I posted this to "My Notes" and to a few of the "OMG CHANGE IT BACK" groups:
-- News feed is one of the best features to happen to facebook. Facebook is for keeping up with friends. News feed allows you to see what is going with your friends.
You've been able to keep track of their statuses for a while now. Now you can see WHAT changed. "Profile Updated 30 minutes ago" is absolutely useless. Ah. Nice, Bob added "V for Vendetta" to his favorite movies; Tom is now free of his bitch of a girlfriend, I'll see if she wants to go out drinking; Jerry joined "Save the Peeps" group, I love peeps. I want to see them saved.
Everyone thinks that this is an invasion of their privacy. YOU put the information out there. YOU uploaded everything to FaceBook. The information's always been there. Now I can see what has changed.
You don't want people from your networks to stalk you? My Privacy -> Edit Settings -> Change EVERYTHING to "Only my Friends" Poof. You're gone. You do not exist other than to your friends. You cannot be searched for. Any any groups you are in your photo does not show up in the member list. If you are the admin, only your name is shown, your name cannot be clicked. Any messages you leave on other peoples' wall don't show up to anyone that isn't your mutual friend. You have dissapeared to everyone but your friends.
Don't want everyone on your friend list stalking you? Quit being a Facebook whore. Stop adding every guy or girl you met at the bar. Quit adding that hottie you sat next to hoping that you'll have an excuse to talk to them. There's a reason Facebook call it 'My Friends.' IT'S BECAUSE IT IS FOR YOUR FRIENDS. I have absolutely nobody on my list that I would mind seeing if I changed my relationship status, uploaded my picture, or anything else I could change on my profile.
I am upset about 2 things. It's the home page. Toss another link on the side "My Feeds." It would have taken a month before most people figured it out. Look at that sidebar. A year ago it had My Profile, My Friends, My Parties, My Messages and My Account. So far it's improved. My News Feed clutters that.
You can't turn it off or limit what is shown. I don't care who wrote what on whose wall. I do care who changed relationship statuses, who added a friend, who changed interest, etc.
Take a look at people's e-mail addresses. It's a generated image, it's not a text/link anymore.
In addition, I've been pounding my head against a wall trying to get CURL to work with Facebook and it seems that they've taken quite a few measures to make sure this can't happen.
I in no way meant a jab at the FB developers. But one team can only do so much. I've been on facebook since the beginning. Since then features show up and 'just work.' I remember looking at the JS before they added the "In a relationship with" thing. I was like "wow... I wonder what they're going to do with this." Sometimes I find a feature and brag about it to my friends only to find out that it was added months ago.
Facebook trumps MySpace in more than the API arena. It's the type of website that I want complete conformity with. I don't want to dig through a black on dark gray color scheme while the latest top 40 is blaring in my speakers if I'm trying to find a friend's e-mail address. It has a googleish simplicity about it. Blue on blue color scheme with a white background.
And for all the people screaming 'think of the children' with facebook. My profile is set up as the most restrictive. I do not show up in searches (even for my direct full name). I do not show up as friends of other people. My 'wall' messages that I leave on other peoples walls don't even show up to people that aren't my friends. Photos tagged of me don't show up to anyone that isn't my friend, even if it's not my album. Facebook CAN be secure, it's just no one takes the time.
By releasing the API, people can add features to facebook without requiring any additional facebook developer resources.
Like the Piggy Bank. Facebook could have implemented this... or it could have let millions of adoring fans write it for them. There are a few ideas floating around the developer network. Imagine if Facebook had X ability. Well now it can be done.
Just like MySpace and Blogging... the people make the content. Look at all the great google maps api applications. Google spent 0 amount of time making those. The released the API and people wrote it for them.
Khaki, in British or European parlance, is a type of green tinged brown fabric, or the colour of such fabric. Traditionally pronounced IPA: ['kaki], it is today more often called ['kki] in Britain and ['kæki] in the USA. The name comes from the Persian word khak (dirt) which came to English through the Hindi/Urdu loan word meaning earth-coloured or dust coloured. The original khaki fabric is a closely twilled cloth of linen or cotton.
