Racist fucks? I have studied the Spanish language for three years and have become quite fluent in Spanish. Not to mention that I have studied Spanish and Mexican (and other Latin American) history and culture. I am very respected in the local latino and hispanic communities.
If you really work for the INS, the only racist fuck here is YOU.
I believe that 100%. The government is doing this for a reason. I would be inclined to say it's to get cheap labor here and collect tax dollars without paying back to the taxpayers, but that doesn't make any sense because these folks don't pay taxes and do get all the priveleges. So my conclusion is that some forces are in action to get rid of world borders. They start by making a North American Free Trade Agreement and a European Union. Then, they might unite Africa. And Asia. Finally, North America becomes united with Europe, and before you know it, one big government controls everything. It sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory, but this is the next logical step in evolution.
In the days before cavemen, each person was an individual fighting for his own existance. This was nearly impossible to accomplish alone so people banded into small groups known as families. When that wasn't enough, families got together and formed villages. When a bunch of nearby villages became threatened by some outside force, they consolidated into towns, and then into cities. One day, a city wasn't enough to fight for itself, so the state was born, followed by unions of states. It's only a matter of time before the next step takes place. And "forces" are at work to do this.
Nice job again MS - I just love how you are making me work my fanny off.
There is a name for this process: Lower TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP.
Linux: Free if you don't value your time... Which basically means: STILL CHEAPER THAN WINDOWS because you waste LESS time learning all this weird shit than you do jumping through Microsoft's hoops.
By the way... we use FreeBSD, not Linux, because it serves our purposes better.
No, sir. I am not a Canadian. I AM AN AMERICAN, AND DAMN PROUD OF IT.
We got 20 million mexicans who can vote, get a drivers license, get free medical care, bring over their entire familes, open bank accounts and now even get social security-all of whom are not "legal" immigrants.
I'll get to the point in a second, but first, I want to dog the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. If you work for that fucked up piece of beaucracy, listen up... You probably don't realize this, but your actions FUCK UP PEOPLE'S LIVES. The way a government beaucracy works is kind of like a complicated piece of software from Microsoft (except that Microsoft's software is actually better than the operation of a government beaucracy, and believe me, I have no respect for Microsoft or anything they do). A beaucracy is able to (albeit very inefficiently) handle a specified number of "states." There might be 10 or 100 or 10,000 of these states. For example, say you have a file with this yellow form in it, that green form, and some purple form. That would place you in a very specific state, and the beaucracy "knows" how to proceed in processing your "case" from this point forward. Now if you approach the beaucracy with something that does not conform exactly to one of the states that they handle, you will be stuck because nobody in the beaucracy has the authority to do anything about you. It's like falling through the cracks of a conveyor belt and landing in some shit pile where you'll stay forever because nobody ever cleans it up. Did you recently hear about a bunch of people getting busted over destroying INS documents because they wanted to eliminate the so-called backlog? Yeah. I live in the United States since before I was two years old. I am twenty four now. Over fifteen years ago, my immigration process got stuck somehow in an unhandled "state" like I described above. Papers from my file were lost by the INS, and as a result, no matter where I turned, nobody could or would help me. Maybe those documents were shredded. Maybe they fell behind someone's desk and got thrown away by a janitor who gets paid $30.00 an hour. It doesn't matter how it happened. What matters is that regardless of what I tried, I was told that this is already being handled by the INS (which I knew for a fact that it wasn't), and if I got a penny for every time I was told, "Don't call us, we'll call you," Bill Gates would be my personal servant. The INS literally fucked up my life. I could not get a social security number, or a driver license, or a bank account, or a job, or go to a university... I could not cash a check written to my name. If I had been so inclined, I would not even be able to prove my age to buy a pack of cigarettes. This went on for twelve years. If I was to count the hours I spent waiting in LONG lines with millions of Mexicans, being the only gringo in the entire building who could ACTUALLY speak this country's official language, only to be turned away by the idiot INS clerk who could not and would not even attempt to help me, I probably wasted a year of my life in man-hours standing in those God-damned lines.
Some might be inclined to tell me, "If life is so bad for you here, go back to your country!" What those people don't understand is that AMERICA IS MY COUNTRY! I know no other country. I have never set foot on foreign land, save for my almost two years as an infant when I lived elsewhere. The United States is the one and only country I know, and there is no way in the world that I would break because of a stupid agency and move to some foreign land where I don't even know the language. Being probably the most honest American around, I even contemplated breaking the law and seeking quality false IDs--the ones that can't be told apart from the real thing because they're made from the real thing, stolen from the agencies that make them. Sure, those can cost thousands of dollars, but did I mention the THOUSANDS of dollars that had to be paid TO THE INS as FINES for THEIR negligence?!? That's right. The INS would fuck up and I would have to pay a fine for it.
In case you're interested, I was lucky enough, after having fallen into a deep depression and having suffered at the hands of the INS for YEARS, to fall into the hands of one officer who took it upon himself to reconstruct the missing documents and get my life on the right track. This process took a year, which is light-speed compared to what happened before.
We Americans, of which I am a member, should be FUCKING ASHAMED at the shit our government pulls off. (The previous statement does not include the current war, but definitely includes the so-called War On Drugs, which is a waste of time and money. You want to fry your brain? Fine... The government should legalize ALL drugs, sell 55-gallon drums of the stuff to ANYONE who is so inclined, for the price of the drum plus delivery. The drugs inside are free and of supremely high quality. This will immediately destroy the entire market for illegal drugs. Did I mention they should tax the stuff?)
Now to get on-topic. I purchased this piece of GARBAGE from Intuit, not knowing that it contained this shit, and I refuse to damage my computer and/or tell software makers that this practice is ok by installing it. I definitely want to join the aforementioned class action lawsuit.
