T-H-X eleven-thirty-eight will be taken into custody at a minimal monetary expenditure. Total operation cost: six thousand credits under budget. Congratulations. Be efficient, be happy.
Why is this marked as troll? He is answering the stated question to the best of his knowledge. If anything should be marked as troll, it is the question itself. What do you expect when you use such a subject term such as "crapware?"
Those South American countries were forced to give their infrastructure to private companies in order to receive IMF loans. The leaders of those countries were bullied, bribed and threatened to take those loans.
Read Confessions of an Economic Hitman and Shock Doctrine.
I don't know many people in the Twin Cities area who like their tap water. Yesterday people in Burnsville were complaining about a foul smell coming from their taps. New Brighton well water had high levels of a certain kind of rocket fuel that exceeds EPA standards. Friends of mine said there water is almost always yellow or orange. My parents have city official test their water weekly for the past decade and they still can't figure out why they are having problems. I heavily filter my tap water and shower otherwise my skin becomes untolerably dry and mold grows at an incredible rate.
I'm not saying we should be giving our infrastructure to private companies, but the governments solution is cheap and we get what we pay for.
How about they release the source code for their old voting machines. You know, the ones that aren't "optical-scan".
Last I checked, the touchscreen ones are the voting machines that have caused so much grief.
The touchscreens are just the tip of the iceberg for problems with electronic voting. It may be the most advertised problem of voting but it certainly isn't the worst problem.
Central tabulation of votes, memory cards, chain of custody of those cards, manipulation of the tabulation database and virtually every part of electronic voting has been a huge problem.
Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org gained a copy of the GEMS database software and showed how it could easily manipulate votes without much chance of being caught.
I suspect that the DOD has a hand in putting things like this in popular video games (not to mention TV and movies). It is a great way to make such atrocities seem acceptable to a young, susceptible audeicne. These types of things have been in games for awhile. These types of messages have been in TV shows and movies for a long time. 24 turned into an advertisement for torture. The DOD has long been in the TV and movie business, giving producers equipment and information for positive messages and propaganda.
The last expansion of World of Warcraft had many quests to torture people for information. They also added a quest chain to spread disinformation about a group of dissenters in Theramore, then assassinate their leader. It reminded me of the FBI operation known as COINTELPRO.
You can call me a conspiracy theorist all you want but you can find plenty of proof with a few simple google searches.
Can't we just get rid of all non-Constitutionally mandated agencies (then amend the Constitution to add anything that is truly needed)?
Oh wait, I forgot that we found "implied powers" secretly weaved into the Constitution and have since found more secret messages left by the founders that allow everything we deem neccesarry, reasonable and proper.
This seems to be another FUD report by some agency in order to justify taking over, regulating and destroying a free internet. Sadly, as much as I like most of the provisions of net neutrality, it'll be used to justify more rules, regulations, taxes and control over the internet in the future.
I really wish you were joking. The taxpayer exposure to all of the bailouts is at $23.7 Trillion.
Back in April it was reported that bailouts had already reached near our entire GDP at $12.8 Trillion. With that much money you could launch an Ares rocket every day for 78 years.
Medicare fraud is estimated to be at least $60 Billion.
Letting banks steal whatever wealth is left in the US doesn't seem like money well spent by Congress.
Yep, they do have the occasional lunacy. I was rather disgusted when I saw them pimping the "crystal skulls" fraud. Still, they're nowhere near as bad as the History channel.
What do you expect from a cable channel owned by the Hearst Corporation, GE and Disney? (I'm referring to the History channel)
Nice editorializing - "Even Windows 7?" Cheap shot - you can do better than that, Slashdot
I don't think the editors of Slashdot can do any better.
Just the other day they made it sound like Windows 7 was uninstalling google toolbar and iTunes but it turned out that Windows 7 reinstalled it after the update. The person who made that comment in the story said it was the best Windows upgrade he had ever gone through.
If you had just read the title and/or summary it would seem like Microsoft was purposefully uninstalling competitors software when it wasn't even remotely the case.
Not all self-described libertarians agree or use the same arguments on every subject.
The Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell style libertarians oppose net neutrality because they oppose the government regulating the internet in any fashion. They view it as a slippery slope which will lead to many draconian regulations and eventual loss of many freedoms now enjoyed.
The Cato Institute, which is considered a libertarian think tank is often made fun of by the LRC and Paul supporters, usually for good reasons.
