Who should bear responsibility, the architect who designs and builds 95% of houses in the world pre-installed with piles of oily rags, kindling and soaked in kerosene, or the pissy little vandal who finally threw one match?
That's the dumbest thing I've ever read on slashdot. Seriously. What the hell does this have to do with viruses? Everything in outlook is there because a paying customer wants to use it. Just because you think it's stupid, doesn't mean other people don't rely on it. 100% of the blame for viruses lies upon people writing viruses, not the people who write outlook, not even idiots who run files they shouldn't.
No, you're just a very lucky freak of nature. I get 3-6 email viruses EVERY SINGLE DAY mostly delivered as either auto-running (oe prompts me of course and i say nay).exe files renamed to.pif, and a couple of.exe files titled "this is a good tool, i thought you'd like it".
I catch most of these with the filters in outlook express, but I'd love it if oe would let ME write a WSH script that would filter my emails, I'd never get another spam or virus again I reckon.
Isn't this the old "you're going to get raped, you might as well lie back enjoy it" argument, applied to advertising? Wouldn't it be better to find a way to get rid of the advertising? Or have commercial interests so compromised society that such a thing is no longer even thinkable?
Yeah, except rape is illegal, not to mention just plain WRONG, whereas advertising is legal, and nothing more the best way people can try to convince you that you want their product. If nobody buys it, they'll go away.
To compare advertising with rape show you as nothing more than an arrogant child, and belittles what a horrible thing it is. Can a woman being raped simply ignore it? Can she hit the delete button? Can she change the channel???
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Yeah you're right, better not give your kids any pencils while you're at it.
OH NO! Quick arrest somebody!!!! When will people understand? If it's at all possible, you will be given ads. If there was a way to bombard you with ads 24/7/365 you would be. But the fact of the matter is, you will get advertising - so wouldn't you rather get ads for something you're actually interested in?
Here's what I want (in no order, and it doesn't have to be all of them)
Karma cap changed - not gone: keep the displayed karma at 50, but cap at 60
NEWST POSTS FIRST
If I'm paying, and I have 40+ Karma, I want lameness filters off.
More customisation, like a few different themes, perhaps a system where paying customers can create their own themes, and have a "top 10/. themes of the month" page
A place where paying customers can discuss ideas for/.
Althought the parent was modded funny, I have to add my 2 cents - I like to code, but I'm not a marathon sit-at-the-pooter-for-2-days-straight kinda guy, like a lot of the people here are. Except when I have to, and I get a little speed. A small dose of speed (usually drunk in a shot of water, enough so you barely notice you've taken any) actually works wonders for my productivity. When the deadlines come up, it can often help me work all night at home, then go to work and work all day, and still be doing something useful until 5 o'clock.
Good stuff really, although we should be thankful it's illegal or we'd all have 25 hour days all the time;-)
Jango Fett, he's boba-fett's dad, played by temuera morrisson. For those in the northen hemisphere, temuera morrisson (sp?) played "Jeek the mess" (ducks projectiles from nz neighbours) one of the toughest blokes ever portrayed on film, in "Once were warriors" and its sequel, "what becomes of the broken hearted".
And boba-fett's in it as a little kid, which is so damned cool:-)
Ah. Everytime I hear "X can do everything Oracle can" it makes me smile.
You know why oracle charges so much money? You know why oracle's the second biggest software company? Sure it's partly marketing, but mainly Oracle markets itself. Oracle is the most powerful, scalable, and generally rock-steady-makes-toast-cuts-potatoes-in-3-styles database in the world by a long shot bar none.
Comparing postgressql to oracle is like comparing the JET engine and a.mdb file to SQL Server 2000. It's a joke and makes you look like an idiot to people who know anything about databases.
That's because (and I'll cop it for saying this here on/.) free speech is not about you getting rights to old software/music/whatever. It's about the ability to say/print things that are unpopular. Like Porn. I don't care if copyright lasts forever, if to have it shortened would mean giving up the right for pornographers to make porn, or people to say they hate me for the colour of my skin.
Probably because he's right. Writing a flash clone could quite easily be on a par with writing an operating system, and if Flash had an interface on par with that of the Gimp, the company would be broke.
