Well after a long night of drinking, I come home to see this. I have had some form of BeOS in my sig, and have used BeOS since 99.
23 Mil? Fuck you, Bill Gates.
You bitch. You know exactly what you deprived the world with your 'smart business'. You'll go on being the richest man in the world, then sell off your stock to your sweatiest idiot. You'll go and live your carefree life.
Fuck you, Bill Gates.
23 million. Nothing. Not even a fucking bug bite to Microsoft. And then to admit to no wrongdoing. Are you fucking kidding? I don't know when you sold your soul to the devil, but you've been engaged in 'wrongdoing' since I can remember.
Fuck you Bill Gates.
BeOS was magic. BeOS could do shit that you can't even get your shit OS to attempt without blue screening. Sure, it was rough around the edges, didn't support a ton of hardware, but neither could any other commercial OS with you locking them out. Pulling your licensing shit on OEMs, you closed them out of the market. You did this because Be could have ate your lunch.
Fuck you Bill Gates.
23 million. There are 23 million reasons why you should be slowly roasted over discarded Windows 95 manuals.
You fucking coward. You little fucking prick. 23 million. Another day at the races. Fuck you Bill Gates. Fuck you.
1. Post classified in paper - ad reads: "Wanted: People to test our security. Great pay, benefits, and excitement." (blah blah blah)
2. Meet with people. Hire everyone (especially Austrailian Customs agents). Wear a fake mustache. Give each person a different assignment. "You are to go in to our bank/store/house/hospital/police station and using any uniform/disguise and verbal means, physically take our hardware. Do not get caught. If you do, hand them this card - they know this card as Phsyical Security test E8T-m3 - we are contracted with them to to this test."
3. Promise bonuses for high-priced items. Take items, have them load your (rented) car. Congratulate them on their first day. Hand them a schedule for next week & note high performers. Leave.
3a. If your employee gets caught, remove mustache and look nonplussed. Walk away.
There's a project for an aspiring/.er! Do some php site that lists:
Crippled CDs
BIOS
motherboards
Hard Drives
Consumer Audio (Minidisk, MP3 players)
Music (Buymusic.com - I have a special grudge against these guys, see my journal.)Itunes (gotta be fair, eh?)
Video Players
ect. ect. (Don't forget MS!)
This would be an excellent way for others to be educated on the general poo that is DRM, and also give regular joes a list of stuff *NOT* to buy. Perhaps a forum reviews and on breaking/ circumventing/ turning DRM back upon its evil creators would be in order as well.
Sadly, the only way to vote and be heard is with $$$, these days.
In other news, Department of Homeland Security director Tom Ridge has made great strides defending the U.S. from terrorism by requiring 7 forms of identification, a seven day 'waiting' period in Guantanamo Bay, and a violent strip search before allowing any brown people to fly clouds over U.S. population centers.
"This is a great day for America! We have hobbled the terrorists new weapons of mass destruction, and crippled their abillity to fly big fluffy bunnies or giant frosted Krispie Kremes weighing millions of elephants or several thousand 747s into our nation's buildings!"
After the announcement, the director was overheard to say an aide, "Tell me I'm relevant again..."
Q: What weighs more: A pound of feathers, a pound of gold, or an article with important details missing?
A: The Article with important details missing will weigh you down more than feathers or gold! It also will wear you down faster than 3,004 sheets of sandpaper, and make you sigh more than another SCO press release!
Thanks for reading ABC NEWS! It's better than two buckets of ice cream!
when IBM was going to do something about SCO and their claims. Her response was a very simple drawn out, "Yeeaah, right".
From this I gathered that IBM is doing the bare minimum they need to, and are letting SCO burn itself out. I also postulated that Arnold Schwarzenegger was refusing to be in the California debates to distance himself from the pack of other contenders, and raise his importance/stature above that of the masses.
Just like IBM, to fit so much information in a very small space.
Gordon Moore made his famous observation in 1965, just four years after the first planar integrated circuit was discovered. This law was finally proven in 1989 with the release of the vernable 486(TM) DX processor from Intel.
Due to incredible market forces and other mysterious occurences that remain unexplained to this time, chip speed doubled every two years. This remained true even through the infamous Intel factory shutdown in 1991.
The plant was closed for a period of seventeen months due to widespread worker illness. The engineers at Intel had been under tremendous pressure to design a new chip that would double the speed of the impressive 486 DX.
Sadly, the engineers were stumped. Adding to this incredible pressure was the unexplanable illness that spread about the facillity like wildfire. This illness would render an otherwise healthy person unconscious for a period of seventeen months. The afflicted person would then rise as if nothing had happened.
