Turn the question around and I ask what America you live in? Divorce rate for first marriages is over 50%. And the US leads the world in teen pregnancy, a significant percentage of which result in a single mom because the baby daddy is often a POS.
Men raised by single mom's often don't have any significant/consistent adult male role models in their lives. This often leads to their growing up to be a "Man-child" who doesn't know how to 'be a man.'
Family values makes for a nice slogan, but the plebiscite appears to be functionally ignoring the message, while paying it lip service.
It's not just the US, though. Russia also has a very high divorce rate and a high teen mother population, though one difference is that teen mothers in Russia often get more support from their immediate families than those in the US.
As a software developer and musician I appreciate the concept of IP law. However, it has been gamed by corporate interests so much over the last 160 years that it no longer serves society, or the constituency it was created to enfranchise.
Essentially it has become a vehicle for corporate welfare for organizations that don't even create content, let alone art.
Patent law is even worse in that it has become a weapon to stifle innovation and invention rather than foster it, and protect the public interest in expanding the national knowledge base.
The entire IP law system needs to be re-implemented, but I don't see how that could happen until corporations are put back on the strict accountability to public good leash, and heeled.
The public-stock corporate animal is a very intelligent and cunning beast, but like a poorly trained and disciplined dog has become a dangerous, sociopathic liability to society, and seriously impedes the exercise of responsible democratic government./soapbox
As of 7/31/09 Apple has announced a 3.0.1 update to address the SMS message hack.
"APPLE-SA-2009-07-31-1 iPhone OS 3.0.1
iPhone OS 3.0.1 is now available and addresses the following:
CoreTelephony CVE-ID: CVE-2009-2204 Available for: iPhone OS 1.0 through iPhone OS 3.0 Impact: Receiving a maliciously crafted SMS message may lead to an unexpected service interruption or arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue exists in the decoding of SMS messages. Receiving a maliciously crafted SMS message may lead to an unexpected service interruption or arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issue through improved error handling. Credit to Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators, and Collin Mulliner of Fraunhofer SIT for reporting this issue."
It shows it as a tooltip. So does the Mac OS Mail program. This works for all linked passive content displayed by WebKit.
It shows more than the domain. It shows the actual domain and path that clicking on the hot-text will request. WebKit has done this since at least Mac OS X 1.2.X
One place I's like to see it expanded in active content.... I have to watch my cursor very carefully on ad-rich pages to avoid getting whacked by active content. Not that it does anything worse than crash Safari browser or lock it up.... for now:/
BTW if you'll notice, when I copied the rendered URL into my posting. Only the rendered text was copied, by Safari, not the underlying URL.... I consider that a feature, not a bug.
I cannot blindly copy a deceptive URL without extra effort, and more than likely I would discover the underlying deception in the process of duplicating the URL in it's original form.
Safari's design and UI did a damn good job of making me paranoid about links embedded in a page without throwing a bunch of modal dialogs in my face. go figure.
Good thing I am on OSX running Safari.... Hovering the mouse over the rendered text of the link shows me the actual domain I'm going to be vectored to... Gosh wouldn't want to go there.... might be dangerous!
Over a year ago: Using denyhosts I black holed IP addresses after two attempts and the entire subnet after 10 total attempts in 12 hours. I eventually gave up and took the host off port forwarding because I didn't need to access it remotely any more.
I was quickly heading to the point that all of Russia, China and the Koreas were going to be completely black-holed. Interestingly some areas of the US, especially the mid-west and central canada were getting fairly dark too.
If I ever need to put that host back on my PF.... I am going to use a "deny all except X" rule and avoid wasting all the extra electrons required to process 20+ freaking SSH auth attempts per second.
It's annoying that the first four or five news stories I stumbled across that vaguely described this hack either stated explicitly or strongly implied that the iPhone was the sole target for this exploit, and that it was a flaw in the SMS receiver implementation found in the iPhone.
Now I read the shady details and find that this is a service provider issue, and the client is basically responding as designed to a trusted server that does not deserve that trust....
what a fucking mess....
Maybe Apple's claim that jailbreaking iPhones does risk the cellular networks....
