Well, gee, after all that hype about the G5 being a super computer on a chip and how it was a viable and powerful option to the Xeon and Opteron, what do we get???
What is the Dev Platform??? A P4!!!!! WTF??!?!?!
So, all that crap about how great the G5 was, was that just smoke or what?
I mean if the P4 is a step forward, I don't see why I should ever buy another Apple product again. Because I bought their products because they were not the mainstream and I considered them top of the line.
Well, today Jobs just told me any old consumer class P4 is actually better than the G5 and a BIG step forward.
Ironically, enough, I was about to get a G5 desktop in 2 weeks. I think I'll look into an Opteron Solution instead. Why pay 3,000 for a machine that is a LIE?!?!
Screw you Apple, screw your lies, Screw your CEO's ego and I hope to god your next Keynote is how OS X will become a MS pet-project.
Shit, like it's only Sector-G993's third largest and definitely most racey inter-fucking-steller resort! I mean who hasn't heard of the quad-tittied Zaljingo Dancers and the city of a million spice-bars? Sheeesh.
What better way to get people looking into OS X, Linux!!
"Let the Intel CyberCop inside decide which files you can open, print, play and edit"
"Only Microsofts new drmAgent.dll for.NET allows developers worldwide to harness the power of Intel CyberCop Digital Rights Management, even over the internet."
"Next on Fox News at 10: Corporate Viruses -- Good or Bad. We'll give you the facts on the P2P Worm created by the RIAA."
Ohhh... the possibilities for total abuse/misuse are endless!!! Just wait till some ransomware script-kiddy starts using DRM tools to digitally lock the contents of a hard drive and installs a tor-enabled online payperview system, to access your precious word docs.
And remember DRM is your friend! Next years Spyware/Adware will find exploits that gets it assigned a DRM-priveledged level and CAN'T BE REMOVED because the DRM system thinks it's part of itself.
I'm just damn glad I wont have to live with this DRM hell that's about to be unleashed to millions of walmart shoppers! And the way I see it, if you use Windows, you must love being managed and restricted anyway so most MS users won't notice much difference and quite a few will actually love it.
"IBM is an American corporation. As long as they keep the shareholders happy, who cares about anyone else down the ladder. If you don't like it, go work for HP."
Say what?
Ohhh... I get it... you're being sarcastic -- yet serious -- or is that sardonic? And with such post-modern symbolism - or was that bitter bitter irony?
"440 Eddy Street, #424, San Francisco, California"
So you live in the Tenderloin -- one of the most rat infested hoods in the city. I don't see why anyone would want to come on down to your place, unless it was to buy some crack or get a good "gumming" by your "girlfriend".
Look you pointy eared freaks, Star Trek NEEDS TO DIE! What's the point? After TNG, there was nothing left. DS9 was soap opera drivel and Let me not even start on Voyager. Enterprise - hahahaha I stopped wathing that the second season when I was disgusted by the complete lack of continuity that all the other series had worked hard to maintain and that it was obviously going to be one time travel episode after the next. Personally, I think Berman purposefully planned to give the entire Star Trek Franchise a complete and utter assfucking with Enterprise. And that he did.
So hey -- put away the terry cloth Kirk Uniform, stop speaking Klingon, stop throwing conventions and maybe just maybe in 20+years, someone else can pick it up and maybe it'll be cool again.
I was referring to the still substantial part of the population that still lives in huts and has no modern infrastructure. That was the target market correct? Or was it to play upon the "cool" factor and serve as an extra gizmo for the VP of ChutneySoft to play with?
Perhaps you are a bit sensitive about India??? Just a little? Nawwww -- I didn't think so.
This new-fangled 'resurrection ecology' has "bio-hazard" written all over it.
While in our Politically Correct Era the focus is on how mankind has exploited the eco-system - let's not be too quick to jump on the band wagon of thinking this is a wonderfull way to bring back the Do-do and other species that came to an abrubt end in modern history.
Exploitation of wildlife resources is only one of many reasons. Another reason is because ecology changes and those species not well suited to adapt to the new environment naturally die out. And one major change to environment is DISEASE. Entire species can succumb to a communicable virus in rapid succession and those whose immune systems can not adapt or physically migrate to another suitable habitat will die and continue to die untill the disease either mutates or all the suitable hosts are dead.
