"Microsoft is aware that the 'Kama Sutra/Blackworm/MyWife' worm will hit on Friday, overwriting office documents, but will not release a patch until its regular monthly patch release on February 14th. Unless, that is, you subscribe to one of Microsoft's pay security services..."
"Nice computer. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it. Thankfully, we're here to offer "protection"..."
Seriously, when will they use the RICO laws against Microsoft?
(1) A sinful dessert.
(2) A Final Fantasy monster.
(3) A Swahili word meaning "booger".
(4) Baby babble.
(5) A natural companion to "sed", "awk" and "grep".
The article made it sound like the Dual Shock 2 was when they first standardized on having the 'rumble'/vibration feature. This is untrue. The original Dual Shock was that (hence the name-- it had two different vibrating motors. (Commence jokes here.))
Also, the "you can push down on the sticks for another two buttons" feature, I believe, first appeared in Dual Shock 1, not 2.
Furthermore, they left out the fact that on the Dual Shock 2, the four buttons (triangle, square, circle, X) are velocity/pressure-sensitive. In other words, games can (if they are programmed to do so) tell how hard you pushed the buttons. This feature isn't used in too many games, but oddly, my copy of Kingdom Hearts seems to NOT BOOT without a Dual Shock 2 (a Dual Shock 1 will not do), and I believe some games in the "fighting" genre use the velocity sensitivity...
I see now. Since the government isn't supposed to engage in entrapment, private companies will. And since private companies are now becoming increasingly indistinguishable from governments... I guess we're all fucked.
"If my business depends on an OSS application, and it gets shut down, I can potentially go on about my business as I have the executables and wouldn't have to stop using them until someone came knocking at my door. If an SaaS application gets shut down and my business depends on it, I'm dead in the water. Seems like one of the prime arguments against OSS also takes out SaaS too. Rhetorically speaking, how could a commercial ISV in good faith talk any business out of an OSS application and into an SaaS application?""
You're missing the big picture. Here are the rules:
1) If a large company brings an IP claim of any sort against a small company, the large company wins.
2) If a sleazy patent holding company can manage to convince the USPTO that their lame-brained and/or overly sweeping patents are valid, everyone they choose to attack loses.
3) If a company succeeds in bribing politicians to changing laws in their favor, that company wins.
Rule #3 can override rule #2 or rule #1. Rule #2 can override rule #1.
I find great irony in the fact that you are berating those who are mad at Google for giving in to the whims of a leftist, purportedly Communist/Socialist government. I find it even more amusing that you are calling them "hippies". In the vernacular of conservative insult-flinging, doesn't "hippie" basically translate to "left-winger"? Isn't China supposedly the ultimate example of "left-wing" (even though, in reality, it's closer to Fascism than actual Communism-- but let's ignore that for a moment)?
In short, back under your bridge, troll.
By the way, I was once called "Hippie" for holding up an anti-Bush sign (it read "PRE-EMPTIVE WAR *ISN'T* CONSERVATIVE. KERRY/EDWARDS 2004"). I had short hair and was wearing casual business attire.
Of course, there's always Nigeria. They speak English there, and I could rename myself Joseph Kumalo, or Ibenze Ubugu, and send emails to American "investors".............
Is there any corner of the English-speaking world left for a liberal atheist/agnostic to turn to?
America is, well, America. Canada just took a turn rightwards. The UK is evidently just as much into Creationism as the US. Australia seems to have the same sort of draconian DRM as the US. South Africa... well, South Africa is mired in crime, so I wouldn't want to move there. Not sure about New Zealand...
"We also believe that over time, that regular users will also want to protect their own information. For example in the future, home users may want to protect and control the usage of information such as lists of their friends, photos, banking account information and other personal data."
I find this to be wishful thinking at best and completely laughable at worst. End-users will embrace DRM? I think this dude needs to talk to more college students. To end-users, DRM is stuff to get around so they can play their illegal music. Period. That's all it will ever be. End-users won't ever see a need to encrypt data on their computer, since they still go by the "I don't do anything important, so no one would want to break into my computer" school of thought vis-a-vis computer security. (They haven't yet grasped, of course, that the overwhelming majority of attacks are automated.)
