Known shill? Possibly - I don't know him. But, in this instance, I have to agree with him, shill or not. I remember Al Gore promising apocolytipic events would happen by now. How 'bout that hockey stick?
Believe me, I take mankind's continued survival pretty seriously, but you'll have to admit that the global warming activists have employed to many of thier own shills. Not to mention, they demand to much faith. Here, on slashdot, I expect people to resist any kind of faith-based bullshit. How many insults have been hurled at theists, because they can't prove a damned thing they believe in? Come on people - stop being faithful to people who claim to be scientists, but haven't proven a damned thing.
No, but I read the title of the summary. "What happened to the climate refugees?" And, I can answer that. They've all taken refuge, hiding in all the alrmist's cavernous asses. I suspect that Al Gore is hosting an entire clan in his fat ass! And, if it weren't filled with vacuum (HA! "filled" and "vacuum" in the same sentence!) they could host another clan, or even an entire tribe in his fat head.
You will, of course, remember that SCO was much more independent than the turkeys in this article. In fact, SCO was a going concern in it's heyday, started downhill slowly, reached the edge of a cliff, and plummeted to the depths where the real slime lives. MS may have contributed to SCO, but that wasn't until SCO had already squandered many fortunes in pursuit of their version of the Holy Grail.
I know that you're a very busy man, and don't have time to RTFA. Just for you:
“There is an old adage in the law that, if the facts are on your side, you pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, you pound on the law. If neither the facts nor the law is on your side, you pound on the table. It appears there is a lot of table pounding going on here.”
As a younger man, I traveled quite a lot. Never made it to Japan though. Most places that I went to were happy to accept US dollars - but if a guy were halfways alert, he would notice that he always lost something in every transaction. Maybe several cents, maybe a dollar, maybe ten dollars. For that reason, I always went to a currency exchange, and bought all the currency I thought I might need while in that country. Going into a restaurant early in the morning didn't entail trying to figure the exchange rate before you had your first cup of coffee, and going into a bar in the evening didn't mean that the drunker you got, the more you were ripped off. Like with computer security, convenience isn't always the best first consideration!
Documentation, or you're just another blowhard geek in his mother's basement. You can tell all your buddies that you get lots of pussy, and they might even believe you. But, those of us who have actually known more pussy than just Rosie Palmer and her five sisters can tell you that pussy is pussy. You don't much like black girls? Probably because you've been shot down by black girls who wanted real men. All that is required for almost any woman to blow your mind, is that A: she really wants to "get laid" and/or B: that she really wants to please you. Mind blowing indeed. And, color, race, nationality, language, religion or any other damned thing you might propose makes absolutely no difference at all. Cultural differences are subjective - some may turn you on, some may turn you off. Age and weight might make some small difference, subject to clinical study.
BTW - did you mean to post as Anonymous Coward, and just forgot to check the box?
In more practical terms, the dollar loses it's importance to the world. Remember the '70's (if you're old enough) when the oil producing countries decided that they wouldn't accept the dollar as payment for their products. They wanted something real to back up the payments. Gold.
All by itself, this erosion of faith in the dollar wouldn't mean diddly. But, this is just a streamlet which feeds a good sized river. One day, the dollar won't even be accepted in half the countries of the world. "Your green money is no good here, white man - go exchange it for real money, then we'll barter!"
Can't argue the halving of IQ when the adrenaline gets going.
My own IQ marker has alway been the size of a group of males. Individually, any one of the boys might be pretty bright. But, two boys together share half the IQ that they started with. Three boys together halve their IQ's again. By the time you get four boys together, they don't have enough smarts to pour piss out of a boot. Larger groups are likely to die of asphyxiation, because they aren't smart enough to breathe.
Combine my law with yours, and get a group of 4 adrenaline junkies together, and they probably suck the IQ out of anyone around them. Kind of like a black hole sucks energy and matter.
Obviously not. But - those people who permit and/or place their baby in harm's way out of negligence can be fined, or even imprisoned.
I say, if your computer is part of a botnet, you should be fined. It isn't that difficult for your ISP to figure out that 5, 10, or maybe even 50% of your traffic goes to a botnet. (It should have been blatantly obvious to the ISP of the server, not merely detectable!) So, the ISP sends you freindly warning that it appears you have been compromised - and after a week or two, you're STILL actively participating in the botnet.
