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 (x) 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 (x) Asshats (x) 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 (x) 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:
(x) 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 (x) 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:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
I recently bought a Zyxel ZyAIR G-220, for the sole reason that Zyxel open sourced their drivers. They are not to pretty, and it took me about 4 hours to get it to work (mostly due to unrelated compile errors), but it works fine.
If you want drivers to improve, then show companys that do make linux drivers for their wireless cards that you support them, and buy their hardware. Zyxel opened up their drirers, and a soureforge projet was setup to improve them. http://zd1211.ath.cx/
Don't be scared by the Joystick, from a users perspective, it works fine. It took a few days to get used to the joystick, but it works fine when you get used to it, and makes other joysticks seem loose.
I took my computer's on an airplane once, and the box was checked by the TSA. They stuck a nice holographic sticker on the box, but I relocated it onto the case.
Now my computer has a "Inspected by the Transportation Security Agency" sticker on it.
It really makes great conversations..
Oh, and I stick Pentium 4 stickers on floppy disks. They overheat, are slow, inefficient,and are overpriced, so it fits.:)
(I hope this is not moderated by an Intel fan..)
A website called BugMeNot which was recently featured in Time magazine, has a pretty big database of passwords and logins for a lot of sites.
http://www.bugmenot.com/
The parent should not be modded as imformative, it should be flaimbait.
Dell makes more than one laptop, and many of them get longer than 2 hours of battery life, some of them around 4.
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productde tails.aspx/inspn_600m?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn &~tab=specstab
for example
Also, all batteries li-ion get worse after charge-discharge cycles, get used to it.
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Your post advocates a
(x) 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
(x) 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
(x) Asshats
(x) 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
(x) 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:
(x) 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
(x) 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:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
A beowulf cluster of linux running grits eating insect overlords. Uh... *throws a chair at an old korean e-mail user* ....
2) ?????
3) Profit!!!
Did anyone else tag this "dupe"?
I recently bought a Zyxel ZyAIR G-220, for the sole reason that Zyxel open sourced their drivers. They are not to pretty, and it took me about 4 hours to get it to work (mostly due to unrelated compile errors), but it works fine.
If you want drivers to improve, then show companys that do make linux drivers for their wireless cards that you support them, and buy their hardware. Zyxel opened up their drirers, and a soureforge projet was setup to improve them. http://zd1211.ath.cx/
Don't be scared by the Joystick, from a users perspective, it works fine. It took a few days to get used to the joystick, but it works fine when you get used to it, and makes other joysticks seem loose.
I took my computer's on an airplane once, and the box was checked by the TSA. They stuck a nice holographic sticker on the box, but I relocated it onto the case. Now my computer has a "Inspected by the Transportation Security Agency" sticker on it. It really makes great conversations.. Oh, and I stick Pentium 4 stickers on floppy disks. They overheat, are slow, inefficient,and are overpriced, so it fits. :)
(I hope this is not moderated by an Intel fan..)
Does this have Laser sights? I always wanted a Laser gun with Laser sights, how else would I know what I am shooting at?
I just got my Anti-SCO shirt today, you too can have one from thinkgeek!
A website called BugMeNot which was recently featured in Time magazine, has a pretty big database of passwords and logins for a lot of sites. http://www.bugmenot.com/
The parent should not be modded as imformative, it should be flaimbait.e tails.aspx/inspn_600m?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn &~tab=specstab
for example
Dell makes more than one laptop, and many of them get longer than 2 hours of battery life, some of them around 4. http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productd
Also, all batteries li-ion get worse after charge-discharge cycles, get used to it.
Ubisoft is a french company, right?