A lot of the criminal element are stupid people. They are afraid of the police and 'fight authority' in whatever form. Thank goodness for this, because otherwise we'd be pinned down like bugs on tagboard by lawyers.
I personally have a really excellent Leatherman. Better than I could afford. I got it from my wife, who picked it up off the ground out in the lumber area where she works. Someone who was stealing stuff and got caught at it was out in the yard and when they encountered him was frantically trying to cut through the chainlink fence to escape with the Leatherman. Apparently he escaped but left behind the nice tool.
He never came back to get it, and I sanded his initials off it with the belt sander in the model shop at work. Now it's mine.
At my wife's place of work they've prosecuted grandmothers and all sorts for shoplifting. No sympathy at all in that place. About the only way you can get away with shoplifting there if you're caught is to have a bunch of kids with you, and even then there've been instances where the kids end up in foster care cuz mom/grandma is in the klink.
The only real reason to go around WGA is if you're using a pirated copy of Windows.
Incorrect. I, personally, have Windows machines, but I'm not foolish enough to let machines running Windows to have close connection to the Internet. So if I wanted to download updates I would want to do it from this NetBSD machine, which is what I customarily use for online things (and which is routed to the Internet).
My Windows machines are authentic, and I have all the 'paperwork' and media to prove it. I'm just not gonna hang them out on the net.
And it makes perfect sense that people who want to apply all the patches to secure a Windows system are going to want to get those updates first on an already secured system. Am I supposed to connect my machine with a freshly installed Day Zero copy of Windows 2000 (I pre-registered to pre-order Windows 2000 before it came out, so I have first release media with all the exploits, etc.) online to download security patches? Do I seem like I'm nuts?
Not having a valid windows system handy I was willing to run a somewhat questionable executable on,
That sentence alone is enough to get me riled up. Granted, I'm one of the people who stepped gracefully off the Microsoft Bus as soon as 'Product Validation' became a reality. (I even run Windows 2000 and the first version of Office 2000, which are the two last versions on their respective lines to not have the 'phone home' features)
It sorta chills me to think of being afraid to run particular binaries on a machine that I own and am legitimate owner of, because a 'phone home' feature will nark on me.
My copies of Windows 2000 and Office 2000 are the full retail-box versions (about the most expensive way possible to buy Microsoft's products). I used to buy a lot of their stuff. Not any longer. And I'm not alone.
Back when my only means of transportation was a bike (in my mid 20's when I lived in a rooming house full of people with similar circumstances) we all rode one speeds, or ten speeds that had been essentially reduced to one speeds. Your average fifteen dollar used bikes. We rode them everywhere.
Anybody who is planning on using a bike for transportation should definitely ignore a bunch of yuppies and their three figure toys. If you roll everywhere you go, you get in shape and don't NEED all that crap.
I think maybe part of the reason the Segway hasn't taken off is that we don't yet have a high enough percentage of morbidly obese people. Those are the folks who I can see as perfect customers for the Segway. And doesn't it give you the jitters just to visualize something like that tooling down the sidewalk??
For some people, unfortunately, it's enough to be not-Microsoft. And there is a LOT of pro-Apple astroturfing that goes on. It's been that way for decades, though.
All I can tell from that sentence up at the top of his post is that Apple probably has his balls in a vice, and the twitchy Apple lawyer has his hand on the handle of the vice.
It very well may be the case that the Apple driver is vulnerable. But they've honestly done everything they possibly can to convince the multitudes that it isn't.
And that is a huge disservice to the community they claim they are trying to help.
Very honestly, what it's starting to sound like to me is that Apple is doing everything they possible can to prevent these guys from proving the vulnerability exists.
Which, ummmm, is a real disservice to their customer base.
It's almost time for somebody to 're-roll the game' here. It gets all musty like an old-farts convention when the people clinging to their 'low UID accounts' start getting haughty.
'Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified,' by the way, dood.
