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From what (little) I know about Falun Gong, hacking a satellite doesn't sound like something they'd do, since it's much more likely to be illegal than a sit-down type protest, and MUCH more likely to bring the jackboots down on them.

I'm inclined to think it was some other band of kiddiez that just wanted a good cover for their actions, like the "Hacked By Chinese" incidents from last year.

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Darwin is an evolutionary OS...
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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?

Advertising via unsolicited e-mail is trespass to chattel and theft by
conversion. That was established in Federal court in 1996/97 in Compuserve
vs. Cyberpromo, heard in US District Court in Ohio by one Judge Graham.
Spammers routinely also use third-party relay, which is outright theft of
services and a violation of the Federal Computer Crimes Act, to wit,
unauthorized access to a computer system.

While I don't exactly approve of this "buy software and then kill the Windows branch" stragety, it's interesting to see it happening. As a shareholder, I'm curious to see if all these purchases are truly being made to improve Apple software, or just to limit Windows users access to such software.
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Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!

I was checking out the site, and in the comments section, someone had mentioned that they released a copy of Cannery Row. Someone else posted that they went out and bought extra copies of their favorite books just to release them.

Now true, this might be a good way to get rid of some of your junk sale books, but it seems some folks are having better ideas :)

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Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!

yeah, let's stop filing complaints about spam, let's just let them do whatever they want to abuse the network... you might as well have said "Just Hit Delete" like all the spammers want you to do.

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Same thing here. The last movie I saw was Ocean's 11, and the sound kept cutting out during the big finale. We (myself, my wife, and the rest of the people at that screening) got free tickets, and with any luck, the wife and I will be able to cash them in this weekend when the grandparents come down to see the grandkids :)

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But suppose there's a local version of Google, or Yahoo, or some other search engine... would a ruling to remove their links also effect the parent site?

Like any talented dog, it can do flips. Like any talented cow, it can do precision bitmap alignment.

All I can say to that is...

moof.

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Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!

The problem is that broke their own rules when going from os9 to osX. Finder commands which have been constant since System 7 changed for no good reason: want to create a new folder? Command-N doesn't do it anymore, that opens a new Finder window - Shift-Command-N is your new keyboard shortcut now. The "stop light" of window control buttons violate their old user interface guidelines on multiple levels. And they even moved the location of "Empty Trash" on the menu bar, so people that went to the menu bar instead of using a keyboard shortcut have to undo all those years of muscle memory training of just going to the last menu item on the right and dragging down...

Yes, it's whining, to a certain degree. I did the same thing when Apple went from System 6 to System 7 and changed how you handled control panels and extensions, and when they went to the "Platinum" puffy Windows-y interface in OS 8.

The changes from 6 to 7 were good for the system, "Platinum" didn't do much for me (I still prefer the clean black-and-white interface of System 7), and osX is a whole new ball game. It's starting to grow on me, and I'm finally learning to go to the Dock instead of the Finder to empty the trash. I'm actually starting to enjoy the Dock now - it's a nice retractable place to put a lot of icons I used to leave lying around on my desktop. I guess change can be good after all :)

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Let "them" know you're not a terrorist!

Even they didn't support Macs, they were a good system when I was able to access them.

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You can always count on them to do the sorts of things we'd never dream of doing with our own Macs - tearing them apart and photographing them, overclocking the $#!+ out them, wedging a cd drive into an SE/30, etc.

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When I first heard about this yesterday, I was thinking "So what? This is the same kind of Windows&Outlook-only virus problem that's been painfully well documented and explained". I saw no point in the FUD coming from the anti-virus people. Good to see someone else makes those observations, and in such a public forum.

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From the review:

With neither a zoom lens nor LCD monitor, it takes some practice to frame shots properly -- subjects that filled the tiny viewfinder proved to be only an off-center portion of the captured image.

Gee, it sounds like he's never used an actual 35mm film camera in his life. No LCD monitor? Heaven forbid you have to use the viewfinder that's happily provided. Guess he's never heard of parallax error, either.
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The official NWN site only lists Windows requirements - where can I find out what kind of Mac or Linux box it'll run on?

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Just to put a response on this from someone you're talking about... :)

I live in Taco's neck of the woods - cost of living is a bit on the high end here, IMHO - and I'm working one job, while my wife stays home to take care of our two kids. We're paying the bank for the privelage of living under a single roof, and that privelage takes up about 50% of my monthly takehome pay. The only reason we could afford the house was thanks to an inheritance, which barely covered the down payment.

Yes, we have two color tvs and two vcrs, but that's only because we spent good money on the first ones, and they still work well enough to be used in the basement on occasion. There's also an original Nintendo connected to that tv in the basement that we bought used years ago - no Playstations, no XBoxen. No Game Boys in the house, either. I splurged last month and ordered one of those 76-games-in-one game systems that were mentioned in an article here recently, and it's the best thing in the world as far as the kids are concerned. The dvd player that we just got last Christmas is a no-name Best Buy special, and we don't own any dvds (yet). The newest computer that was purchased was a used Bondi blue iMac, and that was two years ago. There's also the G3 that I bought five years ago (wow, that thing's getting old...) with a G4 upgrade that I put in it last year.

