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I think it's also a tip-off that the guy makes his own porn. Who knows, maybe the girl will show up on his site later...

Oh, wait

Check out the MySpace account they found:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=us er.viewprofile&friendID=78722066

The goggles they do nothing etc. Worst site I have seen in a while.

More seriously, it erodes your belief in the basic goodness of people, and hardens your attitude to certain classes of people, when you see such poor specimens of human beings as these.

It's still up now... *blink*

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http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

June 6th, 2006: The people in the pictures below have my friend's T-Mobile Sidekick. Instead of doing the honorable thing when finding someone's phone in a taxi, they instead kept it.

I have found 8 cell phones in the last couple years in taxis. EVERY single one I have contacted the owner (by leaving a message on their voice mail or by answering their phone and telling their friends that I have the phone) and returned it promptly. When people have found my phone, they have also in turn returned it.

When my friend realized that she had left the Sidekick in the taxi she asked me to immediately send a message to the phone saying that we would give a reward for the phone. There was no response. After a day of waiting, she had to go to the store and spend over $300 on a new Sidekick. When she put her SIM card in, she saw that the person(s) that had taken the phone had not only signed on to AOL leaving their name and password in the phone, but they had taken pictures of themselves.

I immediately contacted the AOL name: Sashacristal8905 and requested that the Sidekick be returned. I was immediately told that my "white ass" didn't deserve it back. That she was not a "white bitch" (my friend who is a blonde white girl had pics on the phone this person had obviously seen) stupid enough to return a phone she found. After lots of threats, she said she and her boy would wait for me at:

Sashacristal8905: i got ball this is my adress 108 20 37 av corona come n do it iam give u the sidekick so I can hit you wit it

So, anyways..this is my story. If you happen to know these people in the picture please let me know at: stolensidekick@gmail.com I am not going to go to the address posted above, because a.) Not going to waste my time going to a probable fake address b.) If it is real, there will be a physical altercation and I would probably wind up arrested which would do no good to anyone. I'd rather just embarrass the thief as much as possible. Teach them a lesson on the etiquette of returning peoples lost belongings.

UPDATE #1: Thanx to some cyberwork of friends, found out they have a Myspace acct: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=us er.viewprofile&friendID=78722066

UPDATE #2: Some people are asking how we have their pics and AOL name. The way a Sidekick works, is that when you use it, all the data on it get's uploaded automatically to the T-Mobile server. So pictures you have taken, AOL names and passwords u have used, etc are all on the server. So when my friend turned on her new Sidekick and put her new SIM card in, all the data downloaded on to her phone. And that's how we have everything.

Some people also suggested this may be a ploy of some kind. If you notice, there are NO ads on this website. There are NO outside links besides the one to their MySpace page. I am only doing this to bring embarrassment to people who have no moral value in this world.

UPDATE #3: More questions answered. My friend left her Sidekick II in a taxi inManhattan (where we live). The person(s) that took it live in Corona Queens which is part of NYC. As for contacting the police, a NYPD officer has contacted me already (he found this link on a blog) and informed me how to handle this situation. My friend and I will stop by a police station tomorrow with the receipt and serial. Another friend at T-Mobile has already gotten us the records we need to prove that these people took the phone as well as the numbers that they called with it. Right now, I am more concerned about spreading this story. I want people to realize that what goes around, comes around. If you find a phone in a taxi or elsewhere.. it is NOT yours.. return it....and when u lose an item, then the same will happen for u.

and this is different from current cell phones how? ;)
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Music should be free

Does it seem plausable that someday voice communications could be handled completely by the people without the need for a big centralized entity like a government or a phone company?

I can see that VOIP is starting to show the potential of decentralized telephony. But could it go completely wireless? I know the technology would be tricky, but it's certainly plausable, yes?

Take for example the LP. Back in the day only very large companies could press records. The machines to mass produce these were expensive and bulky and they were very large. Additionally, after making the records you had to ship them - this required trucks: also expensive and bulky.

Fast forward to today. Anyone can burn a cd and anyone can send a song around the world. The means are here.

Cell phones require very little power and yet can transmit and recieve a signal from very far away. The base station is what currently makes this possible - but why couldn't something like a p2p cellular network be possible? Imagine if every car on the freeway as a node and if instead of a TV antenna on every house there were a repeater.

Perhaps this kind of technology could first take off in heavily populated metropolitan areas, where you are likely to be within mere feet of the next person with a cell phone. Everyone's voice and signals could route through each other.

