Having been granted full ownership of SkyNet by the courts, Darl McBride repurposes it to hunt down and destroy Linux users who have failed to pay their $199 licensing fee. Even though John Connor is a BSD user, he realizes that it is only a matter of time before Darl turns on his kind as well. As an act of desperation, Connor forges an alliance with the remaining T666 units, knowing that he is facing the greatest threat to humanity yet. While the T666 units stage a valiant assault against Darl, it is clear that they are no match for his ever growing power. All appears lost until it is revealed that the assault was just a diversion to allow Connor to strike at Darl's Achilles' heel by getting SCO delisted from the NASDAQ.
You are absolutely right, the Mac ads are horrendously misleading. The lines from that commercial aren't actual Vista prompts. Even more scandalous: John Hodgman isn't really a PC and Justin Long isn't really a Mac! Shame on Steve Jobs for his lies.
I agree with the last, but the other portions are just as engrained in todays 'christian' beliefs as if it says in the Bible "Take up guns and smite thy neighbor". Bullshit.
God said:
Deuteronomy 7
1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nationsthe Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you- 2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. 3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. 5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. 6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.
There is no need to assume responsibility for your actions, as long as you can find a lawyer (you can't swing a dead cat without hitting one) to plead your case.
Hi, my name Gzip Christ Sokolove and I want to help you find the person that did this to your cat and make them pay!. Call me at 1-800-555-5555. I'll get you the money and the justice you deserve.
don't do anything you wouldn't want everyone to see in the news.
So when was the last time you went to the bathroom? You must be in some severe pain from holding it in that long.
Seriously, everybody does things that they want to keep private and that should be their prerogative and their right. It's not OK to dismiss Microsoft playing fast and loose with your personal data because you think we should behave as if we have no personal data anyway. While I think that your advice is good idea to follow in general since Microsoft, et al, don't have the best record of trustworthiness, that by no means removes Microsoft's responsibility to design things in a secure way.
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Here's my solution... I have emacs set up to automatically encrypt and decrypt files that end in.gpg when I open/save them. It's very handy for safely keeping all my passwords. I use crypt++ and this snippet for my.emacs file:
Btw, Linux also runs on toasters, coffee machines, ipod's etc.
Bah! Linux will never be more than a niche player in the toaster market because it is offers too many choices and is therefore too confusing for the drooling masses. Do you think Joe Six Pack cares whether his toast is toasted in a light, medium, or high manner? No! These dizzying array of options will only serve to turn him off to Linux. What he wants is the friendly, animated Toasty(TM) avatar that knows how toast is to be made.
Yes, SCO has found cases where their copyrighted code was stolen and then cleverly obfuscated by completely changing the variable names, comments, data structures and algorithms! But clearly it must have been stolen since it performs a similar function.
Could Darl McBride and Mr. Burns be related? They seem to think alike:
Burns: Who is that lavatory linksman, Smithers?
Smithers: Homer Simpson, sir. One of the fork and spoon operators from sector 7-G.
Burns: Well, he's certainly got a loose waggle. Perhaps I've finally found a golfer worthy of a match with Monty Burns, eh?
Smithers: His waggle is no match for yours, sir. I've never seen you lose a game. Except for that one in '74 when you let Richard Nixon win. That was very kind of you, sir.
Burns: Oh, he just looked so forlorn, Smithers, with his [imitating Nixon] "Oh, I can't go to prison, Monty. They'll eat me alive!"
[Smithers laughs]
I wonder if this Homer Nixon is any relation?
Smithers: Unlikely, sir. They spell and pronounce their names differently.
Burns: Bah. Schedule a game and I'll ask him myself.
So instead of asking a hunk of plastic and metal for answers to math problems, I would have been asking a room full of educated unmarried women?
This is progress!?!?!
It's like a Ford Taurus saying it's gonna catch a Ferrari.
Or it's like a tortoise saying that it's going to catch a hare. This is the type of thing people said back when Microsoft decided to seriously compete with Netscape. Internet Explorer at the time was a vastly inferior product and Netscape had something like 90+% market share. There's no way Microsoft could catch up, right?
Of course, everybody knows that Microsoft did catch up by improving Internet Explorer to the point that it was good enough, leveraging its Operating System monopoly to make it dramatically easier to start using IE than Netscape (by bundling it), and using predatory, negative pricing subsidized by their OS monopoly to kill Netscape's revenue source. Sure, it didn't help that Netscape Communicator grew fat and bloated and that Netscape failed to release a 5.0 product in a timely manner, but Microsoft may have won anyway. Watch for Microsoft to try similar shenanigans in its effort to catch up with Google. Godspeed Google - give the bastards a run for their money.
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Having been granted full ownership of SkyNet by the courts, Darl McBride repurposes it to hunt down and destroy Linux users who have failed to pay their $199 licensing fee. Even though John Connor is a BSD user, he realizes that it is only a matter of time before Darl turns on his kind as well. As an act of desperation, Connor forges an alliance with the remaining T666 units, knowing that he is facing the greatest threat to humanity yet. While the T666 units stage a valiant assault against Darl, it is clear that they are no match for his ever growing power. All appears lost until it is revealed that the assault was just a diversion to allow Connor to strike at Darl's Achilles' heel by getting SCO delisted from the NASDAQ.
You are absolutely right, the Mac ads are horrendously misleading. The lines from that commercial aren't actual Vista prompts. Even more scandalous: John Hodgman isn't really a PC and Justin Long isn't really a Mac ! Shame on Steve Jobs for his lies.
There's an "I'm a Mac" ad which covers this: http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/ap ple-getamac-security_480x376.mov
Oops - I just realized He never mentioned guns. So I guess you were right. My bad.
Seriously, everybody does things that they want to keep private and that should be their prerogative and their right. It's not OK to dismiss Microsoft playing fast and loose with your personal data because you think we should behave as if we have no personal data anyway. While I think that your advice is good idea to follow in general since Microsoft, et al, don't have the best record of trustworthiness, that by no means removes Microsoft's responsibility to design things in a secure way.
Can't it be both?
Of course, everybody knows that Microsoft did catch up by improving Internet Explorer to the point that it was good enough, leveraging its Operating System monopoly to make it dramatically easier to start using IE than Netscape (by bundling it), and using predatory, negative pricing subsidized by their OS monopoly to kill Netscape's revenue source. Sure, it didn't help that Netscape Communicator grew fat and bloated and that Netscape failed to release a 5.0 product in a timely manner, but Microsoft may have won anyway. Watch for Microsoft to try similar shenanigans in its effort to catch up with Google. Godspeed Google - give the bastards a run for their money.