A problem with a topic for regex examples is the Lameness Filter as it sees most regular expressions as having "'junk' characters". Prefixing the regexes with tabs in ecode tags seems to have gotten around it this time.
When used with procmail regex-filtering on the To and Cc headers, these rules match any e-mail carbon-copied to any user at example.com except user@example.com, including Bcc's that don't name only user@example.com in the To or Cc header. I find this to be effective for trapping a lot of domain-blanketing spam. Of course, this does mean you not caring about receiving e-mail shared with anyone else at your ISP. False positives are avoided by using neither a large nor local ISP.
# Match addresses that aren't user@example.com (this line is here for formatting reasons only)
( "[^"]*")? <?[[:alnum:]_.]{1,3}@example\.com>?
( "[^"]*")? <?[[:alnum:]_.]{5,}@example\.com>?
( "[^"]*")? <?[^u]...@example\.com>?
( "[^"]*")? <?.[^s]..@example\.com>?
( "[^"]*")? <?..[^e].@example\.com>?
( "[^"]*")? <?...[^r]@example\.com>?
The first two rules you adjust for the length of your actual username. The 3 should be one less than the length of your username and the 5 one more than that same length. The result is that it matches any names that are too short, too long, or don't have the right letters in the right positions.
I have another that matches anything that is to user@example.com but only if the quoted name contains any characters not in the user's full name. E.g. if the user's name is "User Name", \"[^"]*[bcdf-lopqt-z][^"]*\" <user@example\.com> won't let messages to "Sergey" <user@example.com> through.
If you're using case-sensitive regex matches, these would need to be augmented.
When the aliens (any brand) come, we can simply offer them this individual. This will keep them busy for quite a while, and maybe they'll forget to invade.
Avon: Tell me, Orac, how precisely did Vila confuse and distract Ultraworld? Orac: Quite simple. With a series of random and illogical brain impulses. The planet was programmed to assimilate orderly coherent thought patterns. Anything else confused it. Vila: Eh? Avon: You mean Vila spouted nonsense. Vila: I resent that! Avon: Oh, I wouldn't if I were you. Orac is saying that a logical, rational intelligence is no match for yours.
In my city, a little old lady was arrested walking down main street placing more of these signs by none other than the chief of police. The signs stopped appearing for awhile, but apparently they got someone to replace her.
I'm more concerned about the "send us your old and worn out gold jewelry ads".
I miss the DeVry metallic zombie ads. I particularly liked it when ads inserted by the local cable company replaced them, but at the end of the block, you saw just a flash of the zombie at the end. AAH!
I also linked to the original version and stated I was reprinting below, so you had the option to avoid all that by following the link instead in all its monospaced hard-formatted glory.
It all started with wanting to mildly obfuscate the e-mail address with a link to the domain's site, and then the historical note about the defunct eWorld, then the page for Disinfectant, and then just having fun wikifying the whole thing for the public record. I admit I got OCD over that.
But hey, I do appreciate the witty criticism of my wiki linkism. It is well taken and in good humor. I just also thought it more useful to point out that one can elect to hide those domain markers and suggest a way they could be improved than just a simple mea culpa.
Now, how did my posting preference get changed from Plain Old Text to HTML Formatted? Ever since I accessed that preferences panel things have been acting weird.
What about Bartledanian books, or are you insulting Arthur Dent?
He preferred not to think about it. He preferred just to sit and read - or at least he would prefer it if there was anything worth reading. But nobody in Bartledanian stories ever wanted anything. Not even a glass of water. Certainly, they would fetch one if they were thirsty, but if there wasn't one available, they would think no more about it. He had just read an entire book in which the main character had, over the course of a week, done some work in his garden, played a great deal of netball, helped mend a road, fathered a child on his wife and then unexpectedly died of thirst just before the last chapter. In exasperation Arthur had combed his way back through the book and in the end had found a passing reference to some problem with the plumbing in Chapter 2. And that was it. So the guy dies. It just happens.
