And the Five Golden Rings were wrought by the hand of the Dark Lord Sauron, meaning they extract a price too heavy to be described in monetary terms, as they scorch your very soul, slowly dragging you bodily into a spiritual nether-world where you live as a wraith, neither dead nor alive, eternally locked in a heck-like existence where you live only to serve your dark master.
Whoa, check this out:
And the MS products were wrought by the hand of the Dark Bill Gates, meaning they extract a price too heavy to be described in monetary terms, as they scorch your very soul, slowly dragging you bodily into a spiritual nether-world where you live as a wraith, neither dead nor alive, eternally locked in a heck-like existence where you live only to serve your dark master.
Freaky how two minor changes will make this a true statement.
I keep to my original proposal, a massive blacklist. headache? yes, but it'd work if kept updated...
Actually, I suggest the opposite.
A white list. Make it user configurable, add the ability for the email server to drop connections as soon as it gets a header it doesn't like ( as apposed to getting the message then loosing it ), and you're gold.
There is. Check out SPF. It's simple, built on existing protocols (DNS), and 100% djb-free.
Can someone tell me WHY there is an overwhelming hate for this man? Everything I have read indicates that he is nothing short of genius, yet people can't seem to stand him.
What is possibly even more disturbing is the fact that our paid officials, you know, the ones that are supposed to be looking out for our best interests, didn't think of this either. Or, and this is something that must be considered, they did and didn't do anything about it.
Book quote that I think applies here: "If god had wanted me to vote, he would have given me candidates"
Your request is a bit like getting a flat ( by design of the car, btw ), and wanting someone to redesign the car to run on only 3 wheels because of it.
What makes it worse is the timing, over a holiday weekend (States side), where most systems staff will be unable to apply patches or mitigate risks.
2 things:
1) As has been pointed out, the rest of the world does not resolve around us, and it's that kind of arrogance that makes some people dislike america. And yes, they have a good point.
2) MS said 24 hours, so it should damn well be 24 hours, regardless of when the vulnerabilities come to light.
...but do we really expect management, who has no idea about technology and IP rights to be swayed by a pretty poster vs. massive lawsuits that they hear about on the morning news?
This is the exact thought going through a management type's head:
Lawsuit...bad.
Poster...pretty! Sign me up!
Now, if we wanted to really influence them, we'd put flashy things on it.
Hell, that's just irresponsible. Sure, mac/*nix have a dramatically decreased chance of virus infection ( argue why until you're blue in the face ), but that is no reason to be careless about it.
They had space craft capable of superluminal travel, weapons the size of a moon, and a damned robot that sounded like a ZX Spectrum loading Manic Miner.
Interestingly enough, in the first few versions of the movie he could talk, but they had to change his voice to beeps and whistles for the same reason you can't really understand Kenny.
Besides that, why else would they so fight opening the source? Trade secrets? How many companies out there are making voting machines? Why is it a problem if they all open their source? If there is code "sharing" going on, they'd know about it almost immediately due to the nature of the process.
Yes I am alright with teachers getting paid what they're currently paid. If a professional athlete sucks, he gets fired or let go. If a teacher sucks, she gets a damn raise.
You may not have intended it, but your post makes my arguement quite nicely ( more money for education ).
And no, teachers aren't the most important profession. I would argue parenting is.
Wrong. Parenting is not something you get paid to do, therefore it is not a profession. And yes, most people fuck even this up, but that's not part of this discussion.
Considering how kids who are HOME SCHOOLED consistently rack up higher scores on standardized tests and university entrance exams I really don't think the teaching profession is worth much of a damn.
Once again, you prove my point quite nicely. Typically, the tests given to home schooled students ( and in some cases, given IN THE HOME BY THE PARENT ) is far easier than the tests given in the schools.
Maybe the US just isn't the country for you. Perhaps you should move to a country where the government to disasterous effect controls the wages of all professionals and makes sure teachers are paid more than atheletes.
Maybe you should try being a bit LESS retarded. Teachers ARE the most important professional in our society ( american, russian, european,ect.. ), simply because of what they do and what they are responsible for. It's their job to teach people how to think ( you must have had a series of bad teachers ) and reason. I really don't think we can put a price tag on that job.
We can, however, put a price tag on a football player's job, however.
