I say, thou heathen, that thy lack of belief in the great and mighty Flying Spaghetti Monster will be thy downfall. The great and holy FSM shall descend up thou and thy offspring, yeah onto the seventh generation. And thou shall weep tears of sorrow and wear clothes stained with marinara sauce for thy inequity.
All praise be, now brethren lets us break the garlic bread of brotherhood and bow our heads in supplication, Amen.
Look I know its fun and easy to point the finger at Microsoft. I am far from being a big fan of theirs. But really, in this case, I am cheering Microsoft.
Why, you ask? Because I really despise patent trolls.
I think the best thing that would be possible for our economy would be to eliminate business process and software patents, and limit patents for actual inventions to around five years. In the mean time I am going to cheer every time a dirty little patent troll loses out, even if it means cheering Microsoft.
There are many aspects of old tech that are still superior to current tech. The primary reason it isn't done is cost of manufacturing. All this "self-evident, 50+ years of engineering" nonsense is quite presumptuous. Hitler used similar arguments making the case for white supremacy. Business buys results, not pure research.ï This is a propaganda ad pure and simple. Go check who paid for this to be made and who profits from it.
The YouTube stupidity wasn't limited to claiming it was faked. Here we have an actual YouTube commenter trying to draw a comparison between Hitler's Eugenics program and the engineering principles behind car safety. It's like crazy in a can.
People still infected their machines by opening executable attachments to email, not to mention the thousands of fucking viruses found on Limewire. Of course virus writers are going to find a way to use Google Docs to exploit people's stupidity.
The problem isn't Google Groups, Google Docs, Limewire, or anything else. The problem is that morons have access to the Internet.
Small glitch, as in 22 out of 200 students affected on a data migration to Google's free service.
The glitch itself wasn't fixed for three days, true. However, the glitch occurred on Friday, and the CIS department notified Google of the issue Saturday. Prior to the fix on Tuesday, Google had disabled the accounts. The article also states that during this 24 to 48 hour windows before Google shut down the accounts, the CIS had sent out emails to the students and waited for their replies. I don't know how fast you expect students to reply to an email sent out over the weekend, but I am guessing that those emails didn't get back to the CIS department immediately. Let's give it 12 hours.
So, a free service responds to your problem and disables the accounts within 24 to 36 hours, then fixes the problem 18 - 36 hours later. All the while this same service is responding to similar glitches at ten other institutions, with no word on how large those universities were.
Overall, I'd say that is a pretty fair turnaround, all things considered.
By the way, the author of the article, Sarah Perez, seems like a fairly Microsoft-centric person, considering her personal website. So the guess by miffo doesn't seem that far off.
Consider the article itself
Friday, September 11th, a couple of students notified Brown's Computing and Information Services department (CIS) that they were able to read emails belonging to other students. The CIS department contacted Google on the following dayand sent out an email to the 200 students whose mailboxes were in transition
then she says:
That means that the students had access to each other's email accounts for three solid days (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) as well as parts of Friday and Tuesday before the accounts were suspended by Google
The author includes "parts of Friday" even though she had made it clear Google wasn't notified until Saturday. I mean, my God, Google didn't even bother to go back in time to before they were notified!!!
Since you are throwing the Titanic in the mix, we are going to need a selection of the wealthy and powerful to drown. I vote to add the executives of AIG and the rest of their ilk.
3. Why does the mass transit in Europe, heavily subsidized and nationalized by it's member states, use less than 20% of the energy that we do for cargo and passenger movement?
I am not necessarily disagreeing with you, but the United States covers an area 2.22 times larger than the various member states of the European Union. Also cities in the United States, especially those more to the west, tend to sprawl out more, leading to less efficient energy usage.
Well, this is why we in America don't have a democracy, but rather a republic. Your idea of a hereditary monarchy suffers the same failing because of the lack of guarantee that a particular heir would be smart enough to run a government. In addition, a monarch offers the additional risk of automatically placing someone in charge no matter how insane they are.
Why not just suggest that government be assigned to the people with the highest IQ scores? I'll answer that for you. We don't want the highest IQ scores working in the government because being in a bureaucracy doesn't require that high of an IQ.
