It's a lot easier than boycotting 3rd world child labor or commercial software. To bad grandmothers and perverts are the true targets of spam; not us.
Except that in this case, perverts (as far as I can tell) were not the true targets of spam. We (parents) were.
This spam did not interest me, specifically (because my son isn't into toys like that), but my coworker (who also has a 7 year old), who actually ordered some these cars, went on to say "Yeah, for once, some spam was actually useful. Go figure." Go figure, indeed.
I have over 30 email aliases assigned to my company email address for various software-registration and mail-order companies, and what not. And I get scores of spam and hate it. But if I ever got a spam that read something like "Get memory from cruical.com for 70% off", I (and I suspect many/. readers as well) would probably read it. It all depends on the target and message. If I could change my spam from porn and HGH and penis enlargement to computer-related hardware and software discounts, I would mind it a whole lot less...
there seems to be something simply wrong with an alliance in the porn industry.....the Christian right is gonna have a fit. might make for some entertaining news...
Of course, the Christian right has some sites that also use streaming video (see the link titled "Watch the Program" from CBN).
Now, an alliance between the porn industry and CBN - that would be impressive...
Like any politician in the US would stand up and say "Hey, let's spend this exorbitant amount of money, and not worry about our current spending problems."
And even if a politician were to have the guts to do that, the person running against him would say "We still have time in the future for that. Let's worry about [insert current fiscal issues here] right now".
And for whom do you think the average American would vote?
The other reason to use your own money is DRIVE. If you NEED a sucessful business in order to put beans&rice on the table, you have a MUCH stronger motivation for success.
"When Cortez reached the new world, he burned his ships. As a result his men were well motivated."
Captain Marko Ramius
(Hunt for Red October, movie)
One of the ways to combat spam is to educate businesses who become interested in using spam. One of our clients came to us with a proposal to increase traffic to their website. They discovered that you could "send thousand's of emails for just pennies" (yes, that's a quote from a spammer's ad they read back to us).
We tried to explain how this doesn't really help generate traffic, and how it generates bad will, and how some states now have laws against unsolicited email.
The final kicker was to have the following conversation with the company founder.
seems like a better taste would be to dial out and use all 1000 free hours. A million people do *that* and I bet they'd stop filling our mailboxes with the landfill of tomorrow.
Are you kidding? A million people do that, and quarterly earning go through the roof. I can't count the number of family/friends who tried AOL for awhile but couldn't get the bastards to actually stop billing.
Can you really imagine going to the movies as a family without munchies?
Yes. I take my 7-year-old out to McDonald's before we see a movie. We maybe see one to two movies a month, and a Happy Meal is cheaper than a theatre soda.
The Guns of the South [barnesandnoble.com] by Harry Turtledove
Harry Turtledove is one of my favorite authors. In Guns of the South, the Confederacy wins by virtue of a science fiction device. If you're interested in Turtledove's vision of a Confederate victory potrayed more believably (no science fiction, simply "alternate history"), check out his series of novels.
The average user does not appreciate the difference between flat panel and CRT screens.
Sure I do. The cat won't be able to tear holes in the CRT, trying to kill the mouse pointer and succeeding in getting carcinogenic goo all over my desk.
If you post to Slashdot, you are most definitely not an average computer user.
Well, it's not really a fair test since the site is made up of fairly broken HTML (see validator.w3.org), and the designer obviously only tested it to make sure it "works" right under IE.
You know, with all of the news sites carrying bogus stories in the spirit of April Fool's Day, I was wondering what the ONION would do about this. Turns out that they didn't change a thing.
actual news stories up there. It would have been great to read real news about the latest bombings in the Middle East, or GW's plans to fight terrorism, right on the front page and see if anyone would believe (or not believe, as the case may be) those stories.
My company is using the Darwin Streaming Server for a client project to stream MP3's. You can create SMIL files that auto-detect the right bandwidth-specific version for your connection.
<smil>
<body>
<switch>
<ref title="Title of Song" src="rtsp://streaming.my.localhost/mp3/Title_ of_Song/128.mp3" system-bitrate="220000"/>
<ref title="Title of Song" src="rtsp://streaming.my.localhost/mp3/Title_ of_Song/40.mp3" system-bitrate="45000"/>
<ref title="Title of Song" src="rtsp://streaming.my.localhost/mp3/Title_ of_Song/20.mp3" system-bitrate="20000"/>
</switch>
</body>
</smil>
I don't know much about Linux/BSD software, but RealPlayer and QuickTime plugins can play these streams.
