Possible exception for the USA, I recommend people unlucky enough to live there to seek asylum elsewhere.
True nough. But I have to point out the fact that neither Norway nor any other country I can think of will grant asylum status to an applicant based upon the applicant's national leadership being run by a knuckle-dragging inbred moron who is puppetted by a bunch of two-bit millinealist madmen bent upon unleashing some kind of ungodly crusade upon all who don't follow their personal dogma. Unless, of course, the country in question is cited for human rights violations all over the place by organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the UN. Unless, of course, the country in question has incarcerated or otherwise placed under special legal authority one out of evrery four men in a given minority group.
Surely, I could continue, but the fact is, what passes for acceptable in the US would be grounds for asylum coming from any other country in the world. Anyone see the problem with this picture?
I mean, come on. Has it dawned on anyone else out there that these butt-covering disclaimers are becoming meaningless? What I'd really like to see would be a court opinion to the general idea of "the agreement was written in Legalese, which is no more readable to the person agreeing to the contract than Latin or Esparanto. Given that the person agreeing to the contract could not reasonably be expected to hire an attorney to understand his or her rights before clicking OK in order to buy airline tickets (or install Windows, ahem), the EULA as given is essentially an unenforcable abrogation of constitutionally protected rights. Therefore, the EULA in its entirety is invalid."
Of course, some fucknut tort lawyers would have to get real jobs, but I promise to lose 10^-30 seconds of sleep over that one.
Yeah, I know, I'm dreaming. Is that my alarm clock?
Forum for actions, governing law, and procedural restrictions You agree that this Agreement is made and entered into in Tarrant County, Texas. You agree that Texas law governs this Agreement's interpretation and/or any dispute arising from your access to, dealings with, or use of the Site, without regard to conflicts of law principles.
So if you do happen to, um (looks again at EULA) get busted for swapping copyrighted pr0n on the American Airlines website, you will be under the thumb of Texas law - an institution known as not quite as bad as getting on the bad side of the mob, but since the jails are privately owned and run for profit, it's probably a bad place to be, no?
Never trust a Texan. --A line from some movie about Geronimo.
Touche - I thought they must have had a/. clause in there somewhere. Of course, there's also this line further down:
American Airlines specifically denies you permission to hyperlink or provide references to the Site, unless you are allowed to do so under a separate written agreement with American Airlines.
Most wireless keyboards, like garage door openers..
Hell, dude, didn't you ever go around town with your parents garage door opener and see how many doors you could open? We used to just leave the doors up (I know, I know... don't moralize in my general direction, OK?) to make the people freak out in the morning. Our record was five doors in one night. Thing is, garage door openers had three wheels with 0-9 on each, so there were only a thousand possible combinations available to them. In tract suburbia, this is trivial. Considering that HP said their newfangled, not-yet-released keyboard has 256 channels, they aren't even as secure as the dufus garage door openers we used to play with. RF is a pretty nice party line when it comes down to implementation.
However, you're right about the interference - if two radios had the same frequency crystals in, many funny things were bound to happen.
No doubt. When I was little, we had a dog that apparently decided that my r/c cars were some strange version of cat she hadn't torn to shreds yet. Needless to say, we kept her in the back yard when we had our cars out. Happens that, right after Christmas (or maybe Christmas afternoon, I can't remember) one of the neighbor kids shows up with his shiny new rc-10 (mine was somewhat more scarred - see above). Naturally, I ran inside and got my car out so that we could race. What a disaster - my car did this stuttery thing and ended up in a flowerbed, while my friends' brand-new rc-10 went off full-throttle up our driveway, completely out of control, and then zipped right under the gate and into the waiting fangs beyond. By the time we got the gate undone, it was too late. Yeah, we checked, and yeah, both of us were on the same freq. What a scene - I'll never forget it:)
Seems like it's time. Not just because of this sell-out from George and Ashcroft (whose only significant accomplishment prior to becoming a Bush henchman was to lose an election to a dead man), but because of the growingly obvious evidence that Bush does not care about the safety, security, or prosperity of US citizens or for that matter anyone else. The country needs a national vote of no confidence on this punk... of course the US populace is so bovinely stupid at this point that they for the most part can't see the forest for the trees and wouldn't know or care that Bush is nothing more than a two-bit millenialist who hopes to bring on Armageddon to prove the righteousness of his particular religious dogma. Crap.
