Maybe Microsoft just wants to keep their e-mail from falling into the hands of opposing lawyers who might use it against them.
I can see it now.
But your honor. We did give them all of the e-mail they asked for in discovery. They just don't have the digital rights to read some of it. And there's nothing we can do about it.
He was the one behind the netscum list.
For those who don't remember it, it was a list of anti-spammers that Spamford didn't like.
When I made the netscum list, I was kind of ticked off about being slandered on the Internet by him.
But it quickly became something of a mark of distinction, at least for a while.
I remember reading the Mad Scientists Club stories in Boys Life when I was a kid back in the 60s.
I really liked them.
I may still have those old Boys Life magazines sitting around in boxes somewhere.
By the way, my Boy Scout troop was almost entirely under achievers. Most of us went only as far as we needed to do the hiking and camping, and nothing past that.
We did have one Order of the Arrow member of the troop. Since you didn't need that for the hiking and camping, the rest of us didn't bother.
I have two. The newest is from the late 60s. The oldest was given to me by my father. I think he got it when he was in college in the early 40s.
In the early 90s, I returned to college for another degree. I routinely used the slide rules for homework. The graders couldn't figure out why I only gave 3 digits of accuracy and the third was sometimes wrong.
On another occasion, I pulled it out to do a quick calculation during a test. The prof had never seen one and made a bee-line to my seat (on the aisle) and spent about 5 minutes looking it over.
I'd rather have 6 of them and create a RAID-5 with 1.5 TB of disk space.
I've been a long time advocate of using a minimum of two disk drives. The system drive should have nothing on it but system. All data should be on one or more completely separate drives.
It doesn't matter what OS (or approximation of an OS) your are running.
Alta Vista reports that it found 100,931 results to a search for +candle +truck
I understand that a google search for candle truck requires that both words be present in the document and so it is the equivalent of the above Alta Vista search.
I've wondered what happens when a prisoner begins to suffer from advanced stages of Alzheimer's Disease.
He is not likely to be much of a danger to society any more and he is not likely to remain aware that he is being punished. And it would be difficult to argue that he he is paying his debt to society.
On the other hand, with advanced Alzheimer's Disease, the prisoner probably doesn't really care where he is.
So is there anything to gain by leaving him in prison? Is there anything to gain by releasing him early?
A tiny nudge, yes. But how much of a nudge would a nuclear weapon really give it?
If you explode a nuclear weapon in free space near the surface, there really isn't going to be much blast pressure to give it much of a nudge.
It would have to burrow into the asteroid before exploding. We would certainly have some space debris, but as long as it was somewhat spread out, most wouldn't do much damage if the pieces that broke off weren't too big.
I also remember a while back, it was posted that in Colorodo, some items are only taxable at certain times of the year. I think there was some special holiday where that particular class of item was not taxable or something like that.
We have had that in Texas the last few years.
In my opinion, it's a good time to stay out of the stores. You might save a couple bucks, but the irritation of dealing with all those crowds isn't worth the aggravation.
You can't always figure out the sales tax rate based on the zip code.
Many of those who do charge sales taxes depend on the zip code to determine how much to charge. I hate having to argue with them every time I buy something.
For example, the Texas sales tax rate at my office is 8.25%. But at home, it is 6.25%. Both are in the same zip code, but my office is in town and I live 20 miles out in the country.
The odd thing is that if Fed Ex drops off my package at the office because they don't have the foggiest idea how to get to the house, the sales tax rate is still 6.25% since the official delivery destination has no local sales tax component.
A friend of mine stated the following I am quoting him:
"Isn't it amazing, somehow advertisers can invade our privacy with impunity and anything to stop anyone from violating one of our prime rights is illegal.
Not necessarily just anything. Early one June a couple of years ago, I turned the ringer off on my telephone. In late July, I received an e-mail from my oldest brother asking why I was never home, so I turned it back on.
It was sure nice not to receive any calls at all for nearly two months.
