This seems to be the kind of writing Jon's most comfortable with, and it shows. Even though it stretches the point in a few spots (cmon Jon.. Fire??), it's a good stimulating read.
Having said all that... What happened to your switch to a Linux box? I'm eagerly awaiting pt. 3 of that saga..:>
~Grell
"Babeheart? What's it about?" "It's about a cute little pig that slaughters the English" -- Freakazoid
im posting this drunk as the proverbial Lord but w/oo reading any other posts lemme just add this lil'l nugget o fun.
HAH! MORON! im listeining to the format you sound the deathknell for at this very moment...!!!!
KNow why brite boy?
Coz' I dinna like getting a single CD for theone song I like. Nor do I appreciate $40+ prices for anime songs.
might as well sound the Heavenly Trumpet for the.zip format while your at it you utterly clueless schmuck!
~Grell
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."
For real good chicken Mcnugget & hotwing prices about 2 yrs down the road. Because pure research aside, you know someone in a food lab just wet themselves over this one.
~Grell
"Well, I mean, YES idealism, YES the dignity of pure research, YES the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that if there's any REAL truth, it's that the entire multi-dimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another 10 million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise." -- One of the white mice in the Hitchhikers' Guide
But I digress.. love the new Jedi Fight sequences, and the effects look too sweet.
Now to secure a good camping spot outside the theatre.
~Grell
"To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." --Robert A. Heinlein.
Not to throw gas on the fire but...
on
Windows ID
·
· Score: 1
I've got a thought here.
What if the slothlike responses we've seen to various security bugs were intentional?
Wouldn't it be possible that some of these bugs weren't much of a surprise to them, in light of this latest outrage?
Makes the old 'They're just arrogant & unresponsive to customer needs' seem a poor piece of reasoning.
Enh, just food for (slighty paranoid) thought.
~Grell
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared. --P.J. Plauger, Computer Language, Programming on Purpose, p.29, March 1983
sure beats spending it on 5 Color Crack (Magic the Squandering:).
I mean as a recovered MTG player I gotta tell ya, spending/trading big bucks on cards only to see them banned from play sucks.
So dropping $500 (about as much as a box of Magic "Legends" in '92 ) for a permanent gain shows some sense. Maybe a bit of the old power gaming disease, but at least s/he's got something to use in play next year.
~Grell
"I forsee that you will meet a king, the father of the beautiful Princess Plote DeVice; and he will insist that you rescue her from the keep of the infamous Duke Carad Bored Vilan." "Can we kill the DM now?" "No."
a little more palatable. Imagine someone seizing control of a rail gun equipped warbird? *shudder*
As far as the whole "Hacker vs Spy" argument, who says it couldn't be a team effort? Ever read 'The Snowman & the Falcon'?
This should be an interesting story to watch, and if true, a really good argument for stronger crypto.
~Grell
"Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants -- the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl." -- Terry Pratchett
But satisfying. I liked it for the way it lampoons the corporate/instructional toon in general.
It would be interesting to see someone give this sort of treatment to those moronic TV & Stereo manual cartoons we all know and loathe. (picture the generic little weeblo getting fried by a poorly grounded antenna?:)
~Grell
Net postings: Demonstrating the lack of quality psychotherapy in the world...
Someone who is just as important to software in general as certain others are to free/open source development who doesn't appear petulant and who keeps his eye on the bottom line (i.e. code).
I don't suppose anyone's ever seen Bell Labs fork a project over personality conflicts though.
(guess that experience/maturity thing wins in the end. )
~Grell
"Do not meddle in the affairs of UNIX, for it is subtle and quick to dump core." -- Anon.
Might look good to Netscape (which the page said I was using.. not:) But that little beauty sure reams Opera a new one when you scroll around on the page.
Anyone else notice how the Opera browser seems to have problems w/ images?
~Grell
For those of you without hope, we have rooms with color TV, cable and air conditioning.
Excuse ME? After 9 yrs in the service of what I consider to be a great country, I think I speak from experience when I say.. Get Bent.
The Military states quite clearly in the rights of a soldier that adequete medical treatment is a right for every memeber of every branch of the service.
I don't know what Mongol Horde infused book you just pulled your head out of, but in the Armed Forces of the USA we don't shoot or ignore our wounded. It's our little way of insuring that the freedoms you take for granted are gauranteed by fresh waves of recruits. All of whom are promised and reasonably expect good medical care for injuries in the line of duty.
Give me a call when/if you ever pull a tour w/ any branch of the service, and we'll discuss why your comments raise the hackles of every man or woman who's served in our various forces.
