Here's a link about Scientologists trying to cash in on 9/11 victims by offering a detox service to people. The treatment starts at $5,200 a pop. Nice. So far, the NYFD doctors have found no evidence that this method works.
But hey... if our Hollywood overlord Tom Cruise endorses it...then hey, he's gotta be right. He's a doctor right? What? No? Uhh... then he's acted as one before too right? Huh? No... oh.
Easy.... just make some executable that claims to be something dumb like a free screensaver or something like that. Put a 100 page end user licence agreement (EULA), and when the user hits accept... virus installed. It's called Malware:D I'm sure most people that use Kazaa don't read the EULA and knowingly accept the spyware and adware that it installs.... (well, at least initially when Kazaa came out)
TacoGirl79: Can anybody bring me some SHAZBOT?!
Phantom4: No.
Ralph[RPS]: Yes.
Ralph[RPS]: Yes.
Ralph[RPS]: Yes.
MarkIV: You idiot!
Phantom4: Yes.
TacoGirl79: You SHAZBOT!
MarkIV: ARGH
If we make our cities super unattractive for DSL/Cable companies to come in... we can get WiFi in the city! Sweet! I think throwing garbage everywhere would help spur this new initiative... I think I'll go run for mayor under this platform.
Darl addresses the courts with this moving speech to justify that Linux and GPL is evil.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the CEO of SCO, Darl McBride... (applause)... (heckler starts yelling and gets dragged out by security... heckler seen wearing a 'Linux Owns Joo' t-shirt and shouting praise be unto Linux!)
Darl: There is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to democracy, liberty, and copyright protection. This group I speak of are murderers, criminals, and terrorists. That is why SCO will not stop until Linus, the head of this terrorist organization is held accountable because they hate democracy. We know that Linus is sponsering terrorism because we know terrorists have used Linux in the past. The GPL licence does not disciminate against any parties, so evil doers are using it against America and her allies. Linux is providing a safe operating system haven to terrorists like Al Qaeda. If you help a terrorist, you are a terrorist.
Mark these next 16 words, Linus possesses weapons of mass free redistribution. Notice in these satellite pictures of Linus' van, it looks like an ordinary van, but no, this is a mobile Linux lab. We also know that Linus is pursuing nuclear weapons because several nuclear power plants are run using Linux. This is clearly a duel use technology which represents a clandestine nuclear weapons program. We have also received intelligence from our British allies, SCO Britain, that Linus owns a mouse named Larry. Clearly this mouse is used for chemical weapon research.
Therefore, we must go to court against Linus and prevail for democracy, freedom, and copyright protection! Thank you, and non-denominational specific (supreme)/(equal)/(lesser)/(none existent) (please circle one) being bless America.
and given enough venture capital, an internet start up will be super profitable on the internet even though it has never made a profit, and doesn't have a sound business plan, and has a super inflated stock price.
But, it does have a great shiny mission statement:
"It's our responsibility to synergistically provide access to world-class sources as well as to assertively facilitate enterprise-wide opportunities" - Dilbert Mission Statment Generator
(Stock brokers in a flurry) BUY! BUY! BUY! BUY! BUY!
Since we're using scriptures, here's a great resource for uptight people who are offended by anything. Why not celebrate Christmas.... er, non-denominational holiday period with the Politically Correct version of the Birth of Christ.
Here's an excerpt to wet your appetite:
Sure enough, the three wise men rode up.
The crowd gasped, "They're all male!" And "Not very multicultural!"
"Balthasar here is black," said one of the Magi.
"Yes, but how many of you are gay or disabled?" someone shouted. A committee was quickly formed to find an impoverished lesbian wise-person among the halt and lame of Bethlehem.
WARNING -- SPOILER!
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I just saw the movie, and it was amazing! The 4000 balls were let go, and they fell, and they bounced all around. I didn't expect that ending...it was pretty cool! Although, character development wasn't that great... and one could argue this was mostly an action flick, but whatever, I still liked it.
"Economics is the study of how to allocate scarce resources to produce goods & services that help satisfy unlimited human wants." The scarce resources in this case is time and money when it comes to learning how to program.
