Signature this, signature that. Enough already! Is that the latest marketing buzz? Signature macchiato at Starbucks; signature restaurant at the hotel, signature lobster on the menu (if he was that clever, maybe they shouldn't have served him for food); signature margarita on the plane (which was the only signature item credited to somebody, but didn't make it less mundane). Will McDondals serve signature BigMacs soon? And who signs these things anyway? Most of it is not credited to anybody in particular.
And now you're telling me Microsoft has a "signature box". What does that mean? They buy some cheap hardware, slap a sticker on it, and sell it at a markup? Or does Ballmer smudge the screen with his greasy fingers before he hits it gently with a chair and kicks it out the door?
Or perhaps a blessing?
Our Bill, who art in Redmond hallowed be thy code, thy OS come, thy will be done, on mobile as it is on PC. Give us this day our monthly patch And forgive us our security vulnerabilities, as we forgive those who disclose zero-days against us. And lead us not into open source, but deliver us from blue screen. For thine is the OS, and the Office, and the IE, from version to version. Amen.
This has always puzzled me (especially on Slashdot): When you have the know-how to put together your own box, why not buy the parts, spend an hour assembling it (which is great fun), and get exactly what you want.
Your only excuse at this point, is that the machine you bought was a laptop. If not, I'm afraid you'll have to hand in your geek card.;-)
I know at least a handful users that have way more than a couple of accounts (pets, hiders and other stuff.)
Tell me about it. All my 15 teddy bears are on Facebook. And each of them have hundreds of other friends; all toys, pets, cats, dogs, sheep, horses. It's a tight nit club though, with typically 300 or more friends in common.:)
> "stupid drunken or braggy confessions"... ... is the main reason for getting caught after you've gotten away with the crime. Just ask Bradley Manning. But not only on the internet. Schneier's "Beyond Fear" is packed with examples of people getting caught after they could not keep the secret to themselves anymore.
A long a well prepared list of which countries and officials are interesting to US intelligence. Requesting phone numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, finger prints, iris scans.
This is not drunken gossip. These are calculated orders for espionage.
Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone 'Neath the halo of a street lamp I turn my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one dared Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools," said I, "you do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you" But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls And whispered in the sound of silence
And, more importantly, are we talking about a real nail gun or about a machine gun style "kill space aliens" type of nail gun, and can I get a discount of some type?
I'm sorry to report that nail guns, machine guns, or factories for either are not available for sale any more. However, you might be interested in a factory factory, which you can use to customize your gun factory.
> I am pleased that there are alternatives at last, be it Apple or a future Linux that will be more innovative and user friendly by the time my current hardware dies.
Why wait that long? Download a Linux distro today and setup a dual boot system. Spend some time just looking around, figuring out what you need to make the migration. Take your time, and do a smooth transition.
Can't you top up with cash? I believe I've seen machines which take both cash and card, and also have an Oyster reader. Those are not at all stations, though.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me. I thought it was: "Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, ehhh, ehhh, you can't get fooled again!"
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Signature this, signature that. Enough already! Is that the latest marketing buzz? Signature macchiato at Starbucks; signature restaurant at the hotel, signature lobster on the menu (if he was that clever, maybe they shouldn't have served him for food); signature margarita on the plane (which was the only signature item credited to somebody, but didn't make it less mundane). Will McDondals serve signature BigMacs soon? And who signs these things anyway? Most of it is not credited to anybody in particular.
And now you're telling me Microsoft has a "signature box". What does that mean? They buy some cheap hardware, slap a sticker on it, and sell it at a markup? Or does Ballmer smudge the screen with his greasy fingers before he hits it gently with a chair and kicks it out the door?
Or perhaps a blessing?
Our Bill, who art in Redmond
hallowed be thy code,
thy OS come,
thy will be done,
on mobile as it is on PC.
Give us this day our monthly patch
And forgive us our security vulnerabilities,
as we forgive those
who disclose zero-days against us.
And lead us not into open source,
but deliver us from blue screen.
For thine is the OS,
and the Office, and the IE,
from version to version.
Amen.
So WikiLeaks is the one of the dogs? Or the owner? Or the victim?
Actually, could you please put this into a car analogy, so fellow Slashdotters can follow?
