Now THIS is an excellent idea! Show the slugs what their "marketing" BS looks like from the receiving end. As an addition, I'd suggest getting into the code and "tweaking" the message a bit...
Example: "Hi! I just got fooled into sending spam by the MS market-droids! You can be an idiot too! Just download..." etc. etc.
Also interesting - the bugs work. Pagecount seems self-explanatory, but what is pc.gif for? The same? Looks like AC's really aren't, which could be very annoying...
BTW: They're easier to spot in the page structure display -
Articles: ZapStation CD/MP3/DVD Player/Server has the following structure:
(snip)
http://images2.slashdot.org/Slashdot/pc.gif?/com ments.pl,969741865002
http://images.slashdot.org/pagecount.gif?/commen ts.pl,969741865002
Favorite King quote:
But King said it was not feasible for his clients to investigate each individual Napster user.
Tough cookies, pal. Guess you'll have to put a portion of your immense fee to having somebody look for actual copyright violations.
God I hate lawyers. They are the scum of the earth.
Quotes from the recent past:
"If it comes down to me being killed by a cop for the crime of walking down the street or defending myself, you're gonna have a dead cop, and fuck your laws."
-- Ice T, after the "Cop Killer" rucus
Hell, I'm still waiting for Olympics Newswire to report -
"Spanish IOC Bigwig rushed home for Emergency Ethicsectomy
- Sydney, AU 2000/09/18
International Olympic Commitee chaiman What's-his-name was flown back to Madrid yesterday after his bulging wallet apparently sparked the growth of a vestigal concience. Doctors reported finding a "malignant growth" attached to his posterior regions. Rumors that this was merely a callous engendered by his over-full wallet were pooh-poohed by those in the know.
"He actualy started feeling bad that he took all that money from the Aussies! Can you believe it?" commented another IOC member, who demanded to remain anonymous...."
Actually, the hosers are charging $10k for joining the SDMI Foundation. So it's not even a noticable amount of moola to them, given all the companies that are members. Chump change, strictly for chumps.
While perusing the SDMI site's wide selection of propaganda pieces, I ran across quite a few references to this company, who apparently are maqnaging tha whole magilla...
http://www.globalintegrity.com/
Not that I'd like to see them taken down, or anything. Be polite, but tell them your opinion of companies who do this sort of thing.
"There's two kinds of people in this world, those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig..."
-- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Yes, "No person" means no person. It means that the SDMI folks are actively abeting a felony, and ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
"We're not just gonna kick your ass. We're gonna kick your ass, call up your mommy, and BRAG!"
Now, mind you I never use inflammatory language, but I keep some around for my friends who do.
I actually use Eudora, and I like it for the most part. Except for the darned "paid mode" doesn't work real well. The durn thing keeps asking if I want to "upgrade to paid mode".
But... I already paid, you stupid program! What's the problem?
It would be nice if you could, like, invert the filter...
"Hey, you asshole! There's not enough fucking profanity in this piece of crap you dribbled out! Get a fucking clue, you hoser!"
Most likely the scanner can detect the presence of DNA, but WHOSE DNA is not immediately evident. Just wait, those wily chinee counterfeiters will add someone else's DNA to their tags in about 2 weeks. Probably Chairman Mao's, if they have a sense of humor.
Honestly, do we really need to re-hash this trite piece of obvious anthropomorphism just because some bozo writes a (probably corp-sponsored) article?
Structured information - like a program, or music, or a book, or whatever - is structured because somebody (or a group of sombodies) MADE IT THAT WAY. It wasn't random chance or a million caffine-slurping chimps. The order that gives meaning was imposed by a human being, who should get something for his contribution to the universe of structured information - if he wants it. He can, after all give it away if he chooses, but that's not your decision to make. It's his.
"...in the 2001-2002 academic year (Class of 2005), a computer and the VitalBook will be required as part of coming to dental school."
Am I the only one who finds it faintly ironic that this pain in the ass is being tested out on would-be dentists? Is it irony, or just cosmic symmetry? I wonder if Steve Martin is involved?...
I love it when media-droids try to sound like they have a clue. Sorry folks, but (as Warren Zevon might say) "Your shit's fucked up." It's never gonna work as planned, or even as claimed. Never, never, never. Nyahh, Nyahh, Nyahh. So there.
"Protecting" "children" from things thay are TRYING to see is always gonna be a losing proposition. Like trying to keep teenagers from trying sex, it ain't gonna happen.
But do feel free to keep trying, it's very amusing...