Turn it over to the cops, they confiscate your computer as evidence, you get a summons, and are charged with a misdemeanor, public nuisance type. I see revenue here - the courts should jump on this!
I really don't believe that this is anything "new". When I got out of high school (Class of '74) I went into construction. During my apprenticeship as a carpenter, we put up houses with insulation that looked like pressed fiber impregnated with tar, we put up other insulation that looked a lot like styrofoam with foil backing, AND, we most commonly put up fiberglass bats. I didn't pay for the stuff, and I didn't know what it cost - but it was fairly obvious that when we used the pressed fiber stuff, it generally went into a low budget home. Fiberglass bats went into midrange homes. And, that styrofoam with the foil backing went into upper class homes - oftentimes in addition to the fiberglass bats.
So - some goony birds saw that insulation, and wondered if it might interfere with radio waves. Or, to be fair, I guess they were curious about it's impact on some specific bandwidths. I can assure you that the foil backed insulation had no effect on AM/FM radio reception, because we ALWAYS had radios playing.
I couldn't say about WIFI or cellphones, or wireless internet. It might stop it - but I doubt it.
That. I muddled through the conversation, thinking this, and thinking that, and trying to figure out if I had anything worth posting. And, there it is, already posted. In short, we've been sold out by our representative government. Each and every representative in Washington makes a few noises at election time, which convince us, the fools, that they rep actually has our interests at heart. Then, he takes the handouts from the corporations, and does their bidding.
According to the constitution, we, the taxpayers, we the citizens, own this nation and all of it's assets, to be used according to our wishes. If we the people wish to allocate money for the construction of this, that, or the other, then by God, this, that, and the other belongs to us, and it should be used for our benefit. The infrastructure was paid for by taxpayers, taxpayers should be reaping the profits from the infrastructure. It's that simple, really.
Yeah, you're right. Almost all ethnic jokes are generic, and with only a rinse, they can be re-used for many other nationalities, religions, colors, or whatever. I miss the days when I was young, in a city roughly divided into four parts - the whites, the blacks, the Italians, and the Slovaks. We insulted each other, but we worked hard to be original. You KNEW that you were cool if you came up with something of your own, and the following week all four groups were using it to bash each other.
Oh yeah - my tribe is definitely superior. There are only two kinds of people in the world, after all. Us Polskis, and all the rest of you who wish you could be Polish!
Cowscows answer is right on target - but GP mentioned that (s)he was an expatriat in a foreign country. There are a lot of strange twists to online and/or mail order purchases under those circumstance. Right here in America, you will very often see that something cannot be shipped to an APO or FPO address. I think it bites, but that's the way it is. So - suppose that your (son, nephew, granddaughter, cousin) asks you to purchase something and SEND IT to him/her. After an extended period of time, the item arrives, is unwrapped, and found to be faulty. Don't you think someone is pretty screwed, now? There was nothing "illegal" with forwarding the item to the APO/FPO - but any hope of making a claim for freight damage, or getting an RMA for the faulty device is gone with the wind.
Compromise is all well and good. I could compromise with (fill in the blank - RIAA, Microsoft, MPAA or whatever blows your skirt up), if I really had to. Or any of the other major players. But, we all know that money talks. So - Sony wants this or that law passed, and they try this year, and fail. So, next year, they come back, armed with more money - and maybe they fail again. So, next year, they are back again with even more money.
Alright, let's say that the money isn't always the deciding factor. See, they try and try and try again, until they get a congress/parliament or whatever that is either ignorant, or maybe even in agreement with their goals.
You, me, and Joe Sixpack? We have no money, no voice, no nothing. Compromise. Phht. I would truly LOVE the opportunity to compromise with all the douches in the world, but I don't get the opportunity.
Adobe only recently ported their trash to AMD64. It's only months ago that I downloaded their pre-release for testing on Linux, then a couple months later I saw another pre-release for Windows. I really don't know what they've done with Mac - are they still stuck with a 32 bit version?
Adobe? Why Adobe? Don't they introduce more exploits to a Windows machine than even Microsoft? I know I've read articles in the recent past that say more exploits are using Adobe products as the vector than all other vectors combined. And, you're going to give Adobe some kind of a free pass on the new architecture? Wow - you should be a politician. You certainly have the smarts for it!
