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‘As the owners / operators of a website that allows the anonymous rating of teachers, we are frequently asked, “Why do you do this? Aren’t you doing a disservice to teachers?” Our answer is a resounding NO. In the public discourse on improving education, we believe the most important voices are often ignored. For the first time in the history of public schools, the student is being heard, and parents can share their experiences in an open forum.’

`Australian technology users have rated Telstra as the worst tech company in the country, a survey has found. [..]

According to Ross, 1600 Telstra Bigpond customers were surveyed for the best internet service provider (ISP) category, but only 54 per cent said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the company’s customer support.

Further, half of the Bigpond customers surveyed said they wouldn’t recommend the ISP to a friend.

By contrast, the winner of the best ISP category, Internode, received a 97 per cent satisfaction rating and 97 per cent of its customers said they would recommend the ISP to a friend.’

#702332
<APC> I steal from the automated checkout all the fucking time now
<APC> Well, I still pay
<APC> I just lie about what I bought
<APC> for instance
<APC> 2 pounds of bananas costs less than say, 2 pounds of hustler and playboy

#700613
[Synista]: You know what would have been cool
[Synista]: if in the superman movie, they had him break a horse’s back

#697515
|Polly|: I’ll rape you in the face
Phantom: My mom saw that
|Polly|: Good
|Polly|: I was talking to her

Also: #708460, #703138, #700091, #695338, #685293, #685827, #694821, #694984, #695059, #676189 and #676535

`The waiting must stop. At last we have created the final solution. Our programmers and surfers have been working overtime to bring you a one time download of the entire internet in one highly compressed file. At last you can have the entire internet on your hard drive, at your fingertips, any time, day or night!’

Instructions on how to setup an MSN account without the usual @hotmail.com domain attached to it.

I was contemplating making an account called thepope@tittyslap.va, but decided it would serve no real purpose. 🙂

`We’re probably all guilty of the occasional Web slip-up. Instead of IM-ing your coworker to complain about your wife, you get mixed up and IM your wife herself. Or instead of forwarding that note from the boss–along with a snarky comment–to your friend, you hit reply. Or for a quick hit of mortification, just take a look at your MySpace page.

Those little missteps, alas, are trifles compared with the most embarrassing incidents on the Web.’

`Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war.

The Bush administration did so under pressure from congressional Republicans who said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say present a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.’

`The closure of customer toilets in a Myer store due to rampant homosexual activity has exposed a massive list of venues being used by members of a gay website as hook-up points.

Among the places listed as meeting spots for men “cruising for sex”, on squirt.org, is the Royal Australian Air Force’s Richmond base and Sydney Opera House’s toilets.

Management at Myer’s Sydney city store in Pitt Street were forced to close its level one toilet to the public because homosexuals were using the facility as a meeting point, often having sex in full view of other horrified users.’

Some guy is trying to get login information for a Valve account over a chat program. Luckily the guy saved the chat logs, ’cause they’re kinda funny. 🙂

My friend jetaxe has some stuff linked through his stumbleupon whatsit.

An axe with a jet on it! 🙂

This is a cool little web based game where you play a hobo who fights other hobos and goes to school to improve skills and all sorts of other things like that.

I’m charging around wielding a plastic spoon and protecting myself with a plastic bag.

Kinda fun, if you’re looking for some time to kill. 🙂

`A Framingham man angry that his ex-girlfriend removed him as a friend from her Myspace.com Web page, repeatedly bit, punched and then choked her on the weekend, police said.

Michael Magrath, 19, told police he did not punch the woman Saturday, but said he bit her and put his hands on her throat, but it was all in jest, police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany said.

He also did not deny he destroyed her laptop computer, worth more than $2,000, Shastany said.’

`An internet user has been found guilty of what police said was Britain’s first “web-rage” attack.

Paul Gibbons, 47, tracked down John Jones using details obtained online after the pair exchanged insults in an internet chatroom, a court heard.

He travelled 70 miles to Mr Jones’ home in Clacton, Essex, and beat him up with a pickaxe handle in December 2005.’

`Julia Wilson, a straight-A student at McClatchy High School, spends a lot of her free time on the networking website MySpace.

Until a few months ago the 14-year-old moderated her own group called “Let’s Stab Bush.”

That’s where Wilson posted a cartoon picture of President Bush which included the words “kill Bush” and showed him being stabbed in the hand.

She caught the attention of the Secret Service, which showed up on Wednesday to question her about the picture.

Two agents pulled her out of class and interviewed her for 15 minutes to see if she was really a threat to President Bush.’

`Love is a 26-year-old police officer in Wichita Falls, Texas. And now he’s been indefinitely suspended, because authorities are concerned that the images and statements on his Web site could undermine public confidence in the police department.

Love’s Web page has been removed. But it was listed under the name Leatherface. The Wichita Falls Times Record News said Love’s site included several graphic images of dismembered women as well as vivid pictures of a nude woman eating entrails and a bare-chested woman with the word “Loath” carved into her flesh.

As Love’s occupation, the site listed “super hero/serial killer” and he listed “Pizza, human flesh (barbecue only)” as his favorite meal.’

`After walking the Great Wall of China and making plans for a trip to Russia, Shirley Greening-Jackson thought signing up for a new internet service would be a doddle.

But the young man behind the counter had other ideas. He said she was barred – because she was too old.

The 75-year-old would only be allowed to sign the forms for the Carphone Warehouse’s TalkTalk phone and broadband package if she was accompanied by a younger member of her family who could explain the small print to her.’

