personally have never played nor know anyone who does. (WHY???WHY would you want to do mundaner chores? )
The short answer is sex. Hot steaming SimSex. I haven't played the game in years as I got really bored of the way I was playing it, but the first thing I did was try to get the roommates into an intimate lesbian love affair. I also made it a habit to drown their neighbors, build walls around them and burn them up, etc. As to people who actually play it like they expect you to play it, well, that's just boring too. I wish you could be a SimStalker or SimSerialKiller.
Why not just dump it on the curb for the trashmen to pick up? I got rid of a ton of old garbage that way. Broken monitors, an XT, old televisions that don't work anymore, my broken Vic20, etc. Just set the "good" stuff on top and 90% of the time the hillbillies in the pickup trucks come around and cart it off well before the morning trash pickup anyway. God only knows what they want with an old broken CGA monitor, but hey, at least it's out of my basement right?
If people were watching TV and halfway through your show a huge popup ad appeared over the screen you'd be pissed.
Actually it does happen on some channels. I can't remember offhand what channel I was watching, but I was just watching a movie and this stupid animation of a car or motorcycle or something with loud engine noises raced across the screen (right in the middle!) and then went back. I think it was an ad for Nascar (TNT?). After I saw that I really began to wonder what the hell advertising people are thinking.
I would, but anyway I'm not expending my money on a company that treats me like that. If someone would be so kind of sending me a dump of the CD to crack it I'll think about it. And only on my spare time. None of my money will go to them.
Dear Consumer #2285203229,
Your action of refusing to purchase the newest Sony produced album "Backstreet Boyz are Back Again 5" is in violation of the Consumer Copyright Abuse and Corporate Welfare Funding Law of 2015. In accordance with this law, a fine of $25.95 will automatically be deducated from your credit card if you have not purchased this CD within 7 days of the date of this letter to offset the losses of your illegal pirating of this CD. Sony takes non-compliance of purchasing music you have probably pirated very seriously and will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the Mandatory Consumer Credit Card Law of 2009 if you fail to have a credit card which can be charged the full amount. We are but a humble $95 billion media company and cannot afford to have rogue consumers such as yourself not doing your civic duty and buying our products. We hope this acts as a wake up call and remind you of your duty to purchase the upcoming "Britney Spears and N'Sync Reunion Christmas Special" CD which will be released next month.
- Max Wineberger
- Sony Consumer Enforcement Division
Well, for what it's worth I couldn't convince myself to buy a Mac until I saw that stoned out droning goofy stoner chick in an ad and then immortalized on fark.com.:-) Now I have a lovely iBook to play with and it actually, amazingly, is quite useful and stable. OS X is pretty nice but waiting for fink to compile and install many of my open source apps on a G3-800mhz processor is a killer.;-)
You would just have to pick out a cross-section of humanity. High ranking politicians from around the globe, very very rich businessmen (CEOs, etc.), most of the actors in Hollywood and musicians, and lawyers. Lots of lawyers. By the time they realize they're being fired off into the Sun and the fireworks down below are the rest of humanity celebrating their departure rather than the annihilation of the human race by some "horrible catastrophe" it'll be too late for them to figure out how to return to Earth. Ah the lovely idea of the greedy bastards who would be fighting to claim their ticket to salvation taking a one way trip into the solar system's largest fusion reactor. We can only dream right?
Has George Lucas done anything else other than American Graffiti? The name sounds familiar but I can't place my finger on it. Did he do ET or Indiana Jones or am I thinking of another person? Damn, so close.. right on the tip of my mind. Spider-man?
The problem is, last I checked EXT3 is too much like EXT2, including a 2GB file size limitation which ReiserFS (or XFS, JFS for that matter) doesn't have. If you're starting to play with huge DivX movies or digital video then it becomes an issue. Especially now that drives of over 180GB are readily available this 2GB file size limit is archaic. Has that been overcome recently or are there any plans to fix this or is the limitation just too ingrained in the file system to change without breaking things?
I do occassionally only to ensure I can get a nice sounding rip out of it. It pains me to see how many songs are out there encoded at a crappy 128kbps. At one time I thought that was sufficient until I started listening to them at 192kbps. At that rate it sounds MUCH better crisper. I can't tell the difference between 192kbps and any higher though and it's a good compromise on file size. With many relatives I have hundreds of CDs available to swap. Since it's all for personal use and I'm just trading amongst relatives and friends that's alright right? No? But Metallica said it was alright! They just don't want people using P2P and putting it out there for millions to download. We can still swap tapes right? Oh no? Why not? When did this happen?
