Hey idiot, the article is entitled "Environmental Heresies", and global warming is not #1 on the list of environment heresies, considering, as you so kindly pointed out, that the author believes in global warming.
Learn how to put 2 and 2 together before you call someone a bozo, idiot.
Here are my items that I would like to see in the next Java:
Here's what I would like to see:
1) More obfuscated product naming conventions. Java2 1.6 6.0 Mustang?? C'Mon, that must have been agnominated by first-graders. I propose something like Java(2)1:6.0/Desktop-Revision 19.2 Supplement 12 Equus caballus
"You've just used Adobe's U.S. Patent #5,185,818! Please remember, if you see this feature in another software package and are the first to report it to Adobe, you will receive a free copy of Photoshop CS 10!"
and
"Have a good day! You've used 278 of our patents 9,386 times today. Thank you for helping us bankroll our Intellectual Property lawyers. Our ability to innovate is directly dependant upon our ability to patent and sue. Also, if you're the owner of a Nikon DX5000 camera, please remember to call Nikon USA and demand they open up their proprietary RAW format!"
and finally
"Thank you for registering your Adobe product. Remember, only communists don't like patents!"
You know what annoys me?
that all the freaking sentient aliens are pretty much the same size.
why can't we have some superdense 15 foot giants walking around talking trash.
Why are they all the same size?
Common sense. Larger creatures have spinal cords/neural pathways that take longer to traverse. Therefore, the brain can't be the sole controller in such an arrangement - "limbic" supplemental neural aggregates, located at the base of the spinal cord, are used to compensate for these neural delay times in large organisms such as dinosaurs.
In effect, the larger the organism, the less likely it is to possess intelligence. An exception might be water-based lifeforms, in which a large organism such as a whale is not required to adapt to its environment as quickly as, say, a rabbit.
A few years ago, Adobe sued Macromedia for infringing upon a patent by which Adobe displayed "GUI elements" in a certain dockable, palette-oriented fashion. Macromedia had to withdraw those features from its product to comply.
Now, we're sure to see Flash get an improved user interface. I guess this is a case where Adobe's patent really helped it innovate.
I imagined how very frustrated David Wheeler, a Salon employee, would have been had he been forced to watch the code he helped develop just die on the shelf
It almost died on the shelf because everyone thought he was talking about a Barcalounger.
Not to flame, but the Mitnik book was very stupid. I bought it expecting to learn new perspectives, but instead found ridiculous stories like this:
Charlie found out that the secretary had a pet named Fluffles. He logged into the secretary's email account using Fluffles as the password. From then, he knew it was easy to gain access to her Unix account by merely SMTP-spoofing a ticket request email to TrackIT 1.0.3.9 on a Red Hat Linux 2.12 kernel that uses Bind 6.1 and is unpatched against the Kitviscori Korn Shell compromise involving the GDI buffer overflow error for binaries compiled against version 1.9.01.a1 of glib with the configure setting "GDI_DISABLE_BOUNDS_CHECKING_FOR_INVALID_JPEG_FILE S_WITH_UNCHECKED_MD5_HASHES_OVER_NON_SSL_RETRIEVAL ".
i.e. the first step was very plausible, and then every subsequent step was very very unplausbile for the so-called "everyday social engineer".
BTW, my post was not flamebait against Texans. It was a parody of how heavily SBC had to rely on Texan patriotism to carry their issue through. Check out the print ads. The only thing you can tell by reading it is that if you're Texan, you gotta side with SBC on this issue.
We're Texans! We done damn know freedom, so let's vote as Texans to do this thing!
While we're at it, let's vote for legalized prostitution! Texans always like a good romp in the sack, and by golly let's vote for this thing because we're Texan!
And now, come to think about it, let's vote for legalized guns in the workplace! Texans always used to carry their guns to work, let's get together as Texans and rally together a huge Texan vote for this Texan-commonsense policy for Texas!
So tell me again why should I spend my money developing software and just give it away?
I hate to say this, but if you can't see the value in developing software for free, you're probably not a very talented developer.
This may be a misguided conclusion, but I've noticed that brilliant programmers are much more likely to contribute their software to open source, rather than try to develop it commercially.