`The idea appeared in Technology Review citing Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, who says these ideas will show up eventually in real Google products – sooner rather than later.

The idea is to use the existing PC microphone to listen to whatever is heard in the background, be it music, your phone going off or the TV turned down. The PC then identifies it, using fingerprinting, and then shows you relevant content, whether that’s adverts or search results, or a chat room on the subject.

And, of course, we wouldn’t put it past Google to store that information away, along with the search terms it keeps that you’ve used, and the web pages you have visited, to help it create a personalised profile that feeds you just the right kind of adverts/content. [..]’

‘Ever wish you could make your friends and family switch away from Internet Explorer? Perhaps the ability to make it spontaneously crash (and I mean totally crash) just by sending them a link might sway them…’

If you’re using Internet Explorer, do not click this link. 🙂

`Out of more than 36 million search queries that hundreds of thousands of AOL users typed into AOL’s Internet search engine from March to May, here is the term most queried: Google.

That so many customers would use one search engine to find another is among the odd truths being mined from AOL’s public release of search data. The company last week called the incident involving 658,000 users’ queries a “screw-up” and apologized. But for better or worse, the data offer the first widespread public glimpse of how people search the Internet, of what they are interested in. Of how people think.’

A robot you can drive around some guys room. With a webcam so you can see where you’re going.

I kept running into his legs, so I think he might have gotten annoyed. Oops. 🙂 Or, not oops, as the case may be. 🙂

`AOL is preparing to dig for buried gold and platinum on property in Massachusetts owned by the parents of a man it sued for sending millions of unwanted spam e-mails to its customers.

AOL said Tuesday it intends to search for gold and platinum bars the company suspects are hidden near the home of Davis Wolfgang Hawke’s parents on two acres in Medfield, Massachusetts.

The family said it will fight in court to oppose AOL’s plans.’

`For three years now you have pursued your lawsuit campaign. Twenty thousand plus consumers, a dozen companies, and several very prominent friends of ours have fallen victim to your charade. We hoped you would see the obvious foolishness of your ways. Now, however, it appears clear that your shenanigans have gone on too long—You have begun deposing bereaved families of the deceased.

This can not stand. This will not stand. You will not stand. And from this day forward, your manipulative copyright claims will have no standing.

Today is the day we end all of your problems with consumer copyright infringement. For from today forward, consumers have no need for copies, infringing or otherwise. One common copy is all that is needed. One copy for everyone. Accessible forever.

Today we announce a massively distributed copy-less file system. A place where all content is available instantly, anonymously and to everyone, without breaking any laws. Today we announce the Owner-Free File System. An island of sanity in your sea of madness.’

Also, OFF System Development.

`Canadians who spend more than an hour a day on the Internet devote less time to socializing with their spouses and children and less time doing household chores, according to a study released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday.

The report, which relied on data from a 2005 general social survey on time use, found that, on average, heavy Internet users (those who spend more than an hour a day in their personal time on-line) each spend five weeks a year surfing the web.

The study also found that these frequent users spend nearly 30 minutes less each day with their partner and kids than non-users (those who spend less than five minutes on-line a day).

“Heavy Internet users lead a very different lifestyle than non-Internet users in terms of their work and domestic lives,” said Ben Veenhof, who authored the study.’

This will disguise web pages so they look like office documents, so you can browse whatever you want at work and make it look like you’re actually, you know .. working. 🙂

`My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun. [..]

Suddenly everything is kittens! It’s kitten net. [..]

For the uninitiated, this redirects all traffic to kittenwar.

For more fun, we set iptables to forward everything to a transparent squid proxy running on port 80 on the machine. [..]

That machine runs squid with a trivial redirector that downloads images, uses mogrify to turn them upside down and serves them out of it’s local webserver.’

A US Senator explains why he voted against a net neutrality bill:

`There’s one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.

But this service isn’t going to go through the interent and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.

Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.’

`The scenario is you are without Internet connectivity anywhere. You have found either an open wireless access pointed or perhaps you’re staying in a hotel which permits rented Internet via services like Spectrum Interactive (previously known as UKExplorer). You make the connection, whether its physically connecting the Ethernet cables, or instructing you’re wireless adapter to lock onto the radio signal. You are prompted with some sort of authorization page when you open a browser. You don’t have access to it, so what do you do?’

`[..] whilst WordPress in its default, out-of-the-box form can provide a good platform for your website, with a little tinkering you can increase the functionality of your site massively. And what’s the easiest way of tinkering? Plugins! Special files that you simply slot-in to your WordPress installation to get new features.’

`Since the military provides just 6 to 12 computers for every 1,000 or so troops, time limits of 10 to 15 minutes per day are often enforced at Morale Welfare Recreation Cafés (the complicated name for military internet cafés). Anyone who sorts through spam, reads forwarded articles and jokes, then tries to respond to “real” email knows 15 minutes isn’t enough. Josh Hines, a soldier from Conway who recently returned from Iraq , confirmed that the Army lacks internet services and lamented the scarcity of entertainment options.

It should come as no surprise, then, that some enterprising military personnel have engineered an alternative. Hajjinets, the common term for troop-owned ISPs, have sprung to life on almost every base around Iraq. A typical Hajjinet is built and maintained by one or two soldiers and can provide nearly 24-hour internet access (until the region is stabilized and electrical lines can be installed, generators must occasionally be powered down for maintenance). Most Hajjinets are small, serving between 20 and 30 troops, but ISPs serving as many as 300 are known to exist.’