Do English-speaking people receive spam in foreign languages?
Yes but not often. OTOH, I don't think I've ever received a non-spam email.... ooops, yes I did. I criticized an American summer camp's Italian (mis)spelling on their website, and got back a nice long email all in Italian.
Anyway, So long as it's a settable filter, language-specific spam control should be fine.
IMO it depends on the type of company. In my experience, retail-oriented businesses rely heavily on spreadsheets with macro
They do but they're making a mistake. IMHO Excel is a terrible tool for anything but the most simple spreadsheets. I can't count the number of macros I've seen which fail (sometimes not in a detectable manner) because someone hid or un-hid a column in the spreadsheet. And learning Excel visual basic is a pain in the butt. Databases should be handled with database software, not spreadsheet software. Similarly, data analysis should be done w/ analysis software (MatLab, Mathematica, etc), not big kludgy formulas and macros in Excel.
>> Just make it run around shooting stuff and saying things like "lol u camping fagot!!!!";)
>>Oh, and "my new vidcadr r0x ur world".
Was that "gamer" or "lamer" emu?
And if you think leetspeek is bad, check out the latest Frenchspeak as described by Jon Henley: TheGuardian
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"The majority of the successful attacks on operating systems come from only a few software vulnerabilities..." That's basically why the Counterpane guys are now leaning towards "distributed security." The idea is not to let any one password (or person) have enough access to anything to cause problems. I read an article somewhere in which Schneier pointed out, among other stuff, that far too many people use the same password everywhere. Thus if you get hacked on amazon.com, the thief will get into your fidelity.com account and your employer's network as well.
"Only if you signed a contract with Ford that stated you would only buy their tires. Otherwise, you own the car and have the right to use whatever tires you want." I can see it now:
FoMoCo EULA: By breaking this sticker and opening the car door, you agree to any and all conditions for operating and maintaining this car.
Question: from what little I recall about the early days of IBM desktop PCs, the big market break came when some other companies successfully reverse-engineered the BIOS file or something like that. Why was it OK for companies back then to develop chips&software which would allow their hardware to run the software and add-ons designed for the original IBM machines? What's the significant legal difference between the PC-clone (so to speak) market and these cloned toner carts?
" As a chemist I enjoyed this book and cursed Sacks for having the opportunities in childhood that I never had:) He grew up in a time of scienfific learning that will never be repeated."
Not repeated but different. We sure didn't have digital logic circuit kits in the 60's. Heck, you can buy a superconducting magnet experiment kit now, and maybe in a few years kids can get their own Quantum Entanglement Cat Box Kit:-).
Beatbyte said "I build 1-2 pieces of furniture a week. Put them in the paper for sale, and make my money back. All the while learning and making beer money."
Be careful: if you don't have health insurance, this semi-utopian self-employment model can blow up in your face. In the same vein, it's a good idea to realize we will all grow old someday and it's a lot easier to survive if you DO have enough savings to live when you're unable to work (injury, mandatory retirement, illness, etc).
I vote the punched-chad ballot (or the Supreme Court interpretation of such) as the invention which will have the greatest effect on the world as we know it.
[me:]Or: just because everyone knows who is married or not (or gay or not) doesn't mean that philanderers (or homophobes) will cease their harassing or criminal attacks.
[g4dget:]Well, if everybody is tracked publically, then their illegal harassment and attacks would be as much public knowledge as the legal conduct they are harassing and attacking people for. I think on balance, I'd feel safer that way because it would weed out the sociopaths that harass and attack people much more quickly than we can right now. Right now, many attackers (domestic violence, homophobia, etc.) are well-know, they just can't be locked up for a long time because the legal proof is lacking.
At the risk of sounding Libertarian, there's a lot of harassment performed by government agencies. And they're largely out of our control. But more to the point: making information public will NOT reduce the sociopaths' behavior for two reasons. First, public info does not imply better execution of the law. Second, sociopaths pretty much by definition don't care what you (or the law) thinks.
>> If information like taxes, license plates and vehicle registration, purchase patterns, driving records, medical treatments, etc., were universally and publically available, I think we would have fewer problems than we have now. [snip]It would keep politicians and regular folks more honest and polite--because nothing would be really anonymous anymore. And blackmail would be pretty much impossible--how can you blackmail someone if everybody can find out almost anything anyway?
