The FBI can kiss the toned, buff ass that sits atop my sculpted, mighty thews.
At my home-office, when the bull-shit exceeds my tolerance level, I get off the chair, hop on the tread-mill that's facing the window and the tension fades while the sweat pours off.
At the office, I go for a jog on the Jersey City waterfront and glower at the hole that Bin Laden and his mental midgets gouged out of the sky-line.
I have showers ten feet away both a home and at the office. I don't stink.
The FBI are Bozos who'se buffonery is matched by the myopia of the CIA and the ineptitude of the US foreign policy.
Once again they have ALL fucked up and Al Qeda is on the move, metastasizing because they were forced to instead of being somewhere fixed where we could spy on them, intercept their communications and catch them when they tried to get out.
Somewhere like Afghanistan where they and the Taliban would have been a drain on Islamic resources.
They couldn't feed themselves and they were too busy killing each other over the length of their beards (really tough on the women,) to maintain any medical, military, civil-engineering, communication or any damn other infrastructure.
They would have ended up as shining beacon of religious folly. Islam carried through to its ultimate conclusion:
A patheic bunch of socio-psychopaths squatting around in a circle jerk on top of a smoldering pile of rubble.
It would have been relly hard to point to that with pride.
But NO! Bush, et alia, had to make fuckin' Islamic martyrs out of 'em. Now they're like cock-roaches living under the stove and fridge and in the pantry.
We'd have to FIND them. But that takes longer than a term, it costs money and it requires dedication.
Its much easier to go after another fixed target instead.
Yeah. Right Dubya... "IRAQ is EEE-VILLL. Ah'll kick they ass like mah daddy did." What a moron. The best part of him ran down his mother's leg.
Next we'll be reliving M.A.S.H.instead of just watching the fucking re-re-re-runs. Bet'cha Korea's next.
Meanwhile you'd better get ready to take it in the shorts because anybody can get into the US anywhere the cops ain't looking at that very moment.
And they can buy box-cutters at Staple's and ram high-jacked Greyhound busses into gasoline storage tanks. Two of the faithful dead, thirty or so other passengers roasted to a crisp and a million gallons of fuel up in flames. That's not a bad payoff for people who normally strap some dynamite to their chests and "go hangout with the Yids down at the mall."
The only good religious leader is some geek with big bad hair hipocrically crying crocodile tears and confessing in front of the audience that "Ah have Sinned! "
The diffrence between "Blow-Job" Roberts or any of the other fat lying bastards selling "Jayzus" and Mullah Omar is one of opportunity. That's all.
Don't agree? I don't give a fuck. I just read the history books and the obituaries. I HATE being right.
Why would Apple try to push into a confrontation with M$? They get far more press NOT doing it and make M$ look like the trailer-trash it is while winning a battle not fought.
Things come to Windows only once M$ finds ways to enfold and embrace (choke the originality out of,) somebody else's work.
The ONLY persons who think that M$ has a loyal customer base work at M$. These idiots conveniently forget how they themselves got to to the plate in the first place. By being cheaper that IBM.
Now Linux is cheaper than M$.
The handwriting is on the wall and the defections are entire governments and large institutions with multy-K seats.
Meanwhile, Apple is laughing all the way to the bank. They are NOT going to be drawn into as fight with anybody. Fights have winners and losers. Apple is winning by default since its not fighting.
They have much more interesting things happening than Linux can ever aspire to until the Linuxen get away from wasting energy, talent and resources fighting with M$. M$ fight dirty. They use FUD, they use lawyers, payents, collusion, coercion and tactics Tony Soprano can only wish he had the balls to try.
The best way to fight M$ is to embrace and enfold Windows and cut the fiscal legs out from M$ by even a dollar per seat. M$ has NO friends. Not in government, not in the military, not in business. They are utterly vulnerable with respect to security. They are utterly vulnerable with respect to price.
Their dirty tactics have come home to roost and clients are filing class action suits. M$ can't "divide and conquer" and screw their clients one at a time anymore.
