Banning the Bible to Get Out the Vote

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""the GOP is already calling a vote for
Democrats a vote for bin Laden (or if
you prefer, a vote for Hitler).""

""the GOP is already calling a vote for
Democrats a vote for bin Laden (or if
you prefer, a vote for Hitler)."" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

Why IP banning is useless

Why IP banning is useless 02/10/2004 02:38 PM

Many proposals for eliminating comment spam are focused on banning or throttling comments from the IP address of the spammer. This is fundamentally flawed because it assumes IP addresses are both unique and hard to come by.

Banning an IP address can have severe consequences. Many ISPs (including AOL) and companies use a proxy server that makes it appear as if all users are coming from a single (or a handful) if IP addresses. By blocking an IP address, you might be preventing a substantial portion of AOL users from commenting. Depending on your point of view, eliminating AOL may not be a great loss; however the same thing would happen to millions of users behind other proxy servers.

The other problem is that IP addresses are very easy to get or fake for spammers who care about such things. There are hundreds of thousands of open proxies that will let anyone direct Web traffic through them. When I’m using an open proxy, my IP address is effectively masked. And I can use simple software to switch to a different open proxy (and thus a different IP address) every few minutes. So my spamming activity isn’t tied to a specific IP address.

Hypothetically speaking, if the problem of open proxies were to disappear overnight, there are two other mechanisms that provide a limitless set of IP addresses to spammers: dialup and spoofing.

Most dialup ISPs provide a different IP address each time you dial in. If a spammer were to find that their IP address had been banned, they could simply disconnect and redial. It would be trivial to automate the process of dialing in, spamming, disconnecting, and dialing back in.

IP addresses are easy to fake as well. The design principles of TCP/IP allows the sender of a packet to specify its IP address. The message will still be routed to its destination using the fake origin address. Return packets would be mis-routed, however, because TCP/IP would send responses to the true location of the IP address rather than where it actually came from. This means that IP spoofing is ineffective in situations where you need to interact with a remote server, but very effective in a one-way conversation. I can’t retrieve a Web page using a spoofed IP address because I need to make the request and then have the server send me the page. But I can send requests all day long if I don’t care about the response.

Posting a comment (or TrackBack) doesn’t require interaction. I can send a comment in a POST or GET message and not worry about the response if I don’t care about receiving acknowledgment that it was successful.

"Banning Smokers"

"Banning Smokers" 01/05/2004 04:16 PM

Banning By Keyword?

Banning By Keyword? 08/09/2004 03:09 PM
It's well known that China blocks out certain websites, but their latest move to stop people from accessing content the government considers harmful is to have certain local search engines ban keywords. Apparently, popular Chinese search engine Baidu has a list of about 40,000 banned keywords. It's not entirely clear what happens if someone does search on a banned keyword (0 search results? told you've searched on banned words? immediately told to report to the local prison?), but with so many banned keywords there must be an awful lot of collateral damage in terms of perfectly reasonable websites that can't be found. Of course, it's been clear for a while that the Chinese government really isn't too concerned with "false positives" in their efforts to ban anything they consider to be "harmful" online.

Google Ad-Banning: Is It Consistent?

Google Ad-Banning: Is It Consistent? 02/13/2004 09:22 PM
Okay, Google has every right to accept or reject ads as it sees fit. Question for all of you: Is Google being consistent here? Do you know of cases where this policy has not been followed? Post replies below. Thanks.

Banning Emailed Executables

Banning Emailed Executables 11/14/2003 05:14 PM
The latest tactic in stopping emailed virus attacks is to stop letting a mail server pass on emailed executables. MIT is apparently rejecting all such messages. Of course, the virus writers will quickly figure out a social engineering trick around this, and will try to get people to download the executable from somewhere else. Besides, there certainly are cases where it does make sense to email an executable, and suddenly people are going to need to figure out a way around that block.

Parents Banning Children From The Web

Parents Banning Children From The Web 04/14/2004 02:26 PM
Parents are still struggling to figure out how to let their children on the internet without putting them at risk. A new study says that some parents (8%) have resorted to banning the internet completely. This seems likely to guarantee that the kids run over to their friends' homes to access the internet instead - without any supervision. Nearly 40% of parents aren't worried at all, with another 30% saying that they only allow their kids online with supervision - which sounds like the smart way to teach kids how to be responsible online. 40% also use tools to protect their kids, though the study doesn't suggest how (in)effective these tools are.

