"Thankfully, even if the fridge cracks open the vast sounds generated within will not escape because the intense noise can only be generated in the pressurised gas locked inside the cooling system."
You won't need soundproofing because the sound won't leave the internal workings of the fridge. As for pets, it says the fridge produces loud sounds, not high frequency sounds, which are what would annoy pets.
If we really do get so stupid as to actually cause our own destruction, perhaps the best thing to do would be to send the lifeboat straight into the sun a la The Simpsons.
But couldn't any computer capable of running Linux and sending/receiving network traffic be able to do this as well? I'd be suspicious of a Dreamcast box sitting in a cube connected to the network.
I'm guessing that the only real reason they're focusing on Dreamcasts and not normal PC's are that they're very cheap to obtain and reconfigure.
Wow, this must be the first time Sony and Nintendo have more or less worked together since the SNES CD! Or would someone like to step in and correct me:)
Some of the best news is that they've openly said they'll include support for ATI and other large manufacturers of competing graphics products. I'm glad to see that Nvidia isn't being closed-minded or trying to undermine their own intentions for ease of development by using the proprietarity card.
It's really a shame that something like this can't take off in third world countries in its current state. It's well-intentioned, but I think it really only caters to a specific market, like the farmers or lower-class businessmen the article mentions. While surfing the net isn't a commonly held luxury for impoverished third-worlders, if you've ever tried to generally surf on a handheld, it's not easy or convenient. Many pages appear screwed up because they were designed for larger displays with different/higher resolutions. And other than just surfing, most people and family members wouldn't have much more of a use for that than the pen and paper or calculators they'd already use for math, writing letters, etc.
I have a Palm VIIx, but it isn't all that useful to me, even when I'm at the dorm. The wireless feature it touted so much is too expensive for most people to use (I got it as a hand-me-down from my dad). It also clips webpages and makes them look pretty weird.Despite being in college, either I'm not busy enough or organized enough to make good use of the calendar, though I do occasionally enter events into it and carry it in my backpack. The feature I use most is the address book, but every month or two I print off the list into a handy sheet I can fold and keep in my wallet, so I don't have to lug the thign around in my pocket (very uncomfortable, as I'm short and thusly my pants have small pockets). I can't always be wearing my jacket or backpack, such as right now that I'm at work.
You guys all seem to have the level-headed mindset that the MPAA is within it's rights to go after individual users, and I agree.
So why does everyone get so worked up over the Metallica/Napster issue? It was the same thing: Metallica searched and found a bunch of users openly sharing Met mp3s ripped from albums. They provide this list of users to Napster and asks that Metallica songs get blocked, but Napster only bans those users (who can easily sign up again). They don't implement effective measure to block songs, so Met takes them to court over it, with copyright laws on their side. Despite a judge's orders, they still don't filter well enough. Met sues Napster for facilitating infringement, not the individual users who may be hard to track down.
How's this any different?
Either way, I never said it was anonymous, just said it was more of a revenge thing than a prank against someone you don't know. At that point, they'd probably know who it was anyway. But like the parent to this post said, there would be ways around it. If that fails, use an unlisted number to call from.
And sorry for the lack of paras in the original post. I'm kinda new to posting here, just used to reading, and forgot about using HTML formatting. Too used to SomethingAwful:)
No, he had an autodialer hooked up to a message player. It wasn't faxing, but it was telephone fraud (or is it wire fraud?) nonetheless. "Make sure you bring this thing into court, otherwise we won't have any evidence to convict you on."
My favorite part of that episode (and a favorite Simpsons moment of all time) is when the thing starts to roll away, and Homer takes it like it's a natural occurence. "Oh no you don't!" Then he breaks off the wheels and puts it back.
Not quite fax spamming, but my brother read about a great way to get back at someone through their fax machine, especially if they have one of those machines with rolled paper, not individual sheets.
Wait until night when the fax machine is unattended. Take about 4 sheets of paper (with lots of black on it if you're feeling particularly evil) and tape them together seamlessly. Insert it into your fax machine, and begin sending. As the first sheet comes through, tape it to the last sheet (which hasn't been fed in yet,) creating an endless loop that keeps cycling through like a multiple page fax. When the person comes to their fax machine the next morning, his toner and paper will have been all used up.
We also sue the pants off of anyone who doesn't do exactly what we want, whether or not what actually happened was agreed to beforehand. God bless America!
