No thanks to your "let's solve the world's problems by punishing the 'evildoers' forever" mentality. Some things I'm willing to let go..... let's chase after real assholes with no excuse, like people with no car insurance, etc.
I agree.
Another thing that bugs me, which I've seen in several states now (not sure if they all have this law or not, but at least a few do), is that you can lose your license for not paying for gas.
How stupid is that? Steal a tank of gas (amounts to about $20) and have a punishment which hurts you far, far more than $20 worth. And besides, technology has made the need for that law obsolete: most gas stations take credit cards at the pump, so no human contact is necessary; and most gas stations don't let you start pumping without paying, so if you don't have a credit card you go inside, give them $25, pump your $23.45 of gas and get your change.
About 8 years ago I turned what could have been a serious accident into a minor bumper hit by accelerating. The lady was coming from the left, turning to merge with traffic, and didn't see me. I hit the horn for a good 5 seconds, and got no reaction. So I floored it, and she clipped me on the rear bumper.
Had I not accelerated, she would have hit me in the driver's door.
Had I braked, I would have hit her in the passenger door (since I didn't have enough stopping distance).
So sometimes accelerating is the proper response. Now if only the boat-of-car had had more power, I could have avoided the accident entirely. At least I got a couple grand out of it...
You said it. I was a.com millionaire and now I'm delivering pizzas. I still have my head in the clouds, though; whether I am rich or not right now (man I miss the 90s!), we'll all be Gods within the next few decades.
The other response to my post (not the tattoo one) had a cool link in it you should check out: The Hedonistic Imperative.
By the way, thanks for the vote of confidence in friendship!;-) I know that sometimes I'm not completely sane, like when I post the trollish "My Vow" posts on the SCO articles... But they deserve it, dammit.
With people walking up and driving away with perfect copies, suddenly your car has no value.
If you are a car dealer, you're done for.
If you're an anything dealer, you're done for. Nanotechnology is going to be so disruptive to the economy, because we will be able to make exact copies of any physical good.
We are already to the point where we can make exact copies of any digital good -- and thanks to Kazaa and BitTorrent (et al), music, movies, and books are available just for the asking.
Open Source is great for software because it moves us toward a "gift ecomony" where you are valued for what you contribute. I see the physical goods economy as moving toward that as well. Yes, you will not make money the same way you currently do (if at all -- if you can make food out of dirt what do you need money for?), but instead you will gain value and respect by contributing ideas to designs.
So development of new cars, models, and features (like lower gas mileage, increased horsepower) won't stop; it'll simply migrate to the general public instead of being done "behind closed doors" in a corporation.
Then there's the singularity, at which point machines will be able to think faster than humans. Once we get there, new developments will appear faster than we can think of them. We live in very interesting times, as the singularity is between 10 and 50 years away -- most of us will live to see it.
King Charles 'beheaded' guests who bored or annoyed him by viewing them at such an angle that his blindspot was over their head.
That's hilarious! I learned about the blind spot in a science class in high school, and from then on I always removed the teacher's head while they were talking. Even into college (although it's been a while since I've practiced; thanks for the memories!).
Here's an article on disabling windows script hosting.
Pretty simple really; for Windows 2000:
* Open "My Computer"
* Select "Tools/Folder Options"
* Click on File Types tab
* Find VBScript Script File
* Select Delete
* Click OK
For other versions of Windows, click on the link (it has instructions for 95, 98, NT and 2K; I'd imagine XP is similar to 2K but it was written in 2001 prior to XP's existence).
I'm trying to find instructions for modifying the security in Outlook 2000 as well, so it doesn't do anything automatically without a) my approval at the very least, or b) me asking it to run an attachment.
If anyone has pointers/links to articles on Outlook security, please post. Thanks!
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You're very funny. Let me directly quote the great-grandparent which you wrote:
Peta should be advocating the fact that animals are sentient beings, not a renewable resource. And for those pathetic scientists who even created such a device should deserve death at the least, using their own stupid machines.
Where did you use the "=" sign there? You said scientists who create a technology should be put to death "at the least" (I'm wondering what your "most" would be...). You did not say the users of the machines should be put to death, you said the creators. That's like suing Ford for a drunk driver killing your relative. (Pssst... it's not equal.)
I didn't insult your education, call you a fool, or discuss your drug use or lack thereof. I merely said you were being hypocritical, and you didn't answer my question: do you eat vegetables for which you must kill the organism in order to produce the food? (Carrots, potatoes, beets?)
Unlike animals, if an apple is broken off the tree, first, it doesn't feel pain (no nervous system) and second, it can REGROW the apple i.e. regenerate.
But carrots, potatoes and beets cannot regenerate; you kill them by harvesting them.
