Admiting you have a problem

Droidzone

@nunim said:
Can't say I'd trust them, even if they are friendly, but it's nice that they're FINALLY reaching out to this guy after how long...

Nice? They're at their wits end, and trying to deal with bad PR...

nunim

@joelgm said:
Nice? They're at their wits end, and trying to deal with bad PR...

I think it's a step in the right direction no matter what motivated it.

Droidzone

@nunim said:
I think it's a step in the right direction no matter what motivated it.

A right step would be initating a systematic audit. Not trying to bribe/blackmail/cajole/imprison one hacker who found vulnerabilities in their code.

nunim

@joelgm said:
A right step would be initating a systematic audit. Not trying to bribe/blackmail/cajole/imprison one hacker who found vulnerabilities in their code.

I said a step in the right direction, not the last step...

c0y

@Maounique said:
In a totalitarian society you need to keep a balance, you cannot kill or throw everyone in jail (WHMCS cannot chase all the hackers and coders capable to look at the code and find flaws, nobody will be available to code), the rulers will have nobody to work for them, wage their wars, repress the others, they have to do some showtrials, a rape case here a child porn one there, a tax evasion here, a dope in the medical kit one there, this is how it works, trumped up charges, show trials others might not "dare" to "challenge" the powerful.

I always visualize a Romanian guy in an unlighted room, with a blanket as cape and a sword on his desk when you talk like that

Maounique

And how do romanian guys look like

c0y

@Maounique said:
And how do romanian guys look like

obv all like their rolemodel

Maounique

Dracula is far from being a rolemodel, people fought off vampires here since before the romans came, before the dacians even became a people, bones were reddened in the graves thousands of years ago. Here are many more recent stories, something similar happened just a few years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigoi
No the vampires are no rolemodels but enemies of the people and the whole village goes against them, fortunately they didnt go against living people only against the dead, so, romanians didnt burn live witches, they burnt the heart of dead ones :P

c0y

@Maounique said:
Dracula is far from being a rolemodel, people fought off vampires here since before the romans came, before the dacians even became a people, bones were reddened in the graves thousands of years ago. Here are many more recent stories, something similar happened just a few years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigoi

oh yay zombies

No the vampires are no rolemodels but enemies of the people and the whole village goes against them, fortunately they didnt go against living people only against the dead, so, romanians didnt burn live witches, they burnt the heart of dead ones :P

I actually meant the original Dracula, the one that put heads on stakes in front of his castle, hmmm

Anyway, I forgot my [sarcasm] tags altogether

vedran

Frost said: obv all like their rolemodel

That guy was Hungarian :P

Maounique

Frost said: I actually meant the original Dracula, the one that put heads on stakes in front of his castle, hmmm

Ah, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_impaler

However he fought the turks and kept order in those times.
His methods were not uncommon, if you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Sienkiewicz 's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deluge_(novel), you will see that is far from being unheard of, burning is probably even more barbaric, though you probably die faster.
Also, religious wars in western europe brought other gory executions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Thyl_Ulenspiegel_and_Lamme_Goedzak
The Middle Ages were far from being civilized, rome itself was a perverse empire where people were fed to lions for example, while the cheering crowds were driving the beasts mad.

Droidzone

Hmm.. Never thought a discussion on WHMCS would turn into a discussion on vampires!

c0y

@Maounique said:
The Middle Ages were far from being civilized, rome itself was a perverse empire where people were fed to lions for example, while the cheering crowds were driving the beasts mad.

That reminds me an awkward lot of LowEndTalk... hehe

Droidzone

@Frost said:
That reminds me an awkward lot of LowEndTalk... hehe

where @Maounique is a gladiator, @Spirit is a trainer, and @jbiloh is..ahem..Caesar?

Maounique

Well, as long as things are just about debating ideas, getting to know people and trying to understand them, I dont mind fighting the lions now and then

c0y

@joelgm said:
where Maounique is a gladiator, Spirit is a trainer, and jbiloh is..ahem..Caesar?

More of the dramatizing and popcorn threads

nocom

Admitting you don't have a product - much better description

Neoon

Oh crap its down