Because "wife" is such a nonstandard header when speaking of a MIME-encoded geek, it has to be marked an experimental extension only. Of course, I'd imagine it'd be much easier to experiment with a girlfriend than a wife, but foreach his own.
"Mr. President, upon searching the country of the accused, we found a substance that could have been WMDs. Upon later analysis, it turned out not to be, but the fact that it could have shows that the defendant is a danger to national security."
I would suggest a large initial fee for a domain, much more than the monthly. Only spammers want a domain for but a few months, so it'd thin the herd of registrants to people who were serious about the domain they wanted.
You might be interested in a Windows program that allows the same "daily fresh start" that having your permanent OS be a live-cd gives: DeepFreeze. Nice little software, starts intercepting writes to the drive at NTLDR, I believe. You can allow a password-less administrator account if you want; as long as no one gets the program password, the system will come back up in a digital Groundhog's Day of cleanliness. Protects all the way down to a low-level format while the OS is running. (Note: I don't work for these people, but I've seen this in use, and it's quite nice.)
1. Connecting to 0.0.0.0 is caught by any good IP layer and immediately halted. 127.0.0.1 just results in a timeout.
2. I suppose "winsock" would be built in a POSIX-esque fashion, in Ye Olde Compliance Stabbe that MS seems to give every once in a while. However, either an over-precise standard, or lazy MS subsystem designers, have foisted an actual *nix tree into the \windows\system32\drivers folder. Makes me wonder about installing a kernel in there...
I know replying to myself is in bad taste, but I just have to laugh at what a brainfart substituting "morning" for "browser" is. I left the thing open for three minutes, mistake clearly visible between the xterm trim, and never noticed before sending.
To correct: "Alterate browser" is a search that'll actually get what you mean.
a spreadsheet of... components
Again, this is Slashdot, we do indeed call that pr0n. [besides the fact that "spreadsheet" can mean "bitmap", if interpreted loosely, and "components"... well.]
Interestingly, "KISS" is, although efficient, not the simplest representation of the concept it is trying to relate. It is not usually understood (or there are too many people underestimating the number of people familiar with it), and so has to be expanded in an aside. Simpler would be to remove the abbreviation, and probably the epithet as well. Remember, "Keep It Simple".
All those other things are abuses of the content of the network, not the medium of the network itself. Those may be disrespectable as ideas, but picture a computer has having its own kind of moral compass, derived from the absolutely unacceptable act of "killing" another computer [a DDoS]. A computer wouldn't be concerned with the kind of data it's transmitting, as long as it, other computers, and the network continue to run smoothly. However, there are some things that the computer itself would object to: Google link farms, Word document attachments, etc. The same kind of things the geeks unilaterally object to. These are, in our minds, minor annoyances compared to the content provided by the network. However, the line should be drawn at what the computer, as the proximate moderator of service, would find egregious.
Picture someone with Mario64DS playing with someone on a laptop with Mario64DS in an emulator, or with a specially written bot. Really, as a rule, once protocols in use in PCs get involved in gaming, interesting things become possible.
Military computers can be sealed in an airtight room, surrounded by two-foot thick titanium slabs on all sides, buried far below the earth's crust. Doing that to people will quickly cause their super-arithmetical abilities to degrade.
It [video, sound in phones] is actually just a cultural foundation-laying for later projects. Cell phone companies know that portable videophones will sell, if purely for the Sci-Fi factor. "Normal" videophones, the ones pictured in SF, haven't (and won't) be adopted first for a simple reason: lack of an "hip, trendy" market. People won't buy a new desk-mounted phone because nobody requires they buy one to talk to them, and that's the only thing that pushes them to upgrade things. Cellphone users, however, are being gradually phased into the idea of a videophone with cameraphones, SMS messaging, and other such "alternate communication paradigms". Once they adopt it, and they will, as the cellphone companies will just drop it into their new phones that you're forced to upgrade to to use their service, desktop users will have a much more proven, and probably required (read: in use by one's boss) technology. Then we'll start to see the real effects of this technology; the "cell-posted video blog", the "900 number that won't date you", etc.
