> Isn't there some type of indecency law against sending vulgar spam i.e., porn to anyone/everyone including children?
I don't know, I certainly hope so.
If I had kids, I wouldn't let them read their e-mail unless it was heavily filtered first. Yes, you may call me Cencor Dad, but I wouldn't expose unfiltered e-mail to my son or daughter.
And as it was mentioned in a previous article on the same subject, spammers invent new words to avoid triggering spam filters. Like "viagra" becomes "viagrea" and "vieagra". "University diplomas" becomes "u.n.i.v.e.r.s.i.t.y d-i-p-l-o-m-a-s" and so on.
The e-mail protocol should have been slightly modified. When accepting e-mail, the server should notify the sender wether he or she accepts unsoliced/bulk/spam or not (configurable by the user). If the spammer ignores this and sends anyways, the receiver should be able to, with the law in his hands, sue the spammer, and/or any producers of the products mentioned.
Or the user can simply ignore mail servers mentioned in the ORBS database.
I've also been thinking of implementing my own spam filter here, but after receiving tons of spam advertising "viagra", "viagrea", "wiagra", and "\/iagra" I realized the majority of the problem, and continued my volumteer work for spamcop.net and ordb.org. I believe it's an effective method, as long as the mailserver administrators can straighten up a bit.
Another thing is the spammers behaviour and ethics. So they offer me viagra and university dimplomas, even though I didn't ask for it, then fine. My life goes on. But my bigger concern are the younger surfers. Kids, maybe as young as 8 or 9 years old with their private @hotmail.com address, who knows how much porn offers and links they receive each day? How can spammers sleep at night when they expose the youngest to something like that?
I've received at least 20 spams regarding the Symantec products too. It is really annoying to get the same mail in your inbox, over and over again.
I always report these spams to spamcop.net, hoping that the admins who run the open mail servers will straighten up, and I also CC abuse@symantec.com asking them to find this reseller and stop him/her.
Then, you also have the typical chain letter which I've received like 20 or 30 copies of by now. You've seen it, it goes like this:
><--#rotate> >You may have seen this business before and >ignored it. I know I did - too many times! However, >please take a few moments to read this letter. >I was amazed when the profit potential of this >business finally sunk in... and it works!
..suuuure it works, suuure. And the whole world gets to know that you're an ass. And your home address.
I've been thinking on how we could get rid of this. Has anyone thought about creating an Open Main Tracking System of some sort, where admins discretely can contact the parent server to get more information on where a mail has been sent from and when?
-skurk
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I agree.
These days javascript and flash are being used for popup-windows and banner graphics. (Not exclusivly, ofcourse, but the most do)
I'm surfing with both javascript and flash disabled, and it's beautiful.
Unfortunately, most web designers today can't manage without neither of them. It's a pitty how they ignore the pleasure of pure HTML pages, it's more powerful than one should guess.
I didn't have to install anything. Over here the cable modem is installed with a cable router, so all the clients have to do is request a DHCP address and we're online.
I second that, the ZX80 keyboard was terrible. Actually we used those computers at school in a class called "Computers and Programming" in 1982 or something. Yup, BASIC programming on 1K RAM and a crappy black and white TV for display. Imagine the sensibility on those fragile pads after being punched and poked by hundreds of bullies, no wonder my fingertips still hurt.
IMHO, I always found the Amiga 500 keyboard to be the best. It also had the CTRL key at the right spot, which is why I'm using - and recommending - the Happy Hacker Keyboard. It's a few extra bucks, but I promise you all - it's worth it.
I've been working with many unices since the early 1990's and I dropped out of school at 18 without finishing my studies. Why? Mainly because I don't respect authorities, and had many major arguments with the teachers. Eventually I quit.
After that I've been through a hell trying to document my competence. Even though I've been programming since 1983 and working with UNIX since 1990, the employers (at least over here in Norway) are having some major issues with computer people without a competence.
Go to college and get your education. It may suck at the time being, but I promise you that it will pay back - both when you apply for a job and on your paycheck.
This is an actual quote from my phone call to NextGenTel (Norwegian DSL providers) hotline:
Me: "Hi, I'm having problems getting online here. The router WAN lamp flashes, it can't connect" Her: "Do you have the correct settings?" Me: "What kind of settings, it comes with a Cisco router, shouldn't it be preconfigured?" Her: "Yes, but you have to do some adjustments on you computer as well." Me: "Yeah, the TCP settings, I know". Her: "Amongst others, yes. Now click on the start button, and go to Settings.." Me: (interrupting) "Uh, wait, I don't use Windows." Her: "What.. Do you have a Macintosh?!" Me: "No, I use another operating system.. OpenBSD." Her: "Huh!" (silence) Me: "UNIX." Her: "Well, then I can't help. You must send our support group an email describing your problems in detail." Me: "I would if I could, but I can't get online!" Her: "Oh, yeah.. that's right.."
