I would have too, except that 25 years of coffee, cigarettes and porn at 3MB/s, means that I don't get geek boners anymore without chemical assistance.
I can't believe that show was 25 years ago, I'm feeling really old today.
and generally despicable people getting into office. Perfect. I just wish there was a way to spell "despicable" more like how Daffy Duck said it. i.e., with more saliva spraying.
In my recent experience the penny stock spams have been using simple 4 color gifs MIME'd right in the mail, surrounded with what looks like excerpts from The Da Vinci Code. It renders SpamAssassin's and Thunderbird's filters pretty much worthless.
I wonder why the SEC doesn't get involved on the pump and dump stocks? It's a closed system, and the spammers have to put the ticker symbol in the spam. They should write a new rule that says "if we find >1000 spams with your ticker symbol in our honeypot mail accounts, we will selectively suspend trading of your stock for a week". Although, I guess that would just shift the game to promoting your competitors stock via spam so they get suspended... sigh, if only email didn't scale so well-- one spam is worthless, but 1 million can make it worthwhile.
In some weird way I'm glad there are cheaters out there. It fills me pride when someone accuses me of cheating on the Call of Duty 2 server I frequent. The server regulars know I don't use cheating mods or bots. Indeed, I don't even know enough to make my player name have all the pretty colors. So when someone thinks my actual game playing abilities are too good to be real, it's a high compliment. Hell, I have to play with a trackball (repetitive stress injury), which most people consider a handicap. In my experience, a cheater that visits a close-knit and adult open community server will be watched and banned in about fifteen minutes-- certainly not enough time for me to get my panties in a twist.
I remember flying standby a few years back, and everytime I left the SLC airport for a cig, I got the royal "special treatment". It was a real bummer when I found the smoking area inside the terminal several hours later...
Hey, wait a minute-- if you take into account minute changes in the earth's rotational velocity, and the price of chili in China; isn't today April 1st by the Mayan calendar?
I don't know why people feel that caveat emptor (buyer beware) should apply less today than it did many years ago. Pop-ups and spam to me are the equivalent of P.T. Barnum unloading a bunch of tuna as "white salmon, guaranteed not to turn pink in the can". Especially with all the vendor/product/reseller review sites out there, one would think it would be easier for more emptorii to caveat. I don't feel any different about my grandmother thinking she's the 5000th visitor than I did when she bought that Ronco rotisserie abomination.
How can they possibly expect to enforce something like that on the PC-based DVRs? My SageTV with DirMon and ShowAnalyzer automagically generates a skip list for CommSkip, so I never see ads on timeshifted stuff. Before, when I used MythTV, I had similar functionality. I never watch live TV anymore because I lack the patience to pause the show long enough to build up a sizeable ringbuffer to be able to manually FF through the ads.
But I still watch ads. I was so tickled by the new VW Rabbit ad (seen on the gym TV) that I found it on YouTube and watched it over and over again-- emailing it to family and friends. So that's the way to get people to watch ads-- interesting content in the framework of the ad. I guess it's the end of those poorly made Budget Bob's Bargain Warehouse local spots with the clown suits and balloons.
It seems to me a competitor could fraudulently buy up all the 10,000 gold parcels in WoW that IGE has to sell with bogus credit cards, and run them out of business. I don't see how IGE would have any recourse in-game to get their farmed money back. I wonder what that would do to the artificially inflated prices that farming causes. Seems like an opportunity for some black hats to fight fire with fire.
I'm sure you are correct. I had to get good at watching movies on my Asus M6N with the screen open only about 30 degrees. The trick was to rest the front part of the laptop on my belly, so I wouldn't have to scrunch down in the seat to peer into the crack and see the movie. Eventually I gave up, and now I just read books in-flight.
There's a significant amount of flex when typing and the break is a little spongey too.
And you'll be glad too, when your rowmate on the plane attempts to repeatedly slam your head in it because you whipped out such a big friggin' laptop. God help you if you buy one of these and want me to give up my portion of the armrest so you can play Spider in relative comfort...
