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TSC Members Shoutout - Frappr map of TSC [By: drachen / 2005-12-21]
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yeah, I screwed up, they don't have Mississauga on their list a city of about 700,000 people, so I put Mississauga Beach and that was wrong, so yeah whoever admins this thing can remove the wrong one - NOFXfan
Same here -- they don't have New Westminster on their list either so I'm in Vancouver as far as they are concerned... -chazz
Alright it found St. John's, I'm on the map *JOY* -StylinTechie
oh I guess zipcodes don't work for you non americans. ;)
-drachen
I tried but it won't recognize any of the cities I am close to and I refuse to put myself in Toronto -frprinterwiz
Javascript errors in some browsers prevent showing the map or the list of memebrs. -concept14
Am I the only one who added a real photo? -wolfprince
i was gonna put up a proper pic of me but i realised i hate my face so decided against it!! -starfishmagnet
At first I thought the site was Fappr... but that would not be work-friendly, would it? -Mushroom
your thinking fwappr ;P -drachen
That's a piece of crap - it doesn't recognise Gromit's Retreat. Bollocks to it, I'll stay anonymous. -Gromit
Hm - you con't remove a wrong pin, or correct it. Beta indeed....
<giggle>
-Darkstar2
The funny thing is, it is almost on my house, just about 1cm to the right -macbeth
oh duh .... what a dick... - natch I meant "1 cm " on the max zoom we could get -macbeth
macbeth you live in a forest? -NOFXfan
I put my pin in, but the map farted and flew out the window. Such is life..... -vacuumtubes
SS thinks: "Oooh! Someone who lives in the same town as... oh wait. That's me." -smellystudent
Fun. Chose a place in the city a few blocks from my actual area. -namor
My pin showed up about 20 blocks northwest of where I live in the city, but still in the general downtown area. Where I work is only slightly closer. (I have a very easy commute. I walk about 12 minutes up a hill in the morning, and about 9 down the hill in the afternoon. - Gravity works!0 -teivrann
im sitting in splendid isolation down under;) -timelady
Hawk should replace the "TSC is a global community" -page (on the left of main page) with this one! -NordicPT
STJ's on the map.. the only one from Omaha -STJ
Damn, there's a shitload of us around the Lakes. -Wolfie0827
Duly noted & added myself to the merry throng. Hi, y'all! -lineswine
I read that as 'merry thong' and thought - Santa's been a *bad* boy this year... -namor
well balls, I'm the only one in the maritimes on there so far -halitech
Duly added. -CommanderData
I also refuse to put myself in Toronto! Of course, I live in Oklahoma, so... -missourimule
Duly added. -purplelinguist
This ruins any chance of playing hide & seek... ;) -Wonko The Sane
What would be even COOLER than just making the "TSC is a global community" link point to this page would be making the little pointers for all the hugeass members into stars! *shakes freshly minted booty* -LoTech
It's got my pin about 5 miles from where I actually am...in a MUCH more expensive part of town. I wish I lived on the lake! (I'm the only one in Maine) -PaseoGuy
Duly added, for what it's worth. Who else noticed that 'Comedy' was misspelled? -Frazzled
The official story we picked about the misspelt group name, is that 'its an unofficial site'. The unofficial story is Drachen just cant spell worth a damn -evolvedstarfish
esf. I just noticed that. Ohh, and added myself -deskmonkey
OMG I can't believe I misspelled comedy....
-drachen
Added myself and looked at map. hmmm i dont remember seeing that big red thing right by my house. thats gotta be 50 stories high! -lacentrix
I'd be very surpised if the Canadian Capital wasn't found. but done. -Harm
Canada has a capital? I thought it was all just Deer, Wolves and snow. -Wolfie0827
Is this link still valid? I clicked on it to add myself, and got "Group 'techsupportcommedy' not found" -- how can I add myself to a non-existant group? -Captain Trips
Captain T., They've respelled it correctly, so now the link doesn't work. Just edit out the extra "M". -rurwin
My pin is only about 5 blocks from where I live. Not too bad. -sassicatz
just looked at the street level and it has me living in the bloody Halifax harbour almost on the dartmouth side. sory but I refuse to live in the harbour if the fish can't live there -halitech
For those who decide they just want to click - http://www.frappr.com/techsupportcomedy -wolfman
Ok, I added myself, and I can't believe I'm the only one in southeast asia...... hmmmm.... -CrystalMare
Crystalmare, SlowAandEasy is right underneath you! -Tekkie
Added! Wahoo! Only two in the Atlanta area? hmmmmmmmm....... -john11v35
I'm added, I shall infect you all!!! -virusjtg
Hey, I got moved down to Harbourfront! Yay, what a nice neighbourhood. Much better than poor NOFXFan who got stuck over in crack city around Sherbourne and Dundas. -Mysty
It found Chisholm, MN, a town of 5k souls -HappyCrappy
No you're no, crystalmare! -slowANDeasy
YAY!!! The frappr team fixed my screwup: new link http://www.frappr.com/techsupportcomedy
-drachen
I just zoomed in on my flag, its only off by a block :) -evolvedstarfish
Okay, I'm on there -- but it shows my pointer at the center of my zip code -- which is about 2 miles sw of my home. Oh, well, nothing's perfect. -Captain Trips
Yes: As do most onlime maps, you town center is the post office represnted by the ZIP code. My post office moved thirty years ago, but every online map still shows it at the old location. -LaserGuru
Heh, It put me about a mile south of my house. Not bad, really! :) -rokitt
This is strange, my marker keeps disapearing, or falling into the north atlantic -StylinTechie
Very cool, I replaced the "TSC is Global Community" to this page. -Hawk
Very cool, I replaced the "TSC is Global Community" to this page. -Hawk
Thanks Hawk! If you go into your acct, you CAN your pin. I've got mine possitioned within a couple of houses of my location now. -wolfprince
That supposed to say you can MOVE your pin. go to the "my profile" page and an update map in on the right. -wolfprince
What happen? the Frapper page for Techcomedy is gone? Or did we overload it, LOL -GuruTechy
Works for me! -Darkstar2
Got mine in, however placed approx 6 miles from my actual house. Oh Well... -uranid10t
Someone broke the link. :( -Torinir
Do not use the link of the day link, it doesnt work anymore, use the TSC IS A GLOBAL COMMUNITY link now its right under the menu. -evolvedstarfish
Thanks, Hawk!!! :) (And thanks, WP- my pin is now right on top, literally, of my roof! :)) -taieena
Why Am I the only person showing in England?? -Shaede
Shaede: we all moved away while you were asleep. -smellystudent
Yeah, I screwed up. First I just did a shout-out. Then I created an account and put my marker more accurate and both show up so I'm there twice. -Zayda
I am officially on the map. -THETECHFROMHELL
OK, I quit being a procrasting tech and added myself to the map.. -deihu
Duly added - I hope to get a pic in there soon. -stpatience
this is one long-lived link :) -slowANDeasy
I'm surprised to see 4 other techs in the SF Bay area, 3 of them in my part of the bay. -Starfury
ok, Ive added myself to this great list :) and boy is this thread getting long, had to rest my scroll finger getting here... -Jax
Star Fish Bay area? Wow id leave there as soon as possible. (The lart shelter is in the dark alley you say? Hey! Hey stop that! Hitting me with that big piece of wood will not...ow.. x.x -MrJay67
getting the following: "'techsupportcommedy' not found" message. -Chipsterian
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Sober worm catches pedophile - At least Sober is useful for something [By: NOFXfan / 2005-12-20]
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pediphiles are for killing. screw NAMBLA. -drachen
More correctly, the worm didn't catch him, the dipshit gave himself up after reading a spam from it. This is not surprising since people believe so much spam... -suitepotato
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!ONEONEONE111111ELEVEN!!!@@@! Finally, a fishie gets properly punished! -missourimule
And I thought it was funny when the RCMP burst down the door of the guy pitaring XBOX games.......
Yes I live near that guy. -RandalGraves
when you outlaw sober worms only outlaws will have sober worms
-SGTARKyTEK
kinda trumps Gromits(I think it was his) "all is known" -SGTARKyTEK
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Win a 100$ ThinkGeek Gift Certificate - Fark.com is having a sponsored contest for your best/worst tech support stories, I know we have a wealth of stories so for 100$ it may be worth signing up for a free Fark account, might also be interesting to see if there are any plagiarists [By: NOFXfan / 2005-12-12]
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damn, beat me to it;) -timelady
ok so that's $100 split 150000 ways... -drachen
that should ba 15k not 150k -drachen
Finally used my account to post my only comment. Re-done from one of mine here, I'm sure, from memory. What the hell. -namor
<pout>damn, My best story isn't tech related.... </pout> -wolfprince
Maybe I should submit one of my recordings? -RiffRaff
does anyone remember the story about the dog being zapped by an exposed phone cable? someone posted a variation of that one, a whole lot of common ones are winning right now for some reason -NOFXfan
We need to get the Coyote to post some of his there. -Shaede
Main problem I have with this is that most people will probably just do an internet search, find the one they like best, and copy it there... -Wiser
wiser, you mean someone like painkiller? -Jax
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A new "dog and bone"? - Just what I've always wanted - I hope Wallace gives me one for Christmas. (Oh good grief...) [By: Gromit / 2005-12-07]
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nah - what you need is a portable, collar-contained video-phone, as modelled by Brain, Inspector Gadget's dog -Shaede
"Two hundred and seventy-five dollars this month alone to, 976-BITCH?! Where's my rolled up Sunday Edition New York Times??" -ShujinTribble
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Taco Neepage--Warts and All - I found it, for those who missed the old "Taco Neepage" audio clip. Here is the UNCENSORED version of the "Dollar and Taco" 911 rant--It gets very, very ugly at the end, racial epithets and all, so--Absitively, Posolutely NOT SAFE FOR WORK! [By: vacuumtubes / 2005-12-07]
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so glad I read that before opening in a frenzy of excitement! just let that be a leeson to you ... not reading things before clicking = unemploymentus maximus -Tarantulus
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Dance Badgers - hey what can i say, it groovy bayyybeeeey [By: Jax / 2005-12-07]
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*releases angry wolverine down Jax's pants* -DedSysOp
Mushroom, mushroom... :-D -Mushroom
And now, I will singing this and getting strange looks all day at work. I sell insurance, so today will be interesting -srteach
www.badgerbadgerbadger.com
there's a flash animation that goes with it.. I think its badgerbadgerbadger.com but it may be badgerbadger.com -kmonson
After a little bit of editing, it will be the next "crazy frog" ring tone especially if there is video to go with it . -cjo
This is at least a year old. Close to two I think. But, my kid loves the flash animation. There are also Footy Badgers, Lord of the Ring Badgers, and X-mas Badgers. -TheSingingTech
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/santabadger.html mwuhahahhaahahahahahahaha -mousie
Mousie - I might start hating you.... -NordicPT
Actually, this is an audio-only remix of the Badgers tune with danceability cranked to about 9. It's worth at least one complete listen IMHO... -chazz
mousie I did`nt know there were xmas badgers....till now :D, and I think Nordic wants a word <g> -Jax
Hardcore....you know the score. Spacious! -lineswine
don't forget harry potter badgers....
potter potter potter potter WEASLEY WEASLY! -Tarantulus
Dangit, Mousie! Oooh, the pain... -PTSTech
the best tune by far on that weeblz site is the 'kenya' one - it's brilliant. Also check out magical Trevor, and 'The Annoying tune' -Shaede
Ohhhhh for the love of.... ::shoots himself:: -LowLevelFormat
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Stick RPG - Warning, you should have a pop-up blocker in place before you open the link. Other than that, this is such an addictive game. Rumour has it that if you play long enough, you can run for the presidency. Personally, I'm enjoying my job as a drug dealer. ;) [By: mousie / 2005-12-06]
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I played this one before. This is some fun stuffs..
-Warrick
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Liberal Party of Canada....has a blog?? - Yay, Canada is headed into another election. I've never been a big fan of the Liberal government, myself. Anyone who can misplace a few billion dollars doesn't get my support. This is actually the blog of the Prime Minister's speech-writer, and in his words "Views expressed on this blog do not necessarily represent the policies or beliefs of Paul Martin. Except when I write about the hypnotic musical stylings of Nana Mouskouri. We're totally in sync on that." [By: mousie / 2005-11-30]
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Liberal Party of Canada....has a blog?? - Yay, Canada is headed into another election. I've never been a big fan of the Liberal government, myself. Anyone who can misplace a few billion dollars doesn't get my support. This is actually the blog of the Prime Minister's speech-writer, and in his words "Views expressed on this blog do not necessarily represent the policies or beliefs of Paul Martin. Except when I write about the hypnotic musical stylings of Nana Mouskouri. We're totally in sync on that." Forget Paul Martin, can I vote for this guy??!! :D [By: mousie / 2005-11-30]
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I'm not about to follow the blog on a regular basis, but I'd probably vote for him as well - or at least for his sense of humour. -teivrann
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- Yay, Canada is headed into another election. I've never been a big fan of the Liberal government, myself. Anyone who can misplace a few billion dollars doesn't get my support.
This is actually the blog of the Prime Minister's speech-writer, and in his words "Views expressed on this blog do not necessarily represent the policies or beliefs of Paul Martin. Except when I write about the hypnotic musical stylings of Nana Mouskouri. We're totally in sync on that."
Forget Paul Martin, can I vote for this guy??!! :D [By: mousie / 2005-11-30]
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Liberal Party of Canada...has a blog?? - Yay, Canada is headed into another election. I've never been a big fan of the Liberal government, myself. Anyone who can misplace a few billion dollars doesn't get my support.
This is actually the blog of the Prime Minister's speech-writer, and in his words "Views expressed on this blog do not necessarily represent the policies or beliefs of Paul Martin. Except when I write about the hypnotic musical stylings of Nana Mouskouri. We're totally in sync on that."
Forget Paul Martin, can I vote for this guy??!! :D [By: mousie / 2005-11-30]
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I'm not about to go following a political blog, but I'd be oddly comfortable voting for someone with his sense of humour. -teivrann
I say we put an Independant in charge of our freaking country, screw Partisan politics, and shove the current political parties OUT. -Warrick
Yes, but the BLOG!! I mean, in one of today's entries he makes a reference to sending a tinfoil hat to one of the conservatives. It's beautiful!!! -mousie
Wow. Sending this one around, thanks for the link! I suspect that the target audience (for this *must* have some spin) is just the sort of young technocrats they'd find here, too... -namor
Why don't you REALLY screw up Canadian politics...... elect an actor. -CyBear
Another electio...great we just finished paying for the last one... -RandalGraves
I say we elect the Green party for laughs, or better yet the Marijauna party (yes it exists) -NOFXfan
BlackBerry Blog! Dammnit, they're all around me, everywhere! Argh! -Arviragus
Personally, I prefer another webpage for the prime minister. http://www.paulmartintime.ca/ -HidariMak
a teacher of mine suggested a ballot option "nobody" in which case if nobody wins, the current official is thrown out and anyone who ran in that election is no longer eligible for the office. i like it. -rhiannon
arg - And once again i will vote- and once again my prty will not be elected. Given how bad the liberals are screwing up - I'm tempted to vote BLoc! -Harm
Alas, Bloc doesn't deign to run anywhere outside of Quebec. I'm almost tempted to start a branch of the Cape Breton Liberation Front here in BC. Our election platform would be that we would cut Vancouver Island free of the mainland and float it down to Mexico for the winter... but leave Victoria and all the provincial politicians behind. -chazz
I hate these elections... in my area the choice is either vote liberal (Martin) to get our MP back in (who actually does a good job, and cares about the people) or vote for some other idiot who doesn't even live in the region and doesn't talk with the people, in order to get someone else into the head office (who will probably be just as corrupt, but hide it better...). I think Douglass adams hit the nail on the head. Anyone capible of getting elected isn't capible of doing the job! -garwain
I'd vote for the marijuana party, especially if it helps keep the DEA from extraditing its leader... which they are trying to do -teivrann
Nobody actually votes for the Marijuana Party, they get halfway to the voting booth and stop for pizza. -avantgarde
Marc Emery is my hero. I'd vote for him -DrLecter
I've voted for the mary jane party! i almost did... i ate the balott - and used the next one to roll. -Harm
"Anyone who can misplace a few billion dollars..." So voting for someone who would run up a few hundred billion in debt would be better? Yes, the Liberals acted like crooks while in office, but their total scandal count in over a decade was equal to Mulroney's scandal count in a month. So sure, let's get rid of the party that gave Canada the strongest economy it's had in years, and replace it with a fundamentalist whacko who will invoke notwithstanding clauses every time the Charter of Rights interferes with his religious beliefs, and reverse a ten-year pattern of consistent budget surpluses. -Gaah
I wasn't aware Mulroney was running again. And let's not forget, the money to reduce the deficit came from cutting back on funding for health care, for education, for the military, and elsewhere, while raising taxes to the highest levels of any country in the G8. Harper only stated his honest opinion that he would leave it to Parliament to decide on the issue which the Liberals used as a distraction to AdScam, and since there's no way the Conservatives will get a majority this election, that change won't even happen. Btw, this sort of debate would probably be better in the break room. -HidariMak
Gaah - I've always wondered: What's it like to be a sheep who does as the CBC tells him? -Snakeeye
Gaah - I've always wondered: What's it like to be a sheep who does as the CBC tells him? -Snakeeye
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Firefox 1.5 is OUT! - Firefox 1.5 is finally out to the public. However, if you download it and have a problem viewing flash content (like I did) go to this link http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=320838&sid=ebfeaa7f8a6b18c0dd5125c585fe74db
and it will show you how to fix the problem. [By: BunnieTechBabe / 2005-11-29]
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Firefox 1.5 is OUT! - Firefox 1.5 is OUT! - Firefox 1.5 is finally out to the public. However, if you download it and have a problem viewing flash content (like I did) go to this link http://tinyurl.com/bgb5a and it will show you how to fix the problem. [By: BunnieTechBabe / 2005-11-29]
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Yeah, and half of my extensions aren't compatible with it. >:~{ -RiffRaff
Atleast i found an update to the best extension ever, FLST http://gorgias.de/mfe/ :) -Ion
I had that issue after I upgraded to the newest itunes with Quicktime 7 on the version of Firefox before so I already did that trick. I use a theme on mine where I don't see any difference but I lost 2 extensions. -Motient
WHAAAAT!? no adblock?? I think I'd die!!! -Tarantulus
No, no, no... AdBlock still seems to work generally. You just have to disable one feature. -RiffRaff
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I didn't even know they were watching me - Y' see the kind of VITAL research that goes on up here, huh?, huh? [By: Digital Dogcow / 2005-11-28]
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It may not be that important to you, DD, but it explains how I ended up with the odd dog or two in my youth... -Gromit
Better than what goes on at Warwick university - they were doing a study into why beer makes you piss more when I was there.... -CommanderData
*hic*.... and they paid damn well too baby :) -Armakuni
This may explain why I think Nottingham is full of svelte goddesses... I live there three years and never saw the place sober. -smellystudent
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Totally Inappropriate (BFEG) - Fans who have made and been photographed in copies of Leia's leather bikini from Return of the Jedi.....Yum! and dare I say......BOOBIES! [By: CTYankee / 2005-11-22]
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BOOBIES + Star Wars = Every Tech's Dream. (Well, male techs at least.) -Bobsentme
Weeeeeeeeee *dives in* BOOBIES -Jax
Yeahhhh I think that is TOTALLY inapproprate for a comedy site. You should be ashamed *giggle* of yourself.....BUHAHAHAHAHH BOOBIES!!!!!!!!!!! -burrkiss
Beh. I've seen better b**bies at the all male gym. Er, not that I was looking... oh cr*p! -CyBear
Put me in bathing trunks, and I'd look like Jabba the Hut! -vacuumtubes
homer in a speedo that would be me -LunaticFringe
Blatant silliness and lewd innuendo is rarely inappropriate, ESPECIALLY on a site like this. We'd have to ban burrkiss before we banned stuff like this. -teivrann
and prelim research shows an average cost for the metal bits of the costume to be in the $200-$400 range. too pricey, even for fantastic boobies. -mousie
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More Sony Hijynx - In the continuing Sony saga, it appears they may have appropriated some LGPL software for their player. They protect their own copyright, but don't care about others. [By: pcgod / 2005-11-14]
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HAR HAR HAR! Not only have Sony shot themselves in the foot, they've taken a brace of Purdeys and blown both their legs off. Ah, poetic justice... -Gromit
Gotta love the big mega-corps! The rules apply to everyone but them. One more reason I don't buy sony products. -Starfury
This whole mess sounds like the makings of a reality TV show. You can bet there's more than a little 'voting off the island' going on in Sony right now. Maybe Sony should be looking at buying a guillotine, for the record number of heads that will probably roll over this... -teivrann
I wonder if Sony will end up being the whole world's beyotch because of this fiasco.... -Grue
Just think, Sony is making people go through all this trouble to hear their Celine Dion CDs. Btw, Sony's EULA is equally amusing. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php -HidariMak
That is rich. Maybe the whole DRM/RIAA/lawsuit BS will crawl into a hole and die. Maybe the RIAA will just die... that would be better still. -Torinir
*choke* I... I don't know what to say. I just feel... so happy... -namor
The most horrendous thing is that this is a Japanese company and the loss of face for the company in the public's eye is going to be taken harder than any American company would. A *lot* of people will be out of a job and permanently. -suitepotato
In the 1980's (ah, the days of yore!)I read in Mad Magazine: "Sing a song of Sonys, a pocket full of yen. Magnavox and Venith undersold again. See the U.S. suffer at the work we do. This is how we get revenge for losing World War Two." -Voltage
Everyone is saying Sony, but wasn't it "First 4 Internet" that coded this pile of crap? N.B. I'm not buying Sony/BMG goods, either...fark 'em. That EULA (cheers, HidariMak!) sucks royally. -lineswine
Sony used to be a good company that sold high-quality products. Then Akio Morita passed away. After that, things went to shit. Same story at RCA, Zenith, et al.... -vacuumtubes
Having just read the EULA I'm joining the FSL (F*ck Sony League). They're 'avin' a laugh. -Gromit
Latest news: seems that the way Sony set up the rootkit left a huge hole: basically, any web page you visit can download, install, and run any software it wants to on your computer. While the ability is First 4's, the configuration is Sony's. And of course it was Sony who chose to make installing a rootkit a _requirement_ for listening to their music on a PC. And it was Sony who wrote the EULA that didn't mention that a rootkit was being installed, and who failed to provide the option to remove it until forced by public outcry. So I have to conclude that this whole mess is Sony's fault. -chazz
I'm not sure it's what Chazz was talking about, but the removal program Sony put out to remove their rootkit installs an ActiveX tool that makes your computer even more vulnerable. Can you say "Stepped on their wang again?" -CyBear
Sony have run out of feet to shoot themselves in and are now aiming squarely for the head. -flapjackboy
Funny... I have a Sony Radio from the 50s.. and it doesn't stop me from leaving the house while listening to it. In fact, it's portable. It doesn't even try to make me sick, so I can't go out and enjoy the music with others... I guess you can see where I'm going with this comparison. -renaultguy
Let's all say thanks for the alpha geek at Sysinternals for bringing this into the open! -Flexo
Amen to that, Flexo. Meanwhile, it appears that more than one copyright was infringed:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/18/sony_copyright_infringement/
This one looks set to run and run. -oldster
It keeps on going, and going, and going... http://www.malbela.com/blog/archives/000375.html Now the RIAA is saying that Sony and BMG did nothing wrong, and that the rootkit was perfectly allowable, aside from the unfortunate oversight of a coding error which Sony speedily and valiantly fixed. Meanwhile, most others in the music industry are likely grinding their teeth and popping aspirin by the thousands. -HidariMak
And now it seems that Texas is going to sue them as well -- to the tune of $100,000 per incident. How many disks did Sony sell in Texas? -chazz
And the fun still continues... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4459620.stm -Gromit
Looks like the state of Texas has decided to take Sony to court...apparently their copy protection violates a state law. http://www.theregister.com/2005/11/22/texas_sues_sony_bmg/ -Starfury
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The final nail... - Seems Sony's halting production on the rootkit CD. Fast forward ~two weeks, headline: "Sony rootkit CD's: the most popular collector's item in history." [By: teivrann / 2005-11-11]
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Wahoo! -Mahal
Also, a certain person who commonly lurks in dark places - hope you're uncommonly pleased with yourself :D -Mahal
teivrann - it'll definitely make the list of "corporate blunders", that's for sure...see the Break Room thread for details. Mahal - I can't take credit for any but the DHS response! -Grue
Man, I still want them to come back with punched paper tape; that stuff was GREAT! -Voltage
Voltage - Hmm.. I wonder how much Punched Paper Tape would need to be used to encode a 3 minute MP3 song. -ShujinTribble
ShujinTribble: 10 bytes per inch. MP3 is about 1 megabyte per minute = 100,000 inches per minute = 1.578 miles per minute = about 94.7 miles per hour. I don't think paper tape can do that without catching on fire. -chazz
Not to mention that this weekend, McAfee, Symantic, and Microsoft all made public exactly what he said they would. -BunnieTechBabe
I wonder how long before those virus scum and malware crappers will wait before they steal and start using the sony rootkit for their own purposes? -srteach
srteach - one's already been found in the wild, I believe. -namor
How about mylar tape? Used to use that in the Army- it would cut you to the bone if you were stupid enough to touch it while it was running. -LaserGuru
hey, yeah, mylar tape and we can put it in these little cartridges that you'd need a special player to read! -CarbonTetra
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Tech Support, the card game - From the site: "If you've ever called a technical support hotline, then this is the card game for you! Play your way through Misdirected Calls, Hold Music, Disconnects, Static on the Line, and other problems, all in an attempt to find and play the lone "Guru" who can answer your question.
