I couldn't agree more. And here I was, ready to continue the Good Fight by forcing StileProject off the web, getting Playboy removed from all convenience stores, and finally making those communist fuckers at the public library burn that copy of Huck Finn once and for all.
It's called parenting: trusting your kids to do what you tell them.
It may be going off on a rant, but it's time that we take money from the military and start giving it to the school systems
[Rant#2]Haven't you heard? We're at War Against Evil (tm). It's vitally important for every American to support the War Against Evil (tm) in every way they can, and you suggesting that money should be taken away from military contractors in Texas...errrr, The American Armed Forces The Greatest Fighting Force In The World is unacceptable.
In these Times of Tragedy, we cannot afford to question the leadership of President George W. Bush, Who Made a Really Good Speech And Is Defending America, lest the terrorists win by dividing us as a country. I'm sure you now realize that Erradicating Evil From The Face Of The Planet is more important that trivial concerns like educating the next generation of Americans.
Well, in that case, the ??? actually equals "Market to a man's fear of death and desire for immortality". People have been making money off of that for thousands of years.
This sort of puts a whole new spin on this whole "Cure for Cancer" thing. The study seems to suggest that cancer is inevitable, and any attempts by our body to avoid it result in our own death.
Seems to me that if this is the case, it would have some serious repurcussions on how we currently understand how our bodies work. What is it about our physiologies that makes cancer such an irresitible force?
One. ONE decent memorable character. ONE good storyline that wasn't licensed from a book. (Notice where the REALLY good movies come from?) ONE skillful use of setting, or non-canned music, or silence, or symbolism, or metaphor.
Seriously, you can talk all you want about the Diablo's being a hack-n-slash fest, or the Warcraft/Starcraft games being nothing more than Dune/C&C knockoffs, but pound for pound, you'd be hard pressed to name me another PC game developer that has consistently produced better games over the past 6-7 years.
Too bad this isn't the World of Warcraft beta, but I suppose we'll have to wait until late '02 for that.
Honestly, isn't "discredit" a slightly harsh, or at least not-quite-right, word for this email? This isn't some mass-media FUD campaign; I mean, it's a motivational email to (presumably) a bunch of sales wonks, encouraging them to try and sell their products. Gasp, call the Justice Department.
It's not as if Linux vendors aren't out there right now doing the same thing, telling customers they're bug-nuts for running NT/2000/XP. I realize it's pretty funny and/or scary to hear him talk about "eliminating" Linux from customer sites, of doing "walkthroughs" to find hidden Linux machines, like some kind of Secret OS Police. But from a business standpoint, you want to sell to your customers, as much as possible. This is just a reminder to the sales guys, "Hey, don't let any sales opportunities slip through your fingers".
Don't get me wrong, MS has been Very Bad on many different things, but I fail to see how trying to sell their product should be considered some kind of Evil Act (tm).
How many of you think that you could decipher the structure of the command (given the motivation)?
Man, isn't that a little like asking a bunch of high-school/college jocks if they think they could go one-on-one with MJ?
"Uh....yeah, I could do that! I mean, I'm a little out of practice and all, but shoot, I used to be able to hang with the best of them in my prime. I'm sure I could manage, if I was motivated enough!"
Hacking a freaking satellite with no knowledge of the command structure would seem to me to be one of those uber-hacks, on scale with bringing down Ma Bell for a few hours, or finally tracking down the true identity of Signal11. In other words, it's probably possible, but you're not likely to find anyone around here that could do it, regardless of what they might tell you.
...whether hacks like this are just plants by the parent companies sometimes.
"So you tried to up the radio signal of your WAP11 by hacking it to boost the radio signal, and now it won't work? (Hey Bob, we got another one!) What, oh that was nothing sir. Sir, I'm sorry to say your warranty is void. But we do have a sale on the upgraded model right now..."
The NT admins, of course. Total global destruction is no excuse not to wear your pager on the weekends, mister!
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Somewhat different I think. With the machines, they just print up every one with Braille instructions, which is why everyone laughs when they see Braille on a drive-up ATM. It doesn't cost the bank anything more to do them all that way.
If you're going to use pictorial passwords, that represents a fundamental shift in your security model for your customers. Yet, you can't roll this out to the blind, so you have to have a more traditional password system to accomodate them. Now, you're managing two seperate security systems for the same task.
I'm not saying it's not do-able, I'm just saying the gains you get from picture passwords might not outweigh the costs.
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Remembering passwords can be tough, granted, but I don't think pictures are the answer either. If you only had one or two "passwords" (Picwords? Passpics?) to worry about, but more than that, you'll just start to confuse pictures from one set to another.
Also, what about the disabled? It would seem like a no-brainer to offer vision-impaired an alternative, text-based password, but if your rolling this out large scale (like ATM's or something), you might be looking at a number in the thousands of customers who can't use your picture-password system. Major admin headaches.
Optiplexes are great when they're configured right, but for the love of God, don't let user's spec their own.
