A long time ago I found a post here on Slashdot with a signature that pointed to some domain like dolphinsex.org (I checked, they're all parked by ad whores), that went into far too much detail about how to do just that, what it was like, etc. It's got to be out there somewhere still. Funny, yet scarey, that someone typed up that long essay, true or not...
I find it funny that there are Google ads of "Bush vs Clinton" on the remarks from signatures. That's gotta say something about something, AdSense knows all.
I've been running 18 window air conditioner units nonstop for the last 399 years when I saw this comming, and it's done nothing! What more can one do??
Safeway is only available in Arizona, California, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, Washington and Washington D.C. Six oout of fifty states, but it does get 100% of the districts in the country. Albertsons is available in fourteen cities, five of them major cities in California.
Amazon and UPS deliver to just about every city in the lower 48 states (probably Alaska and Hawaii, but I don't know if they have a higher shipping premium), even ones with populations under a million. You see a difference?
I chuckled that the first link for "bullshit" is Office of the Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer. I don't see "bull" or "shit" anywhere in the text, but it's mighty funny.
If you read another 16 characters, you would have seen another reference to a machine-specific method of identification. I will give you though that I do not know the absolute specifics of Nintendo's protocols, but I have seen games send repetitive information in the body of a packet. The point is there is some most likely some identifiable code for the machine Nintendo can ban when a stolen device tries to access their service. Heck, I could even go so far as to start a scare that Nintendo will download code to shut down the device permanently when it sees it has been stolen. That'll learn them.
A lesson for all you little leaguers at home: don't buy black market DSes because only you can lose.
That would only work if you were the only one in your town to know about it, and you tell absolutely no one. Once two people know, then the whole town knows and every road/path is clogged. Then no one gets out and you still get squished.
One of the great things of the DS is the internet play. Nintendo just has to ban the MAC addresses/serial numbers for those units and buyers lose out on that part of the fun.
Unfortunately, it is far more likely to have a bomb go off in a major city from terrorists than to be knocked in the head by a meteorite. Human behavior is far more unpredictable and imminent than a meteor large enough to survive burn through atmosphere and do significant damage going unnoticed by astronomers worldwide.
Even then, do you want the fear that a meteor is going to kill you in 3 hours 45 minutes or to just live like a normal day, then kaboom?
And I'd rather my tax dollars that do go to NASA be spent on colonization. Inventions, energy sources, etc used to sustain life on the Moon or Mars will get ported back to Earth and help us out in the immediate future.
Don't forget also that the Wii will not interoperate with your Sony memory cards, or Sony BluRay discs, or Sony controllers! Hell, this Wii is so pathetic I wouldn't even use it as a doorstop on my Millenium Falcon.
Sure, I was directing that more towards the folks that might visit here. The last few video cards I've bought had SVideo ports right on them. With fancy things like MythTV, one could have the same limitless library of classic video games as all of Nintendo, Sega, Turbografx, etc.
And the SD card slot would then make a little more sense for downloading games.
Exactly. $4.50 for an NES rom, which are extremely small, 256kB for the fancier NES games, is too much. I've tried hooking up the old NES for some nostalgia over the years, and inevitably get bored with the simplistic play in short time. Very few games are playable for a length of time, Super Mario Bros 3 being one. On the other hand, a monthly subscription with unlimited play would have sold me in a heartbeat.
Also if the machine dies (rare, given that my NES is still working 18 years later) do you lose your library? My wife's cell phone recently broke (1 year warranty, 14 month old phone, happened 2 years ago with the previous phone as well). She's out the handful of games she downloaded (Burgertime, pacman, etc at $6 a piece).
An old PC with an emulator going to the TV is going to be just as fun.
Your lucky over there... Here, even the pre-pay phone companies like to rip you off. You buy some time, but it has a soft expiration date, 30-90 days usually. I used Tracfone for a while before switching to a normal contract cell phone. The way it works is if you don't buy more time (even if you didn't use it all up), they cancel your phone. Only when you buy yet more time can you regain that old unused time. Oh, and when you then renew, you get a brand new phone number from their pool of numbers for your area, even if you are only one day late. They like to keep it as inconvenient as possible for you.
