Just put these dickhead spammers in jail for 5-10 years for causing so much disruption and cost to the world. I was reading a few days ago (and feel free to correct me/link to the URL) that spam causes ~$1,900 in lost productivity per employee, per year, in the US. THAT is absurd!
On a side note, people with virus infected machines will now notice they can't send email to their external SMTP servers, and call Comcast, which they will reply that you have a mass mailing internet worm, and you've been spamming thousands of messages a day. Due to your incompetence, we have turned off your external access, forever.
As someone who has litterally stopped watching TV since the 1.2 beta release of Counter-Strike, I am really someone they want to reach.
The problem is, I don't even own a TV. Perhaps a alternative may exist already: Nullsoft TV
I like watching Futurama episodes when I've got the time, but going and sitting down, taking time out of my day to watch commercials for 15 minutes an hour doesn't really appeal to me.
I work at a rather large ISP, and strangely enough, when there is obvious adware installed, when I tell them it's downloading advertisements and such, they actually beleive the ads are coming from websites they visit (sometimes ours).
I actually had someone the other day accuse our homepage of popping up pornographic advertisements. The very first thing out of my mouth was, "Have you installed KaZaa?"
He reluctantly agreed, and said "Oh, so it's KaZaa?"
"Yep, you need to get rid of that junk"...
Here's my point: People are stupid. Changing their name once every couple years lets them stay ahead of the curve, because remember, Chrismas is coming, and we'll have another ~5-10 million (guessing here) computer users on the internet. When a screen pops up saying would you like to syncronize your time, keep a calendar, be able to see the current weather conditions, etc etc, they think: "Well wouldn't that be cool?"
Ever notice how the MiniDisc format truely never caught on? LaserDisc? ZipDrives? CD-R and DVD+/-R have many more people buying equipment in those standards. These proprietary formats will always have a few adoptors, but they absolutely must improve (by an order of magnitude at the very least, DVD anyone?) on the current standards.
Now, if there were an MO drive/disc that could store 20GB on a double-sided disc, that would definitely draw some attention. And by attention I mean *consumer* attention. These are the folks that make the wheel of adopting turn.
I disabled "qttask.exe -atboottime" immediately after installing, and I have absolutely no problems running iTunes without it. "Qttask" is not listed in running processes list either.
I really wish Apple would not push this icon on us. I didn't ask for it. There is no option to disable it.
Just as a test, I zipped up the entire quicktime directory, and deleted the originals. iTunes still works.
FIRST LOOK: Mandrake Linux 9.2 Discovery Edition By Timothy R. Butler Editor-in-Chief, Open for Business October 14, 2003, 12:45:03 EDT
It's official. By the time you read this, Mandrake Linux 9.2 will be available to Mandrake Club members around the world. Mandrake Linux 9.2 marks the first release from the "big 3" distributors in about six months. If you're wondering whether you should rush out and install it, read on for our first look at a distribution from the Fall 2003 distribution release cycle.
For the purposes of this brief preview of Mandrake Linux 9.2, we tested a copy of the new "Discovery Edition" provided to us by MandrakeSoft. The Discovery Edition replaced the "Standard Edition" offered in previous releases, but it isn't just a fancy new name - it's a desktop focused distribution intended especially for novices (although, we feel more advanced users may be pleased with the simplicity of the Discovery Edition as well).
First there is the installation. Now, if you've installed any of the major GNU/Linux distributions in recent times, you know that most are quite simple to install as is, and Mandrake Linux is no exception. Discovery Edition takes a page out of the LindowsOS and Windows XP installers, however, and makes the existing Mandrake installer even simpler by removing package selection. While many additional packages are included for installation later, should they be needed, Discovery Edition focuses on installing what the average user needs without making them sift through tons of unfamiliar programs.
Once booted, Discovery Edition includes another quickly apparent simplification - task based menus. While Mandrake usually includes task-based menus as an option in Menudrake, they wisely chose to make it the default in this edition, thus freeing the user to worry about what they want to do rather than how they want to do it. I found the menu layout very intuitive, making it a snap to find the programs I wanted for various tasks. The standard menus were also available as a submenu for those wanting a specific tool for the job.
