Gave me an idea: Why not set up a hole load of domains that resolves to 127.0.0.1
(Or, if that can be done in teh DNS protocol, I don't know the details of it (Sorry,
I'm a luser): resolving to the requester)? They may be subdomains of "real" domains,
and with just random names, so that they are hard to distinguish from real ones, and
then poisoning the spambot with randomstring@random.spam.poison.domain?
Try warez.slashdot.org or warez.dealmeida.net -- both point to 127.0.0.1.
Quick! Let's use the slashdot effect to burn these guys... each click raises the temperature by 1/100th of a degree. We only need about... 10000 people?
I mean, who thought the slashdot effect would help the global warning?
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Re:More importantly: email is a PLURAL NOUN
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What bugs the hell out of me is the all-too-common usage of 'email' as a singular noun. I see all the time people saying 'I'll send him an email' or 'I have 3 emails'.
I see this all the time here in Brazil, but for a different word: software. "Software" is used here for the same as "application", so everyone says/writes "I used two softwares for this", or "Which softwares did you use", etc. I've seen it used correctly once in my whole life. You see it in newspapers and even computer magazines -- and the worst: if you write correctly, people will say you've written it wrong. Aaaargh!
Back on what you said, perhaps people should use "e-message" or "e-letter". This way they could say "oh, I'll check my e-mail because my friend sent me an e-letter yesterday".
(or "oh, I'll check my email because my friend sent me an eletter yesterday".)
We could even have "epostcard", "epicture"... hmmm, is this a new way to get rich?:)
his is the exact sam story that was up a few days ago...got to be some kinda bug
right?...maybe soemthing to do with being hacked, and having to back up to an old
version of the system?
A Hacker is one who defeats an OS's security for whatever reason.
(...)Slashdot was hacked. Got it?
Does anyone know where I can download the new kernel for Slashdot? I heard it's far more secure than Linux and the *BSDs... I'm thinking of installing it in a spare 486.
"This is not spam!" is the first cry of the spammer.
I received an e-mail a few days ago that said "this is not spam, because according to the International Conference on Spam this e-mail says how you can be excluded from our list... bla bla bla... if you don't press the link in one week we will assume you want to receive e-mail from us... bla bla bla... this is not spam. Thank you."
What could be more spam than this?!?
I wrote back, "to stop being harassed by me you have to kill a black cow and bury it in a friday 13th under a black bridge -- only by doing this you'll be removed from our list. Otherwise, I assume you want to receive a dead donkey in your office every day. According to the International Conference on Spam this e-mail cannot be considered spam because it says how you can be excluded from my list. Thank you.
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Re:You can't ambush somebody with a contract.
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This company is asking for you to do them a favor (enter into a contract to take care of and return their private property) without asking you if you are willing to participate. If I was never given the chance to say ?NO", why should I be obligated? DC is abandoning this equipment in my mailbox.
Next time you travel on vacation, send your dogs, jewels, cars, etc. to DC, with the same kind of contract. They have to keep it, by your rules, and give it back whenever you want. Free insurance!:)
Presumably, this will be closed source app. I don't like the idea of running what someone else wrote when I can't check it, as bugs could cause data loss.
You sure did check every line of mpg123's source code. Right.
Apple is suing an employee for spreading rumours about it's new computer. This new computer, called the Y-tetraedron, comes with Mac OS X, which is GPLed, but you have to pay US$ 30.00 for it anyway. RMS is sueing Apple for not releasing the source -- but lot's of Slashdotters are saying he is being cynical, since he infriges musicians copyrights by using Napster to download musics in the universities where it's still not banned.
I also forget my homework: Windows sucks because it slow and buggy, but everyone loves a C-64. Weird.
Makes me wonder, what is it really behind the success of a distro? Technical facts, or marketing?
I'll talk about the distro I use, Slackware. It was the first distribution I tried -- and I think it'll be the last.
I have installed other distributions for a few friends -- namely, Red Hat, Calera, Debian, Conectiva and Corel. But all of them lack what makes Slackware so special: simplicity.
