Jack Pallance - Slashdot User

Comment I tested this and found that Unsubscribe works (Score 1) 481

by Jack Pallance on Thursday April 23, 2009 @09:20PM (#27696921) Attached to: Opting Out Increases Spam?

About two years ago I tested this theory and found just the opposite. I had been regularly receiving large volumes of spam in a hotmail account, so I created five fresh hotmail accounts. I then unsubscribed to about 100 spam messages from my main account using each of the new accounts (split into groups of twenty per hotmail account). After two months, I still had received spam on only one of the accounts. I was truly shocked. (I submitted a SlashDot post about this at the time. It was not posted.)

Comment The SlashDot effect could shut down this site! (Score 1) 334

by Jack Pallance on Friday February 08, 2008 @11:08PM (#22357258) Attached to: W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic

Here, I'm posting the *real* article so you guys don't have to click through this blogspam!

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml For further information, see: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1 Copyright (c) 1998-2002 W3C (MIT, INRIA, Keio), All Rights Reserved. This DTD module is identified by the PUBLIC and SYSTEM identifiers: PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" SYSTEM "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" $Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2002/08/01 13:56:03 $ --> %HTMLlat1; %HTMLsymbol; %HTMLspecial;

Citizens Given Video Cameras To Monitor Police 434

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 22, 2007 @02:12PM from the project-vigilant dept.

atommota writes "After years of complaints of police misconduct, the ACLU is giving free video cameras to some residents of high-crime neighborhoods in St. Louis, MO to help them monitor officers. The ACLU of Eastern Missouri launched the project Wednesday after television crews last year broadcast video of officers punching and kicking a suspect who led police on a car chase. 'The idea here is to level the playing field, so it's not just your word against the police's word,' said Brenda Jones, executive director of the ACLU chapter. The ACLU has worked closely with the police to make sure they are aware of this program. This is in stark contrast to the recent Pennsylvania arrest for felony wiretapping of a guy who was videotaping a police stop."

Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Image Hosting 461

Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 21, 2007 @03:08PM from the can't-imagine-what-will-get-uploaded dept.

Spamicles writes "The guys over at the Pirate Bay have launched a new, censorship-free image hosting website called BayImg. Users of the new service don't have to sign-up in order to upload images. However, they can assign a 'removal code' to uploaded images, in case they want to delete the files after a while, and tags to categorize images. BayImg currently supports 100+ file formats, and supports uploading Zip and Rar archives. The maximum file size of uploads is 100MB. The article also discusses TPB's plans for launching a video streaming service that will potentially compete with YouTube."

Michael Moore's New Film Leaked To BitTorrent 1088

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 18, 2007 @02:37AM from the blame-canada dept.

Jared writes "Michael Moore was afraid the Feds might sieze his new documentary Sicko, a scathing indictment of the US health-care system, because part of it was filmed in Cuba despite the US embargo. So he stashed a copy of the film in Canada just to be safe. He might as well not have bothered — the film has shown up on BitTorrent and P2P networks everywhere. So it's safe now."

Getting the Best Deal From Dell — Or Not 207

Posted by kdawson on Sunday June 17, 2007 @06:16PM from the consumer-advice-or-proprietary-information dept.

Nom du Keyboard writes "When The Consumerist published 22 tips for getting the best deal from Dell Computers, according to a self-described former Dell sales manager, Dell fired back with a take-down notice. You might want to look quickly, in the event it does get taken down. The Consumerist's lawyer's initial response was to deny the takedown request."

Shuttleworth Says No Patent Deals With Microsoft 121

Posted by kdawson on Saturday June 16, 2007 @04:45PM from the one-domino-not-falling dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "The FOSS press has speculated for some time now that Mark Shuttleworth would probably not agree to any patent 'protection' deals with Microsoft, but blogger Steven Rosenberg has found a page on Shuttleworth's personal blog ('Here Be Dragons') that unambiguously sets out Shuttleworth's opposition to Canonical's participation in any such deal. Rosenberg summarizes Shuttleworth's position in these terms: 'So there you have it — Canonical welcomes any efforts by Microsoft to improve "interoperability," isn't a fan of OpenXML, doesn't want to infringe on anybody's patents or trademarks, thinks Microsoft's threats are ill-advised, and would like to actually deal with the issue rather than respond out of fear.'

eBay May Lose 'Buy it Now' Button in Patent Case 177

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday June 15, 2007 @12:34AM from the ain't-it-obvious-yet dept.