Well said. While taking a vacation in Canada, we came upon a movie set for that Audrey Hepburn TV movie starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. I believe it was Montreal, and they blocked off a street to do a shoot where a convoy of military trucks were coming back to a welcome home parade after winning WWII (though shot in Canada, it was supposed to be taking place in Britain... there were British flags everywhere hanging from the buildings)
My mom kept trying to take pictures of the set, but the guard got onto her for doing so, for the intel. prop. reasons you stated above. She eventually snuck in a few but LEFT THE FLASH ON! The guard turned around and saw her, and almost confiscated her film.
These are nicknamed "White Worms" (like white magic, which is a helpful form of magic), but the problem is that they're still viruses/worms that exploit security holes and waste companies' bandwidth (remember how Nimda and CodeRed really put a strain on lots of servers?) If you wrote one of these and spread it, companies would still try and sue you, and law enforcement agencies would still prosecute you.
Jeebs (the black market weapons-selling guy) has a beard and medallion and looks much more middle eastern than in MIB 1, and there are fireworks that kinda become symbolic for god bless america, a tired phrase these days.
whoops sorry for the lack of paragraphs... and the link I meant to post was http://www.ferrari-forsale.com/RightHandDriveCount ries
and look at this page for a graphical map of which countries drive on the left and which on the right. Right side is the vast majority shown on the map.
I don't know about driving sides of specific countries except France, Britain, and India (having visited family in India quite a bit)... but if 5 of the top 10 most densely populated countries drive on the left, how MUST that make it the correct way? Did you ever stop to consider, then, that unless you left some majorly populated countries out, that the OTHER 5 countries you DIDN'T mention would therefore drive on the right?
That's like in the lemon tree epsiode of Simpsons where the parents of Shelbyville kids rag on the Springfield parents' lack of discipline with their children. "Ha, I guess that explains why we beat them in little league football about half the time." By that argument (and yours), neither is really better than the other.
Using your same resource, link to countries and their driving habits... China, Canada, the US, Denmark, Greenland, Iran, Italy, Germany, Russia, the Ukraine, Switzerland, the Phillipines, both Koreas, etc. all drive on the Right. Neither would seem better than the other from a "number of people currently doing it" standpoint.
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I was the only one I knew who liked that show :(
Please read the article next time:
"Thankfully, even if the fridge cracks open the vast sounds generated within will not escape because the intense noise can only be generated in the pressurised gas locked inside the cooling system."
You won't need soundproofing because the sound won't leave the internal workings of the fridge. As for pets, it says the fridge produces loud sounds, not high frequency sounds, which are what would annoy pets.
If we really do get so stupid as to actually cause our own destruction, perhaps the best thing to do would be to send the lifeboat straight into the sun a la The Simpsons.
And we can use our radio waves to push bread down their throats!
But couldn't any computer capable of running Linux and sending/receiving network traffic be able to do this as well? I'd be suspicious of a Dreamcast box sitting in a cube connected to the network. I'm guessing that the only real reason they're focusing on Dreamcasts and not normal PC's are that they're very cheap to obtain and reconfigure.
The base is located in the giant sunken hole created by the now-dried Groom Lake. That's the official name of the base, I believe.
Funny, that's what Valve claimed with PowerPlay...
Well, yeah, obviously they're not working directly together, but they are participating in a 3rd party project that involves them both heavily.
Wow, this must be the first time Sony and Nintendo have more or less worked together since the SNES CD! Or would someone like to step in and correct me :)
Some of the best news is that they've openly said they'll include support for ATI and other large manufacturers of competing graphics products. I'm glad to see that Nvidia isn't being closed-minded or trying to undermine their own intentions for ease of development by using the proprietarity card.
The parent to this post is completely offtopic and irrelevant to the discussion.
It's really a shame that something like this can't take off in third world countries in its current state. It's well-intentioned, but I think it really only caters to a specific market, like the farmers or lower-class businessmen the article mentions. While surfing the net isn't a commonly held luxury for impoverished third-worlders, if you've ever tried to generally surf on a handheld, it's not easy or convenient. Many pages appear screwed up because they were designed for larger displays with different/higher resolutions. And other than just surfing, most people and family members wouldn't have much more of a use for that than the pen and paper or calculators they'd already use for math, writing letters, etc.
I have a Palm VIIx, but it isn't all that useful to me, even when I'm at the dorm. The wireless feature it touted so much is too expensive for most people to use (I got it as a hand-me-down from my dad). It also clips webpages and makes them look pretty weird.Despite being in college, either I'm not busy enough or organized enough to make good use of the calendar, though I do occasionally enter events into it and carry it in my backpack. The feature I use most is the address book, but every month or two I print off the list into a handy sheet I can fold and keep in my wallet, so I don't have to lug the thign around in my pocket (very uncomfortable, as I'm short and thusly my pants have small pockets). I can't always be wearing my jacket or backpack, such as right now that I'm at work.
