Splice too much of that bad, useless, convoluted code into a "new" human and we might end up with a G-Gnome or GNOME (Gratuitous, Nacent, Ogreous, Mechanised Entity). Call it... "G-UNIT", and give it a uniform and a mission. Or, give it a script and a part and call it Smeegul/Smigel...)
*SE*lecting? Even when WE vote, aren't we reduced to a selection process in the higher, voting court. We SElect a laptop or a computer. We didn't vote for ms, they just took over due to inertia, and, unfortunately, without new voting (unless Linux/Open Source, Apple, or the not-yet-founded company arrives), ms will keep being SElected.
(sorry for being pseudo pedantic... You comment reminded me of a Bay Area talk show host who --during the voting irregularity in which one bush/cadge/cabal/etc took over/hijacked/stole office) corrected a caller by remind the caller that the president wasn't EEElected, he was SEEEElected, selected by some court-appointed judges, etc... (been a few years, so i don't recall the exact verbiage...)
Make part of it detachable so it doesn't detract from gameplay. Add another CPU and battery to not detract from gameplay time. Maybe a bluetooth ear piece. Doesn't the PSP allow multiplayer interaction? (I don't own any game consoles, so i'm only going on year-old recall of a possible features ehnancement....)
The iPhone is a phone as well as a fairly stellar entertainment device, from what i see. It's funny to be in BART and in ONE CAR see as many as 8 iphones in the hands of riders all within 10 feet of each other. I've NEVER seen even that many different non-iPhone phones/devices (not even laptops) from the same maker.
But, i admit, a big problem with giving the PSP a phoning facility is in trying to find a carrier who'll help, won't gouge, and won't waste time rolling it out, since it will take a few years even if they want to do it. Worse, if Apple makes a slightly bigger iPhone, or a cradle to hold joysticks around the iPhone, who knows what'll happen. Then again, are such users of the two devices in a close enough demographic to swing one way or the other?
Once, on my first ship, our steam boilers went off the line. We had no backup in place to generate enough heat to provide us with hot water for showers. I am sure than any residual heat quickly was dissipated or used up for engineering purposes. We were without hot water for a few hours and i wanted to go ashore fresh, not unwashed as a good number of the shipmates chose on a usual basis.
I didn't curse or swear, but i did emit guttural noises not unlike an animal or a madman. It got me through that very, VERY cold shower. But, actually, i had preconditioned myself a little bit by first wetting my hands, then my mid arms, then my face, then my skull, which had lots more heat then the rest of my body. After about a minute, i was "less shocked" by the cold water could complete my shower. It was less shocking that 'diving right it' as there was no body of water but instead a stream of water.
I dare say these people (however esteemed or academic or educated they are) aren't going to find terribly much, but as with many experiments, some get funded because there is research money to grant, burn or otherwise use up. There are people who take acupuncture treatment and don't end up screaming like wild, yet a child or even an adult being FORCED (say the subject is restrained to a table or shackled to a wall and secured in such a way as to reduce squirming, so the subject isn't actually injured by own movement) to receive acupuncture might scream out of natural instinct just because the person administering the acupuncture may be or be perceived as menacing or cruel. But, that screaming person may be a devout person of some religious vocation, may be a person who is mute, or even have had their jaw sedated so as to prevent tongue wagging and speech. Hell, if these people want to spend money, do experiments that might elicit tears out of fear, rather than studying swearing as a pain suppressant. Perception, as said in a famous auto advert, is everything.
Stomping? Do we have that problem other apps that use the/temp directory?
Recently, i upgraded my Mandriva 2009.0 to 2009.1, and some how the permissions on my/temp path were mangled after the upgrade. I could not open KDE. Sure as hell, when i changed the permissions to that of the user i logged in as, i got to the desk top just fine.
BUT, log out of one account and into another account? Same problem. If i changed the perms on/temp to THAT user, then the problem went away. I said fsck it and (since it's my laptop) did chmod 777 on the/temp folder. I wasn't quite comfortable tho, as any exploits hitting a user im in now might propagate to another account, i fear (grounded or not...).
