I've obsessively watched my parents' email accounts ever since my dad asked me why Teenage Girls Want To Show Him What They Do In Locker Rooms.
In the past 2 years, I think I've gone through about 30 email accounts for them. Without exception, they receive little to no spam, even if the account is frequently used (so random address generator bots aren't THAT good yet). However, in every instance that they give an address to 2 or 3 specific friends of theirs, within a week their inbox is full of crap. These particular friends are notorious for mass Fwd:'s.
I've concluded that somehow one of these idiotic spammers has either written an address gathering virus, or is somehow picking up on mass recipient lists. Anyone else see this sort of patten?
You do realize that Nintendo is still pumping out Mario-related games every month, and some of these are the most anticipated releases for the 80s/Nintendo/whoever crowd?
Altough I do agree with you, the TF movie was about as ahead of its time as anything kids ever see. Picked up the movie soundtrack CD and movie DVD (UNEDITED, yes, Spike DID say "shit") within the past couple of months myself, and they're both still very watchable/listenable.
Cases like this make you wonder how often does this happen in other companies?
Tons. At the last place I worked at, I was sort of the default sysadmin/tech head. I spent years trying to convince my staff that leaving their systems up and logged in was a BAD THING. Our management software tracked literally every transaction made by a user. When an error was made, within 3 seconds I could find out who did it.
It still took hundreds of cases of 'I didn't do it.' 'Yes you did, your user ID is right there.' 'It must have been someone else when I was out for lunch.' 'Well, the 2 seconds it would take to log out wouldn't have killed you, and you've been told before, so now your ass is on the line here.' And there were still some who every time they made a mistake, would try to pass the blame on (at this point, yes, we had a written AUP detailing all about it).
Of course, now that I'm out of the working world for a bit and back in school, I'm seeing people that are graduating comp sci in a year who don't see anything wrong with giving their friends their bank card PIN numbers, or computer account passwords, or you name it, just because it might "save a few seconds". *shudder*.
No, it's like arresting someone for speeding because they might cause an accident.
Good thing people don't get arrested for this reason, eh? Speeding itself is illegal, and that's why you get charged for it. As to WHY speeding is illegal, that's irrelevant here.
There would have to be a law in place that says "the potential to make money off someone else's work is hereby illegal" in order for Vivendi's claims to hold any water. Which, to my knowledge, we don't have (yet).
Not to beat a point to death, but on the last 3 or 4 Kazaa related stories, there have been at least 4 posts each that were moderated past 3, that had a direct link to the kazaalite.tk site. Don't see how you could have missed those easily...
Regardless, my personal opin is that kazaalite is such a great piece of work that it pretty much deserves its own story:)
Been there from Win95. It's how I managed to IRC all day at my former work:)
Basically, you can have mIRC minimize to the system tray. AND you can change the icon it minimizes to. I just made up a blank grey square. Boss walks in, alt-space-m makes mIRC disappear - it's amazing how adept one gets at this:)
Considering how full of crap the average system tray is, a bit of blank space in it never aroused suspicions:)
So let me get this straight.. blank DataPlay discs are going to be about $10-$12. Discs with an album on them are going to sell for $16. Ok, by those numbers it's $4-$6 that the record company makes off each one.
So when mass production allows DataPlay discs to be produced for 25 cents a piece, we should be able to buy pre-recorded ones for $5?
(yes, I do realize this has no hope in hell of happening. but the question does need to be raised)
Good point, hell, I remember versions of Mosaic that didn't seem to support *anything*:)
Point still stands though.. JPEG support is not only VERY (relatively) old, but proper JPEG use, if anything, was far more important way back when. Try accessing a modern 400K/page site with a 14.4:)
I currently own 8 NES units, and 6 2600's, all picked up for basically nothing (got them at garage sales as a bundle with some games for the most part). They all work. In fact, I have yet to find a completely dead console unit (we won't talk about the controllers, mind you).
