Fraud related - I am getting an increasing number of Nigerian Bank scam mails, the ones where they say they need a foreign bank account to deposit a few million dollars and that they'll give you half. Do any of the enforcement agencies go out and get these guys? I hope so, coz if any of these agencies are hiring I'll do it for free.
society meltdown - no matter where you go, there is someone out there that will do what you least expect for money, and that means absolutely anything.
flourishing ecosystem - having said that, this brings us to the new breed of low lives that will do anything for money, maybe an old ecology of ppl using new methods - no matter how much other ppl have to suffer for them to consider themselves 'successful'.
Unfortunately the internet is now where they breed and this is a complete abuse of the technology that was there for totally opposite reasons.
#kernelnewbies and #linuxaus have already moved to irc.oftc.net dunno of others. ppl have just been sick and tired of global notices which apparently can be switched off now. I still think some ppl are over reading into the whole issue, seriously, it's just a freakin irc server - you get on, you talk/idle on the channels you like - and you leave, how it operates should be an abstraction, and your not forced to make a donation. Basically, it is like going to a casino:P There has also been an apparent witchhunt after lilo (the maintainer) and so what if he pissed a few dollars up the wall, and if that were so that is up the the authorities to investigate (although the number of fraudulent charities there are in the U.S and elsewhere is too difficult to keep up with) I don't know what opn/freenode is going to do once the rats starting leaving the sinking ship but I think everyone should just calm down a bit.
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Okay, this has nothing to do with the Cold War but countries must find it amusing using ppl as political pawns and putting ppl away to make examples for the rest of us. The one thing to never become in your life is an example used by any govt. Who know, perhaps the U.S will put something on the bargaining table for the Russians and both could benefit somehow?
LOL, yeah I know the ones. I'm not the person that was stopping Cassini from leaving the earth because of a chance it might blow up and radiate the planet, those ppl are not scientists but greenpeace pests that forbid the human race from developing any further. I guess my plunder comment came from watching 'Total Recall' recently but it was half a sarcastic comment.
no.. we _should go there but before we do the unanswered questions need to be answered first. Before the planet is contanminated and we start growing tomatoes there etc, we need to explore the possibility of life before we got there. Sending a decontaminated lander there is okay, but sending a canister full of ashes is a potential disaster.
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I knew I wasn't imagning this -
NASA is considering a plan to crash Galileo at the end of its mission into Jupiter to avoid the possibility of the satellite contaminating possible life on Europa. (July 4, 2000) Nasa Probes Crashing Explorer
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Don't space agencies forbid any form of bacteria from leaving the earth and being placed on other planets/moons? Won't that 'contaminate' the planet mars? I guess it's a matter of time before man gets there and plunders it anyway.
From a geologists point of view the rock is nice and for the rest of us, it is nice and they _are rare, but lately the marketing campaign has shifted to include that 'no ppl were harmed or killed in the extraction of this diamond by any armed rebels'
Surely redhat 6.x 7.x is easier to install than any windows. I've found installations of windows that the average luser wouldn't know how to fix the problem, specifying drivers in windows, windows/system, windows/system/precopy _on installation although with any linux it is assumed that someone knows what swap and root partitions are.
how is jibberish a language? Most of the bible is written in codes so what you read is not what it seems, 'speaking in tongues' _is not a gift and is _not real but a state of mind.
*Phew*, for a second there I thought it was the other type of 'speaking in tongues' also referred to as glossolalia which it a totally bogus. If someone comes up to you asking you to attend there church group to learn how to speak in tongues tell them to get lost.
One of the only things preventing me from buying a DVD is the fact that some media companies like to make you watch FBI warnings, trailers, and ads before allowing you to view the actual movie
Yes and that has been going on for as far as I can remember, not a DVD thing.
So because a couple of ppl want to achieve some stupid getrichquick goal the rest of the world has to suffer, sounds like a dictatorship almost. Other than world wars and epidemics has there been an event where so many ppl have been effected because of so few ppl?
It also seems that the way the spammers are making money is by selling a few cds with millions of email addresses which multiplies the problem.
I can't believe I'm responding either, but no matter what the delay ppl are still going to post. First posts usually dissapear after 5 mins anyway with more important stuff
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Fraud related - I am getting an increasing number of Nigerian Bank scam mails, the ones where they say they need a foreign bank account to deposit a few million dollars and that they'll give you half. Do any of the enforcement agencies go out and get these guys? I hope so, coz if any of these agencies are hiring I'll do it for free.
society meltdown - no matter where you go, there is someone out there that will do what you least expect for money, and that means absolutely anything.
flourishing ecosystem - having said that, this brings us to the new breed of low lives that will do anything for money, maybe an old ecology of ppl using new methods - no matter how much other ppl have to suffer for them to consider themselves 'successful'.
