Although I agree with you on Nextel, I think you're wrong about Sprint. I've been a Sprint customer for about 4 years, and have always contemplated switching because of the price, but then I hear my friends with other providers bitching about this and that, and I think to myself, "Cool, I've never had that problem."
Sprint is expensive, but it's worth it. Like a Macintosh. The quality, features, and reliability are top notch. Customer service has been poor, but I doubt it's any worse than the other providers (hell, it's still better than when I was with Cellular One *cringe*).
Lovin' the nationwide LD and unlimited night minutes after 7pm. I'm going to go give plasma now so I can afford my shared plan...
This is the same as not using email at all. Personally I find this technique useless. Don't you?
My domain registrar uses this approach on my WHOIS results, this is just taking it one step further. Use e-mail addresses like 20040901@mydomain.com, rotating each month (or whatever interval you prefer) to sign up for random things. Use a more permanent address (myname@mydomain.com) for trusted communication.
One problem is it might be a pain to update your mailbox every month (or whatever interval you choose), however, I don't really see this as being much differant that just having two e-mail addresses - one for trusted correspondence, and one for junk. I wouldn't call it a useless approach, just perhaps not the most efficient one.
Personally, I think you can kill two birds with one stone by using a service like spamgourmet.com to create throw-away e-mail addresses. It requires no maintenance, it's easy to use, and your mail can be delivered to your primary address if you do not wish to manage a second e-mail address.
But I've been thinking lately -- is this going to change the Internet dramatically? How many web sites rely on advertising revenue, and won't get it anymore when everybody is filtering banners?
Graphical advertisements is the new spam - intrusive, annoying, abundant, and spread malware. I used to have the same attitude until the Internet turned into a visual wasteland. I don't mind seeing some ads, and often times I'll click on them if they're relevant, but enough is enough. Flying banners, flashing animated GIFs, porn banners, malware, advertisements that take up 80% of the screen. I've resorted to the HOSTS file. They brought it upon themselves.
By the way, I still regularly click on Google AdWords when I'm doing a search and see something potentially interesting.
You can use Fentun to open them. The interface is a pile of shit, but if you associate winmail.dat with fentun.exe in Thunderbird, it's not too bad. At least you don't have to forward it to another account.
Then a couple months later I went to register it and it had been bought by a squatter.
Yeah, I went to a used car lot once and the same thing happened. I saw this car that was a sweet ride for a good price. When I came back a couple months later to buy it, it was gone. I think the dealer probably put out extra flyers on it since it was now obvious it was popular, and could thus charge more. Bastard.
Hey, The Wizard rocked! To all us Nintendo geeks, The Wizard is as classic as Breakfast Club. We all drooled at the opportunity to a) get a sneak preview of Mario 3 and b) dream of a reality where we could make money playing video games (those of us that were kids at the time, anyway).
I got scared right off the bat is all. The Google ads cost us a small fortune as it is and stress our budget.
I understand and sympathize. I used to make use of AdWords and it became prohibitively expensive for my industry, which was tech related.
If too many hits occured on all of the ads, the side bar would simply become empty.
The way I see it, the mission would be largely accomplished then...
1. Google makes money.
2. The spammer's advertising money is wasted.
3. As their daily allowance is used up, they lose one more venue to find people who will pay them to spam.
Again, I would only endorse doing this for companies that are obvious spammers, which isn't too hard to identify with searches like 'optin email' or 'email blast'. They are plentiful. I wouldn't endorse an automated bot that did this, since it would hurt Google and have the potential for a lot of collateral damage.
our method would wrongfully harm a number of upstanding companies that hate spam too.
I'm not so sure... Upton doing a Google search for 'optin email'. Pretty much all the hits are spam companies. "8.1 million opt-in addresses for $79.95". Riiiiiight. Must be all those eager Viagra customers. Unsolicited E-mail is spam, whether I "opted in" to some fine print or not. Besides, if I saw an ad for a hardware firewall or a Baracuda, I wouldn't click on it for malicious purposes anyway. Most of the descriptions for the spammers are fairly obvious, IMO.
I've always felt Netscape has far less name recognition with the non-geeks that it is given credit for. I think the term "Netscape" would be largely irrelevant if I asked my non-geek friends and relatives about it. If anything, they might remember it as the browser they used to use before IE or "that little blue 'e'".