However the finger needs to point firmly at the fat sloppy dogs that can't, or won't properly secure their server resources.
"A company telling User Joe Smith that he can find a copy of "Twilight Zone" from User Trinity, and providing B's address to A is not illegal behavior under current law. You might wish it was, but it ain't."
Utter bullshit.
Put another way: Lets say I am asked by person A where I might find a person B who will sell person A drugs. If I give them a reference to a person B, I am guilty of aiding and abetting the crime of drug trafficking, in most US states this is a felony. It applies in US law for almost any crime you can think of. Providing any form of willful assistance to a criminal act is, in and of itself, a criminal act.
The Pirate Bay, applying same logic, is in fact aiding and abetting.
It is a life out of balance. It is a life that is not sustainable, and there will be consequences. We have been having a big human bloom for the last 400 years or so. It really kicked into over drive 200 years ago... If the Climate Change phenomena is being caused by our excesses it is very unlikely that our current life styles will be sustainable in the 22nd century.
It really doesn't matter what is causing Climate Change. The end result is likely to be bad news for our highly leveraged life support network. Especially if the change is rapid.
The suspected cooling even 12,500 years ago apparently did a real number on large fauna and a very successful human population in North America. The transition from the old stable climate to the one that followed may have happened in as little as 100 years... It is likely the transition played out even more rapidly than that.
A2FS1 was a real time 3D flight simulator available for the Apple// in August 1979. It was written by Bruce A. Artwick, and published by subLogic.
There was also a "binder-ware" library available from the publisher, with the same release date, called A23D1. This was a 3D wire-frame rendering library written in 6502 assembly language. It could be called from either Applesoft Basic or from assembly language. The A2FS1 was sold as a game, but it was actually a demo for the A23D1 library.
It was capable of rendering about 100 - 250 vectors per frame @ about 8 - 15 FPS on a 1.023MHz 6502.
The documentation for this library was so well written and complete, that I was able to re-implement the entire library in Hypercard as a Hypertalk script in 1988. In hypertalk, running on a 16MHz 68030, the library had about the same vector capacity and frame rate as it had on the 6502.
"For those who disbelieve that EM waves can have an affect on organic tissue
- disable the "door open" safety feature on your microwave - insert head - press start - remove head when the pain begins
Wi-Fi signals may be similar to bitter tastes. Some people think broccoli tastes bitter; others think it tastes fine. This is natural variation in the tastebuds and it's entirely possible that the ultrashort EM waves are having a similar unpleasant effect on 1% of humans."
I'd buy that if the double blind studies didn't strongly indicate that these people are whack jobs, with regard to WiFi signals...
"Hi I'm a PC, and I run Linux" "Hi I'm a Mac, and I run Linux" "hi I'm an iPod, and I run Linux" "Hi I'm a Shark with Lasers, and I don't run.... but you'd better start running... NOW!"
In keeping with the continental theme.... Could you be referring to Undersea Lions?
I for one, would like to see these electrical lions as well, they sound very interesting. How to you get power in lion? Is this like Power over Ethernet?
Quick reality check: speed up your heart rate, then slow it down again. You have 20 seconds.
Oh, you mean you aren't even in full conscious control of your own body? How are you supposed to know shit about the universe, then? Lack of evidence means "unproven", not "false". Learn the difference.
You sir are a fucking moron. I can most certainly speed up my heart rate in 20 seconds. I just look at a nude of Natalie Portman. To slow it back down I just look at.... Your Mom!
---
There is a specific test for this really.... it's called a Step-Test. Passing it is required to be certified a FFT2 (wild fire/forest fire fighter) The test involved an aerobic stress to the heart. eg. repeatedly stepping up and down on a three stair block for 3 minutes. This elevates the heart rate to a high degree. A pulse rate is taken the moment you complete the three minute stressor. To qualify for the next part of the test your heart rate has to be above a certain rate. (some athletic types fail here because their heart rate doesn't go above the threshold)
Immediately after the pulse rate is confirmed you get 60 seconds to reduce your heart rate to less than half of the threshold. Many more athletic types fail this part because they DO NOT know how to calm down, because in their athletic training they were trained to let the energy keep flowing and slowly walk it off.
