Great, that narrowed down the list by about two. Any other ideas?
While the first part of the post was in jest, that's probably exactly how the investigation will procede. Investigators will likely request PayPal turn over letters from irate customers. I certainly hope most slashdotters maintained their cool enough not to send threats.
The news on KCBS was a bit more detailed than what the link told of. It's a four storey building in downtown San Jose. One plate-glass window was shattered, these windows are designed to withstand minor earthquakes, so it was said the explosion was powerful, not just a hand full of M-80's.
Shouldn't be too difficult to find the culprit, just look for someone extremely dissatisfied with their service.
Seriously, anyone who thought they were having a bad time of it with PayPal will find that experience pales
compared to the bad time they'll have for planting a bomb.
There's a big difference between telling people how they ought to live, and, say, locking people up (or shooting them) for asking to live the way they want to, or keeping people from leaving a country and living somewhere else, or...
Just over majority in most states believe they have exclusivity on "marriage" as an arrangement between a male and a female, no other combinations may be recognised. I think it's pretty clear there are those who feel compelled enough to actually vote for bans when it's a ballot measure. That's just an example, but pretty a blatant willingness to carry on with some form of segregation of rights.
No, in 2008 they'll either just open up the Great Firewall or open it to those connections used by foreigners. Then afterward it'll go back to normal. They already accommodate visitors so gratuitously that it's almost embarrassing. The locals know and understand the arbitrariness of the enforcement of laws and the deference shown foreigners even they know this will happen.
Could be more of a challenge, though as there are expected to be LARGE numbers of visitors, certainly a number of chinese will travel to the capital to see the games.
Despite the fact that many outside of China know that it indeed does exist, this piece of news is more likely intended for those within China.
No kidding. I've met people recently from China and they don't know where we all get off on these things. They claim there are any number of small newspapers and such all over the place. They also think we tend to make a bigger deal of things than we ought and their country is just fine thank you very much.
Of course, if you grew up never knowing otherwise or thinking outside the box someone has constructed around you, you may be so indoctrinated. Same way Brits appear indoctrinated that they must read in the Sun or News of the World what trollop David Beckham is frollicking around Spain with or Americans feel the overwhelming urge to tell others how they ought to live and behave.
Those friends and colleagues listening to the BBC webcast, since we don't know otherwise, may be checking for new words or topics they need to add to their filters.
However you shake it up, China is in for a bit of adjustment when the 2008 Olympics bring people from all over the world into China where they will be expecting access to news and media as they had at home. Perhaps China has already thought of this and is constructing exclusion zones...
See, there's the thing. I'm an old enough dude to remember systems which ran for days, months, years without a hitch. You sometimes have to reboot Windows because it just loses it's little mind in one session. Usually a process on those older machines died and you figured out what was bothering it, fixed it and got the process going again, no shutdown-reboot.
It's like people these days have forgotten that level of stability and reliability. Microsoft comes up with shit nobody, not even the scummiest vendor would have, back 15 years ago. And they've got flaws by the boatload and keep trying to steal markets of dubious value (e.g. video console, mp3 player)
Ask people like me if a company would get away with that, back in the late 80's and we'd laugh and say, "no, Burroughs gets sued all the time!" Man. What the hell has happened here?
Yep. Just because we didn't need to authenticate users, the machine keeps shutting itself off. Isn't that user-friendly?
Yep, but you could choose to blame Microsoft, which is a known devil or the wizard who decided to "upgrade" and left the impending problem to appear.
Personally, I'm terribly biased after having a Linux box run for about 9 mos. without a reboot (had a small UPS which handled the occasional power blips) and continue to wonder why people are still setting themselves up for trouble by buying lowest-bidder systems which run on Microsoft Windows (because Windows developers are a dime a dozen.)
We're going to retire our current email system and switch over to one that runs on Linux. It'll be serving about 1,500 people.
You invite some executive or other would-be prognosticator to speak and the might as well turn their backside to the the microphone because they'll be talking out their arses.
Isn't it a marvel some of these people get compensated hugely and are so bloody stupid?
Just goes to show, there's really a Get-Myself-Promoted game going on, where the players just move up ladders and pad resumees until they can retire or, in the rare case, actually get caught, like Skilling & Company.
roses are red, violets are blue, yup, yup, yup, we're goin' to the zoo
This is why I don't listen to radio or watch television during election season.
One might assume for the same reasons I might now stop surfing the net, but I won't for the simple reason I don't know anything about anybody or any proposition. I'll figure it all out the hours before I vote.
