I was going to reply but then I realized you're either a really worthless troll or just absolutely ignorant. Either way, not worthy of any serious attention.
And if the original authors of the Blaster worm's intent was to teach people who ignore warnings a lesson
I don't need to shoot you in the face with a shotgun to make you understand that high-velocity direct kinetic weapons are quite lethal. Besides, I heard the Blaster worm is about as buggy as the software it tries to exploit, which is more the trait of a script kiddie then the trait of a white-hat underground internet "Messiah".
Nice Goatse on the Xwin wiki link. Just a warning for people with a weak stomach or some ANAL (hehehe) people who get mad over something silly as this.
Nice reference to a stupid dutch fart joke which can be rougly trasnlated to "Oh, excuse me, that was a simple message from intestine-city!" where darmstad translates to intestine-city.
Gentoo would be a nice thing for this, I suppose. Personally I'd rather have RPM or DEB package system but the Gentoo would work nicely as well I presume. There's going to be some friction here again as not everyone likes the Gentoo system as much as others. (which makes sense, glibc is a monstrousity, though this is not Gentoo's fault.) Then again, there are more opinion on this matter then just mine and I'm open to any ideas:P
Live CDs like knoppix are all very lovely but when's the day that I can roll out my own live CDs without TOO much effort? Just select the packages you want, kernel, drivers, etc, wait as the program churns out a nice ISO for you which you can burn to a CD and voila, insta-Linux! Now that would seriously rock as you can simply modify all the basics as you see fit and can easily alter the whole deal for bugfixes.
Eventually, no matter how hard you try, you will get hit by a train.
So, basically what you're saying is, that even if I sit my arse on the moon, dig a tunnel down to the core, (why not? time enough!), fill up the entrance and structurally reinforce the lunar core, it will all be useless because the day I turn 500 I'll STILL get run over by a train?
Man, that guy is a nutter. I decided for once to give the rest of his website a good deal of attention and it was... Well... Fun! Fun in a "What the fuck is wrong with this guy?" way, really. His "world corporation" idea is fun to read, even if you skip his constant shameless plugs for himself. I thought the guy was smart enough to exploit the stupid and gullible people into buying his silly contraptions, but now that I've read his story which ends in a cross-over between the future according to Slashdot (as in, corporationism and plutocracy) and the Bible. Very cute, though I expected something about body thetans and donating money to be saved as well.
Either that or the guy is a really clever and obsessed troll!
My computer wont exactly update ANYTHING anymore. W2k SP3, directx9, loads of other stuff; once I download and run them they all cough up a crc error or claim the cryptographic service is not running. Well, it isn't. It's not even there! I though about fixing it but that requires a patch and I can't install patches so... Well...
Point being, even patching won't work from time to time as the patch system MS uses could use a... patch. But I cant patch it if I cant install patches in the first place! That said, it's really time I reinstall Windows this thing:(
They should be glad the world language isn't dutch. We never agree, even amongst ourselves on how the hell to spell several concatenated words, nor how to properly spell several if not most verbs. And if we DO agree after years of bickering; they change the damned language so it all starts anew. Then again, it's fun to have foreigners try to pronounce dutch words or names, hehehe. Always a blast, even though we in some cases can't agree on how to pronounce some dutch names ourselves...
Most computer users are utterly and completely retarded concerning anything related to computers. They know that the power buttons turns on the damn thing, that clicking twice on OE or MS Word starts a program and that Steven McGregor likes to send funny mails with.exe files attached. Even the most basic questions about computers to these people will be answered with a "Huh?".
Now, comparing it to a car is a good thing, though one should remember that one should not known the complete design of the engine to be able to drive a car. There are two other things that are more important; being able to properly handle the car AND being able to conform to a set of rules and regulations set up to protect you and others from yourself. The thing is, knowledge of these rules are enforced (or at least around here) and violating them will cost you money. But the difference between a car and a computer, damage wise, is the fact you can kill someone with a car accident. No one gets hurt if you run "anna kournikova.jpg.vbs".
