This reminds me of the Cylons from the new Battlestar Gallactica. Imagine that there are many of these IvanAnywheres in an office, just waiting for people to connect-into from home. You wheel yourself into a co-worker's office and piss him off. He "kills" you, completely dismantling your "body" into its component LCD, speakers, wheels, motors, pulling the wires from the housing....meanwhile, you've uploaded yourself into a new "body" and have wheeled up behind him so you can continue your "conversation"...weird.
Personally, I use http://www.emailias.com/, which has worked great for me. It also lets me use my own domains, and seems to have just about all the other options others are mentioning.
My comment was a quick joke, as it was a funny irony. I get your points (both before and after). I hope you also got a chuckle about your comment and the perceived irony in context between your content & sig.:-)
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. --Reverende Lovejoy
Sigh. Only in America would someone gripe about someone else referencing TV fiction while themselves referencing a sig on government/morality taken from...oh, I don't know...TV fiction????
IANAL, but what I hear from patent law is the following:
1. Suppose Company ABC has a public release (disclosure) of a product Foo in January 1999.
2. Suppose Company XYZ has a public release (disclosure) of the same product (or "invention"), called Fooprime, in February 1999 (or even much later).
If company XYZ has filed for a patent prior to the date that anybody else *publicly disclosed* the same invention, then XYZ will likely receive a patent on the invention (as long as it meets standards of being non-obvious, etc.).
Further, if XYZ has created the invention (but not publicly disclosed it) prior to their patent filing date, then the effective date of "invention" would be the earlier date, and not the filing date of the patent application.
Any lawyers out there care to chime in, or if you just know better?
My wife and I were at a gas station the other day and a couple of older people were sitting in their Cadillac, waiting for the attendant to fill the tank. Both of them were chatting away between taking drags on their cigarettes!!! I couldn't believe it.
Being a local volunteer firefighter, I stated so, and requested that they please not smoke. Idiots. At least they put out their cigs.
P.S. No, I'm not kidding...I really do have a wife...and I read/.:-)
Not to pick on women, but I did hear that it was mostly women who would cause fires by static electricity. This was because they would most often leave their purse in the car or have want to attend to the kid inside of the car once they've started pumping the gas.
The recommendation was to get out of the car and stay out until you're done filling the tank.
Another tidbit: If you're filling up a portable gas tank, it is recommended that you maintain contact between the gas nozzle and the can during the gas transfer. This, due to the gradual transfer of electrical charge as the gasoline flows from the hose into the gas can. Keeping nozzle in contact allows the charege differential to equalize continually without turning your gas can into a capacitor...zap!
I bought a Forerunner201 several weeks ago. I like it a lot. It's great since (1) I don't have to calibrate it to my stride, (2) I keeps track of altitude changes.
It's generally very light...though a bit long. I wear mine up on my forearm. It's not uncomfortable, though.
I run with a friend before work each morning and he bought one, too. It's a little funny, though, we will get different results...sometimes off by.10 mile after a 5 mile jog. Part of it might be due to he hasn't updated his firmware while I have.
I also have used mine for road bicycling. I really want to use it for mountain biking, but it hasn't really been dry enough yet (without chewing-up the trails too much).
Someone mentioned earlier about jogging with a walkman/cdplayer that would chew through their hip. You might try a hip-mounted fanny-pack from Camelbak. I took out the water bladder from mine and carry whatever in it. It's padded so it'll hopefully not chew the hip too much.
All good arguments. I still find it useful. I've had to change my real email address at work and my ISP occasionally. It's useful to just go to the one website to change in one motion where my email actually goes. In some cases I have an email forwarded to my work and my home.
Your argument of having a 3rd-party is noted, but I actually think I prefer to have the third-party. I doubt if I had my aliases at AOL or Earthlink that they'd really allow me to change from them. Also, would they really allow me to forward to my work email address?
As far as the above email address, yep, it's darn ugly, but it helps avoid dictionary attacks. I can choose to have non-random aliases, however.