Make a Windows work-alike GUI and M$ won't last out the decade in the computing marketplace.
Wage slaves don't want anything where they have to think about anything but the job at hand so they can get it done and get out.
I don't care if its KDE or Gnome but somebody's going to have to bite the bullet and make a look and work and feel Windows clone and the GUIs for the applications have to be look and work and feel Windows clones too.
After eight hours, you start making mistakes that will have to be fixed because they aren't the subtle kind that will only get angry call from your users to tech support once you manage to sell this stinkin' turkey.
The guy is an ass-hole.
Ask him how fast a woman can deliver a baby if she can skip some parts and cut some corners? Your kid won't need legs, will he? And it would really save time if we could omit the immune system. The user will just have to keep him in a bubble. (That'll be in the small print.)
Tell HIS boss that he's an idiot and that the results will be garbage that might very well get the company sued.
If you have no recourse, fill out your resume and start shopping it around because its only a matter of time.
Scum like that are why MIT's Technology Review have articles entitled "Why Software Is So Bad." Throw it on his desk on your way out.
And tell him that a "failure to design, analyse and plan on his part does NOT constitute an emergency on your part."
Sensible Erection covered this wednesday.
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0wnz0red
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Its old news but an okay read. A little Promethean though.
The BBC model tells me that there IS good programming available. Without it the American channels would have nothing to rip-off.
The amount of content from across the pond that has been morphed into something shorter to make room for the ads and "dumbed down" should make the MPAA and RIAA beg NOT to be taken out behind the congress and shot at dawn like the thieving dogs that they are.
But as long as advertisers hold the reins, you're not going to see anything worth watching for the most part because it distracts from the ads.
I tossed out the set years ago and apart from snatches of sports events caught in the occasional visits to some bars, I'm much happier reading or sitting in front of my monitor.
And the FPs'll be trying to deal with M$ (and M$'s habit of co-opting, folding, melding or simply stealing [plenty of evidence and M$ losses in court to that effect,] the competition's app.s, changing the OS specs [when the FPs can even get them,]) and trying desperately to become rich as Creosus themselves in an era when the world has come to see software for what software really is: overhead.
Software for profit is a mug's game and they're hurtin'. They NEED (ab)user's groups.
Now M$ gets to have a base of operation where the officials are officially corrupt (I know an ex-Nor'leans cop,) and where chyrrosis of the liver is death by natural causes.
They can stop worrying about those pesky revenuers now.
You buy "Boudreau" or "Thibodeau", real cheap, and they stays bought as long as you can pay. I ga-ron-tee eet.
Think of it as "SeaLand" [http://www.sealandgov.com/] without the kiddie-porn restrictions.
The direction M$ wants to take the world in (not where we might want to go today,) is one where PCs boot off of a network and have no local storage.
Of course its THEIR network and you pay for the connection, the storage and for every hit, every app and file load. And people who want to sell their software have to pay M$ for "retail shelf-space" at least until they suddenly find their product co-opted and integrated into the, uh, collective.
Complete and total, anal-retentive, obsessive control. Its the bully's way.
Let one of these these suckers on a crowd of rowdy drunken students or, after equipping it with 3D trackball controlled armament, wrapping it in titanium and Kevlar, on a throng of maniacs and religious zelots enacting scenes from "Palestinians VS Jews, Episode 28,000"
and hand you a phone. You can either buy it and sign up fort hree years serevice or she gets to take a "dirt nap" for eternity.
I'm LMAO but I'm sure that any phone company shill would get a boner at that kind of sales tactic.
Advertising is about dishonesty, lying, cheating prevaricating or even using statistics to extract money from you.
If you see a product advertised, don't buy it, or the product. Send Madison Avenue to the poor house.
Only if you can spoof you own IP address.
