Flash Mobs DO exist these days, but generally aren't disaster tourists. Yet, anyways. Modern Flash Mobs consist of large numbers of peoples gathering somewhere, doing something silly for about 5 minutes and then leaving again, just as quick. An example I heard of some time ago was at a Toys R Us store ages ago with a huge mock-up dinosaur. A Flash Mob gathered before the dinosaur and worshipped it for 5 minutes. And I'm not talking about quiet, solemn worship, here. After 5 minutes the crowd was gone as quickly as it has arrived.
Just found a link to a site regarding the particular Flash Mob. Includes some pictures for your viewing pleasure.:)
I realized that not only am I not a lawyer but also an idiot.
Oh, that's okay. You can always become a lawyer then, considering you already are an idiot. Not much difference anyways, except a idiot bullshits in english and a lawyer bullshits in legaleze. ( aka EULA-language ):)
7. If SCO currently ships Samba and Apache in its own products, how can it justify this if it believes that the GPL is invalid and unenforceable?
While SCO believes that the GPL is a poorly written and unenforceable license, SCO is not aware of any intellectual property violations regarding Samba and Apache. However, should any arise, SCO would take all efforts necessary by removing the offending products or obtain the appropriate IP licenses.
Next up, RMS in custody; charged with battery after finding the SCO marketroid who was spouting GPL blasphemies. SCO martketroid expected to survive after 6 hours of surgery to remove a stamped steel printout of the GPL from the rectum. May have issues sitting down later in life.
Just wait until someone starts modding these babies. Expect dual machine guns, reactive armour, phosphor mortars, gatling cannon, TOW missiles , flashbangs and a katana. It won't email the fact there is a burglar, anymore. Instead, it will ask what to do with the body ( or what remains of it )...
'Anyone can rewrite a hard drive with one or two lines of code,' he says. 'It makes no sense. It's really lame.' Besides which, it's mean, he says, and he likes to be friendly.
Then come over and install your friendly little programs on my PC. You can do so for free! No more annoying "distribution" anymore, you just come here, install your friendly little program and leave*, that is all. Sounds like a deal? Tell me in advance, because I might need to buy some essentials** for your visit.
* Might or might not involve a hearse.
** Like a toe tag and body bag.
Or maybe wireless power! Imagine having a 4 foot diameter microwave transceiver dish on both your PC and mouse. Not to mention the migraine of biblical proportions you'll get after using said mouse for 5 minutes... Uhm... Scrap that wireless power idea...
Note: This is a joke. Everytime I attempt humor on slashdot, the mods get it, but I get about 50 replies explaining why what I wrote is wrong. If you have no sense of humor, get off the net and go find some:-P
... certain people in Redmond and Lindon are screaming with laughter and crying out of excitement with their respective goons, while celebrating the fact that the tides are turning in their favour.
Yes dear. Now everyone who used Yahoo for searches will be scarred for life as ANY word returns at least 15000 sponsored links. Yes, that has GOT to be good for search result quality. Uh huh. Nothing like making search results useless by adding dozens of irrelevant sponsored links gets the people interested in your search engine. By the way, the world is flat and MS Windows is cheaper then Linux.
The U.S. gov't. Why? Because embedded Linux is used in the radar systems of the FA-18 being sold on Ebay (reported recently on/. ) which the U.S. gov't probably didn't have a SCO license for and which would put an unlicensed copy of proprietory code (Linux... at least according to SCO) into the public domain. Then all the taxpayers could ante up the money. Surely the taxpayers can afford more than the 5 billion they're asking of IBM before damages... after all our national deficit is in the trillions.
Vandenberg AFB,
In a follow up regarding the continual struggle for IP rights by SCO, the company has filed a lawsuit against the US goverment for incorporating intellectual property into various key components of the armed forces, including F/A-18 fighters, radar guidance systems and Minuteman tactical nuclear missile systems. Large portions of this equipment was stored at Vandenberg AFB. Commander J. Richards held a press conference regarding this matter, claiming that "We [of Vandenberg AFB] will do our utmost in order to comply to the copyright laws as written. We, too, are citizens of this fine country and not above the law. All property has been returned to SCO, in order to avoid a large financial fine and we hope that this matter is dealt with in a civilized matter. I have ordered Colonel A. Weiss of the 30th Space Wing to deal with this matter." Colonel Weiss was unavailable for comment, though sources close to both the commander and the colonel have confirmed that the ordinance has been 'returned' to SCO and that the fighters are on the way home to 'deliver' the next load of IP-laden ordinance.