I'm from the states and I've never thought "Soiled Underwear" when I heard Khaki.
Dang it. This comes days after I get my PHP implemented so that it will work with ebay.
http://checkout.exstatic.org/?280002299763 (it's sandbox, so don't worry, send money! [Not even my auction])
I used the cURL libs to scrape the auction and setup a nice check out. I've never used any other Google APIs, but setting up checkout was amazingly simple. It took me a few hours to set up everything and most of the time was getting the grep right on eBay. It doesn't work for every auction.
I just sold something on eBay. I got payed in an hour or so. I shipped it and everything. It was just a great experience. Hotmail:Gmail::PayPal:Checkout.
I have 2 other auctions ending soon. Hopefully they slip under the radar and get money for the other two. I have $900 in a limited account that I can't touch. I even sent all of the verifications and all I got was a "We're looking at it." Thanks PayPal. $900 is gone that I can't touch again.
Now it looks like eBay doesn't want any more of my money. I was considering selling quite a bit more stuff now that I had a Payment processor again.
They have had mandatory laptops for the last 8 years. The students did not have to buy the laptops separately, but they were included in the cost of freshmen tuition.
I see a lot of "ITS GOING TO BE STOLDED". When everyone has a something... no one cares that much about stealing it. 2000 undergraduate students and there isn't a problem with theft. They even have an open door polity. Unless someone is sleeping, most dorm doors are open, even if I'm not there. I don't know about what university and the surrounding metropolitan area. But in rural Indiana, theft between students isn't an issue.
All the laptops are preloaded with the licensed software. Everyone's laptop is identical. Whom ever they have a contract with allows them to repair their own computers. This is a huge deal. For the first 5 years they had Acer, because Acer was one of the only companies that allowed them to repair onsite. I guess this year's class has Dell. They must have worked something out so that they could work on it. This means no shipping time and the laptop is back in your hands in 24 hours.
You can take your computer down to the technical center and give them your laptop. In the mean time they give you a loaner and swap the hard drives. Other than maybe flair, the computer looks, smells, acts like your original computer. 0 down time.
Every teacher knows what piece of software you have. They know exactly what you have. One of the problems with Purdue University is that teachers will give you assignment X. To do this project some students have to live by the hours labs. Others can work at home.
Math classes can be geared a bit higher order because some of the elementary stuff can be done in Maple. Not to say we don't learn it. The first test may be no laptop. You learn how to do Laplace. But for the second test, when you want to move on you don't spend half the test working on the first test's material.
"Computer" classes don't have to be held in labs. Teachers expect students to bring their laptops to class if they tell them to do so. There isn't room for "I don't have a computer" etc. If the teacher wants to go through some code in class, it's up on the projector and on our laptops.
It also eliminates syncing problems. One of the biggest pains with the computer lab setup at Purdue is that I have 2 drives, Engineering and University. In addition I have a laptop and a desktop. I have to remember which computer I was last working on and try and get to it (which isn't always possible). When I bring my laptop to class, it's the same computer that I worked on it in my dorm room. It's the same computer that I worked on in the library and in between classes. This also helps, imho, with productivity and configuration. If I want AutoCAD to have a white background, and have UGS off and have all the menus and everything arranged such... it stays that way. Every time sit down at a new computer at Purdue I spend 10 minutes getting everything setup the way I want it. In addition, it's still MY laptop. I can dual boot. Triple boot. As long as I don't break the base programs which are required for my classes. I know most CS students usually go to linux and gcc for their work.
If your school network is divided into classroom and dorm by subnet, put some filters up. Disallow all P2P, AIM, etc from the classroom subnets.
As far as where to go with your college, I would suggest looking at this format. Don't give students a requirement, tell them this you're your laptop. Do a group purchase through the university. Have a laptop orientation day (not everyone has been on computers for 10 years)
And as far as the different between Apple/Windows, no clue.