RSS abuse and Slashdot IP banning

RSS abuse and Slashdot IP banning 05/12/2004 03:50 PM

I've had a number of people ask me about t his blog entry, whose title suggests that FeedDemon was banned from Slashdot. If you read the entire entry you'll find out that the subject is misleading - it's really about how Slashdot tries to protect itself from people who make too many requests on their feed.

Given the un necessary bandwidth consumption caused by some RSS readers, Slashdot certainly has every right to try to protect themselves from RSS abuse. The problem is that they ban based on IP address - which obviously causes problems for those behind a proxy server that shares a single IP address with dozens of other users. In all fairness, though, I'm not sure of a better solution to Slashdot's valid concerns.

Anyway...since some who read the aforementioned article thought it might be due to a problem in FeedDemon, I just wanted to make it clear that this will happen regardless of which RSS reader you use if you're behind an IP-sharing proxy. As I pointed out in an earlier post, FeedDemon employs a number of techniques to keep bandwidth consumption to a minimum - which not only keeps it 'Net-friendly, but also makes it extremely fast since it doesn't waste time performing unnecessary updates.

"A vote for Bush is a vote for a
divided, unstable, paranoid America"

"A vote for Bush is a vote for a
divided, unstable, paranoid America" 08/05/2004 05:00 AM
Baby, we were born to run against Bush More than 20 artists, including Bruce Springsteen, the Dave Matthews Band, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, James Taylor and the Dixie Chicks, announced the launch of a ``Vote For Change'' tour yesterday. "A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America,'' Dave Matthews said in one of the more strongly worded statement....

Banning racists from the political
process.

Banning racists from the political
process. 07/19/2004 06:13 AM
The BNP (British National Party) is the main racist political group in the UK. Whilst the party tries to present itself as a moderate voice for white Britons, its leader has convictions for inciting race hatred, and the party has numerous links to various White Supremacist groups in Europe and America. Its main political programme is the "resettlement of non-whites to their lands of ethnic origin", and members must be "of British or closely kindred native European stock".

banning street fairs is unamerican

banning street fairs is unamerican 06/07/2004 01:11 AM
if you deny my my funnel cakes, i will deny you the white house!

"Iraq concedes that anyone the
insurgents don't want to vote won't get
to vote in the upcoming elections, as
Mr. Rumsfeld said and Mr. Allawi either
does or doesn't agree to and Mr.
Armitage denied"

"Iraq concedes that anyone the
insurgents don't want to vote won't get
to vote in the upcoming elections, as
Mr. Rumsfeld said and Mr. Allawi either
does or doesn't agree to and Mr.
Armitage denied" 09/27/2004 02:37 AM

Judge Blocks Utah Law Banning Spyware

Judge Blocks Utah Law Banning Spyware 06/23/2004 05:38 PM
A judge has agreed to temporarily block enforcement of a Utah law—the nation's first such legislation—that aims to ban so-called spyware.

Banning software patents: a call to
action

Banning software patents: a call to
action 12/11/2003 03:52 AM
For the past nine months, much of the attention of the IT world has been drawn to the SCO v. IBM case. Having started out as a case about breach of contract, it is now about all three key areas of intellectual property law: copyright law (was code illegally copied from Unix into Linux?), patent law (did SCO violate IBM's patents?), and trademark law (who owns 'UNIX'?).

Universities banning servers, harming
education

Universities banning servers, harming
education 05/20/2004 01:05 AM
My cow-orker Jason Schulz is at the DC EDUCAUSE conference, talking about the ways that universities can use computer networks to improve or detract form the educational experience. Some of the current higher-ed thinking is abysmal:

Penn State now has an absolute ban on any student running a server in a residential dorm. Period. The only possible exception is if you swear to only use it for "educational" purposes and get written permission from a faculty member and get approval from the Vice Provost.

So this is part of Penn State's solution to copyright infringement: Take away computing tools from students. As Ed Felten pointed out in our later panel discussion, this is a very dangerous approach for educational institutions to take. Computer science students often learn best through hands-on experimentation and tinkering with technology, and as Jamie Boyle noted in his plenary talk, unplanned experimentation often bears the biggest educational fruit. To paraphrase: "How many times do we learn more from the book next to the book we originally went to find on the shelf, or from the article after the article we looked up in the journal?" Hence, restricting access to content and technology out of fear for infringment can have a very real and direct impact on the ability of students to learn. [Note: Both Yahoo! and Google began as "unauthorized" Stanford student experiments with servers -- should those had been banned as well?]

