When some schmuck decides to install something unauthorized on his machine for gits and shiggles, he risks not only his own time and money, but he may be putting the entire network at risk
Ain't that the truth. A friend of mine going to Iowa State installed Linux on a computer of his and managed to get a call early the next morning telling him to quit whatever he was doing. Turned out he was f'ing up the entire network. (I don't know what he did, I'm clueless about Linux..)
It's funny that you think I'm joking. I'm not. I'm seriously very pleased with their mail service. I don't even use the one that my ISP gives me anymore because Yahoo's is so damn convenient.
That's exactly what I do. I got a free domain over at NameZero.com, and I have all the different e-mail addys forwarding to one Yahoo mail account. That way all of my spam is under control, and in one place, and I can also tell who all the crap is from.
that's one of the funnier things i've read in a while... especially that bit about the chinfish hitting the light... i dont know why, but, i laughed my ass off =)
Tell me, godman, what on EARTH would businesses be buying video game hardware and software for? Damn, I sure wish my job would buy me a playstation... get some Final Fantasy in when there are no customers around;)
Seriously, though, this figure doesn't surprise me. With hundreds of thousands of parents buying their children loads of Pokemon games at $50/game, of course these figures are going to be huge.
If you live in the US, how often are you asked for your social security number? And how often is it requested by a non-government agency? As an example, I recently had an eye exam. They requested my SSN and driver license number.
You think *THATS* bad? At my little crappy job at a grocery store, if people forgot their little savings-card, we would ask them for their SSN so they could get the savings. So then not only would WE know it, but everyone in line behind them...
Anyways, grocery store cashiers can LOTS of information on you if you have one of those cards. I could do a lookup on it and get full name, address, telephone, SSN.... and then if you pay with a credit card...
Seriously, just about anyone can get loads of information on you. Anyone find that just a little bit frightening?
Actually, having worked in retail, I can tell you... If I didn't want to sell something to someone, I didn't have to. There's nothing that says I absolutely HAVE to sell anyone anything. Sure my managers would have gotten rather pissed if I didn't have a good reason, but something like the situation above would most likely be a 'good reason'.
No offense or anything, but this argument is pretty stupid. Chevy and Pontiac are both GM cars, for one, so they share a lot of parts. You would have done better to compare Chevy and Ford. Oh, wait, you did at the end. Never mind;)
Still, though, it depends on how you drive the cars and what else happens to 'em. I had an '89 Lincoln Town Car that got to 120k miles with no problems except that one of the power windows was flaky. My dad has a '95 Chevy Monte Carlo that's near 90k miles with absolutely no problems. However, I'm sure anyone could find a broken down example of either of those cars at half the mileages and say, "Look! The other one sucks!"
Anyways, I'm going way off topic here. It's easy to compare a good Linux system to a crappy Windows one, and easy to compare a good Windows system to a crappy Linux one. All the Linux and MS advocates pick examples like those to flaunt. Both OSs are good choices, why can't we just leave it at that?
Advertisement is about making you want a product you either a) did not know that it existed
Yes, and when I see an ad for something that I don't know exists, and then want that product, wouldn't that make it useful?
I've bought more than a couple things from banner ads I've seen here at Slashdot... Mostly stuff from ThinkGeek... I saw the banner ad, basically said, "Hey, I didn't know they had stuff like that. Cool! I want one!" and went over there and bought it.
Wait a sec, correct me if I'm wrong, here, but wouldn't they be rather easy to get rid of?
Say you were ripping all your SDMI-'enhanced' (cough) CDs to MP3 format... Now, IIRC, MP3 compression works by getting rid of all the sounds that the human ear can't hear. So wouldn't this edit out the watermark? If so, all you'd have to do is rip them at the highest quality you could, then burn them back to CD... boom, no more watermarks.
I saw this a while ago on ZDNet Gamespot... it's probably good news if you haven't preordered yet.
WalMart and Target have not initiated a preorder campaign for the Sony PlayStation 2. Both retailers will be selling the console, games, and accessories on a first-come, first-served basis. For those who haven't preordered yet, these major department stores may provide the largest supply of PS2 consoles on launch day.
Oh, and we've known about this shortage of parts for some time now... if I'm not mistaken it was discussed here before, but I could be wrong.
Of course you'd have to actually try to send it, and it doesn't send the e-mails automatically... but what do you expect? The Slashdot crew would *NEVER* pass up a chance to bash Microsoft...
Slashdot Mirror
Did anyone else get pissed off by the four hundred thousand different pages that they put this article on?!
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When some schmuck decides to install something unauthorized on his machine for gits and shiggles, he risks not only his own time and money, but he may be putting the entire network at risk
Ain't that the truth. A friend of mine going to Iowa State installed Linux on a computer of his and managed to get a call early the next morning telling him to quit whatever he was doing. Turned out he was f'ing up the entire network. (I don't know what he did, I'm clueless about Linux..)
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It's funny that you think I'm joking. I'm not. I'm seriously very pleased with their mail service. I don't even use the one that my ISP gives me anymore because Yahoo's is so damn convenient.
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Try Yahoo mail. I've had an account on there for a year and a half now and haven't gotten one spam mail.