For those who trust the internet for information, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. You must be cautious.
this is not the candidate candidate you should be voting for...
I was surprised that some of those stories are really good.
I've recently become a huge fan of the Gunsmoke radio plays. It revisits the issue of what you see in you mind's eye vs. watching it on the t00b, where there is little to no imaginitive process on the part of the listener/viewer, although decades of fans such as those of Star Trek, seeing things outside the actual context of shows says something about this. Even in Gunsmoke there's the implied relationship between Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty.
Closing my eyes and listening to the plays, with the very well done work of the sound crews brings from memory the smell of dust and old sun bleached wood, a harsh sun and unforgiving heat, raises hackles when the story is between shades of grey, rather than black and white/good vs evil.
Effective economy of words does the same thing. Hemingway's short (For sale: baby shoes, never worn) evokes a sadness of a dead infant, grief of a mother and so on -- even if there's no detail to imply they may simply be an extra pair which were grown out of before a living child could get to wear them.
There are two astronomy magazines I get regularly, Sky and Telescope and BBC's Sky at Night (which includes a CD with a show or two and other goodies.) S&T under new ownership and the character is subtly changing to more of a Gosh! rag, alas the S@N magizine comes across as a bit Gosh! too.
The US gave us Krispy Kreme, and we gave you Tim Horton's. You hosed us again!
What we had in the car were Tim Horton's Apple Fritters. They used to be legendarily delicious, before the chain was bought out and the recipe changed. I haven't been to a TH's since.:-(
Whats so special about a laptop? Why not search the CD-ROM in my mp3 player or my USB keychain? Or better yet, just scan my freaking mind by doing the FBI psyche battery exam.
Doesn't this make you wonder how much of out internet traffic, email and attachments are scanned and recorded? What about all those ftp sessions, moving files back and forth. Mmm?
I crossed the border twice on Sunday. They didn't care about my laptop. There's your anecdotal evidence.
Years ago, on a ski trip to Searchmont (in Canada near the Soo*) a friend and I were returning to the US and had pulled into US Customs. "Are you bringing anything into the country?" "Um.. just these doughnuts"
Bad. Very bad. They nearly tore the car apart (apparently looking for more doughnuts.)
Still a sore point to this day when I visit my friend and his wife and go to Canada. "Do not mention doughnuts!"
"Sir, please place your laptop computer on the table for inspection."
"OK"
"Please turn it on, Sir."
"Um.. er.. ah.."
"Turn on the laptop, Sir!" (Suddenly it grows quiet as everyone stares, particularly some armed security personnel)
"Er ah, OK." Click. zwinnngg zwikka zwikka bweet.
"Pornographic wallpaper, no problem. Thousands of mp3's, no problem."
"Um-er-ah. sniff sniff sniffArf!whine WhineArf! Arf!
"What's this then!?!"
"Huh?"
"Sir, we're going to have to confiscate this laptop computer, our highly trained canine has detected the presence of a banned and extremely dangerous substance!"
I wonder if all this talk about hot girls just waiting for you to send them music will inspire legions of geeks to venture out at night in search of a girl ready to accept their World of Warcraft soundtrack...
I thought 60% of MMORPG players were females, according to a recent study. If so, it just might work.
Microsoft's traditional marketing isn't working well.
Gee? What other ploys can Microsoft try?
Unfortunately, the mental bandwidth already belongs to iPod, it will be hard to dislodge them in favor of Zune.
They've got a big hurdle they'll have to clear, because anyone who already has an iPod and has purchased a considerable number of songs will not switch, because they'd have to buy the same songs again. No thanks. Zune will have to appeal to first time buyers and a lot of them will be asking the same question, "is it as good as an iPod?"
Slashdot Mirror
What happened to "violence can be used for good?"
Clearly this was done by North Korean agents. We'll be invading in fifteen minutes.
Chargeback my account eh!!?
I imagine when some saw a headline "PayPal Bombed" they thought, "They certainly have."
Great, that narrowed down the list by about two. Any other ideas?
While the first part of the post was in jest, that's probably exactly how the investigation will procede. Investigators will likely request PayPal turn over letters from irate customers. I certainly hope most slashdotters maintained their cool enough not to send threats.
The news on KCBS was a bit more detailed than what the link told of. It's a four storey building in downtown San Jose. One plate-glass window was shattered, these windows are designed to withstand minor earthquakes, so it was said the explosion was powerful, not just a hand full of M-80's.
