Pretty much every society has considered itself at the height of technological advancement, but thats always been disproven (and later mocked ) with time. It's a very arrogant statement and shows little foresight on his part.
I'm a former direct-mailer (spammer). Yes, Hate me.
We had 2 IronPort A60's that we would use to pound mail out like insane pixies who had too much sugar.
With SpamCop being owned by Ironport...dear lord, will this mean for an extended supscription one would get removed from spamcop?
This obviously would mean the dependance on spamcop to be a serious regulatory company, would be an idiotic assumption.
Ironport Sells 2 series of devices The A and the C
the A60 is the flagship of the outgoing mail genre, and the C60 is the flagship for blocking the incoming mail.
In basic sense, they sell the ultimate spam machine, as well as the ultimate anti-spam machine.
They're basically Gun Runners, and fairly evil. They will sell you one product to send huge mail campaings, and another to avoid them, its a damn protection racket.
During the quarter ended April 30, 2003, SCO entered into a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft"). The initial licensing agreement allowed Microsoft, at its election, to exercise two options to allow Microsoft to acquire expanded licensing rights with respect to SCO's UNIX source code. During the quarter ended July 31, 2003, Microsoft exercised and paid for the first of these options. During SCO's current quarter, ending October 31, 2003, Microsoft exercised and paid $8,000,000 for the second option.
Remember when the bought hotmail? damn i loved hotmail.
It was 'free' for 203 years, then they slowly turned it into a pay service, sure you can use a limited accoutn size for now, but how long till that changes?
My point is, if MS did buy the great googley moogley, then how long would it be before you have to pay for anything past the first 5 links in a search?
A Logo.. for an underground counter-culture? Cool, I want one on a golf tee!
As cool as a logo for the community would be, its got a few downpoints I thought I'd mention..
1. Tattos. Remember that dark angel show? Remember how all the cool kids went out and got bar codes tattoed on the back of their necks to be orginal? Picture that, but with this logo.
I don't know about you, but I'd really hate to see this logo on 'l33t scrript kiddies'.
2. Web Pages. Remeber that Free Speech/Blue Ribbon thing? Yea, that was annoying, just due to the fact that thousands of people thought theyd be cool and put it up, it at least served a point.
All the "cool" people will have a link to this image on their sites, and instantly become "hackers". Wasn't being a hacker an underground activity?
3. Business Cards. Same deal as the web pages, the l33t will definately need this logo on their cards, to show all other geeks that they're better then them.
4. Diseases. There's a special disease that is associated with this idea. Expert-itis. It's very common with people who have completed a 10 month course at their local college, and suddenly become Uber-Hackers. Expertitis - The disease associated with people who suddenly become experts on everything. They'd be -all- about this logo.
5. OMG, its ugly.
6. Legal Issues. Um, not to state the obvious, but isn't being a hacker a -very- bad thing to be in this world right now? Especially if you live close to the US of A ?
IANAL but I think that putting a flag up stating that I'm say, a neo-nazi, will not make the feds happy. While doing so is perfectly legal, it doesn't mean that the feds won't put you down in one of their nice tidy databases of urban terrorists.
Now, with the amount of negative attention showered upon hackers of recent, do you really think its wise to start handing out hall passes for prison?
7. More space for generalisation. Say we adopt this idea, "yay for us!", and we all get nice spiffy logos printed off and take pride in them. It's a hacker logo yes? Do you not expect to see it plastered over hacked sites? Do you then not expect to be looked at as unwelcome by people who dont know any better?
You could simply be a linux kernel hacker, and like this logo, but yet, to the uninformed, you're a liability to the company you're employed for.
8....
nah, I think you get the point by now, all in all, if you were looking for an idea that would have done better by not creating it, I think you found a very cool one, congrats:)
Yea, they're a truely unbiased 3rd party company. Sure..
No matter what, microsoft will come out on top in this study. And if this study would be done by a Linux group, MS would come out at the bottom.
It's called a conflict of interest, you cant do a cost eval. on your own products. its stupid. If you like your job, of course you'll say yours is better, faster, and cheaper.
Hell, if you're desperate enough, you'll throw in that its a possible cure for cancer while youre at it.
A rose by any other name, still smells as sweetly. And garbage like gator, be it called spyware, or adware, or pickled-eggware, is still garbage, and therefore stinks.
During Gates' address, a Microsoft staffer gave a demonstration of Longhorn, highlighting among other features the "sidebar," an area on the right side of the screen capable of dynamically displaying messaging lists, stock quotes, news feeds, times and pictures.
is this going to be another one of microsofts 'revolutionary changes' like their amazing creation of symbolic links.. oh wait.. unix had both of these a decade ago..
Initally windows was designed to emulate the look and feel of the mac, and now its being redesigned to emulate the look and feel of xwindows+a decent window manager?
