Maybe now, when I search for "Ludivine Sagnier nude" I'll stop getting 8,000 results for generic naked celebrities page subscription. And maybe, a good link or two about various universities in need of nekkid pictures of Ms. Sagnier (RTFA):-)
IAF launches attacks on software company headquarters
Today the Israeli Air Force launched a series of massive helicopter and F-16 air to ground missile strikes on Microsoft Corporation's Israel office.
Operation "tamut ya holera Microsoft!" (die, Microsoft scum) caused massive property damage and loss of live to the software giant's local sales & marketing division.
Major Schlomo Eisenberg described the action as "regrettable, but necessary", as singed bits of blue cardboard box floated to the ground around him.
An inside source at the Israeli ministry of defence was quoted as saying, "I guess that damn paperclip just sent the general over the edge."
On the scale of a sea urchin, that's pretty damn close. Think Lobsters--the things could essentially keep growing to massive sizes, but they get eaten, stepped on, poisoned, diseased, shoved into massively deep ocean trenches and crushed into little tiny balls of lobster meat, whatnot.
Rather, take the number with a grain of salt, and re-read the article while assuming laboratory conditions. There's a pretty big gray area between pure environmental factors which cause death (falling victim to the food chain, for example) and an organism's own slow decline because stuff just stops working after a while.
I don't remember who said it, but the gist was that animals are supremely inefficient beings, because if they'd been designed properly, they'd just live forever through cell regeneration.
I think they probably could, assuming that the chain of license ownership transfers which occurred in the US (Bell Labs-AT&T-USG-USL-whoever-whoever else-SCO) was done in parallel to the US. If so, they could certainly issue invoices, although the enforcement is where it gets interesting. Once again, I can invoice anyone I want (unless my country has frivolous billing & harassment laws).
However, don't forget that European courts do not allow as much license in the use of legal action as a compliance threat as in the US. Generally, I believe that EU (I live in Switzerland, so no guarantees) trade law puts fairly sizeable obstacles in the way of launching a lawsuit simply to try and get someone to settle out of court due to the threat of heavy legal expenses to be incurred. Napoleonic law (and I believe, to some degree, English common law) provides for the assignment of trial costs to the loser of a case, which in SCO's case, would quite possibly be thrown out of court.
So yes, assuming the IP situation is similar, they can invoice, but it'll be very difficult to collect, and they can't rely on court action as a no-cost threat against those who don't pay up.
Approx. 950,000 troopers in cool white plastic uniforms
One (1) small moon at the outer edges of the known galaxy at which to construct the thing. Here are some technical specs, and a handy diagram.
Basically, you do the following:
(1) Use all the steel to build this gigantic metal ball, with a dimple on one side. You use a huge rubber band (available at your friendly neighborhood hardware store) to hold the laser pointers together, and put them in the dimple (make sure the batteries are always charged.) Get all your 1.5-odd million crew guys and troops on board, and fire the bitch up.
(2)...
(3)profit!
Warning: Warranty void in case of attack by swarms of rebel fighters and small foam balls.
He will, once he finds out that Rumsfeld blew next year's army procurement budget on "legal forms" for the transfer of Sani Abacha's secret diamond cache from his illegitimate son, Bob Abacha (tracy_b_anderson329@hotmail.com).
Seriously though, I second and third and fourth the oft-repeated idea that the only way to go after these pricks is to follow the money. Sca^H^Hpammers are small-time pseudo-crooks; they're not doing anything illegal, but if you ban what they're doing now, you'd find them working as disreputable used-car salesmen or the likes thereof.
Spam has a goal; that goal is getting money out of the recipient's pockets. There is always someone at the receiving end; whether it's cheapherbalviagraknockoffsonline.com, abdulhamidandhis419otherbrothers.nigerianemail.com , or instantpenisenlargementjustclickhere.com. They're either "real" shops or scams, operating behind fake addresses and trojaned web servers.
Going after them is no different from, in the frist case, pursuing "businesses" who violate various retail-related laws (truth in advertising, etc.) and in the second, common fraud. Everything is trackable; a spammer can hide behind forged mail headers and fake web/dns servers running on grandma Jones' worm-infected Windows 95 PC on a DSL line, but in the end effect, whoever wants to actually _receive_ your cold hard cash has to be reachable.
Go after them there, and go back to my first paragraph. Spam will always be profitable, in any form (email, IM, snail mail, accosting people on the street, etc.) as long as it makes economic sense for someone to sell something via spam.
Correct. However, the weakness with PIN-authenticated CCs is that there is no evidence trail for you to disavow a transaction.
As easy as it is to forge a signature (and I've been told in all seriousness by a clerk that photo-cards and secondary IDs are insecure because "the picture is thiiiis small"), if you disagree with a transaction made by someone using your card, you can challenge the physical signature.
