For everyday use, I have a "spamtrap" address. I have Pine configured to look for mail addressed to spamtrap@chaobell.com, and poopcan it. But when I am feeling evil...
root@company.com, where "company" is either the vendor of whatever I'm downloading, or whatever domain I'm peeved at that day
somthing utterly random, like adjuhau@abwwuigc.com
sonof@god.com, usually coupled with an entry of "Jesus H. Christ" if a name is requested; variants usually include anime and video game characters...almasy@balamb.garden.edu, reeve@shinra.gov (someone actually has shinra.com), vanhouten@gebler.mil, ad nauseam.
Or if I am feeling particularly bitchy...blowthe@outyourass.com.
Oh dear. Now see what you've done, you've gone and kicked my Evil Connective Thought Processes(tm) into gear...
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Not quite. When the domain name expires, it ceases to function (as we found out during that nice little incident with the nameless hosting company). But it doesn't go back up for grabs right then (if ever). They still technically own it; they just can't use it.
Well, the chances of BigAssSite.com (and I just had to see if it really existed...hey, there used to be an asswipe.net, it could happen) letting their primary domain slip are slim to none. However, take one of our favorite litigation-happy companies for example. They have mattell.com, matell.com, and barbi.com, plus an assload of others I'm too lazy to look up right now. It's very possible that their Chief Gobbling-Up-Domain-Names-With-Potential-Typos Officer might overlook one or two when those kick the bucket, and have them snapped up by someone else with a legit claim to the misspelled trademark. IANAL (god, I've always wanted to say that), but while our litigation-happy friends might technically not have a leg to stand on, they would sure raise holy hell about it--not just with the new owner of the name, but with NetSol as well for letting it go.
If I wrote the rules, I would give the original owner of the domain name a reasonable fixed period of time, say, 90 days, to renew. After that, the name would go back up for grabs. Actually, that's probably more than enough time for the owner to cough up more dough.
Why not release them immediately? It's one thing for someone other than Joe Domain to snap up www.joedomainname.com immediately after Joe Domain lets his renewal slip. But a couple of months ago we had an incident...we host most of our sites with a certain hosting company who shall remain nameless. One client's domain name up and ceased to work one day. The client had paid us, we had paid the nameless hosting company...but the nameless hosting company had forgotten to pay NetSol, and this client had competitors who were dying to get their grubby little paws on his domain name. If that name had been released into the wild again right after it expired, there could have been a hell of a mess for us to clean up. So a reasonable delay, then, is good. Holding a domain name for a year or more is ridiculous. If Joe Domain hasn't renewed his name by then, NetSol oughta realize that he probably never will.
First, there's a "vibrate" function on most recent cell phones and damn near all pagers. What this means is that you can receive incoming calls without annoying those around you with the ubiquitous "beebeebeebeebeep" (or worse, the cutesy little songs some phones sing nowadays). Just set the damn phone/pager to "vibrate" if it bugs you that much.
And second, no, nobody is able to watch their kids 24/7. And this may be a shock to you, but there are bazillions of parents with no cell phones and no pagers that manage to keep on top of what's up with their kids. How do you think your parents did it? How do you think your grandparents kept tabs on your parents? Think about that.
Here sir we come to reason #19382 why I usually keep Javascript turned off, period. Javascript in and of itself isn't a Bad Thing, it's just that a) few people know how to use it in a non-annoying/non-browser-choking manner, and b)of the ones that DO know how to use it right, very few choose to do so and when you get right down to it, just what do all those flashing lights and mouseover geegaws and scrolling status bars add to a site, anyway? Let alone fifteen new popup windows touting other pr0n si^H^H^H^H^H^Hassociated products?
It's all well and good that the author of this bit wants to see this whole "lifestream" thing going. Sounds like a really nifty way to run, but I have to wonder how he thinks it's going to be implemented. Is he a programmer himself? Does he play one on TV? I am not a programmer, nor do I play one on TV, but I imagine a solution like this would be really, really hairy to put together.
And the 3D scanners of which he speaks already exist. Minolta makes them, as do a few other folks.
