When I was a bored teenager (instead of posting to a non-existant/.) I took one of my brother's broken electronic squirt-guns - you know, the things that took batteries, you held down the trigger, and a little electronic motor powered a pump that would continuously shoot water for you.
Well, I used some gold old American duct-tape, and attached a metal tube from a vacuum cleaner to the side. Next, I attached a backing to the tube, with a little hole in the side. I strung the wires out from the battery pack into the hole in the tube to attach to an estes ignitor. Inside the vacuum cleaner tube was a model rocket with no fins.
Voila, instant rocket launcher. Unfortunately, I found that combining the wide and short barrel with the lack of fins, gave it some pretty poor accuracy.
I tinkered with a bit, perfecting the setup until one time that the rocket became lodged in the barrel. I chucked that thing and ran, only to see the grassy area where I had previously been standing get fairly scorched.
I wasn't a terrorist, just a kid with a curiousity, and an imagination inspired by the movies.
perhaps you could file a patent which describes a method for distribute electronic images of naked women, as a guise for collecting more email addresses to send out more communiques, ad infinitum.
...then I could sue all the spammers, claiming patent violation.
Exactly, and sometimes busses come a little early. So when you get out to the stop, maybe you're on time, maybe you're not. Maybe there are people there, and perhaps there aren't.
If you're the only one, do you guess and wait for the bus - (you could be out there a long time, freezing your butt off) or do you go back in? There is definitely a great application for this, but it requires GPS (if it's not on a centralized system, like a subway).
Not necessarily. You're what they call, an "enabler". Oh yeah, sure, your money didn't go to the MPAA, but joe-matrix-seller@ebay.com just took his fistful of dollars from selling his disk to you, and turned around to buy the special edition boxset.
How is this any different from music CDs? I mean, how many re-re-re-revisions are there of the Beatles albums out there?
The MPAA is learning all sorts of tricks from the RIAA.
I never said that you and I were doing anything. I pointed out that there was mention of a boycott discussed on this very site just 24 hours ago, (this was a topic chosen by the/. editors) and now they've chosen to publish something that goes entirely contrary to that. Ironic, wouldn't you say?
...the second part was intended as a joke, and you obviously didn't read the whole thing, damn - why am I wasting my time replying to this?
Ironic how just yesterday there was discussion of boycotting the MPAA, and here - just about 100 pixels below the trailer is a link to mpaa.org...
Are we going to do this, or is a boycott just vaporware? Oh, I see - I'll watch the TT tomorrow, and after that I'll quit. I can quit anytime! They have a link to a really lame writeup on how piracy affects movie sales - they use the example of Star Wars: Phantom Mencace, that once it got to Asia, it was so pirated that nobody wanted to see it anymore. Bah! I say that everyone knew how badly Jar-Jar fucked it up that they didn't want to see it anymore.
Let's pick a weekend for a big movie opening - at least a few months from now, so that we'll have time to organize and boycott it for a weekend. Then, we'll intentionally all go and see it on, maybe a tuesday afternoon - just to show them how many we are that protest their anti-piracy policies.
The best way of enacting vengence that Skylarov could do would be to use the fame and notoriety of his experience to write a book, make lots of money, and take his book tour (get laid a lot) - maybe even make a movie someday...
That could be ironic, then we could get the MPAA fighting against people who want to crack the encrypted copy-protected scheme to watch a movie about cracking an encrypted copy-protected scheme.
the message would probably say something along the lines of... "first post!", or "hello world!...?"
..I have yet to see one...
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It's nice to talk about alternative fuels, but I have yet to see a gas station selling one of them.
Open your eyes, do a little research - I know of a gas station just down the street that sells natural gas (for cars), and the Insight don't need no stinkin' special fuel - it's just efficient.
Well, then to take the optimistic view, I guess that crashing 10+ a day isn't that bad an occurrence... that way, they don't develop an ultimate dependence on a system, and when it crashes, it's an annoyance instead of a mission-critical failure.
If triple-redundancy is good enough for San Francisco's BART, and this "major bank", then why can't it be good enough for a hospital, where there are most likely many people on life support, or who need instant access to drug reactions, etc?
good idea, the problem is that most institutions don't do enough regression testing to see if *absolutely everything* is working. Oh sure, my cat's webpage with the 3-d rotating chrome logo still loads, but what about the machine that goes ping keeping Mr. Johnson alive just down the hall?
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When I was a bored teenager (instead of posting to a non-existant /.) I took one of my brother's broken electronic squirt-guns - you know, the things that took batteries, you held down the trigger, and a little electronic motor powered a pump that would continuously shoot water for you.
Well, I used some gold old American duct-tape, and attached a metal tube from a vacuum cleaner to the side. Next, I attached a backing to the tube, with a little hole in the side. I strung the wires out from the battery pack into the hole in the tube to attach to an estes ignitor. Inside the vacuum cleaner tube was a model rocket with no fins.
Voila, instant rocket launcher. Unfortunately, I found that combining the wide and short barrel with the lack of fins, gave it some pretty poor accuracy.
I tinkered with a bit, perfecting the setup until one time that the rocket became lodged in the barrel. I chucked that thing and ran, only to see the grassy area where I had previously been standing get fairly scorched.
