Mod that comment to on-topic please. This is certainly the place to voice your concerns about this crap show and question why anyone thinks this is news for nerds. South Park and Simpsons wipe their asses with the Family Guy scripts. Was that too strong? Seriously, FG is not that clever or funny, unless you're a complete idiot, then you might actually enjoy it greatly. Sorry about you being an idiot though. No offense was meant. Maybe read some more. It helps.
HA! You can be sure Clippy is up to no good when he's packing something called a Field Programmable Gatorade. Whatever that is, it sounds refreshing *and* programmable.
Same here. Looked like Disney at first glance. I'm going to register dismayland.com or dismayworld.com. Seems like a good idea. I hope M$ can fix their time machine and go back a year and undo this mess they made. Although it would not hurt to claim Vista was just a HUGE, elaborate hoax and that it was all meant to make us love our XP boxen that much more. Like Coke did with their "Classic Coke" hoax.
Oh boy, I can't wait for the future house to tell me it's having a problem getting rid of a virus in the fridge-server and all my Choco-Tacos have melted! Then I'll set a nice tri-tip onto the counter and see if I can't get around the "Unrecognized Item on Counter! Abort, Retry, Ignore?" displayed on the inside of my eyelids. Future House I already hate you!:)
Wake me when the house of the future runs on a platform that is secure and stable and relatively free of solutions in search of problems.
Perhaps is just that advertising on a whole is questionable.
Exactly. Advertising is one of those businesses that seem to make a ton of money and carry a lot of weight when the so-called "important messages" are spewed at us nonstop during events or shows both big and small. I too ignore almost all advertisements as a general rule. Who in their right mind would take some slick video advice from the assholes trying to sell you their widget rather than do the research on your own, or just make an impulse buy and be done with it? When I had pay-for TV I just mute the sound and do anything else when an ad comes on. I don't listen to commercial-filled radio and I run adblock plus like most savvy net users do. I can't remember the last advertisement I've seen, nor do I care to. I make purchasing decisions based on the reviews and product info directly or via peers. The advertising businesses are a waste of time and money and I feel sorry for the assholes who occupy the airspace wasted by this so-called "industry".
Good post. Why not just sell out, then start another company with your "sell out" bucks? The hardest thing for a creative person to do is to let go of the creation, once it starts a life of its own, and be able to walk away without regrets to create something else. Does the company you leave behind really need you in the driver's seat, or CTO chair, that badly? Or are you so ingrained in the culture you cannot step aside? Can you divorce yourself from something you really enjoy so it can grow beyond what you realize or imagine? If you can, then you have a skill which few posses.
Agreed. I have a LAN so I can move as many of my pr0n and consumer grade video files to whatever machine I need to for the cost of the wires and the router. Why on Earth would I want to then move my large data via my ISP so they can charge me a shitload for bandwidth that I already have in house and paid for? Perhaps I'll just use sneakernet in this brave new world! Really bad thinking on Bob's part. We must be on his lawn.
Good point. You never hear the people who go ahead with an artificially induced pregnancy thanking medical science when they plop out a litter of 6 kids, just their wacky, pointless, god creature. Their god didn't want them to have babies in the first place, according to them, and the selfish pricks did it anyway, no thanks to the science that got them there. Give credit where credit is due.
Let the babies have their bottles. I dare any of the uber-corporations to erect a media outlet that does not suck donkey balls. If Ropert Morduck wants to own every station in my market, let him! I won't be listening to any of that garbage. I have iPods, CDs and superior satellite radio. What do I need with a Ropert Murduck? Sounds like a skin condition. Throw another media outlet on the barbie, douche!
Only if you get caught and brought up before congress... nice save, but yahoo still sucks and this just goes to show you that they are more interested in getting some traction in a new market rather than being good human beings. "Screw the dissidents, we see dollar signs!!!" -- yahoo.org
Only 9.4%? Come on, everybody!!! We can do better, I can't think of anything more important than using the Intranets. Let's get this up to 20% usage by year's end. If we all work together we can make this happen. Turn on, log on and never log off!
We'll thank goodness the people who are claiming the exploit *also* happen to have a product to defeat said exploit...
