A new IM worm discovered recently takes the novel step of installing its own web browser onto the victims PC... It's clear people cannot resist clicking "yes" to anything they're presented with via IM - with this in mind, what on Earth can we do so stop the spread of garbage like the above?
If you get infected, your IM might ask you if you want to get rid of a dangerous IM worm, just click yes and you'll be ok. You also get very cheap C1ALi5, dunno what is it, but it seems like a great deal, so I ordered a bunch.
The very first definition is "concerned with actual use or practice". Granted a really trippy washing machine may be sheer frivolity but it would still be a practical use by the very definition posted.
*boggles at the irony*
irony Audio pronunciation of "irony" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-n, r-) n. pl. ironies
1.
1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
3. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.
2.
1. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
2. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.
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I didn't say they used it properly or not, I just posted the meaning;)
adj 1: Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning; 2: Being showy of one's knowledge, often in a boring manner; 3: Often used to describe a person who emphasizes their knowledge through the use of vocabulary; 4: Being finicky or picky with language.
joke: n. 1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line. 2. A mischievous trick; a prank. 3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
adj 1: concerned with actual use or practice; 2: guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; 3: being actually such in almost every respect; 4: having or put to a practical purpose or use;
And you can download it in a variety of formats. The flash version is just for the convenience of people who want to stream it from their browser. If you want it in AVI format, you can download it from the link on the side.
There's no AVI, there's a QVP shortcut to the same crunched version you can play in the Google Video Player, and two low-res, low-bitrate MP4 versions for iPod and PSP.
Those downloads are free by the Google servers, there's no reason to limit them to May 24-th, when they can stay there forever and cost the band nothing.
Those formats are available with any free clip you can upload (it takes a couple of mins and is free).
You gotta be really stupid not to see they try to create hype and "pressure" for people to download the video before it's "taken offline", when they could just do nothing and leave it there forever without any cost on them.
Your reading comprehension & website navigation abilities are the only things here that are pathetic.
Waaah, publicity stunt. It's free! Enjoy it and don't whine about it.
Yea it's free, until May 24-th (they you gotta look it up on bittorents or youtube). And yea enjoy it, in all its compress Flash video 320x240 uneditable low bitrate glory.
Gosh that's so pathetic. I'd rather watch MTV (even if the logo "takes half the screen" , my ass).
Chubaca" ??? Who or what in the hell is that? If you meant CHEWBACCA from STAR WARS, may I have your nerd membership card back? We have several Star Wars nerds on standby to beat you inefectually with foam light sabers.
I'm kinda happy I don't know the exact spelling. How 'bout you. Can you speak Chewbaccian with a perfect accent? Bet you can, bet you can..
If you see the video you'll notice there's nothing interesting you could do with it.
That's just a publicity stunt, even worse: they release it under this license, but still only give it free "until May 24-th". Does that make sense? No, it doesn't make any sense.
Yuo couldn't be more wrong. What we have is working... to no purpose. It's not better, it's poitless.
I'll hate to ask you to reconsider your opinion, sir. Because NASA TV has provided me and my peers with endless hours of fun, including drinking cola in space (wobble, wobble, wobble!), eating in space (squirting food from a tube! yea!) and other fun acts I'd never see otherwise.
Well, I and you will be dead before we see any of it. But I suggest we can train our children to train their children to look for tall hairless humans.
In 10-15 generations, if you turn out correct, your grandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrand grandgrandgrandgrandgrandchildren will be able to meet and tell mine "Told you so! HAHAHAH!"
I'll enlighten you here: having a nick called suv4x4 doesn't mean I actually drive a 4x4 SUV. How about you, are you the kid who... uhmmm.. ? Should I fill it in myself? The kid who peed his pants or something?
Don't just make patents lighter (like 2-3 years validity) or reduce the effect of patent trolls or make areform to reduce bad patents which are obvious and have lots of prior art. No. Don't even think about it.
Instead train more judges to handle all the cases, you may even throw in an education program to turn honest inventors and workers into patent trolls, libel case extortionists and DMCA abusers.
It'll make a for a whole lot better world!
PS: Why the hell are we training patent judges who can't tell a "cold fusion reactor with a working model" patent from a "1 click buy button" patent, and not train judges who have a clue of computer technology (the place where most of the patent trolls grow)?
why not pour all that money into a program to develop new forms of propulsion and energy, and come back to spacefaring when we have a better solution?
That's what's been happening for the past, I don't know, 10 or 20 years? Magically though, good ol' shuttles always come on top of the "modern" solution as something that works.
Of course innovation is the future, but let's not just drop what we have working. An expensive working shuttle is better than non-existant non-working less expensive... uhmm.. battle cruiser... or whatever.
