MY ROBOT
The story of my robot is neat. When I was bored one day coming home from school, I decided to build a robot. I started out building a synthetic merman. Figuring out that it doesn't do anything but complain, I threw it out. The last I heard, it's living with some mutants in the South. My next robot was a masterpiece cause it played music, and danced. I also wanted to make it have feelings, but the only feeling it focused on was mischief. It started a rumor that I was gay, then all the other household appliances laughed at me. Then it did a dance. So, I don't let it feel anymore. It just dances now.
After deciding that I was going to live all my childhood dreams through this robot, I decided to take it to the robot convention in Albequerque. Then I figured out that there was no convention in Albequerque. So I took it to Robot Wars. Since my robot only dances, it was incinerated in the first round. After rebuilding it, I took my robot to the BRGT, or the Big Robot Get-Together. During a heated session of "Mr. Fame," my robot was confronted by some other jealous dancer robots, who were competing for the grand prize. When I informed these robots there was no competition to speak of, they incinerated my robot. After rebuilding it, I challenged these robots to a dance-off. Meanwhile my merman learned the true meaning of Christmas. But that doesn't matter. My robot showed up for the dance-off with more of an entrance than one by Dennis Miller after taking speed pills from Joey Buttafuco's private cache, smelling worse than Desmond Tutu's secret gorgonzola cheese factory (Insert poignant Miller music). Except, his was cool, and he out-danced all the other robots, with cool assortments of ollies, grinds, and manuals.
Interesting, this line get's modded informative, whereas my posts, which are usually more on-topic, get modded offtopic. Clearly, racism rules supreme on/.
In other news, I think auctioning off your gmail account is great, if somebody is actually willing to pay for a beta account.... I mean personally I don't think anybody should hold the Nigerian 419 philanthropists responsible if somebody gives them a cred card number...
Whoa there buddy. Geocities existed as a separate entity fer ages, it was bought by Yahoo in 2000 I think, so it's no offshoot. It's still owned by Yahoo, me thinks.
The answer is 10 (last time I checked) Come on, click on THIS for a picture of uranus.... in other news, the pictures which were apparently close ups of Saturn's moon Titan ended up being close ups of Paris Hilton in the shower. This was revealed when somebody saw a huge thumb appear near what looked like a crater surrounded by hair...being unable to explain why there were hairy craters on Titan, we resorted to the principle of Occam's Razor....
That's 419... that makes you the fourth idiot, HA HA! BTW, does anybody know why this is called a 419 scam? Does 419 refer to some section of the American penal code? Or is it just the combination to the suitcase full of money that our Nigerian philanthropists will send us....
Whoops, looks like I forgot to add the SARCASM
tags around my post.
Or you can run a mail server, and get a clue how SMTP works, and how its EASY to tell where the spam comes from (as far as who gave it to your mailserver. Beyond that, the headers can be forged.)
"As far as who gave it to my mail server." Oh gee, what a great idea, and it's so simple too... Now I know whom to block. Great. GAFC....
Frankly I don't see how this will stop spamming. What about spoofing, and web-based e-mail services. When I log into Yahoo, I'm porbably accessing a server in USA..and if use my account to spam, what r they gonna do? This whole thing is a pointless exercise, and also stinks of a little racism -> I suspect that Bush is behind this: "Let's block countries that pull their troops out Iraq. TAKE THAT!"
I see, so... leaving a one despot in charge of a country is ok if he licks your ass, but gases his own people, and supports terrorism against its neighbour and sells nukes to the 'Axis of Evil' (Pakistan, in case u didn't know), but let's get rid of the others...because as you so loudly proclaim to the whole world, an American life is worth at a 100 rest-of-the-world lives. Who the fuck are you to decide which country to destabilize and which one to leave intact? And this brings me to another point: You're so proud of being a 'superpower' - well would u like to tell me which country of comparable size, in terms of military strength or geographical area you have picked a fight with since WW2? American military 'might' since WW2 has been based on the cowardly principle of attacking weak, pitiful countries - Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan. Oh yea buddy, that shows some real strength there. Try picking a fight with Russia, China, India. See how afraid they'll be of America.
You guys still don't get it, and looks like u never will, which means that 9/11 will be repeated, and repeated until the message finally gets into your thick, steel-plated skull. The funniest thing is that most Americans are still stumped as to why Iraqis aren't thanking America for 'liberating' them. Gee uncle sam, thanks for liberating my country and murdering my brother by accident, if it wasn't for you guys, he would have died a random, gruesome death at the hands of some crazed military men....oh wait....
