Here in the US they just recently started looking into the "Enzyte"
Heh. Honestly, anyone should be able to see through such outrageous claims, but people assume since it's on TV it must have been through some sort of testing.
TV is not GOD, nor is any other form of advertisement (read: Internet). Trust your senses.
On the light side, Enzyte has a list of the countries least well-endowed men.:( Could this have the potential to be a coveted national DO NOT DATE list?
Does anyone have "The List"??? I'd like to see it. Is it typically "freedom fighter" type sites/blogs? Free-radical sites? Anti-Saudi sites? Or just trash?
What does one's browser display if one attempts access to a blacklisted site? Does the national intelligence agency then start investigating you for suspicion/conspiracy of treason/other capital law violation?
I want to know if my geocities page is listed. >:D
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...would there be any potential legal implication to my supporting a black market overseas...
IIRC, export laws pertain to data as well. This means that if you export data to countries listed on your own countries "embargo list" (specifically, the U.S. has a trade embargo on any country it doesn't like) you may be held in violation. (Typically I would say this is software capable of high-encryption, such as Windows NT/2000/XP with high encryption pack etc etc).
Just make sure it's encrypted so they can't read it.;)
IANAL, but I would be worried about this aspect if I lived in the US. Read your EULA for further details, it's in there.
I am in Canada, and I don't think we have too many countries on our embargo list, so I'm not too worried...but still.
Dude, you're not alone. I am a technical consultant for a number of businesses/SOHO/home users...people are happy to PAY ME to tell them exactly what to do, and they still don't listen.
I'd say my "correctly understood and adhered to" instruction rate would be around 80% though. (Likely because people pay me directly out of their own pockets). I don't speak techno-babble because I know neophites, newbies, and non-techies don't understand it. I always speak in specific yet comprehensible language.
Similar to you, I don't mind, because I get paid over and over to do the same things. Spyware erradication has been very very good to me...S'ok by me!
1) What if it "disappearing" is actually it blinking off for a second or two, reappearing somewhere else?
2) What if it's simply invisible to our instruments? God knows we don't have ST:TNG type equipment to properly detect these anomalies!
3) What if some bozo learns how to "sustain" these things and doesn't have the appropriate container?
4) What if it attracts the Crystaline Entity(R)?????
I am all for advancements in technology...we just have to learn about and understand it before we... uh... play with it. Where's Stevie when ya need him!
I actually haven't heard of Telnet being used as an email client, but I'm not that "into" the IT world. No need to be rude, now.
Yep. Telnet is not an "email client" though, it's simply an app that opens a specified port. It can be used to connect to any port at any IP address. A great utility for checking connectivity (issues).
Email servers use plain text to communicate, so it is very simple to use it for email, in and outgoing.
Are those a legitimate way to send email?
I wouldn't say any way is "legitimate" or not, it is simply a (manual) method. Typically end-users don't have a mail server, it is usually hosted by an ISP or similar. More and more SMTP (outgoing) mail server require authentication, so it is not as simple as it once was. Also, typically, if I am not on YOUR ISP's network, it won't let me send out (usually get a response "mail relaying denied"). This is good, it is more secure (i.e. no spam from just any SMTP server), however, I can send out mail from MY ISP's server as whomever I choose (e.g. I can send a message that appears to be from thepope@pope.com, or you@yourdomain.com)...there's no way to block this sort of behaviour unless all email servers everywhere require authentication...then mail relaying could be permitted...but then it would require all SMTP and POP servers to be directly linked to allow for authentication.
Arg.
One handy thing is: If I am somewhere where my POP/SMTP account is not setup, I can use the local SMTP server to send out mail to someone I need to, even though I am not at my own station, and without having to set an account up on the local machine.;)
I know, I know, long drawn out story, and this isn't the half of it.
Send me an email to my hotmail if you wish to discuss further, ok?:)
I've had gmail for quite a while. Maybe 6 months. I've handed out as many invites as I could to willing recipients...they've seemed moderately happy about them. My business clients seem to appreciate them a lot more, for some reason.
I think a gig of mail is great. I like how it has forced the other free mailers to up their meagre offerings (Hotmail and Yahoo) to like 250mb.
I like the interface, as it doesn't reload the whole page when switching between compose, read, etc etc as sometimes I am on my GPRS, which is similar to dial-up speeds:-/
To conclude, I use gmail far more often than my hotmail and yahoo accounts, because it's a MUCH cleaner interface, no spam, and I can pick it up through POP if I like. Oh, the last brilliant feature gmail gleamed in my eye is the fact that they trap outgoing mail into your sent items when using their SMTP...absolutely brilliant.
Can you send an email without some email account? In most cases: no.
