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I expect they will make a hell of a techno song using samples from that .wav soundbyte soon :)

Previous work from LMOM includes the famous All Your Base song, and The Terrible Secret of Space. Here is the ICQ prank that started it.

That would make you a liar.
It seems to be you are a bit of a fanboy and SPEWS zealot. It's ok, you are free to use whatever you want to filter your mail. Hell, man, as far as I am concerned, you might as well redirect everything to /dev/null.

A reference would be nice, though I'm not surprised that you didn't support this claim with evidence. After all, you already established earlier that you are a liar.
I just googled for SPEWS, must of the stuff that came up were real jewels exposing the facts I mentioned above, but if you really insist on having them plastered on your face, let me help you out:

• SPEWS will block entire countries
• without any consideration to the spam to ham ratio.
• Their blacklist is poorly maintained
• their policies regarding entry and removal from it is a joke and prone to verbal abuse
• Even they advise upone their usage as experimental and not reliable enough for production.

If you have any more requests, please make sure to accompany them with baseless and trollish accusations. I will be more than happy to reply to you.

The best webcomic ever written. Except maybe Jerkcity.

Rob

an oldie, but a goodie:

http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk//cliifyintarvi ew/

~jeff

http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/ph otoshop/07-30-04-games/Brendle.jpg

Presented as a game, but still, relevant :)

Internet? internet? Bah!

It's the intarweb, and always will be!

That's pretty Awful.

I picked up "asscandle" from a Brass Eye episode, and "fucktable" came from Clif Yablonski Hates You. Neither are terms of flattery. Also: calling a co-worker a fucktable during an argument is an excellent way to stop the argument (both parties will be laughing too hard to do anything else).

SomethingAwful (http://www.somethingawful.com/) is an entertaining site, and the main updates are blog-form.

Submit the idea to Something Awful

This guy knows a thing or two about them.

You mean guys like this?

Don't forget their Completely Libelous Review of Derek Smart's "Universal Combat". Derek Smart even threatened legal action over that review.

Linkage

And here we can see the target audience enjoying the new service.

Am I the only one who read the headline and thought: "I am the pusher robot... I push grandma down the stairs"? link

I warn against people playing that game for the sex because of how boring it is. It'll take you forever to get to the few sex scenes in the game, and the story would only interest an anime fan anyway.

If you want an accurate review of it, read this SA article on Private Nurse, which is basically the same game with the roles reversed. Oh, and this one actually has more sex scenes.

Rob

that brings up the question...on what day did god create The Magical Face of Linus Torvalds?

donate 10 bucks each to the KKK

Isn't that how much you need to post on their forums?

Well, as if there isn't enough that has been already said about the questionable practices of SPEWS, but it seems like it bears repeating for this audience once again.

First off, they block entire ISP's instead of offending netblocks or IP addresses. This works nicely to "encourage" their customers to switch, thereby presuring the ISP to switch. However, in many areas, there is only one viable ISP for a type of service or area of service. These customers are forced to deal with SPEWS blocking with the few places that do use it. On top of that, is it reasonable to ask people to be blocked for weeks at a time because of a small spammer that you have nothing to do with who got out of control for a few days?

Another one of SPEWS' rather unfortunatnte polcies is their blocking of entire countries. I agree with SPEWS that some countries, namely many Asian and South American ones, have gotten very lax with spammers, however that is no justification to cut off an entire culture from everyone else at your own whim. Thats downright wrong and its racist.

As if that is bad enough, there is the story of when SPEWS came to head with a rather large website, Something Awful who it would cost alot of money to move their servers and data over to new people (and not to mention the increases in monthly cost it would incur to them that would probably shut them down or restrict them) in order to avoid being unfairly blacklisted by SPEWS' block on their ISP's IP range. This did not sit well with their users, who lodged a protest with SPEWS en masse. This resulted in a counter DDoS from SPEWS members, which is documented here and many other places. Do you want to support an organization that does this type of activity to people who disagree with them?

In my mind, SPEWS is no better than the spammers, and quite a few others agree with my sentiments.

Of course, most of the people using SPEWS don't ever have to receive emails of any importance from clients or customers. How would you explain to your customers that they have to switch ISP's to do business with you and expect to still have them as customers?

However, of the anti-spam groups, I happen to like SpamCop (there are other respectable ones, I just dont have any level of experience with them). They do a damned fine job of blocking spam very fast and would reccomend them in a heartbeat.

Tm

Here's the explanation for the spelling:
Lunix is the OS for arrogant shitheads. Spelling it wrong inflames these shitheads (like you).

Get an education:

Lots of info 4 u, fag

More specifically, watch this.

Seanbaby Review

when do we start enforcing the constitution and putting a stop to legalized political bribery?