And just because a plant doesn't have a nervous system doesn't mean that you're not removing a life force from the Earth when you kill plants. They have a Kirlian aura which you're snuffing out. And check out PEVA, who argue that plants and even single-celled organisms can feel pain ("Some single cell organisms are known to react and withdraw (run!) from heat. Is this not a single-cell pain reaction without a complex human-like nervous system? How can a single cell make this determination without having a 'brain'?")
Oh, and as for religious references? Let's take Genesis:
"26": And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1. Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.
Combining the two: God gave us supremacy over the animals. The power to govern, control, possess, and use them for our purposes.
And if you follow a more scientific track, we evolved as omnivores and the few people who I have seen attempt a vegan lifestyle ended up emaciated, weak, pale, and short. (Yes, this is anecdotal evidence.)
I'm not trying to pick a fight -- but you obviously are, given the wording in the great-grandparent post:
Go ahead, FLAME ME. But it's the truth.
Calling something the truth without providing references is a Fallacious Argument. There's lots on that page; take your pick.;-) (My vote is for Burden of Proof, but several others fit.) Now, if you're willing to provide references, as I have above, and not resort to name-calling (that's an Ad Hominem attack, by the way) then we can have a discussion.
I, myself have always been vegetarian simply because it is morally wrong to take the life of one being only to benefit yourself.
I love this argument. I mean, it's one thing to say, "I'm healthier now that I've stopped eating red meat."
But it's something completely different when you try to value the life of one organism over another.
That's right: do you eat carrots? Potatoes? Beets? You've gotta kill the plant to get at the food. Why is a carrot's life force less valuable than a chicken's?
Even eating apples and other fruits can be seen as "evil" -- you're depriving the tree's children (the seeds) from their nurturing environment (the reason the tree makes apples is to feed the seeds).
You, sir, are a hypocrite. And especially in your last paragraph, where you state that certain humans should be put to death for killing animals. You value animal life over human life? This appears nowhere in either our laws or our religious documents (for any religion). So my question is, how did you arrive at this belief?
If I had any money, I'd be buying 1-year puts and calls on SCO, near the current strike price.
Why? Well, going long (buying) stock is good when it's going up. Going short (selling before buying, by borrowing the stock from your broker -- you need a margin account for it) makes money when the stock goes down.
Options make money within a certain timeframe on stock moves. Back when I did have money, late 1998 I believe, I thought Dell would move but wasn't sure which direction, so I bought both puts and calls, in equal dollar amounts. The stock moved up, and I made money on the calls and lost 100% on the puts. However, the amount I made was something like 700% (God I miss the 90s!), so the bet paid off bigtime.
Right now, either SCO has something up their sleeve (which the evidence, such as there is, doesn't seem to support) or they're a fuckedcompany and will be sleeping with the fishes before long. One year is plenty of time for this to pan out (if I was more of a gambler, I'd say 3 months).
Dammit, I said all that and turns out there are no options for SCOX stock. Oh well. Here's the current options for DELL in case you want to learn more (the CBOE has more info in their links -- see the Learning Center at the top right).
(Which led me to think, "bite the troll that feeds you?" although I am in no way implying you're a troll...)
Disabling the product after a length of time is a popular tactic with Windows Shareware authors, though not so much on the Mac where it is easier to bypass.
The problem with wishing for peace is sometimes we get it. Then the one with a weapon, any weapon, wins:
% Ned sees Moe being chased by an alien. (``Kneel before my slingshot,
% puny earthling!'') So Ned wishes that the aliens would be gone. Moe
% chases the alien with a board with a nail in it. The aliens flee.
Alien 1: It seems the earthlings won.
Alien 2: Did they? That board with a nail in it may have defeated us.
But the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards
and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail
so big, it will destroy them all!
[both aliens laugh evilly, for quite some time]
-- `The Monkey's Paw' in ``Treehouse of Horror II''
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OK, it appears they have removed that file.
So modify the instructions instead to load their home page. Not quite as effective, but still damaging.
for ((1; 1; 1)) ; do wget -O/dev/null sco.com ; done
Enjoy!
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I know, bad form replying to myself but the site came back up and I have code that will continually download that 5 MB file:
for ((1; 1; 1)) ; do wget -O/dev/null sco.com/images/pdf/eserver/eserver_sysadmin.pdf ; done
Enter the above into a Cygwin bash shell (I'm running it on Windows 2000).
Two notes: I couldn't get the "while" version to work, so I used "for" instead. And apparently (at least under Cygwin?) the "-O/dev/null" needs to come before the URL, instead of after it.
Enjoy!
(PS I'm getting an average of over 200 K/s, which is basically saturating my cable modem.)