It wasn't even the climax of the book, because there wasn't one. The character died about a third of the way through the penultimate chapter of the book, and the rest of it was just more stuff about road-mending. The book just finished dead at the one hundred thousandth word, because that was how long books were on Bartledan.
Incidentally, this passage from Mostly Harmless was Douglas Adams lampooning himself. He had a style where something important was obfuscated and casually dropped in an earlier part of the book. In Mostly Harmless Chapter 4:
She was very fond of Stavro himself, who was a Greek with a German father - a fairly odd combination. Tricia had been to the Alpha a couple of nights earlier, which was Stavro's original club in New York, now run by his brother Karl, who thought of himself as a German with a Greek mother. Stavro would be very happy to be told that Karl was making a bit of a pig's ear of running the New York club, so Tricia would go and make him happy. There was little love lost between Stavro and Karl Mueller.
And Chapter 7 said:
It said that the major activities pursued on NowWhat were those of catching, skinning and eating NowWhattian boghogs, which were the only extant form of animal life on NowWhat, all other having long ago died of despair.
Yet, also on NowWhat in the same chapter:
A single bird wheeled in the sky above him as he set off back for the spaceport.
If you've read the whole book, you don't need me to explain the meaning of these snippets.
i would have read [wikipedia.org] your post [wikipedia.org] but was too busy clicking [wikipedia.org] on completely unnecessary hyperlinks [wikipedia.org] to stupid [wikipedia.org] shit on wikipedia [wikipedia.org] that were embedded [wikipedia.org] in it.
I considered that, but in Help & Preferences : Discussions : Viewing there's the option "Display Link Domains? (shows the actual domain of any link in brackets)" where you can choose one of "Never show link domains", "Show the links [sic] domain only in recommended situations", or "Always show link domains", so it is under end user control.
In this case, only the first option suppresses any of them. It would be nice if the second option suppressed them if they were the same as the previous one displayed.
What would really be nice is if it did it with just a style rule. If the href is prechewed to put the domain in the title attribute (for example), you could have a[href][title]:hover:after { content: " [" attr(title) "]"; }(*) and you'd only get the domain in square brackets popping up when you hovered the link and (even without the:hover) it wouldn't be included in a highlight for copy and paste. (I already do something similar for named anchors:
The last rule is to deal with a bug regarding named linked anchors.
(*) I haven't tested this double attribute selector. If it doesn't work, maybe [title] is enough, but I'd define an appropriate parent class in either case's practice to restrict the scope to be safe.
George W. Bush: What do you want me to do? I thought this was being handled. The truth is out there now. Toothpick Man: The truth has always been out there Mr. President. The people just don't want to believe.
Ah, I found one. The Risks Digest, Volume 16: Issue 55, Weds 9 November 1994. The relevant section is reprinted below for preservation's sake, edited only for spelling ("entirity"), converting asterisk-marked text to strong text, formatting, block quoting, and adding links.
Hardware-borne Trojan Horse programs Chris Tate <FIXER@FAXCSL.DCRT.NIH.GOV> Tue, 8 Nov 1994 12:34:36 -0500 (EST)
I had an unpleasant experience this past weekend, and I imagine some other readers of RISKS will find it interesting.
I recently purchased an AppleMacintosh computer at a "computer superstore," as separate components - the Apple CPU, and Apple monitor, and a third-partykeyboard billed as coming from a company called Sicon.
This past weekend, while trying to get some text-editing work done, I had to leave the computer alone for a while. Upon returning, I found to my horror that the text "welcome datacomp" had been inserted into the text I was editing. I was certain that I hadn't typed it, and my wife verified that she hadn't, either. A quick survey showed that the "clipboard" (the repository for information being manipulated via cut/paste operations) wasn't the source of the offending text.
