Lol! The hasbara team is out in force today. One would think that even idiots would recognize that there is something wrong with a country that bans peaceful protestors from entering their country by s talking them on facebook. But no, brainwashed brains does not think.
Except for the parts that isn't "theirs" but stolen in wars of conquest. And not all Israelis are idiots, many of them welcome the international protests.
Each and every person has the inalienable right to be free and persue their own happiness. With that right comes the unconditional responsibility for ones own actions. No one is relieved of their duty to think for themselves by following orders. Every single soldier that enrolled and decided to travel to Iraq and shot someone did it of their own free will, without anyone forcing them to, and is fully responsible for the crimes they committed, and for taking part in a completely unjust war. There is no excuse and no escape from that fact. Their superiors are equally responsible for ordering them to carry out the crimes. That does not make the guy that actually pulls the trigger and kills someone any less of a murderer.
Porn sites, just like most internet commerce sites, do not handle payment processing themselves but instead let a third party handle it. Most often CCBill or SegPay which are some of the few payment providers that accept porn companies as customers. This crack did not reveal any credit card details, just email addresses and passwords.
The reason why you never hear about porn sites getting cracked is because it is fucking easy. Most porn sites are vulnerable as hell and almost anyone with some technical proficiency can exploit them. They are run by low budget companies who often just cant afford to secure their sites. Cracking porn sites are for pathetic script kiddies with little to no skill what so ever. Also what's up with trying to shame owners of porn site memberships? Fucking puritans.
It is symptomatic of the JCP (Java *Community* Process -- in reality run by a committe of about a dozen international corporations) that is filled with bureaucracy and childish infighting. IMHO the writing is on the wall for Java because stuff moves way to slowly. Java has JPA which would have been a really nice ORM... about five years ago but technology moves faster than that. Compare that to C# whose development process is entirely controlled by a single company and you have Linq2Sql and the Entity Framework. There is more api churn, but at least stuff is moving forward.
It was especially apparent with J2ME which went from market leader to an also ran player. All the companies invested in Java tried to stab each other in the back and abused the JCP to gain advantages on each other. The way several of the mobile JSR:s were specified, weren't so much dependent on what would be the best technical decisions but on compromises intended to make everyone happy and not give the market leader (who already had a working reference implementation) an edge. That's why some of the JSR:s are so bizarre such as the Mobile Sensor api.
To bad, I say. The Java platform had so much potential that will go to waste. It would have been hard enough for Java to complete if the CLR wasn't superior technology, but it is. The future looks fairly bleak for Linux on the server side without a competitive virtual machine.
That realization does not necessarily occur if the manager in question has little or no clue. If the task given to the less competent programmer takes much longer, the manager may aswell assume that the task is much harder as long as he or she cannot estimate the difficulty at all. The manager will perhaps also after seeing a task being done exceptionally fast "realize" that the task was much simpler than intially thought. If a person has already decided that X number of persons are equally skilled, that belief is much harder to change than beliefs about the difficulty of tasks assigned.
Especially if the average guy has a very likeable personality while the sharp one does not.
Step 1: Declare computer attacks an act of war
Step 2: Claim any entity you don't like is "hacking" you
Step 3: Since "hacking" is all technical mumbo jumbo it doesnt matter if you can't prove shit. The president would never lie, would he?
Step 4: Bomb the shit out of whoever the bad guys de jour are.
Step 5: Shitloads of profit for the military industry, not so much for those who are footing the bill.
The difference is confidence. Growing up and having your own maid and butler you can boss around instills a certain sense of self-worth and confidence. If instead it was your mom that was that maid, it gives you a much more humbling childhood.
That's called damage control propaganda. Think for yourself for a second. The victim is found frightened, bruised and laying in a puddle of blood but authorities fail to prosecute the perpetrator for aggravated rape and has to settle for a plea bargain of "rape by deception". That's a story for the fanatics who refuse to take of their blind folds to believe in. It doesn't take away from the fact that the verdict was racist, and that the court made it a crime to omit to mention your non-jewish ethnicity when having sex with jewish women in Israel.
Heh, it is called "cuckold porn" and is in my opinion a quite psychologically disturbing genre of porn. Basically the guy is forced to watch while his wife/girlfriend is (willingly) fucking with another dude, not uncommonly one of african descent who happens to have a much larger penis than he has. Usually he is also being humiliated in other ways such as having to eat the other guys sperm from his wifes butt or somesuch.
