I heard that The Good Guys are really bad about this. I had a friend that was all set to guy a stereo or DVD player or something, even had his credit card out and the clerk refused to sell it to him without the service plan. He ended up walking out of the store with the clerk following him.
Did it occur to you that maybe some of the guns WERE energy weapons? After all, with such a mix of riches and poverty, you have to expect a mix of technologies as well
Actually there were hand held laser guns. The episode Trash deals with the crew involved in a scam to steal one of the first laser guns ever made.
You just provided a bare link to fireflyfans.net. I'm not seeing anything obvious on the front page saying they won't consider renewing the series, so your "proof" is somewhat dubious.
That's what I was thinking.
i'll believe that Firefly is 100% dead when Whedon is made an offer by a studio to make a new Firefly series and he turns it down.
That would also depend on the terms thereof.
In the commentary for the DVDs Joss says that it was his favorite project of all the ones he worked on. As long as he maintained artistic control, all he needs is an executive producer to finance the show.
I suppose it is possible for HBO or Showtime to finance it like Showtime did with Stargate SG1. It might even be able to finance the show through DVD sales, and then syndicate the show on Saturday afternoons or something like we have with Buffy now.
I've seen Napster gift cards in a local supermarket chain. OK they cell other stuff, kinda like a nice Target, but there are a lot of them in the Northwest.
And, some have already questioned that the whole of Napster is worth $10 million dollars, but why would they pay that much for just selling little cards that give you codes to download stuff?
Doesn't seem too much different from pre-paid long distance cards to me.
Anyone seen these cards in other stores?
I guess it is incentive to give customers the Hard Sell.
I mean trying to offer me demos, explaining to me what the service was, etc. Every time I'm in best buy, I have no less than 6 people ask me if I need help with something.
I wonder if they get paid by commision?
No offense but I don't frequent Best Buy and it kinda gives me the creeps, and the DVDs are too expensive from what I remember.
However, I'd like to take a test ride just to see what is available on the service. I wouldn't actually buy it because you probably have to install their software to do it (At least I assume so) and I don't know if there are any issues with their sofware. But I'd love to search for the most obscure music I can think of to see if they have it.
Lately it has been magazines. "Oh. You purchased a CD. You are entitled to 6 months free of Entertainment Weekly or People!"
Do you have to pay extra to not get the magazines?
The unofficial site is worth more of a look that the official one.
The official one seems to be mostly flash or something. I click on Synopsis and it gives a popup that I can't scroll using my mouse or keyboard. You have to click on little arrows to get it for scroll.
What the (explicatives deleted) is wrong with the (more deleted) web designers?????
I ran a check with http://validator.w3.org/ and it found 22 violations. OK this is the first time I used this tool but there is hardly any content on this site.
Then again, this really isn't suprising. It seems most official movie web sites suck.
I definately wouldn't want to be in one of these things on the freeway, but I don't think that is what they are intended for.
More for intra-city or short ranged delivery service in an area where parking is difficult. Say you have a company with two buildings a bit too far to walk. Both have underground parking where the owners can reserve parking just for these things. Or two companies that do a lot of business together and have a mutal parking agreement, and possibly even share the little things.
Some companies might see it as an alternative to bicycle couriers, especially if security is a concern. (Nothing against bike couriers, but sometimes a company cannot trust a third party.)
Personally, I'd rather ride a bike but hey, some people wouldn't.
And sometimes the methods used to circumvent anti-spam tools is used to detect spam.
For instance, spamassasin detecting random words in an email is a sign of spam.
"All around the mulberry bush, The monkey chased the weasel."
I like the idea about identifying zombies. And yes, some people have legitamite reasons to be sending out lots of emails. But if there is a sudden change in activity, it does make sense for the ISP to call up the customer and ask "What's Up."
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And if you can find a place that is All You Can Eat, open 24/7, and has WIFI you can retire.
best practices to help fight spam. The list of ISPs include the likes of AOL, Yahoo, MSN/Hotmail, Earthlink and Comcast.
Something that would really help is for these big companies to protect their own domain names by going after anyone who forges the headers as such. These days if someone isn't already in my whitelist they are probably going to get caught in my spam filters if they use any of these domain names.