Shouldn't be too difficult to find the culprit, just look for someone extremely dissatisfied with their service.
Seriously, anyone who thought they were having a bad time of it with PayPal will find that experience pales compared to the bad time they'll have for planting a bomb.
There's a big difference between telling people how they ought to live, and, say, locking people up (or shooting them) for asking to live the way they want to, or keeping people from leaving a country and living somewhere else, or...
Just over majority in most states believe they have exclusivity on "marriage" as an arrangement between a male and a female, no other combinations may be recognised. I think it's pretty clear there are those who feel compelled enough to actually vote for bans when it's a ballot measure. That's just an example, but pretty a blatant willingness to carry on with some form of segregation of rights.
Time to get those Rob and Kath honeymoon vids up on Google Video! =)
"uh! uh! uh! uh! uh! uh! UH! UH! UH! UH! UHHHHH!! AAAAHHHHH!!"
"Oh that was awesome, Babe!"
"Uhhhhhh huhhh huh-uhhhhhh..."
"So many cool electronic gadgets and anime vids in one place, at such prices! Thanks for carrying them up the stairs, Babe."
No, in 2008 they'll either just open up the Great Firewall or open it to those connections used by foreigners. Then afterward it'll go back to normal. They already accommodate visitors so gratuitously that it's almost embarrassing. The locals know and understand the arbitrariness of the enforcement of laws and the deference shown foreigners even they know this will happen.
Could be more of a challenge, though as there are expected to be LARGE numbers of visitors, certainly a number of chinese will travel to the capital to see the games.
Despite the fact that many outside of China know that it indeed does exist, this piece of news is more likely intended for those within China.
No kidding. I've met people recently from China and they don't know where we all get off on these things. They claim there are any number of small newspapers and such all over the place. They also think we tend to make a bigger deal of things than we ought and their country is just fine thank you very much.
Of course, if you grew up never knowing otherwise or thinking outside the box someone has constructed around you, you may be so indoctrinated. Same way Brits appear indoctrinated that they must read in the Sun or News of the World what trollop David Beckham is frollicking around Spain with or Americans feel the overwhelming urge to tell others how they ought to live and behave.
Those friends and colleagues listening to the BBC webcast, since we don't know otherwise, may be checking for new words or topics they need to add to their filters.
However you shake it up, China is in for a bit of adjustment when the 2008 Olympics bring people from all over the world into China where they will be expecting access to news and media as they had at home. Perhaps China has already thought of this and is constructing exclusion zones...
Last reboot was to clean the fans and such...
See, there's the thing. I'm an old enough dude to remember systems which ran for days, months, years without a hitch. You sometimes have to reboot Windows because it just loses it's little mind in one session. Usually a process on those older machines died and you figured out what was bothering it, fixed it and got the process going again, no shutdown-reboot.
It's like people these days have forgotten that level of stability and reliability. Microsoft comes up with shit nobody, not even the scummiest vendor would have, back 15 years ago. And they've got flaws by the boatload and keep trying to steal markets of dubious value (e.g. video console, mp3 player)
Ask people like me if a company would get away with that, back in the late 80's and we'd laugh and say, "no, Burroughs gets sued all the time!" Man. What the hell has happened here?
Yep. Just because we didn't need to authenticate users, the machine keeps shutting itself off. Isn't that user-friendly?
Yep, but you could choose to blame Microsoft, which is a known devil or the wizard who decided to "upgrade" and left the impending problem to appear.
Personally, I'm terribly biased after having a Linux box run for about 9 mos. without a reboot (had a small UPS which handled the occasional power blips) and continue to wonder why people are still setting themselves up for trouble by buying lowest-bidder systems which run on Microsoft Windows (because Windows developers are a dime a dozen.)
We're going to retire our current email system and switch over to one that runs on Linux. It'll be serving about 1,500 people.
You invite some executive or other would-be prognosticator to speak and the might as well turn their backside to the the microphone because they'll be talking out their arses.
Isn't it a marvel some of these people get compensated hugely and are so bloody stupid?
Just goes to show, there's really a Get-Myself-Promoted game going on, where the players just move up ladders and pad resumees until they can retire or, in the rare case, actually get caught, like Skilling & Company.
roses are red, violets are blue, yup, yup, yup, we're goin' to the zoo
Since Talledega Nights is a much better movie then King Kong, I think we all know who will win.
Saw KK, bored me to death. Didn't see TN because racing films (even with comic actors) bore me to death.
In all seriousness though, I think both formats suck because of all of the DRM.
