I registered my domain around 1998-1999 and I used the "catchall" system for a long time. When I maintained my own email server, I would blackhole specific "TO" addresses, e.g. back in the day I had "Slashdot@...." as my email address, shown publicly here on Slashdot. I started getting truckloads of spam to that address, so I configured the server to deny any mail to slashdot@... (with a handy "Die in hell Spammer" message). (Spam is still sent to that address even though I haven't listed it anywhere in close to 5 years, and it hasn't worked in as long).
However I ended up having to stop running my own server, and got shared hosting, which has the "catchall" option for email addresses, but doesn't allow the blackholing of specific addresses. So I received the occasional spam, but it was pretty easy to deal with. But one day like 3 months ago I started getting buckets and buckets of spam sent by spammers who were sending emails to abc@... def@... bob@... sue@... etc. 200 a day was not uncommon. So I ended up canceling the "catchall" address and adding specific aliases for addresses I wanted to keep.
Basically the catchall is super handy, and I would love to be able to use it, but you will be opening yourself up to tons of spam. If I'm ever in the position to setup my own mail server again I will definitely do it.
Bad press has always prompted organizations to right their wrongs, especially guys like the ACLU whose entire reasons for existence are moral in nature. I think you would expect them to change their ways if you point out their hypocrisy in a public forum, regardless of whether it's in a blog, a newspaper, or a billboard. This is by no means a "win" for blogs, it's just common sense.
Just tired of people thinking "blogs" are something revolutionary. Nobody really cares.
Isn't this like the "guns are not made for killing people" argument?
But guns are made for killing people. What other use does a pistol have? Don't 99% of hunters that use guns use rifles and shotguns? Handguns are made for killing, they ain't no good for nothin' else.
Showed up to work and didn't get paid. CEO didn't come in that day and nobody could tell me when/if we would be getting our money. Turned out that no, we never did get our money. Fucker called us in a few weeks later and asked us to continue working for free. Meanwhile he got his daughter a modeling agent, cell phone, various invitations to hoity-toity parties... a real class act.
Read my old journal entries for how this nearly ruined my life, yay!
Apache gained, IIS lost, please drive through. I guess netcraft needed to drum up some hits to boost their ad revenue so they created this other non-story to get Slashdotters riled up.
In a bizarre twist, the Court's initial grant of "personhood" to corporations, such that they enjoy constitutional protections at all, is attributed to an 1886 Supreme Court decision that refused to address the issue. In published versions of the ruling, a court reporter inaccurately summed up the case as deciding that corporation were "persons" entitled to protection by the Equal Protection Clause, when in fact the Court explicitly avoided doing just that. Yet for some reason, the Supreme Court has adopted that as the meaning of the case.
Since that time, the Supreme Court has extended some constitutional protections to corporations, and denied others. For example, corporations enjoy due process protection and some limited free speech, but are not protected by the Fifth Amendment's right to guard against self-incrimination, by the "privileges and immunities" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, nor by the Fourth Amendment's right to privacy. The Court has made these determinations on an ad hoc basis, with little consistency as to why and when a corporation enjoys constitutional protection.
Why not setup a cron a job to check the timestamp of the remote file and if it's newer than the local copy, download it to a machine in your office, and share it from there? No need for P2P really. I would think such a script could be written in a few minutes, and the file could be shared with Samba, and then everybody would have the latest version. Run the script every hour or whatever.
;; ANSWER SECTION: ir.sco.com. 14393 IN CNAME cald.client.shareholder.com. cald.client.shareho lder.com. 1793 IN CNAME client.shareholder.com. client.shareholder. com. 1793 IN A 170.224.5.43
;; AUTHORITY SECTION: shareholder.com. 14286 IN NS ns1.shareholder.com. shareholder.com. 14286 IN NS ns2.shareholder.com.
