I'm not in Bill Gates puppet country so maybe it's legal in mine: Canada.
Anyone can tell me if it's legal in Canada, or where I have to move to sell mod chips on Ebay?
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Been there, done that, got the "laid off but still not paid after 6 months" T-shirt!
My boss was too busy learning to play flute to provide any leadership. Good thing too, because his leadership would be some kind of short int overflow negative.
People got fired every 2 years to be replaced by rookie academics with no work experience. Without warning. Without documentation. All at once, so no between-company leadership could occur.
We were not allowed to leave the company for lunch more than 2 at a time. And I got blamed for taking lunch at 11h. Go figure!
Every file had to be labeled as written by the boss - who does not code (which made tracking who makes bugs impossible).
The printer has a lock and the only time in 18 months I was allowed to print something, the key was in Japan with the boss promising a demo of things not implemented yet for tomorrow.
As part of the 4th cycle of worker recyclement, I had to read code commented in 3 different language. On my first day it wouldn't compile at all!
I've never seen a backup. Ever. My boss believes in God a bit too much...
After being 4 years late on schedule, the boss decided to switch from C++ to C# completely. OUCH!
This isn't cube farm. It's goto-ridden code incubation farm!
I've got a handy list of average IQ per state, now let's match it with republican vote all over again. (-;
http://americanassembler.com/features/iq_state_a ve rages.htm
Just remember those numbers are as true as a/. poll so don't feel insulted if it's pointed out all over again that dumb people support people who are representative of them!
The link also has job creation per president, in percentage and other goodies. (-;
Can someone please mod me under-rated flamebait, + 5?
The massive lack of metallothionein in autism (one of the metal detox pathways) does mean higher levels of metals and therefore heavy metal poisoning in 99% of cases; but however you can't claim autism is the same as heavy metal poisoning!!!
For starters, metal poisoning does NOT always imply lack of metallothionein or autistic behavior, and only mercury poisoning would somewhat approach autism symptoms... superficially!
Also autism does not always mean metal poisoning. Some autistics have simply not been exposed to enough metals to be poisonned and they're quite autistic - the poison dart frog active substance in their blood and all that without metal poisoning. Autistics with the least metal poisoning have a tendency NOT to be deficient in sulfur like 75% of autistics (in a study by Dr. Waring). Sulfur deficiency is a marker of mercury poisoning, as mercury has affinity for most sulfur groups in the body and therefore damages sulfur metabolism.
The MMR vaccine is the only vaccine to have a serious connection to autism, but it's like 0.04% of cases and not 99% as Wakefield believed at some point... and it's a delayed effect. Other vaccines don't CAUSE autism, but could certainly account for chance of early diagnosis because of plainly obvious mercury damage and ADD/dyslexia type problems.
Difference between autistic children of today with the next generation of children that are now on non-mercury (but aluminium preservative) vaccines is gonna be quite instructive, look for it when it shows up...
The mercury poisoning (quite a common disease among autistics with mercury fillings) is but one of the issues (lead and arsenic kills people too, you know). You CAN'T de-autistify someone with chelation, but curing metal poisoning can raise their IQ just like in non-autistic who are lead poisonned. Then they don't SEEM autistic as much, but still function extremely differently from other people when you look at the details.
In short, high IQ allows autistics to "pretent to be normal" by learning normal behavior and acting it with good actor skills. You can find all about it in a book called "pretending to be normal".
By the way, here is another savant (with autistic traits, but possibly not completely autistic). This one is a top 10 mathematician in history according to many.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdos
Some autistic links: neurodiversity.com
I recommend the neurodiversity.com section called "murder of autistics" for a good, true, opinion-diverse, very disturbing read.
1- Use system that will generate as many errors as possible without forcing a total cancel of the election. Any political blunder can be blamed on bad software!
2- Investigate, fix, and recount when it favors the party in power.
3- Don't investigate, fix, or recount when it favors the other party.
4- Make a token exception to rule 1, 2, and 3 for journalists to quote.
5- Voting machine people, like Diebold, have felony records for sophisticated computer crimes. Make sure voters don't think they would pull a sophisticated computer crime to make sure the party that bought voting machines stay in power to buy more!!!
The point of paper trails is for errors we DON'T know about and couldn't learn in any other way.
