2. Have everyone in your home discontinue any phone conversations
-or-
Purchase a second phone line
-or-
Purchase cable modem/DSL service
3. Sign up for internet access. For your convienence, AOL will be installed automatically. All you need is a credit card.
4. Install MediaCloQ(TM) - This will send your personal information to us using secure proprietary technology written in Visual Basic by the CEO's nephew.
http://www.record-lable.com/register.asp?Name=Jo e+ Smith&Address=123+Main+St
My cell phone offers free long distance. So I call the number on every piece of spam that I get. Mostly you get an answering machine, so I request a call back. This costs the spammers time plus hopefully a little money for the call back.
Mostly they're semi-pathetic business-type people who really don't know anything about computers and are somewhat apologetic/embarrassed. I did get one asshole who hung up on me when I started asking where he got my email address from... so I called back (CallerId is great!).
Anyways, call those spammers!
People that are really into games (quake et all) don't even look at the graphics or pay attention to the game details after the first few days. It just turns into a game of framerates and precision hand-eye movements.
Small claims court. It's easy and cheap. Make that really easy and really cheap... especially if you are in the right. You need the name of a person to make the judgement against, though.
Also, if possible, always pay by credit card. I emailed and emailed MegaPath about a billing problem with no response. Phones had tremendous hold times, so I just called Discover and told them I'm not paying. Discover sends them a letter and they can either a) forget about it and lose the money, pay a $10 fee or b) justify the charges. In any case, I'm not dealing with Discover who always seems happy to talk to me.
Also, once PacBell wasn't sending me money they owed me... must have called them 6 times. Then I got smart and wrote them a letter (address on back of bill). I threatened to contact CPUC if they didn't send my money... got a check in three weeks.
Registrant:
Federal Bureau of Investigation (INVITA-DOM)
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 7972
Washington, DC 20535
US
Domain Name: INVITA.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Louis J. Freeh (LF10359-IN) louis@fbi.gov
Federal Bureau of Investigation (INVITA-DOM)
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 7972
Washington, DC 20535
USA
2023243000
Record last updated on 06-Apr-2001.
Record expires on 24-Apr-2003.
Record created on 24-Apr-1998.
Database last updated on 24-Apr-2001 02:37:00 EDT.
Who the hell uses their real name when signing up to post anonymously?
If a company ever demanded slashdot to identify me they'd either get:
a) The avenging disco godfather
b) An ip address shared by 100 people at my company.
I have all mail (*@domain.com) forward to my real account. When I sign up at latimes.com and they want my email address, I tell them latimes.com@domain.com. Ditto for ebay and the others. When ebay screwed me over, I configured sendmail to bounce any email addressed to ebay.com@domain.com.
It's fun too, because you can see which companies sell your email address... (latimes.com is the only one I've caught so far). I no longer live in fear of spam.
For some reason, I got the "lameness" filter on this post for using so many caps. Since the only cap I used was a capital "s" on "Some", I will add this paragraph in the hopes that my post will go through. Wish me luck!
Interesting idea. But no, I'd rather spend $.30 every two months on the phone call I *have* to make rather than $60 per month for a cell phone.
Although, I certainly wouldn't mine not having to put my ear against those disgusting things.
I used to only have a cell phone -- not even a 'regular' phone. Too many disconnects/static connections... not to mention the radiation fears. Besides, I really didn't like being bothered every hour by telemarketers/coworkers/family.
I moved my domains from netsol to register.com because i hate netsol just like the next guy. I had to change the ip address of one of my name servers. With netsol, no big deal (there's a form to fill out). Also, if I had trouble, netsol answers the phone.
Register.com has no such form. Their online email based support promises responses in 24 hours... but none. 20 minute hold time to speak with an idiot... and their idiots are not allowed to transfer you to tech support (they used to do that, but not anymore aparently). Here I am two weeks later and nothing.
I transfered my domains back to netsol. When it comes to making sure my email and website are running, reliablilty comes before political hatred.
CSS as music? Wow... this is very cool. However, according to Toretzky's very strict interpritation of the ruling, wouldn't a gzipped version of the source be freely distributable?
I got very angry when deja dumped ads all over the place... but I eventually realized, "Hey, this is a kick ass service... it's free... and I'll take the ads and a 2-3 second response with a smile!"
I sure hope google keeps it going. And in case you're reading this google, if you ever are about to go out of business, I would hapily pay $5/month for access to your fast, quality web and usenet archives... before napster anyday. (actually, my company would probably pay too... you solve more than half of the programming/lan problems I have daily)
Screw athletes/singers/obi-wan... google is my hero!
Hardware works. I've never had a problem with my processors, sound cards, network cards or any such hardware. And this is complex stuff!
Software sucks. I've had constant problems with software... even complex ultra-popular stuff (MS). The worst are custom programs companies pay $50,000+ for (e.g. fancy warehouse stuff or some insurance billing database)... man that stuff really blows.
