The best way to teach them is for them to actually suffer the consequences of their apathy and ignorance. If their identity is actually stolen, they'll realize that you're speaking sense.
Maybe some enterprising geeks could start one up, dedicated to environmentalism, conservation, science, and other mildly geeky stuff in addition to the BSA. Like the "Mr. Wizard Brigade" or something. The way we're going now, BSA will probably patent the concept of Boy Scouts.
All that said, I often wonder what would be more efficient : 10.000 specialized cpu's in some server-farm / data-center churning away on a given problem, being mostly limited to that single problem and costing heaps of money and energy, or 10.000.000 versatile grid-clients that more or less produce the same output, probably eating just as much energy, if not more. Um, obviously a Beowulf cluster would be the most efficient.
Pfft, puh-leeze. I'm pretty sure Emacs has that built-in as one of it's thousands of features. If anything, SCO and the MAFIAA are infringing Emacs's patent (if Free software projects even file patents.)
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5) Duke Nukem Forever gets released.
Pfft. I don't need FF3. I just use Lynx. Hell, I can even view porn with it, there's this site called asciipr0n...
I think the sharks with lasers will get to them first. And who will be sending those sharks out to get them? Soviet Russia!
(at least I tried)
Just tell their ISP to censor their own Internet connections with the same software they develop. We'll see what they'll be saying after that.
The best way to teach them is for them to actually suffer the consequences of their apathy and ignorance. If their identity is actually stolen, they'll realize that you're speaking sense.
Does it run Linux? (Seriously, because this wouldn't be happening if it did.)
You have crappy humor.
Now you can install Vista and actually run it.
The opposite pole must be on the inside of the magnet then.
"Duke Nukem Forever" is next to Microsoft Works on that shelf.
I think if you input porn into this system, it will either hang or melt like a Slashdotted server.
It shows that stupidity is lauded in our society. By the way, I wonder if Boy Scouts allow Satanists to join (Theistic or LaVeyan)
I'm just glad that they stuck with fish and didn't decide to make sharks with lasers.
That's only an analysis of current hardware's capabilities.
Um, I use VLC on an HP Pavilion 8670C with Windows 2000, and it hasn't crashed yet. Maybe there's some other reason it's crashing.
Doesn't SourceForge have Flash ads?
That's why I patented Natalie Portman with hot grits.
Pfft, puh-leeze. I'm pretty sure Emacs has that built-in as one of it's thousands of features. If anything, SCO and the MAFIAA are infringing Emacs's patent (if Free software projects even file patents.)
My wife once had her credit card stolen (physically stolen). We got the CC bill a week later.
"Honey, look! The bill's $700 cheaper than last month!"
Now I go out with her when she decides to buy something.