> Remember when the IN SOVIET RUSSIA troll wasn't played out? Ahhhhhh, the good old days.
Kids these days.
Back in the days of MEEPT and penis birds, all my base were belong to Natalie Portman. And IN SOVIET RUSSIA, posters old enough to remember when line was stand-up comedy, not a Slashdot cliche:-)
But looking back at what I just posted, I have one thing to say to Slashdot: Where the fuck is my life?!
Seriously, thanx Andover/VA. I don't know where my life is, but I'm enjoying it.
> Sounds like an, uhm, interesting mud wrestling match. I would seriously pay for front row seats to that. > >In the, erm, brown corner we have Hilary Rosen; devourer of civil liberties, champion of everyone's IP rights (for varying values of 'everyone',) and destroyer of the fell beast Napster. > >
In the, uhm, OTHER brown corner, we have Nikki Hemming; fearless leader of Sharman Networks, profiteers behind such wonderful, life enhancing software as 'KaZaA Media Desktop;' single-handedly responsible for installing the Brilliant Digital plugin onto millions of desktops.
So you're saying they'll both get dirty and they'll both like it!
> Like I said. Front row seats. Winner gets a latex fist, ten pounds of diff grease and a brass replica of the Scales of Justice.
Sold for anything under $49.95 Pay Per View! (And the Spice channel can air the post-game ceremonies, but there's no way I want that on my credit card!)
>...Could we launch a Counter-FUD? Could hundreds of thousands of anonymous Slashbots spread enough arbitrary nasty rumours about SCO that people who don't know what's going on either way are far less likely to invest in them instead? Or could that backfire on us somehow?
What rumor could an AC possibly fabricate that SCO wouldn't turn into a press release the next day?
I mean, one week ago if I'd posted that SCO would sue every Linux user on the planet for $699/CPU, and sue Sharp and TiVo for $32 for every embedded system on the market, you'd have moderated it (+1, Funny) or (-1, Too far off the deep end to be funny, gotta be a Troll:-).
And nobody would have accused you of being on crack for it! Not even me!
> Hmm... it seems that SCO is in dire need of a checkup from the neck up.
Why? I've already seen goatse.cx!
> Very quickly, SCO is becoming a household word. A four letter word.
Sometimes I wonder if Microsoft isn't keeping SCO on life support for any reason other than the fact that Darl McBride gives us someone to hate more than Bill Gates.
> As far as I'm concerned, SCO can go SCO itself.
Preach it, brother. I never thought I'd see a company hated more than Microsoft, but McBride and SCO aren't worthy to lick the sweat from Ballmer's armpits.
Every day I read the financial press. And every day I just. don't. get. it.
Microsoft vs. DOJ - we all like to bash Billgatus, but two people could sit down over a beer and debate whether the courts are the right way to deal with monopolies, or which practices of Microsoft's were "illegal" and which were merely "hardball".
RAMBUS vs. Micron, Infineon, Dramurai - hey, at least some of RAMBUS' claims were plausible, and even if they played marginally dirty pool at the IEEE meetings, two people could sit down over a beer and have a legitimate debate over who invented DDR, and if the patent might also legitimately apply to SDRAM.
SCO vs. Whoever They Sued This Hour - closest thing to a debate you can have here is you and your buddy just keep drinking beer after beer, going "What the fuck? What the fucking fuck fuck?!"
> No, blanket blacklisting without impunity isn't the only way to handle a situation with a company such as CogentCo. I've read both sides here, and the unresponsive, holier-than-thou assholes who run SPEWS are doing the anti-spam side more harm than good by clinging to the notion that a scortched earth campaign is the only way to fight the spam war. For example, what's so hard about allowing folks in a blacklisted netblock to send an afadavit stating that they will not spam from their alotted IP addresses, and to notify SPEWS if their IP block changes? There are solutions here, solutions which don't require indiscriminate usage of netblocks
No, blanket proxy abuse with imputiny isn't the only way to run an ISP such as CogentCo. I've read both sides here, and the unresponsive, holier-than-thou assholes who run the (nonexistent) abuse desks at CogentCo, rr.com, attbi.com, and all of South America are doing the residential broadband side more harm than good by clinging to the notion that a scorched-earth campaign is the only way to stay in business.
