it's no wonder that a guy named "Martin Spammer" would be concerned about his employer reading his email. He must be the source of all those "Make money fast" mails I get.
(Sorry, Martin. I know it's "Spamer", and you probably don't even spam people, but I couldn't resist.)
I used to do that, until I was working in a network operations center and I needed a customer to mail me some logs of a secuirity problem he was having *right then* so I could grap the IP addresses out of them. When I told him to mail them to me, he asked if he could just email them to me.
I told him that was a very good idea and I gave him my email address.
I still believe it should be called mail, but there are some people out there that won't know what you're talking about.
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If that were the case, "a lot" would be spelled "alot" or "allot". *Shudder*
You have a point their.
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On another note, I've started to notice people saying things like "send me an email". This always makes me cringe. "Send me email", or "send me an email message" are both fine, but
"an email" is just plain wrong. Does this annoy anyone else, or shall I just crawl back under my rock?
I personally have been rooting for "email me", but "send me an email" is fine with me, even though it has superfluous words, because it indicates that the other party should email me once, not repeatedly or regularly.
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...nonce words that consist of an abbreviation hypenated onto a word....Some very clear examples include A-bomb, H-bomb, X-ray...
What's the X stand for in X-ray (or even in X ray)?
(In case it doesn't stand for anything, I'm not trying to be a sarcastic, nitpicking dick. I just can't find it anywhere (and I looked) ).
Holy shit. Insightful, informative, and almost entirely spelled correctly. Thank you.
I guess it does sometimes pay to read all the way down to post #324 in some stories.
Well, I no longer "refuse to believe..." now I just "find it hard to believe..."
(when are we going to get "spelled right", "used preview well", and "failed to use preview" added to the moderation options, anyways?)
People like you, with your "troll == disagrees with me" attitude is why this place has gone to hell.
I don't have that attitude. Not only did in actually state that I did not believe that the original posted was crafted as a troll, but I also conciously avoided moderating it as such.
Furthermore, this place has not gone to hell in my opinoin. (or have I just been trolled? perhaps a meta-troll.)
What was "inflammatory" from that post, apart from the fact that the you disagree with it?
The inflammatory aspects were that it blamed all of the readers (assuming they're all human) for the extinction of animals and then questioned their attempts to rectify the situation, while ignoring the other benefits of genetic research.
The reason (most) of these species are extinct is a loss of habitat caused by "civilization" moving in and changing it, whether to take resources or to build houses or businesses.
I refuse to believe that in the few thousand years since humans started being "civilized" that we have caused more animal species to become extinct than in the few million years before that. Unless species are becoming extinct at several thousand times the previous rates of extinctions, this is pretty much impossible. Are you trying to say that we are in the middle of a period of mass extinction that even dwarfs the period in which the dinosaurs were wiped out?
I do have moderator points today, but I couldn't find an appropriate way to moderate your inflammatory, shortsighted post. Any negative way I moderated it would not explain the reasons that I have for believing your post should be moderated down. It's not really flame bait because you take such a (currently) politically correct tone. It's not really offtopic; quite the contrary. I guess there's always the possibiliy that I have just been trolled. But to me, this post doesn't sound like a post intentionally crafted to troll, it sounds more like you're just confused.
None of my post here should be construed to represent any opinion I have on the cloning of extinct animals, or on the morality or ethics of environmental damage caused by humans. I'll save those for a more appropriate thread.
Don't forget medical supplies like implants. The human body doesn't reject titanium and it doesn't rust, so that's what they make the screws and stuff that they use to put humpty-dumpty back together again.
There are devices (the one I'm thinking of is made by visual networks) which limit the amount of traffic used per protocol, IP block, and vary with time of day. That means that you can say you want to allocate 10% of your traffic to FTP, 20% to napster, 10% for the administrative office IP space, and let the rest be distributed as needed. These examples are just that; you can divide up the traffic in a variety of useful ways.
The visual networks device, I believe is a CSU/DSU, router, and this filtering logic all in one. It's got pretty good remote management features as well.
If Amazon's patent gets repealed (can you do that?), Apple's gonna look really dumb.
They won't look stupid. They are just following the law at the time. If the law gets changed, they will change their businees practices.
No one seems to think that liquor makers who stopped making liquor during prohibition are stupid; they simply follow the legal requirements of the time. You would be stupid to base your businees practises more on your idealistic beliefs when they are in opposition to the legal practises of the time.
