Geez, no kidding, my 1200-watt microwave, my sister's 1275-watt hairdryer, and 1200-watt home theatre system are nice to have, but let's not forget the 400-watt toaster-oven, the 1600-watt blender (gotta make those alcoholic beverages somehow...), and all those power tools I use on the weekend to fix my truck...
MSIE already supports VML, why would they want to add something from another product when they can simply make a new version of what they already have? When they do that, they can forcibly become the new standard by antiquating Firefox's SVG format with a version so quickly adapted by such a large customer base. You can expect something "bigger and better" from Microsoft pretty soon.
Traceroute is all fine and dandy until your run smack-hard into a firewall......or three.
"Chances are, you're behind a firewall or proxy, or clicked the Back button to accidentally redial 911. Please try again. If the problem persists, and all other options have been tried, contact the FCC."
Now I have to wonder, where in the world are the 911 prank callers? Since we have a 911-enabled VOIP network with no trace feature, how are we to stop all the pranksters who like to call 911 with fake calls? AND, lets not forget the legitimate calls being ignored or suffering from the DDoS they're encountering. Are the people who are really being raped, murdered or worse, going to get through to the 911 ops?
Doesn't anyone proof-read anyone proofread any more?
I had to stop reading the article when I started losing my place my place while into the middle of reading. Nice to see John's been learned in English.
Not to mention it was an absolutely hysterical parody! In this case, he used the original documents and only changed maybe 2 items on the entire site. Use of the original Mal-Wart images is what caught their attention. I hate to say it, but it would have been less trouble to hack the Mal-Wart site and left a "733t Hax0r 0wN5 j00" message. Less paperwork, less litigation, and overall, just less work.
You're absolutely correct! As you stated, he "stole" graphics from their site. And by saying "stole", I mean he used them unaltered and unedited for a site of his own. By using those works and making them publicly available on a top-level domain, he, without a doubt, is in violation of the copyrights. He's either got some major ass-kissing to do or he's going to do time and/or pay lots of money to MalWart since they're part of Corporate America. The higher up the Fortune 100 ladder you go, the more screwed you are.
Well, the dumbass was using their graphics! He shot himself in the foot! If you're going to setup a pardoy site, use your own damned work. It looks like what pissed Walmart off was his use of their images. Go buy a camera, shoot the pics, use Photoshop and put your own work on the site. *cough, cough, rip-off* It's just that easy.
That's a completely predictable approach for someone of our age gruop, but what you neglected to acknowledge is the fact that Hollywood targets high school kids who can't quite think on their own yet. Since the majority of movie-goers are between 14 and 18, keeping the target audience wrapped up in eye candy and nipple-pops is exactly what Hollywood wants. Asking these kids to stop seeing movies and to stop playing "Super-gore Bloodfest 9" on their X-Boxes is like asking a crack addict to suddenly stop taking drugs. As long as Hollywood continues to have a never-ending supply of high school kids, Hollywood's future is secure!
As for creating a new community of copyright-free material, that's not a smart move. Pretty soon, it'll be infiltrated by people who want to claim others' work as their own and we'll be right back at square-one all over again. The solution to keeping your ass out of jail is pretty simple... stop stealing their work. More than half the movies they produce are crap anyway. If society wasn't so materialistic, we wouldn't have the "uncontrollable" urge to obtain something no one else has. I find it laughable that downloading a movie that's not in theatres yet is completely stupid for the following reasons:
1) Its lame plot. 2) Waste of hard drive space. 3) Lacks image and/or sound quality. 4) You don't get those yummy dill pickles, popcorn, and Icees. 5) 3 years of being gang-raped by Bruno and his butt-buddy pals.
Perks of downloading that trivial movie: 1) You can sit in your underwear and watch it. 2) You can pause it and go take a leak. 3) You can watch it again for free.
That's about it... other than that, I see Bush's idea of signing this law into effect as something good. If the guy were up for a third term, I'd vote him in.
