Well, I'm not entirely sure whether these results demonstrate that Theo is an even bigger dickhead than we all already thought he was, or if this guy is a perfect candidate for a position on Apple's G4 benchmarking and marketing team. Maybe both? Do you have to be able to read docs to market G4s?
Please understand that nobody asked us to take "Unpatched" down. For the reasons we described above, we have taken this proactive step in an effort to be a larger part of a long term solution.
Translate: "It was a condition of our settlement with Microsoft that we make it sound like we took this down of our own volition".
Given the widely acknowledged bit where politicians everywhere will pretty much completely ignore anything you send to them in any form other than Dead Tree Format, I can't help but wonder, what use are 'open letters'.
Open letters are read by everyone else, sure... people on the street might take a look, journalists might use them as an easy out when they're looking for something to write this weeks column about, but does anyone have any evidence to suggest that politicians even know these letters exist?
sometimes trains run on the right and other times on the left.
Sounds like a bit of a recipe for disaster to me. Do you have a lot of train crashes in the US?
Here in Australia, we have two parallel tracks throughout metropolitan Sydney (and, I presume, the same in other cities that have commuter trains). On the inter-city routes, most are served by a single track, but they use a physical token passing system to control who is allowed to be on any particular section of track at any given point in time. As the train passed from one section of track to another, they hand over the token for the section they've just left, and pick up a new one for the section they're entering. The crews are, obviously, quite proficient at passing this token (which is a serial-numbered/labelled piece of metal rod about 20cm long, and 1cm diameter, placed in a leather holder with a big metal ring for the actual transfer), they have to. If they miss the token, they have to stop the train and go back and get it!!! (They do have some devices to somewhat mechanise the actual token swap at some stations/in some cases, but it's still a very interactive process.)
So change you phone companies like you change your undies... once a quarter.
Why so often? Turn 'em inside out, and wear them for a second quarter. Think of the environment, think of the phosphates you're pumping into the ocean with that quarterly washing cycle! Sheesh!
There are only two reasons why Telstra would make a press release announcing their intention to use Linux: (1) 'cos they've found a way to further screw their customers by their use of Linux, or (2) 'cos they've found a way to further screw their competitors by their use of Linux.
That aside, if you go one step further, and read the article, you see that they're actually not using linux at all. They're beating around the bush with lines about XP and NT and Sun and HP-UX and Solaris and Linux and Citrix and XP-on-a-chip and you-name-it. The article is completely meaningless marketeer speak designed to trick some journo's into picking up on the key words "unix" and "linux", and it worked.
Don't get me wrong, I'm as happy as the next guy if a large corporate makes the switch to Linux, but that's not what this article is about. Never lose site of the fact that Telstra are evil. Every bit as evil as Microsoft or SCO.
That retired clown looks like John Howard the Prime Minister of Australia!!
No, if he was the real John Howard, PM of Australia, he'd be wearing a bright yellow tracksuit with 'VODAFONE' emblazoned across the front, and he'd be power walking, not riding a segway. 'course, the eyebrows do look kinda similar, don't they.
the term "Paki" here in Australia really doesn't carry any further than a description of one particular group of folks we play 'World Cup' cricket against
While I'm on the topic, I guess I should point out that we play cricket against the "Kiwis" (New Zealanders), the "Poms" (British), the "Windies" (West Indians), the "Pakis" (Pakistani's), and a bunch of others. All of those slang terms (yes, including "Paki's") are used openly and regularly in polite conversation, and even in prime time television advertising and sports news. There's absolutely not a grain of offensiveness in any of the terms and frankly, I reckon the average Australian wouldn't believe you if you told him "Paki" was a highly offensive term in some bits of the world. I guess we're just laid back around here:-)
Now, do you want a beer, or are you one of them poofters?:-)
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No idea if you know this or not, but FYI "Paki" is taken to be a very offensive word by ethnic minorities over here (England)
Nah mate, I'm Australian. There's not much we'll take offense at over here:-) You can even look us in the eye and tell us our beer stinks, and we'll just laugh at you. Tell us our politicians are dickheads, and we'll probably even buy you one of those beers!:-)
If, for some reason, you're offended by my looking you in the eye and calling you a 'Paki', then it is your solemn duty to look me in the eye and call me a 'stinking kangaroo f*cker'. In turn, it is my duty to look offended for a couple of seconds, then burst out laughing, and proceed to buy you one of those aforementioned beers.
