As an SA at a hosted email provider I see this on a daily basis and could list several hundred domains just from the last few days' worth of reports. They hit the big registrars, attempt to automate as much as possible, create dozens of email accounts per domain, and turn on the spigot disposing of the domains immediately in the case of sending domains, and putting off the demise of the web domains as long as possible.
Fortunately, the activity levels of the greedy spammers far outstrips the activity levels of the normal user, that said, we still see occasional drip spammers.
Long ago I proposed a pay-per-view spectacular. Pasty faced pudgy sysadmins from around the world get air dropped onto an island studded with cameras and stocked with spammers and 419 scammers... Viewers can then vote online which sysadmins get which weapons. (Please gentle viewer, let me have the M1)
There are still loads of things a clued-in parent can do with their kids that will wind up with broken, burning wreckages.
Buy them the "dangerous book for boys", or "dangerous book for girls", sign them up for scouting, nearly every police/firedept has an explorers post, hell even a fife and drum corps will teach the kids more about life than endless hours of television or even school.
We purchased the dangerous book for boys a while back and my son went and made himself a bow and arrows. It worked too, could punch a small hole in you. Instead of jailing him, we went out and shot the damned thing until it broke, then we made another one! He learned more about physics from that weapon than anything taught up to 3rd grade. (he was in 3rd grade at the time) I cut him off after finding him desperately searching for some rubber for a slingshot. Taught him the wonders of old medical tubing.
Sure, but who wants to buy a car that only gets 100 miles, then needs to be recharged every 50 miles? This might be a good second or third car, but it's not that practical as your main vehicle, and the fact that an electric vehicle must be charged nightly limits it to only being useful to homes with garages.
Me! I want one. I've never commuted more than 30 miles a day round-trip, and currently I commute 4 miles to work, my wife commutes 6 miles to work, and the vast majority of our trips in a commuter vehicle would be 30 miles. Even the big days would be 50 miles, taking the kids to events, driving myself to teach (I run a fife and drum corps) 1/2 way around our city, or driving to/from our datacenter to play hands/feet is only 32 miles round-trip.
That said... to avoid owning a dedicated trip-to-grandma's-vehicle I actually want a Volt for the reasons you cite, once a month or less trips to distant locations. And I want an all electic motorcycle too just for kicks. But I want my Volt in diesel, and I want to be able to plug my house into it, instead of it into my house, when there's a power outage or we need electricity camping or something.
Universities are in the exact same business as Exxon, BP or Haliburton. Parting you from your money. This includes university libraries and publishing houses.
They compete just as fiercely for business as any corporation. So one university press has no interest in giving a competing university unlimited access to their products for free, this is not a big surprise.
If only there was some regulation in this multi-billion dollar a year industry.
there are plenty of high %age brews out there that are very drinkable and locally available (at least here in Rochester, NY they are)
Dogfish head's 120 minute IPA is excellent, drink it in a snifter two ounces at a time. I think I get this around $18 a 4 pack? I could be way off here.
Sam Adams Utopias, 24%, $15/ounce, drink from a snifter, worth every penny.
Sam Adams Imperial Stout is a great stout, thick and hearty, though less alcohol than Dogfish Head's, correspondingly easier to drink. I think I've paid $12 a 4 pack for this.
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout %10, excellent, would buy again A++, $12 a 4 pack?
Goose Island's Bourbon County Stout, 13%, 2x as expensive as the Sam Adams Imperial Stout, a great snifter beer. $24 a 4 pack. They make a coffee stout in this type too, also excellent.
Thankfully we have a huge selection of great beer everywhere from Wegmans (groceries) to Hess (yes, some gas stations around here carry an excellent variety), to our favorite "Beers of the World".
When someone wants a favor, and offers beer, these are the ones I request.
the first time I saw this stuff pop up in my yard, I really couldn't believe it. The first day there was a sprout, it was purple. The second day, it was knee high, purple. At least this is the way it seems. It really did look like a cartoon drawing of an alien plant, I expected seed pods in the front yard, each capable of implanting a crab shaped alien baby for incubation in human host. After a few weeks it was 2 meters, bright green with little hard green berries sprouting, I don't remember the flower stage. I had to kill it with fire. Not joking.
they weren't weeds 150 years ago, people used the juice for a base for ink. they're toxic though, so boil it 14 times, throw the sauce away and eat the pot.
and it's hardly a unique situation. With the exception of the people involved in each first migration, every piece of land on the planet was colonized in the same way by waves of people slaughtering the previous inhabitants. The people we often call natives, weren't.
I was just going to post a recipe. The above will make a drinkable apple wine. s/apple juice/cider/g and you have yourself a very drinkable hard cider. It's so easy, even a caveman could do it.
I have a sun enterprise 4500 in the garage holding up a stack of paint cans. works great, computes OK too with loads of CPU and several 36GB SCSI drives.
yup. you wouldn't be the first to do so. I can think of several, at least three, telcos started in my home town since 1980. I can think of at least two oil/gas companies in the same boat. All still functioning, EXCEPT the one sold to the giant telco, though it's still operating, just under the new name.
So, feel free.
Oh, and not snarky: start an oil company that sells bio fuels made from algae. It's the wave of the future.
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there are email reputation providers out there who can tell you things like that. It may even be free (it is for us anyway)
except they're using disposable stolen credit cards to pay for it, so really, they don't care about the $10 a pop.
As an SA at a hosted email provider I see this on a daily basis and could list several hundred domains just from the last few days' worth of reports. They hit the big registrars, attempt to automate as much as possible, create dozens of email accounts per domain, and turn on the spigot disposing of the domains immediately in the case of sending domains, and putting off the demise of the web domains as long as possible.
