Conference falls for gibberish prank (Reuters)

Grok Headline matches for Conference falls for gibberish prank (Reuters)

Scientific Conference Falls for
Gibberish Prank (Reuters)

Scientific Conference Falls for
Gibberish Prank (Reuters) 04/15/2005 09:51 AM
Reuters - A bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference in a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"Toledo Blade columnist falls for prank
(1)"

"Toledo Blade columnist falls for prank
(1)" 06/08/2004 05:52 AM

MIT students pull prank on conference

MIT students pull prank on conference 04/16/2005 02:26 AM

"CNN.com - MIT students pull prank on
conference - Apr 14, 200..."

"CNN.com - MIT students pull prank on
conference - Apr 14, 200..." 04/15/2005 11:40 PM

CNN.com - MIT students pull prank on
conference - Apr 14, 2005

CNN.com - MIT students pull prank on
conference - Apr 14, 2005 04/15/2005 09:33 AM
simulated annealing

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NJ Dad Charged in U.S. Court for Laser
Prank (Reuters)

NJ Dad Charged in U.S. Court for Laser
Prank (Reuters) 01/05/2005 01:33 AM
Reuters - A New Jersey man faced charges in court on Tuesday for temporarily blinding the pilots of a private aircraft and a police helicopter with a small laser -- a prank he earlier blamed on his 7-year-old daughter.

That Gibberish in Your In-Box May Be
Good News

That Gibberish in Your In-Box May Be
Good News 01/24/2004 09:27 PM
The sheer volume of spam may not have diminished in your in-box. But advanced filtering software is having an effect.

google ad gibberish poetry

google ad gibberish poetry 03/06/2004 01:57 AM
hemmorhoids buy a bidet

Solectron Up, Red Hat Falls in Pre-Trade
(Reuters)

Solectron Up, Red Hat Falls in Pre-Trade
(Reuters) 06/18/2004 08:17 AM
Reuters - Shares of Solectron Corp. (SLR.N) rose before the bell on Friday, a day after the contract electronics manufacturer reported a small quarterly profit and forecast fourth-quarter earnings from continuing operations above Wall Street estimates.

That gibberish in your inbox may be good
news

That gibberish in your inbox may be good
news 01/25/2004 04:14 PM
CNET Jan 25 2004 7:34PM GMT

Legislator Falls Through Ice, Feared
Dead (Reuters)

Legislator Falls Through Ice, Feared
Dead (Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
Reuters - A Russian parliamentary deputy has fallen through ice covering the sea outside the city of St. Petersburg and is feared drowned, his political party said on Monday.

Gasoline Pump Price Falls Below $2 -
AAA (Reuters)

Gasoline Pump Price Falls Below $2 -
AAA (Reuters) 06/14/2004 09:55 AM
Reuters - The U.S. average retail gasoline price fell to $1.994 a gallon on Monday but remained almost 50 cents higher than this time last year, the AAA travel group said.

Before Bell: Red Hat Falls, Yellow Rises
(Reuters)

Before Bell: Red Hat Falls, Yellow Rises
(Reuters) 06/15/2004 08:29 AM
Reuters - Shares of Red Hat Inc. (RHAT.O) fell before the bell on Tuesday, a day after the distributor of Linux software said its chief financial officer was stepping down days before the company's quarterly earnings announcement.

Sony Ericsson Shocks as Profit Falls
(Reuters)

Sony Ericsson Shocks as Profit Falls
(Reuters) 04/15/2005 04:48 AM
Reuters - Sony Ericsson, the world's No. 6 mobile phone maker, shocked the market on Friday as its first quarter earnings not only missed expectations by a wide margin but fell against the previous year.

Intuit Profit Up, Stock Falls on Outlook
(Reuters)

Intuit Profit Up, Stock Falls on Outlook
(Reuters) 02/18/2004 05:21 PM
Reuters - Intuit Inc. (INTU.O), a maker of small business and personal finance software, on Wednesday said its quarterly profit rose as the upcoming U.S. income tax filing deadline fueled a 36 percent increase in sales of its TurboTax software.

