If your mail server has inbound ssh access, you can tunnel POP over it. If your workstation is running Linux, it's:
ssh -L 110:mailhost:110 -l user -N mailhost
And if your workstation is running Windows, it can be done with the SSH client from ssh.com.
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The IDT videos show up a lot on P2P filesharing systems. The people on those systems are, one would assume, paying $0.00 per download. I wonder how much IDT is really making.
Oregon Trail? I dunno. Are there any reasonably complete, complex-scenario text simulation / adventures with a learning slant (not just nethack) like this ready for kids / teachers to apt-get?
I don't know about you, but at my school, Oregon Trail consisted of seeing how fast we could kill our parties. Let's see - 0 pounds of food ought to do it. Clothing? Nah, we'll be free of those societal constraints in Oregon. Let's use a grueling pace.
I also liked to name my people after diseases: Measles has typhoid. Typhoid has typhoid. Snakebite has dysentery.
Sprint is by far the best wireless provider in the country.
Them's fightin' words. It very well may be the best provider for your needs, but others' needs might necessitate something else.
I'm currently with Cingular, which allows me to use my minutes anywhere in the country where there's a TDMA signal without incurring any roaming charge whatsoever. Where I work, in the middle of New England Nowhere, the ONLY providers are Cellular One (it hasn't been bought out here yet) and US Cellular, both TDMA. Therefore, I had to drop Voicestream/TMobile, who had served me extremely well via GSM in Philadelphia and New Jersey.
Now-a-days people are used to guys on the subway staring blankly into infinity while having conversations with people who aren't there.
Most cell phones don't get service underground. So if they're on an underground train and talking, either their provider rocks and managed to network the subway (which Cingular did in parts of Philadelphia), or they're good old-fashioned wackos.
The vast majority of Americans would be heavier cell phone users if the majority of their local calls were cheaper on the cell than on the landline.
I've read several times recently that long distance phone service is taking a big hit because it's becoming more and more common for cell phone providers to provide free (i.e. included in your "minutes") calling to anywhere in the USA.
This is especially true at colleges, who like to charge an arm and a leg to freshmen who miss their high school sweethearts. My alma mater charges 13 cents a minute for out of state calls. Then I got a cell phone which, doing the division, charged me 8 cents a minute on weekdays, and 2 cents a minute on weekends.
There's also the minor advantage of the cell phone's WORKING EVERYWHERE....
I know you were making a point, but I want to agree that most lab classes I've been in have been useless. Dissection allowed me to see a bunch of unidentifiable slimy junk inside a dead animal. Chemistry labs allowed me to burn pencils. Best of all was physics, where I managed to disprove all of Newtonian mechanics through crappy equipment, both in high school and college. (Did you ever have to measure acceleration and velocity by looking at marks on a tape that was being pulled by a falling weight? Ugh!)
Once in college, I had to do an experiment with cars on a frictionless track. Nice, except that one of the cars had a stuck wheel. Once I proved that inertia no longer existed in the universe, the earth flew out of its orbit, and we all froze to death. The heating in my dorm didn't work so well either.
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Or its DOS equivalent, COPY CON:
For a 9-year-old with shitty eye-hand coordination, that was a rough experience. I can't remember now what book or magazine had me doing that, I just remember hating it. I mean, my dad had replaced the typewriter with a computer for a REASON.
I'm pretty sure "concerned mothers" are a greater threat to freedom than terrorists ever were...
And today is a very important day in the history of that subject. On August 21, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, giving women the right to vote. I would never advocate reversing that, of course, but it's worth looking at what the implications of that amendment have been. The conflict between security and freedom was changed irrevocably 82 years ago.
I've been mulling an idea over in my head for a while. Tell me what you think.
There are a lot of groups out there who harvest email addresses and sell them, right? Why doesn't some bunch of enterprising lawyers go out and buy every email address they can get their hands on? Then they could search for all their addresses, and the addresses of their friends and families.
With a nice list of spam victims, they could launch a lawsuit on their friends' behalf against the people who sold them the email addresses. If there were money to be made, more people would get involved, all trying to catch spammers.
I see two problems: 1. Entrapment. If I bought the email addresses, am I not allowed to sue you for selling them? 2. Lack of legislative grounds for the suit - but these days it seems like you don't need legislation for any lawsuit.
A "vigilante" solution would be to buy the email addresses, then send a message to each address saying "Some guy just sold me your email address. Here's all the personal information I have about him. Do with this what you will."
I haven't seen a free market argument yet that would work in the arena of such a unique and finite community owned resource I'm always open to new economic ideas, let's hear 'em.
This is just an even more absurd attempt to exercise power over the masses by the MPAA. And why don't they get it through their thick skulls that all these stupid things they're trying to do will only HURT their sales??
Well, I think this whole issue is less the work of the profit-conscious MPAA than the work of the creativity-conscious DGA.
The media is yours - as is the right to modify that media.
