"In a few years, they might be owned by Bill Gates, The Home Shopping Network, or the Direct Marketing Association."
At which point, I will quit using their FREE SERVICE and use one of a THOUSAND other companies to handle my email. In the meantime, can I please take advantage of the excellent service this company with a FABULOUS track record is offering me? Thank you.
Anyone or anything CAN be bad. But if you're gonna worry about it, you might as well never leave the house. Hey--you better not have any kids, they MIGHT grow up to be axe murderers. Or worse, telemarketers.
Just teasing. Excellent point. I think most people here think there's only the buck-at-a-time arcade version, unaware that there are home versions and step-on controllers available. Cost = what you would spend on a game and controller (flight stick, etc) anyway--hell, probably costs a lot less than most exercise equipment! *Especially* if this gets used and the others don't.
"I don't know why the porn industry is complaining about this, it seems like now everyone who really wants porn spam (not I!) can finally create a filter that delivers it to their inbox, highlighted, and bolded!"
Because spammers do not give a fuck if you want to hear their message or not. They want *everyone* to hear it, period. I imagine their thinking is like your mom's when she wanted you to try a new food--how do you know you don't like it if you don't try it? How do you *know* you don't want to see h0t l3sbi4n 5lut5 until you've read the message and seen the pic?
Until there is a government (or mafia; I really don't care which) agency that you can forward a SPAM to and they will track the spammer down and kill them, the only way to keep spam out of your inbox is through technilogical means.
But if Windows *did* recognize foreign filesystems (like ext2) then we wouldn't get to play endless rounds of that cool "you cannot delete a partition which contains logical drives"/"there are no logical drives in this partition" game in FDISK!:-)
Want the best possible mirror of slashdot in the late 90s? Look no further--you're soaking in it. Just change the date in the URL. That particular one is from five years ago today. Works as far back as 19980101. (Actually, there are 3 stories at 19971231, which I guess is just due to time zones.)
1 TB ain't *that* cheap yet--don't need to spend that much this week
7 shows at once? A bit much. Again, tuners, while cheap, aren't free. No reason to spend that much on things you'll likely never use.
By the time anyone *needs* this capacity, the box will cost a whole lot less. Well, OK, there may be *some* people who want and can afford this right now, but probably not enough to spool up production for. They can always several four dual-tuner DirecTiVos ($49-149, depending on sales, rebates, etc) and pop bigger disks in them if they need that much recording power. Grow your farm as needed.:-)
Don't know about Mike's, but this one blocks lotsa spyware, dialers, etc.:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
The blocking of ccbill occasiaonally hampers my ability to get to TGP sites, but it's worth it. And I have a custom 404 on localhost that says "Another blocked ad!" that brings a smile to my face every time I see it in an inline frame.:-)
Safer method: start -> run -> 'command' or 'cmd', then 'regedit' at the prompt. that way, you don't leave 'regedit' in the 'run' box's command history--one less thing for curious users to run accidentally or say "hmm, what's this?"
and lest you think no one but geeks uses the run box, pick up any game--the installation instructions probably say "start -> run -> X:\setup.exe (where X is the letter of your CD drive)".
"Don't download anything, don't install anything. Ignore all those taskbars and toolbars and toys."
Not being a dick, but seriously: what do you tell her when a system error pops up? Click OK? Close? C-A-D, kill process? Can she tell a real popup from a legitimate error message? How 'bout the "Update to QuickTime Pro" nag? Looks like a popup, behaves like a popup, comes up on your first visit to apple.com/trailers.
That's my biggest problem--*I* know a real message from a fake, which warnings you click "OK" to and which really matter, which free software is good (google toolbar) and which isn't (most others) but sooooo many people don't, and you nearly need to spend all of your time to keep up on these things--fine if you're a geek, not fine if you aren't.
"The worm starts 128 threads that scan randomly-chosen IP addresses. This demands a lot of CPU time and as a result an infected computer may be so slow as to be barely useable."
Good, then at least it's noticeable by even the most brain-dead users. Nothing worse than a worm that quietly does its thing.
