Official: "We need to block search results which promote public disorder and evil cults"
Google: "Okay okay we'll block them"
Lycos: "We'll block them AND log who searches for them"
Yahoo: "We'll block, log, AND notify police of their location"
Microsoft: "We'll block, log, notify, disable their computers AND place an order for potassium chloride and a guerney using.NET supply chain management!"
Thanks so much for all the Office 2003 CDs, it was very thoughtful of you to send them by. However, have determined that they represent a threat to national security, so you will have to take them back at once. If you can't collect them all by tomorrow, we will return them to you ourselves.
Unfortunately, due to the current conflicts our choice of couriers is limited, so we will have to return the CDs by loading them in pamphet-dispersion canisters and dropping them on your Redmond, WA offices.
Iraqi: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
Soldier: Sorry?
Iraqi I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
Soldier: Uh, no, no, no. This is a patrol.
Iraqi: Ah! I will not buy this *patrol*, it is scratched.
Soldier: No, no, no, no. Patrol...um...military (holds up his rifle).
Iraqi: Ya! Mil-teh-ree! Ya! Uh...My hovercraft is full of eels.
Soldier: Sorry?
Iraqi: My hovercraft (pantomimes hefting a rifle)...is full of eels
Soldier: Ahh, insurgents!
Iraqi: Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Do you waaaaant...do you waaaaaant...to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?
Soldier: Here, I don't think you're using that thing right.
Iraqi: You great poof.
Soldier: Look, just move along please.
Iraqi: If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I...I am no longer infected.
Soldier: Uh, may I, uh...(takes notebook computer, types in a phrase)...Costs six and six...ah, here we are. (speaks weird Iraqi-sounding words)
Iraqi punches the soldier.
I sure hope you are the only one. Nobody should ever trust a company to do anything other than try to make money. Novell would screw Linux and sell us all into cocoa plantation slavery if they could double their profits doing it. What's more it is very doubtful that they're nursing a grudge against MS, more likely they just see Linux as the only way to escape the inevitable Netscapification of all of their products.
First off ATI has had 4.3.x drivers for at least a year. Secondly these drivers (3.7.0) are not new, they were released dec 18th. Check the modification dates in the file if you're skeptical.
The reason the web page says they are new is that they briefly released 3.7.1 and apparently pulled it for some reason, putting back the older version on the driver page.
Why oh why does every new technology have to spy on its users? The last sentence of the second paragraph seems to say you can opt out, but it sounds very weasely to me (what is not included in "this profile information"?)
From http://www.chameleonnetwork.com/faq_general.htm
A: Convenience and security in that order. Of course, there are many other reasons consumers will want to own the Pocket Vault. For example, if PV owners choose to, they can receive discounts and other promotions from retailers and media issuers, and have those available "in their wallets" at the touch of a button.
To the extent a Pocket Vault Holder "opts in" to certain marketing offerings (there are 4 levels of 'opt in'), CNI may have access, not to the individual account numbers, but to the fact that a particular consumer has and makes use of a certain type of wallet media. If the consumer does not opt in, Chameleon Network will not even have access to this profile information.
Why oh why does every new technology have to spy on its users? The last sentence of the second paragraph seems to say you can opt out, but it sounds very weasely to me (what is not included in "this profile information"?)
From http://www.chameleonnetwork.com/faq_general.htm
A: Convenience and security in that order. Of course, there are many other reasons consumers will want to own the Pocket Vault. For example, if PV owners choose to, they can receive discounts and other promotions from retailers and media issuers, and have those available "in their wallets" at the touch of a button.
To the extent a Pocket Vault Holder "opts in" to certain marketing offerings (there are 4 levels of 'opt in'), CNI may have access, not to the individual account numbers, but to the fact that a particular consumer has and makes use of a certain type of wallet media. If the consumer does not opt in, Chameleon Network will not even have access to this profile information.
There is another page of pictures that you won't see clicking on the links, she has page 15 going directly to 17 by accident. This page shows the swimming pool.
