This would probably be the best way to teach this guy how to respect the privacy of others - Spam his database with bogus entries.
IN MY OPINION ONLY, not saying anyone actually is doing something like this, this whole thing smells like a way to generate money by reselling the information somehow.
Therefore, it make a lot of sense to either 1) Demand a way to shut the damn thing off, or if that fails, 2) Ensure the data is not very resellable by filling it with bogus data. Data resellers don't pay much for bad data.
OK, ya got me on the spelling. No argument there.:)
But at the time, the battle was over Microsoft having put Stac code (or at least their patented approach) into DOS 6.20 without properly licensing it. Sounds exactly like what the record companies say about people obtaining music/movies without properly licencing it, aka piracy, thus that's why I selected the word "pirated" in my posting. So on your #2 argument I disagree with your statement that I was wrong.
Best DOS ever was DOS 6.20. However that contained the pirated Stak data compression software, which is why DOS 6.22 was released - to replace the better compression of 6.20 with the sucky MS-made compression in 6.22. (DOS 6.21 was like Windows XP N - Same as DOS 6.20 but with NO compression)
Nah, I actually felt pretty safe in the first place. I felt there was a good balance. However, now they're asking me to give up freedom for some theoretical safety from some Boogeyman that was, and probably still is, a CIA operative.
Sorry, I'm at the balance point where the idea of giving up any more liberties actually makes me feel LESS safe.
I'd already given up the liberties I felt were worth exchanging. Actually, a bit more BEFORE 9/11/01 that I was comfortable. Now to give up any more of them is just ludicrous.
[One of the other funnies from the comic is how the toy company said you weren't allowed to show the Joes out of uniform. They relented on this with the older characters but the new ones had to look like the ones you'd get out of the box. I remember they had that hovercraft doing a mission in the gulf of mexico and you've got the arctic warfare guy on the boat wearing his full fucking parka. Too funny! Or they had the astronaut guy wearing his spacesuit in the underground base, even though he didn't have a mission scheduled. "Yup, gotta get in my pressure suit to do paperwork." I wonder if the scuba guy had to keep his fins on around the office, too.]
I'm tired of whining about this one, just ready to write off Flash as some kind of archaic technology, but maybe someone from there will ready this.
WHEN ARE WE GETTING A 64-BIT FLASH PLAYER FOR WINDOWS???? XP x64, or Vista x64. Hell, even a crappy beta would be fine.
It's been four @#$%ing YEARS since Windows XP x64 came out. It's time to quit making excuses. It's time to shit or get off the pot. Maybe it's time for Silverlight instead?
Well, that's about enough D2 for me. Half-completed floaty thing in the left side, WTF is that?
Sorry, I write web code all day long, requirements are that it has to support IE6, IE7, and Firefox. It's a pain, but it's not actually hard. D2 is a piece of crap still.
And Slashcode is still written in PERL? RUfuckingKiddingMe?
Ha ha, TDD. What a dumb fad. You've been sucked into the Cult of the Fat Dork. TDD guys are usually the worst fuckers to have to code with. It's a big crutch to allow companies to use lesser-skilled developers while making sure they don't make a mess of things.
Next you'll be telling me how Agile programming can change your life.
It's all a stupid cult for bad programmers. The one article I always avoid in my DDJ is the Scott Ambler blabbering of this months new cultist pep talk. Complete drivel.
You write really simple HTML.
Why would the Team Server merge tool work with Subversion? TFS is also a source management system, far superior to CVS, about equal with Subversion. Oh, and yes, it actually does. You can even tweak TFS to use Subversion as it's source management system. (In a pure.NET environment that would be stupid, but in the case of integrating projects with Unix/Linux teams, it's a really nice thing.)
They must know by now I'm in here trembling In a terror evergrowing Crackin' up (I have been waiting for these visitors) My whole world is falling, going crazy There is no escaping now, I'm Crackin' up
It's not that I really give a shit that I'm running a 64-bit version of Flash. It's that I DO want to be using a 64-bit browser, after all I did shell out the money to get a 64 bit machine, and the time to actually configure a 64 bit OS on the thing. (Not as easy as I'd have thought, so many missing drivers.)
But with a 64-bit browser, any page with Flash content on it (And there are FAR too many!) ends up with gaping spaces in it.
