For 1 Million Dollars it'd better run whatever OS I want it to run. Even better run Mac OS X if I want it.
Or Solaris Intel. Or HP/UX on Intel.
Ah hell, only 128GB solid state disk? For $1,000,000 why doesn't it have 256GB solid state disk??
And a battery life of 10 hours? For when I'm flying my LearJet from Seattle to London? Not to be a demanding rich person, but I expect a lot for my one million dollar laptop.
At least the security isn't biometric. That way the thief doesn't have to cut off my index finger, or kill me for my retina. "Uh, here---take this expensive looking rare diamond instead..."
The point is that it's not just some "random" key but keys that are known to be used to steal his software. If you pirate his software, you can't really whine if it destroys some of your precious files.
Solution: Don't use pirated keys. I highly doubt that regular keys (depending on the blacklist) would just cause the program to randomly start deleting things. Were that the case ALL software would be suspect because any of them could malfunction at any time.
As much as I'd like to jump on the "lynch the developer" bandwagon look at it from this standpoint:
There exist, for his program, known keys that are not valid keys. In fact the keys were generated by a pirate program designed to allow a non-paying user to use the program. Because these keys are known, and a valid user is unlikely to have these keys then there is no reason NOT to have bad things happen. If you attempt to use these known pirated keys to use the program---bad things will happen.
Frankly I'm not surprised that Microsoft doesn't do bad things if you attempt to use a know pirated CD key if you attempt to install XP or Vista. Well, it does phone home... but they could do worse than that, you know. If you attempt to use a known key for installing XP or Vista, just make it so the hard drive won't boot. Your casual pirate will be fucked because they might not have the skills to recover the system.
We're not talking about any ol' random keys here, but known "hacking his program" pirated keys... ya really gotta applaud his giant brass balls for going as far as he has.
If anyone was paying attention this is a few months after the previous mention of it.
And the reason it won't get any funding to study whether or not it's a real cure for cancer is because there's no money in it! If it's a cheap solution and it magically cures cancer... where's the profit in that?
So people will continue to die from cancer, who could have been cured by this cheap drug, because it would offset the bottom line. Nice world we life in, huh? Up next: Other things about this world you didn't know! Wal*Mart sells toys made by third-world children in order to sell them cheap in the United States!
I mean, God forbid that they prevent users from running them out of business by buying the hardware for far less than it costs Tivo to make it and loading MythTV onto it.
Yeah, when will that be available? I'd love to be able to just format the TiVo drive, install MythTV on it... and never have to bother TiVo again! Wooooooooot!
Wow, you could use a sheet of paper to store like... thousands of pr0n images! Just think of the possibilities! Playboy could stop being so wasteful with individual images and include images of the past 50 years on a few sheets of colored print!
Wouldn't a cheaper and better solution be to require all buildings to have white roofs and therefore reflect the sun's energy back into space? If that plan turns out not to work, just return them to their original color. It'd be a lot cheaper in the long run, faster, and easier to implement (bar the legal side).
Me too! The nice thing is for any particular search topic, rather when you have a specific topic, the links that have been added at the bottom of the article are by helpful people (humans) adding those links. Don't get me wrong, I like Google, but the links are all automated. With Wikipedia I know I'm getting something that someone's at least personally looked at at least once and felt it was helpful for that subject.
Point is, being a leeeeeesbian she's not going to accidentally get pregnant. Being that she knows the prescribed drugs will cause birth defects, she's not likely to go out and get pregnant on purpose (artifical or natural insemenation) knowing that it'd mess up the kid.
Sometimes doctor's don't give their patients enough credit for taking care of their own health and well being. Sure, there are a lot of idiots out there, but needless to say "Okay I understand that this could cause birth defects. I'm not getting pregnant accidentally or otherwise. Give me the drug" should work fine for an intelligent woman knowing her health.
For people who didn't RTFA, the two planets are about 6x the distance from the Sun to Pluto. The image in the article shows two large happy planets practically next to each other.
Six times the distance from the Sun to Pluto. If you're on one planet you might be lucky to see the tiny dot of the other planet in the night's sky... I don't recall if it said they were orbiting a star (for light) or not. So even the picture is misleading.
