It's the motion detector that scares me. Especially when it senses that I'm home alone. Especially when it senses excessive hand motion when I watch Robot Wars and Mick Foley's new co-host is on the screen.
I'm afraid they'll discover me for the loser I am. I just hope none of these Spyware people read this. They might program a lockout onto the TV just for me and then I'd be pissed.
First he tries to destroy Gotham City, and now he's going after Santa? What is that wacky Penguin guy up for next? Suing Linus for the rights on his logo?
There's a much more popular game than Doom, solitaire, or anything else for that matter out on the market.
It's called Karma Whoring.
The goal of the game is to come up with the most inventive, interesting, and funniest comments you can think of just in order to eventually make it to 50 karma points. When you do, this Magical Taco comes out of the sky and gives you the Sword of Moderation.
With this sword, you can strike down and flame other would-be people who are trying to attain karma. Your high karma score is devalued if lots of other people have Karma as high as you.
The goal is total domination and popularity among your peers. Imagine the results:
Friend: Thresh is such a great quake player.
Me: So what!?! I have 45 karma on Slashdot!
Friend: Really?!?!
Girls: Oooh, can I have your autograph?
Technologically the engine behind Karma Whoring is pretty weak. Whilst Doom 3 amazes people with its pretty OpenGL graphics and Violence, Karma Whoring is only built using PERL of all things. It's text based, much like some of the older games of the 80's. But didn't we all like Zork anyway?:)
Where Karma Whoring is better with is multiplayer. Whereas Doom will only have one character class, Karma Whoring has many. And you can choose your role. Karma Whore, Spammer, Nerd, Geek, Troll, Flamer, or even Anonymous Coward.
Karma Whoring is more addictive than Doom. In fact, many of the people who score high Karma also experiment with other addictions. Especially with the line, "Those moderators are all on crack". This is a literal expression.
The best thing is that Karma Whoring doesn't just have a boss key, it IS the boss key! You can always tell your boss that you're "researching important information on how to configure and optimize your apache server for optimal traffic", even when what you're really doing is browsing at -1 and blackholing the WIPO Troll.
Best of all, it's free! The only thing you have to pay with is reading a Katz article and an anime story now and then. Compare that to $49.95 and tell me which one you prefer:)
So, does this worm use one of those Random Sentence Generators for its subject lines? If so, let's hack it! I want my subjects to use Insult Grammar to attack all those people who send me chain mail!
Just picture the comics that are going to come out along the lines of this:
"Little did Gary know that all the other children in his kindergarten class used the combined powers of their PDA's to crack Gary's account to nickelodeon.com".
In the words of a friend of mine, you can't mention the words Linux Portable Device without some knob saying how awesome it would be to have a "Beowolf Cluster of These".
When they make Linux clusters out of cellular phones, that'll worry me. You could destroy a building by programming 15000 portable devices to beep at the same time.
Just remember that the power to do so is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
You have broken the rules of the aforementioned NDA and must cease and desist telling people of this party. Slashdot must also delete all records of such a party.
Our lawyers will be in contact with you. You better not have a copy of DeCSS when we search your house, you pompous ass.
My sister has a couple Subway sandwich shops that run on a copy of Windows 98 Embedded.
The Point of Sale Printer is nothing more than a parallel printer running on LPT1 with its driver set as a standard printer in Win98.
The disk drive on it is USB. The Printer on it is USB. The keyboard uses a standard keyboard interface.
Finally, the processor is a Pentium 3-700 with 128 meg of ram. The touchscreen is basically an LCD with a surface on it that maps to a mouse driver.
Why is this so hard in linux? USB might be painful at times, but the receipt printer is an easy hookup. The cash drawer opens whenever a signal is sent to the printer.
On many occasions I've printed something along the lines of "Welcome to Subway's Sex Shop" using the receipt printer. I don't see it as a plus which operating system I used to do it.
I don't think that *all* of the finances within one's taxes should be at the whim of the people, but I feel that some percentage should be open for the masses. I was talking this over with my friend, and I, and we were thinking anywhere between the range of 10 and 30 percent of taxes would be as such: Free for the taxpayer to allocate as he or she wishes. The more I think of it, the more I agree with my friend and think that 10% is reasonable.
It's a shame that the system you mentioned at your school failed. I hate being struck down with any notion of a heightened degree of democracy doesn't work. But still, it's an idea to consider.
I don't think that it's bad for government to pay out for what it's meant to do, It's that there should be a higher degree of accountability for what one wishes to contribute.
Even if the taxpayer only had 5 percent free, it could often make a difference in how it was spent. The point isn't to entirely bankrupt certain parts of government, but to those that don't fall under the public eye of "Government Waste" now and then.