So - I either want a 64 bit version of Flash or (even better) for Flash to disappear from existence.
Adobe? The same lazy company that STILL hasn't released a 64-bit Flash player for either Windows or Linux. XP x64 has been out for something like four years now, now Vista x64 is out too.
Unacceptable - 64-bit is solidly here now, even my non-technical mom, and my son's daycare provider, both have 64-bit machines. (Albeit with 32 bit XP on them)
Much as I dislike a lot of stuff about Microsoft, I'm sold on Silverlight. Adobe's apparently ignoring the evolution of their products. I am very sick of getting "Click here to install the Flash plug-in", only to see their lame excuse "We're working on it". Give us at least a crappy beta version guys...
But that severely restricts my right to go anywhere out of walking distance.
There's a bus or a plane, sure. But with all this talk about "modernizing" the laws, it's pretty much a given that an automobile or motorcycle is needed to exist in today's society.
It would take me about 3 hours to walk to work, and no bus goes the whole distance for me, and taking a taxi would be prohibitively expensive. So your argument fails.
> Also driving itself is not a right, it is a privelage.
No, it is actually a right, not a privilege. It's even an enumerated right: See the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution.
Also, see the following which also apply:
Magna Carta (1215 AD) Section 42: It shall be lawful to any person, for the future, to go out of our kingdom, and to return, safely and securely, by land or by water, saving his allegiance to us, unless it be in time of war, for some short space, for the common good of the kingdom: excepting prisoners and outlaws, according to the laws of the land, and of the people of the nation at war against us, and Merchants who shall be treated as it is said above.
United Nations - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Good idea, but that still leads people to believe there are two things - MS-XML and OOXML, which then plays right into Microsoft's hands, people thinking that OOXML is for OpenOffice.
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This would probably be the best way to teach this guy how to respect the privacy of others - Spam his database with bogus entries.
IN MY OPINION ONLY, not saying anyone actually is doing something like this, this whole thing smells like a way to generate money by reselling the information somehow.
Therefore, it make a lot of sense to either 1) Demand a way to shut the damn thing off, or if that fails, 2) Ensure the data is not very resellable by filling it with bogus data. Data resellers don't pay much for bad data.
OK, ya got me on the spelling. No argument there. :)
But at the time, the battle was over Microsoft having put Stac code (or at least their patented approach) into DOS 6.20 without properly licensing it. Sounds exactly like what the record companies say about people obtaining music/movies without properly licencing it, aka piracy, thus that's why I selected the word "pirated" in my posting. So on your #2 argument I disagree with your statement that I was wrong.
I'm really mad! Bark bark bark!
Oops, the subject was "Don't make me laugh!
Best DOS ever was DOS 6.20. However that contained the pirated Stak data compression software, which is why DOS 6.22 was released - to replace the better compression of 6.20 with the sucky MS-made compression in 6.22. (DOS 6.21 was like Windows XP N - Same as DOS 6.20 but with NO compression)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#Legal_issues
Gotcha! :)
Nah, I actually felt pretty safe in the first place. I felt there was a good balance. However, now they're asking me to give up freedom for some theoretical safety from some Boogeyman that was, and probably still is, a CIA operative.
Sorry, I'm at the balance point where the idea of giving up any more liberties actually makes me feel LESS safe.
I'd already given up the liberties I felt were worth exchanging. Actually, a bit more BEFORE 9/11/01 that I was comfortable. Now to give up any more of them is just ludicrous.
Either you don't live in the US, or you are a complete traitor.
But, but, but, I have 14 computers, I play D&D semi-regularly, and have even played MtG a couple times. I should be able to understand.
Maybe I need to play more D&D??
Prime 3: "Corruption on Wii"
What is that supposed to mean?
[One of the other funnies from the comic is how the toy company said you weren't allowed to show the Joes out of uniform. They relented on this with the older characters but the new ones had to look like the ones you'd get out of the box. I remember they had that hovercraft doing a mission in the gulf of mexico and you've got the arctic warfare guy on the boat wearing his full fucking parka. Too funny! Or they had the astronaut guy wearing his spacesuit in the underground base, even though he didn't have a mission scheduled. "Yup, gotta get in my pressure suit to do paperwork." I wonder if the scuba guy had to keep his fins on around the office, too.]
Um, what in the hell are you talking about??
