You must know my history here to be surprised. I'm admittedly surprised that my submission was accepted. In fact, I just stumbled out of bed still reeking of booze to find this, and it's apparently not a hallucination.
But seriously, guys. Not only did I live in Los Angeles for 3 years, but I wanted to address the "theater" part of the security theater as it relates to the trend of installing municipal cameras. Criminals will realize that they're bullshit and continue to, well, be criminals. The cop(s) assigned to watching the cameras could have instead walked the beat, arrested criminals, and got real work done.
That means that every toy you buy has a planned obsolescence, and that it will be less harmful for Chinese villagers to wade through your garbage.
Everybody wins! Corporations get to sell you the same thing every 2 years, Chinese peasants get cancer later in age, and, well, that's it. But keep buying that crap - you are the pillar of the American economy.
Here in the U.S.(and within a few miles of where I was working when it happened!) a military pilot student bailed from his malfunctioning F-18, leaving it crashing into 2 houses and almost singlehandedly wiping out a family.
The military offered them an undisclosed sum, probably a few million bucks, and they said, "Fuck you, we want 56 million, see your asses in court." And they'll probably get at least half of that considering the string of errors led to the crash.
I spent my holidays lying to my kids, for the first time, about the existence of Santa Claus.
I sure hope they don't get their feelings hurt about why Santa has unlimited gifts, but he still chose to give Johnny across the street his own PS3 while my kids only got a shared, second-hand Nintendo DS. Someday in a few years my kids will hate me, but that's okay because, until then, I will lie to them and say Santa Claus exists while encouraging awkward materialism. Then the kids will experience a huge disappointment years later figuring out that Santa isn't real, possibly not trusting me for the rest of their lives, and I'll say LOL YA SRY SNTA AINT REAL. HIGH-FIVE, TROLLFACE!
I feel sorry for all those black kids in the hood who perceive Santa as a white guy, then they wonder why they get government cheese while their white peers get thousand-dollar gifts. What could possibly go wrong?
since usually the reason students cheat is that they're already failing, so they have nothing to lose.
Most students pursuing a bachelor's in Biology have to take basic mechanics("101") and basic EM/optics("102") physics classes. There is not a damn thing in those classes that a B.S. bio grad would use that is not already overlap from the chem classes they are taking. The official line for justifying forcing so many extraneous classes on students is "producing well-rounded grads," but extraneous classes are irrelevant in this day and age, especially as tuitions skyrocket and information becomes more accessible online.
Then consider that many students, especially at the community college level, already have jobs and/or families. Somebody after a B.S. in biology sure as hell ain't gonna be calculating impulses and force vectors and E/B fields in their careers operating PCR machines or collecting samples in lakes and rivers. If they had to, though they could learn enough to be useful in a trivial amount of time, on their own terms.
Most people who are simply bad at the game don't download aimbots and wallhacks, because that would be admitting defeat.
Good point, but it becomes moot once you remove multiplayer games from the equation. In fact, emulator speed-runs often specifically include classes for cheated runs(even the particular cheats listed). When I came of age and had just discovered NESticle, I treated myself to using cheat codes to beat all those games I never beat when I owned my NES - the most notable being the original Mega man, which is to this day more difficult than any of its sequels.
Most old Nintendo games are awesome in our minds because of nostalgia, but actually playing them and having to start the whole game over and over again after dying at that one hard part gets really old. We're older and smarter now, and cheating enables us to play those old games as if we were reading a book.
The acceptable kind, which serves to spare the user the expense of unnecessary tedium. They include using a bot to automate grinding in WoW and unfairly receiving help during tests for mandatory fluff classes that will have no effect on your future.
The unacceptable kind, which are blatant misrepresentation of true skill. Those include exploiting a bug in WoW to make you invincible and a prospective structural engineer cheating their engineering classes.
If we mandate the insurance, however, we will have yet another bloated bubble on our hands along with the expectation that the costs will be passed down.
Here is a suggestion, don't give those "evil" people the power of "happiness" in your life. I would explain more, but I wanna go have a nice snow ball fight with my kids....see how that works.
A good support system(friends, siblings, parents, spouses) is definitely key to surviving corporate bullshit. The problem is that, when you have kids, your corporate overlords actually gain more leverage to squeeze more work and longer hours out of you. At this point in time, I recommend that non-wealthy Americans who are considering having kids wait until the pendulum swings back toward the common worker's favor or move into a country with those conditions.