Seriously though, how is this any worse than dataminers like Axciom http://www.acxiom.com/, or Wal-Mart having the world's larget database http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1675960,00.as p of point-of-sale data? I can't imagine the trash you'd have to wade through to get some reliable marketing data. And if that happens, we'll just see bots that create fake MySpace pages to inflate the numbers-- the same way we now see blog spam and fake blogs with product information.
I heartily concur. As a software developer for a hospital, we go out of the way to make sure things as secure as we can make them. We also scrutinize our designs from the perspective of HIPAA compliance. For example, we recently instituted a method that doctors could get a weekly email of their charts that they need to sign, dictate, etc. We cannot get paid until the doctors do this step. Unfortunately, we can't send individual patient info over email, even if it's on a server in our control-- therefore we have to send aggregate counts and a link back to our system and force the docs to authenticate before they can see the actual charts they are deficient on.
Basically, we are putting off getting paid by the insurance companies for the sake of protecting our patients information. Still it's worthwhile, in fact, we rate some of our project's by how many potential fines we could avoid. Even if we never get fined, we still evaluated it was though we would have from the beginning.
Also bear in mind that three years is not very long to evolve a large system of business processes into compliance. Consider how long it took some companies to get to ISO9000, and that was voluntary!
Also, from the I'm-Also-A-Customer Dept., I was hospitalized two years ago with a very severe case of pancreatitis (7 out of 8 Ranson), and due to HIPAA, the docs could only tell my parents that my chances were grim and to make arrangements for my demise. They couldn't tell my fiancee. My parents elected not to disclose that info to her or anyone else-- so every visitor I had in the ICU came in thinking I was going to be all right and I think I could sense that positive energy.
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/me ducks.
Wouldn't that make this a meta-rant?
Kind of sounds like the "pipe organ" computer Waterhouse created in Stephenson's Cryptonomicon which used standing pressure waves to store states.
I would have too, except that 25 years of coffee, cigarettes and porn at 3MB/s, means that I don't get geek boners anymore without chemical assistance.
I can't believe that show was 25 years ago, I'm feeling really old today.
Too bad, I was hoping that would explain why alligators are so surly. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=7442915
Am I a pervert because the phrase "animated fluids" makes me chuckle?
Or make them out of recycled ground up Wal-Mart shopping bags.
Will this EULA keep Vista gamers from telling other players what their framerate is? Nice...
In my recent experience the penny stock spams have been using simple 4 color gifs MIME'd right in the mail, surrounded with what looks like excerpts from The Da Vinci Code. It renders SpamAssassin's and Thunderbird's filters pretty much worthless.
I wonder why the SEC doesn't get involved on the pump and dump stocks? It's a closed system, and the spammers have to put the ticker symbol in the spam. They should write a new rule that says "if we find >1000 spams with your ticker symbol in our honeypot mail accounts, we will selectively suspend trading of your stock for a week". Although, I guess that would just shift the game to promoting your competitors stock via spam so they get suspended... sigh, if only email didn't scale so well-- one spam is worthless, but 1 million can make it worthwhile.
We have met the enemy, and he is us!
How long would you have to play GTA: Vice City to make $600 million?
In some weird way I'm glad there are cheaters out there. It fills me pride when someone accuses me of cheating on the Call of Duty 2 server I frequent. The server regulars know I don't use cheating mods or bots. Indeed, I don't even know enough to make my player name have all the pretty colors. So when someone thinks my actual game playing abilities are too good to be real, it's a high compliment. Hell, I have to play with a trackball (repetitive stress injury), which most people consider a handicap. In my experience, a cheater that visits a close-knit and adult open community server will be watched and banned in about fifteen minutes-- certainly not enough time for me to get my panties in a twist.
I remember flying standby a few years back, and everytime I left the SLC airport for a cig, I got the royal "special treatment". It was a real bummer when I found the smoking area inside the terminal several hours later...
...and we call ourselves the Aristocrats!
