The only thing that most of these "please remove me" BS forms do is confirm that the email address is a valid one, and can be resold to more spammers. If anything filling those out actually causes more harm than good.
If you're confused, read the article again; it's mentioned.
Thanks Tips, but all four links in the article seem to be unreachable.
Seems like a good approach actually. Perhaps some script could be developed that would do nothing but look at a web form, fill in appropriate bogus info, and just hit the site repeatedly with bogus orders. I'll bet any CC provider would soon get tired of having to constantly do verification on bogus CC numbers and would end up closing the spammer's account.
Sure, it's a nasty form of attack, but then that's no less than spammers deserve.
...the sales thingies will try and sell you whatever product gives them the most commission. If it's straight up sales percentage they'll try and sell you something that's a lot more than you need, but sometimes there's a dog they're trying to get rid of, so they'll sell you that.
Don't let them con you into buying extended warranties though. You might as well burn $20 bills right then and there, for all it's worth.
Yes, let's have government determine its legislative agenda by urban legends! This could be fun. For one thing, you wouldn't see too many KFCs around (they raise chickens without heads!) and parties will be forbidden, lest you wake up in a bathtub full of ice with a kidney missing. There will also be need for laws against drinking soft drinks out of cans (because of ultra-poisonous substances left on the outside of the can by rats and which could kill you instantly). While we're at it, let's have laws prohibiting the possession of daddy longlegs, because as everyone knows they have the most potent poison in the animal kingdom!
I can't see how such an approach could possibly go wrong!
Yes, all comments about China that aren't completely positive are "hate" and "bashing"... it couldn't possibly be because China, as a country, deserves criticism as much as other countries do. No siree, it's all hatin'.
*The artical sights a few examples of things the government deems unhealthy, including stomping cats while in high heels*
I love it when governments let policy be decided on things that could potentially turn out to be hoaxes and urban legends. Frankly it really sounds like an excuse for the so-called "Communist" party to crack down on people saying things that party mandarins don't want to hear, or don't want others to read.
Perhaps Americans are instead signing up for MBA programs combined with courses in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, and other languages needed to effectively manage software projects when a great number of your programmers/coders live on the Indian subcontinent.
...at least they have Google to look up to in their quest to self-censor.
Then again hearing Bush go on the attack against the press makes you wonder if it isn't merely a little more obvious in the case of China. I'm sure I'm not 100% right about this, but I can't remember a single newspaper officially taking the position that invading Iraq was wrong back in 2002/2003, not even the New York Times.
If I were a student I'd be pretty pissed about this. I'd probably just cancel the POS Microsoft account and continue using one that I've been using for years.
With the current Canadian government keen to bend over backwards (or forwards) to accomodate American policy, I wouldn't count on a Canadian location being much protection...
What if your site has that famous picture of Ed Meese talking about his commission on pornography in front of the bare-breasted statue of Justice? Is it art? It is news? It is porn?
Gonzales seems way too obsessed with pornography. Someone should give him a subscription to Hustler online or something like that so he can, er, release a little pressure.
Sorry to say, but Apple can do anything it wants -- including this current bit of litigation -- without the Apple fan base really being able to do anything about or in response to it.
In fact over the years they've proved quite keen to release the legal hounds whenever they've felt that such a situation has occurred. What mystifies me is why this sort of move is considered to be "unprecedented" every time it comes up.
A place I used to work for (very large bank) was using NT 4 as recently as 2004.
Then they relented and let *some people* install Windows 2000 on their machines, if it was determined that they really needed it. That's not an uncommon practice with very large companies. All the PCs we had had license stickers for more recent versions of Windows, but we still had an OS which had been released back in 1996.
I've nothing against using Windows, as long as someone pays me for it...
Sorry to say, but unless your business apps are 100k you're going to run out of space on the disk.
I recently did a slipstreamed XP disc w/ SP2 and all the critical updates already integrated, and I found myself having to remove the unessential stuff (demos, extras) from the CD image if I wanted to fit it onto one disc.
The only time Bush has ever "reached out" beyond his circle of friends is to borrow credibility from a poor sap who will inevitably be chewed up and spit out whenever it's convenient for the Administration to do so.
In short, I feel sorry for this guy. He may be convinced that he'll be able to do good, but then so were Colin Powell and Paul O'Neill.
...is that she'll be looking for a high-paying job with one of the big media houses when she leaves the FCC, and with the shilling she's doing she expects to find one rather quickly.
