And then they go on to make what I consider an Evil Joke last April Fools. The German company in question is actually a service to print out emails and mail them to you. Google then chose to make fun of them with "GMail Paper":
If it works, she should install the Blue Pill on both boxes, but a dormant version on one. Because they will probably try to use some trickery like a whole drive checksum or something to see which box was "more modified" using statistical analysis.
I don't buy CD's any more. I buy SACDs. Dark Side of the Moon is unreal in 5.1. By the way, Pink Floyd actually invented Quadrophonic at their early concerts, which eventually was extended to consumer equipment in the mid 70's. So they have a few years of experience with it..
Of course, he's a cross between darth vader and TMNT's The Brain. He's half man and more than half machine. He can post on Slashdot while driving Wyoming coal and uranium prices up ensuring a comfortable retirement in Dubai. He has Dual 1000BT ethernet adapters in his pants. Duh.
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You guys are all missing the point. Vista 32 is a test platform for Aero. The real new product is Vista x64 which is the real future of Microsoft OS. 128GB of RAM, anyone? Microsoft has said publically that Vista will be the last 32 bit operating system they release. This is major due to the fact that anyone doing real business on a PC nowadays is going to run into the 4GB limit. Even Server 2003 Enterprise, the highest end (i think) Windows Server software only goes to 32 or 64GB, using some paging technique.
They are giving away Windows Sharepoint Services for free now, which means a network content management that integrates seamlessly and with single sign on to Office and Explorer. It's quite a step up from network shared folders...
On top of that, they are basically giving away SQL server in SQL Server Express 2005. Granted there are some limitations but get those two running on a home box with 128+GB of RAM and you have an instant video on demand server, etc etc. Everything is moving over to SQL, even the registry (the application/local user end anyway) is probably moving to SQL. Everything cool in OS X is coming to windows also.
Anyway, the big killer is going to be 64 bit computing. This is like the jump from 16 bit to 32 bit we made in the 90's (well, early 80's with the 386DX, but really the 486DX was the first with both 32 bit memory addressing and arithmetic unit). Yeah yeah, Alpha did it first, blah blah Itanium, IA64 blah blah I know. The new windows 64bit kernel is designed from the ground up to be portable to different architechtures. That means if Opteron wins, if Itanium/IA64 wins or x64 which is just an extension of x86 wins, it runs, your software runs, etc.
Anyway, I don't really care for Vista, or Windows for that matter, but they do matter in the marketplace and they aren't going away from the desktop and small/medium business server market anytime soon. But if you want Linux or Unix or whatever to really pull ahead, it's time to really push the 64 bit stuff to all the current people with Pentium D+ processors..
PFT, the people running the government are the same timid assholes that are your neighbors. If we all stood up and said something, did something, they would take notice and the changes would ripple. The problem is we the people are complacent, lazy, we are followers. We expect one man, a new president perhaps, or Jesus or whatever, will save us from ourselves. That is false. That one man can only lead us, inspire us in the right direction, but it is we the people who have to change. We've let them fuck us, despite the fact that there were warnings all along. I've got news for you people, they are WEAK, you have nothing to be afraid of. There are only maybe 2 million evangenical christians total in the US, yet they seem like a much bigger group because Bush is their mouthpiece and has been running our country for them, and not in a legal way. He's been ignoring the representatives and using executive orders and "homeland security presidential directives"...it's okay, we've had to suffer a little but I think the damage can and will be reversed. It's not too late. Hopefully.
Regardless of the Founding Fathers' views on this, it's actually currently illegal to subjugate the US Government in ANY case. Too bad we are really two countries right now, city people and country people. Oh and they should make a second capitol in California that decides laws for the West..
Well, if you could imagine the public's reaction when they find out that "we" crashed those planes into our own buildings, I think it's probably better kept secret. At least now with the lies we don't have to know the ugly truth that would probably destroy this country, possibly the world, or at least shake it to it's foundations. The problem is the increasing transparency of the ruling class. In the past they have relied on security through obscurity to maintain power. Now they need artificial conflict to remain.
