Unfortunately it takes well over 50 miliseconds for stumbleupon to work. I have to actually see crappy sites for a full 250 milliseconds after giving them the thumb down!
This was a advertizement for stumbleupon - or against. I'm not sure...
I'm gonna make a point in favor of microsoft. Don't throw me tomatoes, I'll still make them look bad. (-;
Isn't that when microsoft stole stacker (i.e. full fledged burglary), got sued, lost, paid, and claimed the 95% people who switched to DOS 6.0 from another DOS were not doing it for the compression?
Of course the compression being the only new feature and the center of the original publicity barrage don't help them win credibility!
And yes, there was 5% of the others who didn't switch to DOS 6.0 from another DOS for the compression; incidentally that was 4.7% from very old DOS versions such as 4.0 and maybe some of them switched to 6.0 for compression (easy to check by asking them, hard to prove in court).
Regardless of the whole mess and the bad-process-bad-president-appointed judge used in a case of a suit against a major reelection campaign donator, there is a point in favor of microsoft!
The class for the lawsuit should have been people who _upgraded_ rather than people who _bought_ DOS 6.0 because people with a brand new computer needed a DOS. These people weren't 95% switching on the compression feature alone (they needed a DOS because they had none).
I welcome a class action lawsuit for upgraders. Then we get to know if the system works or not. There are thresholds for how much % of the class had the harm for the class action suit to work, and upgraders most probably exceed it for most courts.
Should that new class action suit fails, then you can actually get a pure CampaignDonatorOcracy as opposed to the impure model with senate consensus judges.
then microsoft can get away with promising forever a feature per release and selling an upgrade to fix the fact that feature doesn't work - as a permanent lawyer-proof business strategy!
P.S.: why was the upgrade 9.95$? Because in some courts class action lawsuits start at 10.00$!!!
BSD developpers refuse to serve, drink, or believe in the kool-aid. That's what!
Of course people who do surveys gargle with it and as such can't add home users to the surveyed because then the survey may mean something more than they care about...
So now people might put "no" in an organ donor card just so no one steals their face and cause ID confusion to loved ones you left behind? What if they want to donate the other organs??
Plus, celebrities might auction their faces on ebay - and some geeky fans will buy, no doubt. Yuuuuuuck!
They haven't banned it until they were in the "extreme weakness" zone. Because the urgent, grave, critical, spam-zombie script kiddie friendly since last year, heavy, moderate, or obscure-but-total-system-compromised weakness categories aren't enough for them to fix it. And they only react to "extreme weakness" twice a year tsk tsk tsk...
Sort of like the slammer virus fix not being part of their "hotfixes" service and delayed 6 months to be in a service pack, and a warning 2 weeks before the service pack to make sure evil doers get a head start they ignored 6 months before (due to too many other weaknesses easily used by the average script kiddy)...
Since security is their big concern this time around (according to many press releases and ads), where does that leave all other aspect of the next windows? How can it possibly get any worse?
I smell a Ferrengi! A Melnormé! A used car salesman who used to sell insurance and encyclopedies so boring they were better than sleeping pills! Wolfram strikes again!!
Wolfram creates the new *cough* science *cough* of the week (again)! TuneDeaf-ology! AS SEEN ON TV!
Buy his new *cough* revolutionary *cough* book now!
Operators are standing by, and will be used to substract from your wallet in the order you will be calling. Long-distance charges may apply.
Seriously, the only kind of science Wolfram really mastered is marketing - how to get slashdotted that often while being laughable to most his fellow bad computer music programmers.
When I did the same kind of program in the 80's I deleted my program after running it twice as an act of sanity - unfortunately Wolfram doesn't have the mental equivalent of an eraser.
For the sake of expediency in saving lives......could someone who really knows browsers please hack the site and put the proper HTML code in place so it works with most browsers exactly like it does in IE6?
I'm assuming no nasty message will be added about FEMA/Bush incompetence as it may distract disaster victim - so make it visible only when viewing the HTML source if you're into the hacker fame or comment thing.
The sooner it is done, the sooner lives might be saved. Perhaps maybe just 1% chance of saving one life - what are you hackers waiting for?