I mean, what this guy has done is certainly a creative and dare I say worthy use of one of those nefarious X10 pervcams, but damn... Calling an Intel Indeo avi a QuickTime movie is pretty damn irritating, particularly given the fact that it won'tever play on OS X without borking the creator codes. If you're lucky that'll work. And don't even get me started on divx. Just a thought to people who want videos posted somewhere like/. - think mpeg.
Well, I was gonna mention that one kde screensaver, but then I realized that it a) is very predictable, and b) does precisely squat to/etc,/var,/proc, or anything else which could possibly cause you grief if it went haywire. So that's out. As to not upsetting your windoze box, our 2k servers eat shit for nothing more unreasonable than more than one client request at a time. Or the (gasp) installation of non-microsoftware. The funny bit was the rep who blamed our problems on a faircom server - the very same faircom server which cut down on bsods by like fifty percent overnight while increasing throughput exponentially. Heh.
So, remind me, why should I think that this matters? Adobe Atmosphere has been around for ages, and has yet to impress me, or release in anything other than winderz, for that matter. Seems to me that if someone wanted to bother, it wouldn't be hard to create a much, much better online metaverse using, say, the quake engine. Atmosphere is primitive compared to its fps counterpoints.
I have in my more or less constant posession an old AOL 3.0 floppy disk which has a working copy of something called tomsrtbt, which I have used countless times to rescue garbled Windoze partitions. 'Course, it can't handle NTFS, but networking support is amazing, and I have found it makes the world of difference for tasks like recovering from a screwed up Ghost client install, for instance. And the date thing is fun:)
It will be nice to have something which is, ahem, more full-featured - many of my users get nervous when there isn't eye candy to look at.
Actually, no. I couldn't get it to work, even after several tries as well as resetting the randomization. I ended up having to randomize the data myself. Bastards.
Of course, the culture jamming aspects of DIY NYTimes accounts are entertaining. I enjoy creating outliers, knowing full well that the more outliers are created, the more polluted their database becomes. Honestly, the idea of some dope dba having to visually look at and delete an account created by a female clergy/skilled laborer born in 1935 making 130k+ in French Polynesia, wondering all the while why he doesn't just run screaming into the street and actually considering doing so, well, that kinda amuses me. A lot.
You obviously don't see the big picture. My guess would be that the majority of LameSpy downloaders are kids, either on the computer that daddy bought them, or on daddy's computer. Chances are that most of the 3000 people know just about squat about their computer beyond how to turn it on, frag like hell, and possibly how to turn it off. Enter Nimda. Replicating at a rate whose exponent is the average of the number of email contacts in the infected group, in this case about 3000 minus the number of machines had virus scanners which actually caught the bug - most likely the number of infected machines is about half the number of downloads. How many people on those email lists are not terribly computer literate as well? Not trying to blow a lot of fud on the table, but the reality is that these 1500 infected comps boils down to a real pain in the ass, simply because the, ahem, technicians at AdServerSpy can't properly manage their IIS box. I'm sorry, but enough is enough. Companies need to be held accountable when something this sloppy happens. I couldn't think of a better first pick than GameSpy... well, maybe ONE better pick...
I'm going to post under my handle to tell you just what an asshole thing that is to do on your sig line. Some of us don't like to see that kind of shit. Thanks for nothing.
full of shit. A summary read of his article shows the main point to be a further continuation of US ultra-right-wing isolationist hysteria. Describing the United Nations as a "collection of dictatorships" should be a first clue.