Just for fun I took out the mainboard from one of each, and hung them on the wall. Also from my spare Sega Master System and Intellivision. Kinda keeps me humble to remember the roots of the whole thing, ya know? It's actually scary just how well the old units are built. Other than the power switch etc, all solid state. Pretty damn hard to break one. Post-PSX... the cd drives are typically the first things to go on a modern console, and I can't imagine what you'd do if the hard drive fails and it's some proprietary standard.
Of course, hacking apart a new $300 unit is something else entirely...
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It has nothing to do with obligation/guilt/insert silly reason here.
People have been able to copy music for decades now. Yet, we still buy original LPs/cassettes/CDs. Why? Because our society has us convinced that there is some sort of value in the 'official' product.
Everyone always comes up with 'recording onto tape loses quality', but come on now - how many of you recorded songs off the radio, just because it was convenient? Sure, the quality sucks, hell, off the radio you miss parts of the song while DJs yack, but people STILL DO THIS. And they STILL BUY CDS. Why?
You can record damn near any movie off of cable/satellite. Yet movie sales keep breaking records. Why?
I doubt it's strictly a quality issue - many non-audio/videophiles have rather shitty playback equipment, it's all the same to them. And if it's all about quality, why would anyone in their right mind use mp3/DivX/VCD?
Fact is, we place a very high value (monetary and otherwise) on 'official' products. Hell, why do you think so many people are so anal about track order for ripped CDs? Does the order of songs matter? Other than for an album like The Wall, I don't see why anyone would care, other than 'This is how the OFFICIAL album goes, therefore I HAVE to have my copy the same'.
Liner notes (or whatever you call the inserts into CD cases), pics of the band, whatever little bit of info you find in a CD... fact is, people have always considered the real thing to have a lot of value, no matter how cheap they can get a copy. Sometimes it's purely for the status symbol of "I own 200 DVDs", which is a lot of the general population.
Let's face it - if people actually cared about the quality of the information, and not moreso the medium, Britney Spears et al wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as they are.
In his last apartment, the computer was in the living room. When the wife was on the couch reading a book, if he sat and watched TV, it was 'quality time'. If he sat and read, it was 'quality time'. If he sat and picked his nose... well you get the idea.
The minute he went on the computer (generally doing things like reading and coding, things most people would consider at least a bit more useful and rewarding than the idiot box), she freaked.
I find this sort of antipathy towards computers is all too prevalent in our society. Then again, it's what keeps us in high demand, I suppose...:)
What will the usefulness of 12 IDE ports be? Anyone who needs that much hard drives will be using SCSI
I'd love it. Every time I buy more hard drive space, I have to toss another drive from my box (dvd-rom + cdrw + 2 hd's). I'm working on a nice little pile, currently 10 and 20gb drives at the top. That kind of space is nothing to sniff at. It'd be nice to just pop them in, it's the space I want, not the marginal increase in access time or transfer rate.
SCSI costs more, always has, always will. I shouldn't need to spend the extra $hundreds just to be able to use a few drives at once, hence the need for boards like this. Of course, the mobo probably costs a small fortune, but if a LOT were like this, then my point would make more sense:)
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I've obsessively watched my parents' email accounts ever since my dad asked me why Teenage Girls Want To Show Him What They Do In Locker Rooms.
In the past 2 years, I think I've gone through about 30 email accounts for them. Without exception, they receive little to no spam, even if the account is frequently used (so random address generator bots aren't THAT good yet). However, in every instance that they give an address to 2 or 3 specific friends of theirs, within a week their inbox is full of crap. These particular friends are notorious for mass Fwd:'s.
I've concluded that somehow one of these idiotic spammers has either written an address gathering virus, or is somehow picking up on mass recipient lists. Anyone else see this sort of patten?
You do realize that Nintendo is still pumping out Mario-related games every month, and some of these are the most anticipated releases for the 80s/Nintendo/whoever crowd?
Altough I do agree with you, the TF movie was about as ahead of its time as anything kids ever see. Picked up the movie soundtrack CD and movie DVD (UNEDITED, yes, Spike DID say "shit") within the past couple of months myself, and they're both still very watchable/listenable.
