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How can you avoid precisely targeted unwanted mail? Reply to it. Put remove or unsubscribe in the subject header, or follow any instructions within the actual messages. Most real business e-mail provides a functioning remove link. If the message comes via paper mail or phone, contact the company with a request to stop. Any business that's savvy enough to cross-reference records with a domain registry is smart enough to stop if it's about to lose a customer (we hope).
Most places if you follow the link to opt-out it'll just let them know you that you are active and you'll be added to more lists.
One possible solution and I know for a fact it's much easier said then done, is to generalize it, have subsections on specific past versions and how to manage the changes between them. Some authors of books I own will also keep an online reference site that they update accordingly with new versions, and later incorporate that into their next book.
These books are a great source of information for new users to unix in general, or even an experienced unix user new to redhat linux. However they are far too generalized (even though they may go to great lengths in detail).
Redhat itself has new releases fairly often that changes everything around. Although I am familiar with the system itself, theres only a few things that are new that I am not well versed in when it comes out, take for instance xinetd which ships default in RH 7.x
Buying a book on 6.0 would be useless for me, and it would be more cost effective to buy a book(s) that covers more advanced or new topics such as xinetd and iptables (I know these things are new and when I was in the local Borders which has dozens of linux/unix books, I couldn't find a book that covered either).
The only huge 3+ inch thick book I purchased a a few years ago was obsolete 2 months after I bought it, good thing I was able to return it.
I work at an ISP and I know firsthand, here in Kansas, USA anyway, that we can not by any means give out information. The victim *must* get a subpoena to us. The police and courts must get involved.
If someone roots your box and you wanna know the IP's or even the dates/times it occurred, you can't do much without getting the law involved.
In that case all we could tell you was that your machine was accessed by an IP other then the one(s) that were assigned to you.
We're all guilty of it. As your income goes up, so does your expenses. The people who don't want to pay 76 cents for a special ring tone on the cell phones are most likely the same people who can't really afford to have one in the first place.
Paying for stuff online is just yet another bill we all have to worry about, and in the long run - unless you are really financially stable, is something we could do without if we were forced to pay for.
Slashdot is a great site, with its faults, however if I were forced to pay for it, I would forget about it alltogether.
Ive tested this and it works quite actually well for just about anything Ive tried so far, however, I'm at work and I dare not to test it out on porn yet...
I don't know, but I think I'd wait until the economy/market improved a little...
Just because the tech stocks seem down right now, you also have to remember that probably more then half the failed IPO's failed because the companies themselves were miserable and worthless, the market saw this after the hype, and the stock(s) was adjusted accordingly.
Google on the other hand, is a young company with something actually of value.
You can still find VGA Planets and Trade Wars on many, telnetable BBS's around the net. (I'm still amazed that there is a dial-up BBS left in my town when at one time there was close to 25).
There is also a couple of good Star Wars MUD's around also.
To me OS/2 is far more advanced then Windows. The problem, however, is that the marketing gods that be let everyone think Windows is better.
IBM's biggest mistake was to work with MS on the code and have it run Windows 16-bit applications (at the time, Windows wasn't 32-bit, in fact OS/2 was 32-bit and "internet ready" with Warp 3.0, months before Win95 appeared).
Developers decided since OS/2 ran Windows stuff, they could be lazy and write it only for Windows ("Hey, why should I bother write clean portable code and have a nice design concept by writing this project ground up for multi-platform when I can just save time and write it for Windows?").
Another problem we would have with an open-source OS/2 is it would have to be completely written from scratch, as there is I believe, still alot of proprietary code inside. At one point after MS jumped ship, IBM rewrote alot of the code MS had used, but still... I don't see IBM ever doing this, dreams never come true.
The only way I know of to get past ANI is to trick the operator to diverting your call to the number that you wish to call, thereby having the number of the operator (always xxx-0000) showing up on ANI. But, of course, you can't route data calls this way, so you are pretty much limited to either using someone else's line, or doing what Kevin Mitnick did and aquire a different number through the cellular telephone network, although, with the state of cellular networks today, that is considerably harder to do than it was 5 or 6 years ago
What we used to about 5-6 years ago when we were younger and of less wisdom, was first off to follow one of the 10 commandandments for phreakers 'One must never phreak over thine own wires'...
