[What the hell are you talking about you liars! There is not now, nor has there ever been a magical book -- magical thinking perhaps...]
Blah blah piano too loud for me to hear you say: "In this book, 'the magic spirits', which are small... DNA, can be represented as colored lines with arrow heads marking their" -- ffffFFFFFUUU! (I lost)
Both good and bad was the the error rate
of the simulated Quantum state:
A superposition the states did make
having properties hard not to misstate.
Thus, when the research groups did separate
to further test the quantum error rate
they each observed a quantum error state
that they could not, in fact, equate!
Indeed, the collapsed quantum state
resulted in results so disparate,
their virtual machines could not re-simulate
these quantum effects they could not contemplate.
As the scientists began to debate
over a single quantum error rate
Their tense and stressed emotional state
caused some of them to scorn and berate,
and sparked others to recriminate.
(I would dare to speculate
that they were even too irate
to relate or even cogitate
the average quantum error rate.)
I hope they can remunerate
the costs that we associate
with researching the quantum error state,
so their teams do not have to inflate
the local unemployment rate!
Alas, science has yet to negate,
(or even circumnavigate)
the risks that one begins to take
by observing a Quantum error rate.
They're only discontinuing support for OLDER versions of these browsers. The summary almost makes it seem like Google will only support Google Chrome.
I don't blame 'em - it's bad enough to have to cross-develop for multiple browsers, cross-developing for current and past versions of older browsers literally doubles the difficulty involved - especially where an older version doesn't supply some critical functionality (like HTML5).
Yep. Developing stuff for every browser is a pain -- that's why our company could never get on the "Works with any Browser" campaign. Sure, just follow standards -- Yeah, that would have worked if MS did too, instead of trying to "embrace, extend and extinguish". Also: Something about a time to cash ratio of 1.
Amen! Screw upgrading! Also -- Macs don't need security updates because they don't get malware, unless they do, but it only affects morons, and there should be a free GCC compiler, IDE and other developer tools for my OS, but the FOSS/Linux lusers are too lazy to email it to me.
I wish people would drop this nonsense. You're talking as if Windows XP was released 10 years ago without a single noteworthy update or service pack.
By the same logic, I could tell Linux users that they should quit using it because the 2.6 kernel is 7 years old!
I happen to agree. There's no reason that MS should have introduced a large new codebase (except for a few design conflicts with their intended development direction). It's silly that in 1040 days MS will be retiring the OS, they had finally worked out many kinks/bugs. New codebases have more holes; it's not a law, but a common wisdom.
Also: Something about the virtue of laziness, not inventing a wheel, and implementing Unix poorly.
Please mail me a cheque. My laptop at home is a 1 GHz PIII with 750ish megs of RAM running XP. It works fine, but the only browser that works reasonably well is IE7. Firefox is dog slow. I shouldn't need to buy hundreds of dollars of hardware just to surf the web...
That's like saying you shouldn't have to upgrade your PC to play the latest video games.
The web wasn't initially designed to be an application platform, but now it can be used as one. Capabilities advance, and hardware must eventually follow.
Websites consume more bandwidth and execute more code now more than ever; Higher processor speeds and RAM requirements are needed for the sites to be used acceptably. JavaScript, Flash, SVG, Theora, H.264 require more bandwidth and processing power the more they're used -- certainly more than a static HTML4+CSS2 page does. CSS3 requires more CPU to do newer effects than CSS2's did...
Web developers look at their target market and make decisions based on average bandwidth, screen resolution and processor speed -- We don't want your page to load slowly, but we also don't want to be limited by your choice in hardware. It's a balancing act that I think has turned out quite well...
Wait... Didn't you have to spend hundreds of dollars for hardware just to surf the web initially? Maintaining a Computer+Browser is like owning a car, there are periodic expenses (like hardware upgrade) and maintenance (like upgrading software) that should be expected.
It's sad, but true. It's unfair to the rest of us to force a halt to progress -- When that old hardware dies, you will have to purchase new hardware (or GTFO the net), and by this force alone progress will still march forward as we take advantage of new hardware speeds and features.
I think the fact that you are using said older hardware / software currently proves that we've supported the old stuff long enough...
-- Posted from a 1.8 Ghz (single-core) AMD Sempron w/ 2GB of RAM and a 256MB 8xAGP Nvida graphics card running the nightly build of Firefox on Linux (A "lower end test machine" -- Maybe it's time to retire the OS, not the hardware?)
