Using this same logic, I would guess that Solitaire, Minesweeper, etc. cost American businesses at least $200 billion per year. I hate spam as much as the next guy, but using the time it takes to delete spam as the basis for determing its economic impact is ridiculous. A much more accurate number would be the amount of time/money companies use to prevent spam from coming in and going out of their systems, the amount lost to phishing and other scams, etc.
Apples and oranges. If an employee spends a few minutes relaxing over a game of solitaire he'll go back to work in a completely different way than if he just spent x minutes wading through suggestions of things one can do to ensure a bigger mortgage/resume/member...
so stop buying ATI? Even as a windows user I stick with Nvidia simply on the off chance that if i decide to slap on a *nix next to Windows I want it to run properly. Voting with my wallet and all.
you'd be amazed at the similarities between playing/writing music and working as a programmer for example. listing a musical instrument is a big plus here to get a job in IT.
much like the "Christian" vs. everyone else war dear Mr. Bush is conducting as we speak? Give me a break. Theo was killed by an isolated nutcase. Terrible as that may be, every ethnic/cultural/religious group will have a couple of total idiots willing to do the unthinkable, often when ordered to do so by someone who is either just as much of a maniac but at least smart enough not to run around with weapons him/herself, or by someone who has a little agenda of his/her own...
Fear of or hatred towards a certain group of people is a wonderful way of distracting a populace from the real issues at hand. The Americans did it with the communists first and with the muslims later. Hitler had the jews. Stalin had...well, pretty much anyone with an IQ over 60. The Japanese massacred the Chinese. The Chinese massacred other Chinese. There's always someone "wrong" to blame for everything...
If I *had* a tool, I wouldn't be sharing it with you. Far too valuable. Generally, *you* wouldn't know if such a tool existed, because if knowledge of the tool leaked, MS *would* implement a fix, making future use problematic.
If the tool doesn't exist, I may well collect encrypted documents in case the tool is available in future - but you did know the temporal risk of encryption, no?
Anyway, in the "real life" of security, things work a bit differently. Almost anything at a "theoretical" level is assumed to be done. Because the black hats wouldn't tell you anyway.
Ratboy.
Ah, but they might tell one another. What's the point of doing something truly 1337 if you can't boast to your buddies about it?
I know for a fact Mozilla does this, and has been doing so for years. It's called autoload, and during installation(on Windows at least) it asks if you want to enable to reduce load times, which it performs splendidly.By the time my crap(IM stuff, other crap) has finished loading, Mozilla has been sitting around waiting for me to open a window. Also, when closing all windows and then opening a fresh one we're basically talking a split second and bam, ready to start browsing.
yes, kind of I'm talking with my GirlFriend, and five seconds after I say "Of course I love you" a popup with a dating website appears on my screen...:-( I'd be impressed if a voice recognition scheme would be able to detect the insincerity that well;-) A more likely suggestion would be a bunch of ads for places to buy flowers, chocolate, rings and other things women need so much more than us men...
please allow me to be the first to patent the use of a scene "in which a persona of the male persuasion uses a musical instrument to entertain a persona of the female persuasion standing on a balcony or in front of an open window"
common sense? is there such a thing? you know you shouldn't stick your fingers in the nice bright firy thingy because either someone told you stringently not to or you tried it once and got burned. to the majority of webusers out there most of this information is as understandable as a description of the precautions that need to be taken before summoning chtulhu. if someone went out and started changing the signs near highway offramps, and you've never been in the area, will common sense tip you off?
(And to stop the flames: C standard strings are severely broken, I agree. Consider them legacy and forget about them.)
Why thank you, now I'll just get back to my coding on them darn irc services, written in C. oh wait, irc is all about text, and C is just wonderful in handling that...strcat to concatenate 2 strings, argghhh.
Mind you, my favourite band is Motorhead [imotorhead.com] so my observations on art and music should be taken with a grain of salt;)
In the case of Motorhead it's pretty darn obvious they didn't get famous for their good looks, so obviously they must have done something right in the musical department. Besides, Lemmy does things with his bass guitar I can only dream about...
when living in a society where influence is measured in financial terms they'd go for being CEO's. However, there are some countries in the world where people are judged on other variables than how much money they happen to own...
the only problem is that you're assuming that the folks with the money and the know-how *behind* the terrorist acts are also acting on "angry, desperate & psychopathic" motives as opposed to some other agenda where they might be in it to gain power, money or some other goal commonly found among our noble species.
What would be the point? The technology to do this is already available all over the world; heck, most of it is actually manufactured elsewhere.
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Using this same logic, I would guess that Solitaire, Minesweeper, etc. cost American businesses at least $200 billion per year. I hate spam as much as the next guy, but using the time it takes to delete spam as the basis for determing its economic impact is ridiculous. A much more accurate number would be the amount of time/money companies use to prevent spam from coming in and going out of their systems, the amount lost to phishing and other scams, etc.
Apples and oranges. If an employee spends a few minutes relaxing over a game of solitaire he'll go back to work in a completely different way than if he just spent x minutes wading through suggestions of things one can do to ensure a bigger mortgage/resume/member...
Being uninformed then proceeding to bash a product/service/etc you are uninformed about is stupidity IMHO. And pretty typical of most "bashers".
