Meant as a joke. Maybe a bit too long, could have been 4 or 5 lines shorter, I'm sure. Do they hand out free crack with the mod points, or what? I hope someone with half a clue m2's this.
Dude, when you borrow Billy Gates comdex speech like that, you're supposed to give him formal credit for it by citing him in a footnote, at the very least. Otherwise, you're plagiarizing. It may be no big deal on slashdot, but when you go to highschool, and yes college someday... they'll expel you for that. So it's best not to make any bad habits. Here, I'll help. Add something like this to the bottom:
** Portions of this slashdot post were originally authored by William Gates, CEO Microsoft Corp., and presented orally at the 2001 Comdex convention. This post may contain both verbatim speech, and approximations of the ideas he attempted to convey.
It's been awhile, and your english teacher may give you red marks, but he/she won't be able to accuse you of turning in work that isn't your own. (Note: this won't get you off the hook, if the assignment was meant to be original, and not a research paper).
In a related story, art museum attendees were openly daring to remember what paintings looked like. Said featured Artist Franco Geroni "Just because they paid the ticket price, doesn't mean they're allowed to keep a copy in their brains like that! The nerve of some people..."
Close, but no cigar. Gate's true meaning, was that goverments should only subsidize current or future Microsoft code. If they wish to subsidize other companies' code, that is ok too, since that will all be Microsoft code eventually.
His biggest problem, is that GPL code is vulnerable to assimilation. That's why it's the one exception to "goverment, subsidize all the code you want".
What booby traps aren't dangerous? It kinda goes with the territory. As far as the law is concerned, anything remotely or automatically triggered is a booby trap.
Booby traps are illegal. Besides, you don't want the thing malfunctioning... "Here honey, let me change the radio station *BOOM*". I'm also sure that playing N'Sync would be illegal too. Though the car thief might wish you had booby trapped it instead.
"Oh Flying Fucks! This little slashdot twerp has discovered how to legally dupe licenses. Authorize $10 million US for the hit squad, and tell them there is a 50% bonus if they prove he suffered before it was over...".
God, I love when you can apply Diablo bugs to real world law. And mama said I'd never learn anything of value playing video games...
As awful a truth as it is, I like the sound of this explanation. It just seems correct. It also offers hope.
Human beings have a knack for destroying biological niches though, even inadverdently. Why can't we destroy this capitalistic niche? Or would Greenpeace be out there protesting the destruction of the Gulf Coast Redneck Spammer?
They are in it for $$$. They have some strange ideas about what will get them that $$$, often. And usually, those strange ideas are something like "if we don't lock this up tight, they will steal it!", even though what they are locking, isn't what they are necessarily trying to sell.
Realistically, this will never change, in any significant way. Personally, I'm tired of waiting for them to shovel watered down consumer garbage at me... not only do I not have to wait anymore, but it's often not garbage.
Bought mine at a Kmart that was going out of business. Got it cheap, they didn't require me to subscribe. Unit is mostly functional without it, and I've had quite a bit of success pulling my own lists off of tvguide.com and the like.
Poor Oracle. They have to lower thsemselves to stuff like this, because of all those warez kiddies running Oracle 9i Enterprise on their 64 cpu Sun boxen.
I agree totally with your assessment. However, this happens over and over... in the course of your average week!. I'm sorry if I can't even be serious about this anymore, but I hope you realize I was making a rather dumb joke. I'm kinda suprised that it was even modded up. Really. The entire M$ security situation is so sick anymore, that my humor is probably on the level of really lame vaudeville comedy or something.
Remember these two words. "Trustworthy computing". *laugh* *laugh* *sob* *sob* *bang* (putting pistol to head, and pulling the trigger, rather than have to support M$ products)
Pretty much any advertising, is too much. While I don't claim to know where money should go, each and every time, I do have a pretty decent intuitive sense of where it shouldn't go. For instance, into the pockets of Enron executives. I suppose though, that if they're smart enough to defraud others, they deserve it in your opinion.
If capitalism is so dead set against ethical behavior, maybe we should try something else. I however, believe that it isn't, by nature. Simply that goverment isn't doing its job properly. I hate to use it as my example, but the M$ anti-trust fiasco illustrates this perfectly.
If they had waited til tomorrow, they'd have known about M$'s fix for this dangerous security hole. SP3 for IE6 patches it up fine though. That's right, when you mouseover the back button, a popup text alerts you that it might be dangerous (that M$ can't be held responsible for damages resulting from its use?). Also, the "Safe Back Button" is now next to it, but to get it out the door in time, they've had to rush. Yes folks, it uses the exact same codebase as the back button, and no, I don't see that as a problem. Besides, if it is, they'll fix it with SP4, and the "Really Safe Back Button". Right along side the other two, for backward compatibility.
Most ethical capitalists (which I hope to include myself in that category someday) tend to want to sell things that people want or need _without resorting to manipulation or brainwashing_. They want to truly advertise, that is, get the word out that they are selling something _only to those that actively want to hear it_. Sure, that person may not want it today, and still end up wanting it 5 years from now, but shoving it down their throat *now* is only going to give a bad impression. And if you can't earn a living selling things without resorting to stunts like this, GET A FUCKING CLUE. It may be, because no one wants or needs it. Now, that isn't an invitation to attempt to _artificially manipulate_ people into buying it. Doing so, only hurts the economy, funneling cash to places it shouldn't go, simple so lazy asswads who call themselves capitalists don't have to find something real to sell. It makes those that are generally ethical panic, and believe that they too, have to advertise, or asphyxiate from lack of exposure. And then we all have to put up with increasingly intrusive advertisement... billboards everywhere, restaurants that don't sell food (McDonalds), and other absurdities.
Solution: Rule that advertising isn't necessarily an expression of free speech. Sure, some companies might not be as big as they are today. Generally, that's not a bad thing.
I was expelled for plagiarizing a multiple choice exam. It seems my answers had an incredibly high rate of correlation with many of the other students.
Since then, I've been a homeless bum, and I better hurry before the internet cafe attendant chases me out before I can finish this...
You're kidding right? I've already got my own scripts running for that. Sure, tvguide.com will probably change the format from time to time, and I'll have to write some more perl, but hey... only one of us has to. Email me, crapola100@hotmail.com. You can have them for free.
Now, if I could just get someone to help me with my cool idea for totally elimating commercials. We reprogram one of the remote buttons, so send a new signal to the tivo. Every time you see a commercial (which should be uncommon), you click the button. The tivo checks back through 15 seconds or so, looking for the beginning of the commercial. When it finds the first frame, it makes a hash of this, and stores it. Every time the picture blanks, the first frame is checked against the hash database (for performance's sake, they'd prolly be expired after 6 months or so), and if it matches, it blanks the screen for a pre-determined amount of time. Maybe with a pythonesque "Holy Grail" intermission music, anything but the garbage they shovel at us.
Can't wait until there's enough CPU power to render over paid product placements. Haha.
Much of what I want to build, are actually SLDC network cards. ISA or PCI are the only logical choices. PCI is, really. USB is nice, don't get me wrong, and many of the "peripheal" things I want to build will be USB instead of ieee1284, but some things are best as expansion cards.
Nice veiled sarcasm. You don't need a silicon fab, never did. He didn't say that he lithographed his own custom chip, just soldered it to a board.
Still, not being able to do a a decent pcb hurts. I'm trying to figure that one out. I'm thinking something along the lines of this. Someone like me (several someones is better than just me) spends the cash for a high end hobbyist pcb shop. Nothing quite professional, but enough to do nice surface mount quality boards, double-sided. I'm figuring the cost at something like $2000 for me, spread out over a period of months. Now, there are lots of things I want to build, and possibly even sell... but the designs will be some variant of open source. Now, if you have something you want to build, but can't afford $200 for a prototype pcb, you just open source it, through me. I send you a finished pcb at (or maybe even a little below, all depending) cost... you get something, we all get something. I can only design so much myself, so I get lots of help from people wanting other stuff... and we all get to buy or build hardware that the big corps would never make for us.
Winners all around. Besides, I trick people into proof-reading all my crappy designs.;-P They're not that bad, but I do need some help from time to time.
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Meant as a joke. Maybe a bit too long, could have been 4 or 5 lines shorter, I'm sure. Do they hand out free crack with the mod points, or what? I hope someone with half a clue m2's this.
Dude, when you borrow Billy Gates comdex speech like that, you're supposed to give him formal credit for it by citing him in a footnote, at the very least. Otherwise, you're plagiarizing. It may be no big deal on slashdot, but when you go to highschool, and yes college someday... they'll expel you for that. So it's best not to make any bad habits. Here, I'll help. Add something like this to the bottom:
** Portions of this slashdot post were originally authored by William Gates, CEO Microsoft Corp., and presented orally at the 2001 Comdex convention. This post may contain both verbatim speech, and approximations of the ideas he attempted to convey.
It's been awhile, and your english teacher may give you red marks, but he/she won't be able to accuse you of turning in work that isn't your own. (Note: this won't get you off the hook, if the assignment was meant to be original, and not a research paper).
In a related story, art museum attendees were openly daring to remember what paintings looked like. Said featured Artist Franco Geroni "Just because they paid the ticket price, doesn't mean they're allowed to keep a copy in their brains like that! The nerve of some people..."
Close, but no cigar. Gate's true meaning, was that goverments should only subsidize current or future Microsoft code. If they wish to subsidize other companies' code, that is ok too, since that will all be Microsoft code eventually.
His biggest problem, is that GPL code is vulnerable to assimilation. That's why it's the one exception to "goverment, subsidize all the code you want".
What booby traps aren't dangerous? It kinda goes with the territory. As far as the law is concerned, anything remotely or automatically triggered is a booby trap.
I'm pretty sure this would be considering a reasonable way to subdue a felon, safe to both the victim and suspect.
Booby traps are illegal. Besides, you don't want the thing malfunctioning... "Here honey, let me change the radio station *BOOM*". I'm also sure that playing N'Sync would be illegal too. Though the car thief might wish you had booby trapped it instead.
"Oh Flying Fucks! This little slashdot twerp has discovered how to legally dupe licenses. Authorize $10 million US for the hit squad, and tell them there is a 50% bonus if they prove he suffered before it was over...".
God, I love when you can apply Diablo bugs to real world law. And mama said I'd never learn anything of value playing video games...
They designed it poorly. The damn thing should not just shut off with the kill switch, but lock the dumbass in.
It should take still photographs of his face with a hidden camera, while he's in the act.
Hell, the thing should have external hidden cameras, so that it can take pics of vandals.
If they wanted to, they could make this car a REAL pain for criminals.
As awful a truth as it is, I like the sound of this explanation. It just seems correct. It also offers hope.
Human beings have a knack for destroying biological niches though, even inadverdently. Why can't we destroy this capitalistic niche? Or would Greenpeace be out there protesting the destruction of the Gulf Coast Redneck Spammer?
They are in it for $$$. They have some strange ideas about what will get them that $$$, often. And usually, those strange ideas are something like "if we don't lock this up tight, they will steal it!", even though what they are locking, isn't what they are necessarily trying to sell.
Realistically, this will never change, in any significant way. Personally, I'm tired of waiting for them to shovel watered down consumer garbage at me... not only do I not have to wait anymore, but it's often not garbage.
Old news. It's extractable. What you want, is for them to hold your hand the entire time. Good luck.
Bought mine at a Kmart that was going out of business. Got it cheap, they didn't require me to subscribe. Unit is mostly functional without it, and I've had quite a bit of success pulling my own lists off of tvguide.com and the like.
I am doing whatever I want with it.
Just buy one dude.
Poor Oracle. They have to lower thsemselves to stuff like this, because of all those warez kiddies running Oracle 9i Enterprise on their 64 cpu Sun boxen.
I agree totally with your assessment. However, this happens over and over... in the course of your average week!. I'm sorry if I can't even be serious about this anymore, but I hope you realize I was making a rather dumb joke. I'm kinda suprised that it was even modded up. Really. The entire M$ security situation is so sick anymore, that my humor is probably on the level of really lame vaudeville comedy or something.
Remember these two words. "Trustworthy computing".
*laugh* *laugh* *sob* *sob* *bang* (putting pistol to head, and pulling the trigger, rather than have to support M$ products)
Pretty much any advertising, is too much. While I don't claim to know where money should go, each and every time, I do have a pretty decent intuitive sense of where it shouldn't go. For instance, into the pockets of Enron executives. I suppose though, that if they're smart enough to defraud others, they deserve it in your opinion.
If capitalism is so dead set against ethical behavior, maybe we should try something else. I however, believe that it isn't, by nature. Simply that goverment isn't doing its job properly. I hate to use it as my example, but the M$ anti-trust fiasco illustrates this perfectly.
If they had waited til tomorrow, they'd have known about M$'s fix for this dangerous security hole. SP3 for IE6 patches it up fine though. That's right, when you mouseover the back button, a popup text alerts you that it might be dangerous (that M$ can't be held responsible for damages resulting from its use?). Also, the "Safe Back Button" is now next to it, but to get it out the door in time, they've had to rush. Yes folks, it uses the exact same codebase as the back button, and no, I don't see that as a problem. Besides, if it is, they'll fix it with SP4, and the "Really Safe Back Button". Right along side the other two, for backward compatibility.
Most ethical capitalists (which I hope to include myself in that category someday) tend to want to sell things that people want or need _without resorting to manipulation or brainwashing_. They want to truly advertise, that is, get the word out that they are selling something _only to those that actively want to hear it_. Sure, that person may not want it today, and still end up wanting it 5 years from now, but shoving it down their throat *now* is only going to give a bad impression. And if you can't earn a living selling things without resorting to stunts like this, GET A FUCKING CLUE. It may be, because no one wants or needs it. Now, that isn't an invitation to attempt to _artificially manipulate_ people into buying it. Doing so, only hurts the economy, funneling cash to places it shouldn't go, simple so lazy asswads who call themselves capitalists don't have to find something real to sell. It makes those that are generally ethical panic, and believe that they too, have to advertise, or asphyxiate from lack of exposure. And then we all have to put up with increasingly intrusive advertisement... billboards everywhere, restaurants that don't sell food (McDonalds), and other absurdities.
Solution: Rule that advertising isn't necessarily an expression of free speech. Sure, some companies might not be as big as they are today. Generally, that's not a bad thing.
I can imagine the Gestapo saying the same exact things about a person hiding jews.
That he broke a rule isn't in question, but rather the ethical foundation of the rule (or lack thereof).
I was expelled for plagiarizing a multiple choice exam. It seems my answers had an incredibly high rate of correlation with many of the other students.
Since then, I've been a homeless bum, and I better hurry before the internet cafe attendant chases me out before I can finish this...
You're kidding right? I've already got my own scripts running for that. Sure, tvguide.com will probably change the format from time to time, and I'll have to write some more perl, but hey... only one of us has to. Email me, crapola100@hotmail.com. You can have them for free.
Now, if I could just get someone to help me with my cool idea for totally elimating commercials. We reprogram one of the remote buttons, so send a new signal to the tivo. Every time you see a commercial (which should be uncommon), you click the button. The tivo checks back through 15 seconds or so, looking for the beginning of the commercial. When it finds the first frame, it makes a hash of this, and stores it. Every time the picture blanks, the first frame is checked against the hash database (for performance's sake, they'd prolly be expired after 6 months or so), and if it matches, it blanks the screen for a pre-determined amount of time. Maybe with a pythonesque "Holy Grail" intermission music, anything but the garbage they shovel at us.
Can't wait until there's enough CPU power to render over paid product placements. Haha.
Much of what I want to build, are actually SLDC network cards. ISA or PCI are the only logical choices. PCI is, really. USB is nice, don't get me wrong, and many of the "peripheal" things I want to build will be USB instead of ieee1284, but some things are best as expansion cards.
Are you kidding? www.jameco.com lists z80's for $1.29 apiece. You can even get the nice 20mhz qfp z80 for $12 something.
Nice veiled sarcasm. You don't need a silicon fab, never did. He didn't say that he lithographed his own custom chip, just soldered it to a board.
;-P They're not that bad, but I do need some help from time to time.
Still, not being able to do a a decent pcb hurts. I'm trying to figure that one out. I'm thinking something along the lines of this. Someone like me (several someones is better than just me) spends the cash for a high end hobbyist pcb shop. Nothing quite professional, but enough to do nice surface mount quality boards, double-sided. I'm figuring the cost at something like $2000 for me, spread out over a period of months. Now, there are lots of things I want to build, and possibly even sell... but the designs will be some variant of open source. Now, if you have something you want to build, but can't afford $200 for a prototype pcb, you just open source it, through me. I send you a finished pcb at (or maybe even a little below, all depending) cost... you get something, we all get something. I can only design so much myself, so I get lots of help from people wanting other stuff... and we all get to buy or build hardware that the big corps would never make for us.
Winners all around. Besides, I trick people into proof-reading all my crappy designs.