We may not have to worry about the King of England pushing us around, but we do have to worry about Terrorists. Can you imagine how well the 9/11 hijackings would have gone if there would have been even half a dozen people on those airplane packing?
Sure, the terrorists might have had ingrams, but can you imagine them trying to secure an airplane when six passengers, all from different angles with with cover are trying to shoot them?
I for one welcome our Stolen Carriage Overlords, and would like to remind them that as a member of the slashdot community I can be useful in rounding up slashbots to pull carriages in their underground carriage caverns.
Or what if it becomes possible to 'spam' the glasses with either coke / pepsi advertising, or even worse. Can you imaging if suddenly you started getting ads for Herbal Viagra before you eyes?
if we had gas prices rise to $5 a gallon, that would be the BEST THING EVER to happen to our country. People would stop buying gas-guzzling SUVs and sports cars. People would actually think about carpooling instead of everyone driving a two ton behemoth to work everyday. People would start using Amtrack to get to Grandma's house instead of driving. Us fat lazy Americans need to wake up and lose our "Well, if I can afford to pay $2 a gallon for gas, why shouldn't I be environmentally irresponsible and Drive my Suburban to work". Right now we are at the mercy of OPEC, a foreign entity. If they decide they want to increase their profits and raise the price of oil, there's NOTHING we can do about it besides sit there and take it. We need to break our dependence on Fossil Fuels fast.
I am unable to have children, by your definition that makes me dead.
You personally may not be able to have children for whatever reason, but others like you can reproduce. In this case, if we declare the computer program to be alive, it can reproduce itself (IE, it can install itself on other computers). If we declare the hardware to be alive, then a machine like it has to be able to produce it.
The true corporate slogan for all corporations is "Profit". Some dress it up differently, some try to hide it behind some abstract notion of customer satisifaction, but it all comes down to one thing: "Profit".
Everytime I hear the Feminazis bitching about that on our campus, I have to resist the urge to blugeon them. It's not because women are discriminated against. If anything, they're discriminated for. When's the last time you heard about a men's only scholarship, or an engineering society that's only for men? They'd get hit with discrimination suits left and right. Put things the other way, and suddenly you have an 'equalizor' or something of the sort.
The reason that women don't earn that much is that there is an entire generation of women that are in their 40s or so now that legitimatly never got the chance to go to college, or had to stop working to raise thier kids, etc. in 30 or so years as they start to retire, that difference will shrink and maybe even go the otherway.
If you'll excuse me, I'm off to start an engineering society with scholarships that's only for White Anglo-Saxon Men.
When something like that happens, you can get your desktop support group to help you out. Sure, company policy may say that he needs to get his laptop back, but wouldn't it be a shame if the newest backup that was on file was 3 months ago, forcing your nimrod of a boss to redo everything. Oh, and I'm sorry about the pager, but you'll have to get one with a different number, unless you want to wait 2-3 weeks.
If your laptop reaches terminal velocity, the survival of the hard drive head is going to be the least of the problems with that thing once it decelerates.
Looks like Disney is back into thier favourite trick: Taking something in the public domain, making a movie out of it, then copywriting it for themselves for the next eleventy billion years. Honestly, after seeing what they did to Notre Dame and the like, I'm hesitant to trust them on anything at all.
The newton was origionally going to be called the iPalm. However, when someone wrote that into a prototype iPalm, the thing read it as 'Newton'. And so it remained.
I was hopeing that they would have tried to sue someone very wealthy who didn't want to settle out of court and bring it up in the public eye and allow the DMCA to finally be challanged all the way though.
That would never happen. You don't think that when they get a list of people from the ISPs that there is a descent amount of filtering going on? Can you imagine what were to happen if a Congress Person's son or the like were to get sued? They deliberatly go after people that don't have enough money to adequatly defend themselves. This serves two purposes: 1) will scare other people away from using P2P software 2) build up a kind of precident.
The only standards you need to follow are the W3C Web Standards They even have a validator for your convience if you need to make sure that your code is valid. I did that at my summer internship and over the course of a summer was able to make our 1000+ page website 99% w3c complient. It might take you a few days to get in the rythym of doing things, but once we had our site up to html 4.01 standards, we never had a problem with any browser compatability issues, and we tested all the way back to Netscape 4.7.
''Click here,'' says my spamming mentor. Hovering over my chair, he points to the computer screen. ''Now click on that file of e-mail addresses there.'' I have been invited by a master for an education in spamming, the practice of blasting millions of unsolicited e-mail messages into the Internet in order to advertise everything from loans with easy terms to women of easy virtue.
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''Let's go online and download some software,'' says my guide. His name is Richard Colbert. On the Rokso, or Register of Known Spam Operations (a kind of Most Wanted List for the Internet posted on an antispam Web site called spamhaus.org), Colbert is described plainly: ''Nonstop scam spammer, kicked off so many hosts and I.S.P.s'' -- or Internet service providers -- ''it's hard to count.''