Leave it to Charles Dickens, a couple of hundred years back, to be amazingly prescient -
"If the law supposes THAT, sir, then the law is an ass!" -- Great Expectations
Ditto for Judge Kaplan, although I simply can't seem to dig up any surprise that, once again, american courts decide in favor of the biggest wallet. The Romans said it best - "Qui Bono?"
Go ahead and use a VPN to connect whereever you like. Or use a SSH tunnel, as I routinely do.
All the ISP is going to see is packets with encrypted payloads going back and forth. Tough. Bandwidth is what you are paying for, they can't really complain if you use it.
If they have the nerve to actually call you on it, ask nastily why they are trying to intercept a private electronic communication without a warrant. Mention the FBI, the FCC and the local cops if necessary.
"Similar cases are also unfolding in other countries, including Germany, which recently banned Nazi slogans as web addresses.
German justice minister Hertha Daebler-Gmelin
called such sites "a new threat to our society", and said Germany would do all it could to fight such sites, even beyond its borders."
Sounds like thay might be forced to invade France, Belgium, and the Netherlands...again.
Slashdot Mirror
Now THIS is an excellent idea! Show the slugs what their "marketing" BS looks like from the receiving end. As an addition, I'd suggest getting into the code and "tweaking" the message a bit...
Example: "Hi! I just got fooled into sending spam by the MS market-droids! You can be an idiot too! Just download..." etc. etc.
You get the idea.
C'mon, this thing came out in the mid-seventies! The guy does everything via phone inputs, fer chrissakes!
Not that it's not a bood book, and well worth a read, but really, what's next? You gonna discover "Stand on Zanzibar" or "The Jagged Orbit"?
How about some reviews of NEW books?...
Also interesting - the bugs work. Pagecount seems self-explanatory, but what is pc.gif for? The same? Looks like AC's really aren't, which could be very annoying...
m ments.pl,969741865002
n ts.pl,969741865002
BTW: They're easier to spot in the page structure display -
Articles: ZapStation CD/MP3/DVD Player/Server has the following structure:
(snip)
http://images2.slashdot.org/Slashdot/pc.gif?/co
http://images.slashdot.org/pagecount.gif?/comme
Tough cookies, pal. Guess you'll have to put a portion of your immense fee to having somebody look for actual copyright violations.
God I hate lawyers. They are the scum of the earth.
Quotes from the recent past:
"If it comes down to me being killed by a cop for the crime of walking down the street or defending myself, you're gonna have a dead cop, and fuck your laws."
-- Ice T, after the "Cop Killer" rucus
Well... I guess it coulda been worse.
They could have called it "DeOrbit Wizard"...
Oy!
Hell, I'm still waiting for Olympics Newswire to report -
"Spanish IOC Bigwig rushed home for Emergency Ethicsectomy
- Sydney, AU 2000/09/18
International Olympic Commitee chaiman What's-his-name was flown back to Madrid yesterday after his bulging wallet apparently sparked the growth of a vestigal concience. Doctors reported finding a "malignant growth" attached to his posterior regions. Rumors that this was merely a callous engendered by his over-full wallet were pooh-poohed by those in the know.
"He actualy started feeling bad that he took all that money from the Aussies! Can you believe it?" commented another IOC member, who demanded to remain anonymous...."
OMFG! Another George Orwell in the making! Notify the Media!
Now if we can just pull another "Animal Farm" out of the poor boob before we suck out his brains with a bicycle pump...
"Sure, living in today's modern workaday world IS a little like having Bees live in your head.
But, there they are..."
-- Firesign Theatre, 1972
Actually, the hosers are charging $10k for joining the SDMI Foundation. So it's not even a noticable amount of moola to them, given all the companies that are members. Chump change, strictly for chumps.
Search terms: "SDMI Foundation"
"Global Integrity"
While perusing the SDMI site's wide selection of propaganda pieces, I ran across quite a few references to this company, who apparently are maqnaging tha whole magilla...
http://www.globalintegrity.com/
Not that I'd like to see them taken down, or anything. Be polite, but tell them your opinion of companies who do this sort of thing.
"There's two kinds of people in this world, those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig..."
-- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Yes, "No person" means no person. It means that the SDMI folks are actively abeting a felony, and ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
"We're not just gonna kick your ass. We're gonna kick your ass, call up your mommy, and BRAG!"
I actually use Eudora, and I like it for the most part. Except for the darned "paid mode" doesn't work real well. The durn thing keeps asking if I want to "upgrade to paid mode".
But... I already paid, you stupid program! What's the problem?
It would be nice if you could, like, invert the filter...
"Hey, you asshole! There's not enough fucking profanity in this piece of crap you dribbled out! Get a fucking clue, you hoser!"
Now THERE'S a filter!
