Rumor has it Australia has the contract for making IRAQ's new banknotes. Everyone knows america's notes are easy to forge.
It's easy to hand over counterfeit notes in australia because nobody checks, or cares if they're valid... but it's bloody impossible to get a color printer to print a clear window with a watermark onto a plastic note.
As I put away my shotgun silenced by a dead cat stuck on it's barrel and drew out an antrax filled cow-head. Looking out over the horde of civilians burning to their death because of the gasolene I covered them with then ignited, There was something that made me think "Hmm, this game is violent"... I think it was the newspaper in the corner. Yes. Definatly the newspaper.
People use computergames, books and movies to ESCAPE from REALITY. It doesn't make people get more violent.
IMHO Sims is the most dangerous of video games, because people who are playing games that emulate real life probably would be better going out and LIVING it.
Sorry, as a user of this 'obsolete' GSM network.. what network does america use? I was under the impression you lot were using a mixture the 'far superior' `80s analogue technology and CDMA?
I was also under the impression that CDMA could transfer data at a huge 9600bps.. compared to GMS's 19200bps.
A good indication of that is if you read Osama's latest threats/demands -- 'stop terrorizing our friends or we'll attack you again' -- they seem far more reasonable than Bush's -- 'let us put our people in your country to interrogate your officials and look at all your weapons or we'll attack you again'.
Maybe I'm just seeing this badly because I didn't grow up being told "america is always right" every 5 mins.
Just nitpicking here, but metric IS english units. The issue was with American Vs. The-rest-of-the-world units.
You can't blame the NASA engineers... I mean, when it comes down to it, they are Yanks after all.
It's always amazed me how Americans have such a facination with whats going on in space, yet don't know, and don't seem to WANT to know whats going on outside their borders on the rest of this planet.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE allow moderators to moderate posts, not just the comments under them, so SOMEONE can score this article:
-1 REDUNDANT
Before you mark this down as a troll, try to answer this yourself... if various distros of linux allowed you to play tetris while you installed the OS 3 years ago, HOW, oh HOW is this news??
Yeah, coz I feel so much better buying CDs over the counter with the knowledge that the artist will be putting food on the table because of the 10c I give them in every $30 I spend. I stopped buying CDs when I realised the remaining $29.90 was going towards shutting down napster.
The implied joke in the parent quote is what I've been trying to say to people for years.
***REDHAT IS NOT LINUX***
Linux is an open, stable, console based platform which technical minded users could utilise as a free, customizable and logical alternative to the Microsoft based platforms....
With the above definition, it's VERY CLEAR that redhat is not linux. Redhat is destinctly different:
Redhat is an open _source_ (but none of the users know what to do with it), graphical operating system, being sold as a cheap "alternative" environment for windows users, which emulates almost everything you can do in windows, almost as well... Files are set out in an illogical fassion that only the most dedicated of labotimized script kiddiez can figure out. It's also far more stable than windows 95A running IE4 with AIM, mIRC and ICQ.
Democracy \De*moc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Democracies. [F.
d['e]mocratie, fr. Gr. dhmokrati`a; dh^mos the people +
kratei^n to be strong, to rule, kra`tos strength.]
1. Government by the people; a form of government in which
the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by
the people.
2. Government by popular representation; a form of government
in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but
is indirectly exercised through a system of representation
and delegated authority periodically renewed; a
constitutional representative government; a republic.
------
Well, here's a novel idea.. if "the people" seem to want to pirate music, doesn't it make sence that the government of "the people" should make it legal to do so.
Before you begin to flame me with a "it's illegal thus it's bad and you're a criminal so you should be punished" (like so many threads before) maybe you should ask yourself what the difference between an american 'democracy' and a dictatorship is if you, the people, don't question the laws you choose to abide by.
I had wondered what the RIAA would do with themselves when they realised their lawyers outnumbered their recording contracts and they ran out of enemies to point them at... guess now I know.... Anyone care to take bets on how long it takes for pirating music to become a "terrorist act"?
