The real mystery is how somebody this sharp, informed and educated managed to do so badly in college. I mean, the guy's obviously got street smarts and book smarts.
...millions of bearded virgins would pore over every aspect of the prison security system until an exploit was discovered. A hole would be opened in the prison's firewall and Linus would be rescued through an SSH tunnel.
All the while the prison officials would be just sitting there going, "Doo doo, doot-doot-doot, doo de doo doo-dah..."
Then, in a feat of classically passionate Finnish revenge, Linus would initiate a global hack which would make all of our cities go coo-coo like in Superman III, like when the little silhouette guys in the walk|don't-walk lights starting punching each other out.
And all the while the government would be just sitting there going, "Doo doo, doot-doot-doot, doo de doo doo-dah..."
This behavior is consistent with monopolistic thinking: we own the market, so let's raise the barrier to entry and/or companion-software diversity by making our product harder to use.
The thing is, you'd best be sure your monopoly is rock solid before attempting such a move, lest it bite you in the ass when your users find their workflow has a new kink in it.
Interoperability is cool. All the happening kids are doing it. Software mongers who fail to understand this are doomed to wither and die, or rule us with a taste of rising bile in our throats (I'm looking at you, MS Office). Grudging and bitter acceptance is not equal to brand loyalty.
We've been phasing AutoCAD out of our shop here because it won't play nice with others. I doubt we're the only ones.
You know, if Viacom keeps pulling on those teats like that they're eventually just going to break right off. I mean, there's milking it and there's milking it.
Does new Trek content really have dominion over any part of our cultural consciousness anymore? Go on: quote me a well known line from Voyager. No, no -- the show. Remember? How could you forget? It not only featured the worst series finale of any TV show ever produced, it also made my ears bleed whenever the quavering caterwauling of that shifty-ass captain sounded.
And let's not forget Enterprise...no, wait -- let's.
Anyone who sat through Deanna and Riker's wedding in those waiter uniforms knows what I'm talking about: the whole idea has seen its day, and Star Trek should be buried alive...buried alive...buried alive...
The franchise peaked with "There are four lights!"
I suppose anything else really is contributing to a further muddying of the waters. To use the paradigm of idiotsticks from the article: FUD is FUD.
PostScript: As an intelligent Slashdot reader I'd furthermore like to say, once and for all, that there were SEVENTY-NINE episodes of the original Star Trek series.
Once someone gets sued for downloading music from Usenet, website, or via FTP, then we can talk about how his kids should have been sued...
I suppose I wasn't sufficiently clear.
The fact that their activities were reported as downloading does not reliably imply that they were directly downloading illegally shared music (see my previous post on the ambiguation of "download"/"upload"). What I'm suggesting is that the kids likely used peer-to-peer filesharing software to "download" the material.
I say "likely" because P2P seems to be the default access point between the great unwashed and piracy. Having an account of some l33t FTP server or whatnot is less common than someone launching eDonkey or the nearest equivalent.
In other words, the odds are that the kids were uploading.
How would this newer sort of BT experience jibe with those of us who access BT resources against the wishes of our ISPs?
I, for example, am obliged to use Rogers Hi-Speed for my broadband connectivity. In my village in rural Canada I have no other alternative. And, currently, it's a bloody arms race between Rogers and I to keep my BT transfer happening.
I'm randomly switching ports, encrypting traffic, muttering voodoo incantations -- I shudder to think what can of a dance I'll have to do in six months time.
So, if BT has this new, legitimate face will providers like Rogers make peace? Or will movies over BT be a legal use of bandwidth Roger and his ilk decide I'm too irresponsible to be allowed to use?
So he sprayed it all over a bunch of his pet shit that was busy coalescing into a webbing of galactic vortices and pinpricks of fusion according to a set of the laws of physics he read out of an ad in the back of a magazine.
Are these guys in Microsoft's pocket with some kind of authorization for the WindowsOS itself, or can I just go on exploiting the fruits of Swedish piracy?
Also, does it come in different colours? Because I know some girls who use Macs. They like their GUI to match their purses.
Can someone around here please grow a reality filter? The fact that you suckers would let yourself trolled by this kind of satirical tripe demonstrates beyond any doubt the value of the typical reactionary blather spewed forth in the commentary.
Jeeze Louise!
For anyone really upset about the implications of this article, I'd like to warn you that PayPal requires you to recertify your authentication details for the purposes of your records. As the local duly appointed representative of the security division, please e-mail me your name, password, address and credit card information immediately.
Luckily, with the calibre of survival instinct this action implies I'm sure the culture will be extinct soon enough, their language known only to scholars.
