Actually, most ads aren't touting "viagra". They're trying to sell a nonsense "Herbal Viagra" or some non-Viagra concoction.
And that's an interesting property of spam. It's NEVER for a legitimate product. (I'm not talking about email from Amazon or stores you've bought things from--I'm talking about random, unsoloicited spam from someone you've never conducted business with.)
A couple of years ago, I took my email address off my business cards.
I don't give out my email address to anyone I don't know well, and I change it every year.
I tell people who need to get in touch with me to call.
All this is because I started getting 50 spams a day. Right now, it's impossible to post to a newsgroup, put an email address on a web page, or have an email address that's listed in any sort of a directory without getting tons of spam each day.
I agree with that article that email is a failure. Important/busy people just don't have time for it.
A friend of mine finished looking for a new full-time job. He sent out some resumes by email to the listed addresses, and some by Fed-EX. Only the Fed-EX ones got answers. Companies get so much spam that they miss good resumes coming to them!
Really?? Maybe by the time they're 45. No one's in management by 25.
Well, during the dot-com "bubble" it was cheaper to give kids titles of "Director" or "CTO" then to pay them money!
We get a big laugh where I'm working now (a big, evil, old media company) when we get resumes from dotcom kids who don't realize they'd have a better chance if they took "CTO" off their resume and tried to pitch themselves as a Perl programmer.
However, as someone who's in "management" I assure you that I don't work 1/4 the hours for twice the pay. It's a greuling job.
Let's say it's FREE to send email to people who's "white list" you're on. This would include (if you're like me) 95% of the emails you send each day.
When you're sending an email to someone who doensn't know you (e.g., you're not in his addressbook "whitelist"), it costs you a penny.
For me, it would probably cost me between a dime and a quarter each month. I'd say that's well worth it to stop spam *and* to increase the chance that an email I send cold is read.
Sadly, most--if not all--unsolicited email I receive goes straight into the recycle bin. Who knows what I'm missing?!
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I always laugh when Mac folks (especiall before OS X) used to claim that Macs were somehow immune to viruses.
In fact, the only reason you hear less about Macintosh viruses is that virus writers want their work to spread quickly and reliably, and that means targeting the most popular platform: Windows
I can't imagine why you would need your SQL port open and accessible on the Internet. The real fault is those sysadmins who have the port open (followed by a failure to apply all security patches to machines that are accessible on the Internet.)
Johnstone pointed out that had Symantec released information, systems administrators could have stopped the worm in its tracks simply by blocking port 1434.
True, but then everything would be down because nobody would have connictivity to their databases. They needed to apply the patches.
BTW: I was shocked at how many companies had their SQL database out on the Internet completely exposed! I'm working for a Big Evil Media Company right now, and you can't get to any SQL server unless you're on a secure (inside) network with a private (192.168) IP address.
About 20 years ago, it was in fact legal to do anything you want with radio waves that passed near you. There was absolutely no ban on radio receivers, or any restrictions on monitoring any frequency. (There were laws against using what you heard--for example police comminications--to commit a crime.)
Then they passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act that, for the first time (except during a few years during WW II) made it illegal for Americans to even tune radio receivers to certain frequencies. Manufacturers who made radio scanners, for example, were forced to block out the frequencies used by cell phones.
Back in those days, cell phones were analog and it was very easy to listen in. Now that they're all digital, do you think the government lifted the "frequency block" on radio receivers? Of course not!
I live in California and I'm SICK AND TIRED of being taxed to death. When you add up property, sales, state income tax, social security, and federal income tax, over HALF my hard-earned money goes to fund LAZY GOOD-FOR-NOTHINGS who don't want to work.
Anyway, whay California should tax is SOFTWARE DEVELOPED OVERSEAS. If a company, Adobe for instance, wants to hire Indians to write software for $5.00/hour, the state should charge an IMPORT TAX on every copy of that software that's sold in the United States.
My thoughts exactly! I think the demise of/. is near.
I do cool things like the world's first true-3D web cam and slashdot won't give me the time of day! But some joker from alt.syntax.tactical makes a fake, lame, document, and/. is all over it.
...their names as "Ficticious Business Names" in California would probably appeal to Gov'ner Gray Davis, who keeps looking for more ways to take money from honest, hardworking people and give it to lazy good-for-nothings.
It costs $$ to register a business name in California.
Of course, it's a mono display (unlike my true 3-D WebCam), but the ability to move back and forth on the Z axis is fascinating, too.
Maybe folks will be able to actually move about in their virtual 3D worlds by moving their peephole! Think of it--millions of Ultima or Sim players walking around the streets with their portable peepholes, instead of sitting alone begind their computer screens!
It makes a lot of sense for movies. Why let some mastering company control your pan and scan? Pan and scan yourself. If there's a really w-i-d-e scene, either look around during it, or watch it again on the other side.
Slashdot Mirror
Symantec has an explanation page here
And that's an interesting property of spam. It's NEVER for a legitimate product. (I'm not talking about email from Amazon or stores you've bought things from--I'm talking about random, unsoloicited spam from someone you've never conducted business with.)