Qualifying for MENSA requires you to be smarter than 98% of Humans, but if you had ever spent time around them you would quickly understand that these are not the people you want in charge of the country.
Actually, the bible does contain one documented story of someone who got out of life alive. Your statistic says 100%, and you claim there is not one documented example otherwise.
Enoch, however, is a documented example of a person who did get out of life alive. In fact, the only one. You can doubt the veracity of the documenting source, but it is a documented example of a person not dying.
L Ron Hubbard was the most successful shitty author ever. If you have ever voluntarily decided to torture yourself and you get tired of ripping fishhooks through your testicles, you can read his series.
I quite enjoyed James Rigney's writing style, and I thought his approach to Conan was well done. I have a lot of respect for him. He is a genuine hero and deserves props for his service, with a distinguished service cross and a bronze star acquired during two tours in Vietnam.
He also deserves props for having graduated with a bachelors in Physics, a degree plan which is definitely not for the faint of heart.
As to his Wheel of Time series, I found it to be highly entertaining and involving. His characters have a depth to them, and he allows those characters to act according to their strengths and weaknesses, even if it having them act in a different manner would make it easier to advance the plot. If a character is scared to death of heights, he isn't going to cross over a tightrope, even if that were the smart thing for the character to do. The character freezes, and gets caught.
The world he created was immense, and one could write hundreds of books inside that world. The mechanics of the world are reasonably consistent, providing an even backdrop to the heroes and the villians.
His book was also only one of two books that have ever made me physically react while reading. Stephen King's IT actually made me jump in a chair while reading it, and Robert Jordan made me so mad at one of the characters I jumped up, screamed curses, and threw the book across the room.
While his writing style is not for everyone, those of us who find it enjoyable are overjoyed that Brandon Sanderson will, with the help of Jordan's widow and his notes, finish the series. James Rigney worked as hard as he could the last month or two of his life to get as much information down for the next author to continue his work and finish the series. I for one, can't wait for it.
Hey, you want to know why linux doesn't have more desktop market penetration? Guess what, the average person would try linux and open their favorite youtube video and get pissed off at linux because it doesn't do full screen flash well.
You think that in the same situation Microsoft wouldn't have somone calling Adobe to get the full screen flash video working properly? They understand that it is always the operating system's fault when something goes wrong, no matter what the truth is.
Microsoft may be a giant corporate asshole, but they understand that people's perceptions no matter how misguided will impact the popularity of their product. Look at Vista, at release there were a lot of problems. Now at service pack 2, Vista is performing much better, but its brand name is still mud because of the problems. I personally think this was part of the plan. Windows 7 is coming out, and it is looking to be what Vista should have been.
In the end, the "Windows" brand hasn't been damaged, the "Vista" brand was. And Windows 7 will hit the market sounding like some sort of savior for computers.
Meanwhile, Linux advocates still want to know why the average person won't leave windows.
Which is why when the economy tanked during the Great Depression, social security was created, since nobody wanted millions of elderly starving to death.
I can tell you've never been on welfare or food stamps. Otherwise you wouldn't be talking out your ass this way.
In any case, the purpose of social security was to provide a source of financial income to old people.
You sound like someone who really needs to get laid, or go into anger management courses, or both.
"The Government" - I would like to know which agency within "The Government" you are referring to. I would also like to know what government you are referring to. If you are in the US, you could be referring to the federal government, your state government, your county government, or your city government. And within "The Government" there are scores of different agencies, all responsible for different programs, initiatives, and regulations.
Perhaps giving a more clear example instead of your blanket "government sucks" line might make this more clear.
No, sunshine is not on the list. By that token, all those people starving in Darfur are enjoying a much higher standard of living than all the sunshine deprived people of Europe and America who say indoors forty or fifty hours a week, and who then go home to houses with food sitting in a pantry
Oh, and flat screen televisions, computers, books, comfortable furniture...
Yeah, there's a reason sunshine isn't on that list. Because there are people starving to death in Africa who would be glad for a chance to get out of the sunshine.
