Amex also had an Internet Card sold at 7-11, it was actually pretty cool.
In an emergency type situation I had to renew a few domains which belonged to the company I worked for, I charged a card up, renewed them all and gave the card and recipts to accounting for reimbursement.
I also paid for my EverCrack addiction with one, recurring charges are a bitch to remove from your credit card short of getting a card reissued.
I noticed these things seemed to disappear after 9/11.
Actually, this may be a hack you won't get shot for doing, considering the interface is designed for pro equipment, and there are substancial non-infringing uses of that equipment.
The problem now is there is no deliniation between consumer pcs and professional workstations, if there were I doubt the MPAA would paniced like they did. I believe they really did feel threatened by DECSS since it ran on consumer pcs where piracy of everything is a problem.
SDI isn't exactly on most consumer level equipment.
No, you missed it, in this article the objective is not to run panther or any other cat named version of a certain operating system, named as such because the Jobs deemed it k3w1
Some people like the day glo femme apple systems, doylies and daisies all over, and some people like the tough, my server can kick your servers ass styling of IBM's machines.
Martha Stewart Apple or Man Show IBM, your pick, as long as you're not in prison without your soap on a rope it shouldn't matter much. Now don't go getting upset, I'm messing with you:-)
Yep, new 3G phone, uh huh, people are rushing out to buy it right?
All of these nails are going in the US 3G coffin...
One of them is voice quality, I have a "next gen" att phone, the voice quality sucks, I think I'll go back to old technology where I could understand the caller and get a signal in the middle of nowhere, or in a building in the middle of a city.
Another one is WiFi, why do I need data on my phone with so many WiFi hotspots, it doesn't make much sense, now if this next gen stuff worked in the middle of nowhere, well it might just be worth it, but nothing modern is in the middle of nowhere.
How 'bout easy to use, I understand text messaging is big in Europe, but if I send them to people here, they call me, Americans use phones as phones, very few care about the yuppie features, like cameras and video games, but people do like voice quality here.
Bigger bill is my last one, I simple just don't need any more shit from my cell phone provider, the voice messaging system sucks big time, every other feature is broken somehow, I'm probably going back to cingular even though it does cost more, and the phone I have is an older one, but my voice quality was always really good, even in the middle of nowhere or in a building.
Ok, here's another case of company A sueing company B, the one with the most biggest lawers wins.......or maybe not
Think about this, if Google were to move operations offshore to a little island that thumbs it's nose at the US patent system, from a business standpoint that would be a good thing.
The next person sees what google did to avoid litigious assholes, they set their company up offshore as well, the IRS looses money, more draconian laws for citizens are created......and people just leave permanently.
If these trends continue the US will lose all of it's best and brightest due to lawyers, then the US will be nothing but people on the dole.... and lawyers, oh and the rest of us basking in the sun on a pacific island and no lawyers.
I think the future could go much worse as the top people make the US what it is, a superpower, but with no people left to fill those roles it will be just as relevant as Canada.
(no really....... just kidding, Canada exports fat people in speedos to Florida, I get to make a jab once in a while for that) Oh man, look at that hottie.....abort abort...Canuk at 5 o'clock.....ahh oh no... retinas singed.....fat hairy dude in speedos, with a whale of a wife...control top, please lady...they shouldn't drag on the ground.
Oh, yeah back on topic here, the only way this problem will be solved is with the lawyers assistance, a law will not work unless it is written by lawyers for lawyers.
Yo, Google and Overture, there never will be a top dog, cooperate and both of ya will make bags of money.
Perhaps musicians will need to adjust the way they make their money.
I believe when the RIAAs actions perculate down to the general public there will be a serious backlash, ask any member of the general public what intellectual property is, now go ahead and sue them or their friends, then ask again. No amount of spin will counter the reaction, the day is near.
Rat bastard politicians sold us up the river.....again.
I was looking for this comment before I posted, you hit the nail on the head except for one thing, we already have a solution to the problem, it's a search engine.
The only thing we really need is IPv6 to complete the cake, why would you have a dynamic address with IPv6, although I know they'll do it, I see no real reason for it.
If ICANN screws around enough a solution will be found for them, the record industry found out the hard way and I believe a P2P nameresolver with some sort of public/private key might be the best way around them.
A cheesy hack could be fashioned for MS products and a nice opensource version for Linux and FreeBSD. The key to making it work is it being free and open with published standards (well I'd try to milk the MS crowd).