Apparently someone had 'stepped off the property' on which the party was being held. This was just cause for the police to step in and bust everyone that was underage.
Personally, I think it was some racketeering by the local police. The only thing they forced the fraternity to do was to hire an on duty cop to be a bouncer. Currently it was a rent a cop or just an older frat boy working the door.
Exactly. I personally know 20 or 30 underage people at that party.
At Purdue, the large university I go to now, any party that has been raided makes it straight into the papers. Purdue has no reputation to lose. They can publish stories about people being caught underage.
Smaller universities. Ones that are at the Top of the US News & World report have much more at stake. One story could mean the tumble to #2. Someone at my dorm was caught dealing pot. Nothing. He wasn't even caught on campus. Somehow it didn't make it into the papers. Anything drug related seems to just dissapear.
Reading some of these stories makes me think than noone has ever been caught. That there are no consequences. If you don't feel like reading my post it can be summed up as: Don't do pranks on the computer. Do something physical and do it intoxicated.
I've been booted, I have to say that it's disrupted my entire life. It hasn't been a fun experience. I went to a small engineering college in Indiana. My sophomore year was the year that the Olsen twins were choosing where to go. At this time the fake CNN news generator was out.
We recieved an e-mail from admissions that the Olsen twins thing was a joke (apparently they had a huge issue with alumni believing this.) On the way home from dinner my roomates and I sketched "Welcome Olsens" into the snow on the lake in 30' letters. Then I thought it would be a funny prank if I photoshopped the Olsen twins in front of one of our buildings. It was a quick and dirty job. I never intended for anyone to believe it. Not to mention the best photo I had found had them in the wrong age frame.
Our school had a "allstudents" e-mail address, however it could only be accessed by a few people. In addition it required a *.instudent.*.edu address. I did some scanning and found some computers that were turned off at night. I spoofed my MAC address and sent out the e-mail from the person that had originally sent the "it's not true" e-mail.
Nothing. No e-mail recieved. Nothing. A week later the dean of students called me into his office. They suspected me of sending the e-mail. What happened was the attachment was too big and bounced back to the woman I spoofed. She freaked out and contacted computer services. I guess how they caught me was my computer requested an old IP address in the DHCP negotiation. The dean forwarded the case onto the "Computer Use Policy", their ruling was that I had committed a felony: identity theft
I put up a fake news story on my away message to relay what had happened to my friends. At this point I wasn't suspended, but I was on probation.
One day the DHCP servers went down, so I did what any intelligent person would do: I set everything up on manual. The way I had done it a year before when the SAME THING happened. I got a call from the dean again. I had violated my probation, I was stealing IP addresses. This has elevated my case, and I was suspended by the Dean. I appealed, but on my appeal there were a few more 'charges' than a fake e-mail and a stolen IP address. Somehow someone forwarded on the fake news story on to the dean; in addition a year before I was running BitchX on my shell account. I eventually went before all of the faculty to beg (literally) not to kick me out. Explain to a room full of very intelligent Ph D engineers that know very little about computers (other than the CS/CO teachers) how 'BitchX' is nothing more than a chat client, how manually assigning an IP address is not stealing it, etc.
However as some people have posted, anything alcohol related is overlooked. Indiana Excise Police busted a party 3 weeks before I was suspended, however nothing was ever in the papers about it. My sophomore year someone, drunk, used an entire fire exinguisher in our dorm. It set off the fire alarms and everyone was evactuated at 3 am. Nothing ever came of it than a slap on the wrist. Someone 'stole' a fork lift that had its keys left in it and rammed it into one of the monuments on campus. Again. Nothing happened. People fear computers.
It's still upsets me when I think about what I was kicked out of school for: An e-mail prank, a fake news story among friends, a stolen IP addresses, and an IRC client.
It has disrupted my entire life. My ex girlfriend and I had a hard time with the distance. I lost quite a few credits and had to repeat course
http://mininova.org/tor/55573
Not sure if it's the real deal. I will try and get the.nfo posted when it completes. (I'm using Azureus to only get the nfo)
My uncle worked for Chrysler before the "merger". He still laughs to this day when someone mentions it. Something about most of his bosses being fired and being replaced by native speakers of German made him think it wasn't a nice friendly merger.