I remember reading about this one guy who put a backdoor in login so he could log in to any unix workstation with a pre-specified username and password. But that would easily be found in the login source code, so he modified the c compiler to recognize that it was compiling login and then silently insert the appropriate code in there. But that would easily be found in the compiler source code. So he modified the compiler to recognize that it was compiling itself and then silently insert the code that recognizes login and silently inserts that code. Then, he deleted these instructions from the compiler source code, but since the compiler would silently insert them in the object code, there became a situation where code that did not exist in source form would create a chain reaction that would allow this dude to login to any unix machine. It was totally invisible and would work as long as nobody changed the compiler or used a different compiler to compile the compiler, or something weird like that.
But I don't remember the guy's name. Or maybe it was a chick. But whoever it was, they were definitely a staid and steadfast compiler writer.
I worked as a video game tester for six years. Then, I opened a video game testing and repairing company. My company charges by the bug. All you have to do is send the full source code and build information of the completed game to rice_burners_suck@troll.bogus.scam.com. Oh, and you have to fill out the following disclaimer:
This is a contractual agreement between [Your name here], hereinafter Developer, and rice_burners_suck, hereinafter the Beneficiary, with regards to software developed by Developer, hereinafter Software. Developer hereby signs over all rights with regards to Software to Beneficiary. Developer gives all copyrights, including but not limited to all rights that have anything to do, no matter how remotely, with said Software, to Beneficiary, free of charge with no ifs, ands or buts, no questions asked, and no other problems or whatever. Developer agrees that no matter what, Beneficiary now owns said Software. Furthermore, developer agrees to pay rice_burners_suck $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 for its service of taking said Software from Developer.
Rambus should do a merger with Microsoft. That way, they will be more powerful in performing anti-trust shit, and they can together pretend not to understand the prosecution's questions.
I apologise for the delay in making this intelligent post... When I attempted to post it, Slashdot said:
Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.
It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment.
.By the time I add all this crap to the post, I'm sure that the aforementioned two minutes will have elapsed successfully.
Speaking of spam... Slashdot should give its user information database, including names and email addresses, to Microsoft, free of charge, so that Microsoft can send 100 Visual Studio advertisements daily to each person in the aforementioned database.
Seriously, now... I always click on the Microsoft ads and then hit the back button once their page finishes loading. It creates extra loads on their web servers. It probably costs them something. It makes them think that people are actually interested in their shit (as opposed to the realistic fact that people only use their shit because they're forced to), etc. And I'm sure that the good guys, like the folks at OSDN, benefit from people like me clicking on Microsoft's stupid ads.
I believe that involving children in lotteries is a bad idea. It gets children thinking that gambling is a good idea, which is very wrong. It's like those companies that offer credit cards to young students--under 18, I believe--with a parent's co-signature. Most of these kids are not even qualified to be responsible for a credit card... All this does is place them in debt from a younger age.
As far as hacking the program is involved... sure, someone will waste their time with this. But there are really smart criminals out there who can do the same amount of work and steal millions upon millions of dollars... Why risk about the same length of time in prison for "just" $25,000.00?!?!?! It's like jackasses who rob banks, or even worse, convenience stores... What do they get? $200? And for this, they'll end up in jail for 20 years for armed robbery... Why fsck around with this shit when they can push a few buttons on a computer and jack 8 billion bucks like that hot actress did in that movie with Sean Connery a few years ago? Man, she is so hot! I have a feeling she really likes me. I mean, fuck, the justice system is all fscked up... You put the F-word on someone's website and go to prison for 100 years... but you build nucular weapons and all you get is a piece of paper from the U.N. politely asking you to throw it in the garbage, and if you don't, well, then they'll talk about it on the news until they get blue in the face and in the meantime, you're continuing to prepare yourself for a world-class war of biblical proportions. Why not do shit the smart way? The flippin government should say, "We're gonna blast you to the stone age, and then we're gonna send you a bill to cover our expenses in doing so." But I digress... I don't think that ain't nobody gonna mess with this program to jack 25000 bucks... Cuz the state of conneticut is a lot smarter than that... They'll use unbreakable rot-13 encryption.
I have rock-solid proof that this will never happen: Two people, who do not know each other, have separately told me in some uncertain words that this might not be the case.
Intuit: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
Sing to the tune of "who's afraid of the big bad wolf..."
In-tuit is a piece-of-shit A piece-of-shit A piece-of-shit In-tuit is a piece-of-shit La la la la la
In my opinion, Intuit is doing the wrong thing by introducing this garbage into their software. I used to use that shit but I bought from their competitor instead, this year. Below, I'll include a letter I wrote to them and the response I received:
I wrote:
"Please remove DRM (digital rights management) from TurboTax software. I do not steal software. I am NOT a CRIMINAL. Please do not treat me like a CRIMINAL. I have used TurboTax for a number of years, but because of Intuit's inclusion of DRM in TurboTax for tax year 2002, I have already purchased your competitor's product and will no longer purchase software (any software) from Intuit. Thanks but no thanks."
"Don Support" (Don_Support@intuit.com) replied with the following email, which I quote in full here...
Hello,
Thank you for sharing your concerns about Product Activation. On behalf of Intuit, I apologize for any inconvenience that product activation has caused you and want to thank you for taking time to contact us directly about it. Feedback from customers like you is the best way for us to know exactly what you're experiencing so we can provide you with accurate information and the best solution.
In response to your comments about "I am NOT a CRIMINAL", that is certainly not the intention at Intuit. To me, it's like saying, "I treat my trusted neighbor like a criminal because I lock my front door." No, I lock my front door to protect my family not from my neighbor, but from those who don't have good intentions. Furthermore, with file sharing technology on the web today, it takes only one person to make our software available to millions of pirates. Based on last year, this was a significant issue. In fact, we believe that for each copy of TurboTax sold, two other copies are pirated.
In closing, we have learned a lot from feedback from customers like you. While we believe that protecting our intellectual property remains paramount, the manner in which we protect it will be reevaluated going forward.
