I'd do shit like holding it, and moving it back and forth while climbing the stairs. Then they'd be wondering "Why the hell is this guy always vacuuming the stairs?"
Either that, or I'd be constantly shaking it, and doing weird shit with it, just to screw up their tracking....
Right... But if the story had been some unfounded rumor about how/why Microsoft is evil...
What? You contradict yourself. EVERY rumour (Canadian...sorry) about how Microsoft is evil is founded. In fact, the very stability of the universe itself is based on the fact that Microsoft is evil. Were Microsoft to not be evil, even for a single second, of a single minute, of a single hour, of a single day, the entire universe would implode.
No I don't advocate scare tactics, using a gun to scare someone only makes them come back later with a bigger gun. Use the gun in your hand and empty it into them, their friends and family.
Which works really well, until you realize that you have no idea who all their friends are, and you now have twice as many people as you just killed, all pissed off at you and bent on your destruction. All at the same time as you're out of ammo.
I haven't had a "state approved education." I hate government structures, politics, propaganda, power-mongering, and all the rest of that crap. My philosophy in life is pretty much Timothy Leary's statement: "Think for yourself and question authority."
But to assume that being violent will stop anyone from attacking you is beyond naive.
It may stop people who have a lot to lose. It may stop people who don't have the weaponry. But sooner or later someone so desperate that they have nothing to lose is going to come along, and they're going to have much bigger guns than you, because they were supplied by someone who had more to lose, and they're going to wipe you out.
Most importantly, UNPATCHED NETWORKED WINDOWS MACHINES.
Not necessarily. Some of these types of programs run a single install on the server, which is accessed by all clients over the network.
Meaning, the actual application is loaded from the network drive, not just the data files.
If somebody brought in an old-school file infector, stuck it in the USB port of the server, and ran it on the server, then every exe on the server could be infected. Especially active ones. It would be easy to see the app being run on the server in a development environment. Then, the first time any client machine runs the app, it's infected, too, even with all security patches in place.
Of course, it still means the app has to run as administrator, which is equally stupid, but also easily done in a dev environment.
While defending yourself is great, that doesn't make people not want to attack you, and it won't stop a determined person, either. It just makes the determined people need bigger weapons, that they can get you with from further away. Which, incidentally, also tend to cause more damage when they're used.
The arms race with the Soviets was pointless, dangerous, environmentally damaging, and economically crippling. Now you're advocating the same thing with terrorists?
Most of the "builds" that I've seen are actually severe customizations of a stock chassis (ala Chip Foose), which ends up being counted as, say, a '67 Camaro. Hence, no matter what you do to your Camaro, you'll keep the original serial number, and as far as the government's concerned, it's the same car, therefore needs to meet 1967 emissions/bumper/seatbelt/noise/lighting/etc regulations.
Any actual custom builds that I've seen have kept at least a single component (usually a dash panel, which frequently contains the serial number tag) to have the car pass as the original.
Building a custom, from scratch car would count that car as a 2010 model, needing to meet all 2010 safety and emissions regs.
Maybe the fact that I'm in Canada means I don't see as many custom builds as say, the southern US, because they'd all just rot away with the salt.
I'm sure the regulatory environment is different, too, which may account for you seeing more complete one off builds than me.
Mine got run over by a car once, while it was lying in an inch of snow in the street. The velcro on my belt clip let go, and I didn't hear it hit the ground, because of the snow.
Realized it was missing a little later, and when I got home, there was a tire track right over it.
The front display was cracked - it was a flip phone - but the internal one was fine, and the phone still worked for the next several months or so until I changed carriers. I still use it on occasion for a camera or flashlight, but not a phone, anymore. But it's two years later, and the thing still works, powers up, and does everything a phone with no carrier normally does, except for the funky blue/orange splotch that should be the clock on the front display.
I can go build a complete car right now without putting a single computer on it and it will be street legal and pass all emissions tests. I could even build one to be street legal in California. It's all about tuning. You don't need a computer to do it.
Actually, that's not correct. Any car built today, by definition, is not street legal if it does not contain ODBII, which again, by definition, requires a microprocessor.
The government doesn't give a flying leap about whether it passes emissions tests, if it doesn't have ODBII. You could have a ZEV, and you won't be able to license it as a 2010 model without ODBII.
...if Microsoft tried to take on Red Hat then they would probably wind up clashing with IBM.
Speaking of IBM, this quote in the summary hit me:
'Microsoft's patent portfolio is the largest and strongest in the software industry,...
I always thought IBM had the biggest software patent portfolio. Or is IBM's entire portfolio the biggest, but some of it's hardware, so the software component is smaller than Microsoft's?
