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The Floppy Awards
c_g12 wrote to us with the third annual Floppy Awards. It's a pretty humourous collection of some of the (mis)haps of the past year or so -- something to amuse yourself with going into the holiday weekend.
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And PC Magazine == Playboy for geeks?
... because installing Windows 2000 Professional on 974 floppy disks is FUN!
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"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Typical media story twisting made him out to be the author. Why? Because he was the one who got all the publicity. HE got questioned. HE got brought down to the police station. HE got his equipment seized. So, he must have been the one who did it....right?
Bzzzt. That only shows the ignorance of the modern media. The other members of MoRE are keeping low, and anonymous. Smart.
LinuxWorld: OK. Because I've seen conflicting media reports on that, and other things. Like, some say that you are 15, others say you are 16.
Jon Johansen: I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened
Sheesh. Innocent until proven guilty? Not on this planet. Accurate media coverage? Wake me when it happens.
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I really hate it because as a cable modem user, the bottlenecks come from moving from page to page- not loading a page (it's usually those Q#$%#$ adservers' fault). However, the reason they do this, I believe, is because of said ads... the more views they get, the more money they get.
For Windows:
Add the following line to \windows\hosts --
adserver.example.com 127.0.0.1
For Linux: (replace iptables with ipchains if that's what you use)
iptables -a OUTPUT -j REJECT -p tcp -d adserver.example.com
Been a while since I've messed with iptables/ipchains, but I think that's the right syntax (or close to it).
Or just download Junkbuster.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag...
of the Corporate States of America...
For those that don't know: A geek trying to prove the resourcefulness of the Web by holing himself up in his house for an entire YEAR! How ridiculous is that?
Salon has a good but lenghty article about the guy's lunacy
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Here's a similarly themed, but funnier, article from Satirewire.com.
Fewer ads, as well.
While you are there, check out their George W. Bush weblog--it's really witty.
Rich
The little man who rejected your form because you filled out a box wrong is in the heart of every cop who wrote out a speeding ticket.
Aren't the adds just links ot other sites? So, their selling their souls to waste 1/2 of your bandwidth :)
The last page serves to remind us that, no matter how much the RIAA is ripping us off, whether or not we have credit card, whether or not we plan on buying the CD later, no matter how rich the music companies are, etc. etc. etc., downloading copyrighted music is illegal.
Now, don't get me wrong: I have an over 2 GB folder of MP3s myself... and a good portion of them I don't own the CDs to nor do I plan on buying them. But I don't try to justify it... it's wrong, but I do it anyway.
On page 5 of the floppies, it reads:
"In an effort to watch DVD movies on a computer running Linux, 15-year-old Norwegian Jon Johansen created and distributed a program called DeCSS that cracked DVD encryption, allowing users to freely transfer the unencrypted video over the Internet. He was questioned and released."
He was questioned and released? That's it? What? They aren't reading the same press reports I'm reading.
More like: Wired == People for geek wannabees.
ObJectBridge (GPL'd Java ODMG) needs volunteers.
Finding God in a Dog
I have to second that motion...
I really hate it because as a cable modem user, the bottlenecks come from moving from page to page- not loading a page (it's usually those Q#$%#$ adservers' fault). However, the reason they do this, I believe, is because of said ads... the more views they get, the more money they get.
But yeah, here here. I'm tired of the insanely small 'mini-column' that frequents many news sites; usually the ones based on paper publications... I didn't buy a 19" monitor to only have a 1/5-width column be viewable. >_<
The article claims that a program "claiming to be a Gameboy emulator for PalmOS" is really a virus. This isn't true. The program (Liberty) in question is quite real, although shareware. The "virus" (really just a trojan) is a different program which claims to convert the shareware version to the registered version. Read about it here
OK, I'll do the math. $400,000 in 15 years? That's $26,667 a year on averge. Whoop-de-do. Not only that but he gets to room with Bubba and have a permanent mark on his... um.. record.
No thanks.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
"Floppy Awards?" I nominate the movie where Bill Gates is publicly displaying how great windows 98 is and it crashes. :)
The anti-salmon
Was the last page of Pro/Con Napster arguments a joke, or serious? It's hard to tell...
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
I wonder how much Slashdot.org would pay me to name my kid "Slashdot." What do I call him for short? Slash?
microsoft needs to get a floppy award for more than just their name. Their employees using outlook and exchange server manage to compromise their entire network. Official response "Oh no, our netowrk is secure, it's this one little hole the found, and we plugged it". Office 2002 code anyone?
"Science is about ego as much as it is about discovery and truth " - I said it, so sue me.
Since the invention of Viagara that is. :P
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Between this and f*ckedcompany.com is there anything other than good old family/friend mishaps we can use to get humor for the holiday weekend? Maybe the look on someone's face when they get one of my low-budget presents. :D
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Ballmer's showing signs of an advanced "Greenspan complex."
For the love of god please do not let Shrub appoint Ballmer as chair of the Federal Reserve Board!!
Wired == Vogue for geeks.
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on his site there's an interesting commentary by him about the experiment - i think ZDNet viewed it as a profit-making experience, when King didn't ;)
Some people seem to get very upset when someone says that the emperor has no clothes. I've scanned through the messages on some of the web based investment bulletin boards and found many examples where any criticism of a company, or their stock, generated vicious flames from other investors.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Just click on the 'print this page' link to get all on one page, without pesky banners or pictures.
- Andreas
Hmmmm... I've been thinking of building a page-collating proxy app for these sites. It would work somewhat like DejaSearch (for which I created the web front end), in that it fetches all content from the site and presents it in a human readable form, without the marketing-mandated mess. It would be configurable through some database-like system which contains site-specific filters. In this case, it would just follow the 'next page' links, get the content, and put it in your browser. Think this might be useful? Then please comment... Oh, and I do not need rants about 'stealing content' and 'breaking the internet by blocking ads' and such. The Net was there before the suits, and (the interesting part of) it will survive after they are declared bankrupt.
Cheers//Frank
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Goes to Web Sites like ZD Net for selling their souls and 1/2 of their bandwidth and cpu cycles to advertisers.
Who the hell breaks a 1000 word story up into 9 freaking pages!?!!!
Gah.
Linux - Because Mommy taught me to Share.
Napster, blah blah, Microsoft, blah blah, Britney, blah blah, dumb thieves/blackmailers. Is there nothing more to talk about?
What became of that book anyway? Last I heard, sales of the first chapter were way less than expected.
Anyway, ZD could at least have explained why that venture deserved a Floppy Award.
Hands in my pocket