I specifically asked when the PSU went out if I could just send the PSU. They told me yes. If they had told me to send the whole case I wouldn't have sent them anything and I wouldn't have a negative opinion of them. I just would have bought a 3rd party PSU 2 months ago.
They've failed to uphold their end of the bargain and until they do they'll have a black mark with the BBB. Even the makers of the case told us NewEgg only needed to send us out a new PSU. NewEgg even lied about having the case in stock and didn't promise to send a replacement. They said they'd reimburse me for the case OR send a replacement. As if I could trust them. They're just braindead.
I wonder what they think is worth more: giving me a factory reimbursed PSU that costs them nothing, or a black mark with the BBB that can cost them other customers besides myself and my entire family.
I had a $700 system priced with them.
That replacement PSU that would have cost them nothing to give me has now cost them several thousand dollars. They're completely braindead. Only two other companies have been so dense: CaptialOne and Qwest. Neither of which we do any business with any longer.
Since NewEgg has decided to be dense, they now have someone who actively warns people not to shop with them. Over something that should have been a non issue. It was just a power supply. I'm not losing anything over it. My business is going along just fine. They decided to make an ass of themselves and now they're losing money.
It boggles the mind how they could be so dense. It doesn't matter how many good reviews they've gotten. I can't believe how utterly idiotic they were with dealing with my situation.
you set up a system of software developement modeled after communism and you're shocked to find out that people are taking advantage of you. Communism didn't work out so well in Russia either for the same reason. You have a lot of people doing all kinds of work for little to nothing and anyone can get all the benefits with no strings attached. Because that's how the system is defined. Free. As long as companies follow the guidlines they're doing nothing wrong and you can expect nothing in return.
And you aren't being taken advantage of. The software was offered for free. You volunteered your time to work on it. You don't demand compensation and actively oppose it in many cases. You got every you could expect to get from taking part in this system. How many OSS authors sell their software in some form? Practically none. They depend on donations and then whine when they go broke and can't afford to let people keep downloading it for free.
htaccess is a beautiful thing. It makes charging a small fee for access simple and easy to do. Or you could take advantage of my "Get Paid" hosting where I handle the subscription, bandwidth, diskspace and you take a cut of the subscription fee. It's free money for those who submit files I accept to host.
And if you do it yourself you don't have to worry about bandwidth usage and paying middle men. If you want to provide a free download alternative, pop the file on Kazaa with your home connection you pay a flat rate for. Hit up bittorrent, e-mule, any other number of P2P apps. That's what they're there for.
These obvious means to aquire funds for your project aren't being taken advantage of. And you expect corporations to foot the bill.
Sorry but the OSS model doesn't differentiate between those who have and those who have not.
If I'm broke or a millionaire I can use any OSS I want without paying a dime. If you don't like the fact that it's possible, legal and guilt free, change the system. Isn't that what we're telling the RIAA and MPAA?
NewEgg is Fry's Electronics on-line. I bought a 1U server case from them and I'm still waiting for a replacment power supply after the first one blew after 3 weeks of use. Having heard gushing reviews about customer service I assumed it'd be a simple thing. After telling me to overnight the PSU they sat on my RMA for 2 weeks without so much as an e-mail to let me know what was going on. Then they demanded I send in the whole case. I told them no because I'm running a business using it with a contract to my ISP to pay for the colo. I'm not about to waste a couple hundred (and lost business and pissed off customers) on hosting waiting for them to get me a new case. The only intelligent decision they made was to refund the money paid to ship the PSU to them.
After 2 more weeks we finally had enough and took it to the better business bureau. My server case is currently using an ATX power supply which is pretty ghetto but it works. I'm not about to shut down my business for the idiots at NewEgg. If the BBB doesn't resolve it pretty quickly I'll just buy a Sparkler from someone else. I could only get an ATX PSU the day it blew out. Even the company that makes the case I'm using said NewEgg should have just sent me a new PSU like they said they were going to do. It's been a couple months now. They're holding my busted PSU hostage.
If I want cheap crap and crap customer service I'd just go to Fry's. At least Fry's has never given me the run around when I try to return something and I can yell at people in person if they try anything.
If you're looking to buy high end expensive parts shop at www.aberdeeninc.com
Prices are a little higher but you get the confidence that you're not buying from a bunch of technical deliquents. NewEgg even admits they aren't technical people. They don't do tech support. They never test parts before they go out the door. So why in the world would you buy expensive parts from them?