Anyone go into a Pep Boys about 4 years ago? I sure hope they're not using it anymore, but their cash registers ran a win 3.1 VB application... complete with 150x150 pixel "CHANGE" and "RECEIPT" command buttons. BARF!
Here in Los Angeles (310 area code), PacBell started requiring people to dial 1-310-xxx-xxxx even when dialing local numbers. People claimed that this cost companies millions of dollars in wasted productivity. After about 6 months of hearing complaints, PacBell backed off.
When Flight Simulator 2000 (From MS) came out, I knew it was going to be a dog of a program (suck). I was dying to try it... and an employee at Fry's reminded me that MS offered a sasifiaction money-back guarantee. Well, the app was a dog (I think they've released two patches since then), I followed the instructions and mailed the product and receipt back to MS. Sure enough, they paid me back... cost of game plus tax! (FYI, the rebate check did not come from Microsoft, but some other company, which I presume handles MS's Satisfaction Guarantees.)
Also, I purchased Partition Magic which, according to the box, worked on Windows NT. Well it wouldn't install on Windows NT Server ("This product only works on NT Workstation" -- which is completely bogus BTW). The box said "satisfaction guaranteed" so I took it back to the store (UCLA computer store -- UCLA students are familiar with the fatso-slob manager who is an asshole). He didn't want to take it back, but when I showed him the "Moneyback Satisfaction Guarantee" sticker, he grumbled and issued me a refund.
I haven't failed to get a rebate back on anything... including soap, DSL, steak sauce, cell phone... I have forgotten to mail a few in which sucks.
Your house is being robbed. You sneak out the door, jump in your car and drive away -- but the robbers spot you and give chase. You're limited to 25 mph, caught and murdered. Your family sues the city and that's the end of the GPS speed limiter.
(Hopefully someone can come up with a better scenario... perhaps you need to stomp on accelerator to avoid an accident...)
Slashdot Mirror
To listen to this cd:
o e+ Smith&Address=123+Main+St
1. Purchase a modem or ethernet card.
2. Have everyone in your home discontinue any phone conversations
-or-
Purchase a second phone line
-or-
Purchase cable modem/DSL service
3. Sign up for internet access. For your convienence, AOL will be installed automatically. All you need is a credit card.
4. Install MediaCloQ(TM) - This will send your personal information to us using secure proprietary technology written in Visual Basic by the CEO's nephew.
http://www.record-lable.com/register.asp?Name=J
5. Enjoy!
Anybody recognize the fifth guy from the left?
t node_id=9953
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=966&las
My cell phone offers free long distance. So I call the number on every piece of spam that I get. Mostly you get an answering machine, so I request a call back. This costs the spammers time plus hopefully a little money for the call back. Mostly they're semi-pathetic business-type people who really don't know anything about computers and are somewhat apologetic/embarrassed. I did get one asshole who hung up on me when I started asking where he got my email address from... so I called back (CallerId is great!). Anyways, call those spammers!
Well, what is it?
I had a great experience with Telocity reparing a broken modem. They even called a few days later to make sure everything was working.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/15/s quare.watermelon/index.html
People that are really into games (quake et all) don't even look at the graphics or pay attention to the game details after the first few days. It just turns into a game of framerates and precision hand-eye movements.
I'm on hold now with MegaPath to troubleshoot some connection problems... I've been on hold for more than an hour. Thank god for speakerphone.
Small claims court. It's easy and cheap. Make that really easy and really cheap... especially if you are in the right. You need the name of a person to make the judgement against, though.
Also, if possible, always pay by credit card. I emailed and emailed MegaPath about a billing problem with no response. Phones had tremendous hold times, so I just called Discover and told them I'm not paying. Discover sends them a letter and they can either a) forget about it and lose the money, pay a $10 fee or b) justify the charges. In any case, I'm not dealing with Discover who always seems happy to talk to me.
Also, once PacBell wasn't sending me money they owed me... must have called them 6 times. Then I got smart and wrote them a letter (address on back of bill). I threatened to contact CPUC if they didn't send my money... got a check in three weeks.
$ whois invita.com
Registrant:
Federal Bureau of Investigation (INVITA-DOM)
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 7972
Washington, DC 20535
US
Domain Name: INVITA.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Louis J. Freeh (LF10359-IN) louis@fbi.gov
Federal Bureau of Investigation (INVITA-DOM)
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 7972
Washington, DC 20535
USA
2023243000
Record last updated on 06-Apr-2001.
Record expires on 24-Apr-2003.
Record created on 24-Apr-1998.
Database last updated on 24-Apr-2001 02:37:00 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.FBI.GOV 165.87.201.243
NS2.FBI.GOV 165.87.201.244
What about ASP?
Who the hell uses their real name when signing up to post anonymously?
