I was just thinking that (avoided a -1 redundant, nice!). I have one of the other ones, a DC210 plus, and battery life isn't all that even with solid extra-capacity NiCad rechargeables. You've got to be nuts to waste your battery power on this thing. It's so cool, you wonder why they don't run Digital OS on other stuff that might actually be useful to play games on.
Well, cigarettes have been legal drugs for a long time, and look at the nasty shit that "legal" companies get into - bullying the NIH, gun-running, drug trafficking, terrorism, extorsion, threats, bullying third-world-countries into legalizing their products in their own constitutions - we should be able to use whatever we can grow ourselves, and THAT would be it!! Private industry will just mind-fuck us even worse. Anything else would be extraneous. Don't legalize sales and distribution, just legalize possession. Imagine the US Government regulating crack?
Were the moderators being sarcastic, too? Or am I just missing all the points?
I say that if people really wanted to play the game they would, and wouldn't need to cheat. The trick is, NOT TO TAKE ONLINE GAMING THAT SERIOUS. That said, cheat at Quake III and I'll f**k you up, bitch.
I'd bet MY left testicle that the black rectangle that the card next the the RAM they show magically inserting itself in the AGP slot (look exactly like the one in my PC) and if you look at the back, you'll notice that it exactly lines up with the VGA-out connector. It's got to be a standard AGP slot, what else could it be?
Did anyone else catch that the name of the South American firm in the article was "USSR"? So first Hitler escapes to South America, and now the former USSR is posing as a security firm down there too?
Too bad i used all of my mod points. This is the best point i've heard so far:
vote at work, under the watchfull eye of your employer, your job may depend on it
Without a secure, physical, unique location to vote from, not only could they forge your digital identity and vote for you, but they could just as easily force you to vote for them right in front of them!
Al Gore, husband of Tipper Gore, who waged a right-wing war on popular music because it used language and terms that some people would disagree with, is not all that liberal. After that handy little smack-down from the Republicans a few years ago headed by Newt Gingrich's boys, Democrats became a lot more center-conservative in their views.
Yeah, if you want to learn databases, MySQL is a great way to start. It's real easy to transer your data around between servers and dump out and re-create table structure. And I haven't broken it yet;)
That, and it really is fast for the novice/intermediate database user.
What do you mean, "doesn't intend to change?" MySQL is adding sub-queries and transactions to its newest versions (in fact, the unstable versions ALREADY have them). You didn't read the article/look at their homepage. It's right there in the MySQL manual under something like "Things to do for MySQL," they say that they are working on adding support for those things.
Yeah, great, we have TWO superpowers stealing our and reading our email and laughing at us instead of one. Look, my ass only has one hole... they'll have to take their turns.
Wow, that sounds just ike the argument put forward by the British government in the 1770's... "We brought you here to America, and own the land you're on, so you have to pay us taxes without a chance to represent yourselves." Okay, not exactly that simple, but that was the jist of all the empire building we've tried to distanced ourselves from in the last century - "We are the company, and we have the resources, so we can afford to buy things that are way too expensive for you to ever own, so that when you are forced to use it you can never call it yours or expect any right while using it." In relation to something really expensive (i.e. an email and internet infrastructure), people themselves become worthless.
Are you serious? You belive the crap that the CIA says about how dangerous it would be if our nation al secrets fell into the wrong hands??!?!?!? Read the papers! IT's already happenend so many times that the concept of national security is laughable. What about those CIA spies who got all those agents killed in each of the last 5 decades? What about the high-ranking general caught selling all of our Cold-War secrets to the Russians from his base in Germany? The CIA has done almost nothing but fuck up in its little i-spy games since ins inception. Can you think of any instance where it succeeded? Kennedy? Iran? South America? I mean, the CIA and British Intelligence INVENTED modern terrorism and terrorist methods. It's true. Watch the history channel. THEY taught all these fundametalists and wackos how to kill civilians and blow stuff up, because they tought it would HELP!! But don't take my work for it. Check it out for yourself.
Absolutely right, but y'know, all this internet stuff also makes it easier for you to work for yourself, too. And it makes it harder for employers to keep you, because you can find jobs pretty easily online. So fuck the draconian corporation that monitors your mail and keeps you from living your life 9 hours per day. Either start your own, or use your skills as leverage. Make the bastards sign a release preventing them from suing you over stupid crap like that. We should all stand up!
The damage that could result from the release of proprietary information is far greater than what results when a web server is cracked or an e-mail server taken down. Nonetheless, most organizations have no infrastructure in place to deal with this type of threat. This is where the *real* danger lies.
What do you mean by that? That companies that try to hide security flaws and have poor distribution systems for upgrades and patches (or "service packs") should hide their proprietary code and avoid throwing out relevent documents because someone like Oracle might dig through they're trash and release the flaws to the public?
Or do you mean that people might discover the true source of funding for seemingly "grassroots" oganizations that are really bankrolled by some of the most powerful lobbying corporations in existence?
If corporate espionage is what it takes to dig this stuff up, then good for it! You imagine what a time the justice department would have trying to get that trash? But, since we expect big business to be a dirty business, we can just shrug it off when they buy each other's discarded secrets. If they weren't as secretive and underhanded as they've proven themselves to be, then they wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.
The best defense to invaded privacy is to not hide anything in the first place. The second best is not to care.
