Hypothesis: The first account will start receiving spam almost immediately. Due to the nature of the spam, the second should never receive spam unless someone is sending email to random 8-character accounts at my domain (brute force attack).
Why limit it to 8 characters then? You could reduce the chances of a brute force attack and virtually ensure the email address would need to be known by making it at least 16 characters.
test address: 8fi29x.e0a-2j62pdw-q@yourdomain.com control address: g5u0-l.2zf1k5x.-s17c@yourdomain.com
Having a control address is mostly redundant in this case, but there just in case someone finds an exploit to list all email addresses on a server.
After scanning your network, this is an automated message notifying you that the copyright owner, Meds2U.com, believes you are making unlawful use of one or more copyrighted materials held by said owner. Please cease and desist immediately your unlawful use of these materials, or contact us so that licensing of said materials can be arranged. Under the DMCA, we hereby certify that we act as representatives of Meds2U.com which sells phentermine, Xanax, Viagra, Prozac, Celebrex, and many other prescription medications available at below pharmacy cost to you from http://www.meds2u.com 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
Wait, XP for having a subscription, that almost sounds appealing. Sure it shafts the hardcore gamer, but for the casual player its a godsend. Suddenly they can compete with everyone else. Hmm, almost makes me want to check it out.
It does provide a boost to the casual gamer. Essentially, when you pick up a new skill it takes about 15 minutes to learn it to Level 1. Level 2 takes about an hour or so. Level 3 takes around 5 to 7 hours. Level 4 usually 1 to 2 days. And Level 5, the maximum, takes a week.
The times given are real-time as well, so if you actually have a life (heh) you can login, start learning a skill, play for a while, and then logout and your character continues to learn the skill. This isn't really a penalty for the hardcore gamer, either. In addition to the learning time, you need to make money too. Now there's various ways to do this, but one way is by mining, and that does take time. You can also create missions, buy low/sell high, etc. which doesn't require as much continuous time. So the hardcore gamer can still get ahead by playing a lot and making the credits (ISK) that are required to purchase the non-default skills as well as ships, equipment, augmentations, etc.
All in all, it's a very good balance. One thing you'll find with EVE is that there's not a lot you can't do. You could, theoretically, become quite advanced in the game without ever leaving a space station. Keep upgrading your skills, and make your money through the market. You can then make additional money and gain power through the use of a corporation. Build up your corporation, manage it well, and institute a 1% tax rate. With 100 members in your corporation, a 1% tax rate gives you the spending power as the average player -- though you wouldn't be able to use it all yourself.
With the news of having player-controlled structures, that brings an entirely new element to the game! I can't wait to see that introduced. TradeWars 2002 on the old BBSes I frequented in my younger days was a lot of fun to play, though I'm sure I would find it limited now. Hopefully EVE will progress to this level of excitement.
OK, I get Harry Potter. I get The Simpsons. But why do geeks love Family Guy? Is it a Stewie thing? -- One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
Yes, I quoted your sig. But that's the exact reason. For most people (and likely Fox execs) The Family Guy is pure flamebait. Ever see that episode with the "Diamonds are forever" commercial? 'Nuff said! However, if you're not an overly sensitive person, most of the humor there is a veritable goldmine! Others have said it, but it's worth repeating that TFG has at least triple the wit of any other show packed into its 22 minutes, and I'm being conservative.
In order to facilitate our accounting records, please fill out the attached Form 80179 per email you send out. You have several means of submitting these forms:
Fax them to us,
Send via postal mail, or
Email them to us
Note that if you choose the third option, you will need to submit a Form 80180 declaring that email as being Form 80179 exempt.
Yours truly,
Uncle Sam
Then, promptly three hours later:
Dear Taxpayer,
Due to the infinite number of emails we have been receiving, we have decided that this whole email taxation thing is a huge waste of time and resources and has only caused all internet innovation to move off-shore. We apologize for the inconvenience and the resulting demolished economy. On the bright side, all displaced workers can apply for a job to help us dispose of Form 80179 submissions.
SAN SEBASTIAN, Canary Islands (AP) -- Juan Cabello takes pride in not using a cell phone or the Internet to communicate. Instead, he puckers up and whistles.
It's time for people to stop blaming the school system and making out kids the taxpayers' problem. If your kid is a fuck-up, be a goddamned parent and put them in their place! Stop automatically run crying to the government!
The problem is that when the government requires that you offload your kids for 8 hours a day to a school, the parent is no longer in total control. Sure, you can raise your kids well, but kids will be kids. If corporations are legally responsible for the behavior of its employees at work (think: harassment, racism, etc.) then schools should also be held accountable for the behavior of its students. With accountability comes responsibility -- to make sure the environment is safe for everyone.