A bunch of rambling self-evident or speculative statements, followed by conclusion:
Conclusion
NoSQL systems are emerging because the world of data is changing. The size and heterogeneity of data means that the old guarantees simply cannot be met. Fortunately, we are learning how to meet the needs of business in ways outside of the old and classic database.
Which was apparent to everyone, and missed the real point: We have lots of data, and we're too impatient to wait for it to be aggregated, synchronized and processed. There goes 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Here's a hint: People working on the solutions to this problem work in the financial sector and in quantum physics.
Why did you make Episode 4 before Episode 1, 2 and 3?
George Lucas: When I began writing the story for Star Wars, it became so big that I couldn’t fit all my ideas into one film. I started to break the story up into trilogies. The first trilogy told the story of Anakin Skywalker’s descent into darkness. The second trilogy gave us the story of how Luke Skywalker defeated the Sith. The third trilogy gives us the time when the Jedi finally find a way to destroy the dark side. I also came up with a fourth trilogy, but it was unrelated to the first three trilogies.
It became clear that I was looking at nine separate movies. I had to decide which trilogy to begin with. At the time, sci-fi movies didn’t do well at the box office. I thought that Star Wars might be a one shot deal in that Star Wars might not make enough money to warrant the creation of sequels. I decided my best bet was to start with the most exciting trilogy and hope that it struck a chord with audiences.
I decided to make the middle trilogy first because I thought it was the most exciting of the trilogies and gave me the best chance to hit it out of the park with the people. Fortunately, my genius was right about it all. It makes me look so gifted in hind sight because there has never been a film bigger than Star Wars back in 1977.
When in reality -- Mr. Lucas started at "Episode 4" and jumped right into the middle of a story arc in order to give the feel of the good 'ol Sci-Fi serials he had enjoyed watching himself... No other scripts or films were planned at that time, hence the lack of a rising action at the end of the movie (that nearly all movies with planned sequels have) -- Indeed Sci-Fi flicks didn't do so well at the time, not many had the production value that StarWars had.
Princess Leia was not planned to be Luke's sister, hence their French kiss...
Vader was never planned to be Luke's father until a hasty plot change for Return of the Jedi -- Hence why in A New Hope Obi-wan says Vader killed Luke's father -- The working title of the "6th" episode was Revenge of the Jedi, but this didn't fit with the Jedi ideals (which were also constantly evolving in George's Mind).
Sequels rarely do better than the original they continue. Claiming yourself a "genius" after the fact is ever so self serving.
Search around, you'll find out for yourself... Oh, screw it; Here.
Do I believe this professional liar (read: story-teller)? No. What I believe is that the general public doesn't go much for these types of stories as they once did. Interests are cyclic. Remember the 80s and its love of all things robotic? Now we're seeing the passing of the interest in Wizards/witchcraft. The fluctuation of zombies and comic-book movies will continue to underscore a few quick popularities of themes such as Vampire movies. Many of the recent film trends are part of a larger passing trend of making protagonists out of the traditional antagonists. Sci-Fi may pick up again if we ever put men on mars...
My bet is that someone did Market research and discovered: It's simply not the right time for more sci-fi series on TV -- Esp. with their core audience migrating to other forms of entertainment and other distribution channels as well. Perhaps also, Mr. Lucas is just out of ideas (or good plots for them) for a while -- it's not unheard of among writers... How many stories can you tell in the same fictional universe before you get bored or use up all the compelling plots?
I thought we had already established that Interfaces to data formats (such as a protocol) consisted of only facts. These facts can not be copyrighted.
To me it seems MS will simply follow their standard procedure of "Embrace (purchase and/or adopt a standard), Extend (introduce incompatibilities), and thereby Extinguish." to thwart any sort of open source implementations.
Similar to their Zune device, which has embraced a standard USB interface and media protocol, but has been extended with a DRM challenge & response system to extinguish the possibility of any software but Microsoft's being used with the Zune.
IMHO, since Skype is actually a distributed Peer to Peer system (where some peers are used as relays or to coordinate NAT traversal for other peers), why not simply ditch Skype and create our own low cost system? Some type of PGP like system can be used to implement a distributed authentication/registration system, and perhaps Asterisk could be in our own homes (w/ landlines) to provide outgoing phone calls. Recent laws have made me wary of allowing others to out-dial from my node (to a select group of local area codes), but it is a type of solution that that we used in the BBS days...
i've always wondered what creepy creatures will evolve and emerge from landfills millions of years from now.