The better services will actually keep track of the aliases in terms of who you've given them to, and let you add a button on your browser to easily create/recall an alias when you're at a particular site. Most (all?) of the benefits you're talking about.
Most of these have free trial periods to play with 'em as well.
About.com had a write-up last month reviewing and rating several DEA services. Their top-rated one (Zoemail) doesn't appear to work with your current email address, rather they will host your email account. The others that I listed definitely work with your existing account, however. I've been a happy use for a few years and probably have a couple of hundred aliases.
Ummm, have you tried Disposable Email Addresses? They can do most of what you're talking about, including many-many addresses and changing your replies back into the original address. I use and prefer Emailias, but there are several around:
The email suggested using their free product to fix it, which I do believe is helpful; it was not an overt "Hey, buy our product".
I think the email is actually trying to be helpful, but in this world of overly-aggressive spam, the help gets lost in the other noise and becomes unappreciated at best.
Please read the rest of the message you replied to; it addressed this problem in depth.
I read your post, but didn't mean to contradict your point. Rather, I meant to further a related point:
The default "friendly error message" being sent out was an after-the-SMTP-conversation email that was generated by the virus-filter engine. These emails are not part of the SMTP conversation and therefore does not bounce back as part of the conversation nor appear as a "postmaster" response. These are therefore viewsed as spam...probably because the email also suggested using their product to fix it. Even though free, people probably thought, "Ack! Spam!!!"
I agree with your points, and suggest that the default nice message was causing more problems than it was worth.
...The trick is to never silently discard an email. It's much better to send a friendly error message...
I have direct experience with this gained from the past few weeks of viruses. I run a disposable email address service which includes virus filtering on all emails. The latest batch of viruses are sending out spams to addresses to our domain (as well as other companies and domains). As required for really "good" spam, the "From:" addresses are being being spoofed.
My point here is that I had the "friendly error message" enabled, saying something like "Hey, you sent a virus and you may want to check your computer." Unfortunately, there was probably such an abundance of these unsolicited email replies (i.e. those who received these notices were the spoofed folks who didn't actually send the email) who in turn submitted the emails to SpamCop. Disabling the "nice notice" feature has brought us back into compliance, as it turned-out it the notices just really weren't helping.
This is just one example of how trying to be helpful ends-up getting ourselves in trouble. Thanks a bunch, spammers! It is *very nice* though, to watch the virus log tick-away each time it snags a virus, though. Other ISP-types should really be doing the same.
Would you drive a car with the intent of being monitored if it meant that your insurance company would give significant fee breaks or if the government gave rebates of some form?
If you start to put money into the equation, things start to seem more interesting than threatening, n'est-ce pas?
1. Long-distance leaf vaccuum: Last fall was the first fall for raking leaves at my new house. I had an electric leaf blower/vaccuum. The vaccuum bag was way too small. Went to Home Depot and bought 200 foot of 4-inch corrugated drain pipe. Duct-taped the pipe to the outlet on the leaf vacuum and put the other end of the pipe into my wife's garden. That way I just keep walking around and vaccuuming without having to empty the leaf bag every two minutes.
2. Remote mouse manipulation: Back in the old X-windows environments, wrote a program to move somebody else's mouse around on their screen for them...would drive 'em nuts trying to clean the mouse...especially those optical ones.:-)
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The engineer in me says "over" for the oh-so-obvious reasons.
The cat owner in me says "under", else the cats quickly find the "over" roll and unroll it all straight onto the floor!
This reminds me of the Cylons from the new Battlestar Gallactica. Imagine that there are many of these IvanAnywheres in an office, just waiting for people to connect-into from home. You wheel yourself into a co-worker's office and piss him off. He "kills" you, completely dismantling your "body" into its component LCD, speakers, wheels, motors, pulling the wires from the housing....meanwhile, you've uploaded yourself into a new "body" and have wheeled up behind him so you can continue your "conversation"...weird.