I'm wondering if raising wages might attract the "needed" workers from domestic sources or is Gate's request "necessary to remain competitive and innovative".
Of course it will... didn't it work for Henry Ford? We need to cut the imported crap out of our products too for this to work. I can't recall the last time I saw a legitimate "MADE IN USA" sticker on anything. In some cases, I've seen those with a finely-printed ring around the outside saying, "printed in china".
So essentially, Windows Longhorn is just an over-animated, "look pretty" OS that's merely a steaming pile of what the Longhorn left in the middle of the field? Is Longhorn really the "Windows 98" all over again? To me, it just sounds like Longhorn is all glitz and glamor, offers no change in terms of computing, and crams a whole lot of nothing into a box labeled for retail at, what's the price on this thing.........omfg!
Well, that's all fine and dandy, but the catch is, if you're going to distribute or copy with intent to distribute a copywritten work before its official release date, technically, that could be construed as disclosure of trade secret information because the studio could, at any time, change the release date or plan not to release the movie at all. Given those circumstances, anyone could use that movie for his/her own benefit beit for financial or intellectual gain. So, with all due respects to previous posts, I, for one, would like to see Bush put this law into effect.
Pop rocks! I like how they fizzle and pop in my mouth!:-D If you want some real fun, put them in your cat's/cats' litter box and watch the fun erupt. The next time your cat goes to bleed the lizard, watch his/her expressions... lol
Anyway, does anyone know where this thing is gonna hit yet? Yes, I RTFA, but still, is there a real, projected area where this thing is almost certain to land? I'd like to be as faaaaaar away from the splattering bodies as possible and even farther from the mushroom cloud and tsunami. Ha... and India thought they had it bad this year! Let's see how fast the world reacts when that sucker lands on Kansas. Relief Fund, my ass.
Why do I feel like Wyle E. Coyote holding an umbrella up over my head???
Violating the "social contract" of allowing ads and other malware to load on my computer including spyware, more ads, trackers, root kits, and other various malware is NOT ACCEPTED to see a website. Frankly the idea of letting ads load because you want to "be nice" to the web-operator is bullshit. Clear and simple, they got greedy, employed ILLEGAL methods of placing content on users' computers and in the end, want us to "play nice"? Fuck that. I don't let ads load on my system and utilize Adblock and other blockers to my fullest extent possible due to the broken trust between consumers and advertisers. My most recent experience was to purchase an antenna online for my radio, but since the site was scripted for MSIE and not Mozilla, I was forced to use MSIE. At the cost of saving a couple bucks, I'm now plagued with an MCI dialer that I can't find on my system and is calling out to wherever. Thanks, I really appreciate the bullshit. All this for a fucking antenna...
...looks like we succeeded in making a top-notch browser, user-friendly, and helps keep the user safer than with conventional browsers. The efficient code allows it to load quickly, efficiently, and encourages users to surf the net safer than before due to lower system overhead from the lack of excessive toolbars and add-ons. Time to crap this one up too!
So were the thrown-out keyboards at least "destroyed" via bio-hazard methods? Afterall, they were technically releasing a known, futile, and medication-resistant strain of bacteria into the wild.
Another thought that passed through my mind is, when you buy a keyboard off eBay, how many of you have actually removed the keys, thrown them in the dishwasher, and scrubbed the rest of the board with disinfectant? I bought a Model M keyboard one year from a guy outside the US and it came packed in an old moving box and wrapped with newspaper ads from a local fried chicken joint. Yummy.
I Vote For An Article Title Change...
on
Voom No More
·
· Score: 1
Maybe it's just a really big "tip" as a "thank you" for "handing the site over" to Bosley? And as part of "routine maintenance", he'll remove all the data he owns so their new webspace is fresh and clean. It's like moving out of your house... you know?:-)
Slashdot Mirror
What if they don't find water, but instead, find out the planet is composed of Vodka? :-) Hey, it could happen...
