The problem with an editorializing post like michael frequently engages, is that the editorial comment becomes the topic of discussion, not the story itself, as we are amply demonstrating herein. I hate to dump on the people behind the scenes of this great forum, but this happens fairly frequently with michaels posts.
Why don't more companies announce "Hey, we've thrown this up on Kazaa too! Because whenever you download an executable from Kazaa, it contains at least one, possibly two trojans. With file planet, you can at least insure that the files are not being tampered with. BitTorrent is an exception, because it hasn't taken off yet (lil billy teh h4xxor isn't using it)
If this was a car, and the engines exploded killing the drive, you can bet your ass that the automaker's name would be on the news.
If, however, a product recall (patch) were instituted buy the car company to replace the engine part, and the person simply did not take his car to the dealership, the auto company would not be liable for damages. Outlook is not the only piece of software, nor the only email client with security holes. Valve played fast and loose with their own security, and they got hit by it. It's not the car companys fault if sudden deceleration causes you to explode through the windshield, because you were not wearing the seatbelt.
Rather than get ourselves into a big Mathematical conundrum, let's go with the easiest option.: Jedi haven't been implemented in the game yet. You know, somewhere out there, there is a guy who has done nothing at all since the game came out but play galaxies. And his goal the whole time was to be a Jedi. I'd be willing to bet money that the programmers got through with the glowing sword, tried to figure out whatever other powers the jedi should have, found them dificult/unbalancing/what have you, and left them out, to be coded another day. There aren't any jedi yet, because you Can't be a jedi yet.
It's called a Minivan. The lions share of SUVs are being sold, not to Off Road, not to climb every mountain, but to hold Mother and Child as they go to the market. This may get some traction for people who actually use 4x4's to go offroad, or the people that need the trendiest of the trendy, but the very aspect of Fuel Efficiency pretty much gaurantees it's lighter, which means it's not going to be as sturdy in an accident, and thus, won't sell to the soccer mom market. Safer to everyone else on the road, yes. Not the inhabitants however.
I think Purple Floyd just nailed it, but I think I can offer a simple distinction. Your presentation should be centered on teaching them about Coding, not teaching them How to code. I think that will be the difference between you being the "funnest" dad giving presentations, and you being the most boring dad. And in the end, the most important thing is for your kid to know you're the coolest parent ever.
there are no social repercussions for acting like a jackass There certainly are. You are labeled and branded as a jackass. I remember in the days when I'd hit up rec.games.wotc.magic and read the posts. WOTC went through reps like water, due to beligerent people making the reps job a pain. But the thing of it is, it's the reps fault for not being able to suck it up and do his job. Members of the public can often be belligerent, whether anonymous or otherwise. If you work for a company tailoring to the public, (as all companies do) deal with it. Affixing blame to the public for this cat's inability to represent his company is ludicrous, particularly given that he himself was demonstrating a certain degree of belligerence himself, let alone making himself look like a jack-ass. I'm sure the nature of gravity makes a pilots job more difficult, but I doubt pilots get all huffy, and write angry letters to sci.Newton.gravity.
Sorry Mr. Prosecutor, got to come up with something better than that Hackwork defenses are the job of the defense attorney. The prosecutor would be the one dopesmacking the GTA argument.
If I had my druthers, no food would be allowed in the common cubicle area. If this isn't acceptable, please, no seafood, and no smelly foods, particularly early in the morning. One coworker of mine would bring a bacon cheeseburger into the cubicle area for breakfast. Noone needs to smell beef and bacon that early in the morning. If only common sense were more common, noone would need rules like this.
All games are made to be fun for the people playing them He's not the only guy in japan who gets it. If I'm not mistaken, Mssr Miyamoto has been saying the above for a while, and has been derided by industry types for saying so. My brother in law has been salivating over the advertisements for John Madden 200X for a while now, and I've sat him down with (NFL2k3). As much as he loves the graphics, and the idea of a realistic video football game, he invariably gives up in about 10 minutes. "It's too much work". Initially I balked over the gamecube controller (and still do to some extent), but I'm beginning to see the wisdom in less buttons, and less complex controls.
I was insulted that this movie was a trojan horse meme for the support of religious faith So movies about alien life are only okay when they are used to debunk the existance of God. Check.
That same bit of text jumped out at me as well. This article is hyped as saying we're closer to rats then anything else, but really, it's still just saying that primates (human, chimpanzee, baboon) are closer to rats then we are to cats, dogs, cows, and pigs. Thanks, I couldn't have figured that myself. I suppose the follow up article is that cats, dogs, cows and pigs are closer to rats then they are to fish. What a non story.
