You're absolutely right, it'd be downright trivial to confound any "homeland security" flunky. Those wretches couldn't find their own genitals with both hands and a flashlight.
What bothers me is that we're even talking about this like we're troubleshooting a minor tech issue. Why the hell should we have to even think about this? How did we get a place where this is an issue to deal with?
What comes next... they require us to install and run a government supplied application to scan the disk? I mean... that would be in our best interest, right? It'd shorten the lines and protect our children from terrorists at the same time? It's lightweight and unobtrusive, while protecting our freedom?
This country has a horrible sickness, and no politician is going to cure it. I'm about as normal a guy as you'd ever meet... but something has to happen to wake us the F* up, and I afraid it'd have to be something terrible.
Sorry, you don't get to be the authority on the topic. People think it's funny, the moderators think it's funny, and it's only made more humorous by people who are incensed by it because of silly political affiliations.
To all the douchebags over at MSFT... thanks for the aggravation and millions of posts we're all going to have to make over the next few years. You've sealed our fate.
We hate you... again... and can't wait for the day when you're all out of a job.
In your opinion there's "ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE"? You need your head examined.
Wait for it... the difference is his admission included leading authorities to his wife's dead f'ing corpse. That's pretty solid in my estimation, along with that of the rest of the world.
Save your BS analogies. There is no similarity here... whatsoever, and no sane person would suggest there is. +5 Interesting?/. moderators can kiss my ass.
The best advice you could have given him would have come before his article submission... during which he should have made a deal with the co that's possibly going to make the ring.
A Slashdotting of a company that will make a ring like this is probably worth a wedding ring in marketing.
Yes, there are many newsreaders available for the iPhones and iTouch. And no, I've never seen a p2p client (in the way most think of them), and probably because you can't really download and store much of anything to the devices. Probably because then you'd have to be able to retrieve it on another device... and Apple wants to strictly control what goes in and out of your device.
They do have IRC clients, IM clients, VNC clients, etc. all approved and available.
That said... there's always a hack for anything. I'm just talking about king jobs' "approved" usage of your device.
Seriously, who let this degenerate open his mouth? First he says the victims are just as guilty as the criminals. That's retarded. Then says the Nigerian government is working very hard to curtail this behavior. Obviously dogshit. Then points out that only, what, 14 million people in Nigeria are engaged in fraudulent activities on the internet?
Someone should beat this guy to death with a stick.
I've always thought that if someone is a crappy worker, it will out in some way, even if the job is a hard thing to supervise or measure.
From what I've seen people who are lazy or slow tend to exhibit that behavior everywhere, and often don't even think that they're lazy and slow. So they're not apologetic about their work habits even when they ARE being supervised.
When I get called in by a company to help them out with an IT problem, I do sometimes get paid to wait on everyone else.
If I show up to roll out a new app, and your monkeys haven't gotten the prereq's installed yet and I have to wait, my ass is still on the clock.
Works the same way in many other trades. If I'm at your place of business... the clock is ticking regardless of what I'm doing, unless I'm goofing off intentionally.;)
While there are always cases of people/co's being ridiculous, I think there's a very good argument for trademarks.
I don't want to pick up a Coke and get a Pepsi, an eee PC and find out it's not made by Asus, or buy an iPhone online and find out it's not the Apple iPhone.
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To be fair, it's way more likely that someone will steal his laptop out of the hotel room while he's on vacation.
You're absolutely right, it'd be downright trivial to confound any "homeland security" flunky. Those wretches couldn't find their own genitals with both hands and a flashlight.
What bothers me is that we're even talking about this like we're troubleshooting a minor tech issue. Why the hell should we have to even think about this? How did we get a place where this is an issue to deal with?
What comes next... they require us to install and run a government supplied application to scan the disk? I mean... that would be in our best interest, right? It'd shorten the lines and protect our children from terrorists at the same time? It's lightweight and unobtrusive, while protecting our freedom?
This country has a horrible sickness, and no politician is going to cure it. I'm about as normal a guy as you'd ever meet... but something has to happen to wake us the F* up, and I afraid it'd have to be something terrible.
