Yeah, I may look like a huge prick to anyone I don't know trying to get in touch with me, but I don't really care. The spam drives me more nuts, and if I piss one person off because of what I put in place (and it is a polite message that gets sent), then fuck 'em.
As for mailing lists, it handles them flawlessly and I always add them to my whitelist when I sign up anyway. The only addresses not in my whitelist already are people who are friends of friends or people trying to get me through my website or whatever. I've never had a complaint, so I'm not going to sit and sweat about it, worrying about what I look like to them because I'm controlling my spam. I just listen to their spam woes and how nothing they do works. Well, this works. End of story.
"I never respond to TMDA notices or other crap like that."
And those are just the kind of people I wouldn't care if they emailed me or not anyway. Those who I want to hear from know the spam struggle and don't have a problem to reply that ONE time to the address. For all others, I manually add them to the whitelist if I know I'm expecting to hear from them.
I already said that it'll possibly inconvenience legit senders, but you know what? My spam issue is/was more of a problem than making people send one extra email to get through to me.
I've used SpamAssassin for quite some time now, but I was still getting spam through, mostly because I'm a paranoid freak and figured I'd be missing out on mails that it mistakenly tagged as spam.
What I use now (alongside SpamAssassin) is TMDA. This is basically an "approval queue" for messages. If someone not in your approved list send you mail, they get a reply telling them they need to send mail to a specificly generated address in order to allow the mail to pass through to me. Eventually mails that don't get approved time-out and get added to a blacklist for the future. I also quickly review the queued items every morning in case someone didn't see the approval mail (it has a tool that allows you to easily peruse the list with just subject and sender info). So far I've gotten NO spam through this method -- NONE. I used to get hundreds a day, and now I have a spam-free INBOX because of TMDA.
While I highly recommend using TMDA, it may not be for people running businesses or waiting for mail from clients. The auto-reply message can perhaps strike some as inconvenient, even though they only have to do it once (once they've sent mail to the approval address, they're added to the whitelist for all future mails). So far spammers haven't found a way around TMDA it seems...so far.
Point well taken, although my first thought was that if 'Star Wars' isn't what Lucas wanted when it was complete, why didn't he do what Edvard Munch did with his painting and just create another movie?
Does me mean to tell us that his vision of a great 'Star Wars' still involves B-rate actor Mark Hamill? If he has so much faith in his "true" vision, why not put his money where is mouth is and create it from scratch? See what fans like more then. Oh that's right, he doesn't care.
Although Lucas most likey already puts his money where his mouth is if he carries his wallet in his back pocket.
Yes, I believe there are laws against just that. I recall a store owner rigging his ceiling windows with electrified wire, where he killed someone trying to break in. Anyway, he went to jail for manslaughter or something like that.
You'd actually be able to sleep at night knowing you killed some poor drug addict who was strung out looking for a little cash for his latest fix, or some drunk college kid just looking to pull a prank? You're talking about killing someone!
I'm not sure how that's any different than scanning the user's files for a credit-card number and mailing that to the software author automatically.
Hm, now that I think of it, is there a way someone could create encryption for a package that would only decrypt with a key, generated by the author, using the user's credit card number? That way, if a legit key is floating out there somewhere, you'd not only know who gave it out (by their CC number), but you'd have their (easily cancelable) CC#.
At first glance, you might think, "Yeah! Serves 'em right! Delete their home dir!" The thing is, it's akin to setting up a trap in your car or home for burglars that hurts or kills them (although deleting ~user shouldn't be physically harmful, at least directly). In short, going on the offensive in an equally or more sinister way doesn't always make it the right thing to do.
"Phillip Torrone and his wife share their Seattle house with five Sony Aibo dog robots, two Segway motorized scooters, a suitcase-size robot whose brain is a laptop computer, and dozens of other gadgets."
Phil Torrone has an actual, flesh in blood wife?! Are we sure that's Phil Torrone's wife, or one of the robots he put together by beowulfing sixteen PocketPC's, a Garmin eTrex GPS, three Aibos, a Roomba and a Segway together?
But what are you going to transfer with it? I think most people want full bluetooth with the V710 so they can transfer the camera pics. The T608's camera is an optional add-on.
I too played this game, but I loved it. I knew nothing about the books until I picked up this game, so of course I read them later. In doing so, it was pretty obvious that the game creators kept as closely to the book(s) as possible, which really is what I'd expect fans of the books to expect. There's more than a good chance that allowing the player to alter the course of what really happens in the story would piss off fans. Then again, having umpteen ways for your charater to die is a serious detraction from this story, isn't it?;-)
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As for mailing lists, it handles them flawlessly and I always add them to my whitelist when I sign up anyway. The only addresses not in my whitelist already are people who are friends of friends or people trying to get me through my website or whatever. I've never had a complaint, so I'm not going to sit and sweat about it, worrying about what I look like to them because I'm controlling my spam. I just listen to their spam woes and how nothing they do works. Well, this works. End of story.
