I don't believe they are freely distributable. The only one Microsoft even let escape from Vista is Consolas, and even that requires that you have a Visual Studio product in order to install (but VS Express qualifies. Seems a silly hoop to jump through, don't it?)
These fonts seem to exist because font smoothing increased their apparent blackness too much, so they dialed it down a little (or in the case of Corbel, a lot -- Verdana is way too black in comparison).
You're still paying per-month on a device that does the "service" of reporting everything you click back to TiVo, flashing ads at you while you skip, not giving you a single-button skip option or automatic commercial editing, and sometimes forbidding you from recording or keeping some programs that your content masters have decided not to allow you.
Yeah, they may have some reason for some of these things, but I don't want to pay extra for it. I pay for my cable service, and the very instant there's a decent cablecard-enabled dvr that isn't TiVo, I'm all over it. As it is now, I won't even get digital cable, because I do like the fancy newfangled idea of recording something else other than what I'm tuned to.
> I respect Asimov, but the three laws are pretty naive.
All of the stories in I, Robot are about pointing out the flaws in the laws, actually. From what several bigger fans of Asimov than myself have told me, he wasn't really trying to make grand philosophical statements with them though; they were just story hooks he used for the purpose of spinning a good yarn.
Interpreted seriously, the three laws are slavery.
Oh, they probably understand it well enough. It just doesn't stop them from making spurious legal-sounding threats as a bullying strategy. Basically, Dozier Internet Law stands as a shining example of why lawyers have such a bad reputation. The bar should be ashamed to even have these people as members (or likely, it's one guy renting a cheap office by the month) .
Yeah, I know about Dozier's linking policy. I don't even have anything funny to add about it, these people bring down the house by themselves.
Look, sometimes you just don't need to justify the reasoning (how you need to transfer the HTML to read it), or explain the technical details (the intricacies of caching, transfer, futility of preventing view source, etc), and just run with your basic instinct: These are just bullying sociopaths who need to be clubbed right out of the gene pool.
Sure they do, paste it in. I think just for their legal reasons, posting wget or lynx -source output would be interpreted the same as well.
I was going to prove it by posting their HTML source here, but posting any significant chunk of it, just to show what I think of their precious copyright, triggered the lameness filter. How apropos.
I always thought the voices fit. You're a wolf. You bark. They don't understand you either. At least you have your godly powers of comprehension to know what they're actually saying.
I could still do with a little less Issun at all times.
> I'm pretty sure you could turn it into a form letter, and send it to any debtors you didn't recognize.
And they could send you a picture of their hairy scrotum, with "fuck off, we'll ruin your credit if we feel like it" in 72-point letters, and you would still have no legal recourse. The law does not care about you, and politicians only pretend to in an election year.
> Unless you are claiming that the company was derelict in validating the identity of the applicant, in which case, what qualifies as a good faith effort?
I dunno, but accepting pre-approved applications that have been taped together after being torn up, with the card sent to a different address than the offer, with a different phone number like a cell phone, and requiring no proof of identity whatsoever doesn't really fill me with feelings of good faith.
What do the associate banks care? They profit from fraud. Merchants eat the cost of fraud, plus a fee.
ISPs are not common carriers. They are their own category, "data service providers", which fall somewhere inbetween. They are under no threat of losing such a status if they implement blocking measures.
> anyone know of any major ones that still don't block port 25?
Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, a good chunk of Roadrunner (they're spotty about it), any European ISP owned by Orange telecom, any IP in China, most of Korea...
Symantec specializes in security products too, but their threat report only puts spam at 70% of email. From my own experience, the figure has a lot of variance -- corporate email accounts send a lot more legitimate email around than the average ISP account, and their addresses are less likely to be scraped from public sites, so their overall percentage will be lower (with the exception of role accounts: webmaster@ gets so much spam, it's just a spamtrap where I work)
And yeah, I'd like to see a lot more emphasis on prevention, but frankly as long as there's people that keep cutting themselves due to their own negligence, there's a profit to be made in selling the band-aids.
Yeah but a demonic goat might burn it down first. Unless two greyscale dudes, a virginal dimension-hopper, a sentient broccoli, an innocent undead fish and his ruthless twin, and a satanic chicken manage to save the day. Did I forget the headless cyborg trekkie biker and a chain-smoking rainbow brite?
> For me personally the value of being able to contact a POP or IMAP server of my choosing does outweigh negatives of spam.