After all, the Department of Energy has 1.1 cars for every employee there. Wouldn't it be nice if a Taxpayer-Rallied budget cut to them would force them to sell many of these vehicles en-masse?
Finally, do you really imagine "Free Beer" ads on TV from government agencies anytime soon?:)
And what have the Romans done for us? I understand your point in what you were saying, but you're forgetting something.
It's not just April 15th. It's gas tax, DMV fees, sales tax (admittedly that's a state tax), sin tax, whatever. It seems that whatever there is that the government does for us, there's a tax on it In addition to the general highway robbery that they do on the 15th.
Why does it have to be that way? All it does is anger me when I find out that I have to pay a 500 dollars to get a sticker on my car saying my tags haven't expired. And that I have to pay 1.50 each way to go on a toll road that there's no way around.
There was a great idea that Jello Biafra was talking about a bit back. Not just have a line item veto, but have line item taxation as well. Be able to choose (to some degree) which items I feel I should be spending my tax money on.
I personally feel that I should be able to protest any government intrusion into another country with my wallet, in addition to my vote.
Call me whatever, but I honestly never cared about going into Kuwait. And I wish there was an easier way to say my feelings about how much more important it was to the US that Iraq go out of Kuwait than Israel leaving Palestine occupied territories. I would honestly love to stick it to the military, or National Security, every time they tell us that another body cavity search is necessary at the airport.
That's one of the main problems with government. Everything collected in taxes goes into a "big pool" of money, whether it's Social Security Tax, Gas Tax, whatever. I'd much rather pay a higher gas tax knowing that what money I spend goes to roads, construction, etc than having money out of my paycheck go into the void.
You might be so happy and content about the "cost of freedom" we pay, but are the way things are now the end-all-be-all of how things should be run? Of course not!
I think that programs should be run and funded by people who believe in what each program means. One person on another post was worried about how far it would go. There should be an alcohol tax, a gas tax, a condom tax. And all these taxes should lower what we pay out of our paycheck.
If Thoreau were alive today with the system aforementioned, at least he'd have the choice to go to jail for not paying a CIA tax. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
What honestly scares me is that someday in the future, Everyone will know how to program his or her own VCR. Everyone will be so adept to handling machinery, that programming will become second nature to Everyone.
Part of what makes a job pay great is the ability to be able to do things that others can't. What happens when Everyone is taught how to use a computer from the age of 3? There's a mass influx of people who can do the work, and the value of that work depreciates.
It sounds kind of like a science fiction novel, doesn't it? And I imagine people will say, "Shut up DarkHelmet, not everyone in the future is going to be like Wesley Crusher! How the hell can we take you seriously with a name like that?"
But can't you picture it? After all, how many people 500 years ago knew how to read? It's very possible that this might be the next thing that Everyone needs to learn to do. Especially when someday in the not-so-distant future that manual labor becomes impractical.
I'm not saying that everyone is going to be able to talk in 1's and 0's like Bill Gates out of a Saturday Night Live sketch. But then, how many of us nowadays use punch cards in order to write programs? And how many more of us are programmers because it's not longer that way?
Compiler design will never die. AI, GUI, higher level programming concepts will still require higher level thinkers. But agree with me or not on the outlook of the future, simple programming will become commonplace in the future. Count on it.
Your reasoning here is flawed. Whenever Hollywood releases a movie that costs millions upon millions of dollars, the money doesn't come out of the taxpayer. It comes out of Corperations that finance the creation of the movie.
If the movie flops, big deal. It's their loss of money. Nothing to cry over.
On the other hand, if a Nasa mission fails, the millions of dollars that we, as taxpayers, have poured into the project has gone down the drain.
Yes, you could argue that we ourselves finance Corperations that make lousy movies. But then, not only is this voluntary, but it they also happen to give us something back the moment we pour money into our cause. We get... Scarface (Brian De Palma isn't all bad)!
On the other hand, it takes years for the money that we pour into the government to somehow trickle back to us. And when we do get part of that money, it hardly seems worth highway robbery we face each and every tax period. After millions spent on aid to other countries and welfare, what do we get back from the government that seems satisfying? A sex scandal now and then. That's it.
That's why people get pissed every time something from NASA blows up.
Cry and snivel all he wants, the government wants to give him a paddle on his ass for being a bad little boy and overstepping the bounds they lay out for him.
Don't believe me? What happens to the government if Microsoft goes out of power. Chaos. Creation. Open Source dominance.
And then how will the government force there to be software like Outlook that pokes deliberate security holes in programs so that the Feds can snoop on your computer?
