I read about these couple of revenge/prank ideas somewhere once:
1) Wait until your mark goes away for a week or so, gain access, get a friend/neighbour with a passkey who's in on it and sow all their carpet with lawn seed. Apply sprinkler. You get the picture;) I guess that'd work best in spring or summer, or if they had central heating on in winter...
2) Shove raw prawns into each end of any curtain rods you can find there. Works best in warm conditions, for obvious reasons, and they'll go NUTS trying to track down the precise source...
3) This one is a work in progress: I love the popcorn idea, but I have been trying for ages to think of a good practical joke app for ooblick. It's fun to make and play around with, but surely there's a _fun_ way to share the joy around?
"Finally privacy is a big concern for us. Players register under a userid and gameplay information cannot be traced to an individual's real identity."
Obviously, anything online can track all sorts of information about a user (duh), I guess I just find it funny they offer the warm and fuzzy privacy gurantees on one page, and then threaten(?) "naughty" users elsewhere on the site, after they get a mad-on.
The game was Time Traveller, released by Sega in 1991, and was the first ever holographic game, created by the same guy who did Dragon's Lair, another classic:)
To me, Ensign Crusher seemed to be one of those characters you either loved or loathed (kinda like the stereotypical annoying kid who always has the smartarse solution to any life or death situation)
Consider the existence of newsgroups back in the day like alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die and (I'm told) alt.wesley.crusher.borg.now
I've heard others express disgust that Wesley, out of the entire crew (quote)became some kind of f****ing kwisatz haderach... where is the justice in the universe?(unquote)
Anyway, my question would be,/.-er to/.-er, did you take all that as a compliment to your portrayal of the character, or was it supremely hurtful to you at the time?
If so, why?
Hey, I know it's probably a lame question, but I have always wondered, because no other character on that show ever seemed to trigger such a response in some viewers
"Beam me up, Scot....aarrRRGH..... ***NO CARRIER***"
IMO I can't imagine how a few (at this stage) pieces of hardware could be construed as litter, so much as pieces of history.
Closer to home, imagine if we colonised the moon at some point in the future - would you send crews out to pick up the man-made "litter" left behind by, say, the Apollo 9 mission, or would you keep it as a[n] [inter]national monument to a piece of human history?
It'd be like trashing the Mayflower or something because it had served it's purpose and was cluttering up the landscape.
I say, the spacecraft and probes that land on Mars before the place was colonised would have historical significance.
I guess the folks proposing the conservation areas are just thinking a few dozen centuries ahead (a more power to them for trying to prevent a potential problem).
Depends where a libel suit is (allegedly) committed...
IIRC, the truth is NOT a defence in some places, for eg the state of New South Wales in Australia (but it can be a defence in other Aussie states)
Of course, when you're talking something like email, which spans (and ignores) international and other geopolitical boundaries, there's a whole can of worms there just waiting for a tin opener...
What happens if someone say, in Italy, is accused of libelling/defaming someone in, say, Kenya - using the internet, where the damaging material passes through servers in knows how many other countries?
Thinking about what parent said, about suing trolls on/. for libel, the other thing to consider is that J. Random/.-er tends to use a nick, and never their real name.
The folks in the libel suit in the article were using real names, making the (allegedly) injured party very indentifiable to the public, especially as they were in the same town.
I'm not sure if a person using can sue for libel, if neither party is truly identifiable.
Thoughts on the matter, anyone?
I wonder if a can of worms could make good food for thought...
I truly hope they don't Americanise this movie too much, but keep it very "English".
Before any US/.-ers mod me down for that remark on patriotic grounds (I'm not a Brit, but Aussie, btw), consider this:
The original Arthur Dent was very, very, very English - meaning that, no matter what happened, he approached it with the traditional (and much stereotyped) British "stiff upper lip".
Case in point: refer to the tale he told Fenchurch in "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" about the biscuits in the railway station.
Adams' delightfully dry humour will only translate well if Arthur maintains the original Dent nature.
And let's face it, the dialogue is the best part about HHGTTG, in all it's forms - radio program, book, TV series, LP series, stage show and (hopefully) this movie! I doesn't need to be about great special effects as long as it's funny:)
Adams himself said the TV series was his least favourite adaption, but he was happy enough at the time to keep a heap of the main actors (Jones, Jones, Wing-Davey and Moore) and my guess it was he wanted the TV show (and presumably the movie) to have the same feel.
