Clearly, there is some kind of plot here. Movieboy thought he was being cool, but prolonged exposure to the toxic grease known as "hot butter" has numbed his brain cells.
You should have used the Jedi mind trick and forced him to tell you the truth. Give me the name of the theatre and I'll go down there and find out for myself.
No future with that piece of crap iMac mouse!!
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Just because a particular mouse comes in the box, it does not mean that it's chained to the computer.
"Look at my great mouse on this 486! I wish I didn't have to throw out that G3 when the mouse got dirty. If only there were some way to buy a NEW mouse, one I really liked, and attach it to this computer..."
I'm pretty sure LinuxPPC isn't being held back by the lack of mice. If anything is holding back LinuxPPC it's the fact that most Mac owners actually like their OS and don't intend to partition their hard drive and go through a byzantine install and configuration process just so their iMacs can serve web pages even faster.
BTW - I hated both the keyboard and the mouse at first, but I've come to love the keyboard, and the mouse I can tolerate. It's almost the perfect size for my two year old daughter.
Alsop is such a tool. If he ever let go of himself long enough to learn how to type with both hands, he would really be dangerous.
What I want to know is who the hell was paying $500 a year to read this tripe in his P.C. Letter? That's a sweet gig if you can get it. I can see Stewart shedding a tear as his last sucker got a clue in 1993 and he had to stop.
I take offense at/. comments being called "the bottom of the barrel." I don't post anything without a painstaking quality check. I want my comments to be the scum that fouls the surface of the water, not the dregs which have sunk out of sight.
And don't blame ZDNet for their poorly researched articles. They have to hire journalists because geeks cant spel. Or make complete sentences.
And you thought Apple's liscence was restrictive. Email us your changes along with your name, email address, and current employer, and if we like them, they immediately become the property of AlGore 2000. No payment will be provided for the confiscation of code, but if you ask nice, they may give you an autographed photo of Tipper.
Long live the GOSL!
How many days until Gore takes credit for Open Source? Any chance he invented Perl, too?
This is sloppy reporting from CNN. This shouldn't surprise anyone. It was whipped together in the wake of Miss Melissa, but now that he is in fed. custody it's the job of the press to evaluate the "real" threat.
How much do you think can be learned from the "30,000 hacker-oriented sites on the Internet, bringing hacking -- and terrorism -- within the reach of even the technically challenged."?
Could a technically challenged person pose a threat to national security? Or even to a well-guarded web site? I doubt it. Not until they were no longer technically cahllenged.
Hackers (I refuse to be interested in the debate which surrounds this word) grow with the knowledge they gain. This does not mean that all sophisticated programmers become moral after exposure to enough cathode rays and computer manuals, but the process - the years of learning - changes that person. No level of security will prevent a coordinated, intelligent attack in all circumstances. If someone wanted to gain entrance to Fort Knox, it could be done. But the price is too high. Network security is based on precaution, caution, and vigilance. If your network can be compromised by someone who has read three or four of the "30,000" hacker sites, then it wasn't well-secured.
There are legitimate concerns about privacy and security on the internet, but this article does not address those concerns. Could someone please question MS on the ease with which Melissa was spread? If I created a Melissa variant would it spread just as quickly?
The threat is on the desktop, not the server.
Servers are well-secured. Mac and Windows desktops _cannot_ be secured.
Don't fool yourself. You're not John Galt. And none of those kids at the food court in Lenox Mall are John Galt either. If all the hackers went on strike, then programmers with mortgages and families would just make more money. (Supply and demand).
This is so true. In the Windows world, virii are a fact of life. No one questions the fundamental lack of OS security that allows this to happen, then MS creates software that fuels the fire of the insecurity.
Don't blame the ID. Don't blame the gov't for hunting this guy down. Don't blame MS. Blame the man who wrote and distributed the virus.
Had this virus been truly malicious, the damage could have been much worse. Admins breathe a sigh of relief today, but the technique still exists for any other idiot to use and exploit. Macro virii were novel one day, but now they are - I believe - the most pervasive kinds of virii. More people will write Melissa-style virii, and until the fundamental structure of MS Office and Windows is changed, or replaced, most users will continue to be susceptible.
If only there were a secure, reliable alternative to Windows.
