Do You See Dead People? Want a Million Bucks?

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TBL wins a million bucks

TBL wins a million bucks 04/15/2004 02:18 PM
seems fair, but when do we hand out the prize for creating FTP?

Bush's Campaign Has An E-Mail List
Totaling 6 Million People, 10 Times The
Number That Democratic Presidential
Candidate Howard Dean Has, And The Bush
Operation Is In The Middle Of An
Unprecedented Drive To Register 3
Million New Republican Voters

Bush's Campaign Has An E-Mail List
Totaling 6 Million People, 10 Times The
Number That Democratic Presidential
Candidate Howard Dean Has, And The Bush
Operation Is In The Middle Of An
Unprecedented Drive To Register 3
Million New Republican Voters 12/02/2003 01:54 AM

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"I sue dead people..."

"I sue dead people..." 02/05/2005 09:26 PM
The RIAA has done some MIND BLOWINGLY stupid things in the past, but this one actually had me baffled! According to a report from Ars Technica, it seems that the RIAA has gone after a deceased woman in order to get what they feel they have coming to them. Yes folks, these idiots actually tried to sue someone who has already passed on. Worst part was, I have seen no evidence of an apology for…

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Dead People Server

Dead People Server 02/11/2004 07:52 AM
Dead People Server
http://www.DeadPeople.info/

The Dead People Server is a database of interesting celebrities who are long dead or newly dead. Interesting resource that only the Internet could offer ...... as it is up to date and current!

RIAA: We see dead people

RIAA: We see dead people 02/06/2005 03:06 AM
Register .. tonight

theregister.co.uk/2005/02/05/riaa_sues_the_dead
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Save Big Bucks With Small Bucks

Save Big Bucks With Small Bucks 04/15/2005 10:07 AM
Did you realize that $2 per day can become $100,000?

Flickr sees dead people

Flickr sees dead people 06/24/2005 10:03 PM
These two pictures are of a dead man right outside the Helsinki Central Railway Station. Snapped with a cameraphone, and uploaded to Flickr with GPRS, the pictures spread with RSS and tags to people who sit comatosely with their aggregators and browsers, and feed on the information stream.

This is what street journalism is[1]. Whether it is a good thing, or a bad thing, I cannot say. That is up to everyone to decide for themselves.

But you saw it first in the blogosphere.

5 People Found Dead in 2 N.Y. State
Homes

5 People Found Dead in 2 N.Y. State
Homes 12/25/2003 01:58 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 25 2003 12:40PM ET

Calif. Plane Crash Leaves 5 People Dead

Calif. Plane Crash Leaves 5 People Dead 12/24/2003 08:11 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 24 2003 6:36PM ET

In Africa, 200 million people are
undernourished.

In Africa, 200 million people are
undernourished. 07/26/2004 02:22 PM
Realizing the Promise and Potential of African Agriculture
Africa is rich in both natural and human resources, yet nearly 200 million of its people are undernourished because of inadequate food supplies. Comprehensive strategies are needed across the continent to harness the power of science and technology (S&T) in ways that boost agricultural productivity, profitability, and sustainability -- ultimately ensuring that all Africans have access to enough safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs. This report addresses the question of how science and technology can be mobilized to make that promise a reality.

Could you manage 4.7 Million Computers
with 7 people!

Could you manage 4.7 Million Computers
with 7 people! 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
The Seti team does and what is amazing is the Seti project sits on .1% of the worlds computers. [Smart...

1, 2, 10, 40, 100, 200, 999 Million
People whats the difference

1, 2, 10, 40, 100, 200, 999 Million
People whats the difference 06/22/2005 02:12 AM

The number to pay attention to is 40 Million why is that important because thats the number of Credit Cards a hacker may have stolen. Yes 40 Million.

I am not surprised and I expect that before long we will be able to visit a website and enter our social security number or our credit card number to just find out if we need to live in fear that our entire world is about to be turned upside down.

