i dont believe it. thats either the funniest or the sadest thing i have ever seen IN MY LIFE...
microsoft trying to be 'counter culture'. thos images will haunt me till the end of my days.
it doesnt even make any sense. he is give then red pill that says "ibm/linux" on it. presumably he takes it and then is awakened.. they cant even parody things correctly.
its like rewriting brazil to make bill gates the protagonist and steve balmer that psycho bitch with the car....
IT DOESNT WORK
i think im going to be sick (oh and is it just me or does this image makes bill gates almost look like a swastica... no?)
this whole topic is messed up though. a 15 year old... wtf are they not going to know about or be shocked by? unless these are some really sheltered kids. southpark is good example as it really describes our society as cleanly as possible. all kids should be able to fire up a torrent and download the newest episodes.
if you teach them to understand new things instead of just what things "are" then they will have skills aplicable to all areas of life. i was building computers at 15.. jesus. who didnt grow up with a comodore or atari or something... take it away? because they didnt tell you they saw some tities or subscribed to a bbs to find out how to grow weed?
you can turn on the tv and see the president kill thousands, and you think a little porn will 'deeply shatter' them?
ppl need more respect for their kids. encourage them to think and learn and explore. teach your kids perspectives and they will always be smart.
actually if you read the entire report citibank didnt do anything at all. infact it says that the emails were from an employee that no longer worked there. They say that their was a cable modem in deleware that was behind a firewall, acted as a testing ground for this scam. Perhaps the former employee? still citibank clearly donesnt care very much. they redirect further inquiries to an aol account of all things.
from article: "A few hours later, a response from Citibank was received (Fig. 11). Unfortunately, this reply has a significant number of questionable aspects. In particular:
The reply discusses fraudulent email content that differs from the submitted email. The submitted content did not discuss money transfers, include a virus, nor contain an attachment, as suggested by the response. This could be due to specific content in a generic form letter.
The reply concludes with a static string of odd characters. These appear to be a hash-buster (used by spam senders to bypass hash-based spam filters) but never change. Strings such as this have not been observed with other official Citibank email communications.
The content directs further questions to a toll-free number: 1-877-4-MYCITI. Unfortunately, this toll-free number is not correct. People who call this number receive the following short message: "The number you dialed is invalid." The correct number, according to the Citibank web site, is different than the invalid number provided in the automated reply.
The content directs future fraud emails to be sent to a non-Citibank email address: hatsu1@aol.com. The owner of this email address is unknown. In no other Citibank web page or official Citibank email is a non-Citibank email address provided. Editor's note: as of 12-Nov-03, this email address is still used in Citibank's response.
"Cleatis Hawkins" signed the email. According to an operator at Citibank?s correct toll-free number, Cleatis is a real person, but has not worked at Citibank for a few months. There is no evidence to suggest that "Cleatis Hawkins" is responsible or involved with the email scam or possible system compromise. It is unclear how his name became attached to the reply.
No aspect of the email headers appears forged. The reply from Citibank originated from the Citibank Development Center in Los Angeles, California (CDCLA). It is now left to the reader to draw his own conclusions from this email. "
"worked in IT jobs have been remarking on absolutely horrible job postings for low-level IT jobs paying small change"
? except for the rediculous amount of qualifications needed for that poisition, it seems like any other job posting ive seen for helpdesk. also 19 bucks an hour is alot of money to most entry level people i know (including myself). it should be noted that the rent in edmonton for a small apartment is usually around 500 CAN/mth and with this job working 40 hours a week would make like 3k.
how is 3k a month bad? have you tried looking for work lately? im tryign to find a job doing similar things in vancouver and would be more than happy with 12 or 13 dollars an hour. that would cover rent and internet and all that.
wtf is the poster on? does he expect everyone to be making 50k+ a year?
its clearly the best show. you have a time traveller who goes around solving other peoples problems and dependning on which one you watch he has a different personality. but always he is knowledgeable and intelligent moreso than everyone else. he also frequently changes nice lookingenglishhoes. might i add, also from all time periods.
of course the 4th and 7th are most memerable to me. maybe the 2nd one was good too.
