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Am I the only one who initially read this as Three Sheets which is something different entirely?

Another poster used the word "quisling" to describe those who are falling all over themselves to defend the actions of the US government right now. I think that suits you well. You have been all over these articles in the last few days trying so hard to paint this twisted picture that the US government spying on its own citizens is a good and noble action. Exposing the treachery of our supposed representatives is what makes the United States stronger. Licking boots has never made one stronger.

and your home is burgalarized

Burgalarized? Is that some sort of deliberate, ironic mangling of the langauge?

'Burgled' works just fine.

You are clearly not in the United States. He actually meant "burglarized" not "burgalarized." "Burgled" is chiefly used in the UK and maybe Australia.

In the United States none of our homes are burgled, but sadly many are burglarized. However, they never steal our current generation Mac Pro's because the thieves all assume they are industrial usage cheese graters.

Seems you got that wrong. They are fine for human consumption but some Luddites are worried that their god didn't create the crops so they won't buy them or eat them. So they starve with plenty of food available.

You misunderstand. The problem is that technophiles, Luddites, atheists, zealots and everyone in between are worried they will be compelled to worship and pay tithes to this new god Monsanto if they buy or eat Monsanto's grain. Whether they already have a god or not, that's a lot of commitment to ask for eating some bread.

Others see Monsanto more like the fictional crime lord Lao Che (who trades Indiana Jones a diamond for the ashes of the emperor of the first Manchu Dynasty and then poisons Jones's drink so he can "sell" him the antidote in exchange for the diamond), concerned that if they buy and eat Monsanto Che's poison grain, they will be compelled to buy and eat Monsanto Che's antidote for the rest of their lives.

Still others see Monsanto as a biological patent troll. Monsanto releases its identifiable GMO wheat into the wild, it spreads naturally and mixes with natural un-patented wheat, and then Monsanto sues everyone who has a trace of their Monsanto wheat in their wheat. It's sort of like using a crop duster to spray liquified radioactive shit all over other people's farms and then claiming they stole your fertilizer because their crops are radioactive. Not only is it disingenuous, but the edibility of the innocent farmers' crops is now questionable.

"Yes men" .. people (of any gender) who say "Yes" to higher-ups. A brown-noser.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yes_man

...in its death throws.

I suspect you meant death throes. The term "death throws" is confusing, and possibly a little bit disturbing.

Let me guess, you're too lazy to look it up or you have a dull axe to grind?

There are two accepted spellings, one favoured in the USA, the other by those who got and retain their English spellings from the Brits. Are you gonna carp on "favoured" too?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/civilization
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/civilization
http://www.studyenglishtoday.net/british-american-spelling.html
http://www.lukemastin.com/testing/spelling/cgi-bin/database.cgi?action=view_category&database=spelling&category=C
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/09/civilise-civilize.html
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/civilization
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civilised

The above ought to be sufficient to get you started, if you have any interest in improving your understanding. You could have done this on your own hook if you really had an interest or gave a shit. Or perhaps you derive pleasure from pressing keys in pursuit of fucking with people, or some such? Any case, I'm sooo oughta here.

"exfiltrate" ??? We've got sum miltary lingo here!

Is this some interesting "in house"/"in country" propaganda being dropped into the USA by our own military's psych ops teams? Who uses a word like "exfiltrate" so often?

Extraction (military) redirected from exfiltrated: In military tactics, extraction (also exfiltration or exfil), is the process of removing personnel when it is considered imperative that they be immediately relocated out of a hostile environment and taken to a secure area.

So is this a "poseur" pretending to use military lingo and add an air of "military intrigue" and "international espionage" to the story, or is it a pretense of a "slip of the tongue" so that people think some military type accidentally let some patois and lingo slip through that identifies the authenticity of this,mein Mann, give this Shizz some street cred in the Hizzouse !!

It's a false flag play on the field! We've got a false flag play on the field! Are there two or three levels of misdirection involved? Place your bets, gentle-people-and-citizens!

I'm the OP and I know what I'm talking about.

