Having worked with him personally, I can tell you that Kevin **knows** what he did was wrong. He has never made any statements to the contrary. He has complained about the abuses of the Justice system that occured in his case, but he would never use those abuses to justify criminal activity.
Kevin once demonstrated this caller id spoofing technique to me personally while I was working with him on his KFI 640AM radio talk show "The Dark Side of the INternet".
Believe me, it is extremely creepy to look at your ringing cell phone and see that you are calling yourself!
(Scene: Four Yorkshiremen around a table, presumably in a house which belongs to one of them, chatting about old times.)
Yorkshireman I (Eric Idle): Very passable, this, eh? Very passable. All: Ay, oh ay. Yorkshireman II (Graham Chapman): Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chasselet, eh, Josiah? Yorkshireman III (Terry Jones): Oh, you're right there, Obadiah. Yorkshireman II: Ay. Yorkshireman I: Who would have thought, thir'y years ago, we'd all be sitting 'ere drinking Chateau de Chasselet, eh? All: Ay, ay. Yorkshireman IV (Michael Palin): Them days we were glad to have the price of a cup of tea. Yorkshireman II: Ay! A cup of cold tea! Yorkshireman IV: Ay! Yorkshireman I: Without milk or sugar! Yorkshireman III: Or tea! Yorkshireman IV: In a cracked cup and all. Yorkshireman I: Oh, we never used to have a cup! We used to have to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper! Yorkshireman II: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth. Yorkshireman III: But you know, we were happy in those days, although we were poor. Yorkshireman IV: Because we were poor! Yorkshireman III: Ay! Yorkshireman IV: My old dad used to say to me: "Money doesn't bring you happiness, son!" Yorkshireman I: He was right! Yorkshireman IV: Ay! Yorkshireman I: I was happier then and I had nothing! We used to live in this tiny old tumble-down house wi' great big holes in the roof. Yorkshireman II: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, half the floor was missing, we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of falling. Yorkshireman III: You were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in corridor! Yorkshireman IV: Oh, we used to dream of living in a corridor! Would have been a palace to us! We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish heap. We got woke up every morning by 'aving a load of rotting fish dumped all
over us! House, huh! Yorkshireman I: Well, when I say "house", it was just a 'ole in the ground, covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was
a 'ouse to us! Yorkshireman II: We were evicted from our hole in the ground. We had to go and live in a lake! Yorkshireman III: You were lucky to have a lake! There were 150 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road! Yorkshireman IV: A cardboard box? Yorkshireman III: Ay! Yorkshireman IV: You were lucky! We lived for three months in a rolled-up newspaper in a septic tank! We used to have to get up every morning at six o'clock and clean the newspaper, go to work down at mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt! Yorkshireman II: Luxury! We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, work twenty hours a day at mill, for twopence a month, come home, and dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were lucky! Yorkshireman III: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox in the middle of the night, and lick the road clean with our tongues! We had to eat half a handful of freezing cold gravel, work twenty-four hours a day at mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our dad would slice us in two wi' breadknife. Yorkshireman I: Right! I had to get up in the morning, at ten o'clock at night, 'alf an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill and pay mill-owner for permission to come to work, and when we got 'ome, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing Hallelujah! Yorkshireman IV: Oh, ay. And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you! All: No, no they won't!
I wonder just when is some group is going to start a project and give it a name that will embarrass O'Reilly when they have to produce an "in a Nutshell" book on the subject.
I am not an idiot. The company that I work for is not populated by idiots, either.
It has become increasingly apparent in the past few years that Microsoft is clearly more interested in Microsoft's business and less and less interested in ours. Your penchant for adding meaningless and often useless features to your software while ratcheting up the "Draconian" knob on your license amplifier is blatent, obvious and conveys a serious lack of respect for your customers.
How about a giant solar modulation disk at the Venusian-Solar Lagrange point? With a 24 hour rotation period it would provide earth like days instead of those six month long Venusian days.
It could use solar energy driven ion propulsion to maintain position and rotation.
