What if this on a website that clients use? It is a lot easier to say "Use the latest browers" than "If you want to use firefox, you have to use this custom built version I made so it would be compatible"?
My opinion is that such a levy is complete bullshit. It is under the guise that it is meant to compensate an industry that MANUFACTURES NUMBERS to make it seem like piracy is their single loss of revenue, and that is more than questionable. I mean, is there anything in place making Toaster makers pay a fee for all of the hoodlums stealing loaves of bread? No. And this is equally as stupid. I applaud someone standing up to this garbage.
This game (E.T. a la Atari2600) has left such a scar on my soul, that I hold back tears just typing this
E.T. was THE game I regretted throwing out the instruction book for. Let's face it.... in the age of atari and one button joysticks, there is only so much you can do. Instruction books should have NEVER been needed (*ahem* Raiders of the Lost Ark *caugh*). I remember playing that stupid game for hours and hours. I figured I just needed all of the pieces to make the stupid phone... problem was, I could only get three (or was it four) and the damn thing always seemed incomplete.
Pass about 20 years up until about 2 years ago. I was passing along a flea market and I noticed a boxed version of E.T. for $1. So I bought it. Dug up my old 2600 from the closet, fired up E.T., and took a whole three minutes to read the book... and... literally... four minutes to beat the game.
Sometimes, it isn't so easy. Lord knows I have found and reported my share of exploits. Of them, a few took a bit too long, but communicated with me a majority of the way. One of them, however, told me they knew about it, decided it was better to call me an asshole, and to pay them consulting fees if I wanted X security hole resolved.
In the latter case, the only course of action (not due to spite mind you, though it felt good) was to release a usable exploit. The creator of said software had no intentions of ever fixing it. They had every intention of belittling anyone who brought such things to their attention. For me, the only way I would see this work, is if all of a sudden, the world was afraid to use software Y because a simple script kiddie could comprimise them.
Plain and simple, a rapist should die. Any arguement at the chance of rehabilitation is countered by the horror of their crime. We don't need or want such people in society. Kill them. They have no place... even in jail.
And to go a little further, more people need to die. As much as the common man wants to believe that in the core of every person is good, I call bullshit. Committing a sex crime or a violent crime, especially against a child or mentally/physically challenged individual is proof enough that one has no soul... and with that, I have no problem in watching them burn.
I can understand Intel putting these into their chipsets. I can EVEN understand them putting them into their mobile chipsets, if the desktop will eventually use the Pentium M. What I DONT understand is WHERE IN THE HELL WILL YOU PUT ANOTHER HARD DRIVE?
Hell, to make sure your laptop isnt as heavy as Rosie O'donnell, you have to take into consideration screen size, as well as shuffle around the ideas of internal/external floppy/DVD/George Forman Grill. Now they want to smack another hard drive in there? It already gets hot enough to melt the nylon of my Tighty Whiteys to my happy trail.
At what point do you decern the difference between cells we can destroy and ones we can't? I mean, you wouldn't have any objection to me eating an apple. It is, by your, and many others definition, alive. What is I chopped off my own arm? Am I not allowed to destroy it? It certainly is "alive". More so than the embryos that people are "destroying".
Would it be murder if I drown a kid that was born with no brain?
Personally, I think the whole idea of "life" isn't what we should or DO care about. It should be conciousness. We should not destroy a concious being. It should be illegal to destroy conciousness... not the ambiguous "life" you speak of.
Only hashes of passwords would be stored. Since good encryption uses a random salt to obscure the results from being the same everytime, you can feel pretty good about them not being usable elsewhere.
If geeks fully analylized their winnings from random bar, almost all would never get laid (And have lack of good "Oh MY GOD WHAT DID I DO!!?!?! stories)
Why don't you fix your fucking code already? This is one of 102938912371293792137971 glaring, on-going, Im gonna come to your house and eat your family, bugs.
Sorry to be the troll, but while your comment as a whole is right on, one thing isnt... "ActiveX == COM".
COM is a standard. Something on paper. An idea of how to use interfaces for binary compatibility. COM IS cross-platform, though Microsoft's implementation is not.
ActiveX was a cleaver marketing name for OLE with Automation (IDispatch for use in scripting and late binding in general). OLE IS A SPECIFIC set of COM interfaces, with a spalsh of libraries to maintain it all.
In short:
OLE = COM + MS Defined Interfaces
ActiveX = OLE + Automation
FREAK. What is your facination with ADA? Are you one of the poor folks that was told by the govt that this WAS what the future held... until you left the military? ADA goes up there with RPG and.... COBOL. Languages of ages ago, that have NO GOOD PURPOSE today.