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I like how the Postal inspector (Higgins) is trying to make this out into an epic battle between a criminal mastermind, and himself, a master-sleuth. Higgins had been on eBay once or twice, but he'd never bought or sold anything on the site. Working the Nelson case was "a fast learning process," he says. "It was like skipping 101 and going right to the master class." The perps ID lead straight to his home address. No PO box, no nothing. This is an example of how long some dumb punk can get away with a pretty simple fraud, not an example of investigatory brilliance. Hell, the guy had already been visited once before by a postal inspector.
Thanks for making the jobs of the phone support reps that much less pleasant. I should explain, I worked in maxis tech support. Between callers asking where to get the nude patch (i'm sorry, that's unsupported 3rd party software), and irate parents asking what the hell was wrong with Maxis for releasing a game with nudity (no ma'am, it wasn't us, it was teh HaXX0r5), an already unfulfilling job was made that much worse. I applaud the injenuity, but wonder if the time couldn't be better spent coding something worthwhile while downloading porn from KaZaa. At the very least, please invent a 3d display, so we at/. can continue to make VR boobie jokes.
Since the US mandates that children remain in school untill the age of 18, could this not be viewed as a move towards the monitoring of all citizens under 18 between the hours of 8am and 3pm? Just a thought
The whole idea of splitting people into categories like this is really stupid Obviously you're entitled to your opinion, but people do fit into categories. Slobs vs neat freaks, People who go home and watch E! true hollywood story, and those who would rather learn something worthwhile. Phrenology is based on physical characteristics determining your degree of mongrelism. The degree of a persons introversion is determined by observation of that persons actions/reactions. The scientific method is applied in the latter, whereas the former is rightly qualified as garbage. I will agree though that it's not quite clean cut on this issue. Put an Extrovert and an introvert in a/. discussion and watch the two switch categories. As we are amply demonstrating herein. Then again, I would say that the BSD is dead guy is likely an extrovert, if not a robot.
And plenty of other subjects have been posted in the meantime. Getting upset about 2 dupes in one day? I can see that. Two dupes in a year? Cut the editors a little slack man. /offtopic.
How much did you pay for your last pair of Jeans?(television, ram chip, etc.) Think of the entire world as one big company. In the current climate, you have China, Mexico, Indonesia, etc. This is the manufacturing department. The specs are transmitted from the Research and Development department (the United States/Industrialized world) The average worker in R&D gets paid much more than those in china, this is true. This is because they are doing the things that haven't been done before. They are more educated, and thus, demand a higher salary, as they bring more than a set of hands and eyeballs to the job. (let alone issues like a high minimum wage). It would be stupid to have the R&D department also fabricate, manufacture and ship their new widget. Instead, R&D works on the more cost-effective task of creating the next revision of the widget, or a new widget altogether, while others do the heavy lifting. Economics, like politics, is harsh. Noone likes to see those jobs leak overseas, or to watch a foreign country copycat what's already been done. But the alternative is paying 2000 dollars for a P3, strictly because it was manufactured in the R&D department. Tell me, if that was the situation, how much fewer would be the number of computers in use in the US? And following that, how many fewer jobs would be available for educated people to service, and maintain those computers stateside?
First off, Hold your horses. The chinese government is not the only government that props up staggering/nascent business. Would you say that The US government giving money to Lockheed Martin to develop the next generation in fighter aircraft, as opposed to say, ordering 500 migs or sukkhois is protectionist? Of course not. Free trade has nothing to do with this scenario. Now if the chinese government levies tarriffs against Intel and AMD, then you may have something. But up and untill then, this is simply government bolstering regional business, which is not at all bad form. Interestingly enough, you are arguing that the US have a copyright in purpituity on the Microprocessor. I never thought I'd see the day THAT particular argument was posted to slashdot.
I don't disagree at all with your larger point, but in the terms of this survey, forbes' use of the word consumer is more precise then is the word People. A person doesn't have to have a Television, a Radio, or a computer to qualify as a "Person". But in the context of this study, you do need to have all three to qualify as a Media Consumer. And Forbes is only speaking about people with all three boxes.
From what I understand (very little), we already have very sensitive equiptment detecting submarine presence. Again, I'm trying in vein to remember the source, but I recall listening to a Radio program on how satellites are used to note peculiar wakes in the ocean, and can even differentiate between a submarine and a large whale. I can't find anything technical on google, but apparently The chinese government was interested enough to steal the info.
It's not technical, but if you really want to see some hacking of nature, it's very much worth seeing. John McLaren took a mess of sand dunes in the late 1800s and hacked it into a beautiful, enormous park. And seeing as you're from Australia, it would make sense to start from the west-side.
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The problem with an editorializing post like michael frequently engages, is that the editorial comment becomes the topic of discussion, not the story itself, as we are amply demonstrating herein.