He fails to show any _good_ reason to dump the treaty - other than "it was pushed by the state department to further their own interests" (such as helping smooth relationships between US and USSR), and "UN==the Devil!!!!!!!" (ho-hum, again) So this, er, moron, would rather toss out a treaty which thus far has prevented the earth from being encircled by orbital weapons platforms? Is he smoking crack?
Nope. I personally think that anyone who goes through all the trouble and considerable risk of travelling to another celestial body should be able to do so without being fettered with the need to claim that land in the name of some obsolete notion of political division. Read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein some time. It will point out some pretty good reasons why nationalizing a faraway celestial body is a bad idea.
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Surely, I could continue, but the fact is, what passes for acceptable in the US would be grounds for asylum coming from any other country in the world. Anyone see the problem with this picture?
I mean, come on. Has it dawned on anyone else out there that these butt-covering disclaimers are becoming meaningless? What I'd really like to see would be a court opinion to the general idea of "the agreement was written in Legalese, which is no more readable to the person agreeing to the contract than Latin or Esparanto. Given that the person agreeing to the contract could not reasonably be expected to hire an attorney to understand his or her rights before clicking OK in order to buy airline tickets (or install Windows, ahem), the EULA as given is essentially an unenforcable abrogation of constitutionally protected rights. Therefore, the EULA in its entirety is invalid."
Of course, some fucknut tort lawyers would have to get real jobs, but I promise to lose 10^-30 seconds of sleep over that one.
Yeah, I know, I'm dreaming. Is that my alarm clock?
Happens that, right after Christmas (or maybe Christmas afternoon, I can't remember) one of the neighbor kids shows up with his shiny new rc-10 (mine was somewhat more scarred - see above). Naturally, I ran inside and got my car out so that we could race. What a disaster - my car did this stuttery thing and ended up in a flowerbed, while my friends' brand-new rc-10 went off full-throttle up our driveway, completely out of control, and then zipped right under the gate and into the waiting fangs beyond. By the time we got the gate undone, it was too late. Yeah, we checked, and yeah, both of us were on the same freq. What a scene - I'll never forget it
s/whose/who's :)
Seems like it's time. Not just because of this sell-out from George and Ashcroft (whose only significant accomplishment prior to becoming a Bush henchman was to lose an election to a dead man), but because of the growingly obvious evidence that Bush does not care about the safety, security, or prosperity of US citizens or for that matter anyone else. The country needs a national vote of no confidence on this punk... of course the US populace is so bovinely stupid at this point that they for the most part can't see the forest for the trees and wouldn't know or care that Bush is nothing more than a two-bit millenialist who hopes to bring on Armageddon to prove the righteousness of his particular religious dogma. Crap.
Just my luck - I'm in the middle of downloading SuSe from one of the mirrors, and it goes and gets slashdotted. What are the odds?
Hey, I'm not the one who called them "QuickTime Movies". That honor goes to the website author.
I mean, what this guy has done is certainly a creative and dare I say worthy use of one of those nefarious X10 pervcams, but damn... Calling an Intel Indeo avi a QuickTime movie is pretty damn irritating, particularly given the fact that it won't ever play on OS X without borking the creator codes. If you're lucky that'll work. And don't even get me started on divx. Just a thought to people who want videos posted somewhere like /. - think mpeg.
You've gotta love "QuickTime Format" videos that won't play on QuickTime on Apple® OS X.
Mpegs are my friend.
Mpegs are my friend...
Well, I was gonna mention that one kde screensaver, but then I realized that it a) is very predictable, and b) does precisely squat to /etc, /var, /proc, or anything else which could possibly cause you grief if it went haywire. So that's out.
As to not upsetting your windoze box, our 2k servers eat shit for nothing more unreasonable than more than one client request at a time. Or the (gasp) installation of non-microsoftware. The funny bit was the rep who blamed our problems on a faircom server - the very same faircom server which cut down on bsods by like fifty percent overnight while increasing throughput exponentially. Heh.
