United Virtualities calls the product "Ooqa Ooqa," the nickname of one of the cofounder's daughters. The firm's signature product is the "shoshkeles," named after another daughter of a co-founder.
There's just something wrong about naming an evil technology that will be the bane of consumers everywhere after your daughter. If Satan had a daughter named Hell, I suspect he would have called the underworld something else.
What's with "Ooqa Ooqa?" Are the cofounders' daughters monkeys (banging on keyboards) or do the cofounders just have severe speech impediments?
Teoma sends its Beowulf cluster to devour Google's Pigeon cluster. Teoma still sucks, but it reigns supreme over Google's feather-littered server room.
DoubleClick settles lawsuit and agrees to delete consumer information.
This probably just means that they're resetting all the customer marketing preferences like Yahoo did.
Isn't it amazing how corporate America can tell you one thing and mean something completely different? And they have buildings full of people who spend all their time engineering these misunderstandings?
I pay $15 a month for Yahoo to host my Web site (it's Yahoo, for crying out loud. They're not evil, right?), which means that they have my phone number, home address, and credit card number on file.
When I logged in a minute ago to reset the marketing preferences, I found that not only had they signed me up for email spam, but they displayed my home address and phone number and had me signed up for snail mail spam and telemarketing.
So no, they're not collecting due compensation for free services, they're taking advantage of the my status as a paying customer. I'm going to find a new ISP, and I'm going to switch all my small business Web site clients as well, because they deserve better. To hell with Yahoo.
Once upon a time 128-bit encryption was considered secure, and people told me my AirPort Base Station was worthless because it only supported 40-bit encryption.
Once upon a time, 1024-bit encryption was considered secure, until some guy proposed a plan that could get you a 1024-bit crypto breaker for $1 billion.
Some day, this too will be breakable, but there is only one truly secure way of protecting data that will never fail. It was described in Pulp Fiction:
"Your father didn't want them to find your birthright, so he he hid it in the one place he knew it would be safe: his @$$! And when he died of dysentery, he gave the watch to me and I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal in my @$$ for 4 long years. And now, little man, I give it to you."
...with the help of a voice synthesizer, mobile-phone users can communicate in silence...
Synthetic Voice:hi... rob... it's linus... no... really... take a look... at... the next version... of the lye nucks kernel... at... h... t... t... p... colon slash slash... goat...
I understand that the quality of "Microsoft technology" is a controversial subject. So if we can leave that can of worms sealed for the moment...
My problem with the commercial is the way Microsoft implies that their ISP is "more useful" than other ISPs because of some magical stuff referred to only as "Microsoft technology." It plays to the common fear of technophobes that technology from one company won't work with technology from another. The fact is that there isn't anything you can get by buying the MSN service that you can't get elsewhere.
I think it's practically false advertising, but it's just this side of getting slammed by regulatory agencies because it's so vague.
After almost every tech site and individual geek banded together to...
You don't know of enough tech sites to claim that "almost every tech site" banded together on something. No one does.
You don't know enough individual geeks to say that "almost every... individual geek" banded together on something. No one does.
So right off the bat you're lying to us and it looks like you're just trying to hype up an issue we wouldn't care about otherwise. In this case, I think this is an important topic, but I nearly skipped over it after reading your FUD intro.
If you want someone to read a story, give them the facts and let them decide for themselves whether or not it's important.
The bill... prohibits the sale of any kind of electronic device -- unless that device includes copy-protection standards to be set by the federal government.
The world laughed when I introduced my steam-powered CD-ripper, but now it will be the only game in town! I'll be rich! (insert maniacal laughter here)
I used to buy books from Amazon, so they have my name and email address, and they like to send me emails about the latest computers and whatever else they're trying to sell. I log into my account, uncheck all the "send me mail" preferences, and still they send me this information. My solution: All email from amazon.com is automatically deleted.
Microsoft started sending me some newsletter I never requested about five years ago. The newsletter states that I can stop the mailings by visiting a certain page on MS's site. I visit the page, and it asks me to log in. Since I've never signed up for anything, I can't log in and can't get them to stop sending the mail. My solution: All email from microsoft.com is automatically deleted.
About 50% of the spam I get is received from outblaze.com servers. Some of it is from legitimate companies I know I have given my email address to, some is from legitimate companies I know I never gave my email address to, and the majority is from your typical "enlarge your penis/fire your boss" spammers.
Outblaze's front page actually has a link to a statement that effectively says, "we're not spammers, we're victims just like you. Our customers are legitimate businesses who send you useful information you want to read." Bull. I have received thousands of emails from outblaze (that I have read), and not one of them was solicited or of interest to me.
