If I am irritated enough to want to be removed from their list, then that pretty much indicates I hate them, their pets, their extended family, etc. and I am not going to buy:
Bolexes
"Penis Extenders" (from the article and I *DON'T* want to know what that is!)
Soft-Tab whateverthehells
V!@G4rA
etc.
I mean it costs them nothing (essentially) to spam me but it seems that it would still benefit them to say:
"hey we have a strict unsubscribe policy, so if someone's address is on our list, they LOOOOOOVE to get ads in their inbox".
Reading the article, it seems to imply that the "affiliate" gets a cut when a product is sold. Not just because an email was sent. So once again, why persist in sending me email that will NOT get them a sale. Just because they hate me?
It's funny, because I have two email addresses that I've had since about '94' and I get SCADS of spam. It got to the point that I started clicking "unsubscribe" as well... More or less out of desperation even though *I* should know better as well.
The Motion Picture
Ass. of America (MPAA) today announced (PDF) that it is pursuing civil actions against hundreds of server operators of BitTorrent, eDonkey and DirectConnect P2P file-swapping networks, in its war on internet movie piracy.
I would say this is only true if they are utter and complete degenerates.
I would suggest that the reason many kids are so disinterested is because they don't see the immediate payoff for their efforts. And in my opinion, this is the attitude of our american adult society at large. We do not look down the road 10 or 20 years. We are all about the here and now and this is heavily reflected by our business, economic, personal and political spheres...
Learning for the sake of learning's sake is pretty fringe. I.e. academia, hackers... I continue to be amazed by people's utter lack of curiosity about how things work...
What I remember from high school (graduated in '93) is that most classes were slowed down for the lowest common denominator. I had a few decent teachers but we constantly had a few class clowns for whom high school was the last frontier in which they would have any hope for attention.
That is a beautiful sentiment. I completely agree. This isn't much but a "me too" post but I think your premise can extend to every area of your life.
I kind of realize how much help and enjoyment I gather from the internet and all of it's multitudes. So I decided I needed to start writing down my own knowledge (in my case, running, computers, books, etc.) to sort of give back.
I would gladly pay more for all the information I find on the net than the I would for the latest movie.
And yet the information is freely given while the 2 hours of enertainment sold by hollywood continues to go up in price.
about three comments that made it above a rating of "2". And one was rated "funny"...
Does this mean we have no good ideas on what high school kids are interested in or is it that high school kids are not interested in anything that would be suitable for a school environment?
Just teaching them some critical thinking skills and scientific method to make them less credulous and more logical would be useful in their collective futures.
I recently read Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins and realized that *I* was a bit rusty in my critical thinking and statistical ability.
Humans love coincidence and try to recognize patterns in chaos. I think a "fun" logic course could have a lot of cool examples and make them a little less herd-like.
I've been wondering this for eons. In "brick and mortar" companies, it is commonplace too buy a company just for it's pension plan investments, etc. Basically so they can strip them dry.
It doesn't seem to make sense when the purchased company's value is in lines of code (and branding to a degree) to pay gazillions for them and then just IGNORE them.
I guess we could just shrug and say "AOL" but I would like to think people that can build such a juggernaut of a company have some foresight and management skill.
The real issue (to me) is that people seem to be more and more inconsiderate. Cell phone usage is merely a symptom of this "me first" mentality and not the disease.
I mean almost everyone is annoyed by public cell phone conversations and/or cell phone usage while people drive. Yet they do it themselves.
People are not big on empathy these days. The next time someone is annoying you, reflect back and see if you EVER exhibit the same behavior.
would be more deterministic. If they have a good relationship and you can get internships with good (preferably large international) companies you basically have a huge advantage after you walk.
I had an internship at Boeing and I was very underwhelmed by the experience. But I knew several fellow students that started with them after they graduated.
So my advice would be to take advantage of such programs often and early. It will also help you determine if you really LIKE what you will be doing after you graduate.
