Employees say they were told to download whatever programs they needed by using license keys registered only to McClure or Bahadur. (Legally Foundstone should have paid for each user.)
This must be the author's "Grand Unified Theory of Software Licensing". A lot of commercial software is actually licensed per-machine or per-processor.
Teaching cursive writing is all about appearance over substance. I remember how unfair it was that teachers (in the early years of schooling) would mark stories down in English classes for poor cursive writing.
No, what you want is to be the "Trusted" not the "Trusting".
Imagine this scenario as an obtuse analogy...
You're driving home late one night in the middle of nowhere when your car breaks down. You walk to the nearest farm. The farmer is friendly and offers to put you up for the night. Down the hall from where you are staying is the farmer's "Horny-Young-Minx-of-a-Daughter[tm]". You could easily wait for the farmer to fall asleep, and sneak into his daughter's bedroom.
You are the "Trusted", the farmer is the "Trusting".
He is "Trusting" you not to screw his daughter.
This idea seems too obvious, too clear, too intuitive, and far too easy to implement for any respectable lawmaker to consider it for even a single nanosecond.
Colour me cynical; it also lacks the necessary monetary backing for a politician to back it.
6 years of doing this. Now that's dedication. My interest in re-enacting scenes from Indiana Jones waned after a heated August afternoon with a bunch of friends, following which the guy who played an evil German had to be rushed to the hospital.
You should have used those little plastic army men, a cigarette lighter and an aerosol can, for the "melting german soldiers" scene.
Speaking of copyright defeats...
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Isn't it ironic that the last screen of the new Metallica film clip holds the words:
"For all the people impacted by San Quentin your spirit will forever be a part of Metalllica.
-James, Lars, Kirk and Robert"
I wonder if any of the San Quentin inmates are in there for pirating Metallica off Napster?;-)
Copyright violators are, after all, "Dangerous Criminals".
I get to inspect it myself, rather than trust my 9 and 11 year olds to deal with it!
The PC generation are growing up. Five or six years ago, I would've trusted the 9 and 11 year-olds of the world, NOT to install a virus, more than their parents.;-)
So society is just being subjected to the same old mistakes of the past?
Why is the name Thomas Edison so revered?
In 100 years, will all the anti-competitive crimes of Microsoft have been forgotten? and will Bill Gates be "remembered" as the "inventor" of so many key parts of computer systems?
Thomas Edison, like Bill Gates, was first and foremost a businessman. Yet, he gets "remembered" as the "inventor" of many things that OTHER people actually discovered.
The genius of Edison and Gates _was_ in making inventions practicable through their employees.
Western Digital's 3 year warranty is a smoke screen. They're slow to replace defective drives and when they do, you get a refurbished drive with a 30 day warranty, regardless of how long you've had the drive that died.
Maybe where you are, but here in Australia we have laws that would make their "30 day warranty" on the replacement drive illegal.
Western Digital STILL offer a 3 year warranty on their drives. I've bought two WD 120Gb (8Mb
cache) disks in the last 4 days. I specifically bought WD because they are the ONLY one of the major harddisk manufacturer that are standing behind their product.
Personally, I wouldn't touch a harddisk that the manufacturer is only prepared to offer a 1 year warranty on.
The one interesting concession is that corporate licensees of Microsoft Office can now use that suite on a home computer as well.
Now we can deal with the same macro virus problems AT HOME that we deal with AT WORK.
Oh Joy!
Re:CIA Humint - Sigint - Remote Sensing
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The conflict in Afghanistan was revolutionary because of CIA. They were there before any of the armed forces and they basically won the war by bribing/ persuading different fraction to join up against the Taliban.
At the end of the day, they were just cleaning up the mess they created in the first place.
The best bit is because Australia produces "polymer notes for Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Kuwait, Western Samoa, Singapore, Brunei, Sri Lanka and Thailand." http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/currency. html
If one of those countries pisses Australia off, they can mass produce the country's currency, and drop it from aircraft. Making their economy tank in short order;-)
Oh shit, I think I just revealed Australia's plans for World Denomination[tm].
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I hear SCO's war drums beating but I don't see any troops.
That is typical of a sinking corporation:
Bringing a marching band to a gun fight.
If you absolutely need control over how a process will run [e.g. timing] QNX beats linux
and windows handsdown.
For what its worth, DOS beats Linux and Windows hands down too.
True, but it turns out a city *is* a small place.
The IT industry in YOUR city must be isolated, insular and incestuous. Otherwise, perhaps it
is just coincidence that people know each other.
electrical current can acheive an orgasmic effect when applied to the genetalia. That is low
current, I doubt 20,000 volts would be very pleasurable
Great, you've just inspired a legion of pimply-never-get-laid-geeks[tm] to hook "themselves" up to
electric currents.
On the upside: capacitor and battery sales have gone through the roof.
Employees say they were told to download whatever programs they needed by using license keys registered
only to McClure or Bahadur. (Legally Foundstone should have paid for each user.)