Dressed in blue shorts and a purple T-shirt, Colbert, 31, has blondish hair stuffed under a baseball cap, a prominent diamond earring and a mild twang that betrays his Atlanta origin. He lights up a Monarch menthol as he shows me his computer room, an intimate homemade space built off the side of an aging two-tone mobile home -- robin's-egg blue and white -- which sits among hundreds of Airstreams and Miami Deco single-wides in the Sunset Colony Mobile Home Park in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Colbert claims that he's now on a sabbatical from spamming, but he's watching current events and weighing a return. During this interlude, he has agreed to help me learn how the avalanche of solicitations I receive winds up in my online mailbox every day. Who are these guys? Who hires them? How do they get legitimate e-mail addresses? And finally, can federal legislation currently under consideration actually stop them?
First off, Colbert doesn't think about spam the way I do (or, most probably, the way you do). He likes to call it ''bulk e-mailing,'' for starters. And he considers it just one of the many exciting new markets available on the Internet. He's the kind of guy who is always interrupting himself to tell you about some smart economic angle he has figured out, some new edge.
''These shorts are Dockers,'' he says, pointing at the clothes he has on. ''And I got them off eBay. Shirt? Tommy Hilfiger. EBay. Shoes? Nikes. EBay.''
Colbert and I dig around on the Internet until, under his direction, I find a piece of software that allows for mass e-mailing. These are common and legal, used legitimately by professional archaeologists, say, or chess enthusiasts to form an online group and conduct chats or exchange information.
Right away there's a problem. The software we've selected requires registration or payment. But Colbert says he once used this very piece of software, slightly altered, when he worked with some other spammers who live nearby. So he snatches his phone and calls a neighbor for support. A minute later, we are back in business. It turns out that an unusually large number of spammers live in this area, the stretch of beaches north of Miami that old-timers loosely call Boca and new-timers know as a staging ground for the smarmier characters in Carl Hiaasen's novels.
According to Steve Linford, who maintains the Rokso list, there's a good reason that so many spammers wind up on Spam Beach: ''Boca Raton is where they used to run those pump-and-dump investment scams and where the telemarketing sweatshops are.'' The phone scammers and infomercial wannabes of the 80's and 90's -- who themselves supplanted the land speculators who established Florida's earliest cities upon shifting sand and sinking swamps -- have been pushed aside by the new boys on the block, the bulk e-mailers of the Internet.
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Sure, the terrorists might have had ingrams, but can you imagine them trying to secure an airplane when six passengers, all from different angles with with cover are trying to shoot them?
This is a society that put in the Owner's manual of my Dodge Caravan: "WARNING: Do not operate vehicle while asleap."
I for one welcome our Stolen Carriage Overlords, and would like to remind them that as a member of the slashdot community I can be useful in rounding up slashbots to pull carriages in their underground carriage caverns.
Enhanced DRM....broadcast flag....I'd say it will take someone....*punches numbers into a calculator* 4.34 days to come out with a hack
It looks like you're trying to Flank the position. Would you like me to:
Or what if it becomes possible to 'spam' the glasses with either coke / pepsi advertising, or even worse. Can you imaging if suddenly you started getting ads for Herbal Viagra before you eyes?
ok, I'm done ranting now
based on past history, we need to have mozilla 1.999.99.99999a before we can have 2.0
I have a problem getting into a car that is so likely to become airborne that the manufactuer put in an altimeter.
...couldn't they have introduced this BEFORE we went to war for all of that oil?
You personally may not be able to have children for whatever reason, but others like you can reproduce. In this case, if we declare the computer program to be alive, it can reproduce itself (IE, it can install itself on other computers). If we declare the hardware to be alive, then a machine like it has to be able to produce it.
Blasphemy! Say 5 Hail Linus' and kiss the holy penguin!
The true corporate slogan for all corporations is "Profit". Some dress it up differently, some try to hide it behind some abstract notion of customer satisifaction, but it all comes down to one thing: "Profit".
and my girlfriend brings it up frequently enough, thank you very much
Everytime I hear the Feminazis bitching about that on our campus, I have to resist the urge to blugeon them. It's not because women are discriminated against. If anything, they're discriminated for. When's the last time you heard about a men's only scholarship, or an engineering society that's only for men? They'd get hit with discrimination suits left and right. Put things the other way, and suddenly you have an 'equalizor' or something of the sort.
The reason that women don't earn that much is that there is an entire generation of women that are in their 40s or so now that legitimatly never got the chance to go to college, or had to stop working to raise thier kids, etc. in 30 or so years as they start to retire, that difference will shrink and maybe even go the otherway.
If you'll excuse me, I'm off to start an engineering society with scholarships that's only for White Anglo-Saxon Men.
