It would also help spammers to write better pitches. Use real words, actual English but put it in narrative real world sceneario format. So it reads like someone you know telling you how they use such and such a product.
If they were smart, they would have real jobs. Lets face it, if a spammer trys to sell me with
"SEll 150?000?000 bottles in 1 day!!!!!!! EARN $$$$$$$"
odds are he really thinks that's a smart sales pitch. Look at their software, usually spits out a bunch of crap that does not fall into any language. I get a huge amount of spam that is just plain noise.
Spammers hawk penis enlargers, because they have a penis size issue.
I hope to hell they're fishing for non-bouncing addresses, because at the moment any email which SpamAssassin says is spam, I bounce.
Don't ever do that, all spam has forged headers. You're just making life hard on someone who had their address sold.
I work for a big company, an icon the the computer business. Our mail servers get spammed a lot. We often have typical user names grafted onto the From or Reply lines. Since my user name is pretty damn common, and some of my work mail aliases are TLAs, I look at a lot of spam. When I read the headers (in a text file, not easily spoofed mail software), almost always the senders domain is not even close to the domain of the spamming machine. Go put the IP addresses into dnsstuff.com, and compare that to the hostname. These turds hack the sendmail.cf file of the spamming machine. "SallySmith@aol.com" probably did not send spam-mail from a ".kr" ISP.
IT infrastructure that is already stretched to its limits buy cost reduction initiatives is not going to learn how to write macros or how to migrate them.
Perhaps that is the problem, If you were a UNIX shop, your sysadmins would be professional script writers. The real issue is that your fellow sysadmins either don't know how to write "for i in `command`", or/usr/local/bin/perl -e 'do something clever', or my favorite/home/me/toolbox/automated_labor_intensive_job.pl, or are not allowed by a restrictive OS. Which also means you also don't have an easy to use "CRON" type program to execute commands while you sleep, and you don't have something like "PROCMAIL", to do something clever with the mail report received from the clever "CRON" job. You are spending all your valuable human time doing jobs inexpensive machines do in a UNIX shop.
I get requests like "please install program x on 70 computers in the next couple of days because
If that is the problem, the correct solution may be UNIX. Installing software for UNIX means testing the software on one or two machines, to figgure out what environment tuning you need to perform. Then install the program on/usr/common/bin/., or where ever you have your apps installed on the network. If you had that infrastructure, one install would install the app for all your users.
On a UNIX network, all your user are belong to root.
I suspect that every such organisation has a team somewhere looking at alternative desktop software vendors.
Often, that is viewed as a heretical subject. If an IT org does look at OS options, they never admit to such. I work for a really really big outfit, and IT is split into desktop, and engineering groups (along with a hundred other groups I consider to be bullshit generators). The desktop people don't know the engineering sides exists, or that with the exception of P4's emulating dumb terminals, the engineering side runs almost exclusively on UNIX variants, with LINUX being the most prominent. About 90% Linux, except the big iron AIX servers.
Our first Linux machines were hidden under Engineer's desks, and hidden from IT, as the Engineers were told to use NT, which could not do the work. The Engineering people who brought Linux into the company were not allowed to report their work in their weekly reports, as their work was verboten. Later the CIO was awarded for bringing Linux into the company... Dilbert rules.
Or should I say, "the verbiage utilized in news media tends to be horrific as of late."
I'm rather dismayed by the diction, especially the frequent syncopes. The speakers are supposed to be professionals, but to me, they sound like rank amatures. And I don't consider myself a model in the language realm.
All of our kids are going to grow to be bigger geeks than we are.:)
I think otherwise... Tinker-toys, legos, Link-in logs are what made us geeks. We played _with_ them, and more importantly, made something significant from insignificant building blocks. The new toys play by themselves, which fills to distract the attention of our kids.
Our kids are just moths caught in the glow of the animated bug-lite. 8(
If you want to save this country, you should make vote mandatory
Saddam Hussein had a mandatory vote, and he got exactly 100% of that vote. Not a 99.999%, but a true 100%. Are you saying we should be more like Q1 2003 Iraq?