The Palestinians in the west bank are under occupation (with quite extensive autonomy in most internal affairs). The Palestinians in Gaza are under a military siege. They are not occupied, at all. The Palestinians living inside Israel are equal rights citizens. No apartheid at all. If you want to contradict these statements, please bring forward the facts on which you rely.
The Israeli arabs are citizens of Israel in the name only. Recently, there was a fairly well published case of an arab being sentenced for rape for having consensual sex with a jewish woman. She went to the police when she found out that he was arab not jewish and he was sentenced to 18 months in jail for "rape by deception." The occupation/colonization project of the West Bank has been going on for over 40 years so to not call it an apartheid system is insincere.
All of this does not matter to the question of artists canceling appearances. If an artist does not want to appear in Israel, that's fine. An artists who cancels is being suckered into making a political statement under the guise/threat of avoiding making one. A singer performing in Paris does not mean the singer supports France's laws against traditional Muslim wear. A singer performing in New York does not mean the singer supports the USA's aggressive intellectual property foreign policy. Yet, for some reason, a singer appearing in Tel-Aviv is told that this will be interpreted as supporting the occupation.
Ah, the old "why are you protesting against us and not against every other shit state in the world, you must be anti-semites!"-argument. FYI, there were fierce protests against the olympics being held in China, against various events in Morocco and Turkey and so on. Also note that rms is not a random singer, but a political activist who has spent his life promoting software freedom. It would not be out of character for him to protest against the the occupation of Palestine.
'In 2010 he was due to play a gig in Tel Aviv, but this attracted criticism from Palestinian groups who stated "Your performance in Israel would be the equivalent to having performed in Sun City during South Africaâ(TM)s apartheid era... We hope that you will not play apartheid Israel." In response he cancelled the gig.'
There is no factual error in that quote. Israel is an apartheid state.
Jealous much? Now if he got the company by the balls and he as indispensable as he thinks he are, then he'd be a fool not to ask for more money. Thing is, most people in the world are average and very dispensable, they have a very hard time to accept that any of their peers might be much more important than them. Hence all the jealous comments.
coreutils rocks and I don't recognise Jim Meyering's name so I'm not casting aspersions, but doesn't it also depend on the value of the commit. I have on occassion committed more on a bad day (to fix my mistakes) than on a good day. So does that mean my mistake laden days are more productive? Should my boss look at that metric and give me a raise instead of the developers that get it right the first time?
No, that means your commits arent frequent enough. You're probably one of those guys that just can't be bothered to use proper vc techniques and sits and codes for five weeks and then blame everyone else when it is impossible to integrate your code with the rest of the system. There is a strong correlation between how often developers check in their code and how proficient they are. Weak developers consider it to be a chore to have to write legible commit messages to describe what their code does. The reason why is because the code they produce is confusing and deservedly hard to explain.
This is what is called PSYOPs. Is it important news if ObL had porn or not? No, it isn't and the only use for it is to smear his name in the Arab world. There is no reason not to believe that the story is completely made up by US authorities to serve a political purpose.
One would guess that the number of Disney buying "USA! Fuck yeah!" screaming types outnumber the numberof Saudis buying Mickey Mouse by a ratio of at least 2 to 1....
Of the phone games I've bought that cost maybe 1€ or 5€, most of them have been pretty bad. Either the game is so easy to beat that it only lasts a few hours, or it is so boring that you won't play it. For example, the chess game I bought for 5€ was so simple to beat even at the highest difficulty level that there was no point in it. So for me the $60 console games still provide a lot of value because they provide many more times entertainment than the cheap phone games.
Not at all! Automated decision making processes is an important acknowledgement that human judgement is subjective at best. The more we learn about the human psyche, the less rational it seem. There are so many ingrained biases that we are endowed with, such as how we judge persons by their appearances, how personal anecdotes trumph statistics that the only way to get fair and logical decisions is to automate the process. One can argue whether games need an extremely detailed rating system to protect the kids. But if one has to have a system, then it is 100 times fairer to have an automated one than a human controlled one.
But when you have no clue about what software development is, then how on earth would you be able to judge trials about it fairly? Are the lawmakers that arrogant that they think they can understand the basics of software development in about one sitting, when an engineer have to study the subject for several years? Why not turn the tables around. Let's take a prominent developer with a nice career. Have this judge and some of his fellows give him a a one day crasch course on business law, what to do when a lawyer says "objection" and so on. I'll bet my ass we would get much more reasonable and logical judgements that way.
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Lol! The hasbara team is out in force today. One would think that even idiots would recognize that there is something wrong with a country that bans peaceful protestors from entering their country by s talking them on facebook. But no, brainwashed brains does not think.