If a company ever demanded slashdot to identify me they'd either get:
a) The avenging disco godfather
b) An ip address shared by 100 people at my company.
I own my own domain domain.com
I have all mail (*@domain.com) forward to my real account. When I sign up at latimes.com and they want my email address, I tell them latimes.com@domain.com. Ditto for ebay and the others. When ebay screwed me over, I configured sendmail to bounce any email addressed to ebay.com@domain.com.
It's fun too, because you can see which companies sell your email address... (latimes.com is the only one I've caught so far). I no longer live in fear of spam.
Some other fun ones:
12:34.56 7/8/90
98/7/6 5:43.21
9/9/99
========
For some reason, I got the "lameness" filter on this post for using so many caps. Since the only cap I used was a capital "s" on "Some", I will add this paragraph in the hopes that my post will go through. Wish me luck!
Interesting idea. But no, I'd rather spend $.30 every two months on the phone call I *have* to make rather than $60 per month for a cell phone.
Although, I certainly wouldn't mine not having to put my ear against those disgusting things.
I used to only have a cell phone -- not even a 'regular' phone. Too many disconnects/static connections... not to mention the radiation fears. Besides, I really didn't like being bothered every hour by telemarketers/coworkers/family.
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/09/1648257.shtm l
the most important server apps on Linux
...
And BSD
And AIX
And Solaris
And Irix
Al Gore (one of the founding fathers of the Internet) has been in Washington for 8 years, but never appeared on Slashdot.
I moved my domains from netsol to register.com because i hate netsol just like the next guy. I had to change the ip address of one of my name servers. With netsol, no big deal (there's a form to fill out). Also, if I had trouble, netsol answers the phone.
Register.com has no such form. Their online email based support promises responses in 24 hours... but none. 20 minute hold time to speak with an idiot... and their idiots are not allowed to transfer you to tech support (they used to do that, but not anymore aparently). Here I am two weeks later and nothing.
I transfered my domains back to netsol. When it comes to making sure my email and website are running, reliablilty comes before political hatred.
CSS as music? Wow... this is very cool. However, according to Toretzky's very strict interpritation of the ruling, wouldn't a gzipped version of the source be freely distributable?
I got very angry when deja dumped ads all over the place... but I eventually realized, "Hey, this is a kick ass service... it's free... and I'll take the ads and a 2-3 second response with a smile!"
I sure hope google keeps it going. And in case you're reading this google, if you ever are about to go out of business, I would hapily pay $5/month for access to your fast, quality web and usenet archives... before napster anyday. (actually, my company would probably pay too... you solve more than half of the programming/lan problems I have daily) Screw athletes/singers/obi-wan... google is my hero!
Hardware works. I've never had a problem with my processors, sound cards, network cards or any such hardware. And this is complex stuff!
Software sucks. I've had constant problems with software... even complex ultra-popular stuff (MS). The worst are custom programs companies pay $50,000+ for (e.g. fancy warehouse stuff or some insurance billing database)... man that stuff really blows.
Anyone go into a Pep Boys about 4 years ago? I sure hope they're not using it anymore, but their cash registers ran a win 3.1 VB application... complete with 150x150 pixel "CHANGE" and "RECEIPT" command buttons. BARF!
Here in Los Angeles (310 area code), PacBell started requiring people to dial 1-310-xxx-xxxx even when dialing local numbers. People claimed that this cost companies millions of dollars in wasted productivity. After about 6 months of hearing complaints, PacBell backed off.
When Flight Simulator 2000 (From MS) came out, I knew it was going to be a dog of a program (suck). I was dying to try it... and an employee at Fry's reminded me that MS offered a sasifiaction money-back guarantee. Well, the app was a dog (I think they've released two patches since then), I followed the instructions and mailed the product and receipt back to MS. Sure enough, they paid me back... cost of game plus tax! (FYI, the rebate check did not come from Microsoft, but some other company, which I presume handles MS's Satisfaction Guarantees.)
Also, I purchased Partition Magic which, according to the box, worked on Windows NT. Well it wouldn't install on Windows NT Server ("This product only works on NT Workstation" -- which is completely bogus BTW). The box said "satisfaction guaranteed" so I took it back to the store (UCLA computer store -- UCLA students are familiar with the fatso-slob manager who is an asshole). He didn't want to take it back, but when I showed him the "Moneyback Satisfaction Guarantee" sticker, he grumbled and issued me a refund.
I haven't failed to get a rebate back on anything... including soap, DSL, steak sauce, cell phone... I have forgotten to mail a few in which sucks.
Your house is being robbed. You sneak out the door, jump in your car and drive away -- but the robbers spot you and give chase. You're limited to 25 mph, caught and murdered. Your family sues the city and that's the end of the GPS speed limiter.
(Hopefully someone can come up with a better scenario... perhaps you need to stomp on accelerator to avoid an accident...)