You forgot the biggest one, so I'll lend you a hand:
0.5. Random blue screen generator. Available here.
fsck that, bro. In this particular case, it brings me great joy to watch a crappy IIS box get nuked. Great joy indeed.
Looks like there's one clear advantage to Sourceforge: If you do something there worth a Slashdot story, people will actually get to see it.
Sister, I don't know where you are at, but I see a slashdotted server from here. Poetic justice at the very least :)
So, remind me, why should I think that this matters? Adobe Atmosphere has been around for ages, and has yet to impress me, or release in anything other than winderz, for that matter. Seems to me that if someone wanted to bother, it wouldn't be hard to create a much, much better online metaverse using, say, the quake engine. Atmosphere is primitive compared to its fps counterpoints.
I have in my more or less constant posession an old AOL 3.0 floppy disk which has a working copy of something called tomsrtbt, which I have used countless times to rescue garbled Windoze partitions. 'Course, it can't handle NTFS, but networking support is amazing, and I have found it makes the world of difference for tasks like recovering from a screwed up Ghost client install, for instance. And the date thing is fun :)
It will be nice to have something which is, ahem, more full-featured - many of my users get nervous when there isn't eye candy to look at.
Actually, no. I couldn't get it to work, even after several tries as well as resetting the randomization. I ended up having to randomize the data myself. Bastards.
Of course, the culture jamming aspects of DIY NYTimes accounts are entertaining. I enjoy creating outliers, knowing full well that the more outliers are created, the more polluted their database becomes. Honestly, the idea of some dope dba having to visually look at and delete an account created by a female clergy/skilled laborer born in 1935 making 130k+ in French Polynesia, wondering all the while why he doesn't just run screaming into the street and actually considering doing so, well, that kinda amuses me. A lot.
You obviously don't see the big picture. My guess would be that the majority of LameSpy downloaders are kids, either on the computer that daddy bought them, or on daddy's computer. Chances are that most of the 3000 people know just about squat about their computer beyond how to turn it on, frag like hell, and possibly how to turn it off.
Enter Nimda. Replicating at a rate whose exponent is the average of the number of email contacts in the infected group, in this case about 3000 minus the number of machines had virus scanners which actually caught the bug - most likely the number of infected machines is about half the number of downloads. How many people on those email lists are not terribly computer literate as well?
Not trying to blow a lot of fud on the table, but the reality is that these 1500 infected comps boils down to a real pain in the ass, simply because the, ahem, technicians at AdServerSpy can't properly manage their IIS box. I'm sorry, but enough is enough. Companies need to be held accountable when something this sloppy happens. I couldn't think of a better first pick than GameSpy... well, maybe ONE better pick...
I'm going to post under my handle to tell you just what an asshole thing that is to do on your sig line. Some of us don't like to see that kind of shit. Thanks for nothing.
"Dobro pozhalovat' do vashi Duma. Cechas', poshli domoi!"
kill 9 squid
full of shit. A summary read of his article shows the main point to be a further continuation of US ultra-right-wing isolationist hysteria. Describing the United Nations as a "collection of dictatorships" should be a first clue.
He fails to show any _good_ reason to dump the treaty - other than "it was pushed by the state department to further their own interests" (such as helping smooth relationships between US and USSR), and "UN==the Devil!!!!!!!" (ho-hum, again) So this, er, moron, would rather toss out a treaty which thus far has prevented the earth from being encircled by orbital weapons platforms? Is he smoking crack?
Nope. I personally think that anyone who goes through all the trouble and considerable risk of travelling to another celestial body should be able to do so without being fettered with the need to claim that land in the name of some obsolete notion of political division. Read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein some time. It will point out some pretty good reasons why nationalizing a faraway celestial body is a bad idea.