Soon *the terrorists* my find a way to detonate their clothing and all clothing will be banned in the cabin. This sounds pretty cool at first, but keep in mind how often is the random person sitting next to you a slammin' hottie?
Please have a little faith in the free market system. Very quickly, airlines will have "hotties fly free" policies, and they'll charge a premium for seats near each hottie.
After that *the terrorists* will find a brilliant plot to set themselves on fire by rubbing their arms together REALLY FAST. Once this happpens, all PASSENGERS will be banned from being in the cabin.
Surely all passengers will simply be coated with sensuous massage oils in order to reduce friction. This would have the advantage of being able to squeeze a few more passengers into the cabin.
I predict a huge uplift in airline stocks as a result.
Had he spoken up as soon as he'd discovered hi iPod missing and the suddenly strange behaviour of the flight attendants, they might have brushed off the incident.
He did. The problem was the flight attendants found the iPod before he discovered it was missing.
It all started when I got out of my seat to go to the bathroom. I went to the bathroom, washed my hands, and returned to my seat. A little while later the two stewardesses on the flight crossed each other in the aisle. They had a quick conversation that I was in earshot of.
"I locked off the front lav. There's something in the toilet that's preventing it from flushing. Run some water and see if you can clear it." My face immediately turned red. The seat cover! I thought. It must have been too big to flush! I should have thrown it out!
I was so embarrassed. I tried to act normal... I took a sudden interest in the contents of the seat pocket in front of me, acted nonchalant and all. I watched as the stewardess got on her hands and knees in the lavatory and did unfathomable dirty work.
Sometime later, I decided it would be best if I forgot the whole thing happened, so I went to put on my headphones and drown myself in iPod music. But... no iPod. I panicked, checked my other pockets. Where was it? Not under the seat, not in the pockets, not... anywhere. I looked up to the stewardesses. One of them had run past me in a decent clip. She was carrying a green handbook. She brought it to the other stewardess. They flipped through the handbook, read a page, then made a call. The other stewardess had retrieved a blue metal box and was removing some equipment from it.
I put two and two together. I knew what had happened.
So I walked up to the stewardesses, both clamoring over the handbook, and tapped one on the shoulder.
"So, I had an iPod before I went to the bathroom, and now I don't. I think I know what's in the toilet."
Right. That is the nature of DHCP. Today I'm blocking RandomUser at 66-191-251-126.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com who has an infected PC and tomorrow I'm blocking LuminaireX at 66-191-251-126.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com who only sends out clever and insightful email. I now don't accept mail from any computer in *.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com.
But that isn't blocking most legitimate mail -- most people use their ISP's mail server or another mail service to send out mail. (My ISP, like many, force that choice by blocking outgoing port 25.) It is so common for people to block incoming mail from consumer IP ranges, I can't imagine trying to send mail that way anymore.
I don't like doing it, and I haven't found an automated blacklist I trust because of too many false positives. I was reluctant to block consumer IPs because I too used to have a home-based mail server. It just isn't practical anymore to accept mail from those sources.
your scheme would still unfairly penalize that user if they ever got their computer fixed, or better, formatted it completely, and when the next poor sucker that hops online gets your recycled, dirty IP, he can't send out email to anyone
Unfortunately, the days when you can use a dial-up, cable or DSL connection for an outgoing mail server are gone. Even if you ISP doesn't block outgoing port 25 yet, many people block DUL ("Dial Up List"). So... if I notice I'm getting spam from consumer IPs for a cable or DSL provider, I block that range forever. Someone can still use the cable or DSL provider's mail server to reach me. There are just too many zombie computer out there to do otherwise.
Acts of destruction remind us that physical substances are only equal to the exact sum of their parts: Plastic and cotton, metal or wood. What's left over is a painful buoyancy, an unbearable absence of feeling; you mourn not just your lost PS2 games or your Xbox controllers but also the fact that these once precious things have been proven completely meaningless.
Caller: "Hello sir, are you a registered vot-" You: "I KNOW YOU! You are an alien! ALIEN!! Edith! EDITH!! It's one of those ALIENS again. I know what you what you want with me! You are going to use your MIND CONTROL to force me to do unspeakable things to my wife. Edith! Brace yourself honey, it's about to happen AGAIN!" Caller: "Er, maybe this isn't a good-" You: "OH MY GOD HE HAS GOT MY BRAIN!"
I beg your pardon; I didn't mean to slight the other political parties. In any case, I'd hate to have my vote influenced in any direction by something as trivial as a phone call. I just want the calls to stop.
It turns out that Bloglines was notified in advance by
SPI Dynamics about the problem, and took steps to fix the problem the same day. Nicely done by both parties!