Well, we do live in a world where all the orgina ideas have been used, dont we?
How can the patent office get away with giving out patents for such obvious concepts as this?
Yes, I know that once somebody states a concept it's easy to say 'thats just common sense' but this is an actual example of one of the earlist forms of commerce known to man, transfered unto a differnt medium.
If I create a new device that replaces the normal commercial cash register, am I allowed to patent that process as well.. well after its been in the market place for a few years, and accepted as a normal practice.. and then add a patent and rake in millions from the locals that had adopted my style of commerce?
It's blody idiotic. I wonder if the people that created the spork (spoon/fork) patened the idea of using a metal utensial to insert food into ones facial orifices..
Imagine a Microsoft EULA that said any products created in Win2k, with the standard desktop license, and not a special dev license were property of Microsoft..
Do you actually read your EULA's with microsoft products?
Imagine having to get a special license for professional use of not only Visual Studio, but the OS itself..
The most unfortunate part is that their generalisation is mostly true..
Brutal Honesty. Not something we're used to from charities. A Charity is supposed to be "nice" and "fluffy", personally, I'm amazed that they'd place an ad like this.
Personally, I'd think about donating to the charity.
My former company was a spam company, but yet it was maintained by a non-security concious boss. it wasnt until 3 months after I left (after being there for over 2 years) that they finally cracked down and got a firewall. Installing said firewall after the business was in full swing.. yea. I dont envy the monkey that took my place.
But the same standard was applied for patchs, we were told to -never- reboot certain dbs.. which HAD to have external ips, and no firewalls. Yupp, you got it, live db's with thousands and thousands of credit cards owned by a spam company... a 'sort of' big target eh?
Yea, so when the db's died due to being owned due to lack of patchs, it was no supprise that we were yelled at and held responsible by the same person who continually told us not to reboot. And if you went over his head to get permission for varios VERy important IIS patchs, you were told to reboot the server "RIGHT NOW YOU IDIOT" by the boss, due to the fact he didnt know what was going on but yet wanted to pretend he did.
In short, non IT people shouldnt be involved in the patch/security process, PHB's suck.
Personally, at my new job, i'm in charge of co-ordinating any deployments to new servers, and the change is refreshing, with the amount of firewalls, its not as a desperate situation too.
If its a major patch, 3 days to upgrade if it requires a reboot, just to notify all people working on it. If its a transparent change, possibly 24 hours and they're fully deployed.
Of course, I only work with unix now, (thank god) I dont know how the intel side handles their issues.
It'd be funny to secretly install a paperbased couting into the mechanism, so when the evil hackers alter the vote, you could compare the votes and laugh at the results.
Just becase an invention exists, doesn't mean you have to use it.
You're trying to get docs out of the goverment that they hvae sole possession of, with no copies anywhere but in their hands...
and you expect them to be real?
How many times have you heard of modifications made when the goverment gets involved.
Roswell files/people, JFK video altered, papers give to the media.. after censoring (i've seen 400 page docs with only 2 words not censored.. The and fake)
Yea, good luck on getting the Gov' to hand over evidence of a coverup and aliens. I'm sure you'll get just what you asked for..
The whole concept of paperless voting is insane. Making voting easier doesnt mean no paper.. it just means changing the way things are done.
What about a touch screen that generates a card with your choice on it.
Ie, you push "bush, or "democrat" it generated a card that says the candidates name and party, and you jsut drop that in the box. It would be good for the growing minority of illerterate americans, they could put the party mascott's next to the name, that way people know to either vote for the donkey or the elephant party.
With all the recent wifi hacks, yea, they had better lock this down, a laptop hidden under the counter with a reciever next to the 'legtimate' reciver could capture thousands of cards, making the cards quite insecure in premise.
A neat ide would be to use the card as your public key, and your thumbprint as a private key, heh. Go all star trek-ish.
This thing looks like it has some serious bawlz... I was thinking abotu getting one just for the linux fact... but its got some serious power behind it. Neat
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Pretty much every society has considered itself at the height of technological advancement, but thats always been disproven (and later mocked ) with time. It's a very arrogant statement and shows little foresight on his part.
Jackson is from NZ, the entire film was filmed in NZ, and Jackson is a big promotor of NZ.
He wants to be known as a NZ Director, hes very proud of his homeland, and wants more attention paid to it.
He begged the studio to allow him to film there.
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
:)
I knew something funny was up with google.
That's why all your ratings are messed.
I'm a former direct-mailer (spammer). Yes, Hate me.
.dear lord, will this mean for an extended supscription one would get removed from spamcop?
We had 2 IronPort A60's that we would use to pound mail out like insane pixies who had too much sugar.
With SpamCop being owned by Ironport..
This obviously would mean the dependance on spamcop to be a serious regulatory company, would be an idiotic assumption.