First I'd like to say that I'm a bit skeptical of the story. Mainly the last line: "I ended up selling it on eBay," Culbert said happily. "I got $400 for it. "
Freeipods.com only has the $299 20GB iPods. When I sold mine on ebay I couldn't get more than 280$ out of it.
My Experiences: FreeiPods is by far the easiest to do. So far I've reciveed 7 iPods. Yes, I know this is against their policy, deal. My first one took the longest. I was afraid I'd never get 5 people so I cheated my way up to 5. By then it was August. I hit campus like a madman. I flyered everywhere. I hit up the "For Sale" newsgroup for campus. The refferrals just poured in.
But only for the iPods. No one seemed interested in anything else. I got my 27" TV, but just barely. I'm stuck at 6 for my FreePC. Flyering for DVD and PVP has been about useless. No one cares. The lure of the iPod is, "Oo iPod." Some people were dumb enough to sign up with their @university.edu account. MOST of my completed offers were dumb jock types. I haven't recieved ANY spam from Gratis. I own my own domain so every account for everything has its own e-mail address. My experience with offercentric offers has not been the same. I am constantly getting junk mail for each of the individual accounts. I know that it had to have been a sale of e-mail addresses, because some of the accounts I hadn't even completed an offer for yet. Some times I'll get 5 pieces of SPAM at the exact same time. One delivered to each of my Offer Centric e-mail addresses.
It works. The novelty is dying off. But there are still people that still haven't heard of it yet. It takes some creative marketing to get it done, if you think by signing up you'll instantly get 5, think again.
btdownloadcurses looks much better in this release. But the biggest change is how it handles save locations and torrent files.
Before it was manditory to specify --saveas and --responsefile. Which means you had to know if the file you were downloading was a file or a folder. Now it seems to just accept the torrent file and defaults everything. The flags are still there, they're just not manditory.
I bought one of these for my girlfriend for her birthday. She had a nintendo with the blinking problem. I tried fixing it with alcohol and information I found on the web, but it never turned back on after that.
My only regret is that we didn't get 2. NES is nastalga for us late teen-20ish year olds. I'm not a heavy gamer so I never much got past the SNES. People like remembering their childhood.
"Retro" is in take a look at some of the nintendo shirts that have come out recently: (about 1/2 way down the page)
http://www.teesnthings.com/index.asp?PageAction=VI EWCATS&Category=47
I've seen quite a few of them around campus and some of them make me laugh because they're well done.
On the subject of the controller. I tried getting my girlfriend to just use the keyboard, but she hated it. Mainly because it didn't *feel* like what she was used to. Getting the controller solved this. Not to mention after some heavy searching I've found her NES games that I can't even find on Ebay.
They also have a nice FUD article on Mac OS X and security. While the exploits are there, I haven't heard of anyone that's been affected by them. While they called Sasser just a 'nip.'
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?News ID=1497
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I posted this to "My Notes" and to a few of the "OMG CHANGE IT BACK" groups:
--
News feed is one of the best features to happen to facebook. Facebook is for keeping up with friends. News feed allows you to see what is going with your friends.
You've been able to keep track of their statuses for a while now. Now you can see WHAT changed. "Profile Updated 30 minutes ago" is absolutely useless. Ah. Nice, Bob added "V for Vendetta" to his favorite movies; Tom is now free of his bitch of a girlfriend, I'll see if she wants to go out drinking; Jerry joined "Save the Peeps" group, I love peeps. I want to see them saved.
Everyone thinks that this is an invasion of their privacy. YOU put the information out there. YOU uploaded everything to FaceBook. The information's always been there. Now I can see what has changed.
You don't want people from your networks to stalk you?
