I am a bit offended by your lack of reading comprehension. Must be a public school education. So I don't lay the blame on you.
My post mentioned "worker productivity on 9/11" not losses from other sectors past that date. The Star Wars article did not discuss damage to industries but worker productivity alone.
Next time you feel the need to flame out on me, please have the courtesy to read my post and digest the meaning. Nothing worse than skimming assumptions.
I know, I know. I read Douglas Adams too. The whole B Ark thingy.
But those sick days add up.
Not really. Businesses already factor in a certain number of sick days (and vacation days) a year that each employee will take in their business plans. If they skip work to watch Star Wars, they are only taking advantage of an opportunity that the business has already costed. There is no loss in productivity since there is an expectation of absence -- the flu or Star Wars the cost is the same.
I was talking about lost productivity on 9/11/01 itself from the combined US workforce. I should have been more specific. You are correct on the long term costs. Those are difficult to calculate.
Star Wars-related absenteeism could cost the US economy more than $300m in wages when Episode II is released on May 16, according to employment experts.
Osama Bin Laden could only wish. There are lies, damn lies, and marketing generated statistics. If there was such a thing as an "employment expert", I think they would have, by now, figured out the whole unemployment problem and solved it. Three hundred million bucks in lost productivity? The 9/11 atrocity is estimated at 1.2 billion dollars in economic damage to US worker productivity, not counting lost jobs, from what I have read. To say that Star Wars is going to do 1/4 of the economic damage as September 11th might send Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge'scolor coded domestic terrorism scale to RED causing him to ban all showings before 6pm local time.
Write this one off to cheap and easy journalism recycling a press release. If this is true, however, I expect to see George Lucas at Gitmo in the next month.
Thanks for the info. I will research this option and see if I can integrate it into my system.
Just curious. What is your e-mail plant to first SPAM timeframe? I average about 1 1/2 weeks before I receive SPAM on a seeded address.
An interesting side to planting e-mail addresses is the random Outlook based viruses that arrive in the mailbox. A part of my script is to segregate "SPAMs" w/ Windows executable attachments from those without once I discovered this side effect. I manually process SPAM with executables. Since I run Mac OS X, I don't fear dealing with these buggers.:) Have you seen the same thing with your SPAM plants?
He was nearly assassinated by a pretzle.
Enough said.
Better that than the assassination attempt that President Carter fended off from a bunny rabbit swimming in a river. We all know about those KGB trained attack rabbits of the mid-seventies.
Also, at least President Bush can spell pretzel. Can't say that about his critics. Enough said.
Wow! Its starting to look like President Bush is really hornswoggling the Democrats and his critics. Every time they say he is stupid for a policy, a couple of months later we find out the President is right. During President Bush's speech on cloning months ago, he specifically mentioned stem cells developed from adult cells were right around the corner. This way, we would not be harvesting fetuses so old, rich folks can live longer (kind of a sick idea if you think about it). Every "intellectual" on the planet was calling him a backward religious nut for his stance on fetal stem cells. Now he looks like a forward thinking individual with more evidence that hoovering fetuses for their stem cells is not necessary.
As a Texan, I am sure he understands how to play Possum and he seems to be playing it very well with the Democrats. Guess the cloning issue is moot now with more evidence that adult stem cells do the same as aborted fetus cells. It might be a good idea for his political opposition to drop the "Bush is a Stupid Idiot" line of attack because if he is an idiot and he beats them at every punch, what can you say about them?
Oh wait, this isn't a political site. Never mind!:)
On average, I block 72 deliveries per day, and five or six spam messages get through; each of those five or six gets manually bounced to my local reporting address.
That sounds very close to my success. As much as I try and no matter how I try, 5 to 6 slip through every day to my normal e-mail address. Those are usually one-off SPAMs generally selling SPAMMER CDs.:)
My slashdot@ address gets the stuffing spammed out of it -- it's a spamtrap address, also, feeding right into my local reporting system. Of all of my spamtrap addresses, it's the most effective.
