"But if I ever got a spam that read something like "Get memory from cruical.com for 70% off", I (and I suspect many/. readers as well) would probably read it."
I wouldn't because experience tells me that "70% off!" with computer hardware tells me they are using prices from 9 months ago+.
I remember it because this was back in the day when Java was just starting to be used to replace gifs and jpgs in ad banners and before the marketeers discovered flash could be used to annoy people even more. It basically was went along the lines of "I was in charge of coding a new advertisement. Well, it was late at night and the coffee started flowing and here is the result." HP was mentioned, not blindingly annoying, but just large enough to get the point across and the majority of the banner was devoted to a little java pong game. I played with that damn thing for half an hour just because it was cool. It didn't try to annoy the fsck out of me (other than it took a minute or 2 to download on my 14.4).
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It is known that some spyware will install without the users permission by just surfing with IE. It is suspected that pages just accidently happen to use security holes in the browser or just low security settings, usually with ActiveX, to work around the problem of the browser asking the user about the install.
I can't find much on the topic, so take what I say with a grain on salt. However, I know people that actually have a clue (ie. they know IE is a flaming turd and not to trust anything it tries to install) complaining that a spyware somehow gets autoinstalled on their windows boxes by just web surfing. Gator itself does autoinstall on computers that have their IE security settings set too low and is documented on the web as doing so.
I have found AdSheild is an extremely good at defanging ads in IE. It works great when I am forced to use IE for some reason. The only problem is that it is not open source so one can't quite be sure that it doesn't come with little "extras" itself. I have found nothing that indicates it does however.
It can block banners, flash, java, auto page forwards, and spawned windows (popups/unders). One problem, it will still spawn the popup/under sometimes, but the code for the pop is replaced with a dummy page before it is loaded.
To give an anwser, sex is still illegal in Virginia, unless with your spouse and in the missionary position. No one to my knowledge actually gets convicted of it, however. Stupid laws are like an ink stain on your favorite shirt. They almost never go away completely.
Actually I do. Its great for looking up erotic fiction. Just do a search in the main engine with "site:asstr.org" as part of the query and have a ball. Then you can goto groups and look it up by doing "group:" and the group you want to search in.
" it's refreshing to see a company who is taking a more open approach rather than restrictive when dealing with its customers."
Considering how much they charge, you should be able to do pretty much any damn thing you want. It isn't like Speakeasy is trying to do 1.5mbit for $50 a month. They seem to want your personal information before telling you this on their website now. But we're talking hundreds per month for basic 1.5/1.5.
I'd gather that since running an httpd on dialup is essentially pointless to most people; and many users out there are windows users that have default installations of IIS, which are vulnerable to virus attacks, that they just blocked it to prevent port 80 attacks on their customers.
Last years was the shit. I saw it go over 4000 an hour for about 30 minutes before dawn started to break. This year I couldn't see because the damn moon and fog. Aparently it sucked this year despite predictions otherwise. Meteor shower predictions tend to be iffy.
I have experienced what it is like to get gangbanged by 1 guy with 10 different accounts when he decides to wail on my one account for some reason in a different online game.
"Rumors and speculation was sort of going around this week (directors disappearing for off-site meetings, hmmm...) . .."
I know that I am completely without proof and that this is solely opinion and conjecture based on status quo big business tactics, but... I take it these where stock selling meetings...
"Phew! Stock's sold! Now break the news to the rest of the poor saps!"
I avoid sites that use this method of marketing like the plague. And if their webmasters email address suddenly gets distributed to every major spammer on the net *cough* its not my problem. After all , the bills have to be paid and all those clock cycles used aren't free, you know. Electricity and equipment costs, plus maitences... If they don't like it they can pay _me_ a subscription fee.
Google's ads are the only ones I've voluntaraly considered and clicked on to see what the advert was about in months. Just about everyone elses get ignored. Ocassionally I'll glance at slashdot's, but thats it.
Where the hell do you get $20 month cable internet?
Its $22 here for _dialup_. 128kbit/1.5mbit cable is about $55 a month which is better than the 128/768 adsl which was the best solution in city until around 3 months ago at $92 a month.
Umm...I'd love to say, but I don't want the auctions I go to to get slashdotted.
