"Launch the Nukes", "Sir yes sir", "Sir I have clicked the button, however it is now prompting me 'Are you sure you really want to launch Nuke?'"
*Presses YES*
"But are you really really really sure?"
*Presses YES again*
"Do you want windows to remember this choice in future?"
*Presses NO*
*paperclip appears*
"Would you like help 'Launching Nuke'?"
*Presses No*
*Walks to the main hatch in dispair*
*Opens main hatch while 100' below the surface using manual leaver to avoid that damn paperclip*
It's a govenment IT project it will go over budget, be 20 years late and will fail before it goes live. They will then take the project leader transfer him to another department and give him a new expensive team of consultants who say it the new project is not feasible and the cycle will start all over again.
It's still legal to use pounds and ounces, or gallons, or miles or any other imperial units, but you are equally welcome to use metric units if you wish.
Actaully that's not quite true. Shops must display a) both metric and imperial or b) metric only)
Steve Thoburn, a greengrocer who worked at a local market in Sunderland who gained a criminal conviction in 2001 by breaching the Weights and Measures act by selling bananas by the pound.
I measure in Feet and inches, order sweets in pounds and ounces, buy my milk by the pint but fill my car in litres and take the temperature in celcius..
People keep using metric around me and I have to sit there an convert it.. Worst time was in a corner shop I asked for a half of floral gums and a quarter of miget gems, she asked me "half a KILO??" bloody kids.
/back on topic
I can see it now. "DIVE DIVE DIVE", Sorry sir the server has just blue screened we have to reboot."
"Launch the Nukes", "Sir yes sir", "Sir I have clicked the button, however explorer has hung"
Karen seems to be a good teacher, and as she stated to me today, she has learned more about the tech world in a few days than she's learned in five years.
That's what I thought at first. Then I read the full letter. I have a hard time believing that someone who actually installed and tried linux in college would believe it was illegal. If the teacher thought it was some sort of install party for pirated versions of windows, well she was right in what she did and was just ignorant of the facts but then she goes on to say that she understand what linux is, to have tried and installed it.
Makes you wonder what else she tried at college illegal or otherwise;)
I can imagine a generation coming out of school believing that "free software" is somehow illegal or immoral. Nicely taught to pay the "computer tax" to Microsoft, which is the only solution.
You could be onto something here. I have an idea (a dream if you will) where every computer sold will have attached to it a 1%-3% tax (regardless of OS installed) that will go directly to MS in case windows is ever put on that machine or incase the OS installed infringes on MS' IP.
Some of you here may liken this practice to the RIAA, MPAA but I assure you that this is nothing of the sort. Honestly. No really completely different.
DUH! MS are known the world over for their generosity and handing out of their software for free. China and Russia have loads of Free copies available.
Mind you they might as well give vista away for free and say its a technical demo of windows versions to come.
Secure NASA systems were rooted by a guy who sent 30 gigabytes of data to a location in Taiwan, where it probably was sent to China
Yea yea.. "Secure", please give me a source for that statement. After all there was that British guy looking for aliens managed to hack all those military systems.
And for some reason, the U.S. government often takes a surprisingly passive role when China acts aggressively towards it.
Who do you think would make all of your computer bits, toys and clothes cheaply if you offend china..
China is in a perverse position of power. If they stop shipping to the US the US is in real trouble. Face it you need china's slave labour more than you care to admit. Hell we all do
imho the girl is not posing erotically and her vigina is covered by the "cracks" so the most you can actually see are her breasts. Not what I would call child porn.
Like the OP I was getting loads of hits on port 22. I just setup portknocking and it works a treat.. My other system that I use ssh on (its on the a sub domain of my main site) I just moved to a higher port and that has prevented it from getting the hits..
Normally I don't recommend Security through obscurity but in the case of automated attacks it is worth while. Just don't rely on it alone.
instead of a computer you could let him go outside *oh noess the sun* and play with real live people.
I wonder what is wrong with peole nowadays, round my street the kids aren't allowed out of their own back yard (it's not even a bad area). It's just sad, when i was younger i was forced outside to play with people and limited to 1-2hrs a day at most on my amigia 500, yet nowadays people won't let the kids out to play and expect them to watch tv all day. Is it any wonder there are so many fat bastards running (well ok shuffling) about?
