Congratulations, you just gamed the system and made the carrier pay for replacement of your subsidized cellphone.
You'll forgive me if I don't lose any sleep over gaming a mobile phone company whose entire business model is based on locking in their customers to two year contracts, renewing contracts as a condition of selling a replacement phone, requiring social security numbers and credit checks, etc, etc...
I may have to do business with a mobile phone carrier but that won't stop my considering them an enemy. If they work against my interests, why should I be concerned about theirs?
I used it recently when looking for a new apartment. The maps told me about the surrounding area, and street view showed me what the building and neighborhood looked like. It gave me an idea of what to expect before taking the time to drive over and look for myself.
It's also handy for finding your way somewhere unfamiliar, because you can see what the outside of a building, store, or restaurant looks like in advance so you know what to look for when you get there.
If everyone implemented SPF and SRS now, e-mail address forgery would almost die out.
Fixed that for you. SPF is not a spam prevention measure, but rather a forgery prevention measure. It will do nothing when spammers register their own throw-away domains.
I'm already seeing mail purporting to be from sdw4e5e46thwetf.com (for example) with valid SPF records.
I'd say you should accept the mail at the MTA level, and then process it according to your server's spam policies for messages that could be legitimate. Assuming you don't reject everything that looks like spam, you probably have some sort of scoring system (be it SpamAssassin or whatever). Score the message and deliver it to its recipients. If your spam threshold is lower than your brother's, your copy can be deleted, while his can be delivered, either into his mailbox or a spam folder, as appropriate based on the score.
It's my understanding that this is Qmail's default behavior. If this is correct, than it's not that it was not set up correctly, but that the default configuration is broken. Thus, the responsibility lies with the Qmail developers.
I'm not the poster you're responding to but googling "12 year old girl school taser" got me an article about that incident, plus a broken link about the (six year old!) kid with broken glass mentioned above. Coincidentally, both incidents involved Miami police and were only a week apart.
California, where I am, sounds the same as AZ: You can buy spirits at supermarkets, just like beer and wine, but no sales are allowed between 2:00am and 6:00am (I actually know a bar in San Francisco that's open every single hour that you legally buy alcohol).
I'd like to know those three liquor stores you mention, either via comment here or e-mail. I get up to PDX a fair bit and have some friends there who aren't aware of any. Thanks.
OptinRealBig belongs to none other than Snotty Scotty Richter. I haven't heard of that guy in a while. I was hoping he had been hit by a bus or something.
There's no real prohibition against writing code in prison (though sending it out to the public might be problematic, as correspondence cannot be in 'code'...)
Interestingly, back around 2001 or so had a friend who spent a few months in a California state prison who once sent me a handwritten letter marked up in XML and once in binary (literally, all ones and zeros; no, I didn't bother translating it). While XML is human-readable (more or less), I was amazed that they let the binary one go out.
I won't get into the argument of whether the ALF should actually be considered a "terrorist" organization, especially with the baggage that word carries these days, but I find it interesting that many, many ALF supporters and activists do not support PETA.
On the contrary: if you were more selective about the meat you eat, you would as a result eat less of it, making up the difference with plants, which is far more sustainable than a meat-heavy diet.
Well, we know dolphins are much more intelligent than people, not having invented the wheel, New York, and wars, and instead preferring to just muck about in the water having a good time.
I can't speak for nicotine addiction treatments, but most health insurance I've seen does, in fact, cover birth control. Hell, my insurance paid for my vasectomy, after a $15 copay.
Well, the smallest MacBook is 13 inches, not 12, but it's the weight that matters. Five pounds can be a lot when you're also carrying book or a camera or whatever. Shaving two pounds off of that will definitely make a noticeable difference. This new one is nice and thin too, which means it'll fit your bag easier. Although to be honest, I would have preferred seeing this new one in 12 inches rather than 13, just for the extra savings in size.