...and current law that arrests tresspassing and burglary don't reward people for learning to lock their doors for fear of a breakin.
I'm sorry if I don't buy the whole "we're writing viruses and trying to break in to teach you people to do better" excuse. If someone's tresspassing I'm going to shoot them anyway, regardless of whether they think they're teaching me a lesson.
Used to be the world was a friendlier place, and there are parts of the U.S. where you still can leave your door unlocked at night. Doesn't mean that robbers are to be rewarded though...they're still bad guys.
SCO is offering cash incentives to attend their workshop, hm?
Well, why not take it if you've nothing better going on? Doesn't mean you have to do anything with it after all, consider the workshop a nice development vacation. Doesn't mean you have to develop anything with it.
And if you do. Just make sure it blatantly says "SCO SUCKS" all over it.:)
I hope this "ad flag" is implemented and all Philips devices incorporate it!
That way TiVo can add a new feature that will guarantee to skip commercials! Or MythTV... or anything else. In short, if you're an advertiser that adds this flag... Philips users will be forced to sit through (can people Mute or will it turn up the volume 50%?) your ad, but everyone else can completely skip it with ease!
One of the more amusing FreeCycle beg posts I've seen was a woman who wanted to know if anyone had the McDonalds Monopoly piece for "Boardwalk" as she had "Park Place" and was willing to share the $1,000,00 with whoever had "Boardwalk"...
(For those who don't know "Boardwalk" is the winning piece in the game. They make about 1 of them, and about a million "Park Places"... you could get a "Park Place" if you bought you and your closest buddies all a value meal...)
Another post was someone asking if anyone out there had a "spare iPod" they wanted to give away...
Yeah... right... I got spare iPods just floating in my shit...
But that is the downside of FreeCycle is too many kids on it think that Santa Claus is there just waiting to give them their dream present.. for FREE!!!
Does anyone remember for a moment the Boston Airport situation, where Continental was offering free WiFi (unsecured I imagine) for its first class lounge (or whatever) and the company that was trying to charge people for WiFi connections at Boston Logan had a shit fit?
Now I don't know who's behind this law, but consider for a moment companies like Verizon or other companies who charge for WiFi. If they can find a way to shut down ALL free WiFI access, then their service becomes... well they can charge people for it, and people will have to use their shitty "pay per hour" system...
I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat or anything, but I'll bet you the people behind this is a company with a vested interest in shutting down free WiFi... almost stinks like a bookstore wanting to shut down those damn free "libraries"...:)
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Yes.. but how could you be against puppies and kittens????
For 1 Million Dollars it'd better run whatever OS I want it to run. Even better run Mac OS X if I want it.
Or Solaris Intel. Or HP/UX on Intel.
Ah hell, only 128GB solid state disk? For $1,000,000 why doesn't it have 256GB solid state disk??
And a battery life of 10 hours? For when I'm flying my LearJet from Seattle to London? Not to be a demanding rich person, but I expect a lot for my one million dollar laptop.
At least the security isn't biometric. That way the thief doesn't have to cut off my index finger, or kill me for my retina. "Uh, here---take this expensive looking rare diamond instead..."
Solution: Don't use pirated keys. I highly doubt that regular keys (depending on the blacklist) would just cause the program to randomly start deleting things. Were that the case ALL software would be suspect because any of them could malfunction at any time.
There exist, for his program, known keys that are not valid keys. In fact the keys were generated by a pirate program designed to allow a non-paying user to use the program. Because these keys are known, and a valid user is unlikely to have these keys then there is no reason NOT to have bad things happen. If you attempt to use these known pirated keys to use the program---bad things will happen.
Frankly I'm not surprised that Microsoft doesn't do bad things if you attempt to use a know pirated CD key if you attempt to install XP or Vista. Well, it does phone home... but they could do worse than that, you know. If you attempt to use a known key for installing XP or Vista, just make it so the hard drive won't boot. Your casual pirate will be fucked because they might not have the skills to recover the system.
We're not talking about any ol' random keys here, but known "hacking his program" pirated keys... ya really gotta applaud his giant brass balls for going as far as he has.