Spamicles writes "A judge has delayed his ruling on the eBay patent infringement case. eBay has been involved in a legal dispute over the use of its popular "Buy it Now" button, which allows consumers to skip the bidding and purchase items on eBay directly. The patent suit was filed six years ago by MercExchange L.L.C. In May of 2003, a jury ruled in MercExchange's favor finding that eBay did in fact infringe on the patent, but in 2005 the US Supreme Court ruled that MercExchange was not automatically entitled to a court order blocking the offending service, essentially handing a victory down to patent reform advocates. However, the ruling by the Supreme Court does not affect the final judgment of the court."

Submission + - Scientists get plastic from trees (pressesc.com)

Submitted by

amigoro

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @09:05PM

amigoro writes: "Scientists have found a method to replace crude oil as the root source for plastic, fuels and scores of other industrial and household chemicals with inexpensive, nonpolluting renewable plant matter. They directly converted sugars ubiquitous in nature to an alternative source for those products that make oil so valuable, with very little of the residual impurities that have made the quest so daunting."

Submission + - Perfect silicon sphere to redefine the kilogram (theage.com.au)

Submitted by MrCreosote on Thursday June 14, 2007 @07:50PM

MrCreosote writes: The Age reports optical specialists at CSIRO are helping create a new standard for the kilogram, based on a precise number of atoms in a perfect sphere of silicon. This will replace the International Prototype, a lump of metal alloy in a vault in Paris.

Submission + - Kodak unveils brighter CMOS color filters (eetimes.com)

Submitted by brownsteve on Thursday June 14, 2007 @07:36PM

brownsteve writes: Eastman Kodak Co. unveiled what it says are "next-generation color filter patterns" designed to more than double the light sensitivity of CMOS or CCD image sensors used in camera phones or digital still cameras. The new color filter system is a departure from the widely used standard Bayer pattern — an arrangement of red, green and blue pixels — also created by Kodak. While building on the Bayer pattern, the new technology adds a "fourth pixel, which has no pigment on top," said Michael DeLuca, market segment manager responsible for image sensor solutions at Eastman Kodak. Such "transparent" pixels — sensitive to all visible wavelengths — are designed to absorb light. DeLuca claimed the invention is "the next milestone" in digital photography, likening its significance to ISO 400 color film introduced in the mid-1980's.

Submission + - IT ads from the past: From the quaint to the weird (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @06:50PM

PetManimal writes: "Computerworld has dug up some funny IT advertising gems from decades past. The highlights include "The Personal Mainframe", Elvira hawking engineering software, and an image of the earliest screenless "briefcase portables." Strange to think that people not only took these technologies so seriously, but also paid big bucks for gear that seems positively primitive now."

Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM 726

Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 14, 2007 @02:33PM from the i-do-not-think-that-word-means-what-you-think-it-means dept.

virgil_disgr4ce writes "In an impressive example of the gap of understanding between legal officials and technology, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Chooljian 'found that a computer server's RAM, or random-access memory, is a tangible document that can be stored and must be turned over in a lawsuit.' ZDNet, among others, reports on the ruling and its potential for invasion of privacy."

Microsoft's Acoustic Caller ID Patent 185

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @08:46PM from the who-do-you-sound-like-today dept.

theodp writes "A new patent granted to Microsoft Tuesday for automatic identification of telephone callers based on voice characteristics covers constructing acoustic models for telephone callers by identifying words or subject matter commonly used by callers and capturing the acoustic properties of any utterance. Not only that, it's done 'without alerting the caller during the call that the caller is being identified,' boasts Microsoft in the patent claims."

Apple Safari On Windows Broken On First Day 595

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 11, 2007 @10:57PM from the bigger-they-come dept.

An anonymous reader writes "David Maynor, infamous for the Apple Wi-Fi hack, has discovered bugs in the Windows version of Safari mere hours after it was released. He notes in the blog that his company does not report vulnerabilities to Apple. His claimed catch for 'an afternoon of idle futzing': 4 DoS bugs and 2 remote execution vulnerabilities." Separately, within 2 hours Thor Larholm found a URL protocol handler command injection vulnerability that allows remote command execution.

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