That's not the point: just because everyone knows your SSN and VISA card number doesn't mean nobody is going to perform an identity theft. Or: just because everyone knows who is married or not (or gay or not) doesn't mean that philanderers (or homophobes) will cease their harassing or criminal attacks.
>> The next addition (if it's not part already) of TIA will be keeping track of who accesses public databases looking for information about public figures.
There's one way this has been going on for years: credit rating bureaus. One of the "red flag" items is too many inquiries. Supposedly this is bad because it indicates you might have been applying for too many loans or something (each application creating a "hit" on your record). But as a result, if you do a self-check every, say, 3 or 6 months, to verify there's no incorrect material in your account, you endup with a bad rating just because you looked there.
Wait a minute. How about GalaxieQuest? And some folks even liked SpaceBalls. Or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxie. How could you not love Marvin the Paranoid Android? Or Buckaroo Banzai beyond the 5th Dimension?
A couple comments here. So far as a plastic coverflap for a shutdown button goes, that is not only unreliable but also violates human engineering guidelines. But no machine should ever allow full shutdown after a single button push if there is any risk of loss/damage. This applies to computers as well as, say, airplane engines (and in fact it is impossible to engage the reverse thrusters until physical touchdown is verified). Now, Apple got the verification right, but their hardware had its own little problems back in the early 90's. Some fool put a pushbutton power switch (hard power, not a shutdown sequencer) right on the front panel. Too easy to hit; not to mention that Windows losers who happened to be using the Mac would push the button in hopes of ejecting the floppy disk.:-) .
you calculated 90 mph as: "t was a 2 lane road, 35 mph zone, during commute hours -- so everyone does 45. Some ditz in a borrowed car crossed the double yellow lines and ran head on into my sister's car. So they were doing somewhere in the 70-90 mph combined range (if you thought 90 mph per car... well, no, you're not going to survive that)." This is incorrect. The impact is absorbed by both cars, so the maximum effective impact speed any driver absorbs is the speed of the faster car. A common analogy given in Physics courses is: run a car at 45mph into a brick wall. The car stops dead( sorry about the word). The same analogy applies to the "other" car in a collision. You never get energy for free, so each car bahaves as though it hit the wall rather than some other car. Warning: if you are hit by a 16-wheeler, the effective speed is roughly the speed of the truck, NOT of your car (due to momentum considerations).
>>In my book, the only way for spam to really succeed is to make it so applealing that people actually welcome it and look forward to both receiving it and using it. Nearly half the viewers of the Superbowl watch the show for the commercials, that is where spam needs to get to in order for it to succeed.
Except 99.9% of the viewers watch the ads for entertainment. Spammers want sales, not high readership.
Well, I wrote an excessively compact comment. Yes, eyes may have followed other development paths, and yes, two eyes turned out to be necessary and sufficient. How evolution "works" is a large an interesting topic which probably should be covered in some other thread.
Now & then someone proposes a fee on email to cut down spammers. Heck, if SnailMail advertisers had to pay first-class postage they'd shut down pretty quickly. Personally I'd be happy to pay, say, a tenth-cent per email ADDRESS (so a bulk mailing is charged per ultimate destination). Or maybe the setup could allow the first thousand or so emails per month free, with charges after that.
Well, not eyes (redundancy in nature). Animals developed two eyes - or eye clusters, in the case of insects -- to allow stereovision and thus depth perception. Dual kidneys may be for backup and may be happenstance. There's one liver, one gall bladder, one pancrease, 5 lungs (more or less), and so on.
The head is not an appendage. Normally the body proper is considered to have 3 parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. This is easier to see in ants than men:-) . But more to the point: the "fives everywhere" poster made a common error. He chose a pattern and then went looking for evidence to match his choice, sort of like the people who think it's significant that Lincoln and Kennedy had secretaries named Kennedy and Lincoln.
Now what I'd like to know is: why are some organs formed in (bilateral) pairs and others singly?
It's certainly true that hardware mfrs oftenfail to develop drivers for small-market OS's. I can suggest this: in several cases, e-mail campaigns from Mac addicts led to a mfr agreeing to release a driver (or an app) in MacOS format. Quite possibly if you can convince Kensington there's a market, they'll release a Linux mouse driver.
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Yes but not often. OTOH, I don't think I've ever received a non-spam email.... ooops, yes I did. I criticized an American summer camp's Italian (mis)spelling on their website, and got back a nice long email all in Italian.
