Can someone tell me how they manage to get so much?
The primary reason that I get a lot of spam is that I own (and do business through) about 8 domains. I feel obliged to receive my catch-all emails, just in case I've got clients or potential clients trying to get in touch with me. And it has been known to happen, so I'm not likely to stop this practice.
So a lot of my spam just comes to webmaster@domain.com or info@domain.com. I also get a lot of spam directed to addresses that appear to have existed before I registered the domain, apparently used by earlier registrants. These are easy enough to filter for, but they're still annoying.
And my name is David, so david@domain.com is common enough to be on a lot of dictionary attacks.
And unfortunately I wasn't always as smart as you. I've got personal email accounts in most of the domains I own, and my earliest personal email accounts get a ton of spam. So apparently I just wasn't as careful as I should have been at some point. I'm much more careful now and it shows with my later personal email accounts.
But I've still got a lot of old friends that just don't listen when I tell them to update my email address -- plus a lot of friends that I don't know how to contact anymore, but that I hope will one day get in touch with me with my old accounts.
It's sad that I can't let go of these accounts that receive so much spam, but I just can't convince myself to let go of so much.
and I've recently noticed that all email from my domains is blocked by Hotmail
Occassionally Yahoo (and affiliates) will block all email from my servers because some jerk on another account of my virtual host has sent spam (or at least was reported to have). It sucks when you have clients with Yahoo addresses and you have to figure some other way to respond to their emails.
I keep (quasi-) daily count on the amount of spam I receive. Today is actually my 4-month anniversary of my data set, so I've taken extra time to compile my data and post a chart of my spam over this period. The CAN-SPAM act (introduction and effective dates) have been marked, and the data shows that it's not doing a thing (for me at least).
There are a few dips for holidays, and since CAN-SPAM became effective on New Year's, there was a corresponding dip. But the amount my spam went down was roughly between the Thanksgiving dip and the Christmas dip, so nothing that would indicate there was anything else going on other than the holiday. Afterwards it shot right back up again.
I've also included a line on the chart to show my average spam, only after the CAN-SPAM act, just to make sure the data was not effected by my numbers from last year. And sure enough -- a steady rise.
total spam since 10/19/03: 84,415 most spam in one day: 1,054 (12/3/03, during some kind of wild post-Thanksgiving holiday surge) percent filtered: 78.05% total ham since 10/19/03: 1,702 spam to total email ratio: 97.98%
No, but once I was doing contract work at a company that had pretty strict internet usage rules, so 1) I couldn't connect to my normal email server, and 2) I couldn't connect to my webmail, since it used a non-standard port. Fortunately they had left the telnet port open.
I had to telnet into one server, then run lynx, to open a webmail interface, in order to read my personal email off of my other server (which did not allow telnet itself, or I would have used pine directly).
In five years: A young woman in New Mexico, attractive, in her mid-twenties, leaves her office building and makes her way across the parking garage to her brand new car. She's had to work late, and it is well past nightfall. Hers is the only car in the garage. As she nears her car she hears a noise and turns to see a man wearing a black ski mask approaching her. The young woman breaks into a sprint and makes it to her car. She fumbles with her keys, but finally unlocks the door and gets in her car. She locks the door and reaches for the...ignition interlock device. The man in the black ski mask casually walks the remaining distance to the car. He's not worried. He's got a least 30 seconds to find a way to get into the car.
Every full-time employment I have ever had ended when the company, for all intents and purposes, went under. It has happened on average after about three months. This happened four times in 2.5 years. My longest employment was eight months, but considering that company started out as #33 on the Fortune 500 list, it stands to reason it took a little longer for them to fall. The next year they still made the list -- in the 490s. They were #1 in the list of "biggest losers." But at least that company had a severance package -- more than I could say for any of the rest.
But for the original question:
Stay optimistic and cheerful. Explain the situation. My interviewers all noted that, wow, you've had a lot of different jobs (I also had a couple of dozen freelance jobs between the fulltime employments -- so my resume was literally 20-odd jobs in three years). But my explanation was always met with sympathy. Sympathy goes a long way in getting a job.