I am not sure about you but I think companies should be fined a HUGE outrageous amount of money every time they expose our personal information to the world. That money should be divided equally and given to the people who's data was stolen. Time for someone mainly Congress to get very tough and put down some legislation that has some teeth.

While we are at it scrap all of our SSN numbers and come up with something that can be protected. Better yet lets put a credit alert on every citizen in this country for the next 12 months so that they can raise awareness and get a handle on all of these breaches [BBC]

Over 8 million people online, study
reports

Over 8 million people online, study
reports 06/11/2004 05:00 AM
Etaiwannews.com - Fri Jun 11, 08:23 am GMT

Cebit to draw half a million people,
organizers say

Cebit to draw half a million people,
organizers say 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
Industry Standard Mar 3 2004 7:08PM GMT

Can we really let this happen again?

Ignore the genocide in Darfur,
Sudan, and a million people will die

Can we really let this happen again?

Ignore the genocide in Darfur,
Sudan, and a million people will die 07/23/2004 06:04 AM
J Moore and others have done for the ongoing genocide in Sudan something similar to what I did for SARS in its infancy. In May they started a group blog, Passion of the Present and have been posting news about the situation in Darfur, with links for more information, daily. The site, Passion of the Present, is a great resource for learning about what it happening in the Sudan, learning about efforts to prevent the ongoing genocide, and suggestions for what people can do to try and stop it. If you haven't seen it, check it out, link to it, and write about it. In case you haven't heard of Darfur, as the Mercy Corps home page says: it is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. According to the United Nations, some 2 million people are in desperate need of food and humanitarian aid, and the U.S. Agency for International Development estimates 350,000 people could die in coming months from starvation and disease. But this humanitarian crisis is not the result of natural forces. It is the result of a deliberate campaign by the leaders of the Sudan to destroy the people of Darfur. So far, the campaign looks like it will be successful. It is, as the US House and Senate voted tonight to declare, Genocide. This is not a Democratic or Republican issue, nor a conservative or liberal, issue. A people is being exterminated like termites by their government. Until recently, the world has just watched and made "naughty naughty" noises. Unless the world steps in, hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of people will die. For those interested in the details, Human Rights Watch recently published a lengthy report on the crisis in Darfur. If you prefer a more impressionistic view, the NYT recently had a first person account of a visit to the refugee camps. A small sample: Two weeks after Colin L. Powell and Kofi Annan visited this part of Sudan in the hope that the glare of diplomatic shame might arrest a human crisis, conditions are still miserable. Days after the American secretary of state and the United Nations secretary general ended their tour, witnesses said, gunmen stormed a girls' school in the desert region of Darfur, chained a group of students together and set the building on fire. The charred remains of eight girls were still in shackles when military...

"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown."

"Dazzling, full-color shots of people
long since dead, landscapes long since
paved, and an empire long since
overthrown." 01/17/2004 11:07 PM

St Peter's Square - The Pope is dead -
People mourning the Pope at Saint Peters
Square Rome - QTVR photos from
panoramas.dk

St Peter's Square - The Pope is dead -
People mourning the Pope at Saint Peters
Square Rome - QTVR photos from
panoramas.dk 04/05/2005 04:07 AM
St Peter's Square - The Pope is dead - People mourning the Pope at Saint Peters Square Rome .. The Coolest Thing On the Web .. Panoramic view .. panorama

panoramas.dk/fullscreen5/f14a-pope.html
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Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands

Pilot wants to know if people flying in
his plane are "Christians" - asks people
to raise their hands 02/10/2004 09:18 AM
CNN.com - Passengers: Pilot promotes faith on flight .. Pilot's proselytizing scares passengers .. FLYING THE PLANES!!!!

cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/02/09/airline.christianity/index.html
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"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions"

"people it's somehow understandable how
some people might be driven to kill
"activist" Judges who make unpopular
decisions" 04/06/2005 03:07 AM

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein?