Aberdeen Inc tests all it's parts before they go out the door and if there's a problem you can talk to knowledgable people.
Another alternative to NewEgg is mwave.com although I havn't had any personal experience with them.
If I need a part and it's not critical (anything but a CPU or Motherboard basically) I go to Fry's. Out of principle I'll never buy anything from NewEgg again. I've bought a few things from Aberdeen and have never had a problem.
In short, don't buy expensive parts from Fry's Electronics type stores. Get them from quality merchants. Otherwise you could really end up in a world of hurt.
Instead of hitting the delete button I started putting spam in a folder for later analysis. What I found is that spammers use affiliate programs. For example, I recently got a porn spam with an image from
http://gallery7.withsex.com/
All I do is block withsex.com with an expression filter and all spam that's afilitated with that site goes away. Spammers can't ofuscate an URL otherwise it won't work. The image linked from the same site is 28KB. If that spam was sent out to 25 million people and all of them looked at it once that cost the spammers 667GB of transfer. On a standard DSL line it would take about 6 months to transfer that. These companies need a dedicated host to allow them that kind of bandwidth. The company may have a number of domains for the site but spammers aren't going to be using random ones to advertise it like they use random from e-mail addresses. They also have to keep the domains functional or all that spam goes to waste.
Not many hosts would allow that kind of bandwidth transfer without charging up the nose for it. Which limits the number of hosts that spammers will use for images. 2004Hosting.org/.net is a big one for the cable filter and "banned CD." 530000x.net is also affiliated with those spams.
click-net and click-com are what spammers use to get paid. If you click on a spam link, most likely it goes through a common domain to log the referal to calculate how much the spammer gets paid. Block the referal site and all spam that uses that referer to get paid is gone.
Is a big e-bay spammer site. I block xswcde.biz with an expression filter and all e-bay spam from that company goes away.
It basically boils down to blocking the company and not the spammer. My spam count went from about a dozen a day to 1 or 2 and they also have obvious tells. If possible I also block the domain in the from address. Using a web-form cut down on spam quite a bit as well.
Ben
How to get First Post without even trying
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Wait 30 minutes to see what posts get moderated up and which post is first.
Look at the content of a highly moderated post farther down on the page and regurgitate it as a reply to a first post.
It looks like it's an original thought and it's at the top of the page!
If a post has nothing to do with the parent post, don't moderate it up. Chances are it's redundant from something posted earlier but farther down.
You should have posted to the real first post (and changed the title so it's not "re:") which is most likely moderated at a -1. Then it looks like you post is the parent post to those who don't browse at that level. Badabing! First Post. Without even trying.
Anytime some nerd spends countless hours and thousands of dollars on some useless feat of technology Slashdot goes "oooh" and "ahhhh"
Some guy spends equally as much time and money on decorating his house in a way that masses of people want to see, you whine about how much time and money it cost.
Sorry nerd boy, the world doesn't care about the fact you wasted a pile of time and money on getting your C64 on the internet.
5 people give a shit about your uesless little Linux running toy. Thousands of people enjoy this guy's house.
Too bad. It's his money, he can spend it how he wants.
Why don't you take your money and time you've wasted on worthless tech toys and put it towards charity.
Then, once you've ceased to be hypocritical, we'll consider criticizing this guy's ambitions.
And an excellent example of why our rights can so easily be eroded.
"Sorry sir but this bitching bitter nerd doesn't see the point in this so you'll have to take it down."
"Do people really like looking at the house Christmas threw up on?"
You're an idiot. Obviously people want to see it. Otherwise it wouldn't be news. It's a holiday tradition for many people to drive around and see the decorations on people's houses.
You'd know this is if didn't live in the basement completely cut off from society.
Maybe you should take your bitching to the city council so they'll consider outlawing having a bit of fun during the holidays.
It's 1984: Do you know where your rights are? They've been confiscated by bitching nerds and will be returned to you as soon as they deem it convienent for themselves.
You can buy the versions PBS showed years ago at Amazon.com. I believe 3 of them were made.
So yes, they make good movies.
Only in the Matrix did they beat you over the head with the rediculous notion that Neo == Jesus (he was far far too flawed to be anything more than a hero).
Those who are familiar with Christian theology will recognize Aslan as Christ without ever being told.
Because they're a very large company with customers. And I've never had any issues with it. When something goes wrong in an MS product they have many many many people with deep pockets they have to answer to. This bug it's "fixing" isn't even a real issue. The only reason it seems big is from the unwarrented collective knee-jerk over the idea they're not getting a patch out in a "suitable amount of time."