But there's one unique twist - you play your cards from the other players' hands! Don't miss this addictive, fast-playing game where bluffing is as important as the cards in your hand!
Includes cards and instructions. For 3 to 6 players.
K&C3120 (cards, rules, full color) $17.99" [By: docbrown01 / 2005-11-09]
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As long as it's not a collectible card game... -Starfury
Nope, not a ccg, thank Ghod. -docbrown01
Maybe we all need to collaborate and make a TSC CCG. I'm sure that we could come up with some interesting cards. :) -TheSingingTech
Maybe we need to collaborate and make a TSC CCG. The cards would be interesting to say the least. -TheSingingTech
*reboots TheSingingTech with a Boot To The Head* Wow, SO worked up over your interesting cards that you posted TWICE, eh? *dives for Riff's smarter-than-the-customer desk as shelter* -snowcrash
Imagine playing the TSC card game while playing the TSC drinking game. Hilarity ensues! -Mushroom
I know. My work browser was acting up yesterday. I entered my comment and it did not show so I entered it again. It didn't show up the second time later. Didn't realize til I got home and checked on my home computer that it actually did post. I was just "AHHH!!!" -TheSingingTech
I want the "You have woken Cd in the middle of the night. You have half a nanosecond to admire her baby-doll nightie before the nuclear LART arrives" card -Zoomer
"You have just earned the ire of RiffRaff, draw 3 cards. If any of these cards is a LART shelter, you are safe. Otherwise, lose 15 turns." -Darth
The trump card is the "DD escorts you out of the building with a USB drive" card. -teivrann
"You get a call from Miss Cry-Baby" loose all your remaining I.Q. points -Wonko The Sane
You drew the Joker - that's 10 minutes in a dark room with Burrkiss. -redevil34
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Now you see it... - now it's a rootkit. Or at least uses the same technology. CD copy protection that's tough to remove ( http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html ) and even lets you cheat in WoW ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/04/secfocus_wow_bot/ ). (Apologies if this has been posted before; I didn't notice it while looking through past postings.) [By: teivrann / 2005-11-07]
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yeah read about that a few days ago, but the good news is, Linux and (for now)Mac-os are not affected, one more reason to ditch M$ (read the article about Virus/Trojan coders being able to develope nasties that use the same technique, ie hide their code from you*shudder*) -Jax
I have auto-load turned OFF (woo). Think that would keep me safe? otherwise I hook my cd player to my pc's line-in and rip from there. I can go a week without any repeats from my HDD, but barely an hour from a cd!! -Dj
Well, according to grc.com, you can prevent this by holding shift while putting in the cd to prevent the software from loading, and also another good idea is to do everything as a limited user... that way it CAN'T install anything. Or just flat out don't buy any cds that say "copy protected". -ShiftedBeef
Since they built it to work on Windows, why don't we start burning them to disc or MP3 from Linux machines. -JackMackle
As if I'd ever configure a PC to run *anything* automatically from *anywhere*... PARANOIA++;JMP -1 -Geminii
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Starfish PC Tech mangles nice case. - They go on a bit about how the 'PC Tech' starfish is a woman, but I wouldn't be surprised to find this level of fishiness in either gender. The article especially made me cringe because the nice case question is very similar to my Antec Sonata, which is a sweet case, though it weighs a ton! [By: Evilturnip / 2005-11-05]
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i have to say it. it's judypatch! -p3bk4c
Wow, just reading the comments of that story and there's a LOT of misogyny flying around. Idiots come in ALL genders, colors and classes!! -CarbonTetra
Wow.... just wow.... -duckhead
I love how she knew how to drill out rivets (not many do), but didn't know what tiny metal shavings do when scattered about a board that's densely packed with charged metal electric contacts. At least she got a small fireworks show when she turned on the system. -Antacid
Ugh... Some people shouldn't own computers. -TheMage18
um, that's my case I fot from fowler systems here in omaha -STJ
*slams face into desk. Twice* -murdermachine
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Good By Mrs Parks - Rosa Parks, who most call the mother of the civil rights movement in america, died last night of natural causes. Good By Mrs Parks, and Thank You. [By: BunnieTechBabe / 2005-10-25]
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Thank you from many who didn't know you, Mrs Parks. -teivrann
Yes I am quite sure people know Rosa Parks infact that's just about all the history you get in public schools. -SGTARKyTEK
Goodbye Mrs. Parks, the world will never forget you. -ecoli
may your journey be sooth, mrs rosa parks. front seat and comfort, all the way. -timelady
dammit,imeant SMOOTH. 2am is no time to post. -timelady
So long, and good night. -Bobsentme
En Taro Adun, Mrs. Parks *bows his head quietly* -Warrick
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Rinky-Dink Software - Writer makes a few good points about software, with a few well-placed jabs against Microsuck. [By: vacuumtubes / 2005-10-25]
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I've been complaining about program bloat, user interface and rinky dink programs for about 15 years, but does anyone listen to me? -Gerund
It's ok, Gerund. No one listens to Dvorak either. -CarbonTetra
Dvorak's article, like 99.9% of everything he writes, isn't worth reading. Summation: software should work the way any given user thinks it should and not the way it was written. Unfortunately for Dvorak and everyone else taking too many drugs, software is concretely bound to reality and not malleably subjective. -suitepotato
For the mumble-mumble years that I have been reading Dvorak's articles, I have seldom, if ever, seen when he is right about anything. However, he, like most "Tech" "journalists" (ha! ha! - sorry I always break up when I say that) are good for a laugh now and then. Much of the problem is that these so called programmers can't write a program without using libraries that are sooo over bloated they affect the eventual size, outcome, speed and security of the programs they are working on. -ecoli
Wait, brain! Come back! Great, thanks a lot. My brain's run off again after reading that dribble. -pcgod
Photoshop and Illustrator were not designed to be in the hands of mere mortals. It's why the Greeks never fed mortals ambrosia. Wanting the power of Photoshop with the simplicity of Paint isn't going to happen. Read the "Dummies" books on the software and make your lives easier if you're not familiar with it. -exzyle2k
Personally, I had to weep silently for a few minutes when I found out Macromedia had been bought by Adobe. M/M Freehand vs. Adobe Illustrator? No contest, Freehand is infinitely more intuitive, even for total noobs. While FlashMX is a pretty powerful app (and I'm hardly the King of Actionscript) I still was able to teach myself how to design and code in Flash. Photoshop, on the other hand, gets used strictly for web-optimizing images; I've tried to get 'creative' in PS, and always end up flushing the file and starting over using my trusty copy of MS Image Composer 1.5. I shudder to think how badly Adobe will fuck up Flash's menu system and tools. -MeanDean
As I loathe to hear, "It's working exactly as the RFP asked", just doesn't work for anybody. -AngrySup
To tell the truth, I find myself agreeing to this article. In trying to make things easier for the average user, software companies, HP for one, designs photo editing software this way. Very hard to learn and counter intuitive. -ShiftedBeef
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CD in a bikini - Well, it took some doing, a few hidden cameras etc, but I figured TSC males needed to see this at somepoint!! Enjoy!! [By: NightRain / 2005-10-17]
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Cor blimey :-D -smellystudent
can we have as the official tsc wallpaper :) -nightwalker21
I am never letting him stay at our place again.....:-p -CommanderData
"You seeeek puppy!" <Ren & Stimpy> -lineswine
Still beats Burkiss in a bikini. *Shivers* -Bobsentme
Now Bob..why exactly are you able to make that comparison? -KalAshlar
heheh you know how to flatter a host don't you? :-P -NOFXfan
Nice tits. -burrkiss
hheeeyy, waitaminit! CD, wasn't there some metion of "cleavage you can ski down" in your bio somewhere? .. you didn't say it was the bunny slopes! -sarge
I dunno. I think her wedding dres was more cleav ... err ... flattering ;-) -Necros
*facepalms* .. Cute man, cute. -Warrick
Hang on, I look fucking constipated in that shot... -CommanderData
OK, I just splooged my monitor with my hamburger.. -rockytech
"OK, I just splooged my monitor" <--- So didn't need to hear that....;-) -CommanderData
CD, you always make me splooge my.... oh yeah you didn't want to hear it.... ummmm, nevermind... *wanders off whistling to self and looking innocent* -duckhead
Serves me right for getting my hopes up. :( :D -modeski
Hamburger bukkake.... -rockytech
gotta love the guy at the back right of that shot, giving himself some nipple love :) -Armakuni
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AT LAST !.... iBoobies - SFW Link [By: Digital Dogcow / 2005-10-13]
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Oh i think they should run with the first method of listening to the music <eg> -Armakuni
Does the music come out in stereo? Do larger iBoobies give greater sound? -ecoli
Wow - where do I start? "Thanks for the mammaries" </Sinatra> -Gromit
...or "Just adjusting your Treble and Bass controls dear..." <SLAP!!> -Gromit
Oh hell, what next... for the guys: the iSchlong implant, the volume is controlled by a vacuum pump, and you have to charge the battery like you with those battery-free flashlights you grab and shake. Vigorously. -teivrann
if you rub the iSchlong between the iBobies, can you transfer files with blueballs(tm) technology? -neuman1812
somthing to do while you're bored duing your matrimonial duties I suppose -NOFXfan
I'm just getting abreast of the tituation here. I'm thinking it'll be a titilating experience using this new technology. :-p -Torinir
hey guys, it`s a nice idea, but I think they have boobed on this one <one for the LART tent please> -Jax
And you thought that headphone cable that ran from the earpieces into the cleavage was going to a Nano tucked within like your mama's dollar bill... -Mushroom
iBoobies will be able to interface with this http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b109/davidferguson/usb-she.jpg technology. -ecoli
iLike! -Parilla
musical acompanyment... awsome! -Harm
Mmmmm, soft touch controls...<SLAP!!> -vacuumtubes
*facepalms* ...Oh gods my friend sent me this link..
-Warrick
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Alright, who did it? - Armakuni, have you been playing with lighter fuel again? [By: Gromit / 2005-10-10]
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yeah I was just reading that before I came here. Its a bloody shame. -Jax
I was showing how I light my farts on fire.....I'm sorry. <looks ashamed> -burrkiss
It was the Were-Rabbit!
-Divinar
*whistles whilst trying to look innocent* Erm Smelly told me to do it <eg> -Armakuni
I was trying to scare off the Were-Rabbit - It looked like it was after all the cheese... -Wonko The Sane
I just caught that on Fark and ran back here to make sure you were okay, Gromit. *grins* -NightSteel
I think Gromit was trying to burn his contract, wanted to get out from under it to move on and it got out of control. -Wolfie0827
Does this mean 'Pib & Pog' are off the air now? -Mushroom
Well, you seee, I was trying to do a bit of Wensleydale on toast, when all of a sudden... -lineswine
Or probably it was the Gnome? -NordicPT
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He he, serves her right - Gotta love this one, a shark getting an asbo, arf arf [By: Armakuni / 2005-10-06]
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Meanwhile the head of the city council here got busted for driving drunk -- might have gotten away with it had he not run over a cement island in a round-about and done lotsa damage to his tire, rims, and (in dashing away) the street. :) -Mushroom
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Anti-Telemarketing Script - Sorry to bump the link but this is priceless. If my phone wasn't on the DNC list I would impliment it [By: Slycat / 2005-10-06]
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I saw this a few months ago. Maybe here, maybe somewhere else. Right now I have a copy of it laminated and next to my phone at home. About 3 weeks ago I finally got a chance to use it. I only used it after telling them 4 times that I wasn't interested. Once I got started they got the idea quickly and hung up! -madstu
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More suctomer whining - I might agree with a couple, but obviously another article written by someone who has no idea what they are talking about. "You'll have to wait your turn" - "Yes you will, it's called a f#$king line a$$hole." [By: redevil34 / 2005-10-05]
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They speak of having reps accept responsibility for the experience, but how about customers owning up to their own stupidity? Like the example given above of "this is a line, stand in it and wait your turn." Yer not special, folks. :) -Mushroom
the guy who did this survey should STFU and work in customer serivce for a week, then talk. -xtc46
"If it's not on the rack, we don't have it" - what's the problem with that?? Do they expect the clerk to come up with some creative excuse why they don't have the specific item?? -ch41nbr8kr
Typical fucking 'consultant' nonsense! -Digital Dogcow
So I could basicaly paraphrase this whole article into, "Customers do not like anything that means they can't be rude and will not get their way." However, I do agree there ARE rude salespeople out there. Instead of stating "I'm new here," then walking away, telling the customer, "I'm new here, but let me find you someone more experienced that will know the answer to your question," will get you a better response. It's all in phrasing. However, most customers hear what they want to anyways. -TechieSidhe
All those things sounded reasonable to me. -sassicatz
And what a pretty little world the writer must live in...honestly! This must be someone who's never had to work with customers. -Parilla
. . . . and yeah, whoever designed that web site ought to be shot! Ugh! -robbor
Sound like just the sort of self-important scunt who would push to the front of a queue, all the while exclaiming loudly "I'm important, let me through!" FOAD, arsehole! -lineswine
What kind of suctomer mentality gets pissed when they're told to wait their turn? F**k, people, didn't we all learn that little concept in kindergarten? Grow up already! -VaultVixen
If you are on break do not wear your name tag and walk around the store you work in. If that is policy state the policy. If you do not know an answer admit it and gently guide the customer to someone who can help them. Being new should have no impact on your ability to find an answer through a co-worker or otherwise. "The computer is down" is not an excuse for your ignorance of using the cash register. Lastly, sometihng that is outside of your department does not mean you get out of talking to the customer. Yes I am a tech working in customer service but sh!t like that pisses me off both on and off the job. -wwonka
If it is not on the rack, they expect you to pull one of of your ass for them. -THETECHFROMHELL
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Modesty forbids that I should name this. - - Recognition at last! I even beat Dougal from the Magic Roundabout - I'll bet he's pissed off... [By: Gromit / 2005-10-01]
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Congrats Gromit! That said, when it comes to something British on all fours, I still vote for CD. -Bobsentme
"Gromit managed to beat off some very fierce competition." At least they are 'satisfied' competition! -Psudo
Careful Gromit.. I heard Snoopy and Marmaduke are planning a "food bowl" party for you after you leave the ceremony. -Darkridr
Yes I am! - Now if you will just wait, I'm going to release Zeebad and set him on you! -Dougal
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Wireless Cars? - And the countdown to Total Hacking is on... wireless signals? [By: namor / 2005-09-30]
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Aaaaaaaaaand New Yawk's top hooker is Canadian. Should I be proud? I'm confused! (late Friday and I'm on Fark... oh the shame!) http://tinyurl.com/9fgpd -namor
Nice idea, but yeah that will be fun when someone hacks it, also, WTF could they make it look any more like a steaming pile of shit, gahhh and i though the smart city car was vomit inducing. -Armakuni
And, what happens when two of these cross on road ? signals interfere and.... ? -IcePanther
picture this, driving along the city streets and somebody's tv remote interferes and swings you around, a guy on the street panics and grabs his cell phone and the interferences swings you back around, Slickniftyin his 4 wheel boom box uses his remote for his steroe as he passes you and around you go again and buddy down the street starts snapping pics with his digital camera and uploading them wirelessly and around you go again. I think they better sell these cars with a lifetime supply of Gravol. -frprinterwiz
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Words ...just........fail me! - Whatever our judiciary are smoking, I'd like to order 2 kilos please! [By: Digital Dogcow / 2005-09-28]
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WTF? How does one have points added to a license they don't have? Does that ban start now, or from the time they become a legal age to get a license? And who the hell would trade a motorbike for a BMW? Did nobody figure out the car was stolen? -CelticSkyhawk
"behavioural and learning disabilities" - is that what they're using to call 'em idjit brats, now? -namor
words escape me -NOFXfan
ok so he can legally drive when he's 12 then? I should have thought of that when I was a kid. -drachen
"He claimed he had swapped the BMW for his mini-motorbike with a man he had met in Winchester." Did the owner of the car dispute this fact? the article doesn't say. but with gas prices as high as they are the kid got screwed. -drachen
Living in this area, I am fearing for my IQ, hopefully this stupidity is not passed by breathing the same air as 1. the judges 2. the kid/parent of kid, or do I now have to start wearing a vader style mask. -cjo
I already DO wear a Vader mask. No wonder the customers tell me there nothing wrong when I get there -Spyder19
We loves yer Vader mask, Spydie! And where were the kid's parents thru all this? Are they not responsible for the little shit? -Tekkie
0.0 <DA> surely that aint true, a bit of lazy journalisism to fill space, maybe ?</DA>0.0 Naw, that's the bbc, they wouldn't do such a thing would they ? -RTFM
what is the legal driving age in the UK? -areatech
The legal age is 17 to have a provisional drivers licence. Next thing you know, this kid is going to be hi-jacking his short bus he takes to school. -lineswine
Just to clarify - at 17, you may get a 'Provisional Licence' that allows you to drive with a fully-qualified adult in the passenger seat (as an instructor). At any point after you are 17, you can take a test for a full license. -Shaede
Ok they tell the Kid "If you break any of the terms of the order we will bring you back to court and we can punish you in a different way." That says to me your going to say no no agin so i think i will do it agin. -pepsiguy
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It it Economics, or IT? - Do you ever feel like you've gotten a glimpse of Truth? DD may recognise the cast members here. (Ulfgaard, you found a good comic in "Partially Clips") [By: LoTech / 2005-09-24]
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That is good and true, now if we could only get the SF to understand that. -Wolfie0827
I'm printing that out, REALLY LARGE, and pasting it somewhere EXTREMELY noticable tomorrow. THANK YOU! -Bobsentme
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You'll believe a starfish can fly - Sigh...Our best brains keep them safe at the office, but when they get outside it's a nasty, violent world that they are totally unprepared for. [By: rurwin / 2005-09-22]
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No suprises here. The higher up the corporate ladder the less computer savvy they are. -sassicatz
No surprises for me either. I've stopped being surprised by the mentality of 'it's quick and easy, even with Microsoft'. But in the real world, it's no different than regular maintenance on your vehicle. The day people in general actually get this is at least decades off. -teivrann
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Google spam map - Search and destroy. We know where you are little spammers and I am coming to get you. *starts to replicate himself* [By: virusjtg / 2005-09-20]
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THAT, my friends, is a pretty cool service.... -JoeLugian
somone tryed this once... the problem is, someof those are probably false, or just hijacked servers. so people are going to start nuking them, then somone will counter and turn on the server providing the info for this site. I think the last people who tryed this got taken down in about 36 hours...never came back. -xtc46
Click on the Jump to latest result button. Seriously, ROFL. -Calydor
Heh, the spammer in Plano lives a little west of where I used to live back in '81. -vacuumtubes
Look for a site that has the IP of '1.2.3.4'. They move around but have funny subject lines, like Greenland "Um, the brochure said it was GREEN here" or China "Wallbuilders, Inc. We build big ones!" and my favorite, Nigeria "Ok, we admit it. It was all a scam. Sorry." Too funny! -Tekkie
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Bathroom Humor - Don't know if I want to say SFW or not, may depend on your work - just watch the speaker volume. [By: redevil34 / 2005-09-18]
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None of them are as funny as the time I TP'ed the entire bathroom and upstairs hallway and then flushed shampoo down the bog. I got a fucking hiding for that one though.... -CommanderData
Well CD, you could have taped it then it would be the funniest one on the site....course, you could always do a repeat performance. <BFEG> -redevil34
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Reason to wear an ASD - They describe this mans as wearing a "Power Suit" that's one way to phrase it. [By: McSmiley / 2005-09-16]
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Static electricity my arse! 'fess up, mate - IT WAS A FART! -Gromit
"A current of 40,000 volts"? WTF? -Gerund
"We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton doesn't know much about electricity if he's saying a "current" measured in volts (like Gerund kinda pointed out), So how the hell can he say that 40,000 v is one "Step" short of combustion? and how big is the step? if my socks build up 40,001 v. does that mean my paws will explode? and if so, I hope they're not in my mouth at the time. -wolfprince
instant blue flamer -McSmiley
Darn it. He coulda gotten a Darwin award if he had spontaineously combusted. -ThreeBucks
Hmmm i may need to do an experiment soon -Slycat
Shocking experience... *dives for the LART shelter* -Torinir
"Shocking. Positively, shocking." </Bond> -RandalGraves
Y'know, they say that lightning is acctracted to items that end in a point. This would bring a new definition to "dick burn"....ouchie. -vacuumtubes