For example, what's so hard about an ISP blocking outbound port 25 except for customers clueful enough to smarthost, or to sign an affadavit stating they will not spam nor run an open proxy from their alotted IP addresses, and to staff the ISP's abuse desk so that SPEWS doesn't have to block the whole goddamn/24.
There are solutions here, solutions which don't require the indiscriminate blocking of netblocks.
But until the fucking residential broadband providers wake the fuck up and use them, I'm blocking 200.0.0.0/7, 202.0.0.0/8, 12.0.0.0/8, 24.0.0.0/8, and any CogentCo and Comcast netblocks in 66.0.0.0/8 I can find at the/16 level.
Broadband? Residential? Get the fuck off the 'net. I don't wanna talk to you no mo.
> In the 21st century, here is how it works: > > You are awakened at 4:00 a.m. by a battering ram smashing down your front door.
Yes, every once in a while, there's a bad apple, and once in a while there's "Whups, sorry! Wrong house!", but that goes for any industry. Sometimes people write backdoors, and sometimes they just didn't check the length of the damn string, and people get 0wn3d.
Some months after moving into a new apartment, I got a visit from the local constabulary.
Although the cops were indeed prepared to force entry (two guys on backup behind the wall, one guy knocking the door, one guy backing up door-knocking guy, all in flak jackets), the conversation went remarkably like what the previous poster's example.
It was a simple case of mistaken identity - they had the right address, but the warrant was so old that the bad guy had long left town. Once they realized I wasn't the droid they were looking for (and they probably realized it a lot sooner than I did:-), I didn't even have to show papers to prove I'd been the only one in the apartment for $TIMESPAN.
"Naw, it's OK, sir, we believe you. Sorry to have bothered you, sir."
"No problem, officer. No harm, no foul. Stay safe."
I used to be like you. That night changed a thing - for the first time in my life, I had first-hand unfiltered data about cops, and I had to rethink my assumptions.
I concluded that 99.999% of the cop business isn't what you see in Orwellian dystopian sci-fi novels. In fact, it can't be, even if (some) cops might like the idea. They're outnumbered 1000:1. With odds like that, a good night is one in which, even if mistakes get made and a bad guy gets away, everybody goes home in one piece.
It's a rare day that a cop is your friend (at least, I'd hope that you rarely get into automobile accidents or are mugged/robbed within earshot of one!), but the probability that a cop your enemy is astronomically smaller.
> McBride continued by suggesting that his company's response "will likely include counterclaims for copyright infringement and conspiracy."
Conspiracy? What the flying-a-747-through-a-Krispy-Kreme fuck?
If they cross the line from bizarre and groundless civil claims into even more bizarre and groundless criminal claims, then all bets are off. I got yer conspiracy right here, and it has to do with issuing press releases in order to manipulate the price of securities.
Several have pointed out that the insider sales are "scheduled" and therefore legal. Correct.
But if you know the trades are going to happen between Day X and Day Y, it can still be insider trading if you manipulate the price of your stock by means of press releases.
This is a rare case - most scheduled selling is unrelated to the stock's day-to-day trading activity. For instance, consider an insider who knows earnings for the quarter are gonna suck.
An insider selling XYZ (unscheduled) the day before it reports earnings - legal.
An insider selling XYZ (scheduled) on the first of the month, every month - legal.
An insider selling XYZ (scheduled), knowing the quarter's gonna suck, and knowing his (legal) insider sale is likely to take place on the first of the month, browbeating the board to release earnings a week ahead of schedule - very interesting.
Assuming they were smart enough not to discuss this in email, it would be very difficult to prove whether any particular group of individuals set out to schedule their (legal) insider sales in advance of a series of (questionable) lawsuits... or if they scheduled the lawsuits, and in full (insider, nonpublic, material) knowledge of what the lawsuits were likely to do to the stock price, scheduled their sales. Some might even call that a conspiracy.
> "Reliability? Security? Just remember that all of your financial transactions are subject to the whims of a man that fancies himself a king!"
And how'd 'e get to be king, eh? By exploitin' the geeks! Supreme authority 'as got to come from a widely distributed peer-to-peer network, not from some farcical aquatic hosting company!
I mean, if I went around sayin' I was king just because some moistened bint threw a bunch of servers and a fiber-optic link at me, they'd put me away!
> We are missing some very friendly people like Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe who regularly throws his political opponents in jail where they often simply die.