--Lain, which has already been mentioned --Magic Knights Rayearth, subtitled --Evangelion; there's also an EVA-02 action figure on my desk at work ^_^ --Sailor Moon, subtitled, not the ghodawful DiC dub --Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals --Golgo 13: The Professional --some Ranma 1/2 or another I bought off a video store for $5 --Some old old old Voltron that probably doesn't really count --a tape given to Mate, containing Fist of the North Star, Nightmare Campus, and something else with tentacles (title eludes me)
There is very little anime I will come right out and say I can't stand. Pokemon is one title that comes to mind. Dragonball Z is another. Pokemon, for what should be obvious reasons, and Dragonball because I just don't like the way it's drawn.
This one looks pretty neat, and it's fairly cheap to boot. That looks like a 17" monitor he's got in it for show, and there's plenty of room left over.
On the lighter side, I just found the aforementioned Wired article...and the one on ZDNe t...and the one on c|net...hoo hoo hoo ha ha ha hee hee ha ha hee hee...there is a M$ PR person somewhere that just wants to curl up and die.
Hang in there, Rob!
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Puhleeze...the guy's talking about making an ARM, for crying out loud. The only "consequences" he really needs to worry about are those that go along with miscalculating angles while attempting to make the arm pour liquids next to sensitive electronic equipment.
Like I said, that was just the first page of search results.:)
And yes, you're right; it appeared to me that Mattel was for the most part going after little guys. There were exceptions, but for the most part they mostly appear to be harassing people who they know damn well aren't going to be able to stand up to them. I wouldn't be surprised if I got served over this.:)
I just ran a Google search on "Mattel lawsuit." Jeezis Moe! They sued the sorehands.com guy. They sent a nastygram to a guy with a Barbie joke on his site (which he didn't even write). They sued over cphack. They sued Seal Press over the Adios, Barbie book. And this is just on the first page of search results! Didn't they also go after Aqua over the Barbie Girl song (yes, the song sucks, but that's neither here nor there)?
Methinks Mattel's legal staff has way too much free time.
Something I haven't seen brought up yet...what about the folks that are going to get booted just because they choose not to sell their souls to some financial institution or another?
Let's take me, for example. I'm 25 years old, and I neither have nor want a single credit card. If I want something, I pay cash for it in person, or pop a money order in the mail. And apparently, this makes me a second-class citizen in the online world. It's very rare that you'll find any such place that needs proof you're over 18 willing to accept a truly valid form of ID (i.e. a driver's license). Try flopping a credit card down on the counter next time you get carded for a pack of cigarettes, and watch the clerk laugh in your face. Why should the Internet be any different?
At work, we have an entire wall of the main office that's covered with dead motherboards, dead modems, dissected hard drives, 5 1/4" floppies, ancient RAM, archaic mice, miscellaneous unidentifiable cables and the like. Every month some online service or another, usually AOL, sends us CD's, presumably to dole out to customers. The CD's go onto the wall. That's also where some of our coasters from burns gone bad go. There's also a fairly intricate mobile of AOL CD's hanging in the back office. It's kind of interesting. We've got a few leopard-spotted ones, a few "Titanium" ones, and some others I don't remember right off the top of my head (if I were posting from work, I'd be able to duck my head out my door to peek). The whole setup looks surprisingly festive.
One has to wonder, though, why it took so bloody long for a public source to acknowledge this. I have, sitting on the desk behind me, a recent issue of PC Magazine forced upon me by my boss. There's a censorware review in there, which gives nothing but glowing praise to CyberSitter; in fact , I had to hunt pretty hard for anything remotely resembling criticism in the whole spread. Have to wonder how much the censorware companies are paying the mainstream press to sing the praises of their wares to the proles...
I seem to remember a BBS door game I played in 1994 or so that dealt with this, actually two of them: Studs and Studette (I think, I've killed a lot of brain cells between then and now). Once you got into a room with the target, it was advisable to feel him/her up first to make sure he/she wasn't toting a badge. And I think, once you got into --ahem-- doing the deed, you had to hit "p" (for "pump") repeatedly, and if your stamina meter (heh) ran out before the john's did, you got paid less. This screen was complete with a bad ANSI drawing of two people screwing.
I also seem to remember a similar door game in which you were a pimp, but I may have hallucinated that one.
Well, swell! I was wondering when I'd be able to get a processor that didn't clash with my sofa or curtains. Can they custom-mix them for me, or are the colors in the cans all you get?