Open Message to Bill Gates: Bill, you must pull us from the dark ages of computing. Please bend your powerful mind to the creation of a new operating system that will save us all from the Bob Smith's (or whatever his name is) of the world. Call it Windows 2005, but get it here fast. We need it. We need you.
From Katz: "Asked by the incredulous and worshipful Fry what he's doing there, Nimoy declines Fry's request that he do "Spock" talk."
I thought the joke was because Fry wanted him to do the trademark Spock hand sign (not talk), and, of course, he couldn't. He's only a head. I laughed.
Anyway, did anyone see the Matt Groening head? It was right next to Fry and Bender when they were trying to hide as heads on the shelf. I bet in slow motion there are a lot of neat heads. The opening scene of the Simpsons shows almost every character sitting on a lawn. It's just too fast to see.
Hopefull these episodes will get better. At least half of what's funny about the Simpson's is Homer. And there's no Homer. They need to make one quick. I don't mean carbon copy that character onto this show, but make an equally funny character. It seems like they're all straight men. Maybe it's just me.
More posts like this. I know it wasn't hard, but this shreds the article.
I'm all for getting blown by dead women (Ayn Rand) but let's not confuse her philosophy and ideas with the philosphies and ideas expounded by people in her name. Rand, like Jesus, has a lot of fanatical followers who often use Her name to make a point - or maybe just to prove that they're Randroids. Who knows?
Rand's novels feature heroic men and women of reason fighting against people who rely on FUD. If you think I'm exaggerating go back and read them. In Atlas Shrugged, Dagny Taggart's competitors warned against using Reardon steel because no one had ever tried it before. Rand predicted FUD decades before the computer industry adopted it. If the BackOfficeCTO article isn't FUD, I don't know what is.
This episode could be included in the next Rand novel. A man writes an article indicting the crazy new tactics of his competition. His competition comes to read the article, but the server can't handle it, crashes. The/. effect, metaphor (this is a novel, remember) for all that is reason and right, has rendered final judgment. His ideas, his server, his model of software development dies, and rational thought reigns supreme. (My steel gets blue just thinking about it!)
So don't assume that the granola copylefters would be on Rand's dark side. The GOP card poking into Fegreus's ass doesn't make his thoughts on Rand correct. They have to be argued in a public forum with logic reason to prop them up.
I don't know who has the best game design, but if they have a category for best name, the winner has got to be V.D.
Suggested copy for box: "Navigate through the sloppy and dangerous world of V.D. Follow your loins and risk death or dysfunction! Follow the advice of Tinky Winky hater Jerry Falwell and risk boredom or even more dysfunction! The choice is yours!
They routinely drop support of the Mac, and their CEO still sits (I think) on the Apple Board of Directors. Prediction: they port their crappy software to Linux, whine about low sales and high support costs (no offense to Linux, the cost of the CD burn will be too high), then drop the software in favor of Win2002.
Sadly, it will legitimize the OS.
Notice that the lowest quality software always legitmizes an OS. E.g. MacOS now has Office 98! Linux now has Quicken! More hacked-together-in-a-month first-person-shoot-outs for the Mac! People will be complaining about the lack of virii for Linux soon.
Sorry if I sound bitter. I use Intuit software at work.
How different is this from the DOJ Microsoft case? I know. It's not similar at all on the surface, but the underlying theme is one of government attempting to protect users from oppressive corporations.
It is a PR ploy on behalf of the politicians. It does make a statement, but only one about how far governments will go to interfere with the privacy and private lives of individuals.
Every time you cheer for another blow to big bad Bill (Gates, that is, not the other blow to the other Bill) remember that it won't be the last time a government agency sticks their fingers into the technology pie.
If this doesn't sound bad to you, just think that Al Gore is the government's Alpha Geek.
This is the best suggestion yet. Who could doubt that the Jedi mind trick would work on a phone tech? In fact, if Steve's forceful enough, the tech will probably refuse service on future iMacs because they don't look like the iMac he serviced this morning.
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Clearly, there is some kind of plot here. Movieboy thought he was being cool, but prolonged exposure to the toxic grease known as "hot butter" has numbed his brain cells.
You should have used the Jedi mind trick and forced him to tell you the truth. Give me the name of the theatre and I'll go down there and find out for myself.
Just because a particular mouse comes in the box, it does not mean that it's chained to the computer.
