It was a joke, dude. I actually did purchase a copy of Delphi 4 Professional. But then I got a new job a few years back, primarily to do Delphi development, so now I just use one of my company's licensed copies. I believe in paying for commercial software if it is useful (eg., UltraEdit), just like I believe in using free software if it fills a need (eg., Mozilla).
Heh. This must be the person who received literally thousands and thousands of mortgage leads from me. The form fields are very familiar to me. I was bored one day, so I wrote a little app that I would plug those mortgage spam sign-up forms into, and it would randomly generate names, addresses and phone numbers and repeatedly submit the form, with a short, random delay in between submissions. I remember once letting it run up over 5,000 submissions to the same site. Not that I cared that they knew my data was fake, I just wanted to make it impossible to find real data in that mess. I should try to dig that little app up...
I have a very similar experience. I signed up with Hotmail (and all of the major services) just to have a Hotmail account, but have never even mentioned in passing to anyone that I have one. My Inbox right now contains 260 messages received in the last week, 259 of which are spam, and the remaining one from Hotmail Services asking me to pay for a "faster" Hotmail account. Oddly enough, I also have a Yahoo! account which I've used heavily and given out freely for the past few years (until around May when I registered my own domain name), and receive at most maybe four or five spams per month. So, yes, I think Hotmail is a shitty service, and while maybe they don't directly sell addresses, they make it very easy for harvesters to gather them and very easy for spam to get through.
The funny thing is, once I registered the new domain, I started getting four and five spams a day at Yahoo! (probably from address harvesters crawling thru whois entries), but since I now only check the account to make sure I don't miss any mail from senders who don't have the new address yet, it doesn't concern me much.
'Bender' was my second thought (R. Daneel Olivaw is a larger figure in my personal mythology), especially the episode of Good Bender vs. Evil Bender, where it turned out Good Bender was the evil one all along.
Did anyone else laugh out loud when then pictured a robot wearing a tuxedo? That's about the funniest thing I heard all week.
On a side note, with the robot conference and the Milky Way mapping thing, does anyone else get the feeling we're living in an Isaac Asimov book? (Go here and put author: asimov AND title: (robots OR foundation) in the Power Search box and buy and read all matching items if you don't get the reference)
Yea, but this only works for Hackers who are less than 4th level. 4th level and beyond Hackers can automatically Detect Keyboards within a 30' radius, so if they are wandering through your dungeon, hiding the keyboard won't do any good. Your best bet is to put iocaine powder on the keys and leave the keyboard plainly visible with a sign above that says "This workstation is unattended between the hours of 5 PM and 5 AM" and hope this hacker hasn't spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocaine powder.
Reminds me of the time I replaced all of the NO TASTE TESTING signs taped to the community college's soda fountains with amazingly similar looking signs that said NO TESTE TASTING. Unfortunately, it only took a day or two for this to be noticed and the signs were promptly replaced. It gave me a chuckle anyway...
True, they bill themselves as experimental (see "Why does MyRealBox exist?" in their FAQ). I use them, and have rarely experienced downtime. Of course, I keep them as a backup, backup address, but I do check for mail as often as my primary address, and can always log in.
They do support secure connections, if that's what you mean by secure. From their Privacy Policy:
SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
MyRealBox supports TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connections. By entering the URL https://www.myrealbox.com to access your mail via the web client or by indicating in your POP or IMAP client configuration that your mail server supports SSL, your E-mail will be secure as it travels across the Internet.
They also do disallow commercial use, as I believe all free mail providers do. In fact, many companies offer products and services free for non-commercial use (Borland, Trolltech, etc). Besides, would you do business with bsmith177239@hotmail.com or kewld00d1@myrealbox.com, unless you wanted to enlarge your (penis||breasts) or refinance your home?
This is not an endorsement of MyRealBox or anything, because I really don't care if you use them or not, but I believe they fufill your requirement of being secure, so you may want to check them out again.
Your theory that life originated here on Earth is well-stated, thoughtful and completely wrong. Life did not originate here, as commonly suspected, but arrived here on a rag-tag fleet of starships a few thousand yahrens ago.
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You keep your pr0n in your drawers? Doesn't it get all sweaty & messy in there?
It was a joke, dude. I actually did purchase a copy of Delphi 4 Professional. But then I got a new job a few years back, primarily to do Delphi development, so now I just use one of my company's licensed copies. I believe in paying for commercial software if it is useful (eg., UltraEdit), just like I believe in using free software if it fills a need (eg., Mozilla).
