I have no problem with it, if you like online chatting by all means work away. Its just of my friends who chat I never ceased to amazed at how many are closet 18 year old nympettes looking for lesbian sex. What really staggers me is they dont mind getting their kicks with other '18 year old nympettes looking for lesbian sex'.
Personally I prefer the human aspects that come with meeting people in the real world rether than online.
Just as a side point thought there is increasing concern on the UK at the moment regarding this sort of service after the murder of two young girls. As another poster pointed out its sad when we have these concerns over what should be a fun service.
To joining a gym to meet people who are interested in staying in shape, joining a book club to meet people who are interested in books, joining a tiddly winks club to meet people (OK sad individuals) interested in tiddly winks?
Life is a lot more fun if you actually get out there and live it.
You are assuming this cannot happen with open source encryption. How do know that the most common Open encryption has not already been cracked by some uber cracker(s) who are right now pissing themselves with laughter at people claiming that X system is more secure than some closed source system ? DO you think that said crackers will always out of the goodness of their hearts annouce this fact publicly? The same applies to a closed system. Its always too late when you find out your encryption has been broken.
The requirements listed in this memo make me think of a company policy along the lines of "You can bring your baby or toddler to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider."
How you can make this out from that memo which basically says we have a set of procedures in place for software evaluation, if OSS passes those then fine, no problem and secondly be aware of the terms of the license that the OSS comes under.
I know this is Slashdot but the fact that OSS may have to go through a regular selection process instead of being mandated as defacto standard, to the detriment of all others is proper procedure in most large organisations. You should be saying well done for leveling the playing and giving OSS a chance to compete on equal terms.
Probably something to do with a long held hope that one day it will rise again and achieve it's true place in history. I believe they are into that sort of stuff in Germany.
Did it ever occur that maybe a lot of those people who dont use Linux are happy with windows? Various distributions are available for free or for little cost but you dont see droves of users dumping windows and moving to Linux. Partly due to inertia as you say but also the majority of them are probably happy enough with what they have and see no compelling reason to change.
You seem to overlook the fact that a lot of very intelligent people who are well capable of learning from their own and the mistakes of others work on these projects. Its think it is far too cynical to assume there will be blunders just because there was a previous mixup. the ESA has a long history of successful collaboration on projects so why should this one be any different. I certainly hope this mission is successful and we get more useful data on Mars
Be careful the zinc depletion you suffer while attempting to get hairy palms does not blind you. Also, alternate hands. You dont want to end up with a right arm like Schwartzenegger's and a left arm like Mr Bean's
Thank god they did not have more telescope time or they might have found my secret super villian orbital base where I am currently using the weightless environment to concoct a series of deadly patents which will allow me to take over the world.
(insert evil laugh here)
OK you got me. I did mean but the parents. It was to be a rally cry for all the basement dwellers on/. to rebel and but their parents to create geek utopia
should band together and but the parents. It would be worth it just to annoy the crap out of of Jeff Bezios by telling him we are aware how fond he is of patents and he is infringing on ours so stump up.
As a thought though if say I were to acquire the patents myself are they any sort of controls over what I charge or if I was feeling vindictive can I make a reasonable fee for one company but for another make it so expensive they either have to close up shop or find another way of doing business ?
What are you babbling about. IBM hava been pushing Linux more than anyone in the corporate arena. The main reason I think they would acquire SCO is to get control of the licensing SCO is curently claiming. This would be actually be bad news for MS as IBM would then be in a very strong position regarding their integrated software/hardware stack and way ahead of MS with their consulting division. IBM are already starting to offer basic office functionality on demand thru their Websphere server so they obviously have their eye on some of MS's current market share. A buyout of SCO would not be the worst thing IBM could do.
Re:Laptop mods anyone?
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Given the state of many of the mods that appear here, the smaller the audience the better. If you are going to make a tit of yourself its better to do it in the privacy of your own home rather than become the prime target for all your colleagues jokes.
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Where do we subscribe to see you do this ?
Wright has been toying with traditional linear entertainment during the past year
I think he should stop playing and move to spherical entertainment immediately !
Exactly he's talking about a 'peadophile' and obviously the pod has to be open before you can get to the peas
with that is bad.. which includes drugs, alcohol, caffine, and women.
Please carry on as you are so because it leaves more of the good things in life for the rest of us
I have no problem with it, if you like online chatting by all means work away. Its just of my friends who chat I never ceased to amazed at how many are closet 18 year old nympettes looking for lesbian sex. What really staggers me is they dont mind getting their kicks with other '18 year old nympettes looking for lesbian sex'.
Personally I prefer the human aspects that come with meeting people in the real world rether than online.
