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Quick nuke'm all while they're up for air. Everyone whose one fixation was the lotion qualifies for the/. weenie nametag.
Before Disney bastardized Inspector Gadget the cartoon beckoned precocious hackers and this mod shows the imprint of a onetime Inspector Gadget fan. Rock on d00d. well done. I wanna do one in the bottom tray of my tackel box just to drive the final metal screw into the psyche of my fishing buddies who think I've gone cyborg.
...soirees and diagramming whether or not the bat can be black at dawn
Too brillig at dawn to empirically test the theory? Surely not for the JabberWokky, but, if so, then merely fall back on 'What I tell you three times is true'.
Aren't security experts being a little hypercritical?
Security experts are perhaps among the most susceptible to being brought up in front of their peers, official bodies and, most fearfully, their clients for being lax in discharging their responsibilities. Anyone, (speaking as a Canadian), who has practised in a professional capacity is painfully aware of how open they are to litigation or loss of a client base. Some form of Errors and Omissions insurance is often a prerequisite for professionals and the premiums paid are a recurrent reminder of how open the practioner is to being sued. As an aside, if software is seen to be a service then software developers should not only have to carry Errors and Omissions but should be as liable as any other Engineer or professional whose work is relied upon to meet specified tolerances. It is for these reasons that professionals are so easily characterized as comically anal and hypercritical.
Hi having graduated from a eco/comm programme and having been a suit before I saw the light streaming from my monitor I can tell you any and all one stop financial management solutions are a bad thing. It's a given that once a client is heavily vested you've got them by the whatevers and can lead them anywhere. The key to financial wisdom has always been diversify and this advise applies to services as much as to investments. Good luck
This is great! Finally I'll get over my disappointment from the x-ray glasses I bought from the back of a DC comic book. This is technology that'll see the fast track to miniturization. Does it have the stigmatism Superman suffered at not being able to see through lead linned undies?
As a Canadian I have watched the Big Government and Big Business invasion of privacy in the US spill over into my country. I have gone from irritation to outrage to sadness. What is being done is criminal and it is being done in the face of apathy.
America is the most rabid dog running amok in the patent field but all nations subscribe to the practise just as all nations crib to protect their agricultural industries. It's seige mentality. Unfortunately Americans have caved in completely to the litiguous school of business practise in which government only polices the most flagrant breaches of the law and then lays the burden on the courts to sort out legal rights. Shakespear had it right about lawyers.
I've quired/. re the following but have not received a reply so let's see what happens here. As an eco/com grad I had to take multiple semesters of biz law although I openly admit to limitaions as to my knowledge I am of the opinion that where one party, say a software developere or a web site derives a benefit from another party, say a users or visitors private info and the second party also derives a benefit, i.e., use of the software or some "freebie" then a contarct has been entered into and as such the terms and conditions of said contract are subject to contract law.
Is there an org somewhere on the net looking into the legal implications of the above. I think a few gig class action suits would chill the big boys out fairly quickly and we wouldn't have to put up with the equivocation and backsliding. But as long as the Corporate entities know users won't do more than occasionally bitch they will continue every possible abuse to make a buck.
Hi Gary. Not being well versed in the presuppositions underlying the theory I can't comment on the syndrome per se, which, leaves personal experience. I routinely write IQ tests in the 140 range and many consider me to exhibit autitistic characteristics, but I just don't care. Body language is boring. Social skills are a needless expenditure and emotions are, for the most part, superflouous. Wanna write a cool article then revisit W. Sidis and key on the strange sexual and/or near asexual behaviour of persons of high intellect. Cliff Pickover has visited this subject matter. The fact is a high IQ (170 plus) brings with it a demonstrated lack of interest in sex and social skills because both are herd glue; they're the ken of genetic losers, but don't speak this truth too loudly. The herd routinely pushes the freak/geek to the periphery hoping the predators will take them leaving breeding rights for their kind. Thanks for laying another caul on the heads of the unique and cutting edge of human intelligence. As a journalist your most important instinct is to sense any thread that will engender strong emotion and reactionism because your readership is made up of those who seek to feel what they cannot understand.
A late late late night movie flashed a clip of a big breasted belly dancer wearing an ornate bra. She bellied up to one patron and two fourty-fours fired from the nipples killing said patron dead. Is this the techno future of maidenhood will the iron maiden taken on a leathal cryto-neo-meaning?
We are genetically programmed and chemically driven to feed and to breed, beyond that the question arises as to why a mad, upright ape, living outside the laws of nature has gained to the position of representing the universe having become aware of it's existence. The miracle is that we don't kill ourselves off in greater numbers.
No more than a thousand years ago, (the flicker of an eye lid in terms of the evolution of our species), the viking who would go on to to be the first european to land on North America impressed his gathered clan and made his attendant parents proud, when at the age of six, or thereabouts, he buried a war axe in the head of one of his playmates, killing the other child instantly. It seems the other child had beat him at a game and he didn't like that. This violent act by a child was noted in the Norse sagas and was said to presage great things for the boy. My point is that we are violent creatures by nature and the herculean effort we have made to lift ourselves free of gratuitous violence needs to be noted. Geeks, like me, consider how far we have come, how far we have to go, and how to get to where we're going. Don't let the bad press get you down, one of the reactions of all people when such things happen is to find someone or something convenient to blame and in doing so to distance themselves from having to ask what in their lives propagates such violenc.
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Quick nuke'm all while they're up for air. Everyone whose one fixation was the lotion qualifies for the /. weenie nametag.
