By that I mean both spam posted to NGs and harvesting of addresses, which means you can't use a genuine e-mail address or you miraculously get 100 spams a week. Newbies can't cope with the "zog AT undeniable DOT net" business either.
In frustration, some of us set up a private NG using spare capacity at someone's workplace (him being the resident BOFH). No spam, no archiving, say what you like, use your real e-mail address, and all with the normal NNTP interface, unlike a crappy BB or FTP server. Anyone else gone this way? It's sort of like Usenet without either idiots or net nazis (I'm sorry, but it sounds as if Spaf was showing emergent net nazi tendencies).
Are you concerned that a lot of these are going to be treated as inexpensive "naked PCs", i.e. they'll be reformatted the moment they're plugged in, and loaded with a pirate version of Windows?
Sign up for web-based e-mail, assuming AOL haven't blocked that too. I assume AOL will eventually remove these filters due to improved practices at the offending ISPs/customer complaints.
Anyway, tell your wife's grandparents they will never pwn at CounterStrike until they get an ISP with respectable pings;-)
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Surely not the Isle of Man? Aren't they building a hideous new incinerator outside Douglas to burn all the trash?
True - for online gaming, 64k ISDN (all I can get here in the sticks) gives me even lower pings than people on ADSL or cable. Unfortunately this is only while playing the game, not in the initial server connection process, so often a RTCW server kicks me off and says "Server is for low pings only". I suppose the connection gets saturated with all the other data being received. Similarly, GameSpy reports pings of 400+ during refreshes, but once I'm actually playing it's more like 50ms.
iD and GameSpy really need to look at their algorithms for ISDN users.
I suggest "Ticket To The Moon" by E.L.O. Although there'd probably be enough time for "Love In An Elevator", provided there were only two passengers;-)
OK, I don't know, and nor does anyone else, whether CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels are causing global warming. What I do know is that increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (at an exponential rate in some countries) is probably Not A Good Thing, from a risk point of view.
We should at least create sufficient carbon sinks (forests) to remove the amount we produce - or use biomass as our principal fuel, since it's carbon-neutral. There's no good technical reason why all new vehicles can't be built to run on biodiesel. It's widely sold in Europe and most standard diesel engines can use it. It creates CO2 when you burn it, but the oilseed rape absorbs the same amount of CO2 when it's growing in the fields.
I agree, PNG is brilliant, but IE doesn't support it fully, which hinders its use by webmasters a lot (seeing as IE ownz0rs the market, for better or for worse).
Let the Americans and Iraqis play RTCW, and whoever wins the best of three games pays for rebuilding the country.
On another note, I'm amazed no-one's released a mod yet that turns all the RTCW Germans into Republican Guards. Mind you, you'd have to design lots of civilian "uniforms", if the reports of underhand tactics are true.
Apparently Marinus van der Lubbe was beheaded by the Nazis after his trial. There are rumours that he was encouraged to burn the Reichstag by Nazi agents to provde a "trigger" for a crackdown. He was also a Communist, not a Jew.
Most new houses are designed for a life of about 60 years before major renovation (because that's how long most roof materials are good for - oddly, thatched roofs are virtually as good as tiled roofs in this respect). However, based on the current clearance and rebuilding rate, an average British house needs to last for over 2,000 years. Frightening.
LOL! Seriously, home piracy must contribute to the wider economy in a big way, because personally I've been able to spend about 3000UKP on Other Stuff - some of which creates local jobs rather than profits in Redmond - because my MS software is knocked off. Charging 430UKP a go for Office doesn't create wealth, it just sucks it in. When billg has so much cash he has to give half of it to charity, surely his pricing structure is a bit awry?
Looks like that "new business model" is still a long way off. I suppose region coding amd preventing home users installing XP three times is going to thwart bin Laden and his cronies too?
...and likely to be banned in the next decade, even for chainsaws and the like. This is a serious backwards step. A fuel cell powered bike should be possible, though.
We should really have financial Darwin Awards for people who lose huge amounts of money through their own stupidity and/or greed. The article in The Register suggested the UK police shouldn't even waste time investigating these frauds.
It's a bit like throwing pennies into a fountain and then complaining that the water defrauded you!
for years and years and years, researchers have been promising AI was just around the corner... And what do we have right now? Nothing!
Get with the program, dude: we had AI even in the UK last year. I didn't go and see it though, because it starred that irritating kid from "The Sixth Sense".
