Archive for June, 2009

Marines Already Have Transformers – VIDEO

With Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen out in theaters, weapons of destruction are pretty cool to watch on the big screen. Wouldn’t it be nice if we already had some of that technology available to us for real? Perhaps we do. Check-out this video we uncovered of a the F-35B fighter jet that does a little bit of transforming of its own.

I finally watched the movie tonight at IMAX. Definitely the way to see it! Very good movie, but even less kid friendly than the first one.

Why Can't Easy Filters Catch Spam

I’m hitting a little bit of a theme with my posts. Can you tell it’s that time of the week when I go through my spam filters and check for false positives? That’s what I’m doing and I’m reminded of something that to me is extremely easy to identify. I’m not sure why messages fitting this scenario aren’t immediately flagged as spam and never seen by the user.

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I don’t know how many times I’ve gone into my email and noticed messages with a weird date and time. In my opinion if an email is sent to me with a "Sent On" date prior to the Pony Express being in service, it’s more than likely a spam email. Even if it’s a legitimate email from a reliable source, I probably don’t want to see it. When they realize I’m not getting their emails or responding, then we can talk about fixing their time server on their computers.

The same would be true for any date where "Sent On" is in the future of the current date. To me those are obvious issues and could be deleted at the server level. Anyone else agree with me here?

I know you can’t clump emails sent in the wee hours of the morning as always spam, I believe they are frequently from senders you may not want to see. Perhaps these could immediately be tagged as junk and kept for review. In fact, I think some email servers already do this as a first level trigger of potential spam sources.

Amber Alerts – Get Them Wirelessly Now

I can’t imagine what it would be like to have one of my children go missing. What might be worse is to have your child kidnapped. If that were to occur you know that there is someone that has specifically taken your child, they’re not just missing and perhaps lost or just by themselves.

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If that would occur to you, you’d do anything to try and get them back. Why wouldn’t you do the same thing for someone else’s child?

With Wireless Amber Alerts you can be notified immediately of events where children have gone missing or kidnapped.

The national Wireless AMBER Alerts Initiative is a voluntary partnership between the wireless industry, the United States Department of Justice, and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), to distribute AMBER Alerts to wireless subscribers who opt in to receive the messages and are able to receive text messages on their wireless devices.

It’s just a text message and a phone bill. Isn’t that miniscule in comparison to helping return a child or another person to their rightful guardian?

Uncover a missing child using Wireless Amber Alerts

Image: Screen shot of Wireless Amber Alerts website






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