In other news, Micro$oft officials breathe a sigh of relief on being told that they still have lots of hard drive speed left to play with, in order to accomadate their latest operating system, codenamed 'BlowHard'. A smiling, happy, Gill Bates was quoted as saying "Phew! They had me scared for a minute when they said they'd reached the limit...how are our customers going to be able to enjoy the benefits of Windows Media Playr 50.2.2 if those darn electrons start slowing down??"
On a more serious note, okay so 2 sides of a platter will be written. What if they wrote data onto a cube instead. Then instead of the regaular speed you'd be able to get x3...of course the details of such a system need to be worked out.....
OS X is closed source. This means that it is the work of the devil - its purpose is to make the end users eat babies....
Linux is the only free OS. Yes the BSD lincenses may appear more free, but as they have no restrictions, they are actually less free than the GPL. You see, restricting the end user more actually makes them more free than not putting restrictions on them. You must be a dumb luser for not understanding this....
And you obviously dont have a real job. A real job involves being a student or professional academic. You see, academics are the ones who know all about productivity - if you work for a commercial organisation you obviously do not know anything about computers. Usability is stupid. Whats wrong with the command line? If you cant use the command line then you shouldnt be using a computer. vi should be the standard word processor - you are such a luser if you want to use Word. Installing software should have to involve recompiling the kernel of the OS. If you dont know how to do this, you are a stupid luser who should RTFM. Or go to a Linux irc channel or newsgroup. After all, they are soooo friendly. If you dont know how the latest 2.6 kernel scheduling algorithm works then they will tell you to stop wasting their time, but they really are quite supportive....
Oh, and M$ is just as evil as Apple. Take LookOUT for instance. You could just as easily use Eudora. Who needs groupware anyway, a simple email client should be all we use (thats all we use as academics, why cant businesses be any different)....
And trend setters - Linux is the trend setter. It may appear KDE is a ripoff from XP, but thats because M$ stole the KDE code. We all know they have GPL'ed code hidden in there somewhere (but not the things that dont work, only the things that work could possibly have GPL'ed code in it)....
And Apple is the suxor because they charge people for their product. We all know that its a much better business model to give all your products away for free. If you charge for anything, then you are allied with M$ and will burn in hell.
This brings up a very important point....how long will it be before M$ decides to issue 2 GB of disk space for free to crowd out Google? Personally, I'd hang on to existing mail accounts simply because this might prompt a small e-mail war... and in that situation I'd bet ON M$ rather than against it...
Er.. the whole point of (most) spam is not clog servers and carry out vendettas...it's rather to dupe people into downloading unwanted spyware and increasing their penis sizes. A spammer wouldn't gain anything by adding a link to slashdot. Some script kiddie might, but not the bulk of spammers out there, plus at this point, it sure seems like there are more spammers than script-kiddies...
Seriously, this is the exact same thing I was thinking! Besides, what do they do that any decent web browser doesn't already do (using the History feature, and AutoComplete...). I guess they just make it more 'convenient'. What they forget is that Google is already the most convenient. White background, one text box and 2 buttons. IMHO, a9 sucks. To use the 'fancy' features, u have to sign in, using your Amazon account!!! Thanks, I'll stick to google. There are some conveniences I can do without. But then I might be biased considering I used to be and Amazon employee who got fired..
I found ZoneAlarm to be quite a hit on my machine's performance. I also didn't like having to deal with 10 prompts everytime I opened a net-using program
ZoneAlarm doesn't do anything for my machine's performance, and as for those prompts, they appear the first few times you use a program to access the Net, so as to allow ZoneAlarm to 'learn' a little bit about your net usage.
What's a good solution for you isn't a good solution for everybody.
I never said it was good for everybody. Obviously it's not the best solution, else all us M$ users would be virus-free..
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AV software is a panacea, a vaporous comfort blanket that serves to only make the sellers money.
AVGFree anyone?
That's Hydrogen Hydroxide, you moron. If you're going to make a lame joke, at least get it right. (H+) (OH-) = H20
Mod parent up - this isn't flamebait, but a response to flamebait.
