Ok, I'm not sure about those other companies that were mentioned, but Cisco is a U.S. company. And internet gambling is illegal in the United States. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't give a shit whether people gamble on the internet, and I see the anti-internet-gambling laws as having as much to do with protecting monopolies as anything else.
Now that I've said that, how is this not a legal issue for Cisco? Surely the FBI, DEA, and assorted other federal agencies would be all over Cisco if they were helping Colombian drug cartels in any way whatsoever. How do they "get away" with it? Aren't they essentially aiding and abetting what in the U.S. is considered a criminal enterprise? I mean, as an individual I can go place bets at some offshore casino and fly under the radar, but a big company like Cisco is going to have a hard time doing that, especially if their help is on the front page of Slashdot and other news sources.
I once heard of a company that used the following as their mission statement. You might as well just excerpt theirs. No kidding.
(company) leverages core skillsets and world-class team synergy through (product) to provide clients worldwide with robust, scalable, modern turnkey implementations of flexible, personalized, cutting-edge Internet-enabled e-business application product suite e-solution architectures that accelerate response to customer and real-world market demands and reliably adapt to evolving technology needs, seamlessly and efficiently integrating and synchronizing with their existing legacy infrastructure, enhancing the e-readiness capabilities of their e-commerce production environments across the enterprise while giving them a critical competitive advantage and taking them to the next level.
When I was in high school we had a teacher that liked to keep the windows in the classroom open, no matter how cold it was outside. Unfortunately, he taught English. If he had been a math teacher, we might have actually encouraged him, at least during the wintertime.
I don't think he's unemployed. His job is camping out in front of a theater, creating publicity which he then uses to sell t-shirts, books, and other stuff. It sounds like he's making somewhat decent money doing what he's doing, or at least he has the opportunity to do so.
Also, for all we know, George Lucas is paying him some money behind the scenes to do this. After all, whenever Slashdot or anyone else runs a story about this guy, it's free publicity for the movie.
Not anymore. We got rid of the evil Gray Davis (who of course personally caused the power to go out, my republican friend says he saw Gray Davis flipping a big light switch at PG&E headquarters to the "off" position just before one of the rolling blackouts) and replaced him with the Governator. Arnold won't let the power go out, and if it does, he can go turn the turbines himself with his super terminator strength. Or something like that.
Security through obscurity works fine as long as no one is actively working to exploit vulnerabilities. If something did evolve to "break" the code in a way that would be harmful to us, we would likely evolve a defense against it. Who knows, maybe it's happened before. Of course, if someone starts developing and deploying biological weapons or nanotech weapons, then there might be a threat.
Of course, the advantage to having an easy to break code is that the human genome project would be a lot harder if our DNA were protected by some kind of strong encryption.
Since this story discusses Morse code, here's a Secret Message of the Day (D is dash, d is dot, and lameness filters suck) -- DDd dD DdDD / Dd dd DDd DDd d dDd / dD ddd ddd DDD DdDd dd dD D dd DDD Dd / DDD ddDd / dD DD d dDd dd DdDd dD
Jennifer Aniston, Sarah Michelle Geller, Kate Moss. Any one of them weighs more than a five hundred million picoton asteroid orbiting one of the stars this article is about.
I'm wondering -- does this have anything to do with the screenshots of Tiger that were released on Macrumors a few months back? Some of you may remember this; I think Slashdot even ran a story about it (although unfortunately I can't find it at the moment).
What happened was this: Someone sent what they claimed to be Tiger screenshots to Macrumors.com. However, the article said "courtesy of Gary Niger from GNAA" or some such, so everyone assumed they were fake. But then they turned out to be real. The GNAA has been bragging ever since.
I guess what I'm really wondering is, are the defendants in this case GNAA members who got caught obtaining and posting these screenshots? Or is this something else, completely unrelated?
50k a year is shitty in the area it was in when an apartment costs 1500/m
$1,500 a month for an apartment???! Where? These days you can easily find apartments in Silicon Valley (just about the most expensive real estate market in America) for under $1000, vacancy rates are high, and the complexes are having move in specials, free month's rent, etc. If it's Manhattan, may I suggest living in Jersey and taking the train to work.
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i love you i love lucy i love bees i love huckabees i love movies i love messenger i love u i love you poems i love you lyrics i love the 80s
bush hates gays bush hates america bush hates blacks bush hates fags bush hates bush hates jews bush hates black people bush hates canada bush hates me bush hates women
why is the sky blue why is marijuana illegal why is mars red why is smoking bad why is the ocean salty why is it important to vote why is a raven like a writing desk why is the ocean blue why is new york called the big apple why is smoking bad for you
bush is an idiot bush is evil bush is stupid bush is the antichrist bush is a moron bush is gay bush is a monkey bush is bad bush is antichrist bush is not my president
kerry is a loser kerry is gay kerry is an idiot kerry is scary kerry is a douchebag kerry is winning kerry is going to win kerry is a douche kerry is a douche bag kerry is stupid
Try typing "porn" or "sex" or "cock" into Google Suggest. It doesn't come up with anything. I started to get suspicious when I typed the letter x to see what would come up, and got 4 or 5 variations of "xbox" but not a single "xxx" or "xxx porn" or anything.
