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Submission + - Mainstream Media Looks at Anonymous (guardian.co.uk)

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ScuttleMonkey
ScuttleMonkey writes: "In an uncharacteristically accurate writeup of Anonymous, the Guardian has published a look at the assembled mob behind the mask. A great place to send those unfamiliar with who or what Anonymous really is. 'This collective identity belongs to no one in particular, but is at the disposal of anyone who knows its rules and knows how to apply them. Anonymous, the collective identity, is older than Anonymous, the hacktvist group – more to the point, I propose that the hacktivist group can be understood as an application of Anonymous, the collective identity.'"
Programming

Submission + - CMU Eliminates O-O Studies (wordpress.com) 1

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fatherjoecode
fatherjoecode writes: "According to this blog post from professor Robert Harper, the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science department is removing the required study of O-O from the Freshman curriculum: "Object-oriented programming is eliminated entirely from the introductory curriculum, because it is both anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very nature, and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum." It goes on to say that "a proposed new course on object-oriented design methodology will be offered at the sophomore level for those students who wish to study this topic." Is O-O dying?"

Comment Muppet Order Pizza Through a DOS PC (Score 1) 63

by fatherjoecode (#32424636) Attached to: The Muppets' 1967 IBM Sales Films
Love those old IBM coffee break films with the Muppets. I'm still looking for one of these films where two Muppets try and order a pizza through a DOS PC with an external modem. Like most computer endeavors it doesn't work the first time and like most computer geeks the two Muppets try and again and again and again. It's hilarious.
Spam

Submission + - Yahoo Spam Filters Block Effort to Help Fight Spam (blogspot.com)

Submitted by fatherjoecode
fatherjoecode writes: I was wondering if any one else has had this problem. Over the past couple of weeks I've had issues with Yahoo mail blocking my admittedly small efforts to fight spam. Every day I'd forward the messages in my spam folder to organizations like SpamCop.net, spam@uce.gov, and coldrain.net. However this past week or two I'm only able to forward maybe one or two messages a day before it started to block me from doing so with the following message:

        Your message was not sent

        Your account has been temporarily blocked from sending messages.
        This block can be caused by sending messages that trigger our spam filters,
        or by having too many recipients in one email. We encourage you to review
        the contents and recipient list of your message, and try sending it at after an
        hour or two. Doing so will usually resolve the matter. If you are still unable to
        send messages after a 24-hour period, please read our FAQ for more
        information and to request Customer Care assistance.

        We apologize for the inconvenience.

        Thanks,

        The Yahoo! Mail Team

Of course I've contacted "The Yahoo! Mail Team" multiple times and I've changed my password. So far nada and now the problem is starting up on another Yahoo mail account that I forward spam messages from.

This issue is especially problematic with SpamCop because after 24 hours the timestamps in the headers of the spam messages become stale and SpamCop won't process them, so I end up deleting most of them. It's a sad irony that my endeavors to help in this fight against spam are being thwarted by the very Yahoo feature that is itself trying to protect email users by identifying spam sources within Yahoo mail. While I totally understand the purpose of this effort and applaud the work being done; In my case it's overreaching and needs to be tweaked in some way. Possibly if the the application could look at the recipient email list to see if they're being sent to spam fighting organizations first before deciding whether or not to block the account.

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