There's only one problem with that idea, how many scale-shielded human mutants have you ever seen?
How many people have dinosaurs seen? Before creatures evolved to breath air and walk out of the water, the prehistoric fish: how many tigers have they seen?
You have a point about very likely and probably mutations having stochastic nature (for example dolphins have evolved back to the shape of a fish but are not fish), but to think this is all is very misleading. Nature doesn't just get to pick from what's laying around, random processes can cause sudden and rapid major changes in any species, and our environment changes drastically, I do believe even scale-shielded tiny jumping 3 eyes humans might be possible.
You rule it out, but nature's history has shown it's frequently not predictable.
In a way, yes, I knew it some kind of primate will evolve in the cave, and I knew it that the military will do somethig retarded, like they do in all movies, so bombing was a bad idea from the onset.
But hell, did ANYONE expect that they'll beat the aliens with Head & Shoulders? I totally didn't see that coming. But it was lame nonetheless.
We're talking about the movie, right, guys?..guys?
Make our lifes worthwhile. Disclose the information you keep about UFO-s, aliens and the alien technologies you've reversed engineed, you sneaky bastards.
And if all of that is just the product of some paranoid conspiracy theorists, oh well, just make it up and lie to us.
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A new IM worm discovered recently takes the novel step of installing its own web browser onto the victims PC... It's clear people cannot resist clicking "yes" to anything they're presented with via IM - with this in mind, what on Earth can we do so stop the spread of garbage like the above?
If you get infected, your IM might ask you if you want to get rid of a dangerous IM worm, just click yes and you'll be ok.
You also get very cheap C1ALi5, dunno what is it, but it seems like a great deal, so I ordered a bunch.
The very first definition is "concerned with actual use or practice". Granted a really trippy washing machine may be sheer frivolity but it would still be a practical use by the very definition posted.
;)
*boggles at the irony*
irony Audio pronunciation of "irony" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-n, r-)
n. pl. ironies
1.
1. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
3. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.
2.
1. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
2. An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.
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I didn't say they used it properly or not, I just posted the meaning
pedantic
adj 1: Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning; 2: Being showy of one's knowledge, often in a boring manner; 3: Often used to describe a person who emphasizes their knowledge through the use of vocabulary; 4: Being finicky or picky with language.
joke: n. 1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line. 2. A mischievous trick; a prank. 3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
One practical use: really trippy washing machines
practical
adj 1: concerned with actual use or practice; 2: guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; 3: being actually such in almost every respect; 4: having or put to a practical purpose or use;
Uhu? So why am I'm watching a 30MB large avi of the video right now that I got by clicking the download button?
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Cuz you wished really hard? How could I know, it's just a fact Google offers no AVI downloads.
If you're willing to install a special Firefox extension you can *extract* the AVI url from the video page, which is:
http://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?version=
But I've no idea what the heck is up with you.
I am a lifelong fan of "Star Trek".
According to police records, 99% of the arrested pedophiles also are.
Legal and Moderator Disclaimer: While the fact is true, I'm not suggesting anything, and this is just attempt at a cheap joke.
And you can download it in a variety of formats. The flash version is just for the convenience of people who want to stream it from their browser. If you want it in AVI format, you can download it from the link on the side.
There's no AVI, there's a QVP shortcut to the same crunched version you can play in the Google Video Player, and two low-res, low-bitrate MP4 versions for iPod and PSP.
Those downloads are free by the Google servers, there's no reason to limit them to May 24-th, when they can stay there forever and cost the band nothing.
Those formats are available with any free clip you can upload (it takes a couple of mins and is free).
You gotta be really stupid not to see they try to create hype and "pressure" for people to download the video before it's "taken offline", when they could just do nothing and leave it there forever without any cost on them.
Your reading comprehension & website navigation abilities are the only things here that are pathetic.
I find this especially ironic of you to say that.
get a clue, asshole
Shit, AC, after I've read this extremely informative and useful post of yours I got a clue and now I live a better, more meaningful life.
Waaah, publicity stunt. It's free! Enjoy it and don't whine about it.
Yea it's free, until May 24-th (they you gotta look it up on bittorents or youtube).
And yea enjoy it, in all its compress Flash video 320x240 uneditable low bitrate glory.
Gosh that's so pathetic. I'd rather watch MTV (even if the logo "takes half the screen" , my ass).
Google? The band? The label?
Band or label. And I guess the label. I don't think Google even has any idea this video's been hosted there.
Since Google probably paid for the "exclusive" I'd say Google.
You don't pay for something released under Creative Commons license. That's the whole friggin point. Dude, like I said, IT. MAKES. NO. SENSE.