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RIAA Smacked by DoS
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· Score: 1, Flamebait
Lets start 'blaming' DDoS attacks on the RIAA. Spoof 'em to trace back to the riaa.org's IP address (208.225.90.120)
Then they'll blame the RIAA for bringing down or throttling response time on sites that belong to the government, to corporations and to individuals that just got in your face.
Hey, they wanna be legally entitled to do DoS attacks, so lets abuse the privilege. (The RIAA will be so deep in shit in a month that they'll never recover the legal fees unless they try to charge $50/CD [like, THAT'll make 'em REAL popular,] so the only recourse will be in Chapter 11 and disappearance.:-)
EVERYBODY IS EQUAL UNDER THE LAW. You don't start asking for dispensations.
The alternative is the totalitarian abuses of impotent potentates like Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
Will somebody hurry up and get Empress Rosen's head out of her ass-hole.
If they're running on a 386 with a 14.4kbps dial up modem, a DoS attack means 3 people tried to connect.
Who went there and even noticed? Why? I can't think of a single reason to bother 'em or with 'em. Just ignore 'em. They're like bad breath after a realy good pizza. Garlick happens.
Its why people buy lottery tickets.
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What, Me Worry?
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Same instincts for huge payoffs unblinkered by reality of the likelyhood being statistically even more insignificant. (violent cataclismic event, 6.+*10^9 people killed [disregard probality of ballistic alignment 1*10^-11] = recipe for news headline.)
Want to see a winning TV ad? "Total destruction of the planet predicted. Watch 'News at Ten.' But NOT at eleven."
The certain heat-death of the universe get no air play even though its a certainty mostly because it is a certainty. What are the odds? (1:1 actually)
We're too near the saturation point. Ads have gone from mildly to extremely annoying.
The ultimate conclusion of advertiser desperation will be Spam that trips you on the sidewalk and yells at you until you reach for your wallet.
I boycott all products in ads in ads now. If I can remember the product in an ad, I assume that its overpriced to pay for the ad and likely no good and buy the competition instead.
I hate pop-ups and resent having to deal (harshly) with them. I used to zap or mute TV ads. Then I threw out the set. There's nothing worth watching.
I flip past Ads in magazines (those few left that I bother to buy since they're nothing but BS and ads now anyway.) There's no friggin content left anymore.
The solution is for the eradication of unindexed, "Cowboy Content Creation" by forcing and enforcing XML-generated pages and industry standard DTDs for indexing.
They'd do better to toss out all the damn ads, use a subscription model and maintain a high editorial standard and an interactive sense of community.
The Web really sucks as an advertising medium and the traditional ones suck just as badly since the inversion of the remote only the advertisers haven't noticed until now how close (NOT FAR) their advertising dollar goes.
Classify the web with XML-based generated HTML pages and some real search indexing, industry standard DTDs and maybe the web has a chance to be more that a tree falling in the forest (in the din of all the damn chain saws.)
We have to get past the days of 'Cowboy Content Creation" where any moron can put up a page and only add to the noise.
Given the shakeout occuring in the media abetted by the rapid disappearance of the advertising revenue stream, the content producers are entering an very difficult time.
Seems nobody can get anybody to pony up some cash just to have some bimbo wave her ass with their logo on it.
Radio and television started this by having "free" broadcast funded by people flogging their wares. Ask PBS how they survive and get a real picture of broadcast costs.
The internet and the web compounded this in an orgy of freebies and swag funded by IPOs, investors greed and lack of common sense (Warren Buffett never invested in the bubble because he never saw how these people were going to make any money once the IPO money ran out. He was RIGHT!)
End result, nobody wants to pay for squat.
But producing content (as unsatisfying as the pabulum that's regurgitated by ad-funded media might be,) costs. And nobody wants to pay for squat.
Given the balooning real and accounting practice BS costs of the blockbuster mentality you get studios that wither on the vine after one less than stellar season. The RIAA and MPAA members are victims of the same pressure and resultant paranoia. They have to play it safe while following a trend which is set by the players who aren't playing it as safe. (It keeps the shares of Pepto-Bismol and Tums in the stratosphere.)
