Wincing and engaging in extreme histrionics, Kirk, on a time-travel mission and in the AMD executive conference room, emotes, "TELL me EXacTLY hoW iTEL crossed the RENdering BArieR AND redistRIBUted that inCUbus MYOOvie of MINE. THIS time in ESpeRANT-o..."
How dare the courts ever render a legal ruling that this would be "Tax Evasion". To permit such a ruling to exist would set a "chilling effect", in effect, effecting a Tax INvasion. SO, maybe he better freeze his cash with him, and pray the currency is still legal tender.
In the mean time, if he sits too long, he might literally "freeze his ass off".
Now, if this system were from Scandanavia, (Skinned an Avian, for the birds) or "Iceland... hmmm, Ice Lan-*ick Preservations", (for men of large repute)... I guess females could have "Extrauterine Preservations" Oh. It's LATE...
Ladies and gentlemen, please taste this extract of essence of snake oil and tell me which of A, B, C, D tastes closest to anaconda, boa, green, and rattler. And yes, I have recently recalibrated my snake oil coils to remove congealed frog waste products...
-------- BTW, I like sake and shoju. I had shoju in Tokyo, but I think shogju was going to knock me on my butt, tho I don't recall liking the taste. And, I like my sake hot or cold. When hot, it's handy to more quickly fall into sleep. (However, once I watched Starship Troopers 2 and I was so unnerved I had to drink 2 or 3 shots of whiskey to go to sleep. Funny part was when all those aliens were gutting and siphoning off human extract, my friend and his wife were cracking and sucking the meat out of crabs he'd caught earlier in the day. Obviously, could watch the aliens do their thing while he ate his own crab meat.)
Well, it might be instant from OUR or YOUR forecasting perspective, but imagine having and reliving a series of nightmares for that duration of years. I don't know about YOU, but I regularly "re-dream" dreams I've had from years back. I guess it could be a type of "dream sequencing", but fortunately for me, they're not horrors.
As for Pizer and the like, they might actually go gray and writhe in sleep. If being monitored, they might be pulled out of cryostatis to be "checked on". Plans might be disrupted.
Worse, he might decide to live out his final ill years or days (or -- if they botch the "wakeup procedure", minutes) rather than suffer repeat horrors.
Or, even worse, he might wake up into a quagmire of re-written laws which deprive him of his earnings or accumulations whereas if he's never awakened, he could be "perpetually grandfathered".
Maybe there could be a "reseeding" clause in the insurance policy so that every 25 years he's siphoned of some of his "jewell material" for procreation purposes. Might help him have some "external immortality" to accompany him on his sleeping journey.
But, in the meantime, it's likely he'll awaken to find his ass robbed as a form of "Sleeping Booty" (pun intended). If he's frozen over some blindness, then I guess sleeping booty would be "robbed blind"...
word image: tentacle (and, I was thinking "testicle"... Well, I guess to see if he's really asleep, they can give him a "test tickle", hehehe)
At work the song "Tenderly" (Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Flack, and others remaking) was on. I don't really like it, so over the eyars I made mild fun of it.
You took my lips, so tenderly. I got tired of it, so in front of my boss I said, "OKAYYYY, So he took your lips! What ELSE did he do?"
Then I searched Google for:
female artist jazz song "you took my lips" kksf
(which got no hits)
and whittled ti to:
female jazz song "you took my lips"
and finally got a few hits.
So, Dick, Rummy, Bushy and others... chew on HER lips. There's even mentioning of ages, a girl 12... when the song was sang.... ALL INNOCUOUS....
This is about testing or validating or creating an alternate pipeline to enhancing the surveillance or terror AND money laundering activities. Really, with the replacements to Carnivore and Echelon, what is the next best thing? Well, try the cached search engine pages that the governments DON'T already have in their huge Fujitsu/Hitachi iron-core Ma-Bell mag cores. This is about making a huge "real-time" engine of mapping.
Look at it this way: I watched an Andy Lau film "Full-time Killer". He showed his new student how he gets his instructions. A certain news paper, a specific page, a specific paragraph. He already knows the columns (standing instruction/plan) and he just takes a call about the page and paper. He then assembles the bits of words and arrives at his assassination target.
Now, imagine the search engines being used in a similar manner. Bad Boss has his silent sentinels out there. The Bad Boss and his key killers tweak things (business activities, complaints or demonstrations, whatever) to cause search engines to respond by producing certain types of pages. These pages, tho in the billions, might have nuggets of instructions, say encoded graphics. Not ALL of the pages need be in the top 10. This way, the instructions might take TIME (say 2 weeks, give or take) to be delivered, but the pre-determined graphic would at least 'key' the right pages. Then, as long as the assassins or killers/whatever-you-call-them are of the same mindset as their Big Bad Boss, they will KNOW what their instructions are. All they have to wait for then is an actual 'go command'.
Maybe there is some ass-quivering set of fears oozing in the WH, 10 (?) Downing and a few other places.
OK, I'll try to get back to the thicker side of the limb before it snaps.
