>Eliminate domain names entirely. What, you can't remember 12 little numbers?:) I know, not gonna happen. Possibly we can try harder to reduce the dependence on domain names. Search engines have helped do this somewhat.
What if I run a small business w/o our own web server? I could have a domain name for my business, but retain the option of switching isps which would change the ip address.
Personally, I think people should be able to buy whatever domains they want and do whatever they want with them. domains should probably cost more int the first place though.
To my knowledge, it's perfectly legal for me to reserve the phone number 1-800-walmart, even if Wal-Mart inc. doesn't want me to. So why should a domain name be any different?
Next people are going to complain that there aren't enough women in Prison.
Here are some measures which may help foster a life of crime in children -- especially, but not only, girls.
Encourage activities which involve Anger, Rage, etc.
Encourage activities which promote a general disregard for the welfare of others.
Teach them martial arts and deception holistically.
When they're learning to speak, teach them to lie.
Nurture the idea that you don't have to play by the rules. When playing games, reward them for cheating. Remember, it's not against the rules if you don't get caught!
Discourage an appreciation of quality and value, especially in the property of others.
Don't bother sending them to school, it's not as if they'll ever need a real job.
Nurture dishonesty wherever you find it. If they say they didn't steal that money from your wallet, teach them to say it convincingly.
I have an idea for NASA increasing it's funding. They mass produce a bunch of the little robots, install an internet package in each one of them, then open up an All-Advantage account for each one, giving referral credit to some master account at NASA.
Then program them to open a mailbox in anarctica. Program them to do useful exploration tasks like opening the check, and depositing it automatically.
Why waste money making them mobile? Just put the robots in backpacks and strap them to penguins!
It always bugged me that when I as 14 I was considered old enough to pay taxes, but not old enough to vote. I didn't want to file a single tax return. What would they do? Prosecute me as an adult?
But my spineless parents did it behind my back, and couldn't understand why "Taxation w/o representation" was fundamentally wrong. I guess I feel sorry for the, raised to obey the system without thinking for themselves. What empty lives they must lead.
Let's lock up everyone. Every last human being. The last guy makes sure everyone's cell is secure, then locks himself in one. We'll let evolution take it's course. Eventually, dogs will acquire intelligence and will run the planet. They'll be responsible for feeding us in prison, and building new prisons to hold our babies. If we're particularly attractive (If we are hairy and drool a lot) they may allow some of us to be kept as pets.
Anyway, it may not seem like a great idea, at first. However it will virtually eliminate crime, the socio-economic gap, Islam, war, homosexuality (one man and one woman per cell), and everything else that is "wrong" with our society.
If I were kevin, I'd put a really big wad of foil in that microwave, and mail it to the judge. Better use a really long cord. Better yet, instead of foil, put a UPS in the microwave, cut a hole for the cord and voila! I'm not sure exactly what would happen, but I'm sure it wouldn't be good for anybody.:)
BTW, that reminds me, do the terms of his parole mention anything about purchasing/owning/operating explosives? I'm sure he learned some practical uses for them in prison.
This is not the same. I have not been convicted of a crime, however I can't just set up shop as a lawyer or a doctor - even if I was capable of it, I am not allowed to do it. Why? You need a license to practice these professions. An association of doctors/lawyers deems me qualified and gives me a license to practice, which they can take away whenever they want if I behave unprofessionally. This is a good thing because it helps prevent hacks and quacks.
What's the difference you ask? Let's say I carve my initials on someone during surgery, do some time, and eventually get released. It wouldn't be the government saying I can't be a doctor because I might be tempted to break the law. It would be the AMA saying I can't be a doctor because I'm not competant enough to be a doctor.
Not so with IT. Even High School kids are allowed (and frequently do) to perform IT services. You don't need a license.
Do we ban former getaway drivers from using cars? After all, it is possible to live without a car and if they don't like it, they should have thought of that before they committed their crime. But we don't because it has nothing to do with helping them reform. If letting Kevin near a computer is such a danger, then why are we even letting him use one in three years? He should be barred from computers for the rest of his life in that case. But the justice department just wants to fuck with him. They know that it will be difficult for anyone, let alone someone with questionable moral fibre, to legitamately
"Hello Sir, I'm inquiring about your Help Wanted ad in Sunday's Times." ... "What is your corporate policy on hiring convicted felons?...not that I am one." ... "Hmm-Ok. By the way, does the job require use of a computer?" ... "Yes? Well I guess I'll have to get back to you. Bye."
