You need the extra thumbscrews, since entering the OEM key by hand isn't torture enough? I particularly like the keys with a B that looks like an 8 (or an 8 that looks like a B). Fun for all.
With the device's wireless networking abilities turned on, people can send and receive photos, as well as "promotional copies of songs, albums and playlists," according to the filing.
Or maybe someone can figure out how to broadcast images to all nearby Zunes with a linux app, so when I drive down the street or ride the train with my laptop I could flood all the nearby Zunes with goatse images. "Awww look someone is sending me a cute puppy picture....augggghhhhh"
The judge ordered that items he bought with the money, including airplanes, a Lamborghini and other cars, be sold off to pay for the restitution.
I wonder how many adobe acrobat software packages you have to sell to pay for a Lamborghini? I mean seriously, this guy was making piles of money:
Ferrer's Web site began selling software in 2002 and was shut down by the FBI in October 2005, authorities said. Prosecutors said the illegal sales cost the software companies as much as $20 million, but industry officials say the amount could be higher.
How exactly were these numbers computed?? This is all going back to the dead horse "but people wouldn't have bought the package if it was too expensive" argument; figuring the losses as each unit sold being a loss is absurd.
Sadly humorous mods don't raise your Slashdot karma. Jokes can however raise your real-life karma, which is much more important! Though you have to keep in mind that the negative mods slam down your Slashdot karma, so if you aren't funny, well, your real-life karma may suffer too. Is this risk really worth it?
...what do you do when you find yourself trapped in a sophomore study group?
Make sure to make fun of any bogus information in a way that makes it clear any braindead moron should know better. Follow up with a story about a previous co-worker who got fired for thinking that exact same thing. Lastly make it clear that you are glad you have an interview at a competitor later and look forward to helping to crush their inept company. Adding that you will enjoy buying some of their used furniture at the firesale is a nice touch.
- They should announce they have found a way to generate free energy by passing snakes through a magnetic field*. - Hide a few snakes in random movie theaters across America. - Pay people to watch the movie and post rave reviews in their blogs.
* Actually this might work; all you need is a rat, some plastic tube wrapped in wire big enough for the rat/snake that goes in a circle, and a magnetic jumpsuit for your snake. Turn rats into electricity!
The Earth's magnetic field has decayed about 10-15% over the last 150 years.
Does anyone have a source for this besides Wikipedia? Wouldn't this be a serious problem when the weakened magnetic field stops shielding us from the solar winds??
In order for such a revolutionary technology to have the public support needed for it to become used widely, McCarthy says that confirmation from the academic community will be crucial. "That is our focus at this point," he said.
McCarthy declined to specify how many prototypes they have built, or how long they have run, how much power they produce, and other details of the design.
All of this documentation will be presented in full to the jury of twelve scientists that are soon to be selected to analyze the technology. As of the time of this writing, 1,300 people have expressed interest in serving on the jury of scientists; and 15,516 people have signed up to be notified of the results.
The selection of the jury will screen out anyone who has past involvement or other indications that might be construed as showing support of the technology in some form or other. "We want cynics," said McCarthy.
"We are not seeking validation from the court of public opinion. What we need is validation from the academic world," he said. Once that has been achieved, then the public can know.
It really sounds to me like they want outside verification, and are willing to pay for it themselves. Shouldn't we let that take place before we fry them in oil?
Ahh, I hadn't noticed the niceness value. One thing I can say is MS Windows under vmware seems to run better on funky hardware, since vmware presents a pretty standard set of interfaces that MS Windows can talk to, and then lets Linux talk to the funky hardware. You raised good points though.
I have had the same experiences (running windows 2k on a linux machine using vmware); works like a charm, running things like photoshop and illustrator without a single problem (the newest versions no less). The key is to make sure you have enough memory on the host machine (at least 1GB, more if you can get it). As an added bonus I now get to treat Microsoft Windows like just another (bloated) app running on linux:-) And since this MS machine never connects to the net, I don't need extra apps (like virus scanners) wasting cpu cycles/memory. And if the virtual machine ever does get hosed up for whatever reason, I am ten minutes away from a restore and running with everything installed and ready to go. Oh and the 2k virtual machine talks to an attached USB scanner (windows drivers only) just fine, even though linux can't, which is an added bonus.
Or at least which friend's house they left it in so you couldn't track them on their wild rampages through town. Unless you shackle it to their arm before they leave the house; do any phones come with a handcuff option??
Try to light all suspicious materials on fire. Nice and cheap (all you need is some guy you pay minimum wage with a handheld lighter). For larger items, have a can of hairspray handy to use as a cheap flamethrower.
True; my random guess is if they were classified (and most likely they have been; I am too lazy to look) they would be considered a seperate species of ape (as opposed to a gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan, or human). When people scream, "they say people descended from apes!" they are usually referring to a modern day primate. What I wanted to point out is that we are NOT descended from any (currently existing) primate or ape, which is what a suprisingly large number of people (both pro and anti evolution) believe. Luckily if you don't believe in evolution, you would probably think the classification process is bogus as well:-)
I am not much into religions, but if there is one somewhere that refers to God as the "master coder" I might have to take a look. If the followers think he codes in VB however I will have to pass.
Sadly some people like the taste of various primates. So far the advocates of the theories of Tastiness haven't made many inroads when it comes to having their views incorporated into general evolution however.
Well, if people vote someone into office based mostly on the candidate's belief that evolution is false, then it would have a direct impact on the daily lives of all Americans. Now if everyone would simply vote for candidates based on relevent issues (like, oh I don't know, healthcare/education/etc) we would be fine.
Ahh, but humans didn't evolve from apes; they shared a common ancestor (who no longer exists). Nowhere in evolution does it state we descended directly from apes, current day or otherwise.
