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NASA: We get signal! Main screen turn on!
Mars Goblin: How are you gentlemen! All your probe are belong to us!
NASA: What you say!
Mars Goblin: Ha ha ha! You are on the way to destruction! All your probe are belong to us!
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Now I'm all for a good funny troll once in a while. I always get a good laugh when I see (Score:5, Troll). But, like the GNAA and Trollkore crapfloods, plagiarism for karma isn't funny, it's just lame. Get creative, you can do it!
A lot of window toolkit designers apparently think they can do a better job--of course they are wrong and it ends up slow and bloated. I believe wxWindows actually does the intelligent thing and uses native widgets.
Now of course we are both going to get modded offtopic into oblivion because we're not singing the praises of Konqueror for Mac OS X. So, uhh, praise be to Konqueror for Mac OS X?
Not soon enough, IMHO. Imagine how many countless lives could be saved by using this technology to get wreckless assholes who can't drive safely off the road.
But they're wreckless! Obviously they can drive safely if they haven't had a wreck!
Two pages was a bit of an exaggeration, but it's definitely Google. Only things in my hosts file are a lot of 127.0.0.1s for ad domains and hijackthis didn't find anything abnormal. Plus it's not like I'm running Internet Explorer.;-) It's only happened on a few searches, and the ad links were definitely a minority, just high enough to notice.
Also, anyone else noticed that Google itself is getting less effective lately? Some searches I make, the first 2 pages all go to the same advertiser's site except all the links have different domain names; I think they're figuring out how to exploit its page ranking. Other searches I get tons of 404s, especially with image search, and the images aren't cached except as thumbnails so it's even more annoying.
Nobody said the traffic lights would be internet accessible. The lights and the internet service are on completely different frequencies on the line (like cable internet and cable TV, or DSL and voice), so you'd need a traffic light controller device operating on the traffic light frequency to control the lights, like you need a TV tuner to access cable TV and a cable modem to access the internet. However, obtaining or emulating a traffic light controller could get interesting.
The CN Tower is just the world's tallest free-standing structure. There are numerous radio towers that are higher, including one in Fargo, North Dakota of 2,063 feet.
And, if those functions are already loaded "somewhere in memory", the OS shouldn't load them again, and again, and again, as so often happens these days.
If the functions are in a shared library, they shouldn't be. Each library (including, for example, the C runtime) is loaded once into memory and every process uses the same code. If you modify that code in memory, Windows makes an individual copy of the page for the modifying process. I couldn't tell you exactly what the overhead is used for, but the OS isn't loading 20 copies of strcpy or whatever as long as each executable is dynamically linked.
Not particularly, but if you have a large legal team you can do what major corporations do, claim some trademark, and sue them back to the stone age. Unfortunately this strategy seems to be applied to people with legitimate websites more than cybersquatters. I wonder how CNet actually got a hold of com.com.
Lesson #3: Don't try and be funny. You'll just end up having to explain it, and--as the Heisenberg Principle attests--an explained joke ceases to be funny.
Hey, the Heisenberg Principle states that it is not possible to determine the position and velocity of a particle at the same time! That has nothing to do with jokes! This is a troll!
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The most recent update on this story:
NASA: We get signal! Main screen turn on!
Mars Goblin: How are you gentlemen! All your probe are belong to us!
NASA: What you say!
Mars Goblin: Ha ha ha! You are on the way to destruction! All your probe are belong to us!
NO CARRIER
Now I'm all for a good funny troll once in a while. I always get a good laugh when I see (Score:5, Troll). But, like the GNAA and Trollkore crapfloods, plagiarism for karma isn't funny, it's just lame. Get creative, you can do it!
Oh, here we go again, repost from the anti-slash karma DB. Originally posted here.
Ah, can't say I have--but I did use a Mac back in the System 7 days. Then around when PowerPC was introduced I switched to Windows, the horror. ;-)
This post is in the anti-slash DB. Previously posted at least once before in this September discussion on GTA lawsuits. Even too lazy to change the sig.
Nope, you forgot to make it funny. ;-)
World Wide Web? Non-browser based Internet applications? Nielsen//NetRatings? These terms are, like, so 90s!
Which worm is the one responsible for all the ARP who-has spam I'm still getting?
A lot of window toolkit designers apparently think they can do a better job--of course they are wrong and it ends up slow and bloated. I believe wxWindows actually does the intelligent thing and uses native widgets.
Now of course we are both going to get modded offtopic into oblivion because we're not singing the praises of Konqueror for Mac OS X. So, uhh, praise be to Konqueror for Mac OS X?
"A screenshot of the running program can be found here."
...taken just before it crashed.
Yes, and here's the story from the May/June 2002 issue of Foreign Policy on Japan's gross national cool referred to in this Washington Post article.
- Dog robs gas station
- Cows rampage in Norway
- Children asked to sell new naked sports calendar
Ah, Norway...Flashback to 1999! Do they have no business model and a recent IPO that went up by 280% on the first day of trading too?
Not soon enough, IMHO. Imagine how many countless lives could be saved by using this technology to get wreckless assholes who can't drive safely off the road.
But they're wreckless! Obviously they can drive safely if they haven't had a wreck!
Two pages was a bit of an exaggeration, but it's definitely Google. Only things in my hosts file are a lot of 127.0.0.1s for ad domains and hijackthis didn't find anything abnormal. Plus it's not like I'm running Internet Explorer. ;-) It's only happened on a few searches, and the ad links were definitely a minority, just high enough to notice.
Also, anyone else noticed that Google itself is getting less effective lately? Some searches I make, the first 2 pages all go to the same advertiser's site except all the links have different domain names; I think they're figuring out how to exploit its page ranking. Other searches I get tons of 404s, especially with image search, and the images aren't cached except as thumbnails so it's even more annoying.
Nobody said the traffic lights would be internet accessible. The lights and the internet service are on completely different frequencies on the line (like cable internet and cable TV, or DSL and voice), so you'd need a traffic light controller device operating on the traffic light frequency to control the lights, like you need a TV tuner to access cable TV and a cable modem to access the internet. However, obtaining or emulating a traffic light controller could get interesting.
Sorry, that one is actually a TV tower. Let's just leave it at "electromagnetic wave propagating structures".
The CN Tower is just the world's tallest free-standing structure. There are numerous radio towers that are higher, including one in Fargo, North Dakota of 2,063 feet.
Funny, but Vonage already had a subscription cost before this.
And, if those functions are already loaded "somewhere in memory", the OS shouldn't load them again, and again, and again, as so often happens these days.
If the functions are in a shared library, they shouldn't be. Each library (including, for example, the C runtime) is loaded once into memory and every process uses the same code. If you modify that code in memory, Windows makes an individual copy of the page for the modifying process. I couldn't tell you exactly what the overhead is used for, but the OS isn't loading 20 copies of strcpy or whatever as long as each executable is dynamically linked.
You could rewrite George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" all over again regarding corporate-speak.
Isn't cybersquatting a bit against the rules?
Not particularly, but if you have a large legal team you can do what major corporations do, claim some trademark, and sue them back to the stone age. Unfortunately this strategy seems to be applied to people with legitimate websites more than cybersquatters. I wonder how CNet actually got a hold of com.com.
Lesson #3: Don't try and be funny. You'll just end up having to explain it, and--as the Heisenberg Principle attests--an explained joke ceases to be funny.
Hey, the Heisenberg Principle states that it is not possible to determine the position and velocity of a particle at the same time! That has nothing to do with jokes! This is a troll!
Even so, there's a difference between obviously having committed a crime and being suspected of having committed a crime.