There's quite an oppurtunity cost for the computer illiterate to learn to program... let alone program well. It makes more sense for the computer illiterate individual to trade resources for computer software/services.
It's far more efficient for people to specialize in what they're good at, and trade that skill or resource for software, which they're not good at producing. Those who choose to be jack-of-all-trades generally will be beaten out by people who are more specialized in specific fields. (See level 3 warrior mage ninja thief monks VS level 100 black mage in most RPG games.)
So, I don't think this article really makes a lot of economic sense. Those who are computer literate need those in the non-computer industry and vice-versa. Shame on the writer implying these people are too lazy or cowardly to learn how to program.
To end on a lighter note...
"If your children's children can't speak the language of the machines, they will have to get a manual job - if there are any left."
I thought kids today are born knowing how to write C and have a good grasp of recursion. Maybe I'm wrong....
In other news, scientists have discovered a startling increase in the use of w00t! on the internet. Scientists are baffled by its meaning. Overly sensitive special interest groups blame violent video games for this bizzarre phenomenon.
"I can't think of desktop applications where you would need more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory" -Bill Gates
Uhh......remember when you claimed that 640K should be enough? Bill... you're setting yourself up for another infamous quote. History has a way of repeating itself though I guess....
Play those lecture DVDs at 64X speed, inputted into a port on the back of your head.... and we're set....
Tank... load the linear algebra program...... woah, I know matrix factorization..... show me... this is a 3 hour exam program.... some rules can be bent, others can be broken.
"With Prevalence we are finally free to create true object servers and use objects the way they were intended all along.
We are able to use any algorithm, data-structure and query language we please. We are no longer constrained to the ones provided by database and application servers which must run on disk data-blocks.
We believe the whole OO community is finally free to recover from the atrophy caused by database and application server restraints. We no longer have to distort and maim our object models to satisfy their limitations.
We no longer have DBAs imposing us database layout restrictions. We have freed them to do something more useful.
We have set fire to the table-models on our walls. We have deleted our database creation scripts. We no longer have to keep them updated.
We no longer have to license, install, configure and maintain a database and application server every single time we want to develop, demonstrate or deploy our systems for any of our clients. Give us a Java VM and we are good to go." -- http://www.prevayler.org/
All you need to add is "Now let us partake the mystical kool-aid, and we shall welcome our new Object-Orientated Overlords.", and you've got an official Jim Jones' approved cult with tax-exemption and fashionable robes.
I'm sure Heaven's Gate had similar phrases to win converts.
Has anyone considered short selling SCO shares by using options? Options is where you predict the price of a company at a future time, and the closer to the price you are by that time, the more money you make. Put me down SCO's stock price at $0.01 USD/share for next year same time. It's probably a good move for geeks since we know what SCO is trying to pull here. To the average financial broker guy, all they see is oooo, SCO may make $1 billion from IBM... BUY BUY BUY!
*Disclaimer: The opinions offered in this posting is merely speculative and does not reflect any professional financial insight at all. Please consult a real financial expert for all your investing needs before even considering attempting this financial manoeuver. Please kids, don't try this at home.
I think Galileo could be a US Vs. Them issue. In the world today, it's almost cool to be anti-american. The EU definitely does not trust the US as it once did.
An excerpt from an old CNN article states. Article found here.
The recent cooling of relations between the U.S. and the EU has been cited as one reason why the Europeans are now rallying around Galileo. European politicians at a summit of EU heads of state in Barcelona last week warned that Europe risked "vassal" status to U.S. technology in space.
Galileo "permits the EU to shake off dependence" on the American GPS, French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot said after the vote on the project.
In the grand scheme of things, if World War 3 was to erupt, and it was EU VS US, it'd probably be in the EU's best interest to have their own GPS system.
Isn't this a reposted article? Wasn't there an article about a MS worm last week? And there one a week before and another the week before that week?
