Thanks for your post. The fact that I had to scroll down half the page to find someone who actually READ THE ARTICLE suggests something (though I'm not sure what) about the Slashdot community.
I can't tell if you're kidding or not, so I'll bite: "bumblefuck" is an expression that means "the middle of nowhere." synonyms include "the sticks", "butt-fuck nowhere", and "the boonies."
But Johns Hopkins (where I go to school) is in Baltimore, MD, which is a large, albeit ghetto, city.
You can set any phone to do this. I have my SprintPCS phone set to "SprintPCS mode", which makes it only work when I'm in a Sprint area. So I never get hit with unwanted roaming fees.
I remember reading somewhere, that in order to supply parts to the military or NASA, you have to contractually agree to continue producing (or be able to produce) the purchased parts for something like 30 years, because equipment like jets and space shuttles are built to have a 30 year life span. Intel, when contracted, presumably agreed that they have to be able to make an 8086 until the space shuttle is no longer used.
So either the contract has expired and the shuttles have exceeded their lifespan, or Intel has broken its contract.
Well, light actually *can* bend if the gravitational force is strong enough... for example, a black hole causes light to bend. I'm sure that's not what they had in mind though:)
Max was my favorite show for a while there, back when it was on. I don't remember how old I was... couldn't have been more than 7 or 8.
Anyone one year for Halloween, my sister WAS Max! My father and aunt helped her turn a big cardboard box into a wearable TV set, with holes in the sides (arms), bottom (legs), and front (so it looked like she was a head inside the TV looking out). We even got wood-colored wallpaper so it looked more like a TV (remember it was the 80s, and lots of TVs were still built like furniture, with wood siding).
And thus alienate the millions of banks and financial services companies that rely on selling (expensive) merchant accounts for their very livelihood.
This business is multi-tiered, just like the alcohol-distribution business. You've got the Big Four at the top (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover), the merchant account companies, the banks (who sometimes double as the merchant account company), and finally the merchant. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
The American Society of Civil Engineers runs a nationwide contest each year, where teams of college students build concrete canoes, race them against other schools in their area, and then meet for a national race. This year's race is in Wisconsin. I've also been told that some places build concrete tobaggans too, but not for a contest.
My girlfriend is the captain of the Johns Hopkins University Concrete Canoe Team. The presentation was held just this past Sunday, against Catholic University in DC. Over the past 3 years of her doing this, I've picked up a few things. Concrete isn't just for cinder-blocks... depending on how you mix it, what you add to it, how you pour it and cure it, and what you pour it ON (example: mix it with microspheres or layer it between sheets of fiberglass mesh), you can make a very lightweight, low-density (read: floats) structure.
Even though I know all this, the old jokes never get less funny. "Concrete canoe? You row, I'll watch."
Has anyone gotten openssh-3.1p1 to compile and run properly on Slackware 8.0? I got it to compile (with a HELL of a lot of warnings), but when it starts up, it refuses to accept my password.
There's a reason why phones overseas (in Japan and Korea, for example) are so much smaller than they are here. Besides the technology being a small jump ahead over there, Americans seem to have issues with small cell phones-- we think that because they're small, they aren't picking up our voices or that they're toys that somehow don't work as well. And we do this with larger cellphones too (albeit to a lesser degree), probably because we grew up thinking that cellphones were really staticky. Consequently, Americans tend to yell unnecessarily into cell phones, especially small ones. We seem to be uncomfortable accepting the fact that if the microphone part of the handset isn't right next to our mouth, it can still pick up our voice.
For this reason, phone manufacturers actually increase the size of cell phones for sale in America, or otherwise simply choose not to sell the smaller models here. I predict these types of "ring phones" and what-not will probably have a very hard time gaining a mainstream foothold in North America.
You should provide them with an "anonymous" tip about all the software you're "stealing." Have you ever seen the online
form they have for reporting piracy? There's a little section on it that you can check- "I believe that this company would
attempt to eliminate the pirated software if they were informed beforehand," or something like that. Check that off, and then sue
them when they bust in and steal all your Linux boxen, depriving you of work.
I am not a lawyer, but that sounds a little like entrapment.
2. In my experience, people who use the term 'anti-spam zealots' are either spambags themselves, of members of the
mainsleaze spam lobby, (i.e. Ken Magill of the Direct Marketing Associations, or various random clueless marketdroids who
occasionally write for mainstream rags).
I don't think I deserved that.
[Insert the whole "i'm not a spammer or anything else you just called me" rant here].
And after all, he sent the same spam to Neil after being told it wasn't welcome at all the first time. If that is not spam, what is?
It makes Bernard defiant, pigheaded, and stupid for not removing Neil's email from his list. It may have even been intentional, to piss Neil off. But sending it twice doesn't have any impact on our debate over whether the addresses were targeted or random. Bulk? Yes. Unsolicited? Yes. Untargeted? Probably not.
I can feel the mod-downs coming, but I feel this has to be said. I think these anti-spam zealots teamed up on this poor spammer, and the only reason it went as far as it did (and as hilariously as it did) was because Shifman has a large amount of juvenile pride.
