I always thought it was best summed up by the fortune I saw awhile back: Unix is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
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Wow, it would sure be helpful to know what exactly any of those acronyms are (RPG = Role Playing Game in this case? APC=Anonymous player character?? Wait BMP is a bitmap file....)
Thus spake the article: They made their findings public, said ForensicTec President Brett O'Keeffe, because they hoped to help the government identify the problem -- and to "get some positive exposure" for their company. Well they gots lots of exposure, not too sure about the positive part. And from the mission statement on their website: ForensicTec Solutions, Inc. intends to be the first name in computer forensics and network security. I think perhaps they left out listed as the defendant in a case brought by NASA and various military branches at the end of their mission statement?
In my mind's eye I see an image of selecting an item from a newfangled animated menu, each time causing a little pie icon to fly across the screen and splat onto the Bill Gates image that appears randomly in the background. We certainly need more features like that in open source software (beats a talking paperclip anyway).
There is a simple way to keep people from linking to your site, just find your webserver, and unplug the network connection. And next week, we talk about people who hang signs in their window, but don't want people looking at them.
There's a detailed, three-dimensional, interactive map of New York City which captures the five boroughs down to the square foot, incorporating everything from building floor plans to subway and sewer tubes.
It seems this would make tunneling into/robbing/terrorizing buildings easier if it fell into the wrong hands (perhaps ironically helping to instigate the "need to rebuild" scenario).
Previous attempts have resulted in unacceptably slow removal of tooth enamel, and have also damaged teeth. Silly me, I thought tooth enamel was what you wanted to keep, not remove.
That's what the astronomers at SpaceWatch are scared of, that if something did genuinely come on round, we wouldn't be able to do anything except say "Oops". And that is the most important reason why we need better monitoring systems; the sooner we hear about the big one we can't stop, the more time we will have to riot and pillage.
People hearing voices in their head? Wow talk about old news, they used to burn people for that kind of thing..... Though I have to admit, making a product you can sell based on this is pretty slick (well aside from whoever makes boatloads of money from things like Thorazine).
Not to mention this whole antigravity deal will revive the sex industry (zero-g sex rooms anyone???) And don't forget bras, there are millions of women around the world who would appreciate the "load reducing" capabilities of an anti-gravity bra.
The latest patch to IE no longer allows users to connect to any websites ending in.no for "security reasons". Also, future versions of M$ products will no longer support Norwegian due to "lack of market interest". So how many Linux migrations specialists will Norway be needing in the near future?:-)
How long before these types of services start streaming over port 80? Are they going to examine the actual packets to make sure they are valid web traffic, or do you think they would actually block all port 80 traffic?? Feel free to pick any port used by some other service instead of port 80 (or better yet, just stream valid html back and forth over port 80, with a web file sharing service gateway out on the net)
The subtitle and main question is: Can a band of biologists who share data freely out-innovate the corporate researchers who hoard it?"
Who says you won't be able to have your very own clone of yourself someday? Now if we could just get some of the other fields to go this route, we could make our own antibiotics at home, have a horde of clone slaves, and power our houses with cold fusion reactors.....
The best part is after losing space to ads on the desktop, ads as part of the browser (opera) and ads on the web pages, there will be exactly one square inch of the screen left over for actual content.
wether he has DSL or cable at home, and how many mp3s he has on his computer?:-) Personally however I would rather they be allowed to release poor quality CDs until people get so sick of them, they stop buying them. Why force them to release a product that people can actually listen to??? (I don't know how many people have complained about not being able to listen to copy protected CDs on various players......)
Actually they have been able to emulate listening to country music fairly well for the hearing and humor impaired. You take the subjects tongue, stretch it across a dusty two-by-four, and nail it down with 6 nails. While the subject attempts to pull their tongue off of the two-by-four, sandblast the rest of their body, and then cover them in salt. Sadly the FDA has not approved this procedure (yet).
The largest Apple screen is cheaper, and I'm not sure how I would feel about being forced into 1600x1200 all the time. And at the price of a decent used car?
Ok I went out and bought a used car, now can anyone tell me how to replace my monitor with it?
The "three day weekend Quakefest" exhibit with 10 computers connected with a rats nest of cables, all covered by a pile of aluminum cans and pizza boxes should be great. Wonder which 10 lucky geeks they will hunt down/dig up and preserve the bodily remains of for use in this exhibit?
Why does M$ get the right to set an arbitrary timeframe, and what keeps the schools from hiring some, shall we say, wildly inaccurate (and cheap!) auditing firm to audit their machines?
...Microsoft hasn't pulled this same stunt on the various state governments that are still pushing the case against them? They might as well, since after the info in this article becomes more widespread I can't imagine how they could look any worse. I have to admit, lamebrain tactics like this probably do more for the Linux community than anything.
Seriously tho, what keeps the school from telling them to bugger off? Could Microsoft get a court order to allow their audit teams to search (especially if the school sent a statement to the effect of "we won't be using your software anymore, so don't bother with the audit")?
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"Hoaxes for nerds". Or is it "Hoaxes that matter"? Remember, don't let reality interfere with a good news story.
I always thought it was best summed up by the fortune I saw awhile back: Unix is very user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.