Caelestia:
19 str
19 dex
19 con
10 int
13 wis
19 cha
Are my character's stats. Granted, paladin... Female... And not even normal AD&D but Baldur's Gate 2. And no, I did NOT cheat to get those stats. I did spend too long on character generation though and ran her to Baldur's Gate 1. ( The one where you get better stats during the game instead of stats taken away from you... ) Twice. Stop looking funny at me!!!
Mmmm, yes but still wrong, kinda. People at work were forced to use PCs with DOS & Windows 3.x. If you used a PC at work for a bunch of months and you needed one at home to do some hardcore "WordPerfect"ing, then you bought a PC. Also, as far as I can recall, I never even HEARD of a Mac back then. ( Mind you, we're talking about the Netherlands at around 1990 here... )
Then again, OS/2 seemed to be a small, fierce and ultimately disastrous rage around here at the time. There were a few months where OS/2 was supplied as standard OS for all new PCs, with Windows as "optional". Didn't really work out in the end, considering Microsoft still ended up market dominance.
Reminds me of a bunch of Acers that were shipped about a month or two ago to the retail store where I worked. They also had a "smart" system fan. Unfortunately, the "smart" part of the fan got screwed somewhere and the fan revved up to full speed and stayed there, not only making the blasted thing sound like a Chinook helicopter, but also venting out air at ludicrous speeds. It was bad enough that you could feel the air flow even 3 meters ( ~9 feet for the silly people among us ) away from the thing. And hear it too. Some sort of patch was released after we contacted Acer and that calmed the thing down, more or less. I'm still amazed the fan itself didn't shatter into a thousand bits mere seconds after power on.
Ought to get some cute replies from anyone behind the counter then... "Oh hey mister Baggins... Just wondering though, you might be interested in a nuclear warhead, Thunderbird 1 and screwing my sist-..."
I dare to disagree. IE is the most used browser, that I agree with. But not the most well known or commonly known one. Non-techie people I talk to don't have a clue what IE is and only once I mention it's the thing they use to go on the internet ( Remember, talking to a non-techie here... To most of them the web IS the net. ) I'll get an "Oh yeah..." as reply. People don't use IE because it's well known, they simply use it because it is there.
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yes and no.
Flash Mobs DO exist these days, but generally aren't disaster tourists. Yet, anyways. Modern Flash Mobs consist of large numbers of peoples gathering somewhere, doing something silly for about 5 minutes and then leaving again, just as quick. An example I heard of some time ago was at a Toys R Us store ages ago with a huge mock-up dinosaur. A Flash Mob gathered before the dinosaur and worshipped it for 5 minutes. And I'm not talking about quiet, solemn worship, here. After 5 minutes the crowd was gone as quickly as it has arrived.
Just found a link to a site regarding the particular Flash Mob. Includes some pictures for your viewing pleasure. :)
Oh, that's okay. You can always become a lawyer then, considering you already are an idiot. Not much difference anyways, except a idiot bullshits in english and a lawyer bullshits in legaleze. ( aka EULA-language ) :)
Next up, RMS in custody; charged with battery after finding the SCO marketroid who was spouting GPL blasphemies. SCO martketroid expected to survive after 6 hours of surgery to remove a stamped steel printout of the GPL from the rectum. May have issues sitting down later in life.
Just wait until someone starts modding these babies. Expect dual machine guns, reactive armour, phosphor mortars, gatling cannon, TOW missiles , flashbangs and a katana. It won't email the fact there is a burglar, anymore. Instead, it will ask what to do with the body ( or what remains of it )...
These aren't virus writers, these are just regular script kiddies. Nothing interesting.
Then come over and install your friendly little programs on my PC. You can do so for free! No more annoying "distribution" anymore, you just come here, install your friendly little program and leave*, that is all. Sounds like a deal? Tell me in advance, because I might need to buy some essentials** for your visit.
* Might or might not involve a hearse.
** Like a toe tag and body bag.
Or maybe wireless power! Imagine having a 4 foot diameter microwave transceiver dish on both your PC and mouse. Not to mention the migraine of biblical proportions you'll get after using said mouse for 5 minutes... Uhm... Scrap that wireless power idea...