Except for the parts that isn't "theirs" but stolen in wars of conquest. And not all Israelis are idiots, many of them welcome the international protests.
Fuck no!
Each and every person has the inalienable right to be free and persue their own happiness. With that right comes the unconditional responsibility for ones own actions. No one is relieved of their duty to think for themselves by following orders. Every single soldier that enrolled and decided to travel to Iraq and shot someone did it of their own free will, without anyone forcing them to, and is fully responsible for the crimes they committed, and for taking part in a completely unjust war. There is no excuse and no escape from that fact. Their superiors are equally responsible for ordering them to carry out the crimes. That does not make the guy that actually pulls the trigger and kills someone any less of a murderer.
Porn sites, just like most internet commerce sites, do not handle payment processing themselves but instead let a third party handle it. Most often CCBill or SegPay which are some of the few payment providers that accept porn companies as customers. This crack did not reveal any credit card details, just email addresses and passwords.
The reason why you never hear about porn sites getting cracked is because it is fucking easy. Most porn sites are vulnerable as hell and almost anyone with some technical proficiency can exploit them. They are run by low budget companies who often just cant afford to secure their sites. Cracking porn sites are for pathetic script kiddies with little to no skill what so ever. Also what's up with trying to shame owners of porn site memberships? Fucking puritans.
It is symptomatic of the JCP (Java *Community* Process -- in reality run by a committe of about a dozen international corporations) that is filled with bureaucracy and childish infighting. IMHO the writing is on the wall for Java because stuff moves way to slowly. Java has JPA which would have been a really nice ORM... about five years ago but technology moves faster than that. Compare that to C# whose development process is entirely controlled by a single company and you have Linq2Sql and the Entity Framework. There is more api churn, but at least stuff is moving forward.
It was especially apparent with J2ME which went from market leader to an also ran player. All the companies invested in Java tried to stab each other in the back and abused the JCP to gain advantages on each other. The way several of the mobile JSR:s were specified, weren't so much dependent on what would be the best technical decisions but on compromises intended to make everyone happy and not give the market leader (who already had a working reference implementation) an edge. That's why some of the JSR:s are so bizarre such as the Mobile Sensor api.
To bad, I say. The Java platform had so much potential that will go to waste. It would have been hard enough for Java to complete if the CLR wasn't superior technology, but it is. The future looks fairly bleak for Linux on the server side without a competitive virtual machine.
That realization does not necessarily occur if the manager in question has little or no clue. If the task given to the less competent programmer takes much longer, the manager may aswell assume that the task is much harder as long as he or she cannot estimate the difficulty at all. The manager will perhaps also after seeing a task being done exceptionally fast "realize" that the task was much simpler than intially thought. If a person has already decided that X number of persons are equally skilled, that belief is much harder to change than beliefs about the difficulty of tasks assigned.
Especially if the average guy has a very likeable personality while the sharp one does not.
Mod. Parent. UP!
Step 1: Declare computer attacks an act of war Step 2: Claim any entity you don't like is "hacking" you Step 3: Since "hacking" is all technical mumbo jumbo it doesnt matter if you can't prove shit. The president would never lie, would he? Step 4: Bomb the shit out of whoever the bad guys de jour are. Step 5: Shitloads of profit for the military industry, not so much for those who are footing the bill.
The difference is confidence. Growing up and having your own maid and butler you can boss around instills a certain sense of self-worth and confidence. If instead it was your mom that was that maid, it gives you a much more humbling childhood.
That's called damage control propaganda. Think for yourself for a second. The victim is found frightened, bruised and laying in a puddle of blood but authorities fail to prosecute the perpetrator for aggravated rape and has to settle for a plea bargain of "rape by deception". That's a story for the fanatics who refuse to take of their blind folds to believe in. It doesn't take away from the fact that the verdict was racist, and that the court made it a crime to omit to mention your non-jewish ethnicity when having sex with jewish women in Israel.
Heh, it is called "cuckold porn" and is in my opinion a quite psychologically disturbing genre of porn. Basically the guy is forced to watch while his wife/girlfriend is (willingly) fucking with another dude, not uncommonly one of african descent who happens to have a much larger penis than he has. Usually he is also being humiliated in other ways such as having to eat the other guys sperm from his wifes butt or somesuch.
Yes I know, TMI and all that. But you asked!
The Palestinians in the west bank are under occupation (with quite extensive autonomy in most internal affairs). The Palestinians in Gaza are under a military siege. They are not occupied, at all. The Palestinians living inside Israel are equal rights citizens. No apartheid at all. If you want to contradict these statements, please bring forward the facts on which you rely.