Damn good idea. Time to post a fake e-mail address to Slashdot. Thanks!
But of all of my in-house methods, the most effective, hands-down, is the blocking of all of Asia.
Yep, same here. I hate doing it though but it is super effective.
Sorry. You are going to have to buy a Mac and Microsoft Office v.X. That part runs under AppleScript. Entourage downloads the e-mail for the SPAM catching account which triggers a rule that activates the AppleScript which relays a copy of the SPAM to SpamCop before sending it over to my perl scripts for scanning the SPAM for my postfix servers.
No kidding. All I have to do is post and I get a +5 Interesting or +5 Insightful. If I am Interesting and Insightful, then I really fear the the demographic that Slashdot caters too. If I was as Insightful, Informative and Intersting as the moderators say, I would be getting laid left and right in the real world. So far, I am only gettting laid right...
Have you considered making this script publicly available? If you're generating so many new records, just imagine the good it could do if it spread.
My system is very tuned to the systems I have available to me. Disclosing my rag-tag collection of Perl scripts, AppleScripts, postfix configurations and e-mail programs that I have cobbled together would compromise my security and most likely would never work on anyone else's setup.
However, take the concept and run with it. If I can do it, most sysadmins could figure it out -- I am a hack programmer. I find that Postfix is a great alternative to Sendmail and makes SPAM killing a snap.
I also cheat by blocking China, Korea and Taiwan off from my mail server. My company is USA focused and never does business with non-English speaking countries. No offense folks in Asia, I lived and worked there for 3 years and enjoyed my time. Its just an easy way to whack 1/2 the SPAM sent to my servers.
How certain are you that they are unique spammers, and not just the same spammers with new tricks?
With my system, I am expecting to receive SPAM not stop it at the source. So I do not care if the SPAMMER is unique or not. What matters to me is the SPAM itself. With that, I can check out my users mailbox to see if it has gotten to them yet and update my mail server to block the SPAM based of its characteristics. I send the info over to SpamCop in hopes that it helps out others. Don't cost me nuttin' to do it.
Instead of an active SPAMBOT defense as mentioned in this post, I use a passive system. I might have mentioned this in the orginal story but I think it bears repeating.
What I do is include on every web page I produce an invisible 1x1 gif with a mailto: to a special e-mail address. My goal is not to prevent SPAMBOTS or even try to confuse them. I want them to scarf up the special e-mail address. When SPAM is sent to this address, I have scripts on my Mac OS X system that downloads the e-mail and scans it for headers, subject and body message. Once it collects this information, it sends a copy to SpamCop and then it sends the info to my postfix e-mail server to scan other accounts for the same message and then updates my postfix configuration to block further e-mails. I give my "special e-mail address" a name that will alphabetically sort before any other e-mail addresses in my domain. I have noticed SPAMMERS tend to send SPAMs out in alphabetical order to my domain so this works fairly well. I have never had a false positive with this method.
The great thing about this system is that 90% of the time I report SPAM to SpamCop, it says its a fresh SPAM. So not only am I helping to prevent SPAM to my users, I am hopefully helping others that are using SpamCop's RBL.
I missed that quote when I skimmed the article the first time. It looks like the Dallas News is going to be f-ed if they procede in this fashion. You have to be consistant when defending intellectual property.
It seems that major search engines are the biggest "violators" of deep linking. Majority of the time when I do a search, I am not given the home page of the site that has the information I want, I am given a "deep link" to the exact page I need. Maybe the Dallas News is playing favorites over who can link to their "deep pages".
And what is a "Deep Link"? Aren't all the documents on a web server stored on a hard drive? Last time I checked, the surface of a hard drive has no depth that would differentiate the height from the bottom of one document from another. So I am lost of the Dallas News argument. As far as I am concerned about my web site, all pages on it are home pages. I don't care if you link to "index.html" or "/news/04-02-02/index.html". Just link. The Internet is about information and making a clear route to it.
Hope you enjoyed your $300 "advance", you'll be paying through the nose for a long time to come.
