So does this give politicians the right to steal money from you to erect political billboards on your property?
Spam is not bad because of the content, spam is bad because it is always, ALWAYS theft. The Prime Minister of Australia deserves to be killed for this.
...but then I've heard Linux-bashers actually advocate that Congress or the courts force all GPLed code to be released into the public domain, so don't put this kind of suggestion past unscrupulous bastards.
Spamming is not a "mistake", it is an act of theft. Spammers often deliberately circumvent mail filters, making their theft malicious. Spam costs businesses billions of dollars per year.
I have no problem throwing them on the same pyre as the rapists, murderers and child molesters.
Anti-spammers have always maintained that ISPs should kill the websites of known spammers. That's what a number of the blacklists out there are about -- they list ISPs that don't kick off websites that have been advertised through spamming, even if the spam was sent from a different ISP.
This is a good thing. Spammers should lose their Internet access, period. They should also lose their lives, but ISPs aren't really in the position to do that kind of thing.
So much whining about a very good practice. Any ISP that allows spammers on their network should be shunned, and their management shot.
it doesn't detect my surround sound setup (sb live! with klipsch pro media 4.1's)
I had this problem with an Audigy 2, but I found a solution. I dunno if it would translate to a Live!, though.
I went into the speaker settings in Control Panel, and set the speakers to "5.1" -- this is a Windows setting, not a setting with the EAX software. Because the EAX software was still set to 4/4.1 speakers, there was no loss of audio (ie, the card was still outputting 'center' channel sounds to the left and right speakers simultaneously). Doing that, I was able to get proper surround sound from the game.
For every piece of Korean spam I get, I estimate I receive 50 times more English language spam that seems to be targeted at North American residents (although with some of the dictionary spam in can be tough to tell).
Most of my spams are in English as well. You would be surprised, however, at how many of these English email spams are either relayed through insecure Korean mailservers or are advertising websites that are hosted through Korean ISPs (and have been for months because the ISP in question is openly tolerant of criminal activity).
There's no reason to accept packets from Korea, their network is just one big cesspit (thanks in large part to Spamaro), though EV1 blocking Korea seems very much like the pot calling the kettle black.
I've heard that people with blue eyes should really consider the light sensitivity issue. I don't know how I'd manage, since my sunlight sensitivity is pretty high now, and I have brown eyes.
...but I read that it was a common side-effect of surgery, and it's one that I experienced myself.
Sunlight sensitivity. Following corrective surgery, I am EXTREMELY sensitive to sunlight. Even on an overcast day, I have to wear sunglasses or I'm uncomfortable. I knew to get sunglasses beforehand, anticipating this (and I've read from some eye doctors who say that you should wear UV-protective sunglasses outdoors all the time anyway, even if you haven't had surgery).
Bright artifical lights aren't an issue, so it's not the quantity of light that does it, it's just something about sunlight. If you're going for laser surgery, get a nice pair of sunglasses.
...burning hair. I remember thinking that it was odd to smell that. I was expecting something (from tales from other people), but not something so similar to burning hair.
...following PRK really isn't that bad. I do get starbursting, but it's not so severe that I can't drive (and my vision prior to surgery was BAD).
I get the worst starbursting when it's pitch black apart from a single, small light source (like a small lit LED in an otherwise dark room), however because I drive with the headlights on, there's always enough ambient light that my pupils don't dilate to the point where my vision is adversely affected.
I can still watch movies and play games in the dark with no problem. I get a little starburst if I look away from the screen at the lights on the DVD player, but the vision of the screen itself is always fine.
Check with your doctor. If you have large pupils, then don't go for the surgery.
PRK does have the advantage of "no flap complications". Yes, it takes longer to heal, but with LASIK you have a flap in your cornea which never completely heals, while PRK will eventually pretty much completely heal up.
...oppose this. I'm a hardcore atheist and I will refuse to be implanted with any such technology. In addition to privacy concerns, I've been -- for years now -- hearing doomsay cultists say that such things are coming, that the "Mark" will be forced upon us in the form of a chip, that a computer in Switzerland called "The Beast" will keep track of us all. I absolutley refuse to be a part of a system that proves those nutcases right.
The problem with this is that a normal user will not be able to follow this/do this/know this. They will simple run it as admin.
Well, my boyfriend is the network admin where he works, and so he sets this up for his users.
