But then you are stuck with telus for 3 years. Telus silently blocks ports such as 80,443,25,53 and a few more i cant think of offhand. They do not inform you of this untill after you buy the service and call to complain. Thats not worth a 4000 dollar computer let alone this piece of crap dell.
What on earth are you talking about? Those videos are crazy different. Or are we so unknowledgable that the similarties of 1) white people rapping and 2) about nerdy shit, makes it a rip off?
I'd say you were just trolling for karma, posting vaguely related links, but for your lower user id. Strange.
Well I doubt it would have been posted to slashdot if it was just a normal video release (slashdot has posted weird al stuff before but still...).
I think the fact that its a banned leaked video will make it all the more popular. There is no such thing as bad publicity! I know I certainly wouldn't have gone to AOL to view the video. Did anyone even hear that AOL was planning on doing this? I don't really see what weird al has lost here. Does he get paid by AOL when people freely (iassume), watch his video?
Every time Communist Russia thought the prospect of universal socialism could be achieved faster by rolling over Western Germany, every time a tinpot dictator thinks "Hmm, starving my people for the last couple of decades has given me enough tanks to crush my neighbor... sounds appealing", every time Kim Jon Quackpot gets tired of eating grass and thinks "Hey I could get some sweet kimchi if I could take a quick vacation in the burning remains of Seoul", they look to the horizon and see a distinct absence of US military ready to kick their ass.
Somehow i picture you saying that infront of a waving flag, proudly standing at attention, saluting, with the US national anthem blaring loudly and figtherjets streaking the sky overhead.
"the Asian tech industries excel at not innovation but copying and improving upon existing designs"
Yeah. My cheap 15$ walmart can opener that falls over if anything larger than a soup can is put on it can attest to the faboulous improvents the chinese have made.
Or the way they save copper by bundiling the shortest USB cables possible with external hard drive enclosures. Truely they are weaving engineering magic.
Ive never seen those private atms with a camera pointed at them. Perhaps the store or bar has a camera, but if they are the ones I always see that charge you 1.25 per transaction, they dont. The ones with cameras are the ones in the bank.
Still I don't know If I will personally try this hack as yes, its pretty damned illegal. All those times those machines charged me a 1.25 convience fee however... hmm. Paybacks a bitch.
"Why do you hate specific companies? That kind of thinking baffles me... what did they do personally to you to justify this very strong emotion"
Well *personally*, Apple wouldnt repair my ipod (even at cost to me) since it was out of waranty. they wouldnt even consider repairing it if I paid them...
PNY makes SHIT PRODUCTS that rgularly fail. They claimed a $400 video card was "lost" in transit, untill i got the signature of the one who signed for it from UPS and faxed it to them (thank god i always say signature required on RMA's...). ( Don't buy PNY is now a personal mantra )
Microsoft, well come on, if you work with microsoft products you just have to hate them for being so mindless or, alternatively, thinking too much (outlook is an example of the worst product design in exsistance. All they needed to do was bolt a calendar and reminders onto OE but noooo...).
Samsung makes VERY shitty laser printers whoes mechanical paperfeeding parts wear out after 5000 pages. The CLP-510 is probably the worst designed printer in exsistance. And all the cartridges track total number of pages printed, even if its not in that colour, so it says cyan empty, even when its almost completely full.
Most new adobe products can lick my nuts as they take far longer to startup, are very crash prone, and constantly nag you for meaningless updates, even when you explictly turn off the nagging.
Tigerdirect sends me daily spams, and if i tell them I dont want daily spams they stop sending me catalogues as well.
Amazon resold my information to multiple third parties and I have seen my real name on amazon affiliated websites after shopping there. Not to mention, try canceling your amazon account. You practically have to telephone them to cancel your account. Even if you manage to cancel it online through the email ( there is no way to cancel it from the webpage, just try), you will find your account is not actually closed but just "deactivated" with your credit card still on file.
And those are just the companies I hate off the top of my head today...
I think you have that backwards. People write music to be heard and to get chicks to have sex with them. People write music to tell a story and to educate. I don't think the desire to educate, tell stories and sing songs will ever disapear, much like there is no shortage of slashdot posts and other opinions floating around out there. No one is paying me to express myself here and yet I do it. Funny about that eh?
Real artists make music for themselves, or to get the women.
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I chose my computer over consoles for the lack of mouse and keyboard. As long as the wii can fall back to a mouse and k/b, the wand is just an extra bonus.
Like i honestly don't see playing FPS's with a wand, but who knows, i never tried it. I have however tried to play them with all sorts of joypad-esque controllers. And that is the definition of sucking.