I am probably out of date and things are much better now, but I (and probably a lot of other people) have an aversion to anything named a HOWTO after spending many futile hours trying to decode them in the mid-to-late 90s when there was no other help available.
For those of you who mercifully missed out on this era, generally a HOWTO would
(a) Point you to software that no longer compiled on any platform known to man
(b) Advise you to use configuration options that existed only in development versions and never worked even then.
(c) Assume that you know how to use an equally complex program that has its own HOWTO which points you back to the one you started with.
(d) give great explanations like: Ok for this file you just use syntax like a=1 to set a equal to 1. For example to make it fly to the moon just type: $foo53r45$::564.config <-> FALSE DiskBo$xInvolvement.Underpantsgnome = $PROFIT$
etc...
I am exaggerating VERY slightly. Anyone remember the DIP HOWTO? According to legend the suicide rate among Linux users tripled within three weeks of its release.
Calm down:-) Since I discovered the Flash Click to Play plugin I've actually gotten to like flash again. Those of us using real browsers can just load it and flash animations won't start until you tell them to.
But wait there's more, Adblock also blocks flash and even puts a little tab around the flash frame so you can block them more easily. That way you won't even see the white "click to play" frame in place of the flash at all.
Now for an unlimited time only try them for 30 days risk-free and if you like them, just send 3 easy payments of nothing to nobody.
REDMOND (AP)-- Microsoft's Dewey Cheetum, head of the software giant's "City and Regional Advantage Program" (CRAP) Group, announced today a major breakthrough in his group's analysis of waste management processes. "The biggest problem with dealing with a municipal landfill is all the flies. They spread disease, cause nearby property values to drop, and are a nuisance." CRAP has long known that flies were a problem, but what Cheetum discovered recently made him totally rethink the problem. "We looked hard at our research data and realized that the flies were causing all the garbage" Cheetum said "It seems counterintuitive, but I mean think about it, you never see a lot of garbage without flies around it. It makes sense to me and I'm really smart, trust me." Cheetum dismissed the idea that his group might have made an error "Look bitch, I have a fucking PhD in computer science, don't get smart with me"
Actually, the PAH-2 Tiger is an Apache-clone tank killer being developed by France and Germany for their own militaries. The Comanche was to be a low radar signature scout aircraft not a tank killer like the Tiger and Apache, so the Tiger was never competing with the Comanche project in any way.
Great, so now not only can I be disgusted by the text content of my spam, when get a spam about "T3EN V1RGIN HORSE S3X 564ufghdfth", I will be able to smell it too! Thank you, Trisenx.
You're paranoid. Even Gates isn't crazy enough to try something like that. If the IRS found out that the Gates Foundation was using its donations for a quid pro quo that benefitted Microsoft they could kiss their tax-exempt status goodbye in a heartbeat.
The article basically argues that because similar expectations of disaster in previous situations led to acceptable outcomes that inevitably everything will turn out OK. Wrong. This is the exact same error that led to the Columbia disaster. Concern over the collision with the foam chunk was ignored because similar events had occured before and didn't result in damage.
I think there is a big feeling of invincibility out there, especially in the US. People have to remember that bad things have happened and will happen again. History tells us that it is not impossible that the US economy could go into a depression. It is not impossible that it would never come out of it.
I'm not saying that this is the end of the world, or trying to get everyone depressed, but I think the Pollyanna attitude in this article needs as much of a reality check as the "chicken littles" that it's addressing do.
Paykans are the most common car in Iran, mostly because until recently they were the only car available at a reasonable price. This car, which is widely derided even in Iran, has a four cylinder engine, runs on leaded gas, and has been produced essentially unchanged since the design (the Chevy Arrow) was bought from GM in 1967. Since Iran imposes a (depending on who you ask) roughly 170% duty on imported cars and has an extremely weak currency, even cheap foreign cars can cost as much as the average Irani will make in several hundred years. Recently, mercifully, other companies (Nissan, Kia) have opened factories in Iran and are producing competition for the umm "venerable" Paykan.
