War words top useless terms list (Reuters)

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"list of 2003?s mis-used, overused, and
useless words."

"list of 2003?s mis-used, overused, and
useless words." 01/04/2004 03:53 AM

'Vioxx' leads AOL spam terms list

'Vioxx' leads AOL spam terms list 12/30/2004 12:21 AM
Boston Globe Dec 30 2004 4:01AM GMT

'Vioxx' Leads AOL Spam Terms List (AP)

'Vioxx' Leads AOL Spam Terms List (AP) 12/29/2004 10:12 PM
AP - "Viagra" is out. "Vioxx" is in. That's according to America Online Inc.'s second annual list of top spam terms.

list of words

list of words 01/01/2004 08:40 PM
metrosexual .. [Details]

lssu.edu/banished/archive/2004.php
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List of unusual words

List of unusual words 05/06/2004 09:50 PM
Gary sez: "This guy has an amazing collection of word lists: included are word lists for various topics: manias & obsessions, philosophical 'isms'--you name it. Also feathers The International House of Logorrhea, a 14000-word dictionary of obscure and rare words. The only people who won't like this site are morosophs and misosophs!"

cynartomachy -- bear-baiting using dogs

gigantomachy -- war of giants against the gods

pneumatomachy -- denial of the divinity of the Holy Ghost

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"2004 List of Banished Words"

"2004 List of Banished Words" 01/04/2004 09:35 AM

Banished Words List :: 2005

Banished Words List :: 2005 01/01/2005 04:29 AM
New Year's Tradition: Banishing Words .. LSSU's Banished Words List for 2005 .. Banned phrases in 2005

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Banished Words List: Lake Superior
State University

Banished Words List: Lake Superior
State University 01/02/2004 05:57 AM
Words and phrases banished from the Queen's English for Mis-, Mal-, or Over-Use, as well as General Uselessness .. Banished Words List: Lake Superior State University .. 2001-word/phrase

lssu.edu/banished
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Computers help manage chores on farms
'Vioxx' leads AOL spam terms list Smart
transport systems catc

Computers help manage chores on farms
'Vioxx' leads AOL spam terms list Smart
transport systems catc 12/30/2004 02:09 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Thu Dec 30, 06:16 am GMT

U.S., Oracle Battle Over Market Terms
(Reuters)

U.S., Oracle Battle Over Market Terms
(Reuters) 07/20/2004 09:09 PM
Reuters - A merger of Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O) and PeopleSoft Inc. (PSFT.O) would cut competition and lead to higher business software prices worldwide, the U.S. Justice Department argued on Tuesday, the final day of an antitrust case to determine whether the deal can move forward.

Shopping.com Sets Terms for Planned IPO
(Reuters)

Shopping.com Sets Terms for Planned IPO
(Reuters) 05/26/2004 09:05 AM
Reuters - Shopping.com Ltd., an online comparison shopping service, said on Wednesday it planned to sell 5 million common shares in its initial public offering, for between $14 and $16 per share.

Microsoft to Ease Settlement Terms Again
(Reuters)

Microsoft to Ease Settlement Terms Again
(Reuters) 01/17/2004 11:02 PM
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) has agreed to do more to help rivals compete after antitrust enforcers complained a key piece of their landmark settlement with the company has "fallen short," the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday.

Ex-Enron CEO Broke Terms of Release
-Prosecutors (Reuters)

Ex-Enron CEO Broke Terms of Release
-Prosecutors (Reuters) 04/21/2004 09:03 PM
Reuters - Prosecutors charged on Wednesday that former Enron chief executive Jeff Skilling broke the terms of his $5 million bond during a bizarre alcohol-fueled fracas in New York earlier this month.

Lindows Settles with Microsoft, Sets IPO
Terms (Reuters)

Lindows Settles with Microsoft, Sets IPO
Terms (Reuters) 07/19/2004 02:47 PM
Reuters - Lindows Inc. settled a trademark infringement case with Microsoft Corp., maker of Windows software, and set terms for a $48 million public offering on Monday, the company said.