MY ROBOT The story of my robot is neat. When I was bored one day coming home from school, I decided to build a robot. I started out building a synthetic merman. Figuring out that it doesn't do anything but complain, I threw it out. The last I heard, it's living with some mutants in the South. My next robot was a masterpiece cause it played music, and danced. I also wanted to make it have feelings, but the only feeling it focused on was mischief. It started a rumor that I was gay, then all the other household appliances laughed at me. Then it did a dance. So, I don't let it feel anymore. It just dances now. After deciding that I was going to live all my childhood dreams through this robot, I decided to take it to the robot convention in Albequerque. Then I figured out that there was no convention in Albequerque. So I took it to Robot Wars. Since my robot only dances, it was incinerated in the first round. After rebuilding it, I took my robot to the BRGT, or the Big Robot Get-Together. During a heated session of "Mr. Fame," my robot was confronted by some other jealous dancer robots, who were competing for the grand prize. When I informed these robots there was no competition to speak of, they incinerated my robot. After rebuilding it, I challenged these robots to a dance-off. Meanwhile my merman learned the true meaning of Christmas. But that doesn't matter. My robot showed up for the dance-off with more of an entrance than one by Dennis Miller after taking speed pills from Joey Buttafuco's private cache, smelling worse than Desmond Tutu's secret gorgonzola cheese factory (Insert poignant Miller music). Except, his was cool, and he out-danced all the other robots, with cool assortments of ollies, grinds, and manuals.
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Interesting, this line get's modded informative, whereas my posts, which are usually more on-topic, get modded offtopic. Clearly, racism rules supreme on /.
In other news, I think auctioning off your gmail account is great, if somebody is actually willing to pay for a beta account.... I mean personally I don't think anybody should hold the Nigerian 419 philanthropists responsible if somebody gives them a cred card number...
The same odds as finding WMD in Iraq, and also the same odds as NOT finding any WMD in Pakistan.
In Soviet Russia, the Army drafts YOU! ... oh wait...
In Soviet Russia, the Robosaur eats YOU...oh wait...
WHERE? WHERE IS IT?
Shouldn't that be George Orwell's vision of 1984, and not Arthur Blair......?
Whoa there buddy. Geocities existed as a separate entity fer ages, it was bought by Yahoo in 2000 I think, so it's no offshoot. It's still owned by Yahoo, me thinks.
How the fuck is this flamebait? WHo'm I flaming? Obviously nobody over here knows who Paris Hilton is...
The answer is 10 (last time I checked) Come on, click on THIS for a picture of uranus.... in other news, the pictures which were apparently close ups of Saturn's moon Titan ended up being close ups of Paris Hilton in the shower. This was revealed when somebody saw a huge thumb appear near what looked like a crater surrounded by hair...being unable to explain why there were hairy craters on Titan, we resorted to the principle of Occam's Razor....
That's 419... that makes you the fourth idiot, HA HA! BTW, does anybody know why this is called a 419 scam? Does 419 refer to some section of the American penal code? Or is it just the combination to the suitcase full of money that our Nigerian philanthropists will send us....
Whoops, looks like I forgot to add the SARCASM tags around my post.
Or you can run a mail server, and get a clue how SMTP works, and how its EASY to tell where the spam comes from (as far as who gave it to your mailserver. Beyond that, the headers can be forged.)
"As far as who gave it to my mail server." Oh gee, what a great idea, and it's so simple too... Now I know whom to block. Great. GAFC....
Frankly I don't see how this will stop spamming. What about spoofing, and web-based e-mail services. When I log into Yahoo, I'm porbably accessing a server in USA..and if use my account to spam, what r they gonna do? This whole thing is a pointless exercise, and also stinks of a little racism -> I suspect that Bush is behind this: "Let's block countries that pull their troops out Iraq. TAKE THAT!"
I see, so... leaving a one despot in charge of a country is ok if he licks your ass, but gases his own people, and supports terrorism against its neighbour and sells nukes to the 'Axis of Evil' (Pakistan, in case u didn't know), but let's get rid of the others...because as you so loudly proclaim to the whole world, an American life is worth at a 100 rest-of-the-world lives. Who the fuck are you to decide which country to destabilize and which one to leave intact? And this brings me to another point: You're so proud of being a 'superpower' - well would u like to tell me which country of comparable size, in terms of military strength or geographical area you have picked a fight with since WW2? American military 'might' since WW2 has been based on the cowardly principle of attacking weak, pitiful countries - Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan. Oh yea buddy, that shows some real strength there. Try picking a fight with Russia, China, India. See how afraid they'll be of America.
