Why type it up and hit send when you can speak into a mic and hit send?
Because:
with some practice most people can type faster that they can talk
everyone can read much faster than talking speed
you can't skim through the bullshit and get to the point
you can't search through an archive of voicemail (not easily yet)
Voicemail has been around longer than email, but it has hardly ever been used for more than "This is Jack, call me when you're back".
Re:ET Isn't the Only Unusual Phenomenon Going On H
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A Google search for "Denise M. Clark" [google.com] yields 10 pages of hits, most being book reviews of various types
Well, one of these is her website,, ("The on-line home of author/reviewer Denise M. Clark -- If you love action in your romance, this is the place for you!") where you find she has some kind of "editorial services" in that you can get her or her friends to review your book.
And an article on the book is at an even weirder site, weeklyuniverse.com, with some extracts on how aliens genetically engineered Cromagnons. (They must have, because there is no missing link!).
Scientific proof of whether distant life forms and existence are legitimate is yet another bone of contention between UFOlogists and skeptics alike,
A bone of contention, in that there isn't any. As Sagan said, all it takes to prove this is one artifact -- doesn't even have to be magical hi-tech, just having a different isotopic balance than terrestrial would be proof of extra-terrestrial origin. But in the thousands of claimed "contacts", not one single artifact has been left -- not an alien cigarette butt or Coke can. It's obviously a massive conspiracy.
Fucking kooks like this is why real SETI gets such a bad rap.
As far as I'm concerned, anything that ends with.com _should_ indicate that the domain is a company! I feel that it's just plain wrong for personal websites to be setup in the.com TLD.
Unfortuantely, there isn't yet a "personal website" TLD. ORG and NET are just as inappropriate. And a person may well have commercial sections on his personal page, or it may evolve into that and it would be inconvenient to have to change the URL.
These anti-spam nuts are beginning to act a lot like the anti-abortion nuts. Posting personal information about spammers online, making threats against them.
Obviously this could go too far. But part of the anger people feel against spammers is because of the feeling that your personal space and privacy is violated by spammers dumping stupid and offensive messages in your personal email. It seems appropriate to fight back by giving the spammers a taste of having their privacy and communications violated. (Of course this isn't at all an argument that would fly in court.)
I hate to argue on principle, but I forgot about this whole thing and when I went looking for the official Nissan 350Z page three days ago, I typed in nissan.com. Upon which I remembered and tried nissan- motors.com, which also does not belong to Nissan Motors. Finally, I found nissanmotors.com. I know, I could have used Google, but my habit is typing in URLS if they are familiar.
Your principle being that domain names should be given to the party having the greatest public name recognition?
Case in point...it does sort of hijack Nissan's name.
Hmm, you can't really use it to get leads either. Any evidence that comes from inadmissable evidence is inadmissable itself.
No. Any evidence that comes from illegally obtained evidence poisons anything derived from that. Much of the evidence gathered by investigators would not be admissable in court, but gives a clue as to where to look for admissible evidence. Even asking a psychic for a clue would be fine, if it lead to finding, say, the murder weapon, though of course the psychic's testimony would not be evidence at all.
I was thinking of the front page only. But 10 or 50, it makes no difference to my point. It's a tiny amount of data.
Dolt? FOAD.
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Not to mention its 'pleasance,' not pleasaunce.. but then, its fantasy.
That was from a quote by JRRT. And it's a real word, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as a variant of "pleasance". He did, recall, have a day job as a professor of mediaeval languages, and was an expert in old English and Norse languages. Be very sure before you try to correct him.
2) A small group of daily readers is assembled, whose job is to check stories for possible dupes before they get posted on the main page.
Actually, seeing the complexity of the system they've built already, it would be ABSOLUTELY TRIVIAL TO WRITE A SCRIPT TO DETECT DUPES. The site posts no more than 10 stories a day, that's hardly an overwhemlming amount of data to work with. Start by comparing cited URLs. That'd find 50% of the dupes right away. The rest might be found by (as the editors can't be fucked to scan the list of stories using thei own eyes) running them by news.google and seeing if they come up with any others under the same heading.
A solution to Slashdot's increasing lack of professionalism would be easy. And it's well past time.
Too right. And Taco's "oops, duplicate. Oh well. It's still good" is just insulting to the readers and shows he needs a long holiday, or maybe it's time for him to move on.
