I personally think it is time to remember that this is a community of very diverse individuals and once in a while, or even quite often, something is going to be moderated in a way which you do not like. Live with it. Grow up.
I'd like to see every message complaining about moderation or the inclusion of a given story by the editors automatically get a -2.
====== "Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
Washington, DC - Goiters - Three weeks after a foul tempered, bullying high school athletic star went on a rampage at a pep rally and slew the entire school band with a homemade potato gun, officials at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms have issued Service Pack 3 For Mosaic2000.
After numerous administrators reported difficulty installing the service pack, ATF officials advised that the SexOffender PlugIn must be uninstalled prior to applying the service pack, followed by a full OS reinstall.
ATF has been criticized for its perceived failure to respond to the oversight immediately. "This kid was normal in every way." said J. Mimpton Cleeb III, school board President. "Foul-tempered, bullying, egostistical, four-letters in sports - who'da thunk it? Thats what we bought the software for. They need to fix this immediately"
ATF officials, meanwhile continue to downplay the furor, blaming the oversight on 'malicious hackers'.
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Has it not occurred to anybody that the best way for NSA to insure against deliberate signal/noise manipulations is to leak erroneous keywords? We don't pay them to be stupid...
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Informative? Clueless, you mean!
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Whats up with the moderation of the above post to Informative??? Its a clueless post, he implies that because whois returns "no record found for kidsforsex.com" that network solutions will allow it to be registered. Not so.
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Re:availiable names...
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I am bored at work... How can you not be able to register fuck.com and be able register these atrocious domains?
Availability does not equal the ability to register. Any damn thing that isnt already taken will appear to be available. It isn't until you attempt to actually register it that you'll be declined.
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
What about fucker.com?!?!?!
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This whole issue is riddled with hypocrisy. I tried to register shithappens.com for a client and it was declined (by a damned script, for crying out loud!). Yet I saw recently that someone succesfully registered it with register.com.
NSI has really fucked things up IMHO. Had they had some spine to begin with, we wouldn't have all these lawyers running around thinking domain names = trademarks or that DNS = web phonebook.
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I BCC'ed this message to 1,000 people. My lawyers await hearing from your lawyers.
You need to spend less money on legal schmucks like the ones who wrote your disclaimer, and more money fixing up that lame website.
who ever heard of a web store where you have to print out an order form and snailmail it? that is so 1992. get a clue.
Oh, and contrary to your legal schmucks opinion, the contents of this message are the sole property of the author, and may not be reprinted or used to create derivative works or any other use without prior express written consent from the author.
I'll let ya all know when the papers are served...
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Sorry. Did not mean to offend RPG'ers. I just meant the tendancy to "live" in fantasy, to indulge in fantasy as recreation, to the exclusion of real life (however THAT may be defined!)
techno-fairytales. Well, there's HAL, theres the 'computer' on Star Trek, and the Jetsons, and then there are the recent Microsoft and Intel TV ads...:-)
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Popeye the Sailor expresses my opinion on this issue perfectly, and provides a perfect response to anybody attempting to throw some post back in my face.
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
sure does sound a lot like the message on WWII German communications equipment. They used microphones with the message "Feind Hört Mit" (the enemy is listening!) written on them.
I was under the impression that German military comms in WW2 were not VOX modulated. I thought that the vast majority was transmitted via code encrypted using the Enigma device. Well, perhaps they used VOX in close range tactical battleground scenarios...
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Ahh, you say that now, but what happens when you become CEO of Blue Hat BSD Distributions and someone brings up that post about the dog and the nun you posted back in 97?
I'd tell them with a straight face that the post in 98 about the penguin and the priest was better.
I used to live in fear like this. As I approach the ripe old age of somewhere in my mid 40's, I no longer care. I'm confident in my ability to provide for myself and if some ignorant schmuck wants to drive me out of my job by taking something I wrote out of context, it's not my loss. And if my employers allowed this, I would not want to work for them anyway.
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Yeah sure, extremely useful if you happen to be a member of the highly acclaimed metal band Nanobotica from Planet Zorp!