You must be new here at Sla- ... Wait a sec...
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... certain people in Redmond and Lindon are screaming with laughter and crying out of excitement with their respective goons, while celebrating the fact that the tides are turning in their favour.
Yes dear. Now everyone who used Yahoo for searches will be scarred for life as ANY word returns at least 15000 sponsored links. Yes, that has GOT to be good for search result quality. Uh huh. Nothing like making search results useless by adding dozens of irrelevant sponsored links gets the people interested in your search engine. By the way, the world is flat and MS Windows is cheaper then Linux.
Vandenberg AFB,
In a follow up regarding the continual struggle for IP rights by SCO, the company has filed a lawsuit against the US goverment for incorporating intellectual property into various key components of the armed forces, including F/A-18 fighters, radar guidance systems and Minuteman tactical nuclear missile systems. Large portions of this equipment was stored at Vandenberg AFB. Commander J. Richards held a press conference regarding this matter, claiming that "We [of Vandenberg AFB] will do our utmost in order to comply to the copyright laws as written. We, too, are citizens of this fine country and not above the law. All property has been returned to SCO, in order to avoid a large financial fine and we hope that this matter is dealt with in a civilized matter. I have ordered Colonel A. Weiss of the 30th Space Wing to deal with this matter." Colonel Weiss was unavailable for comment, though sources close to both the commander and the colonel have confirmed that the ordinance has been 'returned' to SCO and that the fighters are on the way home to 'deliver' the next load of IP-laden ordinance.
Welcome to the city of people who care. Population: YOU.
So it will spend the rest of it's days looking at reruns of Oprah and trying to get involved in everything that is not it's concern?
Wait for the source code to leak, heh
However, does this mean we get to bomb annoying people with cell phones? Please?
Caelestia:
19 str
19 dex
19 con
10 int
13 wis
19 cha
Are my character's stats. Granted, paladin... Female... And not even normal AD&D but Baldur's Gate 2. And no, I did NOT cheat to get those stats. I did spend too long on character generation though and ran her to Baldur's Gate 1. ( The one where you get better stats during the game instead of stats taken away from you... ) Twice. Stop looking funny at me!!!
Mmmm, yes but still wrong, kinda. People at work were forced to use PCs with DOS & Windows 3.x. If you used a PC at work for a bunch of months and you needed one at home to do some hardcore "WordPerfect"ing, then you bought a PC. Also, as far as I can recall, I never even HEARD of a Mac back then. ( Mind you, we're talking about the Netherlands at around 1990 here... )
Then again, OS/2 seemed to be a small, fierce and ultimately disastrous rage around here at the time. There were a few months where OS/2 was supplied as standard OS for all new PCs, with Windows as "optional". Didn't really work out in the end, considering Microsoft still ended up market dominance.
DNF? What's that?*
( * Yes, that was cynicism. )
Reminds me of a bunch of Acers that were shipped about a month or two ago to the retail store where I worked. They also had a "smart" system fan. Unfortunately, the "smart" part of the fan got screwed somewhere and the fan revved up to full speed and stayed there, not only making the blasted thing sound like a Chinook helicopter, but also venting out air at ludicrous speeds. It was bad enough that you could feel the air flow even 3 meters ( ~9 feet for the silly people among us ) away from the thing. And hear it too. Some sort of patch was released after we contacted Acer and that calmed the thing down, more or less. I'm still amazed the fan itself didn't shatter into a thousand bits mere seconds after power on.
Ought to get some cute replies from anyone behind the counter then... "Oh hey mister Baggins... Just wondering though, you might be interested in a nuclear warhead, Thunderbird 1 and screwing my sist- ..."
180mm smoothbore cannons and armour-piercing rounds.
Broadsword? What the hell do you intend to do? Smack your PC around until it... Oh.. Breadboard! ... Nevermind...
I dare to disagree. IE is the most used browser, that I agree with. But not the most well known or commonly known one. Non-techie people I talk to don't have a clue what IE is and only once I mention it's the thing they use to go on the internet ( Remember, talking to a non-techie here... To most of them the web IS the net. ) I'll get an "Oh yeah..." as reply. People don't use IE because it's well known, they simply use it because it is there.
Actually, you can. But Slashdot would be awkward when called "66.35.250.150, news for nerds, stuff that matters" instead...