My solution: All email with outblaze.com in the "received" headers is automatically deleted.
Reminds me of the "self-cooking eggs" in the first Ghostbusters movie. Who wants that? It'll become one of those classic gags that just aren't funny, like the whoopie cushion on dad's seat at the dinner table.
"Ha ha! Look, everyone! Jimmy plugged in the cranberry sauce and it exploded!"
Anyone else think the business world looks like a game of Pac Man?
Pac Man has to contend with ghosts who make a genuine effort to prevent him from gobbling up everything on the screen. Real-world companies can escape this danger by buying off the Justice Department through contributions to a presidential campaign.
Have you ever seen a "what's good for Pac Man is good for the game" cheat?
It's nice that they have 802.11 access in the theater, but I want to know when I'll be able to watch HBO in the theater. That's the holy grail of theater entertainment.
The space boulder passed Earth within 288,000 miles (461,000 kilometers) -- or 1.2 times the distance to the moon -- on March 8, but since it came from the direction of the sun, scientists did not observe it until four days later.
In other news, President Bush has declared the sun to be part of "the axis of evil."
"My advisors have just informed me that the sun has been hurling dangerous, radiation death rays at the United States and its friends for millenia. And they have a 'solar flare' weapon they use to disrupt our electronics."
"Mark my words. We will smoke them out of their holes and wipe them off the face of the planet," Bush stated, before a reporter pointed out that the sun is not on Earth. "It don't make no difference -- don't interrupt me with the politics of details, son. We're still going to hunt them down and put a stop to them."
The president refused to answer questions about whether he plans to detain the sun in Cuba.
I thought about that after I hit submit -- it was late... but actually, if your ancestors (which would presumably include your modern predecessors... parents, grandparents, etc.) believed in natural selection they have an interest in your mitosis.
It looks like you're attempting mitosis. Now would be a great time to sign up for a Passport account. WARNING: Are you sure you want to attempt mitosis without a Passport account? Your ancestors may regret it!
And on the other side of the coin, the Open Source DNA advocates will be saying: You don't need a Passport account to have kids, honey. Yes, it's perfectly safe. Support? Who the hell told you Microsoft was going to support our child?! A free PC?!
Washington State isn't jumping on the "let's break up Microsoft" bandwagon; it's jumping on the "if we don't stand up for states' rights the federal government will usurp them" bandwagon.
let's not forget that CDs just barely encompass the resolution and frequency response that we can discern
Barely \Bare"ly\, adv.
1. Merely; only. 2. he barely escaped.
Let me get this straight: CDs encompass the resolution and frequency response that we can discern, but that's not enough for you? Why do you want CDs that can play music you can't hear?
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but the only reasons that come to mind are:
You've been smoking an RIAA-certified dog-whistle crack pipe for too long
You are trying to turn your Discman into a sound-wave-based weapon
It would make a great companion for your infra red television
I agree with you about the quality of MP3s, though, but toys like the Rio Receiver are hardly mainstream. I wouldn't worry too much about MP3s replacing CDs.
According to a network traffic analysis performed by Newsbytes, Netscape is capturing Navigator 6 users' search terms, along with their Internet protocol (IP) address, the date Navigator was installed and a unique identification number.
This should be easy for AOL to deny, since there is no product called Navigator 6. It's simply called "Netscape 6" now. You could argue that this is a minor detail the reporter screwed up, but I think you have to question the reporter's understanding of a subject if he doesn't know the name of the product he's writing about.
In journalism schools, getting a name wrong earns you an automatic failure. Apparently Newsbytes doesn't hold its reporters to such a high standard.
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What's with "Ooqa Ooqa?" Are the cofounders' daughters monkeys (banging on keyboards) or do the cofounders just have severe speech impediments?
Teoma sends its Beowulf cluster to devour Google's Pigeon cluster. Teoma still sucks, but it reigns supreme over Google's feather-littered server room.
CJAN.
CJAN run.
CJAN code.
CJAN run her code.
CJAN screw the Perl community.
CJAN type "APRIL FOOLS!"
CJAN laugh her butt off and disappear.
Isn't it amazing how corporate America can tell you one thing and mean something completely different? And they have buildings full of people who spend all their time engineering these misunderstandings?
When I logged in a minute ago to reset the marketing preferences, I found that not only had they signed me up for email spam, but they displayed my home address and phone number and had me signed up for snail mail spam and telemarketing.
So no, they're not collecting due compensation for free services, they're taking advantage of the my status as a paying customer. I'm going to find a new ISP, and I'm going to switch all my small business Web site clients as well, because they deserve better. To hell with Yahoo.