There are also people who sell land on the moon. It's wortless, and people pitty the ones who buy it.
That's what many Native American tribes believed about the prospect of selling land to the Europeans. "Sure, I'll sell you some land! Want a piece of the sky, too?"
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"SCO defaced their own site to discredit the Linux Community". You heard it here first.
Hmmm, maybe they just decided to change their design.
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1. This doesn't hurt SCO, or those behind SCO, in any way at all.
Well, it can't look good when the manufacturer of a commercial server operating system gets 0wned.
Personally, I choose my peripherals based on my OS/Hardware, not the other way around.
Hard to say. I think it has more to do with brand recognition than the desire to buy a computer that more "natively" supports your iPod. Because their purchase of the iPod has increased their brand recognition of Apple and also made them think, "Hey, this Apple company makes some cool stuff. If their computers are half as cool as this, it's sure to be pretty swell."
It doesn't really matter what OS/hardware the average person uses to surf the 'net and check e-mail. The user interface and experience may be more useful to these people, something that Apple is good at.
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Tivo spanks VHS recordings, however, you don't have to pay for your VCR and then pay $4.95/month for the privelage of using it.
I would have had a Tivo long ago, but I'm sick of every company of the farking planet trying to nickel and dime more monthly payments out of me every month. Pretty soon refrigerators and toasters are going to require a monthly payment. Perhaps I can just forward my entire paycheck to an escrow account the divides it among all the major manufacturers every month.
This only affects the Java plugins in the 1.3 and 1.4 Java release. The current java release 1.5/5.0 is not affected at all.
How many millions of PCs are running that JVM right now? Mom and dad get a PC a year or two ago, which still has the same JRE the manufacturer or their son set up on the thing. There is little chance that they will upgrade it themselves.
Why doesn't the JRE have an auto-update feature enable by default on install, easily disabled from the control panel for those who are savvy (and stays disabled, unlike Acrobat Reader)?
And if they choose an obsolete browser like IE 6, who cares? They are the ones who end up suffering.
Unless you're a web developer who is actually interested in supporting web standards and doesn't like developing for two browsers - IE and everything else.
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Wrapping my phone in tinfoil has proven to be extremely good at keeping rogue signals from escaping my phone.
For those who are interested, their Open Circulation Editon is available for free via BitTorrent: http://www.xandros.com/torrent/xandros-201-ocd-ins tallation.zip.torrent. Too bad it's a moldy version, but still a good one.
In that case, they must have been a deal years in the making! :P
Although I agree with you on Nextel, I think you're wrong about Sprint. I've been a Sprint customer for about 4 years, and have always contemplated switching because of the price, but then I hear my friends with other providers bitching about this and that, and I think to myself, "Cool, I've never had that problem."
Sprint is expensive, but it's worth it. Like a Macintosh. The quality, features, and reliability are top notch. Customer service has been poor, but I doubt it's any worse than the other providers (hell, it's still better than when I was with Cellular One *cringe*).
Lovin' the nationwide LD and unlimited night minutes after 7pm. I'm going to go give plasma now so I can afford my shared plan...
My domain registrar uses this approach on my WHOIS results, this is just taking it one step further. Use e-mail addresses like 20040901@mydomain.com, rotating each month (or whatever interval you prefer) to sign up for random things. Use a more permanent address (myname@mydomain.com) for trusted communication.
One problem is it might be a pain to update your mailbox every month (or whatever interval you choose), however, I don't really see this as being much differant that just having two e-mail addresses - one for trusted correspondence, and one for junk. I wouldn't call it a useless approach, just perhaps not the most efficient one.
Personally, I think you can kill two birds with one stone by using a service like spamgourmet.com to create throw-away e-mail addresses. It requires no maintenance, it's easy to use, and your mail can be delivered to your primary address if you do not wish to manage a second e-mail address.
Savings on the bandwidth bills of a non-profit, community-funded organization isn't a bad thing either...
Graphical advertisements is the new spam - intrusive, annoying, abundant, and spread malware. I used to have the same attitude until the Internet turned into a visual wasteland. I don't mind seeing some ads, and often times I'll click on them if they're relevant, but enough is enough. Flying banners, flashing animated GIFs, porn banners, malware, advertisements that take up 80% of the screen. I've resorted to the HOSTS file. They brought it upon themselves.
