AT&T had an IP address, from which too much traffic (a DoS attack) was emanating. As of now, at least, the IP addresses for img.4chan.org do not have rDNS, so there's no fast way to see who they think owns them. whois -h whois.arin.net says they're owned by "Net Asset", with an email address in that domain and a phone number.
Early reports mentioned that AT&T did contact the colo site that owned the IP address that was blocked (of whom 4chan is a customer). From an engineering viewpoint, they contacted their peer/customer who they had a problem from.
I've been considering trying sous vide cookery; that would seem to be the best choice (in terms of getting everything cooked and nothing overcooked).
Has anybody here tried it? Any advice?
Michelle #36: Have you tried walking into their office once a minute and telling them "Spam is bad"? After a few hundred repetitions, ask them if they've decided not to spam. If so, you've won. If not, ask them why they expect customers to act any differently. (You can, of course, include a lot of phone calls and paper deliveries with the message.)
There's also the fact that if they spam the wrong person (e.g. me), they might suddenly find their mail blocked as spam a lot of places. They are likely to find this counterproductive.
Depending on how they get access, they could find their entire connection cancelled.
Constant Contact will fire customers who spam. They should also have some good explanations on their web site in marketroidese.
Cat #37: And members will find out immediately. I give different email addresses to different organizations, so I know who is selling their mailing lists (and who is allowing them to leak due to lax security). I also learn companies' responses when notified about such things, which varies from Untied Airlines lying about how it couldn't have been a leak from them (three separate times that I caught) to Orbitz catching it quickly, fixing the problem and apologizing (to AOL getting the thieves jailed).
Businesses that annoy their customers is a self-limiting problem.
(And for those who've accused me of being anti-commerce for opposing their spam: my total spending on the net is well into six figures.)
Lee #84: I carefully specified that a waiter who keeps track of actual tips received can report precisely that amount and pay taxes on it, even if it disagrees with what the company claims.
If the company is reporting improperly (e.g. $225 to the waiter, nothing to the bussers or expediters (in some states, I believe it's illegal to require sharing tips with non-service personnel)), that should be fixed, perhaps with a report to the IRS that the company is under-reporting for those people.
ADM #68: Are you really complaining that the IRS forced you to pay taxes on $120 when you only made $145? Some (most) of us have to pay taxes on all our income.
If you keep a contemporaneous diary of your income and expenses, you can use that to support your tax return. That means you get to exclude the amount of "your" tips that's paid out to other workers.
Is the evilness of pooled tips the fact that you don't get to evade taxes at all?
My respect level for Time Magazine was set when I was in college. A few years earlier, there had been student takeovers of buildings, police overreaction, etc. There was a large Time article on it. One student I knew had been there, and wrote to Time about various errors and inaccuracies in their article. Time responded "We stand by our reporter's story."
I've seen nothing since then to indicate that their accuracy level has improved.
The SkyScanner page is outdated; I checked MSP->HPN and it claimed there's a nonstop. Orbitz didn't find any. (There used to be.)
I own the copyright on everything I wrote on Usenet.
For stuff posted to moderated groups, the moderator owns a compilation copyright on the selection.
DejaGoogle could reasonably claim that it's providing a Usenet server with a custom interface, and therefore no more of a copyright infringement than any other server.
Google recently changed the advanced groups search page, and apparently screwed up some stuff.
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Proof: Vs gurl qvqa'g, gura gurer jbhyq or bayl 4 cbffvovyvgvrf (fvapr punatvat gur genafyngvba jbhyq or cbffvoyr), naq gurer ner 6 nafjref gb pubbfr nzbat.
That's what comes from doing too much work on resolution proofs: assume the opposite (impossibility), try to prove it, and see where the unprovable lemma (or the hole in the proof) is.
"Affirmative Action" as it's currently used refers to racial discrimination, for different groups than used to be discriminated for. Those who believe racial discrimination is bad (period) don't like it.
The earlier meaning, which allowed for Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action both to be true, referred to making decisions on an equal basis (choosing the most qualified independent of race), while taking affirmative action to notify people that they were eligible and would be considered. (E.g. putting ads in newspapers mostly read by groups that were previously underfavored was Affirmative Action.)
If existing marriages are nullified, who pays alimony, child support, etc.?
I nominate the Mormon Church and other Prop Hate supporters.
Leva (#122), I wonder if the people who oppose gay marriage because of what (they think) the Bible says would also like to see marriages invalidated if they served shrimp at the wedding, or if the bride or groom wore clothing of mixed fibers.
The site is for real. It has a bunch of pointers to Obama's proposed policies in many areas.
I suspect the President-Elect can get a .gov domain.
If you want to know what Obama is likely to try to do, http://www.change.gov (if you can get through).
Avram #48: Nobody has the right to say anything without being criticized in any particular way.
Everybody in the world who ever lived or will live is unpatriotic, radical, or whatever. There; now they've all been criticized for that, proving my point.
Who I choose to allow to say what without being criticized by me (that is, who I choose to criticize for what reason) is my personal idiosyncratic decision. I have the right to make it however I choose, just like everybody else.
It doesn't look to me like McCain said racism was completely gone, but rather that the current situation is "a world away" from one in which a black man couldn't even be invited to dinner at the White House. I agree with him; the situations are a world apart.
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