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Now it's fixed, but I have to watch later. Can't watch videos with sound right now (at work) 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Darn, it's blocked in the U.S. for copywrite grounds. 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Shirley you know a way around that...
... Um... I mean buy the DVD, obviously!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Considering where I work, I generally try to avoid breaking any law outside of traffic laws.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Actually, I don't know if there are any laws worth bothering with about using proxy servers, and what have you.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Being that it is "technically" against US common law to share your password for services that you pay for, I figure circumventing copywrite law by piping the content through another country would be equally frowned upon. I figure that they have some sort of regulation about that somewhere. I know that it is simple to do and the chances of being caught are minuscule.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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I doubt that anyone has ever been prosecuted for letting other people share their Internet connection -- there are even tools built into operating systems (even on phones) to do just that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sharing your internet connection is fine but there was an article here on CP Insider News where a guy was prosecuted under the CFAA for giving his password to a terminated employee without company permission. That set the precedent that if a company/service/website has a policy that you are not allowed to share your password, they can technically prosecute or sue you if you do. If the record companies will sue an eleven-year-old girl for $100K+ in damages for illegal downloads, I would not put it past them suing someone for circumventing copywrite protection by channeling their internet traffic through a proxy. Not saying that anybody will come after me for surfing the internet through a proxy, just that they could if they wanted to.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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I found a few links that claimed to be able to verify an email address online. I thought that was interesting so I tried a few. Turns out they do not work. They only verify the domain, not the full email. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Of course they don't work, there is no way they even could.
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Oh, no. They definitely work.
Those email addresses are now signed up for a large number of "special offerings".
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You can test using telnet and thought that perhaps they were doing that behind the scenes.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: You can test using telnet
Verify an email address using telnet? 
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Yup. Like this[^]
This space for rent
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Thank you, Pete. 
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Just make sure to read notes 3 and 4 in Petes link.
Catch all gets increasingly common, for spam reasons. To lower the value of spamming lists, and also to make it easier to find spammers.
Which brings us to note four, the most common reason to do this check is to keep your spamming lists updated, it's by some companies considered to be one of the more reliable spammer indicators.
Overuse it and you're blacklisted.
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Of course... Because all mail servers left port 25 open for insecure telnet communication...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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How would a mail server know if there is another mail server or a telnet client in the other end?
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Ask him nicely?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Many mail servers don't give an immediate error these days as an anti-spam measure and to prevent bots from brute-forcing out a list of valid users.
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harold aptroot wrote:
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No. Actually... this is absolutely possible if the mail server software follows the smtp protocol specification.
Showing my age here... but for many years I used telnet to connect to my e-mail provider to send/receive mail. You can still do it... try it.
In the old days you could telnet into a smtp mail server at port 25 and do:
RCPT TO:<some.address@somewhere.net>
To which the mail server would immediately respond:
550 No such user
This is still the latest standard smtp protocol as described in RFC 5321 section 3.3[^]
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
modified 3-Nov-16 6:35am.
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That was linked too. It's useless, but I guess it depends on your definition of "verify". An account existing doesn't mean it's the right address, it could still be mistyped, misremembered, or especially intentionally wrong because it does literally nothing to stop that. It doesn't even mean it actually exists, it could be one of those 1-minute temporary inboxes. It would catch some typos I suppose.
I would definitely not consider the address "verified" after this. "Verified for spam purposes" perhaps.
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Don't tell me that ms has got you spamming e-mail saying that winio is the Best Windows Evah now!
Jeeze, what some people will do for wu mao.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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(Because, as everyone knows, there is a top and a bottom.)
And if anyone has ever been so crazy as to try such a thing, please report: did it still taste as good?
*RQOTD = "Random Question of the Day"
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Everyone in Australia eats them upside down -- after all, everyone there is upside down!
Marc
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