I know this is a technical feat, but at one time so was creating microscopic holes in mylar with a laser using something as cheap as a meal.

Is this at least feasable?
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Music should be free

RFID implants can be used for good. To fight fire sometimes one must use fire. I think what we need is a "little brother" scenario.

What we should do is chip our politicians. I think constituents shoud be able to see where they are and what they are doing during their "hours of operation".
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Music should be free

Hehe, I think you've swayed me. Now that I envision it I can see how it would be hard to take your boss seriously as a Dwarf fighter with an oversized warhammer! It's doubtful any work could ever get done in an environment like that.

But yes, undeniably it would be fun. :D
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Music should be free

That is certainly a tried and true method. Nonetheless, I would view the gaming meetings as the virtual world equivalent of the "company barbeque", or maybe "hawaiian shirt fridays".

You know, a once a week or bi-weekly team-building thing.

I think it could be fun.

Of course, as you point out it would depend heavily on business type and employee demographic as well.

Maybe it's a bad idea, I can accept that possibility - I'm pretty experienced with bad ideas. But I think it's important to try new things. After all, if we only ever stuck with that which has been "tried and true" we would still be plowing fields with horses and in fact would never have held the first teleconference.
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Music should be free

I'm not sure why you have to say "uh" when posting. There is plenty of time to form cogent arguments without stalling for time.

At any rate, I actually do use OS X and Linux. But yes, my primary desktop is Windows. Frankly I find OS X to be overhyped and Linux is just not a great desktop. Don't get me wrong, I *heart* linux deeply and use exclusively LAMP at work.

And I do find the prompting in OS X to be excessive at times. When running software updates I must enter my password for each update.

Even from the terminal, even if I am logged in as root I still need to sudo rm -R and then enter my password to remove a directory and it's contents. It's for the best, of course, but it seems that I shouldn't have to enter my password again once I've logged in as "root the all powerful". Darwin is a weird unix-like.

Now, lastly - I'm not looking forward to Vista. I use windows pretty much because it runs my games and has the added advantage of being able to browse and process words. But I am by no means a die-hard fan. I simply have the opinion that it's a good thing that Windows is prompting more often. I am not implying that this indicates that Windows is by any means now "fixed" because of it. Microsoft needs to leave their current architecture behind - Vista should (and it seems will) be the last of the NTs.
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Music should be free

Ah yes! of Course! Why didn't I think of that.

But, did you ever even stop to think about the lactose intolerant! They're moon-people too you know!
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Music should be free

This "excessive prompting" is never complained about with OS X, or within Linux. What's the big deal about being asked for credentials when doing an installation or when performing privileged executions? Is not "excessive prompting" exactly what keeps malicious code from auto-executing and essentially is the primary reason there has been no self-replicating OS X worms to date?

I recall that recent "Mac Virus" which masqueraded as an image - however, if you clicked on it it would ask you for your password which set off alarms immediately. Had Apple decided that it was too much of a hassle for the user to enter their username everytime they needed to install a piece of software, this virus may very well have been successful.

I think the reason it's going to seem "excessive" is simply because of the lack of virtually ANY prompting in previous versions of Windows.

It's all relative, I would think.

Now, requiring Vista to play certain games however, that's excessively lame and nonsensical.
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Music should be free

The government is even invading the privacy of whole other countries!
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Music should be free

First of all, I agree with you whole-heartedly. However, please take into account that "American Idol" can be voted for with a text message or phone call, and you don't need to register to vote, and you can be 8 years old and vote, and you can vote multiple times.

Ok, now that I have that off my chest: don't you wish there was a new-new world out there? I seem to remember something about how so many individuals left the old world behind 300 years ago because their ideas didn't mesh well with the old world.

They traveled across the ocean and prospered in a new land where they could create their own laws and live life the way they wanted to.

Now there is nowhere left to go. We've traveled as far as we can. There is no more land for new countries.

It's starting to make me feel somewhat trapped.
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Music should be free

The best thing you can do with your browser is to write your congressperson and paraphrase some of the more cogent arguments for privacy; many are and have been presented here on slashdot.

This website can be quite a trove of insight.
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Music should be free

I agree that there is certainly usefulness in having a powerful computer simply made into a form which can rest on your lap. But I would argue that full mobility will always be more useful. After all, wouldn't it be nice to bring a vacuum camping to clean out the tent before you roll it up? Additionally, if a roomba required a power cord its functionality would be greatly hindered.

