Both myself and a friend had demon accounts, and had a major problem with spammers forging their headers to read something like:-
jklahdfa@myhost.demon.co.uk
The result when this happened to me was that I got hundreds of messages per day which were spam that had gone to a dead email address and bounced back to me. The friend of mine to whom the same thing happened a year later ended up besieged with obscene emails and viruses. She wasn't amused, and did the same thing I did. Changed address. Be afraid, be very afraid...
Hurray for Norway, is what I say. Lock up the spammers and throw away the key!
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ET wouldn't ask for Pepsi, he whores for British Telecom! (That's right, the people who own the patent on hyperlinking....)
I can just see the Region 2 DVD Special Edition of ET now, when ET says "Phone home", a BT van arrives and an engineer jumps out and installs a satellite dish...!
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I wonder if they've read Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow, in which a researcher at Aricebo feeds the signal through a sound system to discover alien singing...
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What he said, but I believe this is more of a replica than a restoration? I seem to remember something about the original being destroyed after the war (to keep it secret).
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Starbucks are abhorrent.
People using laptops in a public place are abhorrent.
People using their laptops in Starbucks are doubleplus abhorrent...
But it's worse. Much, much, worse. According to this article at The Register, people want to computerise pubs...
Personally, the sight of a computer in a pub makes me want to spill my beer over it. Or preferably the trendy piss-water drink of the pretentious twat showing off his new laptop.
The horror, the horror....
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What, don't they want to have links to them? I thought the whole point was to have people link to you. They should be paying people to advertise them, not the other way round...!
Then again, there are enough idiots who spend large sums of money converting themselves into walking advertisements for Nike, or Tommy Hilfiger (remember their newsgroup spamming outburst some years back?), so maybe some people will be dumb enough to do it.
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They filter out web sites on UK ISP Demon?
You can confess on-line?
The filtering software gives you fifteen hail marys?
The next pope will be called George Ringo?
What about a pagan ISP? Would they filter out Christian web sites? Or would they credit their users with eyes to see and a brain to think with.
Organised Religion is all about controlling the people. "Do what we say, or you'll go to [insert eternal pain and torment myth here]"
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When did The Gernsback Continuum hit the big screen? I remember seeing a short film on Channel 4 (UK station) based on this short story, but with a different title. Presumably they thought nobody would know who Hugo Gernsback was or something. Doh!
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Oh come on, you believe what you read on AICN? It's a completely unteliable source of information.
Harry prints any old tosh people tell him without any attempt to verify the source of the information.
Some guy on the corner of the street goes up to Harry and says "Did you hear about such & such?"
Next thing, this is on AICN as gospel truth from an inside source. A mate of mine who's a proper SF journalist is always slagging off AICN as having no integrity, and can often produce hard evidence that what AICN has is complete bollocks.
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...is some attention to good spelling and grammar.
I wince every time I see some idiot use the letter 'u' as a personal pronoun. When someone uses the wrong form of 'Their' (belonging to them), 'There' (over there) or 'They're' (they are) in a sentence, or worse.
Basically, I work on this simple premise. If you are incapable of expressing your views clearly and in a literate manner, why the hell should I pay any attention to them? Write like a moron, and I'll think you're a moron.
Somebody (I forget who) once said that with the increasing popularity of email we'd see a new literacy. Judging by the offences against language I see on the internet, I'd say they were wrong. We're seeing a new illiteracy, and it's abhorrent.
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But there's no 's' in Burt Bacharach! But there are several "Fucking"s as in:- FUCKING Burt FUCKING BachaFUCKINGrach
God. The "Easy Listening" revival of the late 1990s showed that several people HAD to DIE! Elvis Costello finally blew away the last tiny little remnants of his already shattered one-time punk credibility by duetting with THAT purveyor of godawful lift musak. In the last vestiges of the late 20th century, dinosaurs roamed the earth and people like Andy FUCKING Williams were in the UK pop charts rather than in their grave.
Oh yes, we're all being very post-modern and ironic with our easy listening "loungecore" music, are we not?
No. You are being FUCKING annoying with that GARBAGE that was SHITE in the late fifties and is even more FUCKING SHITE now!