Time is something we don't have people. We've got 18 days to train a bunch of dumb oil riggers, launch them into space, drill a big deep shaft for a nuke and blow that asteroid in two so it passes cleanly on either side of the earth or else we are FINISHED! Let's get to it! Please, put the romantic subplot on hold for the time being. 18 days is very little time to ready a shuttle much less save the earth from extinction so we need all of you on your toes.
DRM simply will NEVER work. If a DRM'd movie can be seen on a computer screen, the video can be captured. If the DRM'd sound file from a movie or CD can be heard on a computer speaker, the audio can be captured.
People like you will still be saying this the day they implant the I/O jack into your brain. "Look, if I can think about something it can be copied *ZZAAAP* OK maybe not."
Marketing? I'd much rather have a PPC than a Palm these days. The 802.11b adapter for the Palm sucks, there's no decent web browser and it's nothing but an expensive datebook. The PPC on the other hand has a nice windows media player, pocket internet explorer, pocket office apps, compact flash slots to accomodate 802.11b wireless cards, etc. Yea, we can all pretend to hate Microsoft, but the PPC stuff is just fabulous. Xbox, Pocket PC, mice, keyboards, etc. If only Microsoft could turn a profit in these other areas where they actually DO produce something cool and not lame old Windows and Office it'd be exciting.
Anyways, my #1 reason why i think windows security SUCKS, is that the damn OS has no real firewall built into it!
So turn on Win2k's packet filtering or get Tiny Personal Firewall. Plenty of our Win2000 admins use that as a host firewall. It still doesn't fix the real problem though since most attacks against Windows are application layer attacks these days. It doesn't help to have a firewall on the system when you root he box through IIS holes (been there, done that, wiped and reinstalled for the trouble). All the firewalls in the world are not going to help you unless the applications and servers you're exposing to the world are secure. Win2k can get the most stringent security certification in the world for all I care but if it is all nullified by turning on IIS or SQL server (which is usually the only reason the clueless admins use it as a server) then it doesn't mean much.
This complexity is probably the main reason I'm still on Windows. I don't want to have to make a CVS build of WineX to play my games and use my filesharing programs. I don't want to edit a config file to make such and such program run. Linux is fun, but for my purposes, it's really just inconvenient sometimes.
Plus it doesn't run all the latest and greatest spyware that I am trying to install. With WindowsXP I can easily install BDE, Xupiter, Comet Cursor, Cydoor, etc. and run them all concurrently with it's superior multitasking capabilities. Try running Xupiter under Linux and KDE and it will fail! Plus, I can't run Norton Antivirus under Linux! Damn backwards platforms.
I almost don't need spam anymore. I can get my penis pills and magical diet pills (Trim Spa, Body Solutions) from the radio and Howard Stern's commercials these days. Now all they need is an ad with a guy speaking Chinese and giving a 1-800-555-1234 number as their contact address for more information and I could get rid of my e-mail address completely. Why isn't the government going against ALL fraud? Are you telling me penis pills actually work? Trim Spa magically makes you lose 100lbs while still being a fat ass eating whatever you want? Come on, where are the truth in advertising laws for not only spam, but radio these days??
2MB/s is damn slow for DLT, and current DLT spec is 160GB native/ 320 GB compressed. Super DLT drives have write speeds up to 32MB/s.
Still much too expensive for home backups. Sometime somewhere in the mid 1990's things went horribly wrong and hard drives ballooned out of control while tape technology stayed stagnant. I remember I could back up my whole hard drive on a couple QIC-80 tapes and it was affordable. These days I can't imagine how much it would cost to get a tape backup solution to backup my 80GB disks. Cheapest thing is to buy another 80GB disk and use it as a backup drive but then I lose archival ability. Ho hum. Come on guys, make an affordable 500GB tape backup system for under $300.:-)
Oh they'll let it happen, not much they can do. But they will make sure they make thier cut and themsome. I'm sure they will require a percentage of every blank disk sold, just like CD's. This is to compensate for copyright infringments. Then when people do copy mp3/ogg's to them, they will cry foul, and demand more money. 'tis the way.
Can I demand money from the RIAA when all I use it for is to burn copies of my home movies? Oh right, I forgot, only big corporations are allowed to fuck the consumer and get away with it.
