> I write "ASK FOR ID" on the back of all my credit/debit cards.
Me too, but there is one place that does not work. The US Post Office. They have rules that specifically prohibit accepting credit cards that say "SEE ID". Since I do a lot of business at the Post Office, I had to ask my bank for another copy of my credit card, so I could sign it in the approved manner.
I doubt that Max is that petty. After all, he is credited on the TNO web site as the maker of the first gigapixel image. Also, Max's PTAssembler software was used in the making of this picture.
Better still to change your browser string to get yourself into the site, then (once you've found everything works fine) send a note...
I did that last week regarding one of the stats screens at http://customercenter.mci.com/.
They didn't fix it completely but at least they changed it from a complete lockout for unrecognized browers to a warning message with an option to continue.
Actually, showing signs of intelligence seems to be a rather effective way of getting out of jury duty. For reasons I can't fathom, both prosecutors and defense seem to prefer easily-led individuals of average intelligence.
> If the consumer marketplace ends up with genetically modified apples that aren't intentionally seedless, then who knows where those apple seeds might wind up.
An interesting thing I learned from reading Michael Pollan's "The Botany of Desire" is that apples have a high degree of genetic variation and never come true from seed. If you plant 10 Red Delicious seeds, you will not get 10 Red Delicious apple trees. You will get 10 very different plants, none of which resemble the parent. As I understand it, commercial apples are never propagated by seed - only by cuttings from the parent plant. (Not disagreeing with you - just adding an observation.)
In a previous lifetime I worked as a machinist in a little ramshackle shop near Chattanooga, Tennessee. One day we got a job making some asbestos parts. No safety equipment whatsoever - the air was full of asbestos fibers. I got a dust mask and put it on for what little protection it might provide and the boss made fun of me - told me I looked like a Martian. The first guy who worked on the stuff was out sick the next day so they put someone else on the job. That person was out sick the next day so they put a third person on the job. That was 20 years ago. I wonder how they are all doing now.
Everyone is treating this as a sexist issue while overlooking one key statement...
I pay.
The first rule of contracting is - follow the instructions of the person who signs the checks. Unless you make it perfectly clear that someone else is authorized to request work, you can't blame the workers for hesitating to follow their directions. Otherwise they can get burned. They follow the instructions of person Y, then person X, who writes the checks, says "I never authorized that!"
"Amid a media firestorm, a NASA special agent from the Goddard Space Flight Center seized the desk set, and non-destructive testing to determine the desk set's authenticity ensued. After much legal posturing, NASA was forced to return the desk set to Ms. Davis..."
Your preconceptions are outdated. The demographics change as time goes by. Yesterday's parent did not grow up with computers and probably did not know much about them. Today's parent may well have been a computer geek himself (or herself) as a teeenager.
I use bogofilter, and it seems to me it would take far too much of my time to manually feed my own spam to it for training purposes. What I do instead is this:
We have several spamtrap addresses on our sendmail server. They were not intentionally set up as spamtraps, but in looking at my mail logs I noticed that there were many email addresses receiving spam attempts that are not and never were valid addresses on our system. These invalid addresses somehow got into spammers' email databases and they receive nothing but spam.
So I set up entries in my aliases file to automatically redirect all mail for these accounts to bogofilter's spam database. Here is a sample...
(If you are also using sendmails access.db to filter mail based on the source IP address, you may want to set up the spamtrap addresses as "spam friends" so that spam directed to them is not filtered out by your IP address filters.)
To keep the spam database fresh and to keep it from growing to an excessive size, I use a daily cron job that automatically deletes spam entries older than 30 days...
# remove records older than 30 days from spamlist.db /usr/local/bin/bogoutil -a30 -m/home/bogofilter/spamlist.db
This gives me an 8 Megabyte spamlist.db with about 14,000 emails in it which is constantly refreshed to keep up with the latest spam trends.
Maintaining the non-spam database isn't quite as easy. I use bogofilter's -u option on my own incoming email, which tells Bogofilter to update its databases with my incoming mail based on its classification of the message as spam or non-spam. I never get a false positive, but I do occasionally get a false negative which requires me to make a correcting entry in the database.
What North Coast? There is no North Coast in the United States, there's a west coast and maybe even a northwest coast, but there's no north coast.
"North Coast" refers to northern coastal California, i.e. north of San Francisco to the Oregon border.
We don't need no stinkin' research.
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The book shows signs of being hurridly written, as few of the entries reflect any research.
Research is not one of Crichton's strong points.
As I recall, one of his books placed an industrial park in Woodside, California. As anyone in the neighborhood knows, this semi-rural suburb of Silicon Valley is where you will find multimillion-dollar homes, horse farms, and various reclusive millionaires and former rock stars. Not an industrial park in sight.
In another place, the heroes of the book, while trapped in a building by hungry dinosaurs with a bad attitude, deduced that there was a tunnel beneath the building large enough for them to escape through. How did they determine this? Because the office where they were trapped contained a graphics terminal and there simply must have been a huge underground tunnel to contain the cables necessary to accommodate the huge bandwidth of this device.
No spammer will use your server in the first place if it is not really an open relay. Merely being able to connect to the server is not enough. Merely having the server appear to accept a test email is not enough. The spammer will not use your server unless a test message is actually relayed by your server.
Either your server really is an open relay, which the spammer will send millions of messages through, or it is not - in which case the spammers relay test will fail and they will not attempt to use it.
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Me too, but there is one place that does not work. The US Post Office. They have rules that specifically prohibit accepting credit cards that say "SEE ID". Since I do a lot of business at the Post Office, I had to ask my bank for another copy of my credit card, so I could sign it in the approved manner.
