When anybody can be a journalist, it changes the value of journalism as a career.
When every soldier is an "embedded journalist", who needs to bring the professionals along? Professionals will always be useful for big stories and in-depth coverage, of course; but in the future, when most people get their news from spur-of-the-moment blog posts and e-mails instead of large media "ground truth" takes on a whole new importance.
Too bad they didn't try this a few years ago. If they had, the Europeans could have paid them in Monopoly Euros.
I'm sure that some people would pay 699 units of Monopoly currency to see McBride shut up. Oh, wait... but then, where would our daily/. entertainment come from?
So that's what this was about. Spammers aren't adding gibberish to fool Bayesian filters; instead, that's the result of the spammers' lame-ass attempts at brute-forcing Yahoo's new crypto sig headers.
(As to why the nonsense stuff is usually in the body instead of the headers... hey, what can I say, that's spammer logic for ya.)
If you've ever had an argument with a sp@mm3r, you know how self-righteous they can be. They have a right to "freedom of speech", they are just trying to run legitimate businesses, yada yada yada. And you know what? I'm beginning to think they have a point! Think about it...
First, I demand that I retain ownership of my own inbox.
Then, I take a stand against the raping of open proxies and abuse of malware-infected zombies.
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When anybody can be a journalist, it changes the value of journalism as a career.
When every soldier is an "embedded journalist", who needs to bring the professionals along? Professionals will always be useful for big stories and in-depth coverage, of course; but in the future, when most people get their news from spur-of-the-moment blog posts and e-mails instead of large media "ground truth" takes on a whole new importance.
You were doing fine until you got to the word "anymore".
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"
It bounced right off the Panzers, but SCO's offensives are so weak that the taunts just might be enough this time.
Too bad they didn't try this a few years ago. If they had, the Europeans could have paid them in Monopoly Euros.
I'm sure that some people would pay 699 units of Monopoly currency to see McBride shut up. Oh, wait... but then, where would our daily /. entertainment come from?
So that's what this was about. Spammers aren't adding gibberish to fool Bayesian filters; instead, that's the result of the spammers' lame-ass attempts at brute-forcing Yahoo's new crypto sig headers.
(As to why the nonsense stuff is usually in the body instead of the headers... hey, what can I say, that's spammer logic for ya.)
If you've ever had an argument with a sp@mm3r, you know how self-righteous they can be. They have a right to "freedom of speech", they are just trying to run legitimate businesses, yada yada yada. And you know what? I'm beginning to think they have a point! Think about it...
First, I demand that I retain ownership of my own inbox.
Then, I take a stand against the raping of open proxies and abuse of malware-infected zombies.
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Mary had a little lamb;
Its fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere its address went,
The spam was sure to flow.
My, my. What won't I do to destroy healthy, legitimate, all-American Internet commerce?
I wake up, check my e-mail, and pop the lid on my RSS feeds, and what do I see?
My first thought is, "Nice April 1 joke! Hah, hah, hah. Very fucking funny." But then I check my calendar.
Oh shit.
I don't even use a computer and I'm worried I might get sued.