Re: Window OS's, The Upcoming MS Long Horn, MSBot & Security

From: Shenan T. Stanley (newshelper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 07/27/03 

Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 03:29:07 -0500

W. K. Mahler <> wrote:
> There was this thread about the beautiful & saddest Queen songs at
> Queen's official site, www.queenonline.com that I had read and
> decided to respond to.
> I got Windows Media Player 9 going with my entire Queen collection in
> MP3 and alphabetical order going. The program was in shuffle mode.
> I picked "Why Don't We Try Again" & "Save Me". While I was writing,
> Windows Media Player went on to "randomly" pick more of Queens
> beautiful & saddest songs. "Love Of My Life", "Mother Love" & "Spread
> Your Wings" precisely in that order. I had not programmed Media
> Player to do so and the music database was open to the internet but
> to think that Media Player did what I could've done for myself and
> the fact that Media Player figured it out from what I was reading
> online, well, security is an issue.
>
> I was using Windows Media Player 9
> with my own "private" list of nearly 1200 Mp3's while editing photos.
> Leonda came in and
> asked if I would call the doctor. I said "in a moment" then seconds
> later, Windows
> Explorer crashed immediately after. I called the doctor and left a
> answering machine message. Upon
> my self initiated reboot the first song was "Calling DR Love" It was
> randomly
> selected. The next random song was "Talk To Me".
>
>
> In other words...
>
>
> Leonda told me to call her doctor. I said wait. Windows Explorer OF
> Windows ME
> crashed while I was listening to my MP3's via Windows Media Player 9,
> chatting in MIRC and using Photo Impact 6. (The computer has done it
> before,
> no problem.) The computer was turned off. I called the Dr. I talked
> to the answering machine and left the message to call and talk with
> me while the computer was turned back on. I got off the phone. I
> logged into Windows. I started Windows Media Player 9 again and the
> first two randomly selected songs in shuffle mode out of nearly 1200
> were Calling Dr. Love (called the DR = Calling Dr. Love) (Talked to
> the answering machine and left the message to call and talk with me.
> = Talk To Me)
>
> In memory...
>
> A man who is paralyzed from the neck down with the aide of a microchip
> implant was able to move a mouse on a computer screen.
>
> Windows XP has a feature that will allow a Microsoft technician to
> "reach in and fix" the Operating system over the internet, Windows ME
> does not.
>
> A very close friend of mine has a girlfriend. The two of them share
> the same bedroom from time to time. My friend recently acquired a
> dog. One of those dogs that are loyal and friendly but in the face of
> danger, the jaws are almost impossible to remove. My friend told me
> that the dog hogs the bed...
>
> Not to long later one day while not connected to the internet I was
> copying a CD to my hardrive, something interesting occurred. My
> secondary hardrive has 60 gigabytes of space and at the time over
> half that was available for whatever I wanted to put there. Trying
> to save some money that day I decided to copy the rock and roll band
> Heart and their first greatest hits compilation. The size of the
> files were no more than 800 mb's. The amount of space the files were
> to take on the disc is in comparison like a small slice of pizza in a
> pizza for 60 people. Out of all the songs that made it to disc using
> db Power AMP as the converter, only one did not make it to disc. The
> reason, not enough room on the disc. The song, "Dog And Butterfly".
> I remedied the problem however, the mere fact that my friend has a
> bed hogging dog and a girlfriend that shares the same bedroom and the
> song "Dog & Butterfly" did not fit on the disc leaves room for
> speculation. My friends dog, the dog of the song, my friends
> girlfriend, the butterfly. Imagine the 3 of them on a single twin
> bed. Not enough room in the bed and not enough room on the disc for
> the song "Dog & Butterfly". Within five minutes after remedying the
> disc space problem I received a email from my friend.
>
> MS's Longhorn is to streamline media content and I'm quite sure with
> MSBot taking a foothold on the hill that Google sits atop of and that
> new stuff about making all things like phone calls, tv show viewings
> - basically a persons life incorporated into a new "toy" by
> Microsoft, you perhaps know - it would take a terabyte to cover a
> persons lifetime.
>
> Well by now you're either thinking, "this man is paranoid and more"
> but the fact is dear reader, the above statements have been
> thoroughly checked out by nearly 1000's of people from around the
> world, some many times too. I knew I was heading into a new scenario
> and now with the advent of "Long Horn" it seems I've found where...
>
> Security....
>
> ahh..yea....:-)
>
> Sincerely,

The 60's that good to you? *grin* 

-- 
Shenan Stanley