Looking at your response, then, there seems to be no reason what-so-ever to be a white-hat.
Honestly, if you're going to get the book thrown at you, fucking make it worth it. Destroy those phenomenally expensive research projects.
I mean, after all, if he's going to get punished for things like this, it's better off at least feeling the satisfaction of really dicking someone over. I mean, if they're going to fuck your life up for the end of all days, you may as well have done it to them first. At least then you have "an eye for an eye".
Right now you have "an eye for a paper showing precisely how I could have taken your eye".
They can fucking pursue me in court, you fucking tool. I'm not pissed about that. I'm pissed at the concept of being blamed for something I didn't do because their "investigation" methods are haphazard at best.
I have a lot of shit going on in my life, all of it higher on my list of "fun things to do" than defend myself in civil court by some nitwit company that fucking got their facts wrong.
If you can't understand why I'm pissed at them for that, then fucking kill yourself, because the only thing you're worth is worm food.
I'm confused. If you're upgrading your computer, but aren't upgrading your motherboard and cpu, what exactly are you upgrading?
Aside from the video card, those are the two that date the fastest. As long as there isn't a major RAM shift, you're fine. CPU sockets change more frequently than RAM does, so you're usually stuck buying a new one every other time you upgrade your CPU.
Granted, your video card (for a gamer) gets swapped out about once a year or so (or, if you are really hardcore and have a disposable income, about every six months).
For now, Quad Core is not exactly the way to go with video games. Give it 6 months or a year or maybe even a year and a half, depending on what games you want to play and when they come out.
Me? There's not a single game out that I play that takes advantage of single core. I generally only leave my IM client running in the background, and certainly nothing that can't sleep for extended periods of time while I'm not doing anything on it, so anything more than dual core is the epitome of silly. Not only would my processor be slower in games, but I wouldn't use the other cores I even had, so that's kinda "teh sux".
Obviously, that's just how *I* use my computer. Your results may vary.
Don't bother dude, their reading comprehension sucks. You never even alluded to being pro-drm'd fonts, but they're too busy running around with their idiot pants on to take notice.
You're only *supposing* it's a real problem. And in reality, you could be right.
But how, pray tell, do you justify to your shareholders "we decided to let people "steal" x number of our dollars, because we feel the Windows Ecosystem has the potential to bring us back 2x or x^2 or x^x percent return on our... investment"?
Look, I paid for a Nissan Rogue. I like my Rogue. But if, for example, I felt like my penis was not quite large enough, I still don't have the right to roll into a Nissan dealership and roll off with a Nissan Xtera.
Granted, we're talking real property vs. non-real property, but the fact that I bought one DOES NOT GIVE ME THE RIGHT TO TAKE WHATEVER ELSE I WANT just because I don't like what I bought.
Trying to push people who aren't paying for their products away?
God forbid any company do such a thing! IT'S THE FREELOADERS THAT MAKE THIS COUNTRY FREE!
Seriously, if they don't like Vista, the best thing for them is to either a: buy XP or b: get smart, enterprising geeks like yourself to help them with this "linux thing".
If they like it, use it! It's good for people to use what they like!
Some people won't like it, and they'll decide not having a crappy (to them) experience is worth the X$ MS wants to charge them or the Y$ it costs for a Mac.
But for fuck's sake, don't act like pushing people who didn't pay for the right to use your product away is a bad thing.
Where do you get off saying that something that doesn't physically exist belongs to someone else?
The whole concept of copyright is arbitrary. It was arbitrarily decided upon that, to offset the costs of creation, a short term monopoly would be provided on duplication of said creation so that the creator could attempt to recoup the costs of creation, if not make a profit.
However, without this creative work entering the public domain, no one else gets to use it in any way other than as a consumer. Maybe you don't think this is a bad thing, but there are those who disagree with that sort of stance vehemently.
I see you've failed reading comprehension. I didn't boil over into murderous wives. I said the *threat* of somebody -else's- murderous wives is enough to keep "the masses" away. I doubt there are many people in such a shitty marriage that they wouldn't trust their spouse to give them insulin.
But, instead you misread and misinterpret and go flying off the handle yourself. Pot, I dub thee black.
A husband may allow his wife, but does that mean *everyone* has to trust his wife?
Hell no.
That's why you scare the shit out of people. You tell them they could die, twice. Then those who really trust their wives will let them administer the insulin, and those who don't know those wives won't.