Unfortunately the internet is now where they breed and this is a complete abuse of the technology that was there for totally opposite reasons.
Decent broadband should hit down under, not that far away from the south pole.
It surprises me how many times ppl go off on net searches to find out something when the documentation was right on there hard disk
#kernelnewbies and #linuxaus have already moved to irc.oftc.net dunno of others. ppl have just been sick and tired of global notices which apparently can be switched off now. I still think some ppl are over reading into the whole issue, seriously, it's just a freakin irc server - you get on, you talk/idle on the channels you like - and you leave, how it operates should be an abstraction, and your not forced to make a donation. Basically, it is like going to a casino :P There has also been an apparent witchhunt after lilo (the maintainer) and so what if he pissed a few dollars up the wall, and if that were so that is up the the authorities to investigate (although the number of fraudulent charities there are in the U.S and elsewhere is too difficult to keep up with) I don't know what opn/freenode is going to do once the rats starting leaving the sinking ship but I think everyone should just calm down a bit.
-FUNDRAISING- [Global Notice] Hi all. Just a reminder: we're still in the middle of our initial fundraising campaign. Current total is $1,219.48. OPN is a service of Peer-Directed Projects Center, a new Texas non-profit corporation whose application for US 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status is in process. There are about about 6,316 clients on the network at the moment, and we are 1,189 $20 contributions away from our goal. Please help us if you can.
Okay, this has nothing to do with the Cold War but countries must find it amusing using ppl as political pawns and putting ppl away to make examples for the rest of us. The one thing to never become in your life is an example used by any govt. Who know, perhaps the U.S will put something on the bargaining table for the Russians and both could benefit somehow?
LOL, yeah I know the ones. I'm not the person that was stopping Cassini from leaving the earth because of a chance it might blow up and radiate the planet, those ppl are not scientists but greenpeace pests that forbid the human race from developing any further. I guess my plunder comment came from watching 'Total Recall' recently but it was half a sarcastic comment.
no.. we _should go there but before we do the unanswered questions need to be answered first. Before the planet is contanminated and we start growing tomatoes there etc, we need to explore the possibility of life before we got there. Sending a decontaminated lander there is okay, but sending a canister full of ashes is a potential disaster.
I knew I wasn't imagning this -
NASA is considering a plan to crash Galileo at the end of its mission into Jupiter to avoid the possibility of the satellite contaminating possible life on Europa. (July 4, 2000) Nasa Probes Crashing Explorer
Don't space agencies forbid any form of bacteria from leaving the earth and being placed on other planets/moons? Won't that 'contaminate' the planet mars? I guess it's a matter of time before man gets there and plunders it anyway.
From a geologists point of view the rock is nice and for the rest of us, it is nice and they _are rare, but lately the marketing campaign has shifted to include that 'no ppl were harmed or killed in the extraction of this diamond by any armed rebels'
Surely redhat 6.x 7.x is easier to install than any windows. I've found installations of windows that the average luser wouldn't know how to fix the problem, specifying drivers in windows, windows/system, windows/system/precopy _on installation although with any linux it is assumed that someone knows what swap and root partitions are.
how is jibberish a language? Most of the bible is written in codes so what you read is not what it seems, 'speaking in tongues' _is not a gift and is _not real but a state of mind.
it was all talk no action anyway
*Phew*, for a second there I thought it was the other type of 'speaking in tongues' also referred to as glossolalia which it a totally bogus. If someone comes up to you asking you to attend there church group to learn how to speak in tongues tell them to get lost.
Yes and that has been going on for as far as I can remember, not a DVD thing.
Why is that a troll comment? If you think that is something I would do your incorrect.
What is worth more, wasting someone else's paper or flooding someone else's inbox?
So because a couple of ppl want to achieve some stupid getrichquick goal the rest of the world has to suffer, sounds like a dictatorship almost. Other than world wars and epidemics has there been an event where so many ppl have been effected because of so few ppl?
It also seems that the way the spammers are making money is by selling a few cds with millions of email addresses which multiplies the problem.
http://web.archive.org/web/20011130142504/http://w ww.sapdb.org/history.htm
I can't believe I'm responding either, but no matter what the delay ppl are still going to post. First posts usually dissapear after 5 mins anyway with more important stuff
stupid slashdot doesn't let you post for 20 seconds till after the story has been posted, I posted on 19
Isn't he average network bandwidth for a user at home in India like 28.8kbps??
first POST!!!