Correspondences - News By the People For
People: Who captured Saddam Hussein? 12/22/2003 07:54 AM
Well, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. Saddam Hussein was captured by Kurds, not US forces. 12/22 .. (even more) .. more

correspondences.org/archives/000507.html
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How They Get the Big Bucks

How They Get the Big Bucks 11/18/2003 12:16 AM
For a thin-client deployment that's not going well, this IT shop brings in some highly paid consultants. Fish notices that one of them of them appears to be taking notes on everything that's said or done, using a handheld computer ...

The big bucks

The big bucks 05/13/2004 03:31 AM
USA Today May 13 2004 7:11AM GMT

BEA Systems Bucks Up

BEA Systems Bucks Up 08/13/2004 02:15 PM
The software company's stock rises on improved second-quarter numbers.

Big bucks in Bluetooth?

Big bucks in Bluetooth? 07/22/2004 06:31 PM
Electric New Paper Jul 22 2004 9:04PM GMT

Big bucks from Bill

Big bucks from Bill 02/12/2004 11:37 PM
USA Today Feb 13 2004 4:10AM GMT

Save Big Bucks When Investing

Save Big Bucks When Investing 03/24/2005 08:58 AM
Why spend more than you have to when investing?

Pistons Mow Down Bucks 108-82 in Game 1
(AP)

Pistons Mow Down Bucks 108-82 in Game 1
(AP) 04/18/2004 04:27 PM
AP - One of the best defenses in NBA history shut down the highest scoring team in the Eastern Conference. Richard Hamilton scored 21 points and the Detroit Pistons set a team playoff record with 14 steals in a 108-82 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday in Game 1 of their first-round series.

The Right Taps Blogs for Bucks

The Right Taps Blogs for Bucks 08/09/2004 05:33 AM
Conservative bloggers try to replicate the fund-raising and organizing success of left-leaning sites by setting up RedState.org. Not that the Republican Party needs any fund-raising help, progressives retort. By Louise Witt.

Grokster And EFF Get Big Bucks Backer

Grokster And EFF Get Big Bucks Backer 03/28/2005 04:42 PM
Internet Billionare <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cuban">Mark Cuban</a> has announced his intention to financially support the EFF and Grokster. Cuban, who believes that any ruling could potentially hurt innocent businessmen like himself, announced his plans on his weblog; he said that "the EFF and others came to me and asked if I would finance the legal effort against MGM. I said yes. I would provide them the money they need."

Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court will hear the case of MGM vs. Grokster. Involving more than 28 of the world's biggest media companies, the lawsuit also includes P2P vendors Kazaa and Morpheus and attempts to set a precedent against other uses of p2p technology. Grokster is being defended by the EFF. The case has been brought to the Supreme Court after a lower court ruled in Grokster’s favour, and the media companies appealed.

In a post on Saturday, Cuban remarked that "If Grokster loses, technological innovation might not die, but it will have such a significant price tag associated with it, it will be the domain of the big corporations only." He went onto say that "It wont be a good day when high school entrepreneurs have to get a fairness opinion from a technology oriented law firm to confirm that big music or movie studios wont sue you because they can come up with an angle that makes a judge believe the technology might impact the music business. It will be a sad day when American corporations start to hold their US digital innovations and inventions overseas to protect them from the RIAA, moving important jobs overseas with them."

The EFF plan to use the so called "Betamax" defence. "The copyright law principles set out in the Sony Betamax case have served innovators, copyright industries, and the public well for 20 years," said Fred von Lohmann, EFF's IP attorney. "We at EFF look forward to the Supreme Court reaffirming the applicability of Betamax in the 21st century."

View: EFF Information | Cuban's Blog

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Heyer's Bubbly Bucks

Heyer's Bubbly Bucks 06/15/2004 11:47 AM
Steven Heyer will leave Coca-Cola with a $23-million severance package.

CD Settlement brings you the big bucks

CD Settlement brings you the big bucks 03/13/2003 11:27 AM

i'd take a hundred bucks if profiled

i'd take a hundred bucks if profiled 08/04/2004 06:50 PM
it's gonna happen anyway, i might as well get paid

Dollar Tree Bucks Up

Dollar Tree Bucks Up 05/27/2004 01:55 PM
Dollar Tree had a pretty good quarter. But will steep gas prices alter its outlook?