We don't go out to the movies, and if we're lucky, we go out to eat once a month. It's too expensive for these things, and the kids are too much hassle to take out in public sometimes :) Nobody in the house drinks, smokes, or does drugs other than caffeine and chocolate. I've always said I never did those other things because I couldn't afford them :) Yes, we have two cars; one is my economy car for shuttling to and from work, and the other is the grocery getter / kid hauler. Both cars are fully paid for, and over 10 years old.

According to that article, we're a "below average" household, based strictly on the income numbers and education levels. Strangely enough, our household basically is the 50s/60s standard model - I come home from a day at work, the kids run up to greet me at the door, and the wife is getting dinner ready after her long day of cleaning / laundry / kid corraling. She does the bookkeeping too - I just bring home the money :) (She's the one with the business degree, after all; I'm just a geek.) She says things are kind of tight, but they've always been that way; we still manage to get by somehow. We don't have the latest and greatest toys (despite my geeky wants and urges), but we're still a happy, "average" American family. I don't see that we're particularly well off, but we're holding our own. The trick to the financials of all this is -

wait for it -

live WITHIN your means.

Just like they did back in the "good old days" before all the PDAs and TiVos and cell phones (oh yeah, one Tracfone in the household - $20 every two months for a phone I barely use for thirty minutes a month), you only spend what's in the bank, or what you KNOW is going to be in the bank come the next paycheck. There's only been a few times that our total credit card debt has been over $1500 at the end of a month, which from what I understand is WAY below average. This is something that people seem to have forgotten - the people that give you those pieces of plastic want their money back someday, and someday SOON.

Like that NYTimes article says, everyone acts like their financial salvation is coming just over the next hill... but the odds are REALLY good that what's over the next hill is just the next paycheck. If you live life expecting that next check, you won't be surprised - or at least, you won't be disappointed when the monthly bills show up. If you learn to take care of what you have, and make do with what you have, you don't have to be throwing tons of money out the window every month for the next "newest and bestest". Regular oil changes are a lot cheaper than a new car every few years because the engine blew up after you kept treating it like crap.

We may not be financially compared to other households in this country, but we're financially stable, and we're overflowing with intangibles that a happy family provides.

/me checks the preview... wow, I was in a mood to write tonight, wasn't I? :) Sifting through to edit out some of the more personal information...

And after this lengthy monologue about money and happiness and making do, I leave you with a link to a site where you could win new geek toys, and put some affiliate money in my pocket in the process so I can buy more toys :)

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I dipped into lankwei.com (as mentioned in the original article), and found this page with info on various flash ROM products. Not exactly cheap...

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You want a shirt? You got it :)

http://www.cafepress.com/jackvalenti

I should have a design up by tomorrow morning :) God, I love how easy it is to work with cafepress... :D

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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket? Or a Darwin shirt?

As of 10:15 am Thursday morning from inside UMich, www.macslash.com is still a dotster default page. Plain old macslash.com, however, gets me to their site.

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Apple hardware still too expensive for you? How about a raffle ticket?

This suit has been making the rounds in the anti-spam circles, like the SpamCom mailing list and the news.admin.net-abuse.email Usenet group.

It is good to see things heading in this direction. The MonsterHut situation stunk very badly for a long time, and it's good to see them getting smacked for such irresponsible behavior.
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thehungersite is back up? Cool! I hit that site every day for the longest time before it died. Thanks for posting that :)

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I'd heard about Comcast doing this from a local news report; seems like I missed the postings here. Thanks for all the info.

Heh, and as I'm typing this, a "we're hiring" ad for Comcast is on cable... "Enjoy an exciting career with Comcast! Technician! Sales! Spy!"
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People using Windows XP with the stolen key will not be able to apply the service pack or any future updates available from Microsoft's Web site.

So, not only are they are they known pirates, but they're going to be running software that cannot POSSIBLY be secured to prevent the spread of M$-virii. Great thinking, guys!

You know they're running stolen software based on the code they're using, surely it's within your power to actually *disable* the machine so it can't continue to spew it's Klez/CodeRed/Melissa crap into netspace.

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Umm.... Smart Media? Flash RAM? Sony memory sticks? I think they've already got that technology covered :)

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Apple hardware too expensive? How about a raffle ticket?

I think the Powerbook program was to get those machines out of circulation. The trade-in was for 190s and 5300s (if I remember corectly), which were covered under a special extended warranty as part of a class-action lawsuit settlement there were multiple design flaws in those machines, easily the worst quality products to ever escape from Cupertino.

I still have my 190, since I still couldn't afford a new machine, even with the trade-in :p

BTW, my first accepted submission! Yay me! :)

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I wonder how much audio advertising a fetus is subjected to before it's born...

Personally, I'm still waiting for advertising on toilet paper and paper towels in public restrooms.

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Can't afford Apple's nifty hardware? How about a raffle ticket?

This guy could be Professor Mann's child :)

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