Alright, read page 13. It doesn't look good for Google, but GSA falls short of calling Google liars. It's rather ambiguous. Premier was certified, and Government was even more restrictive and secure than Premier - perhaps Google believed that Government was automatically certified?
And, I'm mindful that the entire PDF is a motion filed by people hostile to Google - the PDF is not a definitive source of what is true or not true.
Come on - I'm working to understand all this - and suddenly you changed out one term for another. Is the application(s) in question FISMA COMPLIANT, or is it FISMA CERTIFIED? Perhaps the difference is to subtle for some people to understand, but it's enough to entirely wreck an argument.
LOL, if he really is using that Amiga, we'll both be very surprised. That was kind of a "stock" answer that I've been using for people who still run Win98 and Win2K. I just thought it was rather apt for someone who claims to be running something that was obsolete before either of those systems were on the market.
The walled garden is a pipedream. Face it. And no amount of legislation, no amount of corporate security, no amount of whining by the gaming community is going to change that.
It wasn't illegal to modify the shotgun - it was illegal to modify the shotgun beyond established parameters which changes that weapon from a "shotgun" to a concealable weapon, ie, a "pistol". The shotgun owner has every right to change out the firing pin, to change the magazine, to put riflings in the barrel, to change the sites, or even to mount a laser pointer on the shotgun. He is prohibited from using it as a concealed weapon. So, your analogy falls short.
You're way off target. The question is, who owns a playstation when it leaves the store? I say, if Geohot, or anyone else pays for it, it is THEIRS. And, Sony has no rights whatsoever to dictate how it might be used.
Booo-fucking-hoooo. My giveadamn is broken. Worse, I have no sympathy for sniveling cry babies like yourself. "I just want to play a game! There aren't any other games, I want THIS game, from THIS company!" FFS, grow up, junior.
You'll find a newer, more powerful Amiga, or you'll replace your Amiga, or you'll be left behind. And, no one will notice. No problem, my freind. Really, do you think someone will post on/. five years from now, "Whatever happened to that orange cretin? Is he still stuck with that old paperweight of a computer?"
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Known shill? Possibly - I don't know him. But, in this instance, I have to agree with him, shill or not. I remember Al Gore promising apocolytipic events would happen by now. How 'bout that hockey stick?
Believe me, I take mankind's continued survival pretty seriously, but you'll have to admit that the global warming activists have employed to many of thier own shills. Not to mention, they demand to much faith. Here, on slashdot, I expect people to resist any kind of faith-based bullshit. How many insults have been hurled at theists, because they can't prove a damned thing they believe in? Come on people - stop being faithful to people who claim to be scientists, but haven't proven a damned thing.
No, but I read the title of the summary. "What happened to the climate refugees?" And, I can answer that. They've all taken refuge, hiding in all the alrmist's cavernous asses. I suspect that Al Gore is hosting an entire clan in his fat ass! And, if it weren't filled with vacuum (HA! "filled" and "vacuum" in the same sentence!) they could host another clan, or even an entire tribe in his fat head.
You will, of course, remember that SCO was much more independent than the turkeys in this article. In fact, SCO was a going concern in it's heyday, started downhill slowly, reached the edge of a cliff, and plummeted to the depths where the real slime lives. MS may have contributed to SCO, but that wasn't until SCO had already squandered many fortunes in pursuit of their version of the Holy Grail.
I know that you're a very busy man, and don't have time to RTFA. Just for you:
“There is an old adage in the law that, if the facts are on your side, you pound on the facts. If the law is on your side, you pound on the law. If neither the facts nor the law is on your side, you pound on the table. It appears there is a lot of table pounding going on here.”
As a younger man, I traveled quite a lot. Never made it to Japan though. Most places that I went to were happy to accept US dollars - but if a guy were halfways alert, he would notice that he always lost something in every transaction. Maybe several cents, maybe a dollar, maybe ten dollars. For that reason, I always went to a currency exchange, and bought all the currency I thought I might need while in that country. Going into a restaurant early in the morning didn't entail trying to figure the exchange rate before you had your first cup of coffee, and going into a bar in the evening didn't mean that the drunker you got, the more you were ripped off. Like with computer security, convenience isn't always the best first consideration!
