I'm curious how my college (West Virgina University) made the list (#51). Did any college that has a wireless access point anywhere on campus get listed?
Wireless is only available in a select few locations on campus (and I think one of the residential buildings, because it's a leased apartment building and they weren't allowed to run ethernet). And in the places where it is offered, such as the library, it is only usuable via the laptops you can check-out from the library. When I asked for the WEP key so I could use my own laptop, the answer I got from multiple librarians was, "What's a WEP key?", and they had no idea how I could get access.
The Computer Science department supposedly offers wireless access. I filled out the "application for access" six months ago, I still haven't been given the WEP key or assigned an IP address. I was told the program was still "experimental", despite the wireless LAN in that building being around for several years now.
It would be nice if WVU was one of those colleges that had Wi-Fi campus-wide, then I might actually be able to make some productive use of my laptop. As it stands now, almost nobody brings their laptops to class or uses them in between classes, because of the lack of functional network hookups in most places on campus.
$9 + having to sit through up to ten commercials before the movie starts is not exactly an "underpriced" ticket. The theaters are getting plenty.
They have the right to charge whatever they want, though, as long as the people will pay it. I personally aim for the daytime shows, or go to theatres where they don't show as many ads.
If you've backed up the AAC files, you should be able to copy them to your PC and re-activate your iTunes account on the PC to be able to play them.
Although it does seem simpler to just strip off the encryption and have a REAL backup that doesn't rely on Apple re-granting you the right to play the music that you already paid for.
The title was listed on the official Star Wars web site as Episode III: The Creeping Fear. But it only said that on April 1st, so I guess it was a joke of some kind...
Try the Belgium mirror, it still has the file (and if the file was recently released, it may just not yet have made it to all of the mirrors, it's fairly normal to get 404s on some Sourceforge mirrors shortly after a file's release).
The number you have dialed, Nine...One...One is not in service. No further information is available about Nine...One...One. The number you have dialed...
Been reading the "blotto box" chapter of the Jolly Roger cookbook?:-)
Like most things in that book, they either don't work, or will probably cause you to kill yourself if you tried it.
The phone company equipment would obviously have surge detection/supression systems in place to isolate any box that had something like that done to it.
What'd be really funny is if a guy hooked one up and then went home and answered his phone...
I've done this with snail-mail spam before. It's fun to "recycle your junk mail". Just take the contents of one junk envelope, shove it the return envelope of another piece of junk mail, and send them back.
If you only get one piece of junk that day, send them some newspaper clippings or a circular.:-)
Since they're your provider, you have an established business relationship with Sprint, which I believe allows them to call you without restriction (especially if the airtime is free).
I think they have to wait until all of the legit HU cards are no longer being used (i.e. after their expiration date), because some people may not have received or installed theirs. Many people won't bother switching cards until they're forced to, and it probably generates a large call volume to Customer Service when people call to complain that their old card stopped working.
They charge $69 to "back-order" a domain. I didn't fall for it, I just checked it every day, and then registered it with Stargate (for $8) as soon as it opened up.
Not only that, it takes a LONG time after a domain expires before it becomes available again to re-register. I wanted to buy a name that had expired (previously registered with Network Solutions), and it took almost eight months from the expiration date before they finally deleted it. When I e-mailed them to complain, they said that they "don't reveal their schedule of deleteing expired names" for security purposes.
But this only works for games, or an app that requires access to a server in order to be meaningful.
In the case of Half-Life, for example, I can't play online without a valid key. This is effective, since the single player game would get boring really fast.
Take something like Microsoft Word, however. I don't need to interact with other people in order for the software to be meaningful. Therefore, a crack can simply be created to make the code bypass the encryption/server check. It's different from a game that you are playing on the software company's servers.
Tried it using IE 6.0 on WinXP. Mcafee alerted me to virus activity as soon as the page loaded. If I chose 'Delete' in the virus window, it was unable to run Minesweeper. If I chose 'Stop', Internet Explorer gave a page error, but Minesweeper still ran.
At my college, one of our labs had computer named after Sesame Street characters (which the students didn't like very much, I'm not sure why they were named that). They later got renamed to the names of counties in our state.
Maybe you could use something like the names of stars in the galaxy, or names of characters from a book (such as Lord of the Rings, I've seen servers named that way all over the net)
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I'm curious how my college (West Virgina University) made the list (#51). Did any college that has a wireless access point anywhere on campus get listed?
Wireless is only available in a select few locations on campus (and I think one of the residential buildings, because it's a leased apartment building and they weren't allowed to run ethernet). And in the places where it is offered, such as the library, it is only usuable via the laptops you can check-out from the library. When I asked for the WEP key so I could use my own laptop, the answer I got from multiple librarians was, "What's a WEP key?", and they had no idea how I could get access.
The Computer Science department supposedly offers wireless access. I filled out the "application for access" six months ago, I still haven't been given the WEP key or assigned an IP address. I was told the program was still "experimental", despite the wireless LAN in that building being around for several years now.
