Ok, this is the second time I've seen this so far in replies to this story. I have to admit, I'm slightly confused. I always thought GNU stood for GNU's Not Unix... that's why it's GNU, not GNL. Feel free to prove me wrong;)
Ok, admitedly I didn't read the second half of your post... it started to bore me, but the first part reminded me of a story I thought was funny... hehe...
my mother wanted to by my little 8 year old brother some shin pads for soccer from Dick's Sporting Goods (a big chain around here... not sure how far it spreads). She wasn't thinking anything bad at all when she innocently went to http://www.dicks.com to look for shin pads... The gay p0rn flowed freely to her unsuspecting eyes. Luckily myself and my little brother weren't around, so we missed this all, but from what I'm told, there seemed a limitless amount of new pop ups every time she closed a window, so she ended up rebooting. What fun online shopping can be!
~Jon~
by the way, I'm not just a little kid, like I'm sure lots of you are thinking, I'm a professional sys admin, done with college and all... I just happen to have a young brother. =D
The way I see things, I'll stick to buying normal CDs. I don't buy "new" music, so I pay about $12 per disc usually. There's about an average of 12 songs on a CD. When you add the costs of bandwidth, blank discs, and the burner, plus the time it takes, it's cheaper to just buy a CD. Plus, when you buy the full disc, it exposes you to other music by artists you like, and this can often lead to you finding great "gems" that you may have never heard if you only burn songs you know and like. This is just my opinion, and it's most likely wrong, but I thought I'd share it.
I immediately thought of Slashdot when I read Christopher Null's novel
We all know that i was just the name Null that made you think of Slashdot. I could be like everyone else, and say that Null is the average number of newsworthy stories.... but I won't;-)
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hey! Mullets RULE!! Chicks DIG mullets.... they just happen to all be in denial.
well, feel free to come visit me in Pittsburgh someday. we don't get LOTS of snow here like I did when I lived in New Hampshire, but we get enough.
My lifelong dream has been to build a snowman.
It's good to have goals =)
honestly, snowmen are neat, but they lose their charm after the 123112347120394th one you make. Now, the anatomically correct ones you build at the main enterance to your college... they're more fun.
Other than Office Space (obvious), the most accurate movie I can recall (I can't recall much) was Pirates of Silicon Valley. I mean, it's about real people, in a time when they actually developed software.
and they probably used them in this program for no reason other than to require you to update. They're probably things that they could have easily lived without. As a friend once told me, "WinXP was actually a functional product! Microsoft must have messed up! It WORKED! Then they put out sp1."
Is this technology supposed to replace our current email addresses (theoretically), or be in addition to them? Either way it seems dumb.
If it's a replacement, who says I want to give the whole world my phone number? If I want them to have it, then I'll give it. Also, if you move and get a new phone number, are you forced to get a new email address too?
If it's in addition to my current addresses, why bother? It's just one more place I have to set up spam filters. One more address to check. Also, couldn't spammers easily pick up a few phone books and use those numbers to vastly increase the size of their database?
I've got no idea... Our website blocking tool was just recently implemented, and it's got some odd sites blocked. We implemented it when one of the head IT guys had watched net traffic for a week or so, and found that out of the top ten sites visited from our employees during normal work hours, the top visited was for our 401k plan, and the next eight were porn sites, and the tenth was a job search site. They decided it was time to block things deemed "unnecessary".:-D
Ok, it seems that everyone missed what I meant to be my point with this post. I was quite tired when I wrote it;-) I wasn't so much trying to say that either mac or pc was better, I wasn't trying to say that macs are hard to work on. I was trying to say that how it works is more important than how it looks. That's it. The parent post mentioned something along the lines of "macs are better because macs are prettier", and I was trying to say that I don't give a damn how it looks, whether it's a pc or mac. I want it to run well. That's all. No intent to flame mac users or anything. In another post of mine I mentioned that I'd like to get a mac... if I had any spare cash;) Sorry for the confusion.
Why was this modded to troll? I seriously wonder about the security implications. Is that such a bad question to ask in a community that previously cared very much about security??
well, I can't view it from here at work, apparently it's catagorized as a "gambling site", but here's supposedly a video clip of a nuclear strike. Enjoy (I hope it'll answer your question)
Hmm... combine this with the comment above it and it really is almost pointless to play the game... 430 pictures, movies... next you'll see the interactive flash demo.
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From the list of languages and their abbreviations:
Ewe; ewe
That's what sheep speak, right?
if you had read the link that the parent poster had given, it explained why it didn't need to be honored.
~Jon~
Since GNU stands for GNU's not Linux
;)
Ok, this is the second time I've seen this so far in replies to this story. I have to admit, I'm slightly confused. I always thought GNU stood for GNU's Not Unix... that's why it's GNU, not GNL. Feel free to prove me wrong
~Jon~
Ok, admitedly I didn't read the second half of your post... it started to bore me, but the first part reminded me of a story I thought was funny... hehe...
my mother wanted to by my little 8 year old brother some shin pads for soccer from Dick's Sporting Goods (a big chain around here... not sure how far it spreads). She wasn't thinking anything bad at all when she innocently went to http://www.dicks.com to look for shin pads... The gay p0rn flowed freely to her unsuspecting eyes. Luckily myself and my little brother weren't around, so we missed this all, but from what I'm told, there seemed a limitless amount of new pop ups every time she closed a window, so she ended up rebooting. What fun online shopping can be!