Cypriots High on Speed Now Get Jail
Terms (Reuters)

Cypriots High on Speed Now Get Jail
Terms (Reuters) 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
Reuters - Cypriots' obsession with fast cars may come to a grinding halt after a youth who turned the streets of capital Nicosia into his own personal racing track was sent to jail to cool off.

Oracle Judge Wants Market Terms Defined
(Reuters)

Oracle Judge Wants Market Terms Defined
(Reuters) 06/25/2004 08:48 PM
Reuters - Oracle Corp. and U.S. antitrust officials need to provide clearer definitions on key software market terms that will form the basis for a decision on whether Oracle's $7.7 billion takeover of rival PeopleSoft Inc. can go forward, a federal judge said on Friday.

Italians Face Jail Terms for Abandoning
Pets (Reuters)

Italians Face Jail Terms for Abandoning
Pets (Reuters) 07/08/2004 01:59 PM
Reuters - Italy is finally cracking down on the many fickle pet owners who dump their cat or dog on the roadside as they head to the beach for their summer vacation.

Home Is Where the Words Are for Zealous
Writer (Reuters)

Home Is Where the Words Are for Zealous
Writer (Reuters) 07/16/2004 11:40 AM
Reuters - Cuban writer Tomas Alvarez, worried about the loss of idiomatic expressions in the Spanish language, is preserving them by covering the outside of his home with sayings and famous quotes.

Fighting Words: Decoding Iraq War Lingo
(Reuters)

Fighting Words: Decoding Iraq War Lingo
(Reuters) 01/03/2005 09:52 AM
Reuters - "Hi Sergeant, we hear there are clashes in Baquba. Do you have any information on that?" screams the journalist down a bad mobile phone line from Baghdad.

"Imagine living in a world without
words. Then imagine getting pregnant,
perhaps as a result of rape, giving
birth alone, being arrested - and not
having the words to explain, or to
understand what is happening."

"Imagine living in a world without
words. Then imagine getting pregnant,
perhaps as a result of rape, giving
birth alone, being arrested - and not
having the words to explain, or to
understand what is happening." 04/13/2004 03:29 AM

'Do Not Spam' List Will Not Work - FTC
(Reuters)

'Do Not Spam' List Will Not Work - FTC
(Reuters) 06/15/2004 01:17 PM
Reuters - A government-run "Do Not Spam" registry would only generate more unwanted e-mail because unscrupulous marketers would simply treat it as a source of leads, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.

Look Who Made the 'No Fly' List
(Reuters)

Look Who Made the 'No Fly' List
(Reuters) 08/20/2004 08:07 AM
Reuters - Sen. Ted Kennedy, the archetypal liberal Democrat from Massachusetts, is often called names by Republicans. But until this year he had never been viewed as a threat to U.S. air travel.

Google Applies to List on Nasdaq
(Reuters)

Google Applies to List on Nasdaq
(Reuters) 07/12/2004 12:29 PM
Reuters - Web search leader Google Inc., which has filed for a $2.7 billion initial public offering, has applied to list its shares on the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. (NDAQ.OB), the company said in a regulatory filing on Monday.

U.S. Court Upholds 'Do Not Call' List
(Reuters)

U.S. Court Upholds 'Do Not Call' List
(Reuters) 02/17/2004 03:42 PM
Reuters - The popular "do not call" registry that allowed more than 51 million consumers to keep telemarketers from calling them at home got a nod on Tuesday from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver, which upheld the list.

Jack the lad tops names list (Reuters)

Jack the lad tops names list (Reuters) 01/05/2004 07:22 AM
Reuters - Britons are still in love with the Jack the lad -- the name remained the most popular for baby boys for the ninth year in succession.

can't see useless

can't see useless 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
I want to tell the story of the powerless man who watches his wife cry herself to sleep at night. The man who can't provide for his family, the man who can't protect them from the Bogeyman. The man who wanders his empty house at night, looking for the joy he knows once lived there. The man who waits for exhaustion to claim him in the deep of night, and give him a brief reprieve from his sadness.

