"My wife and I separated for a time because she thought I was looking at porno," said Fred McFarlane, a store owner in Georgia. "We are religious people. She just couldn't be with me after she saw the pictures that were in our computer. I don't blame her. Even now, I know it's real hard for her to understand it was the computer that did it, not me."
When I worked for DishNetwork, 9 times out of 10 when someone tried to get out of paying for the porno Pay per views that someone there ordered the first thing they would say was "We're Christians!"
In all honesty, this guy was probably better off without his prudish wife. EVEN IF he was downloading pr0n, so what?
There were training rooms set up with several computers around the perimiter. One day during a training session, while no one was seated at it, out of apparently nowhere a popup ad featuring big bouncing naked breasts came up.
Since no one was using the machine at the time, it was obvious that it had been hijacked. If some poor sould had been sitting there at the time, they would have either been fired on the spot or placed on a "final warning" for it.
it doesn't matter if you are right or wrong, you will be labeled a kook...
The tinfoil hat jokes do a good job to make sure that we remember that some of the things we take as common sense are still way out there to many people.
If you label people as "kooks" and deny them access to legitimate discourse, you are partly responsible when those people take 'extreme measuers' to get their point across.
The Unabomber is a good example of this. His manifesto "Industrial Society and its future" contains many salient points, but the fact that no one seriously addressed any of his concerns kept him sending bombs to people.
This applies equally to the right as well as the left. When second amendment rights advocates point out the rise in crime in Australia after guns were banned, do you dismiss them as "gun nuts"? When environmental advocates talk about heavy metals in the great lakes, do you dismiss them as "eco whackos"?
Ad hominem attacks and ridicule accomplish nothing other than making reasonable resolution of issues more diffcult.
LK
Why the insulting form of question?
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So I'd like to hear from the tinfoil hat brigade
Why do you attempt to make fun of people who have serious concerns about their privacy?
iTunes works with Apple. If you wanted to play tunes on Linux you'd use a different online music store. If you want to play with Apple you have to play by Apple's rules.
Or host your project in a country with different rules.
I really don't want people yelling out "Look out for the rocket!" during my flights, personally.
Someone would get their ass kicked. Remember the "shoe bomber" those passengers stomped his ass. Imagine some poor hapless, socially inept geek getting manhandled by the honestly terrified passengers around him.
Just so long as the guy is in front of his laptop and not looking out the window.
Do you plan to run out of the airplaine lavatory with your trousers around your ankles every time someone opens up a can of whoop ass on the n00b in the game?
"Don't mind me, I just had to know if it was a real or CG rocket."
As you can probably tell, the Mac emulation scene is pretty much dead.
Emulating a Mac on x86 isn't the same beast as emulating the x86 on a Mac. For one the markets aren't the same.
Everyone who needs to run Mac programs, has a Mac. Something like this would only be useful for someone who wants to experiment. High speed isn't as critical as it was for someone who needed to run a Win98 App under Mac OS 8.x.
If your laptop gets stolen by some kid who wants to play around, then a shell script/cron job would probably be good enough. But let's take someone like myself for example. You don't have to worry about someone like me stealing your laptop, but let's say that you forget it on the bus or in a lobby, or in a restaurant and I or someone like me stumbles across it. The first thing I'm going to do is check it for good pr0n, but without connecting it to my network. The second thing I'm going to do is wipe the drive and reinstall the OS.
A better option for you is to make sure that no one who shouldn't gets access to your machine.
he understaffed FCC would be powerless to shut them down.
But the DoJ would be empowered to prosecute these people for facilitation and conspiracy to break the law for telling all of these radio pirates that they should be broadcasting without licenses.
If you have antivirus software, how can you be so sure that there are no viruses?
You can't be 100% sure of that. Just like you can never be 100% sure that the condom you're wearing won't break. I wouldn't have sex with a new partner without a condom and no one without antivirus software is getting onto my network.
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"My wife and I separated for a time because she thought I was looking at porno," said Fred McFarlane, a store owner in Georgia. "We are religious people. She just couldn't be with me after she saw the pictures that were in our computer. I don't blame her. Even now, I know it's real hard for her to understand it was the computer that did it, not me."
When I worked for DishNetwork, 9 times out of 10 when someone tried to get out of paying for the porno Pay per views that someone there ordered the first thing they would say was "We're Christians!"
In all honesty, this guy was probably better off without his prudish wife. EVEN IF he was downloading pr0n, so what?
LK
There were training rooms set up with several computers around the perimiter. One day during a training session, while no one was seated at it, out of apparently nowhere a popup ad featuring big bouncing naked breasts came up.
Since no one was using the machine at the time, it was obvious that it had been hijacked. If some poor sould had been sitting there at the time, they would have either been fired on the spot or placed on a "final warning" for it.
LK
"Jack" says " I do not know how people can stay in prison for years."