I'm gonna go start my own newspaper... with liquor... and hookers!
Geez, no kidding, my 1200-watt microwave, my sister's 1275-watt hairdryer, and 1200-watt home theatre system are nice to have, but let's not forget the 400-watt toaster-oven, the 1600-watt blender (gotta make those alcoholic beverages somehow...), and all those power tools I use on the weekend to fix my truck...
MSIE already supports VML, why would they want to add something from another product when they can simply make a new version of what they already have? When they do that, they can forcibly become the new standard by antiquating Firefox's SVG format with a version so quickly adapted by such a large customer base. You can expect something "bigger and better" from Microsoft pretty soon.
...or they could stop writing code the Microsoft way, skip the "pretty" things and actually fix the gaping security holes found here.
I'll be happy when this chart goes away.
Now I have to wonder, where in the world are the 911 prank callers? Since we have a 911-enabled VOIP network with no trace feature, how are we to stop all the pranksters who like to call 911 with fake calls? AND, lets not forget the legitimate calls being ignored or suffering from the DDoS they're encountering. Are the people who are really being raped, murdered or worse, going to get through to the 911 ops?
Doesn't anyone proof-read anyone proofread any more?
I had to stop reading the article when I started losing my place my place while into the middle of reading. Nice to see John's been learned in English.
Not to mention it was an absolutely hysterical parody! In this case, he used the original documents and only changed maybe 2 items on the entire site. Use of the original Mal-Wart images is what caught their attention. I hate to say it, but it would have been less trouble to hack the Mal-Wart site and left a "733t Hax0r 0wN5 j00" message. Less paperwork, less litigation, and overall, just less work.
You're absolutely correct! As you stated, he "stole" graphics from their site. And by saying "stole", I mean he used them unaltered and unedited for a site of his own. By using those works and making them publicly available on a top-level domain, he, without a doubt, is in violation of the copyrights. He's either got some major ass-kissing to do or he's going to do time and/or pay lots of money to MalWart since they're part of Corporate America. The higher up the Fortune 100 ladder you go, the more screwed you are.
More like Grade 'F' since his balls are now in a sling. He tangled with Corporate America, he's going to lose.
Well, the dumbass was using their graphics! He shot himself in the foot! If you're going to setup a pardoy site, use your own damned work. It looks like what pissed Walmart off was his use of their images. Go buy a camera, shoot the pics, use Photoshop and put your own work on the site. *cough, cough, rip-off* It's just that easy.
That's a completely predictable approach for someone of our age gruop, but what you neglected to acknowledge is the fact that Hollywood targets high school kids who can't quite think on their own yet. Since the majority of movie-goers are between 14 and 18, keeping the target audience wrapped up in eye candy and nipple-pops is exactly what Hollywood wants. Asking these kids to stop seeing movies and to stop playing "Super-gore Bloodfest 9" on their X-Boxes is like asking a crack addict to suddenly stop taking drugs. As long as Hollywood continues to have a never-ending supply of high school kids, Hollywood's future is secure!
As for creating a new community of copyright-free material, that's not a smart move. Pretty soon, it'll be infiltrated by people who want to claim others' work as their own and we'll be right back at square-one all over again. The solution to keeping your ass out of jail is pretty simple... stop stealing their work. More than half the movies they produce are crap anyway. If society wasn't so materialistic, we wouldn't have the "uncontrollable" urge to obtain something no one else has. I find it laughable that downloading a movie that's not in theatres yet is completely stupid for the following reasons:
1) Its lame plot.
2) Waste of hard drive space.
3) Lacks image and/or sound quality.
4) You don't get those yummy dill pickles, popcorn, and Icees.
5) 3 years of being gang-raped by Bruno and his butt-buddy pals.
Perks of downloading that trivial movie:
1) You can sit in your underwear and watch it.
2) You can pause it and go take a leak.
