Man gets 9 years for spamming...
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I don't know how I feel about this. I'm certainly not ardently against it, though. And I love the irony that he was operating through an AOL server. |
FINALLY, that *can't say in the forums* was stopped, about HALF of those daily spam messages were sent to me
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This is why I love hotmail and yahoo.
ABSOLUTELY NO SPAM! :D :D :D :D :D :D |
...My hotmail account gets spammed to death!
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LOL, you should of seen my yahoo account recently. About 70 emails in my inbox, all spam, and about 30 in my bulk mail folder.. and that was just after one day. I'm telling you, none were proper emails.
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If you turn on the bulk filter in Yahoo! mail, it will catch pretty much ALL of the spam. If you turn on the junk mail filter on Hotmail, it does diddley and they try to sell you "advanced" spam protection.
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Or you could just not use Hotmail or Yahoo.
I have a number of email accounts with semi-obscure providers (although I don't think Gmail counts as obscure), and the only one I get any form of spam at is my University of Ottawa account, mostly because it's been whored out to other academic institutions. |
Gah, I don't know what you're talking about. Hotmail is the spam dump capital of the internet, and I had to switch email accounts cause the Yahoo spam was getting so bad! I actualy pay for my own email server now because of it. And I still get spam.
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(On a related note, I find it telling that when you search for "university ottawa" on Google, Carleton is the first result. U of O? Fourth.) |
Odd, I honestly hardly get any spam on Yahoo! mail, and what I do get is filtered into my bulk folder. I suppose that may be because my Yahoo! email address sounds like a spammer address anyway, lol; "tlhinganhom@yahoo". It might also be because I religously tell Yahoo! when any spam gets through, so anything else coming from the same server or address will get filtered in the future. Either way, no idea.
Gmail also has an excellant spam filter. |
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Actually tlhInganHom means "little klingon". And, yeah, I kind of want to see Strong Bad try to pronounce it too. I bet he'd call me "thing-a-ma-bob", then "thingie-bob", and finally just "bob".
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Yahoo wasn't bad, though. My problem with them now is that since their big "upgrade" last year, I can hardly ever get in without it freezing up my (poor old) system. |
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Job Interviewer: It says on your résumé that you speak six languages, Mr. Hayman. Me: That's right. English, French, German, Latin, and classical Greek. Job Interviewer: We do run into a lot of geeks here in the hi-tech industry, but I don't know that I'd call them classical... anyway, you only named five languages. What's the sixth one? Me: Well, I know a little Klingon. Job Interviewer: Really. Me: I speak the literal truth. Job Interviewer: All right. Say hello to me in Klingon. (long pause) Me: Um... I refuse. It is beneath my dignity as a warrior. Job Interviewer: Get out of my office. |
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So Hello could be... H'ktg. |
...Unless I'm the interviewer, in which case it would be a trick question.
P.S. There is no word for "hello" in Klingon, though they do have two similarly-used phrases. The most common is "nuqneH", which literally means, "What do you want?" The second is less common, as a Klingon will usually just state what he wants, rather than use formalities like greetings (hence, "What do you want?") The second is also as close to "hello" as you could probably get in Klingon. It is "qajatlh", which means, "I speak to you." Note that this is a statement -- almost a command in the first person; you're telling them what is going to happen. I might say that I need a life if I weren't a Linguistics major http://www.halspages.com/smileys/wink.gif |
I swear that language was born in a random-letter generator.
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^Then you're a much more suspicious type than I am ;)
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Actually in German, the verb is always in the second position, unless it's preceeded by a model (which is actually a just the subjunctive of a weak verb) or you're talking in the (Imperfekt) past tense, both of which put the verb at the end in its infinitive form. There are a couple other exceptions, I think, like würden which is really just the subjunctive of a weak verb, like the modals.
Pfftt, I hope I explained that correctly. It's so much easier to just speak it than it is to pick apart the grammar, sometimes. http://www.halspages.com/smileys/lilspin.gif Speaking of word order, Klingon is also very unique in that it always goes object-subject, i.e. object-verb-noun. (Just about every other language keeps it the other way 'round.) Klingon also eiminates quite a few words by turning most pronouns and some adjectives into sufixes and prefixes. Hence, something that could take several words to say in English (i.e. "I hit you hard.") Would be fewer in Klingon (pe'vIl qaqIp.) |
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Pfft. Suffixes. Anyone can handle that. Now Inuktitut -- there's a language with cojones. It uses infixes.
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Gaelic. Mutative consonants make my brain dribble out my ears.
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Well, I'm glad another one was caught, although I definitely think we need some sort of structural change to prevent spam, as long as the spammers can spam, we won't be able to capture them all.
Also, by the way I get almost no spam, and what very little spam I get is caught by my spam filter. This is mainly due to the fact I give my email away to only trustworthy sources. Well, as for a hard language to learn, I don't know from experience, but I've heard Chinese (Mandarin) is one of the hardest. Why, might you ask? Well, they say so as it has over 50,000 characters (although you really only absolutely need about 3,000 for everyday life) and that the strokes can get awfully complex: http://www.omniglot.com/images/writi...e_strokes2.gif |
In addition, the tone of the syllable can change the meaning.
In Cantonese, cho can mean "grass" or a half dozen completely unrelated things depending on the pitch given to it by the speaker. |
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Seriously, this was supposedly the reason Chairman Mao gave so few speeches towards the end of his life....he had (I think) Parkinsons, and (I'm not too sure on this either) it causes a deadening of speech..... |
Can you just imagine trying to write some of those Chinese characters with a blunt pencil? :evil: ;)
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5MV - Home of the Kings of OT. :D
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What? It was on-topic for at least ten or eleven posts, and then there was another part of a post up there ^ somewhere that was on-topic. :P
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Taw-pick? What is this taw-pick you speak of?
Is it linear? |
Sa'ar, you see that thing the original post is about? The thing that's in the topic line? That's the topic. They're elusive little buggers, the stay around for an hour or two then BAM! gone. While other forums have gone crazy attempting to keep the topic going strong in it's place, 5MV has allowed for a more natural course, and lets the topic go as it pleases.
It's all very fascinating. |
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*Ahem* on the note of the original topic here;
Sympatico DSL= super crap internet, super crap e-mail. Cogeco T3= super good internet and e-mail, PLUS a firewall that NOTHING can get past. KillerGM done. |
OT: Verbs at the end of the sentence: classical Latin. And verb endings do replace pronouns (veni, vidi, vici).
T: I get no spam at all on my CUNY account. One spam solution is to get your own domain ($9 at godaddy). But you have to keep your address off of web pages. |
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