Those who are "hardcore" about not believing in Global Warming will continue to do so long after Manhattan is underwater. (They'll say "it's part of a natural cycle! Nothing we did!")
"Share and enjoy
Share and enjoy
Journey through life with your plastic boy
Or girl by your side
Let your pal be your guide
And when it breaks down or starts to annoy
Or grinds when it moves and gives you no joy
Cos it's eaten your hat Or had sex with your cat
Bled oil on your floor
Or ripped off your door
You get to the point you can't stand any more
Bring it to us, we won't give a fig
We'll tell you, 'Go stick your head in a pig'."
You see? Those EVIL SCIENTISTS are committing fraud left and right with their evil "Photo shops"! Therefore, you are left with no choice but to admit that God created the world 6,000 years ago in six literal days!!11!1111</fundie>
What's more alarming still is that the military runs Windows at all! They should be running OpenBSD or the NSA's secure GNU/Linux dist (forget its name) on both desktops AND servers. Yes, it'd be "inconvenient" for stupid-assed soldiers who only know Windows, but tough shit-- it's the fucking military, it's supposed to be as secure as possible (and, when you need to connect things to the Internet, OpenBSD pretty much fits that bill).
Sure, but that would have backfired. He would have gotten a reasonably competent lawyer, who would have demonstrated that the military computers [A] were not connected to any high-security networks and [B] (more importantly) were "hacked" by automated systems, NOT by this guy.
"Yahoo is well-designed, engaging, caters to novices..."
And that, my friends, is why it will never go away, even if Google eats its lunch. There will ALWAYS be a market for "search solutions for noobs". Of course, Google could buy Yahoo!...
The "mainstream media" story on this guy that I read (on cnn.com, probably provided via the Associated Press) prominently mentioned the fact that some of the computers this guy controlled were military computers. The first thing that struck me upon reading that was "they're just trying to make tihs guy seem more sinister than he actually is; his software probably infected those military computers randomly, the same way they infected any others." How much do you wanna bet that all this "ZOMG HE HAXORED TEH MILITARY!11!111 EVIL TERORIST HAXOR!111!111" brouhaha boils down to some lame-brained civvies working menial office or consulting jobs for the military getting their work machines (connected to the commodity Internet) infected?
The story was phrased in such a way that would easily make a technologically naive reader go "Wow, he 'hacked into' the military, so evil", but in reality, it was probably all done by his software.
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There exist at least the following two definitions of "richer": (1) Deeper, more complex, more broad in scope, and (2) Having more money.
History has shown that homogeneity of views (read: monopoly) is a faster track to #2 (though obviously not #1).
So, in a sense, the field becomes "richer" (more moolah!) when they all think the same.
"Nice computer. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it. Thankfully, we're here to offer "protection"..."
Seriously, when will they use the RICO laws against Microsoft?
The name "Goobuntu" sounds most like:
(1) A sinful dessert.
(2) A Final Fantasy monster.
(3) A Swahili word meaning "booger".
(4) Baby babble.
(5) A natural companion to "sed", "awk" and "grep".
The article made it sound like the Dual Shock 2 was when they first standardized on having the 'rumble'/vibration feature. This is untrue. The original Dual Shock was that (hence the name-- it had two different vibrating motors. (Commence jokes here.))
Also, the "you can push down on the sticks for another two buttons" feature, I believe, first appeared in Dual Shock 1, not 2.
Furthermore, they left out the fact that on the Dual Shock 2, the four buttons (triangle, square, circle, X) are velocity/pressure-sensitive. In other words, games can (if they are programmed to do so) tell how hard you pushed the buttons. This feature isn't used in too many games, but oddly, my copy of Kingdom Hearts seems to NOT BOOT without a Dual Shock 2 (a Dual Shock 1 will not do), and I believe some games in the "fighting" genre use the velocity sensitivity...
I see now. Since the government isn't supposed to engage in entrapment, private companies will. And since private companies are now becoming increasingly indistinguishable from governments... I guess we're all fucked.
1) If a large company brings an IP claim of any sort against a small company, the large company wins.
2) If a sleazy patent holding company can manage to convince the USPTO that their lame-brained and/or overly sweeping patents are valid, everyone they choose to attack loses.
3) If a company succeeds in bribing politicians to changing laws in their favor, that company wins.
