I suggest using a waterproof marker. There are a lot of different distributions out there (some call them 'flavours' but they do kind of taste the same, all) and they can be acquired in a variety of locations. Some have peripherals like remote storage for ink, whereas some incorporate all functionality in the felt kernel. Anyway, it's cheap, the interface is intuitive (although you can customize it pretty wildly, for example switching hands is remarkably simple and requires no reconfiguration). Plus, it'd create a lot of new jobs. Who knows, maybe you'd get a tax cut for it.
Good thing they used Darl's 'Plan C' in mounting this attack. They all pitched in a few bucks to buy a couple crates of SCO stock at $0.0021/gallon for a legal fund, just for cases like this. Go SCO!
Because we all know that *actual* signatures cannot be forged and the clerks at stores are really hawk-eyed when it comes to making sure the customer is who they say they are.
..so my 'unique mouse movements' mostly consist of delta-v experimentations within the constraints of the mouse cord (and sometimes, beyond) and some expressly kinetic friction-impact procedures, accompanied by the occasional close-proximity functions by cat hair and various non-blunt objects.
> With those EULAS and companies/users accepting them with or without reading they have nothing to get afraid from.
This is not entirely true. Actually I, as well as a few other people, apparently, wrote to the Consumer ombudsman's office in Finland a while back (a year or more.) I just recently received a letter from said office indicating that they had sent Microsoft Finland an 'inquiry' about the EULAs in their products (presumably because they're too constrictive in the view of current laws), as well as what I understood a strong hidden message of 'you might want to reconsider this.' So there's some progress -write your consumer rights protection agency!
(If you're from the US, first write to your Congressman in order to *get* a consumer rights protection agency.)
You do understand, of course, that without a registrations, the forums are necessarily self-moderated; and being the site is mostly frequented by people who are used to confront territorial polar bears while spending the day at the beach, you might be deep in the pee-pee yourself, trolling there.
Well, EQ was reputedly written based on the ubiquitous DIKU-family of MUDs (some say the original EQ engine was actually a DIKU.) DIKUs have been out there for a long time and a lot of the bugs have been quashed. Then again, maybe you're right.
Of course, most of the people who assist the virii in spreading are the kind that need help finding the start menu, and therefore it's not entirely plausible they'd be able to deduce someting like that or bother to refer to an earlier post to verify the line. How do you think these viruses keep spreading like wildfire when even FOX news has coverage on them right next to the Important Headlines like My Husband Was Stolen By Aliens.
Of course, the next big trojan (it's supposedly to be called DamnTiny.Bill) will include something like that.
From: BillG@ms.org Subject: I hate you, b1tch! Text:
It was joke. Ahaha.
Take a look at this. Finest Klatchian
waterbeetle clock, it's really quite
humorous.
*****
ALL MY EMAIL IS FOLLOWED BY THIS NOTICE.
IF IT IS NOT PRESENT, BE AWARE THE MAIL
IS NOT FROM ME AND MAY BE A VIRUS!
*****
It's unlikely that the human age will rise dramatically over 150 years without much replacement of parts -and the brain is hard to replace without those pesky 'side effects.'
The age of 120 is well within common reach. However, the thing I feel is more important is that the *active* phase of life will dramatically rise. Currently the active age can be said to be up to the age of 60 at which point the wear and tear will start showing -it's fully conceivable that we may get the active age stretch almost all the way to death and in any case (assuming the terminal age of 120) up to maybe 100-115. Think if you could extend the vigor you have at 30-40 nowadays for another 40 or more years!
>There is a lot of contention over clauses that say that "merely by doing something, you indicate your acceptance of an agreement."
And that is where the problem lies. In general when speaking of such clauses, they are taking a right *away* from you. The GPL, however, is *granting* rights. You are under no duress that you must use the program, and you could not use it anyway if that clause were not in place. If the code in question were not GPL'd, the end-user would have no rights to it -they could use it if given to them by the copyright holder, but they could not distribute it further (whether they culd resell it after they wouldn't use it anymore should be covered under fair use, of course) in any shape. That's the all-important distinction; the GPL *grants* rights.
MUDs have been doing this for ages. Sure, it's nice someone bothered to pay homage to Mr. Wilde but technologically this is quite simple. There are a lot more exciting projects going on in the MUD world, even some quite advanced AI models. I'm working on a memory-based system which would enable an NPC to become an Oscar Wilde by 'thinking' about things and putting events together with some cohesion. See the Mudconnector for more info on MUDs.
This is actually a repost from a few months back. I first saw it when they demoed it at an IT convention in Helsinki -the pictures don't quite tell the truth about the quality of the image, it's in fact a lot more stable and crisp than it might seem -and sticking your hand was neat, too, although it got me into trouble actually punching one of those ancient solid-monitors we still have at the office:) Anyway, from what I've heard (haven't been around there for a while), the quality has gotten even better nowadays. I wouldn't really start speculating about holographic displays yet. It's just 'cool.'
I think just buying them a computer and maybe one of those free AOL discs would quite suffice. And maybe some training in using Google (and thereby also enforcing the belief that a search engine has already been invented.)
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I suggest using a waterproof marker. There are a lot of different distributions out there (some call them 'flavours' but they do kind of taste the same, all) and they can be acquired in a variety of locations. Some have peripherals like remote storage for ink, whereas some incorporate all functionality in the felt kernel. Anyway, it's cheap, the interface is intuitive (although you can customize it pretty wildly, for example switching hands is remarkably simple and requires no reconfiguration). Plus, it'd create a lot of new jobs. Who knows, maybe you'd get a tax cut for it.
