You mean like the way one of the very senior Pacific operations officers got raked over the coals in the Canadian Navy a bit ago?
He was being called to officiate in an investigation about viewing 'net porn on military systems (in the workplace), and said "I can't. I have done similar things and my judgement is suspect." - but what he did was pretty freaking minor and not all that similar.
Using a naval laptop, he was at his own off-base home, using his own private internet account, and viewed porn.
Nothing tracable to the Navy, frankly - and a bunch of the local loons started goign off how "every single woman under his command is at dire risk!"
Yep... (warning, will robinson, Electronics 12 and far too long since then being brought into play) probably a capacitor on the line to require a minimum connection time, and a locking transistor-based gate (or even a relay, if you're into things that go click) to hold it on after it's been held for the minimum amount of time.
Possibly even easier, depending on teh reliability of her muscle control, is a pair of finger cymbals. Each is connected to one side of the wire - tap them together, on it goes.
Caffeine is a diruetic, yes, but with limited efficacy. You get diminishing returns on kidney "acceleration" (for want of a better word) as more caffeine is consumed.
Basically, if you're supposed to have 8 units of water in a day, 12 units of coffee (or cola) will perform the same purpose - only 4 units are "lost" to the diuretic effect. And no, that's not scientific, it's recollection.:)
That's not what I was pointing out, though... arguing what is fair pricing, sure thing. Go right ahead.
However, the subset I quoted there pretty clearly indicated that he felt that simply because he didn't have much money, he was entitled to go ahead and commit copyright infringement.
Purchasing DVD's is not out of the question, but buying more than a few a year stresses my budget. I did buy Oceans 11 and Lock Stock...Since I wore out my HD watching them on divx.
Problem 1: Students' incomes are quite low, and not continuous all year long. Problem 2: I need to buy books. Textbooks are expensive. Problem 3: 10 DVDs * $20 each = $200. 200 bucks is a large percentage (don't laugh) of my annual income.
Meta-Problem: you have no intrinsic right to these products. It doesn't matter that you can't afford to buy them or can afford to buy them. If you can't, you don't get them. Simple as that - or it should be.
You have a choice. Pay for the movies, or pay for the books - but don't pretend that being short on cash makes it OK to watch rips off the net. It's still wrong.
It's a tough call for the guys taking the hardline.
On one hand, their main weapon is escalation. First they would ban the server, then the domain, then the hosting ISP... and then the ISP's connectivity - presumably at that stage, the ISP would have to choose between dropping the spammer or losing their connectivity.
On the other hand, every time they escalate, there's a chance outsiders looking in will go "good god, what a bunch of lunatics" and not opt to go with that blacklist... and as is pretty obvious, the power a blacklist wields is pretty directly related to the number of mailboxes it protects.
The discussions on the newsgroup certainly do lend themselves to LART-based amusement, though.:)
Obviously, the simplest solution there is send it to yourself, and bcc everyone else. That way, no new data is introduced for the recipients to see.
And SpamAssassin (v2.20) rates "TO_EMPTY" at 2.541, and "TO_NO_USER" at 1.928 - putting you less than.5 away from getting dumped by the default threshold of 5. The two may be exclusive though... but they're still pretty large hits.
Several of the more hardcore lists will quite gladly blacklist an entire ISP for hosting spammers. Doesn't matter if you're squeaky clean with a five year contract with the ISP, they'll just say "get a new ISP, they've broken their contract with you"... all in the interests of peer pressure.
I haven't been hit myself by that, but I can sure empathise with the poor bastards that have.
I had the same thing happen last month, with an interesting addition - I did get zinged with one "Troll", which later vanished. Presumably, the guy that modded me troll is one of the other posters in the thread.
As you say, watching the moderations accrue is fascinating.
It must have more to it than it appears... space in the pillars, perhaps. The history page says that 200 soldiers were stationed there (presumably, at the same time), and the little hut on top isn't enough room for 25 and their food and gear, much less 200.
If you don't take a cursory run with a profiler on it, you'll never know the real cost of speeding it up.
It's worth a quick overview of the profile, to determine how long it would take to optimize said report.
I talk from painful experience - a job I once worked at ran overnight DB jobs on their Oracle database. Nobody bothered checking for efficacy of their SQL until the jobs that had accrued grew to take more than 8 hours in total, and were still running when users came in for the morning.
Then, with a scant four days of programmer, the jobs got pared back to three hours, AND some bugs got fixed. If they'd done that a few months earlier, we would have avoided 4 months of pain and anguish from users coming in, trying to use the system, and screaming bloody murder because it still wasn't available for them at 7:30 AM.
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It's not a wildcard, it's a censor mark. Dates back to issues about "UNIX" being a copyrighted term.
Nah... it's not really ugly until somebody digs out some safety pins, and goes hunting for the coax lines of the other side....
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I speak from experience.
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You mean like the way one of the very senior Pacific operations officers got raked over the coals in the Canadian Navy a bit ago?