I've seen people learn to code during the part of the day they are usually high and actually become a better programmer while stoned than sober.
conditioned learning is a pretty elemtary psycologic phenomenon. I have to admit, it's pretty weird, ain't it?
For instance, I can only screw fat chicks while I'm drunk. (ok, maybe that's unrelated.)
I'm hoping for something from the list of (mostly vapourware) appliances that are pretty much stereos that can take input from streaming audio (like realaudio and its ilk). Some of them have other (primary) functions like playing MP3 CDs or "normal" CDs.
there are a few others that I can't find now, or haven't found yet.
I imagine that one big feature that I'd like is that I'd like it to exist in time for the holidays. Other than that, I just want something that takes ethernet in one side, sits in my kitchen, bathroom, study, garage, or wherever, and dumps music out.
I believe that most of these will fall in the "under $300" category, unless I have to use my iMac for this purpose.
description:
I have won over $10,000 in cash and prizes with this GIANT Bong costume!!! Hand made of construction materials, this lifelike Bong costume has a bowlpiece that lights and glows, and
"smoke" that pours out of the top! Bright pink in color, garanteed to get attention! Be the life of the costume party! Almost garanteed to win! I will deliver in New England, others pay truck
freight. Personal checks accepted, shipment when cleared. Good luck!
Wussgage? is that some kind of measurement of the tendancies to give up a in a fight, or complain or something? Exactly what kind of scale does one use to guage the amount of wuss in a person? Is this differnt than measuring the amount of wussy in a person?
Or is this the thing I keep hearing in that Budweiser commercial: "Wusaaaaage?", "yeah, wusage.", "Wusssaaaaaggeee!".
I personally don't believe this is a security related incident, but if you do, you may want to take this up on the incidents list at INCIDENTS (at) SECURITYFOCUS.COM. Head over to securityfocus.com and check out the list. It's like BUGTRAQ, but for reporting/discussing incidents.
That's understandable. I have signed up thrice in three different categories to be an editor. I have not ever heard back from them. That means that either their registration/application process is so difficult or counter-intuitive that I cannot figure it out, or that they just don't give a shit if they get another editor or not. Either way, I'm not surprised that they don't have as many editors as they would like or need.
pointy haired bosses need some illisoin of continuity...
That is a good point. If I had any kind of authority figure that I were trying to convince that we should use linux, I'm sure they would ask for some kind of "maintenance plan" or "upgrade policy report" or something.
This would be powerful ammo for that kind of argument. Saying something like "...following the regularly published updates as reccommended and installed by RedHat Network...." would sound a lot better than "I'll watch out for new updates to all the software we run and go find them and install them when they come out."
Because they provide me with relatively stable, cheap, extensible operating system that I understand and enjoy using. I think somewhere the movement against a sub-standard, expensive, closed-source OS turned into a movement agains any operating system that you have to pay for.
Redhat provides a good product, and (perhaps now) a useful service, so wny not return the effort with a few dollars. To some people, it's worth that to make use of their service, even if they can find the same thing for free elsewhere with a little work.
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I guess you're one of those people that believes that there really was a William Shakespere and that he really did write that material.
Gosh, I love a good conspiracy theory.
(Sorry, Martin. I know it's "Spamer", and you probably don't even spam people, but I couldn't resist.)
The hot, scantily-clad chicks help out a lot.
I used to do that, until I was working in a network operations center and I needed a customer to mail me some logs of a secuirity problem he was having *right then* so I could grap the IP addresses out of them. When I told him to mail them to me, he asked if he could just email them to me.
I told him that was a very good idea and I gave him my email address.
I still believe it should be called mail, but there are some people out there that won't know what you're talking about.
You have a point their.
I personally have been rooting for "email me", but "send me an email" is fine with me, even though it has superfluous words, because it indicates that the other party should email me once, not repeatedly or regularly.
What's the X stand for in X-ray (or even in X ray)?
(In case it doesn't stand for anything, I'm not trying to be a sarcastic, nitpicking dick. I just can't find it anywhere (and I looked) ).
at least their blatent plug made it to the front page. I had to resort to a comment.
pretty scary, eh?
I guess it does sometimes pay to read all the way down to post #324 in some stories.
Well, I no longer "refuse to believe..." now I just "find it hard to believe..."
(when are we going to get "spelled right", "used preview well", and "failed to use preview" added to the moderation options, anyways?)
I don't have that attitude. Not only did in actually state that I did not believe that the original posted was crafted as a troll, but I also conciously avoided moderating it as such.