The primary difference being that you actively disturb people at home without being invited, and he doesn't. Pretty close otherwise, since you agree that he may hang up on you.
Why don't you switch over to sending spam? I can block that.
I give my name and don't take any measures to protect my number
That is good, I wish that were true for the people who are calling me. You've obviously thought about what you think is fair -- and while I don't agree with how you've decided to contact people, your methods are much better than what I have to deal with. And that is the problem: I'm at your mercy about how you decide to limit your calls to me.
if you're a resident of Idaho's 1st Congressional District I'll give you my phone number
Thanks, but I'm not a resident. The issue is not a single phone call, it is the aggregate of all the calls, with several candidates calling multiple times.
you can fax or email me your voter registration card
Fair enough. That is the procedure in Idaho then, you send a copy of your voter registration card to everyone before you call them, right? With such an enlightened procedure in your state, I now understand why you are confused by my outrage over political calls. You see, in my state, any moron can pick up a phone and call me about politics. Heck, they won't even give their real number or name after I pick up, let alone sending me credentials before the call. Most of the calls are even automated recordings, which of course I'm sure your candidate in Idaho wouldn't consider doing. I think I'll move to Idaho.
Just for fun, you could go ahead and post your phone number here, and I'm sure a number of people would be happy to provide you with political opinions to consider. That way you could see what the rest of us go through every election. Yeah, there might be a lot of calls, but you already know how to hang up and everything.
I'll tell you I'm not interested and hang up.
I'm shocked that you are prejudging my political views; I think you'll find them facinating.
I'm a little puzzled about why people here are getting so worked up about this.
I'm the whiny guy who started this, so I'll take a shot at explaining. I'm annoyed because the number of political calls I'm getting has taken a sharp increase. I'm getting tons of automated calls. These calls have either no call ID information or bogus caller ID information, so I can't tell them from legitimate calls. And frankly, I'm spoiled from the No Call list -- I'm not used to not being bothered with stupid calls, and I like it. It my phone and telemarketers should respect my request not to be bothered.
I'd like to make a few points based on ten years' of off-and-on experience calling people from political campaigns
Ah, so you are one of them. Out of politeness, I won't call you a bastard.
The world would be a sorry place if everyone threw temper tantrums about such a little thing.
I'm not throwing a temper tantrums -- heck, most of the time, it is a recorded message at the other end of the line.
If you're getting get-out-the-vote calls (calls to identify you as a supporter or calls to remind you to vote), it means you can't be counted on to vote.
But I do vote. I think that might actually be part of my problem. The voter records are available to the candidates, supposedly so vote fraud can be investigated.
Persuasion calls are easy to stop. Tell the caller...
But there is no caller. Just a machine most of the time. And the rest of the time, the people might as well be machines. I've tried calling the campaigns to get off their lists, but it doesn't do any good.
If you want less personal voter contact...
I don't consider automated phone calls personal contact. I don't care if they advertise on TV -- I am in control of my remote and when I watch TV, and somebody has to pay the bills for the broadcaster. It might as well be a politician as a soap company.
TV ads cost much more money than direct voter contact, and effective campaigns require enough money as it is.
Not my problem. In any case, I'm just getting phone calls from the two major parties, so it isn't like they don't find money to advertise elsewhere.
you probably don't like door-knocking either
No, but at least I can tell them to get lost.
how would you run effective get-out-the-vote and persuasion campaigns?
Gee, maybe candidates could talk about the issues and present real solutions to today's problems?
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
-- Everett Dirksen
"Political surveys are done by real people, but they hang up on me if I stray from answering their questions."
As well they should.
But you see, they hang up if I try to get put on their "don't call list", ask for a supervisor, or try to find out what company is calling me. Their "caller ID" CLI information is either missing or bogus, so I don't have a method of complaining about their behavior if I can't ask questions.
If you don't want to take the poll, hang up.
And hang up and hang up and hang up... this is silly. Do you "just hit delete" for your spam, or do you use a spam filter? The No Call list should be expanded to include political calls. (All we have to do is get the law changed by... politicians.)
I see a bunch of fools who like to complain about shit but are more vexed when their playstation/x-box game is interrupted by a phone call from someone who MIGHT ACTUALLY COME TO A POSITION TO SAY WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT DO.
I, for one, read the news to be an informed citizen and I do vote.
I can use the national No Call list to prevent people from interrupting my life to sell me siding that I don't need. Why can't I have a way stop calls to my private phone that say little more than "VOTE FOR GEORGE KERRY / JOHN BUSH"? I may be nieve, but I like to pretend the voters are in charge.