You're right, I missed that. However, I believe that really bad, fill-your-inbox spam won't ever become common with "real" companies--they will have (mostly) real, working opt-out options, because they are big, established companies, not little scurry-around-in-the-dark spammers. They won't be hiding behind forged addresses and changing mail servers and ISPs every 5 minutes. Same with "street spam" (http://www.causs.org/)--those shitty signs are all offering to buy my home for cash, or work from home, or lose weight, etc. I've never seen one saying "There's a McDonalds 2 blocks away!" Real businesses don't do that.
And as far as bandwidth goes, 10,000 zombie Windows boxes are comparable to any number of T3s coming out of WalMart. Yes, there will always be idiots who answer spam, and yes, companies will do a lot of sleazy things, but I think, and I think WalMart knows, that 50 messages per day will do more harm than good.
Here are 20 of the 194 spams I've gotten on ONE ACCOUNT since I last cleaned that mailbox 4 DAYS ago:
Ivan Carmichael; Visit our Internet pharmacy, b... Tammi Vincent; ""get pro.tection incase of =?... Wyatt Staton; bellyfull contribution father... Wyatt Staton; bellyfull contribution father... Wyatt Staton; bellyfull contribution father... Wyatt Staton; bellyfull contribution father... Sharon Darnell; Check it out Sharon Darnell; Check it out Sharon Darnell; Check it out Sharon Darnell; Check it out Tropes H. Listed; Design, best meds Peggy Velazquez; albanian presumptuous dalhousi... Stefanie Bowden; alex curry mitt nullstellensat... Stefanie Bowden; alex curry mitt nullstellensat... Peggy Velazquez; albanian presumptuous dalhousi... Stefanie Bowden; alex curry mitt nullstellensat... Peggy Velazquez; albanian presumptuous dalhousi... Stefanie Bowden; alex curry mitt nullstellensat... Peggy Velazquez; albanian presumptuous dalhousi... Wilma Franks; Visit our Internet pharmacy, b...
See anything in there from Dell? GE? MS? No. I registered my Pavilion with HP when I bought it and I get, like, 1 message from them every 3 months. Myabe one message every 2 months from my ISP and my cell phone provider. Legitimate businesses are NOT the problem.
I have to disagree about it being the dumbest thing I can do. I've got a 4,000-line hosts file on all my OS X Macs and I never noticed the slightest blip in CPU usage or slowness in my browsing. And, my custom "Another blocked ad!" 404 page brings a smile to my face every time I see it in a page that uses inline frames to store ads.
You're half-right, half wrong, so I'm posting this to clear some things up. Compressing to something smaller *as you describe* (from ~720x480 DVD to 352x240 VCD) will result in a file that can probably be played with less CPU usage plus it'll only have to read 1 GB off the HD instead of 4 to 8 GB of a ripped DVD.
*However*, ripping to a smaller filesize with the same dimensions (720x480) with a codec like DivX will *greatly* increase CPU usage--the CPU has to decompress ~5x as much to play back. The CPU meter in my iBook is *pegged* playing back DivX'd DVDs with MPlayer and eats batteries at 3x--that is, 10 minutes of video playing results in the battery indicator dropping 30 minutes from its estimate. OTOH, I can easily play a whole DVD (5" plastic disc) on a battery charge.
You did specify VCD, so you are mostly correct, but when you said "smaller" I could see someone else thinking "ooh! great idea! but, for better quality than VCD, I'll use DivX or Xvid!" and winding up with the exact opposite of what they wanted--a movie on the HD that can be played back with minimal CPU (and thus battery) usage.
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"In a few years, they might be owned by Bill Gates, The Home Shopping Network, or the Direct Marketing Association."
At which point, I will quit using their FREE SERVICE and use one of a THOUSAND other companies to handle my email. In the meantime, can I please take advantage of the excellent service this company with a FABULOUS track record is offering me? Thank you.
Anyone or anything CAN be bad. But if you're gonna worry about it, you might as well never leave the house. Hey--you better not have any kids, they MIGHT grow up to be axe murderers. Or worse, telemarketers.
>The first rule is...
:-)
>The second rule is...
>
>Anything else is secondary.
*ahem* Wouldn't that be tertiary?