But then aren't you effectively slandering the creators if you leave the "Written by:" in the credits? I mean, what if I took Return of the Jedi, and took the cool Ewok song off the end, added a completely idiotic musical number, and passed it off as the same movie? Wouldn't George Lucas be offended that I was distributing such crap and calling it his?
OK, bad example.;)
But you get my point. If something says I wrote it, and I didn't write it, and it sucks, people are going to think I suck at writing. That's unfair.
(Well, a lot of people believed it did, because it says some part of Solomon's temple was 10 cubits in diameter and 30 cubits in circumference. Eventually some Jewish scholars decided 30 cubits was the INNER circumference, while the diameter went from outer end to outer end. Read the whole story from a guy who takes it way too seriously.)
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If your mail server has inbound ssh access, you can tunnel POP over it. If your workstation is running Linux, it's:
ssh -L 110:mailhost:110 -l user -N mailhost
And if your workstation is running Windows, it can be done with the SSH client from ssh.com.
The IDT videos show up a lot on P2P filesharing systems. The people on those systems are, one would assume, paying $0.00 per download. I wonder how much IDT is really making.
I also liked to name my people after diseases:
Measles has typhoid.
Typhoid has typhoid.
Snakebite has dysentery.
I'm currently with Cingular, which allows me to use my minutes anywhere in the country where there's a TDMA signal without incurring any roaming charge whatsoever. Where I work, in the middle of New England Nowhere, the ONLY providers are Cellular One (it hasn't been bought out here yet) and US Cellular, both TDMA. Therefore, I had to drop Voicestream/TMobile, who had served me extremely well via GSM in Philadelphia and New Jersey.
Damn, if I had mod points that'd be all kinds of Funny.
I know of a site where you could get three. (Although posting the link on Slashdot is guaranteed to drive up the price.)
Oh my Lord. How many ways can you say this ad is dated? It seems like it's from another planet.
This is especially true at colleges, who like to charge an arm and a leg to freshmen who miss their high school sweethearts. My alma mater charges 13 cents a minute for out of state calls. Then I got a cell phone which, doing the division, charged me 8 cents a minute on weekdays, and 2 cents a minute on weekends.
There's also the minor advantage of the cell phone's WORKING EVERYWHERE....
Two words: term limits.
And the ultra-pragmatic solution would be "use scientific notation!"
I know you were making a point, but I want to agree that most lab classes I've been in have been useless. Dissection allowed me to see a bunch of unidentifiable slimy junk inside a dead animal. Chemistry labs allowed me to burn pencils. Best of all was physics, where I managed to disprove all of Newtonian mechanics through crappy equipment, both in high school and college. (Did you ever have to measure acceleration and velocity by looking at marks on a tape that was being pulled by a falling weight? Ugh!)
Once in college, I had to do an experiment with cars on a frictionless track. Nice, except that one of the cars had a stuck wheel. Once I proved that inertia no longer existed in the universe, the earth flew out of its orbit, and we all froze to death. The heating in my dorm didn't work so well either.
Or its DOS equivalent, COPY CON:
For a 9-year-old with shitty eye-hand coordination, that was a rough experience. I can't remember now what book or magazine had me doing that, I just remember hating it. I mean, my dad had replaced the typewriter with a computer for a REASON.
I'm just glad page widening posts and goatse.cx haven't made the jump to television yet.
I've been mulling an idea over in my head for a while. Tell me what you think.
There are a lot of groups out there who harvest email addresses and sell them, right? Why doesn't some bunch of enterprising lawyers go out and buy every email address they can get their hands on? Then they could search for all their addresses, and the addresses of their friends and families.
With a nice list of spam victims, they could launch a lawsuit on their friends' behalf against the people who sold them the email addresses. If there were money to be made, more people would get involved, all trying to catch spammers.
I see two problems:
1. Entrapment. If I bought the email addresses, am I not allowed to sue you for selling them?
2. Lack of legislative grounds for the suit - but these days it seems like you don't need legislation for any lawsuit.
A "vigilante" solution would be to buy the email addresses, then send a message to each address saying "Some guy just sold me your email address. Here's all the personal information I have about him. Do with this what you will."
I just looked at your profile, and I have concluded that your job is the sum of the dreams of all Philadelphia-born geeks.
A visit to the Mechanics room on the 3rd floor sounds really good right now. Too bad I'm 300 miles away.
When flowers are "arranged" in a yard, they generally haven't been cut off from the organism they belong to. The organism is living there.
For Internet radio, of course.
Hehe, I wonder how many of us will come up with the same joke independently?
OK, bad example.
But you get my point. If something says I wrote it, and I didn't write it, and it sucks, people are going to think I suck at writing. That's unfair.
Yeah, it also defines Pi as 3.
(Well, a lot of people believed it did, because it says some part of Solomon's temple was 10 cubits in diameter and 30 cubits in circumference. Eventually some Jewish scholars decided 30 cubits was the INNER circumference, while the diameter went from outer end to outer end. Read the whole story from a guy who takes it way too seriously.)