Back in the early 80's I have no doubt that I wasted countless hours (that turned into weeks) playing Adventure on the ATARI 2600. By the standards of those times it was pretty cutting edge. While the enjoyment I derived playing a game where my character was a blurry pixilated dot (and the dragon-opponent that more resembled a duck) was immeasurable there's no way that I could go back and extract the same amount of pleasure from the same game today. Perhaps I could play about 15 minutes of the game just for the sheer nostalgia alone, but that's about it.
So how does this answer the question posted by the headline in this article? The answer is both yes, and no. The games of those times were better, for those times.
They have no power beyond the power of the US government, because Verisign controls the actual servers and use [sic] to have ICANNs job before ICANN came along.
Not quite, before ICANN IP allocations were controlled by the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which was administrated by Jon Postel.
Jon didn't work for Vermi-slime, he was the director of "Division 7" (Computer Networks) at ISI, the Informational Sciences Institute, the R&D arm of UCDAVIS.
My friend was foolish enough to supply his username and password (it's arguable that it's possibly his fault for doing so, but it was my understanding he had been drinking;-) At any rate he was just under the impression that he was importing his address book. Unfortunately the gmail address he supplied flixster with was used for corresponding with all of his business and university contacts.
For weeks following this he was constantly being angrily confronted by the same "Can you stop sending me those invites?!". I was one of those that received these unwanted viral marketing turdlettes, so I spent a little time doing some simple digging (yes, just information you can find on the net).
If this has happenend to you, you can contact them directly:
Flixster, Inc. 208 Utah St San Francisco, CA 94103
The owner:
Joe Greenstein 1730 Jackson ST. #106 San Francisco, CA 94109
(Again, all of this information came from public sources)
The Usenet newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email (aka, NANAE) is wonderful for watching E360INSIGHT's Lindtard CEO try and support their suit against Spamhaus, as well as read Spamhaus' Steve Linford rationally explain themselves. Various posters to that newsgroup have outed E360 for spams they have received in the past and present.
Recently E360INSIGHT have filed a suit against those same people, likely for defamation (or libel, not sure). However it's worth noting that they feel they can use the law to suppress anyone who wishes to refer to them as spammers.
The old saying still rings true, that spam is continually being redefined by the spammers as "that which we do not do".
The RIAA is not a company, their job is to maximize damages on behest of the record labels againts infringers, violators and whomever (the trade labels deem elligible targets. Their goal is not corporate karma, international love or good faith. They maximize damages. This means an all out assault against ALL infrigers.
Mothers, innocent parties, mentally handicapped, children, nuns, Kim Jong Il, it doesn't MATTER. They want you all to know that there is no international border that they will not cross, no corporate entity that will shield you, no means they will not pursue to attack their file infringers.
Without a scorched earth policy there would be no fear (not that there is now), but that IS their goal.
Gee, I hope there's no subliminal messages in this forum.. (proceeds to join the navy while installing linux and donating money generously to random people)...
This is a pavlovial response to your history of underhanded, sneaky, outright dishonest, unethical behavior. You are not honest or ethical in your business dealings with the world.
Might I also take this chance to say that Slashdot is the best tech website on the net today. Why, I totally endorse it as a partial objective everyday web user!
If you don't like what Wal-Mart is doing the answer is pretty simple -- don't shop there.
This is one of those things where the market will correct itself. The natural evolutionary path being that they will lose market share to users of non-Windows based platforms as well as Windows users that use non-IE browsers. That's probably a fair segment of the market.
This guy didn't just wake up one morning and get hit by an Atari 2600 being thrown out of a window. What happened that made him such an ardent opponent of gaming?
John Walsh from "America's Most Wanted" is motivated by what happened to his son, what happened to Thompson?
This is exactly the kind of thing a 15-year-old kid would boast to his friends about... "Hey, if these fuckers came after me, why, I'd counter-sue their ass for defamation and slander, and.. and libel!". Except he's actually doing it. Yeah! That's funny! (you can +5 me funny and stuff for pointing that out!)
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Back in the early 80's I have no doubt that I wasted countless hours (that turned into weeks) playing Adventure on the ATARI 2600. By the standards of those times it was pretty cutting edge. While the enjoyment I derived playing a game where my character was a blurry pixilated dot (and the dragon-opponent that more resembled a duck) was immeasurable there's no way that I could go back and extract the same amount of pleasure from the same game today. Perhaps I could play about 15 minutes of the game just for the sheer nostalgia alone, but that's about it.
So how does this answer the question posted by the headline in this article? The answer is both yes, and no. The games of those times were better, for those times.
They have no power beyond the power of the US government, because Verisign controls the actual servers and use [sic] to have ICANNs job before ICANN came along.
