Because of the amount of voting stock he owns. Remember that he was there from the absolute beginning in 1976. The only way he's leaving is by having a heart attack whilst throwing a chair or voluntarily retiring.
>Guy, this isn't the Post. You don't need to sign, it's right up top in the "headers" - just like it would be with email or on usenet, or on a forum, or anywhere else that's not a letter.
What an idiotic thing to say. Yes, there are people who think about these things and they try to come up with practical solutions. Yeah, let's not think about this. Someone might come up with a way of diverting certain death some day.
>keeping a comet secret in this day and age.
Good luck with that.
There are thousands of amateur astronomers across just the US alone and we've got the internet and everyone would know within hours of discovery anyway.
This attitude is not helpful. This is part of the reason why biblical literalists get away with what they do. They say "hurp, we don't know anything at all, so you may as well believe Genesis word-for-word."
It is anti-reason and a cop-out.
And you cap it off with a complete misunderstanding about what a theory is.
You get a backscatter problem when you send indiscriminate emails to addresses that do not exist with forged "from" headers. Because the bounces go not to you, but to random unaffiliated ISPs. That's the definition of backscatter.
Goddamn proof that you are a spammer or you sold to spammers. By your own words.
Read this. This is Steve Linford's reply to all this.
Notice that it's entirely reasonable and that my original assumption that the Dutch ISP was catering to crime was spot on.
>dutch host affiliated with RBN
Yeah. Nice guys.
By the by, I have 642 spams over the last 2 days in my spam folder just for one account. Without the filtering based on Steve Linford's hard work and the hard work of others, my email would be useless.
>No one would looked bad if they didn't sue the guy,
You misunderstand what I meant about who is looking bad. This is the result of someone within the organization attempting to cover his ass by blaming the messenger and convincing the lawyers that it's not his fault.
Because if he didn't, he'd look bad to his bosses.
That's why all this is happening, and since shit rolls downhill and there is no protection for people like the researcher, guess who gets squashed like a bug by the corp?
>Flaw >Researcher points it out >Blame researcher >Everyone happy but researcher. He twists in the wind.
In meatspace, there are Good Samaritan laws that say that if you help someone who is in danger, you are not to be sued. Pulling someone from a burning car is not something that should bankrupt the rescuer.
We need this for e-space.
If you find a flaw and report it to appropriate people, you should not become a target because you made someone look bad.
The alternative is to never report a flaw. And no, the argument that you can do it anonymously is bullshit too, because people will fuck that up like they already do.
The problem is that Apple's form factor and "blank rectangular slab" is not unique nor creative. All you have to do is watch 2001:A Space Odyssey to see a design that is 40 years old. And I'm not talking about the Monolith.
And even then, it's not as if the Dynabook, another 40 year old design, was unknown to Jobs.
And here we are arguing about rounded corners. What the FUCK is so creative about rounded corners and form factor?
There is no IP stealing here because there was no I and no P to steal.
That's what's so galling about Apple suing anybody that makes a rectangular slab computer.
Spamhaus is above board and does not blackmail. Period.
They list. To get off the list, you must refrain from spamming. It's your fault if you sign up with a "bullet proof" hoster that caters to criminals. Do your own due-diligence.
Seriously, the only thing you need to do is to keep your mail server from being relay-raped. That means turning off relaying and securing the mail server. It's only expensive to lock down a mail server if you don't know what you're doing and you hire an insultant that rakes your budget over the coals because you are incompetent and will just take anything without doing any research whatsoever.
>having to upgrade hardware to manage a list of 3000 subscribers
I don't think so, Tim. You can do that (and people did, last century) on machines that are less powerful than a smartphone. And unless you're pushing out media files, a list with 3000 subscribers is low-bandwidth, so even the charges for throughput are cheap.
And you seriously believe that Jim Crow would have stood for 100 years if it didn't have the backing of businesses? Business was/complicit/ with Jim Crow laws.
The freedom, by businesses, to discriminate based on race is what Rand Paul has advocated in the past. Repeatedly. The same has been said for Ron Paul. Their reasoning is that an African American's money is no less important to a business than a White's. Which is bullshit, because there was 100 years of Jim Crow to put the lie to this.
This is so disingenuous that I cannot find the words to describe it precisely.
If you ever bother to delve beneath the surface of Ron and Ran Paul's "states rights" bullshit, it means repealing the Civil Rights act and letting states go back to doing whatever they want, up to and including Jim Crow and all that stupidity.
Because there aren't enough petty tyrants in the world that we have to divide up the Union and make more.
Really, I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday.
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>Why haven't they fired the guy yet again?
Because of the amount of voting stock he owns. Remember that he was there from the absolute beginning in 1976. The only way he's leaving is by having a heart attack whilst throwing a chair or voluntarily retiring.
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This.
I switch between Opera and Chrome, and both are the same with the tabs above the location bar.
And Firefox would be nearly the same if the menu bar wasn't above everything else.
I fail to see the problem. It's not a bug.
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>Guy, this isn't the Post. You don't need to sign, it's right up top in the "headers" - just like it would be with email or on usenet, or on a forum, or anywhere else that's not a letter.
You're a dick.
Deal with it.
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>best not to think of these things
What an idiotic thing to say. Yes, there are people who think about these things and they try to come up with practical solutions. Yeah, let's not think about this. Someone might come up with a way of diverting certain death some day.
>keeping a comet secret in this day and age.
Good luck with that.
There are thousands of amateur astronomers across just the US alone and we've got the internet and everyone would know within hours of discovery anyway.
