"Unsolicited promotions, advertising or solicitations (commonly referred to as "spam"), including, without limitation, commercial advertising and informational announcements, except to those who have explicitly requested such e-mails."
(AP) "Area police have warned residents in the Fermi area to be in the lookout for rampaging mutant MP3 files and DIVX rips. These were said to be innocent p2p files until they were stored in servers deep inside Fermilab. They were inadvertantly released when someone opened the server with a hacked open Grokster client.
Anyone who sights one of these monsters on their property is urged to contact either the RIAA or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission immediately. If you hear a wailing 'Ooops. I did it agaAAAIN!!' outside, do not open the door."
With all the messages referring to Microsoft being involved in an incident that occured before Microsoft really existed as such, I wonder if they are also to blame for the 1908 Siberian blast.
More importantly, is Microsoft still operating under the directive of an old memo that said "send self-destructing OS to USSR" in which someone accidentally left the last two letters of USSR off? That could explain a lot.
I carry a variety of flavors of Linux CDs in my car
I do that too. They make quite a racket when I play them in the Kenwood. However, I've found that with 800 watt sub-woofers, anything can sound quite impressive.
Phase 2 will be sending Bruce Willis and the rest of his rigger pals in their awful corduroy space-suits to "kick comet ass" of all the ones found by Rosetta.
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And while they add these features to cell phones, thay make them hard to use. I've got a recent Nokia phone where the buttons are in diagonal columns, instead of the standard straight-up-and-down, straight-across 4 x 3 array that has been around decades.
It is not just Nokia. There are portable phones that actually have the buttons in curving rows. Why make it harder to do the "dialing numbers" part of using a phone?
"send a battlefleet to Mars, on a tip that no-good-pirate types were resorting to OFF PLANET storage of illegally-downloaded mp3's."
"Due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire battle fleet was accidently swallowed by a small Senate sub-committee" (apologies, and thanks for all the fish, to Douglas Adams)
(AP) "Attemps to wipe the flash memory clean on the Spirit rover failed today, when it was found out that someone flipped those tiny plastic switches to "protect" on the SD memory cards that are serving the unit.
A press conference is expected tomorrow to announce sending someone to Mars to set the SD cards to allow erasing."
How long before there are spams that LOOK like these official notices, with "click here to get rid of virus" links that go to those Norton Antivirus sales scams?
How long before the first one with a return address of "Tom Rigde" arrives in your inbox.
Slashdot Mirror
The policy from the guy's spam business site:
It prohibits:
"Unsolicited promotions, advertising or solicitations (commonly referred to as "spam"), including, without limitation, commercial advertising and informational announcements, except to those who have explicitly requested such e-mails."
Hmmmm.....
"Mr. McBride, that will be $699 per credit hour"
(AP) "Area police have warned residents in the Fermi area to be in the lookout for rampaging mutant MP3 files and DIVX rips. These were said to be innocent p2p files until they were stored in servers deep inside Fermilab. They were inadvertantly released when someone opened the server with a hacked open Grokster client.
Anyone who sights one of these monsters on their property is urged to contact either the RIAA or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission immediately. If you hear a wailing 'Ooops. I did it agaAAAIN!!' outside, do not open the door."
It could have been worse. He could have been caught smuggling atoms out of the place in his pockets.
"See? He's got atoms in his pockets! Call the local constabulary, Smithers!"
The China Syndrome
re*ac*tor by Neil Young
Duke Nukem Platinum Edition
Christmas at Ground Zero by Weird Al
The Atomic Cafe
Everyone's favorite video clip of Janet Jackson's right breast
With all the messages referring to Microsoft being involved in an incident that occured before Microsoft really existed as such, I wonder if they are also to blame for the 1908 Siberian blast.
More importantly, is Microsoft still operating under the directive of an old memo that said "send self-destructing OS to USSR" in which someone accidentally left the last two letters of USSR off? That could explain a lot.