You see -- it's called NATURAL SELECTION for a reason. And while I'm not entirely against this use of technology, I'm highly wary of it's uncontrolled use.
By what standards are we to determine which species to attempt to cultivate and let loose into the wild or one ofour many splended zoos/aquariums? And how can we accurately model and predict the ecological impact these actions would have? Is it possible that the introduction of these since extinct animals immune systems back into a modern ecology cause viruses to mutate into potentially deadly forms for us and other modern animals? Or would we see entire colonies of animals brought back only to die off in short order as they once again prove themselves unable to cope?
Personally, I think this technique should be left in the realm of advanced research for decades to come untill a time comes where we are capable of knowing whether or not a reintroduction of specie posses a threat to modern organisms or to the potential resurrectee.
Practically impossible to imagine that the impoverished and illiterate of India wouldn't be lining up in droves to fork over years worth of wages for something as technologically underwhelming as the simputer.
It's a shame really, I nearly cry at the loss of productivity they never realized by using spreadsheets to better manage their goat hearding.
Seeing as how everyone in the city is paying for it already, charging $18-$24 a month for service is utterly bogus in my mind. When you figure that the current population of Minneapolis is 382,618 you figure each tax paying citizen has forked over atleast $52.27 of the 20mil cost and what do they get? The ability to pay for wireless service. It's freakin wireless! Why not make it free use they already paid for it?!?!? Do they make the citizens pay to drive down the streets too?
While I was against Verizon and others from trying to make it illegal for municipalities to offer wifi, but in this case, it should be illegal. Minneapolis would be doing nothing here but trying to be a publicly funded teleco service.
This is plain wrong. If municipalities want to put in their own wifi, let them if they make it freely available for all to use. Just because it's technology does not mean it should be treated differently than any other public works project such as roads and parks which are built and maintained on taxpayer dollars and can be enjoyed by all for free.
The system is quite infallable as it only uses non-utilized mental faculties and only performs computation, that is it accepts no executable instruction as input. So no host node can taint the computational process.
And as for the employees becoming wealthy... I can assure you that they would get little more than they wouuld have for an equal amount of hours working at Walmart. And besides... when the quality of life as a host in our system will be more enriching than anything they could aspire to out here, with e-credits worth a hundred fold online than in life, many will choose to keep their node online permanantly.
Perhaps you'd enjoy watching the promotional campaign for our juice-power operation to be put in place at all our power-plant multiplexes worldwide
"If no one has a job then no one has money... but theoretically we also wouldn't have to pay for anything since robots would be doing all the work.
And that's where you are wrong, you see, I am currently developing a means to utilize the unused processing cycles of the human brain (and for the average slashdotter like yourself, that's quite a few) to allow for unimaginably parralel computing power. This massively distributed neural computing network will in turn assist in the development of a new form of energy procurement which will allow for a cheap and infinitely renewable energy supply allowing the exponential expansion of our robot workforce and robot armies.
This will culminate in a new society where the average citizen will no longer physically work, but instead recieve e-credits for computing cycles performed in the comfort of our many power-station multiplex theatres.
With thousands of bloggers injured each year, and a typical news post taking many minutes to edit, review, dupe check, spell check, grammer check and post, blogging has been the same tiring, gritty job for the last few years. For this problem, Commander Taco has a solution: Slashbot2000 A Robotic Slashdot Editor. An eight foot tall by 6 f oot wide prototype post editing machine. With a built-in coffee and espresso maker, hot pocket toaster and ceramic commode, "It's just the thing we hard working editors at your beloved Slashdot need" Commander Taco commented during the plugging-in ceremony. "To add to the excitement, the Slashbot2000 will have most it's editorial functions disabled and will be posting stories under current editors logins. We're offering 5 mod points to whoever can point out 20 successive stories posted by the Slashbot2000 unit" When asked what his new duties would entail after the plugging-in ceremony, Commander Taco curtly replied "MMMMM.... hotpockets".
I fathom we can manage a lab full of Linux or Windows machines far better than a lab of macs, even with the right tools.