Under most circumstances I think it is a bad thing for a company to throw lawyers at someone until there is nothing left but a smoking hole in the ground, but I think I would make an exception for spammers. These companies not only have the resources to make spamming unprofitable, but they have a valid, and vested interest to do so.
Visit their website. Look at all the pages. Maybe do a wget websuck to/dev/null Look for Contact forms, and fill them out. If it is a Mortgage scam, fill out the forms with random stuff, or put in the name and addresses of known spammers. Same for the car lookup stuff (How in the world do they make money?) Keep them busy and waste their time.
If everyone who received a spam visited the site just once I doubt they would be able to afford the bandwidth.
And, just an afterthought on a different note, do most spammers report their spamming income to the tax man? Has anyone ever tried to nail a spammer for tax evasion?
Just thinking about these asshats really burns my toast!
After the introduction jump out of your seat, shout "The only good spammer is a dead one!" and then shoot several times at the "spammer" with a gun loaded with blanks. With any luck you will literally scare the shit out of the "spammer" the host, and half the studio-audience.
With a little more luck they will be too scared to want to mess with you further.
(It is probably easier to think of stuff like this when it isn't actually you, and it isn't in less than 24 hours.)
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Heck, for that much money, it should also include a Bio-Chemical Reaction Detector, and only tell the truth.
How can they talk about a hellride without talking about Corwin?
I've already learned about Knute Rockne and where that "Win one for the Gipper" quote came from
I thought that was Ronald Reagan.
Not that I care.
She's intelligent to the point she does believe she's a human!
Sounds like she's crazy to me.
I played that months ago and was wondering the same thing.
From my perspective it seems to be making fun of the current regime.
It is hard to tell because satire has become redundant.
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It is possible that he is using the identity of Shepherd as a cover for being a secret agent or something.
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How many non-geek people do you think are unable to view Shockwave sites?
Quite a lot of them because their system is slugging along with all the spyware they have installed.
Excuse me while I go outside and throw a I-hate-flash tantrum.
I'll grab a torch and join you.
If we get enough people, we can form an angry mob and roam the town looking for web designers who use too much flash.
People with Pitchforks are also welcome.
I heard that The Good Guys are really bad about this. I had a friend that was all set to guy a stereo or DVD player or something, even had his credit card out and the clerk refused to sell it to him without the service plan. He ended up walking out of the store with the clerk following him.
Did it occur to you that maybe some of the guns WERE energy weapons? After all, with such a mix of riches and poverty, you have to expect a mix of technologies as well
Actually there were hand held laser guns. The episode Trash deals with the crew involved in a scam to steal one of the first laser guns ever made.
You just provided a bare link to fireflyfans.net. I'm not seeing anything obvious on the front page saying they won't consider renewing the series, so your "proof" is somewhat dubious.
That's what I was thinking.
i'll believe that Firefly is 100% dead when Whedon is made an offer by a studio to make a new Firefly series and he turns it down.
That would also depend on the terms thereof.
In the commentary for the DVDs Joss says that it was his favorite project of all the ones he worked on. As long as he maintained artistic control, all he needs is an executive producer to finance the show.
I suppose it is possible for HBO or Showtime to finance it like Showtime did with Stargate SG1. It might even be able to finance the show through DVD sales, and then syndicate the show on Saturday afternoons or something like we have with Buffy now.
Is this really such a big deal?
I've seen Napster gift cards in a local supermarket chain. OK they cell other stuff, kinda like a nice Target, but there are a lot of them in the Northwest.
And, some have already questioned that the whole of Napster is worth $10 million dollars, but why would they pay that much for just selling little cards that give you codes to download stuff?
Doesn't seem too much different from pre-paid long distance cards to me.
Anyone seen these cards in other stores?
I guess it is incentive to give customers the Hard Sell.
It's so fun trying to shop there.. all you hear is *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*, courtesy of the idiots in car audio.
You can both drown it out, and really confuse people by playing Japanese Noise Artists instead.
I mean trying to offer me demos, explaining to me what the service was, etc. Every time I'm in best buy, I have no less than 6 people ask me if I need help with something.
I wonder if they get paid by commision?