Shows us how little you understand the tax cut package that was passed by Congress. Not only were taxpayers given a $300 tax rebate, the actual tax rates were lowered as well. But then again, with such a big chip on your shoulder, it sounds like you don't make enough to pay enough taxes to notice. But for those of us in the top tax bracket who pay more than 50% of all income taxes collected by the US Government (even though we are 1% of the population), this was very noticeable. I will not *pay* for it in the future as there is nothing to pay. Government does not create economic growth, citizens and businesses do. That is why tax cuts work. It allows these two groups to *keep* their money and utilize it for *their* wishes instead of giving it to Uncle Sam so he can blow it on welfare crack whores and other whiney liberal programs. Taxpayers and businesses tend to spend on taxable goods and services, welfare crack whores and whiney liberal spending programs don't. Military, mail and roads are good enough for me when it comes to Government services. I am smart enough to supply the rest for myself.
Plus I can't wait to take my future tax cuts to buy the most gas guzzling SUV I can find built by American workers. I am hoping that someone will produce the Canyonero from the Simpsons. Maybe even buy a new rifle so I can kill God's little creatures in a more efficient manner.
...now move along. The Transformers were crap. They had stupid story lines and were poorly animated. Give me Chuck Jones and his politically incorrect cartoons of the 40s, 50s and 60s.
Is anyone else tired of nostalgia like me? I have become so frustrated at the entertainment industry that can only recycle crappy shows and cartoons. Next thing we will see are the "Baby Transformers" or the "Tranformer Kids". Don't even start me on Joise and the Pussycats or Jabber Jaws.
Sorry, I have been real bitter about modern cartoons since Scrappy Doo fscked Scooby Doo. Those meddling marketing executives!
This is exactly why you should have your own unemployment insurance, 4 months of cash in the bank. Stop relying on the boss man or the Government to cover your behind. Be responsible and be an individual. We already have enough piggies in our culture sucking off the teat of government.
There is no reason for you to put up with this sort of behavior from management. QUIT! Taking the pay cut and grumbling under your breath will get you nothing in life and will tell management you can be easily rode for future abuse.
Don't go nuts and scream your lungs at the management. Just say, "I no longer feel confident in the management capabilities of this company so I am departing." But instead of giving them the standard "2 weeks notice", just give them 1 week. When they balk and complain, just say that you decided that instituting a 50% cut in notice seemed reasonable under the current economic conditions.
With GDP growing at 5.8% in the first quarter of the year, the economy is roaring for a comeback (thank you tax cuts! lets have some more). Get that resume out and start networking. Life's too short to work for inept individuals. If you have been a smart worker, you have left at least 4 months salary in the bank as cash so the bills shouldn't scare you.
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My post mentioned "worker productivity on 9/11" not losses from other sectors past that date. The Star Wars article did not discuss damage to industries but worker productivity alone. Next time you feel the need to flame out on me, please have the courtesy to read my post and digest the meaning. Nothing worse than skimming assumptions.
R U serious???
Believe it or not, such people exist!
I know, I know. I read Douglas Adams too. The whole B Ark thingy.
But those sick days add up.
Not really. Businesses already factor in a certain number of sick days (and vacation days) a year that each employee will take in their business plans. If they skip work to watch Star Wars, they are only taking advantage of an opportunity that the business has already costed. There is no loss in productivity since there is an expectation of absence -- the flu or Star Wars the cost is the same.
I was talking about lost productivity on 9/11/01 itself from the combined US workforce. I should have been more specific. You are correct on the long term costs. Those are difficult to calculate.
Osama Bin Laden could only wish. There are lies, damn lies, and marketing generated statistics. If there was such a thing as an "employment expert", I think they would have, by now, figured out the whole unemployment problem and solved it. Three hundred million bucks in lost productivity? The 9/11 atrocity is estimated at 1.2 billion dollars in economic damage to US worker productivity, not counting lost jobs, from what I have read. To say that Star Wars is going to do 1/4 of the economic damage as September 11th might send Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge's color coded domestic terrorism scale to RED causing him to ban all showings before 6pm local time.
