With Israel a known (suspected within 99.999%) holder of nukes, Iran sees themselves as the logical counterpoint. They do mean to make weapons, of this I have no doubt.
Peaceful purposes? The iranian prez has said Israel should be wiped off the map. He doesn't strike me as a man with peaceful intentions.
If Microsoft can make people strike up conversations with the strangers around them they don't deserve a business success with the Zune, they deserve the next 100 Nobel Peace Prizes.
You can't see the looming hubbub? Some lurker around a school yard, posing as a 13 year old, beaming Michael Jackson tunes to children.. luring one into near the bushes. Then the local parents groups and sheriff's departments and everyone else gets into wanting to monitor or restrict these things, yada yada yada.
It's not a problem until the first time it happens.
Will there be some form of parental control which allows them to disable the social networking feature?
We keep the new definitions, but still call Pluto a planet, just as an honorary title.
I suggest the same thing and get verbally tarred and feathered.
This exercise has certainly explosed a great rift in the community. Now they've also seen that there are those within the community willing to "hijack" a decision.
Personnally I'm surprised the UN hasn't weighed in on this.
So wait.. let me get this straight. Fox News is trying to copy a show that is a direct parody of the Fox News network? There's got to be some irony in there somewhere.
There's probably a patent being violated somewhere...
After the ambush by the Dwarf Planet camp, on the last day, the IAU appears ready to fragment into smaller sub-unions, or dwarf unions.
Meanwhile, astrologers going out of their minds over the contentious issue of what constitutes a planet, how many of them there are
and how it will impact births, weddings and
divining portents, have finally had enough. This evening Seoul, Mumbai and San Francisco are in flames as astrologers and their clients
rampage.
today's lesson: if you don't like the result of the last vote, wait until your opposition has left and then call another vote.
And what's this 472 of 2,700 being 10% stuff?
Stern said like-minded astronomers had begun a petition to get Pluto reinstated. Car bumper stickers compelling motorists to "Honk if Pluto is still a planet" have gone on sale over the internet and e-mails circulating about the decision have been describing the IAU as the "Irrelevant Astronomical Union".
I want one of those bumper stickers. I mean, how geek!
I've been at Microsoft, I've worked at Microsoft. This Zune may be the hit of the century on Microsoft campus. Too bad that won't be enough to sustain a profitable market for the Zune.
So you're saying there's a "Bay of Pigs Mentality" at Microsoft?
it can't fail, we should invade the market and those loyal to us will appear and carry it forward, thus overthrowing the market leader!
'Linux believers will have to reach out beyond self-absorbed geeks who learns Klingon and attends science fiction conventions in his spare time.'"
Um. I moved past that last week. Now I'm a self-absorbed geek who goes down to the pub and tries to englighten people on astronomy matters. It sure does clear seats around me fast!
What's the legal standing of taking someone else's photographs and modifying them, even for Satire or Parody?
I'd suggest Frankel make up his own costume and photograph it.
We're quick to take issue when, during a poltical campaign, some photograph of Kerry giving a speech years ago is doctored. I think there is some precedent there. Doesn't it apply equally to what Frankel is doing?
I can't wait for the Cardboard Tube Samurai episode.
IIRC someone already did some soft of amature CTS game.
I think PA is hillarious,
I'm finding them a bit less funny than they once were and a bit more full of themselves. Childs Play is a nice gesture, though, and PAX is good, considering what seems to be happening recently to E3.
and I hope this joint venture will be as good as they think it will. I have faith but there's always the chance for failure.
No failure will attract more attention than one in the position Penny-Arcade are in. Their lampooning and lambasting of the industry's shortcomings and gaffes will certainly come home to roost in their competing sites if it falls short of unquestioned success.
I guess we wait for the next couple years and see.
I hope they don't drag it out too long or/. will see Duke Nukem Forever barbs supplanted by Penny-Arcade
Judging by the amount he got from this, he was not exactly small fry. Who knows what lengths he went to protecting an illicit business of that size..
