The bright lights and Alien-Eye shapes make the computer go faster. It's just like how spinning rims and flame decals make my car go faster, how the multitude of gold chains around my neck make me dance better, and how the gold plating on my AK-47 make it more accurate.
1. Barney is well-described with the following phrase:
CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR
2. The old Latin alphabet used the letter 'V' in place of 'U', therefore the above phrase is modified to:
CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR
3. Letters that do not represent Roman numerals are removed:
CV-- -V--L- DI----V-
4. Add up the Roman numerals of the remaining letters:
C + V + V + L + D + I + V
100 + 5 + 5 + 50 + 500 + 1 + 5 = 666, which is the Number of the Beast.
5. Therefore, Barney is considered Satan.
HA! Because Numerology is TOTALY admisable in court!
I think some employees are willing to put up with a certain, reasonable level of blockage. Porn sites are a no brainer example of this. My office filter doesn't block out/. BUT blocks out the Games section, in addition to every URL with 'games' in it.
It's really quite understandable. You're using a company paid computer, on a company paid pipe, on company paid time. It's their right to make the rules on internet usage.
Also, most would probably like a system where they can contest certain websites. On Monday, I was mortified to find that Wikipedia had been blocked. Category: Porn (Thats what they say about YTMND too). It would seem that I was not the only one who got annoyed by this, as we had it back the next day.
Do you ever get the feeling that IE6 is like a cartoon characters hole-riddled row-boat?
The cartoon character (lets just say it's Elmer Fudd) tries to plug a leak with his thumb, only to have another pop open on the other end of the boat. He stretchs over there to plug it with his other hand. A third appears, and he has to use his toe. Eventually, the number of leaks outnumbers the number of limbs (Or at least, the number of limbs one is allowed to show on TV. *wink* *wink*), and the boat finally goes down. A Fox riding in a Motorboat then speeds by...
For the most part, the only process one must go through to have kids is... well...
When making kids is that simple, you end up with a lot of people who are simply unqualified to be parents, and likely to make the mistake of thinking a game thats named after a FELONY is ok for kids. Seriously? What kind of parent would be ok with their kids playing a game called 'Genocide' or 'Serial Rape'... or even 'Consentual Sex'?
Frankly, I'm afraid of what a Sports Utility Bumber Vehicle might look like, and much trouble it might cause when driven by the idiots we're talking about.
Now that I don't have to worry about changing songs on my iPod, I can free up my hands to read a magazine while talking on my cellphone and eating a Cheeseburger.
I swear! I once saw a guy do that! I wasn't driving at the time...
Seriously, when people invent stuff like this and say it's 'Fool-Proof', they're basicly just sticking their tounges out at God, says "Lord, not even you could make a human so stupid, that they could screw this up!" God disagrees, and proves them wrong with horific, yet hillarious ease.
They almost like to pretend that Canadaians are as nuts about displaying the flag as an American Super Patriot... when most Canadian travellers just have a small flag stitched on their backback. Subtle, but commands respect.
-Wonders out loud why no-one here speaks English.
I love playing with tourists who pull me aside and ask me if I speak English. I normally reply in Japanese or French... Japanese is more likely to throw them off.
-They get first class treatment... NO QUESTION!
Goes straight to the front of the line, gets speedy service at a restraunt... they deserve it! Odds are their country liberated, or bombed the crap out off, or supplied arms to, or supplied arms to the enemy of, this nation, so they should be treated like the President of the United States. If they want to meet the mayor of this town... they will!
-Completely unfamiliar with local laws and customs.
If a cow stands in the middle of the road in India, the locals will just wait, patiently, for it to pass. Americans sometimes fail to get this...
It isn't about catching filesharers. It's about detering people from doing it by going legal-medieval on a small group of people. As long as people think that a $150,000 lawsuit has a sizeable chance of happening to them, the **AAs have done their job.
Heck, P2P is still somewhat legit in Canada, but a lot of the pople I talk to believe it's illegal (but still do it), thanks to the efforts of Captain Copyright and his ilk. They're also blissfully ignorant of our blank media tax.
That's how it works at my workplace. Passwords must have characters from three of four groups, Capitals, lower-case, numbers and symbols, and must be updated every 40 days (with a 'heads up' after 30 days). People hated this, and just recently we got little biometric finger readers for those who wanted them.
