Sometimes switching vendors just isn't an option. There are lots and lots of niche markets where there's that one tool that everybody has to run. For example, at a motorcycle dealerships most parts fiche CDs will only work with a specific parts/sales software tool---which runs on NT and "needs" to run as Admin, even though it is only an elaborate piece of middleware connecting a database to a few desktops running the application. It is (as of mid-2003) also a slow, buggy piece of shit.
When the only alternative to required software is working by hand (or a major reverse-engineering project), you just gotta suck it up and figure out how to protect the rest of your systems from their arrogance.
Generally speaking, it's a clear sign of laziness or incompetence on the part of a half-assed programmer to think he needs root for everything. Hell, Oracle doesn't need root to run, and it's a mighty damned complicated RDBMS suite. If you're stuck with one of these vendors, I urge you to make it clear to them that you are using their software because you are stuck with it, that given the chance you will jump ship in a heartbeat, and that the reason you'll never buy any of their other products is that their claim to "need" root is a sign of either ineptitude or a cavalier attitude towards their customers.
So maybe all that proves is that it was Republicans that were having trouble with paper ballots back in 2000. At any rate my understanding is that despite there being more Democrats than Republicans registered in these counties, they have nonetheless gone to Republican Presidents since Eisenhower.
The Republicans' secret weapon has always been that despite there being more registered Democrats, Republicans are more likely to vote. Conservatives in general are more likely to vote---you can chalk this up to whatever flamebait-accusation you want, that youth don't vote, that liberals are to busy smoking dope and enticing minors to get to the polls, whatever. And when the pollster calls and asks "are you likely to vote", everybody says they're a "likely voter." The road to hell is paved with good intentions and skipped elections.
Folks, as fun as it would be to put quotation marks around "President" when referring to Bush, he won this time. And chances are he won in 2000 as well. Sucks, maybe, but there it is.
Let me get this straight---so people who can't afford to live in the damned good, expensive houses close to where they work, and have to live in the suburbs and commute a longassed ways to work, they're the ones we should be taxing? Right.
I have a cousin who commutes 90 miles each way, for a number of reasons, the most important being that he had a choice of living closer to work or having enough money left over to feed his family. Given the half-million dollar houses in town or quarter-milllion dollar houses in the suburbs, and the high gasoline taxes and even worse gasoline prices (thanks for the war, Mr. President!) he's stuck with for living out in the sticks, why the hell does he need to be fucked out of what little he has left? The drive alone costs him four or more hours a day, on top of the ten he works, the hour getting out of the house, he has maybe two or three hours a day to spend getting to know his sons.
Why the hell does the state need more of his money? Maybe he deserves it on account of not being a rich corporation.
Ah, fuck it. This is what I get for posting under the influence.
If Novell could have killed this thing long ago, they would have. It's not in their interest to have the trial drag out any longer than it has to. They have legal bills to pay, too.
I think that the "Enough Rope" approach does indeed make more sense. For a very long time, every time IBM smacked them down, SCO would file yet another "amended complaint" to change their story and change the thing they were suing about. The changing claims give any defense a moving target, an expensive target, to fight. Best to wait for them to settle down a bit before bringing out the big guns.
Novell did exactly the right thing by waiting for SCO to get all of its eggs in one basket before stomping on the basket. This is classic battlefield tactics, beautifully executed: Lure the enemy into committing completely to an action that will doom them. SCO's going to be hurt badly by Novell's filing. They've spent the last year trying to reframe this as only a copyright dispute. Now we have smoking-gun-class evidence that their biggest and best claim is void.
Jeremy Jaynes is a defrauder and embezzler. He hijacked thousands of computers without their owners consent, using deceptive tactics and stolen resources to trick the unsuspecting into giving him money. His illegal activities have netted him over $24 million. This is a crime of great magnitude, with thousands of victims, and he deserves a substantial sentence for having committed them.
Oh, and nobody deserves to be raped. I will say that again: Nobody deserves to be raped. It is a form of torture. Anybody who thinks rape is an acceptable punishment should sit down and talk to somebody who has been raped and tell them why they deserved it.
their costumes looked a little too much like WB's Freakazoid
Or the Noid---the claymation nightmare that sold pizzas for Dominos back around 1991. I still don't see the connection between that dreadful little fuck and bad pizza.
