Believe me, this can happen. Of course, it's highly unlikely but that doesn't make it entirely impossible. Yet it's a scenario that you and most of the other people that have replied to my original comment seem to have totally discounted.
Clearly, it's not the case here if someone's acheiving A grades throughout the course but sometimes the fault doesn't lie with the teacher. The last (part-time) course I took, I was the only one out of a class of about 15 that actually bothered to do the mandatory assignments. Yet, despite being handed work to do every week and asked for the completed work next time around, nobody else in the class seemed to care about completing required elements of study. If I was the instructor then I would have failed them all for continually failing to meet their commitments despite the weekly reminders.
I don't have any problem with the concept of an entire class failing a course. Why you think that a professor failing his entire class constitutes a failure on the part of the university is a mystery to me: would you be so opposed if a professor failed an astronomy class that failed to put the planets in the correct order or an economics class that couldn't describe how supply and demand affect prices?
Frankly, I think you're jumping the gun here. Ten is a nice round figure and one that suggests that it might have been picked arbitrarily. Perhaps the professor asked for ten but didn't expect any one individual to find more than two or three? Perhaps the professor wasn't as interested in their results as he was their methodologies and definitions of what did and didn't constitute a vulnerability? Perhaps he was using the exercise to reinforce lessons on how to create a secure computing environment?
Chew on that for a while, and while you're doing that think about the fact that you should be looking at university as a learning experience, not merely an acquisition of course credits. Frankly, your post makes you sound like someone who would sue their professor if he so much as considered awarding you less than a pass mark.
Well according to their advertising blurb (ironically, via spam most of the time), spammers usually sell live email addresses. And, if nothing else, I'm sure that a list of live, verified email addresses is worth more than one of random ones. Ie, verifying an email address commands a price premium when selling lists.
Sorry for the latin, but I've always wanted to use that bit seriously just once...
Just because your spam dropped at that point that doesn't mean it was due to your unsubscribing session. There are many reasons why your spam levels fell. Perhaps your ISP/mail provider installed better spam filtering, perhaps the spammers responsible for a large proportion of your junk mail were shut down one way or another, etc.
There are many possible causes for the effect, so don't assume that you using the unsubscribe links was the catalyst for the change. That could have been it, but that's not necessarily it.
1. You unscribe to spam from Spammer A. 2. Spammer A stops spamming you. 3. Spammer A then sells his list to Spammers B, C, D, etc. 4. Mail from Spammers B, C, D, etc start hitting your inbox. 5. Eventually, Spammer A reacquires your name from a list he's bought.
Etc, etc.
Never tell the spammers your account is genuine. Better that they think it's either non-existant or dormant. They have less of an incentive spamming accounts that they believe to be dead than they do one which they know to be actively in use.
So you expect American Airlines to do the same? Change its name for its European operations?
Company names are brand identities that can't be shifted as easily as the winds: there's a reason why 20th Century Fox isn't now 21st Century Fox, the BBC's overseas operations are still branded BBC, etc, etc.
You do realise that AOL does have operations in Europe, right? There's an AOL UK, for starters. Just because the company's name refers to its home country/continent, that doesn't stop it from using the same name elsewhere.
The one that I had had a older DIN connection rather than a PS/2 one. If it had had the PS/2 connection then I probably would have kept it around a bit longer, but there was little justification for keeping a keyboard (albeit an excellent keyboard) when buying an adapter so that I could use it again would have cost me almost as much as I paid for the keyboard in the first place (a bargain £11 back in 1991).
Besides, I'm so used to using a split-key keyboard nowadays that using a traditional keyboard layout is a step backwards in terms of both speed and comfort, so it's doubtful that I would have used it anyhow.
Uh, you know those original IBM keyboards that everyone raves about? They're made by Fujitsu. I had one that was Fujitsu-labelled back in 1991, and it was only a couple of years ago, when I moved house and had to let go of some unused hardware, that it left my possession in full working order.
On a secondary note, notice how Fujitsu is a Japanese company? If keeping the high-tech industry and high-tech jobs in America is such a big deal then why is it that there wasn't a single US company prepared to fight for a partnership with PARC? Granted, IBM is exiting the PC arena but PARC is about more than just developing for the desktop, and I would have thought that the PR benefits of dealing with the home of the GUI would be to die for for Apple, HP or someone similar.
Yeah, but FedEx sure did get a lot of advertising from the movie, didn't they? Millions of people around the world, some of whom wouldn't even know what a courier firm is, watching a film that, because of a quirk of nature, is one big advertorial.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the film (I'm a fan of a lot of Tom Hanks' work) but it's not as if you can miss the fact that FedEx gets a lot of coverage in it. And, as they say, the best advertising is free advertising.
And how long does that take? The Opera search is instantaneous, I doubt that the Simpy one is as fast, even if it has cached copies of the web pages locally.
And, if it hasn't cached copies of the web pages locally what good is it? Content on the web changes, so what's on a page one day won't necessarily be on it the next. This story will be on the Slashdot homepage today, and maybe tomorrow, but after that it'll be gone from there.