Um, you just proved my point. She wasn't talking about an introductory schoolbook, she was talking about something that starts an equation (i.e., priming a pump).
In order to get a 5 MB file from SCO's site (and put it in a "while true" loop to keep sucking down their bandwidth, which they pay for).
Now I'm trying to load the address you gave (216.250.140.125) and it got the <head> part then paused for like 5 minutes -- it just finally finished loading. Looks like we're costing SCO a ton here.
With any luck this'll deplete their legal funding, and I doubt Microsoft is going to give them another cash infusion what with Novell holding all the cards. In fact I see Novell going after Microsoft, saying, "You know that license you bought from SCO? They didn't have the right to sell it to you. You need to buy it from us. That'll be $40 billion, please. Thankyoucomeagain."
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I agree.
Another thing that bugs me, which I've seen in several states now (not sure if they all have this law or not, but at least a few do), is that you can lose your license for not paying for gas.
How stupid is that? Steal a tank of gas (amounts to about $20) and have a punishment which hurts you far, far more than $20 worth. And besides, technology has made the need for that law obsolete: most gas stations take credit cards at the pump, so no human contact is necessary; and most gas stations don't let you start pumping without paying, so if you don't have a credit card you go inside, give them $25, pump your $23.45 of gas and get your change.
We have too many obsolete laws.
Had I not accelerated, she would have hit me in the driver's door.
Had I braked, I would have hit her in the passenger door (since I didn't have enough stopping distance).
So sometimes accelerating is the proper response. Now if only the boat-of-car had had more power, I could have avoided the accident entirely. At least I got a couple grand out of it...
However, I was in an accident 12 years ago in which, if I had been wearing my seatbelt, I would have been decapitated.
So, like all rules, there are exceptions. Do I wear my seatbelt today? Every time I get in the car.
Hmm, so "irregardless" really means "regardful"?
And the coolest ending, "Don't touch that Mom, Dad, it's pure evil!"
You said it. I was a .com millionaire and now I'm delivering pizzas. I still have my head in the clouds, though; whether I am rich or not right now (man I miss the 90s!), we'll all be Gods within the next few decades.
The other response to my post (not the tattoo one) had a cool link in it you should check out: The Hedonistic Imperative.
By the way, thanks for the vote of confidence in friendship!
Cheers!
Anyone else think of Happy Meals when they read that sentence?
Let's see, marry a female McDonald's employee: McBride!
If you're an anything dealer, you're done for. Nanotechnology is going to be so disruptive to the economy, because we will be able to make exact copies of any physical good.
We are already to the point where we can make exact copies of any digital good -- and thanks to Kazaa and BitTorrent (et al), music, movies, and books are available just for the asking.
Open Source is great for software because it moves us toward a "gift ecomony" where you are valued for what you contribute. I see the physical goods economy as moving toward that as well. Yes, you will not make money the same way you currently do (if at all -- if you can make food out of dirt what do you need money for?), but instead you will gain value and respect by contributing ideas to designs.
So development of new cars, models, and features (like lower gas mileage, increased horsepower) won't stop; it'll simply migrate to the general public instead of being done "behind closed doors" in a corporation.
Then there's the singularity, at which point machines will be able to think faster than humans. Once we get there, new developments will appear faster than we can think of them. We live in very interesting times, as the singularity is between 10 and 50 years away -- most of us will live to see it.
Well, this comment's the same. It's "My Vow," as seen here. (By the way, I got 50% Troll, 50% Interesting. Let's see if I can do better this time. ;-)
I vow to post these instructions every time an article on SCO comes up.
My Favorite, from the other night. Put the following in the file get_sco.sh and then "chmod u+x get_sco.sh":
This will download their entire FTP site (toPut it in a loop if you really want to hurt them:
Report back when the site's down.This works on the bash shell, which is the default under Cygwin on Windows -- so Windows users can help also.
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Maybe it's the sixth beer, but I think that other component is "Direct-suck-my-balls". I know I'd pay for it...
That's hilarious! I learned about the blind spot in a science class in high school, and from then on I always removed the teacher's head while they were talking. Even into college (although it's been a while since I've practiced; thanks for the memories!).
Pretty simple really; for Windows 2000:
For other versions of Windows, click on the link (it has instructions for 95, 98, NT and 2K; I'd imagine XP is similar to 2K but it was written in 2001 prior to XP's existence).I'm trying to find instructions for modifying the security in Outlook 2000 as well, so it doesn't do anything automatically without a) my approval at the very least, or b) me asking it to run an attachment.
If anyone has pointers/links to articles on Outlook security, please post. Thanks!
Where did you use the "=" sign there? You said scientists who create a technology should be put to death "at the least" (I'm wondering what your "most" would be...). You did not say the users of the machines should be put to death, you said the creators. That's like suing Ford for a drunk driver killing your relative. (Pssst... it's not equal.)