As the Interplanetary Liason For the United Brotherhood of Zorpian Metal Bands, I can tell you that this is only the beginning. Our scientists have acquired DNA samples and are currently at work creating nanoclones of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn to play the nanoguitar.
There is a downside... recently hundreds of nanorock fans were crushed to death when a Zorp's Angel hired as a security guard inadvertently stepped on the nanomosh pit.
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Guess what, guys: dictionaries (and Jargon Files) don't define language. Usage does. Years of the media using hackers as a synonym for "someone who cracks systems" has made it an acceptable use. Stop fighting it and deal.
NO!!!!!!
Will years of M$ using 'innovation' to describe its business practices make this acceptable:
"You hit the guy with the baseball bat, and I'll innovate his wallet."
All humor aside, we are in the midst of an Orwellian nightmare. The clueless media feeds mountains of mis/disinformation to the even more clueless masses. Never before in the history of this country has there been such an overwhelmingly sheeplike public. People rarely read. When they read, they do not comprehend. A generation raised on television and RPG's and techno-fairytales cannot distinguish between the real world and the one they desperately wish they lived in.
Do NOT stop fighting against Orwellian revisionism. Do NOT surrender to the lowest common denominator. 50 million people CAN be wrong. Hell, how many million people think AOL is the internet?
If we allow an ignorant unthinking mob to define the language for us, how far are we from allowing them to 'innovate' our very freedom of expression right out from under us?
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
It just strikes me how profoundly STUPID the originating email was, and the fact that so many people are so STUPID that they don't know the functional difference between Reply and Reply All.
And these are elected leaders.
Its everywhere. I host a website and act as webmaster for a local organization. The president of this organization, an intelligent, well read woman in her 40's, experiences total brain abandonment when 'operating' her PC. Yesterday she bombarded me with 2 dozen copies of a message, along with another half dozen messages bitching and accusing me of incompetence. She had sent an email to webmaster@herdomain (which is me) and it "came back" to her. She sent it over 24 times, interspersed with the complaint messages. She bitched loud and long about how mail to webmaster should NEVER go to her. The To: field CLEARLY showed that she had not only addressed the messages to webmaster, but also TO HERSELF AT HER OWN ISP MAILBOX. This normally bright person had sent and resent numerous times, AND NEVER ONCE BOTHERED TO LOOK AT WHAT SHE WAS DOING.
I very politely explained this to her, and added that in general, where there is WRITING, there is an intent that READING and COMPREHENSION also occur. And what do you know, there is a LOT OF WRITING ON HER SCREEN, AND IN HER EMAIL CLIENT WINDOW, AND THE SOONER SHE STARTED TO READ AND COMPREHEND THE WRITING SHE ENCOUNTERS THE BETTER OFF THE WORLD WILL BE!
(My work for this organization is charitable and without remuneration, so I could 'afford' to speak to the 'boss' this way!)
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
You could always install ActivePerl, or install Windows Scripting Host (into which you can plugin languages, they need to be written to do so however), which by default gives you JScript or VBSCript. Either one offers a LARGE amount of control over the OS.
yeah, you and everybody's uncle. I recently read about a hole that allows a remote web site to write files on your system via WSH and using a common activeX control. I don't recall the url, but there was a very convincing demo i checked out that wrote a shortcut file into my startup folder, and all i did was view the page. next time i booted, notepad opened with the source code of the exploit loaded. point taken. it could have done anything. i have had the WSH and all ActiveX controls disabled since.
PS: IE5 is annoying as HELL if you disable ActiveX. You can disable Java, the non-M$ technology, and it will silently layout any page without complaint or warning. But just try surfing around with ActiveX disabled. Warning dialogs out the wazoo:
"You have disabled ActiveX! This page may not display correctly! Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh My!" [ OK ][ Cancel ]
Would you care to show me the law that REQUIRES every individual to have such a number?
Back off, Attilla. Its a discussion forum, remember?
There are more ways than laws to extract compliance, which is all I was trying to illustrate. Check back with me in 10 years, once the nether regions of your auditory receptors have shed some moisture. There are a lot of hard working, tax paying, child raising adults out there who need those deductions.
