Recommend? Those bastards, their asshat defaults, and their RTFM-impaired users are responsible for some 40% of the shite in my mailbox right now (though that is unusually high, I grant you). It is NOT acceptable to bounce "back" to an innocent victim. It is NOT acceptable to advertise the piece of shit responsible in the subject header either - though I like to imagine competent sysadmins the world over vowing not to buy the product as a direct result.
If everyone set up a rule to forward anything with "Message you sent blocked by Barracuda" to sales@barracuda.com with a "please fix your defaults", would that constitute a DDoS or just a mass appeal? (Yeah, I posted an email address. I figure they should be able to handle it, no?)
"Well, first the grandfatherboard and the grandmotherboard have to love each other very much. And then they have a very special cuddle, and the grandfatherboard puts his pin into the grandmotherboard's socket, and then there's a motherboard."
I'm using WinXP here at work. After getting burned by XP a few years back, I really wasn't keen - but now I'm perfectly happy with it. (Admittedly, I ditched the Teletubbies UI for the "classic" look.)
I'll probably go to Vista when the next laptop replacement comes up (and like it) - but I'll wait for everyone else to get burned first.
"Oracle work? Not me, but you want to talk to Wang... Chinese fella, absolutely brilliant. Wang, that's right. His last name? Kerr, his dad's Scottish - yeah, K-E-R-R. I've got his numbe... - actually, let me just transfer you."
To the adjacent desk.
"Hello?... you want who?...Did you just call me a wanker?" It escalates rapidly from there.:D
One thing I'm thinking of trying on my next change of email address: Prefixing with my initials, and shitcanning anything that doesn't start with those characters. Bye-bye vladimir.rodriguez and all the other unlikely names!
They might guess ebay@mydomain.com, slashdot@mydomain.com - but what are their chances of getting 6.y.slashdot? (Not my real initials:P )
Anyone out there who's used this approach, and can say whether it's worthwhile?
the US is just bigger and that means its more difficult to create and maintain a public transportation system. I live in Atlanta GA close to I-285 which is 60 miles full circle.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, whether you're saying that Atlanta's so vast that it's hard to have a decent public transport system, but the M25, around London is some 117 miles around. And London does all right for public transport.
Buy a big stonking bendy-bus. Fit it with low-density club seating and big tables for laptops - make it look like a hotel lobby, not a bus. Put a proper toilet at one end, and a proper coffee-maker (complete with a barista/host who's good with names) at the other. Free wi-fi. Hell, put a fax machine in there.
Call it RoadOffice or something. Make it look absolutely shit-hot from the outside, completely different from the beat-up pieces of shit "the immigrants" ride. Run the damned thing on bio-diesel and make sure everyone knows it. "Do something useful in traffic. Save the planet." or some such crap. Let people book in advance (and choose their seat), single-trip, by the week, whatever.
Run it from somewhere with loads of free parking, into the heart of the financial district. Be there half an hour before the journey starts, so people can go straight from BMW to RoadOffice. Charge way over the odds for a bus ride, but less than the cost of running a car. Charge for those coffees and snacky things.
Why won't something like this work? Serious question.
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Tacky. No digg.
Umm, a container ship? That'd be a portable Beowulf cluster of portable data centers.
But then again, I'd love to see a very small shell script try and pick strawberries.
To be replaced by a robot running a very small shell script, though - that'd suck.
Barracuda (Can't recommend these guys enough)
Recommend? Those bastards, their asshat defaults, and their RTFM-impaired users are responsible for some 40% of the shite in my mailbox right now (though that is unusually high, I grant you). It is NOT acceptable to bounce "back" to an innocent victim. It is NOT acceptable to advertise the piece of shit responsible in the subject header either - though I like to imagine competent sysadmins the world over vowing not to buy the product as a direct result.
