If they're sending these things to Iraq so late in May does anyone really believe that Iraq will be handed back to the Iraqis on June 30?
This is just a mopping up operation of some holdout insurgents. We should have them cleaned up by June 29th for the handover the next day. Nothing to worry about here folks.
PS: Please send 100,000 more marines with this shipment of robots.
But the truth is that no software sytem is perfect.
OS 9 was perfect. How many remote exploits were reported for it? Apple made a HUGE mistake switching to UNIX which has a long history of insecurity, especially the BSD based variants because they're in a continual state of dying.
I'm no conspiricy theorist, but did anyone notice that IBM - effectively the Microsoft of the 80s - has become the geek hero of the age?
Make no mistake, IBM is only interested in Linux because it can use it to make a profit. It couldn't care less if it's open source or not, only that Linux is free for them to put on boxes, thus, more profit for them.
Soooooo, the answer to big honkin' steel deathtraps is.... more big honkin' steel deathtraps? Well, I'm glad we have that settled!
It has nothing to do with "big honkin' steel deathtraps" and everything to do with motorcycles being deathtraps ridden by organ donors. I imagine if a Honda Civic hit your puny motorcycle you'd be in a similar world of pain as if a Suburban hit you. I personally feel motorcycles should be banned from the highways because they're hard to see and 90% of the asshats I see riding them are riding recklessly. I can't even begin to tell you the number of times that jackasses on high powered motorcycles zoomed past me doing 120+ mph weaving in and out of traffic.
I strongly recommend motorcycles as an alternative mode of transportation, however good gear is a must. Leather jacket, pants, gloves, and boots will help you keep warm and will protect your skin if you go down.
Unless of course you go down under someone's SUV. Heh, no thanks. I prefer having a steel cage around me should I get into an accident. I've seen too many people turn their bones into dust on motorcycles to EVER ride one.
And that will only happen when the price
of oil goes so high we actually have to stop driving our SUVs once in a while.
The problem is we need CHEAPER oil, not to stop driving SUVs. Sheesh. Some people need the extra room that an SUV like the Chevy Suburban or the Ford Excursion offer to their family. YOU try carting around 3 pre-teen boys in a sedan sometime. They need to be constantly seperated and entertained. That means lots of space and a DVD/LCD system in the back along with a game console and music.. seperate radios if possible with wireless headphones. Do you think your average Honda hybrid vehicle will satisfy these requirements? Hell no. Don't even mention mini-vans because you might as well chop off a guy's balls and stick them in his wife's purse if you're going to make him drive a minivan. No, REAL men prefer huge SUVs. Now, who the fuck do we have to invade to get $1/gallon gas again? Russia? Iran? Saudi Arabia? Canada?
The problem isn't really big companies that have trademarked names, it's the "little guy" that has webhosting.com or acmenetworking.com. Unless they go buy all the other TLD variations then some smacktard will come along and register acmenetworking.net and acmenetworking.org and start doing business as them.
Look at extreme situations like handybackup.com vs. handybackup.net. Two ENTIRELY different companies. handybackup.net pirated handybackup.com's software and hacked it to release their "new and improved" 4.1 version, stole handybackup.com's site layout down to the fscking images and is pretty much indistinguishable from handybackup.com except for very minor things like being Novosoft LLC instead of Novosoft Inc. That's just outright fraud.
Imagine, free unlimited and unrestricted (open source, of course) telephone services worldwide. Just like email. It will happen and there's nothing they can do about it.
Oh, just wonderful. We all know how well e-mail works now that it's completely unregulated and free for all. VoIP spam. I can't wait. "Mommy, what's a hot young asian fuck stud and why does he want to sell me viagra?"
They seem to think they are. Right on their webpage is their tagline "The broadband phone company". Sounds like an open and shut case.. if you want to call yourself a phone company then prepare to be regulated like one. I have no problems with that.
Bleh. SBC is my carrier, too, which makes it all the more sad that I don't know the acronym, but I still think of them as Ameritech (and somewhere, in the back of my mind, I miss Michigan Bell).
I miss AT&T and Ohio Bell. Err, wait a minute, no I don't. If AT&T was still running the show you can be damn sure dialup Internet access would've never taken off since you'd be paying per minute local charges and DSL? Feh.. no DSL for you!
Oh yeah, since a user should be required to shell out $30 for a magical device that does nothing but Band-Aid the poor design of Windows NT. No user should be required to purchase a hardware firewall just to use a severely-misdesigned product.