NASA Considers Abandoning ISS
Posted by michael on Thursday November 28, @12:13AM
from the okay-who-took-my-parachute dept.
mbstone writes "MSNBC is reporting that NASA is threatening to mothball the International Space Station unless Russia coughs up its share of the money for maintenance and support missions. NASA is now making "contingency plans" to leave the station unoccupied for as long as a year. What I want to know is, why a contingency plan? Didn't NASA already have a plan in place? Are U.S. taxpayers going to pay millions extra to develop new mothballing equipment and procedures that could have been designed-in at far less cost?? Also, I would be glad to house-sit, I use very little oxygen."
What about the former criminal who's done his/her time and gone straight? Will they be marked for life because of some absurd TIA system? Will they have to wear a big C on their chest?
Well, Poindexter doesn't seem to have been disadvantaged by his criminal past.
Try viewing "all posts" and see what garbage is posted (the FPs, goatse.cx, etc). I do appreciate a system that lets you choose not to drink the bilge water.
They have to check all the submitted pages, not just the ones that end up on the site.
No they don't; they only have to scan through the submissions (missing important submissions is a whole other story). Once they decide on a story to publish, that's the only one that needs to be checked. And since, as I mentioned, each editor only does a handful of such stories a day, this amounts to checking less than one page of text per day.
I once worked as an editor on a news site; I had to check, revise and upload an average of 80 pieces a day (from a few paragraphs to a few pages in length), some of which were poorly translated from Chinese, and so I'm not impressed with the professionalism of Slashdot which has about 1000 times the audience of the pissy little site I had. The editors here are salaried, this isn't some fan site a teenager puts up.
I respect the technical aspects of the massive load the system handles, even the moderation system that keeps the moronic posters down, but the simplest, primary thing is the quality of the text, and this is inexcusably bad; as is the fatuous repetition of stories which could be prevented by simple technical solutions, or just glancing at a list of stories recently published.
So what's keeping them from adopting a simple technological measure to improve the quality of their site?
What's keeping them from spellchecking? What's keeping them from seeing if the links posted are valid, let alone relevant?
After all, each "editor" must post three or even four paragraphs of text a day. Would it kill them to check it? Obviously, the answer is they don't give a fuck.
Actually, Mad Max 2 (a.k.a The Road Warrior) was in the Australian accent. Mad Max (1) was dubbed with the American accent...until the Special Edition DVD came out.
Of course Mad Max, as it was released in Australia, was in Australian. IIIRC, it was released for the drive-in circuit in the US, and they thought rednecks needed to have it dubbed into yank, and retitled ("Road Warrior") so as to make it more easily digestible.
When in Hong Kong I saw it on TV I was gobsmacked. Most of the cast are well-known Aussie character actors, and to hear some American voice-over artist messing up their delivery was painful and humiliating.
Back in 1977 we played Trek with a keyboard and a dotmatrix printer (connected to the Unix mainframe). You had to type "s" (or something...) to print out a "short range scan" to see where the Klingons were.
Another workaround:
Can you force it to use your SMTP server of choice? Look in the exe and its other files for a string that looks like a mail server, (say smtp.quickbooks.com). If you find that, go to your hosts file and make a line
smtp.quickbooks.com aa.bb.cc.dd
where aa.bb.cc.dd is the IP of the mailserver you want to use (eg on your ISP). No guarantee but worth a try. If it really is SMTP, then the commands to send should be universal.
Otherwise, as the above poster, create a PDF and email it yourself -- there are free ways. It's not difficult to work out automated methods if you have any volume.
Hurry and click on one, and get your 2 cents worth
Actually, $500 worth:
The Complaint asks the Spokane County Superior Court to award punitive damages against Bonzi in the amount of $500 per class member, as well as compensatory damages in the amount of $5.00 per deceptive advertising banner issued by Bonzi. The Complaint also seeks an order enjoining Bonzi from issuing similar Internet advertising banners in the future.
Making it illegal would have a very small effect, in my opinion.
