Does your car make those sparks underneath the tank lid? That's where the gas fumes go and that's where your cellular would go if you dropped it while refueling.
3. That cell phones cannot cause explosions at gas stations. They did this by filling up a contained block with gas fumes and had the phone ring in the container and in a deseperate attempt even shorted out the battery multiple times. No explosion by the way. Of course, to prove that the container would actually explode, they blew it up anyways.
It's not ringing call phones that can blow up gas stations. It's call phones that get dropped and might produce sparks when they hit the ground.
That's the reason why cell phones and other small electric devices tend to make the owners of gas stations nervous.
I hear that the makers of CrossOver Office are working on a new product called Cross-Site Office, which allows Windows' most popular virii and exploits to run under Linux. It will be priced at USD 69,99 and come with a free copy of Parite.A.
IIRC, sticky notes were actually developed by means of "I have this problem, how can I solve this", rather than "let's see what happens if I mix these two substances".
3M invented some new adhesive, which allowed you to stick something to something else and then remove it without leaving glue traces. Unfortunately the stuff wasn't able to hold most things together, so no one had an idea on how to use it.
Enter Art Fry, who was sick of bookmarks falling out of his hymnal. Fry had the idea of combining the traceless glue with bookmarks, whch would not only keep the bookmarks in his hymnal but would also allow to emove them at any time without damaging the book.
In addition, changing format for personal use is deemed fair use by the law at least where I live (Norway) - ie. I don't mind Microsoft spending lots of money on loosing a legal battle with me:)
Norway was just outlawed under the DMCA, as it can be used to circumvent copyright protecion. Expect the nuclear strike tomorrow.
If IT people decide to collectively put down work, their project gets outsourced and the world moves on.
If sewage maintenance workers (however they're called) decide to collectively put down work, you're knee-deep in shit.
Kinda puts things in perspective... Just because you are a Chief Supervising Project Coordinator doesn't mean that you're more important.
Is using a non-admin account annoying? Under Linux, he answer is "su". Seriously, handling user/root differences is not difficult at all if you have the proper tool (which needn't be more complicated than su with it's "switch users for this terminal session" concept).
Of course Win users might be turned off by the notion of using a command line to install software etc.
I got the same effect just by putting a NAT router between the PC and the 'net and teaching my parents how to use Firefox.
If you are considering paying for anti-virus software or a firewall - go get a router instead. Nothing keeps Windows as healthy as NAT.
Sure, this piece of malware won't be stopped, but the auto-infecting stuff stays out.
If I can't use my computer I can't input sensitive data, which means that anything can happen with my computer and there still won't be any data loss.
Besides, ever since I started putting explosives into my hardware everyone is too scared to actually talk to me or make me work.
Certainly some attacks take longer, but in general, if they have your machine, its too late for security!
Shows what you know. My computer contains a chunk of C4 which is set up to go off when someone presses the power button or opens the case.
Okay, so I can't turn the thing on without killing myself but hey, it's secure!
And - even better - that app could put hardlinks* to the app binaries into some directory, which the user can put into his/her %PATH%. One of the most annyoing things about using the Windows command line is having to input some app's entire path if you want to run it.
x86 hardware did not get popular BECAUSE it has the most software for it, it got popular because it was CHEAPEST, and it only has the most software for it because it was popular due to being cheap.
And that is probably why the new Windows-incompatible hardware would be rejected by the market - it would most probably be quite rare and thus quite expensive, because initially there will be no special demand for it. If you can't come up with advantages that convince the average user (auch as "5% faster than an equivalent standard system" or "more secure than NGCSB while being backwards-compatible with pre-NGCSB Windows apps") most people simply won't want to buy the stuff, whether or not OpenBIOS is better than everything the industry knows.
BTW, it's kind of lame to make hardware that is incompatible with Windows by design and then blame Microsoft because they don't modify Windows to circumvent the anti-Windows lock you built into the PC.
But maybe this might be the reason for Apple's gigantic market share - incompatibility.
I have considered trying Mac OS/OS X, but as it only will run on Apple's special hardware which happens to be rare and expensive I decided that the x86-friendly Linux would be a better choice.
If you make those computers incompatible with the rest of the world you achieve 3 things:
1.) You create special, rare hardware that will probably suffer from the same problems Macs suffer from - it's expensive (rare stuff is always expensive) and you only get it at a few places, while you can get the usual hardware everywhere and it works just as well.
2.) You create a lot of negative publicity. Microsoft has gotten into a lot of trouble for doing stuff like that. Unlike Microsoft, you don't have enough money/a large enough user base to ignore court rulings/public hate.
