Let the addicts have their favored poison, and quietly remove themselves from the gene pool.
I would rather we had a drug problem than suffer the continuing existence of the DEA. Oh, wait - we still do have a drug problem as well as a DEA. And when the agency goes, can we have back the parts of the Constitution that we deleted for their benefit?
The entire idea that the DEA would remove the drug "problem" is laughable on the face of it. Their existence is predicated on the problem continuing to exist.
We'll see... but I'm willing to bet that there won't be ANY higher officers fired for this. Even though it means that some IG investigations/reports are now lost. Unless that is a feature that they wanted.
Money quote. Corruption is the feature, oversight/inspections are the bugs. Now you're thinking like upper brass and/or contractors.
Most people I know look for new apps only by reputation of late. Basically only if someone they know tells them about it.
Yeah, I know an anecdote is not a trend, but my feeling is the app market is simply saturated, which forces people to rely on other sources than the app store to decide and get one.
App Search is terrible on all OSs. On Android you have to worry that a popular brand may have a bunch of me-too apps some of which are malicious. On iOS you just get unusable garbage floating to the top.
I'm amazed that neither Apple nor Google have made App Stores more social. That's a strong use case for social networks - even if it's twitter-style where I "follow" devs or other luminaries and get their recommendations.
2) charge me reasonably -- I'll pay up to $10 without flinching if it's actually useful. More if it's fabulous
For every one of the "pay up front" customers, there's literally a dozen who will prefer to be nickeled and dimed. This probably goes double for games.
I'm definitely telling all of my friends/family who remain on Y!mail to get out of dodge. Verizon and privacy (much like Verizon and security) are more like oil and water.
Please do not share with my employer that I get free texting and data when I travel to Canada next month. I told them I could not communicate with them while I was in the Great White North. Thx!
Are you expensing those mobile bills? If so, then you have no recourse - it's not like/. is any more authoritative or visible than, say, t-mobile.com.
If it's a personal phone, just don't tell them your carrier...
Can't wait for that day when FB finally reveals it's true goals - to become the worlds gatekeeper to all knowledge. Remember when newly inaugurated Pres. Obama thought it'd be a good idea for FB login to be your official ID? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ob...
And you thought Google's mission to simply index the world's knowledge to be scary? Let me quote Mark Zuckerberg for you: dumbfucks
The mugger likely searched the victim on FB after the mugging.
And this is the reality. You can't do anything on Facebook (even searches) without being caught in one of their algorithms to increase their profit (in this case, by increasing interconnectedness).
What's even more scary is that Facebook is now tracking and advertising to you when they see you outside of Facebook [1]. This combined with the fact that Facebook trackers are everywhere infested on most sites, means without some means of being ignored [2], you could be tracked even if you didn't visit FB.
The average citizen is well aware that their vote is meaningless.
Hence, they get the government that they deserve.
You forget the scrubbing of the voter registration that is happening constantly - in which case, we're getting the government that the government thinks we deserve. Sound about right?
For example, it's cool to bash rednecks, even though all of the ones I've met are some pretty honest working guys that are actually pretty fun to have a beer with, even though I don't like beer
Sorry, my grade-school kids don't drink. And I'd say calling people "rednecks" is pretty insensitive, and I would teach my kids not to use that language (unless it's so pervasive within the in-group that it's not really an epitthet anymore: see "geek").
Just scroll down a bit and you'll find plenty of pro-hydrogen, anti-EV posts right here in today's thread.
When a./ account is shilling for a point, are they considered a person, or are they a paid mouth for someone else's viewpoint?
Keep in mind, not all/. users are "real people" - they're accounts, some folks have multiple accounts, some are sold to highest bidders, and others are... managed: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
(keep in mind, that was 5 years ago, and now there are mulitiple such endeavors to essentially allow more "organic-looking" astroturfing).
Guess the smartphone manufacturers are a bit depressed that most of their innovations haven't driven more thirst for sales? Maybe sad that Apple hasn't come out to save the industry's bacon? j/k
I say we kill them for high treason. Apparently they forgot that this was a democracy.
Oh, and we don't need evidence, just like they don't. The CIA is sure good at forgetting things, like the fact that we have a second amendment for this very fucking reason.
They're part of the executive branch - you know the ones that are charged with enforcing the law? That branch has shown repeatedly, in every administration in the past 50+ years, that it cannot/will not control the CIA (not to mention any other alphabet-soup agency).
The Military Industrial Complex needs to be smashed, in order for this to take effect - and that means defeating the funding of this monstrosity. The only way we can do this is to defund the branch.
"Diaper" and "design flaw" are two things you don't want to ever see linked together in one sentence.
It happens. And everything is very individual so sometimes a design flaw isn't acutually a big deal, say, if your baby/toddler doesn't push the envelope (in output, or behavior).
Just glad I don't have to deal with this anymore - got lucky with my smallest who trained out in 18m.
but... it really isnt.... thats number one, and number 2 you ignored the point of my post completely and switched the discussion. good job
the point is how can a company claim to be against a state for doing something that is "anti LGBT" while setting up shops in places where even being LGBT is totally illegal.