Give the guy a few months for Mugabe's scores to be tabulated. Seriously - I link to the Atlas because its maintainer cites multiple sources from the left, right, and in between - and the need for up-to-the-minute (or even up-to-the-month) stats is rare.
The maintainer of the site is about as apolitical as I've ever seen anyone be when describing these sorts of things. Give him time, and Mugabe'll get his scores tabulated. (For now, try the country index, which should have at least some of the regional massacres, regardless of which side of a line on the map they happened. Particularly handy for scoring African tribal conflicts.)
> Consider your future as laughing-stock at your next employer. The shame in working for SCO is fast approaching that of working for Microsoft.
Fast approaching?
For the past few months, I've considered anyone working at what-is-now-called-SCO as ethically so far beyond the fucking pale they couldn't find the pale with very-long-baseline-interferometry!
(Fortunately, there were plenty of people who worked at what-was-SCO, who have no stain on their record, and there are very few people working at what-is-now-called-SCO, who are not worthy to lick the sweat from 'neath Steve Ballmer's armpits.)
> People don't die when you attack windmills.
I'd peg the deaths due to the invasion of Iraq no lower than 25,000. Mass murder, in fact.
So you're saying that considering Saddam's lifetime score of over 2,000,000 over 20-odd years, (100,000 a year) or about 8,000 a month, and about three months since the end of major combat operations, we reached the breakeven point in terms of death.
And that, statistically, every month from this day forward, 8,000 people will live who might otherwise have died under Saddam Hussein.
(Given the 50,000 bonus points scored during the months in 1991-1992 after we chose to leave him in power, my off-the-cuff figure of 8,000 lives saved per month of Saddam being out of power is just about right, actually!)
Source: Planet Earth's High Score List, sorted by dictator: H: Saddam Hussein
Advocating change - good.
Advocating change through violence - bad.
But this kid didn't just advocate change through violence, he also cr4x0r3d websites, which is how he got himself caught.
Advocating change through violence and being a skr1pt k1ddi3 - bad and stupid.
For once, I say good on the FBI for nailing the twerp. At least one skr1pt k1dd13 will finally find a whole new meaning to the term "raise the fist".
(Now if only I were sure that a certain executive of a certain Stupid Corporate Operation was gonna end up the same way, this woulda be a perfect day;)
> As far as I've been able to research (see CBOE) there are no options of any type for SCO.
Bummer. Makes sense, though. Up until the lawsuit, SCOX was a penny stock with very little trading volume. No point in having listed options on it.
> This is too bad, because although puts have a time limit, they're much more profitable than selling short (max gain is 200%, if you use all of your margin ability which is of course very dangerous). With the right puts (I'd buy one year out), you could easily make 500%.
And unlike a short scale, if SCOX manages to convince a judge its claims are true, you can only lose your entire investment. With a short sale, your losses are unlimited.
If SCOX were listed/traded, I'd buy puts a year out, and sell the August or September puts against them, creating a calendar spread, because while I believe the lawsuit probably won't be resolved this month, I can make a pretty good guess as to how it'll be resolved in a year.
Oh well, nothing to do but say "Fuck SCO and the slimy rock they slid out from under" - except that I have too much respect for slimy rocks.
> If you had have bought SCO stock at the start of all this you would be around 500% better of now.
And if you buy the correct series of put options on SCO, you can be 500% better off when the judge tells SCO to go fuck itself sideways with a wire brush.
> Don't under estimate the power and strength of capitalism.
Amen to that. But it takes two (a buyer and a seller) to make a market.
Speaking of which, I hope the SEC is investigating the trades made by insiders in SCOX, particularly with regard to whether the lawsuits in question have any basis in fact whatsoever.
If something untwoward is happening at SCOX, it wuldn't be the first time in the securities industry that individuals of questionable ethical standards have done something to artifically inflate their company's stock price in order to sell at the top. But the word for that is fraud, not capitalism.
> I agree that AOL Time Warner/Roadrunner should do something about all these problems that their customers cause, and so should Verizon DSL,
AT&T/Comcast, and everybody else. I wish that I knew how to get them to do that.
You and me both. I wish I didn't have to block them (and don't even get me started on South America:) globally, but them's the breaks. Without blocking all traffic from those cesspools, my inbox was unusable.