As usual, the initial reaction was to suspect a virus. Disinfectant, a leading anti-viral application for Macintoshes, gave the system a clean bill of health; furthermore, its descriptions of the known viruses (as of Disinfectant version 3.5, the latest release) did not mention any symptoms similar to my experiences.
I restarted the system in a fully minimal configuration, launched an editor, and waited. Sure enough, after a (rather long) wait, the text "welcome datacomp" once again appeared, all at once, on its own.
As a next step, I contacted John Norstad, the author of Disinfectant, and one of the international response team for dealing with new Macintosh virus sightings. Very promptly I received a response, which I shall quote here in its entirety (it's brief):
Yes, we have heard of this. It's a practical joke in the ROMcode in some third-party keyboards. The only solution is to get your bad keyboard replaced.
I was furious. Apparently there are hardware products on the market which have embedded "Trojan Horses," programs which affect the operation of the system without the user's consent (or knowledge!).
I have returned the keyboard to the store where I purchased it, and I plan to contact Sicon about the problem. The potential for abuses in computer systems here is apparent, especially when the system involves "intelligent" peripherals - such as many popular types of disk drive, Apple Desktop Bus devices (such as the offending keyboard), and so forth.
John Norstad informs me that he has little knowledge of the extent of this particular problem, other than the fact that he has received quite a bit of mail from people who have been bitten. What is almost
Apparently they didn't learn from the shitstorm that hit belkin when they did the exact same thing years ago.
Belkin wasn't the first. There was a certain third-party ADB keyboard manufacturer that, when the keyboard was idle long enough, would spontaneously type "welcome datacomp" (or "WELCOME DATACOMP" if caps-lock was down) into whatever application was running. I'd bet you'd still find some PDF documents on-line with those words randomly embedded on some page. It even made its way into a couple published books. It should also be in a comp risks digest or two.
I can't even run Firefox 3 on my work system. I have to run it on the only Linux machine here that can, displaying to my screen, and even then it keeps spitting out Gdk- and Gtk-CRITICAL assertion errors.
Then why are we allowed to say copulation and feces on TV?
Because as the objectionable alternatives consist of only one syllable, you can be offended faster than you can reasonably prepare. (Or that they're so short, even a cavechild can repeat them.)
But funny how you can work them into syllables of other words and they become acceptable:
...Balzac was a writer He lived with Allen Funt Mrs. Roberts didn't like him But that's 'cause she's a contaminated water Can really make you sick...
But even bare I'd argue that, when rhymed in poetry, you have just as much if not more advance warning.
Is there only the one word with fuhk (or fŭk which slashdot won't render (Latin small letter u with breve), literal or entified) as a syllable in English (with proper pronunciation) that isn't a derivation of the single-syllable word? Does anyone have a greppable phonetic unabridged dictionary?
Judging from how some movies are edited for television, you can't say Jesus, but you can say God. (Or is it that you can't pretend to be Jesus, but you can pretend to be God?)
In others you can't have an alien creature show its face or speak English, but you can in its sequel. Its been suggested that the vagina-shaped mouth (behind the mandibles) is the reason to not show the face, but to remove its ability to mimick English?
My domain names have hyphens because the hyphenless versions were taken. I've only had one of them rejected (by Best Buy) just because the domain was too long for their form (only seventeen characters between the @ and dot-TLD).
BTW: the alliteration of your signature would be improved if you replaced "is" with "was".
Slashdot Mirror
A problem with a topic for regex examples is the Lameness Filter as it sees most regular expressions as having "'junk' characters". Prefixing the regexes with tabs in ecode tags seems to have gotten around it this time.
When used with procmail regex-filtering on the To and Cc headers, these rules match any e-mail carbon-copied to any user at example.com except user@example.com, including Bcc's that don't name only user@example.com in the To or Cc header. I find this to be effective for trapping a lot of domain-blanketing spam. Of course, this does mean you not caring about receiving e-mail shared with anyone else at your ISP. False positives are avoided by using neither a large nor local ISP.