Apple refuses to go to NC because a) they can b) it's illegal I'm sure the next step once Apple sets up shop in India is that they'll push to make things more progressive.
Homosexuality is mostly a taboo subject in Indian civil society and for the government. Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code makes sex with persons of the same gender punishable by law. On 2 July 2009, in Naz Foundation v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi, the Delhi High Court held that provision to be unconstitutional with respect to sex between consenting adults, but the Supreme Court of India overturned that ruling on 11 December 2013, stating that the court was instead deferring to Indian legislators to provide the sought-after clarity.[1] On 2 February 2016, however, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider its judgment, stating it would refer petitions to abolish Section 377 to a five-member constitutional bench, which would conduct a comprehensive hearing of the issue.[2]
We know that Microsoft has paid shills. The game is to figure out who they are. The hard part is that so many naive people are rabid Microsoft fans, refusing to believe that their heroes can do anything wrong, or younger engineers who have been in the Windows monoculture since birth and so lack relevant breadth of experience.
Does a sockpuppet by any other name sound as shrill?
I really hope that Americans aren't quite as dumb as I perceive and can see things for the way they are.
There's a large majority that are completely pissed off at the current (police) state of affairs.
However, the security state and corporatocracy have chipped away again and again, year after year at the power of the people and it's not clear there's any real power left.
So to summarize: for PCs it's the software that unappealing, while for Macs, it's the hardware is not compelling enough.
Ultimately, the real culprit is that "moore's law" has failed and we haven't seen any significant advances in desktop/laptop computing since the SSD (which likely started to hit mass-market penetration around 2011).
After all, parameterized SQL queries have been the norm for at least eight or ten years,
I failed an interview at Cisco for not knowing about prepared SQL statements... back in 1998. Was a big learning experience for inexperienced me. So parameterized queries have been around (and highly recommended) even way back in the golden 90's "Perl is all you need" days.
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Let the addicts have their favored poison, and quietly remove themselves from the gene pool.
I would rather we had a drug problem than suffer the continuing existence of the DEA. Oh, wait - we still do have a drug problem as well as a DEA. And when the agency goes, can we have back the parts of the Constitution that we deleted for their benefit?
The entire idea that the DEA would remove the drug "problem" is laughable on the face of it. Their existence is predicated on the problem continuing to exist.
We'll see ... but I'm willing to bet that there won't be ANY higher officers fired for this. Even though it means that some IG investigations/reports are now lost. Unless that is a feature that they wanted.
Money quote. Corruption is the feature, oversight/inspections are the bugs. Now you're thinking like upper brass and/or contractors.
Most people I know look for new apps only by reputation of late. Basically only if someone they know tells them about it.
Yeah, I know an anecdote is not a trend, but my feeling is the app market is simply saturated, which forces people to rely on other sources than the app store to decide and get one.
App Search is terrible on all OSs. On Android you have to worry that a popular brand may have a bunch of me-too apps some of which are malicious. On iOS you just get unusable garbage floating to the top.
I'm amazed that neither Apple nor Google have made App Stores more social. That's a strong use case for social networks - even if it's twitter-style where I "follow" devs or other luminaries and get their recommendations.
2) charge me reasonably -- I'll pay up to $10 without flinching if it's actually useful. More if it's fabulous
For every one of the "pay up front" customers, there's literally a dozen who will prefer to be nickeled and dimed. This probably goes double for games.
I'm definitely telling all of my friends/family who remain on Y!mail to get out of dodge.
Verizon and privacy (much like Verizon and security) are more like oil and water.
Please do not share with my employer that I get free texting and data when I travel to Canada next month. I told them I could not communicate with them while I was in the Great White North.
Thx!
Are you expensing those mobile bills? If so, then you have no recourse - it's not like /. is any more authoritative or visible than, say, t-mobile.com.
If it's a personal phone, just don't tell them your carrier...
Can't wait for that day when FB finally reveals it's true goals - to become the worlds gatekeeper to all knowledge.
Remember when newly inaugurated Pres. Obama thought it'd be a good idea for FB login to be your official ID?
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ob...
And you thought Google's mission to simply index the world's knowledge to be scary?
Let me quote Mark Zuckerberg for you: dumbfucks
I'd try and abandon a lot more software on my laptop if it was seriously pocket-change territory in terms of pricing.
The mugger likely searched the victim on FB after the mugging.
And this is the reality. You can't do anything on Facebook (even searches) without being caught in one of their algorithms to increase their profit (in this case, by increasing interconnectedness).
What's even more scary is that Facebook is now tracking and advertising to you when they see you outside of Facebook [1]. This combined with the fact that Facebook trackers are everywhere infested on most sites, means without some means of being ignored [2], you could be tracked even if you didn't visit FB.
Paranoia: it's healthy now.
[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/5...
[2/CH] https://chrome.google.com/webs...
[2/FF] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
The average citizen is well aware that their vote is meaningless.
Hence, they get the government that they deserve.
You forget the scrubbing of the voter registration that is happening constantly - in which case, we're getting the government that the government thinks we deserve. Sound about right?
[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/ne...