~Jon~
by the way, I'm not just a little kid, like I'm sure lots of you are thinking, I'm a professional sys admin, done with college and all... I just happen to have a young brother. =D
I could be wrong, but it looks to me like all that Hemos wrote there was
Ah, what a classic game.
The rest was all written by the submitter of the story. Does everything have to be about the Slashdot editors?
The open source version: GURU
The way I see things, I'll stick to buying normal CDs. I don't buy "new" music, so I pay about $12 per disc usually. There's about an average of 12 songs on a CD. When you add the costs of bandwidth, blank discs, and the burner, plus the time it takes, it's cheaper to just buy a CD. Plus, when you buy the full disc, it exposes you to other music by artists you like, and this can often lead to you finding great "gems" that you may have never heard if you only burn songs you know and like. This is just my opinion, and it's most likely wrong, but I thought I'd share it.
~Jon~
I immediately thought of Slashdot when I read Christopher Null's novel
;-)
We all know that i was just the name Null that made you think of Slashdot. I could be like everyone else, and say that Null is the average number of newsworthy stories.... but I won't
hey! Mullets RULE!! Chicks DIG mullets.... they just happen to all be in denial.
Didn't Lindows already do that and win?
Yes! And they can chage their Paradigm while they're at it!
~Jon~
You've got it all wrong... it's:
- Create automated application to look for piracy
- Shoot self in foot
- ???
- Profit!!
~Jon~this HAS to be one of the dumbest things I've heard!
If Office Depot had an ftp site where you could get their latest catalogue, they'd be accused of pirating M$ Office?!
I think they went a bit too far this time.
~Jon~
well, feel free to come visit me in Pittsburgh someday. we don't get LOTS of snow here like I did when I lived in New Hampshire, but we get enough.
My lifelong dream has been to build a snowman.
It's good to have goals =)
honestly, snowmen are neat, but they lose their charm after the 123112347120394th one you make. Now, the anatomically correct ones you build at the main enterance to your college... they're more fun.
~Jon~
Hmm... So they're wondering just how hittable the RIAA really is? I'll gladly hit them *grin*
The first of these are Phoenix's own FirstWave apps, which help diagnose and recover PCs if the OS goes tits-up
heh... he said tits... heheh...
Other than Office Space (obvious), the most accurate movie I can recall (I can't recall much) was Pirates of Silicon Valley. I mean, it's about real people, in a time when they actually developed software.
~Jon~
and they probably used them in this program for no reason other than to require you to update. They're probably things that they could have easily lived without. As a friend once told me, "WinXP was actually a functional product! Microsoft must have messed up! It WORKED! Then they put out sp1."
~Jon~
boy are some people dumb.
Is this technology supposed to replace our current email addresses (theoretically), or be in addition to them? Either way it seems dumb.
If it's a replacement, who says I want to give the whole world my phone number? If I want them to have it, then I'll give it. Also, if you move and get a new phone number, are you forced to get a new email address too?
If it's in addition to my current addresses, why bother? It's just one more place I have to set up spam filters. One more address to check. Also, couldn't spammers easily pick up a few phone books and use those numbers to vastly increase the size of their database?
just some thoughts.
~Jon~
I've got no idea... Our website blocking tool was just recently implemented, and it's got some odd sites blocked. We implemented it when one of the head IT guys had watched net traffic for a week or so, and found that out of the top ten sites visited from our employees during normal work hours, the top visited was for our 401k plan, and the next eight were porn sites, and the tenth was a job search site. They decided it was time to block things deemed "unnecessary". :-D
~Jon~
Ok, it seems that everyone missed what I meant to be my point with this post. I was quite tired when I wrote it ;-) I wasn't so much trying to say that either mac or pc was better, I wasn't trying to say that macs are hard to work on. I was trying to say that how it works is more important than how it looks. That's it. The parent post mentioned something along the lines of "macs are better because macs are prettier", and I was trying to say that I don't give a damn how it looks, whether it's a pc or mac. I want it to run well. That's all. No intent to flame mac users or anything. In another post of mine I mentioned that I'd like to get a mac... if I had any spare cash ;) Sorry for the confusion.
~Jon~
Why was this modded to troll? I seriously wonder about the security implications. Is that such a bad question to ask in a community that previously cared very much about security??
well, I can't view it from here at work, apparently it's catagorized as a "gambling site", but here's supposedly a video clip of a nuclear strike. Enjoy (I hope it'll answer your question)
Hmm... combine this with the comment above it and it really is almost pointless to play the game... 430 pictures, movies... next you'll see the interactive flash demo.