Of course local governments get involved in the manner in which you speak. However, what the original poster and I were referring to was a practice where the government step in and take massive amounts of the players money and redirects it to where it is most needed, which would be, in your specific case, The Center for free lobotomies.
Are you suggesting the government step in and forcibly redistribute the profits from professional sports? I mean, they already tax it at a high percentage as income (athletes are in a high-tier tax bracket, no doubt), then they tax it again when it is spent.
Of course I'm not suggesting the government getting involved. If I have a lesser opinion of any one group other than athletes, it's politicians.
What I am suggesting is the money poured in to professional sports is a gross waste of a resource that can be put to better use, and those recieving the funds should have the moral decency and wisdom to understand that they are incredibly lucky to be recieving this cash for what they do. Further, I would argue it's their moral obligation to see that a bulk of the money they get be given to those who contributed to their development.
Whoa! I sense some issues with the high school football team. Let it go, man.
Funny, isn't it? How when you suggest that professional athletes are playing a childs game YOU get blamed for having issues? Hate to break it to you, but that's all they do. They are not super heros, they are not role models. They are grown men and women who get paid to play child's games. And most can't even do that well.
( Oh yeah: Halfback for my highschool team. My only complain about high school foot ball in my specific case is the fact that the cheerleaders were hairy and scary )
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And the Five Golden Rings were wrought by the hand of the Dark Lord Sauron, meaning they extract a price too heavy to be described in monetary terms, as they scorch your very soul, slowly dragging you bodily into a spiritual nether-world where you live as a wraith, neither dead nor alive, eternally locked in a heck-like existence where you live only to serve your dark master.
Whoa, check this out:
And the MS products were wrought by the hand of the Dark Bill Gates, meaning they extract a price too heavy to be described in monetary terms, as they scorch your very soul, slowly dragging you bodily into a spiritual nether-world where you live as a wraith, neither dead nor alive, eternally locked in a heck-like existence where you live only to serve your dark master.
Freaky how two minor changes will make this a true statement.
I keep to my original proposal, a massive blacklist. headache? yes, but it'd work if kept updated...
Actually, I suggest the opposite.
A white list. Make it user configurable, add the ability for the email server to drop connections as soon as it gets a header it doesn't like ( as apposed to getting the message then loosing it ), and you're gold.
There is. Check out SPF. It's simple, built on existing protocols (DNS), and 100% djb-free.
Can someone tell me WHY there is an overwhelming hate for this man? Everything I have read indicates that he is nothing short of genius, yet people can't seem to stand him.
Any reasons?
Hopefully Jobs would not only hold it, but yank it right out of Darl's mouth.
lmfao!
If you think this is fun, maybe SCO will go after Apple/Jobs. I'm sure Steve would hold his tongue?
I would pay serious money to see that.
Say, $699?
MOAR BEER!
And I just KNOW I wasn't the only thinking that.
While it might have seemed a bit of an boast, it is, technically, accurate.
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Links:
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_10/wig
This is, what I call, a "DUH!" moment.
We should have thought of this a LONG time ago.
What is possibly even more disturbing is the fact that our paid officials, you know, the ones that are supposed to be looking out for our best interests, didn't think of this either. Or, and this is something that must be considered, they did and didn't do anything about it.
Book quote that I think applies here: "If god had wanted me to vote, he would have given me candidates"
Do realize that the Hummer will do this?
:)
I have often noticed people going around saying that something is imposible just because they don't want to put in the effort to do it.
Heh, this just makes my analogy that much more accurate
To use the tired old analogy of cars:
Your request is a bit like getting a flat ( by design of the car, btw ), and wanting someone to redesign the car to run on only 3 wheels because of it.
Pamala Jones has my early vote for "Linux Booster of the Year for 2003".
:)
She has my vote for President.
Wow, I guess the geeks really did inherit the earth.
What makes it worse is the timing, over a holiday weekend (States side), where most systems staff will be unable to apply patches or mitigate risks.
2 things:
1) As has been pointed out, the rest of the world does not resolve around us, and it's that kind of arrogance that makes some people dislike america. And yes, they have a good point.
2) MS said 24 hours, so it should damn well be 24 hours, regardless of when the vulnerabilities come to light.