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That's exactly what I do. I got a free domain over at NameZero.com, and I have all the different e-mail addys forwarding to one Yahoo mail account. That way all of my spam is under control, and in one place, and I can also tell who all the crap is from.
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that's one of the funnier things i've read in a while... especially that bit about the chinfish hitting the light... i dont know why, but, i laughed my ass off =)
nice.
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Tell me, godman, what on EARTH would businesses be buying video game hardware and software for? Damn, I sure wish my job would buy me a playstation... get some Final Fantasy in when there are no customers around ;)
Seriously, though, this figure doesn't surprise me. With hundreds of thousands of parents buying their children loads of Pokemon games at $50/game, of course these figures are going to be huge.
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Or aliens might accidentally upset our planet or solar system while carrying out some grandiose interstellar construction project.
Is it just me, or does that scream VOGONS to anyone else?
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If you live in the US, how often are you asked for your social security number? And how often is it requested by a non-government agency? As an example, I recently had an eye exam. They requested my SSN and driver license number.
You think *THATS* bad? At my little crappy job at a grocery store, if people forgot their little savings-card, we would ask them for their SSN so they could get the savings. So then not only would WE know it, but everyone in line behind them...
Anyways, grocery store cashiers can LOTS of information on you if you have one of those cards. I could do a lookup on it and get full name, address, telephone, SSN.... and then if you pay with a credit card...
Seriously, just about anyone can get loads of information on you. Anyone find that just a little bit frightening?
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Many people call the State Lotteries a "stupid tax",
;)
Get it right! It's: "The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math."
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Actually, having worked in retail, I can tell you... If I didn't want to sell something to someone, I didn't have to. There's nothing that says I absolutely HAVE to sell anyone anything. Sure my managers would have gotten rather pissed if I didn't have a good reason, but something like the situation above would most likely be a 'good reason'.
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No offense or anything, but this argument is pretty stupid. Chevy and Pontiac are both GM cars, for one, so they share a lot of parts. You would have done better to compare Chevy and Ford. Oh, wait, you did at the end. Never mind ;)
Still, though, it depends on how you drive the cars and what else happens to 'em. I had an '89 Lincoln Town Car that got to 120k miles with no problems except that one of the power windows was flaky. My dad has a '95 Chevy Monte Carlo that's near 90k miles with absolutely no problems. However, I'm sure anyone could find a broken down example of either of those cars at half the mileages and say, "Look! The other one sucks!"
Anyways, I'm going way off topic here. It's easy to compare a good Linux system to a crappy Windows one, and easy to compare a good Windows system to a crappy Linux one. All the Linux and MS advocates pick examples like those to flaunt. Both OSs are good choices, why can't we just leave it at that?
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5 gig/month? Wow. That's not very much at all. I've gone through 5 gigs in a single NIGHT before ;)
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Swedish Lemon Angels
That sounds like it would be the title of a corny pr0n video...
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Advertisement is about making you want a product you either a) did not know that it existed
Yes, and when I see an ad for something that I don't know exists, and then want that product, wouldn't that make it useful?
I've bought more than a couple things from banner ads I've seen here at Slashdot... Mostly stuff from ThinkGeek... I saw the banner ad, basically said, "Hey, I didn't know they had stuff like that. Cool! I want one!" and went over there and bought it.
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Wait a sec, correct me if I'm wrong, here, but wouldn't they be rather easy to get rid of?
Say you were ripping all your SDMI-'enhanced' (cough) CDs to MP3 format... Now, IIRC, MP3 compression works by getting rid of all the sounds that the human ear can't hear. So wouldn't this edit out the watermark? If so, all you'd have to do is rip them at the highest quality you could, then burn them back to CD... boom, no more watermarks.
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Nah, if it's a strange fungus we're talking about, here... you probably want StinkyFeet.
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because there isn't any such thing as an astronaut janitor.
What?! There sure is! Haven't you played Space Quest?!
Roger Wilco...
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Drugs are for the weak.
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Yeah, you know those people from the Netherlands. They always have perfect English skills.
;) I don't think it is, though :/)
(what language do people in the Netherlands speak anyways... if it's English, scratch that comment..
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Hackers only DOS and Nuke people.
;)
No, the people you're reffering to are '31337 h4xx0r5'. There's a fine line
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I saw this a while ago on ZDNet Gamespot... it's probably good news if you haven't preordered yet.
WalMart and Target have not initiated a preorder campaign for the Sony PlayStation 2. Both retailers will be selling the console, games, and accessories on a first-come, first-served basis. For those who haven't preordered yet, these major department stores may provide the largest supply of PS2 consoles on launch day.
Oh, and we've known about this shortage of parts for some time now... if I'm not mistaken it was discussed here before, but I could be wrong.
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Of course you'd have to actually try to send it, and it doesn't send the e-mails automatically... but what do you expect? The Slashdot crew would *NEVER* pass up a chance to bash Microsoft...
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Phantasy Star Online for the Dreamcast and FF11 for the PSX2 are both planned MMRPGs coming relatively soon.
Being a MUD player, these excite me =)
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is the text at the bottom.
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