If somebody could just embed the chip in our brains, that would be perfect! If you weren't going to buy anything for a while, you could just put your tin foil hat back on and presto, no more RF from the brain! Maybe it would be better to just tattoo a barcode on our foreheads that they could scan for a quick, no signature required purchase authorization. Those Visa people are always working so hard to improve our lives, I trust them implicitly!
I use Mike's Ad Blocking HOSTS file, available at this link. So far, it hasn't blocked any sites that I needed to access. It's regularly updated to reflect newly-discovered or newly-minted ad servers. Consider offering $5 to Mike for his efforts. (Yes, I am a Mike, but not the one who makes this hosts file. I will, however, be happy to accept $5.)
I agree with you, Anonymous Coward, but if "...that probably reduces to: 'Fuck this, and fuck you. You can catch me, but you can't make me accept your world view," then that's another attitude that their shitty parenting skills should have picked up on, but failed to do so. His statement is indicative, no matter what he was thinking in the heat of the moment, that he at some point believed it was OK to do what he did. There was some kind of sign. Nobody can hide that kind of maladjustment to society, and the parents WHO LIVE WITH THIS KID should have focused on the life of their child rather than their own lives, for even 5 minutes, to find out what was on his mind. They failed to do so, people were murdered as a result, and they are therefore very shitty parents.
OK, granted, it takes a village, but a good parent might notice that their child is spending an inordinate amount of time at one particular place. What's that, how should they know? By being good parents and finding out where their child is. Huh? How are they supposed to know what their child is doing at various other places? By being good parents and finding out what they're doing there. How are they supposed to keep up with their children when they have to work so much to pay the bills? Sell the Audi and the Volvo and buy something cheap and reliable so they don't have to work 60 hours a week, thereby allowing them to do what's more important in their lives, which is raising their children. At least where I live, parents seem to treat their kids like Paris Hilton treats her dog: like accessories. I have little sympathy unless there are some extenuating circumstances that makes it impossible to keep up with the kids. Poverty comes to mind, but this kid wasn't living in squalor. From TFA: "...Devin Thompson, when he was apprehended, told officers, 'Life is a video game. You've got to die sometime.'" If your kid has an attitude like that, you should know about it, otherwise you're a shitty parent. Up the chimney with that excuse!
Are you crazy? It has nothing to do with that thing you mentioned! It's the ice cream, stupid! What would we do without that 9 dollar 0.25 oz. cup of Dippin' Dots at Six Flags? Thanks to the pioneering ice-cream-consuming work of our fearless astronauts, we can now freeze off our warts without a doctor while we're riding a roller coaster!
Silly Ancient Hacker, a $25 phone is very possible! It will just have to wait 20 years until their patent expires. Shirley, they can't spend as much marketing money on a cell phone chip as they do on Bowflex...
But the commercials were so good! What the heck happened? Oh, I know. It was the N. The device can still live to see full market acceptance. Advice to Nokia:
UT2K4 - I frequently wonder which would work better for eliminating my enemies in traffic: the link gun, the flak cannon, Avril rockets, or the Redeemer... Coming off a marathon ONS session is depressing. So many things that would be fun if somebody would invent real life respawning. Maybe the Leviathan?
... what if amateur radio operators were forced to innovate new technologies to cut out the noise? There's some great stuff out there as far as DSPs go, but couldn't the technology be extended to get rid of much of the BPL noise? Maybe I just don't know much about HF operation (very likely), but it seems like the same old technologies have been used for a long time and there has been no major innovation since DSP. Yeah, it could render obsolete a lot of good old tube equipment (CQ BA!), but I thought one of the major principles behind amateur radio was innovation and technology development. Is that wrong?
Amen, sister/brother/alternately-gendered-being (circle one)!!! My Seagate 318452LW 15k drive was the fastest thing around when I bought it three years ago and it still competes pretty well. Buy a faster HD before you buy a faster CPU/mobo. Bus speed, fast memory, etc., won't get you anything if you're using the HDD a lot and it only puts through 12MB/sec. If you really want performance, go for the solid state disk, but before you do that I recommend becoming independently wealthy.