Nonetheless, I agree with you that requiring a power cable by no means trounces the function of a device. But it would be nice to do away with.

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Act V. Scene IV.

"A fuel cell, a fuel cell, my kindom for a fuel cell!"

SLI in laptops! So neat, but so...immobile. Portable, yes. But only within the range of the extension cord. Perhaps when that day comes when we get better mobile power sources we will not come to expect reduced (even if slightly) functionality from our personal devices. When that day comes we will come to expect only greatly increased prices!

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He's such a whore http://myspace.com/tom

This really looks like the guy, and what would be more fun if it is than to see how many people post comments if it is?

Anywho, this looks like the guy pictured http://www.myspace.com/fightit/ but I will say I can't say for sure.

These guys are TOTALLY slack, they have another website, but I can't find anything other than the myspace shiz. I believe one of them, at least, used to be a computer programmer before he burned out, quit, and joined this band/slack-evangelism outfit:

http://www.myspace.com/slackestra

Well, I'm functionally illiterate and I'm perfectly capable of using the internet (atleast, I think I'm functionally illitereate. Yesterday f.x. I visited this cool site and couldn't understand a word of what people wrote in their user profiles.. even so, I could still enjoy the pictures and vidoes of fat chicks showing body parts I really didn't want to see! yay me!).

I'm sure the 4% of the population with internet access will really appreaciate it, though.

Well, the whole point of improving the infrastructure is to, well, get a better infrastructure.

what the secret behind all this is...

No need to get all filosofikal about it LOL :))))

Every minute our young people spend on myspace (and similar diversions) eats into their IQ. To demonstrate, please measure your IQ now, then read the following comments (taken from arbitrary members' profiles):

"I love to smile, smiling is my favorite"
Wow. That's the greatest.

"I am so glad you joined the little myspace group :) so fun!!!"
OMGAWD

"yay..i popped your myspace cherry!"
LOL!!!

"LOVVEE AND MISSSS YOU TONS! LOL"
LOVVEE TOO!

"About me:
I'm on here to meet people that I feel can make me better."
Can't argue with that one. BUT.. does that include the girl at the top of your friend's list? You know, the one with the red undergarments?

IQ After reading: Debatable.
Oh, and before I go, here's one of my personal favorites:

"Heroes: My lovely parents who have done everything to get me where I am today."

Ya, I'd be worried about the press publishing my name too because then people could log onto myspace and learn even more about Shaun and Saverio

Ya, I'd be worried about the press publishing my name too because then people could log onto myspace and learn even more about Shaun and Saverio

Google has already peaked. It used to be that the quality of links in Google's search results were very good, and reflected pages with good content. No more. The spammers have figured out how to put their pages on top of Google's searches. The trick, basically, is to have a lot of pages with links to each other, which fools Google's link ranking algorithm.

For example, Here is a bogus blog site which is trying to Googlebomb. It looks like a blog site, but the site in question just grabs text from RSS feeds and makes a bogus blog, which also has ads which this spammer hopes to get high Google ratings with.

In my case, I had a bad transcription of the Lyrics to an early 1980s song have a high Google rank score at one point. It was a clearly personal web page. Well, back in 2002, it was one of the first ten links Googling for this particular song. These days, a Google search for this song gives you those sites which have made an ad-filled page with no content for every name in their database, those lyrics sites with too many popups, ads, and spyware (and who have copied my poorly-transcribed lyrics instead of the real lyrics), the Amazon page for this product--but my lyrics page is no where to be found.

Google's goden age has come and gone. Their searches are becoming less relevant and informitive, and big players like Microsoft are butting in to their territory (for people who don't think Microsoft can make an effective search engine: People said Microsoft couldn't make a decent browser in 1996).

These days, Myspace is the place to be (In the USA, that hot chick will have a MySpace page and will give you their MySpace ID); You Tube is a great place to easily get pirated TV content (cool rare 1980s music videos and Dr. Who TV shows, in my case); and DIGG is more relevant than Slashdot (but shares Slashdot's problem of having too many fanboys and flamers).

No, I think what NASA needs is a MySpace page.

Oh, wait. Apparently NASA already does have its own MySpace page.

Um, if you're downloading someone's own homemade content, there are far better ways available to download it.

Face it. Practically nobody uses P2P to download legal stuff.

Have you considered wearing support hosiery? If that isn't good enough, then you could probably get a prescription for compression hosiery.

