Trying to delete something from the Internet is like trying to get pee out of a swimming pool. Best case scenario, you waste enough time and draw so much attention to yourself that the Streisand Effect ensues.
What could possibly make this better? Is George Lucas going to to consult, and add brief scenes of slapstick-style humor in between every shot? Or better yet, throw in a lead character that contributes absolutely nothing to the plot and is only there for comic relief, and who bares a striking resemblance to an Ebonic version of Roger Rabbit? How much do you wanna bet it's going to be a half-Vulcan, half-Tribble who sounds like Pikachu?
There's an easy way to fix a bunch of these problems: Use Google Voice in the middle.
Firstly, GV is for all intensive purposes a mobile provider since it can receive text, so FB should have no problem letting you confirm it on your FB profile.
Second, you can easily configure your GV account to handle calls from FB in a certain manner, such as screen them, send them to VM, or forward them to another number of your choice.
Ooooooor you could just say "fuck Facebook" and use GoogleTalk and Google Voice by themselves!
I find it hard to believe that someone was running a pirate radio station in violation of FCC laws. As I recall, one can legally get a low-power transmitter of a maximum wattage and maximum of a 6 foot antenna, and that will easily broadcast a few miles, especially if at a good height. In all likelihood, something broke or became corroded, but it's hard to see why they'd just outright fine someone so much money for an honest mistake. Sadly, the story doesn't elaborate on anything remotely technical.
I think the parents should be strung up for naming their boys Braydon and Bryton! It's bad enough having people with the same initials under the same roof, but by doing that cutesy shit with the letter Y, you now have two boys whose names also are spelled and sound very alike.
Does anyone else miss games like Duke Nukem 3D, DOOM, Secret of Monkey Island, Super Mario Bros 3? Free roaming environments where you'd have to wander and explore and backtrack, find keys and powerups, kill bad guys, solve puzzles. So much good gameplay, and best of all, so much replayability. That's the biggest thing I hate about modern games: once you beat them, not as fun to do it again, and considering they cost TWICE as much as they used to, pretty big rip off.
Looking forward to the new Carmageddon coming out, I tell ya what!
I don't understand why anyone offended by something can't just not look at it. These people are going out of their way to look up something they consider offensive on the internet, and then get mad when it's there. I specifically don't go around Googling "pictures of sex-change surgeries gone wrong" because it bothers me. If I decided to, why would I get mad at the people in the pictures or the doctors who did it, or for that matter the site hosting the pictures? Shouldn't I feel stupid for looking up something that I know for a fact I don't want to see?
Also, why are they so pissed at the messenger instead of the creator of the content? Google went out of its way to censor this thing in their countries, what more do they want?
The positive spin is that it will drive more and more people to ditch their cable companies and either stream over ze Intarwebs or just invest in rabbit ears. Television providers such as satellite and cable with packaged channels are soon going to be obsolete, and I for one can't wait!
Will the party organizers be getting a private message at some point asking for their address so/. knows where to send the apparel? Or will we just be getting emailed patterns for iron-on's?:D
I've always wanted to do this for people, just cruise around, find open access points, knock on their doors and offer to secure their network for $20. Only problem is that it's illegal, and technically extortion if you ask for money. But the illegal part is simply that you're connecting to their network unauthorized. The federal laws still on the books actually mandate that one must obtain express WRITTEN permission from someone BEFORE you connect to their network. I know, I know, this means anyone using free wifi at the coffee shop is breaking the law, so the practicalities of this do become quite grey. But this is THE LAW, and if a government official is technically breaking the law, even if it's for good intentions, there is still quite a problem here, they could easily get sued. It would be nice if this would prompt them to rewrite the law... but would make far too much sense, and as such, will never happen.
In the mean time I'll just check to see if their router's admin web interface is unsecure, and in the likely event that it is NOT, rename their SSID to "YOU SHOULD SECURE YOUR NETWORK," or if I'm feeling mean, something particularly racist or disgusting.
Not entirely true, because water expands when it freezes, hence why ice floats. Not to mention all the ice and snow that has built up over frozen parts of the ocean.
Pretty sure this is illegal, or pushing it. I used to work at the Bresnan Communications call center in Billings, MT, and they once tried this same bullshit. Except the kicker is that they also mandated that we only got 20 minutes of bathroom break time PER WEEK. So if you happen to need to take a shit, or for that matter if you're a female, you're pretty fucked. Although since pretty much none of us could keep it under 20 minutes, even though we would sprint back and forth to the bathroom and gave up washing our hands, I never heard about anyone getting in much trouble for going over. It was likely just another metric they could hold over our head if they didn't like someone and wanted to axe them. But as I recall, after I left the company, they did get reprimanded for either this bathroom break rule, or the fact that they frequently forced their workers to work through ALL their breaks during the day, often making us sit at a computer for 12 hours STRAIGHT. Go find a local lawyer who specializes in labor laws, they might be verrrry interested in this.
Google did this to a far less invasive extent, they didn't even necessarily connect to open networks, just sniffed the airwaves for random information, and they got royally bitch-slapped for invading peoples' privacy.
Does this ruling mean that Google can get a refund for all those fines they had to pay? Or for that matter, does this mean that I personally can hop on my neighbor's open WAP, inventively named "linksys," and legally steal their packetses?
If the UK or US government invades the Ecuadorian embassy, or better yet, if Julian makes it to Ecuador and then they still come in after him, this could mean war.
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Trying to delete something from the Internet is like trying to get pee out of a swimming pool. Best case scenario, you waste enough time and draw so much attention to yourself that the Streisand Effect ensues.
What's so difficult about buying the laptop you want and then just formatting and installing Windows 7?
I just wanna know how a pen can read my handwriting when no one else can!