The first two rules you adjust for the length of your actual username. The 3 should be one less than the length of your username and the 5 one more than that same length. The result is that it matches any names that are too short, too long, or don't have the right letters in the right positions.
I have another that matches anything that is to user@example.com but only if the quoted name contains any characters not in the user's full name. E.g. if the user's name is "User Name", \"[^"]*[bcdf-lopqt-z][^"]*\" <user@example\.com> won't let messages to "Sergey" <user@example.com> through.
If you're using case-sensitive regex matches, these would need to be augmented.
This could be worse than both K.A.R.R. and Goliath combined!
Avon: Tell me, Orac, how precisely did Vila confuse and distract Ultraworld?
Orac: Quite simple. With a series of random and illogical brain impulses. The planet was programmed to assimilate orderly coherent thought patterns. Anything else confused it.
Vila: Eh?
Avon: You mean Vila spouted nonsense.
Vila: I resent that!
Avon: Oh, I wouldn't if I were you. Orac is saying that a logical, rational intelligence is no match for yours.
I thought he was more like Gene Ray, the Time Cube guy.
I say anyone really happy to see me would be packing at least 720p in their pocket.
So US$11.25?
How's $50 for a 400 W bulb every 20,000 hours? It helps when you save a lot building your own 1080p projector from a $380 kit and an LCD monitor.
In my city, a little old lady was arrested walking down main street placing more of these signs by none other than the chief of police. The signs stopped appearing for awhile, but apparently they got someone to replace her.
I'm more concerned about the "send us your old and worn out gold jewelry ads".
I miss the DeVry metallic zombie ads. I particularly liked it when ads inserted by the local cable company replaced them, but at the end of the block, you saw just a flash of the zombie at the end. AAH!
We should start a counter-campaign:
Married?
LincolnSwingers.com
I also linked to the original version and stated I was reprinting below, so you had the option to avoid all that by following the link instead in all its monospaced hard-formatted glory.
It all started with wanting to mildly obfuscate the e-mail address with a link to the domain's site, and then the historical note about the defunct eWorld, then the page for Disinfectant, and then just having fun wikifying the whole thing for the public record. I admit I got OCD over that.
But hey, I do appreciate the witty criticism of my wiki linkism. It is well taken and in good humor. I just also thought it more useful to point out that one can elect to hide those domain markers and suggest a way they could be improved than just a simple mea culpa.
Now, how did my posting preference get changed from Plain Old Text to HTML Formatted? Ever since I accessed that preferences panel things have been acting weird.
There are no boring books, only boring readers.
What about Mission Earth?
What about Bartledanian books, or are you insulting Arthur Dent?
Incidentally, this passage from Mostly Harmless was Douglas Adams lampooning himself. He had a style where something important was obfuscated and casually dropped in an earlier part of the book. In Mostly Harmless Chapter 4:
And Chapter 7 said:
Yet, also on NowWhat in the same chapter:
If you've read the whole book, you don't need me to explain the meaning of these snippets.
- aliens attack Earth and are destroyed by water
Attack of the The Eye Creatures- aliens attack Earth at night and are destroyed by bright light
Predator & Predator 2i would have read [wikipedia.org] your post [wikipedia.org] but was too busy clicking [wikipedia.org] on completely unnecessary hyperlinks [wikipedia.org] to stupid [wikipedia.org] shit on wikipedia [wikipedia.org] that were embedded [wikipedia.org] in it.
I considered that, but in Help & Preferences : Discussions : Viewing there's the option "Display Link Domains? (shows the actual domain of any link in brackets)" where you can choose one of "Never show link domains", "Show the links [sic] domain only in recommended situations", or "Always show link domains", so it is under end user control.
In this case, only the first option suppresses any of them. It would be nice if the second option suppressed them if they were the same as the previous one displayed.