I really really hate spyware. Because I'm a nice fellow (relatively) I have repaired several friends' computers that had spyware on them. So I have lost days of my life to this scourge.
This stuff used to be easy to remove. patch windows. Get adaware and spybot. Update them. Restart in safe mode. run the programs. restart.
NOW however, it is hell. There is a real war between the creators of spyware and the anti-spyware people. Recently I had to extract winlogon.exe, because my friends computer would restart every time they logged in when I had run the anti-spyware software.
Basically the spyware had renamed a crucial file required to start windows, and created it's own winlogon.exe file so you could not get rid of it even in safe mode.
This is so malignant they really deserve to be sued into the stone age. Then there are amusing uninstall questions. My friend got asked three or four times questions like: "are you sure that you do not want to uninstall the program?" "Would you like to cancel the uninstall process?" (options are yes and cancel!)
Oh. And the reason I posted under this parent is:
I installed firefox at my office (13 computers or so) and I removed all IE shortcuts and went so far as to change the firefox icon to the IE one. I only left it available to one person that uses an extranet website that is not compatible (supposedly) with anything but IE.
I think that will be my new main step if I clean someone's computer. Install firefox. In the interest of regaining lost hours of life.
Anyone thought about the privacy issues? This will just fill the vast amazon market research demographic databases at an ever higher rate. Sometimes Amazon.com scares me as it is.
Not to mention this probably will facilitate undercutting local retailers. This kind of sucks in some ways, because there are many products that are sold with an "educated salesperson" service attached. Such as running shoes, stereo equipment, etc. So the person taps the expert's knowledge and then surreptiously scans the barcode to see if they can save $5.00. They do this after they try on the shoes or clothes, listen to the speakers, etc.
Disclaimer: I've been that educated salesperson for several years of my life.
Hmmm. This is slightly off topic. I've always been really annoyed with small things Apple does with their software.
In the windows 95 days if you installed Quicktime player, it would change all your.jpg associations to use their shitty image viewer. You could change the associations to your preferred choice BUT every time you ran quicktime, it would change the associations.
The workaround? You had to edit an.exe file and remove the reference to.jpg and.jpeg and replace them with something nonsensical like.jjj and.jjjj.
So. Fast forward to today. I had two non-technical friends say, "Hey Mike, how come I can't see flash movies on webpages now that I installed the newest version of quicktime? It just shows a broken Quicktime icon..." I said "Gee, Apple OSX user and Windows XP Home user, I don't know. Let me look into it."
Well folks, apparrently the default setup for quicktime makes quicktime the default plugin for flash content on webite. AND it doesn't work.
So I had to go into Quicktime Preferences, Browser Plug-in and click the "Mime Settings" button. REEEEEAAAAAAL intuititive for the average user.
So thats why. I guess I simply distrust Apple. I am curious what TSRs (qttask.exe anyone?) will be loaded and file associations will be co-opted if I did install it.
Even MORE off topic: Oh yeah, and most apple users (in my experience) are so damn snide. That too. My co-worker has an Apple IIe or some such ancient shit at home. Admittedly he is whipped, but his wife won't let him buy an el cheapo basic dell to do things like email and web because she is a graphic designer and wants a G8 (kidding...) with cinema display, etc. The zealot thing just irks me at the end of the day. I almost yearn for the day that Apple gets serious market share so the virus writers start paying attention to them. I just don't have confidence that the average graphic designer / musician / artist will patch their machine regularly.
I assumed he may think s.i.c. (sic) [ed. I kill me!] stands for Spelling InCorrect as many folks do, as opposed to Latin for "so, thus" which implies that you have intentionally written something that is spelled incorrectly.
Hell, I use "sic" behind words written during IM conversations to imply that I'm not sure if I'm spelling something correctly. Which means I'm anal AND ignorant. Damn.
I've always wondered the same thing. It seems that it would be a trivial matter to sue the government if any harm came to you under their supervision/ incarceration. This would range anywhere from a bloody nose to rape.