First of all, NONE of my e-mail or forum memberships log in automatically. Even though I live alone and even tho my desktop automatically locks (and, I CTRL + ALT + L when I leave before the screen saver locks). I purge the cookies after each site logon, even when I switch between two IDs on the same servicing site.
On a site of which I have a membership, I logged out, closed the tab for that site, went into:/home/username/.kde/cache-username/http/letter-of- site-being-talked-about
and then disconnected the ethernet to the cable modem. HOURS later (like 10 hours later) I returned home and clicked on one of the URLs of my own profile (or, maybe it was another profile from which I traversed to my own when I realized what was going on here...).
That site uses.asp or.aspx stuff. It's intermittent, but I have gotten into my own profile at least TWICE during the past month or so.
Why the hell don't they give us an OPTION to use encrypted logon AND session use, not just logon?
But, I suppose the connection is meant to time out after say 10 seconds of a CAT-5 pull, or immediately when the browser aborts or the user logs off. But, 10 HOURS????
You must be having a one REALLY pissy day to lack a sense of humor. Or, one serious vitamin deficiency (leading to an inability to project imagination to see an Internet oboe or elbow...). Shame on YOU!
I think a lot of people are missing the bigger picture by not asking the question:
"WHAT is the main reason and who are the authors behind the SOX wording" about this disclosure requirement.
It COULD be a specious attempt by lobbyists on the part of their supporters to FORCE the companies using GPL/FLOSS/Linux to disclose themselves so that ms and their henchmen can start targetting the companies that (public or private) are using Linux/free/free software. It has the 'beneficial' effect of causing their competitiveness or chance of success to be diminished or at least perceived as rogue, reckless, uninformed...
Moreover, it indirectly helps ms by causing the commercial (non- or anti-Linux/GPL/FLOSS) companies/developers to target and entice those companies 'back into' the fold if they have escaped or managed to get one foot out of the field.
This isn't to say that employees don't talk. Of course employees talk, whether complaining or bragging about their companies. BUT, by forcing companies to list that they are anti-ms or unwilling to be 100% in ms' farm, then the shareholders who WANT to be in ms' fold (for stock/portfolio reasons) just MIGHT call for the necks of the IT managers.
In the meantime, go to the cache folders and delete any and every thing that worries you.
Then, write-protect files (in Konqueror/home/username/cache/http/) by clicking on NEVER to your permission to enter or read the contents of a folder you specify. THEN, as root, assign the folder to ROOT so that some bastard's web site cannot use your own permissions to enter the folder anyway. (Yeh, I experimented and found that denying myself only denied ME, but didn't deny sites from still writing to or appending contents of a folder.... PISSED ME OFFFF to no end to discover that a few days ago. *#@Ksuckers...)
And, to combat in-memory caches, you may have to forego the benefits of tabbed browsing, since, as I understand, the commands or files that cannot be written to the cache then get diverted to or remain in memory as long as that browser is open. So, if you have to close a browser window out of fear, then you're gonna has schloads of browser sessions open, a la ms iexploder. What I fear will be next is the persistence of web instructions and mining code even AFTER the browser is closed.
All this tracking shit just underscores why I have white AND black lists. I block anything with AD or that looks suspicious. I use Konqueror's accept/reject list AND I concurrently use IPtables via Firestarter. Anything I don't like, I block cookies AND URLs for them. I don't care that my surf experience is degraded--so long as I block shit to and from sites I don't care about. I am in the minority, so I don't bog myself down in the quagmire of click/ad-revenue-site-support. I have nothing but utter, unending contempt for a few of the major and many of the tributary/downstream sites populating my hard drive with shit I cannot read. I consider the delivering of encrypted cookies to me from sites I don't explicitly, specifically link to (nevermind the "backend redirects and campaign desires...) to be trespass. And, I also disable Java AND JavaScript. If a site forces ME to use it, them I just stop going to that site. I have a site that uses JavaScript, but I don't have ads on the site, there's no ID-grabbing/tracking, to my knowledge, and so the JavaScript that presents images is not a big deal to me, yet.
Now, I suspect that the increasingly of the surfing crowd will use more ad blockers, popup blockers, better firewalls, and even proxy servers. And, encrypted tunneling or VPN.
Anybody know how I can via encryption use my Comcast acct to reach a self-appointed proxy server that will run scripts to strip out ALL the html and graphics and render a page to PURE TEXT? I mean, rip it to shreds to that no HTML coding/call-home shit traverses to or from my machine.
This might be an anonymizer, right? Any out there that are Konqueror/Opera-friendly? (Yes, I need to do my own research, but it's been a while and since this topic came up...)
Well, for the record, during the height of the dumb-assed anti-French movement, when I went to McDonalds, I ordered: "Yes, I'll have a number one, and I'll have FRENCH fries, not freedom fries...." And, yes, I have French blood in me, but it's from some 100 years ago.
I have 7 lines of blood in me, so I'm quite sick of nationalist ferver, hegemony, empire, nascence, preeminence, pre-ordination, and all the other bullshit oozing out of the Sleelies (merger of sleetaks and hillbillies) exercising manifest destiny.