Evian also plays on people's fears about what might be swimming around in your tap water (although bacterial counts in bottled water are usually much higher).
AFAIK the prime reason the card is returned before the cash is to stop people walking away and forgetting their card (it's amazing how the brain shuts down at the feel of hard currency). I don't have any stats on me, but "time outs" are one of the main reasons for captured cards.
Embarrassingly, I've done it myself twice when carrying out other transactions that don't require you to take the card before completion (such as statements and deposits). Luckily I work for the bank, so they don't cut my card in half:-)
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...is if GPS then tracks the cab to ensure American tourists aren't taken from Heathrow to central London via Slough.
In frustration, some of us set up a private NG using spare capacity at someone's workplace (him being the resident BOFH). No spam, no archiving, say what you like, use your real e-mail address, and all with the normal NNTP interface, unlike a crappy BB or FTP server. Anyone else gone this way? It's sort of like Usenet without either idiots or net nazis (I'm sorry, but it sounds as if Spaf was showing emergent net nazi tendencies).
Are you concerned that a lot of these are going to be treated as inexpensive "naked PCs", i.e. they'll be reformatted the moment they're plugged in, and loaded with a pirate version of Windows?
Anyway, tell your wife's grandparents they will never pwn at CounterStrike until they get an ISP with respectable pings ;-)
Surely not the Isle of Man? Aren't they building a hideous new incinerator outside Douglas to burn all the trash?
They are going to throw in a widescreen TV and hi-fi for that. Aren't they?
You said it more succinctly than I could. This is a backwards step, I'm sure.
iD and GameSpy really need to look at their algorithms for ISDN users.
I suggest "Ticket To The Moon" by E.L.O. Although there'd probably be enough time for "Love In An Elevator", provided there were only two passengers ;-)
We should at least create sufficient carbon sinks (forests) to remove the amount we produce - or use biomass as our principal fuel, since it's carbon-neutral. There's no good technical reason why all new vehicles can't be built to run on biodiesel. It's widely sold in Europe and most standard diesel engines can use it. It creates CO2 when you burn it, but the oilseed rape absorbs the same amount of CO2 when it's growing in the fields.
I agree, PNG is brilliant, but IE doesn't support it fully, which hinders its use by webmasters a lot (seeing as IE ownz0rs the market, for better or for worse).
...as adding an ICBM address at the bottom of your e-mails? Used to be popular once.
On another note, I'm amazed no-one's released a mod yet that turns all the RTCW Germans into Republican Guards. Mind you, you'd have to design lots of civilian "uniforms", if the reports of underhand tactics are true.
Apparently Marinus van der Lubbe was beheaded by the Nazis after his trial. There are rumours that he was encouraged to burn the Reichstag by Nazi agents to provde a "trigger" for a crackdown. He was also a Communist, not a Jew.
We have invented SMS txt msgs and l33t-sp34k!
Most new houses are designed for a life of about 60 years before major renovation (because that's how long most roof materials are good for - oddly, thatched roofs are virtually as good as tiled roofs in this respect). However, based on the current clearance and rebuilding rate, an average British house needs to last for over 2,000 years. Frightening.
LOL! Seriously, home piracy must contribute to the wider economy in a big way, because personally I've been able to spend about 3000UKP on Other Stuff - some of which creates local jobs rather than profits in Redmond - because my MS software is knocked off. Charging 430UKP a go for Office doesn't create wealth, it just sucks it in. When billg has so much cash he has to give half of it to charity, surely his pricing structure is a bit awry?
Looks like that "new business model" is still a long way off. I suppose region coding amd preventing home users installing XP three times is going to thwart bin Laden and his cronies too?
...and likely to be banned in the next decade, even for chainsaws and the like. This is a serious backwards step. A fuel cell powered bike should be possible, though.
It's a bit like throwing pennies into a fountain and then complaining that the water defrauded you!
/me is glad the Cold War is over :-)
Get with the program, dude: we had AI even in the UK last year. I didn't go and see it though, because it starred that irritating kid from "The Sixth Sense".
Ever noticed what "Evian" reads backwards?
Embarrassingly, I've done it myself twice when carrying out other transactions that don't require you to take the card before completion (such as statements and deposits). Luckily I work for the bank, so they don't cut my card in half :-)
Every ATM I've ever used makes you take your card BEFORE the cash. I smell an urban myth ;-)