Problem is if your going to develope something so radical you'd better make damn sure its a very very very good and marketable idea that fixes an existing problem or atleast makes people think theres a problem and that it fixes it. Otherwise you go the way of the cue-cat and your marketing team jump off the roof while high on that private stash of coke you bought off a shifty looking peruvian shepperd.
Ok maybe im pointing out the stupidly obvious but.. bluetooth (or even just normal phone/wap) is TWO WAY! why would you need a camera phone with ugly spots all over your poster/screen!? just press cursor keys on your phone and send that over blue-tooth (like a dvd menu interface)?
What would be totally totally neat would be a dumb-terminal standard using bluetooth so when you walked into say an airport and launched the 'dumb-terminal' app on your phone you would get a screen produced by the airport computer which would be able to tell you exactly where you were (triangulation or bluetooth 'cells') on a visual map. Then you could just tap in the 'customer code' on your ticket and the airport computer would be able to tell you the real time of your flight, delays, where you should go, how much time you had, where you could get discount booze etc etc. the same could work for libraries, train/bus stations, sports-games, malls, towns, tourist attractions, and of course cinemas (where the screen would say "turn your fucking phone off" just before the film started) the protocal could either be like wap/html or pushed by the server, whatever aslong as its a standard, its open, it supports funky graphics, sound and vide and you dont get charged for it.
Decentralise everything, encrypt everything. Your ISP will just see random packets going to random IPs with random data inside them - distributed filesharing, voip etc etc and on the plus side the pigs cant track you either.
"There's a story about a Massachusetts company, Muzzy "Ballbuffer" Lane Software, cocksucking a blowing Civ-style simulation computer game to teach history to high school and college students. 'Our view isn't that you take the right video game, stick it in a classroom and cocksucking gets better,' Mr. McCool said. 'But with the right browns, thrusts can significantly enhance muff sniffing.'" ROFL ROFL
yeah and so is giving worm authors life in prison! we all know that if it wasn't for microsoft the number of stupid worms would drop through the floor, and all this "well its ok for mac etc, no-one uses these other systems so no-one bothers writing virii or worms for them" is just crap, if you leave massive massive 50 foot holes in your product (like letting any script run just by opening a mail and letting it access your address book and send function) then you are to blame just as much as any script kiddie.
If software companies would at least try and make their software secure and show an ounce of competence then i would feel sorry for them if a few security flaws slipped through and someone exploited it, and in that case the person exploiting is much more at fault, but when people blaitently make their products insecure and show not even a hint of competence then they shouldn't be surprised when their software gets cracked to bits.
I mean for fucks sake, how was the vb-script problem in outlook even blamed on worm authors for a second? that has got to be the single most stupid and appalling product design i have ever seen!? what the fuck was microsoft thinking!? ALL the worms that came out of that were microsofts fault every single fucking one of them.
which argues based on economic theory (and somewhat tongue-in-cheek) that it is a 'better investment' to execute the creators of worms, virus and trojan authors, than murderers.
Maybe this is also a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that perhaps exicuting people itself is stupid? most of the rest of the world has stopped it already.
Yes or more to the point mobile phone users will be able to download music buy tapping their phones with their friends or some random person, thats all we really care about.
Yeh cos WMA CD-Rs are so fucking beautiful and collectable! oh and it brings me joy to be able to use one of my itunes backup-credits to burn a CD! oh thank you itunes thats so kind of you to allow me to do that (5 times) with something i owen.
I know most people like the feel of something physical (heh) that they can collect and look at aswell as listen too and thats why they buy cds or records. Other people might not care about that and just want the music, but what would make these people pay for it other than guilt or genuinely wanting to support the musician? anyone here use these services? my personal way of thinking is: if i respect the musician then ill buy the cd if its cheap, or get a copy off someone. If i think the musician is a worthless tart-bitch-whore who sounds so generic it could be anyone and is singing something so utterly pointless that it could be a hum and the melody is either copied, adapted or sampled directly.. then i just say fuck it, this is something im just going to listen to this week because its slightly catchy and its playing everywhere, fire-up p2p click click click.
I dont give a shit about all these "you cant just ignore one crime because you have some others to deal with" arguments, filesharing should be the least priority on the governments list: catch people who want to blow things up and post anthrax, mass-murderers, punk shit-heads with guns who think they can go around in their stupid gangs shooting people for standing in the way, rapists, pedophiles, muggers, burglers and fraudsters and pirates who actually SELL things with big racks of cd-burners! Then, and only when these other crimes have dropped to a semi reasonable rate should you move on to kazaa users. The court-system has only so-much capacity.
too right! broadcasters/mpaa/riaa etc have to understand 2 fundamental principles of technology and society:
1) If i can see/hear it i can copy it 2) In my own home, the devices i own do what i say and i can mess with them all i want and the worst thing you can do is tell me my warrenty is void.