Technically off-topic, but to use the one of words as is, and another replaced by its analog...
>"The client tells the server what to do."
Imagine if history were revised such that "The SLAVE tells the MASTER what to do.", without reversing the definition of "master" and "servant" (well, unless it's done by Depeche Mode...). The world would be farther along, maybe.
and other things that other countries in Asia (particularly South Korea) use because of msoft. You got to many Korean web sites and they require components that are ms-centric if you want to enjoy the site, conduct business, or just browse. I've talked with a few Koreans who absolutely DETEST msoft and the Korean companies that compel this shit.
I'd like to visit Korea one day, and stay for a while. I'll probably have a thrombosis if i have to use msoft warez to do banking, purchase something or just read the news smoothly to avoid bells and whistles that someone got paid to force down Koreans throats. Yes, the Internet in Korea is blazingly fast, deep, popular, and quite astonishingly useful relative to what is here in the US. But, to have it be difficult for Linux or some Mac users should be reprehensible if it persists.
Hopefully, this isn't really the case and won't BE the case by the time i get around to visiting there. If the ms-crap-shoot crap is still going on full steam ahead, i'll have to shock people by just refusing to use the Internet, or by having a friend be an intermediary. People should not be prevented from being OS-agnostic.
In the hands of the Pr0n (or, maybe Real Doll) industry, this could... be... very..... skin-tail-lating even titillating... Attach the sklens, point and SHOOT. I wonder how much depth of feel (hehehe) this "digital" camera can "probe". I bet it will have a NICE f-stop, and the fokkel point will have a wide range of vividness in emulsion production. Properly used, this skintaillating camera will have the subject shuttering and shuddering. But, which will have priority: Shudder or Appherchur?
Give a hole nude mean-ning to SLR: Sex, Lies and Ripple Tape... Butt, at least this will take "digital photography" to a whole hole new depth of feel as the subject is framed and jammed up into a pent-up prism taking/receiving multiple skingasm shots per second, singly reflexing and mirroring the input of the sklens... Whupps... battery juices winding down....
What DUMBass would mark this as flamebait. Why the fuck can't humourless wretches just keep to their own, instead of pissing on someone's chance to make others laugh. Just because it isn't marked funny doesn't mean someone out their didn't wryly enjoy it. You bastard. Keep away! Go watch a comedy, or smoke a blunt or whack off instead of undercutting the little off-beat humor this site manages to get.
Haiku as the sponsors laugh all the way to the bank after receiving any patents and royalties (assuming Toyota hasn't sponsored them and bought their designs and any universities along with them...
It is STILL a real "Rice Rocket": It's white, short-grained, oblongish. But, will it fit in sushi rolls. Anyone getting run over in that thing will look like baluga and salmon eggs rolled into one bite-sized pill. With blood and shit, it WILL be on bitter sushi pill to swallow.
"I guess we don't know how the attackers somehow got the Zeus Trojan on the county treasurer's PC (presumably the county doesn't want to say and the FBI told them not to discuss details of the case anyway), but I'm curious whether that PC had security software installed, whether it was up to date, which security software can deal with the Zbot (ZeuS bot) Trojan, etc.
---------
Well, i have an idea, and it's TFO (Totally Frackin' Obvious)... and might be how it happened. A poor old cleanup crew member may have been elicited to put a USB device on a bank manager machine that might not have been watched by a camera. Might have trained the cleaner to surveil the PCs, determine their visibility to cameras, then trained the dupe into deftly/swiftly attaching a USB attack device while feigning scraping something sticky from the floor, or emptying waste bins that were tough to get the bag from....
Just my eye-dea... and the FBI may not want THAT to get out lest other banks suffering poor camera placement succumb to the same thing...
Or, a native of the Ukraine/U-area working at the bank might have been subjected to manipulation of some sort, but trained to be deft and not come under suspicion. Just my inflation-deprived-$0.02-cents...