No its telling your wife that you have to cut back on guns and expensive cars because you need to pay for your healthcare, save for retirement and take care of your ailing mother. I mean literally, thats exactly what it is. How anyone could consider Medical care and care of the elderly to be "a choice", well thats pretty fucking barbaric.
"I think deviant individuals will probably always seek out whatever is taboo in their society"
Guano: Colonel! Colonel, I must know what you think has been going on here! Colonel: You wanna know what I think? Colonel: I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. And I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.
"Do they "deserve disdain at every level" for seeking the approval - or even the begrudging acceptance - of peers? I don't think so."
Sorry, I agree with the grandparent, they do. If you don't even have enough courage to say what you believe you are a coddled baby. Should racists just keep it all inside? Fascists? Ace of base fans (OF WHICH I AM PROUD TO STAND AMONGST).
Be proud of everything that is you. Anything else and you won't lead a very happy life. It makes me sick to think that I should be responsible for someone elses entire feelings when I tell them that their love of enya is quite gay.
toughen up ya pansies! its just fucking music! If you cant take that kind of criticism, lord help you in the workplace, relationships and generally the rest of life. Acceptance breeds conformity. Life takes place in the margins.
rofl.. are you arguing that second hand smoke is somehow non carcinagenic and good for you? Have you ever been to a smokey bar as a non smoker? But lets just stay in the realm of your post and examine this quote:
"As JEB at numbewatch puts it, saying that smoking causes cancer is like that fertilizer cause tomatoes to grow."
Fertilizer doesn't cause the tomatoes to grow, this is true. What fertilizers do is enhance the chance that it will grow and do well. If you look closely, there is some irony in applying this particular medphor to cancer. Sure some people live till the ripe old age of 98, smoking all the way. Thats fine, thats their choice, but if they smoke around me, they are going to start a fight.
The big problem I have with fedora is the updates. A year or so ago i installed FC3. Fine, runs solid, everything I like works etc.. Then one day i do a yum -check-update and theres no updates. Then the next month no updates as well. Weird i say and I go to look at the internets. The internets tell me after a long ass time looking, that I need to use some like other repositories or some shit because redhat no longer supports my version (wtf!) and didnt auto upgrade to the new version (dbl wtf!!).
So i change over to these new mirrors and get some updates from them. I go back to do it again the next week and it barfs all over that it cant find the mirrors. I try and find the same place I found the updated yum config/scripts from before but I cant find it (fine im an idiot). So basically, I have gone from a completely stable machine that did evrything I wanted, to an unupgradeable POS that I have no idea about the possible security weaknesses and shit. I was a long time redhat user. I think I started at 4.5. Anyway, what they USED to do was allow you to upgrade to the next release with up2date.
Im just waiting for like a days worth of free time so that I can move it all over to ubuntu (pain in the ass since i have to relearn how to chroot named and stuff).. Hopefully ubuntu will be better in this regard, but my advice is to never use redhat/fedora EVER. they dont update old versions and thats just lame.
Well now look at this, what this person just wrote
"The general public already has their hands full trying to understand all this technological mumbo-jumbo. Let's not spread more FUD."
-by Yvan256 (722131)
Now lets look at what I just read the ISP's are saying about net neutrality:
"transcript: Are you google-eyed with confusion over net neutrality? No wonder, it's all just clever mumbo jumbo. Net neutrality is nothing more than a scheme by the multi-billion dollar silicon valley tech companies, to get you, the consumer to pay more for their services. Forget all their mumbo jumbo, net neutrality simple means, you pay."
-Paid for by The National Cable & Telecom Assn. (source link)
ISNT IT FUNNY that the same language would be used by both parties here? I guess its *possible* that there is not a gurella marketing firm responsible for both this video and also this slashdot post, but isn't it quite interesting that they should argue for similar draconian control viewpoints AND use the same exact language? I don;t know how common this phrase is in the USA but reading both of these posts within thirty minutes of eachother and not having previously run across the phrase for months, makes me highly suspicious of the motivations here. Thats a bit too coincidental for me. Sorry mr telcom shill, your gonna have to register a new slashdot ID now because we are watching you!
No offense but are you nuts? People should be able to IM at work? Yeah we used to have that here. Then they made me disable all messengers because people chat on them all day long.
Run a jabber server and filter the connections through there? GET REAL! Besides, most of these things have web based clients anyway, and admitidly I dont know exactly how this "jabber server proxy" would work but I doubt it even goes near port 80.
What I have done to combat this problem is block instant messenger with group policy, and change the dns pointing for the web clients.