I wasn't a terrorist, just a kid with a curiousity, and an imagination inspired by the movies.
that's why I always have the same password for every service I use.
perhaps you could file a patent which describes a method for distribute electronic images of naked women, as a guise for collecting more email addresses to send out more communiques, ad infinitum.
...then I could sue all the spammers, claiming patent violation.
Exactly, and sometimes busses come a little early. So when you get out to the stop, maybe you're on time, maybe you're not. Maybe there are people there, and perhaps there aren't.
If you're the only one, do you guess and wait for the bus - (you could be out there a long time, freezing your butt off) or do you go back in? There is definitely a great application for this, but it requires GPS (if it's not on a centralized system, like a subway).
These guys are working on a bus-tracking GPS project.
Or, join a club... learn a new skill. This is one hobby where the source code is free as in speech, even if the beer isn't.
I've been brewing for about 6 years now, have won some awards, made some friends, learned some chemistry, and drank a lot of really tasty beer.
Red Green did this on his show about 3-4 years ago. It was hilarious, one of those DIY things that only gets accomplished with an axe.
...and hey, it the ladies don't find you handsome, they might as well find you handy.
Or, how about an even more specific future -> Darwin (which is a type of BSD)
Not necessarily. You're what they call, an "enabler". Oh yeah, sure, your money didn't go to the MPAA, but joe-matrix-seller@ebay.com just took his fistful of dollars from selling his disk to you, and turned around to buy the special edition boxset.
How is this any different from music CDs? I mean, how many re-re-re-revisions are there of the Beatles albums out there?
The MPAA is learning all sorts of tricks from the RIAA.
Water is definitely one of the most unique substances we have on this planet.
Sure, since it's the only liquid that actually expands when it freezes, it sure does sound rather unique.
I thought they'd be happy that the RIAA wanted to buy that customer's personal calling history: Verizon Sues to Stop Privacy Rules; Wants to Sell Call Data - can't they make up their mind?!
Ah, it would be nice if all browsers supported HTTP_REFERER...
BTW, I've always wondered if a /. editor created that environment variable.
Rentels are worse.
But worst of has to be the /. audience spelling mistakes.
They've ported Darwin to x86 a while ago.
Also, their machines are nearly as elegant as the OS. Try out an ibook someday - the intro price is only $999 right now.
my post was not of confusion, but in regard to irony.
I never said that you and I were doing anything. I pointed out that there was mention of a boycott discussed on this very site just 24 hours ago, (this was a topic chosen by the /. editors) and now they've chosen to publish something that goes entirely contrary to that. Ironic, wouldn't you say?
...the second part was intended as a joke, and you obviously didn't read the whole thing, damn - why am I wasting my time replying to this?
Ironic how just yesterday there was discussion of boycotting the MPAA, and here - just about 100 pixels below the trailer is a link to mpaa.org...
Are we going to do this, or is a boycott just vaporware? Oh, I see - I'll watch the TT tomorrow, and after that I'll quit. I can quit anytime! They have a link to a really lame writeup on how piracy affects movie sales - they use the example of Star Wars: Phantom Mencace, that once it got to Asia, it was so pirated that nobody wanted to see it anymore. Bah! I say that everyone knew how badly Jar-Jar fucked it up that they didn't want to see it anymore.
Let's pick a weekend for a big movie opening - at least a few months from now, so that we'll have time to organize and boycott it for a weekend. Then, we'll intentionally all go and see it on, maybe a tuesday afternoon - just to show them how many we are that protest their anti-piracy policies.
The best way of enacting vengence that Skylarov could do would be to use the fame and notoriety of his experience to write a book, make lots of money, and take his book tour (get laid a lot) - maybe even make a movie someday...
That could be ironic, then we could get the MPAA fighting against people who want to crack the encrypted copy-protected scheme to watch a movie about cracking an encrypted copy-protected scheme.
Do I hear an echo, or is there any new news here?
the message would probably say something along the lines of... "first post!", or "hello world!...?"
It's nice to talk about alternative fuels, but I have yet to see a gas station selling one of them.
Open your eyes, do a little research - I know of a gas station just down the street that sells natural gas (for cars), and the Insight don't need no stinkin' special fuel - it's just efficient.
Well, then to take the optimistic view, I guess that crashing 10+ a day isn't that bad an occurrence... that way, they don't develop an ultimate dependence on a system, and when it crashes, it's an annoyance instead of a mission-critical failure.
If triple-redundancy is good enough for San Francisco's BART, and this "major bank", then why can't it be good enough for a hospital, where there are most likely many people on life support, or who need instant access to drug reactions, etc?
good idea, the problem is that most institutions don't do enough regression testing to see if *absolutely everything* is working. Oh sure, my cat's webpage with the 3-d rotating chrome logo still loads, but what about the machine that goes ping keeping Mr. Johnson alive just down the hall?
Exactly my concern as a sysadmin who likes to watch his logs. How do I know what people are clicking on, and what browsers are grabbing for them?
I guess it isn't quite different from web spiders indexing my sites, but this is just one more layer of unimportant data.