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Ebay Suspends Phone Number Sales
wellingt writes "According to the
Jackson Sun, the attention brought by the sale of Jenny's famous 867-5309 has led Ebay to evaluate whether or not phone numbers are the property of their owner, and whether they can be sold. Verizon has made the claim otherwise."
they haven't suspended this first post...
oooohhhh I cant think of anything
Just remember..Where are the WMD's?
Lies and the lying liars who tell them..
I miss it - I want a hoagie. FUCK
BAD SANTA
Maybe Santa should've thrown those kids some HOT GRITS
hahaha, looks like IP address can be 0WN3D:
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...a man can own his own giant Cheeto. Verizon can never take that away from us.
Mr. Rogers has been following me for the past three weeks. I have yet to see him, but whenever I turn my head in the right direction, I can feel his presence. His footsteps are there. He also spoke once. His voice was soft and sounded like the creaking of branches in a light breeze. The man said he means no harm and Jesus loves me. I know that's not the truth. That phrase was his secret keyword meaning he was about to strike, so I ran as fast as I could to the corner convenience store and called the police and an officer picked me up and kept me safe for a day. You can tell when they are one of them when they try to brain wash you with false saviors. Only I hold the key to eternity, because I, unlike them, have already found internal harmony. I can feel a majestic light scintillating through my veins twining away from the cold darkness of the one who follows me. Rogers has with him a wooden rod to bludgeon me to death. I know that he will only get me when I am alone, so I ensure there's always someone around me who's awake all of the time, like my friend Peter Jennings who is standing behind me right now holding an open butterfly knife guarding me. Rogers passionately hates Gorbachev and spoke about the leader's car bomb plans on every show. Rogers knows I once smoked weed with Gorbachev and chatted with him about the President's dog Spot who was formerly a spy for the KGB. At the time, I didn't know he was a spy, but there was something about the way the dog looked at me when I saw his photo in the newspaper. His expression unraveled me at the time. Now I know why. The CIA had recruited Mr. Rogers and shared intelligence with him. That's why he knows where I live. That's why I need your help in stopping him. Please kill him before he kills me. Because of his presence within the CIA, he has bionic skin making it impossible to kill him with a knife or gun. You can only stun him with those items but never kill him. His only weakness is from glue. It sticks to the outside of his soul and sufficates the body he possesses, essentially cutting his inner being from the outside world. It does not matter the type of glue. Coat his body with it while chanting "Within this sphere I will set the hounds free". Once the glue sinks into his inner being he will never walk on earth ever again. Watch out for the ghost of Zeus that may eminate from his body just before death to avoid electricution. If you fail he will kill you and absorb your life force making him a threat to the entire planet. I beg of you. Please help rid the world of him!
Proof that Gates is evil
Let us join together oh mercatur fans!
This is a call to arms...
www.mercatur.net
There's another article on the subject here.
-Shiunji Watanabe
Your Rights Online: Ebay Suspends Phone Number Sales
/.), has stepped in and made this possible. PerformancePCCanada has an interview with StarROMs co-founder Frank Leibly, discussing how they convinced Atari to make purchasing ROMs legal for their long-time game fans, but still making it worth StarROMs' while." The interview also notes StarROMs will be "...increasing our offering of classic arcade games, and... expanding into console titles, starting out with the classic Atari console games."
[ The Internet ]
Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, @12:15PM
from the all-sixes-would-be-good dept.
wellingt writes "According to the Jackson Sun, the attention brought by the sale of Jenny's famous 867-5309 has led Ebay to evaluate whether or not phone numbers are the property of their owner, and whether they can be sold. Verizon has made the claim otherwise."
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Book Reviews: Practical C++
[ Programming ]
Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, @11:23AM
from the practice dept.
jsight writes with his review of Rob McGregor's Practical C++, published by QUE. He writes "Some books attempt to do one thing really well, and others attempt a little of everything. This book is clearly an example of the latter, in full force. Weighing in at a hefty 900 pages, you would expect this book to be crammed with chapters and details on every aspect of the STL and basic C++. In the following review, I am going to cover where it succeeds in doing this, and where it fails." (This book has been out for a few years; what books would make more sense today for a C++ learner's library?)
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Games: StarROMs Co-Founder Talks Legal ROMs
[ Classic Games (Games) ]
Posted by simoniker on Wednesday February 18, @10:40AM
from the legitimate-leeching dept.
CaptMondo writes "If you love the old quarter-sucking arcade games of the past and want to be able to download and play the ROMs for them legally, StarROMs (as mentioned previously here on
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Your Rights Online: In (Sort Of) Defense of Spammers
[ Spam ]
Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, @10:31AM
from the unenlightened-self-interest dept.
CowboyRobot writes "Eric Allman of Sendmail has a rant in which he looks at the economic forces that have led to the spam problem: 'The sad point of all of this is that I'm going to (sort of) defend the spammers and point out that they are responding to basic economic forces that we all respond to at one level or another. As long as spammers can take in more money than it costs them, they will continue to spam. This is "rational" behavior in the economic sense.'" Otherwise known as the Willie Sutton principle.
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Science: A Way to Save Hubble?
[ Space ]
Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, @09:44AM
from the whose-money-is-the-question dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The maintenance flight to give the Hubble Space Telescope a few more years has been cancelled, even though everyone agrees that HST does good work. But this article offers a way to save the space telescope, and to give those who think the space program should be privatized a way to prove they can do it."
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Arthur C. Clarke Talks With The Onion
[ Sci-Fi ]
Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, @09:42AM
from the 30-english-winters dept.
sootman writes "The Onion has an interview with Arthur C. Clarke in this week's issue. My favorite line: 'The asteroid [named after me] is number four thousand and something, and the International Astronomical Federation, which deals with these sorts of things and numbered it, apologized to me because number 2001 wasn't available, having been given to somebody named "A. Einstein."'" Reader ro
George W Bush is ten times better than Hitler!
I wouldn't mind it if I could set something up where my phone doesn't ring until after the caller enters a PIN. Something really easy like the numeric equivalent of the first 3 letters of my name. That'd kill the random calls and also telemarketing and survey nonsense (although I must admit the no-call list is doing a pretty good job with the telemarketers). And if I had to give out my number to a business for some reason, I'd just list the PIN as my extension number.