Why wait millions of years? You can visit retired landfills now and prove your "Landfills eventually yield creepy creatures" hypothesis correct. Some of the most prevalent of the creepy of creatures you'll find there are: Lawyers, Politicians, and Stock Marketeers.
Some say that these life-forms do not emerge from the the abandoned rubbish of society, that they instead are attracted to the Golf Courses built atop the land-fills; To them I must issue a reminder: Correlation is not Causation...
The solution is to post "poof" that the gossip is false -- then actively try to purge the "proof" from the Internet and thereby leverage the Streisand effect and conspiracy theories to sway public opinion. "If it wasn't true, why would people try to erase it?"
Bonus: Use fake the DMCA take-down notices as part of your eradication strategy.
"A game changer" ostensibly this means "a blow hard" -- In reference to the 8 & 16 bit era of cartridge based video games and the strange behaviors of those who attempted to "changed the game".
Could we please pass a bill so that all sorts of prisoners maintain Facebook redemption pages, tweet Gospel verses every day and recite the books of the Bible on YouTube?
I am confident that the thoughtful, kind, compassionate and caring comments of several thousand (if not million) followers would be much more beneficial to them than the lame standard rehabilitation activities.
Uh... As if forcing a Atheist like me to participate in anyone's religious campaign is not the very essence of cruel and unusual. I get your gist, but the method needs to be refined, there's that whole freedom of religion thing that gets in your way -- even if (esp. if) one takes such freedom to renounce all religions.
If you want me to respect your right to practice a religion, you'll have to respect other's rights to not do so.
Additionally -- I would simply quote the ugly parts of your scripture:
They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived.
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
Who's being punished? ::sigh:: I could do this for years.
To an atheist like myself: It's important to study all the worlds religions so I can relate to the way other people think -- and strike them to their core if needed.
Yes, my maturity must be calculated based on the way I spell the name of a business I personally find a waste of bandwidth. As to the rest of it - I am sorry, I failed with you, I tried make a joke, it didn't work, hope you do not begrudge me this failure for too long, are we square?
Take it easy Gramps, it's just an Internet troll trying to getting your goat... It's best just to ignore them, I hear they turn into line-noise in the sun.
Wait... was he seriously trying to imply your disdain for twitter implied less maturity?
Nick Harvey, says, 'The consequences of a well planned, well executed attack against our digital infrastructure could be catastrophic With nuclear or biological weapons, the technical threshold is high. With cyber the finger hovering over the button could be anyone from a state to a student.'"
Shuuure; The missile is just gonna arm itself, and intangible cyber villains are going to bypass the physical electrical & mechanical safety mechanisms.
Sounds like someone's been watching too much Lawnmower Man. If a team of cyber villains is all it takes to launch/detonate warheads, We'd all be dead by now. Yeah, theoretically you would need a hacker on your nuclear terrorist infiltration team.
I suggest you take a break from the Fear-mongering... Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
HEY DUMB-ASSES -- Here's a fucking idea -- Instead of running in fear, wasting tax payer dollars on protecting us from cyber triggered nuclear war -- Why don't we just say: "Fuck it! Everyone's got hackers now! -- Game over, we have to disarm all nuclear bombs in case an angsty 4chan goer decides to an hero via nukes."
There's no problem at all, unless of course someone would go ahead and make this the default setting for the most popular and visible Linux distribution for non-techies out there today. But why would someone put together a hack like this and release before it's stable.
::Sigh:: Well, perhaps its due to the fact that this "unstable" hack is not a long term support release. If any other OS Vendor released every 6 months you may find the same situation for the newest releases -- Even with infrequent OS releases what's the saying? "Wait till service pack 1 before you upgrade."
There are no doubt "non-techies" that accidentally installed an operating system that was not as stable as they would like.
For this I can make no excuse. If only it were noted somewhere prominently on the download page: "...long-term support (LTS) releases are supported for three years on the desktop. Perfect for organizations that need more stability..." -- Perhaps it would be best to place such text right next to the download options, near the giant "Start Download" button.
If only there were several ways to try out the operating system before installing it, as well as step by step instructions on how to do so; Perhaps these should go on the download page as well?