Let he who has no bugs cast the first exception. Apache has still refused to fix their logging bug in the 2.x line. You have to use a 3rd party module and even that's broken. PHP failes to document the mysql_connect function properly. Failing to mention there's a safe mode setting for it with a generic name that's undocumented except for it's "default" setting while also failing to tell you what it actually does.
As many have pointed out already, this so-called "patch" is trash. So I won't be using it. The people who wrote it don't have customers. If nobody uses it, or they screw some people over, it's no skin off their nose.
Google should take this idea and employ it in their toolbar. You can't copyright validating a string. I don't care that the Google toolbar is closed source.
If you're going to base you trust of things on whether or not they're "open" you should stop playing video games, using cell-phones, etc.
What crack were they smoking that they use a buffer size of only 256 characters? Apparently they're trying to be clever and "save" memory. Hello and welcome to 2003. 4KB, 8KB even 16KB and I don't think anyone would miss it.
139 characters. My bank site spits out URLs much much longer than that.
Not only is this story a complete waste of time but the "company" that wrote this patch has just earned themselves some of the worst publicity they could imagine.
But I really need to leave my work at work. I take up other "geek" hobbies on my off time or just hang out with friends.
Currently I'm working on building a virtual pet in LogicWorks in my off time when I feel like it. So far I've got the 4 bit random number generator (around a 100 digit sequence), A and B clock synced buttons for menu selection and an 8x8 double buffered display with PROM controller to hold up to 16 animations with up to 4 frames each. Next step is figuring out stats and building the components to manipulate them.
Variety is important. You can't spend your whole life doing one thing.
were the major methods for getting around filters.
By following those guidlines filters will be capable of 100% accuracy with "legitimate" spam.
Now there will just be more legitimate spam. Which means more spam being sent (since it's legal) but far less being recieved (since it's so easy to filter).
Have fun Ralsky. Send all you want. I won't be seeing any of it once the tells are all established in my filters which won't take long.
Nothing in that area has changed. All it does is force "legitimate" spammers to use easily filterable tells. That's a Good Thing(tm) as false positives will go down.
Meanwhile, we deal with the "illigitimate" spammers just the same as before.
If you actually look at the prices they aren't consistantly up. Most are unchanged. The ones that changed drastically are the price of birds and pear trees must have had a good season since the price is way down. Swans are far more expensive, calling birds are more expensive. And drummers and pipers which are probably getting rarer by the year.
It has little to no relation to the dollar. Unless we're getting those birds, pipers and drummers from Canada. More likely is that those items were a hot item last time the price list came out so they raised the prices this year.
The gold rings are less expensive most likely from the fluctuation of the price of gold.
I no longer have my e-mail address posted on my web-site because I was getting so much spam. I use a PHP SMTP form instead which sends me e-mails from one of my accounts to another of my accounts which bypasses all filters except content. If they want me to e-mail them back they can include their e-mail address.
E-mail addresses change constantly anyway. Give people you don't know your domain and just have a web-form. If you want to e-mail them, add them to your white-list. It's easier to remember a domain name than an e-mail address anyway.
If you want to treat the stock market like a slot machine and have a hundred or so lying around, this would be a historically good type of slot to play with. It's not a stock you put your savings on. It's a stock you put your beer money on and throw a kegger if it pays off.
The other good slot is airlines since the government rarely lets them go out of business. If they're having a rough time, you can wait it out with a pretty good chance of eventually making a return. After 9/11 AWA went up 400% (I made quite a bit on that one) and has dipped down back to a $1.00 a share and gone up 1500% since then. It's now hovering around $11-13 a share.
I thought it would be smart not to put a nickel in the same slot that already won me money so I missed out on the ride. I told a friend to put some money on it but he bailed when it doubled because it was too wierd.
That link doesn't prove it will never work, just that it hasn't worked yet. Nobody took him up on his offer.
It'd be better to get a pool of people together and charge $10 a year or so which grants you the right to unquestioned moderation for a year as long as a point is available from the pool.
Those in the pool are then paid based on how many mod points they give out through the system.
but that has nothing to do with the top parent's misuse of the Bible claiming it's a "do unto others" issue and accusation she's a hypocrite.
