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Spam du Jour
To: tpot@frungy.org
Subject: You are suspected of plunder 2100 $ from account Webmoney!
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:30:36 +0300
You are suspected of plunder 2100 $ from account Webmoney! It is
necessary for you to contact employee FBI USA who has affairs with
representation Webmoney in USA. We have the decision of a problem and
further the decision of a problem in regional court. The complaint has
acted from ID 828245830532. The full information on
http://www.fbi-policy.com/webmoney.htm.
Unfortunately the fbi-policy.com web page has been removed but I'm
sure it would have been full of more amusingly written information
about this scam. posted at: 09:56 | path: /humour | permanent link to this entry
From RISKS:
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:05:15 PST
From: "Peter G. Neumann"
Subject: Pun-intended definitions
The Sunday *San Jose Mercuri* (4 Jan 2004) had a wonderful article on the 50
best punny definitions of the year. Here is a sampling of a few with
computer technology relevance.
off-shorn: vt. Getting cut because your job moved overseas.
[Rainer Richter, San Jose]
Microsofa: n. A piece of furniture that, while it looked fine
in the showroom, gradually begins to dominate the living room,
eventually forcing you to replace all the other furniture,
including the TV, to be "compatible". [Earl T. Cohen, Fremont]
motherbored: n. In many homes, a technology discussion at dinner
between father and the kids. (Bruce Kerr)
Luddate: n. Someone you are going out with who does not
understand the [Santa Clara] Valley's obsession with technology.
(Lisa Lawrence, Palo Alto)
Crisco: n. A person who got fried by buying Cisco at $80 a share.
(Jim Schutz)
posted at: 11:55 | path: /humour | permanent link to this entry
The Death of Spam Predicted
With regard to Bill Gates
predicting the end of spam someone comments:
Within a closed community it is feasible to crack the spam problem,
and that closed community could be the Microsoft mail communuity. I'd
guess Microsoft see this is a first rate opportunity to expand and
lock in users to their system. If the rest of the world community
doesn't fix the spam problem, fast, Microsoft probably will - for
their users.
That's an interesting prediction. As far as I can see the lock-in
for Outlook is the proprietary calendaring functions that is part of
Exchange. According to this
review Microsoft's spam filter still has a bit of catching up to
do and that is putting it mildly. "State-of-the-art technology
developed by Microsoft Research" indeed.
A friend is developing a SpamAssassin mail rule based on the GPG
key signing. It generates a whitelist based on the list of email
addresses obtained from the web of trust. This assumes that anyone
who runs gpg is not likely to be spamming you. They may however be
running a windows box infected with the latest virus of the week. It
struck me as an example of a closed community solving the spam
problem.
So far Microsoft have managed to increase the amount of junk email
in peoples inboxes. The samba mail server is discarding a couple of
copies of the Mydoom virus per minute. posted at: 17:39 | path: /internet/spam | permanent link to this entry
Goatse guy found dead in his apartment
It's the death of a cultural icon of the Internet. (If you have no idea who the Goatse guy is check out the section on shock sites and shock content on Wikipedia).
This poster on the Christmas Island NIC forum sums it up well:
You should be PROUD to have goatse.cx as your flagship domain. The novelty of showing it around to horrified newbies wore off a long, long time ago; instead, it has become a beacon for the lost ideal of free speech on the internet. So few sites these days are able or willing to stand for this concept so proudly and vividly. They all shy away from it in the fear that, god forbid, someone should be offended.
I'm sure we'll all miss him, even if you weren't a fan of his work
there's no denying his contribution to popular culture. Truly an
American icon.
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Threads suck
Grr. Another day wasted tracking down a stupid threading bug, this
time caused by a cleanup function being called twice - once from a
method and another time from a destructor resulting in a mutex being
unlocked twice. Why do people insist on using threads? It always
ends in frustration and tears for all parties concerned.
I should write an Anti-Threads Manifesto or something similar. posted at: 12:51 | path: /rants | permanent link to this entry
My Broadband Habit
From Internode FAQ:
ADSL is substantially lower cost than a smoking habit. So stub the cigarettes out and enjoy a longer life, complete with broadband Internet access :)
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