Do you mean to say that Hollywood took a wonderful classic novel, turned it into a droll screenplay, added expensive CGI effects, added a big name actor with an impressive list of performances, and turned it into a steaming pile of crap that they can add to the mountain? Do you mean to tell me that these big Hollywood cookie-cutter produtions can't even measure up to a smidgeon of the creativity of those independent film makers with smaller budgets?
Haha! Yeah right! Next you'll be telling me that the recording industry companies are putting out POS albumns that can't compare to the indie artists and are trying to find new ways to sell me the same album twice!
Everyone knows that big companies == better products!
Stop it! Stop it! You're making my face hurt!
::patiently waits on the mail bomb from/. moderators and ducks under the desk::
Didn't Squaresoft work with Nintendo just a few years ago on an RPG game for the N64? Tell me I'm not crazy. I think they did Aidyn Cronicles: The First Mage. I remember playing it and thinking, "MY GOD! THIS IS HORRIBLE! SS DID THIS?"
Only here can you open up a page with advertisements and click a button to remove them only to end up reading an advertisement for an advertisement for a movie that will be sure to have more product endorsemets than Michael Jordan!
"...even when the users claim they didn't change anything."
What tech support agent hasn't heard a customer make those claims. The standard conversation follows:
Customer: "I can't use my DSL, but I didn't change anything"
Tech: "Well sir, it looks like an intellectually challenged gremlin may have changed your TCP/IP settings to specify an IP address that just happens to be for the router you said that you didn't set up. Damn that Gizmo!"
Exactly! Those bad sales couldn't POSSIBLY be because of a lack of interest in teeny boppers, a thirty-something teeny bopper wannabe, and a woman who sounds like she developed her singing voice by swallowing gravel! *gasp* That could not POSSIBLY be the reason for lackluster sales! It MUST be those evil file swappers who could have just as easily accomplished the same task of pirating music by making cassette tape copies and passing them out to their friends... *gasp* They must be STOPPED!!!
I completely agree with you! I tend to go to a dance club or out drinking on the weekends with friends, and they include several of my coworkers. The whole stereotype of the geeky looking guys with pocket protectors and thick glasses isn't the norm around here. We rarely talk about work outside of work, although there is the occasional "idiot" story that we like to pass around (we're ITs for a major corporation). All in all, I find that we have a lot in common. Mostly because we all have the same sick and demented sense of humor.
Could you say fucking just a few fucking more fucking times just for fucking effect?
*wink*
Just picking on you, but you do have a point. I work as a technician for another ISP (who shall remain nameless due to confidentiality agreements that I signed) that has to go through Genuity. They really don't do much. The ISP that I work for has closed all relaying through their SMTP server because of previous problems with spammers, and if you call with a complaint, the only thing they have for you is an email address for security, who will inform you that Genuity requires more information to process it and take action.
I have my own methods for dealing with spammers. I will do a trace, find their personal email address, and then reply to all of my spam using their email and then subscribe to more spam lists... Give 'em a taste of their own medicine... The folks at bondage.com have to love me for all the business and fresh new email addresses I've gotten them!
You have an excellent point! My dad is a cop, and he has noted time and again that home alarm systems just are not worth the cost. The most effective home security has been proven time and again as neighborhood watch.
Of course, hardware for sound effects and stickers aren't bad for a good scare effect. A novice burglar may be easily tricked, as was the case when our home was broken into in August. We weren't paying for monitoring service, but when the alarm went off, the would-be thief was so concerned with getting out, the only loss we suffered was the cost to replace a broken window and door latch.
As for those burglers who are more experienced, they know quite well how to get around a monitored alarm system if possible. If they do happen to trip the alarm, they are also fully aware that, if they did a good job of selecting the right neighborhood, they have a good 30 minutes or so to get what they want and get out before law enforcement appears on the scene.
It seriously depends on where you're stationed. My boyfriend is a Senior Network Engineer for their Global Operation Center in Cary, NC. Mostly, he is in charge of keeping up various big buisiness WANs. It's not the most wonderful thing in the world, but it sure beats the heck outta my job! I got to visit with him once, and I loved the place Dress code is fairly casual, with t-shirts and jeans on the weekends. There is usually someone who is leaving the office to get food. It's fairly quiet and has a relaxed atmosphere, but I can assure you that there is no company masseur... at least he hasn't seen one.
You have a good point. The only sure way to filter out ALL SPAM is to have someone else read it. Of course there are preventive measures that can be taken to make sure that you never get SPAM to begin with -- or at least minimal SPAM.
1. Sign up for a free email account that you don't plan on using for your main email address. It's much easier to let go of an email account (if you have to) when you aren't shelling out money for it. You should have two... A main email address and a dummy email address.
2. Use the dummy email address to sign up for any sites where the email address might be stored or displayed on a page. That's usually where spammers will get your email address by using harvesting software.