From this list: numerous airplanes, a fighter-jet simulator, a Lamborghini, a Hummer and other luxury vehicles he was clearly not a stealthy individual. That's a pretty ostentatious list of items and I would be inclined to think the US Treasury Department would have noticed this first. Florida officials may have had him confused with a drug lord or professional athelete with such conspicous consumption.
Spending money like you hit the Powerball Jackpot often garners attention at some point.
I remember a field service tech from DEC, in to work on our PDP system back in the mid 80's, telling of this service call to a foundry. Something stopped working and they found a the system schematic in the back of a filing cabinet which indicated there was something this company had in there, somewhere which ran everything. It was a PDP-4, running off an 8 inch floppy disk. Years past its installation in a corner of the foundry floor the foundry hand remodelled and put all sorts of structure, vents, wiring, etc around this little box without a thought to anyone ever needing to get to it. The tech found a way in, replaced some part and the thing went right back to work running things in the foundry. A veritable antique by even mid-80's standards, running in an environment with a lot of heat, dust, dirt, etc. Somethings used to just keep going.
I'm not certain of any PC's these days, the quality of motherboards or components. Often they just crap out without so much as bump.
Does this mean I'm getting less spam from him? I'm still getting a lot which offer s1gnificant disc0unts on s0ftware
Bugs me it took long enough to take this guy out for him to buy all that stuff. Clearly the BSA or whatever industry watchdog isn't terribly vigilant, unless it comes to a knock on your company door, wishing to audit all your software licences and installations, while this potlicker was operating within the USA long enough to amass a fortune.
Really, I'm sorry that your profits - that you earned so hard by putting out piles of junk - now get eaten into by recalling said junk.
It all started to go downhill after Akio Morita died. The way I saw it his influence kept Sony's focus on high quality, innovative products. After his passing Sony became more interested in profitability over quality. The stories of Sony products not being up to snuff are no legion. Too bad. They had one of the best names, because of the reputation and now they're wrecking it over profits and rushing things to market before adequate testing.
Back in the day there was a phrase going around, which seemed to have great merit: Stick to your core competency. While not always good advice,
for there were a few companies who diversified and prospered, it was often easy to find examples of where companies had utterly done
themselves in by getting into product lines and services where they were out of their depth or the product/service really wasn't ever going
to produce the return hoped for (during hard times these units are often the first closed because the accountants can readliy point them out
as hemorraging cash.) Good for Dell, get out and put your mind on sorting out your battery woes and making better PC's (the past years models
are a far cry from the quality of early Dell units.)
Microsoft, still willing to bet billions you have an iPod killer and wish to enter the digital music player market? of course, you love the challenge and it
encourages those mean old euro dogs to request Windows with the media junk bundled the EU is currently spanking you for.
They rolled this out a few months back, when I was one of the brave few to sit through the presentation at a programmers conference in Santa Clara (for a free t-shirt and pen.) It was actually amazingly cool and I'm planning something of my own with it. (but I ain't telling you because I wouldn't want anyone tempted to swipe my neat idea, like thinkgeek did to me once already.)
what this kid should be doing is community service
Really. He should be on patrol to remove the non-computer spam which exists everywhere around where I live - Graffiti or Tagging. Give him some paint, sand blaster, thinner, various other means of removal and some supervision.
Show him what it's like to deal with the dog-bladders of society leave everywhere.
Make him write out each email he sent on a blackboard, all 5 million of them.
Like this?
Dear Sir/Madam, I am very sorry for sending you an unwelcomed message stating that you will die in seven days. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send $1 to: Sorry Guy, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield
A 16 year old 'Boy Spammer', David Lennon, has been told by a judge that as punishment for his crimes he can't leave his bedroom for two months during curfew.
That's punishment? If he's a nerd that's a reward!
He should be locked up in a reading room with all the Harry Potter books. That'll learn him.
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With Israel a known (suspected within 99.999%) holder of nukes, Iran sees themselves as the logical counterpoint. They do mean to make weapons, of this I have no doubt.
Peaceful purposes? The iranian prez has said Israel should be wiped off the map. He doesn't strike me as a man with peaceful intentions.
If Microsoft can make people strike up conversations with the strangers around them they don't deserve a business success with the Zune, they deserve the next 100 Nobel Peace Prizes.
