These words don't mean what you think they mean, especially when they are in the same sentence.
There are *no* "privacy controls" at facebook, at least, not for the user base for which facebook has shown time and again, it has utter contempt for. Facebook cares about one thing only: Money, and to that end, you are a monetization data point, you are a borg drone and nothing more.
You know, I could also make stupid, ass-backwards decisions for $millions of dollars per year. Heck, I'll take half of whatever you're paying the current clown. Here's my resume HP, I hope you'll consider that I probably have a better background to run your company because I am actually familiar with your products, unlike you're current CEO, who obviously has decided that being CEO of HP means burning it to the ground and hopefully making a small pile of the ashes to chop up among the primary shareholders.
Ironic that when *normal* people didn't have a computer, hackers were evil geniuses who could whistle into a telephone and launch nuclear missiles. Mitnik was FBI priority number one for a while.
But now, if a spammer breaks into your PC, zombies it and uses that to do whatever he wants (maybe even launch missles), the FBI hangs up on you if you try and register a complaint.
Now that *everyone* has a computer, computer crimes are no longer treated as a serious thing.
So lemme get this straight: Mitnik was a danger because the rest of the world was IGNORANT.
I have to wonder what the masses did the first guy who brought home fire.
You don't *believe* the Earth is only 6000 years old? Are you blind, man? Have you NOT counted the number of begats in the bible? It's as clear as freaking day!
And you call yourself a Creationist! I am ashamed!
Sheesh!
*EVERYONE* knows the Earth is only 6000 years old. And if you can't accept that, get out of the religion.
I think someone already thought of this. You're going to have a heck of a time in court. I would suggest incorporating "W", and then just sue everyone three times over.
Sure... some MBA lawyer douchebag ressurects the name Atari to make money off the Atari fanboys, and then proceeds to shit all over the exact fanbase he hopes to profit from. I assume this guy used to work at Sony?
I say we go out and register ATARI*****.com (replace asteriks with whatever suits your fancy), and under contact info assign all rights to Nolan Bushnell.
I have studied Blade Runner. You'd need a mighty fine, mind-blowing script to even come near to the original. Mind you, half of what Made Blade Runner so good was, what was NOT said, as what was implied. The dialog in the film is terse, tight, and very carefully worded. It's like a Phillip Glass composition, in that there's only in there what needs to be in there and nothing more. Seriously go back and look at it, and then think about what's the undertone behind each line in the film.
Like a film noir detective movie, everyone is a suspect, and everyone is hiding some secret. It's not cut and dry, but layered.
Hollywood doesn't know how to do a film like that anymore. Now it's cartoon characters and explosions, and everything is at face value, spoon-fed to the audience.
Then there's the look of the film. With the exception of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, *nothing* looked like Blade Runner. The film is so groundbreaking is this respect, I don't even know where to begin. Did you ever even hear the word "Dystopian" before Blade Runner? It literally *invented* cyberpunk -- there's no doubt that Gibson was influenced by the film when he wrote his novels in the way he describes BAMA or Chiba.
A new film would have to be above-board exceptional. Script, Characters, Cast, Visuals, Music, Director. When Blade Runner was made, everyone involved was at the top of their game. It's rare to get such a talented crew in one place at one time. Think about the names involved in that production, Scott, Mead, Ford, Hauer, Vangellis, Fancher -- I mean, this crew was kind of a magical occurrence of talent that doesn't happen often.
I have a friend who just doesn't "get" this film. He says it's about a guy who has to kill a bunch of replicants who are going to die anyhow. And yes, if you're watching the surface of the film, it's a pointless exercise, after all, if they are going to die soon, why bother shooting them?
But that's not what the film is *about*. Just ask Rob Zombie, who's most famous song is about Blade Runner. Blade Runner is a deep, deep film. It's an abyss in a Nietzsche-esque sense.
It's not likely to be "replicated" or topped, or sequel'ed. All another film based in that universe is going to do is remind us of how brilliant the original was.
Chips from the brain have been known to attack starships. Watch out Captain Dunsel. It's clear that IBM is using Star Trek as a source of ideas. Gene Roddenberry has predicted the 21st century again...