Somebody who knows more about this, please chime in....
Despite *our* ability to easily determine that the name has little to actually do with Chuck Norris, a less informed individual wouldn't be able to.
And that is exactly the problem with the legal system.
Since when is it my responsibility to make sure you're educated in all the correct fields so that you don't get offended, or misinterpret something I say?
The fact that someone who's not informed could misunderstand me should not be able to present me with any legal problems at all.
Users have the mindset that file formats are proprietary and belong to specific programs.
How about:
Users have the mindset that their documents are somehow stored "inside" the program. Consider a conversation I had recently about a customer that needed a newer office suite, but didn't like the Office 2K7 ribbon:
Me: Ok...so we'll uninstall Office 97, and install OpenOffice instead. It's free. Them: But all my documents are in Word. Me: Yes. OpenOffice will handle them just fine. Them: But all my documents are stored in Word. If you take Word off my computer, how will I get my documents? Me: Just use the File->Open menu in OpenOffice, and load the file. Them: [blank stare] Me: The documents are still on your computer, you'll just load them in a different program. Them: But...[weakly]..all my documents are in Word.
They honestly thought that Word was somehow this black box thing that "contained" all their documents, and gave them the ability to edit them at the same time. They were absolutely convinced that removing Word from their computer would take all their documents with it.
Slashdot Mirror
Shit.
Every Jack Thompson variant I can think of is either already registered, or the name has been banned from registering on /.
I was going to log in as him and post that exact comment. :)
So you want to punish him for what some other completely unrelated people _might_ do?
Yeah....that sounds like a country I want to live in......
Get a desktop centrifuge. As far as they're concerned, you'd be accelerating at 5 G while sitting still. :)
Only if you're moving it too quickly.....
I'd do shit like holding it, and moving it back and forth while climbing the stairs. Then they'd be wondering "Why the hell is this guy always vacuuming the stairs?"
Either that, or I'd be constantly shaking it, and doing weird shit with it, just to screw up their tracking....
Yeah, no kidding.
I was going for funny, with a _really_ old reference to a BC comic I read decades ago when I was a kid:
"Hey, waiter! There's a fly in my soup!"
"There can't be. I used them all up in the raisin bread!"
But informative? Well....only if you've been living under a rock for the past 5 years.
Which might actually explain a lot of the mods around here.....
Which is completely and totally irrelevant to the topic at hand.
Good job.
Right... But if the story had been some unfounded rumor about how/why Microsoft is evil...
What? You contradict yourself. EVERY rumour (Canadian...sorry) about how Microsoft is evil is founded. In fact, the very stability of the universe itself is based on the fact that Microsoft is evil. Were Microsoft to not be evil, even for a single second, of a single minute, of a single hour, of a single day, the entire universe would implode.
Nah, the cooler can't be made of melamine.
They used all that up in the baby food.
No I don't advocate scare tactics, using a gun to scare someone only makes them come back later with a bigger gun. Use the gun in your hand and empty it into them, their friends and family.
Which works really well, until you realize that you have no idea who all their friends are, and you now have twice as many people as you just killed, all pissed off at you and bent on your destruction. All at the same time as you're out of ammo.
I haven't had a "state approved education." I hate government structures, politics, propaganda, power-mongering, and all the rest of that crap. My philosophy in life is pretty much Timothy Leary's statement: "Think for yourself and question authority."
But to assume that being violent will stop anyone from attacking you is beyond naive.
It may stop people who have a lot to lose. It may stop people who don't have the weaponry. But sooner or later someone so desperate that they have nothing to lose is going to come along, and they're going to have much bigger guns than you, because they were supplied by someone who had more to lose, and they're going to wipe you out.
....like the queue for an amusement park ride.
Or the queue of iPhone drummers..... :)
Most importantly, UNPATCHED NETWORKED WINDOWS MACHINES.
Not necessarily.
Some of these types of programs run a single install on the server, which is accessed by all clients over the network.
Meaning, the actual application is loaded from the network drive, not just the data files.
If somebody brought in an old-school file infector, stuck it in the USB port of the server, and ran it on the server, then every exe on the server could be infected. Especially active ones. It would be easy to see the app being run on the server in a development environment. Then, the first time any client machine runs the app, it's infected, too, even with all security patches in place.
Of course, it still means the app has to run as administrator, which is equally stupid, but also easily done in a dev environment.
Lost it is what? Tell us, damn you!
Dignity lost, it is....
Signed,
Yoda.
Mr. Smith says "You're wrong". Mr. Wesson agrees.
