He probably thinks of himself as a neutral party just reporting the news.
"With enemies you know where they stand but with neutrals? Who knows! It sickens me."
"What makes a man turn neutral... Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
"This could be an expensive attack. There are estimates that just a few hours without social networking could lead to billions of dollars in increased productivity. Imagine if Slashdot went down. Spam would be wiped out in a day" Your post advocates a
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 see increased use ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money (X) It requires brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (X) Users of slashdot will not put up with it ( ) 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 ( ) 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
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (X) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP (X) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack Oh, wait, it relies on that. ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes Oh, wait, it relies on that. ( ) 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 ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) 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, but it's the closest I've seen. ( ) 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!
I dread seeing what a poor DSL line looks like with six or more computers trying to play Starcraft2 together in the same college apartment. everybody's traffic going out and coming back again. laaaaaaaaaaaaag
Oh good, the monster wandered back to the castle. No more danger. Let's go back to the village.
Oh good, the thugs stopped beating that poor man. We've been heard! Now let's get back to what we were doing.
No! Keep those pitchforks raised, my friends. Call 911 or use your gun to defend that poor man. Otherwise, the danger will be lingering in the shadows.
C. hindi's front pair of legs were angled toward the front, suggesting they were used to grapple with prey, an 'ambush predator' like the modern-day crab spider, lying in wait for prey to come close.
Maybe they weren't ambush predators. They are extinct after all; maybe their progeny were eventually ambush predators, but C hindi could have been a poorly designed hunting spider.
2) kill them (barbaric, innocent people will die as well, also not really a solution), or when it's available 3) correct what's physically wrong with them (barbaric, innocent people will be "corrected" as well, also not really a solution).
Fixed that for you. Cut off my arms and legs and I'm no longer a harm to anyone. Cut my brain and I'm no longer the "me" I was.
You really think she's a sociopath? She couldn't take the emotional pressure of the media frenzy. I'd focus on real politicians with that sociopathy test.
Do you know that 2% of the regular population has antisocial disorder? [...] I guess the answer is a nice cushy white box with 3 hots and a cot...
The answer from an "antisocial disorder" person would be to permanently remove them from society. 3 hots and a cot for 2% of the world would cost a lot of money.
Do you think the male/female dynamic in 19th century was a historical blip? I'd contend that it's similar to centuries and maybe millenniums of cultural history.
After you convince your doctor's office that google office is okay and google parses the records, let us know when you see the marked increase in ads for herbal enhancements while searching for anything on google from an IP address google associates with you.
how can anyone score 100% on everything if the questions require some analytical thinking and even opinion? Especially if your opinion might differ from the exam markers (not exactly unusual).
Bachelors and Masters level work in science and engineering does not involve opinion.
I guess the most newsworthy part of this story is that apparently - I'm non-US - the US education system has been deflating for some time now, and in this economic situation, the results are finally beginning to show.
The most newsworthy part of this story is that greater percentages of the U.S. population are getting degrees because jobs that never needed them in the past now require them for entry, and colleges are willing to accommodate (witness university courses in finite math - addition and subtraction - to get new students "caught up").
Slashdot Mirror
He probably thinks of himself as a neutral party just reporting the news.
"With enemies you know where they stand but with neutrals? Who knows! It sickens me." ... Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
"What makes a man turn neutral
Angus MacGyver
I had 3 chicken tenders, a small fry, and a large drink because they ran out of small cups.
"This could be an expensive attack. There are estimates that just a few hours without social networking could lead to billions of dollars in increased productivity. Imagine if Slashdot went down. Spam would be wiped out in a day"
Your post advocates a
(X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (X) 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 see increased use
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(X) It requires brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(X) Users of slashdot will not put up with it
( ) 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
( ) 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
(X) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(X) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
(X) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack Oh, wait, it relies on that.
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes Oh, wait, it relies on that.
( ) 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
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) 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, but it's the closest I've seen.
( ) 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!
So THAT's what Conficker's for.
Now I wish I hadn't patched my machines.
The only reason I need twitter to remain up is to prevent people from flooding other communication channels with "Twitter's down! Fail Whale!"
I just don't understand how it could have been ignored by the government for this long.
Large sections of the government listen only to other sections of the government.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that felt winamp needed to grow up and wear a suit and tie.
I dread seeing what a poor DSL line looks like with six or more computers trying to play Starcraft2 together in the same college apartment. everybody's traffic going out and coming back again. laaaaaaaaaaaaag
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/22/1757257
Oh good, the monster wandered back to the castle. No more danger. Let's go back to the village.
Oh good, the thugs stopped beating that poor man. We've been heard! Now let's get back to what we were doing.
No! Keep those pitchforks raised, my friends. Call 911 or use your gun to defend that poor man. Otherwise, the danger will be lingering in the shadows.
C. hindi's front pair of legs were angled toward the front, suggesting they were used to grapple with prey, an 'ambush predator' like the modern-day crab spider, lying in wait for prey to come close.
Maybe they weren't ambush predators. They are extinct after all; maybe their progeny were eventually ambush predators, but C hindi could have been a poorly designed hunting spider.
Name her breasts Han and Chewie.
But keep it funny and name the furry one Han, and the smooth one Chewie.
2) kill them (barbaric, innocent people will die as well, also not really a solution), or when it's available 3) correct what's physically wrong with them (barbaric, innocent people will be "corrected" as well, also not really a solution).
Fixed that for you. Cut off my arms and legs and I'm no longer a harm to anyone. Cut my brain and I'm no longer the "me" I was.
You really think she's a sociopath? She couldn't take the emotional pressure of the media frenzy. I'd focus on real politicians with that sociopathy test.
when they can "fix" the abnormality. Who will be the one to decide whether or not one needs to be Fixed?
The sociopathic politicians.
Do you know that 2% of the regular population has antisocial disorder? [...] I guess the answer is a nice cushy white box with 3 hots and a cot...
The answer from an "antisocial disorder" person would be to permanently remove them from society. 3 hots and a cot for 2% of the world would cost a lot of money.
Do you think the male/female dynamic in 19th century was a historical blip? I'd contend that it's similar to centuries and maybe millenniums of cultural history.
After you convince your doctor's office that google office is okay and google parses the records, let us know when you see the marked increase in ads for herbal enhancements while searching for anything on google from an IP address google associates with you.
...and her name is Sony.
how can anyone score 100% on everything if the questions require some analytical thinking and even opinion? Especially if your opinion might differ from the exam markers (not exactly unusual).
Bachelors and Masters level work in science and engineering does not involve opinion.
why doesn't she use her business degree and start her own business.
Probably because she's already in debt due to school, and can't get capital to start a business.
I guess the most newsworthy part of this story is that apparently - I'm non-US - the US education system has been deflating for some time now, and in this economic situation, the results are finally beginning to show.
The most newsworthy part of this story is that greater percentages of the U.S. population are getting degrees because jobs that never needed them in the past now require them for entry, and colleges are willing to accommodate (witness university courses in finite math - addition and subtraction - to get new students "caught up").
Next they'll be changing the music or lyrics of song I bought.
Licensed. BTW, rent's past-due Mr. Nikkos! If you don't lease a new white album by this time tomorrow, I'll start the repossession papers!
Which military though? There seems to be no major military that could have done this and doesn't strike.
How about the ${YOURCOUNTRY} military? You assume the goal is to strike computers, and not to impress them into ${YOURCOUNTRY}'s service.