Actually, a regular Coke, at 120 calories per 1oz serving, is more calories than the entire Big Mac Combo. An 8oz cup is 960 calories, and the more typical 16oz is 1920 calories. Do you even wanna do the math on a 32oz big size drink?
On the other hand a Diet Coke is 0 calories even for 32oz.
I say let the jocks use their steroids and gene therapy. When their nuts shrivel up and their genes go bad on them, the nerds they used to talk shit about, can stand back and laugh.
Hackers can find remote root exploits by "smashing the stack" (causing buffer overflows) in various root-priviledged server apps running in Linux. You have to scan for open TCP/UDP ports, and hope that the daemon you do find, is not LYING to you (say, sendmail-ultrapatched-10052003 server calling itself "sendmail-unpatched-2002"). If, then, you determine what daemon it is, and what version it is, and if it is unpatched, you can transmit a code to make it cough up a root-level exploit. *Then* the fun ensues.
In Windows? You just send an evil email attachment, or lure your victim to an evil webpage with an ActiveX exploit. Badabing!
How do I know? Because the Darwinists said so, and they control the educational system. So STFU before I accuse you of giving aid and comfort to the Creationist enemy and throw you in Guantanamo!
First Al Qaeda, then the Creationists. For an Enlightened America!
Kicking unrepentant companies in the wallet is one thing, but further humiliating them by publicly putting them lower on the totem pole than companies who repent from Restricted CD's, is even more effective.
You've actually done us a public service by pointing out these reformed souls.
Computer crimes involving spamming are not going to be on the top of law enforcement's priority list. Online pedophiles are far higher on the list, and they already present a vastly overwhelming caseload. Don't expect those $1000 fines to start flooding in.
But the ability to sue in civil court - especially small claims court - will be the proverbial smallpox outbreak for spammers. They'll have to fight thousands of individual cases in countless courts against persistent victims whose tactics against spammers would be considered stalking in any other situation, and not showing up in court means a default judgement in the plaintiff's favor.
True. With all the loopholes that even the common user keeps finding (see: the older Apex DVD players, and region-free DVD-ROM hacks and region-free DVD players from overseas), those baby steps aren't such a major concern. I dunno how hard it is to bypass the restrictions in iTunes, though.
It'll be a heck of a lot more interesting if all the loopholes are closed, and there are no backdoored DVD players or hacks for DVD-ROMs. We'll only really know the extent- or lack - of consumer wrath - if Fair Use is completely nipped in the bud.
I'm against buying anything from the RIAA and against p2p trading of music. The RIAA would see such a thing and blame the financial downfall of their member recording companies on p2p. But if people also stop p2p filetrading, they would be forced to realize that they are being targeted by a highly participative and angry democracy.
The team apparently includes Palestinians, Hindus, Russians, Christians and Jewish people. It's running on some kind of server physically located right near the Israel/Palestinian warzone.:(
"Our group is made up of many people, Jordanians, Palestinians, Indians, Americans, Russians and Israelis. Some of us are Jewish, some Christians, some Hindus and other of us are Muslim.
Believe it or not, we all love and respect each other. We all work and play together. Our families on many occasions eat at the same dinner table. We trust each other and are very close friends with each other. As a group, the most important thing in our life is our children, our families and love ones and of course our friends."
It's a great app for thwarting the RIAA, I'd be using it if I wasn't on a total boycott of the RIAA.
Stop giving the RIAA an excuse to whine to Congress for more mandatory DRM and laws against filesharing, jeez.
Boycott the RIAA and buy only 2nd hand CDs or independent artists. Look for free music. Don't go filesharing. Starve the RIAA until they drop dead in bankruptcy court.
(What am I saying? They'll just get a multibillion dollar bailout on the taxpayer dime!)
All this protection and hoohah over an IM client. I could come close to understanding it over a secure, enterprise-level videoconferencing version of it, but dang. We're just a bunch of internet users chatting.. get a life, guys.
Alternative fuels are necessary for national security, in my opinion.
1) The US defeated Japan and Germany chiefly by starving them of oil. The Japanese and Germans had jet fighter planes sitting on the tarmac, ready to pulverize the best we had in the air, but they had no oil to fly them. One day the same thing could happen to America.
