If the US Government wants to watch me go home every night and get satisfaction from pictures of Julia Roberts while eating Cheezy Puffs....... who am I to say I'm not comfortable being watched?
In fact, I hope they invent technology to smell my shorts from orbit, know how long its been since I washed them and how many methane expulsions I've had. Someone has to watch the screen, sniff the monitor, be nausiated, AND wont be able to tell anyone about it except maybe Donald Rumsfeld - who then could claim he spent all day chasing terrorists but actually spent a better part of the day wretching on government payroll.
Some new world order. Besides, open government when the government is for the people by the people leads to... open people? Or no privacy.
So my point is the more trustworthy we are as people, the more trustworthy our government will be.
The question I refuse to ask is; "Why are you so worried about being watched?" You're making them wonder what you are up to. Me? I don't care, I still have half a bag of Cheezy Puffs and high speed internet at home.
Could that real person do the same thing to avoid my "crap"?
Are the people recieving these messages random or are they individuals who's address is known by spammers who continue to use the same address? Chances are any real person who's address is used by spammers get so much crap anyway, their address is already near useless.
Who do you blame? Me adapting to the spam, your the friend who gave your address to the spammer, or the person who wrote the spam?
I thank you making for this point however, it made me realize I should add to my messages that go out to these poor souls that they can do the same thing and avoid getting my useless messages.
One thing I neglected to mention; if people increase the frequency of address changes, they will be able to hunt down the absolute sources of their personal spam, and make sure thier next address is not given to that source.
Not only that but they will be able to discuss it with others, and people will know a lot more about who is responsible for this stupidity.
It would be simple to write a web based script that would auto rotate valid email addresses in tune with the email server that autorotates valid email accounts.
The beauty of it is, instant feedback to someone who uses the wrong address. Nothing is lost if someone sends a message to your old address unless:
a) they're not using a valid address to talk to you - pretty unlikely if you really want to hear from them
b) they don't go to the effort of following your auto reply message and forewarding it to your new address. If they wont go to this 30 second effort chances are they arent going to sell to you, or buy anything from you anyway.
I agree. With everything but the idea that my view is puritan.
I too want to change those who blame the parents. There is scientific reason to believe if the kids are stupid, it likely runs in the family. Then society is the only hope for educating the kids.
Does blaming the parents, blaming the kids or sending the kids to clean ditches solve the problem?
Blame is pretty useless in my book. I think we all do the best we can, even when we're stupid kids. So I think your idea of making them clean highway ditches every Saturday for a couple summers is right on.
change your email address
Then on your old address set an out of office message pointing people to the new address.
Gee... that was hard.
Sounds stupid but nobody realizes if a spammer had to correct a few hundred thousand email addresses... the message would not get sent.
As it is, they never send the messages from a valid address - so who cares if your replying to their spam with your real address?
It will take a good year or so before you see another spam.
If everyone did this, it would immediately invalidate all spam databases and cause the spammers a LOT of work.
If it is a significant problem, they will be interested enough to learn how to avoid it.
If it is not a big deal, they are not going to care.
If you can't educate their users to avoid this problem, either your a bad teacher, or they don't really care about avoiding it.
If their management is asking you to fix the problem, tell their management to point out the simple fact that these things are easily avoided.
The answer is NOT always technical guys. Sometimes it is social.
If you treat them like a bunch of monkeys banging on the keyboard, they are going to act that way. There will never be enough options in the world to lock everything down.
If they can drive a car to work, they can avoid spyware on the internet. There will be mistakes, insurance will always be necessary, but for the most part education is the way.
Galielo made the first telescope and was so worried about what he discovered with it, he didn't even publish what he found as fact, but published the possibilities as a fictional make-believe dialogue between two people.
That didn't stop the Inquisition from condemning him to lifelong imprisonment.
The thing is you never know where an invention will lead you, but I sure am glad ideas like yours or those who created the CMOS camera no longer lead to prison sentences.
It does take some of the thrill and challenge out of discovery however.
' For inventors, it's about more than commercial success anyway, Hesselink said: "You do it because you have a love for it." '
Those who can afford the protection of IP are the corporations who didn't invent the technology in the first place. Is that more fair?
Is the very industry that allows slashdot to exist supported by a technology boom created in a significant part by optical media? Is the portability of data benefiting nearly everyone on the planet?
History is kind to people like Jim Russell, and not to those who take the technology and defend it as their own. Jim is reaping the benefits of his creation, because it helped so many people. That is worth more than any paycheck.
"How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth? " - Gibran Khalil Gibran 'Sand and Foam'
Someone would have to actually decide what they want their damned machine to do before any of this could happen.
Don't want viruses? We'll turn off attachments. Oh you want attachments? We'll turn off the scary ones. You want the scary ones? We'll train you how not to open em. You want to open em? Well then your getting a virus. You want your virus removed? Well okay. We'll turn off attachments.
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If the US Government wants to watch me go home every night and get satisfaction from pictures of Julia Roberts while eating Cheezy Puffs.... ... who am I to say I'm not comfortable being watched?
