Let me get this right... They named their program after a device best known for being hacked into by the enemy and used to corrupt information to the point where its users become the enemy. I imagine they don't even recognize the irony.
"A DEA spokesman describes this as 'collateral damage' not resulting from DEA regulations but from the selfish actions of criminals." Calling your co-workers who decided to harass this guy without supporting rules selfish criminals is pretty harsh. Granted it's true, but you'd expect government agency spokesmen to be a little more politic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpio He's a real piece of work. Imagine Buford T Justice with a mean streak and a bunch of hirelings to do his bidding.
I've been running 100001 cocktails on the droid for quite awhile now. Does the same thing, although I've found much better drinks in the 1001 (huh trend here) cocktail book with full color alcohol porn photos of each one that someone gave me awhile ago.
Unfortunately I see this pandering as being detrimental to real security. What you have is these anti-virus companies marketing a product that purports to plug system's security holes. Instead what they do is they look for vulnerabilities that only exist on one platform and ignore the whole different set of vulnerabilities on the other platforms.
Management finds these 'universal security' products to be irresistible. They can load one product and 'poof' they can tick their check mark on their list and lo and behold all their systems are secure. Meanwhile you have your end users 'jailbreaking' the systems and then not changing the root password.
I thought it was running some form of Unix/Linux sort of OS.
I realize these modern day snake oil salesmen have convinced corporate America that their product is effective against all viruses on all platforms. However if you look at the definition file that they install on all the systems you'll see that the signatures list which platform they're for. I was curious so I greped the file. Turns out that while there's hundreds of thousands of windows definitions in the file there's only tens for linux and fewer for sun.
When pressed on this they'll tell you that they look for all those viruses so they arn't passed by the ftp/http/mail server on the unix box. While there's some merit to this position I don't see how it's at all relevant to the iPhone.
Or someone close to you that was killed by someone who was placed in an untenable situation. If you let someone out of prison and then make sure that they can't feed themselves or have anything resembling a life you shouldn't be surprised when they return to the only option left open to them, crime.
Um, yes. That was intended as a bit of irony. I guess it was a bit obtuse for the 'reply to ancient posts with inane one liners' set. I shall endeavor to keep your class of posters in mind henceforth.
I don't know. I think it would be really cheesy to have yet another one episode companion. Especially since they were calling the last one *The* Christmas Companion. However you're horribly spoiling the show for us yanks who have just seen series 2. I also don't believe they've even shown the christmas specials here in the states, so we don't even know they exist never mind that they're important to the story line.
So, since we're a year behind here nobody in the united states have seen any of the third series. We don't know that the whole thing was top notch from the beginning to the end. And even if it was shown none of us has seen Torchwood either, so even if we do eventually see the third series will be totally confused by the mysterious jar that kept being shown all through Torchwood, but who's payoff was in Dr. Who. (Russel Davis (sp?) was a real bastard doing that IMO)
Oh, and one thing, speaking of 'Blink', ALL my favorite Dr. Who episodes were written by Stephen 'Coupling' Moffat, so can he run Who when Davis leaves after the next series please please please.
Um, have you actually looked at groklaw? Werewolf1031 obviously has not done so. If you had looked at it you'd see the people who read it fall into one of several categories.
1) Technical people who are interested in law.
2) Technical people who care about the viability of linux and foss in general.
3) Law people who are interested in learning about technology.
It's an interesting mix of people. They tend to be much more thoughtful than/. people, for one thing the intricacies of the law are boring to people with short attention spans:-) Also, for people in group 2 the outcome of the SCO/IBM suit affects them very much.
Anyway, I really think you'd find the groklaw community very useful. You'd find technical people who have been educated at least a little bit in how the law works. (and have seen all the slimy tricks some lawyers will pull to attempt to game the court, I think SCO has tried everything except jury tampering and the only reason they haven't tried that is the suit hasn't gone to trial yet.)
Uh, no. This is *not* a tivo. It is a video recorder that uses a hard disk instead of a cassette tape. The echostar system does nothing to the hard drive it doesn't do to a VCR that's attached to it.
Anyway, a thought just struck me. There is a menu option to disallow the system from dating it's firmware without permission. I guess I just won't give it permission and continue using my PVR and to heck with TiVO. I bought this hardware it belongs to me. If TiVO wants me to stop using it as a PVR they can pay me the $200 difference between a regular dish star and a PVR dish star.