What does POP and IMAP have to do with SMTP? You've got your MUAs and your MTAs confused. If you want to contact arbitrary SMTP servers around the world, then use port 587 or tunnel it. The rest of the SMTP servers of the world who don't know you would just as soon rather not talk to you if you're some anonymous dynamic IP. And the people that wrote that checklist think the same way.
> Why hasn't anyone thought of using these techniques for disrupting this black market?
Psst buddy, ever heard of a sting? Or an informant?
But seriously, I suspect in order to combat this, the spammers will roll out a web-of-trust network faster than we ever imagined possible. These guys are on the cutting edge of information security, and don't doubt that they have their own theory folks looking at the problem too.
So if we don't have exactly the same weapons that spammers have, we lose? Oh horseshit. It doesn't take clever technical tricks, it takes ISPs stopping direct port 25 access from their residential ranges. But they won't, because they're criminally negligent. They're also afraid that the zombies will send through the smarthost, that their smarthost will get blacklisted, and that they'll actually have to start paying attention to the security on their own networks. God forbid.
If the dynamic residential ranges were adequately secured, the zombie problem would be a tiny fraction of what it is today.
Yeah, just prepending "California" or even just "CA" might have made it an eensy bit clearer. But hey, slashdot isn't about that pretentious "old media" with all its "accuracy" and "clarity" and "fact checking". Pshaw.
I prefer "Gubenator", which sounds funnier when said with Schwarzenegger's accent, and it's actually the real latin word that "governer" comes from. But I wouldn't put that in a headline either.
> It's actually kinda sad that I'm getting modded down.
I was about to mention how your tone and your, ah, overenthusiasm might have been part of it. But I took a look at your user profile, and it looks like your only purpose here is to shill for your pet quack. FOAD, nobody owes you a civil reply.
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I don't believe they are freely distributable. The only one Microsoft even let escape from Vista is Consolas, and even that requires that you have a Visual Studio product in order to install (but VS Express qualifies. Seems a silly hoop to jump through, don't it?)
These fonts seem to exist because font smoothing increased their apparent blackness too much, so they dialed it down a little (or in the case of Corbel, a lot -- Verdana is way too black in comparison).
Consolas is quite a nice font though.
You're still paying per-month on a device that does the "service" of reporting everything you click back to TiVo, flashing ads at you while you skip, not giving you a single-button skip option or automatic commercial editing, and sometimes forbidding you from recording or keeping some programs that your content masters have decided not to allow you.
Yeah, they may have some reason for some of these things, but I don't want to pay extra for it. I pay for my cable service, and the very instant there's a decent cablecard-enabled dvr that isn't TiVo, I'm all over it. As it is now, I won't even get digital cable, because I do like the fancy newfangled idea of recording something else other than what I'm tuned to.
> I respect Asimov, but the three laws are pretty naive.
All of the stories in I, Robot are about pointing out the flaws in the laws, actually. From what several bigger fans of Asimov than myself have told me, he wasn't really trying to make grand philosophical statements with them though; they were just story hooks he used for the purpose of spinning a good yarn.
Interpreted seriously, the three laws are slavery.
Oh, they probably understand it well enough. It just doesn't stop them from making spurious legal-sounding threats as a bullying strategy. Basically, Dozier Internet Law stands as a shining example of why lawyers have such a bad reputation. The bar should be ashamed to even have these people as members (or likely, it's one guy renting a cheap office by the month) .
Yeah, I know about Dozier's linking policy. I don't even have anything funny to add about it, these people bring down the house by themselves.
Look, sometimes you just don't need to justify the reasoning (how you need to transfer the HTML to read it), or explain the technical details (the intricacies of caching, transfer, futility of preventing view source, etc), and just run with your basic instinct: These are just bullying sociopaths who need to be clubbed right out of the gene pool.
Sure they do, paste it in. I think just for their legal reasons, posting wget or lynx -source output would be interpreted the same as well.
I was going to prove it by posting their HTML source here, but posting any significant chunk of it, just to show what I think of their precious copyright, triggered the lameness filter. How apropos.
I always thought the voices fit. You're a wolf. You bark. They don't understand you either. At least you have your godly powers of comprehension to know what they're actually saying.
I could still do with a little less Issun at all times.
> I'm pretty sure you could turn it into a form letter, and send it to any debtors you didn't recognize.
And they could send you a picture of their hairy scrotum, with "fuck off, we'll ruin your credit if we feel like it" in 72-point letters, and you would still have no legal recourse. The law does not care about you, and politicians only pretend to in an election year.
