Heck, to a Canadian student, 20$ USD is REALLY a lot of money in the pale comparison of what mommy and daddy sends with their pityful Canadian money...;-)
(Yes, I am canadian, and this is humor. Laugh. I SAID LAUGH.)
Look at this. More and more people have cell phones and rely on them like ground phones.
Now, when I buy a Toshiba DVD player a Bestbuy, I give what as an info when I'm asked for my informations for guarantee purpose ? My cell phone number. Then, using this, cross-referencing database, one can know what I buy most (am I an audiophile ? or a computer geek?). Then, I can get targeted spam on my mobile.
Laugh all you want, but it's getting to this. Saw the movie MINORITY REPORT, in which Tom Cruise gets some publicity depending on what he bought last week at a store via his retinal scan ? He gets in a boutique, then the hologram says "Hi, hope you're happy with the jeans you bought last week. Maybe you'd like to know green Gap sweaters are on sale this week !". We're not up to the retinal scan technology as a day-to-day method, but on mobiles? Why not... This is where we're getting, wether we like it or not.
What's worse than that is that Microsoft left some SQL servers out of their firewalls, accessible from the Internet... I mean, damn, how serious can you be about security when you have SQL servers available for the whole world to connect to ?
Most elegant code I've seen...
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I ain't no programmer but one of my colleague wrote a stress-test perl script, that looked something like this:
while (1 == 1) { some i/o, memory, disk-intensive commands }
It had to run 48 hours on a server before he plugged it on the network, to be sure it was stable. If it survived, well, it was ready !:-)
Bah, all they have to do is let the minor-crimes guilty people go out of jail with a promise never to do it again... You know, little crimes like rape, murder or pedophilia... It's REALLY much worse to have stolen 20$ from a company who already makes millions of bucks than to have killed someone these days.
"No Sergeant, stop putting efforts in finding the serial killer in this city, we have to find all those P2P users instead ! Much more dangerous are these guys..."
Damn. What a society do we live in where legislators are actually putting some efforts in arresting teenagers who steal a couple of mp3 off the Net rather than building social programs to help those in need. Heck, I was watching the Superbowl yesterday, and with all the money those fireworks probably costed, you could have fed one or two countries in Africa... But no, hell, no, Americans need their fireworks at the Superbowl. Much more important than those Africans dying of malnutrition.
Could it be possible to STATE on the first page of/. that the article is a satire ? That way, I wouldn't have been seen at work with my jaws on the floor...;-)
But seriously, would be cool. I thought the guys was serious at first, giving that even the submitter took a serious tone.
If Jon reads Slashdot, he'll get the feeling that he's actually living a duplicate. I know, this story isn't, but his passing in court will certainly feel like it;-)
Arrgh, I saw the cat pass twice... Errr, the post twice !:-)
(Note to moderator : this is a pityful attempt at humor, to get my karma from bad to neutral, since my first 2 posts were rated -1 and ever since I can't post that will get read, and my two other posts weren't offensive, so I deserve better).:-)
You download Quicktime, it asks for an email adress. How does root@apple.com and carefully checked box as I want to receive those emails.;-) They ask for my infos ? Well, you deserve this. Some companies protect themselves (adobe), so there I enter a fake email (duh@whatever.cmo, TLD letters inverted, just to be sure that the owner of the whatever.com domain does not receive crap for nothing).
Well, I'll help you guys. I will not sign up. All it'll cost you guys is 1 cent each. Meaning that if it is successfull, and only 12 millions people subscribed, you'll all owe me 1 cent, which makes... 120 000$. Good deal, isn't it ?:-) Aw, don't thank me, I'm kind by nature:-)
1. References to movie Armageddon and actor Bruce Willis 2. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of laser 3. Steps to detonate : 1- Create giant laser 2- ??? 3- Survive !
I would buy NORTEL (NT) stocks. They are worth 0.88$ now. They used to be worth 120.00$ (CAN money). They SURELY will get to 20$ again, so it'll be approx. 2500% profits.;-)
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(Yes, I am canadian, and this is humor. Laugh. I SAID LAUGH.)
You can restrict acccess to printing to a pdf document since a while. Why are people bashing MS for this ? Because it's MS ?
Yep, it's quite FUNDamental.
Man.
Look at this. More and more people have cell phones and rely on them like ground phones.
Now, when I buy a Toshiba DVD player a Bestbuy, I give what as an info when I'm asked for my informations for guarantee purpose ? My cell phone number. Then, using this, cross-referencing database, one can know what I buy most (am I an audiophile ? or a computer geek?). Then, I can get targeted spam on my mobile.