Too bad there aren't any REAL E.T.s coming here. Maybe (no, make that a big HOPEFULLY0 the so-called "leadership" on this big blue marble would be eaten, whipped into shape, or zapped into another dimension. We need a much bigger problem than HIV, bird flu, tamil-tiger flu, "tehristststs" and those who use "heck" every 5 minutes or 15 times in an hour-long interview. Give me that SETI and I'll find the direction to pump a kentigawatts of noise saying, "Come here and GET our asses and save us form the insane portfolio-driven jerks stalking this planet."
Whew, rant mode off... with an undeclared rant mode on...
Or, the richest, darkest aromatic blend from the mountains, mountain-grown Folgers.
Maybe it's a big slick of Sleetak shit out in space. HEY!!! Chaka, don't get conned... avoid the "dark side" of the dark energy...
It could be... "hell"... out there... dark, marooned souls, especially if you're Armus
It could be... "heaven" out there... if you're an oil prospector with plenty of air supply...
Maybe it's more of the "steady bang" than the "big bang" (steady bangs are more interesting than far-flung, few-in-between 'big' bangs...
But, I think the Beverly Hillbillies grabbed the Federation Timeship Aeon (who grabbed it from Ken Starling or Ed Begley, who outwitted Case, Jobs, and especially gates and ballmer (who both tried to steal it from Lazarus)) which then exploded a bazillion eons ago when they added crystal meth to the dilithium crystal matrix enhancer and lit a pipe.
Damn, THAT's where my pipe went.... those damned heelbullies...
Well, I for one hope that's a 50 NANO-second pain-in-the-ass, and not a 50-second, or your 52nd pain in the ass, or your 52nd, 50-second pain in the ass.
It only took me 50 nano-seconds to think this shit up, but a little over 50 seconds to type it. I think I need a hand:
-- You snorted Vegemite while hiking at YO-seh-MIGHT (Yosemite), but ended up (butt-up) a sulphur spring, except it had Killer Sulphur like in parts of Japan
-- You got whacked aback of the head with a finely-tuned, perfect-pitch, exquisitely-balanced duratanium rod, and freeze frame caught your eyes before they popped out
-- You're on your back, approaching orgasm, and drooling (just before being hammered by a duratanium rod, totally oblivious as Sil was rockin' so hard your airbed's scrubbing the wall clogged your ears)
-- You're imitating the Uneeda Medical Supply guy in Return of the Living Dead, as you're explaining, "Wanna see'em?" Freddie: See what? "Well, *rolls eyes* you knowwww, Thuuu CORrrpSEZ (tongue hangs out while eyes still roll)
-- You were buried vertically, head down
-- That hand walked over and sphincter-nated you...
Anybody notice that after his license-less encounter with the backing vehicle that Arny looked like he had a bout with a Terminator? I wonder how many pics were "photo-re-re-re-touched" out of deference to him. No more THRILL rides and no more ice cream for YOU. Hopefully, T-2 (if he ever becomes that) obtains a license AND obtains riding lessons from someone with the prescribed license...
Might be redundant, but talk about "Talk to da hand"...
Say the wrong thing and you might be "bitch-slapped". Or, with that alloy, maybe beaten to a shallow tallow pulp... (woo... any onomatopoeia coming from that hand, a la "AKA I'M BATMAN!!!"?... squish, khoomp, BAM, POW, THOONG...
But, certainly, the Japanese model might actually USE the middle finger gesture. Over there it is NOT the same thing as here or in some English-speaking countries. And, the Japanese arm/hand most likely WON'T be waving "come here" with the palm facing the waver, or the back of the hand towards the subject. That gesture is used for hailing dogs and other animals, and is quite condescending when used on (umm, toward) a human. But, if the user abuses or "mis-talks" to da hand, I am sure it can be modded to instruct the semantics of "onomatopoeia" in action. FEEL THE POWER OF THINE HAND.
But, it might give a a new meaning to/for the Western Geeku: "Handu-jobbu", hehehe... as in replacing all those photo booths all over Harajuku and Akihabara....
To be pedantic, Japanese doesn't have an "alphabet". It has syllables, representations of sound and utterance. If I may quote a portion of a page (out of some 250-plus pages from Gene Nishi's "Japanese Step by Step (ISBN: 0-658-01490-0):
A syllable is defined as a single uniterrupted sound forming part of a word or, in some cases an entire word. (Example left out...)
We know that there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet. But how many different syllabic combination sare there? According to the late Prof. Minoru Umegaki of Tezukayama Gakuin Junior COllege, as quoted by Prof. Haruhiko Kindaichi in his book "Nihonga" (Iwanami Shinsho, 1985), there are more than 3,000 different syllables in English.
Japanese Syllables:
What about Japanese? You will be surprised to know that there is no alphabet, and there are only 101 syllables in Japanese. It appears to be an easy language to learn doesn't it? But wait. Only 101 syllables to compose hundreds of thousands of Japanese worlds! The consequence is a clear as day: there must be a huge number of homonyms and heteronyms in Japanese."