If I missed responding to any of your issues or if you have additional comments or if you have any suggestions, please let me know via email.
Don
Executive Response Team
Intuit, Inc.
In other words, Mr. Support is saying, "Please bend over while I stick the business end of a gun into your asshole, kind of like the way Adam Sandler was telling some guy to 'take that out of my ass' in one of his movies, where he was trying to escape from a bathroom window in a motel and some cop or whatever had a gun to his ass, but when he said this, the motel manager, who was walking outside and overheard this portion of the conversation, thought there was all kinds of weird sex going on inside the motel room, which happened to be the honeymoon suite, since there were no more normal rooms available, but I don't remember what this movie is called." That's ok, Mr. Support... I don't know what the hell you're talking about. DRM is a piece of shit, just like Intuit, Microsoft, the RIAA, the MPAA, the DMCA, the SSSCA, and whatever else I missed...
To close, I'd like to add the following:
This post is very intellectual. As such, it is VALUABLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. By reading this post, you have agreed to be bound by the conditions of the following agreement: You agree that this post is intellectual. You agree that this post is intellectually stimulating. You agree that having read this valuable intellectual property has caused a copy of said property to be placed in your head. Since the aforementioned copy has been placed in your cabeza without the prior written consent of rice_burners_suck, as none has been given here, you have violated rice_burners_suck's intellectual property rights and the God-given right to eternal perpetually increasing profits. The aforementioned eternal perpetually increasing profits must be enjoyed by rice_burners_suck because rice_burners_suck has put a great deal of effort into creating the aforementioned valuable intellectual property and for this, rice_burners_suck must become the richest person in the world and should be able to live like a king over the investment placed into producing the valuable intellectual property. Since you HAVE AGREED to this agreement, you have agreed to send $100.00 once a week for the rest of your life to Rice Burners Suck, 80923 Sunny Venison Road, Kansas City, MO 32238. You have furthermore agreed that you have waived your rights to any kind of court action, including the right to a trial by jury should you be charged with any crime, now known or later developed, including but not limited to: stealing a loaf of bread and/or the serial murder of 900 ants by spraying with Raid. Oh yeah, and YOU HAVE AGREED TO BECOME THE SLAVE OF RICE BURNERS SUCK, because for all intents and purposes, RICE BURNERS SUCK is a greedy multinational corporation with infinity dollars in the bank, which gives it the right to own slaves.
Personally, I believe that NASA is going to "throw away" this Pioneer 10 because of all the problems they've been having. Now, they'll have to convince Congress and the people of the United States that space exploration is a worthwhile objective and that they should continue to receive infinity dollars and forty five cents every year to continue the space program. As part of that process, and in order to help convince the aforementioned folks that they should continue to receive the aforementioned dinero (that's French for money), they're going to close down projects that have yielded little or no excitement over the past few years, potentially putting more resources, as well as efforts, into performing objectives that do create excitement among the American people.
This post is not off topic, I swear to Dios. The second paragraph contains a bunch of shit, but the first contains useful information. The first paragraph begins here: I just love it when some huge Microsoft ad comes up when I load up a story. Astute readers probably know that I hate Microsoft's guts and that I firmly believe that everything they are/sell/do/say is pure garbage. So when I see one of their ads on Slashdot, I click on it and when their ugly webpage finishes to load, I simply hit the 'back' button. I never look at what they're advertising. Even if I did, I would certainly not be interested in it, whatever it is, because I use products that are in every way superior to theirs. Products like six different distributions of Linux, all three BSDs, versions of BeOS ranging from 3 to 5 (because it's still useful), QNX, IRIX and HP-UX. There were others, but I reduced the list of operating systems to the ones listed here. So Microsoft has to pay for another click that led them nowhere. And I wasted some of their bandwidth. These two facts make me feel good about myself and about who I am. I firmly believe that causing them additional expenses such as the one described herein is a good way to increase one's self esteem (not that I need to do so, what with the 6 different girlfriends I have that don't know about each other, and would probably still love/screw me if they knew, since I am such a studmuffin, so yeah, I have lots of self esteem... girls love guys that troll Slashdot).Now, to what I was going to say about this article before that stupid ad got in my way... Oh, that was in the first paragraph... sorry, forgot.
Actually, I was going to stop here but I think I'll add more...
I believe that one day, the processors in our computers will be a combination of gate-based logic, quantum computing, biological computing and nanotechnology.
Oh yeah, and I think that simple life forms will be made with this technology and some idiot scientist will think he's all bad-ass, until the damn thing morphs into some wicked, evil thing right out of hell like something in Doom II and it will turn into a three-headed huge dinosaur-like creature, about the size of Godzilla or something, and it'll go stomping around and smashing up all of human civilization until there is literally nothing left in the world except for these things fighting amongst themselves. And that day will be called Armageddon, the end of all things. Oh well. For now, all I need is another Negra Modelo.
If you didn't get what the hell I was talking about in the first paragraph, please allow me to summarize it right here:
The processors in our computers will someday consist of the following technologies, combined as outlined in the aforementioned articles:
Some interesting information, found at the National Nanotechnology Initiative's site, at http://www.nano.gov/nsetmem.htm, which lists the member participants:
Members:
OSTP: S.N. Pace OMB: D. Radzanowski CIA: F.D. Gac DOA: P. Schwab DOC: C. Campbell, S. Yun, DOD: W. Berry, J.S. Murday, G.S. Pomrenke DOE: I.L. Thomas, R. Price, B.G. Volintine DOJ: D. Boyd, T. DePersia DOS: R. Braibanti, R. McCreight DOT: R.R. John, A. Lacombe DoTREAS: E. Murphy EPA: L.A. Friedl, S. Lingle NASA: S. Venneri, M. Hirschbein, M. Dastoor NIH: J.A. Schloss, E. Kousvelari NRC: U.S. Bhachu NIST: P. Casassa, C.R. Snyder, P. Looney NSF: M.C. Roco, T.A. Weber, M.P. Henkart.
