How would a.mail TLD make it any harder to send spam? Just fake a.mail TLD or get a real one. Hell, I might have to register spam.mail (I call dibs on it, so none of you bastards go register it ahead of me, got it?) and start spamming just to make a point.:P
Now I have to get mycompany.mail to handle mail and mycompany.com for my other uses, and people will get confused because mycompany.mail and mycompany.com are not necessarily the same mycompany. Moreover, there'll be no way to tell if I am from mycompany.com when I give an address of me@mycompany.mail. Yes, you can MX mycompany.mail to handle for mycompany.com, but you could register hiscompany.mail and people might get confused and send mail to him@hiscompany.mail instead of him@hiscompany.com, totally messing with him.
This is why you're supposed to have a mail.yourcompany.com subdomain to handle mail for yourcompany.com - there's only ambiguity if mail.yourcompany.com gets hijacked or your DNS provider gets bribed into giving it to a friend for a can of Coke (that bastard).
I think the appropriate solution to spam is to hunt down everyone who buys the stuff and kill them off. When people stopped buying pet rocks, they went off the market. Kill the demand, because spammers are lowlife who will risk death to supply it if the demand is there.
And yet, you take away or severely hamper other, more important, rights than the freedom to swear and show nudity on television. Goes to show: here in the US, we won independence from England by outgunning them. Canada was given independence because England got sick of your foul mouths and bored with you as a whole. Fucking Canadians.;D
Fuck yeah! Fuck that fucking shit. Fuck all those fuckers who fucking censor a fucking quote, fucking even if the fucking quote is fucking dumb and the fucking quoted is a fucking idiot. Fuck you all, you fucking fucks. (15/39; I'm fucking slipping.)
I was looking for a comment like this before I submitted my own. People constantly use "albeit", and it pisses me off, albeit not in the way that constant use of the word "I" where "me" is correct in an attempt to sound educated does.
For example, you get spam or other traffic from some hijacked computer in Syria/Chad...these days that would be enough to establish possible terrorist links--especially if the payload was encrypted.
Although I agree with you on your other points, do you really expect people to send encrypted spam? The computational and logistical expenses of getting, storing, and using a million public keys would put them out of business.:)
This brings up an interesting point. The last Apollo mission was a two-day docking with a Soyuz capsule. The launch was July 15, 1975. Columbia's first launch was April 12, 1981. Mercury and Gemini quit flying in the 60's. We had essentially a 6-year gap in manned spaceflight while the shuttle was developed.
I thought it was a typo at first, but when you make the same mistake three out of three times in a short comment, and when said typo would be difficult to accomplish (I have a hard time even typing 'deptartment' - this is not a naturally-occurring typo), it's a safe bet that it's an ingrained spelling habit. Giving me two counterexamples doesn't make it acceptable. Care to utilize any other fallacies? Maybe argumentum ad baculum?
On an even further off-topic note, I sometimes wish I could take an extra point or two off from my Karma Bonus, so I could post under my own name without risk of further off-topic moderation points being wasted on me - or maybe that's the point.;-D
This is definitely not the correct spelling of this word. You are most likely thinking along the lines that, "dept." being the abbreviation, the word must begin with those letters. Do you live in an aptpartment or make a dental apptointment?
In a more general sense, I wonder if people are learning to read in an environment too inundated with abbreviations to learn actual words. The fluency level of most college-educated English speakers (in all countries) is bad enough without this kind of nonsense.
For whatever reason, I didn't have any reliability from "offline folders", and right now I can't get my work laptop (with Outlook XP) to stop bitching about whether I want to work online or not every time I start Outlook, even though I've disabled every checkbox in the program that mentions "offline" and there are no.ost files to be found. Outlook 2003 also does a smarter job of synchronizing, and "cached exchange mode" or whatever it's called uses the cached copy even when you're online, whereas "offline folders" in Windows and, from my experience, in Outlook would use the online version no matter how molasses-slow it was.