The nostrils are the same. Then I thought: action figures. These heroes look like action figures, not actual humans. Hence there isn't a deep hole where the ears and nostrils are.
One of the most depressing moments of my career as a programmer was when I found out that an application I had worked on for almost four years was being retired. Worse yet, it was being retired because some nitwit Y2K consultants had declared it to be broken and offered to rewrite it for an insanely large amount of money. The Y2K consultants lied.
Later I learned that a data warehouse I had spent two years building was being cancelled because the client didn't want to spring for additional drivespace. About that time the startup for whom I'd worked a year of 60-hour weeks laid off all its programmers, deciding that its patent portfolio was more profitable than its actual product.
Today, not a single line of production code that I've written is running anywhere.
What depresses me is that I had been pouring my heart and soul into something so ephemeral, that all my hard work was being thrown away and obsoleted. It still saddens me greatly to know that my career has left no lasting mark on the world.
The temptation to spam is substantial, according to TFA: "In one month alone, Jaynes received 10,000 credit card orders, each for $39.95, for the processor." $400k in one month is pretty serious incentive to spam. Even if his sales offers were legitimate and he got a 10% sales commission, that's $40k in a month. The other $360k, just sitting there, was enough temptation for an already unscrupulous individual.
I saw a great T-shirt last week with a picture of Bush,
Cheney,
Rumesfield, and
Ashcroft
on horseback. The caption read, "You don't change horsemen in mid-Apocalypse."
Instead of "Hans" it should be "hans", which is his login name on the Galactic Smuggler BBS, which, as the we all know, is first name plus first letter of last name. So the g-parent actually gets geekpoints for using Solo's login name.
The weight savings are significant, as are the savings in cost of assembly and maintenance. Not just the 75 pounds of copper wire you don't have to carry around, but that you don't have to route, don't have to design and build large enough channels to let pass, don't have to pay a troubleshooter $50/hour to sort through looking for the white wire with the blue dotted stripe and for God's sake not the white wire with the blue dashed stripe. Wiring harnesses are a nightmare. The wires are incredibly thin and fragile, and modern car that has been in a serious but non-totalling accident will probably have electrical problems all its life, due to damage to the harness.
Even on a modern motorcycle, it can get ugly. I've had to replace the harness on a 1999 BMW motorcycle, where it weighed almost 25 pounds and required the removal of every single body panel and parts of the rear subframe to get to parts of it. It was rated as a ten hour job for a skilled mechanic.
Compare this to the wiring system on a 2005 BMW K1200S, where the wiring harness is replaced by a four wire cable that run everywhere: two wires for power and two for data. Each section of the bike, like the instrument cluster, has a box in it that reads the signal and routes the power where it needs to be. The whole system weighs 6 pounds, and a 19 pound weight savings on a motorcycle is significant.
An on-vehicle LAN solves a hell of a lot of problems, and IEEE 1394, with its prioritization protocols and huge bandwidth, is a great idea.
the source of the sexism is a trader coming in from another culture.
Probably one of those culturally sensitive and gender-neutral cultures that were everywhere else in the Sinai around that time.
From here, Malaki sounds like a shithead. The problem, though, is that if a game writer comes up with a fairly authentic representation of certain times and places, those times and places will have rather unmodern, unwestern ideas about rights, freedom, money, war, violence, race, gender, religion, species, speech, commerce, political participation, etc. We can't all be revisionists. We can't all set games in 1940s Europe and claim "Did I say concentration camps? I meant happy camps!" And we can't all pretend to be in 0th century Egypt without admitting that women were bought and sold.
If you want to have a multiplayer experience that treats women as human, there are certainly better settings than 0th century Egypt, so if you don't like it, Malaki can go and fuck himself and we'll have ourselves a game set on some futuristic desert planet that just happens to have pyramids and Pharohs.
Sorry about the rant. People who leap at the opportunity to portray a sexist character online probably has some serious gender issues to deal with on his own. Or her own---nobody has yet shown me that Malaki was played by a man.
Still, when an online game goes to tremendous lengths to maintain authenticity, it should come as no surprise that with authenticity comes authentic unpleasantness.
Yeah...I kind of noticed that, too. With Dick Cheney standing right behind him. Proud grandfather that he is, he yells "Yaaayy! You won!" no matter what happens on the screen.
