What happened to the Modem Guy?
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Cable Modem Hackers unlock Cable Modem
Cable Modem Hackers unlock Cable Modem
02/10/2004 02:44 AMA very amazing article on the Register on how a group of hackers have
unlocked a certain brand of cable...
First ODI as it happened
First ODI as it happened
04/18/2004 05:32 PMFull over by over details of England's victory over West Indies.
Whatever Happened to AI?
Whatever Happened to AI?
04/22/2004 09:26 PMFred Reed of the Washington Times has written a short article
on the state of AI, or rather, the state of there still not being any
AI
to speak of. Like flying cars, AI has been often predicted as being
just
around the corner but it has yet to materialize. Nothing really new
here
but it's good to be reminded once in a while that there's still plenty
of work to do before our robots start thinking for themselves.
"Does anyone really believe that this
actually happened?"
"Does anyone really believe that this
actually happened?"
08/31/2004 03:06 PMUn-happened
Un-happened
12/02/2003 12:42 AMCharles Miller, in Google, Microsoft and Tall Poppies.:
Bill Gates' original goal in forming Microsoft was famously to
have (emphasis mine) "A computer on every desk and in every home,
running Microsoft software".
You'll not find the last three words of that sentence in any official
Microsoft history (or at least I couldn't, and I searched hard).
They've been carefully un-happened: the dream of a nascent monopolist
truncated into a facade of altruism.
Google:
Fascinating.
Whatever happened to Moreover?
Whatever happened to Moreover?
10/28/2003 11:07 PMYahoo! News recently began offering RSS feeds based on a keyword or
keywords, making it easy to follow the news about both specific topics
like...
What Really Happened
What Really Happened
03/19/2003 10:27 PMPost the 9/11 wake-up call, the western intelligence community, jolted
into hyper-action and scared shitless, actually did some work for a
change instead of snooping on their own governments and analysing
semen stains on intern dresses, and discovered a whole bunch of scary
terrorist shit they never knew existed. They said in their reports,
"Fuck me side-ways! There's no way diplomacy is going to sort this
baby out, that UN's as much fucking use as a wet Wednesday
coffee-morning what with all its nicey-nice diplomacy and democracy.
We're bleedin' done for!"
They then embarked upon the only
course of action open to them, to set about decommissioning terrorist
network supporting states like Iraq before their whacked out nuclear
programmes started punching out dirty suitcase bombs that would fall
into the wrong hands, namely the backchannel of terrorist networks
that they just found out spans the entire world and blatantly
disregards beaurocratic coffee shop conventions like the UN.
"But we can't tell the public just how fucked-up things are, they'll
go mental!" the CIA thought to themselves, "We'll have to keep schtum
despite the fact that this may make it look like we're making it all
up when we say that Iraq is a major terrorist network router. Fuck it,
we have to do it or we'll have a nuclear 9/11 before you can say Osama
bin-lately. Or worse still, one of Saddam's goons'll leave a Samsonite
case in Jerusalem that would have your geiger counter clickin' like
there's no tomorrow, then the whole friggin middle east will go
nuclear over the space of about...2 days knowing those crazy Israeli
fuckers. What'll that do to the price of oil? never mind the factor
3000 suntan lotion you'll need to pack when holidaying in the Med for
the next 50 years, fuck you very much."
"No, we have to
act decisively. Darn it, get that chimp Bush on the line, tell him
we've got some work for him to do and to try not to fuck it up this
time. There's no way Saddam's going to call us a bunch of democracy
bound pussies, sure our people have freedom of speech, sure they don't
all agree with us but we're sure as hell not going to stand by and
have him call us names, have him play with our democratic values,
justifying his own dictatorial values as actually being effective.
Wait a minute, he certainly gets things done when he makes a decision
and he always wins elections by 99% majorities. Perhaps we need a
dictator? Yeah, fuck democracy, it just holds us back and makes us
look like a bunch of inept schoolyard name-callers who couldn't
organise a piss-up in a brewery. We need to act regardless of what our
people think. They'll come round, they always do. Besides, all that
ammo we got stock-piled is approaching its sell by date, we may as
well use the stuff."
And so, it began.
"the disaster that never happened"
"the disaster that never happened"
01/06/2005 04:03 AMWhat Happened to Simputer?
What Happened to Simputer?
04/14/2005 10:41 PMWhat Ever Happened to 'Toothing'?
What Ever Happened to 'Toothing'?