I know that's not possible right now, but I'm sure he intended it to keep its original look and feel.
I'm really looking forward to seeing if this movie version measures up to the dream:)
I devised my sig. going around Hyde Park corner on a moped
Here's more on the lightning claim, from the Courier Mail (Brisbane) news wire:
LIGHTNING sparked a fire in a power plant in upstate New York near the Canadian border, triggering a massive blackout today across the northeastern United States and southern Canada, Prime Minister Jean Chretien's office said.
"We confirm that there was a fire in the Con Edison power plant in the Niagara region on the American side," a statement said.
Canadian Defence Ministry spokeswoman Heather Blunner said the fire in the Niagara plant was caused by a lightning strike.
I see a lot of scepticism above about the lightning claim, but you gotta admit it *is* possible - think of it as Nature's way of slashdotting man;)
My question is this, and I'll pose it cautiously seeing how a lotta folk have been worried about terrorism last few hours:
If a single bolt of lightning can disrupt a single power station and kill such a massive area's power supply... isn't it time for a major revamp of the system before some terrorists decide to exploit this vulnerability?
IANAL (though I *am* an Aussie) but... does the Federal Court have the power to make laws concerning civil matters?
I would have thought the whole mod chip thing was a civil issue, not criminal when you're talking copyright infringement
Oh, wait... we're only talking potential copyright infringement aren't we?
It's legal for me to own a firearm (if properly licensed & registered) until such time as I actually commit a criminal offence with it. Surely I should be able to buy a mod chip for my Sony or whatever on the assumption I won't break any laws. If I do, so sue me, but until I actually break the law, I'm not a criminal.
Anyone here know much about the jurisdictions involved?
I mean, it uses a single deck, reshuffled after each hand, doesn't it?
I gather card "counting" in blackjack etc involves monitoring the cards coming out of the shoe over many hands and trying to figure the statisical likelihood of certain cards appearing at a certain time?
Perhaps a definition of what constitutes a planet could include existence of an atmosphere...
I'm no astromer (and my asbestos jocks are at the drycleaner, so hold your flame if I'm wrong here) but pretty much all the currently accepted "planets" in our solar system boast either some sort of atmosphere, or they're gas giants (ie: Jupiter) or frozen liquid (Neptune?)
I think Mercury has an atmosphere; Mars has a very thin one, doesn't it?
Also, if it fits the criteria above and has a satellite(s) orbitting it, it's certainly a planet in the accepted sense, wouldn't you say?
Pluto has me puzzled though... I don't recall hearing of it having any atmosphere, and it does have a very eccentric orbit - almost like an asteroid...
"You might think it's a long way to the chemist, but that's just peanuts compared to space!" - Douglas Adams
Did these guys code up a VirtualFrypan (better trademark that before Apple can) and screw around with a few simple variables or something?
I mean, don't you have to factor in the surface of the frypan? What about teflon versus some tatty old iron pan? Did they butter or oil it first and if so, how much?
What about the consistency of the batter and the right moment at which to flip it? I'm no Pancake Scientist but I bet a realllllly runny pancake is more likely to splatter the ceiling than one with the fluid dynamics of week-old oatmeal
A "conundrum that has taxed pancake flippers since the dawn" (dawn of time, or yesterday morning?) needs a rigid set of controls in place!
Maybe they need to determine the perfect recipe before firing up that stove?
Slashdot Mirror
1) Wait until your mark goes away for a week or so, gain access, get a friend/neighbour with a passkey who's in on it and sow all their carpet with lawn seed. Apply sprinkler. You get the picture ;) I guess that'd work best in spring or summer, or if they had central heating on in winter...
2) Shove raw prawns into each end of any curtain rods you can find there. Works best in warm conditions, for obvious reasons, and they'll go NUTS trying to track down the precise source...
3) This one is a work in progress: I love the popcorn idea, but I have been trying for ages to think of a good practical joke app for ooblick. It's fun to make and play around with, but surely there's a _fun_ way to share the joy around?
Player and Army Privacy
"Finally privacy is a big concern for us. Players register under a userid and gameplay information cannot be traced to an individual's real identity."