Interestingly enough, they DIDN'T censor the racial slurs. "gay nigger" happily suggests "gay niggers from outer space" among other things. Also, type "tub" and one of the suggestions is "tubgirl".
Trollback Magazine is a Slashdot journal that publishes the best trolls on Slashdot each month. It also contains commentary of interest to the Slashdot trolling community. Unfortunately, it looks like the guy that does it hasn't been active the past couple of months.
Back in July, I posted a troll comment that used exactly the same reasoning as this article. It was an article about bacteria in Antarctica that had been isolated for thousands of years. My comment was:
We humans aren't going to have any immunity to these microbes that have been isolated for 500000 years. I hope whoever's studying these lakes takes appropriate precautions against both accidental release and theft by terrorist organizations.
It got 17 direct and 78 indirect replies, and made the July issue of Trollback magazine. Sometimes I wonder if the reason Slashdot has so many trolls is because the editors are trolls themselves.
This is exactly what happens every four years in the primaries. New Hampshire and Iowa and maybe a couple other states vote for someone, and that gives them enough momentum to get the nomination. This is why states keep holding their primaries earlier and earlier, like they're all competing for "fr0st pr1mary" or something.
Actually, Bush's policy has been to ease taxes on everyone (with a focus on rich people) while shifting them to future generations. That's what the huge budget deficit (Congress just voted to raise the debt ceiling another $800,000,000,000.00 they're spending money so fast in Washington) does. If you're under 18, you can't vote, but your parents can, and they care about your future (hopefully). If you haven't been born yet, your parents are partying or getting drunk or attending college or posting Slashdot comments or whatever, and they're not thinking about your future yet -- as a result, Bush can screw you without political repercussions.
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Ok, I'm not sure about those other companies that were mentioned, but Cisco is a U.S. company. And internet gambling is illegal in the United States. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't give a shit whether people gamble on the internet, and I see the anti-internet-gambling laws as having as much to do with protecting monopolies as anything else.
Now that I've said that, how is this not a legal issue for Cisco? Surely the FBI, DEA, and assorted other federal agencies would be all over Cisco if they were helping Colombian drug cartels in any way whatsoever. How do they "get away" with it? Aren't they essentially aiding and abetting what in the U.S. is considered a criminal enterprise? I mean, as an individual I can go place bets at some offshore casino and fly under the radar, but a big company like Cisco is going to have a hard time doing that, especially if their help is on the front page of Slashdot and other news sources.
I once heard of a company that used the following as their mission statement. You might as well just excerpt theirs. No kidding.
(company) leverages core skillsets and world-class team synergy through (product) to provide clients worldwide with robust, scalable, modern turnkey implementations of flexible, personalized, cutting-edge Internet-enabled e-business application product suite e-solution architectures that accelerate response to customer and real-world market demands and reliably adapt to evolving technology needs, seamlessly and efficiently integrating and synchronizing with their existing legacy infrastructure, enhancing the e-readiness capabilities of their e-commerce production environments across the enterprise while giving them a critical competitive advantage and taking them to the next level.
When I was in high school we had a teacher that liked to keep the windows in the classroom open, no matter how cold it was outside. Unfortunately, he taught English. If he had been a math teacher, we might have actually encouraged him, at least during the wintertime.
I don't think he's unemployed. His job is camping out in front of a theater, creating publicity which he then uses to sell t-shirts, books, and other stuff. It sounds like he's making somewhat decent money doing what he's doing, or at least he has the opportunity to do so.
Also, for all we know, George Lucas is paying him some money behind the scenes to do this. After all, whenever Slashdot or anyone else runs a story about this guy, it's free publicity for the movie.
Not anymore. We got rid of the evil Gray Davis (who of course personally caused the power to go out, my republican friend says he saw Gray Davis flipping a big light switch at PG&E headquarters to the "off" position just before one of the rolling blackouts) and replaced him with the Governator. Arnold won't let the power go out, and if it does, he can go turn the turbines himself with his super terminator strength. Or something like that.
He is talking about this comment.
There is additional background information and historical perspective available at the following sites:
Sllort's journal
Kuro5hin article
In other words, sending out space probes is like hitting a baseball. If you're successful four times out of ten, you're doing a great job.