I've been bashing this idea around in my head, I'm just having a bitch of a time implementing it. The removal of any central authority creates some problems, I was thinking of a circle of trust for resolution, you simply follow the circle to a known reliable authoritative nameserver for 100% resolution or a cached copy somewhere for a less reliable reply. We just need a suffix so we can cleanly overlay it on the current system, and it needs to be something that would be anti-competitive for ICANN to pounce on, maybe.666:-)
No you are a bit out of sync here, it's not 2000 or 2001. Cable and DSL are now something Joe Average actually buys to make his internet surfing a bit faster.
Joe's friend who shows him P2P, he can get all the music he would like, but can't afford.
Joe's friend saw it on a TV show on some tech channel, hey if it's on TV it must be legal, they even gave his friend a hyperlink to download the necessary software.
Joe soon has the RIAA and MPAA pounding on his door and sueing him, taking the money he had saved up for college for his kids, his house, everything.
They are in Joes face and he doesn't like them, he will complain loudly to all of his friends and they will repeat it to their friends.
They know Joe, see that he's an honest good willed guy, he attended their wedding and helped them move, the RIAA are the ones who are in the wrong and they paid off a sleezy politician to get their law passed.
Just wait it will happen. P2P has not evolved to it's full potential yet, the only way to stop it is to sue Joe Average, that will not wash well with anyone.
Yeah give my money to the same orginaztion who sued my friend, and took everything, all those actors and singers are on those bastards side, fuck 'em they're not getting my money.
Sorry, it's not a geek thing anymore, highspeed internet is in middle America now.
Think of a hologram, a 2d surface that when illuminated by coherent light becomes a 3d image, or a wavefront that looks 3d.
I think it could be done, but forget about silicon, or any of the materials we currently use. Then keep in mind the building blocks of the real universe may not be the same particles we witness in our experiments.
I wouldn't assume a simulated environment would have to be exactly the same as the real one.
You know I was thinking about your comment, yeah copy protection may stop her from putting the music she would like to listen to on her ipod, she hasn't found kazaa yet, if she ever did install it and see that the songs she likes are up there - and free, she would likely never purchase a cd again. The record companies are getting what they deserve for not meeting customer demand, they should have been doing the Internet thing long ago, and they still aren't. DRM is for people who don't know any better, who volentarily wish to restrict their listening experience to just a few devices. Sorry, people buy music when they want to, not when they have to, it's not food.
Now this all brings me back to the days of the good old C64 and Amiga. I didn't have any copy protection on my games, I didn't think them restricting my right to backup or archive them and destroy my drive was worth the purchase. If you ever owned a cbm drive, specifically the 1541 old style, you will remember the horrible grinding noises it made when dealing with a copy protected game, and the alignment problems that soon followed. Hey let's repeat that whole era when at user group meetings you would swap software, now we'll just swap music in it's place! Oh, and I stopped buying games after they started protection on cd games, I think diablo 2 not working in my 72X drive really put a bad taste in my mouth, I'll go back to not buying a damn thing with DRM or protection.
Napster let the cat out of the bag. I put it on the machine I built for my parents in the early days of Napster, expecting that she maybe possibly might use it, but not really expecting her to.
She used napster until it's dying day, I haven't put another p2p on the machine (burn it on cd, remember the cd, remember to install, hamster is in my name for a reason), but I'd be willing to bet she would be downloading again. The nice VCR I bought her still flashes 12:00, but she can work the TiVo I gave her.
So I believe the average technophobe has moved up quite a bit, if for no other reason than free and easy. We know most Linux users are all out for that free beer, which is why ESR might have a stroke one day while waving his banner.
No, the RIAA does not know where my mp3s came from, they are making an assumption they are illegal, if I had shared the mp3s out and the RIAA positively knew one of them I was sharing wasn't legal, then that would be a different story as I would be causing a monetary loss for them, but since I'm not breaking something by sharing, the most reasonable thing would be to take me to court.
In the case of fizzer, it is causing damage to the IRC network, maybe a bot should be created so every abusive computer is noted and the ISP is petitioned to remove their rights to access the Internet for being careless, most people don't think security applies to them, most people don't believe virus checkers are necessary, these are the same people who use condoms to prevent unintended consequences, they are careless, maybe we should give them a class in the use of a virus checker, break out banannas and everything:-)
That is why this will work, it's simple and effective, ISP TOS still applies and you couldn't do this without proper dns enteries, a near instant filter could stomp on any domain before too many people read it, making spam unprofitable to send, this is the solution.