~Grell
There are a lot of things that people will be able to put on my gravestone, but "Worked and Played Well with Tyrants" will not be one of them. -- C.D. Tavares
I don't know about you, but while I watched Atlanta get it's head handed to them, I drank beer.
Quite a bit of beer, ergo the need for more bladder space! How could I justify missing a single commercial, or a flubbed intereception in exchange for meeting bodily needs??
If this new field of tissue replacement (or enhancement hey?:) doesn't excite you, just think about coding for 12 hours at a shot w/ your new Extenda-Bladder the 4 liter bladder for the Hacker on the go! (no more annoying bathroom breaks or catheter meltdowns!)
(ingest large grain of salt at this point kids.. )
I'm actually quite glad to see any work done in the field of organ replacement, even this primitive stuff is going to lead to exciting new levels of acceptable abuse of the 'Ol meatware, and as a long time Caffeine addict I would volunteer to be the 1st for a new set of kidneys and a bigger bladder at the drop of a hat.:)
~Grell
"The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: To live dangerously!" -- Nietzsche
Time to fire up your mail programs again.. and prepare to share your thoughts with
andy_grove@intel.com
Founder of Intel, a man who I would hope reads his e-mail. If your decision to purchase Intel has been swayed by this less than informed PSN mistake, please inform him.
I've already sent him a quick note expressing my concerns. (hint "Can't see myself buying a buggy chip like this.." seems to be effective)
If you do choose to write, please keep it professional, a well written letter is a lot more effective than a poorly written rant.
~Grell
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Okay, so MS doesn't pay the oem's for any refunds. So nothing will change for ms? Uh.. I dinna think so laddie:>
Why would any OEM want to renew contracts w/ MS under the same flawed eula? Heck if I were an OEM I would only start purchasing an OS AFTER I got the order form completed for my next batch of computers.
Now then, do I order from MS who told me to slag off about my refunds, or do I spring for a couple thousand copies of linux? (CD pressing anyone?)
More importantly though it is the concept that customers might want a choice about what they want loaded on their systems that could be the real shift in thinking.
Q>What would it be like to live in a world where no company just assumes your going to want Windows or NT on your system?
A>If MS blows this off, we may all find out gratifyingly soon. : )
~Grell
~I've always maintained that one should never tangle with anything that has more teeth than the Osmond family.
Okay, to extend the broken EULA concept a little further.
If it is a breach of contract to not return your money, and if decompiling Windows was possible for a short while (ie before injunctions and lawsuits), it could lead to some interesting things eh?
And when I say that I mean finally learning why Windows line of product is such a bugfest to begin with. Sort of a 'Emperor's New Clothes' situation.
Just think of MS coding exposed to real peer review? oooh nice : )
~"I like a man who grins when he fights." -- Winston Churchill
Just because your furby at home only records/responds to loud noise doesn't mean that some enterprising foe w/ a schematic and a soldering iron couldn't make it do otherwise.
Just strip some of the actuators out and replace/alter the meter on the sound and you've a cute inoccuos little bugging device.
As far as the repsonse to this security alert, cmon' wouldn't you prefer your agents to be as paranoid as possible? (if ya gotta have them, (not going into that:> ) let's at least have them concerned.)
I think it was the combination of the "cuteness" factor and the opportunity to make the NSA look a little silly that prompted this story, 'can we say fluff piece?'
Slashdot Mirror
at last, imho.
:>
This seems to be the kind of writing Jon's most comfortable with, and it shows. Even though it stretches the point in a few spots (cmon Jon.. Fire??), it's a good stimulating read.
Having said all that... What happened to your switch to a Linux box? I'm eagerly awaiting pt. 3
of that saga..
~Grell
"Babeheart? What's it about?"
"It's about a cute little pig that slaughters the English" -- Freakazoid
Choice is always a good thing.
Thanks Redhat.
~Grell
A child of 5 could understand this. Fetch me a child of 5!
im posting this drunk as the proverbial Lord but w/oo reading any other posts lemme just add this
.zip format while your at it you utterly clueless schmuck!
lil'l nugget o fun.
HAH! MORON! im listeining to the format you sound the deathknell for at this very moment...!!!!
KNow why brite boy?
Coz' I dinna like getting a single CD for theone song I like. Nor do I appreciate $40+ prices for anime songs.
might as well sound the Heavenly Trumpet for the
~Grell
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."
Sort of the Bastard Operators combat vest?
Emp shielded pockets, hidden capacitors wired into
the cuffs for those friendly handshakes.
Plenty of spacious pockets for all your needful tools and toys.
Made from durable spiderweave armor to resist letter opener to the ribs from vengeful users.