Is the government going to bribe U of Washington to put security holes in Pine? Ha! Right about the time George Lucas packages Ewok Meat for Episode 2.
Many of the CD drives out there are going to use
Multiple Lasers that read from different parts of the disc at the same time.
Saying that for CD drives to get faster and faster is much like saying that we'll have to keep shrinking CPU's in order to do things faster and faster...
Michael entirely forgot about parallelism. No soup for him!
You know that "X" that's on the Xbox? In Australia it's detachable. So not only do you get the Xbox for the nice price of $200 USD, you also get two nifty boomerangs that can help you impale your much smarter neighbors who used their money to buy Playstations and Gamecubes.
Now you get their systems too. 3 systems for 200 dollars... Score!
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I'm afraid they'll discover me for the loser I am. I just hope none of these Spyware people read this. They might program a lockout onto the TV just for me and then I'd be pissed.
First he tries to destroy Gotham City, and now he's going after Santa? What is that wacky Penguin guy up for next? Suing Linus for the rights on his logo?
It's called Karma Whoring.
The goal of the game is to come up with the most inventive, interesting, and funniest comments you can think of just in order to eventually make it to 50 karma points. When you do, this Magical Taco comes out of the sky and gives you the Sword of Moderation.
With this sword, you can strike down and flame other would-be people who are trying to attain karma. Your high karma score is devalued if lots of other people have Karma as high as you.
The goal is total domination and popularity among your peers. Imagine the results:
Friend: Thresh is such a great quake player.
Me: So what!?! I have 45 karma on Slashdot!
Friend: Really?!?!
Girls: Oooh, can I have your autograph?
Technologically the engine behind Karma Whoring is pretty weak. Whilst Doom 3 amazes people with its pretty OpenGL graphics and Violence, Karma Whoring is only built using PERL of all things. It's text based, much like some of the older games of the 80's. But didn't we all like Zork anyway? :)
Where Karma Whoring is better with is multiplayer. Whereas Doom will only have one character class, Karma Whoring has many. And you can choose your role. Karma Whore, Spammer, Nerd, Geek, Troll, Flamer, or even Anonymous Coward.
Karma Whoring is more addictive than Doom. In fact, many of the people who score high Karma also experiment with other addictions. Especially with the line, "Those moderators are all on crack". This is a literal expression.
The best thing is that Karma Whoring doesn't just have a boss key, it IS the boss key! You can always tell your boss that you're "researching important information on how to configure and optimize your apache server for optimal traffic", even when what you're really doing is browsing at -1 and blackholing the WIPO Troll.
Best of all, it's free! The only thing you have to pay with is reading a Katz article and an anime story now and then. Compare that to $49.95 and tell me which one you prefer :)
Ha!
"Little did Gary know that all the other children in his kindergarten class used the combined powers of their PDA's to crack Gary's account to nickelodeon.com".
April Fools happens at the beginning of April, not the end.
When they make Linux clusters out of cellular phones, that'll worry me. You could destroy a building by programming 15000 portable devices to beep at the same time.
Just remember that the power to do so is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
I can envision California's new license plate: California: Blackout Capital of the world
Homer Simpson: "Do you come with the car?"
...
Woman: "Oh you!"
Next Guy: "Do you come with the car?"
Woman: "Oh you!"
Our lawyers will be in contact with you. You better not have a copy of DeCSS when we search your house, you pompous ass.
So, is there a secret part of the game where you get to be president of Clown College?
My sister has a couple Subway sandwich shops that run on a copy of Windows 98 Embedded.
The Point of Sale Printer is nothing more than a parallel printer running on LPT1 with its driver set as a standard printer in Win98.
The disk drive on it is USB. The Printer on it is USB. The keyboard uses a standard keyboard interface.
Finally, the processor is a Pentium 3-700 with 128 meg of ram. The touchscreen is basically an LCD with a surface on it that maps to a mouse driver.
Why is this so hard in linux? USB might be painful at times, but the receipt printer is an easy hookup. The cash drawer opens whenever a signal is sent to the printer.
On many occasions I've printed something along the lines of "Welcome to Subway's Sex Shop" using the receipt printer. I don't see it as a plus which operating system I used to do it.
It's a shame that the system you mentioned at your school failed. I hate being struck down with any notion of a heightened degree of democracy doesn't work. But still, it's an idea to consider.
I don't think that it's bad for government to pay out for what it's meant to do, It's that there should be a higher degree of accountability for what one wishes to contribute.
Even if the taxpayer only had 5 percent free, it could often make a difference in how it was spent. The point isn't to entirely bankrupt certain parts of government, but to those that don't fall under the public eye of "Government Waste" now and then.
