Looks like someone has cracked the mod system, and gotten themselves dozens of points to mod all replies as Offtopic. Either that, or (for the conspiracy theorists) some/. editor went crazy hitting every post that might send readers to other sites. Either way, very interesting.
Yes, I am talking about autonomous sales droids that watch you day and night while analyzing your garbage. They will be on the front door to pitch you a customer tailored vacuum cleaner the moment you try to escape your home.
I had never thought that Skynet could be "the lesser of two evils" until I read your post.
From Slashdot, circa 1932: People claim that legalizing alcohol will bring gazillions of dollars into the government coffers by taxing the product. However they don't explain why we should believe that current bootleggers would be willing to start collecting and submitting taxes to the government. They already have a product that they are selling tax-free, what is the incentive for the dealers to start charging more for the same product?
Blackmail will continue to work as long as your spouse and/or the voters care about what YOU have been up to.
Slight correction: Blackmail will only continue to work to the degree that you care more about what other people think ('other people' includes spouse/voters/etc) about your past sexual history, than whatever the blackmailer is demanding. Although it is true that most politicians make themselves slaves to public opinion (kinda hard to get the job if you don't), I would avoid the assumption that all married people are ruled so absolutely by the cares/concerns/whims of their spouses. If you don't give a shit if your spouse finds out, even if your spouse would care a lot about it themselves, there is no leverage to blackmail.
Moral of the story - avoid high energy beams regardless of the wavelength or the particle kind because you never know what will slip by even in a supposedly "safe" circumstances.
Incorrect. Moral of the story: Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
What an appropriate charge. Also, this guy can rot.
The truly sad thing is that he very well may be rotting alongside victims of the more successful (weren't caught) perverters of justice. Unless, of course, we just assume this is the first time someone has ever attempted this.
It'd be interesting to see what percentage of those convicted of possession of child pornography claimed they were framed/had-no-knowledge-of-the-pornography, and how much effort law enforcement spent in checking the validity of those claims.
I suspect that the numbers would be pretty damn disappointing/terrifying.
It really sends the wrong message that centers of elitist liberal brainwashing are somehow related to innovation when we all know that it's the hardworking, individualistic, ambitious types upon whom all progress depends.
I'm just sure that University of Toronto doesn't use any of the tax dollars taken from hardworking Canadians to fund their engineering department. I'm sure the money only came from evil corporations, which became successful not by the hard work and ambition of their founders/owners, but only by fraud and deception. I mean, there's no way the money for this project came from someone who earned it by the sweat of their brow. That's unpossible!!
Actually, it seems the review is just copy-pasted from the only Amazon review of it. The reviewer appears to be a shill, as they have done 90 reviews, all of which are 4 or 5 stars, and all of them are as absurdly effusive as this one.
had you known shit about finnish citizenship and the life in finland, you would eat your words about that 'monolithic single government'
This is why the world is unfair. You have a lower UID than me, yet failed to get an obviously-about-Linux joke. On Slashdot. Please turn in your geek card at the door.
I'm just surprised Oracle wanted him. From what I've heard about Hurd, he can be unstable, and isn't quite ready for daily use.
There's a kernel of truth in what you say, but I don't think that Hurd's instability should cause a panic (in Oracle investors). Combined with their previous acquisitions, Oracle may have the sparc of innovation they need for a truly UNIque offering...
Can't seem to login. Looks like if you are well connected you can get away with anything and land up plum jobs. Yes I know Mark Hurd did not break any law and he only cheated on his expense reports (That too I am sure was a mistake by his assistants). We as a society seem to be setting fine examples of acceptable behavior.
Being "well-connected" is practically part of the job description for a Fortune 500 CEO. Not because of crony-ism, but because of the need to leverage those relationships for the good of your company. So if Mark Hurd is "well-connected", that would mean that he actually is more valuable as CEO to a company like Oracle, especially because his connections are probably especially relevant to Oracle's industry. I'm guessing that "connections" for a CEO are like languages for a programmer - the more you have under your belt, the more tools you have to face a given problem, the more value you bring to the position...
Actually, Zorgath Brain-Melter of Argyle III is the true main mind killer. He has over 18 billion confirmed kills. Fyr Lobotimizer (you mis-spelled his first name) of Satiria VII was relegated to secondary killer after the Mice-and-Figs debacle of '05. The more you know...:-)
...the more likely you are to be targeted by Zorgath.
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Looks like someone has cracked the mod system, and gotten themselves dozens of points to mod all replies as Offtopic. Either that, or (for the conspiracy theorists) some /. editor went crazy hitting every post that might send readers to other sites. Either way, very interesting.
Yes, I am talking about autonomous sales droids that watch you day and night while analyzing your garbage. They will be on the front door to pitch you a customer tailored vacuum cleaner the moment you try to escape your home.
I had never thought that Skynet could be "the lesser of two evils" until I read your post.
From Slashdot, circa 1932:
People claim that legalizing alcohol will bring gazillions of dollars into the government coffers by taxing the product. However they don't explain why we should believe that current bootleggers would be willing to start collecting and submitting taxes to the government. They already have a product that they are selling tax-free, what is the incentive for the dealers to start charging more for the same product?
Yeah, well, did your elementary school impress upon you an absurd sense of your own self-worth?! Hah! Didn't think so!
The micro and macro cancel each other out so the merged company will call themselves Softmediadobe.