"Existing desktop security solutions cannot protect against this type of attacks since DNS forgery pharming does not involve the user's computer or the DNS server but rather the cached data on the DNS server. Mutual authentication solutions, such as Trusteer's Rapport, which strongly authenticates the destination website and prevents access to unauthenticated websites, can defeat the attack."
How convenient!;)
What version of BIND is going to have the fix? I've got 9.3.2 at the moment.
You are not alone. When confronted with an annoying ad in a piece of software I actually paid for, I avoid the product like the plague. However, I can't help but patronize Ammu-Nation when playing GTA3. They seem like a reputable purveyor of fine firearms.
Yes, but we can't teraform the moon. At least Mars has a somewhat usable atmosphere and may be capable of sustained teraforming to create a better, less dust-storm ridden planet complete with running water, breathable atmosphere, fewer religious assholes and killer roads to race our Mars buggies on! Woot!
I'll second that. I've had a RAZR V3 for the past two years and did have a bit trouble with the batteries to being with. I figured out that every other time you charge it you need to shut down the phone and remove and reseat the battery to get a good charge on the following cycle. Otherwise you'd get maybe 15 minutes of talk time and about a day of standby. I thought my first battery was bad so I had it replaced before I figured out the above trick. At about the year and a half mark the battery itself was the culprit and I'm down to the same 15/day talk/standby times again and am looking at $50 to replace the battery. The other big problem is that Moto does not know squat about creating a usable user interface. The menus and options are not well thought out, compared to any Nokia phone, and many of the security features simply do not work correctly. I reconfiged another V3 phone for my daughter and found that no matter what you do some of the extra features cannot be turned off in the GUI, even though there is an option to do so. The RAZR and other V3 phones look good and are fine for phone use but the standard browser, GUI and other "features" like only have 5MB of internal user memory are a joke to say the least. Flashy outside, shitty inside. Moto phones blow.
I'm filing a patent right now to cover the display of advertisements underneath the eyelids of humans and dogs. No one can escape marketing, not even dogs. Just because it's a worthless, meaningless and otherwise waste of time doesn't mean marketing does not deserve to become integrated into every nook and cranny of our lives, starting with being embedded into the OS. The crappy OS, but it's a start.
What about cats, birds and fish? Not profitable enough. Let's see...
1. Build tiny implants to embed into eyelids at birth for the purpose of inescapable commercialization. 2. ? 3. Profit!
I agree with you 95%!!1! However, to use a big iron box to run a bunch of lowly webservers is ludicrous and expensive. I'd say leave that low-end task to the 1U boxen of your favorite OS/platform or virtualized on a smaller box. Besides, most competent data centers will have to keep the webservers on the DMZ and exterior facing nets, and the big boxen well inside the firewall and behind enemy lines and *not* sharing a single frame of the same h/w even when virtualized.
If they can manage to make the paths and maps the story uses change each time you watch it. Sweet. If not, it may be in danger of sucking like every other video game based movie.
Have we come full circle yet? Back in the late 80s/early 90s many folks regarded the Macs as a "toy" and PCs as a "workstation", neither of which were very accurate, yet this was the accepted generalization. Nowadays, I really consider the Windows PC to be nothing more than another gaming platform, and the Mac is where I get real work done (video/audio/photo editing, main browsing machine, file serving, other Unixy things, etc.). Don't tell my employer though, they still believe that a Windows box is what everyone needs on their desk to get work done. Bullshit, I say. I get way more done on my Sun Ultra 25 than my silly Windows Craptop. I guess we have come full circle now that Apple has decided to finally embrace the video game industry and lure developers to the platform.
Furthermore, Apple went out of their way in the late 80s/early 90s to distance themselves from the gaming industry and try to slough off the "toy computer" image. That was a big mistake as many of the future performance boosts to computers in general were and are driven by cutting-edge game development. Welcome back to gaming Apple. Seriously.;)
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Mod that comment to on-topic please. This is certainly the place to voice your concerns about this crap show and question why anyone thinks this is news for nerds. South Park and Simpsons wipe their asses with the Family Guy scripts. Was that too strong? Seriously, FG is not that clever or funny, unless you're a complete idiot, then you might actually enjoy it greatly. Sorry about you being an idiot though. No offense was meant. Maybe read some more. It helps.