3. The main address can be given out to family and friends, but NEVER post it on a message board. That's pretty much asking for it. This way, only legitimate email will come to your inbox.
4. Check the dummy act about once a week for legitimate email that may have found its way there by mistake, and if need be, send a reply email with the main email address. Delete the SPAM.
5. Accept the fact that sometimes SPAM is sent out to random email addresses, and you may still get one or two a week.
6. DO NOT EVER reply to SPAM, and don't ever follow instructions to be removed from the "mailing list." This just lets the spammer know that someone is actually reading the email, and you will get even more.
7. DON'T BUY ANYTHING. If people never bought anything from someone who sent them spam, do you honestly think that they would continue to go through the trouble of sending it?
Maybe not a complete solution, but I can almost guarantee that it will make a fairly large dent in the ammount of spam you get.
Would the real Senator McCarthy please stand up?
We've already lost our privacy after passing the almighty PATRIOT act, where law enforcement officials, CIA, FBI, and God knows who else now has the right to obtain information on all your private phone conversations and email if they even suspect that you're sneezing the wrong way. What better way to cap it all off than by completely hammering the Bill of Rights and listening in on a conversation between a lawyer and client? Ooh! I know! Why don't we stuff hidden cameras into confessional booths?
Why not just have our neighbors reporting us to the FBI when they suspect us of "un-American" activities? I don't know about you guys, but I'm all pumped up for reliving the Salem witch trials!
As a matter of fact, my dog died yesterday, and I think my boss may have had something to do with it.
*fume*
Acting is fun because it gives you the opportunity to do things that you'd never do in real life, and given such, villains are simply more fun... An excuse to be naughty... Unless of course, you are like me. I'm already quite the villainess (just ask my coworkers), and I must say it's the most fun I've ever had! *sigh* I need to be spanked.
I'm telling you, Wil. You should definitely go for a bad guy roll. I, for one, would LOVE to see an Evil Wesley vs. Tick slap fight!
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#9 is especially good. That hot chica really showed THEM!
*sigh* I'm such a self-promoting whore...
You can't be serious!
::patiently waits on the mail bomb from /. moderators and ducks under the desk::
Do you mean to say that Hollywood took a wonderful classic novel, turned it into a droll screenplay, added expensive CGI effects, added a big name actor with an impressive list of performances, and turned it into a steaming pile of crap that they can add to the mountain? Do you mean to tell me that these big Hollywood cookie-cutter produtions can't even measure up to a smidgeon of the creativity of those independent film makers with smaller budgets?
Haha! Yeah right! Next you'll be telling me that the recording industry companies are putting out POS albumns that can't compare to the indie artists and are trying to find new ways to sell me the same album twice!
Everyone knows that big companies == better products!
Stop it! Stop it! You're making my face hurt!
Didn't Squaresoft work with Nintendo just a few years ago on an RPG game for the N64? Tell me I'm not crazy. I think they did Aidyn Cronicles: The First Mage. I remember playing it and thinking, "MY GOD! THIS IS HORRIBLE! SS DID THIS?"
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Only here can you open up a page with advertisements and click a button to remove them only to end up reading an advertisement for an advertisement for a movie that will be sure to have more product endorsemets than Michael Jordan!
*choke*
Where's the button?!?!
Looked in the mirror I did! Damn good I think I look!
Don't make me have to open up a can of Jedi whoopass on you!
"...even when the users claim they didn't change anything."
What tech support agent hasn't heard a customer make those claims. The standard conversation follows:
Customer: "I can't use my DSL, but I didn't change anything"
Tech: "Well sir, it looks like an intellectually challenged gremlin may have changed your TCP/IP settings to specify an IP address that just happens to be for the router you said that you didn't set up. Damn that Gizmo!"
And the CDs (now printed in pretty colours!) work well as bird and vermin chasers, too.
Very true. A friend of mine hangs them in strategic locations on his boat. There is not a spot of bird poop anywhere!
I say that we should be thankful to AOL for providing us with such a service.
Exactly! Those bad sales couldn't POSSIBLY be because of a lack of interest in teeny boppers, a thirty-something teeny bopper wannabe, and a woman who sounds like she developed her singing voice by swallowing gravel! *gasp* That could not POSSIBLY be the reason for lackluster sales! It MUST be those evil file swappers who could have just as easily accomplished the same task of pirating music by making cassette tape copies and passing them out to their friends... *gasp* They must be STOPPED!!!
Since Wil Wheaton has been revealed as the fellow geek and slashdotter he is, maybe we can get him to steal some of those dilithium crystals for us!
Just think, Wil, of all the blackmarket money you could make selling fuel!
I completely agree with you! I tend to go to a dance club or out drinking on the weekends with friends, and they include several of my coworkers. The whole stereotype of the geeky looking guys with pocket protectors and thick glasses isn't the norm around here. We rarely talk about work outside of work, although there is the occasional "idiot" story that we like to pass around (we're ITs for a major corporation). All in all, I find that we have a lot in common. Mostly because we all have the same sick and demented sense of humor.
