Bill Gates is no saint, and should not be treated like one. Using your logic, he could speed through a red light and squash Granny in the crosswalk. The cops stop him and sure enough "Sorry, did not know it was you Mr. Gates. Good work in Africa! You can go along now. Don't worry about a ticket or anything at all."
"1. Air America Radio. If the plumbers and coffee shops that advertise on our local affiliate (in a major metro market) are any indication, the big media money isn't in criticizing the Bush regime. So they solicit money from individuals who want a free-as-in-open-source media even though the contributors aren't given a financial stake in the station's success."
How does this stack up to the $875,000 in taxpayer grants Air America received in funds diverted from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club charity? Is it going to pay them back?
"some are not, but Amish Paradise, Fat, and the Saga begins are fantastic, not to mention the music videos."
I'm sure he must have asked for permission to turn the "Saga" video into an over the top visual Star Wars spoof extravaganza like he did with "Jurassic Park", but a stinge at Lucasfilm said no. The video......lacks.
Yeah right. I see an ad flyer with a pizza delivery phone number on it. I then go boot up the old laptop...wait a while and get into the phone configuration program. Then I add the pizza place number. Then I sync with the phone. Now, finally, I use the horrid user interface on the phone to dig out the phone number I've saved as # 716, and call and order a pizza. You are right. This IS a lot easier than just dialing the damn number!
It's easy to dismiss the argument against GM food because it is all based on ignorance and paranoia. You can only accept the whacky opposition if you LACK critical thinking.
"Oh, never mind that our latest shipment of bandages had sharp rusty jagged bits of razor blades embedded in the cloth".
Or office building sprinkler systems?
"We at Paragon Office Protection Systems do not think it is anything to get upset about that our sprinkler system sprayed gasoline instead of water on that paper-room fire last week."
"Some clients accessing systems at the Chicago Board of Trade were rendered useless by this bug; the flaw essentially resulted in a crash on login. Didn't know until today that it was exploitable, though."
Good job, Winthorp.
"Seize all assets of Duke & Duke
Commodity Brokers, as well as all personal holdings
of Randolph and Mortimer Duke."
"We're ruined!"
"This is an outrage, I demand an investigation."
"You can't sell our seats. A Duke has been on this exchange since it was founded."
We founded this exchange. It's ours.It belongs to us.!!!
As long as, over the course of a year, the number of security holes plugged by the patches manages to outnumber the number of security holes introduced by these same patches, we're in real good shape right?
"Mind you, many people that respond to the ads for medical research studies aren't the most educated folks, or even care about what we do with the sample as long as they get the 15 bucks, But we try our best to inform them"
Just place a classified advert in Craiglist or the Cleveland Picayune or some other paper, saying "WANTED: FINGERS. WE REMOVE. YOU PAY $16"....and don't be surprised if you get a few customers.
"a species that historically procreates before 30 years of age is kept alive until their 80s by improved hygiene and medicine"
Things just really haven't been right since Logan 5 came along and destroyed Carrousel and the renewal process. They should have known better than to design a computer that destroys a city if you give it a confusing sentence.
"AIDS can result from being infected with the HIV virus. And I don't think the military invented it. It's been recently shown to have definitely come from monkeys, probably in the 1930's."
Both are true: the military invented it and it came from monkeys. One on the same.
"I believe the title was 'Silent Running'. 'Soylent Green' was a different movie with Charton Heston "Soylent Green is People!".
Maybe you can help me out with another show I seem to remember. I can't find the exact title on Google. It had a family in a flying saucer crashed in a jungle they could not get out of. They had to deal with an angry green guy in a cave, and there was a traitor on the ship who always tried to sell the little boy and the blonde girl with pigtails to any passing weirdo that came along (Vikings, a tall caveman, the Flying Dutchman, a green lady who sang and drank fuel, a balloon guy, etc.)
"Forget the camera and data transfer capability, as this makes them a target for bans at work, jury duty, the gym, and other sensitive areas."
I've got one of those badly-designed LG flip-phones. It has camera buttons on the side, so when you put it in your pocket, the extremely light-touch buttons on the side end up being bumped and put it into energy-consuming photo mode all the time. As a result, I've lucky to see a battery charge last a day. The only way around this is to entirely power down the phone when I am not using it. The LG Flip-phone (which also has terrible button layout) is a great example of something that someone designed but never gave consideration to testing it to see if it was usable.
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I'm not sure there was ever any actual theft involved. Unauthorized / unapproved / disliked duplication? Yeah, sure. But theft?
"It is much easier to pick their numbers from a list. The interface involves maybe two clicks"
That's it? Just two clicks? Or is there some waiting and looking at a screen involved?
Bill Gates is no saint, and should not be treated like one. Using your logic, he could speed through a red light and squash Granny in the crosswalk. The cops stop him and sure enough "Sorry, did not know it was you Mr. Gates. Good work in Africa! You can go along now. Don't worry about a ticket or anything at all."
"judge wrote 'The Court concludes that Defendants attempted to bury the relevant 107 exhibits ... in a massive pile of decoys'
I see that Microsoft is still retaining Elmer F.U.D. for his legal services.
