PLZ FWD!! Your friends will love you for this.
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Buddylinks Stinks
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· Score: 2, Insightful
"3. Open the prize - your friends will love the prize they receive in their funny news message. it might be a game or a funny flash cartoon"
So basically Buddylinks is doing what real people have been doing for ages. Specifically, an aquaintance or friend decides to add your email to their address book, and forwards every piece of crap - virus hoaxes/jokes etc to everyone in their book. Yes, why, thank you vague aquaintance - I really did enjoy that list of hugely stupid jokes you sent me. The repeated quote arrows really made it work. At least with Buddylinks you have to actually install it...
Some companies already do, I'd imagine, but surely the solution would be to employ - and pay decently - people who've highlighted vulnerabilities in previous products/systems to go at phones/etc like the clappers, trying to find any vulnerabilities. Granted, few products are going to be 100% secure but surely it'd be better than holes like this cropping up.
And in other news, the US forces were crushed in Iraq, Mars Beagle did not go missing and has been transmitting pictures for many days, and these aren't the droids you're looking for.
My knowledge on nano technology is very limited, but I just want congratulate the Danish scientist! It's great that we can keep up in this field considering that we are a relatively small country.
First pastries and bacon, now this. Is there anything the Danish can't do?
And in other news, Konami today announced the release of the cut down version of Metal Gear Solid 2 to feature Solid Snake's cousin, Trouser.
*sign* I mean, whatever name you pick, there's going to be some product already out there with a similar name. It's like that Dilbert strip where the only remaining product names were diseases.
Beams, schmeams. What I'd really pay good money for would be a Batman The Movie style car shield. One click on the remote and shakakakakakakakkaka - instant anti-hailstone, anti-car thief and anti-keying shield.
.. we can look forward to Samantha Carter, Tokra Barbie and that chick who played Morrigan draped semi-clad over the bonnets of the cars at a motor show.
Which, of course, is a real surprise coming from the record industry. I bet you feel a right tit. (boom boom)
What you gonna do when they come for you?
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Kazaa Offices Raided
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· Score: 4, Funny
Well, who's going to stop Billionares with cops?
Trillionaires with Mafia support? (I mean Mafia backing, not people who threaten to make you sleep with the fishes unless you reboot your PC before ringing)
.. so the raid makes virtually no sense at all. Even if Kazaa was declared illegal through the entire world - an impossiblity, I know - it would still be mirrored by every tom, dick and harry.
This is an insult! No-one has the right to infringe our privacy like this! I for one will be boycotting all stores/establishments that use RFID. I find the idea of a device that can be used to track my movements and habits utterly reprehensible. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to town to go shopping using my credit card and many clubcards.
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Ice. Bath. Kidneys.
So basically Buddylinks is doing what real people have been doing for ages. Specifically, an aquaintance or friend decides to add your email to their address book, and forwards every piece of crap - virus hoaxes/jokes etc to everyone in their book. Yes, why, thank you vague aquaintance - I really did enjoy that list of hugely stupid jokes you sent me. The repeated quote arrows really made it work. At least with Buddylinks you have to actually install it...
.. the Martian Govt can explain away the crash of an alien craft on their planet as a wrecked balloon and actually be right.
'Aha! So that's why they don't see little green men...' - at last, the dream of aliens living on Mars is alive again.
Some companies already do, I'd imagine, but surely the solution would be to employ - and pay decently - people who've highlighted vulnerabilities in previous products/systems to go at phones/etc like the clappers, trying to find any vulnerabilities. Granted, few products are going to be 100% secure but surely it'd be better than holes like this cropping up.
And in other news, the US forces were crushed in Iraq, Mars Beagle did not go missing and has been transmitting pictures for many days, and these aren't the droids you're looking for.
They could sell the bits on E-Bay and you could own your own piece of history. Now which would be more profitable, hmm?
First pastries and bacon, now this. Is there anything the Danish can't do?
.. we can now look forward to the release of Takara's 'Worlds Smallest Transformers Wave 3 - Nanobots in disguise'.
Comedy gold *wipes tear from eye*
... the infamous 'Pre-meeting meeting' though.. *shudders*
Full House! Man, I love Buzzword Bingo... and that article pretty much filled my card up.
.. on the project are..
h a-Mozilla'
'Kung-Browser'
'Browse-Me-Do'
'Sparrow'
'Mec
And in other news, Konami today announced the release of the cut down version of Metal Gear Solid 2 to feature Solid Snake's cousin, Trouser.
*sign* I mean, whatever name you pick, there's going to be some product already out there with a similar name. It's like that Dilbert strip where the only remaining product names were diseases.
Beams, schmeams. What I'd really pay good money for would be a Batman The Movie style car shield. One click on the remote and shakakakakakakakkaka - instant anti-hailstone, anti-car thief and anti-keying shield.
.. we can look forward to Samantha Carter, Tokra Barbie and that chick who played Morrigan draped semi-clad over the bonnets of the cars at a motor show.
.. is a grey cat, an angry black housemaid and they're guaranteed to have kids everywhere riveted to their next deep space broadcast.
Talking about suing is all very well but the man's still going to have to see if it stands up in court.
That was the perhaps too subtle gag I was going for with the original post.
And when can we expect the announcement of his new book, co-written with Viktor Hart, full time mad scientist and re-animator?
.. a couple of DVDRs, encouring you to actually copy the DVD, that would have been more newsworthy.
this is just a publicity stunt.
Which, of course, is a real surprise coming from the record industry. I bet you feel a right tit. (boom boom)
Trillionaires with Mafia support? (I mean Mafia backing, not people who threaten to make you sleep with the fishes unless you reboot your PC before ringing)
.. so the raid makes virtually no sense at all. Even if Kazaa was declared illegal through the entire world - an impossiblity, I know - it would still be mirrored by every tom, dick and harry.
I guess we know what Mark Hamill's doing these days..
This is an insult! No-one has the right to infringe our privacy like this! I for one will be boycotting all stores/establishments that use RFID. I find the idea of a device that can be used to track my movements and habits utterly reprehensible. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to town to go shopping using my credit card and many clubcards.