Just FYI: No assistance from the LEGO Company whatsoever. I think they even sued the artist, but please do your own google search on that. Notice however, that his packages have no LEGO logo.
Russia already employed the private sector, by fyling people up to the ISS for $20M.
Now the question remains: Where is the money? It almost seems the taxpayers are supporting space tourism in more than one way, if the russians are not even paying their share of the cost.
thank you very much! I love 0190-Dialers, but I never could get enough of them. I never thought of this brilliant idea and now I can download dialers all night long. I made some modifications to the script to run in zsh, but I think I made a mistake: After downloading my favorite dialer several thousand times, it is not on my system. Do you think that sending the output to/dev/null could be the problem?;)
"Buried in every e-mail he sends is a hidden code that sends back a message every time the e-mail is opened."
Err, what exactly does this mean, can anyone tell me? I really, really doubt that opening a mail in, say, pine will send back any message without action on my part.
So, is this something which triggers MS Outlook? Or is this just some BS that spammer told the poor journalist?
Buried in every e-mail he sends is a hidden code that sends back a message every time the e-mail is opened. Err, what exactly does this mean, can anyone tell me? I really, really doubt that opening a mail in, say, pine will send back any message without action on my part. So, is this something which triggers MS Outlook? Or is this just some BS that spammer told the poor journalist?
Hopefully some spammers read this article, because among spammers there are the ugly, the bad, and the - more or less - good.
Let me explain: I hate spam, and so I fight it every way I can, and this includes trying to find out who sent me the spam. Thus I got to know this guy who spamvertized his book to me. We exchanged a few eMails on the subject, especially why I do not agree with his "free enterprise" marketing tool. Hopefully this article will add an argument to my list. Yes, I believe a good deal of spam is sent by people who honestly think "Hey, this is not doing any harm", but it is.
After this, please excuse me while I rant: DIE SPAMMER, DIE, DIE, DIE!
The geek crowd seems to be less into whoring, and less into gambling it seems. This may - however - be due to lack of opportunity. Also, there are no free drinks in the casinos during Comdex.
Unfortunately I do not have the link to the article here, but China's Internet Access policy actually promotes spam. To be more precise, some ISPs leave their mail relays open simply because they would like to offer chinese internet users a way to send relatively untraceable eMails. I did not have the impression, the quoted ISP was using this as an excuse. And as pointed out in another reply, I receive very little chinese spam from chinese servers, most of the spam I get looks like the guys at the top of the foodchain sit in some western-industrialized country.
So I really welcome the FTC tactic. This is not like getting Capone for tax evasion. Wanting these scumbags for spamming is like wanting Al Capone for a firearms violation, when he also commited murder. Oh, don't get me wrong... #wildrage on DIE, SPAMMER, DIE! #wildrage off Those who just want to sell me perfectly legitimate pr0n or whatever shold also be sued. I get pr0n free elsewhere;)
The eWorld cooperation led to nothing further up to now, so I am unsure if this means anything. Apple seems to be good at keeping options wide open. For example, while the default browser on a fresh Mac OS X is IE, the default home page is hosted by Netscape (AOL/TimeWarner, whatever).
Alex
*sigh* Looking at the eWorld history page reminded me that I even had an AppleLink address...
Check tarif-express for an interesting story about German 0190 crush scams.
For the number 0190 / 824 308, I found out via RefTP (sorta like the German FCC) the reseller is QSC, and upon request they immediately provided me with the information, that a "Triple A Communication GmbH" in Düsseldorf operates the number.
Should you be interested in more details, feel free to contact me.
It's like a street vendor grabbing people and yelling in their face. In the real world, that would get you chased off at best and possibly arrested. I do not disagree with you, however unless _some_ people were actually _buying_ the crap advertised by those yelling cyberstreet vendors, they would stop. Simple as that, all of you please tell your friends. Don't get me wrong, this is not to say I support this kind of "free enterprise". This fine article shows just how many people will fall for the sleaziest of schemes. So there is actually little hope people in general will stop wanting to "get rich quick", a totally fake drivers licence, or to enlarge their penis. Personally I would like to ignore the great opportunities spammers are selling.
"If there was a Darwin Award for computer stupidity, spammers would be a shoe-in." Spammers are the scum of the earth, however the buyers of the wonderful offerings should get the Darwin award just as well.
Re:I'm sure it will be as big a success as eWorld.
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eWorld really was a nice little high-profile community, I really enjoyed it... Till it died. However, apparently some folks at Apple forgot that lesson.
Because I thought the iDisk was so wickedly convenient, I even coughed up some bucks to buy myself a larger iDisk. But One-Hundred-US-Dollars just to keep my mac.com eMail are a little much.
Not a smart move. Not at all.
Alex
America, you're better off wrote J.W. Goethe, but in this case I disagree. In all of Europe, cell phone numbers can easily be identified as they have their own area code. While that may not prevent unsolicited calls (which are illegal in some if not all European states anyway), the simple fact that the caller pays for call and airtime usually will. Which - in my opinion - is only fair and makes my cell phone much more useful.