It will work too, this whole mail system could be transparent to the user with a minor addition to the pop3 protocol for those who need more control over filtering, this would be the function that would really make spam unprofitable. The domain in the IMG SRC tag could be used to filter out spam emails, this idea is possible, but do we have a big enough itch to create a new protocol.
Well I know this trustworthy computing seems evil, but hear me out for a second.
If it were possible to sign the kernel and all executables and libraries in linux and ensure only signed binaries could run this would make security a hell of a lot easier, root kits would need to become much more sophisticated overnight.
Now microsoft is going to hold the keys to their own OS, but what else is new, but for this to take off everwhere they're going to need to allow others to make keys for their operating systems as well, this could be a good thing for linux users and a bad thing for microsoft users.
Well, yes, this is a problem, I spent many many hours on the phone attempting to get a bellsouth static ip reversed, actually I was pleading, only to find out the tech support had been bid out to the lowest common denominator. I finally gave up and forwarded all my mail to the bellsouth mailserver as a smart relay. I did that because some mailservers will refuse to talk with you without a correct reverse, and I was getting nowhere. Really why not forward your mail through them, you're paying for it. I still receive my own email, but sending it bounces through their machine first.
Reverses are almost impossible to get changed as they are rarely delegated outside a handful of machines that a handful of people have access to, and those people really don't want to talk to anyone. I was a dns admin for a while, getting blocks delegated to the department nameservers was a hassel, then classless delegation for customers was a pain too, that was nixed as customers couldn't do their part on their side, so people had to ask to get a reverse, it worked out well.
Well, at least we know the moderators are still awake and working, but overrated, jeeze, that just isn't right, I expected flamebait and got overrated, but moderators will be moderators, myself included.:-)
Please read the parent to understand this post, I am in fact talking to someone from the future, isn't that cool
Let's go over your post so I can show you just how wrong you are.
You've used you visor in Best Buy...etc.. hundreds of times for 6 or 7 years, damn dude, did you set you clock wrong, or are you writing your post from the future, or were you in the future when you aquired your visor? Being that Handspring was formed in 1998 and the products were not rolling until 1999, oh so you have infact misstated a fact, future traveler.
Does it work like the classic HG Wells Time Machine, or is it more like Back to the Future, well of course the original one, everyone knows time machines can't fly!
I take it the hundreds of times you've used your palm (ahem handspring visor, to be more precise)is correct. Wow! Security never harassed you, I mean you must have picked some exceptionally busy stores to case, oh um, ya see when I was in retail that's what we called it when someone would wander around the store taking notes as they go, SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK. I guess Boston is the place for shoplifters and retail shrink.
NEXT!
Well to be honest with you, calling me or my friends liars would most definitely result in an altercation(hypothetically speaking), this is one of the nice things about slashdot, we can have an argument and you can hide.
Hmm, the next one that would result in an altercation (hypothetically, of course) is being a smartass, but you're not here and I haven't a clue where you are, eh. But in any case when you are asked to leave a private establishment, you do. Failure to leave when asked constitutes trespassing and you will be arrested. Ever been in jail, I highly doubt it as if you had ever seen the inside of a squad car you wouldn't make stupid comments about doing something that would constitute arrest.
Raising hell makes you look like an idiot, I did it when I was younger, but it didn't produce a solution, so I stopped, but I see you're all for the flail your head against the wall approach to life. At least it gives your neck muscles something else to do when you're away from your day job.
Ok, totally scratch what I said, that's a great idea and I think it's more robust than using filters as I said. Just shifting the burden of the mail onto the sender would do it, especially if they sent to several million people.
Oh, I forgot to add something, if you've ever shopped on the best buy site you know that quite a few of their prices can only be accessed by adding the item to your shopping cart, the price is displayed as a strikeout.
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All of these security measures are useless until we come up with a solution to people killing themselves to kill us.
Amex also had an Internet Card sold at 7-11, it was actually pretty cool.
In an emergency type situation I had to renew a few domains which belonged to the company I worked for, I charged a card up, renewed them all and gave the card and recipts to accounting for reimbursement.
