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Flamebait? Okay, that's it... there needs to be a minimum IQ of at least, say, 12, for moderators.

It refers to this cartoon: http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/02ju l/xuf004464.gif - as stated in the original post! Geez... stupid moderator.

p.s. UserFriendly rules

"It's fun to violate the D-M-C-A!"

Relevant User Friendly link (© 2002 Illiad)

Wouldn't the shortest day of the year be more appropriate?

If you don't get the reference, you aren't getting enough User Friendly . Failure to get enough UF in your diet can lead to blindness, so head over there now for a dose.

the AC

Userfriendly link, especially what Miranda says at the end :)

Yow! That's active passive resistance. Ghandi would have been so proud.

But here we go again, the same old crap we have seen with other research and - especially - with benchmarks. Some company, club or whatnot buys a researcher to bend statsitics their way and hopes that no one really notices that they're just reading a modified excerpt from How to lie with Statistics/Charts. And most of the time it works, because most of the really important folks (legislators) exceeded their level of competence when they were elected (you know who you are). They get those really biased statistics on glossy paper with lots of really biased charts, have a look at it and say: "Man, those [insert enemy here]s are really bad and should be [put against the wall|fried|gassed|drowned|beat to teath|stoned]." (Personally, I'd prefer the last one afther ther Berkeley definition.)

Then, it all ends. Why? Because any counterargument comes on standard paper, printed all in black with perhaps one or two graphs meant for people who know what they're looking at, and not for decisionmakers!

In the end, we can all just sing and hope that the revolution's coming and we get to decide who's to be put against the wall. Or at least who's to rethink their corporate policies to avoit a smack-bottom.

Posted by Enby in Waltham, Mass. (not MA; this is not the US postal service. :)

He ran that line of thought recently in User Friendly.

Well, two things. Being the one I am for not reading the article :), exactly where is this all going? Into Miguel de Icaza's pockets? RMS's? Whose? And two, if you're looking for a good place to donate, donate to UserFriendly. There, we know where it's going. Great comic strip. A little cash-strapped though.

--j

Well, two things. Being the one I am for not reading the article :), exactly where is this all going? Into Miguel de Icaza's pockets? RMS's? Whose? And two, if you're looking for a good place to donate, donate to UserFriendly. There, we know where it's going. Great comic strip. A little cash-strapped though.

--j

It looks like User Friendly has a series of strips, starting here that you may like. Forward a couple days more... the worst thing that could happen to man-kind... mini-clones of h.r053n.

are incompatible...

Dude, you're going to hell!

I've had too much user friendly! Now I crave some Penny Arcade! Great tech comic sites. :)

No, but there is a such thing as too much User Friendly. How many hours have I wasted reading cartoons that 1% of the population would even understand, much less think amusing....

the germanium diode might generate more 1's than 0's. That knowledge alone may be enough to break messages.

Mmh, I'm not really into the maths, but would it help to add _another_ germanium generator with the same characteristics that would invert the 0/1 signal from the first's ADC if it by itself produced a 1 signal?

On second thought, though, I guess it won't: One would knew that in - let's say - 52% of bits the original signal was inverted. ok, bad idea, but worth a thought.

[artifacts produced by the measurement equipment attached to the entropy source]

Interesting thought. One would need a source of signal that was produced by the detector (ADC/whatever) itself.

So, for computers, one'd need a source that would generate states of "0" and "1" in regular intervals and provide its own clock.

Reminds me of the NT paradoxon. :-)

. I wonder if we can use this map to somehow take out spam.

Sorry dude, but nuking spammers doesn't work.

Wow. It's amazing what asking to be moderated up on UserFriendly will do for your Karma. Is this a common practice now?

The only thing I would like MS to add to Word is vi emulation.

With the paperclip in Word, that's getting way to close to Vigor for comfort....

That sight made User Fiendly's Link of the Day last week. Was Slashdot scooped by a comic strip? ;)

I'll be keeping an eye on UserFriendly. Just in case.

As long as they don't make the traditional mistakes about computers (see Computers in Movie's and Userfriendly's Movie OS).

good point, but iicr with computers that come with MS windows preinstalled, you can, or used to, uninstall windows and return the unopened disk to MS, not to the sotre where you purchased the computer, for a refund. i believe there were a few User Friendly strips about this.

I always thought that Gandolf looked a bit like Richard Stallman.
Maybe it was just the beard.
Lord of the Token Ring

We all vie for eMacs, with vigor, no less, but rather more.

I can't HELP myself ... I GOTTA do it ...

If your going to plug this, you should link to this.

Ah, /.ers in the woods. Your post reminded me of this comic. :)

Tabbed (or windowed) browsing, a search box (deafulted to google, but you can change that,) in every window, skinnable, a hotlinks/bookmarks folder with stuff that's actually usefull and gestures; in addition to that you can magnify or resize the entire page...not just pictures or text, but the entire page (sometimes it looks like ass, true, but it comes in usefull when you're tired of looking at really small letters...can't tell you the amount of times I've set /. to 140% and sat a few feet further away from the old 19" monitor.

Opera has definitely made my browsing a much better experience. I happily shelled out 40$ today (even though I've been using the free version for like four months or so, I have been too broke to consider paying real $$ for software that is *quite* functional even with the ads....and a note about that: none of the ads were annoying blinking neon sex ads, either. In fact, if i recall correctly the last ad i saw before I payed up was an ad for User Friendly.

I can see how a user of Moz (and I have all 3 browsers on my machine, and I use all 3 regularly (although I really only use IE for windows update and on the rare occasions in which Opera does not render a page well. So far, this is the only page i've come across that doesn't render well.

