Most spammers just scrape addresses from web sites (including Slashdot) or Usenet posts. The whole "opt-in" excuse usually falls under Spammer Rule #1: "Spammers always lie".
"Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community."
Open relays aren't the problem that they were a few years ago. These days, spammers mainly use open proxies these days. (Which hides the traceback past the proxy.) The high volume spammers seem to buy their proxy access, but quite a few scan for open proxies on DSL lines to do their dirty. (A number of people install something like AnalogX to allow junior to share the DSL connection, and share it with the rest of the world too.)
There's a jerk in 199.183.* space (rasserver Florida) who scans 8888, 8080, 8000, 6588, 4480, 3128, 1182, 443 and 80 every week or two. One day I'm going to leave a trap on one of those ports.
(SPAM is a trademarked product of Hormel. Spam is that email stuff.)
The people who will block the 99.9% percent are not the spammer's customers. Spammer's don't mind a.005% response rate, and are the kind of people who actually buy from spammers going to adopt filtering? (We can't really force them to, can we?)
He'll get plenty of offers a free beer from around the world. (We need a service like BeerPal so that virtual beer payments can be shipped. There is a BeerPal but they just do beer rating.)
Sure. Even if they use foreign servers, if they are in the US, they can be nailed. Almost all spammers eventually want to get your money, so they have to leave a trail of breadcrumbs that leads right to their door. (The exception is the pump'n'dump stock spammers.)
No sweat. Historically, a cantenna is a 50 ohm dummy load in a paint can full of oil; used for transmitter tuning. If there's anything left of Heathkit, they probably have a trademark on that word.
Yeah, the mix of the traditional advertising with web sites is good. Visiting a web site is low pressure--you don't even have to say "just looking". A lot more people will check a web site than call for more information.
Using it with conventional advertising means that you get local customers and won't be lost in the Google Sea.
People who want to use a computer should learn to use a soldering iron. This business of using pre-assembled computers without really understanding them is not a good idea. And that's dumbing down for the masses; the real pros will design their own and wirewrap them.:^P
Yes, but the IBM PC wasn't announced until January 1980, and I doubt IBM would have been happy about people taking pictures of their prototypes in 1979. (Assuming that it is a prototype.) More likely the photo was taken in 1981, and retro-historied because an Apple II wasn't "serious" enough.
The Athens PC has a built-in telephone linked to Microsoft's productivity applications. When the hardware receives an incoming call, the software automatically pulls up the caller's contact information and photo if the data are stored on the system.
In other news, Microsoft announced that their next release of Word will allow printing!
If there hasn't been a contact manager that hasn't allowed this for at least the last five years, I don't know which one. Unless.. Could it be.. Outlook?
Why should I buy a box that only runs one operating system, no matter which one? What's the upside (for me) of buying one of these crippled boxes? (Oh alright, I'll go read the story.)
The same WinXP that by semi-default installs a Code Red-able copy of IIS and maybe a whateveritwas-able SQL server engine? To be installed by newbies who don't know about the patches?
.. is that the entire nation was dumped on the Internet at the same time. An entire nation of newbies. All the schools in South Korea got the same distro of Linux with open proxies running, and I'm not sure if there's a single working abuse emailbox in the whole country.
Now, not only can we build nanotube fiber cables to orbit, but we can light them up at night too!
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it rivals the Active Desktop from MS Windows
Ah, that's tells me everything I needed to know, thanks! (Heh, I should talk. I've got an off/on project that uses MS Agent [talking Clippy] to do the same kind of things. Damned if I'd ever use it, but it's fun to work on.)
Well I suppose if it can display headlines from Slashdot, it could be useful for jumping in with that FP.:^)
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I went to the Samurize web site but that's not much help: "The current version of Samurize has expired!" Okay... So I downloaded the zip and looked at the docs.
Information - What is Samurize?
Short description:
Samurize is the successor to the quite popular program CureInfo. It is a system monitoring utility with some pretty awesome configuration power. The configuration program is separated from the client for minimal memory usage. For the moment Samurize is in beta state. This means: Bugs can and does exist, all optimitions have not yet been done.