Furthermore, every parent is publicly obligated to say, "parenthood changed my life and was the best thing to happen to me, etc," their faces a twisted rigor of faux-cheer. Privately, every parent I know has told me that, "they fucked up," or that having kids "ruined their lives." The fact is that kids strain relationships/marriages and drain monetary resources.
I initiated and am leading a successful coup to overthrow my dickhead boss, who is an utterly incompetent unqualified bully railroaded into his position because he was personal buddy-buddies with his immediate supervisor. Thanks to my actions(including 2 full-page psychoanalytic letters to HR explaining his bad behavior), others were encourage to complain and consultants were brought in to see what's really going on. He's now on his way out, and the cronyist VP who hired him has egg all over his face(the extremely poor performance of my boss is actually costing the company sales!). Now I'm the folk hero of my department. I would not have been able to initiate that turn of events had I been afraid of being laid off(and, by extension, supporting my kids).
But what if they just ignore the consultant's findings and lay me off for being a malcontent? No problemo, I have enough savings and unemployment reserves to live comfortably and bullshit-free for a little while. They wouldn't dare fire me because I pre-emptively lodged complaints, and they wouldn't dare give the appearance of retaliation.
Arduinos are for retards. They're for all the people who seek validation being able to get LEDs to blink without knowing any annoying facts like operating voltages.
The Raspberry Pi, however, is a BASIC stamp. That means that the real money-makers, the ones who know microcode, get back to work.
Raspberry Pi microcontrollers are already at work in the utility(they do everything SIEMENS PLCs do at a fraction of the price), finance(oh, those floating points - give us those pennies!), and defense(improvised bombs, which will never be used against us) sectors.
Wanna be dumb? Here's a tip: get 120V AC (or 240VAC if you're in Europe), plug one lead into the chip ground and the other into the chip's VDD.
It's like watching the destruction of a fictional space-thing - the chip's shape stays intact, but there is a horizontal planar explosion through the seams.
What's funny is how Slashdotters shrug off alarmist nuclear accident stories and say, "Comes with the territory..."
But when it comes to flus and other overhyped alarmist germ stories, their assholes pucker up and they're running and begging to be shot up with the latest untested vaccines, bathing in hand sanitizer, and spraying Lysol all over the place.
"...beakers, Florence flasks, little petri dishes full of mercury - blobs of mercury. I used to play with it all the time... One of the things I used to like to do was pour the mercury on the floor and hit it with a hammer, so it squirted all over the place. I lived in mercury."
until (lx-)panel broke in the unstable branch of the distro that I use. Tired of using the terminal to run stuff, I replaced the standard panel with the one from Xfce. That made me realize that we really don't need a packaged desktop environment, there are pieces ready for assembly. If you customize your graphical environment, what elements do you use?
So we have an aspie here who would admittedly and uncompromisingly rather use an unstable mess of cobbed-together parts(including the distro itself), because that's the way baby likes it and everybody else is wrong.
That mentality is everything that's wrong with fostering acceptance of the Linux desktop.
You see, you never talk down on a player
I spray a - to break to your knees, You best to say a prayer
Cause funk been a part of my life ever since the starting gate
Remember me and my nigga $hort Dog way back in '88
Broke them bitches down with some sexual healing
And man the town ain't been the same and dont fight the feeling
But now you new boy, Started off in this game on a accident
Copied another nigga's style, Punk don't let this rap shit
get you broke off
Cause see it's potent like that ain't right
Find a maiden name for yourself but don't believe the hype
Fool who you think I was the dope of your producer
If it wasn't for them dogs and them hogs you wouldn't have a future
Now let me add that I could never be scarier
Rappin' fo' wanna raise off in that Bay Area
Stickin' to dat ass like a hot bowl of grits
Hits on top of hits, who you think started this shit?!
It's going down right now
California mackin at its best
Somethin' for my niggas on the grind from the west
Cali is my home but its just like yours
Niggas love to get money while dey fuck dey whores
Hit all the parties and do the same old shit
Bitches gettin' broke cuz the game don't quit
I had a flash back it was the Oakland Raiders at the Colliseum we ain't nuttin' but playas
Diamonds glistenin' hoes whistlin'
Bitches know my name cuz its a natural thing
When I was in high school, I had my dick sucked in the back row of seats in a Ford Aerostar Minivan.
This was before the days of in-car movies. Most minivans of the type (GM's larger Astro-like vans, which were pretty cool, come to mind) had two front seats, one middle bench, and one rear bench.
My girlfriend's two parents were sitting in the two front seats. My Girlfriend's sibling and a mutual friend were sitting on the middle bench.