I hate to dump on the people behind the scenes of this great forum, but this happens fairly frequently with michaels posts.
Why don't more companies announce "Hey, we've thrown this up on Kazaa too!
Because whenever you download an executable from Kazaa, it contains at least one, possibly two trojans. With file planet, you can at least insure that the files are not being tampered with.
BitTorrent is an exception, because it hasn't taken off yet (lil billy teh h4xxor isn't using it)
If this was a car, and the engines exploded killing the drive, you can bet your ass that the automaker's name would be on the news.
If, however, a product recall (patch) were instituted buy the car company to replace the engine part, and the person simply did not take his car to the dealership, the auto company would not be liable for damages.
Outlook is not the only piece of software, nor the only email client with security holes. Valve played fast and loose with their own security, and they got hit by it.
It's not the car companys fault if sudden deceleration causes you to explode through the windshield, because you were not wearing the seatbelt.
Rather than get ourselves into a big Mathematical conundrum, let's go with the easiest option.:
Jedi haven't been implemented in the game yet.
You know, somewhere out there, there is a guy who has done nothing at all since the game came out but play galaxies. And his goal the whole time was to be a Jedi. I'd be willing to bet money that the programmers got through with the glowing sword, tried to figure out whatever other powers the jedi should have, found them dificult/unbalancing/what have you, and left them out, to be coded another day.
There aren't any jedi yet, because you Can't be a jedi yet.
It's called a Minivan.
The lions share of SUVs are being sold, not to Off Road, not to climb every mountain, but to hold Mother and Child as they go to the market.
This may get some traction for people who actually use 4x4's to go offroad, or the people that need the trendiest of the trendy, but the very aspect of Fuel Efficiency pretty much gaurantees it's lighter, which means it's not going to be as sturdy in an accident, and thus, won't sell to the soccer mom market.
Safer to everyone else on the road, yes. Not the inhabitants however.
That might possibly have been the funniest comment I have seen on /., particularly in the realm of a beowulf of ???profit comments. Kudos sir.
I think Purple Floyd just nailed it, but I think I can offer a simple distinction.
Your presentation should be centered on teaching them about Coding, not teaching them How to code. I think that will be the difference between you being the "funnest" dad giving presentations, and you being the most boring dad. And in the end, the most important thing is for your kid to know you're the coolest parent ever.
there are no social repercussions for acting like a jackass
There certainly are. You are labeled and branded as a jackass.
I remember in the days when I'd hit up rec.games.wotc.magic and read the posts. WOTC went through reps like water, due to beligerent people making the reps job a pain.
But the thing of it is, it's the reps fault for not being able to suck it up and do his job. Members of the public can often be belligerent, whether anonymous or otherwise.
If you work for a company tailoring to the public, (as all companies do) deal with it. Affixing blame to the public for this cat's inability to represent his company is ludicrous, particularly given that he himself was demonstrating a certain degree of belligerence himself, let alone making himself look like a jack-ass.
I'm sure the nature of gravity makes a pilots job more difficult, but I doubt pilots get all huffy, and write angry letters to sci.Newton.gravity.
Sorry Mr. Prosecutor, got to come up with something better than that
Hackwork defenses are the job of the defense attorney. The prosecutor would be the one dopesmacking the GTA argument.
If I had my druthers, no food would be allowed in the common cubicle area. If this isn't acceptable, please, no seafood, and no smelly foods, particularly early in the morning.
One coworker of mine would bring a bacon cheeseburger into the cubicle area for breakfast. Noone needs to smell beef and bacon that early in the morning.
If only common sense were more common, noone would need rules like this.
All games are made to be fun for the people playing them
He's not the only guy in japan who gets it. If I'm not mistaken, Mssr Miyamoto has been saying the above for a while, and has been derided by industry types for saying so.
My brother in law has been salivating over the advertisements for John Madden 200X for a while now, and I've sat him down with (NFL2k3). As much as he loves the graphics, and the idea of a realistic video football game, he invariably gives up in about 10 minutes. "It's too much work".
Initially I balked over the gamecube controller (and still do to some extent), but I'm beginning to see the wisdom in less buttons, and less complex controls.
I was insulted that this movie was a trojan horse meme for the support of religious faith
So movies about alien life are only okay when they are used to debunk the existance of God. Check.
That same bit of text jumped out at me as well. This article is hyped as saying we're closer to rats then anything else, but really, it's still just saying that primates (human, chimpanzee, baboon) are closer to rats then we are to cats, dogs, cows, and pigs.
Thanks, I couldn't have figured that myself. I suppose the follow up article is that cats, dogs, cows and pigs are closer to rats then they are to fish.
What a non story.
I like how the Postal inspector (Higgins) is trying to make this out into an epic battle between a criminal mastermind, and himself, a master-sleuth.