I know of no instances of this actually happening--usually, CC fraud involves small enough amounts that the company just makes you fill out 2-3 forms, looks at your spending habits for anomalies from the usual pattern, and eats the loss. I assume that this happens with the knowledge that, were they to actually challenge your denial of a purchase, you could ask for, say, a forensic analysis of your autograph. In fact, I've had someone try to defraud my CC company once, online, most likely by coming up with my # through a generator. Visa didn't give me any hassle, aside from asking me to sign a statement that no, I didn't buy all those porn page subscriptions.
PIN codes are notoriously easy to (a) guess (you'd be surprised how few cards have built-in blocking mechanisms) and (b) get hold of via social engineering. When someone uses my card in a physical store, with "my" PIN code, what recourse do I have? Hmm.
It sounds like a great idea. No, really, it does. It's cute, and has some hilarious potential.
However, someone should take their flash programmers and marketing droids out and shoot them, then shoot the survivors again, then force whoever lives through the previous multiple shootings (captured on EyeToy!) to try and actually find out any useful information about how the goddamm thing works and what it does from their webpage. Choose a channel! Christ, I hope their presentation isn't representative of the product itself.
Have a look at the Peraves Ecomobile for an interesting approach to manual stabilization (yes, it's a glorified motorcycle with landing gear that comes out when you stop.)
I've seen a few in traffic, and they look absolutely wicked cool, and go like shit off a shovel too.
Nononono, "mini windshield wiper" means a short guy with a squeegee. I mean, didn't the Russians have someone on Mir for ~2 years? I'm sure a couple of weeks cleaning windows, touching up paint, emptying ashtrays, whatever, would be more exciting and professionally rewarding than whatever he was doing previously:)
That's a really nice car; I sent you the following mail about it, but dynablock.nl seems to think zog.net is an illegitimate mail server, as its outbound interface reverse-resolves to a DSL IP...
I stumbled on your page from Slashdot--just wanted to say that that's a really nice car. Cool to see someone in CA keeping something like that on the road. Don't you have problems with emissions? And how in god's name do you get parts?
I live in Switzerland, and I've never seen one of those--the closest I've gotten is the Citroen Maserati SM--sort of a more modern-looking DS with a full bank of lights under the front grille, between the headlights. Have a look here for a good pic.
I recently wrote a nice letter to Intel about the built-in wifi card on my ThinkPad X31, to ask whether Linux (or FreeBSD! Yay!) drivers would ever be available?
I got a very friendly response from them:
Hello John,
Thank you for contacting Intel(R) Technical Support.
In order for Linux to run on Intel(R) Centrino(TM) mobile technology-based systems, software drivers are needed for the processor, chipset, and 802.11 wireless components. Currently Linux drivers are available for the Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor and Intel(R) 855PM and 855GM chipsets. A Linux driver for the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 wireless network connection is currently under development.
You can check back at the following link for the latest information on Linux driver support for the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 network connection.
Intel(R) Technical Support http://support.intel.com
Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
->Hi there, -> ->I recently bought a Thinkpad X31, after great experiences with an X20. ->The only weakness is the lack of Linux/FreeBSD drivers (first thing ->I did was netboot FreeBSD and re-format XP off the drive) for the ->built in WiFi interface. I know there are currently no plans for these, ->but please consider this yet another happy X31 user, who'd love to see ->some nice person write a driver. -> ->Cheers, -> ->-John
This has existed for centuries in the arts and sciences--it's called having a patron.
Emperors, kings and generally rich old farts loved having court musicians, artists, and poets. It's an intriguing idea, especially if you could couple it with tax breaks for the donor.
Frankly, if I had a few million to spare, I'd love to support unemployed hackers to write FuzzyBunnyWare, with a great big ugly grinning picture of yours truly on the startup splash screen.
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Maybe now, when I search for "Ludivine Sagnier nude" I'll stop getting 8,000 results for generic naked celebrities page subscription. And maybe, a good link or two about various universities in need of nekkid pictures of Ms. Sagnier (RTFA)
Meanwhile, in other news,
IAF launches attacks on software company headquarters
Today the Israeli Air Force launched a series of massive helicopter and F-16 air to ground missile strikes on Microsoft Corporation's Israel office.
Operation "tamut ya holera Microsoft!" (die, Microsoft scum) caused massive property damage and loss of live to the software giant's local sales & marketing division.
Major Schlomo Eisenberg described the action as "regrettable, but necessary", as singed bits of blue cardboard box floated to the ground around him.
An inside source at the Israeli ministry of defence was quoted as saying, "I guess that damn paperclip just sent the general over the edge."
The Japanese, clever that they are, have already beaten us to it.