Marshal: 'How can we have peace until we have the ultimate deterrent that will ensure a lasting peace?' Doctor: 'Tell me Marshal, if you had this ultimate deterrent, what would you do?' Marshal: 'Use it of course, make sure it works.' Doctor: 'Yes... You have a true military mind, Marshal.' Marshal: 'Thank you.' -- k9 rocks the casbah too:
"When we talk about going to the Moon, we're talking about Billions of dollars."
hmmm well i know 87.5 billion dollars is going to iraq. how many billions do you need?
im sure it will all fall together one day and that piece of property i baught several years ago will be able to be claimed! i think i have a few hundred moon acres on a certificate somewhere.
"McDonalds announces promotion where the purchase of any combo meal will include a peel off sticker on the french fry container with 1 code redeemable for a free song valued at $0.99"
wow
but your missing the whole point. its not 99c its nothing. i can download the music for free.
why dont artists get hard on for popularity anymore? god... this is the same logic that will have the nanoforges taxed to all hell. you cant prop up capitalism for ever people.
yeah i did have it installed but a few things bugged me.
1) when i went to select text in the address field it never selected properly. i know it seems trivial and dumb but when i click twice on IE address bar the first one highlights the whole url and the second click puts the cursor just from where i clicked. mozilla doesn't do that.
2) it takes longer to load and i have to run the memory manager-helper-starterup thingy in my systray. again another trivial thing that gets on your nerves after a while...
3) when i tried turning that blocking thing on i forgot it was on all the time and would click on things and have nothign happen. my dns servers are really bad so usually when it takes a minute i just click again and get thru. it takes a few clicks to realize i have to hold down shift or whatever.
4) it doesnt let me browse files. like when i type f: into the search bar in ie it switches right over to explorer (from ie, there the same thing so its not hard). in mozilla it just gives me like a picture of my directory structure where i cant edit any files. i had to use explorer for browsing files anyways so why bother using mozilla.
i really wanted to like it and maybe firebird addresses some of these issues but right now im too used to ie:(
Personally, i dont know what this guy is talking about at all. first norton DOES NOT DO THIS*. maybe he means Norton Systemworks, but i can assure you Norton AV 2004 has no option for this (i just double checked).
second, i dont look at the banner ads and have maybe clicked 2 in my life. I tune them out, much the same way that regular tv viewers can tune out those ads (i cant and it annoys everyone when i bitch that there are too many ads on tv). So basically they dont work on me anyways - thus no loss of income from me. I actually would go out of my way not to buy from a source that had popups or banner ads (x10 comes to mind) even if it was sort of cool.
I should be able to control what is downloaded/opened by my computer/webbrowser. Im sorry that the bubble burst and people have to run frantically around trying to save their blog or whatever. if the only way you can do that is by annoying me, then thats not a real solution. Besides if the content is good enough, ala slashdot, people will pay.
But back to the real issue.. this rant is pure FUD because he is either misidentifying the product or completely wrong.
*it is possible i didnt install this option as i always choose custom install, but then its not installed 'no matter what' now is it.
"as was probably the case considering that ad blocking is automatically enabled in NAV 2004."
um i have been running nav2004 for a few months and i still get banner ads and pop ups. Its not my problem to fund your site. so if anyone knows how i can activate this wonderful feature, (if for nothing else than to try it out) can they please post because i have never seen this behavior.
Is it possible this is a 3rd party app i didnt install?
well at least the morse code man saved that train, despite being accosted by passers by saying it wasnt a big deal.. i learn all my history from heritage moments!
"Join this free, live audiocast during which Paul Hill of MIT and David Bodnar of the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be interviewed about the state of their institution's planning and deployment of Windows 2000. Richard Jones will be guest co-hosting along with regular Technology Anchor, Howard Strauss
"Our Sponsor for this Event Microsoft is committed to helping colleges and universities build 21st Century Campuses in the Connected Learning Community by continuing to provide them with rich technology tools. Some Microsoft Web links of potential interest include:"
you want to stop aging? you want to live forever? i guess you never saw zardoz
those people would be very happy to die but the artificial intelligence regenerates them if they kill themselves but ages them few years for 'misbehaving'.
"Modern civilization is THE TESTAMENT to the triumphs of technology over "Mother Nature"."
See the problem with that is mother nature is a bitch with a memory that makes your wife/gf look like an amnesiac. you think the raping of virtually every place (save the deep ocean, and more than a few km underground) is a triumph? shes already fighting back. Just this year the west coast has been hit with horrible fires the likes of which never occured before. personally i think we will run out of fresh (non poluted) water, before anything.
