I recall as a kid back in the 70's in Zanesville, Ohio hearing that divers went looking for something just under the dam (by the 'world' famous Y-Bridge) and came up so scared that they vowed they'd never go back down, saying they saw catfish as big as a volkswagon beetle down there. Always thought if it as a myth, but hey, who knows?
I thikn you are only noticing the hits, and ignoring the misses. Out of 100,000 programing course code examples, you might not notice how many are written well. But a few of them with mispelling and grammer erros will jump out at you. As a programmer, i resent your generalization.
Well, I registered "GoogleJoe" not in hopes to resell it, but to use it for my own purposes later.
However, I agree somewhat about squatters. Some guy registered my last name years ago SOLEY because it was a last name (it has no other meaning) and he bought all kinds of other last names. His name was Jerry Sumptin. The good part was that he only charged $5/year to get my first name at my last name dot com (and an aditional $10 for a website to match). But.. when he finally sold his company to NetIdentity, I had to pay them 5 times as much to keep my address, and another $25 for a matching website.
maps.Google looks a million times better than maps.yahoo or mapquest (an aside: Ever notice that Mapquest USED to allow an "enlarge map" feature, but discontinued that feature a year or more ago?... that's when I switched to maps.yahoo)... maps.Google also has a wonderful data entry process, where you simply type one of various ways to write an address, and it figures it out. BUT... on three different computers running WinXP, maps.Google has hung up, causing a browser crash in all three. I never had those problems with maps.yahoo or mapquest. I can't find an "enlarge map" with Google maps either.
- You want to have a good time... Hell you can do that a lot better NOT going to university, but just hanging out on the university complex... that way you have more money to spend (from doing a job in the daytime) and will always be available to party, because you don't have assignments that you hate anyway
LOL. That exactly what I did and had a blast. But... it had the opposite effect on me. I noticed that when I was at parties, when girls would find out I wasn't a student, most would lose interest. So I started taking classes just to fit in, and wa-lah, I was getting laid left and right. They like you when you are a 'fellow student', and when they find out you're not one, they see you as that boy they dated in high school who stayed behind to work as an assistant manager at Hush Puppies, OR you look like someone trying to fit in with the kids who actually HAVE a future, then you look like a real loser. You could lie, but that REALLY makes you a loser, unless it's to simply get laid one night.
True. My European friends say, while sipping tea, "I went to University", whereas I say, while quaffing a beer, "I went to a University". I believe they also say, while enjoying a game of croquet, "I went to hospital", whereas I say, while fading back for a pass into the end zone, "I went to a hospital". But look at it this way... they are being consistent. We in the U.S. even say "I went to school today", and not "went to A school today". They use the word to mean, while sitting cross legged, the same that we mean when we say "I went to school" or "I went to jail" or "I'll be in Purgatory" or "I went to work" or "I went to training". And while we say it that way in those instances, it seems odd to us to say "I went to airport" or "I went to clinic", we are not consistent while we look up from our latest issue of "Field and Stream", whereas they are consistent, while peering over their round rim glasses.
You want to have a good time... Hell you can do that a lot better NOT going to university, but just hanging out on the university complex... that way you have more money to spend (from doing a job in the daytime) and will always be available to party, because you don't have assignments that you hate anyway
LOL! This is EXACTLY what I did, and had a blast. BUT.. it had the opposite effect. Whenever I was at parties and girls would ask what I am studying, I found if I told them I wasn't in school, most lost interest. So I started taking classes *just* to fit in, and wa-lah, was getting laid left and right. They like you more when they see you as a 'fellow' student. If you aren't going to school, they see you as that boy they dated in high school who never went to college and intead stayed behind to work in the factory. Or some wierdo who hangs out on campus to try and mix in with the kids who actually HAVE a future. You could lie, I guess, but then you have to worry about that being found out later, then you REALLY look like a loser.
Sprint offers a PCMCIA card ($170 in retails stores, got mine for $18 on ebay) that needs a singal from one of their towers, but is 'like' broadband in performance for $80 for unlimited, $40 for limited. But... using a third party "data link' cable from your specific model Sprint phone (in my case, the Samsung A500) to your laptop, and creating a dial up connection to #777 will get you on their high speed wireless network as well for the price of Vision ($10/month) and I get an average of 25KB (that's KBYTES, not Kbits) in my town. My brother who lives in the boonies uses the exact same set up (Samsung A500 with SnapDail data cable) and also gets 25KB. It will all depend on if you are near enough to a tower, but it works.