Gee, you would expect that with an entire country full of inventors, who are able to generate patents at such a rate that we've had a million patents in just the last ten years, that this country would be humming along brilliantly with a strong economy, and lots of people working on bringing those inventions to market.
But the sad state of affairs is that most of those million patents are for things which already exist with the words "on the internet" tagged onto the end.
"Method and Practice for Taking a Dump... On the Internet" Woo! A new invention! Quick, submit it to the patent office! Next step, sue Google!
I'm willing to gamble that most of these million patents were submitted by patent lawyers or patent trolls (same thing), who patent something obvious, and then sit and wait for Apple to implement something close, and then blammo, they pounce.
Patents are no longer about inventing or creating, patents are about lawsuits and greed. Like everything else in this country, it's about corruption and gaming the system, leading to less innovation, less creating and therefore, less economy.
By 2025 we'll be lucky if we're not shooting each other in the streets to feed off each others flesh. Not only is this country doomed, we are well and truly fucked on a scale you cannot imagine.
So that a very fortunate few can become massively wealthy, enough to have them live like kings for 10 or 20 generations, the rest of us are going to be involved in a civil war that will have us shooting each other, and probably televisied for the wealthy to gamble on.
We have been robbed, and things are going to get really, really bad in short order. There isn't going to be any manned space missions coming out of the USA for maybe 100 or more years, because we're going to have rebuild after burning down the country, and things like surviving the winter will be a bit more important.
Big Pharma is concerned that people will tell the truth about the horrible side-effects of their crazy drugs that are being pushed on us legally through doctors.
There used to be a Macintosh Application called WIN-NUKE, and we'd use it to crash NT-based web-servers. I think this was during the days of NT3.5, and Macs were still running System 7.1 or something like that.
Anyhow, we were a Mac/Linux shop at the time, and during the dot-com boom, there was this dopey company called "muffinhead", we thought that was a dumb name, so we'd win-nuke them constantly.
We'd ping them from the linux box, see a continuous stream of replies, run win-nuke, and then... the pings would stop, and we'd know they were down.
Back in the early days of the web, you could easily take down half your competition in New York if you were interested enough in doing that. Generally though, my company had enough work that we weren't all that interested - that is, until the boom went bust, and then we were hunting for scraps of work like everyone else.
Guys, guys... This is a NISSAN leaf, not a Chevy Volt. This is a car developed for Japan and Europe, that just also happens to be for sale in California, tree-hugger capital of the world.
Japan *is* having an energy crisis, if you recall. Fukishima still isn't doing much and the power-grid there is suffering. Frankly, a slow-charging battery in a car that can be used as an emergency source for a power dump back into the grid during peak usage is a good idea for Japan, which isn't likely to be replacing their nuclear reactors.
And since Japan has no natural gas, no oil, no coal, and very few natural resources for energy production, solar, wind, batteries, geothermal, and other creative methods are going to have to be applied to make up for the gap once the nuclear energy production stops.
It's going to take Japan 20 years to overhaul everything that was affected by the tsunami. And by then, the price of oil will be so prohibitively expensive that those methods of energy production will be seen as non-viable. Japan has a much better long-term plan than the USA. While we make jokes or claim that the engineers haven't thought things through on Slashdot, it's much more likely that this is just a step towards Japan being energy independent, while we in the USA listen to the Tea Party bicker pointlessly while oil skyrockets and GM is still stamping out SUVs.
We're the ones who will feel stupid in just a few years.
These are all Chinese companies pulling the reverse merger trick, using a shell company to become them, so they avoid having to file with the SEC and become publicly traded companies with essentially, no oversight.
"I am sick of these Muth-f'ing aliens on this Mutha-f'ing planet!" -- I mean come on, Cowboys and aliens is this years "Snakes on a Plane" - the title is the movie and the movie is the title.
And who would that be? For all intents and purposes, both major political parties in this country are the same. They have an absolute disdain for the middle class and are only interested in themselves and how much money they can get from their corporate masters.
Please enlighten the rest of us. Because other than start a nuclear war in the name of god, I really don't see what a brain-surgeon such as Michelle Bachmann is going to do for this country.
Getting that kind of MPG is actually pretty easy given today's technology -- I don't see what the auto manufacturers (or even you slashdotters) are complaining about.