It's a tricky matter. In a societal sense, I think we (we being the society in the US) should be above capital punishment, mistreatment in prisons or allowing such abuse, etc. However on a personal level when I know people that have been burgled, raped, etc. I'm more than ready to string up the perpetrator.
People are very small minded (and I include myself in that label). They are all for the "eye for an eye" philosophy. Incidentally, that philosophy, for its time was very liberal and revolutionary. In that time period, if you steal a grape, I cut off your hand and take all your property.
Would turning off SSID broadcast prevent that hated knock on the door? Or are they going to search your place for your wireless router if they suspect you have one?
I would not imagine any sort of landlord would be savvy enough to enforce this anyways...
Why would a computer technician spend that much time trying to bring a box with windows 98 back from the dead?
1. Find out what applications they use and make sure you have all cds and cd-keys.
2. Make note of all hardware (especially ethernet card drivers) for driver purposes.
3. Find out what email they use (all users) and all passwords and settings for all.
4. Find their documents, images, mp3s, etc.
5. Buy a new HUGE hard drive for $70.00.
6. Partition new drive so the 2nd partition is big enough to hold all the data from the old HD.
7. Copy data from old drive to new drive's 2nd partition using the image tools that came with the HD.
8. Install a fresh copy of windows 98 on the new HD's 1st partition. Install firewall and antivirus software. Get updates. Install all the apps.
9. Set up email, copy documents, images, etc.
10. I would probably then try to make a copy of the new first partition to the old hard drive after wiping it first.
Working your ass off to remove spyware that it takes 3 programs to "mostly" uninstall is a losing battle. This crap is insidious. Especially when you are dealing with a win 98 install that is older than 6 months or so. The spyware folks are well aware of ad aware et all and are making serious efforts to not be detected, etc.
Final notes.
Several years ago I used to work for a company as a pc tech. We charged $79.00 an hour and the average virus call would take at least 2 hours. I hated taking money from little old ladies and family's with teenagers.
The REALLY depressing thing is that I spend a few hours fixing my friend's computers. Come back in a few months and they have crap on them again. Un-fing-believable.
Are these @$$holes actually making ANY money from all this? Are they really going to benefit from observing my slashdot and p0rn habits? Or popping up vi@g@r@ ads for a healthy 29 year old?
It just seems so pointless.
1. Hotmail is still a PALTRY 2 megabytes. Is that a joke or what!!??
2. Has anyone else considered the *ahem* 0-day file sharing possibilities available with 1 gig email accounts? Can you say iso1@gmail.com and iso2@gmail.com, etc.? What is the biggest size attachment that each system will accept?
I was sure I was going to get a funny comment out for once. I check the top 3 posts.
Vi@gra joke. Check!
Nigerian Scammer joke. Check!
Work from home joke. Check!
Mortgage joke. Check!
Crap. Damn killjoys.
When I read this post, I thought it was a valid question. And then a bunch of posts ensued that said "you're not special", "why are you such hot $%!#", etc.
To me, this guy loves to learn but has not had that much success in a teacher/student teaching environment.
I have to admit the same of myself. I did not enjoy being taught in a lecture environment (Feel free to insult my intelligence). But I read voraciously and have interests in many directions.
I think we can *assume* that most of the people that read and/or post to slashdot are not complete mouth-breathers, so I was surprised at the kind of response this poster got.
Anyone want to give this poster some tips on how to be interested in taught material, etc. so as to get that degree which is all-important as opposed to belittling and challenging his image of themself??
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder how other countries feel about .com, .net, .org, .edu, etc. ad nauseum...
British stamps are the only stamp without a country code. This is because they originated it.
Do country codes for the web kind of make something local that does not need to be, seeing as we can access it from any place on earth?
- Bolexes
- "Penis Extenders" (from the article and I *DON'T* want to know what that is!)
- Soft-Tab whateverthehells
- V!@G4rA
- etc.