On the scale of a sea urchin, that's pretty damn close. Think Lobsters--the things could essentially keep growing to massive sizes, but they get eaten, stepped on, poisoned, diseased, shoved into massively deep ocean trenches and crushed into little tiny balls of lobster meat, whatnot.
Rather, take the number with a grain of salt, and re-read the article while assuming laboratory conditions. There's a pretty big gray area between pure environmental factors which cause death (falling victim to the food chain, for example) and an organism's own slow decline because stuff just stops working after a while.
I don't remember who said it, but the gist was that animals are supremely inefficient beings, because if they'd been designed properly, they'd just live forever through cell regeneration.
I think they probably could, assuming that the chain of license ownership transfers which occurred in the US (Bell Labs-AT&T-USG-USL-whoever-whoever else-SCO) was done in parallel to the US. If so, they could certainly issue invoices, although the enforcement is where it gets interesting. Once again, I can invoice anyone I want (unless my country has frivolous billing & harassment laws).
However, don't forget that European courts do not allow as much license in the use of legal action as a compliance threat as in the US. Generally, I believe that EU (I live in Switzerland, so no guarantees) trade law puts fairly sizeable obstacles in the way of launching a lawsuit simply to try and get someone to settle out of court due to the threat of heavy legal expenses to be incurred. Napoleonic law (and I believe, to some degree, English common law) provides for the assignment of trial costs to the loser of a case, which in SCO's case, would quite possibly be thrown out of court.
So yes, assuming the IP situation is similar, they can invoice, but it'll be very difficult to collect, and they can't rely on court action as a no-cost threat against those who don't pay up.
IANALETCADNAUSEUMETAL.
SCO is currently in a position to invoice anyone and everyone.
SCO is currently not in a position to actually collect on its invoices.
Unless I'm mistaken, this as true for the US as it is for the EU, the CIS, the Arab League, SEATO the Galactic Confederation, and Papua New Guinea.
You will need:
322,951 crewmen
Several million tons of quadanium steel
Approx. 950,000 troopers in cool white plastic uniforms
One (1) small moon at the outer edges of the known galaxy at which to construct the thing.
...
Here are some technical specs, and a handy diagram.
Basically, you do the following:
(1) Use all the steel to build this gigantic metal ball, with a dimple on one side. You use a huge rubber band (available at your friendly neighborhood hardware store) to hold the laser pointers together, and put them in the dimple (make sure the batteries are always charged.) Get all your 1.5-odd million crew guys and troops on board, and fire the bitch up.
(2)
(3)profit!
Warning: Warranty void in case of attack by swarms of rebel fighters and small foam balls.
Astronaut: Houston control, we have a problem. The Russians have painted the moon read.
Houston: Apollo command, do you have any white paint? Repeat, do you have white paint on board?
Astronaut: Affirmative, Houston control
Houston: Apollo command, put a Coca Cola logo on it.
(runs for cover)
Looney Tunes reference. Bugs Bunny: "Wotta chump. Hahahaha! Wotta moroon!"
He will, once he finds out that Rumsfeld blew next year's army procurement budget on "legal forms" for the transfer of Sani Abacha's secret diamond cache from his illegitimate son, Bob Abacha (tracy_b_anderson329@hotmail.com).
I actually have a proposal for a "reasonable sentence" for spammers.
Seriously though, I second and third and fourth the oft-repeated idea that the only way to go after these pricks is to follow the money. Sca^H^Hpammers are small-time pseudo-crooks; they're not doing anything illegal, but if you ban what they're doing now, you'd find them working as disreputable used-car salesmen or the likes thereof.
Spam has a goal; that goal is getting money out of the recipient's pockets. There is always someone at the receiving end; whether it's cheapherbalviagraknockoffsonline.com, abdulhamidandhis419otherbrothers.nigerianemail.co
Going after them is no different from, in the frist case, pursuing "businesses" who violate various retail-related laws (truth in advertising, etc.) and in the second, common fraud. Everything is trackable; a spammer can hide behind forged mail headers and fake web/dns servers running on grandma Jones' worm-infected Windows 95 PC on a DSL line, but in the end effect, whoever wants to actually _receive_ your cold hard cash has to be reachable.
Go after them there, and go back to my first paragraph. Spam will always be profitable, in any form (email, IM, snail mail, accosting people on the street, etc.) as long as it makes economic sense for someone to sell something via spam.
She was FLIRTING with you, you moroon.
She-a cuoold hefe-a heet her heed und be-a telkeeng veet a svedeesh eccent. Bork bork bork!
Correct. However, the weakness with PIN-authenticated CCs is that there is no evidence trail for you to disavow a transaction.