Sorry. Had to get that off my chest. Just don't get me started on the ABBA revival, that's all...!
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Oh the irony!
personally, i dont like the beatles to much, but thats probably because the only drugs i do is the occasional pot smoking ...
also, i like a lot of older bands. led zeppelin, the doors, pink floyd.. amazingly good music.
And you think those bands didn't do drugs?
Sorry, the juxtapositon of those two sentences tickles me enormously!
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Seems I've been reading about these wonderful touchy-feely-huggy virtual communities for years, and I've always felt it was a load of bollocks.
MY community is the people I hang out with IN REAL LIFE, and no amount of idle banter on the internet can replace that.
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But the B2 isn't that stealthy in the dry!
A couple of years ago, a B2 was sent to do a flypast at the Farnborough air show. They agreed to open the bomb-bay doors and turn on a transponder when they entered UK airspace to show on radar.
However, it was revealed that RAF radar had picked them up quite clearly a long way outside of UK airspace while they were still in full stealth mode. Had it been an enemy aircraft, Rapier missiles could have shot it down, no problem.
Strangely, the B2 has never been to a UK airshow again. Couldn't be the USAF were upset when the RAF boys pointed and laughed, could it?
B2 - Never used in anger (kept out of the gulf war as they were too expensive to risk in action!) and a waste of 2 BILLION dollars each which could buy NASA over a dozen Mars probes!
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Both myself and a friend had demon accounts, and had a major problem with spammers forging their headers to read something like:-
jklahdfa@myhost.demon.co.uk
The result when this happened to me was that I got hundreds of messages per day which were spam that had gone to a dead email address and bounced back to me. The friend of mine to whom the same thing happened a year later ended up besieged with obscene emails and viruses. She wasn't amused, and did the same thing I did. Changed address.
Be afraid, be very afraid...
Hurray for Norway, is what I say. Lock up the spammers and throw away the key!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
ET wouldn't ask for Pepsi, he whores for British Telecom! (That's right, the people who own the patent on hyperlinking....)
I can just see the Region 2 DVD Special Edition of ET now, when ET says "Phone home", a BT van arrives and an engineer jumps out and installs a satellite dish...!
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...a way to get loadsamoney off venture capitalists, then run!
I'll believe it when I can walk into a shop and walk out with one.
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I wonder if they've read Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow, in which a researcher at Aricebo feeds the signal through a sound system to discover alien singing...
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A representative of Disaster Area met with the enviromentalists yesterday and had them all shot!
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What he said, but I believe this is more of a replica than a restoration? I seem to remember something about the original being destroyed after the war (to keep it secret).
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Starbucks are abhorrent.
People using laptops in a public place are abhorrent.
People using their laptops in Starbucks are doubleplus abhorrent...
But it's worse. Much, much, worse. According to this article at The Register, people want to computerise pubs...
Personally, the sight of a computer in a pub makes me want to spill my beer over it. Or preferably the trendy piss-water drink of the pretentious twat showing off his new laptop.
The horror, the horror....
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I think you'll find Microsoft have a 25% stake. This does not constitute being wholly owned...
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What, don't they want to have links to them? I thought the whole point was to have people link to you. They should be paying people to advertise them, not the other way round...!
Then again, there are enough idiots who spend large sums of money converting themselves into walking advertisements for Nike, or Tommy Hilfiger (remember their newsgroup spamming outburst some years back?), so maybe some people will be dumb enough to do it.
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
They filter out web sites on UK ISP Demon?
You can confess on-line?
The filtering software gives you fifteen hail marys?
The next pope will be called George Ringo?
What about a pagan ISP? Would they filter out Christian web sites? Or would they credit their users with eyes to see and a brain to think with.
Organised Religion is all about controlling the people. "Do what we say, or you'll go to [insert eternal pain and torment myth here]"
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
When did The Gernsback Continuum hit the big screen? I remember seeing a short film on Channel 4 (UK station) based on this short story, but with a different title. Presumably they thought nobody would know who Hugo Gernsback was or something. Doh!
