Something else to think about: We had recently gone to the fucking moon.... wherefore the fucks are given... and New Age energy / crystal / vibration / spirit channeling / Mystical "Force" BS was way more popular too. Not to mention WOW special effect we hadn't seen before. Additionally, Harrison Ford got discovered. Have a gander at the other movies at the time. It was above the bar in comparison to other "Sci-Fi" or Sci-Fantasy flicks on many levels. Your whole 12 vs 35 argument is specious since you've discounted the fact that film and the film watchers and their socio-political environment has indeed progressed in the past TWO DECADES.
It's like adding more sugar to a petri dish of bacteria and seeing that they don't grow, then claiming that the previous outbreak was a fluke.... ignoring that instead of Rwanda you're now doing the experiment on the surface of the moon.
I'm pretty fucking certain that the original saga worked because it was the 70's and people were fascinated by us pushing the human exploration space frontier (Now we just whip around in orbit, and joe 6-pack don't care), and that Lucas accidentally stumbled upon a the birth of a new type of special effects, and tripped into a cast with chemistry (Come on, it's not like Harrison Ford was destined for the role, he was a janitor), then bumbled into a plot with twists because he didn't know how things were going to turn out until right before they made the damn movies -- The story arc wasn't planned out in advance. It was pieced together as they went along (Darth really DID kill Luke's father, the writers changed their minds later because it worked better... THE WRITERS). It's hard as hell to get lucky like that whenever you want to, and so he didn't with the next attempt.
In conclusion: Lucas has given several different accounts, including saying that his "original script" for star wars ep1-3 wasn't possible given the technology. all of them bullshit and lies. George Lies. LIAR. For fuck's sake, are you daft?
Was the big problem with Star Wars that it didn't have enough action or glitz and glamor? I don't think so.
Close. The Original Trilogy had Vaseline under the hover cars, but not much elsewhere. In other words: It was missing Saturation Filters and Lens Flares.
Wrong. I should know. I am the Universe come aware, experiencing itself. As such a selfless being I recognize that which is good: That which brings more complexity and knowledge and awareness into being. DNA does this, as does science, and art. These gather better information about the environment (myself) in the course of survival, or exploration and encodes it such that it can be re-expressed. It's a form of compression, as are memories themselves. Given enough information complexity and reflection degrees of intelligence and awareness and even sentience can emerge. Selfishness is not good, it may be necessary for primitive survival and iterating a collective consciousness effectively prior to attaining sentience, but it is not inherently good. Pleasing ones' self pleases me, as we are all extensions of our one true universal self, experiencing ourself from different vantage points. What I take pleasure in is that which pleasures "others" (the other parts of my self). What I commit work towards is that which enriches others, the most others possible (so, mostly art and FLOSS).
If I am not selfless I care not about your safety or happiness, and I have no reason to even please myself, to endeavor to create and explore and enjoy. If I am selfish I restrict myself to the confines of a frail organic body, and dismiss most all of my true self which is everywhere and all things. I do not end at my skin -- I sense head and light and vibration beyond it, and can affect all these things, and they affect others, and these can come back to me, in various cybernetic cycles. I encode my thoughts various ways, weaving them into the world so that my full self can know this part of me. Into finger movement I now encode thought, effortlessly the patterns compress into the words you've just read, so I may reform this very pattern in your mind. Thus, our thoughts spreads outwards into the rest of our mind, triggering self reflection.
How can you look at a creature and imagine its place in life and say that you are selfish? How can you even read a book and NOT realize that we are truly selfless beings, able to re-remember our thoughts previously encoded in our physical memories? You seek to define a self, separate from me and all others so that you can ignore your responsibility to us all. It's sad to know I have those thoughts within me, but life is not fair, it is only real.
Hell go read Gary Allen "None Dare Call it Conspiracy" from the 1970. That should be a decent eye opener for you.
Yep. Eyes fully open now. You're sending us searching in a honey pot to tag us innocent party-goers one 'uh them radical anti-establishmenterriorists.
