reason why those ads are bright/shiny/big/etc - Times square is the only place in the city that requires business owners to have illuminated signs, in essence encouraging developers/business owners to create these huge billboards and such.
It would be pitch black in times square at night if there were no ads.
They don't call it 'anonymous coward' for nothing. If you are so sure about how you feel and your beliefs, why don't you post with your actual slashdot username and an e-mail address? Or is it, you are worried about how the world will view you once your words are put with a name?
Did McAfee just openly admit that they stole code from GPL'd software? If they did... boy was that... stupid to say the least. Nothing like giving the gpl-violations.org people a nice goal.
"In other news, tonight President Bush announced in to the American people that Antigua is a terrorist state and sponsor of Al Qaeda. Bush repeatedly stated his desire for military action to inva... er liberate the country and it's people. Bush also praised Disney and the RIAA for endorsement of the Antigua liberation from terror."
How much you want to bet, once this is possible, suddenly we'll find that hurricanes only hit blue states and majority democrat neighborhoods/counties?
What better way to ensure victory, then to obliterate your competition's voters?
The official client is kinda... clumsy, and since Hotline SW isn't in business anymore, no more updates. But there are a few open source clients and the official client works under XP still.
There is a difference between including a GPL'd executable and executing it so you can take the output as any command line app and do something with, and taking a GPL'd executable and linking to it at either compile time or runtime and calling the functions directly. Some authors add an exception, others use the LGPL which explicitly allows linking with non-GPL'd apps.
The first, being yeah, its unethical, and provided the binary isn't modified from the original source, the company can just give a copy of the source code used to build it. The other, on the other hand, if the app isn't GPL compatible, blatantly violates the license if it links and include functions of the original binary.
Case in point - vendor contacted me about using my port of ClamAV on windows in their product. I thought at first they were going to use what 99% of the people use, and run clamd and interface with clamd over TCP/IP or a socket (which btw, is perfectly fine, since it uses a service exposed by clamav designed for integration with other apps). Turns out as I listened to them, they wanted to link directly to cygclamav-?.dll and include the rest of the clamav package to 'get around' the licensing limitations and make it seem they were calling clamscan or clamdscan. This also would have violated the license of Cygwin, which the clamav binaries depended on for compatibility.
After I warned them that I'd notify copyright holders if I found out they did it, they emailed me saying, "We have decided against using the ClamAV engine because its quality is in question."
Yuh huh. Sure.
IANAL, YMMV. This is based on alot of reading from a long time ago, so I may be off slightly.
If you offer unlimited data plans with your device, having built in wifi means that the end user wont bog down the network as much when they are around a local wifi AP. If you rely strictly on the cellular network for data and people actually use the service they are paying for, the performance in general will start to suck if you haven't built out the network properly.
I'd say its AT&T protecting itself when problems start to crop up with their data network.
From my experience (I've worked at and built enough ISPs) that even if they find a way to potentially reduce the customers cost per month (ie: through ads), they won't pass the savings to the customer - ever.
Safari is a pretty decent browser. Given that its not easy to get a KHTML based browser on Windows, this offers a nice chance for people who don't like the bloat that Mozilla has, or don't like the Gecko engine, to try something new.
I actually like the browser, alot. It gives K-Meleon, which is the Windows lightweight gecko backend MFC web browser, a bit of competition.
Back in the day (heh), before the dot bomb age, branding used to mean having your own domain name for e-mail rather then having your employees use Yahoo or Hotmail webmail accounts:-)
What it is, is 10kb of extra unneeded data. I'd rather there be 10kb more _useful_ information in that e-mail. Reminds me of when newbies used to have Outlook (Express) use thost stationary things when composing e-mail.
Used to get these messages with a 400kb background image, 3 pages of unreadable forwarded crap colored in weird ways, and just the word 'LOL' at the top.
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Hola, thanks for pointing out this to the AC above. I'm the current maintainer of the AHBL, Brielle.
After a while of maintaining a DNSbl, you start to refine your policies and how you handle things - unfortunately, with the amount of douchebags and assholes who operate mail servers and networks out there, those policies tend to get more restrictive and locked down to prevent abuse.
We used to offer a whitelisting service, where responsible ISPs could register to avoid auto-listing of their blocks. Had to nuke that due to being lied to and threatened (big surprise there). I used to provide free consulting to smaller ISPs who got listed to assist them in cleaning up their networks, securing their servers, etc. Had to nuke that program too - you can thank GoDaddy for that.