Hacker: A criminal who breaks into computer systems
Oh come on, you believe what you read on AICN? It's a completely unteliable source of information.
Harry prints any old tosh people tell him without any attempt to verify the source of the information.
Some guy on the corner of the street goes up to Harry and says "Did you hear about such & such?"
Next thing, this is on AICN as gospel truth from an inside source. A mate of mine who's a proper SF journalist is always slagging off AICN as having no integrity, and can often produce hard evidence that what AICN has is complete bollocks.
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...is some attention to good spelling and grammar.
I wince every time I see some idiot use the letter 'u' as a personal pronoun. When someone uses the wrong form of 'Their' (belonging to them), 'There' (over there) or 'They're' (they are) in a sentence, or worse.
Basically, I work on this simple premise. If you are incapable of expressing your views clearly and in a literate manner, why the hell should I pay any attention to them? Write like a moron, and I'll think you're a moron.
Somebody (I forget who) once said that with the increasing popularity of email we'd see a new literacy. Judging by the offences against language I see on the internet, I'd say they were wrong. We're seeing a new illiteracy, and it's abhorrent.
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And what do you want to do with your life in the next 20 years?
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But there's no 's' in Burt Bacharach!
But there are several "Fucking"s as in:-
FUCKING Burt FUCKING BachaFUCKINGrach
God. The "Easy Listening" revival of the late 1990s showed that several people HAD to DIE! Elvis Costello finally blew away the last tiny little remnants of his already shattered one-time punk credibility by duetting with THAT purveyor of godawful lift musak. In the last vestiges of the late 20th century, dinosaurs roamed the earth and people like Andy FUCKING Williams were in the UK pop charts rather than in their grave.
Oh yes, we're all being very post-modern and ironic with our easy listening "loungecore" music, are we not?
No. You are being FUCKING annoying with that GARBAGE that was SHITE in the late fifties and is even more FUCKING SHITE now!
Sorry. Had to get that off my chest. Just don't get me started on the ABBA revival, that's all...!
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Oh the irony!
...
also, i like a lot of older bands. led zeppelin, the doors, pink floyd.. amazingly good music.
personally, i dont like the beatles to much, but thats probably because the only drugs i do is the occasional pot smoking
And you think those bands didn't do drugs?
Sorry, the juxtapositon of those two sentences tickles me enormously!
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I don't dispise education.
I dispise the American Education System
I dispise certian Educational Institutions
But you could do with some help with your spelling.
It's despise, by the way. As in "I despise people who can't be bothered to spell properly"
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Do you know that the letter 'u' is not a personal pronoun?
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Seems I've been reading about these wonderful touchy-feely-huggy virtual communities for years, and I've always felt it was a load of bollocks.
MY community is the people I hang out with IN REAL LIFE, and no amount of idle banter on the internet can replace that.
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But the B2 isn't that stealthy in the dry!
A couple of years ago, a B2 was sent to do a flypast at the Farnborough air show. They agreed to open the bomb-bay doors and turn on a transponder when they entered UK airspace to show on radar.
However, it was revealed that RAF radar had picked them up quite clearly a long way outside of UK airspace while they were still in full stealth mode.
Had it been an enemy aircraft, Rapier missiles could have shot it down, no problem.
Strangely, the B2 has never been to a UK airshow again. Couldn't be the USAF were upset when the RAF boys pointed and laughed, could it?
B2 - Never used in anger (kept out of the gulf war as they were too expensive to risk in action!) and a waste of 2 BILLION dollars each which could buy NASA over a dozen Mars probes!
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And if you use a scythe and wear a big black cloak you can scare the shit out of your neighbours and any passers-by...!
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Bear in mind though that this is the UK where anything geek related is considered very uncool.
That's because it is uncool!
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how do you have a control group when practically all children play computer games
The Amish, presumably...
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If you're running low, go to the store
Carry some money, to help you buy more
The key is there to open the can
The can is there to hold in the spam
Spam - "Weird Al" Yankovic
(a parody of Stand by REM)
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But then, all manned flights are on the Shuttle nowadays, aren't they...?
One word... SOYUZ
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