My Privacy -> Edit Settings -> Change EVERYTHING to "Only my Friends" Poof. You're gone. You do not exist other than to your friends. You cannot be searched for. Any any groups you are in your photo does not show up in the member list. If you are the admin, only your name is shown, your name cannot be clicked. Any messages you leave on other peoples' wall don't show up to anyone that isn't your mutual friend. You have dissapeared to everyone but your friends.
Don't want everyone on your friend list stalking you?
Quit being a Facebook whore. Stop adding every guy or girl you met at the bar. Quit adding that hottie you sat next to hoping that you'll have an excuse to talk to them. There's a reason Facebook call it 'My Friends.' IT'S BECAUSE IT IS FOR YOUR FRIENDS. I have absolutely nobody on my list that I would mind seeing if I changed my relationship status, uploaded my picture, or anything else I could change on my profile.
I am upset about 2 things.
It's the home page. Toss another link on the side "My Feeds." It would have taken a month before most people figured it out. Look at that sidebar. A year ago it had My Profile, My Friends, My Parties, My Messages and My Account. So far it's improved. My News Feed clutters that.
You can't turn it off or limit what is shown. I don't care who wrote what on whose wall. I do care who changed relationship statuses, who added a friend, who changed interest, etc.
I'm all for News Feeds.
For everyone crying "OMG 1984:"
In the meantime, feel free to remove friends which you do not wish to share your information with here:
http://www.facebook.com/friends.php
You may also deactivate your Facebook account here:
http://www.facebook.com/deactivate.php
Also, you may find the copy of the Privacy Policy here:
http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
And everyone threatening "NOES! I"M GOING TO MYSPACE"
Go. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
More like: 5. Patent idea of making profit. 6. Let Apple perfect your business model. 7. Sue apple.
My guess is spam related.
Take a look at people's e-mail addresses. It's a generated image, it's not a text/link anymore.
In addition, I've been pounding my head against a wall trying to get CURL to work with Facebook and it seems that they've taken quite a few measures to make sure this can't happen.
Agreed.
I in no way meant a jab at the FB developers. But one team can only do so much. I've been on facebook since the beginning. Since then features show up and 'just work.' I remember looking at the JS before they added the "In a relationship with" thing. I was like "wow... I wonder what they're going to do with this." Sometimes I find a feature and brag about it to my friends only to find out that it was added months ago.
Facebook trumps MySpace in more than the API arena. It's the type of website that I want complete conformity with. I don't want to dig through a black on dark gray color scheme while the latest top 40 is blaring in my speakers if I'm trying to find a friend's e-mail address. It has a googleish simplicity about it. Blue on blue color scheme with a white background.
And for all the people screaming 'think of the children' with facebook. My profile is set up as the most restrictive. I do not show up in searches (even for my direct full name). I do not show up as friends of other people. My 'wall' messages that I leave on other peoples walls don't even show up to people that aren't my friends. Photos tagged of me don't show up to anyone that isn't my friend, even if it's not my album. Facebook CAN be secure, it's just no one takes the time.
By releasing the API, people can add features to facebook without requiring any additional facebook developer resources.
Like the Piggy Bank. Facebook could have implemented this... or it could have let millions of adoring fans write it for them. There are a few ideas floating around the developer network. Imagine if Facebook had X ability. Well now it can be done.
Just like MySpace and Blogging... the people make the content. Look at all the great google maps api applications. Google spent 0 amount of time making those. The released the API and people wrote it for them.
It's for Apple supplied hardware only. Although I'm sure the osx86 guys are already working on it.
I think your wife was looking for Khaki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki
Khaki, in British or European parlance, is a type of green tinged brown fabric, or the colour of such fabric. Traditionally pronounced IPA: ['kaki], it is today more often called ['kki] in Britain and ['kæki] in the USA. The name comes from the Persian word khak (dirt) which came to English through the Hindi/Urdu loan word meaning earth-coloured or dust coloured. The original khaki fabric is a closely twilled cloth of linen or cotton.
I'm from the states and I've never thought "Soiled Underwear" when I heard Khaki.
Don't tell her that.
