Its looks to me like your Mr Bush has been amazing allies, friends and family by shoving his hand up our politician's butts and making them say whatever he wants again...and all without his lips moving too! Oh Mr Bush, you're so talented, and all with such wooden spineless dummies!
Hm... $12.5 billion can buy about 925 million 12-packs of bottled Guinness Draught. At the 5 cent per bottle recycling rate in NY state, that would net about $555 million.
Free as in beer? *smirk* I like that thinking. Can we submit this as proof that you can make money out of a free as in beer software business?
And of course the only problem is disposing of the beer....buddy, friend, pal.
This is OFF TOPIC not something to mod at +5 funny. I thought slashcrap had reached rock bottom, and could go no lower. Wrong. They've found a way to dig down from their.
That's a great technique there. If you can't appeal to a wannabe geek's sex drive, appeal to his greed. Lighten their wallet by 88 bits. The really dumb ones will fall for this repeatedly.
I was not talking about the method of contagion. Just the fact that once a disease spreads into the wild, however it spreads, its one more disease you have to fight.
Humans are not the only animals that ingest meat, and we do live in an ecosystem.
'Organizing and displaying photographs based on time,'
Give me a break. Sort pictures by timestamp is fucking patentable? First clicking a mouse and now this? FUCK OFF!!!
Prior art: 1) Motion pictures. Time sequence of photos, right? 2) Every freaking file browser better than windows "crash test dummy" explorer. 3) Uncle bob in the basement with his box of old polaroids.
How much do I have to pay to scratch my nuts? Microsoft would have patented that too right? Or is it only if I scratch my nuts against against a PC when windows crashes yet again.
Bloody hell. You want to make money? Provide value! There's a novel idea. Perhaps I should patent it. Patent #23424234: "A method of making money by actually providing value to the customer".
While we're at it why don't they just cut out all this BULLSHIT about having to prove you're doing something new or different and have the patent offices around the world sell licenses to print money, instead?.
It seems to me that creating a new version of a highly contagious disease is a dubious way to go about trying to cure it. What happens if the new disease escapes into the wild? The plague was carried by mice and their flees after all.
Wrong. Because you couldn't verify the email headers/links all 10 should be considered fraud. Trust nothing you can't verify - a little simple paranoia goes a long way.
So even though my score wasn't 10, I believe the "correct" answers need to be adjusted, not mine.
Wrong! They'd be violating copyright. There are at least 3,452,547 copyrighted tracks that so closely resemble the sound of drills and pulling teeth that if the dentist did not pay they'd be sued.
Fair enough. Since they've effectively said they assert no copyright, they'd be on shakey ground even if implicit copyright exists. This looks to me like they've given permission, so the usual cautions don't apply. I withdraw my disclaimer:-)
Technically it wouldn't be theft of NASA IP, since NASA is a government division and therefore "owned" by "the people". NASA has never restricted the use of its images for non-commercial purposes, and mostly not for commercial use either, provided that proper attribution to NASA is given in the materials. That's why there are all those wonderful CDs and DVDs of NASA material available.
First of all your argument that its a government body therefore owned by the people therefore you can do what you like with the pictures is just plain wrong.
Secondly making CDs and DVDs and selling them is a commercial venture. Those companies doing that would have needed to come to some sort of agreement with NASA first UNLESS they're arguing purely educational use. NASA I believe has always had a policy of allowing use of material released for educational purposes. Its a fine line and someone in that company would have checked NASAs position on the issue.
Google for the phrase "selling zoo photography" and you'll see just how free publicly funded institutions can be.
Once I buy something, it's mine. Oh wait! So not true anymore; now I don't buy, I *lease* under whatever terms my corporate and government masters deign to grant me. God forbid that I should actually *own* something to be used in whatever fashion I see fit. Oh no, I'm just a consumer peon, I can't possibly be allowed such a right!
When your use of your new toy starts to affect other people your freedoms become secondary. No one would buy a sword, run around beheading people, and use "its mine and I can use it any way I want" as a defence.
It's like saying you can't modify your car or your house or your clothes! Would Ford sue you for removing the rev limiter from your Focus?"
Ford might not sue you but if you made illegal modifications to your car, you could be fined, disqualified for driving or have your car impounded.
If you make illegal modifications to your home that are contrary to council regulations, or other laws (example fire saftey laws) and someone reports you you're in trouble.