That poverty can't disappear is built into the system.
I believe that poverty is defined as some percentage of people earning less than some set amount.
If prices remained the same but earnings were a thousand times higher for everone, we'd still have just as many poverty stricken Americans despite the fact that they might be driving a new BMW, eating lobster for supper, and sending their kids to Ivy League schools.
I sent an e-mail to Sun last spring asking about this. The response suggested calling their sales department and asking them. I thought it might be better to wait until it is ready to be released and so I haven't called them, yet.
It really wasn't a question of not wanting to take care of it, not being able to take care of it, or not having the time to take care of it.
It is because the head of the company pays far more attention to those who tell him what he wants to hear than those who tell him the truth.
The "security expert" told him what he wanted to hear.
For example, the president of the company doesn't want anything but Microsoft and Apple OS's. He doesn't want to learn anything about UNIX, Linux, or anything else. I think that "security expert" knew absolutely nothing about UNIX and Linux.
It took me forever to finally start switching from Windows NT to OpenBSD and Linux.
By the way, my first encounter with him was when he couldn't detect the version of BIND running on a Windows NT machine. Since it wasn't running Microsofts miserable excuse for DNS software, he didn't believe it was a DNS server. So he installed Microsoft's DNS service and started it up.
At that time, I was living 600 miles away and telecommuting. The president of the company told me on the telephone that the "expert" was installing Microsoft's DNS software on the server and I couldn't convince him that was a mistake.
So I sat back and watched. It took that expert about 24 hours of very expensive billable time to find and disable the port of BIND that we had been using.
The reason he was there at all was that we were switching from one block of IP addresses to another. So, the BIND software was providing the old IP addresses for all UDP queries and the miserable Microsoft DNS software was providing the new IP addresses for all TCP queries.
A couple of years ago, a so-called "security expert" sold the president of my company on the idea of installing a firewall.
To some extent, that was fine with me. I'd been arguing for that for a very long time but had gotten nowhere because the "security expert" said that firewalls weren't necessary! I guess someone finally bothered to break into his system.
The security expert's idea was to have a third party monitoring company do it all. So I spent a couple hours on the telephone one day talking to the monitoring company's personnel about our network requirements and traffic. We went into great detail over exactly which servers had to handle which services.
The firewall arrived and the security expert plugged it in. It didn't work at all. All it did was block everything. I was 600 miles away at the time and it took me a week to convince them to take it off.
They decided the firewall was defective and the monitoring company set up another one. By the time it arrived, I was back in the office. The big day came and the security expert had one of his employees come out and plug it in.
It didn't work at all.
I caught the employee of the so-called security expert before he could leave the building and had him remove it. The idiot didn't even bother to check to see if it was working.
After he left the building, I started looking at how he had it plugged in. He still had a cable plugged into the firewall from an internal hub.
He had connected the untrusted side of the firewall to the internal network. I assume that the cable from the Cisco router was plugged into the trusted side of the firewall.
But it really didn't make much difference. I also found the rule set for the firewall. The monitoring company had set it to pass nearly everything in both directions.
The only thing they configured was to block incoming traffic containing our IP addresses. Since it was plugged in backwards, it really just stopped all traffic from going out.
At this point, it would take a lot of convincing to get me to advocate using a monitoring company's services.
By the way, the same so-called "security expert" declared that rules on the Cisco router to block traffic attempting to connect to port 135 and other similar ports constituted a security list and removed them.
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I have unsubscribed from their service because of the change.
There is an option to resubscribe, but unless I see a reason to stay, I won't.
At the new limits, they are going to have to have more music I definitely want instead of music that I speculativey wish to try out.
Now Microsoft will have an excuse to avoid turning documents over during the discovery processes of the various lawsuits against them.
"Honest, your honor. The document self destructed the day we were supposed to turn it over."
I've been told that some spammers-for-hire get paid by the response.