And of course the camel w/ straw a'la stillsuit for that emergency supply of your favorite caffeine.
Dang me, I think you have something here!
~Grell
It was a typical net.exercise -- a screaming mob pounding on a greasy
spot on the pavement, where used to lie the carcass of a dead horse.
Um, why is this gentleman : User Info for scheme (19778), using or being assigned My handle?
It concerns me a little, ya know? When I click on user info it goes to scheme's page, but the user details then link to mine.
Just thought you should know, in case this is some sort of hack.
~Grell
Um Rob, theres something Realllly wrong w/ this post. Namely the fact I didn't write it.
:/ ?
Is there some sort of problem w/ the submission scripting?
~Grell
yeah Im about as British as Gerry Adams man,,
For real good chicken Mcnugget & hotwing prices about 2 yrs down the road. Because pure research aside, you know someone in a food lab just wet themselves over this one.
~Grell
"Well, I mean, YES idealism, YES the dignity of pure research, YES the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that if there's any REAL truth, it's that the entire multi-dimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet another 10 million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise." -- One of the white mice in the Hitchhikers' Guide
It would seem to me that I saw this Jedi Redneck
e gum-pink-raging-fires.txt
l
Piece created at the homepage of Kristan Overstreet.
You may have heard of him through his contributions to Undocumented Features,
http://www.eyrie.net/uf/
Or his fanfics Bubblegum Pink: Raging Fires
http://anime.muck.com/~sakura/stories/bgc/bubbl
Anywho heres the url: http://www.txdirect.net/users/redneck/jedired.htm
Please note that I only believe this to be derived from his work, as I've yet to speak w/ the man himself. But credit where it's due eh?
~Grell
Jackie Chan! By Far.
But I digress.. love the new Jedi Fight sequences,
and the effects look too sweet.
Now to secure a good camping spot outside the theatre.
~Grell
"To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy -
and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
--Robert A. Heinlein.
I've got a thought here.
What if the slothlike responses we've seen to various security bugs were intentional?
Wouldn't it be possible that some of these bugs weren't much of a surprise to them, in light of this latest outrage?
Makes the old 'They're just arrogant & unresponsive to customer needs' seem a poor piece of reasoning.
Enh, just food for (slighty paranoid) thought.
~Grell
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough
about what's really going to be scared. --P.J. Plauger, Computer Language,
Programming on Purpose, p.29, March 1983
sure beats spending it on 5 Color Crack (Magic the Squandering :).
I mean as a recovered MTG player I gotta tell ya, spending/trading big bucks on cards only to see them banned from play sucks.
So dropping $500 (about as much as a box of Magic "Legends" in '92 ) for a permanent gain shows some sense. Maybe a bit of the old power gaming disease, but at least s/he's got something to use in play next year.
~Grell
"I forsee that you will meet a king, the father of the beautiful Princess
Plote DeVice; and he will insist that you rescue her from the keep of the
infamous Duke Carad Bored Vilan." "Can we kill the DM now?" "No."
and I'll use it to light the small bonfire I'm planning for my Win95 CD.
:)
(soon as i get everything working right w/ Linux of course
~Grell
Microsoft does have a Year 2000 problem. We're it.
a little more palatable. Imagine someone seizing
control of a rail gun equipped warbird? *shudder*
As far as the whole "Hacker vs Spy" argument, who says it couldn't be a team effort? Ever read 'The Snowman & the Falcon'?
This should be an interesting story to watch, and if true, a really good argument for stronger crypto.
~Grell
"Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants -- the officers are there
just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class
brawl." -- Terry Pratchett
But satisfying. I liked it for the way it lampoons the corporate/instructional toon in general.
:)
It would be interesting to see someone give this sort of treatment to those moronic TV & Stereo manual cartoons we all know and loathe. (picture the generic little weeblo getting fried by a poorly grounded antenna?
~Grell
Net postings: Demonstrating the lack of quality psychotherapy in the
world...
Someone who is just as important to software in general as certain others are to free/open source development who doesn't appear petulant and who keeps his eye on the bottom line (i.e. code).
I don't suppose anyone's ever seen Bell Labs fork a project over personality conflicts though.
(guess that experience/maturity thing wins in the end. )
~Grell
"Do not meddle in the affairs of UNIX, for it is subtle and quick to
dump core." -- Anon.
Might look good to Netscape (which the page said I was using.. not :) But that little beauty sure reams Opera a new one when you scroll around on the page.
Anyone else notice how the Opera browser seems to have problems w/ images?
~Grell
For those of you without hope, we have rooms with color TV, cable and air conditioning.
Excuse ME? After 9 yrs in the service of what I consider to be a great country, I think I speak from experience when I say.. Get Bent.