And those are just the kind of people I wouldn't care if they emailed me or not anyway. Those who I want to hear from know the spam struggle and don't have a problem to reply that ONE time to the address. For all others, I manually add them to the whitelist if I know I'm expecting to hear from them.
I already said that it'll possibly inconvenience legit senders, but you know what? My spam issue is/was more of a problem than making people send one extra email to get through to me.
What I use now (alongside SpamAssassin) is TMDA. This is basically an "approval queue" for messages. If someone not in your approved list send you mail, they get a reply telling them they need to send mail to a specificly generated address in order to allow the mail to pass through to me. Eventually mails that don't get approved time-out and get added to a blacklist for the future. I also quickly review the queued items every morning in case someone didn't see the approval mail (it has a tool that allows you to easily peruse the list with just subject and sender info). So far I've gotten NO spam through this method -- NONE. I used to get hundreds a day, and now I have a spam-free INBOX because of TMDA.
While I highly recommend using TMDA, it may not be for people running businesses or waiting for mail from clients. The auto-reply message can perhaps strike some as inconvenient, even though they only have to do it once (once they've sent mail to the approval address, they're added to the whitelist for all future mails). So far spammers haven't found a way around TMDA it seems...so far.
BAH why do I waste my time replying anymore...
You can see the edited version of the clip here, with Lucas's braindead commentary on his reasoning for the change.
It's obvious he doesn't care about fans. If he really cared about fans, he would have put Star Wars Kid in a cameo in the next movie.
Han: *BANG*
Greedo: "Han, I am your...uhhh..."
Does me mean to tell us that his vision of a great 'Star Wars' still involves B-rate actor Mark Hamill? If he has so much faith in his "true" vision, why not put his money where is mouth is and create it from scratch? See what fans like more then. Oh that's right, he doesn't care.
Although Lucas most likey already puts his money where his mouth is if he carries his wallet in his back pocket.
I think I hear the sounds of sweet angels singing...
Right, which is why I found it quite fitting to make the jail cell comment. If you meant to convey something else, get the shite outta yer mouth.
I think I was lulled to sleep by someone's discussion on the differences between assault and battery that night...
Well then hopefully the slamming of the jail cell door won't wake you.
You'd actually be able to sleep at night knowing you killed some poor drug addict who was strung out looking for a little cash for his latest fix, or some drunk college kid just looking to pull a prank? You're talking about killing someone!
Hm, now that I think of it, is there a way someone could create encryption for a package that would only decrypt with a key, generated by the author, using the user's credit card number? That way, if a legit key is floating out there somewhere, you'd not only know who gave it out (by their CC number), but you'd have their (easily cancelable) CC#.
IANAC (I Am Not A Cryptographer), obviously.
At first glance, you might think, "Yeah! Serves 'em right! Delete their home dir!" The thing is, it's akin to setting up a trap in your car or home for burglars that hurts or kills them (although deleting ~user shouldn't be physically harmful, at least directly). In short, going on the offensive in an equally or more sinister way doesn't always make it the right thing to do.
The password was "JOSHUA".
Haven't we had our fill of Phil Torrone for one day?
Phil Torrone has an actual, flesh in blood wife?! Are we sure that's Phil Torrone's wife, or one of the robots he put together by beowulfing sixteen PocketPC's, a Garmin eTrex GPS, three Aibos, a Roomba and a Segway together?
But what are you going to transfer with it? I think most people want full bluetooth with the V710 so they can transfer the camera pics. The T608's camera is an optional add-on.
As far as I've read, you can do those things, like using it as a modem to dial-up with. You just can't transfer files.
Ah...words to live by.
I too played this game, but I loved it. I knew nothing about the books until I picked up this game, so of course I read them later. In doing so, it was pretty obvious that the game creators kept as closely to the book(s) as possible, which really is what I'd expect fans of the books to expect. There's more than a good chance that allowing the player to alter the course of what really happens in the story would piss off fans. Then again, having umpteen ways for your charater to die is a serious detraction from this story, isn't it? ;-)
What a coincidence...I just told a car salesman to take a flying leap just the other day.
By "throwing it down the shitter" I meant that they will say, "to hell with the past lore of Middle Earth," and let whatever they want happen.
Huh...that's funny. I could've sworn that GALADRIEL IS AN ELF!
*SMACK!*