PS: Sprint knows about this process, and one rep I saw quoted in Pop. Mech (or Pop Sci, I forget) in the April or May issue said that it does not violate the terms of your aggreement.
"And if it was as simple as the set up shown you could substitute the sun for the projector and photograph the morning rush hour in Beijing from your balcony in Boston."
Not exactly. You'd still have to see the traffic in Beijing from at least one perspective. Then, yes, you COULD see the traffic from the "perspective' of the sun with this technique. However, the dual photograph is not providing any new information that the camera couldn't already see, in that areas that are not visible by the camera in the standard shot, are 'blacked out' (shadoaed) in the dual photograph. For an example, imagine the bears nose was 4 inches long and there was a small butterfly sticker on the far side of the nose from the camera, not visible to the camera, but visible to the projector. The reversing technique would not reveal the butterfly sticker. Instead, while the 'perspective' would look as though you should see that sticker, that area would just be heavily shadowed (unlit).
Joe
GW Bush: "This allows us to explore the promise and potential of stem cell research" without crossing a fundamental moral line by providing taxpayer funding that would sanction or encourage further destruction of human embryos that have at least the potential for life."
GW shows his ignorance about stem cell research when he makes it seem as though embryos with fingers and toes are being harvested for stem cell research. They aren't. Blastocysts are. Blastocysts, an extremely early stage of 'embryo', are thrown out by the plateful every week by fertility clinics.... these are blastocysts that are used when needed for stem cell harvesting. In other words, no 'thumb sucking' embryos are used for stem cell harvesting, and only 150 cell blastocysts which look like a small transparent globules, which are going to waste anyhow since there is no money to do the work on them, are being used. So cutting funding is doing nothing to 'cut back' on 'embryos' from being created specifically for harvesting. There are enough blastocysts for a million scientists to do research already being produced by fertility clinics.
>I understand your concern, and I commend you on it. >But would you be who you are today if >you/hadn't/ gone and done what you did? >Do you really have the right to prevent your >children from learning from mistakes they want to make? .
I agree with everything you said. I suppose I am just concerned with the extreme (things I didn't see/do because it wasn't available to me) and want to prevent only those things. I already assume t8he space above my garage will be where my son (who's 4 now) will hide to smoke pot when he is older. Even though I never have smoked pot, I know it's something he might get exposed to and do. I want to prevent this, but not going to go ape shit if he does. I'll simply counsel him about it. Other things like ogrish.com I'd rather him not see until he has developed a realistic view on life, or he turns 18, whichever comes first. Scat porn, I don't ever want him to see until he is 18, if he chooses. Again, though, this stuff won't be drama-inducing family episodes if he finds them, just something I want to prevent. Finally, on topic, I will know that he went to a remote field with his girlfriend, but won't even mention it to him. He'll know I know and that I encourage it in some way. But he will also know that I will know if he drives to Cincinnati the night he said he was staying with a friend. If he want sot go to Cincinnati, he can ask, and I'll likely let him. But if he is not allowed, the GPS will keep him honest. Like the old saying "a lock keeps an honest man honest" then "a GPS makes a good kid good." Draconian threats if he strays? Hell no, that's more destructive than no parenting at all. But a "hey, buddy, we gotta talk about that trip to Cinci" will be in order, exploring why he thought he couldn't' just ask me, why he thought if I said no that it wasn't for a good reason, which I will give him, etc...
So, I agree with everything you said, and just want to clarify that I think the GPS will allow me to 'parent' him more effectively. True, many will use it to spy on their kids, to control them, but again, that's destructive. He will learn that he can make unplanned diversions form the path he told me initially he would take. And I wont' ask about them unless he starts getting into trouble.
OJ
Re:But before that, they time warped to the future
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It's likely an urban legend. even if they were scared by the sirens in the game, they likely weren't convinced by "come out with your hands up". Did they interview the guys who told why they fled the house? There's many things that could (and does) scare burglars out. Heck, I was looking for a freshly stolen car the other night, then found it abandoned in an alley, doors open. They bailed because they were spooked. I then realized that an ambulance, sirens wailing, had just driven down and stopped on the road next to the alley for an unrelated run. That's likely why they bailed, they thought they were spotted and being chased. But how easily we could make an urban legend out of that, and say some kids were playing GT3 hooked up to their 1500 watt stereo system, and that spooked them.
