Firstly, I think that aliases/nick's/etc. used to have a lot more thought put into it. Back from my day's using local dialup BBS's I started out just using my first name. Eventually, I was given a nickname by some friends and family due to my resemblance to a certain football player. Well, I didn't really look all that much like him but we'll not go into it. Anyways, I liked my nick, and I've managed to keep it for quite a while now. My real first name isn't bad, but I chose to keep boz because it is more of who I am rather than my real first name. Once I started to meet people from the local bbs's and ended up working with a couple guys that I met on one, the nickname stuck. Even my mother knows that I am boz but I also go by the name she picked too. I don't think it dilutes who I am, or gives me a different personality any more than if I went by my middle name, or even if I were called "Splurby". My girlfriend rarely uses it just because she likes my real name better, and most of my friends now use my real name. However, my brother calls me boz all the time.
I guess the point is this: "I don't care what you call me, just don't call me late for dinner!"
Call 1.888.BAD.BEAT or email cdreward@riaa to report that the pirates at the RIAA are stealing money from the artists and stealing money from companies like napster, mp3.com, etc by taking them to court. It technically isn't harassment if everyone does this, because it is true. Do not make threats, just remind them that they are no better than the mafia of the music industry, and rather than simply shooting others, they take away their livelyhoods and harass them.
And, uh, to give a gratuitous flame to Metallica...Lars' mom sucks donkey balls.
(slightly off topic) Rather than flaming, why not tell me how you view history as being? Even though I do mix up time periods a bit, the factual information about how the Catholic church came to power is correct. The point is that knowledge is power, and whoever has that power can do whatever they want. This is bad in the hands of a few, but good in the hands of many. Our society allows people to make a lot of money dealing with information. We have the internet, which is a means to put any information in the hands of anyone that can access a computer. On the other hand, when it comes to entertainment, we have had a situation similar to the situation with the Catholic church in the past. We have a few people that control most of our entertainment via TV, Movies, Music, etc. If people see that entertainment industry can make a lot of money in this way, what's to stop some other industry to do the same? Imagine if you bought a Ford car, then as per your licensing agreement with Ford, you can not do any work on it yourself. YOu can only drive on Ford certified roads. You have to let Ford do all the service to your vehicle. You are not allowed to put a new stereo in without their permission, and should they find that you went and did something as audacious as changing your own oil then told a friend how, you are a criminal and need to go to jail! How dare you take away Ford's potential income by changing the oil yourself? It's all relative. DVD's should not be under control of the MPAA after I pay for it. Once I pay for it, I should be able to use it to wipe my ass, play frisbee, show it to friends, watch it on linux, or whatever I want to do with it within respectable legal limits.
Geeky girls are often impressed by the size and power of your computer equipment. However, size is not the most important thing, it's how you operate it.
I'm curious if there's any way to defeat something like this. I get my answering service from the phone company, and I don't like wasting my time to dial all those numbers to get my voicemail just to have it be a recording and/or telemarketer.
I'd like to know if there's anything I can put at the front of my recording that might put these machines off. I guess this is probably more of a question for phone phreakers out there. I do wonder if anyone has taken the time to see how these machines work to differentiate between a human and answering machine.
One possible solution I can think of is if the machines check for the beep, then I put a beep at the beginning of my greeting message, so the spam war dialer talks while I am, and doesn't leave a message.
I remember a rumor on slashdot a while back (too lazy to go find it) about a Tick tv show coming out on TV this coming fall or something. Not a cartoon though, so I don't know that they could make it as good. With a movie, I think they could do it. It would take a lot of money for the special effects of Chairface, the Tick getting his arms ripped off, etc.
They really need to sell the tick episodes to someone else. I remember seeing them on Comedy Central after Fox took them off the air, but since then I have seen nothing. It was one of the best cartoons ever made and it's a shame that I can't watch it anymore.
There are some parallels between the direction our society is heading, and the dark ages. After the fall of the Roman empire, the former Roman provinces and territories had an organizational breakdown. Basically, to protect the knowledge of the past, most of the books and scrolls and such that could be saved were saved by monks. This started out as a good thing, so that the information contained in those papers would not be lost. However, as years went by, many changes happened. The people fell into the period known as the Dark Ages, they became very ignorant and superstisious. Because they didn't have access to to the knowledge of the ancient people, they had to rely on the Roman Catholic monks to guide them since the monks were the only ones that had access to that information. It didn't matter if you were a king or emperor back then, the religious leaders were the ones with knowledge that noone else could have. So the Roman Catholic church came into power. They were over everyone and everything. It was such a corrupt organization and murdered many innocent people for having different opinions. The only way that the European world came out of that was due to people taking a stand, such as Martin Luther in the religious field, and then all the great scientists and thinkers of periods like of the Enlightenment and Rennaisance to rediscover a lot of the old knowledge of the past, and push some further. People died as a result of having knowledge they were not supposed to according to the church and the law.
