In the future you might want to apply a filter to bounce back the message to the sender (if your email program supports this).
That's what I did for an endless barrage of ziffdavis stuff after downloading a file off one of their sites. Same thing... opted out of all of the send notifications but was getting about 4 spams a day.
Most likely, they will remove you from the list after receiving the bounced email thinking the account is bunk. In either case, as long as the filter is on, you will never know the difference.
After clicking on an image at the site and waiting for a good couple of minutes, I realized that my request for images of the sun must be realtime and my lag was the transmission time from the sun back to the earth (isn't that a couple of hours?). Stop with the cruel physics jokes guys, my patience is wearing thin...
Not to mention the "attourney" (whatever an attourney is... some sort of tour guide for cable systems?). You know, I would assume he has better things to do too.
"The future of computer games is not about reinventing the wheel; it's about improving the engine... I think the trend is going more towards buy than build"
NOTE TO SELF: if I own one of the giant engines of the industry and someone asked me what the trend in the industry is, be sure to answer with the above statement.
I do not have long distance service through them, my number is unlisted and blocked, yet they effectively contact me at least once a month (since they control the local phone service in my area).
When asked to be taken off their list, they claim it will take a month to go through yet I continually get called. They say they will send me writen notice about my request but I never receive it.
True, they are doing things to "help" protect the users, but some of their reasoning seems antiquated.
For instance, their stance on crypto hardware is
"Supporting hardware cryptography accelerators has not been a high priority for the development team because it raises a number of fairly complex issues:
* Can you trust the hardware? If it is not Open Source, how do you audit its security? Even if it is, how do you check that the design has no concealed traps?
* If an interface is added for such hardware, can that interface be subverted or misused?
* Is hardware acceleration actually a performance win? It clearly is in many cases, but on a fast machine it might be better to use the CPU for the encryption than to pay the overheads of moving data to and from a crypto board.
* the current KLIPS code does not provide a clean interface for hardware accelerators
What about the amount of power this would require? If my guess is correct, it would seem that they are using a USB connection to avoid excessive power consumption during download transmission of data.
Slashdot Mirror
In the future you might want to apply a filter to bounce back the message to the sender (if your email program supports this).
That's what I did for an endless barrage of ziffdavis stuff after downloading a file off one of their sites. Same thing... opted out of all of the send notifications but was getting about 4 spams a day.
Most likely, they will remove you from the list after receiving the bounced email thinking the account is bunk. In either case, as long as the filter is on, you will never know the difference.
That would work fine if they were to spam alot of different people... the problem is they only seem to spam ME many times! ... that will be $1 please.
Many government contracts out there exist with MS.
First I (Bill) will deploy my OS in all of the countries in the world with the help of the US government, CIA, etc. then I will TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
Sort of strange that someone like Bill might have both delusions of grandure AND rule the world at the same time.
After clicking on an image at the site and waiting for a good couple of minutes, I realized that my request for images of the sun must be realtime and my lag was the transmission time from the sun back to the earth (isn't that a couple of hours?). Stop with the cruel physics jokes guys, my patience is wearing thin...
I find it rather ironic that this message thread in my browser just happens to have an advertisement for Microsoft Studio .NET
There goes their marketing against Linux back-firing again.
I thought this was a story about yet another way a company could get around renaming the "Recycle Bin" similar to what MS did to Mac.
...a recitation of the man page index is be sung to the tune of "Born Free"
Most AIM users manually encrypt their message using a collection of complex command line tools. Therefore, the content IS secure.
I thought everyone knew that!
Pattern Name: Wait Until it is a Fad
...
Intent: A programmer finally gets a clue that there is something to design patterns
Also Known As: Hello World Pattern
Motivation: A programmer continually hears the phrase "Singleton Patterns are for dummies" from his collegues, thus feelling much less than a dummy
Not to mention the "attourney" (whatever an attourney is... some sort of tour guide for cable systems?). You know, I would assume he has better things to do too.
"The future of computer games is not about reinventing the wheel; it's about improving the engine... I think the trend is going more towards buy than build"
NOTE TO SELF: if I own one of the giant engines of the industry and someone asked me what the trend in the industry is, be sure to answer with the above statement.
AT&T
I do not have long distance service through them, my number is unlisted and blocked, yet they effectively contact me at least once a month (since they control the local phone service in my area).
When asked to be taken off their list, they claim it will take a month to go through yet I continually get called. They say they will send me writen notice about my request but I never receive it.
Anyone else harassed by this 800 pound gorilla?
I think Dr. Seuss has a copyright on these (or some like work).
True, they are doing things to "help" protect the users, but some of their reasoning seems antiquated.
For instance, their stance on crypto hardware is
"Supporting hardware cryptography accelerators has not been a high priority for the development team because it raises a number of fairly complex issues:
* Can you trust the hardware? If it is not Open Source, how do you audit its security? Even if it is, how do you check that the design has no concealed traps?
* If an interface is added for such hardware, can that interface be subverted or misused?
* Is hardware acceleration actually a performance win? It clearly is in many cases, but on a fast machine it might be better to use the CPU for the encryption than to pay the overheads of moving data to and from a crypto board.
* the current KLIPS code does not provide a clean interface for hardware accelerators
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My wife gives me so much grief when I forget and leave the seat up on theCANN, how could anyone get away with removing them completely!
The dangers of object oriented misuse:
i es /ProgrammingLessons.html
http://www.softcom.net/users/ispy/FunStuff/Stor
Taken from the June 15, 1999 Defense Science and Technology Organization Lecture series, Melbourne, Australia.
They Might Be Giants did a whole (kids) album with Flash animations.
http://www.giantkid.net
Happy flag day to you too man.
(If you don't quite get it, please don't mark me offtopic, you're just not in the know)
I'm totally up for doing volunteer work, as long as it pays well.
Apparently they don't want to infringe on their own patent (you know, these guys would sue anyone).
Then, someone needs to run a spellchecker (preferably an English one) over their ranking list.
I never meant to imply that I knew French (you might note that the subject is some form of broken Italian / Spanish / Euro mix).
Apparently, someone needs to inform the French that what they call Irak is Iraq in english.
What about the amount of power this would require? If my guess is correct, it would seem that they are using a USB connection to avoid excessive power consumption during download transmission of data.
"The Domain Name System (DNS), which converts complex Internet protocol addressing codes..."
And I suppose the person who wrote this article would consider arithmetic a complex system of digits and symbols.
How dare someone post such a LONG article that is interesting at the EOB on a Friday. Man, now I have to stay at work late.