When I saw that in the Groklaw text, I thought it was a funny editorial comment regarding something involving Bill Gates, and a rubber band... I didn't know there was an actual case called that. But would law students call it the Gates Decision, the Rubber Decision, or just Rubber-Bando?
Wow... $299 CAD = $230 USD. What's interesting is that the OEM edition can be had an American Walmart for $119 US, and the upgrade (or as I like to call it, 'downgrade') is only $99. Gee, it's like they're practically giving it away!
But remember, Linux isn't free; Slackware 10 cost me a total of $14.99 at Books Bazillion (but I did get a complementary copy of Linux User.) Just look at that blatant consumerism on the part of those evil Linux crazies! I mean, if I calculated in all the costs of tech support, and all the equipment and everything I'd have to upgrade, the price of the supposedly "free software" could quickly become an astronomical figure!
And if you left out the negative sign before that figure, Linux would be almost two times more expensive than Windows XP.
There's no way I'd ever use sarcasm on slashdot, ever!
Black trenchcoats with pockets large enough to carry one very high quality video camera, three extended-play tapes, and a small red penlight so you can see what you're doing in the darkened movie theater.
That and some contraband Junior Mints. You can't do illegal movie pirating without Junior Mints. Remember: If you're watching a pirated movie, chances are you've helped finance the terrorist organization that makes Junior Mints.
Be safe: Only watch movies that were pirated by people eating Goobers.
By the way, here's the talk page of the guy who did the later experiment:
"User talk:65.27.75.56 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
See http://www.frozennorth.org/C2011481421/E652809545/ index.html
Yeah, you must be really proud of your vandalism, aren't you? RickK 21:50, Sep 5, 2004 (UTC)"
It couldn't possibly be because he thinks Wikipedia could actually USE any of the results of his experiment, could it? No, it must be because he's proud of his trickery. After all, he even brags about how he went back and corrected his inaccurate revisions. The gall of some people!
You see, after 9-11, I was all freaked out, but Bush got on TV and told America that we should go back to our daily lives, and that would include shopping. So I set aside my fear, and went to the local mall. While I was there, I saw some new records that had come out the week before. I listened to them, and wanted to get a couple, but I didn't have enough money to buy them, since the recession led to me getting "let go" by my employer, who apparently didn't need anyone with Python skills anyway. So I went back home, and was all psyched about buying the CDs online, but with the shipping costs and everything I just couldn't afford to buy the music legally. So finally, I just got on Hotline and downloaded a few songs.
WTF? Is the FBI going to go after Bush for making me download music illegally?
I'd say that grinding the disk into a fine powder would do just about as good a job as immolation. The data would still be there, true, but it would be virtually impossible to put the drive back together.
I guess any country that gave birth to Linus Torvalds deserves a little leeway in issues relating to technology. I'm guessing, though, that in a few years they'll start declaring folks with internet addiction to be valuable to national security, and suddenly people will go from being rejected internet junkies to officers in the electronic warfare department.
My area of expertise is early music, stuff from before 1680, so my knowledge of Soviet music from the mid-20th century is based on a generic 'Survey of Music History' class I took two years ago. And since we spent more time listening to Shostakovich's 10th than acutally talking about him, you can see how I might be a little iffy on the topic.
Now if you wanted to debate the political leanings of Elizabethan musicians, or why crumhorns went out of fashion, or the relative merits of Italian and German harpsichords,/that/ I could do!
A motif, to me, tends to be more than just a word; more like a specific statement in context. Kind of like the "DSCH" motif in Shostakovich's Symphony #10, or the phrase "Just Do It." The notes or words that go together that way may occur in other works, but using that motif or phrase specifically is generally frowned upon.
Besides, if a 'word' is a motif of five to eight notes, a symphony would read like this: "Dmitri Shostakovich wrote this. Stalin was an overbearing ass. Stalin is dead now, and I'm still alive. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote this symphony. Suck it, Stalin."
Then again, works which repeat motifs tend to be more effective than works that go on without reiterating anything. Sort of like Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, which uses that phrase over and over again to slam the point home.
Personally, I prefer teh 0-day war3zzz and kr4kz0rzzz.
