The guy's life reads like a spam-filled success story. If I post this article at work, we'll lose 10 people tomorrow.
"Hi everybody, I'm Robin Leach, and I'm here today looking at the gorgeous 20 million dollar home of [insert spammers name here]!! It's a fabulous castle bought with all that email money, because spamming REALLY DOES WORK!!! Of course, he had the cheapest mortgage on the planet! Boy, he's more loaded than half of Hollywood, and it's like he didn't even work for it! With spam, he seems to MAKE MONEY OVERNIGHT!!! While you stupid peasants are out there slaving away, he's clicking "Send Now" and watching his fabulous dragon's mound of gold coins pile ever higher! He's so smart, he doesn't even need a spellchecker! He has a stable of Porsches and a stable of lovely ladies! And that huge penis of his is a favorite around town! He has no problems meeting ladies because Spamming REALLY DOES WORK!!" He's living the American Dream, and I'm just poor fat old Robin Leach!!!
Did you see him when he was accepting an Oscar for Kill Bill? The way he talks he doesn't even sound like he's from Earth anymore. Even the cool bling-blinged black people I know can't decipher his stange mumblings.
Oh, and what's with his trenchcoat? Where's that lame full body green suit that made me pitty him?
They don't want you to pity him, they want you to fear him. And what's more fearsome that a crazy guy with a George Michael haircut walking around in a trenchcoat?
Heh heh, surfing the web and basically wasting my life away, I stumbled across the horribly mentally disfigured and monsterous Omarosa. Apparently, she didn't win the Apprentice, but she did win the title of the only Intern Clinton refused to sleep with. "Jesus, you're gross! Get the hell off me!" the President was quoted as saying.
And I would also put money that she's the reason the hapless Democrats crumbled into impotent nothingness after a decade of being on top politically.
Absolutely. The greatest movie brainf*ck of my short and pitiful life was when my friends rented "From Dusk Til Dawn" and I had no clue whatsoever about the massive twist that was going to happen about halfway through. My jaw dropped when it happened and I was like "What the--?" and then looked over at all my buddies who had already seen it, and they were all watching my stunned reaction and grinning.
It wouldn't have been half as good knowing what was going to happen in the movie beforehand and I am eternally thankful for my own ignorance. When it comes to movies, Ignorance Truly Is Bliss.
Okay, I admit, I'm a butthead. Your 40 line post is a hella lot better than your 2 line post. I had two hours sleep due to massive caffeine intake. My bad.
I'm seriously considering your recommendation of Linux. Already use it, but not enough. It's getting to the point where I think I can make a go of it.
A few days ago there was an article in which Doc Searls mentions that Dan Frye, one of "IBM's leading Linux honchos", said that IBM will be offering both a Linux desktop and a Linux laptop this year. I've heard rumors that IBM wanted to use the G5 or a variant in their own gear, and this would be a perfect situation... if this happens it will be my next laptop.
By the way, did you see the article Cisco Products Have Backdoors? Jesus. You're right, I might as well not worry about backdoors, because I'll never catch them all. Between software, hardware, and the NSA monitoring all my emails anyway, there really IS no privacy. Bummer.
I don't know about "as many" (if you have a link to a list, I'd appreciate it), but there are definitely a few good OSes for PPC, true. Linux being the best one. But much of the software on those OSes is for X86 only and won't compile on PPC without massive effort. I'm specifically thinking of many of the Sourceforge apps I enjoy on x86 but have no PPC counterpart.
spammers... want to get me rich... want to enlarge my penis... want to get me cheap mortage...
Jeez, looking at these stats, I can't imagine why anybody WOULDN'T want to give their email address out to spammers. They seem to be nice people, geniuinely concerned about my wellbeing and happiness. We could ALL use more friends like these.
Judging from your post, cubic, you seem to take everything on trust. That's bad.
You TRUST the moderators are always wise and good. I don't. I've seen enough bad mods to justify that belief. I'm sure you have as well. And yet you insult me for standing up for what I think is right. When I see a bad mod, I complain instead of letting the bad mod stand. If you don't complain over injustice, it will never be changed.
You TRUST that Apple and Microsoft haven't put a backdoor in their software. I don't. Why should I? IBM put a backdoor in their software AT THE REQUEST OF THE NSA. Yeah, that IBM. Big Blue. At the time a powerful monopoly unequalled in the world. Lotus being the most popular Office Suite at the time. And they caved. Think about it. You think it's IMPOSSIBLE that little 2% marketshare Apple would cave under that pressure? Even when the NSA "request" becomes a "demand"? My post didn't even say that MS and Apple definitely backdoored their software; I said they I can't prove they didn't. The *possibility* is there. For you to deny even the possibility shows that the problem is not mine, it's yours. You're not thinking rationally -- you're denying reality. The reality is that it is *certainly* possible, and judging from the current political climate in the USA, it may even be probable.