For me... creating hard to guess passwords that use a variety of characters but are eay to remember is the one single thing l337 speak is still useful for. Sadly, there aren't enough l337d00ds around here.
Indeed. I'm a summer student working on an internship right now.
At the orientation, they had a woman from IT give us the rundown on how to log into our computers blahblahblah. A student asked if they had Firefox. The IT staffer said that they don't allow instant messanger software on the computers...
Ya... switch to Firefox was one of the smartest computer choices I ever made.
If the governemnt comes to Facebook (or mySpace, or whoever), and demands that information on an individual, there's not much Facebook can do. Most of these sites have agreements that reserve the right to hand over information to government agencies that ask for it.
For example, Open Source Technology Group (Which owns/.) has this in it's TOS. You can also find the link to it at the bottom of the page...
OSTG, in its sole and absolute discretion, may preserve Content and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or judicial or governmental mandate or as reasonably determined useful by OSTG to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of OSTG Sites' users and the public.
That's for the whole/. website (and whatever else OSTG owns, whatever that is...), not just accounts, so this covers terrorist threats by our good friend, Anonymous Coward.
Sadly, in the age of speed scrolling to the bottom of a website's 'Terms of Service', we have many people who wonder these things...
Idiot: What? You can't give away my information to a government agency without my permission!
Social Networking Site: We already have your permission. You agreed to our ToS, which give us that right.
Idiot: But I didn't read the ToS!
SNS: Tough luck dumbass!
Good advice would be to read these things before you click 'I Agree'. Better advice would be not to post stories or pictures on the internet that involve you doing things that are stupid and/or illegal. The best advice is to just avoid doing stupid and/or illegal things altogether.
In online gambling, the money traditionally goes to some business outside the country. That's US money going to some other country, with no real trade being made from it. The difference between a trip to Las Vegas and an Online Poker site, besides convinience, is whose pockets ones losses end up lining.
Therefore:
Gambling in Nevada = Perfectly legal (21 and up, of course)
Gambling on a website with profits going to foreign company = US money leaving US for nothing in return = BAD!
Compare, if you will, to Gold Farming operations overseas. You pay US cash in exchange for something that doesn't really exist! More money for China!
A friend of mine worked at a big chain computer store. Names will not be mentioned. He says someone oncecome back to the store after buying an iPod, wondering how to put her music CDs on them... the whole computer thing was over her head.
Another said he was gonna sue the store and Apple because his iPod nano (2Gig) couldn't hold the 500 songs the store display said it could. Places have to say '500 songs' because most potential iPod buyers don't really understand what a Gigabyte is. They like having HD sizes measured in things they understand, like how many photos a 4Gig flash card can hold, how many hours video a 80Gig HD can hold...
My friend pointed out the fine print on the display, noting that the calculation is dependant on songs of a certain length and quality, and that either his songs were really long, or of very high quality...
Idiot: So if my songs were of lower quality, I could fit 500 of them on my iPod?
Friend: Yes.
Idiot: That's insane! Why should I stop listening to Bach and Chopin just so I can fit 500 songs worth of moronic rap on my iPod!
Friend: What? No! Not that kind of quality! The bit rate quality!
If people are doing it, then there is at least someone who is buying this stuff. Spam doesn't cost a lot to produce, so even if you send out spam to six figures worth of addresses... it doesn't cost you much. If just a few of those come back with orders for whatever your selling, then you could make some money.
Internet porn, works the same way. Spam a link to a small thumb gallery with offers of getting a full movie with a $20 a month membership. Some will resist the temptation, others will not... Profit!
Slashdot Mirror
TOS doesn't need spiffy CGI. It's good enough as it is! I say they dedicate their efforts to a movie that could actually use it...
Plan 9 from Outer Space!
The bright lights and Alien-Eye shapes make the computer go faster. It's just like how spinning rims and flame decals make my car go faster, how the multitude of gold chains around my neck make me dance better, and how the gold plating on my AK-47 make it more accurate.
I found this on Wikipedia...
