After the dot.bombing of their portfolios, most of the shareholders will probably sell their grannies for the right price.
The fonders don't need a majority, just a big enough lump to make it hard to swallow. However, I'll bet that they don't if Microsoft can make a sweet enough offer to the VCaps and institutional investors. As I said, with the general slashing of tech stocks, a lot of them could really use the money.
Do not underestimate the power of large amounts of crisp cash.
Peeve: Companies that post jobs on their site, but don't provide a street address so you can figure out if it's possible to actually get there if you ever get an interview. I guess they want you to look up their domain registration in whois to prove your L337 skills.
That's nothing! I can compress any information down to one bit. Really!
The decompression? We're working on it. And while I'm waiting on my funds from Nigeria, if you'd like to sign up for our vult^w venture capital investment plan, I assure you that your $10 million will be far more carefully bur^w spent than Zeosync.
But filtering is just automated "Just Hit Delete". The system at the other end, which probably isn't even the spammer's, doesn't even get a 55x bounce message. (Not that spamware pays any attention to those.)
The "adv" tag idea is part of the Direct Marketing Association propaganda-pack. (The "our shit doesn't stink" defence.) What would happen if even a fraction of companies around the world sent everyone email tagged with "adv"?
The only way to make it work is to make it unprofitable for ISPs to accept pink-money from spammers. If they know that all their customers will suffer if they turn a blind eye to abuse, then they might rethink their deals with spammers.
I don't know if I'd consider RFC2235 a definitive document. I don't have the time to research and pick it apart, but it did seem to be a retro-history [1]. I did notice the lack of any mention of Canadian universities that were on ARPANET long before the mention in 2235 of international or Canadian connections. (University of Waterloo, or just maybe utzoo for starters...:^)
[1] By retro-history, I mean a history which start with the present-day winners, and traces them back without researching the people who were doing the same thing at the same time, but failed.
Either recruiting a friendly radio amateur (radio engineer if you can get one) or investing the time to get their own licences would have been a good idea. Not only would they have more radio knowledge (or at least know where to find it), but they could operate in radio amateur frequencies with a much higher power limit.
That said, it's been a while I tried out for mine (failed the 10 WPM Morse), and I have no idea what available frequencies are up there or how easy it would be to shift those transmitters -- but I bet that they could run a hell of a lot more power. (There are restrictions on the type of traffic, but that didn't seem to a problem in this case.)
Honestly, if you can pass a Mickysoft "Engineer" exam, you can get your ham licence.
What about that Future World where all your appliances will be on the Internet? With wide-coverage WiFi, you'll be able to put your pants on the Internet! (If your pants are already on the Internet, I don't want to know, okay? I don't need that much life-changing this morning.)
It's still too early to tell much impact universal broadband will have.
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Cables are a little hard to drag around with you for communications on the go. I wonder about the large "footprint" that the balloons will have - won't having everyone in range communicating through it tend to chew up the bandwidth? (I guess I could read the article.)
That won't work. A 550 error has to be given before the body of the email is sent. A filter can drop the email into/dev/null once the body has been received, but you've already accepted the email from the sender.
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The fonders don't need a majority, just a big enough lump to make it hard to swallow. However, I'll bet that they don't if Microsoft can make a sweet enough offer to the VCaps and institutional investors. As I said, with the general slashing of tech stocks, a lot of them could really use the money.
Do not underestimate the power of large amounts of crisp cash.
Borland, Rational, Macromedia, they might not get them all, but they sure want something under the tree for Bill.
Peeve: Companies that post jobs on their site, but don't provide a street address so you can figure out if it's possible to actually get there if you ever get an interview. I guess they want you to look up their domain registration in whois to prove your L337 skills.
Maybe so, but there's some server in Clueless&Witless/Exodus space that keeps dropping the hop to Slashdot for me.
The decompression? We're working on it. And while I'm waiting on my funds from Nigeria, if you'd like to sign up for our vult^w venture capital investment plan, I assure you that your $10 million will be far more carefully bur^w spent than Zeosync.
Did he say corner or coroner? (Everything old is old again and again.)
But filtering is just automated "Just Hit Delete". The system at the other end, which probably isn't even the spammer's, doesn't even get a 55x bounce message. (Not that spamware pays any attention to those.)
The "adv" tag idea is part of the Direct Marketing Association propaganda-pack. (The "our shit doesn't stink" defence.) What would happen if even a fraction of companies around the world sent everyone email tagged with "adv"?
The only way to make it work is to make it unprofitable for ISPs to accept pink-money from spammers. If they know that all their customers will suffer if they turn a blind eye to abuse, then they might rethink their deals with spammers.
[1] By retro-history, I mean a history which start with the present-day winners, and traces them back without researching the people who were doing the same thing at the same time, but failed.
That said, it's been a while I tried out for mine (failed the 10 WPM Morse), and I have no idea what available frequencies are up there or how easy it would be to shift those transmitters -- but I bet that they could run a hell of a lot more power. (There are restrictions on the type of traffic, but that didn't seem to a problem in this case.)
Honestly, if you can pass a Mickysoft "Engineer" exam, you can get your ham licence.
It's still too early to tell much impact universal broadband will have.
They use Pringles cans. BIG Pringles cans...
Yes, but their webpage is pretty short on details.
Ah! So the Them are now using black helicopters and white balloons? :^)
In the irony dept, Newmarket is north of Toronto, up Highway .. 404.
Cables are a little hard to drag around with you for communications on the go. I wonder about the large "footprint" that the balloons will have - won't having everyone in range communicating through it tend to chew up the bandwidth? (I guess I could read the article.)
It's like all the pr0n sites that get rich displaying each other's banner ads. I never quite figured out how that's supposed to work.
14. People who drank a lot of beer and suddenly notice the lack of washrooms on board. 'copter whizzz...
If they could use them in some of the current roles of expensive to operate police or search helicopters, 5 million would be chump change.
How many times are you going to spam Slashdot with the same post?
That won't work. A 550 error has to be given before the body of the email is sent. A filter can drop the email into /dev/null once the body has been received, but you've already accepted the email from the sender.
Filtering out any email that has "This is not spam" would be a good start. :^)
SPEWS didn't tell you that. Probably it was someone on news.admin.net-abuse.email, which is as about as authoritative as a random reply on Slashdot.
And further more, it isn't true. SPEWS has frequently reacted to spammer-removal within hours (or less).
What illegal act? You're just not accepting the email that they're trying to dump on you.
Partial listing:
1, 65.165.237.126, HUFFNAL / underage-girls.net
1, 65.165.238.144, HUFFNAL / home-lolita.net
1, 65.165.235.230, HUFFNAL / mail.webspace4all.net
0, 65.165.239.144, HUFFNAL / dealsonpc.com (listed)
1, 65.165.235.205, HUFFNAL / trust-bill.com
1, 65.165.234.1, HUFFNAL / Spammers Perez/Walls / mortgageleads.tv
1, 65.165.232.0 - 65.165.239.255, HUFFNAL / Todd Spears/Perez/Walls (Sprint)
Looks like a pretty scummy net-neighborhood. If their ISP doesn't want to clean it up, I don't think I'd want any email from them either.
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