Real simple: You figure you're a bad-ass, but these guys are CRIMINALS. You don't want to play by their rules. You wouldn't be nearly as good at it as you think.
While you're deciding how hard to swing the bat so as to avoid a murder charge, they're dousing you with gasoline and setting you on fire.
My sig has never been more apt than it is on this post.
And like mailinator, as of today you won't be using it to sign up on the boards I admin.
I just went through our database looking for the various mailinator domains, and found 72 signups going back to 2004. Without exception, every one of them fit into three categories: never completed the signup; never bothered to make a single post; made one post and then expired due to lack of activity.
Why waste our resources on someone when their choice of email makes it obvious that they have no intention of becoming a participating member?
The article author hasn't read Spider's other books? Hasn't heard Spider sing "A Boy Named Spider" (his own Weird Al retelling of Shel Silverstein's "A Boy Named Sue")?
Wow, you got some good reading ahead of you, fella.
Spider has something else in common with RAH -- and I'm glad I got to tell him so, on a CompuServe chat one day:
The explanation given is that they've frozen the API, and you are safe to develop against it. To the extent that is true, the "RC" designation would seem to be justified.
(In other news, I have this bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, for sale cheap. Paypal accepted!)
"pawn shops aren't in business to sell crappy stuff, they are in business to make interest on loans, and they defer the losses due to unpaid loans by selling the items taken as collateral.
One interesting exception: In at least some (US) states, it's not legal to use a firearm as collateral for a loan; it has to be sold to the pawnshop, not merely "hocked."
Oh gawd no. Corel borged my favorite company, JASC, and as a result Paint Shop Pro* has gone off my list of must-have programs. They've ruined it.
*The only graphics program I've ever seen with an even smarter UI than PSP was an icon editor named Microangelo. It was a little jewel of a program -- for example, with most other programs when you use the color picker you have to go back and pick your paintbrush (or line tool, or floodfill) again. Microangelo would remember which tool you were using. A tiny detail, but it's amazing what a difference such simple UI features can make. Corel is utterly clueless about that.
I was going to post "Monster, why are you sending me jobs in 'USED-CAR SALES' when I put in 'LINUX SYSADMIN'? You're supposed to send those to people who want to be a 'WINDOWS ADMIN'!"
If we hired smart security people, overall we'd be more secure.
The game theory on that is not so simple. Smart is a loaded word, for starters. It's more about personality than intelligence. Someone who is sharp, or excitable, or energetic is often viewed as "smart." The thing is, "quick-witted" people tend to use their imaginations and project into situations rather than climbing those stairs and twisting that doorknob on EVERY round of the building. Less-imaginative people may, in some circumstances, be less vulnerable to a smooth line of BS.
Someone who is dull and stolid but believes in doing their rounds faithfully is more generally useful in real-world security than a "007" type who gets bored and/or distracted easily.
An ordinary smart person will figure out how to "crib" during the boring times... which means no security at all. We need the kind of smart person who can suck it up and stay alert even though he knows he can get away with sleeping on the job 9,999 times out of ten thousand, just because number 10,000 could involve anything.
Ever play the original Dynamix "Red Baron"? The missions against dirigibles were a bear to complete -- come zooming in from almost any angle and there's another frelling gun turret in your face.
Bought mine after my Clie went back to Sony for the second time, and I noticed the battery wasn't quite getting me through my two-hour commute anymore. (NR70Z, 1st gen twist-and-flip).
Never got around to making a holster for the Zodiac, but it fits well enough in my old Pilot III / Handera one. Finally looked up the cheats for Doom II recently... Nice to have a half-gig of standard SD plus a pretty good game, I like the color screen... bit odd that the included Acid Solitaire tells me I do not have the ultimate, though, because it won't do transparency. That was a letdown.
So when my battery finally goes, what do I get next? Sony is out of the lineup, Pocket PC -- don't even think about that. What's left?
Saw ep 1, and was prepared to go all "Who the blazes is this Aussie git?!" until the scene where he takes Rose's hand (no, not THAT one) and goes into the speech about how he can feel the earth move.
They done good. It's the Doctor, back again after all these years.
All it has to do is hold in the gross pressure that the body will be exerting on it, skin can do the work of holding pressure on the sub-millimeter scale.
Yep. John W. Campbell described this suit in an editorial in Analog -- in 1969.
Even if you say "But wait! Apple would only release OOo on the Mac..." remember that someone will port it to Windows
Are you under the delusion that Open Office doesn't run on Windows?
If it's OS X you were thinking needs work, NeoOfficeJ will give you OoO on OS X without the need to install Apple X11. Not 100% integration yet but it's coming along.
"Hey, Bill, it's Steve. Steve Jobs. How you doing? How's Melinda?... Yeah, I was just thinking... why don't you two take some time off, maybe have a couple of kids? I'd be happy to take care of things for the next decade or so. Sure, no problem."
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Real simple: You figure you're a bad-ass, but these guys are CRIMINALS. You don't want to play by their rules. You wouldn't be nearly as good at it as you think.
While you're deciding how hard to swing the bat so as to avoid a murder charge, they're dousing you with gasoline and setting you on fire.
My sig has never been more apt than it is on this post.