Write this one off to cheap and easy journalism recycling a press release. If this is true, however, I expect to see George Lucas at Gitmo in the next month.
Just curious. What is your e-mail plant to first SPAM timeframe? I average about 1 1/2 weeks before I receive SPAM on a seeded address.
An interesting side to planting e-mail addresses is the random Outlook based viruses that arrive in the mailbox. A part of my script is to segregate "SPAMs" w/ Windows executable attachments from those without once I discovered this side effect. I manually process SPAM with executables. Since I run Mac OS X, I don't fear dealing with these buggers. :) Have you seen the same thing with your SPAM plants?
Better that than the assassination attempt that President Carter fended off from a bunny rabbit swimming in a river. We all know about those KGB trained attack rabbits of the mid-seventies.
Also, at least President Bush can spell pretzel . Can't say that about his critics. Enough said.
As a Texan, I am sure he understands how to play Possum and he seems to be playing it very well with the Democrats. Guess the cloning issue is moot now with more evidence that adult stem cells do the same as aborted fetus cells. It might be a good idea for his political opposition to drop the "Bush is a Stupid Idiot" line of attack because if he is an idiot and he beats them at every punch, what can you say about them?
Oh wait, this isn't a political site. Never mind! :)
That sounds very close to my success. As much as I try and no matter how I try, 5 to 6 slip through every day to my normal e-mail address. Those are usually one-off SPAMs generally selling SPAMMER CDs. :)
My slashdot@ address gets the stuffing spammed out of it -- it's a spamtrap address, also, feeding right into my local reporting system. Of all of my spamtrap addresses, it's the most effective.
Damn good idea. Time to post a fake e-mail address to Slashdot. Thanks!
But of all of my in-house methods, the most effective, hands-down, is the blocking of all of Asia.
Yep, same here. I hate doing it though but it is super effective.
Sorry. You are going to have to buy a Mac and Microsoft Office v.X. That part runs under AppleScript. Entourage downloads the e-mail for the SPAM catching account which triggers a rule that activates the AppleScript which relays a copy of the SPAM to SpamCop before sending it over to my perl scripts for scanning the SPAM for my postfix servers.
No kidding. All I have to do is post and I get a +5 Interesting or +5 Insightful. If I am Interesting and Insightful, then I really fear the the demographic that Slashdot caters too. If I was as Insightful, Informative and Intersting as the moderators say, I would be getting laid left and right in the real world. So far, I am only gettting laid right...
When you are as good looking as me, it only looks like I am posing to you fugly anons.
<A HREF="mailto:special.email@mydomain.com"> <IMG SRC="invisible.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="Don't Send E-Mail To This Address"> </A>
Just giving examples. Lets not get anal about things! :)
My system is very tuned to the systems I have available to me. Disclosing my rag-tag collection of Perl scripts, AppleScripts, postfix configurations and e-mail programs that I have cobbled together would compromise my security and most likely would never work on anyone else's setup.
However, take the concept and run with it. If I can do it, most sysadmins could figure it out -- I am a hack programmer. I find that Postfix is a great alternative to Sendmail and makes SPAM killing a snap.
I also cheat by blocking China, Korea and Taiwan off from my mail server. My company is USA focused and never does business with non-English speaking countries. No offense folks in Asia, I lived and worked there for 3 years and enjoyed my time. Its just an easy way to whack 1/2 the SPAM sent to my servers.
Please try! It only makes my system better. The more is sent, the better it gets at preventing it. Feed the "special e-mail address" with more SPAM!!!
With my system, I am expecting to receive SPAM not stop it at the source. So I do not care if the SPAMMER is unique or not. What matters to me is the SPAM itself. With that, I can check out my users mailbox to see if it has gotten to them yet and update my mail server to block the SPAM based of its characteristics. I send the info over to SpamCop in hopes that it helps out others. Don't cost me nuttin' to do it.