I was under the impression that it cost money. I googled for Ebay API and found: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y202/m09/abu00 79/s02
Knowing how ebay charges for everything, I figured this was the case.
Dang it. This comes days after I get my PHP implemented so that it will work with ebay. http://checkout.exstatic.org/?280002299763 (it's sandbox, so don't worry, send money! [Not even my auction]) I used the cURL libs to scrape the auction and setup a nice check out. I've never used any other Google APIs, but setting up checkout was amazingly simple. It took me a few hours to set up everything and most of the time was getting the grep right on eBay. It doesn't work for every auction. I just sold something on eBay. I got payed in an hour or so. I shipped it and everything. It was just a great experience. Hotmail:Gmail::PayPal:Checkout. I have 2 other auctions ending soon. Hopefully they slip under the radar and get money for the other two. I have $900 in a limited account that I can't touch. I even sent all of the verifications and all I got was a "We're looking at it." Thanks PayPal. $900 is gone that I can't touch again. Now it looks like eBay doesn't want any more of my money. I was considering selling quite a bit more stuff now that I had a Payment processor again.
I would suggest that you get in contact with Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. (http://www.rose-hulman.edu/TSC/laptops/)
They have had mandatory laptops for the last 8 years. The students did not have to buy the laptops separately, but they were included in the cost of freshmen tuition.
I see a lot of "ITS GOING TO BE STOLDED". When everyone has a something... no one cares that much about stealing it. 2000 undergraduate students and there isn't a problem with theft. They even have an open door polity. Unless someone is sleeping, most dorm doors are open, even if I'm not there. I don't know about what university and the surrounding metropolitan area. But in rural Indiana, theft between students isn't an issue.
All the laptops are preloaded with the licensed software. Everyone's laptop is identical. Whom ever they have a contract with allows them to repair their own computers. This is a huge deal. For the first 5 years they had Acer, because Acer was one of the only companies that allowed them to repair onsite. I guess this year's class has Dell. They must have worked something out so that they could work on it. This means no shipping time and the laptop is back in your hands in 24 hours.
You can take your computer down to the technical center and give them your laptop. In the mean time they give you a loaner and swap the hard drives. Other than maybe flair, the computer looks, smells, acts like your original computer. 0 down time.
Every teacher knows what piece of software you have. They know exactly what you have. One of the problems with Purdue University is that teachers will give you assignment X. To do this project some students have to live by the hours labs. Others can work at home.
Math classes can be geared a bit higher order because some of the elementary stuff can be done in Maple. Not to say we don't learn it. The first test may be no laptop. You learn how to do Laplace. But for the second test, when you want to move on you don't spend half the test working on the first test's material.
"Computer" classes don't have to be held in labs. Teachers expect students to bring their laptops to class if they tell them to do so. There isn't room for "I don't have a computer" etc. If the teacher wants to go through some code in class, it's up on the projector and on our laptops.
It also eliminates syncing problems. One of the biggest pains with the computer lab setup at Purdue is that I have 2 drives, Engineering and University. In addition I have a laptop and a desktop. I have to remember which computer I was last working on and try and get to it (which isn't always possible). When I bring my laptop to class, it's the same computer that I worked on it in my dorm room. It's the same computer that I worked on in the library and in between classes. This also helps, imho, with productivity and configuration. If I want AutoCAD to have a white background, and have UGS off and have all the menus and everything arranged such... it stays that way. Every time sit down at a new computer at Purdue I spend 10 minutes getting everything setup the way I want it. In addition, it's still MY laptop. I can dual boot. Triple boot. As long as I don't break the base programs which are required for my classes. I know most CS students usually go to linux and gcc for their work.
If your school network is divided into classroom and dorm by subnet, put some filters up. Disallow all P2P, AIM, etc from the classroom subnets.
As far as where to go with your college, I would suggest looking at this format. Don't give students a requirement, tell them this you're your laptop. Do a group purchase through the university. Have a laptop orientation day (not everyone has been on computers for 10 years)
And as far as the different between Apple/Windows, no clue.
