Forward only what isn't spam, and let Google handle the sifting for you.
Replace that with: "Forward only what isn't spam, and make Google replace spam with their own spam for you." It's an ad-based service, after all, so they just replace regular "online pharmeci" ads with Google "online pharmeci" ads. Just because the ads are targeted, doesn't mean they are not annoying.
Then, again, by now my eyes are trained not to pay attention to ads on a Web page - so much so that if you ask me what the ad was on the page I just looked at, I honestly couldn't tell you. If anyone told me ten years ago I'd be able to filter information like that, I'd laugh in his face.
I did this tool as a school project once that would print the data on a sheet of paper, and then reconstruct the file from a scan. It stored maybe 100KB per page. Of course, with a 600 dpi printer you can concievably store some 10MB of data per page with enough error correction to make it worthwhile. All you need is a laser printer, and a cheap scanner with higher resolution than the printer. And some acid-free paper. And some 80 pages of paper to store a CDs worth of data.
Half of my 5.25" floppies, 3.5" floppies and backup tapes didn't work anymore without 3 months of being recorded, with rather usual tub-shaped MTBF curve. Worse yet, 10% of the floppies failed within one week of being recorded. Given how well written archiving software was at the time, a single bad sector on a single disk of a 20-floppy archive set would typically mean loss of much or all of the data, with probability of it occuring within a week being roughly 100%.
And with huge 5MB harddrives (physically huge, that is) I had a lot of archive sets. I wonder if I could actually read any one of them now. Would have to find a working 3.5" drive, for one thing. I'm not even starting about 5.25".
Then, there is a slim chance the archiving software would actually run on a modern PC. And only then would I have the joy of finding out if any of the floppies read anymore. Now, those backup sets were made only some 10 years ago. CD shelf life is easily 15 years, and there probably will be some sort of 5" optical drive in common use that will still read CDs, so you could copy all your old discs to one new shiney one:-)
Close, but no cigar. From what I know about production methods, methamphetaine does not contain cumulatively-toxic contaminants. I mean, it would contain toxic contaminants, but not really long-term cumulatively-toxic. Try again:-)...they are both CNS stimulants..
True, but there are many CNS stimulants that act in different ways. Meth and coke both mostly act on dopamine system, resulting in increased levels of dopamine. One causes excess release of dopamine, the other blocks reuptake, but the net result is the increased levels...well either that, or they are reading Slashdot.
This sounds like you are trying to imply that all alive meth users read Slashdot:-). If that were true, most Slashdot posts would bear the mark of the severe personality disorders of the author, such as is typically associated with systematic amphetamine use. Oh, wait..
Actually, certain cocaine-like addictive substance does contain cumulatively poisonous contaminants, byproducts of sloppy production process. I won't tell you which drug it is, figure it out for yourself if you care. The substance in question is more addictive than cocain, and about as dangerous when used casually. Those who use it systematically often end up dead before they end up in rehab.
Guess what - by the time you find out your kid uses the stuff, he's dying in the hospital. Bet you'd really love that to happen:(
* You'd have to deducate 500% of the U.S. territory (or something like that) to grow enough biodiesel to satisfy our energy needs.
In other words, you need a *lot* of research and development to make biodiesel viable. Research in this case would be into increasing land density, and development would be land development, to a large extent:-).
Plus, it would be kinda nice to come up with a way to make it burn cleaner, 'cause otherwise any damn moderately large town would smell like ONE BIG MCDONALDS!!
I don't have access to Solaris, and on most other OS this just removes/dev/null, period. You'd have to either mknod or symlink it aftewards to get it back. On some OS the rm would just refuse to work (QNX). Why would Solaris restore the link, again?
..we're not fighting in the Middle East because of oil.
Yes we are. But we are not fighting for oil. With our President invested in oil as heavily as he is, I think the purpose of our fight in Iraq is to create a price hike. Which we are succeeding at, so far.
...$200 Billion to bomb the living fuck out of a country for no good reason
I find it hard to believe that our gov't is willing to spend $200 Billion to bomb the living fuck out of a country for no good reason, but can't catch a single fucking terrorist Osama, who caused all the FUD that prompted our brave voters to vote for a guy with no common sense yesterday simply because he is crazy enough to bomb the living fuck out of small countries for no good reason. Duh. For the next 4 years we have a government that, instead of actually catching terrorists, uses their crimes to justify revenge against personal enemies of the president's father. Do you seriously hope that that government would care about any computer-type crime, or any economic matters whatsoever?
This post is funny, you can start laughing now. Don't know about you, I'm seriously thinking about "outsourcing" myself to... say India... for a while... until next U.S. election. And that time around, I might just be voting in Ohio:-)
Someone once wrote on the blackboard in a lab at my school, below the instructions for an assignment: "type 'format c: ' to save your work".