Also, y'know, there was a time that my college edyoomakayshun would allow me the luxury to spell correctly. That's what I get for typing this on Sunday Morning....the password is "attract" -vacuumtubes
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The laptop for the inner tosser - as fark described it the perfect laptop for men with small penises...i mean the acer ferrari was bad enough but this one.... [By: timelady / 2005-09-15]
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Screamed laughing at the cheesy photos on the main page, especially the one with all the climbing gear, for the go getter who needs to check his emails halfway up a farkin cliff face!. LOL -Digital Dogcow
Ahhhhh its the mobile BJ laptop. -StarFishHearder
Gee, I love their description of the "super duper" antenna system of theirs... BS! -renaultguy
Based on the Hummer, so it drinks power like a bastard, is never actually used as it was designed and is bloody useless in the UK. Nice -Armakuni
The most useful feature in the spec. as far as most potential users are concerned is the "Spill-Resistant Keyboard & Palm Rest Area". Ideal for those who fail to change hands at 99... -Gromit
I can see salesdroids and PHBs everywhere clamoring for this one. PHB is looking at the screen wondering why the GPS readout doesn't change! -ecoli
Sad, sad, sad. Pathetic when people think their biggest problem is whether they can get onto the internet 450 miles from the nearest access point of any kind. -teivrann
Ugliest excrement I've ever seen. Now if someone would use design elements from a 1946 Zenith Trans Oceanic (an elegant combination of brass and black stag), I'd be interested. -vacuumtubes
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WTF ??? - Just when you thought it couldn't POSSIBLY get worse! [By: Digital Dogcow / 2005-09-15]
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Ah! nadgers!, truncated URL. Try again: http://tinyurl.com/bqbou -Digital Dogcow
Repent, the end is near...Repent, the end is near... -Dutch
Well you never know, combine two pieces of shite software and you may get a good one, kinda like multiplying two negatives together (yeah i know it's as remote as England winning the footy world cup again, but hey) -Armakuni
I like this comment from Fark.com "AOL and MSN planning possible merger that could result in massive ball of suck powerful enough to warp space and time" -ecoli
Why worse? Better to recognize and avoid one succubus than two of 'em. -vacuumtubes
Armakuni, I'm beginning to worry about you. If you mix together pigshit and dogshit, the end result is still..... shit. -Gromit
Oh good. Now instead of crappy software that crashes your system, it'll be crappy software with long-lived security holes that crashes your system. -teivrann
Gromit: Touché :) -Armakuni
Should I be looking for locusts -- or for Vader's TIE fighter to dock? -Mushroom
M$ has eneough cash - hell give AOHell to em. 3 years time and M$ will be several billion lighter and piled up past their mistresses with lawsuits. and thus we see a possible end to M$. -Harm
Or conversely, AOL software will stop f*cking a Windows installation to death because the program will finally be intergrated correctly into the operating system... or merged into MSN and marginalized. :) -Mushroom
OMG M$ Vista AOL edition aieeeeee!!!!!!<run for the hills> -Jax
Mushroom, you mentioned yhe words "integrated", "correctly" and "Windows" in the same sentence. I think you need a holiday mate. -Gromit
just a rumor I'm sure... I don't trust "reliable sources" I still refuse to think Apple is using x86 processors and multiple button mice even if the source was Apple... :-P -NOFXfan
Cheese, Gromit: I may have used those three words in the same sentence, but I didn't attempt to imply that they coexist in the real world. MSFT+AOL would however be claiming such a beast will roam the cyberfields (similar to Jack Handey's most dangerous animal: an elephant with a shark on its back, trampling and eating everything). -Mushroom
Well... if everything M$ turns to crap and everything AOHell turns to crap... maybe they'll self-destruct. -_- -Torinir
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HP axing 968 UK Jobs - Carly may be gone, but her spirit lives on!. I hope this doesn't effect anyone here. [By: Digital Dogcow / 2005-09-14]
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Jeezus H Christ, that's a lot of jobs. Well HP will be no longer be any use on the phone now then. RIP, hope no one here gets caught in this mass cull. -Armakuni
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About time! - The Principles of Personal Responsibility are finally coming home to roost on Mr. Crowe's doorstep. If you're willing to throw a shitfit and hurl a cellphone at someone's face, you should also be willing to face the consequences. What an assmunch... [By: vacuumtubes / 2005-09-14]
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I have no problem with his not being able to work here because he got convicted of a felony. Sounds like a personal problem (his) to me, too! :) -TechMama
cell phone rage-it can happen you. Oh, yea, who cares if he comes back to the US anyway. -STJ
Goodbye dumbass, we'll miss you. NOT!!! -Bobsentme
I seem to remember some awards show where everyone was dissing on Crowe but Sean Penn came to his aid. Hmm, now it makes sense why Mr. Papparazzi-Pusher would stick up for Phone-Face... -Mushroom
Back in the mid 90's I used to chat regualrly with a girl from Winnipeg who'd worked as an extra with Crowe on a chick flick called For the Moment. Apparently he was thowing the superstar hissyfits even back then even though the only thing of any note he'd done at that point was Romper Stomper. The guy is a 24 ct prick, I'd so love to see his future visa chances fucked up over this, but you just KNOW the Hollywood shysters will get this pleaded down to a slap on the wrist. -Digital Dogcow
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"I am a Goatse porn addict" - A Suck My News Special Report. Don't worry...no actual goatse pics. [By: phsspok / 2005-09-12]
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With 'goatse' in there, I should have known, but... just a warning, my work filter blocked this, so possibly NSFW. I'll have to check from home. -namor
I wouldn't say it was particularly NSFW (no actual goatse pics or profanity), the site does tend towards bad taste. -phsspok
My work filter blocked Dvorak's blog so it might have something to do with good taste. -ecoli
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OMG I HAXXORED A LAPTOP - this was on osnews today. people are having fun picking this bs apart. 6.8ghz, 2tb drive suprisingly runs windows complete with a screen shot showing 2tb. [By: SGTARKyTEK / 2005-09-08]
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the engrish is hurting my brain: "The new AtomChip® Quantum® II processor with 256MB on-board memory has a high speed with very low consumption of electrical energy. This notebook has a wireless function, high CPU speed and large memory capacity with extremely low power consumption. Absence of the hard disk increases system stability under low temperatures, vibration and acceleration." -NOFXfan
"Hello, Tech support? Yes, my quantem Generator just broke. Hello? Hello?" -Bobsentme
I don't want one until they get the Flux Capacitor working properly. -ecoli
I need a new Quantum singularity <runs> -Jax
Sadly, this hoax will actually more or less come true within ten years. The hoax of today is the factual past of tomorrow many times... -suitepotato
Sorry, all quantum singularities have been back-ordered; seems there were some pointy-eared people in coats that looked like pillow-padding, they needed them for warp cores or something. -teivrann
When's my Quantum Leap Accellerator going to get here?!? (flees!) -TheSingingTech
Does this mean Schrodinger's Cat might have been here? :) -PCRaevyn
Woohoo! The AtomChip Quantum 2 Microprocessor looks so 1337! If it didn't say it was a microprocessor, I'd think it was the read head off a DVD drive! -chazz
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Computer Problem Report Form - Props to Roadkill at Xtreme PC Central Tech Forums [By: phsspok / 2005-09-08]
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Printed, coppied, put on my cube wall. -virusjtg
Yeah. What virusjtg said. -Rabbitt
Ah the memories, We had that posted where I worked the phones for BellSouth internet back in 95-96 -Wolfie0827
Copied, emailed around, printer out. -NordicPT
Laffed at, printed out, added to my procedures documentation :) -Armakuni
copied, emailed, laughed at, laminated and posted, emailed some more, copied some more, laughed at some more. -ecoli
Reformatted, printed, cube-walled right below my good-call awards. :) -Mushroom
Reformatted, saved as PDF, stashed for easy reference and regular laughs. -teivrann
printed, put in box next to parents computer, waiting for something to go wrong with their machine. -Slycat
All Of The Above :D -Jax
Blast from the ancient past. I guess everything old is new again. -Geminii
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Google Fight - Extra! Extra! SwedishChef defeats DD in Google Fight! [By: PID1 / 2005-09-07]
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Oh and TSC vs Starfish is quite satifying :) -PID1
Oh yeah? Darth takes down Swedish Chef! http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Darth&word2=Swedish+chef -Darth
I knew it!
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=ignorance&word2=apathy -itwasntme
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=LART+shelter&word2=Pond+Life A triumph of good taste over anarchy! <g> -Gromit
Commander Data - 9,710,000. Digital Dogcow - 21,200. I think the term is 'pwn3d!' -CommanderData
digital dogcow 21,200 results NOFXfan
715 results... well I guess that's to be expected :) (I'm surprised it even got 715 hits!) -NOFXfan
ecoli takes SwedishChef! http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=SwedishChef&word2=ecoli -ecoli
SwedishChef 106,000 results NOFX fan
312,000 results... seems it helps to add a space :) -NOFXfan
Pfffft! well when ya go naming yourself after muppets and startrek characters, of COURSE you get more hits!. Bah! talk about a rigged fight, this shits so one sided its a wonder the Nevada Boxing Comission isn't involved. Somebody get my damned lawyer on the phone dammit! Whaaaaaaaaaaa! -Digital Dogcow
Oh, this figures... RiffRaff: 328,000 results - Magenta: 6,930,000 results. DD, I prefer to look at this as a positive sign, reflecting our unique individualism and non-comformist attitudes. ;~} -RiffRaff
Hate to break it to you but RA pretty much takes the cake with 65,000,000 unless your name is THE. muahaha -RA
Well, NOFX, if you're going to put spaces, you have to do it for both players. Doing so changes my totals to 4,280,000, which thoroughly trounces your 300k. >:) -SwedishChef
The little woman's not gonna like this one...http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=ActingUpAgain&word2=RedFaery -ActingUpAgain
I should have went agains DD instead of SwedishChef for the fight with the space... :-D -NOFXfan
Just for you religious types: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=God&word2=Satan -Bobsentme
Yeah God!! -JoeLugian
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Makes sense - NSFW - TShirtHell.com, so be warned. It makes sense. Let's take a vote on which you think is harder. Sorry if this has been posted before, it's new to me. [By: exzyle2k / 2005-09-02]
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Well, unfortunately, both require their own finesse. Computers need voltage, women need alcohol! But if you can remember where all the right parts go, both are pretty easy. -Bobsentme
I have a hell of a time building a computer, sometimes (cue last example where I fried it, twice), and women... well... uh... crap. -namor
I can do both very well, not bragging, well maybe a little -NOFXfan
wow that didn`t take long http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product.php?productid=522 -Jax
They both need the right knowledge of the hardware... and they're both rather fun in their own ways. *grin* -teivrann
Alas, this isn't true. If it doesn't work on a woman, you can't exactly replace the parts. -Parilla
Parilla - no, but you can buy additional 'troubleshooting' mechanisms to help out. -namor
It's a known fact, geeks are good with their hands (and sometimes even get to put them on other people!). End of story. :) -Mushroom
Hey I enjoy installing hardware in both -Slycat
Thing is with a computer if you follow the right procedures, the right result will come. Unfortunately,this isnt always working with women. -AmdInside
this was my vote for the new TSC T-shirt -GefahrMaus
Must be a good site because websense says it is "tastless." So I can't get it at work. -atomicbill
Hehe, yeah Tshirt hell is classed tastless. So is Maddox's site. If we used websense here in the office, I'd have to rig my wifi antenna to jump on a neighbor's broadband for a quick fix of the real internet. -snJimboip
The bf and I are strange; each of us can do one well, but not the other. I'm good at the former, and the way his comp adventures have been going lately (numerous hardware mistakes that are only now becoming evident) it's probably safe to say he's better at the latter...oh dear, was that TMI? *innocent look* -Dreamstalker
Is anyone else having problems accessing the site (T-Shirt hell)? I am using FireFox and keep getting weird loops and strange symbols in the address bar. -Wolfshead
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Owned (mom style) - This is beyond hillarious. This is on a message board. The main posts to read are 3 and 5. [By: p3bk4c / 2005-09-01]
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FF and IE both get nothing. Of course, it's likely cause I am not registered for their forums... -GargoyleTS
ditto, blank posting -NOFXfan
the system can't search that far back the thread can only go back to 158802 not to 145812 which is what you posted(atleast for me) -Motient
Dead link! Bring out your dead! -Bobsentme
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In your eyes - Still missing the goats, though... [By: Diptera / 2005-08-25]
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empty music in the face? -Jax
"Here's mud in your eye" -burrkiss
"Getting a eyeful" -burrkiss
"I got something in my eye" -burrkiss
"I'm eyeballing you" -burrkiss
Think it would be a eye and mouthful since they're singing :P -StarFishHearder
It's definately not "Smoke" -sarge
I don't know the lyrics but I LOVE the backing! -Gromit
I couldn't see the comic I had something sticky in my eye -NOFXfan
Funny how those Female Japanese performers always seem to have the smoothest skin, no? (Blink.. blink...) WHAT?! -ShujinTribble
"I put a spill on you" -teivrann
"Can't take my eyes off you" -AmdInside
LEEEEEEEERROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY, JENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNKINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSS!!!!! -vacuumtubes
"Hit me with your best shot! Fire away..."
-Darkridr
"She Bangs, She Bangs..." -xtc46
Hit you with my best Shot -beatmewithstick
I saw it coming <BFEG> -lineswine
so many Frank Zappa references, so little time.... -leonine
Pow! Right between the eyes... Nature loves her little surprises. </Joe Walsh> -Mushroom
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Houston Tier 1 Job - This is probably not worth bumping the cool link, but since I know what the market is like out there, I figured that the starting salary might be interesting, if you are in Houston and want a job. Please let me know if I should have put this somewhere else.
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Yeah, there's a "Job Rummage Bin / Swap Shop" thread in the Break Room of the forums.... -Grue
That is depressing. The starting rate for Tier 1 support at that job is more than I make after a year at my job. Keep in mind I probably have more responsibilities than their Tier 1 as I am responsible for residential and business customers, dialup, dsl, t1s as well as webhosting/email. Nice to see other companies starting wages are $5/hr higher than my current wage. -snJimboip
Even for texas, especially houston, that seems REALLY low. -Bobsentme
Yeah ah, don't come in and work in NNY I make $8.25 an hour after 2 years, yeah I suck -blowpop81
I didn't mean to bump the link. Sorry about that. I should have posted in the stories and somewhere in the message board. As for the rates, I'm not sure. I know that the pricing varies EVERYWHERE. I also know that most tier one is usually considered little more than a glorified ticket maker, essentially. I don't know. I just know that I've been seeing a lot about how you guys are so underpaid by getting ten and under - which is just wrong. Personally, I wish that there were more places that paid more for techs to do more. But we can all dream can't we? *grin* -Hastur
What's sad to me is that that a Teir 1 tech support person in Houston apparently makes more than I do after 5 years working for an engineering firm as a draftsman/designer (mostly residential, some architectural) -Shevaresh
I certainly agree on the pricing/hourly wage comments I see here, but, if it's a contract position - for how long? # of hours per week? ANY sort of benefits with that? Any chance of it going to a F/T permanent position? -MattN
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Ummmm, OK - Under, "Unleash Charger" it says, "Broadband Recommended".
OK that's cool,,,
but look at what it says under, "Charger Details"
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LOL, SF ready -Jax
Hah - yes, silly designer, trying to make it starfish-proof... think a co-worker recently bought on of those, though... -namor
lol Macromedia® Flash Player 6 is required to view this site now if you didn't have flash you wouldn't be able to see this disclaimer -Slycat
Regarding the new charger, may I just say, Yeccch! -edventure
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Does this scare you? - Contactless credit cards... it certainly scares me. [By: chazz / 2005-08-18]
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having had my card number stolen once - I'm not sure there is a word for the fear I feel. wait! no. gas. -Harm
People will always find a way to cheat the system. There is nothing safe anymore. -THETECHFROMHELL
Most scenarios they cmae up with were the same - the employees stealing the data. I just imagine someone going out in public with a reader and picking up numbers. Wasn't aware of this encroaching technology yet, either, thanks. -namor
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What do you do? - Ever feel unnoticed and unappreciated? [By: PgmrMike / 2005-08-16]
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no the opposite
there's always someone dropping by that I don't see over my shoulder... -NOFXfan
I knew a lady that actually stuck little mirror on the corner of her monitor. Bold move, I thought. -PgmrMike
Every year I have to document my job & justify my paycheck because some top dog doesn't know what I do. And I'm the *entire* IT department!! -temp
"So, what would you say... ya DO here?" </Office Space> The only saving grace at my ISP job was that it seemed my boss found it impossible NOT to touch the cube wall when he'd be spying over my shoulder, so I'd hear the squeak. [Nick, you're still a f*ckhead.] -Mushroom
If my monitor were in a position where people could casually walk by and look at it, I'd put a mirror up too. I don't see why that should be considered 'bold'. It's rude to look over people's shoulders, and creates an uncomfortable work environment. -NightSteel
The link is filtered here at work. What is it of? -My Cat Athena
Due to the fact I'm in a 3x3 foot cube with walls only 4 and half feet high, I can't do a damn thing without EVERYONE seeing my monitor. -Bobsentme
I used the spying to advantage. When I wanted a raise, I'd place a copy of my updated Resume on the shelf on the cube wall where he leaned... -ChildofCthulhu
Hmmm, maybe I should put a webcam on top of my cube wall so I can see them before they get to my cube! I like that even more than the mirror my coworkers use... :) -TechMama
One of the bits of company logo swag here is a convex mirror that fits on the corner of your monitor... -pixel
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The Babylon Project - Dunno if this has been posted somewhere already, but still...basically they have finally got in standalone, a version of the Freespace2 engine set in the Babylon 5 universe, includes mission packs for Raider missions & the Minbari-Earth war [By: Jax / 2005-08-11]
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- Ride4Roswell / End of Cycle for Sarcoma - 11 Aug would have been my Fujin's 35'th birthday.
(http://www.practicallyimpractical.com/fujin/) She lost her battle with Angiosarcoma on 22 May of this year after a nearly 3 year fight. I promised her in the last minutes, "We will beat this for someone else" and I will keep that word.
On 7 Sept I will have a new website open for info on this bug - wish me luck.
As always, I am the devoted Husband to Fujin and Father of TinyTribble. I am....
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# My web building skills are basic, but if you need any help, You know how to find me! -Bobsentme
# My design skills are ridiculously poor (which can be foretold by my inability to pick out matching clothes), but I have a good deal of HTML, CSS, PHP and SQL skill. I'm the guy who you come to and say "I want a page that looks like this *show picture*, and I make it. If you say "Make a page for me" it will look like it was designed by a speed-enhanced chimp with a coke addiction. -snJimboip
# *raises her water in a toast to Fujin's would-be birthday* -taieena
Opps stuck it back after accidentally knocking the link off
SORRY :( [By: Jax / 2005-08-11]
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*snerks at Jax* Tribble, I'm moderatly good with photoshop. If you need anyone to do art for you, I'm willing! -Parilla
I did stick it back :( ...... whats snerks? -Jax
Thank you, Jax.. I appreciate it, greatly. -ShujinTribble
Know that noise you make when you snicker, but its a little meaner and a little mocking, but still oddly cute? The whole noise is sort of made by puffing air through your nose while making a sound in your throat, and stopping the flow of air suddenly. That's a snerk. Like a snicker, but briefer, and more confusing to people. And also really gross to describe. -Parilla
Hey ST I had to stick it back, comes form not watching where I click when posting...and thanks for the snerk definition :) LOL I know *exactly* what you mean now :) -Jax
Shujin, I'll repeat my offer to help select colors. But I did have one idea...if Fujin had a favorite color...I'd say DEFINITELY use that as one of them. *huggle* -halfstarfish
Thanks, 1/2.. but saddly her fav colours (Red, Rose, Black, Purple) don;t come through well for PHPBB's styles. I've gotten a lot of positive feedback for "Cobolt 2.0" (I like it too), so for now, that's what we'll be going with. Thanks! (And again, thank YOU, Jax!) -ShujinTribble
any help i can offer (php/html), even just reviewing, let me know:) -timelady
Hey, Halfstarfish, you stole my word, "huggle". I got home from a 16 hour shift and the lady-type wanted to get up and go do stuff and I was like "no, stay and huggle. It's a hug and a cuddle at the same time". Thief! -snJimboip
Sometime I go over to OSWD.ORG for open source web page designs. They have some fairly nice ones -ecoli
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Ride4Roswell / End of Cycle for Sarcoma - 11 Aug would have been my Fujin's 35'th birthday. (http://www.practicallyimpractical.com/fujin/) She lost her battle with Angiosarcoma on 22 May of this year after a nearly 3 year fight. I promised her in the last minutes, "We will beat this for someone else" and I will keep that word.
On 7 Sept I will have a new website open for info on this bug - wish me luck.
As always, I am the devoted Husband to Fujin and Father of TinyTribble. I am....
