Part of the requirement for being part of the elite is to *act* like a member of the elite. Don't apologize; indeed, you haven't. But if you want to graduate to the elite of the elite, you need to stop waving your elite membership card around. For that is what separates the truly elite from the merely elite; the truly elite, the super elite if you will, know it shows and have no need to impress their eliteness upon the lower classes.
This is such an obviously sarcastic piece that I was asounded to not only see an Insightful rating, but to find so many responses taking it seriously. Whare have all the slashdot crowd gone? Surely not to Digg; that site is for clueless newbies who mod up any rumor no matter how ludicrous and who dish up stories the rest of us have heard of years ago.
Is there some new humor site which has drawn off the clueful, such as they are, or used to be?
Slashdot sure is funny. I never expected to be modded troll for this. It's as if the moderators actually believe NASA, as if I had dissed a bunch of girl scouts or spelling bee contestants. Sure surprised me. Flamebait maybe, or even funny, but troll? Sheesh. I guess it just shows to go ya that slashdot is more fun than digg.
I'm ignoring pre-2k security issues as that is older than five years ago.
1988 doesn't enter into the equation until after the equation is parsed. pre-2k refers to 2001-01-01, which is older than five years ago when he wrote the comment.
Do you work for SCO's legal team? Or do you just like to appear stupid and confused?
You're the dude what missed the point. The point of the GPL is to not allow the sources to be closed off. It has nothing to do with the binary. Someone could sell a binary with a secret key and only take support calls for a single IP address... copies would be useless. The GPL prevents that.
You say when you call a lawyer but he didn't. Here is what he says:
The truth is that I never sought out nor did I ever hire David P. Meyer & Associates or Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro to represent me in any case, much less the iPod Nano Class Action suit.
The iPod Nano Class Action law suit was initiated by David P. Meyer & Associates Co. LPA of Columbus, Ohio and their representative firm, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP of Seattle, Washington and filed on October 19, 2005.
OS X wouldn't even begin to fit on this laptop, and without having free source, not only could they not slim it down, they couldn't use it is part of the learning environment it is meant to provide. He knew the requirements, he knew OS X was useless, so his offer was nothing but grandstanding.
You quoted The solution to AIDS is obvious. Abstinence is guaranteed to be effective as if to imply he thinks abstinence is the only solution, conveniently leaving off the rest of what he said: Condoms help a lot. There is no magic drug that will make people practice either of these which shows he is not the Nacy Reagan Just Say No type at all.
If you would focus on what he said, not what you wanted to read, you would realize he is not talking about 100% AIDS prevention, but only the part that can be controlled thru personal behavioral changes. Sure condoms don't always work, but they are good enough to put a huge dent in AIDS victims, if they would only be used.
Besides which, yes, abstinence is 100% effective, for that segment of AIDS causes that it applies to. Certainly there are other sources of AIDS, but we don't let known murderers get awy with it just because there are others we don't catch.
Microsoft owns the mobile DRM space? Great! Now they will fuck it up like they fuck up everything else, it won't even be marginally functional until release 3.1, and that will take them years. Everybody will hate it and its bugs and misfeatures, it won't work, content factories will come to realize DRM doesn't restrict anything except their ability to attract new customers, and DRM will get the bloody black eye it deserves.
Almost all society has nothing to do with business. Do you have no friends or relatives? Even your friends where you work, do you only discuss business matters with them? Do you chat with store clerks?
Business is a small part of society. And when you talk about public businesses, which are the only ones affected by SOX, it becomes even smaller.
Maybe you should have called bullshit on your peers when they were busy hiding the fact that they really weren't capable of running a business.
Exactly my feelings. The people who knew what Enron was doing, the regulators and accountants and banks involved, all knew it was skirting the legal edge, and was way over the moral edge. Yet their attitude was that of a kid watching a rodeo, it was all entertainment and none of their business. Now that society has taken steps to prevent more of it, they cry foul.
Stuff it, I say. Learn the lesson and don't do it again and maybe you can earn enough respect to revise it. Otherwise, ha, the tabels have turned, and this is our game now, we get to watch you squirm as you try to find new ways to fuck us over.
Don't forget the banks and accountants and regulators who gave a wink, wink here and a nudge, nudge there. It wasn't just one bad company, it was an antire corrupt business climate which thought the Enron cowboys were doing a great job, thought it was pretty damn hilarious how they gamed the stupid California regulators and wreaked such havoc in the economy.
This does not mean that U.S. businesses in aggregate benefited from Sarbox.
But it also doesn't mean that society as a whole did NOT benefit from roping in bad business practices.
Businesses aren't the sum total of society. They are a small part. If businesses suffer but society gains, who says that is a bad thing? Concentrating soley on the business part of the equation is misleading.
I know far too many people who make excuses for Enron, saying they did nothing illegal, that California especially set itself up for disaster by deregulating only half the eletrical market.
But you know what? There are a zillion things any of us could do every day that are legal but immoral. Enron had no morals. They may have had great legal advice on how to skirt the edge, but their own admissions in email and memo, show they knew it was immoral. When the wholesale price of electricity jumps from 3 sents to 300 cents and stays there for exactly one hour before falling back down, something is wrong, whether legal or not.
