It's easily the worst airport in the entire United States of America. It makes SFO look easy. Far, far overcrowded, clueless, jackbooted security, nasty CS reps, tough to get in+out, & way too many delays.
Always try for PVD if at all possible. I guarantee I'll make the 45min drive into the city before you can find your bags at BOS.
Same goes for SFO/OAK. I'm long gone before your 4hr delayed flight comes into SFO.
Your analogy is awful. You don't learn to drive on the freeway. Math students don't earn as they learn at places like NASA. You go on the freeway after you get your license. You go to work as a mathematician after you get your degree.
HTML students do not have to post their crap while they're learning for the world to see. They can learn all they want, just don't pollute the web with misinformation and valueless, emotional ramblings.
It used to be the freehosts themselves distributing spyware... some still do... visit any free page on 0catch.com for free VX2 betterinternet, epilepsy inducing banners and popups that defeat ANY blocking.
In 1992, there was more foreign investment in Russia than China. Today, China is within 5 years of surpassing the United States in GDP, while Russia continues to sink into third world status.
How did this happen? Quite simply, the corruption at every level of government AND civil society in Russia makes it impossible to set up business there. If you do, be prepared to pay taxes to the syndicates that may very well keep you on the edge of bankruptcy.
On the other hand, China makes every conceivable concession to foreign investment and extremely low taxes - whether the taxes paid to government or crime syndicates. I think it is a huge mistake for the Western economies
Do not confuse foreign restaurants and a clean tourist area with national renaissance. You can go to downtown Manila, an area called Makati and you'd think you're in Century City, with massive high rises and world class shops, but it's still the Philippines, one of the most corrupt and poor countries in the world.
Don't think I hate Russia, I love Russians and want to see a strong Russia again. But this can never take place as long as the mob controls the country's economy.
A skript kiddie from there had been pounding me for months from 68.39.149.. I've gone back and forth with Comcast but the upshot is: Pound Sand. As a result I banned his entire ip range. I had to, his password attacks were coming too fast & blocking out legit clients. This action took out 255 innocent customers of Comcast NJ - but's that's the risk of subscribing to a rogue ISP.
I agree completely, but let's not allow a runaway imagination to lead to conclusions that are just plain wrong. For instance, in stating a (possible) gas giant too close to a sun is Tattoine.
Another example was the impact the other night on Tempel 1. You needed a half-meter telescope just to see a smudge, yet people reported seeing 2mag brightening. My ccd sequence showed no brightening at all, and we were in the best position in the United States to see it.
I don't know how many people are just a little bit skeptical of all these extrasolar planetary systems. I'm not denying that planets exist and there are probably a lot of them, but to observe them directly seems like a bit of a long shot, considering their orbital planes have to be edge-on to us.
How unlikely is such an observation? Last June, the planet Venus transitted the disk of the Sun from our viewpoint. The last time this happened was in 1882. The transit lasted six hours. Mercury transits are more common, but still years apart. Yet extrasolar systems are being discovered weekly, sometimes several per week.
It seems more probable that these discoveries are based on thin evidence in order to justify grants, or, on the case of the exoplanets discovered by amateurs, an attempt to gain notoriety. And mischaracterizations such as the headline which suggests a Tattoine-like planet has been found will only lead to disappointment. Unless someone wants to write science fiction about a planet with a thousand degree mean temperature and surface gravity 10 times Earth.
REALLY... I didn't know all magazines went after your credit rating. I guess I am just another "stupid" magazine editor. We certainly don't employ this "long standing business plan," and I would be pretty "suprised" if we were to follow suit as a result of all the good publicity and increased revenue you ^H^H^H Wired are enjoying as a result of this.
Certainly you are right, however the Nazi at Wired who decided to do this must ahve graduated from the SCO School of Customer Service cum laude.
If you look over the other posts on this board, even you must come to the conclusion that Wired is losing a lot of money and subscribers together with its good will. In fact their level of stupidity on this move is stunning.
I avoid Ebay for electronics unless I absolutely cannot get it anywhere else. This is because I get slaughtered on shipping costs. One time I bought a 8gb cf card. The shipper charged $10. The $550.00 card arrived bare, in an envelope with a 37 cent stamp on it. The same thing happened with an LCD inverter card - $10 item charged $15 for shipping and it came in a paper envelope, no ASD bag or anything.