It's not impossible a seat or state was shifted either way by pure computer error in undetectable ways; as long as it's not a third party candidate, we wouldn't notice...
Democracy is supposed to be transparent - you KNOW elections weren't rigged instead of you CAN'T PROVE elections weren't rigged. But unfortunately we live in a republic; so it has to be an advantage to republicans!
And can we PLEASE use the popular vote for a start? The only other country that has a voting system as obsolete as US is Canada, and political pressure from the US has been a factor in keeping it that way. The popular vote eleminates dozens of potential fraud types and if that's the only advantage I'd take it any day!
With dozens of glaring, huge irregularities who could possibly get arrested if some subtle irregularities voted red but were only noticed a month after the election? Among how many individuals could the blame be potentially spread so no one gets as much as a slap on the wrists for it? The government would just say "Diebold will do better next time" and leave it at that??
There will be more irregularities noticed. It's that way with software. And many of those irregularities won't be fixed for the next election, either (as proven by Diebold versions over time after bugs were known).
By the way no need to fix ALL an election to rig it. Just say 3% of machines. Or get all Diebold to turn a Kerry vote into a Bush vote 3% of the time. Swap a few memory cards at the point where they're in the hand of one individual per county.
Memory cards aren't all there when you ask them for recount, either. If you are in power you can get the FBI all over it or to ignore it completely, while if you're NOT in power it's better to concede so you don't look like a whiner in front of the people that don't understand software and engineering bugs or centuries of voting fraud VS countermesures.
What we needed is decades of a pilot program in a small number of counties to get the technology and process right. Not a widespread "32767 is enough for everybody" mess!!
And to top it off, I think Bush would still have gotten elected on paper because he's so incredibly good at manipulating emotions rather than intellect. Monkey see, monkey do!...but some oil companies, some giant software company who contributed red and not blue, and some defense contractors could decide to rig a few machines. If only to be well-prepared to rig more and not get caught next time.
I'm most definitively in favor of some hacker adding exactly 30000 votes to every third party loon on some machines and putting a sticker on the machine notifying everyone of how easy it was.
If Windows were so secure on a Diebold, I'd like to see that Windows on the shelves. It takes only 5 minutes for my 12 year old to disable any kind of password, filters, chat logging, or game-time-limiting software I made or bought. But at least one day he MAY BE PRESIDENT! (-;
They might have stopped evolving, but they're more evolved that US.
I mean, bees can not only survive a nuclear winter, they wouldn't CAUSE a nuclear winter! That's where non-evolution is evolution!!
They also don't need to make WMD excuses to sting you down, won't re-elect Bush (when a leader is THAT bad they wax it over in a nice little tomb and start fresh), and best of all they don't take back anti-pollution treaties and laws by 15 years every time a conservative party is elected.
They're also quite aware of global warming, as the morally challenged bees (aka killer bees) who moved to the USA told us. They're planning to bee in Canada any decade soon, and would like to thank the republicans for helping them make the deadline!
I beelieve they will bee around after the WMD we have to keep in check imaginary WMD of third world countries go boom on us. They've got *experience* and we don't!
If you have a gun at home and don't want your kids to ever use it, that tech might be good....by the time your kids can fake your digitprints, they should be old enough not to shoot things accidentally.
You just have to sign a non disclosure agreements to know about vulnerabilities first? Or pay some token fee??? *BOGGLE*
You mean, spammers and spyware makers get notified of vulnerabilities *first* and if they abuse the vulnerabilities while keeping their mouth shut they can get away with it?
That's worse than I thought... Microsoft is handing the malware people the backdoor of the week on a silvery plate *before we know it exists*.
I'm visualizing a malware server doing its evil job, and getting a "backdoor of the week abuser" plug-in for whatever it's doing. Not having to hack themselves, the spammers just suscribe to a hacker who gets advance warnings and makes backdoor abusers... so convenient... thank you Microsoft, I can update my spamware without even rebooting!
Kudos to microsoft for finally stopping that stupid selective early warning practice, something they should have done in the late 80's...
(too little too late, I'm on freeBSD now!)
P.S.: With so many spammers, they are a fraction of the market worth their own "representative costumer" at Microsoft. Microsoft has an issue of not turning down certain "costumers"...
