"Survival of the fittest" means "those most likely and best at passing down genetic material"
So, we're constantly evolving as a species into sluts and trailer-trash, whilst 'uncool' types who spend all day writing code or getting excited about Uranium isotopes are dying out. That explains much of what I see every day. Sadly.
I've been a long time fan of Spybot, AdAware, BHODemon and hijack this, but I've recently been very impressed with Giant AntiSpyWare and thought it deserved a mention.
War in 2006... reminds me of a book I read a few years back, where the author was predicting the third world war would break out in, guess what...?
2006!
Guess it was wrong of me to laugh at him, afterall.
That, or just jam the GPS device.
Wouldn't help you open Rights Management stylee protected data, but it would stop your laptop from screaming "I'm being stolen!".
There's also creole languages with similar, and one in which you have a different tense if you attempted to do something but ultimately failed. Something like:
I bin connected to AOL = I was trying to connect to AOL, but didn't quite manage it.
I been connected to AOL = I connected to AOL.
What would be really cool would be a TV schedule alert. Suppose I really want to see something which gets shown once every couple of years, or am a fan of a particular actor. If I could set up alerts so that as soon as something matching the title of what I want, or an entry for my fave hollywood chick is added to the schedule, I get a message in my Gmail account telling me not to make any plans next Thursday.
Also... will it look at my contacts list in Gmail for fellow gmail users and tell me things like "Dave, Mike and Ed will also be watching 'Return of The Horrid Monster Horror Things IV - why not call them and you can all watch it together with a 6-pack and a pizza. You can get 6-packs and pizza by clicking on one of the sponsored text-ads at the top of the page..."?
Let's make this a sponsored 'me-too' thread. If we can beat the world record (which undoubtedly goes to AOL forums, or possibly some of the darker corners of USERNET), we might raise enough cash to develop a cure!
I'm sorry I forget our anniversary, honey... my phone got rooted by some elite regiment of North Korean hackers, who wiped out the reminder and replaced it with a 'to-do' stating that I was supposed to have a meeting with somebody called 'Lusty Linda' at the local tittie bar. I thought it seemed a little strange at the time, but, oh well - the phone knows best... or so I thought until Linda dropped her pants and revealed her real name to be Linford. I'll have to upgrade to SP2 sometime soon, but I'm running Google PDA-Search, and I don't think the two work together. Sorry babe...
Para-Protect used to monitor IRC channels as part of a service which would tell you which miscreants were discussing the state of your org's network security.
Mind you, if you were worth your Nerdgear 'got root' t-shirt, you'd not be discussing such things over plaintext IRC, and you'd stick to discussing such things only on invite-only SSH'd up talkers.
desertification of southern Europe/Corn Belt USA and flooding of coastal areas are non-issues until they become political issues
So the question is... will it take until 2012 for these things to become political issues? Such things already are political issues in the places whose citizens already believe (rightly or wrongly) they're being affected by them.
Unfortunately, the slightest hint of a flood has people talking about global warming in the UK, and news of hurricane has people debating if what happened in Grenada was the result of climate change or not. Also - for every rent-a-scientist who writes a few lines of copy about how bad the state of the environment is, there's another rent-a-scientist who'll argue the opposite. So it's very difficult to know how serious the problem is, or indeed if there is a problem at all. In the past few years it seems that in the view of the public, anybody who publicly bashes the global warming theory must automatically have an agenda, and is probably sponsored by Exxon or somebody - and anybody who publicly chastises business for not caring about the environment must automatically be some kind of hippy nut who is clearly insane.
Why wait for your government to act for you? Why not avoid buying products from countries that prefer to disregard Kyoto..
Because such gestures are meaningless unless they have the weight of numbers behind them. If, for example.. I dislike Elbonia, because they're refusing to give up nukes/hunting whales/stealing our jobs/polluting lots/(possibly)funding terrorism/speaking with annoying accents/etc/et cetera.. and I decide I'm not going to buy anything they export, it probably means nothing to them. The same goes if 1,000 people do the same. If, however, Elbonian products were suddenly taxed 25% more than another foreign rival's products across a population of hundreds of millions, then their revenues are going to fall very short.
That was clearly his own fault for having a mate tell the police he was Irish before he set out with the table leg.