I mean it costs them nothing (essentially) to spam me but it seems that it would still benefit them to say:"hey we have a strict unsubscribe policy, so if someone's address is on our list, they LOOOOOOVE to get ads in their inbox".
Reading the article, it seems to imply that the "affiliate" gets a cut when a product is sold. Not just because an email was sent. So once again, why persist in sending me email that will NOT get them a sale. Just because they hate me?
It's funny, because I have two email addresses that I've had since about '94' and I get SCADS of spam. It got to the point that I started clicking "unsubscribe" as well... More or less out of desperation even though *I* should know better as well.
I would say this is only true if they are utter and complete degenerates.
I would suggest that the reason many kids are so disinterested is because they don't see the immediate payoff for their efforts. And in my opinion, this is the attitude of our american adult society at large. We do not look down the road 10 or 20 years. We are all about the here and now and this is heavily reflected by our business, economic, personal and political spheres...
Learning for the sake of learning's sake is pretty fringe. I.e. academia, hackers... I continue to be amazed by people's utter lack of curiosity about how things work...
What I remember from high school (graduated in '93) is that most classes were slowed down for the lowest common denominator. I had a few decent teachers but we constantly had a few class clowns for whom high school was the last frontier in which they would have any hope for attention.
scares the living HELL out of me!
picture o' doom
He looks all tweaked out OR has a computer chip installed in his brain!
That is a beautiful sentiment. I completely agree. This isn't much but a "me too" post but I think your premise can extend to every area of your life.
I kind of realize how much help and enjoyment I gather from the internet and all of it's multitudes. So I decided I needed to start writing down my own knowledge (in my case, running, computers, books, etc.) to sort of give back.
I would gladly pay more for all the information I find on the net than the I would for the latest movie.
And yet the information is freely given while the 2 hours of enertainment sold by hollywood continues to go up in price.
about three comments that made it above a rating of "2". And one was rated "funny"...
Does this mean we have no good ideas on what high school kids are interested in or is it that high school kids are not interested in anything that would be suitable for a school environment?
Just teaching them some critical thinking skills and scientific method to make them less credulous and more logical would be useful in their collective futures.
I recently read Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins and realized that *I* was a bit rusty in my critical thinking and statistical ability.
Humans love coincidence and try to recognize patterns in chaos. I think a "fun" logic course could have a lot of cool examples and make them a little less herd-like.
I've been wondering this for eons. In "brick and mortar" companies, it is commonplace too buy a company just for it's pension plan investments, etc. Basically so they can strip them dry.
It doesn't seem to make sense when the purchased company's value is in lines of code (and branding to a degree) to pay gazillions for them and then just IGNORE them.
I guess we could just shrug and say "AOL" but I would like to think people that can build such a juggernaut of a company have some foresight and management skill.
Yeah... I'm naive.
The real issue (to me) is that people seem to be more and more inconsiderate. Cell phone usage is merely a symptom of this "me first" mentality and not the disease.
I mean almost everyone is annoyed by public cell phone conversations and/or cell phone usage while people drive. Yet they do it themselves.
People are not big on empathy these days. The next time someone is annoying you, reflect back and see if you EVER exhibit the same behavior.
Firefox 1.0...
- Internships
- Alumni System
- Career Center
would be more deterministic. If they have a good relationship and you can get internships with good (preferably large international) companies you basically have a huge advantage after you walk.I had an internship at Boeing and I was very underwhelmed by the experience. But I knew several fellow students that started with them after they graduated.
So my advice would be to take advantage of such programs often and early. It will also help you determine if you really LIKE what you will be doing after you graduate.
You forgot:
- Conspicuous Consumption: How to Buy Things to Impress People You Don't Like
- How to Show Your Individuality by Buying the Same Thing That Everyone Else Has
I cannot imagine how horrible that place would smell after 11 hours or so.
You could not pay ME to endure that.
