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1. When giving out different email addresses, I also "assign" a password to that email address, eg "u2Rsv62-slashdot@hardcorehackers.com".
2. I run qmail with the badrcptto patch. This is especially handy if I start receiving spam at one of the previously assigned email addresses; I can cut off just that email address and others can still reach me. Plus, for all autogenerated spam "From:" addresses, I can just add them to /etc/qmail/badrcptto and I never hear about them again.
3. Run qmail with SPF. Not that anybody uses it, but at least I can claim due diligence.
4. Put a notice on your website informing others of the problem and what to do about it.
5. Blacklist them back. You (and I) may be small fish, but that doesn't mean we have to put up with their bullshit in our logs. "iptables --insert INPUT --source ${ip_of_moron_mail_admin} --jump DROP" has done wonders for clearing my logs of all those "Sorry, but you are a dynamic IP" mail reject messages.

Man, if your gonna plagarize from Sidney Hook, at least give credit where credit is due. :)

But the rest is good.

I'd like to know why no one has come up with a decent, washable keyboard.

http://www.inpace.com/flexi.html

http://www.iscdfw.com/onlinecatalog/Keyboards/keyb oard_PalmTop.htm

http://www.2opinion.com/accessories/flexkey.htm

http://www.edgereview.com/ataglance.cfm?category=h andheld&ID=131

http://www.chatability.co.uk/Washable%20Keyboard&M ouse.html

Although I remember a rollable, waterproof keyboard from a while back, I couldn't find the link to their website (that last link is to mine). The above results, however, were from a quick google of "washable keyboard". Geez, you'd think you people had never heard of Google.

It's free to me for one reason alone:
Internet Advertising.

It's free to me for one reason alone:
Internet Advertising.

The only reason, and I repeat *only* reason my server doesn't have an uptime of five years is that the power went out last summer. Okay, maybe two reasons: it was installed in 2001.

And yes, it runs Linux.

Why, you might ask? Two very good reasons:

• It's cheap - On the order of $80/month for 5GB/month to co-locate a single machine in an air-conditioned, alarmed and locked room. You provide your own UPS. Everywhere else I've looked is at least $150/month.
• The service - The owner is a small town businessman. Despite having a family, he responds amazingly quickly to technical problems, which rarely occur in the first place. I think I called him once to add a domain to my server's IP (he manages DNS for you if you want).

For more details see http://www.sdc.org.

Really? I always thought that their success was due to marketing their products to death. I'm so glad you came and set the record straight.

Wow - I wonder if you're as much of an asshole in real life as you are online. This cloak of pseudo-anonymity really seems to bring out the prick in you. Anyway, I wouldn't have thought this sentence would have been that hard to figure out:
part of their success is definitely due to ease of use. I'm sorry I couldn't come up with a less obscure synonym for the word part.

Funny that you mention Microsoft in the same post as this, because I've never seen a Microsoft product "just work".

Look fruitcake, I understand you're trying to whore karma, but try to be a little more creative than regurgitating the same old anti-Microsoft bullshit, okay? I'm no Microsoft apologist, but for you to deny that any MS products "just work" shows that you're either a complete fucking moron or... No, I guess that's it - you're a moron.

"A hacker does for love what others would not do for money."

Also, for your masochistic programming pleasure, you may be interested in the polyglot list and the quine page.

For even more zany programming fun, check out Esoteric topics in Computer Programming. Oh, and my own pathetic attempt at a similar page, Miscreant Programming Languages.

I've always found it interesting how people who don't agree with Stallman like to attack him. In other words, almost all attacks against Stallman's ideas are ad hominem, because they can't come up with any logical reasons why his ideas are wrong.

As an ad hominem attack of my own, your confusing of left wing politics with anarchism does nothing to increase your credibility. Try being informed next time.

You obviously don't understand anarchism.