I recieved a spam from the same company that was mentioned. Of all things, the spam was generated when I posted to an alumni message board of the high school I went to. To start with, the website is not mine, and second, I would much rather see the students in the web programming class learn how to promote the site. I forwarded the spam to Neil Schwartzman and he replied back to me stating that the best thing I can do is ignore it. I wouldn't expect a dime from this. If they do act, it would be a very interesting precedent that was set.
Haven't they bothered the geek community enough? They know that they're not going to convert any geeks over because all of our money is already spent on b33r, hardware, pr0n, and chicks. We're so broke that we resort to P2P for our music and downloading warez so we can use our computers.
Bernard Shifman sends his "resume". The honeypots can his resume and trace the origin back to Shifman. One such offense is in England, where spam is punishable by time in a dungeon. A class-action suit is brought against Shifman because of his spam. In response, irate recipients of Shifman's resume tell DoubleClick to pass off every spam they get to a specific user profile (matched to only send to Bernie). Bernie gets the idea that he can make money selling address lists and saves all the addresses he gets from the recipients and multiple forwards. One spam company decides to sue Bernie for a bogus list. Just imagine the scene in the courtroom with a bunch of whiny little kids arguing before Your Honor.
I live in a large rural area and even out this way, there's a demand for broadband access to the Internet. I feel that a joint partnership with the county, the service provider, and any technicians willing to work with individuals in upgrading computers to work on a countywide broadband network, people here will be very pleased and the economists won't see the area as lagging behind in technology.
I would agree. Your example shows that the 'Net has made a social impact. I still see the best the 'Net has to offer as yet to come. You could get just about anything you want delivered to your hard drive (or in the case of tangible goods, to your front door). Some people are even finding romance online. As for myself, I like to do business online and turn my computer into a source of income for me while I work a regular job.
I found it rough as well to find employment after I graduated from college. Neary every employer that I talked with either over the phone or during an interview did not want me because I lacked experience (biggest joke I heard) or was lacking in what they percieved as "knowledge of the industry." Basically, my CS degree to them was the equivalent of toilet paper. I did find a job doing technical support, and while paying off a new car, I'm working on getting a couple certifications, starting with A+. Once I have a couple certs and some work experience, I should be ready to move on to the next phase of my IT career. Right now, I'm looking at wanting to do network administration and Linux administration. My theory is that with what M$ is doing, I have a feeling that IT managers and CIOs are going to switch over to Linux by refusing to pay the "Microsoft Tax".
I hope Bernard Shifman is making enough money to be able to cover his advertising expenses at $50 per e-mail. I don't think he is because last reports had him still spamming message boards and a few other addresses.
Couldn't Californians bring suit against Shifman if they have recieved one of his silly resumes?
Now that we have the CPU tachometer, I wonder if we are any closer to making computer cases look like car dashboards. I'm wondering if it would be possible to:
wire a mouse to an odometer to measure miles traveled
put a temperature gauge on the case to measure the heat inside
use a fuel gauge to measure free disk space
Next thing you know, Kelley Blue Book will be adding computers to their price lists.
I doubt that will happen. Perhaps Bernie will hire someone to translate his resume into Chinese and repeat what he did here to offend every IT professional on the planet.
I could just see it. My cell phone recieving the message.
"Computer Consultant 4 Hire -- Call 773-yyy-zzzz 4 more info."
I'll know right away to tell the cellular service to discontinue service to Bernard Shifman. If he threatens legal action. I'll just respond with my legal team at Yourassis, Grass & I.M. DeLawnmower.
To tie into the previous stories, how about creating a profile that includes the following people.
Are unemployed Use the Internet Claim to own their own business Spent time in a dungeon in Europe for sending unsolicited e-mail Discovered that technology has reduced the response rate to their mass mailings to near 0%
We take this profile and tell DoubleClick to mail every piece of spam to people who match all of these criteria. If all goes correctly, the number of addresses to be hit is one, and that lucky person is Bernard Shifman.
We first got a way that can punish spammers that dates back to the 1600's, and now a way that we can trap them. Just think, instead of locking up Bernard Shifman in a damp dungeon in England, we could honeypot his resume, then smear real honey all over Bernie and leave him near an anthill with a bunch of red ants.
I wonder what type of legal precedent could be set should a ruling be made against spam. I could imagine the judge saying "Thou art guilty of spamming. Thou shalt be sentenced to spend the rest of thy mortal life with Bernard Shifman in the royal dungeon."