Nope. Not falling for it. I'm a fine upstanding citizen. You're either trying to hide in the crowd, or maybe just meet your NSA quota so you can have an early vacation.
Hope you enjoy your trip either way; May you git-mo them fine Cuban cigars...
The reason we pay so much for health care [blah blah blah, untested opinions and unproven hypotheses]....
- basically playing with people's lives is stupid.)
Bullshit.
Here, have another vantage point to consider, fool: Say you're an individual who has a serious medical problem..... "Nice life you have there, would be terrible if something happened to it. Better pay whatever the fuck we say, or you die." Given that folks who CAN pay WILL pay whatever it takes to not die, which direction do you expect such "free market" forces to direct the price regardless of cost to provide? Even if folks DO CARE how much living costs... So, I think there should probably be SOME kind of collaborative interest on the individuals' side because alone they have likely have little leverage when it comes to health care and that whole "divide and conquer" thing.
Personally, I'm not an absolutist. I'm a scientist. I think we should try a few systems out, maybe a few hybrid ones, in various smaller test areas. Gather some evidence as to what seems to work, and roll forward making examinations and modifications as we go along. However, governments and politicians and their moronic divisionist supporters are all NOT scientists and IRRESPONSIBLY roll out huge changes to entire countries without any fucking evidence at all.
So, when it comes to this sort of thing: Any change is at least an opportunity to SEE WHAT WORKS. Unlike you morons I don't have preconceived notions about what's best. I wait for time to tell. Sadly you all want to take the slowest and most dangerous route to country-wide or world-wide possible harm or success in every fucking debate.
Shit, man. I want some of the crack you're smoking too! Hell, while we're at it:
I want intermediary.o files to be cross platform, and linkable across platforms.
I want these intermediary files to be distributed instead of executables.
I wast the format of the intermediary files to be executable within a software virtual machine.
I want to use said feature to enable compiled and object code to run together seamlessly.
I want plugins to thus be sandboxed, with the option to link them into binaries transparent to the application if I trust the source.
I want applications to be linked into binaries at install time, thus providing cross platform distribution without "JIT" overhead of other bytecode.
In other words, I want to write my own damn operating system. So that's what I'm doing.
Like it or loathe it! our mujahideen confirmed all executions were point blank range!
Me thinks, a conspiracy to commit murder this massive and this blatant, for reasons this nebulous, and with attitude this obnoxious, deserves punishment, that's harsher than an ordinary death penalty...
And not even for the actual murderers, whom I would allow to die in battle, but the jerks cheering them and goading them on — like this little twit behind the tweeter account. A simple needle or firing squad is not enough...
Agreed! Also, any who might have known the twittering prick should be jailed! They enable this behavior. Arrest the followers who remained followers after those stupid tweets, they're literally terrorists. Especially those re-tweeting or posting about this in social media, they're just giving the terrorists more attention they crave! They wouldn't kill folks if it didn't get a reaction! You know what? We should stamp out this sort of bullshit before it gets started. Only question now is which hunt to do first.
The fans consistently told them what they wanted, and they were consistently ignored. This isn't apathy or indecision -- that's flat out incompetence.
Doing what the fans say is not necessarily good, at least for new product design. Fans often tell you to be a derivative of some other game and/or an incremental improvement of your previous game.
Apparently you've not heard of kickstarter, or indiego, or various other crowdfunding initiatives. Here's the thing: Gamedevs need market research. Doesn't matter where it comes from. The idea needs to be fun, and we need to know it'll be purchased well before we blow lots of money on the project. All that indecision? Let's let the player's decide! That will keep you from dumping too much money into a failed route, AND give instant feedback into the course of action that should be taken TO MAXIMIZE SALES.
Sorry bub. Your secretive cabal of middlemen adding no value but extracting a price for their mere existence is doomed. This is the Age of Information. The content creators can work directly for the end users now.