Of course Linux computers are more expensive to upgrade!
You thought us spammers, virus makers, trojan-makers and spyware vendors would not lose money to how good Linux security is???
If you knew how long it takes to make a Linux spam server or spyware server out of your computer, you'd [censored] a fuse!!! (of course you'd do that more if you knew how long it takes on Windows but that's not the point)....and I won't bother trying against BSD security. Port system integrity tampering services are too expensive for me to buy. The TCO is too high on BSD so we're not making any profits.
Kudos for Microsoft forcing more upgrades than necessary thru old windows product obsolecense techniques. Not having my 17 spywares blocked by a fix made by a competitor's spyware installed during the user's install of the latest windows upgrade fixes for that patch is difficult, but rewarding! And oh the frustration of the competition when I fix security bugs on your computer so they can't get in, ha ha ha ha ha! (-;
If we didn't have microsoft, we'd have to invent it.
They're right, switching to linux costs more than upgrading windows once. BUT...
-*But who thought you upgrade windows only once??*
-I've seen companies switch back to previous versions of windows after finding out the new "features". That's twice the cost of single windows upgrade box in lost productivity.
-The lottery ticket nature of windows service pack bug fixes may mean "no winning this time. Try again?"
-You can't upgrade only once since the new security vulnerabilities will allow other people to "upgrade" you to being a spam server without your knowledge. Even the upgrade system itself may be a security vulnerability, as it takes twice as long to download fixes to your new fixes packages than it takes to become infected with 10+ spywares. Oh joy!
-You just KNOW it includes some odd incompatibilities with older windows/office file, forcing you to upgrade because Microsoft wants you upgrade something. They really hate it when you stick with windows 3.1 because it suits your needs...
-A well-done unixoid server can run 10 years without rebooting or being turned off. Think of the time your programmers are just sitting there, waiting for a reboot or upgrade!!! As unix-type servers DO NOT force its own products into obsolecense a 90's application will still work as good as new!
-You may check some boxes saying not to send anonymous usage info to microsoft, but it will NOT be always respected... does that count as spyware? How much time is wasted annually by the slowdown?
-Linux upgrades (and freeBSD upgrades too) can be entirely scripted. Start them when you leave work and it's ready the next morning. (requires a unixoid-competent person, but those are worth it).
-Some banks have switched to linux over security concerns. Linux may have a negative cost of operation cost for them. BSD is better at security of course but banks haven't noticed yet. (-;
Compilers and parsers have actually been written in 2 hours......for the Obfuscated C contest. So while they can be written in 2 hours and they work, you can't READ them in a million years.
Canada (especially Quebec) generates hydroelectric power cheap - so cheap they sell some to US.
While this doesn't solve the gas problem for cars or planes, why don't we close down the oil burning plants and go hydroelectric for generating our home electricity?
What kind of dogmatic magic wand makes hydro power innefective when you cross a fronteer to the US??? Quebec is doing FINE with it.
And if I'm wrong about America's ability to use hydro power, why don't we buy from Canada/Quebec who have more than enough? We have a free trade agreement, right?
And once we close down the heavily subventionned, highly polluting, obsolete oil and charcoal plants we'll be better off. While there is not much of an electric car right now, *There will be more oil left for the cars* if we go hydroelectric. With a side order of solar/eolian for deserts.
Such a nice, straightforward, environnementally sound plan! (except for flooding some native lands and making deserts noisy with eolian power, of course)
Oh, rats. Bush got elected. He's gonna invade another oil country instead! Venezuela looks good; let's claim they have WMD and ties to Bin Laden!
History books will not be kind to Bush when global warming strikes - oh, I forgot. Under Bush you CAN'T teach global warming so the next generation will not know until it hits them hard. Rats!
Makes me proud to be Canadian and NOT an American!
Didn't you read _Propaganda_ by Edward Bernays? Or Chomsky's work? Or been at a lowly municipal debate?
It's quite possible all of Kyoto was flooded with junk science hype encouraged (but not manufactured) by polluting companies/governments for the express purpose of making the global warming science look like total junk.
There is no shortage of loonies on any side of any issue, and a reportage or a government summit meeting can easily make any side they want filled with only the worst nutcases they can find. No true scientists.