(It goes on to explain that accent and use of kanji characters to avoid ambiguity. However, my instructor long ago also told us that HAND SIGNALS or writing in the palm and sketching out the expression in the air was sometimes necessary. The Japanese (and other languages' users, I'm sure) have an enormous number of rules and contextual nuances that-- if left out of the equation could-- be embarrassing or fatal (literally, for friendship, job, or mortality...), depending on the context...)
But, what IIII want to know: Will this robot be modded to flip the birdie?
Dialects also differ between, say, Osaka, Hokkaido, and Tokyo. Tokyo dialect is the official, trained one, but with a good ear, despite the frustrations, communication CAN be had.
However, going from Bahston to Hyooton, to Narlenz can be harrowing. Anyone remember the campaign trail with Bush version 1 was traipsing thru Louisiana? I can, a bit. I remember all that twisty, silky, unintelligible stuff that obviously was aired for entertainment value by the networks. (I am a person of less than a lighter color, so maybe it's partly-ok for me to hint at the language stuff, and I have ancestors from Louisiana, so maybe I can take a little liberty with ancestral punning/jabbing...)
This should at LEAST be funny. Maybe 3 funny. The question IS valid: Who the hell's gonna pay Apple's crazy prices? Those who can afford to, or who receive donor money (schools do, right?) to do so.
OTOH, I sure as hell wouldn't try to run Mac s/w on a PC. I might ooh-ahh over some Apple/Mac stuff, but if I REALLY want a Mac, I'll save up for one. Currently, I have no need to. I like my Mandriva the way is its, flawed or not, so long as I get stuff done.
But, I can sure answer this (my own question posed): "Who the hell will run windoze 98 inside Linux?" with: ME!
I do so because I am hopelessly and helplessly hooked on Lotus SmartSuite. I cannot get WINE to run for SHIT, and the folks at the various emulations/host software companies brag about NOTES and ORIFICE, but won't take the time to certify SMARTSUITE. If they did, I'd buy their stuff just to avoid kernel patching and dependency issues, at least when Win4Lin kernel patching was usually what I ended up doing. Now, when I get money, I'll buy W4L's software, just as I've been doing since around 2000. It WORKS. (Why SmartSuite: Usability. Hands down it beats orifice, and it has stuff that OO.o and SO.o won't have for YEARS to come: WordPro and Approach. Those two products alone--with their features-- are worth $200 of my money, even tho SO is $68 and OO.o is "free"...)
Now, as for running windoze on a Mac... I could see labs and schools wanting to save money, but as stated elsewhere, it's not as if Apple should be accommodating a perceived or actually inferior hegemon's warez on Apple hardware. If someone GAVE me choice of a Mac w/ OS X or a $5,000 windoze-based rig with *doze foisted upon it, I'd take the Mac, mainly because I don't care to learn ANY MORE stuff from ms. I haven't had Mac experience in years, and they have INTERESTING stuff. I just can't afford a Mac, I'm not an artist in the Mac sense, and the GUI paradigm is a bit different for me, tho I WILL learn it if I had a Mac for free. I have been impressed with the various Mac desktops and laptops a friend of mine owns. I feel jealous. Mac stuff is functional ANNNNDDDD cool. A nice blend for something you're gonna look at. Most PCs are hideous enough to be sequestered to beneath the desk. Converse for most Macs (most, not all of them: I don't like that blue egg, the pink and orange and other colors.... If I want an Easter Basket, I'll go to Rite-Aid when I pick up some pumpkin-flavored ice cream, thank you very much...
As for Jobs being Q with a turtleneck and a pair of jeans... nice. I equate m-shaft's core officers as Starling, Braxton, the Vidiians, the Kazon. I'd rather BE a Borg than one of the other ilk... And, while it looks funny to put gate's head on a Borg suit, I respect the Borg. I feel about mshaft the way I felt when Seven of 9 responded to Neelix's "Are there any Kazon among the Borg?" with "The Kazon are unWORTHY of assimilation."
And, there you have it, if I can suggest another answer to why Apple is not required nor desired (by me, at least) to "assimilate" mshaft. Just as the Borg wouldn't assimilate the Vidiians, either, especially with all that slacking, tearing skin...
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If not in a vacuum, then maybe in a whilrpool, umm, I mean whirlpool.
But, I guess with a good meter, in a TRUE test, it might be possible to measure genius in throbbing lobes and stupidity in throbbing testes.
image word: civilly
Wincing and engaging in extreme histrionics, Kirk, on a time-travel mission and in the AMD executive conference room, emotes, "TELL me EXacTLY hoW iTEL crossed the RENdering BArieR AND redistRIBUted that inCUbus MYOOvie of MINE. THIS time in ESpeRANT-o..."
(Oops, he might pass another gallstone..."
word image: astute
How dare the courts ever render a legal ruling that this would be "Tax Evasion". To permit such a ruling to exist would set a "chilling effect", in effect, effecting a Tax INvasion. SO, maybe he better freeze his cash with him, and pray the currency is still legal tender.
