I'm just gonna sit back in my nice recliner here, eat this cheeseburger and watch mobile phone TV 'till the checks start rolling in...what the? Am I moving? HOLY CR@#kjl3.@!.*
I'm coming up on 1900 posts on slashdot, and though many of them were funny one liners, incoherent rants, subtle trolls and raging flamebait, many have been rather thought out and labored over.
I find posting to slashdot is like a journal of sorts; I've discovered and formed many opinions, revised them, thrown some out, and revisited them.
Slashdot has done much for my thinking, as responding to arguments requires (for me anyway) a well-reasoned response. Mostly I've found that I'm consistently +5 funny before I wake up in the morning and in the 12th hour of a deadline. Like now. Back to 2am work:(
in order to execute the exploits, you first have to click on thirty-seven checkboxes hidden in a Tibetian monestary.
Then you must send 34 seconds of a certain portion of the movie 'Deliverance' over a period of 22 minutes.
These two things must be accomplished while repeatedly hitting 'alt-f4' on your keyboard, and screaming, "Damn you Real Player! Damn you to Hell!' like a woman.
Of course, if you reboot you'll have to start all over again, after a slight delay.
Um, a longer delay.
Ok, you get one shot at this, I guess.
At least the exploit is consistent with their user interface.
I really think that Palm should drop support for their embedded OS and focus on a Desktop OS, that they can give away for free and compete with Microsoft for bootmanager rights on OEM desktops.
provides a service that uses a third party proxy as your whois info.
When 'whois'ing your domain it gives the company's email, which gets forwarded to you (after a spam filter if you like). Same with any 'real mail' (except for junk mail if you wish).
Well worth the nominal cost (3 bucks, IIRC) at registration time.
This article is obviously the work of someone who is forever surprised at the end of Scooby-Doo. Foreshadowing and misdirection are some of the simplest plot devices.
Frankly, I don't think any Linux user has enough time on his/her hands to be writing a virus. They're still trying to get their soundcard to work:)
Besides, this article completely ignores the 'Sorry Andy, I'm just doing my job' quote in the virus code. What 'job' is this person talking about?
To me, it sounds like an employee of an antivirus company apologizing to some friend of his that admins some giant mail server.
If you're writing a virus, in order to detect it and destroy it for money, what does the target matter? SCO has been in the news for so long, is easy to type (three letters!), and is universally hated, I wonder that it's taken so long for it to be a target, if for no other reason then it's new. (ie. not MS)
Again - why are all of today's virues such amazing pussies? What happened to formatting the boot sector? Changing random bytes? Creating replications so your harddrive filled up?
Now all we get are stupid, "I send you this file to have your advice" and "TEST".
Frankly, I think that anti-virus corporations should be investigated. Sure, there are the 'lone gunmen', like the guy in Minnesota (w00t) who spread some virus-lovin' not too long ago, but beyond the guys who actually put their phone number in, are any authors caught? Spammers, credit card number theives and Antivirus companies are the only ones that profit from these craptacular faux screen savers.
This author of this article probably had to take a leak, and scraped this together in 3 minutes. Oh, and if he reads this post?
Please Note: Scooby and Shaggy are always in no danger, Velma or Fred always unmask the least likely 'Old Man Caruthers' at the end, and Daphne is a sexless bitch who *still* won't give it up.
Please. Get a clue, staple it to your head, and comb it over. Thanks.
I have to agree! My install of Windows 95 has been running smoothly for years - in fact, I haven't rebooted since I installed it in 1996! Let's see, what do I have on here....
Imagine if everyone on earth was able to combine their resources and technology with no political, religious, or cultural boundries. I reel at the idea of what we could accomplish if everyone was united to one idea.
I fear that something that the world could rail against, such as a super-SARS, a 'killer' asteroid, or sudden climate change would destroy the human race before we could become organized, especially when information is withheld from citizens, other countries, and competing corporate scientists.
Mars could be a couple of years away or less, if everyone worked together. Mind you, I in no way think that this will happen. Sadly, I find the vison of earth as a self-created wasteland far more accurate.
Think of the Marks-A-Lot buzz everyone on Crapitol Hill is going to have! It's not bad enough that they're all smokin' dope and snortin' coke, now they'll be high in the sky everytime they censor a document.