Eventually, the worst problems will solve themselves; the most error prone people are those who haven't grown up with computers. Kids nowadays grown up with computers all around, so it's going to be easier to solve stuff later on as the general population slowly becomes more tech-savvy. Still, a few good regulations regarding the teaching about computer usage might be nice, especially in the modern world where nearly anything is somehow related to computers. Teach kids the basics, some more advanced things later on, like basic component knowledge (what's an HD, what's a CD/DVD-ROM, what's a processor, how to recognize them, etc) and explanation into the use of various office applications and what to do and what not to do with them. (to prevent people from writing essays in powerpoint and making a database in excel while recording financial data in a word document)
Well, the answer is simple: No. In fact, I think that who site is actually more of a disgrace and an insult to women and gamers alike and it simply proves that sex sells. Hey, it's perfect marketing, can't say it didn't work. Anyways, as for serious female gamers that I know of (That excludes the "OMG i play cs because that cute boi from halfway across teh world plays it 2!!1" types) mostly enjoy the same games as guys. Some enjoy BF1942, some of em enjoy The Sims, some others enjoy online turn based strategy games like Planetarion.
... of the "It's to protect against terrorism" line? I mean, in some cases I CAN imagine, like the recent security enhancements at the port of Rotterdam, even though I find it EXTREMELY unlikely that Mr Terrorist would stow away a nuke on a containership, in the middle of Europe. But seriously, how is this going to protect people? "an essential tool for keeping the nation's food supply safe from terrorists."??? What ARE they thinking? That Bin Laden would go to WalMart and take a piss in a bottle of coke!?
I can already imagine this whole things as an actual war!
LINDON, UTAH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA has lately been the background setting of a large unfolding tragedy as several army groups concentrated their attacks. The initial skirmish with SCO Battle Group Alpha (SCOBGA) have proven indecisive, even though said encounter only involved a light scout detachment from the IBM Advanced Warfare Division (IBMAWD) which later involved the Red Hat Strategic Initiative (RHSI) and in the European theatre, the initial skirmish led to defeat as the SuSe Wehrmacht (SW) simply blew the European branch of the SCOGBA to kingdom come.
Back in the Utah theatre, a large assault from mutiple directions has been launched over the past few days, opening several fronts all along the lines. Large troop movements have been spotted over the past few hours including several helicopters, which has been described as "large blue gunships, variants of the common Apache gunship" by several people. An eye witness to a recent battle has described it as "Awe inspiring", and was also quoted saying "It was a massacre; SCOGBA forces held ground at all costs but they were all simply picked of one by one by IBMAWD artillery and helicopters while RHSI ground forces rolled in an mopped up any resistance"
RHSI officials have confirmed these reports. "Our coalition has advanced on several fronts, with IBMAWD and our RHSI taking point, but we received substantial support from Novell forces in the form of weapons, munition, fuel and a jump point for our freighter with daisy cutters.". IBMAWD officials have been silent throughout today's offensive actions, but reports from back home note that IBM representatives have been grinning broadly and announced a "reduction of nuclear weapons" in the world, described as "the way they were supposed to be used."
President George W Bush has decided to put an end to SCO oppression as well, but has been unable to comment up to this point. Donald Rumsfeld was quoted, saying "We'll bomb the living fuck out of SCO!... Once we figure out how to get aircraft carriers in Utah. And don't pull that joke on me about land based weapons and craft! Powell did that to me and I jabbed him in the side for that!"
I got a -1 negative penalty applied to all subscribers.
Figured that anyone willing to give money to a BIASED, UNFAIR and FUD-SPREADING source of news doesn't have the intelligence to say anything interesting or funny. Besides, why subscribe when you get nearly the same thing WITHOUT subscribing? I can live with "only" 200 friends/foes, not seeing an article early up (thought that excludes laughing at Taco's horrendous types as he now has time to fix them) and having a nice little asterisk behind my name.