All this crap makes me glad im doing electronic-engineering, in the realm of PC's nothing is safe from some debugging tools and abit of hacking around, and in the electronics realm you just need some off-the-shelf programmable microcontrollers and afew tools. All this flag-this, encrypt-that crap is just not going to work, the open-source security philosophy works backwards: if 1000's of geeks are trying to crack your (closed) fundamentally flawed bullshit-flag system, one of us is going to succeed! and not everyone in the world is subject to american law.
None of this is about science its about politics - the need for an independently controlled system. Although the system will be newer so probably better.
True they are free to do what they want and they could build the whole site in sparkle or flash if they wanted, but opera is superior to IE, which cant even get the css box-model right (some 2-year-olds can understand where a box should be).
IE doesnt have better features, it just doesnt conform to standards so instead they make-up features that have already been standardised. The whole point of webstandards is that you stick to them, otherwise you get stuck with one browser (just because its already installed) and inferior was of doing things that havnt been thought out as well as the official standards. Opera was complaining because of the monopoly of IE (already taken to court in the anti-trust case) and the way they were using that monopoly to only allow IE to use the site - in some cases it was found that they were actively banning browsers that identified themselves as Opera. IE certainly does not have better features than anything else and if everyone had stuck to standards in the first place all sites would work on any browser with full functionability! microsoft fucked that up for the rest of us tho, sometimes i just want to cry when coding some css i discover the perfect way of doing something that wont work because Microsoft IE doesnt support it. Any monkey can make software with features but the real test of good software is how compatable and non-specific it is.
12 million is totally unfair for anyone to have to pay for making a crap website but given the anti-trust case and microsofts general fuck-witted-ness i say they can suck my cock and pay up, those bitches!
Well obviously it was generic before 1985! what else could it mean? nowdays its totally microsoft - eg. "im in windows, i use windows, do you have windows? does it have windows? can you use windows? my windows wont work! my windows is broken" almost always mean microsoft windows. But if you go back to 1985 and say that they shouldnt have been granted trademark in the first place then that changes the field (although windows-xp might count)
Tip: avoid naming your product after things that often break.
I've got a better idea, stick a porn banner in your email which links to a site on your server, then check the logs and see *exactly* how *long* they errr.. *read* your *email* and which page they *read* the most;) ah probably been done
im *really* *really* sorry for the asterix's (spelling)
Actually this is good news - now you can tell if someone has 'didtheyreadit' tracked you and do with that information whatever dasterdly dead you wish;)
I feel some follow-ups comming on:
"doessomeonenottrustyou.com"
and the ever useful
"makesomeonethinkthatmyemailhasbeenhackedintobya ki dinchina.com"
Its kinda ironic in the sense that only people who they like will get their films distributed, in a company thats fine (thats capitalism) but the government is not a company and has no choice in the matter, just like it has no choice in premoting one religion over another (bill of rights) (although bush's abstinance programme says a big fuck-you to that (heh)) it has no right in giving special favours or having special interests (again it doesnt seem to care). If a judge, jury and plaintif/defendent were all related or best friends you wouldnt exactly call it a fair trial, infact you would call it a totally illigal trial. But obviously thats not-so for the government who are allowed to be in bed with anyone. I can just see those politicians getting sucked off saying "yeah oh yeah yeah sure ill give your company legal rights to dump toxic waste! oh FUCK YESS you wont be paying tax for a very long time!!!"
The real issue here is that companies get special tax breaks if the government likes them!? and you all think thats perfectly normal?!? WTF IS EVERYONE SMOKING??
The victims should atleast have some say in it, in the case of iraq they wernt asked but probably would have wanted the pictures showen (with their faces covered) i dont know much about the law but there are privacy rights? ofcourse no-one should be prosecuted for just posessing a picture, that would be totally 1984 and even would go as far as to say if you were a witness you would be guilty for not closing your eyes (assuming you couldnt stop it) but distributing yes.
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Problem is if your going to develope something so radical you'd better make damn sure its a very very very good and marketable idea that fixes an existing problem or atleast makes people think theres a problem and that it fixes it. Otherwise you go the way of the cue-cat and your marketing team jump off the roof while high on that private stash of coke you bought off a shifty looking peruvian shepperd.
