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  1. Re:kinda cool on Advertising in Your Boot Sequence? · · Score: 1
    Now there's an idea! AllAdvantage sells screen space while you're using the computer, right? How about a company that offers a BIOS update to advertise at you while you boot up? Or you could replace your Windows startup screens, or maybe hack the BSOD or the GPF message. Or, even better - Linux login advertising!

    Welcome to Phoenix
    Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i686
    Thirst is everything. Obey your thirst. Sprite.
    login:

    And you get paid every time someone logs into your Linux box . . .
    No? Well, if you don't like that, how about . . .

    segmentation fault, core dumped. All day, all week, burgers at McDonald's are only 99 cents.

    The scary thing is, you just KNOW there's some ad guy out there thinking this exact same thing.

  2. Re:Filter or Suppervision? on Utah About to Sign Library Filtering Law · · Score: 1

    www.marsexplorer.com. Look Ma, it has sex in it! There have been internet filters that would indeed deny access to any URL with "sex" in the name. There have also been filters that would cheerfully block "Matsushita" . . . but I'll let you figure out why they blocked that particular word.