I understand that some of the Aussie homebrew PVR projects had issues with programme information of that type.
Not sure who, but someone apparently owned copyright over it and TV guides licenced it from them. PVR websites which screen-scraped were hunted down and apparently its now an arms-race.
Sliding towards fascism? Are you getting your news from Indymedia? Or have you been to see that Mike Moore film
You can feel however you want about America, but one thing you can't doubt is it is a democracy.
Anyway, I would rather live under the most despotic American ruler than even the most moderate Arab leader. There's a reason for that and it ain't fascism!
As for blaming America for exporting Santa Claus and Halloween, have you considered someone at the other end has to 'import' it as well? Of course it's easier to criticise America than your own lack of national identity isn't it?
BTW, I'm not an American. I'm an Aussie. We share a lot of common values though and I couldn't be prouder.
If I'm not mistaken, the vomiting happens at the bottom of the arc. As such, you probably won't get to see video of zero-gravity vomit formations (hopefully to classical music).... Just some dudes sitting on the floor throwing up.
It was similar shenanigans which saw Barry Humphries (AKA Dame Edna Everage) banned as a teenager for life from an Australian airline - a ban which remained throughout his stardom and ended only with the closure of the airline.
His notorious "sick bag" prank involved carrying a tin of condensed soup onto an aircraft, which he would then surreptitiously emptied into an air-sickness bag. At an appropriate juncture, he would walk up and down the aisle pretending to vomit very loudly and violently into the bag. Then, he would proceed to eat the contents to the horror of the passengers and crew, many of whom would start vomiting (for real) as a result. Best...Prank...Ever!
I killed his parents, and then fed them to him in a chill at my chilli con carnival. When I told him what was in the chilli, he cried and Radiohead called him a cry-baby, Best....Revenge.....Ever!
Seriously? It was a well-known company and this didn't sound like sanctioned behaviour. I contacted the CEO who was most alarmed by my accusations. It turned out their mailing list had been sold by an employee (subsequently a very ex-employee). They were quite honest about the whole thing and gave me lots of free stuff.
This was good considering at the time (several years ago) there was no real legislation about that sort of thing in Australia. I daresay I'd be a little more militant in my response these days.
I am also involved in the prosecution of a Spammer who used another such address as part of a Phishing scam. I can't comment on that as it is still a 'work in progress'.
I prefer http://www.spamgourmet.com/ as it is forwards mail and is slightly more configurable than mailinator. Also, it avoids the problem mailinator might have of someone else reading mail to a common disposable address e.g. Slashdot@mailinator... (address syntax might be wrong, I haven't used Mailinator for a while.)
The only thing I really had to do was notify my friends, who are long used to typing whatever they want into the username section of the domain, tailored to whatever it is they want (eg boywhowillfixmycomputer@, bikemechanicmanwhowillalsofixmycomputer@ etc).
The worst thing is when your so-called friends figure out for themselves that you have a catchall set up, so you start receiving emails to pigfucker@yourdomain, grabass@yourdomain etc... and it's not even spam, it's from your friends!
I used to use my catchall for precisely that (e.g. slashdot@mydomain.
It DID help me bust someone for passing on an address which was instantly traced back to them.
Spam however has completely ruined it though for the problems outlined in this article. Unfortunately I can't turn off the catch-all as there are so many 'legacy' addresses from which I might only hear once a year but don't want to miss their email.
I now use http://www.spamgourmet.com/ instead to create disposable accounts as I have the luxury of being able to kill them (or let them die) if need be. It's free and I highly recommend it.
But the website has already become a victim of its own success, admits Schreckenberg. Some of the 300,000 people a day who are visiting the site are replanning their journeys on the basis of its forecasts, and this is beginning to make the forecasts themselves less accurate. And soon it could get even worse when the website becomes available on 3G cellphones.
...and the system fails to take into account for drivers futzing with their cellphone instead of concentrating on the rear of the car in front of them..... Crunch!
They're working on a really lame other project using a Commodore 64 machine to control random lane-changing without indicating of every bloody Volvo on the roads,
Slashdot Mirror
One word.....
The Nazis weren't exactly known for their cultural sensitivity...
Listen up: In Australia, "rooting" is a slang verb which means "to have sex with".
This is why it is rare (though not unheard of) to hear of a devoted Australian cheerleader rooting for her whole team.
Perhaps this explains why we don't have Tivo in Australia?
Thank you. I just had a fantastic vision of Omarosa imploding in the vacuum of space...
Note to mods...these 'In Soviet Russia' remarks are never, ever funny. Even if you remember a time
In Soviet Russia, time remembers you!
