GMail Invites
Mail: GMail users, check your mail; if mine was anything to go by, you should have three new invites to give out.
And you thought it couldn’t get crazier
This is absolute insanity. Let’s say you’re buying a car, and you’re checking out what will work out best, between an SUV and a fuel-efficient hybrid, money-wise. Let’s check the options:
- SUV: $86,000 in tax breaks
- hybrid: $2,000 tax break
Unbelievable.
But don’t worry — there’ll be plenty of gas to run the SUVs, since the US is checking the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to Israel. (That’s assuming the entire Arab world doesn’t turn into a seething pit of ‘told you so’ hatred as a result, but hey….)
As Yoz says, ‘How To Blow Up The Middle East In One Easy Step’:
yozlet: They saved the game before they did this, right? Right?
Bilskirnir: Two US senators responsible for MPAA regulation may be up for lucrative $US1.15 million jobs as lobbyists with the same organisation:
‘It’s obscene for Tauzin and Breaux to be in the running for the MPAA, the fattest media lobbying job in Washington, while advocating in Congress on behalf of companies that control the MPAA,’ said Robert McChesney, Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ‘It tends to confirm what the vast majority of Americans have suspected - relaxed media ownership rules are an X-rated exercise in power and influence.’
As Nathan points out, an analogue of non-compete agreements, for would-be politicians-turned-lobbyists, would be a good way to deal with this one.
Tech: in more calming news: Dell Patents ‘Reboot and See If That Fixes It’ Technical Support Process (BBSpot via Craig).
Tags: break, car, check, checking, insanity, mpaa, say, suv, tax, unbelievable
Wow
BBC to create the BBC Creative Archive. This is insanely cool. Danny O’Brien has written a fantastic overview, so read that for more details. But check out this quote:
I believe that we are about to move into a second phase of the digital revolution, a phase which will be more about public than private value; about free, not pay services; about inclusivity, not exclusion.
In particular, it will be about how public money can be combined with new digital technologies to transform everyone’s lives.
That’s BBC Director General Greg Dyke totally ‘getting it’. So cool.
Tags: archive, bbc, check, creative, overview, phase, public, quote, revolution, value
Political Spam Gallery
spamvertized.org; a gallery of US political spam.
Sadly, Howard Dean kicks it off, with a ‘Dean For Texas’ e-pended message (’e-pending’ is explained here). But don’t go voting R just yet — they’ve got one too ;) It’s not on the site just yet, as the site maintainer wants to get permission from the recipient to post it publicly first.
And check out these nefarious antics from the Bush 2000 campaign.
Tags: check, gallery, maintainer, message, org, permission, recipient, site, spam, voting
Record for most blocked host on the ‘net
Wow. I think this is the most blocklist hits I’ve ever seen in a mail… the open relay 61.159.235.36 is listed in a whole 19 DNS blocklists.
- T_RCVD_IN_DEADBEEF (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_DEADBEEF RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.bl.deadbeef.com., type: 127.0.0.2
- RCVD_IN_NJABL (1.2 points) RBL: Received via a relay in dnsbl.njabl.org RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.dnsbl.njabl.org., type: 127.0.0.9
- RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM (0.5 points) RBL: Received via a relay in relays.osirusoft.com RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.relays.osirusoft.com., type: 127.0.0.9
- RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL (0.0 points) RBL: Received via a relay in unconfirmed.dsbl.org RBL TXT check: found 36.235.159.61.unconfirmed.dsbl.org., type: http://dsbl.org/listing?ip=61.159.235.36
- T_RCVD_IN_WIREHUB_PROXIES (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_WIREHUB_PROXIES RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.proxies.blackholes.wirehub.net., type: 127.0.0.2
- T_RCVD_IN_GIPPER (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_GIPPER RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.proxy.bl.gweep.ca., type: 127.0.0.1
- T_RCVD_IN_WIREHUB_BH (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_WIREHUB_BH RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.blackholes.wirehub.net., type: 127.0.0.2
- RCVD_IN_DSBL (4.3 points) RBL: Received via a relay in list.dsbl.org RBL TXT check: found 36.235.159.61.list.dsbl.org., type: http://dsbl.org/listing?ip=61.159.235.36
- RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET (0.0 points) RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net RBL TXT check: found 36.235.159.61.bl.spamcop.net., type: Blocked - see http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?61.159.235.36
- T_RCVD_IN_SORBS (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_SORBS RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.dnsbl.sorbs.net., type: 127.0.0.2
- RCVD_IN_SBL (1.1 points) RBL: Received via SBLed relay, see http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/ RBL TXT check: found 36.235.159.61.sbl.spamhaus.org., type: Listed on SBL - see http://spamhaus.org/SBL/sbl.lasso?query=SBL5950
- RCVD_IN_OPM (4.3 points) RBL: Received via a relay in opm.blitzed.org RBL TXT check: found 36.235.159.61.opm.blitzed.org., type: open proxy - see http://blitzed.org/proxy/?ip=61.159.235.36
- T_RCVD_IN_OSSOCKS (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_OSSOCKS RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.socks.relays.osirusoft.com., type: 127.0.0.9
- T_RCVD_IN_MONKEYS_UPL (0.0 points) RBL: Received via a relay in proxies.relays.monkeys.com. RBL TXT check: found 36.235.159.61.proxies.relays.monkeys.com., type: BLOCKED: See http://www.monkeys.com/upl/listed-ip-0.cgi?ip=61.159.235.36
- T_RCVD_IN_OPM_HTTP_CONNECT (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_OPM_HTTP_CONNECT
- T_RCVD_IN_SORBS_HTTP (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_SORBS_HTTP
- T_RCVD_IN_FIVETEN_SPAM (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_FIVETEN_SPAM
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T_RCVD_IN_OPM_HTTP_POST (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_OPM_HTTP_POST
Aha. looking it up, it’s in China. That explains it… Full message here.