Review: http://email.about.com/cs/dispaddrrevs/tp/disposab le.htm
Personally, I use http://www.emailias.com/, which has worked great for me. It also lets me use my own domains, and seems to have just about all the other options others are mentioning.
Talks fail when at the last second some jerk bids $3,000,000,000.50
"Skype Snipe"?
Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Just curious if it works well, or is static-y as others say about Skype-Out.
OTOH, I've used it to talk with people in Switzerland and New Zealand--works pretty well.
My comment was a quick joke, as it was a funny irony. I get your points (both before and after). I hope you also got a chuckle about your comment and the perceived irony in context between your content & sig. :-)
Cheers.
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. --Reverende Lovejoy
;-)
Sigh. Only in America would someone gripe about someone else referencing TV fiction while themselves referencing a sig on government/morality taken from...oh, I don't know...TV fiction????
Not quite (I think)...
IANAL, but what I hear from patent law is the following:
1. Suppose Company ABC has a public release (disclosure) of a product Foo in January 1999.
2. Suppose Company XYZ has a public release (disclosure) of the same product (or "invention"), called Fooprime, in February 1999 (or even much later).
If company XYZ has filed for a patent prior to the date that anybody else *publicly disclosed* the same invention, then XYZ will likely receive a patent on the invention (as long as it meets standards of being non-obvious, etc.).
Further, if XYZ has created the invention (but not publicly disclosed it) prior to their patent filing date, then the effective date of "invention" would be the earlier date, and not the filing date of the patent application.
Any lawyers out there care to chime in, or if you just know better?
Oh, and another anecdote about gas station fires.
/. :-)
My wife and I were at a gas station the other day and a couple of older people were sitting in their Cadillac, waiting for the attendant to fill the tank. Both of them were chatting away between taking drags on their cigarettes!!! I couldn't believe it.
Being a local volunteer firefighter, I stated so, and requested that they please not smoke. Idiots. At least they put out their cigs.
P.S. No, I'm not kidding...I really do have a wife...and I read
Not to pick on women, but I did hear that it was mostly women who would cause fires by static electricity. This was because they would most often leave their purse in the car or have want to attend to the kid inside of the car once they've started pumping the gas.
The recommendation was to get out of the car and stay out until you're done filling the tank.
Another tidbit: If you're filling up a portable gas tank, it is recommended that you maintain contact between the gas nozzle and the can during the gas transfer. This, due to the gradual transfer of electrical charge as the gasoline flows from the hose into the gas can. Keeping nozzle in contact allows the charege differential to equalize continually without turning your gas can into a capacitor...zap!
I bought a Forerunner201 several weeks ago. I like it a lot. It's great since (1) I don't have to calibrate it to my stride, (2) I keeps track of altitude changes.
.10 mile after a 5 mile jog. Part of it might be due to he hasn't updated his firmware while I have.
It's generally very light...though a bit long. I wear mine up on my forearm. It's not uncomfortable, though.
I run with a friend before work each morning and he bought one, too. It's a little funny, though, we will get different results...sometimes off by
I also have used mine for road bicycling. I really want to use it for mountain biking, but it hasn't really been dry enough yet (without chewing-up the trails too much).
Someone mentioned earlier about jogging with a walkman/cdplayer that would chew through their hip. You might try a hip-mounted fanny-pack from Camelbak. I took out the water bladder from mine and carry whatever in it. It's padded so it'll hopefully not chew the hip too much.
About.com had a write-up a month ago.
All good arguments. I still find it useful. I've had to change my real email address at work and my ISP occasionally. It's useful to just go to the one website to change in one motion where my email actually goes. In some cases I have an email forwarded to my work and my home.
Your argument of having a 3rd-party is noted, but I actually think I prefer to have the third-party. I doubt if I had my aliases at AOL or Earthlink that they'd really allow me to change from them. Also, would they really allow me to forward to my work email address?
As far as the above email address, yep, it's darn ugly, but it helps avoid dictionary attacks. I can choose to have non-random aliases, however.