Senator Withered: "Hoo HA, I love the smell of pulling the wool over the American People's eyes!" *mark* *mark* *mark*
Senator Oldfart: "You said it...SENATOR!" (Both collapse in laughter) "Hoooo...Whew. *sniff* *mark* *mark* *mark* What do you think, should I censor this part about a huge raise for us?"
Senator Heartevent: "HAW HAW! Censor the whole damn thing! *mark* *mark* *mark* I'm losing my buzz!"
You must have gone to the Apple website for Safari, because it doesn't show in software update under 10.2. You must have a beige G3, if Panther won't install.
Now I don't understand why you would buy Panther (you did *buy* it, right?) if you knew that it wouldn't install on a usb-less G3. You knew because you check these things out before you plop down $129 for a forced upgrade (you do read system requirements before spending $129, right?).
Now, if you *really* want to install panther, you can go here. You're going to have to have the required hardware (you will RTFA, right?) before you can do it, which will mean a new PCI video card, as the 4 meg ATi Rage ain't going to cut it.
As far as Apple forcing you to upgrade, did Steve come to your house and hold a slightly rounded plastic gun to your head and make you click on the 'Safari' link? When Panther came out, did all of your software stop working? I don't know where the 'forcing' comes into play - by your logic, linux, windows, and BeOS force you to upgrade every time a new version comes out.
As far as running linux on your G3 - go to town! I happily run 10.2.8 on my beige g3, and its quite usable and easy to configure. If you want to give up OS X, that's your issue. Say goodbye to Photoshop, Safari 1.1 (which works fine), and the rest of the consistent GUI software, 'cause it ain't there for linux.
Switching your iPod. You're switching to activation coded, exploit-filled Windows. Quite a trade up, I'm sure. Although, I'm sure Bill won't come by the house to force you to upgrade. He's too busy leveraging his monopoly to bring more substandard software to market.
As far as the 12" Powerbook, there you're really shorting yourself. I have a 15", and as I've said before, it's the best computer I've ever had. It came with 10.2.8, and I got Panther for 20 bucks.
Steve didn't make me, I *wanted* to.
I think that you will find something to whine about no matter what, so do what you will do. Put up or shut up as Dad was apt to say.
You want to run Panther like the kids in Cupertino intended, get the Powerbook and enjoy it, because you will. It's nice. Retire the G3 (throw 10.2.8 on the bitch and put it out to pasture as an FTP server). It's had a long, hard life.
Most of all, stop complaining. You could be spending that $129 a year on antivirus software, spyware detection and removal, software firewalls, Norton Ghost and your time trying to figure out what services to disable this week, and how to get IE and WMP from stealing file associations.
If all that isn't worth $129 a year, maybe you should give up on computers and get a job pushing a rock to the top of a hill.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go run software update on my powerbook (and not worry about my exploit-free, Beige G3 FTP server) and check out the new Safari.
For anyone who cares, the twin cities store that he links to is the best computer store ever. I have purchased exclusively from them for the last 7-8 years. Service is great, prices are fantastic, and the guys there are knowegable and nice.
I would've bought my powerbook there if they had them...:)
These guys are worth any dime you spend on hardware.
I ignored all advice of the 'un-obstructed view of the southern sky' and installed my dish myself. It's pointed directly at a huge tree branch about 20 feet away. My signal strength hovers at 96 percent, and I've had two outages due to (really scary) weather.
(I live in southern Minnesota, where tornados like to play.)
Our local cable co. called a month ago, and was trying to sell me on cable. They said, "What about when the weather is bad?"
I said, "When the weather is bad enough for my satellite to go out, the last thing on my mind is catching the end of "Iron Chef". I get my ass in the basement. I hardly want to die watching "Friends" reruns on cable."
She didn't really have a response to that. Guess it wasn't in the script.
Would the advent of the 64-bit Athlon mean that a PowerPC chip could finally be emulated?
I know that in the past, the number of registers of the PPC was far in excess of the capabillities of the x86. Example: No PPC emulator yet exists, no matter what vaporware merchants have said in the past.