It has nothing to do with Windows and everything to do with vulnerable default installs. Your Linux box is just as vulnerable as a Windows98 system after being freshly installed until you turn off all the services and/or turn on the netfilter firewall. Same goes for Macs running OS X. With a hardware box there's no need to worry about being compromised before you can finish downloading updates. Also, $30 is nothing considering you've got a computer worth at least several hundred dollars and are spending at least that much a month for broadband. I assume we're talking about broadband at least since unplugging a network cable doesn't make much difference to a dialup user.
Too bad the firewall software loads *last* in the startup sequence, leaving a gaping hole of anywhere from 20 seconds to two minutes (on a slow machine) when your machine is on the net and unprotected. And during the height of worm activity, that's *more than enough* time to get infected.
A $30 Netgear router would've eliminated that problem. Even if I had one machine I'd still buy a router so I didn't have to worry about software firewalls.
And why would they wear earpieces since radio signals would be jammed. Oh, they would carry a long audio cable around, yes, that's the ticket!
They just said cell phones would be jammed, nothing about ALL radio signals. I don't think the secret service takes a dump without having their earpiece on tuned into the radio.
Cross winds are also very dangerous for these things. Flipping or inverting a gryocopter is hardly unhead of. These things are dangerous and the statistics support this. As do the basic physics involved.
Seems like it'd make more sense for people to just learn to fly real helicopters. Why try to make a car fly when we already have vehicles that travel just fine through the air and hover in place? Granted, they're probably not easy to fly, but if you can learn to drive a car you should be able to learn how to fly. I can't imagine it's THAT difficult. People were flying before there was such a thing as flying lessons and pilot's licenses.
If you can afford one of these the MPG isn't going to be an issue.
Considering the number one reason to buy a huge SUV is because you have to haul a lot of people or shit around (number two is probably dick size compensation), this flying car is pretty useless. You might as well buy a Honda Civic Hybrid. It'd be much cheaper and have a lot more room.
I found this a great way to start a beautiful Saturday too when I saw this yesterday on Fark. It's pretty funny, but I wonder if the guy will ever get any further word from the scammer.
And the exciting array of themes the iTunes interface supports is awesome. For example, brushed metal, brushed metal, and brushed metal. I haven't been this exciting about brushed metal since Rasterman and Enlightenment.
(In reality, I get about 37MPG on the highway, ~30 in the city... the car _is_ 13 years old)
And probably a deathtrap if you get hit by an SUV. That's why my next vehicle will be a huge SUV. In my car I'm afraid I'll be killed in a collision with an SUV so I need a vehicle just as big or bigger to ensure I come out on top. Fark fuel efficiency, this is survival and safety.
I really like the series, but I'm not going to buy a PS2 just to play the game.
So just wait for it to come out on the PC. The rest of us who bought a PS2 years ago will just play it and let you know how cool it is.. over and over and over. Unless it sucks.
some even require booting to a command line (nearly impossible in XP/2000).
Nearly impossible? Hit F8 when your computer is booting up and select command line safe mode. How hard is that?
As for all these people complaining about spyware, you're just asking for it running that piece of crap operating system as a day-to-day system. Run it once in awhile as a gaming system if you must, but for general web browsing, e-mail, office work, etc. get a Mac or use Linux.
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It's a pound moran. 1 pound is sort of like 2 dollars. So each of these songs will be about $20. What a ripoff.
This is just a mopping up operation of some holdout insurgents. We should have them cleaned up by June 29th for the handover the next day. Nothing to worry about here folks.
PS: Please send 100,000 more marines with this shipment of robots.
OS 9 was perfect. How many remote exploits were reported for it? Apple made a HUGE mistake switching to UNIX which has a long history of insecurity, especially the BSD based variants because they're in a continual state of dying.
Make no mistake, IBM is only interested in Linux because it can use it to make a profit. It couldn't care less if it's open source or not, only that Linux is free for them to put on boxes, thus, more profit for them.
Maybe they feel kind of guilty since the majority of spam is relayed through trojaned windows boxes? :-)
It has nothing to do with "big honkin' steel deathtraps" and everything to do with motorcycles being deathtraps ridden by organ donors. I imagine if a Honda Civic hit your puny motorcycle you'd be in a similar world of pain as if a Suburban hit you. I personally feel motorcycles should be banned from the highways because they're hard to see and 90% of the asshats I see riding them are riding recklessly. I can't even begin to tell you the number of times that jackasses on high powered motorcycles zoomed past me doing 120+ mph weaving in and out of traffic.
Unless of course you go down under someone's SUV. Heh, no thanks. I prefer having a steel cage around me should I get into an accident. I've seen too many people turn their bones into dust on motorcycles to EVER ride one.
