What if you set your SMTP banner to something like:
mail.dlitz.net - We reserve the right to charge US$500 per message transmitted to us. If you do not agree, disconnect now or do not send any messages to us.
One could probably boil it down to something a little more concise, but would it not give you a concrete standing in a small-claims case?
Their TravelStar (and DeskStar, too) hard drives support the use of a password. The system's BIOS has to support it, but if it does (like the Dell Latitude's, I think), the hard drive will not permit any read or write commands to data areas. There's a master password which can be set to override the user password, but if you control both, and forget both, the only way to get the hard drive back is to send it a special command which will cause it to erase the entire user-accessible data area, then unlock itself.
Don't bother trying to change the logic board, either -- the passwords and settings are stored on a non-externally-addressable area on the platter.
He'd just stare straight ahead at the teacher, keeping the whole game inside his head. Not only that, but after he invariably beat me, he'd write down a transcript of the game - every move from start to finish, complete with detail of where I went wrong - and pass it over to me.
This reminds me of a few lines from an ST:TNG episode some years ago. My apologies for the paraphrasing...
Alien on viewscreen: Ugly bags of mostly water!
Riker (or Picard, maybe): [something indicating displeasure at the insult]
Data: Well, he's right about the "bags of mostly water" part....
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:05:32AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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Riiiight. Funny it most certainly was, but Linus it most certainly wasn't.
Also, Linus doesn't sign off with "--Linus Torvalds".
Here are some gems. For the rest, check it out! I was literally in tears from laughing so hard...
*BSD users (and
developers) are all complete jackasses, so you'll fit right in.
I know, I have a bit of a gut, but compared to Maddog, Nick Petreley or ESR, I'm a modern Adonis.
Virtually all users of Linux (and all other
forms of Un*x) are unkempt, longhaired, beast-bearded dirty GNU hippies, and I am sick and tired of having to deal with them.
The person I have the greatest problem with is that (in)famous communist RMS. Now, RMS may have been responsible for GNU, the GPL, GCC and many other contributions to the computing community, but his stance, as well as stench, displayed in his essays and actions, nauseates me. I mean, with that filth-ridden beard of his, where does he have room to demand that people refer to Linux as GNU / Linux? When he is as clean-shaven as I, he may claim that right, but until then, he should go back to playing his little flute and dropping acid like there's no tomorrow. Honestly, if he doesn't shut his mouth and go back to reading Marx, I'm going to shut it for him. I am sorry to sound so harsh, but a little hygiene every once in a while is a Good Thing(TM). Makes me wish I'd gone with a closed source license back in the day.
Next in line of dirty scuzz-balls I have to deal with, and probably the worst thorn in my side, is Alan Cox, the primary coder of my kernel's TCP/IP
stack (ha, what a joke!) and all around dirty GNU hippy. Alan views toothpaste the same way a vampire views garlic. The man's wife (who I spent
a few years with at the University of Helsinki) often calls me crying in the middle of the night to complain of the rank, unbearable stench the man exudes after sex. On several occasions at trade shows, exhibitions and beer bashes, I have nearly fainted from the torrent of rotten odor that pours from every inch of his toxic person.
SAN DIEGO, April 1, 2001 - The DALnet IRC Network (http://www.dal.net), a leader in Internet Chat, announces that those who believed the previous press release have just been had.
It's my pleasure to thank all those who were involved in todays April 1st joke, we certainly had a large number of people going. I'd like to thank taz for letting this go through, altering jade.* and services.*. frink for his servers and the short lived dalnet.*, as well as countless other opers and helpers making it be believable. Special thanks goes out to maloy, Gotharial, taz, Melech, Wuher and Psionic for support and ideas.
Let me make this perfectly clear. America Online has not bought DALnet, never had any intent to, nor have any secret discussions been going on. This was simply an April Fool's joke. It would be appreciated if all the joke AOL things that have been created, could be cleared up quickly to avoid confusion.
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This just made me think of something...
What if you set your SMTP banner to something like:
mail.dlitz.net - We reserve the right to charge US$500 per message transmitted to us. If you do not agree, disconnect now or do not send any messages to us.
One could probably boil it down to something a little more concise, but would it not give you a concrete standing in a small-claims case?
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where do you think the carbon dioxyde we exhale comes from?
From our lungs, not our stomachs. (You said exhale, not belch.)
OTOH, flatulent cows are actually a significant source of methane, another greenhouse gas...
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Would you like to know more?
Yes, please!
(Translation: It seems as though you know more about this than you're letting on. Can you email me with the juicy bits if you have a moment?)
Thanks!
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Would you care to name this city?
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As usual, Big Blue has an answer.
Their TravelStar (and DeskStar, too) hard drives support the use of a password. The system's BIOS has to support it, but if it does (like the Dell Latitude's, I think), the hard drive will not permit any read or write commands to data areas. There's a master password which can be set to override the user password, but if you control both, and forget both, the only way to get the hard drive back is to send it a special command which will cause it to erase the entire user-accessible data area, then unlock itself.
Don't bother trying to change the logic board, either -- the passwords and settings are stored on a non-externally-addressable area on the platter.
