Here is AG's Media Contacts page... it dosen't seem to be linked up from their corporate site at the moment, but that didn't stop Google from finding it!:)
My thinking is that when Media Relations gets wind of this, they're going to be all over Rinda for creating such wonderful publicity. Start making noise (tactfully please)!
Actually, I think the bigger issue is that most companies hire out third parties to spam their mailing list.
For example, some of my web design and hosting customers pay me to send out their newsletters (strictly opt-in). Say company X sends me their newsletter and mailing list on Feb 25th to be mailed out on March 1st... if somebody decides to opt-out on Feb 28th, they're still going to get the March newsletter because I don't maintain the list.
I think it's only fair to give companies a few business days to sort things out in an opt-in/opt-out scenario, as outgoing mail may already be in a sense "queued".
Let me also head off any insistance that the large spam brokers be responsible for handling the opt-out requests and maintaining a live database: this service usually involves large setup fees, and the client may not want to get married to one spam broker right away... so they will often send a static mailing list for a one-time mailing instead.
I personally think it's rediculious that this article even found its way onto slashdot. For chrissake, it might have taken two full days or more to process a single LARGE mailing list if they are contending with SMTP flood thresholds at large ISPs with lots of opt-in subscribers. You can't just rapid-fire 10,000 emails to MSN accounts from one server and not expect to get your IP blocked! Infact, most companies even tell you when you opt-out that it may take a few days before you stop receiveing emails.
Now, watch me get modded down by the idealist slashdot spam nazis for having a potentially unpopular opinion.
So we've taken what was once hardware jumper settings such as CPU voltage, moved them to BIOS config options, and now let's bypass that altogether allowing the OS itself to change these settings. That's just wonderful, I can't wait to read the report on W32.CrispyCPU.Trojan.
While I am a marijuana advocate, it should be noted, that pot and slashdot don't mix well.
Oh, and kids... pot and jr high dont mix well either (excuse the pun). Most of us stopped trying to get people to call us "Wonko the Sane" many years ago. *sigh* The rest moved on to design eco-homes and smoke even more copius quantities of weed at burning man 98.
If he is an independent contractor (as are our satellite installers), then he does eat the cost of his fuel and time for making a second trip, or as many trips as necessary to get the paperwork signed that protects my company from rediculious lawsuits.
I had two quick replies to questions people asked about previous comments. The first one posted just fine, but the second gave me an error saying I had to wait longer before posting again (two minutes I think).
Okay, fine it's spam prevention, I'll just wait a couple minutes... so I hit back, and the previous page EXPIRED! Luckily, i've run into this before without other rediculious slashdot errors and timeouts and compose all my replies in a text editor first. (I can't begin to tell you how many long posts and hours of my life I've lost forever thanks to slashcode's incredibly sloppy session handling.)
So I wait two minutes, and then paste and repost my comment, only to get slapped with "Slow Down Cowboy!" "Slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment." (and incase you're wondering, yes, the post entry page EXPIRED again.)
Common guys, at this rate you might as well post a message above the text box saying "Slashdot will likely shred your comments if you type too fast, please compose them elsewhere, paste, and THEN sit on your thumbs 20 seconds before hitting submit."
Of course, it's probably more import to nip those "Duplicate Story" posts in the bud right along with the FP's. I mean, just think of the OSDN stockholders $$$ at stake!
Heh, I remember when broadband.com was a site pitching a business plan for lightweight aircraft circling a city on overlapping 24hr shifts to provide wireless broadband... Crazy.
Ah-ha! http://angelhalo.com/
Kudos to the Wayback Machine for digging up the parent company's url!
I've shared several DIRECWAY systems out to Macs using ICS on 98se and 2000, but not without problems with the "acceleration" software that is the client side of the crc spoofing tech used to compensate for latency. I haven't tried XP yet.
Basically, sustained downloads perform great on both server and clients, but individual images on webpages seem to only load one at a time, as if only one socket connection is being made at a time to the server to download them. Running multiple simutaneous sustained downloads also seem to suffer, but not as bad has normal http page element traffic.
