I have a method to clean up the mess and defeat the bean counters and it consists of three little letters: TDP... Someone wanna loan me a couple million?
APNewsWire: "Hired thugs for the notorious RIAA gang mistakenly run down innocent businessman."
"In another RIAA sponsored incident, the owner of a small hardware store was injured in a hit-and-run yesterday by a car load of the RIAA's mercenary thugs. Going by the name 'MediaDefender' these so-called vigilantes mistook Mr. Revision3 for one of the business owners along Internet Way that don't pay protection money to the RIAA. One of the thugs was reported as saying 'Well, he had a store front so we just assumed he was on the hit list.' A full investigation is underway."
Secret isn't too hard to get; they interview you and do a little digging into your life to paint a picture of your risks such as bribery or if there's anything that can be held over your head to sway you.
Top Secret is about the same; though they interview you and a number of people you know to build an image of your socio-political basis in life.
Then there's the big cookie, the Top Secret Special Background Investigation (TSSBI): This thing is sort of like the Olympics of clearance investigations. They interview you, 5-10 people you know, and 3-4 people they know - When you get this level of clearance, the people you know are basically cleared for secret and people you have never met are cleared for confidential (not a literal clearance, but the investigation is similar).
When I had my TSSBI done in the Navy years and years ago, I remember a psyche interviewer sitting me down after a few weeks had passed and mentioning that some people I knew were into role playing games... He mentioned "dungeons and dragons" specifically and wanted to know what my feelings were about the game - in a clinical psychologist "write on the notepad and say 'I see' a lot" kind of way.:)
All this so I could play radio on a ballistic nuclear sub... Something about controlling EAMs which give orders to create nuclear winters seemed to make them think it was important to get to know me...
I whipped up a quick script to check/register random 20 character alphanumeric strings... Because, you know, someone out there might like mCw7mxTSFdidHiJu9CI2.com
I've got it set at 1 check/registration every 10 seconds, just to prevent any 'DoS' issues...
This might not cost them anything, but I'm curious to see how their DB holds up under the/. effect.
I think they should be looking into the solar system warming problem and not be so Earth-centric...
I mean, I find it interesting that there are reports about how the temperature of Mars has increased at the same rate as Earth for the last three or four years... So, obviously, we're screwing up so bad we're even having an effect on our nearest planetary neighbors, maybe even the entire solar system!
Nuke us from orbit, it's the only way to be sure...
An operating system exists for one, rather simple, reason: To provide a common interface between user software and user hardware.
So, with this in mind, look at some of the 'features' in Vista - most, if not all, of them are outside the "OS" paradigm and are just marketing driven bloat designed to (A) drive sales or (B) force retention.
Now with that out of the way, if anyone needs me I'll be reading my email under BeOS.:)
And, of course, if you think cleaning up her compromised PC was bad... wait until our virtual havens are struck with flying.penis.worm.F7! It's funny you would mention this... I have a bit of a presence in SecondLife (Sue me, I like to build stuff) and some iTard bought all of this land next to mine, left the permissions open, and his land contracted all sorts of undesirable functionality - such as the above mentioned flying private parts - which impacted everyone around him and eventually required us, his neighbors, to come over and fix it for him.
While I'm sure the parallels to his home computer are astounding, it's just another reason there should be licenses to use the Internet...
Way back in the Before Times I did a few year stint as a voice actor and mastered such things as the Scottish brogue and the Brittish stiff upper lip... So, much to the amusement of my guild, I use these skills on our vent server when we're not hardcore raiding.
It really is a lot of fun to be playing my Dwarven warrior and telling a team mate on vent while we're in a battleground "Don' do tha' ya ninny! They be baitin' ya to come an' give 'en 'nother free kill." in an almost perfect replica of a Dwarven NPC.
There are a few folks now who've gotten over their mic-fright and have started to give their characters a bit of an accent... Good times, good times.
I would guess, based on the use of the word "revoked", that there is a pre-generated list of keys in some vault somewhere that now has the "09" key marked out with a sharpie.
Everquest ripped off DikuMud, Diku ripped off D&D, D&D ripped off Chainmail, Chainmail ripped off table top wargaming, Wargaming ripped off chess, which in turn ripped of tribal warfare and is, in itself, a ripoff of basic animalistic territory/breeding disputes.
I suppose that while we're at it we should knock on GoodYear for ripping off the first wheel and Boeing needs to be boycotted because they merely improved the "Bird"(tm) concept...
