I have an idea. Egypt wants to copyright the pyramids? Fine. There's a wall in Israel that people go up to and pray. Israel copyrights the wall. Anyone who wants to build a wall from now on will have to pay royalties. If you build a house, you'll have to pay Israel royalties for each wall, and come to think of it, since the roof of a house does somewhat resemble a pyramid with its pointy structure, you'll have to pay Egypt, too.
Here's the trouble with experiments like this. God obfuscated the machine code of the human brain to such an extent that we'll never figure it out. Oh wait, that only applies to womens' brains.
If it's really sensitive information, I would send the darn thing to a professional drive recovery company that does only this (if recovery is needed) or simply destroy the drive otherwise. Why risk letting it fall into the wrong hands?
Next thing you know, the plumbing from your toilet will route directly into an FBI office that will collect biometric information from your shit to determine what you've been eating lately. This will help law enforcement officials track down criminals who fart while committing crimes.
Dude, these are some pretty serious threats. I don't want that happening to me, so henceforth I won't say ANYTHING about Apple for fear of them chasing me down. For example, I won't tell anyone how happy I've been with Leopard. They might confiscate my house! It's a high-end cardboard box located under the Auchumpkee Creek Bridge, a very fine neighborhood and a great place to raise children. No way man, I ain't talking about any fruit company!
You see, the RIAA could focus their efforts on developing innovative ways to market music. What if they could come up with something even more convenient and irresistible to millions of consumers than Apple's iTunes store? What if this innovative marketing brought in so much money that piracy would represent only an immaterial portion of their bottom line? They would look like heroes and every company would flock to imitate them.
But, you see, they fell into the trap of thinking that lawyers and litigation could solve their problems. They declared legal war on an entire population. Whenever there's a war, whether a legal one or a physical one, everyone knows how it begins, but nobody knows how it will end. Nazi Germany started war on the entire world, thinking they were big, mighty, and unstoppable. And what happened? In the end, there was devastating destruction throughout Europe, tens of millions of lives destroyed, and the country in the worst shape of all was Germany. Why?
Dude. If they really want to beef up security, what they need to do is switch to OpenBSD and hire a gazillion programmers to audit the darn thing all day long. Only two remote holes in the default install in over ten years! Now all they need to do is invent condoms that work as well. Heh heh.
Actually, Garbagestan completely surrounds Petoria. Normalized relations don't make for good ratings on the news, so none exist. We are, instead, working on a Garbagestan/Petoria Peace Plan which involves a Roadmap to Peace. This roadmap goes nowhere and states that when all the residents of Petoria, go off and drown themselves in the sea (and somehow they have to do this without traversing through Garbagestan), we will be at peace.
They refuse to drown themselves in the sea. We refuse to budge from our demands for total annihilation of Petoria. And somehow, we manage to make it look as if Peter is the aggressor and we're just poor Garbagestanians trying to survive his terrible oppression. News ratings are through the roof! Heh heh. Nobody pays attention to the fact that we surround him! Bwaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaahaaa aaahaaaaahaaaah aahaahahhahaha hahahahahah ahahahahah ahahaha!
And how exactly do they know which people googled themselves and which people googled others? I think there's just a little dollop of bullshit in this one. 76.288% of statistics are made up on the fly.
We ain't maximizing the lengths of possible generations becuz the Holy Bible states that this dude begot that dude when he turned this age, and then that dude begot the next dude when he was whatever age, and so on and so forth. Alls you gotta do is add up the cottonpicking dates and you'll arrive at the number 42, which is the number of roads that one must take.
Hmmm. I have a business idea. Buy a product that costs $100 and sell it to people who know it costs $100 for $500. Pocket the extra $400. Oh, wait, that's been done already.
Ok, let's try again. Sell people a cup of coffee, which everyone knows is worth about 5 cents, for 5 dollars instead. Oh, wait. That, too, has already been done.
Ok, ok, now I got it. Because everyone has faucets in their homes and businesses, why not open a storefront where people will drive to you and then pay a dollar per gallon to fill bottles of water from a faucet?
What?! That's been done already too?!?! Ok, I give up.
Hmmm... This may be a problem because my country of Garbagestan (which I have just formed by taking control of all the homes on my street) has made HTML, PDF, and ODF illegal under pain of a forced upgrade to Vista.
Dude, how can this be possible? The Universe is only 5768 years old according to the Old Testament! For the sake of argument, we'll ignore the fact that time dilation will stretch the first six days of Creation into approximately fifteen billion years, according to the physicist Dr. Gerald Schroeder.
Let's assume that the software engineers working at all companies are equally qualified. On average, that will probably turn out to be true. Assuming that all programmers are equally qualified, let's assume, only for the sake of argument, that all software is released with a similar quantity of security flaws; say, X amount of flaws per Y amount of code. Now ask yourself this: Does having lots of fixes released on a constant basis imply something about the security of the company's product? Or does it imply something that is totally unrelated to software, which speaks not of the software's initial security status, but of the company's policy towards servicing flaws as they're found? I think that ultimately, all software will contain some level of bugs; the company's policy towards fixing them is what determines security.
