Recreate the following and population behind the site? Not likely.
Yeah, because all THAT takes is two years and a web-based IRC. Come on people, teenagers are notorious for following the "fads". Come up with your own "super facebook, now with more Xtremeness" and watch them all flock in.
2 Billion for facebook!?! Holy crap, the era of the dot com is back! I mean, seriously, facebook? You could completely duplicate that entire site with two college students working part time for a month, so maybe $10,000... THAT is the barrier to entry. Please let them spend 2 billion on this... That way my plan to sell pet food online won't seem to crazy.
Ok, fine, let's pretend that system works PREFECTLY as intended with no flaws of it's own...
So I write a virus that only is able to affect IE and can't write to the disk... All it does it wait until the user goes to a site and downloads an executable file that he intends to run, and then my in-ie-only code injects a virus into it. Now the users will happily press the "OK to Save and Run" box, running my exploit...
All it does it take the argument a step further down the hallway.
Man I HOPE they find something... Just because then the next step will be violent movies. How will out country function without explosions and car chases?
Last year in Japan they had a tivo-like device for the cell phone.... Not to record shows at home, though.... To record shows ON the damn phone since they all have sattelite receivers in them now...
If they were going to have a search engine better than Google, they would just do it, not announce it 6 months in advance.
Very simple, they want to catch those big bosses who are afraid of choosing the wrong technology. People may have been thinking "I WAS going to search for something today... But what if I use the wrong search engine? I'd better wait six months and see how this MSN thing looks and try again."
I'm tired of people proudly justifying morally bankrupt actions based on wordplay.
And I'm tired of people assuming that the only possible reason anyone might want to insist on using precise terminology is in the mistaken belief that this might justify morally bankrupt actions.
The best way to fight this it to start refering to copyright infringment as child rape and murder. Hey, don't child rape and murder that song! When you download music, you are raping and murdrering a child!
From the Article:
* digital camera
* video camcorder
* smartphone
* MP3 player
* PDA
* Internet access and Internet picture frame
* email access
* video conferencing
Ok, so it's the same thing that was already becoming absolete in Tokyo two years ago... Except heavier and with no built-in tivo.
It is wrong to kill babies. It is wrong to deprive women of freedom of choice over their own bodies and subject them to a painful pregnancy for any reason but the welfare of others.
Oh yeah? I believe in Freezebortion. The cryogenic freezing of embryos so that someday in the future, when the technology is available, they can be placed into the wombs of young christian virgins and have the life that they deserve.
No. The spammer just needs to resend the same message after $time when a majority of greylisting periods expire.
That is just ONE version of greylisting... Let them solve that problem and we use another Mailserver quirk. Eventually, to truly defeat all forms of greayisting they must implement a true mailserver.
Most, nearly all, of the "cost" of computer crime comes from running a full security audit of your systems and locking down the security procedures and controls you will use to keep it from happenng again. If these companies had a competent computer security policy in the first place, they would find thier "costs" much less.
It's like a thief crashing through your dry-rot, termite-infested walls and then blaming HIM that you have to rebuild your whole house now. This money is almost always money that *should* have been spent, but wasn't in the name of cost-cutting or just general laziness.
The problem is not that the world is tired of Star Trek, the problem is that the last Star Trek series were not that good as the first ones (TOS and TNG)
Actually, I think the real problem is that the new star trek plots were almost all rehases of OLD star trek plots. Nothing original until the last season.
Bad? BAD? You insult all bad things by saying this. This book is to bad what bad is to "a little big troubling". It was horrible beyond mesaure. And I don't even give a crap about the politics involved, I mean the story itself is nothing but a CS graduate's thesis on computer-generated books. Every character is as cliched as you could possibly get. The plot was... dear God, did I just say plot? Excuse me, that was uncalled for!
Here's a list of characters, in case you haven't read it yet:
A superman non-environmentalist, who can do everything, speak every language, fly any sort of air-transportation across the globe faster than a cruise missle, decrypt encoded information in his head in real time, has an infinite amout of resources at his disposal, and can fuck your wife just by glancing at her through binoculars, and still leaving you thankful that he did... Oh and he's perfect. And also, perfect, and I love him.
(main character) Naive do-godder yuppie hippie who has to be taught the wrongs of his environmentalist ways through some "tough love" and stern looks by the father figure superman above, but who eventually gets to sleep with women once he figures out how wrong he was.