First off, it should be noted that almost all the players in this little cast (except for Shifman) are members of anti-spam Usenet groups. Do a Google Groups search for "Joe Greco", who claimed to receive one of Bernard's emails, and you'll get some not-so-nice reports of Joe's behavior:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=joe+greco&meta=. Laura Atkins, who claimed her company received a spam from Bernard, also weighed in on the whole thing. Laura's company, Blighty.com is a privacy consulting firm: people hire her to find out who spammers are. Laura's name shows up in various anti-spam newsgroups also, including the one that Joe Greco & Bill Carton post in. In this thread, you can see this for yourself.
In fact, it appears that Joe, Bill, Neil, Laura, and her husband Steve are all active posters on news.admin.net-abuse.email
I believe everyone needs a hobby, and these anti-spam people are no exception. I hate spam as much as the next guy, but I think these people see themselves as anti-spam vigilantes. Most of the time, it's okay because they're doing some good (since spam DOES suck). In this case, it appears that while Bernard's emails were sent in bulk, they were not sent to random emails. He seemed to have made an honest attempt to ensure that only HR Departments receieved his mail. In some cases, he messed up and targeted the wrong people. Since he's trying to find jobs with computer companies, it's not uncommon to send HR requests to a non-HR department; after all, many small computer companies don't HAVE an HR department, but just an admin running the whole show.
I receive a lot of spam, but most of it is for breast-enlargement pills or Make-Money-Fast schemes. If I got an email like Bernard's, I would assume:
1) he probably sent this to companys other than mine
2) he probably found my company on the web, by hand, which is why he knew we were a computer company. If we sold sofas, I wouldn't have gotten the mail.
Thus, the emails were bulk and they were unsolicited, but they were sent to addresses posted on the websites of the target companies STRICTLY for the purpose of receiving job requests and resumes.
I think Neil overreacted, and his anti-spam bully friends took over. These guys cover for each other, and pick on the alleged spammers as a team.
So let me get this straight: Taco is going to spend New Years sitting on his ass, doing nothing. How is this different from what Taco does during the rest of the year?
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Thanks for your post. The fact that I had to scroll down half the page to find someone who actually READ THE ARTICLE suggests something (though I'm not sure what) about the Slashdot community.
I can't tell if you're kidding or not, so I'll bite: "bumblefuck" is an expression that means "the middle of nowhere." synonyms include "the sticks", "butt-fuck nowhere", and "the boonies."
But Johns Hopkins (where I go to school) is in Baltimore, MD, which is a large, albeit ghetto, city.
Bumblefuck? It's in Baltimore. I go there.
You can set any phone to do this. I have my SprintPCS phone set to "SprintPCS mode", which makes it only work when I'm in a Sprint area. So I never get hit with unwanted roaming fees.
I remember reading somewhere, that in order to supply parts to the military or NASA, you have to contractually agree to continue producing (or be able to produce) the purchased parts for something like 30 years, because equipment like jets and space shuttles are built to have a 30 year life span. Intel, when contracted, presumably agreed that they have to be able to make an 8086 until the space shuttle is no longer used.
So either the contract has expired and the shuttles have exceeded their lifespan, or Intel has broken its contract.
How much you wanna bet that the company in Russia that these guys are selling the shuttle for, is really a front for the Russian mob?
Well, light actually *can* bend if the gravitational force is strong enough... for example, a black hole causes light to bend. I'm sure that's not what they had in mind though :)
Max was my favorite show for a while there, back when it was on. I don't remember how old I was... couldn't have been more than 7 or 8.
Anyone one year for Halloween, my sister WAS Max! My father and aunt helped her turn a big cardboard box into a wearable TV set, with holes in the sides (arms), bottom (legs), and front (so it looked like she was a head inside the TV looking out). We even got wood-colored wallpaper so it looked more like a TV (remember it was the 80s, and lots of TVs were still built like furniture, with wood siding).
Definitely a cool costume.
The site members.truepath.com is running Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) mod_perl/1.26 PHP/4.0.6 on Linux.
That is all.
And thus alienate the millions of banks and financial services companies that rely on selling (expensive) merchant accounts for their very livelihood.
This business is multi-tiered, just like the alcohol-distribution business. You've got the Big Four at the top (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover), the merchant account companies, the banks (who sometimes double as the merchant account company), and finally the merchant. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
well that is also true :)
Mark Forman is not an elected official; he is appointed.
Interestingly enough, none of the people who prosecuted the Microsoft case (the DOJ) are elected either.
The American Society of Civil Engineers runs a nationwide contest each year, where teams of college students build concrete canoes, race them against other schools in their area, and then meet for a national race. This year's race is in Wisconsin. I've also been told that some places build concrete tobaggans too, but not for a contest.
My girlfriend is the captain of the Johns Hopkins University Concrete Canoe Team. The presentation was held just this past Sunday, against Catholic University in DC. Over the past 3 years of her doing this, I've picked up a few things. Concrete isn't just for cinder-blocks... depending on how you mix it, what you add to it, how you pour it and cure it, and what you pour it ON (example: mix it with microspheres or layer it between sheets of fiberglass mesh), you can make a very lightweight, low-density (read: floats) structure.
