Spammers are likely to respond to filters like this by encoding text in ways the filters can't read but humans can (eg having a.gif file of the text, loaded by a HTML statement in the message).
And, most likely, you would soon see IMG and SRC move very quickly up the list of 'spam tokens'; if an email is just images and nothing else non-spam, they'll most likely start getting filtered again... that's the beauty of it.
Oh, come on. If this really bothered people, wouldn't browsers provide an option to disable it?
Yeah, like, say: alt="some relevant text" title="", like all even vaguely-recent browsers, even those which show ALT attributes on mouseovers even though they aren't supposed to, support?
I'd eventually have to put her into bed and sleep right next to her for the next twelve hours to be sure that she was all right.
Ummm... yeah. To make sure she was all right. Uh-huh.
"Yeah, honey, I know we're not having sex yet. But I'm just sleeping here to make sure you're all right. No, really. Yeah, I always sleep naked. Oh, and can you wear this please?"
Anyone else curious as to how this guy managed to find an auction for sodium on eBay, the site that has a list of banned items longer than the entire list of auctions for "Star Wars" displayed on one page?
Hot damn, you're right. ebay's banned item list is like a telephone directory (namely, a telephone directory for people who only make fun things). But I did find the following, under 'fireworks', which are classified as 'Prohibited' under ebay rules:
Under California law, fireworks include "any device containing chemical elements and chemical compounds capable of burning independently of the oxygen of the atmosphere and producing audible, visual, mechanical or thermal effects which are useful as pyrotechnic devices or for entertainment."
I mean... 'useful for entertainment' seems pretty accurate to me. Maybe not god's intended purpose for sodium, perhaps, but if he didn't want it to be used for entertainment, why did he make it so damn explosive? Why? Why? WHYYYYYY?
Similar (first-hand, confirmable) story told to us by our high school chemistry teacher. Slicing off a thin piece of sodium off the larger chunk with a razor blade, or whatever the hell it is he used, he then proceeded to (accidentally -- he wasn't that much of a moron) drop the sliver he had cut off back into the jar, and throw the remainder of the chunk into the bowl of water. Cue enormous explosion (well, moderately enormous.. it's not like the original piece was THAT big), and an awful lot of terrified thirteen-year-olds.
Oh, and how do I know the story's true? Well, the fire brigade turned up, the rest of the chem classes were cancelled for the day, and when we had our next class (the next morning), there was an enormous water (+ whatever other crud) stain on the roof right above where the bowl was.
Apparently (my dad worked at the school) he was chewed out in a big way and only kept his job on the strength of the various teaching awards he'd won for making science fun (and how!)
Great idea. Thawte have just jacked up their prices by hundreds of percent: SGC certificates (what Thawte call 'SuperCerts', and which are almost mandatory for any company really serious about security) gone up from about USD200 to about USD340 (USD300 just for a renewal), but now you need to license your certificates if they are to be used on multiple machines.
Got several identical web servers behind a LocalDirector- or Big/IP-type device, all needing the exact same certificate? Sure, export the cert from one web server, add to the others. Now, Thawte want to sting you for a licensing fee (there was never formerly such a fee). And it's enormous. Check it out, it's well-hidden.
Oh, and InstantSSL?
Browser Compatibility:
Internet Explorer 5.00 and above
Netscape 4.x and above
AOL 5 and above
Opera 5 and above
Where's IE4? Oh... hmm. It's not there. Once again, not really good enough for someone who needs ubiquity.
And, as far as I can see, Thawte and Verisign no longer offer real PKI structures, where they sell you a root cert to sign your own certs. So if you have a lot of subdomains, you're SOL.
Maybe I'll make an app for this and sync it on my webserver.
Check out Syncasaurus,
from Morbus Iff, creator of AmphetaDesk. Started with great promise a while ago, development seems to have stalled. Got quite a way in a short time though... maybe you should pick it up and run with it.
Features like the 'area management' of which you speak were, at least, planned; no idea how far they got.
Project was spawned when the otherwise-superb BookmarkSync turned into a pay service.
I've debated the meaning of that saying (and I'm not even sure what the correct way of saying it is), and have come to the conclusion that it makes no sense either way.