Wow, it would sure be helpful to know what exactly any of those acronyms are (RPG = Role Playing Game in this case? APC=Anonymous player character?? Wait BMP is a bitmap file....)
Thus spake the article: They made their findings public, said ForensicTec President Brett O'Keeffe, because they hoped to help the government identify the problem -- and to "get some positive exposure" for their company.
Well they gots lots of exposure, not too sure about the positive part.
And from the mission statement on their website:
ForensicTec Solutions, Inc. intends to be the first name in computer forensics and network security. I think perhaps they left out listed as the defendant in a case brought by NASA and various military branches at the end of their mission statement?
In my mind's eye I see an image of selecting an item from a newfangled animated menu, each time causing a little pie icon to fly across the screen and splat onto the Bill Gates image that appears randomly in the background. We certainly need more features like that in open source software (beats a talking paperclip anyway).
There is a simple way to keep people from linking to your site, just find your webserver, and unplug the network connection. And next week, we talk about people who hang signs in their window, but don't want people looking at them.
I don't think the ability to make sounds has anything to do with culture.
I think country music proved that long, long ago.
There's a detailed, three-dimensional, interactive map of New York City which captures the five boroughs down to the square foot, incorporating everything from building floor plans to subway and sewer tubes.
It seems this would make tunneling into/robbing/terrorizing buildings easier if it fell into the wrong hands (perhaps ironically helping to instigate the "need to rebuild" scenario).
Previous attempts have resulted in unacceptably slow removal of tooth enamel, and have also damaged teeth.
Silly me, I thought tooth enamel was what you wanted to keep, not remove.
That's what the astronomers at SpaceWatch are scared of, that if something did genuinely come on round, we wouldn't be able to do anything except say "Oops".
And that is the most important reason why we need better monitoring systems; the sooner we hear about the big one we can't stop, the more time we will have to riot and pillage.
People hearing voices in their head? Wow talk about old news, they used to burn people for that kind of thing..... Though I have to admit, making a product you can sell based on this is pretty slick (well aside from whoever makes boatloads of money from things like Thorazine).
Not to mention this whole antigravity deal will revive the sex industry (zero-g sex rooms anyone???) And don't forget bras, there are millions of women around the world who would appreciate the "load reducing" capabilities of an anti-gravity bra.
Where do you work now, and are they publically traded so I can short their stock?
The latest patch to IE no longer allows users to connect to any websites ending in .no for "security reasons". Also, future versions of M$ products will no longer support Norwegian due to "lack of market interest". So how many Linux migrations specialists will Norway be needing in the near future? :-)
How long before these types of services start streaming over port 80? Are they going to examine the actual packets to make sure they are valid web traffic, or do you think they would actually block all port 80 traffic?? Feel free to pick any port used by some other service instead of port 80 (or better yet, just stream valid html back and forth over port 80, with a web file sharing service gateway out on the net)
The subtitle and main question is: Can a band of biologists who share data freely out-innovate the corporate researchers who hoard it?"
Who says you won't be able to have your very own clone of yourself someday? Now if we could just get some of the other fields to go this route, we could make our own antibiotics at home, have a horde of clone slaves, and power our houses with cold fusion reactors.....
The best part is after losing space to ads on the desktop, ads as part of the browser (opera) and ads on the web pages, there will be exactly one square inch of the screen left over for actual content.
wether he has DSL or cable at home, and how many mp3s he has on his computer? :-) Personally however I would rather they be allowed to release poor quality CDs until people get so sick of them, they stop buying them. Why force them to release a product that people can actually listen to??? (I don't know how many people have complained about not being able to listen to copy protected CDs on various players......)
Actually they have been able to emulate listening to country music fairly well for the hearing and humor impaired. You take the subjects tongue, stretch it across a dusty two-by-four, and nail it down with 6 nails. While the subject attempts to pull their tongue off of the two-by-four, sandblast the rest of their body, and then cover them in salt. Sadly the FDA has not approved this procedure (yet).
The largest Apple screen is cheaper, and I'm not sure how I would feel about being forced into 1600x1200 all the time. And at the price of a decent used car?
Ok I went out and bought a used car, now can anyone tell me how to replace my monitor with it?
The "three day weekend Quakefest" exhibit with 10 computers connected with a rats nest of cables, all covered by a pile of aluminum cans and pizza boxes should be great. Wonder which 10 lucky geeks they will hunt down/dig up and preserve the bodily remains of for use in this exhibit?
Why does M$ get the right to set an arbitrary timeframe, and what keeps the schools from hiring some, shall we say, wildly inaccurate (and cheap!) auditing firm to audit their machines?
I think you forgot "Bend over and enjoy the ride".
...Microsoft hasn't pulled this same stunt on the various state governments that are still pushing the case against them? They might as well, since after the info in this article becomes more widespread I can't imagine how they could look any worse. I have to admit, lamebrain tactics like this probably do more for the Linux community than anything.
Seriously tho, what keeps the school from telling them to bugger off? Could Microsoft get a court order to allow their audit teams to search (especially if the school sent a statement to the effect of "we won't be using your software anymore, so don't bother with the audit")?
Next years budget:
$1,600,000 for a few sports cars that can be driven around by officers and used as "bait".
"Yeah but look how many idiots we caught with the peice of junk we used last year"