Here are some true tales of Induhviduals as reported by DNRC members.
One of my teammates was giving a presentation to our department about an exciting development. He clicked to bring up the next slide and announced with great enthusiasm, "and walla, there it is!!" On the slide in huge letters was the word "Walla." The audience was stunned at first, not knowing if it was suppose to be a joke on the spelling of the word "voila" or not. Then he turned to a member of our department who was from France and said, "You know, walla! Walla!!"
Coincidentally, earlier that week he had mentioned to our team that he wanted to go into management.
The standard "ring tone" on my Nokia for a SMS message is... --... (SMS in morse).
On some Nokia handset models there is a longer, rather irregular SMS ringtone that also is in Morse code. AFAIK (I don't know Morse code), it spells out "CONNECTING PEOPLE".
Why do developers force the users to put applications when they don't know the system. How many windows apps install in C: with your program files is on D: or another partition. Stop forcing the users, and make your programs run out of its own directory.
That's an easy one. A lot of users aren't even aware of their Program Files directory. Poorly designed installers will default to "c:\program files", but I believe there's a registry key that says where your program files is (after all, the name varies also with the language).
The folder is at least present in an environment variable: %ProgramFiles% (check it out along with all other variables for example by typing 'set' in a command prompt). It's set probably in the registry, too somewhere.
Many news stories that normally require registration are available directly via the Google news search.
For example, reading this New York Times poker story without registering is as easy as searching for "poker new york times" and clicking on the third search result.
You are confusing the SMIL used in mobile handset multimedia messages (MMS) and SMIL in general. SMIL wasn't created for MMS purposes, it's the other way around: MMS uses SMIL to define presentation.
But MMS messages use a only a very limited subset of SMIL to define the MMS presentation. Currently an MMS is a SMIL slideshow where you link a picture, some text and a sound together for each slide (= par element), (example markup here). As you mentioned, all the Nokias ignore the timing information, etc. so the SMIL implementations by the handset makers are rather incomplete. But they very well may be so because to be MMS-conformant, they don't have to support all of SMIL.
Heck, my mother, a 7-8th grade advanced science teacher did a test with the class showing them an online article about the evils of hydrogen hydroxide. At the end of the class, over half the class believed that there was a serious problem in the world with hydrogen hydroxide that needs to be dealt with. Only one student in the class knew the truth of what hydrogen hydroxide really is: water.
Dennis Radke finds it ominous. "Given sufficient time, is it unreasonable to expect we Americans will be required to carry travel papers inside the U.S., just as residents of Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union" did?
As previously reported on Slashdot, the issue of requiring ID when traveling within the US has already been challenged as unconstitutional. EFF co-founder John Gilmore sued the government and two airlines for not letting him board aircraft without ID.
Yeah, but read the claim:...efforts are calculated to disrupt and destroy...
This suggests intentional, directed harm. And since Linford claims that he did not know EMarketersAmerica before the suit, it was impossible for him to have directed his actions intentionally against the plaintiffs.
Sure, he could have harmed them unintentionally before since he did not know them. But the spammers claim otherwise.
Ah, Freenet (http://freenetproject.org/) was mentioned in another comment. That's one of the projects I was thinking of. It seems to have grown a lot since I last checked.
This article does not really gives much of an overview on the history of spam wars. The article leaves out more stuff that it mentions.
Yes, I thougt so, too.
In the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email there's a good boilerplate respose that explains some of the history and the current status of blocklisting. The response is posted every now and then to answer someone new in the group who is blacklisted and does not grasp the methodology of blocklisting systems.
OK, as I have understood from all the reports today, this is the third "evil bit" added to the Internet Protocol.
Using all these three bits together, it is now possible to express 2^3 = 8 different levels of evilness, ranging from 000 = "not an evil datagram at all" to 111 = "a more evil datagram than anything you can imagine". And yesterday we had no means of indicating the degree of evilness in a datagram at all! Talk about progress!
In my Mozilla preferences (Appearance / Colors), I have chosen to use my own colors and background insted of the colors and background specified by the page because I like reading my pages with black text on a white background.
When I went to see the pictures in the gallery (for example at http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/ph otos/pp01.htm), I was at first rather perplexed because I saw no picture. Just a blank page. But viewing the HTML source explained everything. The picture is as the background in a table, one cell high and one cell wide! WTF? Lousy webdesign by <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 3.0">.
As for the launch: Florida is as much to the south and thus as close to the equator as possible in the USA. When launching a rocket into space, I understand that they take use of the slingshot effect that the Earth's rotation causes. At the equator this effect is maximal, so being nearer to it is advantageous.
For the landing: My understanding is that any space vehicle that approcaches Earth flies from East to West in order to match the rotation direction of Earth. If the vehicle would approcah from the other direction, the difference in speeds between the revolving Earth and the approaching object would be too large, making the needed retardation (= heat factor when entering the atmosphere) unnecessary great. I'm not sure though whether the optimal landing zone would be near the equator. Probably depends on the trajectory.
I suppose it's a good thing for the US government that the crash happened on home territory. When landing, the shuttle passes first over a great deal of sea (Pacific Ocean) and then lots of US soil.
Imagine a scenario where the geographical circumstances would not be so favourable and the parts of the shuttle would have fallen and crashed into another (perhaps less friendly) country. Would the US kidly ask for the debris to be returned, or would they engage into a secret undercover recovery operation in order to retrieve these top secret components?
What if this operation would have to be so extensive, that it could not be held secret? To what lengths do you think the US government would go in order to re-acquire the parts?