I really enjoyed his columns in MacUser way back when, today he seems spiteful. However, if I only listen to what I want to hear, I will hear nothing new.
When I compare prices of software (e.g. our own products) over time, prices have gone down, way down. Sometimes to the point of $0.
Also I think that neither the change in hardware prices exceeds the rate of inflation. Until proven otherwise, I just think the music industry are greedy. Period.
to handle the results of the Bundestag election (that's the national parliament) on September 22nd
As far as I know the software is used to determine the preliminary results on that day, especially for the media. The official results will be determined as before, that is without any software.
Throughout this thread it seems that a lot of US based readers assume German elections work just as US elections, which is not the case. For the curious: Introduction to the German Federal Election System
Good point. However, does that mean that non-open source systems are not accountable? Ah, I see the misunderstanding! In the US, elections are automated. In Germany they are not, so all the system does is number crunch the raw data gathered by the local offices. All it does - afaik - is calculate the parlamentary seats from the votes by the so called "System Niemeyer"
Anyway, to bring my point accross
1) The ballot counting in Germany is still done by hand (which is good, see US elections), so no software at all (opensource or whatever) is involved. You either trust the results, or you don't
2) You need the raw data to verify the system, again regardless of the software used. Now IF you have the raw data, the you can verify the system, because the algorithem used is public domain. Regardless of open or closed source
So all this is is a little media hoopla, and possibly allows some students to re-use the code for some university elections. But it does - in no way - make elections any more or less accountable.
OS 9 like, sounds like "More Mac like", and logging in as root is not. My first Macintosh manual (for the Macintosh 512k) had the following to say about installing the "Programmer's Switch": "The Programmer's Switch is used to create an Interrupt or a Reset. If you do not know what an Interrupt or a Reset is, you do not need this switch". While people may criticize this, it has always been Apple's strategy to protect users from their own stupidity. So really to emphasize the parent post, "If you do not know why to log in as root, don't do it." Period. Nuff said
Alex -- (And I don't even normally log into my BSD box as root)
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Just FYI: No assistance from the LEGO Company whatsoever. I think they even sued the artist, but please do your own google search on that.
Notice however, that his packages have no LEGO logo.
Alex
Russia already employed the private sector, by fyling people up to the ISS for $20M.
Now the question remains: Where is the money? It almost seems the taxpayers are supporting space tourism in more than one way, if the russians are not even paying their share of the cost.
Well, whatever.. Alex
Thanks to all of you for explaining, but RatBastard takes the cake by pointing me to the HOSTS file!
Alex
Hello Doc,
/dev/null could be the problem? ;)
thank you very much! I love 0190-Dialers, but I never could get enough of them. I never thought of this brilliant idea and now I can download dialers all night long. I made some modifications to the script to run in zsh, but I think I made a mistake: After downloading my favorite dialer several thousand times, it is not on my system. Do you think that sending the output to
Alex
(This is crossposted from the Nov 22 story)
"Buried in every e-mail he sends is a hidden code that sends back a message every time the e-mail is opened."
Err, what exactly does this mean, can anyone tell me? I really, really doubt that opening a mail in, say, pine will send back any message without action on my part.
So, is this something which triggers MS Outlook? Or is this just some BS that spammer told the poor journalist?
Alex
Buried in every e-mail he sends is a hidden code that sends back a message every time the e-mail is opened.
Err, what exactly does this mean, can anyone tell me? I really, really doubt that opening a mail in, say, pine will send back any message without action on my part.
So, is this something which triggers MS Outlook? Or is this just some BS that spammer told the poor journalist?
Alex
Third left...
My contribution to Segway hype.
But seriously, I saw them in action and they _are_ way cool. The pricetag however makes me not want to own one.
Alex
Hopefully some spammers read this article, because among spammers there are the ugly, the bad, and the - more or less - good.
Let me explain: I hate spam, and so I fight it every way I can, and this includes trying to find out who sent me the spam. Thus I got to know this guy who spamvertized his book to me. We exchanged a few eMails on the subject, especially why I do not agree with his "free enterprise" marketing tool. Hopefully this article will add an argument to my list.
Yes, I believe a good deal of spam is sent by people who honestly think "Hey, this is not doing any harm", but it is.
After this, please excuse me while I rant:
DIE SPAMMER, DIE, DIE, DIE!
Thank you,
Alex
The geek crowd seems to be less into whoring, and less into gambling it seems. This may - however - be due to lack of opportunity.
Also, there are no free drinks in the casinos during Comdex.
Alex
Unfortunately I do not have the link to the article here, but China's Internet Access policy actually promotes spam. To be more precise, some ISPs leave their mail relays open simply because they would like to offer chinese internet users a way to send relatively untraceable eMails. I did not have the impression, the quoted ISP was using this as an excuse.
;)
And as pointed out in another reply, I receive very little chinese spam from chinese servers, most of the spam I get looks like the guys at the top of the foodchain sit in some western-industrialized country.