ALL the electronic sellers do this.
Lately some sellers are going for $20 per item fixed shipping costs. For a 1-lb item UPS Ground. For instance look at some USB hard drive enclosures. These would sell for $30 in the store. They are priced at $8.95 or so, but comes to $28.95 with shipping. The sellers use this method to avoid the Final Value Fee ebay charges them on the total sale.
Check out pron groups with.nospam. as part of the name. Much less spam. And Usenet is still the only place where I ^H^H my friend can reliably download theatrical movies (alt.binaries.divx).
I use a Rio Forge, which takes SD cards and runs 20 hours on one AAA battery. It is extremely lightweight & much better than banging around an Ipod in the gym.
This is easily the best setup if you travel a lot b/c there is no charger and you don't need eurpoean power converters. If your Ipod dies on the plane it kind of sucks. Why would you even want to fool with all that baggage. And these run only $100, mine was $80 after rebate.
That's really just the symptom of the rot. The energies of Western people, once devoted to creativity and productivity, are now entirely consumed in blocking maneuvers, and in trying to artificially prolong archaic business models.
This includes not just the RIAA and its byzantine royalty system, but also the ossification of manufacturing companies, which have accumulated so much pension debt that they are at the point of inviability.
Meanwhile, other nations ( I need not list either of them here) whose energies are devoted to production, will replace us as leading economies within 10 years, if not sooner.
-Scraped from www pages / blogs / guestbooks -Purchased from "opt-in" address sellers (sign up for the FREE Ipods anyone?) & other scum who promise you the world for your contact info -Poached from insiders @ ISPs (the guy who worked at AOL sold I think 70 million good addresses?) -Scraped from Usenet -Scraped from Ebay/Paypal (there are ways) -Dictionary@MajorIsp.Com -Captured and forwarded by viruses from Outlook(r) Address Books -Secretly sold to third parties by unscrupulous businesses whom you had legitimate business with
2. There is always the alternative to simply not buy. I find it increasingly funny that this case is always forgotten by so-called economists.
This is impossible, due to the structure of the RIAA business model. If you buy anything at all in this country, you are paying the RIAA. How is that? Let's say you decide to buy any item at all from a store. The store has piped in music, and has to pay ASCAP/BMI licensing to do so. A portion of your purchase goes to support the starving music execs and superstar artists. The stakes are higher when a company licenses a song. Let's say you decide to buy a Chevrolet. They used the Rolling Stones in an ad. About $50 or $60 of your purchase price goes to them even if you hate their music. Same for Jeep or Toyota or Honda, etc. etc. Even if it only amounts to a half cent or so per item, it adds up in a hurry. Because the way to truly get rich is to figure out a way to get a slice of money out of everyone, rather than trying to get a few big sales. Only the music and oil cartels have effected this. BMI/ASCAP licenses music and when it does for the purpose of piped in music, or clubs, or restaurants, the license covers the whole body of music. So you have to pay for music that you think sucks, whether you like it or not. You have to kiss the ass of artists who you hate, like Britney, or Emiminem, and there is no way to avoid it, except to leave the country.
I showed my father how to avoid Internet bullshit by installing Firefox. He likes it & has shown a couple of his friends how to do it - specifically said because Firefox unlike IE doesn't constantly bug you to install Flash with no way to forever turn it off, because "flash is nothing but ads." This from the same guy who once called them over to check out the purple gorilla bouncing all over his screen. If you need any leverage to get them to install Firefox, tell them no more free service calls for spyware picked up from IE. Take it to Geek Squad, I just don't have time in the day to do everyone's spyware removals.
I once purchased an "ebook" in this format. When their server was wack I couldn't even connect to it to read my ebook. But technology got the last laugh: I electronically reversed that purchase via a chargeback on my credit card.
Just the thought of something I purchase watching every move I make gives me the creeps.
Re:Spam with trigger words in the pictures
on
Spam Kings
·
· Score: 2, Informative
What you have to do is run a program that looks at spam a little deeper than just scanning for banned words. Windows - run SpamPal Linux - run SpamAssassin Neither of these cost anything.