> you can choose not to buy the iPad, or the app, or you can use one of a plethora of other news apps including anything with a website.
I thought that was the definition of sheeple; that they do not choose.
This has always puzzled me (especially on Slashdot): When you have the know-how to put together your own box, why not buy the parts, spend an hour assembling it (which is great fun), and get exactly what you want.
Your only excuse at this point, is that the machine you bought was a laptop. If not, I'm afraid you'll have to hand in your geek card. ;-)
> Or are we going to get a moral story about how humans and machines should coexist.
That's it. Bush was right: "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
Fool me once, or twice, or, ehmm... Matrix? Fish?
I know at least a handful users that have way more than a couple of accounts (pets, hiders and other stuff.)
Tell me about it. All my 15 teddy bears are on Facebook. And each of them have hundreds of other friends; all toys, pets, cats, dogs, sheep, horses. It's a tight nit club though, with typically 300 or more friends in common. :)
It's almost like some people I work with:
"I can implement that feature in less than a day"
Well, there's this torrent site I've heard of. Starts with p... Pir... Let me see what google auto-complete has to say.
Pirate bay! That's it. I've heard you can even download the torrent files from there. However, I would not know anything about that.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=pirate+bay
> On a side note, I wonder if they're going to start profiling teddy bears next...
That sucks. Me and all my teddy bears are flying next week. What's the TSA regulations on groping teddy bears?
> "stupid drunken or braggy confessions"...
... is the main reason for getting caught after you've gotten away with the crime. Just ask Bradley Manning. But not only on the internet. Schneier's "Beyond Fear" is packed with examples of people getting caught after they could not keep the secret to themselves anymore.
If I were a UN official or diplomat, I'd be quite careful in approaching US personnel of any kind after reading this brief:
Washington calls for intelligence on top UN officials
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/219058
Go and read the documents yourself, instead of parroting the party line of "to honest to publish" bullshit. Here, I'll even pick one out for you:
"Washington calls for intelligence on top UN officials"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/219058
A long a well prepared list of which countries and officials are interesting to US intelligence. Requesting phone numbers, credit card numbers, passwords, finger prints, iris scans.
This is not drunken gossip. These are calculated orders for espionage.
With great power comes great responsibility. Most of these big companies are missing at least one of those.
The Sound Of Silence
P. Simon, 1964
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turn my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence
http://sglyrics.myrmid.com/sounds.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaSFzp6IDgw
In New York City, we have a bad pigeon problem.
If you shoot down 200 of them, you'll get access to a gunship. Will that help?
;-)
Oh, you said NYC, not Liberty City.
Well, if it's not there by default, a few options comes to mind. :-)
apt-get install firefox-3.6
yum install firefox
FIREFOX="http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.6.12&os=linux&lang=en-GB"
wget $FIREFOX
lynx $FIREFOX
links $FIREFOX
I think that qualifies as a woosh. Even if you tried to safe guard with the "keyboard attack" idea.
> They're the "cool" company (in the US) when it comes to videogame consoles.
But apparently not with the U.S. Marines in Iraq.
http://kotaku.com/5672353/marine-firing-squad-shoots-up-xbox-360
And, more importantly, are we talking about a real nail gun or about a machine gun style "kill space aliens" type of nail gun, and can I get a discount of some type?
I'm sorry to report that nail guns, machine guns, or factories for either are not available for sale any more. However, you might be interested in a factory factory, which you can use to customize your gun factory.
For details, please see:
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431.12
+1
Oh, and I would need to install Windows, which is also out of the question.
So it uses the NT kernel rather that the open sores Linsux kernel?
He said unbreakable, not unbearable.
If you take NT out of unstable, you get usable...
> I am pleased that there are alternatives at last, be it Apple or a future Linux that will be more innovative and user friendly by the time my current hardware dies.
Why wait that long? Download a Linux distro today and setup a dual boot system. Spend some time just looking around, figuring out what you need to make the migration. Take your time, and do a smooth transition.
Here's some free links for you:
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
...but will it run on Linux? And be compatible with NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux?
Can't you top up with cash? I believe I've seen machines which take both cash and card, and also have an Oyster reader. Those are not at all stations, though.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
I thought it was: "Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, ehhh, ehhh, you can't get fooled again!"