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You didn't hear? They're upgrading their cars.

Hey...... all this talking about the NSA, it gives me the taste for playing Splinter Cell, anyone up ?, if it wasnt for that stupid game, the NSA would be hated...... http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/05/nsa-dating-serv ice.html their already thinking of doing a online dating service themselfs, aint it obvius that their hole plan is to SPY ?, Its not from yesterday that they are ignorant fools!

Top 11 Signs You're a Victim of Identify Theft

of this fine article..

This reminds me of a post on bbspot. "Test Shows 99.99% of High School Seniors Can't Read Perl" http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/03/perl_test.html

Oh, of course. I see what you mean: Apple can't be evil, can it? No, no, Microsoft has a monopoly on that, too.

Correct.

...and BBSpot will set up a Wiki to solve the Y2K problem. 85% of this Wiki will consist of suggestions from people who don't know what the problem was, and think it sill exists. The other 15% will consist of people asking Brian Briggs how to contact Ensenam Ayele.

...and BBSpot will set up a Wiki to solve the Y2K problem. 85% of this Wiki will consist of suggestions from people who don't know what the problem was, and think it sill exists. The other 15% will consist of people asking Brian Briggs how to contact Ensenam Ayele.

...and BBSpot will set up a Wiki to solve the Y2K problem. 85% of this Wiki will consist of suggestions from people who don't know what the problem was, and think it sill exists. The other 15% will consist of people asking Brian Briggs how to contact Ensenam Ayele.

That's why I use the Canon Digital Rebel XCP Camera with integrated cell phone.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/01/next-generation -apple-will-use-windows.html

...and Amazon customers clean their old ones. On the cheap too.

Slashdot stories generated by a computer

good point. Though script-generated stories would be more interesting.

Since ATI already got the deal on Nethack.

self-destruct. Its perfect for playing your pirated hi-res copy of Mission Impossible.

...one of these babies.

Oh, they did that a while back: http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/12/amd_athlon_64.h tml

The link referred to is from BBspot - they are a tech humor website. You can see for yourself by visiting their About page. To quote: "BBspot produces a variety of features like fake news stories satirizing the tech and political worlds"

http://www.bbspot.com/Legal/about.html

a year ago, Microsoft Anti-spyware removed Internet Explorer!

You mean like this:

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/08/ride_sharing.ht ml

"Midicholorion" is based on the real cellular biology term "Mitochondrion", but you probably already knew that.

From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midichlorian
The word "midi-chlorian" appears to be a blend of "mitochondrion" and "chloroplast", two organelles found in real cells and thought to have evolved from bacteria as endosymbionts inside other cells, as purported in the endosymbiotic theory. Lucas has indeed stated that the midi-chlorians are based on the endosymbiotic theory, and it appears that in the story of Anakin Skywalker, he wanted to create a more modern "virgin birth" in the Star Wars saga that was as much based in science as in philosophy and religion, with the mythic "givers of life" being microscopic lifeforms, rather than gods.

More at BBSpot: Lucas Confirms Midichlorian Inquiry

for Apple's Windows based Mac later this year.

Too late:
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/11/sony_photo_shar ing.html

Well, it seems to work well enough with bearded men...

Think again! Much of what you think is "spam" is actually legitimate. Contrary to popular belief, Nigeria really *is* filled with millionaires. Of all of these, the most prominent seems to be Esenam Ayele.

Why are you all so prejudiced against these great offers? I myself have bought many of these products *nudge nudge* and, although I haven't seen any results yet, I have great faith.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/06/apple_p4.html

You mean he's leeching bandwidth off bbspot too? Cool guy.

Hell - I didn't notice that as I posted - thanks AC.

It appears this 'patent holder' is linking to the BBSPOT image from the classic Microsoft Purchases Evil From Satan article.

Without attribution too. Nice to see that he respects others intellectual property

BBSpot - if you're reading this, please change the image something nasty. I don't care what - but I would like to see a (well used) futon in there...

our only assets were 17 computers and a very well used futon.

Santa switched to Linux back in 2002. Red Hat, of course.

what kind of rootkit does it come with?