There is a single feature of Outlook 2003 that I fell in love with. I use Pine and SquirrelMail (in that order, depending if ssh is available to me) for my own e-mail, but at work we are on a Windows domain and have an Exchange server.
I am responsible for 3 sites throughout the metropolitan area, and have some users who have to do work from home. Before me, they would connect through the VPN and either use Windows Offline Files or Terminal Services to access their work. Their Outlook 2000 client (2002/XP is no better) would read every message from the server every time it even thought you might want to see that message. The whole thing was horribly slow.
I quickly replaced this situation with Unison to synchronize their My Documents folders, including a.pst so they'd have quicker access. The problem is that synchronizing a 100MB.pst with perhaps 3 new messages is both painstakingly slow and unreliable. I fought with this for months.
When we opened up our third site in the city, we got new computers that came with Office 2003. I asked myself, "Self, why did Microsoft bring us a new version of Office just a year after the last version was new, with no new features other than the bubblegum interface?" In setting up their e-mail access, however, I stumbled across Outlook 2003's ability to synchronize per-message, and the question then was "Self, why did Microsoft screw me for so many months with previous versions of Outlook, when this is so easy?"
I don't have a lot of pro-Microsoft testimonials to give, and Outlook 2003 has a few really obnoxious features, too, but for its ability to synchronize with an Exchange server, I say "Thank you, Microsoft."
I do this for some bit of time every year, too. I call it "deer season". When was the last time you spent even a weekend without running water? I do this at least one weekend a year (usually more, depending how the hunting goes).
Actually, it's not subject to the definition of 'slander', regardless of what you said. Well, unless you dictated it, of course, but who'd be so stupid as to dictate a comment on Slashdot? If I had a secretary with that little to do, I'm sure something pressing would pop up.
In a related, but similarly off-topic, story, last winter I carried some groceries in from my truck, leaving it running but taking the keyfob with me. What I didn't realize was that the keyless entry is disabled if the vehicle is running. So now I had an illegally-parked running vehicle at about 10:30 PM in Grand Forks, ND, in the winter. And you thought St. Louis was cold.:P
My favorite is the shooting squad, although hanging is a close second. With the shooting squad, it's perfectly possible that it'll take a second shot to finish you off, and it's gotta just be hell waiting for the bullet to come. Take that, bitch.
On a side note, have you seen Dancer in the Dark? Man, that movie sucked. Worst I've ever seen. But I did like the ending: I agree that really obnoxious bad singers should be hanged.
I'd always heard that speed limits were originally intended to improve overall fuel efficiency. Of course, now they're still there to generate BS citations and supposedly improve safety, but you have to consider the full history of a law before you can go making analogies with it.
If I'm the only guy on the road, and I am driving a vehicle that I am personally able to safely pilot through any possible obstructions on the road at X speed, why should I drive 0.5*X?
That said, if the terms of service suck and you signed them, then the "own damn fault" rule takes effect, and as long as their sanctions against you fall within what the TOS allow, they are in the right.
Not to mention that this isn't even a cool hack. Sure, they found a serial port that they weren't supposed to know about. But can it run NetBSD?;-D
Are there any routers that will do this? How hard would it be to get a Debian or FreeBSD box to serve this very purpose? Also, how hard is it really to get connected to the wide world of IPv6? I've been wanting to for a while but the potential benefits don't seem that great until IPv6 is ubiquitous.
I can land just fine...I just have terrible timing when it comes to re-entry. I usually end up hovering somewhere over Mexico. Maybe I should dig it back out and see if the new version will even run on my laptop.
Bochs is an open source implementation of the x86 instruction set(s) and a virtual PC (al la VMWare) which is capable of booting FreeDOS and Linux under the host control of another OS.