Once upon a time, 1024-bit encryption was considered secure, until some guy proposed a plan that could get you a 1024-bit crypto breaker for $1 billion.
Some day, this too will be breakable, but there is only one truly secure way of protecting data that will never fail. It was described in Pulp Fiction:
"Your father didn't want them to find your birthright, so he he hid it in the one place he knew it would be safe: his @$$! And when he died of dysentery, he gave the watch to me and I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal in my @$$ for 4 long years. And now, little man, I give it to you."
Why does mozillaZine.org feature the launching of the Hindenburg? Is there some deeper message here?
My problem with the commercial is the way Microsoft implies that their ISP is "more useful" than other ISPs because of some magical stuff referred to only as "Microsoft technology." It plays to the common fear of technophobes that technology from one company won't work with technology from another. The fact is that there isn't anything you can get by buying the MSN service that you can't get elsewhere.
I think it's practically false advertising, but it's just this side of getting slammed by regulatory agencies because it's so vague.
It made me sick... I had to leave the room...
- You don't know of enough tech sites to claim that "almost every tech site" banded together on something. No one does.
- You don't know enough individual geeks to say that "almost every
... individual geek" banded together on something. No one does.
So right off the bat you're lying to us and it looks like you're just trying to hype up an issue we wouldn't care about otherwise. In this case, I think this is an important topic, but I nearly skipped over it after reading your FUD intro.If you want someone to read a story, give them the facts and let them decide for themselves whether or not it's important.
My solution: All email from amazon.com is automatically deleted.
Microsoft started sending me some newsletter I never requested about five years ago. The newsletter states that I can stop the mailings by visiting a certain page on MS's site. I visit the page, and it asks me to log in. Since I've never signed up for anything, I can't log in and can't get them to stop sending the mail.
My solution: All email from microsoft.com is automatically deleted.
About 50% of the spam I get is received from outblaze.com servers. Some of it is from legitimate companies I know I have given my email address to, some is from legitimate companies I know I never gave my email address to, and the majority is from your typical "enlarge your penis/fire your boss" spammers.
Outblaze's front page actually has a link to a statement that effectively says, "we're not spammers, we're victims just like you. Our customers are legitimate businesses who send you useful information you want to read." Bull. I have received thousands of emails from outblaze (that I have read), and not one of them was solicited or of interest to me.
My solution: All email with outblaze.com in the "received" headers is automatically deleted.
"Ha ha! Look, everyone! Jimmy plugged in the cranberry sauce and it exploded!"
Have you ever seen a "what's good for Pac Man is good for the game" cheat?
It's nice that they have 802.11 access in the theater, but I want to know when I'll be able to watch HBO in the theater. That's the holy grail of theater entertainment.
"My advisors have just informed me that the sun has been hurling dangerous, radiation death rays at the United States and its friends for millenia. And they have a 'solar flare' weapon they use to disrupt our electronics."
"Mark my words. We will smoke them out of their holes and wipe them off the face of the planet," Bush stated, before a reporter pointed out that the sun is not on Earth. "It don't make no difference -- don't interrupt me with the politics of details, son. We're still going to hunt them down and put a stop to them."
The president refused to answer questions about whether he plans to detain the sun in Cuba.
I thought about that after I hit submit -- it was late... but actually, if your ancestors (which would presumably include your modern predecessors... parents, grandparents, etc.) believed in natural selection they have an interest in your mitosis.
It looks like you're attempting mitosis. Now would be a great time to sign up for a Passport account. WARNING: Are you sure you want to attempt mitosis without a Passport account? Your ancestors may regret it!
And on the other side of the coin, the Open Source DNA advocates will be saying:
You don't need a Passport account to have kids, honey. Yes, it's perfectly safe. Support? Who the hell told you Microsoft was going to support our child?! A free PC?!
Washington State isn't jumping on the "let's break up Microsoft" bandwagon; it's jumping on the "if we don't stand up for states' rights the federal government will usurp them" bandwagon.
1. Merely; only.
2. he barely escaped.
Let me get this straight: CDs encompass the resolution and frequency response that we can discern, but that's not enough for you? Why do you want CDs that can play music you can't hear?
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but the only reasons that come to mind are:
- You've been smoking an RIAA-certified dog-whistle crack pipe for too long
- You are trying to turn your Discman into a sound-wave-based weapon
- It would make a great companion for your infra red television
I agree with you about the quality of MP3s, though, but toys like the Rio Receiver are hardly mainstream. I wouldn't worry too much about MP3s replacing CDs.In journalism schools, getting a name wrong earns you an automatic failure. Apparently Newsbytes doesn't hold its reporters to such a high standard.