Cool! Nice to see a "face" to go with the code. Being handed the whole thing and working on it alone was pretty overwhelming--although I didn't know how well it was organized until I had to work on some badly laid-out code of the same scale at Delrina.
I didn't realize that the Migent pocket modem was Ashok's too. Small world. (Some of the empty case display units ended up at the "House of the Gorilla" (Active Surplus) after Lanware pulled the plug.)
Another Toronto company e-press is also trying for that market, but I don't know how well they're doing. (They never contacted me after I sent my resume in, so they can't be doing that well.:^)
The roots of Ability go back many years since the early '80's, and originally created by some people from the University of Waterloo. After that, it hopped from company to company as each one sank and died. (I'm not suggesting that Ability was the cause, but it sure looked like the kiss of death when reading all the dead companies in the source code comments.)
I did some work on the DOS version [1989] just after Migent, and a few hops before these people. I'm glad to see that it has a good home and hope they survive The Curse. (Of Ability, The Curse of Slashdot seems to have downed them for now.)
People with car stereos have been turning my neighbourhood into secondary speakers for years... (And they keep playing the "Whoompa-whoompa-whoompa!" song over and over.)
But seriously, the "turn your wall into a speaker" idea seems to pop up every 10-15 years. Let's see if they can get it right this time.
Does anyone still own a Bone-Fone radio? (Another idea that never quite worked.)
Certainly. Most people on news.admin.net-abuse.email are just protecting their network/email box. Whacking the spammer is just a fringe-benefit.
The spammer joe'd Joe because he got his peepee whacked. (Spammer's are declared as having a virtual peepee for whacking purposes, regardless of any Quirk objections.)
enter the standard coded-number-in-a-distorted-image
I'm using an ASCII terminal. Or a PDA with a small screen. Or VoiceXML over a telephone. Or I'm sight-impared. Or my ISP bounces your ISP's coded-number-in-a-distorted-image with request that they respond first with a coded-number-in-a-distorted-image, rinse, repeat. Or I have my filters set to autotrash any graphics in email because 99% of the time it's for penis pills. Or it was a Joe-job and your ISP sent me 20,000 coded-number-in-a-distorted-image challenge emails.
Not a bad definition, but it leaves out the reason that it's a "Joe-job". The large (but probably not the first) action by a spammer that crystallized the term was against a spammer-whacker named Joe.
Sorry for not having Joe's full name handy. Coffee load just started.
If it took a heroic archer, a magical arrow, a talking raven, and a thinking hobbit to penetrate MS security, I'd be happier than the current situation. (A chaotic-evil script-kiddie with a scroll of SWEN.)
'The fact that the overwhelming majority of those who received the visit by Guido and Slash contacted us and were eager to resolve the protection money issue is another clear signal that the Mafia's education and enforcement campaign is getting the message out.'
Nice server you've got here, shame if anything happened to it...
"No one will ever need more than 16 trillion bytes of memory."
Say it loud, say it proud -- and twenty years later your name will still be remembered.. as an idiot!:^)
A 64k computer, 64k processors.. The obligitory Beowulf comment would be redundant. *brain overload*, shutting down. Wake me up when the coffee's ready.
Bah! A bunch of corporate morphing net-kooks! I'd try to nomimate them for kook-of-the-month, but they'd probably sue me or something. (Another mark of kookery.) Next they'll probably threaten to invade Canada like Grubor, just you wait!
Consider you hate $cientology, and you link to their site on your site, as an example of how screwed in the head you think they are. They change the contents of the page you link to so it contains some of their intellectual property and then get your site and your ISP taken down.
Unlikely? Nope, actually a near-certian outcome.
It's absolutely certain, but they don't bother changing the web site. (Why bother? You're linked to their IP anyway, why change to other IP?) Co$ routinely sends out Avagrams with bullshit copyright "violations" including links to anything on their sites. (And they claim plenty of stuff that isn't theirs at all too.) Under the DMCA, unless you've got bucks and a lawyer it's usually easier to take down the links rather than fight.
Strange, Co$ certainly tries to spam search engines with links to their sites and sock-puppet groups. Ah well, who ever said they were sane?
Ah, sort of like "part of this balanced breakfast" in Saturday morning commercials? (Where you could replace the bowl of Suger Froot Bombs with a piece of plywood and still be balanced but with more fibre?)
"Part of a balanced legal defence..." Okay, that works.
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Oh? Then what about all those cloned colognes that they sell down at the mall?
I didn't realize that the Migent pocket modem was Ashok's too. Small world. (Some of the empty case display units ended up at the "House of the Gorilla" (Active Surplus) after Lanware pulled the plug.)
Another Toronto company e-press is also trying for that market, but I don't know how well they're doing. (They never contacted me after I sent my resume in, so they can't be doing that well. :^)
Or vice versa. *shrug* Oh well, I think I can stand the loss.
I did some work on the DOS version [1989] just after Migent, and a few hops before these people. I'm glad to see that it has a good home and hope they survive The Curse. (Of Ability, The Curse of Slashdot seems to have downed them for now.)
You read my last case, did you read any of the others?
But seriously, the "turn your wall into a speaker" idea seems to pop up every 10-15 years. Let's see if they can get it right this time.
Does anyone still own a Bone-Fone radio? (Another idea that never quite worked.)
My coffee is far more cthonic than Joe. (Damnit! Cthulhu, coffee and Clippy! That Illiad keeps stealing my IP! ;^)
The spammer joe'd Joe because he got his peepee whacked. (Spammer's are declared as having a virtual peepee for whacking purposes, regardless of any Quirk objections.)
I'm using an ASCII terminal. Or a PDA with a small screen. Or VoiceXML over a telephone. Or I'm sight-impared. Or my ISP bounces your ISP's coded-number-in-a-distorted-image with request that they respond first with a coded-number-in-a-distorted-image, rinse, repeat. Or I have my filters set to autotrash any graphics in email because 99% of the time it's for penis pills. Or it was a Joe-job and your ISP sent me 20,000 coded-number-in-a-distorted-image challenge emails.
Now what?
Sorry for not having Joe's full name handy. Coffee load just started.
Like LOTR, Microsoft security is mostly fantasy.
Nice server you've got here, shame if anything happened to it...
Say it loud, say it proud -- and twenty years later your name will still be remembered .. as an idiot! :^)
A 64k computer, 64k processors .. The obligitory Beowulf comment would be redundant. *brain overload*, shutting down. Wake me up when the coffee's ready.
HAL wouldn't too bad. How about ED-209 from RoboCop? "You have 20 seconds to put down that Grey Poupon!"
Never try to steal a troll's shopping cart.
I wonder if Eliza software for shopping carts would be a good idea?
".. says a bright and Clippy voice .."
The RIAA's lawyers are suing physicist John Cramer of the University of Washington in Seattle for violating their copyright.
I wonder if Clarica will sue them for stinking up the neighbourhood?
Don't forget Union Carbide and the singer formerly known as Prince.
For an exploration of things, names, what they're called and what their names are called, go ask Alice
Claria: Spyware by Kooks.
Peter de Jager was another member of the Gang of Chicken Littles.
Strange, Co$ certainly tries to spam search engines with links to their sites and sock-puppet groups. Ah well, who ever said they were sane?
"Part of a balanced legal defence..." Okay, that works.