Isn't it possible (even likely) that part of the Exchange Server maintenance was an anti-spam filter? Not only would that explain the drop in spam, but also makes more sense since it's not like you get the same spammers spamming you over and over again. Your email is passed around like a cheap prom date for as long as there are new spammers buying 'millions' CD's. So a 2 day shut-down won't likely thwart brand new spammers who get your email address after the two day turn around. Further, often spammers use programs to generate 'likely' email addresses at common domains. Again, a 2 day shut-down wouldn't thwart this. It just seems likely that an anti-spam filter was put in place during the 'upgrade'. Finally, it is proven that over 95% of spammers don't use valid return addresses, so the majority of spammers who sent you email before wouldn't get the 'bounce message' anyway.
As for other methods that work, I use a self-created method that heavily relies on rules/filters that requires a lot of set up, but no real maintenance afterwards. It basically involves writing a rule/filter that moves known friends and family, and safe domains, to a "good" folder (a whitelist). Then write a filter that moves (to a 'junk' folder) everything with an "@" character in the from address. Now, to prevent missing friends or families that email you with a new email address that isn't yet on your whitelist, you write a filter to 'reply' to all 'junk' mails with an email that states ["you've been rejected by my spam filter. Please put 'CodeRed' in the subject line and resend your message or write 'check your junk folder for this email address and the original message'"]. This can be annoying for some lazy friends, but they only need to do it once per new email address. Then, you write a rule/filter that will put all emails where the subject contains "CodeRed" into a 'Pending' folder. Here you can read emails that didn't make it to your whitelist, but also be alerted when someone had to use this method to reach you, and by result, put their new address on your whitelist. Finally, you make a rule that recognizes whenever the word or words "Returned mail" or "Bounce" or "Daemon", etc, is placed in another folder (called 'Bounced', perhaps). This prevents your auto-reply from continuously replying to the same bounce message over and over again. "out of office" replies can also sometimes cause this mail-war, but usually mail servers recognize this and don't send back an 'out of office' reply to the same address more than once (since two out of office' computers would war all weekend long otherwise).
Anyway, after all that set up, it's easy from there. 99% of spammers do not use valid return addresses (as my method has proven) so the myth that replying to spammers lets them know you have a valid email address is just that, a myth. I have used this system for over a year now, and have had nearly a 100% effectiveness with it. I have had less than 5 spammers actually take the time to read my response email, and put the 'CodeRed' in the subject line. From there, I can blacklist their email address. Finally, I can change the codeword as often as I want since it doesn't affect anyone on my whitelist.
The funny thing about this method is when I post it somewhere, a few people ignorantly tell me 'it wouldn't work' and give theories as to why it wouldn't, and don't realize it IS working, and has been for over a year.
I, for one, and happy with this kind of technology
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Having a 4 year old boy and 2 year old girl, I have been worried about what *I* did and could have done at young ages that my mother knew nothing about, and given that I am big on letting my children see the Internet in all it's glory, I do NOT want them seeing some things (like beheadings, scat porn, etc). I also, however, have been comforted by the belief that by the time they get old enough for all that, there will be all kinds of ways to preemptively prevent them from seeing certain things, as well as monitor what they have seen in perfect clarity. (I still am worried about what they will see at friends' houses). Anyway, one thing I thought about in regards to going out and about when they are 14 to 17 was indeed a cell phone that go unanswered or the GPS is disabled, after a review of the cause, then non-emotional restrictions will apply.
While I won't have a bumper sticker on their cars, I will welcome the GPS that not only tells me their speed, but as well where they are at any given moment, or where they were at any given time.
"learn a trade" was the harsh but true 'department' this headline came through. That's what I did at the dot com bust. I became a cop. I'd venture that most IT professionals alwasy wanted to be a cop, so there you go. Be a cop.
It'd *probably* hoped that most end users will almost always be near an electrical outlet, and thus never really be limited to the battery life, except on rare occasions. I don't even know what my laptop battery life is, because I am almost always near an outlet when I am using it.
