...though not the first. Yahoo messenger does provide an ageold and rudimentary "Java Pager" that runs within a browser, but it's woefully out of date and buggy.
And frankly, Google Talk didn't bring anything new to the table...I am one of those people who installed it just to give it a spin, and reverted back to Yahoo Messenger (which btw is also available in a little outdated Unix Version) and Gaim, since the "Voice Call" functionality was just overhyped functionality which already existed in all other popular messengers.
A seamless integration with GMail is something that could certainly get them a userbase...if properly implemented. The reasons for using GMail Chat as they state in the FAQ are certainly valid, and archiving/searching the chat archives like email would certainly boost my ability to pull up relevant conversations...the current "Archiving" feature in Yahoo Messenger and the like has plenty of room for improvement.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company has released the Malicious Software Removal Tool off-schedule once before
Our sources say that this 'malicious tool' looks just like 'rm', but is made with evil bits. Some viewers have called in to report sinister rm.666 files all over the file systems - experts suspect these to be soft links to/bin/rm. Reports are steadily streaming in of other variants aliasing themselves to 'rm -rf/'.
Viewers are urged to remain cautious. We shall return at 11 to talk about these and other stories.
Just because I know a number of you n3rds here will try to see what the IP address that is reported as a "Phishing website" on the penultimate page of the tour is, I already checked. It belongs to MSFT itself.
http://207.68.142.106/contoso/enroll_auth.html
Search ARIN WHOIS for: 207.68.142.106
OrgName: Microsoft Corp
OrgID: MSFT
Address: One Microsoft Way
City: Redmond
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98052
Country: US
NetRange: 207.68.128.0 - 207.68.207.255
CIDR: 207.68.128.0/18, 207.68.192.0/20
NetName: MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-BLK
NetHandle: NET-207-68-128-0-1
Parent: NET-207-0-0-0-0
I always wanted to see Microsoft blacklist itself in one of it's intricate series of patch releases, security alerts, and spam filters. Now my life is complete.
My new and surprising piece of advice...
on
Obesity Contagious?
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· Score: 1
There is a lot of good advice to help us avoid becoming obese, such as "Eat less," and "Exercise." But here's a new and surprising piece of advice based on a promising area of obesity research: "Wash your hands."
...based on informal non-clinical trials is to follow this 8 part regime, starting with actually "Eating more":
1. Eat more.
2. Feel lazy.
3. Goof off at work.
4. Get fired.
5. Run out of money to get stuff to eat.
6. Tap into stored adipose tissue to meet daily energy requirements
7. !!!
8. Lower body weight.
She acknowledged that there appeared to be an increased risk among brain cancer sufferers on the side of the head where they held the phone...Instead, they blamed biased reporting from brain tumour sufferers who knew what side of the head their tumours were on.
I hold my phone on the outside of my head. Does that mean I have a reduced risk of getting brain cancer inside of my head? This is good news for people who use my cellphone usage technique.
The tickets would be delivered directly to their mobile phones. At the venue, they only need to place their phones on the sensor installed at the gates for entering the stadium. Spice Telecom and Karnataka State Cricket Association, after their "successful" and ongoing joint venture of Future Strokes, have again come together to launch the Mobile Ticketing in association with ConvergeLabs, a Spice Telecom release said.
Ingredients: 2 tbsp Mountain Dew: cooled to room temperature 12 fl oz generic beer 2 oz Cheetos: crushed to fine powder 5 oz Bacon strips: fried till crisp 0.5 lb butter: at room temperature 0.5 lbs onions: ground to fine consistency 2 nos. matured socks: preferably fermented for 3 days
Preparation: Preparation Time: 5 minutes.
Heat butter in pan until gently melting. Stir in remaining ingredients and simmer till delicious smell begins to whaffle through kitchen. Cool to room temperature, drain and apply in generous proportion.
Step 1: Cut down said tree
Step 2: Chop into firewood sized chunks
Step 3: Burn chunks obtained from (2)
Step 4: Harness heat from (3) boil water
Step 5: Use steam generated in (4) to turn steam turbine generator
Step 5: ???