This must be the author's "Grand Unified Theory of Software Licensing". A lot of commercial software is actually
licensed per-machine or per-processor.
Teaching cursive writing is all about appearance over substance. I remember how unfair it was
that teachers (in the early years of schooling) would mark stories down in English
classes for poor cursive writing.
No, what you want is to be the "Trusted" not the "Trusting".
Imagine this scenario as an obtuse analogy...
You're driving home late one night in the middle of nowhere when your car breaks down. You walk
to the nearest farm. The farmer is friendly and offers to put you up for the night.
Down the hall from where you are staying is the farmer's "Horny-Young-Minx-of-a-Daughter[tm]".
You could easily wait for the farmer to fall asleep, and sneak into his daughter's bedroom.
You are the "Trusted", the farmer is the "Trusting".
He is "Trusting" you not to screw his daughter.
Happens to me ALL the time.
Trust me.
This idea seems too obvious, too clear, too intuitive, and far too easy to implement for
any respectable lawmaker to consider it for even a single nanosecond.
Colour me cynical; it also lacks the necessary monetary backing for a politician to back it.
6 years of doing this. Now that's dedication. My interest in re-enacting scenes from Indiana
Jones waned after a heated August afternoon with a bunch of friends, following which the guy who
played an evil German had to be rushed to the hospital.
You should have used those little plastic army men, a cigarette lighter and an aerosol can, for
the "melting german soldiers" scene.
Isn't it ironic that the last screen of the new Metallica film clip holds the words:
;-)
"For all the people impacted by San Quentin your spirit will forever be a part of Metalllica.
-James, Lars, Kirk and Robert"
I wonder if any of the San Quentin inmates are in there for pirating Metallica off Napster?
Copyright violators are, after all, "Dangerous Criminals".
I get to inspect it myself, rather than trust my 9 and 11 year olds to deal with it!
;-)
The PC generation are growing up. Five or six years ago, I would've trusted the 9 and 11
year-olds of the world, NOT to install a virus, more than their parents.
So society is just being subjected to the same old mistakes of the past?
Why is the name Thomas Edison so revered?
In 100 years, will all the anti-competitive crimes of Microsoft have been forgotten? and
will Bill Gates be "remembered" as the "inventor" of so many key parts of computer systems?
Thomas Edison, like Bill Gates, was first and foremost a businessman. Yet, he gets "remembered"
as the "inventor" of many things that OTHER people actually discovered.
The genius of Edison and Gates _was_ in making inventions practicable through their employees.
Western Digital's 3 year warranty is a smoke screen. They're slow to replace defective
drives and when they do, you get a refurbished drive with a 30 day warranty, regardless of
how long you've had the drive that died.
Maybe where you are, but here in Australia we have laws that would make their "30 day warranty" on the replacement drive illegal.
Sucks To be U Please Insert Disk
RTFA yourself, Taiwan is NOT part of China.
Much to the annoyance of the Chinese.
From personal experience...
Western Digital STILL offer a 3 year warranty on their drives. I've bought two WD 120Gb (8Mb
cache) disks in the last 4 days. I specifically bought WD because they are the ONLY one of the
major harddisk manufacturer that are standing behind their product.
Personally, I wouldn't touch a harddisk that the manufacturer is only prepared to offer a 1 year
warranty on.
Yeah but the one that definitelly matches scifi-geek-hacker spec and comes to mind
first is a 'Batbook', Costales&Allman.
First Homer J. Simpson reminded us that "Batman's a scientist".
Now you tell us he is a hacker too!
Batman... truly a man with a multitude of talents.
So I won't be buying any machines that use a Phoenix BIOS.
What's new?
The one interesting concession is that corporate licensees of Microsoft Office can
now use that suite on a home computer as well.
Now we can deal with the same macro virus problems AT HOME that we deal with AT WORK.
Oh Joy!
The conflict in Afghanistan was revolutionary because of CIA. They were there before any of
the armed forces and they basically won the war by bribing/ persuading different fraction to
join up against the Taliban.
At the end of the day, they were just cleaning up the mess they created in the first place.
dear lord, haven't we learned our lesson from Doom, Stargate and Half-Life ?!
Yes, we have!
Press the console key and type "+GOD MODE".
The best bit is because Australia produces "polymer notes for Papua New Guinea,. html
;-)
Indonesia, Kuwait, Western Samoa, Singapore, Brunei, Sri Lanka and Thailand."
http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/currency
If one of those countries pisses Australia off, they can mass produce the country's
currency, and drop it from aircraft. Making their economy tank in short order
Oh shit, I think I just revealed Australia's plans for World Denomination[tm].
It was Linux, out of Minix, by Unix.
Doesn't anybody still teach kids these days GIGO?
Yep, your local McDonalds "family" restaurant.
I believe the bible has been originally been on parchment (i.e. processed horse-skin).
Even back then the Christians were beating a dead horse.