It was funny, back in the 1960s when I first heard it. The 50 times I've seen some wanker post it on Slashdot in the last couple of years has taken the shine off it.
Where does your family come from? I'm sure I can come up with some equally witty putdowns.
That "joke" is at least 50 years old. And fuck you for posting it here again, as some asshole does every tinme Australia is mentioned in a Slashdot story.
So this post is "flamebait" while the twat who regurgitated this insult is +5 funny".
The "gadget" is an IP-phone. The technical details are not novel. What was was the prices given. That's something that the company can change at any time. It's not like he was given a styrofoam mockup and gushed about its high quality, he cited prices given a week in advance of the launch. As he says, why on earth would they lie about that? It just makes them look sleazy and/or incompetent. So they suckered Pogue, but shot themselves in the foot.
Some AC wrote:
Very few Australians tolerate any reminders of their heritage, a fact your own posts demonstrate all too clearly.
My "heritage" does not include any criminal transportees. Though if it did, I would not be bothered. I'm a 5th-generation Australian. You have to be at least 8th to have that distinction. This is a racist joke, though I know we white people aren't allowed to take offence at such. And I wouldn't mind if it wasn't dragged out here every fucking time Australia was mentioned, and modded up +5 funny. Repeat a putdown often enough and it becomes abuse.
Like I want AT&T to be able to decide what parts of the internet are "off-limits" to me?
The moment a large ISP like AT&T starts blocking theior IP ranges, they'lll move them. They have control of millions of bots throughout the world, they could use totally dynamic, ever-changing IPS if necessary. And the IPs blocking would just create enormous collateral damage.
Though on a small scale it can work, blocking is ultimately futile. It's like trying to prevent someone telephoning you by blocking their caller-ID. If motivated, they will just use another phone. The only solution is to arrest the criminals (for the frauds they are committing, not spamming per se), by police investigative procedures; and following the money trail.
A "haven" is a safe place to put things (eg private data you want limited access to, or controversial data you want to make available). Not a safe place to launch attacks (DDOS, spam, etc) from.
This is the kind of slide -- equating those who want privacy with spammers/terrorists/pedophiles/vegetarians/Muslims -- that authoritarians use to justify violating said privacy.
It's not a story anywhere else because HE WASN'T DENIED A VISA. He just had to fill out the paperwork with the usual declarations about his health and financial means like any other person. He would have just had to tick a few boxes and sign his name.
That "joke" is at least 50 years old. And fuck you for posting it here again, as some asshole does every tinme Australia is mentioned in a Slashdot story.
Yahoo NEEDS to increase Inbox sizes... to hold all the spam Yahoo places there.
They have a spam filter -- I use the paid version, for reasons of inertia, $20/yr. The spam, filter is actually too aggressive. I find a few false positives in the "bulk" folder a month. It gets most of the viagra, free laptop/iPod, etc and stock spam, but often misses the 419s, possibly because they're more handcrafted.
Obviously, it was convincing to the majority of the audience. He was an actor, not a linguist (as McCoy might have said). If I were a Trekkie apologist, I might say that 300 years is certain to change accents. Most English speakers in the world now are picking up Americanisms.
well, for one thing, "i cannae change the laws of physacs, captain" is definiately scottish, but i'm confused at this one. I'm an englishman, and doing an authentic scottish accent (either glaswegian graawl or edinburgh posh) is tricky
Doohan was Canadian, his "Scotty" accent was not his natural voice. He got a bit annoyed at losing roles later becaue people thought he really did speak like that all the time. A real actor is capable of doing lots of convincing accents; choosing one on the basis of their natural one is about as relevant as their natural hair colour.
Oh please, nobody but Al Gore fucked over Al Gore. If he were anywhere close a decent candidate he should have been able to beat the current monkey in office hands down.
So Bush won all his elections by default? Karl Rove's dirty tricks were all in vain, then. See the executive summary here.
he's not locking up any U.S. citizens without due process
Okay, for one Jose Padilla. Locked up for three years before he was charged. (And whether he "deserved it" or not is not the point. It's "due proicess" we're talking about.)