Ummm, yes you can. You must not have heard of Telnet and port 25 before. Connect to your own or any mail server in the world that allows relaying, and send away.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the TLD.bank would be irrelovent as the whole URL is spoofed. A phisher could show you a.bank URL, but would resolve to a.anythingelse (or more specifically, be directed to some specific IP address)... This TLD idea is good, but it would only slice out part of the issue -- mybank.com vs. mybankphishcare.com. Also, this would only work if it was law, all over the world, that banks MUST use.bank...or else the phishers would target the banks/financial institutions that don't.
Oh great...now all the phishers out there know exactly what to do. *D'oh!*
I had another idea, even easier than all this trickery. Just install a keylogger that sends off keystrokes...then they know which bank (without guessing) and what your acct no. and password is. Ugh.
Sad thing is, I've seen so many trojans on so many computers. 2 on one computer, 3 on another just today...too many to list in all. Any one of them could have logged keystrokes and sent 'em off to an IRC channel without a problem.
As for the HOSTS file trick, read-only means nothing...and I've seen spyware that is so aggressive that it re-writes the HOSTS file every 5 seconds if it's own search URL/IP's are touched! Remarked, removed, altered...anything. It could have easily been a list of all known banks, securities, trading sites.
Ah well, keeps me in business.
Do you think any one of these users would consider Linux? -- Nope.
Do you have anything that actually uses it? I have only seen *one*.NET application so far and I'm not overly impressed (OK, so not necessarily the fault of.NET:). This is at work, I haven't bothered or needed to install it at home.
Yeah, spyware!...seriously though, yes. In two cases. The first case was some remote access database reporting app for a client I work for. No idea why it needed it, but, the guys down at the -unnamed political party- thought it was a good idea.:(
Second case is MS's preview of the new MSH...You guessed it, Microsoft SHell. It's Longhorns answer to "How do we screw over all the DOS guru's out there?"... Me being one of them. I like it, and I don't like it...give it a try if you like masochism. It's designed for the "new" MS filesystem with a DB back-end. It is definately not going to be pretty to recover corrupt HD's in the near (HAHAHAHAHAHA, read: distant) future.
So...even if I DO save up my paper-route money for the next 5 years, chop off my arms, buy Bi-FREAKIN-onic replacements, I STILL won't be able to beat girls???
Fuuuuuh. How'm I ever supposed to be a man?
Oh, and judging by the article, am I going to have to wait for over 2 minutes while my muscles charge? or juice up? or whatever..."sorry mom, can't take out the garbage just yet, I have to charge the caps in my arms." -- yeah...that'll go over real well...pshhh...it'll get me grounded for sure!
though this is still a lot of bandwidth to use up without asking
Without going into a holy discussion, I'm not saying that it's right for malware to install assware without asking, but, I wouldn't consider 65MB to be "a lot". I eat that much for breakfast...is that guy on Dial-Up or GPRS?
He can tell people his job is to kill spammers. Which reminds me, I wonder if anyone at the IRS actually checks what job title you put on your tax forms?
"Yeah, my job is to slaughter the product of another man's...and people love me for it."
Yep...that'd be worth a few tax credits in my book. We need more guys like him! My client's are forever begging me for spam filtering s/w...
So tell me please, what will happen if a criminal BGC comes back positive? Or the marriage BGC comes back positive?
Does their proposed legislation REQUIRE the site to divulge this information?
Will they have to disclaim "This member has been found to have an outrageously long rap sheet, and therefore has been set (by default) to Very Bad Karma" above their profile? Or what about "Sorry dude, she's already married."
What if a member uses an alias? What if a member has the same name of a criminal, but is completely clean?
This blatant misuse of information only panders to the Minstry of Information. (a la 1984)
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Yarrrrrr. thanks.
:S
Ok ok, I've seen that before...which is wicked and all...I'd like to see the actual CENSORSHIP "I'm your government, and I say no no no!" page.
Actually, maybe I don't...I never want to see that happen here, anyway. (which, evidently is being talked about here, in Canada, noooooo).
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Here in the US they just recently started looking into the "Enzyte"
:( Could this have the potential to be a coveted national DO NOT DATE list?
Heh. Honestly, anyone should be able to see through such outrageous claims, but people assume since it's on TV it must have been through some sort of testing.
TV is not GOD, nor is any other form of advertisement (read: Internet). Trust your senses.
On the light side, Enzyte has a list of the countries least well-endowed men.
Something to ponder.
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Does anyone have "The List"??? I'd like to see it. Is it typically "freedom fighter" type sites/blogs? Free-radical sites? Anti-Saudi sites? Or just trash?
What does one's browser display if one attempts access to a blacklisted site? Does the national intelligence agency then start investigating you for suspicion/conspiracy of treason/other capital law violation?
I want to know if my geocities page is listed. >:D
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...would there be any potential legal implication to my supporting a black market overseas...
