"Here take a beer, and let me talk to you about when I was approached to work for the NSA"
"Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president."
So fuck NSA and fuck DARPA! Now where are my sheeps ?"
Because I tried over 20 domain names for a new business I wanted to start, and could not ONCE found a semi-decent name. Even obscure, nonsense names, they were all taken. I say this rule will only help a bit, they are not gonna drop their good domain names, only the semi-decent will be abandoned. But still, it'll help.
They should require that a site must have a certain % of content (beside ads) that is related to de domain name for at least x amount of time or they can deny it. Like a "probation" period. Is it feasible ?
It comes down to words. When talking about Marxism, "means of production" implies a good obtained by the product transformation done with "labour" (proletariat). Like in a factory. Of course services can be sold and even *gasp* included in the general meaning of "means of production", but I don't think it belong there. It just does not sound right: You can't produce a "service". Its not something that pop out at the end of a production line.
I don't think Marx was thinking about "fire department, basic scientific research, health care, etc.." when he wrote his theory.
I also suspect that most people would agree that public ownership of the means of production in some industries (fire department, basic scientific research, health care, etc..) may not be such a bad idea after all.
You obviously never bought something worth more than a couple hundreds dollars at a BestBuy or FutureShop (they're worst!) . The truth is they so f****ing pressurize you to buy their warranty that I understand that some customers will act like this. I do, but only to get the upper hand.
Example:
A salesman is trying to sell you an extend warranty you don't want/need, You said NO multiple times but its starting to get on your nerves.
What do you do ? If you're an idiot you buy the warranty and you get peace
If you like to have a little fun you tell him to f**k off and leave without the item.
But I like to take it a little further and use the salesman urging need to sell me a warranty to my advantage.
First the arguments :
- So you want me to buy this extended warranty cause the stuff I want to buy WILL break ?
- Ok now why 2 min earlier you were telling me how great this particular brand is and but now that I'm about to purchase it all I hear is that they break easily ?
- How come you sell this stuff ? Are you telling me that this stuff is crap ?
- Explain to me why the manufacturer would not honour their own warranty ?
- How many returns for this brand/model last month , week, years ?
You will get a lot of funny/stupid answers, lies and shit. But more than likely you can see that the salesman is starting to get irritated and will go on full alert mode and pressurize you more... after all he wants you to buy the damn warranty! This is where you want to take him. Because in this state., you have the upper hand, but you've got to remain calm, peacefull and respectuous
At this point mosts salesman will want to know why you are not buying the warranty. Tell them the truth! These warranty are too costly! I will say that its way to costly for me to buy it, that I would rather spend the cash on others items and yadda yadda. Oh so now they know that it is not the warranty you dislike (duh!) but the price of it! (re-duh!! They're salesmen after all...)
A good salesman will not want to loose a sale so he will start to bring down the price of the warranty. Now that is where the fun starts: He will make you an offer, you make him an offer, see you are not the "victim" anymore HE is!!! This is the best situation cause the roles are reversed.
I did that last year as the extended warranty for a newe laptop I wanted was about 200$. By using this tactic I got about 130$ of FREE stuff (targus docking station, linksys router and a carrying case). The salesman started to bring down the price of his warranty (FS and BestBuy salesmen can do that! Don't believe them if they say they can't). At the end I got the extended warranty (which are not that bad, its their price that are) for 70$ , now that is a deal.
"Microsoft would buy the knowledge of the exploit, patch it, and it would no longer be an issue."
MS has already alot of unpatched vulnerabilities already. What make you think they will patch it ?. Who has the responsibility for an undisclosed bug ?
You assume they will patch them immediately. Why would they do that ? There is a reason why they are not patched : Its does NOT affect them! It does not make them LOOSE money! Why ? Accountability AKA : The principle that individuals, organisations and the community are responsible for their actions and may be required to explain them to others
Now go read any any MS EULA and you'll see they are not accountable for anything that happens to you if you use their softwares. Why ? Otherwise, MS would be bankrupted because of too much legal fees. And don't think about the government coming up with a bill for that. That would be political and corporate suicide.
A solution is to keep the source OPEN. That way, no one will be able to sue BUT you can be damned sure your software will be patched!
Security and accountability will be the reasons for the oss revolution.
I'm all for this white/grey/black/ market. It bring the light on this very issue.
"The reason that atmosphere exists is because people like us started the fire and fueled it."
No , the reason she died is because she drank way too much water. The rest is sensationalism.
WTF with people not being responsible for their own action ?