Cingular Wireless Operating Income Falls
(Reuters)

Cingular Wireless Operating Income Falls
(Reuters) 04/20/2004 08:43 AM
Reuters - Cingular Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. mobile service provider, said on Tuesday its first-quarter operating income fell from a year ago as costs increased along with subscriber growth.

Fan Falls from Stands Chasing Historic
Homer (Reuters)

Fan Falls from Stands Chasing Historic
Homer (Reuters) 04/15/2004 07:35 AM
Reuters - A fan seeking to catch Barry Bonds' historic 661st career home run fell about 20 feet from the right-field stands out of the stadium and was injured, a San Francisco Giants official said on Wednesday.

Niagara Falls jumper brought down to
earth (Reuters)

Niagara Falls jumper brought down to
earth (Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:40 PM
Reuters - An American who survived a plunge over Niagara Falls and went on to sign a lucrative deal as a circus stuntman has been fined C$3,000 (1,300 pounds).

Thief returns laptop after chaser falls
(Reuters)

Thief returns laptop after chaser falls
(Reuters) 09/02/2004 08:32 AM
Reuters - A repentant thief has returned a laptop he stole from a computer shop after a salesman stumbled and broke his arm while chasing the bandit in the western town of Koblenz, police say.

Apple Stock Falls on Delay of New iMac
(Reuters)

Apple Stock Falls on Delay of New iMac
(Reuters) 07/02/2004 08:27 AM
Reuters - Shares in Apple Computer Inc.(AAPL.O) fell about 6 percent in premarket trade on Friday, a day after the computer maker said it would delay the introduction of its next iMac computer, a stumble that comes at the crucial back-to-school sales season.

PSEG Quarterly Profit Falls 7 Percent
(Reuters)

PSEG Quarterly Profit Falls 7 Percent
(Reuters) 07/30/2004 10:29 AM
Reuters - Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG.N), which supplies electricity in New Jersey, on Friday said quarterly profit fell 7 percent on a sharply lower contribution from its wholesale energy business, and it cut its earnings forecast for the year.

April Fool pension joke falls flat
(Reuters)

April Fool pension joke falls flat
(Reuters) 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Reuters - How's this for a government pension scheme: In lieu of payments, give eligible recipients five lottery tickets a year and a chance to win millions.

Vietnam's first foie gras falls foul of
bird flu (Reuters)

Vietnam's first foie gras falls foul of
bird flu (Reuters) 02/12/2004 08:48 AM
Reuters - It would have been Vietnam's first homemade, commercial production of foie gras, but the deadly bird flu has forced the slaughter of Hugh Adam's entire flock of geese.

Repentant Thief Returns Laptop After
Chaser Falls (Reuters)

Repentant Thief Returns Laptop After
Chaser Falls (Reuters) 09/02/2004 08:31 AM
Reuters - A repentant thief returned a laptop he had stolen from a computer shop after a salesman stumbled and broke his arm while chasing the bandit in the western town of Koblenz Thursday, police said.

Bush Unveils Intel Plan, Falls Short of
9/11 Panel (Reuters)

Bush Unveils Intel Plan, Falls Short of
9/11 Panel (Reuters) 09/16/2004 09:01 PM
Reuters - President Bush submitted a plan to the U.S. Congress on Thursday that gives a new national intelligence director authority over much of the intelligence community, but not the full powers sought by the Sept. 11 commission and key lawmakers, documents show.

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.

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.

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]

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

zug.com/pranks/credit_card
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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!)

Iraqi National Conference Postponed to
Aug 15 (Reuters)

Iraqi National Conference Postponed to
Aug 15 (Reuters) 07/29/2004 06:53 AM
Reuters - A major political conference to plot Iraq's future, due to start on Saturday, has been postponed until next month, a source on the preparatory committee said.

Drunken prank led to death fall

Drunken prank led to death fall 04/13/2005 02:21 PM
A 22-year-old rugby player was impaled on railings after plunging from his flat window during a drunken prank, an inquest hears.