These ISPs, the ones that whine about being listed, usually have a good reason why they are listed. They won't publicly admit it obviously, but the almighty buck tends to override the common sense that you need to properly control and manage your own networks. If you are willing to allow your customers to spam, abuse, and just be downright shitheads from your IP space in exchange for money, then you need to be willing to accept the consequences.
The only reason why things are the way they are today, is because people don't know how to behave and be a good online neighbor. In other words...
"This is why we can't have nice things!"
I'm not sure, hence why I left it up to people here to see if they notice anything out of the ordinary, or if they can connect the info to something else.
Someone who is familiar with Photoshop, is the uuid: value truly unique to the Photoshop install?
Also, if you check the HTML code, you'll see references to 74.81.170.107, specifically https://74.81.170.107/xxxxxx. Take a peek at the security certificate it hands out (expired in 2006).
It seems to try and use piwik AND google analytics to track visits. It just seems _really_ shoddy and i'm leaning more towards this as a publicity stunt perhaps.
I wouldn't trust GoDaddy either - they will lie to save their own asses and bottom line.
Out of curiosity, has anyone bothered to look at the EXIF information in the big image that was posted?
Camera Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Macintosh
Image Created: 2010:11:18 09:37:21
Xmp m m history:
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Theres one method i've used fairly often in the past for getting mail out of an older client - provided the older client supports imap (lookout and lookout express do).
First, setup a new account on your imap server just for archival purposes (you can setup an imap server on any UNIX/Linux distro and even Windows with Cygwin fairly easily - dovecot is a good place to start). Make sure its using either mbox or maildir (preferred).
Second, setup said account on all the mail clients you'd like to archive. Make sure you are setting them up as imap and not pop3.
Third, drag the contents of each local folder/inbox/etc to a folder on the archive specific imap account. It will take a while, but the entire contents of your mailbox will be copied over, message by message, in imap's way of doing things, then deposited by the imap server into a the local format of your choice.
You've just created flat text versions of client specific archives. Create folders, sub folders, etc and organize things in your modern client which can easily do imap. You can easily search with any numerous free packages, archive and compress permanently with squashfs, or even just leave them available through imap to search with the new Thunderbird's (3.1) global indexer.
And when your contract is over at Microsoft, be prepared to be without a job for at least 3 months before they will consider rehiring you. Within those 3 months, you are not allowed to work in the computer field. I've had more then one friend who worked for MS on a contract basis and they were royally fucked over - alot of broken promises for full time non-contract work and being forced into a position they weren't hired for.
When we purchased our 42inch LCD last year, we had already figured out which TV we wanted, and went to the local BestBuy store to get it. First thing we did when we were approached by one of their people...
"We're here for this TV, and only this TV. We're not interested in extended warranties, or home theater systems and overpriced cables, and we're not interested in someone coming to our house to set it up. We're both experienced IT individuals, we've already got great HDMI and optical cables from monoprice, and a Sony 5.1 sound system that could knock the screens you have on the wall off at 50% volume. If you can't just ring us up, we'll find someone else who can."
He had us rung up and walking us out the door in 5 minutes with our new TV.
One thing we've learned, and it works equally as well with Dell and Verizon sales too, is that if you put it all on the table up front, and make it clear you will walk right then and there if they don't play by the rules, 9 times out of 10 there will be no issues. Hang up and call again, or find another sales person, there will always be someone willing to take your cash if the first person won't.
Because, unlike the rest of the employees I don't visit Anime sites during business hours, saturating the T1 on a deadline, install 'codecs' which are actually viruses, and then lie to the boss and IT that I got a malware virus while using juno webmail and that I was just checking during my lunch hour.
Nothing impresses the boss more then lying to his face when he's got the logs of your web browsing from the past month sitting in front of him and he knows about your interests in tentacle porn.
That, my friend, is the difference between IT and regular employees.
Where I am, there's a local surplus store that does robot workshops once or twice a month. Most of the motors, gears, etc come from scrap printers - they'll pile them out back, and recruit the kids and adults in the workship to rip them apart and collect the parts they need. Whats left over, is sent off for scrap/recycling.
Not only does it help teach the kids how to build things, but they learn the value of salvage and reusing components.
So, how much do you want to bet, that if the prosecution had found it, that they would have 'accidentally' forgot to tell the defense? Knee jerk reaction for a conviction is modus operandi for the police, regardless of if the person is guilty or not.