Finally, my one experience with Bochs was on BeOS. I couldn't figure it out. On the other hand, Virtual PC was easy as pie. Why doesn't Bochs copy the usabillity of Virtual PC --- the gui is neat and clean, plenty of options; throw open source in the mix and we could have a weiner. (And a real alternative to MS owned, newly activation-coded Virtual PC.)
I stopped upgrading when MS bought it. It was only fair.
Jan 31, 2004 - "We're working on more technology that can be easily circumvented!", says Canon's Product Manager, Wayne Innass.
"We're also trying to annoy our customers like Adobe, but that software is still in beta. We might try to license some software form Microsoft, as they seem to be the leaders in that field."
Wayne continues, "Our R&D department has some great ideas, such as forcing the user to take every picture twice, erasing photos at random, and my personal favorite - increasing the time between pressing the shutter release and when the picture is taken!"
"We won't stop until our product is unusable at last!"
I spent 4 hours telling my uncle everything I knew about guitars, (which is not a little) and especially what *not* to get. This one singular thing I pounded into his head, again and again - backed up with all the reasons why it would be a bad decision: poor investment, not easily fixable, tonally crap, ect.
What does he show up with nest time I see him. Exactly what I told him *NOT* to get.
This guy was clueless about the subject, and chose to ignore my advice - from someone who has made a living as a musician, built and repaired guitars, and played everything under the sun (at the store, of course).
I didn't say anything. I made a mental note to never waste my time again.
As far as the girly, good riddance. If she can't see why a Mac is better, when she's had every opportunity (the guy's behind one of the best selling mac software titles, for Bill's sake - I'm sure he has a nice one at home), then the hell with her.
I think it says something when someone asks for advice from someone who actually gives a rat's ass beyond some commission or reward *and* is well versed in the subject (a rare thing these days), and goes ahead and ignores it.
I think this statement is fine. Life is too short to waste your time, especially when it's about chicks.
Is she going to ignore advice from her doctor to stop screwing Haitian man-whores? Not listen to her investment manager when he says, 'That Nigerian email is a scam'? How about the recommendation of her video store clerk that 'Caligula' is not a movie to bring over to her niece's slumber party?
I mean, it's questionable at this point.
Change the PC to something you care and are knowlegeable about and see if that little voice in your head says, "Hey, she ignored your advice! MARRY HER!" or if it says, "Hey, she ignored your advice! That chick at the coffe shop was looking at you..."
let me be the first to say that Microsoft is busy porting Longhorn to the Apple G5! Remember that intern that was fired for taking that picture of all those G5s getting unloaded at Microsoft? Well, now we know - since Intel is dragging on 64 bits, MS is going PowerPC!
All the rumors add up, if you drink this sour milk I found in the fridge.
BTW, I love Slashdot's new color scheme of rainbows and sunshine music.
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Wait a minute! Are we just following the lead of the British? Sending our worst criminals, the dregs of society, to Austrailia?
Don't do it Aussies! It's a trap!
I'm just gonna sit back in my nice recliner here, eat this cheeseburger and watch mobile phone TV 'till the checks start rolling in...what the? Am I moving? HOLY CR@#kjl3.@!.*
Is that like being 'more pregnant'? My wife will be glad to hear.
Safari has helped my spelling immensely, however, I still tend to overuse commas, and really need to watch them, in particular.
I'm coming up on 1900 posts on slashdot, and though many of them were funny one liners, incoherent rants, subtle trolls and raging flamebait, many have been rather thought out and labored over.
I find posting to slashdot is like a journal of sorts; I've discovered and formed many opinions, revised them, thrown some out, and revisited them.
Slashdot has done much for my thinking, as responding to arguments requires (for me anyway) a well-reasoned response. Mostly I've found that I'm consistently +5 funny before I wake up in the morning and in the 12th hour of a deadline. Like now. Back to 2am work :(
will I get charged a restocking fee when someone replies?
Then you must send 34 seconds of a certain portion of the movie 'Deliverance' over a period of 22 minutes.
These two things must be accomplished while repeatedly hitting 'alt-f4' on your keyboard, and screaming, "Damn you Real Player! Damn you to Hell!' like a woman.
Of course, if you reboot you'll have to start all over again, after a slight delay.