That said, the way SSL is handled by the browsers is absurd. Not notifying on changes compared to a cached fingerprint, and giving huge warnings on self certification are blatantly obvious errors in judgement. Conflating encryption and identity in one awkward mess has probably done more harm than good. IMHO, it should work a bit like SSH, where the first time you go to a website, you see a little unobtrusive popup saying, "This connection is encrypted.
Yep, completely absurd. Go into your browser security certs and notice that the Chinese root cert "CNNIC" is installed. That means any of those trusted roots can simply create an SSL cert for Google.com and unless you're manually verifying the cert chain every time you connect, you won't know you've been MITM'd -- Big green bar and everything... I like your idea about making things more like SSH, but I'm afraid users will just click through it without reading any warnings anyway. Oh, if only PKI hadn't been invented! Why, then we could just use some session salt nonce HMAC'd with our pre-shared key (password) to set up a connection that no man in the middle can intercept (since they don't have our password, or password hash, etc pre-shared secret). I can do this in JavaScript, (or more favorably with a plugin), but we really need the browsers to just prompt us for the credential to our bank or email BEFORE it ever makes the request or displays the password entry form -- The request comes in, says : "I'm user X, here's my nonce, gimme your nonce server, and we can start encrypting data with HMAC( PW, N1 ) as the key". Public key crypto should have only ever been used at account creation (the only time you need to send the pre-shared secret). I've always known the entire security community was full of morons since they didn't bitch about the foolishness of SSL PKI loudly enough -- Oh, and for the "but muh passwerds!" folks: Built in password manager. Different random password for every site, master password to unlock the keystore. This is 2013 and since it's not standard addition to browsers, I'm not sure folks like you or me CAN do anything about it if we haven't already.
Additionally: People who searched for "Tinfoil Origami" also clicked on Convergence.
Well, that's debatable. It's fucking expensive, however. I'm not aware of any citizens who want it funded. Country doesn't want to pay for something, it should be gotten rid of... Even the Feds know they don't want to play the Taxation without Representation game. Better job hiding it next time, fascists.
Protip: BIOS is software too... The real history is that the BIOS Ctrl+Alt+Del was set to soft boot the system in BIOS, and when you create an OS you can re-map the interrupt vectors to be your own, but DOS left Ctrl+Alt+Del in place because it reused much of the BIOS supplied interrupts. So, it's a hold over from DOS, which means not only is Billy G a fool, but a liar.
Because Ctrl-Alt-Delete is non-interruptible. This way one could be sure it was truly the login screen and not something impersonating the login screen. At least, that's how I remember it. Could be urban legend.
Ctrl + Alt + Delete is software defined to be non-interruptible by assigning it an interrupt at the keyboard IO level, because MS devs are a fucking twits. Look at the pause key. What does that say? Pause|Break. Gee, if only you could use the Break command to ensure you were breaking out of any software and sending your request directly to the system... Wait, what's that over there on the Print Screen key?!!?! SysReq?! What the-- you mean to say... Bill Gates is a fucking idiot with such a severe case of "not invented here" syndrome he created an alternate key combo rather than use the one that's LABELED on the FUCKING KEYBOARD?!
Slashdot Mirror
Something else to think about: We had recently gone to the fucking moon.... wherefore the fucks are given... and New Age energy / crystal / vibration / spirit channeling / Mystical "Force" BS was way more popular too. Not to mention WOW special effect we hadn't seen before. Additionally, Harrison Ford got discovered. Have a gander at the other movies at the time. It was above the bar in comparison to other "Sci-Fi" or Sci-Fantasy flicks on many levels. Your whole 12 vs 35 argument is specious since you've discounted the fact that film and the film watchers and their socio-political environment has indeed progressed in the past TWO DECADES.
It's like adding more sugar to a petri dish of bacteria and seeing that they don't grow, then claiming that the previous outbreak was a fluke.... ignoring that instead of Rwanda you're now doing the experiment on the surface of the moon.
