No, You have clearly misread my post. The news report I saw described two Norwegians losing their 2 year old son to the waves and they couldnt find him and believed him to be dead and drowned. They were in tears in front of the camera saying how desperate they were to find him and they showed a picture of him.
I was aware of him because of the news report yes, but not because of a media report saying he had been found: if the report had said he'd been found then obviously I would not have phoned the TV station, police and Norwegian embassy. It may be that the boy's aunt discovered this seperately but neither I nor anybody else knew that - nor did the TV station making the news report. Consider what would have happened had his aunt not seen the hospital web page. Who would have identified him instead? me. Or at least, according to the Norwegian embassy, one of the 6 other people who phoned in the same information. So my question remains: "what are the moral balances?"
Someone is circulating an email appealing for help identifying a lost western child. it says this:
"
The boy about 2 years, from Khoa Lak is missing his parents.
Nobody knows what country he comes from. If anybody knows him please contact
us by phone 076-249400-4 ext. 1336, 1339 or e- mail:
info@phuket-inter-hospital.co.th
image001.jpg"
Trouble is, it contained a spammers zombie (I didn't realise when I got it) and it depends on suckers trying to be helpful and recirculating it to people they know to infect them. That's how it got to me but 'cos I use Linux I was immune and I didnt circulate it anyway. What I did do was waste the cops and the Norwegian embassy's time. I recognised the kid in the picture from a TV news report that named his parent nationality name and location. I spent an hour on the phone to the TV station the police and the Norwegian consulate telling them that I knew who the kid was and I could help. Turns out they knew anyway so did I do right or wrong? did the spammer do wrong? suppose I had been the only one to indentify this lost 2 years to the parent but I had infected loads of people in the process?
Cohen has even started sketching out ideas for his own puzzles. He dreams of making enough money to buy a 3-D prototyping machine and retire."
(MPAA exec on intercom to his secretary): "mrs Jones find me a 3D prototype manufacturer".
[delay]
(secretary):"I found four of them, but Jesus, they're $5million each!!!"
(exec): "buy four and ship them to that fucker Cohen by the end of the day - and my names not Jesus it's God"
Regretably never. It's nigh on impossible for a non-geek to run it and even most geeks dont. Its been going for 6 years now and you still cant search and the performance is dismal.
I had high hopes for it once but most of its usability problems are too fundamental, and too tied to its architecture, for it ever to be otherwise. Sad but true.
Can you expand on this with a code example? do you mean the link is show as text with no anchor tag or what? If you use a robots file wouldnt you have to confine all links to one page in its own directory?
Its an interesting sounding idea that I might hack up.
Surely the key to this is serving the captcha image in a no transferable way?
Perhaps rather than using a captcha in a jpg you could serve it up via an image java applet. I dont believe you'd be able to redirect the applet or its image to a remote server. If the captcha server served up the applet to client on address X if the reply came from address Y you'd know redirection was occurring - perhaps you'd need ssl for the applet.
Before your troops can storm over the border you have to wait 12 months for the flowers to grow. And they'll spot them and the flowers way before that.
Sheesh, all those PhD's and they haven't spotted that - dumb. they should have hired a smart guy like me for the team.
I was paid $2000 a week as a sysadmin.
I had to do 15 hours a week but I had 2 hour lunches.
There was a company Porche I could use for free.
We had an in-house restaurant that did 5 course meals for $1.
I was able to get freebie with the companies girls when I was off duty.
But had to pay for the condoms!! can you believe it? Those total utter bastards!!
Needless to say I left there the second my 10 year notice period was up.
Now I work from Microsoft but please dont tell my parents they still think I work at the whorehouse.
A cheese slicing laser is all very well but what America hating linux using pinko drug smuggling pedo terrorists like me need is a cutting laser in a watch.
I mean for fuck sakes geeks! How many Bond movies do you need to watch to get a hint that there is a market demand? I've totally lost count of the times the DEA MI5 or FSB have had me manacled to a post kicking the fuck out of me and I'm thinking like "shit... if only I could use my Rolex to slice off these handcuffs I beat you round this cell motherfucker"
So they do invent it and whats it used for 'CHEESE'!!. For fuck sake - I'm going to hunt the inventor down and whack him - the stupid fuck.
Im an English speaker so I'd rather see a Norwegian translate it.