I was going to go to Europe for 2 weeks for my 30th birthday.
But oooh, bedsores sound pretty tempting!
I really really hate spyware. Because I'm a nice fellow (relatively) I have repaired several friends' computers that had spyware on them. So I have lost days of my life to this scourge.
This stuff used to be easy to remove.
patch windows.
Get adaware and spybot.
Update them.
Restart in safe mode.
run the programs.
restart.
NOW however, it is hell. There is a real war between the creators of spyware and the anti-spyware people. Recently I had to extract winlogon.exe, because my friends computer would restart every time they logged in when I had run the anti-spyware software.
Basically the spyware had renamed a crucial file required to start windows, and created it's own winlogon.exe file so you could not get rid of it even in safe mode.
This is so malignant they really deserve to be sued into the stone age. Then there are amusing uninstall questions. My friend got asked three or four times questions like:
"are you sure that you do not want to uninstall the program?"
"Would you like to cancel the uninstall process?"
(options are yes and cancel!)
Oh. And the reason I posted under this parent is:
I installed firefox at my office (13 computers or so) and I removed all IE shortcuts and went so far as to change the firefox icon to the IE one. I only left it available to one person that uses an extranet website that is not compatible (supposedly) with anything but IE.
I think that will be my new main step if I clean someone's computer. Install firefox. In the interest of regaining lost hours of life.
Anyone thought about the privacy issues? This will just fill the vast amazon market research demographic databases at an ever higher rate. Sometimes Amazon.com scares me as it is.
Not to mention this probably will facilitate undercutting local retailers. This kind of sucks in some ways, because there are many products that are sold with an "educated salesperson" service attached. Such as running shoes, stereo equipment, etc. So the person taps the expert's knowledge and then surreptiously scans the barcode to see if they can save $5.00. They do this after they try on the shoes or clothes, listen to the speakers, etc.
Disclaimer: I've been that educated salesperson for several years of my life.
I guess after you've shelled out $250 to $400 for an MP3 PLAYER a Macintosh seems like an absolute bargain!
Perhaps I could also try to market a Mac Hammer TM for $500.00 to these folks.
Wait, that's been done.
Hmmm. This is slightly off topic. I've always been really annoyed with small things Apple does with their software.
.jpg associations to use their shitty image viewer. You could change the associations to your preferred choice BUT every time you ran quicktime, it would change the associations.
.exe file and remove the reference to .jpg and .jpeg and replace them with something nonsensical like .jjj and .jjjj.
In the windows 95 days if you installed Quicktime player, it would change all your
The workaround? You had to edit an
So. Fast forward to today. I had two non-technical friends say, "Hey Mike, how come I can't see flash movies on webpages now that I installed the newest version of quicktime? It just shows a broken Quicktime icon..." I said "Gee, Apple OSX user and Windows XP Home user, I don't know. Let me look into it."
Well folks, apparrently the default setup for quicktime makes quicktime the default plugin for flash content on webite. AND it doesn't work.
So I had to go into Quicktime Preferences, Browser Plug-in and click the "Mime Settings" button. REEEEEAAAAAAL intuititive for the average user.
So thats why. I guess I simply distrust Apple. I am curious what TSRs (qttask.exe anyone?) will be loaded and file associations will be co-opted if I did install it.
Even MORE off topic:
Oh yeah, and most apple users (in my experience) are so damn snide. That too. My co-worker has an Apple IIe or some such ancient shit at home. Admittedly he is whipped, but his wife won't let him buy an el cheapo basic dell to do things like email and web because she is a graphic designer and wants a G8 (kidding...) with cinema display, etc. The zealot thing just irks me at the end of the day. I almost yearn for the day that Apple gets serious market share so the virus writers start paying attention to them. I just don't have confidence that the average graphic designer / musician / artist will patch their machine regularly.
That said, Apple makes very pretty things.
I thought it was interesting.