I still don't see how that justifies him having raunchy photographs of himself on his phone in the first place, unless the iPhone was responsible for that too. (In which case, I would like to exempt from the iStalk features.)
Well it is his phone, if he wants to take pics of himself then there is nothing wrong with that...
is as a consumer I WANT as much as possible in the OS I am paying for.
I don't want to have to think buy computer, buy OS, buy video player (after all the Stupid EU voted to have a version of windows shipping without media player:S who would pay for less considering both versions cost the same), buy AV software.
Now offer me all of the above in one price then ok that starts to sound better. AV companies tend to get false positivies and tend to cause system stabality problems. Now if MS offer a AV solution bundled with their OS I know full well it is going to work flawlessly with their OS.
There is no point in really going after MS for anti-competiveness because lets face it their OS is the most used in the world so they are already uncompetive, what's the choice APPLE or LINUX? both are viable alternatives for users that word process or surf the web, but for say gamers there is no choice. It's MS or a console
Personally I don't use AV software why? Because I have had more problems with it than without, and if MS shipped with it built in then I may actually use it providing it doesn't impact the system.
Never said he had the right or he was correct in what he was doing but as far as i am concerned there is a massive difference between exporting the plans for a rocket engine and exporting the plans for a Nuke.
or if someone you sold the software too made it available, as is their right.. Though on that point I do have a question for those here that understand these things..
Say person A has software X, all code of X is under the GPL and person B wants purchase X from A.
Now can A say to B yes I will sell you X, however in order to purchase X you must agree not to distrubite it in any shape or form. So the restriction on distrubution is imposed at the terms of sale level instead of the code level?
IANAL but to me that would be valid because you are not breaking the GPL as you are not imposing anything at code/license level but you are saying that in order to buy the software (and thereby get the code in the first place) then you must agree not to distrubute it.
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"Launch the Nukes", "Sir yes sir", "Sir I have clicked the button, however it is now prompting me 'Are you sure you really want to launch Nuke?'"
*Presses YES*
"But are you really really really sure?"
*Presses YES again*
"Do you want windows to remember this choice in future?"
*Presses NO*
*paperclip appears*
"Would you like help 'Launching Nuke'?"
*Presses No*
*Walks to the main hatch in dispair*
*Opens main hatch while 100' below the surface using manual leaver to avoid that damn paperclip*
[heavySarcasm]awww.. that was nice of them [/heavySarcasm].. Thanks for the update on that front..
It's a govenment IT project it will go over budget, be 20 years late and will fail before it goes live. They will then take the project leader transfer him to another department and give him a new expensive team of consultants who say it the new project is not feasible and the cycle will start all over again.
It's still legal to use pounds and ounces, or gallons, or miles or any other imperial units, but you are equally welcome to use metric units if you wish.
Actaully that's not quite true. Shops must display a) both metric and imperial or b) metric only)
Steve Thoburn, a greengrocer who worked at a local market in Sunderland who gained a criminal conviction in 2001 by breaching the Weights and Measures act by selling bananas by the pound.
lol.. tell me about it..
I measure in Feet and inches, order sweets in pounds and ounces, buy my milk by the pint but fill my car in litres and take the temperature in celcius..
People keep using metric around me and I have to sit there an convert it.. Worst time was in a corner shop I asked for a half of floral gums and a quarter of miget gems, she asked me "half a KILO??" bloody kids.
I can see it now. "DIVE DIVE DIVE", Sorry sir the server has just blue screened we have to reboot."
"Launch the Nukes", "Sir yes sir", "Sir I have clicked the button, however explorer has hung"
Karen seems to be a good teacher, and as she stated to me today, she has learned more about the tech world in a few days than she's learned in five years.
See something positive did come out of it.
That's what I thought at first. Then I read the full letter. I have a hard time believing that someone who actually installed and tried linux in college would believe it was illegal. If the teacher thought it was some sort of install party for pirated versions of windows, well she was right in what she did and was just ignorant of the facts but then she goes on to say that she understand what linux is, to have tried and installed it.
Makes you wonder what else she tried at college illegal or otherwise ;)
Just prosecute the teacher for theft or better yet kill him, done.
Don't ever become a spy or hitman please.. The teacher was a woman.. /sigh
I can imagine a generation coming out of school believing that "free software" is somehow illegal or immoral. Nicely taught to pay the "computer tax" to Microsoft, which is the only solution.
