I actually saw a user who wrote their password on a sticky note and stuck the note on the side/back of their monitor. You know the place, not the back of the monitor, but you have to be nearly behind it to see the sticky note. This would be bad enough, but they worked in a place open to the public for business and that side of the monitor faced her office door. I walked BY (not IN) her door and saw her password. Yes, I had a talk with her about password security.
The soul hunter episode definitely would not be the best introduction to the series as I didn't believe it was a very good episode to begin with, much less as an intro. The second episode you mentioned, I'm pretty sure, was one of the two-part "War Without End" episodes. THOSE were among the best episodes in the entire series (in my opinion), but if you didn't have the proper into, you would be completely lost there. As many people have pointed out, it's an awesome series with a weak start and an on-going storyline that's hard to pick up in the middle. The general populous either only want to catch an episode here and there which doesn't work for this series or try watching it from the very weak beginning and get turned off by a slow start and bad acting. You just explained why financially this series isn't as successful as Trek very nicely. If you have the money to spare, go buy the DVDs (or get them from NetFlix) and have the patience to make it through the first season and a half and I'm sure you'll be glad you did.
Now, I'm more of a B5 fan than most people and I love the idea of the upcoming telepath war and all, but I don't think two hours of people opening their eyes real wide while giving a stern look to someone and having the other person fall over dead makes good movie watching.
I was giving someone help with their email, saw a spam in their mailbox and commented that if they sent it to me, I'd adjust the filters so it doesn't get through in the future. This was most definitely from a spammer. They said, "No, I ordered something from them. I expect their email." When I told them the reasons they should never, ever buy anything from spam, they said, "But that's where I get the best deals." I re-iterated the reasons against it, but they didn't care. As long as they got a good deal, that's all that mattered to them. I suppose they won't learn until they get taken on one of their "good deals".
I am a no-talent hack when it comes to original artwork for a web page, but I still usually come up with something that gets the job done. What I do is pull out my trusty digital camera and take a picture of something close to what I want, then pull it into a paint program. I really like Paint Shop Pro as at least one other person recommended. It's cheaper than Photoshop, has most of the tools I need and is easier to use, at least for me.
Anyway, once I have it in Paint Shop Pro, I edit away. For example, I've been designing a site for a wine store. I took a bunch of wine corks and took pictures of them in various arrangements (jumbled in a pile, arranged neatly in rows on their sides, arranged neatly in rows upright etc). I found the one I liked best, decreased the color depth, decreased the contrast, increased the brightness and blurred it a bit. This left me with a nice usable background for the page. No copyright problems, no from-scratch painting in a paint program, yet it still looks pretty danged good.
According to the article "In one month alone, Jaynes received 10,000 credit card orders, each for $39.95". These are the people who need to be slapped. They are making spamming and scamming profitable. I'm sorry, but losing 40 bucks isn't enough punishment for this.
The tool is legal, its what you do with it that counts. Exactly the same as P2P.
Not quite. I believe the CAN-SPAM law specifies that hijacking other's computers in order to send spam is illegal. That's what his program was meant to do. This means the program was illegal to begin with.
With all the articles I've read recently, I'm thinking we are going about this all wrong. While I don't disagree with making this illegal, I believe the laws will be near impossible to enforce and overlook those ultimately responsible.
M$ makes Internet Explorer and Windows to be inherently insecure making spyware and viruses possible. I nearly choked when I saw that M$ may be getting into the antivirus business. If they wanted to do that, all they'd have to do is make their product more secure. About the only reason there is an antivirus and anti-spyware market and a spyware law is because M$ makes them possible.
No, I'm not a karma whore. I'm just stating what I believe.
According to this article at News.com, it was "Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, a vocal libertarian who frequently says the federal government should not be policing the Internet, was the lone dissenter."
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In other words, you will believe what we tell you and if you buy our stock, tough noogies!
Don't forget that Sunncomm also changed their ticker symbol. When the Princeton student lawsuit was filed, their ticker symbol was STEH. Since then, they've changed their symbol to the more appropriate SCMI.
The article says this is to prevent one way the spammers send mass amounts of email. They sign up for multiple free accounts, then create a script that uses the Outlook/Outlook Express connection to Hotmail to send the max number of emails for each of these account automatically. This will slow down how fast the max number of messages are sent if they go the free route by making them use the web email access. If they decide to pay, then M$ makes more money and they can keep track of the credit cards used by the spammers so they can prevent them from opening accounts in the future. Of course, for the truly amoral spammers, they will just steal credit card numbers to use.