If you search your bookmarks in Opera for "games" it doesn't just return the results that have games in the bookmark name (eg, Gamespot) but also any matches that have "games" in the URL (eg, www.somethingaboutgames.com), the site description/meta-tags (eg, "This website is devoted to games...", and any folders that you've created with "games" in the name (eg, "Mindgames").
In other words, it does exactly what you're describing.
The Opera search does just exactly what you want it to do: it shows you all the bookmarks that match your search string but doesn't hide the folders that they're in. Time to upgrade.
Lossy codecs are hardly an issue when you're listening to music via headphones.
Even if you use that "one high quality format for all media" argument, VBR MP3s are hardly that much worse in sound quality than, say, FLAC. If 99.9 percent of people can't tell (or don't care about) the difference between a VBR MP3 and the source CD on a mid-range separates system then, really, what's the big deal?
But, yes, for the small minority that do care about lossy compression even on the move, then more space is good news.
If you don't like the white then you've got the limited edition black with red dial version out right now as an alternative. Also, there are several companies out there that will customise a casing for you, so you're only limited by your imagination.
I do have to ask though, why the big obsession about colour? It's not as if the world and his brother can see whether your iPod is white, black, or blue with pink polka dots when it's jammed safely in your pocket.
As to your other points, well, here's a quick list of my own:
1. Smaller hard disks mean lower power consumption, so tick that box too.
2. DRM is a non-issue - you can rip your own music, you know.
3. 99 percent of people out there only use there iPod to listen to music on the move, and the remote that's supplied is good enough for all but a very small minority of people such as yourself. Just what do you call "decent" here anyhow?
4. Again, a feature that the overwhelming majority of current iPod owners probably don't even think about, but I'm sure that Apple will include one as soon as there's a compelling reason for them to do so.
5. Some people do have more than 40GB of music, so the larger drive will be good news for them.
Seriously, half the stuff you've written borders on ridiculous and the other half only matters to you and about four other people.
Well, I'm sure there's someone out there aching for an 80GB iPod.
And, thinking about the market in general, 80GB hard disk drives come in handy if you're Archos, etc selling what essentially will soon become portable PVRs.
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You forgot:
4. The students were genuinely lazy.
Believe me, this can happen. Of course, it's highly unlikely but that doesn't make it entirely impossible. Yet it's a scenario that you and most of the other people that have replied to my original comment seem to have totally discounted.
Clearly, it's not the case here if someone's acheiving A grades throughout the course but sometimes the fault doesn't lie with the teacher. The last (part-time) course I took, I was the only one out of a class of about 15 that actually bothered to do the mandatory assignments. Yet, despite being handed work to do every week and asked for the completed work next time around, nobody else in the class seemed to care about completing required elements of study. If I was the instructor then I would have failed them all for continually failing to meet their commitments despite the weekly reminders.
I don't have any problem with the concept of an entire class failing a course. Why you think that a professor failing his entire class constitutes a failure on the part of the university is a mystery to me: would you be so opposed if a professor failed an astronomy class that failed to put the planets in the correct order or an economics class that couldn't describe how supply and demand affect prices?
Frankly, I think you're jumping the gun here. Ten is a nice round figure and one that suggests that it might have been picked arbitrarily. Perhaps the professor asked for ten but didn't expect any one individual to find more than two or three? Perhaps the professor wasn't as interested in their results as he was their methodologies and definitions of what did and didn't constitute a vulnerability? Perhaps he was using the exercise to reinforce lessons on how to create a secure computing environment?
Chew on that for a while, and while you're doing that think about the fact that you should be looking at university as a learning experience, not merely an acquisition of course credits. Frankly, your post makes you sound like someone who would sue their professor if he so much as considered awarding you less than a pass mark.
If you want to get technical you could argue that everything apart from the kernel is *nix-based software. Where do you want to draw the line?
Well according to their advertising blurb (ironically, via spam most of the time), spammers usually sell live email addresses. And, if nothing else, I'm sure that a list of live, verified email addresses is worth more than one of random ones. Ie, verifying an email address commands a price premium when selling lists.
For now. There's plenty of evidence that the opposite has been true in the long term.
Sorry for the latin, but I've always wanted to use that bit seriously just once...
Just because your spam dropped at that point that doesn't mean it was due to your unsubscribing session. There are many reasons why your spam levels fell. Perhaps your ISP/mail provider installed better spam filtering, perhaps the spammers responsible for a large proportion of your junk mail were shut down one way or another, etc.
There are many possible causes for the effect, so don't assume that you using the unsubscribe links was the catalyst for the change. That could have been it, but that's not necessarily it.
1. You unscribe to spam from Spammer A.
2. Spammer A stops spamming you.
3. Spammer A then sells his list to Spammers B, C, D, etc.
4. Mail from Spammers B, C, D, etc start hitting your inbox.
5. Eventually, Spammer A reacquires your name from a list he's bought.
Etc, etc.
Never tell the spammers your account is genuine. Better that they think it's either non-existant or dormant. They have less of an incentive spamming accounts that they believe to be dead than they do one which they know to be actively in use.
