Word: annoyances
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...mail that you might otherwise miss. Once you activate Suspect Mail Blocking, your personal address book becomes your white list (EarthLink's version of AOL's allow list). Rather than block new senders entirely, EarthLink sends them a "challenge response" that will effectively cut off bulk mailers--and probably annoy some friends in the process. You can request daily or weekly reports that list the headers from messages that have been held up, giving you a chance to okay delivery. And you can set your mail preferences to automatically white-list new people you send mail...
...doing it quite so much. In theory, the CD of the future will be smart enough to let its owner make one copy of a song for the computer, one for the iPod, and maybe burn an extra for the car, but that's it. But even that might annoy consumers who are used to making as many copies as they want. Even if the smart CD of the future becomes a reality, to work at all it will have to work absolutely perfectly. If just one copy leaks onto Kazaa, anywhere in the world, millions of people can have...
According to page 309 of the Student Handbook, “Students are requested not to engage on College property in any games that might annoy others, cause damage, or injure passersby.” This vague prohibition has come to encompass football, frisbee and other throwing games, as well as skateboarding, rollerblading and bicycling...
Villa Moda shows why fashion is interested in Majed al-Sabah, but why is Majed al-Sabah interested in fashion? His stock answer, "I've always had a passion for fashion," hardly explains why a could-be leader of his country would annoy his relatives by deflecting suggestions that he become the country's next ambassador to Italy and instead go into a field so unseemly, so unmacho, so unimportant to global affairs...
...much new research has appeared that in November the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and the National Institute on Drug Abuse will publish a 100-page supplement devoted entirely to marijuana. The Journal gave Time an advance look; it's a comprehensive review that will annoy both sides in the drug war. You won't find clear evidence that pot is good or evil, but the research sheds light on some of the most important questions surrounding the drug...