After 60 seconds of taking any action you wish to 'calm yourself' your heart rate is measured again. Pass or fail: If your heart rate is below 1/2 the threshold rate you pass, if not, you fail.
Athletic types can opt to do a 3 mile run with some upper limit to the time taken as an alternate to the Step-Test.
However the Step-Test in NOT as some believe a fitness test. It is a self-control test. It makes sense in a fire zone because there are many situations one might be exposed to that require you to overcome a panic response to 'do the right thing' Those that can pass the step-test are showing that they have the ability to control their response to stressing situations.
In short Juily your assertion is full of shit... There are hundreds of thousands of firefighters that have passed this test, and to pass it they had to know how to CONTROL their heart rate./rant
Apple almost did lose their a$$ to the clone manufacturers. Do you remember the licensed clones? Every last one of the licensees did EXACTLY what they promised Apple they would not do.... and that was cannibalize the top and bottom of the market with poorly made over-clocked low priced crap.
When Apple tried gamely to compete we got the worst machines Apple has built since the Lisa and Apple/// hit the shelves.
Apple only survived by yanking all the license agreements, thus sending the clone makers back to the PC market.
DDR is so.... 1999.... grow up move on... this GH GF bullshit is just another stupid gaming phase. It's all played out... and I am sick to death of tweens acting like GH actually taught them something about playing guitar...
What a crock....
You wanna be a real hero? YouTube your sorry ass smashing the stupid controller over your console while the game is running.... that might actually be amusing../rant
I store my data in a VM on the 99th U of the Rack And I sit ~/ look at the windows Imaging the world cash crops Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a NSA Spook And says, I've won five pounds if I have his kind of data packet
I said, Hey! You! Log off of my cloud Hey! You! Log out of my cloud Hey! You! Log off of my cloud Don't login here two UIDs is a crowd On my cloud, Baby
The VOIP is signaling I say, "Hi it's me. Who is it there in the stream?" A voice says, "Hi, hello, how are you" Well I guess I'm doin' fine He says, "It's three a.m. watch the SNR boy! Don't you ever halt that simulation? Just cause it runs so good do you have to fill the drives to the end?
I say, Hey! You! Log off of my cloud Hey! You! Log out of my cloud Hey! You! Log off of my cloud Don't hack around 'cause two UIDs is a crowd On my cloud baby
I was hacking python, and fed up with spaces And decided to connect to slashdot It was so very quiet and peaceful With all of the ACs banned no new postings around I hibernated the laptop, I was so lagged I started to scream In the morning the parked heads were just like A write-flag stuck on my windows machine
I say, Hey! You! Log off of my cloud Hey! You! Log out of my cloud Hey! You! Log off of my cloud Don't hack around 'cause two UIDs is a crowd On my cloud baby
Hey! You! Log out of my cloud Hey! You! Log off of my cloud Hey! You! Log out of my cloud Don't hang my process, baby two UID's a crowd!
Back when I was starting out my Mac specialty practice in the mid-90's I got some attention from a high profile shop in town. The Veep called me one day and asked about my services.... blah, blah, blah.... checking on his competitors. I did my best to look like a bit player since I knew about their focus... $110/hr for on-site service....
So some time goes by. I get a customer in with a Mac+ I fire it up with the custie watching and they point out the problem.... looks like the analog board is failing... I have a referb kit for that it will be $155 including parts and labor... can have it done in 48 hours....
Ok customer accepts deal. Later that day I crack the system open and examine the analog board.... I notice the parts are not stock and there are clear signs that someone else has been working on the board, recently. I call the custie and ask for an explanation. Custie informs me that they took their machine back from the $110/hr guys because she didn't like the way the tech talked to her.... She claims they finished work, but when she asked for a demo of the machine it failed to work....
I go over the work and notice that a couple of components have been incorrectly installed. I contact the other shop and ask to talk to the shop supervisor. I tell him who I am and that I am looking at their custie's machine... supervisor has a coronary on me, threatens lawsuit.... blah blah blah.... I tell him to put of the Veep I spoke to a few weeks before.... NOW!