Fer chrissakes, uu.net (!) did it with their pools of leased dialups back in 1998-99. Why can't the broadband ISPs do likewise?
> > Yes folks, they placed an "Order of the Phoenix". > >
Not only that, but they were actually willing to pay 325 million dollars for shipping.
Actually, the shipping was only $20.00. The $325M was just insurance against the shipment being burninated en route by the Martian Air Defense's Tactical Regiment Of Guided Dragons On Recon.
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I so want one of these... I don't care what I hook it up to. Even if I just dump the energy into heat, that's fine. A toasty heatsink (with red LED) to warm my hands in the winter or a Peltier device (and accompanyting blue LED) to cool my forehead in summer, either would be cool.
> Of course, a possible application could be using to power RF tags for endangered species
...and then you come up with an even cooler application.
Active RF homing tags!
Start with common critters (testing), expand to endangered critters and pets, then felons, then the broader human population.
I wonder if you could hack this thing to power a mini-GPS receiver (antenna could be crafted like a metal plates used in peoples' heads). GPS receiver twiddles a few bits in a subcutaneous microtransmitter. A network of receivers (deployed every 10-20 meters, say, every street lamp) relays userid/location data to a network of relatively centralized (every few square kilometers) servers. Central servers share/broadcast location of everyone - to everyone.
Right now, you'd still need an external display (or head-mounted display) to read that location data and display it on a map to know where you and your friends were. But in 10-15 years, when the graphics can be rendered in wetware (blood-glucose-powered retinal implant), the infrastructure for 24/7 real-time personal location awareness / HUD display will already be in place. w00t!
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> more efficient to make ethanol out of that lovely sugar.
Why not just add a second extractor to get energy straight out of the ethanol already in your bloodstream?
What's that you say? No ethanol in your bloodstream? Well, put some in already!
What's that you say again? You drank three shots of Scotland's finest single malt, and you're not drunk because the extractor's drawing all that ethanol to power your laptop? Just keep drinking!
> I'm guessing that the people at AOL Time Warner/Roadrunner care more about ridding their network of spammers than they care about losing a few customers who don't want to be associated with the same netblock as bunch of spammers who have already moved on.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree here.
You see, judging from the metric fuckloads of spam coming from 24.0.0.0/8, I'd guess that AOL-TW cares more about the pubic hair on Ted Turner's soap bar than ridding their network of (clueless residential broadband lusers with open proxies abused by) spammers.
Granted that still puts them ahead of 4.0.0.0/8 (now Verizon DSL) and 12.0.0.0/8 (all of AT&T) and the sewer that Comcast calls an ISP.
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> The enlarged graph of Vapor Trails is badly distorted, when you consider that it's supposed to be analog music and not a compressed data feed. > > And for this we buy expensive speakers? Why bother?
Yeah, with all the damage done at the studio, 192kbps LAME is harmless by comparison. (Shit, 128kbps BladeEnc is probably fine at the rate things are going;-)
Hey, RIAA. Remember calibrating stuff to the "RIAA Curve" and all that other stuff y'all did that was about making music, not suing people for listening to it?
How 'bout you start directing some of your impulses for violence into browbeating your recording engineers into mastering CDs that are worth listening to as honest-to-gawd CDDA data streams, and we'll stop settling for lossy-compressed MP3z thereof!:-)
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Kids these days.
Back in the days of MEEPT and penis birds, all my base were belong to Natalie Portman. And IN SOVIET RUSSIA, posters old enough to remember when line was stand-up comedy, not a Slashdot cliche :-)
But looking back at what I just posted, I have one thing to say to Slashdot: Where the fuck is my life?!
Seriously, thanx Andover/VA. I don't know where my life is, but I'm enjoying it.
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>In the, erm, brown corner we have Hilary Rosen; devourer of civil liberties, champion of everyone's IP rights (for varying values of 'everyone',) and destroyer of the fell beast Napster.
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> In the, uhm, OTHER brown corner, we have Nikki Hemming; fearless leader of Sharman Networks, profiteers behind such wonderful, life enhancing software as 'KaZaA Media Desktop;' single-handedly responsible for installing the Brilliant Digital plugin onto millions of desktops.
So you're saying they'll both get dirty and they'll both like it!
> Like I said. Front row seats. Winner gets a latex fist, ten pounds of diff grease and a brass replica of the Scales of Justice.