04/04/2005 07:16 PMWhat happened to Bugmenot
What happened to Bugmenot
08/19/2004 11:42 AMAs
menti
oned here last night, Bugmenot is now, well, not. A recent post on
the MozillaZine forums by someone understood to be the admin for
Bugmenot.com says:
"Our host pulled the plug. I reckon they
were pressured. If anyone has got some secure, preferably offshore
hosting in mind then please let us know so we can get the service back
up as soon as possible."
Lin
k (
Thanks, Michael)
Update:
Several BoingBoing readers wrote in to say something like this, from
reader Bryan Swain: "I don't have the inside scoop on what happened to
BugMeNot, but thought you might find this interesting. I've used the
site in the past from work with no trouble, but as of today, it is
blocked (our company uses WebSense filtering). I get a message saying
that the site is blocked by the "Racism and Hate" category... figure
that one out! The WebSense site has a section where you can see what
sites fall into what categories and suggest changes, but, ironically
enough, you have to register to use those areas. No thanks."
What happened to Joe Frank?
What happened to Joe Frank?
04/25/2004 07:22 PM
What Happened to
Joe Frank? ""It must've happened once""
""It must've happened once""
06/18/2004 11:21 AMWhatever Happened to threedegrees?
Whatever Happened to threedegrees?
03/30/2005 03:17 PMAOL launched a blog service aimed specifically at teens on Tuesday.
That got us thinking about threedegrees, Microsoft's instant-messaging
technology for the "NetGen" generation (a k a teens). Where, oh where,
has the full threedegrees product gone?
Happened last night
Happened last night
09/20/2004 12:17 PMI remember dreaming that something was lost. I woke in the middle of
the night, not knowing what or why I was seeking so desperately.
Something was missing, and I could not say what.
Then I found it on the floor, where it had apparently fallen off the
bed during the night.
I lifted it and put it back next to my pillow where it belongs, and
fell back to a dreamless sleep. With a smile on my face.
I wonder... How long can one shirt keep her scent?
Whatever Happened to Gopher?
Whatever Happened to Gopher?
04/28/2004 05:53 AMWhatever Happened to Gopher?http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62988,00.html Answer: the Gopher protocol developed in the 1990s at the
University of Minnesota may have been eclipsed by the World Wide Web,
but it's alive and kicking (even if somewhat underground).
Floodgap.com shows that more than 250 active gopher servers are
currently online (almost half of affiliated with American colleges and
universities) and can be found on every continent but Africa and
Antarctica. Gopher-enthusiast John Goerzen believes that gopher is an
excellent alternative to PDA and smartphone Web browsers, and says:
"Consider this example: Port-a-Goph, a gopher client in development
for Palm OS. Cameron Kaiser wrote this in his spare time and got it
working quickly on his own Palm," he said. "Contrast that with the
state of Web browsing on handheld devices: Despite many years to
improve them, I still regularly run across Web sites that simply do
not render at all, or render so poorly that they are unusable."
My LinkSeries Internet Guides were written in 1992 - 1994 that
list all the gopher sites for academic research and were used in
academic libraries around the world in search of scholarly information
from the Internet. These have been replaced and updated with my latest
2004
Internet
MiniGuides.
Whatever Happened to Transmeta?
Whatever Happened to Transmeta?
03/20/2003 01:05 PMAfter a high-flying IPO in November 2000, chipmaker Transmeta
struggled through two years of pain, marked by product delays and
mixed reviews. Now, with a new chip in the works and a broadening of
its overall product line, Transmeta is trying to revive its hopes.
Will it succeed?
So What Happened in That Election,
Anyhow?
So What Happened in That Election,
Anyhow?
01/02/2005 01:56 PMNo consensus exists among Democrats about why John Kerry was defeated,
and the party is locked in a battle of interpretation over just what
went wrong.
Whatever Happened To Bluetooth?
Whatever Happened To Bluetooth?
11/15/2003 02:14 AMWireless technology has improved , but it may never be mainstream. By
Sumner Lemon and stephen Lawson (IDG News Service via MyAppleMenu)
Whatever Happened to MOOL?
Whatever Happened to MOOL?
12/17/2004 06:29 PMThe MSN Hotmail-based subscription service Microsoft Office Outlook
Live (MOOL) is now in beta and should be unveiled officially in early
2005, Microsoft execs said.
Zeal - From The "What Ever Happened To?"
Department
Zeal - From The "What Ever Happened To?"
