No, spam isn't a problem at all if you don't hand your email address over to spammers. Right.
In the real world, businesses like to use intelligent identifiers for email addresses (e.g. first initial, last name @company.com or first.last@company.com).
Nobody would ever think of trying common first and last name/initial combinations and attaching as many corporate domains as possible to them.
Nobody would ever generate a program that harvests the email addresses from the address book of friends, family, or coworkers and use that list to spam people.
My company and business contacts can easily reach me if I have 50 different email aliases that I turn on and off as I start receiving spam.
I went through chemo and radiation last year. The idea of chemo is that it kills cancerous cells, but it's completely untargetted, so you end up poisoning the whole body.
Without the chemo, I'd likely be dead now. I traded a few months of extreme weakness in exchange for near perfect health now.
I'm going to risk saying something positive about Microsoft and say that Windows XP Media Center edition is easy. It's not necessarily cheap, but it works.
You need a compatible TV tuner (Hauppauge PVR-350), a video card with TV and 64MB or more memory, a software MPEG decoder, a DVD drive, a sound card, and a compatible remote ($35 from pcalchemy.com)
XP MCE OEM is available from Newegg, the official MS remote is available at pcalchemy.com.
That's about it. PVR works, the FM tuner on the PVR-350 works, DVD player works, etc.
There are drawbacks, but if you want something easy, there you go. Plus, the Xbox Media Center Extender just plain works.
With Bill Gate's kind of money & power, not only would I call myself 'Sir,' I'd tack on whatever other titles and suffixes I wanted and laugh at anyone who tried to tell me otherwise.
For starters...The Most Honorable Lord Sir Magnus Sheikh Czar BWCarty, Emperor of the Universe, Second Coming of the Mesiah, and Bringer of the Apocalypse.
I was curiously surprised to be in agreement until I got towards the end to catch all the things that get tacked on to the good ideas.
In this case, they want to restore the right to vote to people convicted of felonies. I won't go into all the details, but that section alone will cause enough debate to kill off all the good stuff about opening the source code for voting machines, requiring paper receipts, etc.
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Perhaps Wikipedia's problems are related to the lingering effects of this.
has small print on the back stating that by endorsing that check, he agreed to switch his long distance carrier to Siberian Porn & Bell, he provided his bank account number to the entire country of Nigeria, and his testicles will be fed to contestants on Fear Factor.
My father spent 20+ years in the Navy, primarily on nuclear powered aircraft carriers and raised 3 healthy boys who grew up with healthy children of similar back grounds.
I never met a Navy brat who was negatively affected by his/her father living within hundreds of yards of a nuclear reactor. Given the number of men the Navy has on nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers, I would expect the news to be widely spread if there were significant adverse effects from those reactors.
More work needs to be done on storing the radioactive byproducts, but the reactors and power plants don't really scare me.
AppleScript mimics the syntax of English. As such, its grammar by intent should be easy for English speakers to grasp
The key word here is should. How many English speakers truly understand the grammar and syntax rules of their own language, particularly the written version?
Your iPod/car analogy is a bit off, but overall, you're right.
The Wright Brothers are given credit for inventing the first heavier than air aircraft, but how often do you see their names attached to a brand?
Mocking Apple because they didn't invent the mp3 based music player (or the online music store) is like discrediting Burt Rutan's work because he didn't invent the airplane.
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No, spam isn't a problem at all if you don't hand your email address over to spammers. Right.
In the real world, businesses like to use intelligent identifiers for email addresses (e.g. first initial, last name @company.com or first.last@company.com).
Nobody would ever think of trying common first and last name/initial combinations and attaching as many corporate domains as possible to them.
Nobody would ever generate a program that harvests the email addresses from the address book of friends, family, or coworkers and use that list to spam people.
My company and business contacts can easily reach me if I have 50 different email aliases that I turn on and off as I start receiving spam.
Yahoo also appends an advertisement to the bottom of messages you send out.
You're right on the money.
I went through chemo and radiation last year. The idea of chemo is that it kills cancerous cells, but it's completely untargetted, so you end up poisoning the whole body.
Without the chemo, I'd likely be dead now. I traded a few months of extreme weakness in exchange for near perfect health now.