If you decided to go walk around in clothes that were crotchless you'd be arrested for indecent exposure. If you decided to wear clothing that was dangerous to other people (asbestos suit, or spiked armour anyone) you could similarly expect to be in hot water.
I think the media companies are profiteering, but its the laws that need to be made more reasonable. The idea that you own something so you can do anything you like with it is a fallacy. The moment other people are affected by your behaviour your "freedoms" become secondary.
I use zonealarm. Most of the time its a nice sane product, and the price can't be beaten.That gives me an alert every time a new piece of software tries to access the net, for both outgoing and incoming connections. I then get to choose whether to always allow the program to make the connection, or just allow that particular instance.
Only problem is its impractical to disallow common programs from connecting for themselves. So a trojan infecting one of these would make this feature useless. Perhaps what we need is an "allow x number of connections per y time" feature. That would stop floods and DDOS attacks at least.
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20 years of Bug Testing? Sounds like an open source project to me. I'm surprised they didn't just rename it to IPv0.4 so they could use the fact that it's pre-1.0 as a safety net for bugs, etc.
Isn't the standard approach for open source no bug fixing and if someone complains point out that its free, they paid nothing for it, no one owes them anything, and btw RTFM:-)
I'm kidding of course. I know there are lots of open source projects that are very good about quality control. I'm using Firefox right now.
Paper has its advantages, but paper costs money and takes up space. Its the same arguement as with the iPod. Would you rather carry 100 cds, or one compact iPod. There's a reason iPod's become the latest little craze with geeks and non-geeks alike.
I'd much rather see a truely decent ebook reader - I'm talking about instant on, decent screen size, yet folds to something at least as compact as a real book. Add a decent bit of storage - in the 10s to hundreds of gig (which we're starting to see now) and things start to look good. We're almost there with PDAs. What we need is larger screens and more storage.
So what's preventing this? I don't think its the technology. If you thought the MPAA and ARIA (and equivalent bodies internationally) had a vested interest in stopping easy production, imagine what's at stake for book publishers. Would that medical textbook be saleable for hundreds of dollars if it was easily reproducable? I don't think so.
Browsing in a store? How about a few touch screens with a decent interface mimicing the aforementioned killer ebook reader?
This technology is good and has its uses, but an iPod like device for reading books would be better.
Mate, you need a REAL girlfriend...not a chick that's with you for the money. If she's leaving you if you're not buying her jewelry ditch her and find a girl to make a real emmotional connection with. Hint: If you're always sacrificing for her and she's never for you, she's not going out with you for anything but advantage. The only thing worse than being alone is being with the wrong person.
Put it this way. My girlfriend went to a Sarah Mclachlan concert with me a couple of months ago. She has a bad ("unstable") shoulder that dislocates at the drop of a hat and it happened in the intermission just before Sarah was due to come out thanks to a woman leaning over her shoulder. She begged me to put it back in for her, which I'd never done before, and then insisted on sitting through the concert with me. She doesn't even like Sarah Mclachlan overmuch, but she knew I'd been waiting years to see her live.
I've done plenty for her - I've driven her to her parent's house 8 hours away after a long week at work for example, I've looked after her when she's sick, and I've spent very real money on her, but she does plenty and sacrifices for me too.
I've never used a hooker but honestly the only motivation that they have to give you any sort of pleasure is the return business. Any affection is fake, as are most of the orgasms I'll bet. Yeah you get the pure physical pleasure but beyond that its little better than masturbation.
And dude no part of your body is a 747! And though a lot of people in this world are nasty not every woman on the planet is (thankfully).
In case you think I'm being an arrogant prick, it took me 28 1/2 years to get this right, and that is no guarantee it'll work out. Still I'm hoping I'm lucky enough that I'm with her for a very long time.
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Its looks to me like your Mr Bush has been amazing allies, friends and family by shoving his hand up our politician's butts and making them say whatever he wants again...and all without his lips moving too! Oh Mr Bush, you're so talented, and all with such wooden spineless dummies!
Hm... $12.5 billion can buy about 925 million 12-packs of bottled Guinness Draught. At the 5 cent per bottle recycling rate in NY state, that would net about $555 million.
Free as in beer? *smirk* I like that thinking. Can we submit this as proof that you can make money out of a free as in beer software business?
And of course the only problem is disposing of the beer....buddy, friend, pal.
This is OFF TOPIC not something to mod at +5 funny. I thought slashcrap had reached rock bottom, and could go no lower. Wrong. They've found a way to dig down from their.