Step 6: Electricity!!!
Heart Attack features technologies such as GLSL pixel/vertex shaders and octree collision detection along with fast-paced, dynamic gameplay.
For added realism, comes with the genuine HeartAttack Inducer (TM) guaranteed to trigger an actual heart attack during gameplay. Our patent pending CattleProd(TM) technology shocks the player into one or more heart attacks (configurable) through repeated, powerful jolts of raw electric power synchronized with in-game events.
An optional multiplayer add-on pack offers even more realism by automatically dialling 911 so Emergency services, paramedics and the ER crew can join in for some fast-paced, dynamic action.
Looks like Comer wasn't so far off with his water dunked rig after all. Strange noone has posted this old avforums gem in this thread yet.
I decided this weekend to try and quiten my PC by following some other members lead and going down the water cooling road. The fans on my PC were really starting to drive me mad. The first thing that I did was to remove all the fans. The one on the processor and graphics card were no problem but the one in the power unit was a bugger to get out.
The most difficult part was sealing all the ventilitation openings in the PC case with silicon. I also put silicon all around the joints on the PC case. The smell of silicon was dreadful but when my wife complained I told her to be patent as it will be worth it when we have a completely silent PC.
Because I had completely sealed the PC case the only opening near top was the DVD drive. So I opened that and put the small hose I had purchased specially for the job into the DVD drive as far as it would go. With what I can only describe as great excitement and anticipation, I turned on the water. It really is amazing just how long it took before the case was complete full, and boy was it heavy. That didn't really bother me as I didn't intend to be moving the PC anyway.
The big moment had arrived so I called in my wife and mother in law (who was visiting) and I announced "prepare to hear nothing!" and flicked the switch on the socket on the wall.
Before I could even press the power button on front of the PC, with a loud bang, the whole place was plunged into darkness
I knew that it was only the tripswitch so I told my onlookers not to panic and I ran out to the hall to turn the trip switch back on. But can u believe it, it wouldn't stay on. After five attempts I decided to try unplugging the PC and would you believe...yes the trip switch stayed on. My conclusion: the PC must have in some way been causing the problem.
After about an hour of tries I finally decided to abandon the whole idea of water cooling and emptied the water out of the PC, put back in the fans (except the fan in the power unit, I had broken that one getting it out) and tried the pc AGAIN. IT STILL CAUSED THE TRIP SWTICH TO BLOW!
My PC is completely shagged thanks to stupid suggestions that I got on this forum. What the hell am I going to do now. I spent two hours last night with a hair drier inside the PC case and it still trips the switch.
When we put out this encyclopaedia in the public domain, no one will be able to claim that these medicines or therapies are their inventions.
With the ever increasing Intellectual Property statutes (backed by individual nations and/or the WTO) and an ever increasing number of litiguous IP whores, public domain knowledge is sadly stagnant (if not diminishing). More power to anybody putting in time/effort/resources into increasing the repository of unencumbered knowledge and intellect available to us.
...it's rumored that this cool gadget chases away all those pestering chicks too. It's a g33k's dream come true. And just in time for the gifting season!
What I'd really like to see is for them to take a picture of billions of genetically engineered E. coli bacteria in a petridish of agar. Yes, that sure will be cool to see.
...the Search for Terrestrial Intelligence (STI@home) project shall continue as before, though researchers say the chances of obtaining a positive sighting during our lifetimes is weak.
You young 'uns and your fancy-schmancy "lego shaped hard drives". Back in my day, we had none of these uppity "LaCie hard drives" in rainbow colors to lighten up our day.
We used to lug our trusty, stacks of punch cards on our backs each time we wanted to transfer data. Nothing builds character (and balls) like having to restack a pile of 1K+ punch cards that have fallen over on a Friday evening.
No sirree, we didn't play these childish games in the computer room in my day, and that's how we liked it.
Okay...I'm intrigued by this hypnosis thing, especially having seen a couple of impressive onstage performances on campus.