Mental note - don't let anything pointed at our sun run on Windows. Just in case we've got a doomsday virus just trying to disprove the electrical discharge supernovae theory.
...because even in 2000 years of now, historians and anthropologists couldn't figure out your code despite (or perhaps because of) the code's comments?
Yes I've met programmers like that once in a great while (in the mirror when I do my annual shave).
If I keep this up, in 2000 years my yearly shave might be mistaken for a religious holiday. Which is why *my* incomprehensible code would be more cool to the historians than your incomprehensible code!!!
You come up to an interview at IBMicrosoft online (or whatever is big enough to get access to hush-hush technology). The post is being a night-shift janitor in a level one tech support service (the level where they deal with clueless newbies).
So you go to the building.
The security guy in front looks up a display screen that only he can see (he has special glasses) and announces you don't get the job.
Why not? Oh pick one of these:
-There is a 12% chance of developping acute schizophrenic paranoia in your family. You won't because you adopted and your medical record doesn't say, but the company doesn't take chances...
-The internal insurance company in this company objects to your constant McDonald's habits. Your medical records, which are listed as missing on the chip, are suspected to be hidden since you never got sick at all.
-You're an immigrant and you didn't get chipped yet. You won't get an explanation, or you will get it only in technical english. Sorry!
-You're diabetic. They think you'll be missing at least half a day of work more than the average employee, which is accurate. Tough luck, every companies hiring janitors is using the same discrimination because this is the preprogrammed example... discrimination suits will fail as they will claim buggy software or human error.
-You are the perfect employee, but since you're detected around gay bars (where you're a janitor) you're considered possibly incompatible with your boss who has been detected around ultra-conservative anti-gay churches every sunday.
-Some lonely geek hacked the thing to allow only women 18 to 25 at the job. There is plausible deniability since he cut-and-pasted some of the top-chairman's receptionist wanted profile to get all those "dynamic and hardworking" bland profile things. The guy eventually got fired over another hack, but the discrimination hasn't left the company when the discriminator was fired!!
-You have the same name as one of the people on the blacklist. The security guy thinks you are an ex-husband from hell. He didn't bother to check at pictures because he was lazy.
-You were detected at a women's rights demonstration, an anti-fur club, a conspiracy nut journal's headquarter, three labor unions, one school for the handicapped, a linux conference, and a swinger club all in the same week. (i.e. you were a journalist back then). They won't hire you because you think you're heavy into politics or weird stuff.
-You are the perfect employee, but since you're detected around ultra-conservative anti-gay churches (where you're a janitor) you're considered possibly incompatible with your boss who has been detected around gay bars every sunday.
-Some kind of really fishy algorithm bases on fishy statistics said you were 1 point short of an interview. Some of the scoring relates to your astrological sign. You lost points for not working or studying for 2 years in 2004-2005, where you helped your brother learning to walk again after an accident.
-You are the perfect employee, but since you're detected around gay bars (where you're a janitor) you're considered incompatible with your boss who has been detected around gay bars (where he delivers the beer on weekends) and the boss one level up can't stand the idea of man-man kissing in the company. So he added some kind of anti-aids-spreading bias to the fishy scoring algorithm.
-You worked for open source 14 years ago. They suspect you will steal tech support level one material ("to close a window click the X in the up right corner").
-You are a blogger. Any kind of blogger. They suspect you would retroblog everything if you leave the company.
-You have recurring acne on you medical record, and the policy is that first-floor employees should look good for when journalists come by. Of course they don't know the acne is on your back and chest, which they wouldn't discriminate again in person even if they knew.
Synthesists use a $30,000 custom spec'd Wiard/Blacet hybrid modular driven by an open source Max/MSP timbral fractalization algorithm with a neurofeedback front end to get this EXACT SOUND. Nasa uses a planet...
Sounds like the budget for NASA has been calculated to be exactly what they got in the 50's. If we don't stop the trend, we'll have a false moon landing filmed in a California studio all over again, with a creepy 50's soundtrack this time!
Why do you insist that life is sacred or taboo? Why not remove a genetic code here and add another code there? Is life so sacred that it brooks no improvement?
If the terrorists hated Bush, they wouldn't have given him such grandiose power to arbitrarily and secretely detain those accused of being odd.