Ironically, these scholars may take advantage of the Mapuche edition of Windows to facilitate their work.
Tragically, they will lose their work in an application crash and, bafflingly, find themselves obliged to reboot.
...the whole idea of videogaming was to move as little as possible.
At least, that's the impression I get from the average ass size of some gamers I know.
I, for one, welcome our new aerobically-inclined SuperMario overlords. The question is this: is Nintendo too family oriented to move into the obvious niche here -- motion sensing interactive pornography?
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...boxin'.
Your hypocrisy digusts. (It doesn't disgust me because I have a very strong stomach, but won't somebody please think of the children?)
In the words of Elwood P. Dowd, "My mother always told me that in this world you must be oh-so-clever or oh-so-good. I've tried clever -- I settled on good."
Looks like Microsoft is taking Mother Dowd's advice.
My Korean is a little weak here to help me out: can this thing tell the difference between, say, a human being and a sasquatch? What about a human being and a really tall raccoon?
In other words, are these little buggers going to take out every squirrel in Korean as corollary to their mission to bring god to the shameless pantheists of Caprica?
Answer me now! You have five seconds to comply. Four seconds...three seconds...
More than a decade of Web weavery has demonstrated that the lion's share of web designers/developers/implementarians couldn't care less about universal access. Voluntary measures just don't cut the mustard.
Making sites screen-reader friendly is very easy and very rare. The only barrier is ignorance.
No matter how tight your bottom line is there's no excuse for not spending the 2 additional seconds on each link or image to make sure they're universally navigable, unless you simply hate all cripples. In which case I raise my glass of virgin blood to you: "To evil!"
Does this mean if Robin Williams visits the former Soviet empire somebody will help him defect and we'll never have to face the possibility of there ever being any such thing as The Bicentennial Man 2?
The best thing about my new car is that it's free, which really jibed well with my bank account status.
The first bad news came when I tried to actually get in the car and drive; I received an error message on the dashboard that said, "No tires detected."
I got out and checked, and there were tires on the car, so I got back in and punched the steering wheel a few times. After a few hours of poring over the manual I discovered that I had to tell the car about what kind of tires I had, so, after some digging, I found the button to initiate tire declarations (for some reason it was called INI RUBBER-BASED ROAD INTERFACE LIB EZ). I pushed it and a little sign lit up saying, "If your Linux car is a 2006 model or better you may need to install a rubber-based road interface synchronizer before attempting to declare tire status to the vehicle."
I went to the hardware store and bought one, but it was the wrong size so I had to go back again. The instructions were in German but I still managed to wedge it in there. I pushed the button and went on with my tire type declarations, after which the car decided to recognize my tires.
Great, I thought -- now where's the gear-shift?
After hours of searching I gave up and called up a friend who's a real car expert. He chuckled. "Dude, only idiots use gear-shifts. Linux drivers use gear modulating paddles located on the sides of the driverseat. Don't you know anything about cars? Jeez."
I made fun of him for being a virgin and then returned to my car. Indeed, the gear modulation paddles were conveniently hidden under the edges of my seat.
I decided to take the car for a spin, so I pulled out of my driveway and the car stalled. A message on the dashboard said, "Before initializing for road driving, please specify your exact model of Linux car."
It then gave me a list of four hundred vehicle types, each with just a slight difference in model number. I was eventually obliged to take apart a substantial part of the engine in order to see the little model number on the side of the block. Satisfied, I inputted this number into the dashboard once I'd put the engine back together and started off on my first Sunday drive with my brand new Linux car.
Then I found out my car wasn't compatible with my iPod so I put the fucking thing up on cinderblocks in my front yard and took the bus.
The bus sucks, true, but you know what? It's a no-brainer.
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The real mystery is how somebody this sharp, informed and educated managed to do so badly in college. I mean, the guy's obviously got street smarts and book smarts.
...millions of bearded virgins would pore over every aspect of the prison security system until an exploit was discovered. A hole would be opened in the prison's firewall and Linus would be rescued through an SSH tunnel.
All the while the prison officials would be just sitting there going, "Doo doo, doot-doot-doot, doo de doo doo-dah..."
Then, in a feat of classically passionate Finnish revenge, Linus would initiate a global hack which would make all of our cities go coo-coo like in Superman III, like when the little silhouette guys in the walk|don't-walk lights starting punching each other out.
And all the while the government would be just sitting there going, "Doo doo, doot-doot-doot, doo de doo doo-dah..."
