It's a good idea, but you'd need to launder it through a clearing house that guaranteed a certain time for "BadCo" to fix the problem before general release of the exploit. And whomever that someone was would have to be big enough to piss on whomever wanted to try to DMCA-fsck with them. I'd like to give the job to some disinterested party like EFF, but they just don't have the juice. Hey IBM, want to score some more points with the hoi-polloi?
Tie in voting with slot machines and people will vote in droves!
And I've always said that if you tie filing your taxes in with a chance for a lottery (with the prize being significant - say $1B or tax amnesty for the remainder of your life), you'd have a lot better compliance.
The government would be so scared that radicals of some kind would get their hands on this technology and use it to manufacture guns / explosives / etc.
You wouldn't need to manufacture anything! You could just program them to EAT THE WORLD UNLESS YOU PAY ME ONE-BILLION DOLLARS!!! <evil laugh>BWAH HAH HAW!!!</evil laugh>.
Of course, not that I'd ever think of doing that or anything...
The point is that it's a trick: "Did Bush tell America that Iraq was an 'imminent' threat"... "Yeah, I think so"... "Ha! Gotcha! He never actually used the wor[d] imminent!"
I guess, just like with Clinton, it depends on what the meaning of the word "is" (or in this case "imminent") is. But then, mincing words to cover up misleading the country about going to war is so much better than mincing words to cover up about having sex, isn't it? Or, at least the Republicans seem to think.
If open source advocates try to encourage this kind of behavior, how are they better than Microsoft?
We're probably not. We're just not a monopoly that illegally leverages its dominance in OS'es to try to take over other market segments. When we get to that point, then you can bitch at us.
No offense, but that thing looks real fey. All rounded an' crap. No self respecting child is going to play on something so rounded and soft looking. Ooh!! It's the iMac of spinning death! Right...
Now back in my days, the turntable was made out of sturdy grey, industrial-strength corrugated sheet steel that could act like a cheese grater if anyone was stupid enough to get their feet caught underneath! And none of this welded and ground down and bent pipe crap either - real manly pipe fittings were used (at right angles, mind you!) so a misplaced or slipping hand could get a real maiming. And speed restrictors!? What the hell do you need those things for?
Yeah, back in my day, you didn't make it out of elementary school without having a nickname like "Stumpy" or "Lefty" - and for good reason! And we were better for it!
I might be idealistic and unrealistic when hoping for at least a little objectivity here. But I'd take idealism over cynicism any day;)
Well, On Slashdot, I don't think of it as cynicism as much as normative behavior and smartass wise-cracks with the goal of karma whoring:-). In any case, I do believe in making the world a better place. But I think of media in general as a fairly unfruitful place to start my crusades.
Media is nothing more than a tool - a mirror, allowing us to see a distorted reflection of of object (which may be closer than they appear:-). Rather than taking time and energy to polish and improve the mirror, one should put it down until the work on the mirror's object is complete. Then you have an eternity to work on the mirror.
Where is even the slightest bit of objectivity these days?
Objectivity? On Slashdot!?! Dude, I want some of what you're smoking!
Really! Where do people get the idea that Slashdot (or any source of information) is objective? All information comes packaged with bias - you can't avoid it. Even the fact that an article is finite length means that (by design) some information is left in and some taken out. This binary filter acts as an importance/relevancy bias.
So keep on searching for your objectivity, my friend. You'll be a long time searchin'.
But for $100,000, they'll gladly put the taxpayer-funded curriculum on hold for the day
Maybe if all the whining school bashers would actually vote for enough funding to keep our schools functioning well, they'd be less likely to take these "revenue enhancing" opportunities.
maybe the/. community should be thinking of an open source alternative to search engines
Actually, that would be a good idea - use a distributed database that could be dumped over more servers than Google ever had. Crawling would be much faster, too.
... the very same college textbooks used in the United States sell for half price, or less, in England.
The FDA has already warned everyone about low priced and "possibly dangerous" foreign drugs. We need a new government agency to prevent the terrible prospect of people getting their hands on this potentially hazardous foreign knowledge.
I'd put it under the National Security Advisor and military - they've been pretty good about keeping any reliable foreign intelligence out of the White House...
Iomega can rot in Hell for all I care. Shitty hardware and ridiculous price schemes.
First, they're already in Hell - or Utah, at least (which, for our purposes, we will assume similar).
Second, you do know that SCO is located in Utah, don't you? And so, what can we derive from these two facts?
It is clear that Utah-based companies have extreme trouble finding qualified people to run their organizations, seeing that Utah is an equivalent to Hell. As such, anyone who invests in a company that is headquartered in Utah, or buys a product from the same, is taking a large risk, as one cannot depend on that company's survival. I call this the "No Utah" guideline of product selection. It has kept me out of trouble for years. Also see my forthcoming article, "Why There Are No Montana-Based Hi-Tech Products (or, Cows Don't Buy Chips - They Make Their Own!)"
We have considered this possibility and found that the members of this community can be put into one-to-one equivalence with the empty set. Or in other words, if you really know lisp, you like it and, if you don't like lisp, you don't really know it.
Too many of these pro-end companies have forgotten about the concept of price correlating to value. Cool Edit Pro was worth $30. Has Adobe really made it 10 times better?
I've frequently defended Adobe over the price of Photoshop. Now I'm not so sure.
Well, with each dollar you spend for Photoshop, Adobe gets more opportunity to buy out little companies. It's all tied together. And when Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, et. al. are the only ones left standing with their market niches worked out, then you'll really see the prices go through the roof. It's called oligopoly and it's as big of a problem as monopoly. I don't do print, so I don't need color correction, CMYK sep, or other stuff. So I don't use Photoshop. I also try not to use PDF files. Open as they are, each PDF file out there increases Adobe's power.
