I am sorry Mr. President... my computer was infected with a virus and this trojan submitted comupter code to terrorist supporting open source projects. Particularily, OpenBSD...
Obviously, this is a positive step forward. Free and Open Source Software, particularily a security focused Open Operating Systems like OpenBSD, is the worst the kind of terrorism.
Its not like the good ole money-making, capitalist terrorism like drugs, music piracy, and copyright litigation....
Oh no, its Communist! Communist terrorists are out to threaten the American economy and the rich American way of life.
We are through the looking glass here people. Don't support OSS and if you have in the past, go out and buy a Chevy Tahoe as penitance.
its a lousy name for a car, let alone a web-browser or database....
In order to solve this I suggest Mozilla rename Phoenix to a more contemporary equivalent: Honda Civic Hatchback with Go-Faster Stripes with Loud Muffler and Extra Cheese as a viable solution
I think that (even though this may be obvious) that
the 'success' of a project largely depends on its initial goal. Traditional measures don't really cut it.
For example , if I start an open source game, and my goal would not be to make the next DOOM/UNREAL/HALF-LIFE killer for linux, but to have fun trying something hard. So the success of the project of that would be how well I did that, with or without the help of others. Anything after that would be a bonus
If a project is really ambitious in what it wants to achieve (mozilla, WINE, etc...) then its success
will depend on more tangible factors... how bug tracker submissions (is anyone trying it out and care enough to report bugs), how many downloads are there (is the word out?).
The real catch though is that OSS is much more dynamic. My OSS uber-linux game might become a huge success and become much more ambitious as a result and so the project could start to take shape as something much more elaborate. This aspect is a huge advantage and disadvantage of OSS. The project
will change as whoever becomes interested or disinterested in it.
So, perhaps a successful project should have interest in it by whomever. At
least by the developpers involved, and of course in a general sense as well. It doesn't really matter if it becomes 'the sliced-bread' of OSS (as much as the developpers may dream - a definite good thing) but as long as someone cares about it. Most projects suck, some are good ideas poorly implemented, some are bad ideas well implemented and some manage to get both right (Apache?). They all have potential, but without someone caring that initial potential will go nowhere.
So if you are still interested in developping your project, then I would say its still a success.
insertFeelGoodOSSComment(char *s="I can make a difference!")
Orson Scott Card - some of the more interesting books I have read (pastwatch, ender's game, homecoming series)
Iain (M.) Banks - Banks is in my opinion one of the most underated writers of the day. With (sci-fi) or without (reg. fiction) the 'M.' his books are very good. Particulaly Excession, Player of Games, and The Crow Road, and The Wasp Factory.
Obviously there are huge privacy concerns with RF tags, but the other side of the coin is that such a system does have lots of benefits for the retailer.
The trick will be finding a way to accomplish those goals will maintaining the privacy of the customers. Perhaps some sort of decaying device that after it ages for a certain period it physically ceases to work.
Actually, if your eyes are stationary...
The eye contact sensors work by locating where your pupils are looking. Your eyes actually jump around, and take snapshots of what you are looking at. The sensor can tell if you are looking at a particular thing, monitor for example, and then the system can reason about how to interupt you and if the message is worth it at all. Thus, allowing you to be left alone if you are busy working or god forbid reading/.
"Low code quality keeps haunting our entire industry. That, and sloppy programmers who don't understand the frameworks they work within. They're like plumbers high on glue," Mr. de Raadt said.
Just think of all those "toilets" that were built by glue sniffing plumbers.... It's no surprise that no one knows where the sh*t ends up!
In other news, A large 'plumbing' company announces that you should make sure the lid of your toilet is down to prevent sewer back up until the latest fuzzy seat 'patches' are out.
You didn't use the RIAA special loss due to priracy arithmetic. Its the same calculations used to calculate what music the american public is going to buy and how much.
Using this much more complex adding system, you will reach the result of 97.8 Trillion dollars
I do remember that at least a while ago if you googled (hehe) "Dumbmotherf@#cker" and took the first link (feelin' lucky) you ended up at G.W.B's campaign webpage....
Yea, and thou shall see on the fourth correspondence
a great many people annoucing its mighty fourthness and a great many people will know a plague has struck. The ovens shall be alit from for away with the fearsome second cereal bus of everyone and the postings shall boil over, the sky will fall, stricking on every evil bit. And thou shall know that his name is the Lord and April's Day has come to you all
Actually this is covered by a series of patents by a Mr. Christie. The patents included things from the basic cookie to doubling the chip amount to improve goodness. He also has a patent pending in the same series on the gooey-ness of cookies.