Could be "pound for pound", but I'd need more data. One example is that I knew a girl in my military academy who was 140 pounds (cute as hell too, but that's another thing) and I also weighed 140. She could bench more than me, but we were matched up in a 6 minute ground scrappling, and while she was 'strong', not once did I feel she was stronger than me. I tied her up quite often, just pushing my strength against hers. Again, while at times, it took some effort, I still over powered her. Pound for pound, I was stronger than her, and other heavier-than-me females I kept getting matched up with (the curse of being a light weight is you get matched up with females a lot), and she was the best contender of them all against me, and I still took her to the mat every time. There was one time where she had some leverage on me and was about to flip me, but I used *just* my strength with minimal leverage (she had most of it), and reversed her. I know this is a small sample study, but there wasn't a girl my academy who weighed as much as or more than me that could over power me. Pound for pound, I was mightier than they each time. I can only imagine that my 'male' muscles were postioned for better leverage than a females. Not sure though. But really, I think the girl would have to be a weight lifter before she could prevent me dominating her.
They charge different amounts for different negotiations. Kinda like if car dealerships would 'post' how much they sold each car for. They make more money off the suckers, and less off of the savvy, but all would be savvy if they posted their sales with other people.
This doesn't mean Napster is being dishonest though. It could be that there are all kinds of little things here and there that make it cheaper to provide to one than another, but would be a PR nightmare trying to justify each factor for every plast client with every new client. Er go, they request (demand?) the terms to be hush hush.
His dripping disgust for Windows shows through in his 'Obituary Posters' for Mac and windows components. The caption text on the posters for his Mac obituaries speaks highly of the learning process Apple/Mac went through, but the Windows one's speak condescendingly and negatively.
Look, I like the nostalgia I get when I see an old MSDOS icon, and so when I saw his poster, I was all "Cool! I want one" but then read the text on it, I was like, "Blah.. not the feeling I want to get while looking at a poster on my wall, trying to stroll down memory lane." The guy obviously never went to any marketing schools, or if he did, didn't learn anything. I suppose he could just be marketing to the Mac crowd, but then again, he didn't learn anything in marketing school.:)
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I recall as a kid back in the 70's in Zanesville, Ohio hearing that divers went looking for something just under the dam (by the 'world' famous Y-Bridge) and came up so scared that they vowed they'd never go back down, saying they saw catfish as big as a volkswagon beetle down there. Always thought if it as a myth, but hey, who knows?
I thikn you are only noticing the hits, and ignoring the misses. Out of 100,000 programing course code examples, you might not notice how many are written well. But a few of them with mispelling and grammer erros will jump out at you. As a programmer, i resent your generalization.
Ohiojoe.
I mean, like "new" news? I recall reading about this "hidden DUN" hack on a site somewhere back when I bought my Treo several months ago.
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Well, I registered "GoogleJoe" not in hopes to resell it, but to use it for my own purposes later.
However, I agree somewhat about squatters. Some guy registered my last name years ago SOLEY because it was a last name (it has no other meaning) and he bought all kinds of other last names. His name was Jerry Sumptin. The good part was that he only charged $5/year to get my first name at my last name dot com (and an aditional $10 for a website to match). But.. when he finally sold his company to NetIdentity, I had to pay them 5 times as much to keep my address, and another $25 for a matching website.
maps.Google looks a million times better than maps.yahoo or mapquest (an aside: Ever notice that Mapquest USED to allow an "enlarge map" feature, but discontinued that feature a year or more ago?... that's when I switched to maps.yahoo) ... maps.Google also has a wonderful data entry process, where you simply type one of various ways to write an address, and it figures it out. BUT... on three different computers running WinXP, maps.Google has hung up, causing a browser crash in all three. I never had those problems with maps.yahoo or mapquest. I can't find an "enlarge map" with Google maps either.
LOL. That exactly what I did and had a blast. But... it had the opposite effect on me. I noticed that when I was at parties, when girls would find out I wasn't a student, most would lose interest. So I started taking classes just to fit in, and wa-lah, I was getting laid left and right. They like you when you are a 'fellow student', and when they find out you're not one, they see you as that boy they dated in high school who stayed behind to work as an assistant manager at Hush Puppies, OR you look like someone trying to fit in with the kids who actually HAVE a future, then you look like a real loser. You could lie, but that REALLY makes you a loser, unless it's to simply get laid one night.
