You know, there is a concept here. "STOP SPAM FOREVER IN TWO EASY STEPS:
enter your email adress HERE
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This is the BEST, FOOLPROOF way to NOT GIVE YOUR ADDRESS AWAY!!"
FWIW, I've not had any spam show up as a result of using an online email-address obfuscator. That said, I went ahead and threw together a little program when I had a bunch of addresses to munge:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int i, j;
for (i=1; i<argc; i++)
{
for (j=0; j<strlen(argv[i]); j++)
printf("&#%d;",argv[i][j]);
actualy it's not a new tax, most states have a sales/use tax and if you buy something where the sales/use tax isn't collected for you by the bussiness, your supposed to pay them yourself, usualy on your state income tax form
What is this "state income tax form" of which you speak?
(I'm guessing there's some other process by which Nevada tries to collect use tax, since we don't have a state income tax here. I've not bothered tracking it down, though, and I don't know of anyone else who has.)
Aimed at programmers who don't know much about user interface design and think it is something to fear
I don't think people necessarily fear UI design so much as they see it as just so much scut work that needs to be done. It tends to be a pain in the ass to get all of the widgets lined up nicely and controlling the bits of your program that they're supposed to control. A decent IDE helps lessen the pain somewhat, but it's still not as fun as coding the parts of your program that get the real work done.
angry students who were finding that their $150 Accounting 101 book became worthless after the sememster was over.
"Worthless"? Surely you meant "not resalable to next year's students".
A book's worth should be measured by its information content. If the knowledge a class presents is worth your spending $3000 in tuition, surely the keeping the textbook is worth more than the $50 you'd get selling it used.
It depends on the subject matter. While I kept all (or nearly all) of my computer-science textbooks, I got rid of most books in every other subject (all the books they'd buy back, at least). While I've occasionally referred to CS texts in my work, I don't think I'd have much ongoing use for books on (for instance) macroeconomics or sociology. They might've been interesting to thumb through at some future date, but the $$$ recovered was more useful at the time.
Well if learning is your goal, your local public college is the place. the library is typically open past 1am, and unless you want to take books with you, is free to non-students.
Some university libraries (such as this one) allow non-students to check out materials...typically under more restrictive terms (2 weeks at a time with only one or two consective renewals, vs. 3 weeks at a time and unlimited renewals), but you can't have everything. There's definitely much more useful material in there than in the public libraries, which seem to be more about fancy buildings, art displays, etc. than books these days. (And they wonder why citizens keep voting down tax increases and bond issues that would increase library funding...)
...and Nero is an exception. I think this has to do with the dll files they are relying upon. Sorry but this is the direction things are going in...
I doubt Nero is the only exception...didn't try cdrecord, but it should work.
FWIW, I just tried burning some MP3s in WMP9 (first time ever). The first time through, it didn't work...probably had something to do with my having turned off the built-in CD-burning capability. Turning that back on and giving it a blank CD-RW let it put an album's worth of MP3s on a CD. The process was a bit slower than Nero, but it worked just fine--no DRM roadblocks.
I hate to disappoint you, but sometimes there really isn't a conspiracy around every corner.
Incidentally, I can burn music CDs on Windows 2000 only because I figured out which update blocks it: Windows Media Player. Honestly I didn't read the EULA, but basically now I won't install wmp 7.1 or later.
I don't normally go out of my way to keep Windows Media Player up to date (it mainly gets used to preview AVIs I'm editing), but I have WMP 9 on one of my home machines...the one that burned the CD from MP3s last night.
Anyway, I guess now that I think about it, you're right in as far as this probably isn't a music copying issue as much as it is an attempt to do away with Roxio... under the guise of copyright protection it would be hard to punish.
Given that Roxio's CD-burning software hasn't been all that hot since version 4.something, maybe that's a Good Thing. (That's why you almost always see Nero bundled with CD and DVD burners now, instead of ECDC.)
[H]ave you tried burning music files on Windows? I did, and so far they have at least blocked me from burning mp3 files to CD format through Windows--even when I used non-MS software. Basically the operating system blocked it by checking to see if the file was licensed first.