My girlfriend and I were on the rear bench. She yawned and laid down "to take a nap" while I was still sitting upright. I pulled my pecker out of its fly and she bobbed on it. Our mutual friend turned around and spun abrubtly back into ignorance while I grinned from ear to ear. My girlfriend's mom kept giving me nervous glances in the rearview mirror, but the bench before us obscured my girl's bobbing head. I didn't come or anything, but having one's dick sucked in a moving vehicle with her parents driving was to this day one of the proudest achievements of my life.
I'll always remember Amarok for not playing certain files because of "back end" problems or whatever the bullshit reason it gave, then not installing the proper codecs and failing upon prompt.
Then I started using VLC and everything Just Played(TM). Ever since then, I haven't had a reason to use anything else.
You're wrong - Iron Maiden wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. Moon was written by Jim Webb. Yes wrote Starship Troopers. And Apple were the first to come up with a flat screen with rounded corners.
The New Yorker, however is an excellent magazine(amusingly, the New Yorker once enlisted pornographic gag cartoon artist Sam Gross for its upscale scrawlings). Other good magazines include Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, and dare I say Fortune.
Those are serious books meant to be read on an almost daily regular basis, and not an "everytime you step on a plane" basis. My copies of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, and War and Peace clock in at 472, 658, 717, and 1393 pages respectively. The latter two have 1 or 2 pages listing all of the characters and brief descriptions to aid in plot juggling.
For smaller reads, I recommend Tom Wolfe's Hooking up, which meanders from the birth of the semiconductor industry to gay-bashing; Thomas Harris' Hannibal, which is familiar, educational and offensive; or Kafka's Metamorphosis or The Trial. Also, Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes. For a pragmatic read, check out Chris Hadnagy's Social Engineering which best describes how humans can be hacked like computers.
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You must know my history here to be surprised. I'm admittedly surprised that my submission was accepted. In fact, I just stumbled out of bed still reeking of booze to find this, and it's apparently not a hallucination.
But seriously, guys. Not only did I live in Los Angeles for 3 years, but I wanted to address the "theater" part of the security theater as it relates to the trend of installing municipal cameras. Criminals will realize that they're bullshit and continue to, well, be criminals. The cop(s) assigned to watching the cameras could have instead walked the beat, arrested criminals, and got real work done.
this is an EU directive
Oh, wow, so you guys don't have any balls and gotta do it! We do it because it helps our economy.
The party of China must look back a few years to understand:
Sex.
Money.
Competition.
Not really. Ever hear of RoHS?
That means that every toy you buy has a planned obsolescence, and that it will be less harmful for Chinese villagers to wade through your garbage.
Everybody wins! Corporations get to sell you the same thing every 2 years, Chinese peasants get cancer later in age, and, well, that's it. But keep buying that crap - you are the pillar of the American economy.
Here in the U.S.(and within a few miles of where I was working when it happened!) a military pilot student bailed from his malfunctioning F-18, leaving it crashing into 2 houses and almost singlehandedly wiping out a family.
The military offered them an undisclosed sum, probably a few million bucks, and they said, "Fuck you, we want 56 million, see your asses in court." And they'll probably get at least half of that considering the string of errors led to the crash.
I spent my holidays lying to my kids, for the first time, about the existence of Santa Claus.
I sure hope they don't get their feelings hurt about why Santa has unlimited gifts, but he still chose to give Johnny across the street his own PS3 while my kids only got a shared, second-hand Nintendo DS. Someday in a few years my kids will hate me, but that's okay because, until then, I will lie to them and say Santa Claus exists while encouraging awkward materialism. Then the kids will experience a huge disappointment years later figuring out that Santa isn't real, possibly not trusting me for the rest of their lives, and I'll say LOL YA SRY SNTA AINT REAL. HIGH-FIVE, TROLLFACE!
I feel sorry for all those black kids in the hood who perceive Santa as a white guy, then they wonder why they get government cheese while their white peers get thousand-dollar gifts. What could possibly go wrong?
since usually the reason students cheat is that they're already failing, so they have nothing to lose.
Most students pursuing a bachelor's in Biology have to take basic mechanics("101") and basic EM/optics("102") physics classes. There is not a damn thing in those classes that a B.S. bio grad would use that is not already overlap from the chem classes they are taking. The official line for justifying forcing so many extraneous classes on students is "producing well-rounded grads," but extraneous classes are irrelevant in this day and age, especially as tuitions skyrocket and information becomes more accessible online.
