Asnwer this then: 1/5th the gun deaths in Canada compared to the US.
One of many social factors: The US war on drugs. Many homicides are drug related, directly or indirectly.
Another factor: Canadian cops don't screw around. My wife's cousin is a cop, and during some training met a group of Canadian cops. The Canadians don't worry about the 'rights' of criminals as much as the U.S. does.
I think it is the developers of the little known OSS projects that are still being worked on simply due to the love they have for their projects that are the true unsung heroes of OSS.
Matt Simerson has an awesome Qmail Toaster script with all the extra fixins. Qmail is a bitch to wrap your brain around to begin with, but his Perl scripts help you quickly and easily get a qmail/webmail system up and running.
I notice that you didn't actually refute my statement that SPEWS blocks no one.
Technically, they don't. IMHO, most SPEWS users don't realize how many legitimate people they're blocking, because those people can't contact them!
And I agree, SPEWS is a major pain in the ass. It's a big pain in the ass to scummy ISP management who would like to be able to host criminals without worrying that it will impact their ability to do business, and it is a pain in the ass to spammers who find themselves booted when their previously spam-friendly ISP finds themselves in SPEWS list. Boo-fucking-hoo.
Yep. SPEWS has a long list of complainers who've been fucked over by them, because SPEWS generally doesn't give a shit as to who they're blacklisting.
Yep, Savvis is an awesome provider -- if you're a spammer.
Looks like even if you just run an email service to me:
4.) we will not be in a position to replace IP's for customer once they appear on one of the spam or black lists
Now THAT is service. It would be nice for large providers such as Verizon to actually respond to complaints that you are blacklisted. But they don't. So my customers bitch at me. What the hell am I supposed to do? I am forced to cut off verizon customers from my servers.
"Savvis hosts a number of customers in the email marketing business including customers such as Sheck Media, High Performance Broadcasting, Bluestreak, Subscriberbase, etc. The top 10 alone represent approximately $200k MRR. Overall the business brings in $250k to $2million MRR.... The current policy was set by Rob McCormick a few months back. Any change to that policy will involve Rob's approval."
But you forgot:
"Spews is doing the
> overblocking intentionally as a means to generate customer pressure on
> Savvis. Spews response to innocent customer complaints is to advise
> the customer that the block will not be removed and that they should
> ^Óchange their ISP.^Ô Spews does not work with Savvis representatives.
Great Spews policy again. This is why nobody should use Spews. They arbitrarily block whole blocks of IP addresses with no regard to who is getting stomped on.
There's more to both sides.. I just don't have time to enlighten the masses on what a Good company does for it's customers vs what overzealous spam outfits can do to a Good companies customers.
Why do they still have any link to the network? Other ISPs should cut them off if they refuse to cut off spammers.
Savvis is an awesome provider. I run a free email service, and I can tell you when I was on Savvis (sharing a connection with another business), they were great. They told me when they got abuse complaints, and I took care of it. They also assign your subnet to you within Arin, so my guess is that they don't hear 90% of 'Arin complaints'.
Now I'm on RoadRunner (only access available where I am). The idiots in RR abuse will not forward me complaints, they just threaten to cut my access. They will not make an Arin change, and actually told me to buy 8 (yes, EIGHT) ips from ARIN so I wouldn't be associated with RR. Apparently the routing nightmare that would be created by assigning 8 IP's at a time is completely lost to RoadRunner tech support.
It looks to me though, that the assetts and C&W just haven't been brought into the fold as well as they should have (include the Abuse arm). I personally have complete confidence in Savvis.
Mice. Get or make a black box, just large enough to drop the mouse into, and just deep enough to hide the led. Replace your mouse with a trackball. Replace your mouse with a Wacom tablet, and do not leave the mouse thingie on the tablet. (usually this activates a 'sensor' led on the tablet which is otherwise off.)
If it's a USB mouse - unplug it. It'll just work when you plug it back in.