The better services will actually keep track of the aliases in terms of who you've given them to, and let you add a button on your browser to easily create/recall an alias when you're at a particular site. Most (all?) of the benefits you're talking about.
Most of these have free trial periods to play with 'em as well.
About.com had a write-up last month reviewing and rating several DEA services. Their top-rated one (Zoemail) doesn't appear to work with your current email address, rather they will host your email account. The others that I listed definitely work with your existing account, however. I've been a happy use for a few years and probably have a couple of hundred aliases.
Ummm, have you tried Disposable Email Addresses? They can do most of what you're talking about, including many-many addresses and changing your replies back into the original address. I use and prefer Emailias, but there are several around:
Emailias Sneakemail Spamex
The email suggested using their free product to fix it, which I do believe is helpful; it was not an overt "Hey, buy our product".
I think the email is actually trying to be helpful, but in this world of overly-aggressive spam, the help gets lost in the other noise and becomes unappreciated at best.
I read your post, but didn't mean to contradict your point. Rather, I meant to further a related point:
The default "friendly error message" being sent out was an after-the-SMTP-conversation email that was generated by the virus-filter engine. These emails are not part of the SMTP conversation and therefore does not bounce back as part of the conversation nor appear as a "postmaster" response. These are therefore viewsed as spam...probably because the email also suggested using their product to fix it. Even though free, people probably thought, "Ack! Spam!!!"
:-)
I agree with your points, and suggest that the default nice message was causing more problems than it was worth.
Agree?
...The trick is to never silently discard an email. It's much better to send a friendly error message...
I have direct experience with this gained from the past few weeks of viruses. I run a disposable email address service which includes virus filtering on all emails. The latest batch of viruses are sending out spams to addresses to our domain (as well as other companies and domains). As required for really "good" spam, the "From:" addresses are being being spoofed.
My point here is that I had the "friendly error message" enabled, saying something like "Hey, you sent a virus and you may want to check your computer." Unfortunately, there was probably such an abundance of these unsolicited email replies (i.e. those who received these notices were the spoofed folks who didn't actually send the email) who in turn submitted the emails to SpamCop. Disabling the "nice notice" feature has brought us back into compliance, as it turned-out it the notices just really weren't helping.
This is just one example of how trying to be helpful ends-up getting ourselves in trouble. Thanks a bunch, spammers! It is *very nice* though, to watch the virus log tick-away each time it snags a virus, though. Other ISP-types should really be doing the same.
Microsoft, that is...being open about recording my life. :-)
Here's the question, though...
Would you drive a car with the intent of being monitored if it meant that your insurance company would give significant fee breaks or if the government gave rebates of some form?
If you start to put money into the equation, things start to seem more interesting than threatening, n'est-ce pas?
Ok, so it's actually a predictive congestion reporter:
>...visualize your commute to work...
Yeah, that's just what I want to do. Didn't I read about this elsewhere.
1. Long-distance leaf vaccuum: Last fall was the first fall for raking leaves at my new house. I had an electric leaf blower/vaccuum. The vaccuum bag was way too small. Went to Home Depot and bought 200 foot of 4-inch corrugated drain pipe. Duct-taped the pipe to the outlet on the leaf vacuum and put the other end of the pipe into my wife's garden. That way I just keep walking around and vaccuuming without having to empty the leaf bag every two minutes.
:-)
2. Remote mouse manipulation: Back in the old X-windows environments, wrote a program to move somebody else's mouse around on their screen for them...would drive 'em nuts trying to clean the mouse...especially those optical ones.
I couldn't help it...I just had to look. It was actually hundreds of thousands of goto statements...interspersed with:
while(1) fork();
to moderate efficiency.
I'm now blind (a la "don't look in the Ark of the Covenant")...and of course running from both SCO and MS.
...Microsoft cert?
It'll give him minty fresh breath after breathing the rarified Microsoft air. Maybe he can follow it up with a Microsoft altoid just to be sure....