Even though I know all this, the old jokes never get less funny. "Concrete canoe? You row, I'll watch."
Nevermind, I got it to work:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
LIBS=-lcrypt
--sysconfdir=/etc/ssh
had to put that LIBS= in there... grabbed that off the OpenSSH FAQ.
Has anyone gotten openssh-3.1p1 to compile and run properly on Slackware 8.0? I got it to compile (with a HELL of a lot of warnings), but when it starts up, it refuses to accept my password.
Anyone seeing anything similar?
There's a reason why phones overseas (in Japan and Korea, for example) are so much smaller than they are here. Besides the technology being a small jump ahead over there, Americans seem to have issues with small cell phones-- we think that because they're small, they aren't picking up our voices or that they're toys that somehow don't work as well. And we do this with larger cellphones too (albeit to a lesser degree), probably because we grew up thinking that cellphones were really staticky. Consequently, Americans tend to yell unnecessarily into cell phones, especially small ones. We seem to be uncomfortable accepting the fact that if the microphone part of the handset isn't right next to our mouth, it can still pick up our voice.
For this reason, phone manufacturers actually increase the size of cell phones for sale in America, or otherwise simply choose not to sell the smaller models here. I predict these types of "ring phones" and what-not will probably have a very hard time gaining a mainstream foothold in North America.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=alt.swedish.chef .bork.bork.bork&hl=en
"After all, when adults shoot each other they don't blame Tony Bennett." - Don Imus
have been impressed with Gnutella in the past, and have wondered along these same lines in the past.
I think we could add:
"... but since I was too busy doodling and writing dirty, hackish perl when I was in school, I'm glad someone else did the actual math."
You should provide them with an "anonymous" tip about all the software you're "stealing." Have you ever seen the online
form they have for reporting piracy? There's a little section on it that you can check- "I believe that this company would
attempt to eliminate the pirated software if they were informed beforehand," or something like that. Check that off, and then sue
them when they bust in and steal all your Linux boxen, depriving you of work.
I am not a lawyer, but that sounds a little like entrapment.
2. In my experience, people who use the term 'anti-spam zealots' are either spambags themselves, of members of the
mainsleaze spam lobby, (i.e. Ken Magill of the Direct Marketing Associations, or various random clueless marketdroids who
occasionally write for mainstream rags).
I don't think I deserved that.
[Insert the whole "i'm not a spammer or anything else you just called me" rant here].
And after all, he sent the same spam to Neil after being told it wasn't welcome at all the first time. If that is not spam, what is?
It makes Bernard defiant, pigheaded, and stupid for not removing Neil's email from his list. It may have even been intentional, to piss Neil off. But sending it twice doesn't have any impact on our debate over whether the addresses were targeted or random. Bulk? Yes. Unsolicited? Yes. Untargeted? Probably not.
I can feel the mod-downs coming, but I feel this has to be said. I think these anti-spam zealots teamed up on this poor spammer, and the only reason it went as far as it did (and as hilariously as it did) was because Shifman has a large amount of juvenile pride.
. Laura Atkins, who claimed her company received a spam from Bernard, also weighed in on the whole thing. Laura's company, Blighty.com is a privacy consulting firm: people hire her to find out who spammers are. Laura's name shows up in various anti-spam newsgroups also, including the one that Joe Greco & Bill Carton post in. In this thread, you can see this for yourself.
First off, it should be noted that almost all the players in this little cast (except for Shifman) are members of anti-spam Usenet groups. Do a Google Groups search for "Joe Greco", who claimed to receive one of Bernard's emails, and you'll get some not-so-nice reports of Joe's behavior:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=joe+greco&meta=
In fact, it appears that Joe, Bill, Neil, Laura, and her husband Steve are all active posters on news.admin.net-abuse.email
I believe everyone needs a hobby, and these anti-spam people are no exception. I hate spam as much as the next guy, but I think these people see themselves as anti-spam vigilantes. Most of the time, it's okay because they're doing some good (since spam DOES suck). In this case, it appears that while Bernard's emails were sent in bulk, they were not sent to random emails. He seemed to have made an honest attempt to ensure that only HR Departments receieved his mail. In some cases, he messed up and targeted the wrong people. Since he's trying to find jobs with computer companies, it's not uncommon to send HR requests to a non-HR department; after all, many small computer companies don't HAVE an HR department, but just an admin running the whole show.
I receive a lot of spam, but most of it is for breast-enlargement pills or Make-Money-Fast schemes. If I got an email like Bernard's, I would assume:
1) he probably sent this to companys other than mine
2) he probably found my company on the web, by hand, which is why he knew we were a computer company. If we sold sofas, I wouldn't have gotten the mail.
Thus, the emails were bulk and they were unsolicited, but they were sent to addresses posted on the websites of the target companies STRICTLY for the purpose of receiving job requests and resumes.
I think Neil overreacted, and his anti-spam bully friends took over. These guys cover for each other, and pick on the alleged spammers as a team.
dude it's fucking cold out! not everyone lives in miami.
So let me get this straight: Taco is going to spend New Years sitting on his ass, doing nothing. How is this different from what Taco does during the rest of the year?