Ever since they registered domains like gooogle.com, googel.com, and gogle.com, I've seen the amount of typos I make per line increase dramatically. No joke.
I'm just lucky that such sites as images.gogle.com still redirect to Google.com instead of the proper site; this gives me a little incentive to spell the word correctly, and so my typing isn't utterly ruined.
Make a credible threat to switch to free software. (Submit your school's "migration plan" to the BBC. Just in case Microsoft doesn't read that, Slashdot the story!)
My sister moved to Brooklyn on the night of Sept. 10. On the morning of the 11th, she and her best friend coped the best way they knew how: They climbed to their roof with a bottle of tequila, watched the towers burn, and toasted the day with a black-humor contest. Whoever could think of the grimmest, ugliest, most horrifying joke would win.
My sister called out, "To an unobstructed view of lower Manhattan!" and tossed off her tequila. The winning toast turned out to be, "To employment opportunities in the New York Fire Department!"
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I frantically called a friend's cellphone in lower Manhattan. An elementary school teacher, he was evacuating students when I rang. He was in sight of the just fallen towers. He said, "When the radio played 'It's Raining Men' this morning, I didn't realize they were serious." When I reminded him of this charming comment some months later, he didn't remember making it.
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During the whole awful day, I was kind of excited that something had finally happened for MY generation so I didn't have to listen to my grandparents bitch about Pearl Harbor endlessly and ask why doesn't my generation get some direction.
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I'm a college debater and the topic last year (decided in August) was international terrorism. What I kept thinking all day was, Damn, my research is completely useless. Those assholes!
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Within 12 hours of the tragedy, it occurred to me that they'll never, ever show that great episode of the "The Simpsons" where the family goes to New York and Homer has to take a whiz in the World Trade Center.
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Sept. 12 I heard some people talking about the different state quarters. Shuffling through their pockets they pulled out a few and noted that the New York quarter had a picture of the Statue of Liberty on it. "Heh, heh, lucky they didn't put a picture of the twin towers on it," one said.
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Q: What's Osama bin Laden's favorite football team? A: The New York Jets. -- Terry Forte, who says the joke was conceived on Sept. 12
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Also, in thinking about the possible end of the world, one of the thoughts I was most upset by went something like this: "FUCK. If we're all barricaded in bunkers we won't be able to go to the movies anymore."
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"Well, I guess Gary Condit's relieved."
--overheard by Josh Anderson, 30, Arlington, Va., during the week of 9/11
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2001 was a great year for me; I hated the twin towers and I hated the Taliban and now they're both gone!
-- Lesbian feminist from Greenwich Village
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I knew a guy who narrowly escaped getting hit by a falling body. The first e-mail he sent out, two hours later, was, "Hey, how do we get ahold of all the new 212 cell numbers that'll be available?"
I had another friend who watched the towers go down from Brooklyn, didn't know what to do to get out his sudden rage against Arabs, so he opened his refrigerator and started throwing out all his Middle Eastern food, yelling as he tossed items one by one into the garbage: "Fuck this baba ghanoush! We don't need their fucking pita bread!" I won't even tell you what he did to the hummus.
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My husband and I were playing Jenga afterward. When the Jenga collapsed, I shouted "North Tower." Then the second round of the game, we shouted, "South Tower." Now we don't call it Jenga anymore. We call it North Tower.
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When I heard there was a terror attack downtown, I hoped the situation would degenerate into urban guerrilla warfare. I was really psyched to go out and kick some Islamist ass.
-----
I worked at a prominent chain of sex stores. On Sept. 11, I worked there all day, and as weirdo after weirdo came in, oblivious to the fact that hijacked airplanes had just crashed into and destroyed American landmarks and killed thousands of people (at that time, people were guessing up to 50,000 plus), I thought, Godammit. Of all the times to be on commission at a fucking sex store...
Probably you can recommend a Linux or in worst case Windows utility to convert CDs to MP3-VBR files with some kind of CDDB support for automatic file naming.
CDEX is a standard tool for ripping CD's to uncompressed WAV files or straight to MP3. But it's Windows software.
Other tools are listed in this short guide (the first Google hit for 'linux ripping music', without quotes).
Sure, you can make as many "we do not condone infringement" banner ads as you like. But you're still an evil pirate, and you're just trying to hide it, arr!