As a representative of the World Ethical Association of Salient Entrepreneurial Lobbyists (WEASEL), I must say that your statements constitute libel. Our attorney, Leonard "J" Crabs will be in contact. For the legal proceedings may we suggest KY.

You just have to send them a picture of somewhere on Earth that deserves to be spared

Maybe it's that 3DO porn game based on Night Trap.

Rob

What if you could make new episodes of the original Star Trek, with the same characters, worse acting (believe it or not), better special effects, and lower resolution?

You would never, ever breed.

You might forget for a while having been beaten up for your lunch money as a kid.

You get to wear for a little while, clothes more fashionable than anything else you ever wear. (Them ST uniforms is sharp!)

Or THIS could happen

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but SomethingAwful did a pretty dead-on parody of Pitchfork a few months ago. It should, indoubtedly, be checked out.

TOOL is a great example of this. Each member is one of the best in the world at what they do. Add this along with

Read this

You just made iced tea spray from my nose.

That is all.

Yeah I saw this somewhere already hmm...[searching]... here it is:
Who Will Save Rock?.

Here.

If you don't build it, others will.

He's a h4ck3r, and he uses MS Paint. That makes him both a hacker and a painter, right?

Right?

Now before "You can leave a message...", it says in yellow:

Good morning Slashdot users. Someone thought it'd be cute to link to me, which isn't a good idea with the 10 user version of IIS. Sorry for the 403.9's. For more information about my setup, go to ArsTechnica or SomethingAwful.

ICQ Prank that started this all...

Here ya go

Super Noah's Ark 3D>

Spirtual Warrior

All of these are by Wisdom Tree

Super Noah's Ark 3D>

Spirtual Warrior

All of these are by Wisdom Tree

You have obviously never played any of these gems

Obligatory SA misunderstood tech terms:
DDR Ram

Are you aware of any of the earlier shit that came from Japan?
If so, are you aware how it is sold, and what the sales volume for it is, and what the target audience is?

Wow, I never thought about that. He'd probably go insane if someone showed him Water Closet or something.

Rob

An in depth article on this topic has already been written. It's much better than the NY Times offering.

Just called that shop just for fun, the phone number for his shop (Jean Climax barbers!) can be found on the SA thread: Here Here it is if you have nothing else to do: (+44)2089059244

This was written just after I got to the barbers; I used one of his upstairs computers and couldn't see anything so I had to listen.

RE VIDEO: I don't think the video is complete; the lines were to slow at the cafes.

I'm upstairs at the moment and a lots going on, the barbers on the phone Parcel Force about other parcels he's waiting for and one has been delivered according to the force.
"ec107847"2/z/7"17gb" was the number for one he was checking about others too.
After I had been upstairs a couple of minutes a guy came up used a computer pretty much next to mine so I couldn't take more upstairs pictures or record anything, I doubt the mic would have picked up anything audible anyway.

OK after I got up there I heard the barber on the phone, then a guy with an eastern European accent started talking - the guy very likely went in the back way. The barber was explaining that there was a fee for one of his Parcel Force packages, I think it was a storage fee as it was a few days late or something, either that or duty. The guy thought he was talking about the Fed-Ex parcel and started arguing that he'd paid duty; it took a minute or two for the barber to explain.

He paid the fee and there was a lot of rustling, he was opening one of the boxes, there was more angry raised voices and the barber said something like "is it broken etc", the guy said something like its wrong/mistake I don't think he really understood the joke right away. There was more raised voices but not real arguing, the guy didn't suspect the barber of anything and didn't as far as I know explain what happen to him. Probably to keep his post office box if the barbers not in on it.

I went outside to see if I could get a picture of him leaving, he spent about 5 minutes arguing with one of the guys outside the shop, it looked like this guy may have been in on it, and it's fairly likely he knows something about the Romanian at least. I didn't manage to get any pictures, they were facing me the whole time and I couldn't get the camera out even across the road from them. They went back into the shop and must have left out the back door.

I think it's almost definitely the scammer and not someone working for him, his spoken English is as bad as his written and he opened the stuff in the shop.

Below images have been added for when thread is archived,
Official Jean Climax Mug

Outside of shop just after I left, the scammer was inside at this time athough I'm sure he can't be seen through the window.

Seems like Collindale is the root of all internet fraud

If you read the SomethingAwful forum thread that this is all based on, you actually get to see everything unfold. They actually got other forum members in the UK to videotape the package being delivered!

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?po stid=286543754&perpage=1(shitty parent...)

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &postid=287035010#post287035010

:-)

Wow, well done.. and some of us saw it three weeks ago as it actually happened on the Something Awful forums.

Just start about halfway through the original thread and you'll get the minute-by-minute updates as they await for delivery. Pretty funny.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s= &threadid=1016390&perpage=40&pagenumber=69