Apparently someone had 'stepped off the property' on which the party was being held. This was just cause for the police to step in and bust everyone that was underage.
Personally, I think it was some racketeering by the local police. The only thing they forced the fraternity to do was to hire an on duty cop to be a bouncer. Currently it was a rent a cop or just an older frat boy working the door.
Exactly. I personally know 20 or 30 underage people at that party. At Purdue, the large university I go to now, any party that has been raided makes it straight into the papers. Purdue has no reputation to lose. They can publish stories about people being caught underage. Smaller universities. Ones that are at the Top of the US News & World report have much more at stake. One story could mean the tumble to #2. Someone at my dorm was caught dealing pot. Nothing. He wasn't even caught on campus. Somehow it didn't make it into the papers. Anything drug related seems to just dissapear.
Reading some of these stories makes me think than noone has ever been caught. That there are no consequences. If you don't feel like reading my post it can be summed up as: Don't do pranks on the computer. Do something physical and do it intoxicated.
I've been booted, I have to say that it's disrupted my entire life. It hasn't been a fun experience. I went to a small engineering college in Indiana. My sophomore year was the year that the Olsen twins were choosing where to go. At this time the fake CNN news generator was out.
We recieved an e-mail from admissions that the Olsen twins thing was a joke (apparently they had a huge issue with alumni believing this.) On the way home from dinner my roomates and I sketched "Welcome Olsens" into the snow on the lake in 30' letters. Then I thought it would be a funny prank if I photoshopped the Olsen twins in front of one of our buildings. It was a quick and dirty job. I never intended for anyone to believe it. Not to mention the best photo I had found had them in the wrong age frame.
Our school had a "allstudents" e-mail address, however it could only be accessed by a few people. In addition it required a *.instudent.*.edu address. I did some scanning and found some computers that were turned off at night. I spoofed my MAC address and sent out the e-mail from the person that had originally sent the "it's not true" e-mail.
Nothing. No e-mail recieved. Nothing. A week later the dean of students called me into his office. They suspected me of sending the e-mail. What happened was the attachment was too big and bounced back to the woman I spoofed. She freaked out and contacted computer services. I guess how they caught me was my computer requested an old IP address in the DHCP negotiation. The dean forwarded the case onto the "Computer Use Policy", their ruling was that I had committed a felony: identity theft
I put up a fake news story on my away message to relay what had happened to my friends. At this point I wasn't suspended, but I was on probation.
One day the DHCP servers went down, so I did what any intelligent person would do: I set everything up on manual. The way I had done it a year before when the SAME THING happened. I got a call from the dean again. I had violated my probation, I was stealing IP addresses. This has elevated my case, and I was suspended by the Dean. I appealed, but on my appeal there were a few more 'charges' than a fake e-mail and a stolen IP address. Somehow someone forwarded on the fake news story on to the dean; in addition a year before I was running BitchX on my shell account. I eventually went before all of the faculty to beg (literally) not to kick me out. Explain to a room full of very intelligent Ph D engineers that know very little about computers (other than the CS/CO teachers) how 'BitchX' is nothing more than a chat client, how manually assigning an IP address is not stealing it, etc.
However as some people have posted, anything alcohol related is overlooked. Indiana Excise Police busted a party 3 weeks before I was suspended, however nothing was ever in the papers about it. My sophomore year someone, drunk, used an entire fire exinguisher in our dorm. It set off the fire alarms and everyone was evactuated at 3 am. Nothing ever came of it than a slap on the wrist. Someone 'stole' a fork lift that had its keys left in it and rammed it into one of the monuments on campus. Again. Nothing happened. People fear computers.
It's still upsets me when I think about what I was kicked out of school for: An e-mail prank, a fake news story among friends, a stolen IP addresses, and an IRC client.
It has disrupted my entire life. My ex girlfriend and I had a hard time with the distance. I lost quite a few credits and had to repeat course
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD. DO NOT GET THIS TORRENT.
It boots up to a picture of the goatse.cx guy.