Later on I discovered that the problem was their fault: The didn't have enough capacity for all the new users, so I had to wait 14 days (felt like ten thousand years) before my ping requests finally received some echoes.
I just held a course for MS-Junkies myself. It was slightly longer, 40 hours spread over 10 days of education.
My primary target was to teach the students Linux installation, Apache and Samba.
On my 2nd day I realized that none of the students really knew what Samba is (nor SMB or Windows File Sharing) AND they didn't really have a clue what a webserver OR HTML is.
I guided them through the installation of RedHat 7.2, and displayed a few screenshots of KDE and Gnome on the projector. I let the students choose which one they liked the best, and we ended up with Gnome.
After the installation, which went without problems, I carefully explained to the students the history of Linux, what the Kernel is, how modules work and what we were going to do during these 10 days.
I'm currently on the 10th day now (actually I'm sitting in the classroom right now, we're celebrating the end of the course by playing XPilot on Linux:D).
My hints for you would be: *) Explain everything slowly, carefully. Do as much as possible in X11 GUI. They can't really figure out how the console works:) *) Always compare things to Windows, no matter how much it hurts. And easily, ofcourse - "As you see here, we have something that looks like the start-button and if we click it (...)" *) Stay cool, don't worry. You know more than the MS-geeks anyways.
Anonymous Cowards shouldn't be allowed to post the first two minutes after a new article appears. No more wasting points moderating first posters down.
Indeed. Or better yet, when sending spam reports it could be a checkbox saying something like "I hereby give SpamCop the permission to sue on my behalf and keep the profit from it."
I use SpamCop alot, but can unfortunately not afford registering - yet. This could be a great way for the guy(s) at SpamCop to earn some extra cash from us non-paying reporters. Or something like that.
This is seriously scaring the shit out of me, it's like I just want to wake up and find out it was all a bad dream.
I have a really, really bad feeling about this. Please, someone, find a more peaceful president before it is too late. If you ask me, hire a woman. They don't get into as many fights as we guys do.
Who knows. I'm using Opera 5.5 running without javascript and no java support, all I can see is some sunset-ish background and a counter. Peeking at the source, I can see some tags pointing to.class files, and some javascript stuff too.
But seriously, if they can't add support for the "less fortunate" browsers, the page is probably not worth visiting.
> searching for '"OpenBSD bug"' (note the quotes) returns only 93 results.
True, but I hope everyone keeps in mind that this doesn't mean there are 93 unique bugs. It could be one single bug reported 93 times on several pages.
A better search (security speaking) would be <OS name> with exploits, not bugs.
I use OpenBSD and I've found a couple of bugs myself, but unfortunately I'm not the "first poster" on the buglist. For example, OpenBSD 3.0 locks up entirely (yes, entirely) on SCSI read-errors (in my case an Adaptec 2940U). How weird is that?
As I recall, a similar concept were presented in
a Donald Duck magazine a few years ago: The idea
was produced by Gyro Gearloose. Scrooge McDuck's money bin was lifted into space by using a similar device, so his money could be safe from the Beagle Boys.
Isn't there a law prohibiting patents of ideas already invented?
..I've always had a thing for MSDOS. I've never felt comfortable in Win*.*. MSDOS is a very important nostalgic element for me, reminding me of the good ol' TASM days..
Oh, and one more thing.. I don't have a Win98Me
here right now, but could someone check what happens if you put a
BOOTGUI = 0
in the MSDOS.SYS-file?
That is, if MS didn't remove all DOS instances with a "cd/;rm -rf `find . -name '*dos*'`" or something like that.:)
Since everything is about suing and patents, I guess I can't be the "Don't sue people"-Panda.
Anyway, asking for no less than $97M shows that he is nothing but a hoax. First he hoaxed the world by claiming the ability to bend spoons telepatically, and now he asks Nintendo for no less than ninety-seven mills? Get a grip, Geller - I don't think it hurt THAT much.
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> Isn't there some type of indecency law against sending vulgar spam i.e., porn to anyone/everyone including children?
I don't know, I certainly hope so.
If I had kids, I wouldn't let them read their e-mail unless it was heavily filtered first. Yes, you may call me Cencor Dad, but I wouldn't expose unfiltered e-mail to my son or daughter.
And as it was mentioned in a previous article on the same subject, spammers invent new words to avoid triggering spam filters. Like "viagra" becomes "viagrea" and "vieagra". "University diplomas" becomes "u.n.i.v.e.r.s.i.t.y d-i-p-l-o-m-a-s" and so on.