Retarded actor who literally hugs trees and is eaten alive by friendly natives for his hubris and compassion. Oh and it's funny when he dies, HA HA gotcha you hollywood hippie, you are so stupid for having good looks and lots of money that you don't deserve, die die!
A couple of interchangeable sluts. Sure one has blonde hair and one is a brunette and can do judo, but it is very clear that thier ony REAL job is to fawn madly over complete nitwits and make out with them from time to time, often saving thier lives, of course, and then thanking for the opportunity to do so.
Mu ha ha ha type mad scientist/lawyer who builds very very intricate plans that require millions of dollars, unfounded science that may or may not ever work, and a great deal of effort and yet goes out of his way to publish every step of his detailed plans in places where they are easily found and yet is flummoxed by how the good guys seem to be on to his every step. Has to kill people with octopus juice because a bullet in the head is way harder, I suppose.
Also EVERYONE drives a Prius. I mean, it's a freaking Prius orgy.
If technically accurate, the characters will be males reading Slashdot, downloading pr0n, virus-scanning Windows boxes, eating pizza, and quarrelling intensely about Perl and Python.
I want to run my business utilizing every right I was born with -- including speech. If you don't want my e-mails, you can run a white list and bounce everything not in it.
Fine, if you want to use MY mail server... pay me, mother fucker. I'll be expecting a cachier's check by the end of the week.
I never really understood the whole region-lock thing anyway. It just seems to be 100% greed.
It is indeed greed, no matter what others may tell you. The single reason for this is so you can't buy a box full of DVDs in India for $2 a piece and seel them in America for $3 a paiece, undercutting EVERYONE and yet still makign a profit.
Slashdot Mirror
Recreate the following and population behind the site? Not likely.
Yeah, because all THAT takes is two years and a web-based IRC. Come on people, teenagers are notorious for following the "fads". Come up with your own "super facebook, now with more Xtremeness" and watch them all flock in.
2 Billion for facebook!?! Holy crap, the era of the dot com is back! I mean, seriously, facebook? You could completely duplicate that entire site with two college students working part time for a month, so maybe $10,000... THAT is the barrier to entry. Please let them spend 2 billion on this... That way my plan to sell pet food online won't seem to crazy.
Ok, fine, let's pretend that system works PREFECTLY as intended with no flaws of it's own...
So I write a virus that only is able to affect IE and can't write to the disk... All it does it wait until the user goes to a site and downloads an executable file that he intends to run, and then my in-ie-only code injects a virus into it. Now the users will happily press the "OK to Save and Run" box, running my exploit...
All it does it take the argument a step further down the hallway.
This hole will complain endlessly about your banal surfing habits and tell you taht are beginning to look a little fat. It's amazingly critical.
Man I HOPE they find something... Just because then the next step will be violent movies. How will out country function without explosions and car chases?
Yeah, I believe that was an accident... I mean Google's live website must be a mapped drive on every executive's machines...
Seriously, this either highlights deceptive leaking or REALLY REALLY bad rollout procedures. Either way it makes google look clueless...
Last year in Japan they had a tivo-like device for the cell phone.... Not to record shows at home, though.... To record shows ON the damn phone since they all have sattelite receivers in them now...
nor the males... ESPECIALLY not the males.
If they were going to have a search engine better than Google, they would just do it, not announce it 6 months in advance.
Very simple, they want to catch those big bosses who are afraid of choosing the wrong technology. People may have been thinking "I WAS going to search for something today... But what if I use the wrong search engine? I'd better wait six months and see how this MSN thing looks and try again."
And what we are seeing here is the "GonloriSmock Effect"
I'm tired of people proudly justifying morally bankrupt actions based on wordplay.
And I'm tired of people assuming that the only possible reason anyone might want to insist on using precise terminology is in the mistaken belief that this might justify morally bankrupt actions.
The best way to fight this it to start refering to copyright infringment as child rape and murder. Hey, don't child rape and murder that song! When you download music, you are raping and murdrering a child!
See how easily that defuses the issue?
Hell, I'm not even sure Lada's still behind.
Waaaaaaaay back there somewhere...
From the Article:
* digital camera
* video camcorder
* smartphone
* MP3 player
* PDA
* Internet access and Internet picture frame
* email access
* video conferencing
Ok, so it's the same thing that was already becoming absolete in Tokyo two years ago... Except heavier and with no built-in tivo.
