...it was shown that this stuff doesn't do anything.
Personally I thought the ads were completely hilarious - a wink and a nod from Smilin' Bob that yes, it's a scam but let's have fun with it. I am sitting here shocked they raised anywhere in the neighborhood of a half a billion dollars.
The folks who sent their money? No sympathy. Sorry. None. Launching your lawyer because you missed the joke is a great way to turn a happy prank into just another sad day in court.
Is J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, the icon of the Church of the SubGenius and a fixture on the Internet as long as there's been one. Many are the followers of the SubGenius.
This huckster's appropriation of Smilin' Bob for his advertising is itself subtle worship and as such, could be protected speech. Of course getting caught is a cardinal sin in the huckster's ethos so perhaps he's excommunicated.
In protest we should all donate to Rev. Magdalen's Legal defense fund because she's worth it even if this twerp isn't.
Wrong kind of offshore hosting. A "host" is a PC or reasonable simulation thereof. If you lease an offshore host, you can remote to it through SSL using various tools, and use it for things you would ordinarily use the PC on your desk for. Except that since it's in a different jurisdiction, different rules apply. And there's no chance your significant other, kids, or the prying eyes of your local law enforcement will ever come across it without your explicit permission and consent. As long as you don't violate the local rules where the server is, auto-remember your access code or save stuff to your local machine, you're fine.
You have no control over what FEMA, BATF, RIAA or Homeland Security will make illegal retroactively. You can't control what extraneous websites might be preloaded by your browser, nor if you're using Windows, what content is served by your local rootkit. You don't know what they're monitoring, but the safe money is on "everything". 1984 is here. What you can do is avoid exposure to these risks by running a less "malware friendly OS" to connect to your host in a less tyrannical jurisdiction. It may be informative here to point out that members of the judiciary, Congress, and the executive branch of our government never use a computer directly for their own sake. It's too risky. They have digests of their important email read to them over the phone for denyability purposes, and even then the readers are carefully trained to avoid controversial issues and truly important information is passed person-to-person just like Al-Quaida. It's a wonder they can even grasp what the Internet is often enough to fund their share of it.
You can, but don't have to, also use it for serving blogs and data over the Internet but that's not pertinent to my point.
quality of the infrastructure.
Apparently you know something I don't. AFAIK the incumbent providers have pretty much nixed the Moore's Law model of communications development with their political contributions. Fixing this is far more expensive than running a few fibers to Tijuana or Nogales where persuading the necessary government officials is more of a retail operation.
Theft of the commons by rights holders is wrong, but it's neither damage nor theft.
It is theft. Their retrograde copyright measures to perpetually protect their stupid animated mouse and pop tarts have cost us all a great deal of intellectual property that would be lapsed from copyright. Some of it was already in the public domain and they've yanked it back with their default copyright coverage. There's a huge mass of cultural capital there. It was ours and they have stolen it.
They deserve to be treated like the criminals they are.
Wildly popular Mythbusters television star Adam Savage resigned suddenly from his position as cohost of Discovery TV's Mythbusters. Said Mr. Savage: "I just want to take a little personal time with my family. I'll be taking some time out for a year or four in Belize."
Mr. Savage has not been seen since, and our repeated calls to his agent go unanswered.
The Discovery Channel has announced through media representative Linsay Patter "We'll miss him and wish him the best. His loss means we won't be able to continue with the show." Discovery will be filling the space with Annie Parkinson's "Crafts for Children".
Your error here is thinking the Internet is still some sort of technology artifact still. That hasn't been true for a decade. It's an abstract concept now, and those are far harder to stop.
It's not ruin. It's opportunity. Lots of market for free and open bandwidth, and lots of jurisdictions who don't care how you kibble your bits. Offshore hosting looks like a chance for the banana republics to build their online economies. It will happen there as well as here, not instead, so everybody benefits.
Note that you can't run a strict Standards mode intranet and use compatibility mode for the Internet. Hm... What's that about? Does Microsoft perhaps sell some non-standards compliant intranet services?
If corporations need this it still doesn't have to be the default. They can set it in group policy. It's Microsoft that needs nonstandard IE mode (aka compatibility mode) to be the default for intranets, to lock in SharePoint.
The internet is a redundant fault tolerant network. It routes around damage. Censorship is damage. Monitoring is damage. Theft of the commons by rights holders is damage. What did they think was going to happen?
