"The passport's wonky? Hrm, not surprising, I guess. I tend to travel around Chernobyl a lot. Want me to stand real close to you while you double-check my papers?"
For reasons which are unclear, the IT department then suggested that the RIAA next time send them 'notices to preserve information,' in response to which they would preserve, rather than overwrite, the DHCP data, for the RIAA's forensic benefit."
RIAA sees "infringement" occur.
DHCP logs are overwritten immediately
They file a Notice to Preserve
IT department replies with "Ohhh, sorry, too late. Next time let is know in advance that you wanted some overwritten data preserved. The forms are clearly posted in the dark basement..."
I've been asked over and over, "Jason, why did you do it?" To be honest, it was a small act that quickly spun out of control. It's not like I woke up that morning and said, "hey, I think I'll start a controversy today and get my face in the news."
Of course he didn't-- though it's painfully obvious that he would have liked to have planned it that way. From the NYT Article last Sunday:
The Craigslist Experiment, Fortuny reiterated, brought him troll fame by accident. He was pleased with how the Megan Had It Coming blog succeeded by design.
So in other words "I didn't plan for things to get public. Next time I'll plan more carefully so it will."
It doesn't matter that he was revealed to be looking for sex. What matters is that he was suckered into having his dirty laundry aired in public while those who would pass judgment on him have their skeletons comfortably locked away in the closet.
As for the malicious asshole who likes to pretend he's a woman and shame people for recreation, well, he belongs in a shallow grave. He's malicious, and a coward, and a liar, and he screws peoples lives up for sport. I'd quite happily shoot him in the head with my own hand and go back to eating my lunch.
We also feel that requiring us to buy text bundles to avoid the inconvenience of reversing spam charges constitutes extortion
How the hell is this even legal? Last I checked, a phone company can't charge for a service that blocks another service they are charging for. That's why Call Display is paid for, but Block-My-Number is free. If they're charging for text messages, they can't be allowed to charge for blocking them!
This is a double dare for the pirates to break the 38 hour record next time.
Or they're going to go way overboard. I can just see it:
Step one: Hijack a Office Depot truck, and snag all of the blank DVDs and multi-records you can
Step two: Get the earliest version of the movie you can. (Protip: If you took the plasma tvs off the truck, they'll be great Theatre Manager / Projectionist bribery material
Step three: Make as many million copies of $Movie as you can.
Step four: The night before opening night, get a stack of the $Movie dvds to every kid who delivers flyers, newspapers, periodicals or coupon books. Have them stuff one DVD as a "special bonus insert" into everything they distribute.
Step five: Enjoy the thought that on opening day, damn near everyone in the country will have a pirated copy of the movie to watch at their leisure.
Yeah, well I live in Toronto. They usually do a good job of dressing it up, but the limit for me was Resident Evil, when they tried to convince me that it was Raccoon City: a small, off-the-radar, town-- with several million people, skyscrapers, and the world's tallest freestanding structure..
I'm all for suspension of disbelief, but that was like casting Michael Clarke Duncan as Little Orphan Annie.
Seriously, what is with people complaining about his voice? Everywhere I go you find that ONE PERSON who complains about it.
I'll bite.
Okay, the voice didn't really bug me that much. But the issue I had with it wasn't the voice, but the way it was done. Ask anyone who has done some voice training, and they'll tell you that the fake raspy thing he's doing is a horrible thing to do to your vocal cords. You hear it all the time with any singer who screams more than they sing. It sounds painfully because it's something you're trained not to do-- because it will be painful later.
Now, Bruce-the-character, and Christian Bale the actor, might have been doing it in a way so that it SOUNDS like a tough-guy voice, but in a way that was not harmful to their cords, but it still sounds-- well-- wrong.
The other complaint I've heard is that "tough-guy with deep-voice" is a bit cliche. So instead of picturing Batman as an intimidating force, upon hearing his voice they instead hear some emo Myspacer with a camera phone making a fanfilm
It didn't disappoint me. I enjoyed the portrayal of The Joker. I'm sure there'll be much debate about Ledger vs. Nicholson (as well as endless Batman/Alternate Universe Joker-on-Joker slashfic).
I also enjoyed that there wasn't any silly microwave/waterborn silliness. I know, I know, comic book movie. But still...
