TERRORISTS are used to disguising their faces and fingerprints. But what TERRORIST will think to disguise the rest of their body?
p.s.: Look over there! TERRORISTS!!!
What's the screen pixels? An Eee 700 is usable at 800x480; this can't go much below that and be usable on the modern Web. Even if the resulting text is Flyspeck 3, at least it'll be detailed Flyspeck 3 rather than pixelated.
Somehow I can't see this not being abused or twisted.
I'm sure the UK government will happily participate with the current Home Office plans to monitor all emails and phone calls that they're trying to soften us up for.
After that, it's a matter of international "harmonisation."
So Microsoft decided that developer support was more important than porn site support. Uh, that was stupid.
Basically, the only way Microsoft is going to get people installing Silverlight is to put up a FREE PORN site that requires Silverlight exclusively. On Windows Vista or later only.
Microsoft today announced the release of version 2.0 its world-beating Silverlight multimedia platform for the Web. As a replacement for Adobe's Flash, it is widely considered utterly superfluous and of no interest to anyone who could be found.
"We have a fabulous selection of content partners for Silverlight," announced Microsoft marketer Scott Guthrie on his blog today. "NBC for the Olympics, which delivered millions of new users to BitTorrent. The Democrat National Convention, which is fine because those Linux users are all Ron Paul weirdos anyway. It comes with rich frameworks, rich controls, rich networking support, a rich base class library, rich media support, oh God kill me now. My resumé's a car crash, Google won't call me back. My life is an exercise in futility. I'm the walking dead, man. The walking dead."
Silverlight was created by Microsoft to leverage its desktop monopoly on Windows, to work off the tremendous sales and popularity of Vista. Flash is present on a pathetic 96% of all computers connected to the Internet, whereas Silverlight downloads are into the triple figures.
"But it's got DRM!" cried Guthrie. "Netflix loved it! And web developers love us too, after all we did for them with IE 6. Wait, come back!"
Similar Microsoft initiatives include its XPS replacement for Adobe PDF, its HD Photo replacement for JPEG photographs and its earlier Liquid Motion attempt to replace Flash. Also, that CD-ROM format Vista defaults to which no other computers can read.
In a Microsoft internal security sweep, Guthrie's own desktop was found to still be running Windows XP.
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Microsoft today announced the release of version 2.0 its world-beating Silverlight multimedia platform for the Web. As a replacement for Adobe's Flash, it is widely considered utterly superfluous and of no interest.
"We have a fabulous selection of content partners for Silverlight," announced Microsoft marketer Scott Guthrie on his blog today. "NBC for the Olympics, which delivered millions of new users to BitTorrent. The Democrat National Convention, which is fine because those Linux users are all Ron Paul weirdos anyway. It comes with rich frameworks, rich controls, rich networking support, a rich base class library, rich media support, oh God kill me now. Google haven't called back. My life is an exercise in futility. I'm the walking dead, man, the walking dead!"
Silverlight was created by Microsoft to leverage its desktop monopoly on Windows, to work off the tremendous sales and popularity of Vista. Flash is present on a pathetic 98% of computers connected to the Internet, whereas Silverlight downloads are into the triple figures.
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In one of the most transparently stupid "LOOK! TERRORISTS!" stories to date, The Times has "exclusively" published a report claiming terrorists are hiding their secret terrorist messages inside child pornography. Because, y'know, obviously you're going to hide your messages somewhere already illegal rather than in wedding photos or LOLcats.
I'm pleased to say that the commenters on the article - and UK newspaper online comments are one of the purest sources of raw stupid on the planet - are already condemning this as obvious Home Office press-release ware.
The Times has been spotted running press releases for the Home Office before with jawdroppingly stupid scare stories. Coincidentally, the Home Office's call for the police to be able to hold people 42 days without charge just got rejected. Obviously not linked.
I wrote a blog post on it, but I'm not sure it's obviously a parody of a stupid thing that someone actually tried to seriously push.
That's why Wine is targeting those. Its perfect place is running that piece of abandonware you can't even find the developer for any more, let alone ask them to free it, but which just happens to be essential and keeps your last crusty old Pentium in service running Windows 98.
(This is exactly what we use it for at work. Anyone who says Wine isn't enterprise-ready is talking out their hat.)
Wine is already a better Windows (98/2000/XP) than Vista. I wonder if Windows 7 will actually enhance compatibility. XP in a VM, like Classic in Mac OS X?
"DEVELOPERS! Nobody sweats the details of evil like Microsoft! Weâ(TM)ve worked hard on our evil! Our Zuneâ(TM)s as evil as an iPod any day! I wonâ(TM)t let my kids use a lesser evil!"
"Ah, but we're working on a new approach. We're not evil."
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That answers my questions. I had a Tungsten C that did better than this.
TERRORISTS are used to disguising their faces and fingerprints. But what TERRORIST will think to disguise the rest of their body? p.s.: Look over there! TERRORISTS!!!
What's the screen pixels? An Eee 700 is usable at 800x480; this can't go much below that and be usable on the modern Web. Even if the resulting text is Flyspeck 3, at least it'll be detailed Flyspeck 3 rather than pixelated.
I just choked.
But crikey, goes all night without stopping. None of that Windows "I'm so sorry, this has never happened to me before, honest."
