I, like many of you have the ability to have anything@mydomain email addresses that i can use/create on the fly. So what I do is, whenever I register on a website or give my email address out to a third party, I enter/provide a unique address. my email address at slashdot is 'slashdot@mydomain', at amazon it's amazon@mydomain and for any business contact it's my companyname@mydomain - anyway you get the idea.
The instant I get spam sent to an address, I immediately kill the address, and (if I can) shout at the person who leaked the address to spamlists.
It's my small way of (trying) to keep my inbox spam free, and to protect my privacy by not having a global email address that any tom dick or harriet can hassle me on.
-Jar
PS. As a side note. Does ANYONE know how to get Outlook to auto-file emails based on recipient smtp address, including auto creating the folders?
IIRC almost everyone at my school (during the late 80's) referred to CVG as 'Computer and Vegetable Games' - dunno why. I don't even know if that was a merely a localised slang term, or whether somewhere else in gaming journalism it had been called that and people just picked up on it.
I never really read CVG, being totally addicted to Zzap64! at the time.
Lets not forget that as well as the Citrix licences you ALSO need MS Terminal Services licences, or your whole setup will grind to a halt 90 days after installation:(
Is it me, or does that seem like you are paying twice for the same thing?
I don't think it's too much to ask for a (presumably) mature adult to resist his/her impulses to rape children.
It is. In most instances paedophiles (yup I'm british!) have no such control over their impulses (in a medical sense). These people commonly have Obsessive Compulsive Disorders as well to such an extent that it rules their life. Also common is that the brain is miswired. This miswiring, results in the effect that they know shooting someone is wrong, but 'loving' a 3 year old isn't. To their brains abuse isn't abuse it's 'love' and and is as normal as 'loving' a mature adult partner.
Ergo, the majority of paedophiles are NOT evil; they are victims. Yes they should be punished for any crime they commit, but they are not the devil incarnate. Rarely are things as black/white as good/evil and it's only 'Gun Toting Republicans' who think the world is divided as such.
As does 'The Matrix' when Neo is asleep in front of the monitors. Tbh, this glaring error was an indication that the following two films would be utter utter shite.
Tweaking this pedantic thread slightly longer;) , technically you only need 1000 people to produce 1000 babies. If I recall correctly, a few months ago a baby was born of two mothers, that is to say, the boffins had created a viable embryo from the DNA of two women.
Put down your beating stick for a moment, and explain, in your view, WHAT PvP is then?
PvP means Player versus Player (unlike you I don't throw acronyms about to make myself seem a better player) so when one person attacks another in a game that allows it, it's PvP. Claiming it isn't, is just RPG (role playing game) elitism.
It is that fucking simple, if you were rebuilding the Internet from the start, but unfortunately we're not, and the current system is SO fubarred that theres no way in hell that it'll ever be fixed in a way that most would find acceptable.
Whereas most would agree that the current TLD system has been totally abused (I count myself as one of the guilty people, having several.com's and one.org, and being neither a US company* nor a charity), theres simply no way to reset all the domain names to a sensible single tree hierachical naming convention without severely disrupting routers, firewalls, proxys, caches, blacklists, whitelists, favorites, links bar, and every single page on the internet that links to a remote site. Yeah, you could put a translation layer in so that the original name still works, but as any infrastructure architect will tell you, these temporary 'fixes' almost always end up being permemanent .
Back to the topic in hand..XXX is a bloody good idea, ONLY if sites with adult content are forced to switch. If they are not forced it's a totally pointless exercise. Why is it a good idea? well for starters we all know that viewing internet pr0n at work is against office regs (unless you work in the pr0n industry I guess**), so removing those 1000s of pr0n URLs from the corporate proxy list and replacing them with a single 'Block: *.XXX' rule makes it oh so simple for those network admins. For parents who feel that censorship is the way to safeguard your kids online (and not the old fashioned method of actually talking to them) then knowing that Firewall Product X 'BLOCKS *ALL*.XXX DOMAINS!' would give them complete peace of mind.
Of course those of us who like and enjoy pr0n on a regular basis, wont be affected by the.xxx change - if anything
Personally, I get my pr0n from usenet, it's free:)
-Jar.
* I know.com isn't solely US companies anymore, but it was intended to be. ** I once worked for a UK broadcast company (one of the big-five) and they had a whole dept dedicated to maintaining their own pr0n sites.
'HD Ready' plasmas and LCDs bug the hell out of me for this very reason.