"All because we say "FUCK YOU!" and flip the finger to Mother Nature, and we try to take an active control over our destiny."
ah the american(tm) way. Problem is, (as cpt picard said) that kind of control is an illusion. I would much rather work in a symbiotic relationship with nature than try and fight her. even if you fight mother nature and win, you still loose because your dead.. or living in a bubble on mars or something.
"Fact is, evolution is NOT, NOT an intentional, planned affair, as your second sentence implies (and upon which your entire argument depends). Evolution produces, in each generation, an organism that can thrive in a range of possibile scenarios."
So if the future is not a "planned afair", how can you possibly control it? I would love to see how you deal with a nuclear disaster and the following 100+ odd years of societal ruin. but of course you'll probably be 'evolved' out by the guy with the can opener.
"Conditional changes occur in nature all the time that put organisms into environments that differ from the conditions under which those organisms evolved... in fact, that's what CAUSES evolution. They don't always deal well with it, but they thrive often enough."
the problem is we have reached a point where societies/people/cultures can change the direction of evolution. be it by nuclear war, famine, plague or just greed. when some group (intentionally or otherwise) decides what should evolve, thats not nature, then i think thats a problem.
the american/western world has only been around MAX 200 years. you think it will last another 200 with that attitude?
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i dont believe it. thats either the funniest or the sadest thing i have ever seen IN MY LIFE...
microsoft trying to be 'counter culture'. thos images will haunt me till the end of my days.
it doesnt even make any sense. he is give then red pill that says "ibm/linux" on it. presumably he takes it and then is awakened.. they cant even parody things correctly.
its like rewriting brazil to make bill gates the protagonist and steve balmer that psycho bitch with the car....
IT DOESNT WORK
i think im going to be sick
(oh and is it just me or does this image makes bill gates almost look like a swastica... no?)
lol
you sound like that chick ann coulter.
this whole topic is messed up though. a 15 year old... wtf are they not going to know about or be shocked by? unless these are some really sheltered kids. southpark is good example as it really describes our society as cleanly as possible. all kids should be able to fire up a torrent and download the newest episodes.
if you teach them to understand new things instead of just what things "are" then they will have skills aplicable to all areas of life. i was building computers at 15.. jesus. who didnt grow up with a comodore or atari or something... take it away? because they didnt tell you they saw some tities or subscribed to a bbs to find out how to grow weed?
you can turn on the tv and see the president kill thousands, and you think a little porn will 'deeply shatter' them?
ppl need more respect for their kids. encourage them to think and learn and explore. teach your kids perspectives and they will always be smart.
lol
actually if you read the entire report citibank didnt do anything at all. infact it says that the emails were from an employee that no longer worked there. They say that their was a cable modem in deleware that was behind a firewall, acted as a testing ground for this scam. Perhaps the former employee? still citibank clearly donesnt care very much. they redirect further inquiries to an aol account of all things.
from article:
"A few hours later, a response from Citibank was received (Fig. 11). Unfortunately, this reply has a significant number of questionable aspects. In particular:
The reply discusses fraudulent email content that differs from the submitted email. The submitted content did not discuss money transfers, include a virus, nor contain an attachment, as suggested by the response. This could be due to specific content in a generic form letter.
The reply concludes with a static string of odd characters. These appear to be a hash-buster (used by spam senders to bypass hash-based spam filters) but never change. Strings such as this have not been observed with other official Citibank email communications.
The content directs further questions to a toll-free number: 1-877-4-MYCITI. Unfortunately, this toll-free number is not correct. People who call this number receive the following short message: "The number you dialed is invalid." The correct number, according to the Citibank web site, is different than the invalid number provided in the automated reply.
The content directs future fraud emails to be sent to a non-Citibank email address: hatsu1@aol.com. The owner of this email address is unknown. In no other Citibank web page or official Citibank email is a non-Citibank email address provided. Editor's note: as of 12-Nov-03, this email address is still used in Citibank's response.
"Cleatis Hawkins" signed the email. According to an operator at Citibank?s correct toll-free number, Cleatis is a real person, but has not worked at Citibank for a few months. There is no evidence to suggest that "Cleatis Hawkins" is responsible or involved with the email scam or possible system compromise. It is unclear how his name became attached to the reply.