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My web building skills are basic, but if you need any help, You know how to find me! -Bobsentme
My design skills are ridiculously poor (which can be foretold by my inability to pick out matching clothes), but I have a good deal of HTML, CSS, PHP and SQL skill. I'm the guy who you come to and say "I want a page that looks like this *show picture*, and I make it. If you say "Make a page for me" it will look like it was designed by a speed-enhanced chimp with a coke addiction. -snJimboip
*raises her water in a toast to Fujin's would-be birthday* -taieena
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Cartoon Of the day - This is *SO* on the mark. It describes SF exactly. [By: ecoli / 2005-08-06]
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Hey, that was a fair question. Sometimes they're coasters, sometimes they're cds. Depends what's on them. -illiterate
it actually was a coaster, the hole in the middle confused him though, so he thought it was a cd -razmann
It could be from AOL, in which case it's a CD and a Coaster. -StylinTechie
Funny...I have an Aohell CD I'm using AS a coaster! :D Like there's much else their good for? -halfstarfish
I used one to see if my crosscut chredder could shred CDs. Success, and with a crunchy delighting sound! -Darkridr
I find it sadder that it's been over <b>35</b> years since the Apollo lander was developed, not 20 (but that doesn't sound quite so amazing, does it?) -LoTech
My nephews use AOL cds as bbgun targets. (Which leads us to an interesting question - what's the perfect easter present to give three potentially violent pre-teens? If you said BB GUNS you are correct! /sarcasm) My brother is an idiot. -MamaTech
MT how about a BIG box of AOL disks and a Rocket launcher <VBEG> -Jax
uuuummmmm, Darkridr, what is a corsscut Chedder and how can cheese harm a cd?....well if it's our CD, then I guess it gould bind her up pretty bad if she ate enough of it, but that's beside the point.... um, TAXI!!!! -wolfprince
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What a LART! - Complain about noise, will you? Hoooo boy do you have egg on your face now... [By: EagleEye / 2005-08-05]
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Yep, he asked for that one - figuratively and literally. That definately sets a new standard for putting your foot - make that leg - in your mouth. -redevil34
Nice. This git obviously has an honours degree in dontopedology. -Gromit
I read this before and I just thought that it was nice that he had the good grace to admit when he was wrong and apologise. -stpatience
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NT/OT Dell dimension 3Ks - Where are all of these compys coming from? Seems like everyone and their brother is selling Dell. Is it a glut? I doubt I could build a nice computer for the kids for the price. [By: beatmewithstick / 2005-08-02]
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OH CRAP! I di'nt mean to bump the link! crap crap crap go ahead beat me! -beatmewithstick
and the links not right either! http://tinyurl.com/aavsj -beatmewithstick
Yeah, that is a hard price to beat. Dunno about everyone-goes-Dell; will say you do get what you pay for... DELL, THE NEW eMACHINES? :) -Mushroom
So, "beat me with stick", is that an invitation? (Sorry, I couldn't resist) :D -TheGhost
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/default.aspx?c=us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb Note: Sometimes they have specials where even these are discounted by $150 or sometimese significantly more. -TechMama
I don't really trust Dhell. They advertise a "great value" system for $500. But when you read the specs, it's a Celeron 1Ghz, it doesn't include even a CD Rom (of course, no monitor), and when you add the shipping and handling charges you end up paying more than for a good HP. Sort of bait advertising. Just MHO. -TheGhost
A "good" HP? Seriously, for $500 you can put together a pretty nice non-tech machine from Dell. -Divinar
Divinar, that's what I mean. When you read the "bait" specs you see it's a piece of junk. By the time you improve it to usable, you end up paying $1200 or so. You can get a decent HP for that, or build your own custom made Ferrari. So, why bother customizing a dhell? -TheGhost
I support (l)users - that $500 Dell would be better than half the machines in this office. And I'll not send another penny to HP/Compaq. I am hoping t -Divinar
Former employer would have pissed themselves for those Dells - they were still slaving along on Goatway 2000s in the sub-600MHz range, and THAT was in the office areas. On the production floor - I'd tell ya, but don't want to make anyone cry... -PTSTech
I'm betting that those fell of off a truck someplace - Brown maybe, or Fedhex... "new" but with no warrenty, right ? I've seen enough of our laptops\desktops fail to arrive or arrive as empty boxes, there's always somebody in the shipping biz with sticky fingers. -redpaulhus
Sorry - didn't realize I left a sentance unfinished - I am hoping to buy two $2K Dell's in the near future - 3+GHz P4, 4+ GB RAM, SATA drive, Dual Layer DVD+-, no monitor. -Divinar
yeah price is good if you just want an office machine, but not for kids or home use. notice they are the intel extreme(ly slow) intergrated gfx models. but anyway, they *must* have been lifted for them prices -Jax
I've looked into those systems before. They are 15 dollar main boards with pretty much everything built as cheap as possible. The CPU is usually the thing they push as being something. No warranty on anything inside except the one warranty offered (if it even is) on the system. The parts that aren't actually new are refurbished parts it the whole system isn't actually a refurb. -MaskedMarauder
I'm guessing that the $300 units are either fell-off-the-back-of-a-truck or refurbs. You get a computer that cheap, selling to the banjo-players (sorry, SGT), you're going to get a lot of "never got it to work" returns of non-defective hardware... which you can't legally sell as new. Hence the lower price and the useless warranty. -chazz
Odds are that the Dells are going to end of life machines very soon and Dell has a glut of them. I'd also bet that the dealer doesn't actually have the systems in had before selling them hence the requiremnet for immediate payment. The seller gets the winning bid and buys one from Dell on a corporate account or something then ships it to you. The warranty will actually be valid from Dell at that point. If the seller can't get it as cheap as the winning bid, he backs out or delays until he can. Eventually he'll offer a substituted system from Dell at the same cost. -killminus9
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Do we have any Brummy TSCers? - ... and are they all alright? Maybe Riff should consider moving to Birmingham... [By: Shaede / 2005-07-29]
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I've seen the pictures on the Beeb site and it's amazing how much damage can be done in such a short space of time. We really don't expect that kind of weather in Britain! -Nazreel
That's my town of origin (fortunately, I now live in sunny indiana, where we've never seen anything like this ;-) ) -madonnac
Don't think we have any Brummie techs here do we, except Smellystudent ;) -Armakuni
There may be one or two, but not that I could name - I hope Smelly's OK. BTW, Mrs. G's first comment when she saw the TV pictures of the devastation was "That's what I call a FART!". I think she's picking up bad habits from somewhere... -Gromit
Thought Smelly would have LART'ed me for this by now, but he doesn't actually live in Brummieland, was just trying to get a rise out of him :) -Armakuni
It seems that nobody was killed, which is a blessing. On a lighter note: not only have we exported Hasselhoff and Osmond, but now Riff has managed to export some of the weather, too! What other unbearable things can we export, I wonder.... -Grue
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A glimmer of hope in a F**ked up world - The words of John Lennon spring to mind here. [By: Digital Dogcow / 2005-07-28]
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Oh yeah, is that the flipping of a pork product i hear? How many times have we heard this pledge before? -Armakuni
flapping not flipping, grr -Armakuni
It's definitely a big step forward from anything they've said before, Armakuni. It remains to be seen if they'll follow through, but it sounds hopeful. -Shaede
The optimist in me says "maybe things are starting to get better", while the cynic says "they've got too much obsolete shit stockpiled again, and want to do yet another bait & switch." Hopefully the optimist is right, this time.
-Grue
There's always that one guy who won't give it up. So in grained with hatred that he'll fire the first chance he gets. I'm sorry but I just can't accept this thing called peace, until I see it. -MaskedMarauder
<Gazes skywards> Yup, thought so. Saddleback...sow....approx. 15,000ft.... -Gromit
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Stone Me - Those crazy Germans are at it again. :) [By: Armakuni / 2005-07-27]
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[quote]As he suggestively notes: "It's highly polished."[/quote] BWAHAHAHAH -Jax
"Ahnd it hahs balls da size of cahnntalope....." -vacuumtubes
Um, where do you put the batteries? -robbor
*kicks editor* It's phalli, dumb guy! Dang nab it. -FreakyFerret
". . . prehistoric sex toy." Hee hee. -sassicatz
new take on "polishing his knob" </lewd thought> -srteach
You have to be amazingly horny to spend the time it takes to grind a polish something like that by hand. -suitepotato
Uhmmm... Sure its not just "a rock"? You know, like all the other rocks just sitting around? I've studied OOPART and at least it is interesting. This? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. THEY CALLED IT THE WORLDS OLDEST PROFESSION! A woman can't get laid thats just lack of trying. <runs to LART shelter> -MaskedMarauder
Hmmm... I lived near there for six years. You can see these in the shop windows- what's the big deal? -LaserGuru
Why, in my day, we didn't have gel double-dongs! When we wanted to get off, we had to take rocks and file them down on harder rocks! Then our arms were too tired and worn to use the thing, and we'd wind up with big gouges in our nethers! AND WE LIKED IT, we loved it. </grumpy old man> -Mushroom
huh huh, getting your rocks off... hehehehe -Mushroom
and people wonder why cavemen went extinct...with the time and effort involved in makeing that, it would have been faster for them to make viagra
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Dance Dance Revolution, PC Style? - Okay, this guy has the fastest fingers in the world... I'm guessing it's a repeating pattern that he has down pat, but it's still damn impressive. [By: EagleEye / 2005-07-27]
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... holy living fuck. I didn't think that something like that was even physically POSSIBLE. -Veinor
Well, there's RSI about to happen... -chazz
says on the opening screen that it's 1.5x rate - is that referring to video speed or some game setting? Even if the cli[p is speeded up, that's still damn impressive. -Shaede
uhm... I think the whole purpose of that game is to get people off their tuckus but DAMN. I got a workout just watching that. Just think of how many hours/days/months this person sat at their computer to be able to master that... kinda defeats the purpose..... -kryliss
Pretty cool, but I still like cup stacking better. Yes, I'm serious. -Jeckler
I wonder if he screws like he types :) </Hackers> -Armakuni
f'in content blocker, blocked because of sex... grrrrr -BunnieTechBabe
1.5 refers to the audio speed. So the song is playing at a higher pitch than usual, and it's shorter. -Veinor
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How darn darn true - How many of these have you wanted to say to somebody's face? [By: CommanderData / 2005-07-25]
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I just raised my fist and gave a resounding HELL YEAH! This is going round the office :D -modeski
I bow to the new rule book. -burrkiss
print it and hand that out for people who are new to the internet -Slycat
HERE HERE! Right on! -MaskedMarauder
This needs to be built-in to the pop-up for the dialer and/or browser, and can't be disabled until the user proves they have a clue...which would be done by a TEST, damnit! -Grue
Sweet. :) -Mushroom
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World's Smallest MP3 Player - Hurry up and buy one! We can't start losing them around the house fast enough! :-) [By: SwedishChef / 2005-07-25]
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I'm happy with my Digisette, thanks! -vacuumtubes
ohh awsome litle things - i'd lose it if i bought one.. size of a sugar cube. -Harm
24mm cube? 25mm is an inch, so the size of a 2x2x2 stack of sugar cubes, maybe. Still, very very easy to lose... -chazz
My sister in law has one...it's pretty cool..even the LED screen is legible (a couple of letters at a time though :) -Arviragus
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LET'S GET THEM! - Sorry to bump the link, but this may be good! If it does what it says, I'm not only joining, I'll be recruiting!
From the news: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/37365&printer=1
[By: TheGhost / 2005-07-23]
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I'm thinking seriously about it, we do need to be a little more aggressive in getting rid of some spam. -Wolfie0827
I even have a couple of addresses I can use as bait. Can’t use them for anything else anyway, due to the massive spam bombardment. This gonna be good! <BFEG> -TheGhost
I think I'm in on this one. I've always wanted to make someone else's day a living hell. Over and over again. -murdermachine
I've always thought - the only way to stop spammers is to kill them. This is not an idea I like, but it seems necessary. -Gerund
I'm in. For some reason, I'm vaguely reminded of that scene in Dr. Strangelove where the guy's riding the bomb as it drops... -Veinor
I'm in. For some reason, I'm vaguely reminded of that scene in Dr. Strangelove where the guy's riding the bomb as it drops... -Veinor
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google kingon - what can I say? I know we have done others, but they keep on making new ones [By: Jax / 2005-07-21]
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thought it was apt to have a star trekky link, but was meant to add it not bump the last link, sorry -Jax
That's Ok, that's what the soapbox is for. -Bobsentme
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They are at it again - Breaking news of reported explosions on the London underground again. [By: CommanderData / 2005-07-21]
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Oh great here we go again. Hope it isn't another scumbag bombing and just an accident. -Armakuni
Not looking good, two week to the day, 3 stations and a bus -nightwalker21
They were minor explosions using detonators only, nobody hurt. Looks like scare tactics or a sick prank http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4703777.stm -Digital Dogcow
looks half-assed though. May well be a copycat job as al-q usually do strikes first thing -Armakuni
Pretty inept in comparison to two weeks ago. Copycats or smartass youngsters, perchance. Still a really bad thing to do and I hope whoever did it gets nailed. -sassicatz
Farkers -virusjtg
even if it is kids, treat them like terrorists. just to drive home the point of why its a bad idea. -rhiannon
There's just certain things in life you can't believe... -persephone
I was in London today... nowhere near the bangs, but it caused me abit of hassle getting home. And just don't talk to me about sardines... -Shaede
Looks half-assed. Spent the day in a Polish hostel alternatly watching CNN and heading out for cheap beer. Taking the piss out of american travellers who think that the UK has no civil rights movement has also been fun :-) -smellystudent
Update: looks like it was a real attempt to duplicate the original attack. They were suicide bombs - they just must have had a wanker for a bomb tech. When the bastards pressed the tit and found themselves still alive they ran like fuck away, leaving shitloads of evidence behind. -Gromit
pretty sad when they can't even blow themselves up properly...I hope they get their heads posted on the london bridge(wait isn't that in arizona...so how do you get to london by car now?.....wonders off muttering to himself about bridges and trolls, and his favorite color.) -drachen
I was in London. The people I was helping out said "You know we've been bombed again, don't you. It's gonna murder getting home tonight. Anyway, when can I have my server back?" Water off a duck's back. -Criptonite
Criptonite: Bombed by a better class of bastard? -halfstarfish
It's not London Bridge we stick people's heads on, (that would be difficult...) it's Traitor's Gate, which is at the Tower of London. (unless we sold that too...) -Shaede
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4706787.stm Plain clothes officers my blue hairy monkey!! -NightRain
Since only the detonators went off, maybe their explosives expert blew himself up on the first attack? Stupid twats should all burn in hell. -ecoli
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OUCH - I hope no one here works for HP, if you do good luck, i hope you don't face the chop. [By: Armakuni / 2005-07-20]
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"We can perform better - for our customers and partners, our employees and our shareholders - and we will." -- Uh... you mean for your employees that you're NOT firing? -EagleEye
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ISPs versus the zombies - take carful note at the chart of the most infected networks. A certain isp who many starfish use even when they have a real isp ranks at the top of the infected list. Seems their comercials liek their service is crap! [By: Servo / 2005-07-19]
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Is this REALLY news to anyone here? Assholes-on-Line has always been the haven of the moron, and half those Comcast customers probably run AOL as well ;-) -Divinar
sign for their door http://memefest.org/oliver/say%20it%20loud-shit.jpg NSFW
-Jax
so why didn`t that do the offsite link thing ? :-/ -Jax
"The FTC has called on ISPs to identify zombies on their networks, quarantine those hijacked PCs and help customers clean them. Consumers and Microsoft are also urging service providers to act." Isn't that like telling the Highway Department to provide help to motorists whose cars don't meet specs for pollution controls? When will people have to take responsibility for their own crap?! -Tekkie
When they learn how... So, in other words, don't hold your breath. -techofalltrades
soooo beacuse of flaws in OS's, poeple who don;t install antivirus programs, and customers that really have no clue about the device they own or what they are getting into when going online, this is OUR resposibility? unfuscking belivable. Whle they do have a point that ISP cab provide the software ( whice we do), why do we have to take the responsbility our customers won't? I stand by terminal stupidity. -Harm
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Oooops! - LAST nail in the coffin? [By: Digital Dogcow / 2005-07-15]
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Har har</Nelson Muntz> I wonder how much money the p*ssed away trying to find something that did not exist because their management where obsessed with shooting down Linux. Pillocks -Armakuni
Nah. SCO blithely ignores facts while blindly spinning the BS in their favor. "Reporters" have consistantly followed the BS instead of thinking for themselves. This won't be resolved until it gets to court. -ecoli
Yah. SCO is now claiming that they told that consultant to look for direct copying, not obfuscated code. Sheesh. Spin, spin, spin... -chazz
The part where they said that management did not believe internal staff struck as sour note with me. Been there, done that. Got the disillusionment, but not the tee shirt. -Gerund
I wonder what the SEC will think about this, heh heh heh. -VIPERsssss
Who didn't see this coming? SCO's been lying so much they beleive themselves. -killminus9
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OMG - Would you believe it, just as I start to think you can buy whatever court decision you want, they go and do something that restores my faith (well, a bit anyway). *cheers* [By: Armakuni / 2005-07-14]
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*clinks glass* Its great to see one of these b*stards get what's been coming to them. -modeski
Now we need to go for Ken Lay! -TechieSidhe
umm he is going to appeal. he isn't going to jail yet. -Motient
He will probably get some deal pulled on appeal, I just have no trust in the system for it to work. -NOFXfan
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HSPMSAS - Haven't been at TSC for a few weeks so apollogies if someone has posted before. I'd say safe for work, but there is a siren sound during the animation, so you might want to turn down the volume. [By: PID1 / 2005-07-14]
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LAMO! Nice. -Bobsentme
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Cat Possessed by UberSquirrel Ghost - WOW.... Oh by the way, it's really freaking hard to get work done when the Blue Angels are rehersing outside your window!!! Especially when the windows start rattling because they're so close!! [By: redevil34 / 2005-07-14]
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Sounds like Kitty found the meth lab downstairs, or someone's stash of crack.
-Mushroom
My sister in law left her kitten with us once while she was out of town. We already have 2 male cats, and this was a 3rd male now... it wasn't pretty. I seriously got clawed all the way up one arm, and the cat shit all over the friggin WALL when I got it by the scruff of the neck. Back legs came OVER HIS HEAD to get my hand! I ended up having to fling it in to the garage, ripping flesh off my hand in the process. So yeah, I have no doubt about what this cat was like. -EagleEye
sounds like a cat on PCP. I have no fear of dogs- generally you know damned well when a dog is pissed or gonna snap. Cats though. between a dog attacking me and a cat- i'd put cash on the cat being more viciouse and doing more damage. -Harm
When I first read the story, it seemed to me that there had to have been something that pushed the cat over the edge. PCP... in the basement... while there were renovations going on... or maybe crystal meth? Hmm. -chazz
Continuing the theme, M$ has a new title from a game company they purchased: http://www.news10-tv.net/cgi-bin/techwrapper.pl?URL=http://www.gannettonline.com/e/games/2179947.html&AFFIL=KXTV -CTYankee
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A game involving balls - The highest rank I have managed to reach so far is "Holy Hand Grenade". That was two nights ago. I think I should be proud of myself for that, since I haven't really gotten much higher than "Concussed Ant" today. [By: mousie / 2005-07-12]
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rank "poo" -NOFXfan
I read "poo" and "balls" you guys are pervs. :D -burrkiss
Made it to "bruised banana" at 1925 on the third try....
-Grue
I finally made it to moo juice (3745) once I got the hang of how the balls bounce. They just don't always go the way you expect. -sassicatz
Frell me, but Im crap at it, dead rat twice, then a brick, best so far is mashed potato , fark... -Jax
6575 - "The Barlow Compound." Thanks. Now I have something else to add to my "Hi, my name is RiffRaff and I'm a $ addict" list. -RiffRaff
Susan? WTF is that!? -Harm
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Scotty, beam me up! - Modern advances in teleportation. VERY Interesting! [By: OgdenTechGuy / 2005-07-12]
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Anyone who's played Half-Life or Doom3 would know this isn't a good idea. -Slycat
I saw Star Trek: The motion picture, there is no way i'm ever going to get into one of those. Move over bones i'm getting in the shuttle with you. -Armakuni
Utter nonsense, this. We're not going to disassemble people and record their quantum, electrical, magnetic, chemical, etc, states and rebuild them elsewhere. Something along the lines of wormholes would be more likely, creating point to point gateways... -suitepotato
Potato: Something like a Stargate? *grin* -halfstarfish
Oh, I don't know... read Roger Penrose's newest theory on quantum gravity. Apparently traditional practice is to factor out gravity on the quantum level, acting like it's not there. Penrose suggests that infinitesimally small is not nonexistent (what a concept), and states that it's actually the gravitational field of larger objects that prevents them from occupying multiple places at the same time like subatomic particles often do. You never know if we might break that barrier too, teleporting larger objects... -teivrann
I do have 2 concerns regarding human teleportation. The first one is, how do we know that simply making an exact copy of the person at the subatomic level is sufficient to duplicate the person, as in, will the transported matter be alive? But that's a moot point, if they aren't alive at the other side, we'll know very soon. The bigger issue is, if they are alive, how will this technology NOT be used to duplicate people? Sure, it was impossible in Star Trek but everyone in IT knows that it's safer to copy/paste then delete the original than it is to move, and what could be more important than the data making up a person? Someone back me up on a floppy at least :-D -OgdenTechGuy
So if we get this going, and I'm being transported from my couch to the fridge, what if there is an interrupt, and part of the data is lost, or corrupted? Could I come out on the other side missing something? -jard
jard: Yep. Data corruption could cause you to lose body parts or have them... altered. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) Me, I'll stick with my Mark 1 Shank's Mare. -chazz
HHGTTG reference: "I teleported home last night with Ron, and Sid, and Meg. Ron stole Meg's heart away, and I got Sidney's leg!" -Wraith556
hate to get a virus on the computer doing the colculations...what about personality. Wasnt that the big issue with cloning, tha although they are physicly the same emotionaly and mentally they could be exact oppisites. -xtc46
I'm the skeptic. If anyone wants to read a book about having backup copies of people, i recommend the book "Collapsium". Excellent book, but it's still SCI-FI. -Bobsentme
No way would I play in there, and can you imagine it if it was like British Rail !! <tannoy> "sorry for the delay, we have the wrong kind of atoms in the de-atomiser" of course you really hear <bing bong>" muffled sounds *grumbles* more muffled sound" <Bing Bong> -Jax
Ogden, it gives new meaning to the phrase "back that ass up." -edventure
Slycat: I agree. There's always a camper waiting with a railgun on the other end. -evolution
3 words: Heisenberg uncertainty principle ! -Digital Dogcow
And with realy fast computers you could edit the data - just think, operations done during transport - or add ons, that make Viagra seem pathetic... -Wonko The Sane
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Explosions in central London - First reports look like a major terrorist attack going down in the capitol. [By: Digital Dogcow / 2005-07-07]
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We're waiting on hearing if our office is being evacuated. I've heard from Nightrain, he's okay. -CommanderData
Love to see them mock me for walking to work now! -NightRain
York station is turning into management central -nightwalker21
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1608439&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 -modeski
May <insert Deity> watch over all TSC's Family! -Chazdonna
Everyone accounted for? No techs MIA? Oddly enough while I feel sympathy for my friends overseas, my main emotion right now is anger. Don't care what terrorist "sect" did it. I just hope they pay. -The Coyote
Just checking in - I'm OK. Thankfully I'm based well outside London! Nightrain's OK - he asked me to let you know I'm in one piece. Thanks for asking. -Gromit
damn! I would have been travelling to king's cross this week if my course hadn't been cancelled....damn.... -Shaede
I hope all (members and friends of members) are safe. -srteach
I just caugh the news. For all the little that is worth, you, our British friends, have all my support and my prayers. May something like this never happen again. -TheGhost
My thoughts are with our UK brethren and I hope all of the TSC family (and their families) are safe. -CelticSkyhawk
Oh, and MAY (INSERT ALL DEITIES HERE) DAMN THE [CENSORED] TERRORISTS!!!! I HOPE THE TERRORISTS GET WHAT THEY DESERVE WHEN THEY GO THE HELL!!!! </Rant> -TheGhost
Good God! When are these people going to quit? My prayers go out to all you over there. -TheSingingTech
Everybody stay safe and here's to hoping everyone you know is OK. Keep your heads down. We're thinking of ya. -Jay911
I just got into work, and heard our UK office is safe and sound, as are the techs who work there! Phew. -Bobsentme
Glad to hear from those of you who have checked in. Hopefully those currently unaccounted for are safe as well. Best wishes to the lot of you in this mess. I'm with Coyote; I hope those responsible pay for it dearly. -teivrann
Hope all the TSC members in the area are OK. Coldolences for all who were killed or injured. Attacking our friends in the U.K. is a reaaaaaaly bad idea. -VIPERsssss
Al-Quieda has claimed responsibility for the act. As usual, I can not express deeply enough my hatred for them. I hope the best for those effected by this and from the American side of the pond. My God watch over you. -MaskedMarauder
Wow, I take a day off and sleep in and this is what I wake up to. Thank God all the TSC'ers are ok. All my prayers are with all of you over there. -phsspok
We may be separated by thousands of miles, but this just shows how closely our lives are entwined... Our thoughts, prayers, and hearts go out to everyone over on that side of the pond. -Ulfgaard
My heart goes out to you all. I'd make a political comment here, but I just can't find it in me. Why must people be so cruel to each other? </cries> -Veinor
It seems all from TSC are present & accounted for. This I am very glad to hear. Given the terrorists attacks we endured during the 70's & 80's, I KNOW we won't roll over & die...it is not in our nature. They picked the wrong country to attack. -lineswine
May the angels watch over you all... -TrueTenacity
May the angels watch over you all and keep you safe. And may great LARTing come to those resposible... -TrueTenacity
I hope they catch these guys. They're just a bit too full of themselves and need some attitude adjustment. -clockkingfl
I live on the Number 30 bus route, on which the last bomb went off. Unusually quiet the day after, i'll give you that. Thankfully nobody I know was involved in any of the blasts and my thoughts go out to those unlucky enough to be caught up in all this terrorist BS. -ledric
Thank %diety% TSC'ers are safe. My condolences to families of the offers. On a side note, the security in trains and Metro here in Copenhagen has been raised (guards everywhere), as Denmark was given a warning by the terrorists. -NordicPT
...there just aren't enough words... -Criptonite
*bows head* -Mango
It's a shame these walking turds aren't in one place cause then we could nuke them. -atomicbill
One other thing. It seems that these terrorists are getting really mad because we call them "Rag Heads." Actually those are not rags on their heads. Those are sheets. Little sheets that is. -atomicbill
Out of all the intelligence and technology, all the love and understanding we have between these members in this forum, the only way I can manage to help, is to cry for these people being hurt and for our people as a whole, becuase we've come nowhere in over 5000 years. Cancer; it's curable, but people never seem to not want to kill and hurt others. Sorry for the rant. -RA
Don't just sit there, get pissed. http://www.lnreview.co.uk/news/005167.php -Mushroom
There are some things in life I don't understand. Why anyone could or would think they had the right to take innocent lives is one of them. I'm an American, standing by my British brothers and sisters. -persephone
I've been out of town since last Wed evening. This has been my first chance to check TSC since then. I'm with the others. Thank God that all of our London-based techs, their friends, and their families are OK. -kman52000
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Hide your knives!! - Oh, how poeple laughed when I said this was next! And then I found this http://www.bcwf.bc.ca/s=295/bcw1117307265770/ [By: redevil34 / 2005-07-05]
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http://www.bcwf.bc.ca/s=295/bcw1117307265770/ -redevil34
When Handgun Control, Inc (or whatever they are called now) and the NRA agree on something, you know there is a problem. An unarmed society is an easily controlled society. -CelticSkyhawk
But why stop at just making them non pointy? Why not blunt the edges too. And then there's forks. You can do a lot of damage with a fork. And the edges of paper can be pretty lethal, perhaps we should ban paper? I mean, if we ban pointy, sharp knives and forks, we'll soon see gang members carrying around lethal reams of A4! Our society will descend into anarchy, cities will fall, drinks will be spilled! ARRGGGHHHH! -flapjackboy
Pointed sticks don't kill people, People with pointed sticks kill people! -Divinar
"They can take our knives, but they'll never take our freedom!" <ok, SOMEBODY had to do it.... hey! who locked the LART shelter door?> -Divinar
you'll take my knive from my cold, dead hand. </bad movie impression> -joebob
"Give me sharp pointy things, or give me Death!!" </really bad Patrick Henry quote> Oh crap! Who locked the Lart shelter door?!?!?!?! -ecoli
Breaking news.... Earlier today the Ministry Of Important Things announced a ban on carrying a wet haddock in a public place due to their potentially dangerous nature. The Hon. Ramsdon Merganderpoke (spokesman for the Ministry) stated that haddock may only be carried if their extremities are adequately wrapped in foam rubber to reduce their effectiveness as a weapon. The public are reminded to remove the padding before cooking the haddock as this this can have a rather detrimental effect on the taste. More at 11.... -Gromit
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WTH - I don't believe this, this has to be a wind up, not least of which because it's Russian. [By: Armakuni / 2005-07-05]
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Quote:("The impact changed the magnetic properties of the comet, and this could have affected mobile telephony here on Earth. If your phone went down this morning, ask yourself Why? and then get in touch with us," says Mr Molokhov.) I can't. My phone's not working. -OgdenTechGuy
Holy hell... these people are insane. If the 'magnetic field' of a comet that small were capable of affecting anything on Earth beyond an infinitesimal scale, Earth would have to be so unprotected that the solar wind of the sun would have barbecued all organic matter sometime back in the Precambrian era. -teivrann
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T-Shirt Of The Day - Ever feel like you're someone's Google bitch? [By: Mushroom / 2005-07-05]
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Want one. -teivrann
I wish I could wear that at work -Motient
I'm buying that and wearing it to work - proudly, w/o pants JUST to emphasize the message. -Harm
Harm: Does the concept of T.M.I. exist in your world? -lineswine
Oh dear <deity> that is so apt for me. People in my office don't even bother searching for anything, they just ask me cos I can always find any info they need. I'll be buying this one. -modeski
*Clickerty Click* That's just been ordered. I have to own that. -Armakuni
Now, we just need a shirt that says "Google THIS" with a downwards-pointing arrow. -Veinor
Done and done. I ordered 2! -ITNaziChick
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How far can you fly? - My boss just sent this to me. Cool flash game where you fly a helicopter. How far can you get, it's not as easy as it looks. ;) [By: JoeLugian / 2005-07-01]
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850 so far -Armakuni
1406 so far. This one has been around a long time, though. My previous record was somewhere around 3000, but that took forever. -virtualchoirboy
I play that once in a while. I think I've gotten to 1100 or so once . . . just once. -sassicatz
1931. Woot! -virtualchoirboy
1225 is the best I can do on it in 2minutes of playing it for the first time -Motient
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excuse me while I panic - Well, yeah...
