Do spambots really unmunge email addresses? If I were a spambot, I would look at an address like mark@diespammers.hotmail.com and say, "gee, that guy really hates spam, I'd better not piss him off." It doesn't make sense to aggrivate someone who is clearly opposed to spam.
I suspect that harvesters and spammers are often not the same, and that those who harvest are more interested in getting a CD-ROM full of email addresses that will go thru than email addresses that are for people who want to hear about their message.
Remember, spamming is a numbers game. It's all about covering the most area. It costs NudeAsianTeens.com just as much to send to 10,000,000 addresses as 9,000,000, so they might as well hit more.
9. The books should cost LESS than normal books. Why? Because it does cost less to make an e-book - you are just shoving bits, instead of
printing, binding and distributing. Additionally people need a REASON to switch to E-books, making them cheaper might be a good incentive.
So what? Price is a function of demand, not of costs. (cf. Economics 101)
You're also forgetting that most of the cost of a book, CD, etc has nothing to do with the physical representation of the object. You think that the $50 for a copy of, say, the 3rd Camel book is paper costs?
Random thoughts from my past, in sysadmin and elsewhere:
Last programmer I hired was because I saw
her reading Webmaster In A Nutshell on a commuter train. "You wouldn't happen to be looking for a job, would you?" Bing-bang-boom.
I always ask "How do you keep up?" Good answers: "I read Slashdot", "I have a $2K/year book budget", "I'm trying to get a complete collection of O'Reilly books". More importantly is how they reply. If they have to think about it, then they don't see it as a priority.
Culture in general is key. Any mention of Slashdot or similar fora is almost a requirement.
Immersion questions are as important as specifics. Someone who crammed through
Teach Yourself Perl In 72 Seconds may well know the three basic data types, but only an experienced programmer will know who Larry, Randal and Tom are.
Ask him to DO something. I've given printouts of suboptimal web pages to the candidate and said "OK, how would you fix this?" (Tell him it's an old version of the page, so he doesn't have to worry about offending anyone with his comments) Read Nick Corcodilos' excellent Ask The Headhunter for more about this sort of interviewing.
It's critical that the person actually care and/or be interested in the business that you're in. My company is in the education business, and in my eyes, it's important that they see the industry itself as valuable.
Ask about what kind of machine they have at home.
DON'T ask the standard bullshit questions, like "Where are you going to be in five years?", "What are your greatest strengths?", etc etc unless you actually CARE about those things. Chances are, you don't, and you can't even answer those yourself.
Back when I had an ISDN router (about 12"x1"x6") I just mounted it underneath to the bottom of a bookshelf in my office. Just got a couple slats of wood under the router, some wood blocks a few inches taller than the router, and screwed 'em in there. The router slipped in 'n' out no problem (not that I ever had to do anything with it...) --
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants
shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
So how is it that simply being observed is a
violation of the 4th Amendment? The cops are LOOKING. It's surveillance. You gonna say the cops can't look at your house, or your backyard? Absurd. --
What about the recent SCOTUS decision about using heat sensors to discover pot grows? theoretically, this could even be used for the exact
same thing. This stuff gives me the creeps.
What, you're pissed that the gov't enforces laws
by observing what you do? Do you expect the bad
guys to turn themselves in?
I'm no fan of pot being illegal, but don't be pissed because the cops use technology to observe
what's going on. --
One of the issues currently facing AOL is the fact that the English language bundling of its client on XP requires about 84 MB
Good Lordy, whatever happened to the day when the whole AOL thing fit on one little floppy that was easily removed from the magazine shrink-wrap?
But Steppenwolf will apparently not include Komodo, AOL's new software currently in alpha testing
I trust they're not referring to Activestate's
Komodo IDE, and that Komodo is merely a project name. It would be a shame to have one Microsoft partner sue another.
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This is hardly new. Back on January 28, 1986 my old man introduced me to the wonders of satellite dishes as we watched the raw feeds of the newsdrones picking their noses waiting for their cues to discuss the explosion of the Challenger.
Then, we flipped around to some other birds and found the Spice Channel, after which I've never been seen a gear-shift lever the same way again.
Interesting content, sidetracked by porn: Sounds like the Net we know and love. --
On the other hand most of us run into trouble when trying to study calculus at the same time we're hitting on a sexy lady
Never mind hitting on, how about just physical proximity? That's prob'ly why I did so poorly in Calculus class my first semester of college. Sandy Gann... <sigh> She had even flown down to Phoenix to see, and had a T-shirt from, the Who's (first) Farewell Tour (of many). --
Sure, it'd be easy to cool the place, but that's not the issue. They're going to have to heat it.
Solid-state components prob'ly don't mind subzero temps, but the drives sure will. To pick one example, this Maxtor SCSI drive is only rated to run above 5C. Heck, NON-operating temperature is only -40C. --
What's always funny about these articles is how
their estimation of computer power is always so tiny. For instance, they predict that
"the calculator solves thousands of separate equations in a minute", which is absurdly low.
On the other hand, he also asserted that there are 50 variables in predicting the weather, which is also absurdly low.
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There's such gnashing of teeth over the comment "Find the essential elements of creating good software, do them all of the time, and discard everything else."