Amen on the desktop effects... touch display... slick but utilitarian interface.
A reasonable point... but where are guns not available? Is there such a place?
My mistake, I should have just looked first. Apparently chromium is under the BSD license.
I'm confused... isn't chrome OSS to begin with? How is codeweavers' project closed?
Or am I confusing open licensing with something (sorry) "viral" like gpl?
While I'm one of those people, I've always suspected that I'm part of a very small percentage of customers.
I'd guess they have done the market research, and have a very good idea of how many (or few) people they alienate entirely by incorporating DRM.
So... uh... the Sun Mooned the Earth?
Though since they've apparently decided to NOT default to standards mode... even for release... we can certainly bitch about THAT right now. :)
Eh, I just think, "OMG, Fingerprints everywhere!!"
That's the second time I've heard "twitchers". What does that mean?
Sorry, you don't get to be the authority on the topic. People think it's funny, the moderators think it's funny, and it's only made more humorous by people who are incensed by it because of silly political affiliations.
Yeah, no kidding.
To all the douchebags over at MSFT... thanks for the aggravation and millions of posts we're all going to have to make over the next few years. You've sealed our fate.
We hate you... again... and can't wait for the day when you're all out of a job.
I'm pretty sure he can't appeal... and the upper bound on his sentence is still "life". :)
In your opinion there's "ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE"? You need your head examined.
Wait for it... the difference is his admission included leading authorities to his wife's dead f'ing corpse. That's pretty solid in my estimation, along with that of the rest of the world.
Save your BS analogies. There is no similarity here... whatsoever, and no sane person would suggest there is. +5 Interesting? /. moderators can kiss my ass.
Oh quit your pissing. He said something retarded, and no amount of spin control will ever kill the humor in it.
The best advice you could have given him would have come before his article submission... during which he should have made a deal with the co that's possibly going to make the ring.
A Slashdotting of a company that will make a ring like this is probably worth a wedding ring in marketing.
He could have gotten a very cool ring for free.
Your government is not involved, as far as I can tell. A group representing advertisers has said, "no dice".
And yes, we have false advertising controls here too.
Yes, there are many newsreaders available for the iPhones and iTouch. And no, I've never seen a p2p client (in the way most think of them), and probably because you can't really download and store much of anything to the devices. Probably because then you'd have to be able to retrieve it on another device... and Apple wants to strictly control what goes in and out of your device.
They do have IRC clients, IM clients, VNC clients, etc. all approved and available.
That said... there's always a hack for anything. I'm just talking about king jobs' "approved" usage of your device.
It IS unbelievable. The 419's rarely have anything blatantly illegal in them, they're just scams.
Don't stretch to play devils advocate.
Seriously, who let this degenerate open his mouth? First he says the victims are just as guilty as the criminals. That's retarded. Then says the Nigerian government is working very hard to curtail this behavior. Obviously dogshit. Then points out that only, what, 14 million people in Nigeria are engaged in fraudulent activities on the internet?
Someone should beat this guy to death with a stick.
I've always thought that if someone is a crappy worker, it will out in some way, even if the job is a hard thing to supervise or measure.
From what I've seen people who are lazy or slow tend to exhibit that behavior everywhere, and often don't even think that they're lazy and slow. So they're not apologetic about their work habits even when they ARE being supervised.
When I get called in by a company to help them out with an IT problem, I do sometimes get paid to wait on everyone else.
If I show up to roll out a new app, and your monkeys haven't gotten the prereq's installed yet and I have to wait, my ass is still on the clock.
Works the same way in many other trades. If I'm at your place of business... the clock is ticking regardless of what I'm doing, unless I'm goofing off intentionally. ;)
While there are always cases of people/co's being ridiculous, I think there's a very good argument for trademarks.
I don't want to pick up a Coke and get a Pepsi, an eee PC and find out it's not made by Asus, or buy an iPhone online and find out it's not the Apple iPhone.
Ok... that last one is a bad example. ;)
Yes. The .net framework has regex libs. It's available in C#, VB, etc.