If anyone knows what causes this or how to solve the problem without 3rd party software (SatServ seems to work great), I would greatly appreciate it!
Actually, it's available from hundreds of providers nationwide (we're one) and works anywhere in the US). And the key point many of you seem to be missing is MOST people CAN'T get DSL or Cable!
Admittedly, if you can get DSL/Cable... I DON'T recommend satellite, but if it's your only option and $59.99 isn't a barrier, then (and only then) will I offer satellite as an option.
I WILL NOT sell satellite to someone who qualifies for DSL or Cable, or someone who does online gaming or VPN. Other than that, I highly recommend it and use it myself.
It's more than worth it to our customers (we install vsat dishes) who can't get DSL or Cable. I've had Mac users who have bought PC servers and SatServ licences because any broadband is better than none at all. They are perfectly happy with their servce, and regularly send us referrals.
PS: For the sake of example (and try not to take this personally), I'll commit another/. faux pas attempting to further erode your argument by pointing out trivial spelling and grammatical errors as found by Microsoft Word (faux pas deux!). Hang on kiddies, here we go... wheeeeee!
extrodinary = extraordinary
gorrilla = gorilla
bigfoot = Bigfoot
Do you see, how = Do you see how
valid = valid.
The difference is whether or not you are refuting an argument that is extraordinary or obviously contradicts what is commonly known by your audience.
In this case, the proportion of prison populations attributable to drug arrests is not a matter of common knowledge to the audience (as evidenced by/. commentary).
Your mistake is in believing that your side of the argument is the pre-established popular belief, when actually neither side is.
...Others say that whether a claim is "extraordinary" or not is entirely a matter of subjective opinion. To the UFO believer, they say, UFO sightings are not unusual at all - and so any evidence will do. On the other hand, they say that a committed skeptic's subjective rejection of UFO claims places the necessary standard of evidence beyond reach. The problem with this interpretation is that if all claims are only as good as each individual's pre-existing bias about the subject, then it is meaningless to demand any standards of evidence whatsoever. Each ignorant savage is left with the impression that whatever he wants to believe is true, is true - quality of evidence notwithstanding.-Jeff Dee
To go one step further... where this principle breaks down in the absence of supporting or opposing scientific fact (i.e.: UFOs) letting both sides off the hook for proof, the same principle makes proof a requisite for both sides where obtainable facts exist but are outside the scope of your audience's common knowledge.
Can you support your counter-argument with numbers or sources? Or are you just spouting off because you think your undocumented claim is more valid than someone else's, and that nobody's going to notice you making the same credibility errors.
I see A LOT of this type of countering on slashdot. If you have credibility issues to raise, don't try to also use them as a platform or 'proof' for your opposing argument.
What would the applications of such a device be? My only guess is some sortof newage musical instrument thingy like what you see occasionally with lasers harp-style in science museums.
Anyone else have ideas what this could be used for?
Odd that this seems to even be a signifigant issue, I've found and used several Triangle Boy servers "in the wild" in just the last few months while working on a 'project'. Admitedly, they're scarce, and the last working one I knew of is now dead, but then I haven't been looking anymore either. I'm sure there's dozens if not hundreds of Triangle Boy servers active.
On a side note for paranoid sysadmins: if you want to block Triangle Boy, just filter requests that look like:
It seems they've taken down their "add to cart" button for the red stapler, although you can still order other staplers online... I didn't see the bug though.
My guess is that the person who experienced this bug was on a corporate lan with a single gateway IP, maybe cookies were also disabled or screwed up, and SureSource's session tracking code freaked and a session was hijacked.
We had competitions to build these at PCS (a children's engineering school) in Nampa, Idaho several years ago. We also had a few Lego "Robot Wars". Frankly, everything Lego related I've ever seen on/. is old hat.
My money's on that the MIS was passing the buck, or that disgruntled employees at Worldcom are running scared and hyping everyday outages to create pandemonium... pandelerium... a big fat stink.