You're quoting the high-end price for effect but the low-end is a perfectly capable machine and I'm having a little trouble imagining who would buy the $3k version. Like I said, I personally think $1800 is a lot, but I'm not carrying my laptop plus books around every day. If I were, I would certainly consider one of these. Remember, not all students, even undergrad, are 19 year olds straight out of high school.
Answer: Travelers. Or anyone who moves around a lot, whether they're traveling or working mobile around the city. Lightweight + small form factor = something you can fit into a backpack or any other bag you use, while not weighing you down. Now that I think about it, students fit this profile pretty well too.
I see this as being a complement to your regular computer, something to take with you when you need mobility. Shame about the price though, at $1800 I think I'd rather just lug my Powerbook. I don't travel nearly enough to justify the cost.
She's a usability researcher, actually, she just doesn't blog about work (you know, work to live and all that).
There's nothing remotely urban about Google's location in Mountain View, or anywhere else down on the peninsula, so you're not going to get things like bikeable neighborhoods or public transit there any more than you'd get them in any suburb. But don't sell Google's perks short -- the shuttle and cafes alone save us a ton of money in transportation and grocery costs. One meal at home per day is much cheaper than three, and riding a free, comfortable private bus is preferable to paying for the train or, god forbid, driving the 101. This stuff helps keep her there but it would be nothing if she also didn't really love her work, and that's the real reason for staying there. For now, anyway.
Indeed (and nice investigation skills, I might add). Unfortunately, that's a tall order. Not many companies in PDX can compete with Google, I'm afraid, so that good job up there may be a long way off.
But anyway, I'm not real concerned. I've got a number of friends there already, many of whom have moved there from other cities (including San Francisco), and am pretty sure I know what to expect.
I dunno, that sounds like a pretty good description of San Francisco as well. At least Portland is cleaner. And smells better. And more affordable. And populated by friendlier people.
-- A resident of SF hoping to make the move to PDX someday.
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You'll forgive me if I don't lose any sleep over gaming a mobile phone company whose entire business model is based on locking in their customers to two year contracts, renewing contracts as a condition of selling a replacement phone, requiring social security numbers and credit checks, etc, etc...
I may have to do business with a mobile phone carrier but that won't stop my considering them an enemy. If they work against my interests, why should I be concerned about theirs?
Anyway, how is the "risk" of using HTTP/SSL any different than using IMAP/SSL?
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Sorry, I can't take anything you say seriously with this kind of misogynistic bullshit in your signature. Grow up.
I used it recently when looking for a new apartment. The maps told me about the surrounding area, and street view showed me what the building and neighborhood looked like. It gave me an idea of what to expect before taking the time to drive over and look for myself.
It's also handy for finding your way somewhere unfamiliar, because you can see what the outside of a building, store, or restaurant looks like in advance so you know what to look for when you get there.
Fixed that for you. SPF is not a spam prevention measure, but rather a forgery prevention measure. It will do nothing when spammers register their own throw-away domains.
I'm already seeing mail purporting to be from sdw4e5e46thwetf.com (for example) with valid SPF records.
I'd say you should accept the mail at the MTA level, and then process it according to your server's spam policies for messages that could be legitimate. Assuming you don't reject everything that looks like spam, you probably have some sort of scoring system (be it SpamAssassin or whatever). Score the message and deliver it to its recipients. If your spam threshold is lower than your brother's, your copy can be deleted, while his can be delivered, either into his mailbox or a spam folder, as appropriate based on the score.
It's my understanding that this is Qmail's default behavior. If this is correct, than it's not that it was not set up correctly, but that the default configuration is broken. Thus, the responsibility lies with the Qmail developers.
I'm not the poster you're responding to but googling "12 year old girl school taser" got me an article about that incident, plus a broken link about the (six year old!) kid with broken glass mentioned above. Coincidentally, both incidents involved Miami police and were only a week apart.
California, where I am, sounds the same as AZ: You can buy spirits at supermarkets, just like beer and wine, but no sales are allowed between 2:00am and 6:00am (I actually know a bar in San Francisco that's open every single hour that you legally buy alcohol).