Just as I have no respect for cops who complain about getting no respect when they won't turn in corrupt fellow cops, I shed no tears for business people who can't keep their own chicken coop clean.
This is the price you pay. You fuck with the public long enough, the public will fuck you back. Hell yes, it may be bad for business, but what they were doing was worse for society. So lump it, business boys and girls. You clean up your act, police yourselves, and earn the repeal or reform of SOX. Until then, I rejoice in what it does. Society is better off with the scoundrels roped in. Even if that small section of soceity call business is suffering a bit, society as a whole is better off.
They have upgraded in ways that broke existing competition, intentionally, they have been caught, and it made so little impact that you don't know it even now. I bet you are even too lazy to look it up. I am not going to do so; it is well known history to a lot of people, and those who don't care enough to look it up also wouldn't care even if I provided links.
Every time I hear it, I keep on thinking up excuses like that, but nope, it says something quite clear like "writing web sites for more than two decades". Maybe I will post the exact words and their URL later today if I hear it this morning.
There's a company in the SF Bay Area which advertises on KCBS AM 740 traffic radio, bragging about more than two decades of writing web pages. Yeah right. I keep on thinking I ought to call them up and laugh, but anyone who believes them deserves whatever they get.
Why does the entire world have to look like a scripting language from an OS designed four decades ago?
Wheels -- thousands of years old. Still work.
Fire -- hundres of thousands of years under human control -- still works.
And you -- still typing after all these years, over a hundred now, since the invention of the keyboard. Still using fonts, for pete's sake, on graphical displays, invented before UNIX, along with mice, still using silicon (60 years old) and rust (thousands of years old) and electricity, back before Mr Franklin's experiments with kites 250 years ago, still using bits for storage as characters, processed by computer instructions, over 50 years old. Why haven't you graduated to something modern?
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The iMac comes with a two button mouse with scroll button. The MacBook still has only a single button. Apple is confused.
Am I the only one that thinks this is a bad idea?
Part of the requirement for being part of the elite is to *act* like a member of the elite. Don't apologize; indeed, you haven't. But if you want to graduate to the elite of the elite, you need to stop waving your elite membership card around. For that is what separates the truly elite from the merely elite; the truly elite, the super elite if you will, know it shows and have no need to impress their eliteness upon the lower classes.
Won't it then become conductive, or rather the mixture of wet dust?
This is such an obviously sarcastic piece that I was asounded to not only see an Insightful rating, but to find so many responses taking it seriously. Whare have all the slashdot crowd gone? Surely not to Digg; that site is for clueless newbies who mod up any rumor no matter how ludicrous and who dish up stories the rest of us have heard of years ago.
Is there some new humor site which has drawn off the clueful, such as they are, or used to be?
Where have all the slashdot crowd gone?
Slashdot sure is funny. I never expected to be modded troll for this. It's as if the moderators actually believe NASA, as if I had dissed a bunch of girl scouts or spelling bee contestants. Sure surprised me. Flamebait maybe, or even funny, but troll? Sheesh. I guess it just shows to go ya that slashdot is more fun than digg.
It's nice to have a more functional space program again, isn't it?
I don't know. Do you? Is it more functional yet?
You tell me, as soon as you know, and not a moment sooner.
I'm ignoring pre-2k security issues as that is older than five years ago.
1988 doesn't enter into the equation until after the equation is parsed. pre-2k refers to 2001-01-01, which is older than five years ago when he wrote the comment.
Do you work for SCO's legal team? Or do you just like to appear stupid and confused?
You're the dude what missed the point. The point of the GPL is to not allow the sources to be closed off. It has nothing to do with the binary. Someone could sell a binary with a secret key and only take support calls for a single IP address ... copies would be useless. The GPL prevents that.
He said I'm ignoring pre-2k security issues as that is older than five years ago. [...] The Internet Worm of 1988
You said Umm, last time I checked, 1988 was more than 5 years ago.
Great, but he was referring to Y2K, not 1988. His reference to 1988 was after the five years comment you quoted.
Way to go!
You say when you call a lawyer but he didn't. Here is what he says:
...
The truth is that I never sought out nor did I ever hire David P. Meyer & Associates or Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro to represent me in any case, much less the iPod Nano Class Action suit.
The iPod Nano Class Action law suit was initiated by David P. Meyer & Associates Co. LPA of Columbus, Ohio and their representative firm, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP of Seattle, Washington and filed on October 19, 2005.
David P. Meyer & Associates contacted me
What does he tell his girlfriend?
OS X wouldn't even begin to fit on this laptop, and without having free source, not only could they not slim it down, they couldn't use it is part of the learning environment it is meant to provide. He knew the requirements, he knew OS X was useless, so his offer was nothing but grandstanding.
You quoted The solution to AIDS is obvious. Abstinence is guaranteed to be effective as if to imply he thinks abstinence is the only solution, conveniently leaving off the rest of what he said: Condoms help a lot. There is no magic drug that will make people practice either of these which shows he is not the Nacy Reagan Just Say No type at all.
