The fact that when opened this software is allowed to execute code, crawl through the address book, copy itself and send itself out to others is a fault with the system.
I've never had a problem when opening an attachment with Mutt.
If the government can go after the tobacco companies for killing
people with their second hand smoke, why can't they go after
the software companies that have obviously turned a blind eye to
security in the name of profit and the after-market anti-virus
industry? It's their shoddy software that allows this to be possible
yet they make billions while costing ISPs and end users billions
more.
Hell, some US states are even going after gun manufacturers..
You sleep well knowing that your email can only be
read by the sender, recipient and.. that.. man.. with the rubber
hose.
To me it sounds like Kim Jong Il is getting
even more paranoid. He's wanting to control (and snoop) all email in
within his borders for fear of net-savvy citizens daring to send
subversive email. Pretty soon he'll probably start shooting people
with glasses ("intellectuals") as Pol Pot did in Cambodia.
Hint to Kim Jong Il, try feeding your millions of starving
children before promising them a corrupt email system few of them
will ever live to see.
[T]he Supreme Court ruled that a mere collection of facts can't be
copyrighted.
Would the Linux people, then, be able to assert
that their C code is merely programmable facts which generates certain
(MD5|MD4|SHA1|etc) hashes? Chew on that one, SCO.
Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these
dice were used.
Actually these are called Slave Dies and were popularised by the Roman Emperor
Publius Helvius Pertinax in the mid 2nd century AD. During periods when
professional gladiatorial combat was lacking, 400 slaves would be seperated
into 20 groups of 20 each. The diplomat (or the Emporer himself) running the
game would roll a Slave Die 4 times. The first time selected a group, the
second a slave within the group. The 3rd and 4th rolls repeated this
selection.
The two slaves would then be outfitted with crude weapons
and ordered to fight to the death. Because slaves had horrific medical care
the survivor of the battles usually died from infection later on.
If,
in the odd event, the die rolls selected the same person twice then that
slave would immediately be freed and given a not insubstantial amount
of gold as it was deemed that the gods had smiled on this
person.
It was a horribly stressful thing; you wouldn't want to be
rolled once, but if that were the case you'd be praying for a second roll to
select you.
actually.. I made that all up, sure sounds good though,
eh? PS: f1st pr0st
If you could bend down that far to bite it off, I'd suggest you instead give yourself head. It's likely the only head you're able to get, why throw it away?
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Thief 3 isn't due until next year sometime but it looks amazing. I agree with you there about it being a favourite. It hasn't left my hard discs since I installed Thief 1 "back in the day". If you like fan missions, check out ThiefMissions.com for loads of missions. It'll keep you playing..
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The person behind Pac Man looks nothing at all like Michael Jackson.
Next game please!
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Human Pac Man is cool but I want Human Doom, Human Thief and
Human System Shock. Looking up at a ~6m tall cyberdemon would cause
instant soiling of the gitch. No idea how things like rope arrows
would work in Thief... and the monkeys in SS2, scary stuff...
Certainly but with with so many distributions the confusion to a new user may be daunting, that's why so many end up going with Red Hat. The world doesn't need 200 distributions but the freedom to make your own distro is a nice choice you don't get with proprietary code.
Certain ones, of course. I printed out all email between my ex and myself regarding divorce settlements, for example.:) I wouldn't entrust that to electronic media alone if it could cost me thousands of dollars.
I'm not suggesting printing out huge data sets (ie: the human genome) but keeping hard copies of interesting email, writings, etc should be a must. Most people don't keep backups very well and one dead hard drive means gigs of data lost forever.
Countless priceless documents may have been lost however a lot of it is due to religious zealotry and war. I'd wager the bulk of the lost books/scrolls didn't just rot on a shelf, they were torched.
Paper is better than electronic for long term storage. There are
already concerns for data being lost forever because of incompatible
older formats and hardware. Paper was good enough for da Vinci.
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The fact that when opened this software is allowed to execute code, crawl through the address book, copy itself and send itself out to others is a fault with the system.
I've never had a problem when opening an attachment with Mutt.
If the government can go after the tobacco companies for killing people with their second hand smoke, why can't they go after the software companies that have obviously turned a blind eye to security in the name of profit and the after-market anti-virus industry? It's their shoddy software that allows this to be possible yet they make billions while costing ISPs and end users billions more.
Hell, some US states are even going after gun manufacturers..
How long would it take one of these assemblers to make a cup of "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot"?