But even more important is coming across with the attitude, "Well, I've had some bad luck before, but that won't get me down. I've been keeping up with X and Y technologies in personal projects, so that I'll be ready for a job like this, where I hope to settle down and stay for a long time."
Of course, that said.... I got tired of the whole game myself and started my own business. I figured I'd seen it done wrong enough that I knew how to do it right. I was correct.
he stands there with his chest out smiling as the bullets bounce off. The bad guy empties his gun, and with no other options in front of him he throws the gun at Superman, who then ducks so he doesn't get hit.
This should be covered in the physics class!
Dodging bullets aimed at the chest means 1) Superman would have to move his entire body to avoid getting hit in the chest, and 2) Superman would have to move extremely fast to avoid the bullets in the first place. Moving that much mass (Superman must have a lot of mass) that quickly uses a LOT of energy! More energy, it would appear, than it takes to simply absorb the impact of the bullets.
On the other hand, a gun throw at the head means that 1) Superman only has to move faster than the bad guy can throw (much slower than bullets!), and 2) Superman only has to duck his head instead of move his entire body. This would take very little energy. Less energy, it would appear, that it would take to absorb the impact of the gun on his face (and still maintain his smug smile).
Superman might be all muscle but he isn't stupid -- he's efficient. He knows better than to waste energy when he might fight the big fight in just a few pages/scenes.
and #3 if the underlying material was solid enough that deformation did not account for a significant percentage of the energy loss, then the material could possibly be burned as well, since some energy loss would be exchanged as heat.
oops! And I hate it when people do that.... I should really get more sleep, I've been making typos all day.
Re:I thought 6 was OK, but 7 sucked
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My biggest beef with 6 was all the sex. Not that I have a problem with watching sex (and my Spike-fan wife certainly didn't mind), but it was so overblown that it ultimately felt like the producers saying, "Hey, we're on this little network that adores us! Let's see how far we can take this...." Sex shouldn't be too over-the-top.
Angel is another one of those shows that, at one time, WAS a great show. In my opinion, Angel "jumped the shark" after loosing Cordelia's character. NOTE I say loosing Cordelia's character, not loosing Charisma Carpenter from the regular cast. I'm also including all of last year when Cordelia was possessed by her demon baby (even though that satan/rock beast was cool). I hadn't realized how much of the weight of the show Cordelia was carrying until she was gone.
But I do want to say that I think Angel has done great things technologically and cinematically. They were one of the first shows to be presented in widescreen, and were one of the first -- and are still one of the only -- shows to be presented in High Def. No matter how far downhill the show has gone, nobody can take these kudos away.
yeah, and that's when Buffy went from being great to being horrible. the last two seasons of Buffy were just painful to watch (which I did anyway because my wife is a big Spike fan, and I got dragged into it)
Reminds me of my own technique. When a site asks for an email I give them a unique email address that names their site, but with a standard prefix, such as spamlocator_amazon-com AT mydomain DOT com. Then, in my server's mail filters, I filter everything that starts with "spamlocator_" to the address spamlocator AT mydomain DOT com.
Your method is easier but I think I'll stick with mine. It works even if only my email address is sold, and doesn't matter if my name was used. It also gives me a unique email address for the registration emails to be sent to, or the spam if the email has been sold -- and doesn't clutter my normal inbox.
(but since I get more than 600 spams a day, taking a little extra effort to set up the filter is worth it to me)
'We have created the first firewall for paper documents.'
I don't get it. If somebody steals the paper, how is this going to protect it? This might be a good way to sign a piece of paper, but it isn't going to protect them.
Now if you want to prevent copying, that's a whole other matter. But that's DRM technology, not firewall technology. Are we really supposed to feel good about a technology when we hear it from a company that doesn't know what a firewall is?
... that could be damaged by new exploits found in this source code is something that doesn't bare thinking about.
Argh! Trying to get rid of images of naked NeoWin people thinking about ramifications....
Groklaw wants a reason?
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From the Groklaw article: Why didn't SCO sue for breach of contract, then, if their position is correct and copyrights were supposed to transfer and Amendment 2 is the contract that was to make that happen? No one I have talked to can figure that out.
Well, I know why.... SCO must know their copyright claims are questionable at best. They're not claiming breach of contract so not to draw attention to the contract. Because, once the contract is fully analyzed by a court, SCO will know they've lost.