> Desert = very dry place, famous ones have lots of sand

ALSO: Deserts = what you deserve.

> The phrase isn't "just deserts". It's "just desserts". Look it up.

Sure, here it is: just deserts

Unpossible occurs in earlier versions of The King James Bible.

From the article, if you can't be bothered clicking the link:

The words not, that, we, who, and give are cognates in five language families, and nouns and verbs including mother, hand, fire, ashes, worm, hear, and pull are shared by four. Going by the rate of change of these cognates, the model suggests that these words have remained in a similar form since about 14,500 years ago, thus supporting the existence of an ancient Eurasiatic language and its now far-flung descendants.

From Google: Mother in England Matr in Russia Motina in Lithuanian Mater in Latin Manman in Haitian Creole Ma in Chinese Mwtr in Yiddish Mteay in Khmer

I haven't read the fine article, so I'm hoping your list of Googled cognates is your own and not that of some purportedly esteemed linguist.

For one, the languages you list are almost all demonstrably related, so the presence of cognates here is neither surprising nor informative. To wit:

1. * English
2. * Haitian Creole (the vocabulary is mostly French)
3. * Yiddish (a large portion of the Yiddish vocabulary is basically German)
4. * Latin
5. * Lithuanian
6. * Russian

These are all known relatives, which linguists broadly agree are part of the Indo-European language family. Linguists have even reconstructed one possible rendering of the Proto-Indo-European word for "mother", with clear sound-shift rules generating the word for "mother" in the various Indo-European daughter languages.

So the only possibly interesting convergences are Chinese and Khmer. Khmer is more salient for the dental consonant "t", but then again, Khmer has been influenced by Sanskrit, another Indo-European language, so Khmer mteay may well have been borrowed in from, or influenced by, Sanskrit matr or matru.

However, as others note elsewhere in this thread, the concept "mother" is almost always expressed with an initial consonant that is bilabial, which some folks now theorize is due to the "muh, muh, muh" sound produced by a nursing infant.

When trying to demonstrate some sort of cross-lingual über-root (unter-root?), choosing a term where the phonology is likely based on biology doesn't really help prove linguistic relationships, and instead does more to prove that humans are human, and have similar biology. Granted, that's also an interesting point for linguistics, and the concept of biologically-influenced word morphology is an interesting avenue of inquiry -- but probably not the one you were going for?

Cheers,

I don't think the name is one bit of a problem on the other side of the pond; the only place I consistently hear complaints about its name seems to be Slashdot.

It's more of a storm in a teacup, which might give some people a stick to beat the GIMP with. As you say, it appears to be a Slashdot-only sort of thing.
The first page or two of Google results for gimp all point to sites for the Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Also, the entry in wiktionary for gimp suggests GIMP as an alternative, then lists some arcane meanings for the term, before noting its use in US slang from 1925, and then listing more arcane definitions. Despite living more than a decade in the US and Canada as an adult, I only heard people there use the term to refer to the image editor. Expletives and pejorative expressions were common enough, in many contexts, but never did I hear "gimp" used in that way.

I don't think the name is one bit of a problem on the other side of the pond; the only place I consistently hear complaints about its name seems to be Slashdot.

It's more of a storm in a teacup, which might give some people a stick to beat the GIMP with. As you say, it appears to be a Slashdot-only sort of thing.
The first page or two of Google results for gimp all point to sites for the Gnu Image Manipulation Program. Also, the entry in wiktionary for gimp suggests GIMP as an alternative, then lists some arcane meanings for the term, before noting its use in US slang from 1925, and then listing more arcane definitions. Despite living more than a decade in the US and Canada as an adult, I only heard people there use the term to refer to the image editor. Expletives and pejorative expressions were common enough, in many contexts, but never did I hear "gimp" used in that way.

But they sure should have thought of a different prefix to avoid confusion.

