John 'Defcon 1' Bolton has been appointed National Security Advisor to the 'president'. Fairly soon we will all be vaporized in the coming nuclear holocaust, and then we'll know if the 'soul' or 'consciousness' survives the annihilation of the physical body.
The man should be in jail for life for war crimes. I can't believe he even has the nerve to show himself in public. You'd think he'd want to keep a low profile. But these are insane times.
Why can we not find these assholes, and publically hang them? And leave them dangling for a while for all to see. They are poisoning the well - this is not cute hacker fun. This is, and has been, very serious. And nothing seems to be done about it.
Back in the day (don't know if it's true anymore), the Navajo Reservation went on and off DST while AZ didn't. I was traveling there in the 70's and got mightily confused until I figured out what was going on...
You live on a planet whose axis of rotation is tilted with respect to its orbital plane - get over it. Maybe you should consider a move to the tropics;-)
I'm for staying with Standard Time year round. The sun should be at its highest at noon, not 1:00. 12:00 noon should be sun on the meridian, more or less - it depends on how far east or west you are from the center of your timezone.
It doesn't matter what the science says. I simply does not matter. Humanity is going to eat the planet. Humanity is going to burn every molecule of hydrocarbons in can get its paws on. No laws, no international agreements, no nothing - it does not mean shit.
This thing is a juggernaut, and step out of the way if you can (but you can't, really). The money power wins. No, this thing is going to play itself out.
I remember when Google first arrived on the scene. My first thought was "what a stupid name!". Think about it... Google? It made me faintly nauseous. I'm not sure Bing is any worse.
In any case, with Google's success it became cool to have double-oh's in your software's stupid-ass, nonsense, meaningless names, as if some SuccessMagic would rub off of Google: Ooyala, Joomla, Moodle, Hadoop, and on and on. I have taken a vow never to use any software with 'oo' in its name. Including Google.
The point isn't whether codes of conduct are desirable/useful or not. We are talking about one specific code of conduct. I have been around a long time, and to me, this smacks of just the kind of set of rules that will lead to lots of false accusations, lots of innocent infractions, and lots of selective enforcement. It's both too detailed and too vague (subjective) at the same time. It is unwieldy and unworkable, and comes across as absurd virtual signalling.
All that said, in this day and age of hypersensitivity and people feeling like they have some God-given right never to be offended in any way, there's probably a good deal of ass-covering involved as well.
This whole thread seems more like a Rohrshach test than any sort of display of critical thinking.
... but if I did, I would quit. This is over the top. It feels more like a blanket list of vague infractions to have on hand so that they can rid of anyone they feel like.
... to see Ajit Pai in an orange jumpsuit being led off to prison in handcuffs. Maybe that would wipe the stupd shit-eating grin off his face. He is an arrogant sociopathic twat, and I would love to see justice served. But I don't expect to.
You know, at this point I'm not really sure it matters whether you check the box or not. They are just going to do their thing - that little check box isn't connected to anything, as it were.
You evidently didn't read the article. Basically, his website was a guide to illegally pirating PopcornTime content, complete with how-to's, links to pirating software, and so forth.
Whether that should be illegal or not is another question, but his activities were not as innocent as writing reviews of streaming software.
I read the article, and as near as I can figure, he was busted for posting instructions on how to download, install, and use software for pirating content from PopcornTime.
From the/. excerpt, it sounds like all he was doing was helping people to legally use the service. Highly misleading.
And what a crappy headline... I have pretty low expectations for accuracy in/. postings, but this is one of the more egregious cases of crap editing, or something. Unless it was intentionally misleading.
I am curious. You are an asshole, who has no idea what he is talking about. A flamebait/troll, no doubt. But what I want to know is were you born like this, or was it something you had to work at?
My point wasn't that end users have to recompile. The point was that the source is there, and there will be newer versions compiled against newer kernels.
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John 'Defcon 1' Bolton has been appointed National Security Advisor to the 'president'. Fairly soon we will all be vaporized in the coming nuclear holocaust, and then we'll know if the 'soul' or 'consciousness' survives the annihilation of the physical body.
The man should be in jail for life for war crimes. I can't believe he even has the nerve to show himself in public. You'd think he'd want to keep a low profile. But these are insane times.
WTF? I don't think you are making sense.
