Ah yes. I simply quipped something about the author probably having a seriously disturbed childhood. In short, I didn't get the lyrics either. Sorry to waste your time on that.:-)
buy them; attempt to play them; and then return them. Then the RIAA can't say sales have decreased
They will say that "pirates now buy the CD, take it home, rip it and then return it for a full refund, and oh, can we have some more copy protection to stop this, your honour, and BTW there's a pretty little thing waiting for you in your chamber afterwards". That's what they'll say.
Assuming you hadn't already paid for it, you should have just ordered a new one and gotten two for the price of one.
I once got a brand new 4GB Microspolis SCSI drive (this was back in 94 or so) shipped to me by mistake. It was supposed to be shipped internally from one Ericsson department to another, with the destination department's abbreviation similar to the company name I had at the time and somehow the package had broken free from Ericsson and made it to the Swedish Post Office who promptly interpreted the address in a very creative way and gave it to me. I signed for it with "Donald Duck" and kept it unopened for two months before I dared open and use it. Worked fine.:-)
Another time (cirka 92/93) I shipped an Amiga 1200 to a customer and after a week, I got a report that it had been damaged in shipping - the carrier had somehow managed to stick a,5x3" metal tube straight through the package and the A1200. And LEFT THE TUBE IN IT, one end sticking out the bottom about an inch or so.
We (comp club at the local uni) once got a Digital box as a donation. We called it Bronto, as in -saurus. I think it was an 8500 with a bunch of storage racks. You could probably fit it all into a truck, though.
When we asked the facilities guys to get the proper power requirements for the thing and started asking if we could get cooling pipes up (3rd floor) from the basement of course they went totally ape shit on us so we had to be really careful in which order we started drives and stuff so as not to overload the power grid and for cooling we used to jam the windows wide open all year 'round.
We used to joke that we could probably grow bananas within a few miles from that thing, that's how much heat it put out.:-)
A friend of mine (Hi tomt!) once flew from Umeå (I think) to Östersund with a Digital RM-80 (not sure about that designation either, this is a while ago) hard drive as carry-on luggage. Reportedly, he barely managed to get it stowed under the seat in front of him to avoid attention from the stewardesses. They would probably have made him put it in the overhead bins, you know the ones with the really flimsy plastic lids.
I want you to know that I posted this reply without reading the previous post. Yes, I'm slightly psychic, but it's not enough for them to take me away.
I did that once, with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Since movies tend to take a while to get to rural Sweden, I had ample time to read MAD Magazine's spoof of the flick beforehand and that was enough to drive my mates crazy.:-)
The bandwidth of a box full of RedHat CDs in the trunk of my car is a helluva lot more than anything a measly 56k modem can provide, that's for sure...
But the latency, the latency... You need a bike.:-)
Wpoison basically does that; it serves a page with bogus addresses and adds a nasty delay between pages, keeping the spider occupied.
However, the instructions for installating Wpoison more or less assumes that one has a single website to protect. I have around 20 virtual hosts. So instead of creating a renamed cgi-bin in every DocumentRoot, I added a single
I also added a single transparent pixel to the link to keep it invisible but still fool the spiders. Add the runme directory as excluded in the robots.txt and you should be on your way. Muhahahah, and so on.
Seriously, in Sweden OS/2 is used for stuff like the internal ticket system for SJ (Swedish Rail), with hundreds of low-cost (IBM P300 w/ 64MB RAM) terminals spread out in several call center locations. They have been trying to migrate to NT but that project is now three or four years behind the initial schedule.
Speaking of the FDA, I found this little snippet recently:
This diagnostic tool will provide valuable information for treating plants with UNIX® and its co-formulations which have excellent activity against both strains of the pathogen.
PQ: How long will it be before scientists might be able to study the atmospheres of Earth-like planets around other stars?
Charbonneau: That's much more difficult. We are close to being able to find Earth-like planets. But it may be decades before we are able to study their atmospheres.
Just close. How close? Well, if you're used to measuring distances in parsecs, 'close' can be quite a bit away, especially as the lad seems fairly young yet. He'll have plenty of time to paddle around, swigging brewskis and gazing at the sky. Good luck to him, I say!
Deploy Darwin award wannabes with telephoto lenses. Put them in trailer parks (tornado bait). They are expendable (especially if you can get sponsors for cameras, lenses and film) and if you deploy enough of them, you may even find several usable rolls of film afterwards.
Now when the site is about to become/.ed, those ads are sure to come back.
Hm, that sounds like a business plan: Create a nifty site, get it mentioned on Slashdot and then fill it with ads just in time for the/. effect to hit the adservers. Free money!:-)
I was under the impression that dead people's copyrights lasted 70 years (outside the US), but IANAL and I don't even remember of this time was counted from the original publication of the work or time of death of the artist so I'm just posting out of my nose.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, I'm on it. Seven times. I moved a lot. :-)
Ah yes. I simply quipped something about the author probably having a seriously disturbed childhood. In short, I didn't get the lyrics either. Sorry to waste your time on that. :-)
Since I seem to have the attention span of a dead goldfish, I have no idea. What did you write? Maybe I can reconstruct my reply from log fragments.