Read the artical, make up your own minds. [By: NightRain / 2005-07-01]
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I can see it now... "And in other news, 5,234 anti-Bush web sites were shut down today, and 2,679 pro-Bush sites were shut down for not supporting Bush enough." -Veinor
It's because of things like this that I sometimes feel ashamed of being American. -purplelinguist
Buying that island for tech people only is sounding better and better. -RiffRaff
Can I contribute Riff? I want a small place under a nice shade tree. -virusjtg
OH CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP!!!
Sigh. I'm US citizen, but right about now I really wanna slap some US idiots around. Just talked to one of my superiors about this, and he said, "Good, the UN has been screwin up big time and shouldn't get control." WHAT!?!?! And people wonder why the world hates the USA? Cause most people here are friggin arrogant IDIOTS!!! BAH! -kelemit
Inbetween that and a somewhat sphincter-tightening email I got sent as "reasons my country scares me" by an American friend, I really do worry about the more intelligent lot of you over there (although, from some things I've seen I'd not count some of this board on that list... sad but true). -NightRain
Sigh, ranting there above. I've just been insulted my US arrogance in the last couple years and it blows me away. -kelemit
'Freedom of speech' my ass -CommanderData
We're all doomed.... -Gromit
Riff, Book me a room for two. I'm ready to take my son and get the hell outta here. -Bobsentme
I want a room on the island with CD. -burrkiss
Yeah...nice, can't say I like the idea of the UN getting control of it though either, they're more likely then the US to foul it up with corruption. Give it to ICANN. -redevil34
Where's Al Gore when you need him? <1/2 j/k> -MadJack
Book me a room! I command you! </rolls dice> Damn! Failed on my Suggestion roll! -Veinor
I can't say anything that hasn't already been said... except perhaps "Argh!" "Wtfh?" and "Arrrghhh!" again. -smellystudent
Bah! You are all overreacting. Bush does not own or control the Internet. BILL GATES DOES!!!! <Ok, now panic!!!!> -TheGhost
I think you guys are REALLY overreacting to this. No administration would shut down web sites for saying stuff they don't like. The outraged backlash would be epic. You have to concede that the US MILITARY started the Internet, and that the Internet got its start because of the US Government and US Tax payer dollars... Basically, it's managed just fine and grown to what it is now under the "oppressive" US government's control of the root servers... You should be praising the US for its policy on freedom, rather than being all worried we're gonna have a 1984 on our hands. -EagleEye
Well said Eagleeye -YoYo
EE, go re-read the link. Then think, then wonder why I'm panicing. -NightRain
Bah... a political hack giving a political press conference trying to make his political party look politically good... just a bunch of political crap that doesn't mean anything.
-EagleEye
"There is no correct politics, its just liars and lunatics" type thing EE ? -NightRain
I would like to point out that it was the US military and US academia that bootstrapped what is today known at the Internet. If the US government had not poured the billions of dollars into DARPAnet, I'm sure we'd still be alive, but I doubt we'd be chatting like we are now. The internet would eventually have evolved to what it is now, but the evolution of the network would have been delayed, plus the cost structure would probably have been born more heavily by the end user. Look at the cell phone system, which by and large did not have massive government subsidies. It took longer for that industry to develop the technologies needed to market their products at prices needed to be able attract large number of non-business customers. Before you assume that I like the idea of government subsidising technology, keep in mind that the US government developed the internet, and we have massive problems with spam, DDOS attacks etc., while with the cell phone network, while there was briefly a problem with phone cloning and eavesdropping, it is largely a reletively secure network now. -mdver
mdver, the cell network requires at least financial accounatbility at each end, and is really only a few networks combined (each wireless provider is connected with the POTS and each other) the internet is millions upon millions of machines which can be hooked up and in theory immediately interact with any other node. saying the cell network is more secure is like saying the power grid is more secure because nobody hacked your toaster. -Lehk
I'm moving to Canada...What's this all aboot, eh? (Taxi! Canadian proof lart shelter!) -Darth
It ain't the fact that the Internet was started under Cold war conditions, it is the fact that the Internet & WWW is now Global. The fact that the concept was yours doesn't mean you can "take it back" once it is in the public domain. If this was so, the Chinese would take back gunpowder & where would America be without its' beloved firearms? Nowhere, becuase the indiginous population would have kicked your ass back into the Atlantoic ocean. The UK wouldn't have taken the religious loonies (Puritans) back, so you'd have ended up is someplace less hospitable...Africa for example. Hey look! We'd be running Live8 for YOU! As for Shrub shutting down websites he doesn't like (free speech, pro-choice, non-fundametalist sites, nooo, he wouldn't do that, but simply fucking-up the DNS records for the sites...yep I think he'd do that in a heartbeat "for National Security". -lineswine
while arpa net etc where indeed US inventions, the www as we know it today was not invented in the US but in europe by Tim Berners-Lee. -Kharny
You know, I've seen stuff like this in books. It won't be long before we're all wearing the same clothes, are taught to hate jews, and all have to listen to the same music. I guess I might as well brush up on my German while I'm at it. -murdermachine
Never give a job to a government that cannot be done by a retarded, but heavily muscled giant. The value of a law is not how well it works when enforced by the powers of good, but how well it is protected from abuse by the powers of evil. -Taurus
Would you lot just calm the heck down and think for two seconds? First, the article is a slanted piece of political demagoguery and you need not be a conservative to see that. Second, it glosses over in its propagandistic tone and content that the US is merely *keeping* what DNS root server control it *ALREADY HAS* instead of handing it over to ICANN and company. Why? Well with what has been shown repeatedly of various other nations' willingness to play politics over security, and that the US doesn't know certainly enough that others can or even will try hard enough to prevent criminal and terrorist disruption, why take that risk? No one is censoring anyone. Control simply remains where it *already is* and *has been* for a long time. It's simply a matter of the US not feeling they can or should risk the transfer given recent historical and political events. Such as supposed allies getting caught with their hands in the oil-for-food corruption cookie jar, cyber crime and terrorism, etc. Unless and until the world community stops playing games on international crime and terrorism and the UN starts acting like responsible grown-ups instead of rowdy brats looking to raid the pantry and vandalize themselves at every step, why take that risk? Business as usual for now is fine with me and business as usual is what this is. You may go back to fragging the fark out of your friends netside and perusing /. as there's nothing going on here. -suitepotato
Wow, ya'all fiesty. <Dons his 'fuckit' cloak and '+10 armour of doublefuckit'> -burrkiss
Humm, yeah upon further review, I think suitepotato and EE summed that up pretty well. Night, go ask why no one has written articles about the US having control of these servers until they announce that they're going to keep it. Funny it never bothered anyone before that. And on the note shutting down sites, it would make far more sense to go shut down some terrorist's site then for themt to bother someone's "I hate Dubya" site. If I was going to pick a US pres that would do that, the name Hoover would come to mind first...and probably Clinton second (afterall both seemed to consider the FBI a good way to keep tabs on people they didn't like). -redevil34
Yep - let's get rid of all the dissidents & malcontents, let 'em start their own state if they don't like it here. Oh, hang on....it's the 4th of July, isn't it? (Take a look at the last 50 years of US foreign policy for hands in the cookie jar...for 'cookie' read 'oil, the CIA 'aid' to terrorists in South American countries that wish to overthrow democratically elected left wing govts., the whole Oliver North 'Arming the Contras via money from selling weapons to Iran' debacle.
PLEASE don't talk to me about America being the good guys all the time, as historical fact is proving otherwise.
As for the USA saying ANYTHING about the UN? Pay your fucking dues first, THEN you can have a credible voice! -lineswine
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BWAHAHAHAHA! - OK, so it's predictable, even a starfish can guess what's going to happen, but even so.... SFW video link [By: Shaede / 2005-06-30]
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<DA> Okay, who here hasn't been so wrapped up in a job that they didn't even notice someone talking to them until person 2 raised their voice? </DA> After having sprained my ankle doing something similar but much less spectacular (but much more idiotic, in my case)...I have empathy for the poor woman who fell down the hole -CTYankee
Now thats gonna hurt :) -Armakuni
Ouch. -Year9595
I've done something similar, of course I was also drunk off my ass.... -RandalGraves
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Extra Extra, read all about it, . . . . - 19 year old girl doesn't know she is pregnant until a child falls out of her crotch!! [By: jard / 2005-06-28]
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Anyone else thinking of MP's "The Meaning of Life"? -Divinar
Did I read that right that she had already had 1 kid? On the other hand, there is a woman where I work that's at about 8 months, and still has a body most of us would kill for! But she's not stupid... -garwain
This girl has been prego before, she should have known somthing was different. Another note, what the hell was she wearing that she could just lean over and have an eight lb kid fall out into the lawn? -jard
Jard: Some kind of skirt with no underwear? *runs like hell* -halfstarfish
....(as) the two women and the newborn baby boy drove to the hospital. "She told me to slow down because the baby's not in a car seat." - Ok folks.. let's start talking PRIORITIES! (So her first kid was at 15/16, huh? Niiiice.) -ShujinTribble
"She knew how to turn the baby's shoulder... she was a natural." Practice, practice, practice. You'd think she'd have caught on HOW one gets in those situations by now. Cocksocket. -Mushroom
I didnt know she could get pregnant from swallowing. -burrkiss
Starfish mothers... -CyBear
She wasn't swallowing with her *mouth*. -Mushroom
East Texas....College Student...hell, the only thing missing is actually coming out and saying she was already overweight. Although I guess "I thought she was liking her pizza more" is kind of a hint... -GargoyleTS
the funniest thing is, she's a student at a texas technical institute. futher proof that those schools will take anyone who has the cash.....(on a dark note. I wonder if they'll find the body of a woman who's baby was cut out. maybe that's how she got the first 3 too. WAY too much Law and order special victems unit I guess.) -drachen
When I used to print T-shirts I once asked one of the girls working there if she was worried the chemicals we used would harm her unborn. Her response was, well, kind of loud at me..."I'M NOT PREGNANT! I'M JUST FAT!!".... Needless to say, I stayed clear of her the rest of the week.... -imawreque
You know, I can understand how others wouldn't know she was pregnant. My oldest Godchild was born a month after I saw his mom and her stomach was flat as a fritter...but how could SHE not know? I'm no expert, but I have had 2 kids and there are certain signs our body gives us that lets us know there is something going on. I wonder if she knew how her first one got there. -persephone
Yeah, it seems pretty hard to believe that she didn't know she was even pregnant -- EXCEPT -- the same sort of thing happened to someone I knew years ago. One day, she went to her mother: "Mom, I need to make an appointment at the women's clinic. I think I'm pregnant." They were around 20 minutes late to the appointment, so the clinic cancelled it. (They were a clinic that also did abortions, so would cancel late arrivals like that as a security measure.) She rescheduled for a week later, but ended up cancelling that appointment herself -- after she gave birth to a full-term baby! Imagine -- 8.5 months not realizing she was pregnant. Easier to imagine, though, if you knew how heavy a tweaker (user of crystal methylamphetamine) she was -- she was so tweaked out that she didn't realize she was pregnant. Oh, and she was a "big" girl to begin with. (Beautiful woman, she was, just built heavier than the "fashion model" standard.) So, from my own knowledge, it can happen! -Captain Trips
This sort of thing happened to me. I was 24 and I'd had my daughter less than a year before. She was born in the middle of September 1978 and in the June of 1979 I was lying in the bath when I realised that my stomach was moving its own accord. My son was born on his sister's first birthday and they reckoned he was about a month late which would mean I was 7 months before I realised. I thought it was just taking time for me to get back into shape after my previous pregnancy. I had a bad time then and had been told I would never be able to have any more kids. (Had to prove them wrong...). -Nazreel
I'm not a woman so I don't know, but isn't a lack of menstrual cycle for 8 months a hint? -NOFXfan
It is rare but some women do continue to menstruate when pregnant. But how they do not feel that 8-pound kid kicking them is beyond me! I felt as if my kids would kick the person next to me! -AllStationary
I find this really hard to believe. Just barely possible, perhaps, but really hard to believe. -sassicatz
Maybe the banjo between her knees saved the baby from hitting the trailer floor. -lineswine
What I want to know about is how she left the baby in the yard. The umbilical cord doesn't just detach as far as I know. At the least mine had to be cut. The cord isn't that long either. Too many things very wrong about this story. -MrsTechnoVamp
"It was one big push for the baby and a little one for the placenta," - the cord is attached to the placenta, and she just chewed it off. ;) at least that is how I figure it. -jard
One of the things several of my wife's friends have noted is that increaed weight usually leads to decreased number of periods. One of her bigger friends counts herself lucky to have two a year, but they last a week. On the other hand, she might be on that implated birth control. Apparently it stops a period from starting in the first place. If there are other signs, I don't know about them. -Chipsterian
"implated" shoud read "implanted" -Chipsterian
On technovampires comment on how she left the baby in the yard. "The umbilical cord doesn't just detach as far as I know.", I think the umbilical cord is attached to the placenta, and after she delivered the placenta she would have been no longer attached. I remember the doctor tugging on the cord to help deliver the placenta, freakin gross I know. -Hawk
WTF?!?! There should have been some point where she had to have known somethign was up! I didn't start showing or i guess "feeling" pregnant until i was about 6 or 7 months along, but by my 7.5 8 month mark, I had a belly. now, I also know that the Depo shots, can cause your period to go away for months at a time and too much excersize, stuff like that, but there are so many other things that should have given it away!! -TeChMoMmY
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AOL is at it again... - Read the announcement in big red letters. Ironic that AOL would block a subscription newsletter from a site dedicated to "fighting ignorance since 1973." You can just cut it with a knife. [By: RiffRaff / 2005-06-25]
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we call it AOHell for a reason... -RandalGraves
It's a mass mailing, and despite it being opt-in somehow AOL didn't realize that fact and saw it as spam. Irony of course being that real spam gets through or comes from them... -Mushroom
Le Sigh. its great when they block an entier ISP (and our corperate servers) and refuse to take us off the list. took us almmost 3 months to get the issue resolved. never block the servers that OWNZ joo! -Harm
I found this page of that site rather, uhhh, disturbing, in a beyond-burrkiss sorta way: http://tinyurl.com/47ol5 -missourimule
When i worked for an isp we constantly had problems with AOHell blocking our users. It took months to get off their black list . Only to be put back on again and again. -Servo
We've been listed before... now we block external SMTP for our residential/dynamic IPs, and list the PTR as dynamic/static accordingly. No problems since. -namor
Its not just that news letter, AOL's blackisting has gone haywire and block my company's domain's too. and we get no response from them regarding this issue.
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Its them Northerners again! - Lineswine, Dogcow et al - All is known©. [By: Gromit / 2005-06-20]
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*HUGE farkin grin* But I WAS 'fully dressed' when I read that...(I was wearing a smile).
OK, I fess up, I'm wearing my suit as I type this - my birthday suit! -lineswine
Ermmm, *checks webcam* i'm fully clothed i'll have you know *shifty eyes* -Armakuni
Surely it's too cold for that sort of thing in that barren wilderness that we call 'oop Norf'? I suppose it makes it easier to swim for it when you get flooded, though :D -Shaede
Well, what else should we do when we've just got out of the shower? -pmillipede
Ahem!, North-EASTERNERS thankyouverymuch!, we'll 'ave nowt uv that sort uv depravity THIS side of the Pennines!. -Digital Dogcow
Not according to those google pictures Dogcow :) http://www.babymeat.com/~dogcow/crap/baby.jpg -Armakuni
Never done it since my then cat jumped onto my lap, slipped and dug her claws in to arrest her fall. I was so into the chat room I was in that I actually typed "AAaaagh. . . the cat" then went away to calm down the cat and dress my wounds. When I next looked at the screen they were trying to work out my area so they could inform the emergency services. -Zoomer
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Well, it *was* a joke - Looks like the little buggers are getting serious! [By: CTYankee / 2005-06-17]
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I had a homeless guy tell me there are no squirrels in Newfoundland because all the nuts are on the mainland this morning. Crazies can be funny sometimes. -NOFXfan
The ubersquirrels are getting organized! -Tekkie
Meh, well at least the marauding bands of tree rats will keep the Coyote's out of the area. -Digital Dogcow
Is it just me, or does the squirrel in the picture look like it's taking a dump? -ElPolloDiablo
Mmmmm...squirrel. Could be worse..could be DogCows. They run away with your wallet and beg for beer. Plus, they bite. Nasty buggers them. -The Coyote
what's not mentioned in the article is that he was depositing a severed human head in the trash receptical at the time of the first attack.... -DedSysOp
Seems like the Gnomes of WoW have it right: "You know, squirrels can be deadly when cornered" -OgdenTechGuy
Foamy's been busy, I see. -flapjackboy
Seems more the work of Pillz-E than Foamy. :-D -Mushroom
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Who's the Daddy ? - 20 questions brought to you by B.K. & Mr Lucas [By: RTFM / 2005-06-17]
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I almost had him stumped on "a speaker" -OgdenTechGuy
I had him on 'a screwdriver' -NightSteel
Wow! He got it. Took 17 questions, but he got it. -FreakyFerret
27 questions and he didn't quite get it, lord vader is but a padawan. -Armakuni
bwahahahah I got him good. I picked "lyger" as my animal. -xtc46
I got him.. took 30 questions for comic book... -KalAshlar
Took him 28 to get wedding ring, though I told him "Close" on engagement ring at 20. -Nonamys
He asked twice if it was made of metal. Though I just about burst out laughing when he asked if it was straight... and I had to say 'depends' when he asked if it was used for communications... but he finally guessed it at about 26 steps. (Styrofoam cup) -teivrann
30 questions to Guess LIGHTER. -Bobsentme
he couldn't get DSL line filter -razmann
Got him on Cheese -exzyle2k
The original (and maybe a little smarter) 20Q database/AI game can be found at http://www.20q.net . Also, go to http://about.20q.com/ and click on the "history" link. It's really interesting to read. (10 millionth game was played on Feb. 2005, and 20 millionth game was played in June) -Wiser
I completely stumped him with "sandrail" which is similar to a go-kart. Or maybe the same thing but whatever. -OgdenTechGuy
HE tried but could not guess. He came close a few times, but eventually gave up. Lord Vader seems to be unaware of the existence of the Dogcow. -StylinTechie
Completely had Vader stumped on something very obvious to him - a lightsaber. -cecil36
He just asked me if it's metal, then if it's pleasurable... He eventually guessed wedding cake, when it was ice cream. Vader is such a perv -paul
I took Vader to the limit he never guesed my fiance -Servo
Stumped him on jar. -sassicatz
Took him 17 questions to get "caterpillar," but he couldn't get "gungan." -kman52000
Oooo...took him 25 tries to guess himself, though he guessed Anikin at question 17. -kman52000
26 guesses...and he got...