"technical employees are likely to bypass security by SSH tunneling their IM communications"
bwahahaha. yes. maybe you have these sorts of employees where you work, but mine can barely determine if their monitor is plugged in.
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But then you are stuck with telus for 3 years. Telus silently blocks ports such as 80,443,25,53 and a few more i cant think of offhand. They do not inform you of this untill after you buy the service and call to complain. Thats not worth a 4000 dollar computer let alone this piece of crap dell.
Why don't people just donate them to goodwill?
"perhaps, the best birthday present I got since my 0th..."
And how! Those hospital blankets were mad trendy!
And when the cop pulls you over for having no insurance or plates, or riding on the sidewalk, you'll tell him what exactly?
I would love to take my dirtbike to work. The problem is, it isnt remotely streetlegal.
What on earth are you talking about? Those videos are crazy different. Or are we so unknowledgable that the similarties of 1) white people rapping and 2) about nerdy shit, makes it a rip off?
I'd say you were just trolling for karma, posting vaguely related links, but for your lower user id. Strange.
Well I doubt it would have been posted to slashdot if it was just a normal video release (slashdot has posted weird al stuff before but still...).
I think the fact that its a banned leaked video will make it all the more popular. There is no such thing as bad publicity! I know I certainly wouldn't have gone to AOL to view the video. Did anyone even hear that AOL was planning on doing this? I don't really see what weird al has lost here. Does he get paid by AOL when people freely (iassume), watch his video?
Somehow i picture you saying that infront of a waving flag, proudly standing at attention, saluting, with the US national anthem blaring loudly and figtherjets streaking the sky overhead.
Yeah. My cheap 15$ walmart can opener that falls over if anything larger than a soup can is put on it can attest to the faboulous improvents the chinese have made.
Or the way they save copper by bundiling the shortest USB cables possible with external hard drive enclosures. Truely they are weaving engineering magic.
Ive never seen those private atms with a camera pointed at them. Perhaps the store or bar has a camera, but if they are the ones I always see that charge you 1.25 per transaction, they dont. The ones with cameras are the ones in the bank.
Still I don't know If I will personally try this hack as yes, its pretty damned illegal. All those times those machines charged me a 1.25 convience fee however... hmm. Paybacks a bitch.
Well *personally*, Apple wouldnt repair my ipod (even at cost to me) since it was out of waranty. they wouldnt even consider repairing it if I paid them...
PNY makes SHIT PRODUCTS that rgularly fail. They claimed a $400 video card was "lost" in transit, untill i got the signature of the one who signed for it from UPS and faxed it to them (thank god i always say signature required on RMA's...). ( Don't buy PNY is now a personal mantra )
Microsoft, well come on, if you work with microsoft products you just have to hate them for being so mindless or, alternatively, thinking too much (outlook is an example of the worst product design in exsistance. All they needed to do was bolt a calendar and reminders onto OE but noooo...).
Samsung makes VERY shitty laser printers whoes mechanical paperfeeding parts wear out after 5000 pages. The CLP-510 is probably the worst designed printer in exsistance. And all the cartridges track total number of pages printed, even if its not in that colour, so it says cyan empty, even when its almost completely full.
Most new adobe products can lick my nuts as they take far longer to startup, are very crash prone, and constantly nag you for meaningless updates, even when you explictly turn off the nagging.
Tigerdirect sends me daily spams, and if i tell them I dont want daily spams they stop sending me catalogues as well.
Amazon resold my information to multiple third parties and I have seen my real name on amazon affiliated websites after shopping there. Not to mention, try canceling your amazon account. You practically have to telephone them to cancel your account. Even if you manage to cancel it online through the email ( there is no way to cancel it from the webpage, just try), you will find your account is not actually closed but just "deactivated" with your credit card still on file.
And those are just the companies I hate off the top of my head today...
I think you have that backwards.
People write music to be heard and to get chicks to have sex with them. People write music to tell a story and to educate. I don't think the desire to educate, tell stories and sing songs will ever disapear, much like there is no shortage of slashdot posts and other opinions floating around out there. No one is paying me to express myself here and yet I do it. Funny about that eh?
Real artists make music for themselves, or to get the women.
I chose my computer over consoles for the lack of mouse and keyboard.
As long as the wii can fall back to a mouse and k/b, the wand is just an extra bonus.
Like i honestly don't see playing FPS's with a wand, but who knows, i never tried it. I have however tried to play them with all sorts of joypad-esque controllers. And that is the definition of sucking.