It would be nice if WVU was one of those colleges that had Wi-Fi campus-wide, then I might actually be able to make some productive use of my laptop. As it stands now, almost nobody brings their laptops to class or uses them in between classes, because of the lack of functional network hookups in most places on campus.
$9 + having to sit through up to ten commercials before the movie starts is not exactly an "underpriced" ticket. The theaters are getting plenty.
They have the right to charge whatever they want, though, as long as the people will pay it. I personally aim for the daytime shows, or go to theatres where they don't show as many ads.
If you've backed up the AAC files, you should be able to copy them to your PC and re-activate your iTunes account on the PC to be able to play them.
Although it does seem simpler to just strip off the encryption and have a REAL backup that doesn't rely on Apple re-granting you the right to play the music that you already paid for.
In Soviet Russia, Mars lands on you.
The title was listed on the official Star Wars web site as Episode III: The Creeping Fear. But it only said that on April 1st, so I guess it was a joke of some kind...
Try the Belgium mirror, it still has the file (and if the file was recently released, it may just not yet have made it to all of the mirrors, it's fairly normal to get 404s on some Sourceforge mirrors shortly after a file's release).
The number you have dialed, Nine...One...One is not in service. No further information is available about Nine...One...One. The number you have dialed...
Been reading the "blotto box" chapter of the Jolly Roger cookbook? :-)
Like most things in that book, they either don't work, or will probably cause you to kill yourself if you tried it.
The phone company equipment would obviously have surge detection/supression systems in place to isolate any box that had something like that done to it.
What'd be really funny is if a guy hooked one up and then went home and answered his phone...
Yeah, you have proof that you sent them an envelope. They can still claim that it was empty, or didn't contain the proper documents for the rebate.
I've done this with snail-mail spam before. It's fun to "recycle your junk mail". Just take the contents of one junk envelope, shove it the return envelope of another piece of junk mail, and send them back.
:-)
If you only get one piece of junk that day, send them some newspaper clippings or a circular.
Since they're your provider, you have an established business relationship with Sprint, which I believe allows them to call you without restriction (especially if the airtime is free).
I think they have to wait until all of the legit HU cards are no longer being used (i.e. after their expiration date), because some people may not have received or installed theirs. Many people won't bother switching cards until they're forced to, and it probably generates a large call volume to Customer Service when people call to complain that their old card stopped working.
They will eventually disable the HU cards.
Nah, the students would remember to apply the patches :-)
They charge $69 to "back-order" a domain. I didn't fall for it, I just checked it every day, and then registered it with Stargate (for $8) as soon as it opened up.
Not only that, it takes a LONG time after a domain expires before it becomes available again to re-register. I wanted to buy a name that had expired (previously registered with Network Solutions), and it took almost eight months from the expiration date before they finally deleted it. When I e-mailed them to complain, they said that they "don't reveal their schedule of deleteing expired names" for security purposes.
If some suckers weren't buying stuff from the spammers, they wouldn't be sending the spam.
Sure, they may only get a 0.00001% response rate, but since it costs them next to nothing to send out 50 million messages, it's worth it for them.
Well, if it's anything like the Ford Focus, the Earth will be engulfed in a giant fireball when the airbag catches fire on deployment :-)
And even then, the audio still comes out of a speaker, meaning it could be captured.
Next they'll want to implant the decryption chips in our brain....
But this only works for games, or an app that requires access to a server in order to be meaningful.
In the case of Half-Life, for example, I can't play online without a valid key. This is effective, since the single player game would get boring really fast.
Take something like Microsoft Word, however. I don't need to interact with other people in order for the software to be meaningful. Therefore, a crack can simply be created to make the code bypass the encryption/server check. It's different from a game that you are playing on the software company's servers.
Site appears to be down or /.'ed. Here's the google cache URL:
: www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/riddles.html+wwu +riddles+site:ocf.berkeley.edu&hl=en&ie=UT F-8
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Zk-oetcDxk0C
I did go to see the 12:01am show on Thursday, but I didn't skip work.
:-)
Drank 3 cups of coffee on Thursday morning and afternoon, though
Tried it using IE 6.0 on WinXP. Mcafee alerted me to virus activity as soon as the page loaded. If I chose 'Delete' in the virus window, it was unable to run Minesweeper. If I chose 'Stop', Internet Explorer gave a page error, but Minesweeper still ran.
At my college, one of our labs had computer named after Sesame Street characters (which the students didn't like very much, I'm not sure why they were named that). They later got renamed to the names of counties in our state.
Maybe you could use something like the names of stars in the galaxy, or names of characters from a book (such as Lord of the Rings, I've seen servers named that way all over the net)
He's there. Look in the background towards the beginning of the third trailer (the part where a bunch of the characters are in a room).
It's not /.'ed. They just blocked the referrer. Cut and paste the address manually into your browser and it will work.