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BT appeals 'dirty tricks' banning order

BT appeals 'dirty tricks' banning order 01/16/2004 11:32 AM
'Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight...'

Insiders Weigh Law Banning Wireless Spam

Insiders Weigh Law Banning Wireless Spam 09/24/2004 07:38 AM

Supreme Court to Consider Banning
Execution of Teens

Supreme Court to Consider Banning
Execution of Teens 01/26/2004 12:42 PM
Two years after abolishing executions for the mentally retarded, the question of whether executing very young killers will be revisited.

KERRY COSPONSORED BILL BANNING GUN HE
WAVES

KERRY COSPONSORED BILL BANNING GUN HE
WAVES 09/07/2004 03:51 PM
new smear .. of course

drudgereport.com/dncg.htm
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Bjrn Strk bl0g - More on banning Islam

Bjrn Strk bl0g - More on banning Islam 08/20/2004 08:08 PM
a Bjørn Stærk post against banning Islam .. this item by Bjorn Staerk .. immensely important post

bearstrong.net/warblog/000764.html
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California signs up for nutty law
banning camcorders from cinemas

California signs up for nutty law
banning camcorders from cinemas 12/09/2003 05:05 AM
'He stole my camcorder. No Officer, I was just making a citizen's arrest'

Senate Scuttles Amendment Banning
Same-Sex Marriage (washingtonpost.com)

Senate Scuttles Amendment Banning
Same-Sex Marriage (washingtonpost.com) 07/14/2004 08:59 PM
Senate Scuttles Amendment Banning Same-Sex Marriage .. according to the WaPo .. officially dead

washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A49537 -2004Jul14%20¬Found=true
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Canada Weighs Banning Internet Drug
Sales

Canada Weighs Banning Internet Drug
Sales 01/06/2005 04:26 AM
ABCNEWS.com Jan 6 2005 9:03AM GMT

French President Suggests Banning
Religious Symbols

French President Suggests Banning
Religious Symbols 12/17/2003 02:24 PM
French President Suggests Banning Religious Symbols From the Washington Post: "French President Jacques Chirac asked parliament on Wednesday for a law banning Islamic head scarves and other religious insignia in public schools ... 'Secularism is one of the great successes of the Republic,' Chirac said in an address to the nation. 'It is a crucial element of social peace and national cohesion. We cannot let it weaken.' Chirac said he would push for a law to be enacted in time for the school year that begins next autumn. Islamic head scarves, Jewish skullcaps and large crucifixes would fall under the ban.

Man, just when I thought we could start referring to "freed om fries" as "french fries" again.

Dumbfuck Gartner report recommends
banning iPods

Dumbfuck Gartner report recommends
banning iPods 07/06/2004 11:58 AM
Some jackass analyst at Gartner is advising employers to ban iPods and other personal storage tech from the workplace to prevent leakage of s33kr1ts from within the corporate hive. Likely successor recommendation: decapitating all outgoing employees.

"Portable storage products can bypass perimeter defences like firewalls and antivirus at the mailserver, and introduce malware such as Trojans or viruses onto company networks."

Devices mentioned include "disk-based MP3 players, such as Apple's iPod, and digital cameras with smart media cards, memory sticks, compact flash and other memory media"...

"Businesses must ensure that the right procedures and technologies are adopted to securely manage the use of portable storage devices like USB keychain drives. This will help to limit damage from malicious code, loss of proprietary information or intellectual property, and consequent lawsuits and loss of reputation," the report stated.

Link

Canada Supreme Court Upholds Laws
Banning Pot Use

Canada Supreme Court Upholds Laws
Banning Pot Use 12/23/2003 02:15 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 23 2003 1:17PM ET

Bush Refines His Position on a Measure
Banning Gay Marriage

Bush Refines His Position on a Measure
Banning Gay Marriage 07/15/2004 10:01 AM
By hedging his position, President Bush may have insulated himself from the sting of the defeat of the proposed amendment.

"Senate Scuttles Amendment Banning
Same-Sex Marriage (washingt..."