By the way, I still regularly click on Google AdWords when I'm doing a search and see something potentially interesting.
/still need to get a TiVo
HP Vivera inks are advertised to last up to 115 years when used with HP premium photo paper.
You can use Fentun to open them. The interface is a pile of shit, but if you associate winmail.dat with fentun.exe in Thunderbird, it's not too bad. At least you don't have to forward it to another account.
Yeah, I went to a used car lot once and the same thing happened. I saw this car that was a sweet ride for a good price. When I came back a couple months later to buy it, it was gone. I think the dealer probably put out extra flyers on it since it was now obvious it was popular, and could thus charge more. Bastard.
In other words, the check is in the mail?
You must have been one of those "smart" kids. When I was a kid, I could have been convinced to buy anthrax based on its medicinal uses.
/watched too much scooby dooby doo
Hey, The Wizard rocked! To all us Nintendo geeks, The Wizard is as classic as Breakfast Club. We all drooled at the opportunity to a) get a sneak preview of Mario 3 and b) dream of a reality where we could make money playing video games (those of us that were kids at the time, anyway).
I understand and sympathize. I used to make use of AdWords and it became prohibitively expensive for my industry, which was tech related.
The way I see it, the mission would be largely accomplished then...
1. Google makes money.
2. The spammer's advertising money is wasted.
3. As their daily allowance is used up, they lose one more venue to find people who will pay them to spam.
Again, I would only endorse doing this for companies that are obvious spammers, which isn't too hard to identify with searches like 'optin email' or 'email blast'. They are plentiful. I wouldn't endorse an automated bot that did this, since it would hurt Google and have the potential for a lot of collateral damage.
My $0.02
I'm not so sure... Upton doing a Google search for 'optin email'. Pretty much all the hits are spam companies. "8.1 million opt-in addresses for $79.95". Riiiiiight. Must be all those eager Viagra customers. Unsolicited E-mail is spam, whether I "opted in" to some fine print or not. Besides, if I saw an ad for a hardware firewall or a Baracuda, I wouldn't click on it for malicious purposes anyway. Most of the descriptions for the spammers are fairly obvious, IMO.
I've always felt Netscape has far less name recognition with the non-geeks that it is given credit for. I think the term "Netscape" would be largely irrelevant if I asked my non-geek friends and relatives about it. If anything, they might remember it as the browser they used to use before IE or "that little blue 'e'".
Besides, in Korea, only old people use Netscape.
All we really want is an updated image index instead of the current perhistoric one.
That's what many Native American tribes believed about the prospect of selling land to the Europeans. "Sure, I'll sell you some land! Want a piece of the sky, too?"
Hmmm, maybe they just decided to change their design.
Well, it can't look good when the manufacturer of a commercial server operating system gets 0wned.
Hard to say. I think it has more to do with brand recognition than the desire to buy a computer that more "natively" supports your iPod. Because their purchase of the iPod has increased their brand recognition of Apple and also made them think, "Hey, this Apple company makes some cool stuff. If their computers are half as cool as this, it's sure to be pretty swell."
It doesn't really matter what OS/hardware the average person uses to surf the 'net and check e-mail. The user interface and experience may be more useful to these people, something that Apple is good at.
Tivo spanks VHS recordings, however, you don't have to pay for your VCR and then pay $4.95/month for the privelage of using it.
I would have had a Tivo long ago, but I'm sick of every company of the farking planet trying to nickel and dime more monthly payments out of me every month. Pretty soon refrigerators and toasters are going to require a monthly payment. Perhaps I can just forward my entire paycheck to an escrow account the divides it among all the major manufacturers every month.
/seriously needs to look into MythTV
How many millions of PCs are running that JVM right now? Mom and dad get a PC a year or two ago, which still has the same JRE the manufacturer or their son set up on the thing. There is little chance that they will upgrade it themselves.
Why doesn't the JRE have an auto-update feature enable by default on install, easily disabled from the control panel for those who are savvy (and stays disabled, unlike Acrobat Reader)?
Unless you're a web developer who is actually interested in supporting web standards and doesn't like developing for two browsers - IE and everything else.