Want to know why DRM is such a pain-in-the-ass but the AAs'll sell the economy down the sewer to get it?
Because nobody makes B movies anymore. They go straight to video and don't generate any buzz that would attract viewers and maybe get them to buy the product.) Nobody know how to generate buzz anymore. Ads don't cut it with Tivo or even the remote having perceptible results on the ad ROI.
Wanna know why the publishing industry is turning into a contentless wasteland?
Same friggin reason.
Misapplied greed. (This is above and beyond the USPO "patent buying for corporate black-mail by the unscrupulous [lawyers and other parasites.]")
The Web has the potential to make a meaningful buzz but search engines don't friggin cut it. The web will have to be ORGANIZED, INDEXED and cross-referenced the same way that libraries have been since the Great Library of Alexandria.
The days of "Cowboy Content Creation" are over. Creatrion of web content will have to be via XML with precise industry standard DTDs.
Otherwise you just get lost in the noise.
The media are all corporate stuts. ('Ho's make $)
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Ziff Davis Teeters
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· Score: 1, Redundant
The rags are as contentless as an unopened box of Kotexs.
These magazines are nothing but ads while revenue per page is plummeting.
I think that we should put the blame where it lies and exile a few Spammers to Antartica without tents or heaters.
And I notice that if me and thee have to declare bankruptcy (after having been "let go," down-sized or otherwise left in a bleeding heap of tortured flesh, laser spot-lit by dimming fibre, on the shoulder of the information super-highway (hadn't heard that old saw in a while I bet:-), we can go suck broken wind.
But corporations are still taking their really big debt problems to Chapter 11 and sticking their suppliers and workers with the bill. More candidates for Antartic exile.
That's the quickest way to get these dick-heads to leave you hanging on the phone. Just tell 'em you're broke.
You don't even get a chance to start a sob story about it either. They figure they'rte going to give you the same warm welcome they've been getting all day and they slam the phone in your ear.
Its great. Word gets around and they don't call anmore.
Well, fuck 'em, and plunder is the message I got.
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WarTalking Arrest
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If I ever discover a hole war driving (or war walking.) you can bet your ass I won't tell anybody there about it.
For M$, too low ROI. Two orders of magniture to low. First order is sheer sales market. There's one tenths as many machines. Second order is market resistance. Apple owners have a deep and abiding hatred for M$ that makes Linux people look tame. And they vote with their wallets. Look for universal acceptance of StarOffice as fast as Sun & Apple can ship the CD-ROMs.
For Apple, they make hardware, they use Aqua to sell it. Giving away the crown jewels would be slitting their hardware revenue throats while M$ could drop-kick their OS sales revenues just like they did to NetScape (And fuck the DOJ.)
Like everybody else, (including themselves, oh sweet irony, [M$ killed minis from DEC, InterData, DataGen and others, who were moving in on mainframes of the time, {now my G4 laptop pushes more MIPS than the Crays did,}]) MS needs to see/remember what happens to upstarts who always seem to want to move up the food chain (prices paid are better at bigger corporations/ projects/ etc.,) and who disregard the competition that's crawling up their butts pimping something with a lower TCO (even a few bucks a crack makes a REAL difference when you roll out a few million at a crack.)
How long until banks with a few hundred (US) or thousand (US/Canada/rest of the world) branches, meaning they they already have Unix boxen (NOBODY runs SERIOUS, mission critical apps on M$,) realize that their apps can run for less TCO (M$ ain't free./ it ain't even cheap,) on Linux boxen?
Is M$ scared? (I can smell the scorch marks in Redmond's short from here in NYC.:-)
Bully Gates will retire from a company as morallt and fiscally bankrupt as Enron, WorldCom or Data General. Its a good thing he's not leaving a thing to his kids.
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Fat? I'm all angry muscle.
The FBI can kiss the toned, buff ass that sits atop my sculpted, mighty thews.