Another key to making a distribution novice friendly is insuring that everything works out of the box, and Mandrake Linux 9.2 succeeds there. When the system was booted for the first time, we were surprised and delighted to find ATI's official FireGL driver for the Radeon 9700 video card was already installed. To the best of my knowledge the only other distribution presently including the Radeon drivers from ATI is Lindows.
Other hardware that has been problematic also was installed. Our Hewlett-Packard PSC 2210's photo card reader was automatically mounted and unmounted (with a convenient icon on the desktop) - making it as easy to access the compact flash card that we inserted as it was to access a CD. This puts Mandrake Linux further in the lead as far as Hewlett-Packard multifunction devices are concerned, since we are unaware of any other current distribution that even properly detects the PSC 2210, much less properly configures the photo card reader.
The only issue we had with the hardware was actually a non-issue - the master, speaker and PCM volume controls on the soundcard were muted. Admittedly I should have caught it, but I overlooked the PCM volume control in my haste. It would have been nice if the friendlier aumix had been preinstalled along with kmix (which gets absolutely obnoxiously large when used with a SoundBlaster Live), but if this is the worst we have to complain about, it isn't much.
Also included was the newly released OpenOffice.org 1.1, which just barely made the release cycle. With this release's much speedier startup times, using the suite is much more pleasant than before. OpenOffice's many new features perfectly complement the Discovery Edition's improvements in usability to make the distribution perfect for a Windows replacement on an office desktop with no fuss at all.
We were especially impressed with the Discovery Edition's enhancements, but all of the different edi
The likelyhood of aliens living near a star is probably based on the idea that most lifeforms are somewhat similar to ourselves, and need light/heat from a star to survive.
Obligatory Towelie reference:
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Commander: Don't you see what genetically enhanced smart towels like these are capable of? You get out of the shower and dry yourself off. But even after you're dry, the towel makes you more dry. It keeps getting you drier and drier. [his voice begins to deepen] Can you imagine it? What it would feel like to be way, way too dry? I'll tell you something: You don't want to know. And I don't know. Kyle: And we don't care.
On a secondary note, Masters of Doom was the best biographical-ish type of geek book I've read in the past 21 years of my life.
I've made a bit over $7,000 (Yes, real money) in the past few years selling off equipment from a game you dont even mention: Asheron's Call.
And with my many many ebay auctions I've held, a few asshats have tried to rip me off. Notice I said tried. Even though the item "has no value" like many of you agree, this story is pretty interesting.
I once had a guy who bought an item, received it from me, and then claimed credit card fraud to his CC company, which ended up freezing my PayPal account. He then called up Paypal and said that the item in question was an intangible item, therefore I shouldn't have even been using their service. They agreed with him at first... but no jackass is going to cheat me out of $500 bucks... it was my rent money for crying out loud.
I forwarded all of my correspondance with the guy to PayPal, and eBay. Even though their TOS say that intangible items are not covered by their TOS, they certainly take CC Fraud seriously. After about a week, my account was unfrozen and I ended up with the money.
The suits of armor, items, etc that I sold had far less value than the avatars I've sold.
In my (professional?) opinion, litterally hacking a server is unquestionably prosecutable. Hacking in the sense of altering packets or changing a couple bytes in the executable to obtain godlike status is really just a problem with the game, and needs to be patched. I'll leave it up to the game developers to permanently ban this person from using their servers.
I like the attitude of the developers of Asheron's Call: Tell us how you did it, and how to fix it if you know, and we'll let you go free.
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Perhaps with all the property seized from said spammer, putting them in jail can pay for itself.
Just an idea.
Just put these dickhead spammers in jail for 5-10 years for causing so much disruption and cost to the world. I was reading a few days ago (and feel free to correct me/link to the URL) that spam causes ~$1,900 in lost productivity per employee, per year, in the US. THAT is absurd!
On a side note, people with virus infected machines will now notice they can't send email to their external SMTP servers, and call Comcast, which they will reply that you have a mass mailing internet worm, and you've been spamming thousands of messages a day. Due to your incompetence, we have turned off your external access, forever.
Somehow all this Darknet business reminds me of
http://toolbar.msn.com/
Need I say more?
I found this rather funny.
Just because it's humor from another story doesn't mean it's a troll.
"Who do you want to do today?"
nt
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/film/matrix50. html
I searched the text of this post (reading at +1) and could not find this link (which is linked from the article URL)
Now this commentary on the movie pulls things you would not expect!