Closer to home, the term "Paki" here in Australia really doesn't carry any further than a description of one particular group of folks we play 'World Cup' cricket against. (The fact that I refer to 'world cup' and another country in the same sentence should alone prove to you that I'm not an American! Americans don't invite other countries when they hold 'International' sporting competitions!!!).
In any case, in this context, I'm just quoting the sound bite - no offense intended.
Does the prank call from the Paki guy accusing some chick of kicking his dog fall into this category? It certainly did at the place where I worked at the time - we roamed the halls shouting "You kicked my dog" and "I am going to sue you". To this day, my friends and I shout "YOU TRY TO CONFUSE" at each other. "Just because I'm Paki does not mean I stink".
All we could really do is go around and knock on everyone's door, see if they were running an affected system, and patch the hole and remove the virus if it was there.
In the faculty where I work, we (like everyone else, I guess), got hit pretty bad by it. I took a bunch of generic FreeBSD boxes, gave them an ipfw rule to reject/log attempted connects on whatever port it was (145/tcp?), made them throw the log to the console and placed them, physically, on different subnets. I told the Windoze techs "If you see an IP address appear ---> here, go to a windows box and type 'nbtstat -A $ip_addr' and start working on finding the box with that info.
A combination of recognising some hostname/username combinations, and sending winpopup massages to the others got most of them nailed fairly quickly.
At least that way, we had some idea of which doors to knock on. We had to patch all of the boxes eventually, but getting the known-infected ones first sure gave us a head start on containing the worm.
HowStuffWorks always used to suck because of that popup that just would not go away. Looks like they got rid of it with they re-design. Cool, I might visit the site more often now!
Still, if this is happening there's obviously some hazardous defects with the batteries
Still, if this is happening, you're obviously a karma whore trolling to be modded up with an apparently sympathetic-to-the-cause comment.
Blind Freddie can see that the cellphone manufacturers' marketing departments are putting a FUD-spin on their own manufacturing error, using it as an excuse to scare people into buying their own overpriced accesories.
It's no different to the printer manufacturers' "may damage your printer or give substandard results". The ONLY thing wrong with third party accessories is that the Original Equipment Manufacturer doesn't make a buck out of it.
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Well, I'm not entirely sure whether these results demonstrate that Theo is an even bigger dickhead than we all already thought he was, or if this guy is a perfect candidate for a position on Apple's G4 benchmarking and marketing team. Maybe both? Do you have to be able to read docs to market G4s?
Translate: "It was a condition of our settlement with Microsoft that we make it sound like we took this down of our own volition".
Hey! bash.org resembles that remark!
(Funniest damn web site you'll ever read. Follow that link, and I personally guarantee that you'll get no work done for at least a week!
Heard??? I *have* the BBC Radio series on CD. Six of 'em. Hell, if it wasn't for the RIAA, I could give y'all copies as MP3s... :-)
But yeah, you're right. Awesome. Lunchtimes, doubly so.
And folks thought that the tour of the Boeing widebody plant at Everett was impressive...!
"You humans. When do you gonna learn that size doesn't matter Just because something is important, doesn't mean it isn't very very small, tiny.."
(and for the record, it's *brain* the size of a planet, not head!)
is, of course, an oxymoron of honest head hunters.
... right now. I know so, 'cos I saw so in my slashbox.
Open letters are read by everyone else, sure... people on the street might take a look, journalists might use them as an easy out when they're looking for something to write this weeks column about, but does anyone have any evidence to suggest that politicians even know these letters exist?
The research will demonstrate conclusively that not using a mobile telephone gives you a red neck.
Some basic definitions...
- This is a plane
- This is an airplane
- This is an aeroplane
(check again. the 'airplane' is in America, the 'aeroplane' is not).
Sounds like a bit of a recipe for disaster to me. Do you have a lot of train crashes in the US?
Here in Australia, we have two parallel tracks throughout metropolitan Sydney (and, I presume, the same in other cities that have commuter trains). On the inter-city routes, most are served by a single track, but they use a physical token passing system to control who is allowed to be on any particular section of track at any given point in time. As the train passed from one section of track to another, they hand over the token for the section they've just left, and pick up a new one for the section they're entering. The crews are, obviously, quite proficient at passing this token (which is a serial-numbered/labelled piece of metal rod about 20cm long, and 1cm diameter, placed in a leather holder with a big metal ring for the actual transfer), they have to. If they miss the token, they have to stop the train and go back and get it!!! (They do have some devices to somewhat mechanise the actual token swap at some stations/in some cases, but it's still a very interactive process.)