Time to hit alt.binaries.cd.image....
Heh. This must be the person who received literally thousands and thousands of mortgage leads from me. The form fields are very familiar to me. I was bored one day, so I wrote a little app that I would plug those mortgage spam sign-up forms into, and it would randomly generate names, addresses and phone numbers and repeatedly submit the form, with a short, random delay in between submissions. I remember once letting it run up over 5,000 submissions to the same site. Not that I cared that they knew my data was fake, I just wanted to make it impossible to find real data in that mess. I should try to dig that little app up...
The real question is, Is this going to affect my ability to purchase spicy tuna rolls?
I have a very similar experience. I signed up with Hotmail (and all of the major services) just to have a Hotmail account, but have never even mentioned in passing to anyone that I have one. My Inbox right now contains 260 messages received in the last week, 259 of which are spam, and the remaining one from Hotmail Services asking me to pay for a "faster" Hotmail account. Oddly enough, I also have a Yahoo! account which I've used heavily and given out freely for the past few years (until around May when I registered my own domain name), and receive at most maybe four or five spams per month. So, yes, I think Hotmail is a shitty service, and while maybe they don't directly sell addresses, they make it very easy for harvesters to gather them and very easy for spam to get through.
The funny thing is, once I registered the new domain, I started getting four and five spams a day at Yahoo! (probably from address harvesters crawling thru whois entries), but since I now only check the account to make sure I don't miss any mail from senders who don't have the new address yet, it doesn't concern me much.
Reading all of the comments to any /. story is as dystopian as it gets.
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - J. Krishnamarti
The only thing that offends me is your cowardice.
Question is, how will this robot look in a tuxedo?
Hmmm...I'm intrigued by your ideas and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
'Bender' was my second thought (R. Daneel Olivaw is a larger figure in my personal mythology), especially the episode of Good Bender vs. Evil Bender, where it turned out Good Bender was the evil one all along.
Did anyone else laugh out loud when then pictured a robot wearing a tuxedo? That's about the funniest thing I heard all week.
On a side note, with the robot conference and the Milky Way mapping thing, does anyone else get the feeling we're living in an Isaac Asimov book? (Go here and put author: asimov AND title: (robots OR foundation) in the Power Search box and buy and read all matching items if you don't get the reference)
Yea, but this only works for Hackers who are less than 4th level. 4th level and beyond Hackers can automatically Detect Keyboards within a 30' radius, so if they are wandering through your dungeon, hiding the keyboard won't do any good. Your best bet is to put iocaine powder on the keys and leave the keyboard plainly visible with a sign above that says "This workstation is unattended between the hours of 5 PM and 5 AM" and hope this hacker hasn't spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocaine powder.
Reminds me of the time I replaced all of the NO TASTE TESTING signs taped to the community college's soda fountains with amazingly similar looking signs that said NO TESTE TASTING. Unfortunately, it only took a day or two for this to be noticed and the signs were promptly replaced. It gave me a chuckle anyway...
Or pleasure-free sex.
Decaffeinated coffee:
"It's useless warm brown water."
"Say goodbye to your will to live."
"It's what they're drinking in hell."
Apologies to David Letterman
They do support secure connections, if that's what you mean by secure. From their Privacy Policy: They also do disallow commercial use, as I believe all free mail providers do. In fact, many companies offer products and services free for non-commercial use (Borland, Trolltech, etc). Besides, would you do business with bsmith177239@hotmail.com or kewld00d1@myrealbox.com, unless you wanted to enlarge your (penis||breasts) or refinance your home?
This is not an endorsement of MyRealBox or anything, because I really don't care if you use them or not, but I believe they fufill your requirement of being secure, so you may want to check them out again.
Your theory that life originated here on Earth is well-stated, thoughtful and completely wrong. Life did not originate here, as commonly suspected, but arrived here on a rag-tag fleet of starships a few thousand yahrens ago.
www.myrealbox.com supplies free (as in FREE IVERSON) and supposedly secure IMAP accounts. Free calendar, too, so now you'll be able to figure out how old you are.
One thing Vonnegut did say was "The good Earth -- we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy."
...a Caramel Frappuccino from Starbuck's. I believe Starbuck himself enjoys one after a hard day (night? does it matter in space?) fighting with Apollo against the tyranny of Lucifer, Baltar and the evil Cylons.
Beliieve it or not, people actually may want both innovation and cooler graphics. Why do you think the two are mutually exclusive?