Reminds me of the GiFT project, a P2P client system. A single daemon program is created by the actual developers, and a library for interacting with it on a protocol. Then, other developers can create GUI, CLI, or even Web-based interfaces for it.
Just a thought to those who think that you won't be able to play Steam'ing games in 10 or so years:
1. The game would probably have to be run in a "Ye Olde Windowse Emulator", much like a current DOS app.
2. Emulators can fake IO.
3. The Steam protocol can be reverse-engineered.
4. Regarding points 1-3, you can safely say that you could write a fake Steam server module for said emulator. Problem solved.
Fail to profit. The FOSS software has succeeded of its own merits.
Sounds like a good plan (for an Evil Corporation), with almost no budget required! I just wish Winamp would actually die so they could put it into motion again.
You know, they're still young. They haven't stopped having the ability to absorb knowledge they're given directly yet, but they also still have complete curiosity about the universe.
Meaning: Give 'em Linux, the hardest one you can find, and tell them to learn how to use it themselves. If they like their laptops, they will. It's not a matter of ease of use, like it would be with a computer they used only at their scbool. They can take these home, play with them, figure them out. If they have a problem, it's like they have a 1000 member LUG they visit every day.
Even better, give them laptops with blank drives, and a list of OS possibilities.
Windows 98: $150
Windows XP: $300
OS X: $(illegal conversion of NULL to char*)
Linux: $0.39 / disc burnt.
That'll teach them something about the real world.
EOT
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They call me Dr. Worm... I'm not a real doctor, but I am a real worm, I am an actual worm...
Because "wife" is such a nonstandard header when speaking of a MIME-encoded geek, it has to be marked an experimental extension only. Of course, I'd imagine it'd be much easier to experiment with a girlfriend than a wife, but foreach his own.
Edit the fuck out of some text, you say? Well, all right, but I don't see how that's very hard:
:%s/fuck//g
A Live CD is configured to [usually] boot completely from RAM. In some configurations, it can even live there completely [the CD can be ejected].
"Mr. President, upon searching the country of the accused, we found a substance that could have been WMDs. Upon later analysis, it turned out not to be, but the fact that it could have shows that the defendant is a danger to national security."
Fine, more like Slashdot DNS then: the most "insightful" website gets the handle.
I would suggest a large initial fee for a domain, much more than the monthly. Only spammers want a domain for but a few months, so it'd thin the herd of registrants to people who were serious about the domain they wanted.
Don't forget: "Slashdot, FIRST CAHTCPHRASE!!!1"
It's just tapping into a new market: US->Japan imports.
You might be interested in a Windows program that allows the same "daily fresh start" that having your permanent OS be a live-cd gives: DeepFreeze. Nice little software, starts intercepting writes to the drive at NTLDR, I believe. You can allow a password-less administrator account if you want; as long as no one gets the program password, the system will come back up in a digital Groundhog's Day of cleanliness. Protects all the way down to a low-level format while the OS is running. (Note: I don't work for these people, but I've seen this in use, and it's quite nice.)
1. Connecting to 0.0.0.0 is caught by any good IP layer and immediately halted. 127.0.0.1 just results in a timeout. 2. I suppose "winsock" would be built in a POSIX-esque fashion, in Ye Olde Compliance Stabbe that MS seems to give every once in a while. However, either an over-precise standard, or lazy MS subsystem designers, have foisted an actual *nix tree into the \windows\system32\drivers folder. Makes me wonder about installing a kernel in there...
I know replying to myself is in bad taste, but I just have to laugh at what a brainfart substituting "morning" for "browser" is. I left the thing open for three minutes, mistake clearly visible between the xterm trim, and never noticed before sending. To correct: "Alterate browser" is a search that'll actually get what you mean.
Hmm... Alterate morning... sounds painful.
a spreadsheet of ... components
Again, this is Slashdot, we do indeed call that pr0n. [besides the fact that "spreadsheet" can mean "bitmap", if interpreted loosely, and "components"... well.]