Just as a side point thought there is increasing concern on the UK at the moment regarding this sort of service after the murder of two young girls. As another poster pointed out its sad when we have these concerns over what should be a fun service.
To joining a gym to meet people who are interested in staying in shape, joining a book club to meet people who are interested in books, joining a tiddly winks club to meet people (OK sad individuals) interested in tiddly winks?
Life is a lot more fun if you actually get out there and live it.
You are assuming this cannot happen with open source encryption. How do know that the most common Open encryption has not already been cracked by some uber cracker(s) who are right now pissing themselves with laughter at people claiming that X system is more secure than some closed source system ? DO you think that said crackers will always out of the goodness of their hearts annouce this fact publicly? The same applies to a closed system. Its always too late when you find out your encryption has been broken.
The requirements listed in this memo make me think of a company policy along the lines of "You can bring your baby or toddler to work, so long as it can talk, feed itself and stick effortlessly to the ceiling like a spider."
How you can make this out from that memo which basically says we have a set of procedures in place for software evaluation, if OSS passes those then fine, no problem and secondly be aware of the terms of the license that the OSS comes under.
I know this is Slashdot but the fact that OSS may have to go through a regular selection process instead of being mandated as defacto standard, to the detriment of all others is proper procedure in most large organisations. You should be saying well done for leveling the playing and giving OSS a chance to compete on equal terms.
some mention of why Be is better than Windows/Linux/BSD/sex/God.
Actually since I met Eugenia at a party one night she has taken sex out of that list.
Probably something to do with a long held hope that one day it will rise again and achieve it's true place in history. I believe they are into that sort of stuff in Germany.
You just look at the screen shots it looks like a highly Configurable fax machine
Did it ever occur that maybe a lot of those people who dont use Linux are happy with windows? Various distributions are available for free or for little cost but you dont see droves of users dumping windows and moving to Linux. Partly due to inertia as you say but also the majority of them are probably happy enough with what they have and see no compelling reason to change.
You seem to overlook the fact that a lot of very intelligent people who are well capable of learning from their own and the mistakes of others work on these projects. Its think it is far too cynical to assume there will be blunders just because there was a previous mixup. the ESA has a long history of successful collaboration on projects so why should this one be any different. I certainly hope this mission is successful and we get more useful data on Mars
Beagle 2 is Britain's first planetary space probe and designed specifically to look for life using the most advanced techniques currently available.
In the best British tradition the probe will lay out a tea set and some cucumber sandwiches to attract alien lifeforms.
Be careful the zinc depletion you suffer while attempting to get hairy palms does not blind you. Also, alternate hands. You dont want to end up with a right arm like Schwartzenegger's and a left arm like Mr Bean's
but how exactly do you store thousands of geckos with their backs glued to a roll of plastic ?
Expect my killers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H lawyers to be in touch with you shorly
Thank god they did not have more telescope time or they might have found my secret super villian orbital base where I am currently using the weightless environment to concoct a series of deadly patents which will allow me to take over the world.
(insert evil laugh here)
OK you got me. I did mean but the parents. It was to be a rally cry for all the basement dwellers on /. to rebel and but their parents to create geek utopia
but the parents
Damn my illiteracy. I meant 'buy the patents'
should band together and but the parents. It would be worth it just to annoy the crap out of of Jeff Bezios by telling him we are aware how fond he is of patents and he is infringing on ours so stump up.
As a thought though if say I were to acquire the patents myself are they any sort of controls over what I charge or if I was feeling vindictive can I make a reasonable fee for one company but for another make it so expensive they either have to close up shop or find another way of doing business ?
What are you babbling about. IBM hava been pushing Linux more than anyone in the corporate arena. The main reason I think they would acquire SCO is to get control of the licensing SCO is curently claiming. This would be actually be bad news for MS as IBM would then be in a very strong position regarding their integrated software/hardware stack and way ahead of MS with their consulting division. IBM are already starting to offer basic office functionality on demand thru their Websphere server so they obviously have their eye on some of MS's current market share. A buyout of SCO would not be the worst thing IBM could do.
Given the state of many of the mods that appear here, the smaller the audience the better. If you are going to make a tit of yourself its better to do it in the privacy of your own home rather than become the prime target for all your colleagues jokes.
bother with a mod. Just pop over to planet LV-426 and get the real aliens to do it for you.
Cos I have a few changes I would like to make to this simulation. Simple things like
Person* Timesprout = GetPerson(xxxxx); Timesprout->physique = "Addonis";
Timesprout->attraction_level = "irristible to supermodels and actresses;'
Timesprout->wealth = BILL_GATES->wealth * 10;
Timespout->abode[0] = "Island paradise surrounded by beautiful nubile girls";
Timesprout->car[0] = "Ferrari spider";
I'll see how these work out before commiting more.