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I say, thou heathen, that thy lack of belief in the great and mighty Flying Spaghetti Monster will be thy downfall. The great and holy FSM shall descend up thou and thy offspring, yeah onto the seventh generation. And thou shall weep tears of sorrow and wear clothes stained with marinara sauce for thy inequity.
All praise be, now brethren lets us break the garlic bread of brotherhood and bow our heads in supplication, Amen.
Of course, if you asked Mao Zedong he would have told you that authority comes from the barrel of a gun.
would that be like shoving a tube into someone's neck, but failing to pierce the throat?
"I don't like the new wallpaper, it's just like Hitler's invasion of Poland."
I don't know that's going to work, but if anything can get my wife to not put pink flowers up in our bedroom I am all for it.
Look I know its fun and easy to point the finger at Microsoft. I am far from being a big fan of theirs. But really, in this case, I am cheering Microsoft.
Why, you ask? Because I really despise patent trolls.
I think the best thing that would be possible for our economy would be to eliminate business process and software patents, and limit patents for actual inventions to around five years. In the mean time I am going to cheer every time a dirty little patent troll loses out, even if it means cheering Microsoft.
The YouTube stupidity wasn't limited to claiming it was faked. Here we have an actual YouTube commenter trying to draw a comparison between Hitler's Eugenics program and the engineering principles behind car safety. It's like crazy in a can.
Sorry, try again, but thank you for playing
http://hackaday.com/2004/11/14/hack-an-etch-a-sketch/
People still infected their machines by opening executable attachments to email, not to mention the thousands of fucking viruses found on Limewire. Of course virus writers are going to find a way to use Google Docs to exploit people's stupidity.
The problem isn't Google Groups, Google Docs, Limewire, or anything else. The problem is that morons have access to the Internet.
Fixed that for ya.
The glitch itself wasn't fixed for three days, true. However, the glitch occurred on Friday, and the CIS department notified Google of the issue Saturday. Prior to the fix on Tuesday, Google had disabled the accounts. The article also states that during this 24 to 48 hour windows before Google shut down the accounts, the CIS had sent out emails to the students and waited for their replies. I don't know how fast you expect students to reply to an email sent out over the weekend, but I am guessing that those emails didn't get back to the CIS department immediately. Let's give it 12 hours.
So, a free service responds to your problem and disables the accounts within 24 to 36 hours, then fixes the problem 18 - 36 hours later. All the while this same service is responding to similar glitches at ten other institutions, with no word on how large those universities were.
Overall, I'd say that is a pretty fair turnaround, all things considered.
By the way, the author of the article, Sarah Perez, seems like a fairly Microsoft-centric person, considering her personal website. So the guess by miffo doesn't seem that far off.
Consider the article itself
then she says:
The author includes "parts of Friday" even though she had made it clear Google wasn't notified until Saturday. I mean, my God, Google didn't even bother to go back in time to before they were notified!!!
I know its off topic but I had to reply to your signature. Snarky has already been done.
Since you are throwing the Titanic in the mix, we are going to need a selection of the wealthy and powerful to drown. I vote to add the executives of AIG and the rest of their ilk.
Wow. I am immediately going to apply for a national science foundation grant to recreate the historic travels of Hunter S Thompson.
I am not necessarily disagreeing with you, but the United States covers an area 2.22 times larger than the various member states of the European Union. Also cities in the United States, especially those more to the west, tend to sprawl out more, leading to less efficient energy usage.
Well, this is why we in America don't have a democracy, but rather a republic. Your idea of a hereditary monarchy suffers the same failing because of the lack of guarantee that a particular heir would be smart enough to run a government. In addition, a monarch offers the additional risk of automatically placing someone in charge no matter how insane they are.
Why not just suggest that government be assigned to the people with the highest IQ scores? I'll answer that for you. We don't want the highest IQ scores working in the government because being in a bureaucracy doesn't require that high of an IQ.
Qualifying for MENSA requires you to be smarter than 98% of Humans, but if you had ever spent time around them you would quickly understand that these are not the people you want in charge of the country.
Actually, the bible does contain one documented story of someone who got out of life alive. Your statistic says 100%, and you claim there is not one documented example otherwise.