"There's nothing I like more than the sexy slither
of the lady snake."
"Wacking Day was originally started as an excuss to beat up the Irish"
Not to mention, the classic wacking day kung fu practice by Homer, Bart driving Willy's tractor into superintendent Chalmers. Come on people
it deserves at least an honourable mention.
reminds me of buddy who would shop at future shop for a lot of stuff. And Always alwasy get the extened warranty packaged. So when the item broke,
he was still covered and could take it back and get another even sometime down the road. He knew he was getting crap, he just insured it with that nice extended warranty package.
It was called Mutually Assured Destruction. It was what people believed before....what was it....WW1
Huge Armies will deter each other... right and people will stop being people....
Arming everyone is not the answer, looking at society is. People are being violent for a reason, and they will be violent regardless of who is packing. I remember one annecdote of a fellow canadian travelling in NYC. A car cut off some guy
on a bike and the biker pulls out a gun. The driver didn't have a gun and took off. He could have been carying and the biker didn't care. Sometimes whatever the odds you just don't care, you get mad and instinctively reach for brother 9mm.
If everyone above 18yrs old was a responsible person than that would be different. Most people aren't. Plato said good people will be good people regardless of the laws. The problem is most people are not good people and need laws to get them off the fence.
I personally believe that you can carry a gun, if you prove your worth,have proven you're responsible. And this is a fair amount of gun owners. I am not disagreeing with you entirely just make sure that you realise people are people first with or without guns. Making everyone carry guns, regardless of courses, won't solve the problem.
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I am sorry Mr. President... my computer was infected with a virus and this trojan submitted comupter code to terrorist supporting open source projects. Particularily, OpenBSD...
Obviously, this is a positive step forward. Free and Open Source Software, particularily a security focused Open Operating Systems like OpenBSD, is the worst the kind of terrorism.
Its not like the good ole money-making, capitalist terrorism like drugs, music piracy, and copyright litigation....
Oh no, its Communist! Communist terrorists are out to threaten the American economy and the rich American way of life.
We are through the looking glass here people. Don't support OSS and if you have in the past, go out and buy a Chevy Tahoe as penitance.
Capitalism! It's in you to give!
its a lousy name for a car, let alone a web-browser or database....
In order to solve this I suggest Mozilla rename Phoenix to a more contemporary equivalent:
Honda Civic Hatchback with Go-Faster Stripes with Loud Muffler and Extra Cheese
as a viable solution
I think that (even though this may be obvious) that the 'success' of a project largely depends on its initial goal. Traditional measures don't really cut it.
For example , if I start an open source game, and my goal would not be to make the next DOOM/UNREAL/HALF-LIFE killer for linux, but to have fun trying something hard. So the success of the project of that would be how well I did that, with or without the help of others. Anything after that would be a bonus
If a project is really ambitious in what it wants to achieve (mozilla, WINE, etc...) then its success will depend on more tangible factors... how bug tracker submissions (is anyone trying it out and care enough to report bugs), how many downloads are there (is the word out?).
The real catch though is that OSS is much more dynamic. My OSS uber-linux game might become a huge success and become much more ambitious as a result and so the project could start to take shape as something much more elaborate. This aspect is a huge advantage and disadvantage of OSS. The project will change as whoever becomes interested or disinterested in it.
So, perhaps a successful project should have interest in it by whomever. At least by the developpers involved, and of course in a general sense as well. It doesn't really matter if it becomes 'the sliced-bread' of OSS (as much as the developpers may dream - a definite good thing) but as long as someone cares about it. Most projects suck, some are good ideas poorly implemented, some are bad ideas well implemented and some manage to get both right (Apache?). They all have potential, but without someone caring that initial potential will go nowhere.
So if you are still interested in developping your project, then I would say its still a success.
How come there is no post about the new laura croft movie.... I must be hanging out at the wrong geek website...
Neal Stephenson - great what I have read so far.
Orson Scott Card - some of the more interesting books I have read (pastwatch, ender's game, homecoming series)
Iain (M.) Banks - Banks is in my opinion one of the most underated writers of the day. With (sci-fi) or without (reg. fiction) the 'M.' his books are very good. Particulaly Excession, Player of Games, and The Crow Road, and The Wasp Factory.