;)
IIRC, export laws pertain to data as well. This means that if you export data to countries listed on your own countries "embargo list" (specifically, the U.S. has a trade embargo on any country it doesn't like) you may be held in violation. (Typically I would say this is software capable of high-encryption, such as Windows NT/2000/XP with high encryption pack etc etc).
Just make sure it's encrypted so they can't read it.
IANAL, but I would be worried about this aspect if I lived in the US. Read your EULA for further details, it's in there.
I am in Canada, and I don't think we have too many countries on our embargo list, so I'm not too worried...but still.
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Press up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, select, start
Sure, that will get your thirty more men, but...what could one do with thirty more men? Perhaps a coup d'etat?
Ok, ok, so maybe a mini coup...
Well...you could try...and only if you had the invicibility and triple fire power-ups.
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Here in Canada, we (all 50 of us) have never seen that much money before...so...I can't comprehend it. :(
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He told the BBC News Website...
/. things all the time, but it doesn't listen for some reason.
How does one tell a website something? I tell
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What next?
I say GoogleHome (R).
For everything you do and need in life, google will be there (C).
Remember, you heard it here first.
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Just wait, Slashdot will be announcing the Google Cafeteria lunch menu in about an hour.
Yeah, then we'll hear about it on Yahoo in two hours.
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Uhhh... maybe you should try doing the math to figure it out?
Ha, so funny...you were too lazy to figure it out too...
Man...and people say us g33kz aren't hilarious.
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Not flaimbait, [+2] Ironic
Dude, you're not alone. I am a technical consultant for a number of businesses/SOHO/home users...people are happy to PAY ME to tell them exactly what to do, and they still don't listen.
I'd say my "correctly understood and adhered to" instruction rate would be around 80% though. (Likely because people pay me directly out of their own pockets). I don't speak techno-babble because I know neophites, newbies, and non-techies don't understand it. I always speak in specific yet comprehensible language.
Similar to you, I don't mind, because I get paid over and over to do the same things. Spyware erradication has been very very good to me...S'ok by me!
They hear us, theys just ain't listenin'.
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Goodness gracious! Great balls!
... uh ... play with it. Where's Stevie when ya need him!
Ok...
1) What if it "disappearing" is actually it blinking off for a second or two, reappearing somewhere else?
2) What if it's simply invisible to our instruments? God knows we don't have ST:TNG type equipment to properly detect these anomalies!
3) What if some bozo learns how to "sustain" these things and doesn't have the appropriate container?
4) What if it attracts the Crystaline Entity(R)?????
I am all for advancements in technology...we just have to learn about and understand it before we
Oh, and pretty please, NIMBY!
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can it run Lin....er...Duke Nu...ummm...Qua...on my DVD player?
Wait a second, I'm confused. Can someone help me with this one?
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;)
:)
I actually haven't heard of Telnet being used as an email client, but I'm not that "into" the IT world. No need to be rude, now.
Yep. Telnet is not an "email client" though, it's simply an app that opens a specified port. It can be used to connect to any port at any IP address. A great utility for checking connectivity (issues).
Email servers use plain text to communicate, so it is very simple to use it for email, in and outgoing.
Are those a legitimate way to send email?
I wouldn't say any way is "legitimate" or not, it is simply a (manual) method. Typically end-users don't have a mail server, it is usually hosted by an ISP or similar. More and more SMTP (outgoing) mail server require authentication, so it is not as simple as it once was. Also, typically, if I am not on YOUR ISP's network, it won't let me send out (usually get a response "mail relaying denied"). This is good, it is more secure (i.e. no spam from just any SMTP server), however, I can send out mail from MY ISP's server as whomever I choose (e.g. I can send a message that appears to be from thepope@pope.com, or you@yourdomain.com)...there's no way to block this sort of behaviour unless all email servers everywhere require authentication...then mail relaying could be permitted...but then it would require all SMTP and POP servers to be directly linked to allow for authentication.
Arg.
One handy thing is: If I am somewhere where my POP/SMTP account is not setup, I can use the local SMTP server to send out mail to someone I need to, even though I am not at my own station, and without having to set an account up on the local machine.
I know, I know, long drawn out story, and this isn't the half of it.
Send me an email to my hotmail if you wish to discuss further, ok?
Sorry if I sounded rude, I didn't mean it.
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I've had gmail for quite a while. Maybe 6 months. I've handed out as many invites as I could to willing recipients...they've seemed moderately happy about them. My business clients seem to appreciate them a lot more, for some reason.
:-/
I think a gig of mail is great. I like how it has forced the other free mailers to up their meagre offerings (Hotmail and Yahoo) to like 250mb.