Good thing they used Darl's 'Plan C' in mounting this attack. They all pitched in a few bucks to buy a couple crates of SCO stock at $0.0021/gallon for a legal fund, just for cases like this. Go SCO!
Because we all know that *actual* signatures cannot be forged and the clerks at stores are really hawk-eyed when it comes to making sure the customer is who they say they are.
..so my 'unique mouse movements' mostly consist of delta-v experimentations within the constraints of the mouse cord (and sometimes, beyond) and some expressly kinetic friction-impact procedures, accompanied by the occasional close-proximity functions by cat hair and various non-blunt objects.
Well, it's still paranoia. The difference is just that when they finally 'get' you, your friends will say 'well, I suppose he was right, after all.'
> With those EULAS and companies/users accepting them with or without reading they have nothing to get afraid from.
This is not entirely true. Actually I, as well as a few other people, apparently, wrote to the Consumer ombudsman's office in Finland a while back (a year or more.) I just recently received a letter from said office indicating that they had sent Microsoft Finland an 'inquiry' about the EULAs in their products (presumably because they're too constrictive in the view of current laws), as well as what I understood a strong hidden message of 'you might want to reconsider this.' So there's some progress -write your consumer rights protection agency!
(If you're from the US, first write to your Congressman in order to *get* a consumer rights protection agency.)
>So, if the plural or "virus" is "virii", then I guess the plural of "radius" is "radiii".
Radia.
You're of course inferring the extensive governmental support for open source in, say, the US?
You do understand, of course, that without a registrations, the forums are necessarily self-moderated; and being the site is mostly frequented by people who are used to confront territorial polar bears while spending the day at the beach, you might be deep in the pee-pee yourself, trolling there.
Well, EQ was reputedly written based on the ubiquitous DIKU-family of MUDs (some say the original EQ engine was actually a DIKU.) DIKUs have been out there for a long time and a lot of the bugs have been quashed. Then again, maybe you're right.
That's so 1998.
Of course, most of the people who assist the virii in spreading are the kind that need help finding the start menu, and therefore it's not entirely plausible they'd be able to deduce someting like that or bother to refer to an earlier post to verify the line. How do you think these viruses keep spreading like wildfire when even FOX news has coverage on them right next to the Important Headlines like My Husband Was Stolen By Aliens.
Of course, the next big trojan (it's supposedly to be called DamnTiny.Bill) will include something like that.
From: BillG@ms.org
Subject: I hate you, b1tch!
Text:
It was joke. Ahaha.
Take a look at this. Finest Klatchian
waterbeetle clock, it's really quite
humorous.
*****
ALL MY EMAIL IS FOLLOWED BY THIS NOTICE.
IF IT IS NOT PRESENT, BE AWARE THE MAIL
IS NOT FROM ME AND MAY BE A VIRUS!
*****
Attachment: fkwbc34.vbs
I don't like coffee, so I have no risk of accidentally supporting the bloated piece of fried coffee bean. Excellent.
..but that doesn't explain why my tail is on the front side.
How about just pseudo-randomly snagging LAN IP packets and pseudo-randomly extracting bytes from those? E
Now you can 'compile' your 'programs' even 'faster' and thus 'enhance' your 'development' time.
It's unlikely that the human age will rise dramatically over 150 years without much replacement of parts -and the brain is hard to replace without those pesky 'side effects.'
The age of 120 is well within common reach. However, the thing I feel is more important is that the *active* phase of life will dramatically rise. Currently the active age can be said to be up to the age of 60 at which point the wear and tear will start showing -it's fully conceivable that we may get the active age stretch almost all the way to death and in any case (assuming the terminal age of 120) up to maybe 100-115. Think if you could extend the vigor you have at 30-40 nowadays for another 40 or more years!
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>There is a lot of contention over clauses that say that "merely by doing something, you indicate your acceptance of an agreement."
And that is where the problem lies. In general when speaking of such clauses, they are taking a right *away* from you. The GPL, however, is *granting* rights. You are under no duress that you must use the program, and you could not use it anyway if that clause were not in place. If the code in question were not GPL'd, the end-user would have no rights to it -they could use it if given to them by the copyright holder, but they could not distribute it further (whether they culd resell it after they wouldn't use it anymore should be covered under fair use, of course) in any shape. That's the all-important distinction; the GPL *grants* rights.
Well, it's 8:20pm EST and I'm not getting through from a T1.
MUDs have been doing this for ages. Sure, it's nice someone bothered to pay homage to Mr. Wilde but technologically this is quite simple. There are a lot more exciting projects going on in the MUD world, even some quite advanced AI models. I'm working on a memory-based system which would enable an NPC to become an Oscar Wilde by 'thinking' about things and putting events together with some cohesion. See the Mudconnector for more info on MUDs.
This is actually a repost from a few months back. I first saw it when they demoed it at an IT convention in Helsinki -the pictures don't quite tell the truth about the quality of the image, it's in fact a lot more stable and crisp than it might seem -and sticking your hand was neat, too, although it got me into trouble actually punching one of those ancient solid-monitors we still have at the office :) Anyway, from what I've heard (haven't been around there for a while), the quality has gotten even better nowadays. I wouldn't really start speculating about holographic displays yet. It's just 'cool.'
Because it's almost identical.
I write all my webpages in C++.
I think just buying them a computer and maybe one of those free AOL discs would quite suffice. And maybe some training in using Google (and thereby also enforcing the belief that a search engine has already been invented.)