First Bush thought he was Teddy Roosevelt, but apparently lost interest when he found out Teddy Roosevelt created national parks rather than drilling them. Then he wanted to be Winston Churchill, but between his poor speaking skills and the way he alienated Europe that one didn't work out either.
So now he wants to be JFK? Let's just hope he doesn't find a Nixon biography next.
Slashdot Mirror
Official: "We need to block search results which promote public disorder and evil cults" .NET supply chain management!"
Google: "Okay okay we'll block them"
Lycos: "We'll block them AND log who searches for them"
Yahoo: "We'll block, log, AND notify police of their location"
Microsoft: "We'll block, log, notify, disable their computers AND place an order for potassium chloride and a guerney using
Unfortunately, due to the current conflicts our choice of couriers is limited, so we will have to return the CDs by loading them in pamphet-dispersion canisters and dropping them on your Redmond, WA offices.
Love,
The Army
As a wise man once said, "Never get in a mud flinging contest with a pig."
The really funny part is that 3 people modded it interesting.
Iraqi: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
Soldier: Sorry?
Iraqi I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
Soldier: Uh, no, no, no. This is a patrol.
Iraqi: Ah! I will not buy this *patrol*, it is scratched.
Soldier: No, no, no, no. Patrol...um...military (holds up his rifle).
Iraqi: Ya! Mil-teh-ree! Ya! Uh...My hovercraft is full of eels.
Soldier: Sorry?
Iraqi: My hovercraft (pantomimes hefting a rifle)...is full of eels
Soldier: Ahh, insurgents!
Iraqi: Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Do you waaaaant...do you waaaaaant...to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?
Soldier: Here, I don't think you're using that thing right.
Iraqi: You great poof.
Soldier: Look, just move along please.
Iraqi: If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I...I am no longer infected.
Soldier: Uh, may I, uh...(takes notebook computer, types in a phrase)...Costs six and six...ah, here we are. (speaks weird Iraqi-sounding words)
Iraqi punches the soldier.
I sure hope you are the only one. Nobody should ever trust a company to do anything other than try to make money. Novell would screw Linux and sell us all into cocoa plantation slavery if they could double their profits doing it. What's more it is very doubtful that they're nursing a grudge against MS, more likely they just see Linux as the only way to escape the inevitable Netscapification of all of their products.
The reason the web page says they are new is that they briefly released 3.7.1 and apparently pulled it for some reason, putting back the older version on the driver page.
In short, Dumbest.Slashdot.Article.Ever
Why oh why does every new technology have to spy on its users? The last sentence of the second paragraph seems to say you can opt out, but it sounds very weasely to me (what is not included in "this profile information"?)
From http://www.chameleonnetwork.com/faq_general.htm
A: Convenience and security in that order. Of course, there are many other reasons consumers will want to own the Pocket Vault. For example, if PV owners choose to, they can receive discounts and other promotions from retailers and media issuers, and have those available "in their wallets" at the touch of a button.
To the extent a Pocket Vault Holder "opts in" to certain marketing offerings (there are 4 levels of 'opt in'), CNI may have access, not to the individual account numbers, but to the fact that a particular consumer has and makes use of a certain type of wallet media. If the consumer does not opt in, Chameleon Network will not even have access to this profile information.
Why oh why does every new technology have to spy on its users? The last sentence of the second paragraph seems to say you can opt out, but it sounds very weasely to me (what is not included in "this profile information"?) From http://www.chameleonnetwork.com/faq_general.htm A: Convenience and security in that order. Of course, there are many other reasons consumers will want to own the Pocket Vault. For example, if PV owners choose to, they can receive discounts and other promotions from retailers and media issuers, and have those available "in their wallets" at the touch of a button. To the extent a Pocket Vault Holder "opts in" to certain marketing offerings (there are 4 levels of 'opt in'), CNI may have access, not to the individual account numbers, but to the fact that a particular consumer has and makes use of a certain type of wallet media. If the consumer does not opt in, Chameleon Network will not even have access to this profile information.
