There's a pair in Goodyear, AZ - but it's really a Target across the street from a Barnes & Noble, so it's not so special - kind of like having a public restroom across the street from another public restroom, more or less.
Yeah - neither Starbucks and Burger King is worth actually eating at. Yuck.
More fun would be visiting, say, every county courthouse in the country. There are a finite and stable number of them, and how you make your visit can vary greatly from one to the next!
You're just lucky they spelled 'traveling salesman problem' right this time. Expecting them to know what it means is just too much to ask. This is Slashdot - we know about sci-fi TV shows and movies, CowboyNeal and his promiscuous mother, and leetspeak. Nothing else!
I have great hopes that programs named klassroom or akademy will help our students learn how to spell everything wrong, instead of just nearly everything as they do already.
I could probably have recovered my system, but it was less work to start over the projects I had lost, in the long run, as they were better designed in round 2. Plus, I didn't have good enough Internet access to even research such possibilities at the time. I'll definitely be smarter about it if I do that again.
I can imagine doing a full-drive backup the wrong direction. I hope the tape had something interesting on it.:)
I transposed if and of once while trying to back up my boot sector prior to a Windows install on my FreeBSD box:
dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/hda of=bootsect.bak
Became:
dd bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/hda if=bootsect.bak
Of course, bootsect.bak somehow magically existed from an abortive previous attempt to back up the first sector from the wrong drive. And I didn't know my partition table was borked until I rebooted and got the telltale error message. I lost everything, including my thesis project to that point, my custom Lisp interpreter, all sorts of math papers I had written, and so on.
The only chain letter I ever forwarded on was the one wherein you send your wife or girlfriend to the first name on the list and, later, receive some insane number of women. Not because I am a womanizer, but because I like sending people through the mail.;)
If you got a letter saying that Wal Mart was testing out their tracking of your postal mail and would give you $50 if you send a letter to each of five friends to that end, wouldn't you wonder for even a split second how and why Wal Mart wants to track your mail?
I know for a fact that many of the people forwarding them 5 or more years ago did take them seriously, implying acceptance that Microsoft was at that time able to track at least that one e-mail and tag it at least 2 generations later to their e-mail address.
How does accepting that Microsoft wants to and possibly can track all your e-mail activity not imply not caring particularly much about your privacy in e-mail? This is a logical statement. You're the one attacking me with no data to back yourself up.
Did you read the next sentence? The quoted was a rhetorical question. Yeah, it's definitely an unfair IQ test in the terms you present, but it does say something about how little most people care for their privacy.
I never said anything about e-mail privacy being a civil right. (It is, but not one explicitly protected by the US Constitution. You may want to check up on the 9th Amendment for more on whether not being explicitly protected implies a denial of that right.) I merely inferred that anyone not aware of the privacy concerns of Microsoft tracking their e-mail is likely unaware of the civil rights they do have, and wouldn't mind terribly if it was the US government or someone else taking them away.
Someone really ought to impeach the Honorable Beauford T. Justice. I disagree with almost every decision he makes, and I'm convinced he has an alias of Donald Thompson.;)
You read me a little bit wrong, possibly due to the incorrect moderation of my comment. How people got in the Insightful bandwagon on that one, I don't know. I post a lot of insightful comments, but this one was 90% Funny.
That said, I can't tell you how many times I replied to friends who sent this to me 6 years ago to indicate that it was a hoax and clear up why it was so. Yeah, if Microsoft could make a buck on tracking your e-mail, they would; and, if they started, I'd help everyone I know get set up to use completely non-Microsoft e-mail software.
I think an analogy I would have used to dispel this was along the lines of it being equivalent to Wal-Mart tracking your snail mail and giving you a check for $200 every time you send a copy of their letter to someone. It's so entirely absurd, but exactly equivalent: without Wal-Mart having some tracking device on your mail box, it's not really possible. The same goes for Microsoft tracking your e-mail.
On another side note, this article is poorly written. I've never seen anyone overuse the word "windfall" until today and, as others have pointed out here, the author shouldn't be writing for a technology periodical if he was for more than a tenth of a second convinced by this hoax in 2004.
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There's a pair in Goodyear, AZ - but it's really a Target across the street from a Barnes & Noble, so it's not so special - kind of like having a public restroom across the street from another public restroom, more or less.
Right, because posting comments on Slashdot about what the cool kids are doing is the popular thing to do.
Yeah - neither Starbucks and Burger King is worth actually eating at. Yuck.
More fun would be visiting, say, every county courthouse in the country. There are a finite and stable number of them, and how you make your visit can vary greatly from one to the next!