I really want to know if they have a specual module featuring a "pissed-off insurgents who respawn faster than you kill them" mode, sort of like Nightmare mode from Duke Nukem. Come to think of it, if an actual game had been modelled a little more closely after Fallujah, reviewers probably would have put it down as unrealistic.
Gee whiz, this wouldn't be the same MPAA that's sued grandmothers and minors, is it? The same one that's said in Congressional hearings that there must be zero tolerance for abuse of the copyright laws, that convinced Congress to make copyright laws more perpetual and unbalanced year after year, hat claimed using a VCR is tantamount to serial rape?
I would strongly encourage anyone who receives a wrongful takedown notice to use whatever legal means are at their disposal to punish the sender for wrongfully harassing them.
Another post in this thread mentioned a fake warez generator tool. Perhaps the mass adoption of random filename generators would be a way of demonstrating that the MPAA is sending shotgun legal threats. To that end, I would encourage the creators of open source projects to adopt a named release policy. For example, Perl 6 could be called "Finding Nemo". Debian could rename their next distribution "Fight Club".
The shitload has two qualified forms: the metric shitload and the whole shitload. A metric shitload is slightly bigger than a shitload, and a whole shitload is a whole shitload bigger.
I'm sick and tired of everybody positively drooling over ways to fuck this guy over. Unless this is somebody you've hated for a long time and you've been dying to nail for something---anything---maybe you need to take a slightly more sympathetic approach: This is somebody with a problem and he should seek professional help resolving it. Confiscate the camera and confront him as a group. Tell him that this is intolerable and illegal behavior and whatever else you can prove to be true. Tell him that, morally, he's doing something sexual with a nonconsenting partner. Then demand that he go seek professional help. Hell, blackmail him into getting it. And if you decide to vote him off the island, he will almost certainly leave without a fuss.
My concerns:
Going legal will be expensive. And if it doesn't work, you've taught him that he can get away with it.
Just kicking him out will put him in another roommate situation, exposing (sorry!) the new roommates to the same spying.
Calling the cops might not accomplish anything either, which has the same side effect as (1) above. If it does work, it might ruin his life when the possibility for making his life better exists.
Meeting with the landlord and having him thrown out is probably the most expeditious way of dealing with this. If the roommate decides to make a stink, the landlord should start formal eviction proceedings against him, and call the local reactionary newspaper columnist with a great story on how hard it is to throw a dangerous roommate out of a house in order to protect the other tenants.
I freely acknowledge that you are under no obligation to do anything positive or helpful in your situation, and that under the law you have the right to be as destructive and punitive to this individual as you can get away with. There is a huge difference between having a right and doing the right thing.
Until you figure out your course of action, buy a kit bag. Every time you go in the bathroom, put it down in front of the "radio", blocking the lens. Your horny roommate will be treated to shower noises and a blurry picture of black Cordura.
After that, maybe they can require burglars to wear black turtlenecks and a Cato mask, and carry a burlap sack with "LOOT" written on it. If they're caught wearing, say, a tiara, they can be busted for "not dressing like a burglar." Also, supervillains should speak with a Russian accent and wear a cape.
Who cares about freedom, saving the life of even just one child trumps all of that stupid stuff.
What freedom are you talking about, exactly? You're not wandering around in downtown Publicville, here---you're on private property. When you entered said property, you agreed to abide by the terms and conditions set forth by the property owners---just like you agree to do every time you enter somebody's house. They are offering you a service here, and a damned convenient one, and you didn't RTFA, did you?
Thanks. My wife and I have our first on the way. I dearly want to emulate one of my good friends; he and his wife are doing a great job with their two daughters. Still, it'll be interesting to see what happens when all this ideology hits the fan: "...But Barney makes him shut up...Barney makes him shut up...Barney makes him shut up...Beer makes me calm..."
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When the only alternative to required software is working by hand (or a major reverse-engineering project), you just gotta suck it up and figure out how to protect the rest of your systems from their arrogance.