...Anyone else ever have that problem? An idea you thought was yours, and a year later it ends up on the screen?
It happened to me all the time. I wrote a story similar to "The Crow" way before the movie came out. I've written scenes where I could visualize it in my head how it would look on the screen and years later saw a movie that had it down exactly as I saw it. I've read books and knew how they'd end because I had similar stories I never got around to writing that went the same way.
If I didn't know better (or do I?) I'd say there's a public sub-conciousness out there that we all tap into to come up with new ideas.
Already been done. Okay, not the camera, but the mic. From the story: "...turn the phone sitting in a victim's pocket or on a restaurant table top into a listening device to pick up private conversations in the phone's vicinity."
Actually, no. Here's how it would go: 1. Insightful moderation makes it +5 Insightful 2. Troll moderation makes it +4 Troll 3. Underrated moderation makes it +5 Troll.
Yeah, I'd like to see it, too. I actually modded a post to give the comment/moderation combination a comical look to it and ended up being meta-modded unfair. Took a while to get any mod points after that.
I am as anti-spam as a person can get. I battle it every day in my job. I had an incident with another employee this week that makes me wonder if I'm thinking correctly. I'd be interested in other opinions.
Ordinarily, email coming in from the outside goes through a different email gateway than outgoing email. I temporarily took down one of the gateways and reconfigured the remaining one to do all the relaying for both incoming and outgoing email. It also did the spam detection on all email, both incoming and outgoing. It detected spam being sent out from an employee to his home account as a test. I spotted it and talked to him about it. This was most definitely an advertisement. I asked him if he read up on the spam laws to be sure what he was planning was legal. He said, "This isn't spam." He was intending on sending it out to all of our customers of which he has the email address on file for legitimate business reasons. The customers had signed agreements that stated they wanted one particular type of email sent to them as part of our business relationship, but it said nothing about advertising. I told him that the customers would have to sign another agreement that allowed the advertising and/or an electronic opt-out list must be set up and maintained if he wanted to send out this type of email.
I've also gotten an unsolicited text message from my cellular phone provider advertising free text messaging for the next 2 months after I told them I wanted no telemarketing calls. I have never used their text messaging so never even thought of telling them I didn't want advertisements by text messaging. In addition, I've received an advertisement by email from my Internet provider. This email didn't provide any means of opting out.
Now, in my mind each and every one of these situations constitutes advertising that is now illegal. Am I over-reacting on any of this? I'd be interested in seeing the comments of others on this.
Nope, no Right to Travel Anonymously. Where did this right come from? Hrmmm...
It's sorta like your right to privacy, it DOES NOT EXIST once you leave your home. Your right to privacy only exists within the confines of your home, so get used to it.
I found it listed right here:
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Um, for governments you can say that, but guess what, car insurance is privately owned, if you don't like it, don't go with that company, siimple as that. Let them know you don't like it, if they lose more revenue than they stand to gain
Until all insurance companies require it. Much like grocery store frequent shopper cards, having receipts checked when exiting a store, buying a car with GPS/OnStar installed. Once the critical mass of people don't make a stink about it, you won't have a choice. It will end up that I'm some strange old hermit living in the woods because I don't want my rights infringed.
I saw this story earlier today and was tempted to submit it. Yeah, there isn't another solar system in the universe like ours because we can't see any. . The universe is an awfully big place. To say there isn't a solar system anywhere in the universe similar to ours because we can't detect it is just plain silly. You may as well say there isn't life anywhere in the universe except on the Earth because we can't detect it.
For some reason, this story about an unmanned aerial vehicle running on Windows XP makes me think of it being infected with a virus called SkyNet and turning into an Aerial Hunter-Killer. (from the Terminator series)
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HEY! That's the same password I have on my luggage! That's AMAZING!
I actually saw a user who wrote their password on a sticky note and stuck the note on the side/back of their monitor. You know the place, not the back of the monitor, but you have to be nearly behind it to see the sticky note. This would be bad enough, but they worked in a place open to the public for business and that side of the monitor faced her office door. I walked BY (not IN) her door and saw her password. Yes, I had a talk with her about password security.