Either we have some uniquely dumb terrorists, or they don't hate Bush all that much (which is anti-american; the americans hate Bush with a passion).
Or perhaps there is more to this Carlyle and Bin Laden's family corporation with a Bush in it than appears at first. It's not like the first lady didn't get 100,000$ of jewelry offered by a middle east nation just before the war you know.
It's sad to say, Bush and the terrorists *need* each other in order to extend their influence. Bush wouldn't have a second term if not for the war.
Since two wrongs doesn't make a right, you're trying three?
Let's have the government legiferate spam all wrong *again* and we have four wrongs and we're exactly back where we started: waiting for the gmail spam killing trick to catch on and be everywhere.
Considering modern spam blocking techniques, such has having 10 numbers attached to your email whenever you email out and discarding any "sub-email" that receives spam (i.e. the gmail trick), I wonder why denial of service things still show up.
I, for one, welcome the dying of our spam overlords as soon as gmail is out of beta!
This study falls in the nonsense category because it makes the assumption that correlation equals proof of cause (on way or the other) between citations and falsified studies.
And fails to mention studies get published for the prupose of trying to find flaws in them hoping it cuts the nonsense in at least half!
When windows 3.1 had a heavily encrypted, decompiler registry sabotaging, evil code that directly did "if dr. DOS then emit fake error message" it was documented quickly.
It is odd that AMD doesn't provide a code example, that would help their cause's credibility immensely!
I mean, perhaps sheer incompetence and lazyness of the programmer in charge of testing the Intel compiler on AMD made him write that "if AMD then don't try optimizing".
I can see that happening if the lousy code path with undetected bugs ran fine for a day on an AMD and Intel not having a budget for testing if the optimisations ran fine too. While this is downright unethical to do it's not actually sabotage; it's called management.
That's completely different from actual sabotage.
Let AMD show us some actual code examples to see any actual proof of well-planned sabotage. Slashdot programmers aren't just gonna trust anyone's lawyer about this even if that lawyer is fighting a microsoft-behaved entity like Intel!
Or is AMD so low budget they can't even afford a programmer to work for their legal team for one lousy day? (-;
I couldn't figure from the article if they're having a risky/rewarding plan on windows, or with a linux/freeBSD.
'cause 850$ buys just the laptop, not software.
I'd hate the school to pay a "microsoft service pack" tax and have subtle viruses change the textbooks to the wrong anwsers you put on your last test so you get 100%. (-;
Good or bad, this plan does have one flaw. If darwin (or the round earth theory) gets pulled out and you're just a kid, you don't see a big homeland security sticker on it so smart kids know they're being mislead.
Also, it might allow for instant and retroactive changes to the history of countries that were included in the axis-of-evil just 10 minutes ago! Not good for critical thinking.
This is gonna give a new meaning to making a plugin to an open source project.
You really have to physically plug it in!
Nah, that's not right. There should be software written for the robot to install the plugin himself otherwise m$ will claim linux isn't user-friendly. It's gonna need to be a bit more friendly that windows installshield or we're gonna have some physical crashes and broken windows all over the lab - which would make Microsoft claim they're not the only one with *that* problem.
I'd be impressed to see a few of those swarms do a "put mittens on kitten's paws" competition. Or empty a bottle of ketchup. Or replace their own batteries. (-;
The church of scientology trademarked the word "freedom" in several languages.
So why don't they sue president Bush for renaming french fries as "freedom fries"??? Oh those laws are just for the powerful to squash the non-powerful. Never mind any other combo.
See how ridiculous this gets? If we don't watch it software patents, dictionnary word trademarks, and patents over *business plans* will poison normal communication over the 'net.
I can still say 'net without being arrested by the man, right?
Can I sue every other copyright owner over the word "copyright" since for some reason I trademarked it??
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately it takes well over 50 miliseconds for stumbleupon to work. I have to actually see crappy sites for a full 250 milliseconds after giving them the thumb down!
This was a advertizement for stumbleupon - or against. I'm not sure...
I'm gonna make a point in favor of microsoft. Don't throw me tomatoes, I'll still make them look bad. (-;
Isn't that when microsoft stole stacker (i.e. full fledged burglary), got sued, lost, paid, and claimed the 95% people who switched to DOS 6.0 from another DOS were not doing it for the compression?