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
He follow after me calling, "hay you ya gatta show me your receipt." I finally turn and quietly say, "no."... Don't get me wrong. I understand they are trying to prevent shoplifting.
Actually, I made a stink about this at Best Buy, objecting to the assumption that I was a thief (and a very talented one at that, considering that 5 seconds earlier and 15 feet away I had just cleared the checkout line...)
Zit faced, high school dropout 'manager' informed me it wasn't the customers they were checking up on, but the zit faced, high school dropout cashiers.
Buddy of cashier arrives in the checkout lane with a DVD drive. Cashier overrides the scan and charges for a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit. In order to prevent this, all customers are subjected to this indignity. Tres duh logic, non?
====== "Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
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Dear Ms. Droolalot:
What he said...
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
2) OK, I'll make sure I never say "...for Dummies" again.
Offer them a copy of YOUR book "Blowing Me For Dummies"
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
I'd like to see every message complaining about moderation or the inclusion of a given story by the editors automatically get a -2.
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"Rex unto my cleeb, and thou shalt have everlasting blort." - Zorp 3:16
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
After numerous administrators reported difficulty installing the service pack, ATF officials advised that the SexOffender PlugIn must be uninstalled prior to applying the service pack, followed by a full OS reinstall.
ATF has been criticized for its perceived failure to respond to the oversight immediately.
"This kid was normal in every way." said J. Mimpton Cleeb III, school board President. "Foul-tempered, bullying, egostistical, four-letters in sports - who'da thunk it? Thats what we bought the software for. They need to fix this immediately"
ATF officials, meanwhile continue to downplay the furor, blaming the oversight on 'malicious hackers'.
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I'd say it is a 'negative campaign contribution', FEC should pay you!
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Hmm, what does it mean when someone looks for the meaning in someone quoting "The Jerk"?
It must mean...THE NEW PHONE BOOKS ARE HERE!!!
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Hmm, what does it mean when someone looks for the meaning in someone quoting "The Jerk"?
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I am bored at work... How can you not be able to register fuck.com and be able register these atrocious domains?
Availability does not equal the ability to register. Any damn thing that isnt already taken will appear to be available. It isn't until you attempt to actually register it that you'll be declined.
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
And what about Fucker.com, which is owned by the "font guru" Chank Diesel. Chank will sell you an email alias at Fucker.com for $25.
NSI has really fucked things up IMHO. Had they had some spine to begin with, we wouldn't have all these lawyers running around thinking domain names = trademarks or that DNS = web phonebook.
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Here is what I sent to pez@pezcandy.com
Sirs/Madams/PezDispensers:
In RE: http://www.pez.com/HTML/Legal.html
PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ
PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ
PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ
PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ
PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ
PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ PEZ
I BCC'ed this message to 1,000 people.
My lawyers await hearing from your lawyers.
You need to spend less money on legal schmucks like the ones who wrote your disclaimer, and more money fixing up that lame website.
who ever heard of a web store where you have to print out an order form and snailmail it? that is so 1992. get a clue.
Oh, and contrary to your legal schmucks opinion, the contents of this message are the sole property of the author, and may not be reprinted or used to create derivative works or any other use without prior express written consent from the author.
I'll let ya all know when the papers are served...
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
techno-fairytales. Well, there's HAL, theres the 'computer' on Star Trek, and the Jetsons, and then there are the recent Microsoft and Intel TV ads... :-)
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I was under the impression that German military comms in WW2 were not VOX modulated. I thought that the vast majority was transmitted via code encrypted using the Enigma device. Well, perhaps they used VOX in close range tactical battleground scenarios...
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
I'd tell them with a straight face that the post in 98 about the penguin and the priest was better.
I used to live in fear like this. As I approach the ripe old age of somewhere in my mid 40's, I no longer care. I'm confident in my ability to provide for myself and if some ignorant schmuck wants to drive me out of my job by taking something I wrote out of context, it's not my loss. And if my employers allowed this, I would not want to work for them anyway.
======
"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
As the Interplanetary Liason For the United Brotherhood of Zorpian Metal Bands, I can tell you that this is only the beginning. Our scientists have acquired DNA samples and are currently at work creating nanoclones of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn to play the nanoguitar.