I didn't insult your education, call you a fool, or discuss your drug use or lack thereof. I merely said you were being hypocritical, and you didn't answer my question: do you eat vegetables for which you must kill the organism in order to produce the food? (Carrots, potatoes, beets?)
But carrots, potatoes and beets cannot regenerate; you kill them by harvesting them.
And just because a plant doesn't have a nervous system doesn't mean that you're not removing a life force from the Earth when you kill plants. They have a Kirlian aura which you're snuffing out. And check out PEVA, who argue that plants and even single-celled organisms can feel pain ("Some single cell organisms are known to react and withdraw (run!) from heat. Is this not a single-cell pain reaction without a complex human-like nervous system? How can a single cell make this determination without having a 'brain'?")
Oh, and as for religious references? Let's take Genesis:
Now, from Dictionary.com, dominion is:
Combining the two: God gave us supremacy over the animals. The power to govern, control, possess, and use them for our purposes.
And if you follow a more scientific track, we evolved as omnivores and the few people who I have seen attempt a vegan lifestyle ended up emaciated, weak, pale, and short. (Yes, this is anecdotal evidence.)
I'm not trying to pick a fight -- but you obviously are, given the wording in the great-grandparent post:
Calling something the truth without providing references is a Fallacious Argument. There's lots on that page; take your pick.I love this argument. I mean, it's one thing to say, "I'm healthier now that I've stopped eating red meat."
But it's something completely different when you try to value the life of one organism over another.
That's right: do you eat carrots? Potatoes? Beets? You've gotta kill the plant to get at the food. Why is a carrot's life force less valuable than a chicken's?
Even eating apples and other fruits can be seen as "evil" -- you're depriving the tree's children (the seeds) from their nurturing environment (the reason the tree makes apples is to feed the seeds).
You, sir, are a hypocrite. And especially in your last paragraph, where you state that certain humans should be put to death for killing animals. You value animal life over human life? This appears nowhere in either our laws or our religious documents (for any religion). So my question is, how did you arrive at this belief?
Why? Well, going long (buying) stock is good when it's going up. Going short (selling before buying, by borrowing the stock from your broker -- you need a margin account for it) makes money when the stock goes down.
Options make money within a certain timeframe on stock moves. Back when I did have money, late 1998 I believe, I thought Dell would move but wasn't sure which direction, so I bought both puts and calls, in equal dollar amounts. The stock moved up, and I made money on the calls and lost 100% on the puts. However, the amount I made was something like 700% (God I miss the 90s!), so the bet paid off bigtime.
Right now, either SCO has something up their sleeve (which the evidence, such as there is, doesn't seem to support) or they're a fuckedcompany and will be sleeping with the fishes before long. One year is plenty of time for this to pan out (if I was more of a gambler, I'd say 3 months).
Dammit, I said all that and turns out there are no options for SCOX stock. Oh well. Here's the current options for DELL in case you want to learn more (the CBOE has more info in their links -- see the Learning Center at the top right).
My Favorite, from the other night. Put the following in the file get_sco.sh and then "chmod u+x get_sco.sh":
This will download their entire FTP site (toPut it in a loop if you really want to hurt them:
Report back when the site's down.This works on the bash shell, which is the default under Cygwin on Windows -- so Windows users can help also.
Put it in a loop if you really want to hurt them:
Report back when the site's down.Here is is.
So modify the instructions instead to load their home page. Not quite as effective, but still damaging.
Enjoy!
Enter the above into a Cygwin bash shell (I'm running it on Windows 2000).
Two notes: I couldn't get the "while" version to work, so I used "for" instead. And apparently (at least under Cygwin?) the "-O /dev/null" needs to come before the URL, instead of after it.
Enjoy!
(PS I'm getting an average of over 200 K/s, which is basically saturating my cable modem.)
Thanks though. See here for the truth.
wget sco.com/images/pdf/eserver/eserver_sysadmin.pdf -O /dev/null
In order to get a 5 MB file from SCO's site (and put it in a "while true" loop to keep sucking down their bandwidth, which they pay for).
Now I'm trying to load the address you gave (216.250.140.125) and it got the <head> part then paused for like 5 minutes -- it just finally finished loading. Looks like we're costing SCO a ton here.
With any luck this'll deplete their legal funding, and I doubt Microsoft is going to give them another cash infusion what with Novell holding all the cards. In fact I see Novell going after Microsoft, saying, "You know that license you bought from SCO? They didn't have the right to sell it to you. You need to buy it from us. That'll be $40 billion, please. Thankyoucomeagain."
I really wanted to see that PDF, too. ;-)