Most likely the scanner can detect the presence of DNA, but WHOSE DNA is not immediately evident. Just wait, those wily chinee counterfeiters will add someone else's DNA to their tags in about 2 weeks. Probably Chairman Mao's, if they have a sense of humor.
Really. Just ask it.
Honestly, do we really need to re-hash this trite piece of obvious anthropomorphism just because some bozo writes a (probably corp-sponsored) article?
Structured information - like a program, or music, or a book, or whatever - is structured because somebody (or a group of sombodies) MADE IT THAT WAY. It wasn't random chance or a million caffine-slurping chimps. The order that gives meaning was imposed by a human being, who should get something for his contribution to the universe of structured information - if he wants it. He can, after all give it away if he chooses, but that's not your decision to make. It's his.
Ok, enough. Time for some goat pr0n...
Am I the only one who's getting real tired of hearing about how "the evil americans are taking over everything", with nefarious intent?
Here's a clue for ya, chief. WE ALREADY HAVE IT ALL. We inherited it from PERFIDIOUS ALBION.
So shut up, already. I wouldn't want to have to sic the CIA on you...
Ok, so the dork signed an NDA he later decided to breach. So he's basically f*&^ked now.
What I want to know is: Who the hell gives a shit about "what's gonna be in the new i-book" anyhow.
Why did Joe Dork feel he needed to place himself in a world of shit in order to "reveal" this boring trash?
Inquiring minds, etc...
"No, no! Not THAT button!!" -- Bugs Bunny
How do you tell if a blonde is a NYU dental student?
A) The hi-lighter marks on her laptop screen...
"...in the 2001-2002 academic year (Class of 2005), a computer and the VitalBook will be required as part of coming to dental school."
Am I the only one who finds it faintly ironic that this pain in the ass is being tested out on would-be dentists? Is it irony, or just cosmic symmetry? I wonder if Steve Martin is involved?...
Ok, all you ex-game protection crackers. Here's a couple of extra-credit questions to ponder during the break.
1) What is the major problem of ALL disk-protection schemes, cryptologically speaking?
2) Exactly HOW BIG will the black market in cracked/pirated textbooks be, and should you get involved now, or wait for the market to firm up?
3) What moron thought this horse-shit up? Stallman, is that you?...
"Death from the Skies"
-- Motto, 5th Strat. Bomb. Wing, USAF
My thoughts exactly! (chuckle)
I love it when media-droids try to sound like they have a clue. Sorry folks, but (as Warren Zevon might say) "Your shit's fucked up." It's never gonna work as planned, or even as claimed. Never, never, never. Nyahh, Nyahh, Nyahh. So there.
"Protecting" "children" from things thay are TRYING to see is always gonna be a losing proposition. Like trying to keep teenagers from trying sex, it ain't gonna happen.
But do feel free to keep trying, it's very amusing...
Leave it to Charles Dickens, a couple of hundred years back, to be amazingly prescient -
"If the law supposes THAT, sir, then the law is an ass!" -- Great Expectations
Ditto for Judge Kaplan, although I simply can't seem to dig up any surprise that, once again, american courts decide in favor of the biggest wallet. The Romans said it best - "Qui Bono?"
Add to list of unnecessary/dangerous appliances sewn into ugly jacket:
1) Connector for a pair of I-glasses, so user can wander into busy streets while playing QuakeII.
2) Lightning rod and battery recharge unit.
-- Who, me? Not a chance, pal...
Go ahead and use a VPN to connect whereever you like. Or use a SSH tunnel, as I routinely do.
All the ISP is going to see is packets with encrypted payloads going back and forth. Tough. Bandwidth is what you are paying for, they can't really complain if you use it.
If they have the nerve to actually call you on it, ask nastily why they are trying to intercept a private electronic communication without a warrant. Mention the FBI, the FCC and the local cops if necessary.
Stand your ground. Make the bastards bleed.
Ok, so maybe it's slightly off-topic.
from the BBC article:
"Similar cases are also unfolding in other countries, including Germany, which recently banned Nazi slogans as web addresses.
German justice minister Hertha Daebler-Gmelin
called such sites "a new threat to our society", and said Germany would do all it could to fight such sites, even beyond its borders."
Sounds like thay might be forced to invade France, Belgium, and the Netherlands...again.
Oh, the horror!
--- Te gustibus non disputandum est.
>For instance, a Redhat Linux CD costs $50 from Redhat.
So don't buy it from RedHat. http://www.cheapbytes.com - RH62 ~ $5.00 + shipping
OK?
I thought this was not allowed.
Gee, I think I'll copyright RADAR, or FBI, or CIA, or...
You get the idea. The complaint is complete bull-puckey.