"Senate Scuttles Amendment Banning
Same-Sex Marriage (washingt..." 07/15/2004 03:48 PM

Canada Weighs Banning Internet Drug
Sales (AP)

Canada Weighs Banning Internet Drug
Sales (AP) 01/06/2005 04:34 AM
AP - Internet sales of prescription drugs to U.S. consumers could be banned by Canada if a proposal being drafted by health officials is approved, changes that would essentially kill a $700 million industry that has become increasingly popular with underinsured patients in search of cheaper medicine.

Vote for a real change, vote ...For
Dummies!

Vote for a real change, vote ...For
Dummies! 05/05/2004 10:48 PM
Sunday Times South Africa May 6 2004 3:26AM GMT

A vote for kotte.org is actually a vote
for kottke.org (and freedom!)

A vote for kotte.org is actually a vote
for kottke.org (and freedom!) 12/07/2003 04:57 AM
Best Overall Blog? .. decidedly liberal

wizbangblog.com/poll.php#BOB
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California lawmakers OK bill banning
offshoring by state contractors

California lawmakers OK bill banning
offshoring by state contractors 05/27/2004 10:42 PM
SiliconValley.com May 28 2004 2:25AM GMT

"Lawyers told Bush treaty banning
torture didn't restrict him "

"Lawyers told Bush treaty banning
torture didn't restrict him " 06/08/2004 08:23 PM

IRC BIBLE

IRC BIBLE 01/16/2004 01:04 PM
The Bible, in IRC logs

ircbible.destrukto-theater.nl
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"The IRC Bible"

"The IRC Bible" 01/18/2004 03:52 PM

GC Bible

GC Bible 06/08/2004 09:50 PM
Via Moazam Raja, a pointer to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth on Java garbage collection. This will be interesting to only 1% of even the hardest-core geeks, but for those people it will be real interesting. My current skunkworks is called Project Zeppelin, and I just know that I’m going to need to know this stuff. Moazam has more goodies—his own, nothing you can find at docs.sun.com—here.

"Kerry may have co-sponsored a bill
banning a gun which he recently waved at
a campaign rally"

"Kerry may have co-sponsored a bill
banning a gun which he recently waved at
a campaign rally" 09/08/2004 08:33 AM

Perl6-Bible-0.11

Perl6-Bible-0.11 04/02/2005 01:41 PM

Gutenberg Bible

Gutenberg Bible 05/05/2004 07:55 PM
The Gutenberg Bible: On this site you will find the British Library’s two copies of Johann Gutenberg’s Bible, the first real book to be printed using the technique of printing which Gutenberg invented in the 1450s.
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AeroSite Airline Logos

AeroSite Airline Logos 12/10/2003 03:28 AM
Tons and tons of airline logos .. take flight .. Airline

aerosite.net/logos.htm
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Logos Bible Software announces Mac
support

Logos Bible Software announces Mac
support 03/29/2005 11:03 AM
Logos Bible Software on Tuesday announced plans to release a Mac OS X-native version of its digital library software this December. The software will make available thousands of Bible reference e-books to Mac users, according to the publisher -- more than 4,000 books used by pastors, scholars and Bible students. Categories include Bibles, original language texts, morphological databases, commentaries, dictionaries, lexicons, grammars, maps and more. Preliminary system requirements call for an 800MHz CPU with 256MB RAM running Mac OS X v10.3.8 or later.

News: Logos Bible Software announces Mac
support

News: Logos Bible Software announces Mac
support 03/30/2005 05:42 PM
Logos Bible Software on Tuesday announced plans to release a Mac OS X-native version of its digital library software this December. The software will make available thousands of Bible reference e-books to Mac users, according to the publisher -- more than 4,000 books used by pastors, scholars and Bible students. Categories include Bibles, original language texts, morphological databases, commentaries, dictionaries, lexicons, grammars, maps and more. Preliminary system requirements call for an 800MHz CPU with 256MB RAM running Mac OS X v10.3.8 or later.

Logos Bible Software Announces $100,000
Data Creation Fund

Logos Bible Software Announces $100,000
Data Creation Fund 06/28/2004 03:44 AM
Logos Bible Software has created a $100,000 fund to support the creation of new academic reference projects designed specifically for electronic delivery. [PRWEB Jun 28, 2004]

Aerosite

Aerosite 12/29/2003 09:15 PM
Aerosite.