And all this news about fixing vulnerabilities within Windows is going to affect the virus community as well (both authors and anti-virus). Worrying about vulnerability exploits has also become part of the computer experience.
Won't someone PLEASE think of the virus writers?
What's next? Blocking spyware from installing? Cats sleeping with dogs? Muslims hugging Christians? Republicans dancing with Democrats? This is just madness.
However, I've heard that popup blockers and tabbed browsing are making their way into IE (and MS employees can already use these features), but we'll see if they're actually integrated.
All they have to do is rip off the code from CrazyBrowser.
Since I switched to using it I've rarely had to go back to plain IE (Crazybrowser uses IE's rendering engine and settings and such but seems to just wrap around it nicely). Blocks pop-ups nicely and does tabbed browsing.
That's a pretty stupid reason to not like Linux. Maybe you mean they don't like Red Hat? I still find it funny that a communist country like China can claim to be the "Peoples Republic of China". They're more like the "Communisty Party Dictatorship of China". Oh btw trolls, don't even start trying to defend that horrible government. The people are very nice but the system of government is horribly cruel and inhumane.
Congress could tack on an amendment to a bill declaring that all/. polls should be conducted by Taco, and Cowboy get's the good graces of spelling. Not much that we could do about it either.
That's why many people were pushing for the line-item veto power for the President awhile back (1996) and it was passed by the Republican controlled Congress. President Clinton used it several times to trim out pork items from bills and saved billions of dollars. I believe it was ruled unconstitutional in 1998 though. Personally I think it was one of the greatest laws ever passed and should become a Constitutional Ammendment. The amount of utter shit that rides along on popular bills is amazingly sad.
The cost barrier to breaking the copy-protection would be much higher than with other methods because after 8 hours the hacker would need another disc. The hacker would need to track down a _lot_ of free samples to be able to analyze the disc properly.
Since this says it interacts with the air, wouldn't the resourceful hacker just setup his environment in a vacuum chamber? If he really wanted to crack the disc without it "expiring"?
The last thing I ordered online was from a place in-state; they automatically added sales tax to the total. Not sure why most places don't do this already.
Most places don't do this already because it would be an absolute nightmare to figure out what tax to charge. Say you're an online retailer in California. Are you saying you think you should need to know the local county sales taxes for Ohio residents? I don't know how other states do it, but here in Ohio, every single county determines their own sales tax rate. There are at least a hundred different counties. My sales tax is 7% but if I drive 10 minutes south of my home the tax is 5.5% in a different county. The state expects me to send them a 1.5% "Use tax" in April when I pay my taxes because I somehow profited by buying my goods in a county that charges 5.5% instead of 7%. How fucked up is that? Basically I give a big old finger to them all and buy everything out of state mail order now (which you're also expected to report and pay a 7% use tax.. I of course do that.. riiight). The only way to get around this shit is a nationwide sales tax. Abolish the IRS and put a flat rate tax on all goods. Then divy that up among the states and federal government. Probably need a 20-25% sales tax for it to work though. Ouch.
My computer sits in a locked closet, lacks input devices, and runs only the OpenBSD kernel and nothing else.
I know you're trying to be funny, but even your example has an exploit. I hope you applied the patches for the setitimer/getitimer vulnerabilities in 3.0 and 3.1.:-) Check them out from here.
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The short answer is sex. Hot steaming SimSex. I haven't played the game in years as I got really bored of the way I was playing it, but the first thing I did was try to get the roommates into an intimate lesbian love affair. I also made it a habit to drown their neighbors, build walls around them and burn them up, etc. As to people who actually play it like they expect you to play it, well, that's just boring too. I wish you could be a SimStalker or SimSerialKiller.
Why not just dump it on the curb for the trashmen to pick up? I got rid of a ton of old garbage that way. Broken monitors, an XT, old televisions that don't work anymore, my broken Vic20, etc. Just set the "good" stuff on top and 90% of the time the hillbillies in the pickup trucks come around and cart it off well before the morning trash pickup anyway. God only knows what they want with an old broken CGA monitor, but hey, at least it's out of my basement right?
Actually it does happen on some channels. I can't remember offhand what channel I was watching, but I was just watching a movie and this stupid animation of a car or motorcycle or something with loud engine noises raced across the screen (right in the middle!) and then went back. I think it was an ad for Nascar (TNT?). After I saw that I really began to wonder what the hell advertising people are thinking.