I also paid for my EverCrack addiction with one, recurring charges are a bitch to remove from your credit card short of getting a card reissued.
I noticed these things seemed to disappear after 9/11.
Actually, this may be a hack you won't get shot for doing, considering the interface is designed for pro equipment, and there are substancial non-infringing uses of that equipment.
The problem now is there is no deliniation between consumer pcs and professional workstations, if there were I doubt the MPAA would paniced like they did. I believe they really did feel threatened by DECSS since it ran on consumer pcs where piracy of everything is a problem.
SDI isn't exactly on most consumer level equipment.
No, you missed it, in this article the objective is not to run panther or any other cat named version of a certain operating system, named as such because the Jobs deemed it k3w1
:-)
Some people like the day glo femme apple systems, doylies and daisies all over, and some people like the tough, my server can kick your servers ass styling of IBM's machines.
Martha Stewart Apple or Man Show IBM, your pick, as long as you're not in prison without your soap on a rope it shouldn't matter much. Now don't go getting upset, I'm messing with you
Yep, new 3G phone, uh huh, people are rushing out to buy it right?
All of these nails are going in the US 3G coffin...
One of them is voice quality, I have a "next gen" att phone, the voice quality sucks, I think I'll go back to old technology where I could understand the caller and get a signal in the middle of nowhere, or in a building in the middle of a city.
Another one is WiFi, why do I need data on my phone with so many WiFi hotspots, it doesn't make much sense, now if this next gen stuff worked in the middle of nowhere, well it might just be worth it, but nothing modern is in the middle of nowhere.
How 'bout easy to use, I understand text messaging is big in Europe, but if I send them to people here, they call me, Americans use phones as phones, very few care about the yuppie features, like cameras and video games, but people do like voice quality here.
Bigger bill is my last one, I simple just don't need any more shit from my cell phone provider, the voice messaging system sucks big time, every other feature is broken somehow, I'm probably going back to cingular even though it does cost more, and the phone I have is an older one, but my voice quality was always really good, even in the middle of nowhere or in a building.
Ok, here's another case of company A sueing company B, the one with the most biggest lawers wins. ......or maybe not
Think about this, if Google were to move operations offshore to a little island that thumbs it's nose at the US patent system, from a business standpoint that would be a good thing.
The next person sees what google did to avoid litigious assholes, they set their company up offshore as well, the IRS looses money, more draconian laws for citizens are created......and people just leave permanently.
If these trends continue the US will lose all of it's best and brightest due to lawyers, then the US will be nothing but people on the dole.... and lawyers, oh and the rest of us basking in the sun on a pacific island and no lawyers.
I think the future could go much worse as the top people make the US what it is, a superpower, but with no people left to fill those roles it will be just as relevant as Canada.
(no really....... just kidding, Canada exports fat people in speedos to Florida, I get to make a jab once in a while for that)
Oh man, look at that hottie.....abort abort...Canuk at 5 o'clock.....ahh oh no... retinas singed.....fat hairy dude in speedos, with a whale of a wife...control top, please lady...they shouldn't drag on the ground.
Oh, yeah back on topic here, the only way this problem will be solved is with the lawyers assistance, a law will not work unless it is written by lawyers for lawyers.
Yo, Google and Overture, there never will be a top dog, cooperate and both of ya will make bags of money.
Maybe it just isn't viable to sell music.
Perhaps musicians will need to adjust the way they make their money.
I believe when the RIAAs actions perculate down to the general public there will be a serious backlash, ask any member of the general public what intellectual property is, now go ahead and sue them or their friends, then ask again. No amount of spin will counter the reaction, the day is near.
Rat bastard politicians sold us up the river.....again.
I was looking for this comment before I posted, you hit the nail on the head except for one thing, we already have a solution to the problem, it's a search engine.
.666 :-)
The only thing we really need is IPv6 to complete the cake, why would you have a dynamic address with IPv6, although I know they'll do it, I see no real reason for it.
If ICANN screws around enough a solution will be found for them, the record industry found out the hard way and I believe a P2P nameresolver with some sort of public/private key might be the best way around them.
A cheesy hack could be fashioned for MS products and a nice opensource version for Linux and FreeBSD. The key to making it work is it being free and open with published standards (well I'd try to milk the MS crowd).