Chubaca" ??? Who or what in the hell is that? If you meant CHEWBACCA from STAR WARS, may I have your nerd membership card back? We have several Star Wars nerds on standby to beat you inefectually with foam light sabers.
I'm kinda happy I don't know the exact spelling. How 'bout you. Can you speak Chewbaccian with a perfect accent? Bet you can, bet you can..
They're saying "we're going to distribute it ourselves up to 2006-05-24, let others distribute it after that, P2P, Torrent or otherwise.
They are distributing it via Google, not themselves, there are thousands of videos on Google available for free forever.
One thing I don't like about DLP is the relatively limited vertical angle for best picture viewing.
DLP is a projection technology, how could it possibly be limited in viewing angle (?!)
If you see the video you'll notice there's nothing interesting you could do with it.
That's just a publicity stunt, even worse: they release it under this license, but still only give it free "until May 24-th". Does that make sense? No, it doesn't make any sense.
The Chubaca video release strategy.
Unless you reapply the thermal paste in sane amounts, the MacBooks will also melt anything they touch, just like a real lightsaber!
Yuo couldn't be more wrong. What we have is working... to no purpose. It's not better, it's poitless.
I'll hate to ask you to reconsider your opinion, sir. Because NASA TV has provided me and my peers with endless hours of fun, including drinking cola in space (wobble, wobble, wobble!), eating in space (squirting food from a tube! yea!) and other fun acts I'd never see otherwise.
Long live NASA!
By the time you'd even see one
d grandgrandgrandgrandgrandchildren will be able to meet and tell mine "Told you so! HAHAHAH!"
Well, I and you will be dead before we see any of it. But I suggest we can train our children to train their children to look for tall hairless humans.
In 10-15 generations, if you turn out correct, your grandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgrandgran
Mr guy who drives a 4x4 SUV...
I'll enlighten you here: having a nick called suv4x4 doesn't mean I actually drive a 4x4 SUV. How about you, are you the kid who... uhmmm.. ? Should I fill it in myself? The kid who peed his pants or something?
Don't just make patents lighter (like 2-3 years validity) or reduce the effect of patent trolls or make areform to reduce bad patents which are obvious and have lots of prior art. No. Don't even think about it.
Instead train more judges to handle all the cases, you may even throw in an education program to turn honest inventors and workers into patent trolls, libel case extortionists and DMCA abusers.
It'll make a for a whole lot better world!
PS: Why the hell are we training patent judges who can't tell a "cold fusion reactor with a working model" patent from a "1 click buy button" patent, and not train judges who have a clue of computer technology (the place where most of the patent trolls grow)?
why not pour all that money into a program to develop new forms of propulsion and energy, and come back to spacefaring when we have a better solution?
... uhmm.. battle cruiser... or whatever.
That's what's been happening for the past, I don't know, 10 or 20 years? Magically though, good ol' shuttles always come on top of the "modern" solution as something that works.
Of course innovation is the future, but let's not just drop what we have working. An expensive working shuttle is better than non-existant non-working less expensive
There's only one problem with that idea, how many scale-shielded human mutants have you ever seen?
How many people have dinosaurs seen? Before creatures evolved to breath air and walk out of the water, the prehistoric fish: how many tigers have they seen?
You have a point about very likely and probably mutations having stochastic nature (for example dolphins have evolved back to the shape of a fish but are not fish), but to think this is all is very misleading. Nature doesn't just get to pick from what's laying around, random processes can cause sudden and rapid major changes in any species, and our environment changes drastically, I do believe even scale-shielded tiny jumping 3 eyes humans might be possible.
You rule it out, but nature's history has shown it's frequently not predictable.
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
That was totally a marketing bluff from the aliens, and we all know this really means "SHIT, FORGET EVERYTHING AND COME TO EUROPA RIGHT NOW."
Plus, why not land there. Are they hiding weapons of mass destruction or somethin'?
In a way, yes, I knew it some kind of primate will evolve in the cave, and I knew it that the military will do somethig retarded, like they do in all movies, so bombing was a bad idea from the onset.
..guys?
But hell, did ANYONE expect that they'll beat the aliens with Head & Shoulders? I totally didn't see that coming. But it was lame nonetheless.
We're talking about the movie, right, guys?
Make our lifes worthwhile. Disclose the information you keep about UFO-s, aliens and the alien technologies you've reversed engineed, you sneaky bastards.
And if all of that is just the product of some paranoid conspiracy theorists, oh well, just make it up and lie to us.
We'll love it.
Are we independent beings? Or did we turn into something of a higher order, cells in a big organism, where the government is our brain?
And if it's the latter, can you deny the brain the right to check its body blood levels, have a haircut and take a bath?
What if the brain decides to make a suicide in the name of all of us?