:(
He was being called to officiate in an investigation about viewing 'net porn on military systems (in the workplace), and said "I can't. I have done similar things and my judgement is suspect." - but what he did was pretty freaking minor and not all that similar.
Using a naval laptop, he was at his own off-base home, using his own private internet account, and viewed porn.
Nothing tracable to the Navy, frankly - and a bunch of the local loons started goign off how "every single woman under his command is at dire risk!"
Your headline is far, far too plausible.
Which is moronic. You should BE focused on your work, not trying to LOOK like you are. What you look like shouldn't matter at all, what you DO should.
Not like that's a revolutionary idea around here, though.
Yep... (warning, will robinson, Electronics 12 and far too long since then being brought into play) probably a capacitor on the line to require a minimum connection time, and a locking transistor-based gate (or even a relay, if you're into things that go click) to hold it on after it's been held for the minimum amount of time.
Amusingly enough, I got Messiah packaged with a video card... and it was a sanitized version.
Everything you could kill was a cyborg - they leaked oil, they didn't bleed. Nudity covered up, etc, etc.
Possibly even easier, depending on teh reliability of her muscle control, is a pair of finger cymbals. Each is connected to one side of the wire - tap them together, on it goes.
Caffeine is a diruetic, yes, but with limited efficacy. You get diminishing returns on kidney "acceleration" (for want of a better word) as more caffeine is consumed.
:)
Basically, if you're supposed to have 8 units of water in a day, 12 units of coffee (or cola) will perform the same purpose - only 4 units are "lost" to the diuretic effect. And no, that's not scientific, it's recollection.
Just because you have the drink, does not mean you MUST consume it. Feel free to dispose of the excess once you are no longer thirsty.
For futher reference, google for "self control" and "restraint". Unfamiliar words these days, I know.
"Two wrongs don't make a right."
In fact, by infringing, you give them the same justification back to continue sleazy practices.
That's not what I was pointing out, though... arguing what is fair pricing, sure thing. Go right ahead.
However, the subset I quoted there pretty clearly indicated that he felt that simply because he didn't have much money, he was entitled to go ahead and commit copyright infringement.
That ain't right.
You have a choice. Pay for the movies, or pay for the books - but don't pretend that being short on cash makes it OK to watch rips off the net. It's still wrong.
Kind of brings a new scope to "piracy", doesn't it?
One of the favorites on the WWII Online bulletin board is the replacing of "cum" with "body fluid".
:)
Under some cirbody fluidstances, it's quite amusing.
Guess what else?
I agree that it's the right of each admin to do whatever he likes regarding accepting mail.
That doesn't change my ability to empathize with the poor bastards caught in the crossfire.
It's a tough call for the guys taking the hardline.
:)
On one hand, their main weapon is escalation. First they would ban the server, then the domain, then the hosting ISP... and then the ISP's connectivity - presumably at that stage, the ISP would have to choose between dropping the spammer or losing their connectivity.
On the other hand, every time they escalate, there's a chance outsiders looking in will go "good god, what a bunch of lunatics" and not opt to go with that blacklist... and as is pretty obvious, the power a blacklist wields is pretty directly related to the number of mailboxes it protects.
The discussions on the newsgroup certainly do lend themselves to LART-based amusement, though.
Obviously, the simplest solution there is send it to yourself, and bcc everyone else. That way, no new data is introduced for the recipients to see.
.5 away from getting dumped by the default threshold of 5. The two may be exclusive though... but they're still pretty large hits.
And SpamAssassin (v2.20) rates "TO_EMPTY" at 2.541, and "TO_NO_USER" at 1.928 - putting you less than
Several of the more hardcore lists will quite gladly blacklist an entire ISP for hosting spammers. Doesn't matter if you're squeaky clean with a five year contract with the ISP, they'll just say "get a new ISP, they've broken their contract with you"... all in the interests of peer pressure.
I haven't been hit myself by that, but I can sure empathise with the poor bastards that have.
"No dear, I'm not having an affair with my secretary! It's... open source biology!"
I had the same thing happen last month, with an interesting addition - I did get zinged with one "Troll", which later vanished. Presumably, the guy that modded me troll is one of the other posters in the thread.
As you say, watching the moderations accrue is fascinating.
It must have more to it than it appears... space in the pillars, perhaps. The history page says that 200 soldiers were stationed there (presumably, at the same time), and the little hut on top isn't enough room for 25 and their food and gear, much less 200.
If you don't take a cursory run with a profiler on it, you'll never know the real cost of speeding it up.
It's worth a quick overview of the profile, to determine how long it would take to optimize said report.
I talk from painful experience - a job I once worked at ran overnight DB jobs on their Oracle database. Nobody bothered checking for efficacy of their SQL until the jobs that had accrued grew to take more than 8 hours in total, and were still running when users came in for the morning.
Then, with a scant four days of programmer, the jobs got pared back to three hours, AND some bugs got fixed. If they'd done that a few months earlier, we would have avoided 4 months of pain and anguish from users coming in, trying to use the system, and screaming bloody murder because it still wasn't available for them at 7:30 AM.