But we can pretty much do this at the moment by using the various suspend and hibernate options. Ok, so it's a different technology but the effect is the same. But nobody not using a laptop ever does.
That would be because 8/10 times, your computer doesn't come back when you try to wake it up.
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Because almost every spam I get has a random number in it somewhere. Many also have one appended to the title
Hey, come on. Fist of the north star sure isn't a great movie, but it's pretty true to the anime. Let's face it, the anime sucked balls, and personally I found the live action version more entertaining.
I don't mean that I have the right to know about it like i have the right not to be tortured, but you're saying some author has the right to tell somebody else how they can advertise their posessions for sale? If this was, oh, say, microsoft saying I can't auction off a copy of windows on ebay there'd be a total ruckus here.
They are not trying to restrict your rights in any way at all,
YES THEY ARE. They are trying to restrict my right to know of a second-hand book for sale, they are trying to restrict the rights of the owner of said book to advertise their sale, and they are trying to restrict the right of amazon.com from providing a service between myself and the book owner for which they take a small fee.
Sounds like they're tryint to infringe on more than my rights.
Not everybody here thinks so. I quite like sony, compared to a lot of companies out there. A black lion does not a voltron make, hence sony may be part of the evil-megacorporation-of-doom(tm), but it isn't necessarily one by itself.
No, it won't. Because the general public doesn't know the RIAA exists. Let's face it, 90% of the people who aren't artists don't know they exist, and if they do they probably hate them already. But Joe Sixpack thinks he's buying a cd from bestbuy, or from britany, or at most he thinks he's buying it from sony, he doesn't know that he's really buying it from the evil-megacorporation-of-doom(tm) and that if they're feeling good britany will get a little of the money.
No, you can play music on a speaker as long as the general public can't hear it. For example I can park my car and crank up the music for my friends to hear, even when we're out of the car. I can also play music at work without using headphones, and I can turn it up loud enough for the person next to me to hear it, but if I worked in a supermarket that would be a no-no.
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Who should bear responsibility, the architect who designs and builds 95% of houses in the world pre-installed with piles of oily rags, kindling and soaked in kerosene, or the pissy little vandal who finally threw one match?
That's the dumbest thing I've ever read on slashdot. Seriously. What the hell does this have to do with viruses? Everything in outlook is there because a paying customer wants to use it. Just because you think it's stupid, doesn't mean other people don't rely on it. 100% of the blame for viruses lies upon people writing viruses, not the people who write outlook, not even idiots who run files they shouldn't.
No, you're just a very lucky freak of nature. I get 3-6 email viruses EVERY SINGLE DAY mostly delivered as either auto-running (oe prompts me of course and i say nay) .exe files renamed to .pif, and a couple of .exe files titled "this is a good tool, i thought you'd like it".
I catch most of these with the filters in outlook express, but I'd love it if oe would let ME write a WSH script that would filter my emails, I'd never get another spam or virus again I reckon.
Isn't this the old "you're going to get raped, you might as well lie back enjoy it" argument, applied to advertising? Wouldn't it be better to find a way to get rid of the advertising? Or have commercial interests so compromised society that such a thing is no longer even thinkable?
Yeah, except rape is illegal, not to mention just plain WRONG, whereas advertising is legal, and nothing more the best way people can try to convince you that you want their product. If nobody buys it, they'll go away.
To compare advertising with rape show you as nothing more than an arrogant child, and belittles what a horrible thing it is. Can a woman being raped simply ignore it? Can she hit the delete button? Can she change the channel???
Yeah you're right, better not give your kids any pencils while you're at it.
THESE BASTARDS ARE GONNA AD-TARGET ME!
OH NO! Quick arrest somebody!!!! When will people understand? If it's at all possible, you will be given ads. If there was a way to bombard you with ads 24/7/365 you would be. But the fact of the matter is, you will get advertising - so wouldn't you rather get ads for something you're actually interested in?
Hehehehe.... Except I don't know dick about furbies, so what will they do? Just yell it back at each other?
don't you mean post (911|columbine|whatever) age?
