Morons with mod points; either that or Microsoft knee-jerk astroturfers.
For the learning-impaired at "news for nerds", the parent's point was that the only thing that should matter to you or me about Hans Reiser is the file system he designed and the programs he wrote, and then only if you use the damned things.
Did you throw away your Naked Gun movies because OJ Simpeon killed those people?
The tabloid mentality that seems to have overtaken the entire world makes me sick. The file system's designer's personal life is none of my (or your) business.
On a lighter note, the parent was wrong. Bill Gates doesn't strangle puppies, he shoots them! And he doesn't stomp kittens' heads, he huffs them.
If only that were true! If they'll open my garage door and have a look around without a warrant (on Memorial Day, when we salute those who died defending the Constitution and its 4th amendment), what makes you think they won't open your computer and have a look around without a warrant?
When I said you should have your computer dual boot, with networking disabled on the windows side (which is how my PC was set up before the power supply burned out last week) so you wouldn't get viruses, spyware, and other nasties on your PC I was modded "troll".
Now the summary says "Just one more reason not to run Windows on your computer."
I guess the submitter was trolling? But at any rate, it seems to me that since Windows can't read hda, as long as you keep your terrorism plans, drug dealers' phone books, child pornography, and stolen state secterts off the windows side of your computer you're safe, right?
Wrong. If I have physical access to your machine I can probably get in pretty easily, and I'm no security expert. The cops have the funding to hire top notch guys who WILL decode that drive.
I can't for the life of me figure out why Microsoft would produce this tool, as it only makes them look bad. If someone made a Linux tool to crack windows, the Microsoft apologists and astroturfers would be screaming "FUD!"
The malware boys wil get a copy and make it so it works online. What fun!
(as one slashdotter's sig says, "karma: excellent. Try again, modboy!")
When pornography and violent images are outlawed, only outlaws will have violent pornography.
Oh wait that's no analogy. OK, pornography is like photos of feet. How's that for a bad analogy? Well, it really isn't, and in fact is not an analogy at all! I shall explain:
Define "violent". Define "pornography". Ok, let the dictionary do it:
pornography Audio Help/prngrfi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pawr-nog-ruh-fee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation -noun
obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit.
[Origin: 1840-50; Gk pornográph(os) writing about harlots (porno-, comb. form of pórné harlot + -graphos -graph) + -y3]
Ok, now we have two more problems: defining "Obscene" and more importantly "art". I commented earlier that some of my journals were obscene, and I would argue that they have "little or no artistic merit" as well.
obscene Audio Help/bsin/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uhb-seen] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation -adjective 1. offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved: obscene language. 2. causing uncontrolled sexual desire. 3. abominable; disgusting; repulsive.
[Origin: 1585-95; L obscénus, obscaenus]
I know a fellow (the one in Dork Side of the Moon, the one who committed the attempted murder that he spent two weeks in the county jail for) who has a foot fetish. A woman with small feet excites him sexually. By the dictionary definition I just quoted, pictures of feet are then obscene.
Obscenity is in the mind of the beholder. This law makes every writing, painting, photograph, drawing, print, and sculpture against the law. Better close your museums!
I'm happy to take pictures of myself in simulated violent acts with anyone, male or female, and post them to a free hosting account as an act of civil disobedience
It's not civil disobedience if you're an anonymous coward, Mr. A/C, any more than smoking a joint in your living room is a civil disobedience act against the marijuana laws (which are also thought crimes).
The Clint Eastwood movie Sudden Impact has a violent rape scene; and in fact the movie is about the rape victim's search for vengeance.
So if any of you UK residents have any Clint Eastwood movies your best bet is to get rid of them NOW before your thought police come for you.
I guess here in the US we're next. You had the Big Brother CCTV cameras first, but we have them now, too. Our legislators never funded the "Big Brother Is watching" posters, have yours?
Lifestyles of the Poor and Obscure involves sex with a prostitute. It isn't graphic, however. But an earlier journal, NSFW does contain graphic descriptions of a sex act, although it is revealed in the story that the sex is in fact only a dream. The journal "Dork Side of the Moon concerns an attempted murder, as does Ask Slashdot: Women (which also has hookers, as do many other of my journals).
If they pass this stupid law will I have to add a disclaimer that EU residents may be incarcerated for reading my journals?
It seems that the US and the UK are in a fucktarded race to see who can become the worst police state. I pointed out in yet another journal, Police State: In USSA, cops hassle YOU! as well as a blagh on my site (down at the moment) that the US is in fact already a police state, and that any country that uses secret police (in the US they're called "undercover agents" or "plainclothesmen") IS a police state.