If this refers to the SMTP/IMAP/POP3 email system then one wonders why such an insecure system would be considered.
I don't get why this is a problem. First, I would guess they'd only be allowed to do this on the military network. Second, the recipient can PRINT the email, and it's now no different than a fax.
why fix it? Well, of course, there should be new content, and there probably will be, but that doesn't mean that we have to get rid of the old stuff. There's always a balance somewhere.. but things aren't always as mutually exclusive as people think it be..
IMHO, Descent is the best 'FPS' ever. Descent 2 was ok (more guns), and Descent 3 was also pretty good. Now, Descent only had a 2d engine, but the source code was made available, and one of the updates was to make a 3dfx version. VERY nice update to a great game.
Is this tiny loss of personal privacy worth the increase in TransGaming's security?
No.
And make that "perceived security".
Wha? I'm a little lost here. They're merely tracking downloads. I agree there's no security advantage here, but that's not what it's for. Basically if you're honest, it's no big deal (other than Gentoo not being flexible enough to ignore that portion of the archive for creating their MD5's;).
If you turn around and post your download to Kazaa, guess what - TG now knows who downloaded that file.
I haven't seen one bit of thought in this whole thread today..
Windows 98 is 6 years old and isn't sold with computers anymore. This test just shows remaining Windows 98 users they should keep up to date or upgrade to XP.
I call BS. Name a current desktop OS that's secure without any patches. There aren't any. And there sure aren't any from MS.
FWIW, I still install Win98 on Corporate machines. Just run Netware, don't use IE/Outlook, and you're all set. Not only that, but now you have a real file server. Take a vacation;)
Removing MSNetworking removes all the open ports on the PC.
Removing/Disabling IE/Outlook removes the main entrace for remote vulnerabilites.
The glass is coated the chemical vanadium dioxide. This material transmits both visible and infrared wavelengths of light, and normally undergoes a change at about 70C.
Above this transition temperature, the electrons in the material alter their arrangement. This turns it from a semiconductor into a metal, and makes it block infrared light.
Novell has mostly been geek centric while Microsoft has gone straight for the boss (who often dont give a rats behind about what the techies say).
Exactly. What kind of person would willingly install a file server OS that does not have a real-time file salvage feature over an OS that _has_ had that since the early 90's?
My manager is a decent guy and he is not yet willing to put price estimates + 15% in the business case, but I think that will be the only way to get anything done.
Oh yeah, you HAVE to do it that way. Always pad the case. It's not to make you look good when the cost comes in lower than your estimates, but it's to cover your ass when something goes wrong.
I just put a server together for a guy, and misquoted a price on a piece of software. I wasn't planning on making any money on the hardware, but I've managed to find some of it cheaper than I originally expected. This gives me the padding I need to cover my screw up on the software.
They don't say "The devil's in the details" for nothing;)
I learned my lesson a long time ago - it's one thing to screw up when you're dealing with a customer, it's completely different when you do it to the people you have to work with everyday.
The 8 DDR2 memories that we received were all rated at or near the Jedec standard for PC2-4300 of 4-4-4-12 timings. Jedec standards for PC2-5300 (DDR2 667) call for 5-5-5 timings, but our Corsair DDR2 667 was rated at the faster 4-4-4, at 667, which already shows improving timings for DDR2.
Then I suddenly remembered the warm-buzzy feeling I got the first/last time I tried to check my timing belt in my '80 Capri.
4. Find out what every cable is *before* you plug it in. Also, make sure which direction it goes. Sometimes they need forcing, but only force after you're SURE that it's supposed to fit that way.
I used to work as a tech at Best Buy - I SWEAR TO GOD, one time I had an IDE cable where the filled in hole was on the bottom instead of the top.
No, you can't just flip it over - there's an extra 'chunk' of plastic on top to be extra sure you get it in right. Fortunately, I haven't seen another one of those in the 10 years since then..