I especially like #9:
"She was not kissing your face..."
So they base a whole scene in Reloaded between the Merovingian and Persephone around his having lipstick on his anus due to a ladies' room rimjob?
I think I'll skip the Reloaded DVD deleted scenes, thank you very much.
So is the future of said person who makes fun of the above.
in soviet russia, loudeye hears you!
As someone who has litterally stopped watching TV since the 1.2 beta release of Counter-Strike, I am really someone they want to reach.
The problem is, I don't even own a TV. Perhaps a alternative may exist already: Nullsoft TV
I like watching Futurama episodes when I've got the time, but going and sitting down, taking time out of my day to watch commercials for 15 minutes an hour doesn't really appeal to me.
I was recently told by management I could not tell people what a "cookie" is, so I know how that feels.
I *will* tell people that it is spyware riddled garbage, just because you asked...
In all truth however, your customers should be more afraid of getting sued themselves.
I work at a rather large ISP, and strangely enough, when there is obvious adware installed, when I tell them it's downloading advertisements and such, they actually beleive the ads are coming from websites they visit (sometimes ours).
I actually had someone the other day accuse our homepage of popping up pornographic advertisements. The very first thing out of my mouth was, "Have you installed KaZaa?"
He reluctantly agreed, and said "Oh, so it's KaZaa?"
"Yep, you need to get rid of that junk"...
Here's my point: People are stupid. Changing their name once every couple years lets them stay ahead of the curve, because remember, Chrismas is coming, and we'll have another ~5-10 million (guessing here) computer users on the internet. When a screen pops up saying would you like to syncronize your time, keep a calendar, be able to see the current weather conditions, etc etc, they think: "Well wouldn't that be cool?"
The answer is no.
Just don't call Gator Spyware. :)
Will never catch on. Period.
Ever notice how the MiniDisc format truely never caught on? LaserDisc? ZipDrives? CD-R and DVD+/-R have many more people buying equipment in those standards. These proprietary formats will always have a few adoptors, but they absolutely must improve (by an order of magnitude at the very least, DVD anyone?) on the current standards.
Now, if there were an MO drive/disc that could store 20GB on a double-sided disc, that would definitely draw some attention. And by attention I mean *consumer* attention. These are the folks that make the wheel of adopting turn.
You are mistaken.
I disabled "qttask.exe -atboottime" immediately after installing, and I have absolutely no problems running iTunes without it. "Qttask" is not listed in running processes list either.
I really wish Apple would not push this icon on us. I didn't ask for it. There is no option to disable it.
Just as a test, I zipped up the entire quicktime directory, and deleted the originals. iTunes still works.
ed2k://|file|MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso|6 83642880|96828148504356C7804D1FF64EC02205|/: //|file|MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk2of3.i586.iso|7 31797504|1A294F3B3BF27EFB20E0705B2B50470D|/: //|file|MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk3of3.i586.iso|7 28948736|2D6F7CD025E67ACBEE226317DBFE0B2A|/
ed2k
ed2k
Just remove the spaces in the links.
FIRST LOOK: Mandrake Linux 9.2 Discovery Edition
By Timothy R. Butler
Editor-in-Chief, Open for Business
October 14, 2003, 12:45:03 EDT
It's official. By the time you read this, Mandrake Linux 9.2 will be available to Mandrake Club members around the world. Mandrake Linux 9.2 marks the first release from the "big 3" distributors in about six months. If you're wondering whether you should rush out and install it, read on for our first look at a distribution from the Fall 2003 distribution release cycle.
For the purposes of this brief preview of Mandrake Linux 9.2, we tested a copy of the new "Discovery Edition" provided to us by MandrakeSoft. The Discovery Edition replaced the "Standard Edition" offered in previous releases, but it isn't just a fancy new name - it's a desktop focused distribution intended especially for novices (although, we feel more advanced users may be pleased with the simplicity of the Discovery Edition as well).
First there is the installation. Now, if you've installed any of the major GNU/Linux distributions in recent times, you know that most are quite simple to install as is, and Mandrake Linux is no exception. Discovery Edition takes a page out of the LindowsOS and Windows XP installers, however, and makes the existing Mandrake installer even simpler by removing package selection. While many additional packages are included for installation later, should they be needed, Discovery Edition focuses on installing what the average user needs without making them sift through tons of unfamiliar programs.