You have been warned.
http://mininova.org/tor/55573 Not sure if it's the real deal. I will try and get the .nfo posted when it completes. (I'm using Azureus to only get the nfo)
http://mininova.org/tor/55573 Not sure if it's the real deal. Trying to get the .nfo now.
No worries mate!
Geocities never lasts long...
Here is a mirror to the latest updates 2005-03-20a.txt
Is that why there is a class action lawsuit over the "merger."
My uncle worked for Chrysler before the "merger". He still laughs to this day when someone mentions it. Something about most of his bosses being fired and being replaced by native speakers of German made him think it wasn't a nice friendly merger.
First I'd like to say that I'm a bit skeptical of the story. Mainly the last line:
"I ended up selling it on eBay," Culbert said happily. "I got $400 for it. "
Freeipods.com only has the $299 20GB iPods. When I sold mine on ebay I couldn't get more than 280$ out of it.
My Experiences:
FreeiPods is by far the easiest to do. So far I've reciveed 7 iPods. Yes, I know this is against their policy, deal. My first one took the longest. I was afraid I'd never get 5 people so I cheated my way up to 5. By then it was August. I hit campus like a madman. I flyered everywhere. I hit up the "For Sale" newsgroup for campus. The refferrals just poured in.
But only for the iPods. No one seemed interested in anything else. I got my 27" TV, but just barely. I'm stuck at 6 for my FreePC. Flyering for DVD and PVP has been about useless. No one cares. The lure of the iPod is, "Oo iPod." Some people were dumb enough to sign up with their @university.edu account. MOST of my completed offers were dumb jock types.
I haven't recieved ANY spam from Gratis. I own my own domain so every account for everything has its own e-mail address. My experience with offercentric offers has not been the same. I am constantly getting junk mail for each of the individual accounts. I know that it had to have been a sale of e-mail addresses, because some of the accounts I hadn't even completed an offer for yet. Some times I'll get 5 pieces of SPAM at the exact same time. One delivered to each of my Offer Centric e-mail addresses.
It works. The novelty is dying off. But there are still people that still haven't heard of it yet. It takes some creative marketing to get it done, if you think by signing up you'll instantly get 5, think again.
btdownloadcurses looks much better in this release. But the biggest change is how it handles save locations and torrent files.
./ --responsefile file.torrent
Before it was manditory to specify --saveas and --responsefile. Which means you had to know if the file you were downloading was a file or a folder. Now it seems to just accept the torrent file and defaults everything. The flags are still there, they're just not manditory.
NEW:
python ~/.bt/btdownloadcurses.py file.torrent
OLD:
python ~/.bt/btdownloadcurses.py --saveas
Put everything into a screen and you don't have to worry about any users on your computer accidentally closing your download.
Jedediah (what are the odds?)
Close. Try Felines.
10.0 - Cheeta
10.1 - Puma
10.2 - Jaguar
10.3 - Panther
10.4 - Tiger
Apple also registered the trademarks Lynx, Cougar, Leopard, and Tiger.
I bought one of these for my girlfriend for her birthday. She had a nintendo with the blinking problem. I tried fixing it with alcohol and information I found on the web, but it never turned back on after that.
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I've seen quite a few of them around campus and some of them make me laugh because they're well done.
My only regret is that we didn't get 2. NES is nastalga for us late teen-20ish year olds. I'm not a heavy gamer so I never much got past the SNES. People like remembering their childhood.
"Retro" is in take a look at some of the nintendo shirts that have come out recently: (about 1/2 way down the page) http://www.teesnthings.com/index.asp?PageAction=V
On the subject of the controller. I tried getting my girlfriend to just use the keyboard, but she hated it. Mainly because it didn't *feel* like what she was used to. Getting the controller solved this. Not to mention after some heavy searching I've found her NES games that I can't even find on Ebay.
They also have a nice FUD article on Mac OS X and security. While the exploits are there, I haven't heard of anyone that's been affected by them. While they called Sasser just a 'nip.' http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?News ID=1497