Now, it is MORE likely we'll instead first see tampons, condoms and depends raining when it's pouring... For that last one, one could ask, "What does it taste like when a billboard is in the rain?" Another could respond, "Umm, welll, ummmm, it... depends..."... DOH!
Illegal to shoot birds and insects on sight? We have in some cities ordinances stating "DON'T FEED THE BIRDS/PIGEONS" due to trying to control vermin and bird droppings in public venues.
But, suppose building owners or overreacting individuals decide to "malathion" a bird they think is a spy vehicle?
Well, one way to deal with these things is to put sticky glue traps (mean to cat rodents) all over the place. Or, periodically "mist" the air with soap or sticky/bubbly shit to down them. Or, where there may be perches, set up IR lasing beams to jam them (-- if you can figure out the ops/coms freqs) or IR lasing or kill them when they land or get too close. Surely, they'll be landed for energy conservation reasons.
Or, set up mirrors in the buildings so they crash into them or get stuck and the operators cannot figure the way out. When they get too close to vortavacs, suck their asses into a disposal chute.
Slashdot Mirror
get no SATAs...faction? Awwww...
ROTF, LMMFAO.... Made my day, neonprimetime...
That's really kewl....especially in light of the recent story about companies manipulating or avoiding or playing games with certain release numbers.
Now, data (or Data) can join the dark side, and display a tension-deficit disorder
Splice too much of that bad, useless, convoluted code into a "new" human and we might end up with a G-Gnome or GNOME (Gratuitous, Nacent, Ogreous, Mechanised Entity). Call it... "G-UNIT", and give it a uniform and a mission. Or, give it a script and a part and call it Smeegul/Smigel...)
*SE*lecting? Even when WE vote, aren't we reduced to a selection process in the higher, voting court. We SElect a laptop or a computer. We didn't vote for ms, they just took over due to inertia, and, unfortunately, without new voting (unless Linux/Open Source, Apple, or the not-yet-founded company arrives), ms will keep being SElected.
(sorry for being pseudo pedantic... You comment reminded me of a Bay Area talk show host who --during the voting irregularity in which one bush/cadge/cabal/etc took over/hijacked/stole office) corrected a caller by remind the caller that the president wasn't EEElected, he was SEEEElected, selected by some court-appointed judges, etc... (been a few years, so i don't recall the exact verbiage...)
Make part of it detachable so it doesn't detract from gameplay. Add another CPU and battery to not detract from gameplay time. Maybe a bluetooth ear piece. Doesn't the PSP allow multiplayer interaction? (I don't own any game consoles, so i'm only going on year-old recall of a possible features ehnancement....)
The iPhone is a phone as well as a fairly stellar entertainment device, from what i see. It's funny to be in BART and in ONE CAR see as many as 8 iphones in the hands of riders all within 10 feet of each other. I've NEVER seen even that many different non-iPhone phones/devices (not even laptops) from the same maker.
But, i admit, a big problem with giving the PSP a phoning facility is in trying to find a carrier who'll help, won't gouge, and won't waste time rolling it out, since it will take a few years even if they want to do it. Worse, if Apple makes a slightly bigger iPhone, or a cradle to hold joysticks around the iPhone, who knows what'll happen. Then again, are such users of the two devices in a close enough demographic to swing one way or the other?
NASA pap shows dent at Uranus' volatile (p)as(s)t.... this could be a cosmogasmic/galactigasmic pit sto(m)p...
Peace of Mind. Now, if they get into our minds, they'll in-load "Vysyooalyze whyrled peaz", and we'll become the living pea-brains.
will give them 25.
Once, on my first ship, our steam boilers went off the line. We had no backup in place to generate enough heat to provide us with hot water for showers. I am sure than any residual heat quickly was dissipated or used up for engineering purposes. We were without hot water for a few hours and i wanted to go ashore fresh, not unwashed as a good number of the shipmates chose on a usual basis.