But what the hell, why not let Swedes read it too.
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I agree with you that Americans are clueless about other countries. The distinction is that while I would love to be clueles about America, I dont have any fucking choice not to be. I'm forced to visit that cesspool, I'm forced to watch American shit on TV because Hollywood films and trash TV have dropped the price and quality of if its output so that quality global competition is undecut to death. I'm forced to pay more for CD's etc etc etc.
simplistic and general? then "...fuck you too..." is an educated and articulate comeback, smoooth!
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1) The US is a terrorist state.
it sponsors terrorism in the rest of the world to support its corporates objectives. Guerilla opponents of American policy are terrorists. Guerilla supporters of American policy are freedom fighters.
2) America loves freedom & democracy.
Only in America and only to the extent required by the shackles of it's constitution. elsewhere its OK so long as it doesnt get in the way of American policy. Which means its sort of OK in the rest of the West and a bad idea in the 3rd World since people have shown themselves to be more concerned with themselves and their own rights and wealth rather than the needs of America. Dictators can be bought cheaply to hold the peasants in line.
3) America loves free speeach
Yea as long as you dont try and distribute code that threatens profits or question corporate motives (unbrand america). As long as you dont express support Al Queda. As long as you arent a black fighting slavery, or of Japanese descent in WW2 or an arab post 9/11. As long as you dont criticise America.
Did you ever read the Phillip K. Dicks novel "what if America was really the Bad Guy?" ?
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Fuck you American mods - mark me as a troll: a large proportion of the World believes this. But I'm a troll because these views are heresy. Mark me '-1' so noone else sees my heretical thoughts.
You should have thought about that before shooting them then, eh? Mind you I know how it goes, your in the moment: the bullets are flying, blood is spraying, intestines are spilling onto the floor along with matted gore and hair. You're hot & sweat is making your finger slip off the trigger. The screams of the begging dying ring through your ears.
Future job references dont seem important at that moment do they? JUST DONT DO IT AGAIN!!
In the land of the free press most of the free press (bar CNN) wont accept advertising thats unpatriotic or critical of corporate greed. They use bogus excuses about it being too discursive and issue orientated - crap like that.
Fact is corporate America gets its butt kissed by the press it gives advertising money to; not surprising but certainly hypocritical. And the press doesnt want to piss off an unelected thug like Bush, well OK, elected by the Supreme Court if not the people.
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Variations of the first two have always worked for me.
Pah!
fh@f h0ool =fdw- g/21f
I was aware of him because of the news report yes, but not because of a media report saying he had been found: if the report had said he'd been found then obviously I would not have phoned the TV station, police and Norwegian embassy.
It may be that the boy's aunt discovered this seperately but neither I nor anybody else knew that - nor did the TV station making the news report. Consider what would have happened had his aunt not seen the hospital web page. Who would have identified him instead? me. Or at least, according to the Norwegian embassy, one of the 6 other people who phoned in the same information. So my question remains: "what are the moral balances?"
" The boy about 2 years, from Khoa Lak is missing his parents. :
Nobody knows what country he comes from. If
anybody knows him please contact
us by phone 076-249400-4 ext. 1336, 1339 or e- mail
info@phuket-inter-hospital.co.th
image001.jpg"
Trouble is, it contained a spammers zombie (I didn't realise when I got it) and it depends on suckers trying to be helpful and recirculating it to people they know to infect them. That's how it got to me but 'cos I use Linux I was immune and I didnt circulate it anyway.
What I did do was waste the cops and the Norwegian embassy's time. I recognised the kid in the picture from a TV news report that named his parent nationality name and location. I spent an hour on the phone to the TV station the police and the Norwegian consulate telling them that I knew who the kid was and I could help.
Turns out they knew anyway so did I do right or wrong? did the spammer do wrong? suppose I had been the only one to indentify this lost 2 years to the parent but I had infected loads of people in the process?
Spammers - what slime-bags.
(MPAA exec on intercom to his secretary): "mrs Jones find me a 3D prototype manufacturer".
[delay]
(secretary):"I found four of them, but Jesus, they're $5million each!!!"
(exec): "buy four and ship them to that fucker Cohen by the end of the day - and my names not Jesus it's God"
"Sure lisa killing snakes is wrong, but if I'm part of that mob perhaps I can guide it in the right direction"(approx. dialogue)
Homer Simpson is funny but I wouldnt use him as a guide to moral philosophy :)
Americans, what brain dead limpdicks.
mmmmm...
