I do similar stuff with a catchall address, and for places like slashdot I also change them monthly. Seems a Japanese spam shop did some harvesting here in November, 2006 and that list is still seeing heavy use. It generally takes a few months after using an address on slashdot comments for the spam to start flowing.
The good news is I haven’t seen any spam from any of the other addresses I’ve used, meaning that of the hundred or more distinct entities I’ve given an email address to, only public discussion boards have generated any spam, and the vast majority of that has been from slashdot. So the problem is not nearly as bad as I imagined it would be.
Foxit works great! Much thanks to the dude what posted the link. I’ve been looking for something more like Preview.app than ACROBAT.EXE, and this does the trick. And yes, even with a network printer. Imagine that.
Hell, while we’re at it, “chief” would be easier to spell if we spelled it “cheef,” as its pronunciation would imply. But we don’t do that, either. So sorry.
A friend of mine is a local flight instructor and has done a few flights for Google Maps crew. Perhaps they were just doing specialized by-request work, but in this case it was a dude with an SLR and a big lens shooting out the window of a Cessna.
Very true. I’m a huge proponent of eating like a caveman. Apart from the fact that there weren’t really and proto-human populations living in caves, the diet and lifestyle we adapted to is what we are still tuned for. The closer we can come to that, the better. It’s actually a very basic and simple idea. The only tricky part is executing that plan in 21st century America. And, ironically enough, it’s also a fairly expensive way to eat in this society.
The prevalence of natural food coops over the past few decades helps greatly, and I think we’re starting to see a pretty significant shift in the dietary patterns of this society. Things are kinda coming to a head in a lot of ways, from the organic movement, to concerns over HFCS, fear of GMO foods, and lately the melamine thing.
In fact, American Indians have lived on the Equator in America for longer, yet they are lighter coloured than say, Africans.
Huh?
Humans have been playing on the American continents for about 40,000 years, after having migrated there from Asia. Humans have been in Africa since... umm, since before we were humans.
And while aboriginal Americans are lighter in color than Africans, they are darker than the typical Asian stock they descended from. And they’re not exactly pale skinned, either. In fact, if you were to name a football team after them... well, I think you get what I’m saying here.
Who the f*** decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?!
It was always thus... Two spaces after a period is only appropriate in circumstances where all characters are the same width, such as an old-school typewriter. So nobody “decided” that it would be that way “on the Internet;” we just stopped using the special-case rules that sprung up a few decades prior when we were using technology that wasn’t capable of proportionally spaced type.
Heck, most of the shows already have an alternative voting scheme. They open the phone lines, get a bunch of votes, ignore the results, and pick whoever they think is going to give them the best ratings next week.
We were buying the natural stuff with oil on top that is such a massive pain in the ass to stir up. Then we started buying real peanut butter... there’s a machine at the back of the store with a big hopper full of peanuts on top of it. You put your container underneath it and press the button until it’s full.
They can have off the record conversations, who cares if they use email off the record or not? Me. I care. Because I, as an American citizen, own that communication. The President works for me, and anything he does is essentially Work For Hire, in common copyright parlance.
...at least up until the point where we decide that each and every one of the Presidents words is subject to public scrutiny. Presidential Records Act
Right, but I think the disconnect is in thinking of anarchists also being communists. Ya know, people advocating an absence of government thinking that said absent government should own all the property. Or something. It's hard to know exactly what they would believe, but fun to joke about. Kinda like Jews For Jesus. Or a Muslim strip club. Or a religious school.
I noticed that, too. I assumed it was a case of a group identifying themselves with a certain misleading term and others unthinkingly repeating it, kinda like Hitler’s little group calling themselves Socialists and nobody really questioning that.
Slashdot Mirror
I do similar stuff with a catchall address, and for places like slashdot I also change them monthly. Seems a Japanese spam shop did some harvesting here in November, 2006 and that list is still seeing heavy use. It generally takes a few months after using an address on slashdot comments for the spam to start flowing.