Give it a try for a week before you knock it, it's way better than IE and at least as good as Moz (although I like it tons more than Mozilla, personally.)

...that if they outlaw spam, only criminals will have spam!

Odd... They don't mention Pitr Cola once in the whole paper. Are they overlooking the obvious?

Somebody has been reading a little too much UserFriendly

Seriously -- A certificate only tells me what questions to start asking. It's sort of like that college question a few days ago: I don't want people who know things; I want people who can think and learn things.

You might be better off spending some time studying on your own and doing a free project of some sort for a local charity or school. It's something you can put on your resume and build up a bit rather than just one line of questionable value... and good for the community as well.

Blizzard: Ooooh, ohooh, naughty people are creating a server that's compatible with battle.net and allows pirate copies. Ooooh, points my finger at them I do!

Sony: Oi, Blizzard! What's all that ILLEGAL music doing in your company, eh?|

Oh, I've got better! Here is some actual video of Blizzard employees being used by Sony in the court case.

:)

Here.

Pi

I agree...Here's something you may enjoy then...

The comic strip User Friendly has a great strip today about the DMCA..

Spoiler: It is 'violate the DMCA' sung to the theme song of YMCA...(Muh haw-hahaha) :-P

The comic strip User Friendly has a great strip today about the DMCA..

Spoiler: It is 'violate the DMCA' sung to the theme song of YMCA...(Muh haw-hahaha) :-P

>> with my short but gray hair

This may be the problem. To cultivate that "aged-guru" look you need long hair and a beard like Sid .

Yes User Friendly have a permanent bit about the tax and asking people to write to the politicians about it.

Hmmm, maybe reading Userfriendly might help. It's a daily comic. Which each comic there is whole slew of ufis (that's how the fan's call themself's) discussing with each other. There is allways the "Translation-Thread" where the english comic gets translated (by ufis for ufis) into various languages. There is allways a german translation.

- 'Thou must comprehend that the "I have a right to do anything I wish with the music in this CD" attitude is harming the industry'

- 'By ripping MP3 Thou art harming the poor artists who render their souls into such sweet tunes'

- 'Think of the starving musician who hath slaved into the dark hours! Think of the powdered cheese food thou art taking out of his mouth when Thou doth copy of his music!'

- 'Don't trouble Thyself sending them money... We can pass the money on to him for Thee!'

Menus will not be neccesary for helping people learn Vim once Vigor is fully integrated. Then we can all beg for redemption, and swear we'll never again mess with the text console goodness that is Vi.

Laws against cracking machines on the internet have more effect - remember the userfriendly.org This Is Not A Denial-Of-Service Attack? Fortunately or unfortunately, it's not legal to treat most US-based spammers appropriately :-) It may be legal in the US to treat Korean spammers appropriately, but most of the entertaining techniques violate your ISP's Acceptable Use Policies to a much larger extent than SPAM does.

So that means you're stuck playing by the rules - contacting spammers' ISPs, contacting their customers (for the commercial spammers), contacting their customers' ISPs. For US-based spammers, you may have grounds for a small-claims lawsuit. Even if it's tough to make your "$200 price for evaluating potential-spam email messages" bill get paid, you may be able to find some excuse to sue them, and Small Claims Court is inexpensive for you and may cost them travel costs, may let you do discovery to get their customer lists and the lists of vendors who sold them your address (if they didn't harvest it themselves), and enough rounds of getting thrown off ISPs and dragged into 1000 cities' local courts can really get somebody's attention.

Laws against cracking machines on the internet have more effect - remember the userfriendly.org This Is Not A Denial-Of-Service Attack? Fortunately or unfortunately, it's not legal to treat most US-based spammers appropriately :-) It may be legal in the US to treat Korean spammers appropriately, but most of the entertaining techniques violate your ISP's Acceptable Use Policies to a much larger extent than SPAM does.

So that means you're stuck playing by the rules - contacting spammers' ISPs, contacting their customers (for the commercial spammers), contacting their customers' ISPs. For US-based spammers, you may have grounds for a small-claims lawsuit. Even if it's tough to make your "$200 price for evaluating potential-spam email messages" bill get paid, you may be able to find some excuse to sue them, and Small Claims Court is inexpensive for you and may cost them travel costs, may let you do discovery to get their customer lists and the lists of vendors who sold them your address (if they didn't harvest it themselves), and enough rounds of getting thrown off ISPs and dragged into 1000 cities' local courts can really get somebody's attention.

Why is there so much linking in Slashdot articles ?

UserFriendly addressed this already...

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020310

Which, of course, simple undoes all of the things MS has done that were not quite legal.

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020310

Which, of course, simple undoes all of the things MS has done that were not quite legal.

I remember a similar storyline in UserFriendly:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990609 btw, shouldn't it be Geek: We don't need Windows XP. Our current setup runs fine and downgrading would cost an obscene amount of money.

I dunno, I dig geek chicks, so pile on the she's and her's (oink oink)!

Miranda

For a while I thought it was like the Pentium III...

Documented by the fine folks at UserFriendly.org.

It's no great mystery. That's Google's link analysis at work. Google associated the words "email" and "attachment" with http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99ju l/19990724.html because other pages linked to it using those words.

For example, this page at whump.com linked to the strip using "how to handle those attachments" as the text of the link. There are presumably other pages with links that contribute to the effect.

Goggle itself admits this is the cached version of that User Friendly page. I actually see this a lot when looking at the cached versions of sites I've found through Google.