Novell never owned SCO, the real SCO changed it's name to Tarantella in 1999 and was purchased by Sun last year. Please keep your SCOs straight, only one of them is evil.
Being proactive against spam by thinking things through is your best defense against spam. Harvesters are entirely a nonissue, and changing your behavior in ways that make it harder for humans to contact you in hopes of keeping your address out of harvesters will only make it hard for humans to contact you, the spammers will still find you just fine, address munged or not.
Munging never works, and anybody who has spent at least five seconds thinking about this subject can understand why. The concept is fundamentally flawed: If a human can decode it, so can the spammer. You can bet that if this iteration of a particular spammer's harvester can't unmunge your address itself, the next one will. So why make people have to jump through hoops to get the address right instead of being able to just click Reply via email or your email address on a web page?
The only way to solve this problem is to use a responsible email provider that gives you control over what email gets rejected at SMTP time (ie, an email provider that lets you feed a bayesian filter for yourself; yes, rejecting email after DATA breaks the strict interpretation of the relevant RFCs, but based on what I've seen with my mail server, not in a way that actually causes problems) and proactive reporting of spam. Anything less is tantamount to email masturbation (literally, with the pornspam you'll be getting).
First off... Opera's a browser? I thought it was a crasher...that's all it seems to be able to do right for me...
Second, how much quality time do you spend with your phone, anyway? Most people find mobiles cost prohibitive to do data service over, much less enough to make choice of browser an issue.
Whatever privileges you had before are being taken away. When I explained to her that a Tivo doesn't allow her to "keep" stuff like a VHS tape among a host of other limitations and intrusions. (It's hers to enjoy in her home right? Today. Probably. But tomorrow?) Not to mention the more frequent, "TIVO's great but I wish I could give you a copy to watch. It was great." we get from TIVO owners.
What, did TiVo take the "Save to VCR" option out of the series 2 or something? My TiVo can save to VCR, it even gives the recording a nice leadear with the original air date and time, duration, title and description.
The book is also available thru Amazon, and isn't very expensive.
Remember, the best way to start living invisible is to shop through a website that sued the world to save your personal information so you don't have to type your shipping information every time. This is much more secure and less trackable than getting on the TriMet 20 to West 10th and Burnside, or Portland Screechcar to 10th and Couch or 11th and Burnside and shopping at Powell's Books, paying cash for the entire trip.
Heck, Google Transit makes planning the trip easy by giving you transit *and* driving directions, bus fare *and* the cost of gas, and when and where to catch the appropriate transit routes...
Bad data is worse than no data. If you hate cheezy maketing, why pass up a request (opportunity) to poison a marketing database?
Because there's a chance some other clown gets your blowback if you accidentally give information valid for someone else, making this approach roughly as harmful, if not more harmful than, challenge-response. If you're going to give bad information, give valid information for someone you don't like.
Your phone number should start with "1" (phone numbers in the US never start with "0" or "1")
Oh, good, someone in another area code gets your telemarketing calls. I'm sure they love you for that.
If you're a Blues Brothers fan, like I am, your address should be "1060 West Addison." City, State and Zip should never match (e.g Dallas, AZ, 90210)
Oh, good, so if 1060 W Addison, 90210 exists, they'll get your snail-spam.
Have you ever had the cable company ask for your SSN to see if they can give you service at your new home?
Once. I immediately asked for a supervisor, and I explained it to them that since they're not the IRS, they can't legally ask me for that information. They relented.
No body has time to care any more, we're worked so hard we don't even have time for our children. Why would privacy matter to you when you're already tied to a mobile phone and work 15 hours a day?
Make time. Simplify. If you're tied to a phone and your kids, odds are perhaps you should be working faster to get done earlier or work for a different company willing to work with you on schedules a little bit more.
You are the American labor movement whether you like it or not. Companies will only do what labor tolerates.
Is that the hat with the new RFID tracker for retailers, or the RFID trackers for the Homeland/SS at the airports, or New Improved RFID tracker for tracking toll booth payments as well as your car's every move, or the RFID tracking insert suitable for tracking the poor, helpless children would would certainly be in mortal danger from terrorist pedophile internet stalkers if we were not tracking their hats?
Don't forget that RFID doodad that usually has your photo, name, department, company on it that magically unlocks doors when waved past readers.
