Oh, Yeah! My wife is going to let me bring one of those into the house!
Well, not everybody is a whipped-up husband. Some of us are hopelessly single losers who can't get any unless it involves a financial transaction so we get plenty of space to fill as we see fit.
Now, all we need to find is a way to smuggle this monster into the basement without mom finding out.
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So this guy gets arrested. But not for sending spam, but for stealing credit cards to fund his spamming operations. Also for identity theft and fraud. Still legal to spam, it seems.
I'll probably sound like an old fogey myself. But basic tools have their place and people should learn how to use them. I'm not saying that students should be learning slide rules but have you ever seen someone stuck over a simple math operation when their calculators croaked?
That's the reason sailors are tought to use sextants and dead reckoning when GPS makes it so much easier.
Groundless, yes. Clueless, I don't think so. They are simply playing dumb and hoping to stir the hive to get some honey (wich might very well end in them getting stung).
Some believe that thieves are the best security advisors. This guy probably knows all about spam and anti-spamming methods, and if he doesn't, he probably has a tech person who does.
And if, as a lawyer, he seriously expect this lawsuit to prosper, he is even more incompetent than Lionel Hutz (yes, this is a gratuitous Simpsons reference).
Yeah I was gonna say. What in the hell happened in that timeframe? All of a sudden T&J are collaborating against common foes!?
Low budget reasons and the fear over the violence of the cartoon. I'm a *huge* Tom and Jerry fan, but every time I glimpse "The Calypso Cat" I feel like drinking poison. A quick cure for that is, another re-run of "Texas Tom".
For an excellent article on the subject, head over to this article.
WTF? Since when did the dialog from some lame ass movie become scientific fact?
Ok, this reeks of troll but I'll bite.
Nowhere did I state that it was a scientific fact. I'm merely expressing my opinion thru the words of a character in a popular movie.
Human beings developed civilization and technology because they can communicate with and work with each other!
And your point is...
Compare the action of a cow herd to that of a basketball team or a squad of soldiers and you'll see the difference between mindless individualism and thoughtful collective action.
Neither soldiers nor basketball players take a vote regarding strategies, that's what their leaders are for, you know, officers, team captains and coaches. If you don't like how they perform, you remove them. Otherwise you shut up and put up.
When was the last entertaining Bugs Bunny cartoon made? Around 1960 or so?
I hear you, man! From the article, some of the reasons for the change:
a poorer quality of animation, and a greater emphasis on family time.
Please! The quality of cartoons took a huge dive in the 70's and 80's and those who think that the the quality of animation is poorer today, is looking at the past with rosy colored glasses.
Yogi Bear, Godzilla (ack!),Snagglepus, Atomic Ant, the Tom and Jerry from the age (the oroginals are *classic*) and the many derivatives and re-packaging such as The Jetsons, Galaxy Goofups gave the impression that Hanna Barbera had a crap factory somewhere.
But my main peeve was the cartoons that ended on a "moral footnote": He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats, G.I. Joe, Silverhawks...
Plus, who needs saturday morning cartoons when you have 24 hours toon channels, such as Cartoon Network and Fox Kids.
.... Courage the Cowardly Dog, now *that*'s funny.
Not to mention getting stolen - the car or just the CDs
Ah... painful memories...
I had to train my dog to sleep in the car to keep it from being stolen for the third time. Now the car smells so bad, no thief would ever consider breaking in...
When in a democracy, more than 80% of the people support something then by definition it should become legal.
Hell, no! To paraphrase Agent K. in MIB, "A person is smart, people are dumb" (or somesuch). IMHO, this is a great argument for having a representative democratic republic, instead of a straight democracy.
Plus, how do you apply this formula? 80% of the total population? 80% of the affected population (p2p users)?
Do 80% of cable tv users think they should be getting free cable? Do 80% of those who steal cable think they should be getting free cable?
In my defense, all I can say is I was hurriedly reading and posting like a thief in the night. For some reason I'm less worried of being spotted looking at porn when I'm in the office
I should also have seen that penis joke coming from a mile away.
Well, we'll just remove \Windows\Fonts to a separate volume... Wait! Drive letters don't do that!
You can always mount an ntfs partition inside a folder in another ntfs partition.
I have to run an app that, for some reason, has the log dir hardcoded. When the fs was getting full, I just added a new drive and mounted it into the appropiate dir.
And, yes, drive letters are a holdover that should have gone away a while ago. I don't remember using the "b:" drive since my "a:" was a 5.25 incher (and Sierra games came in, like, 11 floppies).
Ever watch an episode of the A-Team recently? Murdoch can hide in an oil barrel in the middle of a firefight with machine guns and come out unscathed.
And he's not alone: in every episode, more ammo is fired than in the entire Vientam war, and yet nobody dies.
I call it "The G.I. Joe effect". Ever notice how many Cobra planes were shot down in every episode and yet every single pilot managed to bail out safely?
For a show based on military action figures it was severely lacking in the casualty department.