Oh, and the drug analogy was pretty good, but it's more like rather than making you puke they come into your house and take the pills you'd already paid for.
I don't agree at all. The thing is I've owned dish equipment since before there was a TiVO. Dish's PVR is *exactly* the same as what they used for VCRs. They were doing this before there was even a TiVO. Either the judge or EchoStar's lieyers seriously screwed the pooch here since that's gotta be pre-existing art since it like, you know, existed previously.
Why is google by far the largest search engine? It's not because they're a better search engine, they arn't, especially when they were new. Lycos was the original search engine, and they had the lion's share of the market.
No, Google dominates because they were fast, clean, and not annoying. If you look at this thread you'll see many people saying "I click on google ads sometimes, no others" That's why google gets hits.
The day they change what they are sending from text to graphics half of the sites that put them up will drop them. This would be a marketing decision who's brilliance would rival 'New Coke' and would be remembered for at least as long.
As I was saying Google is not that stupid. If they make a new stream that does what they're talking about, fine, more power to them. It won't work, but it wouldn't be fatal to them.
Hey there,
Moderator of the usenet newsgroup (rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated)
that the post was originally made to. If you read the thread on the newsgroup you'll see that Joe made another post.
In it he said:
1) Paramount is going to give Trek a rest for a couple of years
2) He was offered another series starting in '06
That's an easy one. 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'. The florida science fiction society did a poll asking everyone to list their top 10 favorite books. 'Mistress' was on more people's top 10 list than any other book.
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Let me get this right... They named their program after a device best known for being hacked into by the enemy and used to corrupt information to the point where its users become the enemy. I imagine they don't even recognize the irony.
"A DEA spokesman describes this as 'collateral damage' not resulting from DEA regulations but from the selfish actions of criminals." Calling your co-workers who decided to harass this guy without supporting rules selfish criminals is pretty harsh. Granted it's true, but you'd expect government agency spokesmen to be a little more politic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpio He's a real piece of work. Imagine Buford T Justice with a mean streak and a bunch of hirelings to do his bidding.
The quote there sounded like something John Cleese would say.
I've been running 100001 cocktails on the droid for quite awhile now. Does the same thing, although I've found much better drinks in the 1001 (huh trend here) cocktail book with full color alcohol porn photos of each one that someone gave me awhile ago.
I guess he was there to see if Batman could hook him up with the joker for hair styling tips.
I do wonder though how much he'd charge for a photo of him tied up in a chair by batman.
Hitler was against child pornography.
A few years ago I saw this: http://members.cox.net/starscopes/space_sky/20050922_vandenberg_rocket_launch.html while driving home from work. It looks more or less identical to the photographs from Norway. I can attest that it's an amazing site.
I knew it was BSD. I was trying to say *nix.
Unfortunately I see this pandering as being detrimental to real security. What you have is these anti-virus companies marketing a product that purports to plug system's security holes. Instead what they do is they look for vulnerabilities that only exist on one platform and ignore the whole different set of vulnerabilities on the other platforms.
Management finds these 'universal security' products to be irresistible. They can load one product and 'poof' they can tick their check mark on their list and lo and behold all their systems are secure. Meanwhile you have your end users 'jailbreaking' the systems and then not changing the root password.
I thought it was running some form of Unix/Linux sort of OS.
I realize these modern day snake oil salesmen have convinced corporate America that their product is effective against all viruses on all platforms. However if you look at the definition file that they install on all the systems you'll see that the signatures list which platform they're for. I was curious so I greped the file. Turns out that while there's hundreds of thousands of windows definitions in the file there's only tens for linux and fewer for sun.
When pressed on this they'll tell you that they look for all those viruses so they arn't passed by the ftp/http/mail server on the unix box. While there's some merit to this position I don't see how it's at all relevant to the iPhone.
Or someone close to you that was killed by someone who was placed in an untenable situation. If you let someone out of prison and then make sure that they can't feed themselves or have anything resembling a life you shouldn't be surprised when they return to the only option left open to them, crime.
FREE LUNA!