'Rings' Tops List of Oscar Nominees
(Reuters)

'Rings' Tops List of Oscar Nominees
(Reuters) 01/27/2004 09:09 AM
Reuters - Epic "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" topped the list of Oscar nominees on Tuesday with 11 nominations followed by seafaring adventure, "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" with 10 as each was included in the best film category.

NYC, Four Other Cities on List to Host
2012 Olympics (Reuters)

NYC, Four Other Cities on List to Host
2012 Olympics (Reuters) 05/18/2004 10:38 AM
Reuters - Paris, New York, Moscow, London and Madrid were accepted on Tuesday as candidates to stage the 2012 Summer Olympics but four other cities missed out.

Appeals Court Upholds 'Do Not Call' List
(Reuters)

Appeals Court Upholds 'Do Not Call' List
(Reuters) 02/17/2004 07:45 PM
Reuters - It's a clear "don't call us" message that an appeals court left for telemarketers on Tuesday when it upheld the popular National Do Not Call registry that contains more than 50 million names of consumers who do not want unsolicited sales calls at home.

Porn unseated in list of '04 junk email
(Reuters)

Porn unseated in list of '04 junk email
(Reuters) 12/29/2004 10:15 PM
Reuters - Porn ads have slipped down the list of top junk e-mails in 2004, replaced by offers for arthritis drug Vioxx, ID theft scams and stock pick information, America Online says.

Spitting Image Tops List of Pet Peeves
(Reuters)

Spitting Image Tops List of Pet Peeves
(Reuters) 03/29/2005 10:53 AM
Reuters - Beijing residents say spitting in public is what they can't stand most about living in the Chinese capital, followed close behind by dog owners who fail to clean up after their pets.

San Francisco Selling Its List of
Married Gays (Reuters)

San Francisco Selling Its List of
Married Gays (Reuters) 04/13/2004 11:19 AM
Reuters - San Francisco, which ignited a passionate nationwide debate by allowing thousands of gays to marry earlier this year, is selling its list of the newlyweds, the mayor says.

Saudi Says 4 Killed in Jeddah Were on
Wanted List (Reuters)

Saudi Says 4 Killed in Jeddah Were on
Wanted List (Reuters) 04/23/2004 09:26 AM
Reuters - Saudi state television said Friday four militants killed by police in shootouts had been on a most-wanted list of fugitives accused of carrying out bomb attacks in the kingdom.

Useless Question Of The Day

Useless Question Of The Day 05/18/2004 10:47 PM
Why is the metal interface of iTunes on Windows so much better-looking than QuickTime Player on Windows?

Why IRC is crap, yet useless

Why IRC is crap, yet useless 06/07/2004 05:57 AM
After several (well, since 1989 anyway) years of experience on IRC, I still probably can count the useful hours I've spent there using one hand only. (Then again, I can count in binary.)

But the reason why IRC is interesting is that it functions as a collective subconscious. On some channels certain things pop up constantly, even though nobody really cares about them. For example, on #go.fi people talk about EGF rating points. These have no significance for any player whatsoever, unless you are a very strong. But they are a slightly-better-than-randomized way of evaluating performance. So everybody has some interest. On #joiito, most of the discussion is completely incomprehensible, yet those people feel a strange connection, and gather together at conventions.

IRC is like a common subconscious, where thoughts come and go, tucking in different directions, yet never converging. Most of the discussion on any channel is bullshit. Pure and honest crap. Nothing but the equivalent of waving your lips in the wind in the faint hope a meaningful sentence will appear, if you keep producing syllables just long enough.

But it's common crap. That crap which binds us together, and builds communities. Some people have this odd notion that "social activity" is the same as sitting in a pub, drinking beer and talking horseshit. Fine. The important thing is "crap".