MadMorf, I hope you consent to an agreement I just drafted. If you get caught jaywalking, you will allow yourself to be imprisoned for a year. When you get out of jail, you will not beallowed to be within 50 feet of a public street.
This shouldn't be a problem to you, because you do no evil, you will never have to worry about it.
Kevin Mitnick may not have been an ideal citizen, but that doesn't mean that he deserves whatever bad happens to him. Now that he's out of prison, they impose rules on him that make it almost impossible for him to earn a legitimate living. They may as well have said
"Kevin, you're a free man now. That means that you will have to work for your meals and housing expenses. However, you are not allowed to get a job. Have fun!"
They're just setting him up for failure. I thought one of the purposes of the American Justice System was to REFORM people like Kevin - people who may have strayed once in their lives, but are non-violent.
I'd rather my tax dollars were spent keeping violent career criminals locked up!
Windows 98 millenium edition sounds too contradictory to me.
kinda like Windows 95, 98 editions
When are they going to release Microsoft Word, PhotoShop edition? And Microsoft Excel, netmeeting edition?
OK, these examples are a little absurd, but that's just because when I thought of Microsoft Excel: Visual Basic Edition, it sounded too much like something they would actually do.
Hey, are all these posts by the same guy, or are there that many people here who are afraid to attach their real email address to their posts?
Maybe there were two jesuses who were different people but spelled their name the same. One said his name like Gezus, the other called himself Hazuse. Gezus had white parents, Mary and Joseph and was white and had all kinds of adventures with a bunch of white guys.
The other guy, Hazuse, was born to Maria and Jose.
Heheh I bet I'll get flamed by the inquisition because I just implied that Joe inseminated Mary. Am I going to be tortured for eternity because I just called him diminutively Joe? Or does it not matter because he wasn't a saint?
I sure wish I knew what I was talking about. Any non-anonymous cowards have something to say about this?
You forgot about USB RAM. BTW that made me think of something. If I add a second hard drive to my system, write some code so that it gets formatted whenever I turn my system on, and put an 10GB swap file on it, can I brag to my techie friends that my machine has 10GB of RAM? I was just wondering...
Nah, better to advertise it as having 10GB of RAM and put it on EBay.
The bible would have sold more copies if Jesus hadn't been resurrected. They should have had a bunch of saints rush in and kidnap him back from the cross, but then he gets tetanus from his wounds and dies.
Then they could have made a sequel (The Bible part II, Jesus Strikes Back) about the saints or something.
I support the idea of the government controlling our lives. I would much rather have the government track everything I do than have the local con-artist screw me. When was the last time the US government hurt anyone?
The problem with tatoos is that they are too easily altered. What they need to do is cut off some of your fingers when you're born. You have 10 fingers, so there are 1024 possible ways they could cut off your fingers. They could also cut off the corresponding toe for every finger. Then they incorporate that into a checksum in the tatoo on your forehead. That would sure make identity thieves' jobs' a lot harder.
Better yet, cut off either the whole finger, none of the finger, or to the first knuckle. That way there are 59049 (3^10) possible checksums. They could also incorporate your race/gender into your mutilation checksums to make it harder to steal someone's identity. For example: all women could have mostly intact right hands (so they can give handjobs to support themselves), or all Native Americans could have no thumbs (because the government doesn't like them).
Well you're supposed to be at Church on Sundays, so if you have icecream in your back pocket, you'll make a mess on the church benches. Or maybe you're already not supposed to eat ice cream on Sunday, it being Sunday and all, but some wiseguy said "I'm not eating it, I'm just holding it in my pocket [until you turn your back, then I'll have some]."
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Let's teach THAT to third graders!
>Eliminate domain names entirely. What, you can't remember 12 little numbers? :) I know, not gonna happen. Possibly we can try harder to reduce the dependence on domain names. Search engines have helped do this somewhat.
What if I run a small business w/o our own web server? I could have a domain name for my business, but retain the option of switching isps which would change the ip address.
Personally, I think people should be able to buy whatever domains they want and do whatever they want with them. domains should probably cost more int the first place though.