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Better spring for that asbestos case first, or else you'll be blotting up what's left of your system with a Handi-Wipe. :)
Three guesses who owns nsisucks.com and the first two don't count. ^_^
Not quite. When the domain name expires, it ceases to function (as we found out during that nice little incident with the nameless hosting company). But it doesn't go back up for grabs right then (if ever). They still technically own it; they just can't use it.
Well, the chances of BigAssSite.com (and I just had to see if it really existed...hey, there used to be an asswipe.net, it could happen) letting their primary domain slip are slim to none. However, take one of our favorite litigation-happy companies for example. They have mattell.com, matell.com, and barbi.com, plus an assload of others I'm too lazy to look up right now. It's very possible that their Chief Gobbling-Up-Domain-Names-With-Potential-Typos Officer might overlook one or two when those kick the bucket, and have them snapped up by someone else with a legit claim to the misspelled trademark. IANAL (god, I've always wanted to say that), but while our litigation-happy friends might technically not have a leg to stand on, they would sure raise holy hell about it--not just with the new owner of the name, but with NetSol as well for letting it go.
If I wrote the rules, I would give the original owner of the domain name a reasonable fixed period of time, say, 90 days, to renew. After that, the name would go back up for grabs. Actually, that's probably more than enough time for the owner to cough up more dough.
Why not release them immediately? It's one thing for someone other than Joe Domain to snap up www.joedomainname.com immediately after Joe Domain lets his renewal slip. But a couple of months ago we had an incident...we host most of our sites with a certain hosting company who shall remain nameless. One client's domain name up and ceased to work one day. The client had paid us, we had paid the nameless hosting company...but the nameless hosting company had forgotten to pay NetSol, and this client had competitors who were dying to get their grubby little paws on his domain name. If that name had been released into the wild again right after it expired, there could have been a hell of a mess for us to clean up. So a reasonable delay, then, is good. Holding a domain name for a year or more is ridiculous. If Joe Domain hasn't renewed his name by then, NetSol oughta realize that he probably never will.
My troll-sense is tingling, but what the hell.
First, there's a "vibrate" function on most recent cell phones and damn near all pagers. What this means is that you can receive incoming calls without annoying those around you with the ubiquitous "beebeebeebeebeep" (or worse, the cutesy little songs some phones sing nowadays). Just set the damn phone/pager to "vibrate" if it bugs you that much.
And second, no, nobody is able to watch their kids 24/7. And this may be a shock to you, but there are bazillions of parents with no cell phones and no pagers that manage to keep on top of what's up with their kids. How do you think your parents did it? How do you think your grandparents kept tabs on your parents? Think about that.
P.S. "Absurd."
Here sir we come to reason #19382 why I usually keep Javascript turned off, period. Javascript in and of itself isn't a Bad Thing, it's just that a) few people know how to use it in a non-annoying/non-browser-choking manner, and b)of the ones that DO know how to use it right, very few choose to do so and when you get right down to it, just what do all those flashing lights and mouseover geegaws and scrolling status bars add to a site, anyway? Let alone fifteen new popup windows touting other pr0n si^H^H^H^H^H^Hassociated products?
It's all well and good that the author of this bit wants to see this whole "lifestream" thing going. Sounds like a really nifty way to run, but I have to wonder how he thinks it's going to be implemented. Is he a programmer himself? Does he play one on TV? I am not a programmer, nor do I play one on TV, but I imagine a solution like this would be really, really hairy to put together.
And the 3D scanners of which he speaks already exist. Minolta makes them, as do a few other folks.
--Lain, which has already been mentioned
--Magic Knights Rayearth, subtitled
--Evangelion; there's also an EVA-02 action figure on my desk at work ^_^
--Sailor Moon, subtitled, not the ghodawful DiC dub
--Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals
--Golgo 13: The Professional
--some Ranma 1/2 or another I bought off a video store for $5
--Some old old old Voltron that probably doesn't really count
--a tape given to Mate, containing Fist of the North Star, Nightmare Campus, and something else with tentacles (title eludes me)
There is very little anime I will come right out and say I can't stand. Pokemon is one title that comes to mind. Dragonball Z is another. Pokemon, for what should be obvious reasons, and Dragonball because I just don't like the way it's drawn.
I am a short woman.
:)
Your mileage may vary.