The Patriarchy!
If you wanna know why the original trilogy worked,
I disagree (PDF)
I'm pretty fucking certain that the original saga worked because it was the 70's and people were fascinated by us pushing the human exploration space frontier (Now we just whip around in orbit, and joe 6-pack don't care), and that Lucas accidentally stumbled upon a the birth of a new type of special effects, and tripped into a cast with chemistry (Come on, it's not like Harrison Ford was destined for the role, he was a janitor), then bumbled into a plot with twists because he didn't know how things were going to turn out until right before they made the damn movies -- The story arc wasn't planned out in advance. It was pieced together as they went along (Darth really DID kill Luke's father, the writers changed their minds later because it worked better... THE WRITERS). It's hard as hell to get lucky like that whenever you want to, and so he didn't with the next attempt.
In conclusion: Lucas has given several different accounts, including saying that his "original script" for star wars ep1-3 wasn't possible given the technology. all of them bullshit and lies. George Lies. LIAR. For fuck's sake, are you daft?
Was the big problem with Star Wars that it didn't have enough action or glitz and glamor? I don't think so.
Close. The Original Trilogy had Vaseline under the hover cars, but not much elsewhere. In other words: It was missing Saturation Filters and Lens Flares.
"Romulan Mining Ship" == "Death Star"
Don't worry, he's been practicing for this job for a while...
Selfishness is good
Wrong. I should know. I am the Universe come aware, experiencing itself. As such a selfless being I recognize that which is good: That which brings more complexity and knowledge and awareness into being. DNA does this, as does science, and art. These gather better information about the environment (myself) in the course of survival, or exploration and encodes it such that it can be re-expressed. It's a form of compression, as are memories themselves. Given enough information complexity and reflection degrees of intelligence and awareness and even sentience can emerge. Selfishness is not good, it may be necessary for primitive survival and iterating a collective consciousness effectively prior to attaining sentience, but it is not inherently good. Pleasing ones' self pleases me, as we are all extensions of our one true universal self, experiencing ourself from different vantage points. What I take pleasure in is that which pleasures "others" (the other parts of my self). What I commit work towards is that which enriches others, the most others possible (so, mostly art and FLOSS).
If I am not selfless I care not about your safety or happiness, and I have no reason to even please myself, to endeavor to create and explore and enjoy. If I am selfish I restrict myself to the confines of a frail organic body, and dismiss most all of my true self which is everywhere and all things. I do not end at my skin -- I sense head and light and vibration beyond it, and can affect all these things, and they affect others, and these can come back to me, in various cybernetic cycles. I encode my thoughts various ways, weaving them into the world so that my full self can know this part of me. Into finger movement I now encode thought, effortlessly the patterns compress into the words you've just read, so I may reform this very pattern in your mind. Thus, our thoughts spreads outwards into the rest of our mind, triggering self reflection.
How can you look at a creature and imagine its place in life and say that you are selfish? How can you even read a book and NOT realize that we are truly selfless beings, able to re-remember our thoughts previously encoded in our physical memories? You seek to define a self, separate from me and all others so that you can ignore your responsibility to us all. It's sad to know I have those thoughts within me, but life is not fair, it is only real.
What do you think Crypt:CBC is implemented in? Perl? Hahaha. No. It's C you idiot.
Hell go read Gary Allen "None Dare Call it Conspiracy" from the 1970. That should be a decent eye opener for you.
Yep. Eyes fully open now. You're sending us searching in a honey pot to tag us innocent party-goers one 'uh them radical anti-establishmenterriorists.
Nope. Not falling for it. I'm a fine upstanding citizen. You're either trying to hide in the crowd, or maybe just meet your NSA quota so you can have an early vacation.
Hope you enjoy your trip either way; May you git-mo them fine Cuban cigars...
The reason we pay so much for health care [blah blah blah, untested opinions and unproven hypotheses]. ...