The soul hunter episode definitely would not be the best introduction to the series as I didn't believe it was a very good episode to begin with, much less as an intro. The second episode you mentioned, I'm pretty sure, was one of the two-part "War Without End" episodes. THOSE were among the best episodes in the entire series (in my opinion), but if you didn't have the proper into, you would be completely lost there. As many people have pointed out, it's an awesome series with a weak start and an on-going storyline that's hard to pick up in the middle. The general populous either only want to catch an episode here and there which doesn't work for this series or try watching it from the very weak beginning and get turned off by a slow start and bad acting. You just explained why financially this series isn't as successful as Trek very nicely. If you have the money to spare, go buy the DVDs (or get them from NetFlix) and have the patience to make it through the first season and a half and I'm sure you'll be glad you did.
What, no Telepath War?
Now, I'm more of a B5 fan than most people and I love the idea of the upcoming telepath war and all, but I don't think two hours of people opening their eyes real wide while giving a stern look to someone and having the other person fall over dead makes good movie watching.
I was giving someone help with their email, saw a spam in their mailbox and commented that if they sent it to me, I'd adjust the filters so it doesn't get through in the future. This was most definitely from a spammer. They said, "No, I ordered something from them. I expect their email." When I told them the reasons they should never, ever buy anything from spam, they said, "But that's where I get the best deals." I re-iterated the reasons against it, but they didn't care. As long as they got a good deal, that's all that mattered to them. I suppose they won't learn until they get taken on one of their "good deals".
I am a no-talent hack when it comes to original artwork for a web page, but I still usually come up with something that gets the job done. What I do is pull out my trusty digital camera and take a picture of something close to what I want, then pull it into a paint program. I really like Paint Shop Pro as at least one other person recommended. It's cheaper than Photoshop, has most of the tools I need and is easier to use, at least for me.
Anyway, once I have it in Paint Shop Pro, I edit away. For example, I've been designing a site for a wine store. I took a bunch of wine corks and took pictures of them in various arrangements (jumbled in a pile, arranged neatly in rows on their sides, arranged neatly in rows upright etc). I found the one I liked best, decreased the color depth, decreased the contrast, increased the brightness and blurred it a bit. This left me with a nice usable background for the page. No copyright problems, no from-scratch painting in a paint program, yet it still looks pretty danged good.
According to the article "In one month alone, Jaynes received 10,000 credit card orders, each for $39.95". These are the people who need to be slapped. They are making spamming and scamming profitable. I'm sorry, but losing 40 bucks isn't enough punishment for this.
The Art Using The Word "Of".
The tool is legal, its what you do with it that counts. Exactly the same as P2P.
Not quite. I believe the CAN-SPAM law specifies that hijacking other's computers in order to send spam is illegal. That's what his program was meant to do. This means the program was illegal to begin with.
I'd use IE branded butt wipe, AOL for that matter, too.
But what about all the holes?
With all the articles I've read recently, I'm thinking we are going about this all wrong. While I don't disagree with making this illegal, I believe the laws will be near impossible to enforce and overlook those ultimately responsible.
M$ makes Internet Explorer and Windows to be inherently insecure making spyware and viruses possible. I nearly choked when I saw that M$ may be getting into the antivirus business. If they wanted to do that, all they'd have to do is make their product more secure. About the only reason there is an antivirus and anti-spyware market and a spyware law is because M$ makes them possible.
No, I'm not a karma whore. I'm just stating what I believe.
According to this article at News.com, it was "Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, a vocal libertarian who frequently says the federal government should not be policing the Internet, was the lone dissenter."
Earlier today, it was linked to a parody story, but the Google News page linked to it as if it was a legitimate news article.
Here it is:
Important Notice to Sunncomm Shareholders and Prospective Shareholders
SunnComm International, Inc. is a Phoenix, AZ company whose stock is publicly traded in the Over-the-Counter (OTC) market under the symbol SCMI. Our 4-year old company is currently in the development stage of its life cycle and, to date, has only just begun earning revenues from sales of its CD copy magement products.
It is the intention of management to remain a non-reporting company listed on the "The Pink Sheets" until such time as the company reports significant sales of its technology. It is within the corporation's legal rights to elect this option. However, this means that you, the investor or interest-holder, will not be afforded public access to regular company audits and therefore you must solely rely on the company's press releases, news stories, or other publicly available information.
Not having access to audit detail or other significant reporting dynamics can put SunnComm shareholders or interest-holders, at a significant disadvantage from a risk standpoint. Due to SunnComm's current, legal, non-disclosure status, your investment in SunnComm may carry with it an even higher degree of risk than that of other publicly traded companies which are currently fully reporting.
Because of our non-reporting status, SunnComm's management feels you need to understand these very important facts prior to making a decision to invest in the company's shares, and you should also be totally aware that you run the risk of losing your entire investment should you make the decision to purchaseshares in SunnComm.
