hmm. One bogus account seemed to do the trick for me just fine. Do you get some sort of enriched content on the site if you have multiple bogus accounts?
...for the stream of people explaning the difference between a "hacker" or a "cracker". Someone will undoubtedly also explain the "White Hat / Black Hat" concept. Thanks guys!
They've alwyas acted like a "real" company. They're just really really good at it, and have some advantages that others don't. Abusing their position is wrong, it's ilegal, and it pisses me off; but I wouldn't say that they arn't acting like a "real" company. Real companies succeed by using their resources to the fullest. Monopoly power is a resource.
Without the all-powerful technology that is the central theme to most recent Star Trek stuff, they would have to focus on interpersonal relationships, cultural reactions to space travel, societal change, the formation of interplanetary alliances, etc.
It's funny... a lot of diehard trek fans didn't like ds9 and voyager because they felt it was going in that very direction (more relationships, less blasting the aliens). I still like TNG best overall, though a few melodramas arn't going to keep me from watching this new serries...
... in Canada, the internet is quite rampantly dirt cheap...... get a couple hours a month for about 15 bucks or so... and it costs less than 50 bucks a month for high speed...
Um, I don't know what the exchange rate and whatnot is, but that isn't cheap at all. In california, I pay $37.95 for a DSL line, and before that is $15 for a ppp conection. And paying for X number of hours? I didn't think that kind of madness still happened!
I've never heard of sending spam directly to pagers, though I don't doubt that it could happen. The ZD article, however, is about good old fashion email spam that is about a free pager offer. The/. blurb makes it sound like the spam is sent to pagers (But many people are charged for each page they recieve.) but thats not what the story is about! For those too lazy to read the link (ie hemos perhaps?) the lawsuit is regarding "free motorola pagers" that are not actually made by motorola.
Napster, personal web surfing, marijuana, online gambling. Just cause lots of people do these things doesnt make it technically right.
What makes all above-named activities perfectly alright is having a good head on you and being able to make your own decisions about what is right or wrong. Why would you let a bunch of people you've never met make up your mind about right and wrong?
I believe this guy deserves to be punished, but what he did was at WORST a misdemenor. He deserves at worst a fine and/or community service.
Why does he deserve to be punished? Unless he signed something saying he woouldn't use school computers for personal net use, he didn't do anything wrong!
The problem with the x10 opt-out is that the window still opens. It just closes itself right after loading for a sec. In windows, I didn't even notice this. My mac at work, however, doesn't do pop-under ads properly (they don't do the under part, but they still pop just fine...) and I usually close them in annoyance before the script checks the cookie and gets rid of it for me.
you gotta wonder why these "I'm too leet to customize my box" people are even reading the/. discussion about customizing command prompts. I think the only reason people bother making comments like "I don't waste tme trying to be cool so I don't need change my prompt" is because they're trying to be so cool that they don't have to try to be cool. If they were legitimate not-cool-and-dont-care type hackers, they wouldn't need to share it with the/. community and insult all the 1337 prompts.
I always used to use 555-1212, but that doesn't seem to work anymore. But, its not hard to think of someone I know who probably shops at safeway and probably has a club card. The advantage to the 555-1212 was that I ended up with a reciept saying "Paula Beltran", and now I end up with a receipt with a familiar name which is a little strange. I know a LOT of people used the 555-1212 number, so the Paula Beltran account must've had a crazy profile; shopping at every location in the area code most days.
here in california, i know people with medicinal marijuana perscriptions who are "underage". Thats right, they can legally get high, but arn't allowed to drink. Though I personally prefer pot over liquor any day, I think it should all be legal in the first place. The laws arn't working; they're just making it cooler because there's a societal taboo being broken.
Moderators: Yes, this is WAY offtopic from the new linux kernel. Do your bussiness. My +1 Bonus will protect me at first, but I know I'm in the wrong and can only last so long.
The cube had "microfractures" around where the screws went into the plastic, and they grew to be less-micro over time. I don't think apple ever admitted it, though a lot of people thought there should have been a recall. I've only seen a couple cubes, but the one that used to be on display at my local compusa did indeed have the cracks around the screw holes.
I also heard that the thing got hotter than fuck, which I know is an issue with some of apple's other machines too (*cough*titanium*cough*).