Nope. I don't know if it was available in the US back then. In Latin America, however it was available as "Cosmic Cat" back in the 80s. In the late 90s they did re-run it with the name Doraemon.
Lots of japanese comics over here back then with slightly adjusted names: Saint Seyia (don't remember the year) was "Zodiac Knights", Captain Tsubasa (still playing) was "Super Champions". Dragonball was, well, Dragonball, but before "Z" Goku's name was translated as "Zero"... don't know why.
Mazinger was *huge* here. Lots of fans. Other robot comics were also available (Voltron, etc.).
Several "girly" animes also. Candy is the only one that comes to mind.
...the current makers of Tom and Jerry for everything.
Not to mention the out-of-ideas makers of every cartoon today. Why is there a "kids" version of cartoon classics that pretty much recycles the old plots?
There's Tom and Jerry Kids, Flinstones Kids, A Pup named Scooby, Tiny Toons and so on. They are far too cute and unfunny.
I positively adored Tom and Jerry. The original version. Then the producers decided that it was too violent and watered it down to hell. For an excelent article on T&J check this out.
my younger teen years being dominated by the internet on saturdays
You whippersnapper!! Get off my lawn!!
My all time favorite cartoon when I was a kid (*way* back in the 80s) was Doraemon.
The internet didn't ruin it, but when I downloaded a chapter "to relive old days" I found it so dumb I couldn't help but wonder wether Barney would have been my favorite had it been available back then.
And if you MUST use Internet Explorer, you can always try Panicware's POP-UP Stopper, free edition.
No complains here with my system, except it used to crash Kazaa sometimes when that bloody Bonzi Buddy tried to pop up. The solution: switch to kazaa lite.
Slashdot Mirror
imagine a 'flat' Gamecube logo ;)
A GameSquare? Ouch! Sorry, couldn't resist. Please mod down accordingly...
Especially Freenet.
Yup. Untraceable, but probably useless if you want to use machines behind nat/firewall.
Maybe the worms could even try to keep track of each other, forming their own network, in a very low-key, low bandwidth, gnutella kind of way.
This was the idea behind the Curious Yellow concept. It was featured on Slashdot a while ago.
Oh, Yeah! My wife is going to let me bring one of those into the house!
Well, not everybody is a whipped-up husband. Some of us are hopelessly single losers who can't get any unless it involves a financial transaction so we get plenty of space to fill as we see fit.
Now, all we need to find is a way to smuggle this monster into the basement without mom finding out.
So this guy gets arrested. But not for sending spam, but for stealing credit cards to fund his spamming operations. Also for identity theft and fraud. Still legal to spam, it seems.
Odd, http://www.voyages-sncf.com has been working fine for me with Mozilla & Konqueror for more than a year...
Server too busy
Sorry, your request cannot be serviced at this time. Please try again later.
Great. Now we slashdotted them. Time to dust-off the minitel... What do you mean? It only works in France?
No mention whatsoever of BASIC or Logo. Yes! At least he spared my languages of choice.
Do you realise you sound like an old fogey?
I'll probably sound like an old fogey myself. But basic tools have their place and people should learn how to use them. I'm not saying that students should be learning slide rules but have you ever seen someone stuck over a simple math operation when their calculators croaked?
That's the reason sailors are tought to use sextants and dead reckoning when GPS makes it so much easier.
Talk about clueless and groundless.
Groundless, yes. Clueless, I don't think so. They are simply playing dumb and hoping to stir the hive to get some honey (wich might very well end in them getting stung).
Some believe that thieves are the best security advisors. This guy probably knows all about spam and anti-spamming methods, and if he doesn't, he probably has a tech person who does.
And if, as a lawyer, he seriously expect this lawsuit to prosper, he is even more incompetent than Lionel Hutz (yes, this is a gratuitous Simpsons reference).
Yeah I was gonna say. What in the hell happened in that timeframe? All of a sudden T&J are collaborating against common foes!?
Low budget reasons and the fear over the violence of the cartoon. I'm a *huge* Tom and Jerry fan, but every time I glimpse "The Calypso Cat" I feel like drinking poison. A quick cure for that is, another re-run of "Texas Tom".
For an excellent article on the subject, head over to this article.
WTF? Since when did the dialog from some lame ass movie become scientific fact?
Ok, this reeks of troll but I'll bite.
Nowhere did I state that it was a scientific fact. I'm merely expressing my opinion thru the words of a character in a popular movie.
Human beings developed civilization and technology because they can communicate with and work with each other!
And your point is...
Compare the action of a cow herd to that of a basketball team or a squad of soldiers and you'll see the difference between mindless individualism and thoughtful collective action.
Neither soldiers nor basketball players take a vote regarding strategies, that's what their leaders are for, you know, officers, team captains and coaches. If you don't like how they perform, you remove them. Otherwise you shut up and put up.
When was the last entertaining Bugs Bunny cartoon made? Around 1960 or so?