You need at least a T1. No way to do it with a POTS. The PBX will block it... unless you use a "Linux PBX" and use the following compilation flag:
Are you sure? On the 9600, I believe once you've configured your POTS trunk, it would behave the same as your T trunk.. The only thing I could see is the local telco blocking that outgoing Caller ID...Then again, it's been a while since I've really had my mits on that beauty:)
I'm not sure if you can get away with just a POTS line into your PBX, or if you need a T1 - but this kind of stuff is always accessible when you run the switch. Whether or not it's a land-line or VOIP, if you have a switch, you can do it.
(FWIW, I recently saw a Fujitsu 9600 - up to 9,600 lines, the unix of PBX's - on Ebay for $2000.)
Slashdot Mirror
Am I the only one who read that as:
"Just please don't let them change it to Firemoth or Thundercat Ho!"
Another factor: Canadian cops don't screw around. My wife's cousin is a cop, and during some training met a group of Canadian cops. The Canadians don't worry about the 'rights' of criminals as much as the U.S. does.
Matt Simerson has an awesome Qmail Toaster script with all the extra fixins. Qmail is a bitch to wrap your brain around to begin with, but his Perl scripts help you quickly and easily get a qmail/webmail system up and running.
http://www.tnpi.biz
Technically, they don't. IMHO, most SPEWS users don't realize how many legitimate people they're blocking, because those people can't contact them!
And I agree, SPEWS is a major pain in the ass. It's a big pain in the ass to scummy ISP management who would like to be able to host criminals without worrying that it will impact their ability to do business, and it is a pain in the ass to spammers who find themselves booted when their previously spam-friendly ISP finds themselves in SPEWS list. Boo-fucking-hoo.
Yep. SPEWS has a long list of complainers who've been fucked over by them, because SPEWS generally doesn't give a shit as to who they're blacklisting.
Oh that's rich...
Since when is it permissable to pass abuse reports to the spammer? How is RoadRunner supposed to know you aren't a spammer?
So ..what... I'm using my own server as an authenticated relay using various hacked PCs around the world to originate the email?
Hello? McFly? And I would need the relay and the hassles because..?
And I'm clueless one.. *sigh*.. I'd tell you how to view your headers, but I don't use Outlook.
LOL. Spews is just as much a pain in the ass as the spammers themselves.
Looks like even if you just run an email service to me: 4.) we will not be in a position to replace IP's for customer once they appear on one of the spam or black lists
Now THAT is service. It would be nice for large providers such as Verizon to actually respond to complaints that you are blacklisted. But they don't. So my customers bitch at me. What the hell am I supposed to do? I am forced to cut off verizon customers from my servers.
"Savvis hosts a number of customers in the email marketing business including customers such as Sheck Media, High Performance Broadcasting, Bluestreak, Subscriberbase, etc. The top 10 alone represent approximately $200k MRR. Overall the business brings in $250k to $2million MRR. ... The current policy was set by Rob McCormick a few months back. Any change to that policy will involve Rob's approval."
But you forgot:
"Spews is doing the > overblocking intentionally as a means to generate customer pressure on > Savvis. Spews response to innocent customer complaints is to advise > the customer that the block will not be removed and that they should > ^Óchange their ISP.^Ô Spews does not work with Savvis representatives.
Great Spews policy again. This is why nobody should use Spews. They arbitrarily block whole blocks of IP addresses with no regard to who is getting stomped on.
There's more to both sides.. I just don't have time to enlighten the masses on what a Good company does for it's customers vs what overzealous spam outfits can do to a Good companies customers.
Savvis is an awesome provider. I run a free email service, and I can tell you when I was on Savvis (sharing a connection with another business), they were great. They told me when they got abuse complaints, and I took care of it. They also assign your subnet to you within Arin, so my guess is that they don't hear 90% of 'Arin complaints'.
Now I'm on RoadRunner (only access available where I am). The idiots in RR abuse will not forward me complaints, they just threaten to cut my access. They will not make an Arin change, and actually told me to buy 8 (yes, EIGHT) ips from ARIN so I wouldn't be associated with RR. Apparently the routing nightmare that would be created by assigning 8 IP's at a time is completely lost to RoadRunner tech support.