Don't take any of the following the wrong way. I use and support a great many Microsoft products every day - from Exchange and MSSQL to three flavors of OS and even some MS hardware...
But, there is no way this can be sucessful for them and there is one simple reason:
Simplicity
Microsoft is utterly incapable of creating something simple: Outlook does 300 things besides e-mail, Internet Explorer is everything *but* a web browser, every version of their OS tries to supply hundreds of functions no one ever uses... Heck, even the Microsoft mouse I have sitting here on my desk has at least three buttons I've never used and an immense suite of software I've never installed. Even my Xbox is rife with too many features, buttons, and interfaces... It's a game machine, not a home entertainment system/internet device/stereo/toaster...
Now I look at the Mac department here at work - simple interfaces abound. I'd go as far as to say if Apple could figure out a way to have a five button keyboard, they'd come standard with the machine. Apple knows simplicity and the iPod is an excellent example of their design philosophy... This, I figure, has contributed greatly to Apple's 800 pound gorrila stance in the portable device market.
"Unlike a lot of malware that exploits vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system, there is no 'patch' that can be downloaded to ward off Kama Sutra."
As the T-Shirt says: Social Engineering - Because there is no patch for human stupidity...
Well, it's obvious why they changed the name of the laptop from 'Powerbook' to 'Macbook'... Apple once had a line of laptops called 'Powerbook Duo', and the new core is called 'Core Duo': It would harken back to the old 68K days, and we cant have that.
It seems to me that, somewhere along the line, CD/DVD media moguls discovered that if they make the plastic softer people have to buy more CD/DVD media when it scratches. I mean, compare a CDR from the store today to a CDR from ten years ago... They're night and day as far as the plastics are concerned.
I guess it all boils down to the fact that the old CD advertising line of "Lasts forever!" is simply bad for business.
Ehh, they nerfed the 'invulnerability absorbing jumping damage' thing back in 1.4.
This is why you should always make sure you read the patch notes before doing anything rash.
So, I'm to understand that more 'popular' and 'newer' music will soon cost more through iTunes?
Hmm...
I'm just going to have to chalk this one up to the fact that "they" are going to be taxing poor musical taste. Meanwhile, everything -I- like will now be cheaper, which is sort of like the recording industry thanking me for liking music with a bit more than an interesting bass rif...
Thank you Recording Industry!
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If you zoom in on it, it looks like the black area lines up with the strip grid for the sat images. I think it's just missing data, but then again I could be posting this from floor 2, ring 'D' in the pentagon, so who knows.:)
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I have a method to clean up the mess and defeat the bean counters and it consists of three little letters: TDP... Someone wanna loan me a couple million?
Simple really, it is nothing more than the Sol system's Well Gate... The Well World computer had to get us all here somehow right?
Pity Chalker isn't around to see this...
Nah. I say remove all of the warning labels and let the problem resolve itself.
Obviously a Warlock. ;)
"In another RIAA sponsored incident, the owner of a small hardware store was injured in a hit-and-run yesterday by a car load of the RIAA's mercenary thugs. Going by the name 'MediaDefender' these so-called vigilantes mistook Mr. Revision3 for one of the business owners along Internet Way that don't pay protection money to the RIAA. One of the thugs was reported as saying 'Well, he had a store front so we just assumed he was on the hit list.' A full investigation is underway."
Secret isn't too hard to get; they interview you and do a little digging into your life to paint a picture of your risks such as bribery or if there's anything that can be held over your head to sway you.
:)
Top Secret is about the same; though they interview you and a number of people you know to build an image of your socio-political basis in life.
Then there's the big cookie, the Top Secret Special Background Investigation (TSSBI): This thing is sort of like the Olympics of clearance investigations. They interview you, 5-10 people you know, and 3-4 people they know - When you get this level of clearance, the people you know are basically cleared for secret and people you have never met are cleared for confidential (not a literal clearance, but the investigation is similar).
When I had my TSSBI done in the Navy years and years ago, I remember a psyche interviewer sitting me down after a few weeks had passed and mentioning that some people I knew were into role playing games... He mentioned "dungeons and dragons" specifically and wanted to know what my feelings were about the game - in a clinical psychologist "write on the notepad and say 'I see' a lot" kind of way.
All this so I could play radio on a ballistic nuclear sub... Something about controlling EAMs which give orders to create nuclear winters seemed to make them think it was important to get to know me...
Whoa! Don't use that word!