Oh well. They still make the coolest hardware. And I still want an iBook...;-)
why doesn't google link to this from google.com? They don't have a link to groups.google.com on their main page either! I understand they're going for the "simple" look, and thats cool, but shouldn't they have some little text links somewhere on the front page? I only know about both these services because of/.! Granted, they are reaching a decent audience this way, but they ought to mention it on google.com.
/. is a funny place. Decent sarcasm gets modded down for "trolling", and the oblivious jackass who misses entirely and responds indignantly the point gets modded up for being insightfull.
Apple makes, and has made for a long time, a great OS. Its tragic that it only runs on their hardware, because the pricetag keeps a lot of people from using it. Lately, however, apple's hardware has gotten a lot cooler. (note the ibook, g4 titanium, mac cube, g4 towers; ignore flower patterened imacs obviously concieved during one of jobs' acid trips)
speculation:What if apple made x86 hardware, and ported OS X?
Before everyone calls me (crazy|stupid|troll|etc) think about it for a moment. OS X could reach a wider audience (read: just about everyone) and the hardware branch of apple would be just another pc-maker who happens to make the coolest laptops out there. Sure, the g4 is a great processor, but imagine how well apple-quality hardware would sell if you could install any OS (including windows, and OS X for x86). And imagine how many desktops would be running OS X.
Maybe I'm just crazy sleep deprived, but it sounds like good bussiness to me. ____ Blood, guts, guns, cuts;
Knives, lives, wives, nuns, sluts.
since xbox is changing its name, and giving full rights to M$, I bet they bought the name outright. I don't feel bad for the Xbox people at all! This is probably the best thing that ever happened to them. Can you imagine what microsoft was willing to pay to ensure that they secured the name by the scheduled release date?
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hmm. One bogus account seemed to do the trick for me just fine. Do you get some sort of enriched content on the site if you have multiple bogus accounts?
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word. I often bring work home, and don't hisitate to write a little code after a few bong rips.
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I'm guessing that a surprisingly large percentage of tech people use drugs and party just as much as the non-tech people. We're just smarter!
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I'm pretty concerned about this. If the government finds out the exact number of hairs on my head, well, I don't know what I'd do!
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I only watch pornography for the articles.
/. for the porno links.
I only read
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true, but here in the US of A we're spending tax dollars to try to stop them. And jackasses like judge jackson are fucking it up.
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...for the stream of people explaning the difference between a "hacker" or a "cracker". Someone will undoubtedly also explain the "White Hat / Black Hat" concept. Thanks guys!
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They've alwyas acted like a "real" company. They're just really really good at it, and have some advantages that others don't. Abusing their position is wrong, it's ilegal, and it pisses me off; but I wouldn't say that they arn't acting like a "real" company. Real companies succeed by using their resources to the fullest. Monopoly power is a resource.
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Without the all-powerful technology that is the central theme to most recent Star Trek stuff, they would have to focus on interpersonal relationships, cultural reactions to space travel, societal change, the formation of interplanetary alliances, etc.
It's funny... a lot of diehard trek fans didn't like ds9 and voyager because they felt it was going in that very direction (more relationships, less blasting the aliens). I still like TNG best overall, though a few melodramas arn't going to keep me from watching this new serries...
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... in Canada, the internet is quite rampantly dirt cheap ... ... get a couple hours a month for about 15 bucks or so ... and it costs less than 50 bucks a month for high speed ...
Um, I don't know what the exchange rate and whatnot is, but that isn't cheap at all. In california, I pay $37.95 for a DSL line, and before that is $15 for a ppp conection. And paying for X number of hours? I didn't think that kind of madness still happened!
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I've never heard of sending spam directly to pagers, though I don't doubt that it could happen. The ZD article, however, is about good old fashion email spam that is about a free pager offer. The /. blurb makes it sound like the spam is sent to pagers (But many people are charged for each page they recieve.) but thats not what the story is about! For those too lazy to read the link (ie hemos perhaps?) the lawsuit is regarding "free motorola pagers" that are not actually made by motorola.
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Napster, personal web surfing, marijuana, online gambling. Just cause lots of people do these things doesnt make it technically right.
What makes all above-named activities perfectly alright is having a good head on you and being able to make your own decisions about what is right or wrong. Why would you let a bunch of people you've never met make up your mind about right and wrong?
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I believe this guy deserves to be punished, but what he did was at WORST a misdemenor. He deserves at worst a fine and/or community service.
Why does he deserve to be punished? Unless he signed something saying he woouldn't use school computers for personal net use, he didn't do anything wrong!