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"It's just a fucking piece of paper"
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>reads whole message
>reads last line
>another "turing was a fag" troll
*sigh*
Go drink bleach.
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You were told wrong.
If the person is unconscious, the consent is implicit.
>Told not to help Americans
Give your instructor a slap.
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No, they don't have to make money. Profit is not a right.
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>we know jack and shit
This attitude is not helpful. This is part of the reason why biblical literalists get away with what they do. They say "hurp, we don't know anything at all, so you may as well believe Genesis word-for-word."
It is anti-reason and a cop-out.
And you cap it off with a complete misunderstanding about what a theory is.
Your post is a load of manure, sir.
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>normal thing like a Trojan infection (on the mail server)
>normal
I seriously hope you're not a sysadmin.
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>Backscatter
You get a backscatter problem when you send indiscriminate emails to addresses that do not exist with forged "from" headers. Because the bounces go not to you, but to random unaffiliated ISPs. That's the definition of backscatter.
Goddamn proof that you are a spammer or you sold to spammers. By your own words.
Read this. This is Steve Linford's reply to all this.
http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=673
Notice that it's entirely reasonable and that my original assumption that the Dutch ISP was catering to crime was spot on.
>dutch host affiliated with RBN
Yeah. Nice guys.
By the by, I have 642 spams over the last 2 days in my spam folder just for one account. Without the filtering based on Steve Linford's hard work and the hard work of others, my email would be useless.
I have a reason to be pissed at spammers.
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How about you take your "HURR GUBMINT CAN'T POSSIBLY DO ANYTHING GOOD WHATSOEVER" and shove it squarely up your ass, you psychopath.
I've heard assholes like you my entire life and I prefer civilization instead of warlords.
Go fuck yourself with a glass shard.
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That's probably why they want the actual physical computer, to make the evidence go away.
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>No one would looked bad if they didn't sue the guy,
You misunderstand what I meant about who is looking bad. This is the result of someone within the organization attempting to cover his ass by blaming the messenger and convincing the lawyers that it's not his fault.
Because if he didn't, he'd look bad to his bosses.
That's why all this is happening, and since shit rolls downhill and there is no protection for people like the researcher, guess who gets squashed like a bug by the corp?
>Flaw
>Researcher points it out
>Blame researcher
>Everyone happy but researcher. He twists in the wind.
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Good Samaritan laws already work in meatspace. They are a proven concept.
You're an idiot.
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In meatspace, there are Good Samaritan laws that say that if you help someone who is in danger, you are not to be sued. Pulling someone from a burning car is not something that should bankrupt the rescuer.
We need this for e-space.
If you find a flaw and report it to appropriate people, you should not become a target because you made someone look bad.
The alternative is to never report a flaw. And no, the argument that you can do it anonymously is bullshit too, because people will fuck that up like they already do.
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The problem is that Apple's form factor and "blank rectangular slab" is not unique nor creative. All you have to do is watch 2001:A Space Odyssey to see a design that is 40 years old. And I'm not talking about the Monolith.
And even then, it's not as if the Dynabook, another 40 year old design, was unknown to Jobs.
And here we are arguing about rounded corners. What the FUCK is so creative about rounded corners and form factor?
There is no IP stealing here because there was no I and no P to steal.
That's what's so galling about Apple suing anybody that makes a rectangular slab computer.
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Spamhaus is above board and does not blackmail. Period.
They list. To get off the list, you must refrain from spamming. It's your fault if you sign up with a "bullet proof" hoster that caters to criminals. Do your own due-diligence.
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I smell BS.
Seriously, the only thing you need to do is to keep your mail server from being relay-raped. That means turning off relaying and securing the mail server. It's only expensive to lock down a mail server if you don't know what you're doing and you hire an insultant that rakes your budget over the coals because you are incompetent and will just take anything without doing any research whatsoever.
>having to upgrade hardware to manage a list of 3000 subscribers
I don't think so, Tim. You can do that (and people did, last century) on machines that are less powerful than a smartphone. And unless you're pushing out media files, a list with 3000 subscribers is low-bandwidth, so even the charges for throughput are cheap.
Your story stinks. Go find another.
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>guess what jim crow was? it was government.
And you seriously believe that Jim Crow would have stood for 100 years if it didn't have the backing of businesses? Business was /complicit/ with Jim Crow laws.
You are delusional.
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That AUP should be grounds for blackballing them from the Internet entirely, whether or not they host spammers.
It /is/ an invitation to criminals. Full stop.
I miss the days when "unprofessional behavior" would get you booted off the 'net. Alas, those days are long gone.
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remove yourself from Spamhaus without spending lots of money,
Spoken like a true email-marketer^W spammer.
One gets removed from Spamhaus' list by refraining from spamming. They do not take money.
Take your spammer's tears elsewhere, spammer.
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The freedom, by businesses, to discriminate based on race is what Rand Paul has advocated in the past. Repeatedly. The same has been said for Ron Paul. Their reasoning is that an African American's money is no less important to a business than a White's. Which is bullshit, because there was 100 years of Jim Crow to put the lie to this.
This is so disingenuous that I cannot find the words to describe it precisely.
States rights indeed.
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If you ever bother to delve beneath the surface of Ron and Ran Paul's "states rights" bullshit, it means repealing the Civil Rights act and letting states go back to doing whatever they want, up to and including Jim Crow and all that stupidity.
Because there aren't enough petty tyrants in the world that we have to divide up the Union and make more.
Really, I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday.
Scratch a libertarian, find a racist.
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Racist unreconstructed Democrat detected.
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