I'd like to know those three liquor stores you mention, either via comment here or e-mail. I get up to PDX a fair bit and have some friends there who aren't aware of any. Thanks.
Too bad you still can't buy alcohol on Sunday. Or at a non-state-licensed store.
I love Oregon (well, Portland specifically) but laws like this are absurd, especially when you look at all the things you mention.
OptinRealBig belongs to none other than Snotty Scotty Richter. I haven't heard of that guy in a while. I was hoping he had been hit by a bus or something.
Interestingly, back around 2001 or so had a friend who spent a few months in a California state prison who once sent me a handwritten letter marked up in XML and once in binary (literally, all ones and zeros; no, I didn't bother translating it). While XML is human-readable (more or less), I was amazed that they let the binary one go out.
He had no internet or computer access though.
I won't get into the argument of whether the ALF should actually be considered a "terrorist" organization, especially with the baggage that word carries these days, but I find it interesting that many, many ALF supporters and activists do not support PETA.
On the contrary: if you were more selective about the meat you eat, you would as a result eat less of it, making up the difference with plants, which is far more sustainable than a meat-heavy diet.
That "evil Satan jobs" is the only reason Apple still exists as a company.
Well, we know dolphins are much more intelligent than people, not having invented the wheel, New York, and wars, and instead preferring to just muck about in the water having a good time.
I can't speak for nicotine addiction treatments, but most health insurance I've seen does, in fact, cover birth control. Hell, my insurance paid for my vasectomy, after a $15 copay.
I don't plan to see this movie so can I just get credit for pointing out that
Well, the smallest MacBook is 13 inches, not 12, but it's the weight that matters. Five pounds can be a lot when you're also carrying book or a camera or whatever. Shaving two pounds off of that will definitely make a noticeable difference. This new one is nice and thin too, which means it'll fit your bag easier. Although to be honest, I would have preferred seeing this new one in 12 inches rather than 13, just for the extra savings in size.
You're quoting the high-end price for effect but the low-end is a perfectly capable machine and I'm having a little trouble imagining who would buy the $3k version. Like I said, I personally think $1800 is a lot, but I'm not carrying my laptop plus books around every day. If I were, I would certainly consider one of these. Remember, not all students, even undergrad, are 19 year olds straight out of high school.
Answer: Travelers. Or anyone who moves around a lot, whether they're traveling or working mobile around the city. Lightweight + small form factor = something you can fit into a backpack or any other bag you use, while not weighing you down. Now that I think about it, students fit this profile pretty well too.
I see this as being a complement to your regular computer, something to take with you when you need mobility. Shame about the price though, at $1800 I think I'd rather just lug my Powerbook. I don't travel nearly enough to justify the cost.
She's a usability researcher, actually, she just doesn't blog about work (you know, work to live and all that).
There's nothing remotely urban about Google's location in Mountain View, or anywhere else down on the peninsula, so you're not going to get things like bikeable neighborhoods or public transit there any more than you'd get them in any suburb. But don't sell Google's perks short -- the shuttle and cafes alone save us a ton of money in transportation and grocery costs. One meal at home per day is much cheaper than three, and riding a free, comfortable private bus is preferable to paying for the train or, god forbid, driving the 101. This stuff helps keep her there but it would be nothing if she also didn't really love her work, and that's the real reason for staying there. For now, anyway.
Indeed (and nice investigation skills, I might add). Unfortunately, that's a tall order. Not many companies in PDX can compete with Google, I'm afraid, so that good job up there may be a long way off.
I'm afraid your analogy escapes me.
But anyway, I'm not real concerned. I've got a number of friends there already, many of whom have moved there from other cities (including San Francisco), and am pretty sure I know what to expect.
I dunno, that sounds like a pretty good description of San Francisco as well. At least Portland is cleaner. And smells better. And more affordable. And populated by friendlier people.
-- A resident of SF hoping to make the move to PDX someday.