Yeah, like it's by choice!
LK
it doesn't matter if you are right or wrong, you will be labeled a kook...
The tinfoil hat jokes do a good job to make sure that we remember that some of the things we take as common sense are still way out there to many people.
If you label people as "kooks" and deny them access to legitimate discourse, you are partly responsible when those people take 'extreme measuers' to get their point across.
The Unabomber is a good example of this. His manifesto "Industrial Society and its future" contains many salient points, but the fact that no one seriously addressed any of his concerns kept him sending bombs to people.
This applies equally to the right as well as the left. When second amendment rights advocates point out the rise in crime in Australia after guns were banned, do you dismiss them as "gun nuts"? When environmental advocates talk about heavy metals in the great lakes, do you dismiss them as "eco whackos"?
Ad hominem attacks and ridicule accomplish nothing other than making reasonable resolution of issues more diffcult.
LK
So I'd like to hear from the tinfoil hat brigade
Why do you attempt to make fun of people who have serious concerns about their privacy?
LK
MS already doesn't make money on the XBox, their money comes from licensing and games.
It's like the old model of giving away razors and selling blades.
LK
Or did you forget there was something besides x86 Linux, Windows, and Mac.
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Well, nothing that isn't dying.
LK
I'm not sure why it was modded down.
iTunes works with Apple. If you wanted to play tunes on Linux you'd use a different online music store. If you want to play with Apple you have to play by Apple's rules.
Or host your project in a country with different rules.
Finally! Geeks can join the Mile High club! Too bad it won't have the same significance...
W00 h00, w3 just a55rap3d j00!
w00t, bitches!
LK
I really don't want people yelling out "Look out for the rocket!" during my flights, personally.
Someone would get their ass kicked. Remember the "shoe bomber" those passengers stomped his ass. Imagine some poor hapless, socially inept geek getting manhandled by the honestly terrified passengers around him.
LK
Just so long as the guy is in front of his laptop and not looking out the window.
Do you plan to run out of the airplaine lavatory with your trousers around your ankles every time someone opens up a can of whoop ass on the n00b in the game?
"Don't mind me, I just had to know if it was a real or CG rocket."
LK
That's all he needs to say and he'll make himself rich by selling it. Well, at least rich enough to pay a good lawyer.
LK
You mean you don't run an SSH server on your box?
Of course I do, and SMTP as well. But we're takling about a billion bytes for free.
The cost of billion bytes of storage is next to nothing. So, as the grandparent post said, why bother?
For the benefit of those among us who rode the short bus to school, I'll say it this way.
Free billion bytes that you can access from anywhere you can get an internet connection.
LK
You seem to think that we're ALL mindless fanboys.
I'm a mindless storage hog. I could use a spare billion bytes or two.
I for one won't be getting a GMAIL account. Unless the featureset somehow is worth the upset, which is probably won't be, I'm not going to bother.
Free billion bytes of storage. What more do you need to know?
LK
As you can probably tell, the Mac emulation scene is pretty much dead.
Emulating a Mac on x86 isn't the same beast as emulating the x86 on a Mac. For one the markets aren't the same.
Everyone who needs to run Mac programs, has a Mac. Something like this would only be useful for someone who wants to experiment. High speed isn't as critical as it was for someone who needed to run a Win98 App under Mac OS 8.x.
LK
If your laptop gets stolen by some kid who wants to play around, then a shell script/cron job would probably be good enough. But let's take someone like myself for example. You don't have to worry about someone like me stealing your laptop, but let's say that you forget it on the bus or in a lobby, or in a restaurant and I or someone like me stumbles across it. The first thing I'm going to do is check it for good pr0n, but without connecting it to my network. The second thing I'm going to do is wipe the drive and reinstall the OS.
A better option for you is to make sure that no one who shouldn't gets access to your machine.
LK
See the *uncut Japanese version* of the film as it was really meant to be seen, as a serious anti-nuke picture,
Why does it not surprise me that the Japanese made an anti-nuke movie?
LK
Can I get a patent for my method of weeding out bogus files so that people can pirate the right files?
LK
I just dug around the mirrors list, FTP from the Indiana state site are giving me about 1.15M/s on my work link.
/. about it.
Wait 20 minutes and check it again, you just told all of
LK
The torrents will be slow as hell today.
LK
he understaffed FCC would be powerless to shut them down.
But the DoJ would be empowered to prosecute these people for facilitation and conspiracy to break the law for telling all of these radio pirates that they should be broadcasting without licenses.
LK
customer loyalty goes a long way,
People who have Warezed their product are not their customers.
LK
If you have antivirus software, how can you be so sure that there are no viruses?
You can't be 100% sure of that. Just like you can never be 100% sure that the condom you're wearing won't break. I wouldn't have sex with a new partner without a condom and no one without antivirus software is getting onto my network.