X_X
Anyway, you'd have to be lucky enough to go when the asshole that buys all the network shit for 2x what he can get it on ebay for isn't there. I've also seen AUI to fiber modules sell for about a buck a piece for a box full and recently some blade rackmount ethernet switches with a 2 strand fiber port on them going.
To not completely leave you hanging. Check your state governments webite for a surplus department. That department should be able to let you know of any auctions the schools and state agencies are having.
"What, you think when someone goes out of business they just lock the doors and walk away, leaving a building full of inventory, office furniture, and whatever intact?"
Uhh..coulda fooled me.;P One of the local ISPs went 7 and their store still had new computer parts and the HDSL interface cards where still going months later when the property owner threw the stuff out. Luckily one of the cleanup workers realized that at least the DSL equipment was worth something and saved it from the dumpster.
I keep seeing people saying, "Yeah, there is lots of fiber laid but its too expensive to lite." I just saw 2 working 24 x 100mbit ethernet -> OC3 programmable hubs go for $45 each at a state surplus auction. How much does it cost to rent a closet in some commercial building that happens to be near a backbone? I bet I could easily make the closet rent + electricity + maitenence back just by selling service to the local isps here stuck on 7 T1's and then some. I smell something fowl, and I don't think its me.
Or you could just mine all that methane-water ice stuff at the bottom of the ocean. It can rapidly into regular methane and water with a decrease in pressure and heat.
I still say that given similar financial reserves, the corporation would win because it has more power than a single richy. 100,000 pissed shareholders + plus board + owner(s) + employees + management make alot more noise than a 1 guy(or gal) even with a fat wad to burn.
Its not those kinda cops we're worried about. Its the sadist assholes that like to occasionally ream people to get a kick out of it. Then there are occasionally the ones that do it to gain even more power. People doing their job? Cool. People on a power trip, fuck'em, regardless of the title of their position of power.
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"But if I ever got a spam that read something like "Get memory from cruical.com for 70% off", I (and I suspect many /. readers as well) would probably read it."
I wouldn't because experience tells me that "70% off!" with computer hardware tells me they are using prices from 9 months ago+.
I remember it because this was back in the day when Java was just starting to be used to replace gifs and jpgs in ad banners and before the marketeers discovered flash could be used to annoy people even more. It basically was went along the lines of "I was in charge of coding a new advertisement. Well, it was late at night and the coffee started flowing and here is the result." HP was mentioned, not blindingly annoying, but just large enough to get the point across and the majority of the banner was devoted to a little java pong game. I played with that damn thing for half an hour just because it was cool. It didn't try to annoy the fsck out of me (other than it took a minute or 2 to download on my 14.4).
It is known that some spyware will install without the users permission by just surfing with IE. It is suspected that pages just accidently happen to use security holes in the browser or just low security settings, usually with ActiveX, to work around the problem of the browser asking the user about the install.
I can't find much on the topic, so take what I say with a grain on salt. However, I know people that actually have a clue (ie. they know IE is a flaming turd and not to trust anything it tries to install) complaining that a spyware somehow gets autoinstalled on their windows boxes by just web surfing.
Gator itself does autoinstall on computers that have their IE security settings set too low and is documented on the web as doing so.
I have found AdSheild is an extremely good at defanging ads in IE. It works great when I am forced to use IE for some reason. The only problem is that it is not open source so one can't quite be sure that it doesn't come with little "extras" itself. I have found nothing that indicates it does however.
It can block banners, flash, java, auto page forwards, and spawned windows (popups/unders). One problem, it will still spawn the popup/under sometimes, but the code for the pop is replaced with a dummy page before it is loaded.
To give an anwser, sex is still illegal in Virginia, unless with your spouse and in the missionary position. No one to my knowledge actually gets convicted of it, however. Stupid laws are like an ink stain on your favorite shirt. They almost never go away completely.
Actually I do. Its great for looking up erotic fiction. Just do a search in the main engine with "site:asstr.org" as part of the query and have a ball. Then you can goto groups and look it up by doing "group:" and the group you want to search in.
" it's refreshing to see a company who is taking a more open approach rather than restrictive when dealing with its customers."
Considering how much they charge, you should be able to do pretty much any damn thing you want. It isn't like Speakeasy is trying to do 1.5mbit for $50 a month. They seem to want your personal information before telling you this on their website now. But we're talking hundreds per month for basic 1.5/1.5.