A pepsi..I'm frightened. -The Coyote
Who says he has a dirty mind? I stumped him again, this time with "Penis" despite him asking 3 times if it was sex, once if it was a urethra, once if it was a womb. -OgdenTechGuy
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The squirrels are at it again! - Now they're practicing combat drops! [By: CTYankee / 2005-06-15]
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You know, when you use text as a link, you don't really need to use tinyURL. -robbor
BANZIA!!!!! -burrkiss
Armageddon! -teivrann
A coworker of mine was driving at about 50mph when a bird flew into his open driver window, crashed into the side of his head and Exploded. He made it home with bird feather, guts and crap all over him and inside his car. -Year9595
had a pidgeon fly into me when on a push bike when I was younger, man that f**ker hurt -Jax
Had a pigeon try to fly into my windows during the driving portion of my driver's test. When the examiner tried to mark me off for not signaling in a two lane merge into one, I called him on it to at least account for the bird attack. -technaround
thinks about Doctor DoLittle. Dirty bird here prepared to bomb. Commencing boming run.. pigeon plops... -StarFishHearder
http://www.geocities.com/nickedemis/ its true the squirrels are after us -Imrcly
I have a window seat (and can see the squirrels, and they're married...) and sit about 3 feet from the glass, and yesterday a bird flew into the window. Whonk!! [jump-back-laughing] -Mushroom
birds (big fat pigeons!) hit the windows here so often that people hardly even look round any more when they hear the BOINK! You can actually see the imprint left by the impact on many of the windows! -Shaede
I was dive-bombed by a pigeon - it destroyed my wing mirror and made a mess all over the front and side of the car. -smellystudent
my cousin was invaded by squirrels while she was at college. suposedly they snuck in through the chimney one day and wrecked a bunch of stuff. -razmann
" The police chief then donned a pair of gloves and grabbed a pole he uses for situations like this." is there something wrong with this picture? he has a pole and gloves for "situations like this" do they do this everyday there? -Slycat
My wife was on a jet ski and was going under a bridge and spooked a bunch of pigeons, and they all flew out and she got smacked a time or two. She was going fast enough to leave feathers everywhere and she had a nice welt on her shoulder. -jard
I wonder if he was re-enacting a jackass sketch </bandwagon> -Armakuni
you get too close to a birds nest while cycling and prepare to get attacked. this makes for interesting times along the beach's boardwalk area. -omegawolf
Add this http://cuagain.manilasites.com/stories/storyReader$287 to the above. The squirrels are plotting you. I'm telling you. -FreakyFerret
I was just wondering what happened to the uber squirrel, guess they're out from their winter naps for more nuts. -redevil34
Squirrelly wrath!!! Squirrelly wrath!!!
-Mushroom
Is Foamy trying to take over? -RandalGraves
"That is one dangerous squirrel. And now he has a patrol car…" ROFLMAO . please make this into a movie... -Jax
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The greatness of music. - Sit back and hear the choir sing! ;) [By: mousie / 2005-06-14]
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that was brilliant - even though I didn't recognise any of the tunes, I could work out what most of them were from the actions -Shaede
That page embeds a Windows Media Player object so it won't work in Firefox. Looks like teh webmaster also doen't believe there are other browsers out there -- he assumes everyone has MSIE. Here's the direct link to the WMV file: http://www.missouri.edu/~bah347/gprime/nintendothemesacappellax.wmv -- enjoy. -chazz
erm.. Not true. ^.- I use firefox and it works just fine in my browser. -mousie
**sigh** you are right. But you do need to have MS Media Player on your machine, complete with the associated DRMware, and one thing in the license agreement that makes you say "Hmm...": "These OS components may include teh .Net Framework. You are not allowed to publish results of any benchmark tests of the .Net Framework without prior written consent from Microsoft." Hmm... -chazz
I downloaded that a while ago. I laughed my a$$ off for "Tetris". -TheSingingTech
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Office Space Movie Website - Ok as you most likely all know, Hawk likes the movie Office Space...just a little. Well in 1999 Fox let the domain registration slip and lost the movie's domain officeguy.com (someone from the Eastern part of the world picked it up, and is doing some squating), well I always wondered what happened to it, and after doing some IP scanning, found it!
The site sucks but for nostalgic reasons its very cool...enjoy. [By: Hawk / 2005-06-09]
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wow haven't seen this site in years -Imrcly
heh heh, kewl :) -Spyder19
omfg, non acidic flashbacks! [damn i feel old] -omegawolf
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For Coyote's Ire - Not that I believe it at all.
PS: One of the supervisors where I work is in the news as well. [By: Chipsterian / 2005-06-08]
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Star Powers can be used for ill as well as good. Oops, I didn't mean to post this here. -Chipsterian
Where The Wild Things Are... like, the helpdesk? *blinks* -teivrann
"a pack of coyotes or wolves had been in their yard and attacked and left the area with a cat." Attacked what? and if they left with the cat was the cat the ring-leader? -PID1
Ok I ***REALLY*** need to get my fucking eyes tested. I read that as "Pack of coyotes or wolves steal a car on Val Street"and thought, damn! yeah they *ARE* becoming a problem!. -Digital Dogcow
DD, that's the funniest shizt I've heard in a long time. Unfortunately I was eatting a Star Wars Pop Tart and spew it across my screen. AH hell, the laugh was worth it. -RA
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Epic - SFW, Audio warning, direct link to a (12MB!) .swf file. What might happen if Google continues. [By: Veinor / 2005-06-07]
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Cute MOV file - Cute littls show - very PIXAR (think of the light in the opening sequence) [By: Divinar / 2005-06-07]
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Oops! I bumped the previous "cool link" - I didn't realize there could be only ONE! -Divinar
Very cute but took 1/2 and hour to download on DSL. I forgot it was DLing & it scared me when the music started! -Tekkie
it's a 30 MB file - how slow is your dsl?
-Divinar
Took a while for me too, although not that long. Probably bandwidth issues on the site since it's been posted here. -RiffRaff
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So much for peace and quiet - Just when it seems like the government has wheeled out all it's stupid ideas, they dream up this god awful attempt to fleece Joe Public some more. [By: Armakuni / 2005-06-06]
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I have to admit that this does sound like a good idea, somewhat... though you can just bet there will be a black market in GPS scramblers. Interesting thing about taxes: people change behaviour to avoid them. For instance: When they introduced GST in Canada, it replaced the FST, and was widely trumpeted as being "revenue-neutral". Well, fast-forward five years and guess what? It was revenue neutral. So many people were going underground / cash basis / no documents, that the GST was bringing in about the same amount as the FST had done before. And the government seemed so shocked by this revelation... And speed radar cameras? When they brought that program in, they said they weren't looking at it as a cash cow; they were going to be putting the vans at known trouble spots, to slow the cars down. Well, guess what? People slowed down... and the vans weren't paying for themselves. So they started putting them in places where they had said they wouldn't -- bottoms of hills and the like, and with the flash facing back so it went right into the drivers' eyes -- and the government fell, in part because the opposition promised to yank the speed camera vans. And did. -chazz
Of course, on reflection, this sounds even more like a bad idea. If they know what roads you're driving on, so they can tax you, then they know where you are. And this is a _massive_ invasion of privacy. Or, more precisely, it could be if the records are used for anything other than taxes... and you can just bet they will be. Welcome to Landing Strip One, Big Brother is watching you! Hey -- new product. "GPS Deceiver" -- overpowers the GPS receiver with the correct signals to make it appear that you are somewhere else... -chazz
Gee, officer, I didn't drive that car much - It sat in the driveway almost every day, while I took public transit. Just check the GPS log... Pay no attention to the pile of electronic equipment in the garage... -Divinar
I'm presuming you'd be presented with a tax bill that is meant to be an accurate representation of all your driving on each roadway, which means they would theoretically know where you were at all times. And, if someone borrows your car, wouldn't you need to collect the tax for their trip or be forced to pay for miles you didn't drive? And would old, non-equiped cars become illegal or would there be a booming business in selling untrackable vehicles? And if a borrowed car were involved in an accident or used for a bank robbery, do you get arrested? Will there be penalties for vehicles with malfunctioning trackers? If you did park your vehicle for a couple of weeks while you vacation, do you get a call asking what you're up to? -Tekkie
I don't have to worry, I bike everywhere, When they tax that it's time to killem all! -Wolfie0827
If they took it one step further, they could replace the speed cameras... if they know what road you are on, and how far you travelled, all they have to do is work out how long it took you to travel that distance, and bam! instant speeding ticket..... -Shaede
The worries me greatly. I read a piece on the proposed scale of charges - the lightest road user would be about £50 per year better off, but the heaviest users would be about £4000 worse! If it was to replace the extortionate fuel tax that would be one thing, but I do not believe that will happen. I wish politicians would get the idea that it is stupid to tax people off the road *before* providing a viable alternative! I have no choice but to drive around, there are no buses going to my office, and none going anywhere near half of my clients. This is the same stupidity that encourages developers to allow 4 parking spaces per 20-person office to 'encourage public transport', but doesn't provide a sodding bus route! -smellystudent
They really want to kibollux their economy, don't they? Who's going to drive when they get dinged everytime they press the accelerator? -vacuumtubes
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Surprise! - Safe for work. [By: Veinor / 2005-06-04]
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Another one by Jonti, author of badgerbadgerbadger... you have been warned... -chazz
*FWAP* Bad Veinor! No more cookies for you. You get them all over your be-ed (ACK!) -pcgod
I've really gotta learn to listen to those warnings! now my ears are bleeding. Thanks alot Veinor! paybacks are hell.<BFEG> -wolfprince
Is it wrong that I find that song enjoyable?? -Slycat
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHHHHHHH......... -Wolfie0827
i've had worse songs stuck in my head -razmann
Sorry Veinor - but I'm going to have to kill you now (its F#$%ing stuck in my head!) -Harm
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Zombie Goats!! - Ohhhh..... SFW? Where do you think I found it! BTW, turn up your speakers, no really, turn up your speakers, there is sound. [By: redevil34 / 2005-06-04]
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How very bizarre but cute! -Tekkie
"They gets stiff, but it only lasts a few seconds." - is it just me or does the goat expert sound bitter? -Harm
As I have said everywhere else that has shown this, THIS is a prime example of how FUCKED UP our species is. We are laughing over animals suffering from a disease, do you realize that? Those goats are suffering from a brain anomaly not unlike epilepsy, and people are paying MONEY to watch them get scared over and over. Did you notice the part about it not happening when they're just left alone with each other? WAKE UP! That means YOU are doing something they don't like! WHERE is the ASPCA in this? -Calydor
Calydor... This is no different than going to a circus to see people swallow swords or pound nails into their noses. It's a genetic anomaly, not a disease. It's like tourettes... Not a disease, just an anomaly. -exzyle2k
In the circus, those people have CHOSEN to do this. These goats are not given that choice, and I stand by my statement: This is animal cruelty. -Calydor
I copied this to the Break Room for discussion. -Tekkie
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Crazy Fuckin Frog - Roll up Roll up, your chance to blow a big hole in that damn frog, enjoy this one folks [By: Armakuni / 2005-06-03]
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39ft -neuman1812
hee hee 59 feet -stpatience
79 feet...first try. hehe I think ill enjoy this. -xtc46
Only 39 feet... but the shotgun blast sure sounds nice with the subwoofers! -chazz
83 first try.god i hate that fuckin frog!!!!!! -starfishmagnet
fscking SWEET! Just for kicks I shot as soon as I could - 9 ft, took awhile to come down. -redevil34
managed to get to, with a little practice, up to 91 feet. -stpatience
76 so far, and enjoying every second of it. I also loathe and detest that flea-ridden fucking frog. -Gromit
6 feet now...HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE -redevil34
w00t! 72 feet after 3 tries. This is fun. *goes back to blasting the frog* -teivrann
91 feet!
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88 feet, and thank god I've never seen that frog before -PID1
91 feet. I think Im addicted :( Im now going for the shortest possible. -xtc46
85 feet, with a bit of practice...wheeeeee! -lineswine
91 Feet! Took a few tries though. -TheSingingTech
92 1/2 feet and a lot of tries. Ha! -DavidHM
92 took awhile but i got it -Imrcly
86... damn time wasting game -srteach
91 1/2..... and a very pissed of fiancee. -RA
93, a couple of 91s and a bunch in the 80s. -ecoli
91 -Slycat
96 only once. now quit wasting my time. -srteach
A ring-d-d-ding ding *cough* barm barm....wheeeeee! <Legs it sharpish in the general direction of the LART shelter> -lineswine
88 feet, and thank god I've never seen that frog before -PID1
Exactly 90! Midsection landed right on the line. :) -cheater200227
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The Phobia List - I actually discovered this back in highschool and recently found it just stomping around Google today. It's actually really funny in some places, considering that there's actually a clinical phobia centered around peanut butter getting stuck to the roof of your mouth and fear of the Dutch. [By: murdermachine / 2005-05-31]
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I found it! The PHB and starfish disease: Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions. They don't want your opinion because they're AFRAID of it. -virtualchoirboy
All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required." -razmann
I'm curious to find the fear of stupid people. I usually break out in a sweat when I hear those dreaded words "I'm having problems with my computer..." -DragonMageWTF
I knew it had to be there, and I found it. Phobophobia- Fear of phobias. -jard
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words. Bwahahaha! -LadySharky
Cyberphobia - fear of computers or working on computers. That's what I'm surrounded by.. -thebombthewoman
Anglofobia is kinda fun :-) -Bilkor
I used to have Nomatophobia- Fear of names but I couldn't tell anyone about it. -Gerund
Gerund -- because you were afraid to say the name? -chazz
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Required equipment for techs - (Third times the charm?) I may have to finally break down and buy some of these. [By: virtualchoirboy / 2005-05-23]
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We should all stock up on those.. for no other reason to get a slight repreve from the que. -Harm
I ordered a bunch of these some time ago (not the plastic ones). People love it when you give them one. -JustAGirl
when I was a kid, I saw I guy stick a card under the wiper of a car that had parked so it took up 3 spots in a parking lot, I asked the man what the card was and he gave me one, it was mickey mouse flipping the bird tell the card holder "Nice parking Job asshole" I've looked and looked and I have never been able to find them. -drachen
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Help fund mammograms - After my reply to ST mentioning this site, a starless member WB'd me asking if I could post it more prominently. I'd been thinking of doing that anyway.
The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on the pink button in the middle labeled "Fund Free Mammograms." I do this every day from both home and work PCs. [By: purplelinguist / 2005-05-23]
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Thanks for the link, PL! -Tekkie
Many thanks, will be clicking daily,and sharing it out.... -timelady
consider it clicked and passed on to the family. great aunt is a survivor. -rhiannon
Clicked and shared to friends, family, and coworkers. Thanks purple for posting it! :) -taieena
I'm on it... -PTSTech
Ditto - Mrs. G's had two run-ins with breast cancer, both stopped well in time thanks to mammograms (available free in the UK on the NHS). -Gromit
added to my favorites, will click everyday -jwinc7
(Gentle Smile) My great thanks to you... I, too, have added this link to my bar-o-faves. I'll hit it each day I can as well. -ShujinTribble
I added it also, and I'll be handing the link out, especially to my boyfriend, his mom has been in remission for almost 10 years and counting, she was 32 when she was diagnosed! -blowpop81
At last, banner ads that don't annoy me. :) -gr4p34p3
Two things: 1) This is a fantastic link and I think everyone should "get clicky with it." 2) I feel sorry for the tech that posts the next link of the day. :) -maciarc
I dont think anyone is gona bump this link for a long time. Maybe a link on the main page ? -Deadagent
i passed it on to a friend who has it as his homepage. his wife is currently in the hospital, [get better d!!!]. -omegawolf
Thanks all for the wonderful responses. -purplelinguist
I agree. This seems to qualify as "The Link That Shouldn't Die". What say a petition to Hawk to give this one a perminant home somwehere easy to spot? -ShujinTribble
Make it a sticky in the "Help Me" forum, perhaps? -Grue
Yeah, this link should be put somewhere else, but still gets noticed. No one will post a new offsite link until it happens, for obvious reasons. -Mewtwo
Hawk, i suspect we need a more permanent links to special sites, such as the chatroom, and definitely this mammogram one. Maybe in the side menu - call it special sites, undr news?
I won't be posting any links over this one:) -timelady
How about in the 'links' section? -smellystudent
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Shameless Self-Promotion! - My new program is officially released... I'm still working on some features, so expect updates soon... but with a pregnant wife and being out of work, I had to get it out the door!
Trust me, what's currently in there is stable and working fine (at least on XP)... Please try it out. :) [By: EagleEye / 2005-05-21]
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This requires a 34MB download for the .NET framework & service pack which the app. runs under. I'll maybe give it a go, but I wouldn't advise anyone to try it who is using dial-up. -lineswine
Will probably be leaving you a few suggestions - but a good start. It's pretty thorough. -teivrann
Just put out a few minor tweaks and bug fixes... 2 days after release and I'm already on version 1.1 :) -EagleEye
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Very interesting article... - I farking hate Paris Hilton, but this is a very interesting article outlining how her cell phone got "hacked". [By: scooby111 / 2005-05-20]
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Yup. The weakest security link isn't always technology. In fact, I'd wager it's the receptionist, in most cases. ;) -snowcrash
Nice. I worked for a bank where there would be a daily password and a weekly password (spoken, not typed) to share information with coworkers -- and only one would be requested, if it was asked at all. Plenty of possibilities for personal data harvesting with a smile and a story. -Mushroom
hmmm , I wonder.. -Harm
You mean Im not the only one that HATES her? -Deadagent
Her only talent is wasting our oxygen -Mur
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Exploding Germans! - Sorry to bump Leo, but this is too funny. My question is, if he had so much fumes as to cause an explosion, how long would it have been before he died from breathing the stuff, assuming he *hadn't* blown the apartment up? Almost had a Darwin Award winner here! [By: SwedishChef / 2005-05-17]
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Bad Spark station! BAD! -Harm
I'd have to guess an older AT-class machine with a physical power switch... -chazz
I was think univac with tubes real hot. -joebob
Don't worry about it. I got 3 days on the front page :) And yes! This was a funny story, I read it earlier that day. -leonine
he closed the windows, sprayed all this stuff around, and remained in the house and surfed the web? that right there should be evidence enough of his intelligence level -razmann
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Not exactly a 'cool link'.. - ...but I had to share. It's working on brain tumors, other cancers can't be too far behind. (Ok, so I'm a little excited. ) [By: persephone / 2005-05-17]
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thats fantastic news.....
having just lost another father in law to cancer, and knowing you situation, cant come quickly enough!!!! -timelady
that is fantastic, persephone. Hey, cool doesn't have to mean... funny sort of cool. -Mahal
I just read this earlier today. This is fantastic news. -teivrann
This is verry good news indeed. My fathe rhad a brain tumor. Wish this had been on the market earlier. Might have saved a bit of problems. -Servo
Thiladomide has been known to fight blood cancer as well, event though it's known for it's alarming birth defects. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1481153.stm -NOFXfan
wow, that's really interesting... -mousie
It does sound like very hopeful research. As long as they stick a warning on of 'do not take whilst pregnant' I think it'll be fine. -CommanderData
The general name for this type of drug is called, "Anti-Angio-Genesis" (Avastin is also one) and it's a brand new class of drug. And yes, Thaledomide has been tried to stop some cancers - My Fujin is on that now (saddly, not working). If you think a "Good Word" doesn't make a difference, send emails to the company and Thank them for the work they're doing. It >does< make a difference. -ShujinTribble
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Waiting for responses <grin> - Force-o-Meter...light or dork meat? (I mean...uhh...dark side) [By: CTYankee / 2005-05-13]
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Fun...Mace Windu - "You're a supreme bad-ass Jedi who resonates with the force. Yoda is your best mate" - damn stuck with the old green dude. -redevil34
lol apparently im Grand Moff Tarkin. -GefahrMaus
I'm PRINCESS FRELLING LEIA?!? "An almost virginal purity"?
Aahahahhah. I TOLD you guys that I was pure and innocent. -The Coyote
I got Mace. -pmillipede
I'm _Leia_ *boggles* Ummmm, help???? so not me!!! (Ok, ok, so I have compassion, but I swear it won't interfer!) -taieena
Han Solo: You're a loveable rogue maverick, a little bit woo, a little bit way. Beneath all that scoundrel schtick you are essentially good. When a dog barks, you know what it's on about. -virtualchoirboy
Grand Moff Tarkin. *snerk* And yet nobody believes I'm evil. -pixel
Han Solo here -Darkwolf
Mace here. -BunnieTechBabe
Freakin' Leia?
<sigh> -Painkiller
Full of the force I am. Yes, to the tip of my ears, yes. Although I still am vertically challenged. -NotMe
I....AM LUKE SKYWALKER! But I'm no where near as whiny so...stoooooop teeeeaaaaassssssing meeeeeeeee! -rokitt
I got Luke Skywalker -jwinc7
...mother..f....damn it. I went back because I was unhappy with two answers I gave. I changed them...and..
Still Princess frelling Leia.... -The Coyote
Poor Coyote bun-bun head...I ended up as Han Solo as well. -Grue
I got Luke too. -JoeLugian
Grand Moff Tarkin here as well. I can't hide my evilness no matter how much I try. -SwedishChef
Woo hoo! Han Solo. Now where are all the Chicks! -normntaz
Princess Leia?!?!? Oooooookay. -TheSingingTech
Mace here too -Zoomer
i got tarkin too -razmann
Obi Ben Kenobi [sic] Yoda respects your talents, and even death won't stop you from floating around giving young Luke advice. -purplelinguist
Luke -Veinor
Han solo. -ewspy87
...and i would shoot first. -ewspy87
Yoda I am. -Torinir
Ben? Ben Kenobi? (Huh. Who'd've thought?) -snowcrash
Darth Maul. KICK ASS!! -TechnoVampire
Given the comments posted so far, I am REALLY curious where burkiss will end up. Jabba The Hut possibly? <mad dash for LART shelter> -virtualchoirboy
What the?? I'm Jar Jar Binks!! LOL, just joking. Princess Leia is what I got. -jard
Mace. although I insist quoting religiouse scriptures previouse to offing the bad guys. -Harm
Han Solo. Must be because I can understand Chewbacca, but wasn't there a question about dealing with hairy people that I answered "it doesn't take much effort to keep clean" to? We already know what my answer regarding pigeons would be. :-D -Mushroom
Princess Leia??! This game sucks, lol. -leonine
Mace Windu here -StylinTechie
I got 5. I'm a Princess !!! -RTFM
Chalk up another wonky face here. -TheMage18
Han Solo here. -firebird2k2
Leia of all things. Need to do something manly tonight. -Mur
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LEO!!! - I really hate to bump that awesome star wars link, but I'm finally up and running (although I only have a bare bones page right now). Like I said on the message board, this opening story will run for about 6 weeks, then Leo will be hired by Crappy Cable and all hell breaks loose.