If you would focus on what he said, not what you wanted to read, you would realize he is not talking about 100% AIDS prevention, but only the part that can be controlled thru personal behavioral changes. Sure condoms don't always work, but they are good enough to put a huge dent in AIDS victims, if they would only be used.
Besides which, yes, abstinence is 100% effective, for that segment of AIDS causes that it applies to. Certainly there are other sources of AIDS, but we don't let known murderers get awy with it just because there are others we don't catch.
Microsoft owns the mobile DRM space? Great! Now they will fuck it up like they fuck up everything else, it won't even be marginally functional until release 3.1, and that will take them years. Everybody will hate it and its bugs and misfeatures, it won't work, content factories will come to realize DRM doesn't restrict anything except their ability to attract new customers, and DRM will get the bloody black eye it deserves.
That's alright then.
He wants his spaces to resonate. Maybe he needs an interior decorator.
... hmmm, I don't wanna go any further.
Or an interior vibrator? And maybe he's a she, or has a good she friend, or
Almost all society has nothing to do with business. Do you have no friends or relatives? Even your friends where you work, do you only discuss business matters with them? Do you chat with store clerks?
Business is a small part of society. And when you talk about public businesses, which are the only ones affected by SOX, it becomes even smaller.
Maybe you should have called bullshit on your peers when they were busy hiding the fact that they really weren't capable of running a business.
Exactly my feelings. The people who knew what Enron was doing, the regulators and accountants and banks involved, all knew it was skirting the legal edge, and was way over the moral edge. Yet their attitude was that of a kid watching a rodeo, it was all entertainment and none of their business. Now that society has taken steps to prevent more of it, they cry foul.
Stuff it, I say. Learn the lesson and don't do it again and maybe you can earn enough respect to revise it. Otherwise, ha, the tabels have turned, and this is our game now, we get to watch you squirm as you try to find new ways to fuck us over.
Because one company was run by a bunch of crooks
Don't forget the banks and accountants and regulators who gave a wink, wink here and a nudge, nudge there. It wasn't just one bad company, it was an antire corrupt business climate which thought the Enron cowboys were doing a great job, thought it was pretty damn hilarious how they gamed the stupid California regulators and wreaked such havoc in the economy.
This does not mean that U.S. businesses in aggregate benefited from Sarbox.
But it also doesn't mean that society as a whole did NOT benefit from roping in bad business practices.
Businesses aren't the sum total of society. They are a small part. If businesses suffer but society gains, who says that is a bad thing? Concentrating soley on the business part of the equation is misleading.
I know far too many people who make excuses for Enron, saying they did nothing illegal, that California especially set itself up for disaster by deregulating only half the eletrical market.
But you know what? There are a zillion things any of us could do every day that are legal but immoral. Enron had no morals. They may have had great legal advice on how to skirt the edge, but their own admissions in email and memo, show they knew it was immoral. When the wholesale price of electricity jumps from 3 sents to 300 cents and stays there for exactly one hour before falling back down, something is wrong, whether legal or not.
Just as I have no respect for cops who complain about getting no respect when they won't turn in corrupt fellow cops, I shed no tears for business people who can't keep their own chicken coop clean.
This is the price you pay. You fuck with the public long enough, the public will fuck you back. Hell yes, it may be bad for business, but what they were doing was worse for society. So lump it, business boys and girls. You clean up your act, police yourselves, and earn the repeal or reform of SOX. Until then, I rejoice in what it does. Society is better off with the scoundrels roped in. Even if that small section of soceity call business is suffering a bit, society as a whole is better off.
They have upgraded in ways that broke existing competition, intentionally, they have been caught, and it made so little impact that you don't know it even now. I bet you are even too lazy to look it up. I am not going to do so; it is well known history to a lot of people, and those who don't care enough to look it up also wouldn't care even if I provided links.
It ain't paranoia if it's true.
Every time I hear it, I keep on thinking up excuses like that, but nope, it says something quite clear like "writing web sites for more than two decades". Maybe I will post the exact words and their URL later today if I hear it this morning.
There's a company in the SF Bay Area which advertises on KCBS AM 740 traffic radio, bragging about more than two decades of writing web pages. Yeah right. I keep on thinking I ought to call them up and laugh, but anyone who believes them deserves whatever they get.
Fire - Mostly replaced by electric ovens for the average person
...
Tell that to your average person using your average internal combustion engine or power plant, or to your average third worlder who cooks with fire.
Bits - Which replaced higher base digits in early computers
Decimal computers represented those digits with bits. I worked on several of them.
So none of the things you mentioned are the first, and none will be the last.
NOTHING is the first and will be the last. Your turn
Why does the entire world have to look like a scripting language from an OS designed four decades ago?
Wheels -- thousands of years old. Still work.
Fire -- hundres of thousands of years under human control -- still works.
And you -- still typing after all these years, over a hundred now, since the invention of the keyboard. Still using fonts, for pete's sake, on graphical displays, invented before UNIX, along with mice, still using silicon (60 years old) and rust (thousands of years old) and electricity, back before Mr Franklin's experiments with kites 250 years ago, still using bits for storage as characters, processed by computer instructions, over 50 years old. Why haven't you graduated to something modern?