Anyway, So long as it's a settable filter, language-specific spam control should be fine.
How would that be different from MSoft now? Ohh, you said LITTLE bugs.
They do but they're making a mistake. IMHO Excel is a terrible tool for anything but the most simple spreadsheets. I can't count the number of macros I've seen which fail (sometimes not in a detectable manner) because someone hid or un-hid a column in the spreadsheet. And learning Excel visual basic is a pain in the butt. Databases should be handled with database software, not spreadsheet software. Similarly, data analysis should be done w/ analysis software (MatLab, Mathematica, etc), not big kludgy formulas and macros in Excel.
>>Oh, and "my new vidcadr r0x ur world".
Was that "gamer" or "lamer" emu?
And if you think leetspeek is bad, check out the latest Frenchspeak as described by Jon Henley: TheGuardian
"The majority of the successful attacks on operating systems come from only a few software vulnerabilities ..."
That's basically why the Counterpane guys are now leaning towards "distributed security." The idea is not to let any one password (or person) have enough access to anything to cause problems. I read an article somewhere in which Schneier pointed out, among other stuff, that far too many people use the same password everywhere. Thus if you get hacked on amazon.com, the thief will get into your fidelity.com account and your employer's network as well.
"" Yeah, it's fair if you got the car for $1000.
"Only if you signed a contract with Ford that stated you would only buy their tires. Otherwise, you own the car and have the right to use whatever tires you want."
I can see it now:
FoMoCo EULA: By breaking this sticker and opening the car door, you agree to any and all conditions for operating and maintaining this car.
Question: from what little I recall about the early days of IBM desktop PCs, the big market break came when some other companies successfully reverse-engineered the BIOS file or something like that. Why was it OK for companies back then to develop chips&software which would allow their hardware to run the software and add-ons designed for the original IBM machines? What's the significant legal difference between the PC-clone (so to speak) market and these cloned toner carts?
Uhhhh,
" In Mordor, the Ring finds You!"
" As a chemist I enjoyed this book and cursed Sacks for having the opportunities in childhood that I never had :) He grew up in a time of scienfific learning that will never be repeated."
:-) .
Not repeated but different. We sure didn't have digital logic circuit kits in the 60's. Heck, you can buy a superconducting magnet experiment kit now, and maybe in a few years kids can get their own Quantum Entanglement Cat Box Kit
Beatbyte said "I build 1-2 pieces of furniture a week. Put them in the paper for sale, and make my money back. All the while learning and making beer money."
Be careful: if you don't have health insurance, this semi-utopian self-employment model can blow up in your face. In the same vein, it's a good idea to realize we will all grow old someday and it's a lot easier to survive if you DO have enough savings to live when you're unable to work (injury, mandatory retirement, illness, etc).
I vote the punched-chad ballot (or the Supreme Court interpretation of such) as the invention which will have the greatest effect on the world as we know it.
[me:]Or: just because everyone knows who is married or not (or gay or not) doesn't mean that philanderers (or homophobes) will cease their harassing or criminal attacks.
[g4dget:]Well, if everybody is tracked publically, then their illegal harassment and attacks would be as much public knowledge as the legal conduct they are harassing and attacking people for. I think on balance, I'd feel safer that way because it would weed out the sociopaths that harass and attack people much more quickly than we can right now. Right now, many attackers (domestic violence, homophobia, etc.) are well-know, they just can't be locked up for a long time because the legal proof is lacking.
At the risk of sounding Libertarian, there's a lot of harassment performed by government agencies. And they're largely out of our control. But more to the point: making information public will NOT reduce the sociopaths' behavior for two reasons. First, public info does not imply better execution of the law. Second, sociopaths pretty much by definition don't care what you (or the law) thinks.
>> If information like taxes, license plates and vehicle registration, purchase patterns, driving records, medical treatments, etc., were universally and publically available, I think we would have fewer problems than we have now. [snip]It would keep politicians and regular folks more honest and polite--because nothing would be really anonymous anymore. And blackmail would be pretty much impossible--how can you blackmail someone if everybody can find out almost anything anyway?
That's not the point: just because everyone knows your SSN and VISA card number doesn't mean nobody is going to perform an identity theft.
Or: just because everyone knows who is married or not (or gay or not) doesn't mean that philanderers (or homophobes) will cease their harassing or criminal attacks.