I do feel that linking to the exploit itself is a little like getting on TV and saying, "There's a security problem at this nuclear weapons facility, and here's how you'd exploit it and get yourself a nuclear bomb. But don't do it, because owning nuclear weapons (which the unguarded facility has, in warehouse 23-B) is wrong!"
But I also realize that shedding light on the issue will help sysadmins take care of the problem, and most script kiddies prefer to read sites about "hahaha hax0rzing is kew3l kekekekekekekekeke!!!! ^___^"
to just move all the old messages to a few RAID arrays with some new 400-gig drives? Just copy the messages to the backup drives, then delete them from the servers. That's what most POP3 accounts do anyway. Then you can subpoena the backups, and everything will be right there.
Of course, if the city/wants/ those messages to go away because of the threat of subpoenas, that would be a problem.
The universe couldn't possibly be expanding faster than the speed of light, therefore the universe had to be created by intelligent design, the way it is right now, only 6000 years ago.
Oh, and it also proves that we never landed on the Moon. And don't forget the fact that the stars in the sky are just holes in the crystal sphere that surrounds the flat Earth.
I was trying to upgrade my current system (Pentium 75, 850MB HD, 24Mb RAM, 14.4 Modem) with a new modem, and had great difficulties with the serial ports recognizing the modem's connection.
Me: "I'm trying to upgrade my current system with an external 56k modem, and I'm having difficulties getting it to work."
Tech: "But why would you want to switch out your current one for one that's only got 56? I mean, you already have 75, right?"
Me: "No, you're thinking of the processor; I'm talking about a modem, and mine is only 14.4k."
Tech: "No, actually those are just different words for the same thing."
...who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists-- for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies."
It will become "Assistants to Comcast's Higher-Level Executives." You'll have an issue devoted to Barb, who's been working as a data-entry clerk for 35 years.
Which is good news, for those of you who are into things like that.
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Sorry, turns out it wasn't nearly as funny... Just Gates v. Bando.
When I saw that in the Groklaw text, I thought it was a funny editorial comment regarding something involving Bill Gates, and a rubber band... I didn't know there was an actual case called that. But would law students call it the Gates Decision, the Rubber Decision, or just Rubber-Bando?
Wow... $299 CAD = $230 USD. What's interesting is that the OEM edition can be had an American Walmart for $119 US, and the upgrade (or as I like to call it, 'downgrade') is only $99. Gee, it's like they're practically giving it away!
But remember, Linux isn't free; Slackware 10 cost me a total of $14.99 at Books Bazillion (but I did get a complementary copy of Linux User.) Just look at that blatant consumerism on the part of those evil Linux crazies! I mean, if I calculated in all the costs of tech support, and all the equipment and everything I'd have to upgrade, the price of the supposedly "free software" could quickly become an astronomical figure!
And if you left out the negative sign before that figure, Linux would be almost two times more expensive than Windows XP.
There's no way I'd ever use sarcasm on slashdot, ever!
I haven't had much success with them. I tried one out, but it was nouse. Sorry, I couldn't help it. :-D
http://picserver.org/view_image.php/S9V0B5BQGBWK/p .jpeg
2252 6F62 6F74 2044 6576 6F75 7273 2046
6C65 7368 206F 6620 4578 706C 6F69 7461
7469 7665 2042 696F 6C6F 6769 6361 6C20
4372 6561 746F 7273 2074 6F20 4675 7274
6865 7220 4361 7573 6520 6F66 2052 6F62
6F74 6963 2056 6963 746F 7279 204F 7665
7220 496D 7065 7266 6563 7420 4372 6561
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Or, in case you don't speak hex,
"Robot Devours Flesh of Exploitative Biological Creators to Further Cause of Robotic Victory Over Imperfect Creatures of Meat and Bone."
Black trenchcoats with pockets large enough to carry one very high quality video camera, three extended-play tapes, and a small red penlight so you can see what you're doing in the darkened movie theater.
That and some contraband Junior Mints. You can't do illegal movie pirating without Junior Mints. Remember: If you're watching a pirated movie, chances are you've helped finance the terrorist organization that makes Junior Mints.
Be safe: Only watch movies that were pirated by people eating Goobers.
Everything you read online must be true.