HA! You can be sure Clippy is up to no good when he's packing something called a Field Programmable Gatorade. Whatever that is, it sounds refreshing *and* programmable.
Same here. Looked like Disney at first glance. I'm going to register dismayland.com or dismayworld.com. Seems like a good idea. I hope M$ can fix their time machine and go back a year and undo this mess they made. Although it would not hurt to claim Vista was just a HUGE, elaborate hoax and that it was all meant to make us love our XP boxen that much more. Like Coke did with their "Classic Coke" hoax.
Is that an African or European metric tonne?
Sorry, it's off-topic Friday in my hemisphere.
Oh boy, I can't wait for the future house to tell me it's having a problem getting rid of a virus in the fridge-server and all my Choco-Tacos have melted! Then I'll set a nice tri-tip onto the counter and see if I can't get around the "Unrecognized Item on Counter! Abort, Retry, Ignore?" displayed on the inside of my eyelids. Future House I already hate you! :)
Wake me when the house of the future runs on a platform that is secure and stable and relatively free of solutions in search of problems.
Not to mention the obvious:
Enable Camera Password?[YES][NO]
Encrypt the iris store in the camera... problem solved... next?
Perhaps is just that advertising on a whole is questionable.
Exactly. Advertising is one of those businesses that seem to make a ton of money and carry a lot of weight when the so-called "important messages" are spewed at us nonstop during events or shows both big and small. I too ignore almost all advertisements as a general rule. Who in their right mind would take some slick video advice from the assholes trying to sell you their widget rather than do the research on your own, or just make an impulse buy and be done with it? When I had pay-for TV I just mute the sound and do anything else when an ad comes on. I don't listen to commercial-filled radio and I run adblock plus like most savvy net users do. I can't remember the last advertisement I've seen, nor do I care to. I make purchasing decisions based on the reviews and product info directly or via peers. The advertising businesses are a waste of time and money and I feel sorry for the assholes who occupy the airspace wasted by this so-called "industry".
Good post. Why not just sell out, then start another company with your "sell out" bucks? The hardest thing for a creative person to do is to let go of the creation, once it starts a life of its own, and be able to walk away without regrets to create something else. Does the company you leave behind really need you in the driver's seat, or CTO chair, that badly? Or are you so ingrained in the culture you cannot step aside? Can you divorce yourself from something you really enjoy so it can grow beyond what you realize or imagine? If you can, then you have a skill which few posses.
Agreed. I have a LAN so I can move as many of my pr0n and consumer grade video files to whatever machine I need to for the cost of the wires and the router. Why on Earth would I want to then move my large data via my ISP so they can charge me a shitload for bandwidth that I already have in house and paid for? Perhaps I'll just use sneakernet in this brave new world! Really bad thinking on Bob's part. We must be on his lawn.
Good point. You never hear the people who go ahead with an artificially induced pregnancy thanking medical science when they plop out a litter of 6 kids, just their wacky, pointless, god creature. Their god didn't want them to have babies in the first place, according to them, and the selfish pricks did it anyway, no thanks to the science that got them there. Give credit where credit is due.
Not only that but we now know what the price of any CD is really worth! Let's help the RIAA get their way!
I plan to:
1) pick up a guitar, make a crappy CD
2) have someone steal it
3) sue them!
4) ?
5) PROFIT!
It's that easy. I'm going to patent that method and then sue everyone who does the same thing! I am invincible! The Black Kinght always wins!
Let the babies have their bottles. I dare any of the uber-corporations to erect a media outlet that does not suck donkey balls. If Ropert Morduck wants to own every station in my market, let him! I won't be listening to any of that garbage. I have iPods, CDs and superior satellite radio. What do I need with a Ropert Murduck? Sounds like a skin condition. Throw another media outlet on the barbie, douche!
"they'll buy off your relatives"
Only if you get caught and brought up before congress... nice save, but yahoo still sucks and this just goes to show you that they are more interested in getting some traction in a new market rather than being good human beings. "Screw the dissidents, we see dollar signs!!!" -- yahoo.org
What would *that* be then? These are things we need to know for scientific progress!
Only 9.4%? Come on, everybody!!! We can do better, I can't think of anything more important than using the Intranets. Let's get this up to 20% usage by year's end. If we all work together we can make this happen. Turn on, log on and never log off!