(this, of course, won't stop them from filing at least 8 more stupid lawsuits within a three month period)
Bootable floppies do not autostart when inserted into the floppy drive.
But even on the old macs, inserting a floppy caused a floppy icon to appear on the desktop. Obviously some kind of process has happened upon the insertion of the media.
QBasic is what I'm teaching my kids as their first language one day. It's simple, the screen is nice (mm, blue), and easy graphics
But ultimately not a very good reflection of more advanced languages. Javascript has the advantage of being not only an easy interface to learn the basics in, but also something that is scalably advanced. Javascript can include basic event handling, and even includes a limited version of OOP. I think it would be a major benefit to a beginner to be able to move from basics to these more advanced topics without having to switch languages.
teaching programming using a language available on all platforms, Java
Maybe you read the stress on "language available on all platforms" -- I read the stress on "written for absolute beginners to learn the basic principles of programming."
The idea of the book is to teach the basics of programming to a complete newbie. It would not make sense to introduce the complications of complilation, classes/OOP, strict data types, etc. if all a newbie wants to learn about is using variables, conditionals, loops, and basic functions. That is simply introducing too much at once to somebody that might only know the concept of 'variable' from a middle school pre-algebra class.
I agree with the author, Javascript is the perfect language to teach programming fundamentals. I had already decided on Javascript myself as the language for teaching my kids one day. After all, what a beginner programmer wants most is the ability to see their program do something. Could it get any easier than:
Slashdot Mirror
Clearly it's suicide for any company to hire you.
Believe me, the thought has crossed my mind! At first as a joke....
But I say, screw them. I prefer running my own shop anyway.
Just my luck. The RIAA finally pulls out their checkbook, but I've long since moved. I sure hope that mail forwarding is still in effect.
I have to wonder if they were hoping this would happen with a lot of the settlement checks.
Can someone tell me how they manage to get so much?
The primary reason that I get a lot of spam is that I own (and do business through) about 8 domains. I feel obliged to receive my catch-all emails, just in case I've got clients or potential clients trying to get in touch with me. And it has been known to happen, so I'm not likely to stop this practice.
So a lot of my spam just comes to webmaster@domain.com or info@domain.com. I also get a lot of spam directed to addresses that appear to have existed before I registered the domain, apparently used by earlier registrants. These are easy enough to filter for, but they're still annoying.
And my name is David, so david@domain.com is common enough to be on a lot of dictionary attacks.
And unfortunately I wasn't always as smart as you. I've got personal email accounts in most of the domains I own, and my earliest personal email accounts get a ton of spam. So apparently I just wasn't as careful as I should have been at some point. I'm much more careful now and it shows with my later personal email accounts.
But I've still got a lot of old friends that just don't listen when I tell them to update my email address -- plus a lot of friends that I don't know how to contact anymore, but that I hope will one day get in touch with me with my old accounts.
It's sad that I can't let go of these accounts that receive so much spam, but I just can't convince myself to let go of so much.
sigh.
and I've recently noticed that all email from my domains is blocked by Hotmail
Occassionally Yahoo (and affiliates) will block all email from my servers because some jerk on another account of my virtual host has sent spam (or at least was reported to have). It sucks when you have clients with Yahoo addresses and you have to figure some other way to respond to their emails.
I keep (quasi-) daily count on the amount of spam I receive. Today is actually my 4-month anniversary of my data set, so I've taken extra time to compile my data and post a chart of my spam over this period. The CAN-SPAM act (introduction and effective dates) have been marked, and the data shows that it's not doing a thing (for me at least).
There are a few dips for holidays, and since CAN-SPAM became effective on New Year's, there was a corresponding dip. But the amount my spam went down was roughly between the Thanksgiving dip and the Christmas dip, so nothing that would indicate there was anything else going on other than the holiday. Afterwards it shot right back up again.
I've also included a line on the chart to show my average spam, only after the CAN-SPAM act, just to make sure the data was not effected by my numbers from last year. And sure enough -- a steady rise.
total spam since 10/19/03: 84,415
most spam in one day: 1,054 (12/3/03, during some kind of wild post-Thanksgiving holiday surge)
percent filtered: 78.05%
total ham since 10/19/03: 1,702
spam to total email ratio: 97.98%
Have you ever tried reading slashdot using Lynx?
