I keep assuming the spammers will start filtering out the + parts, since it's unnecessary. Maybe they figure you're prioritizing stuff with the + parts and leaving it in. Or (more likely) just sending it to both.
One option then is to never give out the unqualified base address, and assume everything going to it is likely spam.
I have my own domain and similarly managed to prove to HP that they'd either sold my data or had it stolen. I think the customer rep I spoke to was convinced. Nobody up the chain seemed to care.
You could consider explaining it to your local media with what is basically damning evidence. I'm thinking a couple phone calls from reporters would produce a response or action.
Want to sell an electronic device in the US? Conform to the standard power supply.
Or make it an identical situation to the phone chargers. Want to sell a laptop in the EU? Have its power connector conform to the IEEE standard. Once laptop manufacturers are forced to adhere to that standard in the EU, why would they bother to manufacture a different model that uses an incompatible power standard for the US market?
The same study suggests 1.5million Canadians also quit in a single month, that's 5% of Canada's entire population quitting Facebook in May. Now, to me that seems pretty odd, why so many, why May? For this to be realistic there'd almost certainly have to have been some good reason why so many chose that specific month to all leave together but I'm not aware of any event that would've caused such a mass exodus.
Well duh, the spring thaw came a little late and they woke up and left their dens to start foraging for roots and berries. Doesn't this kind of thing happen every year?
Reminds me of this old post and my small contribution to it. I had to rewind quite a bit to recognize how fundamentally D&D shaped my model of reality. It allowed kids to test the waters of having an adult level of power, responsibility, and open-ended freedom of action in what was effectively a hostile wilderness; a world with rules but where the rule of laws of nature, God, magic, and morality were called out explicitly and which overrode the rule of the law of man, in contrast to how those laws subtly-to-overtly shape the law of man in the modern world. And all in the days before computer simulations of the same.
There are places that sell eBooks without DRM at all (Baen is one of the ones that comes to mind and would appeal to a lot of people on/.)
O'Reilly as well. Slashdotters are familiar with them already, and if a publisher puts this backing behind their entire product offering, it sends a strong statement.
In fact, I'm recording from a sensory neuron that is partially responsible for the conciousness of an awake behaving mouse right now while browsing slashdot.
Cory Doctorow wrote a short story about a sort of related situation. Interesting introduction to the economic forces involved for those who don't play.
You might also have good luck with http://serverfault.com/ or http://superuser.com/ under the windows and automation tags. Having collected a toolset myself, I'd point you to sysinternals and nirsoft for diagnostic and informational utilities (check out wscc and nirlauncher for a one-stop place for these), autohotkey for automation scripting, and http://portableapps.com/ for apps and general utilities, as a starting point. You can run most or all of these without installing them locally and adding cruft to your registry and random stuff around your filesystem.
I'd also recommend having a Linux box; you can work in a familiar environment, then share out batch scripts you write via Samba -- read-only for binaries dirs that don't mind being unable to write out config files; writeable (but perhaps not listable) for a centralized location for saving off output from your various scripts, and so forth.
on the flipside, if you're a privacy advocate (which I absolutely get!), then don't sign up.
And sometimes you pay the price anyway, without your consent, and when the services aren't "free". Given the (lack of) choice of my data and money going to a company that isn't really innovating that much, or to an entity that's ostensibly trying to move the state of the art forward and using data at least partially to this end, I can't see how a privacy advocate would consider GV worse than their current voice service.
A "false-sense-of-privacy advocate", perhaps, or one who refuses phone or voicemail service entirely on these grounds.
Current intellectual property laws are blocking innovation.
To be absolutely clear, 'intellectual property' as a term comprises copyright, patents, and which other things that have actual laws and legal definitions? The quote comes from groklaw, but for those not in the know, it might help to be unambiguous about it
Even when a kid is ostensibly being abducted by a stranger, a lot of people won't respond. So I wonder how AMBER could be made more effective to compensate for this effect (assuming it's real).
Schlemiel the painter would be proud. Rewriting this with a block of comments describing the problem with this code, though, might be a reasonable excuse for learning how to touch-type prose.
Parents shout at their children in supermarkets. I'm actually *glad* when some kids get told off because it means that the parent is paying attention to their actions and cares about the outcome for everyone
As expressed quite lucidly in the first 5 minutes of this episode. Definitely a depiction of the vast range in, er, parenting styles.
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Gates and Microsoft have decades of proven marketing experience under his belt. Isn't nuclear power more of a marketing problem?