"I couldn't care less" = "I care so little about the thing of which you speak, that no level of caring yet exists which is lesser; therefore, it is not physically possible to care less than I do now."
"I could care less" = "I have a level of care x; there exist theoretical levels of care y such that y < x. Therefore, I care more than the minimum."
Every article on there wasn't particularly insightful, matter of fact I usually think, "I could have written that" when seeing a satirewire link
"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."
-- Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
are brazil, mexico, us, canada or argentina going
to play for the cricket world cup ?
Ummm... yes. Canada is going to play for the cricket world cup.
Along with teams from Africa (Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia), Europe (Netherlands, England), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand), the Caribbean (West Indies), Asia (Bangladesh), and the 'subcontinent'/middle east (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka). Pretty much everywhere except South America, in other words.
I'm pretty sure that the billion-plus people over in India alone would come close to bringing cricket well clear of baseball in terms of supporter numbers (except for whatever it is that everyone plays in China).
I'm not saying I believe this, even though these events were half a world away from sunny old Australia, the images I've seen over the last 14 hours have shocked and disturbed me, but:
I'm amazed that no-one has mentioned the possibility, no doubt to be siezed upon by the more... creative... element of society, that the pentagon attack was a deliberate attack to breach the walls - not to destroy the building, but to physically break the shape of the pentagon.
After all, what conspiracy nut doesn't believe, deep in their hearts, that the pentaGON is actually a pentaGRAM, designed to contain whatever godforsaken Cthulhuesque creature the U.S. government have leashed to serve their wicked ways, etc. etc. Whatever it is, it would be on the loose now, so I'm sure a lot of kooks will be stocking up on tinned food and holy water right about now...
I say that we won't have a networking protocol that provides more addresses than their are particles in the universe.
Hey... that's not NEARLY enough. We don't just need to be able to address the particles... we need to address items MADE of those particles. So not only should we be able to ping a carbon molecule somewhere near Sirius, we need enough addresses to ping any given chain of them. So I guess we need number-of-particles-in-the-universe-factorial addresses, to make sure we've got all the combos covered.
The story mentions "nearly 10^9 urls", so duplicate documents would be counted multiple times.
<pedant>Actually, it might be more accurate to say that if they're talking about "documents", then they are talking about 10^9 URIs, not 10^9 URLs. A URL merely identifies the "site", while a URI identifies a specific document. There's a difference.</pedant>
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Anyone who uses more than one exclamation mark in a single sentence deserves to have one of two things happen to them:
Personally, I'd say you got off pretty lightly.
And, most likely, you would soon see IMG and SRC move very quickly up the list of 'spam tokens'; if an email is just images and nothing else non-spam, they'll most likely start getting filtered again... that's the beauty of it.
Yeah, like, say: alt="some relevant text" title="", like all even vaguely-recent browsers, even those which show ALT attributes on mouseovers even though they aren't supposed to, support?
Hypothetically.
Ummm... yeah. To make sure she was all right. Uh-huh.
"Yeah, honey, I know we're not having sex yet. But I'm just sleeping here to make sure you're all right. No, really. Yeah, I always sleep naked. Oh, and can you wear this please?"
Hot damn, you're right. ebay's banned item list is like a telephone directory (namely, a telephone directory for people who only make fun things). But I did find the following, under 'fireworks', which are classified as 'Prohibited' under ebay rules:
I mean... 'useful for entertainment' seems pretty accurate to me. Maybe not god's intended purpose for sodium, perhaps, but if he didn't want it to be used for entertainment, why did he make it so damn explosive? Why? Why? WHYYYYYY?
Similar (first-hand, confirmable) story told to us by our high school chemistry teacher. Slicing off a thin piece of sodium off the larger chunk with a razor blade, or whatever the hell it is he used, he then proceeded to (accidentally -- he wasn't that much of a moron) drop the sliver he had cut off back into the jar, and throw the remainder of the chunk into the bowl of water. Cue enormous explosion (well, moderately enormous.. it's not like the original piece was THAT big), and an awful lot of terrified thirteen-year-olds.
Oh, and how do I know the story's true? Well, the fire brigade turned up, the rest of the chem classes were cancelled for the day, and when we had our next class (the next morning), there was an enormous water (+ whatever other crud) stain on the roof right above where the bowl was.
