Possibly "Return To Zork", where on the very first screen, you cut the bonding plant with the knife rather than just pulling it out, and you carried on your merry way, recording all 6 jokes and replaying them at the comedy club, solving the tiles, collecting the disk pieces just to discover your plant was dead and you had to go through the whole thing again:-(
(Mind you, Rebecca was hot, even after she'd sparked you out)
And neither will he be killed, mamed, or stolen from
Yes, because everyone knows that getting your asshole ripped apart by a 250kg 6ft black guy from Georgia is JUST the punishment appropriate for typing admin, admin in 2 boxes...
Why must EVERY conversation on privacy boil down to a few tired questions about "open source" alternatives ?
What, like if the source code is open, then that will prevent backdoors ? Erm hello, the client software isn't the problem, it's the network of Skype servers the bloody data passes through that is the weak point in the equation.
So who do you trust more with your privacy ? A multi million dollar company, or some nerd in his moms basement, acting as a VOIP connectivity server. In my case, I'd chose option "none of the above", but really... open source is not the answer to ALL the worlds ills.
So rather than take the plans for the left hand widget and turning it out on a milling machine, we spend billions in reinventing the widget because a wodget is "so much more advanced you know, and we can definately do what we did 40 years ago in a nother 10 years minimum".
And here was me thinking that the USA considered the "war on terror" as the solution to the "worst evil in the world". Still I suppose the acronym WOT works just as well for the "war on titties".
There's a nice little add on for Firefox called "Live HTTP Headers", which shows all requests made from the browser. This includes the actual request by Flash to fetch the FLV file, so you get the full URL of the request, paste it back into the address bar, and choose save as file. Easy.
I have a 19 year old currently doing BS Computer Science.
I just watched her take the whole weekend to complete a project that should have taken at most 2 hours. The reason ?
She has her music playing, cell phone at the ready, and no less than 3 distinct messenger clients and 2 email clients open. Any interruption from any of these 7 sources cause her to stop working to either change the track, answer the SMS, answer an IM or reply to an email.
I try to explain to her that perhaps if she shut the bloody lot off for 2 hours, and simply CONCENTRATED on what she was doing, she could be done in no time and then have the whole weekend free to "socialize" online.
But I'm the one "out of touch":-(
So what you are saying is without a body, there cannot be a conclusive murder conviction. So now all any murderer has to do is make sure he disposes of the body REALLY WELL, and he'll never serve time ?
You know, funnily enough, my existing SSL on my browser is ALREADY encrypted sufficiently to avoid decrypting the original message... so tell me, why should I go to the trouble of yet more hooks into my system just so I can send my packets over TOR and hide my IP address... thus screwing up ANY system that relys on a steady IP to identify myself to that system.
And you should learn that correlation does noty impy causation asshole.
I don't know the exact percentage, but circa 50% of all methane in our atmosphere is caused by cows farting... do you advocate the mass culling of cows to sustain gaia ???
Slashdot requires you to wait longer between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
No shit... how MUCH longer ???
It's been 4 seconds since you hit 'reply'.
Thanks for the update, when EXACTLY can I post again to avoid this bullshit message ???
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Nope, your half assed submission script will reject my post on the basis of timestamp, won't tell me HOW LONG I need to wait before I can submit sucessfully, and then accuses me of fucking up my firewall settings, when I know damn well they have NOTHING to do with the problem. TODO - Fix your responses ASAP !!! TY.
Yes, but as always, not enough to make it 100% interoperable... and that's where OSS always falls down, as in the real world, managers aren't looking for 90-something % compatibility:-(
Becuse listening to the latest gossip about what Doreen said about Kevin at her sister in law's wedding is such a threat to "national security".
Enough already, like Al Kaeda uses anything less than 2048 bit RSA anyway... 7 years holed up in a cave in Afghanistan, and you useless bastards STILL cant find him:-(
First Post ?
... but soothing pinks and intuitive greens are all very well for the more "arty" amongst us, but spend 7 years looking at the same damn interface and you'll crave for a bog standard grey, white and black color scheme, with minimal icons that actually MEAN something...
Half my time as programmer is taken up in making the most used functions topmost and leftmost in the window, and creating shortcuts to make things move faster... why click on that "forward" button 1000 times a day, when you *KNOW* that is what the user will *always* do anyway... shortcut it to auto-forward etc.
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Possibly "Return To Zork", where on the very first screen, you cut the bonding plant with the knife rather than just pulling it out, and you carried on your merry way, recording all 6 jokes and replaying them at the comedy club, solving the tiles, collecting the disk pieces just to discover your plant was dead and you had to go through the whole thing again :-(
(Mind you, Rebecca was hot, even after she'd sparked you out)
Vista AND Linux ... aren't these something like matter and anti-matter ?
Install on the same drive and the universe implodes !
So something like the UK then ?
And neither will he be killed, mamed, or stolen from
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Yes, because everyone knows that getting your asshole ripped apart by a 250kg 6ft black guy from Georgia is JUST the punishment appropriate for typing admin, admin in 2 boxes
And after only 13 years ... miraculous.