3.) As a result, public demand for your hardware will be near zero - everything your hardware does can be done better by standard hardware, which probably is cheaper, too.
I think that this would be a really good way of making Linux and the OSS crowd just as publically loved as MS.
In other news, the Gartner Group and the Alexis de Tocqueville anounce a new joint venture!!
In a joint venture, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute and the Gartner Group have recorded a new rendition of the USA for Africa song "We are the world", titled "We are unbiased".
In an interview a representative of USA for Microsoft told us that "while most people know about the misery of people in underdeveloped countries like Africa or Sao Paolo, they tend to be uninformed about the misery of the average Microsoft employee".
Accodrung to USA for Microsoft, the average Microsoft employee lives off nothing but two glasses of water and a Snickers bar every month. This is because Linux, which - according to USA for Microsoft - was founded by terrorists to destroy Microsoft, the USA's only line of defense against Communism, anarchy and the extinction of mankind, has been used as a weapon to lower Microsoft sales by as much as 5%, thus lowering Microsoft's stock value by 99.9%, effextively stripping the corporation of any money, even the coins inside the coffee dispenser.
By recording "We are unbiased", USA for Microsoft wants to direct public attention to how "Linus Torvalds is a convicted serial rapist, has AIDS, is gay and sterile. And an international terrorist, a Communist and a former Nazi leader", as the representative told us.
"We are unbiased" will be available in stores as a single CD that you can listen to once before it's DRM mechanism destroys the CD, your player and everything in a three-meter radius.
US Congress is currently discussing an extension to the DMCA requiring every living person on earth to buy the CD.
This was J. Random Anchorman with the MSNBC.net news. Stay tuned for our movie special "Abducted by the Alien Penguins from Planet FLOSS".
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I still prefer "it was a dark and stormy night".
Does your car make those sparks underneath the tank lid? That's where the gas fumes go and that's where your cellular would go if you dropped it while refueling.
Heck, that sounds fun. Where can I order one of those?
3. That cell phones cannot cause explosions at gas stations. They did this by filling up a contained block with gas fumes and had the phone ring in the container and in a deseperate attempt even shorted out the battery multiple times. No explosion by the way. Of course, to prove that the container would actually explode, they blew it up anyways.
It's not ringing call phones that can blow up gas stations. It's call phones that get dropped and might produce sparks when they hit the ground.
That's the reason why cell phones and other small electric devices tend to make the owners of gas stations nervous.
I hear that the makers of CrossOver Office are working on a new product called Cross-Site Office, which allows Windows' most popular virii and exploits to run under Linux. It will be priced at USD 69,99 and come with a free copy of Parite.A.
omg ur so 1337 plz dont haxx0r my machine plz!!11111111
You obviously have never played Deus Ex.
IIRC, sticky notes were actually developed by means of "I have this problem, how can I solve this", rather than "let's see what happens if I mix these two substances".
3M invented some new adhesive, which allowed you to stick something to something else and then remove it without leaving glue traces. Unfortunately the stuff wasn't able to hold most things together, so no one had an idea on how to use it.
Enter Art Fry, who was sick of bookmarks falling out of his hymnal. Fry had the idea of combining the traceless glue with bookmarks, whch would not only keep the bookmarks in his hymnal but would also allow to emove them at any time without damaging the book.
Step three, profit.
In addition, changing format for personal use is deemed fair use by the law at least where I live (Norway) - ie. I don't mind Microsoft spending lots of money on loosing a legal battle with me :)
Norway was just outlawed under the DMCA, as it can be used to circumvent copyright protecion. Expect the nuclear strike tomorrow.
Another important difference:
If IT people decide to collectively put down work, their project gets outsourced and the world moves on.
If sewage maintenance workers (however they're called) decide to collectively put down work, you're knee-deep in shit.
Kinda puts things in perspective... Just because you are a Chief Supervising Project Coordinator doesn't mean that you're more important.
Is using a non-admin account annoying? Under Linux, he answer is "su". Seriously, handling user/root differences is not difficult at all if you have the proper tool (which needn't be more complicated than su with it's "switch users for this terminal session" concept).
Of course Win users might be turned off by the notion of using a command line to install software etc.
That's like saying "All Linux users are elitist snobs", just because there's some jerks mixed in out there.
No, dude. Linux users are paranoid anti-Microsoft zealots who try to convert Win users to Linux 24/7. The Mac folks are the elitist snobs.
I got the same effect just by putting a NAT router between the PC and the 'net and teaching my parents how to use Firefox.
If you are considering paying for anti-virus software or a firewall - go get a router instead. Nothing keeps Windows as healthy as NAT.