Anybody try any of the self hypnosis software like Virtual Hypnotist successfully? I've tried a few opensource/free programs, and they don't seem to work.
Note that I'm interested in self hypnosis purely from the scientific-curiosity/entertainment/skeptic point of view. Not looking for serious therapy stuff here (Office Space comes to mind).
You young 'uns and your fancy schmancy "text games". In my day, we didn't need any of these uppity "console games" to entertain us. We got by with a % shell prompt and a blinking cursor if we were lucky.
No sirree, none of these sophisticated "text games" for us. Sometimes, a couple of us guys would get together over a few beers and try race a cursor off the line - without character repeat, and without them sissy arrow keys.
That is how we built character, and we liked it that way.
Slashdot Mirror
And frankly, Google Talk didn't bring anything new to the table...I am one of those people who installed it just to give it a spin, and reverted back to Yahoo Messenger (which btw is also available in a little outdated Unix Version) and Gaim, since the "Voice Call" functionality was just overhyped functionality which already existed in all other popular messengers.
A seamless integration with GMail is something that could certainly get them a userbase...if properly implemented. The reasons for using GMail Chat as they state in the FAQ are certainly valid, and archiving/searching the chat archives like email would certainly boost my ability to pull up relevant conversations...the current "Archiving" feature in Yahoo Messenger and the like has plenty of room for improvement.
Short answer: Buy
Long answer: Wait
Our sources say that this 'malicious tool' looks just like 'rm', but is made with evil bits. Some viewers have called in to report sinister rm.666 files all over the file systems - experts suspect these to be soft links to /bin/rm. Reports are steadily streaming in of other variants aliasing themselves to 'rm -rf /'.
Viewers are urged to remain cautious. We shall return at 11 to talk about these and other stories.
http://207.68.142.106/contoso/enroll_auth.html
Search ARIN WHOIS for: 207.68.142.106
OrgName: Microsoft Corp
OrgID: MSFT
Address: One Microsoft Way
City: Redmond
StateProv: WA
PostalCode: 98052
Country: US
NetRange: 207.68.128.0 - 207.68.207.255
CIDR: 207.68.128.0/18, 207.68.192.0/20
NetName: MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-BLK
NetHandle: NET-207-68-128-0-1
Parent: NET-207-0-0-0-0
I always wanted to see Microsoft blacklist itself in one of it's intricate series of patch releases, security alerts, and spam filters. Now my life is complete.
kthx
1. Eat more.
2. Feel lazy.
3. Goof off at work.
4. Get fired.
5. Run out of money to get stuff to eat.
6. Tap into stored adipose tissue to meet daily energy requirements
7. !!!
8. Lower body weight.
I hold my phone on the outside of my head. Does that mean I have a reduced risk of getting brain cancer inside of my head? This is good news for people who use my cellphone usage technique.
FTA:
The tickets would be delivered directly to their mobile phones. At the venue, they only need to place their phones on the sensor installed at the gates for entering the stadium. Spice Telecom and Karnataka State Cricket Association, after their "successful" and ongoing joint venture of Future Strokes, have again come together to launch the Mobile Ticketing in association with ConvergeLabs, a Spice Telecom release said.
lmao'd reading that. Thanks.
The Essence of Geek:
Serves: 1
Ingredients:
2 tbsp Mountain Dew: cooled to room temperature
12 fl oz generic beer
2 oz Cheetos: crushed to fine powder
5 oz Bacon strips: fried till crisp
0.5 lb butter: at room temperature
0.5 lbs onions: ground to fine consistency
2 nos. matured socks: preferably fermented for 3 days
Preparation:
Preparation Time: 5 minutes.
Heat butter in pan until gently melting. Stir in remaining ingredients and simmer till delicious smell begins to whaffle through kitchen. Cool to room temperature, drain and apply in generous proportion.
Step 1: Cut down said tree
Step 2: Chop into firewood sized chunks
Step 3: Burn chunks obtained from (2)
Step 4: Harness heat from (3) boil water
Step 5: Use steam generated in (4) to turn steam turbine generator
Step 5: ???