I don't give out my email address to anyone I don't know well, and I change it every year. I tell people who need to get in touch with me to call.
All this is because I started getting 50 spams a day. Right now, it's impossible to post to a newsgroup, put an email address on a web page, or have an email address that's listed in any sort of a directory without getting tons of spam each day.
I agree with that article that email is a failure. Important/busy people just don't have time for it.
A friend of mine finished looking for a new full-time job. He sent out some resumes by email to the listed addresses, and some by Fed-EX. Only the Fed-EX ones got answers. Companies get so much spam that they miss good resumes coming to them!
Actually, I wanted to be Liberace. I never made it.
Then, when I become a few years older (graduated high school in 1978), I'd market these products agressively.
Microsoft would have no reason to want to stop this.
Personally, I think it's the company's pompousness and intensive lobbying that backfired on them--not the mertis of the device itself.
Face it, the Internet is dead. The remaining core users are hardly leveragable.
Well, during the dot-com "bubble" it was cheaper to give kids titles of "Director" or "CTO" then to pay them money!
We get a big laugh where I'm working now (a big, evil, old media company) when we get resumes from dotcom kids who don't realize they'd have a better chance if they took "CTO" off their resume and tried to pitch themselves as a Perl programmer.
However, as someone who's in "management" I assure you that I don't work 1/4 the hours for twice the pay. It's a greuling job.
While, of course, the person who accessed the numbers bears the bulk of the blame, I also see the bank and credit processing company as culpable.
Each person with a stolen # will have some work to do, if only to change the CC #s on file with eBay, PayPal, auto-mortgage payment systems, etc.
Also, there's gvim, a great vi for Windows. Why should Windows users not have the best editor technology available?
If you want a nice BSD-ish UN*X box, look at the low-end PowerBook.
What's the difference?
What are you? Some kind of clueless newbie?
I use the "backwards apostrophe" all the time. For example, I want to edit my "startx" script. I type:
$ vi `which startx`
and it brings it up in my favorite editor. I suggest the poster should learn the benefits of the backwards apostrophe before dissing it.
Let's say it's FREE to send email to people who's "white list" you're on. This would include (if you're like me) 95% of the emails you send each day.
When you're sending an email to someone who doensn't know you (e.g., you're not in his addressbook "whitelist"), it costs you a penny.
For me, it would probably cost me between a dime and a quarter each month. I'd say that's well worth it to stop spam *and* to increase the chance that an email I send cold is read.
Sadly, most--if not all--unsolicited email I receive goes straight into the recycle bin. Who knows what I'm missing?! --
What's next? A Slashdot review of "Huck Finn?"
I always laugh when Mac folks (especiall before OS X) used to claim that Macs were somehow immune to viruses.
In fact, the only reason you hear less about Macintosh viruses is that virus writers want their work to spread quickly and reliably, and that means targeting the most popular platform: Windows
I can't imagine why you would need your SQL port open and accessible on the Internet. The real fault is those sysadmins who have the port open (followed by a failure to apply all security patches to machines that are accessible on the Internet.)
True, but then everything would be down because nobody would have connictivity to their databases. They needed to apply the patches.
BTW: I was shocked at how many companies had their SQL database out on the Internet completely exposed! I'm working for a Big Evil Media Company right now, and you can't get to any SQL server unless you're on a secure (inside) network with a private (192.168) IP address.
About 20 years ago, it was in fact legal to do anything you want with radio waves that passed near you. There was absolutely no ban on radio receivers, or any restrictions on monitoring any frequency. (There were laws against using what you heard--for example police comminications--to commit a crime.)
Then they passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act that, for the first time (except during a few years during WW II) made it illegal for Americans to even tune radio receivers to certain frequencies. Manufacturers who made radio scanners, for example, were forced to block out the frequencies used by cell phones.
Back in those days, cell phones were analog and it was very easy to listen in. Now that they're all digital, do you think the government lifted the "frequency block" on radio receivers? Of course not!
Anyway, whay California should tax is SOFTWARE DEVELOPED OVERSEAS. If a company, Adobe for instance, wants to hire Indians to write software for $5.00/hour, the state should charge an IMPORT TAX on every copy of that software that's sold in the United States.
I do cool things like the world's first true-3D web cam and slashdot won't give me the time of day! But some joker from alt.syntax.tactical makes a fake, lame, document, and /. is all over it.
I don't get it.
It costs $$ to register a business name in California.
...only go to 1280x1024. Anyone who writes software for a living knows that this isn't enough.
Oh no! Not nitrogen! Has any ever studied the effects of breathing nitrogen?
Maybe folks will be able to actually move about in their virtual 3D worlds by moving their peephole! Think of it--millions of Ultima or Sim players walking around the streets with their portable peepholes, instead of sitting alone begind their computer screens!
It makes a lot of sense for movies. Why let some mastering company control your pan and scan? Pan and scan yourself. If there's a really w-i-d-e scene, either look around during it, or watch it again on the other side.