Are you kidding? The corporate customers are the ones I hear shouting the loudest that their support has gone downhill. Trying to get Intel server support from HPaq, even in the largest customers, has been an exercise in futility compared to how it was before HP came in. Only the absolutely ridiculous or idiot-proof solution problems are fixed through normal channels. Anything else requires threats from a CIO. I've never heard anything good about support post-HP. "For sales, press 1. For support, press 8291024785907384950273849502783490."
They've been recording that stuff for years, man! You could download it all until the RIAA found out... Now you can't get them or "Happy Birthday" anymore.:-(
Yes, but do you know why the Cray-1 has a clear case? So you can see more Cray! (hope somebody will chime in on this one)
Oh, also, consistent length cables was the reason that I remember hearing, so that signals would not lose synchronization just because of the length of the wire.
...it was still called Quantum Link, or Q-Link for the most part. It worked great with a 300 baud modem that connected to the "user port" on the back of a C-64, and People Connection only cost $0.08 per minute!
Anyway, on the free web mail topic, they're trying to capture the "I don't want to pay that much for the Internet" crowd with the Netscape service, and the "free" web mail service will capture people simply on name recognition. Are they trying to be a better AOL? Unlikely. The ghost of Steve Case's ego still haunts the boardroom, and that's a particularly nasty one to get rid of.
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I'll take some tonight... Are you trying to say you didn't like the one of him on goat.cx?
If somebody could just embed the chip in our brains, that would be perfect! If you weren't going to buy anything for a while, you could just put your tin foil hat back on and presto, no more RF from the brain! Maybe it would be better to just tattoo a barcode on our foreheads that they could scan for a quick, no signature required purchase authorization. Those Visa people are always working so hard to improve our lives, I trust them implicitly!
I use Mike's Ad Blocking HOSTS file, available at this link. So far, it hasn't blocked any sites that I needed to access. It's regularly updated to reflect newly-discovered or newly-minted ad servers. Consider offering $5 to Mike for his efforts. (Yes, I am a Mike, but not the one who makes this hosts file. I will, however, be happy to accept $5.)
I agree with you, Anonymous Coward, but if "...that probably reduces to: 'Fuck this, and fuck you. You can catch me, but you can't make me accept your world view," then that's another attitude that their shitty parenting skills should have picked up on, but failed to do so. His statement is indicative, no matter what he was thinking in the heat of the moment, that he at some point believed it was OK to do what he did. There was some kind of sign. Nobody can hide that kind of maladjustment to society, and the parents WHO LIVE WITH THIS KID should have focused on the life of their child rather than their own lives, for even 5 minutes, to find out what was on his mind. They failed to do so, people were murdered as a result, and they are therefore very shitty parents.
OK, granted, it takes a village, but a good parent might notice that their child is spending an inordinate amount of time at one particular place. What's that, how should they know? By being good parents and finding out where their child is. Huh? How are they supposed to know what their child is doing at various other places? By being good parents and finding out what they're doing there. How are they supposed to keep up with their children when they have to work so much to pay the bills? Sell the Audi and the Volvo and buy something cheap and reliable so they don't have to work 60 hours a week, thereby allowing them to do what's more important in their lives, which is raising their children. At least where I live, parents seem to treat their kids like Paris Hilton treats her dog: like accessories. I have little sympathy unless there are some extenuating circumstances that makes it impossible to keep up with the kids. Poverty comes to mind, but this kid wasn't living in squalor. From TFA: "...Devin Thompson, when he was apprehended, told officers, 'Life is a video game. You've got to die sometime.'" If your kid has an attitude like that, you should know about it, otherwise you're a shitty parent. Up the chimney with that excuse!
Unless, of course, it's zinc whisker dust or tin whisker dust... Checked under your floor tiles lately?