The trick will be finding a way to accomplish those goals will maintaining the privacy of the customers. Perhaps some sort of decaying device that after it ages for a certain period it physically ceases to work.
Actually, if your eyes are stationary ... /.
The eye contact sensors work by locating where your pupils are looking. Your eyes actually jump around, and take snapshots of what you are looking at. The sensor can tell if you are looking at a particular thing, monitor for example, and then the system can reason about how to interupt you and if the message is worth it at all. Thus, allowing you to be left alone if you are busy working or god forbid reading
"Low code quality keeps haunting our entire industry. That, and sloppy programmers who don't understand the frameworks they work within. They're like plumbers high on glue," Mr. de Raadt said.
Just think of all those "toilets" that were built by glue sniffing plumbers.... It's no surprise that no one knows where the sh*t ends up!
In other news, A large 'plumbing' company announces that you should make sure the lid of your toilet is down to prevent sewer back up until the latest fuzzy seat 'patches' are out.
You didn't use the RIAA special loss due to priracy arithmetic. Its the same calculations used to calculate what music the american public is going to buy and how much.
Using this much more complex adding system, you will reach the result of 97.8 Trillion dollars
Poetic Justice?
I don't think so until we
have spamming sonnets.
I have trademarked this
Use it at your own expense
I'll see you in court
I do remember that at least a while ago if you googled (hehe) "Dumbmotherf@#cker" and took the first link (feelin' lucky) you ended up at G.W.B's campaign webpage....
Actually current experts believe that he was replaced specifically by a chimpanzee.
Curious george... I just haven't figured out who the man in the yellow hat is....
Actually it doesn't end until Midnight....
now don't you feel like the April Fool =)
from Taco's Revelations Chapter 41 verses 20-03
Yea, and thou shall see on the fourth correspondence a great many people annoucing its mighty fourthness and a great many people will know a plague has struck. The ovens shall be alit from for away with the fearsome second cereal bus of everyone and the postings shall boil over, the sky will fall, stricking on every evil bit. And thou shall know that his name is the Lord and April's Day has come to you all
I won't be impressed until we managed to slashdot one...
Just think of it... post story to slashdot... eat blackened chicken...
this is proof that if it wasn't for geeks nothing really unnecessary would ever get done!
You know, I think I will wait until this is posted the third time this afternoon to read it, when its more convenient for me...
I usually call my uncle ralph....
sometimes he was interesting things to say like why are there always carrots in there...
Actually this is covered by a series of patents by a Mr. Christie. The patents included things from the basic cookie to doubling the chip amount to improve goodness. He also has a patent pending in the same series on the gooey-ness of cookies.
And anything that kills 2 birds with one stone as it were is definitely a good thing
Why is there no wacking day?
Barry White guest stars
"Did you bring the pre-wacked snakes?"
"Should I wack fast or slow, Marge?"
"Oooh slow and then fast!"
"There's nothing I like more than the sexy slither of the lady snake."
"Wacking Day was originally started as an excuss to beat up the Irish"
Not to mention, the classic wacking day kung fu practice by Homer, Bart driving Willy's tractor into superintendent Chalmers. Come on people it deserves at least an honourable mention.
reminds me of buddy who would shop at future shop for a lot of stuff. And Always alwasy get the extened warranty packaged. So when the item broke, he was still covered and could take it back and get another even sometime down the road. He knew he was getting crap, he just insured it with that nice extended warranty package.
I remember an argument like this once....
It was called Mutually Assured Destruction. It was what people believed before....what was it....WW1 Huge Armies will deter each other... right and people will stop being people....
Arming everyone is not the answer, looking at society is. People are being violent for a reason, and they will be violent regardless of who is packing. I remember one annecdote of a fellow canadian travelling in NYC. A car cut off some guy on a bike and the biker pulls out a gun. The driver didn't have a gun and took off. He could have been carying and the biker didn't care. Sometimes whatever the odds you just don't care, you get mad and instinctively reach for brother 9mm.
If everyone above 18yrs old was a responsible person than that would be different. Most people aren't. Plato said good people will be good people regardless of the laws. The problem is most people are not good people and need laws to get them off the fence.
I personally believe that you can carry a gun, if you prove your worth,have proven you're responsible. And this is a fair amount of gun owners. I am not disagreeing with you entirely just make sure that you realise people are people first with or without guns. Making everyone carry guns, regardless of courses, won't solve the problem.
well he is a lawyer :)
Besides if he said anything definitive, wouldn't all the slashdot kiddies run around saying:
"well Larry said...."