Welcome to 2005, Man from 1996! While you were frozen in carbonite, much has changed. We have President Bush AGAIN.. but, dumber, badder and more trigger happy than ever Ohhh... and we have a NEW Mac Operating System called OS X! And what's more, they support a slew of networking protocols such as AFP, SAMBA/CIFS and NFS Ohhh and since it's a UNIX -- each machine can run ssh, vtund, sftp and most major network admin apps have been ported to OSX, if it's not on Apples site check the sourceforge project page. Ohhh and not to mention, Macs were the first to offer built in wifi cards and are all about wireless connectivity, be it wifi or bluetooth (yes, you can create bluetooth networks too). And for you Windows Clippy using NT *cough* "ADMINS" *cough* there's Apple Remote Desktop because we know how all that MS GUI crack smoking can really make you forget how computers really work.
So there you have it 1996 Man, your new world awaits. And remember, macs aren't something you make fun of anymore. It's got the strengths of having the best OS UI in the world and a rock solid Unix Architecture... ohh and yeah -- it a has a commandline. Personally, OS X kicks ass over both Windows AND Linux, it has all their strengths and NONE of their weaknesses.
He [MS Rep] added that the company had "some misgivings" about the new name, but decided in the end to cooperate.
Seems the EU Commision dictated what this product will be named. While I understand MS lost and must face sanctions, I fail to see why they would care what MS calls the product or how their laws could allow for such intrusion in basic marketing practices not at all related to the case at hand. Perhaps the EU can now get busy dictating the packaging it will be shipped in and start writing the ad campaigns.
It seems this neo-conservatism is nothing more than some Fanatical Religious front not unlike the Muslim Fundamentalists Washington likes to demonize as the root of Terrorism.
All this crap about faith based this and faith based that coming out of the whitehouse and with a president who openly claims to have a mandate from God... Uhh... I was gonna talk about church and state but, am I the only one here that thinks the President is fucking batshit loco?
But it's a good thing! Really! Lets embrace our freedom to express fundamentalist Christian religion! Lets ban any science that goes "too far" into ethical grey areas for religious pundits to swallow, lets get the federal government to force a tube down a vegetable's throat... it's nice to have a "conservative" government that wants to regulate our way of life. The Founding Fathers would be proud at this emerging christian police state. And if you voted for Bush I bet you're damn proud too.
I've decided that from here on out I will invoice my CSS time for IE seperately. Being that I create most browser interfaces in XHTML and all layout is 100% CSS, I will now isolate the huge chunk of time I must spend on each project for IE compatability. I will also make it clear UPFRONT by making an accountance in my proposol for just how my design time will be devided up and how much time I estimate to spend on IE compatability vs supporting the rest of the world.
Why single IE out on my invoices and proposols? To let companies know where that extra $2,000.00 went for 20-30 hours of my time. That's why. And in hopes that they will opt not to engage in that expenditure.
I'd urge all other UI designers and developers to do the same. And if the client decides that they wish not to support IE, a small victory shall have been won.
It was fine 5-6 years ago to say "Ooops -- you're using that Netscape piece of shit, please come back using a real browser" I say it's time we start doing this again, but for IE and for the exact same reasons.
Just because IBM isn't selling it's openPower to you, doen't mean that openPower wont sell.
Personally I find it rather revolting that you would even suggest they sell their new architecture for $1,000. If only because I am sick of people like you who call me and tell me I should sell my services for some ungodly low and very insulting rate to somehow fit their non-existent budget. And you know what? I tell these people to ever so politely go fuck themselves and for some reason, I do quite fine with clients who pay my rates without question.
So get some fucking respect for the fact that YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.
You sir are an ass-hat,. Yes, an asshat. Please refrain from using the Reply feature in the future.
Personally, everyone here should complain until all ISP's of the world place an embargo upon you and denies you all internet access until you get a clue.
MCI making 5 million off spamming is like me making a quarter for walking down the street.
West Virginia resident and former AOL employee Jason Smathers is expected to undergo an experimental surgical procedure to surgically attach a locking mechanism to his rectum. Smathers stated that it's in no way related to his anticipated 18-20 month sentence.
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Well, gee, after all that hype about the G5 being a super computer on a chip and how it was a viable and powerful option to the Xeon and Opteron, what do we get???
What is the Dev Platform???
A P4!!!!! WTF??!?!?!
So, all that crap about how great the G5 was, was that just smoke or what?
I mean if the P4 is a step forward, I don't see why I should ever buy another Apple product again. Because I bought their products because they were not the mainstream and I considered them top of the line.
Well, today Jobs just told me any old consumer class P4 is actually better than the G5 and a BIG step forward.