True. My European friends say, while sipping tea, "I went to University", whereas I say, while quaffing a beer, "I went to a University". I believe they also say, while enjoying a game of croquet, "I went to hospital", whereas I say, while fading back for a pass into the end zone, "I went to a hospital". But look at it this way... they are being consistent. We in the U.S. even say "I went to school today", and not "went to A school today". They use the word to mean, while sitting cross legged, the same that we mean when we say "I went to school" or "I went to jail" or "I'll be in Purgatory" or "I went to work" or "I went to training". And while we say it that way in those instances, it seems odd to us to say "I went to airport" or "I went to clinic", we are not consistent while we look up from our latest issue of "Field and Stream", whereas they are consistent, while peering over their round rim glasses.
LOL! This is EXACTLY what I did, and had a blast. BUT.. it had the opposite effect. Whenever I was at parties and girls would ask what I am studying, I found if I told them I wasn't in school, most lost interest. So I started taking classes *just* to fit in, and wa-lah, was getting laid left and right. They like you more when they see you as a 'fellow' student. If you aren't going to school, they see you as that boy they dated in high school who never went to college and intead stayed behind to work in the factory. Or some wierdo who hangs out on campus to try and mix in with the kids who actually HAVE a future. You could lie, I guess, but then you have to worry about that being found out later, then you REALLY look like a loser.
Where to start....
Sprint offers a PCMCIA card ($170 in retails stores, got mine for $18 on ebay) that needs a singal from one of their towers, but is 'like' broadband in performance for $80 for unlimited, $40 for limited. But... using a third party "data link' cable from your specific model Sprint phone (in my case, the Samsung A500) to your laptop, and creating a dial up connection to #777 will get you on their high speed wireless network as well for the price of Vision ($10/month) and I get an average of 25KB (that's KBYTES, not Kbits) in my town. My brother who lives in the boonies uses the exact same set up (Samsung A500 with SnapDail data cable) and also gets 25KB. It will all depend on if you are near enough to a tower, but it works.
PS: Sprint knows about this process, and one rep I saw quoted in Pop. Mech (or Pop Sci, I forget) in the April or May issue said that it does not violate the terms of your aggreement.
"And if it was as simple as the set up shown you could substitute the sun for the projector and photograph the morning rush hour in Beijing from your balcony in Boston."
Not exactly. You'd still have to see the traffic in Beijing from at least one perspective. Then, yes, you COULD see the traffic from the "perspective' of the sun with this technique. However, the dual photograph is not providing any new information that the camera couldn't already see, in that areas that are not visible by the camera in the standard shot, are 'blacked out' (shadoaed) in the dual photograph. For an example, imagine the bears nose was 4 inches long and there was a small butterfly sticker on the far side of the nose from the camera, not visible to the camera, but visible to the projector. The reversing technique would not reveal the butterfly sticker. Instead, while the 'perspective' would look as though you should see that sticker, that area would just be heavily shadowed (unlit). JoeA gay Christian genius... Something doesn't add up.
Did you steal my sig? :)
And here I must type some other drivel since slashdot (wisely) requires 20 seconds before hitting 'submit'.
OJ
GW Bush: "This allows us to explore the promise and potential of stem cell research" without crossing a fundamental moral line by providing taxpayer funding that would sanction or encourage further destruction of human embryos that have at least the potential for life."
GW shows his ignorance about stem cell research when he makes it seem as though embryos with fingers and toes are being harvested for stem cell research. They aren't. Blastocysts are. Blastocysts, an extremely early stage of 'embryo', are thrown out by the plateful every week by fertility clinics.... these are blastocysts that are used when needed for stem cell harvesting. In other words, no 'thumb sucking' embryos are used for stem cell harvesting, and only 150 cell blastocysts which look like a small transparent globules, which are going to waste anyhow since there is no money to do the work on them, are being used. So cutting funding is doing nothing to 'cut back' on 'embryos' from being created specifically for harvesting. There are enough blastocysts for a million scientists to do research already being produced by fertility clinics.
>I understand your concern, and I commend you on it. /hadn't/ gone and done what you did?
>But would you be who you are today if >you
>Do you really have the right to prevent your >children from learning from mistakes they want to make?