It looks to me though, that the assetts and C&W just haven't been brought into the fold as well as they should have (include the Abuse arm). I personally have complete confidence in Savvis.
Nothing is impossible. If you think the limit of our knowledge is already in textbooks, you have quite a rude awakening coming.
That's what PHP-GTK is for! :)
If it's a USB mouse - unplug it. It'll just work when you plug it back in.
* Eliminates anonyminity
* Eliminates voter verifiability
And how does faxing allow those? Faxing is allowed now.
I don't get why this is a problem. First, I would guess they'd only be allowed to do this on the military network. Second, the recipient can PRINT the email, and it's now no different than a fax.
IMHO, Descent is the best 'FPS' ever. Descent 2 was ok (more guns), and Descent 3 was also pretty good. Now, Descent only had a 2d engine, but the source code was made available, and one of the updates was to make a 3dfx version. VERY nice update to a great game.
And make that "perceived security".
Wha? I'm a little lost here. They're merely tracking downloads. I agree there's no security advantage here, but that's not what it's for. Basically if you're honest, it's no big deal (other than Gentoo not being flexible enough to ignore that portion of the archive for creating their MD5's ;).
If you turn around and post your download to Kazaa, guess what - TG now knows who downloaded that file.
I haven't seen one bit of thought in this whole thread today..
I call BS. Name a current desktop OS that's secure without any patches. There aren't any. And there sure aren't any from MS.
FWIW, I still install Win98 on Corporate machines. Just run Netware, don't use IE/Outlook, and you're all set. Not only that, but now you have a real file server. Take a vacation ;)
Removing MSNetworking removes all the open ports on the PC.
Removing/Disabling IE/Outlook removes the main entrace for remote vulnerabilites.
IMHO, Win98 works just fine.
Above this transition temperature, the electrons in the material alter their arrangement. This turns it from a semiconductor into a metal, and makes it block infrared light.
And you thought it was just in the movies!
Exactly. What kind of person would willingly install a file server OS that does not have a real-time file salvage feature over an OS that _has_ had that since the early 90's?
I just can't get past that...
And apropos - sometimes you need to find out _what _ to 'man', before you can 'vi'.
Oh yeah, you HAVE to do it that way. Always pad the case. It's not to make you look good when the cost comes in lower than your estimates, but it's to cover your ass when something goes wrong.
I just put a server together for a guy, and misquoted a price on a piece of software. I wasn't planning on making any money on the hardware, but I've managed to find some of it cheaper than I originally expected. This gives me the padding I need to cover my screw up on the software.
They don't say "The devil's in the details" for nothing ;)
I learned my lesson a long time ago - it's one thing to screw up when you're dealing with a customer, it's completely different when you do it to the people you have to work with everyday.
Then I suddenly remembered the warm-buzzy feeling I got the first/last time I tried to check my timing belt in my '80 Capri.
You can't go to pricewatch to even get a vague idea?
I used to work as a tech at Best Buy - I SWEAR TO GOD, one time I had an IDE cable where the filled in hole was on the bottom instead of the top.
No, you can't just flip it over - there's an extra 'chunk' of plastic on top to be extra sure you get it in right. Fortunately, I haven't seen another one of those in the 10 years since then..
Are you sure? On the 9600, I believe once you've configured your POTS trunk, it would behave the same as your T trunk.. The only thing I could see is the local telco blocking that outgoing Caller ID...Then again, it's been a while since I've really had my mits on that beauty :)
I'm not sure if you can get away with just a POTS line into your PBX, or if you need a T1 - but this kind of stuff is always accessible when you run the switch. Whether or not it's a land-line or VOIP, if you have a switch, you can do it.
(FWIW, I recently saw a Fujitsu 9600 - up to 9,600 lines, the unix of PBX's - on Ebay for $2000.)