That sounds like the name of one of those sites that delivers malware under the guise of useful freeware.
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Oh, right...
I have an old Magnavox TV with smart sound. Loud commercials are not a problem for me.
Anyone else find it ironic that the first major TV manufacturer who offered this has a company name that means "Great/Large Voice" in Latin?
Hah! For that to happen, they would have to notify the people they defame.
Hah! For that to happen to me, I would need to have fame in the first place!
I guess the franchise was due for a reboot. I'm excited to see the new take on it.
I heard it's the same damn thing, except they've digitally added Willzyx and Tom Cruise...
I think tall, short-armed women or short, long-armed women would look kind of odd.
Not sure what the first group would look like...
Tyrannosaurus Sex: A lizard who is a tyrant of your sex life.
Blackmail will continue to work as long as your spouse and/or the voters care about what YOU have been up to.
Slight correction: Blackmail will only continue to work to the degree that you care more about what other people think ('other people' includes spouse/voters/etc) about your past sexual history, than whatever the blackmailer is demanding. Although it is true that most politicians make themselves slaves to public opinion (kinda hard to get the job if you don't), I would avoid the assumption that all married people are ruled so absolutely by the cares/concerns/whims of their spouses. If you don't give a shit if your spouse finds out, even if your spouse would care a lot about it themselves, there is no leverage to blackmail.
Moral of the story - avoid high energy beams regardless of the wavelength or the particle kind because you never know what will slip by even in a supposedly "safe" circumstances.
Incorrect. Moral of the story: Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
There's often lots of data loss but the records of data loss are also lost (or not recorded in the first place)...
[citation needed]
What an appropriate charge. Also, this guy can rot.
The truly sad thing is that he very well may be rotting alongside victims of the more successful (weren't caught) perverters of justice. Unless, of course, we just assume this is the first time someone has ever attempted this.
It'd be interesting to see what percentage of those convicted of possession of child pornography claimed they were framed/had-no-knowledge-of-the-pornography, and how much effort law enforcement spent in checking the validity of those claims.
I suspect that the numbers would be pretty damn disappointing/terrifying.
It really sends the wrong message that centers of elitist liberal brainwashing are somehow related to innovation when we all know that it's the hardworking, individualistic, ambitious types upon whom all progress depends.
I'm just sure that University of Toronto doesn't use any of the tax dollars taken from hardworking Canadians to fund their engineering department. I'm sure the money only came from evil corporations, which became successful not by the hard work and ambition of their founders/owners, but only by fraud and deception. I mean, there's no way the money for this project came from someone who earned it by the sweat of their brow. That's unpossible!!
However, the courts have ALWAYS ruled that a person's name is fair use.
This may be true, but this guy's story is an indication of how expensive it can be to defend that fair use.
Chuck Norris wouldn't need a crowbar.
Then what would he pick his teeth with after devouring Godzilla?
Actually, it seems the review is just copy-pasted from the only Amazon review of it. The reviewer appears to be a shill, as they have done 90 reviews, all of which are 4 or 5 stars, and all of them are as absurdly effusive as this one.
C'mon samzenpus, you can do better than this...
and this post was brought for you to test your sarcasm-meter!
Oh, a sarcasm-meter?! Yeah, I'm sure that'd be a REAL useful invention!
had you known shit about finnish citizenship and the life in finland, you would eat your words about that 'monolithic single government'
This is why the world is unfair. You have a lower UID than me, yet failed to get an obviously-about-Linux joke. On Slashdot. Please turn in your geek card at the door.
You want to cache important stuff otherwise I/O will cripple your cpu...
I'm sorry, but that example makes no sense to me. Perhaps if it was reformulated using automobiles...
The Earth is pretty much at the center of the observable universe...
Poppycock! I don't know about all you zombies, but I'm the one at the center of the observable universe.
I'm just surprised Oracle wanted him. From what I've heard about Hurd, he can be unstable, and isn't quite ready for daily use.
There's a kernel of truth in what you say, but I don't think that Hurd's instability should cause a panic (in Oracle investors). Combined with their previous acquisitions, Oracle may have the sparc of innovation they need for a truly UNIque offering...
Anyone who isn't happy making more than a million dollars is fucked in the head.
Anyone who isn't happy making more than $20,000/yr is fucked in the head.
Sincerely,
The 1.4 Billion People Living in Extreme Poverty
Can't seem to login.
Looks like if you are well connected you can get away with anything and land up plum jobs.
Yes I know Mark Hurd did not break any law and he only cheated on his expense reports (That too I am sure was a mistake by his assistants).
We as a society seem to be setting fine examples of acceptable behavior.
Being "well-connected" is practically part of the job description for a Fortune 500 CEO. Not because of crony-ism, but because of the need to leverage those relationships for the good of your company. So if Mark Hurd is "well-connected", that would mean that he actually is more valuable as CEO to a company like Oracle, especially because his connections are probably especially relevant to Oracle's industry. I'm guessing that "connections" for a CEO are like languages for a programmer - the more you have under your belt, the more tools you have to face a given problem, the more value you bring to the position...
Actually, Zorgath Brain-Melter of Argyle III is the true main mind killer. He has over 18 billion confirmed kills. Fyr Lobotimizer (you mis-spelled his first name) of Satiria VII was relegated to secondary killer after the Mice-and-Figs debacle of '05. The more you know... :-)
...the more likely you are to be targeted by Zorgath.