Furthermore, this place has not gone to hell in my opinoin. (or have I just been trolled? perhaps a meta-troll.)
The inflammatory aspects were that it blamed all of the readers (assuming they're all human) for the extinction of animals and then questioned their attempts to rectify the situation, while ignoring the other benefits of genetic research.
I refuse to believe that in the few thousand years since humans started being "civilized" that we have caused more animal species to become extinct than in the few million years before that. Unless species are becoming extinct at several thousand times the previous rates of extinctions, this is pretty much impossible. Are you trying to say that we are in the middle of a period of mass extinction that even dwarfs the period in which the dinosaurs were wiped out?
I do have moderator points today, but I couldn't find an appropriate way to moderate your inflammatory, shortsighted post. Any negative way I moderated it would not explain the reasons that I have for believing your post should be moderated down. It's not really flame bait because you take such a (currently) politically correct tone. It's not really offtopic; quite the contrary. I guess there's always the possibiliy that I have just been trolled. But to me, this post doesn't sound like a post intentionally crafted to troll, it sounds more like you're just confused.
None of my post here should be construed to represent any opinion I have on the cloning of extinct animals, or on the morality or ethics of environmental damage caused by humans. I'll save those for a more appropriate thread.
cool, hunh?
The change was from tin cans which you cannot easily crush on your head to aluminum cans which you can crush with only slight cranial discomfort.
The visual networks device, I believe is a CSU/DSU, router, and this filtering logic all in one. It's got pretty good remote management features as well.
They won't look stupid. They are just following the law at the time. If the law gets changed, they will change their businees practices.
No one seems to think that liquor makers who stopped making liquor during prohibition are stupid; they simply follow the legal requirements of the time. You would be stupid to base your businees practises more on your idealistic beliefs when they are in opposition to the legal practises of the time.
conditioned learning is a pretty elemtary psycologic phenomenon. I have to admit, it's pretty weird, ain't it?
For instance, I can only screw fat chicks while I'm drunk. (ok, maybe that's unrelated.)
the list includes:
I imagine that one big feature that I'd like is that I'd like it to exist in time for the holidays. Other than that, I just want something that takes ethernet in one side, sits in my kitchen, bathroom, study, garage, or wherever, and dumps music out.
I believe that most of these will fall in the "under $300" category, unless I have to use my iMac for this purpose.
http://cgi. ebay.co m/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=449122943
description:
I have won over $10,000 in cash and prizes with this GIANT Bong costume!!! Hand made of construction materials, this lifelike Bong costume has a bowlpiece that lights and glows, and "smoke" that pours out of the top! Bright pink in color, garanteed to get attention! Be the life of the costume party! Almost garanteed to win! I will deliver in New England, others pay truck freight. Personal checks accepted, shipment when cleared. Good luck!
Wussgage? is that some kind of measurement of the tendancies to give up a in a fight, or complain or something? Exactly what kind of scale does one use to guage the amount of wuss in a person? Is this differnt than measuring the amount of wussy in a person?
Or is this the thing I keep hearing in that Budweiser commercial: "Wusaaaaage?", "yeah, wusage.", "Wusssaaaaaggeee!".
hmmm.
You let them have your DL number? Seems kind of pointless to lie about the rest of the stuff when your DL number is on there.
I guess I am assuming that you didn't lie on your drivers license (about more than your height and weight)
Hope it helps.
That's understandable. I have signed up thrice in three different categories to be an editor. I have not ever heard back from them. That means that either their registration/application process is so difficult or counter-intuitive that I cannot figure it out, or that they just don't give a shit if they get another editor or not. Either way, I'm not surprised that they don't have as many editors as they would like or need.
That is a good point. If I had any kind of authority figure that I were trying to convince that we should use linux, I'm sure they would ask for some kind of "maintenance plan" or "upgrade policy report" or something.
This would be powerful ammo for that kind of argument. Saying something like "...following the regularly published updates as reccommended and installed by RedHat Network...." would sound a lot better than "I'll watch out for new updates to all the software we run and go find them and install them when they come out."
Because they provide me with relatively stable, cheap, extensible operating system that I understand and enjoy using. I think somewhere the movement against a sub-standard, expensive, closed-source OS turned into a movement agains any operating system that you have to pay for.
Redhat provides a good product, and (perhaps now) a useful service, so wny not return the effort with a few dollars. To some people, it's worth that to make use of their service, even if they can find the same thing for free elsewhere with a little work.
Do you pay for running water, or do you collect rainwater in your cistern?