From TFA: > For traditionally "safe" protocols like mailto: or http:
And that's where my co-workers heard the cry of "You dumb motherfuckers".
It's been a few years since Microsoft boxes were out-of-the-box exploitable through anything other than rendering HTML content from either a web page or from within an email client.
While the planet is grateful for the lack of uPnP and DCOM/RPC worms of late, it also means that "things that have to do with email or web browsing" are among the least safe things you can ask a computer to do.
If you're at Microsoft, and you still think of "http://" as "safe", you're still part of the problem, not part of the solution.
> I have to wonder if there's any intersection between the people who complain about digital distribution of software (a la Steam) and people who shriek and throw feces at the entertainment industry for not changing their business model to center around digital distribution.
I don't see anyone clamoring for the music industry to deliver "you download the song, then your MP3 player contacts the mothership to confirm that it's authorized to decrypt the song on your player, and if you leave your MP3 player unplugged from your computer for more than 30 days, you have to phone home the next time you plug it in. We also have the right to automatically "update" the Original Explicit Mix with the Radio Edit Mix if Wal-Mart decides it won't sell our records if the singer uses the word "fuck".)
Actually, I see plenty of RIAA and MPAA executives clamoring shrieking and throwing feces in favor of that model of digital distribution. But I don't think you were talking about those particular monkeys:)
Me? I wonder about the intersection between the people who think Steam's a wonderful content delivery system, but who shriek and throw feces at Microsoft for XP, Vista, and WGA. They're the really weird ones.
> He's in a bit of trouble with the law too: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/16/computer-recycler-th.html > >The Department of Toxic Substance Control of the California Environmental Protection Agency has issued the ACCRC a violation that could make it very hard for the group to stay in business. And, quite frankly, that's a damned shame.
And when I wrote Natalie's Restaurant more than two years ago, I thought it was fiction. Shit, the only thing I got wrong was that I imagined a San Francisco bureaucrat, as opposed to a Berkeley bureaucrat, and that my imaginararily-awkwardly-named "California Computer Recycling Use Fee Commission" wasn't long enough to match the actual bureaucracy's name (namely the "Department of Toxic Substance Control of the California Environmental Protection Agency").
Because nobody, not even in the Bay Area, could be so dumb as to suggest that tossing a bunch of working hardware into a container ship bound for a crusher/smelter in China, was somehow a "more green" solution than reusing (and giving away) perfectly functional hardware so that it doesn't go into the waste stream in the first place.
But then again, that's the difference between recycling as done by folks like the ACCRC - which is interested in reducing and reusing as well as recycling - and recycling as done by a government bureaucrat, to whom the only "green" that matters is how many taxpayer dollars can be milked out of an operation.
So we'll sing it again when it comes 'round on the guitar.
Can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day, diggin' through their closets and attics, findin' somethin' that still works, and givin' it to someone who ain't got one? And friends, they may think it's a movement...
> As the article notes, taking the company on faith after the spying scandal is asking maybe a little too much."
...but as the contract notes, accusing AT&T of being run by bunch of wannabe censors, spies, and just plain all-round fucknozzled douchebags, is saying maybe a little too muc- NO CARRIER
We choose to laugh
When people die
It feels better
To laugh than cry
- Burma Shave
Which is the closest thing to a koan that I could fit into the Burma Shave rhyme structure. The words won't fit through the door. (And thus, the Slashdotter was Moderated.)
Cheviot (CEO): "Murray... Carter! What the devil is going on here? A false story mounted on flimsy evidence, my top reporter exposed as a shyster, a senior producer accused of criminal incompetence, and a major politician publicly accusing this network of character assassination... good grief!"
Carter (Reporter): "I'm afraid our link's gone down."
Ronald (Political aide): "Just as well."
Simon Peller (Politician): "Oh, not so, Ronald. Mr. Carter is merely doing his very well-paid job, while the appearance of dispute is essential to the networks's... ah, electoral democracy, eh, Mr. Carter? May I call you Edison?"
Carter: "No. And I don't like the word 'appearance'... Mr. Peller."
...and I don't like the word 'fiction', at least when it's applied to Max Headroom.
There are reasons why this show has never been released on DVD. Usually at least one reason per episode. 20 minutes into the future turned out to be 20 years into the future, but they got every sociopolitical trend correct.
> 'We wouldn't term it strong, we would describe this as accommodating
a certain element who needs more time.'"
Pressed for clarification, the Microsoft representative continued:
Q: "Would you term the market's adoption of Vista as slow?"