On the other hand, a tiny slip of paper with a font-size-9 "Please don't steal music" would probably do the trick for anything that the President has.
Skavinsky consulted with the Berks County District Attorney's office and recommended charges of "Computer Trespass," in violation of PA criminal code section 7615, which carries a third degree felony charge.
The best way to get poor laws changed is to enforce them strictly.
And what's worse is that Froogle doesn't even make a token attempt at including the additional costs like shipping and handling. So the eBay sellers it indexes seem cheap but are almost invariably poor deals.
However, Froogle doesn't seem to keep historical data and doesn't index auctions that aren't from eBay stores (with "buy it now" auctions). Or, if they do, they're keeping it an in-house secret - and what a cool database that would be to have around!
An interesting project which would require a very large operation would be to start keeping track of every completed eBay auction. With such a database, you could search by keywords or some other query to figure out the historical value of items, the best time to sell them (graphing calculators in August when school starts), or to analyze other trends. This could be valuable both to buyers and sellers.
The current eBay robots.txt includes the text # eBay may permit automated access to # access certain eBay pages but soley for the limited purpose of # including content in publicly available search engines.
So Google could get away with doing such indexing - which would be of very high value to many people, since eBay makes old auctions inaccessible after a certain period - at least under the current robots.txt.
I'm aware of the legal and technical problems that might arise. (Recall the 2000 Bidder's Edge lawsuit where an online auction aggregator was prevented by eBay from using their data.) You'd need a large company and a lot of machines with different IP addresses to quietly check every auction, and I can think of at least twelve different ways such a database of prices, bids, times, durations, titles, and descriptions could be important.
32. Defendant slashdot.org is an far-right wing Internet news website that posts libelous and defamatory content and is used by Open Source Community members to anonymously post hate speech, death threats, threats to murder and promotes and advocates acts of domestic terrorism within the United States. The address and location of defendants is believed to be within the State of California, but is unknown at the present time.
46. The beheading and murder of United States Citizens in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and other countries have been videotaped, converted to MPEG and other images for viewing on the public Internet through the use of OSS and Linux software and computer technology developed and purloined by Linux and OSS members and illegally exported from the United States.
47. Companies which sponsor, endorse, and support OSS and Linux, and those acting in concert as their advocates have been unwitting participants in wholesale technology theft of United States developed technology and sponsors of domestic and international terrorism.
49. Companies who attempt to protect their rights to their intellectual property by filing lawsuits against members of Linux and OSS are attacked publicly on the public Internet through a variety of means, including identity theft, defamation, interference in their business and cultural relationships, violation of their rights of expressive association and freedom of speech, threats to murder them, intentional infliction of emotional distress to the extent they take their own lives, and Internet postings advocating they commit suicide.
72. Slashdot posted an article in response to Merkey filing an email complaint with the FBI in Richmond Virginia which alleged Merkey.net was hacking google and making threats to murder him. Slashdot then solicited comments, then posted comments Merkey should be murdered, killed, censored and other threats. These comments and threats remained posted on slashdot.org for over 6 months.
72. All of these comments and actions by members of OSS and Linux are a direct and proximate result of Perens posting and advocating Merkey's murder by posting statements on the public Internet that Merkey should be "placed in a file of people to be killed", and that he "stole Novell intellectual property" and that he "contaminated Linux within Novell intellectual property."
I think the people in Wayne Enterprises all work on parts and pieces of the projects, never really knowing what they were for
And one day, they're going to wake up and find they've been transported to a mysterious, magical cave with compound numbers scribbled on the walls. One by one, they'll die to the traps until only poor confused Robin makes it out of the cave alive.
Twelve years ago the landscape of the Internet was totally different. We had Clevnet, and that could get us anywhere!
BBS games were before my time (or I just missed out on the craze), but I was a big fan of single-person text adventures before they were Interactive Fiction. I was especially fond of a couple of adventure games on some pay-per-minute service, Compuserve or Prodigy maybe. One in particular stands out because it involved a vampire (Dracula?) and it was designed to be incrementally solvable. It's where I learned the maze mapping skills that came so handy in Adventure later (even though it came out earlier).
Does anyone else remember this vampire-themed adventure game that was available on some early ISP? Even a name would be a start...
