Hey, I like Linux as much as the next guy, and played around (usually with Slackware) for over 5 years before admitting that it's just not what I want to do with my time.
Is that the stuff that turns into hardware if you don't wash it for weeks, or wetware when you get overexcited?
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I just subscribed and was alarmed to see that there's no confirmation required. At least it's not a high-volume list (I'd estimate that you'd get, er, one mail a day, making it a poor choice for mailbombing) but it's still a while since I last encountered a mailing list that trusting.
At least the unsubscribe link is prominently displayed on the introductory mail.
Please, do not use the words "congress" and "Hilary Rosen" in the same sentence -- my poor, smutty mind can't help but rearrange them. You may just have inadvertantly created a form of communicable erectile disfunction.
Just for the record, my smart-arse response wasn't meant as any kind of defense of MPEG-4 or its licensing; I simply used this opportunity to take a cheap shot at Microsoft.
...they could be protecting their oligopoly profits (which involve raping you and I ruthlessly) and simultaneously getting people like those in the/. crowd to cry out in defense of their rapists. It's almost a classic Stockholm Syndrome.
I've noticed the same patterns of behaviour in Microsoft apologists. I'd like to propose calling this Redmond Syndrome.
Gets my vote. I saw this blow up at my current workplace when a former IT drone's account was deleted (not suspended) as soon as she left the building, without anyone realising it was used as the service account for many things, including the backup server. It took many hours to track down all the things it was used for and to furnish them with saner accounts. I think this probably counts as an accidental logic bomb.
The really sad part of this is tale that it took over a fortnight for anyone to notice in the first place. Weep.
(I'm not part of the local IT department, so I'm blameless with respect to this particular fuck-up. I commit enough fuck-ups of my own without claiming responsibility for anyone else's!)
I stand corrected if that was the case. I was led to understand at the time that it was only the one branch of HMV down in London that had it. It's rather disappointing if it was a hoax.
The only thing that doesn't make sense if it was a con was that HMV were selling the album for £10.99 while copies of the original were changing hands for over a grand. If someone were to go to the trouble of pressing up some convincing fakes wouldn't it have been worth their while trying to sell them at a premium?
Still, if it is an out-and-out fake it still seems to fit the KLF/JAMMs mythos nicely.
Minor point: the KLF (well, actually the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - same people, different name) only destroyed one album (by dumping all unsold copies[1] over the side of a ferry, not burning them[2]), entitled "1987 - What the Fuck's Going On" after a lawsuit from Abba. The reason that you can't buy their albums is that they deleted their entire back catalogue after they announced that they were leaving the music industry (after an evening at the Brit awards that involved Extreme Noise Terror, submachine guns and a dead sheep).
Considering the fact that KLF stands for Kopyright Liberation Front, I hope they have no moral objections to the ongoing availablility of their music as MP3s.:)
[1] - A single box was discovered a few years ago in an HMV warehouse and I was lucky enough to get a copy. It sits in a picture frame on my living room wall.
[2] - They did however burn a million pounds in banknotes, but that's another story.
How could you possibly deal with, for instance, securing Linux without the CLI?
Bastille Linux. I'm not saying that it's a complete solution to every security issue a Linux user may come across, but it's a very newbie friendly way of locking down a box in the first place.
Really? Mine has to be disposing of the bodies. The earth floor in the cellar made it easy for a while, but I'm running out of space. Maybe I should look into raising pigs.
There are also some of us (well, me at least) who read the books many years ago and can only remember sketchy details. I don't know if being reminded of forgotten plot points counts as being spoiled, but I'm happier rediscovering them as the films progress.
This is beautifully clever -- enforcing a copyright on a message no one wants, because if you don't it might get harder to force the same message on other people.
Just sounds like they're adopting the tactics of the Church of Scientology. Still, if you're going to abuse the legal system you might as well learn from the best.
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And quite honestly if your computer already comes with XP on it, there is no point to downgrade to a Linux distro.
Quite right, but there are some fairly compelling reasons to upgrade to one.
and perhaps a special category for "Most Gratuitous Use Of The Word Fuck"
As the Oscars are American, wouldn't that have to be "Most Gratuitous Use of the Word 'Belgium'"?
...accompanying a story about a serious security hole in Flash with a Flash-based popup advert.