Piece of cake. Anyway, what's a new planet worth these days?
Ultimately, the only way to introduce a close to 24 hour day on Venus is to build a rotating equatorial ring around it that gates the sunlight to the surface in 12 hour "windows" during the "day". Night side illumination would be artifical and at ground level.
As colonization progressed the "Ring" could be extended (widened) toward the poles to reclaim more and more land mass for colonization.
It may be possible that with advancements in high temperature superconductors, the "Ring" could be used to generate enough of a magnetic field to shield that quite nasty solar particle radiation.
See, that wasn't so hard. Just trillions of tons of orbiting hardware.
Venus will be the first extraterestrial body that we will terraform.
This will be accomplished by bio-engineering a class of organisms that will have the following characteristics:
1) Asexual reproduction. 2) Sulphur/oxygen/carbon based metaboism. 3) Builds "Balloon" cells so it can "float" in the CO2 sea that is the venusian atmosphere. 4) Short life span. 5) The discarded Carbon/Sulphur/Nitrogen skeleton must not ignite, returning the CO2 back into the atmosphere.
These organisms will be introduced into the the Venusian atmosphere by floating, automated seeding ships. In a few hundred years we oughtta be able to move in there.
What we can do about the crappy weak magnetic field and the six month long days and nights, I haven't got a fucking clue.
Eight billion chickens and a quarter billion turkeys are slaughtered annually by the poultry industry in the US.
How in the world do they catch all those wild chickens and turkeys? More importantly, how have I managed to not hit even one of these 8.25 billion fowl with my car yet?
What? You mean that they're *NOT* wild birds? They're farmed? Farmed as in brought into existence by humans expressly for the purpose of feeding humans?
Couldn't this worm be Darl McBride's next rock from his "hump and dump" bag?
I mean think about it. He offered up that quarter mil reward awful fast considering no one has yet found any credible evidence that it actually DDOSing SCO. He then gets to stand up in front of the world again and scream "All those nasty OpenSourcers are picking on me!".
Methinks Darl has hit upon a new business model here.
Why do my fellow/.'s rail against the hijacking of copyright by BigMedia(tm) and then turn around and drool, wet themselves and fawn all over the products from said BigMedia(tm)?
We should all be working to bring Copyright back in line with Patent. 17 years. If you can't capitalize on your IP, of WHATEVER flavor, within 17 years, you are lazy or a dumbass.
Chant with me...
Ninety Years for Brittany Spears? Ninety Years for Brittany Spears? Ninety Years for Brittany Spears? Ninety Years for Brittany Spears?
Background located at: http://www.theregister.com/content/6/34955.ht ml
This is not acceptable, moral behaviour on your part.
I will remember this when I need to make my next software selection/purchase.
Alan
Hello Allan,
Thank you for contacting Microsoft.
We take our trademark seriously, but in this case maybe a little too seriously. Under the law companies are required to take this type of action to protect their trademark against widespread infringement. That said, we appreciate that Mike Rowe is a young entrepreneur who came up with a creative domain name. We are currently in the process of resolving this matter in a way that will be fair to him and satisfy our obligations under trademark law.
Should you have further questions, feel free to write us back.
Since the Center for Food Safety is suing to stop people from owning glowing pets, shouldn't PETA now sue the Center for Food Safety because they are advocating that people routinely eat their pets?
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Having worked with him personally, I can tell you that Kevin **knows** what he did was wrong. He has never made any statements to the contrary. He has complained about the abuses of the Justice system that occured in his case, but he would never use those abuses to justify criminal activity.
Kevin once demonstrated this caller id spoofing technique to me personally while I was working with him on his KFI 640AM radio talk show "The Dark Side of the INternet".
Believe me, it is extremely creepy to look at your ringing cell phone and see that you are calling yourself!
Kevin, bud...Great work!
(Scene: Four Yorkshiremen around a table, presumably in a house which belongs to one of them, chatting about old times.)
Yorkshireman I (Eric Idle): Very passable, this, eh? Very passable.