The e-mail protocol should have been slightly modified. When accepting e-mail, the server should notify the sender wether he or she accepts unsoliced/bulk/spam or not (configurable by the user). If the spammer ignores this and sends anyways, the receiver should be able to, with the law in his hands, sue the spammer, and/or any producers of the products mentioned.
Or the user can simply ignore mail servers mentioned in the ORBS database.
Just a couple of thoughts.
-skurk
True, excellent point.
I've also been thinking of implementing my own spam filter here, but after receiving tons of spam advertising "viagra", "viagrea", "wiagra", and "\/iagra" I realized the majority of the problem, and continued my volumteer work for spamcop.net and ordb.org.
I believe it's an effective method, as long as the mailserver administrators can straighten up a bit.
Another thing is the spammers behaviour and ethics. So they offer me viagra and university dimplomas, even though I didn't ask for it, then fine. My life goes on. But my bigger concern are the younger surfers. Kids, maybe as young as 8 or 9 years old with their private @hotmail.com address, who knows how much porn offers and links they receive each day? How can spammers sleep at night when they expose the youngest to something like that?
-skurk
Look at this this one for instance.
Am I the only one spotting mandelbrots here?
-skurk
I always report these spams to spamcop.net, hoping that the admins who run the open mail servers will straighten up, and I also CC abuse@symantec.com asking them to find this reseller and stop him/her.
Then, you also have the typical chain letter which I've received like 20 or 30 copies of by now. You've seen it, it goes like this:..suuuure it works, suuure. And the whole world gets to know that you're an ass. And your home address.
I've been thinking on how we could get rid of this. Has anyone thought about creating an Open Main Tracking System of some sort, where admins discretely can contact the parent server to get more information on where a mail has been sent from and when?
-skurk
I agree.
These days javascript and flash are being used for popup-windows and banner graphics. (Not exclusivly, ofcourse, but the most do)
I'm surfing with both javascript and flash disabled, and it's beautiful.
Unfortunately, most web designers today can't manage without neither of them. It's a pitty how they ignore the pleasure of pure HTML pages, it's more powerful than one should guess.
But, hell, I even find frames redundant.
I didn't have to install anything. Over here the cable modem is installed with a cable router, so all the clients have to do is request a DHCP address and we're online.
Geo: Trondheim, Norway
and it doesn't involve cruelty or experiments with animals, and it's called "donor cards".
00_NOP wrote:
> The zx80 keyboard?
I second that, the ZX80 keyboard was terrible. Actually we used those computers at school in a class called "Computers and Programming" in 1982 or something. Yup, BASIC programming on 1K RAM and a crappy black and white TV for display. Imagine the sensibility on those fragile pads after being punched and poked by hundreds of bullies, no wonder my fingertips still hurt.
IMHO, I always found the Amiga 500 keyboard to be the best. It also had the CTRL key at the right spot, which is why I'm using - and recommending - the Happy Hacker Keyboard. It's a few extra bucks, but I promise you all - it's worth it.
-skurk.
I've been working with many unices since the early 1990's and I dropped out of school at 18 without finishing my studies. Why? Mainly because I don't respect authorities, and had many major arguments with the teachers. Eventually I quit.
After that I've been through a hell trying to document my competence. Even though I've been programming since 1983 and working with UNIX since 1990, the employers (at least over here in Norway) are having some major issues with computer people without a competence.
Go to college and get your education. It may suck at the time being, but I promise you that it will pay back - both when you apply for a job and on your paycheck.
Trust me.
-skurk
This is an actual quote from my phone call to NextGenTel (Norwegian DSL providers) hotline:
Me: "Hi, I'm having problems getting online here. The router WAN lamp flashes, it can't connect"
Her: "Do you have the correct settings?"
Me: "What kind of settings, it comes with a Cisco router, shouldn't it be preconfigured?"
Her: "Yes, but you have to do some adjustments on you computer as well."
Me: "Yeah, the TCP settings, I know".
Her: "Amongst others, yes. Now click on the start button, and go to Settings.."
Me: (interrupting) "Uh, wait, I don't use Windows."
Her: "What.. Do you have a Macintosh?!"
Me: "No, I use another operating system.. OpenBSD."
Her: "Huh!" (silence)
Me: "UNIX."
Her: "Well, then I can't help. You must send our support group an email describing your problems in detail."
Me: "I would if I could, but I can't get online!"
Her: "Oh, yeah.. that's right.."
Later on I discovered that the problem was their fault: The didn't have enough capacity for all the new users, so I had to wait 14 days (felt like ten thousand years) before my ping requests finally received some echoes.