This is not some sham, this is not some backyard engineer, Look up Smokey in Wikipedia, he was a real engineer who consulted for GM, worked for NASCAR, etc., and his Fiero project gets 51mpg and goes like a bat out of hell in terms of speed, and that was all done with 1980's technology.
Now, combine that with Direct Injection (not to be confused with EFI) more efficient (automatic) transmission technologies such as CVT, turbocharging, etc., and somewhere in all that, there's a balance which will take a Toyota Camry and make it go 100mph while getting 55mpg.
And if you want to go extreme, VW claims to have a car that goes 100miles per gallon (of Diesel), and many car manufacturers already have vehicles where 40+ mpg is common (mostly in Europe).
Frankly, I don't see what the problem is. And like it or not, automakers are going to have to contend with $5 or more a gallon for gas, which means the days of the Hummer are numbered.
So, whenever there's a debate on Slashdot about "piracy" or copyright infringement, SOMEONE always makes the tired analogy about "stealing your car", and then someone else always corrects them about COPYING your car, leaving your original car behind.
Well now the pirates *can* steal your car!
And when the technology improves, there will be an app to COPY your car! And when anyone can COPY a car, what dinosour business model with the car manufacturers be forced into? Suing their own customers like the RIAA?
Slashdot Mirror
These words don't mean what you think they mean, especially when they are in the same sentence.
There are *no* "privacy controls" at facebook, at least, not for the user base for which facebook has shown time and again, it has utter contempt for. Facebook cares about one thing only: Money, and to that end, you are a monetization data point, you are a borg drone and nothing more.
You know, I could also make stupid, ass-backwards decisions for $millions of dollars per year. Heck, I'll take half of whatever you're paying the current clown. Here's my resume HP, I hope you'll consider that I probably have a better background to run your company because I am actually familiar with your products, unlike you're current CEO, who obviously has decided that being CEO of HP means burning it to the ground and hopefully making a small pile of the ashes to chop up among the primary shareholders.
Ironic that when *normal* people didn't have a computer, hackers were evil geniuses who could whistle into a telephone and launch nuclear missiles. Mitnik was FBI priority number one for a while.
But now, if a spammer breaks into your PC, zombies it and uses that to do whatever he wants (maybe even launch missles), the FBI hangs up on you if you try and register a complaint.
Now that *everyone* has a computer, computer crimes are no longer treated as a serious thing.
So lemme get this straight: Mitnik was a danger because the rest of the world was IGNORANT.
I have to wonder what the masses did the first guy who brought home fire.
Cool. I can violate every provision of the EULA, and it's GameStop that has to agree to the terms.
I wonder if that'll hold up in a court of law?
They are missing an essential component for procreation.... Which would be a woman.
And I'm someone who knows, not that I would *want* to have a kid (I would never torture another human to have my face)...
"Operating System designed with the main purpose being to lock up your computer"
I think you could have ended your sentence right there.
You don't *believe* the Earth is only 6000 years old? Are you blind, man? Have you NOT counted the number of begats in the bible? It's as clear as freaking day!
And you call yourself a Creationist! I am ashamed!
Sheesh!
*EVERYONE* knows the Earth is only 6000 years old. And if you can't accept that, get out of the religion.
Oh, and the Earth is flat too.
Actually, it looks like there's a http://www.com/ as well.
I think someone already thought of this. You're going to have a heck of a time in court. I would suggest incorporating "W", and then just sue everyone three times over.
Sure... some MBA lawyer douchebag ressurects the name Atari to make money off the Atari fanboys, and then proceeds to shit all over the exact fanbase he hopes to profit from. I assume this guy used to work at Sony?
I say we go out and register ATARI*****.com (replace asteriks with whatever suits your fancy), and under contact info assign all rights to Nolan Bushnell.
Let's see how smart these douches are.
I have studied Blade Runner. You'd need a mighty fine, mind-blowing script to even come near to the original. Mind you, half of what Made Blade Runner so good was, what was NOT said, as what was implied. The dialog in the film is terse, tight, and very carefully worded. It's like a Phillip Glass composition, in that there's only in there what needs to be in there and nothing more. Seriously go back and look at it, and then think about what's the undertone behind each line in the film.