VCR??? What the hell is that? I was recording those babies on my parents BetaMAX.
:)
Shockingly enough, your BetaMAX was also considered a Video Cassette Recorder. Seeing as it Recorded Video onto Cassettes and all...
Support for plain vanilla PC's is easy, you could pay high school geeks $10 an hour to fix them up
Until a few machines go down at 8am Monday morning, and you have to wait until Saturday before your staff can do any work at all.
NEVER discount the value of reliable support.
Cases like this make you wonder how often does this happen in other companies?
Tons. At the last place I worked at, I was sort of the default sysadmin/tech head. I spent years trying to convince my staff that leaving their systems up and logged in was a BAD THING. Our management software tracked literally every transaction made by a user. When an error was made, within 3 seconds I could find out who did it.
It still took hundreds of cases of 'I didn't do it.' 'Yes you did, your user ID is right there.' 'It must have been someone else when I was out for lunch.' 'Well, the 2 seconds it would take to log out wouldn't have killed you, and you've been told before, so now your ass is on the line here.' And there were still some who every time they made a mistake, would try to pass the blame on (at this point, yes, we had a written AUP detailing all about it).
Of course, now that I'm out of the working world for a bit and back in school, I'm seeing people that are graduating comp sci in a year who don't see anything wrong with giving their friends their bank card PIN numbers, or computer account passwords, or you name it, just because it might "save a few seconds". *shudder*.
I dunno, considering this *is* the Russians we're talking about, I was thinking more of "Crazy Ivan".
we'll be seeing a condom tax for sex flicks
:)
I thought the general idea was that those going to sex flicks wouldn't have a use for condoms in the first place
Take 1% of Lucas et al's income from the Star Wars movies over the years.
:)
Probably end up about 15X NASA's budget
No, it's like arresting someone for speeding because they might cause an accident.
Good thing people don't get arrested for this reason, eh? Speeding itself is illegal, and that's why you get charged for it. As to WHY speeding is illegal, that's irrelevant here.
There would have to be a law in place that says "the potential to make money off someone else's work is hereby illegal" in order for Vivendi's claims to hold any water. Which, to my knowledge, we don't have (yet).
I can't take Stephen King's latest novel, touch it up, and sell it under a very similar name and try to profit off of it.
.. :)
I dunno, I thought that's what John Saul and Dean Koontz have been doing for years, personally. Oh wait, you meant *improve* it
Not to beat a point to death, but on the last 3 or 4 Kazaa related stories, there have been at least 4 posts each that were moderated past 3, that had a direct link to the kazaalite.tk site. Don't see how you could have missed those easily...
:)
Regardless, my personal opin is that kazaalite is such a great piece of work that it pretty much deserves its own story
I don't think there are too many game dev companies still producing software for the SNES... :)
Been there from Win95. It's how I managed to IRC all day at my former work :)
:)
:)
Basically, you can have mIRC minimize to the system tray. AND you can change the icon it minimizes to. I just made up a blank grey square. Boss walks in, alt-space-m makes mIRC disappear - it's amazing how adept one gets at this
Considering how full of crap the average system tray is, a bit of blank space in it never aroused suspicions
So let me get this straight.. blank DataPlay discs are going to be about $10-$12. Discs with an album on them are going to sell for $16. Ok, by those numbers it's $4-$6 that the record company makes off each one.
So when mass production allows DataPlay discs to be produced for 25 cents a piece, we should be able to buy pre-recorded ones for $5?
(yes, I do realize this has no hope in hell of happening. but the question does need to be raised)
Good point, hell, I remember versions of Mosaic that didn't seem to support *anything* :)
:)
Point still stands though.. JPEG support is not only VERY (relatively) old, but proper JPEG use, if anything, was far more important way back when. Try accessing a modern 400K/page site with a 14.4
Why does it feel like 1994 all over again?
JPEG'ing images has been par for the course for any competant web designer since the very incarnation of the WWW.
This is like having a 'news' article to the effect of
"Make your HTML code smaller! Learn what the tags actually are and throw out FrontPage!"