I hear you, man! From the article, some of the reasons for the change:
a poorer quality of animation, and a greater emphasis on family time.
Please! The quality of cartoons took a huge dive in the 70's and 80's and those who think that the the quality of animation is poorer today, is looking at the past with rosy colored glasses.
Yogi Bear, Godzilla (ack!),Snagglepus, Atomic Ant, the Tom and Jerry from the age (the oroginals are *classic*) and the many derivatives and re-packaging such as The Jetsons, Galaxy Goofups gave the impression that Hanna Barbera had a crap factory somewhere.
But my main peeve was the cartoons that ended on a "moral footnote": He-Man, She-Ra, Thundercats, G.I. Joe, Silverhawks...
Plus, who needs saturday morning cartoons when you have 24 hours toon channels, such as Cartoon Network and Fox Kids.
.... Courage the Cowardly Dog, now *that*'s funny.
Not to mention getting stolen - the car or just the CDs
Ah... painful memories...
I had to train my dog to sleep in the car to keep it from being stolen for the third time. Now the car smells so bad, no thief would ever consider breaking in...
When in a democracy, more than 80% of the people support something then by definition it should become legal.
Hell, no! To paraphrase Agent K. in MIB, "A person is smart, people are dumb" (or somesuch). IMHO, this is a great argument for having a representative democratic republic, instead of a straight democracy.
Plus, how do you apply this formula? 80% of the total population? 80% of the affected population (p2p users)?
Do 80% of cable tv users think they should be getting free cable? Do 80% of those who steal cable think they should be getting free cable?
Well, the article did say that it was more of a performance art piece that a scientific experiment.
Doh! Mea culpa, mea culpa.
In my defense, all I can say is I was hurriedly reading and posting like a thief in the night. For some reason I'm less worried of being spotted looking at porn when I'm in the office
I should also have seen that penis joke coming from a mile away.
Well, we'll just remove \Windows\Fonts to a separate volume... Wait! Drive letters don't do that!
You can always mount an ntfs partition inside a folder in another ntfs partition.
I have to run an app that, for some reason, has the log dir hardcoded. When the fs was getting full, I just added a new drive and mounted it into the appropiate dir.
And, yes, drive letters are a holdover that should have gone away a while ago. I don't remember using the "b:" drive since my "a:" was a 5.25 incher (and Sierra games came in, like, 11 floppies).
Especially, I try to discover if they were ever caught masturbating. The last thing I want to do is hire a masturbator.
"Self motivator" with "a lot of manual hability". Funny, a lot of companies value that.
Ever watch an episode of the A-Team recently? Murdoch can hide in an oil barrel in the middle of a firefight with machine guns and come out unscathed.
And he's not alone: in every episode, more ammo is fired than in the entire Vientam war, and yet nobody dies.
I call it "The G.I. Joe effect". Ever notice how many Cobra planes were shot down in every episode and yet every single pilot managed to bail out safely?
For a show based on military action figures it was severely lacking in the casualty department.
Nope. I don't know if it was available in the US back then. In Latin America, however it was available as "Cosmic Cat" back in the 80s. In the late 90s they did re-run it with the name Doraemon.
Lots of japanese comics over here back then with slightly adjusted names: Saint Seyia (don't remember the year) was "Zodiac Knights", Captain Tsubasa (still playing) was "Super Champions". Dragonball was, well, Dragonball, but before "Z" Goku's name was translated as "Zero"... don't know why.
Mazinger was *huge* here. Lots of fans. Other robot comics were also available (Voltron, etc.).
Several "girly" animes also. Candy is the only one that comes to mind.
...the current makers of Tom and Jerry for everything.
Not to mention the out-of-ideas makers of every cartoon today. Why is there a "kids" version of cartoon classics that pretty much recycles the old plots?
There's Tom and Jerry Kids, Flinstones Kids, A Pup named Scooby, Tiny Toons and so on. They are far too cute and unfunny.
I positively adored Tom and Jerry. The original version. Then the producers decided that it was too violent and watered it down to hell. For an excelent article on T&J check this out.
my younger teen years being dominated by the internet on saturdays
You whippersnapper!! Get off my lawn!!
My all time favorite cartoon when I was a kid (*way* back in the 80s) was Doraemon.
The internet didn't ruin it, but when I downloaded a chapter "to relive old days" I found it so dumb I couldn't help but wonder wether Barney would have been my favorite had it been available back then.
get me one of those keychains too!
You mean the ones where you whistle and they would answer? I remember them from back in the 80's and GOD, they were anoying.
The even had a place in a Bond movie ("The Living Daylights" I believe).
And if you MUST use Internet Explorer, you can always try Panicware's POP-UP Stopper, free edition.
No complains here with my system, except it used to crash Kazaa sometimes when that bloody Bonzi Buddy tried to pop up. The solution: switch to kazaa lite.
... and a mousewheel, and window keys and, and...
oh yeah, and ps/2 ports so i can plug my kvm.
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