I know that others have posted the same thing, but they all got modded up so I'm karma whoring in the same way Zynga steals game ideas. Since copying others seems to work so well, I wanted to give it a try.
I did end up going back to my volenteer work for a short while, but things just seemed to be different, an uneasy atomphear; I decided to call it quits a month later.
I have don't have a clue what anatomphear is, but it sounds really cool.
The author is a skeptic only as long as their skepticism and logic leads to conclusions that match the authors personal beliefs. As soon as it doesn't, well lets put a damper on critical thinking. Mmkay?
Why don't we raise suicidal cows?
"Right, now that you've made your decision, I'll just pop off into the kitchen and shoot myself. Don't worry, I'll be very humane!"
It wouldn't work. It'll just take one suicidal cow with a gun out of a million to go crazy.
"I'm going to go into the kitchen and shoot myself, but before I do. I'm taking as many of you mofo's as I can with me! Your turn to say moo, BITCH!"
As long as new software is being written, there will be some black hat trying to find the buffer overrun of the week. Everyone knows this. It is simply life.
Consumer Reports knows this also. This article is probably going to be geared to cause controversy. They can splash on their cover "What you don't know about your AV software!" and scare the crap out of every AOL Mom with a $499 Dell Desktop. This is just a type of marketing and it sells magazines. If I was a major AV producer I would be calling foul too.
They will not lie. The article will be true. Everyone who takes the time to learn Internet Security 101 and a little programming will know how easy it is to make a variant of just about any virus and defeat AV security.
What Consumer Reports isn't going to mention or they will, as a short blurb at the end of the article is the true value of AV software.
Upon discovery of a new virus in the cloud, an AV Company should be judged on:
How quickly they issue an effective patch for the virus from Day 0.
How easily the patch is for consumers to deploy and protect their home computers or corporate infrastructure.
How transparent the whole process is for the end consumer. (Ex. Does the AV software suck up a lot of Ram?)
IMHO opinion AV software isn't going to be fool proof, but as soon as a virus or variant is discovered; it should be judged on how quickly and easy it updates.
Now if Consumer Reports really wanted an article that has the potential to shake up the AV industry and reveal how crappy the current AV offerings are. They should just compare the performance of all the major AV vendors against the above criteria over a period of time.
Tanenbaum vs. Torvalds fight to the death in the THUNDERDOME!
Two men enter! One man leaves!
Except for Master Blaster. But that midget was really more of an accessory so I guess it's still within the rules. Master was the brains of the Master Blaster combo, so I guess he acted similar to a math co-processor for a i386.
So in future dystopian societies, you can purchase a midget to upgrade your Gladiator? That dosen't seem like such a good deal now does it?
I mean why a midget? It's not like your gladiator needs a brain. Wouldn't the money be better spent on a flamethower or armor? Why a frickin' midget to ride around on his back? Maybe if he was being used for Fastball Specials I can see the point.
Brilliant response. Maybe all the people who disagree with you should just shit-can their opinions and just let you pick our leaders. After all; the people you pick are flawless and perfect. Demococracy and free speech with people of your creed seem only to apply to people who agree with you.
SHHHH!!!! The unwashed masses do not know the difference between CSS and Region Coding and think it's all one and the same. I say let them continue to think so and allow more and more stories like this to get on the major media outlets. The proponents of DRM are constantly shooting themselves in the foot and this kind of thing is only making it look worse in the public's eye. If the public believes that they can't buy a dvd that will play in all of their players then they will start showing their disaproval by withholding their money.
I don't beleive that we have reached the critical-mass yet where the general public will activly oposse DRM and region coding, but I think we're getting there. Lets help it along shall we?
Seriosly what's with all the advertisments posing as stories? The admins might as well put up pop-up ads instead of having them pose as stories.
Re:Says who? What makes human life so valuable?
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Not everybody is a Carl Sagan or Martin Luther King. These people are volunteers who climbed onto a war ship of their own free will. If you care so much about them then why didn't you talk them out of it?
Because they willingly climbed onto a warship and put themselves in harm's way to protect your right to make such statements. They are worth far more then any whale or snobbish jerk who sits at home typing elitest comments about how worthless they are while at the same time being safley secure under the umbrella of protection that these so-called worthless disopsable people have provided.
For all the Slashdotters who illustrate the point that religious groups and soccer moms are flipping out over a crappy sex scene in a video game, while at the same time condoning the violence need to do one thing.
Please STFU.
They do not condone the violence in video games and movies anymore than they do sex. Ok sure, your Mom might not bat an eye about you killing virtual cops, but at the same time will flip out over a little nudity. I'm not talking about her; I'm talking about the organized movements that wish to censor our entertainment for our own good.
