I know that you're Greg Smith now. That you drive a 1989 blue Toyota Corolla, you enjoy italian food, you make about 24,000 a year, live in the western half of the U.S, are currently dating a girl with dark hair, you are 28 years old, 6'3" tall, weigh 196 pounds, have a border collie named Sally, hate centipedes, drink mostly socially, haven't shaved today, and don't have a good socket set.
Yours Truly,
John Edwards
P.S. I don't need no stinking Google.
Re:What happens when he/she finds out?
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A search on what a particular person had searched for could be far more incriminating than most things you can find in a regular Google search.
that someone wouldn't do this. People have been talking about each other over the back fence since man could speak. Gossip is a daily ritual in every office, school and even church. The advent of 'reality-based' tv (which usually put people in situtions that are anything but real), x10 cameras, keyloggers and the like, only brings technology to the equation. People are still doing what they always did, though with an assumed anonymity that doesn't really exist.
Small towns are truly a place where everyone *wants* to know your business, and it is assumed that you will be forthcoming with details of any knowledge you have of activities of interest. I live in a small town (moved from a city) and refrain from such gossip.
Interestingly,(and somewhat obviously)the less that people know about you, the more interesting you seem. If someone really wants to know something about me, all they need to do is ask.
It seems that technology, designed to facilitate communication, is only training people to communicate in a more impersonal way. Little glowing screens and
and text messages, video phones, and what-have-you will not replace the immersion of face to face contact for an intimate relationship.
Besides, all that Google stuff about me having sex with midgets and pumpkins was taken totally out of context.
What? No DVD burners? Yet they got 10,000 DVDs. Where did those come from?
And if there were DVD-Rs there, did they count them in the CDR numbers?
Since DVD 18 can hold roughly 17 gigs, did they count that as 18+ burners?
When the RIAA reports these numbers, it makes me wonder how they do their taxes.
"Well, let's see. I gave a dollar to the kids in Ethiopia, and there are 3 million kids, so I'm going to write this off as the equivelent of 3 million dollars, because I don't know which kid is going to get it. Hmm, that sounds about right..."
and wear it all the time. I will fight against it every day and when I am old I will remove the suit and I will be unstoppable! You will worship me as a God! I, Maud Dib no longer needs the weirding device!
You might want to investigate a LG drive, I had one for about a year. You could probably find a 24x at Walmart for 50! bucks. Works great, supports overburning, and only gave me errors when I burned a XtraPersonal copy of "Wind Blows: Zamphir, Master of the Pan Flute" at max speed. (5-7 minutes)
My sources inform me that speeds of CDR drives will continue to mount, while the abillity of some of them to write a disk correctly will decline. The increase in burning speed is supported by the RIAA. They make $3.00 out of a pack of 50 CD media, on average.
It is for this reason that the RIAA *wants* you to burn as many CDs as possible. The more media you use, the more money they make. The 'coasters' you produce at these very higher speeds only puts more money in their pockets, since you will need to replace that coaster with another RIAA-supported CD-R.
This plan is insidious, and affects all those who burn CDs.
You can help by burning less CDs, by burning them only at 1x or 2x, taking care not to scratch them, using jewel cases, and only burning a CD when you have enough to fill one.
Together, we can stop supporting the terrorism of the RIAA!
Wesley could have saved it with Open Source!
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He would have installed Linux on the Borg Collective, and when they tried to install Interstellar Explorer, they'd set off a Blue Screen of Death and earth would have been safe!
Not only can we have secret trials, but we can change the charges around until we get the outcome we want! Now we can be the subject of surviellience with out a warrant, arrested for a classified reason, not get to see a lawyer or contact anyone, held for an indefinite amount of time, be termed as a 'enemy combatant' with no constitutional rights, be tried by a secret military tribunal, and if the charges don't stick, we can change them mid-trial.
I sure feel safer with the deck stacked.
Yes. I realize this is off-topic. Soon it won't be.
I have been working on a computer that consists only of rocks, grass, live insects (unharmed) and air. I have managed to get a web server running on it. Please be careful, don't wreck the enviroment!
Danny Dunn had a dragonfly made out of super light and tough plastic propelled by jets of air, and eyes that were hooked up to a helmet you put over your head. The helmet gave you a 280+/- degree view of your surroundings, and allowed you to hear what was going on in the vicinity. It was completely immersive and seamless to the user. (VR!)
A fine indepth post, sir. As I said, all from memory - and that memory was being challenged by food on the table. Having someone expand on your comments and doing it well...this is why I read/.;)
Disney happens to be one of the biggest miners of Public Domain works there is. Here is a very short list:
Treasure Planet - Treasure Island (duh)
Snow White - Grim
Pinocchio - Grim
Cinderella - Grim
Peter Pan
Sleeping Beauty - Grimm
The Jungle Book - Kipling
The Little Mermaid - Andersen
Beauty and the Beast
Alice in Wonderland - Carrol
I may be wrong on the authors (from memory) but those are all books in the Public Domain that have been hijacked by Disney, and are aggressively defended by them.
Do they have a book or something else for *sale*? It would seem to me that they would get some benefit out of reviewing so much, and giving everything high marks.
Perhaps they are review whores - trying to get their name out there to get a job, get published, or just the little ego boost provided by being famous in a small way.
I recall reading on some site (/.)? about a year+ ago that MS was working on the tablet PC, and that we would get a first hand example of how the marketing engine at Microsoft works. A product in search of a market. Slow ramp up of hype, a few prototypes leaked at shows, and then the big explosion of advertising.