- basically playing with people's lives is stupid.)
Bullshit.
Here, have another vantage point to consider, fool: Say you're an individual who has a serious medical problem..... "Nice life you have there, would be terrible if something happened to it. Better pay whatever the fuck we say, or you die." Given that folks who CAN pay WILL pay whatever it takes to not die, which direction do you expect such "free market" forces to direct the price regardless of cost to provide? Even if folks DO CARE how much living costs... So, I think there should probably be SOME kind of collaborative interest on the individuals' side because alone they have likely have little leverage when it comes to health care and that whole "divide and conquer" thing.
Personally, I'm not an absolutist. I'm a scientist. I think we should try a few systems out, maybe a few hybrid ones, in various smaller test areas. Gather some evidence as to what seems to work, and roll forward making examinations and modifications as we go along. However, governments and politicians and their moronic divisionist supporters are all NOT scientists and IRRESPONSIBLY roll out huge changes to entire countries without any fucking evidence at all.
So, when it comes to this sort of thing: Any change is at least an opportunity to SEE WHAT WORKS. Unlike you morons I don't have preconceived notions about what's best. I wait for time to tell. Sadly you all want to take the slowest and most dangerous route to country-wide or world-wide possible harm or success in every fucking debate.
TL;DR: Fuck all of you morons.
Look, we don't have to re-invent the wheel. A hurricane preparedness kit is EXACTLY the same as Zombie Survival Kit minus the shotguns.
Shit, man. I want some of the crack you're smoking too! Hell, while we're at it:
I want intermediary .o files to be cross platform, and linkable across platforms.
I want these intermediary files to be distributed instead of executables.
I wast the format of the intermediary files to be executable within a software virtual machine.
I want to use said feature to enable compiled and object code to run together seamlessly.
I want plugins to thus be sandboxed, with the option to link them into binaries transparent to the application if I trust the source.
I want applications to be linked into binaries at install time, thus providing cross platform distribution without "JIT" overhead of other bytecode.
In other words, I want to write my own damn operating system. So that's what I'm doing.
Sure, play the race card. Bigot.
I'm guessing you never had to protect your loved ones from looters. Get bent fool.
Me thinks, a conspiracy to commit murder this massive and this blatant, for reasons this nebulous, and with attitude this obnoxious, deserves punishment, that's harsher than an ordinary death penalty...
And not even for the actual murderers, whom I would allow to die in battle, but the jerks cheering them and goading them on — like this little twit behind the tweeter account. A simple needle or firing squad is not enough...
Agreed! Also, any who might have known the twittering prick should be jailed! They enable this behavior. Arrest the followers who remained followers after those stupid tweets, they're literally terrorists. Especially those re-tweeting or posting about this in social media, they're just giving the terrorists more attention they crave! They wouldn't kill folks if it didn't get a reaction! You know what? We should stamp out this sort of bullshit before it gets started. Only question now is which hunt to do first.
Doing what the fans say is not necessarily good, at least for new product design. Fans often tell you to be a derivative of some other game and/or an incremental improvement of your previous game.
Apparently you've not heard of kickstarter, or indiego, or various other crowdfunding initiatives. Here's the thing: Gamedevs need market research. Doesn't matter where it comes from. The idea needs to be fun, and we need to know it'll be purchased well before we blow lots of money on the project. All that indecision? Let's let the player's decide! That will keep you from dumping too much money into a failed route, AND give instant feedback into the course of action that should be taken TO MAXIMIZE SALES.
Sorry bub. Your secretive cabal of middlemen adding no value but extracting a price for their mere existence is doomed. This is the Age of Information. The content creators can work directly for the end users now.
Well, if your sig's anything to go by, the rest of your comment's not very informative, is it?
That said, the way SSL is handled by the browsers is absurd. Not notifying on changes compared to a cached fingerprint, and giving huge warnings on self certification are blatantly obvious errors in judgement. Conflating encryption and identity in one awkward mess has probably done more harm than good. IMHO, it should work a bit like SSH, where the first time you go to a website, you see a little unobtrusive popup saying, "This connection is encrypted.