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I doubt that Max is that petty. After all, he is credited on the TNO web site as the maker of the first gigapixel image. Also, Max's PTAssembler software was used in the making of this picture.
http://balloons.space.edu/habp/project_4/airphotos .html
The balloon gets so high that you can see stars at mid-day.
I did that last week regarding one of the stats screens at http://customercenter.mci.com/.
They didn't fix it completely but at least they changed it from a complete lockout for unrecognized browers to a warning message with an option to continue.
Actually, showing signs of intelligence seems to be a rather effective way of getting out of jury duty. For reasons I can't fathom, both prosecutors and defense seem to prefer easily-led individuals of average intelligence.
Two countries, divided by a common language.
An interesting thing I learned from reading Michael Pollan's "The Botany of Desire" is that apples have a high degree of genetic variation and never come true from seed. If you plant 10 Red Delicious seeds, you will not get 10 Red Delicious apple trees. You will get 10 very different plants, none of which resemble the parent. As I understand it, commercial apples are never propagated by seed - only by cuttings from the parent plant. (Not disagreeing with you - just adding an observation.)
Not necessarily. He may have just assumed the caller was a moron and was either having some fun or trying to get rid of him ASAP.
1 Astronomical Unit = 1.49598 x 10^20 nanometers
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Sorry - thanks for the correction. I live nearby (Kennewick) and would love to work there myself. Unfortunately this one is probably over my head.
PNL is hiring a Senior System Administrator for the world's largest Linux cluster and 5th fastest supercomputer.
Actually, recent studies have shown that a shocking 50% of the population has below-average intelligence.
They're out there, and they're using the internet. Deal.
In a previous lifetime I worked as a machinist in a little ramshackle shop near Chattanooga, Tennessee. One day we got a job making some asbestos parts. No safety equipment whatsoever - the air was full of asbestos fibers. I got a dust mask and put it on for what little protection it might provide and the boss made fun of me - told me I looked like a Martian. The first guy who worked on the stuff was out sick the next day so they put someone else on the job. That person was out sick the next day so they put a third person on the job. That was 20 years ago. I wonder how they are all doing now.
I pay.
The first rule of contracting is - follow the instructions of the person who signs the checks. Unless you make it perfectly clear that someone else is authorized to request work, you can't blame the workers for hesitating to follow their directions. Otherwise they can get burned. They follow the instructions of person Y, then person X, who writes the checks, says "I never authorized that!"
"Amid a media firestorm, a NASA special agent from the Goddard Space Flight Center seized the desk set, and non-destructive testing to determine the desk set's authenticity ensued. After much legal posturing, NASA was forced to return the desk set to Ms. Davis..."
Napster, anyone? The beta launched today. I'm an optimist (and own stock in ROXI), but I think I would call that "close to ready".
Also, many cheap ice creams are whipped full of air, so your "half-gallon" is really much less than that already.
Compression works by tokenizing repeated patterns. Scrambled text will have fewer repeated patterns than real text.
Your preconceptions are outdated. The demographics change as time goes by. Yesterday's parent did not grow up with computers and probably did not know much about them. Today's parent may well have been a computer geek himself (or herself) as a teeenager.
Apologies in advance for being a pedant, but please - it is spelled FLUORESCENT.
I use bogofilter, and it seems to me it would take far too much of my time to manually feed my own spam to it for training purposes. What I do instead is this:
/home/bogofilter/spamlist.db
We have several spamtrap addresses on our sendmail server. They were not intentionally set up as spamtraps, but in looking at my mail logs I noticed that there were many email addresses receiving spam attempts that are not and never were valid addresses on our system. These invalid addresses somehow got into spammers' email databases and they receive nothing but spam.
So I set up entries in my aliases file to automatically redirect all mail for these accounts to bogofilter's spam database. Here is a sample...
nikola: "|/usr/local/bin/bogofilter -s "
cal: "|/usr/local/bin/bogofilter -s "
bwilson: "|/usr/local/bin/bogofilter -s "
fayre: "|/usr/local/bin/bogofilter -s "
(If you are also using sendmails access.db to filter mail based on the source IP address, you may want to set up the spamtrap addresses as "spam friends" so that spam directed to them is not filtered out by your IP address filters.)
To keep the spam database fresh and to keep it from growing to an excessive size, I use a daily cron job that automatically deletes spam entries older than 30 days...
# remove records older than 30 days from spamlist.db
/usr/local/bin/bogoutil -a30 -m
This gives me an 8 Megabyte spamlist.db with about 14,000 emails in it which is constantly refreshed to keep up with the latest spam trends.
Maintaining the non-spam database isn't quite as easy. I use bogofilter's -u option on my own incoming email, which tells Bogofilter to update its databases with my incoming mail based on its classification of the message as spam or non-spam. I never get a false positive, but I do occasionally get a false negative which requires me to make a correcting entry in the database.
"North Coast" refers to northern coastal California, i.e. north of San Francisco to the Oregon border.
Research is not one of Crichton's strong points.
As I recall, one of his books placed an industrial park in Woodside, California. As anyone in the neighborhood knows, this semi-rural suburb of Silicon Valley is where you will find multimillion-dollar homes, horse farms, and various reclusive millionaires and former rock stars. Not an industrial park in sight.
In another place, the heroes of the book, while trapped in a building by hungry dinosaurs with a bad attitude, deduced that there was a tunnel beneath the building large enough for them to escape through. How did they determine this? Because the office where they were trapped contained a graphics terminal and there simply must have been a huge underground tunnel to contain the cables necessary to accommodate the huge bandwidth of this device.
That was enough to put me off Crichton for good.
Either your server really is an open relay, which the spammer will send millions of messages through, or it is not - in which case the spammers relay test will fail and they will not attempt to use it.