Ok maybe im pointing out the stupidly obvious but.. bluetooth (or even just normal phone/wap) is TWO WAY! why would you need a camera phone with ugly spots all over your poster/screen!? just press cursor keys on your phone and send that over blue-tooth (like a dvd menu interface)?
What would be totally totally neat would be a dumb-terminal standard using bluetooth so when you walked into say an airport and launched the 'dumb-terminal' app on your phone you would get a screen produced by the airport computer which would be able to tell you exactly where you were (triangulation or bluetooth 'cells') on a visual map. Then you could just tap in the 'customer code' on your ticket and the airport computer would be able to tell you the real time of your flight, delays, where you should go, how much time you had, where you could get discount booze etc etc. the same could work for libraries, train/bus stations, sports-games, malls, towns, tourist attractions, and of course cinemas (where the screen would say "turn your fucking phone off" just before the film started) the protocal could either be like wap/html or pushed by the server, whatever aslong as its a standard, its open, it supports funky graphics, sound and vide and you dont get charged for it.
Encryption! and P2P!
Decentralise everything, encrypt everything. Your ISP will just see random packets going to random IPs with random data inside them - distributed filesharing, voip etc etc and on the plus side the pigs cant track you either.
"There's a story about a Massachusetts company, Muzzy "Ballbuffer" Lane Software, cocksucking a blowing Civ-style simulation computer game to teach history to high school and college students. 'Our view isn't that you take the right video game, stick it in a classroom and cocksucking gets better,' Mr. McCool said. 'But with the right browns, thrusts can significantly enhance muff sniffing.'" ROFL ROFL
yeah and so is giving worm authors life in prison! we all know that if it wasn't for microsoft the number of stupid worms would drop through the floor, and all this "well its ok for mac etc, no-one uses these other systems so no-one bothers writing virii or worms for them" is just crap, if you leave massive massive 50 foot holes in your product (like letting any script run just by opening a mail and letting it access your address book and send function) then you are to blame just as much as any script kiddie.
If software companies would at least try and make their software secure and show an ounce of competence then i would feel sorry for them if a few security flaws slipped through and someone exploited it, and in that case the person exploiting is much more at fault, but when people blaitently make their products insecure and show not even a hint of competence then they shouldn't be surprised when their software gets cracked to bits.
I mean for fucks sake, how was the vb-script problem in outlook even blamed on worm authors for a second? that has got to be the single most stupid and appalling product design i have ever seen!? what the fuck was microsoft thinking!? ALL the worms that came out of that were microsofts fault every single fucking one of them.
which argues based on economic theory (and somewhat tongue-in-cheek) that it is a 'better investment' to execute the creators of worms, virus and trojan authors, than murderers.
Maybe this is also a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that perhaps exicuting people itself is stupid? most of the rest of the world has stopped it already.
Yes or more to the point mobile phone users will be able to download music buy tapping their phones with their friends or some random person, thats all we really care about.
Yeh cos WMA CD-Rs are so fucking beautiful and collectable! oh and it brings me joy to be able to use one of my itunes backup-credits to burn a CD! oh thank you itunes thats so kind of you to allow me to do that (5 times) with something i owen.
I know most people like the feel of something physical (heh) that they can collect and look at aswell as listen too and thats why they buy cds or records. Other people might not care about that and just want the music, but what would make these people pay for it other than guilt or genuinely wanting to support the musician? anyone here use these services? my personal way of thinking is: if i respect the musician then ill buy the cd if its cheap, or get a copy off someone. If i think the musician is a worthless tart-bitch-whore who sounds so generic it could be anyone and is singing something so utterly pointless that it could be a hum and the melody is either copied, adapted or sampled directly.. then i just say fuck it, this is something im just going to listen to this week because its slightly catchy and its playing everywhere, fire-up p2p click click click.
I dont give a shit about all these "you cant just ignore one crime because you have some others to deal with" arguments, filesharing should be the least priority on the governments list: catch people who want to blow things up and post anthrax, mass-murderers, punk shit-heads with guns who think they can go around in their stupid gangs shooting people for standing in the way, rapists, pedophiles, muggers, burglers and fraudsters and pirates who actually SELL things with big racks of cd-burners! Then, and only when these other crimes have dropped to a semi reasonable rate should you move on to kazaa users. The court-system has only so-much capacity.
too right! broadcasters/mpaa/riaa etc have to understand 2 fundamental principles of technology and society:
1) If i can see/hear it i can copy it
2) In my own home, the devices i own do what i say and i can mess with them all i want and the worst thing you can do is tell me my warrenty is void.