Intel enginners were some of the last to be affected by this mysterious illness, and when it struck, there remained little choice but to shutter the plant.
Seventeen months passed, and the lights of the Intel factory remained dim. Offerings by Cyrix and AMD began to overtake Intel's flagship 486 processor.
Suddenly, the enginners began to regain unconsciousness one by one. Strangely, they all had a similar vision while under the illnesses grasp. They begain to call each other on the telephone, comparing notes on what they had 'seen'.
Cautiously, they began to draw plans - plans that would save the great Intel from ruin.
Work went quickly, as each enginner 'knew' what the others were thinking. Soon, the plant was reopened, and fabrication of of the new design began. The engineers collectively decided that the chip would be called the "Pentium". Asked a short time before his unseemly death, an enginner said, "It just HAD to be named that. I don't know why. But we all agreed."
Sadly, the chip that propelled a limping Intel into the forefront of CPU technology was the last that any of the 'Pentium' designers saw to fruition.
Tragedy struck the enginners as they were on their way to the company picnic. The bus that they were riding in plummeted off an embankment into a river, drowning all of them.
Gordon Moore's famous 1965 observation was voted into law in 1994, one year after the release of the new chip. The punishment for violators is death by mysterious circumstance. No one has yet broken Moore's Law, and woe be unto those that do.
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How do I mirror a website? I'm a subscriber, and managed to nab some photos - now what? Is there a fast way to do it and throw it on my hosted server? With a mac?
Or just gimme a link and I'll figure it out. I'd love to mirror stuff when I catch it, but I need to be beaten with the cluestick.
Why not take the head of a dragonfly, attach it to a flying frame/interface, put some VR goggles on it and show it pictures of hot dragonly chicks just ahead of where you want to go?
Isn't someone already doing something like this with cockroaches? It seems to me that we should just use the heads of people and animals to pilot all of our transportation. Who wouldn't like Dale Earnhardt's head driving you to the store and to pick up the kids?
The 'new' management is the old management. The only new thing is the $$$/threats of lawsuits that MS gave them to 'vapor' the product. Recall that RealPC it was 'on hold' because MS had some issues
MS is pulling another MS monopoly action - they are using their marketshare/IP-share in emulation to kill work on others! Those Bastards!
....Or the one guy they had working on it decided to go work at Taco Bell where the paychecks were bigger...
Open Sesame (1993!) by Charles River Analytics
for the mac did stuff like this: would 'learn' when you did things and open programs for you, where you saved files, how often you rebuilt the desktop, ect.
You could also direct it by voice command. I had this program back in the day, heady stuff at the time.
as the dirty whoremaster who first really overused this effect on his sappy-ass tune.
Then blame Clear Channel for playing the living shit out of this ass-nugget.
Next, blame the mentally challenged public for buying the record, propelling Kid Suck into the rarefied Coors lite atmosphere of sTARDom.
Don't forget to slap the RIAA around for paying producers to 'make more like this', dooming music to a downward spiraling crap-tunnel.
Autotune is like any other EFFECT. Pleasing or innovative when sparingly used. Tiresome, boring, lazy, and perfectly capable of destroying a good song when overused. Producers, take note: That's why they call it an 'effect'. Please don't make it the song.
It seems to me that Sobig could just be collecting addresses somehow, perhaps mailing (the address book?) to some address that doesn't exist on the writer's server. Then the writer could just check the logs and see what bounced.
This would be a case of me talking out of my ass. Is this posssible, or is it readily detectable?
no matter. DeBeers will try and lobby a solution to protect their market.
If that doesn't work, I predict that your fiance will be expecting a new 'Mars rock' ring, and NASA will finally be able to finance that trip to the moon they've been faking^W talking about.
First, why are viruses like Sobig such pussies? Whatever happened to the days of rewriting the MBR, formatted harddrives, geometrically expanding file sizes, and the like?
It seems to me that viruses could be doing a lot more evil, yet they aren't.
The conspiracy theorist in me says that the 'virus-scanning companies are really the ones behind these pussy-ass viruses.
Since none of them do any real damage, it could be argued that antivirus companies create them, distribute them, then 'convieniently' have a fix ready. To cover their tracks, all viruses are 'hobbled' in function - if a virus happens to be traced back to them, AV companies can say it was a 'proof of concept' that was accidentally released.
To those who say that viruses are an unnecessary evil, I submit that if there were no viruses, that one would be 'accidentally' created eventually by self modifying code that will be used in more and more devices. With computer power increasing at its current rate, I predict that (rather, I hope that) software will be available to infer what the 'writer' wants and go ahead and create the code via genetic algorythims.