Um, a longer delay.
Ok, you get one shot at this, I guess. At least the exploit is consistent with their user interface.
What could go wrong?
When 'whois'ing your domain it gives the company's email, which gets forwarded to you (after a spam filter if you like). Same with any 'real mail' (except for junk mail if you wish).
Well worth the nominal cost (3 bucks, IIRC) at registration time.
Frankly, I don't think any Linux user has enough time on his/her hands to be writing a virus. They're still trying to get their soundcard to work :)
Besides, this article completely ignores the 'Sorry Andy, I'm just doing my job' quote in the virus code. What 'job' is this person talking about?
To me, it sounds like an employee of an antivirus company apologizing to some friend of his that admins some giant mail server.
If you're writing a virus, in order to detect it and destroy it for money, what does the target matter? SCO has been in the news for so long, is easy to type (three letters!), and is universally hated, I wonder that it's taken so long for it to be a target, if for no other reason then it's new. (ie. not MS)
Again - why are all of today's virues such amazing pussies? What happened to formatting the boot sector? Changing random bytes? Creating replications so your harddrive filled up?
Now all we get are stupid, "I send you this file to have your advice" and "TEST".
Frankly, I think that anti-virus corporations should be investigated. Sure, there are the 'lone gunmen', like the guy in Minnesota (w00t) who spread some virus-lovin' not too long ago, but beyond the guys who actually put their phone number in, are any authors caught? Spammers, credit card number theives and Antivirus companies are the only ones that profit from these craptacular faux screen savers.
This author of this article probably had to take a leak, and scraped this together in 3 minutes. Oh, and if he reads this post?
Please Note: Scooby and Shaggy are always in no danger, Velma or Fred always unmask the least likely 'Old Man Caruthers' at the end, and Daphne is a sexless bitch who *still* won't give it up.
Please. Get a clue, staple it to your head, and comb it over. Thanks.
C'mon you geeks! Take off those pocket protectors and put on the gloves! Google's callin' you out!
Oh crap, that's screen burn-in.
I fear that something that the world could rail against, such as a super-SARS, a 'killer' asteroid, or sudden climate change would destroy the human race before we could become organized, especially when information is withheld from citizens, other countries, and competing corporate scientists.
Mars could be a couple of years away or less, if everyone worked together. Mind you, I in no way think that this will happen. Sadly, I find the vison of earth as a self-created wasteland far more accurate.
Senator Withered: "Hoo HA, I love the smell of pulling the wool over the American People's eyes!" *mark* *mark* *mark*
Senator Oldfart: "You said it...SENATOR!" (Both collapse in laughter) "Hoooo...Whew. *sniff* *mark* *mark* *mark* What do you think, should I censor this part about a huge raise for us?"
Senator Heartevent: "HAW HAW! Censor the whole damn thing! *mark* *mark* *mark* I'm losing my buzz!"
And that's how it happened, I swear.
Now I don't understand why you would buy Panther (you did *buy* it, right?) if you knew that it wouldn't install on a usb-less G3. You knew because you check these things out before you plop down $129 for a forced upgrade (you do read system requirements before spending $129, right?).
Now, if you *really* want to install panther, you can go here. You're going to have to have the required hardware (you will RTFA, right?) before you can do it, which will mean a new PCI video card, as the 4 meg ATi Rage ain't going to cut it.
As far as Apple forcing you to upgrade, did Steve come to your house and hold a slightly rounded plastic gun to your head and make you click on the 'Safari' link? When Panther came out, did all of your software stop working? I don't know where the 'forcing' comes into play - by your logic, linux, windows, and BeOS force you to upgrade every time a new version comes out.
As far as running linux on your G3 - go to town! I happily run 10.2.8 on my beige g3, and its quite usable and easy to configure. If you want to give up OS X, that's your issue. Say goodbye to Photoshop, Safari 1.1 (which works fine), and the rest of the consistent GUI software, 'cause it ain't there for linux.
Switching your iPod. You're switching to activation coded, exploit-filled Windows. Quite a trade up, I'm sure. Although, I'm sure Bill won't come by the house to force you to upgrade. He's too busy leveraging his monopoly to bring more substandard software to market.