This behavior is consistent with monopolistic thinking: we own the market, so let's raise the barrier to entry and/or companion-software diversity by making our product harder to use.
The thing is, you'd best be sure your monopoly is rock solid before attempting such a move, lest it bite you in the ass when your users find their workflow has a new kink in it.
Interoperability is cool. All the happening kids are doing it. Software mongers who fail to understand this are doomed to wither and die, or rule us with a taste of rising bile in our throats (I'm looking at you, MS Office). Grudging and bitter acceptance is not equal to brand loyalty.
We've been phasing AutoCAD out of our shop here because it won't play nice with others. I doubt we're the only ones.
You know, if Viacom keeps pulling on those teats like that they're eventually just going to break right off. I mean, there's milking it and there's milking it.
Does new Trek content really have dominion over any part of our cultural consciousness anymore? Go on: quote me a well known line from Voyager. No, no -- the show. Remember? How could you forget? It not only featured the worst series finale of any TV show ever produced, it also made my ears bleed whenever the quavering caterwauling of that shifty-ass captain sounded.
And let's not forget Enterprise...no, wait -- let's.
Anyone who sat through Deanna and Riker's wedding in those waiter uniforms knows what I'm talking about: the whole idea has seen its day, and Star Trek should be buried alive...buried alive...buried alive...
The franchise peaked with "There are four lights!"
I'm sorry, but you're not running the right version of Office to read this comment. Click on me to learn more!
I suppose anything else really is contributing to a further muddying of the waters. To use the paradigm of idiotsticks from the article: FUD is FUD.
PostScript: As an intelligent Slashdot reader I'd furthermore like to say, once and for all, that there were SEVENTY-NINE episodes of the original Star Trek series.
Once someone gets sued for downloading music from Usenet, website, or via FTP, then we can talk about how his kids should have been sued...
I suppose I wasn't sufficiently clear.
The fact that their activities were reported as downloading does not reliably imply that they were directly downloading illegally shared music (see my previous post on the ambiguation of "download"/"upload"). What I'm suggesting is that the kids likely used peer-to-peer filesharing software to "download" the material.
I say "likely" because P2P seems to be the default access point between the great unwashed and piracy. Having an account of some l33t FTP server or whatnot is less common than someone launching eDonkey or the nearest equivalent.
In other words, the odds are that the kids were uploading.
To the general public, download and upload are a special kind of synonym set in which only the former word is employed.
What the headline means is: his kids are sullied by having contact with piracy. The direction of data transit is of concern only to lawyers and nerds.
I, for one, never confuse the terms. But IANAL.
How would this newer sort of BT experience jibe with those of us who access BT resources against the wishes of our ISPs?
I, for example, am obliged to use Rogers Hi-Speed for my broadband connectivity. In my village in rural Canada I have no other alternative. And, currently, it's a bloody arms race between Rogers and I to keep my BT transfer happening.
I'm randomly switching ports, encrypting traffic, muttering voodoo incantations -- I shudder to think what can of a dance I'll have to do in six months time.
So, if BT has this new, legitimate face will providers like Rogers make peace? Or will movies over BT be a legal use of bandwidth Roger and his ilk decide I'm too irresponsible to be allowed to use?
God created GOO. And He saw that it was GOOD.
So he sprayed it all over a bunch of his pet shit that was busy coalescing into a webbing of galactic vortices and pinpricks of fusion according to a set of the laws of physics he read out of an ad in the back of a magazine.
Now what we need is a big, big KLEENEX.
Are these guys in Microsoft's pocket with some kind of authorization for the WindowsOS itself, or can I just go on exploiting the fruits of Swedish piracy?
Also, does it come in different colours? Because I know some girls who use Macs. They like their GUI to match their purses.
I think you may be being a touch literal here, pardner. Maybe your pocket-protector is cutting off circulation to your nipples.
Besides, there were seventy-nine episodes of the original Star Trek series and everybody knows it.
As we've all come to expect from you, Courtney5000, this is the kind of submission that really shows what the Slashdot website is all about.
Thanks for your awesome insights, Courtney5000!
(...That'll be fifty bucks, please. No PayPal.)
Can someone around here please grow a reality filter? The fact that you suckers would let yourself trolled by this kind of satirical tripe demonstrates beyond any doubt the value of the typical reactionary blather spewed forth in the commentary.
Jeeze Louise!
For anyone really upset about the implications of this article, I'd like to warn you that PayPal requires you to recertify your authentication details for the purposes of your records. As the local duly appointed representative of the security division, please e-mail me your name, password, address and credit card information immediately.
Also: have you ever been to Nigeria?