Ha-ha, very funny, 3 PCs out of 12 got hosed. A simple virus would have done better. It was an older version of Windows, though, like maybe Win98 or something. The moral of the story - don't bother with elaborate social engineering when straightforward technical means would suffice.
Not on my computer, of course. But I have cleaned many a friend's computer after uninstalling AOL. The only thing worse is the Verizon DSL installation CD.
It works like this: you get some 10 or so people to sign up, easy. Of course, they all wait until they sign up their 5 people each before actually bothering with the offer. And those guys wait for their people to sign up. Thus, noone actually gets anything. And freeipods site doesn't get anyone to actually fulfil an offer. So, the whole thing is just a waste of time, and no money or ipods ever change hands.
Now, if you really want a free ipod, get 5 friends to sign up for you and do the offer thing, and you sign up for their free LCD monitors or whatever. Then you all will really get free stuff for free. But you can't do this by simply sig-spamming slashdot. You need to actually conspire with people:_) The whole gang will get a free ipod, and a free LCD monitor, which you than would somehow have to share between the 5 of you As an idea, maybe you could get 5 friends to sign up for you as a birthday present. I mean, a free ipod is a good thing, but you have to work the system a little:)
I wish they'd come up with a way to keep dust from getting under the LCD cover on my cell phone. Every one of the ones that I have used get some 5 or 6 sand/dust particles under the top cover after a month's use. About as annoying as stuck-red dead pixels:-)
Maybe it's storage space. Caddies are rather large and thick, compared to regular half-size CD cases, or other solutions. You can keep a 100 uncased CDs in a rather small book-type case, or a 400 cased CDs in a nice small rack. How are you going to store 400 caddies? They don't even fit in a normal CD stand.
Slashdot Mirror
Forward only what isn't spam, and let Google handle the sifting for you.
Replace that with: "Forward only what isn't spam, and make Google replace spam with their own spam for you." It's an ad-based service, after all, so they just replace regular "online pharmeci" ads with Google "online pharmeci" ads. Just because the ads are targeted, doesn't mean they are not annoying.
Then, again, by now my eyes are trained not to pay attention to ads on a Web page - so much so that if you ask me what the ad was on the page I just looked at, I honestly couldn't tell you. If anyone told me ten years ago I'd be able to filter information like that, I'd laugh in his face.
I actually find the google ads amusing, enlightening, and quite scarily, well targetted.
Are you actually reading them?
I did this tool as a school project once that would print the data on a sheet of paper, and then reconstruct the file from a scan. It stored maybe 100KB per page. Of course, with a 600 dpi printer you can concievably store some 10MB of data per page with enough error correction to make it worthwhile. All you need is a laser printer, and a cheap scanner with higher resolution than the printer. And some acid-free paper. And some 80 pages of paper to store a CDs worth of data.
Half of my 5.25" floppies, 3.5" floppies and backup tapes didn't work anymore without 3 months of being recorded, with rather usual tub-shaped MTBF curve. Worse yet, 10% of the floppies failed within one week of being recorded. Given how well written archiving software was at the time, a single bad sector on a single disk of a 20-floppy archive set would typically mean loss of much or all of the data, with probability of it occuring within a week being roughly 100%.
And with huge 5MB harddrives (physically huge, that is) I had a lot of archive sets. I wonder if I could actually read any one of them now. Would have to find a working 3.5" drive, for one thing. I'm not even starting about 5.25".
Then, there is a slim chance the archiving software would actually run on a modern PC. And only then would I have the joy of finding out if any of the floppies read anymore. Now, those backup sets were made only some 10 years ago. CD shelf life is easily 15 years, and there probably will be some sort of 5" optical drive in common use that will still read CDs, so you could copy all your old discs to one new shiney one:-)
Anyone else read that as "retarded" at first?
If you mean methamphetamine
..they are both CNS stimulants..
..well either that, or they are reading Slashdot.
Close, but no cigar. From what I know about production methods, methamphetaine does not contain cumulatively-toxic contaminants. I mean, it would contain toxic contaminants, but not really long-term cumulatively-toxic. Try again:-).
True, but there are many CNS stimulants that act in different ways. Meth and coke both mostly act on dopamine system, resulting in increased levels of dopamine. One causes excess release of dopamine, the other blocks reuptake, but the net result is the increased levels.
This sounds like you are trying to imply that all alive meth users read Slashdot:-). If that were true, most Slashdot posts would bear the mark of the severe personality disorders of the author, such as is typically associated with systematic amphetamine use. Oh, wait..
Actually, certain cocaine-like addictive substance does contain cumulatively poisonous contaminants, byproducts of sloppy production process. I won't tell you which drug it is, figure it out for yourself if you care. The substance in question is more addictive than cocain, and about as dangerous when used casually. Those who use it systematically often end up dead before they end up in rehab.