Dear Consumer #2285203229, Your action of refusing to purchase the newest Sony produced album "Backstreet Boyz are Back Again 5" is in violation of the Consumer Copyright Abuse and Corporate Welfare Funding Law of 2015. In accordance with this law, a fine of $25.95 will automatically be deducated from your credit card if you have not purchased this CD within 7 days of the date of this letter to offset the losses of your illegal pirating of this CD. Sony takes non-compliance of purchasing music you have probably pirated very seriously and will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the Mandatory Consumer Credit Card Law of 2009 if you fail to have a credit card which can be charged the full amount. We are but a humble $95 billion media company and cannot afford to have rogue consumers such as yourself not doing your civic duty and buying our products. We hope this acts as a wake up call and remind you of your duty to purchase the upcoming "Britney Spears and N'Sync Reunion Christmas Special" CD which will be released next month. - Max Wineberger - Sony Consumer Enforcement Division
Well, for what it's worth I couldn't convince myself to buy a Mac until I saw that stoned out droning goofy stoner chick in an ad and then immortalized on fark.com. :-) Now I have a lovely iBook to play with and it actually, amazingly, is quite useful and stable. OS X is pretty nice but waiting for fink to compile and install many of my open source apps on a G3-800mhz processor is a killer. ;-)
You would just have to pick out a cross-section of humanity. High ranking politicians from around the globe, very very rich businessmen (CEOs, etc.), most of the actors in Hollywood and musicians, and lawyers. Lots of lawyers. By the time they realize they're being fired off into the Sun and the fireworks down below are the rest of humanity celebrating their departure rather than the annihilation of the human race by some "horrible catastrophe" it'll be too late for them to figure out how to return to Earth. Ah the lovely idea of the greedy bastards who would be fighting to claim their ticket to salvation taking a one way trip into the solar system's largest fusion reactor. We can only dream right?
Has George Lucas done anything else other than American Graffiti? The name sounds familiar but I can't place my finger on it. Did he do ET or Indiana Jones or am I thinking of another person? Damn, so close.. right on the tip of my mind. Spider-man?
The problem is, last I checked EXT3 is too much like EXT2, including a 2GB file size limitation which ReiserFS (or XFS, JFS for that matter) doesn't have. If you're starting to play with huge DivX movies or digital video then it becomes an issue. Especially now that drives of over 180GB are readily available this 2GB file size limit is archaic. Has that been overcome recently or are there any plans to fix this or is the limitation just too ingrained in the file system to change without breaking things?
Well, since Emacs is the only decent editor among those listed it must be the one to remain. The others should be eliminated. ;-) Flame suit on!
I do occassionally only to ensure I can get a nice sounding rip out of it. It pains me to see how many songs are out there encoded at a crappy 128kbps. At one time I thought that was sufficient until I started listening to them at 192kbps. At that rate it sounds MUCH better crisper. I can't tell the difference between 192kbps and any higher though and it's a good compromise on file size. With many relatives I have hundreds of CDs available to swap. Since it's all for personal use and I'm just trading amongst relatives and friends that's alright right? No? But Metallica said it was alright! They just don't want people using P2P and putting it out there for millions to download. We can still swap tapes right? Oh no? Why not? When did this happen?
Time is something we don't have people. We've got 18 days to train a bunch of dumb oil riggers, launch them into space, drill a big deep shaft for a nuke and blow that asteroid in two so it passes cleanly on either side of the earth or else we are FINISHED! Let's get to it! Please, put the romantic subplot on hold for the time being. 18 days is very little time to ready a shuttle much less save the earth from extinction so we need all of you on your toes.
People like you will still be saying this the day they implant the I/O jack into your brain. "Look, if I can think about something it can be copied *ZZAAAP* OK maybe not."
Marketing? I'd much rather have a PPC than a Palm these days. The 802.11b adapter for the Palm sucks, there's no decent web browser and it's nothing but an expensive datebook. The PPC on the other hand has a nice windows media player, pocket internet explorer, pocket office apps, compact flash slots to accomodate 802.11b wireless cards, etc. Yea, we can all pretend to hate Microsoft, but the PPC stuff is just fabulous. Xbox, Pocket PC, mice, keyboards, etc. If only Microsoft could turn a profit in these other areas where they actually DO produce something cool and not lame old Windows and Office it'd be exciting.