Maybe if slashdot were a GOOD news site, but subscribing to a rather bad news site is... well... PATHETIC. I suggest subscribing to a site with less bullshit* and more content**. As for why I'm here while I claim/. is shit: it's fair enough as a free service.
Note:
* = SCO & MS FUD, "WiFi" hype, masturblogging.
** = News about clever homebuilt stuff, major releases of important software/hardware, news on privacy/legal matters in both the EU and the US, upcoming tech previews & disccusions and interviews with people who actually know what they're talking about.
52 weeks in a standard year (big surprise there for some of you!) so 52 / 4 = 13, thus 13 * 6000 = 78000 sales in one year. For a rough estimate of world population right now I'll take 6.100.000.000 people, but that includes by average 52% women. Thus ( 6.100.000.000 / 100 ) * 48 = 2.928.000.000 and 2.928.000.000 / 78000 ~= 37538 years before every male on this planet has a huge penis and the spam will FINALLY stop!
'Scuse me while I got play some Counterstrike / Tribes / Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / UT200X / Wolf:ET / etc. etc. etc...
Yeah! We get to play cheat-ridden, loser infested pile of antique running on an engine from 1998! That'll teach them Halo players to show some RESPECT to us PC gamers, lest they want to be "OMFG STFU N00B LOL!!!12"ed to death by a bunch of sweaty 14 year old CS players!*
* = With respect to the sane part of the CS community. I know that there are a few of you folks out there!
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I was going to reply but then I realized you're either a really worthless troll or just absolutely ignorant. Either way, not worthy of any serious attention.
And yes, I got karma to burn.
THAT IS NOT FUCKING FUNNY!!!
I'm off worse though, I'm forced to make a small database in Access ... :(
More standards! Now it makes even less sense to me and my good old cat5 cable which persistently fail to provide me with 100mbit/sec speed!
I don't need to shoot you in the face with a shotgun to make you understand that high-velocity direct kinetic weapons are quite lethal. Besides, I heard the Blaster worm is about as buggy as the software it tries to exploit, which is more the trait of a script kiddie then the trait of a white-hat underground internet "Messiah".
Nice Goatse on the Xwin wiki link. Just a warning for people with a weak stomach or some ANAL (hehehe) people who get mad over something silly as this.
Mmm, yes, point it toward the earth! Sydney to be precise!
There be a cute Aussie girl and I'd like to have a good look at her cleavage... for security reasons. She might be hiding a nuke there!
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[aol_grl] LOL!
Nice reference to a stupid dutch fart joke which can be rougly trasnlated to "Oh, excuse me, that was a simple message from intestine-city!" where darmstad translates to intestine-city.
Hehehe, wish I had slept tonight, hehehe...
Hey, one can dream, right? That and I'd like to see those diamond semiconducters with solid state nanostorage. That and Duke Nukem Forever.
Dollars per teraflop you mean?
Once we start talking about teraflops per dollar, things get really interesting!
Gentoo would be a nice thing for this, I suppose. Personally I'd rather have RPM or DEB package system but the Gentoo would work nicely as well I presume. There's going to be some friction here again as not everyone likes the Gentoo system as much as others. (which makes sense, glibc is a monstrousity, though this is not Gentoo's fault.) Then again, there are more opinion on this matter then just mine and I'm open to any ideas :P
Live CDs like knoppix are all very lovely but when's the day that I can roll out my own live CDs without TOO much effort? Just select the packages you want, kernel, drivers, etc, wait as the program churns out a nice ISO for you which you can burn to a CD and voila, insta-Linux! Now that would seriously rock as you can simply modify all the basics as you see fit and can easily alter the whole deal for bugfixes.