It's impossable. If you use any of their listed p2p networks you pirate music and loose privacy. If you subscribe you don't get your mp3 player working. If you go out and buy the non-copyprotected CD, you loose money, thus points.
That game sucks.... Did I mention flash was evil?:)
Still, It's good to raise awareness. See if I can head off a few "snowball fight" emails by replying with a url to this page and a "if you forward it to 10 people in the next 20 mins something funny will pop up on your screen. I don't know how" message. That should inform the people in need:)
Okay, get your facts straight: No server running Macintosh OS 7 through 9 has been hacked! remotely. Ever.
This was quite simply, because macintosh in their infinate wisdom couldn't see a use for a command prompt. Everything could be done via a single mouse click. (or, you know, and option click to emulate a right mouse button)
Of course, come OS X, they fixed those problems by moving to a new platform, based on Darwin, which has one of those wonderful command prompts, and can thus be hacked. remotely.
So, before you go running around saying "No mac server has ever been hacked", just remember that No MS DOS 3 server with it's command processor removed has ever been hacked either.
You do realise people tend to play computer games to get AWAY from real life... or to do things that they COULDN'T do in real life.
If I wanted to play a game that didn't involve something that I couldn't do in real life (ie. kill people, break laws, drive real fast etc..) I'd be out there doing it.
Blood makes money. The more realistic it is, the more we'll love it. Personally, I'm *BEGGING* for the day when I can jump into a VR suit and run around the neighbourhood (zone 3 style) kicking my best mate's photo-realistic shotgun-wounded corpse across the pavement... I'd spend good money on it too.
"We are at War, what I'd do is temperarly raise taxes for the period of a year, forget about the tax cut for a few years, make the military more modern by using the new surplus on the military, security and not just in airports but all highly popululated areas."
Yeah, australia put in a tax just for the war. World War 2, we introduced an income tax "just to pay for the war"... it's now 2002, income tax is at 40% for most of the population.
We introduced a petrol tax to "pay for the sealing of roads".. well, the roads are sealed now, yet I'm still paying MORE in tax than I am in FEUL for each litre of petrol.
If it was me, I'd be asking myself "should I be blindly supporting my government in a war simply because it's patriodic, or should I be questioning the sence in honoring the 5000 dead by killing another million"
Yeah, an excellent one from the boys at sun... Looks like they've been hanging around union activists for too long.
A. Java was slow and horrid to start with, and made VB look like a well thought out language. B. Sun *STILL* haven't got the idea about what giving software away really means (see StarOffice)
Now.. as for the lawsuit..
Am I reading this wrong, or are sun saying "stop bundleing IE with windows, give us the code, and while your at it.. the courts should MAKE microsoft bundle JAVA with windows... because.. ahh... it's anticompeditive if they dont."
Can I sue microsoft now, because my software "xQx's bloated, slow, runtime environment" never made the $3billion I thought it would, because Microsoft were anticompeditive by not bundleing it with their software??
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Rumor has it Australia has the contract for making IRAQ's new banknotes. Everyone knows america's notes are easy to forge.
It's easy to hand over counterfeit notes in australia because nobody checks, or cares if they're valid... but it's bloody impossible to get a color printer to print a clear window with a watermark onto a plastic note.
Play Postal 2, or read American Psycho.
As I put away my shotgun silenced by a dead cat stuck on it's barrel and drew out an antrax filled cow-head.
Looking out over the horde of civilians burning to their death because of the gasolene I covered them with then ignited, There was something that made me think "Hmm, this game is violent"... I think it was the newspaper in the corner. Yes. Definatly the newspaper.
People use computergames, books and movies to ESCAPE from REALITY. It doesn't make people get more violent.
IMHO Sims is the most dangerous of video games, because people who are playing games that emulate real life probably would be better going out and LIVING it.
He who cannot be fired, also cannot be promoted.
Sorry, as a user of this 'obsolete' GSM network .. what network does america use? I was under the impression you lot were using a mixture the 'far superior' `80s analogue technology and CDMA?
