And none of them have any relevance whatsoever. The iPhone costs more than a low-end computer to activate it. It's not about cost, many people can afford both. Point is that some people who need a mobile phone might not need a computer.
The USPTO has just granted Microsoft a patent for "novel method to foster innovation". Using this new method, inventors will submit an application describing their invention to an authority which will then search through all previous inventions and judge whether the application is indeed novel. All succesful applicants are given a legal monopoly for their invention. Microsoft hopes this novel method will motivate inventors 768.8% more than currently used methods.
All prize money for the latest IOCCC have been used up for bandwidth after a %^&*@#@%#^% ( obfuscated ) slashdot effect hit the site soon after results were published. We are sorry for the winners...
Just thought about this... With the huge number of machines out there "infected" by spyware, adware and similar programs (and many of them without their users even knowing), how long will it be until a worm is written that exploits a vulnerability in one of these programs?
Not anytime soon. All worm writers are busy exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows itself. Of course, that's if you consider Windows itself is not a spyware.
Thousands of people have used updates I've built; nobody has ever emailed to ask "who are you, and why should I trust you?"
Sure you could do something nefarious, but why would you?
Moreover, wouldn't a criminal be more willing to do something nefarious if the source was closed rather than if it was open ? I think open source programs are inherently more secure from criminal acts because the risks of getting caught are much higher in open source programs due to the constant peer-review process.
Popular Windows editor Mr.Paul thurrott is marrying none other than Miss.Laura Didio. Mr. Thurrott, who was running excited all around the Redmond campus, was quoted as saying: "Well, it all started when we had this conversation last week. I was saying my usual stuff like 'I like Windows, I hate Linux and Mac etc.' to which she kept on saying 'me too!' Finally, I told her that I was full of shit and I still smelled like dead bunnies. And to my surprise, she said 'me too!!!'. From that moment on, we knew we were made for each other(tm)..."
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Wake me up when you can boot Linux using that energ... Oh, wait.
Itanium Will Only Be Partly Supported by Longhorn
Now, *that's* Creative.
SexyFingers writes "Sun released Java 1.5...
The ultimate question is... how did you get those sexy fingers ? Java, C# or... Pr0n# ?
Excuse me, are you selling those fishes ? They look yummy
The USPTO has just granted Microsoft a patent for "novel method to foster innovation". Using this new method, inventors will submit an application describing their invention to an authority which will then search through all previous inventions and judge whether the application is indeed novel. All succesful applicants are given a legal monopoly for their invention. Microsoft hopes this novel method will motivate inventors 768.8% more than currently used methods.
[goes off to RTFA, grudgingly]
they forgot to use their own "invention".
First Post goes here
Question: What's stops someone from doing SSH forwarding to a US box, or using a US proxy?
Answer: Because everyone wants to run BitTorrent in the background.
Blu-Ray-Of-Discs( BROD ) was officially inaugurated by Microsoft as a successor to the world-famous Blue-Screen-Of-Death( BSOD )... more details soon.
An e-mail falsification service ?
Oh, wait...
getting your cloths torn up (in non-cool-group approved ways) is expensive, but skin is cheap.
I presume you take a similar stance in using condoms.
Write an ActiveX application that will run on client's IE and it will communicate with the server running on... IIS! Totally secure !
$699 X 96 + taxes !
Darl McBride
All prize money for the latest IOCCC have been used up for bandwidth after a %^&*@#@%#^% ( obfuscated ) slashdot effect hit the site soon after results were published. We are sorry for the winners...
Just thought about this... With the huge number of machines out there "infected" by spyware, adware and similar programs (and many of them without their users even knowing), how long will it be until a worm is written that exploits a vulnerability in one of these programs?
Not anytime soon. All worm writers are busy exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows itself. Of course, that's if you consider Windows itself is not a spyware.
a new topic(and icon) exclusively for Knoppix ?
Thousands of people have used updates I've built; nobody has ever emailed to ask "who are you, and why should I trust you?"
Sure you could do something nefarious, but why would you?
Moreover, wouldn't a criminal be more willing to do something nefarious if the source was closed rather than if it was open ? I think open source programs are inherently more secure from criminal acts because the risks of getting caught are much higher in open source programs due to the constant peer-review process.
Popular Windows editor Mr.Paul thurrott is marrying none other than Miss.Laura Didio. Mr. Thurrott, who was running excited all around the Redmond campus, was quoted as saying: "Well, it all started when we had this conversation last week. I was saying my usual stuff like 'I like Windows, I hate Linux and Mac etc.' to which she kept on saying 'me too!' Finally, I told her that I was full of shit and I still smelled like dead bunnies. And to my surprise, she said 'me too!!!'. From that moment on, we knew we were made for each other(tm)..."
those lakhy engineers !!!
With all this childish attempts, I am *officially* convinced that SCO stands for School Children's Operation.
How do you moderate an entire article as flamebait?
May be you can write a program to flamebaitrate the article. Nobody said only people who freebsduse can verbgenerate, rite ?
wow... with this Apple will be dying much faster !