If you're going to accuse people, accuse accuratly. Otherwise you lose any semblence of credibility. It just looks like he's trying to attack her with her religion out of ignorace.
no where in the Bible does it say "thou shalt not spam"
And your verse would only apply if she got upset from getting spammed herself.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
She's spamming unto you so spam unto her.
I really hate it when people try to drag the Bible into every facet of life. There are many a things that are neither commanded nor condemed by the Bible. You have to think for yourself.
However the Bible does command you to follow the government so long as it doesn't contradict God's word. Since God has nothing to say about spam, she's at the whims of the government on this one.
If she is breaking the law, THEN the church should condemn her for it.
Not because the Bible says "do unto" but because she disobeyed the government which God has established and commanded her to follow.
So yes, the Bible does apply but not in the way you twisted it to.
I'm a republican but I didn't vote in 2000 because I thought both Bush and Gore were idiots. They've yet to prove me wrong.
My issue with next years election is Iraq. I can deal with 4 more years of Bush. I don't have to worry about him going away. Wesley Clark was the first come come out with an ad (In AZ) that just said "I've fixed problems like this before and I can do it again." No Bush bashing, no war bashing. Just accepting the reality the war happened and he could potentially inherit a mess and highlighting his successes in this area.
Dean on the other hand hasn't run an ad (I've seen in AZ) that didn't bash the war and Bush. Wake up Mr Dean. The War HAPPENED. What are *you* going to do about it?
If Dean manages to get the democratic nomination, I'll most likely vote for Bush. I'm not about to vote for some new guy with no plan to step in, in the middle of a mess. He's not someone I'd trust to get into office with both feet running with Iraq. Dean seems smart enough but that's not good enough. He needs a plan BEFORE he steps into office.
"I didn't vote for the war" is not a platform.
Like it or not, Bush is fully entrenched in this war. If we're lucky, the capture of Saddam will speed up the process and makes Bush irrelevant by the time the election comes around. But, if it's not done, I'm not confident in the democratic candidates enough to let them jump in and hope they know what they're doing.
I'll let Bush have 4 more years to finish what he started and let him take the full credit or blame for what happens.
I can just imagine a democrate getting in there, fucking it up and then pretending that it's all Bush's fault and that he inherited a lost cause. I can also imagine them getting in there, fixing it and then taking full credit.
It's Bush's mess. He's the one that needs to stick to it until it's done or he's sufficiently proven that he's in over his head.
Unless that happens prior to election day 2004, he'll have my vote.
With 10 seconds of time wasted per e-mail, he would break even on 20 years imprisonment if he only sent ~63 million spam messages. Which is probably a large multiple less than how many he actually sent.
Sounds plenty fair.
How do you quantify "monetary damages" and who gets them? Certainly not the ISP since he paid for the bandwidth. Nothing of monetary value was actually lost.
So off to prison he goes from a system where most of the time the laws are just but the punishment have no rational behind them.
I wonder how much money it would cost for the legal system to go through the laws and reconsider all the punishments so they make sense. Probably too much.
And that's probably why we just put up with punishments that were defined decades ago based on a more or less lenient society.
Spam laws were defined by a society that hates spammers. It's not surprising the punishment seems a whee bit over the top. If we had made legislation 10 years ago he'd probably be getting a slap on the wrist now.
Scammers have been using that for a very long time. And it's hardly a bug considering the URL in the address bar shows the www.fsf.org address after you click on the link. The new exploit does exactly the same thing except the URL doesn't show the correct one which is why someone thought it was news.
The reason that feature is there is because IE is also a very slick FTP client.
ftp://username:password@www.somesite.com
and now you can drag and drop files to your hearts content just like it's a regular folder and the url www.somesite.com shows up in the address bar alone so you know where you're at.
Both are equally offensive: not at all.
Don't click on links in e-mails that supposedly take you to verify information. Simple. Always go to the company's site manually and log in and check for notices there. Same as you should have taught grandma years ago.
This is yet another big non-news story of the day.
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I specifically asked when the PSU went out if I could just send the PSU. They told me yes. If they had told me to send the whole case I wouldn't have sent them anything and I wouldn't have a negative opinion of them. I just would have bought a 3rd party PSU 2 months ago.
They've failed to uphold their end of the bargain and until they do they'll have a black mark with the BBB. Even the makers of the case told us NewEgg only needed to send us out a new PSU. NewEgg even lied about having the case in stock and didn't promise to send a replacement. They said they'd reimburse me for the case OR send a replacement. As if I could trust them. They're just braindead.