There are many styles of hosiery that could pass for socks under pants.

I have a hosiery blog [MySpace of all places] that speaks about trying to make hosiery on men mainstream.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

Well that explains why Rupert Murdoch, the richest & most influential media owner in the world (owner of Fox and myspace.) has ended years of Clinton hating and started cosying up to Hilary Clinton.

Utterly fascinating - he's a powerful, ruthless, pragmatic man, normally the kind of person who gets along perfectly with the current republican administration - but it looks like the christian right's prediliction for censorship is starting to ruffle his feathers.

Anyway, for anyone unlucky enough to be using internet access in a library, I'm sure the circumvention techniques good for the great firewall of china will work inside the US as well. Maybe the BoingBoing guide to evading censorware will be useful too.

Oh - on a side note, check out the spoof Rupert Murdoch Myspace Profiles

What's the equivalent of the Razzies for websites?

Link?

Maybe you should let your own little personal prejudices slide a bit. MySpace isn't the great Internet evil, you know.

joe-baldwin.net's MySpace profile complete with auto-playing song.

We all have bias, you know. :)

Note that being added as somebody's "friend" is not some huge statement that she 100% trusts him or believes he is who he says he is. But the media treats it like MySpaceFriend = RealFriend

Yeah. My cat has over 100 myspace friends. People will friend anyone on that site, and it's not like it means they want to have wild sex with every one.

As a result of his myspace profile, he is currently dating a 14 year old girl. Sure, it consensual but he isn't anything like what he appears to be, and it kind of irks me he is using myspace as a tool to further his exploit of young girls. This guy is a cunning manipulator, and, what do you know, 14 year old girls are easier to manipulate than someone closer to his own age. I contacted MySpace support and provided them all the links to his ESORN. What did they do? Nothing. I know there are freedom of speech rights, etc. here but it's very obvious what this guy is trying to do based on the content in his profile. At the very least, he shouldn't be allowed to have a myspace profile with pictures of underage girls.

For those afraid to click:

http://www.esorn.ag.state.oh.us/Secured/p23.aspx?o id=38296

http://www.myspace.com/spr1337

As a result of his myspace profile, he is currently dating a 14 year old girl. Sure, it consensual but he isn't anything like what he appears to be, and it kind of irks me he is using myspace as a tool to further his exploit of young girls. This guy is a cunning manipulator, and, what do you know, 14 year old girls are easier to manipulate than someone closer to his own age. I contacted MySpace support and provided them all the links to his ESORN. What did they do? Nothing. I know there are freedom of speech rights, etc. here but it's very obvious what this guy is trying to do based on the content in his profile. At the very least, he shouldn't be allowed to have a myspace profile with pictures of underage girls.

For those afraid to click:

http://www.esorn.ag.state.oh.us/Secured/p23.aspx?o id=38296

http://www.myspace.com/spr1337

Stop spreading BS.

Here's your "manager":
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=us er.viewprofile&friendid=4059111

It's an Associated Press story, actually; but I've really grown skeptical of the relationship between AP and cable news. The story might as well have been written by someone at MSNBC.

I hate to be the one to bring it up here, but consider the attention MSNBC gives MySpace.com.

It's certainly not the only social networking website, and there's nothing special about it. It's really just a behavioral aggregator for every social activity that already occurs throughout the Internet and in every mall in America; and yet MSNBC pumps up every MySpace story with complete glee and schadenfreude.

It didn't start happening until News Corp.'s purchase of the site was public, although MySpace was still popular enough to merit stories. MSNBC doesn't talk about CampusHook or BangMe.net, a site that would really get the Nielsen ratings up. Fox's coverage of MySpace stories is much lighter, much more careful. I once watched Fox pundit Bill O'Reilly with an uncharacteristic quiet calm discuss MySpace with a talking head who was would lead you to believe that prior to MySpace, kids never did things like take risque pics of themselves to show off to boys and girls they hardly know.

Can we say..... Superficial?

Can we say..... Valueing style over substance?

I'm a bit surprised to find nerds superficial, or valueing style. You should be happy everyone can finally establish a space for themselves on the internet. Or are you just jealous because any 7yo can make a "web page" now?

Either way, I would gladly look at 1,000 vomit-filled webpages if it meant meeting a REAL person in REAL life that I thought was cool. Oh yeah.. Nerds don't want friends, I forgot.

http://www.myspace.com/clintjcl

I don't understand something... We slashdotters are complaining because more people are on the internet, doing things they like? Or is it just becuase we hate the idea of non-tech people on "our" internet?