If everyone set up a rule to forward anything with "Message you sent blocked by Barracuda" to sales@barracuda.com with a "please fix your defaults", would that constitute a DDoS or just a mass appeal? (Yeah, I posted an email address. I figure they should be able to handle it, no?)
flying pigs (coated in foil, of course)
I knew there was a use for that damned police helicopter!
So "NO BILLS OVER $20" is illegal? Interesting.
Well, that's one way to get +10 Informative ;)
"Well, first the grandfatherboard and the grandmotherboard have to love each other very much. And then they have a very special cuddle, and the grandfatherboard puts his pin into the grandmotherboard's socket, and then there's a motherboard."
...How would you feel if I patented a wheel-based device for forcibly ramming heads up asses?
Or (given that you're unlikely to survive such a procedure), is this fucking-wheel you mentioned prior art?
...before any other poor bastard has their mind corrupted with such an horrific image.
I need to purge this filth from my brain. Someone post a goatse link, quick.
No, wait, let me do it. Please?
That's nice and all. Really.
I'm using WinXP here at work. After getting burned by XP a few years back, I really wasn't keen - but now I'm perfectly happy with it. (Admittedly, I ditched the Teletubbies UI for the "classic" look.)
I'll probably go to Vista when the next laptop replacement comes up (and like it) - but I'll wait for everyone else to get burned first.
No, there's no hole there. But, just to show where it would be, they drew a circle around it.
"Oracle work? Not me, but you want to talk to Wang... Chinese fella, absolutely brilliant. Wang, that's right. His last name? Kerr, his dad's Scottish - yeah, K-E-R-R. I've got his numbe... - actually, let me just transfer you."
... you want who? ...Did you just call me a wanker?" It escalates rapidly from there. :D
To the adjacent desk.
"Hello?
One thing I'm thinking of trying on my next change of email address: Prefixing with my initials, and shitcanning anything that doesn't start with those characters. Bye-bye vladimir.rodriguez and all the other unlikely names!
:P )
They might guess ebay@mydomain.com, slashdot@mydomain.com - but what are their chances of getting 6.y.slashdot? (Not my real initials
Anyone out there who's used this approach, and can say whether it's worthwhile?
Okay, who else here only watched the last one?!
Just wait till a wi-fi-enabled bee finds its way in there... Won't be so smug then, will ya?
Any spam solution that uses Comic Sans on its web site is no spam solution.
Maybe that should be added to the spam solutions form?
Laser tag - what fun!
They were forced to evolve this ability after all the males were killed in frickin' laser accidents during mating attempts.
After a decent curry, that might just do it...
houses are cheap, flimsy cardboard boxes, so we waste enormous resources every summer/winter fighting the laws of thermodynamics
Aha, so that's why bums are always asking for change... to put in the meter. Now I get it.
the US is just bigger and that means its more difficult to create and maintain a public transportation system. I live in Atlanta GA close to I-285 which is 60 miles full circle.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, whether you're saying that Atlanta's so vast that it's hard to have a decent public transport system, but the M25, around London is some 117 miles around. And London does all right for public transport.
Buy a big stonking bendy-bus. Fit it with low-density club seating and big tables for laptops - make it look like a hotel lobby, not a bus. Put a proper toilet at one end, and a proper coffee-maker (complete with a barista/host who's good with names) at the other. Free wi-fi. Hell, put a fax machine in there.
Call it RoadOffice or something. Make it look absolutely shit-hot from the outside, completely different from the beat-up pieces of shit "the immigrants" ride. Run the damned thing on bio-diesel and make sure everyone knows it. "Do something useful in traffic. Save the planet." or some such crap. Let people book in advance (and choose their seat), single-trip, by the week, whatever.
Run it from somewhere with loads of free parking, into the heart of the financial district. Be there half an hour before the journey starts, so people can go straight from BMW to RoadOffice. Charge way over the odds for a bus ride, but less than the cost of running a car. Charge for those coffees and snacky things.
Why won't something like this work? Serious question.
So, we're ripping our Ask Slashdot items directly from Salon.com now?