Enough that spammers know that they can use them to further build their databases.
So you expect American Airlines to do the same? Change its name for its European operations?
Company names are brand identities that can't be shifted as easily as the winds: there's a reason why 20th Century Fox isn't now 21st Century Fox, the BBC's overseas operations are still branded BBC, etc, etc.
You do realise that AOL does have operations in Europe, right? There's an AOL UK, for starters. Just because the company's name refers to its home country/continent, that doesn't stop it from using the same name elsewhere.
The one that I had had a older DIN connection rather than a PS/2 one. If it had had the PS/2 connection then I probably would have kept it around a bit longer, but there was little justification for keeping a keyboard (albeit an excellent keyboard) when buying an adapter so that I could use it again would have cost me almost as much as I paid for the keyboard in the first place (a bargain £11 back in 1991).
Besides, I'm so used to using a split-key keyboard nowadays that using a traditional keyboard layout is a step backwards in terms of both speed and comfort, so it's doubtful that I would have used it anyhow.
When you're moving home and your junk outweighs here junk by an order of manitude plus then it's something you have to do.
Uh, you know those original IBM keyboards that everyone raves about? They're made by Fujitsu. I had one that was Fujitsu-labelled back in 1991, and it was only a couple of years ago, when I moved house and had to let go of some unused hardware, that it left my possession in full working order.
On a secondary note, notice how Fujitsu is a Japanese company? If keeping the high-tech industry and high-tech jobs in America is such a big deal then why is it that there wasn't a single US company prepared to fight for a partnership with PARC? Granted, IBM is exiting the PC arena but PARC is about more than just developing for the desktop, and I would have thought that the PR benefits of dealing with the home of the GUI would be to die for for Apple, HP or someone similar.
Yeah, but FedEx sure did get a lot of advertising from the movie, didn't they? Millions of people around the world, some of whom wouldn't even know what a courier firm is, watching a film that, because of a quirk of nature, is one big advertorial.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the film (I'm a fan of a lot of Tom Hanks' work) but it's not as if you can miss the fact that FedEx gets a lot of coverage in it. And, as they say, the best advertising is free advertising.
And how long does that take? The Opera search is instantaneous, I doubt that the Simpy one is as fast, even if it has cached copies of the web pages locally.
And, if it hasn't cached copies of the web pages locally what good is it? Content on the web changes, so what's on a page one day won't necessarily be on it the next. This story will be on the Slashdot homepage today, and maybe tomorrow, but after that it'll be gone from there.
Yeah, And in other news just in, naysayers report that the invention of paper is a godsend to would-be anonymous blackmailers.
Bzzt, wrong.
If you search your bookmarks in Opera for "games" it doesn't just return the results that have games in the bookmark name (eg, Gamespot) but also any matches that have "games" in the URL (eg, www.somethingaboutgames.com), the site description/meta-tags (eg, "This website is devoted to games...", and any folders that you've created with "games" in the name (eg, "Mindgames").
In other words, it does exactly what you're describing.
Want to search within your history? Then Opera is your friend.
The Opera search does just exactly what you want it to do: it shows you all the bookmarks that match your search string but doesn't hide the folders that they're in. Time to upgrade.
Lossy codecs are hardly an issue when you're listening to music via headphones.
Even if you use that "one high quality format for all media" argument, VBR MP3s are hardly that much worse in sound quality than, say, FLAC. If 99.9 percent of people can't tell (or don't care about) the difference between a VBR MP3 and the source CD on a mid-range separates system then, really, what's the big deal?
But, yes, for the small minority that do care about lossy compression even on the move, then more space is good news.
Heh. "Elect an idiot" only got me 107,000 hits. I guess it's just not as fashionable a topic as it was, say, a month ago.
If you don't like the white then you've got the limited edition black with red dial version out right now as an alternative. Also, there are several companies out there that will customise a casing for you, so you're only limited by your imagination.
I do have to ask though, why the big obsession about colour? It's not as if the world and his brother can see whether your iPod is white, black, or blue with pink polka dots when it's jammed safely in your pocket.
As to your other points, well, here's a quick list of my own:
1. Smaller hard disks mean lower power consumption, so tick that box too.
2. DRM is a non-issue - you can rip your own music, you know.
3. 99 percent of people out there only use there iPod to listen to music on the move, and the remote that's supplied is good enough for all but a very small minority of people such as yourself. Just what do you call "decent" here anyhow?
4. Again, a feature that the overwhelming majority of current iPod owners probably don't even think about, but I'm sure that Apple will include one as soon as there's a compelling reason for them to do so.
5. Some people do have more than 40GB of music, so the larger drive will be good news for them.
Seriously, half the stuff you've written borders on ridiculous and the other half only matters to you and about four other people.
Well, I'm sure there's someone out there aching for an 80GB iPod.
And, thinking about the market in general, 80GB hard disk drives come in handy if you're Archos, etc selling what essentially will soon become portable PVRs.
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe. If you've played it, either one or two player, then you know what I'm talking about.
Just where do you suggest a crying baby on an aircraft should be taken? Onto one of the wings?