Even better: Dalek creator Davros and Stephen Hawking together in Electric Dreams
In high school we had a keyboarding class that I greatly accelled in
And we all bet you excelled in your English class as well!
Tell the addicts about this stuff and they will sign up in a flash for the ultra-realistic first-person shooter immersion experience!
I understand that some of the Aussie homebrew PVR projects had issues with programme information of that type.
Not sure who, but someone apparently owned copyright over it and TV guides licenced it from them. PVR websites which screen-scraped were hunted down and apparently its now an arms-race.
Hopefully someone knows more than me.
Sliding towards fascism?
Are you getting your news from Indymedia? Or have you been to see that Mike Moore film
You can feel however you want about America, but one thing you can't doubt is it is a democracy.
Anyway, I would rather live under the most despotic American ruler than even the most moderate Arab leader. There's a reason for that and it ain't fascism!
As for blaming America for exporting Santa Claus and Halloween, have you considered someone at the other end has to 'import' it as well? Of course it's easier to criticise America than your own lack of national identity isn't it?
BTW, I'm not an American. I'm an Aussie. We share a lot of common values though and I couldn't be prouder.
Goebbels indeed...
WebTV is the next big thing! Honest!
Ted Turner has got no right to get on a pedestal about integrity when CNN's is doubtful at best.
http://zerog.jsc.nasa.gov/home.html - How it works
If I'm not mistaken, the vomiting happens at the bottom of the arc. As such, you probably won't get to see video of zero-gravity vomit formations (hopefully to classical music).... Just some dudes sitting on the floor throwing up.
It was similar shenanigans which saw Barry Humphries (AKA Dame Edna Everage) banned as a teenager for life from an Australian airline - a ban which remained throughout his stardom and ended only with the closure of the airline.
His notorious "sick bag" prank involved carrying a tin of condensed soup onto an aircraft, which he would then surreptitiously emptied into an air-sickness bag. At an appropriate juncture, he would walk up and down the aisle pretending to vomit very loudly and violently into the bag. Then, he would proceed to eat the contents to the horror of the passengers and crew, many of whom would start vomiting (for real) as a result. Best...Prank...Ever!
Step 1: Obtain NASA Grant ......
Step 2:
Step 3: Vomit!
My friends who worked it out did the same and the results were amusing.
Bear in mind though that if you don't manage addresses that reach you, you may limit your opportunity to do various spam filtering later.
I killed his parents, and then fed them to him in a chill at my chilli con carnival. When I told him what was in the chilli, he cried and Radiohead called him a cry-baby, Best....Revenge.....Ever!
Seriously? It was a well-known company and this didn't sound like sanctioned behaviour. I contacted the CEO who was most alarmed by my accusations. It turned out their mailing list had been sold by an employee (subsequently a very ex-employee). They were quite honest about the whole thing and gave me lots of free stuff.
This was good considering at the time (several years ago) there was no real legislation about that sort of thing in Australia. I daresay I'd be a little more militant in my response these days.
I am also involved in the prosecution of a Spammer who used another such address as part of a Phishing scam. I can't comment on that as it is still a 'work in progress'.
I prefer http://www.spamgourmet.com/ as it is forwards mail and is slightly more configurable than mailinator. Also, it avoids the problem mailinator might have of someone else reading mail to a common disposable address e.g. Slashdot@mailinator... (address syntax might be wrong, I haven't used Mailinator for a while.)
The worst thing is when your so-called friends figure out for themselves that you have a catchall set up, so you start receiving emails to pigfucker@yourdomain, grabass@yourdomain etc... and it's not even spam, it's from your friends!
I now use the free http://www.spamgourmet.com/ for my disposable addresses and highly recommend it.
I used to use my catchall for precisely that (e.g. slashdot@mydomain.
It DID help me bust someone for passing on an address which was instantly traced back to them.
Spam however has completely ruined it though for the problems outlined in this article. Unfortunately I can't turn off the catch-all as there are so many 'legacy' addresses from which I might only hear once a year but don't want to miss their email.
I now use http://www.spamgourmet.com/ instead to create disposable accounts as I have the luxury of being able to kill them (or let them die) if need be. It's free and I highly recommend it.
Moley, moley, moley, moley, moley...
Any idea why Bugzilla blocked direct links from Slashdot?
They're working on a really lame other project using a Commodore 64 machine to control random lane-changing without indicating of every bloody Volvo on the roads,
How can you trust Autopatcher? How are you comfortable that it is not a trojan horse?
I mean no disrespect to what is most likely a noble cause, but it does seem to be a leap of faith.
I appreciate that the same trust issues apply to software from Microsoft, but that seems to be a more calculated risk.