If you complain or try to "unsubscribe", that counts as a response and increases their fee.
Maybe Microsoft just wants to keep their e-mail from falling into the hands of opposing lawyers who might use it against them.
I can see it now.
He was the one behind the netscum list. For those who don't remember it, it was a list of anti-spammers that Spamford didn't like. When I made the netscum list, I was kind of ticked off about being slandered on the Internet by him. But it quickly became something of a mark of distinction, at least for a while.
I remember reading the Mad Scientists Club stories in Boys Life when I was a kid back in the 60s.
I really liked them.
I may still have those old Boys Life magazines sitting around in boxes somewhere.
By the way, my Boy Scout troop was almost entirely under achievers. Most of us went only as far as we needed to do the hiking and camping, and nothing past that.
We did have one Order of the Arrow member of the troop. Since you didn't need that for the hiking and camping, the rest of us didn't bother.
I always preferred to take good notes even with the slides.
It seems to enhance the long term potentiation.
I still use slide rules.
I have two. The newest is from the late 60s. The oldest was given to me by my father. I think he got it when he was in college in the early 40s.
In the early 90s, I returned to college for another degree. I routinely used the slide rules for homework. The graders couldn't figure out why I only gave 3 digits of accuracy and the third was sometimes wrong.
On another occasion, I pulled it out to do a quick calculation during a test. The prof had never seen one and made a bee-line to my seat (on the aisle) and spent about 5 minutes looking it over.
One thing I do is keep copies of most of my software distributions on a hard drive and install from those instead of a CD. Also, ISOs in many cases.
I have seen disk platters in a frame on the wall on a couple of occasions.
Both times, they were the disk platters from the old removable disk packs that went in the old washing machine style of disk drives.
I'd rather have 6 of them and create a RAID-5 with 1.5 TB of disk space.
I've been a long time advocate of using a minimum of two disk drives. The system drive should have nothing on it but system. All data should be on one or more completely separate drives.
It doesn't matter what OS (or approximation of an OS) your are running.
Alta Vista reports that it found 100,931 results to a search for +candle +truck
I understand that a google search for candle truck requires that both words be present in the document and so it is the equivalent of the above Alta Vista search.
DOS is a derivative of Unix?
Now, that's funny.
They are about as much alike as a horse drawn carriage and a modern automobile.
I've wondered what happens when a prisoner begins to suffer from advanced stages of Alzheimer's Disease.
He is not likely to be much of a danger to society any more and he is not likely to remain aware that he is being punished. And it would be difficult to argue that he he is paying his debt to society.
On the other hand, with advanced Alzheimer's Disease, the prisoner probably doesn't really care where he is.
So is there anything to gain by leaving him in prison? Is there anything to gain by releasing him early?
A tiny nudge, yes. But how much of a nudge would a nuclear weapon really give it?
If you explode a nuclear weapon in free space near the surface, there really isn't going to be much blast pressure to give it much of a nudge.
It would have to burrow into the asteroid before exploding. We would certainly have some space debris, but as long as it was somewhat spread out, most wouldn't do much damage if the pieces that broke off weren't too big.
We have had that in Texas the last few years.
In my opinion, it's a good time to stay out of the stores. You might save a couple bucks, but the irritation of dealing with all those crowds isn't worth the aggravation.
You can't always figure out the sales tax rate based on the zip code.
Many of those who do charge sales taxes depend on the zip code to determine how much to charge. I hate having to argue with them every time I buy something.
For example, the Texas sales tax rate at my office is 8.25%. But at home, it is 6.25%. Both are in the same zip code, but my office is in town and I live 20 miles out in the country.
The odd thing is that if Fed Ex drops off my package at the office because they don't have the foggiest idea how to get to the house, the sales tax rate is still 6.25% since the official delivery destination has no local sales tax component.
Ron Paul was also a Republican Congressman prior to running for President as a Libertarian.
Ron Paul is also a medical doctor. A gynecologist or obstetricion or something like that.