Is it just me or did alot of good posts seem to get slammed by the moderators on this topic? Some of the most important points I wanted to make but found instead in the threads were moderated down for no apparent reason. I don't think I've ever seen such a massacare.
include('moderation_abuse_rant.inc');
Perhaps i'm foolish to not AC this post... but I didn't think the point of slashdot was to live in fear of moderation while trying to make a valid point. I guess I'll get my answer.
Clearly, you are a karma whore. Show me where I said anything more specific than 'Beta'? That's right: nowhere.
Any video professional worth his or her salt isn't going to waste their breath being any more specific than just 'beta' unless they're trusting some lackey to purchase equipment or training an assistant.
Omit the first sentence, and you might have had an informative post for the two people in the world who still think Betamax is the same 'Beta' currently in use, but in the real world, being an argumentitive smartass always earns zero karma.
Nice to see you've learned how to use Google to effectively win friends and influence people. Flamebait trailing Flamebait? Sure. But I have karma to spare.
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Or, for quick reference...
Of course, make sure to include the nazi who started all this: Rinda E. Vas (rinda.vas@amgreetings.com) - Corporate Counsel!
My thinking is that when Media Relations gets wind of this, they're going to be all over Rinda for creating such wonderful publicity. Start making noise (tactfully please)!
For example, some of my web design and hosting customers pay me to send out their newsletters (strictly opt-in). Say company X sends me their newsletter and mailing list on Feb 25th to be mailed out on March 1st... if somebody decides to opt-out on Feb 28th, they're still going to get the March newsletter because I don't maintain the list.
I think it's only fair to give companies a few business days to sort things out in an opt-in/opt-out scenario, as outgoing mail may already be in a sense "queued".
Let me also head off any insistance that the large spam brokers be responsible for handling the opt-out requests and maintaining a live database: this service usually involves large setup fees, and the client may not want to get married to one spam broker right away... so they will often send a static mailing list for a one-time mailing instead.
I personally think it's rediculious that this article even found its way onto slashdot. For chrissake, it might have taken two full days or more to process a single LARGE mailing list if they are contending with SMTP flood thresholds at large ISPs with lots of opt-in subscribers. You can't just rapid-fire 10,000 emails to MSN accounts from one server and not expect to get your IP blocked! Infact, most companies even tell you when you opt-out that it may take a few days before you stop receiveing emails.
Now, watch me get modded down by the idealist slashdot spam nazis for having a potentially unpopular opinion.
So we've taken what was once hardware jumper settings such as CPU voltage, moved them to BIOS config options, and now let's bypass that altogether allowing the OS itself to change these settings. That's just wonderful, I can't wait to read the report on W32.CrispyCPU.Trojan.
Yes, it's primary function is to remind you daily... Don't Panic!
What's the current rate for slash-er-tisements?
Oh, and kids... pot and jr high dont mix well either (excuse the pun). Most of us stopped trying to get people to call us "Wonko the Sane" many years ago. *sigh* The rest moved on to design eco-homes and smoke even more copius quantities of weed at burning man 98.
If he is an independent contractor (as are our satellite installers), then he does eat the cost of his fuel and time for making a second trip, or as many trips as necessary to get the paperwork signed that protects my company from rediculious lawsuits.
PS to Slashcode Developers:
I had two quick replies to questions people asked about previous comments. The first one posted just fine, but the second gave me an error saying I had to wait longer before posting again (two minutes I think).
Okay, fine it's spam prevention, I'll just wait a couple minutes... so I hit back, and the previous page EXPIRED! Luckily, i've run into this before without other rediculious slashdot errors and timeouts and compose all my replies in a text editor first. (I can't begin to tell you how many long posts and hours of my life I've lost forever thanks to slashcode's incredibly sloppy session handling.)
So I wait two minutes, and then paste and repost my comment, only to get slapped with "Slow Down Cowboy!" "Slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment." (and incase you're wondering, yes, the post entry page EXPIRED again.)
Common guys, at this rate you might as well post a message above the text box saying "Slashdot will likely shred your comments if you type too fast, please compose them elsewhere, paste, and THEN sit on your thumbs 20 seconds before hitting submit."
