Tuesday, October 16, 2007
geo glam test
Sunday, February 04, 2007
God as Computer Programmer
Some Important Theological Questions are Answered if we think of God as a
Computer Programmer.
Q: Does God control everything that happens in my life?
A: He could, if he used the debugger, but it's tedious to step through
all those variables.
Q: Why does God allow evil to happen?
A: God thought he eliminated evil in one of the earlier revs.
Q: Does God know everything?
A: He likes to think so, but he is often amazed to find out what goes
on in the overnite job.
Q: What causes God to intervene in earthly affairs?
A: If an critical error occurs, the system pages him automatically and
he logs on from home to try to bring it up. Otherwise things can
wait until tomorrow.
Q: Did God really create the world in seven days?
A: He did it in six days and nights while living on cola and candy
bars. On the seventh day he went home and found out his girlfriend
had left him.
Q: How come the Age of Miracles Ended?
A: That was the development phase of the project, now we are in the
maintenance phase.
Q: Will there be another Universe after the Big Bang?
A: A lot of people are drawing things on the white board, but
personally, God doubts that it will ever be implemented.
Q: Who is Satan?
A: Satan is an MIS director who takes credit for more powers than he
actually possesses, so people who aren't programmers are scared of
him. God thinks of him as irritating but irrelevant.
Q: What is the role of sinners?
A: Sinners are the people who find new an imaginative ways to mess up
the system when God has made it idiot-proof.
Q: Where will I go after I die?
A: Onto a DAT tape.
Q: Will I be reincarnated?
A: Not unless there is a special need to recreate you. And searching
those .tar files is a major hassle, so if there is a request for you,
God will just say that the tape has been lost.
Q: Am I unique and special in the universe?
A: There are over 10,000 major university and corporate sites running
exact duplicates of you in the present release version.
Q: What is the purpose of the universe?
A: God created it because he values elegance and simplicity, but then
the users and managers demanded he tack all this senseless stuff onto
it and now everything is more complicated and expensive than ever.
Q: If I pray to God, will he listen?
A: You can waste his time telling him what to do, or you can just get
off his back and let him program.
Q: What is the one true religion?
A: All systems have their advantages and disadvantages, so just pick
the one that best suits your needs and don't let anyone put you down.
Q: Is God angry that we crucified him?
A: Let's just say he's not going to any more meetings if he can help
it, because that last one with the twelve managers and the food
turned out to be murder.
Q: How can I protect myself from evil?
A: Change your password every month and don't make it a name, a common
word, or a date like your birthday.
Q: Some people claim they hear the voice of God. Is this true?
A: They are much more likely to receive email.
Q: Some people say God is Love.
A: That is not a question. Please restate your query in the form of a
question.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Monday, January 22, 2007
Vegas 2007
Well what can I say. This is my forth year in a row that I have been to Vegas for CES.. Cant wait to be home to my house, my cat Spyce, and my fish. :)
I wasnt able to do everything I wanted because I had a friend that was supposed to meet me here to get me into the half the things i was supposed to get into. Most included the AVN parties. He failed to arrive, but dont worry I got my fair share of porn stars ;) ;p yea buddy.. MMM HMM!! what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas fa sho.. But you can see these.. http://picasaweb.google.com/gravyplaya/Vegas2007
I did go to the Hustlaz Ball.. Which I had VIP access into. Wanna see the pics of the show?? I bet you want to see some Pics dont you??? http://picasaweb.google.com/gravyplaya/HustlazBall07
Peep the captions on the pics for mo details..
Bye for now bitches..
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
ONE game - Nokia N93
| This game demo was rendered in real time from the Nokia N93. | |
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
The Megapixel Myth Settled.
Lets put together all this digital camera megapixel debate drama..
Fudgebrown put it best. Its all about how much light your camera can record.. Thats why we had to put the largest mirror we can make in space. Where you will REALLY see the difference is when you zoom in. Will the quality when you zoom in look just as clear as the picture at full resolution? Or will it look somewhat blurry like when using digital zoom? Case in point: The Gigapixel Project http://www.gigapxl.org/gallery.htm They have a 1250MP, 1GP camera. They use it for landscape photographs. Try taking the same pic with your 5MP camera and try to zoom in. You think itll look the same? Nope.. Also you may notice the difference if your printing on a poster vs. lets say an airplane. Quality of the same pic on a poster should be perfect, quality on the airplane- not so much. So do you need more than 5 or 7MP's? It depends on what you going to use the picture for.