We'll thank goodness the people who are claiming the exploit *also* happen to have a product to defeat said exploit...
;)
"Existing desktop security solutions cannot protect against this type of attacks since DNS forgery pharming does not involve the user's computer or the DNS server but rather the cached data on the DNS server. Mutual authentication solutions, such as Trusteer's Rapport, which strongly authenticates the destination website and prevents access to unauthenticated websites, can defeat the attack."
How convenient!
What version of BIND is going to have the fix? I've got 9.3.2 at the moment.
You are not alone. When confronted with an annoying ad in a piece of software I actually paid for, I avoid the product like the plague. However, I can't help but patronize Ammu-Nation when playing GTA3. They seem like a reputable purveyor of fine firearms.
Yes, but we can't teraform the moon. At least Mars has a somewhat usable atmosphere and may be capable of sustained teraforming to create a better, less dust-storm ridden planet complete with running water, breathable atmosphere, fewer religious assholes and killer roads to race our Mars buggies on! Woot!
I'll second that. I've had a RAZR V3 for the past two years and did have a bit trouble with the batteries to being with. I figured out that every other time you charge it you need to shut down the phone and remove and reseat the battery to get a good charge on the following cycle. Otherwise you'd get maybe 15 minutes of talk time and about a day of standby. I thought my first battery was bad so I had it replaced before I figured out the above trick. At about the year and a half mark the battery itself was the culprit and I'm down to the same 15/day talk/standby times again and am looking at $50 to replace the battery. The other big problem is that Moto does not know squat about creating a usable user interface. The menus and options are not well thought out, compared to any Nokia phone, and many of the security features simply do not work correctly. I reconfiged another V3 phone for my daughter and found that no matter what you do some of the extra features cannot be turned off in the GUI, even though there is an option to do so. The RAZR and other V3 phones look good and are fine for phone use but the standard browser, GUI and other "features" like only have 5MB of internal user memory are a joke to say the least. Flashy outside, shitty inside. Moto phones blow.
I'm filing a patent right now to cover the display of advertisements underneath the eyelids of humans and dogs. No one can escape marketing, not even dogs. Just because it's a worthless, meaningless and otherwise waste of time doesn't mean marketing does not deserve to become integrated into every nook and cranny of our lives, starting with being embedded into the OS. The crappy OS, but it's a start.
What about cats, birds and fish? Not profitable enough. Let's see...
1. Build tiny implants to embed into eyelids at birth for the purpose of inescapable commercialization.
2. ?
3. Profit!
I'll bring a giant lemon wedge and a giant bowl of dipping sauce!
Giant margaritas all 'round!
I agree with you 95%!!1! However, to use a big iron box to run a bunch of lowly webservers is ludicrous and expensive. I'd say leave that low-end task to the 1U boxen of your favorite OS/platform or virtualized on a smaller box. Besides, most competent data centers will have to keep the webservers on the DMZ and exterior facing nets, and the big boxen well inside the firewall and behind enemy lines and *not* sharing a single frame of the same h/w even when virtualized.
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
http://thcnet.net/zork/index.php
If they can manage to make the paths and maps the story uses change each time you watch it. Sweet.
If not, it may be in danger of sucking like every other video game based movie.
Have we come full circle yet? Back in the late 80s/early 90s many folks regarded the Macs as a "toy" and PCs as a "workstation", neither of which were very accurate, yet this was the accepted generalization. Nowadays, I really consider the Windows PC to be nothing more than another gaming platform, and the Mac is where I get real work done (video/audio/photo editing, main browsing machine, file serving, other Unixy things, etc.). Don't tell my employer though, they still believe that a Windows box is what everyone needs on their desk to get work done. Bullshit, I say. I get way more done on my Sun Ultra 25 than my silly Windows Craptop.
;)
I guess we have come full circle now that Apple has decided to finally embrace the video game industry and lure developers to the platform.
Furthermore, Apple went out of their way in the late 80s/early 90s to distance themselves from the gaming industry and try to slough off the "toy computer" image. That was a big mistake as many of the future performance boosts to computers in general were and are driven by cutting-edge game development. Welcome back to gaming Apple. Seriously.