There's something a little strange about spending hundreds of billions to create a missile shield on the off chance the terrorists are smart enough to build a viable nuclear weapon AND deliver it on target via ICBM from thousands of miles away... but too dumb to figure out how to trigger a cascading failure with a DDOS attack.
Truth is, if the raids on strongholds in Iraq are any indication, they can barely figure out how to upgrade to Windows 98. I'd be more worried about my government bankrupting me than anything the evil terrorists could pull off.
Personally, I've been dying for a way to place the controls to delete my Treo address book or play porn on my iPod, right out there on my jacket. Subway rides will be so much more exciting. I just hope they distribute their security patches in stylish colors with a sewing kit.
For the most part, there aren't any "generations" at all. Corporate types have been at this for decades... when a new demographic trend gets strong enough to become a profitable market segment, package it up with a nice easy-to-understand label like "Generation Y", then start blitzing them with messaging telling them how they behave, what they like, and which companies really get them. It's kind of like moving a new product from the early-adopter phase to the mainstream, except you're the product and someone else makes all the money.
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I would never buy a product from them. The whole credit system is based on the assumption that people are responsible and pay their debt.
Heh. s/assumption/enforcement/
This is just another sleaze tactic to enforce sleazy payment contracts; the only thing new or interesting about it is it uses a circuit board instead of a thug. Anyone who's offended that credit lenders are treating him like a number instead of a human hasn't looked at his FICO score lately.
Best way to deal with sleaze is: don't do business with them. It won't change their tactics at all, but you'll be a lot happier.
Who was the latest idiot at Intel who thought I'd be intrigued by a brand name I can't figure out how to pronounce, without their help? All we know is the product name, and already their user interface is broken.
Battling a pandemic disease such as avian flu requires the ability to quickly track sick people and anyone they have contacted.
OK so far...
In response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials have proposed new federal regulations to electronically track more than 600 million U.S. airline passengers a year traveling on more than 7 million flights through 67 hub airports.
Ummm... anyone care to do the geometric expansion on this one? CDC is gonna need one hell of a call center. Perhaps India could handle it. (Not a company in India. INDIA.)
No kidding... I'm stuck with Cingular in LA and it's a disaster. Chances of completing a whole local call without being cut off or garbled into oblivion... maybe 30%. THESE people want to eat more of their already insufficient bandwidth to broadcast commercial crap to my phone... and they want me to pay extra for it?
Maybe they're taking a lesson from Microsoft -
1. Add lots of features no one wants
2. Hope customers don't notice that they don't work
3. Profit!
Heh... slashdotters are falling for this? It's just a press release written by some government PR flack who didn't know what he was writing about. He probably learned about Sandstorm from some crypto geek who tried to explain a packet sniffer in Mickey Mouse terms, and he repeated them. Throw this one on the tinfoil hat pile.
The headline was generated using Microsoft's new technology for highlighting any words referring to 'numbers'. Course, there are still a couple bugs to be worked out.
* "Fedex has the exclusive right [...] to create derivative works, to distribute copies to the public by sale [...] rental, lease, or lending and to publicly display its copyrighted works".
Oops.. better send a cease-and-desist to every shipping clerk in the country who creates a "derivative work" by sticking an address label on a FedEx box. We need some real DRM here, like building them out of Teflon.
And TV stations are distributing the FedEx copyrighted logo to millions of IP thieves via commercials... sue those freeloaders! Also, throw in a few thousand lawsuits for people who accidentally leave the FedEx logo showing when tossing the box in a trash bin. We're losing billions here, billions!
That's why I want the government monitoring every keystroke I type on the internets. If you're doing nothing questionable, you have nothing to fear, right? Protect the children!
No one should be falling for scams like this in 2005. Want to make the roads safer, all you have to do is require a driving test that couldn't be aced by the average 8 year old. Hard as it is to believe, the guys setting up covert surveillance around you do not have your best interests at heart... not when their budgets and revenue streams are in question.
The real concern is when an institution supposed to be dedicated to the public good becomes parasitic on it, to perpetuate itself. Usually that's when the platitudes about protecting the children and ensuring your safety start showing up, and anyone with a brain should recognize them for what they are: bullshit. In the last 10 years, I've been hit three times by "trigger-happy" cops or their surveillance programs for absurd offences that just happen to require cash payments, to them; I've NEVER been hit by someone speeding.
I think we need a piracy-checking program that validates MS sites and apps themselves - if Microsoft gained ownership of it through pirate tactics like IP theft, monopoly abuses, swiping the idea from its actual inventor and forcing him out of business, etc., it fails the piracy check and is blocked from installing on your system or displaying in your browser.
Then again, that describes just about every MS product and OS except Microsoft Bob... so I guess switching off Windows for good is the ultimate anti-corporate-piracy move.
Unfortunately, the microorganism in its natural state is anaerobic, which means it dies when exposed to large concentrations of oxygen.
Evolution already took care of the problem... the critter gets out of hand producing too much oxygen, it dies in its own poisons before turning the planet into a steaming cinder.
To get around this problem, the researchers produce millions of the bugs and expose them to a low concentration of oxygen. They then take the ones that survive and use them to parent a new generation of bugs.
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Pretty soon, running over rodents on the street will just make them mad enough to chase you down and fight back. Better invest in a Hummer.
It was found long ago... males drop 20 IQ points on average in the presence of an XX-chromosome genotype.
