Message sender and recipient(s) checked against known Windows licensees. If a sender or recipient is not a licensee, message is bounced.
Message headers are examined for mail client. If mail client is not a Micro$oft client, message is bounced.
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Micro$oft pays off Senator Disney to sponsor a bill banning the traditional SMTP protocol in favor of MSMTP. Bill passes by a wide margin in both Republican-controlled houses of congress and is signed into law by pResident George W. Bush, who proclaims "You're either with Micro$oft, or you're with the terra-ists." Any remaining SMTP user is secretly arrested and sent to camp X-Ray.
Yeah, but when Republicans in congress cut library funding again, you'll have to wait in line for 30 minutes just to ask an overworked librarian at an understaffed library to turn off a filter at one computer so you can look at that birth control site. That's exactly what the fundies want.
The decision on which filter to use isn't necessarily up to the library itself. There will often be some entity (board of directors, city council, county board of supervisors, state legislature) that will mandate that a particular "solution" be used...especially if someone on the governing entity has financial ties to, say, Mattel.
...is that his wife/girlfriend/mom lets him keep it.
A friend and I had an opportunity to do the same thing with an A-7 Corsair cockpit, but his wife nixed the idea of having a 7'x4'x12' perennial project in "her" garage.
I guess we'll all be relegated to using homebrew Linux boxen for our routers. What a shame. Of course, such an act might be construed doubleplusunpatriotic by bb.
I used TurboTax for two years, enticed by their rebate offers. Each year they (or, more accurately, the company that processes their rebates) sent me notices saying that one thing or another was wrong with my rebate submittal when I knew damn well that I had fulfilled the terms of the rebate. I eventually got my money out of them, but not until after significant hassle. Those travails, combined with their use of spyware in TurboTax 2002 and their rather dismal and untrustworthy privacy policies have driven me away from their software for good.
And then there's the Tivo "wait, I've got to rewind that and see it again" effect. I sometimes miss something that's said while listening to the radio (or, rarely, while talking to someone) and I instinctively reach for the remote to do an instant replay, only to find that there is no remote...
Wasn't Redneck Rampage based on the Duke 3D engine? Think we'll ever see a GPL-based port? There's nothing like a chicken with a stick of dynamite up its ass acting as a homing device after being launched from a crossbow:0
I think I'm gonna go crowbar me some jackelopes...
...I'm still waiting for them to port Vice City to the PC. I've already beaten GTA III several times and am getting bored with screwing hookers then beating them up and getting my money back.
...and let's not forget Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa Simpson) playing the freaked-out newlywed (CUUUUURTIS! Don't yo go makin' me a widow on my weddin' day!).
Just got my G3 last night and now I see this? Man, did I make the wrong decision? I would hate to not be like the rest of my peers.
But seriously, think of the wonderful games you can play with the G3: taking pictures of the cops as they beat protesters then giving them to the press, catching politicians taking bribes, homemade pr0n...oh, wait, all of those activities have been classified by John Ashcrack as terrorism! Then again, he'll eventually determine that playing Gameboy supports terrorism too so what to do?
Q: Why won't John Ashcroft ever have sex standing up? A: It's too much like dancing.
Perhaps the death of this bill is better for the record industry. Think about it: if the RIAA can hack, then hackers' attention will be focused even more on the RIAA. Instead of DOSing their site, some script kiddie will find a way to *really* do some damage. Hell: it'd be funny to see their latest payola list on tsg. I can see it now: KRAP: $5000 for playing Avril Lavigne 300 times a day WJNK: $10000 for playing anything by Britney
and so-on.
Oh, wait, they don't need to pay all those radio stations individually...one check made out to ClearChannel will do nicely these days...
Perfectly good reasoning...except for the fact that their infrastructure is publicly subsidized. Let's face it: telecom is a public good, and will never be adequately provided by private interests.
Yeah, for 3 times as much as it costs people now and with a lot more restrictions, crappy service, and "privacy" policies that let them monitor every move you make and then sell that data to every spammer in sight. Don't blame the line sharing requirement for your woes: blame the RBOC.
When I was a kid we used to rig these things to blow up by taking the parachute out, filling the nose cone with ground match heads, then taping it shut. The backfire from the engine would ignite the match heads, and you'd have a nice fireworks display. They weren't exactly a weapon of mass destruction in those days, but they certainly were cool.
Of course, there was that time I launched one at a group of stuck up preppies sun bathing at the pool...maybe that's what the government is worried about. I mean, it would take a hell of a lot of rocket engines and a good bit of MacGuyvering to create something truly destructive from these.
...of course, I had a mullet and played football too. I was still picked on, and probably would have "gone Columbine" at times if I had any access to guns. It was funny how civilized some people got after I gave them concussions in practice.
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...then the system could flag borrowing and browsing information and forward it to John Ashcrack just like the USA PATRIOT act says it should...
