Or better yet use a spam filter or sign up for one of the realtime blackhole lists.
How is that better? Do you have any idea how much of an ISP's bandwidth is devoted to spam? Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not a problem.
I couldn't care less. I hardly get any spam at all. I use spamassassin on my server and junkmatcher on my client. I'm sure I won't notice a difference at all with this douche.
How much resources do spamassassin and junkmatcher take up? If the answer is anything other than, "Literally 0 percent, and they came pre-installed and pre-configured", you should be happy.
I tried MythTV for about 6 months. It averaged maybe 2 crashes a month, where the backend would just die. I did a lot of pausing and rewinding, so the crashes normally made me miss at least 15 minutes of whatever I was watching.
This would have been a great troll if it wasn't for this:
Nor is there one scientific research piece published in a scholarly scientific journal with peer review that states that "HIV is the probale cause of AIDS"!
I doubt there's a scholarly scientific journal with peer review that states that the sky is blue, either. I'd better go outside and check.
I agree with the message but not the method. I'm maintaining a 3.7, but I haven't been able to hang out with any friends for weeks. It's been almost a month since I've seen my parents, because I just don't have time to visit them. Luckily they're understanding. There are 3 exams this week, which means very little homework this weekend. I hope my parents remember me when I stop by.
If I were smarter I think this would be easier. But I'm not, so I have to work my ass off. I think that my overly easy high school gave me an overinflated idea of what I could and could not easily accomplish.
My friend has a class that uses these for exams. I don't see how this can possibly be a good idea, especially if the means to modify them is trivial at best.
The worst under GM's belt was Saturn with 136 in 100. Going back to 4th grade math, we see that if the greatest number is 136, there is no possible way that the average is 200.
Buick and Cadillac came in with 100 and 104, respectively. Toyota had 105.
If one is concerned about privacy, buy a more reliable vehicle than Toyota. Buick or Cadillac should work.
I definitely don't want to get into an argument of "He said/she said" here, but after looking at that link I don't see anything about the maturity of a ten-year-old. If anything, I wasn't too fond of someone saying that *anything* "had no place in Linux".
You're saying, "We've compiled a list they can use to break the law!"
I'm saying the list is highly effective.
Assume someone does get access to this list and start calling. They break the law, you report them, they get punished.
Now you're going to say, "But it is different!" More than likely the reason is because it creates a list of people who definitely have a valid number.
As of when? When the list was created? My phone number has changed 3 times since then. Every time it changes there are those few days between getting my line hooked up and signing up for the list where I receive a few telemarketing calls a day. My entry in the list goes live and more calls. It works. Bring on the shady company from Alabama that gets access to the list and calls me. I could really use a few hundred bucks per violation.
Another point you may bring up.. what if someone not ruled by our country's laws get access to the list and start calling. I can't say that I have this problem now, nor is there any reason to believe they're going to go out of their way to pay international rates to cold call people.
This is the best system we have right now, though I think we agree there could be better. Offer an alternative or don't bash it. Saying that the list creates "little hesitation" is simply foolish.
As if it wasn't hard enough to setup....
and don't get me started on unix backslashes(/) vs windows forward slashes (\).
Precisely why you shouldn't be installing a web server. If you don't even know the name of the keys, please keep your badly configured servers off the internet.
That said, don't run Word to edit text files. I just opened Wordpad and entered the number "1" as the text. No numbers, no carriage returns. Just the number one. 158 bytes. The following is the text in the file I saved:
I do not consider them at all, and am definitely prejudiced against someone who puts them on their resume.
Wow. You're in a hiring position and just admitted publicly that you're pursuing illegal practices.
With no certifications, It'll probably be pretty difficult to get a job after you get fired from this one.
Put them in perfectly counted piles? What if number 1001 in line demands a recount and sues because he has to pay a couple hundred extra bucks?
Once again, schools are not in the business of selling. They're just trying to get rid of their junk. If they had given them away for free, this would be a non-story.
They do this everywhere. I'm surprised they even asked $50 for it.
Most school systems use something until it is literally no longer useful. Then it goes into some sort of storage, and a company will typically make a deal such as, "I will haul this away for you for free, but I am entitled to sell it if I'd like".
Those "hillbillies" know that they're not in the market of selling goods. They found themselves in a unique position of phasing out something that still had a somewhat useful lifespan. If they had raised that price to 200 dollars, and even 1 of them had not sold, they would have needed to do a lot more work to write off that one ibook and get it removed from inventory, hauled away, etc. Time = money.
They set a price that they knew would be low enough to get rid of all of them, but still make a few dollars in the process. Where is the line? 100 dollars? $120.63? Better to just estimate low and be done with it.
I'd pay extra for reserved seating in a theatre with class and no commercials and previews.
Great. Let them know that you'll gladly pay 20 bucks for something that you could get a couple years ago for 5 bucks. Statements like this are exactly why this crap is allowed to go on.
I don't think the internet is something that a 28 year old, or a group of 28 year olds, can claim as being their creation.*
That generation certainly has aided in widespread use and deployment of the internet, but they don't deserve credit any more than Sony deserves credit for inventing music.