More importantly, spam doesn't have to make money for the people paying for the spam. The people paying for the spam just have to expect to make money -- even if they never see a penny of profit. Spam is amazingly cheap to send; the spammers can make a profit selling their services to clueless people who hope you'll buy "bybubVjjagra".
I tried to use Norton in one of my applications. It would have been very nice to be able to scan a user provided file with an antivirus application, but I couldn't find an API. All I was looking for was something like Microsoft Word had -- for a given user file, scan it and tell me if it is infected or not. Symantec wouldn't provide any information "for security purposes."
You obviously didn't see the director's cut of Half-Wits Holiday where Curly is eliminated by a head butt or Flagpole Jitters in 1956 that offed Shemp in a scrafing incident. True fans of the "Forbidden Stooge Shorts" prefer Joe Besser's demise in Flying Saucer Daffy. (I won't spoil the ending for you.)
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This might be the Discover he has. I found that on virtualdebris which seems to have some of the other software he is using.
I haven't used any of it, so I don't know if it will melt your USB drive.
Soon *the terrorists* my find a way to detonate their clothing and all clothing will be banned in the cabin. This sounds pretty cool at first, but keep in mind how often is the random person sitting next to you a slammin' hottie?
Please have a little faith in the free market system. Very quickly, airlines will have "hotties fly free" policies, and they'll charge a premium for seats near each hottie.
After that *the terrorists* will find a brilliant plot to set themselves on fire by rubbing their arms together REALLY FAST. Once this happpens, all PASSENGERS will be banned from being in the cabin.
Surely all passengers will simply be coated with sensuous massage oils in order to reduce friction. This would have the advantage of being able to squeeze a few more passengers into the cabin.
I predict a huge uplift in airline stocks as a result.
So how did it work out with Cara?
Had he spoken up as soon as he'd discovered hi iPod missing and the suddenly strange behaviour of the flight attendants, they might have brushed off the incident.
He did. The problem was the flight attendants found the iPod before he discovered it was missing.
... how Mickey is taking the news?
He really knows how to present your case. (Ya gotta watch the video version to get the full impact.)
I'm reluctantly running a pirated version of Windows and can't get caught no matter how hard I try.
Here you go!
Right. That is the nature of DHCP. Today I'm blocking RandomUser at 66-191-251-126.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com who has an infected PC and tomorrow I'm blocking LuminaireX at 66-191-251-126.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com who only sends out clever and insightful email. I now don't accept mail from any computer in *.dhcp.kgpt.tn.charter.com.
But that isn't blocking most legitimate mail -- most people use their ISP's mail server or another mail service to send out mail. (My ISP, like many, force that choice by blocking outgoing port 25.) It is so common for people to block incoming mail from consumer IP ranges, I can't imagine trying to send mail that way anymore.
I don't like doing it, and I haven't found an automated blacklist I trust because of too many false positives. I was reluctant to block consumer IPs because I too used to have a home-based mail server. It just isn't practical anymore to accept mail from those sources.
Unfortunately, the days when you can use a dial-up, cable or DSL connection for an outgoing mail server are gone. Even if you ISP doesn't block outgoing port 25 yet, many people block DUL ("Dial Up List"). So... if I notice I'm getting spam from consumer IPs for a cable or DSL provider, I block that range forever. Someone can still use the cable or DSL provider's mail server to reach me. There are just too many zombie computer out there to do otherwise.
And that is why I play NetHack.
Next call:
Caller: "Hello sir, are you a registered vot-"
You: "I KNOW YOU! You are an alien! ALIEN!! Edith! EDITH!! It's one of those ALIENS again. I know what you what you want with me! You are going to use your MIND CONTROL to force me to do unspeakable things to my wife. Edith! Brace yourself honey, it's about to happen AGAIN!"
Caller: "Er, maybe this isn't a good-"
You: "OH MY GOD HE HAS GOT MY BRAIN!"
I beg your pardon; I didn't mean to slight the other political parties. In any case, I'd hate to have my vote influenced in any direction by something as trivial as a phone call. I just want the calls to stop.
It turns out that Bloglines was notified in advance by SPI Dynamics about the problem, and took steps to fix the problem the same day. Nicely done by both parties!
The primary difference being that you actively disturb people at home without being invited, and he doesn't. Pretty close otherwise, since you agree that he may hang up on you.
Why don't you switch over to sending spam? I can block that.
That is good, I wish that were true for the people who are calling me. You've obviously thought about what you think is fair -- and while I don't agree with how you've decided to contact people, your methods are much better than what I have to deal with. And that is the problem: I'm at your mercy about how you decide to limit your calls to me.
if you're a resident of Idaho's 1st Congressional District I'll give you my phone number
Thanks, but I'm not a resident. The issue is not a single phone call, it is the aggregate of all the calls, with several candidates calling multiple times.