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I agree with everything you said. I suppose I am just concerned with the extreme (things I didn't see/do because it wasn't available to me) and want to prevent only those things. I already assume t8he space above my garage will be where my son (who's 4 now) will hide to smoke pot when he is older. Even though I never have smoked pot, I know it's something he might get exposed to and do. I want to prevent this, but not going to go ape shit if he does. I'll simply counsel him about it. Other things like ogrish.com I'd rather him not see until he has developed a realistic view on life, or he turns 18, whichever comes first. Scat porn, I don't ever want him to see until he is 18, if he chooses. Again, though, this stuff won't be drama-inducing family episodes if he finds them, just something I want to prevent. Finally, on topic, I will know that he went to a remote field with his girlfriend, but won't even mention it to him. He'll know I know and that I encourage it in some way. But he will also know that I will know if he drives to Cincinnati the night he said he was staying with a friend. If he want sot go to Cincinnati, he can ask, and I'll likely let him. But if he is not allowed, the GPS will keep him honest. Like the old saying "a lock keeps an honest man honest" then "a GPS makes a good kid good." Draconian threats if he strays? Hell no, that's more destructive than no parenting at all. But a "hey, buddy, we gotta talk about that trip to Cinci" will be in order, exploring why he thought he couldn't' just ask me, why he thought if I said no that it wasn't for a good reason, which I will give him, etc...
So, I agree with everything you said, and just want to clarify that I think the GPS will allow me to 'parent' him more effectively. True, many will use it to spy on their kids, to control them, but again, that's destructive. He will learn that he can make unplanned diversions form the path he told me initially he would take. And I wont' ask about them unless he starts getting into trouble.
OJ
It's likely an urban legend. even if they were scared by the sirens in the game, they likely weren't convinced by "come out with your hands up". Did they interview the guys who told why they fled the house? There's many things that could (and does) scare burglars out. Heck, I was looking for a freshly stolen car the other night, then found it abandoned in an alley, doors open. They bailed because they were spooked. I then realized that an ambulance, sirens wailing, had just driven down and stopped on the road next to the alley for an unrelated run. That's likely why they bailed, they thought they were spotted and being chased. But how easily we could make an urban legend out of that, and say some kids were playing GT3 hooked up to their 1500 watt stereo system, and that spooked them.
And no joke, I read your post as "Orgey slaying knife". Something from the "Realm of Ashcroft"? :)
Isn't it possible (even likely) that part of the Exchange Server maintenance was an anti-spam filter? Not only would that explain the drop in spam, but also makes more sense since it's not like you get the same spammers spamming you over and over again. Your email is passed around like a cheap prom date for as long as there are new spammers buying 'millions' CD's. So a 2 day shut-down won't likely thwart brand new spammers who get your email address after the two day turn around. Further, often spammers use programs to generate 'likely' email addresses at common domains. Again, a 2 day shut-down wouldn't thwart this. It just seems likely that an anti-spam filter was put in place during the 'upgrade'. Finally, it is proven that over 95% of spammers don't use valid return addresses, so the majority of spammers who sent you email before wouldn't get the 'bounce message' anyway.
As for other methods that work, I use a self-created method that heavily relies on rules/filters that requires a lot of set up, but no real maintenance afterwards. It basically involves writing a rule/filter that moves known friends and family, and safe domains, to a "good" folder (a whitelist). Then write a filter that moves (to a 'junk' folder) everything with an "@" character in the from address. Now, to prevent missing friends or families that email you with a new email address that isn't yet on your whitelist, you write a filter to 'reply' to all 'junk' mails with an email that states ["you've been rejected by my spam filter. Please put 'CodeRed' in the subject line and resend your message or write 'check your junk folder for this email address and the original message'"]. This can be annoying for some lazy friends, but they only need to do it once per new email address. Then, you write a rule/filter that will put all emails where the subject contains "CodeRed" into a 'Pending' folder. Here you can read emails that didn't make it to your whitelist, but also be alerted when someone had to use this method to reach you, and by result, put their new address on your whitelist. Finally, you make a rule that recognizes whenever the word or words "Returned mail" or "Bounce" or "Daemon", etc, is placed in another folder (called 'Bounced', perhaps). This prevents your auto-reply from continuously replying to the same bounce message over and over again. "out of office" replies can also sometimes cause this mail-war, but usually mail servers recognize this and don't send back an 'out of office' reply to the same address more than once (since two out of office' computers would war all weekend long otherwise).
