Game modders shouldn't remove ads, just change them to something else more amusing. And if the game reports advertising back to the mothership, fix it so it keeps reporting that you saw the ad for DENNIS.
It's covered in the rules of spam under Rule #1, Sharp's Corollary: Spammers attempt to re-define "spamming" as that which they do not do.
They're just trying to create a gap between evil nasty spam which they do not do, and their wholesome friendly nu'n'improoved targeted direct marketing. *Sniff-sniff* Still smells the same.
Why yes, yes they are. Why do you think that their Revolutionary Spam Firewall is so revolutionary? (They probably found the same stuff at Roswell, but no one knew what spam was back then.)
Don't worry, they're coming out with toys for the guys too: a virtual girlfriend for your cellphone and such. You can spend real money to buy virtual presents to keep her happy too. If I had one, I'd name her Tammy Gotcha.
I tell you, do not park in the handicapped parking spots unless you want to suffer some serious cubage. Worst of all, it'll be by some blue-haired old lady who can bearly see out of the cockpit/HUD.
If you've got C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\clippit.acs, then you've got Clippy. Possibly as of Win98SE, and definitely in XP, you've got Merlin under \windows\msagent\chars. (Merlin can be reghacked as an Office Assistant.)
They don't use the test-to-speech and voice recognition features of Agent because even Microsoft would not be so bold.
Umm, Clippy is ActiveX. Do a search on Microsoft Agent. You're EULA'ed against using Clippy outside of Office, but it's easy to use him in programs, web pages, HTML email.. I haven't tested to see if Clippy can be launched on a remote machine via the DCOM hole.
Oh. Sorry. Breath into this paper-bag for a while.
After Flatworld, the sight of Oklahoma senator James Inhofe buckling on a virtual reality helmet at ICT headquarters seems positively old school. A technician shouts "Load the flying bats!" and the senator is transported to a damp tunnel near a farmhouse that may be an enemy hideout. Insects whir and water trickles in surround sound while digitized bats swoop and dive overhead. Inhofe is impressed. "It's the closest thing to reality that I've ever experienced," he says. "My feet felt wet."
They still haven't said whose games they'll be renting. Maybe they're hunting down abandonware by companies that are so out of business that no one will sue them.
All that Danforth has ever hinted is that the final horror was a mirage. It was not, he declares, anything connected with the cubes and caves of those echoing, vaporous, wormily-honeycombed mountains of madness which we crossed; but a single fantastic, demoniac glimpse, among the churning zenith clouds, of what lay back of those other violet westward mountains which the Old Ones had shunned and feared. It is very probable that the thing was a sheer delusion born of the previous stresses we had passed through, and of the actual though unrecognized mirage of the dead transmontane city experienced near Lake's camp the day before; but it was so real to Danforth that he suffers from it still.
While I may not receive that e-mail, it's still pouring into work's servers. clogging them up and occupying our bandwidth.
Adapt this Simcity-style web activity display to SMTP: Spam would arrive in mobile homes, marked for the source spamhaus if
possible. The giant foot that crushes them could be marked for the
blocklist that got them, etc. The higher the load on mail servers, the more
run-down their building would be. Clogged Internet connections would be
streets with potholes...
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Game modders shouldn't remove ads, just change them to something else more amusing. And if the game reports advertising back to the mothership, fix it so it keeps reporting that you saw the ad for DENNIS.
They're just trying to create a gap between evil nasty spam which they do not do, and their wholesome friendly nu'n'improoved targeted direct marketing. *Sniff-sniff* Still smells the same.
It's all those graduates of the University of Nigera Online. I'm sure they have a course in how to cope with the loss of a rich loved one.
Why yes, yes they are. Why do you think that their Revolutionary Spam Firewall is so revolutionary? (They probably found the same stuff at Roswell, but no one knew what spam was back then.)
I saw this yesterday and thought "Why bother posting this to Slashdot? That'd be cruel .. and besides, someone else will do it."
No, but if you pay enough, she'll introduce you to her girlfriends and you might get to see some girl-girl action.
Don't worry, they're coming out with toys for the guys too: a virtual girlfriend for your cellphone and such. You can spend real money to buy virtual presents to keep her happy too. If I had one, I'd name her Tammy Gotcha.
So when are they coming out with Sims 2: UAC, Mars?
Too bad we don't have Grand Admiral Thrawn on our side. He could glance at Lucas' movies and know exactly what his weakness is and stop him.
You're going to drop your pants and squat with everything hanging out in 110 acres of knee-high DeKalb XL? I'd be too chicken.
You'd think that they'd mention that he was busted from Admiral the same day.
"A Windows Key. How quaint!" How strange, since he was using a Mac.
That's it, Patrick Stewart is banned for life from flying! Perhaps a better example would be Edward Fox in Day of The Jackal (the original version).
I tell you, do not park in the handicapped parking spots unless you want to suffer some serious cubage. Worst of all, it'll be by some blue-haired old lady who can bearly see out of the cockpit/HUD.
Bah, you don't even need explosives for dead whales (Warning, graphic pictures.)
TNT 226,797 kg
Wet picric acid 1,602,519 kg
Dry picric acid 544,311 kg
Guncotton[?] 56,301 kg
Benzol 223,188 kg
They don't use the test-to-speech and voice recognition features of Agent because even Microsoft would not be so bold.
Oh. Sorry. Breath into this paper-bag for a while.
Or SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs, "Like shooting fish in a bucket."
They still haven't said whose games they'll be renting. Maybe they're hunting down abandonware by companies that are so out of business that no one will sue them.
Of course not. That's what Windows sharing is for.
Adapt this Simcity-style web activity display to SMTP: Spam would arrive in mobile homes, marked for the source spamhaus if possible. The giant foot that crushes them could be marked for the blocklist that got them, etc. The higher the load on mail servers, the more run-down their building would be. Clogged Internet connections would be streets with potholes...