When I walk down the street I see name brand cars and named brand soda machines. In fact, the product placements were more realistic then putting in "Generic cola" machine. Agreed. When movies or TV shows go out of their way to avoid using brand names, it's distracting. When they go out of their way to linger on a shot of a billboard for no other reason than to make sure the audience pays attention to the advertisement, that's also distracting, but I didn't notice that in Transformers.
If it was enforced, sure, eventually all spammers would move to operating inside it, but until we have the will to actually enforce that law, the issue is moot. Precisely. If spammers actually started complying with CAN-SPAM, first of all they'd be easy to filter through technical means (because CAN-SPAM has easy-to-filter requirements), and then we could look at coming up with a new law to deal with what's left.
And for people who think it's a distinction without a difference, I must point out that you should complain about enforcement failures to the executive branch, and stop bothering Congress about it. Ah, but here's where you're wrong. The executive branch doesn't pursue it, because they have limited resources and bigger fish to fry - but those resources come from Congress. Write your Congresscritters and ask them to earmark funding for prosecuting CAN-SPAM offenders. That's the only way we'll see anything happen.
...wait a second. I just remembered who's in charge there. A more useful solution might be to wait until 2009. I really don't think it matters very much who the President is, in this particular case. (It matters a great deal in other cases, just not this one.)
PDF is overkill for just a portable static document. The full version of Adobe Acrobat is fantastic at creating forms. That is what makes it so special. What the hell would I want to put forms in a PDF for? If I want users to submit something, I'll make a form on a web site. Portable static documents, though, are awesome. I know PDF has some features I don't use, but nothing else beats it for things that need to be printed.
The difference being that I don't really care about the integrity and future of Livejournal. I do care about wikipedia however, because I use it. I think most people who do care about LiveJournal can see how ridiculous the parent's post is. Why can't you see how ridiculous these claims about Wikipedia are?
There's no such thing as absolute truth, but if you include every single point of view, you end up not carrying any information either. Wrong. There is such thing as absolute truth. Just because you can't prove what the truth is, doesn't mean truth doesn't exist. Either Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969 or we faked it in a movie studio; only one of these is true and the other one is absolutely false. The issue here isn't that there is no absolute truth, the issue here is that some people don't believe it. Those people are wrong.
I'd be afraid it the government starts writing more laws to do with the internet. So far, the laws they've created against spam have been meaningless, with a few exceptions. The CAN-SPAM act really isn't half as bad as Slashdotters keep whining it is. The problem isn't that the law is toothless - the problem is that the law isn't enforced. Virtually all of the spam I see is clearly illegal according to CAN-SPAM. Passing new laws to make it even more illegal won't help.
But why would the anti-spam software companies want that? If they succeed in actually eliminating spam, they'd also go out of business. It may be profitable for the spammers, but I suspect it's even more profitable for the anti-spam companies. I think the companies who are making a profit from selling anti-spam products are pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Sure, Symantec and McAfee and Barracuda would love for spam to continue to be a problem, but who cares? Think about large e-mail providers like Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Earthlink, United Online, AT&T, etc. Think about large companies who rely on e-mail internally like IBM, GE, Intel. They're a lot bigger, and they hate spam.
After years of trying Microsoft has successfully destroyed Windows Explorer. It doesn't update directory contents regularly. It doesn't have a "up one directory" button. Um, have you seen Vista's address bar? There's no up button, because you can just click on the name of the enclosing folder, or the folder above that, going up as far as you need. You can even click the triangle button thing to get a drop-down menu of subfolders. Yes, if you're used to using an up button all the time, I can see how you'd miss it, but the new way really is better, once you get used to it.
Java is completely screwed! No java 6 yet and javascript commands in safari do bizarre things sometimes like launching outside applications such as finder instead of doing what they are intended to do within the application! Leopard does not include Java 6, but neither does Tiger, so you haven't lost anything there.
Just to be clear, you're aware that Java and JavaScript have absolutely NOTHING to do with each other? JavaScript was originally going to be called LiveScript, until some marketing weenie at Netscape decided it would be better to confuse everyone.
What kinds of things are you trying to do in Safari that cause external applications to launch?
Maybe because the administrators of so many servers are morons. They either set stupid passwords for root....
Disabling direct root login via ssh, even better. I should point out that the SSH worm I've seen just sets up a spam zombie without even trying to gain root access.
or allow their users to pick easy passwords. I got bit, because I created a temporary account I had only planned to use for about an hour or so before deleting. I used the username "temp" with the password "temp123". Then I forgot to delete the account when I was done. Two weeks later my ISP forwarded me a complaint.
So yeah, don't do that... but the worm also tries a lot of other common usernames, and if you have a lot of users, some of them are likely to be valid. I have no idea what passwords it tries, but if it wasn't successful pretty often, we wouldn't have this problem.
Disabling plain-text auth is also a very good idea. Did you mean disabling password authentication? Sure, public key authentication is great, if you only have a few hosts you'll be logging in from, but if you have a lot of users or a lot of client machines, that's probably not the way to go. I suppose there are other options, but I must confess I've never used them and have no idea what the security implications would be. Does that make me a moron?
You're looking for the checkbox labeled "I am willing to help test Slashdot's New Discussion System." just above the comments on the article page. It's off by default, but you apparently checked it at one point, on your work machine. Presumably at some point they'll make it the default, with perhaps a preference option to use the old system for those who prefer it.
That's scary. For the record, I live in Oregon, and the last time I called 911 (from my non-Verizon cell phone, with no obnoxious alarm) I got an immediate response from a competent operator. At least around here, the system usually works.