In the mean time, if he sits too long, he might literally "freeze his ass off".
Now, if this system were from Scandanavia, (Skinned an Avian, for the birds) or "Iceland... hmmm, Ice Lan-*ick Preservations", (for men of large repute)... I guess females could have "Extrauterine Preservations" Oh. It's LATE...
When they wake up to find themselves thawed broke.
I wonder if Uma Thawman would perform in a "Chill Bill" film...
Ladies and gentlemen, please taste this extract of essence of snake oil and tell me which of A, B, C, D tastes closest to anaconda, boa, green, and rattler. And yes, I have recently recalibrated my snake oil coils to remove congealed frog waste products...
-------- BTW, I like sake and shoju. I had shoju in Tokyo, but I think shogju was going to knock me on my butt, tho I don't recall liking the taste. And, I like my sake hot or cold. When hot, it's handy to more quickly fall into sleep. (However, once I watched Starship Troopers 2 and I was so unnerved I had to drink 2 or 3 shots of whiskey to go to sleep. Funny part was when all those aliens were gutting and siphoning off human extract, my friend and his wife were cracking and sucking the meat out of crabs he'd caught earlier in the day. Obviously, could watch the aliens do their thing while he ate his own crab meat.)
word image: floater
Well, it might be instant from OUR or YOUR forecasting perspective, but imagine having and reliving a series of nightmares for that duration of years. I don't know about YOU, but I regularly "re-dream" dreams I've had from years back. I guess it could be a type of "dream sequencing", but fortunately for me, they're not horrors.
As for Pizer and the like, they might actually go gray and writhe in sleep. If being monitored, they might be pulled out of cryostatis to be "checked on". Plans might be disrupted.
Worse, he might decide to live out his final ill years or days (or -- if they botch the "wakeup procedure", minutes) rather than suffer repeat horrors.
Or, even worse, he might wake up into a quagmire of re-written laws which deprive him of his earnings or accumulations whereas if he's never awakened, he could be "perpetually grandfathered".
Maybe there could be a "reseeding" clause in the insurance policy so that every 25 years he's siphoned of some of his "jewell material" for procreation purposes. Might help him have some "external immortality" to accompany him on his sleeping journey.
But, in the meantime, it's likely he'll awaken to find his ass robbed as a form of "Sleeping Booty" (pun intended). If he's frozen over some blindness, then I guess sleeping booty would be "robbed blind"...
word image: tentacle (and, I was thinking "testicle"... Well, I guess to see if he's really asleep, they can give him a "test tickle", hehehe)
"busting dust"...
http://www.geocities.jp/artanisjp/327tende.htm
At work the song "Tenderly" (Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Flack, and others remaking) was on. I don't really like it, so over the eyars I made mild fun of it.
You took my lips, so tenderly. I got tired of it, so in front of my boss I said, "OKAYYYY, So he took your lips! What ELSE did he do?"
Then I searched Google for:
female artist jazz song "you took my lips" kksf
(which got no hits)
and whittled ti to:
female jazz song "you took my lips"
and finally got a few hits.
So, Dick, Rummy, Bushy and others... chew on HER lips. There's even mentioning of ages, a girl 12... when the song was sang.... ALL INNOCUOUS....
image Word: RAIDED
I will go on a limb here:
This is about testing or validating or creating an alternate pipeline to enhancing the surveillance or terror AND money laundering activities. Really, with the replacements to Carnivore and Echelon, what is the next best thing? Well, try the cached search engine pages that the governments DON'T already have in their huge Fujitsu/Hitachi iron-core Ma-Bell mag cores. This is about making a huge "real-time" engine of mapping.
Look at it this way: I watched an Andy Lau film "Full-time Killer". He showed his new student how he gets his instructions. A certain news paper, a specific page, a specific paragraph. He already knows the columns (standing instruction/plan) and he just takes a call about the page and paper. He then assembles the bits of words and arrives at his assassination target.
Now, imagine the search engines being used in a similar manner. Bad Boss has his silent sentinels out there. The Bad Boss and his key killers tweak things (business activities, complaints or demonstrations, whatever) to cause search engines to respond by producing certain types of pages. These pages, tho in the billions, might have nuggets of instructions, say encoded graphics. Not ALL of the pages need be in the top 10. This way, the instructions might take TIME (say 2 weeks, give or take) to be delivered, but the pre-determined graphic would at least 'key' the right pages. Then, as long as the assassins or killers/whatever-you-call-them are of the same mindset as their Big Bad Boss, they will KNOW what their instructions are. All they have to wait for then is an actual 'go command'.
Maybe there is some ass-quivering set of fears oozing in the WH, 10 (?) Downing and a few other places.
OK, I'll try to get back to the thicker side of the limb before it snaps.
First of all, NONE of my e-mail or forum memberships log in automatically. Even though I live alone and even tho my desktop automatically locks (and, I CTRL + ALT + L when I leave before the screen saver locks). I purge the cookies after each site logon, even when I switch between two IDs on the same servicing site.