The good news is I haven’t seen any spam from any of the other addresses I’ve used, meaning that of the hundred or more distinct entities I’ve given an email address to, only public discussion boards have generated any spam, and the vast majority of that has been from slashdot. So the problem is not nearly as bad as I imagined it would be.
Yes.
Yes, I have.
First decent car analogy I’ve seen on slashdot in years!
Yeah, but at least we’re not left wondering whether he had any useful advice to offer.
-1, FUD
Foxit works great! Much thanks to the dude what posted the link. I’ve been looking for something more like Preview.app than ACROBAT.EXE, and this does the trick. And yes, even with a network printer. Imagine that.
Yes, and three spaces would be even easier.
Hell, while we’re at it, “chief” would be easier to spell if we spelled it “cheef,” as its pronunciation would imply. But we don’t do that, either. So sorry.
A friend of mine is a local flight instructor and has done a few flights for Google Maps crew. Perhaps they were just doing specialized by-request work, but in this case it was a dude with an SLR and a big lens shooting out the window of a Cessna.
I was skeptical too, but that’s what he tells me.
Yeah, just ask the Polish astronauts who didn’t have the good sense to wait till nightfall before attempting that historic landing!
Very true. I’m a huge proponent of eating like a caveman. Apart from the fact that there weren’t really and proto-human populations living in caves, the diet and lifestyle we adapted to is what we are still tuned for. The closer we can come to that, the better. It’s actually a very basic and simple idea. The only tricky part is executing that plan in 21st century America. And, ironically enough, it’s also a fairly expensive way to eat in this society.
The prevalence of natural food coops over the past few decades helps greatly, and I think we’re starting to see a pretty significant shift in the dietary patterns of this society. Things are kinda coming to a head in a lot of ways, from the organic movement, to concerns over HFCS, fear of GMO foods, and lately the melamine thing.
Now if only I could buy organic whisky...
What you posted is nothing a lot of us don’t already know, but that is probably the best written version of it that I’ve come across.
Huh?
Humans have been playing on the American continents for about 40,000 years, after having migrated there from Asia. Humans have been in Africa since... umm, since before we were humans.
And while aboriginal Americans are lighter in color than Africans, they are darker than the typical Asian stock they descended from. And they’re not exactly pale skinned, either. In fact, if you were to name a football team after them... well, I think you get what I’m saying here.
Huh?
People who are too chickens*** to say “fuck.”
It was always thus... Two spaces after a period is only appropriate in circumstances where all characters are the same width, such as an old-school typewriter. So nobody “decided” that it would be that way “on the Internet;” we just stopped using the special-case rules that sprung up a few decades prior when we were using technology that wasn’t capable of proportionally spaced type.
Nah, just bury him face down.
By the time he digs all the way to daylight, hell come up just in time to terrorize China’s thriving movie industry.
I thought you said alternative.
If only the current administration was clear on this!
Mathematics has a well known liberal bias.
You wanted an argument? Oh, I’m sorry, but this is slashdot.
Stupid git.
We were buying the natural stuff with oil on top that is such a massive pain in the ass to stir up. Then we started buying real peanut butter... there’s a machine at the back of the store with a big hopper full of peanuts on top of it. You put your container underneath it and press the button until it’s full.
At least you’re predictable.
...at least up until the point where we decide that each and every one of the Presidents words is subject to public scrutiny. Presidential Records ActWhat you say is premised on the idea that we elect parties and not people.
They still make those?
Right, but I think the disconnect is in thinking of anarchists also being communists. Ya know, people advocating an absence of government thinking that said absent government should own all the property. Or something. It's hard to know exactly what they would believe, but fun to joke about. Kinda like Jews For Jesus. Or a Muslim strip club. Or a religious school.
I noticed that, too. I assumed it was a case of a group identifying themselves with a certain misleading term and others unthinkingly repeating it, kinda like Hitler’s little group calling themselves Socialists and nobody really questioning that.