They filter on regular expressions. This gets not only the keyword but all of the misspellings. It also looks for characteristics of spam, including excessive remark tags, presence of Base64 encoding, lack of a plain text section, etc. You can also set it up to look for banned spammed-URLS in the body or in the encoded section. Spam Pal renames by default the extensions of attachments that attack Windows systems. You can also set up Bayesian filtering. You can ban by country. If you really insist on never ever seeing another spam (at the cost of a few legit emails), run the blackhole filters. You can pick your blackholes. There are other options too, don't waste your time constantly fiddling with keyword filters and banning individual email addresses.
MTBF for removable media is highly susceptible to batch failure. Some lots will never fail in our lifetime, but a bad batch might delaminate in months. The first sign is a cyclic redundancy error on read - backup the whole bunch when one goes bad. What I would do is write duplicate copies to two different brands of optical media. Use a writer which has been tested to burn discs that can be read by other types of drives. Your loss percentage should be acceptably low with that method.
Here is what I have: He is running a G4 with OSX 10.2.8 He opened the email with 1.2.5 He runs Camino as a browser 1) He received an Ebay phishing email. The subject line was 'Please verify your eBay account' This email appeared similar to others received on a daily basis. 2) He opened the email, but states he entered no information, as he knew what it was. 3) He reports the screen "flashed for a second." Otherwise, the computer appeared to continue to operate normally. 4) After some time, he noticed no new emails were arriving. He knew something was up when not even spam was appearing. 5) He dialed Earthlink Customer Service, and after a couple of hours, it was determined an attacker had obtained his Earthlink account information and set up email forwarding. 6) Also, he logged into Ebay and discovered a number of auctions for high-end goods in progress under his screen name. The attacker had changed his ebay email address to the forwarded address. 7) After more bouts with Customer Service, he recovered his accounts and passwords were changed.
Slashdot Mirror
It's easily the worst airport in the entire United States of America. It makes SFO look easy. Far, far overcrowded, clueless, jackbooted security, nasty CS reps, tough to get in+out, & way too many delays.
Always try for PVD if at all possible. I guarantee I'll make the 45min drive into the city before you can find your bags at BOS.
Same goes for SFO/OAK. I'm long gone before your 4hr delayed flight comes into SFO.
Your analogy is awful. You don't learn to drive on the freeway. Math students don't earn as they learn at places like NASA. You go on the freeway after you get your license. You go to work as a mathematician after you get your degree.
HTML students do not have to post their crap while they're learning for the world to see. They can learn all they want, just don't pollute the web with misinformation and valueless, emotional ramblings.
I've always been amazed at how hard a spammer will work in order to not work.
It used to be the freehosts themselves distributing spyware... some still do... visit any free page on 0catch.com for free VX2 betterinternet, epilepsy inducing banners and popups that defeat ANY blocking.
In 1992, there was more foreign investment in Russia than China. Today, China is within 5 years of surpassing the United States in GDP, while Russia continues to sink into third world status.
How did this happen? Quite simply, the corruption at every level of government AND civil society in Russia makes it impossible to set up business there. If you do, be prepared to pay taxes to the syndicates that may very well keep you on the edge of bankruptcy.
On the other hand, China makes every conceivable concession to foreign investment and extremely low taxes - whether the taxes paid to government or crime syndicates. I think it is a huge mistake for the Western economies
Do not confuse foreign restaurants and a clean tourist area with national renaissance. You can go to downtown Manila, an area called Makati and you'd think you're in Century City, with massive high rises and world class shops, but it's still the Philippines, one of the most corrupt and poor countries in the world.
Don't think I hate Russia, I love Russians and want to see a strong Russia again. But this can never take place as long as the mob controls the country's economy.
A skript kiddie from there had been pounding me for months from 68.39.149..
I've gone back and forth with Comcast but the upshot is: Pound Sand.
As a result I banned his entire ip range. I had to, his password attacks were coming too fast & blocking out legit clients. This action took out 255 innocent customers of Comcast NJ - but's that's the risk of subscribing to a rogue ISP.
I agree completely, but let's not allow a runaway imagination to lead to conclusions that are just plain wrong. For instance, in stating a (possible) gas giant too close to a sun is Tattoine.