Then they can bait the press into mediatizing a flawed study from the Kyoto summit, as journalists don't ever go without the "two sides to each issue" approach and want to print a "global warming" side from the summit rather than from elsewhere (without a summit most readers don't care). And then you release days later the glaring flaws that are all over the loons to discredit global warming.
While I have no serious knowledge of global warming science (or junk science), I will NOT claim all global warming science to be junk science without checking scientific facts myself, with the help of a professional statistician if need be.
But then again maybe all global warming is nonsense. But you haven't truly verified yourself, have you?? And you certainly NOT have verified ALL of it to be junk science before posting to slashdot.
I hereby claim it is my opinion that not much good science was presented at Kyoto!!! But I'd be a fool to look only at Kyoto; the american DOD did take the issue extremely seriously.
I'd gladly get kids addicted to "a tale in the desert" for a psychology/sociology class.
It certainly would teach about addiction, unlike other games you might get from a teacher.
The group psychology thing is also a must-have. How come so-and-so gets himself to be a leader? How come so-and-so has built 10 times more than average?
Kids learn from those questions.
It sure beats the old trick of giving some kids cookies, some kids the milk, some kids candy and some broccoli, and some kids ice cream that will melt in the next 10 minutes and letting them play the trading game to learn economics. (-;
Yeah, but how many of your teachers were a good teacher???
I've been educating myself at the library except for 3 courses and my programmer-analyst degree, thanks you. My teachers were THAT bad.
I think that teachers that are _consistently_ worse than an educational videogame should be fired or something. And replaced with educational video games if replacements are no better.
I sincerely hope we can get good teachers instead, and have educational video games on the side out of schools, but that would be like waiting for slashdot polls to be scientific.
...and then symmetrically they were evil towns where the guards would jump you if you were good, the merchants wouldn't sell anything to high elves, Hobbits, or a paladin (a do-gooder warrior type).
I enjoyed playing both sides, usually with my significant other playing the other side. (-;
After actually playing the game, I can tell you the villain isn't an Egyptian (in game graphics, he distinctly looks like something else).
Read the ATITD wiki for details. Not all societies close to ancient egypt were good to women!
If people were playing that other country in the game, then the villains would be the evil Egyptian slave-takers obsessed with pyramids. Then slashdot would have a story on in-game racism that includes real life races - again missing the point.
The ATITD game would be pointlessly boring if it wouldn't center on 'tests'. Many of those tests are the test of the society, not just the individual.
I've nicknamed it "the unannounced test of the black market" !!! May our society survive this test (despite the fact the individual rewards for betraying are high)!
I'm still trying to find the villain so I can sell them a female character account (the male that used to play that female character is no longer playing; he gave me the account with leftover weeks for roleplaying purposes). I'm hoping to trade her for a free month of gaming!
I think I'd leave the game if they didn't put a stunt on us like that once in a while. Just to be reminded we're not playing evercrack or runescape!!
After actually playing the game, I can tell you the villain isn't an Egyptian (in game graphics, he distinctly looks like something else).
Read the ATITD wiki for details. Not all societies close to ancient egypt were good to women!
If people were playing that other country in the game, then the villains would be the evil Egyptian slave-takers obsessed with pyramids. Then slashdot would have a story on in-game racism that includes real life races - again missing the point.
The ATITD game would be pointlessly boring if it wouldn't center on 'tests'. Many of those tests are the test of the society, not just the individual.
I've nicknamed it "the unannounced test of the black market" !!! May our society survive this test (despite the fact the individual rewards for betraying are high)!
I'm still trying to find the villain so I can sell them a female character account (the male that used to play that female character is no longer playing; he gave me the account with leftover weeks for roleplaying purposes). I'm hoping to trade her for a free month of gaming!
I think I'd leave the game if they didn't put a stunt on us like that once in a while. Just to be reminded we're not playing evercrack or runescape!!
And remember, class, that every year I'll take one and only one work, the worse you produced, and sent it to the obfuscated C contest! And now let's review last year's winners of that dubious award:
http://www0.us.ioccc.org/main.html
Here teacher pretends that students from last year won IOCCC, and wants student to figure one which IOCCC program fits a class assignment *by looking at the code but not running it*. Or teacher pretents they didn't win, depending on your class......this way students remember what's a bad programming a bit faster than with a 'straight' method!!
