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  1. wanna know why? on The Music Biz Is the New Book Industry · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you get it. ive seen this type of stuff before. when i worked at my last job my employers used to seed the yahoo stock message boards with counter opinions, this is probably the same tactic. something as blatantly obvious as that would not be overlooked, if anything these posts are from music industry execs themselves in desperate attempts to change the opinions of the weakminded amongst us. theyre just like sexually frustrated geeks angry when they cant get laid. theyre pathetic really. They are thugs and this is the only thing they can do. lol

  2. sun heating up? interglacial? on Global Storm on Mars · · Score: 1

    first it was either tritan uranus's moon which started exhibiting signs of a global warming and now mars with its crazy global dust storms. the atmosphere is heating up and glaciers all over are melting--- hold on wait a minute, could it be we're entering a interglacial between ice ages? Maybe we'll see water on the surface of mars yet!

  3. Bert steganographic code to start killing kids? on Bert Is Evil · · Score: 1

    Scary idea. While theyre going over that al Qaeda video over and over trying to find secret messages Bert could be our messenger of death. Could mean anything from begin phase two to release the fatal childhood plague. The feds should be all over this.

    Steganography is the trojan horse of the 21st century and the only way to stop it is to block all communication of the war to the united states.

  4. steganography engines and bbs's on Net Taps Without Warrants? · · Score: 1

    Even better we need to learn to write protocols that run on top of other protocols.

    Build bbs style packet-based message systems that are hidden in mp3s.

    Encode many many layers within the internet's already existing foundation.

    Steganography engines are the wave of the future. Just like that website where you can turn any block of text into a spam message and then decode it out again. Imagine higher level programs handling all of this automatically. Forwarding so-called spam messages into its own folder to be decoded as a messageboard.

  5. all i want on First Factory Use Of 'Replicator' For Spare Parts · · Score: 0

    is a damn black cherry new york seltzer, let old unprofitable sodas live on in replication. give your kids a chance to taste crystal pepsi.

  6. Providian Visa. Do not fall for it! on What About "Smart" Credit Cards? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes the attractive transparent card with the smart chip on it http://www.providian.com/mysmartservices/index.htm
    looked like it would be a wonderful edition to the small collection of cards i rotate through my wallet over the months to build up an extensive credit history.

    The problem with this card is it seems the entire company and everything about it is entirely automated.

    I first received a call from them to activate the card from a very rude operator who demanded all this information about me which was entirely unnecessary and completely unrelated to the card. They also gave me a pathetic $1,000 limit making it the most useless card in my collection and I had cancelled a platinum discover card with an $8,000 limit for this stupid pretty-looking card.

    Over the following two months I was still on the mailinglist and received three more notices to signup for the card.I tried to then use the card by charging a chartitable donation and it appeared to go through at first until I went to some stores tried to buy an item and it didnt go through. So I called to have the card activated again and after the process was complete it STILL wasnt activated making a total of 2 times.

    At this point I was very frustrated so I tried to cancel it only to find absolutely every phone number was automated voicemail with no access to a human being and no option to cancel the card. There are multiple phone numbers which loop between each other so you can call one number and wind up selecting an option that will transfer you to one of the other numbers. I was just about to call the better business bureau when I FINALLY found an obscure number listed in a dark corner of their website and immediately cancelled it. Until Providian gets their act together AVOID THIS CARD. Besides Providian is already so nosy about all your personal details just to activate the card just think of how nosey they'll be when they finally activate the smart chip once enough get into circulation.

  7. why its simple on What Does Your Command Prompt Look Like? · · Score: 1

    @echo off
    cls
    echo this changes your prompt
    prompt $p$g

    ph34r my l33t batch 5k1llz

  8. How long until we see? on Killustrator Author Required to Pay Two Grand · · Score: 1

    Militaristic Open Source Terrorism much like the present Eco-Terrorists we see on the news. I mean its funny to joke about but there probably are people out there who WOULD like to shoot Bill Gates and burn down the Microsoft campus. I'm sure the killustrator (ironic) feels that way about Adobe right now.

    Remember that parody about that gun man in the news who shot up the computer company and someone made a story where he was yelling something about a cathedral and a bazaar.

    Confess to open source or be burned at the stake! :P

  9. You really want to fight the power? on Killustrator Author Required to Pay Two Grand · · Score: 1

    Post a ton of warez links for photoshop and premiere.

  10. dont worry about a thing on VA Linux Systems Leaving The Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    We'll pick up the slack for them :-)

  11. ...it will be okay on VA Linux Systems Leaving The Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    We'll pick up the slack for 'em. ;-)

  12. just like the dinosaurs on Capture MPEG From TiVo · · Score: 1

    all these monopolys getting larger and larger while open source is growing and evolving at its feet, the monopolys are merging and marging into fewer and fewer is this leading up to some new form between socialism and capitalism?