Of course the compression being the only new feature and the center of the original publicity barrage don't help them win credibility!
And yes, there was 5% of the others who didn't switch to DOS 6.0 from another DOS for the compression; incidentally that was 4.7% from very old DOS versions such as 4.0 and maybe some of them switched to 6.0 for compression (easy to check by asking them, hard to prove in court).
Regardless of the whole mess and the bad-process-bad-president-appointed judge used in a case of a suit against a major reelection campaign donator, there is a point in favor of microsoft!
The class for the lawsuit should have been people who _upgraded_ rather than people who _bought_ DOS 6.0 because people with a brand new computer needed a DOS. These people weren't 95% switching on the compression feature alone (they needed a DOS because they had none).
I welcome a class action lawsuit for upgraders. Then we get to know if the system works or not. There are thresholds for how much % of the class had the harm for the class action suit to work, and upgraders most probably exceed it for most courts.
Should that new class action suit fails, then you can actually get a pure CampaignDonatorOcracy as opposed to the impure model with senate consensus judges.
then microsoft can get away with promising forever a feature per release and selling an upgrade to fix the fact that feature doesn't work - as a permanent lawyer-proof business strategy!
P.S.: why was the upgrade 9.95$? Because in some courts class action lawsuits start at 10.00$!!!
BSD developpers refuse to serve, drink, or believe in the kool-aid. That's what!
Of course people who do surveys gargle with it and as such can't add home users to the surveyed because then the survey may mean something more than they care about...
So now people might put "no" in an organ donor card just so no one steals their face and cause ID confusion to loved ones you left behind? What if they want to donate the other organs??
Plus, celebrities might auction their faces on ebay - and some geeky fans will buy, no doubt. Yuuuuuuck!
In keeping with their usual policy...
They haven't banned it until they were in the "extreme weakness" zone. Because the urgent, grave, critical, spam-zombie script kiddie friendly since last year, heavy, moderate, or obscure-but-total-system-compromised weakness categories aren't enough for them to fix it. And they only react to "extreme weakness" twice a year tsk tsk tsk...
Sort of like the slammer virus fix not being part of their "hotfixes" service and delayed 6 months to be in a service pack, and a warning 2 weeks before the service pack to make sure evil doers get a head start they ignored 6 months before (due to too many other weaknesses easily used by the average script kiddy)...
Since security is their big concern this time around (according to many press releases and ads), where does that leave all other aspect of the next windows? How can it possibly get any worse?
I smell a Ferrengi! A Melnormé! A used car salesman who used to sell insurance and encyclopedies so boring they were better than sleeping pills! Wolfram strikes again!!
Wolfram creates the new *cough* science *cough* of the week (again)! TuneDeaf-ology! AS SEEN ON TV!
Buy his new *cough* revolutionary *cough* book now!
Operators are standing by, and will be used to substract from your wallet in the order you will be calling. Long-distance charges may apply.
Seriously, the only kind of science Wolfram really mastered is marketing - how to get slashdotted that often while being laughable to most his fellow bad computer music programmers.
When I did the same kind of program in the 80's I deleted my program after running it twice as an act of sanity - unfortunately Wolfram doesn't have the mental equivalent of an eraser.
For the sake of expediency in saving lives... ...could someone who really knows browsers please hack the site and put the proper HTML code in place so it works with most browsers exactly like it does in IE6?
I'm assuming no nasty message will be added about FEMA/Bush incompetence as it may distract disaster victim - so make it visible only when viewing the HTML source if you're into the hacker fame or comment thing.
The sooner it is done, the sooner lives might be saved. Perhaps maybe just 1% chance of saving one life - what are you hackers waiting for?
Mental note - don't let anything pointed at our sun run on Windows. Just in case we've got a doomsday virus just trying to disprove the electrical discharge supernovae theory.
Yes it's a cooky theory, but just in case...
Yes I've met programmers like that once in a great while (in the mirror when I do my annual shave).
If I keep this up, in 2000 years my yearly shave might be mistaken for a religious holiday. Which is why *my* incomprehensible code would be more cool to the historians than your incomprehensible code!!!