If you guys could get past the Second Amendment, for a moment, how about the Sixth?
They are NOT tapping "any and everyone's communications."
I imagine once Hillary is elected. If she really does implement some sort of national id
Why aren't any of your wackos blowing things up in protest at having their rights violated by Bush?
It's fine for him to lock people up without due process, tap any and everyone's communications, require onerous, useless and intrusive searches at airports, stifle any expressions of dissent in public, and certainly in his presence, declare wars capriciously.... But none of your Constitutional defenders raise an eybrow.
Also, what's the state of the art in digital voice mimicry? Can we simulate an actor's voice digitally?
Shatner could still do his own voice. Anyway, human mimics are much better and cheaper. They might apply a few effects, but a completely artificial voice that sounds natural is nowhere near.
Convicted spammers are compelled to work for 12 hours a day in a Mechanical Turk configuration, as sentient spam filters.
Because a convicted spammer is just the kind of person I want to be reading my personal and business emails. Next, you suggest pedophiles perform community service as school janitors?
Given that Linux is available world-wide at zero cost, dumping Windows in emerging markets wouldn't be sufficient to sustain MS's market share.
For those markets where a few dollars would make a difference, there is always bootleg software. I know in China, Thailand, Indonesia, for instance, hardly anyone buys original software. Almost all, well over 95%, is bootleg, sold at a flat rate per CDR, regardless of original retail price. And Bill Gates has been quoted, I believe about China, saying that if people were going to pirate software, he would rather they were pirating Microsoft than anyone else.
And even in cheap markets, MS is using political pressure to have governments mandate that all PCs must be sold with an OS. MS has its foot in that door and signs up the OEMs for exclusive deals as it did in the US.
Back to your car/electronics analogy: the only compatibility most electronic gadgets need is the right electric plug. A modern software system as we know has a whole hairball of possible compatibilities. Just being able to boot up isn't enough. It has to deal with documents, media, all kinds of peripheral hardware.
Besides, if the jury must uphold the law, then just why are they there ?
Firstly, to decide what actually happened, as each side claims different facts. Depending on that, they then have to decide on an appropriate penalty, as the law gives a range, not a fixed penalty.
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It was funny, back in the 1960s when I first heard it. The 50 times I've seen some wanker post it on Slashdot in the last couple of years has taken the shine off it.
Where does your family come from? I'm sure I can come up with some equally witty putdowns.
It's offensive because the intent is to denigrate. There is a sneer behind it. So I respond in like manner.
So this post is "flamebait" while the twat who regurgitated this insult is +5 funny".
Then they'd Joe Job opponents, rivals, or just random ISPs to make them look guilty. This ISP is sleazy, but many others could be used unwittingly.
The "gadget" is an IP-phone. The technical details are not novel. What was was the prices given. That's something that the company can change at any time. It's not like he was given a styrofoam mockup and gushed about its high quality, he cited prices given a week in advance of the launch. As he says, why on earth would they lie about that? It just makes them look sleazy and/or incompetent. So they suckered Pogue, but shot themselves in the foot.
Post under your ID or fuck off. Anonymous "Coward" indeed.
My "heritage" does not include any criminal transportees. Though if it did, I would not be bothered. I'm a 5th-generation Australian. You have to be at least 8th to have that distinction. This is a racist joke, though I know we white people aren't allowed to take offence at such. And I wouldn't mind if it wasn't dragged out here every fucking time Australia was mentioned, and modded up +5 funny. Repeat a putdown often enough and it becomes abuse.
The moment a large ISP like AT&T starts blocking theior IP ranges, they'lll move them. They have control of millions of bots throughout the world, they could use totally dynamic, ever-changing IPS if necessary. And the IPs blocking would just create enormous collateral damage.