"1. Air America Radio. If the plumbers and coffee shops that advertise on our local affiliate (in a major metro market) are any indication, the big media money isn't in criticizing the Bush regime. So they solicit money from individuals who want a free-as-in-open-source media even though the contributors aren't given a financial stake in the station's success."
How does this stack up to the $875,000 in taxpayer grants Air America received in funds diverted from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club charity? Is it going to pay them back?
"when I was in Dalmatia Croatian women looked more Turkish then anything else"
I know, but it is pretty hard to get past all the spots. And when they try to introduce you to all 100 of their siblings.
"For the same reason Macedonians struggle hard to look different than Greeks: unfortunate historical reasons. :-)"
That should not be too hard. Macedonians are Slavs, which are somewhat different from the Greeks.
"some are not, but Amish Paradise, Fat, and the Saga begins are fantastic, not to mention the music videos."
...lacks.
I'm sure he must have asked for permission to turn the "Saga" video into an over the top visual Star Wars spoof extravaganza like he did with "Jurassic Park", but a stinge at Lucasfilm said no. The video...
Yeah right. I see an ad flyer with a pizza delivery phone number on it. I then go boot up the old laptop...wait a while and get into the phone configuration program. Then I add the pizza place number. Then I sync with the phone. Now, finally, I use the horrid user interface on the phone to dig out the phone number I've saved as # 716, and call and order a pizza. You are right. This IS a lot easier than just dialing the damn number!
It's easy to dismiss the argument against GM food because it is all based on ignorance and paranoia. You can only accept the whacky opposition if you LACK critical thinking.
What if Band-Aid ran their business this way?
"Oh, never mind that our latest shipment of bandages had sharp rusty jagged bits of razor blades embedded in the cloth".
Or office building sprinkler systems?
"We at Paragon Office Protection Systems do not think it is anything to get upset about that our sprinkler system sprayed gasoline instead of water on that paper-room fire last week."
"Some clients accessing systems at the Chicago Board of Trade were rendered useless by this bug; the flaw essentially resulted in a crash on login. Didn't know until today that it was exploitable, though."
Good job, Winthorp.
"Seize all assets of Duke & Duke Commodity Brokers, as well as all personal holdings of Randolph and Mortimer Duke."
"We're ruined!"
"This is an outrage, I demand an investigation."
"You can't sell our seats. A Duke has been on this exchange since it was founded."
We founded this exchange. It's ours.It belongs to us.!!!
Just "dialing" the number is a lot quicker. It should be a common and easy operation.
As long as, over the course of a year, the number of security holes plugged by the patches manages to outnumber the number of security holes introduced by these same patches, we're in real good shape right?
"Mind you, many people that respond to the ads for medical research studies aren't the most educated folks, or even care about what we do with the sample as long as they get the 15 bucks, But we try our best to inform them"
Just place a classified advert in Craiglist or the Cleveland Picayune or some other paper, saying "WANTED: FINGERS. WE REMOVE. YOU PAY $16"....and don't be surprised if you get a few customers.
OK, mr pedantic. "Entering touch-tone phone number sequences". Got it?
That seems to be close, except it's missing the necessary part about the dinosaurs always trying to chew their way into the flying saucer.
"a species that historically procreates before 30 years of age is kept alive until their 80s by improved hygiene and medicine"
Things just really haven't been right since Logan 5 came along and destroyed Carrousel and the renewal process. They should have known better than to design a computer that destroys a city if you give it a confusing sentence.
"We need people to die..."
I guess it beats that "Army of One" slogan.
Curse you for bringing by association that damnable "In the Navy" earworm.
"they properly inform people about the program and its uses before having them volunteer."
/urine samples, always decide to give first and ask questions later.
Only for a problem that, when confronted by someone demanding blood / semen
"AIDS can result from being infected with the HIV virus. And I don't think the military invented it. It's been recently shown to have definitely come from monkeys, probably in the 1930's."
Both are true: the military invented it and it came from monkeys. One on the same.
"I believe the title was 'Silent Running'. 'Soylent Green' was a different movie with Charton Heston "Soylent Green is People!".
Maybe you can help me out with another show I seem to remember. I can't find the exact title on Google. It had a family in a flying saucer crashed in a jungle they could not get out of. They had to deal with an angry green guy in a cave, and there was a traitor on the ship who always tried to sell the little boy and the blonde girl with pigtails to any passing weirdo that came along (Vikings, a tall caveman, the Flying Dutchman, a green lady who sang and drank fuel, a balloon guy, etc.)
"This is Slashdot. Your comment makes no sense."
Not if the girl's number is No. 6; or 7 of 9.
"Forget the camera and data transfer capability, as this makes them a target for bans at work, jury duty, the gym, and other sensitive areas."
I've got one of those badly-designed LG flip-phones. It has camera buttons on the side, so when you put it in your pocket, the extremely light-touch buttons on the side end up being bumped and put it into energy-consuming photo mode all the time. As a result, I've lucky to see a battery charge last a day. The only way around this is to entirely power down the phone when I am not using it. The LG Flip-phone (which also has terrible button layout) is a great example of something that someone designed but never gave consideration to testing it to see if it was usable.