We had a rouge office admin who went on a spending binge last year, bought a whole bunch of Optiplexes for her department. Came down the same day they arrived to tell us what she had done (how considerate!), and to brag about what a good price she had got on them, several hundred less than the Dimension's we generally quote out for general use.
The damn things had built-in video, sound, and NIC cards, and fucking 5 free PCI and 2 free ISA slots. They had 1 free 5.25 drive bay. They were 800 P3's, ordered with 32 Meg of RAM, with Windows 2000 pre-installed (we standardize on 98). Half of them, for some reason unknown, were also ordered with 32 Meg GeForces added on (despite the built-in video cards). The built-in NICS weren't even 100Mb compatible.
In short, this office manager and Satan got together, and designed the most fucked-up machine possible, with the sole purpose of making our lives as difficult as possible.
Tom's Hardware ran a video showing a 50 euros note frying in flames due to massive overclocking ( up to 500 euros ) after the thermal dump was removed.
In a related story, benchmarks released by France seem to suggest that the 50 euros note is much more effective at purchasing wine, cheese, and cigarettes than other products. Denmark immediately disputed these benchmarks, releasing their own showing that, under the right circumstances, the 50 euros was equally effecting at purchasing pot.
The British, meanwhile, have so far had little success stuffing 50 euros notes into a sheeps liver and boiling them for several hours. Said one observer, "Aces! I'm skunk ratted on Bailey's, and this is still manky."
Some people don't care enough about their stuff to lock their doors at night. Or more to the point, they don't care until someone breaks in late one night and kidnaps their wife or something worse.
I bet these companies will start caring pretty damn quick once their web server is 0wn3d and used to DOS whitehouse.gov or something. If I'm an admin at a company with this kind of policy, I'm updating my resume as of right now, cause you know who the hammer's going to land on when the shit really hits the fan.
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I couldn't agree more. And here I was, ready to continue the Good Fight by forcing StileProject off the web, getting Playboy removed from all convenience stores, and finally making those communist fuckers at the public library burn that copy of Huck Finn once and for all.
It's called parenting: trusting your kids to do what you tell them.
but also ruled that the city of Indianapolis pay $318,000 in legal fees to the video game industry...
Thank goodness, this ruling comes not a minute too soon. Have you seen John Romero's monthly hair care bill lately?
Yes, but religion is a harmless, quaint anachronism these days.
Most of the Middle East would tend to disagree with that statement.
It may be going off on a rant, but it's time that we take money from the military and start giving it to the school systems
[Rant#2]Haven't you heard? We're at War Against Evil (tm). It's vitally important for every American to support the War Against Evil (tm) in every way they can, and you suggesting that money should be taken away from military contractors in Texas...errrr, The American Armed Forces The Greatest Fighting Force In The World is unacceptable.
In these Times of Tragedy, we cannot afford to question the leadership of President George W. Bush, Who Made a Really Good Speech And Is Defending America, lest the terrorists win by dividing us as a country. I'm sure you now realize that Erradicating Evil From The Face Of The Planet is more important that trivial concerns like educating the next generation of Americans.
Well, in that case, the ??? actually equals "Market to a man's fear of death and desire for immortality". People have been making money off of that for thousands of years.
This sort of puts a whole new spin on this whole "Cure for Cancer" thing. The study seems to suggest that cancer is inevitable, and any attempts by our body to avoid it result in our own death.
Seems to me that if this is the case, it would have some serious repurcussions on how we currently understand how our bodies work. What is it about our physiologies that makes cancer such an irresitible force?
One. ONE decent memorable character. ONE good storyline that wasn't licensed from a book. (Notice where the REALLY good movies come from?) ONE skillful use of setting, or non-canned music, or silence, or symbolism, or metaphor.
Here you go.
I wonder if WC3 will be reboot worthy?
Has there been a Blizzard game that hasn't been?
Seriously, you can talk all you want about the Diablo's being a hack-n-slash fest, or the Warcraft/Starcraft games being nothing more than Dune/C&C knockoffs, but pound for pound, you'd be hard pressed to name me another PC game developer that has consistently produced better games over the past 6-7 years.
Too bad this isn't the World of Warcraft beta, but I suppose we'll have to wait until late '02 for that.
Honestly, isn't "discredit" a slightly harsh, or at least not-quite-right, word for this email? This isn't some mass-media FUD campaign; I mean, it's a motivational email to (presumably) a bunch of sales wonks, encouraging them to try and sell their products. Gasp, call the Justice Department.
It's not as if Linux vendors aren't out there right now doing the same thing, telling customers they're bug-nuts for running NT/2000/XP. I realize it's pretty funny and/or scary to hear him talk about "eliminating" Linux from customer sites, of doing "walkthroughs" to find hidden Linux machines, like some kind of Secret OS Police. But from a business standpoint, you want to sell to your customers, as much as possible. This is just a reminder to the sales guys, "Hey, don't let any sales opportunities slip through your fingers".
