You know what pisses me off? Sites like myspace and stumbleupon that let users hotlink every image on your pr0n site, most often without citing the source. Bandwidth is expensive and this type of crap can push me into the red. It should be illegal.
In case you're not kidding: When Google decided to become a publicly traded company, their legal purpose became to maximize shareholder wealth. Therefore, a tanking share price is skin off of their noses. By their, I mean the people on the Google Campus as well as the many shareholders who raised money for Google. And all of the things they give away for free at the least helps their brand which helps their search engine's popularity which helps their ability to acquire information from the internet and its users' behavior which finally helps their brokerage business which is their moneymaker. Google Earth was not designed for the purpose of being a cool toy to hand out out of altruism, as cool as it and Google's other services may be.
This article is a little hard on Apple. I've never been hired to clean out an Apple clogged with malware or viruses, meanwhile MS is my moneymaker. Pound for pound, wouldn't you agree that Apple has one way or another done a much better job in security in general? Even taking into account that MS is somehow a bigger target?
Why should it be anyone's job? The only thing I regret about having been exposed to all the porn I wanted since I was 11 (now 25) is that once upon a time the SI Swimsuit Issue got me a woody and now I need some weird-ass porn to get by. But I've got gnutella so that's taken care of, and I'm good at talking girls into things -- girls who by the way are more anally curious in general than we give them credit for. If anything, porn has given me personal growth in discovering the true fetishes and perversions of my subconscious mind. Knowledge is power. Anybody with me on this?
Parenthetically, those Germans really "embraced and extended" the Japanese fetish Bukkake. If you've searched for that you know what I'm talkin' 'bout, ain't that right.
With google's toys they all have mass appeal and drive traffic to the site, ultimately helping google's brokerage. This, while nice for some of us, doesn't. Why would Yahoo bother?
Are these phones powerful enough yet to run voice recognition software yet? I know there are some phones that let you say "call Mom" but I'm talking a full setup that allows you to train your phone to handle speech. Typing on these is a bitch, especially for IMs. How 'bout it, Science?
I would like to know a formula for [roughly] calculating the terminal velocity an object will run into with the force of gravity. Because this has a lot to do with the aerodynamics of the object and not just its exposed surface area and mass I bet it'd be pretty tricky, but what about a simplified version. Anyone?
Am I the only one running into relatively new laptops that overheat? I shouldn't have to keep the bottom elevated on a hard surface to keep from crashes.
I am very impressed that in spite of all the money there is to be made and all the money that gets lost as a result of loose security, and all the time that has passed for people to cash in on this huge demand for iron clad software, that the AOHellers out there keep coming up with ways to steal cards by getting around new deterrents. I mean, great security is something credit card companies and online services have been marketing themselves upon, spending lots of cash-money for these campaigns... they might as well come through with security a la openbsd.
To add to this craziness, the culprits behind these accomplishments, in this case certificate hacking of all things, are brilliant enough to get ultra-high paying jobs and hire a nude secretary. With this new age of cyber-terrorism threats, I gotta side with the pro-hacker mantras claiming that they help the world by exposing threats with mostly benign things like pbrushing a hitler mustache on Bush before the real bad guys, the ones who have similar high levels of expertise [though in bombs], figure out the holes. High five, 31337-speakers.
Great, another discovery/breakthrough that won't affect us in the forseeable future. For many years slashdot has featured vaporbreakthroughs, some of which have to had made their way to consumers. What I'd like to see is a segment of slashdot devoted to these breakthroughs with tracking them with updates on whether or not we've got the 45 micron chip on the market or the space elevator up or did the Japs finish their supersonic jet yet. Otherwise these stories are food for thought that vaporize.
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Given that gamers are too busy gaming to read, who's gonna buy this??
It's great that businesses (and organizations alike) can harness the brainpower of brilliant hobbyists to improve their product for free simply by going open source. I cannot think of any industry in which anything like this is so.
Yes there will always be something better to spend money on with pie in the sky stuff like this, but there's something about mankind that has this wild imagination. As long as we have that, we'll at least talk about o-zone barges and space elevators.
Being a Howard Stern fan, I've been raised as a soldier in the anti-FCC jihad. But washing mouths with soap is only one of many things they do. As this article raises performance and range licensing relationships, how good a job would you say the FCC has done in frequency management?
BitTorrent's saving grace is its popular use for legal activities. It had a strong Good Thing quotient. Toss in encryption and you lose that "plausable deniability" veneer that the program is not intended for shady use. People on the outside take a What do you have to hide? response to encryption. If BT's image changes like this, it'll only lead to more throttling and blocking.
How can we developing more nuclear technology without securing the manual override from our defense contractors? Am I the only one watching these 24 Monday Marathons???
For those of you running Debian networks with a lot of boxes, you can use apt-proxy to apt-update/upgrade and patch all the machines through one download.
I see this book touches on Ruby a handful of times, but for a beginner who knows a dash of html and php, could someone recommend a Ruby on Rails book for total beginners?... or should I stick with php:)
This has more to do with auto safety in general, but I think it was a Times story in which I read that a trained, unpanicked foot can outperform antilock breaks. The average person, however, much different story of course. I, Robot is correct in predicting that Will Smith can engage a manual override.
We're running out of legal reasons to fire someone. Put yourself in the shoes of the firm. What do you have to gain by having an employee not be a team player to do and think in a way that meshes with what the firm's business partners' and patrons' weapon of choice to fight piracy? A liability. And where the hell do Constitutional issues come from in the article? I don't see any federal governments firing employees.
