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That's a nice idea. I'll remember the names.
The question then becomes what you can do with the info once you find it. Because there is no standard format to what is written in the registry, it would still be difficult to manipulate the contents. Have you had any luck with this?
If the odds of anyone being hit are 1/250, and there are 5 billion people equally likely to be hit, then chances of any particular person being hit are then 1 in 1.25 trillion. This is about as good as the chances that OJ is innocent of his wife's murder.
If there are only 25 million Iridium customers, we have 25E6/5E9 * 1/1.25E12 of a chance of them being hit. This is about as good as the chances of the Florida Supreme court interpreting Roe vrs. Wade retroacitly as meaing that Al Gore's mom must have aborted her son.
The chances of anyone being his may be exadurated to begin with, and the chances of any particular person being hit may vary with location and shielding. I've got my umbrella up, just in case. Stranger things have happened.
We both know that you have to pay a fee to the RIAA for each and every cassette tape you buy, because you might use it to violate someone's copyright.
Now the argument can be made that every memory chip and blank CD might be used in a similar way and that the RIAA is due a fee.
I would like to beat the person who made the first arguement about cassette tapes, but you can see where things go from here.
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It's the registry. Every program can write to the registry in it's own non documented way. It's virtually impossible to figure out so much as where the program's regisry contents are much less what they are. Any program designed to check the registry for "propper" install will not work. Hacking that awful binary monster by hand will disable your whole computer.
I never read those stupid EULAs and consider them non binding for all the reasons people have pointed out. Then again, I don't run Windows any more.
Sooner than later, I won't have to worry about such things at all. I clicked through Correl's Word Perfect 8 the other day, but before that, it had been about a year. This weekend, I'm going to look into LaTex.
the only person I know with a dirtier mouth than my own is my wife.
I'm glad you found your soul mate, but I'm not as happy that she teaches junior high. Do you two really think of sex and shit all the time or do you just use the words without thinking?
A related question is why you would want to talk to a child about sex, or why you would even think of such a thing around children? What on earth are you thinking?
I have no reason to doubt my wife, sister, mother and other's word on the shock sex was to them. It seemed strange to them, even though they were told it was natural. Take it for what it's worth, there are people in the world that don't think like you and your wife. Not everyone is exposed to that kind of thing, and they prefer it that way.
news flash: Giant Rice Kernel Eats Manhatan
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An emergency evacuation of Manhatan was ordered today as a giant golden rice kernel continued to expand. All efforts to stop the kernel have so far failed, and all of Harlem has been flattened. Experts from around the world expect Manhatan to be completely devoured in 48 hours. Politicians traded accusations, but the pepetrator remains unknown and at large.
Guliani was stunned, "I did'nt know that anything could grow around here and I thought it was a joke until the fire cheif reasured me in person. I'll bet those Green Peace nuts planned this one."
Senator Rodham feigned absolute prescience, "I knew this would happen one day and now I'll do my best to make sure all working families will get their fair share."
Experts at NYU were considering plans that had something to do with great heat, marshmallows and sugar but did not expect results soon.
Time and place. You will learn that real life sex is not like that glamorized stuff you were sold at the movies. In any case, not everyone gets off when you do.
Q: What will you bring to the oval office?
GWB: A can of lysol.
Ewwwwwww! Your roomate brought someone home again. There goes your sleep. Turn on the vent fan, and eat breakfast out. God knows what you will find in the shower (Hint, your roomate and you don't have red hair). Who's going to clean the drain?
Fuck is not a nice concept to throw around. My wife tells me that she was very disturbed to learn what the word means, and that most women are. It's a concept that only thoughtless people or rapists would deliver to a child. The more you throw it around, the more likely it is to land in the wrong place. Less importantly, it's just not a nice thing to think about when you sink you teeth into a big tuna po-boy.
There is a time and a place for everything. George Orwel's description of the Spanish civil war could have used the words shit, turd and crap at least once for variety and sharpness. He chose the words dung, and human excriment instead which worked well enough. After reading him, you will never look at trenches the same way again.
You would do yourself a favor to try not to think of such common, and usualy unpleasant things. If you can't do that, you might try to remove them from your speech so other people will not associate you with such stuff.
