And don't forget the plugin/extension that randomly renames Firefox every time you run it or change windows.
I got "Mozilla Buttpanda" last night and nearly dropped my beer from laughing so hard. (Beer, of course, being key in thinking that "buttpanda" is hysterical in the first place.)
The spam is domestic in that the *order to send it* comes from the US and that the fradulent services and defective goods they're selling are being sold by Americans to Americans. The actual spam, however, is coming from zombied pc's or dirty isp's that reside outside the US. Domestic orders / foreign delivery, you see?
Considering that the Hindenburg itself was *literally* flamebait, perhaps the mod was going all uber-meta and using the flamebait mod as a subtle show of recognition.
Offtopic? Hardly. The FCC is the death of sensibility and personal responsibility. Clear Channel is the death of radio. The death of Ray Charles is the... well, it's the death of Ray Charles. They're all huge losses to the music world.
And sadly, one of the three can't be reversed./me goes off to listen to "Georgia On My Mind"
I'd really like to sell you my old computer since this is a yard sale and all, but I see that you're wearing a mask, carrying a saber, and have a black hat on that says "l33t h4x0r!" I can't help but think that you might somehow be up to some nefarious shenanigans!
Moron? Hell no. I agree with you 98% - the 2% difference being that I think the virus should either auto-update Windows or just format the damned drive and be done with it. It's pretty damned unethical, but so's letting the air out of your neighbor's tires every night... when you know he's driving drunk every time he leaves the house.
That's pretty much what I was thinking as I posted it, but now that I've been modded "interesting" I'm wondering if somebody should actually rig one up and try it.
Suddenly a stupid wank joke has turned into an experiment requiring millions of dollars in r&d... behold the power of the mod!
Now watch somebody do it and become a billionaire off my idea. Bastards...
...is have motion sensors in the watch that will let you wave the display in the air and use persistence of vision to make a bigger virtual display - kind of like they do with those LED wands that show messages in the air. That way if, y'know, your wrist was moving back and forth really rapidly then you could see a much larger image of, well, um......Star Trek. That's it. DS-9 all the way! w00!
> turning towards the New Line Rep, and seeing them taking furious notes on a clipboard.
They got away with just *notes?* You sorry bastards missed a perfect opportunity.
[door to studio exec's office opens and in walks the press flack from the premiere. He has been "tarred & feathered" with a noxious mixture of melted Milk Duds, nacho cheese, and rancid popcorn.]
Exec: So how was the premiere? Did they go ape for the "Mask 2" trailer? [he looks up] Jesus! What happened to you?!
Flack [weakly]: Well sir, they did go ape. In a manner of speaking.
Exec: What do you mean?
Flack: Well, the "Harry Potter" trailer had everybody really excited, the "Spider Man" had them at a fever pitch, and by the time the teaser for the new "Bat Man" next year had them leaping for joy in the aisles. They were frothing, sir. Literally frothing.
Exec: Yeah? So then what?
Flack: And then another trailer rolled. Coming after that holy trifecta of sequels I guess they were hoping for something colossal, something beyond words - "Office Space 2" or something. And then...
Exec: And then what?
Flack: And then there was this green baby. This whirling, luminescent character that just...
Exec: Just *what*?
Flack:...that just reeked of accountants looking at past profits and assuming that somehow that instantly translates into "something the moviegoing public *must* want a sequel to even though it's five years past too late, doesn't feature *any* of the original actors, and probably will be one of those cinematic 'brought to you by the people who bought the rights to an old favorite of yours from a bankrupt company' abortions."
Exec [fuming]: Do I need to remind you just who pays your salary, you little shit!
Flack: Not my words, sir. The geeks said it. Well, they wrote it. On my clipboard.
Exec: GRR! Dammit, they'll *love* that movie! It's been field-tested on retarded schoolchildren in six cities! We've done the math! The account... er, the director and the twelve writers *assure* me it's a masterpiece of profitee... filmmaking!
Flack: Sorry sir. That's what the geeks said.
Exec: Horseshit! Someone had to love it! Let me see the clipboard!
Flack: Sir, I have cheese burns.
Exec: Gimme!