At some point, genetic coding would create something self-replicating and inadvertently release it to an fertile playground.
Ultimately, it comes down to human nature. We have viruses because we have people. For profit, or for glory - humans create these viruses. Just like humans, they aint goin nowhere.
Slashdot Mirror
23 Mil? Fuck you, Bill Gates.
You bitch. You know exactly what you deprived the world with your 'smart business'. You'll go on being the richest man in the world, then sell off your stock to your sweatiest idiot. You'll go and live your carefree life.
Fuck you, Bill Gates.
23 million. Nothing. Not even a fucking bug bite to Microsoft. And then to admit to no wrongdoing. Are you fucking kidding? I don't know when you sold your soul to the devil, but you've been engaged in 'wrongdoing' since I can remember.
Fuck you Bill Gates.
BeOS was magic. BeOS could do shit that you can't even get your shit OS to attempt without blue screening. Sure, it was rough around the edges, didn't support a ton of hardware, but neither could any other commercial OS with you locking them out. Pulling your licensing shit on OEMs, you closed them out of the market. You did this because Be could have ate your lunch.
Fuck you Bill Gates.
23 million. There are 23 million reasons why you should be slowly roasted over discarded Windows 95 manuals.
You fucking coward. You little fucking prick. 23 million. Another day at the races. Fuck you Bill Gates. Fuck you.
2. Meet with people. Hire everyone (especially Austrailian Customs agents). Wear a fake mustache. Give each person a different assignment. "You are to go in to our bank/store/house/hospital/police station and using any uniform/disguise and verbal means, physically take our hardware. Do not get caught. If you do, hand them this card - they know this card as Phsyical Security test E8T-m3 - we are contracted with them to to this test."
3. Promise bonuses for high-priced items. Take items, have them load your (rented) car. Congratulate them on their first day. Hand them a schedule for next week & note high performers. Leave.
3a. If your employee gets caught, remove mustache and look nonplussed. Walk away.
4. Profit!!!
Crippled CDs
BIOS
motherboards
Hard Drives
Consumer Audio (Minidisk, MP3 players)
Music (Buymusic.com - I have a special grudge against these guys, see my journal.)Itunes (gotta be fair, eh?)
Video Players
ect. ect. (Don't forget MS!)
This would be an excellent way for others to be educated on the general poo that is DRM, and also give regular joes a list of stuff *NOT* to buy. Perhaps a forum reviews and on breaking/ circumventing/ turning DRM back upon its evil creators would be in order as well.
Sadly, the only way to vote and be heard is with $$$, these days.
If I was Jack or Hillary, I would have already gone through 3 pairs of underwear today.
(Note: not because of bowel control problems - that's reserved for Steve Jobs)
"This is a great day for America! We have hobbled the terrorists new weapons of mass destruction, and crippled their abillity to fly big fluffy bunnies or giant frosted Krispie Kremes weighing millions of elephants or several thousand 747s into our nation's buildings!"
After the announcement, the director was overheard to say an aide, "Tell me I'm relevant again..."
If only we knew what the volume of the cloud was.
I expected to see:
Next Week on ABC NEWS!
Q: What weighs more: A pound of feathers, a pound of gold, or an article with important details missing?
A: The Article with important details missing will weigh you down more than feathers or gold! It also will wear you down faster than 3,004 sheets of sandpaper, and make you sigh more than another SCO press release!
Thanks for reading ABC NEWS! It's better than two buckets of ice cream!
From this I gathered that IBM is doing the bare minimum they need to, and are letting SCO burn itself out. I also postulated that Arnold Schwarzenegger was refusing to be in the California debates to distance himself from the pack of other contenders, and raise his importance/stature above that of the masses.
Just like IBM, to fit so much information in a very small space.
Apparently, it randomly inserts, commas too. ;)
Gordon Moore made his famous observation in 1965, just four years after the first planar integrated circuit was discovered. This law was finally proven in 1989 with the release of the vernable 486(TM) DX processor from Intel.
Due to incredible market forces and other mysterious occurences that remain unexplained to this time, chip speed doubled every two years. This remained true even through the infamous Intel factory shutdown in 1991.
The plant was closed for a period of seventeen months due to widespread worker illness. The engineers at Intel had been under tremendous pressure to design a new chip that would double the speed of the impressive 486 DX. Sadly, the engineers were stumped. Adding to this incredible pressure was the unexplanable illness that spread about the facillity like wildfire. This illness would render an otherwise healthy person unconscious for a period of seventeen months. The afflicted person would then rise as if nothing had happened.
Intel enginners were some of the last to be affected by this mysterious illness, and when it struck, there remained little choice but to shutter the plant.