A: "We wouldn't term it slow, we would describe it as approaching that of a sloth on valium."
> Can we get them to stream images from the back yard patio where Jessica Alba is sunbathing nude???
Of course we can.
Just install this special Betatrac codec. Closed-source only.
Oh, the Betatrac codec has to handshake with the chipset we use in Vaio line of lapops. Won't work on your Mac, Dell, or white-box PC, unless you buy our Betatrac Vaio USB device, which will permit you to move (and not copy!) one (and only one!) copy of the video to a Memory Stick.
> Like the TFA says, they save millions by using free software. Showing that your hardware is stable also brings you extra cash. Recruiting extra specialists and devoting extra resources to help what's a tiny part of your user base is not financially profitable, so they don't.
Speaking of extra resources and budgetary allocation...
Embedded system: Free.
Linux port of client software: Expensive.
Sufficient web server CPU and bandwidth allocation: Priceless.
> You're sure the magnets can't create enough of a field, to make every hair on the cat stand up? Thereby providing enough lift for it to hover. Then just give your little poof-ball a shove, and off he goes.
All someone has to do is Photoshop up something for "Lolrus and Bukket at Tenagra", and we'll have a complete set of image macros enumerating every conversation that can be held on a message board. (GODEL RLY!)
> I always let......XML document itself.:P
> >
(Isn't that the beauty of it?)
<SENTENCE>Because if <SUBJECT>it</SUBJECT> <PREDICATE>was impossible</PREDICATE> for a <OBJECT>human</OBJECT> to generate, <SUBJECT>it</SUBJECT> <PREDICATE>should be impossible</PREDICATE> for a <OBJECT>human</OBJECT> to understand!</SENTENCE>
> Geek culture is the same way. The stupid jokes weed out people who won't make good engineers.
To wit: the difference between a stupid sexist joke and a stupid geek joke is that the stupid geek joke is funny even with the genders reversed.
An engineer, who has spent the evening out, is caught by his wife trying to sneak into his house early the next morning. Saying that he has something to confess, he tells of meeting a woman in a bar, drinking too much and winding up going home with her.
"You shit," his wife screams, "you've been working late in the lab again!"
Anyone who thinks that's a "sexist" joke isn't a good engineer, because they've never experienced a problem so engrossing that they'll spend all night trying to solve it. An engineer (well, one lucky enough to get the opportunity!) might feel guilty about cheating on his/her spouse... but never about spending a night at the lab!
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>Go fuck yourselves.
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>Sincerely, the rest of the world.
Attention, rest of the world.
As you can plainly see by this article, we're doing precisely that.
> For traditionally "safe" protocols like mailto: or http:
And that's where my co-workers heard the cry of "You dumb motherfuckers".
It's been a few years since Microsoft boxes were out-of-the-box exploitable through anything other than rendering HTML content from either a web page or from within an email client.
While the planet is grateful for the lack of uPnP and DCOM/RPC worms of late, it also means that "things that have to do with email or web browsing" are among the least safe things you can ask a computer to do.
If you're at Microsoft, and you still think of "http://" as "safe", you're still part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Your userID number is in the mid-500,000s. You're not that new here, are you? :)
"That's no space station, Qfitzglb, that's a moon!"
I don't see anyone clamoring for the music industry to deliver "you download the song, then your MP3 player contacts the mothership to confirm that it's authorized to decrypt the song on your player, and if you leave your MP3 player unplugged from your computer for more than 30 days, you have to phone home the next time you plug it in. We also have the right to automatically "update" the Original Explicit Mix with the Radio Edit Mix if Wal-Mart decides it won't sell our records if the singer uses the word "fuck".)
Actually, I see plenty of RIAA and MPAA executives clamoring shrieking and throwing feces in favor of that model of digital distribution. But I don't think you were talking about those particular monkeys :)
Me? I wonder about the intersection between the people who think Steam's a wonderful content delivery system, but who shriek and throw feces at Microsoft for XP, Vista, and WGA. They're the really weird ones.
Spencer: Bring out the GIMP.
Peter: The GIMP's not installed.
Spencer: Well, I guess you'll have to compile it now, won't you?
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>The Department of Toxic Substance Control of the California Environmental Protection Agency has issued the ACCRC a violation that could make it very hard for the group to stay in business. And, quite frankly, that's a damned shame.
And when I wrote Natalie's Restaurant more than two years ago, I thought it was fiction. Shit, the only thing I got wrong was that I imagined a San Francisco bureaucrat, as opposed to a Berkeley bureaucrat, and that my imaginararily-awkwardly-named "California Computer Recycling Use Fee Commission" wasn't long enough to match the actual bureaucracy's name (namely the "Department of Toxic Substance Control of the California Environmental Protection Agency").