I'm tired of whining about this one, just ready to write off Flash as some kind of archaic technology, but maybe someone from there will ready this.
WHEN ARE WE GETTING A 64-BIT FLASH PLAYER FOR WINDOWS???? XP x64, or Vista x64. Hell, even a crappy beta would be fine.
It's been four @#$%ing YEARS since Windows XP x64 came out. It's time to quit making excuses. It's time to shit or get off the pot. Maybe it's time for Silverlight instead?
Well, that's about enough D2 for me. Half-completed floaty thing in the left side, WTF is that?
// Yuck!
Sorry, I write web code all day long, requirements are that it has to support IE6, IE7, and Firefox. It's a pain, but it's not actually hard. D2 is a piece of crap still.
And Slashcode is still written in PERL? RUfuckingKiddingMe?
D2.Visible=false;
"And I don't tell You only about Java."
What you mean there?
Ha ha, TDD. What a dumb fad. You've been sucked into the Cult of the Fat Dork. TDD guys are usually the worst fuckers to have to code with. It's a big crutch to allow companies to use lesser-skilled developers while making sure they don't make a mess of things.
.NET environment that would be stupid, but in the case of integrating projects with Unix/Linux teams, it's a really nice thing.)
Next you'll be telling me how Agile programming can change your life.
It's all a stupid cult for bad programmers. The one article I always avoid in my DDJ is the Scott Ambler blabbering of this months new cultist pep talk. Complete drivel.
You write really simple HTML.
Why would the Team Server merge tool work with Subversion? TFS is also a source management system, far superior to CVS, about equal with Subversion. Oh, and yes, it actually does. You can even tweak TFS to use Subversion as it's source management system. (In a pure
A very good question.
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They must know by now I'm in here trembling
In a terror evergrowing
Crackin' up
(I have been waiting for these visitors)
My whole world is falling, going crazy
There is no escaping now, I'm
Crackin' up
It's not that I really give a shit that I'm running a 64-bit version of Flash. It's that I DO want to be using a 64-bit browser, after all I did shell out the money to get a 64 bit machine, and the time to actually configure a 64 bit OS on the thing. (Not as easy as I'd have thought, so many missing drivers.)
But with a 64-bit browser, any page with Flash content on it (And there are FAR too many!) ends up with gaping spaces in it.
So - I either want a 64 bit version of Flash or (even better) for Flash to disappear from existence.
Yes, but what about the millions of people using 64-bit flash?
Oh wait, there (STILL!!!) is no such thing.
Adobe? The same lazy company that STILL hasn't released a 64-bit Flash player for either Windows or Linux. XP x64 has been out for something like four years now, now Vista x64 is out too.
Unacceptable - 64-bit is solidly here now, even my non-technical mom, and my son's daycare provider, both have 64-bit machines. (Albeit with 32 bit XP on them)
Much as I dislike a lot of stuff about Microsoft, I'm sold on Silverlight. Adobe's apparently ignoring the evolution of their products. I am very sick of getting "Click here to install the Flash plug-in", only to see their lame excuse "We're working on it". Give us at least a crappy beta version guys...
You sniveling pussy. Stop whining.
Dude, you need SalesGenie!
But that severely restricts my right to go anywhere out of walking distance.
There's a bus or a plane, sure. But with all this talk about "modernizing" the laws, it's pretty much a given that an automobile or motorcycle is needed to exist in today's society.
It would take me about 3 hours to walk to work, and no bus goes the whole distance for me, and taking a taxi would be prohibitively expensive. So your argument fails.
There ya go! MS-OOXML. I like it! :)
> Also driving itself is not a right, it is a privelage.
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No, it is actually a right, not a privilege. It's even an enumerated right: See the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution.
Also, see the following which also apply:
Magna Carta (1215 AD) Section 42:
It shall be lawful to any person, for the future, to go out of our kingdom, and to return, safely and securely, by land or by water, saving his allegiance to us, unless it be in time of war, for some short space, for the common good of the kingdom: excepting prisoners and outlaws, according to the laws of the land, and of the people of the nation at war against us, and Merchants who shall be treated as it is said above.
United Nations - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
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Good idea, but that still leads people to believe there are two things - MS-XML and OOXML, which then plays right into Microsoft's hands, people thinking that OOXML is for OpenOffice.