This is a digg that explains why a 5 megapixel camera isn't necessarily better than a 3 Megapixel camera. Search for gravyplaya and read my comments.
read more | digg story
Fudgebrown put it best. Its all about how much light your camera can record.. Thats why we had to put the largest mirror we can make in space. Where you will REALLY see the difference is when you zoom in. Will the quality when you zoom in look just as clear as the picture at full resolution? Or will it look somewhat blurry like when using digital zoom? Case in point: The Gigapixel Project http://www.gigapxl.org/gallery.htm They have a 1250MP, 1GP camera. They use it for landscape photographs. Try taking the same pic with your 5MP camera and try to zoom in. You think itll look the same? Nope.. Also you may notice the difference if your printing on a poster vs. lets say an airplane. Quality of the same pic on a poster should be perfect, quality on the airplane- not so much. So do you need more than 5 or 7MP's? It depends on what you going to use the picture for.
This is a digg that explains why a 5 megapixel camera isn't necessarily better than a 3 Megapixel camera. Search for gravyplaya and read my comments.
read more | digg story
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
AT&T will sell your information..
AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The changes are significant because they appear to give the telecom giant more latitude when it comes to sharing customers' personal data with government officials.
The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it "to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."
The policy also indicates that AT&T will track the viewing habits of customers of its new video service -- something that cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing.
Moreover, AT&T (formerly known as SBC) is requiring customers to agree to its updated privacy policy as a condition for service -- a new move that legal experts say will reduce customers' recourse for any future data sharing with government authorities or others.
The company's policy overhaul follows recent reports that AT&T was one of several leading telecom providers that allowed the National Security Agency warrantless access to its voice and data networks as part of the Bush administration's war on terror.
"They're obviously trying to avoid a hornet's nest of consumer-protection lawsuits," said Chris Hoofnagle, a San Francisco privacy consultant and former senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
"They've written this new policy so broadly that they've given themselves maximum flexibility when it comes to disclosing customers' records," he said.
AT&T is being sued by San Francisco's Electronic Frontier Foundation for allegedly allowing the NSA to tap into the company's data network, providing warrantless access to customers' e-mails and Web browsing.
AT&T is also believed to have participated in President Bush's acknowledged domestic spying program, in which the NSA was given warrantless access to U.S. citizens' phone calls.
AT&T said in a statement last month that it "has a long history of vigorously protecting customer privacy" and that "our customers expect, deserve and receive nothing less than our fullest commitment to their privacy."
But the company also asserted that it has "an obligation to assist law enforcement and other government agencies responsible for protecting the public welfare, whether it be an individual or the security interests of the entire nation."
Under its former privacy policy, introduced in September 2004, AT&T said it might use customer's data "to respond to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process, to the extent required and/or permitted by law."
The new version, which is specifically for Internet and video customers, is much more explicit about the company's right to cooperate with government agencies in any security-related matters -- and AT&T's belief that customers' data belongs to the company, not customers.
"While your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are owned by AT&T," the new policy declares. "As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."
It says the company "may disclose your information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process," omitting the earlier language about such processes being "required and/or permitted by law."
The new policy states that AT&T "may also use your information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud (or) situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person" -- conditions that would appear to embrace any terror-related circumstance.
Ray Everett-Church, a Silicon Valley privacy consultant, said it seems clear that AT&T has substantially modified its privacy policy in light of revelations about the government's domestic spying program.
"It's obvious that they are trying to stretch their blanket pretty tightly to cover as many exposed bits as possible," he said.
Gail Hillebrand, a staff attorney at Consumers Union in San Francisco, said the declaration that AT&T owns customers' data represents the most significant departure from the company's previous policy.
"It creates the impression that they can do whatever they want," she said. "This is the real heart of AT&T's new policy and is a pretty fundamental difference from how most customers probably see things."
John Britton, an AT&T spokesman, denied that the updated privacy policy marks a shift in the company's approach to customers' info.