The fact that neither police nor criminal generally has a gun, does not mean they never do. It simply means that less lead per capita is flying around Greater London than in The District of Columbia. Slowly, guns are being found more frequenty amongst both sides.
Kyoto, and its successors will also one day have 'teeth'. This will likely be once damage to the environment has become noticeable in everyday life. Either that or it'll all come to nothing.... maybe. You pays your money and you takes your chances...
Perhaps one day there will be significant consequences. For example - nations who fail their Kyoto obligations will find their exports subjected to higher taxation in the rest of the countries which have signed up to the son-of-kyoto.
...we may, in common with other tech news websites, have given our readers the impression that somehow SP2 would cause lots of problems across all XP desktops, and for little or no gain. Headlines such as "Micro$oft botches it again", "SP2 ate my hamster" and "Latest worthless piece of cr*p bug-ridden bloatware available for download" may somehow have led readers to believe that we were in some way suggesting that SP2 was possibly a sub-standard or poorly thought-out piece of software.
In light of the fact that everybody seems to have given in and installed it anyway, we would like to express our gratitude to Bill Gates and his wonderful Microsoft staff for bringing this vital update to the computing community.
advertisers are supporting networks/products that allow illegal activity to take place.
Also... SMTP, FTP, HTTP, SMB, TFTP, Telnet, ICMP..etc et cetera...these also allow illegal activity to take place. I can make illegal content available over IPX/SPX if I really want.
If OS/2 gets open-sourced, it might encourage people to install it. Think of the suffering!
I sort through my snail mail and crack open the BOFH Monthly Newsletter, "kill -9" and check out the articles therein. There's a nice peice on making OS/2 slow, boring and painful, but it looks exactly like the OS/2 installation instructions to me...
Well, Mr Smith, it appears that your incisors spent rather a lot of time somewhere in the vicinity of my daughter's IUD RFID tag. Would you like to explain this to me or would you rather choose a window?
The AI controlled woman used this kind of monofilament in Book 3 and 4 of Dan Simmon's Hyperion serie.
Having never read any Hyperion stuff, for some reason I took the above comment to mean that there are a bunch of AI women who wear incredibly skimpy G-string underwear.
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"Survival of the fittest" means "those most likely and best at passing down genetic material"
So, we're constantly evolving as a species into sluts and trailer-trash, whilst 'uncool' types who spend all day writing code or getting excited about Uranium isotopes are dying out. That explains much of what I see every day. Sadly.
I've been a long time fan of Spybot, AdAware, BHODemon and hijack this, but I've recently been very impressed with Giant AntiSpyWare and thought it deserved a mention.
War in 2006... reminds me of a book I read a few years back, where the author was predicting the third world war would break out in, guess what...? 2006!
Guess it was wrong of me to laugh at him, afterall.
That, or just jam the GPS device.
Wouldn't help you open Rights Management stylee protected data, but it would stop your laptop from screaming "I'm being stolen!".
There's also creole languages with similar, and one in which you have a different tense if you attempted to do something but ultimately failed. Something like:
I bin connected to AOL = I was trying to connect to AOL, but didn't quite manage it.
I been connected to AOL = I connected to AOL.
What would be really cool would be a TV schedule alert. Suppose I really want to see something which gets shown once every couple of years, or am a fan of a particular actor. If I could set up alerts so that as soon as something matching the title of what I want, or an entry for my fave hollywood chick is added to the schedule, I get a message in my Gmail account telling me not to make any plans next Thursday.
Also... will it look at my contacts list in Gmail for fellow gmail users and tell me things like "Dave, Mike and Ed will also be watching 'Return of The Horrid Monster Horror Things IV - why not call them and you can all watch it together with a 6-pack and a pizza. You can get 6-packs and pizza by clicking on one of the sponsored text-ads at the top of the page..."?
Let's make this a sponsored 'me-too' thread. If we can beat the world record (which undoubtedly goes to AOL forums, or possibly some of the darker corners of USERNET), we might raise enough cash to develop a cure!
That's like saying "If there were no accidents there'd be no job for the Ambulance driver."
Or the lawyer, chasing close behind it
I'm sorry I forget our anniversary, honey... my phone got rooted by some elite regiment of North Korean hackers, who wiped out the reminder and replaced it with a 'to-do' stating that I was supposed to have a meeting with somebody called 'Lusty Linda' at the local tittie bar. I thought it seemed a little strange at the time, but, oh well - the phone knows best... or so I thought until Linda dropped her pants and revealed her real name to be Linford. I'll have to upgrade to SP2 sometime soon, but I'm running Google PDA-Search, and I don't think the two work together. Sorry babe...