"I get a lot of pussy"
Documentation, or you're just another blowhard geek in his mother's basement. You can tell all your buddies that you get lots of pussy, and they might even believe you. But, those of us who have actually known more pussy than just Rosie Palmer and her five sisters can tell you that pussy is pussy. You don't much like black girls? Probably because you've been shot down by black girls who wanted real men. All that is required for almost any woman to blow your mind, is that A: she really wants to "get laid" and/or B: that she really wants to please you. Mind blowing indeed. And, color, race, nationality, language, religion or any other damned thing you might propose makes absolutely no difference at all. Cultural differences are subjective - some may turn you on, some may turn you off. Age and weight might make some small difference, subject to clinical study.
BTW - did you mean to post as Anonymous Coward, and just forgot to check the box?
In more practical terms, the dollar loses it's importance to the world. Remember the '70's (if you're old enough) when the oil producing countries decided that they wouldn't accept the dollar as payment for their products. They wanted something real to back up the payments. Gold.
All by itself, this erosion of faith in the dollar wouldn't mean diddly. But, this is just a streamlet which feeds a good sized river. One day, the dollar won't even be accepted in half the countries of the world. "Your green money is no good here, white man - go exchange it for real money, then we'll barter!"
Can't argue the halving of IQ when the adrenaline gets going.
My own IQ marker has alway been the size of a group of males. Individually, any one of the boys might be pretty bright. But, two boys together share half the IQ that they started with. Three boys together halve their IQ's again. By the time you get four boys together, they don't have enough smarts to pour piss out of a boot. Larger groups are likely to die of asphyxiation, because they aren't smart enough to breathe.
Combine my law with yours, and get a group of 4 adrenaline junkies together, and they probably suck the IQ out of anyone around them. Kind of like a black hole sucks energy and matter.
To which I say - tough titty. That someone who may be suffering financially is guilty of aiding and abetting, even if only by negligence.
"can you baby proof the world?".
Obviously not. But - those people who permit and/or place their baby in harm's way out of negligence can be fined, or even imprisoned.
I say, if your computer is part of a botnet, you should be fined. It isn't that difficult for your ISP to figure out that 5, 10, or maybe even 50% of your traffic goes to a botnet. (It should have been blatantly obvious to the ISP of the server, not merely detectable!) So, the ISP sends you freindly warning that it appears you have been compromised - and after a week or two, you're STILL actively participating in the botnet.
Turn it over to the cops, they confiscate your computer as evidence, you get a summons, and are charged with a misdemeanor, public nuisance type. I see revenue here - the courts should jump on this!
I really don't believe that this is anything "new". When I got out of high school (Class of '74) I went into construction. During my apprenticeship as a carpenter, we put up houses with insulation that looked like pressed fiber impregnated with tar, we put up other insulation that looked a lot like styrofoam with foil backing, AND, we most commonly put up fiberglass bats. I didn't pay for the stuff, and I didn't know what it cost - but it was fairly obvious that when we used the pressed fiber stuff, it generally went into a low budget home. Fiberglass bats went into midrange homes. And, that styrofoam with the foil backing went into upper class homes - oftentimes in addition to the fiberglass bats.
So - some goony birds saw that insulation, and wondered if it might interfere with radio waves. Or, to be fair, I guess they were curious about it's impact on some specific bandwidths. I can assure you that the foil backed insulation had no effect on AM/FM radio reception, because we ALWAYS had radios playing.
I couldn't say about WIFI or cellphones, or wireless internet. It might stop it - but I doubt it.
That. I muddled through the conversation, thinking this, and thinking that, and trying to figure out if I had anything worth posting. And, there it is, already posted. In short, we've been sold out by our representative government. Each and every representative in Washington makes a few noises at election time, which convince us, the fools, that they rep actually has our interests at heart. Then, he takes the handouts from the corporations, and does their bidding.
According to the constitution, we, the taxpayers, we the citizens, own this nation and all of it's assets, to be used according to our wishes. If we the people wish to allocate money for the construction of this, that, or the other, then by God, this, that, and the other belongs to us, and it should be used for our benefit. The infrastructure was paid for by taxpayers, taxpayers should be reaping the profits from the infrastructure. It's that simple, really.
Yeah, you're right. Almost all ethnic jokes are generic, and with only a rinse, they can be re-used for many other nationalities, religions, colors, or whatever. I miss the days when I was young, in a city roughly divided into four parts - the whites, the blacks, the Italians, and the Slovaks. We insulted each other, but we worked hard to be original. You KNEW that you were cool if you came up with something of your own, and the following week all four groups were using it to bash each other.