So I really welcome the FTC tactic. This is not like getting Capone for tax evasion. Wanting these scumbags for spamming is like wanting Al Capone for a firearms violation, when he also commited murder. Oh, don't get me wrong...
#wildrage on
DIE, SPAMMER, DIE!
#wildrage off
Those who just want to sell me perfectly legitimate pr0n or whatever shold also be sued. I get pr0n free elsewhere
Alex
The eWorld cooperation led to nothing further up to now, so I am unsure if this means anything. Apple seems to be good at keeping options wide open. For example, while the default browser on a fresh Mac OS X is IE, the default home page is hosted by Netscape (AOL/TimeWarner, whatever).
Alex
*sigh* Looking at the eWorld history page reminded me that I even had an AppleLink address...
Check tarif-express for an interesting story about German 0190 crush scams.
For the number 0190 / 824 308, I found out via RefTP (sorta like the German FCC) the reseller is QSC, and upon request they immediately provided me with the information, that a "Triple A Communication GmbH" in Düsseldorf operates the number.
Should you be interested in more details, feel free to contact me.
Alex
It's like a street vendor grabbing people and yelling in their face. In the real world, that would get you chased off at best and possibly arrested.
I do not disagree with you, however unless _some_ people were actually _buying_ the crap advertised by those yelling cyberstreet vendors, they would stop. Simple as that, all of you please tell your friends.
Don't get me wrong, this is not to say I support this kind of "free enterprise". This fine article shows just how many people will fall for the sleaziest of schemes. So there is actually little hope people in general will stop wanting to "get rich quick", a totally fake drivers licence, or to enlarge their penis. Personally I would like to ignore the great opportunities spammers are selling.
"If there was a Darwin Award for computer stupidity, spammers would be a shoe-in." Spammers are the scum of the earth, however the buyers of the wonderful offerings should get the Darwin award just as well.
Just my 0.02
Alex
Chewing on your shorts yet? ;)
I am.
Alex
http://www.mac.com
Nuff said,
Alex
eWorld really was a nice little high-profile community, I really enjoyed it... Till it died. However, apparently some folks at Apple forgot that lesson.
Alex
Because I thought the iDisk was so wickedly convenient, I even coughed up some bucks to buy myself a larger iDisk. But One-Hundred-US-Dollars just to keep my mac.com eMail are a little much.
Not a smart move. Not at all.
Alex
Oh, sorry, misread. I thought the headline said "Cameras in UK for Troll Enforcement".
Bummer
Alex
America, you're better off wrote J.W. Goethe, but in this case I disagree. In all of Europe, cell phone numbers can easily be identified as they have their own area code. While that may not prevent unsolicited calls (which are illegal in some if not all European states anyway), the simple fact that the caller pays for call and airtime usually will. Which - in my opinion - is only fair and makes my cell phone much more useful.
Just my 0.02
Alex -- No soup for you. Come back, one year!
I really enjoyed his columns in MacUser way back when, today he seems spiteful. However, if I only listen to what I want to hear, I will hear nothing new.
Alex
When I compare prices of software (e.g. our own products) over time, prices have gone down, way down. Sometimes to the point of $0.
Also I think that neither the change in hardware prices exceeds the rate of inflation. Until proven otherwise, I just think the music industry are greedy. Period.
Alex
According to this article in the German paper "Welt", IVU is struggeling hard with liquidity problems, and all cash will be burned in July.
Alex
to handle the results of the Bundestag election (that's the national parliament) on September 22nd
As far as I know the software is used to determine the preliminary results on that day, especially for the media. The official results will be determined as before, that is without any software.
Throughout this thread it seems that a lot of US based readers assume German elections work just as US elections, which is not the case. For the curious: Introduction to the German Federal Election System
Alex
Good point. However, does that mean that non-open source systems are not accountable? Ah, I see the misunderstanding! In the US, elections are automated. In Germany they are not, so all the system does is number crunch the raw data gathered by the local offices. All it does - afaik - is calculate the parlamentary seats from the votes by the so called "System Niemeyer"
Anyway, to bring my point accross
1) The ballot counting in Germany is still done by hand (which is good, see US elections), so no software at all (opensource or whatever) is involved. You either trust the results, or you don't
2) You need the raw data to verify the system, again regardless of the software used. Now IF you
have the raw data, the you can verify the system, because the algorithem used is public domain. Regardless of open or closed source
So all this is is a little media hoopla, and possibly allows some students to re-use the code for some university elections. But it does - in no way - make elections any more or less accountable.
Alex
OS 9 like, sounds like "More Mac like", and logging in as root is not.
My first Macintosh manual (for the Macintosh 512k) had the following to say about installing the "Programmer's Switch": "The Programmer's Switch is used to create an Interrupt or a Reset. If you do not know what an Interrupt or a Reset is, you do not need this switch". While people may criticize this, it has always been Apple's strategy to protect users from their own stupidity.
So really to emphasize the parent post, "If you do not know why to log in as root, don't do it." Period. Nuff said
Alex -- (And I don't even normally log into my BSD box as root)