And why am I paranoid? I'm thinking of my own well-being. How is self-preservation a bad thing? If I'm paranoid, you're a naive trusting kid who hasn't got a clue as to how the world really works. If you actually *trust* the multinationals not to put code in their OSes like this, when every second app out there now is "spyware", you're a fool. To blindly reject even the possibility out of love and trust for a corporation is insane. If you haven't noticed that Apple isn't "thinking different" anymore, take a closer look. They've joined corporate America in a big way. Watch ThinkSecret, MacSurfer and other Mac news sites and study their business practices. It's not a bunch of hippies trying to "change the world" anymore.
I am perfectly willing to join you in saying "it's not even possible for OS X to be backdoored" THE SECOND YOU SHOW ME SOME PROOF. Until then, it IS a possibility, and no amount of well-designed MP3 software or hip ad campaigns can change that.
Hmmp. Nice work, Mod. I highly doubt there's a single point in there that can be disputed. It's written in intelligent, rational prose, and is definitely NOT a troll. But yet again, I am struck down by angry, bitter little MacMods who spend their days and nights denying reality and trying to cause others to deny it as well. What a pathetic life you must lead.
And it just occurred to me -- the more I'm modded down for *telling the truth* (ie. censored by Apple Zealots), the more I consider that ThinkPad....
You forgot that since Apple's OS X is closed source, it may have backdoors built in by the NSA. It MAY. I'm not saying it DOES, I'm saying I can't prove it doesn't. And after reading earlier today about the NSA monitoring every email that goes through an American server on its journey (which is pretty much all of them), I'm more worried about the inherent safety of my systems. All the firewalls in the world won't protect you if the paranoid theories about MS' NSAKey.dll are correct, or if the same NSA that approached MS to trojan their systems approached Apple (and why wouldn't they?). It is of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE security-wise, to be able to trust your operating system 100%. I have an Apple, I'll agree that the PowerBooks NEED an update (I'm still hanging onto my TiBook, years after I wanted to upgrade), and I love the mind-numbing ease of use of OSX, but if you ask me whether I can guarantee that there are no backdoors built into it, I have to respond 'no.' If IBM really is making Linux ThinkPads based on the G5 this year, I WILL be dropping OS X completely for that platform.
DES Developed in the early 1970's by IBM, it was put forward by IBM to answer a 1973 public request from the National Bureau of Standards for a public standard. The NSA handled the evaluation and suggested some modifications which much later turned out to protect against attacks that weren't "discovered" in the public arena until around 1990. The NSA also reduced the key size from 128 bits to 56. The only known attacks are brute force attacks. Since 2^56 combinations is no longer out of reach of consortiums of computers, triple DES, which extends the key length to 112 bits is generally considered strongly secure and single DES is considered "exportable," i.e., breakable by the US government.
You say "were", like these Projects are no longer in existence. Interesting... NSA Astroturfing, something I've never seen before.... Perhaps you're the victim of a damaging Nazi Mind Control Ray (insert goatse joke here).
Google Operation Northwoods, recently revived with the Bush Administration. I'll leave the rest of the details to you to fill in.
Dr. Eugene 'Spaf' Spafford, security expert and professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, talks with Greplaw about what drove him to the computer security field...
Don't bother going to GrepLaw, I was just poking around on his personal computer and realized he's got a copy on his C drive here.
I often skim through posts, speed-reading you know, and picking out the important words so I still get the general idea. Here's what I got from your post.
"surfing for porn" "slapped" "woody" "quietly sat there and did whatever he had to" "slow, but useable" "that's good enough" "just keeps getting easier and easier" "spend 5-10 on a magazine to give it a go if you didn't fancy downloading it" "just became a lot more tolerable!"
I ran your post through my Ashcroftizer, and it's looking like you're guilty of something bad, I just don't know what....
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The guy's life reads like a spam-filled success story. If I post this article at work, we'll lose 10 people tomorrow.
