"just because your a schizophrenic doesn't mean people arn't really out to get you."
Not only that, but they aren't really there.
"There is a man that sits in the corner of my room. No one else sees him. When I tell them that there is a man that sits in the corner of my room, they beat me." "We beat him". "Oh go away. You're not really there. Don't come back another day. Ple-ease." (Old, old song, 1968 or so.)
you don't rip off if you attribute (ut all of your work no longer can be produced as spontaneously as a/. post.:-)
If I can find out (because you put down how in the margins or in an appendix somewhere) where you got something, then it can be assumed that you haven't just pulled the idea either from somebody else (plagiarism) or our of your ass (inane, though original in the strictest sense of the word.)
Of course the problem is how to do this without sounding like a phenomologist or other BS artist.
At home I use slackware and OS X (and a well firewalled, FireFox-ed and Thunderbird-ed Win2k box,) but I have witnessed the people at the bank where I am consulting go nuts whenever one of their machines get infected.
A consultant got banned after his laptop got infected from a connection at a hotel while getting his mail and some crap got through when he connected to the bank.
There are over 20k boxes at the bank and they take a bird if any of them would ge anything that would behave like spyware. They might monitor your keystrokes but they would hate like hell if somebody else did it. Its their equipment after all.
irrelevant because it is too unintelligent, spews annoying ads at us, uses a suck-ass business model where we, the audience, don't matter (just blandness between the largely unrelated-to-content ads) and shifting everything to the internet where everything is or will be searchable, on demand, inexpensive anarchy.
They are moulding their society into a passive receptacle for propaganda, or beer commercials. I wish them luck.
The natural order of things is entropy. Our model requires far less coherence that theirs, apart from a few protocols which must be adhered to.
The interesting movies/TV shows/records/content never get made because they aren't going to be block-busters and the studio system has gotten so bloated and expensive with the hangers-on.
We need a distribution channel (like an IMDB with iTunes-like media distribution) for movies that aren't and will never be block-busters but that are good anyway.
The studios used to produce quite a few a month but that got too expensive. Then came the indies but the studion and distribution companies own all the distribution channels, ergo, I don't get to see any interesting films.
The theater chains and the multiplexes can never run the movies long enough for me. By the time that I'm ready to see them, they're already gone.
But if I could pick 'em up off the net, legally, when I want to see them, I would.
Not only do I have to burn them to shield my DNA but I'll have to shred them really really tiny to shield my, uh, corporate data.
I'd hate to have to get finger printed. All the pits would show up. You'd have to encode them with PGP. Has to be another way...
Have your S.O. keep track of your unlisted bank account numbers under a layer of glossy pink.
Just watch her go nuts when she gets a hangnail. "Oh dear... We can't go to Montenegro anymore. I just broke that nail. How much was there in that back account?"
'cause, the way it being done, it certainly ain't a science.
While a nice hack is a nice hack, its a one-shot, specific situation response to an engineering problem. I've come up with quite a few myself over the decades. They help pad out a resume. My full (private) one runs to dozens and dozens of pages. (Nobody should have to read all that sheet music for "Blowing your own horn.":-)
I know that they're not science. The science part of Comp.Sci. ain't. I would hesitate to call the crazies I've worked with over the years scientists. Heck, they weren't even curious. Nice bunch of guys but no scientists. They don't understand what they're about, never mind computing.
Their minds got closed along with their school books. You don't advance that way. You 'tinker'.
Now I'm not tarring anyone with the "dilletante" brush, there is definitely some science being done, but its either of the tinkering variety or its not being put into practice because the QA process still applies and it takes years longer than any budget can pay for.
Having such a disfunctional and insecure OS that it lays down and spreads its legs to every sailor in the fleet should be a criminal offense and the penalties should be the same (eevn if it means that some 'Thyphoid Mary' Mallon lies in limbo until she croaks.)
1) Not every kid is enough of a sociopath to pull shit like this. (When you infect a hospital's software systems and maybe destroy patient's records the patient can die.) They may know that they can do it, but they are also aware enough to understand the consequences. Any one of the age of reason (seven years old) should know that you just can't do that sort of thing (even the nastiest bully I ever knew knew that, he did it anyway but he at least knew it.)
2) Not every employer is going to want to hire such a sociopathic kid and I would caution the kid that having such 'L33t Sk1lz' is more likely to land him a job with the wrong type of employer, one who let him swing in the breeze when they eventually get caught screwing with bank accounts.