720p HD is 1280x720 1080i/p is 1920x1080
Yet a LOT of 'HD Ready' flatscreens have a pixel structure of 1024x768, (some even have 1280x1024). I personally want direct pixel mapping in my viewing, so although I can handle 48 lines of pixels not being used on the screen (768-720=48) what about the horizontal mis-match? Where did those 'spare' 256 columns go? (1280-1024=256). Somewhere in all this there's a lot of up/downscaling going on - and the consumer is being ripped off (again).
-Jar
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Um, surely for there to be true 'non-region' - all PS3s have to be dual format of both PAL/NTSC (hey, what ever happened to SECAM?) - only that way will 'region-free' actually mean anything.
PAL/NTSC are bunk terms anyway, with HDTV being a de-facto output on all these next gen consoles, surely 720p is 720p regardless where on the planet you are standing?
Personally I still think there will be PAL PS3s and NTSC PS3s, meaning that us poor sods in Europe get games later than Japan/US, again:(
I just wiki'd 'mukluk' - thanks for that. Now I know what those stupid things I see secretaries wearing on my train in the morning that I take the piss out of are called;)
Extra X or Y chromosome actually causes defects such as skeletal abnormalities, decreased IQ, and delayed development, and a whole bunch of other stuff
I worked for one of the worlds largest investment banks during the late 90s and the GP is quite right... a LOT of finacial management/trading code was inside excel macros. These traders (most of whom enjoyed 6 figure bonuses each year) knew more about Excel Macro programming (in VBA) than anyone at Microsoft. VBA supports COM based CreateObject calls, so if the trader was masochistic (and most of them are), you'd find loads of esoteric code calls to Reuters/Bloomberg feeds and such.
Obviously the more sensible route would have been to ask the dev team to knock up a 'real' application - but their requirements were so bespoke, that the IT dept just left the traders to it....
In the UK last year WoW had a brief advertising run on TV - the usual 30 second collection of hi-speed 'footage' with accompaning tub-thumping music. Whether that affected sales, I know not.
OK - I'll bite. (I had to Google what you meant - 'Emerge' is Gentoos app installer right?)
Standard IRCDs are all well and good, but limited in a corporate environment. Most companies want secure encrypted channels/IMs and full logging ability. Add on to that the usual requirement of user authentication (no spoofing of users allowed here), plus contact photos (they all see MSNs Contacts photos and say 'hey why can't we have that? y'know linked to our phone list db?')... After that you have secure file transfer.... the list gets pretty endless, and you are only at the end of the first 'specification requirements' meeting:( A few large corporations have a stab at developing their own in-house messaging solution - some even use an IRCD based host for the main job of communicating and leave the rest to a custom client, but in general most organisations don't have the skill (or budget) to develop something usable and/or scalable.
The only IM market still not-completely tapped, is the Medium-to-Large Enterprise Market. Only now are the main IM vendors starting to roll business style secure IM, and in most cases it's just a tardy bolt on to their main personal IM clients. Notable exceptions to this are IBMs Sametime, and MSs Live Communications Server - but even those have a long way to go before they are as feature rich as their personal counterparts (Sametime is based on AIM).
Neither Live Comm Server or Sametime are free - so with correct marketing the IM vendors can still make money in the Enterprise arena.
Anyone else know of any real contenders for the business secure IM market?
As I understnad it, the grey-shoulder uniforms came about off the back of the dominion war, where it was decided that rank or class be less obvious in the heat of battle. ie. less red on your ensign shirt, may, just may, result in you surviving long enough to be in the end credits;)
I miss it. The RX-8 is nowhere near as nice as the RX-7 RS:(
I nearly bought an RX-7 but then Mazda withdrew it, and with the previous experience of the depreciation of my MX-6 once it became an 'old model' (it lost over 80% of it's value in 4 years) there was no way I was going to buy a second user RX-7 now that they'd also become superceded.
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This'll be suck eggs for many, but new to others.
I, like many of you have the ability to have anything@mydomain email addresses that i can use/create on the fly. So what I do is, whenever I register on a website or give my email address out to a third party, I enter/provide a unique address. my email address at slashdot is 'slashdot@mydomain', at amazon it's amazon@mydomain and for any business contact it's my companyname@mydomain - anyway you get the idea.
The instant I get spam sent to an address, I immediately kill the address, and (if I can) shout at the person who leaked the address to spamlists.
It's my small way of (trying) to keep my inbox spam free, and to protect my privacy by not having a global email address that any tom dick or harriet can hassle me on.
-Jar
PS. As a side note. Does ANYONE know how to get Outlook to auto-file emails based on recipient smtp address, including auto creating the folders?
