"It is my experience that above average drivers rarely have the urge to speed since they know that no matter good a driver you are, the speed still kills."
Is it also your experience that above average writers know that pencils still cause misspelled words?
Is that like extreme wrestling, or extreme sports?
As a programmer, something like Extreme Programming sounds downright scary to me. Or at the very least, something that would force me to get up out of my chair more often than I would like.
For all we know, this "someone" could be from the RIAA or MPAA, tracking downloads of individual users.
Sounds paranoid, but if some script-kiddie can make a "cleaned" version of a file-sharing program and distribute it for the convenience of the software's users, what's stopping people with less noble intentions from doing the same thing and releasing it to unsuspecting users.
Unlikely, yes, but it should make people pause before they download and use this kind of program from an unproven source.
I've seen this sort of thing before, and frankly it concerns me that the RIAA is taking this direction.
Before I was laid off last year, I was in the movie industry working for a company that I am contracturally forbidden from naming. I can tell you, though, that this problem is more widespread than even the Slashdot community suspects.
I first became aware of RIAA's shady business practices when I noticed a friend and former co-worker walking back to his cube from a meeting with our supervisor. Apparently the conversation had gotten rather heated, as more than a few of us noticed the screaming coming from the boss's office. Two days later, my friend was fired.
At first I thought nothing of it, but began to suspect something was going on when 2 HR people and a sales executive were dismissed under similar circumstances. Rumors began spreading, and the general consensus was that these people had been screwed by management because of a disagreement over the RIAA.
I had no idea how true those rumors were. Two weeks after my friend was fired, I found myself before the boss, with several members of upper-management in attendance. I was asked what I knew about RIAA and what my opinion on it was. I answered truthfully: that I was concered that some of the RIAA's goals might put my rights as a citizen in jeopardy. My boss nodded thoughtfully for a second, nodded, and the management guys closed and locked the door of the office. What happened next makes me wince in pain at the mere thought of it.
The two managers, with deceptive strength and agility, shoved me over my boss's desk. They tied my ankles to the feet of the desk, while my boss duct-taped my wrists together around the monitor on his desk. My memory is somewhat blurry about this part, but I remember having my pants torn from my body, and then the managers began taking turns ravaging my virgin cornhole. The rumors were true: there I was, being screwed by management, all because of my feelings on the RIAA.
In the kind of shock that only comes with a brutal ass-raping, I stumbled back to my desk, thankfully unaware of the small stream of blood and jizz that had stained my underwear and begun to ooze down my legs.To complete my utter humiliation, I was given my pink slip 3 days later, before I had even recovered from my ordeal.
Recalling all of this, I can't help but believe that my layoff came as a direct result of the RIAA. Naturally I am concerned whenever the RIAA rears it's ugly head, because I wouldn't wish upon anyone what happened to me. I was afraid the RIAA would take away my rights, but could never have prepared myself for the amount of personal violation that it would bring.
Thank you for reading this. May it serve as a warning to all.
"Sanders argued that Microsoft's dominance in PC operating systems fosters diversity rather than limits consumer choice. He compared the situation to "proprietary operating systems that run only on specific hardware designed and manufactured by the same vendor," such as Apple Computer's Mac OS or Sun Microsystems' Solaris. "Microsoft's Windows operating systems run on computers manufactured by thousands of different companies," he stated."
Sounds like when Henry Ford, commenting on the lack of variety in color of the Model-T, declared that every American could have whatever color car they wanted, as long as that color was black.
I've seen this sort of thing before, and frankly it concerns me that the RIAA is taking this direction.
Before I was laid off last year, I was in the movie industry working for a company that I am contracturally forbidden from naming. I can tell you, though, that this problem is more widespread than even the Slashdot community suspects.
I first became aware of RIAA's shady business practices when I noticed a friend and former co-worker walking back to his cube from a meeting with our supervisor. Apparently the conversation had gotten rather heated, as more than a few of us noticed the screaming coming from the boss's office. Two days later, my friend was fired.