I wonder what they think is worth more: giving me a factory reimbursed PSU that costs them nothing, or a black mark with the BBB that can cost them other customers besides myself and my entire family.
I had a $700 system priced with them.
That replacement PSU that would have cost them nothing to give me has now cost them several thousand dollars. They're completely braindead. Only two other companies have been so dense: CaptialOne and Qwest. Neither of which we do any business with any longer.
Since NewEgg has decided to be dense, they now have someone who actively warns people not to shop with them. Over something that should have been a non issue. It was just a power supply. I'm not losing anything over it. My business is going along just fine. They decided to make an ass of themselves and now they're losing money.
It boggles the mind how they could be so dense. It doesn't matter how many good reviews they've gotten. I can't believe how utterly idiotic they were with dealing with my situation.
Ben
you set up a system of software developement modeled after communism and you're shocked to find out that people are taking advantage of you. Communism didn't work out so well in Russia either for the same reason. You have a lot of people doing all kinds of work for little to nothing and anyone can get all the benefits with no strings attached. Because that's how the system is defined. Free. As long as companies follow the guidlines they're doing nothing wrong and you can expect nothing in return.
And you aren't being taken advantage of. The software was offered for free. You volunteered your time to work on it. You don't demand compensation and actively oppose it in many cases. You got every you could expect to get from taking part in this system. How many OSS authors sell their software in some form? Practically none. They depend on donations and then whine when they go broke and can't afford to let people keep downloading it for free.
htaccess is a beautiful thing. It makes charging a small fee for access simple and easy to do. Or you could take advantage of my "Get Paid" hosting where I handle the subscription, bandwidth, diskspace and you take a cut of the subscription fee. It's free money for those who submit files I accept to host.
And if you do it yourself you don't have to worry about bandwidth usage and paying middle men. If you want to provide a free download alternative, pop the file on Kazaa with your home connection you pay a flat rate for. Hit up bittorrent, e-mule, any other number of P2P apps. That's what they're there for.
These obvious means to aquire funds for your project aren't being taken advantage of. And you expect corporations to foot the bill.
Sorry but the OSS model doesn't differentiate between those who have and those who have not.
If I'm broke or a millionaire I can use any OSS I want without paying a dime. If you don't like the fact that it's possible, legal and guilt free, change the system. Isn't that what we're telling the RIAA and MPAA?
Ben
NewEgg is Fry's Electronics on-line. I bought a 1U server case from them and I'm still waiting for a replacment power supply after the first one blew after 3 weeks of use. Having heard gushing reviews about customer service I assumed it'd be a simple thing. After telling me to overnight the PSU they sat on my RMA for 2 weeks without so much as an e-mail to let me know what was going on. Then they demanded I send in the whole case. I told them no because I'm running a business using it with a contract to my ISP to pay for the colo. I'm not about to waste a couple hundred (and lost business and pissed off customers) on hosting waiting for them to get me a new case. The only intelligent decision they made was to refund the money paid to ship the PSU to them.
After 2 more weeks we finally had enough and took it to the better business bureau. My server case is currently using an ATX power supply which is pretty ghetto but it works. I'm not about to shut down my business for the idiots at NewEgg. If the BBB doesn't resolve it pretty quickly I'll just buy a Sparkler from someone else. I could only get an ATX PSU the day it blew out. Even the company that makes the case I'm using said NewEgg should have just sent me a new PSU like they said they were going to do. It's been a couple months now. They're holding my busted PSU hostage.
If I want cheap crap and crap customer service I'd just go to Fry's. At least Fry's has never given me the run around when I try to return something and I can yell at people in person if they try anything.
If you're looking to buy high end expensive parts shop at www.aberdeeninc.com
Prices are a little higher but you get the confidence that you're not buying from a bunch of technical deliquents. NewEgg even admits they aren't technical people. They don't do tech support. They never test parts before they go out the door. So why in the world would you buy expensive parts from them?
Aberdeen Inc tests all it's parts before they go out the door and if there's a problem you can talk to knowledgable people.
Another alternative to NewEgg is mwave.com although I havn't had any personal experience with them.
If I need a part and it's not critical (anything but a CPU or Motherboard basically) I go to Fry's. Out of principle I'll never buy anything from NewEgg again. I've bought a few things from Aberdeen and have never had a problem.
In short, don't buy expensive parts from Fry's Electronics type stores. Get them from quality merchants. Otherwise you could really end up in a world of hurt.