No, but once I was doing contract work at a company that had pretty strict internet usage rules, so 1) I couldn't connect to my normal email server, and 2) I couldn't connect to my webmail, since it used a non-standard port. Fortunately they had left the telnet port open.
I had to telnet into one server, then run lynx, to open a webmail interface, in order to read my personal email off of my other server (which did not allow telnet itself, or I would have used pine directly).
In five years:
A young woman in New Mexico, attractive, in her mid-twenties, leaves her office building and makes her way across the parking garage to her brand new car. She's had to work late, and it is well past nightfall. Hers is the only car in the garage. As she nears her car she hears a noise and turns to see a man wearing a black ski mask approaching her. The young woman breaks into a sprint and makes it to her car. She fumbles with her keys, but finally unlocks the door and gets in her car. She locks the door and reaches for the...ignition interlock device. The man in the black ski mask casually walks the remaining distance to the car. He's not worried. He's got a least 30 seconds to find a way to get into the car.
Sounds familiar.
Every full-time employment I have ever had ended when the company, for all intents and purposes, went under. It has happened on average after about three months. This happened four times in 2.5 years. My longest employment was eight months, but considering that company started out as #33 on the Fortune 500 list, it stands to reason it took a little longer for them to fall. The next year they still made the list -- in the 490s. They were #1 in the list of "biggest losers." But at least that company had a severance package -- more than I could say for any of the rest.
But for the original question:
Stay optimistic and cheerful. Explain the situation. My interviewers all noted that, wow, you've had a lot of different jobs (I also had a couple of dozen freelance jobs between the fulltime employments -- so my resume was literally 20-odd jobs in three years). But my explanation was always met with sympathy. Sympathy goes a long way in getting a job.
But even more important is coming across with the attitude, "Well, I've had some bad luck before, but that won't get me down. I've been keeping up with X and Y technologies in personal projects, so that I'll be ready for a job like this, where I hope to settle down and stay for a long time."
Of course, that said.... I got tired of the whole game myself and started my own business. I figured I'd seen it done wrong enough that I knew how to do it right. I was correct.
he stands there with his chest out smiling as the bullets bounce off. The bad guy empties his gun, and with no other options in front of him he throws the gun at Superman, who then ducks so he doesn't get hit.
This should be covered in the physics class!
Dodging bullets aimed at the chest means 1) Superman would have to move his entire body to avoid getting hit in the chest, and 2) Superman would have to move extremely fast to avoid the bullets in the first place. Moving that much mass (Superman must have a lot of mass) that quickly uses a LOT of energy! More energy, it would appear, than it takes to simply absorb the impact of the bullets.
On the other hand, a gun throw at the head means that 1) Superman only has to move faster than the bad guy can throw (much slower than bullets!), and 2) Superman only has to duck his head instead of move his entire body. This would take very little energy. Less energy, it would appear, that it would take to absorb the impact of the gun on his face (and still maintain his smug smile).
Superman might be all muscle but he isn't stupid -- he's efficient. He knows better than to waste energy when he might fight the big fight in just a few pages/scenes.
and #3 if the underlying material was solid enough that deformation did not account for a significant percentage of the energy loss, then the material could possibly be burned as well, since some energy loss would be exchanged as heat.
I always thought the cloth itself, coming from Krypton's red sun atmosphere, would be less impervious to damage in Earth's yellow sun environment.
I'm curious about your logic. I would think the opposite, since red stars are cooler than yellow stars.
(note: I don't know any Superman lore, I'm only responding to what has been written)
oops! And I hate it when people do that.... I should really get more sleep, I've been making typos all day.
My biggest beef with 6 was all the sex. Not that I have a problem with watching sex (and my Spike-fan wife certainly didn't mind), but it was so overblown that it ultimately felt like the producers saying, "Hey, we're on this little network that adores us! Let's see how far we can take this...." Sex shouldn't be too over-the-top.
