If I wanted to get around it, I would just Interface my cellphone with Asterisk and forward all calls to a friend's or prepaid cellphone. Thanks for the suggestion, I think I am going to start my own "phone company" soon!
Too bad I spend all my free time reading Slashdot. As a result I don't have any friends to go anywhere with.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (*) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (*) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (*) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (*) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. (Again!) ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
If there was a priority header like that it would not be long before every packet was a "911" priority. The evil bit is a good example of why this won't work.
Spam filters that use Dynamic User Lists or Dialup User Lists as a major factor in classifying Spam are too strict. I am unable to reasonably obtain a static IP address. It would cost me over $100 per month extra to do so. As a result I run my server on a dynamic IP. I still want to send my email directly for many reasons. I find it very annoying when a Spam filter drops my email just because I am on a dynamic IP.
Last time I checked MPlayer "circumvents" it too. And that's not a Chinese import. It's still illegal, but they will have a lot harder time catching you!
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And if the proxy is so strict that port 443 is blocked, you can't use gmail anyway. The login page/iframe only works on https.
The Portable Node idea is nothing new. It Has Been Done Before, but this is the first (that I have seen) commercial implementation. At the price it is going for ($600) I doubt anyone will buy it, as you can build your own for almost half as much.
Where are you getting 100Mbit/Sec over cable? (Could you be thinking of Fast Ethernet, which is a LAN technology?) DOCSIS 2 only supports 38 Mbit/s per channel, and channel bonding (the use of multiple channels by the same customer) is not available.
On the other hand, DSL (ADSL2+ to be exact) supports 24 Mbit/s per phone line, although it may degrade over long distances. DSL works by breaking the unused spectrum of the phone line into 4312.5 Hz wide channels. The good channels are then bonded together to create one connection.
"Broadband in general refers to data transmission where multiple pieces of data are sent simultaneously to increase the effective rate of transmission."
By this definition, DSL is broadband, as it sends multiple pieces of data simultaneously, but Cable sends only one piece of data at a time making it Baseband. Actually, any dial up modem over 600 bit/s is broadband.
The other definition of broadband, or Broadband Internet access is any connection faster then 256 Kbits/s, which includes both cable and DSL.
If you did some real world testing, you would likely find the average full duplex throughput to be very close between the average cable and DSL connection. Finally, the definition of fast may change, but Broadband is a technical term, and IT HAS NOT CHANGED!
i am glad our secuirty policies are as stringent as they are.
Wow! You sound just like someone from the IT department at my school. They decided to block Slashdot and Google Groups exactly one week ago. The security has goten to the point that some of the more "nerdy" students have competitions to see who can break the new security first. These same students would leave everything alone if they could just have Slashdot and Firefox. And what happens if one of those "cracks" just happens to get in the wrong hands (aka. all the other students)? Businesses and schools both need some security, just make sure you don't over do it.
It's not like working for Microsoft would be any better then them being unemployed and envolved in organized crime. The only difference is that Microsoft has plenty of money to pay off the goverment/law enforcement.
Those GUIs waste so much RAM too... I still only have 640k... Lynx still works great (I'm using it now!), but I have been having some problems with that windows update that everyone keeps telling me to use.
I don't know about the rest of you, but this artical is discribeing my NEWEST computer! Maby it's time to upgrade... I have a 350MHz Pentium II/w 128MB ram, 3 200MHz (2)Pentium/(1)Athlon/w 32MB ram, and a 50MHz 486 laptop. Yes, the 350MHz System IS the newest.
You don't need to know anything about the object your trying to move to calculate how fast gravity will cause it to accelerate (it cancels out)...
Assuming the two objects are 100m apart, you get 1.2*10^-10m/s^2 acceleration. In one year the asteroid would only move 60km... which would not be enough to move it away from the earth, because is ~12760km wide and its gravitational force goes quite a few times farther then that. Over all, this system would not do us any good unless it was put into use 30+ years before the astroid might hit earth.
If you wanted to check my math, here is how I calculated this:
The formula for force from gravity is: G*M1*M2/D^2=F and the formula for force is F=M*A.
So to figure out the acceleration caused by the attraction between the two objects, you use G*M1*M2/D^2=M2*A. M2 cancels out, so G*M1/D^2=A. All you need is the Gravitational Constant G (about 6.67*10^-11), Mass of the object to move the astroid M1 (20 tons = about 18163kg) and the distance between their centers D.
Doesn't the British government have something better to do with their citizens money then make germ-fighting underwear?
Then again, how else would they get a front page story on slashdot...
