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  1. Re:zomg it's trek by youngone · · Score: 1 · on Alternate Star Trek TOS Pilot Found

    Yes, and here are a few of them: Thou shalt not brandish an Uzi while driving behind an old person. Thou shalt not compose limericks at a funeral. Thou shalt not teleport within sight of technologically-inferior species. Thou shalt not use the "X word." Thou shalt not say "groady". Thou shalt not fast-forward through the commercials. It's not a great idea to teach 'em to bark, either... Thou shalt not teach a ferret to yodel. Thou shalt not have misplaced priorities. Thou shalt not align yourself with the dark side of the force. Thou shalt not freeze-frame to look up Jessica Rabbitt's dress. Thou shalt not buy stuff made in sweat shops unless it's really trendy and just to die for. I can't claim them, they're from here: http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/command.html

  2. Re:Rolling your own by tgrigsby · · Score: 2, Informative · on A History of Icons

    Graphics Workshop Professional will convert just about anything to an ICO. It's not 100% though -- sometimes you end up with an icon that's off-center for some odd reason. But I love this application -- I've been using it for years now and it's just too handy not to have. It's not terribly expensive, either.

    Website: http://www.mindworkshop.com/
    Price: $44.95

    I also have the GIF Construction Set, which is great and all, but I'm just as likely to use some of my other graphics tools to create GIFs, or just use Flash. Xara3D is good for animated text.

    rambling...

  3. Re:Anyone remember NaBob? by innocent_white_lamb · · Score: 1 · on Recovering Secret HD Space

    Best software license ever...

    Naw.. I like this one better:

    Should you fail to register any of the evaluation software available through our web pages and continue to use it, be advised that a leather-winged demon of the night will tear itself, shrieking blood and fury, from the endless caverns of the nether world, hurl itself into the darkness with a thirst for blood on its slavering fangs and search the very threads of time for the throbbing of your heartbeat. Just thought you'd want to know that.

    Alchemy Mindworks accepts no responsibility for any loss, damage or expense caused by leather-winged demons of the night, either.

    See?

  4. Re:What is "Bill S.1618 TITLE III" ? by marnanel · · Score: 2 · on Buried in email?

    What's up with that bill ? Is that true or is it just FUD, a lie ? Since i'm not from the US i don't know anything about their laws.

    The bill S.1618 was introduced in 1998, but didn't make it into law. There's more information on this at SpamCop.

    (What's particularly silly about this is that so many of the spammers are outside the US. If, as has happened, I'm in the UK and I get spammed by a guy from the Far East who's faking an address in Latin America, how can what the US Senate might or might not have thought about it be in the least applicable?)

    Anyway, if i reply i only get a "user killed" or something similar...

    NEVER REPLY, at least, not to the sender. If you do, they'll keep your address on file (and possibly sell it on) because your address is suddenly more valuable for spam-- they'll know there's a real human who's reading mail sent to it. If you really want to complain, you could try mailing abuse@ their ISP: it works, sometimes.

    Death to Spam is a good read on the subject. You might also like to check out the alt.spam FAQ.

  5. OT: SPAM-proofing by jabber · · Score: 1 · on Software Carpentry Project's First-Round Winners

    ySyblPq@nApz.wuhM.rqh

    Remove the letters S, P, A, M, then rot13 to email.

    My God man!! Why not PGP it, and provide the public key in the /. 'user info' page. Or better yet, provide the email address as individual HTML links, each character to a different site, the Nth character on which is the actual character to replace the link with to generate the real address.

    When this type of obfuscation is necessary, SPAM needs to be killed!

  6. Why "Just Delete it" doesn't work by B.D.Mills · · Score: 1 · on Secret Spam Summit Held in Washington DC
    Delete it? This is one common spammer response to the issue of spam. "If you don't want it, just delete it." Other common spammer responses are "What I'm doing is not illegal" (technically, it probably is, as I will show), "I have a right to do this, under S.1618, a proposed Bill" (this bill was defeated and did not become law), and "I have a constitutional right to free speech" (if that was true and spammers had a right to spam, then I have the same right to break into a spammer's home at 2 in the morning, come into their bedroom and read them my resume using a megaphone at maximum volume).

    Why "Just delete it" is not a solution:
    • By the time you receive the e-mail, resources that cost real money to install, use and maintain have been consumed to send the message to you. Thus, the spammer has effectively stolen from various places on the 'Net.
    • You have to spend your own time to discard the junk. Could that time be better used by you earning money? Do you place a monetary value on your own time? If so, then the spammer has stolen from you as well.
    • If spammers felt that "just delete it" was an appropriate response if their spam was unwanted, then they would make it easy to filter the spam automatically. A few actually do this by putting "ADV:" or something similar in the subject. However, the majority of spammers don't want their message deleted, and some go as far as putting misleading subjects in the message to make you think it's from someone you know so you have to read the message, e.g.: "Info you requested" and "Hi, remember me?".
    • Can you delete your way through 50, 100, 200, 300, 500, 1000 spams a day? If nothing is done about stopping spam, the volume of spam will only increase to the point where e-mail is no longer a usable resource for the 'Net community. Spammers, by spamming, are destroying the usefulness of the resources that they exploit.

    Other reasons why spam is undesirable
    • Electronic mail is not a broadcast medium. E-mail is meant to be a communication between two people, not a means by which a dysfunctional individual can spew junk all over the 'Net.
    • Spamming is not a legitimate form of advertising. If spam was a legitimate form of advertising, then reputable business would be using it. Legitimate businesses do not generally use spam to advertise.

    On the issue of legality:
    • It is now illegal in some jurisdictions (Washington State, USA, for example) to send e-mail with forged headers or misleading subject lines.
    • Forging the headers of an e-mail message may also constitute fraud in jurisdictions without explicit anti-spam laws. Fraud is a criminal offence.
    • Sending pornographic spam to minors is almost certainly illegal, regardless of whether it contains a disclaimer stating that "you must be over 18 to view this" or words to that effect. Would you leave the Kama Sutra on your coffee table at home, but tell your kids that you must be over 18 to read it? Sending pornographic spam to an Australian resident may also be illegal after 1 January, 2000, when the Online Services amendments to the Telecommunications Act come into force.
    • Advertising of any product or service is subject to laws that regulate truth in advertising. Making up testimonials is illegal. Claims that are false are illegal. Lying in advertising is illegal.
    • Pyramid scams and other similar "Get-rich-quick" schemes are illegal.
    • Asking people to send cash through the post is probably illegal.
    • Using resources that other people have paid for is regarded by many as theft. Theft is a criminal offence.

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