Laugh all you want, but it's getting to this. Saw the movie MINORITY REPORT, in which Tom Cruise gets some publicity depending on what he bought last week at a store via his retinal scan ? He gets in a boutique, then the hologram says "Hi, hope you're happy with the jeans you bought last week. Maybe you'd like to know green Gap sweaters are on sale this week !". We're not up to the retinal scan technology as a day-to-day method, but on mobiles? Why not... This is where we're getting, wether we like it or not.
Well, he KNEW that was supposed to run forever you know. It was a stress-test, and he stopped it after like 48 hours HIMSELF. You know, CTRL-C. ;-)
What's worse than that is that Microsoft left some SQL servers out of their firewalls, accessible from the Internet... I mean, damn, how serious can you be about security when you have SQL servers available for the whole world to connect to ?
I ain't no programmer but one of my colleague wrote a stress-test perl script, that looked something like this :
:-)
while (1 == 1)
{
some i/o, memory, disk-intensive commands
}
It had to run 48 hours on a server before he plugged it on the network, to be sure it was stable. If it survived, well, it was ready !
Man, these are going to get overcrowded... !
Bah, all they have to do is let the minor-crimes guilty people go out of jail with a promise never to do it again... You know, little crimes like rape, murder or pedophilia... It's REALLY much worse to have stolen 20$ from a company who already makes millions of bucks than to have killed someone these days.
"No Sergeant, stop putting efforts in finding the serial killer in this city, we have to find all those P2P users instead ! Much more dangerous are these guys..."
Damn. What a society do we live in where legislators are actually putting some efforts in arresting teenagers who steal a couple of mp3 off the Net rather than building social programs to help those in need. Heck, I was watching the Superbowl yesterday, and with all the money those fireworks probably costed, you could have fed one or two countries in Africa... But no, hell, no, Americans need their fireworks at the Superbowl. Much more important than those Africans dying of malnutrition.
Could it be possible to STATE on the first page of /. that the article is a satire ? That way, I wouldn't have been seen at work with my jaws on the floor... ;-)
But seriously, would be cool. I thought the guys was serious at first, giving that even the submitter took a serious tone.
If I had mod points, I'd mod this +1 Ironic, seeing your score. ;-)
If Jon reads Slashdot, he'll get the feeling that he's actually living a duplicate. I know, this story isn't, but his passing in court will certainly feel like it ;-)
Pfffft. Slashdot has been doing it for years, and on WAY more important subject than electing a mayor in a small town... Geez. :-)
Arrgh, I saw the cat pass twice... Errr, the post twice ! :-)
:-)
(Note to moderator : this is a pityful attempt at humor, to get my karma from bad to neutral, since my first 2 posts were rated -1 and ever since I can't post that will get read, and my two other posts weren't offensive, so I deserve better).
I use a technique that's called PAYBACK.
;-) They ask for my infos ? Well, you deserve this. Some companies protect themselves (adobe), so there I enter a fake email (duh@whatever.cmo, TLD letters inverted, just to be sure that the owner of the whatever.com domain does not receive crap for nothing).
;-)
You download Quicktime, it asks for an email adress. How does root@apple.com and carefully checked box as I want to receive those emails.
Try it, it's fun.
Well, I'll help you guys. I will not sign up. All it'll cost you guys is 1 cent each. Meaning that if it is successfull, and only 12 millions people subscribed, you'll all owe me 1 cent, which makes... 120 000$. Good deal, isn't it ? :-) Aw, don't thank me, I'm kind by nature :-)
Resuming comments that will be posted here :
1. References to movie Armageddon and actor Bruce Willis
2. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of laser
3. Steps to detonate : 1- Create giant laser 2- ??? 3- Survive !
That should be it. NEXT !
I would buy NORTEL (NT) stocks. They are worth 0.88$ now. They used to be worth 120.00$ (CAN money). They SURELY will get to 20$ again, so it'll be approx. 2500% profits. ;-)
Ehehee like Harlequin novels. Or Danielle Smith's novels, for that matter. ;-)
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*sigh*
Errr. I should've hit the preview button, has said... I hitted the wrong one. Damn :-) Anyway, I don't think anyone here has trouble copy/pasting ... :)
That's what you're looking for. :-)
Are you Weird Al Yankovic? Or one of his relatives ?
:-)
I'm serious, you look a lot like him to me... !