Taco NEVER replies. Even when I do some nice slashdot mastheads for the subject pages that don't have the correctly coloured ones...
;)
http://www.weegeeks.com/slashdot-titles/
Yup, I'm bitter. And that is my right
-Jar.
IIRC almost everyone at my school (during the late 80's) referred to CVG as 'Computer and Vegetable Games' - dunno why. I don't even know if that was a merely a localised slang term, or whether somewhere else in gaming journalism it had been called that and people just picked up on it.
I never really read CVG, being totally addicted to Zzap64! at the time.
-Jar.
Lets not forget that as well as the Citrix licences you ALSO need MS Terminal Services licences, or your whole setup will grind to a halt 90 days after installation :(
Is it me, or does that seem like you are paying twice for the same thing?
-Jar.
I don't think it's too much to ask for a (presumably) mature adult to resist his/her impulses to rape children.
It is. In most instances paedophiles (yup I'm british!) have no such control over their impulses (in a medical sense). These people commonly have Obsessive Compulsive Disorders as well to such an extent that it rules their life. Also common is that the brain is miswired. This miswiring, results in the effect that they know shooting someone is wrong, but 'loving' a 3 year old isn't. To their brains abuse isn't abuse it's 'love' and and is as normal as 'loving' a mature adult partner.
Ergo, the majority of paedophiles are NOT evil; they are victims. Yes they should be punished for any crime they commit, but they are not the devil incarnate. Rarely are things as black/white as good/evil and it's only 'Gun Toting Republicans' who think the world is divided as such.
-Jar.
As does 'The Matrix' when Neo is asleep in front of the monitors. Tbh, this glaring error was an indication that the following two films would be utter utter shite.
-Jar.
It'd be a short list...
/. knowledge...
However it would also probably be the sum of all
Seriously tho, is it me, or are we finally seeing the (slow) demise of the 'first post!' syndrome?
-Jar.
Tsk. I read and re-read your comment, but I STILL can't see the words 'frist p0st!' in it anywhere... ;)
-Jar.
Tweaking this pedantic thread slightly longer ;) , technically you only need 1000 people to produce 1000 babies. If I recall correctly, a few months ago a baby was born of two mothers, that is to say, the boffins had created a viable embryo from the DNA of two women.
-Jar.
Wow. Do you have a link to back that info up ? As an indie MMORPG developer, I'm quite interested in stuff like this.
Cheers,
-Jar.
Stoppit! This isn't Digg!!!!!!
But yeah, personal blog self-promotion - uber lame.
-Jar
Put down your beating stick for a moment, and explain, in your view, WHAT PvP is then?
PvP means Player versus Player (unlike you I don't throw acronyms about to make myself seem a better player) so when one person attacks another in a game that allows it, it's PvP. Claiming it isn't, is just RPG (role playing game) elitism.
-Jar.
It is that fucking simple, if you were rebuilding the Internet from the start, but unfortunately we're not, and the current system is SO fubarred that theres no way in hell that it'll ever be fixed in a way that most would find acceptable.
.com's and one .org, and being neither a US company* nor a charity), theres simply no way to reset all the domain names to a sensible single tree hierachical naming convention without severely disrupting routers, firewalls, proxys, caches, blacklists, whitelists, favorites, links bar, and every single page on the internet that links to a remote site. Yeah, you could put a translation layer in so that the original name still works, but as any infrastructure architect will tell you, these temporary 'fixes' almost always end up being permemanent .
.XXX is a bloody good idea, ONLY if sites with adult content are forced to switch. If they are not forced it's a totally pointless exercise. Why is it a good idea? well for starters we all know that viewing internet pr0n at work is against office regs (unless you work in the pr0n industry I guess**), so removing those 1000s of pr0n URLs from the corporate proxy list and replacing them with a single 'Block: *.XXX' rule makes it oh so simple for those network admins. For parents who feel that censorship is the way to safeguard your kids online (and not the old fashioned method of actually talking to them) then knowing that Firewall Product X 'BLOCKS *ALL* .XXX DOMAINS!' would give them complete peace of mind.
.xxx change - if anything
:)
.com isn't solely US companies anymore, but it was intended to be.
Whereas most would agree that the current TLD system has been totally abused (I count myself as one of the guilty people, having several
Back to the topic in hand.
Of course those of us who like and enjoy pr0n on a regular basis, wont be affected by the
Personally, I get my pr0n from usenet, it's free
-Jar.