Perhaps now it's actually flying, they could finish up Duke Nukem Forever ?
Well now 18km2 chunks of the polar ice cap are falling off and melting, I'm sure there'll be plenty of water for everyone soon.
Why not open your mouth a little wider, so you can get the other foot in there ?
indiscRiminately
Why must EVERY conversation on privacy boil down to a few tired questions about "open source" alternatives ?
What, like if the source code is open, then that will prevent backdoors ? Erm hello, the client software isn't the problem, it's the network of Skype servers the bloody data passes through that is the weak point in the equation.
So who do you trust more with your privacy ? A multi million dollar company, or some nerd in his moms basement, acting as a VOIP connectivity server. In my case, I'd chose option "none of the above", but really ... open source is not the answer to ALL the worlds ills.
So rather than take the plans for the left hand widget and turning it out on a milling machine, we spend billions in reinventing the widget because a wodget is "so much more advanced you know, and we can definately do what we did 40 years ago in a nother 10 years minimum".
Progress, isn't it wonderful ...
Just like if I leave my door open, I'm consenting to let anyone wander into my house ? Erm, nope.
And here was me thinking that the USA considered the "war on terror" as the solution to the "worst evil in the world". Still I suppose the acronym WOT works just as well for the "war on titties".
There's a nice little add on for Firefox called "Live HTTP Headers", which shows all requests made from the browser. This includes the actual request by Flash to fetch the FLV file, so you get the full URL of the request, paste it back into the address bar, and choose save as file. Easy.
Let the FLV pr0n downloads begin.
I have a 19 year old currently doing BS Computer Science. I just watched her take the whole weekend to complete a project that should have taken at most 2 hours. The reason ? She has her music playing, cell phone at the ready, and no less than 3 distinct messenger clients and 2 email clients open. Any interruption from any of these 7 sources cause her to stop working to either change the track, answer the SMS, answer an IM or reply to an email. I try to explain to her that perhaps if she shut the bloody lot off for 2 hours, and simply CONCENTRATED on what she was doing, she could be done in no time and then have the whole weekend free to "socialize" online. But I'm the one "out of touch" :-(
Console gamers have the attention span of a concussed duckling.
There, fixed that for you.
WHERE IS THE BODY INDEED.
So what you are saying is without a body, there cannot be a conclusive murder conviction. So now all any murderer has to do is make sure he disposes of the body REALLY WELL, and he'll never serve time ?
You know, funnily enough, my existing SSL on my browser is ALREADY encrypted sufficiently to avoid decrypting the original message ... so tell me, why should I go to the trouble of yet more hooks into my system just so I can send my packets over TOR and hide my IP address ... thus screwing up ANY system that relys on a steady IP to identify myself to that system.
does not imply causation ... damn spell checker :-(
And you should learn that correlation does noty impy causation asshole.
... do you advocate the mass culling of cows to sustain gaia ???
I don't know the exact percentage, but circa 50% of all methane in our atmosphere is caused by cows farting
Yes exit nodes are a problem. I think this is one area where we need to concentrate. This is why we need security and unix gurus!
Erm no, this is why you need to stop pretending that TOR is a valid cryptographic solution "providing everyone plays fair".
on 200,000 hard disks or 1 boot server Yes, ideal situation ... single point of failure that can disable 200,000 servers instantaneously.
Viva OSS :-(
Or alternatively, we could just sit on a bogus end node and intercept all your packets ...
Who the fuck is Cory Doctorov anyway ???
Amen !!!
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... how MUCH longer ???
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Slashdot requires you to wait longer between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
No shit
It's been 4 seconds since you hit 'reply'.
Thanks for the update, when EXACTLY can I post again to avoid this bullshit message ???
Chances are, you're behind a firewall or proxy, or clicked the Back button to accidentally reuse a form. Please try again. If the problem persists, and all other options have been tried, contact the site administrator.
Nope, your half assed submission script will reject my post on the basis of timestamp, won't tell me HOW LONG I need to wait before I can submit sucessfully, and then accuses me of fucking up my firewall settings, when I know damn well they have NOTHING to do with the problem. TODO - Fix your responses ASAP !!! TY.
Yes, but as always, not enough to make it 100% interoperable ... and that's where OSS always falls down, as in the real world, managers aren't looking for 90-something % compatibility :-(
Becuse listening to the latest gossip about what Doreen said about Kevin at her sister in law's wedding is such a threat to "national security". Enough already, like Al Kaeda uses anything less than 2048 bit RSA anyway ... 7 years holed up in a cave in Afghanistan, and you useless bastards STILL cant find him :-(
First Post ?
... but soothing pinks and intuitive greens are all very well for the more "arty" amongst us, but spend 7 years looking at the same damn interface and you'll crave for a bog standard grey, white and black color scheme, with minimal icons that actually MEAN something ...
... why click on that "forward" button 1000 times a day, when you *KNOW* that is what the user will *always* do anyway ... shortcut it to auto-forward etc.
Half my time as programmer is taken up in making the most used functions topmost and leftmost in the window, and creating shortcuts to make things move faster