"We don't see this as anything new," he said. "Our goal was to make the policy easier to read and easier for customers to understand."
He acknowledged that there was no explicit requirement in the past that customers accept the privacy policy as a condition for service. And he acknowledged that the 2004 policy said nothing about customers' data being owned by AT&T.
But Britton insisted that these elements essentially could be found between the lines of the former policy.
"There were many things that were implied in the last policy." He said. "We're just clarifying the last policy."
AT&T's new privacy policy is the first to include the company's video service. AT&T says it's spending $4.6 billion to roll out TV programming to 19 million homes nationwide.
The policy refers to two AT&T video services -- Homezone and U-verse. Homezone is AT&T's satellite TV service, offered in conjunction with Dish Network, and U-verse is the new cablelike video service delivered over phone lines.
In a section on "usage information," the privacy policy says AT&T will collect "information about viewing, game, recording and other navigation choices that you and those in your household make when using Homezone or AT&T U-verse TV Services."
The Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 stipulates that cable and satellite companies can't collect or disclose information about customers' viewing habits.
The law is silent on video services offered by phone companies via the Internet, basically because legislators never anticipated such technology would be available.
AT&T's Britton said the 1984 law doesn't apply to his company's video service because AT&T isn't a cable provider. "We are not building a cable TV network," he said. "We're building an Internet protocol television network."
But Andrew Johnson, a spokesman for cable heavyweight Comcast, disputed this perspective.
"Video is video is video," he said. "If you're delivering programming over a telecommunications network to a TV set, all rules need to be the same."
AT&T's new and former privacy policies both state that "conducting business ethically and ensuring privacy is critical to maintaining the public's trust and achieving success in a dynamic and competitive business climate."
Both also state that "privacy responsibility" extends "to the privacy of conversations and to the flow of information in data form." As such, both say that "the trust of our customers necessitates vigilant, responsible privacy protections."
The 2004 policy, though, went one step further. It said AT&T realizes "that privacy is an important issue for our customers and members."
The new policy makes no such acknowledgment.
--- Move to Comcast they fully support Net Neutrality. They will not moito ryou and they will not bottleneck your bandwidth.
The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it "to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."
The policy also indicates that AT&T will track the viewing habits of customers of its new video service -- something that cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing.
Moreover, AT&T (formerly known as SBC) is requiring customers to agree to its updated privacy policy as a condition for service -- a new move that legal experts say will reduce customers' recourse for any future data sharing with government authorities or others.
The company's policy overhaul follows recent reports that AT&T was one of several leading telecom providers that allowed the National Security Agency warrantless access to its voice and data networks as part of the Bush administration's war on terror.
"They're obviously trying to avoid a hornet's nest of consumer-protection lawsuits," said Chris Hoofnagle, a San Francisco privacy consultant and former senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
"They've written this new policy so broadly that they've given themselves maximum flexibility when it comes to disclosing customers' records," he said.
AT&T is being sued by San Francisco's Electronic Frontier Foundation for allegedly allowing the NSA to tap into the company's data network, providing warrantless access to customers' e-mails and Web browsing.
AT&T is also believed to have participated in President Bush's acknowledged domestic spying program, in which the NSA was given warrantless access to U.S. citizens' phone calls.
AT&T said in a statement last month that it "has a long history of vigorously protecting customer privacy" and that "our customers expect, deserve and receive nothing less than our fullest commitment to their privacy."
But the company also asserted that it has "an obligation to assist law enforcement and other government agencies responsible for protecting the public welfare, whether it be an individual or the security interests of the entire nation."
Under its former privacy policy, introduced in September 2004, AT&T said it might use customer's data "to respond to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process, to the extent required and/or permitted by law."
The new version, which is specifically for Internet and video customers, is much more explicit about the company's right to cooperate with government agencies in any security-related matters -- and AT&T's belief that customers' data belongs to the company, not customers.
"While your account information may be personal to you, these records constitute business records that are owned by AT&T," the new policy declares. "As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process."
It says the company "may disclose your information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process," omitting the earlier language about such processes being "required and/or permitted by law."
The new policy states that AT&T "may also use your information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud (or) situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person" -- conditions that would appear to embrace any terror-related circumstance.