The forefathers took the separation of church and state VERY seriously for a reason--that's why they had to leave wherever they were from in the first place! They are taxing our public tax money and using it to fight a war based on their own religious principals. This is illegal, unconstitutional, un-american. It's actually quite Nazi-like. And when you examine the Bush (german name [Busch]), Rumsfeld (has a grandmother that LIVES in germany), and Cheney (German name) family ties to Nazi Germany, the "hatred of France" thing (Freedom Fries, jesus), and really Anti-semetic policies and statecraft (trying to flare up the powderkeg of the middle east) it becomes clear--these people are fucking nuts.
George W. Bush really believes he was chosen by God to lead the world towards the second coming of Jesus--what does he care what happens to the world, he'll be in heaven. There is no responsibility towards future generations because he doesn't believe there is a future on Earth. He desparately wants the prophesized "apocalypse" to happen during his lifetime and we haven't even begun to see what he is capable of.
I suggest being on very strong guard for the next several years...best case nothing happens and it was a false alarm, worst case and you're at least prepared for it...
At any rate, who's going to "get" the hard drives for analysis in the first place? The Justice Department? Since they are implicated in this mess of corruption, how could they police themselves? So, the FBI is out. The Secret Service probably could do something, as they work for SecTreas but they also work for the President. So congress basically has to "vote" to seize these hard drives.
It's the perfect crime because the people who committed it are above the law in that it takes so damn long for any laws to operate on them. I mean, look at all the illegal, blatantly illegal shit they have done, almost every one of Bush's cronies, and no one can hold them accountable because it would take 4 years to even do anything. By that time they will have read the GP and wiped or incinerated the hard drives.
I would reckon that all communications to and from the White House are archived also, down to the raw packets level, so if THOSE files are gone, we have a definite problem on our hands. I just can't believe that people have been standing by this long. I was one of those people who you shushed when I was warning of these sorts of things immediately after the Major Crisis they created out of 9/11. I was the one you shushed when I said the war in Iraq was a mistake, when the other 99.9% of America was popping popcorn in preparation for "Shock and Awe". This is all a fucking joke. These people have been diluting the dollar, printing money and giving it to their friends. Bush BELIEVES IN THE CREATION MYTH, this is the extremist we have running our country. He created the Muslim threat by being so fucking right wing.
This has gone far enough hasn't it? At what point do we just admit to ourselves we're fucked? I mean, why in the fuck am I going to work every day when they are taking away 3% of my money through inflation? Ben Bernake says he's "fine with 2-3% inflation", holy jesus! Let's all default on our loans, fuck the dollar. The strong dollar is what's keeping them powerful. Without money they can't afford their contracted paramiliatry guards. The lack of state craft, running the country like an oil company, this is really starting to get on my nerves. The emperor has no fucking clothes, people, the emperor has no clothes.
Yeah, I saw my first porn on the playground at my elementary school, it blew in with the wind or something. What's next--Sentence the WIND to 40 years?
From the The Holy Bible, George Bush Edition, c2168AD: On the 8th day God created Antimatter and Adam had to go and mess with sticking matter with it and thus Sin was born. To assume that the antimatter just evolved from some complex reaction is "Ludacris"
After hearing about the successful teleportation of state information from a distance of 89 miles, I propose we at Acme Labs attempt the new world record for sucessful teleporation of state information distance. I propose instead of using the 89-mile-apart Canary Islands we use the islands of Hawaii (in the US) and an island in the Carribean. Of course, I will need a large support staff and group of friends and my wife might interfere with the matter transferrence. She must stay at home. Also, we will need large quantities of Rum to cool the quantum entanglement apparatus. Also, we will need approximately four (4) years of pay in advance to cover any living costs. I think we can do it this time.
