Hehe another coolforsale.com clone, complete with Engrish plivacy poricy word-for-word and the unbeatable "we'll refund half your money" returns policy. keywords : chinese sweatshop spam cool for sale
I understood it was JS code ripped straight from their website. So in fact, they *did* hand it over, in a manner of speaking.
Especially with client-side stuff, everyone copies everyone else, be is CSS, JS routines, HTML themes etc. And with Web 2.0 pushing the functionality away from the server side where it's relatively better protected (i.e. you only see the response, not the processing internals), it'll only become more rampant.
It would be interesting to see how much of Plurk's original matched other existing works online.
Doublespace vs Drivespace, where the only difference in the codebase was the 8 characters used for the MS-DOS filenames. IIRC drvspace.sys vs dblspace.sys
1 - They were down the back of the Oval Office sofa the whole time.
2 - They were hidden in some storage area, possibly the fifty-first area, which of course, doesn't exist in our universe for large percentages of the time.
3 - They were stored under the water-boarding rig at Gitmo, and they had to wait for them all to dry out.
I mean, really, is it any wonder that conspiracy theories are born, when a simple archive of data can mysteriously "disappear" and then even more mysteriously "reappear" after a couple of years.
So if Microsoft built a GUI like Gnome and layer it on top of a *nix Kernel, not forgetting of course to include a copy of the GPL and the source code, that would be fine with you ?
Does China even acknowledge their citizens the right to be free from illegal search & seizure? Do you really want to get into that? "Article 109 of the CPL authorizes the police to search the body and personal belongings of a criminal suspect.
And how is this *any* different than what you have to go through at an American airport ? The only justification they need to consider you a criminal supect is the fact that you have a long beard and carry a prayer mat.
Wrap it any comfortable language you want, you are no more "free" in the US than anywhere else. The only difference is that you are free to the right of legal recourse afterwards... although even those freedoms are rapidly being eroded under the guise of "homeland security".
Yup, just set your filter to block the range 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255.
Problem solved.
Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. This is because the submission process is so borked, it takes 45 seconds to write a new entry to our database.
Chances are, you're behind a firewall or proxy, or clicked the Back button to accidentally reuse a form. Please try again. Nope, it's just my neurons fire faster than once per minute.
Pare, considering you've been in the "editing" stage since February 2007, perhaps it's time to update your sig to "I've grown tired of making a Low Budget HDV Filipino Horror Movie in NYC" ?
So it's okay for Google to know that you used their search engine to search for midget porn, but not that once you found it, you actually clicked on one of the links ?
I would love to see Symnatec, etc list this as malware
I would love to see Symantec listed as malware... have you seen how difficult it is to actually uninstall that thing (completely), and what a piece of spamming shit it turns into once your free trial is over ?
McCarthy indoctrination at it's finest... you wouldn't happen to be American would you ?
Communism... look at the root word, commune.
It means everyone works for the good of the commune and there is NO GOVERNMENT !!! Everyone is equal, no one is "in charge", and that's the only way it *can* work.
Put someone in charge, and that infers a "higher position" for them in the social order, which is against the very fundamental of communism.
Although, in practice of course, communism doesn't work even on a small scale. Even the Amish, who seem to be pretty much self sufficient, still have councils of elders who make decisions for the rest of the group. Once a decision is made that is for the best of an individual, not neccessarily the best for the group as a whole, communism breaks down into depotism, feudalism or some other word ending in "-ism" (sorry, just woke up, only firing on 3 cylinders right now).
While trying to avoid putting too much spin on it, I'd rather just look at it in context.
$10 billion dollars means they took $1.50 from every man, woman and child on the plant.
While piracy may be hurting them, don't you think that a $10 billion profit means perhaps, just perhaps, the cost of their product is STILL TOO HIGH ?
And if they did a little bit of supply / demand analysis, by maybe only skinning a buck instead of a buck fifty, piracy might actually go down as the product would be *more* accessible (read cheaper) for the masses ?
I'm wondering how many Linux users would actually *be* on a social network, seeing as even a simple thing like Flash is so hard for them to get working ?
Or maybe MS is doing some fancy data-mining.
1. Bought a computer ? 2. Asked for a refund on the preinstalled copy of Windows ? 3. No profile found on Facebook ? 4. ??? 5. Linux User Profit !
Nah, most MLM's involve convincing you become an "entrepreneur businessman" by selling you a tube of toothpaste for $27 dollars. Then, rather than face the fact you just got ripped off, you have to invite your family and friends to "sales meetings" where you can offload the toothpaste to them so that they can become "entrepreneur businessmen" also.
Basically it means recruiting people for whom money is more important than their closest family and friends, and would happily fuck them over to recoup their losses. Possibly why MLM is so popular in America.
Apparently we've got an excess of CO2 lying around at the moment. Can't we just grab the Carbon out of that ? And the spare Oxygen we release means we won't need so many trees anyway, freeing up valuable land for growing McDonalds beefburgers-on-legs.