I think both formats have a LONG hill to climb considering how well entrenched DVDs are.
500,000 copies of a film? How many people honestly have a set they can watch something like that in all its glory on?
These movies will look great on my 12 B/W set!
where do connect these players to a 1970's tv?
This is why I don't listen to radio or watch television during election season.
One might assume for the same reasons I might now stop surfing the net, but I won't for the simple reason I don't know anything about anybody or any proposition. I'll figure it all out the hours before I vote.
For those who trust the internet for information, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. You must be cautious.
this is not the candidate candidate you should be voting for...
I was surprised that some of those stories are really good.
I've recently become a huge fan of the Gunsmoke radio plays. It revisits the issue of what you see in you mind's eye vs. watching it on the t00b, where there is little to no imaginitive process on the part of the listener/viewer, although decades of fans such as those of Star Trek, seeing things outside the actual context of shows says something about this. Even in Gunsmoke there's the implied relationship between Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty.
Closing my eyes and listening to the plays, with the very well done work of the sound crews brings from memory the smell of dust and old sun bleached wood, a harsh sun and unforgiving heat, raises hackles when the story is between shades of grey, rather than black and white/good vs evil.
Effective economy of words does the same thing. Hemingway's short (For sale: baby shoes, never worn) evokes a sadness of a dead infant, grief of a mother and so on -- even if there's no detail to imply they may simply be an extra pair which were grown out of before a living child could get to wear them.
I might as well have a go...
Orion looks different from this place.
And this surprises you?
There are two astronomy magazines I get regularly, Sky and Telescope and BBC's Sky at Night (which includes a CD with a show or two and other goodies.) S&T under new ownership and the character is subtly changing to more of a Gosh! rag, alas the S@N magizine comes across as a bit Gosh! too.
ebay.
Ah yes, for that big collector of other space jetsam
Sigh. Everyone in the world knows more about what's going on in the USA than the US media...
I'm also seeing news that Oracle will adopt Red Hat Linux as it's own.
The US gave us Krispy Kreme, and we gave you Tim Horton's. You hosed us again!
What we had in the car were Tim Horton's Apple Fritters. They used to be legendarily delicious, before the chain was bought out and the recipe changed. I haven't been to a TH's since. :-(
Whats so special about a laptop? Why not search the CD-ROM in my mp3 player or my USB keychain? Or better yet, just scan my freaking mind by doing the FBI psyche battery exam.
Doesn't this make you wonder how much of out internet traffic, email and attachments are scanned and recorded? What about all those ftp sessions, moving files back and forth. Mmm?
I crossed the border twice on Sunday. They didn't care about my laptop. There's your anecdotal evidence.
Years ago, on a ski trip to Searchmont (in Canada near the Soo*) a friend and I were returning to the US and had pulled into US Customs. "Are you bringing anything into the country?" "Um.. just these doughnuts"
Bad. Very bad. They nearly tore the car apart (apparently looking for more doughnuts.)
Still a sore point to this day when I visit my friend and his wife and go to Canada. "Do not mention doughnuts!"
*Sault Saint Marie
"Sir, please place your laptop computer on the table for inspection."
"OK"
"Please turn it on, Sir."
"Um.. er.. ah.."
"Turn on the laptop, Sir!" (Suddenly it grows quiet as everyone stares, particularly some armed security personnel)
"Er ah, OK." Click. zwinnngg zwikka zwikka bweet.
"Pornographic wallpaper, no problem. Thousands of mp3's, no problem."
"Um-er-ah.
sniff sniff sniff Arf! whine Whine Arf! Arf!
"What's this then!?!"
"Huh?"
"Sir, we're going to have to confiscate this laptop computer, our highly trained canine has detected the presence of a banned and extremely dangerous substance!"
Read about it here and here
I wonder if all this talk about hot girls just waiting for you to send them music will inspire legions of geeks to venture out at night in search of a girl ready to accept their World of Warcraft soundtrack...
I thought 60% of MMORPG players were females, according to a recent study. If so, it just might work.
Thanks for the tip! =)
Microsoft's traditional marketing isn't working well. Gee? What other ploys can Microsoft try?
Unfortunately, the mental bandwidth already belongs to iPod, it will be hard to dislodge them in favor of Zune.
They've got a big hurdle they'll have to clear, because anyone who already has an iPod and has purchased a considerable number of songs will not switch, because they'd have to buy the same songs again. No thanks. Zune will have to appeal to first time buyers and a lot of them will be asking the same question, "is it as good as an iPod?"