The African continent is one of those areas that is perpetually in the dark, both literally and figuratively. It appears as a large black mass in the World At Night map
Slashdot has created a Slashvertisement whose cover story is Paper thin! This unique design is enabled by lagging ad revenues. In addition to the fact that Alexa ranking has plummeted, the editors also have an inherently short memory effect which require no effort to maintain duplicate story postings - both of which drastically reduce time spent editing. The result is 1/100th the meaningful content of traditional tech news sites. CmdrTaco and Zonk have not yet announced a launch date for this product, but it is expected to be out of beta "real soon now".
One nanometer equals one-billionth of a meter, which means it would take 100,000 nanometers lined up side-by-side to equal the diameter of a human hair.
I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. How many of these suckers can I fit in a Library of Congress?
Building Accessible Websites by Joe Clark. By far the most insightful and interestnig book on the subject that I've seen. A great designer needs to keep all the "who" in mind - not just the "why" or "how".
This is a textbook example of the kind of marketing I read about in an earlier article. I can't find it now, but the example used was the phrase "suits are in".
The idea is, you feed this kind of information to dozens of different news sources' fashion, entertainment, life, news departments. Three to five of them will run stories which will read basically the same:
Catchy lede paragraph Information about the product Quotes from the manufacturer Quotes from an industry group Anecdotes from users Catchy summation
This is standard marketing practice and not much more. Once you know the format, you can spot many of these articles. However, I can't find the original source on the "suits are in" marketing expose - does anyone have it?
Slashdot Mirror
Ever since they registered domains like gooogle.com, googel.com, and gogle.com, I've seen the amount of typos I make per line increase dramatically. No joke.
I'm just lucky that such sites as images.gogle.com still redirect to Google.com instead of the proper site; this gives me a little incentive to spell the word correctly, and so my typing isn't utterly ruined.
Am I the only one who uses Google this much?
Make a credible threat to switch to free software.
(Submit your school's "migration plan" to the BBC. Just in case Microsoft doesn't read that, Slashdot the story!)
"We thought that using an objective check through the computer would be the most fair and objective way to do that,' she said Wednesday."
That's all very well, but did she say it objectively? I have to know.
From Salon's feature Forbidden thoughts about 9/11:
...
My sister moved to Brooklyn on the night of Sept. 10. On the morning of the 11th, she and her best friend coped the best way they knew how: They climbed to their roof with a bottle of tequila, watched the towers burn, and toasted the day with a black-humor contest. Whoever could think of the grimmest, ugliest, most horrifying joke would win.
My sister called out, "To an unobstructed view of lower Manhattan!" and tossed off her tequila. The winning toast turned out to be, "To employment opportunities in the New York Fire Department!"
-----
I frantically called a friend's cellphone in lower Manhattan. An elementary school teacher, he was evacuating students when I rang. He was in sight of the just fallen towers. He said, "When the radio played 'It's Raining Men' this morning, I didn't realize they were serious." When I reminded him of this charming comment some months later, he didn't remember making it.
-----
During the whole awful day, I was kind of excited that something had finally happened for MY generation so I didn't have to listen to my grandparents bitch about Pearl Harbor endlessly and ask why doesn't my generation get some direction.
-----
I'm a college debater and the topic last year (decided in August) was international terrorism. What I kept thinking all day was, Damn, my research is completely useless. Those assholes!
-----
Within 12 hours of the tragedy, it occurred to me that they'll never, ever show that great episode of the "The Simpsons" where the family goes to New York and Homer has to take a whiz in the World Trade Center.
-----
Sept. 12 I heard some people talking about the different state quarters. Shuffling through their pockets they pulled out a few and noted that the New York quarter had a picture of the Statue of Liberty on it. "Heh, heh, lucky they didn't put a picture of the twin towers on it," one said.
-----
Q: What's Osama bin Laden's favorite football team?
A: The New York Jets.
-- Terry Forte, who says the joke was conceived on Sept. 12
-----
Also, in thinking about the possible end of the world, one of the thoughts I was most upset by went something like this: "FUCK. If we're all barricaded in bunkers we won't be able to go to the movies anymore."
-----
"Well, I guess Gary Condit's relieved."
--overheard by Josh Anderson, 30, Arlington, Va., during the week of 9/11
------
2001 was a great year for me; I hated the twin towers and I hated the Taliban and now they're both gone!