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 07:51:51 +0000
From: “HGH Free Sample” (spam-protected)
To: (spam-protected)
Subject: SPAM(40.60) Shed Weight While You Sleep with HGH hyvsjpilripyoiebf
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Content preview: As seen on NBC, CBS, CNN, and even Oprah! The health
discovery that actually reverses aging while burning fat.
Content analysis details: (40.60 points, 5 required) T_DATE_SPAMWARE_Y2K (0.0 points) Date header uses unusual Y2K formatting ADDR_FREE (0.8 points) From Address contains FREE RATWARE_EGROUPS (4.3 points) Bulk email software fingerprint (eGroups) foun d in headers FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS (0.7 points) From: ends in numbers BANG_OPRAH (4.3 points) BODY: Talks about Oprah with an exclamation! SOME_BREAKTHROUGH (0.9 points) BODY: Describes some sort of breakthrough WHILE_YOU_SLEEP (2.6 points) BODY: While you Sleep REVERSE_AGING (2.9 points) BODY: Reverses Aging BANG_EXERCISE (2.7 points) BODY: Talks about exercise with an exclamation ! DIET (0.0 points) BODY: Lose Weight Spam AS_SEEN_ON (3.3 points) BODY: As seen on national TV! T_AS_SEEN_ON (0.0 points) BODY: /seenn\b\s*(?:TV|ABC|NBC|CBS|CNN|Op rah|USA Today|48 Hours|(The )?New York Times|\w+\s+TV|:)/i T_BLANK_LINE_RATIO_01_08_10 (0.0 points) BODY: T_BLANK_LINE_RATIO_01_08_10 HTML_50_60 (0.1 points) BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML BAYES_90 (2.9 points) BODY: Bayesian classifier says spam probabilit y is 90 to 99%
[score: 0.9050] HTML_MESSAGE (0.0 points) BODY: HTML included in message T_BLANK_LINE_RATIO_20_08_10 (0.0 points) BODY: T_BLANK_LINE_RATIO_20_08_10 T_BLANK_LINE_RATIO_04_08_10 (0.0 points) BODY: T_BLANK_LINE_RATIO_04_08_10 T_BLANK_LINE_RATIO_08_08_10 (0.0 points) BODY: T_BLANK_LINE_RATIO_08_08_10 HTML_TAG_BALANCE_HTML (0.0 points) BODY: HTML has unbalanced “html” tags T_MIME_QP (0.0 points) RAW: T_MIME_QP MIME_HTML_NO_CHARSET (0.0 points) RAW: Message text in HTML without specified charset FORGED_RCVD_HELO (1.0 points) Received: contains a forged HELO DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06 (1.5 points) Date: is 3 to 6 hours after Received: date T_RCVD_IN_DEADBEEF (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_DEADBEEF
[RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.bl.deadbeef.com., type: 12 7.0.0.2] RCVD_IN_NJABL (1.2 points) RBL: Received via a relay in dnsbl.njabl.org
[RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.dnsbl.njabl.org., type: 12 7.0.0.9] RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM (0.5 points) RBL: Received via a relay in relays.osiruso ft.com
[RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.relays.osirusoft.com., typ
e: 127.0.0.9]
RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL (0.0 points) RBL: Received via a relay in unconfirmed
.dsbl.org
[RBL TXT check: found 36.235.159.61.unconfirmed.dsbl.org., t ype: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?61.159.235.36] T_RCVD_IN_SORBS (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_SORBS
[RBL A check: found 36.235.159.61.dnsbl.sorbs.net., type: 12 7.0.0.2] RCVD_IN_SBL (1.1 points) RBL: Received via SBLed relay, see http://www. spamhaus.org/sbl/
[RBL TXT check: found 36.235.159.61.sbl.spamhaus.org., type:
Listed on SBL - see http://spamhaus.org/SBL/sbl.lasso?query=SBL5950]
RCVD_IN_OPM (4.3 points) RBL: Received via a relay in opm.blitzed.org
[RBL TXT check: found 36.235.159.61.opm.blitzed.org., type:
open proxy - see http://www.monkeys.com/upl/listed-ip-0.cgi?ip=61.159.23 5.36] T_RCVD_IN_OPM_HTTP_CONNECT (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_OPM_HTTP_CONNECT T_RCVD_IN_SORBS_HTTP (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_SORBS_HTTP T_RCVD_IN_FIVETEN_SPAM (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_FIVETEN_SPAM T_RCVD_IN_OPM_HTTP_POST (0.0 points) RBL: T_RCVD_IN_OPM_HTTP_POST MISSING_MIMEOLE (0.1 points) Message has X-MSMail-Priority, but no X-MimeOL E MIME_HTML_ONLY (0.1 points) Message only has text/html MIME parts HG_HORMONE (1.0 points) Talks about hormones for human growth T_MIME_HTML_NO_DOCTYPE (0.0 points) T_MIME_HTML_NO_DOCTYPE MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME (0.0 points) Message looks like Outlook, but isn’t
The original message did not contain plain text, and may be unsafe to open with some email clients; in particular, it may contain a virus, or confirm that your address can receive spam. If you wish to view it, it may be safer to save it to a file and open it with an editor.
