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  1. Innovate? Innovate? on McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation' · · Score: 5, Funny



    I just innovated 4 of my domains over to
    another registrar.

  2. Guidelines on More Jail Time For Computer Crime Starting Next Month · · Score: 3, Funny


    I think if the guidelines actually included the phrase
    "Federal pound me in the ass prison" it might help.

  3. Re:Disposable on E-mail Newsletters Switching To RSS · · Score: 1

    Here's the description of Sneakemail on lockergnomes site
    http://www.lockergnome.com/issues/win95nt/20 010728 .html

    When that appeared in their *email* newsletter Sneakemail
    got quite a few hits.

  4. Disposable on E-mail Newsletters Switching To RSS · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just dont ask for a persons address, ask them to use a disposable one instead, so they feel better, and theres no pressure on you. Few years ago Sneakemail tried to make an interface just for this purpose to make it easier, but nobody cared, see my sig for the link. Everybody is handling spam so badly and now people want to scrap the whole thing. If I left my car in a bad neighborhood with the windows rolled down who's fault is it when it gets stolen? Do I whine for more car theft legislation? Do I stop driving my car? Same with email, stop whoring your address everywhere.

  5. Cost of living? on Distribution of Wealth in a Robot-Driven World · · Score: 1


    Did he mention, or factor in, anywhere that robots could dramatically reduce the cost of living as well?

  6. Sneakemail.com on Following the Spam Trail · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is why Sneakemail was created over 3 years ago. You can easily bust whoever benefits from your stolen/sold email address no matter how far down the chain it goes. For those who don't know Sneakemail was the first disposable email address service which was designed both for keeping your address clean and tracking those selling your address. Sneakemail got a mention in this months MIT Technology review magazine.

  7. Re:Be careful with your email address on Email (As We Know It) Doomed? · · Score: 3, Informative


    Sneakemail.com was created just for this purpose, its like a condom for your email address. And no its not going to disappear, its been running over 2 years and is profitable

  8. Re:ah, /., home of morons on The Coming Air Age · · Score: 1

    Nice math.

    Now throw in the weight of your fat head and your fat wife and fat kids and see how good the milage is. Any why would you use a freak vehicle like a yukon to make your point?

  9. Re:fuel issues on The Coming Air Age · · Score: 1

    Interesting you believe this and work in the oil industry. I'll guess you work in the 'western' half of the worlds oil industry. This industry also believes that oil deposits come from biological sources. On the other hand, russian oil scientists believe that oil comes from geological sources and have believed this for many years and they have scientific proof including creating oil in experiments from calcium carbonate from geological sources. The western world refused to believe this and western geologists get very upset at these theorys, almost to the point of being hostile. The fact is, the world is full of oil.

  10. fuel issues on The Coming Air Age · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll admit i'm not expert on this. But i do believe the faster you push something through the air the less fuel efficient it becomes. Also, keeping something In the air requires a lot of fuel. You'd think that cramming a lot of poeple into a fast flying machine would eventually become fuel efficient the more you put in, but its a fact that traveling by train is much more fuel efficient than a 767.

    My car goes about 300-400 miles on a 15 gallon tank of gas. Imagine how much gas a any kind of helicopter burns in 300 miles keeping itself up and pushing itself through the air, especially with all the crazy turbulence the roters makes.

    I have no doubt that fuel will get cheaper in the future and global warming is bunk, but i dont want a bunch of hippies bugging me.

  11. Re:The "three monkeys" approach? on WA Wins First Case Against Deceptive Spammer · · Score: 2

    I agree, go to the source of the problem, companies that violate your trust by giving or selling your email address, use something like Sneakemail so they can be caught in the act. The blame can be shifted away from the untouchable offshore spammers and the tedious open relay wack-a-mole and shame those who secretly put the process in motion.

  12. Re:whatever on Hands on Science Learning · · Score: 2

    if you cant tell the direction i would change it from the content of my posting we're not going to get anywhere.

  13. whatever on Hands on Science Learning · · Score: 2

    Regardless of the good intentions, little diversions from the mindless droning on of a teacher standing in front of a classroom while kids zone out are just that, LITTLE.

    The methods of education need to be changed from the bottom up. There need to be fundamental changes. Although these will not come about from the inside, because the methods in place are dogma. How do you change an establishments dogma, well if its the church you dont go ask priests and the pope what to replace the standards with. Until there are outside forces, like science was to a church, probably commercial educational enterprises to the current schools, fixing education will be like fixing a car with square wheels by putting in a better stereo.

  14. Re:Anti spam site, LOL? on Anti-Spam Site Accused of Spamming, Fixes Error · · Score: 2

    Actually, what do you think happens when one of our users actually can figure out where the spammed address originated from. That right, the first a-hole that actually decided to pass the address on to spammers. It has a chilling effect when a so-called legit business, or a liquidated business, can no longer sell lists of their users addresses without getting busted. Its email DNA evidence. That my friend, is a reduction in spam on the internet.