I won't be there for longer than a couple years. I work as a software technician for a company that develops wireless paging software. I'm currently at $11 an hour, but that's not enough for me to support my current lifesytle. I'm in the process of becoming A+ certified, and will be looking at picking up a couple other certifications as well. My purpose of the certifications is to gain some leverage come annual review time. My employer must decide if I get another raise, or if I stay at my current rate, or if they let me go because I'm too expensive.
I'm also getting the impression that my employer needs to find another direction to take the company in the wireless communications industry. Paging is on its way out and it appears that the next big thing in wireless is broadband wireless communications. Only thing that I can say is that I hope the company has a couple good ideas to capitalize on so it can stay alive.
Being a three-time first poster myself, I just sit back and watch my karma drop by two from moderation. If you get lucky, you may be blessed with your first post being modded up to 5. Yes, it has happened before.
Another toy for the hackers to steal for use in quickly deploying hacks on top of the Great Dome...I like it! Click here if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Now only if MIT could pull off another stunt at the big Harvard v. Yale football game.
I went through the Computer Science program at Kent State University in 5 years, but after three and learning about a business opportunity, I decided that I should finish my degree and focus more on becoming a businessman than a computer engineer. I do not regret my decision because what I have developed as a business will pay off for me big time in the long run.
I know M$ stuff is crap, but I also heard from a consultant at a trade show that the Athlon does not do a good job with multitasking office applications. This is why I posted my $0.02 above in hopes of getting feedback from other/.ers who spend more time researching this stuff than I do.
I'm running M$ Windoze on an Athlon 750. I noticed that the system crashes on a few occasions. Specific incidents where a crash can be predicted is when I
Play Diablo II on Battle.net. The crash occurs when I try to join an Open game after leaving another Open game.
Run M$ Word for an extended period of time. The crash comes when I scroll through a large document or paste a lot of text or images from another source.
I also noticed that as I run programs, not all the memory used by the program is freed when the program terminates. I ran the System Monitor and it revealed to me this information. I'm not sure if this is Athlon or Windoze related. Anyways, I'm suspecting that the problem may not be limited to Linux boxes.
Slashdot Mirror
I recieved a spam from the same company that was mentioned. Of all things, the spam was generated when I posted to an alumni message board of the high school I went to. To start with, the website is not mine, and second, I would much rather see the students in the web programming class learn how to promote the site. I forwarded the spam to Neil Schwartzman and he replied back to me stating that the best thing I can do is ignore it. I wouldn't expect a dime from this. If they do act, it would be a very interesting precedent that was set.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/16/125622 6&mode=thread
Haven't they bothered the geek community enough? They know that they're not going to convert any geeks over because all of our money is already spent on b33r, hardware, pr0n, and chicks. We're so broke that we resort to P2P for our music and downloading warez so we can use our computers.
Bernard Shifman sends his "resume". The honeypots can his resume and trace the origin back to Shifman. One such offense is in England, where spam is punishable by time in a dungeon. A class-action suit is brought against Shifman because of his spam. In response, irate recipients of Shifman's resume tell DoubleClick to pass off every spam they get to a specific user profile (matched to only send to Bernie). Bernie gets the idea that he can make money selling address lists and saves all the addresses he gets from the recipients and multiple forwards. One spam company decides to sue Bernie for a bogus list. Just imagine the scene in the courtroom with a bunch of whiny little kids arguing before Your Honor.
I live in a large rural area and even out this way, there's a demand for broadband access to the Internet. I feel that a joint partnership with the county, the service provider, and any technicians willing to work with individuals in upgrading computers to work on a countywide broadband network, people here will be very pleased and the economists won't see the area as lagging behind in technology.
I would agree. Your example shows that the 'Net has made a social impact. I still see the best the 'Net has to offer as yet to come. You could get just about anything you want delivered to your hard drive (or in the case of tangible goods, to your front door). Some people are even finding romance online. As for myself, I like to do business online and turn my computer into a source of income for me while I work a regular job.