At leat in the UK they're not torturing people or holding them without trial, as we do in Guantanimo. But I guess given enough time, they will.
The end result of exposing their rootkit fiasco was absolutely nothing.
Still think you're so smart Mister sm62704, if that is your real name?
Hey, I like that, it made me laugh. My original four digit/.uid was 'mcgrew', which is my name. Changed email addresses and a lost password ruined that. That's also the one I used at k5as well. My domain, mcgrew.info, is down at the moment. My first name is mentioned in the latest diary (in which getting laid ruined my weekend).
sm are my initials, 62704 was my zip code when I re-upped at/.. If you can talk mister taco into giving me my name back I'll appreciate it.
GOD DAMN IT! Look, mods, when someone posts a link to a fucking virus "offtopic" is NOT sufficiant. The object or moderation isn't just to make the comment invisible and take away karma. It's to let the rest of us know WHY it's a bad post.
Jesus, as bad as the comment was, the moderation was just as bad.
That's not what happened to hippies. The hippies were affeced by a certain drug - marijuana. One of its properties is to make you think. Another is to make you forget what you were thinking about, but it doesn't cause total amnesia. If you give enough thought to the subject, you'll realise that it is in everyone's best interests to treat your fellow man fairly and that it's completely stupid to ravage the environment, and that money isn't the be-all and end-all. Everything you do will one day be gone, and there will be no trace you ever inhabited the universe. As Billy Joel said:
Sergeant O'Leary is walkin' the beat At night he becomes a bartender He works at Mister Cacciatore's down on Sullivan Street Across from the medical center And he's tradin' in his Chevy for a Cadillac-ac-ac-ac-ac-ac You oughta know by now - You oughta know by now And if he can't drive with a broken back At least he can polish the fenders
Then Reagan's "war on drugs" came along, and the only drug there really was was a war on was marijuana. "Got any reefer, man?" the hippie would ask the dealer. "No, it's real dry. Want some coke?"
Most stopped smoking pot. Many started snorting cocaine.
Cocaine has the opposite effect of marijuana. Habitual cocaine use turns a normal person into the most self-centered, selfish, thoughtless asshole ever to ignore another human's feelings or needs.
The yuppie was born. As The Pheromones say,
I recently purchased a TEAC 4100X with 3 heads, 3 motors, and a Sansui 3660, 45 watts per channel, Dolby X, DBX, hi-tech specs, 30 to 20000 hz so I can listen to adult contemporary music... cranked up to 3.
In my 3-level attached suburban townhouse with a community pool and rec room, 495 p.i. year 1 through 3, 795 p.i. years 3 through 35, thousand others in the 3-blocks square, they don't know I'm there... unless I park in their parking space.
I traded my GTO for a Jap Jet 300 ZX, then a BMW, 5-speed, A/C, P/B, P/S, 2 bucket seats, sound system hurts my ears, goes fast (55), personalized license plate that says "Sparky" but it's in the shop.
I wake up early with Mister Coffee, jump in the carpool with Fred and Alice and Charlie so we can drive downtown, predawn, in the express lane, HOV-4, 395, 6 a.m., it doesn't matter... it still takes an hour to go 5 miles.
I wear a suit and tie but I still have lots of T-shirts that I don't wear - there's no time. I got out of college and freaked, so I grabbed a job with a big corporation that treats me like POOP. But I don't care 'cause the pay's OK and the benefits are great... Don't ask me what we make.
Me and my lady-person who I met at the happy hour, 4 to 7, at Chumley's Bar downtown during a snowstorm last year. We both love margaritas and Jimmy Buffett, TOOT, jogging, Jacuzzis, and shopping at Dart Drug, "Compare and Save," "We will not be undersold."... (You Bet!)
I trusted George in '72, hated Tricky Dicky with a passion, championed the poor down-trodden masses. Don't call me middle-class. What's mine is mine. I don't like war, but the bread is good. Ronnie's not so bad as Fritz or Carter's hicks. Right is new, left is out, twist and shout.
Read farther: "If I'd been strapped to a chair at Guantanimo I'd have confessed to anything".
I never said they did that to prisoners, and in fact it's detectable so they wouldn't. The point is that torture, whether waterboarding, extreme heat/cold, or extreme pain, are as ineffective as they are PURE EVIL and WRONG.
American patriots don't torture anybody for any reason at all. Torture is unamerican and unacceptable and I'm appalled that any American would think otherwise. I, for one, am not cowardly enough for my government to torture people for my safety and it appalls me that such cowards that would condone torture are in my government.
