What if they send you physical junk mail? Can you call the cops then? Who is paying for the physical junk mail? If you steal the stamps, so you do not have to pay for that junk mail, then most likely the cops will be involved.Try stealing 1.000.000 stamps a day and see what happens.
If you send me so much mail that I loose an enormous amount of time to wade through it, then that will be considered harassment and the cops would be involved as well.
If you send false advertisement, there will be some law against that too.
If you use it to increase stock prices, so you ca play the market, they won't be happy about that either.
These are just the law related issues. I am not even starting talking about the many USPS rules you broke (e.g. by giving false information on the sender)
So yes, you could call the cops when receiving the same sort of Spam spammers send. Just tell the USPS that you are interested in their rates of sending letters to people concerning your Ponzi investment.
I have heard that compared to the USPS, the IRS are boyscouts.
I have heard this before and I started to think as a spammer. Would I be interested in working addresses? Yes. Obviously that would increase the chance of finding a sucker who wants to part with his money.
If I have 1.000.000 addresses, I would love all of them to be real. Let's asume I start with all of them real. The next day some of them would be non-working anymore, because domains stop working, accounts get closed and what not. Say 1% is not active anymore after a week.
What would be my incentive to remove them? As a spammer I am not interested in the fact that they bounce around on the intertubes. So I just keep using them and spamming them. Fake or real, why should I, if I where a spammer, care? Effeciancy is not something I am interested in. Niot doing anything and getting moey is the reason I would become a spammer.
It is more efficient for the spammer to build a better bot then it is to build a leaner database.
What if you had started from the beginning without shoes?
When I am on a LONG holiday, I try to walk barefoot as much as possible. The first few days I will have a bit of pain, but after a while (a week max) I can walk over almost everything, except glass or nails.
So I understand that you will notice the difference when you try it for a day or so, but it will change if you do it consistently.
Car analogy: If you drive a car with the steering wheel on the other side, it will be strange and you will say: give me back my wheel on the correct side. If you drive it day in and day out, you won't notice the difference and might even prefer the 'other' side.
I have seen "green waves" in Germany where they did suggest to travel at a certain speed. That would catch you a green light each and every time along a certain route. As this was already many years ago, I asume they just took the distance between the lights, calculated the time it would take between those lights, and go from there. They even had big signs stating that if you drove a speed X you would be able to ride the green wave. These were fixed signes
Even if you missed one light, at the correct speed, you would be able to catch the next wave.
So what they did was take the fixed data they had. That was the distance and the speed and then took the varibable data and changed that. And that was the moment and time lights changed.
I could imagine they could build a more intelligent system now, but I know it worked already great then and am iritated that not more places use it. It will give people an extra (great) incentive to not drive too fast.
Great idea to have just a button. No way that can ever be abused. Well, to be sure, perhaps still better find some way to see if you pressed that button or a computer. Perhaps a way of hard to read letters. Oh, wait. Back to the drawing board.
If CAPTCHAs do continue, I'd like the next problem to be facial recognition software. I'd love a package that could look at a picture and tag it "Nicholas and Andrea" or "Glen and Helene".
Connect it to Google and we have made our own version of big brother. How long for this will be abused exploited?
There's increased ice in my freezer too... does that disprove global warming?
A bit perhaps. I have a tiny fridge with a very small freezer compartment on the top. It ices over all the time in about one months time. After a defrost the temperature is lower then after a month with the same conditions outside of the fridge.
The more ice there is in my fridge, the warmer it gets, even though it is still below 0 Celsius.
we should talk about letting each person take responsibility for his action and not burdening the society for his (or his father's) laziness.
Yeah, because all those lazy bastards not going to work, just because their factories closed due to the financial crisis, should take their responsibility. It is a mentality issue. The workers are the lazy ones, because they have the problems. Look at the CEOs of those companies. They don't need the welfare. So apparently they did take responsibility.
So what you really are saying is that people think short term, not long term. They think of themselves as individuals and not part of a group. This results in I want my results now or I want to work so I can pay my car, instead of I will work 10% less and move closer to work, so I do not need that 10% to pay the car.
I am happy that management are robiots and not people, oh wait...
But I'm talking about the ethics of intentionally helping the person who made it available.
In a time before the Intertubes, crimes exited. These crimes where done by tools. Should the stores who sold the tools and where aware that people could use them to commit crimes be held responsible for that?