"Hi everybody, I'm Robin Leach, and I'm here today looking at the gorgeous 20 million dollar home of [insert spammers name here]!! It's a fabulous castle bought with all that email money, because spamming REALLY DOES WORK!!! Of course, he had the cheapest mortgage on the planet! Boy, he's more loaded than half of Hollywood, and it's like he didn't even work for it! With spam, he seems to MAKE MONEY OVERNIGHT!!! While you stupid peasants are out there slaving away, he's clicking "Send Now" and watching his fabulous dragon's mound of gold coins pile ever higher! He's so smart, he doesn't even need a spellchecker! He has a stable of Porsches and a stable of lovely ladies! And that huge penis of his is a favorite around town! He has no problems meeting ladies because Spamming REALLY DOES WORK!!" He's living the American Dream, and I'm just poor fat old Robin Leach!!!
Did you see him when he was accepting an Oscar for Kill Bill? The way he talks he doesn't even sound like he's from Earth anymore. Even the cool bling-blinged black people I know can't decipher his stange mumblings.
No, he registered, but he apparently "lied" about his address on the form, saying he was "homeless". Lying on those forms is a crime, you know.
Kick-ass link, bro. Thanks!
Oh, and what's with his trenchcoat? Where's that lame full body green suit that made me pitty him?
They don't want you to pity him, they want you to fear him. And what's more fearsome that a crazy guy with a George Michael haircut walking around in a trenchcoat?
"This Octopus has NINE big tentacles baby!"
That's another way of putting it, yes.
Heh heh, surfing the web and basically wasting my life away, I stumbled across the horribly mentally disfigured and monsterous Omarosa. Apparently, she didn't win the Apprentice, but she did win the title of the only Intern Clinton refused to sleep with. "Jesus, you're gross! Get the hell off me!" the President was quoted as saying.
And I would also put money that she's the reason the hapless Democrats crumbled into impotent nothingness after a decade of being on top politically.
Absolutely. The greatest movie brainf*ck of my short and pitiful life was when my friends rented "From Dusk Til Dawn" and I had no clue whatsoever about the massive twist that was going to happen about halfway through. My jaw dropped when it happened and I was like "What the--?" and then looked over at all my buddies who had already seen it, and they were all watching my stunned reaction and grinning.
It wouldn't have been half as good knowing what was going to happen in the movie beforehand and I am eternally thankful for my own ignorance. When it comes to movies, Ignorance Truly Is Bliss.
Okay, I admit, I'm a butthead. Your 40 line post is a hella lot better than your 2 line post. I had two hours sleep due to massive caffeine intake. My bad.
I'm seriously considering your recommendation of Linux. Already use it, but not enough. It's getting to the point where I think I can make a go of it.
A few days ago there was an article in which Doc Searls mentions that Dan Frye, one of "IBM's leading Linux honchos", said that IBM will be offering both a Linux desktop and a Linux laptop this year. I've heard rumors that IBM wanted to use the G5 or a variant in their own gear, and this would be a perfect situation... if this happens it will be my next laptop.
By the way, did you see the article Cisco Products Have Backdoors? Jesus. You're right, I might as well not worry about backdoors, because I'll never catch them all. Between software, hardware, and the NSA monitoring all my emails anyway, there really IS no privacy. Bummer.
But anyways, sorry I'm a jerk on Slashdot.
I don't know about "as many" (if you have a link to a list, I'd appreciate it), but there are definitely a few good OSes for PPC, true. Linux being the best one. But much of the software on those OSes is for X86 only and won't compile on PPC without massive effort. I'm specifically thinking of many of the Sourceforge apps I enjoy on x86 but have no PPC counterpart.
spammers ... want to get me rich ... want to enlarge my penis ... want to get me cheap mortage...
Jeez, looking at these stats, I can't imagine why anybody WOULDN'T want to give their email address out to spammers. They seem to be nice people, geniuinely concerned about my wellbeing and happiness. We could ALL use more friends like these.
Judging from your post, cubic, you seem to take everything on trust. That's bad.
You TRUST the moderators are always wise and good. I don't. I've seen enough bad mods to justify that belief. I'm sure you have as well. And yet you insult me for standing up for what I think is right. When I see a bad mod, I complain instead of letting the bad mod stand. If you don't complain over injustice, it will never be changed.
You TRUST that Apple and Microsoft haven't put a backdoor in their software. I don't. Why should I? IBM put a backdoor in their software AT THE REQUEST OF THE NSA. Yeah, that IBM. Big Blue. At the time a powerful monopoly unequalled in the world. Lotus being the most popular Office Suite at the time. And they caved. Think about it. You think it's IMPOSSIBLE that little 2% marketshare Apple would cave under that pressure? Even when the NSA "request" becomes a "demand"? My post didn't even say that MS and Apple definitely backdoored their software; I said they I can't prove they didn't. The *possibility* is there. For you to deny even the possibility shows that the problem is not mine, it's yours. You're not thinking rationally -- you're denying reality. The reality is that it is *certainly* possible, and judging from the current political climate in the USA, it may even be probable.