Search 500,000 Documents, Review 160,000 Pages In 20 Hours,
Is THAT why they suck at what they do?
Is it really necessary to have every test release on the front page?
Yes, as it happens, it is.
This is the exact thought going through a management type's head:
Lawsuit...bad.
Poster...pretty! Sign me up!
Now, if we wanted to really influence them, we'd put flashy things on it.
Norwegian Aftenposten has an English version of the reports."
Uh..can anybody translate the english version into moron for me?
Or maybe it's a LONG FUCKING WAY to Mars?
Possibly?
Oh, and you DO listen to Art Bell too much, if this is the result of it.
Hell, that's just irresponsible. Sure, mac/*nix have a dramatically decreased chance of virus infection ( argue why until you're blue in the face ), but that is no reason to be careless about it.
CRN: How can you win suing customers and what happens if you go after HP customer?
McBride: The interesting scenario is, do you go after an HP customer or an IBM customer? That's what David is the master of. That's his final decision
So, if I am understanding this, the lawer is in charge.
Anybody else shocked?
They had space craft capable of superluminal travel, weapons the size of a moon, and a damned robot that sounded like a ZX Spectrum loading Manic Miner.
Interestingly enough, in the first few versions of the movie he could talk, but they had to change his voice to beeps and whistles for the same reason you can't really understand Kenny.
Nobody likes being cussed at by a robot. Nobody.
It's not just bad code. It's suspicious code.
Besides that, why else would they so fight opening the source? Trade secrets? How many companies out there are making voting machines? Why is it a problem if they all open their source? If there is code "sharing" going on, they'd know about it almost immediately due to the nature of the process.
So why are they so opposed to it?
Yes I am alright with teachers getting paid what they're currently paid. If a professional athlete sucks, he gets fired or let go. If a teacher sucks, she gets a damn raise.
You may not have intended it, but your post makes my arguement quite nicely ( more money for education ).
And no, teachers aren't the most important profession. I would argue parenting is.
Wrong. Parenting is not something you get paid to do, therefore it is not a profession. And yes, most people fuck even this up, but that's not part of this discussion.
Considering how kids who are HOME SCHOOLED consistently rack up higher scores on standardized tests and university entrance exams I really don't think the teaching profession is worth much of a damn.
Once again, you prove my point quite nicely. Typically, the tests given to home schooled students ( and in some cases, given IN THE HOME BY THE PARENT ) is far easier than the tests given in the schools.
Maybe the US just isn't the country for you. Perhaps you should move to a country where the government to disasterous effect controls the wages of all professionals and makes sure teachers are paid more than atheletes.
Maybe you should try being a bit LESS retarded. Teachers ARE the most important professional in our society ( american, russian, european,ect.. ), simply because of what they do and what they are responsible for. It's their job to teach people how to think ( you must have had a series of bad teachers ) and reason. I really don't think we can put a price tag on that job.
We can, however, put a price tag on a football player's job, however.
I bet you are retarded in your land too.
Of course local governments get involved in the manner in which you speak. However, what the original poster and I were referring to was a practice where the government step in and take massive amounts of the players money and redirects it to where it is most needed, which would be, in your specific case, The Center for free lobotomies.
Are you suggesting the government step in and forcibly redistribute the profits from professional sports? I mean, they already tax it at a high percentage as income (athletes are in a high-tier tax bracket, no doubt), then they tax it again when it is spent.
Of course I'm not suggesting the government getting involved. If I have a lesser opinion of any one group other than athletes, it's politicians.
What I am suggesting is the money poured in to professional sports is a gross waste of a resource that can be put to better use, and those recieving the funds should have the moral decency and wisdom to understand that they are incredibly lucky to be recieving this cash for what they do. Further, I would argue it's their moral obligation to see that a bulk of the money they get be given to those who contributed to their development.
Whoa! I sense some issues with the high school football team. Let it go, man.
Funny, isn't it? How when you suggest that professional athletes are playing a childs game YOU get blamed for having issues? Hate to break it to you, but that's all they do. They are not super heros, they are not role models. They are grown men and women who get paid to play child's games. And most can't even do that well.
( Oh yeah: Halfback for my highschool team. My only complain about high school foot ball in my specific case is the fact that the cheerleaders were hairy and scary )