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Bravo! Very,very nice. BTW, is that The Coyote on the far right of the last panel? It sure looks like him! LOL :D -rokitt
Congratulations on getting it started! -Grue
sweet another webcomic to read, especially good since QoW is in reruns. and that does appear to be coyote on the right -rhiannon
Like the style, it'll be on my list of dailies. I am going to suggest, though, that if you can save as PNG or GIF, rather than JPG, it will give the comic a cleaner look. -chazz
I really like this.. Is that OUR coyote in that chair? LOL -THETECHFROMHELL
So when's the next installment? -TheMage18
I don't have the bio page up yet, but the coyote on the right is the creation of a co-worker and not TSC's coyote. His name is Matt Allin and he things he's a great poker player. BTW, I've worked in my 1st TSC reference on panel #24, but it may not be obvious at 1st glance..... -leonine
PS: thanks for the advice....I am still new at that and all critisizm is welcome... -leonine
Taco....niiiiiice. -VIPERsssss
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Burkiss in Utah? - This is just wrong on so many levels. [By: LaserGuru / 2005-05-12]
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Now whats so wrong with standing naked outside ones apartment? why no ma'am i'm not pointing at.. oh, well then I stand corrected. -Harm
I DIDNT DO IT. I swear!! <puts pants back on> -burrkiss
Ok, ok, I did, but you got to understand that I didnt do it on purpose. I mean COME ON it was a miniskirt, I was commando, and I'm hung. It was dangling out the bottom. -burrkiss
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NASA's in the shit again. - "This is the voice of the Mysterons......we know that you can hear us Earthmen......You were warned - that fucking thing isn't atuck in a sand trap, it ran over my left tentacle so I crapped on it, OK? Now get out of that... [By: Gromit / 2005-05-11]
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You'd think they'd learn to recognize lightning sand when they approached it. Actually I'm impressed it lasted this long. -Olorin
Haven't seen any flame spurts or Rodents of Unusual Size yet, though, have they? -chazz
ROUSes, I dont think they exist -NotMe
"I'll get us out of this Marge, it's just gonna take a whole lot o floorin'" </Homer> -Armakuni
Can they take a Mulligan and start over? -vacuumtubes
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BT are shite - It's not just me :-) [By: smellystudent / 2005-05-10]
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Yup, makes you think, dunnit. It takes someone from another planet - er, country - to point out what shit we have come to habitually tolerate from BT 'cos there's no fucking alternative. If they were to improve 200% they'd become merely incompetent. Now, if you REALLY want incompetence, mix BT with Demon.... -Gromit
Most is this guys difficulties stem from the previous tenants (in)action.
As for 'everything so sooo much easier in the USA', how come my friends in California haven't a cat in hells chance of getting Broadband of any type?
As for sideways remarks about teeth etc. how many airline seats did he have to buy to get his ass flown over here? -lineswine
If anything is "easier" in the USA, it's this--it's easier to get caught in the conundrum this guy got into. I think our country not only invented multi-leveled bureaucracy, we applied for patent. No, wait, I'm wrong, it's the French who can take credit for that ....:-) -vacuumtubes
As some people on the /. thread point out, 95% of the time you get what you asked for, where and when you asked for it. That 5%, however, they seem to go out of their way to make as painful and convoluted as possible. Try getting a DACS removed from a line so you can get adsl on it... go on, try. Dare ya. -smellystudent
"The BT lady, of course, being skilled in such matters, refused to allow me to file a complaint".
Reading that brings back memories, not v.fond ones though.
-RTFM
I sit here in "Zone 1" of Central London and find that I have to use dialup as most of the hotels here do NOT offer broadband/ethernet/wireless service. Also, a lot of the Internet Cafes have closed that used to be down here - not sure why. Very disappointed because as a Chicago native, cannot think of a hotel in downtown Chicago that is not wired. As a former ADSL Technical Project Manager, we brought the ADSL time from 6-8 weeks down to 3-7 days thanks to self-install kits and auto-provisioning of DSLAMS in the Midwest. -BesideMyself
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SwedishChef sells out.... - I have been looking aroud the Net, and found out that Our Swedish Chef has sold out, he has given up on computers and starfish, and is now modeling - and you can buy replicas... ;) [By: Wonko The Sane / 2005-05-07]
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and I'll borka-borka-borkya like the swedish chef </bloodhound gang> -illiterate
No, that site is selling the Swëdish Chëf, not our Swedish Chef. Obviously, it's a cheap knockoff. -angrymacface
I imagined him much taller. Only 640mm tall!!
-SFishWrangler
For the record, I have *NOT* sold out. I have been shamelessly duplicated by a cheap overseas manufacturer hoping to make good on my likeness. Rest assured, my lawyers are already dealing with this, and should they fail, my cleavers are nice and sharp. >:-) -SwedishChef
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A bad trip - Far out, man! The dolphins are like totally trippin'. Duuuude. Warning, may trigger seizures and brain damage in small children and computer techs. [By: mousie / 2005-05-04]
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I want some of whatever the creator of that visual feast has been taking -Darkwolf
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Burrito Boy - School Mistakes Huge Burrito for a Weapon [By: ch41nbr8kr / 2005-05-04]
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I believe that would be burrkiss' weapon of choice. -Tekkie
couldn't this still constitiute a weapon? i mean cmon...that many beans???? -gashach
I believe it would be a better weapon in the hands of CommanderData.... -Grue
Back off!!! i have a burrito and Im willing to use it! -neuman1812
Wait! This could be the chemical weapons were looking for in Iraq, Alert the FBI! -neuman1812
Grue, CD reacts to sweeteners, burrkiss is the burrito bomber! -Tekkie
In some people's hands (or lower GI tracts) a burrito is a weapon of mass destruction. LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR!! Now, the real question is whether the bomb squad detonated the burrito in the parking lot as protocol dictates. -Mushroom
Seriously, though, doesn't this sound like anti-terrorism paranoia taken a little too far? -Captain Trips
I've got a large burrito. Aint noone taking a bite outta it tho. -burrkiss
OMG! How many schools around the country pass thier day with 0 national incidents, but they still believe they could beat the odds, and have something bad happen. sheesh! :) -Chronotis
Sweetners *and* sugar - one makes me fart uncontrollably and the other turns me into Taz. -CommanderData
"Are yer fingers good? Cuz ya gotta have good fingers to handle burritos....an' I got one of those big ones!" </play on Jerky Boys> -vacuumtubes
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US Students Get No Love Overseas - This is simply hilarious. US Exchange students can't get laid overseas because of our foreign policies. Thanks a lot, Bush. [By: murdermachine / 2005-05-01]
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Addendum: I find this most sad because I used to desparately want to travel to Paris and sleep with a beautiful French woman. But NOOOOO, I'm American and therfore, evil! Fucking French bastards. -murdermachine
Not to rain on your parade, Murdy, but it's an Onion article.. most all of those are satire. Damn funny.. but not necessarily true. I did particularly like this one. The statistics they quote are a riot.. -NightSteel
Its good to be a Canuck, they like us everywhere! -RandalGraves
"Reason number 35 why America sucks: No national health care!" </German youth hosteller from last night's Simpsons> -QuinTech
thats why when you travel abroad you claim canadian. eh?
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huh... oddley enough i don;t think it was COMPLETLY due to US foreign policy. I'm sure a good number of the frustrated students have other social problems. I love being Canadian. -Harm
If your in college and rate at least a 3 on a 0 - 10 scale (10 being the best) of personal hygiene, and you are still having issues getting laid, then, the problem is all yours an has NOTHING to do where you are from. -jard
Buy a whore and stop whining. 8-) -OhioTech
Really? *thinks about it* Even if you're female? I would think that gender may have a factor in this. -snowcrash
Really. Amsterdam has not only its Red Light district but has a Blue Light (Transvestites) and Pink Light (men)and has possibly the worlds most explicit newspaper adverts even in what would be staid newspapers elsewhere. Anyone with any orientation can find something to suit them In Amsterdam. Mrs Zoomer did think me walking around with tickets to the Sex Museum sticking out of my hat band was too blatant though.
-Zoomer
F Paris. Don't bother if you haven't been. Rude as all hell. French Riviera on the other hand was a blast.
Although Amsterdam is a fun place to go. Next I try to see Iceland.
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Complaint Department - How to write a complaint like you were SC [By: neuman1812 / 2005-04-30]
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filled one out for pres. bush, right on the money, should send it to my congressman... like that would do anything -razmann
Yeah Razmann, it'd probably get you a few FBI agents knocking on your door. -firebird2k2
hehe I did one on bush too; it complained about his social programs -blazingriver
I showed this to a friend who filled it out to the Rubber Turdco, just because he wanted to see the Rubber Turdco on a webpage. -teivrann
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Toad in the HOLE!!!!! - Amphibians of mass destruction [By: Armakuni / 2005-04-28]
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Now if we can just get the SF to do that! Oh, the carnage! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! -ecoli
hmm wonder what would happen if you could expose starfish to that water ... GET IN THE POOL!!!! lol -LiQUidICicle
The way some of the SF sound on the phone it seems as if they are actualy swelling to the point of bursting.. -imawreque
Thuckrutes! See if we can obtain some for Pond Life. That should stop Gnome nodding off.... -Gromit
Indeed, sir... but might it not prove a little... messy... for the other inhabitants? -Thuckrutes
Same has been going on here in Denmark at several locations. First time I read about it I also got visions about starfishes exploding! -NordicPT
Actually, since it seems to be that the toads are getting holes pecked in them by crows, shouldn't we be importing crows into PondLife? Though I can think of better ways, I think, to keep the Gnome awake... -chazz
heh. heheheheh...... I'm filled with a morbid sense of curiosity. ;) >:D -mousie
Yeah, chazz, humour mousie and I! How would you keep Gnome awake? -snowcrash
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Justice in the world? - Posted on Spam Kings today. You need to read the update at the end of the article, but at first glance, it seemed that AOL was going to block itself from sending and receiving mail. So close! [By: da5ve / 2005-04-26]
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Too bad. Would have been nice if the AOLiens would have been blocked. I wouldn't have been able to receive the stupid five year old forwards most of my family feels compelled to send to me. -JustAGirl
Make that wouldn't *have had* to receive, rather than wouldn't *have been able* to receive. -JustAGirl
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I think we all know how this feels..... - Funny little flash animation with a song...PLEASE for the love of *Deity* turn down your sound...it may not be safe for work, but I'm not sure. [By: halfstarfish / 2005-04-25]
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Hehe, saw this one when it first appeared on atomfilms. It's what prompted me to spend two hours mucking about with the flash activex control to rig up a flash to video converter that I wouldn't have to pay for. Result: I've got this on a DVD somewhere. -pmillipede
I've seen this before. I love the fact that it has the cute and fuzzy bunnies on it... -BunnieTechBabe
That got passed around my office a few months ago. Every! Morning! I'd walk in to hear about how everyone else was having more sex than mr bunny. ;) -mousie
It's my theme song. And does anyone else find Ms. 1718 hot?(or am i just a perv.) -Wolfie0827
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I SOOOO Want one of these! - After they finish the prototype, of course! SFW [By: SwedishChef / 2005-04-25]
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OHHHH BABY, that would have been handy when those mormons came round at the weekend >:] -Armakuni
I WANNA A NEW ED209 :) -Armakuni
SOO want one... hmm.. then outfit the sides with vulcan cannons.. and maybe a stinger.. ohh yea. -Harm
It'll scare the shit outta Luddites... -Veinor
a GE-Cal.50 on each side, 2 mount JCM launcher, and 4 CLAAWs vertically launched on the backside :) -slowANDeasy
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U could B dumber 4 it - ...and get a load of who commissioned the study. [By: redevil34 / 2005-04-23]
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"the same sort of vigilance maintained by slot machine gamblers" - this could explain a lot about SF. -redevil34
It's not too hard to just TURN OFF the cell phone/pager/e-mail/IM program either. -Starfury
Oh nice they are trying to say the techs are now supid??? Damm star fish. -pepsiguy
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Who's the friggin starfish !!!! - All I can ask is: Was that really necessary ? [By: RTFM / 2005-04-23]
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They call that an uncontrollable 5-year-old? Looks like a normal 5-year-old to me. -pcgod
They shoul've just used a taser on the kid. Having a 5 and 7 yr old I think about that sometimes...or "Chilrens Chewable Valium" -Starfury
If that had been my kid (not that I have any), I would be glad that the police followed through. Let the kid know that getting the police called on them is serious stuff. Thing is, if our society didn't have such an anti corporeal punishment bent, the teacher could have 'resolved' the situation without calling the police. -ThreeBucks
Ah.. that's going to far.. that's like saying that a dog should be put down for pooping on your front lawn and the owner didn't scoop it. The mother shouldn't win the lawsuit, but those "officers" need some serious training on how to deal with kids. Course if it was my kid I'd probably be wanting them fired.. -spectreoflife
I saw several minutes of the video this morning. Child was Way Out of control. A two or three year old might act like that but five year old, no way. I have four children, age 32,30,17,and 13. The 13 year old acted just like that when he was three but we got him to behave before we sent him to kindergarten. -volmtech
Fuck these spoiled-brat kids. They just grow up to be spoiled-brat juvenile delinquents. The few that survive into adulthood without going to prison become my fucking customers. Maybe killing off the bottom 10% of each class would adjust their attitudes. As for this girl, she assaulted a teacher. Repeatedly. Fuck her. I'll tell you this much: the first little shit that lays a hand on Magenta like that won't live to see the next school day. Fucking punks. Kill 'em all and let the deity of your choice sort 'em out. -RiffRaff
If the kid swung at a teacher, then the only thing a teacher can do IS call the cops. The teacher/principal cannot even defend themselves without raising the 'you hit my kid' objection. I have seen 14 year old kids that outweighed, & out muscled, their teachers and if they were bullys, then I would TOTALLY SUPPORT a teacher having to go so far as to taser a student out fo self-defence. The video...ah the video..that kid was doing the "I Don' Wanna Do It" Squirm when she was handled and arrested. <continued> -Psudo
To conclude: I am with RiffRaff on this. Well, mebby a little less 'rabid' and a litle more rational. If the kid is hitting, cussing and generally being a pain in the ass, (and ignoring the 'time out rules...yeah right..time out: another rant, another time.) And our teachers are - BY LAW - not allowed to give them a good smack on the ass, then the cops are the only thing left. And the cops are only trained one way to cuff idiots. In the video I thought they were nice...no mace/papper spray. -Psudo
Kids should not touch teachers. Teachers should not touch kids. Whoever breaks this commandment loses the right to go home at the end of the day without bruises. Did the mother expect them to let her kid thrash around for an hour before she got there? -chefque
teachers should be allowed to carry cattle prods for uncontrolable kids. unfortuneatly corperal punishment in school has gon the way of the dodo and theres alot of litte pieces of shit that need it. and fuck the mom and the bleeding hearts who wanna whine about cuffing this little bitch. if i had pulled that shit my mom would have thanked the cops for cuffing me ,would have made it easier for her to beat my ass. -GefahrMaus
Last time i looked assault was a criminal offence, therefore the law has been broken and the kid is a criminial albeit a junior, but still a criminal. If the kid is lashing out then the cops should handcuff the little shite. Just cause "IT" calmed down doesn't mean it won't go off on one again. If someone pulls a gun on you, you don't have to wait for them to shoot you or the police before you disarm them, whilst fists don't do the same damage, why should it be any different. Kid broke law, kid is criminal, kid should be restrained by any means necessary. QED. -Armakuni
After watching it again, all i can say is hardline but fair. -Armakuni
spectreoflife - One thing to say to that, a law enforcement officer is trained to handle situations in a certain way. I don't care how old the person is - if they're acting like that, they get cuffed; if they're going in my car they get cuffed (and searched)...basically once you assault someone else, you get cuffed - because I'm not going to be responsible for not restraining you and have you go off and assault someone again. You can go the easy way and let me do it or you can fight me and it probably will hurt in some way shape or form....been there, done that. My LIFE/WELL-BEING and the LIVES/WELL-BEING of others have priority over someone's displeasure with being cuffed - bottom line, if you don't like/want to be put in cuffs, don't do something to get yourself there. -redevil34
My kid is 2 1/2 now. If he pulls that kind of stuff when he hits Kindergarten, if the cops don't handle him, believe me, I WOULD!!! -TheSingingTech
wtf...that kid wasnt out of control. hell my little brother (6 years old now) is worse than that some times and i WISH a cop would handcuff the little shit some times. scare the damn kids straight and make an example out of the first one. -xtc46
Dunno about the rest of you, but if I had to be disciplined at school, I caught the real punishment when I got home. This sounds like a 'mommy with a child as a fashion accessory' type. -CTYankee
I just watched the video clip and I feel so sad that it had to come to this. I work in what Americans call pre school and us in England call nursery we have chilren of 3 and 4 having tantrums a lot worse than this. We are allowed to restrain the children if they are in danger of hurting themselves or hurting others. I have had chunks of hair pulled out and been spat at bitten and kicked but I have never even contemplated calling the police. I think America needs to get out of the lawyers and sue for everything culture and think how the world is going to be when kids know there is nothing adults can do to them to make them behave.
Parents need to learn that their little darlings can and will do things wrong and it doesn't make you a bad mum or dad to say no to your kids. Discipline needs to start at home.
How come parenting is the most important job someone can do and it's about the only one where you don't need to pass an exam to do. -LadyLineswine
Well I have a feeling that this clip did NOT show everything and most cops I know would not cuff a 5 years for nothing. I do agree that if my daughter does anything like this she will wish for the cops to take care of her. -MightyMouse
Well after watching it again I think the teacher handled the situation very well and cops explained what was going to happen and tried to peacefully handcuff her. She resisted and still the cops did all they could do to comfort her while still cuffing her. My mother was an elementry nurse for over a decade and can relate some very gory tales of child violence apon others. -MightyMouse
I remember when I was in kindergarten, i f anyone acted like that (in any grade). you were sent to the principal's office and strapped. It might sound harsh, but when you look at our generation compared to the new generation coming out now, I think we are more well behaved and civil. Parents nowadays are just bribing their kids with candy and priveledges or threatening the kids with groundings and timeouts. More and more starfish in the making -LiQUidICicle
The lawsuit has already been announced by the mother and her *scum sucking* lawyer. -ecoli
If ANY of mine horde behaved that way - they'd face a hell of a lack of sympathy from me. Mind you, I wouldn't let a 5 yo get to that state - the tantum stage should end with toddlerhood. Mother needs classes, kid needs some therapy.... -timelady
teachers should be allowed to carry cattle prods for uncontrolable kids.
amen to that. -THETECHFROMHELL
My son was quite a handful when he was little. He has ADHD, and sometimes he through quite a fit. But two things I taught him at an early age was that no matter how angry or frustrated he got, #1) he was never to hit another person or animal, and #2) There would be consequences for whatever he did, even during tantrums. He didn't always remember the consequences part and did not always think it was fair when he got punished, but he was never violent. There were times when he refused to do school work but he would just sit stubbornly with his arms folded refusing to do the work. The tantrum never began until he got home and found that he was in trouble. I can't imagine a child acting like that. There is no way that is normal behavior and anyone who thinks it is should take a long hard look at their own children, because if this behavior is normal for your children, you need to get some help before it's too late. I think it's good that the cops handcuffed her and took her to her mother. From the video, it looks like they were appropriately gentle with her. Maybe now she will learn the importance of behaving in a civilized manor around other people, no matter how angry or frustrated you are. -wenwilli
My mother taught 1st graders that acted like that. Never called the cops, but did involve the school administrators. In the worse cases they found the child was severely, SEVERELY, neglected or abused. I remember hearing about one of her students that were tied to a chair at home for hours, so as not to bother the father. Another that was beating with electrical wire by the parents. More than once my mother was threatened by PARENTS for reporting their children as unruly. Odds are there is a history with this child and the parent. I hope the school has it’s documentation of problems with the kid in order. -Year9595
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The ultimate in out-sourcing ??? - I knew these companies were cut-throats, but this is just taking the piss. Alltogether now.... "Love, exciting and new..... come aboard ... we're expecting you....." [By: Digital Dogcow / 2005-04-21]
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Mmmm, how long till the pirate ship arrives? -itwasntme
Are they actually bragging about paying employees next to nothing in that commend about benifits of an offshore location? -halfstarfish
Oh. My. God. <br>
Can anyone say "Spam in a Can?" -Ulfgaard
<gets in sub and prepares to launch torpedo> -burrkiss
Is this the time to make a gag about seamen staines and roger the cabin boy :) -Armakuni
"ARRRR...We be here to take your jobs, ARRRRR..." -PTSTech
I echo the sentiments about the torpedoes...maybe a Los Angeles Class Fast Attack will do an emergency blow (get your minds out of the gutters) right underneath and slice it in two? -da5ve
*sings* "It's the Outsourcing Boat... dah dah dah dah doo doo dah daaaahhhh..." -teivrann
Out ofthe gutter... You mean there's someplace else for it to be? -Wolfie0827
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WTF? - WTF are you Seattle-area folks putting in the coffee NOW? [By: Grue / 2005-04-21]
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more money then brians.... -Harm
errr, brains too. -Harm
Mom will probably blame MTV. -burrkiss
Oh, that's nice! The little bastard isn't happy with a car that cost more than my house. Both parent & teenager should suffer 10,000 papercuts with my mortgage papers. -Tekkie
Ok this kid needs to be beaten, drawn & quartered and then shot in the street! -RandalGraves
So many comments, so little time..."I want a new caaaaaar!" "This is why I don't drink the coffee here." "First we upgraded computers, and now we can upgrade cars--what a world!" Okay, I'm done now. :) -snowcrash
Eastside= Bellevue/Medina (Think Bill Gates's neighborhood.) Spoiled little rich brats are farking stupid too. Everybody knows that the easiest way to get your car stolen is to park it overnight at the airport. A $50000 car will be gone in less than 12 hours *guaranteed*. -scooby111
^^^^What he said. For added fun, "accidentally" leave the "spare" key in the lock on the trunk. >:) -snowcrash
So even the rich get penis envy huh? <BFEG> -Digital Dogcow
I"m with Tekkie on this one. I don't even have a house. I live in an apartment and he is trying to scam a new car when he already has a BMW?!?!?!? He deserves a serious beating! -TheSingingTech
Next week is his son's birthday and, all he's ever wanted was an island in French Polynesia.///Kyle: So, he's gonna get it, right? ///I see an island without an owner. If things keep going the way they are, the child will not get his tropical paradise. -seventh
Uh, Scoob? I think the little sh*t wanted to double his money by selling it to a chop shop AND getting the insurance money. -CTYankee
I vote that we each get to LART him in person.. line will be starting shortly. -Z0nker
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Can you hear me now? I guess not. - "Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house?" he asked. "The customer has come to expect so much. They want it to work in the elevator, they want it to work in the basement." - Verizon CEO.
