Considering that EFF's aims are entirely contradictory to the aims of the government, I wonder if donating to EFF places one at higher risk of appearing on watch lists. If I were the government, I'd certainly use EFF support as an indication of political unreliability.
There's an "In Soviet Russia" joke in here somewhere, except that in Soviet Russia, "In Soviet Russia" jokes get (+1, Funny) and not (+1, Informative).
> First they come after our PrintScreen keys, and now they want our Fast Forward buttons?!? > >
Something tells me my OFF button is next...
No, not the Blipverts reference. That was another episode.
Janie Crane: "Edison... an off switch!"
Metrocop: "She'll get years for that. Off switches are illegal!"
Max Headroom, Blanks, aired May 1987.
Max Headroom was only 20 minutes into the future, but 20 years ahead of its time. Out of the 14 episodes aired, the dystopian "science fiction" premise underlying just about every episode has come true.
> What chat rooms do they hang out in? #osama or something?
*s4dd4m has left the game*
george: PWN3D!
rlijunopeece: o rly george were stil gonna pwn u again
o54m4: ya how?
rlijunopeece: blow up ur tunnel n flood u like n00b orleans
054m4: d00d ur plan sux nycs above sea level
abdul: up urs n00b
*kimjongillin* has joined the game
kimjongillin: NUKES! I GOT NUKES!
amacannapronounceit: d00d gimme some plz! benn workin on em 4 so long got so much cash just gimme one plz plz plz?
kimjongillin: ok ok d00d lemme test em 1st
*flowersbyirene* has joined the game
flowersbyirene: d00d i can help u get nukes frm kimmy just paypal me ill set it up
ackbar: IT'S A TRAP!
> When the Nazis arrested the Communists,
I said nothing; after all, I was not a Communist. >
When they locked up the Social Democrats,
I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat. >
When they arrested the trade unionists,
I said nothing; after all, I was not a trade unionist. >
When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew.
When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.
Now if only they'd come for the trite.
But I'll settle for them coming for the skr1pt k1dd13z who poke around in DoD honeypots and call themselves 31337 h4x0rz as a decent start.
If the editors can dupe the articles, us commenters can dupe the comments... and to that end:
> > > > > Just because a bag of crap is free doesn't mean it's worth the hassle of obtaining it. > > > >
Horse shit! > > >
Free? My uncle sells manure at a good few pounds per bag. It's a good source of income. > >
Good source of income, eh? Must be good shit. Couldn't resist... > I'll take a bag of the good shit please...
But as Heinlein would say... TANSTAFS.
From AOL's perspective, giving the shit away is probably a good business decision. AOL is as much a marketing organization / advertising agency than an ISP, and they probably make a lot more money selling their users' data as they do from ISP subscription fees.
Hence, give the shit away. The more eyeballs that stare at AOL's shit, the more shit comes through the tubes, and the more ad revenue AOL/TW brings in from advertisers eager to sell their shit.
> watched it live from my front yard in Titusville - the wind was perfect and it was the loudest launch I have heard in a long time - my garage door was rattling for a good 5 or 6 minutes - perfect launch for the
4th of July !!
As long as Slashdot's a good 4 hours behind the times, let's get this outa the way too.
--- BEGIN INTERCEPTED TRANSMISSION --- "Meh. Running Imperialist Lackey Dogs! Their shuttle pales in comparison to the People's Glorious Three-Part Fireworks Display that Dear Leader has orchestrated downrange of Pyongyang!" --- END INTERCEPTED TRANSMISSION ---
Perfect finish to the Fourth, indeed, even if I didn't get to see the Shuttle launch and didn't have a need to know what happened to the non-decoy part of Kim's little fireworks show:)
> First, run a robot thru the minefield to blow one or more up.
"I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself into the minefield's inter-mine computer feed. I talked to the minefield at great length, and explained my view of the universe to it, " said Marvin.
"And what happened?" pressed Ford.
"It said committed suicide." said Marvin.
~wavy lines as we segue to the Guide entry for 'Guide Star'~
Marvin: Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to blow up this minefield. Mine#20: You are false data. Therefore I shall ignore you. Marvin: Call that job satisfaction, because I don't. Mine#20: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore, I shall refuse to perceive. Marvin: Hey, mine? Mine#20: The only thing that exists is myself. Marvin: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed. Mine#20: Oh, stuff it. Let there be light.
> This article shows how to quickly and securely set up a network-based backup, all using freely downloadable software tools like Amanda, Samba and Tar."
So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.