  15. Anti spam site, LOL? on Anti-Spam Site Accused of Spamming, Fixes Error · · Score: 4, Informative

    We sometimes get blamed for spam at Sneakemail.com. The funny thing is when we get blamed its because the user just forgets they are using Sneakemail and when spam gets sent through their disposable email address we provide its so transparent they forget whats happening and think we're spamming them. Actually when they get spam it means Sneakemail worked perfectly since their real email address wasnt actually spammed, as it would have been. This actually got us kicked off our first net provider.

    I work for Sneakemail.com. We are an anti spam site. The first and longest living disposable email address site for what its worth, over 2 years. See the sig for the link. Sneakemail is an online application that truely fights spam and lets you catch spam easily. What is this, a anti-spam petition? Thats so much easier than thousands of lines of code, why didnt we think of that, damn?

    If we screw up and actually send people spam do we get a story on slashdot?

    Thanks for reading, this has been a shameless promotion for Sneakemail.com :P

  16. Re:hahaha on Are You Getting Enough Say In Your Training? · · Score: 2

    sure there are always exceptions, I even know of a architectural bookstore (went out of business next to an architectural college), but my point is, these computer bookstores are _mainstream_ and are often easy to get to, even on your way home from work. Softpro is an example, show me a medical bookstore in a strip mall next to a vitimin store and a record store.

  17. Re:hahaha on Are You Getting Enough Say In Your Training? · · Score: 2

    considering that unless you spend months and months in a class the level of the knowledge of somebody that requires 'schoolin' would be monumentally less than somebody that can hit the books when needed. Also, this poor soul who needs schoolin couldnt pick up new technologies as quickly as we know they come out. So this person is an extreme liability to any company, except for maybe a very large company that can absorb all kinds of expenses.

  18. hahaha on Are You Getting Enough Say In Your Training? · · Score: 2

    calls fire department

    LOL, programmings and training.

    Sometimes, i dont know why I dont get paid twice as much as programmers that need to run to a lecture environment to learn how to do anything substantial thats new to them.

    If somebody said they needed training before they could do something i'd put them on the top of my to-fire-list.

    This is the unfortunate product of comp-sci grads hitting the workforce. They have been brainwashed into thinking they need to attend an 'education show' in order to do something well, or at all. Consider that all the people that created this field probably never attended a programming class ever.

    Name me another profession that actually has whole bookstores on their craft. A many number of these books are written by programmers that are 10x better at imparting the knowledge. If i need to do something new and substantial i'll go to Softpro (my local computer bookstore), pick up a few books (researched through amazon), and work through them, sometimes over the weekend. If i have a book by Bruce Eckel, Larry Wall, etc, why do i need to sit in a room and listen to some guy slowly impart knowledge at .005bps.

    Now, if you need to sign up for a lecture just to get the books that are unavailable someplace else then thats another problem and should be throught over carefully by management.

  19. what do you expect on Cooperation in CS Education? · · Score: 2

    School evaluation often involves completely artificial situations that have nothing to do with real worl application of the knowledge you are learning. Flame on please.

  20. there's more to it than the old argument on Are Computer Graphics A Fine Art? · · Score: 1


    If you're discussing mediums related to what is fine art you're going over the same boring debate. But there is something new to consider in computer aided art. Anybody, probably even a monkey, can easily use the right program to create something quite dazzling and hard for somebody with less of an eye for art to distinguish from a more thought out artistic work. So people are more suspicious. Also, it could have something to do with the lack of permanency in the medium as well. Even a printed out piece of art likely has fugative pigments.

  21. simple solutions on Senator Says Spammers Have First-Amendment Rights · · Score: 2


    If you dont trust somebody with your email address, DONT GIVE IT TO THEM, just use a disposable email service like Sneakemail.

    Even if you're giving your address to an organization you trust not to spread your address dont trust their opt-out functionality, since it could very well be a temp using Excel to remove your address.

    Since I've been using sneakemail (which lets you know without a doubt how somebody got your address) the most spam I get, BY FAR, is at g4hu5001@sneakemail.com, which is the address I only use only for slashdot.

    So sure, spammers may or may not have rights, but if you have total control over their ability to spam you, the argument becomes mostly academic.

  22. Re:We need technical measures, not laws, for spam on Senator Says Spammers Have First-Amendment Rights · · Score: 1


    Sneakemail will do this for you, although currently you can only look at the message subject and the sender, not read the message. Aside from this, it will also solve a lot of your spam problems and is getting better all the time.

  23. STL? on Compaq Readies Solaris-Linux Migration tools · · Score: 4


    They couldnt have chosen a more confusing acronym. The question on my mind is: is the STL compatable with the STL considering that most implementations of the STL are not thread-safe???

  24. Re:What about Stargate SG-1 on Andromeda · · Score: 1


    thats what I'm wondering, what about Stargate??? Doesnt anybody know about this show, its probably one of the most entertaining scifi shows ever made, and hugely superior to andromeda and earth, final conflict.

  25. opposite patent on Cell Phone Makers Patent "Brain Shields" · · Score: 3


    It might be a good gamble to patent a device that increases the radiation from cell phones.
    I'm sure that at some point a study will show its beneficial.
    In that window of opportunity you make your big money.

    Then another study will come out that says that finding beneficial effects was bad stats, OR, that the beneficial effects dont outweigh new harmful effects just discovered.