WTF are you talking about? You create a new audio CD layout in Nero, you drag your MP3s onto it, you put in a blank disc, click "burn," and wait. If you're going to troll, it would help if there was at least a small grain of truth to what you post.
The audio CD-R I burned from MP3s a couple of hours ago calls "bullshit" on your post. (I even did this on a WinXP SP1 system, which is allegedly the most evil of them all.)
For that matter, raise your hand if you know what a bang-path address is.
An address that never worked when I tried sending mail to it.:-| I had better luck sending mail to Fidonet nodes than to anybody with a bang-path address. (This would've been from 1989 onward...by that time, most people already had what we'd now consider normal email addresses.)
You mean creating a distributed RBL list? That might work and would alleviate some of the problems with DDOS attacks, but Distributed.net and SETI@Home technologies are really designed for distributed _processing_, and RBLs are just not that processer intensive.
Maybe not...but something like RAID (or Linus' comments on making backups:-) ) would be a better analogy. By setting up each participating mail server as an RBL server and using some software at each mail server to make sure changes to the list get replicated across the Internet, you create a huge amount of redundancy. Spammers can DDoS one or two RBL servers...but can they DDoS thousands of servers?
How many geeks themselves use a DVORAK keyboard? Myself, I've never seen one in person, let alone used one.
The Apple IIc had a switch on it to kick its keyboard into Dvorak mode...presumably, the keycaps could be pulled off and shuffled around if that's what you wanted to use. Other than that, I've run across bugger-all since that uses Dvorak.
If I were so inclined, I could pull off and shuffle the keycaps on the IBM Model M I'm using right now...but I'm not about to take the huge hit in typing speed that a switch away from QWERTY would entail.
"Why not just encode it at 384 and be done with it?", consider that PDAs have 64 megs of RAM
Memory cards are cheap...get yourself a 256- or 512-meg card and throw your music onto that. 256 megs in a Tungsten T with AeroPlayer and some 160-192 kbps MP3s will make the trip from Las Vegas to Phoenix without repeating. For the return trip, I copy a different set of MP3s over from my notebook.
And I hate those stupid thumbpads and twizzle sticks on laptops too. Put a damn trackball down in the lower right
Trackballs suck...your thumb is usually nowhere near as accurate at positioning stuff as your fingers. (Why else would the only thing your thumb hits on a keyboard be the spacebar--the largest key?) Trackpads and TrackPoints aren't quite as easy to use as a mouse, but either is a big improvement over a trackball.
I hacked together a couple of shell scripts that work with qmail (with the qmailqueue patch) to check the originating IP of incoming email against a list of infected IPs. Mail from a listed IP is bounced; the rest is let through. If anyone's interested, it's at http://alfter.us/files/qmail-ipblock-0.1.tar.gz.
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FWIW, I've not had any spam show up as a result of using an online email-address obfuscator. That said, I went ahead and threw together a little program when I had a bunch of addresses to munge:
#include <stdio.h>
}#include <string.h>
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
return 0;
}
"Homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck species." WhoTF came up with the idea to study this?
What is this "state income tax form" of which you speak?
(I'm guessing there's some other process by which Nevada tries to collect use tax, since we don't have a state income tax here. I've not bothered tracking it down, though, and I don't know of anyone else who has.)
I don't think people necessarily fear UI design so much as they see it as just so much scut work that needs to be done. It tends to be a pain in the ass to get all of the widgets lined up nicely and controlling the bits of your program that they're supposed to control. A decent IDE helps lessen the pain somewhat, but it's still not as fun as coding the parts of your program that get the real work done.
It depends on the subject matter. While I kept all (or nearly all) of my computer-science textbooks, I got rid of most books in every other subject (all the books they'd buy back, at least). While I've occasionally referred to CS texts in my work, I don't think I'd have much ongoing use for books on (for instance) macroeconomics or sociology. They might've been interesting to thumb through at some future date, but the $$$ recovered was more useful at the time.