This doesn't absolve parents of responsibility, but it does add a layer of protection for children who lack the emotional maturity of adults(*) when dealing with these types of situations. Parents are still responsible for raising their kids properly, though it's rather unfortunate that there's no accountability for parents who do a lousy job of it. Bad parenting isn't a crime... though the results of that bad parenting can lead to crimes.
(*) Of course, it's somewhat debatable whether many adults possess such maturity...
Call me crazy, but I've had this for years. I set up a cron job on my university account that checks for the last time I logged in. If that was over 30 days ago, I am most definitely dead, so it emails out my last message.
And then one day the sysadmin screws up the clock settings, making it advance by one year. Your email goes out and Joe suddenly knows what an asshole you think he is.
The kicker comes if he's subpoenaed for all correspondence over the last 12 years regarding Linux. That's a lot of stuff to locate, prepare, organize, etc. and does cost money. While it's not as expensive as being sued, the costs could still be substantial.
Fido has had a service called City Fido for several months now which allows you to do just this -- keep your home number and use it for your cell phone. The details are:
$40/month (about $30 US)
unlimited local calling within the city
nationwide long distance 10 cents/minute (about 7 cents US)
includes call forwarding, call waiting, 3-way calling
The downside to that is if you cancel your landline service and use this, you have to talk on a tiny cell phone instead of a regular handset. How hard would it be to rig up a jack which fits into the headset slot and allows you to use a handset on your cell phone?
1. Someone puts a blank [ insert paper of choice ] sheet into a typewriter
2. every monkey adds one letter and then moves on
3. After millions of monkeys have contributed, release it on CD and P2P.
4. Profi... I mean, uh, watch as it dominates the current 800 lb. gorillas of the publishing arena. No one could match the raw emotion, verbal diversity, and freedom from coherence such a piece would possess.
Uh, right. The moral here is that if you have enough monkeys, they'll weigh more than an 800 pound gorilla.
9. Qwest - "Ride the light". Light has no mass. It cannot be ridden.
Light does have mass, as photons are particles. Do a google search for "solar sail" and you'll see that you can, indeed, "ride" light. However, given that Qwest is not a vendor of solar sails, it should still be thrown out.:)
iTunes is a store. It happens to be on the internet. That's not an invention, no matter how well executed it is.
Apple is a company which advertises. It happens to advertise in Time magazine. I'll bet if I spent as much advertising in Time as Apple does, I too could win product of the year for my Ronco Turnip Twaddler 2003 Special Edition!
Funny that they claim it's the world's first. I'm not sure what the criteria for 'first' is (other than the blatantly obvious) but at Expo '86, Japan had a working maglev train which was whisper quiet. It only ran for about 100m in length, back and forth, but it was certainly viable. You'd think in 17 years there would have been an implementation of this successful technology.
Popular Science is running a story on the most noxious jobs in science. Perhaps the slashdot editors might consider running this as a frontpage story in a week or two.
I think they're offering discounts, not just paying people. Of course, I may be reading this wrongly, but there will be no checks written and accompanying a letter that says "here's our thanks for switching to FreeBSD!"
No problem. Is it a percentage discount? Setup a company which sells proprietary BSD licenses which just so happen to be no different than regular FreeBSD 5.1 or some such. Say, $1000 a piece. SCO pays you a 10% "incentive" for switching away from Linux. So you get $100 from SCO per license. Now this company selling BSD offers a mail-in rebate of $925... just fill out the form, attach it to your receipt, and send it in.
You then get your check from BSD company for $925 + check from SCO for $100, so you made a $25 profit. BSD company keeps $75, of which about $30 goes to credit card fees. Which leaves $45 left over for overhead plus profit.
Your argument is flawed. I am not forced to look at ads on billboards, or even tv...
The difference with pop-up ads, is they are unwanted, and cannot be ignored...
You seem to ignore your own flawed argument. You are not forced to use a web browser which permits pop-up ads. Try Opera, Mozilla, Firebird, Netscape, Camino, Safari... in fact just about every single browser you could possibly choose allows you to turn off pop-up ads.
Given your apparent strong aversion to pop-up ads, why do you choose to continue to use a browser which freely permits pop-ups? That seems... twisted.
Microsoft should fire the person responsible for the "Sparkle" name ($10 says it's the same who came out with "Clippy") and hire somebody who would give it a more impressive name, such as "Lighting".
And likely they, too, will have to pay millions of dollars to the creative genius behind H&R Block's new logo.
Slashdot Mirror
Hypothesis: The first account will start receiving spam almost immediately. Due to the nature of the spam, the second should never receive spam unless someone is sending email to random 8-character accounts at my domain (brute force attack).
Why limit it to 8 characters then? You could reduce the chances of a brute force attack and virtually ensure the email address would need to be known by making it at least 16 characters.
test address: 8fi29x.e0a-2j62pdw-q@yourdomain.com
control address: g5u0-l.2zf1k5x.-s17c@yourdomain.com
Having a control address is mostly redundant in this case, but there just in case someone finds an exploit to list all email addresses on a server.
