Actually, I can promise you that you're right. I teach adult literacy in my free time, and I can assure you that my students would get nowhere fast with text like that.
I could try it, just to be sure, but it would be cruel and stupid to do so.
Dude, do you really think me and my pot smoking buddies are trying to get your kid high?
It's his FRIENDS who do that.
Tell you what...make alcohol illegal and I'll call the hypocracy score even, ok? It's the worst drug in the world, and it's legal. Pot...nobody ever kills anybody while high on weed.
Dude, while from a strategic standpoint you may be right, you need to empty your head of this nonsense about Apple "believing that the majority of profits should go to artists" or doing anything except looking out for #1. Good, effective companies are always concerned about themselves, first, and this is the way it should be.
It's very naive to think otherwise, and not realistic, and will not help you to understand anything.
It's a bit harder in a self-managed datacenter, like the one I work at. Plenty of exploited Linux boxen there, too, by the way. Not necessarily rooted, but quite, quite exploited. (PHP, MySQL)
You're assuming they actually want to fix the problem. MS knew that Outlook automatically executing binary attachments was a bad idea for about...10 years before they fixed it. Clearly, this is not what they want.
I'll leave the conclusions to draw from that assumption as an exercise for the reader.
I have installed Linux distros hundreds of times, and dozens of distributions (literally), but the recent Mandriva's are far too challenging for me. What seems to be the problem is a forced net-based install where you have to choose a repositorty and live or die by it. The sucker may go fine for a while, and then it slowly dies, and you have to start all over again.
Either that, or I'm too dumb to figure out which ISO I'm supposed to download. That isn't very clear, either, in their repositories.
I do seem to be able to install Fedora, RHE, Ubuntu, slack, zenwalk, suse, and even vector linux just fine, though. I'm sure the problem is me!
I wonder if it is really just a press release intended to remind certain people in the world that we have nuclear fucking weapons. Remember Boris Yeltsin, shortly before he was sidled to the site by Putin, shaking his fists at the U.S. saying Russia still had nukes? That sort of thing isn't nearly classy enough for us (or for the Russians, really--I think that was when Putin decided the time had come to make his move).
We do this sort of shit. "Leaks". Like Bushes many supposed "oops I didn't know the microphone was on" moments.
Better for the wheels of justice to grind slowly, and accurately, than quickly and have unintended consequences.
Better yet for people to elect their representatives with some semblence of civil duty. To paraphrase George Carlin, it's silly to hate the politicians. Hate the people. It's the people who have chosen these yahoos.
The problem is that you are proposing a regulatory body. Sounds great, until you consider that over time, it is in the interests of the regulated to subvert that body. Witness ANY Public Utility Commission for reference. Or the FCC.
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It kinda makes you want an OS with no "screens of death".
What a fantastic idea. It would have been better if you'd just done it. Now they've been warned.
No waitaminute. They'll read what you wrote, and then fuck it up and/or not do anything about it until it happens. No worries.
Actually, I can promise you that you're right. I teach adult literacy in my free time, and I can assure you that my students would get nowhere fast with text like that.
I could try it, just to be sure, but it would be cruel and stupid to do so.
Dude, do you really think me and my pot smoking buddies are trying to get your kid high?
It's his FRIENDS who do that.
Tell you what...make alcohol illegal and I'll call the hypocracy score even, ok? It's the worst drug in the world, and it's legal. Pot...nobody ever kills anybody while high on weed.
Or are you ignorant enough to believe otherwise?
Why isn't anybody being serious about doing this? Do you know? What's the big holdup?
I'm seeing giant windmill blades being carted up the freeways of my city every day these days, but no algae farms.
Mostly because we want pot to be legalized.
Keep your laws the fuck away from my private life.
You're right, I had my head up my ass.
On the other hand, having a boring life has been the lifelong dream of humans from time immemorial. We really are very lucky to be so bored.
On the other hand, it's an opportunity to try and accomplish more important things. Say, discovering the meaning of life. I dunno. Stuff like that.
Dude, while from a strategic standpoint you may be right, you need to empty your head of this nonsense about Apple "believing that the majority of profits should go to artists" or doing anything except looking out for #1. Good, effective companies are always concerned about themselves, first, and this is the way it should be.
It's very naive to think otherwise, and not realistic, and will not help you to understand anything.
hear, hear!
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It's a bit harder in a self-managed datacenter, like the one I work at. Plenty of exploited Linux boxen there, too, by the way. Not necessarily rooted, but quite, quite exploited. (PHP, MySQL)
You know, with a lot of crimes like this, the thing to do is to follow the money. Who has this information? Google does.
You're assuming they actually want to fix the problem. MS knew that Outlook automatically executing binary attachments was a bad idea for about...10 years before they fixed it. Clearly, this is not what they want.
I'll leave the conclusions to draw from that assumption as an exercise for the reader.
In my 15 years of professional experience, I have yet to witness an oversupply of competent technicians.
We won't have that until we have an oversupply of competent people. Don't hold your breath.
I have installed Linux distros hundreds of times, and dozens of distributions (literally), but the recent Mandriva's are far too challenging for me. What seems to be the problem is a forced net-based install where you have to choose a repositorty and live or die by it. The sucker may go fine for a while, and then it slowly dies, and you have to start all over again.
Either that, or I'm too dumb to figure out which ISO I'm supposed to download. That isn't very clear, either, in their repositories.
I do seem to be able to install Fedora, RHE, Ubuntu, slack, zenwalk, suse, and even vector linux just fine, though. I'm sure the problem is me!
I wonder if it is really just a press release intended to remind certain people in the world that we have nuclear fucking weapons. Remember Boris Yeltsin, shortly before he was sidled to the site by Putin, shaking his fists at the U.S. saying Russia still had nukes? That sort of thing isn't nearly classy enough for us (or for the Russians, really--I think that was when Putin decided the time had come to make his move).
We do this sort of shit. "Leaks". Like Bushes many supposed "oops I didn't know the microphone was on" moments.
...except for the fact that nuclear weapons are apparently accounted for the same way as pallets of cash in Iraq...
Give me time. I will MAKE it cutthroat.
But wouldn't STEREO ASCII blow your fucking mind?
You mean, "if the people who elect the members of Congress had any backbone.."
Better for the wheels of justice to grind slowly, and accurately, than quickly and have unintended consequences.
Better yet for people to elect their representatives with some semblence of civil duty. To paraphrase George Carlin, it's silly to hate the politicians. Hate the people. It's the people who have chosen these yahoos.
The problem is that you are proposing a regulatory body. Sounds great, until you consider that over time, it is in the interests of the regulated to subvert that body. Witness ANY Public Utility Commission for reference. Or the FCC.
Are you sure you never actually received one because you never actually sent one in?
All the ones I've sent in, I've gotten. Sadly, there are quite a few I've forgotten about.
Thankyou.