it was some 4 years ago when i was an intern at a company writing jsp programs. in the testing stage, since there was a mail feedback system the web site we were implementing, someone high up the food chain told us to use haha@hehe.com as the dummy email address.
the testing went on for days, i suppose we've sent thousands of email to that address, and one day, woops, we can't send mail to that address anymore. guess what? the user's mail box is full!
oops!
we told our boss about it, he said, what? it's a real email address? we've been bombing it since our shop opened!
Don't worry, more than 70% of the US population is convinced they're the same person anyway...
Here's the stunning conversation I overheard what some collegues from other departments in my company talked about today.
collegue A: bin laden is still on the loose! collegue B: ya, now his son's being captured, his grand kids dead. catch the grand father and everything will end. collegue C: what u talking about? collegue B: bin laden is saddam's dad, don't you know? collegue C: oh! that's it!
One suggestion I would make is to put your email address in an image. People can read it, but harvesters won't be able to harvest it (unless they download the image for OCR)...
I've tried it, and it doesn't work. I used to put my email address on my web page in this format:
my_address at domain dot com I receive approximately 20 spam a day. Not bad, huh?
20 a day is still annoying. I've wanted to reduce it, so I converted the email into a gif, I call it em.gif (so no one would imagine it is an email address just by looking at the code), also in the my_address at domain dot com format. A few days later, I begin to receive 80 spam a day.
Well, see, I see a problem here. What if Google decided to make only Google.com the result for any search on Search Engines? Or what if (since I am in the US), I did a Search for Democratic Presidential Candidates, and only got George W Bush as a result?
Simple. I will use another search engine that's doing better. Most of us are using Google because many of us thinks Google is currently the best. When Google doesn't live up to it anymore, there are dozens of other choices out there for us. We can even write our own search engine if we'd like to.
Corporate censorship is oftentimes more insidious in that Government
Agree, but as a corporation, there are competitions out there, there are companies doing similar things. Customers are free to choose if they want to use their service. As for government, do you think those living in Iraq have a choice to live in another country if they don't like their government?
Dogbert: Here's the new XML-enabled Micro$oft Office 11 our company should upgrade to. PHB:... Dogbert: The suite is saving their documents in a format they have invented called M$ Xtremely Malformed Language (XML), and they are impossible to decipher and reverse-engineer for compatibility. PHB: (looks closely at the box Dogbert handed to him)... Dogbert: But that's okay, because you don't undestand anyway.
And usually, the students that were cheating would fail the tests, so there was little need to do anything special.
Not always true, at least not at my university, not what I see, not what I experience myself.
When I was studying CS, I do most of my programming assignments myself. (I copied two assignments in three years, I admit it, but only because
(1)I was seriously ill,
(2)Nearly everyone is copying somehow, to some extend, and
(3)the prof. is a damned sucker that won't let me submit the assignment late, even if it's for medical reason)
There are other students who copy most of their programming assignemnts. And you know what's the result?
We got the same marks for the assignments, but they pass the exam with flying colors and me only getting average grade.
Do you know why? Because according to many prof., assignments and exams are not related. In class, they teach theory, in exams, they test your understand of the theory. For assignments, it's about implementation of one of the particular theory taught in class.
So, doing assignments would not help you score a higher mark in exam. Why those copy cats get a higher score than me? Because they don't do their assignments. As a result, they have more time, and they use the time to study the notes and textbooks. These are times that I don't have. Under tight scheduling, by the time I finish all my assignments, it is the time to go to take the exam. (considering the fact that I sleep an average of 5 hours per day for two years, holidays inclusive) So how about that? And I'm not a special case... there are many others like me... ~_~
But, well, my efforts are not wasted. I'm a better coder than my collegues at work thanks to the assignments.
Could there be joystick add-ons? I think I could see an array of new add-on products for pocketPCs targeted for gaming, and this could be a real threat to handheld game consoles like GameBoy Advance.
Now, we don't have to bring a GameBoy, hoping other people will think it is a PDA, in a long boring meetings. We can bring our pocketPCs and play games legitimatly. Another great way to pretend to work, but a lot safer!
The site says "the ads only appear when using an Internet Explorer browser," though. Darn.
It would be kinda funny if this becomes the cause for the death of Internet Explorer.