Kerry's Yale GOP Membership Likely a
Prank (AP)

Kerry's Yale GOP Membership Likely a
Prank (AP) 04/14/2004 09:13 AM
AP - John Kerry, Young Republican? Among the many activities listed under Kerry's photo in the Yale University yearbook of 1966 is membership in Yale Young Republicans. Both the Democratic presidential candidate's campaign and the club's president at the time think the listing is a mistake, if not a prank.

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.

Bellevue Man Behind Bush Google Prank

Bellevue Man Behind Bush Google Prank 01/22/2004 07:26 PM
The 'Google bomb', as it's called, leads searchers of the phrase "miserable failure" on Google.com to an unexpected result: the official White House biography ...

Serb Leaves News Conference Over
Translation (Reuters)

Serb Leaves News Conference Over
Translation (Reuters) 08/17/2004 09:05 AM
Reuters - Serbia and Montenegro coach Zelmir Obradovic walked out of an Olympic basketball news conference Sunday, angered by the translating from his native Serbian into English.

WWW Conference Mulls Web as Personal
Memory Store (Reuters)

WWW Conference Mulls Web as Personal
Memory Store (Reuters) 05/20/2004 02:44 PM
Reuters - Imagine being able to record every interesting conversation you have ever held in your life, not to mention all the photos and writing you have done.
Grok Description matches for Conference falls for gibberish prank (Reuters)
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""Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical
Unification of Access Points and
Redundancy""

""Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical
Unification of Access Points and
Redundancy"" 04/16/2005 10:02 AM

Company Making Fake Urine for Research

Company Making Fake Urine for Research 09/14/2004 01:38 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Mon Sep 13, 10:55 am GMT

Company Making Fake Urine for Research
(AP)

Company Making Fake Urine for Research
(AP) 09/12/2004 09:46 PM
AP - Synthetic urine, which sounds like something more likely to generate snickers than sales, is turning into a small success for a Kansas company.

Beware the rogue access points

Beware the rogue access points 06/10/2004 06:32 AM
Wireless security headaches

Free Wi-Fi access points in Boston, MA

Free Wi-Fi access points in Boston, MA 05/08/2004 02:49 PM
These sites offer FREE wireless access and were published in The Improper Bostonian Magazine.

Armani Cafe, 214 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

The Wrap, 247 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 338 Newbury Street, Boston, MA

ENJOY!

Wireless Access Points – The New Attack
Vector?

Wireless Access Points – The New Attack
Vector? 06/13/2004 10:13 AM

Cross the Columbia and Two Access Points
Cost over $30,000

Cross the Columbia and Two Access Points
Cost over $30,000 08/13/2004 03:50 PM
Vancouver, Washington, gets its first free public Wi-Fi for a total of over $30,000 and after a year of planning: Vancouver is a popular town to live in for folks who like to shop just across the Columbia River in sales-tax-free Oregon and live in income-tax-free Washington. It's also a less-bustling town than its neighbor, Portland, edging right into undeveloped countyside, even as it's become a sprawl-y bedroom community. While Personal Telco in Portland has what they report as over 100 active nodes in their free network, including prominent ones in Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown, Vancouver's first free public space Wi-Fi appears to be a 3 Mbps Internet feed over two antennas relayed from a nearby building into Esther Short Park. The project involved $30,000 from HP in goods and services as a grant, which seems improbable just to start with, since the coverage area and relaying involves very little engineering and could use off-the-shelf equipment. It would be hard to spend more than a few thousand dollars at commercial rates and using enterprise hardware to achieve the project's scope. But HP didn't install the equipment: that was done at a reduced rate by Vancouver Power Systems. Bandwidth and authentication services are being donated by local companies. The equipment is 802.11b, not 802.11g, even. The nature of outdoor Wi-Fi seems to be profoundly misunderstood by either the reporter, the officials and others talking about the project, or both: Patrick Gilbride, the city’s information technology manager and main liaison to the project...[said] “If this is successful, I think it will be attractive to look at providing a service that helps local businesses on a wider scale.” To do so would require a much larger investment in equipment – or a much stronger signal than Wi-Fi, whose range is generally limited to a few hundred feet. Gilbride pointed with enthusiasm to the coming next-generation of wireless, known as WiMax, which promises an exponentially larger coverage area than Wi-Fi. “WiMax could be huge, but we’ll have to wait a year or two before it’s really available,” Gilbride said. In outdoor, public spaces, Wi-Fi can easily span several hundred feet unimpeded, and more with a little antenna design or a small cluster of dumb access points (as little as $50 each) with sectorized antennas. WiMax might help on the backhaul, but moving 3 Mbps in any direct line of site can be accomplished...

