...pledges to verify whether your dream date is a convicted felon or, worse yet, already married.
Oooook....did anyone read that part? What is worse...the potential of meeting up with:
1) Mr. Sam, Son of
or
2) lonelyhousewife1968
Hmmm...yeah...seems that (according to the site) the "already married" crew would be much more vicious and less neurologically fit.
. . ....we owe it to our members to provide a truly wholesome environment for online courtship.
Yes. I will believe this, if slimey guys had no idea how to 1) lie, and 2) troll at the same time.
Gawd! As soon as the masses went online back in '97ish, it all went to hell. Then they started regulating it. Then advertiser started spamming and spying.
Kep it simple stupid!
Don't go wrapping anything in tinfoil...
One thing us techies tend to forget...computers don't work too well when they are unplugged.
Snip the cord/unplug it and there's no more GPS. Period.
You can even unplug your VSS's (speed sensors) to prevent trackage, too.
Oh, and there's no way they'll make the comm. between the car's computer and the GPS tracker mandatory for ignition re: the underground parking, out of state driving ideas.
GPS tracking is a useless idea, it would only work on the morons that leave it turned on.
Inject.
What scares me is the idea that it would be possible to create a human-looking zombie-like creature that could be considered to be NON-HUMAN (i.e. no rights, ergo, no responsibilities)
So the new formula would be
1. Splice human and rodent genes 2. Brainwash said Hument (...or would what be rod-man?? sorry Dennis) 3. Aim at bank with money 4. PROFIT!
Imagine this: I tell my zombie to go steal me something. It does it with pleasure. Cops show up at my door and see me bathing in money... All I have to say is my Hument did it, so deal with it.
Under U.S. and Candian (and I am sure in every other civilized country around the world) law, nothing other than a human (defined as what, I don't know) can be charged with criminal acts. And so far, it's not illegal ANYWHERE to tell your DOG, cat, monkey, lizard etc to steal, pillage, plunder.
I know this is sensational, but, if these spliced animals end up being sentient, we're gonna be screwed...it's gonna be pandimonium. You heard it on slashdot first.
Norton Firewall has had this capability already. Talk about prior art!
Did you know that the fw from NIS is actually AtGuard with some pretty flowers added? Yep...go check! So would that make it prior prior art?
I much prefer AtGuard over an other fw of today as it's not dressed up to look pretty, it's extremely customizable/configurable, AND it works on ALL versions of Windows! Nothing in it wastes resources, or is useless.
And IIRC it passes all leak tests.
Too bad Symantec bought it...they ruined another good application.
Why not ditch Email all together. If no one uses Email anymore, then it doesn't generate money for spammers.
Also, I know it's too late for this, but it would have been a good idea to secure outgoing mail in that it sould require you to be on your own domain to send out messages.
How many non-technophites out there realize that anyone can send an Email that appears to be from youraddress@yourdomain.com ? So easy, and you don't even need an Email app...Telnet will do it.
Gawd! Who dreamt this stuff up? I would have had a different dream. Inject.
...and also, how much did you donate?.000000001 million?
It would be impossible to donate that particular amount of funds, if it were donated in US currency (I'm assuming you are speaking in $US, because apparently the world has adopted it as its universal currency). Banks will not accept a sliver of a penny for any reason.
You could likely donate a couple Italian Lire which would likely amount to US$0.001 (one tenth of one cent)...
Hehehe. I like you're sense of humor. My laptop at home has a shitty keyboard and I didn't preview. I tend to do better when typing on my desktop. Oh well... the context stood out anyway. ;)
Years ago I had a similar problem...-very- frustrating trying to operate DOS without a useful D key.
Better learn to read it, cuz soon you will be Uncle Joe's droog.
An ex-commie told me some wikked KGB stories... actually, now that I replay them in my head, it seems now that -America- is the one that's 50 years behind the times.
Inject. (BTW, the translation is roughly 'welcome to the machine')
If Microsoft wanted you to be happy with your OS, you would be. The idea is to make you just happy enough to want to buy the next one that promises to be better.
A company that makes how many $BILLIONS per year that can't make tight code? Please...
