By the same token, the dick pill spam could be stopped overnight by a small group collecting "orders" and mailing out poison. After a dozen or so deaths, one would presume that *most* people would be concerned about buying drugs from spam.
Welcome to Slashdot where the solution to lax user security is random terrorism and murder! Aren't they great, folks? Goodnight everyone! Drive safely!
"A new release every month! That's our goal!" said sweaty, vaguely simian MS CEO Steve Ballmer. The new Hachamovitch Javascript engine will interface with the Millajovovich subsystem to spawn independent processes to more effectively deliver those animated ads everyone loves!"
"Like that punch the monkey ad! I love that one!" Ballmer said and began his patented monkey dance. "C'mon everyone! Punch the monkey!"
When asked about MS simply adopting WebKit and making everyone's life easier and even saving themselves piles of money, Ballmer pulled out a shotgun and killed the reporter.
"Oops! Thought he was zombie," said Ballmer and shot the reporter's body again. "Double tap!"
It's mostly the old farts writing checks, and I mean *old*. I'm 44 and I've been doing online bill pay since 1999 with Yahoo and then going to my credit union's own system when Yahoo dropped the service.
I keep a book of checks around for big ticket items like home improvement projects or car down payments. For groceries and other relatively small expenses I just use a credit card that I pay off each month. I have my whole life routed through one card that gives me gift certificates. There's also "check cards" and most places let you use an ATM card right there in the store. We actually have quite a lot of options now that I think about it.
Maybe checks were more ingrained into the USA? We still have a cottage industry of companies that will do custom checks with photos or user selected artwork. I once thought about getting checks with satanic symbols on them in the off chance that periodically some religious person at some company would be too scared to cash it.:-)
Not to mention I get a knock at the door and it's the cops:
Cops: Mr. Desperation, your friend Unquiet Slumber was killed earlier today. Me: ZOMG! O_o Cops: We need to take you in. Me: Buh? Cops: Your DNA was identified at the scene. Me: Well, yeah, Unquiet's a buddy. I'm over there all the time. Cops: Come with us please. Me: Buh? Cops: Book him, Danno. Me: Hey, how'd we get to the police station so fast? Cops: We have teleportation, too. Me: Well, you'll never hold me, coppers! Mwah ha ha! (QD transforms into flight mode and blasts out of there, leaving a hole in the roof) Cops: ZOMG! O_o Me: Ha ha! Now to take over the Vatican with my maser cannons of doom!
er...
OK, I strayed a bit from the point, but you savvy what I'm sayin?
Meh... the mods are generally high on crack or meth or drain cleaner or something. I get Troll mods on innocent things quite often. I also get humor posts rated "Insightful", so their delusions swing both ways.;-)
This is inevitable. Not only will we see more of this, but it's going to get a lot more invasive.
Here in California there is talk of the State having radio control of our home thermostats. It is *literally* tin foil (or some other malleable signal blocker) time.
Article on TV making kids fat. Check. See you in six months.
OK, what's next... cell phone cancer? No, too soon. Video game violence? Not quite yet.
How about one where creationism believing fat kids using cell phones under power lines can get cancer unless they use Linux and stop global warming using stimulus money for stem cell research?
Ooo! How about a good "Amerkinz am teh stoopids" study based on a phone survey?
Depends on the BASIC. I use RealBasic at work as an alternative to LabView. It's object oriented, multithreaded and completely "Visual".
as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration
Am I the only person on the Earth who just writes off hysterical, panty-wetting stuff like this? When did he say this? in the 1960s or something? It's 2010 now, right?
Step one for the GOP is to toss out the evangelicals. Even Nixon warned about mixing politcis and religion. When freaking *Nixon* finds your plans lacking, you might want to run a reassessment. Most who have analyzed the situation feel they'd gain far more than they lost.
Our political system as we know it, is fucked.
It acts, in combination with the media, to filter out anyone but complete sociopaths. You have to be utterly without care about other people- what they think of you, how your decisions affect their daily lives, etc.- to run for office these days.
I reckon this is a good thing.
...whut?
Perhaps now we can get people more involved with how politics happen in DC and start voting based on someones voting record, and not based purely on party.
Bah ha ha! Yeah, good luck with that. Wasn't Obama supposed to be morning in America again? How's that working out?
At least, I hope so.
Hope is not a strategy.