Generally speaking, it's a clear sign of laziness or incompetence on the part of a half-assed programmer to think he needs root for everything. Hell, Oracle doesn't need root to run, and it's a mighty damned complicated RDBMS suite. If you're stuck with one of these vendors, I urge you to make it clear to them that you are using their software because you are stuck with it, that given the chance you will jump ship in a heartbeat, and that the reason you'll never buy any of their other products is that their claim to "need" root is a sign of either ineptitude or a cavalier attitude towards their customers.
I'm all happy that there's a new TV show dedicated to Open Source, but I would have hoped they could find a better musical act than Richard Stallman.
The Republicans' secret weapon has always been that despite there being more registered Democrats, Republicans are more likely to vote. Conservatives in general are more likely to vote---you can chalk this up to whatever flamebait-accusation you want, that youth don't vote, that liberals are to busy smoking dope and enticing minors to get to the polls, whatever. And when the pollster calls and asks "are you likely to vote", everybody says they're a "likely voter." The road to hell is paved with good intentions and skipped elections.
Folks, as fun as it would be to put quotation marks around "President" when referring to Bush, he won this time. And chances are he won in 2000 as well. Sucks, maybe, but there it is.
I have a cousin who commutes 90 miles each way, for a number of reasons, the most important being that he had a choice of living closer to work or having enough money left over to feed his family. Given the half-million dollar houses in town or quarter-milllion dollar houses in the suburbs, and the high gasoline taxes and even worse gasoline prices (thanks for the war, Mr. President!) he's stuck with for living out in the sticks, why the hell does he need to be fucked out of what little he has left? The drive alone costs him four or more hours a day, on top of the ten he works, the hour getting out of the house, he has maybe two or three hours a day to spend getting to know his sons.
Why the hell does the state need more of his money? Maybe he deserves it on account of not being a rich corporation.
Ah, fuck it. This is what I get for posting under the influence.
I think that the "Enough Rope" approach does indeed make more sense. For a very long time, every time IBM smacked them down, SCO would file yet another "amended complaint" to change their story and change the thing they were suing about. The changing claims give any defense a moving target, an expensive target, to fight. Best to wait for them to settle down a bit before bringing out the big guns.
Novell did exactly the right thing by waiting for SCO to get all of its eggs in one basket before stomping on the basket. This is classic battlefield tactics, beautifully executed: Lure the enemy into committing completely to an action that will doom them. SCO's going to be hurt badly by Novell's filing. They've spent the last year trying to reframe this as only a copyright dispute. Now we have smoking-gun-class evidence that their biggest and best claim is void.
Oh, and nobody deserves to be raped. I will say that again: Nobody deserves to be raped. It is a form of torture. Anybody who thinks rape is an acceptable punishment should sit down and talk to somebody who has been raped and tell them why they deserved it.
Or the Noid---the claymation nightmare that sold pizzas for Dominos back around 1991. I still don't see the connection between that dreadful little fuck and bad pizza.
The nostrils are the same. Then I thought: action figures. These heroes look like action figures, not actual humans. Hence there isn't a deep hole where the ears and nostrils are.
Later I learned that a data warehouse I had spent two years building was being cancelled because the client didn't want to spring for additional drivespace. About that time the startup for whom I'd worked a year of 60-hour weeks laid off all its programmers, deciding that its patent portfolio was more profitable than its actual product.
Today, not a single line of production code that I've written is running anywhere.
What depresses me is that I had been pouring my heart and soul into something so ephemeral, that all my hard work was being thrown away and obsoleted. It still saddens me greatly to know that my career has left no lasting mark on the world.
The temptation to spam is substantial, according to TFA: "In one month alone, Jaynes received 10,000 credit card orders, each for $39.95, for the processor." $400k in one month is pretty serious incentive to spam. Even if his sales offers were legitimate and he got a 10% sales commission, that's $40k in a month. The other $360k, just sitting there, was enough temptation for an already unscrupulous individual.
Damn, I wish I had bought myself one.
Just in time to make room for the Christmas ads, hooray!
And about 90% of Word users only need Write. Word is insanely bloated for most mortals.
Instead of "Hans" it should be "hans", which is his login name on the Galactic Smuggler BBS, which, as the we all know, is first name plus first letter of last name. So the g-parent actually gets geekpoints for using Solo's login name.
Even on a modern motorcycle, it can get ugly. I've had to replace the harness on a 1999 BMW motorcycle, where it weighed almost 25 pounds and required the removal of every single body panel and parts of the rear subframe to get to parts of it. It was rated as a ten hour job for a skilled mechanic.