Oh yeah - my tribe is definitely superior. There are only two kinds of people in the world, after all. Us Polskis, and all the rest of you who wish you could be Polish!
Cowscows answer is right on target - but GP mentioned that (s)he was an expatriat in a foreign country. There are a lot of strange twists to online and/or mail order purchases under those circumstance. Right here in America, you will very often see that something cannot be shipped to an APO or FPO address. I think it bites, but that's the way it is. So - suppose that your (son, nephew, granddaughter, cousin) asks you to purchase something and SEND IT to him/her. After an extended period of time, the item arrives, is unwrapped, and found to be faulty. Don't you think someone is pretty screwed, now? There was nothing "illegal" with forwarding the item to the APO/FPO - but any hope of making a claim for freight damage, or getting an RMA for the faulty device is gone with the wind.
Compromise is all well and good. I could compromise with (fill in the blank - RIAA, Microsoft, MPAA or whatever blows your skirt up), if I really had to. Or any of the other major players. But, we all know that money talks. So - Sony wants this or that law passed, and they try this year, and fail. So, next year, they come back, armed with more money - and maybe they fail again. So, next year, they are back again with even more money.
Alright, let's say that the money isn't always the deciding factor. See, they try and try and try again, until they get a congress/parliament or whatever that is either ignorant, or maybe even in agreement with their goals.
You, me, and Joe Sixpack? We have no money, no voice, no nothing. Compromise. Phht. I would truly LOVE the opportunity to compromise with all the douches in the world, but I don't get the opportunity.
Adobe only recently ported their trash to AMD64. It's only months ago that I downloaded their pre-release for testing on Linux, then a couple months later I saw another pre-release for Windows. I really don't know what they've done with Mac - are they still stuck with a 32 bit version?
Adobe? Why Adobe? Don't they introduce more exploits to a Windows machine than even Microsoft? I know I've read articles in the recent past that say more exploits are using Adobe products as the vector than all other vectors combined. And, you're going to give Adobe some kind of a free pass on the new architecture? Wow - you should be a politician. You certainly have the smarts for it!
Alright, read page 13. It doesn't look good for Google, but GSA falls short of calling Google liars. It's rather ambiguous. Premier was certified, and Government was even more restrictive and secure than Premier - perhaps Google believed that Government was automatically certified?
And, I'm mindful that the entire PDF is a motion filed by people hostile to Google - the PDF is not a definitive source of what is true or not true.
In short, I'm not convinced either way.
Come on - I'm working to understand all this - and suddenly you changed out one term for another. Is the application(s) in question FISMA COMPLIANT, or is it FISMA CERTIFIED? Perhaps the difference is to subtle for some people to understand, but it's enough to entirely wreck an argument.
LOL, if he really is using that Amiga, we'll both be very surprised. That was kind of a "stock" answer that I've been using for people who still run Win98 and Win2K. I just thought it was rather apt for someone who claims to be running something that was obsolete before either of those systems were on the market.
The walled garden is a pipedream. Face it. And no amount of legislation, no amount of corporate security, no amount of whining by the gaming community is going to change that.
It wasn't illegal to modify the shotgun - it was illegal to modify the shotgun beyond established parameters which changes that weapon from a "shotgun" to a concealable weapon, ie, a "pistol". The shotgun owner has every right to change out the firing pin, to change the magazine, to put riflings in the barrel, to change the sites, or even to mount a laser pointer on the shotgun. He is prohibited from using it as a concealed weapon. So, your analogy falls short.
You're way off target. The question is, who owns a playstation when it leaves the store? I say, if Geohot, or anyone else pays for it, it is THEIRS. And, Sony has no rights whatsoever to dictate how it might be used.
Stuff it? Good idea, get to stuffing.
Booo-fucking-hoooo. My giveadamn is broken. Worse, I have no sympathy for sniveling cry babies like yourself. "I just want to play a game! There aren't any other games, I want THIS game, from THIS company!" FFS, grow up, junior.
You'll find a newer, more powerful Amiga, or you'll replace your Amiga, or you'll be left behind. And, no one will notice. No problem, my freind. Really, do you think someone will post on /. five years from now, "Whatever happened to that orange cretin? Is he still stuck with that old paperweight of a computer?"