You can get rebates in the UK. M$ Money 2001 has a £10 rebate if you send them proof that you upgraded from an earlier version, for example.
Basically, it's "here's a small sum in exchange for being able to stick a known good address (you want to get the cheque, don't you?) in our marketing database." --
Music and films would be free at the point of delivery, and those who make them would be obliged to justify themselves to someone with higher motives that cash.
So how about configuring the server so that IP addresses that appear to be generating an awful lot of bounces get blocked for a while?
Johnny Spammer starts trolling for random addresses, hits the limit, and his connection's blocked for a few hours. Repeated offences from the same address increase the timeout, maybe (need to keep the timeout low the first few times so as not to clobber dynamic IPs too much:)
Obviously this would need to be set up carefully so that mailing lists don't get blocked every time a bunch of accounts expire, but knowing which accounts were terminated recently and which ones haven't existed in the past year or so should handle that for the most part... --
Techtronics is another one. Bought my DVD player from them, with no problems (besides Pioneer's lame connector which can't hold the display board tight, that is:) --
You collect 2600 stuff for a while, and you find sellers who have one cart that you need, but insist on you buying the console and 15 common carts you've already got as well.
How do you think he got all those spare carts?:) --
Don't want to pay that monthly fee and have a home computer with a large hard drive? Buy an ATI ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON card. It does everything TiVo does but completely under your control without lifetime monthly fees.
Now here's an interesting thought. This post is, at the time I write this, at Score: 3 (Informative). If it had been posted by someone from ATI, though, would it have been at -1 (Troll) with a bunch of flames attached for violating Slashdot with blatant advertising?
Next question: how do we know that the poster isn't from ATI?
(I see someone from the UK's already done the "removes dirt and odours" gag:)
...or wait for BT to pull its finger out and offer SurfTime on my exchange.
I still haven't had an answer from BT as to why I have to wait until October. Why the hell should I subsidise people living in places like London, anyway?
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Basically, it's "here's a small sum in exchange for being able to stick a known good address (you want to get the cheque, don't you?) in our marketing database."
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Yeah, but why would the New York Times have a .co.uk address?
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Yeah - about time the lameness filter picked these up...
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Relax - it's Computer Exchange, not anything icky :)
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Ah, Microsoft Bob...
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Save time. Just poison the spammers.
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Johnny Spammer starts trolling for random addresses, hits the limit, and his connection's blocked for a few hours. Repeated offences from the same address increase the timeout, maybe (need to keep the timeout low the first few times so as not to clobber dynamic IPs too much :)
Obviously this would need to be set up carefully so that mailing lists don't get blocked every time a bunch of accounts expire, but knowing which accounts were terminated recently and which ones haven't existed in the past year or so should handle that for the most part...
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Techtronics is another one. Bought my DVD player from them, with no problems (besides Pioneer's lame connector which can't hold the display board tight, that is :)
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You collect 2600 stuff for a while, and you find sellers who have one cart that you need, but insist on you buying the console and 15 common carts you've already got as well.
How do you think he got all those spare carts? :)
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...although condition 4.1.4 would appear to make links outside your own site prohibited :)
[Yes, I'm feeling pedantic today...]
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Well, yeah. It's a stout :)
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You couldn't mod him up, anyway - you already posted to the thread :)</PEDANT>
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Of course, then we'd probably end up slashdotting Google itself...
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.cum, surely?
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...and there speaks someone who isn't paying by the minute for the phone call to his ISP.
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IANAT, but...
Login: penisbird
Passwd: slashdot
HTH.
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How somebody gets one in their keyboard, I have no idea...
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Now here's an interesting thought. This post is, at the time I write this, at Score: 3 (Informative). If it had been posted by someone from ATI, though, would it have been at -1 (Troll) with a bunch of flames attached for violating Slashdot with blatant advertising?
Next question: how do we know that the poster isn't from ATI?
(I see someone from the UK's already done the "removes dirt and odours" gag :)
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But do they get paid each time you use a scanner? Or a printer?
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Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off Glaswegian.
Mind, separating the infrastructure from the operators isn't always a cure-all. Travelled by train in the past few years?
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...or wait for BT to pull its finger out and offer SurfTime on my exchange.
I still haven't had an answer from BT as to why I have to wait until October. Why the hell should I subsidise people living in places like London, anyway?
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Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off Glaswegian.
Oh dear. We have OFTEL.
That's us buggered then.
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Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off Glaswegian.
Let's hope it's easier to switch off than the Pentium III on-chip ID. I mean, I'd hate to have to keep rebooting myself...
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Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off Glaswegian.
Yeah, we need kdecss and gdecss at the very least...
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Hell hath no fury like a pissed-off Glaswegian.