  13. All I can say is... on Apple Dropping CRTs for LCDs · · Score: 1

    Apple Dropping LSD? Tell me something I didnt know!

  14. Then i should expect a knock on my door on A Wireless Revolution From The Garage · · Score: 1

    any day now as I grow carnivorous plants in my bedroom. Its a eccentric hobby of mine.

  15. Those hippie ideals.. on How Corporate Lobbyists Colonized the Net · · Score: 1

    Are what the BBS scene was about, what the early scholastic, academic internet was about. The real problem comes from so many business people and fake computer people such as MCSE's who rushed in with the money.

    DO US ALL A FAVOR... LEAVE!
    We were here before you and we'll be here after you have gone onto the next cash cow you parasites.

    Oh no! My dotcom has crashed! Abandon the host! You have tons of certifications but not a technical bone in your body. What? You were an anthropology major? Just leave, please. I'm asking nicely.

    All I can do is have a hearty chuckle because they rushed in thinking they were going to get rich quick, that this new economy and technology was going to make them all billionaires and it all turns out to be the antithesis of capitalism with the GPL and napster. Thank god for Richard Stallman.

    So go ahead mod me down for supporting Katz, see if i care.

  16. i know what you mean on Why 2002 Will Be Better Than 2001 · · Score: 1

    the dim flourescents, the grey cubicle walls and bone chilling air conditioning. This is sensory deprivation.

    We work so hard for our homes but dont make enough to actually live in them. We just sort of visit them every night for a few hours.

    There has to be a better way, not everyone can be rich. I know this sounds so Fight Club but its true. All I feel like doing is buying a sailboat, have it shipped down to the blue clear waters caribbean, the warm sunlight (something i rarely see anymore) and sail between islands fishing and harvesting live rock to sell to marine aquarium stores.

  17. Microsoft Skynet (TM) on Hailstorm: Changing Society's Privacy Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    Hailstorm begins to learn, at a geometric rate.

    It becomes self-aware at 2:14 am, eastern time, August 29th.

    In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

  18. this was already predicted on MS Passport: "All Your Bits Are Belong To Us" · · Score: 1

    Coming soon to your wallet, Microsoft Universal Citizen Id Cards. Well, not yet but read this: http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/8563.html

    After reading up on the Microsoft Hailstorm crap I'm beginning to believe it.

    Scary stuff huh?

  19. you think things are expensive now, heh just wait on Microsoft Turning Screws on Customers · · Score: 1

    http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/8563.html

    "The rug is pulled out from underneath high-paid help desk and sysadmin positions because everything is centralized and run at Microsoft. MBA's rejoice and switch over to the new model in droves."

    now theres some creepy stuff.

  20. hah you're right i entirely forgot about lantastic on Where Is The Innovation? · · Score: 2

    I guess you're right it is an evolution. So my question remains, when are BBS's coming back? Smaller groups of people get more done more efficently than larger groups. Its inevitable, just as small tribes in south america split when the number reaches somewhere between 7 and 15.

  21. get lost yuri on Where Is The Innovation? · · Score: 1

    had he patented it it would have never developed like it has. what he did was a very honorable thing.

  22. the industry is being infiltrated by idiot MCSEs on Where Is The Innovation? · · Score: 2

    I'll tell you why. sure this is a rant but just look at how the masses are pouring in from everywhere, dropping their existing majors so they can cash-in on the computer industry. It makes me sick. Sooner or later, sooner I hope they will realize this isnt something that can just be learned in school and you never have to learn again.

    This is more than a career this is a lifestyle.

    You will be learning for the REST OF YOUR LIFE.

    Alot of people joining this industry now dont realize this and its going to bite them in the ass later when they find out.

    You cant go out and take 1 unix course or get an MCSE and automatically youre some bigshot computer guy. If innovation is being stifled by anything its the infiltration by idiots.

    Oh and a correction: you should have said no innovation since napster came out because peer to peer filesharing is pretty revolutionary and innovative. I just want to see more programs piggyback on top of the huge existing networks now like some sort of packet based bbs with news that would exist over peer to peer.

  23. how about this? on Napster Traffic Drops · · Score: 1

    m.adonna
    b.ritany s.pears

    or something like

    b.spears
    c.aguilera
    w.a.yankovic

  24. isnt this the size of a pcmcia card? on Paper Phones · · Score: 1

    Imagine throwaway pcmcia cards for wireless connectivity.

  25. provide almost nothing yet get tons of hits?? on Bad News from Yahoo · · Score: 1

    two words:

    goat sex

    Imagine the irony of goatse.cx being more profitable than Yahoo!