Slashdot Mirror
Or drive cluster, if you're thinging big geeky dreams.
Imagine a
The question being: illegal where?
I'm not in Bill Gates puppet country so maybe it's legal in mine: Canada.
Anyone can tell me if it's legal in Canada, or where I have to move to sell mod chips on Ebay?
Been there, done that, got the "laid off but still not paid after 6 months" T-shirt!
My boss was too busy learning to play flute to provide any leadership. Good thing too, because his leadership would be some kind of short int overflow negative.
People got fired every 2 years to be replaced by rookie academics with no work experience. Without warning. Without documentation. All at once, so no between-company leadership could occur.
We were not allowed to leave the company for lunch more than 2 at a time. And I got blamed for taking lunch at 11h. Go figure!
Every file had to be labeled as written by the boss - who does not code (which made tracking who makes bugs impossible).
The printer has a lock and the only time in 18 months I was allowed to print something, the key was in Japan with the boss promising a demo of things not implemented yet for tomorrow.
As part of the 4th cycle of worker recyclement, I had to read code commented in 3 different language. On my first day it wouldn't compile at all!
I've never seen a backup. Ever. My boss believes in God a bit too much...
After being 4 years late on schedule, the boss decided to switch from C++ to C# completely. OUCH!
This isn't cube farm. It's goto-ridden code incubation farm!
ALL HAIL MURPHY'S LAW!
I've got a handy list of average IQ per state, now let's match it with republican vote all over again. (-;
http://americanassembler.com/features/iq_state_
Just remember those numbers are as true as a
The link also has job creation per president, in percentage and other goodies. (-;
Can someone please mod me under-rated flamebait, + 5?
I wonder if he can explain the masonic symbols on some Mormon underwear?
The massive lack of metallothionein in autism (one of the metal detox pathways) does mean higher levels of metals and therefore heavy metal poisoning in 99% of cases; but however you can't claim autism is the same as heavy metal poisoning!!!
For starters, metal poisoning does NOT always imply lack of metallothionein or autistic behavior, and only mercury poisoning would somewhat approach autism symptoms... superficially!
Also autism does not always mean metal poisoning. Some autistics have simply not been exposed to enough metals to be poisonned and they're quite autistic - the poison dart frog active substance in their blood and all that without metal poisoning. Autistics with the least metal poisoning have a tendency NOT to be deficient in sulfur like 75% of autistics (in a study by Dr. Waring). Sulfur deficiency is a marker of mercury poisoning, as mercury has affinity for most sulfur groups in the body and therefore damages sulfur metabolism.
The MMR vaccine is the only vaccine to have a serious connection to autism, but it's like 0.04% of cases and not 99% as Wakefield believed at some point... and it's a delayed effect. Other vaccines don't CAUSE autism, but could certainly account for chance of early diagnosis because of plainly obvious mercury damage and ADD/dyslexia type problems.
Difference between autistic children of today with the next generation of children that are now on non-mercury (but aluminium preservative) vaccines is gonna be quite instructive, look for it when it shows up...
The mercury poisoning (quite a common disease among autistics with mercury fillings) is but one of the issues (lead and arsenic kills people too, you know). You CAN'T de-autistify someone with chelation, but curing metal poisoning can raise their IQ just like in non-autistic who are lead poisonned. Then they don't SEEM autistic as much, but still function extremely differently from other people when you look at the details.
In short, high IQ allows autistics to "pretent to be normal" by learning normal behavior and acting it with good actor skills. You can find all about it in a book called "pretending to be normal".
By the way, here is another savant (with autistic traits, but possibly not completely autistic). This one is a top 10 mathematician in history according to many.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdos
Some autistic links: neurodiversity.com
I recommend the neurodiversity.com section called "murder of autistics" for a good, true, opinion-diverse, very disturbing read.
Vote rigging for dumnmies:
1- Use system that will generate as many errors as possible without forcing a total cancel of the election. Any political blunder can be blamed on bad software!
2- Investigate, fix, and recount when it favors the party in power.
3- Don't investigate, fix, or recount when it favors the other party.
4- Make a token exception to rule 1, 2, and 3 for journalists to quote.