And even if those banks could make money, it would make no difference.
Say there is only 1.000.000 Money Units (MU) and a bread costs 1MU. The banks print another 1million MU, so now there are 2.000.000 MU. What will happen is that the worth of the brad is still the same as previously, compared to the total amount of money.
So that bread costs now 2MU. People complain, yet even though you need to pay more MU, the expense in itself is the same. If the price goes from 1MY to 1.50MU, the price actually went down.
Inflation is what it is called.
And now please everybody explain me why I am wrong.
That is why I choose my provider with my wallet. Do the same and let them know. I left one provider who did not have capping, but could not put it in their contract for one that could.
And it is indeed just upselling things. Comparing accounts is hard, but for a fixed IP you pay some 20-50EUR per month extra. Yes, that is per month. Each broadband customer must have one IP anyway, so it does not matter if they give you a fixed one or not.
When ADSL started in Belgium and everybody was surprised that it was catching on so fast. The reason was that calling in was even MORE expensive. The one then only wholesale ADSL provider (Belgacom) had caps in their contract, but told their customers (the providers) that they did not care.
It was the providers themselves (first who asked was Planet Internet. Now under a different name and owner) who wanted this and implemented this, even though the wholeseller did NOT charge them anything extra for extra bandwidth. Nothing, zilch. Zero.
And yet these providers keep lying to us as to why we would need to pay more and many people believe them, because it sounds so believable.
Obviously ssh should be off by default. Many people use a different port for ssh, as long as you understand that that is security trough obscurity, that is fine. It is not a real option if your system is a multi user system. Imagine if each webserver on the internet ran on a random port. Not very nice.
So then you must ask yourself if everybody in the whole world is allowed to run ssh to you or just a few. You can already use your hosts.allow to block many and allow other IP adresses. Then you can ask yourself if each user is allowed to connect by ssh or not and use AllowGroups or DenyGroups to give access. (or AllowUsers and DenyUsers)
I can not put my ssh on a different port, as I am sometimes in places where only that port will work. I have ssh also running on port 80 and 443, as sometimes only those work. Next to that I use blockhosts which blocks IPs after 3 attempts and is very easy to use as described here.
So with all this, I have the following possible restrictions and they can be all used or none or in any combination. 1) Access on a different port. 2) Access only from certain IP adresses or ranges 3) Allow access only for certain users 4) Block the IP after a certain amount of failed attempts 2)
I wish that they would have had just started with the countries. That way each country could enforce their own rules. "But what about e.g. debian.org?" I hear you say. Well, if you look at the whois adress, you notice that they are in the US, so that would have been initially been debian.us.
Now if they so desire, they could also register debian.be or debian.co.uk or... if those would allow it.
And in hindsight something completely different would have been even better.
url://us for TLD and url://us/domain/ which would then lead to something like url://us/debian/ftp/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-500-i386-CD-1.iso for the download of the ISO.
url could still be changed for the protocol (e.g. http:///ftp:// nfs:// ssh://...)
Unfortunatly hindsight and this won't happen, unless it would be implemented somehow in IPv6 and enforced to be used like that.
This is so obviously not about preventing terrorism or saving the children.
All it is is to give the police an easy tool to bring proof to whomever they want. Also this cost will be higher your ISP bill, as they are the ones who must pay it. The provider XS4All used to have a counter on their pages on how much data they would need to retain and we are talking about enormous amounts of data.
The excuse why this must be done is often that the police is able to get your phonecontacts from the telecom operator (after legal intervention).
There however is a huge difference. The reason that the data of who you called is available is because of billing. Somebody must pay the call you made, including those to 800 numbers. So what they do is ask to see (part of) their bill.
This is different in such that they not only enforce measurements to be taken by companies, they also make it almost so as if telecom operators would record each and every conversation.
What they should do is, just as with telecom, ask for billing information and if they think there is more to it, listen in on the connection. Oh well, everybody is guilty untill proven innocent, no matter that the law tries to tell you otherwise. Well, unless you have a lot of money, then you are innocent.
Why would Ford or anybody be responsive to market demands? If all else fails, just ask for more money and in the mean time take as much as you want if you are the CEO.
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The thing that is upsetting and disturbing is that people find it upsetting and disturbing.
Don't worry. There is nothing to fear but fear itself. Well, now I think about it: DO worry.
What if they send you physical junk mail? Can you call the cops then?