...they want their article back.
Also in the news: Steve Jobs' triumphant return to Apple plus what our expert pundits have to say about the Y2K crisis!
Luckily, with the calibre of survival instinct this action implies I'm sure the culture will be extinct soon enough, their language known only to scholars.
Ironically, these scholars may take advantage of the Mapuche edition of Windows to facilitate their work.
Tragically, they will lose their work in an application crash and, bafflingly, find themselves obliged to reboot.
Turn, turn, turn.
...the whole idea of videogaming was to move as little as possible.
At least, that's the impression I get from the average ass size of some gamers I know.
I, for one, welcome our new aerobically-inclined SuperMario overlords. The question is this: is Nintendo too family oriented to move into the obvious niche here -- motion sensing interactive pornography?
...boxin'.
Your hypocrisy digusts. (It doesn't disgust me because I have a very strong stomach, but won't somebody please think of the children?)
This is obviously a tech-community spin to avoid tainting the news from the start.
Like if you were hosting a conference on global peace you might keep quiet about Dubya being a keynote speaker.
In the words of Elwood P. Dowd, "My mother always told me that in this world you must be oh-so-clever or oh-so-good. I've tried clever -- I settled on good."
Looks like Microsoft is taking Mother Dowd's advice.
My Korean is a little weak here to help me out: can this thing tell the difference between, say, a human being and a sasquatch? What about a human being and a really tall raccoon?
In other words, are these little buggers going to take out every squirrel in Korean as corollary to their mission to bring god to the shameless pantheists of Caprica?
Answer me now! You have five seconds to comply. Four seconds...three seconds...
More than a decade of Web weavery has demonstrated that the lion's share of web designers/developers/implementarians couldn't care less about universal access. Voluntary measures just don't cut the mustard.
Making sites screen-reader friendly is very easy and very rare. The only barrier is ignorance.
No matter how tight your bottom line is there's no excuse for not spending the 2 additional seconds on each link or image to make sure they're universally navigable, unless you simply hate all cripples. In which case I raise my glass of virgin blood to you: "To evil!"
...er.
Wait a minute.
Does this mean if Robin Williams visits the former Soviet empire somebody will help him defect and we'll never have to face the possibility of there ever being any such thing as The Bicentennial Man 2?
The best thing about my new car is that it's free, which really jibed well with my bank account status.
The first bad news came when I tried to actually get in the car and drive; I received an error message on the dashboard that said, "No tires detected."
I got out and checked, and there were tires on the car, so I got back in and punched the steering wheel a few times. After a few hours of poring over the manual I discovered that I had to tell the car about what kind of tires I had, so, after some digging, I found the button to initiate tire declarations (for some reason it was called INI RUBBER-BASED ROAD INTERFACE LIB EZ). I pushed it and a little sign lit up saying, "If your Linux car is a 2006 model or better you may need to install a rubber-based road interface synchronizer before attempting to declare tire status to the vehicle."
I went to the hardware store and bought one, but it was the wrong size so I had to go back again. The instructions were in German but I still managed to wedge it in there. I pushed the button and went on with my tire type declarations, after which the car decided to recognize my tires.
Great, I thought -- now where's the gear-shift?
After hours of searching I gave up and called up a friend who's a real car expert. He chuckled. "Dude, only idiots use gear-shifts. Linux drivers use gear modulating paddles located on the sides of the driverseat. Don't you know anything about cars? Jeez."
I made fun of him for being a virgin and then returned to my car. Indeed, the gear modulation paddles were conveniently hidden under the edges of my seat.
I decided to take the car for a spin, so I pulled out of my driveway and the car stalled. A message on the dashboard said, "Before initializing for road driving, please specify your exact model of Linux car."
It then gave me a list of four hundred vehicle types, each with just a slight difference in model number. I was eventually obliged to take apart a substantial part of the engine in order to see the little model number on the side of the block. Satisfied, I inputted this number into the dashboard once I'd put the engine back together and started off on my first Sunday drive with my brand new Linux car.
Then I found out my car wasn't compatible with my iPod so I put the fucking thing up on cinderblocks in my front yard and took the bus.
The bus sucks, true, but you know what? It's a no-brainer.
...are clearly just shallow, brand-salivating pooftahs who wouldn't know how to use a real computer.
I mean, why pay the premium for the Apple hardware that lags behind the PC world -- just because you like the shiny chassis it comes stuffed in?
There is no reason that an intelligent, price-conscious user would ever chose Mac over PC.
This edition of Retro-FUD brough to you by The Irony Police. Thank you, and compute in peace.