Of course this one:
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/11/sony_photo_shar ing.html

"Sony CEO Howard Stringer revealed that the company has learned from the launch of the Xbox 360 and will be employing similar but more aggressive tactics. For example, Microsoft managed to create an artificial sell-out demand for their new product by constraining the number of available units. Sony will do the same. In fact Sony will be releasing only three units on launch day. "We also won't be telling customers which stores will be getting the stock to encourage the tradition of lining up in vain for days on end only to be disappointed. It's a part of the traditional fun of launch day," said Stringer. Sony expects to set a new sell-out record. They are aiming for less than 10 seconds. Sony expects the headlines such as "Sony PS3 sold out in 5 seconds" will boost sales even more if they actually had more units to sell. " http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/11/playstation_3_l aunch.html

For the enjoyment of new readers:
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/04/network.html

Well, "good" is the best any software will ever get. It will never be perfect.

Actually, it's possible to write software that is provably perfect.

Are we talking about cars or operating systems? And, while we're at it, why 5%?

You're just trying to sidestep my point:
An "improved" product doesn't necessarily mean it's actually a good product.
A car is an obvious example to illustrate the failure of that argument.

It might surprise you to learn that the people who build the OS aren't the same people who work on business strategy.

That's a nonsense argument to make. It might suprise you to know that Ballmer is actually your CEO or CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. This means that he's responsible for everything, both shipping product and deciding business strattegy. This means he's your boss, not just the "strategists". ("Conspirators" might be a better term.) Ballmer decides how many coders, conspirators and evil monkeys to keep on the payroll.

You wanted to talk about cars earlier. Tell you what - go figure out which major auto manufacturers in the past ten years have had recalls, and which ones haven't. I think you'll find that part of reality is that not everything goes according to plan.

Yes, but the automakers typically recall the part that's the problem. For example, if a fuel level sender was known to short out and cause cars to explode, they would actually replace it... not tell you to replace a fuse in your car with a lower value.

So far your argument pretty much boils down to, "Everyone has problems, therefore ours are no big deal."
Which is sorta my point, Microsoft doesn't take problems with its product seriously.

How much do you *know* about management at Microsoft? How much do you *know* about what they're allowing to happen? How much do you *know* about our techs? I'm serious. I'd love to know what your sources are.

I don't need to know anything about your techs, because the techs don't make any of the important decisions. People like Gates and Ballmer do.
I don't care about your internal processes because I can see the final product.

If that's true, then you shouldn't put up with it. I'm not an electrical engineer, so I can't speak from experience (see how easy it is to admit that you don't know everything?), but if we really did give you a power cable that could shorten the life of your Xbox, then you ought to call customer service and notify them. Seriously. You shouldn't have to do it, but if you don't say something, then it's going to be tougher for us to correct the situation.

You missed my point on this one. The problem isn't the cable, it's the xbox itself. Microsoft is refusing to fix the real problem and is issuing a band-aid to prevent the problem from buring your house down.
The Xbox is still just as likely to fail as before, you just won't be suing Microsoft for burning your house down. They're covering their ass is the cheapest possible way, while leaving all their early adopters with a busted Xbox.

I was just hoping that Active Death moved out of prototype and was implemented in the Xbox 360... oh well...

One box to do it all...

And in the darkness bind it!

Is it me, or do the last 2 main page stories look they they came out of the Slashdot Story Generator?

Then survivors said they knew their idea had gone horribly wrong after seven of their friends were dead. "I kept waiting for Paul and Trevor to respawn, but he just laid there bleeding. That's when I knew we should stop playing. It just wasn't fun after that," said Wilkins.

The real problem is:

How to get trust as a *real* rich Nigerian who want's to transfer his money out of the country?

The real problem is:

How to get trust as a *real* rich Nigerian who want's to transfer his money out of the country?

I wonder if it's the same code they used in their digital camera rootkit.

I'd boycott especially after Sony's rootkit on their digital cameras that stops you from sharing photos.

I believe that Apple may have considered adding adult content to the iTunes store, but following the lack of serious interest in this product, they decided that it is too much of a niche market :)

I think the moderator missed this announced card by Creative: Silent Card The SNR is way better.

I know, I know, trolling and all that -- feel free to mod me into oblivion. But I can't really think of any two companies who are more evil than those two (although a few come to mind which are equally so). If MS and AOL combine, could it even get any more evil than that? Unless..!

You can!

Now, by the help of NASA they can definitely do this

You never know...
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/09/star_wars_lucas .html

It's been done here. Now, featuring random typos for added realism (TM)!

If the Slashdot editors had done some checking, they would have discovered Microsoft has been after the Evil market for some time.