If your car made you 100% happy, it never broke down, it was 100% fuel efficient, and made you coffee too, you would NEVER buy another one. End of revenue stream for the manufacturer. INSTEAD, most autoparts are lack lustre (creating a niche industry for upgrade parts) that break down quickly (1-5years), so they'll need to provide SPARE PARTS for 5+ years. (I am quite sure that spare parts/repairs are the real revenue streams that auto makers like to daydream about)
Trust me, everything is bubbled inside the corporate mandate of planned obsolesence. If everyone was happy with their 486 (same relative x86 architecture as current PC's, no?) there would be no Pentium IV, V, VI...where will it end?
I don't think you can get the integrated system off-the-shelf...
Yes you can. He works for Osama and he owns an old VW van, an RPG, a few SAMs, and oh, what's this? A $50,000 purchase order to LaserShoppe?
Sure, not open to the public...but open to whom???
Seriously, if there's a guy/chic out there than can hold a laser to an in-flight pilot's eye for longer than 0.003 seconds, the Special Ops team should hire him/her immediately.
Once upon a time it was a luxury to have electricity, running water, gas, telephone, cable etcetra in your house...
VoIP is not going away. The huge bucks spent on the Internet and its infrastructure is about to pay off for the big guys that laid down the green.
I'm worried that people will look at it as a POTS phone and that it will be infallible. -- We've all said "OMG my DNS server is down!!! My Internet isn't working anymore! The Internet sucks!"...soon we will replace the word Internet with something like "info service" or "feed" or whatever. Then how do we call to report the problem? It will take a few deaths/mishaps for laws to be put in place that will require 99.99% uptime.
Soon (15-20years), we will have not one shielded, and a few unshielded copper wires entering our houses, but a single fibre-optic thread. All of our information will breed through it...AND we will rely WAY more heavily on it for pretty much every meta-physical service we require.
Welcome...to the -real- information age.
Every house will have a block of IPv6 address assigned to it by, yes, the local PUC...and YES, it will be as much a necessity as hydro, water, gas, and phone service is. The thing is: relying on an infrastructure that can go down due to a new Mellisa virus is VERY bad. Bandwidth throttling using QoS just may be a good thing.
We will need fault tolerant/redundant entry and exit points for this to be a 99.9% reliable technology.
Regulation of IP and UDP on the Net = BAD! Regulation of Info Services = BAD! Regulation of VOIP devices = Good?
Think of this: Johnny: "Hey, what's your address?" Jane: "61.24.3....oh, you mean my physical address! I thought you were hitting on me."
-or-
Jane: "Hey, what's your VoIP?" Johnny: "It's l33tH4X0r.TelCoVoIP.com"
And will our assigned IP addresses be more personal/private than our physical house addresses?
I don't know whether to be afraid of, or be confident in Russia that they don't leave...ya know...weapons-grade nuculer:) -anything- laying around old military installations that are converted for commericial endeavors. (or military grade anything else, for that matter)
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...pledges to verify whether your dream date is a convicted felon or, worse yet, already married.
...we owe it to our members to provide a truly wholesome environment for online courtship.
Oooook....did anyone read that part? What is worse...the potential of meeting up with:
1) Mr. Sam, Son of
or
2) lonelyhousewife1968
Hmmm...yeah...seems that (according to the site) the "already married" crew would be much more vicious and less neurologically fit.
.
.
.
Yes. I will believe this, if slimey guys had no idea how to 1) lie, and 2) troll at the same time.
Gawd! As soon as the masses went online back in '97ish, it all went to hell. Then they started regulating it. Then advertiser started spamming and spying.
I want 1996- back.
Inject.
Picture of the International prototype kilogram
They are using Russian dolls to demonstrate the new standard? What the!
Perhaps it is a neo-commie plot! Run AWAY!
Inject.
In mother Russia, single kilogram cylinder measures YOU! (sorry, had to)
With over 50 redundant "dupe" responses on slashdot, you'd think this story is becoming a DUPER-NOVA!
;)
No no, it would be more accurate to say SUPER-DUPER-NOVA.
Inject.