Alas, What fools they are! If only they were even more user friendly! Or -- Perhaps they've made it too easy to upgrade. MS wouldn't think of having a single button + admin password upgrade feature... I bet they don't have this problem on Windows.
Experimental "Smart Town" to be built, as opposed to all the "Dumb Towns"?
I know this seems like a crazy far-out there idea, man... but -- hey, let's try to, you know, build a "Smart Town" this time -- it'll be an experiment. Like, what if we make the buildings out of geniuses? I know, right!? Dude, why didn't anyone think of this before?!
Seriously -- When did "smart" become synonymous with "green"? I thought a "smart" home was one where every light fixture, appliance, or wall socket was connected to an always-on energy consuming whole home computer system that can record everything you do and has voice activated commands for common tasks like, dimming the lights, or wiping your ass and flushing for you -- "Computer, Shit Happened."
I guess that "smart" home solution finally found the problem it was searching for after all by jumping on the green bandwagon. However, I'd be pissed off if my new green "smart" home was just as dumb as my current one (read: manual everything -- doesn't even have powered locks, windows or steering).
The problem is that it's pretty well established that smoking is bad for you, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad for you in the way that people think. Which is one of the problems, often times conventional wisdom is correct. But sometimes it's not and other times the conventional wisdom is lacking the necessary information to deal with whatever.
So... you're saying that smoking only may be bad for me, but we only think we know, and we might be wrong...
OK, Simmons! You can stop stopping dropping and rolling -- The smoking may not be due to fire after all. Quit your screaming and call off the ambulance. Let's make sure we really know what we're dealing with here before we take any further action.
Jones, set your clothes on fire with this Bunsen burner. We'll need a control group.
Slashdot Mirror
WAR!
May the Baldwins help us now!
[What the hell are you talking about you liars! There is not now, nor has there ever been a magical book -- magical thinking perhaps...]
Blah blah piano too loud for me to hear you say: "In this book, 'the magic spirits', which are small ... DNA, can be represented as colored lines with arrow heads marking their" -- ffffFFFFFUUU! (I lost)
(See video link in TFS -- you rage, you loose.)
Hey, thanks for clearing that up for me,I was a bit confused myself.
Oh, not to be too demanding, but could you perhaps explain what the lowercase 'i' stands for?
I mean... I get that an 'e' prefix means "electronic" as in e-mail, e-book, e-reader, e-file, e-signature, e-machines, e-bay?, e-T?, etc.
I mean... at first I thought "Internet", duh -- but that's not quite right, since you couldn't get to the Internet via the original iPods...
What's it for? As in: iOS, iPhone, iPad, iRiver -- oops, scratch the last one, that's the MP3 player that predated the iPod...
Both good and bad was the the error rate
of the simulated Quantum state:
A superposition the states did make
having properties hard not to misstate.
Thus, when the research groups did separate
to further test the quantum error rate
they each observed a quantum error state
that they could not, in fact, equate!
Indeed, the collapsed quantum state
resulted in results so disparate,
their virtual machines could not re-simulate
these quantum effects they could not contemplate.
As the scientists began to debate
over a single quantum error rate
Their tense and stressed emotional state
caused some of them to scorn and berate,
and sparked others to recriminate.
(I would dare to speculate
that they were even too irate
to relate or even cogitate
the average quantum error rate.)
I hope they can remunerate
the costs that we associate
with researching the quantum error state,
so their teams do not have to inflate
the local unemployment rate!
Alas, science has yet to negate,
(or even circumnavigate)
the risks that one begins to take
by observing a Quantum error rate.
They're only discontinuing support for OLDER versions of these browsers. The summary almost makes it seem like Google will only support Google Chrome.
I don't blame 'em - it's bad enough to have to cross-develop for multiple browsers, cross-developing for current and past versions of older browsers literally doubles the difficulty involved - especially where an older version doesn't supply some critical functionality (like HTML5).
Yep. Developing stuff for every browser is a pain -- that's why our company could never get on the "Works with any Browser" campaign. Sure, just follow standards -- Yeah, that would have worked if MS did too, instead of trying to "embrace, extend and extinguish". Also: Something about a time to cash ratio of 1.
Amen! Screw upgrading! Also -- Macs don't need security updates because they don't get malware, unless they do, but it only affects morons, and there should be a free GCC compiler, IDE and other developer tools for my OS, but the FOSS/Linux lusers are too lazy to email it to me.