What I do is include on every web page I produce an invisible 1x1 gif with a mailto: to a special e-mail address. My goal is not to prevent SPAMBOTS or even try to confuse them. I want them to scarf up the special e-mail address. When SPAM is sent to this address, I have scripts on my Mac OS X system that downloads the e-mail and scans it for headers, subject and body message. Once it collects this information, it sends a copy to SpamCop and then it sends the info to my postfix e-mail server to scan other accounts for the same message and then updates my postfix configuration to block further e-mails. I give my "special e-mail address" a name that will alphabetically sort before any other e-mail addresses in my domain. I have noticed SPAMMERS tend to send SPAMs out in alphabetical order to my domain so this works fairly well. I have never had a false positive with this method.
The great thing about this system is that 90% of the time I report SPAM to SpamCop, it says its a fresh SPAM. So not only am I helping to prevent SPAM to my users, I am hopefully helping others that are using SpamCop's RBL.
I missed that quote when I skimmed the article the first time. It looks like the Dallas News is going to be f-ed if they procede in this fashion. You have to be consistant when defending intellectual property.
Brilliant idea. I remember a bunch of bloggers attempting to do the same thing to manipulate search engines for their purposes.
And what is a "Deep Link"? Aren't all the documents on a web server stored on a hard drive? Last time I checked, the surface of a hard drive has no depth that would differentiate the height from the bottom of one document from another. So I am lost of the Dallas News argument. As far as I am concerned about my web site, all pages on it are home pages. I don't care if you link to "index.html" or "/news/04-02-02/index.html". Just link. The Internet is about information and making a clear route to it.
Shows us how little you understand the tax cut package that was passed by Congress. Not only were taxpayers given a $300 tax rebate, the actual tax rates were lowered as well. But then again, with such a big chip on your shoulder, it sounds like you don't make enough to pay enough taxes to notice. But for those of us in the top tax bracket who pay more than 50% of all income taxes collected by the US Government (even though we are 1% of the population), this was very noticeable. I will not *pay* for it in the future as there is nothing to pay. Government does not create economic growth, citizens and businesses do. That is why tax cuts work. It allows these two groups to *keep* their money and utilize it for *their* wishes instead of giving it to Uncle Sam so he can blow it on welfare crack whores and other whiney liberal programs. Taxpayers and businesses tend to spend on taxable goods and services, welfare crack whores and whiney liberal spending programs don't. Military, mail and roads are good enough for me when it comes to Government services. I am smart enough to supply the rest for myself.
Plus I can't wait to take my future tax cuts to buy the most gas guzzling SUV I can find built by American workers. I am hoping that someone will produce the Canyonero from the Simpsons. Maybe even buy a new rifle so I can kill God's little creatures in a more efficient manner.
Is anyone else tired of nostalgia like me? I have become so frustrated at the entertainment industry that can only recycle crappy shows and cartoons. Next thing we will see are the "Baby Transformers" or the "Tranformer Kids". Don't even start me on Joise and the Pussycats or Jabber Jaws.
Sorry, I have been real bitter about modern cartoons since Scrappy Doo fscked Scooby Doo. Those meddling marketing executives!
This is exactly why you should have your own unemployment insurance, 4 months of cash in the bank. Stop relying on the boss man or the Government to cover your behind. Be responsible and be an individual. We already have enough piggies in our culture sucking off the teat of government.
Don't go nuts and scream your lungs at the management. Just say, "I no longer feel confident in the management capabilities of this company so I am departing." But instead of giving them the standard "2 weeks notice", just give them 1 week. When they balk and complain, just say that you decided that instituting a 50% cut in notice seemed reasonable under the current economic conditions.
With GDP growing at 5.8% in the first quarter of the year, the economy is roaring for a comeback (thank you tax cuts! lets have some more). Get that resume out and start networking. Life's too short to work for inept individuals. If you have been a smart worker, you have left at least 4 months salary in the bank as cash so the bills shouldn't scare you.
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