Well, I already know I don't have the dumbness gene, because my IQ isn't 20 points lower than it is. Or something.
There's something a little strange about spending hundreds of billions to create a missile shield on the off chance the terrorists are smart enough to build a viable nuclear weapon AND deliver it on target via ICBM from thousands of miles away... but too dumb to figure out how to trigger a cascading failure with a DDOS attack.
Truth is, if the raids on strongholds in Iraq are any indication, they can barely figure out how to upgrade to Windows 98. I'd be more worried about my government bankrupting me than anything the evil terrorists could pull off.
Did they remember to include security holes to let me embed viruses in an RSS feed? Email is such a drag nowadays.
Personally, I've been dying for a way to place the controls to delete my Treo address book or play porn on my iPod, right out there on my jacket. Subway rides will be so much more exciting. I just hope they distribute their security patches in stylish colors with a sewing kit.
For the most part, there aren't any "generations" at all. Corporate types have been at this for decades... when a new demographic trend gets strong enough to become a profitable market segment, package it up with a nice easy-to-understand label like "Generation Y", then start blitzing them with messaging telling them how they behave, what they like, and which companies really get them. It's kind of like moving a new product from the early-adopter phase to the mainstream, except you're the product and someone else makes all the money.
I would never buy a product from them. The whole credit system is based on the assumption that people are responsible and pay their debt.
Heh. s/assumption/enforcement/
This is just another sleaze tactic to enforce sleazy payment contracts; the only thing new or interesting about it is it uses a circuit board instead of a thug. Anyone who's offended that credit lenders are treating him like a number instead of a human hasn't looked at his FICO score lately.
Best way to deal with sleaze is: don't do business with them. It won't change their tactics at all, but you'll be a lot happier.
Who was the latest idiot at Intel who thought I'd be intrigued by a brand name I can't figure out how to pronounce, without their help? All we know is the product name, and already their user interface is broken.
Battling a pandemic disease such as avian flu requires the ability to quickly track sick people and anyone they have contacted.
OK so far...
In response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials have proposed new federal regulations to electronically track more than 600 million U.S. airline passengers a year traveling on more than 7 million flights through 67 hub airports.
Ummm... anyone care to do the geometric expansion on this one? CDC is gonna need one hell of a call center. Perhaps India could handle it. (Not a company in India. INDIA.)
I'll look you up when my new product is ready for market - a voice disguiser that lets kids talk shit in front of their parents at 16 KHz.
No kidding... I'm stuck with Cingular in LA and it's a disaster. Chances of completing a whole local call without being cut off or garbled into oblivion... maybe 30%. THESE people want to eat more of their already insufficient bandwidth to broadcast commercial crap to my phone... and they want me to pay extra for it? Maybe they're taking a lesson from Microsoft - 1. Add lots of features no one wants 2. Hope customers don't notice that they don't work 3. Profit!
Too late... I just patented the business model for an anti-patent patent trust. Licenses are available for $10 million a pop.
Heh... slashdotters are falling for this? It's just a press release written by some government PR flack who didn't know what he was writing about. He probably learned about Sandstorm from some crypto geek who tried to explain a packet sniffer in Mickey Mouse terms, and he repeated them. Throw this one on the tinfoil hat pile.
Three weeks? Still not enough entertainment for $2500. For that kind of money I can get Marina Sirtis to prance around my apartment naked for 3 weeks.
The headline was generated using Microsoft's new technology for highlighting any words referring to 'numbers'. Course, there are still a couple bugs to be worked out.
* "Fedex owns the copyright of its packaging"
* "Fedex has the exclusive right [...] to create derivative works, to distribute copies to the public by sale [...] rental, lease, or lending and to publicly display its copyrighted works".
Oops.. better send a cease-and-desist to every shipping clerk in the country who creates a "derivative work" by sticking an address label on a FedEx box. We need some real DRM here, like building them out of Teflon.
And TV stations are distributing the FedEx copyrighted logo to millions of IP thieves via commercials... sue those freeloaders! Also, throw in a few thousand lawsuits for people who accidentally leave the FedEx logo showing when tossing the box in a trash bin. We're losing billions here, billions!
That's why I want the government monitoring every keystroke I type on the internets. If you're doing nothing questionable, you have nothing to fear, right? Protect the children!
No one should be falling for scams like this in 2005. Want to make the roads safer, all you have to do is require a driving test that couldn't be aced by the average 8 year old. Hard as it is to believe, the guys setting up covert surveillance around you do not have your best interests at heart... not when their budgets and revenue streams are in question.
The real concern is when an institution supposed to be dedicated to the public good becomes parasitic on it, to perpetuate itself. Usually that's when the platitudes about protecting the children and ensuring your safety start showing up, and anyone with a brain should recognize them for what they are: bullshit. In the last 10 years, I've been hit three times by "trigger-happy" cops or their surveillance programs for absurd offences that just happen to require cash payments, to them; I've NEVER been hit by someone speeding.
Then again, that describes just about every MS product and OS except Microsoft Bob... so I guess switching off Windows for good is the ultimate anti-corporate-piracy move.
Evolution already took care of the problem... the critter gets out of hand producing too much oxygen, it dies in its own poisons before turning the planet into a steaming cinder.
To get around this problem, the researchers produce millions of the bugs and expose them to a low concentration of oxygen. They then take the ones that survive and use them to parent a new generation of bugs.
Oops... never mind.
It will if you get the Death Star tractor beam.