We do a conference call. My position is that they clearly fucked up. Custie clearly wants computer fixed and doesn't want to deal with them, but I also respect that its their mess to clean up, their parts, their labor... I don't want to get in the middle of it.
The sup is still having a cow... Veep tells him to get off the line. Veep and I discuss options. Veep decides that they will pay me to make their work good, and not charge the customer. I agree to tell custie that I completed the work they started on their behalf. They agree to pay me parts and labor for the work at THEIR rates not mine, since I am working for them in this situation. They further agree that this situation does not create a business relationship between us... blah blah blah.... they fax over an agreement to that effect. I review and sign... fax back.... fix the woman's machine.... Tell her the good news.... no charge.... fixed under their warranty by me.... Demo working machine.... custie very pleased.... Follow up with other shop with total for parts and labor.
Veep sends supervisor to my shop with check for parts and labor and an apology for making an ass of himself... (0.o wtf?).
I ended up competing in their market just two years later... they offered to buy me out.... which I should have taken them up on. Oh well... hey live and learn right?
Slashdot Mirror
"What America do you live in? "
Turn the question around and I ask what America you live in?
Divorce rate for first marriages is over 50%. And the US leads the world in teen pregnancy, a significant percentage of which result in a single mom because the baby daddy is often a POS.
Men raised by single mom's often don't have any significant/consistent adult male role models in their lives. This often leads to their growing up to be a "Man-child" who doesn't know how to 'be a man.'
Family values makes for a nice slogan, but the plebiscite appears to be functionally ignoring the message, while paying it lip service.
It's not just the US, though. Russia also has a very high divorce rate and a high teen mother population, though one difference is that teen mothers in Russia often get more support from their immediate families than those in the US.
As a software developer and musician I appreciate the concept of IP law. However, it has been gamed by corporate interests so much over the last 160 years that it no longer serves society, or the constituency it was created to enfranchise.
Essentially it has become a vehicle for corporate welfare for organizations that don't even create content, let alone art.
Patent law is even worse in that it has become a weapon to stifle innovation and invention rather than foster it, and protect the public interest in expanding the national knowledge base.
The entire IP law system needs to be re-implemented, but I don't see how that could happen until corporations are put back on the strict accountability to public good leash, and heeled.
The public-stock corporate animal is a very intelligent and cunning beast, but like a poorly trained and disciplined dog has become a dangerous, sociopathic liability to society, and seriously impedes the exercise of responsible democratic government. /soapbox
As of 7/31/09 Apple has announced a 3.0.1 update to address the SMS message hack.
"APPLE-SA-2009-07-31-1 iPhone OS 3.0.1
iPhone OS 3.0.1 is now available and addresses the following:
CoreTelephony
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-2204
Available for: iPhone OS 1.0 through iPhone OS 3.0
Impact: Receiving a maliciously crafted SMS message may lead to an
unexpected service interruption or arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue exists in the decoding of SMS
messages. Receiving a maliciously crafted SMS message may lead to an
unexpected service interruption or arbitrary code execution. This
update addresses the issue through improved error handling. Credit to
Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators, and Collin
Mulliner of Fraunhofer SIT for reporting this issue."
This bug is crushed.
It shows it as a tooltip. So does the Mac OS Mail program. This works for all linked passive content displayed by WebKit.
It shows more than the domain. It shows the actual domain and path that clicking on the hot-text will request. WebKit has done this since at least Mac OS X 1.2.X
One place I's like to see it expanded in active content.... I have to watch my cursor very carefully on ad-rich pages to avoid getting whacked by active content. Not that it does anything worse than crash Safari browser or lock it up.... for now :/
BTW if you'll notice, when I copied the rendered URL into my posting. Only the rendered text was copied, by Safari, not the underlying URL.... I consider that a feature, not a bug.
I cannot blindly copy a deceptive URL without extra effort, and more than likely I would discover the underlying deception in the process of duplicating the URL in it's original form.
Safari's design and UI did a damn good job of making me paranoid about links embedded in a page without throwing a bunch of modal dialogs in my face. go figure.