All this crap makes me glad im doing electronic-engineering, in the realm of PC's nothing is safe from some debugging tools and abit of hacking around, and in the electronics realm you just need some off-the-shelf programmable microcontrollers and afew tools. All this flag-this, encrypt-that crap is just not going to work, the open-source security philosophy works backwards: if 1000's of geeks are trying to crack your (closed) fundamentally flawed bullshit-flag system, one of us is going to succeed! and not everyone in the world is subject to american law.
(glad theres no bad-spelling mod-down options)
if the US gets a say in galileo (ie when and where its turned off and its accuracy during war etc etc) does europe get the same say in the US system?
None of this is about science its about politics - the need for an independently controlled system. Although the system will be newer so probably better.
Erm duhhhh!
1) Get 92TB/s router
2) ??
3) Profit!
I think thats pretty obvious (but not too obvious to mod as redundant.. ah fuck it ive got more karma than piss!
True they are free to do what they want and they could build the whole site in sparkle or flash if they wanted, but opera is superior to IE, which cant even get the css box-model right (some 2-year-olds can understand where a box should be).
IE doesnt have better features, it just doesnt conform to standards so instead they make-up features that have already been standardised. The whole point of webstandards is that you stick to them, otherwise you get stuck with one browser (just because its already installed) and inferior was of doing things that havnt been thought out as well as the official standards. Opera was complaining because of the monopoly of IE (already taken to court in the anti-trust case) and the way they were using that monopoly to only allow IE to use the site - in some cases it was found that they were actively banning browsers that identified themselves as Opera. IE certainly does not have better features than anything else and if everyone had stuck to standards in the first place all sites would work on any browser with full functionability! microsoft fucked that up for the rest of us tho, sometimes i just want to cry when coding some css i discover the perfect way of doing something that wont work because Microsoft IE doesnt support it. Any monkey can make software with features but the real test of good software is how compatable and non-specific it is.
12 million is totally unfair for anyone to have to pay for making a crap website but given the anti-trust case and microsofts general fuck-witted-ness i say they can suck my cock and pay up, those bitches!
Uncle sam can have his cut of jiz if he really wants it!? (cut to scenes of founding fathers covered in bukake)
:P
Beh, go ahead, i got karma to burn
Well obviously it was generic before 1985! what else could it mean? nowdays its totally microsoft - eg. "im in windows, i use windows, do you have windows? does it have windows? can you use windows? my windows wont work! my windows is broken" almost always mean microsoft windows. But if you go back to 1985 and say that they shouldnt have been granted trademark in the first place then that changes the field (although windows-xp might count)
Tip: avoid naming your product after things that often break.
I've got a better idea, stick a porn banner in your email which links to a site on your server, then check the logs and see *exactly* how *long* they errr.. *read* your *email* and which page they *read* the most ;) ah probably been done
im *really* *really* sorry for the asterix's (spelling)
Actually this is good news - now you can tell if someone has 'didtheyreadit' tracked you and do with that information whatever dasterdly dead you wish ;)
a ki dinchina.com"
I feel some follow-ups comming on:
"doessomeonenottrustyou.com"
and the ever useful
"makesomeonethinkthatmyemailhasbeenhackedintoby
Its kinda ironic in the sense that only people who they like will get their films distributed, in a company thats fine (thats capitalism) but the government is not a company and has no choice in the matter, just like it has no choice in premoting one religion over another (bill of rights) (although bush's abstinance programme says a big fuck-you to that (heh)) it has no right in giving special favours or having special interests (again it doesnt seem to care). If a judge, jury and plaintif/defendent were all related or best friends you wouldnt exactly call it a fair trial, infact you would call it a totally illigal trial. But obviously thats not-so for the government who are allowed to be in bed with anyone. I can just see those politicians getting sucked off saying "yeah oh yeah yeah sure ill give your company legal rights to dump toxic waste! oh FUCK YESS you wont be paying tax for a very long time!!!"
Dude like totally sweet! everyone is so stoned man cos like the government is out of weed.. i mean control! im gonna vote for that guy
The real issue here is that companies get special tax breaks if the government likes them!? and you all think thats perfectly normal?!? WTF IS EVERYONE SMOKING??
The victims should atleast have some say in it, in the case of iraq they wernt asked but probably would have wanted the pictures showen (with their faces covered) i dont know much about the law but there are privacy rights? ofcourse no-one should be prosecuted for just posessing a picture, that would be totally 1984 and even would go as far as to say if you were a witness you would be guilty for not closing your eyes (assuming you couldnt stop it) but distributing yes.