Yeah, but when Republicans in congress cut library funding again, you'll have to wait in line for 30 minutes just to ask an overworked librarian at an understaffed library to turn off a filter at one computer so you can look at that birth control site. That's exactly what the fundies want.
The decision on which filter to use isn't necessarily up to the library itself. There will often be some entity (board of directors, city council, county board of supervisors, state legislature) that will mandate that a particular "solution" be used...especially if someone on the governing entity has financial ties to, say, Mattel.
...is that his wife/girlfriend/mom lets him keep it.
A friend and I had an opportunity to do the same thing with an A-7 Corsair cockpit, but his wife nixed the idea of having a 7'x4'x12' perennial project in "her" garage.
http://www.bushorchimp.com/
http://www.thesonglyrics.com/r_song_lyrics/ratt_ly ric2.html
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What goes around comes around. Or, if you prefer this more relevant version:
http://worldlyric.com/b/beastieboys/what_comes_ar
Droppin' heat rocks on Dr. Dre's bitch azz...
...an evil router?
I guess we'll all be relegated to using homebrew Linux boxen for our routers. What a shame. Of course, such an act might be construed doubleplusunpatriotic by bb.
All your privacy are belong to John [Ashcroft, Chambers]
I used TurboTax for two years, enticed by their rebate offers. Each year they (or, more accurately, the company that processes their rebates) sent me notices saying that one thing or another was wrong with my rebate submittal when I knew damn well that I had fulfilled the terms of the rebate. I eventually got my money out of them, but not until after significant hassle. Those travails, combined with their use of spyware in TurboTax 2002 and their rather dismal and untrustworthy privacy policies have driven me away from their software for good.
And then there's the Tivo "wait, I've got to rewind that and see it again" effect. I sometimes miss something that's said while listening to the radio (or, rarely, while talking to someone) and I instinctively reach for the remote to do an instant replay, only to find that there is no remote...
Wasn't Redneck Rampage based on the Duke 3D engine? Think we'll ever see a GPL-based port? There's nothing like a chicken with a stick of dynamite up its ass acting as a homing device after being launched from a crossbow :0
I think I'm gonna go crowbar me some jackelopes...
...I'm still waiting for them to port Vice City to the PC. I've already beaten GTA III several times and am getting bored with screwing hookers then beating them up and getting my money back.
...and let's not forget Yeardley Smith (the voice of Lisa Simpson) playing the freaked-out newlywed (CUUUUURTIS! Don't yo go makin' me a widow on my weddin' day!).
You just can't beat a movie whose entire soundtrack is an AC/DC album :)
Just got my G3 last night and now I see this? Man, did I make the wrong decision? I would hate to not be like the rest of my peers.
But seriously, think of the wonderful games you can play with the G3: taking pictures of the cops as they beat protesters then giving them to the press, catching politicians taking bribes, homemade pr0n...oh, wait, all of those activities have been classified by John Ashcrack as terrorism! Then again, he'll eventually determine that playing Gameboy supports terrorism too so what to do?
Q: Why won't John Ashcroft ever have sex standing up?
A: It's too much like dancing.
Or...
"Stop humping the laser!"
Hey, man: the Beaver was smart enough to graduate from Cal so he'd probably make a pretty good patent examiner.
...and would that plan be something like:
Phase 1: Underpants/Seeding
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit
Sorry...had to get an underpants gnomes reference in there...
Perhaps the death of this bill is better for the record industry. Think about it: if the RIAA can hack, then hackers' attention will be focused even more on the RIAA. Instead of DOSing their site, some script kiddie will find a way to *really* do some damage. Hell: it'd be funny to see their latest payola list on tsg. I can see it now:
KRAP: $5000 for playing Avril Lavigne 300 times a day
WJNK: $10000 for playing anything by Britney
and so-on.
Oh, wait, they don't need to pay all those radio stations individually...one check made out to ClearChannel will do nicely these days...
Gotta plug that analog hole somehow!
Perfectly good reasoning...except for the fact that their infrastructure is publicly subsidized. Let's face it: telecom is a public good, and will never be adequately provided by private interests.
Yeah, for 3 times as much as it costs people now and with a lot more restrictions, crappy service, and "privacy" policies that let them monitor every move you make and then sell that data to every spammer in sight. Don't blame the line sharing requirement for your woes: blame the RBOC.
When I was a kid we used to rig these things to blow up by taking the parachute out, filling the nose cone with ground match heads, then taping it shut. The backfire from the engine would ignite the match heads, and you'd have a nice fireworks display. They weren't exactly a weapon of mass destruction in those days, but they certainly were cool.
Of course, there was that time I launched one at a group of stuck up preppies sun bathing at the pool...maybe that's what the government is worried about. I mean, it would take a hell of a lot of rocket engines and a good bit of MacGuyvering to create something truly destructive from these.
...of course, I had a mullet and played football too. I was still picked on, and probably would have "gone Columbine" at times if I had any access to guns. It was funny how civilized some people got after I gave them concussions in practice.