You can't see the looming hubbub? Some lurker around a school yard, posing as a 13 year old, beaming Michael Jackson tunes to children .. luring one into near the bushes. Then the local parents groups and sheriff's departments and everyone else gets into wanting to monitor or restrict these things, yada yada yada.
It's not a problem until the first time it happens.
Will there be some form of parental control which allows them to disable the social networking feature?
We keep the new definitions, but still call Pluto a planet, just as an honorary title.
I suggest the same thing and get verbally tarred and feathered.
This exercise has certainly explosed a great rift in the community. Now they've also seen that there are those within the community willing to "hijack" a decision.
Personnally I'm surprised the UN hasn't weighed in on this.
Hopefully you'll be able to plug a USB keyboard into it, to press ctrl-alt-del when it crashes.
Sorry, that only works if the USB driver has loaded.
So wait.. let me get this straight. Fox News is trying to copy a show that is a direct parody of the Fox News network? There's got to be some irony in there somewhere.
There's probably a patent being violated somewhere...
summon the army o' lawyers!
After the ambush by the Dwarf Planet camp, on the last day, the IAU appears ready to fragment into smaller sub-unions, or dwarf unions.
Meanwhile, astrologers going out of their minds over the contentious issue of what constitutes a planet, how many of them there are and how it will impact births, weddings and divining portents, have finally had enough. This evening Seoul, Mumbai and San Francisco are in flames as astrologers and their clients rampage.
today's lesson: if you don't like the result of the last vote, wait until your opposition has left and then call another vote.
And what's this 472 of 2,700 being 10% stuff?
I want one of those bumper stickers. I mean, how geek!
Ah, here's more info on merchandising the Pluto debate and a place you can vote with your $.
I've been at Microsoft, I've worked at Microsoft. This Zune may be the hit of the century on Microsoft campus. Too bad that won't be enough to sustain a profitable market for the Zune.
So you're saying there's a "Bay of Pigs Mentality" at Microsoft?
it can't fail, we should invade the market and those loyal to us will appear and carry it forward, thus overthrowing the market leader!
Steve Balmer in silhouette with a glowing cord doing his monkey dance.
'Linux believers will have to reach out beyond self-absorbed geeks who learns Klingon and attends science fiction conventions in his spare time.'"
Um. I moved past that last week. Now I'm a self-absorbed geek who goes down to the pub and tries to englighten people on astronomy matters. It sure does clear seats around me fast!
What's the legal standing of taking someone else's photographs and modifying them, even for Satire or Parody?
I'd suggest Frankel make up his own costume and photograph it.
We're quick to take issue when, during a poltical campaign, some photograph of Kerry giving a speech years ago is doctored. I think there is some precedent there. Doesn't it apply equally to what Frankel is doing?
I can't wait for the Cardboard Tube Samurai episode.
IIRC someone already did some soft of amature CTS game.
I think PA is hillarious,
I'm finding them a bit less funny than they once were and a bit more full of themselves. Childs Play is a nice gesture, though, and PAX is good, considering what seems to be happening recently to E3.
and I hope this joint venture will be as good as they think it will. I have faith but there's always the chance for failure.
No failure will attract more attention than one in the position Penny-Arcade are in. Their lampooning and lambasting of the industry's shortcomings and gaffes will certainly come home to roost in their competing sites if it falls short of unquestioned success.
I guess we wait for the next couple years and see.
I hope they don't drag it out too long or /. will see Duke Nukem Forever barbs supplanted by Penny-Arcade
Judging by the amount he got from this, he was not exactly small fry. Who knows what lengths he went to protecting an illicit business of that size ..
From this list: numerous airplanes, a fighter-jet simulator, a Lamborghini, a Hummer and other luxury vehicles he was clearly not a stealthy individual. That's a pretty ostentatious list of items and I would be inclined to think the US Treasury Department would have noticed this first. Florida officials may have had him confused with a drug lord or professional athelete with such conspicous consumption.
Spending money like you hit the Powerball Jackpot often garners attention at some point.