Guess what - by the time you find out your kid uses the stuff, he's dying in the hospital. Bet you'd really love that to happen:(
..just as, ehm, potent?
* Makes your car smell like McD';
* Gasoline burns much cleaner;
* Is expensive;
Most importantly:
* You'd have to deducate 500% of the U.S. territory (or something like that) to grow enough biodiesel to satisfy our energy needs.
In other words, you need a *lot* of research and development to make biodiesel viable. Research in this case would be into increasing land density, and development would be land development, to a large extent:-).
Plus, it would be kinda nice to come up with a way to make it burn cleaner, 'cause otherwise any damn moderately large town would smell like ONE BIG MCDONALDS!!
I don't have access to Solaris, and on most other OS this just removes /dev/null, period. You'd have to either mknod or symlink it aftewards to get it back. On some OS the rm would just refuse to work (QNX). Why would Solaris restore the link, again?
Nuclear powered Delorean! Wow! Wait..
..we're not fighting in the Middle East because of oil.
Yes we are. But we are not fighting for oil. With our President invested in oil as heavily as he is, I think the purpose of our fight in Iraq is to create a price hike. Which we are succeeding at, so far.
The president of a country has a fortune invested in oil. Would that country rather:
1. Develop a nuclear energy program;
2. Develop an alternative energy program;
or
3. Relax regulations for pollution control, so that fossil fuel energy can be more conviniently utilized?
Yeah, especially when those fraudulent jerks are outside of the US.
Are you sure the US is not preparing to invade their countries, say, in order to help fight spam there>?
...$200 Billion to bomb the living fuck out of a country for no good reason
... say India ... for a while ... until next U.S. election. And that time around, I might just be voting in Ohio:-)
I find it hard to believe that our gov't is willing to spend $200 Billion to bomb the living fuck out of a country for no good reason, but can't catch a single fucking terrorist Osama, who caused all the FUD that prompted our brave voters to vote for a guy with no common sense yesterday simply because he is crazy enough to bomb the living fuck out of small countries for no good reason. Duh. For the next 4 years we have a government that, instead of actually catching terrorists, uses their crimes to justify revenge against personal enemies of the president's father. Do you seriously hope that that government would care about any computer-type crime, or any economic matters whatsoever?
This post is funny, you can start laughing now. Don't know about you, I'm seriously thinking about "outsourcing" myself to
Someone once wrote on the blackboard in a lab at my school, below the instructions for an assignment: "type 'format c: ' to save your work".
Ha-ha, very funny, 3 PCs out of 12 got hosed. A simple virus would have done better. It was an older version of Windows, though, like maybe Win98 or something. The moral of the story - don't bother with elaborate social engineering when straightforward technical means would suffice.
I thought in Soviet Russia spam - the meat product - was made out of people:-)
..to advertise SPAM? I mean, SPAM as in SPAM, not as in SPAM.. Ah, you know what I mean:-)
Not on my computer, of course. But I have cleaned many a friend's computer after uninstalling AOL. The only thing worse is the Verizon DSL installation CD.
You want a Free iPod too, dontcha?
It works like this: you get some 10 or so people to sign up, easy. Of course, they all wait until they sign up their 5 people each before actually bothering with the offer. And those guys wait for their people to sign up. Thus, noone actually gets anything. And freeipods site doesn't get anyone to actually fulfil an offer. So, the whole thing is just a waste of time, and no money or ipods ever change hands.
Now, if you really want a free ipod, get 5 friends to sign up for you and do the offer thing, and you sign up for their free LCD monitors or whatever. Then you all will really get free stuff for free. But you can't do this by simply sig-spamming slashdot. You need to actually conspire with people:_) The whole gang will get a free ipod, and a free LCD monitor, which you than would somehow have to share between the 5 of you As an idea, maybe you could get 5 friends to sign up for you as a birthday present. I mean, a free ipod is a good thing, but you have to work the system a little:)
I wish they'd come up with a way to keep dust from getting under the LCD cover on my cell phone. Every one of the ones that I have used get some 5 or 6 sand/dust particles under the top cover after a month's use. About as annoying as stuck-red dead pixels:-)
Prohibitevely expensive
Maybe it's storage space. Caddies are rather large and thick, compared to regular half-size CD cases, or other solutions. You can keep a 100 uncased CDs in a rather small book-type case, or a 400 cased CDs in a nice small rack. How are you going to store 400 caddies? They don't even fit in a normal CD stand.
The worst is installed.
In my experience, the worst is uninstalled.
Are you going to read, like, all of them?
..will be sure to appoint a couple of bananas:-
Not funny.