If the spammer actually wants to receive money, he has to give a way to contact him. So it doesn't matter what the headers of his email say, just read the crap in the body, find his address/phone/fax/website and track him from that. The authorities could do that now if they wanted to, it's just that each case is below whatever threshold they have for taking actuion. But as Giuiliano's "zero-tolerance" policy of prosecuting minor street crime did work, so would making an example of some spammers. Very rapidly all those based in the US (which I believe is most) would chicken out.
fully recommend myrealbox.com, it is run by novell, absolutely will not spam you,
Until a few weeks ago, I would have agreed, but now I'm regularly getting spam like
From: Wealth Creation & Preservation
Subject: Please Confirm Your Order
Since I've only ever given this to one or two trustworthy people, I suspect it's been just guessed as I used simply my surname (I was pleased not to have to be Smith7799089 as on larger services).
I highly
recommend the two books about "the boy who
bought Earth".
That was reworked in several versions. I read it as Norstrilia. See cordwainer-smith.com, a site by his daughter, which has a comprehensive bibliography.
Slashdot Mirror
Because:
- with some practice most people can type faster that they can talk
- everyone can read much faster than talking speed
- you can't skim through the bullshit and get to the point
- you can't search through an archive of voicemail (not easily yet)
Voicemail has been around longer than email, but it has hardly ever been used for more than "This is Jack, call me when you're back".Well, one of these is her website,, ("The on-line home of author/reviewer Denise M. Clark -- If you love action in your romance, this is the place for you!") where you find she has some kind of "editorial services" in that you can get her or her friends to review your book.
And an article on the book is at an even weirder site, weeklyuniverse.com, with some extracts on how aliens genetically engineered Cromagnons. (They must have, because there is no missing link!).
A bone of contention, in that there isn't any. As Sagan said, all it takes to prove this is one artifact -- doesn't even have to be magical hi-tech, just having a different isotopic balance than terrestrial would be proof of extra-terrestrial origin. But in the thousands of claimed "contacts", not one single artifact has been left -- not an alien cigarette butt or Coke can. It's obviously a massive conspiracy.
Fucking kooks like this is why real SETI gets such a bad rap.
Unfortuantely, there isn't yet a "personal website" TLD. ORG and NET are just as inappropriate. And a person may well have commercial sections on his personal page, or it may evolve into that and it would be inconvenient to have to change the URL.
Obviously this could go too far. But part of the anger people feel against spammers is because of the feeling that your personal space and privacy is violated by spammers dumping stupid and offensive messages in your personal email. It seems appropriate to fight back by giving the spammers a taste of having their privacy and communications violated. (Of course this isn't at all an argument that would fly in court.)
Your principle being that domain names should be given to the party having the greatest public name recognition?
Case in point...it does sort of hijack Nissan's name.
Yes, it hijacks Mr Nissan's name.
No. Any evidence that comes from illegally obtained evidence poisons anything derived from that. Much of the evidence gathered by investigators would not be admissable in court, but gives a clue as to where to look for admissible evidence. Even asking a psychic for a clue would be fine, if it lead to finding, say, the murder weapon, though of course the psychic's testimony would not be evidence at all.
(No, I don't believe in psychics.)
Sorry, that should have been "medireview".
I was thinking of the front page only. But 10 or 50, it makes no difference to my point. It's a tiny amount of data.
Dolt? FOAD.
That was from a quote by JRRT. And it's a real word, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as a variant of "pleasance". He did, recall, have a day job as a professor of mediaeval languages, and was an expert in old English and Norse languages. Be very sure before you try to correct him.
Actually, seeing the complexity of the system they've built already, it would be ABSOLUTELY TRIVIAL TO WRITE A SCRIPT TO DETECT DUPES. The site posts no more than 10 stories a day, that's hardly an overwhemlming amount of data to work with. Start by comparing cited URLs. That'd find 50% of the dupes right away. The rest might be found by (as the editors can't be fucked to scan the list of stories using thei own eyes) running them by news.google and seeing if they come up with any others under the same heading.
A solution to Slashdot's increasing lack of professionalism would be easy. And it's well past time.
Too right. And Taco's "oops, duplicate. Oh well. It's still good" is just insulting to the readers and shows he needs a long holiday, or maybe it's time for him to move on.
And it was on the front page of Slashdot on the 28th Nov, citing the same MSNBC article.
" NASA Considers Abandoning ISS
On Thursday November 28, @12:13AM with 543 comments..."