Sure, this piece of malware won't be stopped, but the auto-infecting stuff stays out.
If I can't use my computer I can't input sensitive data, which means that anything can happen with my computer and there still won't be any data loss.
Besides, ever since I started putting explosives into my hardware everyone is too scared to actually talk to me or make me work.
Step 1: Take a photograph of a CPU's pins and pretend it's some exciting new technology
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
Do we *really* need to keep harping on it like a bunch of smug self-righteous motherfuckers?
Like a bunch of smug self-righteous motherfuckers?
Certainly some attacks take longer, but in general, if they have your machine, its too late for security!
Shows what you know. My computer contains a chunk of C4 which is set up to go off when someone presses the power button or opens the case.
Okay, so I can't turn the thing on without killing myself but hey, it's secure!
One word, NSAP.
Navy Science Assistance Program?
Meh. Until OS X those were just toy revolutions in toy industries, inferior even to cave paintings.
And - even better - that app could put hardlinks* to the app binaries into some directory, which the user can put into his/her %PATH%. One of the most annyoing things about using the Windows command line is having to input some app's entire path if you want to run it.
* because Windows doesn't do symlinks
Every public appearance of Ballmer is somehow disturbing... That guy must be eating a pound of coffee beans for breakfast or something.
x86 hardware did not get popular BECAUSE it has the most software for it, it got popular because it was CHEAPEST, and it only has the most software for it because it was popular due to being cheap.
And that is probably why the new Windows-incompatible hardware would be rejected by the market - it would most probably be quite rare and thus quite expensive, because initially there will be no special demand for it. If you can't come up with advantages that convince the average user (auch as "5% faster than an equivalent standard system" or "more secure than NGCSB while being backwards-compatible with pre-NGCSB Windows apps") most people simply won't want to buy the stuff, whether or not OpenBIOS is better than everything the industry knows.
BTW, it's kind of lame to make hardware that is incompatible with Windows by design and then blame Microsoft because they don't modify Windows to circumvent the anti-Windows lock you built into the PC.
But maybe this might be the reason for Apple's gigantic market share - incompatibility.
I have considered trying Mac OS/OS X, but as it only will run on Apple's special hardware which happens to be rare and expensive I decided that the x86-friendly Linux would be a better choice.
If you make those computers incompatible with the rest of the world you achieve 3 things:
1.) You create special, rare hardware that will probably suffer from the same problems Macs suffer from - it's expensive (rare stuff is always expensive) and you only get it at a few places, while you can get the usual hardware everywhere and it works just as well.
2.) You create a lot of negative publicity. Microsoft has gotten into a lot of trouble for doing stuff like that. Unlike Microsoft, you don't have enough money/a large enough user base to ignore court rulings/public hate.
3.) As a result, public demand for your hardware will be near zero - everything your hardware does can be done better by standard hardware, which probably is cheaper, too.
I think that this would be a really good way of making Linux and the OSS crowd just as publically loved as MS.
In other news, the Gartner Group and the Alexis de Tocqueville anounce a new joint venture!!
In a joint venture, the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute and the Gartner Group have recorded a new rendition of the USA for Africa song "We are the world", titled "We are unbiased".
In an interview a representative of USA for Microsoft told us that "while most people know about the misery of people in underdeveloped countries like Africa or Sao Paolo, they tend to be uninformed about the misery of the average Microsoft employee".
Accodrung to USA for Microsoft, the average Microsoft employee lives off nothing but two glasses of water and a Snickers bar every month. This is because Linux, which - according to USA for Microsoft - was founded by terrorists to destroy Microsoft, the USA's only line of defense against Communism, anarchy and the extinction of mankind, has been used as a weapon to lower Microsoft sales by as much as 5%, thus lowering Microsoft's stock value by 99.9%, effextively stripping the corporation of any money, even the coins inside the coffee dispenser.
By recording "We are unbiased", USA for Microsoft wants to direct public attention to how "Linus Torvalds is a convicted serial rapist, has AIDS, is gay and sterile. And an international terrorist, a Communist and a former Nazi leader", as the representative told us.
"We are unbiased" will be available in stores as a single CD that you can listen to once before it's DRM mechanism destroys the CD, your player and everything in a three-meter radius.
US Congress is currently discussing an extension to the DMCA requiring every living person on earth to buy the CD.
This was J. Random Anchorman with the MSNBC.net news. Stay tuned for our movie special "Abducted by the Alien Penguins from Planet FLOSS".
Wasn't 666 the code to destroy all electronic devies on earth? I think I heard about that in a documentary about LA...