Ironically, enough, I was about to get a G5 desktop in 2 weeks.
I think I'll look into an Opteron Solution instead. Why pay 3,000 for a machine that is a LIE?!?!
Screw you Apple, screw your lies, Screw your CEO's ego and I hope to god your next Keynote is how OS X will become a MS pet-project.
Errm... I read the grandparent as sarcastic.
As in "What Gov't Solar Sail craft???".
Perhaps if you actually looked into it rather than knee-jerk looking to prove it wrong, you'd have seen that.
Machines don't lie - so therefor you must be lying.
Is that not logic?
Shit, like it's only Sector-G993's third largest and definitely most racey inter-fucking-steller resort! I mean who hasn't heard of the quad-tittied Zaljingo Dancers and the city of a million spice-bars? Sheeesh.
What better way to get people looking into OS X, Linux!!
.NET allows developers worldwide to harness the power of Intel CyberCop Digital Rights Management, even over the internet."
"Let the Intel CyberCop inside decide which files you can open, print, play and edit"
"Only Microsofts new drmAgent.dll for
"Next on Fox News at 10: Corporate Viruses -- Good or Bad. We'll give you the facts on the P2P Worm created by the RIAA."
Ohhh... the possibilities for total abuse/misuse are endless!!!
Just wait till some ransomware script-kiddy starts using DRM tools to digitally lock the contents of a hard drive and installs a tor-enabled online payperview system, to access your precious word docs.
And remember DRM is your friend! Next years Spyware/Adware will find exploits that gets it assigned a DRM-priveledged level and CAN'T BE REMOVED because the DRM system thinks it's part of itself.
I'm just damn glad I wont have to live with this DRM hell that's about to be unleashed to millions of walmart shoppers!
And the way I see it, if you use Windows, you must love being managed and restricted anyway so most MS users won't notice much difference and quite a few will actually love it.
"IBM is an American corporation. As long as they keep the shareholders happy, who cares about anyone else down the ladder. If you don't like it, go work for HP."
Say what?
Ohhh... I get it... you're being sarcastic -- yet serious -- or is that sardonic? And with such post-modern symbolism - or was that bitter bitter irony?
I think my head just exploded.
"440 Eddy Street, #424, San Francisco, California"
So you live in the Tenderloin -- one of the most rat infested hoods in the city. I don't see why anyone would want to come on down to your place, unless it was to buy some crack or get a good "gumming" by your "girlfriend".
I was actually interested until I saw A.L.I.C.E. - like that chatbot will ever pass a turing test.
To be fair, this was a high school project and so I can see how a suped up chatbot would fit the bill for this "Turing test".
So no... I didn't RTFA thank you very much.
But for those interested in reading up on Wallace, A.L.I.C.Es author... Well he's a first class nut job
Look you pointy eared freaks, Star Trek NEEDS TO DIE!
What's the point? After TNG, there was nothing left.
DS9 was soap opera drivel and Let me not even start on Voyager.
Enterprise - hahahaha I stopped wathing that the second season when I was disgusted by the complete lack of continuity that all the other series had worked hard to maintain and that it was obviously going to be one time travel episode after the next. Personally, I think Berman purposefully planned to give the entire Star Trek Franchise a complete and utter assfucking with Enterprise. And that he did.
So hey -- put away the terry cloth Kirk Uniform, stop speaking Klingon, stop throwing conventions and maybe just maybe in 20+years, someone else can pick it up and maybe it'll be cool again.
Yeap - it's un-american commie wifi alright.
I was referring to the still substantial part of the population that still lives in huts and has no modern infrastructure. That was the target market correct? Or was it to play upon the "cool" factor and serve as an extra gizmo for the VP of ChutneySoft to play with?
Perhaps you are a bit sensitive about India???
Just a little? Nawwww -- I didn't think so.
This new-fangled 'resurrection ecology' has "bio-hazard" written all over it.
While in our Politically Correct Era the focus is on how mankind has exploited the eco-system - let's not be too quick to jump on the band wagon of thinking this is a wonderfull way to bring back the Do-do and other species that came to an abrubt end in modern history.
Exploitation of wildlife resources is only one of many reasons.
Another reason is because ecology changes and those species not well suited to adapt to the new environment naturally die out. And one major change to environment is DISEASE. Entire species can succumb to a communicable virus in rapid succession and those whose immune systems can not adapt or physically migrate to another suitable habitat will die and continue to die untill the disease either mutates or all the suitable hosts are dead.