Sold for anything under $49.95 Pay Per View! (And the Spice channel can air the post-game ceremonies, but there's no way I want that on my credit card!)
What rumor could an AC possibly fabricate that SCO wouldn't turn into a press release the next day?
I mean, one week ago if I'd posted that SCO would sue every Linux user on the planet for $699/CPU, and sue Sharp and TiVo for $32 for every embedded system on the market, you'd have moderated it (+1, Funny) or (-1, Too far off the deep end to be funny, gotta be a Troll :-).
And nobody would have accused you of being on crack for it! Not even me!
Why? I've already seen goatse.cx!
> Very quickly, SCO is becoming a household word. A four letter word.
Sometimes I wonder if Microsoft isn't keeping SCO on life support for any reason other than the fact that Darl McBride gives us someone to hate more than Bill Gates.
> As far as I'm concerned, SCO can go SCO itself.
Preach it, brother. I never thought I'd see a company hated more than Microsoft, but McBride and SCO aren't worthy to lick the sweat from Ballmer's armpits. Every day I read the financial press. And every day I just. don't. get. it.
Microsoft vs. DOJ - we all like to bash Billgatus, but two people could sit down over a beer and debate whether the courts are the right way to deal with monopolies, or which practices of Microsoft's were "illegal" and which were merely "hardball".
RAMBUS vs. Micron, Infineon, Dramurai - hey, at least some of RAMBUS' claims were plausible, and even if they played marginally dirty pool at the IEEE meetings, two people could sit down over a beer and have a legitimate debate over who invented DDR, and if the patent might also legitimately apply to SDRAM.
SCO vs. Whoever They Sued This Hour - closest thing to a debate you can have here is you and your buddy just keep drinking beer after beer, going "What the fuck? What the fucking fuck fuck?!"
No, blanket proxy abuse with imputiny isn't the only way to run an ISP such as CogentCo. I've read both sides here, and the unresponsive, holier-than-thou assholes who run the (nonexistent) abuse desks at CogentCo, rr.com, attbi.com, and all of South America are doing the residential broadband side more harm than good by clinging to the notion that a scorched-earth campaign is the only way to stay in business.
For example, what's so hard about an ISP blocking outbound port 25 except for customers clueful enough to smarthost, or to sign an affadavit stating they will not spam nor run an open proxy from their alotted IP addresses, and to staff the ISP's abuse desk so that SPEWS doesn't have to block the whole goddamn /24.
There are solutions here, solutions which don't require the indiscriminate blocking of netblocks.
But until the fucking residential broadband providers wake the fuck up and use them, I'm blocking 200.0.0.0/7, 202.0.0.0/8, 12.0.0.0/8, 24.0.0.0/8, and any CogentCo and Comcast netblocks in 66.0.0.0/8 I can find at the /16 level.
Broadband? Residential? Get the fuck off the 'net. I don't wanna talk to you no mo.
Whaddya mean, "good chance of winning"? Gray Davis won!
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> You are awakened at 4:00 a.m. by a battering ram smashing down your front door.
Yes, every once in a while, there's a bad apple, and once in a while there's "Whups, sorry! Wrong house!", but that goes for any industry. Sometimes people write backdoors, and sometimes they just didn't check the length of the damn string, and people get 0wn3d.
Some months after moving into a new apartment, I got a visit from the local constabulary. Although the cops were indeed prepared to force entry (two guys on backup behind the wall, one guy knocking the door, one guy backing up door-knocking guy, all in flak jackets), the conversation went remarkably like what the previous poster's example.
It was a simple case of mistaken identity - they had the right address, but the warrant was so old that the bad guy had long left town. Once they realized I wasn't the droid they were looking for (and they probably realized it a lot sooner than I did :-), I didn't even have to show papers to prove I'd been the only one in the apartment for $TIMESPAN.
"Naw, it's OK, sir, we believe you. Sorry to have bothered you, sir."
"No problem, officer. No harm, no foul. Stay safe."
I used to be like you. That night changed a thing - for the first time in my life, I had first-hand unfiltered data about cops, and I had to rethink my assumptions.
I concluded that 99.999% of the cop business isn't what you see in Orwellian dystopian sci-fi novels. In fact, it can't be, even if (some) cops might like the idea. They're outnumbered 1000:1. With odds like that, a good night is one in which, even if mistakes get made and a bad guy gets away, everybody goes home in one piece.
