No reason why you couldn't have different cable ISPs on different frequencies on the one cable.
Actually, there is. Modern cable companies use the entire usable frequency range of a coaxial cable. From 5-900 mhz, there's either upstream or downstream communication between the devices in a home and the cable distribution node for the neighborhood.
Two cable companies could not feasibly share the same wiring unless you only wanted half as much internet speed and half as many TV channels.
The FSH4 specified on TFA is not cheap. Add custom programming and you're probably well over $40,000 for three of them even without typical government contract bloat.
This WILL be abused. People will monitor the domains up or grabs and bid on them whether they have any relevance to the rest of the world or not. Then they'll sell them back to the owners for a ridiculous sum.
People with sensitive enough ears can hear the high-frequency whine of the power transformers. Lots of older computers make noises only dogs and above-average humans can hear. C64s, Apple IIs, and worst of all, old Tandy monitors - those things were obnoxious. The Apple II labs at my old middle school used to drive me crazy.
Simply put, your point is irrelevant. If Sealand becomes a spam haven, sysadmins will simply filter all mail from non authenticated/ whitelisted Sealand senders. Won't interfere with legit mail, won't interfere with web traffic, won't bother anyone but spammers.
Or alive? What good is a live spammer? All they do is take up space and waste bandwidth. Make spamming a cause for justifiable homicide, like adultery is in some states.
Oh, suuuure... No logs. Just like AOL OpsSec doesn't read your IMs, and there is no Echelon, and Britain's new email monitoring system will be used with the utmost discretion, and there aren't microscopic cameras in your walls and homing devices in your bloodstream, and the government doesn't have a dossier and DNA profile on every living human being, and your neighbors aren't spies, and the markings on the back of highway signs aren't intended for UN shock troops, and the military doesn't have nukes aimed at our own cities, and your cat isn't super intelligent and waiting for the moment to overthrow his oppressors...
What? No! I took my medicine today! Get that away! I don't need any thorazine! HELP! HEEELLLPPP!!!
The Slashdot admins respect your privacy. The government is here to help. The conspiracies are all in your head...
This has been addressed before. Hormel doesn't mind, as long as you don't use all caps to refer to UCE. SPAM in capital letters is the pseudo-meat. Spam in normal case is UCE.
In tracing spam, the "from" and "reply-to" addresses are essentially ignored. Thus, that risk is bypassed.
When people have their accounts cracked, their ISP admins will go poking through their logs anyway, so that bit of privacy invasion was already present.
As someone who's helped newbies survive an ISPjacking, I can tell you that many help desks will let them off with a warning once. Once. If anything, the experience teaches them proper security practices. Nobody I know has ever been penalized too heavily for stupidity.
Bored? Summer vacation give you too much time on your hands? Call them once from every pay phone you can find. It's a great way to spend an otherwise empty weekday afternoon.
I'm glad they're failing so miserably. They used spam to boost their business. It doesn't matter how much they help the community or what services they provide, spammers are slime.
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I consider this proof that the "faster, cheaper" philosophy that has taken hold at NASA has to go. Hubble took forever to design and build, was expensive as hell, and now it's indestructible and infinitely productive.
Of course, it's all irrelevant anyway, since we only see what the aliens want us to see. Between ours and Russia's, how many Terran probes have the Martians shot down? Maybe it's time to armor the Hubble so they can't blind us.
Disclaimer: The previous post does not reflect the opinion of my employer, my family, my associates, or even myself, as I haven't taken my medication today.
We don't know whether or not QNX will fight this! Mirror this now! If we start early enough, this will be more intractably entrenched in the net than DeCSS or CPHack! --
The Sony-Connectix decision was overturned because Sony only had the resources of one company with which to bribe judges, whereas the MPAA collectively has much more money to wave under the noses of the corrupt court officials.
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The greatest problem with Usenet is obviously spam. Spam is like a cancer, and there is only one cure.
Step one is to make spam illegal. That's already done in some states and in the works in others. Step 1.5 is to make spam support illegal, and make spamware illegal.
Step two is to make spam's illegality retroactive. If it takes a constitutional amendment to allow ex post facto laws, so be it.
Step three is to make spam and related crimes into capital offenses.
Step four is to publicly execute Sanford Wallace (he claims to have reformed, but he was one of the first, so he must be an example to all), Canter and Siegel, Andy Brunner (his cartooney won't get him out of this one), HipCrime and his cronies, Alex Chiu (let's see his immortality rings save him from this), the Network Solutions marketing department, and a few other persistent spammers, who I can't name because I don't have my hit list handy right now.