Anyway, after all that set up, it's easy from there. 99% of spammers do not use valid return addresses (as my method has proven) so the myth that replying to spammers lets them know you have a valid email address is just that, a myth. I have used this system for over a year now, and have had nearly a 100% effectiveness with it. I have had less than 5 spammers actually take the time to read my response email, and put the 'CodeRed' in the subject line. From there, I can blacklist their email address. Finally, I can change the codeword as often as I want since it doesn't affect anyone on my whitelist.
The funny thing about this method is when I post it somewhere, a few people ignorantly tell me 'it wouldn't work' and give theories as to why it wouldn't, and don't realize it IS working, and has been for over a year.
Having a 4 year old boy and 2 year old girl, I have been worried about what *I* did and could have done at young ages that my mother knew nothing about, and given that I am big on letting my children see the Internet in all it's glory, I do NOT want them seeing some things (like beheadings, scat porn, etc). I also, however, have been comforted by the belief that by the time they get old enough for all that, there will be all kinds of ways to preemptively prevent them from seeing certain things, as well as monitor what they have seen in perfect clarity. (I still am worried about what they will see at friends' houses). Anyway, one thing I thought about in regards to going out and about when they are 14 to 17 was indeed a cell phone that go unanswered or the GPS is disabled, after a review of the cause, then non-emotional restrictions will apply.
While I won't have a bumper sticker on their cars, I will welcome the GPS that not only tells me their speed, but as well where they are at any given moment, or where they were at any given time.
"learn a trade" was the harsh but true 'department' this headline came through. That's what I did at the dot com bust. I became a cop. I'd venture that most IT professionals alwasy wanted to be a cop, so there you go. Be a cop.
OJ
"finally-enough-room-for-all-our-pr0n dept." ???
Speak for yourself.
OJ
It'd *probably* hoped that most end users will almost always be near an electrical outlet, and thus never really be limited to the battery life, except on rare occasions. I don't even know what my laptop battery life is, because I am almost always near an outlet when I am using it.
Could be "pound for pound", but I'd need more data. One example is that I knew a girl in my military academy who was 140 pounds (cute as hell too, but that's another thing) and I also weighed 140. She could bench more than me, but we were matched up in a 6 minute ground scrappling, and while she was 'strong', not once did I feel she was stronger than me. I tied her up quite often, just pushing my strength against hers. Again, while at times, it took some effort, I still over powered her. Pound for pound, I was stronger than her, and other heavier-than-me females I kept getting matched up with (the curse of being a light weight is you get matched up with females a lot), and she was the best contender of them all against me, and I still took her to the mat every time. There was one time where she had some leverage on me and was about to flip me, but I used *just* my strength with minimal leverage (she had most of it), and reversed her. I know this is a small sample study, but there wasn't a girl my academy who weighed as much as or more than me that could over power me. Pound for pound, I was mightier than they each time. I can only imagine that my 'male' muscles were postioned for better leverage than a females. Not sure though. But really, I think the girl would have to be a weight lifter before she could prevent me dominating her.
They charge different amounts for different negotiations. Kinda like if car dealerships would 'post' how much they sold each car for. They make more money off the suckers, and less off of the savvy, but all would be savvy if they posted their sales with other people.
This doesn't mean Napster is being dishonest though. It could be that there are all kinds of little things here and there that make it cheaper to provide to one than another, but would be a PR nightmare trying to justify each factor for every plast client with every new client. Er go, they request (demand?) the terms to be hush hush.
Note to self: Learn how to give good backrubs.
His dripping disgust for Windows shows through in his 'Obituary Posters' for Mac and windows components. The caption text on the posters for his Mac obituaries speaks highly of the learning process Apple/Mac went through, but the Windows one's speak condescendingly and negatively.
:)
Look, I like the nostalgia I get when I see an old MSDOS icon, and so when I saw his poster, I was all "Cool! I want one" but then read the text on it, I was like, "Blah.. not the feeling I want to get while looking at a poster on my wall, trying to stroll down memory lane." The guy obviously never went to any marketing schools, or if he did, didn't learn anything. I suppose he could just be marketing to the Mac crowd, but then again, he didn't learn anything in marketing school.