I believe he's referring to the Windows Net Messenger "feature". See here for more info.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if that's what he's talking about. Ralsky is just the kind of guy to think that spamming you with pop-ups that can't be blocked by any kind of firewall or spam protection software is just the best thing in the world.
Of course, he's also the kind of guy to not know that particular "feature" can be disabled... see the techtv link to see how it's done:)
" The computers in Ralsky's basement control 190 e-mail servers -- 110 located in Southfield, 50 in Dallas and 30 more in Canada, China, Russia and India. Each computer, he said, is capable of sending out 650,000 messages every hour -- more than a billion a day -- routed through overseas Internet companies Ralsky said are eager to sell him bandwidth."
I knew our dear friend Mr. Ralsky was pushing some major data, but that's just mind bogling. One can only hope that Michigan's former attorney general, and soon-to-be governor, Jennifer Granholm, may get the power to do something about him.
Well, I was finally able to call Tracfone back, and they think they found the problem:
They switched my calling area over to all digital, and didn't notify me and my analog phone about this.
So now, if I want to stick with Tracfone, I get to send them my old (and now useless) analog phone, and they'll replace it with one of their new digital phones, for free*.
I'm not sure if I'll take them up on the offer - it took the customer two phone calls and two weeks of waiting to find this out? Maybe I don't need a phone that bad after all.
My phone's been useless for over a week now, and their website has been down for just as long. I've contacted customer support (after emailing someone about the fact that the website was broken, and I can't get customer service information - they replied with a direct callback number for a customer service rep!), they've walked me through the "fix your phone" scripts, and when that didn't work, they asked me to call back tomorrow after they do more checking. This was on Wednesday.
I haven't been able to call them back yet during working hours (I blame RedHat(heresy!)), but I'm going to call today during lunch to see if they can fix the problem. You'd think that they'd make an effort to contact a customer if they had a solution for the problem, though...
in first place is 'hinderance of interstate trade' followed closely behind by 'defamation of character'. Coming up fast is 'Lost revenue!' This is gonna be a photo finish folks...
"It looks like this could be a photo finish, or an oil painting..." Spike Jones, "A Day At The Races"
The problem is, everything on the track right now is a dead horse. Worse still, these horses are being beaten by jockeys with really big... bank accounts, so they'll somehow manage to win the race every time, leaving the long-standing dark horses "customer service" and "viable communications option" in the dust.
They have been... that's why they're all at Verio now. Other ISPs have finally had the balls actually ENFORCE their AUPs and ToSes and kick them out, but Verio is one of the last to choose spammer money over legitimate customer money.
Quite right you can never have too many pockets. I purchased two demin vests from clearance racks because they were loaded down with pockets, and I use one of them during the summer when it's too warm to wear either the trenchcoat (with it's almost elbow-deep pockets) or the jean jacket (two chest pockets, two inside pockets, two outside pockets, always holding at least one item each).
The vest came in really handy when I sprained my ankle and had to hobble around the house on crutches and yet still take care of the kids - in addition to the lefhanded Swiss Army knife / pill bottle / hankie / belt knife / pager I lugged around in or on my jeans, the vest came in handy for carrying a juice cup (covered), a bottle of milk, cordless phone, diapers, and a box of baby wipes (in the large pocket on the back), occasionally all at the same time.
MOSR has been irrelevant in the rumors "industry" (in my opinion) since they completely missed the boat on the iMac all those years ago. Their "rumors" tend to come from pie-eyed "what-if" scenarios snarfed form IRC these days.
There's much better Mac rumor sites out there - MacRumors and Macslash being two of them.
Ah well, at least there was an Apple-related question posed to him. 10% Apple-related questions... better percentage than their market share, at least:)
If I remember the new that reported on Japan-a-Radio correctly, Cowboy Bebop was drawing over 3 million viewers an episode. Seems to me that's a decent fanbase... but then again, there was a good sized fanbase for Farscape...
I'm curious as to the results of the Dan Gilmour interview - were the questions ever sent? Did he ever answer? Did I just flat-out miss the posting with his responses?