'Well, there's...' Colon racked his brains. 'There's al-gebra. That's like sums with letters. For... for people whose brains aren't clever enough for numbers, see?'
'Is that a fact?'
'Right,' said Colon. 'In fact,' he went on, a little more assertively now he could see a way ahead, 'I heard this wizard down the University say that the Klatchians invented nothing. That was their great contribution to maffs, he said. I said "What?" an' he said, they come up with zero.'
'Dun't sound that clever to me,' said Nobby. 'Anyone could invent nothing. I ain't invented anything.'
'My point exactly,' said Colon. 'I told him, it was people who invented numbers like four and, and-' '-seven-' '-right, who were the geniuses. Nothing didn't need inventing. It was just there. They probably just found it.'
'It's having all that desert,' said Nobby.
'Right! Good point. Desert. Which, as everyone knows, is basically nothing. Nothing's a natural resource to them. It stands to reason. Whereas we're more civilized, see, and we got a lot more stuff around to count, so we invented numbers.
----
On a more non-Pratchett note, if it was the Arabs who had mathematics, navigation, and a technological understanding far superior to that of anyone else, how come they have to import every damn thing they need (technical expertise, labour, doctors, nurses, etc) from all over the world ?
Your basic Arab wants to sit smoking shisha and drinking coffee. Had you seen Abu Dhabi or Dubai before they brought the Brits and the Yanks in to build their entire infrastructure back in the 70's ? It was all bloody desert, and when the oil money runs out, it'll all return to desert.
The Arabs might have been great leaders in these fields back in the year 0 AD, but since then they have degenerated into a pack of savages, intent on beheading anyone who doesn't follow their "Johnny-come-lately" religion.
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Hehe another coolforsale.com clone, complete with Engrish plivacy poricy word-for-word and the unbeatable "we'll refund half your money" returns policy. keywords : chinese sweatshop spam cool for sale
But more importantly, is the "chicken killer and entrail reader" software open source ?
*ducks* (or should that be *chickens out*) ?
I understood it was JS code ripped straight from their website. So in fact, they *did* hand it over, in a manner of speaking.
Especially with client-side stuff, everyone copies everyone else, be is CSS, JS routines, HTML themes etc. And with Web 2.0 pushing the functionality away from the server side where it's relatively better protected (i.e. you only see the response, not the processing internals), it'll only become more rampant.
It would be interesting to see how much of Plurk's original matched other existing works online.
Prior Art
Doublespace vs Drivespace, where the only difference in the codebase was the 8 characters used for the MS-DOS filenames. IIRC drvspace.sys vs dblspace.sys
Options :-
1 - They were down the back of the Oval Office sofa the whole time.
2 - They were hidden in some storage area, possibly the fifty-first area, which of course, doesn't exist in our universe for large percentages of the time.
3 - They were stored under the water-boarding rig at Gitmo, and they had to wait for them all to dry out.
I mean, really, is it any wonder that conspiracy theories are born, when a simple archive of data can mysteriously "disappear" and then even more mysteriously "reappear" after a couple of years.
Whereas the English *comprehending* Slashdotters will have probably noticed clause 14 of the General Terms.
These Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of Canada and you submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Canadian courts.
Strange that a Taiwanese based operation would be governed by the laws of Canada, AND have this mailing address for copyright issues.
Plurk.com
2425 Matheson Blvd
8th Floor, Suite 813
Mississauga, Ontario
L4W 5K4 Canada
So if Microsoft built a GUI like Gnome and layer it on top of a *nix Kernel, not forgetting of course to include a copy of the GPL and the source code, that would be fine with you ?
Or would they still be "stealing" ?
Does China even acknowledge their citizens the right to be free from illegal search & seizure? Do you really want to get into that? "Article 109 of the CPL authorizes the police to search the body and personal belongings of a criminal suspect.
And how is this *any* different than what you have to go through at an American airport ? The only justification they need to consider you a criminal supect is the fact that you have a long beard and carry a prayer mat.
Wrap it any comfortable language you want, you are no more "free" in the US than anywhere else. The only difference is that you are free to the right of legal recourse afterwards ... although even those freedoms are rapidly being eroded under the guise of "homeland security".
Yup, just set your filter to block the range 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255.
Problem solved.
Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. This is because the submission process is so borked, it takes 45 seconds to write a new entry to our database.
Chances are, you're behind a firewall or proxy, or clicked the Back button to accidentally reuse a form. Please try again. Nope, it's just my neurons fire faster than once per minute.
Pare, considering you've been in the "editing" stage since February 2007, perhaps it's time to update your sig to "I've grown tired of making a Low Budget HDV Filipino Horror Movie in NYC" ?
So it's okay for Google to know that you used their search engine to search for midget porn, but not that once you found it, you actually clicked on one of the links ?
theproblemismostsensibleurlsaretakenbydomainspammerssothisistheonlyoptionleft.com
I would love to see Symnatec, etc list this as malware
I would love to see Symantec listed as malware ... have you seen how difficult it is to actually uninstall that thing (completely), and what a piece of spamming shit it turns into once your free trial is over ?