The Military states quite clearly in the rights of a soldier that adequete medical treatment is a right for every memeber of every branch of the service.
I don't know what Mongol Horde infused book you just pulled your head out of, but in the Armed Forces of the USA we don't shoot or ignore our wounded. It's our little way of insuring that the freedoms you take for granted are gauranteed by fresh waves of recruits. All of whom are promised and reasonably expect good medical care for injuries in the line of duty.
Give me a call when/if you ever pull a tour w/ any branch of the service, and we'll discuss why your comments raise the hackles of every man or woman who's served in our various forces.
~Grell
There are a lot of things that people will be able to put on my gravestone, but "Worked and Played Well with Tyrants" will not be one of them. -- C.D. Tavares
I don't know about you, but while I watched Atlanta get it's head handed to them, I drank beer.
:) doesn't excite you, just think about coding for 12 hours at a shot w/ your new Extenda-Bladder the 4 liter bladder for the Hacker on the go! (no more annoying bathroom breaks or catheter meltdowns!)
:)
Quite a bit of beer, ergo the need for more bladder space! How could I justify missing a single commercial, or a flubbed intereception in exchange for meeting bodily needs??
If this new field of tissue replacement (or enhancement hey?
(ingest large grain of salt at this point kids.. )
I'm actually quite glad to see any work done in the field of organ replacement, even this primitive stuff is going to lead to exciting new levels of acceptable abuse of the 'Ol meatware, and as a long time Caffeine addict I would volunteer to be the 1st for a new set of kidneys and a bigger bladder at the drop of a hat.
~Grell
"The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: To
live dangerously!" -- Nietzsche
-hmm ok ya got me there.. ^_^
Time to fire up your mail programs again..
and prepare to share your thoughts with
andy_grove@intel.com
Founder of Intel, a man who I would hope reads his e-mail. If your decision to purchase Intel has been swayed by this less than informed PSN mistake, please inform him.
I've already sent him a quick note expressing my concerns. (hint "Can't see myself buying a buggy chip like this.." seems to be effective)
If you do choose to write, please keep it professional, a well written letter is a lot more effective than a poorly written rant.
~Grell
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
.. Of course you may remember a house which reesponded to and acted on commands from an outside force.
:)
We all remember the Amityville Horror don't we?
Puhleeze.. the day I wire my doorbell to the net not to mention exposing my privacy online 24-7? No I don't think so.
(Give him points for the concept.. but continuing it? nah. )
~Grell
Error reading left brain. (A)bort, (R)etry,(F)rolic?
.. It will be before the NSA bans RIO's from their campus like the Furby?
... not just pretty words, Fester." -
"Put down the walkman and come out with your hands up!"
~Grell
"We gladly feast on those who would subdue us
Morticia Addams
Okay, so MS doesn't pay the oem's for any refunds. :>
So nothing will change for ms? Uh.. I dinna think so laddie
Why would any OEM want to renew contracts w/ MS under the same flawed eula? Heck if I were an OEM
I would only start purchasing an OS AFTER I got the order form completed for my next batch of computers.
Now then, do I order from MS who told me to slag off about my refunds, or do I spring for a couple thousand copies of linux? (CD pressing anyone?)
More importantly though it is the concept that customers might want a choice about what they want loaded on their systems that could be the real shift in thinking.
Q>What would it be like to live in a world where no company just assumes your going to want Windows or NT on your system?
A>If MS blows this off, we may all find out gratifyingly soon. : )
~Grell
~I've always maintained that one should never tangle with anything that has more teeth than the Osmond family.
Okay, to extend the broken EULA concept a little further.
If it is a breach of contract to not return your money, and if decompiling Windows was possible for a short while (ie before injunctions and lawsuits), it could lead to some interesting things eh?
And when I say that I mean finally learning why Windows line of product is such a bugfest to begin with. Sort of a 'Emperor's New Clothes' situation.
Just think of MS coding exposed to real peer review? oooh nice : )
~"I like a man who grins when he fights." -- Winston Churchill
Just because your furby at home only records/responds to loud noise doesn't mean that some enterprising foe w/ a schematic and a soldering iron couldn't make it do otherwise.
:> ) let's at least have them concerned.)
Just strip some of the actuators out and replace/alter the meter on the sound and you've a cute inoccuos little bugging device.
As far as the repsonse to this security alert, cmon' wouldn't you prefer your agents to be as paranoid as possible? (if ya gotta have them, (not going into that
I think it was the combination of the "cuteness" factor and the opportunity to make the NSA look a little silly that prompted this story, 'can we say fluff piece?'
~Grell