Another example is Thief ]I[ (the game), it only runs as admin, as a user it will actually delete it's own files! Grrr
Restrict write access to Administrators only for the game's install files. Also, delete the "default savegame path" entry in the registry. The developers of that game are either malicious or incompetent.
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Well, how exactly was he to know the circumstances of your breaking and entering?
The situation that you describe is incredibly far-fetched. How often do people break into the homes of others for benign purposes?
If I catch an intruder in my home, I'm going to assume nefarious intent rather than that he simply needed to use the phone and didn't think to try a different house when no one answered after he knocked.
One of the baits I did had the scammer claiming that I really was the next of kin for the fictional "deceased" -- not that I'd be standing in as such, but that I really had been tracked down as a living relative of someone who died and left a lot of money in the bank. The name of the 'deceased' was even tailored to match my baiter identity's last name. You could get someone who was naieve fooled by that, even though they have no idea that they're participating in a scam. The lottery scammers also don't specifically state that they're running a scam, they're simply claiming that you've won a prize and there are people who might think that they simply entered without realising or forgot.
Regardless of the circumstances, almost every scammer claims that the transaction is completely legal and 100% risk-free. Some of the phony documents that they send the victims are used to aid in sustaining this illusion.
I only know one Nigerian. He's a co-worker, does motly VB work and other coding. He's hard to understand sometimes, but he's never struck me as a bad guy.
I thought that it would be difficult, but then I discovered that you just need to look for either the gaming company name or the name of the game itself in the registry, and give access to that. Giving the user access to the game install directory might also help (especially with auto-updating games, like MMORPGs and the aforementioned Madden) can be useful, too, but don't do that with Thief: Deadly Shadows.
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Even on dialup, downloading a 5K spam message would cost a few pennies at most;
So it's okay to steal a lot of money in bandwidth, if you just take a little bit from each individual person?
So does this give politicians the right to steal money from you to erect political billboards on your property?
Spam is not bad because of the content, spam is bad because it is always, ALWAYS theft. The Prime Minister of Australia deserves to be killed for this.
...but then I've heard Linux-bashers actually advocate that Congress or the courts force all GPLed code to be released into the public domain, so don't put this kind of suggestion past unscrupulous bastards.
Legitamate spam is illegitamate.
"Legitimate spam" is an oxymoron. All spam is theft.
Spamming is not a "mistake", it is an act of theft. Spammers often deliberately circumvent mail filters, making their theft malicious. Spam costs businesses billions of dollars per year.
I have no problem throwing them on the same pyre as the rapists, murderers and child molesters.
...is people acting like it's a bad thing.
Anti-spammers have always maintained that ISPs should kill the websites of known spammers. That's what a number of the blacklists out there are about -- they list ISPs that don't kick off websites that have been advertised through spamming, even if the spam was sent from a different ISP.
This is a good thing. Spammers should lose their Internet access, period. They should also lose their lives, but ISPs aren't really in the position to do that kind of thing.
So much whining about a very good practice. Any ISP that allows spammers on their network should be shunned, and their management shot.
Company's generally like having third-party support contracts.
AAAARGHH!!!!
it doesn't detect my surround sound setup (sb live! with klipsch pro media 4.1's)
I had this problem with an Audigy 2, but I found a solution. I dunno if it would translate to a Live!, though.
I went into the speaker settings in Control Panel, and set the speakers to "5.1" -- this is a Windows setting, not a setting with the EAX software. Because the EAX software was still set to 4/4.1 speakers, there was no loss of audio (ie, the card was still outputting 'center' channel sounds to the left and right speakers simultaneously). Doing that, I was able to get proper surround sound from the game.
It's a shame too because besides the long (and often) load times, it's a GREAT port!
The long load times, the low framerate and the tendency to crash. Often.
I have it. I'm not sure how it did so well with reviewers.
For every piece of Korean spam I get, I estimate I receive 50 times more English language spam that seems to be targeted at North American residents (although with some of the dictionary spam in can be tough to tell).
Most of my spams are in English as well. You would be surprised, however, at how many of these English email spams are either relayed through insecure Korean mailservers or are advertising websites that are hosted through Korean ISPs (and have been for months because the ISP in question is openly tolerant of criminal activity).
There's no reason to accept packets from Korea, their network is just one big cesspit (thanks in large part to Spamaro), though EV1 blocking Korea seems very much like the pot calling the kettle black.