Just teasing. Excellent point. I think most people here think there's only the buck-at-a-time arcade version, unaware that there are home versions and step-on controllers available. Cost = what you would spend on a game and controller (flight stick, etc) anyway--hell, probably costs a lot less than most exercise equipment! *Especially* if this gets used and the others don't.
Why even bother with a database or a web frontend?
for ($i=1111111111;$i<=9999999999;$i++)
{
spam($i@most.cell.providers.(com|net));
}
"I don't know why the porn industry is complaining about this, it seems like now everyone who really wants porn spam (not I!) can finally create a filter that delivers it to their inbox, highlighted, and bolded!"
Because spammers do not give a fuck if you want to hear their message or not. They want *everyone* to hear it, period. I imagine their thinking is like your mom's when she wanted you to try a new food--how do you know you don't like it if you don't try it? How do you *know* you don't want to see h0t l3sbi4n 5lut5 until you've read the message and seen the pic?
Until there is a government (or mafia; I really don't care which) agency that you can forward a SPAM to and they will track the spammer down and kill them, the only way to keep spam out of your inbox is through technilogical means.
But if Windows *did* recognize foreign filesystems (like ext2) then we wouldn't get to play endless rounds of that cool "you cannot delete a partition which contains logical drives"/"there are no logical drives in this partition" game in FDISK! :-)
"We already have blogs, flogs, photologs, moblogs and now these plogs? Someone needs to stop making new terms up and just call them all logs."
There are too many words in English, period. From now on, let's just call all things "things."
Oh, wait, what's the point of language again?
Want the best possible mirror of slashdot in the late 90s? Look no further--you're soaking in it. Just change the date in the URL. That particular one is from five years ago today. Works as far back as 19980101. (Actually, there are 3 stories at 19971231, which I guess is just due to time zones.)
23 whole replies and no "bsd is dying" jokes modded up to "+5, funny" yet?
Guess Sony has been woken up by Apple's success with iPods and Powerbooks.
Considering that the first thin, square PBG4 (2001) was very similar to the thin, square VAIO notebooks that Sony had, at the time, been making for a couple years (1998) (scroll down), I would have phrased that a bit differently. Hit or miss, Sony's been making cool, small, sexy gadgets for years.
1 TB ain't *that* cheap yet--don't need to spend that much this week
:-)
7 shows at once? A bit much. Again, tuners, while cheap, aren't free. No reason to spend that much on things you'll likely never use.
By the time anyone *needs* this capacity, the box will cost a whole lot less. Well, OK, there may be *some* people who want and can afford this right now, but probably not enough to spool up production for. They can always several four dual-tuner DirecTiVos ($49-149, depending on sales, rebates, etc) and pop bigger disks in them if they need that much recording power. Grow your farm as needed.
Don't know about Mike's, but this one blocks lotsa spyware, dialers, etc.:
:-)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
The blocking of ccbill occasiaonally hampers my ability to get to TGP sites, but it's worth it. And I have a custom 404 on localhost that says "Another blocked ad!" that brings a smile to my face every time I see it in an inline frame.
Safer method: start -> run -> 'command' or 'cmd', then 'regedit' at the prompt. that way, you don't leave 'regedit' in the 'run' box's command history--one less thing for curious users to run accidentally or say "hmm, what's this?"
and lest you think no one but geeks uses the run box, pick up any game--the installation instructions probably say "start -> run -> X:\setup.exe (where X is the letter of your CD drive)".
"Don't download anything, don't install anything. Ignore all those taskbars and toolbars and toys."
Not being a dick, but seriously: what do you tell her when a system error pops up? Click OK? Close? C-A-D, kill process? Can she tell a real popup from a legitimate error message? How 'bout the "Update to QuickTime Pro" nag? Looks like a popup, behaves like a popup, comes up on your first visit to apple.com/trailers.
That's my biggest problem--*I* know a real message from a fake, which warnings you click "OK" to and which really matter, which free software is good (google toolbar) and which isn't (most others) but sooooo many people don't, and you nearly need to spend all of your time to keep up on these things--fine if you're a geek, not fine if you aren't.
"even simpler solution: buy one of the many many many available router/wifi AP combos out there..."
:-)
I think that's what the grandparent meant when he said "or another router"...
Yeah, this is the one he should've linked to. :-)
I could answer you, but I forget how many floppy disks = 1 VW Beetle.