I'd gather that since running an httpd on dialup is essentially pointless to most people; and many users out there are windows users that have default installations of IIS, which are vulnerable to virus attacks, that they just blocked it to prevent port 80 attacks on their customers.
Last years was the shit. I saw it go over 4000 an hour for about 30 minutes before dawn started to break. This year I couldn't see because the damn moon and fog. Aparently it sucked this year despite predictions otherwise. Meteor shower predictions tend to be iffy.
I have experienced what it is like to get gangbanged by 1 guy with 10 different accounts when he decides to wail on my one account for some reason in a different online game.
"Rumors and speculation was sort of going around this week (directors disappearing for off-site meetings, hmmm...) . . ."
I know that I am completely without proof and that this is solely opinion and conjecture based on status quo big business tactics, but... I take it these where stock selling meetings...
"Phew! Stock's sold! Now break the news to the rest of the poor saps!"
You can change the charges in mid trial? Smells like BS. I can't quite place why. But it smells fowl.
I avoid sites that use this method of marketing like the plague. And if their webmasters email address suddenly gets distributed to every major spammer on the net *cough* its not my problem. After all , the bills have to be paid and all those clock cycles used aren't free, you know. Electricity and equipment costs, plus maitences... If they don't like it they can pay _me_ a subscription fee.
Google's ads are the only ones I've voluntaraly considered and clicked on to see what the advert was about in months. Just about everyone elses get ignored. Ocassionally I'll glance at slashdot's, but thats it.
Where the hell do you get $20 month cable internet?
Its $22 here for _dialup_. 128kbit/1.5mbit cable is about $55 a month which is better than the 128/768 adsl which was the best solution in city until around 3 months ago at $92 a month.
Umm...I'd love to say, but I don't want the auctions I go to to get slashdotted.
X_X
Anyway, you'd have to be lucky enough to go when the asshole that buys all the network shit for 2x what he can get it on ebay for isn't there. I've also seen AUI to fiber modules sell for about a buck a piece for a box full and recently some blade rackmount ethernet switches with a 2 strand fiber port on them going.
To not completely leave you hanging. Check your state governments webite for a surplus department. That department should be able to let you know of any auctions the schools and state agencies are having.
"What, you think when someone goes out of business they just lock the doors and walk away, leaving a building full of inventory, office furniture, and whatever intact?"
;P One of the local ISPs went 7 and their store still had new computer parts and the HDSL interface cards where still going months later when the property owner threw the stuff out. Luckily one of the cleanup workers realized that at least the DSL equipment was worth something and saved it from the dumpster.
Uhh..coulda fooled me.
I keep seeing people saying, "Yeah, there is lots of fiber laid but its too expensive to lite." I just saw 2 working 24 x 100mbit ethernet -> OC3 programmable hubs go for $45 each at a state surplus auction. How much does it cost to rent a closet in some commercial building that happens to be near a backbone? I bet I could easily make the closet rent + electricity + maitenence back just by selling service to the local isps here stuck on 7 T1's and then some. I smell something fowl, and I don't think its me.
My Karma is gonna burn for being OT but...
What is it like over there in Beirut? I am curious because all we get over here in the US is what is filtered down to us peons through mass media.
Or you could just mine all that methane-water ice stuff at the bottom of the ocean. It can rapidly into regular methane and water with a decrease in pressure and heat.
I still say that given similar financial reserves, the corporation would win because it has more power than a single richy. 100,000 pissed shareholders + plus board + owner(s) + employees + management make alot more noise than a 1 guy(or gal) even with a fat wad to burn.
As long as its not American:
"Guilty by reason of pissed corporation."
Its not those kinda cops we're worried about. Its the sadist assholes that like to occasionally ream people to get a kick out of it. Then there are occasionally the ones that do it to gain even more power. People doing their job? Cool. People on a power trip, fuck'em, regardless of the title of their position of power.
Others are going off over their hypothetical .nz's, here is mine.
por.nz
Talk about get rich quick...
Amendum:
Legal is not necessarily good.
Illegal is not necessarily bad.
I keep running into people that assume if its illegal then it is wrong, immoral, evil, etc without thinking about it.
Just because a corporation says, does not mean you have to abide.
Just because the government says, does not make it right.