5- Voting machine people, like Diebold, have felony records for sophisticated computer crimes. Make sure voters don't think they would pull a sophisticated computer crime to make sure the party that bought voting machines stay in power to buy more!!!
Anything else?
That's errors we KNOW about.
The point of paper trails is for errors we DON'T know about and couldn't learn in any other way.
It's not impossible a seat or state was shifted either way by pure computer error in undetectable ways; as long as it's not a third party candidate, we wouldn't notice...
Democracy is supposed to be transparent - you KNOW elections weren't rigged instead of you CAN'T PROVE elections weren't rigged. But unfortunately we live in a republic; so it has to be an advantage to republicans!
And can we PLEASE use the popular vote for a start? The only other country that has a voting system as obsolete as US is Canada, and political pressure from the US has been a factor in keeping it that way. The popular vote eleminates dozens of potential fraud types and if that's the only advantage I'd take it any day!
With dozens of glaring, huge irregularities who could possibly get arrested if some subtle irregularities voted red but were only noticed a month after the election? Among how many individuals could the blame be potentially spread so no one gets as much as a slap on the wrists for it? The government would just say "Diebold will do better next time" and leave it at that??
...but some oil companies, some giant software company who contributed red and not blue, and some defense contractors could decide to rig a few machines. If only to be well-prepared to rig more and not get caught next time.
There will be more irregularities noticed. It's that way with software. And many of those irregularities won't be fixed for the next election, either (as proven by Diebold versions over time after bugs were known).
By the way no need to fix ALL an election to rig it. Just say 3% of machines. Or get all Diebold to turn a Kerry vote into a Bush vote 3% of the time. Swap a few memory cards at the point where they're in the hand of one individual per county.
Memory cards aren't all there when you ask them for recount, either. If you are in power you can get the FBI all over it or to ignore it completely, while if you're NOT in power it's better to concede so you don't look like a whiner in front of the people that don't understand software and engineering bugs or centuries of voting fraud VS countermesures.
What we needed is decades of a pilot program in a small number of counties to get the technology and process right. Not a widespread "32767 is enough for everybody" mess!!
And to top it off, I think Bush would still have gotten elected on paper because he's so incredibly good at manipulating emotions rather than intellect. Monkey see, monkey do!
I'm most definitively in favor of some hacker adding exactly 30000 votes to every third party loon on some machines and putting a sticker on the machine notifying everyone of how easy it was.
If Windows were so secure on a Diebold, I'd like to see that Windows on the shelves. It takes only 5 minutes for my 12 year old to disable any kind of password, filters, chat logging, or game-time-limiting software I made or bought. But at least one day he MAY BE PRESIDENT! (-;
They might have stopped evolving, but they're more evolved that US.
I mean, bees can not only survive a nuclear winter, they wouldn't CAUSE a nuclear winter! That's where non-evolution is evolution!!
They also don't need to make WMD excuses to sting you down, won't re-elect Bush (when a leader is THAT bad they wax it over in a nice little tomb and start fresh), and best of all they don't take back anti-pollution treaties and laws by 15 years every time a conservative party is elected.
They're also quite aware of global warming, as the morally challenged bees (aka killer bees) who moved to the USA told us. They're planning to bee in Canada any decade soon, and would like to thank the republicans for helping them make the deadline!
I beelieve they will bee around after the WMD we have to keep in check imaginary WMD of third world countries go boom on us. They've got *experience* and we don't!
If you have a gun at home and don't want your kids to ever use it, that tech might be good.
"Your gun has a general fault error. Please scan the disk for errors, and reinstall win-DOH!"
*BANG* the policeman is dead.
It gives a new meaning to the "blue screen of death".
You just have to sign a non disclosure agreements to know about vulnerabilities first? Or pay some token fee??? *BOGGLE*
You mean, spammers and spyware makers get notified of vulnerabilities *first* and if they abuse the vulnerabilities while keeping their mouth shut they can get away with it?
That's worse than I thought... Microsoft is handing the malware people the backdoor of the week on a silvery plate *before we know it exists*.
I'm visualizing a malware server doing its evil job, and getting a "backdoor of the week abuser" plug-in for whatever it's doing. Not having to hack themselves, the spammers just suscribe to a hacker who gets advance warnings and makes backdoor abusers... so convenient... thank you Microsoft, I can update my spamware without even rebooting!