NASA Considers Abandoning ISS
Posted by michael on Thursday November 28, @12:13AM
from the okay-who-took-my-parachute dept. mbstone writes "MSNBC is reporting that NASA is threatening to mothball the International Space Station unless Russia coughs up its share of the money for maintenance and support missions. NASA is now making "contingency plans" to leave the station unoccupied for as long as a year. What I want to know is, why a contingency plan? Didn't NASA already have a plan in place? Are U.S. taxpayers going to pay millions extra to develop new mothballing equipment and procedures that could have been designed-in at far less cost?? Also, I would be glad to house-sit, I use very little oxygen."
Well, Poindexter doesn't seem to have been disadvantaged by his criminal past.
Try viewing "all posts" and see what garbage is posted (the FPs, goatse.cx, etc). I do appreciate a system that lets you choose not to drink the bilge water.
No they don't; they only have to scan through the submissions (missing important submissions is a whole other story). Once they decide on a story to publish, that's the only one that needs to be checked. And since, as I mentioned, each editor only does a handful of such stories a day, this amounts to checking less than one page of text per day.
I once worked as an editor on a news site; I had to check, revise and upload an average of 80 pieces a day (from a few paragraphs to a few pages in length), some of which were poorly translated from Chinese, and so I'm not impressed with the professionalism of Slashdot which has about 1000 times the audience of the pissy little site I had. The editors here are salaried, this isn't some fan site a teenager puts up.
I respect the technical aspects of the massive load the system handles, even the moderation system that keeps the moronic posters down, but the simplest, primary thing is the quality of the text, and this is inexcusably bad; as is the fatuous repetition of stories which could be prevented by simple technical solutions, or just glancing at a list of stories recently published.
What's keeping them from spellchecking? What's keeping them from seeing if the links posted are valid, let alone relevant?
After all, each "editor" must post three or even four paragraphs of text a day. Would it kill them to check it? Obviously, the answer is they don't give a fuck.
Of course Mad Max, as it was released in Australia, was in Australian. IIIRC, it was released for the drive-in circuit in the US, and they thought rednecks needed to have it dubbed into yank, and retitled ("Road Warrior") so as to make it more easily digestible.
When in Hong Kong I saw it on TV I was gobsmacked. Most of the cast are well-known Aussie character actors, and to hear some American voice-over artist messing up their delivery was painful and humiliating.
Back in 1977 we played Trek with a keyboard and a dotmatrix printer (connected to the Unix mainframe). You had to type "s" (or something...) to print out a "short range scan" to see where the Klingons were.
Can you force it to use your SMTP server of choice? Look in the exe and its other files for a string that looks like a mail server, (say smtp.quickbooks.com). If you find that, go to your hosts file and make a line
smtp.quickbooks.com aa.bb.cc.dd
where aa.bb.cc.dd is the IP of the mailserver you want to use (eg on your ISP). No guarantee but worth a try. If it really is SMTP, then the commands to send should be universal.
Otherwise, as the above poster, create a PDF and email it yourself -- there are free ways. It's not difficult to work out automated methods if you have any volume.
No he didn't. It ISN'T a fact. Although Thomas Crapper took out nine plumbing patents between 1881 and 1896, none of these patents was for the "valveless water-waste preventer" he is often credited with having invented.... Alexander Cummings is generally credited with inventing the first flush mechanism in 1775 (more than 50 years before Crapper was born).
Actually, $500 worth:
If the spammer actually wants to receive money, he has to give a way to contact him. So it doesn't matter what the headers of his email say, just read the crap in the body, find his address/phone/fax/website and track him from that. The authorities could do that now if they wanted to, it's just that each case is below whatever threshold they have for taking actuion. But as Giuiliano's "zero-tolerance" policy of prosecuting minor street crime did work, so would making an example of some spammers. Very rapidly all those based in the US (which I believe is most) would chicken out.
fully recommend myrealbox.com, it is run by novell, absolutely will not spam you, Until a few weeks ago, I would have agreed, but now I'm regularly getting spam like
From: Wealth Creation & Preservation
Subject: Please Confirm Your Order
Since I've only ever given this to one or two trustworthy people, I suspect it's been just guessed as I used simply my surname (I was pleased not to have to be Smith7799089 as on larger services).
That was reworked in several versions. I read it as Norstrilia. See cordwainer-smith.com, a site by his daughter, which has a comprehensive bibliography.