For example, it's cool to bash rednecks, even though all of the ones I've met are some pretty honest working guys that are actually pretty fun to have a beer with, even though I don't like beer
Sorry, my grade-school kids don't drink. And I'd say calling people "rednecks" is pretty insensitive, and I would teach my kids not to use that language (unless it's so pervasive within the in-group that it's not really an epitthet anymore: see "geek").
The solution to all this is to DRM the battery-interface and enforce "made-for-ecigg" labeling scheme... yeah, that's it!
Just scroll down a bit and you'll find plenty of pro-hydrogen, anti-EV posts right here in today's thread.
When a ./ account is shilling for a point, are they considered a person, or are they a paid mouth for someone else's viewpoint?
Keep in mind, not all /. users are "real people" - they're accounts, some folks have multiple accounts, some are sold to highest bidders, and others are... managed: http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
(keep in mind, that was 5 years ago, and now there are mulitiple such endeavors to essentially allow more "organic-looking" astroturfing).
Was really the industry maturing?
Guess the smartphone manufacturers are a bit depressed that most of their innovations haven't driven more thirst for sales? Maybe sad that Apple hasn't come out to save the industry's bacon? j/k
You gotta say, this is one of the good results of competition. Apple started with the $15/mo family plan, then Google added, now Spotify must compete.
Of course, with pricing exactly the same one would wonder if it's the music industry who's actually setting the price...
I say we kill them for high treason. Apparently they forgot that this was a democracy.
Oh, and we don't need evidence, just like they don't. The CIA is sure good at forgetting things, like the fact that we have a second amendment for this very fucking reason.
They're part of the executive branch - you know the ones that are charged with enforcing the law? That branch has shown repeatedly, in every administration in the past 50+ years, that it cannot/will not control the CIA (not to mention any other alphabet-soup agency).
The Military Industrial Complex needs to be smashed, in order for this to take effect - and that means defeating the funding of this monstrosity.
The only way we can do this is to defund the branch.
If the CIA were a person (or smaller less corrupt organization) they'd be held liable (and possibly in contempt) with massive punishments.
I guess it's not just the banks that can be TBTF.
"Diaper" and "design flaw" are two things you don't want to ever see linked together in one sentence.
It happens. And everything is very individual so sometimes a design flaw isn't acutually a big deal, say, if your baby/toddler doesn't push the envelope (in output, or behavior).
Just glad I don't have to deal with this anymore - got lucky with my smallest who trained out in 18m.
He also controls what you think you read, too...
but... it really isnt.... thats number one, and number 2 you ignored the point of my post completely and switched the discussion. good job
the point is how can a company claim to be against a state for doing something that is "anti LGBT" while setting up shops in places where even being LGBT is totally illegal.
It is actually not just illegal but unconsitutional. http://www.slate.com/blogs/out...
But don't let that sway your talking points.
Apple refuses to go to NC because a) they can b) it's illegal
I'm sure the next step once Apple sets up shop in India is that they'll push to make things more progressive.
Being LGBT in India is not illegal - it's still being judged link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Homosexuality is mostly a taboo subject in Indian civil society and for the government. Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code makes sex with persons of the same gender punishable by law. On 2 July 2009, in Naz Foundation v. Govt. of NCT of Delhi, the Delhi High Court held that provision to be unconstitutional with respect to sex between consenting adults, but the Supreme Court of India overturned that ruling on 11 December 2013, stating that the court was instead deferring to Indian legislators to provide the sought-after clarity.[1] On 2 February 2016, however, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider its judgment, stating it would refer petitions to abolish Section 377 to a five-member constitutional bench, which would conduct a comprehensive hearing of the issue.[2]
We know that Microsoft has paid shills. The game is to figure out who they are. The hard part is that so many naive people are rabid Microsoft fans, refusing to believe that their heroes can do anything wrong, or younger engineers who have been in the Windows monoculture since birth and so lack relevant breadth of experience.
Does a sockpuppet by any other name sound as shrill?
Two Words: Persona Management
I really hope that Americans aren't quite as dumb as I perceive and can see things for the way they are.
There's a large majority that are completely pissed off at the current (police) state of affairs.
However, the security state and corporatocracy have chipped away again and again, year after year at the power of the people and it's not clear there's any real power left.
So to summarize: for PCs it's the software that unappealing, while for Macs, it's the hardware is not compelling enough.
Ultimately, the real culprit is that "moore's law" has failed and we haven't seen any significant advances in desktop/laptop computing since the SSD (which likely started to hit mass-market penetration around 2011).
http://www.extremetech.com/com...
Look at the down curve.
I can take a decent SSD and turn an 8 year old machine (e.g. Unibody Aluminum 2008 Macbook) usable. This is a serious damper to sales of new hardware.
After all, parameterized SQL queries have been the norm for at least eight or ten years,
I failed an interview at Cisco for not knowing about prepared SQL statements... back in 1998. Was a big learning experience for inexperienced me. So parameterized queries have been around (and highly recommended) even way back in the golden 90's "Perl is all you need" days.
Install linux.
Or just buy a Mac. I'm not trolling, while OSX has it's issues, you're less likely to ever run into this bullshit.