Who is paying for the physical junk mail? If you steal the stamps, so you do not have to pay for that junk mail, then most likely the cops will be involved.Try stealing 1.000.000 stamps a day and see what happens.
If you send me so much mail that I loose an enormous amount of time to wade through it, then that will be considered harassment and the cops would be involved as well.
If you send false advertisement, there will be some law against that too.
If you use it to increase stock prices, so you ca play the market, they won't be happy about that either.
These are just the law related issues. I am not even starting talking about the many USPS rules you broke (e.g. by giving false information on the sender)
So yes, you could call the cops when receiving the same sort of Spam spammers send. Just tell the USPS that you are interested in their rates of sending letters to people concerning your Ponzi investment.
I have heard that compared to the USPS, the IRS are boyscouts.
I have heard this before and I started to think as a spammer. Would I be interested in working addresses? Yes. Obviously that would increase the chance of finding a sucker who wants to part with his money.
If I have 1.000.000 addresses, I would love all of them to be real. Let's asume I start with all of them real. The next day some of them would be non-working anymore, because domains stop working, accounts get closed and what not. Say 1% is not active anymore after a week.
What would be my incentive to remove them? As a spammer I am not interested in the fact that they bounce around on the intertubes. So I just keep using them and spamming them. Fake or real, why should I, if I where a spammer, care? Effeciancy is not something I am interested in. Niot doing anything and getting moey is the reason I would become a spammer.
It is more efficient for the spammer to build a better bot then it is to build a leaner database.
What if you had started from the beginning without shoes?
When I am on a LONG holiday, I try to walk barefoot as much as possible. The first few days I will have a bit of pain, but after a while (a week max) I can walk over almost everything, except glass or nails.
So I understand that you will notice the difference when you try it for a day or so, but it will change if you do it consistently.
Car analogy: If you drive a car with the steering wheel on the other side, it will be strange and you will say: give me back my wheel on the correct side. If you drive it day in and day out, you won't notice the difference and might even prefer the 'other' side.
The v1agr/\ adds might be difficult to read the moment they might be most effective if they are in the palm of your hand. I mean , well, uh, you know.
I have seen "green waves" in Germany where they did suggest to travel at a certain speed. That would catch you a green light each and every time along a certain route. As this was already many years ago, I asume they just took the distance between the lights, calculated the time it would take between those lights, and go from there. They even had big signs stating that if you drove a speed X you would be able to ride the green wave. These were fixed signes
Even if you missed one light, at the correct speed, you would be able to catch the next wave.
So what they did was take the fixed data they had. That was the distance and the speed and then took the varibable data and changed that. And that was the moment and time lights changed.
I could imagine they could build a more intelligent system now, but I know it worked already great then and am iritated that not more places use it. It will give people an extra (great) incentive to not drive too fast.
Great idea to have just a button. No way that can ever be abused. Well, to be sure, perhaps still better find some way to see if you pressed that button or a computer. Perhaps a way of hard to read letters. Oh, wait. Back to the drawing board.
Connect it to Google and we have made our own version of big brother. How long for this will be abused exploited?
So you move so you can have problems with snow?
A bit perhaps. I have a tiny fridge with a very small freezer compartment on the top. It ices over all the time in about one months time.
After a defrost the temperature is lower then after a month with the same conditions outside of the fridge.
The more ice there is in my fridge, the warmer it gets, even though it is still below 0 Celsius.
Yeah, because all those lazy bastards not going to work, just because their factories closed due to the financial crisis, should take their responsibility.
It is a mentality issue. The workers are the lazy ones, because they have the problems. Look at the CEOs of those companies. They don't need the welfare. So apparently they did take responsibility.
(Sarcastic? Moi?)
So what you really are saying is that people think short term, not long term. They think of themselves as individuals and not part of a group. This results in I want my results now or I want to work so I can pay my car, instead of I will work 10% less and move closer to work, so I do not need that 10% to pay the car.
I am happy that management are robiots and not people, oh wait ...
In a time before the Intertubes, crimes exited. These crimes where done by tools. Should the stores who sold the tools and where aware that people could use them to commit crimes be held responsible for that?
I hope not. I surely hope not.
And even if those banks could make money, it would make no difference.
Say there is only 1.000.000 Money Units (MU) and a bread costs 1MU. The banks print another 1million MU, so now there are 2.000.000 MU. What will happen is that the worth of the brad is still the same as previously, compared to the total amount of money.
