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ZapStation CD/MP3/DVD Player/Server

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-new-toy dept.

emc3 writes: "On a whim, I decided to actually pay attention to my daily MP3.com spam^H^H^H^Hmember update. While checking out what was left of my online CD collection after the recent shakedowns, a banner ad caught my eye. It's for a device called the ZapStation. This soon-to-be-released device claims to be able to play audio CDs, DVDs, MP3 CDROMs, and it can serve as an MP3 jukebox, DVD jukebox, Web browser, and it can probably julienne fries by hooking up to your Cuisinart via the USB port. What's the catch? It's not on the market yet. But for $599, you can reserve one before they roll out of the factory (next month). Sounds pretty friggin' cool. Did I mention that it's got a 566MHz Celeron, USB port, and wireless keyboard? Sounds like it's just dying to be hacked." Not bad - good amount of space, and it sounds like it will be cool - if it comes out.

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  1. Too bad they'll epoxy the ports by d.valued · · Score: 3

    Let's hope that the creators of this newest techno-wiz-bang toy follow the models of our favorite hacked devices:

    Release 1. Easy to hack. No unwanted epoxy; hell, they'll leave the IDE (or better! SCSI! Yeah, right!) pins standing.

    Release 2. Harder to hack. Soldering skills a must for attatching the spare pins from your 286 drekbox (and yes, we all have one. I know you do. I've seen your house through that lame ass webcam of yours.)

    Release 3. I don't know what'll eat through that nasty black epoxy that's popular these days.... I mean, epoxies are SUPPOSED to be acid-proof...

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  2. The Future is Here! by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 4

    Web Audio/Video Player -- View and listen to streaming events such as concerts, news and television broadcasts right through your television and stereo

    Need anything more be said?

  3. mp3.com spam unsubscribe how-to by Sleepy · · Score: 4

    Ah yes, the unwelcome, unsolicited mp3.com spam. I sent them one email WAAAY back, right when they were making a transition from a "warez leet mp3 site" due to some problems viewing pages in Netscape (real LEET webmasters only test webpages in IE on Win98 - heh).

    I never went to the site again - who needs them? But then I started getting mp3.com *HTML* spam... some of it nearly 50K. Like all scumbag spammers, no unsubscribe details were provided. It got to the point that if I didn't check my email every day like it or not, my mailbox would overflow and I would lose email. Sending "unsubscribe replies" did not work, and neither did forwarding them to webmaster@mp3.com (the same bastard who involuntarily signed me up in the first place).

    What you gotta do is do a whois, and mail their Finance department and tell them what pricks they are. Be sure to hit all the "generic email lists" you can think of, such as mp3@mp3.com, sales@mp3.com, firstletter-lastname@mp3.com of any person's name on the website, and so on.

    cc'ing 20 people there was probably disruptive, but hey so is spam. It worked. :)

    I did get replies back from management... heh but all the replies were pure-MS Word attachments, and I couldn't read them. The spam stopped tho...