I also think the Windows Update site is broken.... every time I go, there's like 20 critical patches to install.... clearly my computer isn't being updated properly. </sarcasm>
Someone make me a cellphone made completely out of soap. After the initial prototype is complete, we can consider adding extra bells and whistles to the phone like pleasent scents. Consumers should be able to choose from a variety of scents like Spring Breeze, Summer Passion, Crisp Winter Air, or Beach (dead fish). Mmmm.... frilly soaps
Wow..... Sun is announcing a pay to play scheme. This is great! It's a MMORPG right? This MMORPG is only charging $100/year per player, which is a pretty good deal, that's only $8.33 a month!
I hear this MMORPG is also skills based and they have many classes of character you could become. You can be tech-support, end user, programmer, system administrator, clueless user, and many more! This is going to be great!
I think it's important to point out that P2P as a network architecture will NOT die. It'd be silly if a P2P would die off because the RIAA is suing people that use this type of network. Using P2P to swap illegal songs may or may not survive.
There are many advantages to using decentralized networks like P2P. It distributes your resources so you don't have all eggs in one basket. Things like denial of service attacks could become obsolete on a decentralized network.
Now as far as music swapping is concerned, I also doubt that it will die off because of the lawsuits. I think it's more likely for this to become a digital arms race, where developers make better, secure, anonymous P2P networks, while the RIAA has to find better ways of tracking people or using new technologies to prevent music copying (ie DRM).
I think a likely scenario is that mainstream P2P networks may shut down because of the RIAA lawsuits (like Napster), but the techno elite will use more advanced P2P applications like freenet which is an anonymous network. The techno elite are those who like using bleeding edge technology and are the early adopters.
And the cycle continues, friends of the techno elite sees freenet and think the concept is neat, and starts joining the bandwagon. At first, no one notices, until the mainstream users all jump onto freenet. RIAA notices, and cycle repeats again. Digital arms race.
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Here's a CNN article that describes the substance that NASA is using to capture samples from the comet's tail.
Here's a link about Scientologists trying to cash in on 9/11 victims by offering a detox service to people. The treatment starts at $5,200 a pop. Nice. So far, the NYFD doctors have found no evidence that this method works.
But hey... if our Hollywood overlord Tom Cruise endorses it...then hey, he's gotta be right. He's a doctor right? What? No? Uhh... then he's acted as one before too right? Huh? No... oh.
Easy.... just make some executable that claims to be something dumb like a free screensaver or something like that. Put a 100 page end user licence agreement (EULA), and when the user hits accept... virus installed. It's called Malware :D I'm sure most people that use Kazaa don't read the EULA and knowingly accept the spyware and adware that it installs.... (well, at least initially when Kazaa came out)
TacoGirl79: Can anybody bring me some SHAZBOT?!
Phantom4: No.
Ralph[RPS]: Yes.
Ralph[RPS]: Yes.
Ralph[RPS]: Yes.
MarkIV: You idiot!
Phantom4: Yes.
TacoGirl79: You SHAZBOT!
MarkIV: ARGH
I still play it regularly... can YOU tell?
If we make our cities super unattractive for DSL/Cable companies to come in ... we can get WiFi in the city! Sweet! I think throwing garbage everywhere would help spur this new initiative... I think I'll go run for mayor under this platform.
Phase 1: Throw garbage everywhere
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: WiFi and/or Profits!
Darl addresses the courts with this moving speech to justify that Linux and GPL is evil.
... (heckler starts yelling and gets dragged out by security... heckler seen wearing a 'Linux Owns Joo' t-shirt and shouting praise be unto Linux!)
Ladies and Gentlemen, the CEO of SCO, Darl McBride... (applause)
Darl: There is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to democracy, liberty, and copyright protection. This group I speak of are murderers, criminals, and terrorists. That is why SCO will not stop until Linus, the head of this terrorist organization is held accountable because they hate democracy. We know that Linus is sponsering terrorism because we know terrorists have used Linux in the past. The GPL licence does not disciminate against any parties, so evil doers are using it against America and her allies. Linux is providing a safe operating system haven to terrorists like Al Qaeda. If you help a terrorist, you are a terrorist.
Mark these next 16 words, Linus possesses weapons of mass free redistribution. Notice in these satellite pictures of Linus' van, it looks like an ordinary van, but no, this is a mobile Linux lab. We also know that Linus is pursuing nuclear weapons because several nuclear power plants are run using Linux. This is clearly a duel use technology which represents a clandestine nuclear weapons program. We have also received intelligence from our British allies, SCO Britain, that Linus owns a mouse named Larry. Clearly this mouse is used for chemical weapon research.