If you have additinal questions regarding this notice or anything you may read on SunnComm's website, we urge you to contact the company directly.
Thank you for giving me this moment of your time. Please click the button below to acknowledge reading the above and to access The SunnComm Website.
Thanks for stopping by,
[signed by Peter H. Jacobs]
There is an html form button below that reads "I have read the above statement, take me to SunnComm International".
In other words, you will believe what we tell you and if you buy our stock, tough noogies!
they're naturally shiftless
That's shifty.
Don't forget that Sunncomm also changed their ticker symbol. When the Princeton student lawsuit was filed, their ticker symbol was STEH. Since then, they've changed their symbol to the more appropriate SCMI.
If you don't get it, pronounce it.
The article says this is to prevent one way the spammers send mass amounts of email. They sign up for multiple free accounts, then create a script that uses the Outlook/Outlook Express connection to Hotmail to send the max number of emails for each of these account automatically. This will slow down how fast the max number of messages are sent if they go the free route by making them use the web email access. If they decide to pay, then M$ makes more money and they can keep track of the credit cards used by the spammers so they can prevent them from opening accounts in the future. Of course, for the truly amoral spammers, they will just steal credit card numbers to use.
It happened to me all the time. I wrote a story similar to "The Crow" way before the movie came out. I've written scenes where I could visualize it in my head how it would look on the screen and years later saw a movie that had it down exactly as I saw it. I've read books and knew how they'd end because I had similar stories I never got around to writing that went the same way.
If I didn't know better (or do I?) I'd say there's a public sub-conciousness out there that we all tap into to come up with new ideas.
Already been done. Okay, not the camera, but the mic. From the story: "...turn the phone sitting in a victim's pocket or on a restaurant table top into a listening device to pick up private conversations in the phone's vicinity."
Wouldn't "+4" troll be the best you could do?
Actually, no. Here's how it would go:
1. Insightful moderation makes it +5 Insightful
2. Troll moderation makes it +4 Troll
3. Underrated moderation makes it +5 Troll.
Yeah, I'd like to see it, too. I actually modded a post to give the comment/moderation combination a comical look to it and ended up being meta-modded unfair. Took a while to get any mod points after that.
I am as anti-spam as a person can get. I battle it every day in my job. I had an incident with another employee this week that makes me wonder if I'm thinking correctly. I'd be interested in other opinions.
Ordinarily, email coming in from the outside goes through a different email gateway than outgoing email. I temporarily took down one of the gateways and reconfigured the remaining one to do all the relaying for both incoming and outgoing email. It also did the spam detection on all email, both incoming and outgoing. It detected spam being sent out from an employee to his home account as a test. I spotted it and talked to him about it. This was most definitely an advertisement. I asked him if he read up on the spam laws to be sure what he was planning was legal. He said, "This isn't spam." He was intending on sending it out to all of our customers of which he has the email address on file for legitimate business reasons. The customers had signed agreements that stated they wanted one particular type of email sent to them as part of our business relationship, but it said nothing about advertising. I told him that the customers would have to sign another agreement that allowed the advertising and/or an electronic opt-out list must be set up and maintained if he wanted to send out this type of email.
I've also gotten an unsolicited text message from my cellular phone provider advertising free text messaging for the next 2 months after I told them I wanted no telemarketing calls. I have never used their text messaging so never even thought of telling them I didn't want advertisements by text messaging. In addition, I've received an advertisement by email from my Internet provider. This email didn't provide any means of opting out.
Now, in my mind each and every one of these situations constitutes advertising that is now illegal. Am I over-reacting on any of this? I'd be interested in seeing the comments of others on this.
Nope, no Right to Travel Anonymously. Where did this right come from? Hrmmm...
It's sorta like your right to privacy, it DOES NOT EXIST once you leave your home. Your right to privacy only exists within the confines of your home, so get used to it.
I found it listed right here:
Amendment IX
Amendment X
I saw this story earlier today and was tempted to submit it. Yeah, there isn't another solar system in the universe like ours because we can't see any. . The universe is an awfully big place. To say there isn't a solar system anywhere in the universe similar to ours because we can't detect it is just plain silly. You may as well say there isn't life anywhere in the universe except on the Earth because we can't detect it.
For some reason, this story about an unmanned aerial vehicle running on Windows XP makes me think of it being infected with a virus called SkyNet and turning into an Aerial Hunter-Killer. (from the Terminator series)