Because nobody, not even in the Bay Area, could be so dumb as to suggest that tossing a bunch of working hardware into a container ship bound for a crusher/smelter in China, was somehow a "more green" solution than reusing (and giving away) perfectly functional hardware so that it doesn't go into the waste stream in the first place.
But then again, that's the difference between recycling as done by folks like the ACCRC - which is interested in reducing and reusing as well as recycling - and recycling as done by a government bureaucrat, to whom the only "green" that matters is how many taxpayer dollars can be milked out of an operation.
So we'll sing it again when it comes 'round on the guitar.
Can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day, diggin' through their closets and attics, findin' somethin' that still works, and givin' it to someone who ain't got one? And friends, they may think it's a movement...
NO CARRIER
We choose to laugh
When people die
It feels better
To laugh than cry
- Burma Shave
Which is the closest thing to a koan that I could fit into the Burma Shave rhyme structure. The words won't fit through the door. (And thus, the Slashdotter was Moderated.)
What was maroon
Shows as red
In the street
Monks lie dead
- Myanmar Shave
Ah, Episode 2.3, Grossberg's Return!
Although I was thinking of Episode 1.6, Blanks...
There are reasons why this show has never been released on DVD. Usually at least one reason per episode. 20 minutes into the future turned out to be 20 years into the future, but they got every sociopolitical trend correct.
>Does that mean I get 8 votes?
"I have a spectrum analyzer.
It means that even if you only had one SIM card, you still get a knock on the door after midnight."
- FSB.
Pressed for clarification, the Microsoft representative continued:
Q: "Would you term the market's adoption of Vista as slow?"
A: "We wouldn't term it slow, we would describe it as approaching that of a sloth on valium."
Of course.
The Google interprets revisions to the GPL as damage and licenses around them. ("That's GOO/Linux to you, Sir!")
Of course we can.
Just install this special Betatrac codec. Closed-source only.
Oh, the Betatrac codec has to handshake with the chipset we use in Vaio line of lapops. Won't work on your Mac, Dell, or white-box PC, unless you buy our Betatrac Vaio USB device, which will permit you to move (and not copy!) one (and only one!) copy of the video to a Memory Stick.
Speaking of extra resources and budgetary allocation...
Embedded system: Free.
Linux port of client software: Expensive.
Sufficient web server CPU and bandwidth allocation: Priceless.
I was gonna say "Whoever wins, we lose", but then I realized that "Alien vs. Predator" was accurate enough.
Done.
All someone has to do is Photoshop up something for "Lolrus and Bukket at Tenagra", and we'll have a complete set of image macros enumerating every conversation that can be held on a message board. (GODEL RLY!)
Depends. A monorail cat could still use wheels, unless they upgraded your cat to maglev.
When there's insults to be dished out, you will only insult each other using the approved insults!
And when there's abuse to be documented, who'll be documenting the abuse? Who'll be watching the watchers? Not you, Citizen!
When we point the camera at you, it's for your safety. When you point the camera at us, it's an offensive weapon.
Don't bully. Your government hates the competition.
>
> (Isn't that the beauty of it?)
<SENTENCE>Because if <SUBJECT>it</SUBJECT> <PREDICATE>was impossible</PREDICATE> for a <OBJECT>human</OBJECT> to generate, <SUBJECT>it</SUBJECT> <PREDICATE>should be impossible</PREDICATE> for a <OBJECT>human</OBJECT> to understand!</SENTENCE>
To wit: the difference between a stupid sexist joke and a stupid geek joke is that the stupid geek joke is funny even with the genders reversed.
An engineer, who has spent the evening out, is caught by his wife trying to sneak into his house early the next morning. Saying that he has something to confess, he tells of meeting a woman in a bar, drinking too much and winding up going home with her.
"You shit," his wife screams, "you've been working late in the lab again!"
Anyone who thinks that's a "sexist" joke isn't a good engineer, because they've never experienced a problem so engrossing that they'll spend all night trying to solve it. An engineer (well, one lucky enough to get the opportunity!) might feel guilty about cheating on his/her spouse... but never about spending a night at the lab!
*forcechoke*
"In Soviet Union, you accepted apology."
*TWEET!*
Flag on the play! You're presuming TSA goons can read.
For that matter, that's assuming that *.google-analytics.com isn't blocked just as heavily as Doubleclick.