The interesting thing about him is that he routinely votes against pork barrel projects, including those for his own district.
Not necessarily just anything. Early one June a couple of years ago, I turned the ringer off on my telephone. In late July, I received an e-mail from my oldest brother asking why I was never home, so I turned it back on.
It was sure nice not to receive any calls at all for nearly two months.
That poverty can't disappear is built into the system.
I believe that poverty is defined as some percentage of people earning less than some set amount.
If prices remained the same but earnings were a thousand times higher for everone, we'd still have just as many poverty stricken Americans despite the fact that they might be driving a new BMW, eating lobster for supper, and sending their kids to Ivy League schools.
Although the code might fixable, at least in theory, it is sometimes more practical to throw it away and start over for scratch and do it right.
Not everything that can be fixed should be fixed.
I sent an e-mail to Sun last spring asking about this. The response suggested calling their sales department and asking them. I thought it might be better to wait until it is ready to be released and so I haven't called them, yet.
It really wasn't a question of not wanting to take care of it, not being able to take care of it, or not having the time to take care of it.
It is because the head of the company pays far more attention to those who tell him what he wants to hear than those who tell him the truth.
The "security expert" told him what he wanted to hear.
For example, the president of the company doesn't want anything but Microsoft and Apple OS's. He doesn't want to learn anything about UNIX, Linux, or anything else. I think that "security expert" knew absolutely nothing about UNIX and Linux.
It took me forever to finally start switching from Windows NT to OpenBSD and Linux.
By the way, my first encounter with him was when he couldn't detect the version of BIND running on a Windows NT machine. Since it wasn't running Microsofts miserable excuse for DNS software, he didn't believe it was a DNS server. So he installed Microsoft's DNS service and started it up.
At that time, I was living 600 miles away and telecommuting. The president of the company told me on the telephone that the "expert" was installing Microsoft's DNS software on the server and I couldn't convince him that was a mistake.
So I sat back and watched. It took that expert about 24 hours of very expensive billable time to find and disable the port of BIND that we had been using.
The reason he was there at all was that we were switching from one block of IP addresses to another. So, the BIND software was providing the old IP addresses for all UDP queries and the miserable Microsoft DNS software was providing the new IP addresses for all TCP queries.
A couple of years ago, a so-called "security expert" sold the president of my company on the idea of installing a firewall.
To some extent, that was fine with me. I'd been arguing for that for a very long time but had gotten nowhere because the "security expert" said that firewalls weren't necessary! I guess someone finally bothered to break into his system.
The security expert's idea was to have a third party monitoring company do it all. So I spent a couple hours on the telephone one day talking to the monitoring company's personnel about our network requirements and traffic. We went into great detail over exactly which servers had to handle which services.
The firewall arrived and the security expert plugged it in. It didn't work at all. All it did was block everything. I was 600 miles away at the time and it took me a week to convince them to take it off.
They decided the firewall was defective and the monitoring company set up another one. By the time it arrived, I was back in the office. The big day came and the security expert had one of his employees come out and plug it in.
It didn't work at all.
I caught the employee of the so-called security expert before he could leave the building and had him remove it. The idiot didn't even bother to check to see if it was working.
After he left the building, I started looking at how he had it plugged in. He still had a cable plugged into the firewall from an internal hub.
He had connected the untrusted side of the firewall to the internal network. I assume that the cable from the Cisco router was plugged into the trusted side of the firewall.
But it really didn't make much difference. I also found the rule set for the firewall. The monitoring company had set it to pass nearly everything in both directions.
The only thing they configured was to block incoming traffic containing our IP addresses. Since it was plugged in backwards, it really just stopped all traffic from going out.
At this point, it would take a lot of convincing to get me to advocate using a monitoring company's services.
By the way, the same so-called "security expert" declared that rules on the Cisco router to block traffic attempting to connect to port 135 and other similar ports constituted a security list and removed them.