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Slashback: Deception, Fusion, Membership
"Congratulations! You may already own goats.cx!" King Mongo writes: "Well, well. First Verisign sent mail to trick domain owners into switching registrars ( as described earlier on Slashdot ); today I received a similar letter from Verisign asking me to renew cruel-intention.com with them. The problem is, I never bought cruel-intention.com and I've never used Verisign as a registrar. But what's this? Whois says I've owned it since September 2001? And the Technical Contact is Verisign? And it's registered for 10 years? You can bet I'll be contacting my state AG, as well as the USPS Inspectors' office; what if the domain name was offensive, or actionable (it may even be a DMCA violation)? Verisign has taken it upon themselves to hijack my identity and expose me to litigation! At least they let me know!"
Port softly, and carry a big Club. joestar writes: "Just seen in Mandrake Linux news... It seems that the recent call for Mandrake Club subscriptions had a double effect: it was a financial success for MandrakeSoft ($390,000 since the Club was first created on November 28th, 2001), and at the same time it generated lots of questions about this new approach of doing business with Free-Software. In a really interesting message, MandrakeSoft's CEO Jacques Le Marois gives all details about the Club results and why and how they are currently inventing a new business model dedicated to Free-Software oriented companies, since the traditional business models fail for these companies. Actually I'm impressed."
OK, perhaps we only have the way sideways. gh0ul writes "news.com is featuring an article regarding Microsoft and Unisys' joint venture to steer companies/individuals away from Unix and branch in to the corporate servers based on Windows2000. With all the negative impact towards 'wehavethewayout.com', im supprised they kept it going.. guess that $28 million matters.."
We've patented that way to think, sorry. An Anonymous Coward writes: "The Symantec marketing droids are on the rampage again. After patenting their definition update technology, this time they patented heuristic virus scanning. When will this insanity end? :P"
I'll believe it when it's powering my air-car. abburdlen writes: "A month ago an article in the Journal Science appeared hyping the possibility of tabletop fusion. Quick summary: Sonoluminescence in heavy acetone ... temperature of collapsing bubbles reaching temperature hotter than the Sun ... evidence of fusion. There was some excitement. There were also many initial skeptics. Looks like the doubtful win again. From the APS, 'The possibility of a major discovery has been obscured by substandard experimental techniques.' Ouch."
One day we'll all have decent bandwidth, right? Pathway writes "I know this has been looked at by slashdot before, but here's a good update comparing the Zipp Fiber to the Terabyte Triangle in Spokane at thelocalplanet.com. In the article, they compare how one prodject is so successful, while the other is foundering. It's a good read."
Both Microsoft and Unisys have declined to comment on the cause of the outage. It is unknown whether there was a technical problem at the hosting site or whether the site was merely bombarded with requests from IT managers clamoring for copies of the free papers on the site.
Yeah sure... millions of slashdotters thought that they could actually find a way out from Micro$oft!!!!!
I would rather own goatse.cx instead. Imagine the number of hits from losers you would get!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Oh yeah! Spin, baby! spin!
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
wehavethewayout.com has that image with the window at the end of a maze, and it leads off to a drop. very good analogy :-)
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Obviously you're not an AMD owner...
"Derp de derp."
reaching temperature hotter than the Sun ... evidence of fusion.
From the APS, 'The possibility of a major discovery has been obscured by substandard experimental techniques.
What kind of experimental technique could account for that kind of error? Oops! Maybe maybe we shouldn't have set it up in a nuclear reactor that must be where the heat is coming from!!
I stole this Sig
A goatsex link that's on-topic and in context.
Best Slashdot Co
Silly -- the TTL field in TCP has a maximum value of 255, so you could only send insecure credit card data through 254 routers. And the default TTL is usually 64 on Linux and FreeBSD, though it is higher on Solaris and Windows.
Yeah. Hyperbole.
Realistically, however, less than 30 hops by traceroute.
Realistically and conservatively you should only expect to be able to send your insecure data through about 60 routers. You'd need multiple routes or multicast to exceed 255 routers, so you may want to consider mass email or mass Usenet posting instead.Calling Mastercard: "Hi, I'd like to cancel my card. No, I didn't lose it... I accidentally spammed over 1.3 million e-mail addresses and 40,000 newsgroups with it. Yeah. I think you can expect a little activity on that number over the next few years...."
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
HAHAHAHA
From February through July of 2000 we set out to identify software infrastructure trends of Internet computing. Our approach involved several different activities. We studied the needs and realities of eCommerce sites by visiting several of them and interviewing decision makers.
(We bought some stuff at Amazon and interviewed each other about our experiences.)
We analyzed appropriate fractions of current research activity by visiting universities and attending a few key conferences and workshops.
(We hung out at some colleges and went to some frat parties - sorority chicks rule!)
We also informed ourselves directly by exploring material available at appropriate Web sites [21, 23].
(We browsed the web.)
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
I was just happy to find that The Philipino Connection (a very small restaurant here in Knoxville TN, basically takeout with one or two tables) has just opened up a new location near me. I stopped in there yesterday, ate way too much. It's not *great* food, but it's cheap, pretty tasty, and interesting. I would avoid the pepper steak in the future, but the eggrolls, rice dishes, noodles and friend bananas are good. They don't have any of the really exotic Philipino food, but perhaps on some days of the year ...
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
As a hacker, I felt it entirely natural to begin to attempt to encapsulate, measure, and then control reality with software. (For what I mean by the word "hack," see http://www.tuxedo.org/ ~esr/ jargon/jargon.html#hack:. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. 'Whatcha up to?' 'Oh, just hacking.' " Criminals need to get themselves another word, we had it first.)
Wank, wank, wank.
Well, keep that up and "hacker" will soon mean "a whinny little bitch." I'm so sick of that crap (well, thankfully it's mostly died down of late). It is entirely possible for words to have multiple meanings. The fact that a word you think sounds "cool" does not give you license to go out and try to change the English language. Sheesh.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
I once pursued a woman who happened at the time to be an Allaire employee, long before the Macromedia buyout. Beautiful girl, a little short in the brains department, but I didn't figure that out until long after she crushed my heart by hitting on my boss right in front of me. But anyway. Ever since then I've always thought that there was something weirdly appropriate about the fact that someone like her -- bimbo-in-geek's-clothing -- would work for a company whose flagship product was called Cold Fusion. (I met some people a while later who had worked with her -- I got the sense that my impression of her was not far off from the impression she gave around the office.)
As for the matter of wehavethewayout.com... Two companies that had it coming. The dinosaur and the Borg... wonder how much fingerpointing is going on right now. (Come to think of it, Rick Belluzzo... never mind.)
/Brian
Our hostmaster@ address received (about 8 months ago) numerous emails from versign asking us to renew domains we didnt really own.
..etc..
If I remember correctly, there were all along the lines of:
fart-sluts.com
shitonmyface.com
I wish I still had the list, there were so funny!
Morphing Software
Oh really? Well then PLEASE SHOOT ME NOW. Because I was hoping that the cure for AIDS and/or Cancer, the resolution of the Israeli/Palestine conflict, and perhaps cold fusion would be a big deal.
I recently had DSL installed, so apparently it's all downhill from here.