Seems like every movie I get makes me sit through an ad or two, some trailers, an FBI warning, an Interpol statement, and the beginning of some seriously lame ass animated menus.
I haven't encountered a DVD that wouldn't let me skip previews. I've also yet to see a DVD that has ads (not previews) on it. Just to clarify, when I say ads I mean ads like you'd see on television. You can tell they're video to film transfers as they are usually fuzzy.
Renting the DVDs has a lot of benefits over going to the theatre:
It costs the same or less to rent a movie than to see it in the theatre. All of your friends can come over and you can all watch it without having to pay more.
You can start the movie when you want to instead of waiting for it to begin.
You don't have to worry about getting a good seat and you and your friends can sit together (not always possible in a crowded theatre).
No ringing cell phones and crying children.
You don't have to be subjected to 30 second commercials before the previews and the movie.
I find myself going to the theatre less and less. The only benefit is a big screen and decent sound system and that doesn't hold much appeal compared to all of the down sides one has to deal with.
The thing that pisses me off the most is movie theatres that are showing several 30 second commercials after the slide show and before the previews. It pisses me off because I paid almost $10 to see the movie but now I'm a captive audience practically forced to watch these commercials. If I'm going to have to see ads, why isn't the movie free?
I figure that having captive eyeballs to see your 30 second spot is easily worth $10 per person who sees it. So for each commercial I have to view before a movie, I consider myself entitled to watch one for free that I've downloaded from the net.
How can people NOT know. God, they click "yes" on enough spyware/malware/whatever email crap, but when windows update comes up to tell them there's a new patch for a bad virus, they're clicking no? Are people really this daft?
Maybe Microsoft should look at this as a marketing problem. They should make all of their critial patches downloadable via banner ads:
Click the monkey and get a $1000 worth of security patches!
[banner blinking very fast and moving around]
You're a winner! Click here to collect your prize!
You're broadcasting an IP address! Click here for the fix!
Then the people who won't install patches will get them anyway.
I then connected to the internet to download Zonelarm onto it and run windows update, and it was almost immediately infected with W32Blaster.
What made you think putting an unsecured machine on a network unprotected would be a good idea, even to get patches? As you saw, it'll get infected in minutes. Maybe you should put Zonealarm on a CD or a USB memory key and move it over that way.
Easy. You just need to configure your MTA to relay your outgoing mail through your ISPs SMTP server. In Sendmail this would look like the following in sendmail.mc
define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.myisp.com')dnl
of course it'll be different if you're using another MTA. MAPS DUL (dialup up list) is doing what it's supposed to do. It's listing dynamic address ranges such as cable modems, DSL lines, and dialup numbers. A lot of spam can come from these so people choose to use them to block email that isn't coming from the ISPs mail servers.
Well it's not that big of a deal if you're a Linux geek, but for a poor innocent person trying to switch away from Windows it could be enough to turn them off of Linux for a long time.
Point taken but it's doubtful that a "poor innocent person trying to switch away from Windows" is going to be repartitioning their hard drive and installing a second OS without some assitance from either a Linux geek or notes from the net.
Alright, how many people actually have the need for a mobile video device.
How many people actually have the need for a camera in their phone? Probably not a lot but that hasn't done anything to affect the popularity of it. A friend of mine has an older colour handspring loaded up with pictures of his kids along with some 10-15 second video clips of them that he took with his digital camera. He's also got photos of his electric car on there. He likes gadgets. Who knows? Maybe a lot of other people like gadgets, too.
How will I be able to send mail using my own business' domain, as I do today, when it is going out via an ISP server?
It's your domain. You control the SPF record. You can add a record to allow anything if you wish. You can also add include:myisp.com to include your ISPs SPF record if they have one.
Correct. It's not meant to. SPF's goal is to prevent domain name forgery. Blocking spam, if it does that, is a side effect. Authenticating the sender is the primary goal.
It just blocks spam where the From: is not right.
No, that's what MS "Caller-ID" does. SPF checks the MAIL FROM in the SMTP transaction. Think of it this way, SPF does its checks on the envelope and caller-id does its checks on the header.
The only potential real benefit, I suspect, would be to make phishing harder.
I'm a bit confused. SPF has nothing to do with anything other than SMTP. It certainly wouldn't affect HTTP, IRC, or any instant messenger protocol. It's just a DNS entry that says where mail from that domain is authorized to come from. The MX records say "this are the IPs that receive mail for this domain" and SPF records say "these are the IPs that send mail for this domain."
I realize that not everyone may want to do the SPF checks at this time due to issues with needing to solve forwarding. But I think that the publication of SPF records is a good thing. People who still want to do checks can do so. I've been doing SPF checks and putting the emails that fail checks into a folder to check. The emails are few and far between at the moment but they are all spam.
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- It costs the same or less to rent a movie than to see it in the theatre. All of your friends can come over and you can all watch it without having to pay more.
- You can start the movie when you want to instead of waiting for it to begin.
- You don't have to worry about getting a good seat and you and your friends can sit together (not always possible in a crowded theatre).
- No ringing cell phones and crying children.
- You don't have to be subjected to 30 second commercials before the previews and the movie.
I find myself going to the theatre less and less. The only benefit is a big screen and decent sound system and that doesn't hold much appeal compared to all of the down sides one has to deal with.The thing that pisses me off the most is movie theatres that are showing several 30 second commercials after the slide show and before the previews. It pisses me off because I paid almost $10 to see the movie but now I'm a captive audience practically forced to watch these commercials. If I'm going to have to see ads, why isn't the movie free?
I figure that having captive eyeballs to see your 30 second spot is easily worth $10 per person who sees it. So for each commercial I have to view before a movie, I consider myself entitled to watch one for free that I've downloaded from the net.
That'll put an end to the daily email of new articles from Slashdot.
No direct link since Bugzilla won't allow links from slashdot.
define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.myisp.com')dnl
of course it'll be different if you're using another MTA. MAPS DUL (dialup up list) is doing what it's supposed to do. It's listing dynamic address ranges such as cable modems, DSL lines, and dialup numbers. A lot of spam can come from these so people choose to use them to block email that isn't coming from the ISPs mail servers.
No, American's pay a media tax as well and have been ever since DAT came out.
Maybe you should update your crusade links. The Perl.com and Merriam-Webster links didn't work.
I realize that not everyone may want to do the SPF checks at this time due to issues with needing to solve forwarding. But I think that the publication of SPF records is a good thing. People who still want to do checks can do so. I've been doing SPF checks and putting the emails that fail checks into a folder to check. The emails are few and far between at the moment but they are all spam.
What protocols other than SMTP does it affect?
Sorry, I should have provided links.
There's a great article on this at K5.
Commodore Amiga, available for purchase in July 1985. There was also GEOS for the C64, but I don't know if it predated November 1985 or not.