Note: I ask not only for completeness of the interview, but also for personal reasons - I'm curious to see if my question was one of the ten sent to Mr. Gilmour:)
For those who might be concerned that their cable company is controlling how they access the Internet, there's a simple fix for that -
Don't get your Internet access from your cable company.
There's still DSL, there's still satellite, there's still (ick) dialup...
there's still a free market, last time I looked.
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I signed up for a blog once, to see what all the fuss was about. I ended up scrapping it and going back to doing page entries manually. It ended up being MUCH less hassle than having to use someone else's software, and then having to go back and re-tweak things with it. Editing HTML from the command line in a shell is much more time-efficient, IMHO.
That's a very good reason - why let the cpu sit idle (providing you're the type that never shuts your computer down), when it could be doing some good for somebody's science project?
Of course, as far as rc5 was concerned, I was strictly in it for the cash:D
"SPEWS is a list of areas on the Internet which several system administrators, ISP postmasters, and other service providers have assembled and use to deny email and in some cases, all network traffic from.... Most spam advisory and blocking systems work after the fact. There is a time lag between the spammer setting up shop, spamming millions, and getting netblocks listed by these systems. SPEWS identifies known spammers and spam operations, listing them as soon as they start, sometimes even before they start spamming."
I'm working on setting up my own mail server just so I can implement SPEWS (and other spam-fighting tools).
That could actually be an interesting marketing move on Apple's part - one of the guys that runs a (dare I say THE MOST) highly visible geek web site, switching?
Not only that, but it'd be a few more bucks in Taco's pocket for being in the ad:)
Can I crash on your couch, man? I only got in to MW Boston last time because the guy going with my boss had to cancel, but couldn't cancel in time for my boss to book a single room at the hotel.
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Jeez, what kind of system would even allow "pregnant gay man" to be an available category?
I believe he's referring to the Windows Net Messenger "feature". See here for more info.
:)
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if that's what he's talking about. Ralsky is just the kind of guy to think that spamming you with pop-ups that can't be blocked by any kind of firewall or spam protection software is just the best thing in the world.
Of course, he's also the kind of guy to not know that particular "feature" can be disabled... see the techtv link to see how it's done
" The computers in Ralsky's basement control 190 e-mail servers -- 110 located in Southfield, 50 in Dallas and 30 more in Canada, China, Russia and India. Each computer, he said, is capable of sending out 650,000 messages every hour -- more than a billion a day -- routed through overseas Internet companies Ralsky said are eager to sell him bandwidth."
I knew our dear friend Mr. Ralsky was pushing some major data, but that's just mind bogling. One can only hope that Michigan's former attorney general, and soon-to-be governor, Jennifer Granholm, may get the power to do something about him.
You would rather have your harddrive formatted than seeing a 404?
;)
Heh... I'm not sweating Windows exploits on my OSX box
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The requested URL
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So what was it supposed to do, anyway?
Well, I was finally able to call Tracfone back, and they think they found the problem:
They switched my calling area over to all digital, and didn't notify me and my analog phone about this.
So now, if I want to stick with Tracfone, I get to send them my old (and now useless) analog phone, and they'll replace it with one of their new digital phones, for free*.
I'm not sure if I'll take them up on the offer - it took the customer two phone calls and two weeks of waiting to find this out? Maybe I don't need a phone that bad after all.
* plus shipping
My phone's been useless for over a week now, and their website has been down for just as long. I've contacted customer support (after emailing someone about the fact that the website was broken, and I can't get customer service information - they replied with a direct callback number for a customer service rep!), they've walked me through the "fix your phone" scripts, and when that didn't work, they asked me to call back tomorrow after they do more checking. This was on Wednesday.
I haven't been able to call them back yet during working hours (I blame RedHat(heresy!)), but I'm going to call today during lunch to see if they can fix the problem. You'd think that they'd make an effort to contact a customer if they had a solution for the problem, though...
in first place is 'hinderance of interstate trade' followed closely behind by 'defamation of character'. Coming up fast is 'Lost revenue!' This is gonna be a photo finish folks...