Wait, got another pithy one: hope in one hand and crap in the other and see which hand fills up first.
OK, now you can admonish me about how my hateful cynicism will never solve anything and perhaps something vaguely erudite on self fulfilling prophecies.
That's not scary. Try retitling it from "Napoleons invasion of Russia" to "Bushes invasion of Iraq". That sounds possible enough to be terrifying.
Well, yeah, if you take a person and surgically remove all their knowledge of history, awareness of current events and their critical thinking center, I can see how that person might confuse the two events. Or just drop them on their head a bunch of times. That'd work, too.
Quite simply, he will be helpful because when he puts together a report, there will be one or two incredibly informative graphs that explain where the money went and how that money changed things.
Heck, I could paste a picture of a black hole and a type a 200 point "0" onto a Powerpoint slide as well as this guy, and I'd charge a lot less.
By having this information in such a concise, digestible form, it will help bring transparency and accountability to the government.
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Let's hope he doesn't.
By the same token, the dick pill spam could be stopped overnight by a small group collecting "orders" and mailing out poison. After a dozen or so deaths, one would presume that *most* people would be concerned about buying drugs from spam.
Welcome to Slashdot where the solution to lax user security is random terrorism and murder! Aren't they great, folks? Goodnight everyone! Drive safely!
MS also announced demos of IE10, IE11 and IE12.
"A new release every month! That's our goal!" said sweaty, vaguely simian MS CEO Steve Ballmer. The new Hachamovitch Javascript engine will interface with the Millajovovich subsystem to spawn independent processes to more effectively deliver those animated ads everyone loves!"
"Like that punch the monkey ad! I love that one!" Ballmer said and began his patented monkey dance. "C'mon everyone! Punch the monkey!"
When asked about MS simply adopting WebKit and making everyone's life easier and even saving themselves piles of money, Ballmer pulled out a shotgun and killed the reporter.
"Oops! Thought he was zombie," said Ballmer and shot the reporter's body again. "Double tap!"
It's mostly the old farts writing checks, and I mean *old*. I'm 44 and I've been doing online bill pay since 1999 with Yahoo and then going to my credit union's own system when Yahoo dropped the service.
I keep a book of checks around for big ticket items like home improvement projects or car down payments. For groceries and other relatively small expenses I just use a credit card that I pay off each month. I have my whole life routed through one card that gives me gift certificates. There's also "check cards" and most places let you use an ATM card right there in the store. We actually have quite a lot of options now that I think about it.
Maybe checks were more ingrained into the USA? We still have a cottage industry of companies that will do custom checks with photos or user selected artwork. I once thought about getting checks with satanic symbols on them in the off chance that periodically some religious person at some company would be too scared to cash it. :-)
(Scene: the smoking, irradiated ruins of the Vatican)
Pope: Please spare me and the Catholic Church, QD!
Me: Then tell me the location of the secret Priory Of Pedophilia base!
Pope: Never!
Me: Then die!
(QD burns the pope to ashes with his masers of doom)
Jennifer Connelly: You saved me, QD! Take me with you and I shall be your love forever!
Me: Ha ha! My work here is done!
(QD grabs Jennifer Connelly and flies off into the sunset)
Not to mention I get a knock at the door and it's the cops:
Cops: Mr. Desperation, your friend Unquiet Slumber was killed earlier today.
Me: ZOMG! O_o
Cops: We need to take you in.
Me: Buh?
Cops: Your DNA was identified at the scene.
Me: Well, yeah, Unquiet's a buddy. I'm over there all the time.
Cops: Come with us please.
Me: Buh?
Cops: Book him, Danno.
Me: Hey, how'd we get to the police station so fast?
Cops: We have teleportation, too.
Me: Well, you'll never hold me, coppers! Mwah ha ha!
(QD transforms into flight mode and blasts out of there, leaving a hole in the roof)
Cops: ZOMG! O_o
Me: Ha ha! Now to take over the Vatican with my maser cannons of doom!
er...
OK, I strayed a bit from the point, but you savvy what I'm sayin?
Seems that CA and TX should balance each other out, politically.
Yeah, because having rabid right wingers and rabid left wingers results in a lovely balanced situation every time! :-P
No, positive crazy plus negative crazy gives you a big fat zero (as opposed to a skinnier zero).
To torture a Spinal Tap quote, if the leftists are fire and the rightists are ice, the children will get the educational equivalent of lukewarm water.
