Cant make any money off the botnet that way. Really, even crashing the infected PC is the same. The days of 'dangerous' viruses have long since past.
"Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." --Alfred Pennyworth
There is only ONE source of carbon that is of concern, and that is oil/coal. All other carbon, be it burning trees or cow farts, is part of a self balancing biosphere.
On a greater time-scale, oil/coal carbon is part of a self balancing biosphere too.
the challenge of working in sub-optimal conditions and still be able to perform. That is the true test and that is what my dungeon gave me. What did it give you?
If you dab your toe in a field outside your expertise, you're liable to get it bitten off. I wouldn't take the advice of a Doctor of medicine on writing PERL.
Heck, I wouldn't take the advice of a Doctor of Computer Science on writing PERL.
Say we follow Al Gore and there turns out not to be a problem. We would have wasted lots of money. Say we don't follow Al Gore and he is right, then we are in deep shit and it is to late to do anything about it.
It forces them to be a little less biased, and it keeps well-written articles available.
I'd like my media bias to be overt, please. Veiled bias can be pernicious. It's the same reason why I think we should vote poor orators into office: they'll have a harder time getting you to believe a lie.
The Incredibles _was_ Watchmen, with Fantastic Four filling in for the main heroes (versus the non-powered heroes of Watchmen [minus Dr M]), and a happy ending.
Supers are outlawed
Some supers continue to help as masked vigilantes
Supers begin to disappear (getting murdered)
Cape-caused-deaths sequence
Brainy guy who owns an island builds an unstoppable squid-like thing, sends it to a big city.
Brainy guy intends to be the new hero and elevate all mankind to his "enlightenment" ("everyone is super" versus "world peace")
...but am I the only one who thinks that they've been shifting the focus more to things that result in a good explosion, to the detriment of everything else?
Ninja episode #3: eggshell bombs
"... now lets see what an eggshell bomb would do filled with nitroglycerin!"
Pirate episode #4: messages in a bottle
"... now lets see what a message in a bottle would do if written on flash paper in a bottle filled with nitroglycerin!"
Cooking episode: loud sounds deflating souffles
"... now lets see what the souffle looks like if we detonate a gas leak in the mock-up kitchen!"
They should have learned this lesson with the tree-cannon and 5 pounds of black powder. Wood chunks as large as a man flew past the barriers (and construction equipment) they hid behind. They were lucky on that one.
It's bad enough that PG13 movies get McDonald's Happy Meal toys. If you're going to market a movie to little kids, make it for kids. If you're going to make the movie geared towards older people, then don't market it to kids.
Hallelujah! At a local big-bookstore, they moved all of the Watchmen comics, making-of (movie), making-of (comics), etc. onto a big table away from the other graphic novels. Not too big a problem, except they moved them to right outside the children's books section. Brightly colored, big yellow smiley...
You just made me want to dress up as Captain Planet and run around my server room shutting things down for Earth Hour (while screaming "Captain Planet!" in my best Ted Turner impression). Or maybe it's my lack of sleep.
In an large business environment, software updates, scans, audits, defrags, etc all happen at night, and WOL isn't always magically delicious (some people turn off their surge protector instead of their computer + monitor). Thus, a policy of "keep your &#$#^$@ machine turned on or I'll reboot it for updates while you're working" is instituted and adhered to with the tenacity of the BOFH. After just one time of having their work-flow or coding-zone interrupted (losing _far_ more than $36 in productivity), people get the hint.
How long will corporate customers of Red Hat need the hand-holding provided by paying for Linux?
As someone who's admined gentoo servers before, RHEL is nice for being a stable platform with few if any radical changes (and any big changes are announced more than a week in advance). Sure, there's CentOS, but if everyone switches to CentOS, where is CentOS going to get their source code when RH dies? Okay, Ubuntu LTS (deliberate stagnation), Debian (inadvertent instead of deliberate stagnation), Slackware (whatever you want, but you better know what you want)... there are options.
Free Linux Desktop OS means more likely fewer Windows Server OS in production (greater number of Linux Servers [RHEL]). I'm surprised he doesn't realize this.
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Cant make any money off the botnet that way. Really, even crashing the infected PC is the same. The days of 'dangerous' viruses have long since past.
"Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." --Alfred Pennyworth
When was the last time you saw slug wear a jacket?
Could have sworn Slurms wore a leather jacket, but Glurmo's suit jacket counts:
http://theinfosphere.org/images/e/ee/Glurmo.jpg
There is only ONE source of carbon that is of concern, and that is oil/coal. All other carbon, be it burning trees or cow farts, is part of a self balancing biosphere.
On a greater time-scale, oil/coal carbon is part of a self balancing biosphere too.
the challenge of working in sub-optimal conditions and still be able to perform. That is the true test and that is what my dungeon gave me. What did it give you?