Hey, wait a minute-- if you take into account minute changes in the earth's rotational velocity, and the price of chili in China; isn't today April 1st by the Mayan calendar?
Hooray for Frank! He was so far ahead of the times that we haven't caught up with him yet. Too bad he had a dicky prostate.
I don't know why people feel that caveat emptor (buyer beware) should apply less today than it did many years ago. Pop-ups and spam to me are the equivalent of P.T. Barnum unloading a bunch of tuna as "white salmon, guaranteed not to turn pink in the can". Especially with all the vendor/product/reseller review sites out there, one would think it would be easier for more emptorii to caveat. I don't feel any different about my grandmother thinking she's the 5000th visitor than I did when she bought that Ronco rotisserie abomination.
How can they possibly expect to enforce something like that on the PC-based DVRs? My SageTV with DirMon and ShowAnalyzer automagically generates a skip list for CommSkip, so I never see ads on timeshifted stuff. Before, when I used MythTV, I had similar functionality. I never watch live TV anymore because I lack the patience to pause the show long enough to build up a sizeable ringbuffer to be able to manually FF through the ads.
But I still watch ads. I was so tickled by the new VW Rabbit ad (seen on the gym TV) that I found it on YouTube and watched it over and over again-- emailing it to family and friends. So that's the way to get people to watch ads-- interesting content in the framework of the ad. I guess it's the end of those poorly made Budget Bob's Bargain Warehouse local spots with the clown suits and balloons.
It seems to me a competitor could fraudulently buy up all the 10,000 gold parcels in WoW that IGE has to sell with bogus credit cards, and run them out of business. I don't see how IGE would have any recourse in-game to get their farmed money back. I wonder what that would do to the artificially inflated prices that farming causes. Seems like an opportunity for some black hats to fight fire with fire.
I'm sure you are correct. I had to get good at watching movies on my Asus M6N with the screen open only about 30 degrees. The trick was to rest the front part of the laptop on my belly, so I wouldn't have to scrunch down in the seat to peer into the crack and see the movie. Eventually I gave up, and now I just read books in-flight.
And if it did, wouldn't Al Gore be the only one who could rev the build number?
Does this mean companies are hoping to sell more than "You looked better on MySpace" t-shirts http://www.hottopic.com/store/product.asp?LS=0&ITE M=299338 ?
Seriously though, how is this any worse than dataminers like Axciom http://www.acxiom.com/, or Wal-Mart having the world's larget database http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1675960,00.as p of point-of-sale data? I can't imagine the trash you'd have to wade through to get some reliable marketing data. And if that happens, we'll just see bots that create fake MySpace pages to inflate the numbers-- the same way we now see blog spam and fake blogs with product information.
I heartily concur. As a software developer for a hospital, we go out of the way to make sure things as secure as we can make them. We also scrutinize our designs from the perspective of HIPAA compliance. For example, we recently instituted a method that doctors could get a weekly email of their charts that they need to sign, dictate, etc. We cannot get paid until the doctors do this step. Unfortunately, we can't send individual patient info over email, even if it's on a server in our control-- therefore we have to send aggregate counts and a link back to our system and force the docs to authenticate before they can see the actual charts they are deficient on.
Basically, we are putting off getting paid by the insurance companies for the sake of protecting our patients information. Still it's worthwhile, in fact, we rate some of our project's by how many potential fines we could avoid. Even if we never get fined, we still evaluated it was though we would have from the beginning.
Also bear in mind that three years is not very long to evolve a large system of business processes into compliance. Consider how long it took some companies to get to ISO9000, and that was voluntary!
Also, from the I'm-Also-A-Customer Dept., I was hospitalized two years ago with a very severe case of pancreatitis (7 out of 8 Ranson), and due to HIPAA, the docs could only tell my parents that my chances were grim and to make arrangements for my demise. They couldn't tell my fiancee. My parents elected not to disclose that info to her or anyone else-- so every visitor I had in the ICU came in thinking I was going to be all right and I think I could sense that positive energy.