At my home-office, when the bull-shit exceeds my tolerance level, I get off the chair, hop on the tread-mill that's facing the window and the tension fades while the sweat pours off.
At the office, I go for a jog on the Jersey City waterfront and glower at the hole that Bin Laden and his mental midgets gouged out of the sky-line.
I have showers ten feet away both a home and at the office. I don't stink.
The FBI are Bozos who'se buffonery is matched by the myopia of the CIA and the ineptitude of the US foreign policy.
Once again they have ALL fucked up and Al Qeda is on the move, metastasizing because they were forced to instead of being somewhere fixed where we could spy on them, intercept their communications and catch them when they tried to get out.
Somewhere like Afghanistan where they and the Taliban would have been a drain on Islamic resources.
They couldn't feed themselves and they were too busy killing each other over the length of their beards (really tough on the women,) to maintain any medical, military, civil-engineering, communication or any damn other infrastructure.
They would have ended up as shining beacon of religious folly. Islam carried through to its ultimate conclusion:
A patheic bunch of socio-psychopaths squatting around in a circle jerk on top of a smoldering pile of rubble.
It would have been relly hard to point to that with pride.
But NO! Bush, et alia, had to make fuckin' Islamic martyrs out of 'em. Now they're like cock-roaches living under the stove and fridge and in the pantry.
We'd have to FIND them. But that takes longer than a term, it costs money and it requires dedication.
Its much easier to go after another fixed target instead.
Yeah. Right Dubya... "IRAQ is EEE-VILLL. Ah'll kick they ass like mah daddy did." What a moron. The best part of him ran down his mother's leg.
Next we'll be reliving M.A.S.H.instead of just watching the fucking re-re-re-runs. Bet'cha Korea's next.
Meanwhile you'd better get ready to take it in the shorts because anybody can get into the US anywhere the cops ain't looking at that very moment.
And they can buy box-cutters at Staple's and ram high-jacked Greyhound busses into gasoline storage tanks. Two of the faithful dead, thirty or so other passengers roasted to a crisp and a million gallons of fuel up in flames. That's not a bad payoff for people who normally strap some dynamite to their chests and "go hangout with the Yids down at the mall."
The only good religious leader is some geek with big bad hair hipocrically crying crocodile tears and confessing in front of the audience that "Ah have Sinned! "
The diffrence between "Blow-Job" Roberts or any of the other fat lying bastards selling "Jayzus" and Mullah Omar is one of opportunity. That's all.
Don't agree? I don't give a fuck. I just read the history books and the obituaries. I HATE being right.
Why would Apple try to push into a confrontation with M$? They get far more press NOT doing it and make M$ look like the trailer-trash it is while winning a battle not fought.
Things come to Windows only once M$ finds ways to enfold and embrace (choke the originality out of,) somebody else's work.
The ONLY persons who think that M$ has a loyal customer base work at M$. These idiots conveniently forget how they themselves got to to the plate in the first place. By being cheaper that IBM.
Now Linux is cheaper than M$.
The handwriting is on the wall and the defections are entire governments and large institutions with multy-K seats.
Meanwhile, Apple is laughing all the way to the bank. They are NOT going to be drawn into as fight with anybody. Fights have winners and losers. Apple is winning by default since its not fighting.
They have much more interesting things happening than Linux can ever aspire to until the Linuxen get away from wasting energy, talent and resources fighting with M$. M$ fight dirty. They use FUD, they use lawyers, payents, collusion, coercion and tactics Tony Soprano can only wish he had the balls to try.
The best way to fight M$ is to embrace and enfold Windows and cut the fiscal legs out from M$ by even a dollar per seat. M$ has NO friends. Not in government, not in the military, not in business. They are utterly vulnerable with respect to security. They are utterly vulnerable with respect to price.
Their dirty tactics have come home to roost and clients are filing class action suits. M$ can't "divide and conquer" and screw their clients one at a time anymore.