To my knowledge, it's perfectly legal for me to reserve the phone number 1-800-walmart, even if Wal-Mart inc. doesn't want me to. So why should a domain name be any different?
Next people are going to complain that there aren't enough women in Prison.
Here are some measures which may help foster a life of crime in children -- especially, but not only, girls.
I have an idea for NASA increasing it's funding. They mass produce a bunch of the little robots, install an internet package in each one of them, then open up an All-Advantage account for each one, giving referral credit to some master account at NASA.
Then program them to open a mailbox in anarctica. Program them to do useful exploration tasks like opening the check, and depositing it automatically.
Why waste money making them mobile? Just put the robots in backpacks and strap them to penguins!
This is a little offtopic, oh well:
It always bugged me that when I as 14 I was considered old enough to pay taxes, but not old enough to vote. I didn't want to file a single tax return. What would they do? Prosecute me as an adult?
But my spineless parents did it behind my back, and couldn't understand why "Taxation w/o representation" was fundamentally wrong. I guess I feel sorry for the, raised to obey the system without thinking for themselves. What empty lives they must lead.
But society prevents everyone else from owning guns as well. In practice, we don't have a second ammendment anymore.
I have to register my firearms? Next, I'll have to register to practice religion.
Let's lock up everyone. Every last human being. The last guy makes sure everyone's cell is secure, then locks himself in one. We'll let evolution take it's course. Eventually, dogs will acquire intelligence and will run the planet. They'll be responsible for feeding us in prison, and building new prisons to hold our babies. If we're particularly attractive (If we are hairy and drool a lot) they may allow some of us to be kept as pets.
Anyway, it may not seem like a great idea, at first. However it will virtually eliminate crime, the socio-economic gap, Islam, war, homosexuality (one man and one woman per cell), and everything else that is "wrong" with our society.
The dogs will agree, it was for our own good.
If I were kevin, I'd put a really big wad of foil in that microwave, and mail it to the judge. Better use a really long cord. Better yet, instead of foil, put a UPS in the microwave, cut a hole for the cord and voila! I'm not sure exactly what would happen, but I'm sure it wouldn't be good for anybody. :)
BTW, that reminds me, do the terms of his parole mention anything about purchasing/owning/operating explosives? I'm sure he learned some practical uses for them in prison.
This is not the same. I have not been convicted of a crime, however I can't just set up shop as a lawyer or a doctor - even if I was capable of it, I am not allowed to do it. Why? You need a license to practice these professions. An association of doctors/lawyers deems me qualified and gives me a license to practice, which they can take away whenever they want if I behave unprofessionally. This is a good thing because it helps prevent hacks and quacks.
What's the difference you ask? Let's say I carve my initials on someone during surgery, do some time, and eventually get released. It wouldn't be the government saying I can't be a doctor because I might be tempted to break the law. It would be the AMA saying I can't be a doctor because I'm not competant enough to be a doctor.
Not so with IT. Even High School kids are allowed (and frequently do) to perform IT services. You don't need a license.
Do we ban former getaway drivers from using cars? After all, it is possible to live without a car and if they don't like it, they should have thought of that before they committed their crime. But we don't because it has nothing to do with helping them reform. If letting Kevin near a computer is such a danger, then why are we even letting him use one in three years? He should be barred from computers for the rest of his life in that case. But the justice department just wants to fuck with him. They know that it will be difficult for anyone, let alone someone with questionable moral fibre, to legitamately
"Hello Sir, I'm inquiring about your Help Wanted ad in Sunday's Times."
...
"What is your corporate policy on hiring convicted felons?...not that I am one."
...
"Hmm-Ok. By the way, does the job require use of a computer?"
...
"Yes? Well I guess I'll have to get back to you. Bye."
I don't think car theft is considered white collar crime.
white collar crime usually involves the word 'fraud'.
MadMorf, I hope you consent to an agreement I just drafted. If you get caught jaywalking, you will allow yourself to be imprisoned for a year. When you get out of jail, you will not beallowed to be within 50 feet of a public street.
This shouldn't be a problem to you, because you do no evil, you will never have to worry about it.