I disagree with this-- only because they aren't going after the right targets
Spam is profitable not because there are people who will do what it takes to get the money-- but because there exists a small subset of the population who will gladly given them the money. Spammers aren't the problem, they're a symptom. It's the customers who are the problem
And the solution is easy. Send in Blackwater, et all to take down one or two of the biggest spammers. By the time the bodies hit the floor, four more operations will have popped up. Not a problem.
Have Blackwater take over the Spammer's customer list. They'll have the names, and more importantly, the addresses of everyone who has purchased from them. That's when you pack up a "healthy" dosage of cyanide pills (colored blue, of course), slap them into a generic \/!@gr@ container, and ship a "free sample to our loyal customer" to each and every address there.
Give it a week, and there won't be a problem with customers.
And make sure that the news corps get ahold of the story "Spammers killing Americans en mass! Teh Internets r Dangerous". Make it very, very publicly known that meds from a Spammer killed tens of thousands of Americans. Not only will it "wake up" the few people who didn't take the blue pull, but it will also make it much easier for Blackwater to then go after the rest of the Spam operators.
Why that last part? Well, just because killing the Spammers wouldn't solve the problem doesn't mean I don't want them killed. =)
If someone was going to stalk you through forums and such, your real name is near useless. It's your fake username that will leave the Google trail-- which they presumably already know if they're trying to stalk you.
Solar power-- and presumably, gravity. Unless they've found a way to cancel that out, to make the competition more fair. In which case, keep your silly solar powered car. I want a gravity canceller.
My fiance, a highschool science teacher, recently ran an experiment for her specialization course. The project was designed to explore if technology can be used to support classroom learning (as opposed to the more common "idea" of replacing classroom teaching-- or when technology is just used for technology's sake)
The thesis was, basically, since students are already familiar with and enjoy using technology, the implementing a certain piece of technology would allow them to access resources they didn't have before, or would not comfortable using/accessing without a computer
She did this by setting up a forum on her website. The website already has a calender, class notes, helpful links, and a homework blog. The forum was intended to be a method for students to share resources (not solutions that would violate academic policy), and allow easier communication between peers and herself.
She gathered data in two ways: through two surveys (before the forum went online, and at the end of the semester), and through forum usage stats. The results were interesting.
There was a lot of interest in the forum before it went online, and that number stayed pretty much the same by the end of the semester. That means that those who weren't interested in the tech before didn't suddenly become interested simply because it was "eLearning". (Or, the disinterest rate and new interest rate balanced each other out perfectly. Same end result
By far, the most use of the forum was as a study aid. Every week there was a quiz or a test, with the quizzes based off student research on current science topics. The students were able to collaborate as a very loose "study group" online, pointing each other to helpful links to study resources. Forum usage stats absolutely skyrocketed the day before a quiz, specifically on the "study" threads. In fact, the maximum usage per week always fell on the day before a quiz.
The second most useful feature was the Articles section, where she or students could post links to interesting science articles, and discuss them (though the majority of the use was posting new articles, or reading them. Very little discussion)
One of the most interesting results came when the she marked their practical test based on their pig-dissection. Traditionally, this is the "student killer" and has a very low average-- mainly because the students can't really take their work (dead pig) home on this one. The forum contained several resources that were not available in previous years, including a link to a virutal dissection website, tons of dissection and anatomy articles, and even a series of digital photos taken of the dissection by one of the students. The average for the test across three sections of the course were significantly higher than previous years-- and most interesting was that the average mark for the top 8 forum posters was significantly above the class average. Of course it is impossible to say if increased forum usage made them better students, or if they were good students to begin with and as such were more likely to use a classroom resource more heavily.
Surprisingly, the forum was very seldom used as a method to contact her or other students. There was an area for posting questions that could be answered publicly (ie: to ask clarifying questions about projects, etc). It wasn't used. The surveys showed that over 98% of the students preferred to get this information either from a static source (her website), or just asking face-to-face later. (This may be due to her two classes being very organized, and not waiting for the last minute to get information they need to do their work).
The data all showed that students didn't want the technology to replace classroom communication-- they prefer face-to-face. They didn't replace any of their study or communication habits with the forum simply because it was there. If there was something they could do offline or online, they would often do it offline (and not online simply because they could). But when it came to things they couldn't do offline, such as the pig dissection study, or form geographically disperse study-groups, they did so. Things that were new features that added onto or improved their classroom experience were embraced.