This is a good scenario on how it is supposed to work, but most doctors spend so little time with a patient that they do not listen to you, they assume they are always right. It is more profitable for a doctor to kick business towards a drug company than it is to actually help cure you of what is causing your symptoms. I wish it worked as you describe. maybe there are a few doctors out there that still help people, I wish I had found one. Most tech support reps don't listen to you either, they'll just try to push you through the same series of troubleshooting steps, regardless of what you've already tried or the particulars of your situation. But above all, their first priority is to get you off the phone as quickly as possible - their boss doesn't care whether your issue is resolved or not, they only care about average call time and number of calls answered.
Did he skip the step where you have to unlock the phone first, to make it work with non-AT&T SIMs? (Note that by doing so, you risk Apple's next software update turning your phone into a brick.)
It consisted in large part of the engineers and researchers who had built the Heart of Gold - mostly humanoid, but here and there were a few reptiloid atomineers, two or three green slyph-like maximegalacticans, an octopoid physucturalist or two and a Hooloovoo (a Hooloovoo is a super-intelligent shade of the color blue). All except the Hooloovoo were resplendent in their multi-colored ceremonial lab coats; the Hooloovoo had been temporarily refracted into a free standing prism for the occasion.
uh, no, you didn't. Those weren't supposed to be literal parentheses, they were supposed to capture the [^c] so it could be included in the substitution. I think there's another way to do this without using $1, but I'm not sure what the syntax for that is.
Slackware 8.1 was officially released on June 18 2002, and is still officially supported (a security patch for CUPS was released on Nov 1 2007). I'm not sure what their policy is for when to drop support, though.
I need a quick answer to a question, and I know three people I could ask. With IM, I can see which of them is available or busy, and pick the one who's available. I ask my question, I get an answer, our conversation is done.
With e-mail, I'd have to CC my question to all three people, and one guy gets back to me right away, then another guy writes me back half an hour later, and the third guy is out sick today but checks his mail tomorrow morning and wonders if I got an answer to my question. People's time was wasted, and nobody's happy.
E-mail is great, if the subject isn't time-sensitive. When it is, IM is the best non-intrusive option.
If only they'd had the foresight to put 3G in it, you could have used your iPhone as a phone instead of an expensive, battery hungry, short on disk space iPod. You're aware that one of the reasons they chose not to support 3G yet is that doing so would have made the iPhone even more battery hungry, right?
In other languages, I think it's a matter of personal preference (and I would expect people to be thoroughly convinced that their own preference is the correct way of doing it).
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Wasn't PDF originally a subset of PostScript, designed less functionality?
...wait a second. I just remembered who's in charge there. A more useful solution might be to wait until 2009. I really don't think it matters very much who the President is, in this particular case. (It matters a great deal in other cases, just not this one.)This is precisely correct. Never forget Rule #1: spammers lie. That includes lying to their clients.
Very weird. Nothing there should ever launch the Finder for any reason. Here's a simplified version you might try, though:
javascript:location.href=%22http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:%22+escape(location.href.replace(/^http\:\/\/(.*)$/,%22$1%22));
Just to be clear, you're aware that Java and JavaScript have absolutely NOTHING to do with each other? JavaScript was originally going to be called LiveScript, until some marketing weenie at Netscape decided it would be better to confuse everyone.
What kinds of things are you trying to do in Safari that cause external applications to launch?
So yeah, don't do that... but the worm also tries a lot of other common usernames, and if you have a lot of users, some of them are likely to be valid. I have no idea what passwords it tries, but if it wasn't successful pretty often, we wouldn't have this problem. Disabling plain-text auth is also a very good idea. Did you mean disabling password authentication? Sure, public key authentication is great, if you only have a few hosts you'll be logging in from, but if you have a lot of users or a lot of client machines, that's probably not the way to go. I suppose there are other options, but I must confess I've never used them and have no idea what the security implications would be. Does that make me a moron?
You're looking for the checkbox labeled "I am willing to help test Slashdot's New Discussion System." just above the comments on the article page. It's off by default, but you apparently checked it at one point, on your work machine. Presumably at some point they'll make it the default, with perhaps a preference option to use the old system for those who prefer it.
That's scary. For the record, I live in Oregon, and the last time I called 911 (from my non-Verizon cell phone, with no obnoxious alarm) I got an immediate response from a competent operator. At least around here, the system usually works.
Did he skip the step where you have to unlock the phone first, to make it work with non-AT&T SIMs? (Note that by doing so, you risk Apple's next software update turning your phone into a brick.)
...to drum up publicity for his internet site. You mean Slashdot, right?uh, no, you didn't. Those weren't supposed to be literal parentheses, they were supposed to capture the [^c] so it could be included in the substitution. I think there's another way to do this without using $1, but I'm not sure what the syntax for that is.
Slackware 8.1 was officially released on June 18 2002, and is still officially supported (a security patch for CUPS was released on Nov 1 2007). I'm not sure what their policy is for when to drop support, though.
Status information.
I need a quick answer to a question, and I know three people I could ask. With IM, I can see which of them is available or busy, and pick the one who's available. I ask my question, I get an answer, our conversation is done.
With e-mail, I'd have to CC my question to all three people, and one guy gets back to me right away, then another guy writes me back half an hour later, and the third guy is out sick today but checks his mail tomorrow morning and wonders if I got an answer to my question. People's time was wasted, and nobody's happy.
E-mail is great, if the subject isn't time-sensitive. When it is, IM is the best non-intrusive option.
Just don't try it in Perl!
In other languages, I think it's a matter of personal preference (and I would expect people to be thoroughly convinced that their own preference is the correct way of doing it).
Small world, isn't it? :-P