You could be onto something here. I have an idea (a dream if you will) where every computer sold will have attached to it a 1%-3% tax (regardless of OS installed) that will go directly to MS in case windows is ever put on that machine or incase the OS installed infringes on MS' IP.
Some of you here may liken this practice to the RIAA, MPAA but I assure you that this is nothing of the sort. Honestly. No really completely different.
DUH! MS are known the world over for their generosity and handing out of their software for free. China and Russia have loads of Free copies available.
Mind you they might as well give vista away for free and say its a technical demo of windows versions to come.
All I can say is wow... What a completly ignorant twat.
On another note ALL HAIL BILL
yes, you must expect the unexpected grasshopper
Does that mean imaginary numbers are now real too? Because I don't really want to have to learn physics from scratch again!!
Ahh but have you heard of "nullity"?
Secure NASA systems were rooted by a guy who sent 30 gigabytes of data to a location in Taiwan, where it probably was sent to China
Yea yea.. "Secure", please give me a source for that statement. After all there was that British guy looking for aliens managed to hack all those military systems.
And for some reason, the U.S. government often takes a surprisingly passive role when China acts aggressively towards it.
Who do you think would make all of your computer bits, toys and clothes cheaply if you offend china..
China is in a perverse position of power. If they stop shipping to the US the US is in real trouble. Face it you need china's slave labour more than you care to admit. Hell we all do
Instead of wasting lives/bullets/money we could all play defcon & darwina and the winner takes all.
imho the girl is not posing erotically and her vigina is covered by the "cracks" so the most you can actually see are her breasts. Not what I would call child porn.
Like the OP I was getting loads of hits on port 22. I just setup portknocking and it works a treat.. My other system that I use ssh on (its on the a sub domain of my main site) I just moved to a higher port and that has prevented it from getting the hits..
Normally I don't recommend Security through obscurity but in the case of automated attacks it is worth while. Just don't rely on it alone.
instead of a computer you could let him go outside *oh noess the sun* and play with real live people.
I wonder what is wrong with peole nowadays, round my street the kids aren't allowed out of their own back yard (it's not even a bad area). It's just sad, when i was younger i was forced outside to play with people and limited to 1-2hrs a day at most on my amigia 500, yet nowadays people won't let the kids out to play and expect them to watch tv all day. Is it any wonder there are so many fat bastards running (well ok shuffling) about?
I still don't see how that justifies him having raunchy photographs of himself on his phone in the first place, unless the iPhone was responsible for that too. (In which case, I would like to exempt from the iStalk features.)
Well it is his phone, if he wants to take pics of himself then there is nothing wrong with that...
Crazy is the right term because technically "anything" has military applications
is as a consumer I WANT as much as possible in the OS I am paying for.
I don't want to have to think buy computer, buy OS, buy video player (after all the Stupid EU voted to have a version of windows shipping without media player :S who would pay for less considering both versions cost the same), buy AV software.
Now offer me all of the above in one price then ok that starts to sound better. AV companies tend to get false positivies and tend to cause system stabality problems. Now if MS offer a AV solution bundled with their OS I know full well it is going to work flawlessly with their OS.
There is no point in really going after MS for anti-competiveness because lets face it their OS is the most used in the world so they are already uncompetive, what's the choice APPLE or LINUX? both are viable alternatives for users that word process or surf the web, but for say gamers there is no choice. It's MS or a console
Personally I don't use AV software why?
Because I have had more problems with it than without, and if MS shipped with it built in then I may actually use it providing it doesn't impact the system.
Never said he had the right or he was correct in what he was doing but as far as i am concerned there is a massive difference between exporting the plans for a rocket engine and exporting the plans for a Nuke.
He just leaked plans for fueling and for a space shuttle at that..
or if someone you sold the software too made it available, as is their right.. Though on that point I do have a question for those here that understand these things..
Say person A has software X, all code of X is under the GPL and person B wants purchase X from A.
Now can A say to B yes I will sell you X, however in order to purchase X you must agree not to distrubite it in any shape or form. So the restriction on distrubution is imposed at the terms of sale level instead of the code level?
IANAL but to me that would be valid because you are not breaking the GPL as you are not imposing anything at code/license level but you are saying that in order to buy the software (and thereby get the code in the first place) then you must agree not to distrubute it.