That's a great technique there. If you can't appeal to a wannabe geek's sex drive, appeal to his greed. Lighten their wallet by 88 bits. The really dumb ones will fall for this repeatedly.
Human beings can suck sometimes.
Using this criterion alone will give you 90+% success rate.
90% is no where near good enough. It only takes one scammer getting your details for you to lose your money.
I was not talking about the method of contagion. Just the fact that once a disease spreads into the wild, however it spreads, its one more disease you have to fight.
Humans are not the only animals that ingest meat, and we do live in an ecosystem.
'Organizing and displaying photographs based on time,'
Give me a break. Sort pictures by timestamp is fucking patentable? First clicking a mouse and now this? FUCK OFF!!!
Prior art:
1) Motion pictures. Time sequence of photos, right?
2) Every freaking file browser better than windows "crash test dummy" explorer.
3) Uncle bob in the basement with his box of old polaroids.
How much do I have to pay to scratch my nuts? Microsoft would have patented that too right? Or is it only if I scratch my nuts against against a PC when windows crashes yet again.
Bloody hell. You want to make money? Provide value! There's a novel idea. Perhaps I should patent it. Patent #23424234: "A method of making money by actually providing value to the customer".
While we're at it why don't they just cut out all this BULLSHIT about having to prove you're doing something new or different and have the patent offices around the world sell licenses to print money, instead?.
It seems to me that creating a new version of a highly contagious disease is a dubious way to go about trying to cure it. What happens if the new disease escapes into the wild? The plague was carried by mice and their flees after all.
Am I way off base here?
Wrong. Because you couldn't verify the email headers/links all 10 should be considered fraud. Trust nothing you can't verify - a little simple paranoia goes a long way.
So even though my score wasn't 10, I believe the "correct" answers need to be adjusted, not mine.
What on earth do you do if you're somewhere where you can't have your mobile phone switched on but you want to know the time?
I'm NOT thinking of places you can have it on silent. I'm talking hospital rooms, near flamables etc.
Wrong! They'd be violating copyright. There are at least 3,452,547 copyrighted tracks that so closely resemble the sound of drills and pulling teeth that if the dentist did not pay they'd be sued.
Fair enough. Since they've effectively said they assert no copyright, they'd be on shakey ground even if implicit copyright exists. This looks to me like they've given permission, so the usual cautions don't apply. I withdraw my disclaimer :-)
Technically it wouldn't be theft of NASA IP, since NASA is a government division and therefore "owned" by "the people". NASA has never restricted the use of its images for non-commercial purposes, and mostly not for commercial use either, provided that proper attribution to NASA is given in the materials. That's why there are all those wonderful CDs and DVDs of NASA material available.
First of all your argument that its a government body therefore owned by the people therefore you can do what you like with the pictures is just plain wrong.
Secondly making CDs and DVDs and selling them is a commercial venture. Those companies doing that would have needed to come to some sort of agreement with NASA first UNLESS they're arguing purely educational use. NASA I believe has always had a policy of allowing use of material released for educational purposes. Its a fine line and someone in that company would have checked NASAs position on the issue.
Google for the phrase "selling zoo photography" and you'll see just how free publicly funded institutions can be.
What's stopping you from pointing a web spider at the site, downloading the images and re-uploading to Kazaa? :-) Oh wait. Copyright law. That's right!
[Disclaimer: This is a joke. While technically easy I'm not advocating theft of NASA Intellectual Property.]
Thanks. You just made me laugh on what otherwise has been a crap day.
Using an extreme example to demonstrate that the logical conclusion of a point is ridiculous is a technique in argument called Reductio ad absurdum.
Calling someone a moron, when you've not understood what they're saying...Priceless.
Once I buy something, it's mine. Oh wait! So not true anymore; now I don't buy, I *lease* under whatever terms my corporate and government masters deign to grant me. God forbid that I should actually *own* something to be used in whatever fashion I see fit. Oh no, I'm just a consumer peon, I can't possibly be allowed such a right!
When your use of your new toy starts to affect other people your freedoms become secondary. No one would buy a sword, run around beheading people, and use "its mine and I can use it any way I want" as a defence.
It's like saying you can't modify your car or your house or your clothes! Would Ford sue you for removing the rev limiter from your Focus?"
Ford might not sue you but if you made illegal modifications to your car, you could be fined, disqualified for driving or have your car impounded.
If you make illegal modifications to your home that are contrary to council regulations, or other laws (example fire saftey laws) and someone reports you you're in trouble.