All: Ay, oh ay.
Yorkshireman II (Graham Chapman): Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chasselet, eh, Josiah?
Yorkshireman III (Terry Jones): Oh, you're right there, Obadiah.
Yorkshireman II: Ay.
Yorkshireman I: Who would have thought, thir'y years ago, we'd all be sitting 'ere drinking Chateau de Chasselet, eh?
All: Ay, ay.
Yorkshireman IV (Michael Palin): Them days we were glad to have the price of a cup of tea.
Yorkshireman II: Ay! A cup of cold tea!
Yorkshireman IV: Ay!
Yorkshireman I: Without milk or sugar!
Yorkshireman III: Or tea!
Yorkshireman IV: In a cracked cup and all.
Yorkshireman I: Oh, we never used to have a cup! We used to have to drink out of a rolled-up newspaper!
Yorkshireman II: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
Yorkshireman III: But you know, we were happy in those days, although we were poor.
Yorkshireman IV: Because we were poor!
Yorkshireman III: Ay!
Yorkshireman IV: My old dad used to say to me: "Money doesn't bring you happiness, son!"
Yorkshireman I: He was right!
Yorkshireman IV: Ay!
Yorkshireman I: I was happier then and I had nothing! We used to live in this tiny old tumble-down house wi' great big holes in the roof.
Yorkshireman II: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, half the floor was missing, we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
Yorkshireman III: You were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in corridor!
Yorkshireman IV: Oh, we used to dream of living in a corridor! Would have been a palace to us! We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish heap. We got woke up every morning by 'aving a load of rotting fish dumped all
over us! House, huh!
Yorkshireman I: Well, when I say "house", it was just a 'ole in the ground, covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was
a 'ouse to us!
Yorkshireman II: We were evicted from our hole in the ground. We had to go and live in a lake!
Yorkshireman III: You were lucky to have a lake! There were 150 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road!
Yorkshireman IV: A cardboard box?
Yorkshireman III: Ay!
Yorkshireman IV: You were lucky! We lived for three months in a rolled-up newspaper in a septic tank! We used to have to get up every morning at six o'clock and clean the newspaper, go to work down at mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
Yorkshireman II: Luxury! We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, work twenty hours a day at mill, for twopence a month, come home, and dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
Yorkshireman III: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox in the middle of the night, and lick the road clean with our tongues! We had to eat half a handful of freezing cold gravel, work twenty-four hours a day at mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our dad would slice us in two wi' breadknife.
Yorkshireman I: Right! I had to get up in the morning, at ten o'clock at night, 'alf an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill and pay mill-owner for permission to come to work, and when we got 'ome, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves, singing Hallelujah!
Yorkshireman IV: Oh, ay. And you try and tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you!
All: No, no they won't!
I wonder just when is some group is going to start a project and give it a name that will embarrass O'Reilly when they have to produce an "in a Nutshell" book on the subject.
Candidates that come to mind are:
NoNuts
TastyBitz
Hohrieylee
Nuhtheng
Squatt
Oh...the mind reels with the possibilities.
"The upside to this vending machine is that your CD is burned when you request it,..."
So...I gotta wait 4 minutes before I find out the machine has taken my money and now the disc is jammed in the damned chute!!!!!
Ummmm...I think I'll pass on this one.
These things are all now flashable anyway, right?
Sorry, couldn't restrain myself.
Mr. Balmer,
I am not an idiot. The company that I work for is not populated by idiots, either.
It has become increasingly apparent in the past few years that Microsoft is clearly more interested in Microsoft's business and less and less interested in ours. Your penchant for adding meaningless and often useless features to your software while ratcheting up the "Draconian" knob on your license amplifier is blatent, obvious and conveys a serious lack of respect for your customers.
Now go away before I taunt you a second time.
Look up the word modulator.
How about a giant solar modulation disk at the Venusian-Solar Lagrange point? With a 24 hour rotation period it would provide earth like days instead of those six month long Venusian days.