Not quite, before ICANN IP allocations were controlled by the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which was administrated by Jon Postel.
Jon didn't work for Vermi-slime, he was the director of "Division 7" (Computer Networks) at ISI, the Informational Sciences Institute, the R&D arm of UCDAVIS.
The evil overlord laughs a good belly laugh. I don't mean a glance and chuckle, I mean a belly laugh. Not "ha ha", but like.. MU HA.. *blinks*.. HA.
welcome our DNSSEC root-zone master-key IANA-requesting overlords.
*blinks*
I'm a corpse, you insensitive clod!
Abe Vigoda
How many companies will consider doing business with Diebold now?
My friend was foolish enough to supply his username and password (it's arguable that it's possibly his fault for doing so, but it was my understanding he had been drinking ;-) At any rate he was just under the impression that he was importing his address book. Unfortunately the gmail address he supplied flixster with was used for corresponding with all of his business and university contacts.
For weeks following this he was constantly being angrily confronted by the same "Can you stop sending me those invites?!". I was one of those that received these unwanted viral marketing turdlettes, so I spent a little time doing some simple digging (yes, just information you can find on the net).
If this has happenend to you, you can contact them directly:
Flixster, Inc.
208 Utah St
San Francisco, CA
94103
The owner:
Joe Greenstein
1730 Jackson ST. #106
San Francisco, CA 94109
(Again, all of this information came from public sources)
The Usenet newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email (aka, NANAE) is wonderful for watching E360INSIGHT's Lindtard CEO try and support their suit against Spamhaus, as well as read Spamhaus' Steve Linford rationally explain themselves. Various posters to that newsgroup have outed E360 for spams they have received in the past and present.
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Recently E360INSIGHT have filed a suit against those same people, likely for defamation (or libel, not sure). However it's worth noting that they feel they can use the law to suppress anyone who wishes to refer to them as spammers.
The old saying still rings true, that spam is continually being redefined by the spammers as "that which we do not do".
http://spamresource.googlepages.com/e360vFerguson
That "buttons and make-up are evil, churning butter and barn raisings are kinda nifty", and concluded by asking "do you like my beard?"
The RIAA is not a company, their job is to maximize damages on behest of the record labels againts infringers, violators and whomever (the trade labels deem elligible targets. Their goal is not corporate karma, international love or good faith. They maximize damages. This means an all out assault against ALL infrigers.
Mothers, innocent parties, mentally handicapped, children, nuns, Kim Jong Il, it doesn't MATTER. They want you all to know that there is no international border that they will not cross, no corporate entity that will shield you, no means they will not pursue to attack their file infringers.
Without a scorched earth policy there would be no fear (not that there is now), but that IS their goal.
Linux is for those who hate Microsoft Windows.
BSD is for those who love UNIX.
Not to nitpick or anything, but seriously, that's not fast enough. You'll be run off the road in many western states if you drive under 70.
Will having non-ASCII data in FQDN's open us up to buffer-overflow attacks in various network-aware services?
Gee, I hope there's no subliminal messages in this forum.. (proceeds to join the navy while installing linux and donating money generously to random people)...
I have it on good authority that nobody should need more than 640K
1) Drive by pharm,
2) Stop. Park.
3) Milk cows.
4) Feed chickens.
5) Slop pigs.
6) Stack hay.
7) Profit.
This is a pavlovial response to your history of underhanded, sneaky, outright dishonest, unethical behavior. You are not honest or ethical in your business dealings with the world.
You are not trusted or trustworthy.
Go pound sand.
Might I also take this chance to say that Slashdot is the best tech website on the net today. Why, I totally endorse it as a partial objective everyday web user!
*blinks*
If you don't like what Wal-Mart is doing the answer is pretty simple -- don't shop there.
This is one of those things where the market will correct itself. The natural evolutionary path being that they will lose market share to users of non-Windows based platforms as well as Windows users that use non-IE browsers. That's probably a fair segment of the market.
This problem will take care of itself.
Why don't you go to the UK and file your bogus lawsuit against Spamhaus now?
This guy didn't just wake up one morning and get hit by an Atari 2600 being thrown out of a window. What happened that made him such an ardent opponent of gaming?
John Walsh from "America's Most Wanted" is motivated by what happened to his son, what happened to Thompson?
This is exactly the kind of thing a 15-year-old kid would boast to his friends about... "Hey, if these fuckers came after me, why, I'd counter-sue their ass for defamation and slander, and .. and libel!". Except he's actually doing it. Yeah! That's funny! (you can +5 me funny and stuff for pointing that out!)
*blinks*
Your name is Alan Richter or Scott Ralsky...