Libertarianism, like most isms have a large umbrella to hide under.
Shhhh.... People aren't supposed to know that the company crying wolf is the one who has the most to gain and is probably the one who is responsible for the alleged attacks.
And the race to develop weapons that defend against, or initiate, computer attacks has given rise to thousands of “hacker soldiers” within the Pentagon who can blend the new capabilities into the nation’s war planning.
Nearly all of the largest military companies — including Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon — have major cyber contracts with the military and intelligence agencies.
Daniel D. Allen, who oversees work on intelligence systems for Northrop Grumman, estimated that federal spending on computer security now totals $10 billion each year, including classified programs. That is just a fraction of the government’s spending on weapons systems. But industry officials expect it to rise rapidly.
The military contractors are now in the enviable position of turning what they learned out of necessity — protecting the sensitive Pentagon data that sits on their own computers — into a lucrative business that could replace some of the revenue lost from cancellations of conventional weapons systems.
Get the popcorn... this is going to be an epic thread. We've already had the "Wish I was there" post, it's time for the feminist wing to turn up. Oh the objectification!
This is slashdot. I have yet to see a feminist wing.
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T-H-X eleven-thirty-eight will be taken into custody at a minimal monetary expenditure. Total operation cost: six thousand credits under budget. Congratulations. Be efficient, be happy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/
aren't math people supposed to use pencil?
Only if you're one of those people who make mistakes. Obviously no one on /. would fit in this category.
Why yes, I am an apple fanboy. How did you guess?
You're a self-described bum.
Why is this marked as troll? He is answering the stated question to the best of his knowledge. If anything should be marked as troll, it is the question itself. What do you expect when you use such a subject term such as "crapware?"
Those South American countries were forced to give their infrastructure to private companies in order to receive IMF loans. The leaders of those countries were bullied, bribed and threatened to take those loans.
Read Confessions of an Economic Hitman and Shock Doctrine.
I don't know many people in the Twin Cities area who like their tap water. Yesterday people in Burnsville were complaining about a foul smell coming from their taps. New Brighton well water had high levels of a certain kind of rocket fuel that exceeds EPA standards. Friends of mine said there water is almost always yellow or orange. My parents have city official test their water weekly for the past decade and they still can't figure out why they are having problems. I heavily filter my tap water and shower otherwise my skin becomes untolerably dry and mold grows at an incredible rate.
I'm not saying we should be giving our infrastructure to private companies, but the governments solution is cheap and we get what we pay for.
How about they release the source code for their old voting machines.
You know, the ones that aren't "optical-scan".
Last I checked, the touchscreen ones are the voting machines that have caused so much grief.
The touchscreens are just the tip of the iceberg for problems with electronic voting. It may be the most advertised problem of voting but it certainly isn't the worst problem.
Central tabulation of votes, memory cards, chain of custody of those cards, manipulation of the tabulation database and virtually every part of electronic voting has been a huge problem.
Bev Harris of blackboxvoting.org gained a copy of the GEMS database software and showed how it could easily manipulate votes without much chance of being caught.
Wouldn't it be more accurate if it showed that some of the terrorists worked for the government and were engaged on false-flag operations ?
It would also be more accurate if the government you were trying to install in a foreign country comprised of drug lords and war criminals.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/ssi/wpc/ResignationLetter.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?_r=1
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html
I suspect that the DOD has a hand in putting things like this in popular video games (not to mention TV and movies). It is a great way to make such atrocities seem acceptable to a young, susceptible audeicne. These types of things have been in games for awhile. These types of messages have been in TV shows and movies for a long time. 24 turned into an advertisement for torture. The DOD has long been in the TV and movie business, giving producers equipment and information for positive messages and propaganda.
The last expansion of World of Warcraft had many quests to torture people for information. They also added a quest chain to spread disinformation about a group of dissenters in Theramore, then assassinate their leader. It reminded me of the FBI operation known as COINTELPRO.
You can call me a conspiracy theorist all you want but you can find plenty of proof with a few simple google searches.
As opposed to the $23.7 trillion of taxpayer exposure for all of the bailout programs, which has so far cost us over $12.8 trillion.
Most economists say that all of this money has just postponed the inevitable and done nothing to truly fix the situation.
With $12.8 trillion we could launch one of those rockets every day for over 70 years.
Can't we just get rid of all non-Constitutionally mandated agencies (then amend the Constitution to add anything that is truly needed)?