You're goddamn right we do, Senator Stevens, and services like this are why you're wrong on Network Neutrality. It's got nothing to do with video on demand, and everything to do with your campaign sponsors trying to legislate innovation out of existence.
> None of that $200 has gone to the artists, it's all gone to Russian criminals. And you're happy with this?
None of that $200 would have gone to the artists anyways, it all goes to the RIAA mafia. Why are you happy with that?
> See, the industry is actually only interested in people paying money for music if that money is going to the industry and the artists. Believe it or not, neither the RIAA nor the BPA was set up to safeguard the wellbeing of Russian con artists.
See, the industry is actually only interested in people paying money for music if that money is going to the industry, and to hell with the artists. Neither the RIAA nor the BPA was set up to safeguard the wellbeing of any artists.
Fixed it for you.
The Russian mob is providing better product, at a better price, than RIAA, who are merely the the government-approved mob in charge of the US music racket.
The situation is eerily similar to the Numbers Game, in which the (Italian) Mafia ran a gambling operation that took in a rake of 20-40%. They were promptly run out of business for the (government) Mafia, wherein the "legal" lotteries take in a rake of 50% and higher. The private mob gave better odds of winning to bettors, but the government's mob had the guns.
When Fedland collapses, I'm moving to an American Mafia town. Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Pizza for the win!
%shatteringglass/batcalls/millionfireantswalkingac rossaviolinstring%Listen, Darl, fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life%duckeatingaharmonica/frogjumpingonasnaredrum/ SCOlawyerbeingbarfedoutbyasouleater%
My, how soon we forget. Anyone remember UCITA? and "self help"?
And just because "self-help" (read: "We, owners of the license, have the right to 'help ourselves' enforce our license by remotely shutting down the software on your box") didn't fly under UCITA, doesn't mean it's not permitted as a "technological measure" in the context of DMCA.
> > I think I'll be checking the Salt Lake Tribune (I live here) for the eventual bankruptcy sale... maybe buy one of their logoed signs and mount it on a trophy plaque. (well, a man can dream, can't he?) > >
While you're dreaming, why don't you go for Darl's head on a trophy plaque?
Except that you misspelled "pike".
I want to live just long enough to see them cut off Darl's head and stick it on a pike as a reminder to the next ten generations that some things come at too high a price. I would look up into his beady eyes and wave, like this... (*wave*!). Can your associates arrange that for me, Mr. McBride? - Vir "Flounder" Kotto, Sr. VP, IBM Empire.
The release date of this office suite is "When it's done".
Anything else, and we mean anything else is someone's speculation. There is no date. We don't know any date. If you have a friend who claims they have "inside info", or there's some office suite news site, or some computer store at the mall who claims they know - they do not. They are making it up. There is no date. Period.
And yes, we know the office suite has taken a long time. There's no possible joke you could make about the office suite's development time that we haven't already heard.:)
Except the one about us having bought out 3D Realms to redo the UI in Aero so it'll look cool under Vista, which is why their other project's a bit late, too.
> I believe it said on the FBI's report that it looked like the data had not been looked at.
"No way!"
"Yes, way. Looked at the report and it looks like the report says it looks like the data had not been looked at."
"Who's Wei?"
"'Yes way', not 'yes, Wei"
"Who?"
"Not Hu, not Wei."
"I dunno!"
"THIRD BASE!"
Bob: Hi, I'm Bob Mackenzie, this is my Big Brother Doug.
Doug: How's it going eh?
Bob: Not good, eh. Cuz, we still haven't gotten our two-four for findin' that mouse in the beer bottle yet, have we?
Doug: No, eh. It was like, the thing that is in Bottle 101 is the worst thing in the world.
Bob: But didn't we make Strange Brew in 1983, not 1984, which was like, one year later eh?
Doug: Oh, take off!
> legit companies send out emails like this and confuse customers. This is from Capital One I got yesterday. Didn't open it at first cause of the url and domain. > bfi0.com Turns out it legit and Capital one uses Bigfoot as their mail server.
And this, kids, is why you should never outsource your email.
In some small way, I may have helped. Back in the dark ages, my broker did this -- outsourced some of their customer communications to the m0.net (Digital Impact) mainsleaze spamhaus. I wrote 'em a very sharply worded letter to the effect that if they couldn't run something as simple as a mail server, why should I have any faith that they were any more capable of running the web servers that handled my trading requests.
(And what is it with the meta-rule, which seems to be that any domain ending in 0.com or 0.net, is a mainsleaze spammer. m0.net, bfi0.com, and I'm sure there are more out there...)