WPA is just as, if not more, susceptible to a dictionary attack because its password based.
One problem is that many routers allow the user to enter a "password", which is then hashed into a WEP key. I personally know several people who use passwords to generate their WEP key.
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Don't tell that to Schrodinger and his cat.
Holy crap! That happened to me exactly one second before I read your post.
Learn how to put 2 and 2 together before you call someone a bozo, idiot.
No global warming as #1 on the list?
Here's what I would like to see:
1) More obfuscated product naming conventions. Java2 1.6 6.0 Mustang?? C'Mon, that must have been agnominated by first-graders. I propose something like Java(2)1:6.0/Desktop-Revision 19.2 Supplement 12 Equus caballus
A "rapid" J2EE project is probably about 8 months long.
A "rabid" J2EE project, on the other hand...
and finally
Common sense. Larger creatures have spinal cords/neural pathways that take longer to traverse. Therefore, the brain can't be the sole controller in such an arrangement - "limbic" supplemental neural aggregates, located at the base of the spinal cord, are used to compensate for these neural delay times in large organisms such as dinosaurs.
In effect, the larger the organism, the less likely it is to possess intelligence. An exception might be water-based lifeforms, in which a large organism such as a whale is not required to adapt to its environment as quickly as, say, a rabbit.
Now, we're sure to see Flash get an improved user interface. I guess this is a case where Adobe's patent really helped it innovate.
it's not considered "defective" unless there are 8 dead pixels on each layer.
Is this story about an Asian guy? Because only asian guys speak like that.
It almost died on the shelf because everyone thought he was talking about a Barcalounger.
*you pop back into existance*
So that explains why I couldn't remember what happened between 04:13 and 04:16PM today.
There's an easy way to get around this. Just pretend that you are someone else, and someone else is you.
Speak for yourself. I am the center of my very own universe.
Charlie found out that the secretary had a pet named Fluffles. He logged into the secretary's email account using Fluffles as the password. From then, he knew it was easy to gain access to her Unix account by merely SMTP-spoofing a ticket request email to TrackIT 1.0.3.9 on a Red Hat Linux 2.12 kernel that uses Bind 6.1 and is unpatched against the Kitviscori Korn Shell compromise involving the GDI buffer overflow error for binaries compiled against version 1.9.01.a1 of glib with the configure setting "GDI_DISABLE_BOUNDS_CHECKING_FOR_INVALID_JPEG_FILE S_WITH_UNCHECKED_MD5_HASHES_OVER_NON_SSL_RETRIEVAL ".
i.e. the first step was very plausible, and then every subsequent step was very very unplausbile for the so-called "everyday social engineer".
BTW, my post was not flamebait against Texans. It was a parody of how heavily SBC had to rely on Texan patriotism to carry their issue through. Check out the print ads. The only thing you can tell by reading it is that if you're Texan, you gotta side with SBC on this issue.
We're Texans! We done damn know freedom, so let's vote as Texans to do this thing!
While we're at it, let's vote for legalized prostitution! Texans always like a good romp in the sack, and by golly let's vote for this thing because we're Texan!
And now, come to think about it, let's vote for legalized guns in the workplace! Texans always used to carry their guns to work, let's get together as Texans and rally together a huge Texan vote for this Texan-commonsense policy for Texas!
YeeeHah!
6. time travel
or maybe you did, and somebody travelled backwards through time and erased it!
We absolutely have to regulate how nanotechnology is used. Think what would happen if spyware and malware authors got ahold of a few nanobots!
I hate to say this, but if you can't see the value in developing software for free, you're probably not a very talented developer.
This may be a misguided conclusion, but I've noticed that brilliant programmers are much more likely to contribute their software to open source, rather than try to develop it commercially.
One problem is that many routers allow the user to enter a "password", which is then hashed into a WEP key. I personally know several people who use passwords to generate their WEP key.
WEP was almost a weak afterthought for wireless technology. This is just a demonstration of why WEP users should switch to WPA.
What do you think happened? It ended up being a bunch of blokes chasing after another bloke named "Shelly".