No its telling your wife that you have to cut back on guns and expensive cars because you need to pay for your healthcare, save for retirement and take care of your ailing mother. I mean literally, thats exactly what it is. How anyone could consider Medical care and care of the elderly to be "a choice", well thats pretty fucking barbaric.
Well why do you think it evolved to be so pleasureable?
Guano: Colonel! Colonel, I must know what you think has been going on here!
Colonel: You wanna know what I think?
Colonel: I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. And I think General Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.
Wow gas stations selling liquor. now theres a *GREAT* idea!
Sorry, I agree with the grandparent, they do. If you don't even have enough courage to say what you believe you are a coddled baby. Should racists just keep it all inside? Fascists? Ace of base fans (OF WHICH I AM PROUD TO STAND AMONGST).
Be proud of everything that is you. Anything else and you won't lead a very happy life. It makes me sick to think that I should be responsible for someone elses entire feelings when I tell them that their love of enya is quite gay.
toughen up ya pansies! its just fucking music! If you cant take that kind of criticism, lord help you in the workplace, relationships and generally the rest of life. Acceptance breeds conformity. Life takes place in the margins.
rofl.. are you arguing that second hand smoke is somehow non carcinagenic and good for you? Have you ever been to a smokey bar as a non smoker? But lets just stay in the realm of your post and examine this quote:
"As JEB at numbewatch puts it, saying that smoking causes cancer is like that fertilizer cause tomatoes to grow."
Fertilizer doesn't cause the tomatoes to grow, this is true. What fertilizers do is enhance the chance that it will grow and do well. If you look closely, there is some irony in applying this particular medphor to cancer. Sure some people live till the ripe old age of 98, smoking all the way. Thats fine, thats their choice, but if they smoke around me, they are going to start a fight.
"The only time businesses care about you is before you spend your money on their products and services. Never forget that."
Fixed for you. no charge.
+1 checkmate.
Because the previously thought to be uncrackable radios will be replaced by new and improved uncrackable radios!
Its a joke. Someone probably just wasnt following procedure like other comments in this thread said and turned off the encryption.
The big problem I have with fedora is the updates. A year or so ago i installed FC3. Fine, runs solid, everything I like works etc.. Then one day i do a yum -check-update and theres no updates. Then the next month no updates as well. Weird i say and I go to look at the internets. The internets tell me after a long ass time looking, that I need to use some like other repositories or some shit because redhat no longer supports my version (wtf!) and didnt auto upgrade to the new version (dbl wtf!!).
So i change over to these new mirrors and get some updates from them. I go back to do it again the next week and it barfs all over that it cant find the mirrors. I try and find the same place I found the updated yum config/scripts from before but I cant find it (fine im an idiot). So basically, I have gone from a completely stable machine that did evrything I wanted, to an unupgradeable POS that I have no idea about the possible security weaknesses and shit. I was a long time redhat user. I think I started at 4.5. Anyway, what they USED to do was allow you to upgrade to the next release with up2date.
Im just waiting for like a days worth of free time so that I can move it all over to ubuntu (pain in the ass since i have to relearn how to chroot named and stuff).. Hopefully ubuntu will be better in this regard, but my advice is to never use redhat/fedora EVER. they dont update old versions and thats just lame.
-by Yvan256 (722131)
Now lets look at what I just read the ISP's are saying about net neutrality:
-Paid for by The National Cable & Telecom Assn. (source link)
ISNT IT FUNNY that the same language would be used by both parties here? I guess its *possible* that there is not a gurella marketing firm responsible for both this video and also this slashdot post, but isn't it quite interesting that they should argue for similar draconian control viewpoints AND use the same exact language?
I don;t know how common this phrase is in the USA but reading both of these posts within thirty minutes of eachother and not having previously run across the phrase for months, makes me highly suspicious of the motivations here.
Thats a bit too coincidental for me. Sorry mr telcom shill, your gonna have to register a new slashdot ID now because we are watching you!
People who advertise like this should be fucking shot.
Anyone know the PR firm who produced these ads?
No offense but are you nuts? People should be able to IM at work? Yeah we used to have that here. Then they made me disable all messengers because people chat on them all day long.
Run a jabber server and filter the connections through there? GET REAL! Besides, most of these things have web based clients anyway, and admitidly I dont know exactly how this "jabber server proxy" would work but I doubt it even goes near port 80.
What I have done to combat this problem is block instant messenger with group policy, and change the dns pointing for the web clients.
"technical employees are likely to bypass security by SSH tunneling their IM communications"
bwahahaha. yes. maybe you have these sorts of employees where you work, but mine can barely determine if their monitor is plugged in.