You could always try running coax for 100 mbps or even gigabit Token Ring... The horror, the horror!
Schizophrenic geeks are people two, you know. :-)
They will say that "pirates now buy the CD, take it home, rip it and then return it for a full refund, and oh, can we have some more copy protection to stop this, your honour, and BTW there's a pretty little thing waiting for you in your chamber afterwards". That's what they'll say.
Assuming you hadn't already paid for it, you should have just ordered a new one and gotten two for the price of one.
I once got a brand new 4GB Microspolis SCSI drive (this was back in 94 or so) shipped to me by mistake. It was supposed to be shipped internally from one Ericsson department to another, with the destination department's abbreviation similar to the company name I had at the time and somehow the package had broken free from Ericsson and made it to the Swedish Post Office who promptly interpreted the address in a very creative way and gave it to me. I signed for it with "Donald Duck" and kept it unopened for two months before I dared open and use it. Worked fine. :-)
Another time (cirka 92/93) I shipped an Amiga 1200 to a customer and after a week, I got a report that it had been damaged in shipping - the carrier had somehow managed to stick a ,5x3" metal tube straight through the package and the A1200. And LEFT THE TUBE IN IT, one end sticking out the bottom about an inch or so.
When we asked the facilities guys to get the proper power requirements for the thing and started asking if we could get cooling pipes up (3rd floor) from the basement of course they went totally ape shit on us so we had to be really careful in which order we started drives and stuff so as not to overload the power grid and for cooling we used to jam the windows wide open all year 'round.
We used to joke that we could probably grow bananas within a few miles from that thing, that's how much heat it put out. :-)
A friend of mine (Hi tomt!) once flew from Umeå (I think) to Östersund with a Digital RM-80 (not sure about that designation either, this is a while ago) hard drive as carry-on luggage. Reportedly, he barely managed to get it stowed under the seat in front of him to avoid attention from the stewardesses. They would probably have made him put it in the overhead bins, you know the ones with the really flimsy plastic lids.
Hang on, there's someone at the door...
I did that once, with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Since movies tend to take a while to get to rural Sweden, I had ample time to read MAD Magazine's spoof of the flick beforehand and that was enough to drive my mates crazy. :-)
But the latency, the latency... You need a bike. :-)
However, the instructions for installating Wpoison more or less assumes that one has a single website to protect. I have around 20 virtual hosts. So instead of creating a renamed cgi-bin in every DocumentRoot, I added a single
ScriptAlias /runme/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
to httpd.conf and then linked it like this:
<A HREF="/runme/addresses.ext"><IMG SRC="pixel.gif" BORDER=0></A>
I also added a single transparent pixel to the link to keep it invisible but still fool the spiders. Add the runme directory as excluded in the robots.txt and you should be on your way. Muhahahah, and so on.
I have two issues with this statement;
1. Everyone has a higher-pitched voice than James Earl Jones.
2. What's the voice for if it doesn't talk?
Seriously, in Sweden OS/2 is used for stuff like the internal ticket system for SJ (Swedish Rail), with hundreds of low-cost (IBM P300 w/ 64MB RAM) terminals spread out in several call center locations. They have been trying to migrate to NT but that project is now three or four years behind the initial schedule.
This diagnostic tool will provide valuable information for treating plants with UNIX® and its co-formulations which have excellent activity against both strains of the pathogen.
Source
So, how long before someone combines these technologies and implants UNIX® into people? ;-)
Being off-topic is a sin and methinks you just went off at a tangent.
(There should be a new moderation; "-1, Really bad pun" ;)
PQ: How long will it be before scientists might be able to study the atmospheres of Earth-like planets around other stars?
Charbonneau: That's much more difficult. We are close to being able to find Earth-like planets. But it may be decades before we are able to study their atmospheres.
Just close. How close? Well, if you're used to measuring distances in parsecs, 'close' can be quite a bit away, especially as the lad seems fairly young yet. He'll have plenty of time to paddle around, swigging brewskis and gazing at the sky. Good luck to him, I say!
Well, the world now knows he likes brewing beer and put out to sea in his canoe. Hey, if he has sex in it, it's Miller time! :-P
Et tu, Brutus? :-P
That's what they WANT you to think. :-)
Ah, THAT's why I get spots on my glasses! I think I'll have to buy this book. :-)
Other than that, I'd suggest Troy's bear suit and magic materials for the fashion-impaired tornographers. :-)
Hm, that sounds like a business plan: Create a nifty site, get it mentioned on Slashdot and then fill it with ads just in time for the /. effect to hit the adservers. Free money! :-)
I was under the impression that dead people's copyrights lasted 70 years (outside the US), but IANAL and I don't even remember of this time was counted from the original publication of the work or time of death of the artist so I'm just posting out of my nose.