Flack: I can't move my arms. They're glued to my sides with duds.
Exec: NOW!
Flack: You'll have to pull it out yourself.
[the press flack bends over, his ass towards the exec. Fade.]
I think I'm going to spend the rest of my day watching the mods pounce on this comment.
"That's a troll! -1! No, wait, it's a quote! +1 But is it still a troll? Waitaminnit, am I saying all minorities are dumb? DAMMIT! Troll it is! Wait, it's a quote! +1 Informative! Does that mean I agree with it, then? -1 Informative? But I'm agreeing with him now! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
[mod explodes in a spray of blood, giblets, and fuzzy logic]
> Instead should have a $200 Photoshop for everyone.
Excellent post. You really made me question some of my thinking on the subject.
Have you considered, however, that adding back all of that crippled functionality can actually be a *negative* to many consumers? I have a friend who wanted to get a Photoshop-ish paint program to do basic image editing that got no more complicated than cropping and un-red-eyeing digital photos and a little messing around with scanning. He was determined to buy something on the level of Photoshop Lite, but I installed Gimp for him since it's more or less the full Photoshop. I was showing him the zillions of features that were available when he said "What the hell is all *that* for? All I want to do is send pictures to my mother!" Ignoring the whole commercial vs. open source aspect of it, I think there's a very large group of consumers out there who really *don't* want the full versions of products. If you get out of the hacker mindset then there really *is* such a thing as too much power / too many options. By just selling one version of Photoshop / Office with every function enabled, how many sales will actually be *lost?*
Also consider the fact that enabling those few added functions are what suddenly makes a product / software package go from being a "thing to use a little around the house" to "a professional tool to use to earn a living." How much of the value of a camera or imaging software comes from what that product represents in future income to the consumer? Does that make the product worth more money? Should the added value of those few menu options be ignored since they're essentially just a switch flipped in the compiler? I think your questions about luxury and high-quality are good, but one man's "high quality" is another man's "too damned complicated!"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mu si c/
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Riiiiiiight.
I take a simple grammatical error and turn it into a comment that's not only nicely witty but pretty biologically accurate, and that's a reason for an AC to hate all men? Tell you what dearie, unless *your* vagina can read a book or start a car or do something *far* outside the scope of what's in my comment, then I suggest you trot back to your "womyns studies under the phallocracy" and leave the net to those of us whose knees don't jerk quite so severely every time we go online. Mmmkay?
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Mods: prepare the "-1 offtopics"
I'd been reading/. and posting AC for a few years, but I'd never bothered to register for some reason. One day I'm reading a -1 flame war between two guys that had just gotten hysterical, and one of them says something along the lines of "Yeah? Well I'm going to go register as 'The Ultimate Fartknocker' and do nothing but mod you down for the rest of your life!" I was on a Beavis & Butthead kick at the time and thought that was *hysterical*, so I did it. What I didn't notice until it was too late, though, was when I backed up to correct some reg info my name got truncated in the "enter your name here" box, leaving me four letters short of comedy gold. And *that's* why I have this stupid handle. Aren't you sorry you asked?
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> What makes you a lady can't acquire sperm samples
> each theater might present a different number written on the wall of the trash compactor in the next release of Star Wars,
"A simple trivia contest at a local science-fiction convention ended in a violent standoff when two opposing gangs clashed over the winning answer. The gangs have yet to be identified, but the dispute seemed to have started over the misuse of a phone number, perhaps a cell number used to sell drugs to other convention attendees. One gang started shouting '3263827', while the other responded '3263838'! The only injury reported was a man whose fantasy unitard cut off circulation to his genitals. Police are investigating."
A few years ago after the last round of disabled-people's-rights laws got passed here in the States, one of the provisions was that concert halls and theatres had to move to accomodate the hard-of-hearing. People who were partially deaf (or bootleggers who were pretending) were given access to the direct sound feed through FM receivers. Instead of plugging in hearing aids, the bootleggers plugged in DATs, and voila! Unfortunately most of the people who went to all that trouble were the types who sell boots instead of just trading and the whole thing got a lot of press, so I don't know if it's still going on.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/31/boot le gs.hearing.ap/
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That's the one. The best part is that it's customisable and lets you add prefixes and animals of your own.