I've been bashing this idea around in my head, I'm just having a bitch of a time implementing it. The removal of any central authority creates some problems, I was thinking of a circle of trust for resolution, you simply follow the circle to a known reliable authoritative nameserver for 100% resolution or a cached copy somewhere for a less reliable reply. We just need a suffix so we can cleanly overlay it on the current system, and it needs to be something that would be anti-competitive for ICANN to pounce on, maybe
Yeah, but that's XP retail, it sells for much less in quantity to corporations. I use SuSE and like it, but this is a bit high.
Oh, don't knock her, at least she admitted her ignorance for the whole world to see, oh.... that's not a good thing is it.
No you are a bit out of sync here, it's not 2000 or 2001. Cable and DSL are now something Joe Average actually buys to make his internet surfing a bit faster.
Joe's friend who shows him P2P, he can get all the music he would like, but can't afford.
Joe's friend saw it on a TV show on some tech channel, hey if it's on TV it must be legal, they even gave his friend a hyperlink to download the necessary software.
Joe soon has the RIAA and MPAA pounding on his door and sueing him, taking the money he had saved up for college for his kids, his house, everything.
They are in Joes face and he doesn't like them, he will complain loudly to all of his friends and they will repeat it to their friends.
They know Joe, see that he's an honest good willed guy, he attended their wedding and helped them move, the RIAA are the ones who are in the wrong and they paid off a sleezy politician to get their law passed.
Just wait it will happen.
P2P has not evolved to it's full potential yet, the only way to stop it is to sue Joe Average, that will not wash well with anyone.
Yeah give my money to the same orginaztion who sued my friend, and took everything, all those actors and singers are on those bastards side, fuck 'em they're not getting my money.
Sorry, it's not a geek thing anymore, highspeed internet is in middle America now.
Think of a hologram, a 2d surface that when illuminated by coherent light becomes a 3d image, or a wavefront that looks 3d.
I think it could be done, but forget about silicon, or any of the materials we currently use. Then keep in mind the building blocks of the real universe may not be the same particles we witness in our experiments.
I wouldn't assume a simulated environment would have to be exactly the same as the real one.
Sorry you lose, noone on slashdot caught that :-)
Stand tall on that soapbox anonymous coward!
You know I was thinking about your comment, yeah copy protection may stop her from putting the music she would like to listen to on her ipod, she hasn't found kazaa yet, if she ever did install it and see that the songs she likes are up there - and free, she would likely never purchase a cd again. The record companies are getting what they deserve for not meeting customer demand, they should have been doing the Internet thing long ago, and they still aren't. DRM is for people who don't know any better, who volentarily wish to restrict their listening experience to just a few devices.
Sorry, people buy music when they want to, not when they have to, it's not food.
Now this all brings me back to the days of the good old C64 and Amiga.
I didn't have any copy protection on my games, I didn't think them restricting my right to backup or archive them and destroy my drive was worth the purchase.
If you ever owned a cbm drive, specifically the 1541 old style, you will remember the horrible grinding noises it made when dealing with a copy protected game, and the alignment problems that soon followed.
Hey let's repeat that whole era when at user group meetings you would swap software, now we'll just swap music in it's place!
Oh, and I stopped buying games after they started protection on cd games, I think diablo 2 not working in my 72X drive really put a bad taste in my mouth, I'll go back to not buying a damn thing with DRM or protection.
I would tend to agree with you, except this.
Napster let the cat out of the bag. I put it on the machine I built for my parents in the early days of Napster, expecting that she maybe possibly might use it, but not really expecting her to.
She used napster until it's dying day, I haven't put another p2p on the machine (burn it on cd, remember the cd, remember to install, hamster is in my name for a reason), but I'd be willing to bet she would be downloading again. The nice VCR I bought her still flashes 12:00, but she can work the TiVo I gave her.
So I believe the average technophobe has moved up quite a bit, if for no other reason than free and easy. We know most Linux users are all out for that free beer, which is why ESR might have a stroke one day while waving his banner.
No, the RIAA does not know where my mp3s came from, they are making an assumption they are illegal, if I had shared the mp3s out and the RIAA positively knew one of them I was sharing wasn't legal, then that would be a different story as I would be causing a monetary loss for them, but since I'm not breaking something by sharing, the most reasonable thing would be to take me to court.