"Timmy? TIMMY!"
"Yeah, Pops?"
"I need you to install this myspace parental monitor on the PC."
"Oh? Yeah, sure thing Pops."
I signed up for a new board today (vBulletin based) and had to refresh the Captcha four times before I got one I could read.
Using "!=" to mean 'not equal' is probably a bad idea, in a field where "x!" means "x factorial."
>>someone remind me to carve Kallistei into the side.
*splorf!* Okay, Eris.
And like mailinator, as of today you won't be using it to sign up on the boards I admin.
I just went through our database looking for the various mailinator domains, and found 72 signups going back to 2004. Without exception, every one of them fit into three categories: never completed the signup; never bothered to make a single post; made one post and then expired due to lack of activity.
Why waste our resources on someone when their choice of email makes it obvious that they have no intention of becoming a participating member?
Wow, you got some good reading ahead of you, fella.
Spider has something else in common with RAH -- and I'm glad I got to tell him so, on a CompuServe chat one day:
Why Spider Robinson Has My Eternal Gratitude http://brasscannon.com/rah.html
And another: "Admiral Heinlein doesn't let the Russians build spaceships."
The explanation given is that they've frozen the API, and you are safe to develop against it. To the extent that is true, the "RC" designation would seem to be justified.
(In other news, I have this bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, for sale cheap. Paypal accepted!)
June 2007. (I see an AC replied but he has a score of zero, so I don't feel completely redundant posting this at 2.)
Had this puppy for a week already and may actually get around to installing it, this time....
*The only graphics program I've ever seen with an even smarter UI than PSP was an icon editor named Microangelo. It was a little jewel of a program -- for example, with most other programs when you use the color picker you have to go back and pick your paintbrush (or line tool, or floodfill) again. Microangelo would remember which tool you were using. A tiny detail, but it's amazing what a difference such simple UI features can make. Corel is utterly clueless about that.
This is too wordy, and it makes a typical Windows user's head hurt, but it's the right idea:
http://www.secureyourcomputer.org/
No, it's not pushing any commercial addons. It needs to be made simpler and shinier, but most of all the word needs to get out.
I'll be jiggered! It's actually pretty!
The game theory on that is not so simple. Smart is a loaded word, for starters. It's more about personality than intelligence. Someone who is sharp, or excitable, or energetic is often viewed as "smart." The thing is, "quick-witted" people tend to use their imaginations and project into situations rather than climbing those stairs and twisting that doorknob on EVERY round of the building. Less-imaginative people may, in some circumstances, be less vulnerable to a smooth line of BS.
Someone who is dull and stolid but believes in doing their rounds faithfully is more generally useful in real-world security than a "007" type who gets bored and/or distracted easily.
An ordinary smart person will figure out how to "crib" during the boring times... which means no security at all. We need the kind of smart person who can suck it up and stay alert even though he knows he can get away with sleeping on the job 9,999 times out of ten thousand, just because number 10,000 could involve anything.
Oataox or whatever the hell? The guy who came up with that needs to be kicked out of the Astronomy club.
Ever play the original Dynamix "Red Baron"? The missions against dirigibles were a bear to complete -- come zooming in from almost any angle and there's another frelling gun turret in your face.
How recent? How about Mandriva 10.1?
URPMI got a little confused about the state of my Ethereal install recently, and All Hell Broke Loose(TM).
I was a paying subscriber. When they asked me why I wasn't renewing, I told them "I've discovered apt. It's time for RPM-based distros to die."
Your retort is clear, elegant, and utterly wrong.
Bought mine after my Clie went back to Sony for the second time, and I noticed the battery wasn't quite getting me through my two-hour commute anymore. (NR70Z, 1st gen twist-and-flip).
Never got around to making a holster for the Zodiac, but it fits well enough in my old Pilot III / Handera one. Finally looked up the cheats for Doom II recently... Nice to have a half-gig of standard SD plus a pretty good game, I like the color screen... bit odd that the included Acid Solitaire tells me I do not have the ultimate, though, because it won't do transparency. That was a letdown.
So when my battery finally goes, what do I get next? Sony is out of the lineup, Pocket PC -- don't even think about that. What's left?
Saw ep 1, and was prepared to go all "Who the blazes is this Aussie git?!" until the scene where he takes Rose's hand (no, not THAT one) and goes into the speech about how he can feel the earth move.
They done good. It's the Doctor, back again after all these years.
Nope. It's an important part of a balanced spam-free diet.
That's the problem, isn't it? Turn off the blacklist, watch your load average climb and your server melt down.
Doesn't mean you can't be choosy about which blacklists you use, but you'd better include a good one. Or a few of them.
Yep. John W. Campbell described this suit in an editorial in Analog -- in 1969.
Are you under the delusion that Open Office doesn't run on Windows?
If it's OS X you were thinking needs work, NeoOfficeJ will give you OoO on OS X without the need to install Apple X11. Not 100% integration yet but it's coming along.
"Hey, Bill, it's Steve. Steve Jobs. How you doing? How's Melinda?... Yeah, I was just thinking... why don't you two take some time off, maybe have a couple of kids? I'd be happy to take care of things for the next decade or so. Sure, no problem."