When they came for the DVD hackers I did not speak out for them, because I was not a DVD hacker.
When they came for the P2P pirates I did not speak out for them, because I was not a P2P pirate.
When they came for the iPhone Jailbreakers I did not speak out for them, because I did not own an iPhone.
When they came for the text-to-speech developers and the blind I did not speak out for them, because I could see and read the written word.
When I read aloud to my 3 year old daughter, they came for me.
There was no one left to speak out for me.
---
Connect the Gho-Rham dots.
And yet you still feel the need to hide behind AC?
Your method of communication exposes your stink of fear....
I'll spare you the shame and follow up....
TE is a bunch of pu#$^#$%^$%^ ---NO CARRIER
You mean links like this? http://www.mi5.gov.uk/
Good thing I am on OSX running Safari.... Hovering the mouse over the rendered text of the link shows me the actual domain I'm going to be vectored to... Gosh wouldn't want to go there.... might be dangerous!
Over a year ago: Using denyhosts I black holed IP addresses after two attempts and the entire subnet after 10 total attempts in 12 hours. I eventually gave up and took the host off port forwarding because I didn't need to access it remotely any more.
I was quickly heading to the point that all of Russia, China and the Koreas were going to be completely black-holed. Interestingly some areas of the US, especially the mid-west and central canada were getting fairly dark too.
If I ever need to put that host back on my PF.... I am going to use a "deny all except X" rule and avoid wasting all the extra electrons required to process 20+ freaking SSH auth attempts per second.
It's annoying that the first four or five news stories I stumbled across that vaguely described this hack either stated explicitly or strongly implied that the iPhone was the sole target for this exploit, and that it was a flaw in the SMS receiver implementation found in the iPhone.
Now I read the shady details and find that this is a service provider issue, and the client is basically responding as designed to a trusted server that does not deserve that trust....
what a fucking mess....
Maybe Apple's claim that jailbreaking iPhones does risk the cellular networks....
However the finger needs to point firmly at the fat sloppy dogs that can't, or won't properly secure their server resources.
Shame on you AT&T, et al YOU FUCKED UP BAD!
"A company telling User Joe Smith that he can find a copy of "Twilight Zone" from User Trinity, and providing B's address to A is not illegal behavior under current law. You might wish it was, but it ain't."
Utter bullshit.
Put another way:
Lets say I am asked by person A where I might find a person B who will sell person A drugs. If I give them a reference to a person B, I am guilty of aiding and abetting the crime of drug trafficking, in most US states this is a felony. It applies in US law for almost any crime you can think of. Providing any form of willful assistance to a criminal act is, in and of itself, a criminal act.
The Pirate Bay, applying same logic, is in fact aiding and abetting.
Preserve our way of life?
It is a life out of balance. It is a life that is not sustainable, and there will be consequences. We have been having a big human bloom for the last 400 years or so. It really kicked into over drive 200 years ago... If the Climate Change phenomena is being caused by our excesses it is very unlikely that our current life styles will be sustainable in the 22nd century.
It really doesn't matter what is causing Climate Change. The end result is likely to be bad news for our highly leveraged life support network. Especially if the change is rapid.
The suspected cooling even 12,500 years ago apparently did a real number on large fauna and a very successful human population in North America. The transition from the old stable climate to the one that followed may have happened in as little as 100 years... It is likely the transition played out even more rapidly than that.
" True, putting the lab underground should prevent any problems."
Ah, because that worked so well for the Umbrella Corporation.
Oh btw A2FS1 had a combat mode, with enemy planes and bombing missions. So technically it was also an FPS... In August 1979...
A2FS1 was a real time 3D flight simulator available for the Apple // in August 1979. It was written by Bruce A. Artwick, and published by subLogic.
There was also a "binder-ware" library available from the publisher, with the same release date, called A23D1.
This was a 3D wire-frame rendering library written in 6502 assembly language. It could be called from either Applesoft Basic or from assembly language. The A2FS1 was sold as a game, but it was actually a demo for the A23D1 library.