Ben
Instead of hitting the delete button I started putting spam in a folder for later analysis. What I found is that spammers use affiliate programs. For example, I recently got a porn spam with an image from
://www.silverstate.co.sy@click.com-click.com.ph/cl ick.php?id=sicosyl
1 &c ampid=
http://gallery7.withsex.com/
All I do is block withsex.com with an expression filter and all spam that's afilitated with that site goes away. Spammers can't ofuscate an URL otherwise it won't work. The image linked from the same site is 28KB. If that spam was sent out to 25 million people and all of them looked at it once that cost the spammers 667GB of transfer. On a standard DSL line it would take about 6 months to transfer that. These companies need a dedicated host to allow them that kind of bandwidth. The company may have a number of domains for the site but spammers aren't going to be using random ones to advertise it like they use random from e-mail addresses. They also have to keep the domains functional or all that spam goes to waste.
Not many hosts would allow that kind of bandwidth transfer without charging up the nose for it. Which limits the number of hosts that spammers will use for images. 2004Hosting.org/.net is a big one for the cable filter and "banned CD." 530000x.net is also affiliated with those spams.
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click-net and click-com are what spammers use to get paid. If you click on a spam link, most likely it goes through a common domain to log the referal to calculate how much the spammer gets paid. Block the referal site and all spam that uses that referer to get paid is gone.
For example
http://www.xswcde.biz/index.php?id=173&affid=56
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Is a big e-bay spammer site. I block xswcde.biz with an expression filter and all e-bay spam from that company goes away.
It basically boils down to blocking the company and not the spammer. My spam count went from about a dozen a day to 1 or 2 and they also have obvious tells. If possible I also block the domain in the from address. Using a web-form cut down on spam quite a bit as well.
Ben
Wait 30 minutes to see what posts get moderated up and which post is first.
Look at the content of a highly moderated post farther down on the page and regurgitate it as a reply to a first post.
It looks like it's an original thought and it's at the top of the page!
If a post has nothing to do with the parent post, don't moderate it up. Chances are it's redundant from something posted earlier but farther down.
You should have posted to the real first post (and changed the title so it's not "re:") which is most likely moderated at a -1. Then it looks like you post is the parent post to those who don't browse at that level. Badabing! First Post. Without even trying.
Ben
Anytime some nerd spends countless hours and thousands of dollars on some useless feat of technology Slashdot goes "oooh" and "ahhhh"
Some guy spends equally as much time and money on decorating his house in a way that masses of people want to see, you whine about how much time and money it cost.
Sorry nerd boy, the world doesn't care about the fact you wasted a pile of time and money on getting your C64 on the internet.
5 people give a shit about your uesless little Linux running toy. Thousands of people enjoy this guy's house.
Too bad. It's his money, he can spend it how he wants.
Why don't you take your money and time you've wasted on worthless tech toys and put it towards charity.
Then, once you've ceased to be hypocritical, we'll consider criticizing this guy's ambitions.
Ben
And an excellent example of why our rights can so easily be eroded.
"Sorry sir but this bitching bitter nerd doesn't see the point in this so you'll have to take it down."
"Do people really like looking at the house Christmas threw up on?"
You're an idiot. Obviously people want to see it. Otherwise it wouldn't be news. It's a holiday tradition for many people to drive around and see the decorations on people's houses.
You'd know this is if didn't live in the basement completely cut off from society.
Ben
whine.
Maybe you should take your bitching to the city council so they'll consider outlawing having a bit of fun during the holidays.
It's 1984: Do you know where your rights are? They've been confiscated by bitching nerds and will be returned to you as soon as they deem it convienent for themselves.
Where's the -1 Pathetic button?
Ben
You can buy the versions PBS showed years ago at Amazon.com. I believe 3 of them were made.
So yes, they make good movies.
Only in the Matrix did they beat you over the head with the rediculous notion that Neo == Jesus (he was far far too flawed to be anything more than a hero).
Those who are familiar with Christian theology will recognize Aslan as Christ without ever being told.
Ben
Because they're a very large company with customers. And I've never had any issues with it. When something goes wrong in an MS product they have many many many people with deep pockets they have to answer to. This bug it's "fixing" isn't even a real issue. The only reason it seems big is from the unwarrented collective knee-jerk over the idea they're not getting a patch out in a "suitable amount of time."
