I used to get that Toner Spam from Benchmark Industries about once a week. The interesting part was that they didn't BCC the email list. This was nice because you could pretty easily figure out where they got the list from (obviously it was also bad because any of those other people on the list could use it for their own spamming purposes.)
Anyway, after reporting them to spamcop for months and filing complaints against them with the Better Business Bureau (both good resources for this) I decided to actually look at the email. At the bottom they included two different 1-800 numbers for customer support and to remove your name from their list.
Now, obviously I'm not going to tell them which email is active, because they'll just send me more, so I had my computer call them up over and over and over and over again leaving long messages (at their expenses, thank you 1-800) telling them to remove all email addresses from my school (everyone on their list was from my university). They were never there in person, always had a machine answer the phone, but I think they eventually got fed up with paying the 1-800 bill and eventually stopped sending me spam.
It was some work, but it eventually got rid of them. So remember, first use spamcop, second use BBB, third spam them back... always check for that 1-800.
For instance, wouldnt it be nice if Network solutions could haul off and revoke all the stupid domain names that point to pr0n? (www.whitehouse.com springs to mind)
Why would you ever want them deciding that you can't own a URL because it's going to point to porn? Soon they'll just be banning porn altogether... and THEN what are we going to do?
I found the idea interesting, why isn't there a link to a picture of the thing? If there isn't one already online, why don't you guys take one and scan it in?
Now comes the important question, who ELSE can sell threads from slashdot in book and reap the benefits. Can I start publishing every major thread on my home printing press in an attempt to make money off the now quasi-popular geek culture?
I have no problem with the information being available, I do have a problem with someone making money off of other's words without warning or permission.
As much as I love free music, and Napster, and all the rest, I find it pretty hard to justify MP3.com's (a website that is REALLY trying to gain legitimacy) need for this service.
They provide legal MP3s, it's what they do... there's no reason for them to suddenly start providing access to questionably legal stock, especially without first asking the recording companies. Now, instead of giving access to the music of up-and-coming artists it's going to have to battle in court with the major labels over something that I really don't anybody needs or wants. I could be wrong, but a service that gives you access to your own songs seems unneccessary.
The Jon Katz keyboard: It has fourteen-thousand letters, yet nobody ever gets past the first thirty...
And it's got a direct-link button just like the AOL keyboard; it automatically sends preset flamemail to Jon Katz. Comes in very handy when you're in a hurry.
Kind of like Domain names... I wish I had been smart enough and rich enough in 1994 to start picking up the good ones. Maybe I'll be smart enough and rich enough this time around and start grabbing up the airwaves.
This story at Cnn.com talks about how a voters' rights group is challenging the internet voting because it discriminates against minorities who have considerably lower access to internet technology:
But the head of a Virginia-based voters' rights group said the larger the turnout, the more discriminatory the election will be for minorities and others.
"It just dilutes the votes of minority voters because they don't have as much access to the Internet," said Deborah Phillips, Voting Integrity Project president. "The more popular this is, the worse it is from our perspective."
They go on to call it a modern day poll-tax. I think it's kind of silly myself, but it's an interesting point to counter everyone's "rah rah internet" attitude.
I mean, I understand grabbing Sotheby's as it's a depressed commodity... fine and good. But they're expanding out of the financial bubble of the internet into real-world investments that simply don't make the splash that anything.com has.
Do you remember what happened to AOL stock prices as soon as they merged with Time-Warner? They suddenly weren't just an internet company any more and their prices dropped like a rock, same thing could happen here. I would say stick with what you know, stick with the net EBay.
You're wrong... if they're involved in a scandal now is the time to buy. When better? Now personally I think it's kind of creepy to see EBay expanding into a field where respect is more important than a multi-colored logo, but if the value of Sotheby's is as depressed as it seems to be, then why shouldn't they buy it?
EBay will own the world in a matter of months, I'm sure of it.
"These personal computers may also include RAM memory, a display unit, long-term storage such as a hard disk drive, and other proprietary processors such as video graphic cards and math co-processors."
Hmm... this concept sounds intriguing. I wonder who owns the patent on "a display unit"... I'm going to have to get my but over to the patent office, something like "a display unit" could be worth millions.
All you have to do is write your password backwards on your forhead. Since it's backwards, nobody will be able to figure it out. They'll try it, but they'll be wrong because they won't have reversed it. Then all you need to do is look in a mirror. Pure genious.
Dear lord. What is wrong with this country? I'm moving to Finland. Following this line of logic I should be allowed to sue all sites published in another language... I'm not able to read them with my disibility:
I'm mono-lingual
If people don't want to make websites viewable to everyone, good for them. When they start making wheelchair ramps stair accessable, then I'll be happy.
"The potential application of a robot based on a fly might be, in an urban environment, clandestine surveillance nd reconnaissance,'' said Teresa McMullen of the Office of Naval Research.
In other words, that fly might be a spy. Just the thing for keeping tabs on terrorists. Or wandering spouses.
Just imagine what this is going to be like when someone attaches it to back orifice... remotely dancing around inside a network shutting down processes and machines at random. It's only a matter of time.
Ack... what were they thinking??? Smart enough to record the freaking eyesight off a cat but not smart enough to shrink the graphics down a smidge! The images are mostely graphs and charts... 1 meg jpegs?
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I used to get that Toner Spam from Benchmark Industries about once a week. The interesting part was that they didn't BCC the email list. This was nice because you could pretty easily figure out where they got the list from (obviously it was also bad because any of those other people on the list could use it for their own spamming purposes.)