"Look at my great mouse on this 486! I wish I didn't have to throw out that G3 when the mouse got dirty. If only there were some way to buy a NEW mouse, one I really liked, and attach it to this computer..."
I'm pretty sure LinuxPPC isn't being held back by the lack of mice. If anything is holding back LinuxPPC it's the fact that most Mac owners actually like their OS and don't intend to partition their hard drive and go through a byzantine install and configuration process just so their iMacs can serve web pages even faster.
BTW - I hated both the keyboard and the mouse at first, but I've come to love the keyboard, and the mouse I can tolerate. It's almost the perfect size for my two year old daughter.
Alsop is such a tool. If he ever let go of himself long enough to learn how to type with both hands, he would really be dangerous.
What I want to know is who the hell was paying $500 a year to read this tripe in his P.C. Letter? That's a sweet gig if you can get it. I can see Stewart shedding a tear as his last sucker got a clue in 1993 and he had to stop.
You're exactly right.
In his defense, this was a flip remark made in response to a stupid question from a journalist.
Apple was never in as much trouble as the press made them out to be.
What would you do if you were the CEO of Apple?
Rephrase: What would you do if you were the CEO of a company with the most rabidly loyal user base on the planet?
I am afraid of adding "alien" software to our NT box. For good reason, too... it's an NT box.
I take offense at /. comments being called "the bottom of the barrel." I don't post anything without a painstaking quality check. I want my comments to be the scum that fouls the surface of the water, not the dregs which have sunk out of sight.
And don't blame ZDNet for their poorly researched articles. They have to hire journalists because geeks cant spel. Or make complete sentences.
And you thought Apple's liscence was restrictive. Email us your changes along with your name, email address, and current employer, and if we like them, they immediately become the property of AlGore 2000. No payment will be provided for the confiscation of code, but if you ask nice, they may give you an autographed photo of Tipper.
Long live the GOSL!
How many days until Gore takes credit for Open Source? Any chance he invented Perl, too?
This is sloppy reporting from CNN. This shouldn't surprise anyone. It was whipped together in the wake of Miss Melissa, but now that he is in fed. custody it's the job of the press to evaluate the "real" threat.
How much do you think can be learned from the "30,000 hacker-oriented sites on the Internet, bringing hacking -- and terrorism -- within the reach of even the technically challenged."?
Could a technically challenged person pose a threat to national security? Or even to a well-guarded web site? I doubt it. Not until they were no longer technically cahllenged.
Hackers (I refuse to be interested in the debate which surrounds this word) grow with the knowledge they gain. This does not mean that all sophisticated programmers become moral after exposure to enough cathode rays and computer manuals, but the process - the years of learning - changes that person. No level of security will prevent a coordinated, intelligent attack in all circumstances. If someone wanted to gain entrance to Fort Knox, it could be done. But the price is too high. Network security is based on precaution, caution, and vigilance. If your network can be compromised by someone who has read three or four of the "30,000" hacker sites, then it wasn't well-secured.
There are legitimate concerns about privacy and security on the internet, but this article does not address those concerns. Could someone please question MS on the ease with which Melissa was spread? If I created a Melissa variant would it spread just as quickly?
The threat is on the desktop, not the server.
Servers are well-secured. Mac and Windows desktops _cannot_ be secured.
Don't fool yourself. You're not John Galt. And none of those kids at the food court in Lenox Mall are John Galt either. If all the hackers went on strike, then programmers with mortgages and families would just make more money. (Supply and demand).
Script kiddies do not rool the world.
This is so true. In the Windows world, virii are a fact of life. No one questions the fundamental lack of OS security that allows this to happen, then MS creates software that fuels the fire of the insecurity.
Don't blame the ID. Don't blame the gov't for hunting this guy down. Don't blame MS. Blame the man who wrote and distributed the virus.
Had this virus been truly malicious, the damage could have been much worse. Admins breathe a sigh of relief today, but the technique still exists for any other idiot to use and exploit. Macro virii were novel one day, but now they are - I believe - the most pervasive kinds of virii. More people will write Melissa-style virii, and until the fundamental structure of MS Office and Windows is changed, or replaced, most users will continue to be susceptible.
If only there were a secure, reliable alternative to Windows.