FOAF logos

FOAF logos 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
I've added one of Ian Davis's Tiny FOAF buttons to the menubar above. Nice....

Starbucks Logos 1.0

Starbucks Logos 1.0 08/05/2004 07:32 PM
A set of 20 icons of the Starbucks logos.

A Collection of Google Logos

A Collection of Google Logos 04/09/2004 04:12 PM
If you're all about the Google Logos, you'll love logoogle.com which has a collection of official and unofficial Google Logos. (There is a suggestive, though very blurred, logo on the...

Google Holiday Logos

Google Holiday Logos 06/09/2004 04:05 PM
Google's holiday- and other themed logos .. Lustige Google Logos von Dennis Hwang .. celebrated M.C. Escher's birthday .. not exactly a rare thing .. Think global, act local .. .. again .. aqui

google.com/holidaylogos.html
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Logos drawn from memory

Logos drawn from memory 01/02/2004 01:11 PM
Monochrom, the Austrian arts collective, has asked 25 people to draw 12 famous logos from memory and published the results online. Link (Thanks, Johannes!)

"drawing logos from memory"

"drawing logos from memory" 01/04/2004 03:27 PM

logos OPML directory

logos OPML directory 12/30/2003 12:06 AM

Oskar van Rijswijk has a great collection of OPML files on his site. Just browse his OPML directory in FeedDemon, then click any of the OPML links to create a new FeedDemon channel group.

Floating Logos Project

Floating Logos Project 12/19/2004 03:52 PM
The Floating Logos project

siberart.com/signs%20pages/logos_home.html
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A Collection of Airline Logos

A Collection of Airline Logos 12/22/2003 10:08 PM
The other day I was doing some work and I was thinking, "You know what I'd really like to see is 75 pages of airline logos." Lucky me! AeroSite.net has them at http://www.aerosite.net/logos.htm . They're arranged alphabetically from 1-2-Fly to...

Special World Cup Logos

Special World Cup Logos 07/01/2002 08:30 AM
Now that the World Cup has been one, I'll share the special Google Logos: First there's the generic World Cup logo. Next there are special ones for Korea and Japan, the organizing countries. (Thanks, CHRis!) Finally, there are ones for Brazil and Germany, the two finalists. (Thanks, Stefan!) Congratulations to all....

Foreign Holiday Logos

Foreign Holiday Logos 07/01/2002 08:30 AM
Many thanks to Jill for pointing us to some foreign Google Holiday Logos that we had missed. La Fête de la Musique, France - June 21, 2002 Dragon Boat Festival, China- June 15, 2002 Stay tuned for the Canada Day logo!...

Alternate Google Logos

Alternate Google Logos 08/13/2002 05:08 PM
The sick minds at Something Awful have cooked up a batch of twisted Google logos....

Make professional-looking logos with
LogoCreator

Make professional-looking logos with
LogoCreator 02/19/2004 02:11 PM
Need a logo for your company but facing a financial crunch? macXware's LogoCreator may be the answer. The application features intuitive design tools that let anyone create a professional-looking logo quickly, even if you don't have art skills.

PowerPoints, Product Photos and Logos,
Oh My

PowerPoints, Product Photos and Logos,
Oh My 06/22/2005 02:50 AM
CIO Jun 18 2005 5:50PM GMT

English Users Seeing Glitched Google
Logos

English Users Seeing Glitched Google
Logos 09/05/2002 02:18 AM
Reports have filtered in for a week that users in the UK are seeing strange Google logo glitches at selected ISPs.

Sure Logos Moves Forward with Online
Services

Sure Logos Moves Forward with Online
Services 08/09/2004 02:05 AM
Sure Logos expands its services to include website templates and custom website design. [PRWEB Aug 9, 2004]

Online Bible

Online Bible 03/21/2003 10:18 AM
pnBible 0.5 released!!

Perl6-Bible-0.13

Perl6-Bible-0.13 04/07/2005 03:45 AM

Perl6-Bible-0.12

Perl6-Bible-0.12 04/03/2005 05:38 AM

The Tcl programmers' Bible at 30% off

The Tcl programmers' Bible at 30% off 04/27/2004 07:15 AM
Site Offer But that's not all...

Bible Software For The Mac

Bible Software For The Mac 12/26/2003 01:42 AM
By Charles W. Moore (Applelinks via MyAppleMenu)

Banning the Bible to Get Out the Vote

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