Seriously, you must be high - you're comparing Kevin Mitnick to Saddam Hussein? Christ, you think he held a gun to Taco's head and demanded to be interviewed?
I've read your various comlumns on how to turn an ordinary toaster into a flamethrower using only a strawberry Pop-Tart. I think there's a large market for this - would you be interested in mass producing pastry-powered weapons with me? If you're against the idea of creating weapons, do you know how we could make the flame-throwing toaster into something else useful, perhaps having welding applications? I think it's safe to say a successful New Economy will be based upon Pop-Tarts, and we should really move to it before it's too late.
I think this is a common feeling in the tech community without that much basis in fact. I used AOL for years and found it no worse than any other dialup service I had ever used - it was more expensive, but I could always get connected when I wanted to and never got dropped. (YMMV, of course)
IMHO, AOL gets a bad rap from the tech community because of the obscene amounts of script kiddies who run off their parents' accounts on it. Because it's so huge, it's also automatically evil to groups of techies who use Linux just because it's not Windows.
Me too - it's okay, though - this time yesterday, I was at Terrible karma. Post a couple mildly amusing comments, and you become everyone's darling once again.
Sure, maybe they'll be able to stop one version of this, but more'll just pop up in its place; it's similar to the **AA trying to kill P2P - there's enough ingenuity in people that want to do wrong that they'll never be shut down completely.
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But I thought the rule was that all technological innovation was driven by pr0n?
If it's unobtrusive and maybe drops the price of the game some, I don't see a real problem with this. Sports games have been doing this for awhile already - Tony Hawk has ads all over the place, racing games might as well be car commercials (sure, it's cool to see someone driving a Porsche on TV, but when I can do it in surround sound, that's something else), and there're even authentic equipment labels on some other games. It's nothing new.
to their credit, Xupiter's search engine returns the best quality squirrel porn I've ever seen.
"from the in-times-of-desperation dept."
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Wow, the title says it all, huh?
"In other news, Belgian children were delighted to find a unique contraption called a "Lite-Brite" under their trees this Christmas, which claims to "turn on the magic of colored lights"."
>In this case Real claiming that I made a choice when in fact I did not.
It's no different than any other opt-out system - the boxes are on by default and hidden until you scroll down. It's not as if they're invisible. They're just off the page.
>In a physical world example it would be like giving me a contract to sign but removing several pages from it.
A better analogy would be putting claims on the backside of some pages and never saying that there are more sections there.
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Seriously, you must be high - you're comparing Kevin Mitnick to Saddam Hussein? Christ, you think he held a gun to Taco's head and demanded to be interviewed?
> a little sppoiler alert would have been nice.
By the way, the Lone Gunmen are dead.
You just need to do it right, as shown here.
I've read your various comlumns on how to turn an ordinary toaster into a flamethrower using only a strawberry Pop-Tart. I think there's a large market for this - would you be interested in mass producing pastry-powered weapons with me? If you're against the idea of creating weapons, do you know how we could make the flame-throwing toaster into something else useful, perhaps having welding applications? I think it's safe to say a successful New Economy will be based upon Pop-Tarts, and we should really move to it before it's too late.
I think this is a common feeling in the tech community without that much basis in fact. I used AOL for years and found it no worse than any other dialup service I had ever used - it was more expensive, but I could always get connected when I wanted to and never got dropped. (YMMV, of course)
IMHO, AOL gets a bad rap from the tech community because of the obscene amounts of script kiddies who run off their parents' accounts on it. Because it's so huge, it's also automatically evil to groups of techies who use Linux just because it's not Windows.
Everytime a NYT story is posted on /., new registrations there go through the roof!
Me too - it's okay, though - this time yesterday, I was at Terrible karma. Post a couple mildly amusing comments, and you become everyone's darling once again.
... would you submit a story with "Who really gives a flying fuck?" in the summary?
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
>the great Microsoft apps like Office, IE, and Photoshop
The greatness of IE and Office is highly debatable, and Photoshop isn't even made by MS, you moron.
> I wouldn't do it - with or without worms!
;)
::hangs head:: You wouldn't - some of us can't
Sure, maybe they'll be able to stop one version of this, but more'll just pop up in its place; it's similar to the **AA trying to kill P2P - there's enough ingenuity in people that want to do wrong that they'll never be shut down completely.
But I thought the rule was that all technological innovation was driven by pr0n?
If it's unobtrusive and maybe drops the price of the game some, I don't see a real problem with this. Sports games have been doing this for awhile already - Tony Hawk has ads all over the place, racing games might as well be car commercials (sure, it's cool to see someone driving a Porsche on TV, but when I can do it in surround sound, that's something else), and there're even authentic equipment labels on some other games. It's nothing new.
to their credit, Xupiter's search engine returns the best quality squirrel porn I've ever seen.
Wow, the title says it all, huh?
"In other news, Belgian children were delighted to find a unique contraption called a "Lite-Brite" under their trees this Christmas, which claims to "turn on the magic of colored lights"."
Michael Jackson would be more likely to explode in a room full of 12 year old boys and CowboyNeal.
Japan is building a ladder to heaven.
BUt DeOas ist run LUnicks?!?!?
I know it's late, but I was IPbanned yesterday, so I'll get it in now. FP.
Tha Carly Simon bitch is running HP into the ground!
WhAt WiLl We Do NoW!?!?!
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>In this case Real claiming that I made a choice when in fact I did not.
It's no different than any other opt-out system - the boxes are on by default and hidden until you scroll down. It's not as if they're invisible. They're just off the page.
>In a physical world example it would be like giving me a contract to sign but removing several pages from it.
A better analogy would be putting claims on the backside of some pages and never saying that there are more sections there.
>Ah, yes, but does your hamming integrate streaming audio?
Only if he farts.
lacks horse rectum in any form. Such false advertising.