I would like to see the positions distributed as most votes = president, second = VP, third = Sec of State. California had that result when Jerry Brown was Gov, and Mike Curb was Lt. Gov. Brown was running all over the country running for Pres, and if he stayed out of state too long, Curb could pass or veto bills on the Gov's desk. Kind of kept Jerry honest.
From my saltwater aquarium days, I noticed that bubble size is related to higher salinity; which is also related to water density. I imagine these also affect surface tension too.
Why is it that a member of a "charismatic megafauna" needs to be protected, and not some small and not so cute tweetie bird? Get real, the only reason that raptors are so beloved is that they are large, and pleasing to the eye (and ego). Does anyone care for one of the smarter birds that live in large extended families, and are able to learn to live in and around other species; gregarious animals with more advanced communication, and some basic problem solving skills. Why is it that no one cares about the crows or the wild american turkeys?
I wonder if the decline of the raptors in an area cause the rise of the California native kangaroo rats, and by decline of competitors, smaller carnivores such as the San Joaquine kit foxes?
Name ONE sabre toothed tiger (or for that matter, any animal) that has deer heads mounted on their dwelling walls, and brags to others of their species of their "magnificant" kills...
I guess you've never seen what coyotes do to sheep. They go in, slaughter five or ten, eat part of one. Come back tomorrow night, do the same.
Know about the "Butcher Bird"? Catches small rodents, and insects. Impales them on barbed wire, or sharp sticks. Leaves them there.
I guess you get your nature education from watching US TV.
Turn off the TV, go speak with people who work in agriculture. Instead of sending money to the Lawyers who use it to hurt US Farmers.
You have to love right-wing reactionaries who absolutely must jump down the throats of anybody who even makes a statement that could be construed as a vague reference to the possibility of gun control.
Please read my post again. I did not, and will not, say anything about the constitutionality or correctness of gun control. I merely stated that "automatic assault rifles with clips that hold over ten rounds" is a completely objective criterion.
You've been led into thinking that "Assault Rifle" is a class or type of weapon. In reality it's anything a politician wants to label as scary. Because that line is a used as a negative label. Kind of like calling someone a NAZI. That's a negative label used to create a zenophobic reaction. It actually works pretty well on the simple minded.
Some of us on the right think of rifles are repression prevention devices. And with the likes of Lon Horuchi still on the lose, they are much needed.
It shocks me that Dell is moving the operation back to the US, instead of dealing with the issue, and hiring language coaches
Likely, it's more than the language issue. There's the "mail stuck in customs" issue.
There's a whole different mindset on jobsites without 100% reliable services. For most US companies, the attitude is "We must have it, and we must have it now!"
One time we had to teach a technician how to use a cresent wrench. How do you think that technician works with say power tools?
It is illegal for US companies to pay gratuities or bribes, and in some parts of the world, nothing moves without some palms being greased. Some firms know that they need to hire a "facilitator" to assist with transactions in places where some assistance is needed.
I'm with you on keeping the punch cards. That technologys been in use for more than 120 years, and most of the bugs have been wrung out. I'm not saying that new could not be better, but new paradymes have new problems. And after that last bunch of BS, we don't need to go changing everything at once.
but I want something that says how I voted that I can take with me
Actually the reason we don't do this, is to prevent vote buying, and extortion. Imagine this: "Bring in a ballot stub that says you voted for ElectricRook, and get a free beer." or "Hey Arnold, you little skinney twerp, if you don't have a ballot stub that sez ElectricRook, I breaka you face."
I have novel idea, we could use hollorith cards, they don't have the "out of toner" issue, they're fairly light resistant, and not completely destroyed by small amounts of water. The card can be read either by humans or machines. The technology is very stable, and has been in use for more than 120 years. The voters could mark their own ballots, even at home as a "absentee voter". Therefore home voters, and at the poll voters could use the same ballot. There's already a large number of reader machines distrubiuted across the country.
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If you can have a better mousetrap built, then you better do it before your competitors
Granted, research and development are key to a companies success. And yes, I have typed on an IBM Selectric. BUT... But sometimes CIOs embrace pretty toys for the sake of having pretty toys. There's a reason buz-words are buz-words. Some managers breath them like they were air. Often useful tools come out that can make an Admins job much easier. Other times, "It's a cool web interface to a database", and we all know that the future is the internet, and databases are good"... But what does the tool do??? I donno... But it sure does sound cool.
There's a reason mobile home parks are known as "Tornado Magnets".
Have an insurance agent tell you about insurance options/price difference between modular and stick built homes.
Modular homes seem to have straighter lines, but they are made from thinner lumber. Where a stick built home is made from 2-by somethings, modular homes are made from 3/4 by somethings. Joinery is neater in modular construction, but materials are much thinner. One of the main interests in modular construction is weight of the finished product.
Consider how modular homes are attached to the foundation? My stick built house is bolted to baselite basement walls attached (hopefully) with rebar to footings dug into the soil. I actually have an attic which I can crawl up into and view the insulation, add electric circuits, and lighting or fans.
Consider how the electric circuits are going to be connected together in a modular. If a home is a bunch of boxes, the wiring is snap together.
Do you want copper or PVC plumbing? Copper never had the "blue water" problem. It's more expensive, but more resiliant if there is a freeze. What size water heaters are available, and what does your family need?
What if you want to remodel?
Ask a realestate agent to price out older modular homes onsite, and compare them to new modular homes + installation and landscaping. Often modular homes don't appreciate as fast as stick built homes. But consider that newer modulars are built with a different paradyme than older modulars (new modulars are not oversized travel trailers).
All show pieces, both stick and modulars have under-sized furniture. Take in a tape measure, and layout your furniture in the modular model. If you have a king-sized bed, go into a bedroom, and layout a king size bed with night stands etc.
Do the same in the kitchen/dining area for the dining table, and especially your washer/dryer and refridgirator. If you go to see an installed modular, flush the toilet, and turn on the shower, go to other rooms to see how much noise transfers. Are you un-happy with that amount of noise.
Some people are very happy with modulars, and there can be a huge savings with a modular manufacturers mass buying power on appliances.
Replace one sluggish bureaucracy with another one that's even larger and more sluggish. Then stand back and watch the fights about funding and budgetary contributions. That should be very helpful.
You forgot the part about the UN being an Un-elected bureaucracy.
I'm getting the idea that the pro UN crowd perceives "no wars in the western media" as no wars on the planet. If they had friends from Sri Lanka, Phillipines, or Viet Nam, they may think the UN criminal negligent.
I suppose a persons perception is reflective of the filter through which one receives information.
Here in Sacramento County, someone is building 1200 houses down-wind from a reduction plant. On an old Saturn V rocket engine testing ground/crash site (one engine got away), under a cargo airplane flight path, near the county dump.
God as my witness, this is really true.
I used to run cows near there, and can tell you that the ground water is polluted, the air smells like dump gas in the early morning hours, and the rendering of long dead, sun aged livestock is the evening pleasure. Accompanied by the cargo air-craft which only fly out in the early evening, and land in the early morning hours. Gold miners fled there in the spring floods, and probably used mercury to pruify their gold. Other than that, the place is pretty awful.
look at some 'real' big sites and see if they use Java:
Remember don't throw every toy in the toybox into the playpen.
Seems to me that the most useful sites are low in graphics/tech-glitz. Of course, I'm a pop-up blocking, dial up at 28.8 weenie. Your real users may have a different perspective.
people who use it over and over again may come to love vi once they learn the power features
I think its only the ones who believe that the machine should do the work. Some are Luddites, and don't want the machine to do their work. Me I love automating tasks. Automation is better than hiring headcounts, they work nights and weekends, do what you say, and don't call in sick.
: % ! perl 's/ (\d+) (\d+) / (($1) - ($2))/e'
Try that with vim inside a file of the output of "gdf -k".
His customers fell for that fatal flaw. They thought a programmer could fit the real world into a simple formula on a machine.
Ever sat crying in front of a machine? Having solved several difficult technical problems, the work reporting system would not allow my data entry. Good thing that happened at 4 in the morning, or some programmers would have had their heads ripped off.
Lets imagine the PHB designed the programmers editor. "Your file type program.c does not have enough comments. You are unable to save this file. Please add sufficient comments and try again..."
shutdown time has arrived!
Would any programmers have a problem with that tool? The tool is working as desinged by your PHB. Perhaps you should ask them to put in a request for further tool enhancements.
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If they were smart, they would have real jobs. Lets face it, if a spammer trys to sell me with
"SEll 150?000?000 bottles in 1 day!!!!!!! EARN $$$$$$$"
odds are he really thinks that's a smart sales pitch. Look at their software, usually spits out a bunch of crap that does not fall into any language. I get a huge amount of spam that is just plain noise.
Spammers hawk penis enlargers, because they have a penis size issue.
Don't ever do that, all spam has forged headers. You're just making life hard on someone who had their address sold.
I work for a big company, an icon the the computer business. Our mail servers get spammed a lot. We often have typical user names grafted onto the From or Reply lines. Since my user name is pretty damn common, and some of my work mail aliases are TLAs, I look at a lot of spam. When I read the headers (in a text file, not easily spoofed mail software), almost always the senders domain is not even close to the domain of the spamming machine. Go put the IP addresses into dnsstuff.com, and compare that to the hostname. These turds hack the sendmail.cf file of the spamming machine. "SallySmith@aol.com" probably did not send spam-mail from a ".kr" ISP.
Perhaps that is the problem, If you were a UNIX shop, your sysadmins would be professional script writers. The real issue is that your fellow sysadmins either don't know how to write "for i in `command`", or /usr/local/bin/perl -e 'do something clever', or my favorite /home/me/toolbox/automated_labor_intensive_job.pl, or are not allowed by a restrictive OS. Which also means you also don't have an easy to use "CRON" type program to execute commands while you sleep, and you don't have something like "PROCMAIL", to do something clever with the mail report received from the clever "CRON" job. You are spending all your valuable human time doing jobs inexpensive machines do in a UNIX shop.
I get requests like "please install program x on 70 computers in the next couple of days because
If that is the problem, the correct solution may be UNIX. Installing software for UNIX means testing the software on one or two machines, to figgure out what environment tuning you need to perform. Then install the program on /usr/common/bin/., or where ever you have your apps installed on the network. If you had that infrastructure, one install would install the app for all your users.
On a UNIX network, all your user are belong to root.
Often, that is viewed as a heretical subject. If an IT org does look at OS options, they never admit to such. I work for a really really big outfit, and IT is split into desktop, and engineering groups (along with a hundred other groups I consider to be bullshit generators). The desktop people don't know the engineering sides exists, or that with the exception of P4's emulating dumb terminals, the engineering side runs almost exclusively on UNIX variants, with LINUX being the most prominent. About 90% Linux, except the big iron AIX servers.
Our first Linux machines were hidden under Engineer's desks, and hidden from IT, as the Engineers were told to use NT, which could not do the work. The Engineering people who brought Linux into the company were not allowed to report their work in their weekly reports, as their work was verboten. Later the CIO was awarded for bringing Linux into the company... Dilbert rules.
I'm rather dismayed by the diction, especially the frequent syncopes. The speakers are supposed to be professionals, but to me, they sound like rank amatures. And I don't consider myself a model in the language realm.
I think otherwise... Tinker-toys, legos, Link-in logs are what made us geeks. We played _with_ them, and more importantly, made something significant from insignificant building blocks. The new toys play by themselves, which fills to distract the attention of our kids.
Our kids are just moths caught in the glow of the animated bug-lite. 8(
Saddam Hussein had a mandatory vote, and he got exactly 100% of that vote. Not a 99.999%, but a true 100%. Are you saying we should be more like Q1 2003 Iraq?
I would like to see the positions distributed as most votes = president, second = VP, third = Sec of State. California had that result when Jerry Brown was Gov, and Mike Curb was Lt. Gov. Brown was running all over the country running for Pres, and if he stayed out of state too long, Curb could pass or veto bills on the Gov's desk. Kind of kept Jerry honest.
From my saltwater aquarium days, I noticed that bubble size is related to higher salinity; which is also related to water density. I imagine these also affect surface tension too.
Why is it that a member of a "charismatic megafauna" needs to be protected, and not some small and not so cute tweetie bird? Get real, the only reason that raptors are so beloved is that they are large, and pleasing to the eye (and ego). Does anyone care for one of the smarter birds that live in large extended families, and are able to learn to live in and around other species; gregarious animals with more advanced communication, and some basic problem solving skills. Why is it that no one cares about the crows or the wild american turkeys?
I wonder if the decline of the raptors in an area cause the rise of the California native kangaroo rats, and by decline of competitors, smaller carnivores such as the San Joaquine kit foxes?
Name ONE sabre toothed tiger (or for that matter, any animal) that has deer heads mounted on their dwelling walls, and brags to others of their species of their "magnificant" kills...
I guess you've never seen what coyotes do to sheep. They go in, slaughter five or ten, eat part of one. Come back tomorrow night, do the same.
Know about the "Butcher Bird"? Catches small rodents, and insects. Impales them on barbed wire, or sharp sticks. Leaves them there.
I guess you get your nature education from watching US TV.
Turn off the TV, go speak with people who work in agriculture. Instead of sending money to the Lawyers who use it to hurt US Farmers.
Please read my post again. I did not, and will not, say anything about the constitutionality or correctness of gun control. I merely stated that "automatic assault rifles with clips that hold over ten rounds" is a completely objective criterion.
You've been led into thinking that "Assault Rifle" is a class or type of weapon. In reality it's anything a politician wants to label as scary. Because that line is a used as a negative label. Kind of like calling someone a NAZI. That's a negative label used to create a zenophobic reaction. It actually works pretty well on the simple minded.
Some of us on the right think of rifles are repression prevention devices. And with the likes of Lon Horuchi still on the lose, they are much needed.
Likely, it's more than the language issue. There's the "mail stuck in customs" issue.
There's a whole different mindset on jobsites without 100% reliable services. For most US companies, the attitude is "We must have it, and we must have it now!"
One time we had to teach a technician how to use a cresent wrench. How do you think that technician works with say power tools?
It is illegal for US companies to pay gratuities or bribes, and in some parts of the world, nothing moves without some palms being greased. Some firms know that they need to hire a "facilitator" to assist with transactions in places where some assistance is needed.
I'm with you on keeping the punch cards. That technologys been in use for more than 120 years, and most of the bugs have been wrung out. I'm not saying that new could not be better, but new paradymes have new problems. And after that last bunch of BS, we don't need to go changing everything at once.
but I want something that says how I voted that I can take with me
Actually the reason we don't do this, is to prevent vote buying, and extortion. Imagine this: "Bring in a ballot stub that says you voted for ElectricRook, and get a free beer." or "Hey Arnold, you little skinney twerp, if you don't have a ballot stub that sez ElectricRook, I breaka you face."
I have novel idea, we could use hollorith cards, they don't have the "out of toner" issue, they're fairly light resistant, and not completely destroyed by small amounts of water. The card can be read either by humans or machines. The technology is very stable, and has been in use for more than 120 years. The voters could mark their own ballots, even at home as a "absentee voter". Therefore home voters, and at the poll voters could use the same ballot. There's already a large number of reader machines distrubiuted across the country.
Granted, research and development are key to a companies success. And yes, I have typed on an IBM Selectric. BUT... But sometimes CIOs embrace pretty toys for the sake of having pretty toys. There's a reason buz-words are buz-words. Some managers breath them like they were air. Often useful tools come out that can make an Admins job much easier. Other times, "It's a cool web interface to a database", and we all know that the future is the internet, and databases are good"... But what does the tool do??? I donno... But it sure does sound cool.