So turn on Win2k's packet filtering or get Tiny Personal Firewall. Plenty of our Win2000 admins use that as a host firewall. It still doesn't fix the real problem though since most attacks against Windows are application layer attacks these days. It doesn't help to have a firewall on the system when you root he box through IIS holes (been there, done that, wiped and reinstalled for the trouble). All the firewalls in the world are not going to help you unless the applications and servers you're exposing to the world are secure. Win2k can get the most stringent security certification in the world for all I care but if it is all nullified by turning on IIS or SQL server (which is usually the only reason the clueless admins use it as a server) then it doesn't mean much.
Plus it doesn't run all the latest and greatest spyware that I am trying to install. With WindowsXP I can easily install BDE, Xupiter, Comet Cursor, Cydoor, etc. and run them all concurrently with it's superior multitasking capabilities. Try running Xupiter under Linux and KDE and it will fail! Plus, I can't run Norton Antivirus under Linux! Damn backwards platforms.
I almost don't need spam anymore. I can get my penis pills and magical diet pills (Trim Spa, Body Solutions) from the radio and Howard Stern's commercials these days. Now all they need is an ad with a guy speaking Chinese and giving a 1-800-555-1234 number as their contact address for more information and I could get rid of my e-mail address completely. Why isn't the government going against ALL fraud? Are you telling me penis pills actually work? Trim Spa magically makes you lose 100lbs while still being a fat ass eating whatever you want? Come on, where are the truth in advertising laws for not only spam, but radio these days??
Still much too expensive for home backups. Sometime somewhere in the mid 1990's things went horribly wrong and hard drives ballooned out of control while tape technology stayed stagnant. I remember I could back up my whole hard drive on a couple QIC-80 tapes and it was affordable. These days I can't imagine how much it would cost to get a tape backup solution to backup my 80GB disks. Cheapest thing is to buy another 80GB disk and use it as a backup drive but then I lose archival ability. Ho hum. Come on guys, make an affordable 500GB tape backup system for under $300. :-)
Can I demand money from the RIAA when all I use it for is to burn copies of my home movies? Oh right, I forgot, only big corporations are allowed to fuck the consumer and get away with it.
What's next? Blocking spyware from installing? Cats sleeping with dogs? Muslims hugging Christians? Republicans dancing with Democrats? This is just madness.
All they have to do is rip off the code from CrazyBrowser. Since I switched to using it I've rarely had to go back to plain IE (Crazybrowser uses IE's rendering engine and settings and such but seems to just wrap around it nicely). Blocks pop-ups nicely and does tabbed browsing.
That's a pretty stupid reason to not like Linux. Maybe you mean they don't like Red Hat? I still find it funny that a communist country like China can claim to be the "Peoples Republic of China". They're more like the "Communisty Party Dictatorship of China". Oh btw trolls, don't even start trying to defend that horrible government. The people are very nice but the system of government is horribly cruel and inhumane.
That's why many people were pushing for the line-item veto power for the President awhile back (1996) and it was passed by the Republican controlled Congress. President Clinton used it several times to trim out pork items from bills and saved billions of dollars. I believe it was ruled unconstitutional in 1998 though. Personally I think it was one of the greatest laws ever passed and should become a Constitutional Ammendment. The amount of utter shit that rides along on popular bills is amazingly sad.
Since this says it interacts with the air, wouldn't the resourceful hacker just setup his environment in a vacuum chamber? If he really wanted to crack the disc without it "expiring"?
Most places don't do this already because it would be an absolute nightmare to figure out what tax to charge. Say you're an online retailer in California. Are you saying you think you should need to know the local county sales taxes for Ohio residents? I don't know how other states do it, but here in Ohio, every single county determines their own sales tax rate. There are at least a hundred different counties. My sales tax is 7% but if I drive 10 minutes south of my home the tax is 5.5% in a different county. The state expects me to send them a 1.5% "Use tax" in April when I pay my taxes because I somehow profited by buying my goods in a county that charges 5.5% instead of 7%. How fucked up is that? Basically I give a big old finger to them all and buy everything out of state mail order now (which you're also expected to report and pay a 7% use tax.. I of course do that.. riiight). The only way to get around this shit is a nationwide sales tax. Abolish the IRS and put a flat rate tax on all goods. Then divy that up among the states and federal government. Probably need a 20-25% sales tax for it to work though. Ouch.
I know you're trying to be funny, but even your example has an exploit. I hope you applied the patches for the setitimer/getitimer vulnerabilities in 3.0 and 3.1.