Slashdot Mirror
He sounds like the lovechild of D. D. Harriman and Henry Rollins.
"The passport's wonky? Hrm, not surprising, I guess. I tend to travel around Chernobyl a lot. Want me to stand real close to you while you double-check my papers?"
Also know as "A Layer 8 Issue"
Just bring a bottle of juice with you to the airport. You'll be on the list in no time.
Interesting games, but what about their scoring? Are they going to follow suite with the Olympics, and exclude the ability to score a perfect 1010?
RIAA sees "infringement" occur.
DHCP logs are overwritten immediately
They file a Notice to Preserve
IT department replies with "Ohhh, sorry, too late. Next time let is know in advance that you wanted some overwritten data preserved. The forms are clearly posted in the dark basement..."
Of course he didn't-- though it's painfully obvious that he would have liked to have planned it that way. From the NYT Article last Sunday:
So in other words "I didn't plan for things to get public. Next time I'll plan more carefully so it will."
This:
Followed by the sig:
*snarf*
You mean a newsgroup?
How the hell is this even legal? Last I checked, a phone company can't charge for a service that blocks another service they are charging for. That's why Call Display is paid for, but Block-My-Number is free. If they're charging for text messages, they can't be allowed to charge for blocking them!
No, man, you have it backwards. That should be:
BOFH planning a trip to the US: I have an excellent way to ditch our old laptops without paying disposal fees...
Or they're going to go way overboard. I can just see it:
Step one: Hijack a Office Depot truck, and snag all of the blank DVDs and multi-records you can
Step two: Get the earliest version of the movie you can. (Protip: If you took the plasma tvs off the truck, they'll be great Theatre Manager / Projectionist bribery material
Step three: Make as many million copies of $Movie as you can.
Step four: The night before opening night, get a stack of the $Movie dvds to every kid who delivers flyers, newspapers, periodicals or coupon books. Have them stuff one DVD as a "special bonus insert" into everything they distribute.
Step five: Enjoy the thought that on opening day, damn near everyone in the country will have a pirated copy of the movie to watch at their leisure.
I wish I could mod you +6 for this alone.
An in a shocking victory for the trolls, the one trillionth page was a mirror of goatse.
Re: Chicago
Yeah, well I live in Toronto. They usually do a good job of dressing it up, but the limit for me was Resident Evil, when they tried to convince me that it was Raccoon City: a small, off-the-radar, town-- with several million people, skyscrapers, and the world's tallest freestanding structure..
I'm all for suspension of disbelief, but that was like casting Michael Clarke Duncan as Little Orphan Annie.
I'll bite.
Okay, the voice didn't really bug me that much. But the issue I had with it wasn't the voice, but the way it was done. Ask anyone who has done some voice training, and they'll tell you that the fake raspy thing he's doing is a horrible thing to do to your vocal cords. You hear it all the time with any singer who screams more than they sing. It sounds painfully because it's something you're trained not to do-- because it will be painful later.
Now, Bruce-the-character, and Christian Bale the actor, might have been doing it in a way so that it SOUNDS like a tough-guy voice, but in a way that was not harmful to their cords, but it still sounds-- well-- wrong.
The other complaint I've heard is that "tough-guy with deep-voice" is a bit cliche. So instead of picturing Batman as an intimidating force, upon hearing his voice they instead hear some emo Myspacer with a camera phone making a fanfilm
Um, exactly?
Allow me to point you to the location of the forum. Notice the URL in the square brackets?
In all fairness, it probably was the explosion that got her, and not the fire.
It didn't disappoint me. I enjoyed the portrayal of The Joker. I'm sure there'll be much debate about Ledger vs. Nicholson (as well as endless Batman/Alternate Universe Joker-on-Joker slashfic).
I also enjoyed that there wasn't any silly microwave/waterborn silliness. I know, I know, comic book movie. But still...
I disagree with this-- only because they aren't going after the right targets
Spam is profitable not because there are people who will do what it takes to get the money-- but because there exists a small subset of the population who will gladly given them the money. Spammers aren't the problem, they're a symptom. It's the customers who are the problem
And the solution is easy. Send in Blackwater, et all to take down one or two of the biggest spammers. By the time the bodies hit the floor, four more operations will have popped up. Not a problem.