Alcohol was illegal during prohibition, now it isn't. Why? Because the people spoke. If filesharing is over 50%, we need a referendum that supports it being legal. If we collectively as a people truely believe the record companies aren't doing us any good, we need to remove the PROTECTIONS "we the people" have given them to keep operating and they will simply dry up and blow away, just like the old robber barons of yore. Personally I wouldn't miss it. I think there are too many easy ways to distribute music these days their business model is depreciated. The artists make their money on SHOWS, not plastic, so what the hell do I care? And about the shareholders--you should have invested your money elsewhere instead of this flawed business model that depends on PROTECTIONISM and RACKETEERING to stay in business. Good riddance, "f-you" music industry.
You mean Volkswagen Super Beetle--"fat chick" is a slang term to reference these cars. Apparently it's what can usually be found behind the wheel of one..
Yeah, basically you are reducing the WIRE to one state with two possibilities at either end to make the one state. Then to recieve the message you just need to measure a holistic property of the wire (the resistance). Anyone can measure the properties of the wire but only the two on either end can know what "resistors" are in place, and thus provides a way to encode some data. So both parties need to be touching the same wire for it to work, which means it's not possible to (securely) route it.. The only way to break it is to break the wire, bridge it with something else and pretend to be parties A AND B to their converse (man in the middle), which is basically what you're doing if you route it. It IS, however, simple--amusingly simple--and a good way to explain quantum encryption (which is basically the same thing, only with holistic properties of photons).
Also, Amazon has a pretty cool program where you can perform HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) for a few cents each. They have a lot of stuff like transcribing podcasts, identifying stuff in satellite images, etc.
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They could always say, "We're not evil--Our law firm is. And we're going to resolve that as soon as our legal issues are resolved."
And then they go on to make what I consider an Evil Joke last April Fools. The German company in question is actually a service to print out emails and mail them to you. Google then chose to make fun of them with "GMail Paper":
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/
If it works, she should install the Blue Pill on both boxes, but a dormant version on one. Because they will probably try to use some trickery like a whole drive checksum or something to see which box was "more modified" using statistical analysis.
Cirrus, Cumulonimbus, Stratus. Uh, clouds. Made of vapor.
Egads, wtf is the Jobster smoking?
Whatever it is, I bet he knows how to smoke it out of an Apple.
Teh heh
Or perhaps WOPR. Would you like to play a game?
do any of you now feel your pessimism somewhat dispelled
Why yes, I do believe my spirit has elevated. My feelings on the matter have definitely been lifted.
I don't buy CD's any more. I buy SACDs. Dark Side of the Moon is unreal in 5.1. By the way, Pink Floyd actually invented Quadrophonic at their early concerts, which eventually was extended to consumer equipment in the mid 70's. So they have a few years of experience with it..
Of course, he's a cross between darth vader and TMNT's The Brain. He's half man and more than half machine. He can post on Slashdot while driving Wyoming coal and uranium prices up ensuring a comfortable retirement in Dubai. He has Dual 1000BT ethernet adapters in his pants. Duh.
You guys are all missing the point. Vista 32 is a test platform for Aero. The real new product is Vista x64 which is the real future of Microsoft OS. 128GB of RAM, anyone? Microsoft has said publically that Vista will be the last 32 bit operating system they release. This is major due to the fact that anyone doing real business on a PC nowadays is going to run into the 4GB limit. Even Server 2003 Enterprise, the highest end (i think) Windows Server software only goes to 32 or 64GB, using some paging technique.
They are giving away Windows Sharepoint Services for free now, which means a network content management that integrates seamlessly and with single sign on to Office and Explorer. It's quite a step up from network shared folders...
On top of that, they are basically giving away SQL server in SQL Server Express 2005. Granted there are some limitations but get those two running on a home box with 128+GB of RAM and you have an instant video on demand server, etc etc. Everything is moving over to SQL, even the registry (the application/local user end anyway) is probably moving to SQL. Everything cool in OS X is coming to windows also.