Make a Windows work-alike GUI and M$ won't last out the decade in the computing marketplace.
Wage slaves don't want anything where they have to think about anything but the job at hand so they can get it done and get out.
I don't care if its KDE or Gnome but somebody's going to have to bite the bullet and make a look and work and feel Windows clone and the GUIs for the applications have to be look and work and feel Windows clones too.
After eight hours, you start making mistakes that will have to be fixed because they aren't the subtle kind that will only get angry call from your users to tech support once you manage to sell this stinkin' turkey.
The guy is an ass-hole.
Ask him how fast a woman can deliver a baby if she can skip some parts and cut some corners? Your kid won't need legs, will he? And it would really save time if we could omit the immune system. The user will just have to keep him in a bubble. (That'll be in the small print.)
Tell HIS boss that he's an idiot and that the results will be garbage that might very well get the company sued.
If you have no recourse, fill out your resume and start shopping it around because its only a matter of time.
Scum like that are why MIT's Technology Review have articles entitled "Why Software Is So Bad." Throw it on his desk on your way out.
And tell him that a "failure to design, analyse and plan on his part does NOT constitute an emergency on your part."
Its old news but an okay read. A little Promethean though.
The articlementionned that the patch was screwing around with Apple's own iDVD.
That's the wrong place to apply a patch.
Find the right place to patch. (Wrapper the driver that comes with the hardware and stick the patch in the wrapper.)
The BBC model tells me that there IS good programming available. Without it the American channels would have nothing to rip-off.
The amount of content from across the pond that has been morphed into something shorter to make room for the ads and "dumbed down" should make the MPAA and RIAA beg NOT to be taken out behind the congress and shot at dawn like the thieving dogs that they are.
But as long as advertisers hold the reins, you're not going to see anything worth watching for the most part because it distracts from the ads.
I tossed out the set years ago and apart from snatches of sports events caught in the occasional visits to some bars, I'm much happier reading or sitting in front of my monitor.
There's nothing like not telling people that they're handling something that can kill them to kill them.
This crap belongs at the bottom of a disused mine.
Who the [expletive deleted] ships this [expletive deleted] out there? Might as well send them land mines. Then they can build dance floors out of 'em.
And the FPs'll be trying to deal with M$ (and M$'s habit of co-opting, folding, melding or simply stealing [plenty of evidence and M$ losses in court to that effect,] the competition's app.s, changing the OS specs [when the FPs can even get them,]) and trying desperately to become rich as Creosus themselves in an era when the world has come to see software for what software really is: overhead.
Software for profit is a mug's game and they're hurtin'. They NEED (ab)user's groups.
Now M$ gets to have a base of operation where the officials are officially corrupt (I know an ex-Nor'leans cop,) and where chyrrosis of the liver is death by natural causes.
They can stop worrying about those pesky revenuers now.
You buy "Boudreau" or "Thibodeau", real cheap, and they stays bought as long as you can pay. I ga-ron-tee eet.
Think of it as "SeaLand" [http://www.sealandgov.com/] without the kiddie-porn restrictions.
The direction M$ wants to take the world in (not where we might want to go today,) is one where PCs boot off of a network and have no local storage.
Of course its THEIR network and you pay for the connection, the storage and for every hit, every app and file load. And people who want to sell their software have to pay M$ for "retail shelf-space" at least until they suddenly find their product co-opted and integrated into the, uh, collective.
Complete and total, anal-retentive, obsessive control. Its the bully's way.
Let one of these these suckers on a crowd of rowdy drunken students or, after equipping it with 3D trackball controlled armament, wrapping it in titanium and Kevlar, on a throng of maniacs and religious zelots enacting scenes from "Palestinians VS Jews, Episode 28,000"
That would make the DMCA inapplicable. He'll get fired for sure. M$ and the xxAAs will have a hit squad gunning for his ass.
and hand you a phone. You can either buy it and sign up fort hree years serevice or she gets to take a "dirt nap" for eternity.