-- Lesbian feminist from Greenwich Village
-----
I knew a guy who narrowly escaped getting hit by a falling body. The first e-mail he sent out, two hours later, was, "Hey, how do we get ahold of all the new 212 cell numbers that'll be available?"
I had another friend who watched the towers go down from Brooklyn, didn't know what to do to get out his sudden rage against Arabs, so he opened his refrigerator and started throwing out all his Middle Eastern food, yelling as he tossed items one by one into the garbage: "Fuck this baba ghanoush! We don't need their fucking pita bread!" I won't even tell you what he did to the hummus.
-----
My husband and I were playing Jenga afterward. When the Jenga collapsed, I shouted "North Tower." Then the second round of the game, we shouted, "South Tower." Now we don't call it Jenga anymore. We call it North Tower.
-----
When I heard there was a terror attack downtown, I hoped the situation would degenerate into urban guerrilla warfare. I was really psyched to go out and kick some Islamist ass.
-----
I worked at a prominent chain of sex stores. On Sept. 11, I worked there all day, and as weirdo after weirdo came in, oblivious to the fact that hijacked airplanes had just crashed into and destroyed American landmarks and killed thousands of people (at that time, people were guessing up to 50,000 plus), I thought, Godammit. Of all the times to be on commission at a fucking sex store
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I don't get it.
Probably you can recommend a Linux or in worst case Windows utility to convert CDs to MP3-VBR files with some kind of CDDB support for automatic file naming.
CDEX is a standard tool for ripping CD's to uncompressed WAV files or straight to MP3. But it's Windows software.
Other tools are listed in this short guide (the first Google hit for 'linux ripping music', without quotes).
You keep getting hit by zombie machines?
Liberal Arts zombies? Are you sure they're not dogs?
(And, as always, the best answer to your question may come from Google. Linux.com | A Linux firewall primer.)
Sure, you can make as many "we do not condone infringement" banner ads as you like. But you're still an evil pirate, and you're just trying to hide it, arr!
On the other hand, a tiny slip of paper with a font-size-9 "Please don't steal music" would probably do the trick for anything that the President has.
Is it just me, or does the Arc de Triomphe look a whole lot like the Eye of Sauron?
Funny - I was thinking "Kobayashi Maru".
Skavinsky consulted with the Berks County District Attorney's office and recommended charges of "Computer Trespass," in violation of PA criminal code section 7615, which carries a third degree felony charge.
The best way to get poor laws changed is to enforce them strictly.
And what's worse is that Froogle doesn't even make a token attempt at including the additional costs like shipping and handling. So the eBay sellers it indexes seem cheap but are almost invariably poor deals.
However, Froogle doesn't seem to keep historical data and doesn't index auctions that aren't from eBay stores (with "buy it now" auctions). Or, if they do, they're keeping it an in-house secret - and what a cool database that would be to have around!
An interesting project which would require a very large operation would be to start keeping track of every completed eBay auction. With such a database, you could search by keywords or some other query to figure out the historical value of items, the best time to sell them (graphing calculators in August when school starts), or to analyze other trends. This could be valuable both to buyers and sellers.
The current eBay robots.txt includes the text
# eBay may permit automated access to
# access certain eBay pages but soley for the limited purpose of
# including content in publicly available search engines.
So Google could get away with doing such indexing - which would be of very high value to many people, since eBay makes old auctions inaccessible after a certain period - at least under the current robots.txt.
I'm aware of the legal and technical problems that might arise. (Recall the 2000 Bidder's Edge lawsuit where an online auction aggregator was prevented by eBay from using their data.) You'd need a large company and a lot of machines with different IP addresses to quietly check every auction, and I can think of at least twelve different ways such a database of prices, bids, times, durations, titles, and descriptions could be important.
So why hasn't anyone done it?
From the complaint:
32. Defendant slashdot.org is an far-right wing Internet news website that posts libelous and defamatory content and is used by Open Source Community members to anonymously post hate speech, death threats, threats to murder and promotes and advocates acts of domestic terrorism within the United States. The address and location of defendants is believed to be within the State of California, but is unknown at the present time.
46. The beheading and murder of United States Citizens in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and other countries have been videotaped, converted to MPEG and other images for viewing on the public Internet through the use of OSS and Linux software and computer technology developed and purloined by Linux and OSS members and illegally exported from the United States.