According to the Nanoindustries site at http://www.nanoindustries.com/, Nanotechnology can provide vast benefits above and beyond what is being experimented with today. For example:
Nanotechnology could save the ozone layer. Whilst experimenting with nanospheres and perfluorodecalin, a liquid used in the production of synthetic blood, researchers at Germany's University of Ulm have stumbled across a phenomenon that could ultimately help remove ozone-harming chemicals from the atmosphere. The perfluorodecalin, against all expectations, was taken up by a water-based suspension of 60 nm diameter polystyrene articles.
nanotechweb 1/30/03
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It's time for another beer. It's time for another beer. It's time for another beer. It's time for another beer. It's time for another beer. And I'm going to have a Negra Modelo. Or two. Or three. Or four. Or five..... I have too much time on my hands.
Microsoft made NASA's operating system.
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I bet they're gonna just cancel all of the space exploration program, and that's fine by me. What, why should we continue to spend billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars every day to put all kinds of space shuttles up in space when all they do is blow up (or do silly experiments if they don't) anyway? Shit, the government should forcefully shut down Microsoft, take everything they own away from them, including taking everything from the individual people who work there, and, along with the entire space budget, give all of the above to Linux developers. That's what we need anyway. We need Linux to become increasingly more innovative every day, and those billions and billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars that are wasted on space shit will instead be spent to do the shit we need to do anyway.
No comet has ever survived this and this one has. I firmly believe that this is an omen from God... that this is the comet that will bring about Armageddon, the end of all things on Earth. This comet is now going to make an outward spiral, followed by a two left turns and four rights, immediately before performing a U-turn, after which it will begin heading towards the Earth, on a course that will bring it within 1 million miles of our planet.
For those of you who haven't quite followed along, that was:
Outward spiral.
Left turn.
Left turn.
Right turn.
Right turn.
Right turn.
Right turn.
U-turn
Head towards Earth.
Just when scientists think it has barely passed us by, it will hit a tiny speck of dust that will cause it to bounce off and head directly for some big, black asteroid that we can't see in our telescopes. This asteroid will then head directly for Earth. I believe that this asteroid is going to land right on top of Slashdot's server and we're all going to die. Not from the impact--the asteroid will be composed of styrofoam--but from the lack of Slashdot.
I am going to begin building my comet shelter immediately, in which I'll put a big server with lots of hard drives, and I'm going to download and preserve all the knowledge of humankind from the Internet. That means using wget to store all Slashdot comments moderated at -1 or less. This is no laughing matter.
O.J. Simpson is the best example of this.
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...our personalities appear to be much less influenced by out environment and more by our genes...
Exactly.
Which is why, for example, it is NOT valid to let someone like O.J. Simpson go with the excuse that, "He was abused! He killed two people but that's ok because he was abused!" That's a bunch of bullshit.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that:
O.J. Simpson
*D*I*D*
kill two people. In my opinion.
Yeah. Until they make it illegal.
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I give it not one month and the RIAA, MPAA and Microsoft will be jumping on this like flies on poop to make this illegal. I can already see all kinds of garbage being invented that will make HDTV more expensive and less flexible for consumers in order to protect the alleged rights of huge multinational corporations to eternal perpetually increasing profits.
All of the above represent part of the reason that I have completely stopped watching television. Did I mention that I don't purchase software that has any sort of copy protection? That's true as well.
The best way to fight DRM, copy protection, and all this trash legislation is to speak with your money: Don't buy products containing this crap. You could go further and do what I do: I buy the competition's product and then send a letter (not an email but a letter on real paper in a real envelope with a postage stamp and my real address on it) telling the company WHY I have just purchased their competitor's product as opposed to theirs. Nanny nanny boo boo.
Mozilla is lacking in many areas, such as usability. I downloaded it on several occasions throughout its development and it only got steadily worse as development continued.
On the last and final occasion that I downloaded this waste of code, I did so for my mother, for whom I was installing another lacking piece of software known as Windows XP. She doesn't like the lacking browser that comes integrated into the kernel of that lacking piece of software, so I offered to install this Mozilla thing instead. I downloaded the waste of code and installed it, and guess what happened? It fscked up everything in her account. Whenever you logged in, the computer would completely STOP responding and the only thing you could do was power-cycle it to get the lacking thing working again.
That's the power of Windows XP at work, in conjunction with the high quality of Mozilla.
Once again, let me emphasize what caused this lock-up:
My first conclusion is that Microsoft should purchase Mozilla and integrate it into the kernel, side-by-side with their existing Internet browsing solution, to increase the bloat of their fine Windows line of operating systems. Every call to a URL would select by random between the two browsers. And Microsoft would change their name to Microzilla.
My second conclusion is that the UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems that I use (including HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and IRIX) are superior to the operating systems currently shipped on the majority of personal computers.
I have an idea. Maybe Apple can save the company by making computers that look cool and by using free software for an operating system. That would save them money in development, as they would have the support of a large community behind them in this development, and it would give them a lot of advantages as you'd be able to run a lot of programs from UNIX-like systems and such. I think I'll email Steve with this idea. He'll like it.
You're not putting much thought into your posting, are you? Then again, I'm new around here.
"New" is the keyword here. Ok, let me explain how it goes. Anytime something involves a company trying to make a profit, you're supposed to oppose it. Anytime something involves the government performing any kind of action, you're supposed to oppose it. Anytime something involves free software, you're supposed to advocate it, even if it sucks. That's Slashdot for you.