Dude, I second your opinion on what Microsoft should do. Every time I do a fresh XP install, I have to spend hours turning off all the annoying features that slow it down, mess it up, and just plain make me tear my hair out. Like that annoying "click" sound effect that happens when you click your mouse. I can hear the damn mouse button! I don't need an additional "click" sound effect you idiots!! Then, you can't save your preferences and simply transfer them to another computer. You have to spend the same hours upon hours tweaking every computer you install. It's a task I simply don't have the patience for anymore. They need to make a Windows XP or Windows Vista For People Who Actually Want To Do Something With Their Computer As Opposed To Looking At Pretty Graphics And Please Wait All The Time Messages Edition. It would have the exact same user interface that Windows 95 had, basically be like early Windows 2000, and run the newest software and support the newest hardware. That would be a winner.
Want to solve all the world's problems? The governments of the world's major nations should form a working group, with funding from all the nations, to develop alternate ways to generate energy. Much of the research should focus on generating electricity from water, a process that has been known to exist for many decades. They simply need to figure out how to fit it into an automobile. There is no reason to use fossil fuels for transportation. This will solve major problems: Smog; Diminishing fossil fuels; Global warming (if you believe in that crock of bullshit and ignore the fact that temperatures on Mars have increased the same amount as temperatures on Earth, because warming is related to distance from the sun and fluctuates over a 50 or so year period) and the most important one, that the world's current addiction to gasoline is funding the world's most dangerous terrorists and tyrants. Get rid of the need for so much fuel and you won't have more events like 9/11, the trains in Spain, the subway in London, the whole world on fire in Paris, embassies blowing up in Africa, rockets being launched into Israel, and all the other wonderful things that we finance when we go to a gas station.
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This is as important as so-called "second sourcing", which promises that if one system goes down, others will still be available.
Those who watch pr0n should try a safer activity, like getting out of the house once in a while.
I have an idea. Egypt wants to copyright the pyramids? Fine. There's a wall in Israel that people go up to and pray. Israel copyrights the wall. Anyone who wants to build a wall from now on will have to pay royalties. If you build a house, you'll have to pay Israel royalties for each wall, and come to think of it, since the roof of a house does somewhat resemble a pyramid with its pointy structure, you'll have to pay Egypt, too.
The last thing this country needs is another Cliton in the white house.
That is not a typo. There is only one N in Cliton.
We don't have to worry about that happening though. President Obama will win.
Here's the trouble with experiments like this. God obfuscated the machine code of the human brain to such an extent that we'll never figure it out. Oh wait, that only applies to womens' brains.
If it's really sensitive information, I would send the darn thing to a professional drive recovery company that does only this (if recovery is needed) or simply destroy the drive otherwise. Why risk letting it fall into the wrong hands?
Next thing you know, the plumbing from your toilet will route directly into an FBI office that will collect biometric information from your shit to determine what you've been eating lately. This will help law enforcement officials track down criminals who fart while committing crimes.
Dude, these are some pretty serious threats. I don't want that happening to me, so henceforth I won't say ANYTHING about Apple for fear of them chasing me down. For example, I won't tell anyone how happy I've been with Leopard. They might confiscate my house! It's a high-end cardboard box located under the Auchumpkee Creek Bridge, a very fine neighborhood and a great place to raise children. No way man, I ain't talking about any fruit company!
You see, the RIAA could focus their efforts on developing innovative ways to market music. What if they could come up with something even more convenient and irresistible to millions of consumers than Apple's iTunes store? What if this innovative marketing brought in so much money that piracy would represent only an immaterial portion of their bottom line? They would look like heroes and every company would flock to imitate them.
But, you see, they fell into the trap of thinking that lawyers and litigation could solve their problems. They declared legal war on an entire population. Whenever there's a war, whether a legal one or a physical one, everyone knows how it begins, but nobody knows how it will end. Nazi Germany started war on the entire world, thinking they were big, mighty, and unstoppable. And what happened? In the end, there was devastating destruction throughout Europe, tens of millions of lives destroyed, and the country in the worst shape of all was Germany. Why?
Dude. If they really want to beef up security, what they need to do is switch to OpenBSD and hire a gazillion programmers to audit the darn thing all day long. Only two remote holes in the default install in over ten years! Now all they need to do is invent condoms that work as well. Heh heh.
Actually, Garbagestan completely surrounds Petoria. Normalized relations don't make for good ratings on the news, so none exist. We are, instead, working on a Garbagestan/Petoria Peace Plan which involves a Roadmap to Peace. This roadmap goes nowhere and states that when all the residents of Petoria, go off and drown themselves in the sea (and somehow they have to do this without traversing through Garbagestan), we will be at peace.