I remember a field service tech from DEC, in to work on our PDP system back in the mid 80's, telling of this service call to a foundry. Something stopped working and they found a the system schematic in the back of a filing cabinet which indicated there was something this company had in there, somewhere which ran everything. It was a PDP-4, running off an 8 inch floppy disk. Years past its installation in a corner of the foundry floor the foundry hand remodelled and put all sorts of structure, vents, wiring, etc around this little box without a thought to anyone ever needing to get to it. The tech found a way in, replaced some part and the thing went right back to work running things in the foundry. A veritable antique by even mid-80's standards, running in an environment with a lot of heat, dust, dirt, etc. Somethings used to just keep going.
I'm not certain of any PC's these days, the quality of motherboards or components. Often they just crap out without so much as bump.
I can understand the steep financial penalty, but 6 years seems awfully harsh for a crime where no one was physically harmed.
I'm certain the victims of Michael Milken and the Enron brass see things differently.
dear, we've got alpo or ken-l-ration for dinner tonight
Does this mean I'm getting less spam from him? I'm still getting a lot which offer s1gnificant disc0unts on s0ftware
Bugs me it took long enough to take this guy out for him to buy all that stuff. Clearly the BSA or whatever industry watchdog isn't terribly vigilant, unless it comes to a knock on your company door, wishing to audit all your software licences and installations, while this potlicker was operating within the USA long enough to amass a fortune.
Really, I'm sorry that your profits - that you earned so hard by putting out piles of junk - now get eaten into by recalling said junk.
It all started to go downhill after Akio Morita died. The way I saw it his influence kept Sony's focus on high quality, innovative products. After his passing Sony became more interested in profitability over quality. The stories of Sony products not being up to snuff are no legion. Too bad. They had one of the best names, because of the reputation and now they're wrecking it over profits and rushing things to market before adequate testing.
Did Sony supply Apple with their crappy batteries, too?
strongbad says, "hey, my laptop asplode!"
Back in the day there was a phrase going around, which seemed to have great merit: Stick to your core competency. While not always good advice, for there were a few companies who diversified and prospered, it was often easy to find examples of where companies had utterly done themselves in by getting into product lines and services where they were out of their depth or the product/service really wasn't ever going to produce the return hoped for (during hard times these units are often the first closed because the accountants can readliy point them out as hemorraging cash.) Good for Dell, get out and put your mind on sorting out your battery woes and making better PC's (the past years models are a far cry from the quality of early Dell units.)
Microsoft, still willing to bet billions you have an iPod killer and wish to enter the digital music player market? of course, you love the challenge and it encourages those mean old euro dogs to request Windows with the media junk bundled the EU is currently spanking you for.
. The girl had no prior experience and didn't even understand the theory she was applying.
Sign her up as a /. editor, quick!
You can also go fart around with Amazon's Web Services for fun and profit.
They rolled this out a few months back, when I was one of the brave few to sit through the presentation at a programmers conference in Santa Clara (for a free t-shirt and pen.) It was actually amazingly cool and I'm planning something of my own with it. (but I ain't telling you because I wouldn't want anyone tempted to swipe my neat idea, like thinkgeek did to me once already.)
what this kid should be doing is community service
Really. He should be on patrol to remove the non-computer spam which exists everywhere around where I live - Graffiti or Tagging. Give him some paint, sand blaster, thinner, various other means of removal and some supervision.
Show him what it's like to deal with the dog-bladders of society leave everywhere.
They should give him free subscriptions to the top ten MMOG's but only allow him a dialup internet connection.
Nah, give him DSL, but run it through a router which intermittently lags for 5 minutes.
or how about forcing him to attent gym class every day.
With Ronnie "Wedgie Master" Ropeburns?!?!?!? *shudder*
Make him write out each email he sent on a blackboard, all 5 million of them.
Like this?
Dear Sir/Madam, I am very sorry for sending you an unwelcomed message stating that you will die in seven days. If you can find it in your heart to forgive me, send $1 to: Sorry Guy, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield
A 16 year old 'Boy Spammer', David Lennon, has been told by a judge that as punishment for his crimes he can't leave his bedroom for two months during curfew.
That's punishment? If he's a nerd that's a reward!
He should be locked up in a reading room with all the Harry Potter books. That'll learn him.