Desktop user interfaces should not be configurable. Microsoft shall configure your desktop. If you don't like the way it is, you can petition them by mailing MS-20984983259204385902485 along with a check for $10,000 dollars. The check will be cashed immediately but the form shall take Microsoft no less than 600 years or your entire life, whichever is longer, to "process." Once it has been "processed," the request will be submitted to a committee that rolls a pair of dice 100 times. These dice are "fixed" to roll a 7 no matter what. If the dice roll double-sixes all 101 out of the 100 times, then your request is approved and is submitted to the change department, where someone will shred the document because they're too lazy to process it.
YES! YES! Microsoft is fucking stupid! And their customers/developers got SCREWED!!! Yay! Yay! Yay! This is a day of great rejoicing. I hope all of the aforementioned developers go BANKRUPT because of this stupid thing. That will make a LOT of people angry at Microsoft! Hopefully this means that less people will be using their products in the future. Microsoft is GARBAGE. Oh yeah, and Microsoft themselves should be FINED an OUTRAGEOUS sum of money, effectively taking away all but, oh, 1% of what they have, just for lying to people. Fuck Microsoft. They suck ASS.
Crime vs. Punishment:
Murdering two people like O.J. Simpson DID: A slap on the wrist. Pinging some port on a remote machine: 1,000 life sentences in a torture chamber.
Is there something wrong with this picture? I think it should be like this... The law should say that if you get into some system and manage to steal a billion dollars because of it, the owner of the system must hire you for whatever price you want to fix the system. If you ask a price that puts them out of business, they must close down the organization, sell off all the property, and pay you everything they have. Oh, and if you do it to a government organization, then you simply get 5 million dollars a year for the rest of your life, adjusted annually for inflation, if you tell them how you did it. Oh yeah, and hacked organizations should have to pay a FINE. $$$. Because that's the way it should be.
There was this hot chick. Man, was she hot. For a time, she kind of liked me too. I would go back and tell myself to shtook her. That's pretty easy to do, especially since nerds are the most popular group of kids. And hell, my zits were real sexy.
Microsoft is pushing all of this on purpose to turn the entire free world into slavery! Why, just the other day I bought a piece of software from what I thought was a reputable vendor. I installed it on the computer I downloaded it with after buying the damn thing, to make sure the download worked properly before accepting something defective. When I tried to install it on the computer the software is intended for, which does not have an internet connection for security purposes, it wouldn't work because of this stupid DRM shit. Microsoft is trying to push this shit down our throats so we must revolt! I think everyone in the world should show up all at once at Microsoft headquarters with pitchforks and torches (but not do anything illegal with them, of course).
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If you really work for the INS, the only racist fuck here is YOU .
In the days before cavemen, each person was an individual fighting for his own existance. This was nearly impossible to accomplish alone so people banded into small groups known as families. When that wasn't enough, families got together and formed villages. When a bunch of nearby villages became threatened by some outside force, they consolidated into towns, and then into cities. One day, a city wasn't enough to fight for itself, so the state was born, followed by unions of states. It's only a matter of time before the next step takes place. And "forces" are at work to do this.
There is a name for this process: Lower TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP.
Linux: Free if you don't value your time... Which basically means: STILL CHEAPER THAN WINDOWS because you waste LESS time learning all this weird shit than you do jumping through Microsoft's hoops.
By the way... we use FreeBSD, not Linux, because it serves our purposes better.
No, sir. I am not a Canadian. I AM AN AMERICAN, AND DAMN PROUD OF IT.
I'll get to the point in a second, but first, I want to dog the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. If you work for that fucked up piece of beaucracy, listen up... You probably don't realize this, but your actions FUCK UP PEOPLE'S LIVES. The way a government beaucracy works is kind of like a complicated piece of software from Microsoft (except that Microsoft's software is actually better than the operation of a government beaucracy, and believe me, I have no respect for Microsoft or anything they do). A beaucracy is able to (albeit very inefficiently) handle a specified number of "states." There might be 10 or 100 or 10,000 of these states. For example, say you have a file with this yellow form in it, that green form, and some purple form. That would place you in a very specific state, and the beaucracy "knows" how to proceed in processing your "case" from this point forward. Now if you approach the beaucracy with something that does not conform exactly to one of the states that they handle, you will be stuck because nobody in the beaucracy has the authority to do anything about you. It's like falling through the cracks of a conveyor belt and landing in some shit pile where you'll stay forever because nobody ever cleans it up. Did you recently hear about a bunch of people getting busted over destroying INS documents because they wanted to eliminate the so-called backlog? Yeah. I live in the United States since before I was two years old. I am twenty four now. Over fifteen years ago, my immigration process got stuck somehow in an unhandled "state" like I described above. Papers from my file were lost by the INS, and as a result, no matter where I turned, nobody could or would help me. Maybe those documents were shredded. Maybe they fell behind someone's desk and got thrown away by a janitor who gets paid $30.00 an hour. It doesn't matter how it happened. What matters is that regardless of what I tried, I was told that this is already being handled by the INS (which I knew for a fact that it wasn't), and if I got a penny for every time I was told, "Don't call us, we'll call you," Bill Gates would be my personal servant. The INS literally fucked up my life. I could not get a social security number, or a driver license, or a bank account, or a job, or go to a university... I could not cash a check written to my name. If I had been so inclined, I would not even be able to prove my age to buy a pack of cigarettes. This went on for twelve years. If I was to count the hours I spent waiting in LONG lines with millions of Mexicans, being the only gringo in the entire building who could ACTUALLY speak this country's official language, only to be turned away by the idiot INS clerk who could not and would not even attempt to help me, I probably wasted a year of my life in man-hours standing in those God-damned lines.