>> The next addition (if it's not part already) of TIA will be keeping track of who accesses public databases looking for information about public figures.
There's one way this has been going on for years: credit rating bureaus. One of the "red flag" items is too many inquiries. Supposedly this is bad because it indicates you might have been applying for too many loans or something (each application creating a "hit" on your record). But as a result, if you do a self-check every, say, 3 or 6 months, to verify there's no incorrect material in your account, you endup with a bad rating just because you looked there.
Yep, sorry about the wrong dimensionality. I must have been "Up, up, and away" when I wrote that.
>Humour in sci-fi = bad.
Wait a minute. How about GalaxieQuest?
And some folks even liked SpaceBalls.
Or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxie. How could you not love Marvin the Paranoid Android?
Or Buckaroo Banzai beyond the 5th Dimension?
A couple comments here. So far as a plastic coverflap for a shutdown button goes, that is not only unreliable but also violates human engineering guidelines. But no machine should ever allow full shutdown after a single button push if there is any risk of loss/damage. This applies to computers as well as, say, airplane engines (and in fact it is impossible to engage the reverse thrusters until physical touchdown is verified). :-) .
Now, Apple got the verification right, but their hardware had its own little problems back in the early 90's. Some fool put a pushbutton power switch (hard power, not a shutdown sequencer) right on the front panel. Too easy to hit; not to mention that Windows losers who happened to be using the Mac would push the button in hopes of ejecting the floppy disk.
you calculated 90 mph as: "t was a 2 lane road, 35 mph zone, during commute hours -- so everyone does 45. Some ditz in a borrowed car crossed the double yellow lines and ran head on into my sister's car. So they were doing somewhere in the 70-90 mph combined range (if you thought 90 mph per car... well, no, you're not going to survive that)."
This is incorrect. The impact is absorbed by both cars, so the maximum effective impact speed any driver absorbs is the speed of the faster car. A common analogy given in Physics courses is: run a car at 45mph into a brick wall. The car stops dead( sorry about the word). The same analogy applies to the "other" car in a collision. You never get energy for free, so each car bahaves as though it hit the wall rather than some other car.
Warning: if you are hit by a 16-wheeler, the effective speed is roughly the speed of the truck, NOT of your car (due to momentum considerations).
Carl
>>In my book, the only way for spam to really succeed is to make it so applealing that people actually welcome it and look forward to both
receiving it and using it. Nearly half the viewers of the Superbowl watch the show for the commercials, that is where spam needs to get to
in order for it to succeed.
Except 99.9% of the viewers watch the ads for entertainment. Spammers want sales, not high readership.
Well, I wrote an excessively compact comment. Yes, eyes may have followed other development paths, and yes, two eyes turned out to be necessary and sufficient.
How evolution "works" is a large an interesting topic which probably should be covered in some other thread.
Now & then someone proposes a fee on email to cut down spammers. Heck, if SnailMail advertisers had to pay first-class postage they'd shut down pretty quickly. Personally I'd be happy to pay, say, a tenth-cent per email ADDRESS (so a bulk mailing is charged per ultimate destination).
Or maybe the setup could allow the first thousand or so emails per month free, with charges after that.
Well, not eyes (redundancy in nature). Animals developed two eyes - or eye clusters, in the case of insects -- to allow stereovision and thus depth perception.
Dual kidneys may be for backup and may be happenstance. There's one liver, one gall bladder, one pancrease, 5 lungs (more or less), and so on.
The head is not an appendage. Normally the body proper is considered to have 3 parts: head, thorax, and abdomen. This is easier to see in ants than men :-) . But more to the point: the "fives everywhere" poster made a common error. He chose a pattern and then went looking for evidence to match his choice, sort of like the people who think it's significant that Lincoln and Kennedy had secretaries named Kennedy and Lincoln.
Now what I'd like to know is: why are some organs formed in (bilateral) pairs and others singly?
Real or not, why bother with buttons at all. Go for voice:
"Channel Thirty Seven"
"Louder"
"Mode Dolby Digital"
"DVD On"
"DVD Play"
You can't lose your voice under the sofa cushion.
It's certainly true that hardware mfrs oftenfail to develop drivers for small-market OS's. I can suggest this: in several cases, e-mail campaigns from Mac addicts led to a mfr agreeing to release a driver (or an app) in MacOS format. Quite possibly if you can convince Kensington there's a market, they'll release a Linux mouse driver.