The Israeli arabs are citizens of Israel in the name only. Recently, there was a fairly well published case of an arab being sentenced for rape for having consensual sex with a jewish woman. She went to the police when she found out that he was arab not jewish and he was sentenced to 18 months in jail for "rape by deception." The occupation/colonization project of the West Bank has been going on for over 40 years so to not call it an apartheid system is insincere.
All of this does not matter to the question of artists canceling appearances. If an artist does not want to appear in Israel, that's fine. An artists who cancels is being suckered into making a political statement under the guise/threat of avoiding making one. A singer performing in Paris does not mean the singer supports France's laws against traditional Muslim wear. A singer performing in New York does not mean the singer supports the USA's aggressive intellectual property foreign policy. Yet, for some reason, a singer appearing in Tel-Aviv is told that this will be interpreted as supporting the occupation.
Ah, the old "why are you protesting against us and not against every other shit state in the world, you must be anti-semites!"-argument. FYI, there were fierce protests against the olympics being held in China, against various events in Morocco and Turkey and so on. Also note that rms is not a random singer, but a political activist who has spent his life promoting software freedom. It would not be out of character for him to protest against the the occupation of Palestine.
'In 2010 he was due to play a gig in Tel Aviv, but this attracted criticism from Palestinian groups who stated "Your performance in Israel would be the equivalent to having performed in Sun City during South Africaâ(TM)s apartheid era... We hope that you will not play apartheid Israel." In response he cancelled the gig.'
There is no factual error in that quote. Israel is an apartheid state.
Jealous much? Now if he got the company by the balls and he as indispensable as he thinks he are, then he'd be a fool not to ask for more money. Thing is, most people in the world are average and very dispensable, they have a very hard time to accept that any of their peers might be much more important than them. Hence all the jealous comments.
If we want a sustainable society, then that is one of those perks for the rich that we must get rid of.
Agreed, this is in no way news for nerds nor stuff that matters.
coreutils rocks and I don't recognise Jim Meyering's name so I'm not casting aspersions, but doesn't it also depend on the value of the commit. I have on occassion committed more on a bad day (to fix my mistakes) than on a good day. So does that mean my mistake laden days are more productive? Should my boss look at that metric and give me a raise instead of the developers that get it right the first time?
No, that means your commits arent frequent enough. You're probably one of those guys that just can't be bothered to use proper vc techniques and sits and codes for five weeks and then blame everyone else when it is impossible to integrate your code with the rest of the system. There is a strong correlation between how often developers check in their code and how proficient they are. Weak developers consider it to be a chore to have to write legible commit messages to describe what their code does. The reason why is because the code they produce is confusing and deservedly hard to explain.
This is what is called PSYOPs. Is it important news if ObL had porn or not? No, it isn't and the only use for it is to smear his name in the Arab world. There is no reason not to believe that the story is completely made up by US authorities to serve a political purpose.
One would guess that the number of Disney buying "USA! Fuck yeah!" screaming types outnumber the numberof Saudis buying Mickey Mouse by a ratio of at least 2 to 1....
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Computer_programming_and_university_studies
As in.. post-op? If so, then hello to you!
Of the phone games I've bought that cost maybe 1€ or 5€, most of them have been pretty bad. Either the game is so easy to beat that it only lasts a few hours, or it is so boring that you won't play it. For example, the chess game I bought for 5€ was so simple to beat even at the highest difficulty level that there was no point in it. So for me the $60 console games still provide a lot of value because they provide many more times entertainment than the cheap phone games.
Not at all! Automated decision making processes is an important acknowledgement that human judgement is subjective at best. The more we learn about the human psyche, the less rational it seem. There are so many ingrained biases that we are endowed with, such as how we judge persons by their appearances, how personal anecdotes trumph statistics that the only way to get fair and logical decisions is to automate the process. One can argue whether games need an extremely detailed rating system to protect the kids. But if one has to have a system, then it is 100 times fairer to have an automated one than a human controlled one.
But when you have no clue about what software development is, then how on earth would you be able to judge trials about it fairly? Are the lawmakers that arrogant that they think they can understand the basics of software development in about one sitting, when an engineer have to study the subject for several years? Why not turn the tables around. Let's take a prominent developer with a nice career. Have this judge and some of his fellows give him a a one day crasch course on business law, what to do when a lawyer says "objection" and so on. I'll bet my ass we would get much more reasonable and logical judgements that way.