When something like that happens, you can get your desktop support group to help you out. Sure, company policy may say that he needs to get his laptop back, but wouldn't it be a shame if the newest backup that was on file was 3 months ago, forcing your nimrod of a boss to redo everything. Oh, and I'm sorry about the pager, but you'll have to get one with a different number, unless you want to wait 2-3 weeks.
Dont' worry, the current Vegas Odds on the 9th Circuit Court being over turned are 21:1, based on past history alone.
If your laptop reaches terminal velocity, the survival of the hard drive head is going to be the least of the problems with that thing once it decelerates.
Looks like Disney is back into thier favourite trick: Taking something in the public domain, making a movie out of it, then copywriting it for themselves for the next eleventy billion years. Honestly, after seeing what they did to Notre Dame and the like, I'm hesitant to trust them on anything at all.
The newton was origionally going to be called the iPalm. However, when someone wrote that into a prototype iPalm, the thing read it as 'Newton'. And so it remained.
That would never happen. You don't think that when they get a list of people from the ISPs that there is a descent amount of filtering going on? Can you imagine what were to happen if a Congress Person's son or the like were to get sued? They deliberatly go after people that don't have enough money to adequatly defend themselves. This serves two purposes: 1) will scare other people away from using P2P software 2) build up a kind of precident.
The only standards you need to follow are the W3C Web Standards They even have a validator for your convience if you need to make sure that your code is valid. I did that at my summer internship and over the course of a summer was able to make our 1000+ page website 99% w3c complient. It might take you a few days to get in the rythym of doing things, but once we had our site up to html 4.01 standards, we never had a problem with any browser compatability issues, and we tested all the way back to Netscape 4.7.
''Click here,'' says my spamming mentor. Hovering over my chair, he points to the computer screen. ''Now click on that file of e-mail addresses there.'' I have been invited by a master for an education in spamming, the practice of blasting millions of unsolicited e-mail messages into the Internet in order to advertise everything from loans with easy terms to women of easy virtue.
Advertisement
''Let's go online and download some software,'' says my guide. His name is Richard Colbert. On the Rokso, or Register of Known Spam Operations (a kind of Most Wanted List for the Internet posted on an antispam Web site called spamhaus.org), Colbert is described plainly: ''Nonstop scam spammer, kicked off so many hosts and I.S.P.s'' -- or Internet service providers -- ''it's hard to count.''
Dressed in blue shorts and a purple T-shirt, Colbert, 31, has blondish hair stuffed under a baseball cap, a prominent diamond earring and a mild twang that betrays his Atlanta origin. He lights up a Monarch menthol as he shows me his computer room, an intimate homemade space built off the side of an aging two-tone mobile home -- robin's-egg blue and white -- which sits among hundreds of Airstreams and Miami Deco single-wides in the Sunset Colony Mobile Home Park in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Colbert claims that he's now on a sabbatical from spamming, but he's watching current events and weighing a return. During this interlude, he has agreed to help me learn how the avalanche of solicitations I receive winds up in my online mailbox every day. Who are these guys? Who hires them? How do they get legitimate e-mail addresses? And finally, can federal legislation currently under consideration actually stop them?
First off, Colbert doesn't think about spam the way I do (or, most probably, the way you do). He likes to call it ''bulk e-mailing,'' for starters. And he considers it just one of the many exciting new markets available on the Internet. He's the kind of guy who is always interrupting himself to tell you about some smart economic angle he has figured out, some new edge.
''These shorts are Dockers,'' he says, pointing at the clothes he has on. ''And I got them off eBay. Shirt? Tommy Hilfiger. EBay. Shoes? Nikes. EBay.''
Colbert and I dig around on the Internet until, under his direction, I find a piece of software that allows for mass e-mailing. These are common and legal, used legitimately by professional archaeologists, say, or chess enthusiasts to form an online group and conduct chats or exchange information.
Right away there's a problem. The software we've selected requires registration or payment. But Colbert says he once used this very piece of software, slightly altered, when he worked with some other spammers who live nearby. So he snatches his phone and calls a neighbor for support. A minute later, we are back in business. It turns out that an unusually large number of spammers live in this area, the stretch of beaches north of Miami that old-timers loosely call Boca and new-timers know as a staging ground for the smarmier characters in Carl Hiaasen's novels.
According to Steve Linford, who maintains the Rokso list, there's a good reason that so many spammers wind up on Spam Beach: ''Boca Raton is where they used to run those pump-and-dump investment scams and where the telemarketing sweatshops are.'' The phone scammers and infomercial wannabes of the 80's and 90's -- who themselves supplanted the land speculators who established Florida's earliest cities upon shifting sand and sinking swamps -- have been pushed aside by the new boys on the block, the bulk e-mailers of the Internet.
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I should be surprised, but somehow i'm not....
Can someone hurry up with this? The cruise missle I ordered to be fired will be here shortly and I dont' know which trailer to point the laser at!