Fortunately, the activity levels of the greedy spammers far outstrips the activity levels of the normal user, that said, we still see occasional drip spammers.
Long ago I proposed a pay-per-view spectacular. Pasty faced pudgy sysadmins from around the world get air dropped onto an island studded with cameras and stocked with spammers and 419 scammers... Viewers can then vote online which sysadmins get which weapons. (Please gentle viewer, let me have the M1)
but you can make excellent ropes for drums with it
There are still loads of things a clued-in parent can do with their kids that will wind up with broken, burning wreckages.
Buy them the "dangerous book for boys", or "dangerous book for girls", sign them up for scouting, nearly every police/firedept has an explorers post, hell even a fife and drum corps will teach the kids more about life than endless hours of television or even school.
We purchased the dangerous book for boys a while back and my son went and made himself a bow and arrows. It worked too, could punch a small hole in you. Instead of jailing him, we went out and shot the damned thing until it broke, then we made another one! He learned more about physics from that weapon than anything taught up to 3rd grade. (he was in 3rd grade at the time) I cut him off after finding him desperately searching for some rubber for a slingshot. Taught him the wonders of old medical tubing.
Sure, but who wants to buy a car that only gets 100 miles, then needs to be recharged every 50 miles? This might be a good second or third car, but it's not that practical as your main vehicle, and the fact that an electric vehicle must be charged nightly limits it to only being useful to homes with garages.
Me! I want one. I've never commuted more than 30 miles a day round-trip, and currently I commute 4 miles to work, my wife commutes 6 miles to work, and the vast majority of our trips in a commuter vehicle would be 30 miles. Even the big days would be 50 miles, taking the kids to events, driving myself to teach (I run a fife and drum corps) 1/2 way around our city, or driving to/from our datacenter to play hands/feet is only 32 miles round-trip.
That said... to avoid owning a dedicated trip-to-grandma's-vehicle I actually want a Volt for the reasons you cite, once a month or less trips to distant locations. And I want an all electic motorcycle too just for kicks. But I want my Volt in diesel, and I want to be able to plug my house into it, instead of it into my house, when there's a power outage or we need electricity camping or something.
Universities are in the exact same business as Exxon, BP or Haliburton. Parting you from your money. This includes university libraries and publishing houses.
They compete just as fiercely for business as any corporation. So one university press has no interest in giving a competing university unlimited access to their products for free, this is not a big surprise.
If only there was some regulation in this multi-billion dollar a year industry.
Beers of the World carries some of them. I'll give 'em a try! thanks!
there are plenty of high %age brews out there that are very drinkable and locally available (at least here in Rochester, NY they are)
Dogfish head's 120 minute IPA is excellent, drink it in a snifter two ounces at a time. I think I get this around $18 a 4 pack? I could be way off here.
Sam Adams Utopias, 24%, $15/ounce, drink from a snifter, worth every penny.
Sam Adams Imperial Stout is a great stout, thick and hearty, though less alcohol than Dogfish Head's, correspondingly easier to drink. I think I've paid $12 a 4 pack for this.
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout %10, excellent, would buy again A++, $12 a 4 pack?
Goose Island's Bourbon County Stout, 13%, 2x as expensive as the Sam Adams Imperial Stout, a great snifter beer. $24 a 4 pack. They make a coffee stout in this type too, also excellent.
Thankfully we have a huge selection of great beer everywhere from Wegmans (groceries) to Hess (yes, some gas stations around here carry an excellent variety), to our favorite "Beers of the World".
When someone wants a favor, and offers beer, these are the ones I request.
sounds like a business opportunity... Alzheimer's Insurance. Pay now, painless exit after diagnosis.
electric universe? Hologramatic universe? Time cube?
on the gripping hand...
the first time I saw this stuff pop up in my yard, I really couldn't believe it. The first day there was a sprout, it was purple. The second day, it was knee high, purple. At least this is the way it seems. It really did look like a cartoon drawing of an alien plant, I expected seed pods in the front yard, each capable of implanting a crab shaped alien baby for incubation in human host. After a few weeks it was 2 meters, bright green with little hard green berries sprouting, I don't remember the flower stage. I had to kill it with fire. Not joking.
they weren't weeds 150 years ago, people used the juice for a base for ink. they're toxic though, so boil it 14 times, throw the sauce away and eat the pot.
x-ray specs! that's what more.
"working against it seems like working towards the extinction of the human race"
I understand the meaning of the word "seems", nevertheless the implication of that sentence fragment stands.
name one impact of AGW that will lead to the extinction of the human species
and it's hardly a unique situation. With the exception of the people involved in each first migration, every piece of land on the planet was colonized in the same way by waves of people slaughtering the previous inhabitants. The people we often call natives, weren't.
plot twist... robot Abraham Lincoln eats dinner with robot John Wilkes Boothe?
I was just going to post a recipe. The above will make a drinkable apple wine. s/apple juice/cider/g and you have yourself a very drinkable hard cider. It's so easy, even a caveman could do it.
perfectly logical, to show the other party all the arms so they know we're not hiding something
I have a sun enterprise 4500 in the garage holding up a stack of paint cans. works great, computes OK too with loads of CPU and several 36GB SCSI drives.
Capt. Kittinger (still flys balloons!) wore a space suit, and has big brass bowling ball sized testicles that put the rest of us to shame.
the market isn't free so long as slaves produce the goods.
yup. you wouldn't be the first to do so. I can think of several, at least three, telcos started in my home town since 1980. I can think of at least two oil/gas companies in the same boat. All still functioning, EXCEPT the one sold to the giant telco, though it's still operating, just under the new name.
So, feel free.
Oh, and not snarky: start an oil company that sells bio fuels made from algae. It's the wave of the future.