Suddenly, I understand why MS are doing what they are with Dell/AMD
So... the CIA will be purchasing bash.org?
Para-Protect used to monitor IRC channels as part of a service which would tell you which miscreants were discussing the state of your org's network security.
Mind you, if you were worth your Nerdgear 'got root' t-shirt, you'd not be discussing such things over plaintext IRC, and you'd stick to discussing such things only on invite-only SSH'd up talkers.
Personally, I'd rather have an unbootable machine than a spyware-infested one.
desertification of southern Europe/Corn Belt USA and flooding of coastal areas are non-issues until they become political issues
So the question is... will it take until 2012 for these things to become political issues? Such things already are political issues in the places whose citizens already believe (rightly or wrongly) they're being affected by them.
Unfortunately, the slightest hint of a flood has people talking about global warming in the UK, and news of hurricane has people debating if what happened in Grenada was the result of climate change or not. Also - for every rent-a-scientist who writes a few lines of copy about how bad the state of the environment is, there's another rent-a-scientist who'll argue the opposite. So it's very difficult to know how serious the problem is, or indeed if there is a problem at all. In the past few years it seems that in the view of the public, anybody who publicly bashes the global warming theory must automatically have an agenda, and is probably sponsored by Exxon or somebody - and anybody who publicly chastises business for not caring about the environment must automatically be some kind of hippy nut who is clearly insane.
Why wait for your government to act for you? Why not avoid buying products from countries that prefer to disregard Kyoto..
Because such gestures are meaningless unless they have the weight of numbers behind them. If, for example.. I dislike Elbonia, because they're refusing to give up nukes/hunting whales/stealing our jobs/polluting lots/(possibly)funding terrorism/speaking with annoying accents/etc/et cetera.. and I decide I'm not going to buy anything they export, it probably means nothing to them. The same goes if 1,000 people do the same. If, however, Elbonian products were suddenly taxed 25% more than another foreign rival's products across a population of hundreds of millions, then their revenues are going to fall very short.
That was clearly his own fault for having a mate tell the police he was Irish before he set out with the table leg.
The fact that neither police nor criminal generally has a gun, does not mean they never do. It simply means that less lead per capita is flying around Greater London than in The District of Columbia. Slowly, guns are being found more frequenty amongst both sides.
Kyoto, and its successors will also one day have 'teeth'. This will likely be once damage to the environment has become noticeable in everyday life. Either that or it'll all come to nothing.... maybe.
You pays your money and you takes your chances...
Perhaps one day there will be significant consequences. For example - nations who fail their Kyoto obligations will find their exports subjected to higher taxation in the rest of the countries which have signed up to the son-of-kyoto.
Until then...
Exclusive... to all tech news sites:
In light of the fact that everybody seems to have given in and installed it anyway, we would like to express our gratitude to Bill Gates and his wonderful Microsoft staff for bringing this vital update to the computing community.
We apologise unreservedly for any misunderstandings caused by earlier reports.©All tech news sites.
Also... SMTP, FTP, HTTP, SMB, TFTP, Telnet, ICMP..etc et cetera ...these also allow illegal activity to take place. I can make illegal content available over IPX/SPX if I really want.
This would be interesting at one of the places I used to work... the whole of Europe's web surfing was routed via a proxy, in... Santa Clara.
Is it any wonder when us limey sons-of-two-strangers are running campaigns such as this?
If OS/2 gets open-sourced, it might encourage people to install it. Think of the suffering!
I sort through my snail mail and crack open the BOFH Monthly Newsletter, "kill -9" and check out the articles therein. There's a nice peice on making OS/2 slow, boring and painful, but it looks exactly like the OS/2 installation instructions to me...
BOFH 11Well, Mr Smith, it appears that your incisors spent rather a lot of time somewhere in the vicinity of my daughter's IUD RFID tag. Would you like to explain this to me or would you rather choose a window?
Having never read any Hyperion stuff, for some reason I took the above comment to mean that there are a bunch of AI women who wear incredibly skimpy G-string underwear.
Would this be the same British Library that was going to archive the whole UK web?