Either way young Texas children will still grow up with no idea how many provinces there are in Canada
Zero. Canada is a myth and does not exist.
what language they speak in Egypt
English if they know what's good for 'em, gawd durn it!
or who the president of France is.
Wait. There's an old rhyming mnemonic for this. I see England, I see France, I see President Underpants. Yeah, that's it!
Ummm..... ok? I only did the correction because it's, like, my username and all.
Actually, I took it from Thoreau's "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Meh... the mods are generally high on crack or meth or drain cleaner or something. I get Troll mods on innocent things quite often. I also get humor posts rated "Insightful", so their delusions swing both ways. ;-)
This is inevitable. Not only will we see more of this, but it's going to get a lot more invasive.
Here in California there is talk of the State having radio control of our home thermostats. It is *literally* tin foil (or some other malleable signal blocker) time.
So rather than say "yay, Pink Floyd won!", we should be saying "what the fuck did EMI think they were doing?".
WHAT THE FUCK DID EMI THINK THEY WERE DOING?!!1! DERP!!!
Hanging on in silent desperation is the English way.
*quiet* desperation
Article on TV making kids fat. Check. See you in six months.
OK, what's next... cell phone cancer? No, too soon. Video game violence? Not quite yet.
How about one where creationism believing fat kids using cell phones under power lines can get cancer unless they use Linux and stop global warming using stimulus money for stem cell research?
Ooo! How about a good "Amerkinz am teh stoopids" study based on a phone survey?
So don't be offended, he wasn't talking about your beloved RealBasic.
Oh, cheer up. It's almost Christmas!
Well *I* was aiming for (barely) funny, so your beef is with the mods. ;-)
Probably not, but it seems to me that you are the one hysterically wetting your pants.
If you say so. I posted a quip. *You* posted a rant. We'll let the historians decide.
Depends on the BASIC. I use RealBasic at work as an alternative to LabView. It's object oriented, multithreaded and completely "Visual".
as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration
Am I the only person on the Earth who just writes off hysterical, panty-wetting stuff like this? When did he say this? in the 1960s or something? It's 2010 now, right?
Did you try Googling it *without* the word malware?
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=%22PDF+Suite%22&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&fp=1
The OP was talking about a graph detailing troop losses, but, yes, yet another reason to find the original comparison lacking in brainwaves.
Step one for the GOP is to toss out the evangelicals. Even Nixon warned about mixing politcis and religion. When freaking *Nixon* finds your plans lacking, you might want to run a reassessment. Most who have analyzed the situation feel they'd gain far more than they lost.
Our political system as we know it, is fucked.
It acts, in combination with the media, to filter out anyone but complete sociopaths. You have to be utterly without care about other people- what they think of you, how your decisions affect their daily lives, etc.- to run for office these days.
I reckon this is a good thing.
...whut?
Perhaps now we can get people more involved with how politics happen in DC and start voting based on someones voting record, and not based purely on party.
Bah ha ha! Yeah, good luck with that. Wasn't Obama supposed to be morning in America again? How's that working out?
At least, I hope so.
Hope is not a strategy.
Wait, got another pithy one: hope in one hand and crap in the other and see which hand fills up first.
OK, now you can admonish me about how my hateful cynicism will never solve anything and perhaps something vaguely erudite on self fulfilling prophecies.
That's not scary. Try retitling it from "Napoleons invasion of Russia" to "Bushes invasion of Iraq". That sounds possible enough to be terrifying.
Well, yeah, if you take a person and surgically remove all their knowledge of history, awareness of current events and their critical thinking center, I can see how that person might confuse the two events. Or just drop them on their head a bunch of times. That'd work, too.
Quite simply, he will be helpful because when he puts together a report, there will be one or two incredibly informative graphs that explain where the money went and how that money changed things.
Heck, I could paste a picture of a black hole and a type a 200 point "0" onto a Powerpoint slide as well as this guy, and I'd charge a lot less.
By having this information in such a concise, digestible form, it will help bring transparency and accountability to the government.
Yeah, sure it will, kiddo. Sure it will.
This should be - v e r y - interesting indeed. [snicker snack] Remember, this is the guy who put Stalin on the cover of his pamphlet
Wow. Is that what teh kids consider - e d g y - these days?
An asshole also might try to cover things up. That's the problem with assholes... you just never know.