This was partly modded Funny, but I see little funny about this. I rely on financial aid for tuition. I should NOT have to relinquish that to pay for licensing fees and royalties that would diminish my freedom. That's why I got a non-HDCP-equipped, China-made monitor now, and will not pay for HDCP-equipped ones the company(ies) make(s) in the future (I got back much of its cost from my old screen and other things; money is not too much of a prob there). I've lost a lot (but not all) of faith in American tech business. Or something like that.
that is just a theory, chemistry was created by atheist scientists
--no seriously, I like this list. My favorite words there, for some reason, are secessionisms and vivaciousnesses.
No explorer or firefox in the list, but there are firebirds, operas, and even links and porn. I tell you, it's chemists who make those browser thingies, not programmers!;)
"Account for domain hexblog.org has been suspended" (as of this post's time). I'll check for another test and hope the hexblog link is revived soon. avast! auto-updates often so I'd be shocked if it allowed those things, but it IS free...
One site (maybe one of ebaumsworld's ads, I believe--I won't link there) tried to do something with it. avast! alerted me with its usual "Caution. A virus has been detected" sound and "abort connection" dialog and all of that. Don't know if it succeeded (nothing unusual now, though my browser did show a naughtier site instead that time; I visited a few times again and it showed my intended site as usual, with much less naughtiness)
Maybe it's because the DS and GBA have "weaker DRM systems". With all of Sony's fuss about (very badly) protecting IP, homebrew is a way to stick it to the Man.
Or maybe not, but dammit, it's the PSP, which can play movies and games and run a Web browser on a small widescreen-kinda thingy. It can't be that bad.;)
Twelve IRC bots spying,
Eleven worms-a-wriggling,
Ten Paypal phishes,
Nine ActiveX holes,
Eight Blaster variants,
Seven Sony rootkits,
Six keystroke loggers, Five porn diallers!
Four Exploit.WMFs,
Three Mytobs,
Two Bifrose-Ds,
And a homepage stuck on goatse.
Until I can use EFS instead of TrueCrypt on XP Home, and use a GUI instead of cacls to (try to) restrict file/dir access, I'll be miffed that anyone can say Home=Professional. Home does a ton of things Pro does, but it's not quite teh Pro. (Now, whether it's worth ~$100 more than Home is an entirely different query.)
6. Obtain comments about the EULA from an independent oversight person
7. Obtain an expert opinion that the copy-protection software does not create security vulnerabilities
8. Only collect limited personal information necessary to provide enhanced CD functionality
*bets that "independent oversight person" "expert opinion" will both come from paid allies, and that "limited personal information" will be handled by(another) profit-obsessed foreign company with a bad rep*
I'm sure the (somewhat slow) 4-player-split-screen and wide choice of vaguely-familiar/super-cool weapons helped them too. Sure helped when people came to my place.
That's the problem. Newer games try to act like movies instead of, uh, games. I played 007 and the story didn't get in the way of 1-player mode so much, and there is the obvious joy from catching player 4 with a nice snipe or headshot (it never really felt that way for me with online games). With new games, there's such a focus on plot that we'll never see more than two endings. Chrono Trigger remakes be damned.*
Besides, it's a Hulk game (apologies to http://komar.org/hulk/ 's owner, the poster's name escapes me). "Subtle" and "smash" just don't mix.
*Metal Gear Solid 3 is exempt from my rants (though for entirely unrelated reasons).
You misspelled "Boomer". (Since she's apparently gone though--don't hurt me, I'll get the season DVDs someday--Six's place up top stands. *sulks away, somewhat sad after just finding out*)
...except it'll cost €6 billion, and its labor costs will be outsourced to a faraway country like France or Wyoming, so it'll never quite do as well.;)
Isn't Santa Claus already an elf? (Granted, this is under debate, and he & his various forms/clones/whatever in U.S. department stores usually speak English to us anyway, but still...)
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This was partly modded Funny, but I see little funny about this. I rely on financial aid for tuition. I should NOT have to relinquish that to pay for licensing fees and royalties that would diminish my freedom. That's why I got a non-HDCP-equipped, China-made monitor now, and will not pay for HDCP-equipped ones the company(ies) make(s) in the future (I got back much of its cost from my old screen and other things; money is not too much of a prob there). I've lost a lot (but not all) of faith in American tech business. Or something like that.
Sounds like the "guy" needs negative expectation, not refraction.
;)
--wait, what do HTML tables and the DOM have to do with superlenses again?
that is just a theory, chemistry was created by atheist scientists
;)
--no seriously, I like this list. My favorite words there, for some reason, are secessionisms and vivaciousnesses.
No explorer or firefox in the list, but there are firebirds, operas, and even links and porn. I tell you, it's chemists who make those browser thingies, not programmers!
