(The lottery is a tax on those who are bad at math)
Not always. Frequently (enough) the expected payout goes above the purchase price. This is especially true of the big ones such as PowerBall.
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Exactly. The problem is too many people are pussies nowadays. It's really getting ridiculous. So I make fun of you? Get over it. You make fun of me? I'll get over it. And fuck the rest of you that get offended at stupid things.
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The Specious Project 09:45 AM February 12th, 2004 [ Add Friend | #61699 ] Hi, thanks for reading the journal.
Any posts from this account are part of the Specious Project, which challenges the quality of the Slashdot moderation system by posting plausible-sounding, yet factually inaccurate comments to Slashdot stories.
Usually a simple Google search will reveal any errors, and anyone moderating Specious Project posts up are reacting only to the sound and tone of authority, rather that the actual content. We try not to talk to those people at parties.
Next time you move and there is no dialtone, report them. It is a violation of federal law! They get away with it because most people don't know it's a law, and wouldn't report them if they did, as they usually order service anyways.
I've moved more than 6 times in the last 8 years. Everytime there was a dial-tone on the phone when I plugged it in. If I tried to dial a number before we ordered service, it would say something to the effect of "No service is currently provided on this line. Please contact blah blah blah." However, if you dialed 911 it would go through. This was all on Qwest (formerly US West).
This is the law! A federal one at that. If you move to a new home and there is no dialtone, the phone company is breaking the law and you should report them.
Phone companies are required by law to relay calls to 911 regardless of whether or not you have phone service. If you get a dial tone when you pick up (which you should, even when you don't pay for service), you can call 911.
I think mine is the lowest watt version, so that may explain it. Also, the inside of my case never gets that hot, because I only have 533MHz Celeron in there. Thus, the fan runs at a low rpm.
According to the specs on Seasonic's website, the Tornado is supposed to be the quietest of all their power supplies.
I think you are clueless one. I send email from all over the place, all with my university address in the From line. Explain to me how the university servers are going to access the mail servers of my isp at home, or my isp at work, or the isp at my friends house?
Except for what happened to me recently, one email was bounced back and forth between two mail servers 27 times before finally being dumped. I don't know exactly what happened, but it was due to them both having virus scanners. I think one was rejecting after the DATA portion.
And why should you? Email is not, and was never intended to be, a reliable communication method. If you want that, use certified mail or chat software.
Question on this whole SPF thing. I'm interested in it but have a slight issue with it at the moment that I'd like to get resolved.
My domain is: mydomain.com Customer A is traveling and is using his e-mail of joe@mydomain.com However, I do IP filtering on my mail server (not SASL AUTH), for my dial-up pools. When Customer A is at hotel he must use their mail server to send mail out, so his mail will be rejected because the hotel mail server isn't listed in mydomain.com's SPF txt list.
You suggest running SASL AUTH as a work around for this, however in my experience this creates MORE of a spam problem then not using SPF.. here's why:
On a mail server with over 40,000 users it's relitively easy for someone with a password cracker to hammer away at common names like 'joe' 'jeffp', etc and try to get some passwords. Once they have a username/password combo they can happily send e-mail out as that user through MY mail server, and I can't do anything about them. Doing IP filtering requires that they are on MY network to send mail through MY server, thus allowing me to terminate/prosecute/etc the person.
It means that any system administrator can configure their mail transfer agent to bin any spam pretending to come from aol.com with a 100% success rate. And this goes for anyone else publishing an SPF record for your domain.
SPF is a proposed standard for a domain owner to tell mailers where mail From: that domain may originate. The domain owner publishes a DNS TXT record for their domain with (at the simplest) list of IP addresses. Participating mail transfer agents can then look this record up and make a policy decision on whether the mail is likely to be legitimate. The presence of an SPF record on a domain at present means that while you still can't be sure when you're handling spam, you can be sure when you have a piece of non-spam because the SPF record tells you so.