Like a film noir detective movie, everyone is a suspect, and everyone is hiding some secret. It's not cut and dry, but layered.
Hollywood doesn't know how to do a film like that anymore. Now it's cartoon characters and explosions, and everything is at face value, spoon-fed to the audience.
Then there's the look of the film. With the exception of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, *nothing* looked like Blade Runner. The film is so groundbreaking is this respect, I don't even know where to begin. Did you ever even hear the word "Dystopian" before Blade Runner? It literally *invented* cyberpunk -- there's no doubt that Gibson was influenced by the film when he wrote his novels in the way he describes BAMA or Chiba.
A new film would have to be above-board exceptional. Script, Characters, Cast, Visuals, Music, Director. When Blade Runner was made, everyone involved was at the top of their game. It's rare to get such a talented crew in one place at one time. Think about the names involved in that production, Scott, Mead, Ford, Hauer, Vangellis, Fancher -- I mean, this crew was kind of a magical occurrence of talent that doesn't happen often.
I have a friend who just doesn't "get" this film. He says it's about a guy who has to kill a bunch of replicants who are going to die anyhow. And yes, if you're watching the surface of the film, it's a pointless exercise, after all, if they are going to die soon, why bother shooting them?
But that's not what the film is *about*. Just ask Rob Zombie, who's most famous song is about Blade Runner. Blade Runner is a deep, deep film. It's an abyss in a Nietzsche-esque sense.
It's not likely to be "replicated" or topped, or sequel'ed. All another film based in that universe is going to do is remind us of how brilliant the original was.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Computer
Chips from the brain have been known to attack starships. Watch out Captain Dunsel. It's clear that IBM is using Star Trek as a source of ideas. Gene Roddenberry has predicted the 21st century again...
Gee, you would expect that with an entire country full of inventors, who are able to generate patents at such a rate that we've had a million patents in just the last ten years, that this country would be humming along brilliantly with a strong economy, and lots of people working on bringing those inventions to market.
But the sad state of affairs is that most of those million patents are for things which already exist with the words "on the internet" tagged onto the end.
"Method and Practice for Taking a Dump... On the Internet" Woo! A new invention! Quick, submit it to the patent office! Next step, sue Google!
I'm willing to gamble that most of these million patents were submitted by patent lawyers or patent trolls (same thing), who patent something obvious, and then sit and wait for Apple to implement something close, and then blammo, they pounce.
Patents are no longer about inventing or creating, patents are about lawsuits and greed. Like everything else in this country, it's about corruption and gaming the system, leading to less innovation, less creating and therefore, less economy.
By 2025 we'll be lucky if we're not shooting each other in the streets to feed off each others flesh. Not only is this country doomed, we are well and truly fucked on a scale you cannot imagine.
So that a very fortunate few can become massively wealthy, enough to have them live like kings for 10 or 20 generations, the rest of us are going to be involved in a civil war that will have us shooting each other, and probably televisied for the wealthy to gamble on.
We have been robbed, and things are going to get really, really bad in short order. There isn't going to be any manned space missions coming out of the USA for maybe 100 or more years, because we're going to have rebuild after burning down the country, and things like surviving the winter will be a bit more important.
Big Pharma is concerned that people will tell the truth about the horrible side-effects of their crazy drugs that are being pushed on us legally through doctors.
Please Slashdot, you have lost all credibility.
Slashdot's Karma == Crappy (mostly through junk science articles)
There used to be a Macintosh Application called WIN-NUKE, and we'd use it to crash NT-based web-servers. I think this was during the days of NT3.5, and Macs were still running System 7.1 or something like that.
Anyhow, we were a Mac/Linux shop at the time, and during the dot-com boom, there was this dopey company called "muffinhead", we thought that was a dumb name, so we'd win-nuke them constantly.
We'd ping them from the linux box, see a continuous stream of replies, run win-nuke, and then... the pings would stop, and we'd know they were down.
Back in the early days of the web, you could easily take down half your competition in New York if you were interested enough in doing that. Generally though, my company had enough work that we weren't all that interested - that is, until the boom went bust, and then we were hunting for scraps of work like everyone else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names
If you never have read this book, you need to drop everything and get this right now by any means necessary and read it.
