2. Set your reading order to "Highest scores first."
3. When a new topic comes up, especially a controversial one, wait a little while before reading it. Give the moderators a little time. If the article was posted at 11:50, don't come in at 11:55 and start complaining about the off-topic posts.
I really doubt the total value of those patents will come even CLOSE to $3 million.
No, but think about it. The plaintiffs could offer to settle the case in exchange for all of Amiga's intellectual property, including patents, licenses on the OS, etc.
So, please don't attack a music scene or fashion that you don't like or don't understand. Look further and ask whether it's time to stop the dubious right to bear arms. This isn't the wild west anymore, there aren't any bears, Indians or bandits waiting to ambush your wagon train. Guns simply don't have a place in a modern society.
Hacker was SJG's companion game to Illuminati. It was all about breaking into computer systems. The systems made up one huge "power structure" like in Illuminati, and you'd roll dice to get a presence on each system. You had to be able to trace a path from one of your systems to break into another, or else have a dialin. You started with a Plain Clone, but could move up to a Hackintosh or even an Amoeba.
Hmmm. Going to have to drag that out sometime.
(And, before someone decides to flame me, I know the difference between hacker and cracker.)
Because the gob'mint (U.S. and others) know that, when they invoke the magic phrase "for the children" they can do anything regardless of pesky little details such as state and federal law, the Constitution, ad nauseatingly infinitum.
Keep in mind that it was Amazon that told him not to use the trademark, not Red Hat. Note specifically the following statement:
Of course the legal counsel rep, and only person in the entire Red Hat organization who can respond, David Shumannfang, is currently on vacation and won't be available for a week (9-7-99). Basically we are all screwed and no one at Red Hat knows anything until his return, just lovely.
Looks like someone at Amazon was covering their own butt, and this dude overreacted and started blaming anyone and everyone within arms reach.
I think we need to not pull out the flamethrowers just yet. --
I got a call once from a high-ranking manager in our building. I logged a trouble call and walked down to her desk.
When I got there, the first thing I did was took the coffee cup off the CD-ROM drive and closed it. I then took the floppies off the side of her file cabinet where they had been stuck with magnets. I pulled the case off the machine and dumped out the diskettes that had piled up inside, and for good measure I pulled the CD-ROM out of the 5.25" floppy drive. After doing all of this, the computer still wouldn't work, so I picked up the keyboard and dumped out the coffee that was spilled in it. The manager walked up while I was doing this and told me "The first level tech said I'd need a copy of my startup disk, so here it is." She handed me a photocopy of a diskette.
I picked her mouse up off the floor and put it on her desk where it belonged. The machine started up just fine, but when I checked the disk it only had 5 megabytes left on a 4.3 gigabyte hard drive. Looking around, I found that the C:\WINDOWS\TEMP directory was filled with porn. I asked her what she was doing when it stopped working, so she showed me: she sat down at her desk, leaned over to pick up the phone, and her breasts bumped the keyboard. I told her she was too stupid to own a computer.
"A short step away" is hyperbole. It is like saying that because someone was able to get a short program typed in out of a magazine to compile that they are a "short step away" from being a professional programmer.
Yeah but what they've done is more like getting a short program to compile using a compiler that they have just written.
South Park is an exception. It was written with 13 year olds in mind. The humor, despite it's wide appeal is very juvenile. And the vulgarity was thrown in to appeal even MORE. The point is, a 13 year old could get MOST of it. But I still maintain that the responsible parent should discuss the movie; see what it means to the child.
Actually it *wasn't* written with 13 year olds in mind. Parker and Stone were very explicit about having intended it to get an R rating, and that they wrote it for adults.
That certainly does suck. As others have noted, your real beef is with CyberPatrol, there is no reason your ISP should be responsible for working around that.
It may be true that the problem is with CyberPatrol, but you gotta change the things you can change. CyberPatrol apparently won't change, and there really isn't anything the ISP can do about it.
Instead of tilting at windmills, just make the easy change and find a new ISP.
If the ISP loses enough business because of it, they'll either change their business practices, their technical setup, or they'll talk to CyberPatrol themselves. Either way, it shouldn't be up to the user to put up with service that doesn't do what he wants it to do. That's really what the bottom line is.
For the life of me I can't understand a society in which it is acceptable for children to see people blown apart, but it is not acceptable for children to see people making love.
Since CyberPatrol won't budge, and your ISP seems unwilling to make changes, the only change that can come is in your choice of ISP.
You might write a polite letter to both CyberPatrol and your ISP, stating your reasons for leaving, and stating that in the future you won't recommend use of either of their products.
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Happy birthday, Linus!
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I really doubt the total value of those patents will come even CLOSE to $3 million.
No, but think about it. The plaintiffs could offer to settle the case in exchange for all of Amiga's intellectual property, including patents, licenses on the OS, etc.
That's what I'd do if I were the plaintiffs.
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Sure, Amiga may have no money, but they do have assets, i.e. patents....
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Wargames is *great* - as someone already wrote, it used a wardialer.
The word "wardialer" is short for "WarGames autodialer".
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...Linux ain't fer sale!
Sure it is. Though from where I sit, Red Hat is closer than anyplace I could go to buy their software...
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Does that mean then that you should require a license to run your own site, because you need to be licensed in order to be a security consultant?