1. Barney is well-described with the following phrase:
CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR
2. The old Latin alphabet used the letter 'V' in place of 'U', therefore the above phrase is modified to:
CVTE PVRPLE DINOSAVR
3. Letters that do not represent Roman numerals are removed:
CV-- -V--L- DI----V-
4. Add up the Roman numerals of the remaining letters:
C + V + V + L + D + I + V
100 + 5 + 5 + 50 + 500 + 1 + 5 = 666, which is the Number of the Beast.
5. Therefore, Barney is considered Satan.
HA! Because Numerology is TOTALY admisable in court!
I think some employees are willing to put up with a certain, reasonable level of blockage. Porn sites are a no brainer example of this. My office filter doesn't block out /. BUT blocks out the Games section, in addition to every URL with 'games' in it.
It's really quite understandable. You're using a company paid computer, on a company paid pipe, on company paid time. It's their right to make the rules on internet usage.
Also, most would probably like a system where they can contest certain websites. On Monday, I was mortified to find that Wikipedia had been blocked. Category: Porn (Thats what they say about YTMND too). It would seem that I was not the only one who got annoyed by this, as we had it back the next day.
Now, I have to get back to work...
Do you ever get the feeling that IE6 is like a cartoon characters hole-riddled row-boat?
The cartoon character (lets just say it's Elmer Fudd) tries to plug a leak with his thumb, only to have another pop open on the other end of the boat. He stretchs over there to plug it with his other hand. A third appears, and he has to use his toe. Eventually, the number of leaks outnumbers the number of limbs (Or at least, the number of limbs one is allowed to show on TV. *wink* *wink*), and the boat finally goes down. A Fox riding in a Motorboat then speeds by...
I, for one, welcome our Artificial Intelligence Card Sharks.
For the most part, the only process one must go through to have kids is... well...
When making kids is that simple, you end up with a lot of people who are simply unqualified to be parents, and likely to make the mistake of thinking a game thats named after a FELONY is ok for kids. Seriously? What kind of parent would be ok with their kids playing a game called 'Genocide' or 'Serial Rape'... or even 'Consentual Sex'?
But does it run Lin... wait, nevermind that...
To be honest, I doubt the security of the nation is going to be compromised by my love of porn...
Frankly, I'm afraid of what a Sports Utility Bumber Vehicle might look like, and much trouble it might cause when driven by the idiots we're talking about.
Now that I don't have to worry about changing songs on my iPod, I can free up my hands to read a magazine while talking on my cellphone and eating a Cheeseburger.
I swear! I once saw a guy do that! I wasn't driving at the time...
Seriously, when people invent stuff like this and say it's 'Fool-Proof', they're basicly just sticking their tounges out at God, says "Lord, not even you could make a human so stupid, that they could screw this up!" God disagrees, and proves them wrong with horific, yet hillarious ease.
Who the hell says "phonograph" any more?
People still trapped in the 19th Century. Duh!
Recording Executives ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Artists are being robbed by blood thursty pirates!
-Trys WAY too hard to look Canadian.
They almost like to pretend that Canadaians are as nuts about displaying the flag as an American Super Patriot... when most Canadian travellers just have a small flag stitched on their backback. Subtle, but commands respect.
-Wonders out loud why no-one here speaks English.
I love playing with tourists who pull me aside and ask me if I speak English. I normally reply in Japanese or French... Japanese is more likely to throw them off.
-They get first class treatment... NO QUESTION!
Goes straight to the front of the line, gets speedy service at a restraunt... they deserve it! Odds are their country liberated, or bombed the crap out off, or supplied arms to, or supplied arms to the enemy of, this nation, so they should be treated like the President of the United States. If they want to meet the mayor of this town... they will!
-Completely unfamiliar with local laws and customs.
If a cow stands in the middle of the road in India, the locals will just wait, patiently, for it to pass. Americans sometimes fail to get this...
It isn't about catching filesharers. It's about detering people from doing it by going legal-medieval on a small group of people. As long as people think that a $150,000 lawsuit has a sizeable chance of happening to them, the **AAs have done their job.
Heck, P2P is still somewhat legit in Canada, but a lot of the pople I talk to believe it's illegal (but still do it), thanks to the efforts of Captain Copyright and his ilk. They're also blissfully ignorant of our blank media tax.