There is a downside... recently hundreds of nanorock fans were crushed to death when a Zorp's Angel hired as a security guard inadvertently stepped on the nanomosh pit.
======
"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
NO!!!!!!
Will years of M$ using 'innovation' to describe its business practices make this acceptable:
"You hit the guy with the baseball bat, and I'll innovate his wallet."
All humor aside, we are in the midst of an Orwellian nightmare. The clueless media feeds mountains of mis/disinformation to the even more clueless masses. Never before in the history of this country has there been such an overwhelmingly sheeplike public. People rarely read. When they read, they do not comprehend. A generation raised on television and RPG's and techno-fairytales cannot distinguish between the real world and the one they desperately wish they lived in.
Do NOT stop fighting against Orwellian revisionism. Do NOT surrender to the lowest common denominator. 50 million people CAN be wrong. Hell, how many million people think AOL is the internet?
If we allow an ignorant unthinking mob to define the language for us, how far are we from allowing them to 'innovate' our very freedom of expression right out from under us?
Bite My Ziff, Davis!
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
And these are elected leaders.
Its everywhere. I host a website and act as webmaster for a local organization. The president of this organization, an intelligent, well read woman in her 40's, experiences total brain abandonment when 'operating' her PC. Yesterday she bombarded me with 2 dozen copies of a message, along with another half dozen messages bitching and accusing me of incompetence. She had sent an email to webmaster@herdomain (which is me) and it "came back" to her. She sent it over 24 times, interspersed with the complaint messages. She bitched loud and long about how mail to webmaster should NEVER go to her. The To: field CLEARLY showed that she had not only addressed the messages to webmaster, but also TO HERSELF AT HER OWN ISP MAILBOX. This normally bright person had sent and resent numerous times, AND NEVER ONCE BOTHERED TO LOOK AT WHAT SHE WAS DOING.
I very politely explained this to her, and added that in general, where there is WRITING, there is an intent that READING and COMPREHENSION also occur. And what do you know, there is a LOT OF WRITING ON HER SCREEN, AND IN HER EMAIL CLIENT WINDOW, AND THE SOONER SHE STARTED TO READ AND COMPREHEND THE WRITING SHE ENCOUNTERS THE BETTER OFF THE WORLD WILL BE!
(My work for this organization is charitable and without remuneration, so I could 'afford' to speak to the 'boss' this way!)
======
"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
yeah, you and everybody's uncle. I recently read about a hole that allows a remote web site to write files on your system via WSH and using a common activeX control. I don't recall the url, but there was a very convincing demo i checked out that wrote a shortcut file into my startup folder, and all i did was view the page. next time i booted, notepad opened with the source code of the exploit loaded. point taken. it could have done anything. i have had the WSH and all ActiveX controls disabled since.
PS: IE5 is annoying as HELL if you disable ActiveX. You can disable Java, the non-M$ technology, and it will silently layout any page without complaint or warning. But just try surfing around with ActiveX disabled. Warning dialogs out the wazoo:
"You have disabled ActiveX!
This page may not display correctly!
Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh My!"
[ OK ][ Cancel ]
Fucking M$ schmucks...
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Back off, Attilla. Its a discussion forum, remember?
There are more ways than laws to extract compliance, which is all I was trying to illustrate. Check back with me in 10 years, once the nether regions of your auditory receptors have shed some moisture. There are a lot of hard working, tax paying, child raising adults out there who need those deductions.
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison
Actually, I made a stink about this at Best Buy, objecting to the assumption that I was a thief (and a very talented one at that, considering that 5 seconds earlier and 15 feet away I had just cleared the checkout line...)
Zit faced, high school dropout 'manager' informed me it wasn't the customers they were checking up on, but the zit faced, high school dropout cashiers.
Buddy of cashier arrives in the checkout lane with a DVD drive. Cashier overrides the scan and charges for a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit. In order to prevent this, all customers are subjected to this indignity. Tres duh logic, non?
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"Cyberspace scared me so bad I downloaded in my pants." --- Buddy Jellison