Comment Re:The latest five pictures... (Score 1) 211
Your "pictures of Chrisq" page must be humongous.
Comment Muppet Order Pizza Through a DOS PC (Score 1) 63
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.
Comment Re:Until... (Score 1) 147
someone urinates in the cooling liquid, that is.
Just keep Tyler Durden out of the computer room and you'll be fine.
Comment Yes but... (Score 1, Insightful) 413
...can you use it while driving 90mph?
Comment Reminds me of this story... (Score 1) 134
...about the Tiger Team in the Patch entry of the Jargon Lexicon:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/P/patch.html
Submission + - Yahoo Spam Filters Block Effort to Help Fight Spam (blogspot.com)
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.
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.
Comment Re:One has to wonder (Score 1) 282
That would depend on the circumstances, but generally I'd say no. It would not be an abuse of its monopoly power. IE6 has been around since 2001 and the first version of FF was released in 2004. If Bing decided to drop support for FF v1.0 I don't see how that would be a problem.
Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 178
I remember that text-based computer game! Thanks for that blast from the past.
Comment Re:More accurately on OS support... (Score 1) 231
Thanks for mentioning the IBM i. We, the beleaguered computer nerds who toil writing code for that O/S, have always felt a little left out.
I call upon the /. editors to please correct the blurb up top.
Comment Or... (Score 3, Funny) 178
Or you could just stick this Babel fish in your ear.
Comment Re:Hmmmmm (Score 1) 295
They've got their own built-in fail-safe device, ... a four year lifespan.
Comment Re:Ugh, another virtual keyboard... (Score 1) 237
I am a good touch-typist in that I never look at the keys. With a virtual keyboard every key of keyboard screen feels like every other part of the screen and there's no way to tell what key you're on.
Comment Re:Privacy (Score 1) 303
There is nothing higher than that of the party and big brother.
Comment Re:Ugh, another virtual keyboard... (Score 1) 237
There are plenty of devices with [virtual] keyboards and they aren't going away.
Said the "hunt and peck" typist...
Comment Re:I could have told you that. (Score 1) 938
I would have wanted the social skills training too, but I was also suffering from a low grade depression, so I don't think it would have helped too much. That however is not why I'm replying.
Being a social outcast in my youth drove me towards all things engineering/computers. It was only years later that I learned I had gone down the path of computer nerddom. I wonder if I had had the social training and the proper medication, would I have taken the same path? I might have ended up as a film maker or an architect instead of a highly skilled computer nerd.
This of course is all anecdotal, but if all budding computer nerds get what they need to no longer be social outcasts will the future of computer science suffer?
