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MS Trying To Spur Vista Sales With Discounts 329

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 25, 2007 @10:54PM from the wee-mite-desperate dept.

Ang writes "Is Microsoft having worries about selling Vista already? Ars reports that Microsoft has announced yet another 'discount program' for Vista, but these new discounts work out to only about 10% off list price — not much when you notice that retailers already sell Vista below list. To make matters worse, the discount program would still end up costing you $100 more than the older 'family' discount built around Vista Ultimate in some situations. Ars spends seven paragraphs explaining this convoluted offer. Is all of this complexity supposed to help sell Vista?" If you must buy Vista, it might be advisable to sit on your wallet for a while. The discounts are bound to get sweeter.

RIAA Says Accused Students Are Settling 345

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 25, 2007 @09:34PM from the cheap-at-half-the-price dept.

As we've been reporting, the RIAA has been offering settlements to college students suspected of sharing music online. Reader Weather Storm notes that more than a quarter of the alleged music pirates have accepted the RIAA's offer. Quoting: "...an attorney Ohio University arranged to meet with its students... said $3,000 is the standard settlement offer, though cases have settled for as much as $5,000."

Comment Here is what we do (Score 2, Interesting) 229

by wolfson on Friday October 03, 2003 @12:28AM (#7121086) Attached to: How are You Preventing Mailto-Link Harvesting?

Here is the php code that I use on Aginet.com

function gen() { mt_srand(make_seed()); $x = "aginet3"; $list= "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; $x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)]; $x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)]; $x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)]; $x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)]; $x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)]; $x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)]; $x .= $list[mt_rand(0,61)]; echo "<a href=\"mailto:$x@aginet.com\">$x@aginet.com</a> "; $x .= "\t" . date("m/d/Y h:i A"); $x .= "\t" . $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]; $x .= "\t" . $_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]; $x .= "\t" . $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]; $fp = fopen("/xxx/xxx/xxx.xxx", "a"); fwrite($fp, $x . "\n", 1024); fclose($fp); }

In my mail server I redirect the random addresses to a single e-mail. Then when I get spammed, I can trace it back to an IP, and contact the hosting company or ISP that it originated from.

Visit blue.aginet.com for my other GPL'd code. Feel free to use the source code in this example. I only ask that you give me credit if its used for a commercial purpose.

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