Unfortunately they can't be marked as a joke. Somebody has patented that idea of 'a selection of words and phrases put together so as to cause humour' and therefore they would be in breach of the patent.
The funny thing is that the original applicant only sent in joke as a joke...
The best way to force change is to do it. Similarly, the best way to crash a server is to post a link to it from the/. homepage. Now, apply the Slashdot effect to changing it to 'copy prevention' or 'copy restriction' rather than 'copy protec--n' (don't say it, and it won't be said... geddit?).
So, if Slashdot and other media sources calls it 'copy prevention', then the power of language (which is a very strong power...
I saw that on some awful old auctions site. They basically extended it 10 minutes if you tried to bid in the last 10 minutes. It worked really well that I can't remember the name of the site it was on.
So you are peeved that I'm not looking at your pop ups?
I'm running a/. style communal web log. Me and my bretheren have hundreds of sites to check through on an almost daily basis. Treat your visitors like this, and you won't be getting a link...
What next - TV companies coming round and smashing up your telly if they found you didn't look at the screen during their ad.
I feel like going and removing the banners from my site in rage!
I use a Wiki at home to keep all my thoughts and work organised. It's a bit like a simplified and far better version of Outlook. Let's see - I've been using it for about a month, and the MySQL tables currently stand at... 319Kb! Shows you how many good ideas and thoughts I've had recently.
It's quite a blow when the average porno JPEG takes up more HDD space than all your ideas for the previous month.
Why not try and get the distributed.net lot on your side? They are a bit short on encryption-related projects at moment. It would make a nice distraction before getting on with RC-5/72...
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Wasn't this the idea of PICS? And look what a great success that was.
How about the old adage...
If you don't want people to read it, don't put it on the Internet.
And your more likely to see pigs fly than BT providing working services.
Aditionally, your unlikely to get access unless your in an urban area. (I'm still on 56k... and I only live an hours train from London)
It's called 'meta-complaining' - complaining about others complaining. What a bunch of twats meta-complainers are, eh?
Our 'technology' college doesn't have IPv6. There's a suprise. It's good, and therefore we don't have it.
Don't worry. He's got your IP address...
Unfortunately they can't be marked as a joke. Somebody has patented that idea of 'a selection of words and phrases put together so as to cause humour' and therefore they would be in breach of the patent.
The funny thing is that the original applicant only sent in joke as a joke...
"With AOL, piracy is easy! No wonder we're number one!"
joe6pk@aol.com: "Why would we need your music CD's, Hilary? AOL give them to us for free."
"Adventure without risk is Disneyland." - Generation X, Douglas Coupland.
I found that the Special Extended Edition of the Lord of the Rings film kills any time you have left. Give it a try.
The best way to force change is to do it. Similarly, the best way to crash a server is to post a link to it from the /. homepage. Now, apply the Slashdot effect to changing it to 'copy prevention' or 'copy restriction' rather than 'copy protec--n' (don't say it, and it won't be said... geddit?).
So, if Slashdot and other media sources calls it 'copy prevention', then the power of language (which is a very strong power...
I saw that on some awful old auctions site. They basically extended it 10 minutes if you tried to bid in the last 10 minutes. It worked really well that I can't remember the name of the site it was on.
Pretty true: Although the Mac has gone up at least one star since OS X was released.
So you are peeved that I'm not looking at your pop ups?
/. style communal web log. Me and my bretheren have hundreds of sites to check through on an almost daily basis. Treat your visitors like this, and you won't be getting a link...
I'm running a
What next - TV companies coming round and smashing up your telly if they found you didn't look at the screen during their ad.
I feel like going and removing the banners from my site in rage!
One organisation? That sucks. We need a peer-to-peer distributed method for cataloguing spam...
How about we create a Napster clone that has a bunch of master server lists and 'Ultrapeers'.
No, scratch that. We could use email!
Who wants to sign up to this peer-to-peer distrubted spam catalogue? AOL or Hotmail account reccomended, buy not required.
I use a Wiki at home to keep all my thoughts and work organised. It's a bit like a simplified and far better version of Outlook. Let's see - I've been using it for about a month, and the MySQL tables currently stand at... 319Kb! Shows you how many good ideas and thoughts I've had recently.
It's quite a blow when the average porno JPEG takes up more HDD space than all your ideas for the previous month.
Anyone play Discworld 2 on PC or PSX?
D'ya remember 'Skazz' from the High Energy Facility?
"They're not ants, they're bugs!"
"You've like, de-bugged it, man... You've broken it!"
Why not try and get the distributed.net lot on your side? They are a bit short on encryption-related projects at moment. It would make a nice distraction before getting on with RC-5/72...
I guess that this means that the RIAA should sue microsoft for allowing me to share music.
That would be one of the few lawsuits where I'd want them both to lose!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
Still, it's good that they did this.
On http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickonli ne.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=3
They have a link saying "You can read about his new book, 'Just For Fun', at Slashdot". Unfortunately, they've linked to ThinkGeek.com, not Slashdot.
Whoops. And the BBC are waffling on about being techno-literate all the time.
*BSD is dead.
Even worse than that, the infernal Comet Cursor...
[i]"I would have thought it would actually make more sense, and be cheaer, to put the single onto a tiny device with a $10 mp3 decoder in it"[/i]
;)
Two problems...
1. Record companies rarely have an IQ larger than that of a failed sports teacher, and that's why their idea of security mainly revolves around glue.
2. MP3's are bad, and if you use MP3's your an evil communist.