No one at our company had ever done any sort of music streaming before, but I was able to convince the client to go with our solution. It (Darwin Streaming Server - free) is running under Linux (free) as a Apache/Tomcat JSP application (free).
It was the right decision financially (as far as keeping development costs down). It's also nice to see that our decision, in this instance, was the right one performance-wise as well.
Given the relatively large number of registered users to this site, I'm sure that this story could conceivably affect the net number of comments. I wonder, however, if the effect will actually be in the intended direction of the story's submitter...
I use IE/5.0 on Macintosh (MacOS9.2, 450MHz G3) and there are significant slowdowns with heavily-nested comments. Rendering can take several seconds, sometimes longer.
This is a problem/limitation of IE 5 for Mac. Try it on Mozilla - you'll notice it's as fast as IE on Windows (that is, no huge delay in rendering deeply nested tables). I use IE on my Win98 laptop, but I use Mozilla on my G4 tower.
I downloaded the 2.15 mb patch. I try to run it, and I get a prompt that I need IE5 Service pack 2 installed. That's it, it doesn't supply a link, it doesn't try to download it, nothing. Microsoft rushed this one out.
The update only works with IE 5.5 or 6.0. You might be running 5.0.
Interesting note: If you read the bulletin and click on the Technical Details submenu, you'll find the worst part:
"Microsoft tested Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 to assess whether they are affected by these vulnerabilities. Previous versions are no longer eligible for
hotfix support."
As someone who does some sysadmin stuff at work, I didn't know this before. This means that a large majority of users (as far as my limited experience goes) that still use IE 5.0 will still have exploit available that won't be tested nor fixed. Wow...
Slashdot Mirror
It's a lot easier than boycotting 3rd world child labor or commercial software. To bad grandmothers and perverts are the true targets of spam; not us.
/. readers as well) would probably read it. It all depends on the target and message. If I could change my spam from porn and HGH and penis enlargement to computer-related hardware and software discounts, I would mind it a whole lot less...
Except that in this case, perverts (as far as I can tell) were not the true targets of spam. We (parents) were.
This spam did not interest me, specifically (because my son isn't into toys like that), but my coworker (who also has a 7 year old), who actually ordered some these cars, went on to say "Yeah, for once, some spam was actually useful. Go figure." Go figure, indeed.
I have over 30 email aliases assigned to my company email address for various software-registration and mail-order companies, and what not. And I get scores of spam and hate it. But if I ever got a spam that read something like "Get memory from cruical.com for 70% off", I (and I suspect many
there seems to be something simply wrong with an alliance in the porn industry.....the Christian right is gonna have a fit. might make for some entertaining news...
Of course, the Christian right has some sites that also use streaming video (see the link titled "Watch the Program" from CBN).
Now, an alliance between the porn industry and CBN - that would be impressive...
I, for one, am glad that the IAB publishes these standard ad sizes. It lets me know what images my filters should throw away.
And, as a web designer, I'll know what sizes to avoid when making my valid images. Everyone wins!
In 2000, there were 16,653 fatalities in alcohol-related crashes - an average of one alcohol-related fatality every 32 minutes (source).
Should we ban alcohol? Or cars?
Now that I think about it, I think Picard did also, in one of the TNG novels.
It's called Dark Mirror.
At least several decades warning.
Like any politician in the US would stand up and say "Hey, let's spend this exorbitant amount of money, and not worry about our current spending problems."
And even if a politician were to have the guts to do that, the person running against him would say "We still have time in the future for that. Let's worry about [insert current fiscal issues here] right now".
And for whom do you think the average American would vote?
Who do you think does the best impression of James Kirk? I'm rather impressed by Jim Carrey's version.
The other reason to use your own money is DRIVE. If you NEED a sucessful business in order to put beans&rice on the table, you have a MUCH stronger motivation for success.
"When Cortez reached the new world, he burned his ships. As a result his men were well motivated."
Captain Marko Ramius (Hunt for Red October, movie)
One of the ways to combat spam is to educate businesses who become interested in using spam. One of our clients came to us with a proposal to increase traffic to their website. They discovered that you could "send thousand's of emails for just pennies" (yes, that's a quote from a spammer's ad they read back to us).
We tried to explain how this doesn't really help generate traffic, and how it generates bad will, and how some states now have laws against unsolicited email.