For you to defend their evil puts them on their level.
I don't know, it seems that the Democrats are already data-mining the Republicans, the Republicans are data-mining the Democrats, the newspapers are data-mining all the politicians and other celebrities, and the politicians don't seem to mind. Why else whould the American taxpayer have paid forty million dollars for investigation of a blow job?
Perhaps they're so accustomed to being data-mined they don't understand why it's wrong?
Ah, I found the reference in the wikipedia article on the cartoon. That would neab that the term is a joke! There is, in fact, no such thing as a "super-genius". "Genius" refers to someone with super-intelligence (that would be Einstien, whose picture illustrates the Wikipedia entry on "genius").
Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction normally taking less than a second, to take from four days to four years to complete.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2-6 years. It does not decay, but undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes, not to mention multiple oxymorons.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. That hypothetical quantity might normally be called 'critical mass' but, in this unique case it is known as 'critical mess'.
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (Am), another just-discovered element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
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Morons with mod points; either that or Microsoft knee-jerk astroturfers.
For the learning-impaired at "news for nerds", the parent's point was that the only thing that should matter to you or me about Hans Reiser is the file system he designed and the programs he wrote, and then only if you use the damned things.
Did you throw away your Naked Gun movies because OJ Simpeon killed those people?
The tabloid mentality that seems to have overtaken the entire world makes me sick. The file system's designer's personal life is none of my (or your) business.
On a lighter note, the parent was wrong. Bill Gates doesn't strangle puppies, he shoots them! And he doesn't stomp kittens' heads, he huffs them.
The rape does indeed result in severe disablement.
"Secure beneath the watchfil eyes", holy shit. Orwell WAS an optimist!
"We're doing this to help ensure that the Internet stays safe."
Thank God! I'd hate to have someone murder me over the internet!
The police won't be using it without a warrant
If only that were true! If they'll open my garage door and have a look around without a warrant (on Memorial Day, when we salute those who died defending the Constitution and its 4th amendment), what makes you think they won't open your computer and have a look around without a warrant?
When I said you should have your computer dual boot, with networking disabled on the windows side (which is how my PC was set up before the power supply burned out last week) so you wouldn't get viruses, spyware, and other nasties on your PC I was modded "troll".
Now the summary says "Just one more reason not to run Windows on your computer."
I guess the submitter was trolling? But at any rate, it seems to me that since Windows can't read hda, as long as you keep your terrorism plans, drug dealers' phone books, child pornography, and stolen state secterts off the windows side of your computer you're safe, right?
Wrong. If I have physical access to your machine I can probably get in pretty easily, and I'm no security expert. The cops have the funding to hire top notch guys who WILL decode that drive.
I can't for the life of me figure out why Microsoft would produce this tool, as it only makes them look bad. If someone made a Linux tool to crack windows, the Microsoft apologists and astroturfers would be screaming "FUD!"
The malware boys wil get a copy and make it so it works online. What fun!
(as one slashdotter's sig says, "karma: excellent. Try again, modboy!")
-mcgrew
Oh wait that's no analogy. OK, pornography is like photos of feet. How's that for a bad analogy? Well, it really isn't, and in fact is not an analogy at all! I shall explain:
Define "violent". Define "pornography". Ok, let the dictionary do it:Ok, now we have two more problems: defining "Obscene" and more importantly "art". I commented earlier that some of my journals were obscene, and I would argue that they have "little or no artistic merit" as well.I know a fellow (the one in Dork Side of the Moon, the one who committed the attempted murder that he spent two weeks in the county jail for) who has a foot fetish. A woman with small feet excites him sexually. By the dictionary definition I just quoted, pictures of feet are then obscene.
Obscenity is in the mind of the beholder. This law makes every writing, painting, photograph, drawing, print, and sculpture against the law. Better close your museums!
I'm happy to take pictures of myself in simulated violent acts with anyone, male or female, and post them to a free hosting account as an act of civil disobedience
It's not civil disobedience if you're an anonymous coward, Mr. A/C, any more than smoking a joint in your living room is a civil disobedience act against the marijuana laws (which are also thought crimes).
The Clint Eastwood movie Sudden Impact has a violent rape scene; and in fact the movie is about the rape victim's search for vengeance.
So if any of you UK residents have any Clint Eastwood movies your best bet is to get rid of them NOW before your thought police come for you.
I guess here in the US we're next. You had the Big Brother CCTV cameras first, but we have them now, too. Our legislators never funded the "Big Brother Is watching" posters, have yours?