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Let he who has no bugs cast the first exception. Apache has still refused to fix their logging bug in the 2.x line. You have to use a 3rd party module and even that's broken. PHP failes to document the mysql_connect function properly. Failing to mention there's a safe mode setting for it with a generic name that's undocumented except for it's "default" setting while also failing to tell you what it actually does.
As many have pointed out already, this so-called "patch" is trash. So I won't be using it. The people who wrote it don't have customers. If nobody uses it, or they screw some people over, it's no skin off their nose.
Google should take this idea and employ it in their toolbar. You can't copyright validating a string. I don't care that the Google toolbar is closed source.
If you're going to base you trust of things on whether or not they're "open" you should stop playing video games, using cell-phones, etc.
What crack were they smoking that they use a buffer size of only 256 characters? Apparently they're trying to be clever and "save" memory. Hello and welcome to 2003. 4KB, 8KB even 16KB and I don't think anyone would miss it.
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139 characters. My bank site spits out URLs much much longer than that.
Not only is this story a complete waste of time but the "company" that wrote this patch has just earned themselves some of the worst publicity they could imagine.
Ben
is the last version that didn't completely suck. It's the only version I'll install.
Give it a fake e-mail address, tell it fuck off in the preferences and you're good to go.
You can still find it on-line. And there's no compatibility issues....yet.
Ben
But I really need to leave my work at work. I take up other "geek" hobbies on my off time or just hang out with friends.
Currently I'm working on building a virtual pet in LogicWorks in my off time when I feel like it. So far I've got the 4 bit random number generator (around a 100 digit sequence), A and B clock synced buttons for menu selection and an 8x8 double buffered display with PROM controller to hold up to 16 animations with up to 4 frames each. Next step is figuring out stats and building the components to manipulate them.
Variety is important. You can't spend your whole life doing one thing.
Ben
were the major methods for getting around filters.
By following those guidlines filters will be capable of 100% accuracy with "legitimate" spam.
Now there will just be more legitimate spam. Which means more spam being sent (since it's legal) but far less being recieved (since it's so easy to filter).
Have fun Ralsky. Send all you want. I won't be seeing any of it once the tells are all established in my filters which won't take long.
Ben
is my blacklist and filter rules.
Nothing in that area has changed. All it does is force "legitimate" spammers to use easily filterable tells. That's a Good Thing(tm) as false positives will go down.
Meanwhile, we deal with the "illigitimate" spammers just the same as before.
Ben
If you actually look at the prices they aren't consistantly up. Most are unchanged. The ones that changed drastically are the price of birds and pear trees must have had a good season since the price is way down. Swans are far more expensive, calling birds are more expensive. And drummers and pipers which are probably getting rarer by the year.
It has little to no relation to the dollar. Unless we're getting those birds, pipers and drummers from Canada. More likely is that those items were a hot item last time the price list came out so they raised the prices this year.
The gold rings are less expensive most likely from the fluctuation of the price of gold.
Ben
I no longer have my e-mail address posted on my web-site because I was getting so much spam. I use a PHP SMTP form instead which sends me e-mails from one of my accounts to another of my accounts which bypasses all filters except content. If they want me to e-mail them back they can include their e-mail address.
E-mail addresses change constantly anyway. Give people you don't know your domain and just have a web-form. If you want to e-mail them, add them to your white-list. It's easier to remember a domain name than an e-mail address anyway.
Ben
is limited only by how much you invest.
If you want to treat the stock market like a slot machine and have a hundred or so lying around, this would be a historically good type of slot to play with. It's not a stock you put your savings on. It's a stock you put your beer money on and throw a kegger if it pays off.
The other good slot is airlines since the government rarely lets them go out of business. If they're having a rough time, you can wait it out with a pretty good chance of eventually making a return. After 9/11 AWA went up 400% (I made quite a bit on that one) and has dipped down back to a $1.00 a share and gone up 1500% since then. It's now hovering around $11-13 a share.
I thought it would be smart not to put a nickel in the same slot that already won me money so I missed out on the ride. I told a friend to put some money on it but he bailed when it doubled because it was too wierd.
Ben
"The machines that we use are not all that great, P4 1.7Ghz with 2 year old NVidia graphics cards, so Quake and the likes are out of the question."
and who smokes crack?
Ask first, think later. I'd imagine somebody in the office has Quake. What was the harm in installing it to see if it would run?
Ben
when you have to pay people to mod you up.
That link doesn't prove it will never work, just that it hasn't worked yet. Nobody took him up on his offer.