Shit, now I gotta continue hacking that hyper-virus DNA and thats gonna take forever. Dammit, Dammit, Dammit.
the AIDS epidemic devastated my social life my first year of college.
I had high hopes for it once but most of its usability problems are too fundamental, and too tied to its architecture, for it ever to be otherwise. Sad but true.
bloody good idea. 10 hours a day. 100 minutes an hour. 100 seconds a minute.
Its an interesting sounding idea that I might hack up.
Perhaps rather than using a captcha in a jpg you could serve it up via an image java applet. I dont believe you'd be able to redirect the applet or its image to a remote server. If the captcha server served up the applet to client on address X if the reply came from address Y you'd know redirection was occurring - perhaps you'd need ssl for the applet.
Sheesh, all those PhD's and they haven't spotted that - dumb.
they should have hired a smart guy like me for the team.
PVER 250? isnt it the PVR 350 that has the hardware encoding not the 250? Im pretty sure (too lazy to go the hauppage site) .
yea Agents got him. RIAA agents.
I had to do 15 hours a week but I had 2 hour lunches.
There was a company Porche I could use for free.
We had an in-house restaurant that did 5 course meals for $1.
I was able to get freebie with the companies girls when I was off duty.
But had to pay for the condoms!! can you believe it? Those total utter bastards!!
Needless to say I left there the second my 10 year notice period was up.
Now I work from Microsoft
but please dont tell my parents they still think I work at the whorehouse.
we've seen the picture: linus has guts) So we we know linus has guts - in fact he has several of them. He really needs to go to this place: gym
sure I cant hack a kernel but at least I have a flat stomach.
Linus for Gods sake leave America: come back to Europe where we dont serve food by the trough.
I mean for fuck sakes geeks! How many Bond movies do you need to watch to get a hint that there is a market demand? I've totally lost count of the times the DEA MI5 or FSB have had me manacled to a post kicking the fuck out of me and I'm thinking like "shit ... if only I could use my Rolex to slice off these handcuffs I beat you round this cell motherfucker"
So they do invent it and whats it used for 'CHEESE'!!. For fuck sake - I'm going to hunt the inventor down and whack him - the stupid fuck.
Im an English speaker so I'd rather see a Norwegian translate it.
But what the hell, why not let Swedes read it too.
simplistic and general? then "...fuck you too..." is an educated and articulate comeback, smoooth!
it sponsors terrorism in the rest of the world to support its corporates objectives. Guerilla opponents of American policy are terrorists. Guerilla supporters of American policy are freedom fighters.
2) America loves freedom & democracy.
Only in America and only to the extent required by the shackles of it's constitution. elsewhere its OK so long as it doesnt get in the way of American policy. Which means its sort of OK in the rest of the West and a bad idea in the 3rd World since people have shown themselves to be more concerned with themselves and their own rights and wealth rather than the needs of America. Dictators can be bought cheaply to hold the peasants in line.
3) America loves free speeach
Yea as long as you dont try and distribute code that threatens profits or question corporate motives (unbrand america). As long as you dont express support Al Queda. As long as you arent a black fighting slavery, or of Japanese descent in WW2 or an arab post 9/11. As long as you dont criticise America. Did you ever read the Phillip K. Dicks novel "what if America was really the Bad Guy?" ?
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Fuck you American mods - mark me as a troll: a large proportion of the World believes this. But I'm a troll because these views are heresy. Mark me '-1' so noone else sees my heretical thoughts.
Mind you I know how it goes, your in the moment: the bullets are flying, blood is spraying, intestines are spilling onto the floor along with matted gore and hair. You're hot & sweat is making your finger slip off the trigger. The screams of the begging dying ring through your ears.
Future job references dont seem important at that moment do they? JUST DONT DO IT AGAIN!!
In the land of the free press most of the free press (bar CNN) wont accept advertising thats unpatriotic or critical of corporate greed. They use bogus excuses about it being too discursive and issue orientated - crap like that.
Fact is corporate America gets its butt kissed by the press it gives advertising money to; not surprising but certainly hypocritical.
And the press doesnt want to piss off an unelected thug like Bush, well OK, elected by the Supreme Court if not the people.