"The worm starts 128 threads that scan randomly-chosen IP addresses. This demands a lot of CPU time and as a result an infected computer may be so slow as to be barely useable."
Good, then at least it's noticeable by even the most brain-dead users. Nothing worse than a worm that quietly does its thing.
Easy: zero wasn't enough and pi was too much. Therefore, e it is.
You're right, I missed that. However, I believe that really bad, fill-your-inbox spam won't ever become common with "real" companies--they will have (mostly) real, working opt-out options, because they are big, established companies, not little scurry-around-in-the-dark spammers. They won't be hiding behind forged addresses and changing mail servers and ISPs every 5 minutes. Same with "street spam" (http://www.causs.org/)--those shitty signs are all offering to buy my home for cash, or work from home, or lose weight, etc. I've never seen one saying "There's a McDonalds 2 blocks away!" Real businesses don't do that.
And as far as bandwidth goes, 10,000 zombie Windows boxes are comparable to any number of T3s coming out of WalMart. Yes, there will always be idiots who answer spam, and yes, companies will do a lot of sleazy things, but I think, and I think WalMart knows, that 50 messages per day will do more harm than good.
Here are 20 of the 194 spams I've gotten on ONE ACCOUNT since I last cleaned that mailbox 4 DAYS ago:
... ... ... ...
Ivan Carmichael; Visit our Internet pharmacy, b...
Tammi Vincent; ""get pro.tection incase of =?...
Wyatt Staton; bellyfull contribution father
Wyatt Staton; bellyfull contribution father
Wyatt Staton; bellyfull contribution father
Wyatt Staton; bellyfull contribution father
Sharon Darnell; Check it out
Sharon Darnell; Check it out
Sharon Darnell; Check it out
Sharon Darnell; Check it out
Tropes H. Listed; Design, best meds
Peggy Velazquez; albanian presumptuous dalhousi...
Stefanie Bowden; alex curry mitt nullstellensat...
Stefanie Bowden; alex curry mitt nullstellensat...
Peggy Velazquez; albanian presumptuous dalhousi...
Stefanie Bowden; alex curry mitt nullstellensat...
Peggy Velazquez; albanian presumptuous dalhousi...
Stefanie Bowden; alex curry mitt nullstellensat...
Peggy Velazquez; albanian presumptuous dalhousi...
Wilma Franks; Visit our Internet pharmacy, b...
See anything in there from Dell? GE? MS? No. I registered my Pavilion with HP when I bought it and I get, like, 1 message from them every 3 months. Myabe one message every 2 months from my ISP and my cell phone provider. Legitimate businesses are NOT the problem.
I have to disagree about it being the dumbest thing I can do. I've got a 4,000-line hosts file on all my OS X Macs and I never noticed the slightest blip in CPU usage or slowness in my browsing. And, my custom "Another blocked ad!" 404 page brings a smile to my face every time I see it in a page that uses inline frames to store ads.
No, the mistake was saying "screenshot" in the submission. No one on /. can resist screenies. :-)
You're half-right, half wrong, so I'm posting this to clear some things up. Compressing to something smaller *as you describe* (from ~720x480 DVD to 352x240 VCD) will result in a file that can probably be played with less CPU usage plus it'll only have to read 1 GB off the HD instead of 4 to 8 GB of a ripped DVD.
*However*, ripping to a smaller filesize with the same dimensions (720x480) with a codec like DivX will *greatly* increase CPU usage--the CPU has to decompress ~5x as much to play back. The CPU meter in my iBook is *pegged* playing back DivX'd DVDs with MPlayer and eats batteries at 3x--that is, 10 minutes of video playing results in the battery indicator dropping 30 minutes from its estimate. OTOH, I can easily play a whole DVD (5" plastic disc) on a battery charge.
You did specify VCD, so you are mostly correct, but when you said "smaller" I could see someone else thinking "ooh! great idea! but, for better quality than VCD, I'll use DivX or Xvid!" and winding up with the exact opposite of what they wanted--a movie on the HD that can be played back with minimal CPU (and thus battery) usage.
OK, am I the only one who clicked that link expecting to be taken to the illegal mp3 server?
I just wanted to, um, you know, look at what they had.