Enoch, however, is a documented example of a person who did get out of life alive. In fact, the only one. You can doubt the veracity of the documenting source, but it is a documented example of a person not dying.
I have an extremely hard time believing that a panel of human hair can generate 9 volts by being illuminated by a small florescent light.
When Rand alThor gets bonded against his will by the green Aes Sedai
L Ron Hubbard was the most successful shitty author ever. If you have ever voluntarily decided to torture yourself and you get tired of ripping fishhooks through your testicles, you can read his series.
I quite enjoyed James Rigney's writing style, and I thought his approach to Conan was well done. I have a lot of respect for him. He is a genuine hero and deserves props for his service, with a distinguished service cross and a bronze star acquired during two tours in Vietnam.
He also deserves props for having graduated with a bachelors in Physics, a degree plan which is definitely not for the faint of heart.
As to his Wheel of Time series, I found it to be highly entertaining and involving. His characters have a depth to them, and he allows those characters to act according to their strengths and weaknesses, even if it having them act in a different manner would make it easier to advance the plot. If a character is scared to death of heights, he isn't going to cross over a tightrope, even if that were the smart thing for the character to do. The character freezes, and gets caught.
The world he created was immense, and one could write hundreds of books inside that world. The mechanics of the world are reasonably consistent, providing an even backdrop to the heroes and the villians.
His book was also only one of two books that have ever made me physically react while reading. Stephen King's IT actually made me jump in a chair while reading it, and Robert Jordan made me so mad at one of the characters I jumped up, screamed curses, and threw the book across the room.
While his writing style is not for everyone, those of us who find it enjoyable are overjoyed that Brandon Sanderson will, with the help of Jordan's widow and his notes, finish the series. James Rigney worked as hard as he could the last month or two of his life to get as much information down for the next author to continue his work and finish the series. I for one, can't wait for it.
Hey, you want to know why linux doesn't have more desktop market penetration? Guess what, the average person would try linux and open their favorite youtube video and get pissed off at linux because it doesn't do full screen flash well.
You think that in the same situation Microsoft wouldn't have somone calling Adobe to get the full screen flash video working properly? They understand that it is always the operating system's fault when something goes wrong, no matter what the truth is.
Microsoft may be a giant corporate asshole, but they understand that people's perceptions no matter how misguided will impact the popularity of their product. Look at Vista, at release there were a lot of problems. Now at service pack 2, Vista is performing much better, but its brand name is still mud because of the problems. I personally think this was part of the plan. Windows 7 is coming out, and it is looking to be what Vista should have been.
In the end, the "Windows" brand hasn't been damaged, the "Vista" brand was. And Windows 7 will hit the market sounding like some sort of savior for computers.
Meanwhile, Linux advocates still want to know why the average person won't leave windows.
Don't you know that the moon landings were faked? Even Neil Armstrong is convinced that his historic moonwalk was faked.
Which is why when the economy tanked during the Great Depression, social security was created, since nobody wanted millions of elderly starving to death.
I can tell you've never been on welfare or food stamps. Otherwise you wouldn't be talking out your ass this way.
In any case, the purpose of social security was to provide a source of financial income to old people.
You sound like someone who really needs to get laid, or go into anger management courses, or both.
"The Government" - I would like to know which agency within "The Government" you are referring to. I would also like to know what government you are referring to. If you are in the US, you could be referring to the federal government, your state government, your county government, or your city government. And within "The Government" there are scores of different agencies, all responsible for different programs, initiatives, and regulations.
Perhaps giving a more clear example instead of your blanket "government sucks" line might make this more clear.
No it isn't. It doesn't matter whether another card game has ever rotated a card 90 degrees before.
... patently ridiculous.
Where do you get the idea that merely rotating a piece of paper should qualify for a patent?
That is
No, sunshine is not on the list. By that token, all those people starving in Darfur are enjoying a much higher standard of living than all the sunshine deprived people of Europe and America who say indoors forty or fifty hours a week, and who then go home to houses with food sitting in a pantry
Oh, and flat screen televisions, computers, books, comfortable furniture...
Yeah, there's a reason sunshine isn't on that list. Because there are people starving to death in Africa who would be glad for a chance to get out of the sunshine.