Rule #3 can override rule #2 or rule #1. Rule #2 can override rule #1.
I trust in globalization alright. I trust it implicitly-- to drive everyone's wages down to Third World levels and make the mega-rich even richer.
I know you're trolling, but I'll bite:
I find great irony in the fact that you are berating those who are mad at Google for giving in to the whims of a leftist, purportedly Communist/Socialist government. I find it even more amusing that you are calling them "hippies". In the vernacular of conservative insult-flinging, doesn't "hippie" basically translate to "left-winger"? Isn't China supposedly the ultimate example of "left-wing" (even though, in reality, it's closer to Fascism than actual Communism-- but let's ignore that for a moment)?
In short, back under your bridge, troll.
By the way, I was once called "Hippie" for holding up an anti-Bush sign (it read "PRE-EMPTIVE WAR *ISN'T* CONSERVATIVE. KERRY/EDWARDS 2004"). I had short hair and was wearing casual business attire.
Of course, there's always Nigeria. They speak English there, and I could rename myself Joseph Kumalo, or Ibenze Ubugu, and send emails to American "investors".............
Is there any corner of the English-speaking world left for a liberal atheist/agnostic to turn to?
America is, well, America. Canada just took a turn rightwards. The UK is evidently just as much into Creationism as the US. Australia seems to have the same sort of draconian DRM as the US. South Africa... well, South Africa is mired in crime, so I wouldn't want to move there. Not sure about New Zealand...
And therefore, it's okay to spew pollutants into the air willy-nilly!
Those who are "hardcore" about not believing in Global Warming will continue to do so long after Manhattan is underwater. (They'll say "it's part of a natural cycle! Nothing we did!")
...from the people who brought you "Super Jumbo Shrimp" and "Military Intelligence: An Introduction".
Emacs sucks, though. Go with vi!
"Share and enjoy
Share and enjoy
Journey through life with your plastic boy
Or girl by your side
Let your pal be your guide
And when it breaks down or starts to annoy
Or grinds when it moves and gives you no joy
Cos it's eaten your hat
Or had sex with your cat
Bled oil on your floor
Or ripped off your door
You get to the point you can't stand any more
Bring it to us, we won't give a fig
We'll tell you, 'Go stick your head in a pig'."
You see? Those EVIL SCIENTISTS are committing fraud left and right with their evil "Photo shops"! Therefore, you are left with no choice but to admit that God created the world 6,000 years ago in six literal days!!11!1111</fundie>
(Note to moderators: The above is SATIRE)
What's more alarming still is that the military runs Windows at all! They should be running OpenBSD or the NSA's secure GNU/Linux dist (forget its name) on both desktops AND servers. Yes, it'd be "inconvenient" for stupid-assed soldiers who only know Windows, but tough shit-- it's the fucking military, it's supposed to be as secure as possible (and, when you need to connect things to the Internet, OpenBSD pretty much fits that bill).
Sure, but that would have backfired. He would have gotten a reasonably competent lawyer, who would have demonstrated that the military computers [A] were not connected to any high-security networks and [B] (more importantly) were "hacked" by automated systems, NOT by this guy.
Meself, I'm thinking more of Priests telling their congregations not to have illicit sex... ;)
Of course, as I surmised as well. But that's not what Joe Reader will think when he reads stories stating that some guy infected military computers.
Mods are on crack. Read the parent post; it's specifically about this "botnet brain" guy and what he allegedly did.
Yeah, he's rediculous. Its a shame.
The "mainstream media" story on this guy that I read (on cnn.com, probably provided via the Associated Press) prominently mentioned the fact that some of the computers this guy controlled were military computers. The first thing that struck me upon reading that was "they're just trying to make tihs guy seem more sinister than he actually is; his software probably infected those military computers randomly, the same way they infected any others." How much do you wanna bet that all this "ZOMG HE HAXORED TEH MILITARY!11!111 EVIL TERORIST HAXOR!111!111" brouhaha boils down to some lame-brained civvies working menial office or consulting jobs for the military getting their work machines (connected to the commodity Internet) infected?
The story was phrased in such a way that would easily make a technologically naive reader go "Wow, he 'hacked into' the military, so evil", but in reality, it was probably all done by his software.