Fortunately, we are not in any situation remotely close to that yet. I personally don't care whether I can watch Happy Gilmore and The Matrix on DVD as opposed to VCR. I don't care that the RIAA only wants me to use their CD's and not make any additional recordings for my own use. Yes, I think they are wrong in their thinking, but at the same time I don't think it is bad enough that we need to be overdramatic. *BUT* keep in mind, with the thinking behind these large corporations being similar to that of the Catholic church during the Dark Ages, we have to stop the progress of this now. It is much easier to boycott the 1st season "Saved By The Bell" episodes on DVD now than it could be if we allow our society to fall back into a dark period with a small group of people in power of every aspect of our lives.
To make this sound Jon Katzish..."HELP! I'M BEING OPPRESSED! I'M A GEEK!"
They need to attach a small hose to put human saliva, urine, and mucous in the food to imitate those people that think it's funny to spit in someone's food or take a leak in the ketchup. Ok, so it is funny...as long as it isn't my food. On a more serious note...If something like this went into production in restaurants, they would have to come up with a way to check the quality of food...I can see imperfections getting through and a lot of people getting sick. I would think that if someone was cooking a burger and saw a roach on it, they might throw the burger away (one would hope), but a robot doesn't give a shit about bugs and hair and stuff like that.
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And then the ever popular, "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!"
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I guess the point is this: "I don't care what you call me, just don't call me late for dinner!"
BoZ
And, uh, to give a gratuitous flame to Metallica...Lars' mom sucks donkey balls.
(slightly off topic) Rather than flaming, why not tell me how you view history as being? Even though I do mix up time periods a bit, the factual information about how the Catholic church came to power is correct. The point is that knowledge is power, and whoever has that power can do whatever they want. This is bad in the hands of a few, but good in the hands of many. Our society allows people to make a lot of money dealing with information. We have the internet, which is a means to put any information in the hands of anyone that can access a computer. On the other hand, when it comes to entertainment, we have had a situation similar to the situation with the Catholic church in the past. We have a few people that control most of our entertainment via TV, Movies, Music, etc. If people see that entertainment industry can make a lot of money in this way, what's to stop some other industry to do the same? Imagine if you bought a Ford car, then as per your licensing agreement with Ford, you can not do any work on it yourself. YOu can only drive on Ford certified roads. You have to let Ford do all the service to your vehicle. You are not allowed to put a new stereo in without their permission, and should they find that you went and did something as audacious as changing your own oil then told a friend how, you are a criminal and need to go to jail! How dare you take away Ford's potential income by changing the oil yourself? It's all relative. DVD's should not be under control of the MPAA after I pay for it. Once I pay for it, I should be able to use it to wipe my ass, play frisbee, show it to friends, watch it on linux, or whatever I want to do with it within respectable legal limits.
Geeky girls are often impressed by the size and power of your computer equipment. However, size is not the most important thing, it's how you operate it.
I'd like to know if there's anything I can put at the front of my recording that might put these machines off. I guess this is probably more of a question for phone phreakers out there. I do wonder if anyone has taken the time to see how these machines work to differentiate between a human and answering machine.
One possible solution I can think of is if the machines check for the beep, then I put a beep at the beginning of my greeting message, so the spam war dialer talks while I am, and doesn't leave a message.
Any other ideas?
I remember a rumor on slashdot a while back (too lazy to go find it) about a Tick tv show coming out on TV this coming fall or something. Not a cartoon though, so I don't know that they could make it as good. With a movie, I think they could do it. It would take a lot of money for the special effects of Chairface, the Tick getting his arms ripped off, etc.
Go to AntiOffline. I know that the guys running that site have done some research into DDoS that haven't been tested yet.
They really need to sell the tick episodes to someone else. I remember seeing them on Comedy Central after Fox took them off the air, but since then I have seen nothing. It was one of the best cartoons ever made and it's a shame that I can't watch it anymore.
Fortunately, we are not in any situation remotely close to that yet. I personally don't care whether I can watch Happy Gilmore and The Matrix on DVD as opposed to VCR. I don't care that the RIAA only wants me to use their CD's and not make any additional recordings for my own use. Yes, I think they are wrong in their thinking, but at the same time I don't think it is bad enough that we need to be overdramatic. *BUT* keep in mind, with the thinking behind these large corporations being similar to that of the Catholic church during the Dark Ages, we have to stop the progress of this now. It is much easier to boycott the 1st season "Saved By The Bell" episodes on DVD now than it could be if we allow our society to fall back into a dark period with a small group of people in power of every aspect of our lives.
To make this sound Jon Katzish..."HELP! I'M BEING OPPRESSED! I'M A GEEK!"
They need to attach a small hose to put human saliva, urine, and mucous in the food to imitate those people that think it's funny to spit in someone's food or take a leak in the ketchup. Ok, so it is funny...as long as it isn't my food. On a more serious note...If something like this went into production in restaurants, they would have to come up with a way to check the quality of food...I can see imperfections getting through and a lot of people getting sick. I would think that if someone was cooking a burger and saw a roach on it, they might throw the burger away (one would hope), but a robot doesn't give a shit about bugs and hair and stuff like that.
And then the ever popular, "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!"
Not many. The women are all off playing Diablo II and Unreal Tournament. The men are the ones that go to chatrooms looking for love.