Computer help desk prank makes Italian overnight star

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BRISBANE: Parents are leaving children
overnight at Internet games centres to
play violent computer

BRISBANE: Parents are leaving children
overnight at Internet games centres to
play violent computer 07/31/2004 10:25 PM
News.com.au - Sun Aug 1, 01:04 am GMT

LiveTime Software Ships Support Desk 3.0
and Help Desk 3.0 with Web Services
Gateway, Discussion Forums and Partner
Access.

LiveTime Software Ships Support Desk 3.0
and Help Desk 3.0 with Web Services
Gateway, Discussion Forums and Partner
Access. 06/03/2004 02:00 AM
LiveTime Software, a leading developer of J2EE based software, today announced it has released LiveTime Support Desk 3.0 and LiveTime Help Desk 3.0. Now Includes Web Services, Discussion Forums and Partner Level Access. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2004]

Ex-Cosby star makes Tonys history

Ex-Cosby star makes Tonys history 06/07/2004 04:04 AM
Phylicia Rashad is the first black woman to win best actress at the Tonys, hosted by winner Hugh Jackman.

"MSNBC - Ex-NFL star Tillman makes
‘ultimate sacrifice’"

"MSNBC - Ex-NFL star Tillman makes
‘ultimate sacrifice’" 04/24/2004 03:37 PM

CPAC-SES overnight numbers

CPAC-SES overnight numbers 06/19/2004 09:17 PM
hope yet

sesresearch.com/election/SES%20CPAC%20June%2018E.pdf
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Computer to Simulate Exploding Star

Computer to Simulate Exploding Star 04/30/2004 11:12 PM
Universe Today May 1 2004 2:55AM GMT

(Practically) Overnight iPod Repair

(Practically) Overnight iPod Repair 03/23/2005 09:30 AM

For those of you who care for your iPod more than your own liver, TechRestore has launched their iPodRestore program. For $29, you can select the Full-Restore plan and wait as a specially designed box is sent your way for you to ship your iPod in. It includes overnight shipping both ways, and an estimate. There's also the Self-Restore option if you know how to work a roll of packaging tape for only $10, but you have to supply your own materials. After they receive your iPod, a technician will contact you within 24 hours with a diagnosis and repair price. You can elect to have them fix your Pod or send it back at no additional cost. They specialize in battery upgrades, screen replacement and audio jack repair, so this may be the perfect solution if your iPod is beginning to show its age but don't want to drop $300 on a new unit. (They also offer hard drive upgrades.)

iPodRestore [TechRestore via DailyGadget]

Using Your Computer Too Much Makes You
Have An Affair

Using Your Computer Too Much Makes You
Have An Affair 08/23/2004 02:21 PM
Brad Brunfelt writes "Apparently either using your computer too much or having multiple email accounts makes you have an affair. The Christian Science Monitor accepts the statement: "One of the first signs of cyber-affairs, Daniels notes, is a spouse who spends excessive time on the computer. Using multiple e-mail addresses could also serve as a warning of cyber-flirting." Sounds like a lot of us have some explaining to do to our spouses, because we all know that they suspect us anyway. And we all know that there are no other good reasons to use multiple email addresses or be online at night. It MUST be an affair."

A Computer System So Bad It Makes You
Want To Cry

A Computer System So Bad It Makes You
Want To Cry 04/12/2005 04:23 PM
Stories about overbudget, overdue, and underperforming IT development/consulting projects are all too common, especially with the government, but this one merits some attention. It seems that some systems designed by EDS and BT Consulting for the U.K.'s Child Support Agency were so rife with problems that it drove employees to intentionally enter wrong data and, even worse, to tears. The CSA spent US$863 million (only $484 million more than planned) for a broken system that was two years late. And it didn't even come with appropriate training: carefully crafted demo disks were substituted for live system use. Of course, horribly designed and implemented IT systems making users cry is nothing new to government agencies. But all the action is in the U.K. these days. The scale of the EDS/BT boondoggle in particular-- both the financial and emotional toll -- ranks up there with the worst of them.

Freddie to star in computer-generated
film

Freddie to star in computer-generated
film 04/19/2004 04:20 AM
Ananova Apr 19 2004 8:42AM GMT

Website virus trap nipped in the bud
overnight

Website virus trap nipped in the bud
overnight 06/28/2004 09:54 PM

Overnight police raids on North Rand net
92

Overnight police raids on North Rand net
92 04/30/2004 03:36 AM
SABC Apr 30 2004 6:41AM GMT

Overnight, a Towering Divide Rises in
Jerusalem

Overnight, a Towering Divide Rises in
Jerusalem 01/11/2004 10:30 PM
Israel has begun drawing a hard line around Jerusalem, walling it off from an Arab village joined to the city for generations.