...and they picked jabber for a reason. I think Google puts the philosophy behind Jabber best in their Google Talk FAQ. Long story short, if you all used Jabber, this wouldn't ever have been an issue to begin with...
So, not only is Windows no longer relevant, but the functionality of the operating system itself may have been trumped by our ability to communicate with other people.
When our ability to communicate with other people magically makes your machine boot or access devices, then the operating system is irrelevant.
...MySpace did a series of benefit concerts for children lured by sexual predators over the Internet, given that they seem to facilitate it more than anyone these days?
The great thing about replying to a thread is that you disqualify yourself from moderating that thread, and lose your moderator points that you used on the thread already! You might have known this if you had read the moderator FAQ like you were told.
I'd rather go with solar panels, though I'm waiting for a breakthrough in technology (higher output, lower prices). A windmill is too big and too much of an eyesore to be installed in backyards.
Depends on construction and location. In Oregon, wind power is a popular option. Turbines are usually painted in a manner to blend with the local landscape. From a distance of more than a few hundred yards, turbines are generally not noticable. In forested areas, turbines are usually fairly invisible to the public, painted to match with the surrounding forest and barely peeking above the treetops.
You just have to be more creative in location and painting than the cell phone companies have been thus far...
This is why we need law changes to prevent homeowners' associations from having so much power over individual properties.
It's not always the HOA that is the problem. If you live in a national scenic area, like the Columbia River Gorge, there's federal regulations on what you can and cannot build largely dependant on what the public can see from a distance.
Well, if our pretzel-choking, draft-dodging coke-head resident of the white house has to live in a rounded-corners world, apparently the rest of us should, too.
Except that there is no effective way to prevent social engineering.
Steel pike through the brain seems to be 100% effective at preventing social engineering. Also so effective at correcting Californian driving habits that steel pikes should be mandatory in the steering column instead of a driver's side airbag: People would drive safer if they knew a relatively minor bump to the front end will brutally kill them.
Microsoft has the ablility and market position which guarantee to some extent they can re-write their OS every few years and make billions doing it.
Too bad they don't. Microsoft's programmers are paid per line of code, and docked pay for not meeting quota. It's cheaper (for the programmers) to write around old code and hope nobody links to it in the future than it is to dike it out in such a situation: Case and paste is a way of life for the Borg.
Those who designed the Internet were also overly optimistic about the true nature of people and didn't really consider security issues either.
Oh, please. Don't get started with the tired "one of us" rhetoric. By comparison, the Internet as a whole has come to grips with the security need a bit more completely than Microsoft. Microsoft's only trying to get it right in Vista so Windows can go out an an upbeat (since they're already laying off Windows developers and not developing another OS after Vista).
(I hope the Northern Barbarians appreciate some good-natured ribbing...)
Canadians seem to enjoy ironic, deprecating humor as long as it's in good spirits, especially when it comes to Ameri-Canadian conflict. They kind of got the last laugh in 1812 when they burned the US capitol to the ground. We'd all be talking English and French instead of English and Spanish if it weren't for the hurricane nobody had any way to predict, and the fact the Canadians were still in the open instead of sheltered when the hurricane hit. Given the rather dark turn the Republican party has made since Nixon took office, I can't help but to think if being the 49 southernmost Canadian provinces and that big frosty one in the west would have been such a bad thing...
Anyrate, South Park is among (if not the) most popular films in Canadian box office history. Blame Canada practically became an ironic anthem.
The fear of this irrational thing called terrorism is pathetic. More people die from lung cancer every year in the US. More people have died (or will soon) fighting a stupid war with no real goal, direction or possible positive outcome.
Not only that, but as of last Tuesday, more Americans have died as casualties in the Second Iraq War than have died due to all acts of terrorism combined over 200+ years of American history. Seems to me Bush's cure is worse than the disease and this week really put some damning numbers on it.
Makes you wonder how many people have decided that and how many airlines will go bust as a
result.
No airlines will go under as a result. The CEOs of these airlines will give themselves a big, fat raise, fire pilots, ticket agents and flight attendants, then whine to the Fed that they're out of money and going to go under if they don't float them another $30 billion or so.