2) The environmental impact of fossil fuels, of course, is horrible.
3) With alternative fuels, we wouldn't need to be in the Middle East at all.
Alternative, renewable fuel resources will take us a long way towards national and personal independence.
Inheritance is the exception that breaks the rule that you have to earn wealth.
There are one or two people in the world who are sitting on billions of dollars that will never circulate back into society. The royal family of England sits on tens of billions of dollars and never ever uses it to purchase anything at all.
A capitalist economy needs wealth in circulation in order to work properly.
I would reverse the -1 mod on this dude, big time.
This is certainly an idea I've never heard of before. Why mod it down and try and push it outside the realm of discussion?
(For those not reading posts with a score of zero, he said "Make it a capital offense to be one of the 500 wealthiest people.
Also, break up the 500 largest companies.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
Eventually being at the top will become a cat-and-mouse game, and with the head cut off the drive towards centralization of wealth and power will be effectively stopped."
I propose not to make it a capital offense, but rather, when a company gets to be that big, simply break it up.
He doesn't write like a bullshit artist, and although I REALLY have a problem with his WinSHIT defense, he's got some good points. Linux is a patchwork system, although it's quite good at it when stuff actually interacts. Linux has quite a bit of room to improve.
System Shock 1/2 Morrowind Deus EX Freespace 1/2 to name a few
One of the biggest most effective things they have done with complex games, is include in-game training manual missions. Those training missions are fragging invaluable.
Morrowind would have been an even better game with more trainer mission build-up (especially for alchemy).
An especially complex game does well by having training missions that come in stages, as the game gets progressively harder and you need to access the more complex features. See: Freespace 2.
I cannot overemphasize this enough: proper training missions can make any complex game very enjoyable.
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150mb and it still looks better, runs faster, all with fewer bugs and crashes, than Windows.
My old Slackware box runs KDE 3.1.x with the cool transparencies that you can only get in Windows by upgrading to XP.
With all the mountains of advantage in having GNU Linux+Kde, the size of KDE is a laughably insignificant issue to me.
Isn't there an old Soviet quote similar to "there's a line in the book for everyone"?
Actually, a regular Coke, at 120 calories per 1oz serving, is more calories than the entire Big Mac Combo. An 8oz cup is 960 calories, and the more typical 16oz is 1920 calories. Do you even wanna do the math on a 32oz big size drink?
On the other hand a Diet Coke is 0 calories even for 32oz.
They wouldn't dare try. :)
I don't think they'd want the Tommyknockers or the Langoliers at their doorstep
Because it is a tower and not a skyscraper?
I want to know which House Resolution # corresponds to the Genetic Privacy bill circulating in Congress :)
I say let the jocks use their steroids and gene therapy. When their nuts shrivel up and their genes go bad on them, the nerds they used to talk shit about, can stand back and laugh.
Hackers can find remote root exploits by "smashing the stack" (causing buffer overflows) in various root-priviledged server apps running in Linux. You have to scan for open TCP/UDP ports, and hope that the daemon you do find, is not LYING to you (say, sendmail-ultrapatched-10052003 server calling itself "sendmail-unpatched-2002"). If, then, you determine what daemon it is, and what version it is, and if it is unpatched, you can transmit a code to make it cough up a root-level exploit. *Then* the fun ensues.
In Windows? You just send an evil email attachment, or lure your victim to an evil webpage with an ActiveX exploit. Badabing!
The theory of evolution is absolutely scientific.
How do I know? Because the Darwinists said so, and they control the educational system. So STFU before I accuse you of giving aid and comfort to the Creationist enemy and throw you in Guantanamo!
First Al Qaeda, then the Creationists. For an Enlightened America!
Sticking to one's principles through thick and thin is extremist, eh?
Where I come from that was once called "integrity".
Kicking unrepentant companies in the wallet is one thing, but further humiliating them by publicly putting them lower on the totem pole than companies who repent from Restricted CD's, is even more effective.
You've actually done us a public service by pointing out these reformed souls.
Computer crimes involving spamming are not going to be on the top of law enforcement's priority list. Online pedophiles are far higher on the list, and they already present a vastly overwhelming caseload. Don't expect those $1000 fines to start flooding in.