Obviously, anything online can track all sorts of information about a user (duh), I guess I just find it funny they offer the warm and fuzzy privacy gurantees on one page, and then threaten(?) "naughty" users elsewhere on the site, after they get a mad-on.
Looks like someone is still working on a remake of it though, according to Dream Codex Retrogames
I've already bookmarked it to keep an eye on it :)
I oughta know, I had some of those books when I was like, 2 or 3? First time I saw one of those Hello Kitty products, I assumed it was Bruna's work.
To me, Ensign Crusher seemed to be one of those characters you either loved or loathed (kinda like the stereotypical annoying kid who always has the smartarse solution to any life or death situation)
Consider the existence of newsgroups back in the day like alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die and (I'm told) alt.wesley.crusher.borg.now
I've heard others express disgust that Wesley, out of the entire crew (quote)became some kind of f****ing kwisatz haderach... where is the justice in the universe?(unquote)
Anyway, my question would be, /.-er to /.-er, did you take all that as a compliment to your portrayal of the character, or was it supremely hurtful to you at the time?
If so, why?
Hey, I know it's probably a lame question, but I have always wondered, because no other character on that show ever seemed to trigger such a response in some viewers
"Beam me up, Scot....aarrRRGH..... ***NO CARRIER***"
Closer to home, imagine if we colonised the moon at some point in the future - would you send crews out to pick up the man-made "litter" left behind by, say, the Apollo 9 mission, or would you keep it as a[n] [inter]national monument to a piece of human history?
It'd be like trashing the Mayflower or something because it had served it's purpose and was cluttering up the landscape.
I say, the spacecraft and probes that land on Mars before the place was colonised would have historical significance.
I guess the folks proposing the conservation areas are just thinking a few dozen centuries ahead (a more power to them for trying to prevent a potential problem).
*sounds of brain gears slowly grinding*
Then, we'll eventually be left with a race of super birds? Hitchcock time for us?
"... and I, for one, welcome our new avian overlords..."
IIRC, the truth is NOT a defence in some places, for eg the state of New South Wales in Australia (but it can be a defence in other Aussie states)
Of course, when you're talking something like email, which spans (and ignores) international and other geopolitical boundaries, there's a whole can of worms there just waiting for a tin opener...
What happens if someone say, in Italy, is accused of libelling/defaming someone in, say, Kenya - using the internet, where the damaging material passes through servers in knows how many other countries?
Thinking about what parent said, about suing trolls on /. for libel, the other thing to consider is that J. Random /.-er tends to use a nick, and never their real name.
The folks in the libel suit in the article were using real names, making the (allegedly) injured party very indentifiable to the public, especially as they were in the same town.
I'm not sure if a person using can sue for libel, if neither party is truly identifiable.
Thoughts on the matter, anyone?
I wonder if a can of worms could make good food for thought...
Before any US /.-ers mod me down for that remark on patriotic grounds (I'm not a Brit, but Aussie, btw), consider this:
The original Arthur Dent was very, very, very English - meaning that, no matter what happened, he approached it with the traditional (and much stereotyped) British "stiff upper lip".
Case in point: refer to the tale he told Fenchurch in "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" about the biscuits in the railway station.
Adams' delightfully dry humour will only translate well if Arthur maintains the original Dent nature.
And let's face it, the dialogue is the best part about HHGTTG, in all it's forms - radio program, book, TV series, LP series, stage show and (hopefully) this movie! I doesn't need to be about great special effects as long as it's funny :)
Adams himself said the TV series was his least favourite adaption, but he was happy enough at the time to keep a heap of the main actors (Jones, Jones, Wing-Davey and Moore) and my guess it was he wanted the TV show (and presumably the movie) to have the same feel.
I know that's not possible right now, but I'm sure he intended it to keep its original look and feel.
I'm really looking forward to seeing if this movie version measures up to the dream :)
I devised my sig. going around Hyde Park corner on a moped
LIGHTNING sparked a fire in a power plant in upstate New York near the Canadian border, triggering a massive blackout today across the northeastern United States and southern Canada, Prime Minister Jean Chretien's office said.
"We confirm that there was a fire in the Con Edison power plant in the Niagara region on the American side," a statement said.
Canadian Defence Ministry spokeswoman Heather Blunner said the fire in the Niagara plant was caused by a lightning strike.
