But let's face it, though... If I or any number of other people were to suddenly find ourselves filthy smegging rich, I mean just mindnumbingly wealthy, which is better... A big 'ol barrel full or tub full of $50 and $100 bills, or a credit card? Personally, I'd take the cash to roll around in. Hell, it's a lot easier to get people's attention with a cash than it is a credit card.
Like grease. Let's say for the sake of conversation that you want to take your significant other out to dinner, and the place you go to is snooty, and you're told 2 hours for a table. What do you do, hold your credit card under the hosts nose and say "Charge yourself fifty bucks, Guido"? No. You break out a small ball of dead presidents, peel off a few, and get your table.
Here is how the conversation is going to go with the BOFT (not to be confused with the BOFH) authorities and M$:
BOFT: We have questions about your...
M$: Hey, lookie here... a couple hundred million dollars... why don't you go out and buy yourself something nice. Like an island.
BOFT: I'm sorry, but we really can't...
M$: Now, how big is the British empire now? A few nations around here and a bungalo somewhere in the Bahamas? The whole "sun never sets" etc is really taken a hit. Tsk tsk. Money like this could buy an awful lot... I hear the going rate of Yemen is mighty resonable these days.
BOFT: Well, in fact we have had our eye on this nice little island out in the pacific now that you mention it.
M$: So, what about that investigation?
BOFT: Investigation? Oh pishaw... Those are just your average normal old price increases. Inflation, don'tcha' know.
Now, that isn't intended to be a slander against England or the people who staff the BOFT. I'm willing to bet there are quite a few nice vacations being planned for members of the FTC, not to mention a few politicians who suddenly have a bit more dosh in the old campaign coffers. But lets all face it, we are talking about one of the most powerful companies in the history of, well, history. Call me a cynic, but I think that other nations saw how much the US government made on dropping the case against M$, and they decided they wanted a piece of THAT pie.
Yeah, but no one would mind if you flattened France.
$20 for the upgrade? Sheesh... Now if only another certain company could follow suit (oooh... sorry Bill... Probaly a bad choice of words) and only charge $20 for a bleedin' upgrade!
An entire conversation started which had nothing to do with what I had posted.
Therefore, "an URL" is to be pronounced "an earl" (as though URL were a pronounced acronym), and "a URL" is to be pronounced "a you-are-ell."
Considering I write the way I think and speak(slowly and with the use of the word "duhhhhhhhhhh..." frequently) I thought "an URL" was appropriate. I was writing as though in a conversation with others who would use similar pronunciation (named = "name-d",/etc = "et-sea" and so on).
I must get warnings for "Wobbler" and "All Seeing Eye" sent to me by my [L]users all the time, but you know what? It's a fair cop.
I set up filters, I block the sending and receiving of all.vbs files, I warn. And most of all, I know that many here will cringe when they read this, I actively encourage my [L]users to forward me all the warnings they get sent to them.
Know why? After the 4th one I send back to them with an URL and a "Thanks, but that one was a hoax", they start to catch on (well... many of them do). Some also start to forward any and all messages with attached files to me if they weren't expecting them. Again, many here may cringe, my email box is huge and I spend hours each day weeding through false alarms sometimes. But IMHO it's worth it.
Do you know how many actual FULL outbreaks this company has seen in the last year? One. Back in November of last year. It was Navidad and it was sent to a Hispanic employee (the CFO actually... hehehehe) from a relative, and since it was near Xmas, well, I forgave him. AFTER I made HIM clean out his own machine and then lambasted him in front of the entire company. But when people first saw the SIRCAM virus come in, even users who had not read my warnings yet spotted it instantly and sent it to me. This was before I'd set our mail server to send all messages with "I hope you like the file that I sendo you" in the body to/dev/null.
All things considered, though, seeing as this office is almost entirely Windows, I think my methods work. Yes, it's time consuming. Yes, it can be annoying. BUT, I rarely have to restore from backup, and we haven't had any major outbreaks.