I wonder if anyone has filed a patent for "use of paragraphs to break up a wall of text using the internet".
I'll be off to the patent office then ...
McCarthy indoctrination at it's finest ... you wouldn't happen to be American would you ?
Communism ... look at the root word, commune.
It means everyone works for the good of the commune and there is NO GOVERNMENT !!! Everyone is equal, no one is "in charge", and that's the only way it *can* work.
Put someone in charge, and that infers a "higher position" for them in the social order, which is against the very fundamental of communism.
Although, in practice of course, communism doesn't work even on a small scale. Even the Amish, who seem to be pretty much self sufficient, still have councils of elders who make decisions for the rest of the group. Once a decision is made that is for the best of an individual, not neccessarily the best for the group as a whole, communism breaks down into depotism, feudalism or some other word ending in "-ism" (sorry, just woke up, only firing on 3 cylinders right now).
There's two kinds of people I can't stand. Those who are intolerent to other peoples cultures ... and the Dutch.
So the source of OpenOffice is written in LOLCode ?
Wouldn't surprise me, geek jokes are rarely *that* funny outside the basement clique.
While trying to avoid putting too much spin on it, I'd rather just look at it in context.
$10 billion dollars means they took $1.50 from every man, woman and child on the plant.
While piracy may be hurting them, don't you think that a $10 billion profit means perhaps, just perhaps, the cost of their product is STILL TOO HIGH ?
And if they did a little bit of supply / demand analysis, by maybe only skinning a buck instead of a buck fifty, piracy might actually go down as the product would be *more* accessible (read cheaper) for the masses ?
Hmm interesting ...
Query 1 = SELECT somecolumn FROM table
Query 2 = DROP somecolumn FROM table
Query 2 returns first with "ok"
Query 1 returns with "fucked if I know, column ain't there no more" ?
How is this useful ?
I'm wondering how many Linux users would actually *be* on a social network, seeing as even a simple thing like Flash is so hard for them to get working ?
Or maybe MS is doing some fancy data-mining.
1. Bought a computer ?
2. Asked for a refund on the preinstalled copy of Windows ?
3. No profile found on Facebook ?
4. ???
5. Linux User Profit !
Nah, most MLM's involve convincing you become an "entrepreneur businessman" by selling you a tube of toothpaste for $27 dollars. Then, rather than face the fact you just got ripped off, you have to invite your family and friends to "sales meetings" where you can offload the toothpaste to them so that they can become "entrepreneur businessmen" also.
Basically it means recruiting people for whom money is more important than their closest family and friends, and would happily fuck them over to recoup their losses. Possibly why MLM is so popular in America.
Being the same shade as a Pantone Copyrighted Color Swatch ?
Don't be a fool ...
Apparently we've got an excess of CO2 lying around at the moment. Can't we just grab the Carbon out of that ? And the spare Oxygen we release means we won't need so many trees anyway, freeing up valuable land for growing McDonalds beefburgers-on-legs.
'What else did they do?'
'Well, there's...' Colon racked his brains. 'There's al-gebra. That's like sums with letters. For... for people whose brains aren't clever enough for numbers, see?'
'Is that a fact?'
'Right,' said Colon. 'In fact,' he went on, a little more assertively now he could see a way ahead, 'I heard this wizard down the University say that the Klatchians invented nothing. That was their great contribution to maffs, he said. I said "What?" an' he said, they come up with zero.'
'Dun't sound that clever to me,' said Nobby. 'Anyone could invent nothing. I ain't invented anything.'
'My point exactly,' said Colon. 'I told him, it was people who invented numbers like four and, and-' '-seven-' '-right, who were the geniuses. Nothing didn't need inventing. It was just there. They probably just found it.'
'It's having all that desert,' said Nobby.
'Right! Good point. Desert. Which, as everyone knows, is basically nothing. Nothing's a natural resource to them. It stands to reason. Whereas we're more civilized, see, and we got a lot more stuff around to count, so we invented numbers.
----
On a more non-Pratchett note, if it was the Arabs who had mathematics, navigation, and a technological understanding far superior to that of anyone else, how come they have to import every damn thing they need (technical expertise, labour, doctors, nurses, etc) from all over the world ?
Your basic Arab wants to sit smoking shisha and drinking coffee. Had you seen Abu Dhabi or Dubai before they brought the Brits and the Yanks in to build their entire infrastructure back in the 70's ? It was all bloody desert, and when the oil money runs out, it'll all return to desert.
The Arabs might have been great leaders in these fields back in the year 0 AD, but since then they have degenerated into a pack of savages, intent on beheading anyone who doesn't follow their "Johnny-come-lately" religion.
SELECT story FROM table WHERE dupe = TRUE
50,000 Rows Returned
Ooops, looks like that might only be the 50k milestone after all