Step 6: Electricity!!!
For added realism, comes with the genuine HeartAttack Inducer (TM) guaranteed to trigger an actual heart attack during gameplay. Our patent pending CattleProd(TM) technology shocks the player into one or more heart attacks (configurable) through repeated, powerful jolts of raw electric power synchronized with in-game events.
An optional multiplayer add-on pack offers even more realism by automatically dialling 911 so Emergency services, paramedics and the ER crew can join in for some fast-paced, dynamic action.
Beta testers wanted.
I decided this weekend to try and quiten my PC by following some other members lead and going down the water cooling road. The fans on my PC were really starting to drive me mad. The first thing that I did was to remove all the fans. The one on the processor and graphics card were no problem but the one in the power unit was a bugger to get out.
The most difficult part was sealing all the ventilitation openings in the PC case with silicon. I also put silicon all around the joints on the PC case. The smell of silicon was dreadful but when my wife complained I told her to be patent as it will be worth it when we have a completely silent PC.
Because I had completely sealed the PC case the only opening near top was the DVD drive. So I opened that and put the small hose I had purchased specially for the job into the DVD drive as far as it would go. With what I can only describe as great excitement and anticipation, I turned on the water. It really is amazing just how long it took before the case was complete full, and boy was it heavy. That didn't really bother me as I didn't intend to be moving the PC anyway.
The big moment had arrived so I called in my wife and mother in law (who was visiting) and I announced "prepare to hear nothing!" and flicked the switch on the socket on the wall.
Before I could even press the power button on front of the PC, with a loud bang, the whole place was plunged into darkness
I knew that it was only the tripswitch so I told my onlookers not to panic and I ran out to the hall to turn the trip switch back on. But can u believe it, it wouldn't stay on. After five attempts I decided to try unplugging the PC and would you believe...yes the trip switch stayed on. My conclusion: the PC must have in some way been causing the problem.
After about an hour of tries I finally decided to abandon the whole idea of water cooling and emptied the water out of the PC, put back in the fans (except the fan in the power unit, I had broken that one getting it out) and tried the pc AGAIN. IT STILL CAUSED THE TRIP SWTICH TO BLOW!
My PC is completely shagged thanks to stupid suggestions that I got on this forum. What the hell am I going to do now. I spent two hours last night with a hair drier inside the PC case and it still trips the switch.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated
Conor
Now, if they could just get the enemies to use opensource software instead of the traditional weapons and artillery they'd be all set.
With the ever increasing Intellectual Property statutes (backed by individual nations and/or the WTO) and an ever increasing number of litiguous IP whores, public domain knowledge is sadly stagnant (if not diminishing). More power to anybody putting in time/effort/resources into increasing the repository of unencumbered knowledge and intellect available to us.
Now if your friendly neighborhood LSD junkie says he can smell the pretty colors or sniff the awesome music, he may actually mean it.
Does it come with the cute, meditating babe?
Kidding!
What I'd really like to see is for them to take a picture of billions of genetically engineered E. coli bacteria in a petridish of agar. Yes, that sure will be cool to see.
...the Search for Terrestrial Intelligence (STI@home) project shall continue as before, though researchers say the chances of obtaining a positive sighting during our lifetimes is weak.
We used to lug our trusty, stacks of punch cards on our backs each time we wanted to transfer data. Nothing builds character (and balls) like having to restack a pile of 1K+ punch cards that have fallen over on a Friday evening.
No sirree, we didn't play these childish games in the computer room in my day, and that's how we liked it.
Anybody try any of the self hypnosis software like Virtual Hypnotist successfully? I've tried a few opensource/free programs, and they don't seem to work.
Note that I'm interested in self hypnosis purely from the scientific-curiosity/entertainment/skeptic point of view. Not looking for serious therapy stuff here (Office Space comes to mind).
No sirree, none of these sophisticated "text games" for us. Sometimes, a couple of us guys would get together over a few beers and try race a cursor off the line - without character repeat, and without them sissy arrow keys.
That is how we built character, and we liked it that way.
--GillBates0, 2005.