You're just placing the parentheses wrong. Grammatically, this says that Bochs is two things:
open source implementation of the x86 instruction set(s)
Slashdot Mirror
How would a .mail TLD make it any harder to send spam? Just fake a .mail TLD or get a real one. Hell, I might have to register spam.mail (I call dibs on it, so none of you bastards go register it ahead of me, got it?) and start spamming just to make a point. :P
Now I have to get mycompany.mail to handle mail and mycompany.com for my other uses, and people will get confused because mycompany.mail and mycompany.com are not necessarily the same mycompany. Moreover, there'll be no way to tell if I am from mycompany.com when I give an address of me@mycompany.mail. Yes, you can MX mycompany.mail to handle for mycompany.com, but you could register hiscompany.mail and people might get confused and send mail to him@hiscompany.mail instead of him@hiscompany.com, totally messing with him.
This is why you're supposed to have a mail.yourcompany.com subdomain to handle mail for yourcompany.com - there's only ambiguity if mail.yourcompany.com gets hijacked or your DNS provider gets bribed into giving it to a friend for a can of Coke (that bastard).
I think the appropriate solution to spam is to hunt down everyone who buys the stuff and kill them off. When people stopped buying pet rocks, they went off the market. Kill the demand, because spammers are lowlife who will risk death to supply it if the demand is there.
And yet, you take away or severely hamper other, more important, rights than the freedom to swear and show nudity on television. Goes to show: here in the US, we won independence from England by outgunning them. Canada was given independence because England got sick of your foul mouths and bored with you as a whole. Fucking Canadians. ;D
Fuck yeah! Fuck that fucking shit. Fuck all those fuckers who fucking censor a fucking quote, fucking even if the fucking quote is fucking dumb and the fucking quoted is a fucking idiot. Fuck you all, you fucking fucks. (15/39; I'm fucking slipping.)
I was looking for a comment like this before I submitted my own. People constantly use "albeit", and it pisses me off, albeit not in the way that constant use of the word "I" where "me" is correct in an attempt to sound educated does.
$100 is chump change when you're pulling in $150k working an hour a day from home.
For example, you get spam or other traffic from some hijacked computer in Syria/Chad...these days that would be enough to establish possible terrorist links--especially if the payload was encrypted.
:)
Although I agree with you on your other points, do you really expect people to send encrypted spam? The computational and logistical expenses of getting, storing, and using a million public keys would put them out of business.
This brings up an interesting point. The last Apollo mission was a two-day docking with a Soyuz capsule. The launch was July 15, 1975. Columbia's first launch was April 12, 1981. Mercury and Gemini quit flying in the 60's. We had essentially a 6-year gap in manned spaceflight while the shuttle was developed.
I thought it was a typo at first, but when you make the same mistake three out of three times in a short comment, and when said typo would be difficult to accomplish (I have a hard time even typing 'deptartment' - this is not a naturally-occurring typo), it's a safe bet that it's an ingrained spelling habit. Giving me two counterexamples doesn't make it acceptable. Care to utilize any other fallacies? Maybe argumentum ad baculum?
;-D
On an even further off-topic note, I sometimes wish I could take an extra point or two off from my Karma Bonus, so I could post under my own name without risk of further off-topic moderation points being wasted on me - or maybe that's the point.
deptartment
This is definitely not the correct spelling of this word. You are most likely thinking along the lines that, "dept." being the abbreviation, the word must begin with those letters. Do you live in an aptpartment or make a dental apptointment?
In a more general sense, I wonder if people are learning to read in an environment too inundated with abbreviations to learn actual words. The fluency level of most college-educated English speakers (in all countries) is bad enough without this kind of nonsense.
For whatever reason, I didn't have any reliability from "offline folders", and right now I can't get my work laptop (with Outlook XP) to stop bitching about whether I want to work online or not every time I start Outlook, even though I've disabled every checkbox in the program that mentions "offline" and there are no .ost files to be found. Outlook 2003 also does a smarter job of synchronizing, and "cached exchange mode" or whatever it's called uses the cached copy even when you're online, whereas "offline folders" in Windows and, from my experience, in Outlook would use the online version no matter how molasses-slow it was.
There is a single feature of Outlook 2003 that I fell in love with. I use Pine and SquirrelMail (in that order, depending if ssh is available to me) for my own e-mail, but at work we are on a Windows domain and have an Exchange server.