I believe that Slackware is a successfull distribution, not because of marketing, but because it gives you a GNU/Linux system. It's yours. You run vi and configure everything, and everything is under your fingertips.
Sure, it's not for everybody. But it's easy to install -- although not graphically appealing. It make you learn lots of things about how to run you box; and this is a Good Thing (tm).
And Slackware is almost always forgotten. But it's successfull, because people who use it keep using it, and the word about this clean, stable, transparent system spread with them.
(Slack also has a great forun, by the way. Answers almost never stay unanswered, and there's really a sense of "community).
I would really like to thank Patrick for this great distribution...:)
Slashdot has had to ban accented characters to prevent this kind of abuse;
ICANN should do the same lest they a similar outbreak of mimicry infect the
entire Web.
People should realize that it's a world wide web. It's not only american, and it should not only be in english -- diversity is important. And if you want to support other languages, you have to accept accented characters; they are not only "decorative", they make a whole difference.
Sure people will abuse it. But we already have slahsdot.org and other similar sites. It's already being abused.
...what this could do to games! 3D sound! Mount a couple of sound cannons on the top of your monitor, the can make the sound appear on your back, anywhere.
It would be nice.
This is the funniest post I've read so far! And as this is our last story, all moderators should spend their points and make this a +50, Funny.:)
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Re:If you can clone an extinct animal...
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TigerCloning
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I think it wouldn't be possible to repopulate their original habitat with cloned animals. I believe there are a few reasons for why the couldn't do this:
Sometimes extinction is natural; since the last glatiation large mammals are desappearing, and I think it would be "unnatural" trying to fill the world my mamooths;
If you want the species to be successfull (sp?) in the wild, you need genetic variability -- so you would need lots of DNA from different animals to achieve this;
Reintroduced species, or newly introduced species, often disturb the equilibrium in the ecosystem. In this case you would have tigers eating animals that used to be the top of the chain food.
Slashdot Mirror
Gave me an idea: Why not set up a hole load of domains that resolves to 127.0.0.1 (Or, if that can be done in teh DNS protocol, I don't know the details of it (Sorry, I'm a luser): resolving to the requester)? They may be subdomains of "real" domains, and with just random names, so that they are hard to distinguish from real ones, and then poisoning the spambot with randomstring@random.spam.poison.domain?
Try warez.slashdot.org or warez.dealmeida.net -- both point to 127.0.0.1.
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Quick! Let's use the slashdot effect to burn these guys... each click raises the temperature by 1/100th of a degree. We only need about... 10000 people?
I mean, who thought the slashdot effect would help the global warning?
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What bugs the hell out of me is the all-too-common usage of 'email' as a singular noun. I see all the time people saying 'I'll send him an email' or 'I have 3 emails'.
I see this all the time here in Brazil, but for a different word: software. "Software" is used here for the same as "application", so everyone says/writes "I used two softwares for this", or "Which softwares did you use", etc. I've seen it used correctly once in my whole life. You see it in newspapers and even computer magazines -- and the worst: if you write correctly, people will say you've written it wrong. Aaaargh!
Back on what you said, perhaps people should use "e-message" or "e-letter". This way they could say "oh, I'll check my e-mail because my friend sent me an e-letter yesterday".
(or "oh, I'll check my email because my friend sent me an eletter yesterday".)
We could even have "epostcard", "epicture"... hmmm, is this a new way to get rich? :)
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his is the exact sam story that was up a few days ago...got to be some kinda bug right?...maybe soemthing to do with being hacked, and having to back up to an old version of the system?
No, they just restarted the Matrix.
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A Hacker is one who defeats an OS's security for whatever reason.
(...)Slashdot was hacked. Got it?
Does anyone know where I can download the new kernel for Slashdot? I heard it's far more secure than Linux and the *BSDs... I'm thinking of installing it in a spare 486.
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"This is not spam!" is the first cry of the spammer.