Assuming it survives re-entry, the rocket will release a huge wing-shaped parachute at about 7,600 metres, and Mr. Feeney will steer it to a soft landing near Moose Jaw, Sask.
Assuming it doesn't, Mr. Feeny will quickly have a small sewage plant in his trousers and make quite an impression on the landscape of Moose Jaw...
PDAs... You kids these days have it EASY! Why, in my day we had to scratch our notes onto pieces of SLATE and carry that around! None of this mamby-pamby "put it in your pocket" stuff. If you wanted to carry 20 names you had to lug 400lbs of stone. But did we complain? NO!
... but how about Natalie Wood's voice saying "I'll have a few drinks at the party... but I won't go overboard"
/me ducks as karma goes whizzing away.../
Ye gods... can you imagine?
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Anyone ever see the old "Joy of Sex" book from the '70s? *shudder* The hairy heroin addict-looking-hippies they had in the illustrations... Could you imagine if that same book were done all with geeks? The pale skin... the "gallons of Coke and take out food" physique. And I'd hate to think of what they'd choose to do with a Leatherman and some cat5....
... but really, what would have been helpful to many IT readers would have been the link to the Microsoft bulletin and patch download in the/. article.
Slashdot Mirror
Electronic is far easier!
But let's face it, though... If I or any number of other people were to suddenly find ourselves filthy smegging rich, I mean just mindnumbingly wealthy, which is better... A big 'ol barrel full or tub full of $50 and $100 bills, or a credit card? Personally, I'd take the cash to roll around in. Hell, it's a lot easier to get people's attention with a cash than it is a credit card.
Like grease. Let's say for the sake of conversation that you want to take your significant other out to dinner, and the place you go to is snooty, and you're told 2 hours for a table. What do you do, hold your credit card under the hosts nose and say "Charge yourself fifty bucks, Guido"? No. You break out a small ball of dead presidents, peel off a few, and get your table.
Here is how the conversation is going to go with the BOFT (not to be confused with the BOFH) authorities and M$:
BOFT: We have questions about your...
M$: Hey, lookie here... a couple hundred million dollars... why don't you go out and buy yourself something nice. Like an island.
BOFT: I'm sorry, but we really can't...
M$: Now, how big is the British empire now? A few nations around here and a bungalo somewhere in the Bahamas? The whole "sun never sets" etc is really taken a hit. Tsk tsk. Money like this could buy an awful lot... I hear the going rate of Yemen is mighty resonable these days.
BOFT: Well, in fact we have had our eye on this nice little island out in the pacific now that you mention it.
M$: So, what about that investigation?
BOFT: Investigation? Oh pishaw... Those are just your average normal old price increases. Inflation, don'tcha' know.
Now, that isn't intended to be a slander against England or the people who staff the BOFT. I'm willing to bet there are quite a few nice vacations being planned for members of the FTC, not to mention a few politicians who suddenly have a bit more dosh in the old campaign coffers. But lets all face it, we are talking about one of the most powerful companies in the history of, well, history. Call me a cynic, but I think that other nations saw how much the US government made on dropping the case against M$, and they decided they wanted a piece of THAT pie.
... we bring Peter Paul Mauser to trial now for the handgun! And lets go after the Chinese for coming up with gun powder.
WBUR radio.
http://www.wbur.org
{said with tongue firmly placed in cheek}
Yeah, but no one would mind if you flattened France.
$20 for the upgrade? Sheesh... Now if only another certain company could follow suit (oooh... sorry Bill... Probaly a bad choice of words) and only charge $20 for a bleedin' upgrade!
...well, if his screen turned blue and he couldn't work, he may not notice. He could be using Win98.
"Rudolph... You're FIRED!"
An entire conversation started which had nothing to do with what I had posted.
/etc = "et-sea" and so on).
Therefore, "an URL" is to be pronounced "an earl" (as though URL were a pronounced acronym), and "a URL" is to be pronounced "a you-are-ell."