Try GotoAssist. Then you can remote their screen from anywhere. They're having a free beta right now. I don't work for them. I use it though, and it's cool.
Unfortunately the real argument lies with everybody that stands on this line. Everybody to the right of me is heartless. Everyone to the left is Godless. I kind of like to leave this one alone for this reason.
- but even better if people in industry would pay attention!
Of course all those other attempts have failed. It's because they didn't use my super secret (and soon to be patented) method for riskless, full control family friendly DRM 2.0.
Now shut up until I close the deal with these twits, would ya?
You would do well to read more on the subject before posting and proving your ignorance.
Yup. Fire them. Start with the cop and keep going up until you get to the one who'll say "This should not happen on my watch. We'll take steps to educate people about why this is a bad thing and hopefully prevent a recurrence." A Taser is not a toy.
for 8GB you can have Ubuntu and a few hundred of your favorite free apps.
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8GB for ubuntu? Is Gnome really that bloated? And has ubuntu been gaining serious weight?
Um, not what I wrote? But yeah, Gnome is fluffing up nicely. You can still squeeze it into a 4GB install if, like you said, you're careful. Me, I like to install stuff with reckless abandon and so I wind up chewing up 12GB on my server install for OS & Apps. On the upside, it has LTSP so all my desktops can network boot to a standard desktop in just a few seconds just like thin clients, which is handy when the family brings their kids over and everybody wants to goof off on the Internet but my kids don't want their PCs infested with the junk that normally follows that activity. That and I have the usual tools I like - Open Office, The Gimp, Blender, POVRay, etc.
Data? That's a different bucket of bytes altogether. Frankly, I don't even know...
I'm reading here that the cop tasered a 10yo kid? That's a firing. Boss won't fire him? Out with him too. All the way up.
I see you've got this issue in your lathe getting ready do spin it a few turns. Be careful with that. This looks like an issue with some knotty backlash in it.
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Personally I thought the ads were completely hilarious - a wink and a nod from Smilin' Bob that yes, it's a scam but let's have fun with it. I am sitting here shocked they raised anywhere in the neighborhood of a half a billion dollars.
The folks who sent their money? No sympathy. Sorry. None. Launching your lawyer because you missed the joke is a great way to turn a happy prank into just another sad day in court.
They had a wedding experience too, where you could get married on the bridge of the Enterprise - with one of the actors as a witness.
Is J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, the icon of the Church of the SubGenius and a fixture on the Internet as long as there's been one. Many are the followers of the SubGenius.
This huckster's appropriation of Smilin' Bob for his advertising is itself subtle worship and as such, could be protected speech. Of course getting caught is a cardinal sin in the huckster's ethos so perhaps he's excommunicated.
In protest we should all donate to Rev. Magdalen's Legal defense fund because she's worth it even if this twerp isn't.
I liked it. With luck the props will be salvaged for some museum somewhere.
Biofuel algae farm.
Wrong kind of offshore hosting. A "host" is a PC or reasonable simulation thereof. If you lease an offshore host, you can remote to it through SSL using various tools, and use it for things you would ordinarily use the PC on your desk for. Except that since it's in a different jurisdiction, different rules apply. And there's no chance your significant other, kids, or the prying eyes of your local law enforcement will ever come across it without your explicit permission and consent. As long as you don't violate the local rules where the server is, auto-remember your access code or save stuff to your local machine, you're fine.
You have no control over what FEMA, BATF, RIAA or Homeland Security will make illegal retroactively. You can't control what extraneous websites might be preloaded by your browser, nor if you're using Windows, what content is served by your local rootkit. You don't know what they're monitoring, but the safe money is on "everything". 1984 is here. What you can do is avoid exposure to these risks by running a less "malware friendly OS" to connect to your host in a less tyrannical jurisdiction. It may be informative here to point out that members of the judiciary, Congress, and the executive branch of our government never use a computer directly for their own sake. It's too risky. They have digests of their important email read to them over the phone for denyability purposes, and even then the readers are carefully trained to avoid controversial issues and truly important information is passed person-to-person just like Al-Quaida. It's a wonder they can even grasp what the Internet is often enough to fund their share of it.
You can, but don't have to, also use it for serving blogs and data over the Internet but that's not pertinent to my point.