Some might be inclined to tell me, "If life is so bad for you here, go back to your country!" What those people don't understand is that AMERICA IS MY COUNTRY! I know no other country. I have never set foot on foreign land, save for my almost two years as an infant when I lived elsewhere. The United States is the one and only country I know, and there is no way in the world that I would break because of a stupid agency and move to some foreign land where I don't even know the language. Being probably the most honest American around, I even contemplated breaking the law and seeking quality false IDs--the ones that can't be told apart from the real thing because they're made from the real thing, stolen from the agencies that make them. Sure, those can cost thousands of dollars, but did I mention the THOUSANDS of dollars that had to be paid TO THE INS as FINES for THEIR negligence?!? That's right. The INS would fuck up and I would have to pay a fine for it.
In case you're interested, I was lucky enough, after having fallen into a deep depression and having suffered at the hands of the INS for YEARS, to fall into the hands of one officer who took it upon himself to reconstruct the missing documents and get my life on the right track. This process took a year, which is light-speed compared to what happened before.
We Americans, of which I am a member, should be FUCKING ASHAMED at the shit our government pulls off. (The previous statement does not include the current war, but definitely includes the so-called War On Drugs, which is a waste of time and money. You want to fry your brain? Fine... The government should legalize ALL drugs, sell 55-gallon drums of the stuff to ANYONE who is so inclined, for the price of the drum plus delivery. The drugs inside are free and of supremely high quality. This will immediately destroy the entire market for illegal drugs. Did I mention they should tax the stuff?)
Now to get on-topic. I purchased this piece of GARBAGE from Intuit, not knowing that it contained this shit, and I refuse to damage my computer and/or tell software makers that this practice is ok by installing it. I definitely want to join the aforementioned class action lawsuit.
But I don't remember the guy's name. Or maybe it was a chick. But whoever it was, they were definitely a staid and steadfast compiler writer.
This is a contractual agreement between [Your name here], hereinafter Developer, and rice_burners_suck, hereinafter the Beneficiary, with regards to software developed by Developer, hereinafter Software. Developer hereby signs over all rights with regards to Software to Beneficiary. Developer gives all copyrights, including but not limited to all rights that have anything to do, no matter how remotely, with said Software, to Beneficiary, free of charge with no ifs, ands or buts, no questions asked, and no other problems or whatever. Developer agrees that no matter what, Beneficiary now owns said Software. Furthermore, developer agrees to pay rice_burners_suck $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 for its service of taking said Software from Developer.
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I apologise for the delay in making this intelligent post... When I attempted to post it, Slashdot said:
.By the time I add all this crap to the post, I'm sure that the aforementioned two minutes will have elapsed successfully.Seriously, now... I always click on the Microsoft ads and then hit the back button once their page finishes loading. It creates extra loads on their web servers. It probably costs them something. It makes them think that people are actually interested in their shit (as opposed to the realistic fact that people only use their shit because they're forced to), etc. And I'm sure that the good guys, like the folks at OSDN, benefit from people like me clicking on Microsoft's stupid ads.
As far as hacking the program is involved... sure, someone will waste their time with this. But there are really smart criminals out there who can do the same amount of work and steal millions upon millions of dollars... Why risk about the same length of time in prison for "just" $25,000.00?!?!?! It's like jackasses who rob banks, or even worse, convenience stores... What do they get? $200? And for this, they'll end up in jail for 20 years for armed robbery... Why fsck around with this shit when they can push a few buttons on a computer and jack 8 billion bucks like that hot actress did in that movie with Sean Connery a few years ago? Man, she is so hot! I have a feeling she really likes me. I mean, fuck, the justice system is all fscked up... You put the F-word on someone's website and go to prison for 100 years... but you build nucular weapons and all you get is a piece of paper from the U.N. politely asking you to throw it in the garbage, and if you don't, well, then they'll talk about it on the news until they get blue in the face and in the meantime, you're continuing to prepare yourself for a world-class war of biblical proportions. Why not do shit the smart way? The flippin government should say, "We're gonna blast you to the stone age, and then we're gonna send you a bill to cover our expenses in doing so." But I digress... I don't think that ain't nobody gonna mess with this program to jack 25000 bucks... Cuz the state of conneticut is a lot smarter than that... They'll use unbreakable rot-13 encryption.
I have rock-solid proof that this will never happen: Two people, who do not know each other, have separately told me in some uncertain words that this might not be the case.
Intuit: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
Sing to the tune of "who's afraid of the big bad wolf..."
In-tuit is a piece-of-shit
A piece-of-shit
A piece-of-shit
In-tuit is a piece-of-shit
La la la la la
In my opinion, Intuit is doing the wrong thing by introducing this garbage into their software. I used to use that shit but I bought from their competitor instead, this year. Below, I'll include a letter I wrote to them and the response I received:
I wrote:
"Don Support" (Don_Support@intuit.com) replied with the following email, which I quote in full here...
In other words, Mr. Support is saying, "Please bend over while I stick the business end of a gun into your asshole, kind of like the way Adam Sandler was telling some guy to 'take that out of my ass' in one of his movies, where he was trying to escape from a bathroom window in a motel and some cop or whatever had a gun to his ass, but when he said this, the motel manager, who was walking outside and overheard this portion of the conversation, thought there was all kinds of weird sex going on inside the motel room, which happened to be the honeymoon suite, since there were no more normal rooms available, but I don't remember what this movie is called." That's ok, Mr. Support... I don't know what the hell you're talking about. DRM is a piece of shit, just like Intuit, Microsoft, the RIAA, the MPAA, the DMCA, the SSSCA, and whatever else I missed...