Apparently (my dad worked at the school) he was chewed out in a big way and only kept his job on the strength of the various teaching awards he'd won for making science fun (and how!)
Great idea. Thawte have just jacked up their prices by hundreds of percent: SGC certificates (what Thawte call 'SuperCerts', and which are almost mandatory for any company really serious about security) gone up from about USD200 to about USD340 (USD300 just for a renewal), but now you need to license your certificates if they are to be used on multiple machines.
Got several identical web servers behind a LocalDirector- or Big/IP-type device, all needing the exact same certificate? Sure, export the cert from one web server, add to the others. Now, Thawte want to sting you for a licensing fee (there was never formerly such a fee). And it's enormous. Check it out, it's well-hidden.
Oh, and InstantSSL?
Where's IE4? Oh... hmm. It's not there. Once again, not really good enough for someone who needs ubiquity.
And, as far as I can see, Thawte and Verisign no longer offer real PKI structures, where they sell you a root cert to sign your own certs. So if you have a lot of subdomains, you're SOL.
What a rort.
Check out Syncasaurus, from Morbus Iff, creator of AmphetaDesk. Started with great promise a while ago, development seems to have stalled. Got quite a way in a short time though... maybe you should pick it up and run with it.
Features like the 'area management' of which you speak were, at least, planned; no idea how far they got.
Project was spawned when the otherwise-superb BookmarkSync turned into a pay service.
"I couldn't care less" = "I care so little about the thing of which you speak, that no level of caring yet exists which is lesser; therefore, it is not physically possible to care less than I do now."
"I could care less" = "I have a level of care x; there exist theoretical levels of care y such that y < x. Therefore, I care more than the minimum."
I know which one makes sense to me...
"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."
You mean 'programmers'?
Heard of The Lyons Forum?
Christian fundamentalism has a fairly powerful place in Australian politics. Just not a public one.
Ummm... yes. Canada is going to play for the cricket world cup.
Along with teams from Africa (Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia), Europe (Netherlands, England), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand), the Caribbean (West Indies), Asia (Bangladesh), and the 'subcontinent'/middle east (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka). Pretty much everywhere except South America, in other words.
I'm pretty sure that the billion-plus people over in India alone would come close to bringing cricket well clear of baseball in terms of supporter numbers (except for whatever it is that everyone plays in China).
your crappy ass Palm
"Say, would you like a chocolate-covered pretzel? They're a little melty but damn, are they exquisite!"
"The EULA prohibits me from using this product to run my website, www.livegoatporn.com."
But MY webiste is www.deadgoatporn.com. Is that OK?
I'm not saying I believe this, even though these events were half a world away from sunny old Australia, the images I've seen over the last 14 hours have shocked and disturbed me, but:
I'm amazed that no-one has mentioned the possibility, no doubt to be siezed upon by the more... creative... element of society, that the pentagon attack was a deliberate attack to breach the walls - not to destroy the building, but to physically break the shape of the pentagon.
After all, what conspiracy nut doesn't believe, deep in their hearts, that the pentaGON is actually a pentaGRAM, designed to contain whatever godforsaken Cthulhuesque creature the U.S. government have leashed to serve their wicked ways, etc. etc. Whatever it is, it would be on the loose now, so I'm sure a lot of kooks will be stocking up on tinned food and holy water right about now...
I say that we won't have a networking protocol that provides more addresses than their are particles in the universe.
Hey... that's not NEARLY enough. We don't just need to be able to address the particles... we need to address items MADE of those particles. So not only should we be able to ping a carbon molecule somewhere near Sirius, we need enough addresses to ping any given chain of them. So I guess we need number-of-particles-in-the-universe-factorial addresses, to make sure we've got all the combos covered.
<pedant>Actually, it might be more accurate to say that if they're talking about "documents", then they are talking about 10^9 URIs, not 10^9 URLs. A URL merely identifies the "site", while a URI identifies a specific document. There's a difference.</pedant>
Or, then again, who cares?
Here's another link, which provides a slightly less technical... erm... 'explanation'.
With cartoon.
http://obaba.shafted.com.au/