I would buy the kid a Mac 'sans' XCode CD-ROM and keep him away from L33t haxxor tools, for every body else's protection.
The problems are many but all seem to hinge on the gact that transmission of information is desirable, profitable and, under this set of rules, illegal.
Legare, the root of the term legal actually means 'to choose'. Make a choice. The Swedes did and its has stranded them in the past.
Causality, the very existence of causality, is unprovable within our current frame of reference but that doesn't mean it can't exist, because experientially it does exist.
Ergo if the theory does not fit the observed facts, revise the theory. Of course that gets into what do we mean by experientially? What is the frame of reference that we use to experience the evidence of realty?
Ugh! Too heavy for me...
I'l go back to playing a cowboys & indians with Homer. D'oh!
That was a disturbing book as much for its fundamental premise as for its denoument as for its cast of characters. (A paedohile who is a victim of his young 'victim'.)
NEVER make a claim like "Never once have i had a virus or been 'owned'." unless you have the statistics and logs, proving you were attacked and able to repulse, to back it up.
Unless you are running on something suitable for a.mil network, don't throw down a gauntlet like that on a public forum. Someone is likely to spend an hour or so making a liar out of you, just because they have some time to spare.
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"just because your a schizophrenic doesn't mean people arn't really out to get you."
Not only that, but they aren't really there.
"There is a man that sits in the corner of my room.
No one else sees him.
When I tell them that there is a man that sits in the corner of my room, they beat me."
"We beat him".
"Oh go away.
You're not really there.
Don't come back another day.
Ple-ease." (Old, old song, 1968 or so.)
you don't rip off if you attribute (ut all of your work no longer can be produced as spontaneously as a /. post. :-)
If I can find out (because you put down how in the margins or in an appendix somewhere) where you got something, then it can be assumed that you haven't just pulled the idea either from somebody else (plagiarism) or our of your ass (inane, though original in the strictest sense of the word.)
Of course the problem is how to do this without sounding like a phenomologist or other BS artist.
and they are inert and only serve to preserve any state information on the site you were visiting as you were visiting it.
Cookies are inherently safe since they couldn't send any run-time state information that the browser didn't have access to.
At home I use slackware and OS X (and a well firewalled, FireFox-ed and Thunderbird-ed Win2k box,) but I have witnessed the people at the bank where I am consulting go nuts whenever one of their machines get infected.
A consultant got banned after his laptop got infected from a connection at a hotel while getting his mail and some crap got through when he connected to the bank.
There are over 20k boxes at the bank and they take a bird if any of them would ge anything that would behave like spyware. They might monitor your keystrokes but they would hate like hell if somebody else did it. Its their equipment after all.
As I seem to remember, he was in a pot bust. (Like, who even remembers back that far? You must be, like, old or something.)
Its getting to the point where the owner of a Microsoft product must feel like he's on goat.se
Windows owners are shuddering not shrugging and wondering "What choice do we have?"
I mean really. Considering the content on TV, how the fuck could/can you tell? Product placement?
The first tv virus was in the 1940s. It was intentional too.
irrelevant because it is too unintelligent, spews annoying ads at us, uses a suck-ass business model where we, the audience, don't matter (just blandness between the largely unrelated-to-content ads) and shifting everything to the internet where everything is or will be searchable, on demand, inexpensive anarchy.
They are moulding their society into a passive receptacle for propaganda, or beer commercials. I wish them luck.
The natural order of things is entropy. Our model requires far less coherence that theirs, apart from a few protocols which must be adhered to.
I keep hearing the same complaint over and over.
The interesting movies/TV shows/records/content never get made because they aren't going to be block-busters and the studio system has gotten so bloated and expensive with the hangers-on.
We need a distribution channel (like an IMDB with iTunes-like media distribution) for movies that aren't and will never be block-busters but that are good anyway.
The studios used to produce quite a few a month but that got too expensive. Then came the indies but the studion and distribution companies own all the distribution channels, ergo, I don't get to see any interesting films.
The theater chains and the multiplexes can never run the movies long enough for me. By the time that I'm ready to see them, they're already gone.
But if I could pick 'em up off the net, legally, when I want to see them, I would.
Dude's been making childrens' movies since THX 1138.
I hope he gets on with his life and makes something interesting now.