Ironport Sells 2 series of devices The A and the C
the A60 is the flagship of the outgoing mail genre, and the C60 is the flagship for blocking the incoming mail.
In basic sense, they sell the ultimate spam machine, as well as the ultimate anti-spam machine.
They're basically Gun Runners, and fairly evil. They will sell you one product to send huge mail campaings, and another to avoid them, its a damn protection racket.
How is this legal in the us?
Microsoft License Agreement
During the quarter ended April 30, 2003, SCO entered into a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft"). The initial licensing agreement allowed Microsoft, at its election, to exercise two options to allow Microsoft to acquire expanded licensing rights with respect to SCO's UNIX source code. During the quarter ended July 31, 2003, Microsoft exercised and paid for the first of these options. During SCO's current quarter, ending October 31, 2003, Microsoft exercised and paid $8,000,000 for the second option.
Wow, nice to see that on paper.
Maybe they'll do it up like the gameboy advance, built in rechargeable lit's ?
Remember when the bought hotmail? damn i loved hotmail.
It was 'free' for 203 years, then they slowly turned it into a pay service, sure you can use a limited accoutn size for now, but how long till that changes?
My point is, if MS did buy the great googley moogley, then how long would it be before you have to pay for anything past the first 5 links in a search?
A Logo.. for an underground counter-culture? Cool, I want one on a golf tee!
...
:)
As cool as a logo for the community would be, its got a few downpoints I thought I'd mention..
1. Tattos. Remember that dark angel show? Remember how all the cool kids went out and got bar codes tattoed on the back of their necks to be orginal? Picture that, but with this logo.
I don't know about you, but I'd really hate to see this logo on 'l33t scrript kiddies'.
2. Web Pages. Remeber that Free Speech/Blue Ribbon thing? Yea, that was annoying, just due to the fact that thousands of people thought theyd be cool and put it up, it at least served a point.
All the "cool" people will have a link to this image on their sites, and instantly become "hackers". Wasn't being a hacker an underground activity?
3. Business Cards. Same deal as the web pages, the l33t will definately need this logo on their cards, to show all other geeks that they're better then them.
4. Diseases. There's a special disease that is associated with this idea. Expert-itis. It's very common with people who have completed a 10 month course at their local college, and suddenly become Uber-Hackers. Expertitis - The disease associated with people who suddenly become experts on everything. They'd be -all- about this logo.
5. OMG, its ugly.
6. Legal Issues. Um, not to state the obvious, but isn't being a hacker a -very- bad thing to be in this world right now? Especially if you live close to the US of A ?
IANAL but I think that putting a flag up stating that I'm say, a neo-nazi, will not make the feds happy. While doing so is perfectly legal, it doesn't mean that the feds won't put you down in one of their nice tidy databases of urban terrorists.
Now, with the amount of negative attention showered upon hackers of recent, do you really think its wise to start handing out hall passes for prison?
7. More space for generalisation. Say we adopt this idea, "yay for us!", and we all get nice spiffy logos printed off and take pride in them. It's a hacker logo yes? Do you not expect to see it plastered over hacked sites? Do you then not expect to be looked at as unwelcome by people who dont know any better?
You could simply be a linux kernel hacker, and like this logo, but yet, to the uninformed, you're a liability to the company you're employed for.
8.
nah, I think you get the point by now, all in all, if you were looking for an idea that would have done better by not creating it, I think you found a very cool one, congrats
Um, Microsoft is doing this themselves?
Yea, they're a truely unbiased 3rd party company. Sure..
No matter what, microsoft will come out on top in this study. And if this study would be done by a Linux group, MS would come out at the bottom.
It's called a conflict of interest, you cant do a cost eval. on your own products. its stupid. If you like your job, of course you'll say yours is better, faster, and cheaper.
Hell, if you're desperate enough, you'll throw in that its a possible cure for cancer while youre at it.
A rose by any other name, still smells as sweetly. And garbage like gator, be it called spyware, or adware, or pickled-eggware, is still garbage, and therefore stinks.
During Gates' address, a Microsoft staffer gave a demonstration of Longhorn, highlighting among other features the "sidebar," an area on the right side of the screen capable of dynamically displaying messaging lists, stock quotes, news feeds, times and pictures.
is this going to be another one of microsofts 'revolutionary changes' like their amazing creation of symbolic links.. oh wait.. unix had both of these a decade ago..
Initally windows was designed to emulate the look and feel of the mac, and now its being redesigned to emulate the look and feel of xwindows+a decent window manager?
Well, we do live in a world where all the orgina ideas have been used, dont we?
I'm refering to something superficially different from the orginal process.
Ie, instead of using a plastic cash register that prints recipts on paper, i'd use a metal one that prints its recipts on metal slips, heh.
How can the patent office get away with giving out patents for such obvious concepts as this?