I am curious to see how JJ Abrams makes a movie where the main character never utters a word.
To quote another song Glee will probably soon be doing:
THIS WAS A TRIUMPH!
Is it just me, or would anyone else give their left nut, and possible their right one, too, for Joss Whedon to do a Star Wars?
What could possibly make this better? Is George Lucas going to to consult, and add brief scenes of slapstick-style humor in between every shot? Or better yet, throw in a lead character that contributes absolutely nothing to the plot and is only there for comic relief, and who bares a striking resemblance to an Ebonic version of Roger Rabbit? How much do you wanna bet it's going to be a half-Vulcan, half-Tribble who sounds like Pikachu?
There's an easy way to fix a bunch of these problems: Use Google Voice in the middle.
Firstly, GV is for all intensive purposes a mobile provider since it can receive text, so FB should have no problem letting you confirm it on your FB profile.
Second, you can easily configure your GV account to handle calls from FB in a certain manner, such as screen them, send them to VM, or forward them to another number of your choice.
Ooooooor you could just say "fuck Facebook" and use GoogleTalk and Google Voice by themselves!
I find it hard to believe that someone was running a pirate radio station in violation of FCC laws. As I recall, one can legally get a low-power transmitter of a maximum wattage and maximum of a 6 foot antenna, and that will easily broadcast a few miles, especially if at a good height. In all likelihood, something broke or became corroded, but it's hard to see why they'd just outright fine someone so much money for an honest mistake. Sadly, the story doesn't elaborate on anything remotely technical.
I think the parents should be strung up for naming their boys Braydon and Bryton! It's bad enough having people with the same initials under the same roof, but by doing that cutesy shit with the letter Y, you now have two boys whose names also are spelled and sound very alike.
Not everyone can upgrade to ICS. Would if I could, believe me!
Does anyone else miss games like Duke Nukem 3D, DOOM, Secret of Monkey Island, Super Mario Bros 3? Free roaming environments where you'd have to wander and explore and backtrack, find keys and powerups, kill bad guys, solve puzzles. So much good gameplay, and best of all, so much replayability. That's the biggest thing I hate about modern games: once you beat them, not as fun to do it again, and considering they cost TWICE as much as they used to, pretty big rip off.
Looking forward to the new Carmageddon coming out, I tell ya what!
Fucking fractals! How do they work?
I don't understand why anyone offended by something can't just not look at it. These people are going out of their way to look up something they consider offensive on the internet, and then get mad when it's there. I specifically don't go around Googling "pictures of sex-change surgeries gone wrong" because it bothers me. If I decided to, why would I get mad at the people in the pictures or the doctors who did it, or for that matter the site hosting the pictures? Shouldn't I feel stupid for looking up something that I know for a fact I don't want to see?
Also, why are they so pissed at the messenger instead of the creator of the content? Google went out of its way to censor this thing in their countries, what more do they want?
The positive spin is that it will drive more and more people to ditch their cable companies and either stream over ze Intarwebs or just invest in rabbit ears. Television providers such as satellite and cable with packaged channels are soon going to be obsolete, and I for one can't wait!
Just don't let Richard Hammond drive it!
Will the party organizers be getting a private message at some point asking for their address so /. knows where to send the apparel? Or will we just be getting emailed patterns for iron-on's? :D
I've always wanted to do this for people, just cruise around, find open access points, knock on their doors and offer to secure their network for $20. Only problem is that it's illegal, and technically extortion if you ask for money. But the illegal part is simply that you're connecting to their network unauthorized. The federal laws still on the books actually mandate that one must obtain express WRITTEN permission from someone BEFORE you connect to their network. I know, I know, this means anyone using free wifi at the coffee shop is breaking the law, so the practicalities of this do become quite grey. But this is THE LAW, and if a government official is technically breaking the law, even if it's for good intentions, there is still quite a problem here, they could easily get sued. It would be nice if this would prompt them to rewrite the law... but would make far too much sense, and as such, will never happen.
In the mean time I'll just check to see if their router's admin web interface is unsecure, and in the likely event that it is NOT, rename their SSID to "YOU SHOULD SECURE YOUR NETWORK," or if I'm feeling mean, something particularly racist or disgusting.
4 out of the 5 suggestions have been for MSE. Slashdot users pimping a Microsoft product? Something must be terribly wrong...
Not entirely true, because water expands when it freezes, hence why ice floats. Not to mention all the ice and snow that has built up over frozen parts of the ocean.
Pretty sure this is illegal, or pushing it. I used to work at the Bresnan Communications call center in Billings, MT, and they once tried this same bullshit. Except the kicker is that they also mandated that we only got 20 minutes of bathroom break time PER WEEK. So if you happen to need to take a shit, or for that matter if you're a female, you're pretty fucked. Although since pretty much none of us could keep it under 20 minutes, even though we would sprint back and forth to the bathroom and gave up washing our hands, I never heard about anyone getting in much trouble for going over. It was likely just another metric they could hold over our head if they didn't like someone and wanted to axe them. But as I recall, after I left the company, they did get reprimanded for either this bathroom break rule, or the fact that they frequently forced their workers to work through ALL their breaks during the day, often making us sit at a computer for 12 hours STRAIGHT. Go find a local lawyer who specializes in labor laws, they might be verrrry interested in this.
Does this ruling mean that Google can get a refund for all those fines they had to pay? Or for that matter, does this mean that I personally can hop on my neighbor's open WAP, inventively named "linksys," and legally steal their packetses?
If the UK or US government invades the Ecuadorian embassy, or better yet, if Julian makes it to Ecuador and then they still come in after him, this could mean war.
If you knew you were innocent and there was a witch hunt after you for some trumped-up charges, wouldn't you consider running to be the right thing?
YEAH BITCH! MAGNETS!