/home/username/.kde/cache-username/http/letter-of- site-being-talked-about
.asp or .aspx stuff. It's intermittent, but I have gotten into my own profile at least TWICE during the past month or so.
On a site of which I have a membership, I logged out, closed the tab for that site, went into:
and then disconnected the ethernet to the cable modem. HOURS later (like 10 hours later) I returned home and clicked on one of the URLs of my own profile (or, maybe it was another profile from which I traversed to my own when I realized what was going on here...).
That site uses
Why the hell don't they give us an OPTION to use encrypted logon AND session use, not just logon?
But, I suppose the connection is meant to time out after say 10 seconds of a CAT-5 pull, or immediately when the browser aborts or the user logs off. But, 10 HOURS????
Wow! -1, Troll...
You must be having a one REALLY pissy day to lack a sense of humor. Or, one serious vitamin deficiency (leading to an inability to project imagination to see an Internet oboe or elbow...). Shame on YOU!
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I think a lot of people are missing the bigger picture by not asking the question:
"WHAT is the main reason and who are the authors behind the SOX wording" about this disclosure requirement.
It COULD be a specious attempt by lobbyists on the part of their supporters to FORCE the companies using GPL/FLOSS/Linux to disclose themselves so that ms and their henchmen can start targetting the companies that (public or private) are using Linux/free/free software. It has the 'beneficial' effect of causing their competitiveness or chance of success to be diminished or at least perceived as rogue, reckless, uninformed...
Moreover, it indirectly helps ms by causing the commercial (non- or anti-Linux/GPL/FLOSS) companies/developers to target and entice those companies 'back into' the fold if they have escaped or managed to get one foot out of the field.
This isn't to say that employees don't talk. Of course employees talk, whether complaining or bragging about their companies. BUT, by forcing companies to list that they are anti-ms or unwilling to be 100% in ms' farm, then the shareholders who WANT to be in ms' fold (for stock/portfolio reasons) just MIGHT call for the necks of the IT managers.
Just one jaded/cynical/scary thought...
Anyone else can add to or refine my ideas here...
the EARS' natural enemies...
In the meantime, go to the cache folders and delete any and every thing that worries you.
/home/username/cache/http/) by clicking on NEVER to your permission to enter or read the contents of a folder you specify. THEN, as root, assign the folder to ROOT so that some bastard's web site cannot use your own permissions to enter the folder anyway. (Yeh, I experimented and found that denying myself only denied ME, but didn't deny sites from still writing to or appending contents of a folder.... PISSED ME OFFFF to no end to discover that a few days ago. *#@Ksuckers...)
Then, write-protect files (in Konqueror
And, to combat in-memory caches, you may have to forego the benefits of tabbed browsing, since, as I understand, the commands or files that cannot be written to the cache then get diverted to or remain in memory as long as that browser is open. So, if you have to close a browser window out of fear, then you're gonna has schloads of browser sessions open, a la ms iexploder. What I fear will be next is the persistence of web instructions and mining code even AFTER the browser is closed.
Hence, back to web site anonymizers...
All this tracking shit just underscores why I have white AND black lists. I block anything with AD or that looks suspicious. I use Konqueror's accept/reject list AND I concurrently use IPtables via Firestarter. Anything I don't like, I block cookies AND URLs for them. I don't care that my surf experience is degraded--so long as I block shit to and from sites I don't care about. I am in the minority, so I don't bog myself down in the quagmire of click/ad-revenue-site-support. I have nothing but utter, unending contempt for a few of the major and many of the tributary/downstream sites populating my hard drive with shit I cannot read. I consider the delivering of encrypted cookies to me from sites I don't explicitly, specifically link to (nevermind the "backend redirects and campaign desires...) to be trespass. And, I also disable Java AND JavaScript. If a site forces ME to use it, them I just stop going to that site. I have a site that uses JavaScript, but I don't have ads on the site, there's no ID-grabbing/tracking, to my knowledge, and so the JavaScript that presents images is not a big deal to me, yet.
Now, I suspect that the increasingly of the surfing crowd will use more ad blockers, popup blockers, better firewalls, and even proxy servers. And, encrypted tunneling or VPN.
Anybody know how I can via encryption use my Comcast acct to reach a self-appointed proxy server that will run scripts to strip out ALL the html and graphics and render a page to PURE TEXT? I mean, rip it to shreds to that no HTML coding/call-home shit traverses to or from my machine.
This might be an anonymizer, right? Any out there that are Konqueror/Opera-friendly? (Yes, I need to do my own research, but it's been a while and since this topic came up...)
Well, for the record, during the height of the dumb-assed anti-French movement, when I went to McDonalds, I ordered: "Yes, I'll have a number one, and I'll have FRENCH fries, not freedom fries...." And, yes, I have French blood in me, but it's from some 100 years ago.
I have 7 lines of blood in me, so I'm quite sick of nationalist ferver, hegemony, empire, nascence, preeminence, pre-ordination, and all the other bullshit oozing out of the Sleelies (merger of sleetaks and hillbillies) exercising manifest destiny.