Seriously though, "successful missions per billion dollars spent" is a more important metric than "successful missions per 10 missions attempted."
Security through obscurity works fine as long as no one is actively working to exploit vulnerabilities. If something did evolve to "break" the code in a way that would be harmful to us, we would likely evolve a defense against it. Who knows, maybe it's happened before. Of course, if someone starts developing and deploying biological weapons or nanotech weapons, then there might be a threat.
Of course, the advantage to having an easy to break code is that the human genome project would be a lot harder if our DNA were protected by some kind of strong encryption.
Since this story discusses Morse code, here's a Secret Message of the Day (D is dash, d is dot, and lameness filters suck) -- DDd dD DdDD / Dd dd DDd DDd d dDd / dD ddd ddd DDD DdDd dd dD D dd DDD Dd / DDD ddDd / dD DD d dDd dd DdDd dD
Jennifer Aniston, Sarah Michelle Geller, Kate Moss. Any one of them weighs more than a five hundred million picoton asteroid orbiting one of the stars this article is about.
Certain towns with a distinctive style of architecture are referred to as iceburgs. Here is an example of one iceburg's hotel.
You're right, it is Sollog. Slashdot even ran an article about the incident.
This is Slashdot. I am about as likely to read an article before posting as I am to read an EULA before clicking "I Accept."
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I'm wondering -- does this have anything to do with the screenshots of Tiger that were released on Macrumors a few months back? Some of you may remember this; I think Slashdot even ran a story about it (although unfortunately I can't find it at the moment).
What happened was this: Someone sent what they claimed to be Tiger screenshots to Macrumors.com. However, the article said "courtesy of Gary Niger from GNAA" or some such, so everyone assumed they were fake. But then they turned out to be real. The GNAA has been bragging ever since.
I guess what I'm really wondering is, are the defendants in this case GNAA members who got caught obtaining and posting these screenshots? Or is this something else, completely unrelated?
50k a year is shitty in the area it was in when an apartment costs 1500/m
$1,500 a month for an apartment???! Where? These days you can easily find apartments in Silicon Valley (just about the most expensive real estate market in America) for under $1000, vacancy rates are high, and the complexes are having move in specials, free month's rent, etc. If it's Manhattan, may I suggest living in Jersey and taking the train to work.
Anyone read Prey by Michael Crichton? I don't think this is such a good idea. The last place I want nanobots is in my bloodstream.
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i love huckabees
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i love you poems
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i love the 80s
bush hates gays
bush hates america
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Try typing "porn" or "sex" or "cock" into Google Suggest. It doesn't come up with anything. I started to get suspicious when I typed the letter x to see what would come up, and got 4 or 5 variations of "xbox" but not a single "xxx" or "xxx porn" or anything.
Interestingly enough, they DIDN'T censor the racial slurs. "gay nigger" happily suggests "gay niggers from outer space" among other things. Also, type "tub" and one of the suggestions is "tubgirl".
Am I the only one that thinks Sollog made, oh, about 365 or so of these "predictions?"
will include other features such as tabbed browsing
Now even AOL will have a better browser than Microsoft.
Trollback Magazine is a Slashdot journal that publishes the best trolls on Slashdot each month. It also contains commentary of interest to the Slashdot trolling community. Unfortunately, it looks like the guy that does it hasn't been active the past couple of months.
It's not just editors that are using Slashdot to troll for ad views.
Back in July, I posted a troll comment that used exactly the same reasoning as this article. It was an article about bacteria in Antarctica that had been isolated for thousands of years. My comment was:
We humans aren't going to have any immunity to these microbes that have been isolated for 500000 years. I hope whoever's studying these lakes takes appropriate precautions against both accidental release and theft by terrorist organizations.
It got 17 direct and 78 indirect replies, and made the July issue of Trollback magazine. Sometimes I wonder if the reason Slashdot has so many trolls is because the editors are trolls themselves.
This is exactly what happens every four years in the primaries. New Hampshire and Iowa and maybe a couple other states vote for someone, and that gives them enough momentum to get the nomination. This is why states keep holding their primaries earlier and earlier, like they're all competing for "fr0st pr1mary" or something.
1734 people recommended voting for Dick Cheney in addition to George W. Bush.
8922 people recommended voting for John F. Kerry instead of George W. Bush.
Actually, Bush's policy has been to ease taxes on everyone (with a focus on rich people) while shifting them to future generations. That's what the huge budget deficit (Congress just voted to raise the debt ceiling another $800,000,000,000.00 they're spending money so fast in Washington) does. If you're under 18, you can't vote, but your parents can, and they care about your future (hopefully). If you haven't been born yet, your parents are partying or getting drunk or attending college or posting Slashdot comments or whatever, and they're not thinking about your future yet -- as a result, Bush can screw you without political repercussions.