It could use solar energy driven ion propulsion to maintain position and rotation.
Piece of cake. Anyway, what's a new planet worth these days?
Go ahead, dream the big dream.
Ultimately, the only way to introduce a close to 24 hour day on Venus is to build a rotating equatorial ring around it that gates the sunlight to the surface in 12 hour "windows" during the "day". Night side illumination would be artifical and at ground level.
As colonization progressed the "Ring" could be extended (widened) toward the poles to reclaim more and more land mass for colonization.
It may be possible that with advancements in high temperature superconductors, the "Ring" could be used to generate enough of a magnetic field to shield that quite nasty solar particle radiation.
See, that wasn't so hard. Just trillions of tons of orbiting hardware.
Venus will be the first extraterestrial body that we will terraform.
This will be accomplished by bio-engineering a class of organisms that will have the following characteristics:
1) Asexual reproduction.
2) Sulphur/oxygen/carbon based metaboism.
3) Builds "Balloon" cells so it can "float" in the CO2 sea that is the venusian atmosphere.
4) Short life span.
5) The discarded Carbon/Sulphur/Nitrogen skeleton must not ignite, returning the CO2 back into the atmosphere.
These organisms will be introduced into the the Venusian atmosphere by floating, automated seeding ships. In a few hundred years we oughtta be able to move in there.
What we can do about the crappy weak magnetic field and the six month long days and nights, I haven't got a fucking clue.
Do you really want to live in a world where every law, no matter how trivial, is enforced 100 percent of the time?
Limits must be placed upon what the government can learn, retain and aggregate.
How'sa 'bout a jammer you turn one while pushing a cart full of goods out through one of the RFID checkout systems?
It will happen. It will.
It seems like a paranoid fellow can't even buy alumunum foil anymore without being monitored.
Now what'll I use to line my Official Area 51 Ball Cap?
Eight billion chickens and a quarter billion turkeys are slaughtered annually by the poultry industry in the US.
How in the world do they catch all those wild chickens and turkeys? More importantly, how have I managed to not hit even one of these 8.25 billion fowl with my car yet?
What? You mean that they're *NOT* wild birds? They're farmed? Farmed as in brought into existence by humans expressly for the purpose of feeding humans?
Then what are you on about?
Couldn't this worm be Darl McBride's next rock from his "hump and dump" bag?
I mean think about it. He offered up that quarter mil reward awful fast considering no one has yet found any credible evidence that it actually DDOSing SCO. He then gets to stand up in front of the world again and scream "All those nasty OpenSourcers are picking on me!".
Methinks Darl has hit upon a new business model here.
Why do my fellow
We should all be working to bring Copyright back in line with Patent. 17 years. If you can't capitalize on your IP, of WHATEVER flavor, within 17 years, you are lazy or a dumbass.
Chant with me...
Ninety Years for Brittany Spears?
Ninety Years for Brittany Spears?
Ninety Years for Brittany Spears?
Ninety Years for Brittany Spears?
Re: MikeRoweSoft.com
Background located at:
http://www.theregister.com/content/6/34955.h
This is not acceptable, moral behaviour on your part.
I will remember this when I need to make my next software selection/purchase.
Alan
Hello Allan,
Thank you for contacting Microsoft.
We take our trademark seriously, but in this case maybe a little too seriously. Under the law companies are required to take this type of action to protect their trademark against widespread infringement. That said, we appreciate that Mike Rowe is a young entrepreneur who came up with a creative domain name. We are currently in the process of resolving this matter in a way that will be fair to him and satisfy our obligations under trademark law.
Should you have further questions, feel free to write us back.
Sincerely,
Jing
Microsoft.com Customer Support
Since the Center for Food Safety is suing to stop people from owning glowing pets, shouldn't PETA now sue the Center for Food Safety because they are advocating that people routinely eat their pets?
No really.
No, seriously. This guy's been paying attention.
Ironically, Win98se has been Microsoft's most secure operating system for the last two years!
Kuh-Bum-Boomp!
Thank you, I'll be here all week.