After 25 yrs on the road you seriously got to accept that fact. I mean, what's the difference if someone is getting in front or behind you ? Either way, they have to get into the traffic. Either way, its one more car on he same road as you. So what is it ? Personally I don't give a flying fuck about people doing that. Hell, that's why I try to keep about 2 cars lenght... So they don't cut me off! I don't create the opportunity by giving them space , not by limiting it. Its less stressfull for me that way. I keep my 15 feet no matter what. At the end of my commute, maybe 4 cars managed to get before me. And I don't give a fsck about being 4 cars late...:)
We had those too and I graduated in 2000. For end of semester exams,we had to write our whole programs (mainly c++) by hand , on paper. Those were hard, but people could not cheat. It forces you not only to know the syntax, but to think before coding, a thing that many people forget to do today. I'm a better programmer today because of those, isn't that the point of education ?
The reason why the keyboard doesn't sync up with the screen display is that the keyboard buffer,when typing fast is always full, what you see the is the buffer emptying each character one at a time. This stuff DID happens with these old computers.
This is the Microsoft way since a long time. Hell, I remember that with windows 95/98 (or maybe it was 2000) different features got installed (see unlocked) according to which serial number you typed at the install. A corporate SN would install corporate stuff ie: more networking feature or more concurrent connections. This is not new at all.
Dear God, man, there are CHILDREN playing this game !
I'm not sure if your comment was meant to be ironic, but i'll bite...
It's obvious that this game is not meant to be played by children. I know its an old argument, but stupid parents are the problem. If only people would better educate their childs instead of letting the tv, video games and school taking care of it.
Why are these kind of things always "resolved" by the lowest common denominator?
A couple of days ago I read something along like this : 90% of all the people need to be told what to do, wich I believe is true. But WTF is this society? Do we want this? Like many others here, I don't feel like I belong to the 90%, but why should we suffer the consequences?
The value of the printer is not in the ink, and there is no reason for the printer to check for copyright violations prior to using ink.
Its the other way around : The majority of the consumer market is mainly geared toward selling (or even giving for free) the printer for a very low price and then making money on selling the ink cartridge at an over infatuated price. I can understand why not having the exclusivity to sell the ink might be critical for theses companies.
Whatever mean they use, they sure will try to have that exclusivity.
I'd say the value is in the ink and therefore, its to Lexmark to prove to the court that the critical part of their busniess come from this exclusivity.
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"They too are after you !?!"
"Here take a beer, and let me talk to you about when I was approached to work for the NSA"
"Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president."
So fuck NSA and fuck DARPA! Now where are my sheeps ?"
Those were Honda civic ads. The french version of the ad featured Martin Matte, the Honda spokeperson in Quebec.
Because I tried over 20 domain names for a new business I wanted to start, and could not ONCE found a semi-decent name. Even obscure, nonsense names, they were all taken. I say this rule will only help a bit, they are not gonna drop their good domain names, only the semi-decent will be abandoned. But still, it'll help. They should require that a site must have a certain % of content (beside ads) that is related to de domain name for at least x amount of time or they can deny it. Like a "probation" period. Is it feasible ?
But how will I be able to get entry into my car without these ? :)
But ignorance is not an accepted defence. At least in Canada.
The original Gameboy was light grey. It may appear beige becausebecause the case is old and faded but it was light gray to match it Nes cousin.
It comes down to words. When talking about Marxism, "means of production" implies a good obtained by the product transformation done with "labour" (proletariat). Like in a factory. Of course services can be sold and even *gasp* included in the general meaning of "means of production", but I don't think it belong there. It just does not sound right: You can't produce a "service". Its not something that pop out at the end of a production line.
I don't think Marx was thinking about "fire department, basic scientific research, health care, etc.." when he wrote his theory.
You obviously never bought something worth more than a couple hundreds dollars at a BestBuy or FutureShop (they're worst!) . The truth is they so f****ing pressurize you to buy their warranty that I understand that some customers will act like this. I do, but only to get the upper hand.
... after all he wants you to buy the damn warranty! This is where you want to take him. Because in this state ., you have the upper hand, but you've got to remain calm, peacefull and respectuous
Example:
A salesman is trying to sell you an extend warranty you don't want/need, You said NO multiple times but its starting to get on your nerves.
What do you do ? If you're an idiot you buy the warranty and you get peace
If you like to have a little fun you tell him to f**k off and leave without the item.
But I like to take it a little further and use the salesman urging need to sell me a warranty to my advantage.
First the arguments :
- So you want me to buy this extended warranty cause the stuff I want to buy WILL break ?
- Ok now why 2 min earlier you were telling me how great this particular brand is and but now that I'm about to purchase it all I hear is that they break easily ?
- How come you sell this stuff ? Are you telling me that this stuff is crap ?
- Explain to me why the manufacturer would not honour their own warranty ?
- How many returns for this brand/model last month , week, years ?
You will get a lot of funny/stupid answers, lies and shit. But more than likely you can see that the salesman is starting to get irritated and will go on full alert mode and pressurize you more
At this point mosts salesman will want to know why you are not buying the warranty. Tell them the truth! These warranty are too costly! I will say that its way to costly for me to buy it, that I would rather spend the cash on others items and yadda yadda. Oh so now they know that it is not the warranty you dislike (duh!) but the price of it! (re-duh!! They're salesmen after all...)