Kevin Mitnick may not have been an ideal citizen, but that doesn't mean that he deserves whatever bad happens to him. Now that he's out of prison, they impose rules on him that make it almost impossible for him to earn a legitimate living. They may as well have said
"Kevin, you're a free man now. That means that you will have to work for your meals and housing expenses. However, you are not allowed to get a job. Have fun!"
They're just setting him up for failure. I thought one of the purposes of the American Justice System was to REFORM people like Kevin - people who may have strayed once in their lives, but are non-violent.
I'd rather my tax dollars were spent keeping violent career criminals locked up!
ahh, but how many integers can you represent exactly?
/2?
what about (2^32 +1)/2?
how about (2^99999999 +1)
To represent any possible rational number (or interger for that matter) you'd need infinite memory.
Windows 98 millenium edition sounds too contradictory to me.
kinda like Windows 95, 98 editions
When are they going to release Microsoft Word, PhotoShop edition? And Microsoft Excel, netmeeting edition?
OK, these examples are a little absurd, but that's just because when I thought of Microsoft Excel: Visual Basic Edition, it sounded too much like something they would actually do.
It hits someone on the head, but makes it look like another hammer did it.h
Hey, are all these posts by the same guy, or are there that many people here who are afraid to attach their real email address to their posts?
Maybe there were two jesuses who were different people but spelled their name the same. One said his name like Gezus, the other called himself Hazuse. Gezus had white parents, Mary and Joseph and was white and had all kinds of adventures with a bunch of white guys.
The other guy, Hazuse, was born to Maria and Jose.
Heheh I bet I'll get flamed by the inquisition because I just implied that Joe inseminated Mary. Am I going to be tortured for eternity because I just called him diminutively Joe? Or does it not matter because he wasn't a saint?
I sure wish I knew what I was talking about. Any non-anonymous cowards have something to say about this?
You forgot about USB RAM. BTW that made me think of something. If I add a second hard drive to my system, write some code so that it gets formatted whenever I turn my system on, and put an 10GB swap file on it, can I brag to my techie friends that my machine has 10GB of RAM? I was just wondering...
Nah, better to advertise it as having 10GB of RAM and put it on EBay.
The bible would have sold more copies if Jesus hadn't been resurrected. They should have had a bunch of saints rush in and kidnap him back from the cross, but then he gets tetanus from his wounds and dies.
Then they could have made a sequel (The Bible part II, Jesus Strikes Back) about the saints or something.
I heard there's a new book coming out:
BackOrifice Server 2000 for Dummies.
Glowing in the dark increases the animals' sex appeal, thus they will reproduce and their non glowing counterparts won't.
I support the idea of the government controlling our lives. I would much rather have the government track everything I do than have the local con-artist screw me. When was the last time the US government hurt anyone?
The problem with tatoos is that they are too easily altered. What they need to do is cut off some of your fingers when you're born. You have 10 fingers, so there are 1024 possible ways they could cut off your fingers. They could also cut off the corresponding toe for every finger. Then they incorporate that into a checksum in the tatoo on your forehead. That would sure make identity thieves' jobs' a lot harder.
Better yet, cut off either the whole finger, none of the finger, or to the first knuckle. That way there are 59049 (3^10) possible checksums. They could also incorporate your race/gender into your mutilation checksums to make it harder to steal someone's identity. For example: all women could have mostly intact right hands (so they can give handjobs to support themselves), or all Native Americans could have no thumbs (because the government doesn't like them).
heeh When I was a little kid, I thought Motorola made motor oil.
As for Microsoft, smaller is better with computers.
Would you buy a PDA that advertised itself as "hefty"? What about software that's "full sized".
Whether Microsoft deserves their name is a different issue...
novell sounds like novel, as in "What a novel idea"
If Dell isn't the name of the guy who founded it, then it was probably chosen because it sounds like deal.
Well you're supposed to be at Church on Sundays, so if you have icecream in your back pocket, you'll make a mess on the church benches. Or maybe you're already not supposed to eat ice cream on Sunday, it being Sunday and all, but some wiseguy said "I'm not eating it, I'm just holding it in my pocket [until you turn your back, then I'll have some]."
That law seems ahead of its time to me.
You would expect the law to only require the woman to be over 50, old men can still make babies, so what does it matter how old the guy is?
But then the law would be sexist. It's politically correct now.
BTW, is it still legal for men (at least the Mormons) to have multiple wives in Utah?