No, you say, I'm a hardcore free-software supporter. Sure. You may be the hardest of the hard-core,
but will even you continue to use a truly free, non-proprietary internet when the only people on it are you
and RMS? How will it feel, being the Amish of the next century? As the world around you embraces
Windows 20xx and its wonderful billg-approved code, you'll be stuck in your horse and buggy, refusing
to use them newfangled zippers because you think they're the tool of the devil.
C'mon, you know you'll want to send email to all your friends, and check out the cool new holographic
websites (that 2-D stuff is so 2000). All you have to do is install the new version of Windows. No, you
might not be able to compile your own programs, or upload websites which the Nonobscenity
Certification Board fails to approve, but isn't that a small price to pay?
That's a nice look down a dark alley, but I'll bet that you are wrong.
You assume that people are stupid and enjoy being screwed. You also assume that MS will continue to be the harbiger of new cool stuff.
Not so. MS has never been inovative and never will be. Expect new things to continue to come from free software. Expect more people to become sick of MS, banner adds and other anoyances.
The more MS breaks, the less useful it becomes. The less useful it is, the fewer people will use it. The less people use it, the less it will be relavent.
General purpose machines will always be able to connect to each other. The net routes around damage.
Don't worry, Windows productivity will always shine. Older applications, aslo known as unsigned or unapproved and insecure, may crash newer versions of Windows because we broke the old code. To protect you from such crashes, we have put this new feature in that you will have to disable to find out your favorite piece of software no longer works. This will force you to buy one of our newer offerings, so you can be more productive than ever. Ah yes, see how good our subscription service looks? You will alwasy be (paying for) using new software when you trust MS.
If they can, why souldn't they? The losses they suffer when the same French government clamps down on thier physical presence should provide incentive.
Companies that ignore the will and laws of other nations can expect great hatred. Sure, it's not Yahoo's problem or mine, yet but it can be tommorow when someone decides to retaliate in meat space.
Is there
any worse indictment of the industry as it now exists than their own
admission that being honest with their customers would result in
increased litigation and decreased customer choice?
No. The way things are set up, any admision of fault will ruin you. This is not just a problem for software companies, it's a problem for hospitals, construction firms and, well, everyone. There is a reason all software comes with a boilerplate, "this is not fit for any particular purpose" clause.
The problem is that the law allows for anyone to sue anyone else for unlimited damages. How can you blame people for covering their asses?
Bust Microsoft for trust violations and predatory behavior, but don't try to sue them because their crappy work did not solve all your problems like they prommised. Responsibility begins with you. Microsoft ends when people quit using thier junk.
Every packet sent has a terminal address (correct me if I'm wrong). If Yahoo knows that requester is from France, can't they filter their broadcasts accordingly and comply with French law?
The other question is if Yahoo knows what they are sending at all. They should have their auctions catagorized and therfore know.
The best they can be expected to do is to not knowingly transmit this memorabilia to France. To not even try would be rude. To err, would only be common carrier.
If the French have a problem with their laws, they should change them or leave. This kind of suppression only glamorizes that crap and makes it seem more valuable, but that's not my bussiness. Now if someone wants to limit what I see and hear, they can go to hell.
You would think the reciept would be good enough to prove the price. Grrrrr! wasn't NAFTA supposed to fix this kind of thing? It would be good for the US to be able to import more of your timber.
If you have something, someone will think of a way to take it.
Studdies of spermicidal lubricant have shown that it actually increases the transmision of AIDS by irritating the woman's sensitive skin. If it kills germs, it's an irritant. If you can scrub a toilet with it, you should not put it on your genitals.
Condoms are always breaking news for those who depend on them.
Don't want AIDS? Sit down and keep your mouth shut.
I'll second that. It's amazing what you loose when you take away the wheels: control, breaks, gyroscopic stability and speed. Yes indeed, that engine could be used to build a scooter that can be safely driven at 45 mph, steered and stoped.
Now, it you could simulate a consiousness would it be able to understand itself? If you could figure out how to keep it from making logical errors without eliminating creativity, it would be smarter than people. Trust and ethics are another matter.
I believe that things like perception
and reasoning are beyond the scope of raw power.
But it's a fun read anyway.
Peception can be achieved when we understand it.