It was capable of rendering about 100 - 250 vectors per frame @ about 8 - 15 FPS on a 1.023MHz 6502.
The documentation for this library was so well written and complete, that I was able to re-implement the entire library in Hypercard as a Hypertalk script in 1988. In hypertalk, running on a 16MHz 68030, the library had about the same vector capacity and frame rate as it had on the 6502.
"For those who disbelieve that EM waves can have an affect on organic tissue
- disable the "door open" safety feature on your microwave
- insert head
- press start
- remove head when the pain begins
Wi-Fi signals may be similar to bitter tastes. Some people think broccoli tastes bitter; others think it tastes fine. This is natural variation in the tastebuds and it's entirely possible that the ultrashort EM waves are having a similar unpleasant effect on 1% of humans."
I'd buy that if the double blind studies didn't strongly indicate that these people are whack jobs, with regard to WiFi signals...
put your tin foil hat back on a GTFO...
Your beer goggles are getting thicker....
Nothing to see here.... return to your pr0n collection.... peacefully....
"Hi I'm a PC, and I run Linux"
"Hi I'm a Mac, and I run Linux"
"hi I'm an iPod, and I run Linux"
"Hi I'm a Shark with Lasers, and I don't run
There, fixed that for ya...
In keeping with the continental theme....
Could you be referring to Undersea Lions?
I for one, would like to see these electrical lions as well, they sound very interesting. How to you get power in lion? Is this like Power over Ethernet?
They also tend to rubberneck....
The lions though they are notorious for tail-gating :(
Quick reality check: speed up your heart rate, then slow it down again. You have 20 seconds.
Oh, you mean you aren't even in full conscious control of your own body? How are you supposed to know shit about the universe, then? Lack of evidence means "unproven", not "false". Learn the difference.
You sir are a fucking moron. I can most certainly speed up my heart rate in 20 seconds. I just look at a nude of Natalie Portman. To slow it back down I just look at.... Your Mom!
---
There is a specific test for this really.... it's called a Step-Test. Passing it is required to be certified a FFT2 (wild fire/forest fire fighter) The test involved an aerobic stress to the heart. eg. repeatedly stepping up and down on a three stair block for 3 minutes. This elevates the heart rate to a high degree. A pulse rate is taken the moment you complete the three minute stressor. To qualify for the next part of the test your heart rate has to be above a certain rate. (some athletic types fail here because their heart rate doesn't go above the threshold)
Immediately after the pulse rate is confirmed you get 60 seconds to reduce your heart rate to less than half of the threshold. Many more athletic types fail this part because they DO NOT know how to calm down, because in their athletic training they were trained to let the energy keep flowing and slowly walk it off.
After 60 seconds of taking any action you wish to 'calm yourself' your heart rate is measured again. Pass or fail: If your heart rate is below 1/2 the threshold rate you pass, if not, you fail.
Athletic types can opt to do a 3 mile run with some upper limit to the time taken as an alternate to the Step-Test.
However the Step-Test in NOT as some believe a fitness test. It is a self-control test. It makes sense in a fire zone because there are many situations one might be exposed to that require you to overcome a panic response to 'do the right thing' Those that can pass the step-test are showing that they have the ability to control their response to stressing situations.
In short Juily your assertion is full of shit... There are hundreds of thousands of firefighters that have passed this test, and to pass it they had to know how to CONTROL their heart rate. /rant
Operating System -> Windowing System -> Virtual Machine -> Application
I think you mean:
Operating System -> Windowing System -> Virtual Machine -> Operating system -> Windowing System -> Application
Or for Java and similar sandboxes:
Operating System -> Windowing System - > Virtual Machine -> Operating Environment(OS Lite) -> Application
Apple almost did lose their a$$ to the clone manufacturers. Do you remember the licensed clones? Every last one of the licensees did EXACTLY what they promised Apple they would not do.... and that was cannibalize the top and bottom of the market with poorly made over-clocked low priced crap.
When Apple tried gamely to compete we got the worst machines Apple has built since the Lisa and Apple /// hit the shelves.
Apple only survived by yanking all the license agreements, thus sending the clone makers back to the PC market.