Shh! I was having fun watching him try! ;)
You're just lucky they spelled 'traveling salesman problem' right this time. Expecting them to know what it means is just too much to ask. This is Slashdot - we know about sci-fi TV shows and movies, CowboyNeal and his promiscuous mother, and leetspeak. Nothing else!
What's really important, though, is how many Starbucks he has seen across the street from another Starbucks.
I have great hopes that programs named klassroom or akademy will help our students learn how to spell everything wrong, instead of just nearly everything as they do already.
The RTFM HOWTO is a parody, hosted on geocities. Sorry to ruin the only one you liked.
I could probably have recovered my system, but it was less work to start over the projects I had lost, in the long run, as they were better designed in round 2. Plus, I didn't have good enough Internet access to even research such possibilities at the time. I'll definitely be smarter about it if I do that again.
:)
I can imagine doing a full-drive backup the wrong direction. I hope the tape had something interesting on it.
I wonder if he'd get it if we sent him letters reading:
Dear Geordi,
Congratulations on your eyesight.
More power to the engines,
Captain Your Name Here
Darn thing, I forgot to change it to "code". How fitting for a post about minor mistakes that can't be taken back? :)
I transposed if and of once while trying to back up my boot sector prior to a Windows install on my FreeBSD box: dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/hda of=bootsect.bak Became: dd bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/hda if=bootsect.bak Of course, bootsect.bak somehow magically existed from an abortive previous attempt to back up the first sector from the wrong drive. And I didn't know my partition table was borked until I rebooted and got the telltale error message. I lost everything, including my thesis project to that point, my custom Lisp interpreter, all sorts of math papers I had written, and so on.
American Rifleman
BMW Owners' News (motorcycles, not cars)
Guitar World
I get most of these second-hand, although I used to subscribe to Guitar World.
The Decapodians are at it again!
Shh! Facts aren't welcome here!
The only chain letter I ever forwarded on was the one wherein you send your wife or girlfriend to the first name on the list and, later, receive some insane number of women. Not because I am a womanizer, but because I like sending people through the mail. ;)
Oops, reparent this to be an offspring of its sibling.
If you got a letter saying that Wal Mart was testing out their tracking of your postal mail and would give you $50 if you send a letter to each of five friends to that end, wouldn't you wonder for even a split second how and why Wal Mart wants to track your mail?
I know for a fact that many of the people forwarding them 5 or more years ago did take them seriously, implying acceptance that Microsoft was at that time able to track at least that one e-mail and tag it at least 2 generations later to their e-mail address.
Actually, neither Linux nor Windows is easy enough that my grandmother can use it. I don't suspect she'd notice if I swapped it out on her. ;)
How does accepting that Microsoft wants to and possibly can track all your e-mail activity not imply not caring particularly much about your privacy in e-mail? This is a logical statement. You're the one attacking me with no data to back yourself up.
Did you read the next sentence? The quoted was a rhetorical question. Yeah, it's definitely an unfair IQ test in the terms you present, but it does say something about how little most people care for their privacy.
I never said anything about e-mail privacy being a civil right. (It is, but not one explicitly protected by the US Constitution. You may want to check up on the 9th Amendment for more on whether not being explicitly protected implies a denial of that right.) I merely inferred that anyone not aware of the privacy concerns of Microsoft tracking their e-mail is likely unaware of the civil rights they do have, and wouldn't mind terribly if it was the US government or someone else taking them away.
Someone really ought to impeach the Honorable Beauford T. Justice. I disagree with almost every decision he makes, and I'm convinced he has an alias of Donald Thompson. ;)
You read me a little bit wrong, possibly due to the incorrect moderation of my comment. How people got in the Insightful bandwagon on that one, I don't know. I post a lot of insightful comments, but this one was 90% Funny.
That said, I can't tell you how many times I replied to friends who sent this to me 6 years ago to indicate that it was a hoax and clear up why it was so. Yeah, if Microsoft could make a buck on tracking your e-mail, they would; and, if they started, I'd help everyone I know get set up to use completely non-Microsoft e-mail software.
I think an analogy I would have used to dispel this was along the lines of it being equivalent to Wal-Mart tracking your snail mail and giving you a check for $200 every time you send a copy of their letter to someone. It's so entirely absurd, but exactly equivalent: without Wal-Mart having some tracking device on your mail box, it's not really possible. The same goes for Microsoft tracking your e-mail.
On another side note, this article is poorly written. I've never seen anyone overuse the word "windfall" until today and, as others have pointed out here, the author shouldn't be writing for a technology periodical if he was for more than a tenth of a second convinced by this hoax in 2004.