It also doesn't explain how the kid grows up to be a penguin.
I carry a variety of flavors of Linux CDs in my car
I do that too. They make quite a racket when I play them in the Kenwood. However, I've found that with 800 watt sub-woofers, anything can sound quite impressive.
The only thing that girl's bandagewear could have possibly protected against was an NC-17 rating.
I'm sure there will be a movie about it. Bruce Willis the cab-driver and his girlfriend who wears nothing but ductape, all over again.
"You IDIOT! That was no whale you just harpooned. That was Baron Harkonnen!"
given that we probably know little about the surface of the comet....Given that it could be porous (or even lots of shatterable ice)
If the world works according to Bruckheimer rules, the impact of a harpoon is likely to make the comet go up like the Death Star.
Phase 2 will be sending Bruce Willis and the rest of his rigger pals in their awful corduroy space-suits to "kick comet ass" of all the ones found by Rosetta.
And while they add these features to cell phones, thay make them hard to use. I've got a recent Nokia phone where the buttons are in diagonal columns, instead of the standard straight-up-and-down, straight-across 4 x 3 array that has been around decades.
It is not just Nokia. There are portable phones that actually have the buttons in curving rows. Why make it harder to do the "dialing numbers" part of using a phone?
"send a battlefleet to Mars, on a tip that no-good-pirate types were resorting to OFF PLANET storage of illegally-downloaded mp3's."
"Due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire battle fleet was accidently swallowed by a small Senate sub-committee" (apologies, and thanks for all the fish, to Douglas Adams)
The history of space exploration is littered with bones.
Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a litterbug!
Ever since then, I won't wipe a drive unless all other drives are physically disconnected first. So yes, I am sure the Spirit team is confident
I kind of like the idea of "send original hard disk to Mars". This can make it hard to accidentally erase.
(AP) "Attemps to wipe the flash memory clean on the Spirit rover failed today, when it was found out that someone flipped those tiny plastic switches to "protect" on the SD memory cards that are serving the unit.
A press conference is expected tomorrow to announce sending someone to Mars to set the SD cards to allow erasing."
Spirit Got Lost - Mental As Anything
... but not too calm
somebody said that it's not a good time to sell
economy's down and your mind is unsound
and your body's an empty shell
my spirit got lost now something is missing
all the people round here are too bony for kissing
i was lying in bed when i woke up dead
i was cool
must've stolen my soul through a photograph
or a jungle voodoo charm
my spirit got lost now something is missing
all the people round here are too bony for kissing
we dance around the gravestones
and we drag the chains around
we clatter 'n clank 'n we chatter 'n skank
and when we get down it's into the ground
there'll always be a chair for you in the corner of my heart
a table for two for me and you for as long as we're apart
my spirit got lost now something is missing
all the people round here are too bony for kissing
we dance around the gravestones
and we drag the chains around
we clatter 'n clank 'n we chatter 'n skank
and when we get down it's into the ground
from cradle to grave then back to the cradle again
six hundred dumb creatures to make up the souls of ten men chorus
Once there comes about a major, significant videogame award event, watch for the "Oscar effect": they'll still be released around Xmas.
("There was a 'boss-key' which when pressed would display some random .C code. Microsoft made me remove that")
In Windows, due to the presence of frequent and random occurances of blue screens with crpytic messages, having a boss key is redundant.
Is this the one with the exploding headphones that can get detonated if you listen to unauthorized music files?
Considering the US government probably outsources most of this type of work
Now, if only it were outsourced to Finland:
"SECURITY ALERT - Your computer is running Windows. You are advised to upgrade to a version of Linux immediately. Sincerely, Linus."
How long before there are spams that LOOK like these official notices, with "click here to get rid of virus" links that go to those Norton Antivirus sales scams?
How long before the first one with a return address of "Tom Rigde" arrives in your inbox.
Now, if they could breed flowering potato plants that turn red in the presence of gold mines, we might have something here!