Then consider that many students, especially at the community college level, already have jobs and/or families. Somebody after a B.S. in biology sure as hell ain't gonna be calculating impulses and force vectors and E/B fields in their careers operating PCR machines or collecting samples in lakes and rivers. If they had to, though they could learn enough to be useful in a trivial amount of time, on their own terms.
Most people who are simply bad at the game don't download aimbots and wallhacks, because that would be admitting defeat.
Good point, but it becomes moot once you remove multiplayer games from the equation. In fact, emulator speed-runs often specifically include classes for cheated runs(even the particular cheats listed). When I came of age and had just discovered NESticle, I treated myself to using cheat codes to beat all those games I never beat when I owned my NES - the most notable being the original Mega man, which is to this day more difficult than any of its sequels.
Most old Nintendo games are awesome in our minds because of nostalgia, but actually playing them and having to start the whole game over and over again after dying at that one hard part gets really old. We're older and smarter now, and cheating enables us to play those old games as if we were reading a book.
There are 2 major types of cheating:
The acceptable kind, which serves to spare the user the expense of unnecessary tedium. They include using a bot to automate grinding in WoW and unfairly receiving help during tests for mandatory fluff classes that will have no effect on your future.
The unacceptable kind, which are blatant misrepresentation of true skill. Those include exploiting a bug in WoW to make you invincible and a prospective structural engineer cheating their engineering classes.
If we mandate the insurance, however, we will have yet another bloated bubble on our hands along with the expectation that the costs will be passed down.
Here is a suggestion, don't give those "evil" people the power of "happiness" in your life. I would explain more, but I wanna go have a nice snow ball fight with my kids....see how that works.
A good support system(friends, siblings, parents, spouses) is definitely key to surviving corporate bullshit. The problem is that, when you have kids, your corporate overlords actually gain more leverage to squeeze more work and longer hours out of you. At this point in time, I recommend that non-wealthy Americans who are considering having kids wait until the pendulum swings back toward the common worker's favor or move into a country with those conditions.
Furthermore, every parent is publicly obligated to say, "parenthood changed my life and was the best thing to happen to me, etc," their faces a twisted rigor of faux-cheer. Privately, every parent I know has told me that, "they fucked up," or that having kids "ruined their lives." The fact is that kids strain relationships/marriages and drain monetary resources.
I initiated and am leading a successful coup to overthrow my dickhead boss, who is an utterly incompetent unqualified bully railroaded into his position because he was personal buddy-buddies with his immediate supervisor. Thanks to my actions(including 2 full-page psychoanalytic letters to HR explaining his bad behavior), others were encourage to complain and consultants were brought in to see what's really going on. He's now on his way out, and the cronyist VP who hired him has egg all over his face(the extremely poor performance of my boss is actually costing the company sales!). Now I'm the folk hero of my department. I would not have been able to initiate that turn of events had I been afraid of being laid off(and, by extension, supporting my kids).
But what if they just ignore the consultant's findings and lay me off for being a malcontent? No problemo, I have enough savings and unemployment reserves to live comfortably and bullshit-free for a little while. They wouldn't dare fire me because I pre-emptively lodged complaints, and they wouldn't dare give the appearance of retaliation.
Well, then hook the mains up, you fucking queer!
Arduinos are for retards. They're for all the people who seek validation being able to get LEDs to blink without knowing any annoying facts like operating voltages.
The Raspberry Pi, however, is a BASIC stamp. That means that the real money-makers, the ones who know microcode, get back to work.
Raspberry Pi microcontrollers are already at work in the utility(they do everything SIEMENS PLCs do at a fraction of the price), finance(oh, those floating points - give us those pennies!), and defense(improvised bombs, which will never be used against us) sectors.
You're too dumb to be too dumb.
Wanna be dumb? Here's a tip: get 120V AC (or 240VAC if you're in Europe), plug one lead into the chip ground and the other into the chip's VDD.
It's like watching the destruction of a fictional space-thing - the chip's shape stays intact, but there is a horizontal planar explosion through the seams.
+1, informative
What's funny is how Slashdotters shrug off alarmist nuclear accident stories and say, "Comes with the territory..."
But when it comes to flus and other overhyped alarmist germ stories, their assholes pucker up and they're running and begging to be shot up with the latest untested vaccines, bathing in hand sanitizer, and spraying Lysol all over the place.
"...beakers, Florence flasks, little petri dishes full of mercury - blobs of mercury. I used to play with it all the time ... One of the things I used to like to do was pour the mercury on the floor and hit it with a hammer, so it squirted all over the place. I lived in mercury."