Higgins had been on eBay once or twice, but he'd never bought or sold anything on the site. Working the Nelson case was "a fast learning process," he says. "It was like skipping 101 and going right to the master class."
The perps ID lead straight to his home address. No PO box, no nothing.
This is an example of how long some dumb punk can get away with a pretty simple fraud, not an example of investigatory brilliance. Hell, the guy had already been visited once before by a postal inspector.
Thanks for making the jobs of the phone support reps that much less pleasant. /. can continue to make VR boobie jokes.
I should explain, I worked in maxis tech support. Between callers asking where to get the nude patch (i'm sorry, that's unsupported 3rd party software), and irate parents asking what the hell was wrong with Maxis for releasing a game with nudity (no ma'am, it wasn't us, it was teh HaXX0r5), an already unfulfilling job was made that much worse.
I applaud the injenuity, but wonder if the time couldn't be better spent coding something worthwhile while downloading porn from KaZaa. At the very least, please invent a 3d display, so we at
You are absolutley correct. My post did seem to indicate that it was a federal law, when it does in fact, vary by state.
Since the US mandates that children remain in school untill the age of 18, could this not be viewed as a move towards the monitoring of all citizens under 18 between the hours of 8am and 3pm? Just a thought
The whole idea of splitting people into categories like this is really stupid /. discussion and watch the two switch categories. As we are amply demonstrating herein. Then again, I would say that the BSD is dead guy is likely an extrovert, if not a robot.
Obviously you're entitled to your opinion, but people do fit into categories. Slobs vs neat freaks, People who go home and watch E! true hollywood story, and those who would rather learn something worthwhile.
Phrenology is based on physical characteristics determining your degree of mongrelism. The degree of a persons introversion is determined by observation of that persons actions/reactions. The scientific method is applied in the latter, whereas the former is rightly qualified as garbage.
I will agree though that it's not quite clean cut on this issue. Put an Extrovert and an introvert in a
And plenty of other subjects have been posted in the meantime. Getting upset about 2 dupes in one day? I can see that. Two dupes in a year? Cut the editors a little slack man.
/offtopic.
How much did you pay for your last pair of Jeans?(television, ram chip, etc.)
Think of the entire world as one big company. In the current climate, you have China, Mexico, Indonesia, etc. This is the manufacturing department. The specs are transmitted from the Research and Development department (the United States/Industrialized world) The average worker in R&D gets paid much more than those in china, this is true. This is because they are doing the things that haven't been done before. They are more educated, and thus, demand a higher salary, as they bring more than a set of hands and eyeballs to the job. (let alone issues like a high minimum wage). It would be stupid to have the R&D department also fabricate, manufacture and ship their new widget. Instead, R&D works on the more cost-effective task of creating the next revision of the widget, or a new widget altogether, while others do the heavy lifting.
Economics, like politics, is harsh. Noone likes to see those jobs leak overseas, or to watch a foreign country copycat what's already been done. But the alternative is paying 2000 dollars for a P3, strictly because it was manufactured in the R&D department. Tell me, if that was the situation, how much fewer would be the number of computers in use in the US? And following that, how many fewer jobs would be available for educated people to service, and maintain those computers stateside?
First off, Hold your horses. The chinese government is not the only government that props up staggering/nascent business. Would you say that The US government giving money to Lockheed Martin to develop the next generation in fighter aircraft, as opposed to say, ordering 500 migs or sukkhois is protectionist? Of course not.
Free trade has nothing to do with this scenario. Now if the chinese government levies tarriffs against Intel and AMD, then you may have something. But up and untill then, this is simply government bolstering regional business, which is not at all bad form.
Interestingly enough, you are arguing that the US have a copyright in purpituity on the Microprocessor. I never thought I'd see the day THAT particular argument was posted to slashdot.
I don't disagree at all with your larger point, but in the terms of this survey, forbes' use of the word consumer is more precise then is the word People. A person doesn't have to have a Television, a Radio, or a computer to qualify as a "Person". But in the context of this study, you do need to have all three to qualify as a Media Consumer. And Forbes is only speaking about people with all three boxes.
From what I understand (very little), we already have very sensitive equiptment detecting submarine presence.
Again, I'm trying in vein to remember the source, but I recall listening to a Radio program on how satellites are used to note peculiar wakes in the ocean, and can even differentiate between a submarine and a large whale.
I can't find anything technical on google, but apparently The chinese government was interested enough to steal the info.
It's not technical, but if you really want to see some hacking of nature, it's very much worth seeing. John McLaren took a mess of sand dunes in the late 1800s and hacked it into a beautiful, enormous park.
And seeing as you're from Australia, it would make sense to start from the west-side.
I even hit preview. More fool I.