Sex is just the latest taboo for these organizations. These same groups a few years ago have tried to censor games based on the amount of violence. The old timer's here should be telling the younger geeks about the media uproar caused by Doom and other games of the same genre way back in 1993. There was a lot of debating for years that violence in media was a leading cause of violent crime.
For example, I heard a lot more about how the kids responsible for the massacre at Columbine played FPS, then I did about the lack of the parents saying to themselves, 'Hey my kid has a swastika on his wall and lots of books about Hitler, is a social outcast at school and has an unhealthy fascination regarding death. Maybe I should look into this?'
However with the gaming companies banding together and creating a rating system it helped soften the violence argument by putting right on the box what the game's content is. The attempts to vilify video games because of violence started to make fewer headlines, for the responsibility is now on the parents. If your kid was playing games that you do not approve of, the fault was now yours. Sure there where still complaints by the hard core, but they were not about to shut up about the issue even if they did succeed at eliminating video games altogether. Sleazy lawyers will also continue to take up these cases as long as they think they can make the slightest bit of profit off of them. However for the time being, we won the battle for the most part.
However a battle is not a war. If you guys continue to use the argument that "What's the big deal about a little sex in a game where as a player, I'm allowed to commit a shopping list of horrendous crimes?" That's going to bite us on the ass by helping to reignite the violence in video games debate which our opponents will love to see happen.
Please stop giving the enemy more bullets.
Re:deja vu? didn't this one get /.'d a while back?
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The only way to really increase power output is to increase the amount of sunlight that you are catching, which would require a larger base.
You know, that's exactly what he proposed to do. Look at the pictures of the device and read the man's post again.
From the story: Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with.
Slashdot Mirror
The movie is obviously intended for the guys who want to fuck Batgirl, Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy.
So yeah... My copy is in the mail.
Skynet shall be born and herald the age of darkness and war once NELL discovers 4chan.
I honestly didn't see this plot twist coming.
Casinos call high rollers whales.
I know that others have posted the same thing, but they all got modded up so I'm karma whoring in the same way Zynga steals game ideas.
Since copying others seems to work so well, I wanted to give it a try.
I have don't have a clue
What the hell was I thinking when I typed this?
I did end up going back to my volenteer work for a short while, but things just seemed to be different, an uneasy atomphear; I decided to call it quits a month later.
I have don't have a clue what anatomphear is, but it sounds really cool.
The author is a skeptic only as long as their skepticism and logic leads to conclusions that match the authors personal beliefs. As soon as it doesn't, well lets put a damper on critical thinking. Mmkay?
Why don't we raise suicidal cows? "Right, now that you've made your decision, I'll just pop off into the kitchen and shoot myself. Don't worry, I'll be very humane!"
It wouldn't work. It'll just take one suicidal cow with a gun out of a million to go crazy.
"I'm going to go into the kitchen and shoot myself, but before I do. I'm taking as many of you mofo's as I can with me! Your turn to say moo, BITCH!"
Since I don't live in an area hip enough for an Apple Store that would mean sending it in and waiting one or two weeks to get it back.
Fuck that, just give me a spare battery.
As long as new software is being written, there will be some black hat trying to find the buffer overrun of the week. Everyone knows this. It is simply life.
Consumer Reports knows this also. This article is probably going to be geared to cause controversy. They can splash on their cover "What you don't know about your AV software!" and scare the crap out of every AOL Mom with a $499 Dell Desktop. This is just a type of marketing and it sells magazines. If I was a major AV producer I would be calling foul too.
They will not lie. The article will be true. Everyone who takes the time to learn Internet Security 101 and a little programming will know how easy it is to make a variant of just about any virus and defeat AV security.
What Consumer Reports isn't going to mention or they will, as a short blurb at the end of the article is the true value of AV software.
Upon discovery of a new virus in the cloud, an AV Company should be judged on:
How quickly they issue an effective patch for the virus from Day 0.
How easily the patch is for consumers to deploy and protect their home computers or corporate infrastructure.
How transparent the whole process is for the end consumer. (Ex. Does the AV software suck up a lot of Ram?)
IMHO opinion AV software isn't going to be fool proof, but as soon as a virus or variant is discovered; it should be judged on how quickly and easy it updates.
Now if Consumer Reports really wanted an article that has the potential to shake up the AV industry and reveal how crappy the current AV offerings are. They should just compare the performance of all the major AV vendors against the above criteria over a period of time.
Thursday: Man I love Battlestar Galactica. Double episode tonight!
Ironic choice of a TV show, since BSG is essentially a sci-fi metaphor of the Jews leaving Egypt and searching for the Promised Land.
Nobody watches the third one.