Kep it simple stupid! Don't go wrapping anything in tinfoil... One thing us techies tend to forget...computers don't work too well when they are unplugged. Snip the cord/unplug it and there's no more GPS. Period. You can even unplug your VSS's (speed sensors) to prevent trackage, too. Oh, and there's no way they'll make the comm. between the car's computer and the GPS tracker mandatory for ignition re: the underground parking, out of state driving ideas. GPS tracking is a useless idea, it would only work on the morons that leave it turned on. Inject.
I suggest a kick and ban of the IP address block of the user that posted the article.
Anyone else in agreement?
(I bet a whois would result in a listing in either Miami or Scottsdale, Arizona)
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they could invent an intelligent blonde?
j/k
What scares me is the idea that it would be possible to create a human-looking zombie-like creature that could be considered to be NON-HUMAN (i.e. no rights, ergo, no responsibilities)
So the new formula would be
1. Splice human and rodent genes
2. Brainwash said Hument (...or would what be rod-man?? sorry Dennis)
3. Aim at bank with money
4. PROFIT!
Imagine this: I tell my zombie to go steal me something. It does it with pleasure. Cops show up at my door and see me bathing in money... All I have to say is my Hument did it, so deal with it.
Under U.S. and Candian (and I am sure in every other civilized country around the world) law, nothing other than a human (defined as what, I don't know) can be charged with criminal acts. And so far, it's not illegal ANYWHERE to tell your DOG, cat, monkey, lizard etc to steal, pillage, plunder.
I know this is sensational, but, if these spliced animals end up being sentient, we're gonna be screwed...it's gonna be pandimonium. You heard it on slashdot first.
Inject.
Norton Firewall has had this capability already. Talk about prior art!
Did you know that the fw from NIS is actually AtGuard with some pretty flowers added? Yep...go check! So would that make it prior prior art?
I much prefer AtGuard over an other fw of today as it's not dressed up to look pretty, it's extremely customizable/configurable, AND it works on ALL versions of Windows! Nothing in it wastes resources, or is useless.
And IIRC it passes all leak tests.
Too bad Symantec bought it...they ruined another good application.
Inject
But how will the old people communicate?
I'm not too sure, but I know it would start off with them walking uphill both ways with cardboard shoes in a blizzard...
Inject.
Why not ditch Email all together. If no one uses Email anymore, then it doesn't generate money for spammers.
Also, I know it's too late for this, but it would have been a good idea to secure outgoing mail in that it sould require you to be on your own domain to send out messages.
How many non-technophites out there realize that anyone can send an Email that appears to be from youraddress@yourdomain.com ?
So easy, and you don't even need an Email app...Telnet will do it.
Gawd! Who dreamt this stuff up? I would have had a different dream.
Inject.
...and also, how much did you donate? .000000001 million?
:p
It would be impossible to donate that particular amount of funds, if it were donated in US currency (I'm assuming you are speaking in $US, because apparently the world has adopted it as its universal currency). Banks will not accept a sliver of a penny for any reason.
You could likely donate a couple Italian Lire which would likely amount to US$0.001 (one tenth of one cent)...
Just bugging.
Inject
Hehehe. I like you're sense of humor. My laptop at home has a shitty keyboard and I didn't preview. I tend to do better when typing on my desktop. Oh well... the context stood out anyway.
;)
Years ago I had a similar problem...-very- frustrating trying to operate DOS without a useful D key.
Inject.
Posted by an AC..gee, I wonder why.
I like how you signed your message though -- as I assumed it had come from an idiot.
Inject.
As long as companies continue to try and over up their flaws through litigation, we're ever going to be ab;e to trust their products.
:P
Huh?
Dude, et yo'r keeboard fix]d.
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When a device like this comes along it will prompt hardware makers to integrate wifi into portable HD's
Yeah...that will solve a LOT more problems than it will create, I know it.
Inject.
Skazhite privyet mashina
Better learn to read it, cuz soon you will be Uncle Joe's droog.
An ex-commie told me some wikked KGB stories... actually, now that I replay them in my head, it seems now that -America- is the one that's 50 years behind the times.
Inject.
(BTW, the translation is roughly 'welcome to the machine')
You are belonged to us!
Inject.
Oh please...
Ok...well...I'll jump on the band wagon as soon as Kodak invents a Wifi router and, say, network to go with it that fits in my pocket.