To close, I'd like to add the following:
This post is very intellectual. As such, it is VALUABLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. By reading this post, you have agreed to be bound by the conditions of the following agreement: You agree that this post is intellectual. You agree that this post is intellectually stimulating. You agree that having read this valuable intellectual property has caused a copy of said property to be placed in your head. Since the aforementioned copy has been placed in your cabeza without the prior written consent of rice_burners_suck, as none has been given here, you have violated rice_burners_suck's intellectual property rights and the God-given right to eternal perpetually increasing profits. The aforementioned eternal perpetually increasing profits must be enjoyed by rice_burners_suck because rice_burners_suck has put a great deal of effort into creating the aforementioned valuable intellectual property and for this, rice_burners_suck must become the richest person in the world and should be able to live like a king over the investment placed into producing the valuable intellectual property. Since you HAVE AGREED to this agreement, you have agreed to send $100.00 once a week for the rest of your life to Rice Burners Suck, 80923 Sunny Venison Road, Kansas City, MO 32238. You have furthermore agreed that you have waived your rights to any kind of court action, including the right to a trial by jury should you be charged with any crime, now known or later developed, including but not limited to: stealing a loaf of bread and/or the serial murder of 900 ants by spraying with Raid. Oh yeah, and YOU HAVE AGREED TO BECOME THE SLAVE OF RICE BURNERS SUCK, because for all intents and purposes, RICE BURNERS SUCK is a greedy multinational corporation with infinity dollars in the bank, which gives it the right to own slaves.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. REPORT TO ROOM 101.
This post is not off topic, I swear to Dios. The second paragraph contains a bunch of shit, but the first contains useful information. The first paragraph begins here: I just love it when some huge Microsoft ad comes up when I load up a story. Astute readers probably know that I hate Microsoft's guts and that I firmly believe that everything they are/sell/do/say is pure garbage. So when I see one of their ads on Slashdot, I click on it and when their ugly webpage finishes to load, I simply hit the 'back' button. I never look at what they're advertising. Even if I did, I would certainly not be interested in it, whatever it is, because I use products that are in every way superior to theirs. Products like six different distributions of Linux, all three BSDs, versions of BeOS ranging from 3 to 5 (because it's still useful), QNX, IRIX and HP-UX. There were others, but I reduced the list of operating systems to the ones listed here. So Microsoft has to pay for another click that led them nowhere. And I wasted some of their bandwidth. These two facts make me feel good about myself and about who I am. I firmly believe that causing them additional expenses such as the one described herein is a good way to increase one's self esteem (not that I need to do so, what with the 6 different girlfriends I have that don't know about each other, and would probably still love/screw me if they knew, since I am such a studmuffin, so yeah, I have lots of self esteem... girls love guys that troll Slashdot).Now, to what I was going to say about this article before that stupid ad got in my way... Oh, that was in the first paragraph... sorry, forgot.
Actually, I was going to stop here but I think I'll add more...
This post has been moderated -9: Sewage.
Oh yeah, and I think that simple life forms will be made with this technology and some idiot scientist will think he's all bad-ass, until the damn thing morphs into some wicked, evil thing right out of hell like something in Doom II and it will turn into a three-headed huge dinosaur-like creature, about the size of Godzilla or something, and it'll go stomping around and smashing up all of human civilization until there is literally nothing left in the world except for these things fighting amongst themselves. And that day will be called Armageddon, the end of all things. Oh well. For now, all I need is another Negra Modelo.
If you didn't get what the hell I was talking about in the first paragraph, please allow me to summarize it right here:
The processors in our computers will someday consist of the following technologies, combined as outlined in the aforementioned articles:
Some interesting information, found at the National Nanotechnology Initiative's site, at http://www.nano.gov/nsetmem.htm, which lists the member participants:
PARTICIPANTS: NSET Members
Chair: M.C. Roco, NSF
Executive Secretary: J.S. Murday, NRL
Members: OSTP: S.N. Pace
OMB: D. Radzanowski
CIA: F.D. Gac
DOA: P. Schwab
DOC: C. Campbell, S. Yun,
DOD: W. Berry, J.S. Murday, G.S. Pomrenke
DOE: I.L. Thomas, R. Price, B.G. Volintine
DOJ: D. Boyd, T. DePersia
DOS: R. Braibanti, R. McCreight
DOT: R.R. John, A. Lacombe
DoTREAS: E. Murphy
EPA: L.A. Friedl, S. Lingle
NASA: S. Venneri, M. Hirschbein, M. Dastoor
NIH: J.A. Schloss, E. Kousvelari
NRC: U.S. Bhachu
NIST: P. Casassa, C.R. Snyder, P. Looney
NSF: M.C. Roco, T.A. Weber, M.P. Henkart.
According to the Nanoindustries site at http://www.nanoindustries.com/, Nanotechnology can provide vast benefits above and beyond what is being experimented with today. For example:
For those of you interested in Quantum computing, there is an interesting book by Braunstein... you can find more information about it at http://www.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/~schmuel/book/ book1.html.
With the Bush Administration streamlining services to help U.S. businesses grow, I think I can go ahead and have my Negra Modelo now.
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It's time for another beer. It's time for another beer. It's time for another beer. It's time for another beer. It's time for another beer. And I'm going to have a Negra Modelo. Or two. Or three. Or four. Or five..... I have too much time on my hands.
I bet they're gonna just cancel all of the space exploration program, and that's fine by me. What, why should we continue to spend billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars every day to put all kinds of space shuttles up in space when all they do is blow up (or do silly experiments if they don't) anyway? Shit, the government should forcefully shut down Microsoft, take everything they own away from them, including taking everything from the individual people who work there, and, along with the entire space budget, give all of the above to Linux developers. That's what we need anyway. We need Linux to become increasingly more innovative every day, and those billions and billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars that are wasted on space shit will instead be spent to do the shit we need to do anyway.
For those of you who haven't quite followed along, that was:
Just when scientists think it has barely passed us by, it will hit a tiny speck of dust that will cause it to bounce off and head directly for some big, black asteroid that we can't see in our telescopes. This asteroid will then head directly for Earth. I believe that this asteroid is going to land right on top of Slashdot's server and we're all going to die. Not from the impact--the asteroid will be composed of styrofoam--but from the lack of Slashdot.
I am going to begin building my comet shelter immediately, in which I'll put a big server with lots of hard drives, and I'm going to download and preserve all the knowledge of humankind from the Internet. That means using wget to store all Slashdot comments moderated at -1 or less. This is no laughing matter.