I have yet to see what the Tablet PC does that hasn't already been addressed by another product, in many cases better. (ie. the Newton's handwriting recognition. Beos' BeIA wireless Webpad prototype.
I think that tech for the sake of tech is by definition - overrated. Some things are cool indeed, others are just depending on Madison Avenue to get you to want them.
I have yet to see much tech that would be useful beyond 'status' to most people.
I think the RIAA owes ME money for the CD-Rs that turned into coasters, backups, and frisbees.
Ironically, the RIAA assumes they have the copyright on everything. So if I buy CD-Rs to burn my own music on, I'm still paying them for the *privilege*.
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Yours Truly,
John Edwards
P.S. I don't need no stinking Google.
A search on what a particular person had searched for could be far more incriminating than most things you can find in a regular Google search.
Small towns are truly a place where everyone *wants* to know your business, and it is assumed that you will be forthcoming with details of any knowledge you have of activities of interest. I live in a small town (moved from a city) and refrain from such gossip.
Interestingly,(and somewhat obviously)the less that people know about you, the more interesting you seem. If someone really wants to know something about me, all they need to do is ask.
It seems that technology, designed to facilitate communication, is only training people to communicate in a more impersonal way. Little glowing screens and and text messages, video phones, and what-have-you will not replace the immersion of face to face contact for an intimate relationship.
Besides, all that Google stuff about me having sex with midgets and pumpkins was taken totally out of context.
And if there were DVD-Rs there, did they count them in the CDR numbers?
Since DVD 18 can hold roughly 17 gigs, did they count that as 18+ burners?
When the RIAA reports these numbers, it makes me wonder how they do their taxes.
"Well, let's see. I gave a dollar to the kids in Ethiopia, and there are 3 million kids, so I'm going to write this off as the equivelent of 3 million dollars, because I don't know which kid is going to get it. Hmm, that sounds about right..."
and wear it all the time. I will fight against it every day and when I am old I will remove the suit and I will be unstoppable! You will worship me as a God! I, Maud Dib no longer needs the weirding device!
You might want to investigate a LG drive, I had one for about a year. You could probably find a 24x at Walmart for 50! bucks. Works great, supports overburning, and only gave me errors when I burned a XtraPersonal copy of "Wind Blows: Zamphir, Master of the Pan Flute" at max speed. (5-7 minutes)
It is for this reason that the RIAA *wants* you to burn as many CDs as possible. The more media you use, the more money they make. The 'coasters' you produce at these very higher speeds only puts more money in their pockets, since you will need to replace that coaster with another RIAA-supported CD-R.
This plan is insidious, and affects all those who burn CDs.
You can help by burning less CDs, by burning them only at 1x or 2x, taking care not to scratch them, using jewel cases, and only burning a CD when you have enough to fill one.
Together, we can stop supporting the terrorism of the RIAA!
Good Luck!
I saw them *last night* while watching 'Taken'. Perhaps that's what's happened!
You carry on yarnin' like that sonny, and you ain't gonna be goin' to Heaven y'hear? Hyuk, hyuk.
He would have installed Linux on the Borg Collective, and when they tried to install Interstellar Explorer, they'd set off a Blue Screen of Death and earth would have been safe!
Sincerely,
Grizzly Adams
I sure feel safer with the deck stacked.
Yes. I realize this is off-topic. Soon it won't be.
I have been working on a computer that consists only of rocks, grass, live insects (unharmed) and air. I have managed to get a web server running on it. Please be careful, don't wreck the enviroment!
Danny Dunn had a dragonfly made out of super light and tough plastic propelled by jets of air, and eyes that were hooked up to a helmet you put over your head. The helmet gave you a 280+/- degree view of your surroundings, and allowed you to hear what was going on in the vicinity. It was completely immersive and seamless to the user. (VR!)
Pretty cool for 50s-early 60's tech. :)
that the loggers use Dells and all the tree sitters use Macs. What could that mean? I'll check back in 24.
I tried to record Farscape, and ended up with this.
Cmdr, you are a genius the likes of which the world hath not seen since DaVinci!
and the duplicates!
A fine indepth post, sir. As I said, all from memory - and that memory was being challenged by food on the table. Having someone expand on your comments and doing it well...this is why I read /. ;)
Treasure Planet - Treasure Island (duh)
Snow White - Grim
Pinocchio - Grim
Cinderella - Grim
Peter Pan
Sleeping Beauty - Grimm
The Jungle Book - Kipling
The Little Mermaid - Andersen
Beauty and the Beast
Alice in Wonderland - Carrol
I may be wrong on the authors (from memory) but those are all books in the Public Domain that have been hijacked by Disney, and are aggressively defended by them.
Funny.
Would she laugh after seeing your 'powerhose'?
I want my referral bonus!
Perhaps they are review whores - trying to get their name out there to get a job, get published, or just the little ego boost provided by being famous in a small way.
I have yet to see what the Tablet PC does that hasn't already been addressed by another product, in many cases better. (ie. the Newton's handwriting recognition. Beos' BeIA wireless Webpad prototype.
I think that tech for the sake of tech is by definition - overrated. Some things are cool indeed, others are just depending on Madison Avenue to get you to want them.
I have yet to see much tech that would be useful beyond 'status' to most people.
If we are already paying for it, why more anti-piracy legislation?
Get the people who are SELLING copies!
I think the RIAA owes ME money for the CD-Rs that turned into coasters, backups, and frisbees.
Ironically, the RIAA assumes they have the copyright on everything. So if I buy CD-Rs to burn my own music on, I'm still paying them for the *privilege*.