You guys all seem to have the level-headed mindset that the MPAA is within it's rights to go after individual users, and I agree. So why does everyone get so worked up over the Metallica/Napster issue? It was the same thing: Metallica searched and found a bunch of users openly sharing Met mp3s ripped from albums. They provide this list of users to Napster and asks that Metallica songs get blocked, but Napster only bans those users (who can easily sign up again). They don't implement effective measure to block songs, so Met takes them to court over it, with copyright laws on their side. Despite a judge's orders, they still don't filter well enough. Met sues Napster for facilitating infringement, not the individual users who may be hard to track down. How's this any different?
and the parent of this post was modded up for so clearly being flamebait?
Either way, I never said it was anonymous, just said it was more of a revenge thing than a prank against someone you don't know. At that point, they'd probably know who it was anyway.
:)
But like the parent to this post said, there would be ways around it. If that fails, use an unlisted number to call from.
And sorry for the lack of paras in the original post. I'm kinda new to posting here, just used to reading, and forgot about using HTML formatting. Too used to SomethingAwful
No, he had an autodialer hooked up to a message player. It wasn't faxing, but it was telephone fraud (or is it wire fraud?) nonetheless. "Make sure you bring this thing into court, otherwise we won't have any evidence to convict you on." My favorite part of that episode (and a favorite Simpsons moment of all time) is when the thing starts to roll away, and Homer takes it like it's a natural occurence. "Oh no you don't!" Then he breaks off the wheels and puts it back.
Not quite fax spamming, but my brother read about a great way to get back at someone through their fax machine, especially if they have one of those machines with rolled paper, not individual sheets. Wait until night when the fax machine is unattended. Take about 4 sheets of paper (with lots of black on it if you're feeling particularly evil) and tape them together seamlessly. Insert it into your fax machine, and begin sending. As the first sheet comes through, tape it to the last sheet (which hasn't been fed in yet,) creating an endless loop that keeps cycling through like a multiple page fax. When the person comes to their fax machine the next morning, his toner and paper will have been all used up.
Offtopic, but am I the only one that reads W3C as WarCraft III every time I see it now?
We also sue the pants off of anyone who doesn't do exactly what we want, whether or not what actually happened was agreed to beforehand. God bless America!
Well said. While taking a vacation in Canada, we came upon a movie set for that Audrey Hepburn TV movie starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. I believe it was Montreal, and they blocked off a street to do a shoot where a convoy of military trucks were coming back to a welcome home parade after winning WWII (though shot in Canada, it was supposed to be taking place in Britain... there were British flags everywhere hanging from the buildings) My mom kept trying to take pictures of the set, but the guard got onto her for doing so, for the intel. prop. reasons you stated above. She eventually snuck in a few but LEFT THE FLASH ON! The guard turned around and saw her, and almost confiscated her film.
These are nicknamed "White Worms" (like white magic, which is a helpful form of magic), but the problem is that they're still viruses/worms that exploit security holes and waste companies' bandwidth (remember how Nimda and CodeRed really put a strain on lots of servers?) If you wrote one of these and spread it, companies would still try and sue you, and law enforcement agencies would still prosecute you.
Jeebs (the black market weapons-selling guy) has a beard and medallion and looks much more middle eastern than in MIB 1, and there are fireworks that kinda become symbolic for god bless america, a tired phrase these days.
whoops sorry for the lack of paragraphs... and the link I meant to post was http://www.ferrari-forsale.com/RightHandDriveCount ries
and look at this page for a graphical map of which countries drive on the left and which on the right. Right side is the vast majority shown on the map.
I don't know about driving sides of specific countries except France, Britain, and India (having visited family in India quite a bit)... but if 5 of the top 10 most densely populated countries drive on the left, how MUST that make it the correct way? Did you ever stop to consider, then, that unless you left some majorly populated countries out, that the OTHER 5 countries you DIDN'T mention would therefore drive on the right? That's like in the lemon tree epsiode of Simpsons where the parents of Shelbyville kids rag on the Springfield parents' lack of discipline with their children. "Ha, I guess that explains why we beat them in little league football about half the time." By that argument (and yours), neither is really better than the other. Using your same resource, link to countries and their driving habits... China, Canada, the US, Denmark, Greenland, Iran, Italy, Germany, Russia, the Ukraine, Switzerland, the Phillipines, both Koreas, etc. all drive on the Right. Neither would seem better than the other from a "number of people currently doing it" standpoint.
it's actually 455%. 4 min 33 sec is 273 seconds, which is 455% of 60 seconds, not 433%. :)