Connecting two Linksys wifi access
points

Connecting two Linksys wifi access
points 12/24/2004 01:06 PM
Paul English explains carefully how to set up two wifi access points if you need to cover a broader area... He also has a nice appreciation of David Brudnoy, the long-time Boston-area radio talk show host who was opinionated without being stupid or obnoxious. I only heard him a few times, but his movie reviews were the best thing in the Boston Tab newsweekly....

University Bans Wireless Access Points

University Bans Wireless Access Points 09/09/2004 10:51 AM

Warflying 2013 Access Points in Los
Angeles

Warflying 2013 Access Points in Los
Angeles 12/11/2003 02:19 PM
Kallahar writes "We went warflying over Los Angeles and Orange counties yesterday. Flying in a small plane at 1400 feet we detected 2013 802.11b APs in 75 ...

Aruba Grids Embed Access Points in Walls

Aruba Grids Embed Access Points in Walls 08/30/2004 01:49 PM
Aruba Wireless Networks this week will introduce a new set of WLAN hardware and management software designed to reduce costs and increase capacity of enterprise wireless LANs.

WLAN Monitors Thwart Rogue Access Points

WLAN Monitors Thwart Rogue Access Points 04/12/2004 12:54 AM
Aruba Wireless Networks' access points can double as detectors of rogue equipment—an attractive option for companies that want to make sure employees aren't comprising security by sneaking WLANs in.

Yahoo! Maps now can show wireless access
points

Yahoo! Maps now can show wireless access
points 04/28/2004 07:19 AM
Not sure if people are already aware, but Yahoo! Maps now shows "Wi-fi Hotspots,", if the option is checked. They are represented by little Centrino logos...

AirWave Adds Master Console for Managing
Access Points

AirWave Adds Master Console for Managing
Access Points 08/16/2004 01:00 AM
Version 3.0 of its WLAN management platform lets enterprises manage as many as 20,000 access points in multiple locations.

Setting the Netware Account for eXpress
Client Access Points

Setting the Netware Account for eXpress
Client Access Points 09/23/2004 03:17 AM

Texas Instruments to release WLAN
software for 802.11a/g access points

Texas Instruments to release WLAN
software for 802.11a/g access points 01/05/2004 06:44 PM
Existing access points can create both 802.11a and 802.11g networks, but TI's products will be the first to accomplish that using a single WLAN chip set.

Blocking Rogue Access Points in Real
Time With AirMagnet

Blocking Rogue Access Points in Real
Time With AirMagnet 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
AirMagnet Inc. on Monday released a new version of its WLAN security solution, which now is capable of detecting, tracing and blocking rogue access points in real time to help protect the integrity of corporate wireless networks.

Wireless Chip Maker Fuels Call for
Multiduty Access Points

Wireless Chip Maker Fuels Call for
Multiduty Access Points 07/12/2004 12:43 AM
WLAN hardware manufacturers are gearing up to take advantage of new silicon that promises to increase range and decrease the price of enterprise access points.