As easy as it is to forge a signature (and I've been told in all seriousness by a clerk that photo-cards and secondary IDs are insecure because "the picture is thiiiis small"), if you disagree with a transaction made by someone using your card, you can challenge the physical signature.
I know of no instances of this actually happening--usually, CC fraud involves small enough amounts that the company just makes you fill out 2-3 forms, looks at your spending habits for anomalies from the usual pattern, and eats the loss. I assume that this happens with the knowledge that, were they to actually challenge your denial of a purchase, you could ask for, say, a forensic analysis of your autograph. In fact, I've had someone try to defraud my CC company once, online, most likely by coming up with my # through a generator. Visa didn't give me any hassle, aside from asking me to sign a statement that no, I didn't buy all those porn page subscriptions.
PIN codes are notoriously easy to (a) guess (you'd be surprised how few cards have built-in blocking mechanisms) and (b) get hold of via social engineering. When someone uses my card in a physical store, with "my" PIN code, what recourse do I have? Hmm.
It sounds like a great idea. No, really, it does. It's cute, and has some hilarious potential.
However, someone should take their flash programmers and marketing droids out and shoot them, then shoot the survivors again, then force whoever lives through the previous multiple shootings (captured on EyeToy!) to try and actually find out any useful information about how the goddamm thing works and what it does from their webpage. Choose a channel! Christ, I hope their presentation isn't representative of the product itself.
Have a look at the Peraves Ecomobile for an interesting approach to manual stabilization (yes, it's a glorified motorcycle with landing gear that comes out when you stop.)
I've seen a few in traffic, and they look absolutely wicked cool, and go like shit off a shovel too.
Nononono, "mini windshield wiper" means a short guy with a squeegee. I mean, didn't the Russians have someone on Mir for ~2 years? I'm sure a couple of weeks cleaning windows, touching up paint, emptying ashtrays, whatever, would be more exciting and professionally rewarding than whatever he was doing previously
Well put--I agree thoroughly. It was hilarious. Good thing I got to go see Matrix: Revolutions to dampen my fervor for movies for a long time to come.
I dunno...I think they probably should have cut down on the budget for the artists and shelled out a bit more for better looking real women.
Poor sweet innocent lad.
If you believe that, you might want to have a peek at RealDoll (not work safe, i believe.)
Remember, there is no problem that technology cannot solve for you!
Does that mean that all those Nude Raider pics disqualify Lara Croft?
That's a really nice car; I sent you the following mail about it, but dynablock.nl seems to think zog.net is an illegitimate mail server, as its outbound interface reverse-resolves to a DSL IP...
I stumbled on your page from Slashdot--just wanted to say
that that's a really nice car. Cool to see someone in CA
keeping something like that on the road. Don't you have
problems with emissions? And how in god's name do you get
parts?
I live in Switzerland, and I've never seen one of those--the
closest I've gotten is the Citroen Maserati SM--sort of a
more modern-looking DS with a full bank of lights under the
front grille, between the headlights. Have a look
here for a good pic.
Cheers,
-John
I'd rather have a kernel with lots of (known) submitters than a single psychopath.
I recently wrote a nice letter to Intel about the built-in wifi card on my ThinkPad X31, to ask whether Linux (or FreeBSD! Yay!) drivers would ever be available?
I got a very friendly response from them:
Hello John,
Thank you for contacting Intel(R) Technical Support.
In order for Linux to run on Intel(R) Centrino(TM) mobile technology-based systems,
software drivers are needed for the processor, chipset, and 802.11 wireless
components. Currently Linux drivers are available for the Intel(R) Pentium(R) M
processor and Intel(R) 855PM and 855GM chipsets. A Linux driver for the Intel(R)
PRO/Wireless 2100 wireless network connection is currently under development.
You can check back at the following link for the latest information on Linux driver
support for the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 network connection.
http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-
Sincerely,
Roberto G.
Intel(R) Technical Support
http://support.intel.com
Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the
United States and other countries.
*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
->Hi there,
->
->I recently bought a Thinkpad X31, after great experiences with an X20.
->The only weakness is the lack of Linux/FreeBSD drivers (first thing
->I did was netboot FreeBSD and re-format XP off the drive) for the
->built in WiFi interface. I know there are currently no plans for these,
->but please consider this yet another happy X31 user, who'd love to see
->some nice person write a driver.
->
->Cheers,
->
->-John
This has existed for centuries in the arts and sciences--it's called having a patron.
Emperors, kings and generally rich old farts loved having court musicians, artists, and poets. It's an intriguing idea, especially if you could couple it with tax breaks for the donor.
Frankly, if I had a few million to spare, I'd love to support unemployed hackers to write FuzzyBunnyWare, with a great big ugly grinning picture of yours truly on the startup splash screen.