Another example was the impact the other night on Tempel 1. You needed a half-meter telescope just to see a smudge, yet people reported seeing 2mag brightening. My ccd sequence showed no brightening at all, and we were in the best position in the United States to see it.
I don't know how many people are just a little bit skeptical of all these extrasolar planetary systems. I'm not denying that planets exist and there are probably a lot of them, but to observe them directly seems like a bit of a long shot, considering their orbital planes have to be edge-on to us.
How unlikely is such an observation? Last June, the planet Venus transitted the disk of the Sun from our viewpoint. The last time this happened was in 1882. The transit lasted six hours. Mercury transits are more common, but still years apart. Yet extrasolar systems are being discovered weekly, sometimes several per week.
It seems more probable that these discoveries are based on thin evidence in order to justify grants, or, on the case of the exoplanets discovered by amateurs, an attempt to gain notoriety. And mischaracterizations such as the headline which suggests a Tattoine-like planet has been found will only lead to disappointment. Unless someone wants to write science fiction about a planet with a thousand degree mean temperature and surface gravity 10 times Earth.
REALLY... I didn't know all magazines went after your credit rating. I guess I am just another "stupid" magazine editor. We certainly don't employ this "long standing business plan," and I would be pretty "suprised" if we were to follow suit as a result of all the good publicity and increased revenue you ^H^H^H Wired are enjoying as a result of this.
Certainly you are right, however the Nazi at Wired who decided to do this must ahve graduated from the SCO School of Customer Service cum laude.
If you look over the other posts on this board, even you must come to the conclusion that Wired is losing a lot of money and subscribers together with its good will. In fact their level of stupidity on this move is stunning.
I avoid Ebay for electronics unless I absolutely cannot get it anywhere else. This is because I get slaughtered on shipping costs. One time I bought a 8gb cf card. The shipper charged $10. The $550.00 card arrived bare, in an envelope with a 37 cent stamp on it. The same thing happened with an LCD inverter card - $10 item charged $15 for shipping and it came in a paper envelope, no ASD bag or anything.
ALL the electronic sellers do this.
Lately some sellers are going for $20 per item fixed shipping costs. For a 1-lb item UPS Ground. For instance look at some USB hard drive enclosures. These would sell for $30 in the store. They are priced at $8.95 or so, but comes to $28.95 with shipping. The sellers use this method to avoid the Final Value Fee ebay charges them on the total sale.
Check out pron groups with .nospam. as part of the name. Much less spam. And Usenet is still the only place where I ^H^H my friend can reliably download theatrical movies (alt.binaries.divx).
I use a Rio Forge, which takes SD cards and runs 20 hours on one AAA battery. It is extremely lightweight & much better than banging around an Ipod in the gym.
This is easily the best setup if you travel a lot b/c there is no charger and you don't need eurpoean power converters. If your Ipod dies on the plane it kind of sucks. Why would you even want to fool with all that baggage. And these run only $100, mine was $80 after rebate.
It didn't say anything, a Flash page with no SKIP INTRO, as I haven't yet installed Flash on my machines, their page was blank.
upshot: no sale.
If you want to get rid of IE use Ieradicator. The publisher states it is not for use with 2000/XP, but it did for me.
Just a caveat, I ended up reinstalling IE after being unable to figure how to get Windows Update with Firefox.
That's really just the symptom of the rot. The energies of Western people, once devoted to creativity and productivity, are now entirely consumed in blocking maneuvers, and in trying to artificially prolong archaic business models.
This includes not just the RIAA and its byzantine royalty system, but also the ossification of manufacturing companies, which have accumulated so much pension debt that they are at the point of inviability.
Meanwhile, other nations ( I need not list either of them here) whose energies are devoted to production, will replace us as leading economies within 10 years, if not sooner.
If you run Outlook, the first entry in the address book should be your own address, that way you are notified when you get 0wn3d.
Here's where they get emails:
-Scraped from www pages / blogs / guestbooks
-Purchased from "opt-in" address sellers (sign up for the FREE Ipods anyone?) & other scum who promise you the world for your contact info
-Poached from insiders @ ISPs (the guy who worked at AOL sold I think 70 million good addresses?)