I'm pretty sure that's how "butt-" got in there.
I'm pretty sure beer was involved then, too.
And don't forget the plugin/extension that randomly renames Firefox every time you run it or change windows.
I got "Mozilla Buttpanda" last night and nearly dropped my beer from laughing so hard. (Beer, of course, being key in thinking that "buttpanda" is hysterical in the first place.)
The spam is domestic in that the *order to send it* comes from the US and that the fradulent services and defective goods they're selling are being sold by Americans to Americans. The actual spam, however, is coming from zombied pc's or dirty isp's that reside outside the US. Domestic orders / foreign delivery, you see?
Either way, Scott Richter is a douchebag.
Considering that the Hindenburg itself was *literally* flamebait, perhaps the mod was going all uber-meta and using the flamebait mod as a subtle show of recognition.
Then again, maybe the mod's just a dumbass.
Does that mean BSOD = Blimp Screen of Death?
(and as long as I have you here...)
I know a Zeppelin has to have a Captain, but will it have a Kernel as well?
ba-dum-DUM!
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal!
> You can't go spoogeing every bit of information you have on the general public's face and expect them to not do anything with it.
Course: NETWORK SECURITY 201
Instructor: Asia Carrera
Offtopic? Hardly. The FCC is the death of sensibility and personal responsibility. Clear Channel is the death of radio. The death of Ray Charles is the... well, it's the death of Ray Charles. They're all huge losses to the music world.
And sadly, one of the three can't be reversed.
When we are hacked
We then can fall back
And rejoin the attack
With guns and ack-ack!
Booma-locka
Booma-locka
Goooooooo Sweden!
(anybody know if writing anthems for a foreign Navy will affect my passport?)
> Venus is first seen at rectum II
Rectum II? Damned near killed 'em II!
I'd really like to sell you my old computer since this is a yard sale and all, but I see that you're wearing a mask, carrying a saber, and have a black hat on that says "l33t h4x0r!" I can't help but think that you might somehow be up to some nefarious shenanigans!
Moron? Hell no. I agree with you 98% - the 2% difference being that I think the virus should either auto-update Windows or just format the damned drive and be done with it. It's pretty damned unethical, but so's letting the air out of your neighbor's tires every night... when you know he's driving drunk every time he leaves the house.
> That's the most stupid thing I've ever heard.
That's pretty much what I was thinking as I posted it, but now that I've been modded "interesting" I'm wondering if somebody should actually rig one up and try it.
Suddenly a stupid wank joke has turned into an experiment requiring millions of dollars in r&d... behold the power of the mod!
Now watch somebody do it and become a billionaire off my idea. Bastards...
> turning towards the New Line Rep, and seeing them taking furious notes on a clipboard.
They got away with just *notes?* You sorry bastards missed a perfect opportunity.
[door to studio exec's office opens and in walks the press flack from the premiere. He has been "tarred & feathered" with a noxious mixture of melted Milk Duds, nacho cheese, and rancid popcorn.]
Exec: So how was the premiere? Did they go ape for the "Mask 2" trailer? [he looks up] Jesus! What happened to you?!
Flack [weakly]: Well sir, they did go ape. In a manner of speaking.
Exec: What do you mean?
Flack: Well, the "Harry Potter" trailer had everybody really excited, the "Spider Man" had them at a fever pitch, and by the time the teaser for the new "Bat Man" next year had them leaping for joy in the aisles. They were frothing, sir. Literally frothing.
Exec: Yeah? So then what?
Flack: And then another trailer rolled. Coming after that holy trifecta of sequels I guess they were hoping for something colossal, something beyond words - "Office Space 2" or something. And then...
Exec: And then what?
Flack: And then there was this green baby. This whirling, luminescent character that just...
Exec: Just *what*?
Flack:
Exec [fuming]: Do I need to remind you just who pays your salary, you little shit!
Flack: Not my words, sir. The geeks said it. Well, they wrote it. On my clipboard.
Exec: GRR! Dammit, they'll *love* that movie! It's been field-tested on retarded schoolchildren in six cities! We've done the math! The account... er, the director and the twelve writers *assure* me it's a masterpiece of profitee... filmmaking!