Blogs, bosses and bucks

Blogs, bosses and bucks 06/25/2004 08:31 PM
I had a good time yesterday at Supernova, but it seemed that one of the points I made on our panel caused some consternation among some listeners, so let's look at it.

I had heard a certain amount of what I thought was wildly overoptimistic forecasting of the widespread adoption of blogging as a tool in corporate America. For instance, Tim Bray said: "Any corporation that doesn't do this in the future is going to be playing catch-up. They can use the technology to make the enterprise provide a more human face to world." (I copied this quote from a trade journal article on the conference and promptly lost the URL. Sorry. I wasn't taking notes myself so if it's wrong, apologies in advance.)

I agree with Tim and the other optimists that blogging can give enterprises a more human face. But will they let it? What I said yesterday is that I thought the successes to date in public blogging by software developers at places like Microsoft and Sun weren't likely to be duplicated in other, more traditional corporations any time soon. Software professionals are relatively unique in feeling that (a) their talents are in demand and (b) if they get fired from one job they can probably (except maybe at the very bottom of an economic cycle) get another one pretty easily. In other words, they feel more empowered to spout off on their blogs without fearing for their livelihood than the typical American worker does.

I'm not sure why, but Tim seemed to take this comment to mean that I thought that people in other fields -- I think he mentioned construction, it's hard to remember -- wouldn't succeed as bloggers because they're "not as interesting." Of course, that's not what I said, and it's precisely the opposite of what I think. Everyone has stories to tell, and everyone's stories are worth telling: that's a credo of the digital storytelling movement that I've been involved with for a decade now.

The stories that programmers are telling in the current explosion of blogs have given their work a vital new visibility; as developers tell their stories to each other, creating a pool of technical, practical and philosophical knowledge, they are also giving the public a new and fascinating window onto their discipline. (I'm as aware of this as anyone -- my work on my book is infinitely easier thanks to the profusion of programming blogs.)

Do I think it would be a Good Thing for this pattern to be duplicated in other fields? Of course -- and it's happening in some, predictably in those areas where individual professionals have a tradition of independence (the legal world, academia).

But the utopian vision of blogging somehow flattening corporate hierarchies and allowing Cluetrain-like voices of authenticity to trumpet forth from every Fortune 500 headquarters? Maybe it's possible on the sort of time scale that Supernova keynoter Tom Malone talked about -- from hunter-gatherers to agriculture, that sort of thing. But I don't think it's going to happen in our lifetimes.

I'm sorry to be the pessimist at the party. But for large numbers of workers in America, particularly those at big companies, the dominant fact of life remains don't piss off your boss. And, in an era of health-insurance lock-in and easy outsourcing and offshoring, many U.S. workers remain doubtful that they can simply waltz into a new job should their activities displease the current hierarchy to which they report. So the odds of them feeling at ease publishing honest Web sites about their work lives are extremely poor. The blogs you're going to see from within most traditional companies will be either uninformative snoozes or desperate attempts at butt-covering and -kissing. Not because people don't have great stories to tell -- but because telling the truth has too high a cost.

Someone at Supernova got up and said that he worked in investment banking and thought it was a field that was ripe for blogging. No doubt! I'm assuming that your typical investment banker has managed to sock away some private unemployment insurance cash (also known in some industries as "fuck you" money, something Dick Cheney apparently has in abundance).

For those with such resources, blog on! For those lucky enough to work for a company that says "blog on" and means it, cherish your luck. But for most of the rest of the working population, the blogging revolution will be happening in some other office.

Get into Google for under a thousand
bucks

Get into Google for under a thousand
bucks 07/28/2004 05:48 AM
Nbr.co.nz - Wed Jul 28, 09:45 am GMT

Big Bucks for Biometric Screening

Big Bucks for Biometric Screening 06/02/2004 05:37 AM
The Department of Homeland Security awards a $10 billion contract to a group of companies, led by Accenture, to build a system to screen and track foreign visitors to the United States.