Before Disney bastardized Inspector Gadget the cartoon beckoned precocious hackers and this mod shows the imprint of a onetime Inspector Gadget fan. Rock on d00d. well done. I wanna do one in the bottom tray of my tackel box just to drive the final metal screw into the psyche of my fishing buddies who think I've gone cyborg.
Too brillig at dawn to empirically test the theory? Surely not for the JabberWokky, but, if so, then merely fall back on 'What I tell you three times is true'.
Charles Dodgson, somewhere thru the looking glass, is at tea with the Mad Hatter discussing this very matter.
:)Popper fan I presume.
:)Hi, I'm in the heart of the heart of the city but my family home's on the island, Victoria.
I'm pretty much pumped on sugar,caffine and groking Java (cool language, I read Eckel's book but have never had the time to play with it).
cheersHey if you're in British Columbia do that time travel thing and spring forward... :)
Ah well back to learning Java.
Aren't security experts being a little hypercritical?
Security experts are perhaps among the most susceptible to being brought up in front of their peers, official bodies and, most fearfully, their clients for being lax in discharging their responsibilities. Anyone, (speaking as a Canadian), who has practised in a professional capacity is painfully aware of how open they are to litigation or loss of a client base. Some form of Errors and Omissions insurance is often a prerequisite for professionals and the premiums paid are a recurrent reminder of how open the practioner is to being sued. As an aside, if software is seen to be a service then software developers should not only have to carry Errors and Omissions but should be as liable as any other Engineer or professional whose work is relied upon to meet specified tolerances. It is for these reasons that professionals are so easily characterized as comically anal and hypercritical.
cheers"...paving the way for the chip's immediate sale in the United States.' Spooky."
That would be Spooky as in 'Spooky Muldur'
Hi having graduated from a eco/comm programme and having been a suit before I saw the light streaming from my monitor I can tell you any and all one stop financial management solutions are a bad thing. It's a given that once a client is heavily vested you've got them by the whatevers and can lead them anywhere. The key to financial wisdom has always been diversify and this advise applies to services as much as to investments. Good luck
This is great! Finally I'll get over my disappointment from the x-ray glasses I bought from the back of a DC comic book. This is technology that'll see the fast track to miniturization. Does it have the stigmatism Superman suffered at not being able to see through lead linned undies?
As a Canadian I have watched the Big Government and Big Business invasion of privacy in the US spill over into my country. I have gone from irritation to outrage to sadness. What is being done is criminal and it is being done in the face of apathy.
America is the most rabid dog running amok in the patent field but all nations subscribe to the practise just as all nations crib to protect their agricultural industries. It's seige mentality. Unfortunately Americans have caved in completely to the litiguous school of business practise in which government only polices the most flagrant breaches of the law and then lays the burden on the courts to sort out legal rights. Shakespear had it right about lawyers.
I've quired /. re the following but have not received a reply so let's see what happens here. As an eco/com grad I had to take multiple semesters of biz law although I openly admit to limitaions as to my knowledge I am of the opinion that where one party, say a software developere or a web site derives a benefit from another party, say a users or visitors private info and the second party also derives a benefit, i.e., use of the software or some "freebie" then a contarct has been entered into and as such the terms and conditions of said contract are subject to contract law.
Is there an org somewhere on the net looking into the legal implications of the above. I think a few gig class action suits would chill the big boys out fairly quickly and we wouldn't have to put up with the equivocation and backsliding. But as long as the Corporate entities know users won't do more than occasionally bitch they will continue every possible abuse to make a buck.
cheers
Hi Gary.
Not being well versed in the presuppositions underlying the theory I can't comment on the syndrome per se, which, leaves personal experience. I routinely write IQ tests in the 140 range and many consider me to exhibit autitistic characteristics, but I just don't care. Body language is boring. Social skills are a needless expenditure and emotions are, for the most part, superflouous. Wanna write a cool article then revisit W. Sidis and key on the strange sexual and/or near asexual behaviour of persons of high intellect. Cliff Pickover has visited this subject matter. The fact is a high IQ (170 plus) brings with it a demonstrated lack of interest in sex and social skills because both are herd glue; they're the ken of genetic losers, but don't speak this truth too loudly. The herd routinely pushes the freak/geek to the periphery hoping the predators will take them leaving breeding rights for their kind. Thanks for laying another caul on the heads of the unique and cutting edge of human intelligence. As a journalist your most important instinct is to sense any thread that will engender strong emotion and reactionism because your readership is made up of those who seek to feel what they cannot understand.
A late late late night movie flashed a clip of a big breasted belly dancer wearing an ornate bra. She bellied up to one patron and two fourty-fours fired from the nipples killing said patron dead. Is this the techno future of maidenhood will the iron maiden taken on a leathal cryto-neo-meaning?
We are genetically programmed and chemically driven to feed and to breed, beyond that the question arises as to why a mad, upright ape, living outside the laws of nature has gained to the position of representing the universe having become aware of it's existence. The miracle is that we don't kill ourselves off in greater numbers.
No more than a thousand years ago, (the flicker of an eye lid in terms of the evolution of our species), the viking who would go on to to be the first european to land on North America impressed his gathered clan and made his attendant parents proud, when at the age of six, or thereabouts, he buried a war axe in the head of one of his playmates, killing the other child instantly. It seems the other child had beat him at a game and he didn't like that. This violent act by a child was noted in the Norse sagas and was said to presage great things for the boy. My point is that we are violent creatures by nature and the herculean effort we have made to lift ourselves free of gratuitous violence needs to be noted. Geeks, like me, consider how far we have come, how far we have to go, and how to get to where we're going. Don't let the bad press get you down, one of the reactions of all people when such things happen is to find someone or something convenient to blame and in doing so to distance themselves from having to ask what in their lives propagates such violenc.