I love how the game law enforcement plays requires people to defend their innocence rather then the prosecution proving guilt.
If you didn't know, there is a reason why those ads are bright/shiny/big/etc - Times square is the only place in the city that requires business owners to have illuminated signs, in essence encouraging developers/business owners to create these huge billboards and such.
It would be pitch black in times square at night if there were no ads.
Can you provide all the domains you host, so that I can make sure that when they get blocked by the AHBL for abuse, they won't get removed? :)
They don't call it 'anonymous coward' for nothing. If you are so sure about how you feel and your beliefs, why don't you post with your actual slashdot username and an e-mail address? Or is it, you are worried about how the world will view you once your words are put with a name?
It still doesn't answer the question why it needed to be included with the story, given it doesn't have anything to do with 'news for geeks'.
And, its Male to female. Female to male is a completely different process. Hardly something to joke about regardless.
How is what Michelle did any of your business?
Did McAfee just openly admit that they stole code from GPL'd software? If they did... boy was that... stupid to say the least. Nothing like giving the gpl-violations.org people a nice goal.
"In other news, tonight President Bush announced in to the American people that Antigua is a terrorist state and sponsor of Al Qaeda. Bush repeatedly stated his desire for military action to inva... er liberate the country and it's people. Bush also praised Disney and the RIAA for endorsement of the Antigua liberation from terror."
How much you want to bet, once this is possible, suddenly we'll find that hurricanes only hit blue states and majority democrat neighborhoods/counties?
What better way to ensure victory, then to obliterate your competition's voters?
I love Metapad:
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
There are still a few hotline servers left active, as well as several trackers.
http://hotline.tracker-tracker.com/public/
The official client is kinda... clumsy, and since Hotline SW isn't in business anymore, no more updates. But there are a few open source clients and the official client works under XP still.
There is a difference between including a GPL'd executable and executing it so you can take the output as any command line app and do something with, and taking a GPL'd executable and linking to it at either compile time or runtime and calling the functions directly. Some authors add an exception, others use the LGPL which explicitly allows linking with non-GPL'd apps.
The first, being yeah, its unethical, and provided the binary isn't modified from the original source, the company can just give a copy of the source code used to build it. The other, on the other hand, if the app isn't GPL compatible, blatantly violates the license if it links and include functions of the original binary.
Case in point - vendor contacted me about using my port of ClamAV on windows in their product. I thought at first they were going to use what 99% of the people use, and run clamd and interface with clamd over TCP/IP or a socket (which btw, is perfectly fine, since it uses a service exposed by clamav designed for integration with other apps). Turns out as I listened to them, they wanted to link directly to cygclamav-?.dll and include the rest of the clamav package to 'get around' the licensing limitations and make it seem they were calling clamscan or clamdscan. This also would have violated the license of Cygwin, which the clamav binaries depended on for compatibility.
After I warned them that I'd notify copyright holders if I found out they did it, they emailed me saying, "We have decided against using the ClamAV engine because its quality is in question."
Yuh huh. Sure.
IANAL, YMMV. This is based on alot of reading from a long time ago, so I may be off slightly.
If you offer unlimited data plans with your device, having built in wifi means that the end user wont bog down the network as much when they are around a local wifi AP. If you rely strictly on the cellular network for data and people actually use the service they are paying for, the performance in general will start to suck if you haven't built out the network properly.
I'd say its AT&T protecting itself when problems start to crop up with their data network.
From my experience (I've worked at and built enough ISPs) that even if they find a way to potentially reduce the customers cost per month (ie: through ads), they won't pass the savings to the customer - ever.
Why? Profit. It's a great motive.
Safari is a pretty decent browser. Given that its not easy to get a KHTML based browser on Windows, this offers a nice chance for people who don't like the bloat that Mozilla has, or don't like the Gecko engine, to try something new.
I actually like the browser, alot. It gives K-Meleon, which is the Windows lightweight gecko backend MFC web browser, a bit of competition.
Back in the day (heh), before the dot bomb age, branding used to mean having your own domain name for e-mail rather then having your employees use Yahoo or Hotmail webmail accounts :-)
What it is, is 10kb of extra unneeded data. I'd rather there be 10kb more _useful_ information in that e-mail. Reminds me of when newbies used to have Outlook (Express) use thost stationary things when composing e-mail.
Used to get these messages with a 400kb background image, 3 pages of unreadable forwarded crap colored in weird ways, and just the word 'LOL' at the top.
Oh yeah, happy days those were.