You're pretty quick in giving them the benefit of the doubt. A lot quicker than I am.
IT journalism in general is pretty dismal. Granted, it's a hard field to keep track of, but the complete and utter lack of general IT knowledge among IT journalists is downright scary -- and it's responsible in no small part for the rise in popularity of sites like Slashdot and Digg for people who want real IT news, as opposed to rehashed press releases from the major market players.
Windows itself has largely survived by borrowing and adapting features from other OS's to their own. It's just not good enough to ignore those parts of the market that include now what Windows will feature tomorrow.
Let's remember some of the other things that CNET (the.com.com.com people) thought were "sure things" back in the day -- portals, push (think Pointcast), the Thin Client, etc. For people who only cover tech they're remarkably clueless of the world outside of wintel (and, more often than not, inside of it as well).
About 10 years ago I showed a friend my computer (a Mac, at the time) and told him about how, with VirtualPC, I could run Windows on Mac. He didn't know much about tech at the time, so his comment was "so what you're telling me is that you can 'dumb down' your computer so you can use Windows programs?"
Oh, I'm not saying it's going to work... just that they've foolishly embarked on that road. SCO paid a lot for the sort of technology that Linux distros now provide for free, so they had a choice of admitting that they had made bad investments in the past, or attempt to put the legal blame on others for their own bad decisions.
Their mistake was in going after IBM with the obvious goal of gaining a quick money settlement, which IBM wasn't about to pony up. Yet another bad decision from McBride & the gang. Even Microsoft (which partly funded the legal assault covertly) has evidently been getting tired of SCO's ineffectiveness in spreading FUD about Linux, choosing instead to trumpet their own equally baseless threats (Steve should remember that if it was baseless 18 months ago it's no better now).
The goal of SCO's intentionally vague requests seem to be to essentially consume the defendant's resources. It's more a fishing expedition than a court case, and falls in line with SCO's FUD strategies.
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hmm... never mind, I see what you meant now, but I thought there was more information in the unavailable links.
The only thing that most of these "please remove me" BS forms do is confirm that the email address is a valid one, and can be resold to more spammers. If anything filling those out actually causes more harm than good.
If you're confused, read the article again; it's mentioned.
Thanks Tips, but all four links in the article seem to be unreachable.
I'm sure that we're all interested in what these people have to sell... also that would probably cause a massive slashdotting.
Seems like a good approach actually. Perhaps some script could be developed that would do nothing but look at a web form, fill in appropriate bogus info, and just hit the site repeatedly with bogus orders. I'll bet any CC provider would soon get tired of having to constantly do verification on bogus CC numbers and would end up closing the spammer's account.
Sure, it's a nasty form of attack, but then that's no less than spammers deserve.
Mr. Jobs: I have to admit it. We wrote a big AppleScript and it's running the company. Isn't this awesome?
So THAT's the secret...
...the sales thingies will try and sell you whatever product gives them the most commission. If it's straight up sales percentage they'll try and sell you something that's a lot more than you need, but sometimes there's a dog they're trying to get rid of, so they'll sell you that.
Don't let them con you into buying extended warranties though. You might as well burn $20 bills right then and there, for all it's worth.
Yes, let's have government determine its legislative agenda by urban legends! This could be fun. For one thing, you wouldn't see too many KFCs around (they raise chickens without heads!) and parties will be forbidden, lest you wake up in a bathtub full of ice with a kidney missing. There will also be need for laws against drinking soft drinks out of cans (because of ultra-poisonous substances left on the outside of the can by rats and which could kill you instantly). While we're at it, let's have laws prohibiting the possession of daddy longlegs, because as everyone knows they have the most potent poison in the animal kingdom!
I can't see how such an approach could possibly go wrong!
Yes, all comments about China that aren't completely positive are "hate" and "bashing"... it couldn't possibly be because China, as a country, deserves criticism as much as other countries do. No siree, it's all hatin'.
*The artical sights a few examples of things the government deems unhealthy, including stomping cats while in high heels*
I love it when governments let policy be decided on things that could potentially turn out to be hoaxes and urban legends. Frankly it really sounds like an excuse for the so-called "Communist" party to crack down on people saying things that party mandarins don't want to hear, or don't want others to read.
Perhaps Americans are instead signing up for MBA programs combined with courses in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, and other languages needed to effectively manage software projects when a great number of your programmers/coders live on the Indian subcontinent.