Maybe a bit OT, but I had to get it out.
-skurk
I just held a course for MS-Junkies myself. It was slightly longer, 40 hours spread over 10 days of education.
:D).
:)
My primary target was to teach the students Linux installation, Apache and Samba.
On my 2nd day I realized that none of the students really knew what Samba is (nor SMB or Windows File Sharing) AND they didn't really have a clue what a webserver OR HTML is.
I guided them through the installation of RedHat 7.2, and displayed a few screenshots of KDE and Gnome on the projector. I let the students choose which one they liked the best, and we ended up with Gnome.
After the installation, which went without problems, I carefully explained to the students the history of Linux, what the Kernel is, how modules work and what we were going to do during these 10 days.
I'm currently on the 10th day now (actually I'm sitting in the classroom right now, we're celebrating the end of the course by playing XPilot on Linux
My hints for you would be:
*) Explain everything slowly, carefully. Do as much as possible in X11 GUI. They can't really figure out how the console works
*) Always compare things to Windows, no matter how much it hurts. And easily, ofcourse - "As you see here, we have something that looks like the start-button and if we click it (...)"
*) Stay cool, don't worry. You know more than the MS-geeks anyways.
Best of luck!
-skurk
Anonymous Cowards shouldn't be allowed to post the first two minutes after a new article appears. No more wasting points moderating first posters down.
-skurk
ntp (Network Time Protocol) for mobile phones.
All phones today have a built-in clock, and they are "on-line" all the time.
Ralph: "What time is it?"
(people looking at their phones)
Phil: "It's 10:13"
Clark: "No, it's 10:17"
Matthew: "No, mine says 10:15"
You hear it every day.
-skurk
I think the MP3 toothbrush may be a little overkill, but a built-in AM/FM radio driven by kinetic energy should be within reach?
It is common knowledge that when you apply vibrations onto the teeth you can "hear" the sound clearly.
-skurk
Indeed. Or better yet, when sending spam reports it could be a checkbox saying something like "I hereby give SpamCop the permission to sue on my behalf and keep the profit from it."
I use SpamCop alot, but can unfortunately not afford registering - yet. This could be a great way for the guy(s) at SpamCop to earn some extra cash from us non-paying reporters.
Or something like that.
Dude, you're SO right.
This is seriously scaring the shit out of me, it's like I just want to wake up and find out it was all a bad dream.
I have a really, really bad feeling about this. Please, someone, find a more peaceful president before it is too late. If you ask me, hire a woman. They don't get into as many fights as we guys do.
-skurk
Why would she, all her files are proably spread around somewhere on the net.
..unless she finally decided to install Linux
-skurk
Who knows. I'm using Opera 5.5 running without javascript and no java support, all I can see is some sunset-ish background and a counter. Peeking at the source, I can see some tags pointing to .class files, and some javascript stuff too.
But seriously, if they can't add support for the "less fortunate" browsers, the page is probably not worth visiting.
> searching for '"OpenBSD bug"' (note the quotes) returns only 93 results.
True, but I hope everyone keeps in mind that this doesn't mean there are 93 unique bugs. It could be one single bug reported 93 times on several pages.
A better search (security speaking) would be <OS name> with exploits, not bugs.
I use OpenBSD and I've found a couple of bugs myself, but unfortunately I'm not the "first poster" on the buglist. For example, OpenBSD 3.0 locks up entirely (yes, entirely) on SCSI read-errors (in my case an Adaptec 2940U). How weird is that?
-skurk
As I recall, a similar concept were presented in a Donald Duck magazine a few years ago: The idea was produced by Gyro Gearloose. Scrooge McDuck's money bin was lifted into space by using a similar device, so his money could be safe from the Beagle Boys.
Isn't there a law prohibiting patents of ideas already invented?
-skurk
Oh, and one more thing.. I don't have a Win98Me here right now, but could someone check what happens if you put a
- BOOTGUI = 0
in the MSDOS.SYS-file?That is, if MS didn't remove all DOS instances with a "cd
I encourage you all to do the same.
These little creatures are our mascots,
let us show them that we care.
Since everything is about suing and patents, I guess I can't be the "Don't sue people"-Panda.
Anyway, asking for no less than $97M shows that he is nothing but a hoax. First he hoaxed the world by claiming the ability to bend spoons telepatically, and now he asks Nintendo for no less than ninety-seven mills? Get a grip, Geller - I don't think it hurt THAT much.
..if I give you a knife, and you choose to stab someone with it - am I to be blamed?
When I smoke p*t, these thoughts usually make sense. Expanding my mind is cool :-) No flaming please, I can lit the smoke myself.