7 June 2007. Post-implanting world.
You come up to an interview at IBMicrosoft online (or whatever is big enough to get access to hush-hush technology). The post is being a night-shift janitor in a level one tech support service (the level where they deal with clueless newbies).
So you go to the building.
The security guy in front looks up a display screen that only he can see (he has special glasses) and announces you don't get the job.
Why not? Oh pick one of these:
-There is a 12% chance of developping acute schizophrenic paranoia in your family. You won't because you adopted and your medical record doesn't say, but the company doesn't take chances...
-The internal insurance company in this company objects to your constant McDonald's habits. Your medical records, which are listed as missing on the chip, are suspected to be hidden since you never got sick at all.
-You're an immigrant and you didn't get chipped yet. You won't get an explanation, or you will get it only in technical english. Sorry!
-You're diabetic. They think you'll be missing at least half a day of work more than the average employee, which is accurate. Tough luck, every companies hiring janitors is using the same discrimination because this is the preprogrammed example... discrimination suits will fail as they will claim buggy software or human error.
-You are the perfect employee, but since you're detected around gay bars (where you're a janitor) you're considered possibly incompatible with your boss who has been detected around ultra-conservative anti-gay churches every sunday.
-Some lonely geek hacked the thing to allow only women 18 to 25 at the job. There is plausible deniability since he cut-and-pasted some of the top-chairman's receptionist wanted profile to get all those "dynamic and hardworking" bland profile things. The guy eventually got fired over another hack, but the discrimination hasn't left the company when the discriminator was fired!!
-You have the same name as one of the people on the blacklist. The security guy thinks you are an ex-husband from hell. He didn't bother to check at pictures because he was lazy.
-You were detected at a women's rights demonstration, an anti-fur club, a conspiracy nut journal's headquarter, three labor unions, one school for the handicapped, a linux conference, and a swinger club all in the same week. (i.e. you were a journalist back then). They won't hire you because you think you're heavy into politics or weird stuff.
-You are the perfect employee, but since you're detected around ultra-conservative anti-gay churches (where you're a janitor) you're considered possibly incompatible with your boss who has been detected around gay bars every sunday.
-Some kind of really fishy algorithm bases on fishy statistics said you were 1 point short of an interview. Some of the scoring relates to your astrological sign. You lost points for not working or studying for 2 years in 2004-2005, where you helped your brother learning to walk again after an accident.
-You are the perfect employee, but since you're detected around gay bars (where you're a janitor) you're considered incompatible with your boss who has been detected around gay bars (where he delivers the beer on weekends) and the boss one level up can't stand the idea of man-man kissing in the company. So he added some kind of anti-aids-spreading bias to the fishy scoring algorithm.
-You worked for open source 14 years ago. They suspect you will steal tech support level one material ("to close a window click the X in the up right corner").
-You are a blogger. Any kind of blogger. They suspect you would retroblog everything if you leave the company.
-You have recurring acne on you medical record, and the policy is that first-floor employees should look good for when journalists come by. Of course they don't know the acne is on your back and chest, which they wouldn't discriminate again in person even if they knew.
-You were never
*Serious*
Synthesists use a $30,000 custom spec'd Wiard/Blacet hybrid modular driven by an open source Max/MSP timbral fractalization algorithm with a neurofeedback front end to get this EXACT SOUND. Nasa uses a planet...
Showoffs!!!
Sounds like the budget for NASA has been calculated to be exactly what they got in the 50's. If we don't stop the trend, we'll have a false moon landing filmed in a California studio all over again, with a creepy 50's soundtrack this time!
Not to be taken seriously. Go NASA go. (-;
Why do you insist that life is sacred or taboo? Why not remove a genetic code here and add another code there? Is life so sacred that it brooks no improvement?
-Chairman Chiang Hive, _looking God in the eye_
Cure for cancer?
Who the hells wants to cure such a grandiose economy booster? Look at all the pain killer revenue alone, cancer should be *encouraged*, not cured!
And oh, don't leak this memo to slashdot. -Monsato (or whoever made frankenstinkingfish)
If the terrorists hated Bush, they wouldn't have given him such grandiose power to arbitrarily and secretely detain those accused of being odd.