3Com and 3 Bucks (and Change)

3Com and 3 Bucks (and Change) 09/20/2004 10:45 AM
At more than $4 a stub, every 3Com share comes with $3.25 cash.

T-Rex Bones Don't Bring Big Bucks

T-Rex Bones Don't Bring Big Bucks 05/19/2004 06:08 AM
CBS News May 19 2004 10:08AM GMT

Ten Years and Fifteen Bucks

Ten Years and Fifteen Bucks 12/19/2004 02:58 PM

« Pigs are pigs all the world over. »

Happy 40th Conrad and 30-*mumble* JJ! I think we have all earned the joy of good single malts and reading pandering crap like this knowing we're too old for the target market. James Earl Jones might have been cool, but RMS? Paging Brad Kuhn, paging Brad Kuhn....:) 'Tis a pity I gave up such ancient technology as the answering machine years ago.

When I came home tonight there was a big package from my mother who sent a few gifts, a few bags of dried cranberries and load of mail from the last few months which mostly consisted of quarterly retirement fund reports noting how much money they've lost this quarter and a slew of credit card offers. In contrast, the banks in Finland will mostly tell you to piss off if you want a MasterCard unless you have a job, even with a decent amount of money in the bank and no debt, and will give you a low line of credit and make you pay an annual fee. Of course, there's nowhere near the problem of personal debt here either.

After chopping up most of those I found an envelope from the City of St. Louis which struck me as odd since I've not lived there in almost a decade. I opened it and much to my amazement I found a harsh letter for a 10 year-old $15 parking ticket. Yes, TEN YEARS. Jesus christ in a merry widow with a cat 'o nines, even criminals enjoy a shorter statute of limitations on far worse crimes than being busted by the meter nazis. Fifteen whole dollars, which is something like 5 euro these days, induced them to send a threatening letter of doom.

Our records indicate that parking tickets issued to a vehicle registered in your name are delinquent. Your failure to satisfy this matter immediately will result in the forwarding of this debt to a national collection agency and may result in additional collection fees equal to 20 percent of the amount due. [emphasis theirs]

Holy shit, I'm in for a whole $15 and the $3 for collection. I'll bet Trump never got a lame letter like this when he was in the hole for a few billion bucks and I'm getting busted for a lousy $15?! The only thing worse than the US Postmaster on your ass is the parking ticket collective, even the parking nazis in Helsinki have an Orwellian logo to remind you that there is no escape from the everseeing eye of the "Time Expired" vultures. Why can't they just send me a letter that says something like that they're sorry that it took them 10 years to notice that I have one whole parking ticket outstanding and that they'd like me to pay up instead of the dramatic language of doom? I doubt that Finland would extradite me for a parking ticket back home, but I wonder if the US Customs guys would bust me if I ever reenter the US and send me to Gitmo as a parking terrorista. Who knew living on the edge could be so easy and so dreadfully dull at the same time?

Speaking of pigs, I found out about kinkkubingo [ham bingo] today at work. Bingo makes me think of old ladies [sorry mom] in church basements obsessing on their cards to win pocket money. Ham bingo is, apparently, a Christmas tradition of bingo or a raffle for a Christmas ham. I say 'apparently' as Google doesn't turn up much and my close Finnish girlfriend upon whom I rely to keep me informed on such important bits of cultural ephemera had never heard of it. DTM has a Kalkunnabingo [turkey bingo] every Sunday with Miss Bitch but, being a former fag hag supreme, I get a little suspicious when gay clubs start raffling off meat. :) It sounds like a bit of harmless holiday fun and might even be combined with a drinking game for pikkujoulu entertainment.

And, just in time for Christmas tree trimming, the paper lomo that you can cut out, glue together and enjoy. The Lomo people also have a cute advent calendar, too. Maybe I'll send one of the paper lomos to the parking crusaders with the pysäköinninvalvonta eyeball glued onto the front of it for grins.

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