What other service should the CIA use to sell surplus weapons/aircraft/ships, information, and drugs to extremist/rebel/etc factions around the world? I mean they certainly can't be seen selling them directly. And who would ever suspect that eddieguns4056 sale of 200,000 AK-47s could possibly have anything to do with the CIA.
by spleen_blender (949762) Alter Relationship on Thursday October 18, @01:51PM (#21030347)
Wait... that is supposed to be meat? Why didn't you tell me I was eating this?!
well, what kind of smoothie did you think it'd be?
If you can transfer the money to them then you can find them.
What about spam with no contact info? I posted about this once before, and someone responded with (i paraphrase) "spammers are like the rest of us; they forget to include attachments, too. When a spammer forgets, 6 million people find out about it."
I could see this happening sometimes, but the amount of crap I see with no contact info, no website, no product being sold, is amazing. It's like the spam is self aware and breeding. Or the spam churning robot is broken or something.
I'd love to know what's behind this. Sometimes it's just the filter workaround "poetry", long lists of current event buzzwords, etc.
i could, but then i'd have 100's of labels. i likek the way they thread conversations now, i'd just like to drag and drop threads together, or messages to threads, etc...
you know how gmail threads emails together, ones with similar subjects, so that if you got 12 emails from friends replying to "all" one day, when you check it, you only have one email, with all those posts in it?
i want to be able to connect emails together myself...sort of a manual threading ability. sometimes conversations happen over the course of several weeks, the subject gets changed, so looking for one specific email is difficult cos it may have been under the "birthday party" thread, or the "RE:fwd:Fwd:re birthday party thread"...
I seem to recall seeing a statistic somewhere (Harper's list in utne, mayhaps?) that had the number of patent applications for mousetraps one specific year being around 4. The following year, when the Emerson said the thing about "build a better mousetrap...", there were a ton more.
Mod me off topic, (karma to burn, yadda yadda...) but I thought this crowd would appreciate it...
I've seen several references to this in this story today.
Since reminiscing seems to be the flavor of the day, I'd love to hear a breakdown of what happened in that thread. I read through it, and it looked like some editors and/or mods went a little nuts.
Would be interesting to hear from Taco some of these kind of stories, where the masses seemed to turn on those in charge. What was that like, for something that started as a hobby site?
Anyone have any links where i can read about what that troll post investigation thing was all about?
Thanks, Taco, for a website i get paid to read. Rather, i read when i'm getting paid to do something else...
i'd say once or twice a week do i see them. sometimes i don't even notice them, tho, until the last day i've got them. then it's a mad dash to spend them.
fwiw, when i do get positive moderation on my posts, it tends to be more funny than anything else, but i thought i read somewhere that getting modded funny doesn't carry as much weight as anything else...
interesting/forward thinking idea, that of auctioning off tickets.
what's to stop scalpers from scooping up all the tickets early, and then holding them for "ransom"? if there were a "buy it now" option at $100, i could just go buy all of the tickets for a major city's venue, then flip them and sell them for 300 bucks...
While we lived in Japan, I went to an american DODDS (dept of defense) school on the base. In math class, for several years, we had this Japanese guy come in and teach us how to use the sorobans. He told us that he could do high math in his head (high for 6th/7th grade, but can you do 9 digit multiplication in your head?), and would challenge students to a match. He and the student would go stand in the hall, while the class came up with a problem. Two 9 digit numbers to multiply, a long list of 8 and 9 digit numbers to add with one or two thrown in to subtract, etc...he and the student would come back in the room, the student got a calculator, and he would have the answer before the student got the numbers punched into the calculator. I still would not believe it if I hadn't seen it.
When my family and I were leaving Japan for good (we'd lived there on a military base) in 1990, we were at the airport, trading in all of our Yen for Dollars on the way out. The currency exchange was this little kiosk about the size of one of those old drive-thru film processing booths. Inside sat an old man and a bunch of money and counting machines.
We gave him all our Yen, change, etc... he poured the change into one hole, the bills stacked and sorted into some other machine, and out came a paper receipt, like an atm receipt. he counted the dollars, to make sure it matched the receipt.
Before he handed over the money, though, he took out his soroban (Japanese abacus, slightly different bead layout, but same idea) and checked the math of the computer on it. Then he handed us our money.
thanks for sharing that pearl of a catchy jingle. just earlier today, i was thinking about how unpleasant it is to have a head clear of jingles, slogans, advertising copy.
you sir, have restored my faith in humanity.
seriously, though, i'm glad i only had to read it once, so hopefully it'll only stick around for another hour or so...that is a horribly catchy tagline.
regardless of which kind of list it is, it should be done through the telcos because they can remove the number from the list when it is reassigned.
Which is why getting calls from telemarketers should be opt-in. It should be assumed that people don't want to get calls, unless they go out of their way to get them.
Slashdot Mirror
They taste exactly the same.
Tell that to van halen
On slashdot, YOU fab soviet russia jokes!
OT maybe, but an interesting look at an "experiment" done with bikes in an attempt to address a similar problem...
The sad thing is, none of it is really all that surprising.
What other service should the CIA use to sell surplus weapons/aircraft/ships, information, and drugs to extremist/rebel/etc factions around the world? I mean they certainly can't be seen selling them directly. And who would ever suspect that eddieguns4056 sale of 200,000 AK-47s could possibly have anything to do with the CIA.
