Your comment that it's not real useful to spam somebody from another country is not relevant. I'm in Finland.
My spamcop spam count is currently at 10510, of which three (3) were from Finnish companies. (All three were promptly shut down by their ISPs.)
99.9 % of my spam is 1. 'mercan 2. korean and chinese 3. the nigerian scam Not that I see much more than subject lines in the spamcop quick reporting thingy...
Cut spammers and scammers off the net now, says I. Start with Korea, China and Nigeria.
This is pretty much the same practice Finland has with TV licenses - those who have not purchased a license are constantly harrassed by the controlling governmental entity via mail and phonecalls.
I'm in Finland. I don't own a TV. Ergo, no TV license. The controlling governmental entity hasn't written me a "do you have a TV license" letter in years. Nor have they harrassed me in any other way.
I give you this: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashcom/ ts/docu ments/uninstall.htm (without the/. space).
I find it unbelievable that you get pointers to installing the bloody thing everywhere, but you have to look hard to find out how to get rid of it...
... I removed it after my ISP put moving flash ads on every single one of their webmail pages, at a time when I had to use webmail i/o pop. Remove all directories which are called macromedia, look through the windows registry, and it still moves... bloody h*ll.
I'll reinstall flash when the mozilla devteam adds buttons that says "block flash from..." in a similar way to their "block images from..." setup, and their "don't loop" -setup for images.
On that note, thank-you Mozilla devteam, for all the annoyance-blocking goodies in the browser!
You have to look up the page numbers in the journal (which you may not even have in these days of online papers), figure out who the publisher was, the issue or journal number.
If you read your papers as online editions you have to give URL and access date instead of page # etc.
The print and online versions might, after all, be different - and unless you do dig out that paper you have no idea if they are, in fact, identical or not.
Over here, when you start a business you get a polite letter from the music royalty outfit (Teosto), asking you if you plan to play music to people. If you do, they ask you for 0.00001 cent a tune (or similar - it's been a while, and I don't play music to my clients) in royalties.
This money is paid out to artists, both in Finland and abroad, based AFAIK on what's played on the radio and on # of CDs sold over here.
Some local musicians say they get far more from Teosto than they ever got from their recording labels.
Shrug.
It's better than copyprotecting CDs - if people copy your CDs you're popular and played more frequently on the radio - and therefore you get more royalties from places like Teosto.
Note, I think having to pay Teosto for playing the radio in a cab is way over the top - there's ALWAYS ads on the stations that play good music, and those radio stations already pay Teosto, based on an estimation of # of listeners.
The only viruses I have seen on a Mac are Office Macro viruses
... ah, nostalgia. Anybody else remember the way Mac viruses used to spread 15 years ago? There were lots of them. I remember installing antivirus software on a few machines, only to come back later and ask:
"A virus? Again? But I put in an antivirus program only last week!"
"Yeah, but I disabled it, because it slowed down the machine too much."
In general how supportive have you found the producers of such content to be of your services? Do many if any really believe that something like this will cause them to starve to death?
I'm one of those content providers. Checks self: Nope, not starving. In fact, I love ibiblio:
They give me unlimited non-commercial space in ftp and html (and that really is unlimited. I have zipfiles of herbal forums online, from 1992 onwards... couldn't do that if I had to pay monthly fees for the space.)
Ibiblio is in all the search engines.
You can still get my main page with the same URL as that used back in 1995 - how many sites can you say that about?
There's smaller perks, too, like a shell account, setting up mailing lists (no ads!), and such.
So here's a big Thank You to both ibiblio.org and unc!
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Your comment that it's not real useful to spam somebody from another country is not relevant. I'm in Finland.
My spamcop spam count is currently at 10510, of which three (3) were from Finnish companies. (All three were promptly shut down by their ISPs.)
99.9 % of my spam is
1. 'mercan
2. korean and chinese
3. the nigerian scam
Not that I see much more than subject lines in the spamcop quick reporting thingy...
Cut spammers and scammers off the net now, says I. Start with Korea, China and Nigeria.
I'm in Finland. I don't own a TV. Ergo, no TV license. The controlling governmental entity hasn't written me a "do you have a TV license" letter in years. Nor have they harrassed me in any other way.
Lois McMaster Bujold, the Vorkosigan series, and two standalone fantasy novels
Terry Pratchett, the discworld series - all of them are worthwile, but the first two are weakest of the lot, so skip those at first
- Guy Gavriel Kay, of which the best are perhaps Tigana and the two-book Sarantine Mosaic, but his other works are top-notch writing, too
Michael Swanwick, he's online - check michaelswanwick.com
Vernor Vinge, his three blockbusters
Actually, you might want to follow news:rec.arts.sf.written for a while. They're cool.
I give you this:/ ts/docu ments/uninstall.htm /. space).
...
... I removed it after my ISP put moving flash ads on every single one of their webmail pages, at a time when I had to use webmail i/o pop. Remove all directories which are called macromedia, look through the windows registry, and it still moves... bloody h*ll.
..." in a similar way to their "block images from ..." setup, and their "don't loop" -setup for images.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flashcom
(without the
I find it unbelievable that you get pointers to installing the bloody thing everywhere, but you have to look hard to find out how to get rid of it
I'll reinstall flash when the mozilla devteam adds buttons that says "block flash from
On that note, thank-you Mozilla devteam, for all the annoyance-blocking goodies in the browser!
You have to look up the page numbers in the journal (which you may not even have in these days of online papers), figure out who the publisher was, the issue or journal number.
If you read your papers as online editions you have to give URL and access date instead of page # etc.
The print and online versions might, after all, be different - and unless you do dig out that paper you have no idea if they are, in fact, identical or not.
Re. music royalties in Finland
I have a small business in Finland.
Over here, when you start a business you get a polite letter from the music royalty outfit (Teosto), asking you if you plan to play music to people. If you do, they ask you for 0.00001 cent a tune (or similar - it's been a while, and I don't play music to my clients) in royalties.
This money is paid out to artists, both in Finland and abroad, based AFAIK on what's played on the radio and on # of CDs sold over here.
Some local musicians say they get far more from Teosto than they ever got from their recording labels.
Shrug.
It's better than copyprotecting CDs - if people copy your CDs you're popular and played more frequently on the radio - and therefore you get more royalties from places like Teosto.
Note, I think having to pay Teosto for playing the radio in a cab is way over the top - there's ALWAYS ads on the stations that play good music, and those radio stations already pay Teosto, based on an estimation of # of listeners.
The only viruses I have seen on a Mac are Office Macro viruses
... ah, nostalgia. Anybody else remember the way Mac viruses used to spread 15 years ago? There were lots of them. I remember installing antivirus software on a few machines, only to come back later and ask:
"A virus? Again? But I put in an antivirus program only last week!"
"Yeah, but I disabled it, because it slowed down the machine too much."
In general how supportive have you found the producers of such content to be of your services? Do many if any really believe that something like this will cause them to starve to death?
I'm one of those content providers. Checks self: Nope, not starving. In fact, I love ibiblio:
They give me unlimited non-commercial space in ftp and html (and that really is unlimited. I have zipfiles of herbal forums online, from 1992 onwards... couldn't do that if I had to pay monthly fees for the space.)
Ibiblio is in all the search engines.
You can still get my main page with the same URL as that used back in 1995 - how many sites can you say that about?
There's smaller perks, too, like a shell account, setting up mailing lists (no ads!), and such.
So here's a big Thank You to both ibiblio.org and unc!
Cheers
Hetta