They refuse to drown themselves in the sea. We refuse to budge from our demands for total annihilation of Petoria. And somehow, we manage to make it look as if Peter is the aggressor and we're just poor Garbagestanians trying to survive his terrible oppression. News ratings are through the roof! Heh heh. Nobody pays attention to the fact that we surround him! Bwaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaahaaa aaahaaaaahaaaah aahaahahhahaha hahahahahah ahahahahah ahahaha!
And how exactly do they know which people googled themselves and which people googled others? I think there's just a little dollop of bullshit in this one. 76.288% of statistics are made up on the fly.
Did your local news recently do a two-minute clip on music copyright infringement?
The answer to this and all other questions is: 42.
We ain't maximizing the lengths of possible generations becuz the Holy Bible states that this dude begot that dude when he turned this age, and then that dude begot the next dude when he was whatever age, and so on and so forth. Alls you gotta do is add up the cottonpicking dates and you'll arrive at the number 42, which is the number of roads that one must take.
Hmmm. I have a business idea. Buy a product that costs $100 and sell it to people who know it costs $100 for $500. Pocket the extra $400. Oh, wait, that's been done already.
Ok, let's try again. Sell people a cup of coffee, which everyone knows is worth about 5 cents, for 5 dollars instead. Oh, wait. That, too, has already been done.
Ok, ok, now I got it. Because everyone has faucets in their homes and businesses, why not open a storefront where people will drive to you and then pay a dollar per gallon to fill bottles of water from a faucet?
What?! That's been done already too?!?! Ok, I give up.
Hmmm... This may be a problem because my country of Garbagestan (which I have just formed by taking control of all the homes on my street) has made HTML, PDF, and ODF illegal under pain of a forced upgrade to Vista.
Dude, how can this be possible? The Universe is only 5768 years old according to the Old Testament! For the sake of argument, we'll ignore the fact that time dilation will stretch the first six days of Creation into approximately fifteen billion years, according to the physicist Dr. Gerald Schroeder.
Ok I downloaded nLite and played with it. INCREDIBLE. I am really glad you told me about this program. Thanks again!
Dude. Lossless should mean that if you buy a song and your computer explodes later, you should be able to re-download all the songs you bought. Free.
Let's assume that the software engineers working at all companies are equally qualified. On average, that will probably turn out to be true. Assuming that all programmers are equally qualified, let's assume, only for the sake of argument, that all software is released with a similar quantity of security flaws; say, X amount of flaws per Y amount of code. Now ask yourself this: Does having lots of fixes released on a constant basis imply something about the security of the company's product? Or does it imply something that is totally unrelated to software, which speaks not of the software's initial security status, but of the company's policy towards servicing flaws as they're found? I think that ultimately, all software will contain some level of bugs; the company's policy towards fixing them is what determines security.
The story was updated. It's a hoax. DON'T CALL THE SCHOOL!!!
As they say in the article, the school's phone number is 717-776-2434. Let's teach this school a thing or two about the /. effect!
Dude, thank you for this! I've downloaded it and I'll be trying it out today...
Dude, I second your opinion on what Microsoft should do. Every time I do a fresh XP install, I have to spend hours turning off all the annoying features that slow it down, mess it up, and just plain make me tear my hair out. Like that annoying "click" sound effect that happens when you click your mouse. I can hear the damn mouse button! I don't need an additional "click" sound effect you idiots!! Then, you can't save your preferences and simply transfer them to another computer. You have to spend the same hours upon hours tweaking every computer you install. It's a task I simply don't have the patience for anymore. They need to make a Windows XP or Windows Vista For People Who Actually Want To Do Something With Their Computer As Opposed To Looking At Pretty Graphics And Please Wait All The Time Messages Edition. It would have the exact same user interface that Windows 95 had, basically be like early Windows 2000, and run the newest software and support the newest hardware. That would be a winner.
Want to solve all the world's problems? The governments of the world's major nations should form a working group, with funding from all the nations, to develop alternate ways to generate energy. Much of the research should focus on generating electricity from water, a process that has been known to exist for many decades. They simply need to figure out how to fit it into an automobile. There is no reason to use fossil fuels for transportation. This will solve major problems: Smog; Diminishing fossil fuels; Global warming (if you believe in that crock of bullshit and ignore the fact that temperatures on Mars have increased the same amount as temperatures on Earth, because warming is related to distance from the sun and fluctuates over a 50 or so year period) and the most important one, that the world's current addiction to gasoline is funding the world's most dangerous terrorists and tyrants. Get rid of the need for so much fuel and you won't have more events like 9/11, the trains in Spain, the subway in London, the whole world on fire in Paris, embassies blowing up in Africa, rockets being launched into Israel, and all the other wonderful things that we finance when we go to a gas station.