Fair enough. That is the procedure in Idaho then, you send a copy of your voter registration card to everyone before you call them, right? With such an enlightened procedure in your state, I now understand why you are confused by my outrage over political calls. You see, in my state, any moron can pick up a phone and call me about politics. Heck, they won't even give their real number or name after I pick up, let alone sending me credentials before the call. Most of the calls are even automated recordings, which of course I'm sure your candidate in Idaho wouldn't consider doing. I think I'll move to Idaho.
Just for fun, you could go ahead and post your phone number here, and I'm sure a number of people would be happy to provide you with political opinions to consider. That way you could see what the rest of us go through every election. Yeah, there might be a lot of calls, but you already know how to hang up and everything.
I'll tell you I'm not interested and hang up.
I'm shocked that you are prejudging my political views; I think you'll find them facinating.
I'm the whiny guy who started this, so I'll take a shot at explaining. I'm annoyed because the number of political calls I'm getting has taken a sharp increase. I'm getting tons of automated calls. These calls have either no call ID information or bogus caller ID information, so I can't tell them from legitimate calls. And frankly, I'm spoiled from the No Call list -- I'm not used to not being bothered with stupid calls, and I like it. It my phone and telemarketers should respect my request not to be bothered.
I'd like to make a few points based on ten years' of off-and-on experience calling people from political campaigns
Ah, so you are one of them. Out of politeness, I won't call you a bastard.
The world would be a sorry place if everyone threw temper tantrums about such a little thing.
I'm not throwing a temper tantrums -- heck, most of the time, it is a recorded message at the other end of the line.
If you're getting get-out-the-vote calls (calls to identify you as a supporter or calls to remind you to vote), it means you can't be counted on to vote.
But I do vote. I think that might actually be part of my problem. The voter records are available to the candidates, supposedly so vote fraud can be investigated.
Persuasion calls are easy to stop. Tell the caller...
But there is no caller. Just a machine most of the time. And the rest of the time, the people might as well be machines. I've tried calling the campaigns to get off their lists, but it doesn't do any good.
If you want less personal voter contact...
I don't consider automated phone calls personal contact. I don't care if they advertise on TV -- I am in control of my remote and when I watch TV, and somebody has to pay the bills for the broadcaster. It might as well be a politician as a soap company.
TV ads cost much more money than direct voter contact, and effective campaigns require enough money as it is.
Not my problem. In any case, I'm just getting phone calls from the two major parties, so it isn't like they don't find money to advertise elsewhere.
you probably don't like door-knocking either
No, but at least I can tell them to get lost.
how would you run effective get-out-the-vote and persuasion campaigns?
Gee, maybe candidates could talk about the issues and present real solutions to today's problems?
As well they should.
But you see, they hang up if I try to get put on their "don't call list", ask for a supervisor, or try to find out what company is calling me. Their "caller ID" CLI information is either missing or bogus, so I don't have a method of complaining about their behavior if I can't ask questions.
If you don't want to take the poll, hang up.
And hang up and hang up and hang up... this is silly. Do you "just hit delete" for your spam, or do you use a spam filter? The No Call list should be expanded to include political calls. (All we have to do is get the law changed by... politicians.)
I, for one, read the news to be an informed citizen and I do vote.
I can use the national No Call list to prevent people from interrupting my life to sell me siding that I don't need. Why can't I have a way stop calls to my private phone that say little more than "VOTE FOR GEORGE KERRY / JOHN BUSH"? I may be nieve, but I like to pretend the voters are in charge.
More importantly, spam doesn't have to make money for the people paying for the spam. The people paying for the spam just have to expect to make money -- even if they never see a penny of profit. Spam is amazingly cheap to send; the spammers can make a profit selling their services to clueless people who hope you'll buy "bybubVjjagra".
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I tried to use Norton in one of my applications. It would have been very nice to be able to scan a user provided file with an antivirus application, but I couldn't find an API. All I was looking for was something like Microsoft Word had -- for a given user file, scan it and tell me if it is infected or not. Symantec wouldn't provide any information "for security purposes."
Since you don't have the room, put the servers in somebody's colocation facility. You can get the servers and UPS in a proper environment.
You obviously didn't see the director's cut of Half-Wits Holiday where Curly is eliminated by a head butt or Flagpole Jitters in 1956 that offed Shemp in a scrafing incident. True fans of the "Forbidden Stooge Shorts" prefer Joe Besser's demise in Flying Saucer Daffy. (I won't spoil the ending for you.)
Or they could just click here