What would really be nice is if it did it with just a style rule. If the href is prechewed to put the domain in the title attribute (for example), you could have a[href][title]:hover:after { content: " [" attr(title) "]"; }(*) and you'd only get the domain in square brackets popping up when you hovered the link and (even without the :hover) it wouldn't be included in a highlight for copy and paste. (I already do something similar for named anchors:
The last rule is to deal with a bug regarding named linked anchors.
(*) I haven't tested this double attribute selector. If it doesn't work, maybe [title] is enough, but I'd define an appropriate parent class in either case's practice to restrict the scope to be safe.
George W. Bush: What do you want me to do? I thought this was being handled. The truth is out there now. Toothpick Man: The truth has always been out there Mr. President. The people just don't want to believe.
Ah, I found one. The Risks Digest, Volume 16: Issue 55, Weds 9 November 1994. The relevant section is reprinted below for preservation's sake, edited only for spelling ("entirity"), converting asterisk-marked text to strong text, formatting, block quoting, and adding links.
Apparently they didn't learn from the shitstorm that hit belkin when they did the exact same thing years ago.
Belkin wasn't the first. There was a certain third-party ADB keyboard manufacturer that, when the keyboard was idle long enough, would spontaneously type "welcome datacomp" (or "WELCOME DATACOMP" if caps-lock was down) into whatever application was running. I'd bet you'd still find some PDF documents on-line with those words randomly embedded on some page. It even made its way into a couple published books. It should also be in a comp risks digest or two.
And just what is wrong with welcome datacomp ads built into consumer devices?
Possibly also of interest: The /. thread for the Belkin incident
Indeed, this should be included in the "Related links" for this story.
it's Acrobat Reader 5.0, x86 linux 5.0.10 Nov 8 2004 13:14:17.
You're running an extremely old version. The current version is 9.
You think that's old? You should look up xemacs 19.13. Also, the installed mozilla version:
% /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/mozilla-bin --version
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225, build 2003022516
I can't even run Firefox 3 on my work system. I have to run it on the only Linux machine here that can, displaying to my screen, and even then it keeps spitting out Gdk- and Gtk-CRITICAL assertion errors.
To disable js, go to Edit, Preferences, JavaScript, and uncheck "Enable Acrobat JavaScript".
Under Edit : Preferences I just have General, Comments, Full Screen, and Weblink.
Help : About Acrobat Reader says it's Acrobat Reader 5.0, x86 linux 5.0.10 Nov 8 2004 13:14:17.
This shows all attached block devices (it also errors like crazy, hence the | more)
blockdev --report /dev/* | more
Redirect stderr much?
Then why are we allowed to say copulation and feces on TV?
Because as the objectionable alternatives consist of only one syllable, you can be offended faster than you can reasonably prepare. (Or that they're so short, even a cavechild can repeat them.)
But funny how you can work them into syllables of other words and they become acceptable:
But even bare I'd argue that, when rhymed in poetry, you have just as much if not more advance warning.
Is there only the one word with fuhk (or fŭk which slashdot won't render (Latin small letter u with breve), literal or entified) as a syllable in English (with proper pronunciation) that isn't a derivation of the single-syllable word? Does anyone have a greppable phonetic unabridged dictionary?
Judging from how some movies are edited for television, you can't say Jesus, but you can say God. (Or is it that you can't pretend to be Jesus, but you can pretend to be God?)
In others you can't have an alien creature show its face or speak English, but you can in its sequel. Its been suggested that the vagina-shaped mouth (behind the mandibles) is the reason to not show the face, but to remove its ability to mimick English?
Waiting to see how many non-Linux types try this and get in trouble.
It would be very easy to get them into trouble by revealing the IP range inhabited by these phones and doing a scan for open telnet ports.
My domain names have hyphens because the hyphenless versions were taken. I've only had one of them rejected (by Best Buy) just because the domain was too long for their form (only seventeen characters between the @ and dot-TLD).
BTW: the alliteration of your signature would be improved if you replaced "is" with "was".