I assumed he may think s.i.c. (sic) [ed. I kill me!] stands for Spelling InCorrect as many folks do, as opposed to Latin for "so, thus" which implies that you have intentionally written something that is spelled incorrectly.
Hell, I use "sic" behind words written during IM conversations to imply that I'm not sure if I'm spelling something correctly. Which means I'm anal AND ignorant. Damn.
I've always wondered the same thing. It seems that it would be a trivial matter to sue the government if any harm came to you under their supervision/ incarceration. This would range anywhere from a bloody nose to rape.
It's a tricky matter. In a societal sense, I think we (we being the society in the US) should be above capital punishment, mistreatment in prisons or allowing such abuse, etc. However on a personal level when I know people that have been burgled, raped, etc. I'm more than ready to string up the perpetrator.
People are very small minded (and I include myself in that label). They are all for the "eye for an eye" philosophy. Incidentally, that philosophy, for its time was very liberal and revolutionary. In that time period, if you steal a grape, I cut off your hand and take all your property.
Would turning off SSID broadcast prevent that hated knock on the door? Or are they going to search your place for your wireless router if they suspect you have one? I would not imagine any sort of landlord would be savvy enough to enforce this anyways...
Why would a computer technician spend that much time trying to bring a box with windows 98 back from the dead? 1. Find out what applications they use and make sure you have all cds and cd-keys. 2. Make note of all hardware (especially ethernet card drivers) for driver purposes. 3. Find out what email they use (all users) and all passwords and settings for all. 4. Find their documents, images, mp3s, etc. 5. Buy a new HUGE hard drive for $70.00. 6. Partition new drive so the 2nd partition is big enough to hold all the data from the old HD. 7. Copy data from old drive to new drive's 2nd partition using the image tools that came with the HD. 8. Install a fresh copy of windows 98 on the new HD's 1st partition. Install firewall and antivirus software. Get updates. Install all the apps. 9. Set up email, copy documents, images, etc. 10. I would probably then try to make a copy of the new first partition to the old hard drive after wiping it first. Working your ass off to remove spyware that it takes 3 programs to "mostly" uninstall is a losing battle. This crap is insidious. Especially when you are dealing with a win 98 install that is older than 6 months or so. The spyware folks are well aware of ad aware et all and are making serious efforts to not be detected, etc. Final notes. Several years ago I used to work for a company as a pc tech. We charged $79.00 an hour and the average virus call would take at least 2 hours. I hated taking money from little old ladies and family's with teenagers. The REALLY depressing thing is that I spend a few hours fixing my friend's computers. Come back in a few months and they have crap on them again. Un-fing-believable. Are these @$$holes actually making ANY money from all this? Are they really going to benefit from observing my slashdot and p0rn habits? Or popping up vi@g@r@ ads for a healthy 29 year old? It just seems so pointless.
1. Hotmail is still a PALTRY 2 megabytes. Is that a joke or what!!?? 2. Has anyone else considered the *ahem* 0-day file sharing possibilities available with 1 gig email accounts? Can you say iso1@gmail.com and iso2@gmail.com, etc.? What is the biggest size attachment that each system will accept?
I was sure I was going to get a funny comment out for once. I check the top 3 posts. Vi@gra joke. Check! Nigerian Scammer joke. Check! Work from home joke. Check! Mortgage joke. Check! Crap. Damn killjoys.
When I read this post, I thought it was a valid question. And then a bunch of posts ensued that said "you're not special", "why are you such hot $%!#", etc.
To me, this guy loves to learn but has not had that much success in a teacher/student teaching environment.
I have to admit the same of myself. I did not enjoy being taught in a lecture environment (Feel free to insult my intelligence). But I read voraciously and have interests in many directions.
I think we can *assume* that most of the people that read and/or post to slashdot are not complete mouth-breathers, so I was surprised at the kind of response this poster got.
Anyone want to give this poster some tips on how to be interested in taught material, etc. so as to get that degree which is all-important as opposed to belittling and challenging his image of themself??