Could it run Linux?
I had a friend who worked at computer store, and one of his duties was cleaning up PCs that had been slowed down by the usual suspects.
And with each and every one, he recommended that the consumer switch to Firefox.
Don't get excited. She didn't know what Firefox was, and was at least in her 50's...
But if you must know, it's a Canadian Oil and Gas company.
That's how it works at my workplace. Passwords must have characters from three of four groups, Capitals, lower-case, numbers and symbols, and must be updated every 40 days (with a 'heads up' after 30 days). People hated this, and just recently we got little biometric finger readers for those who wanted them.
For me... creating hard to guess passwords that use a variety of characters but are eay to remember is the one single thing l337 speak is still useful for. Sadly, there aren't enough l337d00ds around here.
Indeed. I'm a summer student working on an internship right now.
At the orientation, they had a woman from IT give us the rundown on how to log into our computers blahblahblah. A student asked if they had Firefox. The IT staffer said that they don't allow instant messanger software on the computers...
Ya... switch to Firefox was one of the smartest computer choices I ever made.
If the governemnt comes to Facebook (or mySpace, or whoever), and demands that information on an individual, there's not much Facebook can do. Most of these sites have agreements that reserve the right to hand over information to government agencies that ask for it.
/.) has this in it's TOS. You can also find the link to it at the bottom of the page...
/. website (and whatever else OSTG owns, whatever that is...), not just accounts, so this covers terrorist threats by our good friend, Anonymous Coward.
For example, Open Source Technology Group (Which owns
OSTG, in its sole and absolute discretion, may preserve Content and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or judicial or governmental mandate or as reasonably determined useful by OSTG to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of OSTG Sites' users and the public.
That's for the whole
Sadly, in the age of speed scrolling to the bottom of a website's 'Terms of Service', we have many people who wonder these things...
Idiot: What? You can't give away my information to a government agency without my permission!
Social Networking Site: We already have your permission. You agreed to our ToS, which give us that right.
Idiot: But I didn't read the ToS!
SNS: Tough luck dumbass!
Good advice would be to read these things before you click 'I Agree'. Better advice would be not to post stories or pictures on the internet that involve you doing things that are stupid and/or illegal. The best advice is to just avoid doing stupid and/or illegal things altogether.
In online gambling, the money traditionally goes to some business outside the country. That's US money going to some other country, with no real trade being made from it. The difference between a trip to Las Vegas and an Online Poker site, besides convinience, is whose pockets ones losses end up lining.
Therefore:
Gambling in Nevada = Perfectly legal (21 and up, of course)
Gambling on a website with profits going to foreign company = US money leaving US for nothing in return = BAD!
Compare, if you will, to Gold Farming operations overseas. You pay US cash in exchange for something that doesn't really exist! More money for China!
Didn't Atari try giving out those crappy E.T. for free after they didn't sell?
A friend of mine worked at a big chain computer store. Names will not be mentioned. He says someone oncecome back to the store after buying an iPod, wondering how to put her music CDs on them... the whole computer thing was over her head.
Another said he was gonna sue the store and Apple because his iPod nano (2Gig) couldn't hold the 500 songs the store display said it could. Places have to say '500 songs' because most potential iPod buyers don't really understand what a Gigabyte is. They like having HD sizes measured in things they understand, like how many photos a 4Gig flash card can hold, how many hours video a 80Gig HD can hold...
My friend pointed out the fine print on the display, noting that the calculation is dependant on songs of a certain length and quality, and that either his songs were really long, or of very high quality...
Idiot: So if my songs were of lower quality, I could fit 500 of them on my iPod?
Friend: Yes. Idiot: That's insane! Why should I stop listening to Bach and Chopin just so I can fit 500 songs worth of moronic rap on my iPod!
Friend: What? No! Not that kind of quality! The bit rate quality!
If people are doing it, then there is at least someone who is buying this stuff. Spam doesn't cost a lot to produce, so even if you send out spam to six figures worth of addresses... it doesn't cost you much. If just a few of those come back with orders for whatever your selling, then you could make some money.
Internet porn, works the same way. Spam a link to a small thumb gallery with offers of getting a full movie with a $20 a month membership. Some will resist the temptation, others will not... Profit!