In fact, I hope they invent technology to smell my shorts from orbit, know how long its been since I washed them and how many methane expulsions I've had. Someone has to watch the screen, sniff the monitor, be nausiated, AND wont be able to tell anyone about it except maybe Donald Rumsfeld - who then could claim he spent all day chasing terrorists but actually spent a better part of the day wretching on government payroll.
Some new world order. Besides, open government when the government is for the people by the people leads to... open people? Or no privacy.
So my point is the more trustworthy we are as people, the more trustworthy our government will be.
The question I refuse to ask is; "Why are you so worried about being watched?" You're making them wonder what you are up to. Me? I don't care, I still have half a bag of Cheezy Puffs and high speed internet at home.
Could that real person do the same thing to avoid my "crap"?
Are the people recieving these messages random or are they individuals who's address is known by spammers who continue to use the same address? Chances are any real person who's address is used by spammers get so much crap anyway, their address is already near useless.
Who do you blame? Me adapting to the spam, your the friend who gave your address to the spammer, or the person who wrote the spam?
I thank you making for this point however, it made me realize I should add to my messages that go out to these poor souls that they can do the same thing and avoid getting my useless messages.
One thing I neglected to mention; if people increase the frequency of address changes, they will be able to hunt down the absolute sources of their personal spam, and make sure thier next address is not given to that source.
Not only that but they will be able to discuss it with others, and people will know a lot more about who is responsible for this stupidity.
It would be simple to write a web based script that would auto rotate valid email addresses in tune with the email server that autorotates valid email accounts.
The beauty of it is, instant feedback to someone who uses the wrong address. Nothing is lost if someone sends a message to your old address unless:
a) they're not using a valid address to talk to you - pretty unlikely if you really want to hear from them
b) they don't go to the effort of following your auto reply message and forewarding it to your new address. If they wont go to this 30 second effort chances are they arent going to sell to you, or buy anything from you anyway.
I agree. With everything but the idea that my view is puritan.
I too want to change those who blame the parents. There is scientific reason to believe if the kids are stupid, it likely runs in the family. Then society is the only hope for educating the kids.
Does blaming the parents, blaming the kids or sending the kids to clean ditches solve the problem?
Blame is pretty useless in my book. I think we all do the best we can, even when we're stupid kids. So I think your idea of making them clean highway ditches every Saturday for a couple summers is right on.
change your email address Then on your old address set an out of office message pointing people to the new address. Gee... that was hard. Sounds stupid but nobody realizes if a spammer had to correct a few hundred thousand email addresses... the message would not get sent. As it is, they never send the messages from a valid address - so who cares if your replying to their spam with your real address? It will take a good year or so before you see another spam. If everyone did this, it would immediately invalidate all spam databases and cause the spammers a LOT of work.
If it is a significant problem, they will be interested enough to learn how to avoid it. If it is not a big deal, they are not going to care. If you can't educate their users to avoid this problem, either your a bad teacher, or they don't really care about avoiding it. If their management is asking you to fix the problem, tell their management to point out the simple fact that these things are easily avoided. The answer is NOT always technical guys. Sometimes it is social. If you treat them like a bunch of monkeys banging on the keyboard, they are going to act that way. There will never be enough options in the world to lock everything down. If they can drive a car to work, they can avoid spyware on the internet. There will be mistakes, insurance will always be necessary, but for the most part education is the way.
"Is it just me or, um, should 12 year olds not be playing GTA? "
Well if the kids are that stupid - what are the chances their parents understand a "mature" rating?
Well, thats an idea.
Galielo made the first telescope and was so worried about what he discovered with it, he didn't even publish what he found as fact, but published the possibilities as a fictional make-believe dialogue between two people.
That didn't stop the Inquisition from condemning him to lifelong imprisonment.
The thing is you never know where an invention will lead you, but I sure am glad ideas like yours or those who created the CMOS camera no longer lead to prison sentences.
It does take some of the thrill and challenge out of discovery however.
The article states:
' For inventors, it's about more than commercial success anyway, Hesselink said: "You do it because you have a love for it." '
Those who can afford the protection of IP are the corporations who didn't invent the technology in the first place. Is that more fair?
Is the very industry that allows slashdot to exist supported by a technology boom created in a significant part by optical media? Is the portability of data benefiting nearly everyone on the planet?
History is kind to people like Jim Russell, and not to those who take the technology and defend it as their own. Jim is reaping the benefits of his creation, because it helped so many people. That is worth more than any paycheck.
"How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth? " - Gibran Khalil Gibran 'Sand and Foam'
http://leb.net/gibran/works/sand/sand.html
You have to have a license or a permit to drive a car but they will let any idiot have a kid.
Party on.
Someone would have to actually decide what they want their damned machine to do before any of this could happen. Don't want viruses? We'll turn off attachments. Oh you want attachments? We'll turn off the scary ones. You want the scary ones? We'll train you how not to open em. You want to open em? Well then your getting a virus. You want your virus removed? Well okay. We'll turn off attachments.