Therefore, we must go to court against Linus and prevail for democracy, freedom, and copyright protection! Thank you, and non-denominational specific (supreme)/(equal)/(lesser)/(none existent) (please circle one) being bless America.
"Hi, I'm Al Gore, the inventor of the environment and first emperor of the moon." - Al Gore (futurama)
Al Gore invented the algorithm, true or false.
You'd be suprised how many people circled true....
and given enough venture capital, an internet start up will be super profitable on the internet even though it has never made a profit, and doesn't have a sound business plan, and has a super inflated stock price.
But, it does have a great shiny mission statement:
"It's our responsibility to synergistically provide access to world-class sources as well as to assertively facilitate enterprise-wide opportunities" - Dilbert Mission Statment Generator
(Stock brokers in a flurry) BUY! BUY! BUY! BUY! BUY!
I like the idea of putting down 'Mozilla Bounty Hunter' on my resume or business card. Coder for hire. I'm sure that's going to grab some attention.
If I were SCO, I wouldn't sue the Vatican... the Vatican has their own military force for crying out loud!
.... he's cooking up something..." - Pope (Family Guy)
"You have made a fool out of the Pope! God! Smite them! (Looks up at heaven and waits)
Since we're using scriptures, here's a great resource for uptight people who are offended by anything. Why not celebrate Christmas.... er, non-denominational holiday period with the Politically Correct version of the Birth of Christ.
Here's an excerpt to wet your appetite:
Sure enough, the three wise men rode up.
The crowd gasped, "They're all male!" And "Not very multicultural!"
"Balthasar here is black," said one of the Magi.
"Yes, but how many of you are gay or disabled?" someone shouted. A committee was quickly formed to find an impoverished lesbian wise-person among the halt and lame of Bethlehem.
I just saw the movie, and it was amazing! The 4000 balls were let go, and they fell, and they bounced all around. I didn't expect that ending...it was pretty cool! Although, character development wasn't that great... and one could argue this was mostly an action flick, but whatever, I still liked it.
"Economics is the study of how to allocate scarce resources to produce goods & services that help satisfy unlimited human wants." The scarce resources in this case is time and money when it comes to learning how to program.
There's quite an oppurtunity cost for the computer illiterate to learn to program... let alone program well. It makes more sense for the computer illiterate individual to trade resources for computer software/services.
It's far more efficient for people to specialize in what they're good at, and trade that skill or resource for software, which they're not good at producing. Those who choose to be jack-of-all-trades generally will be beaten out by people who are more specialized in specific fields. (See level 3 warrior mage ninja thief monks VS level 100 black mage in most RPG games.)
So, I don't think this article really makes a lot of economic sense. Those who are computer literate need those in the non-computer industry and vice-versa. Shame on the writer implying these people are too lazy or cowardly to learn how to program.
To end on a lighter note...
"If your children's children can't speak the language of the machines, they will have to get a manual job - if there are any left."
I thought kids today are born knowing how to write C and have a good grasp of recursion. Maybe I'm wrong....
In other news, scientists have discovered a startling increase in the use of w00t! on the internet. Scientists are baffled by its meaning. Overly sensitive special interest groups blame violent video games for this bizzarre phenomenon.
"I can't think of desktop applications where you would need more than 4 gigabytes of physical memory" -Bill Gates
Uhh......remember when you claimed that 640K should be enough? Bill... you're setting yourself up for another infamous quote. History has a way of repeating itself though I guess....
Play those lecture DVDs at 64X speed, inputted into a port on the back of your head.... and we're set....
Tank... load the linear algebra program...... woah, I know matrix factorization..... show me... this is a 3 hour exam program.... some rules can be bent, others can be broken.
(Soviet Accent) Is this the famed 'invisible middle finger of Adam Smith' which powers the great Amrekia kapitalist ekonomy?
"With Prevalence we are finally free to create true object servers and use objects the way they were intended all along.