Althought the parent was modded funny, I have to add my 2 cents - I like to code, but I'm not a marathon sit-at-the-pooter-for-2-days-straight kinda guy, like a lot of the people here are. Except when I have to, and I get a little speed. A small dose of speed (usually drunk in a shot of water, enough so you barely notice you've taken any) actually works wonders for my productivity. When the deadlines come up, it can often help me work all night at home, then go to work and work all day, and still be doing something useful until 5 o'clock.
;-)
Good stuff really, although we should be thankful it's illegal or we'd all have 25 hour days all the time
Jango Fett, he's boba-fett's dad, played by temuera morrisson. For those in the northen hemisphere, temuera morrisson (sp?) played "Jeek the mess" (ducks projectiles from nz neighbours) one of the toughest blokes ever portrayed on film, in "Once were warriors" and its sequel, "what becomes of the broken hearted".
:-)
And boba-fett's in it as a little kid, which is so damned cool
PosgreSQL can do anything Oracle can
.mdb file to SQL Server 2000. It's a joke and makes you look like an idiot to people who know anything about databases.
Ah. Everytime I hear "X can do everything Oracle can" it makes me smile.
You know why oracle charges so much money? You know why oracle's the second biggest software company? Sure it's partly marketing, but mainly Oracle markets itself. Oracle is the most powerful, scalable, and generally rock-steady-makes-toast-cuts-potatoes-in-3-styles database in the world by a long shot bar none.
Comparing postgressql to oracle is like comparing the JET engine and a
That's because (and I'll cop it for saying this here on /.) free speech is not about you getting rights to old software/music/whatever. It's about the ability to say/print things that are unpopular. Like Porn. I don't care if copyright lasts forever, if to have it shortened would mean giving up the right for pornographers to make porn, or people to say they hate me for the colour of my skin.
Well of course it's not a suprise that you actually can do it on an apple ;-)
Who modded this post up and why?
Probably because he's right. Writing a flash clone could quite easily be on a par with writing an operating system, and if Flash had an interface on par with that of the Gimp, the company would be broke.
But we can pretty much do this at the moment by using the various suspend and hibernate options. Ok, so it's a different technology but the effect is the same. But nobody not using a laptop ever does.
That would be because 8/10 times, your computer doesn't come back when you try to wake it up.
Because almost every spam I get has a random number in it somewhere. Many also have one appended to the title
Yes it does, it's in the .pak file, you just need to extract it.
Hey, come on. Fist of the north star sure isn't a great movie, but it's pretty true to the anime. Let's face it, the anime sucked balls, and personally I found the live action version more entertaining.
Plus they all had such great mullets!
They were talking of the first re-release, only a couple of years after it stopped screening the first time
Uh gta3 is a racing game like quake 3 is a running simulator. I think you were thinking of gt3 ;-)
I don't mean that I have the right to know about it like i have the right not to be tortured, but you're saying some author has the right to tell somebody else how they can advertise their posessions for sale? If this was, oh, say, microsoft saying I can't auction off a copy of windows on ebay there'd be a total ruckus here.
They are not trying to restrict your rights in any way at all,
YES THEY ARE. They are trying to restrict my right to know of a second-hand book for sale, they are trying to restrict the rights of the owner of said book to advertise their sale, and they are trying to restrict the right of amazon.com from providing a service between myself and the book owner for which they take a small fee.
Sounds like they're tryint to infringe on more than my rights.
Not everybody here thinks so. I quite like sony, compared to a lot of companies out there. A black lion does not a voltron make, hence sony may be part of the evil-megacorporation-of-doom(tm), but it isn't necessarily one by itself.
No, it won't. Because the general public doesn't know the RIAA exists. Let's face it, 90% of the people who aren't artists don't know they exist, and if they do they probably hate them already. But Joe Sixpack thinks he's buying a cd from bestbuy, or from britany, or at most he thinks he's buying it from sony, he doesn't know that he's really buying it from the evil-megacorporation-of-doom(tm) and that if they're feeling good britany will get a little of the money.
No, you can play music on a speaker as long as the general public can't hear it. For example I can park my car and crank up the music for my friends to hear, even when we're out of the car. I can also play music at work without using headphones, and I can turn it up loud enough for the person next to me to hear it, but if I worked in a supermarket that would be a no-no.