Computer Associates makes more revisions

Computer Associates makes more revisions 05/06/2004 02:22 PM
Crains NY Business May 6 2004 7:19PM GMT

IBM makes available its 'blade' computer
servers

IBM makes available its 'blade' computer
servers 09/05/2004 12:24 AM
Pravda Sep 5 2004 4:30AM GMT

Is it a rock star? No, just Apple's
third generation iMac computer

Is it a rock star? No, just Apple's
third generation iMac computer 08/31/2004 09:04 PM
Telegraph Sep 1 2004 1:48AM GMT

Ex-C.E.O. of Computer Associates Makes
Departure Complete

Ex-C.E.O. of Computer Associates Makes
Departure Complete 06/04/2004 03:56 PM
Sanjay Kumar, who stepped down in April as chief executive of the Long Island company, has decided to leave the company altogether.

Computer Associates makes settlement
offer

Computer Associates makes settlement
offer 05/26/2004 08:53 AM
MSNBC May 26 2004 12:51PM GMT

Computer class makes "flash mob
supercomputer"

Computer class makes "flash mob
supercomputer" 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

A class at the University of San Francisco developed an innovative approach to supercomputing. Students and instructor used flash mob techniques to facilitate many students bringing hardware to a shared space in order to assemble a powerful computing assemblage.

Cost savings played a role in the scheme:

Before stumbling onto the idea of the volunteer project, the class considered a variety of ways to make a cheap supercomputer, including buying many Microsoft Xbox game machines. However, the students would have needed to install the free Linux operating system on the machines to tie them together, and Microsoft has recently made that more difficult.

John Witchel, the graduate student who had the original idea of building a volunteer supercomputer, says he thinks flash mob computing will make it possible for high school students and community groups to harness computer power now available only to large corporations or government laboratories.

(via Ray Kurzweil )

Computer Associates makes database open
source

Computer Associates makes database open
source 05/24/2004 08:10 PM

Kumar makes final break with Computer
Associates

Kumar makes final break with Computer
Associates 06/05/2004 08:43 AM
San Jose Mercury News Jun 5 2004 12:39PM GMT

Otago researcher makes step towards
quantum computer

Otago researcher makes step towards
quantum computer 06/06/2004 03:51 PM
stuff.co.nz Jun 6 2004 7:44PM GMT

Computer Program Makes Essay Grading
Easier

Computer Program Makes Essay Grading
Easier 04/08/2005 01:07 AM

First International Computer Forensics
Web Conference Confirms All-Star Speaker
Line-up

First International Computer Forensics
Web Conference Confirms All-Star Speaker
Line-up 06/04/2004 02:45 AM
DIGEV 2004 (24-25 June 2004, www.digev2004.com) is promising to become one of this year's key fixtures in the digital event conference calendar with law enforcement, academia and corporates all taking a keen interest in the event's high profile line-up. [PRWEB Jun 4, 2004]

Saudi computer science grad student
makes the news

Saudi computer science grad student
makes the news 04/15/2004 11:36 AM

This story on Sami Omar al-Hussayen is worth the pain of (free) registration at WashingtonPost.com.  Here are a couple of excerpts:

Defense attorney David Nevin portrayed his client as a well-liked leader of the university's Muslim Student Association who had been quick to publicly condemn the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Hussayen, the father of three young boys, is not an angry Muslim who hates the West, he said. On the contrary, Nevin added, he comes from a well-to-do family that has traveled the world. "He doesn't hate the United States. He doesn't hate Western values. That's not who he is," Nevin said.

Hussayen, 34, a doctoral candidate in a computer science program sponsored by the National Security Agency, is accused of creating more than a dozen jihadist Web sites and of moderating a global e-mail group that in February 2003 posted an "urgent appeal" for Muslims in the U.S. military to supply information about American forces and facilities in the Middle East that could be selected as targets for acts of terrorism.

Displaying a chart that showed the links among more than a dozen Web sites, [federal prosecutor] Lindquist told the jury that Hussayen managed "an Internet network -- a platform," and that "the content of this platform was extreme jihad -- terrorism."

...

The Saudi Embassy has pressed for Hussayen's release and is paying for his top-flight legal defense team, which includes Joshua Dratel, who represented Wadih Hage, a former aide to Osama bin Laden.

The case is interesting because Mr. Hussayen's main defense is based on the First Amendment though he is not a U.S. citizen.  If the U.S. government doesn't like someone residing in a foreign country it is free to shoot a missile at the guy's car and summarily kill him.  If, on the other hand, an enemy manages to score himself a student or tourist visa and arrives on our shores we can't touch him because he is now entitled to a variety of protections under the Constitution that were designed for (presumably loyal) citizens.  Sami Al-Arian, the computer engineering professor from University of South Florida, attempted a First Amendment defense as well [Mr. Al-Arian, a Kuwaiti national whose application for U.S. citizenship was turned down based on his fraudulent registration to vote in the early 1990s, is a great example of the American Dream because the taxpayers of Florida are still paying his salary while he sits in federal prison awaiting his trail in January.]

