My first instinct upon getting a present that didn't quite fit or wasn't exactly to my tastes was that I could still find a use for it, not "Hmmmm.. I wonder I can pawn this off and get an XBox!!"
With an attitude like this you should look into fat, ugly chicks. Unlike the hot, fit women everyone is chasing they really appreciate the attention.
The only way that wheresgeorge.com could indicate the velocity of money is if for every transaction, every moneyholder entered in the serials of all bills involved. Not likely.
Even more interesting...
And even though QNX is a commercial operating system, it is free for noncommercial purposes like mine.
Uh, Cringely, wouldn't creating the thing and then using it as the subject of an article for the company that employs you count as a commercial purpose?
I can't imagine a harder to see screen then my cursed GBA.
Oh yeah? I put the crappiness of this Palm 505 screen up against your GBA any day!
Nice quotes there, Mr "Scientist"
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New Deep Sea Squid
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· Score: 2, Funny
Did anyone else note the innane quotes from Michael Vecchione?
``These are real mystery,'' said Michael Vecchione of the National Marine Fisheries Service and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. He describes the squid in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
``They behave strangely but they also look really weird,'' he said in an interview.
and
``I think those long extensions are really sticky,'' Vecchione guessed.
<mockery> Vecchione was also heard to say, "I think those really really sticky extenstions could hold the Incredible Hulk" and "my really weird squid could beat up your stupid old giant squid." When asked why he thought the extensions were "really sticky" and not "somewhat sticky" he replied, "well, I don't know, but wouldn't it be really cool if they were?" </mockery>
Who modded this as insightful? stupid moderators...
Downloading a patch with a modem is not a big deal. The problem lies with d/l'ing the 12+ MB of 'upgrade' bloat....
So you use the CD to install and then download a 400k batch.
He is going to pay for a version where he will have to d/l the patch anyway. That's right. Now quitchyerbitchin. Complaining about this is like complaining about the softness of the pillow you're biting while getting prison-raped.
At the moment, parts of the source are available under either the Netscape Public License (NPL) or the Mozilla Public License (MPL), often in combination with either the GNU General Public License (GPL) or the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), or both. mozilla.org is working towards having all the code in the tree licensed under a MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-license; for more information, see the Relicensing FAQ.
So THEY've been putting all those bugs!
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al Qaeda Hacks XP?
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Well now that they've routed the enemy, we can expect future versions of MS OSes to be bug and exploit-free.
Interestingly, Phantasy Star Online, a popular space adventure in the online gaming circuit, is not one of Interacts's primary targets. John Hays says that's because of the "moral issues" involved with providing cheat codes for players in head-to-head online gaming.
"We could do it, but we don't," Hays said.
Are they lying? Or are Phantasy Star cheats found elsewhere?
I know you were kidding but think about it. The more complex the compression algorythm, the smaller the file size. Complex algorythms require equally complex calculations to decompress. And if you want to be able to do it at 30 fps maybe you need a faster processor...
I remember the days of waiting for those pesky.GIF files to render on my Amiga 500;)
ok, I've only shared this idea with friends and relatives, but I'll make it public now: a 'screaming car alarm.' Yes, a recorded scream of a woman would play should a car alarm be tripped. Now, that should get attention...
Yeah it would get attention for maybe a week, after which people would start to figure it out and ignore it, as well as ignoring the sounds of actual women screaming for help. Great idea.
Thomas Paine was a political revolutionary. Jon Katz worked with some would-be political revolutionaries at Wired. They thought the net would revolutionize the world, destroying all bad things and empowering the common man, who would somehow go from being a greedy bastard to being a righteous do-gooder. This hasn't happened. What's up with that?
(These Katz Notes provided for those others who began earnestly reading the article only to have their eyes glaze over as they continuted to scroll down....)
UGH. Webcurity? Lets nip this one in the bud.
Webcurity is the most slashtacular word I've seen in a long time. It's cowboyNealiciousness is of almost Hemosian proportions. It's almost Katzian.
Far better would be a password that shows them the 400 MB of innocent stuff and IMMEDIATELY deletes all the rest. That would give you plausible deniability.
Isn't that what APPEARS to happen when you give them the first password? There's 400 megs of data and 600 of free space.... and if they believe you, you go home and sue them for harassement.
The whole concept of deniability refers to the fact that you can deny there are any further levels of encrypted data. It has nothing to do with convincing authorities or getting away with thing in court.