Too bad there aren't any REAL E.T.s coming here. Maybe (no, make that a big HOPEFULLY0 the so-called "leadership" on this big blue marble would be eaten, whipped into shape, or zapped into another dimension. We need a much bigger problem than HIV, bird flu, tamil-tiger flu, "tehristststs" and those who use "heck" every 5 minutes or 15 times in an hour-long interview. Give me that SETI and I'll find the direction to pump a kentigawatts of noise saying, "Come here and GET our asses and save us form the insane portfolio-driven jerks stalking this planet."
Whew, rant mode off... with an undeclared rant mode on...
I thought it was dark and rich and creamy...
Or, the richest, darkest aromatic blend from the mountains, mountain-grown Folgers.
Maybe it's a big slick of Sleetak shit out in space. HEY!!! Chaka, don't get conned... avoid the "dark side" of the dark energy...
It could be... "hell"... out there... dark, marooned souls, especially if you're Armus
It could be... "heaven" out there... if you're an oil prospector with plenty of air supply...
Maybe it's more of the "steady bang" than the "big bang" (steady bangs are more interesting than far-flung, few-in-between 'big' bangs...
But, I think the Beverly Hillbillies grabbed the Federation Timeship Aeon (who grabbed it from Ken Starling or Ed Begley, who outwitted Case, Jobs, and especially gates and ballmer (who both tried to steal it from Lazarus)) which then exploded a bazillion eons ago when they added crystal meth to the dilithium crystal matrix enhancer and lit a pipe.
Damn, THAT's where my pipe went.... those damned heelbullies...
Well, I for one hope that's a 50 NANO-second pain-in-the-ass, and not a 50-second, or your 52nd pain in the ass, or your 52nd, 50-second pain in the ass.
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It only took me 50 nano-seconds to think this shit up, but a little over 50 seconds to type it. I think I need a hand:
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DUPED YA!
Out of context, your *rolls eyes* could be:
-- You're on crack, and drooling
-- You snorted Vegemite while hiking at YO-seh-MIGHT (Yosemite), but ended up (butt-up) a sulphur spring, except it had Killer Sulphur like in parts of Japan
-- You got whacked aback of the head with a finely-tuned, perfect-pitch, exquisitely-balanced duratanium rod, and freeze frame caught your eyes before they popped out
-- You're on your back, approaching orgasm, and drooling (just before being hammered by a duratanium rod, totally oblivious as Sil was rockin' so hard your airbed's scrubbing the wall clogged your ears)
-- You're imitating the Uneeda Medical Supply guy in Return of the Living Dead, as you're explaining, "Wanna see'em?" Freddie: See what? "Well, *rolls eyes* you knowwww, Thuuu CORrrpSEZ (tongue hangs out while eyes still roll)
-- You were buried vertically, head down
-- That hand walked over and sphincter-nated you...
Anybody notice that after his license-less encounter with the backing vehicle that Arny looked like he had a bout with a Terminator? I wonder how many pics were "photo-re-re-re-touched" out of deference to him. No more THRILL rides and no more ice cream for YOU. Hopefully, T-2 (if he ever becomes that) obtains a license AND obtains riding lessons from someone with the prescribed license...
Dohh... I wonder if Google can handle the slashing....
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I forgot the URL to the picture of Chaka and the Sleetak:
http://www.google.com/search?q=picture+of+Chaka&i
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www
(Mix or Nix some genes and you might get Slaka and the Teechaks, or Takla and the Sheetax...)
Yeh, I am sure Chaka and the Sleetaks out in the Oval Orifice would love you counting their pubic, ummm, PUBLIC hairs...
Hey, that could be an information disinformation campaign band... A modern spin on "Pontius Pilate and the Nail-Drivin' Five" from the 70's.
With enough gene therapy, though, Chaka and the Sleetaks can ALL be transformed into uubersekshoowalls (read: uubersexuals).
Might be redundant, but talk about "Talk to da hand"...
Say the wrong thing and you might be "bitch-slapped". Or, with that alloy, maybe beaten to a shallow tallow pulp... (woo... any onomatopoeia coming from that hand, a la "AKA I'M BATMAN!!!"?... squish, khoomp, BAM, POW, THOONG...
But, certainly, the Japanese model might actually USE the middle finger gesture. Over there it is NOT the same thing as here or in some English-speaking countries. And, the Japanese arm/hand most likely WON'T be waving "come here" with the palm facing the waver, or the back of the hand towards the subject. That gesture is used for hailing dogs and other animals, and is quite condescending when used on (umm, toward) a human. But, if the user abuses or "mis-talks" to da hand, I am sure it can be modded to instruct the semantics of "onomatopoeia" in action. FEEL THE POWER OF THINE HAND.
But, it might give a a new meaning to/for the Western Geeku: "Handu-jobbu", hehehe... as in replacing all those photo booths all over Harajuku and Akihabara....