Seventeen months passed, and the lights of the Intel factory remained dim. Offerings by Cyrix and AMD began to overtake Intel's flagship 486 processor.
Suddenly, the enginners began to regain unconsciousness one by one. Strangely, they all had a similar vision while under the illnesses grasp. They begain to call each other on the telephone, comparing notes on what they had 'seen'.
Cautiously, they began to draw plans - plans that would save the great Intel from ruin.
Work went quickly, as each enginner 'knew' what the others were thinking. Soon, the plant was reopened, and fabrication of of the new design began. The engineers collectively decided that the chip would be called the "Pentium". Asked a short time before his unseemly death, an enginner said, "It just HAD to be named that. I don't know why. But we all agreed."
Sadly, the chip that propelled a limping Intel into the forefront of CPU technology was the last that any of the 'Pentium' designers saw to fruition.
Tragedy struck the enginners as they were on their way to the company picnic. The bus that they were riding in plummeted off an embankment into a river, drowning all of them.
Gordon Moore's famous 1965 observation was voted into law in 1994, one year after the release of the new chip. The punishment for violators is death by mysterious circumstance. No one has yet broken Moore's Law, and woe be unto those that do.
Thanks,
Jonathan Frakes
P.S. In your ear, Mr. Smarty-pants.
And the mostly content free first page.
This will be a good test of my provider :)
Or just gimme a link and I'll figure it out. I'd love to mirror stuff when I catch it, but I need to be beaten with the cluestick.
I'm sure you meant ALL seams and wrinkles.
*shudder*
Isn't someone already doing something like this with cockroaches? It seems to me that we should just use the heads of people and animals to pilot all of our transportation. Who wouldn't like Dale Earnhardt's head driving you to the store and to pick up the kids?
Oh. Nevermind.
He hired me.
Before I may enter the website? Before I walk in the store?
How about before I get in the car to go to the store? Before I get internet access?
Before I leave the house in the morning? Before I get a credit card to pay for my ISP?
Before I wake up? Before the internet is invented?
Before I was born? Before the great landmass of Pangea split into the continents we know now?
Before the land that time forgot was forgotten? Before the cosmic dust coalesced into the planets of our solar system?
BEFORE THE FABRIC OF TIME, SPACE AND DIMENSION WERE TORN ASUNDER BY THE GREAT GOD ALGOROTH AND FASHIONED INTO THE UNIVERSE??
Fuck it, I'm getting an Apple.
I got the RoboSweep, which is kind of like the retarded cousin that your family doesn't talk about.
MS is pulling another MS monopoly action - they are using their marketshare/IP-share in emulation to kill work on others! Those Bastards!
You could also direct it by voice command. I had this program back in the day, heady stuff at the time.
Here's a pile of other stuff on Software Assistants.
Then blame Clear Channel for playing the living shit out of this ass-nugget.
Next, blame the mentally challenged public for buying the record, propelling Kid Suck into the rarefied Coors lite atmosphere of sTARDom.
Don't forget to slap the RIAA around for paying producers to 'make more like this', dooming music to a downward spiraling crap-tunnel.
Autotune is like any other EFFECT. Pleasing or innovative when sparingly used. Tiresome, boring, lazy, and perfectly capable of destroying a good song when overused. Producers, take note: That's why they call it an 'effect'. Please don't make it the song.
This would be a case of me talking out of my ass. Is this posssible, or is it readily detectable?
If that doesn't work, I predict that your fiance will be expecting a new 'Mars rock' ring, and NASA will finally be able to finance that trip to the moon they've been faking^W talking about.
It seems to me that viruses could be doing a lot more evil, yet they aren't.
The conspiracy theorist in me says that the 'virus-scanning companies are really the ones behind these pussy-ass viruses.
Since none of them do any real damage, it could be argued that antivirus companies create them, distribute them, then 'convieniently' have a fix ready. To cover their tracks, all viruses are 'hobbled' in function - if a virus happens to be traced back to them, AV companies can say it was a 'proof of concept' that was accidentally released.
To those who say that viruses are an unnecessary evil, I submit that if there were no viruses, that one would be 'accidentally' created eventually by self modifying code that will be used in more and more devices. With computer power increasing at its current rate, I predict that (rather, I hope that) software will be available to infer what the 'writer' wants and go ahead and create the code via genetic algorythims.
At some point, genetic coding would create something self-replicating and inadvertently release it to an fertile playground.
Ultimately, it comes down to human nature. We have viruses because we have people. For profit, or for glory - humans create these viruses. Just like humans, they aint goin nowhere.
I'll finally be able to play an mp3 and scroll Slashdot in IE 6.0 with no skips!
Teehee!