I sold your info to Primo Amore restaurant down the street. They say they got some new cheese in for their lasagna. I ordered you a batch. Expect the doorbell to ring tomorrow at 7PM.
Because suddenly those nice happy streams you were enjoying get yanked away from you and are only eligible on Sandy Bridge chip machines. However, we only learn about this in January after you already bought a generic Windows 7 machine.
So now we not only have everyone making software lockins, we are seeing the first hardware lockins. You'll have to carry a chart around to figure out the dependencies.
Luv that last line. It takes a comment that is in fact at risk of being mismodded and sends the mods into a tailspin of doubt.
Let's call this the Utopia Problem. For study material, try Pleasantville the movie.
Taking you completely seriously, the problem lies in your ultra emphasis on *everything*. At level 1 you get problems at the formal logic level wrapped up in Gordian knots of whether the concepts & objects were previously known and then excised, so that the removal creates severe resentment. Or any psychological quirk makes *one* person unhappy, and then Set___OfPeople no longer gets along. Etc.
Level 2 is if you sorta hardwired people to just BeHappy, it leads to KleinBottle grade concept distortions to rational thought when one one answer of a binary choice is "allowed". It would be like trying to run a computer without Zeroes.
Rephrasing your comment, the best you could hope for would be "everything that causes non-accidental homicide would be banned including crimes of passion." We might all end up clones of Ben Stein's characters, but we wouldn't have any more murder.
There are only seventeen types of pornographic troll comments here in the recent history of Slashdot, and most of them are goatse. Therefore I predict that the third pornographic troll comment to appear seven stories from now will be a goatse. Further, there seems to be a rise in a goatse bot that can't spell which is supplanting classical troll phrasing.*
* Statistics not properly peer reviewed. However, I predict that it is too much work for anyone to properly disprove this comment. Therefore I will get some kind of Heterogenous Mod including one flamebait and one funny.
** If this is true, it would then deserve an Informative Mod. If this post does not then receive an Informative Mod, that would indicate non-random negative reinforcement applied deliberately in disregard of Mod guidelines.
"...whether the Internet needs an "identity layer"—a uniform protocol for authenticating users' identities..."
Supplied by a top-5 candidate for privacy destruction? So we've had big computing companies battling it out to be the Web Gatekeeper, and they want to go "C-Other-Give it to Facebook" ?!
Thing is, you have seen those apps - but they were called Shareware. Everyone was saying there was real trouble selling them. But now they're called Free and Premium Apps and suddenly they're hotcakes.
I am starting to think it's the Mall sales experience of the App Stores (plural) making a difference.
Slashdot Mirror
You could form the Trolls Under the Bridge College!
Ewe get a green line for the right word in the wrong pasture.
What does Sarah Palin think?
Hi.
I sold your info to Primo Amore restaurant down the street. They say they got some new cheese in for their lasagna. I ordered you a batch. Expect the doorbell to ring tomorrow at 7PM.
(Sarcasm)
The source reserved the right to change the terms of his non-disclosure agreement without notifying Facebook! +1 Ironic hmm?
But this is twice in a row we've seen dangerous stories undersold. A few hours ago we had the re-emergence of Trusted Computing.
Now we have another piece of "Info Is Never Safe".
Eternal October?
As in, the users are 1 month smarter than the September crowd of ten years ago?
They have the fetus market too!
+1 Placenta
That explains getting pummelled by KY Jelly ads on Hulu lately.
Because suddenly those nice happy streams you were enjoying get yanked away from you and are only eligible on Sandy Bridge chip machines. However, we only learn about this in January after you already bought a generic Windows 7 machine.
So now we not only have everyone making software lockins, we are seeing the first hardware lockins. You'll have to carry a chart around to figure out the dependencies.
Luv that last line. It takes a comment that is in fact at risk of being mismodded and sends the mods into a tailspin of doubt.
Let's call this the Utopia Problem. For study material, try Pleasantville the movie.
Taking you completely seriously, the problem lies in your ultra emphasis on *everything*. At level 1 you get problems at the formal logic level wrapped up in Gordian knots of whether the concepts & objects were previously known and then excised, so that the removal creates severe resentment. Or any psychological quirk makes *one* person unhappy, and then Set___OfPeople no longer gets along. Etc.
Level 2 is if you sorta hardwired people to just BeHappy, it leads to KleinBottle grade concept distortions to rational thought when one one answer of a binary choice is "allowed". It would be like trying to run a computer without Zeroes.
Rephrasing your comment, the best you could hope for would be "everything that causes non-accidental homicide would be banned including crimes of passion." We might all end up clones of Ben Stein's characters, but we wouldn't have any more murder.
There are only seventeen types of pornographic troll comments here in the recent history of Slashdot, and most of them are goatse. Therefore I predict that the third pornographic troll comment to appear seven stories from now will be a goatse. Further, there seems to be a rise in a goatse bot that can't spell which is supplanting classical troll phrasing.*
* Statistics not properly peer reviewed. However, I predict that it is too much work for anyone to properly disprove this comment. Therefore I will get some kind of Heterogenous Mod including one flamebait and one funny.
** If this is true, it would then deserve an Informative Mod. If this post does not then receive an Informative Mod, that would indicate non-random negative reinforcement applied deliberately in disregard of Mod guidelines.
This is scarily relevant to this thread.
Who made a Goatse Bot that can't form words?
"...whether the Internet needs an "identity layer"—a uniform protocol for authenticating users' identities..."
Supplied by a top-5 candidate for privacy destruction? So we've had big computing companies battling it out to be the Web Gatekeeper, and they want to go "C-Other-Give it to Facebook" ?!
Watch out for that new California law though.
(Satire)
I think his name might manage to infringe copyright on the Simpsons and Simon&Garfunkel at the same time.
(Satire)
Would 2013 finally be the Year of the Linux Desktop if that's the only version that doesn't go Subscription?
I think we'd be due also for an XP-User zombie rebellion if Windows 9 tried to go Cloud/Azure only.
But look at the Graphics of Tron Legacy!
Oh - sorry - you meant Apple's equally slick graphics!
Just don't think too hard what it all means.
If you ask Apple really nicely, they'll let you boot it up.
Has anyone talked to Adrian Paul?
We're on our way to a Clan Cloud.
Thing is, you have seen those apps - but they were called Shareware. Everyone was saying there was real trouble selling them. But now they're called Free and Premium Apps and suddenly they're hotcakes.
I am starting to think it's the Mall sales experience of the App Stores (plural) making a difference.
Free Call of Duty 4 when you buy Angry Birds!
Good one.
It's an old joke from sites with silly profanity filters.
You can't get your plausible deniability if you pick someone good!
Check out this Screensaver from the upcoming Star Wars MMO!
Binks.jar.jar
Wikileaks Round 2!