Dear Common Thief,
After scanning your network, this is an automated message notifying you that the copyright owner, Meds2U.com, believes you are making unlawful use of one or more copyrighted materials held by said owner. Please cease and desist immediately your unlawful use of these materials, or contact us so that licensing of said materials can be arranged. Under the DMCA, we hereby certify that we act as representatives of Meds2U.com which sells phentermine, Xanax, Viagra, Prozac, Celebrex, and many other prescription medications available at below pharmacy cost to you from http://www.meds2u.com 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
Yours truly,
Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe
Attorneys at Law
Wait, XP for having a subscription, that almost sounds appealing. Sure it shafts the hardcore gamer, but for the casual player its a godsend. Suddenly they can compete with everyone else. Hmm, almost makes me want to check it out.
It does provide a boost to the casual gamer. Essentially, when you pick up a new skill it takes about 15 minutes to learn it to Level 1. Level 2 takes about an hour or so. Level 3 takes around 5 to 7 hours. Level 4 usually 1 to 2 days. And Level 5, the maximum, takes a week.
The times given are real-time as well, so if you actually have a life (heh) you can login, start learning a skill, play for a while, and then logout and your character continues to learn the skill. This isn't really a penalty for the hardcore gamer, either. In addition to the learning time, you need to make money too. Now there's various ways to do this, but one way is by mining, and that does take time. You can also create missions, buy low/sell high, etc. which doesn't require as much continuous time. So the hardcore gamer can still get ahead by playing a lot and making the credits (ISK) that are required to purchase the non-default skills as well as ships, equipment, augmentations, etc.
All in all, it's a very good balance. One thing you'll find with EVE is that there's not a lot you can't do. You could, theoretically, become quite advanced in the game without ever leaving a space station. Keep upgrading your skills, and make your money through the market. You can then make additional money and gain power through the use of a corporation. Build up your corporation, manage it well, and institute a 1% tax rate. With 100 members in your corporation, a 1% tax rate gives you the spending power as the average player -- though you wouldn't be able to use it all yourself.
With the news of having player-controlled structures, that brings an entirely new element to the game! I can't wait to see that introduced. TradeWars 2002 on the old BBSes I frequented in my younger days was a lot of fun to play, though I'm sure I would find it limited now. Hopefully EVE will progress to this level of excitement.
OK, I get Harry Potter. I get The Simpsons. But why do geeks love Family Guy? Is it a Stewie thing?
--
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
Yes, I quoted your sig. But that's the exact reason. For most people (and likely Fox execs) The Family Guy is pure flamebait. Ever see that episode with the "Diamonds are forever" commercial? 'Nuff said! However, if you're not an overly sensitive person, most of the humor there is a veritable goldmine! Others have said it, but it's worth repeating that TFG has at least triple the wit of any other show packed into its 22 minutes, and I'm being conservative.
In order to facilitate our accounting records, please fill out the attached Form 80179 per email you send out. You have several means of submitting these forms:
- Fax them to us,
- Send via postal mail, or
- Email them to us
Note that if you choose the third option, you will need to submit a Form 80180 declaring that email as being Form 80179 exempt.Yours truly,
Uncle Sam
Then, promptly three hours later:
Dear Taxpayer,
Due to the infinite number of emails we have been receiving, we have decided that this whole email taxation thing is a huge waste of time and resources and has only caused all internet innovation to move off-shore. We apologize for the inconvenience and the resulting demolished economy. On the bright side, all displaced workers can apply for a job to help us dispose of Form 80179 submissions.
Yours truly,
Uncle Sam
SAN SEBASTIAN, Canary Islands (AP) -- Juan Cabello takes pride in not using a cell phone or the Internet to communicate. Instead, he puckers up and whistles.
Uh... which end?
This link contains everything you need to know. Just watch the videos in order and be enlightened.
It's time for people to stop blaming the school system and making out kids the taxpayers' problem. If your kid is a fuck-up, be a goddamned parent and put them in their place! Stop automatically run crying to the government!
The problem is that when the government requires that you offload your kids for 8 hours a day to a school, the parent is no longer in total control. Sure, you can raise your kids well, but kids will be kids. If corporations are legally responsible for the behavior of its employees at work (think: harassment, racism, etc.) then schools should also be held accountable for the behavior of its students. With accountability comes responsibility -- to make sure the environment is safe for everyone.
This doesn't absolve parents of responsibility, but it does add a layer of protection for children who lack the emotional maturity of adults(*) when dealing with these types of situations. Parents are still responsible for raising their kids properly, though it's rather unfortunate that there's no accountability for parents who do a lousy job of it. Bad parenting isn't a crime... though the results of that bad parenting can lead to crimes.
(*) Of course, it's somewhat debatable whether many adults possess such maturity...