It'd be better to get a pool of people together and charge $10 a year or so which grants you the right to unquestioned moderation for a year as long as a point is available from the pool.
Those in the pool are then paid based on how many mod points they give out through the system.
And by "better" I mean slightly less pathetic.
Ben
but that has nothing to do with the top parent's misuse of the Bible claiming it's a "do unto others" issue and accusation she's a hypocrite.
If you're going to accuse people, accuse accuratly. Otherwise you lose any semblence of credibility. It just looks like he's trying to attack her with her religion out of ignorace.
Which is far from insightful.
Ben
no where in the Bible does it say "thou shalt not spam"
And your verse would only apply if she got upset from getting spammed herself.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
She's spamming unto you so spam unto her.
I really hate it when people try to drag the Bible into every facet of life. There are many a things that are neither commanded nor condemed by the Bible. You have to think for yourself.
However the Bible does command you to follow the government so long as it doesn't contradict God's word. Since God has nothing to say about spam, she's at the whims of the government on this one.
If she is breaking the law, THEN the church should condemn her for it.
Not because the Bible says "do unto" but because she disobeyed the government which God has established and commanded her to follow.
So yes, the Bible does apply but not in the way you twisted it to.
Ben
I'm a republican but I didn't vote in 2000 because I thought both Bush and Gore were idiots. They've yet to prove me wrong.
My issue with next years election is Iraq. I can deal with 4 more years of Bush. I don't have to worry about him going away. Wesley Clark was the first come come out with an ad (In AZ) that just said "I've fixed problems like this before and I can do it again." No Bush bashing, no war bashing. Just accepting the reality the war happened and he could potentially inherit a mess and highlighting his successes in this area.
Dean on the other hand hasn't run an ad (I've seen in AZ) that didn't bash the war and Bush. Wake up Mr Dean. The War HAPPENED. What are *you* going to do about it?
If Dean manages to get the democratic nomination, I'll most likely vote for Bush. I'm not about to vote for some new guy with no plan to step in, in the middle of a mess. He's not someone I'd trust to get into office with both feet running with Iraq. Dean seems smart enough but that's not good enough. He needs a plan BEFORE he steps into office.
"I didn't vote for the war" is not a platform.
Like it or not, Bush is fully entrenched in this war. If we're lucky, the capture of Saddam will speed up the process and makes Bush irrelevant by the time the election comes around. But, if it's not done, I'm not confident in the democratic candidates enough to let them jump in and hope they know what they're doing.
I'll let Bush have 4 more years to finish what he started and let him take the full credit or blame for what happens.
I can just imagine a democrate getting in there, fucking it up and then pretending that it's all Bush's fault and that he inherited a lost cause. I can also imagine them getting in there, fixing it and then taking full credit.
It's Bush's mess. He's the one that needs to stick to it until it's done or he's sufficiently proven that he's in over his head.
Unless that happens prior to election day 2004, he'll have my vote.
Ben
now wears a tinfoil hat.
Ben
With 10 seconds of time wasted per e-mail, he would break even on 20 years imprisonment if he only sent ~63 million spam messages. Which is probably a large multiple less than how many he actually sent.
Sounds plenty fair.
How do you quantify "monetary damages" and who gets them? Certainly not the ISP since he paid for the bandwidth. Nothing of monetary value was actually lost.
So off to prison he goes from a system where most of the time the laws are just but the punishment have no rational behind them.
I wonder how much money it would cost for the legal system to go through the laws and reconsider all the punishments so they make sense. Probably too much.
And that's probably why we just put up with punishments that were defined decades ago based on a more or less lenient society.
Spam laws were defined by a society that hates spammers. It's not surprising the punishment seems a whee bit over the top. If we had made legislation 10 years ago he'd probably be getting a slap on the wrist now.
Ben
How is this insightful?
Scammers have been using that for a very long time. And it's hardly a bug considering the URL in the address bar shows the www.fsf.org address after you click on the link. The new exploit does exactly the same thing except the URL doesn't show the correct one which is why someone thought it was news.
The reason that feature is there is because IE is also a very slick FTP client.
ftp://username:password@www.somesite.com
and now you can drag and drop files to your hearts content just like it's a regular folder and the url www.somesite.com shows up in the address bar alone so you know where you're at.
Both are equally offensive: not at all.
Don't click on links in e-mails that supposedly take you to verify information. Simple. Always go to the company's site manually and log in and check for notices there. Same as you should have taught grandma years ago.
This is yet another big non-news story of the day.
Ben