This is not about -you-, it is about the great unwashed masses. If you have a super fragi-cali-listic-expi-ali-docious reason to agree to a self-signed/sketchy third-party signed cert, then that's certainly your perogative. I hope it works out for you. In all honesty, it probably will.
But at the same time, most people shouldn't be sending their bank details over such a sketchy connection.
And there are plenty of legitimate doctors who don't have MD's from some arbitrary university.
Frankly, I'm glad you and said sketchy doctor get the shaft. Switch your signed certs to another company, or go to med school somewhere that ISN'T Tanzania, and maybe you'll be accepted. Otherwise, your tears fall on deaf ears. Or something.
What I also want to point out is that, if these people who are creating "intellectual property" can no longer afford to do so because they can't make money on their works, there would indeed be a sharp, incredible decline in the number of "works of art". Pop-culture as we know it would utterly cease to exist.
To some this is a good thing. To others, absolutely awful. I just wanted to make sure I pointed this out so I didn't come off *completely* one sided. I don't think that copyright is necessarily bad. But I also think that copyright law, as it is now, is horrendously fubar. If you make money on your copyright works, that's fine, but there's no reason at all why you should get 70 years after your death to make money. That completely unbalances the copyright equation.
It is important to have new works of art added to society. So we provide copyright on those new works to justify the cost of creation to the people creating.
However, if we never get to use those new works of art in any way other than as consumers, then the benefit to society (by being able to use said works in other forms, new packages, or just in any which way they want) is lost. I'd say the value of those works decreases by over half, in that instance, but that's admittedly subjective.
A lot of people do these things because they enjoy it. The fact that they can make money off of it is actually just a bonus.
Don't for a second think that people wouldn't create new works of art just because they had to work another job. To say that people who create as a hobby don't count vs. those who create as a job is at best misleading.
I'd even go so far as to say that I have more respect for the person who creates art just because he/she wants to express themselves than I do for the person who is trying to make sure they have food on their table that month. When it comes down to the "spirit" of art and creativity, the hobbyist has less pressure to -do- things with their art vs. that of the person ensuring their survival.
Well, for starters, my shoulders hurt like hell first thing I wake up in the morning. I can't find a position that doesn't cause them to hurt so much.
Another pressing matter: I just rubbed my eye after eating a banana pepper about 2 hours ago, without having washed my hand. I look like somebody shot my dog right before my eyes.
I've got a lot of weight to lose, I'm starting to get a bald spot, and I have a yeast infection on the end of my trouser trout that I'm seeing a doctor about on Wednesday 'cos the Cloromotrinasdlkjasdf;ljasdf;lj stuff isn't working.
Isn't that effectively what the people reviewing the patches are doing?
Essentially, these people are saying "yeah, we're not letting you start on a heart. Here's a benign mole to remove. Have fun. I'll look over your work whenever I get a chance (maybe)."
Don't bother answering. It was a rhetorical question. I've heard all your mindless drivel from countless people before.
All I care about is this: does it work without pissing me off? People keeping things under wraps or making money off of something does not piss me off. I can understand why it would piss you off. I mean, people out there get awfully upset if two dudes or two chicks start humping each other. People decide to stone women for being raped because they didn't have 4 witnesses to the act.
People feel and think lots of crazy, bat-shit loco things from time to time, and sometimes, they get so fucking zealous about it that they can't grasp how others may disagree, or even worse, just not give a shit. And that's when they get dangerous. It's bad enough when you disagree with a zealot; god help you if you just don't fucking care.
Aye, the honeymoon is, but it's also (hopefully) just a "one in a lifetime" thing, so going somewhere spectacular (such as Whistler, BC) will be amazing.
The idea of taking a train from Toronto to Jasper sounds amazing, too, though. I'm not sure we'll be able to take off enough time for it, though.:)
In some rare cases, that's not an option. I have to fly at least twice a year, and each time it makes me miserable. When I go on my honeymoon to BC (I'm east coast), I'm going to have to fly *again*.
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I highly doubt string theory is based on *no* evidence. If it were, it wouldn't even be a theory. It'd be a hypothesis.
Looking at your response, then, there seems to be no reason what-so-ever to be a white-hat.
Honestly, if you're going to get the book thrown at you, fucking make it worth it. Destroy those phenomenally expensive research projects.
I mean, after all, if he's going to get punished for things like this, it's better off at least feeling the satisfaction of really dicking someone over. I mean, if they're going to fuck your life up for the end of all days, you may as well have done it to them first. At least then you have "an eye for an eye".
