Sidenote: Voicemail can somewhat tell people how full your voicemail is, by whether it's ABSOLUTELY full or not (which is my preferred voicemail status, if I'm not able to set up call forwarding to my own LRN).

But yes, Read-receipts are a pain, and I never let my mail client send them. Usually the people who want to know if I've read their message are the ones (in my experience) who are just wanting to be sure I've read their bullshit excuses for not doing their job, and want to continue not doing their job even though I've spelled out for them what steps they need to take. Such is the life of the customer-facing group versus the non-customer-facing asshats.

Just be careful around Bill, will ya?

Ghostbusters?

You're right, those are all examples of overkill.

However, it is about the only way to get the woman in your life--mom or significant other--to make you a goddam sandwich.

I think the point that's being made is that people need to be a little more educated on shit like this (or, alternately, that people aren't paying attention to or are too dumb to comprehend the reliable information out there).

I think most of us understand that this is meant to prey on those who are a little less wise with their systems. Any good scam targets the idiots, because a successful scam generally depends on the target not seeing that 1 and 1 aren't making 2 any longer.

Did this on HS with an admin account I found perusing the Active Directory. Except, instead of moving the icons, I used a VBScript-created error box that looked real bad, and wouldn't go away when clicked on (it was there in the screencap).

The freshmen and teachers panicked for a few minutes, and a day or two later, that admin account was gone. But not the other two, named Test2 and Test3.

God bless sudo.

Said stoner, if in the Star Trek universe, would somehow manage to spew out a string of words that would cause these words to be uttered: "Self-destruct sequence has been activated. Ten minutes until antimatter core overload.'.

I've handled plenty of bills that are as old, or older, than I am. Paper currency gets a little more than a 'few years'. You don't see a big recovery effort until the denomination gets redesigned to be harder to forge (making the older bills less desirable, though equal in value in commerce), so many of the older bills remain in circulation. Not everyone beats up their money in the literal sense.

Similar to the good old days of the ESN (think Analog, TDMA, CDMA)? Granted, the ESN was printed right in the back of the thing, and all someone needed was a few minutes to get that (at most) and cloning isn't far behind--not that the GSM method is unclonable, but really, it's more often going to be easier to just yoink someone's SIM and use it while you can.

You also lose the benefit of being able to just switch to a different phone on your own if the identifier is a value stored in the phone--every phone would have to have it's own identifier on the network (letting multiple phones share the same would make it hard to claim cloning with your provider, should it happen--it's built in for multiple phones to say they're the same person at that point), so if you wanted or needed to change handsets, it's another call to your provider.

Nah, doing that could break windows.

This is the downside to Rule 34. This will probably soon exist, and necessitate the gouging out of eyes.

Really, their poetry sucks, the pr0n has to be a war crime at best.

Breaking News: Bill Gates goes apoplectic with rage. Film at 11.

And then maybe some Vogon poetry?

He's dead, Jim!

Now, just get Michael on the plane and he can be done with Purgatory.