Elongated cents (what the 'penny smooshing machines' produce) are almost the only souvineers (I also like felt pendants) that I look for when I am out touristing. There is one in Nashville, Indiana.
I was recently up on the North Shore of Lake Superior (north of Duluth in Minnesota) and couldn't find ANY of the old felt pendants. All the souvineer ships are full of yuppie fare, and all kinds of expensive 'authentic high quality crafted items' and other awfulness. Where's the cheap felt pendants??? Granted, it's better that when I was a kid and tourist traps would go so far as to put a wire pen full of bear cubs out by the highway to attract tourists, but come on...
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This is for running MS-DOS programs on your StrongARM NetBSD box, inside of Bochs.
I'm currently using six machines solely to myself between work and personal use. If I were acused of specific infringement, . . .
They would back a large police van up to your computer room and impound it all.
Things like that make me nervous, because I have a LOT more than 6 computers here, and they'd probably get surly and damage some of it and even my house on the way out.
No, but force-fed goose livers is considered a national delicacy.
Me, I'm an advocate of home-brew culture. If you want to eat 'foie gras' then you should force-feed the goose yourself. Or at least volunteer to participate in the process.
It's no surprise to some of us that the people most loudly criticizing the 'repression' in the US don't live here and only have media-supplied second hand knowledge of day to day life in the US.
For 80-90% of the history of the Internet, it has been this weird counter-culture thing. It's now become part of the mainstream and is pushing other mediums in a big way.
Perhaps if the 'net is frozen and doesn't scale up any further, your assertion is correct. That isn't how things are headed, though, is it?
Let's face it, a lot more people are swapping a lot more content around now than comp.sources did back in the 80's.
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A lot of the criminal element are stupid people. They are afraid of the police and 'fight authority' in whatever form. Thank goodness for this, because otherwise we'd be pinned down like bugs on tagboard by lawyers.
I personally have a really excellent Leatherman. Better than I could afford. I got it from my wife, who picked it up off the ground out in the lumber area where she works. Someone who was stealing stuff and got caught at it was out in the yard and when they encountered him was frantically trying to cut through the chainlink fence to escape with the Leatherman. Apparently he escaped but left behind the nice tool.
He never came back to get it, and I sanded his initials off it with the belt sander in the model shop at work. Now it's mine.
At my wife's place of work they've prosecuted grandmothers and all sorts for shoplifting. No sympathy at all in that place. About the only way you can get away with shoplifting there if you're caught is to have a bunch of kids with you, and even then there've been instances where the kids end up in foster care cuz mom/grandma is in the klink.
The only real reason to go around WGA is if you're using a pirated copy of Windows.
Incorrect. I, personally, have Windows machines, but I'm not foolish enough to let machines running Windows to have close connection to the Internet. So if I wanted to download updates I would want to do it from this NetBSD machine, which is what I customarily use for online things (and which is routed to the Internet).
My Windows machines are authentic, and I have all the 'paperwork' and media to prove it. I'm just not gonna hang them out on the net.
And it makes perfect sense that people who want to apply all the patches to secure a Windows system are going to want to get those updates first on an already secured system. Am I supposed to connect my machine with a freshly installed Day Zero copy of Windows 2000 (I pre-registered to pre-order Windows 2000 before it came out, so I have first release media with all the exploits, etc.) online to download security patches? Do I seem like I'm nuts?
Not having a valid windows system handy I was willing to run a somewhat questionable executable on,
That sentence alone is enough to get me riled up. Granted, I'm one of the people who stepped gracefully off the Microsoft Bus as soon as 'Product Validation' became a reality. (I even run Windows 2000 and the first version of Office 2000, which are the two last versions on their respective lines to not have the 'phone home' features)
It sorta chills me to think of being afraid to run particular binaries on a machine that I own and am legitimate owner of, because a 'phone home' feature will nark on me.
My copies of Windows 2000 and Office 2000 are the full retail-box versions (about the most expensive way possible to buy Microsoft's products). I used to buy a lot of their stuff. Not any longer. And I'm not alone.