To do anything really dumb and illegal we had usually went into a downtown back alley and hijacked some business' telephone network interface box to make calls, or more importantly to use a laptop with.
Look what happened to IBM's OS/2 platform. The windows emulation was so good that native OS/2 applications were never written. And once Microsoft pulled the rug out from underneath IBM with Win32, OS/2 died.
You are correct here, but we need to remember that OS/2 was not open source, and was controlled entirely by a corporate entity, being IBM. OS/2 was in direct competition with Microsoft, and it being a better operating system (in my opinion), it never achieved the user base that Linux does now. Linux also isn't in direct competition with anything.
This is a great thing to happen for Linux because people will still write nice games natively for unix-like operating systems, and large corporations will still write nice games for Windows only, that will soon be able to run on Linux.
Michael Crichton's latest book, Timeline, has a pretty interesting spin on Feynman's work and references it a bit if anyone is interested in his work (It also happens to be a damned good book, I might have to say it's his best work).
Regardless of which party you tend to affiliate with, election history shows that the Democrats are far more likely to "fix" an election than Republicans.
Using your logic it is then safe to assume that the Republicans are far more likely to wiretap, break and enter, sabatage and espianage Democratic campaign headquarters.
No one made any cop be a cop. they do it on their own free will. That means they must agree with what the job enforces.
Hey guess what buddy, you know why you can sit down on your computer and type just exactly that without irrational fear of a gestapo like organization busting into your room late at night?
You understand that these people lead mostly normal lives like everyone else with a spouse and kid(s) waiting in the driveway when they get home. You realize, of course, that we can go from Point A to Point B within the majority of America and usually not worry about getting murdered.
To whomever who beleives in peace through anarchy should get their head examined.
So much for seperation of church and state. It's nice to see my fellow Kansans realizing the importance of this issue and voting out some of the people who felt it nececcary to force religion onto our kids education.
I am a democract, and years ago it was always joked that us democrats here in Kansas would all register as republican, to vote out the radical right, and the other crazies. Now it's not really a joke, I'm finding more and more democrats who are starting this now.
Now for our next stop.. scrap the silly law that says our liquor stores can't be open on Sundays and Hollidays, and only 3.2% Beer in the grocery store. Sheesh.
When was the HHGTG series written? Many people claim Adams was the first person in pop-culture to predict the net/web.
But many of you Who fans would know Pete Townshend had more or less predicted it in a sense while writing his Lifehouse project, which he eventually aborted and turned the songs for it into their album "Who's Next".
The storyline went something close to a Father searching for his daughter or something relatively close, over a "grid" that took place in the future where everyone was connected to each other by it and used that as the primary form of communication.
Townshend has since finished Lifehouse nearly 30 years after he first started writing it.
The early 90's brought us the advent of a new boom in pinball. I remember reading a Smithsonian article on the pinball craze of the early 90's.
Pinball will always exist, but as another poster stated, the new ones are just so damn lame. The downhill started when you could buy extra balls. It shifted from a contest of skill to the contest of the moderately skilled rich kids.
If you want some advice on the best pinball games ever then checkout:
The Getaway II (My favorite of all time) Adams Family (Close 2nd and still today found in bars and parlors) Terminator II Whitewater Bram Stokers Dracula Twilight Zone
And lets not forget the classic that turned me onto pinball in the first place Fun House.
Not just I, but rather we. If the readers of slashdot that were to care enough about what is going on, we should form a slashdot advocacy group. The issues of freedom of speech are at hand. Why is it we have to worry about certain posts on here but yet I could legally go down to my neighborhood WAL-MART and buy a shotgun?
I don't think it should take a genius to decide which one is more dangerous. (Note to NRA advocates, please don't take this the right way, I am equally aware of the right to bear arms and it is not in my interests to starts flame thread about why firearms are needed)
If wish to read more on my ideas for defending slashdot, then feel free to read this post.
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Wow, we discover another use for porn.
The remedy How can you avoid precisely targeted unwanted mail? Reply to it. Put remove or unsubscribe in the subject header, or follow any instructions within the actual messages. Most real business e-mail provides a functioning remove link. If the message comes via paper mail or phone, contact the company with a request to stop. Any business that's savvy enough to cross-reference records with a domain registry is smart enough to stop if it's about to lose a customer (we hope).
Most places if you follow the link to opt-out it'll just let them know you that you are active and you'll be added to more lists.