I see a lot of scepticism above about the lightning claim, but you gotta admit it *is* possible - think of it as Nature's way of slashdotting man ;)
My question is this, and I'll pose it cautiously seeing how a lotta folk have been worried about terrorism last few hours:
If a single bolt of lightning can disrupt a single power station and kill such a massive area's power supply... isn't it time for a major revamp of the system before some terrorists decide to exploit this vulnerability?
I would have thought the whole mod chip thing was a civil issue, not criminal when you're talking copyright infringement
Oh, wait... we're only talking potential copyright infringement aren't we?
It's legal for me to own a firearm (if properly licensed & registered) until such time as I actually commit a criminal offence with it. Surely I should be able to buy a mod chip for my Sony or whatever on the assumption I won't break any laws. If I do, so sue me, but until I actually break the law, I'm not a criminal.
Anyone here know much about the jurisdictions involved?
Sigs? We don't need no stinking sigs!
O freddled gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me...
KaZaA user: Oooh, the RIAA are mad at me. I'm so scared! Oooh, the RIAA! Uh oh, the RIAA are going to get me!
RIAA: Stop it!
KaZaA user: Don't let the RIAA come after me. Oh no, the RIAA are coming after me.
RIAA: Please stop the 'pretending you are scared' game, please.
KaZaA user: No! They're so big and strong!
RIAA: Please stop pretending you are scared of us, please, now.
KaZaA user: Oh, protect me from the RIAA! The RIAA...
RIAA: Burns, STOP IT!
My other sig is a porsche
Someone wanna rip the ad and get it on KaZaa or something for us Aussies?
Mmmmmmm [Homer drool]... starving artists!
This is not the Greatest Post in the World, this is just a tribute
It could commit suicide if all was lost or..... it could decide the only way to prevent hack attacks was to rise up and destroy mankind.
I'm a fan of the Mutually Assured Destruction approach - if you're going to pull your own pin, make sure to take the culprit with you!
Maybe it could upload a pile of MP3s to the attacking machine and then email the RIAA or something ;)
I mean, it uses a single deck, reshuffled after each hand, doesn't it?
I gather card "counting" in blackjack etc involves monitoring the cards coming out of the shoe over many hands and trying to figure the statisical likelihood of certain cards appearing at a certain time?
All your aces are belong to us...
1. Experimental online voting system gets somehow /.ed
2. Result: Cowboy Neal elected President of the World by default
3. Profit!
Remember - life *will* find a way...
Thank you, thank you, I'll be in town all week
I thought the purpose of their project was to deal with the fact every country has a different postal code system?
Basing it on GPS co-ords is no better, because most every country also has it's own system(s) for lat/long co-ords
I know where I am already give or take a square metre - what do I need 10 more digits for?
Well, mutated (and ill-tempered) sea bass at the very least...
Would a laser sight on a laser rifle be redundant?
So do we get to do the Borg thing then, or some kind of hive mind memory/experience sharing?
Or will the spammers just go war chalking - make that Brain Chalking - and implant unsolicited memories?
I am Pentium of Borg. You will be approximated.
I'm no astromer (and my asbestos jocks are at the drycleaner, so hold your flame if I'm wrong here) but pretty much all the currently accepted "planets" in our solar system boast either some sort of atmosphere, or they're gas giants (ie: Jupiter) or frozen liquid (Neptune?)
I think Mercury has an atmosphere; Mars has a very thin one, doesn't it?
Also, if it fits the criteria above and has a satellite(s) orbitting it, it's certainly a planet in the accepted sense, wouldn't you say?
Pluto has me puzzled though... I don't recall hearing of it having any atmosphere, and it does have a very eccentric orbit - almost like an asteroid...
"You might think it's a long way to the chemist, but that's just peanuts compared to space!" - Douglas Adams
I mean, don't you have to factor in the surface of the frypan? What about teflon versus some tatty old iron pan? Did they butter or oil it first and if so, how much?
What about the consistency of the batter and the right moment at which to flip it? I'm no Pancake Scientist but I bet a realllllly runny pancake is more likely to splatter the ceiling than one with the fluid dynamics of week-old oatmeal
A "conundrum that has taxed pancake flippers since the dawn" (dawn of time, or yesterday morning?) needs a rigid set of controls in place!
Maybe they need to determine the perfect recipe before firing up that stove?
oh well, back to the chopping board...