Seriously, if you don't like somebody's page that badly then GTFO the page, or HELP THEM build a site that they may be WANTING but lack the time and energy to learn HTML+XML+CSS(1&2)+AJAX+JAVASCRIPT. I mean choose one or the other and quit bitching. Shit you could even charge a small amount for it ($20 for a design of the myspace page or $20/hour for people that can afford a TLD). I'm sure if your design skills are good enough they would be happy to compensate you a fair amount and would thank you, then guess what, they send out a word-of-mouth message to their 2,000 "friends" and you get a shit load of referrals. A new business anyone?

We bitch about "teh xtians"/"teh busybodies" encroaching upon violence in video games (or anything else in this vein), saying things like "If you don't like violence in videogames then RESEARCH the game and figure out if you want your kid playing it". But OTOH we say things like "These people just need to get off my internet because their design skills suck" or "There are too many ads". IT'S AN AD SUPPORTED WEBSITE, if you don't like the ads then get fricken Adblock or Opera. I regularly surf MySpace AND YouTube, and see NO ads. I also hate some of people's pages, because they can get annoying but I rarely bitch about it. BECAUSE I HAVE A BACK BUTTON IN ALL THREE OF MY BROWSERS!

Hell, if you hate it bad enough setup a proxy and block myspace.com or setup the Google search bar in Firefox to add "-myspace" to all searches.

Please, because I'm tired of hearing goddamn generalizations like "Everybody on Myspace is a complete moron" and nobody offering to help fix the root problem of ignorance of web standards.

As a Post Script... I have a myspace page that is neither annoying nor badly designed... http://myspace.com/jijinmachina

all the websites on myspace look like crap..

I was about to accuse you of exagerating and being pointlessly mean. Then I actualy went to MySpace, clicked on "browse" and opened 5 random pages.

They all look like crap.

I guess that's why I'd never gone to MySpace before today.

Presonus firepod, all the way. Check out http://www.myspace.com/theanthemband for some sounds and what you can do. (just got done recording this about a month ago using the firpod and nuendo 3.)

Cryptopsy

We don't need corn, we can use Algae and the pollution from the salton sea .

http://blog.myspace.com/ex_misltech

                * Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km)
                * Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km)
                * Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km)
                * Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km)
                * Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2]
                * Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)

Ex-MislTech

http://blog.myspace.com/ex_misltech

Nothing compares to the output from Algae as far as bio oil goes .

                * Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km)
                * Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km)
                * Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km)
                * Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km)
                * Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2]
                * Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)

Ex-MislTech

how hard is it to falsify a myspace account?

There are some people with way too much free time... Ive found myspace friends networks of completely fabricated myspace accounts of all world leader, most of the US government, and celebrities and odditities like severely obese people. e.g. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=us er.viewprofile&friendid=6432557 There are some really immature people with wayyyy too much free time on their hands.

Ha! and right you are.

Looks like it should be http://collect.myspace.com/misc/tour_2.html rather than http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/misc/tour_2.html , and to make matters worse it happens for the next five pages.

It makes you wonder doesn't it.

Ha! and right you are.

Looks like it should be http://collect.myspace.com/misc/tour_2.html rather than http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/misc/tour_2.html , and to make matters worse it happens for the next five pages.

It makes you wonder doesn't it.

You just haven't been to the right MySpace pages. Check out mine

I keep hearing mentions of myspace.com, so I went to see what it actually is.

On the main page, there is a link to Learn More, leading to "Step 1: Create your FREE profile". There, my choices seemed to be Next or Sign Up. Since I didn't want to sign up but did want to learn more, I clicked Next to go to page 2.

Here is what I learned on page 2: (in the familiar formatting of the standard MSIE error pages, even though I used a better browser)

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Please try the following:

• Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
• If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
• Click the Back button to try another link.

Technical Information (for support personnel)

• Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404.
• Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.

I keep hearing mentions of myspace.com, so I went to see what it actually is.

On the main page, there is a link to Learn More, leading to "Step 1: Create your FREE profile". There, my choices seemed to be Next or Sign Up. Since I didn't want to sign up but did want to learn more, I clicked Next to go to page 2.

Here is what I learned on page 2: (in the familiar formatting of the standard MSIE error pages, even though I used a better browser)

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Please try the following:

• Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
• If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
• Click the Back button to try another link.

Technical Information (for support personnel)

• Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404.
• Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.