All of you folks out there who are just producing web graphics, but are still using Photoshop, had better wake up and smell the karma.
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It's a good idea, but you'd need to launder it through a clearing house that guaranteed a certain time for "BadCo" to fix the problem before general release of the exploit. And whomever that someone was would have to be big enough to piss on whomever wanted to try to DMCA-fsck with them. I'd like to give the job to some disinterested party like EFF, but they just don't have the juice. Hey IBM, want to score some more points with the hoi-polloi?
And vice-versa. SKG hasn't put out any piece of animation that hasn't sucked ass at the box since he left Disney. So it goes...
... why don't they just make one themselves?
And I've always said that if you tie filing your taxes in with a chance for a lottery (with the prize being significant - say $1B or tax amnesty for the remainder of your life), you'd have a lot better compliance.
You wouldn't need to manufacture anything! You could just program them to EAT THE WORLD UNLESS YOU PAY ME ONE-BILLION DOLLARS!!! <evil laugh>BWAH HAH HAW!!!</evil laugh>.
Of course, not that I'd ever think of doing that or anything...
I guess, just like with Clinton, it depends on what the meaning of the word "is" (or in this case "imminent") is. But then, mincing words to cover up misleading the country about going to war is so much better than mincing words to cover up about having sex, isn't it? Or, at least the Republicans seem to think.
We're probably not. We're just not a monopoly that illegally leverages its dominance in OS'es to try to take over other market segments. When we get to that point, then you can bitch at us.
I don't know, but I hope the one who invented the didjeridu got beaten to death with it...
No offense, but that thing looks real fey. All rounded an' crap. No self respecting child is going to play on something so rounded and soft looking. Ooh!! It's the iMac of spinning death! Right...
Now back in my days, the turntable was made out of sturdy grey, industrial-strength corrugated sheet steel that could act like a cheese grater if anyone was stupid enough to get their feet caught underneath! And none of this welded and ground down and bent pipe crap either - real manly pipe fittings were used (at right angles, mind you!) so a misplaced or slipping hand could get a real maiming. And speed restrictors!? What the hell do you need those things for?
Yeah, back in my day, you didn't make it out of elementary school without having a nickname like "Stumpy" or "Lefty" - and for good reason! And we were better for it!
Kids these days! What wusses...
Well, :-). In any case, I do believe in making the world a better place. But I think of media in general as a fairly unfruitful place to start my crusades.
On Slashdot, I don't think of it as cynicism as much as normative behavior and smartass wise-cracks with the goal of karma whoring
Media is nothing more than a tool - a mirror, allowing us to see a distorted reflection of of object (which may be closer than they appear :-). Rather than taking time and energy to polish and improve the mirror, one should put it down until the work on the mirror's object is complete. Then you have an eternity to work on the mirror.
Good going, mates, for showing that Queensland really does live up to its rep!
P.S. Sounds like an interesting place to visit.
Objectivity? On Slashdot!?! Dude, I want some of what you're smoking!
Really! Where do people get the idea that Slashdot (or any source of information) is objective? All information comes packaged with bias - you can't avoid it. Even the fact that an article is finite length means that (by design) some information is left in and some taken out. This binary filter acts as an importance/relevancy bias.
So keep on searching for your objectivity, my friend. You'll be a long time searchin'.
And they can grow chickens the size of Cleveland with three drumsticks! Where do I invest!?!
Maybe if all the whining school bashers would actually vote for enough funding to keep our schools functioning well, they'd be less likely to take these "revenue enhancing" opportunities.
Actually, that would be a good idea - use a distributed database that could be dumped over more servers than Google ever had. Crawling would be much faster, too.
Don't worry! We're working on tort reform so that this won't be an issue anymore!
Thank you, Republicans!
Except for the spammers, of course...
Because there are always more, dumber people out there to vote for him.
The FDA has already warned everyone about low priced and "possibly dangerous" foreign drugs. We need a new government agency to prevent the terrible prospect of people getting their hands on this potentially hazardous foreign knowledge.
I'd put it under the National Security Advisor and military - they've been pretty good about keeping any reliable foreign intelligence out of the White House...
First, they're already in Hell - or Utah, at least (which, for our purposes, we will assume similar).
Second, you do know that SCO is located in Utah, don't you? And so, what can we derive from these two facts?
It is clear that Utah-based companies have extreme trouble finding qualified people to run their organizations, seeing that Utah is an equivalent to Hell. As such, anyone who invests in a company that is headquartered in Utah, or buys a product from the same, is taking a large risk, as one cannot depend on that company's survival. I call this the "No Utah" guideline of product selection. It has kept me out of trouble for years. Also see my forthcoming article, "Why There Are No Montana-Based Hi-Tech Products (or, Cows Don't Buy Chips - They Make Their Own!)"
We have considered this possibility and found that the members of this community can be put into one-to-one equivalence with the empty set. Or in other words, if you really know lisp, you like it and, if you don't like lisp, you don't really know it.
I've frequently defended Adobe over the price of Photoshop. Now I'm not so sure.
Well, with each dollar you spend for Photoshop, Adobe gets more opportunity to buy out little companies. It's all tied together. And when Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, et. al. are the only ones left standing with their market niches worked out, then you'll really see the prices go through the roof. It's called oligopoly and it's as big of a problem as monopoly. I don't do print, so I don't need color correction, CMYK sep, or other stuff. So I don't use Photoshop. I also try not to use PDF files. Open as they are, each PDF file out there increases Adobe's power.
All of you folks out there who are just producing web graphics, but are still using Photoshop, had better wake up and smell the karma.
And tell 'em Randy Newman sent you...
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Boy, am I excited.
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