I found it rough as well to find employment after I graduated from college. Neary every employer that I talked with either over the phone or during an interview did not want me because I lacked experience (biggest joke I heard) or was lacking in what they percieved as "knowledge of the industry." Basically, my CS degree to them was the equivalent of toilet paper. I did find a job doing technical support, and while paying off a new car, I'm working on getting a couple certifications, starting with A+. Once I have a couple certs and some work experience, I should be ready to move on to the next phase of my IT career. Right now, I'm looking at wanting to do network administration and Linux administration. My theory is that with what M$ is doing, I have a feeling that IT managers and CIOs are going to switch over to Linux by refusing to pay the "Microsoft Tax".
I hope Bernard Shifman is making enough money to be able to cover his advertising expenses at $50 per e-mail. I don't think he is because last reports had him still spamming message boards and a few other addresses.
Couldn't Californians bring suit against Shifman if they have recieved one of his silly resumes?
Next thing you know, Kelley Blue Book will be adding computers to their price lists.
I would have them confiscate any cubicle warfare weapon should someone try to board a plane with one.
I doubt that will happen. Perhaps Bernie will hire someone to translate his resume into Chinese and repeat what he did here to offend every IT professional on the planet.
I could just see it. My cell phone recieving the message.
"Computer Consultant 4 Hire -- Call 773-yyy-zzzz 4 more info."
I'll know right away to tell the cellular service to discontinue service to Bernard Shifman. If he threatens legal action. I'll just respond with my legal team at Yourassis, Grass & I.M. DeLawnmower.
My fourth First Post!
To tie into the previous stories, how about creating a profile that includes the following people.
Are unemployed
Use the Internet
Claim to own their own business
Spent time in a dungeon in Europe for sending unsolicited e-mail
Discovered that technology has reduced the response rate to their mass mailings to near 0%
We take this profile and tell DoubleClick to mail every piece of spam to people who match all of these criteria. If all goes correctly, the number of addresses to be hit is one, and that lucky person is Bernard Shifman.
We first got a way that can punish spammers that dates back to the 1600's, and now a way that we can trap them. Just think, instead of locking up Bernard Shifman in a damp dungeon in England, we could honeypot his resume, then smear real honey all over Bernie and leave him near an anthill with a bunch of red ants.
I wonder what type of legal precedent could be set should a ruling be made against spam. I could imagine the judge saying "Thou art guilty of spamming. Thou shalt be sentenced to spend the rest of thy mortal life with Bernard Shifman in the royal dungeon."
I won't be there for longer than a couple years. I work as a software technician for a company that develops wireless paging software. I'm currently at $11 an hour, but that's not enough for me to support my current lifesytle. I'm in the process of becoming A+ certified, and will be looking at picking up a couple other certifications as well. My purpose of the certifications is to gain some leverage come annual review time. My employer must decide if I get another raise, or if I stay at my current rate, or if they let me go because I'm too expensive.
I'm also getting the impression that my employer needs to find another direction to take the company in the wireless communications industry. Paging is on its way out and it appears that the next big thing in wireless is broadband wireless communications. Only thing that I can say is that I hope the company has a couple good ideas to capitalize on so it can stay alive.
Best wishes to you Rob and Kathleen. Let us know when the big day is. In the meantime, we'll mod down the goatse.cx and flamer trolls.
Being a three-time first poster myself, I just sit back and watch my karma drop by two from moderation. If you get lucky, you may be blessed with your first post being modded up to 5. Yes, it has happened before.
Another toy for the hackers to steal for use in quickly deploying hacks on top of the Great Dome...I like it! Click here if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Now only if MIT could pull off another stunt at the big Harvard v. Yale football game.
I agree. Makes me wonder what else the people who set up the project do to pay the bills and feed themselves.
I went through the Computer Science program at Kent State University in 5 years, but after three and learning about a business opportunity, I decided that I should finish my degree and focus more on becoming a businessman than a computer engineer. I do not regret my decision because what I have developed as a business will pay off for me big time in the long run.
I know M$ stuff is crap, but I also heard from a consultant at a trade show that the Athlon does not do a good job with multitasking office applications. This is why I posted my $0.02 above in hopes of getting feedback from other /.ers who spend more time researching this stuff than I do.
I also noticed that as I run programs, not all the memory used by the program is freed when the program terminates. I ran the System Monitor and it revealed to me this information. I'm not sure if this is Athlon or Windoze related. Anyways, I'm suspecting that the problem may not be limited to Linux boxes.
Now we're talking a real icon for gaming. Screw that new technology. Give me vector graphics!
Here's a clue
CowboyNeal's life savings = 0 (or close to it).
How do you suppose he buys all of his computer hardware and other geek toys?