It's a rare day that a cop is your friend (at least, I'd hope that you rarely get into automobile accidents or are mugged/robbed within earshot of one!), but the probability that a cop your enemy is astronomically smaller.
If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody's around to hear it, did it make a sound?
If a threat is neutralized before it does harm, did "they" really make a mistake?
Conspiracy? What the flying-a-747-through-a-Krispy-Kreme fuck?
If they cross the line from bizarre and groundless civil claims into even more bizarre and groundless criminal claims, then all bets are off. I got yer conspiracy right here, and it has to do with issuing press releases in order to manipulate the price of securities.
Several have pointed out that the insider sales are "scheduled" and therefore legal. Correct.
But if you know the trades are going to happen between Day X and Day Y, it can still be insider trading if you manipulate the price of your stock by means of press releases.
This is a rare case - most scheduled selling is unrelated to the stock's day-to-day trading activity. For instance, consider an insider who knows earnings for the quarter are gonna suck.
An insider selling XYZ (unscheduled) the day before it reports earnings - legal.
An insider selling XYZ (scheduled) on the first of the month, every month - legal.
An insider selling XYZ (scheduled), knowing the quarter's gonna suck, and knowing his (legal) insider sale is likely to take place on the first of the month, browbeating the board to release earnings a week ahead of schedule - very interesting.
Assuming they were smart enough not to discuss this in email, it would be very difficult to prove whether any particular group of individuals set out to schedule their (legal) insider sales in advance of a series of (questionable) lawsuits... or if they scheduled the lawsuits, and in full (insider, nonpublic, material) knowledge of what the lawsuits were likely to do to the stock price, scheduled their sales. Some might even call that a conspiracy.
And how'd 'e get to be king, eh? By exploitin' the geeks! Supreme authority 'as got to come from a widely distributed peer-to-peer network, not from some farcical aquatic hosting company!
I mean, if I went around sayin' I was king just because some moistened bint threw a bunch of servers and a fiber-optic link at me, they'd put me away!
Give the guy a few months for Mugabe's scores to be tabulated. Seriously - I link to the Atlas because its maintainer cites multiple sources from the left, right, and in between - and the need for up-to-the-minute (or even up-to-the-month) stats is rare.
The maintainer of the site is about as apolitical as I've ever seen anyone be when describing these sorts of things. Give him time, and Mugabe'll get his scores tabulated. (For now, try the country index, which should have at least some of the regional massacres, regardless of which side of a line on the map they happened. Particularly handy for scoring African tribal conflicts.)
Fast approaching?
For the past few months, I've considered anyone working at what-is-now-called-SCO as ethically so far beyond the fucking pale they couldn't find the pale with very-long-baseline-interferometry!
(Fortunately, there were plenty of people who worked at what-was-SCO, who have no stain on their record, and there are very few people working at what-is-now-called-SCO, who are not worthy to lick the sweat from 'neath Steve Ballmer's armpits.)
So you're saying that considering Saddam's lifetime score of over 2,000,000 over 20-odd years, (100,000 a year) or about 8,000 a month, and about three months since the end of major combat operations, we reached the breakeven point in terms of death.
And that, statistically, every month from this day forward, 8,000 people will live who might otherwise have died under Saddam Hussein.
(Given the 50,000 bonus points scored during the months in 1991-1992 after we chose to leave him in power, my off-the-cuff figure of 8,000 lives saved per month of Saddam being out of power is just about right, actually!)
Source: Planet Earth's High Score List, sorted by dictator: H: Saddam Hussein
Advocating change through violence - bad.
But this kid didn't just advocate change through violence, he also cr4x0r3d websites, which is how he got himself caught.
Advocating change through violence and being a skr1pt k1ddi3 - bad and stupid.
For once, I say good on the FBI for nailing the twerp. At least one skr1pt k1dd13 will finally find a whole new meaning to the term "raise the fist".
(Now if only I were sure that a certain executive of a certain Stupid Corporate Operation was gonna end up the same way, this woulda be a perfect day ;)
Bummer. Makes sense, though. Up until the lawsuit, SCOX was a penny stock with very little trading volume. No point in having listed options on it.