Call me crazy, but I've had this for years. I set up a cron job on my university account that checks for the last time I logged in. If that was over 30 days ago, I am most definitely dead, so it emails out my last message.
And then one day the sysadmin screws up the clock settings, making it advance by one year. Your email goes out and Joe suddenly knows what an asshole you think he is.
Damn, that's the singularly most informative post I've read here in a long, long time. My hat's off to you, sir.
I demo this to my coworkers about 10 times a day. It always makes them laugh. I guess that means I have a chance of winning?
Cardea will be five feet tall with a torso, three arms...
Dare I ask where the placement of that third arm is?
How does somebody invent a combination of commonly used materials?
You mean like a computer? One part refined beach sand (silicon), a few parts copper, three parts plastic, some aluminum...
He is being subpoened not sued. Big difference
The kicker comes if he's subpoenaed for all correspondence over the last 12 years regarding Linux. That's a lot of stuff to locate, prepare, organize, etc. and does cost money. While it's not as expensive as being sued, the costs could still be substantial.
- $40/month (about $30 US)
- unlimited local calling within the city
- nationwide long distance 10 cents/minute (about 7 cents US)
- includes call forwarding, call waiting, 3-way calling
The downside to that is if you cancel your landline service and use this, you have to talk on a tiny cell phone instead of a regular handset. How hard would it be to rig up a jack which fits into the headset slot and allows you to use a handset on your cell phone?We need a new book distribution movement.
Open Source Book Licensing
1. Someone puts a blank [ insert paper of choice ] sheet into a typewriter
2. every monkey adds one letter and then moves on
3. After millions of monkeys have contributed, release it on CD and P2P.
4. Profi... I mean, uh, watch as it dominates the current 800 lb. gorillas of the publishing arena. No one could match the raw emotion, verbal diversity, and freedom from coherence such a piece would possess.
Uh, right. The moral here is that if you have enough monkeys, they'll weigh more than an 800 pound gorilla.
9. Qwest - "Ride the light". Light has no mass. It cannot be ridden.
:)
Light does have mass, as photons are particles. Do a google search for "solar sail" and you'll see that you can, indeed, "ride" light. However, given that Qwest is not a vendor of solar sails, it should still be thrown out.
iTunes is a store. It happens to be on the internet. That's not an invention, no matter how well executed it is.
Apple is a company which advertises. It happens to advertise in Time magazine. I'll bet if I spent as much advertising in Time as Apple does, I too could win product of the year for my Ronco Turnip Twaddler 2003 Special Edition!
Though that Mag-train is beautiful.
Funny that they claim it's the world's first. I'm not sure what the criteria for 'first' is (other than the blatantly obvious) but at Expo '86, Japan had a working maglev train which was whisper quiet. It only ran for about 100m in length, back and forth, but it was certainly viable. You'd think in 17 years there would have been an implementation of this successful technology.
Popular Science is running a story on the most noxious jobs in science. Perhaps the slashdot editors might consider running this as a frontpage story in a week or two.
Anyway, I got wood and $50 bucks out of it. :)
How many bucks worth $50 did you get?
I think they're offering discounts, not just paying people. Of course, I may be reading this wrongly, but there will be no checks written and accompanying a letter that says "here's our thanks for switching to FreeBSD!"
No problem. Is it a percentage discount? Setup a company which sells proprietary BSD licenses which just so happen to be no different than regular FreeBSD 5.1 or some such. Say, $1000 a piece. SCO pays you a 10% "incentive" for switching away from Linux. So you get $100 from SCO per license. Now this company selling BSD offers a mail-in rebate of $925... just fill out the form, attach it to your receipt, and send it in.
You then get your check from BSD company for $925 + check from SCO for $100, so you made a $25 profit. BSD company keeps $75, of which about $30 goes to credit card fees. Which leaves $45 left over for overhead plus profit.
Everyone profits! Except, of course, for SCO.
Your argument is flawed. I am not forced to look at ads on billboards, or even tv...
The difference with pop-up ads, is they are unwanted, and cannot be ignored...
You seem to ignore your own flawed argument. You are not forced to use a web browser which permits pop-up ads. Try Opera, Mozilla, Firebird, Netscape, Camino, Safari... in fact just about every single browser you could possibly choose allows you to turn off pop-up ads.
Given your apparent strong aversion to pop-up ads, why do you choose to continue to use a browser which freely permits pop-ups? That seems... twisted.
What exactly is the difference?
1. Humans have free speech
2. Corporations are legally human
The difference is that a corporation can legally be dissolved.
Microsoft should fire the person responsible for the "Sparkle" name ($10 says it's the same who came out with "Clippy") and hire somebody who would give it a more impressive name, such as "Lighting".
And likely they, too, will have to pay millions of dollars to the creative genius behind H&R Block's new logo.