47. Companies which sponsor, endorse, and support OSS and Linux, and those acting in concert as their advocates have been unwitting participants in wholesale technology theft of United States developed technology and sponsors of domestic and international terrorism.
49. Companies who attempt to protect their rights to their intellectual property by filing lawsuits against members of Linux and OSS are attacked publicly on the public Internet through a variety of means, including identity theft, defamation, interference in their business and cultural relationships, violation of their rights of expressive association and freedom of speech, threats to murder them, intentional infliction of emotional distress to the extent they take their own lives, and Internet postings advocating they commit suicide.
72. Slashdot posted an article in response to Merkey filing an email complaint with the FBI in Richmond Virginia which alleged Merkey.net was hacking google and making threats to murder him. Slashdot then solicited comments, then posted comments Merkey should be murdered, killed, censored and other threats. These comments and threats remained posted on slashdot.org for over 6 months.
72. All of these comments and actions by members of OSS and Linux are a direct and proximate result of Perens posting and advocating Merkey's murder by posting statements on the public Internet that Merkey should be "placed in a file of people to be killed", and that he "stole Novell intellectual property" and that he "contaminated Linux within Novell intellectual property."
I like that there are two #72s...
I think the people in Wayne Enterprises all work on parts and pieces of the projects, never really knowing what they were for
And one day, they're going to wake up and find they've been transported to a mysterious, magical cave with compound numbers scribbled on the walls. One by one, they'll die to the traps until only poor confused Robin makes it out of the cave alive.
According to one of the books in "The Dark Knight Returns", this is exactly why he wears that huge target on his chest.
Don't look at me like that - I just read it for the first time yesterday.
Afraid not - I'm certain it was a single-player adventure game of the IF variety.
Downloaded Deadly Nights & perused the readme and documentation just to be sure, but none of it is familiar.
Thanks for suggesting it, though!
It wasn't the Scott Adams game. I played through it just now to check.
The game I distinctly remember had a bat, a maze, and a pool of blood, and it was I think at least a little more verbose than Adams's "The Count".
Thanks a lot, though!
Twelve years ago the landscape of the Internet was totally different. We had Clevnet, and that could get us anywhere!
BBS games were before my time (or I just missed out on the craze), but I was a big fan of single-person text adventures before they were Interactive Fiction. I was especially fond of a couple of adventure games on some pay-per-minute service, Compuserve or Prodigy maybe. One in particular stands out because it involved a vampire (Dracula?) and it was designed to be incrementally solvable. It's where I learned the maze mapping skills that came so handy in Adventure later (even though it came out earlier).
Does anyone else remember this vampire-themed adventure game that was available on some early ISP? Even a name would be a start...
The African continent is one of those areas that is perpetually in the dark, both literally and figuratively. It appears as a large black mass in the World At Night map
Except for Mauritius. Coincidence? No way.
Slashdot has created a Slashvertisement whose cover story is Paper thin! This unique design is enabled by lagging ad revenues. In addition to the fact that Alexa ranking has plummeted, the editors also have an inherently short memory effect which require no effort to maintain duplicate story postings - both of which drastically reduce time spent editing. The result is 1/100th the meaningful content of traditional tech news sites. CmdrTaco and Zonk have not yet announced a launch date for this product, but it is expected to be out of beta "real soon now".
One nanometer equals one-billionth of a meter, which means it would take 100,000 nanometers lined up side-by-side to equal the diameter of a human hair.
I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. How many of these suckers can I fit in a Library of Congress?
Building Accessible Websites by Joe Clark. By far the most insightful and interestnig book on the subject that I've seen. A great designer needs to keep all the "who" in mind - not just the "why" or "how".
Aha - Google for "suits are back" gets it but no other combination of keywords will. Thanks!
This is not a followup and it hasn't caught on.
This is a textbook example of the kind of marketing I read about in an earlier article. I can't find it now, but the example used was the phrase "suits are in".
The idea is, you feed this kind of information to dozens of different news sources' fashion, entertainment, life, news departments. Three to five of them will run stories which will read basically the same:
Catchy lede paragraph
Information about the product
Quotes from the manufacturer
Quotes from an industry group
Anecdotes from users
Catchy summation
This is standard marketing practice and not much more. Once you know the format, you can spot many of these articles. However, I can't find the original source on the "suits are in" marketing expose - does anyone have it?