Web surfers would drift away from IE to Netscape/Mozilla/Opera/whatever when the ads becomes too annoying... or would they?
I switch off javascript to stop pop-up ads myself, I don't think I would go one more step to uninstall flash though.
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it was some 4 years ago when i was an intern at a company writing jsp programs. in the testing stage, since there was a mail feedback system the web site we were implementing, someone high up the food chain told us to use haha@hehe.com as the dummy email address.
the testing went on for days, i suppose we've sent thousands of email to that address, and one day, woops, we can't send mail to that address anymore. guess what? the user's mail box is full! oops!
we told our boss about it, he said, what? it's a real email address? we've been bombing it since our shop opened!
Don't worry, more than 70% of the US population is convinced they're the same person anyway...
Here's the stunning conversation I overheard what some collegues from other departments in my company talked about today.
collegue A: bin laden is still on the loose!
collegue B: ya, now his son's being captured, his grand kids dead. catch the grand father and everything will end.
collegue C: what u talking about?
collegue B: bin laden is saddam's dad, don't you know?
collegue C: oh! that's it!
One suggestion I would make is to put your email address in an image. People can read it, but harvesters won't be able to harvest it (unless they download the image for OCR)...
I've tried it, and it doesn't work. I used to put my email address on my web page in this format:
my_address at domain dot com
I receive approximately 20 spam a day. Not bad, huh?
20 a day is still annoying. I've wanted to reduce it, so I converted the email into a gif, I call it em.gif (so no one would imagine it is an email address just by looking at the code), also in the my_address at domain dot com format. A few days later, I begin to receive 80 spam a day.
I name all of them CowboyNeal!
Dogbert: Here's the new XML-enabled Micro$oft Office 11 our company should upgrade to. ...
PHB:
Dogbert: The suite is saving their documents in a format they have invented called M$ Xtremely Malformed Language (XML), and they are impossible to decipher and reverse-engineer for compatibility.
PHB: (looks closely at the box Dogbert handed to him)...
Dogbert: But that's okay, because you don't undestand anyway.
The story on space.com has more details on this.
Also see the offical offical press release from University of Hawaii.
On Wired news there's a very brief history of Napster, from the cradle to the grave. Interesting read.
And usually, the students that were cheating would fail the tests, so there was little need to do anything special.
Not always true, at least not at my university, not what I see, not what I experience myself.
When I was studying CS, I do most of my programming assignments myself. (I copied two assignments in three years, I admit it, but only because
(1)I was seriously ill,
(2)Nearly everyone is copying somehow, to some extend, and
(3)the prof. is a damned sucker that won't let me submit the assignment late, even if it's for medical reason)
There are other students who copy most of their programming assignemnts. And you know what's the result?
We got the same marks for the assignments, but they pass the exam with flying colors and me only getting average grade.
Do you know why? Because according to many prof., assignments and exams are not related. In class, they teach theory, in exams, they test your understand of the theory. For assignments, it's about implementation of one of the particular theory taught in class.
So, doing assignments would not help you score a higher mark in exam. Why those copy cats get a higher score than me? Because they don't do their assignments. As a result, they have more time, and they use the time to study the notes and textbooks. These are times that I don't have. Under tight scheduling, by the time I finish all my assignments, it is the time to go to take the exam. (considering the fact that I sleep an average of 5 hours per day for two years, holidays inclusive) So how about that? And I'm not a special case... there are many others like me... ~_~
But, well, my efforts are not wasted. I'm a better coder than my collegues at work thanks to the assignments.
Could there be joystick add-ons? I think I could see an array of new add-on products for pocketPCs targeted for gaming, and this could be a real threat to handheld game consoles like GameBoy Advance.
Now, we don't have to bring a GameBoy, hoping other people will think it is a PDA, in a long boring meetings. We can bring our pocketPCs and play games legitimatly. Another great way to pretend to work, but a lot safer!
The site says "the ads only appear when using an Internet Explorer browser," though. Darn.
It would be kinda funny if this becomes the cause for the death of Internet Explorer. Web surfers would drift away from IE to Netscape/Mozilla/Opera/whatever when the ads becomes too annoying... or would they?
I switch off javascript to stop pop-up ads myself, I don't think I would go one more step to uninstall flash though.