I think the ultimate solution will be "hybrid" processors. Right now, we are forced to have all the backward compatibility to run crap that ran on processors older then my toe funk, but maybe, once the x86_64 architecture has been around a bit (or something magically better comes along in the future), you could buy "migration hybrid processors", which we essentially run right now... has the whole mess of crap in there to run everything. Then when you are comfortable with it, buy the slimmed down "64-bit only NIGGA!" version.
Ill TELL you how iD lost it's crown. One dark night when the moon was purple and the grass was shiny, iD decided to go bar hopping after work, but rather then visit the lavish establishments surrounding the workplace, he decided to meet some new people, and walked to the more shady side of the tracks. Passing many of the local, dirty, cross-dressing prositutes junkies, he wanders into a joint called "The Bitch Slapper". He sits down, orders a brew, and takes a swig, starting to realize that all eyes were upon him. This didn't bother iD initially, that is, until an obese, hairy fellow, who smelled of urinal cakes, sat at the stool beside him and started staring. Trying to ignore the stanky fellow, iD orders a shot of Crowne Royal. Meanwhile, Mr Gorilla kept inching closer and closer to iD until finally something had to be said... "YOU GOT A PROBLEM, FELLA?". "Your mouth am purty" replied the sasquatch. Knowing where this situation may eventually lead, iD got up and started beating the living bejesus out of the hygenically impaired patron. Not paying attention to his surroundings, as the final blow was coming down, iD smacks his undrank shot glass clear across the bar, having it shatter into pieces just inches in front of the bartender.
When the turbulance of the former situation subsided, iD found himself without his drink... without his Crowne.
People laugh at this, but what you know as the "World Wide Web" was a term and a concept dreamt up by.... wait for it.... Al Gore.
He (and other of course) took what was a government research network, more or less, and got laws/regulations passed that made it the commercial information superhighway it is today. In his vision, it was a global network, but you have to understand, it was never MEANT to be under global control.
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grep the linux kernel... you may wet yourself.
What if this on a website that clients use? It is a lot easier to say "Use the latest browers" than "If you want to use firefox, you have to use this custom built version I made so it would be compatible"?
My opinion is that such a levy is complete bullshit. It is under the guise that it is meant to compensate an industry that MANUFACTURES NUMBERS to make it seem like piracy is their single loss of revenue, and that is more than questionable. I mean, is there anything in place making Toaster makers pay a fee for all of the hoodlums stealing loaves of bread? No. And this is equally as stupid. I applaud someone standing up to this garbage.
Think Windows XP SP2. I think the situation here is that the API has been "fixed" enough, that older binaries are no longer compatible.
Would you rather use GDI? Maybe the good ol' Microsoft Graphic Server? A graphic foundtion built on DirectX is a good thing.
This game (E.T. a la Atari2600) has left such a scar on my soul, that I hold back tears just typing this
E.T. was THE game I regretted throwing out the instruction book for. Let's face it.... in the age of atari and one button joysticks, there is only so much you can do. Instruction books should have NEVER been needed (*ahem* Raiders of the Lost Ark *caugh*). I remember playing that stupid game for hours and hours. I figured I just needed all of the pieces to make the stupid phone... problem was, I could only get three (or was it four) and the damn thing always seemed incomplete.
Pass about 20 years up until about 2 years ago. I was passing along a flea market and I noticed a boxed version of E.T. for $1. So I bought it. Dug up my old 2600 from the closet, fired up E.T., and took a whole three minutes to read the book... and... literally... four minutes to beat the game.
Bullet please. Thanks.
Are you embarrassed to say that your woman is on Accutane?
I bet half of the readers here are.
Sometimes, it isn't so easy. Lord knows I have found and reported my share of exploits. Of them, a few took a bit too long, but communicated with me a majority of the way. One of them, however, told me they knew about it, decided it was better to call me an asshole, and to pay them consulting fees if I wanted X security hole resolved.
In the latter case, the only course of action (not due to spite mind you, though it felt good) was to release a usable exploit. The creator of said software had no intentions of ever fixing it. They had every intention of belittling anyone who brought such things to their attention. For me, the only way I would see this work, is if all of a sudden, the world was afraid to use software Y because a simple script kiddie could comprimise them.
Plain and simple, a rapist should die. Any arguement at the chance of rehabilitation is countered by the horror of their crime. We don't need or want such people in society. Kill them. They have no place... even in jail.
And to go a little further, more people need to die. As much as the common man wants to believe that in the core of every person is good, I call bullshit. Committing a sex crime or a violent crime, especially against a child or mentally/physically challenged individual is proof enough that one has no soul... and with that, I have no problem in watching them burn.