NIH Proposes Free Access To Research
Data

NIH Proposes Free Access To Research
Data 09/25/2004 06:10 AM
NIH Proposes Free Access To Research Data
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64389-2004Sep5.html

The National Institutes of Health has proposed a major change to its funding policy -- it would mandate that all scientists who receive grants from the agency make the results of their research available to the public for free. The policy change comes in response to a report by the House Appropriations Committee expressing concern that U.S. taxpayers are not reaping the benefits of research that they have paid for. The report urges NIH to devise a system whereby research results would be "freely and continuously available no later than six months after publication." The proposal drew swift criticism from the scientific publishing industry, which argued that if people stop subscribing to their publications because they can read about these research results for free, the journals will be unable to perform the costly process of selecting, peer-reviewing and editing the results into the reliable products now available. However, NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni says he's concluded that publishers' estimates of how much such a system would harm them or cost the government were "way out of line" with reality. Although about 60,000 articles are published each year reporting on NIH-funded research, they constitute only a third of all biomedical journal articles. "Do you really think people are not going to subscribe to a journal because they can read 30% of the articles in it for free?" asks Richard Roberts, a research director at New England Biolabs, who strongly supports the shift to open access.

AGORA -- Access to Global Online
Research in Agriculture

AGORA -- Access to Global Online
Research in Agriculture 09/26/2004 07:27 AM
AGORA -- Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture
http://www.aginternetwork.org /en/

The AGORA site provides access to over 500 journals from major scientific publishers in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA is available to students and researchers in qualifying not-for-profit institutions in eligible developing countries. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Congress Pushing Open Access for
Government-Funded Research

Congress Pushing Open Access for
Government-Funded Research 08/06/2004 09:25 AM

NIH Proposes Free Access For Public to
Research Data (washingtonpost.com)

NIH Proposes Free Access For Public to
Research Data (washingtonpost.com) 09/08/2004 03:10 AM

Research and Markets: Public Access WLAN
Forecasts 2005-2009

Research and Markets: Public Access WLAN
Forecasts 2005-2009 03/31/2005 03:03 AM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c14674) has announced the addition of Public Access WLAN Forecasts 2005-2009 to their offering. [PRWEB Mar 31, 2005]

Linux Hardware Database Unification

Linux Hardware Database Unification 07/01/2004 03:57 AM
First Release of LinuxHard

National Institutes of Health proposes
full, open, public access to biomedical
research

National Institutes of Health proposes
full, open, public access to biomedical
research 09/09/2004 12:44 PM

The National Institutes of Health is recommending that researchers who receive NIH funding make their work available to the world for no cost six months after completion:

Under the proposed policy, journal peer-review committees would vet papers that report results from NIH-sponsored research. Once the journal has edited and published the articles, editors would upload them to a searchable Web site and NIH would make them publicly available within 6 months.

The NIH initially recommended immediate publication, but added the six month embargo as a compromise with publishers, who argued that immediate availability would undermine their business model.

(via Clara Yu

Not your typical Monday madness

Not your typical Monday madness 10/29/2003 12:11 AM
Wken has been working extremely hard on a project that involves my jacket, lots of naked people, a camera...

Taiwan's Chen Says Unification with
China Possible (Reuters)

Taiwan's Chen Says Unification with
China Possible (Reuters) 02/16/2004 04:46 AM
Reuters - Taiwan's pro-independence president, Chen Shui-bian, does not rule out the possibility the island may eventually reunify with China, Time magazine said in a report on Monday.

How does a typical drop-shipping
arrangement work?

How does a typical drop-shipping
arrangement work? 02/24/2003 09:11 AM
"Can dealing with multiple drop-shippers for a single site become an organisational nightmare?"

Prince William shows he's a typical
student (Reuters)

Prince William shows he's a typical
student (Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:41 PM
Reuters - Prince William has given the media a rare glimpse into his everyday life as a university student, revealing he is just like any other undergraduate living off a diet of sweets and crisps.

"Jason Salavon - The Grand Unification
Theory (Part One: Every Second of Star
Wars)"

"Jason Salavon - The Grand Unification
Theory (Part One: Every Second of Star
Wars)" 09/22/2004 08:24 AM

Conference falls for gibberish prank (Reuters)

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