And why am I paranoid? I'm thinking of my own well-being. How is self-preservation a bad thing? If I'm paranoid, you're a naive trusting kid who hasn't got a clue as to how the world really works. If you actually *trust* the multinationals not to put code in their OSes like this, when every second app out there now is "spyware", you're a fool. To blindly reject even the possibility out of love and trust for a corporation is insane. If you haven't noticed that Apple isn't "thinking different" anymore, take a closer look. They've joined corporate America in a big way. Watch ThinkSecret, MacSurfer and other Mac news sites and study their business practices. It's not a bunch of hippies trying to "change the world" anymore.
I am perfectly willing to join you in saying "it's not even possible for OS X to be backdoored" THE SECOND YOU SHOW ME SOME PROOF. Until then, it IS a possibility, and no amount of well-designed MP3 software or hip ad campaigns can change that.
Hmmp. Nice work, Mod. I highly doubt there's a single point in there that can be disputed. It's written in intelligent, rational prose, and is definitely NOT a troll. But yet again, I am struck down by angry, bitter little MacMods who spend their days and nights denying reality and trying to cause others to deny it as well. What a pathetic life you must lead.
And it just occurred to me -- the more I'm modded down for *telling the truth* (ie. censored by Apple Zealots), the more I consider that ThinkPad....
You forgot that since Apple's OS X is closed source, it may have backdoors built in by the NSA. It MAY. I'm not saying it DOES, I'm saying I can't prove it doesn't. And after reading earlier today about the NSA monitoring every email that goes through an American server on its journey (which is pretty much all of them), I'm more worried about the inherent safety of my systems. All the firewalls in the world won't protect you if the paranoid theories about MS' NSAKey.dll are correct, or if the same NSA that approached MS to trojan their systems approached Apple (and why wouldn't they?). It is of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE security-wise, to be able to trust your operating system 100%. I have an Apple, I'll agree that the PowerBooks NEED an update (I'm still hanging onto my TiBook, years after I wanted to upgrade), and I love the mind-numbing ease of use of OSX, but if you ask me whether I can guarantee that there are no backdoors built into it, I have to respond 'no.' If IBM really is making Linux ThinkPads based on the G5 this year, I WILL be dropping OS X completely for that platform.
That's it. You're friended. A guy as cool and as knowledgeably dangerous as you I want on my side.
... all of them from the Hock Shop at 2 bucks a pop. Cheaper than Kazaa, cheaper than iTunes or Napster, cheaper than anything else out there.
DES Developed in the early 1970's by IBM, it was put forward by IBM to answer a 1973 public request from the National Bureau of Standards for a public standard. The NSA handled the evaluation and suggested some modifications which much later turned out to protect against attacks that weren't "discovered" in the public arena until around 1990. The NSA also reduced the key size from 128 bits to 56.
The only known attacks are brute force attacks. Since 2^56 combinations is no longer out of reach of consortiums of computers, triple DES, which extends the key length to 112 bits is generally considered strongly secure and single DES is considered "exportable," i.e., breakable by the US government.
http://home.pacbell.net/tpanero/crypto/des.html
That wasn't a root canal, that was an RFID chip implantation procedure.
this thought was definately outside the box....
not if you're the government.
You say "were", like these Projects are no longer in existence. Interesting... NSA Astroturfing, something I've never seen before.... Perhaps you're the victim of a damaging Nazi Mind Control Ray (insert goatse joke here).
Google Operation Northwoods, recently revived with the Bush Administration. I'll leave the rest of the details to you to fill in.
Okay, that's foul.
"..but will it run Linux?"
Dr. Eugene 'Spaf' Spafford, security expert and professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, talks with Greplaw about what drove him to the computer security field...
Don't bother going to GrepLaw, I was just poking around on his personal computer and realized he's got a copy on his C drive here.
All the apps work the same and look the same.
That rule can't be that important if even Apple, the Kings of UI greatness, don't follow it anymore....
I often skim through posts, speed-reading you know, and picking out the important words so I still get the general idea. Here's what I got from your post.
"surfing for porn" "slapped" "woody" "quietly sat there and did whatever he had to" "slow, but useable" "that's good enough" "just keeps getting easier and easier" "spend 5-10 on a magazine to give it a go if you didn't fancy downloading it" "just became a lot more tolerable!"
I ran your post through my Ashcroftizer, and it's looking like you're guilty of something bad, I just don't know what....