Somewhere in an AT&T monitoring center a little light with a handwritten "Terrorist" tag next to it lit up...
I whipped up a quick script to check/register random 20 character alphanumeric strings... Because, you know, someone out there might like mCw7mxTSFdidHiJu9CI2.com
/. effect.
I've got it set at 1 check/registration every 10 seconds, just to prevent any 'DoS' issues...
This might not cost them anything, but I'm curious to see how their DB holds up under the
I think they should be looking into the solar system warming problem and not be so Earth-centric...
I mean, I find it interesting that there are reports about how the temperature of Mars has increased at the same rate as Earth for the last three or four years... So, obviously, we're screwing up so bad we're even having an effect on our nearest planetary neighbors, maybe even the entire solar system!
Nuke us from orbit, it's the only way to be sure...
So, with this in mind, look at some of the 'features' in Vista - most, if not all, of them are outside the "OS" paradigm and are just marketing driven bloat designed to (A) drive sales or (B) force retention.
Now with that out of the way, if anyone needs me I'll be reading my email under BeOS. :)
While I'm sure the parallels to his home computer are astounding, it's just another reason there should be licenses to use the Internet...
Way back in the Before Times I did a few year stint as a voice actor and mastered such things as the Scottish brogue and the Brittish stiff upper lip... So, much to the amusement of my guild, I use these skills on our vent server when we're not hardcore raiding.
It really is a lot of fun to be playing my Dwarven warrior and telling a team mate on vent while we're in a battleground "Don' do tha' ya ninny! They be baitin' ya to come an' give 'en 'nother free kill." in an almost perfect replica of a Dwarven NPC.
There are a few folks now who've gotten over their mic-fright and have started to give their characters a bit of an accent... Good times, good times.
I would guess, based on the use of the word "revoked", that there is a pre-generated list of keys in some vault somewhere that now has the "09" key marked out with a sharpie.
I suppose that while we're at it we should knock on GoodYear for ripping off the first wheel and Boeing needs to be boycotted because they merely improved the "Bird"(tm) concept...
How much ya wanna bet it causes erosion on a molecular level or somesuch... "It works great! But the system disolves in 8 hours..."
So, I suppose this is now, officially, the world's largest icon?
Don't take any of the following the wrong way. I use and support a great many Microsoft products every day - from Exchange and MSSQL to three flavors of OS and even some MS hardware...
But, there is no way this can be sucessful for them and there is one simple reason:
Simplicity
Microsoft is utterly incapable of creating something simple: Outlook does 300 things besides e-mail, Internet Explorer is everything *but* a web browser, every version of their OS tries to supply hundreds of functions no one ever uses... Heck, even the Microsoft mouse I have sitting here on my desk has at least three buttons I've never used and an immense suite of software I've never installed. Even my Xbox is rife with too many features, buttons, and interfaces... It's a game machine, not a home entertainment system/internet device/stereo/toaster...
Now I look at the Mac department here at work - simple interfaces abound. I'd go as far as to say if Apple could figure out a way to have a five button keyboard, they'd come standard with the machine. Apple knows simplicity and the iPod is an excellent example of their design philosophy... This, I figure, has contributed greatly to Apple's 800 pound gorrila stance in the portable device market.
Sadly, Microsoft doesn't stand a chance...
As the T-Shirt says: Social Engineering - Because there is no patch for human stupidity...
Well, it's obvious why they changed the name of the laptop from 'Powerbook' to 'Macbook'... Apple once had a line of laptops called 'Powerbook Duo', and the new core is called 'Core Duo': It would harken back to the old 68K days, and we cant have that.
I guess it all boils down to the fact that the old CD advertising line of "Lasts forever!" is simply bad for business.
0.44%!? Good god man! Run for the hills! The end is near! Repent now you music pirating fools!
Anyone notice that Windows, which is a single-user OS by all accounts, runs multi-user really well once it's infected with something?
Ehh, they nerfed the 'invulnerability absorbing jumping damage' thing back in 1.4. This is why you should always make sure you read the patch notes before doing anything rash.
Hmm...
I'm just going to have to chalk this one up to the fact that "they" are going to be taxing poor musical taste. Meanwhile, everything -I- like will now be cheaper, which is sort of like the recording industry thanking me for liking music with a bit more than an interesting bass rif...
Thank you Recording Industry!
If you zoom in on it, it looks like the black area lines up with the strip grid for the sat images. I think it's just missing data, but then again I could be posting this from floor 2, ring 'D' in the pentagon, so who knows. :)