Of course, it's probably more import to nip those "Duplicate Story" posts in the bud right along with the FP's. I mean, just think of the OSDN stockholders $$$ at stake!
Ah-ha!
http://angelhalo.com/
Kudos to the Wayback Machine for digging up the parent company's url!
Basically, sustained downloads perform great on both server and clients, but individual images on webpages seem to only load one at a time, as if only one socket connection is being made at a time to the server to download them. Running multiple simutaneous sustained downloads also seem to suffer, but not as bad has normal http page element traffic.
If anyone knows what causes this or how to solve the problem without 3rd party software (SatServ seems to work great), I would greatly appreciate it!
Admittedly, if you can get DSL/Cable... I DON'T recommend satellite, but if it's your only option and $59.99 isn't a barrier, then (and only then) will I offer satellite as an option. I WILL NOT sell satellite to someone who qualifies for DSL or Cable, or someone who does online gaming or VPN. Other than that, I highly recommend it and use it myself.
It's more than worth it to our customers (we install vsat dishes) who can't get DSL or Cable. I've had Mac users who have bought PC servers and SatServ licences because any broadband is better than none at all. They are perfectly happy with their servce, and regularly send us referrals.
This stuff is called Oobleck. The page also tells how to make Glurch (Nickelodeon Gak).
extrodinary = extraordinary
gorrilla = gorilla
bigfoot = Bigfoot
Do you see, how = Do you see how
valid = valid.
--
Yes, I'm trashed. Glee.
The difference is whether or not you are refuting an argument that is extraordinary or obviously contradicts what is commonly known by your audience.
In this case, the proportion of prison populations attributable to drug arrests is not a matter of common knowledge to the audience (as evidenced by /. commentary).
Your mistake is in believing that your side of the argument is the pre-established popular belief, when actually neither side is.
To go one step further... where this principle breaks down in the absence of supporting or opposing scientific fact (i.e.: UFOs) letting both sides off the hook for proof, the same principle makes proof a requisite for both sides where obtainable facts exist but are outside the scope of your audience's common knowledge.
I see A LOT of this type of countering on slashdot. If you have credibility issues to raise, don't try to also use them as a platform or 'proof' for your opposing argument.
Anyone else have ideas what this could be used for?
On a side note for paranoid sysadmins: if you want to block Triangle Boy, just filter requests that look like:
http(s)://URL/_u(http://...):{query strings}
ie: https://10.0.0.42/_u(http://www.yahoo.com)
My guess is that the person who experienced this bug was on a corporate lan with a single gateway IP, maybe cookies were also disabled or screwed up, and SureSource's session tracking code freaked and a session was hijacked.
Is Jeeves Gay?
Will You F*** Me?
BTW: The "Is Jeeves Well Hung" no longer seems to be working.
We had competitions to build these at PCS (a children's engineering school) in Nampa, Idaho several years ago. We also had a few Lego "Robot Wars". Frankly, everything Lego related I've ever seen on /. is old hat.
My money's on that the MIS was passing the buck, or that disgruntled employees at Worldcom are running scared and hyping everyday outages to create pandemonium... pandelerium... a big fat stink.
Is it just me or did alot of good posts seem to get slammed by the moderators on this topic? Some of the most important points I wanted to make but found instead in the threads were moderated down for no apparent reason. I don't think I've ever seen such a massacare.
include('moderation_abuse_rant.inc');
Perhaps i'm foolish to not AC this post... but I didn't think the point of slashdot was to live in fear of moderation while trying to make a valid point. I guess I'll get my answer.
Any video professional worth his or her salt isn't going to waste their breath being any more specific than just 'beta' unless they're trusting some lackey to purchase equipment or training an assistant.
Omit the first sentence, and you might have had an informative post for the two people in the world who still think Betamax is the same 'Beta' currently in use, but in the real world, being an argumentitive smartass always earns zero karma.
Nice to see you've learned how to use Google to effectively win friends and influence people. Flamebait trailing Flamebait? Sure. But I have karma to spare.
Do the switches on the armrests remind anyone of an electric organ?