Kudos to microsoft for finally stopping that stupid selective early warning practice, something they should have done in the late 80's...
(too little too late, I'm on freeBSD now!)
P.S.: With so many spammers, they are a fraction of the market worth their own "representative costumer" at Microsoft. Microsoft has an issue of not turning down certain "costumers"...
Of course Linux computers are more expensive to upgrade!
You thought us spammers, virus makers, trojan-makers and spyware vendors would not lose money to how good Linux security is???
If you knew how long it takes to make a Linux spam server or spyware server out of your computer, you'd [censored] a fuse!!! (of course you'd do that more if you knew how long it takes on Windows but that's not the point).
Kudos for Microsoft forcing more upgrades than necessary thru old windows product obsolecense techniques. Not having my 17 spywares blocked by a fix made by a competitor's spyware installed during the user's install of the latest windows upgrade fixes for that patch is difficult, but rewarding! And oh the frustration of the competition when I fix security bugs on your computer so they can't get in, ha ha ha ha ha! (-;
If we didn't have microsoft, we'd have to invent it.
They're right, switching to linux costs more than upgrading windows once. BUT...
-*But who thought you upgrade windows only once??*
-I've seen companies switch back to previous versions of windows after finding out the new "features". That's twice the cost of single windows upgrade box in lost productivity.
-The lottery ticket nature of windows service pack bug fixes may mean "no winning this time. Try again?"
-You can't upgrade only once since the new security vulnerabilities will allow other people to "upgrade" you to being a spam server without your knowledge. Even the upgrade system itself may be a security vulnerability, as it takes twice as long to download fixes to your new fixes packages than it takes to become infected with 10+ spywares. Oh joy!
-You just KNOW it includes some odd incompatibilities with older windows/office file, forcing you to upgrade because Microsoft wants you upgrade something. They really hate it when you stick with windows 3.1 because it suits your needs...
-A well-done unixoid server can run 10 years without rebooting or being turned off. Think of the time your programmers are just sitting there, waiting for a reboot or upgrade!!! As unix-type servers DO NOT force its own products into obsolecense a 90's application will still work as good as new!
-You may check some boxes saying not to send anonymous usage info to microsoft, but it will NOT be always respected... does that count as spyware? How much time is wasted annually by the slowdown?
-Linux upgrades (and freeBSD upgrades too) can be entirely scripted. Start them when you leave work and it's ready the next morning. (requires a unixoid-competent person, but those are worth it).
-Some banks have switched to linux over security concerns. Linux may have a negative cost of operation cost for them. BSD is better at security of course but banks haven't noticed yet. (-;
Compilers and parsers have actually been written in 2 hours...
Canada (especially Quebec) generates hydroelectric power cheap - so cheap they sell some to US.
While this doesn't solve the gas problem for cars or planes, why don't we close down the oil burning plants and go hydroelectric for generating our home electricity?
What kind of dogmatic magic wand makes hydro power innefective when you cross a fronteer to the US??? Quebec is doing FINE with it.
And if I'm wrong about America's ability to use hydro power, why don't we buy from Canada/Quebec who have more than enough? We have a free trade agreement, right?
And once we close down the heavily subventionned, highly polluting, obsolete oil and charcoal plants we'll be better off. While there is not much of an electric car right now, *There will be more oil left for the cars* if we go hydroelectric. With a side order of solar/eolian for deserts.
Such a nice, straightforward, environnementally sound plan! (except for flooding some native lands and making deserts noisy with eolian power, of course)
Oh, rats. Bush got elected. He's gonna invade another oil country instead! Venezuela looks good; let's claim they have WMD and ties to Bin Laden!
History books will not be kind to Bush when global warming strikes - oh, I forgot. Under Bush you CAN'T teach global warming so the next generation will not know until it hits them hard. Rats!
Makes me proud to be Canadian and NOT an American!
Glad to see my tax dollars at work. How many millions of dollars per pretty picture is that?
Just wondering the cost/effectiveness of the whole thing...
Didn't you read _Propaganda_ by Edward Bernays? Or Chomsky's work? Or been at a lowly municipal debate?
It's quite possible all of Kyoto was flooded with junk science hype encouraged (but not manufactured) by polluting companies/governments for the express purpose of making the global warming science look like total junk.