I wish people would drop this nonsense. You're talking as if Windows XP was released 10 years ago without a single noteworthy update or service pack.
By the same logic, I could tell Linux users that they should quit using it because the 2.6 kernel is 7 years old!
I happen to agree. There's no reason that MS should have introduced a large new codebase (except for a few design conflicts with their intended development direction). It's silly that in 1040 days MS will be retiring the OS, they had finally worked out many kinks/bugs. New codebases have more holes; it's not a law, but a common wisdom.
Also: Something about the virtue of laziness, not inventing a wheel, and implementing Unix poorly.
People should just upgrade, it is not that hard
Please mail me a cheque. My laptop at home is a 1 GHz PIII with 750ish megs of RAM running XP. It works fine, but the only browser that works reasonably well is IE7. Firefox is dog slow. I shouldn't need to buy hundreds of dollars of hardware just to surf the web...
That's like saying you shouldn't have to upgrade your PC to play the latest video games.
The web wasn't initially designed to be an application platform, but now it can be used as one. Capabilities advance, and hardware must eventually follow.
Websites consume more bandwidth and execute more code now more than ever; Higher processor speeds and RAM requirements are needed for the sites to be used acceptably. JavaScript, Flash, SVG, Theora, H.264 require more bandwidth and processing power the more they're used -- certainly more than a static HTML4+CSS2 page does. CSS3 requires more CPU to do newer effects than CSS2's did...
Web developers look at their target market and make decisions based on average bandwidth, screen resolution and processor speed -- We don't want your page to load slowly, but we also don't want to be limited by your choice in hardware. It's a balancing act that I think has turned out quite well...
Wait... Didn't you have to spend hundreds of dollars for hardware just to surf the web initially? Maintaining a Computer+Browser is like owning a car, there are periodic expenses (like hardware upgrade) and maintenance (like upgrading software) that should be expected.
It's sad, but true. It's unfair to the rest of us to force a halt to progress -- When that old hardware dies, you will have to purchase new hardware (or GTFO the net), and by this force alone progress will still march forward as we take advantage of new hardware speeds and features.
I think the fact that you are using said older hardware / software currently proves that we've supported the old stuff long enough...
-- Posted from a 1.8 Ghz (single-core) AMD Sempron w/ 2GB of RAM and a 256MB 8xAGP Nvida graphics card running the nightly build of Firefox on Linux (A "lower end test machine" -- Maybe it's time to retire the OS, not the hardware?)
Conclusion
NoSQL systems are emerging because the world of data is changing. The size and heterogeneity of data means that the old guarantees simply cannot be met. Fortunately, we are learning how to meet the needs of business in ways outside of the old and classic database.
Which was apparent to everyone, and missed the real point: We have lots of data, and we're too impatient to wait for it to be aggregated, synchronized and processed. There goes 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Here's a hint: People working on the solutions to this problem work in the financial sector and in quantum physics.
"AC/DC Music Attracts Great White Sharks" -- Good to know, but I'm a heterosexual male...
Has any research proven which music/songs most attract Cougars?
(I'm assuming "shark" is now slang for the male version of a "cougar".)
Why did you make Episode 4 before Episode 1, 2 and 3?
George Lucas: When I began writing the story for Star Wars, it became so big that I couldn’t fit all my ideas into one film. I started to break the story up into trilogies. The first trilogy told the story of Anakin Skywalker’s descent into darkness. The second trilogy gave us the story of how Luke Skywalker defeated the Sith. The third trilogy gives us the time when the Jedi finally find a way to destroy the dark side. I also came up with a fourth trilogy, but it was unrelated to the first three trilogies.
It became clear that I was looking at nine separate movies. I had to decide which trilogy to begin with. At the time, sci-fi movies didn’t do well at the box office. I thought that Star Wars might be a one shot deal in that Star Wars might not make enough money to warrant the creation of sequels. I decided my best bet was to start with the most exciting trilogy and hope that it struck a chord with audiences.
I decided to make the middle trilogy first because I thought it was the most exciting of the trilogies and gave me the best chance to hit it out of the park with the people. Fortunately, my genius was right about it all. It makes me look so gifted in hind sight because there has never been a film bigger than Star Wars back in 1977.
