So far as teenagers linking credit cards to the games.
We've had pre-paid charge cards for online transactions for a while, with the explicit purpose of allowing minors access online "credit" transactions without involving the related credit approvals required with "real" credit lines.
This sounds like an excellent place to apply it.
You get X dollars a month to spend on this game, when you run out you run out.
At worst, which is upsettingly plausible, the system is suffering from outright fraud, and those involved don't even feel the need to lie convincingly.
You don't get it. For most people, that is a convincing lie.
If any geeks speak up about it, they're just part of the "intellectual elite" trying to subvert american freedom.
Of course, these claims will be used as "outrage politics" to draw the common man away from the otherwise inevitable second conclusion: if these machines are subject to errors from "static", why are we using them?
how innocent is someone who is immediately attached to a corrupt official?
Anyone that close to a politician for instance, who does not know what is going on, is either lying, or has an IQ lower than his shoe size.
and therefore deserves to die for it? i wouldn't say so. ignorance or mental retardedness is no reason to execute someone. merely lying isn't such a good reason either
My point is he is NOT ignorant of what is going on.
He has actively attached himself to that official to profit from the corruption.
taste is very subjective, and people are often biased by price, and unwilling to admit their dislike of an expensive label. ' I doubt very much anyone has trouble saying they don't like beer.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (X) Users of email will not put up with it (X) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (X) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (X) Asshats (X) Jurisdictional problems (X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (X) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually (X) Sending email should be free (X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? (X) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Ok, so a world-renowned pilot takes off in 2,000 pounds of airplane, steel, fuel, and glass, What's found? A partially burned piece of some of the most flammable things on the plane,
Have you seen the remains of the towers on 9/11? It's bizarre what can come out of a catastrophic event.
I'm not saying it's genuine or fake, but your criteria doesn't prove anything either.
Stewart: "how do you know the twin towers collapsed there?" Joe: "Well, I found a little plastic card and some chewing gum" Stewart: "noo.. concrete chunks? no steel fragments?" Joe: "nope" Stewart: "with all due respect sir, this structure was several hundred meters tall" Joe: "It's bizarre what survives a catastrophic event.
they wont give you canadian permanent resident status unless you:
a - have family there b - are a "professional" (no, degrees don't count, you have to be middle manager or higher.. good luck in this economy) c - you are kennedy rich, and looking to move your business there
A long time ago I remember hearing you only need a bachelor's degree. I guess a few years of conservative rule have resulted in borders shut tighter than a duck's ass.
We distribute it among congregations in the bible belt in 3 LB cylinders, brightly colored, with the words "kids! puncture in a small room, then wait 15 minutes for an awesome surprise!"
The norm is for wingnut-right astroturfers to mod anything democratic into oblivion, and make sure posts outright disparaging the poor as lazy, extolling the "fair and balanced" virtues of the american information ministry.. i mean fox news, and calling obama a muslim get to and stay at +5
Other such issues being astroturfed by sock puppet mods are: net neutrality copyright corporate abuse
Please refer to page 1 of "political blog campaigning 101".
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So far as teenagers linking credit cards to the games.
We've had pre-paid charge cards for online transactions for a while, with the explicit purpose of allowing minors access online "credit" transactions without involving the related credit approvals required with "real" credit lines.
This sounds like an excellent place to apply it.
You get X dollars a month to spend on this game, when you run out you run out.
At worst, which is upsettingly plausible, the system is suffering from outright fraud, and those involved don't even feel the need to lie convincingly.
You don't get it. For most people, that is a convincing lie.
If any geeks speak up about it, they're just part of the "intellectual elite" trying to subvert american freedom.
Of course, these claims will be used as "outrage politics" to draw the common man away from the otherwise inevitable second conclusion: if these machines are subject to errors from "static", why are we using them?
how innocent is someone who is immediately attached to a corrupt official?
Anyone that close to a politician for instance, who does not know what is going on, is either lying, or has an IQ lower than his shoe size.
and therefore deserves to die for it? i wouldn't say so. ignorance or mental retardedness is no reason to execute someone. merely lying isn't such a good reason either
My point is he is NOT ignorant of what is going on.
He has actively attached himself to that official to profit from the corruption.
He's feeding the system and just as guilty.