The problem is we need CHEAPER oil, not to stop driving SUVs. Sheesh. Some people need the extra room that an SUV like the Chevy Suburban or the Ford Excursion offer to their family. YOU try carting around 3 pre-teen boys in a sedan sometime. They need to be constantly seperated and entertained. That means lots of space and a DVD/LCD system in the back along with a game console and music.. seperate radios if possible with wireless headphones. Do you think your average Honda hybrid vehicle will satisfy these requirements? Hell no. Don't even mention mini-vans because you might as well chop off a guy's balls and stick them in his wife's purse if you're going to make him drive a minivan. No, REAL men prefer huge SUVs. Now, who the fuck do we have to invade to get $1/gallon gas again? Russia? Iran? Saudi Arabia? Canada?
Look at extreme situations like handybackup.com vs. handybackup.net. Two ENTIRELY different companies. handybackup.net pirated handybackup.com's software and hacked it to release their "new and improved" 4.1 version, stole handybackup.com's site layout down to the fscking images and is pretty much indistinguishable from handybackup.com except for very minor things like being Novosoft LLC instead of Novosoft Inc. That's just outright fraud.
Oh, just wonderful. We all know how well e-mail works now that it's completely unregulated and free for all. VoIP spam. I can't wait. "Mommy, what's a hot young asian fuck stud and why does he want to sell me viagra?"
They seem to think they are. Right on their webpage is their tagline "The broadband phone company". Sounds like an open and shut case.. if you want to call yourself a phone company then prepare to be regulated like one. I have no problems with that.
I miss AT&T and Ohio Bell. Err, wait a minute, no I don't. If AT&T was still running the show you can be damn sure dialup Internet access would've never taken off since you'd be paying per minute local charges and DSL? Feh.. no DSL for you!
It has nothing to do with Windows and everything to do with vulnerable default installs. Your Linux box is just as vulnerable as a Windows98 system after being freshly installed until you turn off all the services and/or turn on the netfilter firewall. Same goes for Macs running OS X. With a hardware box there's no need to worry about being compromised before you can finish downloading updates. Also, $30 is nothing considering you've got a computer worth at least several hundred dollars and are spending at least that much a month for broadband. I assume we're talking about broadband at least since unplugging a network cable doesn't make much difference to a dialup user.
A $30 Netgear router would've eliminated that problem. Even if I had one machine I'd still buy a router so I didn't have to worry about software firewalls.
I'd be completely amazed if this stock was more than $15. It's a friggin search engine company. IBM might be worth $80/share, but Google is not.
They just said cell phones would be jammed, nothing about ALL radio signals. I don't think the secret service takes a dump without having their earpiece on tuned into the radio.
Seems like it'd make more sense for people to just learn to fly real helicopters. Why try to make a car fly when we already have vehicles that travel just fine through the air and hover in place? Granted, they're probably not easy to fly, but if you can learn to drive a car you should be able to learn how to fly. I can't imagine it's THAT difficult. People were flying before there was such a thing as flying lessons and pilot's licenses.
Considering the number one reason to buy a huge SUV is because you have to haul a lot of people or shit around (number two is probably dick size compensation), this flying car is pretty useless. You might as well buy a Honda Civic Hybrid. It'd be much cheaper and have a lot more room.
I found this a great way to start a beautiful Saturday too when I saw this yesterday on Fark. It's pretty funny, but I wonder if the guy will ever get any further word from the scammer.
Just yell out "BOMB!!!!!". Someone will notify the police the old fashioned way of screaming.
Now THAT would be cool. "Honey, I'm sick of this basic white theme for the kitchen, how about we buy the Aqua theme for our appliances."
Now, don't get me wrong, I don't care if they have one theme, but I absolutely HATE brushed metal. I much prefer the Aqua interface.
And the exciting array of themes the iTunes interface supports is awesome. For example, brushed metal, brushed metal, and brushed metal. I haven't been this exciting about brushed metal since Rasterman and Enlightenment.
And probably a deathtrap if you get hit by an SUV. That's why my next vehicle will be a huge SUV. In my car I'm afraid I'll be killed in a collision with an SUV so I need a vehicle just as big or bigger to ensure I come out on top. Fark fuel efficiency, this is survival and safety.
So just wait for it to come out on the PC. The rest of us who bought a PS2 years ago will just play it and let you know how cool it is.. over and over and over. Unless it sucks.
Nearly impossible? Hit F8 when your computer is booting up and select command line safe mode. How hard is that?
As for all these people complaining about spyware, you're just asking for it running that piece of crap operating system as a day-to-day system. Run it once in awhile as a gaming system if you must, but for general web browsing, e-mail, office work, etc. get a Mac or use Linux.