When in reality -- Mr. Lucas started at "Episode 4" and jumped right into the middle of a story arc in order to give the feel of the good 'ol Sci-Fi serials he had enjoyed watching himself... No other scripts or films were planned at that time, hence the lack of a rising action at the end of the movie (that nearly all movies with planned sequels have) -- Indeed Sci-Fi flicks didn't do so well at the time, not many had the production value that StarWars had.
Princess Leia was not planned to be Luke's sister, hence their French kiss...
Vader was never planned to be Luke's father until a hasty plot change for Return of the Jedi -- Hence why in A New Hope Obi-wan says Vader killed Luke's father -- The working title of the "6th" episode was Revenge of the Jedi, but this didn't fit with the Jedi ideals (which were also constantly evolving in George's Mind).
Sequels rarely do better than the original they continue. Claiming yourself a "genius" after the fact is ever so self serving.
Search around, you'll find out for yourself... Oh, screw it; Here.
Do I believe this professional liar (read: story-teller)? No. What I believe is that the general public doesn't go much for these types of stories as they once did. Interests are cyclic. Remember the 80s and its love of all things robotic? Now we're seeing the passing of the interest in Wizards/witchcraft. The fluctuation of zombies and comic-book movies will continue to underscore a few quick popularities of themes such as Vampire movies. Many of the recent film trends are part of a larger passing trend of making protagonists out of the traditional antagonists. Sci-Fi may pick up again if we ever put men on mars...
My bet is that someone did Market research and discovered: It's simply not the right time for more sci-fi series on TV -- Esp. with their core audience migrating to other forms of entertainment and other distribution channels as well. Perhaps also, Mr. Lucas is just out of ideas (or good plots for them) for a while -- it's not unheard of among writers... How many stories can you tell in the same fictional universe before you get bored or use up all the compelling plots?
To me it seems MS will simply follow their standard procedure of "Embrace (purchase and/or adopt a standard), Extend (introduce incompatibilities), and thereby Extinguish." to thwart any sort of open source implementations.
Similar to their Zune device, which has embraced a standard USB interface and media protocol, but has been extended with a DRM challenge & response system to extinguish the possibility of any software but Microsoft's being used with the Zune.
IMHO, since Skype is actually a distributed Peer to Peer system (where some peers are used as relays or to coordinate NAT traversal for other peers), why not simply ditch Skype and create our own low cost system? Some type of PGP like system can be used to implement a distributed authentication/registration system, and perhaps Asterisk could be in our own homes (w/ landlines) to provide outgoing phone calls. Recent laws have made me wary of allowing others to out-dial from my node (to a select group of local area codes), but it is a type of solution that that we used in the BBS days...
i've always wondered what creepy creatures will evolve and emerge from landfills millions of years from now.
Why wait millions of years? You can visit retired landfills now and prove your "Landfills eventually yield creepy creatures" hypothesis correct. Some of the most prevalent of the creepy of creatures you'll find there are: Lawyers, Politicians, and Stock Marketeers.
Some say that these life-forms do not emerge from the the abandoned rubbish of society, that they instead are attracted to the Golf Courses built atop the land-fills; To them I must issue a reminder: Correlation is not Causation...
The solution is to post "poof" that the gossip is false -- then actively try to purge the "proof" from the Internet and thereby leverage the Streisand effect and conspiracy theories to sway public opinion. "If it wasn't true, why would people try to erase it?"
Bonus: Use fake the DMCA take-down notices as part of your eradication strategy.
Slashdot confirms: "It's a game changer".
"A game changer" ostensibly this means "a blow hard" -- In reference to the 8 & 16 bit era of cartridge based video games and the strange behaviors of those who attempted to "changed the game".
Could we please pass a bill so that all sorts of prisoners maintain Facebook redemption pages, tweet Gospel verses every day and recite the books of the Bible on YouTube?
I am confident that the thoughtful, kind, compassionate and caring comments of several thousand (if not million) followers would be much more beneficial to them than the lame standard rehabilitation activities.
Uh... As if forcing a Atheist like me to participate in anyone's religious campaign is not the very essence of cruel and unusual . I get your gist, but the method needs to be refined, there's that whole freedom of religion thing that gets in your way -- even if (esp. if) one takes such freedom to renounce all religions.
If you want me to respect your right to practice a religion, you'll have to respect other's rights to not do so.
Additionally -- I would simply quote the ugly parts of your scripture:
Numbers 31:7
Deuteronomy 20:10
Deuteronomy 22:28
Who's being punished?
::sigh:: I could do this for years.