Why so often? Turn 'em inside out, and wear them for a second quarter. Think of the environment, think of the phosphates you're pumping into the ocean with that quarterly washing cycle! Sheesh!
There are only two reasons why Telstra would make a press release announcing their intention to use Linux:
(1) 'cos they've found a way to further screw their customers by their use of Linux, or
(2) 'cos they've found a way to further screw their competitors by their use of Linux.
That aside, if you go one step further, and read the article, you see that they're actually not using linux at all. They're beating around the bush with lines about XP and NT and Sun and HP-UX and Solaris and Linux and Citrix and XP-on-a-chip and you-name-it. The article is completely meaningless marketeer speak designed to trick some journo's into picking up on the key words "unix" and "linux", and it worked.
Don't get me wrong, I'm as happy as the next guy if a large corporate makes the switch to Linux, but that's not what this article is about. Never lose site of the fact that Telstra are evil. Every bit as evil as Microsoft or SCO.
Of course it does! Why do you think we export it? :-)
No, if he was the real John Howard, PM of Australia, he'd be wearing a bright yellow tracksuit with 'VODAFONE' emblazoned across the front, and he'd be power walking, not riding a segway. 'course, the eyebrows do look kinda similar, don't they.
Oh yeah, Segway, that's the other now dead fad that was missing from yesterday's Dotcom Era Fads story on Slashdot :-)
While I'm on the topic, I guess I should point out that we play cricket against the "Kiwis" (New Zealanders), the "Poms" (British), the "Windies" (West Indians), the "Pakis" (Pakistani's), and a bunch of others. All of those slang terms (yes, including "Paki's") are used openly and regularly in polite conversation, and even in prime time television advertising and sports news. There's absolutely not a grain of offensiveness in any of the terms and frankly, I reckon the average Australian wouldn't believe you if you told him "Paki" was a highly offensive term in some bits of the world. I guess we're just laid back around here :-)
Now, do you want a beer, or are you one of them poofters? :-)
Nah mate, I'm Australian. There's not much we'll take offense at over here :-) You can even look us in the eye and tell us our beer stinks, and we'll just laugh at you. Tell us our politicians are dickheads, and we'll probably even buy you one of those beers! :-)
If, for some reason, you're offended by my looking you in the eye and calling you a 'Paki', then it is your solemn duty to look me in the eye and call me a 'stinking kangaroo f*cker'. In turn, it is my duty to look offended for a couple of seconds, then burst out laughing, and proceed to buy you one of those aforementioned beers.
Closer to home, the term "Paki" here in Australia really doesn't carry any further than a description of one particular group of folks we play 'World Cup' cricket against. (The fact that I refer to 'world cup' and another country in the same sentence should alone prove to you that I'm not an American! Americans don't invite other countries when they hold 'International' sporting competitions!!!).
In any case, in this context, I'm just quoting the sound bite - no offense intended.
In the faculty where I work, we (like everyone else, I guess), got hit pretty bad by it. I took a bunch of generic FreeBSD boxes, gave them an ipfw rule to reject/log attempted connects on whatever port it was (145/tcp?), made them throw the log to the console and placed them, physically, on different subnets. I told the Windoze techs "If you see an IP address appear ---> here, go to a windows box and type 'nbtstat -A $ip_addr' and start working on finding the box with that info.
A combination of recognising some hostname/username combinations, and sending winpopup massages to the others got most of them nailed fairly quickly.
At least that way, we had some idea of which doors to knock on. We had to patch all of the boxes eventually, but getting the known-infected ones first sure gave us a head start on containing the worm.
HowStuffWorks always used to suck because of that popup that just would not go away. Looks like they got rid of it with they re-design. Cool, I might visit the site more often now!
With respect Sir, most people you know don't download nearly enough pr0n.
Still, if this is happening, you're obviously a karma whore trolling to be modded up with an apparently sympathetic-to-the-cause comment.
Blind Freddie can see that the cellphone manufacturers' marketing departments are putting a FUD-spin on their own manufacturing error, using it as an excuse to scare people into buying their own overpriced accesories.
It's no different to the printer manufacturers' "may damage your printer or give substandard results". The ONLY thing wrong with third party accessories is that the Original Equipment Manufacturer doesn't make a buck out of it.