Um, yes. That was intended as a bit of irony. I guess it was a bit obtuse for the 'reply to ancient posts with inane one liners' set. I shall endeavor to keep your class of posters in mind henceforth.
I don't know. I think it would be really cheesy to have yet another one episode companion. Especially since they were calling the last one *The* Christmas Companion. However you're horribly spoiling the show for us yanks who have just seen series 2. I also don't believe they've even shown the christmas specials here in the states, so we don't even know they exist never mind that they're important to the story line.
So, since we're a year behind here nobody in the united states have seen any of the third series. We don't know that the whole thing was top notch from the beginning to the end. And even if it was shown none of us has seen Torchwood either, so even if we do eventually see the third series will be totally confused by the mysterious jar that kept being shown all through Torchwood, but who's payoff was in Dr. Who. (Russel Davis (sp?) was a real bastard doing that IMO)
Oh, and one thing, speaking of 'Blink', ALL my favorite Dr. Who episodes were written by Stephen 'Coupling' Moffat, so can he run Who when Davis leaves after the next series please please please.
The day that goes on-line I'll be able to filter scads of spam simply by refusing to resolve international domain names. Woot!
Ah, so the next thing is Daryl will be coming out as the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby.
Um, have you actually looked at groklaw? Werewolf1031 obviously has not done so. If you had looked at it you'd see the people who read it fall into one of several categories. 1) Technical people who are interested in law. 2) Technical people who care about the viability of linux and foss in general. 3) Law people who are interested in learning about technology. It's an interesting mix of people. They tend to be much more thoughtful than /. people, for one thing the intricacies of the law are boring to people with short attention spans :-) Also, for people in group 2 the outcome of the SCO/IBM suit affects them very much.
Anyway, I really think you'd find the groklaw community very useful. You'd find technical people who have been educated at least a little bit in how the law works. (and have seen all the slimy tricks some lawyers will pull to attempt to game the court, I think SCO has tried everything except jury tampering and the only reason they haven't tried that is the suit hasn't gone to trial yet.)
Uh, no. This is *not* a tivo. It is a video recorder that uses a hard disk instead of a cassette tape. The echostar system does nothing to the hard drive it doesn't do to a VCR that's attached to it.
Anyway, a thought just struck me. There is a menu option to disallow the system from dating it's firmware without permission. I guess I just won't give it permission and continue using my PVR and to heck with TiVO. I bought this hardware it belongs to me. If TiVO wants me to stop using it as a PVR they can pay me the $200 difference between a regular dish star and a PVR dish star.
Oh, and the drug analogy was pretty good, but it's more like rather than making you puke they come into your house and take the pills you'd already paid for.
I don't agree at all. The thing is I've owned dish equipment since before there was a TiVO. Dish's PVR is *exactly* the same as what they used for VCRs. They were doing this before there was even a TiVO. Either the judge or EchoStar's lieyers seriously screwed the pooch here since that's gotta be pre-existing art since it like, you know, existed previously.
That's what I was using in those days. Lycos is several years older than Alta Vista IIRC. I went from lycos to dogpile, then google.
Why is google by far the largest search engine? It's not because they're a better search engine, they arn't, especially when they were new. Lycos was the original search engine, and they had the lion's share of the market.
No, Google dominates because they were fast, clean, and not annoying. If you look at this thread you'll see many people saying "I click on google ads sometimes, no others" That's why google gets hits.
The day they change what they are sending from text to graphics half of the sites that put them up will drop them. This would be a marketing decision who's brilliance would rival 'New Coke' and would be remembered for at least as long.
As I was saying Google is not that stupid. If they make a new stream that does what they're talking about, fine, more power to them. It won't work, but it wouldn't be fatal to them.
You're welcome. It's been quite a bit of fun moderating the group. It'll be 9 years this April.
Hey there, Moderator of the usenet newsgroup (rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated) that the post was originally made to. If you read the thread on the newsgroup you'll see that Joe made another post. In it he said: 1) Paramount is going to give Trek a rest for a couple of years 2) He was offered another series starting in '06
and have since the late '90s. Satellite broadband from Dish and Direct has been available for 4 years or so. It's here, it works.
That's an easy one. 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'. The florida science fiction society did a poll asking everyone to list their top 10 favorite books. 'Mistress' was on more people's top 10 list than any other book.