If they can torture you into giving up the passwords they can just torture you into confessing....
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With an attitude like this you should look into fat, ugly chicks. Unlike the hot, fit women everyone is chasing they really appreciate the attention.
Uh, Cringely, wouldn't creating the thing and then using it as the subject of an article for the company that employs you count as a commercial purpose?
Oh yeah? I put the crappiness of this Palm 505 screen up against your GBA any day!
``These are real mystery,'' said Michael Vecchione of the National Marine Fisheries Service and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. He describes the squid in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
``They behave strangely but they also look really weird,'' he said in an interview.
and
``I think those long extensions are really sticky,'' Vecchione guessed.
<mockery>
Vecchione was also heard to say, "I think those really really sticky extenstions could hold the Incredible Hulk" and "my really weird squid could beat up your stupid old giant squid."
When asked why he thought the extensions were "really sticky" and not "somewhat sticky" he replied, "well, I don't know, but wouldn't it be really cool if they were?"
</mockery>
Rediculous? Is that when you diculous again?
**cough** code-red **cough**
quoting just the end != in context
Who modded this as insightful? stupid moderators...
Downloading a patch with a modem is not a big deal. The problem lies with d/l'ing the 12+ MB of 'upgrade' bloat....
So you use the CD to install and then download a 400k batch.
He is going to pay for a version where he will have to d/l the patch anyway.
That's right. Now quitchyerbitchin. Complaining about this is like complaining about the softness of the pillow you're biting while getting prison-raped.
Mozilla != NPL
From mozilla.org:
At the moment, parts of the source are available under either the Netscape Public License (NPL) or the Mozilla Public License (MPL), often in combination with either the GNU General Public License (GPL) or the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), or both. mozilla.org is working towards having all the code in the tree licensed under a MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-license; for more information, see the Relicensing FAQ.
Well now that they've routed the enemy, we can expect future versions of MS OSes to be bug and exploit-free.
BWAHAHAHAHAA
Interestingly, Phantasy Star Online, a popular space adventure in the online gaming circuit, is not one of Interacts's primary targets. John Hays says that's because of the "moral issues" involved with providing cheat codes for players in head-to-head online gaming.
"We could do it, but we don't," Hays said.
Are they lying? Or are Phantasy Star cheats found elsewhere?
I can see it now:
Bilbo Baggins
Frodo Baggins
Jar-Jar Baggins
Uuhhh, I was trying to say WHY he uses vi. Yes I read it.
Of course, now that I think about it, you have to type 'i' before inserting text, so he actually only saves two characters.
Doesn't typing in the URL constitute a sort of linking to the site? What about bookmarking?
Alert for KPMG lawyers: Google seems to be linking to your site multiple times, all without having signed an agreement with you!
Dolts.
I know you were kidding but think about it. The more complex the compression algorythm, the smaller the file size. Complex algorythms require equally complex calculations to decompress. And if you want to be able to do it at 30 fps maybe you need a faster processor...
I remember the days of waiting for those pesky
Yeah it would get attention for maybe a week, after which people would start to figure it out and ignore it, as well as ignoring the sounds of actual women screaming for help. Great idea.
Thomas Paine was a political revolutionary. Jon Katz worked with some would-be political revolutionaries at Wired. They thought the net would revolutionize the world, destroying all bad things and empowering the common man, who would somehow go from being a greedy bastard to being a righteous do-gooder. This hasn't happened. What's up with that?
(These Katz Notes provided for those others who began earnestly reading the article only to have their eyes glaze over as they continuted to scroll down....)
UGH. Webcurity? Lets nip this one in the bud.
Webcurity is the most slashtacular word I've seen in a long time. It's cowboyNealiciousness is of almost Hemosian proportions.
It's almost Katzian.
Far better would be a password that shows them the 400 MB of innocent stuff and IMMEDIATELY deletes all the rest. That would give you plausible deniability.
Isn't that what APPEARS to happen when you give them the first password? There's 400 megs of data and 600 of free space.... and if they believe you, you go home and sue them for harassement.
The whole concept of deniability refers to the fact that you can deny there are any further levels of encrypted data. It has nothing to do with convincing authorities or getting away with thing in court.
If they can torture you into giving up the passwords they can just torture you into confessing....
I think they mean "hopefully" the same way PGP means "pretty good"...