Considering I write the way I think and speak(slowly and with the use of the word "duhhhhhhhhhh..." frequently) I thought "an URL" was appropriate. I was writing as though in a conversation with others who would use similar pronunciation (named = "name-d",
All of which fall into "moving targets" at one point or another....
I must get warnings for "Wobbler" and "All Seeing Eye" sent to me by my [L]users all the time, but you know what? It's a fair cop.
.vbs files, I warn. And most of all, I know that many here will cringe when they read this, I actively encourage my [L]users to forward me all the warnings they get sent to them.
/dev/null.
I set up filters, I block the sending and receiving of all
Know why? After the 4th one I send back to them with an URL and a "Thanks, but that one was a hoax", they start to catch on (well... many of them do). Some also start to forward any and all messages with attached files to me if they weren't expecting them. Again, many here may cringe, my email box is huge and I spend hours each day weeding through false alarms sometimes. But IMHO it's worth it.
Do you know how many actual FULL outbreaks this company has seen in the last year? One. Back in November of last year. It was Navidad and it was sent to a Hispanic employee (the CFO actually... hehehehe) from a relative, and since it was near Xmas, well, I forgave him. AFTER I made HIM clean out his own machine and then lambasted him in front of the entire company. But when people first saw the SIRCAM virus come in, even users who had not read my warnings yet spotted it instantly and sent it to me. This was before I'd set our mail server to send all messages with "I hope you like the file that I sendo you" in the body to
All things considered, though, seeing as this office is almost entirely Windows, I think my methods work. Yes, it's time consuming. Yes, it can be annoying. BUT, I rarely have to restore from backup, and we haven't had any major outbreaks.
Assuming it survives re-entry, the rocket will release a huge wing-shaped parachute at about 7,600 metres, and Mr. Feeney will steer it to a soft landing near Moose Jaw, Sask.
Assuming it doesn't, Mr. Feeny will quickly have a small sewage plant in his trousers and make quite an impression on the landscape of Moose Jaw...
Macho Grande....
1.0 was frightful. And the Bill Gates demos, etc, all had to suck.
But I think that this guy definitely should be chalked up as "Demonstrating product, Shit goes wrong, Worst case scenario".
PDAs... You kids these days have it EASY! Why, in my day we had to scratch our notes onto pieces of SLATE and carry that around! None of this mamby-pamby "put it in your pocket" stuff. If you wanted to carry 20 names you had to lug 400lbs of stone. But did we complain? NO!
... but how about Natalie Wood's voice saying "I'll have a few drinks at the party... but I won't go overboard"
/me ducks as karma goes whizzing away.../
Anyone ever see the old "Joy of Sex" book from the '70s? *shudder* The hairy heroin addict-looking-hippies they had in the illustrations... Could you imagine if that same book were done all with geeks? The pale skin... the "gallons of Coke and take out food" physique. And I'd hate to think of what they'd choose to do with a Leatherman and some cat5....
Web Surfer: What happen?
ISP: Someone set up us the Code Red worm.
Tech Support: We get signal.
Web Surfer: What!
Tech Support: Main screen turn on.
Web Surfer: It's you!
Code Red: How are you gentlmen!! All your IIS server are hacked by Chinese. You are on the way to destruction.
Web Surfer: What you say!!
Code Red: You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha ha ha ha....
"Wearily on I go, pain and misery my only companions. And vast intelligence, of course. And infinite sorrow. I despise you all."
Ahhh... now I see... Marvin was just an AOL user.
See? Now I'm buff from using my mouse... And my bicepts are ripped from lifting my bawls. Later on, I'm going to play some Q3 and work on my quads.
... I still await the re-release of the MC Hammer cartoon.
... I don't think they know what "final" means if we are on number 10.
... but really, what would have been helpful to many IT readers would have been the link to the Microsoft bulletin and patch download in the /. article.
My [deity name here]! Someone who got a Mojo reference...
"Even if it is (forgive me) Kenny G..."
Yes, but if it is it isn't like anyone would notice. Kenny G is, of course, the Anti Elvis...
..."Raymond Luxury Yacht"...