To be pedantic, Japanese doesn't have an "alphabet". It has syllables, representations of sound and utterance. If I may quote a portion of a page (out of some 250-plus pages from Gene Nishi's "Japanese Step by Step (ISBN: 0-658-01490-0):
A syllable is defined as a single uniterrupted sound forming part of a word or, in some cases an entire word. (Example left out...)
We know that there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet. But how many different syllabic combination sare there? According to the late Prof. Minoru Umegaki of Tezukayama Gakuin Junior COllege, as quoted by Prof. Haruhiko Kindaichi in his book "Nihonga" (Iwanami Shinsho, 1985), there are more than 3,000 different syllables in English.
Japanese Syllables:
What about Japanese? You will be surprised to know that there is no alphabet, and there are only 101 syllables in Japanese. It appears to be an easy language to learn doesn't it? But wait. Only 101 syllables to compose hundreds of thousands of Japanese worlds! The consequence is a clear as day: there must be a huge number of homonyms and heteronyms in Japanese."
(It goes on to explain that accent and use of kanji characters to avoid ambiguity. However, my instructor long ago also told us that HAND SIGNALS or writing in the palm and sketching out the expression in the air was sometimes necessary. The Japanese (and other languages' users, I'm sure) have an enormous number of rules and contextual nuances that-- if left out of the equation could-- be embarrassing or fatal (literally, for friendship, job, or mortality...), depending on the context...)
But, what IIII want to know: Will this robot be modded to flip the birdie?
Dialects also differ between, say, Osaka, Hokkaido, and Tokyo. Tokyo dialect is the official, trained one, but with a good ear, despite the frustrations, communication CAN be had.
However, going from Bahston to Hyooton, to Narlenz can be harrowing. Anyone remember the campaign trail with Bush version 1 was traipsing thru Louisiana? I can, a bit. I remember all that twisty, silky, unintelligible stuff that obviously was aired for entertainment value by the networks. (I am a person of less than a lighter color, so maybe it's partly-ok for me to hint at the language stuff, and I have ancestors from Louisiana, so maybe I can take a little liberty with ancestral punning/jabbing...)
This should at LEAST be funny. Maybe 3 funny. The question IS valid: Who the hell's gonna pay Apple's crazy prices? Those who can afford to, or who receive donor money (schools do, right?) to do so.
OTOH, I sure as hell wouldn't try to run Mac s/w on a PC. I might ooh-ahh over some Apple/Mac stuff, but if I REALLY want a Mac, I'll save up for one. Currently, I have no need to. I like my Mandriva the way is its, flawed or not, so long as I get stuff done.
But, I can sure answer this (my own question posed): "Who the hell will run windoze 98 inside Linux?" with: ME!
I do so because I am hopelessly and helplessly hooked on Lotus SmartSuite. I cannot get WINE to run for SHIT, and the folks at the various emulations/host software companies brag about NOTES and ORIFICE, but won't take the time to certify SMARTSUITE. If they did, I'd buy their stuff just to avoid kernel patching and dependency issues, at least when Win4Lin kernel patching was usually what I ended up doing. Now, when I get money, I'll buy W4L's software, just as I've been doing since around 2000. It WORKS. (Why SmartSuite: Usability. Hands down it beats orifice, and it has stuff that OO.o and SO.o won't have for YEARS to come: WordPro and Approach. Those two products alone--with their features-- are worth $200 of my money, even tho SO is $68 and OO.o is "free"...)
Now, as for running windoze on a Mac... I could see labs and schools wanting to save money, but as stated elsewhere, it's not as if Apple should be accommodating a perceived or actually inferior hegemon's warez on Apple hardware. If someone GAVE me choice of a Mac w/ OS X or a $5,000 windoze-based rig with *doze foisted upon it, I'd take the Mac, mainly because I don't care to learn ANY MORE stuff from ms. I haven't had Mac experience in years, and they have INTERESTING stuff. I just can't afford a Mac, I'm not an artist in the Mac sense, and the GUI paradigm is a bit different for me, tho I WILL learn it if I had a Mac for free. I have been impressed with the various Mac desktops and laptops a friend of mine owns. I feel jealous. Mac stuff is functional ANNNNDDDD cool. A nice blend for something you're gonna look at. Most PCs are hideous enough to be sequestered to beneath the desk. Converse for most Macs (most, not all of them: I don't like that blue egg, the pink and orange and other colors.... If I want an Easter Basket, I'll go to Rite-Aid when I pick up some pumpkin-flavored ice cream, thank you very much...
As for Jobs being Q with a turtleneck and a pair of jeans... nice. I equate m-shaft's core officers as Starling, Braxton, the Vidiians, the Kazon. I'd rather BE a Borg than one of the other ilk... And, while it looks funny to put gate's head on a Borg suit, I respect the Borg. I feel about mshaft the way I felt when Seven of 9 responded to Neelix's "Are there any Kazon among the Borg?" with "The Kazon are unWORTHY of assimilation."
And, there you have it, if I can suggest another answer to why Apple is not required nor desired (by me, at least) to "assimilate" mshaft. Just as the Borg wouldn't assimilate the Vidiians, either, especially with all that slacking, tearing skin...