I remember an article about a simulated mouse brain that could recognize words spoken by many different voices. The article pointed to a site where some nutty proffesor had made a little puzzle to annoy his peers rather than publish a paper explaining his results. It seemed prommising.
I can't find that article now, so I may have just dreamed it.
It's about time to do that. I remember back in the 80's when Scottie made Windows with Aluminum. He sat down at an old Pee Cee and commanded it to draw up plans. When the old machine failed to respond, Scottie sighed and took up the keyboard. After some typing, he had Aluminum Windows, which was a vast improvement at the time. Strangely enough, all I've ever seen on my Pee Cee has been MS Windows and X. I suppose MS is what happened to Al and X is an improvement that escaped by accident.
It's been nearly 15 years and it's time to move on. Copper should not be imposible now that we have been shown the way. Copper Windows should be heavier but flexible stable and lasting. Let's do it!
The Amish model is 21st century next to the stone-age life style that day care represents. Why should we pretend that our labor is so unproductive that we need to send our women off to collect berries, act as sales reps, suckretary and all those demeaning things that the majority of women forced to enter the workplace have to put up with?
Bah! What you advocate is something that will lead to a force not a choice. Think about trying to get by without your wife's slary for a while. Some of us don't think being corporate slaves is all that good an idea.
My kids will grow up knowing that I have respect for them and my wife. I value them more than the little extras I could buy if I stuck them in Barney's detention center and put my wife to the plow. They will also not suffer the early developmental depravation your poor kids will.
By this, my wife and I will judge our success as human beings: That our children grow up as loved and well cared for as we were.
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The question then becomes what you can do with the info once you find it. Because there is no standard format to what is written in the registry, it would still be difficult to manipulate the contents. Have you had any luck with this?
If the odds of anyone being hit are 1/250, and there are 5 billion people equally likely to be hit, then chances of any particular person being hit are then 1 in 1.25 trillion. This is about as good as the chances that OJ is innocent of his wife's murder.
If there are only 25 million Iridium customers, we have 25E6/5E9 * 1/1.25E12 of a chance of them being hit. This is about as good as the chances of the Florida Supreme court interpreting Roe vrs. Wade retroacitly as meaing that Al Gore's mom must have aborted her son.
The chances of anyone being his may be exadurated to begin with, and the chances of any particular person being hit may vary with location and shielding. I've got my umbrella up, just in case. Stranger things have happened.
Now the argument can be made that every memory chip and blank CD might be used in a similar way and that the RIAA is due a fee.
I would like to beat the person who made the first arguement about cassette tapes, but you can see where things go from here.
I never read those stupid EULAs and consider them non binding for all the reasons people have pointed out. Then again, I don't run Windows any more.
Sooner than later, I won't have to worry about such things at all. I clicked through Correl's Word Perfect 8 the other day, but before that, it had been about a year. This weekend, I'm going to look into LaTex.
I'm glad you found your soul mate, but I'm not as happy that she teaches junior high. Do you two really think of sex and shit all the time or do you just use the words without thinking?
A related question is why you would want to talk to a child about sex, or why you would even think of such a thing around children? What on earth are you thinking?
I have no reason to doubt my wife, sister, mother and other's word on the shock sex was to them. It seemed strange to them, even though they were told it was natural. Take it for what it's worth, there are people in the world that don't think like you and your wife. Not everyone is exposed to that kind of thing, and they prefer it that way.
Guliani was stunned, "I did'nt know that anything could grow around here and I thought it was a joke until the fire cheif reasured me in person. I'll bet those Green Peace nuts planned this one."
Senator Rodham feigned absolute prescience, "I knew this would happen one day and now I'll do my best to make sure all working families will get their fair share."
Experts at NYU were considering plans that had something to do with great heat, marshmallows and sugar but did not expect results soon.
Q: What will you bring to the oval office?
GWB: A can of lysol.
Ewwwwwww! Your roomate brought someone home again. There goes your sleep. Turn on the vent fan, and eat breakfast out. God knows what you will find in the shower (Hint, your roomate and you don't have red hair). Who's going to clean the drain?
I donno, ask a woman. It's just a perspecitve you may not have. Take it for what it's worth.
It only has to be cheaper. Where did all the vacuum tubes go?