Anyway, the big killer is going to be 64 bit computing. This is like the jump from 16 bit to 32 bit we made in the 90's (well, early 80's with the 386DX, but really the 486DX was the first with both 32 bit memory addressing and arithmetic unit). Yeah yeah, Alpha did it first, blah blah Itanium, IA64 blah blah I know. The new windows 64bit kernel is designed from the ground up to be portable to different architechtures. That means if Opteron wins, if Itanium/IA64 wins or x64 which is just an extension of x86 wins, it runs, your software runs, etc.
Anyway, I don't really care for Vista, or Windows for that matter, but they do matter in the marketplace and they aren't going away from the desktop and small/medium business server market anytime soon. But if you want Linux or Unix or whatever to really pull ahead, it's time to really push the 64 bit stuff to all the current people with Pentium D+ processors..
PFT, the people running the government are the same timid assholes that are your neighbors. If we all stood up and said something, did something, they would take notice and the changes would ripple. The problem is we the people are complacent, lazy, we are followers. We expect one man, a new president perhaps, or Jesus or whatever, will save us from ourselves. That is false. That one man can only lead us, inspire us in the right direction, but it is we the people who have to change. We've let them fuck us, despite the fact that there were warnings all along. I've got news for you people, they are WEAK, you have nothing to be afraid of. There are only maybe 2 million evangenical christians total in the US, yet they seem like a much bigger group because Bush is their mouthpiece and has been running our country for them, and not in a legal way. He's been ignoring the representatives and using executive orders and "homeland security presidential directives"...it's okay, we've had to suffer a little but I think the damage can and will be reversed. It's not too late. Hopefully.
Regardless of the Founding Fathers' views on this, it's actually currently illegal to subjugate the US Government in ANY case. Too bad we are really two countries right now, city people and country people. Oh and they should make a second capitol in California that decides laws for the West..
Well, if you could imagine the public's reaction when they find out that "we" crashed those planes into our own buildings, I think it's probably better kept secret. At least now with the lies we don't have to know the ugly truth that would probably destroy this country, possibly the world, or at least shake it to it's foundations. The problem is the increasing transparency of the ruling class. In the past they have relied on security through obscurity to maintain power. Now they need artificial conflict to remain.
The forefathers took the separation of church and state VERY seriously for a reason--that's why they had to leave wherever they were from in the first place! They are taxing our public tax money and using it to fight a war based on their own religious principals. This is illegal, unconstitutional, un-american. It's actually quite Nazi-like. And when you examine the Bush (german name [Busch]), Rumsfeld (has a grandmother that LIVES in germany), and Cheney (German name) family ties to Nazi Germany, the "hatred of France" thing (Freedom Fries, jesus), and really Anti-semetic policies and statecraft (trying to flare up the powderkeg of the middle east) it becomes clear--these people are fucking nuts.
George W. Bush really believes he was chosen by God to lead the world towards the second coming of Jesus--what does he care what happens to the world, he'll be in heaven. There is no responsibility towards future generations because he doesn't believe there is a future on Earth. He desparately wants the prophesized "apocalypse" to happen during his lifetime and we haven't even begun to see what he is capable of.
I suggest being on very strong guard for the next several years...best case nothing happens and it was a false alarm, worst case and you're at least prepared for it...
At any rate, who's going to "get" the hard drives for analysis in the first place? The Justice Department? Since they are implicated in this mess of corruption, how could they police themselves? So, the FBI is out. The Secret Service probably could do something, as they work for SecTreas but they also work for the President. So congress basically has to "vote" to seize these hard drives.
It's the perfect crime because the people who committed it are above the law in that it takes so damn long for any laws to operate on them. I mean, look at all the illegal, blatantly illegal shit they have done, almost every one of Bush's cronies, and no one can hold them accountable because it would take 4 years to even do anything. By that time they will have read the GP and wiped or incinerated the hard drives.