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The problem with the x10 opt-out is that the window still opens. It just closes itself right after loading for a sec. In windows, I didn't even notice this. My mac at work, however, doesn't do pop-under ads properly (they don't do the under part, but they still pop just fine...) and I usually close them in annoyance before the script checks the cookie and gets rid of it for me.
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you gotta wonder why these "I'm too leet to customize my box" people are even reading the /. discussion about customizing command prompts. I think the only reason people bother making comments like "I don't waste tme trying to be cool so I don't need change my prompt" is because they're trying to be so cool that they don't have to try to be cool. If they were legitimate not-cool-and-dont-care type hackers, they wouldn't need to share it with the /. community and insult all the 1337 prompts.
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I always used to use 555-1212, but that doesn't seem to work anymore. But, its not hard to think of someone I know who probably shops at safeway and probably has a club card. The advantage to the 555-1212 was that I ended up with a reciept saying "Paula Beltran", and now I end up with a receipt with a familiar name which is a little strange. I know a LOT of people used the 555-1212 number, so the Paula Beltran account must've had a crazy profile; shopping at every location in the area code most days.
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so, any of us posting at this point obviously havn't read the article.
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here in california, i know people with medicinal marijuana perscriptions who are "underage". Thats right, they can legally get high, but arn't allowed to drink. Though I personally prefer pot over liquor any day, I think it should all be legal in the first place. The laws arn't working; they're just making it cooler because there's a societal taboo being broken.
Moderators: Yes, this is WAY offtopic from the new linux kernel. Do your bussiness. My +1 Bonus will protect me at first, but I know I'm in the wrong and can only last so long.
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The cube had "microfractures" around where the screws went into the plastic, and they grew to be less-micro over time. I don't think apple ever admitted it, though a lot of people thought there should have been a recall. I've only seen a couple cubes, but the one that used to be on display at my local compusa did indeed have the cracks around the screw holes.
;-)
I also heard that the thing got hotter than fuck, which I know is an issue with some of apple's other machines too (*cough*titanium*cough*).
Oh well. They still make the coolest hardware. And I still want an iBook...
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Hmm. I wonder what powers the servers behind the yahoo network, including their ecommerce backend service? (store.yahoo.com)
it isnt M$ and it isn't linux. Its that 'dead' OS that no one uses.
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why doesn't google link to this from google.com? They don't have a link to groups.google.com on their main page either! I understand they're going for the "simple" look, and thats cool, but shouldn't they have some little text links somewhere on the front page? I only know about both these services because of /.! Granted, they are reaching a decent audience this way, but they ought to mention it on google.com.
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mandrake files chapter 11! ah the joys of the tech economy....
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Blood, guts, guns, cuts;
Knives, lives, wives, nuns, sluts.
/. is a funny place. Decent sarcasm gets modded down for "trolling", and the oblivious jackass who misses entirely and responds indignantly the point gets modded up for being insightfull.
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If someone can use this to encode DeCSS, so it cans till be decoded, maybe THAT will convince people that its an artistic piece.
Seriously, though, this is an amazing project. I'm impressed.
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Blood, guts, guns, cuts;
Knives, lives, wives, nuns, sluts.
Apple makes, and has made for a long time, a great OS. Its tragic that it only runs on their hardware, because the pricetag keeps a lot of people from using it. Lately, however, apple's hardware has gotten a lot cooler. (note the ibook, g4 titanium, mac cube, g4 towers; ignore flower patterened imacs obviously concieved during one of jobs' acid trips)
speculation: What if apple made x86 hardware, and ported OS X ?
Before everyone calls me (crazy|stupid|troll|etc) think about it for a moment. OS X could reach a wider audience (read: just about everyone) and the hardware branch of apple would be just another pc-maker who happens to make the coolest laptops out there. Sure, the g4 is a great processor, but imagine how well apple-quality hardware would sell if you could install any OS (including windows, and OS X for x86). And imagine how many desktops would be running OS X.
Maybe I'm just crazy sleep deprived, but it sounds like good bussiness to me.
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Blood, guts, guns, cuts;
Knives, lives, wives, nuns, sluts.
since xbox is changing its name, and giving full rights to M$, I bet they bought the name outright. I don't feel bad for the Xbox people at all! This is probably the best thing that ever happened to them. Can you imagine what microsoft was willing to pay to ensure that they secured the name by the scheduled release date?
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