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s/pole/cattleprod/
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when the sherrif says they need new cop cars, the attitude is often "go out and seize one"
I totally agree with the sentiment of your post. However, seeing as most police departments (around here, anyway) use these, I find that unlikely...
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Have you seen Traffic? If not, go and see it...
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It's the first time I've seen a non-www.nytimes.com link here, and it was refreshing not to have to change the URL for once!
Uhh... wait a minute..... *grumble*
You listening, Rob? Slashcode needs an automatic link rewriter...
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He'd just stare straight ahead at the teacher, keeping the whole game inside his head. Not only that, but after he invariably beat me, he'd write down a transcript of the game - every move from start to finish, complete with detail of where I went wrong - and pass it over to me.
Ah! How is ol' Bobby nowadays?
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The first *THREE* times I read this article's title, I read it as:
What Will Happen to Rented Software When Its Publisher Stinks?
I thought it was a thinly-veiled stab at Microsoft.... oh well...
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a solid ball of mostly metal
This reminds me of a few lines from an ST:TNG episode some years ago. My apologies for the paraphrasing...
Alien on viewscreen: Ugly bags of mostly water!
Riker (or Picard, maybe): [something indicating displeasure at the insult]
Data: Well, he's right about the "bags of mostly water" part....
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Google results 1-10 of about 65,400,000 for b. Search took 0.04 seconds.
Searched the web for b.Results 1 - 10 of about 109,000,000. Search took 0.07 seconds.
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http://www.alcatel.com/consumer/dsl/security.htm
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I think this one takes the cigar:
Bill Gates Eats Cow Feces
by Rob Malda on 11:12:00 10/06/1998
http://www.cs.hope.edu/~malda
This maybe pure heresey, but I'm pretty sure that would explain why he is ugly and stupid and smells bad.
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FWIW, I heard that DoCoMo == Do Communicate on the Mobile Network.
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Your sig is broken.
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Why is every babeled translation considered informative?
Because then people don't have to manually Babel it themselves, thereby saving them time.
'The German law causes itself however out'? What a [load of?] crap.
Yes, I know Babel mangles most things (especially German). However, which of the following do you understand better?
[German] Wer die Angriffe für das Innenministerium durchführen soll, ist noch nicht bekannt.
[Babelled] Who is to execute the attacks for the ministry of the Interior, is not well-known yet.
Sure, it ain't English good, but it gets across the point...
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...like the troll he is!
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How many karma points do I need to win this game ?
51.
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On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:05:32AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700
Riiiight. Funny it most certainly was, but Linus it most certainly wasn't.
Also, Linus doesn't sign off with "--Linus Torvalds".
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Here are some gems. For the rest, check it out! I was literally in tears from laughing so hard...
*BSD users (and
developers) are all complete jackasses, so you'll fit right in.
I know, I have a bit of a gut, but compared to Maddog, Nick Petreley or ESR, I'm a modern Adonis.
Virtually all users of Linux (and all other
forms of Un*x) are unkempt, longhaired, beast-bearded dirty GNU hippies, and I am sick and tired of having to deal with them.
The person I have the greatest problem with is that (in)famous communist RMS. Now, RMS may have been responsible for GNU, the GPL, GCC and many other contributions to the computing community, but his stance, as well as stench, displayed in his essays and actions, nauseates me. I mean, with that filth-ridden beard of his, where does he have room to demand that people refer to Linux as GNU / Linux? When he is as clean-shaven as I, he may claim that right, but until then, he should go back to playing his little flute and dropping acid like there's no tomorrow. Honestly, if he doesn't shut his mouth and go back to reading Marx, I'm going to shut it for him. I am sorry to sound so harsh, but a little hygiene every once in a while is a Good Thing(TM). Makes me wish I'd gone with a closed source license back in the day.
Next in line of dirty scuzz-balls I have to deal with, and probably the worst thorn in my side, is Alan Cox, the primary coder of my kernel's TCP/IP
stack (ha, what a joke!) and all around dirty GNU hippy. Alan views toothpaste the same way a vampire views garlic. The man's wife (who I spent
a few years with at the University of Helsinki) often calls me crying in the middle of the night to complain of the rank, unbearable stench the man exudes after sex. On several occasions at trade shows, exhibitions and beer bashes, I have nearly fainted from the torrent of rotten odor that pours from every inch of his toxic person.
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But what about re-engineering the monitors to take advantage of the new discovery?
Hook, line, and sinker...
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SAN DIEGO, April 1, 2001 - The DALnet IRC Network (http://www.dal.net), a leader in Internet Chat, announces that those who believed the previous press release have just been had.
It's my pleasure to thank all those who were involved in todays April 1st joke, we certainly had a large number of people going. I'd like to thank taz for letting this go through, altering jade.* and services.*. frink for his servers and the short lived dalnet.*, as well as countless other opers and helpers making it be believable. Special thanks goes out to maloy, Gotharial, taz, Melech, Wuher and Psionic for support and ideas.
Let me make this perfectly clear. America Online has not bought DALnet, never had any intent to, nor have any secret discussions been going on. This was simply an April Fool's joke. It would be appreciated if all the joke AOL things that have been created, could be cleared up quickly to avoid confusion.
Thank you,
Peter/Doc_Z.
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If you think this trend is taking off now, just wait until the day when Dragonball Linux exists...
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