Step five is to appoint an elite squad of net.abuse experts to hunt down EVERYONE who has EVER spammed, and to hunt down those who risk their lives to continue spamming.
Not only will this save Usenet, but e-mail will be restored to its former usefulness.
Set up filter expressions like these: [Gg]*[Rr]*[iI1]*[Tt+]*[Ss5] [Nn]*[Aa4]*[Tt+]*[Aa40Oo]*[Ll1]*[eE3] [Pp]*[Oo0]*[Rr]*[Tt+]*[Mm]*[Aa4]*[Nn] [Pp]*[eE3]*[Tt+]*[Rr]*[iI1]*[Ff]*[iI1]*[eE3]*[Dd] [Pp]*[Aa4]*[Nn]*[Tt+]*[Ss5] Score a certain amount for each of them, and toss out posts above a specified score.
I hope they do try to hack American systems, so we can crush them like insects.
Furthermore, I hope Zhirinovsky's band of freaks do gain power in Russia, so we can obliterate them like se should have done after WWII, before they stole the atom bomb secrets that they could never have hoped to come up with on their own.
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Actually, there is. Modern cable companies use the entire usable frequency range of a coaxial cable. From 5-900 mhz, there's either upstream or downstream communication between the devices in a home and the cable distribution node for the neighborhood.
Two cable companies could not feasibly share the same wiring unless you only wanted half as much internet speed and half as many TV channels.
In 1994? Usable. Version 1.0. Which is a hell of a lot more than anyone can say for this boondoggle.
The FSH4 specified on TFA is not cheap. Add custom programming and you're probably well over $40,000 for three of them even without typical government contract bloat.
http://www.google.com/search?q=FSH4&tbs=shop:1,p_ord:pd
I think you meant "ass".
This WILL be abused. People will monitor the domains up or grabs and bid on them whether they have any relevance to the rest of the world or not. Then they'll sell them back to the owners for a ridiculous sum.
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People with sensitive enough ears can hear the high-frequency whine of the power transformers. Lots of older computers make noises only dogs and above-average humans can hear. C64s, Apple IIs, and worst of all, old Tandy monitors - those things were obnoxious.
The Apple II labs at my old middle school used to drive me crazy.
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Simply put, your point is irrelevant. If Sealand becomes a spam haven, sysadmins will simply filter all mail from non authenticated/ whitelisted Sealand senders. Won't interfere with legit mail, won't interfere with web traffic, won't bother anyone but spammers.
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Use Yahoo.
They even have a category for Microsoft Products
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Or alive? What good is a live spammer? All they do is take up space and waste bandwidth. Make spamming a cause for justifiable homicide, like adultery is in some states.
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Oh, suuuure... No logs. Just like AOL OpsSec doesn't read your IMs, and there is no Echelon, and Britain's new email monitoring system will be used with the utmost discretion, and there aren't microscopic cameras in your walls and homing devices in your bloodstream, and the government doesn't have a dossier and DNA profile on every living human being, and your neighbors aren't spies, and the markings on the back of highway signs aren't intended for UN shock troops, and the military doesn't have nukes aimed at our own cities, and your cat isn't super intelligent and waiting for the moment to overthrow his oppressors...
What? No! I took my medicine today! Get that away! I don't need any thorazine! HELP! HEEELLLPPP!!!
The Slashdot admins respect your privacy. The government is here to help. The conspiracies are all in your head...
--
This has been addressed before. Hormel doesn't mind, as long as you don't use all caps to refer to UCE. SPAM in capital letters is the pseudo-meat. Spam in normal case is UCE.
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But who has the addresses they used to sign up, and their posting IP logs? Only the /. admins.
/. could actually turn a profit for Andover...
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Methinks you need a bit of spam-education.
In tracing spam, the "from" and "reply-to" addresses are essentially ignored. Thus, that risk is bypassed.
When people have their accounts cracked, their ISP admins will go poking through their logs anyway, so that bit of privacy invasion was already present.
As someone who's helped newbies survive an ISPjacking, I can tell you that many help desks will let them off with a warning once. Once. If anything, the experience teaches them proper security practices. Nobody I know has ever been penalized too heavily for stupidity.
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I hate spam as much as the next guy. In fact, I probably hate spam more than the next guy, unless the next guy is Julian Haight. BUT...