I know someone who managed to completely salvage a computer after a soft dring was spilled into it WHILE IT WAS RUNNING.
I've heard that people with blue eyes should really consider the light sensitivity issue. I don't know how I'd manage, since my sunlight sensitivity is pretty high now, and I have brown eyes.
...but I read that it was a common side-effect of surgery, and it's one that I experienced myself.
Sunlight sensitivity. Following corrective surgery, I am EXTREMELY sensitive to sunlight. Even on an overcast day, I have to wear sunglasses or I'm uncomfortable. I knew to get sunglasses beforehand, anticipating this (and I've read from some eye doctors who say that you should wear UV-protective sunglasses outdoors all the time anyway, even if you haven't had surgery).
Bright artifical lights aren't an issue, so it's not the quantity of light that does it, it's just something about sunlight. If you're going for laser surgery, get a nice pair of sunglasses.
...burning hair. I remember thinking that it was odd to smell that. I was expecting something (from tales from other people), but not something so similar to burning hair.
...following PRK really isn't that bad. I do get starbursting, but it's not so severe that I can't drive (and my vision prior to surgery was BAD).
I get the worst starbursting when it's pitch black apart from a single, small light source (like a small lit LED in an otherwise dark room), however because I drive with the headlights on, there's always enough ambient light that my pupils don't dilate to the point where my vision is adversely affected.
I can still watch movies and play games in the dark with no problem. I get a little starburst if I look away from the screen at the lights on the DVD player, but the vision of the screen itself is always fine.
Check with your doctor. If you have large pupils, then don't go for the surgery.
PRK does have the advantage of "no flap complications". Yes, it takes longer to heal, but with LASIK you have a flap in your cornea which never completely heals, while PRK will eventually pretty much completely heal up.
I thought that I'd replied earlier. My apologies.
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Baiter's first trophy. What a lucky guy.
...oppose this. I'm a hardcore atheist and I will refuse to be implanted with any such technology. In addition to privacy concerns, I've been -- for years now -- hearing doomsay cultists say that such things are coming, that the "Mark" will be forced upon us in the form of a chip, that a computer in Switzerland called "The Beast" will keep track of us all. I absolutley refuse to be a part of a system that proves those nutcases right.
The problem with this is that a normal user will not be able to follow this/do this/know this. They will simple run it as admin.
Well, my boyfriend is the network admin where he works, and so he sets this up for his users.
Another example is Thief ]I[ (the game), it only runs as admin, as a user it will actually delete it's own files! Grrr
Restrict write access to Administrators only for the game's install files. Also, delete the "default savegame path" entry in the registry. The developers of that game are either malicious or incompetent.
Well, how exactly was he to know the circumstances of your breaking and entering?
The situation that you describe is incredibly far-fetched. How often do people break into the homes of others for benign purposes?
If I catch an intruder in my home, I'm going to assume nefarious intent rather than that he simply needed to use the phone and didn't think to try a different house when no one answered after he knocked.
I use Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Ted Nugent as my aliases. Great fun!
At least one mugu is a TNG fan!.
To boldy go where no mugu has gone before...
Been done. Check the 419eater.com forums for some useful tips on such scripts.
One of the baits I did had the scammer claiming that I really was the next of kin for the fictional "deceased" -- not that I'd be standing in as such, but that I really had been tracked down as a living relative of someone who died and left a lot of money in the bank. The name of the 'deceased' was even tailored to match my baiter identity's last name. You could get someone who was naieve fooled by that, even though they have no idea that they're participating in a scam. The lottery scammers also don't specifically state that they're running a scam, they're simply claiming that you've won a prize and there are people who might think that they simply entered without realising or forgot.
Regardless of the circumstances, almost every scammer claims that the transaction is completely legal and 100% risk-free. Some of the phony documents that they send the victims are used to aid in sustaining this illusion.
I only know one Nigerian. He's a co-worker, does motly VB work and other coding. He's hard to understand sometimes, but he's never struck me as a bad guy.
I thought that it would be difficult, but then I discovered that you just need to look for either the gaming company name or the name of the game itself in the registry, and give access to that. Giving the user access to the game install directory might also help (especially with auto-updating games, like MMORPGs and the aforementioned Madden) can be useful, too, but don't do that with Thief: Deadly Shadows.