Companies like Microsoft seem to have developed the attitude that people shouldn't find their security holes at all, but if they do, they should be obligated to report them for free.
I think a free market approach like this is good. What would this mean for the authors of FS who can't afford to buy the exploit ?
Could this create a divide between developers/companies that can afford to buy up exploits and those that can't ?
To me, 'People-ready business' represents a new low in catch-phrase marketing. We all know 'can you hear me now', a stoned man saying 'dude we're getting a Dell', 'works out of the box' and the Vegemite song sucked. But new levels are being reached, requiring of extending the "int catchphrase_rating" to "long int catchphrase_rating". These levels are being reached by the one and only, Microsoft. You utter bastard !
How people expected a movie to be like a collection of short stories is beyond me.:-) Yeah, it would be like making a Twilight Zone movie, clearly impossible:\
but the urge to wheel and deal is in the DNA of China. Reminds of a line from a Heinlein book about 2 Chinese falling down a hole and getting rich selling rocks to each other.
when will the rest of the world learn that NZ Sheep jokes are neither original, funny But, to the rest of the world, they *are* funny;)
"God loves New Zealand, he gave us boiling mud. God's the full quid, because that isn't all he did. God gave us rugby, because you can't kick boiling mud. God gave us sheep...because you can't shear boiling mud God gave us Australia...because you can't live in boiling mud"
"Asimov attributes the Three Laws to John W. Campbell from a conversation which took place on December 23, 1940. However, Campbell claims that Asimov had the Laws already in his mind, and they simply needed to be stated explicitly"
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I think a free market approach like this is good. What would this mean for the authors of FS who can't afford to buy the exploit ?
Could this create a divide between developers/companies that can afford to buy up exploits and those that can't ?
Yeah, you're right. Pierson's Puppeteers have some redeeming qualities, while Heinlein's are just plain evil :)
The record companies are Pierson's Puppeteers ?
Well that explains a lot.
That theforbiddenknowledge.com site you linked to is hilarious, thanks man. :)
His theories on EAN13 barcodes and people throwing away TI-99/4a computers proves mind control cracked me up.
Even some of the titles are funny "Lucifer and the United States Postal System."
"God loves New Zealand, he gave us boiling mud.
God's the full quid, because that isn't all he did.
God gave us rugby, because you can't kick boiling mud.
God gave us sheep...because you can't shear boiling mud
God gave us Australia...because you can't live in boiling mud"
Lotsa nasty radiation there.
Interesting link, pity I'm out of mod points.
What happens if Linus kills his wife and goes to prison?
From Wikipedia: Linus is married to Tove Torvalds (née Monni). She is a six-time Finnish national Karate champion.
Linus would die.
Personal Computer Manufacturers Create Idiotic Acronyms
Maybe they are more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.
What is the definition of an auditor ?
They are the people that go around after a battle and shoot the wounded.
Usually it inverts the screen.
My solution matches the stated requirements %100, so if you will just sign my timesheet, I'll be out of here :)
Ctl-Alt-Up Arrow to re-invert the screen.
in XP
:)
Ctl+Alt+down arrow
Voila ! scroll bars on the left
Furthermore, good SF almost exclusively is not television
Hear, hear. SF was born in the pulps and still shines brightest there.
The one time I *really* would like to have mod points.
And if you don't like it then don't fucking watch it. What exactly is so hard to grasp about that?
I don't watch it, nor do I care if you watch it, it's your time to waste.
I was just pointing out one of the reasons the Gov is pissed.
No normal person in his sane mind will watch that tripe.
Well the program does target teenagers.
*ducks*
Well said, The problem here is a TV station using internet streaming to broadcast
parts of a show they could never get away with on free to air TV.
It is their attempts to bypass normal programming standards that our gov is looking at.
To this the Duck replied, "What kind of bird are you, if you can't swim?"' - Sergei Prokofiev
Asimov's Laws of Robotics
More accurately, John W. Campbell's laws.
"Asimov attributes the Three Laws to John W. Campbell from a conversation which took place on December 23, 1940. However, Campbell claims that Asimov had the Laws already in his mind, and they simply needed to be stated explicitly"
Thanks, no wonder I couldn't make sense of it.