Some lady in a miniskirt drops her purse as she is putting it on the xray machine. As she bends over to pick it up, every guy in eyeshot triggers an alarm.
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Tech Support: We are pleased that you are happy with the speed of your new drive.
Customer: No, I mean smoke is pouring outta my harddrive man! (Screams of panic and someone saying "get the fire extinguisher!" in the background)
You need the extra thumbscrews, since entering the OEM key by hand isn't torture enough? I particularly like the keys with a B that looks like an 8 (or an 8 that looks like a B). Fun for all.
I bet they will make me pay extra for that too won't they??
Or maybe someone can figure out how to broadcast images to all nearby Zunes with a linux app, so when I drive down the street or ride the train with my laptop I could flood all the nearby Zunes with goatse images. "Awww look someone is sending me a cute puppy picture....augggghhhhh"
In the case you mentioned I would say the amounts they are computing would be accurate, but in this case the price he was selling at was much lower.
I wonder how many adobe acrobat software packages you have to sell to pay for a Lamborghini? I mean seriously, this guy was making piles of money:
Ferrer's Web site began selling software in 2002 and was shut down by the FBI in October 2005, authorities said. Prosecutors said the illegal sales cost the software companies as much as $20 million, but industry officials say the amount could be higher.
How exactly were these numbers computed?? This is all going back to the dead horse "but people wouldn't have bought the package if it was too expensive" argument; figuring the losses as each unit sold being a loss is absurd.
Sadly humorous mods don't raise your Slashdot karma. Jokes can however raise your real-life karma, which is much more important! Though you have to keep in mind that the negative mods slam down your Slashdot karma, so if you aren't funny, well, your real-life karma may suffer too. Is this risk really worth it?
It would be interesting to see what, if any, riders were attached to the NASA budgets for the past several years.
Make sure to make fun of any bogus information in a way that makes it clear any braindead moron should know better. Follow up with a story about a previous co-worker who got fired for thinking that exact same thing. Lastly make it clear that you are glad you have an interview at a competitor later and look forward to helping to crush their inept company. Adding that you will enjoy buying some of their used furniture at the firesale is a nice touch.
I wonder if SCO has licensed his "Dare To Be Stupid" song yet?
- They should announce they have found a way to generate free energy by passing snakes through a magnetic field*.
- Hide a few snakes in random movie theaters across America.
- Pay people to watch the movie and post rave reviews in their blogs.
* Actually this might work; all you need is a rat, some plastic tube wrapped in wire big enough for the rat/snake that goes in a circle, and a magnetic jumpsuit for your snake. Turn rats into electricity!
Does anyone have a source for this besides Wikipedia? Wouldn't this be a serious problem when the weakened magnetic field stops shielding us from the solar winds??
After further rummaging through their website, I think you are correct. Sadly I won't be able to use my flying car for free :-(
It really sounds to me like they want outside verification, and are willing to pay for it themselves. Shouldn't we let that take place before we fry them in oil?
Ahh, I hadn't noticed the niceness value. One thing I can say is MS Windows under vmware seems to run better on funky hardware, since vmware presents a pretty standard set of interfaces that MS Windows can talk to, and then lets Linux talk to the funky hardware. You raised good points though.
I have had the same experiences (running windows 2k on a linux machine using vmware); works like a charm, running things like photoshop and illustrator without a single problem (the newest versions no less). The key is to make sure you have enough memory on the host machine (at least 1GB, more if you can get it). As an added bonus I now get to treat Microsoft Windows like just another (bloated) app running on linux :-) And since this MS machine never connects to the net, I don't need extra apps (like virus scanners) wasting cpu cycles/memory. And if the virtual machine ever does get hosed up for whatever reason, I am ten minutes away from a restore and running with everything installed and ready to go. Oh and the 2k virtual machine talks to an attached USB scanner (windows drivers only) just fine, even though linux can't, which is an added bonus.
Or at least which friend's house they left it in so you couldn't track them on their wild rampages through town. Unless you shackle it to their arm before they leave the house; do any phones come with a handcuff option??
Try to light all suspicious materials on fire. Nice and cheap (all you need is some guy you pay minimum wage with a handheld lighter). For larger items, have a can of hairspray handy to use as a cheap flamethrower.
True; my random guess is if they were classified (and most likely they have been; I am too lazy to look) they would be considered a seperate species of ape (as opposed to a gorilla, chimpanzee, orangutan, or human). When people scream, "they say people descended from apes!" they are usually referring to a modern day primate. What I wanted to point out is that we are NOT descended from any (currently existing) primate or ape, which is what a suprisingly large number of people (both pro and anti evolution) believe. Luckily if you don't believe in evolution, you would probably think the classification process is bogus as well :-)
I am not much into religions, but if there is one somewhere that refers to God as the "master coder" I might have to take a look. If the followers think he codes in VB however I will have to pass.
Sadly some people like the taste of various primates. So far the advocates of the theories of Tastiness haven't made many inroads when it comes to having their views incorporated into general evolution however.
Well, if people vote someone into office based mostly on the candidate's belief that evolution is false, then it would have a direct impact on the daily lives of all Americans. Now if everyone would simply vote for candidates based on relevent issues (like, oh I don't know, healthcare/education/etc) we would be fine.
Ahh, but humans didn't evolve from apes; they shared a common ancestor (who no longer exists). Nowhere in evolution does it state we descended directly from apes, current day or otherwise.
Some lady in a miniskirt drops her purse as she is putting it on the xray machine. As she bends over to pick it up, every guy in eyeshot triggers an alarm.
It gets even worse: this saw violates my god-given right to quickly saw my fingers off. It's just plain un-American!