But the ability to sue in civil court - especially small claims court - will be the proverbial smallpox outbreak for spammers. They'll have to fight thousands of individual cases in countless courts against persistent victims whose tactics against spammers would be considered stalking in any other situation, and not showing up in court means a default judgement in the plaintiff's favor.
Ouch.
True. With all the loopholes that even the common user keeps finding (see: the older Apex DVD players, and region-free DVD-ROM hacks and region-free DVD players from overseas), those baby steps aren't such a major concern. I dunno how hard it is to bypass the restrictions in iTunes, though.
It'll be a heck of a lot more interesting if all the loopholes are closed, and there are no backdoored DVD players or hacks for DVD-ROMs. We'll only really know the extent- or lack - of consumer wrath - if Fair Use is completely nipped in the bud.
Remember Divx? (Not the codec, the DVD format that eventually got dropped by Circuit City)
Crippled CDs are being complained about en masse, and are now the focus of potential Congressional action.
DRM is very much at the upper right end of the envelope. You know, where the pioneers - and the cancel stamp - go.
Outsourcing Congress is a GREAT IDEA! :)
I'm against buying anything from the RIAA and against p2p trading of music. The RIAA would see such a thing and blame the financial downfall of their member recording companies on p2p. But if people also stop p2p filetrading, they would be forced to realize that they are being targeted by a highly participative and angry democracy.
It's a great app for thwarting the RIAA, I'd be using it if I wasn't on a total boycott of the RIAA.
Stop giving the RIAA an excuse to whine to Congress for more mandatory DRM and laws against filesharing, jeez.
Boycott the RIAA and buy only 2nd hand CDs or independent artists. Look for free music. Don't go filesharing. Starve the RIAA until they drop dead in bankruptcy court.
(What am I saying? They'll just get a multibillion dollar bailout on the taxpayer dime!)
All this protection and hoohah over an IM client. I could come close to understanding it over a secure, enterprise-level videoconferencing version of it, but dang. We're just a bunch of internet users chatting.. get a life, guys.
If you like getting 55 MPG, that is. :)
Alternative fuels are necessary for national security, in my opinion.
1) The US defeated Japan and Germany chiefly by starving them of oil. The Japanese and Germans had jet fighter planes sitting on the tarmac, ready to pulverize the best we had in the air, but they had no oil to fly them. One day the same thing could happen to America.
2) The environmental impact of fossil fuels, of course, is horrible.
3) With alternative fuels, we wouldn't need to be in the Middle East at all.
Alternative, renewable fuel resources will take us a long way towards national and personal independence.
Inheritance is the exception that breaks the rule that you have to earn wealth.
There are one or two people in the world who are sitting on billions of dollars that will never circulate back into society. The royal family of England sits on tens of billions of dollars and never ever uses it to purchase anything at all.
A capitalist economy needs wealth in circulation in order to work properly.
I would reverse the -1 mod on this dude, big time.
This is certainly an idea I've never heard of before. Why mod it down and try and push it outside the realm of discussion?
(For those not reading posts with a score of zero, he said "Make it a capital offense to be one of the 500 wealthiest people.
Also, break up the 500 largest companies.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
Eventually being at the top will become a cat-and-mouse game, and with the head cut off the drive towards centralization of wealth and power will be effectively stopped."
I propose not to make it a capital offense, but rather, when a company gets to be that big, simply break it up.
Zeinfeld's post is not a fragging troll.
He doesn't write like a bullshit artist, and although I REALLY have a problem with his WinSHIT defense, he's got some good points. Linux is a patchwork system, although it's quite good at it when stuff actually interacts. Linux has quite a bit of room to improve.
System Shock 1/2
Morrowind
Deus EX
Freespace 1/2
to name a few
One of the biggest most effective things they have done with complex games, is include in-game training manual missions. Those training missions are fragging invaluable.
Morrowind would have been an even better game with more trainer mission build-up (especially for alchemy).
An especially complex game does well by having training missions that come in stages, as the game gets progressively harder and you need to access the more complex features. See: Freespace 2.
I cannot overemphasize this enough: proper training missions can make any complex game very enjoyable.
That is the only freaking thing I will be coming to see.