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I'll just put a reference to the original version so that everybody can enjoy the joke:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/ english.au / swedish.au
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds
"Thiz Linux is not for sale."
LOL, that reminded me of this gem from Dilbert newsletter #43:
On some Nokia handset models there is a longer, rather irregular SMS ringtone that also is in Morse code. AFAIK (I don't know Morse code), it spells out "CONNECTING PEOPLE".
The folder is at least present in an environment variable: %ProgramFiles% (check it out along with all other variables for example by typing 'set' in a command prompt). It's set probably in the registry, too somewhere.
Many news stories that normally require registration are available directly via the Google news search.
For example, reading this New York Times poker story without registering is as easy as searching for "poker new york times" and clicking on the third search result.
You are confusing the SMIL used in mobile handset multimedia messages (MMS) and SMIL in general. SMIL wasn't created for MMS purposes, it's the other way around: MMS uses SMIL to define presentation.
But MMS messages use a only a very limited subset of SMIL to define the MMS presentation. Currently an MMS is a SMIL slideshow where you link a picture, some text and a sound together for each slide (= par element), (example markup here). As you mentioned, all the Nokias ignore the timing information, etc. so the SMIL implementations by the handset makers are rather incomplete. But they very well may be so because to be MMS-conformant, they don't have to support all of SMIL.
Did she by any chance use the Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division (DMRD) site? It's really hilarious, especially the FAQ can be a scary reading for someone that does not get the joke.
Bah, as long as one minute? You are slow.
Check out this site, especially the multimedia section. There are videos of guys that solve the cube in less than 20 seconds!
Well, an SMS is probably too short (only 160 characters) to explain your scheme/scam in detail, so that might not be very useful.
But there have been reports of normal phone calls where money transfer offers have been made. See for example this newsgroup thread.
I don't get it. She's like the Slashdotter's perfect girlfriend.... Erm.... Well... BTW, anyone have her phone-number?
From the second "David Nelson" article:
As previously reported on Slashdot, the issue of requiring ID when traveling within the US has already been challenged as unconstitutional. EFF co-founder John Gilmore sued the government and two airlines for not letting him board aircraft without ID.
See his site for history and court documents.
Yeah, but read the claim: ...efforts are calculated to disrupt and destroy...
This suggests intentional, directed harm. And since Linford claims that he did not know EMarketersAmerica before the suit, it was impossible for him to have directed his actions intentionally against the plaintiffs.
Sure, he could have harmed them unintentionally before since he did not know them. But the spammers claim otherwise.
The SpamCon Foundation has set up a legal fund to aid spamfighters that need legal assistance.
The defendants of this particular EMarketersAmerica suit also benefit from and endorse this fund.
Ah, Freenet (http://freenetproject.org/) was mentioned in another comment. That's one of the projects I was thinking of. It seems to have grown a lot since I last checked.
Your approach is not a new idea. AFAICR, there are some small projects for P2P applications that work in the way you describe.
I just cannot remember any specific names of clients, so I cannot post a link with more info.
Yes, I thougt so, too.
In the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email there's a good boilerplate respose that explains some of the history and the current status of blocklisting. The response is posted every now and then to answer someone new in the group who is blacklisted and does not grasp the methodology of blocklisting systems.
Here's a Google Groups link to it.
OK, as I have understood from all the reports today, this is the third "evil bit" added to the Internet Protocol.
Using all these three bits together, it is now possible to express 2^3 = 8 different levels of evilness, ranging from 000 = "not an evil datagram at all" to 111 = "a more evil datagram than anything you can imagine". And yesterday we had no means of indicating the degree of evilness in a datagram at all! Talk about progress!
Sorry, make that Suresh.
Shuresh is also a regular poster in the newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email, a discussion forum about e-mail abuse.
Check his postings from the Google Groups archive.
Well, could you tell me then how I can properly manage my fiance.
She's not behaving very well and that is affecting my credit negatively.
In my Mozilla preferences (Appearance / Colors), I have chosen to use my own colors and background insted of the colors and background specified by the page because I like reading my pages with black text on a white background.
When I went to see the pictures in the gallery (for example at http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/ph otos/pp01.htm), I was at first rather perplexed because I saw no picture. Just a blank page. But viewing the HTML source explained everything. The picture is as the background in a table, one cell high and one cell wide! WTF? Lousy webdesign by <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 3.0">.
Of course I meant to write the opposite "from West to East".
As for the launch: Florida is as much to the south and thus as close to the equator as possible in the USA. When launching a rocket into space, I understand that they take use of the slingshot effect that the Earth's rotation causes. At the equator this effect is maximal, so being nearer to it is advantageous.
For the landing: My understanding is that any space vehicle that approcaches Earth flies from East to West in order to match the rotation direction of Earth. If the vehicle would approcah from the other direction, the difference in speeds between the revolving Earth and the approaching object would be too large, making the needed retardation (= heat factor when entering the atmosphere) unnecessary great. I'm not sure though whether the optimal landing zone would be near the equator. Probably depends on the trajectory.
I suppose it's a good thing for the US government that the crash happened on home territory. When landing, the shuttle passes first over a great deal of sea (Pacific Ocean) and then lots of US soil.
Imagine a scenario where the geographical circumstances would not be so favourable and the parts of the shuttle would have fallen and crashed into another (perhaps less friendly) country. Would the US kidly ask for the debris to be returned, or would they engage into a secret undercover recovery operation in order to retrieve these top secret components?
What if this operation would have to be so extensive, that it could not be held secret? To what lengths do you think the US government would go in order to re-acquire the parts?