“I need more heads” he said, as one does. on Flickr.
June 8th, 2013 11:31am
“I need more heads” he said, as one does. on Flickr.
June 8th, 2013 11:31am
Sous vide meme. on Flickr.
Philip Daigle as a slab of applewood smoked center cut bacon, blackberry floating nearby.
June 8th, 2013 11:28am
Philip Daigle, as a rabbit, blackberry floating at his feet.
June 8th, 2013 9:27am
Renowned executive assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Michael Mason staggered through the vaulted archway of the Verizon Grand Headquarters. He lunged for the nearest telephone tap and trace provision he could see, section 214 of the USA PATRIOT ACT. Grabbing the gilded legislation, the seventy-six-year-old man heaved the laws toward himself until they piled off the desk and Mason collapsed backward in a heap beneath the pages.
June 6th, 2013 8:56am
Your idea advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) 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
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(x) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) 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
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) 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
(x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
(x) 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
(x) 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.
( ) 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!
—Anonymous Coward
June 5th, 2013 8:17am
@Northern_Brewer’s new QC stickers rule! on Flickr.
June 4th, 2013 11:02am
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
— Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices (via volumexii)
June 2nd, 2013 11:28pm
Hops died so that we may imbibe. 1 Imperial India Pale Ale 60:30:15:10:5:0 on Flickr.
June 1st, 2013 5:47pm
Poynton Regenerated, English Village Revives Town Center by Removing Traffic Signals
May 31st, 2013 10:38pm