Ray Everett-Church, a Silicon Valley privacy consultant, said it seems clear that AT&T has substantially modified its privacy policy in light of revelations about the government's domestic spying program.
"It's obvious that they are trying to stretch their blanket pretty tightly to cover as many exposed bits as possible," he said.
Gail Hillebrand, a staff attorney at Consumers Union in San Francisco, said the declaration that AT&T owns customers' data represents the most significant departure from the company's previous policy.
"It creates the impression that they can do whatever they want," she said. "This is the real heart of AT&T's new policy and is a pretty fundamental difference from how most customers probably see things."
John Britton, an AT&T spokesman, denied that the updated privacy policy marks a shift in the company's approach to customers' info.
"We don't see this as anything new," he said. "Our goal was to make the policy easier to read and easier for customers to understand."
He acknowledged that there was no explicit requirement in the past that customers accept the privacy policy as a condition for service. And he acknowledged that the 2004 policy said nothing about customers' data being owned by AT&T.
But Britton insisted that these elements essentially could be found between the lines of the former policy.
"There were many things that were implied in the last policy." He said. "We're just clarifying the last policy."
AT&T's new privacy policy is the first to include the company's video service. AT&T says it's spending $4.6 billion to roll out TV programming to 19 million homes nationwide.
The policy refers to two AT&T video services -- Homezone and U-verse. Homezone is AT&T's satellite TV service, offered in conjunction with Dish Network, and U-verse is the new cablelike video service delivered over phone lines.
In a section on "usage information," the privacy policy says AT&T will collect "information about viewing, game, recording and other navigation choices that you and those in your household make when using Homezone or AT&T U-verse TV Services."
The Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 stipulates that cable and satellite companies can't collect or disclose information about customers' viewing habits.
The law is silent on video services offered by phone companies via the Internet, basically because legislators never anticipated such technology would be available.
AT&T's Britton said the 1984 law doesn't apply to his company's video service because AT&T isn't a cable provider. "We are not building a cable TV network," he said. "We're building an Internet protocol television network."
But Andrew Johnson, a spokesman for cable heavyweight Comcast, disputed this perspective.
"Video is video is video," he said. "If you're delivering programming over a telecommunications network to a TV set, all rules need to be the same."
AT&T's new and former privacy policies both state that "conducting business ethically and ensuring privacy is critical to maintaining the public's trust and achieving success in a dynamic and competitive business climate."
Both also state that "privacy responsibility" extends "to the privacy of conversations and to the flow of information in data form." As such, both say that "the trust of our customers necessitates vigilant, responsible privacy protections."
The 2004 policy, though, went one step further. It said AT&T realizes "that privacy is an important issue for our customers and members."
The new policy makes no such acknowledgment.
--- Move to Comcast they fully support Net Neutrality. They will not moito ryou and they will not bottleneck your bandwidth.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
How To Join Yahoo Mail Beta By Tricking Yahoo
It is now possible to join Yahoo Mail Beta by changing your content Country to the UK, Germany or France. As soon as you change the setting and return to your email it will ask you to join Yahoo Mail Beta. Make sure you change your content preference and NOT the country for your address.
How to change your content preference:
1. Login to Yahoo Mail.
2. Select Mail Options.
3. Select Account information from the left panel.
4. Go to Member Information > General Preferences > Preferred Content.
5. Select Yahoo UK.
6. Select Finished.
7. Go to Yahoo Mail.
8. A page will be displayed that says "It's the New Yahoo! Mail Beta… and you're invited."
9. Click on "Try Beta Now".
10. You can then change your Preferred Content setting back to normal by repeating the steps above.
This has worked for many people so make sure you do it before it gets fixed by Yahoo.
How to change your content preference:
1. Login to Yahoo Mail.
2. Select Mail Options.
3. Select Account information from the left panel.
4. Go to Member Information > General Preferences > Preferred Content.
5. Select Yahoo UK.
6. Select Finished.
7. Go to Yahoo Mail.
8. A page will be displayed that says "It's the New Yahoo! Mail Beta… and you're invited."
9. Click on "Try Beta Now".
10. You can then change your Preferred Content setting back to normal by repeating the steps above.
This has worked for many people so make sure you do it before it gets fixed by Yahoo.