Exactly.
Which is why, for example, it is NOT valid to let someone like O.J. Simpson go with the excuse that, "He was abused! He killed two people but that's ok because he was abused!" That's a bunch of bullshit.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention that:
O.J. Simpson
*D*I*D*
kill two people. In my opinion.
All of the above represent part of the reason that I have completely stopped watching television. Did I mention that I don't purchase software that has any sort of copy protection? That's true as well.
The best way to fight DRM, copy protection, and all this trash legislation is to speak with your money: Don't buy products containing this crap. You could go further and do what I do: I buy the competition's product and then send a letter (not an email but a letter on real paper in a real envelope with a postage stamp and my real address on it) telling the company WHY I have just purchased their competitor's product as opposed to theirs. Nanny nanny boo boo.
On the last and final occasion that I downloaded this waste of code, I did so for my mother, for whom I was installing another lacking piece of software known as Windows XP. She doesn't like the lacking browser that comes integrated into the kernel of that lacking piece of software, so I offered to install this Mozilla thing instead. I downloaded the waste of code and installed it, and guess what happened? It fscked up everything in her account. Whenever you logged in, the computer would completely STOP responding and the only thing you could do was power-cycle it to get the lacking thing working again.
That's the power of Windows XP at work, in conjunction with the high quality of Mozilla.
Once again, let me emphasize what caused this lock-up:
Luckily, I was the one who installed this Windows XP, and being sysadmin for several big UNIX boxen, I semi-automatically set up a second account, for maintainence, when I installed the so-called alleged operating system. I logged into that account, busted this stupid waste of code known in the state of Rhode Island as Mozilla off the computer, and then proceeded to use the other browser, that piece of junk that comes integrated into the kernel, you know, to purchase and download a worthwhile browser. It's called Opera and it is the best browser in the world. I have been using it since version 3 and highly recommend it. For those of you who don't want to pay for such a thing, you can still download it for free and use it for an unlimited amount of time, however there will be unobtrusive advertisements in the browser's toolbar. But after using it for a few days and realizing that it DOES make more efficient use of your network connection, whatever it might be, as well as providing other BENEFITS, you will WANT to pay for it. Trust me. I did.
My first conclusion is that Microsoft should purchase Mozilla and integrate it into the kernel, side-by-side with their existing Internet browsing solution, to increase the bloat of their fine Windows line of operating systems. Every call to a URL would select by random between the two browsers. And Microsoft would change their name to Microzilla.
My second conclusion is that the UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems that I use (including HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and IRIX) are superior to the operating systems currently shipped on the majority of personal computers.
I have an idea. Maybe Apple can save the company by making computers that look cool and by using free software for an operating system. That would save them money in development, as they would have the support of a large community behind them in this development, and it would give them a lot of advantages as you'd be able to run a lot of programs from UNIX-like systems and such. I think I'll email Steve with this idea. He'll like it.
"New" is the keyword here. Ok, let me explain how it goes. Anytime something involves a company trying to make a profit, you're supposed to oppose it. Anytime something involves the government performing any kind of action, you're supposed to oppose it. Anytime something involves free software, you're supposed to advocate it, even if it sucks. That's Slashdot for you.
Desktop user interfaces should not be configurable. Microsoft shall configure your desktop. If you don't like the way it is, you can petition them by mailing MS-20984983259204385902485 along with a check for $10,000 dollars. The check will be cashed immediately but the form shall take Microsoft no less than 600 years or your entire life, whichever is longer, to "process." Once it has been "processed," the request will be submitted to a committee that rolls a pair of dice 100 times. These dice are "fixed" to roll a 7 no matter what. If the dice roll double-sixes all 101 out of the 100 times, then your request is approved and is submitted to the change department, where someone will shred the document because they're too lazy to process it.
YES! YES! Microsoft is fucking stupid! And their customers/developers got SCREWED!!! Yay! Yay! Yay! This is a day of great rejoicing. I hope all of the aforementioned developers go BANKRUPT because of this stupid thing. That will make a LOT of people angry at Microsoft! Hopefully this means that less people will be using their products in the future. Microsoft is GARBAGE. Oh yeah, and Microsoft themselves should be FINED an OUTRAGEOUS sum of money, effectively taking away all but, oh, 1% of what they have, just for lying to people. Fuck Microsoft. They suck ASS.
Murdering two people like O.J. Simpson DID: A slap on the wrist.
Pinging some port on a remote machine: 1,000 life sentences in a torture chamber.
Is there something wrong with this picture? I think it should be like this... The law should say that if you get into some system and manage to steal a billion dollars because of it, the owner of the system must hire you for whatever price you want to fix the system. If you ask a price that puts them out of business, they must close down the organization, sell off all the property, and pay you everything they have. Oh, and if you do it to a government organization, then you simply get 5 million dollars a year for the rest of your life, adjusted annually for inflation, if you tell them how you did it. Oh yeah, and hacked organizations should have to pay a FINE. $$$. Because that's the way it should be.
There was this hot chick. Man, was she hot. For a time, she kind of liked me too. I would go back and tell myself to shtook her. That's pretty easy to do, especially since nerds are the most popular group of kids. And hell, my zits were real sexy.
Microsoft is pushing all of this on purpose to turn the entire free world into slavery! Why, just the other day I bought a piece of software from what I thought was a reputable vendor. I installed it on the computer I downloaded it with after buying the damn thing, to make sure the download worked properly before accepting something defective. When I tried to install it on the computer the software is intended for, which does not have an internet connection for security purposes, it wouldn't work because of this stupid DRM shit. Microsoft is trying to push this shit down our throats so we must revolt! I think everyone in the world should show up all at once at Microsoft headquarters with pitchforks and torches (but not do anything illegal with them, of course).