Department
02/05/2005 09:41 PM"I've got a bunch of Zeal listings, and it was great when MSN was
using them, however now I get little to no traffic from them."
"What has happened to our moral
imagination?"
"What has happened to our moral
imagination?"
12/19/2004 03:41 PMBill Moyers'
last
NOW program is on PBS tonight. He recently accepted the Global
Environment Citizen Award at Harvard, and the speech he gave there is
worth reading. Here's a
link and an excerpt:
Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea?
Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea?
09/23/2004 03:13 AM
After
School Specials. Is that a Trapper Keeper in your locker or are
you just happy to see me? Next month, two volumes of
ABC's
"After School Specials" will be released on DVD (in DVD
sets designed to look like Trapper Keepers). After the first two sets,
at least four more will follow. TV Shows on DVD has the names of many
the specials ("Schoolboy Father," "She Drinks a
Little," "Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea?") to
jog your memory. Of course,
Jump
the Shark has plenty of memories of them, too. And anyone who saw
Helen Hunt host "SNL" knows that in at least one (possibly
two), she jumps out the window. Those were the days.
Lewis and Clark: What Else Happened
Lewis and Clark: What Else Happened
05/31/2004 02:30 AMWhat Else Happened in America While Lewis and Clark Explored the
West
lewisandclarkandwhatelse.com
track this
site | 3 links
Two Spins on What Happened With Tommy
Lee (AP)
Two Spins on What Happened With Tommy
Lee (AP)
06/23/2004 07:09 PMAP - There's plenty of spin about what happened at the Bellagio's
Light nightclub when former Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee was spinning
the tunes. Sean Christie, the club's director of marketing, said Lee
had to be removed by security officers, but Lee's manager said the
41-year-old drummer walked out of Sunday's show.
"torture that has happened at
Guantanamo"
"torture that has happened at
Guantanamo"
06/25/2004 03:22 PMWho care what happened 25 years ago
Who care what happened 25 years ago
09/08/2004 07:48 PM
"Any day in which
Bush's Nat'l Guard service is the dominant news story is a lost day
for the Kerry campaign." As another round of media yadayada
(see below) is about
to emerge over President Bush's National Guard service or lack
thereof, Noam Scheiber explains why this is probably very bad news for
... Kerry. We know who Bush is. The election is about the future,
not the past.
Scheiber's point may have been made in the MeFi thread
referenced above, but I'm afraid I lost consciousness after a screen
or so. What Happened To My Searches On Google?
What Happened To My Searches On Google?
12/08/2003 02:21 AMSearch Engine Report Dec 8 2003 1:12AM ET
Whatever Happened to Virtual Reality?
Whatever Happened to Virtual Reality?
03/20/2003 01:05 PMLess than a dozen years ago, it seemed as though virtual reality was
poised to be the next
major technology, though actual implementations were mainly being put
to use in
arcades. Then, as quickly as it arose amid much hype, the field seemed
to disappear. Even
the shoot-em-up headsets at the arcades were hard to find.
O'Reilly On What Happened To BountyQuest
O'Reilly On What Happened To BountyQuest
11/10/2003 11:19 PMSlashdot Nov 10 2003 11:36AM ET
What Happened To My Site On Google?
What Happened To My Site On Google?
12/08/2003 02:21 AMSearch Engine Report Dec 8 2003 1:12AM ET
Whatever Happened to Internet2 - And Why
You Can't Touch It
Whatever Happened to Internet2 - And Why
You Can't Touch It
03/20/2003 01:05 PMInternet2, the next-generation network that supposedly leaves the
mainstream Internet in the dust, is still an ivory-tower project
cloistered in universities and research labs. Why is it, then, that
experts say Internet2 is crucial to development of next-generation
technologies that will benefit all users?
What Ever Happened to Customer Service?
What Ever Happened to Customer Service?
05/23/2002 10:39 PMSave My Modem
Save My Modem
03/15/2003 01:28 PM0.18 - fixes
Device-Modem-1.32
Device-Modem-1.32
01/22/2004 10:57 PMDevice-Modem-1.39
Device-Modem-1.39
08/18/2004 07:10 AMGetting Modem Information
Getting Modem Information
06/02/2004 03:11 PMDevice-Modem-1.33
Device-Modem-1.33
01/22/2004 10:57 PMHe combined VoIP and EVDO: and here's
what happened
He combined VoIP and EVDO: and here's
what happened
04/07/2005 01:18 PMZDNet Apr 7 2005 4:38PM GMT
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