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This is an interesting subject for me.
I have been in IT for 33 years. I have NEVER understood why people do this. My servers at work get attacked over one million times a month. (Gov) We are CONSTANTLY besieged by telemarketer robocalls trying to scam us. NON-STOP scam, crime, attack, spam, then more spam, more attacks, and then junk faxes trying to sell laser-printer toner and phony airline deals.
Is there something wrong with most people? Don't they have parents to teach them morality? Were they not breast-fed? Really, I can't figure it out. What is the point of this? They aren't EVER going to get any money from me, EVER. So, why do they do this day after day, month after month, year after year?
At home I have 100% blocked ALL telemarketers with systems I developed myself. All network attacks are blocked by my firewalls. All spam is blocked successfully. But the question remains.
WHY?
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What I find amusing is that I get the same spiel for solar panel from a US company EVERY day, the amusing thing is I'm on the other side of the planet!
There should be a cost for sending an email somehow, you wouldn't miss the 25c a day to send your 25 emails but those miserable bastards would soon disappear.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: There should be a cost for sending an email somehow
I agree 
That's always the problem when you give something away for free - it's assumed to have no value, and as such can be "freely" abused.
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: There should be a cost for sending an email somehow
And that would help against people posting spam on forums and newsgroups how exactly? And what would that do to the likes of Amazon, who send out thousands upon thousands of legitimate emails every day (remembering that Amazon has still to make a profit as it is)? I'll take any number of instantly filtered and never read pieces of junk over a charge per email any day!
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Against spam posters - no change but as for the likes of Amazon, factoring in 1c per email to their business plan would be trivial. It would also encourage them to be more discriminating in their target audience.
Also while Amazon may consider their output to be legitimate, I consider it to be spam, they along with facebook and a number of others go straight to the junk folder!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The answer to the question, I believe, is that enough people are ignorant and gullible enough to fall for these scams to make it profitable. If that were untrue, the spam would stop. We need smarter users, not fewer scammers. Yeah, I know the odds of that happening in my lifetime... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Why?
Because a very very small percentage fall for it/buy the product whatever.
It is really just advertising by another route.
And it is cheap - it costs pretty much nothing to sent 1,000,000 emails
if 0.01% respond, that's 100 people
if 1% of them give you $100 you have just made $100 from an outlay of pretty much nothing.
It may be annoying, immoral etc. but it is better for most of society than if these people went out and mugged people
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It's been a good one, for sure.
I'm just settling in for an evening of whack a mole. I've a good bottle to keep me company.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: needing moderation
Why not wipe them all out ? The few legit ones would soon repost.
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Any decent book recommendations?
Thanks
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ROTFL!!!
You beat me to it.
We spent a few years trying to get TFS to work for us.
Now running Gitlab and LOVING IT!!!
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Headed to Chicago. Got nearly the whole weekend packed with family events. I might just have to push someone into the lake...
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Take a care. The local cops in Chicago are up-in-arms about the brutal murder of one of their own.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I'll be at Navy pier tomorrow with the family, I'll be listening for the splash. Have a good time!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
 That's awesome! It took me 14+ years but I finally made it into someone's sig.
Err... actually my uncle made it into a sig.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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A great line , I used it at my doctors office recently, for some reason he didn't think nearly as funny as me, I didn't realize he was such a humorless lump.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'll be staying far away from the zoo that is Chicago on labor Day weekend, staying home (70 miles south of Chicago) and entertaining my in-laws.
Wait! What?!
Maybe I should go north...
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Take a gun. That's not a nice place to be a victim.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Have a happy/safe trip 
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How many of you software engineers out there are not allowed to have local admin rights on your Windows development system?
Our IT guy here has it so nobody has local admin rights. If we need admin rights, we have a separate user account that does not have access to the internet or the company network.
This is annoying beyond belief. Anytime I want to peek at the device manager I get that annoying windows dialog that says I can't make changes but I can look. [ Can I get that to go away? ]
And of course if I want to make changes, I have to log in with admin account via the UAC window. Imagine how convenient that is when debugging a driver or a driver-related problem?
That is not the only problem... If I am working on an installer on another day.. I have to go through that each time I run/test/debug the installer.
This has been the policy around here for a few years. I have managed to avoid it because my last PC was installed/set up before the policy. Now that PC is about dead and they gave me a new one today and now it feels like they are making me work with my hands tied together. To them, I think they can't understand why the big deal. To me.. it is a flow disrupter. I feel like I am just going to have to stop trying so hard to be fast. But it is more than speed. It is concentration. I can see them rolling their eyes.. but this is real!
The reason cited for this is that all kinds of nasties can come in through email or websites. We've got web blockers for the web and spam blockers for the email and on-access virus scanning...
So I ask you: How does it go where you work? Do you have admin rights on your PC?
I can't believe that this is the only way to solve the "security threat". What policies/etc are in place where you work?
-Suzanne
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