Don't forget ultrasonic, just to confuse things further.

but different definitions in a third (English)

So hyper- and super- mean different things in English? Did the English loosen themselves from the fixation of the Western World of the sacrosanctity of the classical languages and recycled those prefixes into new meanings? Let's check:
super-: 1. above, over, or upon; 2. superior in size, quality, number, degree, status, title, or position
hyper-: 1. over, above or beyond; 2. excessive
Hmm, maybe its the ordering ......

Note that I do understand that supersonic and hypersonic mean different things. That's why I posted the definition. But they sure should have thought of a different prefix to avoid confusion.
BTW, in German it isn't much better: supersonic is "Überschall" (über=more than) and for hypersonic nobody seemingly though of anything better than "Hyperschall".

but different definitions in a third (English)

So hyper- and super- mean different things in English? Did the English loosen themselves from the fixation of the Western World of the sacrosanctity of the classical languages and recycled those prefixes into new meanings? Let's check:
super-: 1. above, over, or upon; 2. superior in size, quality, number, degree, status, title, or position
hyper-: 1. over, above or beyond; 2. excessive
Hmm, maybe its the ordering ......

Note that I do understand that supersonic and hypersonic mean different things. That's why I posted the definition. But they sure should have thought of a different prefix to avoid confusion.
BTW, in German it isn't much better: supersonic is "Überschall" (über=more than) and for hypersonic nobody seemingly though of anything better than "Hyperschall".

It's not just Finnish. Hebrew chaver may be the common etymology for both this and the Finnish word. It is also the origin of the Dutch word gabber.

OTOH, the pun with APU is harder to explain without Finnish.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/millihelen

millihelen (plural millihelens)

        (informal) A unit of measure of pulchritude, corresponding to the amount of beauty required to launch one ship. [quotations ]

That is good ROFL

It's north of Oreon. Slashdot is running short on the Gs today. That's why they otta run the slashverts, yo. You want your Gs with your headlines, otta watch the slashvertisements. Timothy otta et paid or someone be droppin the Gs!

Projects that are simple at a high level can consist of several parts and each of those parts might require many small tasks and each small task may require other tasks. Yak Shaving It's like playing a quest in World of Warcraft.

I'm afraid you're incorrect. Ignorance and willful ignorance are separate concerns.

ignorance
willful ignorance

I'm afraid you're incorrect. Ignorance and willful ignorance are separate concerns.

ignorance
willful ignorance

The republicans are a financially conservative party that wants to interfere with your personal life
The democrats are a financially conservative party that doesn't want to interfere with your personal life

America doesn't have a financially liberal party

Er. fiscal conservative = "One who favors a balanced budget, prefering spending cuts or tax increases to borrowing, and wants to decrease government size, and promote a free market."
Liberal = "Generous, willing to give unsparingly" (etc.) E.g. don't sprinkle salt on your food so liberally.

So, both major parties in the USA are very liberal in how they spend other people's money (they just have different priorities). Also, both of them want to interfere in your personal life. E.g. the Dems don't want you to use drugs, and the Repubs don't want you to have an abortion (or use drugs). Both parties are also on the right-wing (e.g. strong supporters of corporatism).

I think what you meant to write was "America doesn't have a financially conservative party".

Thunderbird shows will also be canceled

Well these Thunderbirds from International Rescue were cancelled in the sixties. Looks like just in time that we sent that pillock David Milliband to restart the whole thing.

What did you expect when a corp names itself goOgle...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/per_se

• 1) MaraDNS 1 and Deadwood do not support a technology called "EDNS" that allows for large DNS packets. By only supporting 512-byte packets, both DNS servers do not allow for the 100x amplification used in this DDOS that other DNS servers have.
• 2) My DNS software does not come with unrestricted recursive access enabled by default, and the documentation strongly discourages open recursion.
• 3) I will have to double check, but, as I recall, the documentation and example configuration files do not include an example with unrestricted recursive access.

One feature that would be nice would be to be able to restrict how much data my DNS server sends to a given IP (again, as noted above, MaraDNS/Deadwood already has a form of this because they do not support EDNS). Unfortunately, since I am not developing new features for MaraDNS like this without being compensated for my time, I would need a corporate or government grant to implement this. TANSTAAFL

'zlatanera', a Swedish neologism from the French neologism 'zlataner'.