You see -- it's called NATURAL SELECTION for a reason.
And while I'm not entirely against this use of technology, I'm highly wary of it's uncontrolled use.
By what standards are we to determine which species to attempt to cultivate and let loose into the wild or one ofour many splended zoos/aquariums? And how can we accurately model and predict the ecological impact these actions would have? Is it possible that the introduction of these since extinct animals immune systems back into a modern ecology cause viruses to mutate into potentially deadly forms for us and other modern animals? Or would we see entire colonies of animals brought back only to die off in short order as they once again prove themselves unable to cope?
Personally, I think this technique should be left in the realm of advanced research for decades to come untill a time comes where we are capable of knowing whether or not a reintroduction of specie posses a threat to modern organisms or to the potential resurrectee.
Practically impossible to imagine that the impoverished and illiterate of India wouldn't be lining up in droves to fork over years worth of wages for something as technologically underwhelming as the simputer.
It's a shame really, I nearly cry at the loss of productivity they never realized by using spreadsheets to better manage their goat hearding.
Seeing as how everyone in the city is paying for it already, charging $18-$24 a month for service is utterly bogus in my mind. When you figure that the current population of Minneapolis is 382,618 you figure each tax paying citizen has forked over atleast $52.27 of the 20mil cost and what do they get? The ability to pay for wireless service. It's freakin wireless! Why not make it free use they already paid for it?!?!? Do they make the citizens pay to drive down the streets too?
While I was against Verizon and others from trying to make it illegal for municipalities to offer wifi, but in this case, it should be illegal. Minneapolis would be doing nothing here but trying to be a publicly funded teleco service.
This is plain wrong. If municipalities want to put in their own wifi, let them if they make it freely available for all to use. Just because it's technology does not mean it should be treated differently than any other public works project such as roads and parks which are built and maintained on taxpayer dollars and can be enjoyed by all for free.
The system is quite infallable as it only uses non-utilized mental faculties and only performs computation, that is it accepts no executable instruction as input. So no host node can taint the computational process.
And as for the employees becoming wealthy... I can assure you that they would get little more than they wouuld have for an equal amount of hours working at Walmart. And besides... when the quality of life as a host in our system will be more enriching than anything they could aspire to out here, with e-credits worth a hundred fold online than in life, many will choose to keep their node online permanantly.
Perhaps you'd enjoy watching the promotional campaign for our juice-power operation to be put in place at all our power-plant multiplexes worldwide
"If no one has a job then no one has money... but theoretically we also wouldn't have to pay for anything since robots would be doing all the work.
And that's where you are wrong, you see, I am currently developing a means to utilize the unused processing cycles of the human brain (and for the average slashdotter like yourself, that's quite a few) to allow for unimaginably parralel computing power. This massively distributed neural computing network will in turn assist in the development of a new form of energy procurement which will allow for a cheap and infinitely renewable energy supply allowing the exponential expansion of our robot workforce and robot armies.
This will culminate in a new society where the average citizen will no longer physically work, but instead recieve e-credits for computing cycles performed in the comfort of our many power-station multiplex theatres.
With thousands of bloggers injured each year, and a typical news post taking many minutes to edit, review, dupe check, spell check, grammer check and post, blogging has been the same tiring, gritty job for the last few years. For this problem, Commander Taco has a solution: Slashbot2000 A Robotic Slashdot Editor. An eight foot tall by 6 f oot wide prototype post editing machine. With a built-in coffee and espresso maker, hot pocket toaster and ceramic commode, "It's just the thing we hard working editors at your beloved Slashdot need" Commander Taco commented during the plugging-in ceremony. "To add to the excitement, the Slashbot2000 will have most it's editorial functions disabled and will be posting stories under current editors logins. We're offering 5 mod points to whoever can point out 20 successive stories posted by the Slashbot2000 unit" When asked what his new duties would entail after the plugging-in ceremony, Commander Taco curtly replied "MMMMM.... hotpockets".
I fathom we can manage a lab full of Linux or Windows machines far better than a lab of macs, even with the right tools.