This looks good on the surface. But change the definition of "spam" and it essentially becomes just "bounty hunters wanted."
Thus, with a 1-page amendment, the government can go from protecting the consumer to executing witch-hunts and digital book-burnings.
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Bored? Summer vacation give you too much time on your hands? Call them once from every pay phone you can find. It's a great way to spend an otherwise empty weekday afternoon.
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I'm glad they're failing so miserably. They used spam to boost their business. It doesn't matter how much they help the community or what services they provide, spammers are slime.
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I consider this proof that the "faster, cheaper" philosophy that has taken hold at NASA has to go. Hubble took forever to design and build, was expensive as hell, and now it's indestructible and infinitely productive.
Of course, it's all irrelevant anyway, since we only see what the aliens want us to see. Between ours and Russia's, how many Terran probes have the Martians shot down? Maybe it's time to armor the Hubble so they can't blind us.
Disclaimer: The previous post does not reflect the opinion of my employer, my family, my associates, or even myself, as I haven't taken my medication today.
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We don't know whether or not QNX will fight this! Mirror this now! If we start early enough, this will be more intractably entrenched in the net than DeCSS or CPHack!
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BOYCOTT!
BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT!!!
Treat these companies like the big babies that they are, and ignore them until they stop having their tantrum.
Many cities have Wal-Marts and Targets located within a few hundred feet of each other, and just as close to a K-Mart. Just go to K-Mart instead.
If you have a Circuit City, there's probably a Best Buy within spitting distance. Just go to Best Buy.
If they have to worry about losing business to their meatspace competitors, they'll focus a little less attention on attacking cyberspace.
I'm trying to submit a very vulgar and graphic complaint through their "submit concerns" form, and I keep getting a scripting error.
And is ANYONE surprised they use Micro$ux software?
http://www.netcraft.com/wha ts/?host=www.waveamerica.com
The Sony-Connectix decision was overturned because Sony only had the resources of one company with which to bribe judges, whereas the MPAA collectively has much more money to wave under the noses of the corrupt court officials.
The greatest problem with Usenet is obviously spam. Spam is like a cancer, and there is only one cure.
Step one is to make spam illegal. That's already done in some states and in the works in others. Step 1.5 is to make spam support illegal, and make spamware illegal.
Step two is to make spam's illegality retroactive. If it takes a constitutional amendment to allow ex post facto laws, so be it.
Step three is to make spam and related crimes into capital offenses.
Step four is to publicly execute Sanford Wallace (he claims to have reformed, but he was one of the first, so he must be an example to all), Canter and Siegel, Andy Brunner (his cartooney won't get him out of this one), HipCrime and his cronies, Alex Chiu (let's see his immortality rings save him from this), the Network Solutions marketing department, and a few other persistent spammers, who I can't name because I don't have my hit list handy right now.
Step five is to appoint an elite squad of net.abuse experts to hunt down EVERYONE who has EVER spammed, and to hunt down those who risk their lives to continue spamming.
Not only will this save Usenet, but e-mail will be restored to its former usefulness.
Set up filter expressions like these:
[Gg]*[Rr]*[iI1]*[Tt+]*[Ss5]
[Nn]*[Aa4]*[Tt+]*[Aa40Oo]*[Ll1]*[eE3]
[Pp]*[Oo0]*[Rr]*[Tt+]*[Mm]*[Aa4]*[Nn]
[Pp]*[eE3]*[Tt+]*[Rr]*[iI1]*[Ff]*[iI1]*[eE3]*[Dd]
[Pp]*[Aa4]*[Nn]*[Tt+]*[Ss5]
Score a certain amount for each of them, and toss out posts above a specified score.
You, sir, are what is known as "part of the problem."
Never, EVER, just hit delete.
Spam is everyone's problem, and the only way to stop it is to fight it.
You deserve to be moderated down for your policy of appeasement. Spam is like Nazi Germany or communist Russia, a Pink Menace invading the internet.
BTW, There Is No Lumber Cartel.
...if it wasn't so utterly, utterly pitiful.
I hope they do try to hack American systems, so we can crush them like insects.
Furthermore, I hope Zhirinovsky's band of freaks do gain power in Russia, so we can obliterate them like se should have done after WWII, before they stole the atom bomb secrets that they could never have hoped to come up with on their own.
Zhirinovsky is pathetic. Russia is a joke.