DDR is so.... 1999.... grow up move on... this GH GF bullshit is just another stupid gaming phase. It's all played out... and I am sick to death of tweens acting like GH actually taught them something about playing guitar...
What a crock....
You wanna be a real hero? YouTube your sorry ass smashing the stupid controller over your console while the game is running.... that might actually be amusing.. /rant
I store my data in a VM on the 99th U of the Rack
And I sit ~/ look at the windows
Imaging the world cash crops
Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a NSA Spook
And says, I've won five pounds if I have his kind of data packet
I said, Hey! You! Log off of my cloud
Hey! You! Log out of my cloud
Hey! You! Log off of my cloud
Don't login here two UIDs is a crowd
On my cloud, Baby
The VOIP is signaling
I say, "Hi it's me. Who is it there in the stream?"
A voice says, "Hi, hello, how are you"
Well I guess I'm doin' fine
He says, "It's three a.m. watch the SNR boy!
Don't you ever halt that simulation?
Just cause it runs so good do you have
to fill the drives to the end?
I say, Hey! You! Log off of my cloud
Hey! You! Log out of my cloud
Hey! You! Log off of my cloud
Don't hack around 'cause two UIDs is a crowd
On my cloud baby
I was hacking python, and fed up with spaces
And decided to connect to slashdot
It was so very quiet and peaceful
With all of the ACs banned no new postings around
I hibernated the laptop, I was so lagged I started to scream
In the morning the parked heads were just like
A write-flag stuck on my windows machine
I say, Hey! You! Log off of my cloud
Hey! You! Log out of my cloud
Hey! You! Log off of my cloud
Don't hack around 'cause two UIDs is a crowd
On my cloud baby
Hey! You! Log out of my cloud
Hey! You! Log off of my cloud
Hey! You! Log out of my cloud
Don't hang my process, baby two UID's a crowd!
-----
With apologies to Mick and the boys.
Back when I was starting out my Mac specialty practice in the mid-90's I got some attention from a high profile shop in town. The Veep called me one day and asked about my services.... blah, blah, blah.... checking on his competitors. I did my best to look like a bit player since I knew about their focus... $110/hr for on-site service....
So some time goes by. I get a customer in with a Mac+ I fire it up with the custie watching and they point out the problem.... looks like the analog board is failing... I have a referb kit for that it will be $155 including parts and labor... can have it done in 48 hours....
Ok customer accepts deal. Later that day I crack the system open and examine the analog board.... I notice the parts are not stock and there are clear signs that someone else has been working on the board, recently. I call the custie and ask for an explanation. Custie informs me that they took their machine back from the $110/hr guys because she didn't like the way the tech talked to her.... She claims they finished work, but when she asked for a demo of the machine it failed to work....
I go over the work and notice that a couple of components have been incorrectly installed. I contact the other shop and ask to talk to the shop supervisor. I tell him who I am and that I am looking at their custie's machine... supervisor has a coronary on me, threatens lawsuit.... blah blah blah.... I tell him to put of the Veep I spoke to a few weeks before.... NOW!
We do a conference call. My position is that they clearly fucked up. Custie clearly wants computer fixed and doesn't want to deal with them, but I also respect that its their mess to clean up, their parts, their labor... I don't want to get in the middle of it.
The sup is still having a cow... Veep tells him to get off the line.
Veep and I discuss options. Veep decides that they will pay me to make their work good, and not charge the customer. I agree to tell custie that I completed the work they started on their behalf. They agree to pay me parts and labor for the work at THEIR rates not mine, since I am working for them in this situation. They further agree that this situation does not create a business relationship between us... blah blah blah.... they fax over an agreement to that effect. I review and sign... fax back.... fix the woman's machine.... Tell her the good news.... no charge.... fixed under their warranty by me.... Demo working machine.... custie very pleased.... Follow up with other shop with total for parts and labor.
Veep sends supervisor to my shop with check for parts and labor and an apology for making an ass of himself... (0.o wtf?).
I ended up competing in their market just two years later... they offered to buy me out.... which I should have taken them up on. Oh well... hey live and learn right?