Don't know if this has been posted or not. I haven't seen it on here, but apologies if it has been. [By: JH / 2005-04-20]
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Whatta nim-cow-poop...typical... -PTSTech
Why not? My radio works in the house and in the basement. So does my TV (even if I unplug the CATV). So why wouldn't I expect my cell phone to work in the basement or the house? Granted, the elevator is a stretch. Verizon should either make a product that is worth a damn or STFU. Things like this are definitely not what one would consider good PR policy. I do agree with him on the idea of municipal wireless. Its a dumb, expensive and unconstitutional idea. -OhioTech
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The perfect gift to send fucknuggets! - Show 'em how you really care about their endless mewling and neeping.... [By: vacuumtubes / 2005-04-20]
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Wish I'd have known about this when I did my time on the phones. -ThreeBucks
That is really quite sick. And funny as hell. 'Human-made turds'... lol -teivrann
Also, unfortunately, probably illegal. IIRC, sending "noxious or harmful substances" through the US Mail is a federal crime, and I suspect none of the other carriers would be willing to take it on either. I'm going to guess this is a joke site. -chazz
I stand corrected. "[F]ecalgrams are not feces and do not contain anything that has passed through the digestive tract of any animal. They are completely non-toxic." -chazz
Wow. What an ideal present for the local <insert type> Nazi in your life :D -RTFM
Here's someone who received one:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0329051cat1.html -vacuumtubes
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IT Industry told to think of the kids - Once again, it's all the evil IT people's faults that kids are surfing the net unsupervised..... [By: CommanderData / 2005-04-19]
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Meh. Here's a novel idea: how about parents actually showing some RESPONSIBILITY where their kids are concerned? You simply watch what your child does while on the net (and that also extends to monitoring the amount of TIME spent on the net, too)! It's revolutionary, it's rational, it's effective - and it's FREE! The only thing you have to pay is ATTENTION!! </rant mode off> -PTSTech
Have to be devil's advocate. While we should, by all means, hold parents responsible, the fact is, many aren't. I see nothing wrong with doing everything we can to protect kids (who should not be punished for their parents being fuck-ups). BTW, the tone of ECPAT's comments seems to me more like, "The IT industry should do more," as opposed to, "The IT industry is at fault." That is, they're encouraging us to do more, not accusing us of malfeasance. -QuinTech
I don't know if I agree with you QuinnTech. "The IT industry should do more to protect kids online, according to campaigners, who believe that tech companies should spend dosh to create a global child protection organisation and use their expertise to regulate chat rooms and block the transmission of offensive images." They want the IT industry to become NET censors despite the fact that when IT starts clamping down on such things, the SF start neeping louder and louder claiming "freedom of expression" and their "right" to do what they want with their resources. I sometimes think that they should never have taken locks off of computers. -ecoli
For many parents, the computer has replaced TV as the "idiot box" that they plunk their kids down in front of. MUCH more dangerous, in that personal contact can be made through the PC... -PTSTech
I 2nd PTST Tech. -burrkiss
ecoli: Yeah, they do come VERY close to accusing, but I think they stop just short. And I definitely agree with you that they want someone to act as a censor for the web. And yes, SF will neep their brainless little heads off. But sacrificing free, unfettered access to ZGB seems to me a small price to pay if it helps keep kids out of harm's way. Back in the old days, we had to walk to the video store (uphill, both ways) to get our smut, and somehow we still found ways to jerk off. <---> Censorship is an ugly, dangerous thing, but so is child molestation. I don't pretend to have the ultimate answer, but I think there are appropriate times for freedom to be curtailed. -QuinTech
It always starts with just one little thing, that no rational person would ever object to. But it never, ever stops there. Besides, the tech/software already exists to censor accessible content and they don't bloody use it anyway. -Owie
Now, it occurs to me that the IT industry HAS taken steps to protect children. How else do you explain the existence of NetNanny, SurfWatch, etc.? Are we now responsible for parents not installing these programs? -Captain Trips
If you create the web page, they will not visit it. If you write the software they will not install it. If you say "don't do that" they will turn their backs and do it anyway. If you block the site they will sue you. If you try to help them they will complain. If you do nothing they will accuse you. I'm sorry, the lot of those individuals who shirk their responsibilities towards their own children should be tortured and locked away in some dank, dark hole. </venom> -ecoli
One thread I see running through all these responses: We, as IT professionals or as an industry, are not liable for an idiot's failure to use common sense to protect his kids. I couldn't agree more. With that out of the way, let's think about the kids who don't know any better and have idiot parents. What can we do to help protect them? Anything? Or do we just throw a bunch of options at the same idiots who we know are too stupid to use them? The one thing I think nobody here is addressing is that there is an innocent party: Kids of starfish. -QuinTech
I agree with the good Captain. There are tools available for protecting kids. Why reinvent the wheel? -NightSteel
<politics> When we start putting ourselves between people and their desires we venture into an area of real danger, not only to ourselves, but to those around us. There is very little that we can do without either the authority and/or the acceptance of the masses. We do not have that. If we take out or block those sites/chatrooms that are deemed offensive (and by whom? I like ZGBP> then does that make it okay to censor/censure us? Until some authority somewhere says "Okay, I declare all porn/pedophile websites/chatrooms to be the work of terrorists" and allows us to "take them out" *insert pic of AHNOLD here* there is little that we as an industry can do except make tools to help parents manage their own (without becoming targets ourselves).</politics> That said, I would love to take out some pedophile sites with more than just a nuclear LART, some real ammmo!! BFG9000!!!!! -ecoli
All points I agree with. To avoid becoming (even more of) a bore, my last comment: All the negatives of censorship must be weighed against the positives that it might bring. Specifically, in this case, protecting kids. Of course, it's far from certain censorship will do that, and even if it does, I suppose it's open to debate which one is more important. Having never lived under a repressive government (so far), it's easier for me to choose than someone from, say, Romania. -QuinTech
Argh. I hate the crap. Nothing bothers me more in this world when I read stuff like this. I am so tired of people not taking responsibilty for their own. Whether it is movies, internet, games. I am nobody's babysitter and when they point the figure at us rather than their own damn face, it angers me. When I grew up and did something wrong, I paid for it. Now, I hear kids saying 'f you' right to their parents. In my 30's and if I did that I would still find my ass hitting the ground. And NOOOOO, not their uprbinging, but society's fault. Give me a friggin break.
Pass the buck seems to be the general message these days. Hey, let's take away everyone's right to do, watch, play etc. what they want (already happening anyway in this 'free' USA) becuase someone thinks its bad.
Argh. /rant Hmm, my thoughts ran all all over. As I said, it annoys the hell out of me -Mur
I'd like to write a length rant about parents and responsibility, but you all did that so I'm just going to say this. "Most American parents these days are complete fucking idiots and so are their kids. I hope their teeth rot to the root and their brains shortly follow. I hope you all die.", there we go. That's for the irresponsible parent and their mentally-deficient offspring. -murdermachine
Furthermore, you have to love how parents are buying high-end webcams for their pubsecent and adolescent kids, letting them cam-whore without every knocking on the bedroom door to see what trouble they're getting into, and then wondering why predators are getting at them. It's like handing a twelve year old a loaded shotgun and bottle of Jack Daniels. Asking for trouble and then expecting the techies to save you from yourself is exactly what Microsoft is about and people b*tch when they actually get the crippled hobbled tech they asked for in the first place. -suitepotato
Yeah , when they drink the jack and use the shotgun. Guess who's fault it is and they tryo to sue? JD and the gun manufacturer. Not the parent for giving it to them , but because it is available.
I am american. When I win the lotto I am taking the money, and leaving.
Seen other places in my life, but yes, the majority of americans are morons and a wastre of my oxygen. -Mur
Agreed, parents should take responsibility for their own children, but there is a simple solution. All ICANN would have to do is create a couple of top-level domains that are reserved for pr0n and other, less wholesome, activities. Then local governments could easily pass laws that would provide steep monetary fines for publishing smut on a non-reserved domain name. ICANN would also have to require the companies/organizations that are tasked with maintaining the namespaces with yanking offending sites immediately. Sure, it wouldn't completely eliminate the problem, but it would reduce it 99.9%. -scooby111
I like that idea, Scoob. A .smut TLD! .XXX would also do. -NightSteel
Scoob, I had that thought years ago after a typo. the Dot Cum anyone? -NightRain
Also, who's got the final say on what constitutes an "offensive image"? Me? Burrkiss? Pope Benedict XVI? Larry Flynt? Jerry Falwell? Howard Stern? -TechnoVampire
TechnoVampire-- *sigh* Well, someone's got to do it. Imagine the horrible task of scanning millions of webpages for smut, nudity, and sexual content. I guess I'll take the job, but you'll have to pay me at least $200,000/yr. <BFEG> -scooby111
Technically it would be possible. And would ensure a alot tech jobs. We will have to get more money to do so. Our rates go up. Big. -Harm
Scoob, this sounds like it has all of the makings of a government job! You are pricing your self too low. I see atleast $400,000yr with benefits, aides, assistants, PFYs, all of the latest techno hardware/software, maybe a non-discrept building somewhere, luxury vehicles with blacked out windows. Department of Smut, or DOS for short. We could have a budget in the millions I tell ya' ! -ecoli
The stupid part of all this is that the protections are out there, from Content Advisor to Net Nanny and many other options at minor or no expense. But it does nothing if the people USING the machines don't use them. -technaround
This shit makes me sick. It's always "think about the children" what they really mean to say is "I'm deeply offended by this smut I have encountered, yet being an adult I do not want to make myself out to be a prude, therefore I shall use an excuse to create moral outrage". It's utter bollocks! How many peices of software can you installed to block adult content these days? Besides which even if the little bastards have their own computer ya know what? UNPLUG THE DAMN MODEM, TURN OF THE WIFI! Jebus it ain't that hard to do. If you won't take responsibility for your children then don't have them, don't expect a machine (or schools) to act as a responsible parent because that isn't what they are there for. -fearmyroot
Exactly fearmyroot!! I'm sick and friggin tired of my taxes raising to fund schools and not see the money go to them. I'm sick of every attempt to invade privacy by the gov't is labelled "to help children" well now the US is claiming "to prevent terror attacks". -seventh
<GeorgeCarlin>Fuck the children.</GeorgeCarlin> -OhioTech
QuinTech I agree with the sentiment "protect the children", but I think the best way is with knowledge, the kids can choose to be different, I did. Censorship is never good, it starts with a small thing. Then another small step and another... We are all ready seeing it here in the states and if it goes on much longer you will get to see what it is like to live in a repressive government like say China. -Wolfie0827
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Bordello Battles - You're the pimp! Now you too can run your very own virtual whore house! Go through bars scouting whores. Attack other pimp's houses and steal their hoes or their money. Hire thugs to protect your establishment. Pay off the cops to avoid getting raided. Use plastic surgery to make your low class whores high classy. This is without a doubt the best online game I have seen for some time. Special thanks to my boss for showing it to me. I promise not to play more than 8 hours a day on company time. [By: OhioTech / 2005-04-18]
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YAY! an excuse to yell " Upside yo head!" at my computer! "Don't make me go upside yo head, Ho!" -Harm
Is someone resurrecting old BBS Doors? -namor
Bring back TradeWars 2000! -Ulfgaard
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There are no words for this - Ya'll watch out in NW Indiana...for driverless cars. [By: redevil34 / 2005-04-17]
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Indiana... isn't that where everyone keeps their RiffRaff? <BFEG> -maciarc
sounds like a car compnay will be sued shortly. -xtc46
This is why you don't install an autostart on a car with a manual tranny. Jeez. -NightSteel
xtc46, I doubt very much that the autostart was installed from the factory. An aftermarket shop would make you sign a waiver to put one in a car with a manual tranny for exactly this reason. And if the car *was* automatic, it shouldn't have even tried to start if the selector was in reverse. I'm not sure if that'd be a fault with the transmission's ignition interlock or with the auto start system. -NightSteel
I agree with NightSteel, most reputable aftermarket places will make you sign an waiver and inform you that with a standard transmission, it must be in neutral with the parking brake applied, and usually that's in writing. -GeekGirl
Y'all know what my customers are like; and most of 'em own cars as well as computers. -RiffRaff
Right on, RiffRaff...this scares me. She's going to kill someone if she doesn't have it taken off the car again..if she's very unlucky. -halfstarfish
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I am a Japanese School Teacher - Journals of an American teacher, teaching in Japan. Damn funny, and informative. [By: LadySharky / 2005-04-16]
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Thanks, LadySharky! I read this one a few years ago. The pages are a bit hard to read but worth it: http://www.kindofcrap.com/ -Tekkie
Thanks for bringing that to us, i enjoyed it. -IcePanther
Thank you THANK YOU thank you! Now I can have squirrely wrath *and* gaijin smash! -Mushroom
LMFAO!!!! I don't think I could have got through the day without learning about Kancho Assassins ! -Digital Dogcow
There's a Flash game of Kancho out there (Google for it)... a butt moves across the top of the screen, and you shoot fingers into it from your base at the bottom of the screen before it craps on you. Unfortunately not kidding. -Mushroom
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keep that offshoring truckin /sarcasm - Analysts say companies like Dell save 40 percent to 50 percent on costs by outsourcing work to India, which has one of the world's largest English speaking IT pools. Close to 120,000 trained IT professionals and 3 million other graduates are added each year to the work force [By: Servo / 2005-04-14]
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Gotcha - My Fuckin heart bleeds [/sarcasm]. "naivety rather than malicious intent" what a load of bullshit. Oh i'm sorry when it said false prizes and autodiallers i thought it was a big fluffy bunny. Ha [By: Armakuni / 2005-04-14]
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It's a matter of "how much can we make before we're busted, and will it be enough more than the fine to make it worthwhile?" Obviously, it must have been worth the penalty. This kind of stuff won't decrease until the penalty is X plus all (pre-tax) generated revenue. -Grue
<a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/icstis_fine/' target='_new'>Gotcha</a> - My Fuckin heart bleeds [/sarcasm]. "naivety rather than malicious intent" what a load of bullshit. Oh i'm sorry when it said false prizes and autodiallers i thought it was a big fluffy bunny. Ha <P> [By: <img src='/images/star.gif'><a href='/users/user_info.htm?nick=Armakuni'>Armakuni</a> / 2005-04-14]<br><font face='verdana,arial' color='black' size=1><a href='/forms/link_comment.php?link_number=837&nick=Armakuni'>Comment on this Link</a></font><font face='verdana,arial' color='black' size=2>
<br><b>Comments</b><i><br><li>It's a matter of "how much can we make before we're busted, and will it be enough more than the fine to make it worthwhile?" Obviously, it must have been worth the penalty. This kind of stuff won't decrease until the penalty is X plus all (pre-tax) generated revenue. -<img src="/images/star.gif"><a href='/users/user_info.htm?nick=Grue'>Grue</a></i>
Well for a start, there were 244 complaints, meaning that at least 244 people called in to claim this "prize" which they were told they had already run. And I'd guess that 244 is only a fraction of the people who called to claim their prize. I wonder how much a Spanish cruise for each of them would run. My guess is that $100,000 wouldn't cover it. -HidariMak
ACK! I forgot that the formatting here is different from the Soapbox. LART shelter, here I come. -HidariMak
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Mission Impossible @ Bank - The best quote of the story... "Due to the panic caused by the discovery of the keyloggers many banks are now super-gluing keyboards and other devices into their computers" [By: BunnieTechBabe / 2005-04-13]
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Oh yeah, THIS is a good move! </saracasm off> -ecoli
Actually I liked the figures - "According to figures released by the National High Tech Crime Unit at the E-Crime Congress computer viruses now cost UK industry £747m, online financial fraud £690m and computer-related extortion a staggering £558m" = stupid tax. -seventh
wouldn't a better hiring policy make more sense ?? -Armakuni
There ya go again thinking that SF got sense! -ecoli
So how does that stop software key grabbers ? - Hey my Keyboard is faulty - I want a new PC... -Wonko The Sane
"They cannot be seen unless someone physically examines the back of the machine." Read: They cannot be seen until someone looks at them. -smellystudent
And yet they STILL leave the trash cans unsecured for the most part. -OhioTech
And what if they take the hard drive home with them? Lets super glue the hard drives into the bays! Servers too. -OhioTech
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And the game of the day is... - ...see how far you can make little kitty fly. It is every bit as sick and twisted as it sounds. Even better if you have sound to hear the kitty cat go "meeeeeeeeoooooooooooowwwww... boing-boing-boing-kaPOW". Addiction warning. [By: mousie / 2005-04-12]
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522 ft so far, how's every1 else doing? -Armakuni
scratch that 1027 feet, get in there. 41.5 degrees, full beans :) -Armakuni
1247ft. 45 degree shot. A lot of it is plain luck. If you can get the kitty off a bunch of dynomite at the beginning, you go alot further. -mousie
It really is sick and twisted. (I only got 615 feet.) -snowcrash
1453.. Hmm.. I guess its GOOD to be angry. -ShujinTribble
1,182 feet http://img65.echo.cx/img65/8959/kitty0ji.jpg -Digital Dogcow
1805... Hmm... What's wrong with this picture? (I like cats too.. HONEST!) -ShujinTribble
1467...no real skill required 49 degrees -DizzyDan
639 on the first shot... -Harm
1044... after many tries... my kids were proud. -TechPriestess
1705 feet on first shot -- a matter of luck, methinks. -chazz
1,172... after several attempts and the GF's cats pissing her off. -Harm
When do i get to play this game with Starfish? -QBC
If you like that you'll love this: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/12/killing.wildcats.ap/index.html -ewspy87
1045ft, thanks to Armakuni's advice & plenty of lucky dynamite. :) -ElPolloDiablo
1715 so far. Damn my addictive personality. -pmillipede
I find it sad that these cats have to live in a landscape strewn with explosives, rock outcroppings, and trampolines. Who put all that TNT there anyhow? -QuinTech
1099 after a lot of trys. -jard
all time low!!!! 13 ft my high is 1531 -jwinc7
2,202... and i have the screen shot to prove it! -Harm
1,984 ft. and I have a screenshot -StylinTechie
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Too good to be true - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Complete shite. Review with SPOILERS. Dammit! =( [By: mousie / 2005-04-10]
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*whimper* look at all they took out *sob* -timelady
Yeah, I know. -Grue
They took out the towels bit!!??!! * sobbing* -Harm
Jeez, I saw the origional and though it stunk. But then again, I am American and there wernt enough fart jokes/explosions/car chases/strip club sceens for my taste. -burrkiss
We slashdotted them, bandwidth exceeded. The next star member to access the article; please copy it to a post here. -Calydor
Aww dammit. But that is hollywood for ya. Slopping out crap while removing anything that will make a peson think. CGI replaces any plot. -rockytech
I didn't expect much from a movie extracted form such a book. I mean, this is a darn good series, and makin an acceptable film compared to this level is hard. This is theory, however, this review seems to prove I was right, however, the film seems quite bad. Not quite. Just bad. -IcePanther
I saw the trailer this weekend- Ford is holding a towel when he gets slapped by the gian flyswatter. Just remember that the story has changed with every iteration- most of them writtend by DNA. -LaserGuru
We didn't take them down. Fark had the same link on their main page and they took them down. -scooby111
It's back up as of now (4/11/05, GMT 6:19 PM). Sorry, my cheap a$$ has no star, so i can't copy it here (AFAIK). There's also a short review w/ no spoilers. -QuinTech
And now that i've actually read the review, i can't stop crying. -QuinTech
DAMN YOU HOLLYWOOD BASTARDS! -Veinor
Well...no I'm in a pissy mood. Maybe I won't even bother with this movie. -JH
no == now -JH
I've been waiting about 15 years for this film, so will still go and see it. But, having read the review, I may well bludgeon some people to death on the way out. -modeski
tiger will be released on the same day....wierd huh :P -SGTARKyTEK
They're releasing the tiger on them? I say, drop the 16-ton weight on them too! -QuinTech
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An old game with a new twist. - It's addictive! (Like you needed another excuse to avoid doing something with your life.) ;) [By: scooby111 / 2005-04-09]
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ohhhhh ... time consuming goodness! -Harm
scooby, you're now on my xmas list. I just spent an hour playing this game with my iTunes list on loop. LOVELINESS! -murdermachine
Sweet - nicely done -jard
The only part that bothers me is this quote from the page - " JOIN THE VIRAL REVOLUTION!" -ecoli
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'Geek speak' confuses net users - Interesting Article from BBC [By: BunnieTechBabe / 2005-04-06]
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And just to think it's spyware AOL UK which have conducted the report... Irony is overwhelming! -NordicPT
Aww.... are the poor wittle SF confused by words bigger than one syllable? -Veinor
On a brighter note, if you select the "Printable version" button, there are no ads! Makes printing it out to post for my users much less confusing for them & saves paper. -Tekkie
7h@7 15 b3c@u53 7h3y 4r3 n07 1337 h4x0r5. -steveO77
Where did they take this survey?! Reader's Digest had an article on phishing not that long ago! Jesus Haploid Christ on the Mountain wearing a crash helmet! *Fastens seatbelt* STARFISH INCOMING, LART SHELTER HOOOOO! -halfstarfish
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Find a Human! - IVR Phone Systems - A listing of quick methods of getting to a real live person on many IVR systems. Submit your info and make it easier to defeat the Terminal Hold! [By: TechnoVampire / 2005-04-06]
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Okay, I end up redirected to PayPal. -Grue
Me too -modeski
Looks like you have to delete the first http:// from the address, then it works. Pretty nifty. -TheSingingTech
Clickable goodness: https://www.quickbase.com/db/bam6rdiey?a=q&qid=5 -teivrann
Or not *smacks self* -teivrann
Notice that there's NO EASY ESCAPE when you want to talk to the phoneco's.... -vacuumtubes
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All Your Base... - I dunno if anyone has posted this here yet, and I'm too lazy to check. =P Bwahahaa! ZigZig! [By: ThreeBucks / 2005-04-04]
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Which part? Chronicles of George or All Your Base... because it's yes for both ;) -Zentar
I had never actually seen the "all your base" part. =P -ThreeBucks
Eons ago. I was still employed when that first came out, it was so far back... But the blast from the past (other than Laziest Men On Mars' "Invasion Of The Gabber Robots" on my MP3 player) is always welcome. Move 'Zig, you know what you're doing... -Mushroom
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Starfish T-shirts - Show up to your next TSC get-together in one of these babies! Or buy a bunch and give them to your favorite clients, your family, or anyone else who has called you to help them with a trivial computer issue. [By: Mushroom / 2005-04-04]
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Does that look like a weed leaf to anyone else? -Veinor
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A come-uppance for the Evil Empire (M$) - David kicks Goliath's a** again. Then comes back and pops the Big Bad Giant in the 'nads. [By: CTYankee / 2005-04-04]
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Sweeeeet! -Mushroom
MWHAHAHAHAHAHA! If this guy ever shows up on TSC I'll buy him a star! -Gromit
*Waves flag, and pom poms* Go Zamos Go! MicroSUx! MicroSux! -halfstarfish
Give that man a cee-gar! I think we should send him an invitation for honorary TSC membership. -RiffRaff
Niiiiiiiice... I agree with Riff and Gromit- this guy needs a star! :) Good for him for sticking to it and not letting Micro-snot bully him. -taieena
"Zamos decided to request a return directly from Microsoft, which has its own 30-day return policy. He sent his letter by certified mail,..." Sounds like maybe he was looking for a fight? I don't send things certified mail unless i'm expecting to have to prove something in court. This dude rocks! FREE DAVID ZAMOS! FREE DAVID ZAMOS! -QuinTech
The greatest lart ever? -neuman1812
I agree with Riff Raff! Find Zamos, someone, and give him the URL for this site. Why am I forseeing a fight to see who buys him his star? He'd be a TERRIFIC addittion! -halfstarfish
And he wasn't happy when he realized his Hotmail account was another M$ property. Someone should send this guy a Gmail invite if he doesn't have it already. -teivrann
What a good read. Bravo to him. -jard
Nice, very nice. -CommanderData
This may sound gay, but I like the size of that dudes balls. -burrkiss
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