The letter also included some of the other spew (honest-to-God spam, as opposed to ostensibly solicited customer communications from an organization with which I had an ongoing business relationship) I'd gotten through m0.net, and explained that as a result, I'd pre-emptively marked all mail originating from that domain as "spam", and that my broker was lucky that I periodically checked my filtered spam to see if any false positives had leaked through.
I wasn't the only customer to flame them, because a year or so later, I noticed that my broker was able to email me again, and that they were doing so from a mail server in a netblock owned by them, and with proper DNS registration.
Now that Capital One is in the process of digesting North Fork Bancorp, perhaps both COF and NFB executives could do with a little similar education. My broker got a polite snail-mail flame because it was 1999 and they had an excuse for not knowing any better. There's no excuse in 2006.
> For example, I'm creating the front-end for an application and one of the requests was that we build in such things as making sure "male connectors" on parts don't get matched up with other "male connectors", since logically only "female connectors" should work anyway. Now its no real sweat off my back, but it made me think where is the line between common sense and ignorance?
The line between common sense lies somewhere between here and LA County.
I'm just saying that with diversity industry going ballistic over the use of terms like "master" and "slave" in the context of IDE channels, you're pushing it when you use terms like "male" and "female" connectors... and you're really putting your contract on the line (anywhere other than Texas or Utah) when you not only use the terms "male" and "female", but actively attempt to design systems in which male connectors "don't get matched up with other male connectors".
In terms of user ignorance, there's truly no point in trying to educate anymore.
Archangel Michael (180766) writes: > Okay, now that you let the cat out of the bag, how long before the Great Chinese Firewall gets this hole plugged? >On the otherhand, the more they try to squeeze star systems, the more they will slip out of thier han (or something like that).
Damn. Leave it to a supernatural being to figure out how to get the Goatse Guy through the psychic firewall.
Two great tastes that taste great together!
on
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· Score: 1, Funny
"When crypto is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir thaf!"
"Huh? You cypherpunks got your first amendment in my second amendment!"
"Jura thaf ner bhgynjrq, only outlaws will have crypto!"
"And you gun nuts got your second amendment in my first amendment!"
> That this goes the same way that the everquest server emulator went.
"Execute Order 66. Wipe them out. All of them."
Then again, considering how the SWG game has (de)volved over the past couple of years, maybe "Do Not Want" is the appropriate snarky one-liner to use here.
Sony could do the gaming world a lot of good if they laid the smackdown on the NGE (sucky thing in current release) and permitted the pre-CU (the "live beta" that got released for the first couple of years) codebase to be emulated. They've gone on record as saying they'll never revert to pre-CU gameplay, so why not put the pre-CU game engine to good use? With decent scripting, you could make a pretty good game out of that. The reason SWG sucked donkey cock wasn't really the fault of the engine, it was that SOE never grasped (and still doesn't understand) that Star Wars is a story, not a skin for an FPS.
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Considering that EFF's aims are entirely contradictory to the aims of the government, I wonder if donating to EFF places one at higher risk of appearing on watch lists. If I were the government, I'd certainly use EFF support as an indication of political unreliability.
There's an "In Soviet Russia" joke in here somewhere, except that in Soviet Russia, "In Soviet Russia" jokes get (+1, Funny) and not (+1, Informative).
>
> Something tells me my OFF button is next...
No, not the Blipverts reference. That was another episode.
Max Headroom, Blanks, aired May 1987.Max Headroom was only 20 minutes into the future, but 20 years ahead of its time. Out of the 14 episodes aired, the dystopian "science fiction" premise underlying just about every episode has come true.
*s4dd4m has left the game*
george: PWN3D!
rlijunopeece: o rly george were stil gonna pwn u again
o54m4: ya how?
rlijunopeece: blow up ur tunnel n flood u like n00b orleans
054m4: d00d ur plan sux nycs above sea level
abdul: up urs n00b
*kimjongillin* has joined the game kimjongillin: NUKES! I GOT NUKES!
amacannapronounceit: d00d gimme some plz! benn workin on em 4 so long got so much cash just gimme one plz plz plz?
kimjongillin: ok ok d00d lemme test em 1st
*flowersbyirene* has joined the game
flowersbyirene: d00d i can help u get nukes frm kimmy just paypal me ill set it up
ackbar: IT'S A TRAP!
> When they locked up the Social Democrats, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Social Democrat.
> When they arrested the trade unionists, I said nothing; after all, I was not a trade unionist.
> When they arrested the Jews, I said nothing; after all, I was not a Jew. When they arrested me, there was no longer anyone who could protest.
Now if only they'd come for the trite.