You guys still don't get it, and looks like u never will, which means that 9/11 will be repeated, and repeated until the message finally gets into your thick, steel-plated skull. The funniest thing is that most Americans are still stumped as to why Iraqis aren't thanking America for 'liberating' them. Gee uncle sam, thanks for liberating my country and murdering my brother by accident, if it wasn't for you guys, he would have died a random, gruesome death at the hands of some crazed military men....oh wait....
In other news, Micro$oft officials breathe a sigh of relief on being told that they still have lots of hard drive speed left to play with, in order to accomadate their latest operating system, codenamed 'BlowHard'. A smiling, happy, Gill Bates was quoted as saying "Phew! They had me scared for a minute when they said they'd reached the limit...how are our customers going to be able to enjoy the benefits of Windows Media Playr 50.2.2 if those darn electrons start slowing down??"
On a more serious note, okay so 2 sides of a platter will be written. What if they wrote data onto a cube instead. Then instead of the regaular speed you'd be able to get x3...of course the details of such a system need to be worked out.....
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OS X is closed source. This means that it is the work of the devil - its purpose is to make the end users eat babies.
Linux is the only free OS. Yes the BSD lincenses may appear more free, but as they have no restrictions, they are actually less free than the GPL. You see, restricting the end user more actually makes them more free than not putting restrictions on them. You must be a dumb luser for not understanding this.
And you obviously dont have a real job. A real job involves being a student or professional academic. You see, academics are the ones who know all about productivity - if you work for a commercial organisation you obviously do not know anything about computers. Usability is stupid. Whats wrong with the command line? If you cant use the command line then you shouldnt be using a computer. vi should be the standard word processor - you are such a luser if you want to use Word. Installing software should have to involve recompiling the kernel of the OS. If you dont know how to do this, you are a stupid luser who should RTFM. Or go to a Linux irc channel or newsgroup. After all, they are soooo friendly. If you dont know how the latest 2.6 kernel scheduling algorithm works then they will tell you to stop wasting their time, but they really are quite supportive.
Oh, and M$ is just as evil as Apple. Take LookOUT for instance. You could just as easily use Eudora. Who needs groupware anyway, a simple email client should be all we use (thats all we use as academics, why cant businesses be any different).
And trend setters - Linux is the trend setter. It may appear KDE is a ripoff from XP, but thats because M$ stole the KDE code. We all know they have GPL'ed code hidden in there somewhere (but not the things that dont work, only the things that work could possibly have GPL'ed code in it).
And Apple is the suxor because they charge people for their product. We all know that its a much better business model to give all your products away for free. If you charge for anything, then you are allied with M$ and will burn in hell.
This brings up a very important point....how long will it be before M$ decides to issue 2 GB of disk space for free to crowd out Google? Personally, I'd hang on to existing mail accounts simply because this might prompt a small e-mail war... and in that situation I'd bet ON M$ rather than against it...
Ever heard of the network effect...? With 6 million users, you will know who the #1 spammers are in a matter of minutes, seconds even...
Er.. the whole point of (most) spam is not clog servers and carry out vendettas...it's rather to dupe people into downloading unwanted spyware and increasing their penis sizes. A spammer wouldn't gain anything by adding a link to slashdot. Some script kiddie might, but not the bulk of spammers out there, plus at this point, it sure seems like there are more spammers than script-kiddies...
Seriously, this is the exact same thing I was thinking! Besides, what do they do that any decent web browser doesn't already do (using the History feature, and AutoComplete...). I guess they just make it more 'convenient'. What they forget is that Google is already the most convenient. White background, one text box and 2 buttons. IMHO, a9 sucks. To use the 'fancy' features, u have to sign in, using your Amazon account!!! Thanks, I'll stick to google. There are some conveniences I can do without. But then I might be biased considering I used to be and Amazon employee who got fired..
I found ZoneAlarm to be quite a hit on my machine's performance. I also didn't like having to deal with 10 prompts everytime I opened a net-using program
ZoneAlarm doesn't do anything for my machine's performance, and as for those prompts, they appear the first few times you use a program to access the Net, so as to allow ZoneAlarm to 'learn' a little bit about your net usage.
What's a good solution for you isn't a good solution for everybody.
I never said it was good for everybody. Obviously it's not the best solution, else all us M$ users would be virus-free..