I would reckon that all communications to and from the White House are archived also, down to the raw packets level, so if THOSE files are gone, we have a definite problem on our hands. I just can't believe that people have been standing by this long. I was one of those people who you shushed when I was warning of these sorts of things immediately after the Major Crisis they created out of 9/11. I was the one you shushed when I said the war in Iraq was a mistake, when the other 99.9% of America was popping popcorn in preparation for "Shock and Awe". This is all a fucking joke. These people have been diluting the dollar, printing money and giving it to their friends. Bush BELIEVES IN THE CREATION MYTH, this is the extremist we have running our country. He created the Muslim threat by being so fucking right wing.
This has gone far enough hasn't it? At what point do we just admit to ourselves we're fucked? I mean, why in the fuck am I going to work every day when they are taking away 3% of my money through inflation? Ben Bernake says he's "fine with 2-3% inflation", holy jesus! Let's all default on our loans, fuck the dollar. The strong dollar is what's keeping them powerful. Without money they can't afford their contracted paramiliatry guards. The lack of state craft, running the country like an oil company, this is really starting to get on my nerves. The emperor has no fucking clothes, people, the emperor has no clothes.
You've never been a developer have you? When I read this article, I immediately thought: "Great, something else they can blame IT for."
Yeah, I saw my first porn on the playground at my elementary school, it blew in with the wind or something. What's next--Sentence the WIND to 40 years?
Thanks, I didn't get it. Thank you for saving me from not getting my own joke. Thanks.
From the The Holy Bible, George Bush Edition, c2168AD: On the 8th day God created Antimatter and Adam had to go and mess with sticking matter with it and thus Sin was born. To assume that the antimatter just evolved from some complex reaction is "Ludacris"
Dear Boss:
After hearing about the successful teleportation of state information from a distance of 89 miles, I propose we at Acme Labs attempt the new world record for sucessful teleporation of state information distance. I propose instead of using the 89-mile-apart Canary Islands we use the islands of Hawaii (in the US) and an island in the Carribean. Of course, I will need a large support staff and group of friends and my wife might interfere with the matter transferrence. She must stay at home. Also, we will need large quantities of Rum to cool the quantum entanglement apparatus. Also, we will need approximately four (4) years of pay in advance to cover any living costs. I think we can do it this time.
Sincerely,
Dr. Smith.
Alcohol was illegal during prohibition, now it isn't. Why? Because the people spoke. If filesharing is over 50%, we need a referendum that supports it being legal. If we collectively as a people truely believe the record companies aren't doing us any good, we need to remove the PROTECTIONS "we the people" have given them to keep operating and they will simply dry up and blow away, just like the old robber barons of yore. Personally I wouldn't miss it. I think there are too many easy ways to distribute music these days their business model is depreciated. The artists make their money on SHOWS, not plastic, so what the hell do I care? And about the shareholders--you should have invested your money elsewhere instead of this flawed business model that depends on PROTECTIONISM and RACKETEERING to stay in business. Good riddance, "f-you" music industry.
Especially when they got slapped again with "Scooter" Libby just got 30 months and a fine for his role in the Valerie Plame affair..
The house of cards is falling, what will come out next?
You mean Volkswagen Super Beetle--"fat chick" is a slang term to reference these cars. Apparently it's what can usually be found behind the wheel of one..
Or did it? ;)
Yeah, basically you are reducing the WIRE to one state with two possibilities at either end to make the one state. Then to recieve the message you just need to measure a holistic property of the wire (the resistance). Anyone can measure the properties of the wire but only the two on either end can know what "resistors" are in place, and thus provides a way to encode some data. So both parties need to be touching the same wire for it to work, which means it's not possible to (securely) route it.. The only way to break it is to break the wire, bridge it with something else and pretend to be parties A AND B to their converse (man in the middle), which is basically what you're doing if you route it. It IS, however, simple--amusingly simple--and a good way to explain quantum encryption (which is basically the same thing, only with holistic properties of photons).
Also, Amazon has a pretty cool program where you can perform HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) for a few cents each. They have a lot of stuff like transcribing podcasts, identifying stuff in satellite images, etc.