Right now you have "an eye for a paper showing precisely how I could have taken your eye".
They can fucking pursue me in court, you fucking tool. I'm not pissed about that. I'm pissed at the concept of being blamed for something I didn't do because their "investigation" methods are haphazard at best.
I have a lot of shit going on in my life, all of it higher on my list of "fun things to do" than defend myself in civil court by some nitwit company that fucking got their facts wrong.
If you can't understand why I'm pissed at them for that, then fucking kill yourself, because the only thing you're worth is worm food.
I'm confused. If you're upgrading your computer, but aren't upgrading your motherboard and cpu, what exactly are you upgrading?
Aside from the video card, those are the two that date the fastest. As long as there isn't a major RAM shift, you're fine. CPU sockets change more frequently than RAM does, so you're usually stuck buying a new one every other time you upgrade your CPU.
Granted, your video card (for a gamer) gets swapped out about once a year or so (or, if you are really hardcore and have a disposable income, about every six months).
For now, Quad Core is not exactly the way to go with video games. Give it 6 months or a year or maybe even a year and a half, depending on what games you want to play and when they come out.
Me? There's not a single game out that I play that takes advantage of single core. I generally only leave my IM client running in the background, and certainly nothing that can't sleep for extended periods of time while I'm not doing anything on it, so anything more than dual core is the epitome of silly. Not only would my processor be slower in games, but I wouldn't use the other cores I even had, so that's kinda "teh sux".
Obviously, that's just how *I* use my computer. Your results may vary.
Watch them win and maintain the 250gb cap.
Comcast subscribers = butt pwnt.
10mb patches spread over a few tens of thousands of people? Are you kidding?
If it's not costing them that much, how about YOU fucking pay for it, you arrogant sonuvabitch?
Don't bother dude, their reading comprehension sucks. You never even alluded to being pro-drm'd fonts, but they're too busy running around with their idiot pants on to take notice.
You're only *supposing* it's a real problem. And in reality, you could be right.
But how, pray tell, do you justify to your shareholders "we decided to let people "steal" x number of our dollars, because we feel the Windows Ecosystem has the potential to bring us back 2x or x^2 or x^x percent return on our ... investment"?
Sorry, but it's not going to fly dude.
Exactly. They paid for *Vista*.
Look, I paid for a Nissan Rogue. I like my Rogue. But if, for example, I felt like my penis was not quite large enough, I still don't have the right to roll into a Nissan dealership and roll off with a Nissan Xtera.
Granted, we're talking real property vs. non-real property, but the fact that I bought one DOES NOT GIVE ME THE RIGHT TO TAKE WHATEVER ELSE I WANT just because I don't like what I bought.
Trying to push people who aren't paying for their products away?
God forbid any company do such a thing! IT'S THE FREELOADERS THAT MAKE THIS COUNTRY FREE!
Seriously, if they don't like Vista, the best thing for them is to either a: buy XP or b: get smart, enterprising geeks like yourself to help them with this "linux thing".
If they like it, use it! It's good for people to use what they like!
Some people won't like it, and they'll decide not having a crappy (to them) experience is worth the X$ MS wants to charge them or the Y$ it costs for a Mac.
But for fuck's sake, don't act like pushing people who didn't pay for the right to use your product away is a bad thing.
No no no no!
NJ should take Philadelphia, not the other way around! We don't want it!
Where do you get off saying that something that doesn't physically exist belongs to someone else?
The whole concept of copyright is arbitrary. It was arbitrarily decided upon that, to offset the costs of creation, a short term monopoly would be provided on duplication of said creation so that the creator could attempt to recoup the costs of creation, if not make a profit.
However, without this creative work entering the public domain, no one else gets to use it in any way other than as a consumer. Maybe you don't think this is a bad thing, but there are those who disagree with that sort of stance vehemently.
I see you've failed reading comprehension. I didn't boil over into murderous wives. I said the *threat* of somebody -else's- murderous wives is enough to keep "the masses" away. I doubt there are many people in such a shitty marriage that they wouldn't trust their spouse to give them insulin.
But, instead you misread and misinterpret and go flying off the handle yourself. Pot, I dub thee black.
A husband may allow his wife, but does that mean *everyone* has to trust his wife?
Hell no.
That's why you scare the shit out of people. You tell them they could die, twice. Then those who really trust their wives will let them administer the insulin, and those who don't know those wives won't.