Tanenbaum vs. Torvalds fight to the death in the THUNDERDOME!
Two men enter! One man leaves!
Except for Master Blaster. But that midget was really more of an accessory so I guess it's still within the rules. Master was the brains of the Master Blaster combo, so I guess he acted similar to a math co-processor for a i386.
So in future dystopian societies, you can purchase a midget to upgrade your Gladiator? That dosen't seem like such a good deal now does it?
I mean why a midget? It's not like your gladiator needs a brain. Wouldn't the money be better spent on a flamethower or armor? Why a frickin' midget to ride around on his back? Maybe if he was being used for Fastball Specials I can see the point.
Anyways, back on topic... now what was it again?
When you dropped your current BF like a rock please feel free to drop me a line! :)
Brilliant response. Maybe all the people who disagree with you should just shit-can their opinions and just let you pick our leaders. After all; the people you pick are flawless and perfect. Demococracy and free speech with people of your creed seem only to apply to people who agree with you.
If I wanted a link to unsubstantiated accusations and allot of talking out of the ass on the front page, I would just browse Digg.
And posting this anonymously,
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHHHH!!!! The unwashed masses do not know the difference between CSS and Region Coding and think it's all one and the same. I say let them continue to think so and allow more and more stories like this to get on the major media outlets. The proponents of DRM are constantly shooting themselves in the foot and this kind of thing is only making it look worse in the public's eye. If the public believes that they can't buy a dvd that will play in all of their players then they will start showing their disaproval by withholding their money.
I don't beleive that we have reached the critical-mass yet where the general public will activly oposse DRM and region coding, but I think we're getting there. Lets help it along shall we?
Seriosly what's with all the advertisments posing as stories? The admins might as well put up pop-up ads instead of having them pose as stories.
Not everybody is a Carl Sagan or Martin Luther King. These people are volunteers who climbed onto a war ship of their own free will. If you care so much about them then why didn't you talk them out of it?
Because they willingly climbed onto a warship and put themselves in harm's way to protect your right to make such statements. They are worth far more then any whale or snobbish jerk who sits at home typing elitest comments about how worthless they are while at the same time being safley secure under the umbrella of protection that these so-called worthless disopsable people have provided.
For all the Slashdotters who illustrate the point that religious groups and soccer moms are flipping out over a crappy sex scene in a video game, while at the same time condoning the violence need to do one thing.
Please STFU.
They do not condone the violence in video games and movies anymore than they do sex. Ok sure, your Mom might not bat an eye about you killing virtual cops, but at the same time will flip out over a little nudity. I'm not talking about her; I'm talking about the organized movements that wish to censor our entertainment for our own good.
Sex is just the latest taboo for these organizations. These same groups a few years ago have tried to censor games based on the amount of violence. The old timer's here should be telling the younger geeks about the media uproar caused by Doom and other games of the same genre way back in 1993. There was a lot of debating for years that violence in media was a leading cause of violent crime.
For example, I heard a lot more about how the kids responsible for the massacre at Columbine played FPS, then I did about the lack of the parents saying to themselves, 'Hey my kid has a swastika on his wall and lots of books about Hitler, is a social outcast at school and has an unhealthy fascination regarding death. Maybe I should look into this?'
However with the gaming companies banding together and creating a rating system it helped soften the violence argument by putting right on the box what the game's content is. The attempts to vilify video games because of violence started to make fewer headlines, for the responsibility is now on the parents. If your kid was playing games that you do not approve of, the fault was now yours. Sure there where still complaints by the hard core, but they were not about to shut up about the issue even if they did succeed at eliminating video games altogether. Sleazy lawyers will also continue to take up these cases as long as they think they can make the slightest bit of profit off of them. However for the time being, we won the battle for the most part.
However a battle is not a war. If you guys continue to use the argument that "What's the big deal about a little sex in a game where as a player, I'm allowed to commit a shopping list of horrendous crimes?" That's going to bite us on the ass by helping to reignite the violence in video games debate which our opponents will love to see happen.
Please stop giving the enemy more bullets.
The only way to really increase power output is to increase the amount of sunlight that you are catching, which would require a larger base.
You know, that's exactly what he proposed to do. Look at the pictures of the device and read the man's post again.
Your just jealous because you can format a webpage but can't make a death ray.
Decent Episode, could bode well.
Decent episode? London gets attacked by remote controlled store mannequins and you call it a decent episode!
Heh yeah ol' Tom sure came out on top.
From the story: Tom had traded the next chance to Billy Fisher for a kite, in good repair; and when he played out, Johnny Miller bought in for a dead rat and a string to swing it with.
That ol' Tom Sawyer plays for the big winnings!
You just can't talk to artists