And not one of you has mentioned "Doom"?
You all remember that takes place on Mars?
Maybe I'm too old to be here anymore. Get off my lawn!
Guys, guys... This is a NISSAN leaf, not a Chevy Volt. This is a car developed for Japan and Europe, that just also happens to be for sale in California, tree-hugger capital of the world.
Japan *is* having an energy crisis, if you recall. Fukishima still isn't doing much and the power-grid there is suffering. Frankly, a slow-charging battery in a car that can be used as an emergency source for a power dump back into the grid during peak usage is a good idea for Japan, which isn't likely to be replacing their nuclear reactors.
And since Japan has no natural gas, no oil, no coal, and very few natural resources for energy production, solar, wind, batteries, geothermal, and other creative methods are going to have to be applied to make up for the gap once the nuclear energy production stops.
It's going to take Japan 20 years to overhaul everything that was affected by the tsunami. And by then, the price of oil will be so prohibitively expensive that those methods of energy production will be seen as non-viable. Japan has a much better long-term plan than the USA. While we make jokes or claim that the engineers haven't thought things through on Slashdot, it's much more likely that this is just a step towards Japan being energy independent, while we in the USA listen to the Tea Party bicker pointlessly while oil skyrockets and GM is still stamping out SUVs.
We're the ones who will feel stupid in just a few years.
Ummm. No, I'm talking about companies set up deliberately to steal money from investors...
See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/business/global/reverse-mergers-give-chinese-firms-a-side-door-to-wall-st.html
These are all Chinese companies pulling the reverse merger trick, using a shell company to become them, so they avoid having to file with the SEC and become publicly traded companies with essentially, no oversight.
Standard Operating Procedure: To make money, you gotta spend money. And those with a lot of money tend to make more money.
If you've got the 1.6 million to invest, chances are that you're *already* smart enough to know how to make more money with that money.
Unless of course, you're investing in Chinese Shell Companies set up to win investment before they implode.
"I am sick of these Muth-f'ing aliens on this Mutha-f'ing planet!" -- I mean come on, Cowboys and aliens is this years "Snakes on a Plane" - the title is the movie and the movie is the title.
And who would that be? For all intents and purposes, both major political parties in this country are the same. They have an absolute disdain for the middle class and are only interested in themselves and how much money they can get from their corporate masters.
Please enlighten the rest of us. Because other than start a nuclear war in the name of god, I really don't see what a brain-surgeon such as Michelle Bachmann is going to do for this country.
Getting that kind of MPG is actually pretty easy given today's technology -- I don't see what the auto manufacturers (or even you slashdotters) are complaining about.
Consider Smokey Yunik's "Hot Vapor" engine; See:
http://www.legendarycollectorcars.com/featured-vehicles/other-feature-cars/smokey-yunicks-hot-vapor-fiero-51-mpg-and-0-60-in-less-than-6-seconds-see-and-hear-it-run-in-our-exclusive-video/
This is not some sham, this is not some backyard engineer, Look up Smokey in Wikipedia, he was a real engineer who consulted for GM, worked for NASCAR, etc., and his Fiero project gets 51mpg and goes like a bat out of hell in terms of speed, and that was all done with 1980's technology.
Now, combine that with Direct Injection (not to be confused with EFI) more efficient (automatic) transmission technologies such as CVT, turbocharging, etc., and somewhere in all that, there's a balance which will take a Toyota Camry and make it go 100mph while getting 55mpg.
And if you want to go extreme, VW claims to have a car that goes 100miles per gallon (of Diesel), and many car manufacturers already have vehicles where 40+ mpg is common (mostly in Europe).
Frankly, I don't see what the problem is. And like it or not, automakers are going to have to contend with $5 or more a gallon for gas, which means the days of the Hummer are numbered.
So, whenever there's a debate on Slashdot about "piracy" or copyright infringement, SOMEONE always makes the tired analogy about "stealing your car", and then someone else always corrects them about COPYING your car, leaving your original car behind.
Well now the pirates *can* steal your car!
And when the technology improves, there will be an app to COPY your car! And when anyone can COPY a car, what dinosour business model with the car manufacturers be forced into? Suing their own customers like the RIAA?
What a world!