> Unless you are claiming that the company was derelict in validating the identity of the applicant, in which case, what qualifies as a good faith effort?
I dunno, but accepting pre-approved applications that have been taped together after being torn up, with the card sent to a different address than the offer, with a different phone number like a cell phone, and requiring no proof of identity whatsoever doesn't really fill me with feelings of good faith.
What do the associate banks care? They profit from fraud. Merchants eat the cost of fraud, plus a fee.
Don't forget Cloning Clyde!
Alien Hominid is cute, but boy is it punishing.
ISPs are not common carriers. They are their own category, "data service providers", which fall somewhere inbetween. They are under no threat of losing such a status if they implement blocking measures.
> anyone know of any major ones that still don't block port 25?
Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, a good chunk of Roadrunner (they're spotty about it), any European ISP owned by Orange telecom, any IP in China, most of Korea...
Symantec specializes in security products too, but their threat report only puts spam at 70% of email. From my own experience, the figure has a lot of variance -- corporate email accounts send a lot more legitimate email around than the average ISP account, and their addresses are less likely to be scraped from public sites, so their overall percentage will be lower (with the exception of role accounts: webmaster@ gets so much spam, it's just a spamtrap where I work)
And yeah, I'd like to see a lot more emphasis on prevention, but frankly as long as there's people that keep cutting themselves due to their own negligence, there's a profit to be made in selling the band-aids.
Sigh, yes I was thinking of the ITU. Which doesn't exactly reek with corruption either. I get my TLAs mixed up.
Yeah but a demonic goat might burn it down first. Unless two greyscale dudes, a virginal dimension-hopper, a sentient broccoli, an innocent undead fish and his ruthless twin, and a satanic chicken manage to save the day. Did I forget the headless cyborg trekkie biker and a chain-smoking rainbow brite?
> that means there is corruption at the highest levels of the organisation.
Corruption in a U.N. organization? Say it isn't so!
Great idea. They can meet once a month in your mom's basement.
> You can't just shut them down, because they are hosted on the Russian Business Network's "bulletproof" hosting.
I love bulletproof hosters, really. So easy to null-route. Dodge this.
> For me personally the value of being able to contact a POP or IMAP server of my choosing does outweigh negatives of spam.
What does POP and IMAP have to do with SMTP? You've got your MUAs and your MTAs confused. If you want to contact arbitrary SMTP servers around the world, then use port 587 or tunnel it. The rest of the SMTP servers of the world who don't know you would just as soon rather not talk to you if you're some anonymous dynamic IP. And the people that wrote that checklist think the same way.
> Why hasn't anyone thought of using these techniques for disrupting this black market?
Psst buddy, ever heard of a sting? Or an informant?
But seriously, I suspect in order to combat this, the spammers will roll out a web-of-trust network faster than we ever imagined possible. These guys are on the cutting edge of information security, and don't doubt that they have their own theory folks looking at the problem too.
So if we don't have exactly the same weapons that spammers have, we lose? Oh horseshit. It doesn't take clever technical tricks, it takes ISPs stopping direct port 25 access from their residential ranges. But they won't, because they're criminally negligent. They're also afraid that the zombies will send through the smarthost, that their smarthost will get blacklisted, and that they'll actually have to start paying attention to the security on their own networks. God forbid.
If the dynamic residential ranges were adequately secured, the zombie problem would be a tiny fraction of what it is today.
Yeah, just prepending "California" or even just "CA" might have made it an eensy bit clearer. But hey, slashdot isn't about that pretentious "old media" with all its "accuracy" and "clarity" and "fact checking". Pshaw.
I prefer "Gubenator", which sounds funnier when said with Schwarzenegger's accent, and it's actually the real latin word that "governer" comes from. But I wouldn't put that in a headline either.
> It's actually kinda sad that I'm getting modded down.
I was about to mention how your tone and your, ah, overenthusiasm might have been part of it. But I took a look at your user profile, and it looks like your only purpose here is to shill for your pet quack. FOAD, nobody owes you a civil reply.
> I hate to keep copying/pasting the same thing here,
Clearly if you did, you wouldn't be fucking doing it.
Sarno looks pretty dubious, but at least not in the outright new-age woo-woo kind of way. Has any of his work actually been clinically studied?
> I'm curious, do you have any examples of the US "playing its cards right" in any foreign policy matters?
The Marshall plan worked out pretty well for us.