They charge you so much per month no matter what. I don't see them having a problem of someone not tying up their lines. It would seem like an extremely expensive voice mail service though. You could probably find some place on the internet to merely hold a voice mailbox for $5 per month or something.
Slashdot has no editors. They edit nothing. Look at the summary again. It is just: An anonymous reader writes, "..." They just take a random user submission, and punch a button to make it published, copying whatever the user typed up. They don't check links, facts, duplicates, etc. It's all chocked up to, "well, the submitter got it wrong, not us." Even then, they only find time to submit a dozen articles perhaps in a day, out of hundreds/thousands submitted.
I wouldn't be surprised if the submissions were just linked to a grid of squares on the wall of the monkey cage at the zoo. Then, whenever one of them flings poo onto a grid, that story is autopublished.
The crowd that post comments are what make this site interesting, certainly not anything done by the staff.
Actually, the auction starting prices are a bit higher than the normal ticket price. The only heavily advertised event local I could think of was the American Idol tour, so I'll use it as the example. Under the normal ticket pricing, it says they are $37, $47, and $67. They are auctioning off some first and second row seats, starting bid $80 with bids currently $120 and $100 respectively. So, from the start they are scalping, and letting it go higher from there.
Since they're saying the plots of land have a "for sale" sign posted in game with the lot's ID, it would seem to me to be more like you are having a garage sale. You start writing a sign for the monitor, "For Sale $1" when you are called away by the spouse to kill a spider. You intended to finish writing "$100." And the monitor is sitting in the foyer connecting your garage to the house. You left the door open when you went on the spider job.
Someone comes along, sees the sign (not exactly in the garage), leaves a dollar, and grabs the monitor. The sign is there. It is viewable by the public indirectly. This guy just got in on the sale early. Thoughts?
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A long time ago I found a post here on Slashdot with a signature that pointed to some domain like dolphinsex.org (I checked, they're all parked by ad whores), that went into far too much detail about how to do just that, what it was like, etc. It's got to be out there somewhere still. Funny, yet scarey, that someone typed up that long essay, true or not...
I find it funny that there are Google ads of "Bush vs Clinton" on the remarks from signatures. That's gotta say something about something, AdSense knows all.
I've been running 18 window air conditioner units nonstop for the last 399 years when I saw this comming, and it's done nothing! What more can one do??
No, SNES games started out at 512k, but more average at 8-16MB. Late-era games like Final Fantasy 3 were 32MB.
Safeway is only available in Arizona, California, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, Washington and Washington D.C. Six oout of fifty states, but it does get 100% of the districts in the country. Albertsons is available in fourteen cities, five of them major cities in California.
Amazon and UPS deliver to just about every city in the lower 48 states (probably Alaska and Hawaii, but I don't know if they have a higher shipping premium), even ones with populations under a million. You see a difference?
What, you don't already live in New York City? WTF is wrong with you?? It solves every problem on Slashdot.
It's a losing battle, bud. These folks will never get that the US is made of more than New York and California.
I chuckled that the first link for "bullshit" is Office of the Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer. I don't see "bull" or "shit" anywhere in the text, but it's mighty funny.
Now we shall have gMyLittlePonies!! Take that KDE suckas!
If you read another 16 characters, you would have seen another reference to a machine-specific method of identification. I will give you though that I do not know the absolute specifics of Nintendo's protocols, but I have seen games send repetitive information in the body of a packet. The point is there is some most likely some identifiable code for the machine Nintendo can ban when a stolen device tries to access their service. Heck, I could even go so far as to start a scare that Nintendo will download code to shut down the device permanently when it sees it has been stolen. That'll learn them.
A lesson for all you little leaguers at home: don't buy black market DSes because only you can lose.
That would only work if you were the only one in your town to know about it, and you tell absolutely no one. Once two people know, then the whole town knows and every road/path is clogged. Then no one gets out and you still get squished.
One of the great things of the DS is the internet play. Nintendo just has to ban the MAC addresses/serial numbers for those units and buyers lose out on that part of the fun.
Unfortunately, it is far more likely to have a bomb go off in a major city from terrorists than to be knocked in the head by a meteorite. Human behavior is far more unpredictable and imminent than a meteor large enough to survive burn through atmosphere and do significant damage going unnoticed by astronomers worldwide.