No aspect of the email headers appears forged. The reply from Citibank originated from the Citibank Development Center in Los Angeles, California (CDCLA). It is now left to the reader to draw his own conclusions from this email.
"
"worked in IT jobs have been remarking on absolutely horrible job postings for low-level IT jobs paying small change"
? except for the rediculous amount of qualifications needed for that poisition, it seems like any other job posting ive seen for helpdesk. also 19 bucks an hour is alot of money to most entry level people i know (including myself). it should be noted that the rent in edmonton for a small apartment is usually around 500 CAN/mth and with this job working 40 hours a week would make like 3k.
how is 3k a month bad? have you tried looking for work lately? im tryign to find a job doing similar things in vancouver and would be more than happy with 12 or 13 dollars an hour. that would cover rent and internet and all that.
wtf is the poster on? does he expect everyone to be making 50k+ a year?
ahem.... torrent?
its clearly the best show. you have a time traveller who goes around solving other peoples problems and dependning on which one you watch he has a different personality. but always he is knowledgeable and intelligent moreso than everyone else. he also frequently changes nice looking english hoes. might i add, also from all time periods.
a rmageddonfactor/quote.shtml
:)
of course the 4th and 7th are most memerable to me. maybe the 2nd one was good too.
Marshal: 'How can we have peace until we have the ultimate deterrent that will ensure a lasting peace?'
Doctor: 'Tell me Marshal, if you had this ultimate deterrent, what would you do?'
Marshal: 'Use it of course, make sure it works.'
Doctor: 'Yes... You have a true military mind, Marshal.'
Marshal: 'Thank you.'
--
k9 rocks the casbah too:
Drax: 'Blimey, it's a dog! Who's a little tin dog, then?'
K9: 'Your silliness is noted.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/episodeguide/
also i have tonnes of pirate dr who. if anyone has a nice ftp or collection of torrents i would be happy to trade.
rofl he probably sells batteries
how would i go about saving those. the mpeg one is b0rked.
i like to keep things
ok let me get this straight.. you use an m4 assault rifle to kill small animals? that you baught because your mother died...
can you say fucking messed up?
why dont you name yourself Walter Sobchak and get it over with.
"When we talk about going to the Moon, we're talking about Billions of dollars."
hmmm well i know 87.5 billion dollars is going to iraq. how many billions do you need?
im sure it will all fall together one day and that piece of property i baught several years ago will be able to be claimed! i think i have a few hundred moon acres on a certificate somewhere.
"McDonalds announces promotion where the purchase of any combo meal will include a peel off sticker on the french fry container with 1 code redeemable for a free song valued at $0.99"
wow
but your missing the whole point. its not 99c its nothing. i can download the music for free.
why dont artists get hard on for popularity anymore? god... this is the same logic that will have the nanoforges taxed to all hell. you cant prop up capitalism for ever people.
yeah i did have it installed but a few things bugged me.
:(
1) when i went to select text in the address field it never selected properly. i know it seems trivial and dumb but when i click twice on IE address bar the first one highlights the whole url and the second click puts the cursor just from where i clicked. mozilla doesn't do that.
2) it takes longer to load and i have to run the memory manager-helper-starterup thingy in my systray. again another trivial thing that gets on your nerves after a while...
3) when i tried turning that blocking thing on i forgot it was on all the time and would click on things and have nothign happen. my dns servers are really bad so usually when it takes a minute i just click again and get thru. it takes a few clicks to realize i have to hold down shift or whatever.
4) it doesnt let me browse files. like when i type f: into the search bar in ie it switches right over to explorer (from ie, there the same thing so its not hard). in mozilla it just gives me like a picture of my directory structure where i cant edit any files. i had to use explorer for browsing files anyways so why bother using mozilla.
i really wanted to like it and maybe firebird addresses some of these issues but right now im too used to ie
how similar were they... was it the same cat?
whoes this new guy simoniker anyways...
Personally, i dont know what this guy is talking about at all. first norton DOES NOT DO THIS*. maybe he means Norton Systemworks, but i can assure you Norton AV 2004 has no option for this (i just double checked).
second, i dont look at the banner ads and have maybe clicked 2 in my life. I tune them out, much the same way that regular tv viewers can tune out those ads (i cant and it annoys everyone when i bitch that there are too many ads on tv). So basically they dont work on me anyways - thus no loss of income from me. I actually would go out of my way not to buy from a source that had popups or banner ads (x10 comes to mind) even if it was sort of cool.