Though on a small scale it can work, blocking is ultimately futile. It's like trying to prevent someone telephoning you by blocking their caller-ID. If motivated, they will just use another phone. The only solution is to arrest the criminals (for the frauds they are committing, not spamming per se), by police investigative procedures; and following the money trail.
A joke, but raises a serious point.
A "haven" is a safe place to put things (eg private data you want limited access to, or controversial data you want to make available). Not a safe place to launch attacks (DDOS, spam, etc) from.
This is the kind of slide -- equating those who want privacy with spammers/terrorists/pedophiles/vegetarians/Muslims -- that authoritarians use to justify violating said privacy.
So am I, but I've heard it too many times.
Suggest that no American or Brit tries the joke out to see what happens.
I wish they would, myself.
It's not a story anywhere else because HE WASN'T DENIED A VISA. He just had to fill out the paperwork with the usual declarations about his health and financial means like any other person. He would have just had to tick a few boxes and sign his name.
That "joke" is at least 50 years old. And fuck you for posting it here again, as some asshole does every tinme Australia is mentioned in a Slashdot story.
They have a spam filter -- I use the paid version, for reasons of inertia, $20/yr. The spam, filter is actually too aggressive. I find a few false positives in the "bulk" folder a month. It gets most of the viagra, free laptop/iPod, etc and stock spam, but often misses the 419s, possibly because they're more handcrafted.
Obviously, it was convincing to the majority of the audience. He was an actor, not a linguist (as McCoy might have said). If I were a Trekkie apologist, I might say that 300 years is certain to change accents. Most English speakers in the world now are picking up Americanisms.
Doohan was Canadian, his "Scotty" accent was not his natural voice. He got a bit annoyed at losing roles later becaue people thought he really did speak like that all the time. A real actor is capable of doing lots of convincing accents; choosing one on the basis of their natural one is about as relevant as their natural hair colour.
That's why it shows finger silhouettes, not just dots for fingertips.
So Bush won all his elections by default? Karl Rove's dirty tricks were all in vain, then. See the executive summary here.
Okay, for one Jose Padilla. Locked up for three years before he was charged. (And whether he "deserved it" or not is not the point. It's "due proicess" we're talking about.) If you guys could get past the Second Amendment, for a moment, how about the Sixth?
They are NOT tapping "any and everyone's communications."
Did you even look at the summary of TFA?
Why aren't any of your wackos blowing things up in protest at having their rights violated by Bush?
It's fine for him to lock people up without due process, tap any and everyone's communications, require onerous, useless and intrusive searches at airports, stifle any expressions of dissent in public, and certainly in his presence, declare wars capriciously .... But none of your Constitutional defenders raise an eybrow.
Shatner could still do his own voice. Anyway, human mimics are much better and cheaper. They might apply a few effects, but a completely artificial voice that sounds natural is nowhere near.
Because a convicted spammer is just the kind of person I want to be reading my personal and business emails. Next, you suggest pedophiles perform community service as school janitors?
Happy tenth birthday Slashdot. Spelling is more like seven, though.
For those markets where a few dollars would make a difference, there is always bootleg software. I know in China, Thailand, Indonesia, for instance, hardly anyone buys original software. Almost all, well over 95%, is bootleg, sold at a flat rate per CDR, regardless of original retail price. And Bill Gates has been quoted, I believe about China, saying that if people were going to pirate software, he would rather they were pirating Microsoft than anyone else.
And even in cheap markets, MS is using political pressure to have governments mandate that all PCs must be sold with an OS. MS has its foot in that door and signs up the OEMs for exclusive deals as it did in the US.
Back to your car/electronics analogy: the only compatibility most electronic gadgets need is the right electric plug. A modern software system as we know has a whole hairball of possible compatibilities. Just being able to boot up isn't enough. It has to deal with documents, media, all kinds of peripheral hardware.
Firstly, to decide what actually happened, as each side claims different facts. Depending on that, they then have to decide on an appropriate penalty, as the law gives a range, not a fixed penalty.
Happened in Hong Kong a couple of years ago. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4374222.stm The uploader actually went to jail.