This one looks pretty neat, and it's fairly cheap to boot. That looks like a 17" monitor he's got in it for show, and there's plenty of room left over.
"Make money fast! This is NOT a pyramid scheme!" (That's the best tipoff that it is.)
Kind of like the ones with "fwd: Fwd: [fwd] FWD: fwd: FWD: FWD: [fwd] Fwd: THIS IS NOT A CHAIN LETTER!" in the "subject" line...
Coincidence? Hrmph.
...and the one on c|net...hoo hoo hoo ha ha ha hee hee ha ha hee hee...there is a M$ PR person somewhere that just wants to curl up and die.
On the lighter side, I just found the aforementioned Wired article...and the one on ZDNe t
Hang in there, Rob!
Puhleeze...the guy's talking about making an ARM, for crying out loud. The only "consequences" he really needs to worry about are those that go along with miscalculating angles while attempting to make the arm pour liquids next to sensitive electronic equipment.
*sploosh* *bzzt*
Like I said, that was just the first page of search results. :)
:)
And yes, you're right; it appeared to me that Mattel was for the most part going after little guys. There were exceptions, but for the most part they mostly appear to be harassing people who they know damn well aren't going to be able to stand up to them. I wouldn't be surprised if I got served over this.
I just ran a Google search on "Mattel lawsuit." Jeezis Moe! They sued the sorehands.com guy. They sent a nastygram to a guy with a Barbie joke on his site (which he didn't even write). They sued over cphack. They sued Seal Press over the Adios, Barbie book. And this is just on the first page of search results! Didn't they also go after Aqua over the Barbie Girl song (yes, the song sucks, but that's neither here nor there)?
Methinks Mattel's legal staff has way too much free time.
Odd. Most of these appear to be owned by the same person. Have to wonder if it's someone from Verizon, or someone who really really hates them. :)
Something I haven't seen brought up yet...what about the folks that are going to get booted just because they choose not to sell their souls to some financial institution or another?
Let's take me, for example. I'm 25 years old, and I neither have nor want a single credit card. If I want something, I pay cash for it in person, or pop a money order in the mail. And apparently, this makes me a second-class citizen in the online world. It's very rare that you'll find any such place that needs proof you're over 18 willing to accept a truly valid form of ID (i.e. a driver's license). Try flopping a credit card down on the counter next time you get carded for a pack of cigarettes, and watch the clerk laugh in your face. Why should the Internet be any different?
At work, we have an entire wall of the main office that's covered with dead motherboards, dead modems, dissected hard drives, 5 1/4" floppies, ancient RAM, archaic mice, miscellaneous unidentifiable cables and the like. Every month some online service or another, usually AOL, sends us CD's, presumably to dole out to customers. The CD's go onto the wall. That's also where some of our coasters from burns gone bad go. There's also a fairly intricate mobile of AOL CD's hanging in the back office. It's kind of interesting. We've got a few leopard-spotted ones, a few "Titanium" ones, and some others I don't remember right off the top of my head (if I were posting from work, I'd be able to duck my head out my door to peek). The whole setup looks surprisingly festive.
Sued, or worse.
Anyone remember the Solid Oak mailbomb flap?
One has to wonder, though, why it took so bloody long for a public source to acknowledge this. I have, sitting on the desk behind me, a recent issue of PC Magazine forced upon me by my boss. There's a censorware review in there, which gives nothing but glowing praise to CyberSitter; in fact , I had to hunt pretty hard for anything remotely resembling criticism in the whole spread. Have to wonder how much the censorware companies are paying the mainstream press to sing the praises of their wares to the proles...
I seem to remember a BBS door game I played in 1994 or so that dealt with this, actually two of them: Studs and Studette (I think, I've killed a lot of brain cells between then and now). Once you got into a room with the target, it was advisable to feel him/her up first to make sure he/she wasn't toting a badge. And I think, once you got into --ahem-- doing the deed, you had to hit "p" (for "pump") repeatedly, and if your stamina meter (heh) ran out before the john's did, you got paid less. This screen was complete with a bad ANSI drawing of two people screwing.
I also seem to remember a similar door game in which you were a pimp, but I may have hallucinated that one.
Well, swell! I was wondering when I'd be able to get a processor that didn't clash with my sofa or curtains. Can they custom-mix them for me, or are the colors in the cans all you get?