So that bread costs now 2MU. People complain, yet even though you need to pay more MU, the expense in itself is the same. If the price goes from 1MY to 1.50MU, the price actually went down.
Inflation is what it is called.
And now please everybody explain me why I am wrong.
That is why I choose my provider with my wallet. Do the same and let them know. I left one provider who did not have capping, but could not put it in their contract for one that could.
And it is indeed just upselling things. Comparing accounts is hard, but for a fixed IP you pay some 20-50EUR per month extra. Yes, that is per month. Each broadband customer must have one IP anyway, so it does not matter if they give you a fixed one or not.
When ADSL started in Belgium and everybody was surprised that it was catching on so fast. The reason was that calling in was even MORE expensive. The one then only wholesale ADSL provider (Belgacom) had caps in their contract, but told their customers (the providers) that they did not care.
It was the providers themselves (first who asked was Planet Internet. Now under a different name and owner) who wanted this and implemented this, even though the wholeseller did NOT charge them anything extra for extra bandwidth. Nothing, zilch. Zero.
And yet these providers keep lying to us as to why we would need to pay more and many people believe them, because it sounds so believable.
Obviously ssh should be off by default. Many people use a different port for ssh, as long as you understand that that is security trough obscurity, that is fine. It is not a real option if your system is a multi user system. Imagine if each webserver on the internet ran on a random port. Not very nice.
So then you must ask yourself if everybody in the whole world is allowed to run ssh to you or just a few.
You can already use your hosts.allow to block many and allow other IP adresses.
Then you can ask yourself if each user is allowed to connect by ssh or not and use AllowGroups or DenyGroups to give access. (or AllowUsers and DenyUsers)
I can not put my ssh on a different port, as I am sometimes in places where only that port will work. I have ssh also running on port 80 and 443, as sometimes only those work. Next to that I use blockhosts which blocks IPs after 3 attempts and is very easy to use as described here.
So with all this, I have the following possible restrictions and they can be all used or none or in any combination.
1) Access on a different port.
2) Access only from certain IP adresses or ranges
3) Allow access only for certain users
4) Block the IP after a certain amount of failed attempts
2)
Our company blocks facebook. :-D
And what if they used tinyurl.com or any other that does the same?
I wish that they would have had just started with the countries. That way each country could enforce their own rules. "But what about e.g. debian.org?" I hear you say. Well, if you look at the whois adress, you notice that they are in the US, so that would have been initially been debian.us.
Now if they so desire, they could also register debian.be or debian.co.uk or ... if those would allow it.
And in hindsight something completely different would have been even better.
url://us for TLD and url://us/domain/ which would then lead to something like
url://us/debian/ftp/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-500-i386-CD-1.iso for the download of the ISO.
url could still be changed for the protocol (e.g. http:/// ftp:// nfs:// ssh:// ...)
Unfortunatly hindsight and this won't happen, unless it would be implemented somehow in IPv6 and enforced to be used like that.
I don't care about the 127.0.0.1. It will be a problem when they want to investigate hackme.houghi.org
This is so obviously not about preventing terrorism or saving the children.
All it is is to give the police an easy tool to bring proof to whomever they want. Also this cost will be higher your ISP bill, as they are the ones who must pay it. The provider XS4All used to have a counter on their pages on how much data they would need to retain and we are talking about enormous amounts of data.
The excuse why this must be done is often that the police is able to get your phonecontacts from the telecom operator (after legal intervention).
There however is a huge difference. The reason that the data of who you called is available is because of billing. Somebody must pay the call you made, including those to 800 numbers. So what they do is ask to see (part of) their bill.
This is different in such that they not only enforce measurements to be taken by companies, they also make it almost so as if telecom operators would record each and every conversation.
What they should do is, just as with telecom, ask for billing information and if they think there is more to it, listen in on the connection. Oh well, everybody is guilty untill proven innocent, no matter that the law tries to tell you otherwise. Well, unless you have a lot of money, then you are innocent.
Just open the underwater port and use it as a water drain. If you do it smartly, you can remove the salt and presto, fresh water on Mars.
Why would Ford or anybody be responsive to market demands? If all else fails, just ask for more money and in the mean time take as much as you want if you are the CEO.
I assume that the reason is that those looking at porn at work rather have problems with their boss then with their wife.
That is already here. It is called unemployment. 1 out out of 5 people don't have a job.