Compare this to the wiring system on a 2005 BMW K1200S, where the wiring harness is replaced by a four wire cable that run everywhere: two wires for power and two for data. Each section of the bike, like the instrument cluster, has a box in it that reads the signal and routes the power where it needs to be. The whole system weighs 6 pounds, and a 19 pound weight savings on a motorcycle is significant.
An on-vehicle LAN solves a hell of a lot of problems, and IEEE 1394, with its prioritization protocols and huge bandwidth, is a great idea.
Probably one of those culturally sensitive and gender-neutral cultures that were everywhere else in the Sinai around that time.
From here, Malaki sounds like a shithead. The problem, though, is that if a game writer comes up with a fairly authentic representation of certain times and places, those times and places will have rather unmodern, unwestern ideas about rights, freedom, money, war, violence, race, gender, religion, species, speech, commerce, political participation, etc. We can't all be revisionists. We can't all set games in 1940s Europe and claim "Did I say concentration camps? I meant happy camps!" And we can't all pretend to be in 0th century Egypt without admitting that women were bought and sold.
If you want to have a multiplayer experience that treats women as human, there are certainly better settings than 0th century Egypt, so if you don't like it, Malaki can go and fuck himself and we'll have ourselves a game set on some futuristic desert planet that just happens to have pyramids and Pharohs.
Sorry about the rant. People who leap at the opportunity to portray a sexist character online probably has some serious gender issues to deal with on his own. Or her own---nobody has yet shown me that Malaki was played by a man.
Still, when an online game goes to tremendous lengths to maintain authenticity, it should come as no surprise that with authenticity comes authentic unpleasantness.
I really want to know if they have a specual module featuring a "pissed-off insurgents who respawn faster than you kill them" mode, sort of like Nightmare mode from Duke Nukem. Come to think of it, if an actual game had been modelled a little more closely after Fallujah, reviewers probably would have put it down as unrealistic.
I would strongly encourage anyone who receives a wrongful takedown notice to use whatever legal means are at their disposal to punish the sender for wrongfully harassing them.
Another post in this thread mentioned a fake warez generator tool. Perhaps the mass adoption of random filename generators would be a way of demonstrating that the MPAA is sending shotgun legal threats. To that end, I would encourage the creators of open source projects to adopt a named release policy. For example, Perl 6 could be called "Finding Nemo". Debian could rename their next distribution "Fight Club".
The shitload has two qualified forms: the metric shitload and the whole shitload. A metric shitload is slightly bigger than a shitload, and a whole shitload is a whole shitload bigger.
My concerns:
Meeting with the landlord and having him thrown out is probably the most expeditious way of dealing with this. If the roommate decides to make a stink, the landlord should start formal eviction proceedings against him, and call the local reactionary newspaper columnist with a great story on how hard it is to throw a dangerous roommate out of a house in order to protect the other tenants.
I freely acknowledge that you are under no obligation to do anything positive or helpful in your situation, and that under the law you have the right to be as destructive and punitive to this individual as you can get away with. There is a huge difference between having a right and doing the right thing.
Until you figure out your course of action, buy a kit bag. Every time you go in the bathroom, put it down in front of the "radio", blocking the lens. Your horny roommate will be treated to shower noises and a blurry picture of black Cordura.
After that, maybe they can require burglars to wear black turtlenecks and a Cato mask, and carry a burlap sack with "LOOT" written on it. If they're caught wearing, say, a tiara, they can be busted for "not dressing like a burglar." Also, supervillains should speak with a Russian accent and wear a cape.
Im not. I love apostrophe's.
What freedom are you talking about, exactly? You're not wandering around in downtown Publicville, here---you're on private property. When you entered said property, you agreed to abide by the terms and conditions set forth by the property owners---just like you agree to do every time you enter somebody's house. They are offering you a service here, and a damned convenient one, and you didn't RTFA, did you?
Thanks. My wife and I have our first on the way. I dearly want to emulate one of my good friends; he and his wife are doing a great job with their two daughters. Still, it'll be interesting to see what happens when all this ideology hits the fan: "...But Barney makes him shut up...Barney makes him shut up...Barney makes him shut up...Beer makes me calm..."