Not only do I have to burn them to shield my DNA but I'll have to shred them really really tiny to shield my, uh, corporate data.
... We can't go to Montenegro anymore. I just broke that nail. How much was there in that back account?"
I'd hate to have to get finger printed. All the pits would show up. You'd have to encode them with PGP. Has to be another way...
Have your S.O. keep track of your unlisted bank account numbers under a layer of glossy pink.
Just watch her go nuts when she gets a hangnail. "Oh dear
Made quite a stink with his "The Holy Virgin Mary," which has elephant dung draped on it.
'cause, the way it being done, it certainly ain't a science.
:-)
While a nice hack is a nice hack, its a one-shot, specific situation response to an engineering problem. I've come up with quite a few myself over the decades. They help pad out a resume. My full (private) one runs to dozens and dozens of pages. (Nobody should have to read all that sheet music for "Blowing your own horn."
I know that they're not science. The science part of Comp.Sci. ain't. I would hesitate to call the crazies I've worked with over the years scientists. Heck, they weren't even curious. Nice bunch of guys but no scientists. They don't understand what they're about, never mind computing.
Their minds got closed along with their school books. You don't advance that way. You 'tinker'.
Now I'm not tarring anyone with the "dilletante" brush, there is definitely some science being done, but its either of the tinkering variety or its not being put into practice because the QA process still applies and it takes years longer than any budget can pay for.
No internet, no TV, no human contact at all.
I'd lock him up on a fenced in acre of Wyoming with a bunch of books on ethics and have his meals brought in by an armored book mobile robot.
Later, I'd expand the range of books to include self-help books.
His attitude and actions deserve ostracism and we deserve to be protected from him.
Having such a disfunctional and insecure OS that it lays down and spreads its legs to every sailor in the fleet should be a criminal offense and the penalties should be the same (eevn if it means that some 'Thyphoid Mary' Mallon lies in limbo until she croaks.)
1) Not every kid is enough of a sociopath to pull shit like this. (When you infect a hospital's software systems and maybe destroy patient's records the patient can die.) They may know that they can do it, but they are also aware enough to understand the consequences. Any one of the age of reason (seven years old) should know that you just can't do that sort of thing (even the nastiest bully I ever knew knew that, he did it anyway but he at least knew it.)
2) Not every employer is going to want to hire such a sociopathic kid and I would caution the kid that having such 'L33t Sk1lz' is more likely to land him a job with the wrong type of employer, one who let him swing in the breeze when they eventually get caught screwing with bank accounts.
I would buy the kid a Mac 'sans' XCode CD-ROM and keep him away from L33t haxxor tools, for every body else's protection.
did that wery well.
see "The Sunscreen Marketing Board Presents" at http://www.deadtroll.com/index2.html
the Church of the Subgenius has a few adepts too.
:-)
As for rastafarianism, its not so much that they're just blowing smoke, its that they're inhaling. (Unlike a president I could name...
but you don't see anybody supid enough to claim something made there as coming "from the suburbs" of London.
Actually to maintain proper parallelism, it should be the island of Formosa with Oxfordshire.
basically, so we did a very bad thing.
The problems are many but all seem to hinge on the gact that transmission of information is desirable, profitable and, under this set of rules, illegal.
Legare, the root of the term legal actually means 'to choose'. Make a choice. The Swedes did and its has stranded them in the past.
Causality, the very existence of causality, is unprovable within our current frame of reference but that doesn't mean it can't exist, because experientially it does exist.
Ergo if the theory does not fit the observed facts, revise the theory. Of course that gets into what do we mean by experientially? What is the frame of reference that we use to experience the evidence of realty?
Ugh! Too heavy for me...
I'l go back to playing a cowboys & indians with Homer. D'oh!
Not Firefly, the movie by Wheadon.
That was a disturbing book as much for its fundamental premise as for its denoument as for its cast of characters. (A paedohile who is a victim of his young 'victim'.)
This was a great book which made me think.
NEVER make a claim like "Never once have i had a virus or been 'owned'." unless you have the statistics and logs, proving you were attacked and able to repulse, to back it up.
.mil network, don't throw down a gauntlet like that on a public forum. Someone is likely to spend an hour or so making a liar out of you, just because they have some time to spare.
Unless you are running on something suitable for a
Sorry but your sig intrigues me.
Crush the infamous is not a common sentiment.