.. but, dumber, badder and more trigger happy than ever Ohhh... and we have a NEW Mac Operating System called OS X! And what's more, they support a slew of networking protocols such as AFP, SAMBA/CIFS and NFS Ohhh and since it's a UNIX -- each machine can run ssh, vtund, sftp and most major network admin apps have been ported to OSX, if it's not on Apples site check the sourceforge project page. Ohhh and not to mention, Macs were the first to offer built in wifi cards and are all about wireless connectivity, be it wifi or bluetooth (yes, you can create bluetooth networks too). And for you Windows Clippy using NT *cough* "ADMINS" *cough* there's Apple Remote Desktop because we know how all that MS GUI crack smoking can really make you forget how computers really work.
Welcome to 2005, Man from 1996! While you were frozen in carbonite, much has changed. We have President Bush AGAIN
So there you have it 1996 Man, your new world awaits. And remember, macs aren't something you make fun of anymore. It's got the strengths of having the best OS UI in the world and a rock solid Unix Architecture... ohh and yeah -- it a has a commandline. Personally, OS X kicks ass over both Windows AND Linux, it has all their strengths and NONE of their weaknesses.
He [MS Rep] added that the company had "some misgivings" about the new name, but decided in the end to cooperate.
Seems the EU Commision dictated what this product will be named. While I understand MS lost and must face sanctions, I fail to see why they would care what MS calls the product or how their laws could allow for such intrusion in basic marketing practices not at all related to the case at hand. Perhaps the EU can now get busy dictating the packaging it will be shipped in and start writing the ad campaigns.
It seems this neo-conservatism is nothing more than some Fanatical Religious front not unlike the Muslim Fundamentalists Washington likes to demonize as the root of Terrorism.
All this crap about faith based this and faith based that coming out of the whitehouse and with a president who openly claims to have a mandate from God... Uhh... I was gonna talk about church and state but, am I the only one here that thinks the President is fucking batshit loco?
But it's a good thing! Really! Lets embrace our freedom to express fundamentalist Christian religion! Lets ban any science that goes "too far" into ethical grey areas for religious pundits to swallow, lets get the federal government to force a tube down a vegetable's throat... it's nice to have a "conservative" government that wants to regulate our way of life. The Founding Fathers would be proud at this emerging christian police state. And if you voted for Bush I bet you're damn proud too.
I've decided that from here on out I will invoice my CSS time for IE seperately. Being that I create most browser interfaces in XHTML and all layout is 100% CSS, I will now isolate the huge chunk of time I must spend on each project for IE compatability. I will also make it clear UPFRONT by making an accountance in my proposol for just how my design time will be devided up and how much time I estimate to spend on IE compatability vs supporting the rest of the world.
Why single IE out on my invoices and proposols? To let companies know where that extra $2,000.00 went for 20-30 hours of my time. That's why. And in hopes that they will opt not to engage in that expenditure.
I'd urge all other UI designers and developers to do the same.
And if the client decides that they wish not to support IE, a small victory shall have been won.
It was fine 5-6 years ago to say "Ooops -- you're using that Netscape piece of shit, please come back using a real browser"
I say it's time we start doing this again, but for IE and for the exact same reasons.
OK, this is a troll, while the parent is INFORMATIVE? ./
/me signs out
Alrighty... guess I'll be doing a lot less reading on
What a crock of shit.
I mean, IBM needs to sell their new architecture for 1,000 or they'll never sell any! gets +5?!?!?!?
if only their was a way to delete my entire fucking account right now.
Just because IBM isn't selling it's openPower to you, doen't mean that openPower wont sell.
Personally I find it rather revolting that you would even suggest they sell their new architecture for $1,000. If only because I am sick of people like you who call me and tell me I should sell my services for some ungodly low and very insulting rate to somehow fit their non-existent budget. And you know what? I tell these people to ever so politely go fuck themselves and for some reason, I do quite fine with clients who pay my rates without question.
So get some fucking respect for the fact that YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.
You sir are an ass-hat,. Yes, an asshat. Please refrain from using the Reply feature in the future.
Personally, everyone here should complain until all ISP's of the world place an embargo upon you and denies you all internet access until you get a clue.
MCI making 5 million off spamming is like me making a quarter for walking down the street.
West Virginia resident and former AOL employee Jason Smathers is expected to undergo an experimental surgical procedure to surgically attach a locking mechanism to his rectum. Smathers stated that it's in no way related to his anticipated 18-20 month sentence.