Oooo gee, wow!
I currently own 8 NES units, and 6 2600's, all picked up for basically nothing (got them at garage sales as a bundle with some games for the most part). They all work. In fact, I have yet to find a completely dead console unit (we won't talk about the controllers, mind you).
Just for fun I took out the mainboard from one of each, and hung them on the wall. Also from my spare Sega Master System and Intellivision. Kinda keeps me humble to remember the roots of the whole thing, ya know? It's actually scary just how well the old units are built. Other than the power switch etc, all solid state. Pretty damn hard to break one. Post-PSX... the cd drives are typically the first things to go on a modern console, and I can't imagine what you'd do if the hard drive fails and it's some proprietary standard.
Of course, hacking apart a new $300 unit is something else entirely...
It has nothing to do with obligation/guilt/insert silly reason here.
People have been able to copy music for decades now. Yet, we still buy original LPs/cassettes/CDs. Why? Because our society has us convinced that there is some sort of value in the 'official' product.
Everyone always comes up with 'recording onto tape loses quality', but come on now - how many of you recorded songs off the radio, just because it was convenient? Sure, the quality sucks, hell, off the radio you miss parts of the song while DJs yack, but people STILL DO THIS. And they STILL BUY CDS. Why?
You can record damn near any movie off of cable/satellite. Yet movie sales keep breaking records. Why?
I doubt it's strictly a quality issue - many non-audio/videophiles have rather shitty playback equipment, it's all the same to them. And if it's all about quality, why would anyone in their right mind use mp3/DivX/VCD?
Fact is, we place a very high value (monetary and otherwise) on 'official' products. Hell, why do you think so many people are so anal about track order for ripped CDs? Does the order of songs matter? Other than for an album like The Wall, I don't see why anyone would care, other than 'This is how the OFFICIAL album goes, therefore I HAVE to have my copy the same'.
Liner notes (or whatever you call the inserts into CD cases), pics of the band, whatever little bit of info you find in a CD... fact is, people have always considered the real thing to have a lot of value, no matter how cheap they can get a copy. Sometimes it's purely for the status symbol of "I own 200 DVDs", which is a lot of the general population.
Let's face it - if people actually cared about the quality of the information, and not moreso the medium, Britney Spears et al wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as they are.
In his last apartment, the computer was in the living room. When the wife was on the couch reading a book, if he sat and watched TV, it was 'quality time'. If he sat and read, it was 'quality time'. If he sat and picked his nose... well you get the idea.
:)
The minute he went on the computer (generally doing things like reading and coding, things most people would consider at least a bit more useful and rewarding than the idiot box), she freaked.
I find this sort of antipathy towards computers is all too prevalent in our society. Then again, it's what keeps us in high demand, I suppose...
You mean more like 1.1Ghz, 256MB ram, 700MB HD space, 32MB geforce2, dvd-rom.
I've actually seen MINIMUM system requirements similar to above for new games.
If we cant push our boss around like I used to be able to (the company went backrupt in the .bomb)
:)
I stand corrected.
:)
What about those of us who do both right and wrong, and don't give a rat's ass?
These are just incontinent people.
:)
They're pissing all over themselves?
I think mayhap you mean incompetent.
as posted in a reply below:
pricewatch: ide 75gb $138 scsi 73.5 gb $443
nuff said in my books.
What will the usefulness of 12 IDE ports be? Anyone who needs that much hard drives will be using SCSI
:)
I'd love it. Every time I buy more hard drive space, I have to toss another drive from my box (dvd-rom + cdrw + 2 hd's). I'm working on a nice little pile, currently 10 and 20gb drives at the top. That kind of space is nothing to sniff at. It'd be nice to just pop them in, it's the space I want, not the marginal increase in access time or transfer rate.
SCSI costs more, always has, always will. I shouldn't need to spend the extra $hundreds just to be able to use a few drives at once, hence the need for boards like this. Of course, the mobo probably costs a small fortune, but if a LOT were like this, then my point would make more sense