This is not about -you-, it is about the great unwashed masses. If you have a super fragi-cali-listic-expi-ali-docious reason to agree to a self-signed/sketchy third-party signed cert, then that's certainly your perogative. I hope it works out for you. In all honesty, it probably will.
But at the same time, most people shouldn't be sending their bank details over such a sketchy connection.
And there are plenty of legitimate doctors who don't have MD's from some arbitrary university.
Frankly, I'm glad you and said sketchy doctor get the shaft. Switch your signed certs to another company, or go to med school somewhere that ISN'T Tanzania, and maybe you'll be accepted. Otherwise, your tears fall on deaf ears. Or something.
I wish I hadn't clicked "Submit" before:
What I also want to point out is that, if these people who are creating "intellectual property" can no longer afford to do so because they can't make money on their works, there would indeed be a sharp, incredible decline in the number of "works of art". Pop-culture as we know it would utterly cease to exist.
To some this is a good thing. To others, absolutely awful. I just wanted to make sure I pointed this out so I didn't come off *completely* one sided. I don't think that copyright is necessarily bad. But I also think that copyright law, as it is now, is horrendously fubar. If you make money on your copyright works, that's fine, but there's no reason at all why you should get 70 years after your death to make money. That completely unbalances the copyright equation.
It is important to have new works of art added to society. So we provide copyright on those new works to justify the cost of creation to the people creating.
However, if we never get to use those new works of art in any way other than as consumers, then the benefit to society (by being able to use said works in other forms, new packages, or just in any which way they want) is lost. I'd say the value of those works decreases by over half, in that instance, but that's admittedly subjective.
A lot of people do these things because they enjoy it. The fact that they can make money off of it is actually just a bonus.
Don't for a second think that people wouldn't create new works of art just because they had to work another job. To say that people who create as a hobby don't count vs. those who create as a job is at best misleading.
I'd even go so far as to say that I have more respect for the person who creates art just because he/she wants to express themselves than I do for the person who is trying to make sure they have food on their table that month. When it comes down to the "spirit" of art and creativity, the hobbyist has less pressure to -do- things with their art vs. that of the person ensuring their survival.
Well, for starters, my shoulders hurt like hell first thing I wake up in the morning. I can't find a position that doesn't cause them to hurt so much.
Another pressing matter: I just rubbed my eye after eating a banana pepper about 2 hours ago, without having washed my hand. I look like somebody shot my dog right before my eyes.
I've got a lot of weight to lose, I'm starting to get a bald spot, and I have a yeast infection on the end of my trouser trout that I'm seeing a doctor about on Wednesday 'cos the Cloromotrinasdlkjasdf;ljasdf;lj stuff isn't working.
And that's just for starters.
Isn't that effectively what the people reviewing the patches are doing?
Essentially, these people are saying "yeah, we're not letting you start on a heart. Here's a benign mole to remove. Have fun. I'll look over your work whenever I get a chance (maybe)."
Okay, it's a closed, proprietary application.
Why, precisely, should I care?
Don't bother answering. It was a rhetorical question. I've heard all your mindless drivel from countless people before.
All I care about is this: does it work without pissing me off? People keeping things under wraps or making money off of something does not piss me off. I can understand why it would piss you off. I mean, people out there get awfully upset if two dudes or two chicks start humping each other. People decide to stone women for being raped because they didn't have 4 witnesses to the act.
People feel and think lots of crazy, bat-shit loco things from time to time, and sometimes, they get so fucking zealous about it that they can't grasp how others may disagree, or even worse, just not give a shit. And that's when they get dangerous. It's bad enough when you disagree with a zealot; god help you if you just don't fucking care.
CCCP. If it doesn't work there, chances are it's a pay-for codec. And chances are it wasn't a very good porn anyway.
(you may want to multitask whilst you're waiting. otherwise you just ruined *two* lives.)
Not my treasure!
*proceeds to hoard*
Aye, the honeymoon is, but it's also (hopefully) just a "one in a lifetime" thing, so going somewhere spectacular (such as Whistler, BC) will be amazing.
The idea of taking a train from Toronto to Jasper sounds amazing, too, though. I'm not sure we'll be able to take off enough time for it, though. :)
In some rare cases, that's not an option. I have to fly at least twice a year, and each time it makes me miserable. When I go on my honeymoon to BC (I'm east coast), I'm going to have to fly *again*.
Fun, it is not.