So, basically what you're saying is, that even if I sit my arse on the moon, dig a tunnel down to the core, (why not? time enough!), fill up the entrance and structurally reinforce the lunar core, it will all be useless because the day I turn 500 I'll STILL get run over by a train?
Man, that guy is a nutter. I decided for once to give the rest of his website a good deal of attention and it was... Well... Fun! Fun in a "What the fuck is wrong with this guy?" way, really. His "world corporation" idea is fun to read, even if you skip his constant shameless plugs for himself. I thought the guy was smart enough to exploit the stupid and gullible people into buying his silly contraptions, but now that I've read his story which ends in a cross-over between the future according to Slashdot (as in, corporationism and plutocracy) and the Bible. Very cute, though I expected something about body thetans and donating money to be saved as well.
Either that or the guy is a really clever and obsessed troll!
How?
My computer wont exactly update ANYTHING anymore. W2k SP3, directx9, loads of other stuff; once I download and run them they all cough up a crc error or claim the cryptographic service is not running. Well, it isn't. It's not even there! I though about fixing it but that requires a patch and I can't install patches so... Well...
Point being, even patching won't work from time to time as the patch system MS uses could use a... patch. But I cant patch it if I cant install patches in the first place! That said, it's really time I reinstall Windows this thing :(
They should be glad the world language isn't dutch. We never agree, even amongst ourselves on how the hell to spell several concatenated words, nor how to properly spell several if not most verbs. And if we DO agree after years of bickering; they change the damned language so it all starts anew. Then again, it's fun to have foreigners try to pronounce dutch words or names, hehehe. Always a blast, even though we in some cases can't agree on how to pronounce some dutch names ourselves...
Huh? What?
Read. The official way on how to respond to a (possible) GPL violation.
Most computer users are utterly and completely retarded concerning anything related to computers. They know that the power buttons turns on the damn thing, that clicking twice on OE or MS Word starts a program and that Steven McGregor likes to send funny mails with .exe files attached. Even the most basic questions about computers to these people will be answered with a "Huh?".
Now, comparing it to a car is a good thing, though one should remember that one should not known the complete design of the engine to be able to drive a car. There are two other things that are more important; being able to properly handle the car AND being able to conform to a set of rules and regulations set up to protect you and others from yourself. The thing is, knowledge of these rules are enforced (or at least around here) and violating them will cost you money. But the difference between a car and a computer, damage wise, is the fact you can kill someone with a car accident. No one gets hurt if you run "anna kournikova.jpg.vbs".
Eventually, the worst problems will solve themselves; the most error prone people are those who haven't grown up with computers. Kids nowadays grown up with computers all around, so it's going to be easier to solve stuff later on as the general population slowly becomes more tech-savvy. Still, a few good regulations regarding the teaching about computer usage might be nice, especially in the modern world where nearly anything is somehow related to computers. Teach kids the basics, some more advanced things later on, like basic component knowledge (what's an HD, what's a CD/DVD-ROM, what's a processor, how to recognize them, etc) and explanation into the use of various office applications and what to do and what not to do with them. (to prevent people from writing essays in powerpoint and making a database in excel while recording financial data in a word document)
Well, the answer is simple: No. In fact, I think that who site is actually more of a disgrace and an insult to women and gamers alike and it simply proves that sex sells. Hey, it's perfect marketing, can't say it didn't work. Anyways, as for serious female gamers that I know of (That excludes the "OMG i play cs because that cute boi from halfway across teh world plays it 2!!1" types) mostly enjoy the same games as guys. Some enjoy BF1942, some of em enjoy The Sims, some others enjoy online turn based strategy games like Planetarion.
... of the "It's to protect against terrorism" line? I mean, in some cases I CAN imagine, like the recent security enhancements at the port of Rotterdam, even though I find it EXTREMELY unlikely that Mr Terrorist would stow away a nuke on a containership, in the middle of Europe. But seriously, how is this going to protect people? "an essential tool for keeping the nation's food supply safe from terrorists."??? What ARE they thinking? That Bin Laden would go to WalMart and take a piss in a bottle of coke!?