See also:

http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/zlataner
http://www.20minutes.fr/sport/1108105-verbe-zlataner-entrera-dictionnaire
http://nesn.com/2012/12/sweden-adds-zlataner-to-dictionary-honoring-zlatan-ibrahimovics-dominance-on-soccer-field/

suppose I want a smart watch that keeps the display oriented so I can read it, now matter which direction my arm is pointing, that's the stuff of patents.

No it isn't. That's a WIBNI, not an invention.

A method for achieving it might be patentable, but it would have to be new because such things already exist; I have a tablet that does it.

This just reinforces the Matthew Principle

Too damned many alliterates here these days (and no, that wasn't misspelled, look it up).

Fine, I'll take the bait: Merriam-Webster says it's a verb, but you're using it as a noun. Wiktionary agrees that it's a verb. So what were you trying to say? In English this time.

It's pretty similar to the (on the whole practically hagiographic) coverage that Dubai gets.

That has to be the silliest word I've seen since "orthogonal" (come on; what's wrong with "tangential", ffs?).

holy + writing. Pretentious much? :-P

I also resent your dissing Dubai. It's one of the few shining lights in the Arab world. I wish all of Islam was as happy as Dubai.

The propsal to ban pornography already passed in 1997, according to the first link in the summary.

Pornography is the "canary in the coal mine" for Internet rights (freedom of expression, right to privacy, international commerce, et al). If/when conditions change in a way that becomes hazardous to those rights, pornography will die first. And when it does, it's a sign that those rights are in danger.

Interestingly enough, after 75 years of regular use Britain banned the use of canaries in coal mines in 1986 because it had digital tools that could detect the threat of carbon monoxide. However, we have yet to devise a comparable "digital tool" that can detect threats to Internet rights, despite thousands of years of regular use. Therefore, regardless of an individual's personal feelings about pornography, it must stay because there are more important things at stake.

I thought it was a Necrocracy?

-AC

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/irony

What you consider irony is not actually irony, as you can see in 4. If we started calling dogs "cats", it wouldn't make them cats, would it?

Unwashed masses?

Really?

:-)

I just took a shower....

It was meant in only the best way....

Of course those of us here in the elite slashdot club have much more nuanced and sophisticated reasons to choose our smart phones than all those "others", be we iPhone or non-iPhone owners.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unwashed_masses :

unwashed masses (plural only)
        (idiomatic) The collective group ("mass") of people who are considered by someone to be somehow uneducated, uninformed, or in some other way unqualified for inclusion in the speaker's elite circles.

Is it a "Smear Campaign" if it's true?

Well, it's not entirely true. I think most people consider the definition of reading to mean "looked" at and that it is implicitly a human that is reading your e-mail in this case. The eyes superimposed in the first video imply this. What's actually happening is that your e-mail is being loaded into memory and parsed to build an index associated with some key that is associated with you and that is being stored. This data is then used to serve targeted ads. Do you really think that a person is involved at any point so far? Do you really think there's a Google employee looking over raw table data and rubbing one out when he sees that "ky jelly" is associated with user 57234765235 at a rate of 0.0054% of the time with a high precision value? Really? Show me a mail service provider that neither loads your e-mail into memory (alias "reads" it) nor stores it in a database and I'll show you extraterrestrial beings.

Pretty "slanted" summary, but I guess this is Slashdot and the story is about Microsoft.

Really? Where are Google's commercials of equal proportions? I guarantee you they would make for a story just like this.

Now, who's more evil? Google or Microsoft? Hard to tell around here sometimes...

Just because one evil is smearing another evil of less, equal or greater proportions doesn't make it not a smear campaign! This is exactly what it is! Disingenuous advertising meant to unduly spread uncertainty and deceit! How does Microsoft detect spam? The same damn way!