I don't see why this is news. Just take a look here for oodles of dual-wheel mice. A) this is not "innovative" and B) Even if it were a new concept, why would it be on Slashdot?
I suck at physics, but won't this experiment break when the vertical distance between two consecutive mirrors is shorter than the diameter of a photon?
Yes, I have seen most of a burned document recovered using chemical and laser analysis of the charred remnants.
I saw MacGuyver do this once and he didn't need any stinking laser beams... I forgot how he supposedly did it, but it sure was cool.
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MS may be evil, but they never forced me to buy a new version of windows to get the latest web browser.
Not true, IE as a standalone app is being discontinued, and the new "integrated" version will only be available for 2K/XP. And who the hell said you have to use Safari? If you really want it that bad, think of it as a $130 browser. Mozilla, Chimera (?), and IE all still work. MS may not be developing IE for mac anymore, but you still have a functioning version don't you?
When I brought up that Google was doing something similar with its search appliance I was told I was making an issue out of nothing (and had my slashdot submission rejected).
What I'd like to see is a press release that says basically....
Hi, this is Bob Jones, creator of the Super Quest series. I've started a new company making new games, but the games really aren't going to be as good as what I've made in the past. We're trying but really there's nothing we can do. Please buy them anyway!
Seriously, it's news that a guy is touting his next project as being better than his previous one? WOW!
They should have picked de_vertigo. Then I could take the bomb and throw it off the edge of the map. Or as_oilrig. Just for the novelty of building an oilrig.
Thinking about it, it seems it would be very difficult to reconstruct any CS map realistically at all. in Dust, I could see maybe recreating the area where the CTs start, but to do the entire map would be a huge expense to do it correctly. I mean, how would you create the bridge? Are they actually building a stone bridge? While they're at it, have them do de_cbble, I'd like to see the sniper tower they'd build.;-)
Everything you think you know about aimster is a complete lie. See my journal for details. In short, she had nothing to do with Aimster, nor is her name even Aimee - that was a fabrication to evade AOL's trademark lawyers (which failed miserably, which is why it's now called "Madster" - her name is Madeline). Aimster/Madster is operated by a thief and a felon (his "business partner"). As far as I can tell, the "music pundit" site is written by a third party - probably a professional writer - with all website "comments" being filtered by "Aimee's" dad.
I find it sad that Greplaw would stoop this low, but since John is a Harvard alum I guess it's easily possible that he arranged this "interview" to drum up press.
As for the interview itself, I would like to know how it was conducted. It looks to me like it was conducted over AIM, in which case I'm sure John either wrote the responses himself or was standing over the typist's shoulder coaching him/her. If it was conducted over telephone or in person I'd be very surprised.
I love these ridiculously inflated figures. While that number may itself be accurate, for one thing this film opened on Thursday. This seems to be the new trend for Hollywood's big blockbusters - they open on Thursday or Wednesday so they can tack on an extra day's sales to their opening weekend figures and it makes their stock price go up.
Secondly, ticket prices are insane. I was really psyched to go see this movie until 30 minutes ago when I went to go buy tickets. For the closest theater to me that is actually of acceptable quality, I went to go order tickets online from AOL's Moviefone.com, and a ticket was $9.25 + $1.00 service charge for AOL. So just for me and my girlfriend it would be $20.50 with no soda or candy or anything (which she wouldn't let me get away with anyway). I'm sorry, but I don't think there has been a movie ever made that is worth paying $20.50 to see, or even $9.25 for that matter. I'm sure I can't be the only one who thinks so either, so this will likely lead to a decline in actual number of tickets sold, which the MPAA will then blame on Kazaa.
There's a theater in a kind of ghetto area near me that's really nice, and tickets there are $5.75 before 6pm, so maybe I can talk her into going there. If not I'll just wait for it to come out on DVD. Unless they price the DVD at something ridiculous like $29.99 of course.