I can understand Intel putting these into their chipsets. I can EVEN understand them putting them into their mobile chipsets, if the desktop will eventually use the Pentium M. What I DONT understand is WHERE IN THE HELL WILL YOU PUT ANOTHER HARD DRIVE?
Hell, to make sure your laptop isnt as heavy as Rosie O'donnell, you have to take into consideration screen size, as well as shuffle around the ideas of internal/external floppy/DVD/George Forman Grill. Now they want to smack another hard drive in there? It already gets hot enough to melt the nylon of my Tighty Whiteys to my happy trail.
At what point do you decern the difference between cells we can destroy and ones we can't? I mean, you wouldn't have any objection to me eating an apple. It is, by your, and many others definition, alive. What is I chopped off my own arm? Am I not allowed to destroy it? It certainly is "alive". More so than the embryos that people are "destroying".
Would it be murder if I drown a kid that was born with no brain?
Personally, I think the whole idea of "life" isn't what we should or DO care about. It should be conciousness. We should not destroy a concious being. It should be illegal to destroy conciousness... not the ambiguous "life" you speak of.
I don't understand why do current operating systems still have drivers that are run in the kernel instead of in the user space
Two words: Context Switches
Only hashes of passwords would be stored. Since good encryption uses a random salt to obscure the results from being the same everytime, you can feel pretty good about them not being usable elsewhere.
Since when did open source become "I am too fucking lazy to code properly... even though I make revenue from said code base"?
And when did you geeks get so afraid to post non-anonymously? You got something to say? Then SAY IT to ME.
As you can see, it is certainly bigger than Uranus.
In some cases it can be!
Consider the following:
If geeks fully analylized their winnings from random bar, almost all would never get laid (And have lack of good "Oh MY GOD WHAT DID I DO!!?!?! stories)
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Why don't you fix your fucking code already? This is one of 102938912371293792137971 glaring, on-going, Im gonna come to your house and eat your family, bugs.
Sorry to be the troll, but while your comment as a whole is right on, one thing isnt... "ActiveX == COM".
COM is a standard. Something on paper. An idea of how to use interfaces for binary compatibility. COM IS cross-platform, though Microsoft's implementation is not.
ActiveX was a cleaver marketing name for OLE with Automation (IDispatch for use in scripting and late binding in general). OLE IS A SPECIFIC set of COM interfaces, with a spalsh of libraries to maintain it all.
In short: OLE = COM + MS Defined Interfaces
ActiveX = OLE + Automation
Just give me Jeff's address. Ill take care of it
FREAK. What is your facination with ADA? Are you one of the poor folks that was told by the govt that this WAS what the future held... until you left the military? ADA goes up there with RPG and.... COBOL. Languages of ages ago, that have NO GOOD PURPOSE today.
I think the ultimate solution will be "hybrid" processors. Right now, we are forced to have all the backward compatibility to run crap that ran on processors older then my toe funk, but maybe, once the x86_64 architecture has been around a bit (or something magically better comes along in the future), you could buy "migration hybrid processors", which we essentially run right now... has the whole mess of crap in there to run everything. Then when you are comfortable with it, buy the slimmed down "64-bit only NIGGA!" version.
Ill TELL you how iD lost it's crown. One dark night when the moon was purple and the grass was shiny, iD decided to go bar hopping after work, but rather then visit the lavish establishments surrounding the workplace, he decided to meet some new people, and walked to the more shady side of the tracks. Passing many of the local, dirty, cross-dressing prositutes junkies, he wanders into a joint called "The Bitch Slapper". He sits down, orders a brew, and takes a swig, starting to realize that all eyes were upon him. This didn't bother iD initially, that is, until an obese, hairy fellow, who smelled of urinal cakes, sat at the stool beside him and started staring. Trying to ignore the stanky fellow, iD orders a shot of Crowne Royal. Meanwhile, Mr Gorilla kept inching closer and closer to iD until finally something had to be said... "YOU GOT A PROBLEM, FELLA?". "Your mouth am purty" replied the sasquatch. Knowing where this situation may eventually lead, iD got up and started beating the living bejesus out of the hygenically impaired patron. Not paying attention to his surroundings, as the final blow was coming down, iD smacks his undrank shot glass clear across the bar, having it shatter into pieces just inches in front of the bartender.
When the turbulance of the former situation subsided, iD found himself without his drink... without his Crowne.
The End
People laugh at this, but what you know as the "World Wide Web" was a term and a concept dreamt up by.... wait for it.... Al Gore.
He (and other of course) took what was a government research network, more or less, and got laws/regulations passed that made it the commercial information superhighway it is today. In his vision, it was a global network, but you have to understand, it was never MEANT to be under global control.
To... get... a... discount... DUH!
****Preemptive strike****
If I get a retort, it will dwell on my poor spelling. Ugh.