Interestingly, "KISS" is, although efficient, not the simplest representation of the concept it is trying to relate. It is not usually understood (or there are too many people underestimating the number of people familiar with it), and so has to be expanded in an aside. Simpler would be to remove the abbreviation, and probably the epithet as well. Remember, "Keep It Simple".
For a look into what language would be like without a set of laws, please see Ahua, the Water Language.
All those other things are abuses of the content of the network, not the medium of the network itself. Those may be disrespectable as ideas, but picture a computer has having its own kind of moral compass, derived from the absolutely unacceptable act of "killing" another computer [a DDoS]. A computer wouldn't be concerned with the kind of data it's transmitting, as long as it, other computers, and the network continue to run smoothly. However, there are some things that the computer itself would object to: Google link farms, Word document attachments, etc. The same kind of things the geeks unilaterally object to. These are, in our minds, minor annoyances compared to the content provided by the network. However, the line should be drawn at what the computer, as the proximate moderator of service, would find egregious.
Picture someone with Mario64DS playing with someone on a laptop with Mario64DS in an emulator, or with a specially written bot. Really, as a rule, once protocols in use in PCs get involved in gaming, interesting things become possible.
Military computers can be sealed in an airtight room, surrounded by two-foot thick titanium slabs on all sides, buried far below the earth's crust. Doing that to people will quickly cause their super-arithmetical abilities to degrade.
It [video, sound in phones] is actually just a cultural foundation-laying for later projects. Cell phone companies know that portable videophones will sell, if purely for the Sci-Fi factor. "Normal" videophones, the ones pictured in SF, haven't (and won't) be adopted first for a simple reason: lack of an "hip, trendy" market. People won't buy a new desk-mounted phone because nobody requires they buy one to talk to them, and that's the only thing that pushes them to upgrade things. Cellphone users, however, are being gradually phased into the idea of a videophone with cameraphones, SMS messaging, and other such "alternate communication paradigms". Once they adopt it, and they will, as the cellphone companies will just drop it into their new phones that you're forced to upgrade to to use their service, desktop users will have a much more proven, and probably required (read: in use by one's boss) technology. Then we'll start to see the real effects of this technology; the "cell-posted video blog", the "900 number that won't date you", etc.
Reminds me of the GiFT project, a P2P client system. A single daemon program is created by the actual developers, and a library for interacting with it on a protocol. Then, other developers can create GUI, CLI, or even Web-based interfaces for it.
The EULA to the product is probably part of the agreement (read: contract) you sign when you make the deal.
Just a thought to those who think that you won't be able to play Steam'ing games in 10 or so years: 1. The game would probably have to be run in a "Ye Olde Windowse Emulator", much like a current DOS app. 2. Emulators can fake IO. 3. The Steam protocol can be reverse-engineered. 4. Regarding points 1-3, you can safely say that you could write a fake Steam server module for said emulator. Problem solved.
- Buy popular, event-horizon-of-bloat app companies.
- Let those companies bloat and decay.
- Open source their app offering.
- Wait year(s).
- Recollect new, useful product, and brand as own.
- Fail to profit. The FOSS software has succeeded of its own merits.
Sounds like a good plan (for an Evil Corporation), with almost no budget required! I just wish Winamp would actually die so they could put it into motion again.You know, they're still young. They haven't stopped having the ability to absorb knowledge they're given directly yet, but they also still have complete curiosity about the universe. Meaning: Give 'em Linux, the hardest one you can find, and tell them to learn how to use it themselves. If they like their laptops, they will. It's not a matter of ease of use, like it would be with a computer they used only at their scbool. They can take these home, play with them, figure them out. If they have a problem, it's like they have a 1000 member LUG they visit every day. Even better, give them laptops with blank drives, and a list of OS possibilities. Windows 98: $150 Windows XP: $300 OS X: $(illegal conversion of NULL to char*) Linux: $0.39 / disc burnt. That'll teach them something about the real world. EOT