It sounds like a marketing buzzword to me. Besides, I don't think the use of the suffix naut is applicable to Internet use.
It's almost as bad as banning the word e-mail in favor of courriel .
Wow...I'm not the only person who automatically adds "select" to the Konami/Contra Code.
My brother and I would always play coop on Contra and Lifeforce.
I'm going to risk saying something positive about Microsoft and say that Windows XP Media Center edition is easy. It's not necessarily cheap, but it works.
You need a compatible TV tuner (Hauppauge PVR-350), a video card with TV and 64MB or more memory, a software MPEG decoder, a DVD drive, a sound card, and a compatible remote ($35 from pcalchemy.com)
XP MCE OEM is available from Newegg, the official MS remote is available at pcalchemy.com.
That's about it. PVR works, the FM tuner on the PVR-350 works, DVD player works, etc.
There are drawbacks, but if you want something easy, there you go. Plus, the Xbox Media Center Extender just plain works.
He doesn't get to call himself 'Sir' though
With Bill Gate's kind of money & power, not only would I call myself 'Sir,' I'd tack on whatever other titles and suffixes I wanted and laugh at anyone who tried to tell me otherwise.
For starters...The Most Honorable Lord Sir Magnus Sheikh Czar BWCarty, Emperor of the Universe, Second Coming of the Mesiah, and Bringer of the Apocalypse.
Linux servers up 35.6% and other Unix servers are up 2.7%.
Need a new sysadmin? My Linux and Unix servers are up over 99%.
I was curiously surprised to be in agreement until I got towards the end to catch all the things that get tacked on to the good ideas.
In this case, they want to restore the right to vote to people convicted of felonies. I won't go into all the details, but that section alone will cause enough debate to kill off all the good stuff about opening the source code for voting machines, requiring paper receipts, etc.
Perhaps Wikipedia's problems are related to the lingering effects of this.
has small print on the back stating that by endorsing that check, he agreed to switch his long distance carrier to Siberian Porn & Bell, he provided his bank account number to the entire country of Nigeria, and his testicles will be fed to contestants on Fear Factor.
640kb of Video RAM ought to be enough for anyone.
I understand all the acronyms in the grandparent post except SERIOUS.
I've already started. You should see my 5 assed garbanzo beans.
Thanks a lot...I damn near spewed Dr. Pepper all over my monitor. Luckily, the guys in the cubes around mine are out at a meeting.
Perhaps your could get Guinness as an official sponsor.
from the monty-have-you-heard-about-this-one dept
Timothy,
You're mixing two songs from R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People. The line from Man on the Moon is, "Andy, did you hear about this one?"
Monty is from track 7 (Monty Got a Raw Deal)...my personal favorite on the album.
My father spent 20+ years in the Navy, primarily on nuclear powered aircraft carriers and raised 3 healthy boys who grew up with healthy children of similar back grounds.
I never met a Navy brat who was negatively affected by his/her father living within hundreds of yards of a nuclear reactor. Given the number of men the Navy has on nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers, I would expect the news to be widely spread if there were significant adverse effects from those reactors.
More work needs to be done on storing the radioactive byproducts, but the reactors and power plants don't really scare me.
But he'd only use it to browse http:///..org
AppleScript mimics the syntax of English. As such, its grammar by intent should be easy for English speakers to grasp
The key word here is should. How many English speakers truly understand the grammar and syntax rules of their own language, particularly the written version?
Astroturf is fake grass. In this case, it's a business funded organization that appears to be a grass roots movement.
1) Have sales of gummy bears experienced a dramatic surge in the area?
and...
2) Can I choose which finger to give them for my biometrics?
Your iPod/car analogy is a bit off, but overall, you're right.
The Wright Brothers are given credit for inventing the first heavier than air aircraft, but how often do you see their names attached to a brand?
Mocking Apple because they didn't invent the mp3 based music player (or the online music store) is like discrediting Burt Rutan's work because he didn't invent the airplane.
That's because it's all DRM free.
is worthy of a /. article?
Anyone who has played an MMORPG is more than familiar with these...especially when new titles and expansions are released.
I have an excuse for the tiny tin foil hat or my car key.