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Here's another example where the makers of Mountain Dew invited potential "beta testers" to provide mailing address, e-mail and date of birth (presumably for a product sample). The form was insecure and there was no privacy statement on the page, yet the kids who read Digg eagerly signed up (in spite of some grumpy old Slashdotter posting about the absurdity of it all).

I'm sure many teens and pre-teens wouldn't bat an eye at providing virtually any type of personal data (including biometric) if it meant getting something as appealing as a free can of soda. Hell, I think most mainstream web surfers are the same regardless of age. Virtually any student or friend of mine who calls me about a computer problem starts by blurting out their passwords to me even before I can stop them--they want to be 'helpful,' but I think they also want to demonstrate loyalty and trust.

I may be wrong, but die-hard fans of certain products or movies might actually like the idea of giving personal data to entities they want to identify (or be identified) with. If Apple wanted your fingerprint to activate Tiger, you can bet some hard-cores would consider it some kind of compliment or rite of passage.

Code Red is to Mountain Dew what Cherry Coke is to Coca Cola.

I'm not quite sure where LiveWire fits into the mix, it's some kind of bastard child of Dew and Code Red...

Code Red is to Mountain Dew what Cherry Coke is to Coca Cola.

I'm not quite sure where LiveWire fits into the mix, it's some kind of bastard child of Dew and Code Red...

Code Red is to Mountain Dew what Cherry Coke is to Coca Cola.

I'm not quite sure where LiveWire fits into the mix, it's some kind of bastard child of Dew and Code Red...

Hm. On the off chance this is a serious post:

In this context, it's a kind of soda (pop, soft drink, carbonated sugar water). It's a lurid yellow-green, probably supposed to be citrus flavored, and is notable as one of the stereotypical beverages for all-night computer geek hacking sessions due to relatively high caffeine content.

Ooops. The second to last sentence should read: "The centripital force of cornering left the fuel level sensor high and dry." There's still too much tryptophan in my system from turkey during my American Thanksgiving day feast. I think it's time to break out the Mountain Dew before I do any more proofreading of my own writing.

actually, most gamers already put glucose in ther bloodsteam while playing games

Sounds like to win any money you have to travel, so keep that in mind when you sign up.

But like you said, they're paying for the transportation to Mountain View, plus hotel accomodations... I think I can deal with the other expenses.

With all dew respect to the effort taken, the rest is just functional glue that allows the system to work as it should.

That's right, never disrespect the Dew!! Never!!

First off, just to let you know, these questions should be in the askslashdot section.

As for your questions.
1) Girlfriend, I have a fiance, trust me buddy they're over priced. There like a backhoe, you're much better off just "renting" the equipment. If you know what I mean.

2) Under arm fragrence, yes this is a natural defense mechanisim, It must work, you are still alive.

3) Ants, If they're the cute kind that don't bite, let them be, they are the poor mans maid, they will remove all the stale food from around your desk. and for god sakes man, you should know better than to let your self run out of Mountain Dew

4) Got Root... easy... here Now you can make all the k3wl shirts you could imagine.

Hope I could help

-Forget 0 to 60. It's 95 to 55 that counts!

Diet Code Red!!!!! Wooo hooo!! do the dew

*grinning*

Imagine for a moment that this isn't /.

Well, damn, to start, I guess that you'd say this particular modest proposal comes on the heels of a thrilling class for a new TPS report system. Somewhere between that, and reading more, new, and improved evidence of my country's collective insanity, I think it might just be time to propose something.

Now, don't get me wrong, I don't really think that the proposal included herein could ever be adopted, in fact, I think that among other things, it would guarantee that the U.S. government become even more ineffectual.

Of course, I'm not sure there's anything much wrong with that.

With much more adieu:

A Modest Proposal; Congress's own Sandbox

Whereas the Congress of the United States in recent years has at times errantly passed bills (which, were of course enacted into law by the largely disinterested executive branch) which patently subvert, abuse, and remove Constitutionally granted rights; and whereas the enforcement of those selfsame laws does embarass and continually deflate the image of America itself in the global arena, I find it necessary to propose that the Judicial branch of the United States government be empowered (in a proper use of the verb "to empower" I mean, both given the responsibility for, and the authority to....) to create for Congress a special organization with the intended purpose and justification as outlined below.

1. To act as a "legal sandbox" for bills submitted.

Much akin to my beloved bounds-checker Purify ( *snickers are heard off text* . . . *a quote plays* "What do you fu^H^H !@#$!@%^*(& mean there's a memory leak . . . . Oh, it's in a Win9X system DLL? . . . . um, sure, why not"), the purpose of this "legal sandbox" would be to allow Congresscritters to "test" the legalese (and even the content) of the bill against the Constitution.

Unfortunately, of course, the much shortened interface "const bool isConstitutional(struct Bill* pb);" didnt make it into the interface of the latest MS grammar checker. This implies that real, breathing, perhaps even thinking people (or at least hypertrophied Perl scripts) will have to comb through the bills submitted and actually (wait for it)

Think.

I know this is a terrible price to pay, but the US Supreme court seems like it might (at times) be up to the task, or at least up to picking the right scripts (a little Perl, a little Sed, mix, stir with PHP and bam, "Court-In-A-Box").

2. To act as a source of informed Amicus Curare *smirks* information to all parties in future action

Hardly a difficult sort of solution (albeit somewhat final), the information gleaned from close legal study of the bills submitted would be made available to all, and directed to courts considering cases under the bills in question.

Presumably, of course, these two chartering planks would be sufficient statement of course; however, I am sure that providing a summary of the probable constitutionality and research into the related issues to the Judicial Branch would be required. In addition, I suspect that a large number of concerned citizens would request access to this information.

Of course . . . now we just have to figure out how to raise an exception in Congress, perhaps something like "std::assert(!congresscritter_instance.isCorporate Stooge());" would do the trick, though I'm pretty sure the results would be largely similar to "std::assert(false);", so, if I were scratching in some dirty test code for the "Universe 1.1a" revision, I'd pro'lly just write the second, afterall, it saves an invocation.

I'd be interested in seeing how the sales of Code Red have correlated with the public's awareness of Code Red.

A Pepsi product (mountain dew), actually

crack the code

Tastes like cough syrup but has a pretty good kick (hate to think about what that much red food color does to your internal organs though).

That's all well and good, but I have cookies disabled... how about some of this stuff?

Personally, I can see the need for some kind of "grandfather clause" in situations like this; forcing the update of only those resources deemed of significant importance. I believe that at the heart of this policy there are good intentions, and even the government trying to appease whatever lobby incurred this action, but I believe it is rather unjust to force compliance at the expense of other more important endeavours. One of these research labs being forced to comply could be days away from a cure for something like cancer, or idiocy, but they have to put it off to update a website? I know this may be an extreme example, but just consider it when applied to 'Undue Burden'... who decides what is due and what is not? (note: this is dew) Synclayre

I used to be employed by the Taco Bell Corporation. That is a Division of TriCon, which is a Division of PepsiCo. I hate Taco Bell. They Suck. They Suck. They Suck. They Suck.

Uhm, Yeah

mountain dew.... it's dew-riffic!

And just who do you think makes that mountain dew ?

I ... errr... I *looking down at gut hanging over belt and pile of empty cans of Mountain Dew, bottles of Bawls, and desicated Twinkies...*

I resemble that comment...