I didn't curse or swear, but i did emit guttural noises not unlike an animal or a madman. It got me through that very, VERY cold shower. But, actually, i had preconditioned myself a little bit by first wetting my hands, then my mid arms, then my face, then my skull, which had lots more heat then the rest of my body. After about a minute, i was "less shocked" by the cold water could complete my shower. It was less shocking that 'diving right it' as there was no body of water but instead a stream of water.
I dare say these people (however esteemed or academic or educated they are) aren't going to find terribly much, but as with many experiments, some get funded because there is research money to grant, burn or otherwise use up. There are people who take acupuncture treatment and don't end up screaming like wild, yet a child or even an adult being FORCED (say the subject is restrained to a table or shackled to a wall and secured in such a way as to reduce squirming, so the subject isn't actually injured by own movement) to receive acupuncture might scream out of natural instinct just because the person administering the acupuncture may be or be perceived as menacing or cruel. But, that screaming person may be a devout person of some religious vocation, may be a person who is mute, or even have had their jaw sedated so as to prevent tongue wagging and speech. Hell, if these people want to spend money, do experiments that might elicit tears out of fear, rather than studying swearing as a pain suppressant. Perception, as said in a famous auto advert, is everything.
It could be on a MEAN top OHHHH GRAphical angle...
Next up: "Well-balanced sperm produces happier babies... Happy babies grow to produce happier, cuter offspring..."...
Stomping? Do we have that problem other apps that use the /temp directory?
Recently, i upgraded my Mandriva 2009.0 to 2009.1, and some how the permissions on my /temp path were mangled after the upgrade. I could not open KDE. Sure as hell, when i changed the permissions to that of the user i logged in as, i got to the desk top just fine.
BUT, log out of one account and into another account? Same problem. If i changed the perms on /temp to THAT user, then the problem went away. I said fsck it and (since it's my laptop) did chmod 777 on the /temp folder. I wasn't quite comfortable tho, as any exploits hitting a user im in now might propagate to another account, i fear (grounded or not...).
Technically off-topic, but to use the one of words as is, and another replaced by its analog...
>"The client tells the server what to do."
Imagine if history were revised such that "The SLAVE tells the MASTER what to do.", without reversing the definition of "master" and "servant" (well, unless it's done by Depeche Mode...). The world would be farther along, maybe.
and other things that other countries in Asia (particularly South Korea) use because of msoft. You got to many Korean web sites and they require components that are ms-centric if you want to enjoy the site, conduct business, or just browse. I've talked with a few Koreans who absolutely DETEST msoft and the Korean companies that compel this shit.
I'd like to visit Korea one day, and stay for a while. I'll probably have a thrombosis if i have to use msoft warez to do banking, purchase something or just read the news smoothly to avoid bells and whistles that someone got paid to force down Koreans throats. Yes, the Internet in Korea is blazingly fast, deep, popular, and quite astonishingly useful relative to what is here in the US. But, to have it be difficult for Linux or some Mac users should be reprehensible if it persists.
Hopefully, this isn't really the case and won't BE the case by the time i get around to visiting there. If the ms-crap-shoot crap is still going on full steam ahead, i'll have to shock people by just refusing to use the Internet, or by having a friend be an intermediary. People should not be prevented from being OS-agnostic.
Hehehe... Looks like mine above was comment 69.... LOL....
Sexual Predator?
In the hands of the Pr0n (or, maybe Real Doll) industry, this could... be... very..... skin-tail-lating even titillating... Attach the sklens, point and SHOOT. I wonder how much depth of feel (hehehe) this "digital" camera can "probe". I bet it will have a NICE f-stop, and the fokkel point will have a wide range of vividness in emulsion production. Properly used, this skintaillating camera will have the subject shuttering and shuddering. But, which will have priority: Shudder or Appherchur?