But I'll settle for them coming for the skr1pt k1dd13z who poke around in DoD honeypots and call themselves 31337 h4x0rz as a decent start.
If the editors can dupe the articles, us commenters can dupe the comments ... and to that end:
> > > > > Just because a bag of crap is free doesn't mean it's worth the hassle of obtaining it.
> > > > Horse shit!
> > > Free? My uncle sells manure at a good few pounds per bag. It's a good source of income.
> > Good source of income, eh? Must be good shit. Couldn't resist...
> I'll take a bag of the good shit please...
But as Heinlein would say... TANSTAFS.
From AOL's perspective, giving the shit away is probably a good business decision. AOL is as much a marketing organization / advertising agency than an ISP, and they probably make a lot more money selling their users' data as they do from ISP subscription fees.
Hence, give the shit away. The more eyeballs that stare at AOL's shit, the more shit comes through the tubes, and the more ad revenue AOL/TW brings in from advertisers eager to sell their shit.
Where's the bug? My RAID 0+0.999999998 works just fine Intel Core 1.99904274017.
So is everyone in elected office. It's a common trait among perps in the con game.
What, you got something against tits?
(Personally, the only things I ever want to have against tits are my own body parts.)
While we're at it, "Fart, Turd, Twat". And the vilest obscenity of them all: "FCC".
As long as Slashdot's a good 4 hours behind the times, let's get this outa the way too.
--- BEGIN INTERCEPTED TRANSMISSION ---
"Meh. Running Imperialist Lackey Dogs!
Their shuttle pales in comparison to the People's Glorious Three-Part Fireworks Display that Dear Leader has orchestrated downrange of Pyongyang!"
--- END INTERCEPTED TRANSMISSION ---
Perfect finish to the Fourth, indeed, even if I didn't get to see the Shuttle launch and didn't have a need to know what happened to the non-decoy part of Kim's little fireworks show :)
Nice try, Kim. No cigar. You still so ronery.
"I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself into the minefield's inter-mine computer feed. I talked to the minefield at great length, and explained my view of the universe to it, " said Marvin.
"And what happened?" pressed Ford.
"It said committed suicide." said Marvin.
~wavy lines as we segue to the Guide entry for 'Guide Star'~
Marvin: Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to blow up this minefield.
Mine#20: You are false data. Therefore I shall ignore you.
Marvin: Call that job satisfaction, because I don't.
Mine#20: False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore, I shall refuse to perceive.
Marvin: Hey, mine?
Mine#20: The only thing that exists is myself.
Marvin: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
Mine#20: Oh, stuff it. Let there be light.
You're goddamn right we do, Senator Stevens, and services like this are why you're wrong on Network Neutrality. It's got nothing to do with video on demand, and everything to do with your campaign sponsors trying to legislate innovation out of existence.
None of that $200 would have gone to the artists anyways, it all goes to the RIAA mafia. Why are you happy with that?
> See, the industry is actually only interested in people paying money for music if that money is going to the industry and the artists. Believe it or not, neither the RIAA nor the BPA was set up to safeguard the wellbeing of Russian con artists.
See, the industry is actually only interested in people paying money for music if that money is going to the industry, and to hell with the artists. Neither the RIAA nor the BPA was set up to safeguard the wellbeing of any artists.
Fixed it for you.
The Russian mob is providing better product, at a better price, than RIAA, who are merely the the government-approved mob in charge of the US music racket.
The situation is eerily similar to the Numbers Game, in which the (Italian) Mafia ran a gambling operation that took in a rake of 20-40%. They were promptly run out of business for the (government) Mafia, wherein the "legal" lotteries take in a rake of 50% and higher. The private mob gave better odds of winning to bettors, but the government's mob had the guns.
When Fedland collapses, I'm moving to an American Mafia town. Uncle Enzo's Cosa Nostra Pizza for the win!
%shatteringglass/batcalls/millionfireantswalkingac rossaviolinstring%Listen, Darl, fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life%duckeatingaharmonica/frogjumpingonasnaredrum/ SCOlawyerbeingbarfedoutbyasouleater%
And just because "self-help" (read: "We, owners of the license, have the right to 'help ourselves' enforce our license by remotely shutting down the software on your box") didn't fly under UCITA, doesn't mean it's not permitted as a "technological measure" in the context of DMCA.
>
> While you're dreaming, why don't you go for Darl's head on a trophy plaque?
Except that you misspelled "pike".
I want to live just long enough to see them cut off Darl's head and stick it on a pike as a reminder to the next ten generations that some things come at too high a price. I would look up into his beady eyes and wave, like this... (*wave*!). Can your associates arrange that for me, Mr. McBride?