Cable modem providers typically
a) do not allow any kind of service to be running on your PC b) are coming up with draconian "bandwidth hog" charges (for people who actually constantly ~use~ the full speed the ISP advertises) c) get bogged down during peak hours d) caps their upstream to 128kbps or 256kbps (all my friends on Charter, RR, and ATTBI report this cap) e) are inherently insecure because someone can always circumvent the cable modem and snoop all the traffic on the subnet (neighborhood)
I've used Road Runner in three different geographical areas (upstate, central NY, NY Metro area) and I can say that a: false, b: false, c: false, d: false (upstream cap is 400kbps), e: how is this any more insecure than getting sniffed farther upstream? And what does it matter? Use SSH or SSL if you're concerned with getting sniffed. Or are you new here?
Slashdot Mirror
I registered my domain around 1998-1999 and I used the "catchall" system for a long time. When I maintained my own email server, I would blackhole specific "TO" addresses, e.g. back in the day I had "Slashdot@...." as my email address, shown publicly here on Slashdot. I started getting truckloads of spam to that address, so I configured the server to deny any mail to slashdot@... (with a handy "Die in hell Spammer" message). (Spam is still sent to that address even though I haven't listed it anywhere in close to 5 years, and it hasn't worked in as long).
However I ended up having to stop running my own server, and got shared hosting, which has the "catchall" option for email addresses, but doesn't allow the blackholing of specific addresses. So I received the occasional spam, but it was pretty easy to deal with. But one day like 3 months ago I started getting buckets and buckets of spam sent by spammers who were sending emails to abc@... def@... bob@... sue@... etc. 200 a day was not uncommon. So I ended up canceling the "catchall" address and adding specific aliases for addresses I wanted to keep.
Basically the catchall is super handy, and I would love to be able to use it, but you will be opening yourself up to tons of spam. If I'm ever in the position to setup my own mail server again I will definitely do it.
Blogs DO make a difference.
Bad press has always prompted organizations to right their wrongs, especially guys like the ACLU whose entire reasons for existence are moral in nature. I think you would expect them to change their ways if you point out their hypocrisy in a public forum, regardless of whether it's in a blog, a newspaper, or a billboard. This is by no means a "win" for blogs, it's just common sense.
Just tired of people thinking "blogs" are something revolutionary. Nobody really cares.
What are you practicing for?
Isn't this like the "guns are not made for killing people" argument?
But guns are made for killing people. What other use does a pistol have? Don't 99% of hunters that use guns use rifles and shotguns? Handguns are made for killing, they ain't no good for nothin' else.
Please note that this is not "the Times" as you stated, it's Time magazine.
Showed up to work and didn't get paid. CEO didn't come in that day and nobody could tell me when/if we would be getting our money. Turned out that no, we never did get our money. Fucker called us in a few weeks later and asked us to continue working for free. Meanwhile he got his daughter a modeling agent, cell phone, various invitations to hoity-toity parties... a real class act.
Read my old journal entries for how this nearly ruined my life, yay!
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/09/01/septe mber_2003_web_server_survey.html
Apache gained, IIS lost, please drive through. I guess netcraft needed to drum up some hits to boost their ad revenue so they created this other non-story to get Slashdotters riled up.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8160
Why not setup a cron a job to check the timestamp of the remote file and if it's newer than the local copy, download it to a machine in your office, and share it from there? No need for P2P really. I would think such a script could be written in a few minutes, and the file could be shared with Samba, and then everybody would have the latest version. Run the script every hour or whatever.
Wow, who cares?
Heh. Now that's funny!
This is totally meaningless.
$ dig ir.sco.com
; <<>> DiG 9.2.0 <<>> ir.sco.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64936
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ir.sco.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
ir.sco.com. 14393 IN CNAME cald.client.shareholder.com.
cald.client.shareho lder.com. 1793 IN CNAME client.shareholder.com.
client.shareholder. com. 1793 IN A 170.224.5.43
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
shareholder.com. 14286 IN NS ns1.shareholder.com.
shareholder.com. 14286 IN NS ns2.shareholder.com.