Open Message to Bill Gates:
Bill, you must pull us from the dark ages of computing. Please bend your powerful mind to the creation of a new operating system that will save us all from the Bob Smith's (or whatever his name is) of the world. Call it Windows 2005, but get it here fast. We need it. We need you.
Maybe I missed something but...
From Katz:
"Asked by the incredulous and worshipful Fry what he's doing there, Nimoy declines Fry's request that he do "Spock" talk."
I thought the joke was because Fry wanted him to do the trademark Spock hand sign (not talk), and, of course, he couldn't. He's only a head. I laughed.
Anyway, did anyone see the Matt Groening head? It was right next to Fry and Bender when they were trying to hide as heads on the shelf. I bet in slow motion there are a lot of neat heads. The opening scene of the Simpsons shows almost every character sitting on a lawn. It's just too fast to see.
Hopefull these episodes will get better. At least half of what's funny about the Simpson's is Homer. And there's no Homer. They need to make one quick. I don't mean carbon copy that character onto this show, but make an equally funny character. It seems like they're all straight men. Maybe it's just me.
More posts like this. I know it wasn't hard, but this shreds the article.
/. effect, metaphor (this is a novel, remember) for all that is reason and right, has rendered final judgment. His ideas, his server, his model of software development dies, and rational thought reigns supreme. (My steel gets blue just thinking about it!)
I'm all for getting blown by dead women (Ayn Rand) but let's not confuse her philosophy and ideas with the philosphies and ideas expounded by people in her name. Rand, like Jesus, has a lot of fanatical followers who often use Her name to make a point - or maybe just to prove that they're Randroids. Who knows?
Rand's novels feature heroic men and women of reason fighting against people who rely on FUD. If you think I'm exaggerating go back and read them. In Atlas Shrugged, Dagny Taggart's competitors warned against using Reardon steel because no one had ever tried it before. Rand predicted FUD decades before the computer industry adopted it. If the BackOfficeCTO article isn't FUD, I don't know what is.
This episode could be included in the next Rand novel. A man writes an article indicting the crazy new tactics of his competition. His competition comes to read the article, but the server can't handle it, crashes. The
So don't assume that the granola copylefters would be on Rand's dark side. The GOP card poking into Fegreus's ass doesn't make his thoughts on Rand correct. They have to be argued in a public forum with logic reason to prop them up.
Did anyone else think of deformed sideshow midgets when they saw the title of this thread?
One of us, One of us, One of us....
Katz needs to contribute to the movement before he can crawl under the wagon and writhe in the mud.
Go ahead and write some documentation so we can hate you for other reasons.
I thought Katz was twenty-something, too. The over 50 comment explains why he couldn't install Linux.
I don't know who has the best game design, but if they have a category for best name, the winner has got to be V.D.
Suggested copy for box:
"Navigate through the sloppy and dangerous world of V.D. Follow your loins and risk death or dysfunction! Follow the advice of Tinky Winky hater Jerry Falwell and risk boredom or even more dysfunction! The choice is yours!
And watch for V.D. II: S.T.D!"
(I amuse me.)
They routinely drop support of the Mac, and their CEO still sits (I think) on the Apple Board of Directors. Prediction: they port their crappy software to Linux, whine about low sales and high support costs (no offense to Linux, the cost of the CD burn will be too high), then drop the software in favor of Win2002.
Sadly, it will legitimize the OS.
Notice that the lowest quality software always legitmizes an OS. E.g. MacOS now has Office 98! Linux now has Quicken! More hacked-together-in-a-month first-person-shoot-outs for the Mac! People will be complaining about the lack of virii for Linux soon.
Sorry if I sound bitter. I use Intuit software at work.
How different is this from the DOJ Microsoft case? I know. It's not similar at all on the surface, but the underlying theme is one of government attempting to protect users from oppressive corporations.
It is a PR ploy on behalf of the politicians. It does make a statement, but only one about how far governments will go to interfere with the privacy and private lives of individuals.
Every time you cheer for another blow to big bad Bill (Gates, that is, not the other blow to the other Bill) remember that it won't be the last time a government agency sticks their fingers into the technology pie.
If this doesn't sound bad to you, just think that Al Gore is the government's Alpha Geek.
This is the best suggestion yet. Who could doubt that the Jedi mind trick would work on a phone tech? In fact, if Steve's forceful enough, the tech will probably refuse service on future iMacs because they don't look like the iMac he serviced this morning.