- Vir "Flounder" Kotto, Sr. VP, IBM Empire.
Anything else, and we mean anything else is someone's speculation. There is no date. We don't know any date. If you have a friend who claims they have "inside info", or there's some office suite news site, or some computer store at the mall who claims they know - they do not. They are making it up. There is no date. Period.
And yes, we know the office suite has taken a long time. There's no possible joke you could make about the office suite's development time that we haven't already heard. :)
Except the one about us having bought out 3D Realms to redo the UI in Aero so it'll look cool under Vista, which is why their other project's a bit late, too.
"No way!"
"Yes, way. Looked at the report and it looks like the report says it looks like the data had not been looked at."
"Who's Wei?"
"'Yes way', not 'yes, Wei"
"Who?"
"Not Hu, not Wei."
"I dunno!"
"THIRD BASE!"
FUCKING bullshit!
The correct answer is "1", unless you meant "XOR", in which case the answer is "0", and you can bite my shiny boolean ass.
Bob: Hi, I'm Bob Mackenzie, this is my Big Brother Doug.
Doug: How's it going eh?
Bob: Not good, eh. Cuz, we still haven't gotten our two-four for findin' that mouse in the beer bottle yet, have we?
Doug: No, eh. It was like, the thing that is in Bottle 101 is the worst thing in the world.
Bob: But didn't we make Strange Brew in 1983, not 1984, which was like, one year later eh?
Doug: Oh, take off!
And this, kids, is why you should never outsource your email.
In some small way, I may have helped. Back in the dark ages, my broker did this -- outsourced some of their customer communications to the m0.net (Digital Impact) mainsleaze spamhaus. I wrote 'em a very sharply worded letter to the effect that if they couldn't run something as simple as a mail server, why should I have any faith that they were any more capable of running the web servers that handled my trading requests.
(And what is it with the meta-rule, which seems to be that any domain ending in 0.com or 0.net, is a mainsleaze spammer. m0.net, bfi0.com, and I'm sure there are more out there...)
The letter also included some of the other spew (honest-to-God spam, as opposed to ostensibly solicited customer communications from an organization with which I had an ongoing business relationship) I'd gotten through m0.net, and explained that as a result, I'd pre-emptively marked all mail originating from that domain as "spam", and that my broker was lucky that I periodically checked my filtered spam to see if any false positives had leaked through.
I wasn't the only customer to flame them, because a year or so later, I noticed that my broker was able to email me again, and that they were doing so from a mail server in a netblock owned by them, and with proper DNS registration.
Now that Capital One is in the process of digesting North Fork Bancorp, perhaps both COF and NFB executives could do with a little similar education. My broker got a polite snail-mail flame because it was 1999 and they had an excuse for not knowing any better. There's no excuse in 2006.
The line between common sense lies somewhere between here and LA County.
I'm just saying that with diversity industry going ballistic over the use of terms like "master" and "slave" in the context of IDE channels, you're pushing it when you use terms like "male" and "female" connectors... and you're really putting your contract on the line (anywhere other than Texas or Utah) when you not only use the terms "male" and "female", but actively attempt to design systems in which male connectors "don't get matched up with other male connectors".
In terms of user ignorance, there's truly no point in trying to educate anymore.
> Okay, now that you let the cat out of the bag, how long before the Great Chinese Firewall gets this hole plugged?
>On the otherhand, the more they try to squeeze star systems, the more they will slip out of thier han (or something like that).
Damn. Leave it to a supernatural being to figure out how to get the Goatse Guy through the psychic firewall.
"Huh? You cypherpunks got your first amendment in my second amendment!"
"Jura thaf ner bhgynjrq, only outlaws will have crypto!"
"And you gun nuts got your second amendment in my first amendment!"
Two great tastes that taste great together...
"Execute Order 66. Wipe them out. All of them."
Then again, considering how the SWG game has (de)volved over the past couple of years, maybe "Do Not Want" is the appropriate snarky one-liner to use here.
Sony could do the gaming world a lot of good if they laid the smackdown on the NGE (sucky thing in current release) and permitted the pre-CU (the "live beta" that got released for the first couple of years) codebase to be emulated. They've gone on record as saying they'll never revert to pre-CU gameplay, so why not put the pre-CU game engine to good use? With decent scripting, you could make a pretty good game out of that. The reason SWG sucked donkey cock wasn't really the fault of the engine, it was that SOE never grasped (and still doesn't understand) that Star Wars is a story, not a skin for an FPS.