:-)
In the case of fizzer, it is causing damage to the IRC network, maybe a bot should be created so every abusive computer is noted and the ISP is petitioned to remove their rights to access the Internet for being careless, most people don't think security applies to them, most people don't believe virus checkers are necessary, these are the same people who use condoms to prevent unintended consequences, they are careless, maybe we should give them a class in the use of a virus checker, break out banannas and everything
That is why this will work, it's simple and effective, ISP TOS still applies and you couldn't do this without proper dns enteries, a near instant filter could stomp on any domain before too many people read it, making spam unprofitable to send, this is the solution.
It will work too, this whole mail system could be transparent to the user with a minor addition to the pop3 protocol for those who need more control over filtering, this would be the function that would really make spam unprofitable. The domain in the IMG SRC tag could be used to filter out spam emails, this idea is possible, but do we have a big enough itch to create a new protocol.
Well I know this trustworthy computing seems evil, but hear me out for a second.
If it were possible to sign the kernel and all executables and libraries in linux and ensure only signed binaries could run this would make security a hell of a lot easier, root kits would need to become much more sophisticated overnight.
Now microsoft is going to hold the keys to their own OS, but what else is new, but for this to take off everwhere they're going to need to allow others to make keys for their operating systems as well, this could be a good thing for linux users and a bad thing for microsoft users.
No, if you get bought by the dinosaur, he ain't going to stomp on you, you're going to be his prison bitch.
3.(really foul things) the dionsaur's output port.
Well, yes, this is a problem, I spent many many hours on the phone attempting to get a bellsouth static ip reversed, actually I was pleading, only to find out the tech support had been bid out to the lowest common denominator.
I finally gave up and forwarded all my mail to the bellsouth mailserver as a smart relay. I did that because some mailservers will refuse to talk with you without a correct reverse, and I was getting nowhere.
Really why not forward your mail through them, you're paying for it. I still receive my own email, but sending it bounces through their machine first.
Reverses are almost impossible to get changed as they are rarely delegated outside a handful of machines that a handful of people have access to, and those people really don't want to talk to anyone. I was a dns admin for a while, getting blocks delegated to the department nameservers was a hassel, then classless delegation for customers was a pain too, that was nixed as customers couldn't do their part on their side, so people had to ask to get a reverse, it worked out well.
Well, at least we know the moderators are still awake and working, but overrated, jeeze, that just isn't right, I expected flamebait and got overrated, but moderators will be moderators, myself included. :-)
Please read the parent to understand this post, I am in fact talking to someone from the future, isn't that cool
Let's go over your post so I can show you just how wrong you are.
You've used you visor in Best Buy...etc.. hundreds of times for 6 or 7 years, damn dude, did you set you clock wrong, or are you writing your post from the future, or were you in the future when you aquired your visor?
Being that Handspring was formed in 1998 and the products were not rolling until 1999, oh so you have infact misstated a fact, future traveler.
Does it work like the classic HG Wells Time Machine, or is it more like Back to the Future, well of course the original one, everyone knows time machines can't fly!
I take it the hundreds of times you've used your palm (ahem handspring visor, to be more precise)is correct. Wow! Security never harassed you, I mean you must have picked some exceptionally busy stores to case, oh um, ya see when I was in retail that's what we called it when someone would wander around the store taking notes as they go, SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK. I guess Boston is the place for shoplifters and retail shrink.
NEXT!
Well to be honest with you, calling me or my friends liars would most definitely result in an altercation(hypothetically speaking), this is one of the nice things about slashdot, we can have an argument and you can hide.
Hmm, the next one that would result in an altercation (hypothetically, of course) is being a smartass, but you're not here and I haven't a clue where you are, eh. But in any case when you are asked to leave a private establishment, you do. Failure to leave when asked constitutes trespassing and you will be arrested. Ever been in jail, I highly doubt it as if you had ever seen the inside of a squad car you wouldn't make stupid comments about doing something that would constitute arrest.
Raising hell makes you look like an idiot, I did it when I was younger, but it didn't produce a solution, so I stopped, but I see you're all for the flail your head against the wall approach to life. At least it gives your neck muscles something else to do when you're away from your day job.
KARMA to burn, karma to burn, yes it's worth it!
Ok, totally scratch what I said, that's a great idea and I think it's more robust than using filters as I said. Just shifting the burden of the mail onto the sender would do it, especially if they sent to several million people.
Oh, I forgot to add something, if you've ever shopped on the best buy site you know that quite a few of their prices can only be accessed by adding the item to your shopping cart, the price is displayed as a strikeout.