Slashdot Mirror
Take a look at What Their Server is Running, and then tell me you are suprised.
If I wanted to get around it, I would just Interface my cellphone with Asterisk and forward all calls to a friend's or prepaid cellphone. Thanks for the suggestion, I think I am going to start my own "phone company" soon!
Too bad I spend all my free time reading Slashdot. As a result I don't have any friends to go anywhere with.
I can't find google's IPv6 address anywere...
Would you mind posting it?
Your post advocates a
(*) technical ( ) legislative (*) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(*) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(*) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(*) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(*) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. (Again!)
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Remember 86.5255979% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
If there was a priority header like that it would not be long before every packet was a "911" priority. The evil bit is a good example of why this won't work.
Spam filters that use Dynamic User Lists or Dialup User Lists as a major factor in classifying Spam are too strict. I am unable to reasonably obtain a static IP address. It would cost me over $100 per month extra to do so. As a result I run my server on a dynamic IP. I still want to send my email directly for many reasons. I find it very annoying when a Spam filter drops my email just because I am on a dynamic IP.
Last time I checked MPlayer "circumvents" it too. And that's not a Chinese import. It's still illegal, but they will have a lot harder time catching you!
And if the proxy is so strict that port 443 is blocked, you can't use gmail anyway. The login page/iframe only works on https.
Yeay! It's Over! No more April Fools!
Mod this up informative! Wait, That s over too. Darn.
Um.. No you don't need to convert to an address. When I put 47.6N 122.33W as the address in Google Maps it works just fine. It will even give me directions to that location!
The Portable Node idea is nothing new. It Has Been Done Before, but this is the first (that I have seen) commercial implementation. At the price it is going for ($600) I doubt anyone will buy it, as you can build your own for almost half as much.
On the other hand, DSL (ADSL2+ to be exact) supports 24 Mbit/s per phone line, although it may degrade over long distances. DSL works by breaking the unused spectrum of the phone line into 4312.5 Hz wide channels. The good channels are then bonded together to create one connection.
By this definition, DSL is broadband, as it sends multiple pieces of data simultaneously, but Cable sends only one piece of data at a time making it Baseband. Actually, any dial up modem over 600 bit/s is broadband.
The other definition of broadband, or Broadband Internet access is any connection faster then 256 Kbits/s, which includes both cable and DSL.
If you did some real world testing, you would likely find the average full duplex throughput to be very close between the average cable and DSL connection. Finally, the definition of fast may change, but Broadband is a technical term, and IT HAS NOT CHANGED!
Don't worry, the dolphins are smarter then us... they will just leave the planet!
These articles seem to disagree with you. Nuclear power is not dead.
It's not like working for Microsoft would be any better then them being unemployed and envolved in organized crime. The only difference is that Microsoft has plenty of money to pay off the goverment/law enforcement.
Those GUIs waste so much RAM too... I still only have 640k...
Lynx still works great (I'm using it now!), but I have been having some problems with that windows update that everyone keeps telling me to use.
I don't know about the rest of you, but this artical is discribeing my NEWEST computer! Maby it's time to upgrade... I have a 350MHz Pentium II /w 128MB ram, 3 200MHz (2)Pentium/(1)Athlon /w 32MB ram, and a 50MHz 486 laptop. Yes, the 350MHz System IS the newest.
Last time I checked, IE 7 was not even out yet! Surely someone could implement it in Firefox before IE 7 came out... Then Firefox would have it first!
You don't need to know anything about the object your trying to move to calculate how fast gravity will cause it to accelerate (it cancels out)...
Assuming the two objects are 100m apart, you get 1.2*10^-10m/s^2 acceleration. In one year the asteroid would only move 60km... which would not be enough to move it away from the earth, because is ~12760km wide and its gravitational force goes quite a few times farther then that.
Over all, this system would not do us any good unless it was put into use 30+ years before the astroid might hit earth.
If you wanted to check my math, here is how I calculated this:
The formula for force from gravity is: G*M1*M2/D^2=F and the formula for force is F=M*A. So to figure out the acceleration caused by the attraction between the two objects, you use G*M1*M2/D^2=M2*A. M2 cancels out, so G*M1/D^2=A. All you need is the Gravitational Constant G (about 6.67*10^-11), Mass of the object to move the astroid M1 (20 tons = about 18163kg) and the distance between their centers D.
Doesn't the British government have something better to do with their citizens money then make germ-fighting underwear?
Then again, how else would they get a front page story on slashdot...
Great... Now terrorists (or script kiddies) will go around spoofing "distress signals"! I guess you won't be getting anywhere fast now, will you?