I agree with this to a degree.
taste is very subjective, and people are often biased by price, and unwilling to admit their dislike of an expensive label.
'
I doubt very much anyone has trouble saying they don't like beer.
but there are good reasons why expensive tends to equal good
I've had my hundai over 112000 miles.
Every time I travel more than 45 minutes, I pass a wrecker with a brand new bmw on it on the highway.
Theyre much more expensive, and they're the car equivalent of microsoft windows: a rolling beta.
They cram as much "cutting edge" tech as they can into them, and leave it to the user to "debug" the machine.
The problem with Slashdot is that it's slowly turning into digg.
I can't agree more.
Onion News Network is now considered a reliable news source? Keep this crap on idle.
about as reliable as fox.
how innocent is someone who is immediately attached to a corrupt official?
Anyone that close to a politician for instance, who does not know what is going on, is either lying, or has an IQ lower than his shoe size.
I would suggest a very fat white guy in a flannel shirt : )
To the mods:
WHOOOSH!
Your post advocates a
() technical ( ) legislative (X) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
(X) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(X) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(X) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
(X) Jurisdictional problems
(X) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(X) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
(X) Sending email should be free
(X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
(X) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
*dunce cap*
let me know when theyre telling me how to make my penis bigger in cyrillic or mandarin calligraphy
Under the DMCA, my site gets killed from a false accusation or spoofed address.
Under your approach to spam, I get killed from a false accusation or spoofed address.
I can't wait.
Suicide by spam patrol!
log into VNC, don't touch the mouse
What use is a new technology if it can't explode..
bad geek!
bad geek!
*slap*
Ok, so a world-renowned pilot takes off in 2,000 pounds of airplane, steel, fuel, and glass, What's found? A partially burned piece of some of the most flammable things on the plane,
Have you seen the remains of the towers on 9/11? It's bizarre what can come out of a catastrophic event.
I'm not saying it's genuine or fake, but your criteria doesn't prove anything either.
Stewart: "how do you know the twin towers collapsed there?"
Joe: "Well, I found a little plastic card and some chewing gum"
Stewart: "noo.. concrete chunks? no steel fragments?"
Joe: "nope"
Stewart: "with all due respect sir, this structure was several hundred meters tall"
Joe: "It's bizarre what survives a catastrophic event.
it's real though.
take a look at canadian immigration sites.
they wont give you canadian permanent resident status unless you:
a - have family there
b - are a "professional" (no, degrees don't count, you have to be middle manager or higher.. good luck in this economy)
c - you are kennedy rich, and looking to move your business there
A long time ago I remember hearing you only need a bachelor's degree. I guess a few years of conservative rule have resulted in borders shut tighter than a duck's ass.
not to mention those freakish unicode characters you can't type into a gm window to report them.
at today's exchange rates via google.. about 1 trillion
Sorry to say this, but the majority of households still don't have an HDTV.
Despite the fact most electronics stores carry them exclusively, relatively few can afford to spend circa $1k on one of these things.
The overall market share is still small.
Explain to me why anyone should be paying for resolution they won't see until panels drop to the 300 dollar mark some 5+ years from now?
We distribute it among congregations in the bible belt in 3 LB cylinders, brightly colored, with the words "kids! puncture in a small room, then wait 15 minutes for an awesome surprise!"
it's a WIN-WIN for the worldwide populace!
One of them is Stiglitz, the nobel prize winner whose texts were used in my curriculum.
Months before this happened he declared the policies which led to this crisis to be "dead".
Reaganomics is dead, and if you can't believe a nobel economist, then it's time to question your own motivations.
"Constituent contacts do matter"
I'm sorry, no they don't.
There have been numerous mass e-mail, phone, etc campaigns against expansion of copyright over the past decade.
EVERY REPSONSE I'VE RECEIVED IS:
"I know better than you, shut up and suck my cock"
They also gutted bankruptcy protections for "main street", including student loans.
My how compassionate of them!
no it's not.
The norm is for wingnut-right astroturfers to mod anything democratic into oblivion, and make sure posts outright disparaging the poor as lazy, extolling the "fair and balanced" virtues of the american information ministry.. i mean fox news, and calling obama a muslim get to and stay at +5
Other such issues being astroturfed by sock puppet mods are:
net neutrality
copyright
corporate abuse
Please refer to page 1 of "political blog campaigning 101".