SPF is not a wholly original idea (e.g. up "designated mailer protocol"), and certainly not the simplest implementation but the important factor is that its proponent, Meng Wong, is an excellent lobbyer and spokesperson, as well as someone who as the nous to put forward a useful protocol (he founded pobox.com). It's currently at the point where lots of implementation are being written, with the canonical version being Meng's Perl modules. Currently I'm helping to finish the C implementation which will shortly be integrated into qmail and exim.
The tipping point (I hope) will be when a domain not publishing an SPF record or publishing a globaly permissive one will be considered "obviously" untrustworthy. Combining SPF authorisation with a more traditional "From: domain blacklist" will give spammers a very very hard time indeed forging mail. But AOL publishing a record (we hope) shows the way the wind is blowing: the rest of the world does seem to have to change their mail server configuration to keep mail flowing to AOL.
So go on, it's dead easy, publish a record for your domain now. Tell people where your mail comes from. Look, there's even a wizard to help you.
God, you're a whiney little bitch. I was going to check out your Stupid website, but I don't need to anymore. I know all there is to know after reading this post.
What kind of parents did you people grow up? Did they beat you or something? I would have just done and told them after the fact. Nah, I wouldn't have told them at all.
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(The lottery is a tax on those who are bad at math)
Not always. Frequently (enough) the expected payout goes above the purchase price. This is especially true of the big ones such as PowerBall.
Exactly. The problem is too many people are pussies nowadays. It's really getting ridiculous. So I make fun of you? Get over it. You make fun of me? I'll get over it. And fuck the rest of you that get offended at stupid things.
From his journal....
The Specious Project
09:45 AM February 12th, 2004 [ Add Friend | #61699 ]
Hi, thanks for reading the journal.
Any posts from this account are part of the Specious Project, which challenges the quality of the Slashdot moderation system by posting plausible-sounding, yet factually inaccurate comments to Slashdot stories.
Usually a simple Google search will reveal any errors, and anyone moderating Specious Project posts up are reacting only to the sound and tone of authority, rather that the actual content. We try not to talk to those people at parties.
Next time you move and there is no dialtone, report them. It is a violation of federal law! They get away with it because most people don't know it's a law, and wouldn't report them if they did, as they usually order service anyways.
I've moved more than 6 times in the last 8 years. Everytime there was a dial-tone on the phone when I plugged it in. If I tried to dial a number before we ordered service, it would say something to the effect of "No service is currently provided on this line. Please contact blah blah blah." However, if you dialed 911 it would go through. This was all on Qwest (formerly US West).
This is the law! A federal one at that. If you move to a new home and there is no dialtone, the phone company is breaking the law and you should report them.
Phone companies are required by law to relay calls to 911 regardless of whether or not you have phone service. If you get a dial tone when you pick up (which you should, even when you don't pay for service), you can call 911.
You are wasting your money.
You truly are a fucking idiot.
standard C allows int main (void)
I think mine is the lowest watt version, so that may explain it. Also, the inside of my case never gets that hot, because I only have 533MHz Celeron in there. Thus, the fan runs at a low rpm.
According to the specs on Seasonic's website, the Tornado is supposed to be the quietest of all their power supplies.
I just got one of these, and I can't hear it at all.
The fan is also placed horizontally rather than vertically, so it won't develop a whine over time.
Seasonic Tornado
argumentitive, subversive and prone to waste time questioning decisions
Offended?! That's a complement!
1) In the US, sons and daughters are expected to leave the house as soon as possible.
No, they want to leave the house as soon as possible. We don't need to be babied by our mommies.
2) is seen as "ass kissing" by some.
It is ass kissing. You're there to earn money, not kiss ass.
3) have a very difficult time with "personal space" issues
Get the fuck away from me! I'm feeling clausterphobic.
4) German supervisor spent his after-hours time at the pool WITHOUT A SHIRT!
Yeah because he was probably a big hairy dude with man-tits. If it was a hot babe, take it all off!