...at least they have Google to look up to in their quest to self-censor.
Then again hearing Bush go on the attack against the press makes you wonder if it isn't merely a little more obvious in the case of China. I'm sure I'm not 100% right about this, but I can't remember a single newspaper officially taking the position that invading Iraq was wrong back in 2002/2003, not even the New York Times.
If I were a student I'd be pretty pissed about this. I'd probably just cancel the POS Microsoft account and continue using one that I've been using for years.
With the current Canadian government keen to bend over backwards (or forwards) to accomodate American policy, I wouldn't count on a Canadian location being much protection...
What if your site has that famous picture of Ed Meese talking about his commission on pornography in front of the bare-breasted statue of Justice? Is it art? It is news? It is porn?
Gonzales seems way too obsessed with pornography. Someone should give him a subscription to Hustler online or something like that so he can, er, release a little pressure.
Sorry to say, but Apple can do anything it wants -- including this current bit of litigation -- without the Apple fan base really being able to do anything about or in response to it.
In fact over the years they've proved quite keen to release the legal hounds whenever they've felt that such a situation has occurred. What mystifies me is why this sort of move is considered to be "unprecedented" every time it comes up.
A place I used to work for (very large bank) was using NT 4 as recently as 2004.
Then they relented and let *some people* install Windows 2000 on their machines, if it was determined that they really needed it. That's not an uncommon practice with very large companies. All the PCs we had had license stickers for more recent versions of Windows, but we still had an OS which had been released back in 1996.
I've nothing against using Windows, as long as someone pays me for it...
It's hard to trust the reviewer when he writes about how disappointed he is, but still gives the product 5/5.
Sorry to say, but unless your business apps are 100k you're going to run out of space on the disk.
I recently did a slipstreamed XP disc w/ SP2 and all the critical updates already integrated, and I found myself having to remove the unessential stuff (demos, extras) from the CD image if I wanted to fit it onto one disc.
The only time Bush has ever "reached out" beyond his circle of friends is to borrow credibility from a poor sap who will inevitably be chewed up and spit out whenever it's convenient for the Administration to do so.
In short, I feel sorry for this guy. He may be convinced that he'll be able to do good, but then so were Colin Powell and Paul O'Neill.
...is that she'll be looking for a high-paying job with one of the big media houses when she leaves the FCC, and with the shilling she's doing she expects to find one rather quickly.
You're pretty quick in giving them the benefit of the doubt. A lot quicker than I am.
IT journalism in general is pretty dismal. Granted, it's a hard field to keep track of, but the complete and utter lack of general IT knowledge among IT journalists is downright scary -- and it's responsible in no small part for the rise in popularity of sites like Slashdot and Digg for people who want real IT news, as opposed to rehashed press releases from the major market players.
Windows itself has largely survived by borrowing and adapting features from other OS's to their own. It's just not good enough to ignore those parts of the market that include now what Windows will feature tomorrow.
Let's remember some of the other things that CNET (the .com.com.com people) thought were "sure things" back in the day -- portals, push (think Pointcast), the Thin Client, etc. For people who only cover tech they're remarkably clueless of the world outside of wintel (and, more often than not, inside of it as well).
About 10 years ago I showed a friend my computer (a Mac, at the time) and told him about how, with VirtualPC, I could run Windows on Mac. He didn't know much about tech at the time, so his comment was "so what you're telling me is that you can 'dumb down' your computer so you can use Windows programs?"
I smirked a little and replied, "Precisely!"
Oh, I'm not saying it's going to work... just that they've foolishly embarked on that road. SCO paid a lot for the sort of technology that Linux distros now provide for free, so they had a choice of admitting that they had made bad investments in the past, or attempt to put the legal blame on others for their own bad decisions.
Their mistake was in going after IBM with the obvious goal of gaining a quick money settlement, which IBM wasn't about to pony up. Yet another bad decision from McBride & the gang. Even Microsoft (which partly funded the legal assault covertly) has evidently been getting tired of SCO's ineffectiveness in spreading FUD about Linux, choosing instead to trumpet their own equally baseless threats (Steve should remember that if it was baseless 18 months ago it's no better now).
The goal of SCO's intentionally vague requests seem to be to essentially consume the defendant's resources. It's more a fishing expedition than a court case, and falls in line with SCO's FUD strategies.