Can you please give me the URL for your slashdot? I think I may like it. The one I visit seems to have become overrun with astroturfers. :)
Hey, I like Linux as much as the next guy, and played around (usually with Slackware) for over 5 years before admitting that it's just not what I want to do with my time.
So who's this next guy? Jim Alchin?
Hey, it could have been worse: they could have paid him in VA Software stock.
Twice!
Is that the stuff that turns into hardware if you don't wash it for weeks, or wetware when you get overexcited?
I just subscribed and was alarmed to see that there's no confirmation required. At least it's not a high-volume list (I'd estimate that you'd get, er, one mail a day, making it a poor choice for mailbombing) but it's still a while since I last encountered a mailing list that trusting.
At least the unsubscribe link is prominently displayed on the introductory mail.
Please, do not use the words "congress" and "Hilary Rosen" in the same sentence -- my poor, smutty mind can't help but rearrange them. You may just have inadvertantly created a form of communicable erectile disfunction.
I think that some day you'll have to pay a tax for saying "Mickey".
That's just taking the mick... er... piss! I meant to say "piss" (well, assuming that doesn't get me sued by the brewers of Fosters).
Just for the record, my smart-arse response wasn't meant as any kind of defense of MPEG-4 or its licensing; I simply used this opportunity to take a cheap shot at Microsoft.
I've noticed the same patterns of behaviour in Microsoft apologists. I'd like to propose calling this Redmond Syndrome.
Gets my vote. I saw this blow up at my current workplace when a former IT drone's account was deleted (not suspended) as soon as she left the building, without anyone realising it was used as the service account for many things, including the backup server. It took many hours to track down all the things it was used for and to furnish them with saner accounts. I think this probably counts as an accidental logic bomb.
The really sad part of this is tale that it took over a fortnight for anyone to notice in the first place. Weep.
(I'm not part of the local IT department, so I'm blameless with respect to this particular fuck-up. I commit enough fuck-ups of my own without claiming responsibility for anyone else's!)
I stand corrected if that was the case. I was led to understand at the time that it was only the one branch of HMV down in London that had it. It's rather disappointing if it was a hoax.
The only thing that doesn't make sense if it was a con was that HMV were selling the album for £10.99 while copies of the original were changing hands for over a grand. If someone were to go to the trouble of pressing up some convincing fakes wouldn't it have been worth their while trying to sell them at a premium?
Still, if it is an out-and-out fake it still seems to fit the KLF/JAMMs mythos nicely.
It -- and all the other ads on the page -- were for the small red "X" company....
Out of interest, have you found yourself buying more products from Xerox recently?
Minor point: the KLF (well, actually the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - same people, different name) only destroyed one album (by dumping all unsold copies[1] over the side of a ferry, not burning them[2]), entitled "1987 - What the Fuck's Going On" after a lawsuit from Abba. The reason that you can't buy their albums is that they deleted their entire back catalogue after they announced that they were leaving the music industry (after an evening at the Brit awards that involved Extreme Noise Terror, submachine guns and a dead sheep).
Considering the fact that KLF stands for Kopyright Liberation Front, I hope they have no moral objections to the ongoing availablility of their music as MP3s. :)
[1] - A single box was discovered a few years ago in an HMV warehouse and I was lucky enough to get a copy. It sits in a picture frame on my living room wall.
[2] - They did however burn a million pounds in banknotes, but that's another story.
Any relation to the salmon of knowledge? :)
How could you possibly deal with, for instance, securing Linux without the CLI?
Bastille Linux. I'm not saying that it's a complete solution to every security issue a Linux user may come across, but it's a very newbie friendly way of locking down a box in the first place.
With an attitude like that you may want to think about picking a new handle. :)
Really? Mine has to be disposing of the bodies. The earth floor in the cellar made it easy for a while, but I'm running out of space. Maybe I should look into raising pigs.
I think you stopped short:
That should do it. Now why don't you go and visit your doctor and see if he can innoculate you against memes?
You mean, as opposed to the free technical support calls you get from Microsoft? :)
There are also some of us (well, me at least) who read the books many years ago and can only remember sketchy details. I don't know if being reminded of forgotten plot points counts as being spoiled, but I'm happier rediscovering them as the films progress.
This is beautifully clever -- enforcing a copyright on a message no one wants, because if you don't it might get harder to force the same message on other people.
Just sounds like they're adopting the tactics of the Church of Scientology. Still, if you're going to abuse the legal system you might as well learn from the best.