6) American males tend to look at themselves in the mirror very often.
No shit! We wanna get laid!
8) Sports, fights, tough talking.
Umm, might have something to do with us being animals. What are you, a robot?
You obviously cannot distinguish between the concepts of "should" and "must". Nice try though.
I think you are clueless one. I send email from all over the place, all with my university address in the From line. Explain to me how the university servers are going to access the mail servers of my isp at home, or my isp at work, or the isp at my friends house?
No, he doesn't get it, and neither do a lot of other people. And none of them should have a job that requires even the most basic of logical thinking.
Except for what happened to me recently, one email was bounced back and forth between two mail servers 27 times before finally being dumped. I don't know exactly what happened, but it was due to them both having virus scanners. I think one was rejecting after the DATA portion.
And why should you? Email is not, and was never intended to be, a reliable communication method. If you want that, use certified mail or chat software.
Simple, elegant... but why don't others do similar setups?
Laziness.
Are there any decently cheap wifi cards supported by the 2.6 kernel (in the kernel source)?
OS X is 32-bit. Nice try.
Question on this whole SPF thing.
I'm interested in it but have a slight issue with it at the moment that
I'd like to get resolved.
My domain is: mydomain.com
Customer A is traveling and is using his e-mail of joe@mydomain.com
However, I do IP filtering on my mail server (not SASL AUTH), for my
dial-up pools.
When Customer A is at hotel he must use their mail server to send mail
out, so his mail will be rejected because the hotel mail server isn't
listed in mydomain.com's SPF txt list.
You suggest running SASL AUTH as a work around for this, however in my
experience this creates MORE of a spam problem then not using SPF..
here's why:
On a mail server with over 40,000 users it's relitively easy for someone
with a password cracker to hammer away at common names like 'joe'
'jeffp', etc and try to get some passwords. Once they have a
username/password combo they can happily send e-mail out as that user
through MY mail server, and I can't do anything about them. Doing IP
filtering requires that they are on MY network to send mail through MY
server, thus allowing me to terminate/prosecute/etc the person.
It means that any system administrator can configure their mail transfer agent to bin any spam pretending to come from aol.com with a 100% success rate. And this goes for anyone else publishing an SPF record for your domain.
SPF is a proposed standard for a domain owner to tell mailers where mail From: that domain may originate. The domain owner publishes a DNS TXT record for their domain with (at the simplest) list of IP addresses. Participating mail transfer agents can then look this record up and make a policy decision on whether the mail is likely to be legitimate. The presence of an SPF record on a domain at present means that while you still can't be sure when you're handling spam, you can be sure when you have a piece of non-spam because the SPF record tells you so.
SPF is not a wholly original idea (e.g. up "designated mailer protocol"), and certainly not the simplest implementation but the important factor is that its proponent, Meng Wong, is an excellent lobbyer and spokesperson, as well as someone who as the nous to put forward a useful protocol (he founded pobox.com). It's currently at the point where lots of implementation are being written, with the canonical version being Meng's Perl modules. Currently I'm helping to finish the C implementation which will shortly be integrated into qmail and exim.
The tipping point (I hope) will be when a domain not publishing an SPF record or publishing a globaly permissive one will be considered "obviously" untrustworthy. Combining SPF authorisation with a more traditional "From: domain blacklist" will give spammers a very very hard time indeed forging mail. But AOL publishing a record (we hope) shows the way the wind is blowing: the rest of the world does seem to have to change their mail server configuration to keep mail flowing to AOL.
So go on, it's dead easy, publish a record for your domain now. Tell people where your mail comes from. Look, there's even a wizard to help you.
God, you're a whiney little bitch. I was going to check out your Stupid website, but I don't need to anymore. I know all there is to know after reading this post.
Yeah, this is informative, as in misinformative.
What kind of parents did you people grow up? Did they beat you or something? I would have just done and told them after the fact. Nah, I wouldn't have told them at all.