There is no shortage of loonies on any side of any issue, and a reportage or a government summit meeting can easily make any side they want filled with only the worst nutcases they can find. No true scientists.
Then they can bait the press into mediatizing a flawed study from the Kyoto summit, as journalists don't ever go without the "two sides to each issue" approach and want to print a "global warming" side from the summit rather than from elsewhere (without a summit most readers don't care). And then you release days later the glaring flaws that are all over the loons to discredit global warming.
While I have no serious knowledge of global warming science (or junk science), I will NOT claim all global warming science to be junk science without checking scientific facts myself, with the help of a professional statistician if need be.
But then again maybe all global warming is nonsense. But you haven't truly verified yourself, have you?? And you certainly NOT have verified ALL of it to be junk science before posting to slashdot.
I hereby claim it is my opinion that not much good science was presented at Kyoto!!! But I'd be a fool to look only at Kyoto; the american DOD did take the issue extremely seriously.
I'd gladly get kids addicted to "a tale in the desert" for a psychology/sociology class.
It certainly would teach about addiction, unlike other games you might get from a teacher.
The group psychology thing is also a must-have. How come so-and-so gets himself to be a leader? How come so-and-so has built 10 times more than average?
Kids learn from those questions.
It sure beats the old trick of giving some kids cookies, some kids the milk, some kids candy and some broccoli, and some kids ice cream that will melt in the next 10 minutes and letting them play the trading game to learn economics. (-;
Yeah, but how many of your teachers were a good teacher???
I've been educating myself at the library except for 3 courses and my programmer-analyst degree, thanks you. My teachers were THAT bad.
I think that teachers that are _consistently_ worse than an educational videogame should be fired or something. And replaced with educational video games if replacements are no better.
I sincerely hope we can get good teachers instead, and have educational video games on the side out of schools, but that would be like waiting for slashdot polls to be scientific.
I enjoyed playing both sides, usually with my significant other playing the other side. (-;
After actually playing the game, I can tell you the villain isn't an Egyptian (in game graphics, he distinctly looks like something else).
Read the ATITD wiki for details. Not all societies close to ancient egypt were good to women!
If people were playing that other country in the game, then the villains would be the evil Egyptian slave-takers obsessed with pyramids. Then slashdot would have a story on in-game racism that includes real life races - again missing the point.
The ATITD game would be pointlessly boring if it wouldn't center on 'tests'. Many of those tests are the test of the society, not just the individual.
I've nicknamed it "the unannounced test of the black market" !!! May our society survive this test (despite the fact the individual rewards for betraying are high)!
I'm still trying to find the villain so I can sell them a female character account (the male that used to play that female character is no longer playing; he gave me the account with leftover weeks for roleplaying purposes). I'm hoping to trade her for a free month of gaming!
I think I'd leave the game if they didn't put a stunt on us like that once in a while. Just to be reminded we're not playing evercrack or runescape!!
After actually playing the game, I can tell you the villain isn't an Egyptian (in game graphics, he distinctly looks like something else). Read the ATITD wiki for details. Not all societies close to ancient egypt were good to women! If people were playing that other country in the game, then the villains would be the evil Egyptian slave-takers obsessed with pyramids. Then slashdot would have a story on in-game racism that includes real life races - again missing the point. The ATITD game would be pointlessly boring if it wouldn't center on 'tests'. Many of those tests are the test of the society, not just the individual. I've nicknamed it "the unannounced test of the black market" !!! May our society survive this test (despite the fact the individual rewards for betraying are high)! I'm still trying to find the villain so I can sell them a female character account (the male that used to play that female character is no longer playing; he gave me the account with leftover weeks for roleplaying purposes). I'm hoping to trade her for a free month of gaming! I think I'd leave the game if they didn't put a stunt on us like that once in a while. Just to be reminded we're not playing evercrack or runescape!!
And remember, class, that every year I'll take one and only one work, the worse you produced, and sent it to the obfuscated C contest! And now let's review last year's winners of that dubious award:
http://www0.us.ioccc.org/main.html
Here teacher pretends that students from last year won IOCCC, and wants student to figure one which IOCCC program fits a class assignment *by looking at the code but not running it*. Or teacher pretents they didn't win, depending on your class...