At first I thought nothing of it, but began to suspect something was going on when 2 HR people and a sales executive were dismissed under similar circumstances. Rumors began spreading, and the general consensus was that these people had been screwed by management because of a disagreement over the RIAA.
I had no idea how true those rumors were. Two weeks after my friend was fired, I found myself before the boss, with several members of upper-management in attendance. I was asked what I knew about RIAA and what my opinion on it was. I answered truthfully: that I was concered that some of the RIAA's goals might put my rights as a citizen in jeopardy. My boss nodded thoughtfully for a second, nodded, and the management guys closed and locked the door of the office. What happened next makes me wince in pain at the mere thought of it.
The two managers, with deceptive strength and agility, shoved me over my boss's desk. They tied my ankles to the feet of the desk, while my boss duct-taped my wrists together around the monitor on his desk. My memory is somewhat blurry about this part, but I remember having my pants torn from my body, and then the managers began taking turns ravaging my virgin cornhole. The rumors were true: there I was, being screwed by management, all because of my feelings on the RIAA.
In the kind of shock that only comes with a brutal ass-raping, I stumbled back to my desk, thankfully unaware of the small stream of blood and jizz that had stained my underwear and begun to ooze down my legs.To complete my utter humiliation, I was given my pink slip 3 days later, before I had even recovered from my ordeal.
Recalling all of this, I can't help but believe that my layoff came as a direct result of the RIAA. Naturally I am concerned whenever the RIAA rears it's ugly head, because I wouldn't wish upon anyone what happened to me. I was afraid the RIAA would take away my rights, but could never have prepared myself for the amount of personal violation that it would bring.
Thank you for reading this. May it serve as a warning to all.
"Just ask CowboyNeal about some of his fun with dealing with dealers in Hong Kong. "
I really don't need to explain how shady that sounds, but one would think CowboyNeal would have learned, by now, that all those Chinese mail-order-bride scams were bound to catch up with him.
"Once the hacker or someone in the underworld has personal information, credit card numbers, social security numbers, address, whatever it may be," says Harrington, once the hacker "has that information and wants to sell it, often they'll go to a hacker chat room, a place on the Web using an Internet Relay Chat which provides them some anonymity and allows them to mention that they have this personal information and they want to trade."
Is it just me, or does this guy sound like the extend of his knowledge about "hackers" is limited to what he learned from the movie of the same title?
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With all the stuff going on in the Catholic Church, and now this to top it off, how is ANYONE expected to ever trust a Priest again?
Is it also your experience that above average writers know that pencils still cause misspelled words?
As a programmer, something like Extreme Programming sounds downright scary to me. Or at the very least, something that would force me to get up out of my chair more often than I would like.
Sounds paranoid, but if some script-kiddie can make a "cleaned" version of a file-sharing program and distribute it for the convenience of the software's users, what's stopping people with less noble intentions from doing the same thing and releasing it to unsuspecting users.
Unlikely, yes, but it should make people pause before they download and use this kind of program from an unproven source.
Before I was laid off last year, I was in the movie industry working for a company that I am contracturally forbidden from naming. I can tell you, though, that this problem is more widespread than even the Slashdot community suspects.
I first became aware of RIAA's shady business practices when I noticed a friend and former co-worker walking back to his cube from a meeting with our supervisor. Apparently the conversation had gotten rather heated, as more than a few of us noticed the screaming coming from the boss's office. Two days later, my friend was fired.
At first I thought nothing of it, but began to suspect something was going on when 2 HR people and a sales executive were dismissed under similar circumstances. Rumors began spreading, and the general consensus was that these people had been screwed by management because of a disagreement over the RIAA.
I had no idea how true those rumors were. Two weeks after my friend was fired, I found myself before the boss, with several members of upper-management in attendance. I was asked what I knew about RIAA and what my opinion on it was. I answered truthfully: that I was concered that some of the RIAA's goals might put my rights as a citizen in jeopardy. My boss nodded thoughtfully for a second, nodded, and the management guys closed and locked the door of the office. What happened next makes me wince in pain at the mere thought of it.