Yeah, but then I can't sell you a search engine optimizer!
Are you crazy? It has nothing to do with that thing you mentioned! It's the ice cream, stupid! What would we do without that 9 dollar 0.25 oz. cup of Dippin' Dots at Six Flags? Thanks to the pioneering ice-cream-consuming work of our fearless astronauts, we can now freeze off our warts without a doctor while we're riding a roller coaster!
Silly Ancient Hacker, a $25 phone is very possible! It will just have to wait 20 years until their patent expires. Shirley, they can't spend as much marketing money on a cell phone chip as they do on Bowflex...
Is it called a Restore program? No, it is not. I, for one, welcome their commitment to truth in advertising.
First rule of government spending: Why buy one when you can have two at twice the price?
You think these guys subscribe to the rules? S.R. Hadden would be proud...
Apple can do lots of things, but that one is just slightly beyond their capabilities. So much for step 4!
KIDDING! I'M KIDDING! MOD +1 FUNNY! SHEESH!
1) Sell it to Apple.
2) They'll rename it to the iGage.
3) ???
4) Profit!
UT2K4 - I frequently wonder which would work better for eliminating my enemies in traffic: the link gun, the flak cannon, Avril rockets, or the Redeemer... Coming off a marathon ONS session is depressing. So many things that would be fun if somebody would invent real life respawning. Maybe the Leviathan?
... what if amateur radio operators were forced to innovate new technologies to cut out the noise? There's some great stuff out there as far as DSPs go, but couldn't the technology be extended to get rid of much of the BPL noise? Maybe I just don't know much about HF operation (very likely), but it seems like the same old technologies have been used for a long time and there has been no major innovation since DSP. Yeah, it could render obsolete a lot of good old tube equipment (CQ BA!), but I thought one of the major principles behind amateur radio was innovation and technology development. Is that wrong?
That's great, but stop calling me Frankly.
Amen, sister/brother/alternately-gendered-being (circle one)!!! My Seagate 318452LW 15k drive was the fastest thing around when I bought it three years ago and it still competes pretty well. Buy a faster HD before you buy a faster CPU/mobo. Bus speed, fast memory, etc., won't get you anything if you're using the HDD a lot and it only puts through 12MB/sec. If you really want performance, go for the solid state disk, but before you do that I recommend becoming independently wealthy.
Are you kidding? The corporate customers are the ones I hear shouting the loudest that their support has gone downhill. Trying to get Intel server support from HPaq, even in the largest customers, has been an exercise in futility compared to how it was before HP came in. Only the absolutely ridiculous or idiot-proof solution problems are fixed through normal channels. Anything else requires threats from a CIO. I've never heard anything good about support post-HP. "For sales, press 1. For support, press 8291024785907384950273849502783490."
They've been recording that stuff for years, man! You could download it all until the RIAA found out... Now you can't get them or "Happy Birthday" anymore. :-(
Oh, also, consistent length cables was the reason that I remember hearing, so that signals would not lose synchronization just because of the length of the wire.
It was the Linux-powered orbiting brain lasers that cleaned the solar panels. See? Linux rocks!
...to my TwistyCat(TM)? Would it be more or less Twisty(TM)?
...it was still called Quantum Link, or Q-Link for the most part. It worked great with a 300 baud modem that connected to the "user port" on the back of a C-64, and People Connection only cost $0.08 per minute! Anyway, on the free web mail topic, they're trying to capture the "I don't want to pay that much for the Internet" crowd with the Netscape service, and the "free" web mail service will capture people simply on name recognition. Are they trying to be a better AOL? Unlikely. The ghost of Steve Case's ego still haunts the boardroom, and that's a particularly nasty one to get rid of.
Why don't you just carry around a tiny access point instead of an access point finder? Duh! Problem solved!
You're right, sorry, it was the Racing Destruction Set. Cut me some slack, Jack! It was 19 years ago!