Have Blackwater take over the Spammer's customer list. They'll have the names, and more importantly, the addresses of everyone who has purchased from them. That's when you pack up a "healthy" dosage of cyanide pills (colored blue, of course), slap them into a generic \/!@gr@ container, and ship a "free sample to our loyal customer" to each and every address there.
Give it a week, and there won't be a problem with customers.
And make sure that the news corps get ahold of the story "Spammers killing Americans en mass! Teh Internets r Dangerous". Make it very, very publicly known that meds from a Spammer killed tens of thousands of Americans. Not only will it "wake up" the few people who didn't take the blue pull, but it will also make it much easier for Blackwater to then go after the rest of the Spam operators.
Why that last part? Well, just because killing the Spammers wouldn't solve the problem doesn't mean I don't want them killed. =)
I don't say this much, but that's stupid.
If someone was going to stalk you through forums and such, your real name is near useless. It's your fake username that will leave the Google trail-- which they presumably already know if they're trying to stalk you.
I like my watches XXX.
Solar power-- and presumably, gravity. Unless they've found a way to cancel that out, to make the competition more fair. In which case, keep your silly solar powered car. I want a gravity canceller.
For example, New York City has the highest percentage of people who live in New York City than any other city in the world!
My fiance, a highschool science teacher, recently ran an experiment for her specialization course. The project was designed to explore if technology can be used to support classroom learning (as opposed to the more common "idea" of replacing classroom teaching-- or when technology is just used for technology's sake)
The thesis was, basically, since students are already familiar with and enjoy using technology, the implementing a certain piece of technology would allow them to access resources they didn't have before, or would not comfortable using/accessing without a computer
She did this by setting up a forum on her website. The website already has a calender, class notes, helpful links, and a homework blog. The forum was intended to be a method for students to share resources (not solutions that would violate academic policy), and allow easier communication between peers and herself.
She gathered data in two ways: through two surveys (before the forum went online, and at the end of the semester), and through forum usage stats. The results were interesting.
There was a lot of interest in the forum before it went online, and that number stayed pretty much the same by the end of the semester. That means that those who weren't interested in the tech before didn't suddenly become interested simply because it was "eLearning". (Or, the disinterest rate and new interest rate balanced each other out perfectly. Same end result
By far, the most use of the forum was as a study aid. Every week there was a quiz or a test, with the quizzes based off student research on current science topics. The students were able to collaborate as a very loose "study group" online, pointing each other to helpful links to study resources. Forum usage stats absolutely skyrocketed the day before a quiz, specifically on the "study" threads. In fact, the maximum usage per week always fell on the day before a quiz.
The second most useful feature was the Articles section, where she or students could post links to interesting science articles, and discuss them (though the majority of the use was posting new articles, or reading them. Very little discussion)
One of the most interesting results came when the she marked their practical test based on their pig-dissection. Traditionally, this is the "student killer" and has a very low average-- mainly because the students can't really take their work (dead pig) home on this one. The forum contained several resources that were not available in previous years, including a link to a virutal dissection website, tons of dissection and anatomy articles, and even a series of digital photos taken of the dissection by one of the students. The average for the test across three sections of the course were significantly higher than previous years-- and most interesting was that the average mark for the top 8 forum posters was significantly above the class average. Of course it is impossible to say if increased forum usage made them better students, or if they were good students to begin with and as such were more likely to use a classroom resource more heavily.
Surprisingly, the forum was very seldom used as a method to contact her or other students. There was an area for posting questions that could be answered publicly (ie: to ask clarifying questions about projects, etc). It wasn't used. The surveys showed that over 98% of the students preferred to get this information either from a static source (her website), or just asking face-to-face later. (This may be due to her two classes being very organized, and not waiting for the last minute to get information they need to do their work).
The data all showed that students didn't want the technology to replace classroom communication-- they prefer face-to-face. They didn't replace any of their study or communication habits with the forum simply because it was there. If there was something they could do offline or online, they would often do it offline (and not online simply because they could). But when it came to things they couldn't do offline, such as the pig dissection study, or form geographically disperse study-groups, they did so. Things that were new features that added onto or improved their classroom experience were embraced.