Give a hole nude mean-ning to SLR: Sex, Lies and Ripple Tape... Butt, at least this will take "digital photography" to a whole hole new depth of feel as the subject is framed and jammed up into a pent-up prism taking/receiving multiple skingasm shots per second, singly reflexing and mirroring the input of the sklens... Whupps... battery juices winding down....
End...
What DUMBass would mark this as flamebait. Why the fuck can't humourless wretches just keep to their own, instead of pissing on someone's chance to make others laugh. Just because it isn't marked funny doesn't mean someone out their didn't wryly enjoy it. You bastard. Keep away! Go watch a comedy, or smoke a blunt or whack off instead of undercutting the little off-beat humor this site manages to get.
or urout...
(don't let that leak out)
ting HAIRS... so why not call it....
"HYDROLYSIS"?
But, wait, isn't electrolysis a way to remove hair? Well, if that's not good or damaging enough, call it...
"fibrin(ogen)olytic"....
Oh, what the hell...
Haiku as the sponsors laugh all the way to the bank after receiving any patents and royalties (assuming Toyota hasn't sponsored them and bought their designs and any universities along with them...
It is STILL a real "Rice Rocket": It's white, short-grained, oblongish. But, will it fit in sushi rolls. Anyone getting run over in that thing will look like baluga and salmon eggs rolled into one bite-sized pill. With blood and shit, it WILL be on bitter sushi pill to swallow.
whupps... not "Elicited"... i meant "SOlicited"... OTOH, "e-"....
From the site:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/07/an_odyssey_of_fraud_part_ii.html?hpid=sec-tech
one reader wrote in:
"I guess we don't know how the attackers somehow got the Zeus Trojan on the county treasurer's PC (presumably the county doesn't want to say and the FBI told them not to discuss details of the case anyway), but I'm curious whether that PC had security software installed, whether it was up to date, which security software can deal with the Zbot (ZeuS bot) Trojan, etc.
---------
Well, i have an idea, and it's TFO (Totally Frackin' Obvious)... and might be how it happened. A poor old cleanup crew member may have been elicited to put a USB device on a bank manager machine that might not have been watched by a camera. Might have trained the cleaner to surveil the PCs, determine their visibility to cameras, then trained the dupe into deftly/swiftly attaching a USB attack device while feigning scraping something sticky from the floor, or emptying waste bins that were tough to get the bag from....
Just my eye-dea... and the FBI may not want THAT to get out lest other banks suffering poor camera placement succumb to the same thing...
Or, a native of the Ukraine/U-area working at the bank might have been subjected to manipulation of some sort, but trained to be deft and not come under suspicion. Just my inflation-deprived-$0.02-cents...
withstanding, i don't want those little buggers ANYwhere NEAR my ass... Or, I WILL take the name of thy bot in vain...
Nor the effigy of Mary.
Now, it is MORE likely we'll instead first see tampons, condoms and depends raining when it's pouring... For that last one, one could ask, "What does it taste like when a billboard is in the rain?" Another could respond, "Umm, welll, ummmm, it... depends..."... DOH!
Big Ass, Dumb-Ass bing
Being A DUMB ASS AGAIN, Bullies' Ingracious nefarious grousing (hehehehe)
Illegal to shoot birds and insects on sight? We have in some cities ordinances stating "DON'T FEED THE BIRDS/PIGEONS" due to trying to control vermin and bird droppings in public venues.
But, suppose building owners or overreacting individuals decide to "malathion" a bird they think is a spy vehicle?
Well, one way to deal with these things is to put sticky glue traps (mean to cat rodents) all over the place. Or, periodically "mist" the air with soap or sticky/bubbly shit to down them. Or, where there may be perches, set up IR lasing beams to jam them (-- if you can figure out the ops/coms freqs) or IR lasing or kill them when they land or get too close. Surely, they'll be landed for energy conservation reasons.
Or, set up mirrors in the buildings so they crash into them or get stuck and the operators cannot figure the way out. When they get too close to vortavacs, suck their asses into a disposal chute.
Diabolical, or what?