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Subject: Shed Weight While You Sleep with HGH hyvsjpilripyoiebf
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 03 07:51:51 GMT
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Tags: check, dsbl, org, rbl, rcvd, received, relay, txt, type, wirehub
(Untitled)
So I’ve been taking a few snaps on a Casio Watch Camera I got for my birthday; check it out:
 Luna Park; |
 A self-portrait; |
 Catherine |
Cool.
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Sex in space rears it’s head again (ooer): apparently NASA have sent over a pregnancy testing kit for the {astro,cosmo}nauts on the ISS. Best quote:
In his book Living in Space, Dr Stine, who died in 1997, said that Nasa staff at the Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, had used a buoyancy tank that simulates low-gravity conditions to test the possibilities of weightless sex. “It was possible but difficult,” he said, “and was made easier when a third person assisted by holding one of the others in place.”
Say no more!
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 12:06:03 +0000
From: “Martin Adamson” (spam-protected)
To: (spam-protected)
Subject: Sex in space: thin blue line keeps crews in check
The Times
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 03 2001
Sex in space: thin blue line keeps crews in check
BY MARK HENDERSON, SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT
ASTRONAUTS on the International Space Station (ISS) have been supplied with DIY pregnancy tests in case the enforced intimacy of space travel prompts mixed crews to try for the 200-mile-high club. The test sticks have been included in the station’s medical pack in one of Nasa’s first admissions that its astronauts might have sex in orbit.
Although the US space agency has always taken a prudish attitude towards such activity, the kits are intended for its aftermath: female astronauts take a pregnancy test before launch and are not allowed to fly if it is positive.
Scientists know little about the effects of space travel, particularly those of weightlessness, on human embryos and any astronaut found to have become pregnant on board the ISS would almost certainly be returned to Earth at the earliest opportunity.
The station’s present crew will not need the kits: all three are male. The crew they replaced recently, however, included a female flight engineer, Susan Helms, and the next crew but one will also have a female member, Peggy Whitson.
Details of the pregnancy test and directions on how to use it have emerged from a set of leaked Nasa documents on emergency and medical procedures obtained by the website SpaceRef.com. The documents provide astronauts on board the ISS with guidance on dealing with situations ranging from a crew-mate becoming suicidal or psychotic to diarrhoea, motion sickness, nosebleeds and dentistry. Nasa would not comment on the handbook.
Keith Cowing, editor of SpaceRef.com and a former Nasa scientist, said that the tests were clearly aimed at detecting conceptions in orbit.
“Since the crew get a good physical exam before flight, and I doubt that anyone would deliberately fly while pregnant given our sparse knowledge of what might happen, one has to assume that this test is to detect a particular medical condition that developed while the individual in question was already in space,” he said.
“There is a rather short list of ways whereby this specific condition can arise. Nasa never discusses the possibility of sex in space, but it does not look like they’re worried about what an astronaut might have done with her husband the night before launch.”
It remains unclear whether or not the 200-mile-high club already has any members. There is no suggestion that any astronauts have had sex on board the ISS since its launch in 1998, but many believe that the increasing length of time spent on board — the last crew were in space for 165 days — makes it more likely that such a relationship will develop.
Harry Stine, a former Nasa technician, said that the agency had conducted experiments in the simulated weightlessness of a flotation tank, but never in space itself. In his book Living in Space, Dr Stine, who died in 1997, said that Nasa staff at the Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, had used a buoyancy tank that simulates low-gravity conditions to test the possibilities of weightless sex. “It was possible but difficult,” he said, “and was made easier when a third person assisted by holding one of the others in place.”
Nasa has always been coy about the idea of sex involving its astronauts, but some cosmonauts have been more forthcoming. Valeri Polyakov, who spent 14 months on Mir between 1992 and 1993, said to mission control shortly before his return: “No need to say what we are longing for.”
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