Software should be kiddie-proof, and we should sue Microsoft for all of the gigantic security holes that they leave in they're software, but people don't and software isn't. Why is that? I mean, people still sue Dunkin' Donuts because their coffee was too hot and they spilled it on themselves! They get multi-million-dollar out of court settlements. If someone were to sue Microsoft for the damage caused by the ILOVEYOU virus, I wonder if M$ would settle? Because if they didn't, you could sue anyone (Sun, Apple, Oracle) for all of the backdoors they "forgot" to lock up, right?
And then, as they would say in their defense, the whole economy crashes... but maybe not.
But you are paying for it! Your computers cost substantially more, because Windows HAS to be installed them, and if you ever want to use any of those developer tools on any platform, you're going to have to shell out a lot of dough to get it all working, because it won't work right unless everything you run is microsoft too - so you develop cheap, but how many tens of $1000's does it cost to buy all of those copies of SQL server and Win2000 ultra-professional-secure-server-multiprocessor for all of your machines? And it still costs you extra to develop on other platforms, so you probably won't do that, and then M$ fucks everyone in the ass. You, the consumer, and especially competitors.
So, they fuck you a little less hard, does that make it better for you to sleep at night knowing that you're helping to make one man more powerful than any goverment on earth?
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I was just thinking that (avoided a -1 redundant, nice!). I have one of the other ones, a DC210 plus, and battery life isn't all that even with solid extra-capacity NiCad rechargeables. You've got to be nuts to waste your battery power on this thing. It's so cool, you wonder why they don't run Digital OS on other stuff that might actually be useful to play games on.
I want to hear him reply to this so I can see him work "post-Columbine" into another article ;-)
Well, cigarettes have been legal drugs for a long time, and look at the nasty shit that "legal" companies get into - bullying the NIH, gun-running, drug trafficking, terrorism, extorsion, threats, bullying third-world-countries into legalizing their products in their own constitutions - we should be able to use whatever we can grow ourselves, and THAT would be it!! Private industry will just mind-fuck us even worse. Anything else would be extraneous. Don't legalize sales and distribution, just legalize possession. Imagine the US Government regulating crack?
I say that if people really wanted to play the game they would, and wouldn't need to cheat. The trick is, NOT TO TAKE ONLINE GAMING THAT SERIOUS. That said, cheat at Quake III and I'll f**k you up, bitch.
lol
-Me, 7/24/2000
Insert foot into mouth here ;)
So much for him being the photoshop guru, eh?
Did anyone else catch that the name of the South American firm in the article was "USSR"? So first Hitler escapes to South America, and now the former USSR is posing as a security firm down there too?
He'd have trouble having a platonic relationship with Scully, tho...
vote at work, under the watchfull eye of your employer, your job may depend on it
Without a secure, physical, unique location to vote from, not only could they forge your digital identity and vote for you, but they could just as easily force you to vote for them right in front of them!
Scary.
blah, blah, blah.
That, and it really is fast for the novice/intermediate database user.
How did this get mod'ed up so high?
Yeah, great, we have TWO superpowers stealing our and reading our email and laughing at us instead of one. Look, my ass only has one hole... they'll have to take their turns.
How do you get a score of 4, AND get marked as Flamebait? Interesting moderation system here...
Waaaaaaaaaaaay too much ritalin.
Dammit, clicked on the link, and now my employer's gonna bust me for looking at porn during work hours. Thanks, penis bird-boy!
It's just thousand island dressing with extra ketchup, anyway. Aw, shit, there it goes, I really did it this time... ;)
Dang, this subject's got me all fired up.
Are you serious? You belive the crap that the CIA says about how dangerous it would be if our nation al secrets fell into the wrong hands??!?!?!? Read the papers! IT's already happenend so many times that the concept of national security is laughable. What about those CIA spies who got all those agents killed in each of the last 5 decades? What about the high-ranking general caught selling all of our Cold-War secrets to the Russians from his base in Germany? The CIA has done almost nothing but fuck up in its little i-spy games since ins inception. Can you think of any instance where it succeeded? Kennedy? Iran? South America? I mean, the CIA and British Intelligence INVENTED modern terrorism and terrorist methods. It's true. Watch the history channel. THEY taught all these fundametalists and wackos how to kill civilians and blow stuff up, because they tought it would HELP!! But don't take my work for it. Check it out for yourself.
Absolutely right, but y'know, all this internet stuff also makes it easier for you to work for yourself, too. And it makes it harder for employers to keep you, because you can find jobs pretty easily online. So fuck the draconian corporation that monitors your mail and keeps you from living your life 9 hours per day. Either start your own, or use your skills as leverage. Make the bastards sign a release preventing them from suing you over stupid crap like that. We should all stand up!
True.
What do you mean by that? That companies that try to hide security flaws and have poor distribution systems for upgrades and patches (or "service packs") should hide their proprietary code and avoid throwing out relevent documents because someone like Oracle might dig through they're trash and release the flaws to the public?
Or do you mean that people might discover the true source of funding for seemingly "grassroots" oganizations that are really bankrolled by some of the most powerful lobbying corporations in existence?
If corporate espionage is what it takes to dig this stuff up, then good for it! You imagine what a time the justice department would have trying to get that trash? But, since we expect big business to be a dirty business, we can just shrug it off when they buy each other's discarded secrets. If they weren't as secretive and underhanded as they've proven themselves to be, then they wouldn't be in this situation in the first place.
The best defense to invaded privacy is to not hide anything in the first place. The second best is not to care.
And then, as they would say in their defense, the whole economy crashes... but maybe not.
So, they fuck you a little less hard, does that make it better for you to sleep at night knowing that you're helping to make one man more powerful than any goverment on earth?