.. compared to GMS's 19200bps.
I was also under the impression that CDMA could transfer data at a huge 9600bps
muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
What, are you a MSFT or RIAA employee??
Thank you for your attempt to brainwash us, but you're going to have to try harder next time.
For your next trick will you tell us that Windows XP product craptivation has eliminated global piracy of Microsoft's latest operating system?
They did "Project Mayo"
It's still called DivX for the same reason HP sells Compaq servers after the merger.
Brand name recognition.
yes there's a story arc.
in fact, it's almost as much of a story arc as babylon 5, except that they are making up as they go along.
It's alot like star trek, with a little more action, just as much moral debate, and probably just as much drama.
Yer, he ain't smart.
A good indication of that is if you read Osama's latest threats/demands -- 'stop terrorizing our friends or we'll attack you again' -- they seem far more reasonable than Bush's -- 'let us put our people in your country to interrogate your officials and look at all your weapons or we'll attack you again'.
Maybe I'm just seeing this badly because I didn't grow up being told "america is always right" every 5 mins.
We thought of doing this.
We really did, working at a school, all the hackers are on the wrong side of an internet firewall.
The problem:
It's rather difficult to find a cost effective firewall product that'll work at dual gigabit ethernet speed.
Every article about redhat over the last 2 months I've said Redhat was the microsoft of the linux world... and been modded to -1 about it.
Now, there's an entire article expressing my view.
I wish moderators could moderate articles, so I could take my revenge apon thee.
You only need to watch one or two epesodes to work that out.
Why else would they have flux capacitors, a warp manafold, two naselles and a big blue glowing thing in the engine room?
"mix-up with metric and English units?"
Just nitpicking here, but metric IS english units. The issue was with American Vs. The-rest-of-the-world units.
You can't blame the NASA engineers... I mean, when it comes down to it, they are Yanks after all.
It's always amazed me how Americans have such a facination with whats going on in space, yet don't know, and don't seem to WANT to know whats going on outside their borders on the rest of this planet.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE allow moderators to moderate posts, not just the comments under them, so SOMEONE can score this article:
-1 REDUNDANT
Before you mark this down as a troll, try to answer this yourself... if various distros of linux allowed you to play tetris while you installed the OS 3 years ago, HOW, oh HOW is this news??
Yeah, coz I feel so much better buying CDs over the counter with the knowledge that the artist will be putting food on the table because of the 10c I give them in every $30 I spend.
I stopped buying CDs when I realised the remaining $29.90 was going towards shutting down napster.
The implied joke in the parent quote is what I've been trying to say to people for years.
...
.. Files are set out in an illogical fassion that only the most dedicated of labotimized script kiddiez can figure out. It's also far more stable than windows 95A running IE4 with AIM, mIRC and ICQ.
***REDHAT IS NOT LINUX***
Linux is an open, stable, console based platform which technical minded users could utilise as a free, customizable and logical alternative to the Microsoft based platforms.
With the above definition, it's VERY CLEAR that redhat is not linux. Redhat is destinctly different:
Redhat is an open _source_ (but none of the users know what to do with it), graphical operating system, being sold as a cheap "alternative" environment for windows users, which emulates almost everything you can do in windows, almost as well.
We had a telstra bigpond connection.
.. I'll tell you where you can shove it.
Last year we downloaded av. 50 - 60gb per month, uploaded 10 - 20gb.
Telstra introduced the cap. We handed them back the cable modem.
Now I'm on a dialup connection.
Usage from June 1 to July 1 2002: 6,200MB
Telstra, we see your 3gb (up + down) cap.
Democracy \De*moc"ra*cy\, n.; pl. Democracies. [F.
.. guess now I know. ... Anyone care to take bets on how long it takes for pirating music to become a "terrorist act"?
d['e]mocratie, fr. Gr. dhmokrati`a; dh^mos the people +
kratei^n to be strong, to rule, kra`tos strength.]
1. Government by the people; a form of government in which
the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by
the people.