.. well after its been in the market place for a few years, and accepted as a normal practice.. and then add a patent and rake in millions from the locals that had adopted my style of commerce?
Yes, I know that once somebody states a concept it's easy to say 'thats just common sense' but this is an actual example of one of the earlist forms of commerce known to man, transfered unto a differnt medium.
If I create a new device that replaces the normal commercial cash register, am I allowed to patent that process as well
It's blody idiotic. I wonder if the people that created the spork (spoon/fork) patened the idea of using a metal utensial to insert food into ones facial orifices..
Imagine a Microsoft EULA that said any products created in Win2k, with the standard desktop license, and not a special dev license were property of Microsoft..
Do you actually read your EULA's with microsoft products?
Imagine having to get a special license for professional use of not only Visual Studio, but the OS itself..
There are so many possibilities..
The most unfortunate part is that their generalisation is mostly true..
Brutal Honesty. Not something we're used to from charities. A Charity is supposed to be "nice" and "fluffy", personally, I'm amazed that they'd place an ad like this.
Personally, I'd think about donating to the charity.
Do you happen to recall the name of the charity ?
I bought some x10 stuf via a popunder.. does that make me scum for supporting them?
:P
I found the gear fairly awesome, my house is all secure, and automated.
and no, I don't work/know anybody at x10
My former company was a spam company, but yet it was maintained by a non-security concious boss. it wasnt until 3 months after I left (after being there for over 2 years) that they finally cracked down and got a firewall. Installing said firewall after the business was in full swing.. yea. I dont envy the monkey that took my place.
But the same standard was applied for patchs, we were told to -never- reboot certain dbs.. which HAD to have external ips, and no firewalls. Yupp, you got it, live db's with thousands and thousands of credit cards owned by a spam company... a 'sort of' big target eh?
Yea, so when the db's died due to being owned due to lack of patchs, it was no supprise that we were yelled at and held responsible by the same person who continually told us not to reboot. And if you went over his head to get permission for varios VERy important IIS patchs, you were told to reboot the server "RIGHT NOW YOU IDIOT" by the boss, due to the fact he didnt know what was going on but yet wanted to pretend he did.
In short, non IT people shouldnt be involved in the patch/security process, PHB's suck.
Personally, at my new job, i'm in charge of co-ordinating any deployments to new servers, and the change is refreshing, with the amount of firewalls, its not as a desperate situation too.
If its a major patch, 3 days to upgrade if it requires a reboot, just to notify all people working on it. If its a transparent change, possibly 24 hours and they're fully deployed.
Of course, I only work with unix now, (thank god) I dont know how the intel side handles their issues.
Possibly they pray?
no paper = no proof of vote.
It'd be funny to secretly install a paperbased couting into the mechanism, so when the evil hackers alter the vote, you could compare the votes and laugh at the results.
Just becase an invention exists, doesn't mean you have to use it.
You're trying to get docs out of the goverment that they hvae sole possession of, with no copies anywhere but in their hands...
and you expect them to be real?
How many times have you heard of modifications made when the goverment gets involved.
Roswell files/people, JFK video altered, papers give to the media.. after censoring (i've seen 400 page docs with only 2 words not censored.. The and fake)
Yea, good luck on getting the Gov' to hand over evidence of a coverup and aliens. I'm sure you'll get just what you asked for..
either fake docs or 500 pages of censored pages.
Natinal security you know..
The whole concept of paperless voting is insane. Making voting easier doesnt mean no paper.. it just means changing the way things are done.
What about a touch screen that generates a card with your choice on it.
Ie, you push "bush, or "democrat" it generated a card that says the candidates name and party, and you jsut drop that in the box. It would be good for the growing minority of illerterate americans, they could put the party mascott's next to the name, that way people know to either vote for the donkey or the elephant party.
With all the recent wifi hacks, yea, they had better lock this down, a laptop hidden under the counter with a reciever next to the 'legtimate' reciver could capture thousands of cards, making the cards quite insecure in premise.
A neat ide would be to use the card as your public key, and your thumbprint as a private key, heh. Go all star trek-ish.
I use the same basic idea, cept I put a large water block on top of the hd as that my 10k RPM 74 gb cheatah's get a 'little' warm.
Anybody else ever water cool a hard drive?
When was the last time you saw a nuclear device be 'replaced like a flashlight battery'
And the military has procedures in the case of a missle theft.
This thing looks like it has some serious bawlz... I was thinking abotu getting one just for the linux fact... but its got some serious power behind it. Neat
anybody else have one ordered yet?
I wired in a wireless camera to a model of a blackbird that I have, it has a gas engine, and kicks some serious speed ass.
:)
:)
Full streaming at 20fps.. a little lag, but hey, i'm still working on it
Also I have thought of mounting a pellet gun to the end, and possibly trargeting it via the quick cam.. but thats just getting crazy