Could you say fucking just a few fucking more fucking times just for fucking effect?
*wink*
Just picking on you, but you do have a point. I work as a technician for another ISP (who shall remain nameless due to confidentiality agreements that I signed) that has to go through Genuity. They really don't do much. The ISP that I work for has closed all relaying through their SMTP server because of previous problems with spammers, and if you call with a complaint, the only thing they have for you is an email address for security, who will inform you that Genuity requires more information to process it and take action.
I have my own methods for dealing with spammers. I will do a trace, find their personal email address, and then reply to all of my spam using their email and then subscribe to more spam lists... Give 'em a taste of their own medicine... The folks at bondage.com have to love me for all the business and fresh new email addresses I've gotten them!
You have an excellent point! My dad is a cop, and he has noted time and again that home alarm systems just are not worth the cost. The most effective home security has been proven time and again as neighborhood watch. Of course, hardware for sound effects and stickers aren't bad for a good scare effect. A novice burglar may be easily tricked, as was the case when our home was broken into in August. We weren't paying for monitoring service, but when the alarm went off, the would-be thief was so concerned with getting out, the only loss we suffered was the cost to replace a broken window and door latch. As for those burglers who are more experienced, they know quite well how to get around a monitored alarm system if possible. If they do happen to trip the alarm, they are also fully aware that, if they did a good job of selecting the right neighborhood, they have a good 30 minutes or so to get what they want and get out before law enforcement appears on the scene.
It seriously depends on where you're stationed. My boyfriend is a Senior Network Engineer for their Global Operation Center in Cary, NC. Mostly, he is in charge of keeping up various big buisiness WANs. It's not the most wonderful thing in the world, but it sure beats the heck outta my job! I got to visit with him once, and I loved the place Dress code is fairly casual, with t-shirts and jeans on the weekends. There is usually someone who is leaving the office to get food. It's fairly quiet and has a relaxed atmosphere, but I can assure you that there is no company masseur... at least he hasn't seen one.
Yes, but for those of us who live in apartments that don't allow pets, this thing is a pretty good option...
It's a well known fact that the Department of Defense pretty high on hackers' hit lists. I think it's up there right under AOL and Microsoft.
You have a good point. The only sure way to filter out ALL SPAM is to have someone else read it. Of course there are preventive measures that can be taken to make sure that you never get SPAM to begin with -- or at least minimal SPAM.
1. Sign up for a free email account that you don't plan on using for your main email address. It's much easier to let go of an email account (if you have to) when you aren't shelling out money for it. You should have two... A main email address and a dummy email address.
2. Use the dummy email address to sign up for any sites where the email address might be stored or displayed on a page. That's usually where spammers will get your email address by using harvesting software.
3. The main address can be given out to family and friends, but NEVER post it on a message board. That's pretty much asking for it. This way, only legitimate email will come to your inbox.
4. Check the dummy act about once a week for legitimate email that may have found its way there by mistake, and if need be, send a reply email with the main email address. Delete the SPAM.
5. Accept the fact that sometimes SPAM is sent out to random email addresses, and you may still get one or two a week.
6. DO NOT EVER reply to SPAM, and don't ever follow instructions to be removed from the "mailing list." This just lets the spammer know that someone is actually reading the email, and you will get even more.
7. DON'T BUY ANYTHING. If people never bought anything from someone who sent them spam, do you honestly think that they would continue to go through the trouble of sending it?
Maybe not a complete solution, but I can almost guarantee that it will make a fairly large dent in the ammount of spam you get.
*perk*
Ooh! Spank me, whip me, make me install Linux and force me to translate Perl!
Would the real Senator McCarthy please stand up? We've already lost our privacy after passing the almighty PATRIOT act, where law enforcement officials, CIA, FBI, and God knows who else now has the right to obtain information on all your private phone conversations and email if they even suspect that you're sneezing the wrong way. What better way to cap it all off than by completely hammering the Bill of Rights and listening in on a conversation between a lawyer and client? Ooh! I know! Why don't we stuff hidden cameras into confessional booths? Why not just have our neighbors reporting us to the FBI when they suspect us of "un-American" activities? I don't know about you guys, but I'm all pumped up for reliving the Salem witch trials! As a matter of fact, my dog died yesterday, and I think my boss may have had something to do with it. *fume*
Acting is fun because it gives you the opportunity to do things that you'd never do in real life, and given such, villains are simply more fun... An excuse to be naughty... Unless of course, you are like me. I'm already quite the villainess (just ask my coworkers), and I must say it's the most fun I've ever had! *sigh* I need to be spanked.
I'm telling you, Wil. You should definitely go for a bad guy roll. I, for one, would LOVE to see an Evil Wesley vs. Tick slap fight!
If you could sum up your entire opinion about him into one humongoid (Is that a word?) flame addressed to him, what would it be?