As you may know, A&E had dropped Law and Order from their TV lineup. Not too long afterwards, I found out that a TV channel called Bravo was carrying L&O starting from Season one.
Only one problem: I'm currently living in a townhouse complex which has security cameras in the area and the underground parking lot. In order to display these cameras, one of their TV channels had to be "filtered" or blocked out. That channel was Bravo.
Until now..... It would appear that they decided to block the Home and Garden channel in order to display Bravo. And so, I have seen my first dose of late evening L&O in a month.
They're presently showing all Season 2 eps right now. I can't wait until they start showing Season 5. That's when Jack McCoy comes in. Coolness!!!!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
But I love Home and Garden Television. Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
How can one miss Law & Order? There are, like, 30 different versions of it on the air. Dick Wolf has been granted a permenant Senate seat. He sleeps on a huge pile of hundred dollar bills. There is a law that demands that at least 45% of American television be this show. It is harder to avoid than Taiwanese spammers eager to sell me Xenical.
Posted by Free ThoughtCrime America (Member # 480) on :
Is Xenical a penis enlargement drug?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Some sort of weight loss drug, I think.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I'm not the ONLY one who gets Taiwanese SPAM!?! Fuck, it's annoying. It's not in English and often the files are so big - they fuck up my inbox (ok they used to on my old computer). How do you stop them sending it out!?! It's REALLY REALLY annoying. I don't know how many time's I've plugged some Taiwanese spam shit in the entry form at spamcop.net.
Andrew
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Isn't channel 1 usually reserved for closed-circuit TV? Or is it different in Canada?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Taiwan is a bustling, crowded, busy nation with unimagined amounts of cash pouring through it and little use for net regulation. The perfect spot from which to pump spam into and out from mainland China. And, of course, for all we know, the headers could all be forged, and most of that .tw stuff is actually coming from some hidden infowar bunker deep in the Kunlun.
Posted by Free ThoughtCrime America (Member # 480) on :
It's not a law or anything that channel one has to be closed circuit. You can get satellite on it too, like the channel one news service for high schools, an even further watered down 15 minute news program teens watch during history class.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"...like the channel one news service for high schools..."
Well, that's exactly what I heard: that they call it "Channel One" because channel 1 is the closed-circuit channel that most high schools would show it on.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
quote: And, of course, for all we know, the headers could all be forged, and most of that .tw stuff is actually coming from some hidden infowar bunker deep in the Kunlun.
I think it all comes from one guy in Texas.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
:: makes a discrete exit ::
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: I'm not the ONLY one who gets Taiwanese SPAM!?! Fuck, it's annoying. It's not in English and often the files are so big - they fuck up my inbox (ok they used to on my old computer). How do you stop them sending it out!?!
I'm not sure how you can do this on a Windows machine, but Apple's Mail application comes with a "bounce" feature that basically sends an automatic reply to the sender, making it look like your e-mail address does not exist. It's not a completely effective method because of those spammers who forge headers, and so the bounced message goes to an address that doesn't exist, and gets bounced back to you. Also, if it's one of those "blanket spam" messages where the assholes just fill in random combinations of letters to get e-mail addresses, there's really no way to stop those since they're not working from an actual list.
However, since I started bouncing all of my spam, I've noticed a sizable drop in the number of messages coming in.
Caveat: I only use addresses assigned to my family's private domains (my own website and my dad's company's website). Those are far less likely to be targeted by those spammers who guess random combinations to find users at the big services like Hotmail and AOL. Therefore, the spam I receive is on average between one and three per day -- and I know it can get a LOT higher.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Hm... I wonder what would happen if you sent an e-mail to a nonexistant account, then deleted your account before it bounced back? Would the messages just keep bouncing between the mail servers indefinitely?
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
quote:Hm... I wonder what would happen if you sent an e-mail to a nonexistant account, then deleted your account before it bounced back? Would the messages just keep bouncing between the mail servers indefinitely?
Heard this woman descibe something like that on a radio programme a little while ago. Seemed she went on holidays and set up her messages that came in to go to a different mail box(2), while she was gone the IT department set her up with a different mail box(3) that sent all incoming mail to the her orginal mail box(1)at the same time they linked anything from mb(2) to go to mb(3) when she came backl from holidays there were millions of emails in the boxes and it took the company 3 or 4 days to get rid of them all. Plus they had to set her up with a new mailbox.
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