"Account for domain hexblog.org has been suspended" (as of this post's time). I'll check for another test and hope the hexblog link is revived soon. avast! auto-updates often so I'd be shocked if it allowed those things, but it IS free...
One site (maybe one of ebaumsworld's ads, I believe--I won't link there) tried to do something with it. avast! alerted me with its usual "Caution. A virus has been detected" sound and "abort connection" dialog and all of that. Don't know if it succeeded (nothing unusual now, though my browser did show a naughtier site instead that time; I visited a few times again and it showed my intended site as usual, with much less naughtiness)
Well, Jack Thompson, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and...uh... *to Slashdotters* anyone? Beuller? Anyone?
More like Be cool. Pwn n00bs after school.
In other news, Jack Thompson's head explodes when finding out that "family-friendly activities" includes playing HALO and getting head shots.
I'd love to see/hear his reaction to this...
Maybe it's because the DS and GBA have "weaker DRM systems". With all of Sony's fuss about (very badly) protecting IP, homebrew is a way to stick it to the Man.
;)
Or maybe not, but dammit, it's the PSP, which can play movies and games and run a Web browser on a small widescreen-kinda thingy. It can't be that bad.
I thought, the chimpanses were the researchers?
;)
Nah, they're busy writing Shakespeare, remember?
Twelve IRC bots spying,
Eleven worms-a-wriggling,
Ten Paypal phishes,
Nine ActiveX holes,
Eight Blaster variants,
Seven Sony rootkits,
Six keystroke loggers,
Five porn diallers!
Four Exploit.WMFs,
Three Mytobs,
Two Bifrose-Ds,
And a homepage stuck on goatse.
(You, ettlz, rock.)
A mix of all three. In fact, let's take it bit by bit...
...who make music that's not worth buying...
...and yet own mansions.
more promiscuous
Hot whores...
less creative
but more stable
So they grow up to become professional pop stars! w00t! (My apologies, I'm just jealous since I'm a last child...)
Until I can use EFS instead of TrueCrypt on XP Home, and use a GUI instead of cacls to (try to) restrict file/dir access, I'll be miffed that anyone can say Home=Professional. Home does a ton of things Pro does, but it's not quite teh Pro. (Now, whether it's worth ~$100 more than Home is an entirely different query.)
and sony rootkits.
;)
--
Free PlayStation 3
Freepay surely appreciates your backhanded support.
Thought "'s ghost" was outside the parentheses. Oops.
Jackson and Sharpton would be so glad to read that they're already dead. ;)
[...]Take a look at your dollar bills "In god we thrust"[...]
;)
I repeat, religion sucks[...]
First Christian rock, now Christian pr0n? We'll soon see Kiss Her Crack 4: In Through the Habit, I know it.
Indeed. All of a sudden MSFT stock looks a lot sexier. *calls broker*
6. Obtain comments about the EULA from an independent oversight person
7. Obtain an expert opinion that the copy-protection software does not create security vulnerabilities
8. Only collect limited personal information necessary to provide enhanced CD functionality
*bets that "independent oversight person" "expert opinion" will both come from paid allies, and that "limited personal information" will be handled by(another) profit-obsessed foreign company with a bad rep*
I hope not, obviously.
I'm sure the (somewhat slow) 4-player-split-screen and wide choice of vaguely-familiar/super-cool weapons helped them too. Sure helped when people came to my place.
That's the problem. Newer games try to act like movies instead of, uh, games. I played 007 and the story didn't get in the way of 1-player mode so much, and there is the obvious joy from catching player 4 with a nice snipe or headshot (it never really felt that way for me with online games). With new games, there's such a focus on plot that we'll never see more than two endings. Chrono Trigger remakes be damned.*
Besides, it's a Hulk game (apologies to http://komar.org/hulk/ 's owner, the poster's name escapes me). "Subtle" and "smash" just don't mix.
*Metal Gear Solid 3 is exempt from my rants (though for entirely unrelated reasons).
take the time to do it correctly. i.e. NO DRM!
;)
Expecting big business to do that? *checks uid* Yep, you must be new here!
Meh, I dunno. Whenever I see that Hit-That Hammer-Magnet, it quickly crowds out enlightenment in my mind. (Or whatever remains of it at this point.)
Who is Number One? She is Number Six
You misspelled "Boomer". (Since she's apparently gone though--don't hurt me, I'll get the season DVDs someday--Six's place up top stands. *sulks away, somewhat sad after just finding out*)
...except it'll cost €6 billion, and its labor costs will be outsourced to a faraway country like France or Wyoming, so it'll never quite do as well. ;)
from the how-do-you-say-ho-ho-ho-in-elvish? dept.
Isn't Santa Claus already an elf? (Granted, this is under debate, and he & his various forms/clones/whatever in U.S. department stores usually speak English to us anyway, but still...)