Oh wait, I forgot that we found "implied powers" secretly weaved into the Constitution and have since found more secret messages left by the founders that allow everything we deem neccesarry, reasonable and proper.
This seems to be another FUD report by some agency in order to justify taking over, regulating and destroying a free internet. Sadly, as much as I like most of the provisions of net neutrality, it'll be used to justify more rules, regulations, taxes and control over the internet in the future.
It's nice because instead of using the Chewbacca defense I can use the foul ball defense.
Tying in a logical and reasonable statement with government policy should be immeidately +5 funny and not insightful/informative.
I really wish you were joking. The taxpayer exposure to all of the bailouts is at $23.7 Trillion.
Back in April it was reported that bailouts had already reached near our entire GDP at $12.8 Trillion. With that much money you could launch an Ares rocket every day for 78 years.
Medicare fraud is estimated to be at least $60 Billion.
Letting banks steal whatever wealth is left in the US doesn't seem like money well spent by Congress.
My giant corporate news source is way better than your giant corporate news source!
On their official wiki homepage one of the main articles is Getting Root Access.
It only provides a warning that you may damage your device and does not mention breaking a warranty, EULA, TOS, etc...
Yep, they do have the occasional lunacy. I was rather disgusted when I saw them pimping the "crystal skulls" fraud. Still, they're nowhere near as bad as the History channel.
What do you expect from a cable channel owned by the Hearst Corporation, GE and Disney? (I'm referring to the History channel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26E_Television_Networks
It reminds me of watching Chris Matthew on Hardball.
Anyone who criticizes Obama or supports the 2nd amendment is automatically a lifetime member of the KKK and believes Obama was born on Pluto.
Nice editorializing - "Even Windows 7?" Cheap shot - you can do better than that, Slashdot
I don't think the editors of Slashdot can do any better.
Just the other day they made it sound like Windows 7 was uninstalling google toolbar and iTunes but it turned out that Windows 7 reinstalled it after the update. The person who made that comment in the story said it was the best Windows upgrade he had ever gone through.
If you had just read the title and/or summary it would seem like Microsoft was purposefully uninstalling competitors software when it wasn't even remotely the case.
Here is another good article against some provisions of net neutrality.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/swanson7.html
Not all self-described libertarians agree or use the same arguments on every subject.
The Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell style libertarians oppose net neutrality because they oppose the government regulating the internet in any fashion. They view it as a slippery slope which will lead to many draconian regulations and eventual loss of many freedoms now enjoyed.
The Cato Institute, which is considered a libertarian think tank is often made fun of by the LRC and Paul supporters, usually for good reasons.
Libertarianism, like most isms have a large umbrella to hide under.
I can imagine it now: A torrent of torrent of .torrent files.
What good are rights when the government can strip them from you whenever it deems necessary?
I don't know which is better: The EU openly taking away your supposed rights or the US taking away your rights and lying about it?
Probably the latter because people love being lied to.
Shhhh.... People aren't supposed to know that the company crying wolf is the one who has the most to gain and is probably the one who is responsible for the alleged attacks.
US: Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for U.S. Government
And the race to develop weapons that defend against, or initiate, computer attacks has given rise to thousands of “hacker soldiers” within the Pentagon who can blend the new capabilities into the nation’s war planning.
Nearly all of the largest military companies — including Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon — have major cyber contracts with the military and intelligence agencies.
Daniel D. Allen, who oversees work on intelligence systems for Northrop Grumman, estimated that federal spending on computer security now totals $10 billion each year, including classified programs. That is just a fraction of the government’s spending on weapons systems. But industry officials expect it to rise rapidly.
The military contractors are now in the enviable position of turning what they learned out of necessity — protecting the sensitive Pentagon data that sits on their own computers — into a lucrative business that could replace some of the revenue lost from cancellations of conventional weapons systems.
Domestic Spying, Inc.
http://www.corpwatch.org/section.php?id=11
And yet when a guy tried to complain here about sexist attitudes in open-source he was shot down to hell...
Don't you mean he was met with ire and denial?
Get the popcorn... this is going to be an epic thread. We've already had the "Wish I was there" post, it's time for the feminist wing to turn up. Oh the objectification!
This is slashdot. I have yet to see a feminist wing.
You obviously weren't around for the thread on sexism in the FOSS community.
What's the current world record for the longest game of Monopoly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation