One of the company's first products in the 40's was a home hair curling iron sold under brand name formed by a typical Japanese contraction (e.g. Pasocon = Personal Computer) and the inability to differentiate between "L" and "R" in written Japanese:
"Omlon". (hOme iLON)
Later they discovered this name really sounds stupid in English so it was changed to Omron.
Typical over-simplified bullshit. I wonder if anyone posting messages like this really understands the ramifications of what's happening.
Ask yourself, WHO gets hurt?
Certainly not the spammer, they can move around at will.
The ISP? Maybe. But even if they do boot off that spammer another will come along to take their place or the same spammer will re-apply under a different name. ISP's can't and shouldn't have to chase spammers all the time in some virtual game of whack-the-mole.
The only people who get hurt in this are the non-spamming end-users. Their mail bounces, they may lose business, important messages get dropped.
And their reaction when they find out why isn't going to be, "gee, I'd better call my ISP to get rid of them darn spammers", it's going to be " WHO THE FUCK DO THOSE SPEWS ASSHOLES THINK THEY ARE??!! FUCKING INTERNET GODS??"
Change their ISP?? Get real kiddies, in most places there isn't another choice.
This is exactly what SPEWS does, and it's remarkably effective.
This is preached on email abuse newsgroups as gospel but I have yet to see anything other than anecdotal proof. What I do see are a lot of innocent ISP customers whose business is being interruped, not by spammers, but by SPEWS' vigilante blocking policies.
The analogy is much the same as having a crack house open in your neighbourhood. You either take action on the crack dealers or move out...
My $Deity, where to begin...
To correct your analogy the spammer is the crack house operator. What SPEWS does is start blowing up all the houses in the neighbourhood that surround the crack house in the hopes that the neighbours will complain to the authorities (The ISP)to take action.
What this farcical pretext misses is that spammers can move from ISP to ISP daily and as soon as you shut down one account they have opened a new one either on the same or a different ISP. The number of spammers and their mobility precludes an ISP permanantly blocking a spammer and thus the chances of getting off SPEWS once an ISP are on are minimal.
SPEWS has no posted policies as to what the timeframe is between an ISP complying with their blackmail blocking and the removal from the SPEWS list. 24 hours?, 2 weeks? who knows, SPEWS doesn't tell you. How often do they check? What criteria is applied during a check? Why don't they block the large ISPs like AT&T? Why don't they announce listings/delistings anymore? Why is there no direct method for applying for delisting? Why are postings from innocent ISP customers asking for reasons for listing met with scorn and accusations that sound make the customer is a nazi sympathizer?
There are far too many questions about SPEWs' practices.
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Although some may find this a convenience I have found that most beginner to intermediate users find this a nuisance.
The problem is that when choosing a command like Tools - Options, the user expects the Options command to appear at the bottom of the Tools menu where it traditionally lies. It is the relative location of the menu entry that is significant, not the actual menu text.
The same applies for dialog boxes. After you have used an interface for a period of time, you eventually get to the point where you can place the mouse cursor at the position on the screen where the control you will click will be, even before the dialog appears.
Lots of irrelevent menu choices is a definitely a bad thing (*cough*kde*cough*) but randomly moving menu entries isn't necessarily a good thing.
I have been through several employees and have learned to identify those who will not be a good fit based upon how they present themselves on the Internet.
This particular character used his real name and email address, posted abusive comments, many of which were uncalled for.
I'm hiring for a tech support position which will require dealing with entry level users many of which are lawyers. Tact is everything.
I Googled an applicant for a support position I have available who looked pretty good on his resume.
Then I found the many profane postings on Usenet indictaing anger and conflict management issues and multiple posting advertising himself as "an escort for sophisticated ladies."
And yes, this was they guy, easily identified by a very unique name, location clues, and email addresses.
You mean Exchange and SQL can't be replaced in YOUR "real-world" environment. Right?
Wrong. In the real world hacks like Ximian's Exchange Connector and databases like MySQL don't cut it.
The apps drive the back-end requirements. As a mid-size legal firm we are dependant on a robust, simple to use and administer document management system. We happen to use iManage which runs best on MS SQL Server.
The firm messaging application, like most other legal firms is Outlook. Until a complete Linux-based groupware messaging replacement for Exchange Server comes along that will be the back-end messaging server of choice.
OK. We've had a major earthquake. Our building is inaccessible. The off-site tapes won't be available for a couple of days. Even so, I still need to gather the requisite server hardware, tape drive, software (Arcserve - be gentle) and get it all re-installed and recovered to a point at which we can access our data and start producing documents again.
Alternatively I could have a couple of these mini-PCs pre-configured, with a weekly or monthly backup of current production documents, databases, message stores, etc.