Anyway, after reporting them to spamcop for months and filing complaints against them with the Better Business Bureau (both good resources for this) I decided to actually look at the email. At the bottom they included two different 1-800 numbers for customer support and to remove your name from their list.
Now, obviously I'm not going to tell them which email is active, because they'll just send me more, so I had my computer call them up over and over and over and over again leaving long messages (at their expenses, thank you 1-800) telling them to remove all email addresses from my school (everyone on their list was from my university). They were never there in person, always had a machine answer the phone, but I think they eventually got fed up with paying the 1-800 bill and eventually stopped sending me spam.
It was some work, but it eventually got rid of them. So remember, first use spamcop, second use BBB, third spam them back... always check for that 1-800.
Why would you ever want them deciding that you can't own a URL because it's going to point to porn? Soon they'll just be banning porn altogether... and THEN what are we going to do?
I found the idea interesting, why isn't there a link to a picture of the thing? If there isn't one already online, why don't you guys take one and scan it in?
If you never move your pawns, you'll never lose.
Now comes the important question, who ELSE can sell threads from slashdot in book and reap the benefits. Can I start publishing every major thread on my home printing press in an attempt to make money off the now quasi-popular geek culture?
I have no problem with the information being available, I do have a problem with someone making money off of other's words without warning or permission.
As much as I love free music, and Napster, and all the rest, I find it pretty hard to justify MP3.com's (a website that is REALLY trying to gain legitimacy) need for this service.
They provide legal MP3s, it's what they do... there's no reason for them to suddenly start providing access to questionably legal stock, especially without first asking the recording companies. Now, instead of giving access to the music of up-and-coming artists it's going to have to battle in court with the major labels over something that I really don't anybody needs or wants. I could be wrong, but a service that gives you access to your own songs seems unneccessary.
The Jon Katz keyboard: It has fourteen-thousand letters, yet nobody ever gets past the first thirty...
And it's got a direct-link button just like the AOL keyboard; it automatically sends preset flamemail to Jon Katz. Comes in very handy when you're in a hurry.
Kind of like Domain names... I wish I had been smart enough and rich enough in 1994 to start picking up the good ones. Maybe I'll be smart enough and rich enough this time around and start grabbing up the airwaves.
- But the head of a Virginia-based voters' rights group said the larger the turnout, the more discriminatory the election will be for minorities and others.
They go on to call it a modern day poll-tax. I think it's kind of silly myself, but it's an interesting point to counter everyone's "rah rah internet" attitude."It just dilutes the votes of minority voters because they don't have as much access to the Internet," said Deborah Phillips, Voting Integrity Project president. "The more popular this is, the worse it is from our perspective."
I mean, I understand grabbing Sotheby's as it's a depressed commodity... fine and good. But they're expanding out of the financial bubble of the internet into real-world investments that simply don't make the splash that anything .com has.
Do you remember what happened to AOL stock prices as soon as they merged with Time-Warner? They suddenly weren't just an internet company any more and their prices dropped like a rock, same thing could happen here. I would say stick with what you know, stick with the net EBay.
You're wrong... if they're involved in a scandal now is the time to buy. When better? Now personally I think it's kind of creepy to see EBay expanding into a field where respect is more important than a multi-colored logo, but if the value of Sotheby's is as depressed as it seems to be, then why shouldn't they buy it?
EBay will own the world in a matter of months, I'm sure of it.
If only they had Microsoft in the future, they would never have let HAL get away for so many years without a superficial name upgrade. If only...
Rob Malda in ASCII at Slashdot Man's webpage is one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen.
http://sdm.rietta.com/robascii.htm
Jeez, they don't need to take this much info from me... I want to support them but they really don't need to have my address.
"These personal computers may also include RAM memory, a display unit, long-term storage such as a hard disk drive, and other proprietary processors such as video graphic cards and math co-processors."
Hmm... this concept sounds intriguing. I wonder who owns the patent on "a display unit"... I'm going to have to get my but over to the patent office, something like "a display unit" could be worth millions.
All you have to do is write your password backwards on your forhead. Since it's backwards, nobody will be able to figure it out. They'll try it, but they'll be wrong because they won't have reversed it. Then all you need to do is look in a mirror. Pure genious.
Cute name.
Dear lord. What is wrong with this country? I'm moving to Finland. Following this line of logic I should be allowed to sue all sites published in another language... I'm not able to read them with my disibility:
I'm mono-lingual
If people don't want to make websites viewable to everyone, good for them. When they start making wheelchair ramps stair accessable, then I'll be happy.
"The potential application of a robot based on a fly might be, in an urban environment, clandestine surveillance nd reconnaissance,'' said Teresa McMullen of the Office of Naval Research.
In other words, that fly might be a spy. Just the thing for keeping tabs on terrorists. Or wandering spouses.
Does anybody else find this really disturbing...
Next Invention: Roboflies that can read thought.
by Neal Stephensson does a better job of describing the problems with a nanotech world than this piece does.
Just imagine what this is going to be like when someone attaches it to back orifice... remotely dancing around inside a network shutting down processes and machines at random. It's only a matter of time.
Yeah, Grande Ole Party.
We're only one step away from that global weather machine... Dr. Evil keep your eyes on this.
A way to run my Mickey Mouse Clock without having to resort to the entire fascist system of "batteries."
Ack... what were they thinking??? Smart enough to record the freaking eyesight off a cat but not smart enough to shrink the graphics down a smidge! The images are mostely graphs and charts... 1 meg jpegs?