-- Frank Zappa, recalling his childhood
until (lx-)panel broke in the unstable branch of the distro that I use. Tired of using the terminal to run stuff, I replaced the standard panel with the one from Xfce. That made me realize that we really don't need a packaged desktop environment, there are pieces ready for assembly. If you customize your graphical environment, what elements do you use?
So we have an aspie here who would admittedly and uncompromisingly rather use an unstable mess of cobbed-together parts(including the distro itself), because that's the way baby likes it and everybody else is wrong.
That mentality is everything that's wrong with fostering acceptance of the Linux desktop.
You see, you never talk down on a player
I spray a - to break to your knees, You best to say a prayer
Cause funk been a part of my life ever since the starting gate
Remember me and my nigga $hort Dog way back in '88
Broke them bitches down with some sexual healing
And man the town ain't been the same and dont fight the feeling
But now you new boy, Started off in this game on a accident
Copied another nigga's style, Punk don't let this rap shit
get you broke off
Cause see it's potent like that ain't right
Find a maiden name for yourself but don't believe the hype
Fool who you think I was the dope of your producer
If it wasn't for them dogs and them hogs you wouldn't have a future
Now let me add that I could never be scarier
Rappin' fo' wanna raise off in that Bay Area
Stickin' to dat ass like a hot bowl of grits
Hits on top of hits, who you think started this shit?!
It's going down right now
California mackin at its best
Somethin' for my niggas on the grind from the west
Cali is my home but its just like yours
Niggas love to get money while dey fuck dey whores
Hit all the parties and do the same old shit
Bitches gettin' broke cuz the game don't quit
I had a flash back it was the Oakland Raiders at the Colliseum we ain't nuttin' but playas
Diamonds glistenin' hoes whistlin'
Bitches know my name cuz its a natural thing
When I was in high school, I had my dick sucked in the back row of seats in a Ford Aerostar Minivan.
This was before the days of in-car movies. Most minivans of the type (GM's larger Astro-like vans, which were pretty cool, come to mind) had two front seats, one middle bench, and one rear bench.
My girlfriend's two parents were sitting in the two front seats. My Girlfriend's sibling and a mutual friend were sitting on the middle bench.
My girlfriend and I were on the rear bench. She yawned and laid down "to take a nap" while I was still sitting upright. I pulled my pecker out of its fly and she bobbed on it. Our mutual friend turned around and spun abrubtly back into ignorance while I grinned from ear to ear. My girlfriend's mom kept giving me nervous glances in the rearview mirror, but the bench before us obscured my girl's bobbing head. I didn't come or anything, but having one's dick sucked in a moving vehicle with her parents driving was to this day one of the proudest achievements of my life.
I'll always remember Amarok for not playing certain files because of "back end" problems or whatever the bullshit reason it gave, then not installing the proper codecs and failing upon prompt.
Then I started using VLC and everything Just Played(TM). Ever since then, I haven't had a reason to use anything else.
You're wrong - Iron Maiden wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. Moon was written by Jim Webb. Yes wrote Starship Troopers. And Apple were the first to come up with a flat screen with rounded corners.
The fantasy genre is itself obnoxious. It makes me want to listen to Blind Guardian and not shower for a month.
Fuck escapism - real-life, real history, is much more fascinating with the right narrator.
Vonnegut's overrated.
The New Yorker, however is an excellent magazine(amusingly, the New Yorker once enlisted pornographic gag cartoon artist Sam Gross for its upscale scrawlings). Other good magazines include Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, and dare I say Fortune.
I love Dostoevsky, Tolstoy,
Those are serious books meant to be read on an almost daily regular basis, and not an "everytime you step on a plane" basis. My copies of Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, and War and Peace clock in at 472, 658, 717, and 1393 pages respectively. The latter two have 1 or 2 pages listing all of the characters and brief descriptions to aid in plot juggling.
For smaller reads, I recommend Tom Wolfe's Hooking up, which meanders from the birth of the semiconductor industry to gay-bashing; Thomas Harris' Hannibal, which is familiar, educational and offensive; or Kafka's Metamorphosis or The Trial. Also, Dilbert and Calvin and Hobbes. For a pragmatic read, check out Chris Hadnagy's Social Engineering which best describes how humans can be hacked like computers.
Pardon my naivete, but why would something as useful and non-destructive as iptables not be easily installed with the phone's default condition?
( signed, a guy who uses his ancient phone just to make calls and take the occasional low-res video )