I have to say, this may end up turning out as a blessing in disguise. It's bad enough that most people have to deal with spam, but when you can effectively completely fuck a businesses telephony over anonymously and with little trouble, you'll end up seeing legislation. I guarentee you that.
It will have an uptime of roughly two hours to two days of use, depending on which contractor constructed it, after which it will crash and have to be rebuilt.
No, actually, I don't believe I've read that at all. I was just going for something demographically pleasing and yet absurdly dumb that we would expect out of Spielburg
Does anyone else feel that the hard drive is there just for the sake of being a gimmick? I mean honestly, what are you going to use that space for?! Downloading movies onto your cellphone to play during your ride to work? Having twenty five thousand hours of mp3 ringtones to choose from?
The only thing I can possibly see this being even vaguely useful for is surruptuously videotaping an area via the camerphone for hours at a time, but that's gray legality at best!
Billboards are like banner ads. You can look at them. Or not.
You're thinking of "Gremlin holding wheaties advertisement popping out of your steering column and blocking your vision of the road for the next 3-4 seconds until your car crashes while you try and kill it (except every time you smack it another one pops out!)"
Stupidity and Hypocrisy are applicable to all politicians, and in my opinion more so the Republicans than the Democrats. Sorry, but you'll have to be more specific.
We'd probably not have any kind of 'cheap' home broadband without them. Hell, perhaps we should raise a glass to the 'stupid' people and say, "Thanks for funding the technology that we love and will use to its fullest potential."
... and then kick them offline until they secure their box so that they're not sending thousands of v1agra emails.
You know? That would be absolutely delightful. Hell, I'm sure there would be legions of geeks willing to ensure that the information entered into their systems wasn't "Murder", but "Tickling with fluffy bunnies" instead.
I've always wondered just what law enforcement would do if someone started to serially hunt spammers, and I keep coming to the conclusion that all you need to keep the trail cold is leave a note saying "This man sent your daughter emails about zoo porn"
This assumes that he's going to sue anyone that uses his "patents." There's nothing to stop him from patenting nifty things he does and then saying "Ok guys, this is what it does. I won't sue anyone for infringement. Now, go knock your collective socks off!"
Of course, considering that patents cost money, it may well just not be feasable to patent everything he does.
At which point they get blackholed, and that nice shiny T1 is now useless.
Only the most legitimate of spammers (and what an oxymoron that is)even use their own equipment anymore. What they're doing is semi-legal as it is, so taking the next step into actually breaking the law is reasonably trivial.
I'm referring to Dizzy Flores, the charecter they made up for him to fuck in the now magically integrated MI, not his friend who goes to pluto and gets killed.
There was a very involved discussion in the book about why the military in the book was seperated by gender. The producers decided "more tits = higher moneys," along with other things (power armor, any fucking clue whatsoever, etc).
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I have to say, this may end up turning out as a blessing in disguise. It's bad enough that most people have to deal with spam, but when you can effectively completely fuck a businesses telephony over anonymously and with little trouble, you'll end up seeing legislation. I guarentee you that.
I'd love to see a bayesian filter for voice data.
It will have an uptime of roughly two hours to two days of use, depending on which contractor constructed it, after which it will crash and have to be rebuilt.
No, more like a wood magnet from what I've heard, actually.
The same place you get the rest of your stuff: Army surplus!
Mod parent up, +1 informative and +1 funny (pick at random)
The HTML version is broken, but the postscript download is perfectly viewable (at least for me, running GhostView).
No, actually, I don't believe I've read that at all. I was just going for something demographically pleasing and yet absurdly dumb that we would expect out of Spielburg
The aliens aren't defeated by a cold, not this time around. No, they're much too smart for that. Now, it will be a talk dog sidekick that can fly!
Does anyone else feel that the hard drive is there just for the sake of being a gimmick? I mean honestly, what are you going to use that space for?! Downloading movies onto your cellphone to play during your ride to work? Having twenty five thousand hours of mp3 ringtones to choose from? The only thing I can possibly see this being even vaguely useful for is surruptuously videotaping an area via the camerphone for hours at a time, but that's gray legality at best!
Billboards are like banner ads. You can look at them. Or not.
You're thinking of "Gremlin holding wheaties advertisement popping out of your steering column and blocking your vision of the road for the next 3-4 seconds until your car crashes while you try and kill it (except every time you smack it another one pops out!)"
Because nothing says news like scathing layers of sarcasm. And if The Register has anything, it's sarcasm, and in spades!
Because it's trying to start a holy war for a few cheap laughs. "WINDOZE SUX!!11LOLOLOLRLR!WTF" Can we collectively get over that now?
In natural conditions. Assuming that it's coming off by rubber soles alone. With a hose it takes a couple of minutes. It's CHALK. RTFA yourself.
The difference being that murder is perminant and harmful, while this chalk is temporary to the tune of a couple of minutes.
Stupidity and Hypocrisy are applicable to all politicians, and in my opinion more so the Republicans than the Democrats. Sorry, but you'll have to be more specific.
I do not like New Jerseyan swearing,
I'm from New Jersey, you insensitive clod!
We'd probably not have any kind of 'cheap' home broadband without them. Hell, perhaps we should raise a glass to the 'stupid' people and say, "Thanks for funding the technology that we love and will use to its fullest potential."
... and then kick them offline until they secure their box so that they're not sending thousands of v1agra emails.
You know? That would be absolutely delightful. Hell, I'm sure there would be legions of geeks willing to ensure that the information entered into their systems wasn't "Murder", but "Tickling with fluffy bunnies" instead.
I've always wondered just what law enforcement would do if someone started to serially hunt spammers, and I keep coming to the conclusion that all you need to keep the trail cold is leave a note saying "This man sent your daughter emails about zoo porn"
This assumes that he's going to sue anyone that uses his "patents." There's nothing to stop him from patenting nifty things he does and then saying "Ok guys, this is what it does. I won't sue anyone for infringement. Now, go knock your collective socks off!"
Of course, considering that patents cost money, it may well just not be feasable to patent everything he does.
Pfft, that's nothing. I have had the patent on innovative games for the last 5 years! Have you wondered why so few games are even interesting lately?
Oh I know, I was just being a jerk hoping for a +591231 funny rating :)
Detonating nukes in the path of the missile? Why do I get the feeling that you got your technical briefing from "Missile Command"?
At which point they get blackholed, and that nice shiny T1 is now useless.
Only the most legitimate of spammers (and what an oxymoron that is)even use their own equipment anymore. What they're doing is semi-legal as it is, so taking the next step into actually breaking the law is reasonably trivial.
Hmmm. Well, they changed the gender, anyway, which kind of says something. Didn't know that.
I'm referring to Dizzy Flores, the charecter they made up for him to fuck in the now magically integrated MI, not his friend who goes to pluto and gets killed. There was a very involved discussion in the book about why the military in the book was seperated by gender. The producers decided "more tits = higher moneys," along with other things (power armor, any fucking clue whatsoever, etc).