I should be able to control what is downloaded/opened by my computer/webbrowser. Im sorry that the bubble burst and people have to run frantically around trying to save their blog or whatever. if the only way you can do that is by annoying me, then thats not a real solution. Besides if the content is good enough, ala slashdot, people will pay.
But back to the real issue.. this rant is pure FUD because he is either misidentifying the product or completely wrong.
*it is possible i didnt install this option as i always choose custom install, but then its not installed 'no matter what' now is it.
"as was probably the case considering that ad blocking is automatically enabled in NAV 2004."
um i have been running nav2004 for a few months and i still get banner ads and pop ups. Its not my problem to fund your site. so if anyone knows how i can activate this wonderful feature, (if for nothing else than to try it out) can they please post because i have never seen this behavior.
Is it possible this is a 3rd party app i didnt install?
(I am not a mathmatician) so can someone please explain how long "now some 8.4 billion miles (90 AUs) from the sun" is in light years?
besides that we know it will one day come back remarkably misspelling its own name, while still having a excelent knowledge of the english language...
well at least the morse code man saved that train, despite being accosted by passers by saying it wasnt a big deal.. i learn all my history from heritage moments!
still if you had a link it would be doubble plus good.
good thing im here to find this link
"Join this free, live audiocast during which Paul Hill of MIT and
David Bodnar of the University of Colorado, Boulder, will be
interviewed about the state of their institution's planning and
deployment of Windows 2000. Richard Jones will be guest
co-hosting along with regular Technology Anchor, Howard Strauss
Thursday, November 30 at 4 pm Eastern Time
Sponsored by Microsoft..."
I knew it had to boil down to microsoft.
oh and another
"Our Sponsor for this Event
Microsoft is committed to helping colleges and universities build 21st Century Campuses in the Connected Learning Community by continuing to provide them with rich technology tools. Some Microsoft Web links of potential interest include:"
can you say vested interest?
hmm well i just send a carefully worded flame to his other address (listed at end of article).
i hope whoever howard@princeton.edu is he has his asbestos underware on!
"So the big bad nuclear power plants so reviled by hippies may cure AIDS. Oh the irony."
because... um... all the hippies have aids?
you want to stop aging? you want to live forever?
i guess you never saw zardoz
those people would be very happy to die but the artificial intelligence regenerates them if they kill themselves but ages them few years for 'misbehaving'.
"These are not available by *ahem* cheaper means"
really.. hmm.. i must have mis read this site then.
link
"Modern civilization is THE TESTAMENT to the triumphs of technology over "Mother Nature"."
See the problem with that is mother nature is a bitch with a memory that makes your wife/gf look like an amnesiac. you think the raping of virtually every place (save the deep ocean, and more than a few km underground) is a triumph? shes already fighting back. Just this year the west coast has been hit with horrible fires the likes of which never occured before. personally i think we will run out of fresh (non poluted) water, before anything.
"All because we say "FUCK YOU!" and flip the finger to Mother Nature, and we try to take an active control over our destiny."
ah the american(tm) way. Problem is, (as cpt picard said) that kind of control is an illusion. I would much rather work in a symbiotic relationship with nature than try and fight her. even if you fight mother nature and win, you still loose because your dead.. or living in a bubble on mars or something.
"Fact is, evolution is NOT, NOT an intentional, planned affair, as your second sentence implies (and upon which your entire argument depends). Evolution produces, in each generation, an organism that can thrive in a range of possibile scenarios."
So if the future is not a "planned afair", how can you possibly control it? I would love to see how you deal with a nuclear disaster and the following 100+ odd years of societal ruin. but of course you'll probably be 'evolved' out by the guy with the can opener.
"Conditional changes occur in nature all the time that put organisms into environments that differ from the conditions under which those organisms evolved... in fact, that's what CAUSES evolution. They don't always deal well with it, but they thrive often enough."
the problem is we have reached a point where societies/people/cultures can change the direction of evolution. be it by nuclear war, famine, plague or just greed. when some group (intentionally or otherwise) decides what should evolve, thats not nature, then i think thats a problem.
the american/western world has only been around MAX 200 years. you think it will last another 200 with that attitude?