Or does it merely mean that you can't handle security yourself on your own site, that you need to hire a licensed security consultant?
Either way, it smacks of dictatorship.
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What will you say then?
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So, please don't attack a music scene or fashion that you don't like or don't understand. Look further and ask whether it's time to stop the dubious right to bear arms. This isn't the wild west anymore, there aren't any bears, Indians or bandits waiting to ambush your wagon train. Guns simply don't have a place in a modern society.
And kiddie porn is available on the Internet.
Therefore, we should ban the Internet.
Same logic, same reasoning.
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Hoopy = really, amazingly together
Frood = a really, amazingly together kind of guy
Or something like that.
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I must say that I like both games. Very similar play, though different enough to appeal to me for different reasons.
One thing I wish they'd have done was add attributes to the new cards. That would have been a nice touch.
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Get down off your cross. Someone may need the wood.
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Hacker was SJG's companion game to Illuminati. It was all about breaking into computer systems. The systems made up one huge "power structure" like in Illuminati, and you'd roll dice to get a presence on each system. You had to be able to trace a path from one of your systems to break into another, or else have a dialin. You started with a Plain Clone, but could move up to a Hackintosh or even an Amoeba.
Hmmm. Going to have to drag that out sometime.
(And, before someone decides to flame me, I know the difference between hacker and cracker.)
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II. Why is everything "for the the Children"?
Because the gob'mint (U.S. and others) know that, when they invoke the magic phrase "for the children" they can do anything regardless of pesky little details such as state and federal law, the Constitution, ad nauseatingly infinitum.
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Keep in mind that it was Amazon that told him not to use the trademark, not Red Hat. Note specifically the following statement:
Of course the legal counsel rep, and only person in the entire Red Hat organization who can respond, David Shumannfang, is currently on vacation and won't be available for a week (9-7-99). Basically we are all screwed and no one at Red Hat knows anything until his return, just lovely.
Looks like someone at Amazon was covering their own butt, and this dude overreacted and started blaming anyone and everyone within arms reach.
I think we need to not pull out the flamethrowers just yet.
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I got a call once from a high-ranking manager in our building. I logged a trouble call and walked down to her desk.
When I got there, the first thing I did was took the coffee cup off the CD-ROM drive and closed it. I then took the floppies off the side of her file cabinet where they had been stuck with magnets. I pulled the case off the machine and dumped out the diskettes that had piled up inside, and for good measure I pulled the CD-ROM out of the 5.25" floppy drive. After doing all of this, the computer still wouldn't work, so I picked up the keyboard and dumped out the coffee that was spilled in it. The manager walked up while I was doing this and told me "The first level tech said I'd need a copy of my startup disk, so here it is." She handed me a photocopy of a diskette.
I picked her mouse up off the floor and put it on her desk where it belonged. The machine started up just fine, but when I checked the disk it only had 5 megabytes left on a 4.3 gigabyte hard drive. Looking around, I found that the C:\WINDOWS\TEMP directory was filled with porn. I asked her what she was doing when it stopped working, so she showed me: she sat down at her desk, leaned over to pick up the phone, and her breasts bumped the keyboard. I told her she was too stupid to own a computer.
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Haley Joel Osment is his name. Per IMDB (http://www.imdb.com) he was born April 10, 1988, so that makes him 11.
He was also in "Forrest Gump" FYI.
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MS is screaming loudly to get AOL to adhere to an instant messaging standard, but its own browser doesn't conform to W3C standards.
Hmmm....
We can't get the general public to stop saying "hacker" when they mean "cracker". How can we expect them to get this?
"A short step away" is hyperbole. It is like saying that because someone was able to get a short program typed in out of a magazine to compile that they are a "short step away" from being a professional programmer.
Yeah but what they've done is more like getting a short program to compile using a compiler that they have just written.
South Park is an exception. It was written with 13 year olds in mind. The humor, despite it's wide appeal is very juvenile. And the vulgarity was thrown in to appeal even MORE. The point is, a 13 year old could get MOST of it. But I still maintain that the responsible parent should discuss the movie; see what it means to the child.
Actually it *wasn't* written with 13 year olds in mind. Parker and Stone were very explicit about having intended it to get an R rating, and that they wrote it for adults.
That certainly does suck. As others have noted, your real beef is with CyberPatrol, there is no reason your ISP should be responsible for working around that.
It may be true that the problem is with CyberPatrol, but you gotta change the things you can change. CyberPatrol apparently won't change, and there really isn't anything the ISP can do about it.
Instead of tilting at windmills, just make the easy change and find a new ISP.
If the ISP loses enough business because of it, they'll either change their business practices, their technical setup, or they'll talk to CyberPatrol themselves. Either way, it shouldn't be up to the user to put up with service that doesn't do what he wants it to do. That's really what the bottom line is.
For the life of me I can't understand a society in which it is acceptable for children to see people blown apart, but it is not acceptable for children to see people making love.
Since CyberPatrol won't budge, and your ISP seems unwilling to make changes, the only change that can come is in your choice of ISP.
You might write a polite letter to both CyberPatrol and your ISP, stating your reasons for leaving, and stating that in the future you won't recommend use of either of their products.
We should
1. Drop human population levels down to 2 billion or so, which could easily be done in one generation, and
Of course you're volunteering to be one of those who are "dropped", right?