2,000 XP, 10 PP, 100 GP, 150 EP, 500 CP, and 2 gems.
"We all take our risks, here in the dungeon." --Bargle
If you dab your toe in a field outside your expertise, you're liable to get it bitten off. I wouldn't take the advice of a Doctor of medicine on writing PERL.
Heck, I wouldn't take the advice of a Doctor of Computer Science on writing PERL.
Say we follow Al Gore and there turns out not to be a problem. We would have wasted lots of money. Say we don't follow Al Gore and he is right, then we are in deep shit and it is to late to do anything about it.
Ah, yes. Pascal's wager.
http://notnews.today.com/2008/10/13/turing-test-won-with-artificial-stupidity/
You know what that means don't you?
"STFU N00B"
You are probably not actually human.
"U R SO GAY LOLOLOLOL"
The test was designed to weed out 'your' kind.
"NO U"
I bet you couldn't even pass a simple Turing test against a 13 year old girl if you can't pass a Captcha.
"IT'S OVER 9000!!"
It really is sad when they learn the truth.
...
"Fag."
http://notnews.today.com/2008/10/13/turing-test-won-with-artificial-stupidity/
It forces them to be a little less biased, and it keeps well-written articles available.
I'd like my media bias to be overt, please. Veiled bias can be pernicious. It's the same reason why I think we should vote poor orators into office: they'll have a harder time getting you to believe a lie.
The special ingredient in XServe disk drives is... love. :-/
I thought it was a little bit of Steve Jobs in every drive.
They do, afterall, sell different products.
One sells chocolate, the other sells peanut butter. Both want to sell Reese's cups.
MS BOB was the OS that made computing personal for me.
As in, "This time, it's Personal ?"
...but am I the only one who thinks that they've been shifting the focus more to things that result in a good explosion, to the detriment of everything else?
Ninja episode #3: eggshell bombs
"... now lets see what an eggshell bomb would do filled with nitroglycerin!"
Pirate episode #4: messages in a bottle
"... now lets see what a message in a bottle would do if written on flash paper in a bottle filled with nitroglycerin!"
Cooking episode: loud sounds deflating souffles
"... now lets see what the souffle looks like if we detonate a gas leak in the mock-up kitchen!"
Depending on how the methane was acquired, I can imagine their concern.
They should have learned this lesson with the tree-cannon and 5 pounds of black powder. Wood chunks as large as a man flew past the barriers (and construction equipment) they hid behind. They were lucky on that one.
Now virtually anyone can enjoy Spider Man [...] If we then contrast that with a classic superhero like the Punisher,
Didn't Frank Castle debut in Amazing Spiderman #bignumber?
It's bad enough that PG13 movies get McDonald's Happy Meal toys. If you're going to market a movie to little kids, make it for kids. If you're going to make the movie geared towards older people, then don't market it to kids.
Hallelujah! At a local big-bookstore, they moved all of the Watchmen comics, making-of (movie), making-of (comics), etc. onto a big table away from the other graphic novels. Not too big a problem, except they moved them to right outside the children's books section. Brightly colored, big yellow smiley...
For an accurate comparison, they should do an r-rated Batman.
They did, but they gave it a PG-13 rating.
You just made me want to dress up as Captain Planet and run around my server room shutting things down for Earth Hour (while screaming "Captain Planet!" in my best Ted Turner impression). Or maybe it's my lack of sleep.
Nothing less than bunny-suits. Sloughed skin cells have DNA too.
You see our computer has a power supply that makes it an incredible bitch to turn on after you turn it off. We have to open it up to fix it usually.
I hope by "it" you mean the computer, not the power supply. PSU capacitors can be pretty dangerous.
Small solder inside touching ground? That's a lot of draw just to power the clock/WOL circuits.
In an large business environment, software updates, scans, audits, defrags, etc all happen at night, and WOL isn't always magically delicious (some people turn off their surge protector instead of their computer + monitor). Thus, a policy of "keep your &#$#^$@ machine turned on or I'll reboot it for updates while you're working" is instituted and adhered to with the tenacity of the BOFH. After just one time of having their work-flow or coding-zone interrupted (losing _far_ more than $36 in productivity), people get the hint.
How long will corporate customers of Red Hat need the hand-holding provided by paying for Linux?
As someone who's admined gentoo servers before, RHEL is nice for being a stable platform with few if any radical changes (and any big changes are announced more than a week in advance). Sure, there's CentOS, but if everyone switches to CentOS, where is CentOS going to get their source code when RH dies? Okay, Ubuntu LTS (deliberate stagnation), Debian (inadvertent instead of deliberate stagnation), Slackware (whatever you want, but you better know what you want)... there are options.
Free Linux Desktop OS means more likely fewer Windows Server OS in production (greater number of Linux Servers [RHEL]). I'm surprised he doesn't realize this.