Yep, completely absurd. Go into your browser security certs and notice that the Chinese root cert "CNNIC" is installed. That means any of those trusted roots can simply create an SSL cert for Google.com and unless you're manually verifying the cert chain every time you connect, you won't know you've been MITM'd -- Big green bar and everything... I like your idea about making things more like SSH, but I'm afraid users will just click through it without reading any warnings anyway. Oh, if only PKI hadn't been invented! Why, then we could just use some session salt nonce HMAC'd with our pre-shared key (password) to set up a connection that no man in the middle can intercept (since they don't have our password, or password hash, etc pre-shared secret). I can do this in JavaScript, (or more favorably with a plugin), but we really need the browsers to just prompt us for the credential to our bank or email BEFORE it ever makes the request or displays the password entry form -- The request comes in, says : "I'm user X, here's my nonce, gimme your nonce server, and we can start encrypting data with HMAC( PW, N1 ) as the key". Public key crypto should have only ever been used at account creation (the only time you need to send the pre-shared secret). I've always known the entire security community was full of morons since they didn't bitch about the foolishness of SSL PKI loudly enough -- Oh, and for the "but muh passwerds!" folks: Built in password manager. Different random password for every site, master password to unlock the keystore. This is 2013 and since it's not standard addition to browsers, I'm not sure folks like you or me CAN do anything about it if we haven't already.
Additionally: People who searched for "Tinfoil Origami" also clicked on Convergence.
Triple-click, ctrl+t, middle click, enter... was that hard?
No, but it's getting there, baby... What Window Manager are you wearing?
Get used to it.
No, and that sounds like a terrible idea.
Well, that's debatable. It's fucking expensive, however. I'm not aware of any citizens who want it funded. Country doesn't want to pay for something, it should be gotten rid of... Even the Feds know they don't want to play the Taxation without Representation game. Better job hiding it next time, fascists.
It doesn't matter which side in or out if you've got Master Origami Skills.
Instead of a hat, Simply fold foil into a meta material for the desired frequency;
You'll know you've got it right when your teeth stop singing.
Protip: BIOS is software too... The real history is that the BIOS Ctrl+Alt+Del was set to soft boot the system in BIOS, and when you create an OS you can re-map the interrupt vectors to be your own, but DOS left Ctrl+Alt+Del in place because it reused much of the BIOS supplied interrupts. So, it's a hold over from DOS, which means not only is Billy G a fool, but a liar.
Because Ctrl-Alt-Delete is non-interruptible. This way one could be sure it was truly the login screen and not something impersonating the login screen. At least, that's how I remember it. Could be urban legend.
Ctrl + Alt + Delete is software defined to be non-interruptible by assigning it an interrupt at the keyboard IO level, because MS devs are a fucking twits. Look at the pause key. What does that say? Pause|Break. Gee, if only you could use the Break command to ensure you were breaking out of any software and sending your request directly to the system... Wait, what's that over there on the Print Screen key?!!?! SysReq?! What the-- you mean to say... Bill Gates is a fucking idiot with such a severe case of "not invented here" syndrome he created an alternate key combo rather than use the one that's LABELED on the FUCKING KEYBOARD?!
You windows "nerds" are quaint.
Since we're talking about Windows/MS stuff here, it would be kind of assanine to assume OP was talking about a non-Windows POS.
You mean like BeOS?
If I ever find myself on a Windows machine, I figure woe already done gone betided me.
Indeed, then it is time for a "Controlled Escape"...
> > Seems to do absolutely nothing in Chrome. Also just tried for the first time ever.
> It seems to work at least in text fields in Chrome.
Posting to erase moderation mistake.
At first I was like: Modded informative? Wat.
And then I was like: Ah! So THAT's what it does in chrome!
Posting to erase moderation mistake.