If I'm at home I can connect this camera to my computer anyway (read: unlimited picture storage).
Seriously, besides saving entire seconds in transfer time, what is the benefit? (btw, I didn't TFA)
Inject.
If Microsoft wanted you to be happy with your OS, you would be. The idea is to make you just happy enough to want to buy the next one that promises to be better.
A company that makes how many $BILLIONS per year that can't make tight code? Please...
If your car made you 100% happy, it never broke down, it was 100% fuel efficient, and made you coffee too, you would NEVER buy another one. End of revenue stream for the manufacturer. INSTEAD, most autoparts are lack lustre (creating a niche industry for upgrade parts) that break down quickly (1-5years), so they'll need to provide SPARE PARTS for 5+ years. (I am quite sure that spare parts/repairs are the real revenue streams that auto makers like to daydream about)
Trust me, everything is bubbled inside the corporate mandate of planned obsolesence. If everyone was happy with their 486 (same relative x86 architecture as current PC's, no?) there would be no Pentium IV, V, VI...where will it end?
It won't...
It can't...
It's called economy.
inject.
of the one thing that does NOT need it. Humans rarely use accurate information appropriately.
It's very easy to avoid ALL traffic jams:
Don't let humans control velocity or trojectory.
Simple -- already tested in California.
Inject.
I don't think you can get the integrated system off-the-shelf...
Yes you can. He works for Osama and he owns an old VW van, an RPG, a few SAMs, and oh, what's this? A $50,000 purchase order to LaserShoppe?
Sure, not open to the public...but open to whom???
Seriously, if there's a guy/chic out there than can hold a laser to an in-flight pilot's eye for longer than 0.003 seconds, the Special Ops team should hire him/her immediately.
I would!
Inject.
If I wanted Kazaa (clone), I'd ask for it. :(
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I ain't askin' for it.
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I want suprnova back.
Inject.
Once upon a time it was a luxury to have electricity, running water, gas, telephone, cable etcetra in your house...
VoIP is not going away. The huge bucks spent on the Internet and its infrastructure is about to pay off for the big guys that laid down the green.
I'm worried that people will look at it as a POTS phone and that it will be infallible. -- We've all said "OMG my DNS server is down!!! My Internet isn't working anymore! The Internet sucks!"...soon we will replace the word Internet with something like "info service" or "feed" or whatever. Then how do we call to report the problem? It will take a few deaths/mishaps for laws to be put in place that will require 99.99% uptime.
Soon (15-20years), we will have not one shielded, and a few unshielded copper wires entering our houses, but a single fibre-optic thread. All of our information will breed through it...AND we will rely WAY more heavily on it for pretty much every meta-physical service we require.
Welcome...to the -real- information age.
Every house will have a block of IPv6 address assigned to it by, yes, the local PUC...and YES, it will be as much a necessity as hydro, water, gas, and phone service is. The thing is: relying on an infrastructure that can go down due to a new Mellisa virus is VERY bad. Bandwidth throttling using QoS just may be a good thing.
We will need fault tolerant/redundant entry and exit points for this to be a 99.9% reliable technology.
Regulation of IP and UDP on the Net = BAD!
Regulation of Info Services = BAD!
Regulation of VOIP devices = Good?
Think of this:
Johnny: "Hey, what's your address?"
Jane: "61.24.3....oh, you mean my physical address! I thought you were hitting on me."
-or-
Jane: "Hey, what's your VoIP?"
Johnny: "It's l33tH4X0r.TelCoVoIP.com"
And will our assigned IP addresses be more personal/private than our physical house addresses?
Inject.
...you end up with a design that works.
...only on paper, though.
:(
Inject.
Russians are wikked.
:) -anything- laying around old military installations that are converted for commericial endeavors. (or military grade anything else, for that matter)
I don't know whether to be afraid of, or be confident in Russia that they don't leave...ya know...weapons-grade nuculer
Svoboda dlya vsekh.
Inject.
Actually, with a very small amount of URL manipulation, any document they serve is available for free...
Why, oh why does that sysadmin have a job? My IIS 5 is more secure than their site.
I should send a msg asking how much their head tech makes, and if he can come out to play after school tomorrow.
Sorry ClassifiedIntelligence.com...you need some help over there.
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