Flack: Sorry sir. That's what the geeks said.
Exec: Horseshit! Someone had to love it! Let me see the clipboard!
Flack: Sir, I have cheese burns.
Exec: Gimme!
Flack: I can't move my arms. They're glued to my sides with duds.
Exec: NOW!
Flack: You'll have to pull it out yourself.
[the press flack bends over, his ass towards the exec. Fade.]
I think I'm going to spend the rest of my day watching the mods pounce on this comment.
"That's a troll! -1! No, wait, it's a quote! +1 But is it still a troll? Waitaminnit, am I saying all minorities are dumb? DAMMIT! Troll it is! Wait, it's a quote! +1 Informative! Does that mean I agree with it, then? -1 Informative? But I'm agreeing with him now! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
[mod explodes in a spray of blood, giblets, and fuzzy logic]
> you've still got a few advantages: you can pee standing up for example.
And yet...
http://www.restrooms.org/standing.html
> Instead should have a $200 Photoshop for everyone.
Excellent post. You really made me question some of my thinking on the subject.
Have you considered, however, that adding back all of that crippled functionality can actually be a *negative* to many consumers? I have a friend who wanted to get a Photoshop-ish paint program to do basic image editing that got no more complicated than cropping and un-red-eyeing digital photos and a little messing around with scanning. He was determined to buy something on the level of Photoshop Lite, but I installed Gimp for him since it's more or less the full Photoshop. I was showing him the zillions of features that were available when he said "What the hell is all *that* for? All I want to do is send pictures to my mother!" Ignoring the whole commercial vs. open source aspect of it, I think there's a very large group of consumers out there who really *don't* want the full versions of products. If you get out of the hacker mindset then there really *is* such a thing as too much power / too many options. By just selling one version of Photoshop / Office with every function enabled, how many sales will actually be *lost?*
Also consider the fact that enabling those few added functions are what suddenly makes a product / software package go from being a "thing to use a little around the house" to "a professional tool to use to earn a living." How much of the value of a camera or imaging software comes from what that product represents in future income to the consumer? Does that make the product worth more money? Should the added value of those few menu options be ignored since they're essentially just a switch flipped in the compiler? I think your questions about luxury and high-quality are good, but one man's "high quality" is another man's "too damned complicated!"
> but supposedly it is on the PBS website
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/m
Riiiiiiight.
I take a simple grammatical error and turn it into a comment that's not only nicely witty but pretty biologically accurate, and that's a reason for an AC to hate all men? Tell you what dearie, unless *your* vagina can read a book or start a car or do something *far* outside the scope of what's in my comment, then I suggest you trot back to your "womyns studies under the phallocracy" and leave the net to those of us whose knees don't jerk quite so severely every time we go online. Mmmkay?
Mods: prepare the "-1 offtopics"
I'd been reading
> What makes you a lady can't acquire sperm samples
On the contrary, that's *exactly* what it's for.
> each theater might present a different number written on the wall of the trash compactor in the next release of Star Wars,
"A simple trivia contest at a local science-fiction convention ended in a violent standoff when two opposing gangs clashed over the winning answer. The gangs have yet to be identified, but the dispute seemed to have started over the misuse of a phone number, perhaps a cell number used to sell drugs to other convention attendees. One gang started shouting '3263827', while the other responded '3263838'! The only injury reported was a man whose fantasy unitard cut off circulation to his genitals. Police are investigating."
> When he hunted down escaped prisoners for the United States Marshals Service
"I didn't send that spam!"
"I don't care!"
Damned one-armed spammers...
You don't know how accurate you are.
A few years ago after the last round of disabled-people's-rights laws got passed here in the States, one of the provisions was that concert halls and theatres had to move to accomodate the hard-of-hearing. People who were partially deaf (or bootleggers who were pretending) were given access to the direct sound feed through FM receivers. Instead of plugging in hearing aids, the bootleggers plugged in DATs, and voila! Unfortunately most of the people who went to all that trouble were the types who sell boots instead of just trading and the whole thing got a lot of press, so I don't know if it's still going on.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/31/boo