I'm LMAO but I'm sure that any phone company shill would get a boner at that kind of sales tactic.
Advertising is about dishonesty, lying, cheating prevaricating or even using statistics to extract money from you.
If you see a product advertised, don't buy it, or the product. Send Madison Avenue to the poor house.
Lets start 'blaming' DDoS attacks on the RIAA. Spoof 'em to trace back to the riaa.org's IP address (208.225.90.120)
:-)
Then they'll blame the RIAA for bringing down or throttling response time on sites that belong to the government, to corporations and to individuals that just got in your face.
Hey, they wanna be legally entitled to do DoS attacks, so lets abuse the privilege. (The RIAA will be so deep in shit in a month that they'll never recover the legal fees unless they try to charge $50/CD [like, THAT'll make 'em REAL popular,] so the only recourse will be in Chapter 11 and disappearance.
EVERYBODY IS EQUAL UNDER THE LAW. You don't start asking for dispensations.
The alternative is the totalitarian abuses of impotent potentates like Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
Will somebody hurry up and get Empress Rosen's head out of her ass-hole.
If they're running on a 386 with a 14.4kbps dial up modem, a DoS attack means 3 people tried to connect.
Who went there and even noticed? Why? I can't think of a single reason to bother 'em or with 'em. Just ignore 'em. They're like bad breath after a realy good pizza. Garlick happens.
Same instincts for huge payoffs unblinkered by reality of the likelyhood being statistically even more insignificant. (violent cataclismic event, 6.+*10^9 people killed [disregard probality of ballistic alignment 1*10^-11] = recipe for news headline.)
Want to see a winning TV ad? "Total destruction of the planet predicted. Watch 'News at Ten.' But NOT at eleven."
The certain heat-death of the universe get no air play even though its a certainty mostly because it is a certainty. What are the odds? (1:1 actually)
We're too near the saturation point. Ads have gone from mildly to extremely annoying.
The ultimate conclusion of advertiser desperation will be Spam that trips you on the sidewalk and yells at you until you reach for your wallet.
I boycott all products in ads in ads now. If I can remember the product in an ad, I assume that its overpriced to pay for the ad and likely no good and buy the competition instead.
I hate pop-ups and resent having to deal (harshly) with them. I used to zap or mute TV ads. Then I threw out the set. There's nothing worth watching.
I flip past Ads in magazines (those few left that I bother to buy since they're nothing but BS and ads now anyway.) There's no friggin content left anymore.
The solution is for the eradication of unindexed, "Cowboy Content Creation" by forcing and enforcing XML-generated pages and industry standard DTDs for indexing.
They'd do better to toss out all the damn ads, use a subscription model and maintain a high editorial standard and an interactive sense of community.
The Web really sucks as an advertising medium and the traditional ones suck just as badly since the inversion of the remote only the advertisers haven't noticed until now how close (NOT FAR) their advertising dollar goes.
Classify the web with XML-based generated HTML pages and some real search indexing, industry standard DTDs and maybe the web has a chance to be more that a tree falling in the forest (in the din of all the damn chain saws.)
We have to get past the days of 'Cowboy Content Creation" where any moron can put up a page and only add to the noise.
Given the shakeout occuring in the media abetted by the rapid disappearance of the advertising revenue stream, the content producers are entering an very difficult time.
Seems nobody can get anybody to pony up some cash just to have some bimbo wave her ass with their logo on it.
Radio and television started this by having "free" broadcast funded by people flogging their wares. Ask PBS how they survive and get a real picture of broadcast costs.
The internet and the web compounded this in an orgy of freebies and swag funded by IPOs, investors greed and lack of common sense (Warren Buffett never invested in the bubble because he never saw how these people were going to make any money once the IPO money ran out. He was RIGHT!)
End result, nobody wants to pay for squat.
But producing content (as unsatisfying as the pabulum that's regurgitated by ad-funded media might be,) costs. And nobody wants to pay for squat.
