Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The reason Amazon’s Unbox connects to the internet to uninstall is that everyone’s local objects are mirrored at Amazon. To disable an account, it has to be disabled both at Amazon and on the PC. The only problem is, the uninstall disables the validation of the PC as the first part of […]
Author: Shelley Powers
On dealing with griefers
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Griefer. It’s a new word. A griefer is a person like Jason Fortuny, who posed as a woman and put out an extremely suggestive sex wanted ad at Craigslist and then published all the results–including actual names, emails, photos, and other contact information of the men who responded. I’ve always thought the […]
On dealing with griefers
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Griefer. It’s a new word. A griefer is a person like Jason Fortuny, who posed as a woman and put out an extremely suggestive sex wanted ad at Craigslist and then published all the results–including actual names, emails, photos, and other contact information of the men who responded. I’ve always thought the […]
Science blogs
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I can strongly recommend subscribing to the Science Blogs. I have never seen such an interesting mix of material come out of one place before. From today’s reading: Monkeys are not Mozart Fans from Mixing Memory. Nerd Music from PZ. (The juxtaposition of both of the above was purely by accident.) The Top Ten […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I recently received two new DVDs: This Island Earth and the original Godzilla, Gojira as it was released to a Japanese audience in 1954. Gojira comes in a two DVD set with the original Japanese film and the Americanized Godzilla with Raymand Burr. There’s also a small booklet with background information, all in a […]