There is another page of pictures that you won't see clicking on the links, she has page 15 going directly to 17 by accident. This page shows the swimming pool.
For those of you who mercifully missed out on this era, generally a HOWTO would
(a) Point you to software that no longer compiled on any platform known to man
(b) Advise you to use configuration options that existed only in development versions and never worked even then.
(c) Assume that you know how to use an equally complex program that has its own HOWTO which points you back to the one you started with.
(d) give great explanations like: Ok for this file you just use syntax like a=1 to set a equal to 1. For example to make it fly to the moon just type:
$foo53r45$::564.config <-> FALSE
DiskBo$xInvolvement.Underpantsgnome = $PROFIT$
etc...
I am exaggerating VERY slightly. Anyone remember the DIP HOWTO? According to legend the suicide rate among Linux users tripled within three weeks of its release.
There's more than one Godzilla movie? I always assumed I was just seeing different parts of the same film... go figure.
But wait there's more, Adblock also blocks flash and even puts a little tab around the flash frame so you can block them more easily. That way you won't even see the white "click to play" frame in place of the flash at all.
Now for an unlimited time only try them for 30 days risk-free and if you like them, just send 3 easy payments of nothing to nobody.
"So tell us terrorist-boy, why was your phone number in Abu al-Gorithm's dresser?"
"I told you, I just answer the phone at pizza hut, he ordered delivery from us a bunch of times!"
"So tell us pizza-boy, what is pizza the code word for? C4? Suitcase nuke? Martyrdom operation?"
"Argh... He liked anchovies!"
"Hassan, get me the dremel tool. Looks like anchovy-boy needs learn to cooperate with the cause of freedom."
[ ] The CEO of Ion Storm is known to keep a bag of jewels in his office. While you're there, steal them [Expert]
[ ] The beta of Thief III is on the Ion Storm file server. Put an eDonkey client on their firewall and p1mp that bad boy out. [Hard]
[ ] Remember, you're a thief, not a murderer: don't kill anyone. If you bought Daikatana, you can whack Romero with your blackjack though. [Expert]
In this house, we OBEY the laws of thermodynamics!
It could have sample screenshots ripped off of a competing product filed in the patent application.
--30--
Actually, the PAH-2 Tiger is an Apache-clone tank killer being developed by France and Germany for their own militaries. The Comanche was to be a low radar signature scout aircraft not a tank killer like the Tiger and Apache, so the Tiger was never competing with the Comanche project in any way.
Great, so now not only can I be disgusted by the text content of my spam, when get a spam about "T3EN V1RGIN HORSE S3X 564ufghdfth", I will be able to smell it too! Thank you, Trisenx.
You're paranoid. Even Gates isn't crazy enough to try something like that. If the IRS found out that the Gates Foundation was using its donations for a quid pro quo that benefitted Microsoft they could kiss their tax-exempt status goodbye in a heartbeat.
I think there is a big feeling of invincibility out there, especially in the US. People have to remember that bad things have happened and will happen again. History tells us that it is not impossible that the US economy could go into a depression. It is not impossible that it would never come out of it.
I'm not saying that this is the end of the world, or trying to get everyone depressed, but I think the Pollyanna attitude in this article needs as much of a reality check as the "chicken littles" that it's addressing do.
Paykans are the most common car in Iran, mostly because until recently they were the only car available at a reasonable price. This car, which is widely derided even in Iran, has a four cylinder engine, runs on leaded gas, and has been produced essentially unchanged since the design (the Chevy Arrow) was bought from GM in 1967. Since Iran imposes a (depending on who you ask) roughly 170% duty on imported cars and has an extremely weak currency, even cheap foreign cars can cost as much as the average Irani will make in several hundred years. Recently, mercifully, other companies (Nissan, Kia) have opened factories in Iran and are producing competition for the umm "venerable" Paykan.
DONT FORGET don't forget?? forget what!
TO DRINK almost there...
YOUR.. OVALTINE
So now he wants to be JFK? Let's just hope he doesn't find a Nixon biography next.