After all, the Department of Energy has 1.1 cars for every employee there. Wouldn't it be nice if a Taxpayer-Rallied budget cut to them would force them to sell many of these vehicles en-masse?
Finally, do you really imagine "Free Beer" ads on TV from government agencies anytime soon? :)
I personally want to use my Segway for beating up old people!
It's not just April 15th. It's gas tax, DMV fees, sales tax (admittedly that's a state tax), sin tax, whatever. It seems that whatever there is that the government does for us, there's a tax on it In addition to the general highway robbery that they do on the 15th.
Why does it have to be that way? All it does is anger me when I find out that I have to pay a 500 dollars to get a sticker on my car saying my tags haven't expired. And that I have to pay 1.50 each way to go on a toll road that there's no way around.
There was a great idea that Jello Biafra was talking about a bit back. Not just have a line item veto, but have line item taxation as well. Be able to choose (to some degree) which items I feel I should be spending my tax money on.
I personally feel that I should be able to protest any government intrusion into another country with my wallet, in addition to my vote.
Call me whatever, but I honestly never cared about going into Kuwait. And I wish there was an easier way to say my feelings about how much more important it was to the US that Iraq go out of Kuwait than Israel leaving Palestine occupied territories. I would honestly love to stick it to the military, or National Security, every time they tell us that another body cavity search is necessary at the airport.
That's one of the main problems with government. Everything collected in taxes goes into a "big pool" of money, whether it's Social Security Tax, Gas Tax, whatever. I'd much rather pay a higher gas tax knowing that what money I spend goes to roads, construction, etc than having money out of my paycheck go into the void.
You might be so happy and content about the "cost of freedom" we pay, but are the way things are now the end-all-be-all of how things should be run? Of course not!
I think that programs should be run and funded by people who believe in what each program means. One person on another post was worried about how far it would go. There should be an alcohol tax, a gas tax, a condom tax. And all these taxes should lower what we pay out of our paycheck.
If Thoreau were alive today with the system aforementioned, at least he'd have the choice to go to jail for not paying a CIA tax. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Then he pulls out a container.
Nuts and Gum: Together at last!
Part of what makes a job pay great is the ability to be able to do things that others can't. What happens when Everyone is taught how to use a computer from the age of 3? There's a mass influx of people who can do the work, and the value of that work depreciates.
It sounds kind of like a science fiction novel, doesn't it? And I imagine people will say, "Shut up DarkHelmet, not everyone in the future is going to be like Wesley Crusher! How the hell can we take you seriously with a name like that?"
But can't you picture it? After all, how many people 500 years ago knew how to read? It's very possible that this might be the next thing that Everyone needs to learn to do. Especially when someday in the not-so-distant future that manual labor becomes impractical.
I'm not saying that everyone is going to be able to talk in 1's and 0's like Bill Gates out of a Saturday Night Live sketch. But then, how many of us nowadays use punch cards in order to write programs? And how many more of us are programmers because it's not longer that way?
Compiler design will never die. AI, GUI, higher level programming concepts will still require higher level thinkers. But agree with me or not on the outlook of the future, simple programming will become commonplace in the future. Count on it.
If the movie flops, big deal. It's their loss of money. Nothing to cry over.
On the other hand, if a Nasa mission fails, the millions of dollars that we, as taxpayers, have poured into the project has gone down the drain.
Yes, you could argue that we ourselves finance Corperations that make lousy movies. But then, not only is this voluntary, but it they also happen to give us something back the moment we pour money into our cause. We get... Scarface (Brian De Palma isn't all bad)!
On the other hand, it takes years for the money that we pour into the government to somehow trickle back to us. And when we do get part of that money, it hardly seems worth highway robbery we face each and every tax period. After millions spent on aid to other countries and welfare, what do we get back from the government that seems satisfying? A sex scandal now and then. That's it.
That's why people get pissed every time something from NASA blows up.
Why build an android head when there's already one in a mine shaft around San Francisco
Don't believe me? What happens to the government if Microsoft goes out of power. Chaos. Creation. Open Source dominance.
And then how will the government force there to be software like Outlook that pokes deliberate security holes in programs so that the Feds can snoop on your computer?
Is the government going to bribe U of Washington to put security holes in Pine? Ha! Right about the time George Lucas packages Ewok Meat for Episode 2.
Secure servers without back doors are for weenies. :)
Saying that for CD drives to get faster and faster is much like saying that we'll have to keep shrinking CPU's in order to do things faster and faster...
Michael entirely forgot about parallelism. No soup for him!
Now you get their systems too. 3 systems for 200 dollars... Score!
This motherboard sucks, I can't even connect to the internet with it. :)