The program it self displays almost any kind of information right on your desktop/taskbar and homepage (server/taskbar version is in production).
So, I guess it displays stuff. *sigh* I doubt I'll dig further as the video requirement is probably out of my range "Geforce 1 or better (needed to for hardware supported per pixel alpha blending)".
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It's sad that there is unlikely to be a ripple-effect of thousands trying to buy socket-wrench sets at Sears. Ah well.
But certainly take The Boulder Pledge:
Open relays aren't the problem that they were a few years ago. These days, spammers mainly use open proxies these days. (Which hides the traceback past the proxy.) The high volume spammers seem to buy their proxy access, but quite a few scan for open proxies on DSL lines to do their dirty. (A number of people install something like AnalogX to allow junior to share the DSL connection, and share it with the rest of the world too.)
There's a jerk in 199.183.* space (rasserver Florida) who scans 8888, 8080, 8000, 6588, 4480, 3128, 1182, 443 and 80 every week or two. One day I'm going to leave a trap on one of those ports.
The people who will block the 99.9% percent are not the spammer's customers. Spammer's don't mind a .005% response rate, and are the kind of people who actually buy from spammers going to adopt filtering? (We can't really force them to, can we?)
He'll get plenty of offers a free beer from around the world. (We need a service like BeerPal so that virtual beer payments can be shipped. There is a BeerPal but they just do beer rating.)
Sure. Even if they use foreign servers, if they are in the US, they can be nailed. Almost all spammers eventually want to get your money, so they have to leave a trail of breadcrumbs that leads right to their door. (The exception is the pump'n'dump stock spammers.)
No sweat. Historically, a cantenna is a 50 ohm dummy load in a paint can full of oil; used for transmitter tuning. If there's anything left of Heathkit, they probably have a trademark on that word.
Using it with conventional advertising means that you get local customers and won't be lost in the Google Sea.
People who want to use a computer should learn to use a soldering iron. This business of using pre-assembled computers without really understanding them is not a good idea. And that's dumbing down for the masses; the real pros will design their own and wirewrap them. :^P
Yes, but the IBM PC wasn't announced until January 1980, and I doubt IBM would have been happy about people taking pictures of their prototypes in 1979. (Assuming that it is a prototype.) More likely the photo was taken in 1981, and retro-historied because an Apple II wasn't "serious" enough.
I'd say "Thank you Captain Obvious", but I suppose many of you weren't born yet back then. Oh my.
Look at how many small businesses use what Kliban called "nephew art" for their physical signs.
I suppose it's possible that they got their hands on a prototype IBM PC in 1979.
I don't mind the fries. It's where they want to insert them that I have a problem with.
Pretty much all contact managers support this via TAPI already. A new box to replace a cheepy modem card, woo!
Double negative, shoot me now.
In other news, Microsoft announced that their next release of Word will allow printing!
If there hasn't been a contact manager that hasn't allowed this for at least the last five years, I don't know which one. Unless .. Could it be .. Outlook?
Why should I buy a box that only runs one operating system, no matter which one? What's the upside (for me) of buying one of these crippled boxes? (Oh alright, I'll go read the story.)
It's a long shot, but was anyone carrying a cell phone? "Hi honey! Yeah, I'm in the space capsule..." :^P
That suggestion is not helpful! :^)
.. is that the entire nation was dumped on the Internet at the same time. An entire nation of newbies. All the schools in South Korea got the same distro of Linux with open proxies running, and I'm not sure if there's a single working abuse emailbox in the whole country.
Now, not only can we build nanotube fiber cables to orbit, but we can light them up at night too!
Ah, that's tells me everything I needed to know, thanks! (Heh, I should talk. I've got an off/on project that uses MS Agent [talking Clippy] to do the same kind of things. Damned if I'd ever use it, but it's fun to work on.)
Well I suppose if it can display headlines from Slashdot, it could be useful for jumping in with that FP. :^)
So, I guess it displays stuff. *sigh* I doubt I'll dig further as the video requirement is probably out of my range "Geforce 1 or better (needed to for hardware supported per pixel alpha blending)".