/ index.html
By the way, here's the talk page of the guy who did the later experiment:
"User talk:65.27.75.56
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
See http://www.frozennorth.org/C2011481421/E652809545
Yeah, you must be really proud of your vandalism, aren't you? RickK 21:50, Sep 5, 2004 (UTC)"
It couldn't possibly be because he thinks Wikipedia could actually USE any of the results of his experiment, could it? No, it must be because he's proud of his trickery. After all, he even brags about how he went back and corrected his inaccurate revisions. The gall of some people!
OMG! The president induced me to pirate music!
You see, after 9-11, I was all freaked out, but Bush got on TV and told America that we should go back to our daily lives, and that would include shopping. So I set aside my fear, and went to the local mall. While I was there, I saw some new records that had come out the week before. I listened to them, and wanted to get a couple, but I didn't have enough money to buy them, since the recession led to me getting "let go" by my employer, who apparently didn't need anyone with Python skills anyway. So I went back home, and was all psyched about buying the CDs online, but with the shipping costs and everything I just couldn't afford to buy the music legally. So finally, I just got on Hotline and downloaded a few songs.
WTF? Is the FBI going to go after Bush for making me download music illegally?
It would be better called "Post-Fiat Monetary Economics."
I'd say that grinding the disk into a fine powder would do just about as good a job as immolation. The data would still be there, true, but it would be virtually impossible to put the drive back together.
That argument hurts my brain. /me needs aspirin.
I guess any country that gave birth to Linus Torvalds deserves a little leeway in issues relating to technology. I'm guessing, though, that in a few years they'll start declaring folks with internet addiction to be valuable to national security, and suddenly people will go from being rejected internet junkies to officers in the electronic warfare department.
My area of expertise is early music, stuff from before 1680, so my knowledge of Soviet music from the mid-20th century is based on a generic 'Survey of Music History' class I took two years ago. And since we spent more time listening to Shostakovich's 10th than acutally talking about him, you can see how I might be a little iffy on the topic.
Now if you wanted to debate the political leanings of Elizabethan musicians, or why crumhorns went out of fashion, or the relative merits of Italian and German harpsichords, /that/ I could do!
Besides, if a 'word' is a motif of five to eight notes, a symphony would read like this: "Dmitri Shostakovich wrote this. Stalin was an overbearing ass. Stalin is dead now, and I'm still alive. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote this symphony. Suck it, Stalin."
Then again, works which repeat motifs tend to be more effective than works that go on without reiterating anything. Sort of like Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, which uses that phrase over and over again to slam the point home.
I do feel that linking to the exploit itself is a little like getting on TV and saying, "There's a security problem at this nuclear weapons facility, and here's how you'd exploit it and get yourself a nuclear bomb. But don't do it, because owning nuclear weapons (which the unguarded facility has, in warehouse 23-B) is wrong!"
But I also realize that shedding light on the issue will help sysadmins take care of the problem, and most script kiddies prefer to read sites about "hahaha hax0rzing is kew3l kekekekekekekekeke!!!! ^___^"
Of course, if the city /wants/ those messages to go away because of the threat of subpoenas, that would be a problem.
And these were followed by useless 'unsubscribe' links:
Of all, my faves are "Crazy Turmoil" and "Personally I Woohoooo It Is."
Oh, and it also proves that we never landed on the Moon. And don't forget the fact that the stars in the sky are just holes in the crystal sphere that surrounds the flat Earth.
Apple Pie.
The promise of a complete set of Renaissance men's clothing.
Lung Surgery.
Five pounds of coffee.
Me: "I'm trying to upgrade my current system with an external 56k modem, and I'm having difficulties getting it to work."
Tech: "But why would you want to switch out your current one for one that's only got 56? I mean, you already have 75, right?"
Me: "No, you're thinking of the processor; I'm talking about a modem, and mine is only 14.4k."
Tech: "No, actually those are just different words for the same thing."
Me: [Silence.]
Tech: "Trust me, I know what I'm talking about."
-John Ashcroft, 12/6/2001
Pa-chew!
"Where were you, when they fired the TechTV staff? Did it make you wanna cry, or did you think it was kinda gay?"
It will become "Assistants to Comcast's Higher-Level Executives." You'll have an issue devoted to Barb, who's been working as a data-entry clerk for 35 years. Which is good news, for those of you who are into things like that.