Sure, that's simplistic, but it's not as mockable
as many would think. What this means is "Do no work just because it's part of the process." XP doesn't have requirements documents, because the requirements documents aren't the end result. They have story cards, which are basically lean 'n' mean little requirements documents.
Need a document to show to management? Then that's a story card. It's just that XPers don't create documents for the sake of creating them, which is what requirements documents often feel like.
On its own, the "do only what you have to do" sounds facile. Within the context of the last 10 years of software process (CMM, etc), it makes much more sense.
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My favorite is all the conservative websites out there that designate movies to be "good" and "bad" simply by counting all the times they have
the word fuck....
I run ours, and fill it up with 3 heaping scoops of Kirkland 100% Columbian supremo bean dark roast fine grind, 10 cups of water, and
program the timer every night.
Slashdot Mirror
Since when does "usage, volume and demographics" fall under "social and psychological impact"?
And how is it "surprisingly little"? Compared to what? How much we know about the psychological impact of postal letters?
Why does Katz always sound like he's trying for a Unit 5 Investigation during sweeps week?
I suspect that harvesters and spammers are often not the same, and that those who harvest are more interested in getting a CD-ROM full of email addresses that will go thru than email addresses that are for people who want to hear about their message.
Remember, spamming is a numbers game. It's all about covering the most area. It costs NudeAsianTeens.com just as much to send to 10,000,000 addresses as 9,000,000, so they might as well hit more.
(Yes, that's what Rush call his drum solos on their live albums. Really.)
Or rather, they did on one album.
Fruit?
So what? Price is a function of demand, not of costs. (cf. Economics 101)
You're also forgetting that most of the cost of a book, CD, etc has nothing to do with the physical representation of the object. You think that the $50 for a copy of, say, the 3rd Camel book is paper costs?
<BILL_AND_TED> Excellent! </BILL_AND_TED>
Y'know, I think that Jon Katz is actually Bob Greene in disguise.
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Back when I had an ISDN router (about 12"x1"x6") I just mounted it underneath to the bottom of a bookshelf in my office. Just got a couple slats of wood under the router, some wood blocks a few inches taller than the router, and screwed 'em in there. The router slipped in 'n' out no problem (not that I ever had to do anything with it...)
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So how is it that simply being observed is a violation of the 4th Amendment? The cops are LOOKING. It's surveillance. You gonna say the cops can't look at your house, or your backyard? Absurd.
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What, you're pissed that the gov't enforces laws by observing what you do? Do you expect the bad guys to turn themselves in?
I'm no fan of pot being illegal, but don't be pissed because the cops use technology to observe what's going on.
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Normally, I'll snag most anything off the server to live on the bleeding edge, but not this time...
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Good Lordy, whatever happened to the day when the whole AOL thing fit on one little floppy that was easily removed from the magazine shrink-wrap?
But Steppenwolf will apparently not include Komodo, AOL's new software currently in alpha testing
I trust they're not referring to Activestate's Komodo IDE, and that Komodo is merely a project name. It would be a shame to have one Microsoft partner sue another.
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Then, we flipped around to some other birds and found the Spice Channel, after which I've never been seen a gear-shift lever the same way again.
Interesting content, sidetracked by porn: Sounds like the Net we know and love.
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Any non-anecdotal evidence to back up that might broad brush you've got there?
Just 'cause you don't like jocks or fratboys doesn't mean they're rapists.
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Never mind hitting on, how about just physical proximity? That's prob'ly why I did so poorly in Calculus class my first semester of college. Sandy Gann... <sigh> She had even flown down to Phoenix to see, and had a T-shirt from, the Who's (first) Farewell Tour (of many).
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Solid-state components prob'ly don't mind subzero temps, but the drives sure will. To pick one example, this Maxtor SCSI drive is only rated to run above 5C. Heck, NON-operating temperature is only -40C.
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On the other hand, he also asserted that there are 50 variables in predicting the weather, which is also absurdly low.
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So?
What's the diff 'tween Chromatic and, say, Marilyn Manson? Or Marilyn Monroe, for that matter? It's just a name.
How about the guy who wrote Programming The Perl DBI , Alligator Descartes?
And how do we know that Tim Bunce is actually that guy's name? Huh? HUH? HOW ABOUT THAT?
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Sure, that's simplistic, but it's not as mockable as many would think. What this means is "Do no work just because it's part of the process." XP doesn't have requirements documents, because the requirements documents aren't the end result. They have story cards, which are basically lean 'n' mean little requirements documents.
Need a document to show to management? Then that's a story card. It's just that XPers don't create documents for the sake of creating them, which is what requirements documents often feel like.
On its own, the "do only what you have to do" sounds facile. Within the context of the last 10 years of software process (CMM, etc), it makes much more sense.
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It's a self-fulfilling news story.
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The best of these would be capalert.com. He hasn't rated "Freddy Got Fingered", but he has nothin' good to say about the South Park movie. "*South Park* is another movie straight from the smoking pits of Hell."
Fade To Black somehow got Cap from CapAlert to do a Q&A column. It's a hoot.
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And the legacy of his exploits documented in email forwards for years to come...
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Coffee/Java jokes are SO 1997.
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