Mister RPG and Mister Missile beg to differ.
While defending yourself is great, that doesn't make people not want to attack you, and it won't stop a determined person, either. It just makes the determined people need bigger weapons, that they can get you with from further away. Which, incidentally, also tend to cause more damage when they're used.
The arms race with the Soviets was pointless, dangerous, environmentally damaging, and economically crippling. Now you're advocating the same thing with terrorists?
Now they need to test the users.....
I realize cars are built by individuals.
Most of the "builds" that I've seen are actually severe customizations of a stock chassis (ala Chip Foose), which ends up being counted as, say, a '67 Camaro. Hence, no matter what you do to your Camaro, you'll keep the original serial number, and as far as the government's concerned, it's the same car, therefore needs to meet 1967 emissions/bumper/seatbelt/noise/lighting/etc regulations.
Any actual custom builds that I've seen have kept at least a single component (usually a dash panel, which frequently contains the serial number tag) to have the car pass as the original.
Building a custom, from scratch car would count that car as a 2010 model, needing to meet all 2010 safety and emissions regs.
Maybe the fact that I'm in Canada means I don't see as many custom builds as say, the southern US, because they'd all just rot away with the salt.
I'm sure the regulatory environment is different, too, which may account for you seeing more complete one off builds than me.
Does browsing Slashdot count?
Maybe hosting a popular story that's linked to on slashdot would be a more appropriate test.....
Mine got run over by a car once, while it was lying in an inch of snow in the street.
The velcro on my belt clip let go, and I didn't hear it hit the ground, because of the snow.
Realized it was missing a little later, and when I got home, there was a tire track right over it.
The front display was cracked - it was a flip phone - but the internal one was fine, and the phone still worked for the next several months or so until I changed carriers. I still use it on occasion for a camera or flashlight, but not a phone, anymore. But it's two years later, and the thing still works, powers up, and does everything a phone with no carrier normally does, except for the funky blue/orange splotch that should be the clock on the front display.
I suppose if you never, ever want to be able to sell the car, you might be able to find a loophole.
But ODBII is mandatory on all cars sold in the US as a 1996 model year or newer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics#History
I can go build a complete car right now without putting a single computer on it and it will be street legal and pass all emissions tests. I could even build one to be street legal in California. It's all about tuning. You don't need a computer to do it.
Actually, that's not correct.
Any car built today, by definition, is not street legal if it does not contain ODBII, which again, by definition, requires a microprocessor.
The government doesn't give a flying leap about whether it passes emissions tests, if it doesn't have ODBII. You could have a ZEV, and you won't be able to license it as a 2010 model without ODBII.
...if Microsoft tried to take on Red Hat then they would probably wind up clashing with IBM.
Speaking of IBM, this quote in the summary hit me:
'Microsoft's patent portfolio is the largest and strongest in the software industry,...
I always thought IBM had the biggest software patent portfolio. Or is IBM's entire portfolio the biggest, but some of it's hardware, so the software component is smaller than Microsoft's?
Somebody who knows more about this, please chime in....
Despite *our* ability to easily determine that the name has little to actually do with Chuck Norris, a less informed individual wouldn't be able to.
And that is exactly the problem with the legal system.
Since when is it my responsibility to make sure you're educated in all the correct fields so that you don't get offended, or misinterpret something I say?
The fact that someone who's not informed could misunderstand me should not be able to present me with any legal problems at all.
Unfortunately, it does, because the system sucks.
And what does someone get by knowing the mathematical foundations for FFTs?
They get to call fellow programmers "%&^#&%$ n00bz"
Users have the mindset that file formats are proprietary and belong to specific programs.
How about:
Users have the mindset that their documents are somehow stored "inside" the program. Consider a conversation I had recently about a customer that needed a newer office suite, but didn't like the Office 2K7 ribbon:
Me: Ok...so we'll uninstall Office 97, and install OpenOffice instead. It's free.
Them: But all my documents are in Word.
Me: Yes. OpenOffice will handle them just fine.
Them: But all my documents are stored in Word. If you take Word off my computer, how will I get my documents?
Me: Just use the File->Open menu in OpenOffice, and load the file.
Them: [blank stare]
Me: The documents are still on your computer, you'll just load them in a different program.
Them: But...[weakly]..all my documents are in Word.
They honestly thought that Word was somehow this black box thing that "contained" all their documents, and gave them the ability to edit them at the same time. They were absolutely convinced that removing Word from their computer would take all their documents with it.
If it's a Honda Civic, you can probably get out and walk... and still outrun it.
Yeah....it's the Toyotas that you have to worry about. :)