.pst so they'd have quicker access. The problem is that synchronizing a 100MB .pst with perhaps 3 new messages is both painstakingly slow and unreliable. I fought with this for months.
I am responsible for 3 sites throughout the metropolitan area, and have some users who have to do work from home. Before me, they would connect through the VPN and either use Windows Offline Files or Terminal Services to access their work. Their Outlook 2000 client (2002/XP is no better) would read every message from the server every time it even thought you might want to see that message. The whole thing was horribly slow.
I quickly replaced this situation with Unison to synchronize their My Documents folders, including a
When we opened up our third site in the city, we got new computers that came with Office 2003. I asked myself, "Self, why did Microsoft bring us a new version of Office just a year after the last version was new, with no new features other than the bubblegum interface?" In setting up their e-mail access, however, I stumbled across Outlook 2003's ability to synchronize per-message, and the question then was "Self, why did Microsoft screw me for so many months with previous versions of Outlook, when this is so easy?"
I don't have a lot of pro-Microsoft testimonials to give, and Outlook 2003 has a few really obnoxious features, too, but for its ability to synchronize with an Exchange server, I say "Thank you, Microsoft."
I do this for some bit of time every year, too. I call it "deer season". When was the last time you spent even a weekend without running water? I do this at least one weekend a year (usually more, depending how the hunting goes).
A day you don't learn something new is a day wasted, I always say.
Actually, it's not subject to the definition of 'slander', regardless of what you said. Well, unless you dictated it, of course, but who'd be so stupid as to dictate a comment on Slashdot? If I had a secretary with that little to do, I'm sure something pressing would pop up.
In a related, but similarly off-topic, story, last winter I carried some groceries in from my truck, leaving it running but taking the keyfob with me. What I didn't realize was that the keyless entry is disabled if the vehicle is running. So now I had an illegally-parked running vehicle at about 10:30 PM in Grand Forks, ND, in the winter. And you thought St. Louis was cold. :P
My favorite is the shooting squad, although hanging is a close second. With the shooting squad, it's perfectly possible that it'll take a second shot to finish you off, and it's gotta just be hell waiting for the bullet to come. Take that, bitch.
On a side note, have you seen Dancer in the Dark? Man, that movie sucked. Worst I've ever seen. But I did like the ending: I agree that really obnoxious bad singers should be hanged.
s/humor\/mannerisms\/beauty\/etc\./not rejecting me/
Somewhere I have a baseball cap from Killdeer Erectors in Killdeer, ND, replete with their slogan: "Killdeer Erectors - The Best Erection in Town"
Ah, that's what I get for being general. I meant on highways. :P
I'd always heard that speed limits were originally intended to improve overall fuel efficiency. Of course, now they're still there to generate BS citations and supposedly improve safety, but you have to consider the full history of a law before you can go making analogies with it.
;-D
If I'm the only guy on the road, and I am driving a vehicle that I am personally able to safely pilot through any possible obstructions on the road at X speed, why should I drive 0.5*X?
That said, if the terms of service suck and you signed them, then the "own damn fault" rule takes effect, and as long as their sanctions against you fall within what the TOS allow, they are in the right.
Not to mention that this isn't even a cool hack. Sure, they found a serial port that they weren't supposed to know about. But can it run NetBSD?
Are there any routers that will do this? How hard would it be to get a Debian or FreeBSD box to serve this very purpose? Also, how hard is it really to get connected to the wide world of IPv6? I've been wanting to for a while but the potential benefits don't seem that great until IPv6 is ubiquitous.
I can land just fine...I just have terrible timing when it comes to re-entry. I usually end up hovering somewhere over Mexico. Maybe I should dig it back out and see if the new version will even run on my laptop.
Bochs is an open source implementation of the x86 instruction set(s) and a virtual PC (al la VMWare) which is capable of booting FreeDOS and Linux under the host control of another OS.
You're just placing the parentheses wrong. Grammatically, this says that Bochs is two things:
- open source implementation of the x86 instruction set(s)
- virtual PC (al [sic] la VMWare)
This is quite true.So our date system is PDP endian. Deal with it.