2. Government by popular representation; a form of government
in which the supreme power is retained by the people, but
is indirectly exercised through a system of representation
and delegated authority periodically renewed; a
constitutional representative government; a republic.
------
Well, here's a novel idea.. if "the people" seem to want to pirate music, doesn't it make sence that the government of "the people" should make it legal to do so.
Before you begin to flame me with a "it's illegal thus it's bad and you're a criminal so you should be punished" (like so many threads before) maybe you should ask yourself what the difference between an american 'democracy' and a dictatorship is if you, the people, don't question the laws you choose to abide by.
I had wondered what the RIAA would do with themselves when they realised their lawyers outnumbered their recording contracts and they ran out of enemies to point them at.
NYTimes wants me to register and log in.
Anyone got a mirror?
It's impossable.
... Did I mention flash was evil? :)
:)
If you use any of their listed p2p networks you pirate music and loose privacy.
If you subscribe you don't get your mp3 player working.
If you go out and buy the non-copyprotected CD, you loose money, thus points.
That game sucks.
Still, It's good to raise awareness. See if I can head off a few "snowball fight" emails by replying with a url to this page and a "if you forward it to 10 people in the next 20 mins something funny will pop up on your screen. I don't know how" message. That should inform the people in need
Okay, get your facts straight:
No server running Macintosh OS 7 through 9 has been hacked! remotely. Ever.
This was quite simply, because macintosh in their infinate wisdom couldn't see a use for a command prompt. Everything could be done via a single mouse click. (or, you know, and option click to emulate a right mouse button)
Of course, come OS X, they fixed those problems by moving to a new platform, based on Darwin, which has one of those wonderful command prompts, and can thus be hacked. remotely.
So, before you go running around saying "No mac server has ever been hacked", just remember that No MS DOS 3 server with it's command processor removed has ever been hacked either.
Three things:
A. Geeks earn lots of money
B. I'm a Geek. I'd buy that. I'd pay up to $2000.
C. It's difficult to pirate hardware.
You do realise people tend to play computer games to get AWAY from real life... or to do things that they COULDN'T do in real life.
.. I'd spend good money on it too.
If I wanted to play a game that didn't involve something that I couldn't do in real life (ie. kill people, break laws, drive real fast etc..) I'd be out there doing it.
Blood makes money. The more realistic it is, the more we'll love it. Personally, I'm *BEGGING* for the day when I can jump into a VR suit and run around the neighbourhood (zone 3 style) kicking my best mate's photo-realistic shotgun-wounded corpse across the pavement.
"We are at War, what I'd do is temperarly raise taxes for the period of a year, forget about the tax cut for a few years, make the military more modern by using the new surplus on the military, security and not just in airports but all highly popululated areas."
... it's now 2002, income tax is at 40% for most of the population.
.. well, the roads are sealed now, yet I'm still paying MORE in tax than I am in FEUL for each litre of petrol.
Yeah, australia put in a tax just for the war. World War 2, we introduced an income tax "just to pay for the war"
We introduced a petrol tax to "pay for the sealing of roads"
If it was me, I'd be asking myself "should I be blindly supporting my government in a war simply because it's patriodic, or should I be questioning the sence in honoring the 5000 dead by killing another million"
Yeah, an excellent one from the boys at sun. .. Looks like they've been hanging around union activists for too long.
.. ahh... it's anticompeditive if they dont."
A. Java was slow and horrid to start with, and made VB look like a well thought out language.
B. Sun *STILL* haven't got the idea about what giving software away really means (see StarOffice)
Now.. as for the lawsuit..
Am I reading this wrong, or are sun saying "stop bundleing IE with windows, give us the code, and while your at it.. the courts should MAKE microsoft bundle JAVA with windows... because
Can I sue microsoft now, because my software "xQx's bloated, slow, runtime environment" never made the $3billion I thought it would, because Microsoft were anticompeditive by not bundleing it with their software??
Besides, you can get an ASCII copy of goatse.cx on any IRC server near you :)