Mobilized? Opening multiple fronts? Fighting?
I can already imagine this whole things as an actual war!
LINDON, UTAH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA has lately been the background setting of a large unfolding tragedy as several army groups concentrated their attacks. The initial skirmish with SCO Battle Group Alpha (SCOBGA) have proven indecisive, even though said encounter only involved a light scout detachment from the IBM Advanced Warfare Division (IBMAWD) which later involved the Red Hat Strategic Initiative (RHSI) and in the European theatre, the initial skirmish led to defeat as the SuSe Wehrmacht (SW) simply blew the European branch of the SCOGBA to kingdom come.
Back in the Utah theatre, a large assault from mutiple directions has been launched over the past few days, opening several fronts all along the lines. Large troop movements have been spotted over the past few hours including several helicopters, which has been described as "large blue gunships, variants of the common Apache gunship" by several people. An eye witness to a recent battle has described it as "Awe inspiring", and was also quoted saying "It was a massacre; SCOGBA forces held ground at all costs but they were all simply picked of one by one by IBMAWD artillery and helicopters while RHSI ground forces rolled in an mopped up any resistance"
RHSI officials have confirmed these reports. "Our coalition has advanced on several fronts, with IBMAWD and our RHSI taking point, but we received substantial support from Novell forces in the form of weapons, munition, fuel and a jump point for our freighter with daisy cutters.". IBMAWD officials have been silent throughout today's offensive actions, but reports from back home note that IBM representatives have been grinning broadly and announced a "reduction of nuclear weapons" in the world, described as "the way they were supposed to be used."
President George W Bush has decided to put an end to SCO oppression as well, but has been unable to comment up to this point. Donald Rumsfeld was quoted, saying "We'll bomb the living fuck out of SCO! ... Once we figure out how to get aircraft carriers in Utah. And don't pull that joke on me about land based weapons and craft! Powell did that to me and I jabbed him in the side for that!"
I got a -1 negative penalty applied to all subscribers.
Figured that anyone willing to give money to a BIASED, UNFAIR and FUD-SPREADING source of news doesn't have the intelligence to say anything interesting or funny. Besides, why subscribe when you get nearly the same thing WITHOUT subscribing? I can live with "only" 200 friends/foes, not seeing an article early up (thought that excludes laughing at Taco's horrendous types as he now has time to fix them) and having a nice little asterisk behind my name.
Maybe if slashdot were a GOOD news site, but subscribing to a rather bad news site is... well... PATHETIC. I suggest subscribing to a site with less bullshit* and more content**. As for why I'm here while I claim /. is shit: it's fair enough as a free service.
Note:
* = SCO & MS FUD, "WiFi" hype, masturblogging.
** = News about clever homebuilt stuff, major releases of important software/hardware, news on privacy/legal matters in both the EU and the US, upcoming tech previews & disccusions and interviews with people who actually know what they're talking about.
Okay, sooo... 6000 orders in a 4 week period?
52 weeks in a standard year (big surprise there for some of you!) so 52 / 4 = 13, thus 13 * 6000 = 78000 sales in one year. For a rough estimate of world population right now I'll take 6.100.000.000 people, but that includes by average 52% women. Thus ( 6.100.000.000 / 100 ) * 48 = 2.928.000.000 and 2.928.000.000 / 78000 ~= 37538 years before every male on this planet has a huge penis and the spam will FINALLY stop!
I suggest lynching spammers, much faster.
Yeah! We get to play cheat-ridden, loser infested pile of antique running on an engine from 1998! That'll teach them Halo players to show some RESPECT to us PC gamers, lest they want to be "OMFG STFU N00B LOL!!!12"ed to death by a bunch of sweaty 14 year old CS players!*
* = With respect to the sane part of the CS community. I know that there are a few of you folks out there!