Also, I don't think "witnessing" something qualifies as doing something great.
*No Al Gore jokes, please.
Yeah, 50's cars can take you everywhere just like a 2000's car, right?
I don't see why they couldn't. As a matter of fact, there's a pretty big market for them.
He doesn't necessarily have to go to prison, but spammers make big money. I remember reading an article a few months ago about a spammer in Florida who made millions but lived in a very modest house. He probably made enough in a month for most of us to retire on. What you proposed with the 75% number would do absolutely no harm to that guy.
You could make the number higher, say 100%. But what if he was pretty wealthy to begin with? Would it really be fair if a millionaire became a billionaire by spamming, then the government took away all of it? I doubt anyone would have any sympathy for him, but it's still a valid concern.
I'm not saying prison is the answer, but doing anything less than taking away everything he has gained by spamming, and then some, will be a futile attempt at stopping them.
That's an absolutely horrible idea.
Let's say I have absolutely no money whatsoever beyond my payments for a connection and an initial database. A year later, I've made 10 million dollars spamming.
I then get fined 75% of my assets. I now "only" have 2.5 million. No jail time.
How is this going to keep people from spamming again? I would think this would only make them spam harder.
If you had bothered to read Mirosoft's bulletin on the PnP vulnerability discussed in this article you would know that.
I read it. I took particular interest in the fact that Windows XP was on the vulnerable list. So you still get owned, only slightly less owned. That makes me want to shell out the money.
There are many other example of exploits that affect Win2k, and either don't work or don't work as well on XP
There are many other examples of exploits that affect WinXP, and either don't work or don't work as well on 2000. I'll provide examples when you do.
- especially XP with SP2 installed.
If we have time to install the patch that fixes it on XP, we have time to install the patch that fixes it on 2k.
Windows 2000 doesn't have as much security as XP for one.
Care to elaborate on this one? Because I'm going to call bullshit. Windows XP and 2000 are prone to pretty much the exact same vulnerabilities and exploits. XP has some 2000 doesn't, and vice versa. Overall if you put a vanilla machine on the internet and walk away for a couple of days, they're both guaranteed to be spam zombies. Likewise, do updates on both and they'll both be pretty solid.
On that subject, try doing some filesharing. Windows XP is so secure, it doesn't even need the security tab on folders anymore! To be fair, in XP Pro you can enable it to use the "Advanced" Windows 2000 security model, but if you're using XP Home then you're out of luck. Want to let your roommate write to a share? No problem, just enable write access. Don't be surprised when your neighbor leaves you a nice little note thanking you for the extra storage space, though.
If you want to be more productive when you are working it tends to help to have a fast computer to process all the information or render a 3d object.
You're in what is known as a minority. Most people don't play games, and have absolutely no need for 2 gigs of ram and dual-core. However, because of people who say, "Upgrade to Windows XP! It's somehow better, just look at the date!", my mom will soon need to toss in a Radeon video card to properly render Clippy.
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How is that better? Do you have any idea how much of an ISP's bandwidth is devoted to spam? Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not a problem.
How much resources do spamassassin and junkmatcher take up? If the answer is anything other than, "Literally 0 percent, and they came pre-installed and pre-configured", you should be happy.
A TV should not crash.
Nor is there one scientific research piece published in a scholarly scientific journal with peer review that states that "HIV is the probale cause of AIDS"!
I doubt there's a scholarly scientific journal with peer review that states that the sky is blue, either. I'd better go outside and check.
If you define "rarely" as, "Quickly happening to each and every person no matter what", I agree.
If I were smarter I think this would be easier. But I'm not, so I have to work my ass off. I think that my overly easy high school gave me an overinflated idea of what I could and could not easily accomplish.
My friend has a class that uses these for exams. I don't see how this can possibly be a good idea, especially if the means to modify them is trivial at best.
And nearly all the vehicles currently in GM production don't even have timing belts. Your point?
http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0505/18/0 auto-186012.htm
The worst under GM's belt was Saturn with 136 in 100. Going back to 4th grade math, we see that if the greatest number is 136, there is no possible way that the average is 200.
Buick and Cadillac came in with 100 and 104, respectively. Toyota had 105.
If one is concerned about privacy, buy a more reliable vehicle than Toyota. Buick or Cadillac should work.
I definitely don't want to get into an argument of "He said/she said" here, but after looking at that link I don't see anything about the maturity of a ten-year-old. If anything, I wasn't too fond of someone saying that *anything* "had no place in Linux".
Assume someone does get access to this list and start calling. They break the law, you report them, they get punished.
Now you're going to say, "But it is different!" More than likely the reason is because it creates a list of people who definitely have a valid number.
As of when? When the list was created? My phone number has changed 3 times since then. Every time it changes there are those few days between getting my line hooked up and signing up for the list where I receive a few telemarketing calls a day. My entry in the list goes live and more calls. It works. Bring on the shady company from Alabama that gets access to the list and calls me. I could really use a few hundred bucks per violation.