Don't get me wrong, MS has been Very Bad on many different things, but I fail to see how trying to sell their product should be considered some kind of Evil Act (tm).
No, it was clearly the stunning power of the Mac Powerbook and Jeff Goldblum's incredible intelligence that made this possible.
How many of you think that you could decipher the structure of the command (given the motivation)?
Man, isn't that a little like asking a bunch of high-school/college jocks if they think they could go one-on-one with MJ?
"Uh....yeah, I could do that! I mean, I'm a little out of practice and all, but shoot, I used to be able to hang with the best of them in my prime. I'm sure I could manage, if I was motivated enough!"
Hacking a freaking satellite with no knowledge of the command structure would seem to me to be one of those uber-hacks, on scale with bringing down Ma Bell for a few hours, or finally tracking down the true identity of Signal11. In other words, it's probably possible, but you're not likely to find anyone around here that could do it, regardless of what they might tell you.
Heh, if you want a real challenge, go try and find Tecmo Super Bowl for the old NES. Now that was some sweet-ass football action.
Say, you might have just stumbled on a good idea for a new show: Soprano Bebop! The Work which will become a new genre itself, Bada-Bing!
...whether hacks like this are just plants by the parent companies sometimes.
"So you tried to up the radio signal of your WAP11 by hacking it to boost the radio signal, and now it won't work? (Hey Bob, we got another one!) What, oh that was nothing sir. Sir, I'm sorry to say your warranty is void. But we do have a sale on the upgraded model right now..."
Or how about -1 (Irony is apparently too much for me to handle). Eh, probably wouldnt fit in the drop down box anyway.
The NT admins, of course. Total global destruction is no excuse not to wear your pager on the weekends, mister!
Somewhat different I think. With the machines, they just print up every one with Braille instructions, which is why everyone laughs when they see Braille on a drive-up ATM. It doesn't cost the bank anything more to do them all that way.
If you're going to use pictorial passwords, that represents a fundamental shift in your security model for your customers. Yet, you can't roll this out to the blind, so you have to have a more traditional password system to accomodate them. Now, you're managing two seperate security systems for the same task.
I'm not saying it's not do-able, I'm just saying the gains you get from picture passwords might not outweigh the costs.
Remembering passwords can be tough, granted, but I don't think pictures are the answer either. If you only had one or two "passwords" (Picwords? Passpics?) to worry about, but more than that, you'll just start to confuse pictures from one set to another.
Also, what about the disabled? It would seem like a no-brainer to offer vision-impaired an alternative, text-based password, but if your rolling this out large scale (like ATM's or something), you might be looking at a number in the thousands of customers who can't use your picture-password system. Major admin headaches.
Bah! As if true techs need to rely on the crumbs from other departments to satisfy our gaming needs. Begone with your measly trinkets I say!
Optiplexes are great when they're configured right, but for the love of God, don't let user's spec their own.
We had a rouge office admin who went on a spending binge last year, bought a whole bunch of Optiplexes for her department. Came down the same day they arrived to tell us what she had done (how considerate!), and to brag about what a good price she had got on them, several hundred less than the Dimension's we generally quote out for general use.
The damn things had built-in video, sound, and NIC cards, and fucking 5 free PCI and 2 free ISA slots. They had 1 free 5.25 drive bay. They were 800 P3's, ordered with 32 Meg of RAM, with Windows 2000 pre-installed (we standardize on 98). Half of them, for some reason unknown, were also ordered with 32 Meg GeForces added on (despite the built-in video cards). The built-in NICS weren't even 100Mb compatible.
In short, this office manager and Satan got together, and designed the most fucked-up machine possible, with the sole purpose of making our lives as difficult as possible.
Tom's Hardware ran a video showing a 50 euros note frying in flames due to massive overclocking ( up to 500 euros ) after the thermal dump was removed.
In a related story, benchmarks released by France seem to suggest that the 50 euros note is much more effective at purchasing wine, cheese, and cigarettes than other products. Denmark immediately disputed these benchmarks, releasing their own showing that, under the right circumstances, the 50 euros was equally effecting at purchasing pot.
The British, meanwhile, have so far had little success stuffing 50 euros notes into a sheeps liver and boiling them for several hours. Said one observer, "Aces! I'm skunk ratted on Bailey's, and this is still manky."
PVP is having server problems apparently. Current strips are being posted by Greg Dean over at Real Life.
Some people don't care enough about their stuff to lock their doors at night. Or more to the point, they don't care until someone breaks in late one night and kidnaps their wife or something worse.
I bet these companies will start caring pretty damn quick once their web server is 0wn3d and used to DOS whitehouse.gov or something. If I'm an admin at a company with this kind of policy, I'm updating my resume as of right now, cause you know who the hammer's going to land on when the shit really hits the fan.
If I ever meet Vladinator, I will kick his ass for taking down GiZ again.
Now children as well can experience a dying, overhyped, 2 year old technology still looking for a market!