I like the interface, as it doesn't reload the whole page when switching between compose, read, etc etc as sometimes I am on my GPRS, which is similar to dial-up speeds
To conclude, I use gmail far more often than my hotmail and yahoo accounts, because it's a MUCH cleaner interface, no spam, and I can pick it up through POP if I like. Oh, the last brilliant feature gmail gleamed in my eye is the fact that they trap outgoing mail into your sent items when using their SMTP...absolutely brilliant.
Gmail is the stuff.
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Can you send an email without some email account? In most cases: no.
Ummm, yes you can. You must not have heard of Telnet and port 25 before. Connect to your own or any mail server in the world that allows relaying, and send away.
Do some research, k?
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Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the TLD .bank would be irrelovent as the whole URL is spoofed. A phisher could show you a .bank URL, but would resolve to a .anythingelse (or more specifically, be directed to some specific IP address) ... This TLD idea is good, but it would only slice out part of the issue -- mybank.com vs. mybankphishcare.com. Also, this would only work if it was law, all over the world, that banks MUST use .bank...or else the phishers would target the banks/financial institutions that don't.
:S No way to win.
Does this make sense?
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Oh great...now all the phishers out there know exactly what to do. *D'oh!*
I had another idea, even easier than all this trickery. Just install a keylogger that sends off keystrokes...then they know which bank (without guessing) and what your acct no. and password is. Ugh.
Sad thing is, I've seen so many trojans on so many computers. 2 on one computer, 3 on another just today...too many to list in all. Any one of them could have logged keystrokes and sent 'em off to an IRC channel without a problem.
As for the HOSTS file trick, read-only means nothing...and I've seen spyware that is so aggressive that it re-writes the HOSTS file every 5 seconds if it's own search URL/IP's are touched! Remarked, removed, altered...anything. It could have easily been a list of all known banks, securities, trading sites.
Ah well, keeps me in business.
Do you think any one of these users would consider Linux? -- Nope.
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.NET application so far and I'm not overly impressed (OK, so not necessarily the fault of .NET :). This is at work, I haven't bothered or needed to install it at home.
:(
Do you have anything that actually uses it? I have only seen *one*
Yeah, spyware!...seriously though, yes. In two cases. The first case was some remote access database reporting app for a client I work for. No idea why it needed it, but, the guys down at the -unnamed political party- thought it was a good idea.
Second case is MS's preview of the new MSH...You guessed it, Microsoft SHell. It's Longhorns answer to "How do we screw over all the DOS guru's out there?"... Me being one of them. I like it, and I don't like it...give it a try if you like masochism. It's designed for the "new" MS filesystem with a DB back-end. It is definately not going to be pretty to recover corrupt HD's in the near (HAHAHAHAHAHA, read: distant) future.
Email me if you want more details.
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So...even if I DO save up my paper-route money for the next 5 years, chop off my arms, buy Bi-FREAKIN-onic replacements, I STILL won't be able to beat girls???
Fuuuuuh. How'm I ever supposed to be a man?
Oh, and judging by the article, am I going to have to wait for over 2 minutes while my muscles charge? or juice up? or whatever..."sorry mom, can't take out the garbage just yet, I have to charge the caps in my arms." -- yeah...that'll go over real well...pshhh...it'll get me grounded for sure!
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though this is still a lot of bandwidth to use up without asking
Without going into a holy discussion, I'm not saying that it's right for malware to install assware without asking, but, I wouldn't consider 65MB to be "a lot". I eat that much for breakfast...is that guy on Dial-Up or GPRS?
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I already have .NET installed! My spyware can slide in all that much faster. :D
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He can tell people his job is to kill spammers. Which reminds me, I wonder if anyone at the IRS actually checks what job title you put on your tax forms?
"Yeah, my job is to slaughter the product of another man's...and people love me for it."
Yep...that'd be worth a few tax credits in my book. We need more guys like him! My client's are forever begging me for spam filtering s/w...
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[obligatory Simpsons reference]
Ouch my freakin' eyes!
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Designed by AOL, FOR AOL users...
File menu placement: Ignorant
URL bar W and Y-Loc: Obtrusive
Netscape search bar: Product Placement
Designing a browser only AOL users will love: Egomania at its finest.
Some things only only a mother could love, for everything else there's Linux.
Just like the sun, boys and girls, don't look directly at it.
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So tell me please, what will happen if a criminal BGC comes back positive? Or the marriage BGC comes back positive?
Does their proposed legislation REQUIRE the site to divulge this information?
Will they have to disclaim "This member has been found to have an outrageously long rap sheet, and therefore has been set (by default) to Very Bad Karma" above their profile? Or what about "Sorry dude, she's already married."
What if a member uses an alias? What if a member has the same name of a criminal, but is completely clean?
This blatant misuse of information only panders to the Minstry of Information. (a la 1984)
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