Actually, no, that is being a "customer".
so stop buying ATI? Even as a windows user I stick with Nvidia simply on the off chance that if i decide to slap on a *nix next to Windows I want it to run properly. Voting with my wallet and all.
that it is impossible for a native speaker to incorrectly use their own language.
"a native speaker" singular
"their" plural
perhaps Shakespeare isn't such a bad idea after all, or is it are a bad idea?
you'd be amazed at the similarities between playing/writing music and working as a programmer for example. listing a musical instrument is a big plus here to get a job in IT.
much like the "Christian" vs. everyone else war dear Mr. Bush is conducting as we speak? Give me a break. Theo was killed by an isolated nutcase. Terrible as that may be, every ethnic/cultural/religious group will have a couple of total idiots willing to do the unthinkable, often when ordered to do so by someone who is either just as much of a maniac but at least smart enough not to run around with weapons him/herself, or by someone who has a little agenda of his/her own...
Fear of or hatred towards a certain group of people is a wonderful way of distracting a populace from the real issues at hand. The Americans did it with the communists first and with the muslims later. Hitler had the jews. Stalin had...well, pretty much anyone with an IQ over 60. The Japanese massacred the Chinese. The Chinese massacred other Chinese. There's always someone "wrong" to blame for everything...
Facinating
If I *had* a tool, I wouldn't be sharing it with you. Far too valuable. Generally, *you* wouldn't know if such a tool existed, because if knowledge of the tool leaked, MS *would* implement a fix, making future use problematic.
If the tool doesn't exist, I may well collect encrypted documents in case the tool is available in future - but you did know the temporal risk of encryption, no?
Anyway, in the "real life" of security, things work a bit differently. Almost anything at a "theoretical" level is assumed to be done. Because the black hats wouldn't tell you anyway.
Ratboy.
Ah, but they might tell one another. What's the point of doing something truly 1337 if you can't boast to your buddies about it?
is it? if (networking_enabled) { harass_person_installing_until_said_person_sets_a_ bloody_password(); }
hence the (yuck). and Apocalypse is still my personal favorite, although Enemy Unknown will forever be one of my topgames.
If you spent $80 on a DIY RAM kit, why didn't you just buy the machine with 512MB of RAM from the factory? It only costs $75 extra...
In other words, for $5 and 5 minutes of work he just got a perfectly good 256MB ram module? I'll settle for that...
I know for a fact Mozilla does this, and has been doing so for years. It's called autoload, and during installation(on Windows at least) it asks if you want to enable to reduce load times, which it performs splendidly.By the time my crap(IM stuff, other crap) has finished loading, Mozilla has been sitting around waiting for me to open a window. Also, when closing all windows and then opening a fresh one we're basically talking a split second and bam, ready to start browsing.
how many GB does it take for pleasure to turn to pain?
and in UFO Aftermath(yuck) you get to fight humans and animals that have been mutated and warped by alies. Long live the car crabs!
sep. no really. sep. SEP, damned!
yes, kind of I'm talking with my GirlFriend, and five seconds after I say "Of course I love you" a popup with a dating website appears on my screen... :-( I'd be impressed if a voice recognition scheme would be able to detect the insincerity that well ;-) A more likely suggestion would be a bunch of ads for places to buy flowers, chocolate, rings and other things women need so much more than us men...
The use of a gun is to kill someone.
Perhaps a more accurate statement would be that a gun is made to punch holes into things at a distance.
please allow me to be the first to patent the use of a scene "in which a persona of the male persuasion uses a musical instrument to entertain a persona of the female persuasion standing on a balcony or in front of an open window"
now, where are those descendants of shakespeare?
x = 2;
;)
y = 'z';
print 'Eh? if x is not z;
remind me to patent ISNOTDEF
I actually have the privilege of adminning 2 servers for a small community. IRC is perfect for certain purposes.
common sense? is there such a thing? you know you shouldn't stick your fingers in the nice bright firy thingy because either someone told you stringently not to or you tried it once and got burned. to the majority of webusers out there most of this information is as understandable as a description of the precautions that need to be taken before summoning chtulhu. if someone went out and started changing the signs near highway offramps, and you've never been in the area, will common sense tip you off?
(And to stop the flames: C standard strings are severely broken, I agree. Consider them legacy and forget about them.)
Why thank you, now I'll just get back to my coding on them darn irc services, written in C. oh wait, irc is all about text, and C is just wonderful in handling that...strcat to concatenate 2 strings, argghhh.
Mind you, my favourite band is Motorhead [imotorhead.com] so my observations on art and music should be taken with a grain of salt ;)
In the case of Motorhead it's pretty darn obvious they didn't get famous for their good looks, so obviously they must have done something right in the musical department. Besides, Lemmy does things with his bass guitar I can only dream about...
when living in a society where influence is measured in financial terms they'd go for being CEO's. However, there are some countries in the world where people are judged on other variables than how much money they happen to own...
the only problem is that you're assuming that the folks with the money and the know-how *behind* the terrorist acts are also acting on "angry, desperate & psychopathic" motives as opposed to some other agenda where they might be in it to gain power, money or some other goal commonly found among our noble species.
What would be the point? The technology to do this is already available all over the world; heck, most of it is actually manufactured elsewhere.
irony Audio pronunciation of "irony" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-n, r-)
n. pl. ironies
1.
1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.