Even then, do you want the fear that a meteor is going to kill you in 3 hours 45 minutes or to just live like a normal day, then kaboom?
And I'd rather my tax dollars that do go to NASA be spent on colonization. Inventions, energy sources, etc used to sustain life on the Moon or Mars will get ported back to Earth and help us out in the immediate future.
... for the other colors. Bright white? Come on Nintendo, come with the pretty DSLites!
Don't forget also that the Wii will not interoperate with your Sony memory cards, or Sony BluRay discs, or Sony controllers! Hell, this Wii is so pathetic I wouldn't even use it as a doorstop on my Millenium Falcon.
Sure, I was directing that more towards the folks that might visit here. The last few video cards I've bought had SVideo ports right on them. With fancy things like MythTV, one could have the same limitless library of classic video games as all of Nintendo, Sega, Turbografx, etc.
And the SD card slot would then make a little more sense for downloading games.
Exactly. $4.50 for an NES rom, which are extremely small, 256kB for the fancier NES games, is too much. I've tried hooking up the old NES for some nostalgia over the years, and inevitably get bored with the simplistic play in short time. Very few games are playable for a length of time, Super Mario Bros 3 being one. On the other hand, a monthly subscription with unlimited play would have sold me in a heartbeat.
Also if the machine dies (rare, given that my NES is still working 18 years later) do you lose your library? My wife's cell phone recently broke (1 year warranty, 14 month old phone, happened 2 years ago with the previous phone as well). She's out the handful of games she downloaded (Burgertime, pacman, etc at $6 a piece).
An old PC with an emulator going to the TV is going to be just as fun.
Naw, Commandos taught me the importance of hiding dead bodies well before Metal Gear Solid.
Your lucky over there... Here, even the pre-pay phone companies like to rip you off. You buy some time, but it has a soft expiration date, 30-90 days usually. I used Tracfone for a while before switching to a normal contract cell phone. The way it works is if you don't buy more time (even if you didn't use it all up), they cancel your phone. Only when you buy yet more time can you regain that old unused time. Oh, and when you then renew, you get a brand new phone number from their pool of numbers for your area, even if you are only one day late. They like to keep it as inconvenient as possible for you.
They charge you so much per month no matter what. I don't see them having a problem of someone not tying up their lines. It would seem like an extremely expensive voice mail service though. You could probably find some place on the internet to merely hold a voice mailbox for $5 per month or something.
I'm not sure why it put the space in there, I didn't. Look at the html source, quite odd indeed.
I->think(Qt->developers(would_rather_quit(and->tak e->up(knitting)->than(have->to->figure_out(gnome's API)))));
Slashdot has no editors. They edit nothing. Look at the summary again. It is just: An anonymous reader writes, "..." They just take a random user submission, and punch a button to make it published, copying whatever the user typed up. They don't check links, facts, duplicates, etc. It's all chocked up to, "well, the submitter got it wrong, not us." Even then, they only find time to submit a dozen articles perhaps in a day, out of hundreds/thousands submitted.
I wouldn't be surprised if the submissions were just linked to a grid of squares on the wall of the monkey cage at the zoo. Then, whenever one of them flings poo onto a grid, that story is autopublished.
The crowd that post comments are what make this site interesting, certainly not anything done by the staff.
Actually, the auction starting prices are a bit higher than the normal ticket price. The only heavily advertised event local I could think of was the American Idol tour, so I'll use it as the example. Under the normal ticket pricing, it says they are $37, $47, and $67. They are auctioning off some first and second row seats, starting bid $80 with bids currently $120 and $100 respectively. So, from the start they are scalping, and letting it go higher from there.
As my friend, Stephen Colbert, succinctly puts it, "I've never been a fan of books. I don't trust them. They're all fact, no heart."
Since they're saying the plots of land have a "for sale" sign posted in game with the lot's ID, it would seem to me to be more like you are having a garage sale. You start writing a sign for the monitor, "For Sale $1" when you are called away by the spouse to kill a spider. You intended to finish writing "$100." And the monitor is sitting in the foyer connecting your garage to the house. You left the door open when you went on the spider job.
Someone comes along, sees the sign (not exactly in the garage), leaves a dollar, and grabs the monitor. The sign is there. It is viewable by the public indirectly. This guy just got in on the sale early. Thoughts?