Back when my only means of transportation was a bike (in my mid 20's when I lived in a rooming house full of people with similar circumstances) we all rode one speeds, or ten speeds that had been essentially reduced to one speeds. Your average fifteen dollar used bikes. We rode them everywhere.
Anybody who is planning on using a bike for transportation should definitely ignore a bunch of yuppies and their three figure toys. If you roll everywhere you go, you get in shape and don't NEED all that crap.
I think maybe part of the reason the Segway hasn't taken off is that we don't yet have a high enough percentage of morbidly obese people. Those are the folks who I can see as perfect customers for the Segway. And doesn't it give you the jitters just to visualize something like that tooling down the sidewalk??
No surprise. They're probably planning to build some expensive new Segway-only bridges in Alaska. It wouldn't surprise a lot of us...
I don't wear leather made from force-fed cows. At least, not knowingly, and I'm pretty sure that sort of secret would get out.
The OS/2 movement had an even more zealous independent 'brigade' than Apple does.
Why is this a YRO category topic? It doesn't appear to be about online shopping.
Eventually, with any luck, they will.
For some people, unfortunately, it's enough to be not-Microsoft. And there is a LOT of pro-Apple astroturfing that goes on. It's been that way for decades, though.
All I can tell from that sentence up at the top of his post is that Apple probably has his balls in a vice, and the twitchy Apple lawyer has his hand on the handle of the vice.
Very honestly, what it's starting to sound like to me is that Apple is doing everything they possible can to prevent these guys from proving the vulnerability exists.
Which, ummmm, is a real disservice to their customer base.
Here's my translation of what you typed:
"Point me to the link where Apple threw dirt at him.
There are plenty of bloggers who did that for Apple."
It's almost time for somebody to 're-roll the game' here. It gets all musty like an old-farts convention when the people clinging to their 'low UID accounts' start getting haughty.
'Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified,' by the way, dood.
Well, we'd have to know for sure he was adept with a sharp axe first, wouldn't we?
The only thing that surprises me is seeing the Apple shills travelling off apple.slashdot.org to do their moderating.
Usually they hover over appledotslashdot.
Elongated cents (what the 'penny smooshing machines' produce) are almost the only souvineers (I also like felt pendants) that I look for when I am out touristing. There is one in Nashville, Indiana.
I was recently up on the North Shore of Lake Superior (north of Duluth in Minnesota) and couldn't find ANY of the old felt pendants. All the souvineer ships are full of yuppie fare, and all kinds of expensive 'authentic high quality crafted items' and other awfulness. Where's the cheap felt pendants??? Granted, it's better that when I was a kid and tourist traps would go so far as to put a wire pen full of bear cubs out by the highway to attract tourists, but come on...
This is for running MS-DOS programs on your StrongARM NetBSD box, inside of Bochs.
I'm currently using six machines solely to myself between work and personal use. If I were acused of specific infringement, . . .
They would back a large police van up to your computer room and impound it all.
Things like that make me nervous, because I have a LOT more than 6 computers here, and they'd probably get surly and damage some of it and even my house on the way out.
No, but force-fed goose livers is considered a national delicacy.
Me, I'm an advocate of home-brew culture. If you want to eat 'foie gras' then you should force-feed the goose yourself. Or at least volunteer to participate in the process.
It's no surprise to some of us that the people most loudly criticizing the 'repression' in the US don't live here and only have media-supplied second hand knowledge of day to day life in the US.
Japan.
Shouldn't you be out on the sidewalk hawking newspapers?
For 80-90% of the history of the Internet, it has been this weird counter-culture thing. It's now become part of the mainstream and is pushing other mediums in a big way.
Perhaps if the 'net is frozen and doesn't scale up any further, your assertion is correct. That isn't how things are headed, though, is it?
Let's face it, a lot more people are swapping a lot more content around now than comp.sources did back in the 80's.