Once booted, Discovery Edition includes another quickly apparent simplification - task based menus. While Mandrake usually includes task-based menus as an option in Menudrake, they wisely chose to make it the default in this edition, thus freeing the user to worry about what they want to do rather than how they want to do it. I found the menu layout very intuitive, making it a snap to find the programs I wanted for various tasks. The standard menus were also available as a submenu for those wanting a specific tool for the job.
Another key to making a distribution novice friendly is insuring that everything works out of the box, and Mandrake Linux 9.2 succeeds there. When the system was booted for the first time, we were surprised and delighted to find ATI's official FireGL driver for the Radeon 9700 video card was already installed. To the best of my knowledge the only other distribution presently including the Radeon drivers from ATI is Lindows.
Other hardware that has been problematic also was installed. Our Hewlett-Packard PSC 2210's photo card reader was automatically mounted and unmounted (with a convenient icon on the desktop) - making it as easy to access the compact flash card that we inserted as it was to access a CD. This puts Mandrake Linux further in the lead as far as Hewlett-Packard multifunction devices are concerned, since we are unaware of any other current distribution that even properly detects the PSC 2210, much less properly configures the photo card reader.
The only issue we had with the hardware was actually a non-issue - the master, speaker and PCM volume controls on the soundcard were muted. Admittedly I should have caught it, but I overlooked the PCM volume control in my haste. It would have been nice if the friendlier aumix had been preinstalled along with kmix (which gets absolutely obnoxiously large when used with a SoundBlaster Live), but if this is the worst we have to complain about, it isn't much.
Also included was the newly released OpenOffice.org 1.1, which just barely made the release cycle. With this release's much speedier startup times, using the suite is much more pleasant than before. OpenOffice's many new features perfectly complement the Discovery Edition's improvements in usability to make the distribution perfect for a Windows replacement on an office desktop with no fuss at all.
We were especially impressed with the Discovery Edition's enhancements, but all of the different edi
The likelyhood of aliens living near a star is probably based on the idea that most lifeforms are somewhat similar to ourselves, and need light/heat from a star to survive.
--
If we find aliens I hope they like beer.
I thought 640k would be enough for anybody.
Commander: Don't you see what genetically enhanced smart towels like these are capable of? You get out of the shower and dry yourself off. But even after you're dry, the towel makes you more dry. It keeps getting you drier and drier. [his voice begins to deepen] Can you imagine it? What it would feel like to be way, way too dry? I'll tell you something: You don't want to know. And I don't know.
Kyle: And we don't care.
On a secondary note, Masters of Doom was the best biographical-ish type of geek book I've read in the past 21 years of my life.
I've made a bit over $7,000 (Yes, real money) in the past few years selling off equipment from a game you dont even mention: Asheron's Call.
And with my many many ebay auctions I've held, a few asshats have tried to rip me off. Notice I said tried. Even though the item "has no value" like many of you agree, this story is pretty interesting.
I once had a guy who bought an item, received it from me, and then claimed credit card fraud to his CC company, which ended up freezing my PayPal account. He then called up Paypal and said that the item in question was an intangible item, therefore I shouldn't have even been using their service. They agreed with him at first... but no jackass is going to cheat me out of $500 bucks... it was my rent money for crying out loud.
I forwarded all of my correspondance with the guy to PayPal, and eBay. Even though their TOS say that intangible items are not covered by their TOS, they certainly take CC Fraud seriously. After about a week, my account was unfrozen and I ended up with the money.
The suits of armor, items, etc that I sold had far less value than the avatars I've sold.
In my (professional?) opinion, litterally hacking a server is unquestionably prosecutable. Hacking in the sense of altering packets or changing a couple bytes in the executable to obtain godlike status is really just a problem with the game, and needs to be patched. I'll leave it up to the game developers to permanently ban this person from using their servers.
I like the attitude of the developers of Asheron's Call: Tell us how you did it, and how to fix it if you know, and we'll let you go free.
just what linux ALWAYS needed but NEVER had... a port of pitfall.
my number is lower than yours. :)
as it is, my burner has me with about 30 bad discs, and now i will have a stack of divx discs?