The Ancient Greeks took the rules of hospitality, xenia, very seriously.  Certainly running off with your host's wife was out of the question and thus the abduction of Helen was a sufficiently serious breach to warrant the Trojan War.  Most of our recent troubles with terrorism stem from Arab guests in or immigrants to the United States.  So far the government's response seems to be an attempt to reduce the number of guests and/or screen them more thoroughly for existing connections to terrorist organizations.  In the long run, however, this seems doomed to fail.  You can't expect someone to abandon his beliefs simply because he is visiting the United States or has immigrated here, even if one of those beliefs is hatred of American society.  My prediction:  within the next five years there will be calls to restrict constitutional rights to citizens.  It will be noted that in 1787 everyone in the U.S. was either a citizen, the property of a citizen (slaves), or expected to become a citizen.  It will be argued that times have changed.  Thanks to commercial airlines millions of people land on our soil every year with no intention of joining the society.  Thus a distinction should be made between U.S. citizens and guests.  The counterargument will be that the rights of the Constitution are universal and should not only be extended to guests on our shores but also to human beings anywhere on the planet.  We shouldn't be supporting dictators in poor countries if they won't guarantee U.S.-style rights to all of their citizens and certainly we should not be engaging in extrajudicial assassination of our enemies.

Computer Programmer Makes 'WMD' Treasure
Hunt Game

Computer Programmer Makes 'WMD' Treasure
Hunt Game 12/17/2003 08:27 AM
Red Nova Dec 17 2003 7:40AM ET

North Korea makes fitful probes into
computer world

North Korea makes fitful probes into
computer world 12/26/2003 05:25 AM
Turkish Daily News Dec 26 2003 4:00AM ET

Computer system makes 'chain' of health
care stronger, safer

Computer system makes 'chain' of health
care stronger, safer 05/15/2004 08:19 PM
Medical News Today May 15 2004 11:41PM GMT

Man in South Korea makes six-figure
income playing computer games

Man in South Korea makes six-figure
income playing computer games 05/22/2004 12:36 AM
increasingly highly paid professional teams competing in games .. Korean Video Game Wariors

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After years of shutting out Internet,
North Korea makes fitful probes into
computer world

After years of shutting out Internet,
North Korea makes fitful probes into
computer world 12/25/2003 03:13 AM
AP via New Jersey Online Dec 25 2003 2:35AM ET

Oman Ministry of Education integrates
the ICDL programs and makes it part of
its computer teaching syllabus in

Oman Ministry of Education integrates
the ICDL programs and makes it part of
its computer teaching syllabus in 09/25/2004 02:04 AM
AME Info Sep 25 2004 5:46AM GMT

Web Zen: Prank Zen

Web Zen: Prank Zen 04/08/2005 12:19 PM
Xeni Jardin: quit staring at my pranks
college pranks
harvard sucks
starbucks emails
the jim thompson letters
incoming pizza calls
project foil
anti-gravity room
post office experiments
the credit card prank
improv everywhere

web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank).

Prank Emails

Prank Emails 01/05/2005 06:56 AM
Some are a bit silly but this particular prank email is transcendant. Batman and Robin could not find as just a cause. Finally a modern corporate warrior get what he deserves.

The Credit Card Prank II

The Credit Card Prank II 03/22/2005 03:18 PM
credit card receipts with fake names .. The Credit Card Prank II .. signature verification

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Prank Call Manager

Prank Call Manager 08/17/2004 09:10 AM
Prank Call Manager 1.1 RC2 - Coming Soon!

Starbucks email prank

Starbucks email prank 12/24/2004 12:29 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Read what happens when a new Starbucks corporate office employee gets into a bizarre email exchange with a prankster pretending to be the CEO / president.

I know this may seem petty, but Ms. Crisholm should have told you how we feel about goatees or facial hair in our corporate offices. While I realize they may be considered stylish and acceptable in our Starbucks outlets, we ask that men refrain from wearing them in our corporate offices as we are trying to uphold a certain image. That includes earrings and other piercings on men, which I do not tolerate at all. Unfortunately, there's little we can do about the appearance of our counter people no matter how much we try. I certainly wish this weren't the case, because most of them have absolutely no loyalty to our brand, and they have done nothing but tarnish our image. I hope you understand our position. Please have it removed by Monday.

Link (Thanks, Scott!)

Man Sends Prank Terrorism SMS

Man Sends Prank Terrorism SMS 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

Maybe this is sort of obvious, but if you're sitting on a plane and think, "You know, it would be hilarious if I were to send some text messages claiming we've been hijacked by terrorists," it really isn't that hilarious. Well, okay, I take that back—it's sort of giggle-worthy when they arrest you when you hit the ground. Italian tourist Antonio Casale apparently hadn't ever heard this chestnut of wisdom, and neither had his wife, who contacted authorities upon receiving prank messages from her husband. What a fun-filled marriage they must share.

Hijacking message a prank [TheAdvertiser via MobileBurn]

zug.com's prank song

zug.com's prank song 02/19/2004 06:14 PM

This week's featured content is a protest song at zug.com. Zug.com has been producing humorous articles for almost ten years online and this protest song is part of a larger set of RIAA pranks they pulled last summer. The song has been remixed as well and they actively encourage others to share the song online to get their message across, in a humorous way.

Manure Spread Around Ind. School in
Prank (AP)

Manure Spread Around Ind. School in
Prank (AP) 05/26/2004 06:26 PM
AP - High school officials say a senior prank became a health hazard when someone spread hundreds of pounds of manure on school doors and around the building and put dead animals, animal blood and stolen "for sale" signs outside the school.
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