As far as the 12" Powerbook, there you're really shorting yourself. I have a 15", and as I've said before, it's the best computer I've ever had. It came with 10.2.8, and I got Panther for 20 bucks.
Steve didn't make me, I *wanted* to.
I think that you will find something to whine about no matter what, so do what you will do. Put up or shut up as Dad was apt to say.
You want to run Panther like the kids in Cupertino intended, get the Powerbook and enjoy it, because you will. It's nice. Retire the G3 (throw 10.2.8 on the bitch and put it out to pasture as an FTP server). It's had a long, hard life.
Most of all, stop complaining. You could be spending that $129 a year on antivirus software, spyware detection and removal, software firewalls, Norton Ghost and your time trying to figure out what services to disable this week, and how to get IE and WMP from stealing file associations.
If all that isn't worth $129 a year, maybe you should give up on computers and get a job pushing a rock to the top of a hill.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go run software update on my powerbook (and not worry about my exploit-free, Beige G3 FTP server) and check out the new Safari.
I would've bought my powerbook there if they had them...:)
These guys are worth any dime you spend on hardware.
(I live in southern Minnesota, where tornados like to play.)
Our local cable co. called a month ago, and was trying to sell me on cable. They said, "What about when the weather is bad?"
I said, "When the weather is bad enough for my satellite to go out, the last thing on my mind is catching the end of "Iron Chef". I get my ass in the basement. I hardly want to die watching "Friends" reruns on cable."
She didn't really have a response to that. Guess it wasn't in the script.
if the Phillips Direct TV Tivo supports the home media option?
And yeah, I posted this anonymously for a reason. :)
Mom, I told you to stop posting to Slashdot!
I know that in the past, the number of registers of the PPC was far in excess of the capabillities of the x86. Example: No PPC emulator yet exists, no matter what vaporware merchants have said in the past.
Finally, my one experience with Bochs was on BeOS. I couldn't figure it out. On the other hand, Virtual PC was easy as pie. Why doesn't Bochs copy the usabillity of Virtual PC --- the gui is neat and clean, plenty of options; throw open source in the mix and we could have a weiner. (And a real alternative to MS owned, newly activation-coded Virtual PC.)
I stopped upgrading when MS bought it. It was only fair.
"We're also trying to annoy our customers like Adobe, but that software is still in beta. We might try to license some software form Microsoft, as they seem to be the leaders in that field."
Wayne continues, "Our R&D department has some great ideas, such as forcing the user to take every picture twice, erasing photos at random, and my personal favorite - increasing the time between pressing the shutter release and when the picture is taken!"
"We won't stop until our product is unusable at last!"
what you can achieve when you're not looking at porn all day.
What does he show up with nest time I see him. Exactly what I told him *NOT* to get.
This guy was clueless about the subject, and chose to ignore my advice - from someone who has made a living as a musician, built and repaired guitars, and played everything under the sun (at the store, of course).
I didn't say anything. I made a mental note to never waste my time again.
As far as the girly, good riddance. If she can't see why a Mac is better, when she's had every opportunity (the guy's behind one of the best selling mac software titles, for Bill's sake - I'm sure he has a nice one at home), then the hell with her.
I think it says something when someone asks for advice from someone who actually gives a rat's ass beyond some commission or reward *and* is well versed in the subject (a rare thing these days), and goes ahead and ignores it.
I think this statement is fine. Life is too short to waste your time, especially when it's about chicks.
Is she going to ignore advice from her doctor to stop screwing Haitian man-whores? Not listen to her investment manager when he says, 'That Nigerian email is a scam'? How about the recommendation of her video store clerk that 'Caligula' is not a movie to bring over to her niece's slumber party?
I mean, it's questionable at this point.
Change the PC to something you care and are knowlegeable about and see if that little voice in your head says, "Hey, she ignored your advice! MARRY HER!" or if it says, "Hey, she ignored your advice! That chick at the coffe shop was looking at you..."
I'll let you ponder that one.
All the rumors add up, if you drink this sour milk I found in the fridge.
BTW, I love Slashdot's new color scheme of rainbows and sunshine music.
I attempted to find examples, but all I found was google spam. Remember when Google was useful?