-Scraped from Usenet
-Scraped from Ebay/Paypal (there are ways)
-Dictionary@MajorIsp.Com
-Captured and forwarded by viruses from Outlook(r) Address Books
-Secretly sold to third parties by unscrupulous businesses whom you had legitimate business with
Generate one automagically here and see if it is accepted.
This is impossible, due to the structure of the RIAA business model. If you buy anything at all in this country, you are paying the RIAA.
How is that?
Let's say you decide to buy any item at all from a store. The store has piped in music, and has to pay ASCAP/BMI licensing to do so. A portion of your purchase goes to support the starving music execs and superstar artists.
The stakes are higher when a company licenses a song. Let's say you decide to buy a Chevrolet. They used the Rolling Stones in an ad. About $50 or $60 of your purchase price goes to them even if you hate their music. Same for Jeep or Toyota or Honda, etc. etc.
Even if it only amounts to a half cent or so per item, it adds up in a hurry. Because the way to truly get rich is to figure out a way to get a slice of money out of everyone, rather than trying to get a few big sales. Only the music and oil cartels have effected this.
BMI/ASCAP licenses music and when it does for the purpose of piped in music, or clubs, or restaurants, the license covers the whole body of music. So you have to pay for music that you think sucks, whether you like it or not. You have to kiss the ass of artists who you hate, like Britney, or Emiminem, and there is no way to avoid it, except to leave the country.
I showed my father how to avoid Internet bullshit by installing Firefox. He likes it & has shown a couple of his friends how to do it - specifically said because Firefox unlike IE doesn't constantly bug you to install Flash with no way to forever turn it off, because "flash is nothing but ads." This from the same guy who once called them over to check out the purple gorilla bouncing all over his screen.
If you need any leverage to get them to install Firefox, tell them no more free service calls for spyware picked up from IE. Take it to Geek Squad, I just don't have time in the day to do everyone's spyware removals.
Look at this ebook format:
http://www.ebookgold.com/
I once purchased an "ebook" in this format. When their server was wack I couldn't even connect to it to read my ebook. But technology got the last laugh: I electronically reversed that purchase via a chargeback on my credit card.
Just the thought of something I purchase watching every move I make gives me the creeps.
What you have to do is run a program that looks at spam a little deeper than just scanning for banned words.
Windows - run SpamPal
Linux - run SpamAssassin
Neither of these cost anything.
They filter on regular expressions. This gets not only the keyword but all of the misspellings. It also looks for characteristics of spam, including excessive remark tags, presence of Base64 encoding, lack of a plain text section, etc.
You can also set it up to look for banned spammed-URLS in the body or in the encoded section. Spam Pal renames by default the extensions of attachments that attack Windows systems.
You can also set up Bayesian filtering. You can ban by country. If you really insist on never ever seeing another spam (at the cost of a few legit emails), run the blackhole filters. You can pick your blackholes.
There are other options too, don't waste your time constantly fiddling with keyword filters and banning individual email addresses.
MTBF for removable media is highly susceptible to batch failure. Some lots will never fail in our lifetime, but a bad batch might delaminate in months. The first sign is a cyclic redundancy error on read - backup the whole bunch when one goes bad.
What I would do is write duplicate copies to two different brands of optical media. Use a writer which has been tested to burn discs that can be read by other types of drives. Your loss percentage should be acceptably low with that method.
Here is what I have:
He is running a G4 with OSX 10.2.8
He opened the email with 1.2.5
He runs Camino as a browser
1) He received an Ebay phishing email. The subject line was 'Please verify your eBay account'
This email appeared similar to others received on a daily basis.
2) He opened the email, but states he entered no information, as he knew what it was.
3) He reports the screen "flashed for a second." Otherwise, the computer appeared to continue to operate normally.
4) After some time, he noticed no new emails were arriving. He knew something was up when not even spam was appearing.
5) He dialed Earthlink Customer Service, and after a couple of hours, it was determined an attacker had obtained his Earthlink account information and set up email forwarding.
6) Also, he logged into Ebay and discovered a number of auctions for high-end goods in progress under his screen name. The attacker had changed his ebay email address to the forwarded address.
7) After more bouts with Customer Service, he recovered his accounts and passwords were changed.
Any ideas what happened?