I've got to break some news to you - You're mother is at the local community college trying to pick up D&D players.
Of all the things I've dreamed of, this is way better than any fantasy I thought would come true.
Will she let us bring our own PCs, or is she intending to have us create new ones for her campaign? And is she a tough DM?
I keep assuming the spammers will start filtering out the + parts, since it's unnecessary. Maybe they figure you're prioritizing stuff with the + parts and leaving it in. Or (more likely) just sending it to both.
One option then is to never give out the unqualified base address, and assume everything going to it is likely spam.
I have my own domain and similarly managed to prove to HP that they'd either sold my data or had it stolen. I think the customer rep I spoke to was convinced. Nobody up the chain seemed to care.
You could consider explaining it to your local media with what is basically damning evidence. I'm thinking a couple phone calls from reporters would produce a response or action.
We can only hope, both for good and evil (but vastly entertaining) purposes.
Want to sell an electronic device in the US? Conform to the standard power supply.
Or make it an identical situation to the phone chargers. Want to sell a laptop in the EU? Have its power connector conform to the IEEE standard. Once laptop manufacturers are forced to adhere to that standard in the EU, why would they bother to manufacture a different model that uses an incompatible power standard for the US market?
Best Buy Releases Their Own Music Cloud
I thought something smelled funny.
The same study suggests 1.5million Canadians also quit in a single month, that's 5% of Canada's entire population quitting Facebook in May. Now, to me that seems pretty odd, why so many, why May? For this to be realistic there'd almost certainly have to have been some good reason why so many chose that specific month to all leave together but I'm not aware of any event that would've caused such a mass exodus.
Well duh, the spring thaw came a little late and they woke up and left their dens to start foraging for roots and berries. Doesn't this kind of thing happen every year?
Incidentally, it's a 503(c) organization -- tax-deductible in the US.
Here you go. Surprised s/he didn't just google for it.
There are places that sell eBooks without DRM at all (Baen is one of the ones that comes to mind and would appeal to a lot of people on /.)
O'Reilly as well. Slashdotters are familiar with them already, and if a publisher puts this backing behind their entire product offering, it sends a strong statement.
In fact, I'm recording from a sensory neuron that is partially responsible for the conciousness of an awake behaving mouse right now while browsing slashdot.
What's its userid?
Cory Doctorow wrote a short story about a sort of related situation. Interesting introduction to the economic forces involved for those who don't play.
And someone moonlighting as an English teacher, presumably.
I'd also recommend having a Linux box; you can work in a familiar environment, then share out batch scripts you write via Samba -- read-only for binaries dirs that don't mind being unable to write out config files; writeable (but perhaps not listable) for a centralized location for saving off output from your various scripts, and so forth.
This is the price of "free" services.
on the flipside, if you're a privacy advocate (which I absolutely get!), then don't sign up.
And sometimes you pay the price anyway, without your consent, and when the services aren't "free". Given the (lack of) choice of my data and money going to a company that isn't really innovating that much, or to an entity that's ostensibly trying to move the state of the art forward and using data at least partially to this end, I can't see how a privacy advocate would consider GV worse than their current voice service.
A "false-sense-of-privacy advocate", perhaps, or one who refuses phone or voicemail service entirely on these grounds.
Dogbert figured this out a while back. Let's hope CNN lets us know how it works out for these governments.
If you want deeper nuances, you can always refer to this as well.
Current intellectual property laws are blocking innovation.
To be absolutely clear, 'intellectual property' as a term comprises copyright, patents, and which other things that have actual laws and legal definitions? The quote comes from groklaw, but for those not in the know, it might help to be unambiguous about it
Is probably the child of this creature.
Your scenario is intriguing to me and I wish to purchase your screenplay.
Even when a kid is ostensibly being abducted by a stranger, a lot of people won't respond. So I wonder how AMBER could be made more effective to compensate for this effect (assuming it's real).
Not sure who he was, but it's made me recast these kinds of things in a different light.
Schlemiel the painter would be proud. Rewriting this with a block of comments describing the problem with this code, though, might be a reasonable excuse for learning how to touch-type prose.
Parents shout at their children in supermarkets. I'm actually *glad* when some kids get told off because it means that the parent is paying attention to their actions and cares about the outcome for everyone
As expressed quite lucidly in the first 5 minutes of this episode. Definitely a depiction of the vast range in, er, parenting styles.
Found it on TV Tropes; "A Martian Odyssey", by Stanley G. Weinbaum.