* I know
** I once worked for a UK broadcast company (one of the big-five) and they had a whole dept dedicated to maintaining their own pr0n sites.
'HD Ready' plasmas and LCDs bug the hell out of me for this very reason.
720p HD is 1280x720
1080i/p is 1920x1080
Yet a LOT of 'HD Ready' flatscreens have a pixel structure of 1024x768, (some even have 1280x1024). I personally want direct pixel mapping in my viewing, so although I can handle 48 lines of pixels not being used on the screen (768-720=48) what about the horizontal mis-match? Where did those 'spare' 256 columns go? (1280-1024=256). Somewhere in all this there's a lot of up/downscaling going on - and the consumer is being ripped off (again).
-Jar
Um, surely for there to be true 'non-region' - all PS3s have to be dual format of both PAL/NTSC (hey, what ever happened to SECAM?) - only that way will 'region-free' actually mean anything.
:(
PAL/NTSC are bunk terms anyway, with HDTV being a de-facto output on all these next gen consoles, surely 720p is 720p regardless where on the planet you are standing?
Personally I still think there will be PAL PS3s and NTSC PS3s, meaning that us poor sods in Europe get games later than Japan/US, again
-Jar.
I just wiki'd 'mukluk' - thanks for that. Now I know what those stupid things I see secretaries wearing on my train in the morning that I take the piss out of are called ;)
-Jar.
Extra X or Y chromosome actually causes defects such as skeletal abnormalities, decreased IQ, and delayed development, and a whole bunch of other stuff
/. posters then...
Well... that explains all us
-Jar.
'Fair Use' no longer exists in modern digital copyright.
;)
Under current legistration, all your cassettes are now illegal, you must bury them in landfill immediately.
-Jar.
I for one welcome our new Linux-running cyborg monkeys.
.sig, do it, you know it makes sense ;)
Make that your
Why do you say small?
I worked for one of the worlds largest investment banks during the late 90s and the GP is quite right... a LOT of finacial management/trading code was inside excel macros. These traders (most of whom enjoyed 6 figure bonuses each year) knew more about Excel Macro programming (in VBA) than anyone at Microsoft. VBA supports COM based CreateObject calls, so if the trader was masochistic (and most of them are), you'd find loads of esoteric code calls to Reuters/Bloomberg feeds and such.
Obviously the more sensible route would have been to ask the dev team to knock up a 'real' application - but their requirements were so bespoke, that the IT dept just left the traders to it....
-Jar.
In the UK last year WoW had a brief advertising run on TV - the usual 30 second collection of hi-speed 'footage' with accompaning tub-thumping music. Whether that affected sales, I know not.
-Jar.
OK - I'll bite. (I had to Google what you meant - 'Emerge' is Gentoos app installer right?)
:( A few large corporations have a stab at developing their own in-house messaging solution - some even use an IRCD based host for the main job of communicating and leave the rest to a custom client, but in general most organisations don't have the skill (or budget) to develop something usable and/or scalable.
Standard IRCDs are all well and good, but limited in a corporate environment. Most companies want secure encrypted channels/IMs and full logging ability. Add on to that the usual requirement of user authentication (no spoofing of users allowed here), plus contact photos (they all see MSNs Contacts photos and say 'hey why can't we have that? y'know linked to our phone list db?')... After that you have secure file transfer.... the list gets pretty endless, and you are only at the end of the first 'specification requirements' meeting
-Jar.
The only IM market still not-completely tapped, is the Medium-to-Large Enterprise Market. Only now are the main IM vendors starting to roll business style secure IM, and in most cases it's just a tardy bolt on to their main personal IM clients. Notable exceptions to this are IBMs Sametime, and MSs Live Communications Server - but even those have a long way to go before they are as feature rich as their personal counterparts (Sametime is based on AIM).
Neither Live Comm Server or Sametime are free - so with correct marketing the IM vendors can still make money in the Enterprise arena.
Anyone else know of any real contenders for the business secure IM market?
-Jar.
As I understnad it, the grey-shoulder uniforms came about off the back of the dominion war, where it was decided that rank or class be less obvious in the heat of battle. ie. less red on your ensign shirt, may, just may, result in you surviving long enough to be in the end credits ;)
-Jar.
I miss it. The RX-8 is nowhere near as nice as the RX-7 RS :(
I nearly bought an RX-7 but then Mazda withdrew it, and with the previous experience of the depreciation of my MX-6 once it became an 'old model' (it lost over 80% of it's value in 4 years) there was no way I was going to buy a second user RX-7 now that they'd also become superceded.
-Jar.