I just reviewed the common definitions of "agnostic" and "atheist" which only confirmed that I have it right. Give me a reference that clearly explains your understanding of these concepts and I'll gladly educate myself. Until then I will assume that you're merely playing word games with a concept that you personally consider "too simplistic to be true".

FYI, most things in life ARE simplistic. And no, I don't pretend to be "better" than anyone, even those who try to tell ME what I'm thinking.

The problem with "common" definitions is that they do, with time, gravitate toward the simplistic, thus losing any fine distinctions, nuances and tomes that originally existed. When the original definition encompassed a broad range of meanings and depended on context for disambiguation, the "simplification" will most often drop all but one. Then, how would you communicate a concept when there are no longer words to describe it?

Regardless of what the words "atheist" and "agnostic" are currently accepted to mean, we still need a distinction among the various concepts, mainly because "lacking a belief in god(s)" is not the same as "believing there is/are no god(s)".

I just reviewed the common definitions of "agnostic" and "atheist" which only confirmed that I have it right. Give me a reference that clearly explains your understanding of these concepts and I'll gladly educate myself. Until then I will assume that you're merely playing word games with a concept that you personally consider "too simplistic to be true".

FYI, most things in life ARE simplistic. And no, I don't pretend to be "better" than anyone, even those who try to tell ME what I'm thinking.

The problem with "common" definitions is that they do, with time, gravitate toward the simplistic, thus losing any fine distinctions, nuances and tomes that originally existed. When the original definition encompassed a broad range of meanings and depended on context for disambiguation, the "simplification" will most often drop all but one. Then, how would you communicate a concept when there are no longer words to describe it?

Regardless of what the words "atheist" and "agnostic" are currently accepted to mean, we still need a distinction among the various concepts, mainly because "lacking a belief in god(s)" is not the same as "believing there is/are no god(s)".

hairfeet: "Actually most of the products you can identify in movies have either had the rights paid for by the movie company or if the movie is a big name flick will often get money from the company in return for showing their product in a favorable light. Why do you think every person that uses a laptop in a movie is always using a MacBook when IRL that is less than 10% of the population? Product placement."

Me: "Apple has repeatedly said/claimed that they don't pay for product placement, so your implication that Apple pays for the placement is incorrect."

You: "Providing free products to be in a movie is a type of payment...they have kept inventory on hand to loan out to studios "

Ok, I see where why this went off track. My first reply was focused on the "money from the company" (since the production company obviously didn't pay Apple anything) but I didn't specify "money" when I used the word "pay" (though I did in the second comment you replied to). Money was absolutely and obviously implied in the part I first quoted and now bolded above.

To head off a rebuttal by anyone that loaning something out (or cross-promo) is the same as paying actual money:

Definition of in lieu: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_lieu

Example: Time-in-lieu is a "type of" payment for overtime work, instead of actual money. Time-in-lieu doesn't help pay your bills though. Nor do you report it as actual income when you do your taxes.

Ohh, good idea. Give away shit copies of your work, then no one will want to steal your real work.

That's just batfuck crazy. Let's go back to "entertainment". If/when you entertain the people, the people will reward you.

Seconded. Nothing drives me crazier than people who think anti-features build any kind of goodwill, ever.

It's a bit like serving free draft but making customers pay for the bartender to stop pissing in it....

... then again, most of you are Americans, so you would never know the difference.

Hear ye

Oh, like a chortle ?

yes it is you penii!

Thank you.

To be clear:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trove
1. A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drove
2. (usually plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).

Of course, if you run a company that can monetize it's users, a drove IS a trove.

Thank you.

To be clear:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trove
1. A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drove
2. (usually plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).

Of course, if you run a company that can monetize it's users, a drove IS a trove.

Thank you.

To be clear:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trove
1. A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drove
2. (usually plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).

Thank you.

To be clear:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trove
1. A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drove
2. (usually plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).

By telling a joke you've buried the lead. Good job, our water supply is now polluted.

Not so great in Japan, where a very similar symbol means wrong answer -- contrast to a circle, which means correct answer.