> This is too bad, because although puts have a time limit, they're much more profitable than selling short (max gain is 200%, if you use all of your margin ability which is of course very dangerous). With the right puts (I'd buy one year out), you could easily make 500%.
And unlike a short scale, if SCOX manages to convince a judge its claims are true, you can only lose your entire investment. With a short sale, your losses are unlimited.
If SCOX were listed/traded, I'd buy puts a year out, and sell the August or September puts against them, creating a calendar spread, because while I believe the lawsuit probably won't be resolved this month, I can make a pretty good guess as to how it'll be resolved in a year.
Oh well, nothing to do but say "Fuck SCO and the slimy rock they slid out from under" - except that I have too much respect for slimy rocks.
There is no spoon, Darl. Use your tongue.
And if you buy the correct series of put options on SCO, you can be 500% better off when the judge tells SCO to go fuck itself sideways with a wire brush.
> Don't under estimate the power and strength of capitalism.
Amen to that. But it takes two (a buyer and a seller) to make a market.
Speaking of which, I hope the SEC is investigating the trades made by insiders in SCOX, particularly with regard to whether the lawsuits in question have any basis in fact whatsoever.
If something untwoward is happening at SCOX, it wuldn't be the first time in the securities industry that individuals of questionable ethical standards have done something to artifically inflate their company's stock price in order to sell at the top. But the word for that is fraud, not capitalism.
(No, five words!)
BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS!
(Three, Sir!)
TONGUE MY LOINS!
Ahem. National Bunghole Anti-Defamation Leage on Line Two.
You and me both. I wish I didn't have to block them (and don't even get me started on South America :) globally, but them's the breaks. Without blocking all traffic from those cesspools, my inbox was unusable.
Fer chrissakes, uu.net (!) did it with their pools of leased dialups back in 1998-99. Why can't the broadband ISPs do likewise?
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> Not only that, but they were actually willing to pay 325 million dollars for shipping.
Actually, the shipping was only $20.00. The $325M was just insurance against the shipment being burninated en route by the Martian Air Defense's Tactical Regiment Of Guided Dragons On Recon.
> Of course, a possible application could be using to power RF tags for endangered species
Active RF homing tags!
Start with common critters (testing), expand to endangered critters and pets, then felons, then the broader human population.
I wonder if you could hack this thing to power a mini-GPS receiver (antenna could be crafted like a metal plates used in peoples' heads). GPS receiver twiddles a few bits in a subcutaneous microtransmitter. A network of receivers (deployed every 10-20 meters, say, every street lamp) relays userid/location data to a network of relatively centralized (every few square kilometers) servers. Central servers share/broadcast location of everyone - to everyone.
Right now, you'd still need an external display (or head-mounted display) to read that location data and display it on a map to know where you and your friends were. But in 10-15 years, when the graphics can be rendered in wetware (blood-glucose-powered retinal implant), the infrastructure for 24/7 real-time personal location awareness / HUD display will already be in place. w00t!
Why not just add a second extractor to get energy straight out of the ethanol already in your bloodstream?
What's that you say? No ethanol in your bloodstream? Well, put some in already!
What's that you say again? You drank three shots of Scotland's finest single malt, and you're not drunk because the extractor's drawing all that ethanol to power your laptop? Just keep drinking!
I think we'll have to agree to disagree here.
You see, judging from the metric fuckloads of spam coming from 24.0.0.0/8, I'd guess that AOL-TW cares more about the pubic hair on Ted Turner's soap bar than ridding their network of (clueless residential broadband lusers with open proxies abused by) spammers.
Granted that still puts them ahead of 4.0.0.0/8 (now Verizon DSL) and 12.0.0.0/8 (all of AT&T) and the sewer that Comcast calls an ISP.
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> And for this we buy expensive speakers? Why bother?
Yeah, with all the damage done at the studio, 192kbps LAME is harmless by comparison. (Shit, 128kbps BladeEnc is probably fine at the rate things are going ;-)
Hey, RIAA. Remember calibrating stuff to the "RIAA Curve" and all that other stuff y'all did that was about making music, not suing people for listening to it?
How 'bout you start directing some of your impulses for violence into browbeating your recording engineers into mastering CDs that are worth listening to as honest-to-gawd CDDA data streams, and we'll stop settling for lossy-compressed MP3z thereof! :-)