I received an e-mail a few days ago that said "this is not spam, because according to the International Conference on Spam this e-mail says how you can be excluded from our list... bla bla bla... if you don't press the link in one week we will assume you want to receive e-mail from us... bla bla bla... this is not spam. Thank you."
What could be more spam than this?!?
I wrote back, "to stop being harassed by me you have to kill a black cow and bury it in a friday 13th under a black bridge -- only by doing this you'll be removed from our list. Otherwise, I assume you want to receive a dead donkey in your office every day. According to the International Conference on Spam this e-mail cannot be considered spam because it says how you can be excluded from my list. Thank you.
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This company is asking for you to do them a favor (enter into a contract to take care of and return their private property) without asking you if you are willing to participate. If I was never given the chance to say ?NO", why should I be obligated? DC is abandoning this equipment in my mailbox.
Next time you travel on vacation, send your dogs, jewels, cars, etc. to DC, with the same kind of contract. They have to keep it, by your rules, and give it back whenever you want. Free insurance! :)
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I don't know where you are, but rumor has it that the games are being held in "Sydney".
I live in Brazil... I checked and everyone here writes "Sydney", too, but before the olympics it was "Sidney" all around. As in "kidney"... :)
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Presumably, this will be closed source app. I don't like the idea of running what someone else wrote when I can't check it, as bugs could cause data loss.
You sure did check every line of mpg123's source code. Right.
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(or "what I really learned in Slashdot")
Apple is suing an employee for spreading rumours about it's new computer. This new computer, called the Y-tetraedron, comes with Mac OS X, which is GPLed, but you have to pay US$ 30.00 for it anyway. RMS is sueing Apple for not releasing the source -- but lot's of Slashdotters are saying he is being cynical, since he infriges musicians copyrights by using Napster to download musics in the universities where it's still not banned.
I also forget my homework: Windows sucks because it slow and buggy, but everyone loves a C-64. Weird.
Missed anything?
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I have no words... (except for these) :)
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Don't say that... people will now start auctioning karma points at ebay!
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Also check this:
http://www.ihatelinux.com.
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Makes me wonder, what is it really behind the success of a distro? Technical facts, or marketing?
I'll talk about the distro I use, Slackware. It was the first distribution I tried -- and I think it'll be the last.
I have installed other distributions for a few friends -- namely, Red Hat, Calera, Debian, Conectiva and Corel. But all of them lack what makes Slackware so special: simplicity.
I believe that Slackware is a successfull distribution, not because of marketing, but because it gives you a GNU/Linux system. It's yours. You run vi and configure everything, and everything is under your fingertips.
Sure, it's not for everybody. But it's easy to install -- although not graphically appealing. It make you learn lots of things about how to run you box; and this is a Good Thing (tm).
And Slackware is almost always forgotten. But it's successfull, because people who use it keep using it, and the word about this clean, stable, transparent system spread with them.
(Slack also has a great forun, by the way. Answers almost never stay unanswered, and there's really a sense of "community).
I would really like to thank Patrick for this great distribution... :)
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The Answer is No ... other than the Humans there are dolphins and elephants ... oh and some Parrots are as inteligent(reasoning+vocab) as small children
No, you're wrong. It's humans, dolphins and mice.
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Since VMWare is not free, as in free speech,(...)
IIRC, VMWare is not even free as in free beer.
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Slashdot has had to ban accented characters to prevent this kind of abuse; ICANN should do the same lest they a similar outbreak of mimicry infect the entire Web.
People should realize that it's a world wide web. It's not only american, and it should not only be in english -- diversity is important. And if you want to support other languages, you have to accept accented characters; they are not only "decorative", they make a whole difference.
Sure people will abuse it. But we already have slahsdot.org and other similar sites. It's already being abused.
Você não acha?
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I think it wouldn't be possible to repopulate their original habitat with cloned animals. I believe there are a few reasons for why the couldn't do this:
So, I'll guess they'll stick to the zoos. :)
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