Another point you may bring up.. what if someone not ruled by our country's laws get access to the list and start calling. I can't say that I have this problem now, nor is there any reason to believe they're going to go out of their way to pay international rates to cold call people.
This is the best system we have right now, though I think we agree there could be better. Offer an alternative or don't bash it. Saying that the list creates "little hesitation" is simply foolish.
I've been on the list for over a year. I've gotten literally no calls, compared to 2 or 3 a day that I got before I placed myself on the list.
Infinite hesitation != little hesitation
Precisely why you shouldn't be installing a web server. If you don't even know the name of the keys, please keep your badly configured servers off the internet.
That said, don't run Word to edit text files. I just opened Wordpad and entered the number "1" as the text. No numbers, no carriage returns. Just the number one. 158 bytes. The following is the text in the file I saved:
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl {\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}}
{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1507;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 1\par
}
Shame on Apache for not compensating for this gross inefficiency in their config parser.
Wow. You're in a hiring position and just admitted publicly that you're pursuing illegal practices. With no certifications, It'll probably be pretty difficult to get a job after you get fired from this one.
Put them in perfectly counted piles? What if number 1001 in line demands a recount and sues because he has to pay a couple hundred extra bucks?
Once again, schools are not in the business of selling. They're just trying to get rid of their junk. If they had given them away for free, this would be a non-story.
Most school systems use something until it is literally no longer useful. Then it goes into some sort of storage, and a company will typically make a deal such as, "I will haul this away for you for free, but I am entitled to sell it if I'd like".
Those "hillbillies" know that they're not in the market of selling goods. They found themselves in a unique position of phasing out something that still had a somewhat useful lifespan. If they had raised that price to 200 dollars, and even 1 of them had not sold, they would have needed to do a lot more work to write off that one ibook and get it removed from inventory, hauled away, etc. Time = money.
They set a price that they knew would be low enough to get rid of all of them, but still make a few dollars in the process. Where is the line? 100 dollars? $120.63? Better to just estimate low and be done with it.
Great. Let them know that you'll gladly pay 20 bucks for something that you could get a couple years ago for 5 bucks. Statements like this are exactly why this crap is allowed to go on.
Yeah, and those aren't engineering degrees. So they shouldn't be calling themselves engineers.
I'll take "software engineer" off my business card as soon as I see engineering professors stop referring to themselves as "Dr.".
Are these the same people who got their doctorate degrees? If not, I agree. They should take it off. And you should stop calling yourself an engineer.
That generation certainly has aided in widespread use and deployment of the internet, but they don't deserve credit any more than Sony deserves credit for inventing music.
Also, I don't think "witnessing" something qualifies as doing something great. *No Al Gore jokes, please.
Yeah, 50's cars can take you everywhere just like a 2000's car, right? I don't see why they couldn't. As a matter of fact, there's a pretty big market for them.
You could make the number higher, say 100%. But what if he was pretty wealthy to begin with? Would it really be fair if a millionaire became a billionaire by spamming, then the government took away all of it? I doubt anyone would have any sympathy for him, but it's still a valid concern.
I'm not saying prison is the answer, but doing anything less than taking away everything he has gained by spamming, and then some, will be a futile attempt at stopping them.
Fark humor is not funny. I'm sorry, teh funnay.
I then get fined 75% of my assets. I now "only" have 2.5 million. No jail time.
How is this going to keep people from spamming again? I would think this would only make them spam harder.
I read it. I took particular interest in the fact that Windows XP was on the vulnerable list. So you still get owned, only slightly less owned. That makes me want to shell out the money.
There are many other example of exploits that affect Win2k, and either don't work or don't work as well on XP
There are many other examples of exploits that affect WinXP, and either don't work or don't work as well on 2000. I'll provide examples when you do.
- especially XP with SP2 installed.
If we have time to install the patch that fixes it on XP, we have time to install the patch that fixes it on 2k.
Care to elaborate on this one? Because I'm going to call bullshit. Windows XP and 2000 are prone to pretty much the exact same vulnerabilities and exploits. XP has some 2000 doesn't, and vice versa. Overall if you put a vanilla machine on the internet and walk away for a couple of days, they're both guaranteed to be spam zombies. Likewise, do updates on both and they'll both be pretty solid.
On that subject, try doing some filesharing. Windows XP is so secure, it doesn't even need the security tab on folders anymore! To be fair, in XP Pro you can enable it to use the "Advanced" Windows 2000 security model, but if you're using XP Home then you're out of luck. Want to let your roommate write to a share? No problem, just enable write access. Don't be surprised when your neighbor leaves you a nice little note thanking you for the extra storage space, though. If you want to be more productive when you are working it tends to help to have a fast computer to process all the information or render a 3d object.
You're in what is known as a minority. Most people don't play games, and have absolutely no need for 2 gigs of ram and dual-core. However, because of people who say, "Upgrade to Windows XP! It's somehow better, just look at the date!", my mom will soon need to toss in a Radeon video card to properly render Clippy.