Some university libraries (such as this one) allow non-students to check out materials...typically under more restrictive terms (2 weeks at a time with only one or two consective renewals, vs. 3 weeks at a time and unlimited renewals), but you can't have everything. There's definitely much more useful material in there than in the public libraries, which seem to be more about fancy buildings, art displays, etc. than books these days. (And they wonder why citizens keep voting down tax increases and bond issues that would increase library funding...)
Ditto for emerge...though you might need to specify the 0.9.6k ebuild manually.
I doubt Nero is the only exception...didn't try cdrecord, but it should work.
FWIW, I just tried burning some MP3s in WMP9 (first time ever). The first time through, it didn't work...probably had something to do with my having turned off the built-in CD-burning capability. Turning that back on and giving it a blank CD-RW let it put an album's worth of MP3s on a CD. The process was a bit slower than Nero, but it worked just fine--no DRM roadblocks.
I hate to disappoint you, but sometimes there really isn't a conspiracy around every corner.
I don't normally go out of my way to keep Windows Media Player up to date (it mainly gets used to preview AVIs I'm editing), but I have WMP 9 on one of my home machines...the one that burned the CD from MP3s last night.
Given that Roxio's CD-burning software hasn't been all that hot since version 4.something, maybe that's a Good Thing. (That's why you almost always see Nero bundled with CD and DVD burners now, instead of ECDC.)
WTF are you talking about? You create a new audio CD layout in Nero, you drag your MP3s onto it, you put in a blank disc, click "burn," and wait. If you're going to troll, it would help if there was at least a small grain of truth to what you post.
The audio CD-R I burned from MP3s a couple of hours ago calls "bullshit" on your post. (I even did this on a WinXP SP1 system, which is allegedly the most evil of them all.)
An address that never worked when I tried sending mail to it. :-| I had better luck sending mail to Fidonet nodes than to anybody with a bang-path address. (This would've been from 1989 onward...by that time, most people already had what we'd now consider normal email addresses.)
Someone's obviously never heard of ASCII pr0n...
Maybe not...but something like RAID (or Linus' comments on making backups :-) ) would be a better analogy. By setting up each participating mail server as an RBL server and using some software at each mail server to make sure changes to the list get replicated across the Internet, you create a huge amount of redundancy. Spammers can DDoS one or two RBL servers...but can they DDoS thousands of servers?
The Apple IIc had a switch on it to kick its keyboard into Dvorak mode...presumably, the keycaps could be pulled off and shuffled around if that's what you wanted to use. Other than that, I've run across bugger-all since that uses Dvorak.
If I were so inclined, I could pull off and shuffle the keycaps on the IBM Model M I'm using right now...but I'm not about to take the huge hit in typing speed that a switch away from QWERTY would entail.
emerge sync && emerge -uU openssh && /etc/init.d/sshd restart would be shorter and would do what you want.
Memory cards are cheap...get yourself a 256- or 512-meg card and throw your music onto that. 256 megs in a Tungsten T with AeroPlayer and some 160-192 kbps MP3s will make the trip from Las Vegas to Phoenix without repeating. For the return trip, I copy a different set of MP3s over from my notebook.
YHBT (presumably by one of those Dvorak freaks). YHL. HAND.
Trackballs suck...your thumb is usually nowhere near as accurate at positioning stuff as your fingers. (Why else would the only thing your thumb hits on a keyboard be the spacebar--the largest key?) Trackpads and TrackPoints aren't quite as easy to use as a mouse, but either is a big improvement over a trackball.
Go away, or I shall taunt you a sec...oh wait, that's obviously your line.
Schmuck.
I hacked together a couple of shell scripts that work with qmail (with the qmailqueue patch) to check the originating IP of incoming email against a list of infected IPs. Mail from a listed IP is bounced; the rest is let through. If anyone's interested, it's at http://alfter.us/files/qmail-ipblock-0.1.tar.gz.
Yes. The poster before me asserted, though, that an old-skool computer advertised as having 64K of RAM had 65536 bits of memory, which is incorrect.
65536 bytes, not bits...65536 bits would be 8K.