In this case it would be one Win2K box with SQL Server, Exchange, IIS and iManage. It would be enough to get us running with a few laptops thrown together on a wireless LAN. I could have the firm running the next day.
Any flaws in this plan?
(Don't bother mentioning Linux. Our Novell servers have already been replaced with RedHat. The requirement for Win2K as the server comes from Exchange and SQL Server that cannot be replaced in our real-world environment.
In the same way that you don't need a Ford Excursion to commute 5 miles to the office, the Russians don't need a shuttle.
They built their space station using unmanned boosters and Soyuz. They deployed satellites and planetary probes using unmanned boosters. Capture and recovery of a failed satellite could conceivably be done by an unmanned recovery craft using remote control with maybe a Soyuz standing by just in case.
The Russians don't need a big do-everything spacecraft, and neither does America. Smaller, cheaper special-purpose craft, re-useable or not, would be a better system than the shuttle.
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Problem is, the kiddies that download stuff on KaZaa are only downloading what they hear on top-40 radio.
You'd prefer the original name?
Omlon.
One of the company's first products in the 40's was a home hair curling iron sold under brand name formed by a typical Japanese contraction (e.g. Pasocon = Personal Computer) and the inability to differentiate between "L" and "R" in written Japanese:
"Omlon". (hOme iLON)
Later they discovered this name really sounds stupid in English so it was changed to Omron.
Typical over-simplified bullshit. I wonder if anyone posting messages like this really understands the ramifications of what's happening.
Ask yourself, WHO gets hurt?
Certainly not the spammer, they can move around at will.
The ISP? Maybe. But even if they do boot off that spammer another will come along to take their place or the same spammer will re-apply under a different name. ISP's can't and shouldn't have to chase spammers all the time in some virtual game of whack-the-mole.
The only people who get hurt in this are the non-spamming end-users. Their mail bounces, they may lose business, important messages get dropped.
And their reaction when they find out why isn't going to be, "gee, I'd better call my ISP to get rid of them darn spammers", it's going to be " WHO THE FUCK DO THOSE SPEWS ASSHOLES THINK THEY ARE??!! FUCKING INTERNET GODS??"
Change their ISP?? Get real kiddies, in most places there isn't another choice.
This is exactly what SPEWS does, and it's remarkably effective.
This is preached on email abuse newsgroups as gospel but I have yet to see anything other than anecdotal proof. What I do see are a lot of innocent ISP customers whose business is being interruped, not by spammers, but by SPEWS' vigilante blocking policies.
The analogy is much the same as having a crack house open in your neighbourhood. You either take action on the crack dealers or move out...
My $Deity, where to begin...
To correct your analogy the spammer is the crack house operator. What SPEWS does is start blowing up all the houses in the neighbourhood that surround the crack house in the hopes that the neighbours will complain to the authorities (The ISP)to take action.
What this farcical pretext misses is that spammers can move from ISP to ISP daily and as soon as you shut down one account they have opened a new one either on the same or a different ISP. The number of spammers and their mobility precludes an ISP permanantly blocking a spammer and thus the chances of getting off SPEWS once an ISP are on are minimal.
SPEWS has no posted policies as to what the timeframe is between an ISP complying with their blackmail blocking and the removal from the SPEWS list. 24 hours?, 2 weeks? who knows, SPEWS doesn't tell you. How often do they check? What criteria is applied during a check? Why don't they block the large ISPs like AT&T? Why don't they announce listings/delistings anymore? Why is there no direct method for applying for delisting? Why are postings from innocent ISP customers asking for reasons for listing met with scorn and accusations that sound make the customer is a nazi sympathizer?
There are far too many questions about SPEWs' practices.
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Although some may find this a convenience I have found that most beginner to intermediate users find this a nuisance.
The problem is that when choosing a command like Tools - Options, the user expects the Options command to appear at the bottom of the Tools menu where it traditionally lies. It is the relative location of the menu entry that is significant, not the actual menu text.
The same applies for dialog boxes. After you have used an interface for a period of time, you eventually get to the point where you can place the mouse cursor at the position on the screen where the control you will click will be, even before the dialog appears.
Lots of irrelevent menu choices is a definitely a bad thing (*cough*kde*cough*) but randomly moving menu entries isn't necessarily a good thing.
Model Airplanes.
Model Rockets.
Although, nothing could beat the etheral beauty of a Laundry Bag Balloon at night.
The things that made our childhood fun. All banned, restricted, outlawed, legislated.
"This is a free country isn't it??!!"
No.
Like Bill Shatner's responses some weeks ago it looks like Dave just bashed out some plain vanilla answers. No substance.