Either we have some uniquely dumb terrorists, or they don't hate Bush all that much (which is anti-american; the americans hate Bush with a passion).
Or perhaps there is more to this Carlyle and Bin Laden's family corporation with a Bush in it than appears at first. It's not like the first lady didn't get 100,000$ of jewelry offered by a middle east nation just before the war you know.
It's sad to say, Bush and the terrorists *need* each other in order to extend their influence. Bush wouldn't have a second term if not for the war.
...and my tax dollars paid for *that*???
-Virtual citizen #791
(I'm sure that would be a proof of intelligence the programmers would censor. Funding is of the essence.)
I'm wondering if their entire civilization will die out due to lack of ability to control the trolls?
I mean, even humans don't always remember you shouldn't feed the trolls. How can a basic AI know better? (-;
Since two wrongs doesn't make a right, you're trying three?
Let's have the government legiferate spam all wrong *again* and we have four wrongs and we're exactly back where we started: waiting for the gmail spam killing trick to catch on and be everywhere.
Considering modern spam blocking techniques, such has having 10 numbers attached to your email whenever you email out and discarding any "sub-email" that receives spam (i.e. the gmail trick), I wonder why denial of service things still show up.
I, for one, welcome the dying of our spam overlords as soon as gmail is out of beta!
This study falls in the nonsense category because it makes the assumption that correlation equals proof of cause (on way or the other) between citations and falsified studies.
And fails to mention studies get published for the prupose of trying to find flaws in them hoping it cuts the nonsense in at least half!
When windows 3.1 had a heavily encrypted, decompiler registry sabotaging, evil code that directly did "if dr. DOS then emit fake error message" it was documented quickly.
It is odd that AMD doesn't provide a code example, that would help their cause's credibility immensely!
I mean, perhaps sheer incompetence and lazyness of the programmer in charge of testing the Intel compiler on AMD made him write that "if AMD then don't try optimizing".
I can see that happening if the lousy code path with undetected bugs ran fine for a day on an AMD and Intel not having a budget for testing if the optimisations ran fine too. While this is downright unethical to do it's not actually sabotage; it's called management.
That's completely different from actual sabotage.
Let AMD show us some actual code examples to see any actual proof of well-planned sabotage. Slashdot programmers aren't just gonna trust anyone's lawyer about this even if that lawyer is fighting a microsoft-behaved entity like Intel!
Or is AMD so low budget they can't even afford a programmer to work for their legal team for one lousy day? (-;
P.S.: I currently use AMD and love it.
I couldn't figure from the article if they're having a risky/rewarding plan on windows, or with a linux/freeBSD.
'cause 850$ buys just the laptop, not software.
I'd hate the school to pay a "microsoft service pack" tax and have subtle viruses change the textbooks to the wrong anwsers you put on your last test so you get 100%. (-;
Good or bad, this plan does have one flaw. If darwin (or the round earth theory) gets pulled out and you're just a kid, you don't see a big homeland security sticker on it so smart kids know they're being mislead.
Also, it might allow for instant and retroactive changes to the history of countries that were included in the axis-of-evil just 10 minutes ago! Not good for critical thinking.
I for one, welcome the return of our neanderthal overlords.
This is gonna give a new meaning to making a plugin to an open source project.
You really have to physically plug it in!
Nah, that's not right. There should be software written for the robot to install the plugin himself otherwise m$ will claim linux isn't user-friendly. It's gonna need to be a bit more friendly that windows installshield or we're gonna have some physical crashes and broken windows all over the lab - which would make Microsoft claim they're not the only one with *that* problem.
I'd be impressed to see a few of those swarms do a "put mittens on kitten's paws" competition. Or empty a bottle of ketchup. Or replace their own batteries. (-;
The church of scientology trademarked the word "freedom" in several languages.
So why don't they sue president Bush for renaming french fries as "freedom fries"??? Oh those laws are just for the powerful to squash the non-powerful. Never mind any other combo.
See how ridiculous this gets? If we don't watch it software patents, dictionnary word trademarks, and patents over *business plans* will poison normal communication over the 'net.
I can still say 'net without being arrested by the man, right?
Can I sue every other copyright owner over the word "copyright" since for some reason I trademarked it??