Somehow I can't see this not being abused or twisted. I'm sure the UK government will happily participate with the current Home Office plans to monitor all emails and phone calls that they're trying to soften us up for. After that, it's a matter of international "harmonisation."
May I say how pleased I am that that comment got a +1 Informative mod. o_0
So Microsoft decided that developer support was more important than porn site support. Uh, that was stupid. Basically, the only way Microsoft is going to get people installing Silverlight is to put up a FREE PORN site that requires Silverlight exclusively. On Windows Vista or later only.
Well, I have to pass the time somehow.
So the "tremendous sales and popularity of Vista" part struck you as humorous, but not the bit about Linux users? Oooooookay ...
Full version up now:
Microsoft today announced the release of version 2.0 its world-beating Silverlight multimedia platform for the Web. As a replacement for Adobe's Flash, it is widely considered utterly superfluous and of no interest to anyone who could be found.
"We have a fabulous selection of content partners for Silverlight," announced Microsoft marketer Scott Guthrie on his blog today. "NBC for the Olympics, which delivered millions of new users to BitTorrent. The Democrat National Convention, which is fine because those Linux users are all Ron Paul weirdos anyway. It comes with rich frameworks, rich controls, rich networking support, a rich base class library, rich media support, oh God kill me now. My resumé's a car crash, Google won't call me back. My life is an exercise in futility. I'm the walking dead, man. The walking dead."
Silverlight was created by Microsoft to leverage its desktop monopoly on Windows, to work off the tremendous sales and popularity of Vista. Flash is present on a pathetic 96% of all computers connected to the Internet, whereas Silverlight downloads are into the triple figures.
"But it's got DRM!" cried Guthrie. "Netflix loved it! And web developers love us too, after all we did for them with IE 6. Wait, come back!"
Similar Microsoft initiatives include its XPS replacement for Adobe PDF, its HD Photo replacement for JPEG photographs and its earlier Liquid Motion attempt to replace Flash. Also, that CD-ROM format Vista defaults to which no other computers can read.
In a Microsoft internal security sweep, Guthrie's own desktop was found to still be running Windows XP.
Microsoft today announced the release of version 2.0 its world-beating Silverlight multimedia platform for the Web. As a replacement for Adobe's Flash, it is widely considered utterly superfluous and of no interest.
"We have a fabulous selection of content partners for Silverlight," announced Microsoft marketer Scott Guthrie on his blog today. "NBC for the Olympics, which delivered millions of new users to BitTorrent. The Democrat National Convention, which is fine because those Linux users are all Ron Paul weirdos anyway. It comes with rich frameworks, rich controls, rich networking support, a rich base class library, rich media support, oh God kill me now. Google haven't called back. My life is an exercise in futility. I'm the walking dead, man, the walking dead!"
Silverlight was created by Microsoft to leverage its desktop monopoly on Windows, to work off the tremendous sales and popularity of Vista. Flash is present on a pathetic 98% of computers connected to the Internet, whereas Silverlight downloads are into the triple figures.
Good Lord. Who cares?
I commend the wisdom of the Daily Mash on this topic: Carnage As Facebook Moves Everything Slightly To The Left.
I commend to you Evan Prodromou on crowdsourcing.
Indeed. I've made my preferences not suck now.
Al-FAILda.
Al-FAILda.
"Then again it could be a cash grab by the agencies that investigate child porn, nothing wrong with more money to fight that evil."
The police are all over that. What this is is a push by the Home Office to take more civil rights away.
Oh, and there's a firehose story on the subject which could do with clicking up. Blithering stupidity is best dealt with by wide exposure.
Yes, really. Apparently.
In one of the most transparently stupid "LOOK! TERRORISTS!" stories to date, The Times has "exclusively" published a report claiming terrorists are hiding their secret terrorist messages inside child pornography. Because, y'know, obviously you're going to hide your messages somewhere already illegal rather than in wedding photos or LOLcats.
I'm pleased to say that the commenters on the article - and UK newspaper online comments are one of the purest sources of raw stupid on the planet - are already condemning this as obvious Home Office press-release ware.
The Times has been spotted running press releases for the Home Office before with jawdroppingly stupid scare stories. Coincidentally, the Home Office's call for the police to be able to hold people 42 days without charge just got rejected. Obviously not linked.
I wrote a blog post on it, but I'm not sure it's obviously a parody of a stupid thing that someone actually tried to seriously push.
That's why Wine is targeting those. Its perfect place is running that piece of abandonware you can't even find the developer for any more, let alone ask them to free it, but which just happens to be essential and keeps your last crusty old Pentium in service running Windows 98.
(This is exactly what we use it for at work. Anyone who says Wine isn't enterprise-ready is talking out their hat.)
Wine is already a better Windows (98/2000/XP) than Vista. I wonder if Windows 7 will actually enhance compatibility. XP in a VM, like Classic in Mac OS X?
"Your evil is weak, old man! If you destroy me, I will ... What am I saying, you can't destroy lunch."
"DEVELOPERS! Nobody sweats the details of evil like Microsoft! Weâ(TM)ve worked hard on our evil! Our Zuneâ(TM)s as evil as an iPod any day! I wonâ(TM)t let my kids use a lesser evil!"
"Ah, but we're working on a new approach. We're not evil."
"Just creepy."
"But in a totally not evil way."
The German radio station did.