You would at least expect some witty rejoinder to the first questioner's detailed mention of how he met Dave.
A bit lame I'm afraid.
I have been through several employees and have learned to identify those who will not be a good fit based upon how they present themselves on the Internet.
This particular character used his real name and email address, posted abusive comments, many of which were uncalled for.
I'm hiring for a tech support position which will require dealing with entry level users many of which are lawyers. Tact is everything.
Quite true.
I Googled an applicant for a support position I have available who looked pretty good on his resume.
Then I found the many profane postings on Usenet indictaing anger and conflict management issues and multiple posting advertising himself as "an escort for sophisticated ladies."
And yes, this was they guy, easily identified by a very unique name, location clues, and email addresses.
..are always like this. Skiiing, boarding, biking, whatever, I'm always catching this HUGE air and coming down softly and in control.
Real life is something different though....
You mean Exchange and SQL can't be replaced in YOUR "real-world" environment. Right?
Wrong. In the real world hacks like Ximian's Exchange Connector and databases like MySQL don't cut it.
The apps drive the back-end requirements. As a mid-size legal firm we are dependant on a robust, simple to use and administer document management system. We happen to use iManage which runs best on MS SQL Server.
The firm messaging application, like most other legal firms is Outlook. Until a complete Linux-based groupware messaging replacement for Exchange Server comes along that will be the back-end messaging server of choice.
And THAT, my friend, is the Real World. (tm)
OK. We've had a major earthquake. Our building is inaccessible. The off-site tapes won't be available for a couple of days. Even so, I still need to gather the requisite server hardware, tape drive, software (Arcserve - be gentle) and get it all re-installed and recovered to a point at which we can access our data and start producing documents again.
Alternatively I could have a couple of these mini-PCs pre-configured, with a weekly or monthly backup of current production documents, databases, message stores, etc.
In this case it would be one Win2K box with SQL Server, Exchange, IIS and iManage. It would be enough to get us running with a few laptops thrown together on a wireless LAN. I could have the firm running the next day.
Any flaws in this plan?
(Don't bother mentioning Linux. Our Novell servers have already been replaced with RedHat. The requirement for Win2K as the server comes from Exchange and SQL Server that cannot be replaced in our real-world environment.
You're at a party chatting with a group of friends.
Suddenly someone says, "Hey! My doctor just told me I have herpes!"
"...." is what everyone else is thinking/feeling in the uncomfortable pause that follows.
Thoughts along the lines of: " I can't believe he just said that!" or "What a fscking creep!"
I've seen this reasoning a lot.
It's false.
In the same way that you don't need a Ford Excursion to commute 5 miles to the office, the Russians don't need a shuttle.
They built their space station using unmanned boosters and Soyuz. They deployed satellites and planetary probes using unmanned boosters. Capture and recovery of a failed satellite could conceivably be done by an unmanned recovery craft using remote control with maybe a Soyuz standing by just in case.
The Russians don't need a big do-everything spacecraft, and neither does America. Smaller, cheaper special-purpose craft, re-useable or not, would be a better system than the shuttle.
It's Aloysius not "Alowishus,"
The only other time I've heard this name used:
"I'm not Jack! My name is uh, uh, Aloysius! He's Jack!, Jack Rabbit!
"Ohhh no, your name is Jack and you know it because it is a fact."
"Wew, I guess I'll just have to settwe with a pair of Jacks, hahahaha"
...I've never seen a man walk on the moon..
I hope everyone here realizes how sad that is.
How many Slashdotters can say the same thing?
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Those are big singing dicks!
I'm not kidding. If I had more time I'd translate the whole thing, but it's basically a send-up of traditional Japanese festival song.
This one is all over the place and this copy has no sound. Find one with sound and you'll get the full picture:
The guy crashing the copter is the new owner.
He is just learning to fly.
He has not yet been certifed on this aircraft.
Put together the above and what you see is inevitable.
No, flying rotary wing aircraft is NOT easy.
The subtitles are too big.
If it's an asian video why aren't the subtitles in Japanese or Chinese?
The mistakes are just *too* conveniently embarrassing; "bring your pussy face to my ass", yeah right.
Real bad subtitles (and yes, I've seen many) are just corny; "Your kung fu is just kid stuff!"
I wrote some great code in years past. PL/1, FORTRAN, Assembler (I still have the print out of my first program, framed and hanging on the wall.)
However, it wouldn't be much use even if I still had the code (which I don't).
I just don't happen to have an IBM 2501 card reader sitting around the house.
You had to be artistic...
10 FOR I = 1 TO 1000000
20 PRINT TAB[I]; "** GREG WAS HERE **"
30 NEXT I
40 GO TO 10
The summit would be easier.
MUCH closer to the comsats.