;; Query time: 18 msec
;; SERVER:
;; WHEN: Wed Aug 13 11:08:36 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 132
This investor relations page is being hosted by someone else.
I don't see why this is news. Just take a look here for oodles of dual-wheel mice. A) this is not "innovative" and B) Even if it were a new concept, why would it be on Slashdot?
I suck at physics, but won't this experiment break when the vertical distance between two consecutive mirrors is shorter than the diameter of a photon?
MS may be evil, but they never forced me to buy a new version of windows to get the latest web browser.
Not true, IE as a standalone app is being discontinued, and the new "integrated" version will only be available for 2K/XP. And who the hell said you have to use Safari? If you really want it that bad, think of it as a $130 browser. Mozilla, Chimera (?), and IE all still work. MS may not be developing IE for mac anymore, but you still have a functioning version don't you?
To say the least, that's not going to be good for business
Um, yeah, maybe not for Netflix. But I thought competition was good?
When I brought up that Google was doing something similar with its search appliance I was told I was making an issue out of nothing (and had my slashdot submission rejected).
http://yro.slashdot.org/~Evro/journal/7047
They should have picked de_vertigo. Then I could take the bomb and throw it off the edge of the map. Or as_oilrig. Just for the novelty of building an oilrig.
;-)
Thinking about it, it seems it would be very difficult to reconstruct any CS map realistically at all. in Dust, I could see maybe recreating the area where the CTs start, but to do the entire map would be a huge expense to do it correctly. I mean, how would you create the bridge? Are they actually building a stone bridge? While they're at it, have them do de_cbble, I'd like to see the sniper tower they'd build.
word. Thanks. :-P
Everything you think you know about aimster is a complete lie. See my journal for details. In short, she had nothing to do with Aimster, nor is her name even Aimee - that was a fabrication to evade AOL's trademark lawyers (which failed miserably, which is why it's now called "Madster" - her name is Madeline). Aimster/Madster is operated by a thief and a felon (his "business partner"). As far as I can tell, the "music pundit" site is written by a third party - probably a professional writer - with all website "comments" being filtered by "Aimee's" dad.
I find it sad that Greplaw would stoop this low, but since John is a Harvard alum I guess it's easily possible that he arranged this "interview" to drum up press.
As for the interview itself, I would like to know how it was conducted. It looks to me like it was conducted over AIM, in which case I'm sure John either wrote the responses himself or was standing over the typist's shoulder coaching him/her. If it was conducted over telephone or in person I'd be very surprised.
"If we had known the thing was going to blow up, we could have sent somebody up to get them."
Uh, duh?
I love these ridiculously inflated figures. While that number may itself be accurate, for one thing this film opened on Thursday. This seems to be the new trend for Hollywood's big blockbusters - they open on Thursday or Wednesday so they can tack on an extra day's sales to their opening weekend figures and it makes their stock price go up.
Secondly, ticket prices are insane. I was really psyched to go see this movie until 30 minutes ago when I went to go buy tickets. For the closest theater to me that is actually of acceptable quality, I went to go order tickets online from AOL's Moviefone.com, and a ticket was $9.25 + $1.00 service charge for AOL. So just for me and my girlfriend it would be $20.50 with no soda or candy or anything (which she wouldn't let me get away with anyway). I'm sorry, but I don't think there has been a movie ever made that is worth paying $20.50 to see, or even $9.25 for that matter. I'm sure I can't be the only one who thinks so either, so this will likely lead to a decline in actual number of tickets sold, which the MPAA will then blame on Kazaa.
There's a theater in a kind of ghetto area near me that's really nice, and tickets there are $5.75 before 6pm, so maybe I can talk her into going there. If not I'll just wait for it to come out on DVD. Unless they price the DVD at something ridiculous like $29.99 of course.