Lifestyles of the Poor and Obscure involves sex with a prostitute. It isn't graphic, however. But an earlier journal, NSFW does contain graphic descriptions of a sex act, although it is revealed in the story that the sex is in fact only a dream. The journal "Dork Side of the Moon concerns an attempted murder, as does Ask Slashdot: Women (which also has hookers, as do many other of my journals).
If they pass this stupid law will I have to add a disclaimer that EU residents may be incarcerated for reading my journals?
It seems that the US and the UK are in a fucktarded race to see who can become the worst police state. I pointed out in yet another journal, Police State: In USSA, cops hassle YOU! as well as a blagh on my site (down at the moment) that the US is in fact already a police state, and that any country that uses secret police (in the US they're called "undercover agents" or "plainclothesmen") IS a police state.
At leat in the UK they're not torturing people or holding them without trial, as we do in Guantanimo. But I guess given enough time, they will.
-mcgrew
It's actually a plagairism, sorry. I couldn't cite the original author because I couldn't find whoever it was that originally wrote it.
I was going to click the "post anonymously" check box and somehow didn't. AFAIK the true author is anonymous.
The end result of exposing their rootkit fiasco was absolutely nothing.
/.uid was 'mcgrew', which is my name. Changed email addresses and a lost password ruined that. That's also the one I used at k5as well. My domain, mcgrew.info, is down at the moment. My first name is mentioned in the latest diary (in which getting laid ruined my weekend).
/.. If you can talk mister taco into giving me my name back I'll appreciate it.
Still think you're so smart Mister sm62704, if that is your real name?
Hey, I like that, it made me laugh. My original four digit
sm are my initials, 62704 was my zip code when I re-upped at
GOD DAMN IT! Look, mods, when someone posts a link to a fucking virus "offtopic" is NOT sufficiant. The object or moderation isn't just to make the comment invisible and take away karma. It's to let the rest of us know WHY it's a bad post.
Jesus, as bad as the comment was, the moderation was just as bad.
Hey, judge, wait a minute, I haven't finished popping the popcorn!
Somebody give that fat lady the sheet music, ok?
Most stopped smoking pot. Many started snorting cocaine.
Cocaine has the opposite effect of marijuana. Habitual cocaine use turns a normal person into the most self-centered, selfish, thoughtless asshole ever to ignore another human's feelings or needs.
The yuppie was born. As The Pheromones say,
EULA-encrusted malware or malware-encrusted EULA? Or both?
"By opening this bag of marijuana, you agree that you will..."
What's next, warrantees on IEDs?
Like the late Walt Kelly's Pogo said, "common sense ain't so common no more".
I don't know wher it originated, I got it in hardcopy from someone and when I saw this topic and comment I had to post it. It is indeed a plagairism.
Sony has no American parent company. Its HQ is Japanese. IINM Universal is French. That's two of the "big four".
I do. Why do you assume I don't?
Spoken like a true coward.
What does this have to do with the FBI?
Read farther: "If I'd been strapped to a chair at Guantanimo I'd have confessed to anything".
I never said they did that to prisoners, and in fact it's detectable so they wouldn't. The point is that torture, whether waterboarding, extreme heat/cold, or extreme pain, are as ineffective as they are PURE EVIL and WRONG.
American patriots don't torture anybody for any reason at all. Torture is unamerican and unacceptable and I'm appalled that any American would think otherwise. I, for one, am not cowardly enough for my government to torture people for my safety and it appalls me that such cowards that would condone torture are in my government.
For you to defend their evil puts them on their level.
I don't know, it seems that the Democrats are already data-mining the Republicans, the Republicans are data-mining the Democrats, the newspapers are data-mining all the politicians and other celebrities, and the politicians don't seem to mind. Why else whould the American taxpayer have paid forty million dollars for investigation of a blow job?
Perhaps they're so accustomed to being data-mined they don't understand why it's wrong?
Ah, I found the reference in the wikipedia article on the cartoon. That would neab that the term is a joke! There is, in fact, no such thing as a "super-genius". "Genius" refers to someone with super-intelligence (that would be Einstien, whose picture illustrates the Wikipedia entry on "genius").
Research has led to the discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction normally taking less than a second, to take from four days to four years to complete.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2-6 years. It does not decay, but undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes, not to mention multiple oxymorons.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. That hypothetical quantity might normally be called 'critical mass' but, in this unique case it is known as 'critical mess'.
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (Am), another just-discovered element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
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A fart is nothing more than a turd in particulate form.