Perhaps MS deemed this virus to be less heavy a threat to computers insofar as what bad publicity it would generate from actual damage to computers as it would if they deviated from their security protocols, perhaps looking desperate to get their shit together?
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He made a remark about Aspergers which is related to autism and I was doing a Rainman quote.... nevermind.
I get my boxer shorts at K-Mart in Cincinatti. Gotta get my boxer shorts at K-Mart.
You know what pisses me off? Sites like myspace and stumbleupon that let users hotlink every image on your pr0n site, most often without citing the source. Bandwidth is expensive and this type of crap can push me into the red. It should be illegal.
You must be new here.
In case you're not kidding: When Google decided to become a publicly traded company, their legal purpose became to maximize shareholder wealth. Therefore, a tanking share price is skin off of their noses. By their, I mean the people on the Google Campus as well as the many shareholders who raised money for Google. And all of the things they give away for free at the least helps their brand which helps their search engine's popularity which helps their ability to acquire information from the internet and its users' behavior which finally helps their brokerage business which is their moneymaker. Google Earth was not designed for the purpose of being a cool toy to hand out out of altruism, as cool as it and Google's other services may be.
This article is a little hard on Apple. I've never been hired to clean out an Apple clogged with malware or viruses, meanwhile MS is my moneymaker. Pound for pound, wouldn't you agree that Apple has one way or another done a much better job in security in general? Even taking into account that MS is somehow a bigger target?
Parenthetically, those Germans really "embraced and extended" the Japanese fetish Bukkake. If you've searched for that you know what I'm talkin' 'bout, ain't that right.
With google's toys they all have mass appeal and drive traffic to the site, ultimately helping google's brokerage. This, while nice for some of us, doesn't. Why would Yahoo bother?
Are these phones powerful enough yet to run voice recognition software yet? I know there are some phones that let you say "call Mom" but I'm talking a full setup that allows you to train your phone to handle speech. Typing on these is a bitch, especially for IMs. How 'bout it, Science?
I would like to know a formula for [roughly] calculating the terminal velocity an object will run into with the force of gravity. Because this has a lot to do with the aerodynamics of the object and not just its exposed surface area and mass I bet it'd be pretty tricky, but what about a simplified version. Anyone?
Am I the only one running into relatively new laptops that overheat? I shouldn't have to keep the bottom elevated on a hard surface to keep from crashes.
To add to this craziness, the culprits behind these accomplishments, in this case certificate hacking of all things, are brilliant enough to get ultra-high paying jobs and hire a nude secretary. With this new age of cyber-terrorism threats, I gotta side with the pro-hacker mantras claiming that they help the world by exposing threats with mostly benign things like pbrushing a hitler mustache on Bush before the real bad guys, the ones who have similar high levels of expertise [though in bombs], figure out the holes. High five, 31337-speakers.
Great, another discovery/breakthrough that won't affect us in the forseeable future. For many years slashdot has featured vaporbreakthroughs, some of which have to had made their way to consumers. What I'd like to see is a segment of slashdot devoted to these breakthroughs with tracking them with updates on whether or not we've got the 45 micron chip on the market or the space elevator up or did the Japs finish their supersonic jet yet. Otherwise these stories are food for thought that vaporize.
Given that gamers are too busy gaming to read, who's gonna buy this??
It's great that businesses (and organizations alike) can harness the brainpower of brilliant hobbyists to improve their product for free simply by going open source. I cannot think of any industry in which anything like this is so.
Yes there will always be something better to spend money on with pie in the sky stuff like this, but there's something about mankind that has this wild imagination. As long as we have that, we'll at least talk about o-zone barges and space elevators.
Of porn, actually.
You must be new here.
Being a Howard Stern fan, I've been raised as a soldier in the anti-FCC jihad. But washing mouths with soap is only one of many things they do. As this article raises performance and range licensing relationships, how good a job would you say the FCC has done in frequency management?
BitTorrent's saving grace is its popular use for legal activities. It had a strong Good Thing quotient. Toss in encryption and you lose that "plausable deniability" veneer that the program is not intended for shady use. People on the outside take a What do you have to hide? response to encryption. If BT's image changes like this, it'll only lead to more throttling and blocking.
How can we developing more nuclear technology without securing the manual override from our defense contractors? Am I the only one watching these 24 Monday Marathons???
For those of you running Debian networks with a lot of boxes, you can use apt-proxy to apt-update/upgrade and patch all the machines through one download.
I see this book touches on Ruby a handful of times, but for a beginner who knows a dash of html and php, could someone recommend a Ruby on Rails book for total beginners? ... or should I stick with php :)
This has more to do with auto safety in general, but I think it was a Times story in which I read that a trained, unpanicked foot can outperform antilock breaks. The average person, however, much different story of course. I, Robot is correct in predicting that Will Smith can engage a manual override.
We're running out of legal reasons to fire someone. Put yourself in the shoes of the firm. What do you have to gain by having an employee not be a team player to do and think in a way that meshes with what the firm's business partners' and patrons' weapon of choice to fight piracy? A liability. And where the hell do Constitutional issues come from in the article? I don't see any federal governments firing employees.
Perhaps MS deemed this virus to be less heavy a threat to computers insofar as what bad publicity it would generate from actual damage to computers as it would if they deviated from their security protocols, perhaps looking desperate to get their shit together?