There's a reason mobile home parks are known as "Tornado Magnets".
Have an insurance agent tell you about insurance options/price difference between modular and stick built homes.
Modular homes seem to have straighter lines, but they are made from thinner lumber. Where a stick built home is made from 2-by somethings, modular homes are made from 3/4 by somethings. Joinery is neater in modular construction, but materials are much thinner. One of the main interests in modular construction is weight of the finished product.
Consider how modular homes are attached to the foundation? My stick built house is bolted to baselite basement walls attached (hopefully) with rebar to footings dug into the soil. I actually have an attic which I can crawl up into and view the insulation, add electric circuits, and lighting or fans.
Consider how the electric circuits are going to be connected together in a modular. If a home is a bunch of boxes, the wiring is snap together.
Do you want copper or PVC plumbing? Copper never had the "blue water" problem. It's more expensive, but more resiliant if there is a freeze. What size water heaters are available, and what does your family need?
What if you want to remodel?
Ask a realestate agent to price out older modular homes onsite, and compare them to new modular homes + installation and landscaping. Often modular homes don't appreciate as fast as stick built homes. But consider that newer modulars are built with a different paradyme than older modulars (new modulars are not oversized travel trailers).
All show pieces, both stick and modulars have under-sized furniture. Take in a tape measure, and layout your furniture in the modular model. If you have a king-sized bed, go into a bedroom, and layout a king size bed with night stands etc.
Do the same in the kitchen/dining area for the dining table, and especially your washer/dryer and refridgirator. If you go to see an installed modular, flush the toilet, and turn on the shower, go to other rooms to see how much noise transfers. Are you un-happy with that amount of noise.
Some people are very happy with modulars, and there can be a huge savings with a modular manufacturers mass buying power on appliances.
You forgot the part about the UN being an Un-elected bureaucracy.
In which countries are you required to purchase a permit to listen to the radio or watch the television? not the US.
In which country are transistors a controlled device? not the US.
In which countries are printing presses licensed? not the US.
Get a clue!
I suppose a persons perception is reflective of the filter through which one receives information.
God as my witness, this is really true.
I used to run cows near there, and can tell you that the ground water is polluted, the air smells like dump gas in the early morning hours, and the rendering of long dead, sun aged livestock is the evening pleasure. Accompanied by the cargo air-craft which only fly out in the early evening, and land in the early morning hours. Gold miners fled there in the spring floods, and probably used mercury to pruify their gold. Other than that, the place is pretty awful.
Think the new home owners will complain?
Remember don't throw every toy in the toybox into the playpen.
Seems to me that the most useful sites are low in graphics/tech-glitz. Of course, I'm a pop-up blocking, dial up at 28.8 weenie. Your real users may have a different perspective.
The conservative Barr and the ACLU, known for its liberal stance
ACLU representatives said that their collaboration with Barr illustrates the right-left union on privacy issues.
So if Barr is obviously from the right, who would be the party from the left? I did not see any Democrats named in the story.
I think its only the ones who believe that the machine should do the work. Some are Luddites, and don't want the machine to do their work. Me I love automating tasks. Automation is better than hiring headcounts, they work nights and weekends, do what you say, and don't call in sick.
: % ! perl 's/ (\d+) (\d+) / (($1) - ($2))
Try that with vim inside a file of the output of "gdf -k".
Yes, UNIX folks know how to handle god like powers. DS wants a pretty GUI!
His customers fell for that fatal flaw. They thought a programmer could fit the real world into a simple formula on a machine.
Ever sat crying in front of a machine? Having solved several difficult technical problems, the work reporting system would not allow my data entry. Good thing that happened at 4 in the morning, or some programmers would have had their heads ripped off.
Lets imagine the PHB designed the programmers editor. "Your file type program.c does not have enough comments. You are unable to save this file. Please add sufficient comments and try again..."
shutdown time has arrived!
Would any programmers have a problem with that tool? The tool is working as desinged by your PHB. Perhaps you should ask them to put in a request for further tool enhancements.
DOH!