The final kicker was to have the following conversation with the company founder.
Me: "How often do you get spam email?"
Him: "All the time."
Me: "Do you read any of it?"
Him: "No."
[awkward 15 second silence]
Him: "I get it.".
Can you really imagine going to the movies as a family without munchies?
Yes. I take my 7-year-old out to McDonald's before we see a movie. We maybe see one to two movies a month, and a Happy Meal is cheaper than a theatre soda.
The Guns of the South [barnesandnoble.com] by Harry Turtledove
Harry Turtledove is one of my favorite authors. In Guns of the South, the Confederacy wins by virtue of a science fiction device. If you're interested in Turtledove's vision of a Confederate victory potrayed more believably (no science fiction, simply "alternate history"), check out his series of novels.
How Few Remain
The Great War: An American Front
The Great War: A Walk in Hell
American Empire: Blood and Iron
American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold
It's good reading, even if you don't have a strong background in US history.
Has our culture really reached the point where we are too lazy to type vowels?
Ys.
you'd need about 10^90 bits, with something like 10^120 manipulations
Yeah, but it's still only 4 lines of code.
Can you name one invention that really doesn't have ANYTHING to do with some other piece of work?
The wheel.
Well, it's not really a fair test since the site is made up of fairly broken HTML (see validator.w3.org), and the designer obviously only tested it to make sure it "works" right under IE.
Hurd was under development for OVER 10 YEARS before it was even runnable.
10 YEARS? I could have invented a new kind of science in that amount of time...
I noticed lex, sed lex: anyone care to enlighten me on the Latin origins of these
" The law is hard, but it's the law " (or something like that)
You know, with all of the news sites carrying bogus stories in the spirit of April Fool's Day, I was wondering what the ONION would do about this. Turns out that they didn't change a thing.
actual news stories up there. It would have been great to read real news about the latest bombings in the Middle East, or GW's plans to fight terrorism, right on the front page and see if anyone would believe (or not believe, as the case may be) those stories.
Missed opportunities abound...
My company is using the Darwin Streaming Server for a client project to stream MP3's. You can create SMIL files that auto-detect the right bandwidth-specific version for your connection.
<smil>
<body>
<switch>
<ref title="Title of Song" src="rtsp://streaming.my.localhost/mp3/Title_ of_Song/128.mp3" system-bitrate="220000"/>
<ref title="Title of Song" src="rtsp://streaming.my.localhost/mp3/Title_ of_Song/40.mp3" system-bitrate="45000"/>
<ref title="Title of Song" src="rtsp://streaming.my.localhost/mp3/Title_ of_Song/20.mp3" system-bitrate="20000"/>
</switch>
</body>
</smil>
I don't know much about Linux/BSD software, but RealPlayer and QuickTime plugins can play these streams.
No one at our company had ever done any sort of music streaming before, but I was able to convince the client to go with our solution. It (Darwin Streaming Server - free) is running under Linux (free) as a Apache/Tomcat JSP application (free).
It was the right decision financially (as far as keeping development costs down). It's also nice to see that our decision, in this instance, was the right one performance-wise as well.
Given the relatively large number of registered users to this site, I'm sure that this story could conceivably affect the net number of comments. I wonder, however, if the effect will actually be in the intended direction of the story's submitter...
So I am going to go out and get CD burners for all 2000 employees, train them on Nero, Easy CD,...
For a Mac
As for boot cds. While most PC's can do it, it usually requires changing the boot order in your BIOS unless it doesn't find your hard drive at all.
For a Mac
Now I know why my mom uses a Mac (I use PC's at work and home, BTW).
I use IE/5.0 on Macintosh (MacOS9.2, 450MHz G3) and there are significant slowdowns with heavily-nested comments. Rendering can take several seconds, sometimes longer.
This is a problem/limitation of IE 5 for Mac. Try it on Mozilla - you'll notice it's as fast as IE on Windows (that is, no huge delay in rendering deeply nested tables). I use IE on my Win98 laptop, but I use Mozilla on my G4 tower.
The update only works with IE 5.5 or 6.0. You might be running 5.0.
Interesting note: If you read the bulletin and click on the Technical Details submenu, you'll find the worst part:
As someone who does some sysadmin stuff at work, I didn't know this before. This means that a large majority of users (as far as my limited experience goes) that still use IE 5.0 will still have exploit available that won't be tested nor fixed. Wow...