Angel is another one of those shows that, at one time, WAS a great show. In my opinion, Angel "jumped the shark" after loosing Cordelia's character. NOTE I say loosing Cordelia's character, not loosing Charisma Carpenter from the regular cast. I'm also including all of last year when Cordelia was possessed by her demon baby (even though that satan/rock beast was cool). I hadn't realized how much of the weight of the show Cordelia was carrying until she was gone.
But I do want to say that I think Angel has done great things technologically and cinematically. They were one of the first shows to be presented in widescreen, and were one of the first -- and are still one of the only -- shows to be presented in High Def. No matter how far downhill the show has gone, nobody can take these kudos away.
yeah, and that's when Buffy went from being great to being horrible. the last two seasons of Buffy were just painful to watch (which I did anyway because my wife is a big Spike fan, and I got dragged into it)
Reminds me of my own technique. When a site asks for an email I give them a unique email address that names their site, but with a standard prefix, such as spamlocator_amazon-com AT mydomain DOT com. Then, in my server's mail filters, I filter everything that starts with "spamlocator_" to the address spamlocator AT mydomain DOT com.
Your method is easier but I think I'll stick with mine. It works even if only my email address is sold, and doesn't matter if my name was used. It also gives me a unique email address for the registration emails to be sent to, or the spam if the email has been sold -- and doesn't clutter my normal inbox.
(but since I get more than 600 spams a day, taking a little extra effort to set up the filter is worth it to me)
...but I'll be impressed when they make a working ansible.
'We have created the first firewall for paper documents.'
I don't get it. If somebody steals the paper, how is this going to protect it? This might be a good way to sign a piece of paper, but it isn't going to protect them.
Now if you want to prevent copying, that's a whole other matter. But that's DRM technology, not firewall technology. Are we really supposed to feel good about a technology when we hear it from a company that doesn't know what a firewall is?
Dear Microsoft,
I mean, hey, if you're not interested in it.... I'm sure the community wouldn't mind taking over.
... that could be damaged by new exploits found in this source code is something that doesn't bare thinking about.
Argh! Trying to get rid of images of naked NeoWin people thinking about ramifications....
From the Groklaw article:
Why didn't SCO sue for breach of contract, then, if their position is correct and copyrights were supposed to transfer and Amendment 2 is the contract that was to make that happen? No one I have talked to can figure that out.
Well, I know why.... SCO must know their copyright claims are questionable at best. They're not claiming breach of contract so not to draw attention to the contract. Because, once the contract is fully analyzed by a court, SCO will know they've lost.
(this, of course, won't stop them from filing at least 8 more stupid lawsuits within a three month period)
Bootable floppies do not autostart when inserted into the floppy drive.
But even on the old macs, inserting a floppy caused a floppy icon to appear on the desktop. Obviously some kind of process has happened upon the insertion of the media.
Since your javascript program lacks the HTML required to make it work
But I can write an html file with this:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>js test</TITLE>
<SCRIPT SRC="test.js">
</HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>
and then let my kids hack away at the "test.js" file. They literally don't have to worry about anything other than
alert("hello world");
QBasic is what I'm teaching my kids as their first language one day. It's simple, the screen is nice (mm, blue), and easy graphics
But ultimately not a very good reflection of more advanced languages. Javascript has the advantage of being not only an easy interface to learn the basics in, but also something that is scalably advanced. Javascript can include basic event handling, and even includes a limited version of OOP. I think it would be a major benefit to a beginner to be able to move from basics to these more advanced topics without having to switch languages.
teaching programming using a language available on all platforms, Java
Maybe you read the stress on "language available on all platforms" -- I read the stress on "written for absolute beginners to learn the basic principles of programming."
The idea of the book is to teach the basics of programming to a complete newbie. It would not make sense to introduce the complications of complilation, classes/OOP, strict data types, etc. if all a newbie wants to learn about is using variables, conditionals, loops, and basic functions. That is simply introducing too much at once to somebody that might only know the concept of 'variable' from a middle school pre-algebra class.
I agree with the author, Javascript is the perfect language to teach programming fundamentals. I had already decided on Javascript myself as the language for teaching my kids one day. After all, what a beginner programmer wants most is the ability to see their program do something. Could it get any easier than:
alert("Hello World");
??