All of social software is mostly about crap. This is what the CSCW folks never realized - they thought it was important to increase productivity and get more achieved through computer-assisted work. The social software phenomenon (weblogs, Orkut, LinkedIn, IRC, chats, bulletin boards, ...) is built on the notion that people wish to talk crap. They enable you to use your time idly, do nothing, because conscious thoughts (and the inevitable good ideas) rise from the subconscious soup of crap. I think that's why Wikis haven't really flown is that they are not that good places for crap: the community deletes anything that is not considered to be in line of the other contents of the wiki. They don't allow the subconscious simmer of thought in the same way as IRC. It remains to be seen how much crap will surface on Orkut or Friendster, and whether that amount is enough to allow them to survive. (I've noticed I don't use Orkut anymore, even though I am listed. There's just so little point.)

The Finnish IRC service IRC-galleria, is really a place for IRC regulars to post their picture and have comments appended to it. However, there are now many young people, who put their pictures on the IRC gallery, and then "go ircing" on it - meaning posting comments on other peoples pages on the IRC gallery, creating large amounts of anger among those who know what IRC really is. I think this is a wonderful example of "crap in action" - if you build a way for people to discuss, they will come.

The societies are built on crap. The internet is built on crap.

Crap is good. Keep talking bullshit, and while the world may not be better, at least it will be a far more interesting place. :-D

Why IP banning is useless

Why IP banning is useless 02/10/2004 02:38 PM

Many proposals for eliminating comment spam are focused on banning or throttling comments from the IP address of the spammer. This is fundamentally flawed because it assumes IP addresses are both unique and hard to come by.

Banning an IP address can have severe consequences. Many ISPs (including AOL) and companies use a proxy server that makes it appear as if all users are coming from a single (or a handful) if IP addresses. By blocking an IP address, you might be preventing a substantial portion of AOL users from commenting. Depending on your point of view, eliminating AOL may not be a great loss; however the same thing would happen to millions of users behind other proxy servers.

The other problem is that IP addresses are very easy to get or fake for spammers who care about such things. There are hundreds of thousands of open proxies that will let anyone direct Web traffic through them. When I’m using an open proxy, my IP address is effectively masked. And I can use simple software to switch to a different open proxy (and thus a different IP address) every few minutes. So my spamming activity isn’t tied to a specific IP address.

Hypothetically speaking, if the problem of open proxies were to disappear overnight, there are two other mechanisms that provide a limitless set of IP addresses to spammers: dialup and spoofing.

Most dialup ISPs provide a different IP address each time you dial in. If a spammer were to find that their IP address had been banned, they could simply disconnect and redial. It would be trivial to automate the process of dialing in, spamming, disconnecting, and dialing back in.

IP addresses are easy to fake as well. The design principles of TCP/IP allows the sender of a packet to specify its IP address. The message will still be routed to its destination using the fake origin address. Return packets would be mis-routed, however, because TCP/IP would send responses to the true location of the IP address rather than where it actually came from. This means that IP spoofing is ineffective in situations where you need to interact with a remote server, but very effective in a one-way conversation. I can’t retrieve a Web page using a spoofed IP address because I need to make the request and then have the server send me the page. But I can send requests all day long if I don’t care about the response.

Posting a comment (or TrackBack) doesn’t require interaction. I can send a comment in a POST or GET message and not worry about the response if I don’t care about receiving acknowledgment that it was successful.

In the (useless?) polls

In the (useless?) polls 09/24/2004 04:10 PM
It's been said that the 2004 election would be a challenge for pollsters, and today's polls are a fine demonstration. Put simply, side by side they make little to no sense.

Vioxx Unseats Porn in List of Top '04
Junk Email (Reuters)

Vioxx Unseats Porn in List of Top '04
Junk Email (Reuters) 12/29/2004 12:17 PM
Reuters - Porn ads slipped down the list of top junk e-mails in 2004, replaced by those hawking online Vioxx prescriptions, ID theft scams and stock pick information, America Online said.

Mohammed Enters List of Favorite UK
Boys' Names (Reuters)

Mohammed Enters List of Favorite UK
Boys' Names (Reuters) 01/06/2005 11:29 AM
Reuters - Mohammed has joined perennial favorites Jack and Joshua as one of the most popular names given to British boys in 2004, a sign of the country's growing ethnic diversity and a legacy of Muslim immigration decades ago.
Grok Description matches for War words top useless terms list (Reuters)
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War words top useless terms list (Reuters)

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