"It looks like this could be a photo finish, or an oil painting..." Spike Jones, "A Day At The Races"
The problem is, everything on the track right now is a dead horse. Worse still, these horses are being beaten by jockeys with really big... bank accounts, so they'll somehow manage to win the race every time, leaving the long-standing dark horses "customer service" and "viable communications option" in the dust.
They have been... that's why they're all at Verio now. Other ISPs have finally had the balls actually ENFORCE their AUPs and ToSes and kick them out, but Verio is one of the last to choose spammer money over legitimate customer money.
I hope they enjoy their intranet.
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Well, he did have a bit of incentive, having just been laid off from a full-time job
Quite right you can never have too many pockets. I purchased two demin vests from clearance racks because they were loaded down with pockets, and I use one of them during the summer when it's too warm to wear either the trenchcoat (with it's almost elbow-deep pockets) or the jean jacket (two chest pockets, two inside pockets, two outside pockets, always holding at least one item each).
The vest came in really handy when I sprained my ankle and had to hobble around the house on crutches and yet still take care of the kids - in addition to the lefhanded Swiss Army knife / pill bottle / hankie / belt knife / pager I lugged around in or on my jeans, the vest came in handy for carrying a juice cup (covered), a bottle of milk, cordless phone, diapers, and a box of baby wipes (in the large pocket on the back), occasionally all at the same time.
MOSR has been irrelevant in the rumors "industry" (in my opinion) since they completely missed the boat on the iMac all those years ago. Their "rumors" tend to come from pie-eyed "what-if" scenarios snarfed form IRC these days.
There's much better Mac rumor sites out there - MacRumors and Macslash being two of them.
Ah well, at least there was an Apple-related question posed to him. 10% Apple-related questions... better percentage than their market share, at least :)
AOL bought up ICQ years ago; I'd like to know why it took so long for the two services to be able to talk to each other.
If I remember the new that reported on Japan-a-Radio correctly, Cowboy Bebop was drawing over 3 million viewers an episode. Seems to me that's a decent fanbase... but then again, there was a good sized fanbase for Farscape...
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One word comes to mind:
NetInfo.
I'm curious as to the results of the Dan Gilmour interview - were the questions ever sent? Did he ever answer? Did I just flat-out miss the posting with his responses?
:)
Note: I ask not only for completeness of the interview, but also for personal reasons - I'm curious to see if my question was one of the ten sent to Mr. Gilmour
For those who might be concerned that their cable company is controlling how they access the Internet, there's a simple fix for that -
Don't get your Internet access from your cable company.
There's still DSL, there's still satellite, there's still (ick) dialup...
there's still a free market, last time I looked.
I signed up for a blog once, to see what all the fuss was about. I ended up scrapping it and going back to doing page entries manually. It ended up being MUCH less hassle than having to use someone else's software, and then having to go back and re-tweak things with it. Editing HTML from the command line in a shell is much more time-efficient, IMHO.
That's a very good reason - why let the cpu sit idle (providing you're the type that never shuts your computer down), when it could be doing some good for somebody's science project?
:D
Of course, as far as rc5 was concerned, I was strictly in it for the cash
SPEWS.
...
"SPEWS is a list of areas on the Internet which several system administrators, ISP postmasters, and other service providers have assembled and use to deny email and in some cases, all network traffic from.
Most spam advisory and blocking systems work after the fact. There is a time lag between the spammer setting up shop, spamming millions, and getting netblocks listed by these systems. SPEWS identifies known spammers and spam operations, listing them as soon as they start, sometimes even before they start spamming."
I'm working on setting up my own mail server just so I can implement SPEWS (and other spam-fighting tools).
One MacWorld per year?
You mean they're also cancelling MacWorld Tokyo? And what about the Apple Expo in Paris, does that count?
That could actually be an interesting marketing move on Apple's part - one of the guys that runs a (dare I say THE MOST) highly visible geek web site, switching?
:)
Not only that, but it'd be a few more bucks in Taco's pocket for being in the ad
Can I crash on your couch, man? I only got in to MW Boston last time because the guy going with my boss had to cancel, but couldn't cancel in time for my boss to book a single room at the hotel.