Boycott American aviation. It's a racket and a ripoff. Do what the big neon sign over downtown Portland tells you instead: Go By Train. Yeah, it takes longer, but it's cheaper, more comfortable (even in coach), more convenient and more fun than flying. I made the switch to rail years ago...I'll never fly again (except possibly overseas, and then from Canada through a non-US airline to avoid falling into the whole aviation racket again...)
I'm sorry, when did giving the finger to someone who wants your email address, name, age, and set a dozen cookies suddenly become antagonistic instead of protagonistic? Woudn't the people wanting all kinds of info for a web article the ones being highly antagonistic?
What OS exists that is less friendly than Windows? Having used MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows in various capacities over the last 15 years, Windows takes the cake at being the biggest, least friendly pain in the ass I've had the displeasure to deal with. And this includes ex-bosses I've had deported for their crimes.
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Novell never owned SCO, the real SCO changed it's name to Tarantella in 1999 and was purchased by Sun last year. Please keep your SCOs straight, only one of them is evil.
Being proactive against spam by thinking things through is your best defense against spam. Harvesters are entirely a nonissue, and changing your behavior in ways that make it harder for humans to contact you in hopes of keeping your address out of harvesters will only make it hard for humans to contact you, the spammers will still find you just fine, address munged or not.
Munging never works, and anybody who has spent at least five seconds thinking about this subject can understand why. The concept is fundamentally flawed: If a human can decode it, so can the spammer. You can bet that if this iteration of a particular spammer's harvester can't unmunge your address itself, the next one will. So why make people have to jump through hoops to get the address right instead of being able to just click Reply via email or your email address on a web page?
The only way to solve this problem is to use a responsible email provider that gives you control over what email gets rejected at SMTP time (ie, an email provider that lets you feed a bayesian filter for yourself; yes, rejecting email after DATA breaks the strict interpretation of the relevant RFCs, but based on what I've seen with my mail server, not in a way that actually causes problems) and proactive reporting of spam. Anything less is tantamount to email masturbation (literally, with the pornspam you'll be getting).
First off... Opera's a browser? I thought it was a crasher...that's all it seems to be able to do right for me... Second, how much quality time do you spend with your phone, anyway? Most people find mobiles cost prohibitive to do data service over, much less enough to make choice of browser an issue.
What, did TiVo take the "Save to VCR" option out of the series 2 or something? My TiVo can save to VCR, it even gives the recording a nice leadear with the original air date and time, duration, title and description.
Remember, the best way to start living invisible is to shop through a website that sued the world to save your personal information so you don't have to type your shipping information every time. This is much more secure and less trackable than getting on the TriMet 20 to West 10th and Burnside, or Portland Screechcar to 10th and Couch or 11th and Burnside and shopping at Powell's Books, paying cash for the entire trip.
Heck, Google Transit makes planning the trip easy by giving you transit *and* driving directions, bus fare *and* the cost of gas, and when and where to catch the appropriate transit routes...
Because there's a chance some other clown gets your blowback if you accidentally give information valid for someone else, making this approach roughly as harmful, if not more harmful than, challenge-response. If you're going to give bad information, give valid information for someone you don't like.
Your phone number should start with "1" (phone numbers in the US never start with "0" or "1")
Oh, good, someone in another area code gets your telemarketing calls. I'm sure they love you for that.
If you're a Blues Brothers fan, like I am, your address should be "1060 West Addison."
City, State and Zip should never match (e.g Dallas, AZ, 90210)
Oh, good, so if 1060 W Addison, 90210 exists, they'll get your snail-spam.
Once. I immediately asked for a supervisor, and I explained it to them that since they're not the IRS, they can't legally ask me for that information. They relented.
Make time. Simplify. If you're tied to a phone and your kids, odds are perhaps you should be working faster to get done earlier or work for a different company willing to work with you on schedules a little bit more.
You are the American labor movement whether you like it or not. Companies will only do what labor tolerates.
Is that the hat with the new RFID tracker for retailers, or the RFID trackers for the Homeland/SS at the airports, or New Improved RFID tracker for tracking toll booth payments as well as your car's every move, or the RFID tracking insert suitable for tracking the poor, helpless children would would certainly be in mortal danger from terrorist pedophile internet stalkers if we were not tracking their hats? Don't forget that RFID doodad that usually has your photo, name, department, company on it that magically unlocks doors when waved past readers.