Given the balooning real and accounting practice BS costs of the blockbuster mentality you get studios that wither on the vine after one less than stellar season. The RIAA and MPAA members are victims of the same pressure and resultant paranoia. They have to play it safe while following a trend which is set by the players who aren't playing it as safe. (It keeps the shares of Pepto-Bismol and Tums in the stratosphere.)
Want to know why DRM is such a pain-in-the-ass but the AAs'll sell the economy down the sewer to get it?
Because nobody makes B movies anymore. They go straight to video and don't generate any buzz that would attract viewers and maybe get them to buy the product.) Nobody know how to generate buzz anymore. Ads don't cut it with Tivo or even the remote having perceptible results on the ad ROI.
Wanna know why the publishing industry is turning into a contentless wasteland?
Same friggin reason.
Misapplied greed. (This is above and beyond the USPO "patent buying for corporate black-mail by the unscrupulous [lawyers and other parasites.]")
The Web has the potential to make a meaningful buzz but search engines don't friggin cut it. The web will have to be ORGANIZED, INDEXED and cross-referenced the same way that libraries have been since the Great Library of Alexandria.
The days of "Cowboy Content Creation" are over. Creatrion of web content will have to be via XML with precise industry standard DTDs.
Otherwise you just get lost in the noise.
The rags are as contentless as an unopened box of Kotexs.
:-), we can go suck broken wind.
These magazines are nothing but ads while revenue per page is plummeting.
I think that we should put the blame where it lies and exile a few Spammers to Antartica without tents or heaters.
And I notice that if me and thee have to declare bankruptcy (after having been "let go," down-sized or otherwise left in a bleeding heap of tortured flesh, laser spot-lit by dimming fibre, on the shoulder of the information super-highway (hadn't heard that old saw in a while I bet
But corporations are still taking their really big debt problems to Chapter 11 and sticking their suppliers and workers with the bill.
More candidates for Antartic exile.
That's the quickest way to get these dick-heads to leave you hanging on the phone. Just tell 'em you're broke.
You don't even get a chance to start a sob story about it either. They figure they'rte going to give you the same warm welcome they've been getting all day and they slam the phone in your ear.
Its great. Word gets around and they don't call anmore.
If I ever discover a hole war driving (or war walking.) you can bet your ass I won't tell anybody there about it.
Though I may give my friends the location...
There's no money in it on either side.
For M$, too low ROI. Two orders of magniture to low. First order is sheer sales market. There's one tenths as many machines. Second order is market resistance. Apple owners have a deep and abiding hatred for M$ that makes Linux people look tame. And they vote with their wallets. Look for universal acceptance of StarOffice as fast as Sun & Apple can ship the CD-ROMs.
For Apple, they make hardware, they use Aqua to sell it. Giving away the crown jewels would be slitting their hardware revenue throats while M$ could drop-kick their OS sales revenues just like they did to NetScape (And fuck the DOJ.)
Like everybody else, (including themselves, oh sweet irony, [M$ killed minis from DEC, InterData, DataGen and others, who were moving in on mainframes of the time, {now my G4 laptop pushes more MIPS than the Crays did,}]) MS needs to see/remember what happens to upstarts who always seem to want to move up the food chain (prices paid are better at bigger corporations/ projects/ etc.,) and who disregard the competition that's crawling up their butts pimping something with a lower TCO (even a few bucks a crack makes a REAL difference when you roll out a few million at a crack.)
:-)
How long until banks with a few hundred (US) or thousand (US/Canada/rest of the world) branches, meaning they they already have Unix boxen (NOBODY runs SERIOUS, mission critical apps on M$,) realize that their apps can run for less TCO (M$ ain't free./ it ain't even cheap,) on Linux boxen?
Is M$ scared? (I can smell the scorch marks in Redmond's short from here in NYC.
Bully Gates will retire from a company as morallt and fiscally bankrupt as Enron, WorldCom or Data General. Its a good thing he's not leaving a thing to his kids.