We are able to use any algorithm, data-structure and query language we please. We are no longer constrained to the ones provided by database and application servers which must run on disk data-blocks.
We believe the whole OO community is finally free to recover from the atrophy caused by database and application server restraints. We no longer have to distort and maim our object models to satisfy their limitations.
We no longer have DBAs imposing us database layout restrictions. We have freed them to do something more useful.
We have set fire to the table-models on our walls. We have deleted our database creation scripts. We no longer have to keep them updated.
We no longer have to license, install, configure and maintain a database and application server every single time we want to develop, demonstrate or deploy our systems for any of our clients. Give us a Java VM and we are good to go." -- http://www.prevayler.org/
All you need to add is "Now let us partake the mystical kool-aid, and we shall welcome our new Object-Orientated Overlords.", and you've got an official Jim Jones' approved cult with tax-exemption and fashionable robes.
I'm sure Heaven's Gate had similar phrases to win converts.
Has anyone considered short selling SCO shares by using options? Options is where you predict the price of a company at a future time, and the closer to the price you are by that time, the more money you make. Put me down SCO's stock price at $0.01 USD/share for next year same time. It's probably a good move for geeks since we know what SCO is trying to pull here. To the average financial broker guy, all they see is oooo, SCO may make $1 billion from IBM... BUY BUY BUY!
*Disclaimer: The opinions offered in this posting is merely speculative and does not reflect any professional financial insight at all. Please consult a real financial expert for all your investing needs before even considering attempting this financial manoeuver. Please kids, don't try this at home.
I think Galileo could be a US Vs. Them issue. In the world today, it's almost cool to be anti-american. The EU definitely does not trust the US as it once did.
An excerpt from an old CNN article states. Article found here.
The recent cooling of relations between the U.S. and the EU has been cited as one reason why the Europeans are now rallying around Galileo. European politicians at a summit of EU heads of state in Barcelona last week warned that Europe risked "vassal" status to U.S. technology in space.
Galileo "permits the EU to shake off dependence" on the American GPS, French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot said after the vote on the project.
In the grand scheme of things, if World War 3 was to erupt, and it was EU VS US, it'd probably be in the EU's best interest to have their own GPS system.
Isn't this a reposted article? Wasn't there an article about a MS worm last week? And there one a week before and another the week before that week?
I also think the Windows Update site is broken.... every time I go, there's like 20 critical patches to install.... clearly my computer isn't being updated properly.
</sarcasm>
Someone make me a cellphone made completely out of soap. After the initial prototype is complete, we can consider adding extra bells and whistles to the phone like pleasent scents. Consumers should be able to choose from a variety of scents like Spring Breeze, Summer Passion, Crisp Winter Air, or Beach (dead fish). Mmmm.... frilly soaps
Wow..... Sun is announcing a pay to play scheme. This is great! It's a MMORPG right? This MMORPG is only charging $100/year per player, which is a pretty good deal, that's only $8.33 a month!
I hear this MMORPG is also skills based and they have many classes of character you could become. You can be tech-support, end user, programmer, system administrator, clueless user, and many more! This is going to be great!
I think it's important to point out that P2P as a network architecture will NOT die. It'd be silly if a P2P would die off because the RIAA is suing people that use this type of network. Using P2P to swap illegal songs may or may not survive.
There are many advantages to using decentralized networks like P2P. It distributes your resources so you don't have all eggs in one basket. Things like denial of service attacks could become obsolete on a decentralized network.
Now as far as music swapping is concerned, I also doubt that it will die off because of the lawsuits. I think it's more likely for this to become a digital arms race, where developers make better, secure, anonymous P2P networks, while the RIAA has to find better ways of tracking people or using new technologies to prevent music copying (ie DRM).
I think a likely scenario is that mainstream P2P networks may shut down because of the RIAA lawsuits (like Napster), but the techno elite will use more advanced P2P applications like freenet which is an anonymous network. The techno elite are those who like using bleeding edge technology and are the early adopters.
And the cycle continues, friends of the techno elite sees freenet and think the concept is neat, and starts joining the bandwagon. At first, no one notices, until the mainstream users all jump onto freenet. RIAA notices, and cycle repeats again. Digital arms race.