No offense but I don't frequent Best Buy and it kinda gives me the creeps, and the DVDs are too expensive from what I remember.
However, I'd like to take a test ride just to see what is available on the service. I wouldn't actually buy it because you probably have to install their software to do it (At least I assume so) and I don't know if there are any issues with their sofware. But I'd love to search for the most obscure music I can think of to see if they have it.
Lately it has been magazines. "Oh. You purchased a CD. You are entitled to 6 months free of Entertainment Weekly or People!"
Do you have to pay extra to not get the magazines?
I guess you're stuck using the illegal p2p services like KaZaA.
Oh, wait, can't use KaZaA.
But there are fasttrack clients for Mac right?
Oh, and I suppose there is also that iMusic service.
Does anyone know much about it?
It doesn't get mentioned on slashdot much.
The unofficial site is worth more of a look that the official one.
The official one seems to be mostly flash or something. I click on Synopsis and it gives a popup that I can't scroll using my mouse or keyboard. You have to click on little arrows to get it for scroll.
What the (explicatives deleted) is wrong with the (more deleted) web designers?????
I ran a check with http://validator.w3.org/ and it found 22 violations. OK this is the first time I used this tool but there is hardly any content on this site.
Then again, this really isn't suprising. It seems most official movie web sites suck.
I definately wouldn't want to be in one of these things on the freeway, but I don't think that is what they are intended for.
More for intra-city or short ranged delivery service in an area where parking is difficult. Say you have a company with two buildings a bit too far to walk. Both have underground parking where the owners can reserve parking just for these things. Or two companies that do a lot of business together and have a mutal parking agreement, and possibly even share the little things.
Some companies might see it as an alternative to bicycle couriers, especially if security is a concern. (Nothing against bike couriers, but sometimes a company cannot trust a third party.)
Personally, I'd rather ride a bike but hey, some people wouldn't.
I think it's safe to say this has been in the public domain for a few billion years.
And sometimes the methods used to circumvent anti-spam tools is used to detect spam.
For instance, spamassasin detecting random words in an email is a sign of spam.
"All around the mulberry bush, The monkey chased the weasel."
I like the idea about identifying zombies. And yes, some people have legitamite reasons to be sending out lots of emails. But if there is a sudden change in activity, it does make sense for the ISP to call up the customer and ask "What's Up."
And if you can find a place that is All You Can Eat, open 24/7, and has WIFI you can retire.
best practices to help fight spam. The list of ISPs include the likes of AOL, Yahoo, MSN/Hotmail, Earthlink and Comcast.
Something that would really help is for these big companies to protect their own domain names by going after anyone who forges the headers as such. These days if someone isn't already in my whitelist they are probably going to get caught in my spam filters if they use any of these domain names.
Under most circumstances I think it is a bad thing for a company to throw lawyers at someone until there is nothing left but a smoking hole in the ground, but I think I would make an exception for spammers. These companies not only have the resources to make spamming unprofitable, but they have a valid, and vested interest to do so.
the #3 guy in the world in Louisana. He owns a million dollar home
Just out of curiosity, what's his name?
And you wouldn't know his snail mail address offhand would you?
I just find it ironic that The Daily Show seems to have more actual news than most real news programs.
Visit their website. /dev/null
Look at all the pages.
Maybe do a wget websuck to
Look for Contact forms, and fill them out.
If it is a Mortgage scam, fill out the forms with random stuff, or put in the name and addresses of known spammers.
Same for the car lookup stuff (How in the world do they make money?)
Keep them busy and waste their time.
If everyone who received a spam visited the site just once I doubt they would be able to afford the bandwidth.
And, just an afterthought on a different note, do most spammers report their spamming income to the tax man? Has anyone ever tried to nail a spammer for tax evasion?
Just thinking about these asshats really burns my toast!
After the introduction jump out of your seat, shout "The only good spammer is a dead one!" and then shoot several times at the "spammer" with a gun loaded with blanks. With any luck you will literally scare the shit out of the "spammer" the host, and half the studio-audience.
With a little more luck they will be too scared to want to mess with you further.
(It is probably easier to think of stuff like this when it isn't actually you, and it isn't in less than 24 hours.)