Why can we not find these assholes, and publically hang them? And leave them dangling for a while for all to see. They are poisoning the well - this is not cute hacker fun. This is, and has been, very serious. And nothing seems to be done about it.
Back in the day (don't know if it's true anymore), the Navajo Reservation went on and off DST while AZ didn't. I was traveling there in the 70's and got mightily confused until I figured out what was going on...
You live on a planet whose axis of rotation is tilted with respect to its orbital plane - get over it. Maybe you should consider a move to the tropics ;-)
I agree - time of sunrise and sunset should be symmetrical around noon.
I'm for staying with Standard Time year round. The sun should be at its highest at noon, not 1:00. 12:00 noon should be sun on the meridian, more or less - it depends on how far east or west you are from the center of your timezone.
Or then again, it could be Daylight's Savings Thyme. Or Daylites Sayvings Times. Whatever you call it, I'd like to be rid of it.
Actually, no. It's officially Daylight Saving Time. Yes, the /. editors got it right!
Were you born this way, or did you have to work at it?
It doesn't matter what the science says. I simply does not matter. Humanity is going to eat the planet. Humanity is going to burn every molecule of hydrocarbons in can get its paws on. No laws, no international agreements, no nothing - it does not mean shit.
This thing is a juggernaut, and step out of the way if you can (but you can't, really). The money power wins. No, this thing is going to play itself out.
Good luck to us all!
If corporations worried less about their "brand", and more about their products, we'd all be better off.
DuckDuckShallHaveGone.
I remember when Google first arrived on the scene. My first thought was "what a stupid name!". Think about it... Google? It made me faintly nauseous. I'm not sure Bing is any worse.
In any case, with Google's success it became cool to have double-oh's in your software's stupid-ass, nonsense, meaningless names, as if some SuccessMagic would rub off of Google: Ooyala, Joomla, Moodle, Hadoop, and on and on. I have taken a vow never to use any software with 'oo' in its name. Including Google.
Hmmm... as I think about the various witty replies I could make, I think every one of them would be an infraction of some rule or other ;-)
The point isn't whether codes of conduct are desirable/useful or not. We are talking about one specific code of conduct. I have been around a long time, and to me, this smacks of just the kind of set of rules that will lead to lots of false accusations, lots of innocent infractions, and lots of selective enforcement. It's both too detailed and too vague (subjective) at the same time. It is unwieldy and unworkable, and comes across as absurd virtual signalling.
All that said, in this day and age of hypersensitivity and people feeling like they have some God-given right never to be offended in any way, there's probably a good deal of ass-covering involved as well.
This whole thread seems more like a Rohrshach test than any sort of display of critical thinking.
... but if I did, I would quit. This is over the top. It feels more like a blanket list of vague infractions to have on hand so that they can rid of anyone they feel like.
Trump drained the swamp alright - he drained it right into his administration. What a scam his whole campaign turns out to be - surprise surprise!
... to see Ajit Pai in an orange jumpsuit being led off to prison in handcuffs. Maybe that would wipe the stupd shit-eating grin off his face. He is an arrogant sociopathic twat, and I would love to see justice served. But I don't expect to.
You know, at this point I'm not really sure it matters whether you check the box or not. They are just going to do their thing - that little check box isn't connected to anything, as it were.
Or, they could go and do something useful with their life, instead of working for Apple.
You evidently didn't read the article. Basically, his website was a guide to illegally pirating PopcornTime content, complete with how-to's, links to pirating software, and so forth.
Whether that should be illegal or not is another question, but his activities were not as innocent as writing reviews of streaming software.
I read the article, and as near as I can figure, he was busted for posting instructions on how to download, install, and use software for pirating content from PopcornTime.
From the /. excerpt, it sounds like all he was doing was helping people to legally use the service. Highly misleading.
And what a crappy headline... I have pretty low expectations for accuracy in /. postings, but this is one of the more egregious cases of crap editing, or something. Unless it was intentionally misleading.
I am curious. You are an asshole, who has no idea what he is talking about. A flamebait/troll, no doubt. But what I want to know is were you born like this, or was it something you had to work at?
My point wasn't that end users have to recompile. The point was that the source is there, and there will be newer versions compiled against newer kernels.
Don't. Be. A. Twat.