3) You can watch it again for free.
That's about it... other than that, I see Bush's idea of signing this law into effect as something good. If the guy were up for a third term, I'd vote him in.
So essentially, Windows Longhorn is just an over-animated, "look pretty" OS that's merely a steaming pile of what the Longhorn left in the middle of the field? Is Longhorn really the "Windows 98" all over again? To me, it just sounds like Longhorn is all glitz and glamor, offers no change in terms of computing, and crams a whole lot of nothing into a box labeled for retail at, what's the price on this thing.........omfg!
Well, that's all fine and dandy, but the catch is, if you're going to distribute or copy with intent to distribute a copywritten work before its official release date, technically, that could be construed as disclosure of trade secret information because the studio could, at any time, change the release date or plan not to release the movie at all. Given those circumstances, anyone could use that movie for his/her own benefit beit for financial or intellectual gain. So, with all due respects to previous posts, I, for one, would like to see Bush put this law into effect.
Earth, just another bug on the galaxy's windshield...
I'm guessing the Pacific Ocean, probably dead-smack on Hawaii.
Pop rocks! I like how they fizzle and pop in my mouth! :-D If you want some real fun, put them in your cat's/cats' litter box and watch the fun erupt. The next time your cat goes to bleed the lizard, watch his/her expressions... lol
Anyway, does anyone know where this thing is gonna hit yet? Yes, I RTFA, but still, is there a real, projected area where this thing is almost certain to land? I'd like to be as faaaaaar away from the splattering bodies as possible and even farther from the mushroom cloud and tsunami. Ha... and India thought they had it bad this year! Let's see how fast the world reacts when that sucker lands on Kansas. Relief Fund, my ass.
Why do I feel like Wyle E. Coyote holding an umbrella up over my head???
Violating the "social contract" of allowing ads and other malware to load on my computer including spyware, more ads, trackers, root kits, and other various malware is NOT ACCEPTED to see a website. Frankly the idea of letting ads load because you want to "be nice" to the web-operator is bullshit. Clear and simple, they got greedy, employed ILLEGAL methods of placing content on users' computers and in the end, want us to "play nice"? Fuck that. I don't let ads load on my system and utilize Adblock and other blockers to my fullest extent possible due to the broken trust between consumers and advertisers. My most recent experience was to purchase an antenna online for my radio, but since the site was scripted for MSIE and not Mozilla, I was forced to use MSIE. At the cost of saving a couple bucks, I'm now plagued with an MCI dialer that I can't find on my system and is calling out to wherever. Thanks, I really appreciate the bullshit. All this for a fucking antenna...
...looks like we succeeded in making a top-notch browser, user-friendly, and helps keep the user safer than with conventional browsers. The efficient code allows it to load quickly, efficiently, and encourages users to surf the net safer than before due to lower system overhead from the lack of excessive toolbars and add-ons. Time to crap this one up too!
So were the thrown-out keyboards at least "destroyed" via bio-hazard methods? Afterall, they were technically releasing a known, futile, and medication-resistant strain of bacteria into the wild.
Another thought that passed through my mind is, when you buy a keyboard off eBay, how many of you have actually removed the keys, thrown them in the dishwasher, and scrubbed the rest of the board with disinfectant? I bought a Model M keyboard one year from a guy outside the US and it came packed in an old moving box and wrapped with newspaper ads from a local fried chicken joint. Yummy.
..."How DMCA and DRM Murdered HiDef"
THIS IS WHY IT'S BAD TO OUTSOURCE EVERYTHING TO THOSE FUCKING WOGS. Lick my shoe, bitches...
The lameness filter is lame. I AM yelling.
Why did the name "Enron" just pass through my head???
Maybe it's just a really big "tip" as a "thank you" for "handing the site over" to Bosley? And as part of "routine maintenance", he'll remove all the data he owns so their new webspace is fresh and clean. It's like moving out of your house... you know? :-)