Apparently you know something I don't. AFAIK the incumbent providers have pretty much nixed the Moore's Law model of communications development with their political contributions. Fixing this is far more expensive than running a few fibers to Tijuana or Nogales where persuading the necessary government officials is more of a retail operation.
So, if the test is completely ineffective I have to ask: Why does the USDA mandate its use on the 1% of cattle that are required to be tested?
It is theft. Their retrograde copyright measures to perpetually protect their stupid animated mouse and pop tarts have cost us all a great deal of intellectual property that would be lapsed from copyright. Some of it was already in the public domain and they've yanked it back with their default copyright coverage. There's a huge mass of cultural capital there. It was ours and they have stolen it.
They deserve to be treated like the criminals they are.
We have a while. We have the rest of forever. It'll get done.
Wildly popular Mythbusters television star Adam Savage resigned suddenly from his position as cohost of Discovery TV's Mythbusters. Said Mr. Savage: "I just want to take a little personal time with my family. I'll be taking some time out for a year or four in Belize."
Mr. Savage has not been seen since, and our repeated calls to his agent go unanswered.
The Discovery Channel has announced through media representative Linsay Patter "We'll miss him and wish him the best. His loss means we won't be able to continue with the show." Discovery will be filling the space with Annie Parkinson's "Crafts for Children".
It's the big one that comes from the vendor of the browser. So it's got that going for it, which is nice.
Your error here is thinking the Internet is still some sort of technology artifact still. That hasn't been true for a decade. It's an abstract concept now, and those are far harder to stop.
Probably be cat 5 before it hits ground with N.O. in the NE quadrant at high tide midnight Tuesday. Probably 25-30 feet of storm surge.
Somebody's getting an emmy for footage of this. If you're in there, get out while you can.
It's not ruin. It's opportunity. Lots of market for free and open bandwidth, and lots of jurisdictions who don't care how you kibble your bits. Offshore hosting looks like a chance for the banana republics to build their online economies. It will happen there as well as here, not instead, so everybody benefits.
Note that you can't run a strict Standards mode intranet and use compatibility mode for the Internet. Hm... What's that about? Does Microsoft perhaps sell some non-standards compliant intranet services?
If corporations need this it still doesn't have to be the default. They can set it in group policy. It's Microsoft that needs nonstandard IE mode (aka compatibility mode) to be the default for intranets, to lock in SharePoint.
The internet is a redundant fault tolerant network. It routes around damage. Censorship is damage. Monitoring is damage. Theft of the commons by rights holders is damage. What did they think was going to happen?
Well, since we're discussing Dan Quayle, I suppose in that context I would suggest it's indoor work with no heavy lifting.
Try GotoAssist. Then you can remote their screen from anywhere. They're having a free beta right now. I don't work for them. I use it though, and it's cool.
Unfortunately the real argument lies with everybody that stands on this line. Everybody to the right of me is heartless. Everyone to the left is Godless. I kind of like to leave this one alone for this reason.
Of course all those other attempts have failed. It's because they didn't use my super secret (and soon to be patented) method for riskless, full control family friendly DRM 2.0.
Now shut up until I close the deal with these twits, would ya?
Yup. Fire them. Start with the cop and keep going up until you get to the one who'll say "This should not happen on my watch. We'll take steps to educate people about why this is a bad thing and hopefully prevent a recurrence." A Taser is not a toy.
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Um, not what I wrote? But yeah, Gnome is fluffing up nicely. You can still squeeze it into a 4GB install if, like you said, you're careful. Me, I like to install stuff with reckless abandon and so I wind up chewing up 12GB on my server install for OS & Apps. On the upside, it has LTSP so all my desktops can network boot to a standard desktop in just a few seconds just like thin clients, which is handy when the family brings their kids over and everybody wants to goof off on the Internet but my kids don't want their PCs infested with the junk that normally follows that activity. That and I have the usual tools I like - Open Office, The Gimp, Blender, POVRay, etc.
Data? That's a different bucket of bytes altogether. Frankly, I don't even know...
I'm reading here that the cop tasered a 10yo kid? That's a firing. Boss won't fire him? Out with him too. All the way up.
I see you've got this issue in your lathe getting ready do spin it a few turns. Be careful with that. This looks like an issue with some knotty backlash in it.
Try this external USB drive and put some velcro between it and the back of your display. When you don't need it, remove it. Problem solved.