A gigapixel "Where's Waldo" would drive thousands insane.
How the system (likely) works:
The government assigns you a password.
You send email, people send you email.
You sleep well knowing that your email can only be read by the sender, recipient and.. that.. man.. with the rubber hose.
To me it sounds like Kim Jong Il is getting even more paranoid. He's wanting to control (and snoop) all email in within his borders for fear of net-savvy citizens daring to send subversive email. Pretty soon he'll probably start shooting people with glasses ("intellectuals") as Pol Pot did in Cambodia.
Hint to Kim Jong Il, try feeding your millions of starving children before promising them a corrupt email system few of them will ever live to see.
If it weren't for Jon Johansen, then I wouldn't have hundreds of DVD rips at home. For shame for making this all possible, Jon. Rot in a cell!
[T]he Supreme Court ruled that a mere collection of facts can't be copyrighted.
Would the Linux people, then, be able to assert that their C code is merely programmable facts which generates certain (MD5|MD4|SHA1|etc) hashes? Chew on that one, SCO.
Modern scholarship has not yet established the game for which these dice were used.
Actually these are called Slave Dies and were popularised by the Roman Emperor Publius Helvius Pertinax in the mid 2nd century AD. During periods when professional gladiatorial combat was lacking, 400 slaves would be seperated into 20 groups of 20 each. The diplomat (or the Emporer himself) running the game would roll a Slave Die 4 times. The first time selected a group, the second a slave within the group. The 3rd and 4th rolls repeated this selection.
The two slaves would then be outfitted with crude weapons and ordered to fight to the death. Because slaves had horrific medical care the survivor of the battles usually died from infection later on.
If, in the odd event, the die rolls selected the same person twice then that slave would immediately be freed and given a not insubstantial amount of gold as it was deemed that the gods had smiled on this person.
It was a horribly stressful thing; you wouldn't want to be rolled once, but if that were the case you'd be praying for a second roll to select you.
actually.. I made that all up, sure sounds good though, eh? PS: f1st pr0st
If you could bend down that far to bite it off, I'd suggest you instead give yourself head. It's likely the only head you're able to get, why throw it away?
Hey, that's $697.42 cheaper than Linux! I proclaim this the death of Linux.
Pretty sweet IDE compared to my years of using visual studio
I like SCSI compared to my years of using Code Warrior. Oh wait, sorry...
"Unix is dead".. at least the IP will outlive SCO.
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Whoa.. stick with QNX, please.
Thief 3 isn't due until next year sometime but it looks amazing. I agree with you there about it being a favourite. It hasn't left my hard discs since I installed Thief 1 "back in the day". If you like fan missions, check out ThiefMissions.com for loads of missions. It'll keep you playing..
The person behind Pac Man looks nothing at all like Michael Jackson.
Human Pac Man is cool but I want Human Doom, Human Thief and Human System Shock. Looking up at a ~6m tall cyberdemon would cause instant soiling of the gitch. No idea how things like rope arrows would work in Thief... and the monkeys in SS2, scary stuff...
That would be leet.
Face it, the moon is a dump. It's a boring, dried up wasteland, and the only reason anybody ever comes here is for the tacky little amusement park.
You mean like France and EuroDisney?
"Hey, I can see my house from up here!"
Certainly but with with so many distributions the confusion to a new user may be daunting, that's why so many end up going with Red Hat. The world doesn't need 200 distributions but the freedom to make your own distro is a nice choice you don't get with proprietary code.
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Awarded for: A means of slowly stretching the striated tissues of the lower alimentary canal with fingers and assorted latex products.
Awarded to: Our good friend..
PS: f1st pr0st!
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Certain ones, of course. I printed out all email between my ex and myself regarding divorce settlements, for example. :) I wouldn't entrust that to electronic media alone if it could cost me thousands of dollars.
I did, I'm a subscriber but choose to usually check the "No Subscriber Bonus" box (unlike this post to prove my case).
I'm not suggesting printing out huge data sets (ie: the human genome) but keeping hard copies of interesting email, writings, etc should be a must. Most people don't keep backups very well and one dead hard drive means gigs of data lost forever.
That's a damn shame.
Countless priceless documents may have been lost however a lot of it is due to religious zealotry and war. I'd wager the bulk of the lost books/scrolls didn't just rot on a shelf, they were torched.
Paper is better than electronic for long term storage. There are already concerns for data being lost forever because of incompatible older formats and hardware. Paper was good enough for da Vinci.