...and they picked jabber for a reason. I think Google puts the philosophy behind Jabber best in their Google Talk FAQ. Long story short, if you all used Jabber, this wouldn't ever have been an issue to begin with...
When our ability to communicate with other people magically makes your machine boot or access devices, then the operating system is irrelevant.
...MySpace did a series of benefit concerts for children lured by sexual predators over the Internet, given that they seem to facilitate it more than anyone these days?
The great thing about replying to a thread is that you disqualify yourself from moderating that thread, and lose your moderator points that you used on the thread already! You might have known this if you had read the moderator FAQ like you were told.
Depends on construction and location. In Oregon, wind power is a popular option. Turbines are usually painted in a manner to blend with the local landscape. From a distance of more than a few hundred yards, turbines are generally not noticable. In forested areas, turbines are usually fairly invisible to the public, painted to match with the surrounding forest and barely peeking above the treetops.
You just have to be more creative in location and painting than the cell phone companies have been thus far...
It's not always the HOA that is the problem. If you live in a national scenic area, like the Columbia River Gorge, there's federal regulations on what you can and cannot build largely dependant on what the public can see from a distance.
Well, if our pretzel-choking, draft-dodging coke-head resident of the white house has to live in a rounded-corners world, apparently the rest of us should, too.
Steel pike through the brain seems to be 100% effective at preventing social engineering. Also so effective at correcting Californian driving habits that steel pikes should be mandatory in the steering column instead of a driver's side airbag: People would drive safer if they knew a relatively minor bump to the front end will brutally kill them.
Too bad they don't. Microsoft's programmers are paid per line of code, and docked pay for not meeting quota. It's cheaper (for the programmers) to write around old code and hope nobody links to it in the future than it is to dike it out in such a situation: Case and paste is a way of life for the Borg.
Oh, please. Don't get started with the tired "one of us" rhetoric. By comparison, the Internet as a whole has come to grips with the security need a bit more completely than Microsoft. Microsoft's only trying to get it right in Vista so Windows can go out an an upbeat (since they're already laying off Windows developers and not developing another OS after Vista).
Why go with SIP or Skype when Jingle integrates more sanely into existing infrastructure?
Canadians seem to enjoy ironic, deprecating humor as long as it's in good spirits, especially when it comes to Ameri-Canadian conflict. They kind of got the last laugh in 1812 when they burned the US capitol to the ground. We'd all be talking English and French instead of English and Spanish if it weren't for the hurricane nobody had any way to predict, and the fact the Canadians were still in the open instead of sheltered when the hurricane hit. Given the rather dark turn the Republican party has made since Nixon took office, I can't help but to think if being the 49 southernmost Canadian provinces and that big frosty one in the west would have been such a bad thing...
Anyrate, South Park is among (if not the) most popular films in Canadian box office history. Blame Canada practically became an ironic anthem.
Not only that, but as of last Tuesday, more Americans have died as casualties in the Second Iraq War than have died due to all acts of terrorism combined over 200+ years of American history. Seems to me Bush's cure is worse than the disease and this week really put some damning numbers on it.
No airlines will go under as a result. The CEOs of these airlines will give themselves a big, fat raise, fire pilots, ticket agents and flight attendants, then whine to the Fed that they're out of money and going to go under if they don't float them another $30 billion or so.
Boycott American aviation. It's a racket and a ripoff. Do what the big neon sign over downtown Portland tells you instead: Go By Train. Yeah, it takes longer, but it's cheaper, more comfortable (even in coach), more convenient and more fun than flying. I made the switch to rail years ago...I'll never fly again (except possibly overseas, and then from Canada through a non-US airline to avoid falling into the whole aviation racket again...)
I'm sorry, when did giving the finger to someone who wants your email address, name, age, and set a dozen cookies suddenly become antagonistic instead of protagonistic? Woudn't the people wanting all kinds of info for a web article the ones being highly antagonistic?
What OS exists that is less friendly than Windows? Having used MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows in various capacities over the last 15 years, Windows takes the cake at being the biggest, least friendly pain in the ass I've had the displeasure to deal with. And this includes ex-bosses I've had deported for their crimes.