The two managers, with deceptive strength and agility, shoved me over my boss's desk. They tied my ankles to the feet of the desk, while my boss duct-taped my wrists together around the monitor on his desk. My memory is somewhat blurry about this part, but I remember having my pants torn from my body, and then the managers began taking turns ravaging my virgin cornhole. The rumors were true: there I was, being screwed by management, all because of my feelings on the RIAA.
In the kind of shock that only comes with a brutal ass-raping, I stumbled back to my desk, thankfully unaware of the small stream of blood and jizz that had stained my underwear and begun to ooze down my legs.To complete my utter humiliation, I was given my pink slip 3 days later, before I had even recovered from my ordeal.
Recalling all of this, I can't help but believe that my layoff came as a direct result of the RIAA. Naturally I am concerned whenever the RIAA rears it's ugly head, because I wouldn't wish upon anyone what happened to me. I was afraid the RIAA would take away my rights, but could never have prepared myself for the amount of personal violation that it would bring. Thank you for reading this. May it serve as a warning to all.
Ahh yes, the Slashdot community's consistency rears its ugly head again.
I noticed a link to Slashdot in that Wired article. Wouldn't it be ironic if a bunch of Wired readers brought Slashdot to its knees?
Happens all the time here in Philadelphia.
I'm sure the guys at ThinkGeek.com could find a way to sell that.
Sounds like when Henry Ford, commenting on the lack of variety in color of the Model-T, declared that every American could have whatever color car they wanted, as long as that color was black.
Before I was laid off last year, I was in the movie industry working for a company that I am contracturally forbidden from naming. I can tell you, though, that this problem is more widespread than even the Slashdot community suspects.
I first became aware of RIAA's shady business practices when I noticed a friend and former co-worker walking back to his cube from a meeting with our supervisor. Apparently the conversation had gotten rather heated, as more than a few of us noticed the screaming coming from the boss's office. Two days later, my friend was fired.
At first I thought nothing of it, but began to suspect something was going on when 2 HR people and a sales executive were dismissed under similar circumstances. Rumors began spreading, and the general consensus was that these people had been screwed by management because of a disagreement over the RIAA.
I had no idea how true those rumors were. Two weeks after my friend was fired, I found myself before the boss, with several members of upper-management in attendance. I was asked what I knew about RIAA and what my opinion on it was. I answered truthfully: that I was concered that some of the RIAA's goals might put my rights as a citizen in jeopardy. My boss nodded thoughtfully for a second, nodded, and the management guys closed and locked the door of the office. What happened next makes me wince in pain at the mere thought of it.
The two managers, with deceptive strength and agility, shoved me over my boss's desk. They tied my ankles to the feet of the desk, while my boss duct-taped my wrists together around the monitor on his desk. My memory is somewhat blurry about this part, but I remember having my pants torn from my body, and then the managers began taking turns ravaging my virgin cornhole. The rumors were true: there I was, being screwed by management, all because of my feelings on the RIAA.
In the kind of shock that only comes with a brutal ass-raping, I stumbled back to my desk, thankfully unaware of the small stream of blood and jizz that had stained my underwear and begun to ooze down my legs.To complete my utter humiliation, I was given my pink slip 3 days later, before I had even recovered from my ordeal.
Recalling all of this, I can't help but believe that my layoff came as a direct result of the RIAA. Naturally I am concerned whenever the RIAA rears it's ugly head, because I wouldn't wish upon anyone what happened to me. I was afraid the RIAA would take away my rights, but could never have prepared myself for the amount of personal violation that it would bring. Thank you for reading this. May it serve as a warning to all.
I really don't need to explain how shady that sounds, but one would think CowboyNeal would have learned, by now, that all those Chinese mail-order-bride scams were bound to catch up with him.
Is it just me, or does this guy sound like the extend of his knowledge about "hackers" is limited to what he learned from the movie of the same title?
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