To an atheist like myself: It's important to study all the worlds religions so I can relate to the way other people think -- and strike them to their core if needed.
Yes, my maturity must be calculated based on the way I spell the name of a business I personally find a waste of bandwidth. As to the rest of it - I am sorry, I failed with you, I tried make a joke, it didn't work, hope you do not begrudge me this failure for too long, are we square?
Take it easy Gramps, it's just an Internet troll trying to getting your goat... It's best just to ignore them, I hear they turn into line-noise in the sun.
Wait... was he seriously trying to imply your disdain for twitter implied less maturity?
You make a lot of very bold statements
Not really, but do I insinuate them with my boldness.
Nick Harvey, says, 'The consequences of a well planned, well executed attack against our digital infrastructure could be catastrophic With nuclear or biological weapons, the technical threshold is high. With cyber the finger hovering over the button could be anyone from a state to a student.'"
Shuuure; The missile is just gonna arm itself, and intangible cyber villains are going to bypass the physical electrical & mechanical safety mechanisms.
Sounds like someone's been watching too much Lawnmower Man. If a team of cyber villains is all it takes to launch/detonate warheads, We'd all be dead by now. Yeah, theoretically you would need a hacker on your nuclear terrorist infiltration team.
I suggest you take a break from the Fear-mongering... Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
HEY DUMB-ASSES -- Here's a fucking idea -- Instead of running in fear, wasting tax payer dollars on protecting us from cyber triggered nuclear war -- Why don't we just say: "Fuck it! Everyone's got hackers now! -- Game over, we have to disarm all nuclear bombs in case an angsty 4chan goer decides to an hero via nukes."
You do realize this is why people don't take open source seriously, right?
BWAHAHAH HAHA HA Ha ha... heh... oh. You're serious? GYHA, HAHA HA Ha ha... ha... Oh, no -- PLEASE stop, you're killing me!
There's no problem at all, unless of course someone would go ahead and make this the default setting for the most popular and visible Linux distribution for non-techies out there today. But why would someone put together a hack like this and release before it's stable.
There are no doubt "non-techies" that accidentally installed an operating system that was not as stable as they would like.
For this I can make no excuse. If only it were noted somewhere prominently on the download page: "...long-term support (LTS) releases are supported for three years on the desktop. Perfect for organizations that need more stability..." -- Perhaps it would be best to place such text right next to the download options, near the giant "Start Download" button.
If only there were several ways to try out the operating system before installing it, as well as step by step instructions on how to do so; Perhaps these should go on the download page as well?
Alas, What fools they are! If only they were even more user friendly! Or -- Perhaps they've made it too easy to upgrade. MS wouldn't think of having a single button + admin password upgrade feature... I bet they don't have this problem on Windows.
Experimental "Smart Town" to be built, as opposed to all the "Dumb Towns"?
I know this seems like a crazy far-out there idea, man... but -- hey, let's try to, you know, build a "Smart Town" this time -- it'll be an experiment. Like, what if we make the buildings out of geniuses? I know, right!? Dude, why didn't anyone think of this before?!
Seriously -- When did "smart" become synonymous with "green"? I thought a "smart" home was one where every light fixture, appliance, or wall socket was connected to an always-on energy consuming whole home computer system that can record everything you do and has voice activated commands for common tasks like, dimming the lights, or wiping your ass and flushing for you -- "Computer, Shit Happened."
I guess that "smart" home solution finally found the problem it was searching for after all by jumping on the green bandwagon. However, I'd be pissed off if my new green "smart" home was just as dumb as my current one (read: manual everything -- doesn't even have powered locks, windows or steering).
Damn, I'm tired of holding my bladder... my popcorn could use a re-fill too. When this act of War is over, can we please have an intermission?
Or... Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
In Dictatorship of North Korea : You Hack Government!
The problem is that it's pretty well established that smoking is bad for you, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad for you in the way that people think. Which is one of the problems, often times conventional wisdom is correct. But sometimes it's not and other times the conventional wisdom is lacking the necessary information to deal with whatever.
So... you're saying that smoking only may be bad for me, but we only think we know, and we might be wrong...
OK, Simmons! You can stop stopping dropping and rolling -- The smoking may not be due to fire after all. Quit your screaming and call off the ambulance. Let's make sure we really know what we're dealing with here before we take any further action.
Jones, set your clothes on fire with this Bunsen burner. We'll need a control group.