It is wrong to kill babies. It is wrong to deprive women of freedom of choice over their own bodies and subject them to a painful pregnancy for any reason but the welfare of others.
Oh yeah? I believe in Freezebortion. The cryogenic freezing of embryos so that someday in the future, when the technology is available, they can be placed into the wombs of young christian virgins and have the life that they deserve.
No. The spammer just needs to resend the same message after $time when a majority of greylisting periods expire.
That is just ONE version of greylisting... Let them solve that problem and we use another Mailserver quirk. Eventually, to truly defeat all forms of greayisting they must implement a true mailserver.
USE="static" emerge -e world
Most, nearly all, of the "cost" of computer crime comes from running a full security audit of your systems and locking down the security procedures and controls you will use to keep it from happenng again. If these companies had a competent computer security policy in the first place, they would find thier "costs" much less.
It's like a thief crashing through your dry-rot, termite-infested walls and then blaming HIM that you have to rebuild your whole house now. This money is almost always money that *should* have been spent, but wasn't in the name of cost-cutting or just general laziness.
The problem is not that the world is tired of Star Trek, the problem is that the last Star Trek series were not that good as the first ones (TOS and TNG)
Actually, I think the real problem is that the new star trek plots were almost all rehases of OLD star trek plots. Nothing original until the last season.
So is the 13 feet of snow in Japan.
Thirteen feet? Where was that? If it was in Shiga-ken, you got off easy.
and bad fiction at that.
Bad? BAD? You insult all bad things by saying this. This book is to bad what bad is to "a little big troubling". It was horrible beyond mesaure. And I don't even give a crap about the politics involved, I mean the story itself is nothing but a CS graduate's thesis on computer-generated books. Every character is as cliched as you could possibly get. The plot was... dear God, did I just say plot? Excuse me, that was uncalled for!
Here's a list of characters, in case you haven't read it yet:
A superman non-environmentalist, who can do everything, speak every language, fly any sort of air-transportation across the globe faster than a cruise missle, decrypt encoded information in his head in real time, has an infinite amout of resources at his disposal, and can fuck your wife just by glancing at her through binoculars, and still leaving you thankful that he did... Oh and he's perfect. And also, perfect, and I love him.
(main character) Naive do-godder yuppie hippie who has to be taught the wrongs of his environmentalist ways through some "tough love" and stern looks by the father figure superman above, but who eventually gets to sleep with women once he figures out how wrong he was.
Retarded actor who literally hugs trees and is eaten alive by friendly natives for his hubris and compassion. Oh and it's funny when he dies, HA HA gotcha you hollywood hippie, you are so stupid for having good looks and lots of money that you don't deserve, die die!
A couple of interchangeable sluts. Sure one has blonde hair and one is a brunette and can do judo, but it is very clear that thier ony REAL job is to fawn madly over complete nitwits and make out with them from time to time, often saving thier lives, of course, and then thanking for the opportunity to do so.
Mu ha ha ha type mad scientist/lawyer who builds very very intricate plans that require millions of dollars, unfounded science that may or may not ever work, and a great deal of effort and yet goes out of his way to publish every step of his detailed plans in places where they are easily found and yet is flummoxed by how the good guys seem to be on to his every step. Has to kill people with octopus juice because a bullet in the head is way harder, I suppose.
Also EVERYONE drives a Prius. I mean, it's a freaking Prius orgy.
If technically accurate, the characters will be males reading Slashdot, downloading pr0n, virus-scanning Windows boxes, eating pizza, and quarrelling intensely about Perl and Python.
RUBY!
I want to run my business utilizing every right I was born with -- including speech. If you don't want my e-mails, you can run a white list and bounce everything not in it.
Fine, if you want to use MY mail server... pay me, mother fucker. I'll be expecting a cachier's check by the end of the week.
So you are saying pushing the same crap out the door over and over again doesn't mean you win big every time?
for those who dislike Pythons whitespace handling (I think it is genius)
Until the first time you try and copy and paste it from a web browser or email...
I never really understood the whole region-lock thing anyway. It just seems to be 100% greed.
It is indeed greed, no matter what others may tell you. The single reason for this is so you can't buy a box full of DVDs in India for $2 a piece and seel them in America for $3 a paiece, undercutting EVERYONE and yet still makign a profit.