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October 28, 2010 6:18:53.415
TechDirt spotted an entertaining attempt at revenue gathering via an implicit paywall - an upstate New York newspaper website posted the following:
A subscription is required at North Country Gazette. We allow only one free read per visitor. We are currently gathering IPs and computer info on persistent intruders who refuse to buy subscription and are engaging in a theft of services. We have engaged an attorney who will be doing a bulk subpoena demand on each ISP involved, particularly Verizon Droids, Frontier and Road Runner, and will then pursue individual legal actions.
I anxiously await the response from that famed ISP, Verizon Droid.
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October 21, 2010 15:09:48.000
Never mind the difference between "end of time" and "end of an epoch" - apparently the Mayan calendar hasn't been properly converted to our calendar, either:
According to the new book Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World, we should stop believing that doomsday will come in 2012 because that's when the Mayan calendar ends, since scientists didn't convert the Mayan calendar into the modern calendar correctly and could be off by as much as 50 to 100 years.
Quick, someone call Roland Emmerich :)
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October 18, 2010 6:02:50.343
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September 20, 2010 6:14:54.999
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September 9, 2010 11:58:40.578
Well, the website is interesting, I'll give it that. I feel like I need a modem and a BBS to visit it though....
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September 2, 2010 8:34:59.437
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August 23, 2010 8:13:50.000
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August 21, 2010 11:19:57.352
In the "programming self esteem" list, that's where the Smalltalk crowd belongs :)
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August 10, 2010 23:11:28.599
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