A good salesman will not want to loose a sale so he will start to bring down the price of the warranty. Now that is where the fun starts: He will make you an offer, you make him an offer, see you are not the "victim" anymore HE is!!! This is the best situation cause the roles are reversed.
I did that last year as the extended warranty for a newe laptop I wanted was about 200$. By using this tactic I got about 130$ of FREE stuff (targus docking station, linksys router and a carrying case). The salesman started to bring down the price of his warranty (FS and BestBuy salesmen can do that! Don't believe them if they say they can't). At the end I got the extended warranty (which are not that bad, its their price that are) for 70$ , now that is a deal.
"Microsoft would buy the knowledge of the exploit, patch it, and it would no longer be an issue."
MS has already alot of unpatched vulnerabilities already. What make you think they will patch it ?. Who has the responsibility for an undisclosed bug ?
You assume they will patch them immediately. Why would they do that ? There is a reason why they are not patched : Its does NOT affect them! It does not make them LOOSE money! Why ? Accountability AKA : The principle that individuals, organisations and the community are responsible for their actions and may be required to explain them to others
Now go read any any MS EULA and you'll see they are not accountable for anything that happens to you if you use their softwares. Why ? Otherwise, MS would be bankrupted because of too much legal fees. And don't think about the government coming up with a bill for that. That would be political and corporate suicide. A solution is to keep the source OPEN. That way, no one will be able to sue BUT you can be damned sure your software will be patched!
Security and accountability will be the reasons for the oss revolution.
I'm all for this white/grey/black/ market. It bring the light on this very issue.
I use characters names from Tarantino movies. For exemple, Winston 'the wolf' is the name of my backup server...
Funny how an Atheist talks about God
Two questions :
1 - If God does not exists then why talk about HER ?
2 - And how did you know its and Her ?
Note that I'm an Agnostic I just want to make sure the logic on all sides is valid.
ummm, try 3d cell shaded graphics. Mucho better.
"The reason that atmosphere exists is because people like us started the fire and fueled it." No , the reason she died is because she drank way too much water. The rest is sensationalism. WTF with people not being responsible for their own action ?
After 25 yrs on the road you seriously got to accept that fact. I mean, what's the difference if someone is getting in front or behind you ? Either way, they have to get into the traffic. Either way, its one more car on he same road as you. So what is it ? Personally I don't give a flying fuck about people doing that. Hell, that's why I try to keep about 2 cars lenght ... So they don't cut me off! I don't create the opportunity by giving them space , not by limiting it. Its less stressfull for me that way. I keep my 15 feet no matter what. At the end of my commute, maybe 4 cars managed to get before me. And I don't give a fsck about being 4 cars late... :)
Apparently no one
We had those too and I graduated in 2000. For end of semester exams,we had to write our whole programs (mainly c++) by hand , on paper. Those were hard, but people could not cheat. It forces you not only to know the syntax, but to think before coding, a thing that many people forget to do today. I'm a better programmer today because of those, isn't that the point of education ?
My take: Instriial espionnage at its finest.
Umm no thanks' i'll stay and play with my wii...
The reason why the keyboard doesn't sync up with the screen display is that the keyboard buffer,when typing fast is always full, what you see the is the buffer emptying each character one at a time. This stuff DID happens with these old computers.
Oh come on, this is Slashdot! We'd make a beowulf cluster of .... Its possible. Really ...
This is the Microsoft way since a long time. Hell, I remember that with windows 95/98 (or maybe it was 2000) different features got installed (see unlocked) according to which serial number you typed at the install. A corporate SN would install corporate stuff ie: more networking feature or more concurrent connections. This is not new at all.
Dear God, man, there are CHILDREN playing this game !
I'm not sure if your comment was meant to be ironic, but i'll bite...
It's obvious that this game is not meant to be played by children. I know its an old argument, but stupid parents are the problem. If only people would better educate their childs instead of letting the tv, video games and school taking care of it.
Why are these kind of things always "resolved" by the lowest common denominator?
A couple of days ago I read something along like this : 90% of all the people need to be told what to do, wich I believe is true. But WTF is this society? Do we want this? Like many others here, I don't feel like I belong to the 90%, but why should we suffer the consequences?
You're joking right? I'd like to see an elephant or a lion trying to survive a Canadian winter.
Its the other way around : The majority of the consumer market is mainly geared toward selling (or even giving for free) the printer for a very low price and then making money on selling the ink cartridge at an over infatuated price. I can understand why not having the exclusivity to sell the ink might be critical for theses companies.
Whatever mean they use, they sure will try to have that exclusivity.
I'd say the value is in the ink and therefore, its to Lexmark to prove to the court that the critical part of their busniess come from this exclusivity.