Why not? The NTSA does it.
by spleen_blender (949762) Alter Relationship on Thursday October 18, @01:51PM (#21030347) Wait... that is supposed to be meat? Why didn't you tell me I was eating this?!
well, what kind of smoothie did you think it'd be?
If you can transfer the money to them then you can find them.
What about spam with no contact info? I posted about this once before, and someone responded with (i paraphrase) "spammers are like the rest of us; they forget to include attachments, too. When a spammer forgets, 6 million people find out about it."
I could see this happening sometimes, but the amount of crap I see with no contact info, no website, no product being sold, is amazing. It's like the spam is self aware and breeding. Or the spam churning robot is broken or something. I'd love to know what's behind this. Sometimes it's just the filter workaround "poetry", long lists of current event buzzwords, etc.
i could, but then i'd have 100's of labels. i likek the way they thread conversations now, i'd just like to drag and drop threads together, or messages to threads, etc...
I can get rid of all type 1 errs at the penalty of increasing type 2. I can do this on most modern copiers, It consists of unplugging the power cord.
are you talking about the dance of joy?
while we're requesting features...
you know how gmail threads emails together, ones with similar subjects, so that if you got 12 emails from friends replying to "all" one day, when you check it, you only have one email, with all those posts in it?
i want to be able to connect emails together myself...sort of a manual threading ability. sometimes conversations happen over the course of several weeks, the subject gets changed, so looking for one specific email is difficult cos it may have been under the "birthday party" thread, or the "RE:fwd:Fwd:re birthday party thread"...
...if only the sysadmins weren't constantly dismantling the power supplies, dropping them in hot oil, and eating them, that might work!
I'm not entirely sure how you would encrypt a single bit!
rot 1?
I seem to recall seeing a statistic somewhere (Harper's list in utne, mayhaps?) that had the number of patent applications for mousetraps one specific year being around 4. The following year, when the Emerson said the thing about "build a better mousetrap...", there were a ton more.
Mod me off topic, (karma to burn, yadda yadda...) but I thought this crowd would appreciate it...
Speaking of Asian (written) languages, don't a lot of them read top to bottom?
How to accommodate those?
Another reason ill never sell my El Camino.
What was the first?
this last post is still out of place...
I've seen several references to this in this story today.
Since reminiscing seems to be the flavor of the day, I'd love to hear a breakdown of what happened in that thread. I read through it, and it looked like some editors and/or mods went a little nuts. Would be interesting to hear from Taco some of these kind of stories, where the masses seemed to turn on those in charge. What was that like, for something that started as a hobby site?
Anyone have any links where i can read about what that troll post investigation thing was all about?
Thanks, Taco, for a website i get paid to read. Rather, i read when i'm getting paid to do something else...
i'd say once or twice a week do i see them. sometimes i don't even notice them, tho, until the last day i've got them. then it's a mad dash to spend them.
fwiw, when i do get positive moderation on my posts, it tends to be more funny than anything else, but i thought i read somewhere that getting modded funny doesn't carry as much weight as anything else...
The actual quote is "I've got a bad feeling about this..."
interesting/forward thinking idea, that of auctioning off tickets.
what's to stop scalpers from scooping up all the tickets early, and then holding them for "ransom"? if there were a "buy it now" option at $100, i could just go buy all of the tickets for a major city's venue, then flip them and sell them for 300 bucks...
While we lived in Japan, I went to an american DODDS (dept of defense) school on the base. In math class, for several years, we had this Japanese guy come in and teach us how to use the sorobans. He told us that he could do high math in his head (high for 6th/7th grade, but can you do 9 digit multiplication in your head?), and would challenge students to a match. He and the student would go stand in the hall, while the class came up with a problem. Two 9 digit numbers to multiply, a long list of 8 and 9 digit numbers to add with one or two thrown in to subtract, etc...he and the student would come back in the room, the student got a calculator, and he would have the answer before the student got the numbers punched into the calculator. I still would not believe it if I hadn't seen it.
But it makes up for it all by reducing the birth rate.
Were you referring to the internet, or the pr0n?
When my family and I were leaving Japan for good (we'd lived there on a military base) in 1990, we were at the airport, trading in all of our Yen for Dollars on the way out. The currency exchange was this little kiosk about the size of one of those old drive-thru film processing booths. Inside sat an old man and a bunch of money and counting machines.
We gave him all our Yen, change, etc... he poured the change into one hole, the bills stacked and sorted into some other machine, and out came a paper receipt, like an atm receipt. he counted the dollars, to make sure it matched the receipt.
Before he handed over the money, though, he took out his soroban (Japanese abacus, slightly different bead layout, but same idea) and checked the math of the computer on it. Then he handed us our money.
thanks for sharing that pearl of a catchy jingle. just earlier today, i was thinking about how unpleasant it is to have a head clear of jingles, slogans, advertising copy.
you sir, have restored my faith in humanity.
seriously, though, i'm glad i only had to read it once, so hopefully it'll only stick around for another hour or so...that is a horribly catchy tagline.
regardless of which kind of list it is, it should be done through the telcos because they can remove the number from the list when it is reassigned.
Which is why getting calls from telemarketers should be opt-in. It should be assumed that people don't want to get calls, unless they go out of their way to get them.