If you decided to go walk around in clothes that were crotchless you'd be arrested for indecent exposure. If you decided to wear clothing that was dangerous to other people (asbestos suit, or spiked armour anyone) you could similarly expect to be in hot water.
I think the media companies are profiteering, but its the laws that need to be made more reasonable. The idea that you own something so you can do anything you like with it is a fallacy. The moment other people are affected by your behaviour your "freedoms" become secondary.
A Linux user kissed Ashley Judd. Yes, it's true (Wil Wheaton uses Mandrake). BEAT THAT YOU SMUG BSD SNOBS!
A Linux user kissed a real live girl? And she was awake? And famous?!?!? Oh boy! Aww geez what's this world coming too.
Controlling balls by the power of your mind?
:-)
At last, a computer game for women.
Bzzt! Wrong again and YOU suffer the consequences. Everyone knows you have to GUESS what THEY'RE thinking!
Couldn't resist!
I use zonealarm. Most of the time its a nice sane product, and the price can't be beaten.That gives me an alert every time a new piece of software tries to access the net, for both outgoing and incoming connections. I then get to choose whether to always allow the program to make the connection, or just allow that particular instance.
Only problem is its impractical to disallow common programs from connecting for themselves. So a trojan infecting one of these would make this feature useless. Perhaps what we need is an "allow x number of connections per y time" feature. That would stop floods and DDOS attacks at least.
20 years of Bug Testing? Sounds like an open source project to me. I'm surprised they didn't just rename it to IPv0.4 so they could use the fact that it's pre-1.0 as a safety net for bugs, etc.
:-)
Isn't the standard approach for open source no bug fixing and if someone complains point out that its free, they paid nothing for it, no one owes them anything, and btw RTFM
I'm kidding of course. I know there are lots of open source projects that are very good about quality control. I'm using Firefox right now.
Paper has its advantages, but paper costs money and takes up space. Its the same arguement as with the iPod. Would you rather carry 100 cds, or one compact iPod. There's a reason iPod's become the latest little craze with geeks and non-geeks alike.
I'd much rather see a truely decent ebook reader - I'm talking about instant on, decent screen size, yet folds to something at least as compact as a real book. Add a decent bit of storage - in the 10s to hundreds of gig (which we're starting to see now) and things start to look good. We're almost there with PDAs. What we need is larger screens and more storage.
So what's preventing this? I don't think its the technology. If you thought the MPAA and ARIA (and equivalent bodies internationally) had a vested interest in stopping easy production, imagine what's at stake for book publishers. Would that medical textbook be saleable for hundreds of dollars if it was easily reproducable? I don't think so.
Browsing in a store? How about a few touch screens with a decent interface mimicing the aforementioned killer ebook reader?
This technology is good and has its uses, but an iPod like device for reading books would be better.
...then "look over there!" pointing out the window, then run out the door ;-)
Mate, you need a REAL girlfriend...not a chick that's with you for the money. If she's leaving you if you're not buying her jewelry ditch her and find a girl to make a real emmotional connection with. Hint: If you're always sacrificing for her and she's never for you, she's not going out with you for anything but advantage. The only thing worse than being alone is being with the wrong person.
Put it this way. My girlfriend went to a Sarah Mclachlan concert with me a couple of months ago. She has a bad ("unstable") shoulder that dislocates at the drop of a hat and it happened in the intermission just before Sarah was due to come out thanks to a woman leaning over her shoulder. She begged me to put it back in for her, which I'd never done before, and then insisted on sitting through the concert with me. She doesn't even like Sarah Mclachlan overmuch, but she knew I'd been waiting years to see her live.
I've done plenty for her - I've driven her to her parent's house 8 hours away after a long week at work for example, I've looked after her when she's sick, and I've spent very real money on her, but she does plenty and sacrifices for me too.
I've never used a hooker but honestly the only motivation that they have to give you any sort of pleasure is the return business. Any affection is fake, as are most of the orgasms I'll bet. Yeah you get the pure physical pleasure but beyond that its little better than masturbation.
And dude no part of your body is a 747! And though a lot of people in this world are nasty not every woman on the planet is (thankfully).
In case you think I'm being an arrogant prick, it took me 28 1/2 years to get this right, and that is no guarantee it'll work out. Still I'm hoping I'm lucky enough that I'm with her for a very long time.
You need a girlfriend first.
And if you pay her by the hour, she's not a girlfriend!