I had a client recently who called me complaining that she was getting hundreds of e-mails bounced to her that she didn't send out. I asked her if she had recently opened any email attachments, and sure enough, she said, "Only the one that Microsoft sent me that was a required security upgrade. Come to think of it, that's about when this problem started"
When it's that easy, you can't even call it social engineering. It's just social nudging, and people are ready to fall for it.
LOL, that reminds me of my very first photoshop. It's terrible, but some years ago, a friend of mine and I were in a band (King Lazy Bones), and I was coming up with concepts for an album cover, and this is one of the ideas that I came up with.
If you want to see the original of the Nixon Elvis photo, do a google image search on "Nixon meeting Elvis". And the original I got our faces from (gawd, this brings back memories) is here.
...the types of people who insist on posting cliches (imagine a beowolf cluster of those!) on/. even when they know they're going to get modded down for it?
> I think it's called a text editor. Most PDA have one these days...
So this thing is just a flat text file, and there's no nice interface to it? That's not what the web site implies, nor is it something I'd expect to see on/.
Could be wrong, though. Flat text files are just so... unsexy!
I love my iPod, but if I'm wearing it, it's because I'm (a) working out, or (b) on a long, grueling airplane trip. However, I always carry my phone/palm device, so a palm-based version of this would be convenient if I don't want to pull my laptop out of the bag...
Those fun-loving shareware dudes and dames over at Freeverse have a customizable browser for kids, aptly named BumperCar. Don't know much about it, but I happened to see it on a browsing jag yesterday, and thought I'd mention it here.
Awesome! That brings back such memories.. Jumpman, Zork, Choplifter... Ahhhhhhh! I wrote my first assembly language programs on my old C64; I was in the process of writing a game--just about to add bad guys in when someone broke in and stole my C64. Wish I still had the floppy, cuz the game--what was developed--was pretty cool.
You'd think if these CDs were unsold inventory, the value of them is what consumers were willing to pay: $0.00. Or at most what they are going for on the used CD market. Or even fairer, somewhere between production costs and the used price.
The point is, just because the RIAA says these CDs are worth $17.00 doesn't mean they can be used as currency. I mean, isn't that sort of artificial valuation what got them in trouble in the first place?
I've decided that one pound of my crap is worth a couple of thousand dollars. When next month rolls around, I think I'll give a pile to my landlady and tell her to keep the change.
...Try buying a pack of cigarettes! It's like they're trying to rob you while they're slowly killing you.
I bought a pack of Marlboros in Copacabana, Bolivia (on beautiful Lake Titicaca) back when I was smoking a year ago, and it cost me about 3 bolivianos, which came out to something like $0.40 US at the time. A month later I was in London, and a half pack (10 nails) cost something like 4 pounds sterling, which was about $10 US. It was (almost) enough to make me quit.
I finally quit when I decided it just wasn't cool anymore.
I gave up on Hotmail a long time ago, not because of spam sent from those accounts, but because any time I opened up a hotmail account, it was immediately deluged by SPAM
I actually used to do this relatively often with my iBook + Sprint PCS Samsung A500 phone. One winter I was working from home, and I decided on several occasions that the workload for the day was light enough that I could pack up my equipment, hit the slopes and do work at the ski lodge cafe every few runs.
It was pretty sweet. Now that I've got a Treo 600, it does not appear possible to direct the phone's datanet connectivity to a connected computer. Anyone here know how to do that?
Yep, it's right there on the iTMS. I can't say that the music excites me, though.
I wonder if any of the labels have asked Apple *not* to provide samples of all the songs on a given album. I mean, I listened to a couple of these songs' snippets, and, gee, it's really nothing to write home about. I wonder how many of the people who have bought the physical CD got a chance to listen to it, and how many people who didn't listen to it were disappointed when they got it home...
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...by selling un-DRM'ed MP3 files. It's just that simple.
When it's that easy, you can't even call it social engineering. It's just social nudging, and people are ready to fall for it.
> BlueTooth, ZeroConf and even a NES emulator.
But is it possible yet to make a beowulf cluster of the darn things? Imagine!
If you want to see the original of the Nixon Elvis photo, do a google image search on "Nixon meeting Elvis". And the original I got our faces from (gawd, this brings back memories) is here.
While I personally prefer the BSD license, GPL has it's uses, and I think it's great that it's gotten some official recognition.
That's what I thought. It's just the previous response to my message was so snide...
So this thing is just a flat text file, and there's no nice interface to it? That's not what the web site implies, nor is it something I'd expect to see on /.
Could be wrong, though. Flat text files are just so... unsexy!
I love my iPod, but if I'm wearing it, it's because I'm (a) working out, or (b) on a long, grueling airplane trip. However, I always carry my phone/palm device, so a palm-based version of this would be convenient if I don't want to pull my laptop out of the bag...
Duh! Our President, George W. Ush!
Those fun-loving shareware dudes and dames over at Freeverse have a customizable browser for kids, aptly named BumperCar. Don't know much about it, but I happened to see it on a browsing jag yesterday, and thought I'd mention it here.
I know... For the record, that was a joke, and the only PC I use is a virtual one. And I'm considering installing linux on that one, too!
My, oh my! We do not discuss such things in public!
Now I don't have to switch to a Mac to have a machine that "just works" on my company's mostly-Mac network!
Awesome! That brings back such memories.. Jumpman, Zork, Choplifter... Ahhhhhhh! I wrote my first assembly language programs on my old C64; I was in the process of writing a game--just about to add bad guys in when someone broke in and stole my C64. Wish I still had the floppy, cuz the game--what was developed--was pretty cool.
Did someone here once own a Commodore 64 with a 1541 floppy drive?
I believe it's called "closing the loop", though I can think of some better names for it.
Please don't mod this funny; that would only encourage me.
The point is, just because the RIAA says these CDs are worth $17.00 doesn't mean they can be used as currency. I mean, isn't that sort of artificial valuation what got them in trouble in the first place?
I've decided that one pound of my crap is worth a couple of thousand dollars. When next month rolls around, I think I'll give a pile to my landlady and tell her to keep the change.
I bought a pack of Marlboros in Copacabana, Bolivia (on beautiful Lake Titicaca) back when I was smoking a year ago, and it cost me about 3 bolivianos, which came out to something like $0.40 US at the time. A month later I was in London, and a half pack (10 nails) cost something like 4 pounds sterling, which was about $10 US. It was (almost) enough to make me quit.
I finally quit when I decided it just wasn't cool anymore.
Of course, another option is to put a lot of junk lines into your password file...
I gave up on Hotmail a long time ago, not because of spam sent from those accounts, but because any time I opened up a hotmail account, it was immediately deluged by SPAM
It was pretty sweet. Now that I've got a Treo 600, it does not appear possible to direct the phone's datanet connectivity to a connected computer. Anyone here know how to do that?
Because it's a candidate for the Darwin Awards instead.
Really. I mean, I think I've got a good set of cojones, but this is over the top...
I wonder if any of the labels have asked Apple *not* to provide samples of all the songs on a given album. I mean, I listened to a couple of these songs' snippets, and, gee, it's really nothing to write home about. I wonder how many of the people who have bought the physical CD got a chance to listen to it, and how many people who didn't listen to it were disappointed when they got it home...
Me too! And each message can be up to 10 Mb!