And the reason it won't get any funding to study whether or not it's a real cure for cancer is because there's no money in it! If it's a cheap solution and it magically cures cancer... where's the profit in that?
So people will continue to die from cancer, who could have been cured by this cheap drug, because it would offset the bottom line. Nice world we life in, huh? Up next: Other things about this world you didn't know! Wal*Mart sells toys made by third-world children in order to sell them cheap in the United States!
I mean, God forbid that they prevent users from running them out of business by buying the hardware for far less than it costs Tivo to make it and loading MythTV onto it.
Yeah, when will that be available? I'd love to be able to just format the TiVo drive, install MythTV on it... and never have to bother TiVo again! Wooooooooot!
Wow, you could use a sheet of paper to store like... thousands of pr0n images! Just think of the possibilities! Playboy could stop being so wasteful with individual images and include images of the past 50 years on a few sheets of colored print!
Wouldn't a cheaper and better solution be to require all buildings to have white roofs and therefore reflect the sun's energy back into space? If that plan turns out not to work, just return them to their original color. It'd be a lot cheaper in the long run, faster, and easier to implement (bar the legal side).
So yeah... me too. :)
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Sometimes doctor's don't give their patients enough credit for taking care of their own health and well being. Sure, there are a lot of idiots out there, but needless to say "Okay I understand that this could cause birth defects. I'm not getting pregnant accidentally or otherwise. Give me the drug" should work fine for an intelligent woman knowing her health.
Six times the distance from the Sun to Pluto. If you're on one planet you might be lucky to see the tiny dot of the other planet in the night's sky... I don't recall if it said they were orbiting a star (for light) or not. So even the picture is misleading.
I'm sorry if I don't buy the whole "we're writing viruses and trying to break in to teach you people to do better" excuse. If someone's tresspassing I'm going to shoot them anyway, regardless of whether they think they're teaching me a lesson.
Used to be the world was a friendlier place, and there are parts of the U.S. where you still can leave your door unlocked at night. Doesn't mean that robbers are to be rewarded though...they're still bad guys.
Well, why not take it if you've nothing better going on? Doesn't mean you have to do anything with it after all, consider the workshop a nice development vacation. Doesn't mean you have to develop anything with it.
And if you do. Just make sure it blatantly says "SCO SUCKS" all over it. :)
That'll teach 'em.
Can they go chapter 11 yet???
That way TiVo can add a new feature that will guarantee to skip commercials! Or MythTV... or anything else. In short, if you're an advertiser that adds this flag... Philips users will be forced to sit through (can people Mute or will it turn up the volume 50%?) your ad, but everyone else can completely skip it with ease!
I love it!
They made a movie on it even!
I for one welcome our giant self-park automobile overlords!
It's funn that I was marked Redundant because this whole article is!
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/30/011 5216
(For those who don't know "Boardwalk" is the winning piece in the game. They make about 1 of them, and about a million "Park Places"... you could get a "Park Place" if you bought you and your closest buddies all a value meal...)
Another post was someone asking if anyone out there had a "spare iPod" they wanted to give away...
Yeah... right... I got spare iPods just floating in my shit...
But that is the downside of FreeCycle is too many kids on it think that Santa Claus is there just waiting to give them their dream present.. for FREE!!!
I feel... vindicated...
Next up: A Faith based moon landing, and then on to Mars, God willing!
Does anyone remember for a moment the Boston Airport situation, where Continental was offering free WiFi (unsecured I imagine) for its first class lounge (or whatever) and the company that was trying to charge people for WiFi connections at Boston Logan had a shit fit?
Now I don't know who's behind this law, but consider for a moment companies like Verizon or other companies who charge for WiFi. If they can find a way to shut down ALL free WiFI access, then their service becomes ... well they can charge people for it, and people will have to use their shitty "pay per hour" system...
I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat or anything, but I'll bet you the people behind this is a company with a vested interest in shutting down free WiFi... almost stinks like a bookstore wanting to shut down those damn free "libraries"... :)
I'm still pushing for capital punishment on spammers... that'd make them think twice before they hit "send" I think. :)
Try www.freecycle.org or something...