One possible solution and I know for a fact it's much easier said then done, is to generalize it, have subsections on specific past versions and how to manage the changes between them. Some authors of books I own will also keep an online reference site that they update accordingly with new versions, and later incorporate that into their next book.
These books are a great source of information for new users to unix in general, or even an experienced unix user new to redhat linux. However they are far too generalized (even though they may go to great lengths in detail).
Redhat itself has new releases fairly often that changes everything around. Although I am familiar with the system itself, theres only a few things that are new that I am not well versed in when it comes out, take for instance xinetd which ships default in RH 7.x
Buying a book on 6.0 would be useless for me, and it would be more cost effective to buy a book(s) that covers more advanced or new topics such as xinetd and iptables (I know these things are new and when I was in the local Borders which has dozens of linux/unix books, I couldn't find a book that covered either).
The only huge 3+ inch thick book I purchased a a few years ago was obsolete 2 months after I bought it, good thing I was able to return it.
I work at an ISP and I know firsthand, here in Kansas, USA anyway, that we can not by any means give out information. The victim *must* get a subpoena to us. The police and courts must get involved.
If someone roots your box and you wanna know the IP's or even the dates/times it occurred, you can't do much without getting the law involved. In that case all we could tell you was that your machine was accessed by an IP other then the one(s) that were assigned to you.
We're all guilty of it. As your income goes up, so does your expenses. The people who don't want to pay 76 cents for a special ring tone on the cell phones are most likely the same people who can't really afford to have one in the first place.
Paying for stuff online is just yet another bill we all have to worry about, and in the long run - unless you are really financially stable, is something we could do without if we were forced to pay for.
Slashdot is a great site, with its faults, however if I were forced to pay for it, I would forget about it alltogether.
Is this good for the Alpha? Intel is a notable company, which is a good inovater for hardware and all, but this worries me a little.
This is starting to parralell the constant buy/sell-off of the Amiga. (Yeah, I know, the hardwares themselves is apples and oranges, but...)
Ive tested this and it works quite actually well for just about anything Ive tried so far, however, I'm at work and I dare not to test it out on porn yet...
I don't know, but I think I'd wait until the economy/market improved a little...
Just because the tech stocks seem down right now, you also have to remember that probably more then half the failed IPO's failed because the companies themselves were miserable and worthless, the market saw this after the hype, and the stock(s) was adjusted accordingly.
Google on the other hand, is a young company with something actually of value.
You can still find VGA Planets and Trade Wars on many, telnetable BBS's around the net. (I'm still amazed that there is a dial-up BBS left in my town when at one time there was close to 25).
There is also a couple of good Star Wars MUD's around also.
I wonder how well Cyc would do at playing these.
Wow, I'm impressed. All I have to do is buy one of the bad boys and have it trade online 24-7 in the various world markets.
Problem is, everyone is going to have the same idea.
Well, save that annoying 60's-ish one I heard on the radio this morning..
Hey! Gateway uses a Who song in one of their commercials! Only the greatest rock n' roll band to ever exist!
To me OS/2 is far more advanced then Windows. The problem, however, is that the marketing gods that be let everyone think Windows is better.
IBM's biggest mistake was to work with MS on the code and have it run Windows 16-bit applications (at the time, Windows wasn't 32-bit, in fact OS/2 was 32-bit and "internet ready" with Warp 3.0, months before Win95 appeared).
Developers decided since OS/2 ran Windows stuff, they could be lazy and write it only for Windows ("Hey, why should I bother write clean portable code and have a nice design concept by writing this project ground up for multi-platform when I can just save time and write it for Windows?").
Another problem we would have with an open-source OS/2 is it would have to be completely written from scratch, as there is I believe, still alot of proprietary code inside. At one point after MS jumped ship, IBM rewrote alot of the code MS had used, but still... I don't see IBM ever doing this, dreams never come true.
Bah. Most of it will be boring behind the scenes drivel. (Well, it'll be cool to watch, but I personally would consider it drivel after about an hour)
I got 10 to 1 saying it shows up on eBay within 24 hours.