There is a time and a place for everything. George Orwel's description of the Spanish civil war could have used the words shit, turd and crap at least once for variety and sharpness. He chose the words dung, and human excriment instead which worked well enough. After reading him, you will never look at trenches the same way again.
You would do yourself a favor to try not to think of such common, and usualy unpleasant things. If you can't do that, you might try to remove them from your speech so other people will not associate you with such stuff.
C'mon, you know you'll want to send email to all your friends, and check out the cool new holographic websites (that 2-D stuff is so 2000). All you have to do is install the new version of Windows. No, you might not be able to compile your own programs, or upload websites which the Nonobscenity Certification Board fails to approve, but isn't that a small price to pay?
That's a nice look down a dark alley, but I'll bet that you are wrong.
You assume that people are stupid and enjoy being screwed. You also assume that MS will continue to be the harbiger of new cool stuff. Not so. MS has never been inovative and never will be. Expect new things to continue to come from free software. Expect more people to become sick of MS, banner adds and other anoyances.
The more MS breaks, the less useful it becomes. The less useful it is, the fewer people will use it. The less people use it, the less it will be relavent.
General purpose machines will always be able to connect to each other. The net routes around damage.
The easiest option to turn off is Windows.
Companies that ignore the will and laws of other nations can expect great hatred. Sure, it's not Yahoo's problem or mine, yet but it can be tommorow when someone decides to retaliate in meat space.
No. The way things are set up, any admision of fault will ruin you. This is not just a problem for software companies, it's a problem for hospitals, construction firms and, well, everyone. There is a reason all software comes with a boilerplate, "this is not fit for any particular purpose" clause.
The problem is that the law allows for anyone to sue anyone else for unlimited damages. How can you blame people for covering their asses?
Bust Microsoft for trust violations and predatory behavior, but don't try to sue them because their crappy work did not solve all your problems like they prommised. Responsibility begins with you. Microsoft ends when people quit using thier junk.
The other question is if Yahoo knows what they are sending at all. They should have their auctions catagorized and therfore know.
The best they can be expected to do is to not knowingly transmit this memorabilia to France. To not even try would be rude. To err, would only be common carrier.
If the French have a problem with their laws, they should change them or leave. This kind of suppression only glamorizes that crap and makes it seem more valuable, but that's not my bussiness. Now if someone wants to limit what I see and hear, they can go to hell.
You would think the reciept would be good enough to prove the price. Grrrrr! wasn't NAFTA supposed to fix this kind of thing? It would be good for the US to be able to import more of your timber.
If you have something, someone will think of a way to take it.
he is only half the story. I remain sceptical.
Condoms are always breaking news for those who depend on them.
Don't want AIDS? Sit down and keep your mouth shut.
I'll second that. It's amazing what you loose when you take away the wheels: control, breaks, gyroscopic stability and speed. Yes indeed, that engine could be used to build a scooter that can be safely driven at 45 mph, steered and stoped.
Someone turned off the Pee Cee that had their firewall. It will come back up just as soon as they get to work this morning.
It's too bad so many people hate you that they stiffed it.
I suppose not.
Now, it you could simulate a consiousness would it be able to understand itself? If you could figure out how to keep it from making logical errors without eliminating creativity, it would be smarter than people. Trust and ethics are another matter.
Peception can be achieved when we understand it.
I remember an article about a simulated mouse brain that could recognize words spoken by many different voices. The article pointed to a site where some nutty proffesor had made a little puzzle to annoy his peers rather than publish a paper explaining his results. It seemed prommising.
I can't find that article now, so I may have just dreamed it.
It's been nearly 15 years and it's time to move on. Copper should not be imposible now that we have been shown the way. Copper Windows should be heavier but flexible stable and lasting. Let's do it!
Bah! What you advocate is something that will lead to a force not a choice. Think about trying to get by without your wife's slary for a while. Some of us don't think being corporate slaves is all that good an idea.
My kids will grow up knowing that I have respect for them and my wife. I value them more than the little extras I could buy if I stuck them in Barney's detention center and put my wife to the plow. They will also not suffer the early developmental depravation your poor kids will.
By this, my wife and I will judge our success as human beings: That our children grow up as loved and well cared for as we were.