The only way I know of to get past ANI is to trick the operator to diverting your call to the number that you wish to call, thereby having the number of the operator (always xxx-0000) showing up on ANI. But, of course, you can't route data calls this way, so you are pretty much limited to either using someone else's line, or doing what Kevin Mitnick did and aquire a different number through the cellular telephone network, although, with the state of cellular networks today, that is considerably harder to do than it was 5 or 6 years ago
What we used to about 5-6 years ago when we were younger and of less wisdom, was first off to follow one of the 10 commandandments for phreakers 'One must never phreak over thine own wires'...
To do anything really dumb and illegal we had usually went into a downtown back alley and hijacked some business' telephone network interface box to make calls, or more importantly to use a laptop with.
Look what happened to IBM's OS/2 platform. The windows emulation was so good that native OS/2 applications were never written. And once Microsoft pulled the rug out from underneath IBM with Win32, OS/2 died.
You are correct here, but we need to remember that OS/2 was not open source, and was controlled entirely by a corporate entity, being IBM. OS/2 was in direct competition with Microsoft, and it being a better operating system (in my opinion), it never achieved the user base that Linux does now. Linux also isn't in direct competition with anything.
This is a great thing to happen for Linux because people will still write nice games natively for unix-like operating systems, and large corporations will still write nice games for Windows only, that will soon be able to run on Linux.
Michael Crichton's latest book, Timeline, has a pretty interesting spin on Feynman's work and references it a bit if anyone is interested in his work (It also happens to be a damned good book, I might have to say it's his best work).
Now I don't have any bathroom material
At least you can *use* it as bathroom material. Which is basically what it was really good for anyway, expensive toilet paper.
Regardless of which party you tend to affiliate with, election history shows that the Democrats are far more likely to "fix" an election than Republicans.
Using your logic it is then safe to assume that the Republicans are far more likely to wiretap, break and enter, sabatage and espianage Democratic campaign headquarters.
No one made any cop be a cop. they do it on their own free will. That means they must agree with what the job enforces.
Hey guess what buddy, you know why you can sit down on your computer and type just exactly that without irrational fear of a gestapo like organization busting into your room late at night?
You understand that these people lead mostly normal lives like everyone else with a spouse and kid(s) waiting in the driveway when they get home.
You realize, of course, that we can go from Point A to Point B within the majority of America and usually not worry about getting murdered.
To whomever who beleives in peace through anarchy should get their head examined.
So much for seperation of church and state. It's nice to see my fellow Kansans realizing the importance of this issue and voting out some of the people who felt it nececcary to force religion onto our kids education.
I am a democract, and years ago it was always joked that us democrats here in Kansas would all register as republican, to vote out the radical right, and the other crazies. Now it's not really a joke, I'm finding more and more democrats who are starting this now.
Now for our next stop.. scrap the silly law that says our liquor stores can't be open on Sundays and Hollidays, and only 3.2% Beer in the grocery store. Sheesh.
When was the HHGTG series written? Many people claim Adams was the first person in pop-culture to predict the net/web.
But many of you Who fans would know Pete Townshend had more or less predicted it in a sense while writing his Lifehouse project, which he eventually aborted and turned the songs for it into their album "Who's Next".
The storyline went something close to a Father searching for his daughter or something relatively close, over a "grid" that took place in the future where everyone was connected to each other by it and used that as the primary form of communication.
Townshend has since finished Lifehouse nearly 30 years after he first started writing it.
The early 90's brought us the advent of a new boom in pinball. I remember reading a Smithsonian article on the pinball craze of the early 90's.
Pinball will always exist, but as another poster stated, the new ones are just so damn lame. The downhill started when you could buy extra balls. It shifted from a contest of skill to the contest of the moderately skilled rich kids.
If you want some advice on the best pinball games ever then checkout:
The Getaway II (My favorite of all time)
Adams Family (Close 2nd and still today found in bars and parlors)
Terminator II
Whitewater
Bram Stokers Dracula
Twilight Zone
And lets not forget the classic that turned me onto pinball in the first place Fun House.
Not just I, but rather we. If the readers of slashdot that were to care enough about what is going on, we should form a slashdot advocacy group. The issues of freedom of speech are at hand. Why is it we have to worry about certain posts on here but yet I could legally go down to my neighborhood WAL-MART and buy a shotgun?
I don't think it should take a genius to decide which one is more dangerous. (Note to NRA advocates, please don't take this the right way, I am equally aware of the right to bear arms and it is not in my interests to starts flame thread about why firearms are needed)
If wish to read more on my ideas for defending slashdot, then feel free to read this post.