The sociopaths and other determined criminals will slip through the cracks. If you were looking forward to seeing 72 virgins or having the opportunity to stick it to your arch-enemy, would you not greet them with genuine smiles and cheer in anticipation?
Particularly, it makes me sad when people say that aversion of gaze is an indicator of dishonesty. Autistic or Asperger-types would be treated like crooks simply because eye contact is too overwhelming for them. Visual people may glance away after a question because they are diverting their resources to minimize distractions to use visual memory answering the questions(many people like to say that looking up == honest while looking down == dishonest -- sounds like a lame generalization to me).
Others may glance away because being preemptively treated like a crook is intimidating, especially because dealing with the DHS is often a staring contest. Questions asked are rapid-fire, meaning that a person appears to be in the wrong if analytical or insecure types have the honesty to give a complete answer. Microexpressions are often ambiguous and the interpretation of them is tanted by the subject being under pressure.
Let's get serious here - I have the utmost respect for the oldheads who used Apple products(Macs and Newtons) before every Starbucks-dwelling hipster and gum-chewing teenybopper were slinging white earbuds and operating systems named after felines.
Wait, so you're saying that the people who used rainbow-logo Macs are not gay?
I kinda agree. I could understand if it were a prototype of a new form-factor(like if it were an iPad leaked a year ago), but it's only an iPhone. Everybody knows what they look like and what they do and the new features are hardly revolutionary.
The story is only interesting because of the legal brouhaha surrounding the acquisition of the prototype.
Another explanation for the constant buzzer is...radio waves are reflected from ionosphere inhomogeneities. Changes of an ionosphere state can be caused by solar geophysical or seismic events. This method involves comparing a continuous radio transmission which is reflected by the ionosphere with a stable basic generator. The continuously transmitted carrier frequency currently used for this research matches that of the Russian Buzzer (4.625 MHz).
If the ionosphere can change state from seismic events, why couldn't seismic events be changed through manipulation of the ionosphere? It is indeed possible to control large-scale events with small-scale signals with phenomina such as resonance. What of all of the earthquakes which seem to hit the people we don't like, providing opportunities to rebuild and sieze their resources as part of the growing trend of disaster capitalism, the ultimate way to make money and spread influence without declaring war?
And why is there no comparison to HAARP in that article?! From the HAARP wiki:
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance purposes (such as missile detection)...The current working IRI was completed in 2007, and its prime contractor was BAE Advanced Technologies.
Which is a big, big military industrial comglomerate.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to change the state of my tinfoil hat into a pipe, so I can put some more weed into it and smoke out of it.
Believe it or not, I actually used to receive lots of mod points back in the day when I meta-modded(correctly) everyday, made every post a high-scoring one, and didn't post anything offensive.
Then CmdrTaco posted something like "testing, testing" in the seemingly redundant beta.slashdot.org introductory discussion. When I saw that he was already modded "troll", I followed suit and modded him troll for laughs. For mysterious reasons, the discussion no longer exists.
It's more likely that the United States will continue their Middle-Eastern encroachment with attempts at culture transformation, nation-building, and the acquiring of resources. Iraqis and other Arabs will not protest the wholesale theft of their oil while they are watching Arabian Idol, being so engorged on McDonalds and KFC that they can barely get out of their suffahs.
It'll be a "win-win" situation -- Muslim culture becomes more modern and liberal as women and homosexuals gradually gain rights. The CIA can take over the lucrative Afghani opium trade, the United States and allies will reap the obvious benefits of having more oil, and the military will have a strategic entrenchment next to the big commie countries in case the global economic battles get ugly.
But why all that trouble when we could just do what you said? Because there are a lot of people with handsome salaries, windfalls, and bribes that are directly proportional to the success of the American military industrial complex.
Reader grrlscientist writes...it is our ethical responsibility to protect, clean and save these birds, even after they've been oiled, just as we should preserve and clean their habitats
I love it. The BP executives should themselves be forced to help clean birds and other wildlife. It's the grown-up equivalent of writing "I will not pollute the ocean" ten million times on the blackboard.
Makes me wonder why Microsoft don't just throw that money at legislators to pass a law which requires Americans to use Microsoft Software. Makes a lot more sense given America's political climate.
* Fortunately, MLB realized the folley of their ways and dropped Silverlight shortly afterward. The other two examples were only one-time events...but to be fair, there were plenty of ways to view the latter two in Flash as well.
4/10. You lose 2 point for delusions of grandeur(God complex), 1 point for excessive length(does every line have to be double-spaced?), and 3 points for lack of offensiveness.
Please resubmit with a few racial slurs or a Mormon explanation of the fate of black people.
People'd use this for the same reasons they'd use BeOS and ReactOS. You're right, though -- they'd probably be able to get actual work done with a Linux distribution.
They've been aware of the problem for 12 years, but the fixes are still working their way through the bureaucracy. Only 34 more reviews and rubber-stamps to go.
I solve computer problems professionally, I've no patience to deal with that kind of thing as a hobby."
Ha, you bastard, you're just like my auto mechanic. When he was in-between jobs, he'd replace a fuel pump for 20 bucks and a 12-pack. Now he works 10 hours a day servicing big-ass diesels and won't even give me a tune-up for any price.
That is true. As a bonus, we get instant gratification from being able to play god, constructing life forms as if we were playing with Legos.
Space travel sounded fun when we were young, but it's just not that exciting. So we get a couple rovers on Mars -- but for what? To look at dust and rocks all day long? *Yawn*
Additionally, let's all give Stonelion the glad hand. I am a professional troll, Stoneyboy, but I like you. Hell, you and Pudge can come over to my house and fuck my sister!
Google is paying Slashdot handsome sums of cash in exchange for bad Apple press.
Here's why Slashdot's efforts to save face don't work:
Being anti-Apple to tout the "open" Android is disingenuous given the fact that at least one Slashdot commander is a hardcore Machead. So,
Maybe you're right -- but blaming their dealer for their crack addiction is a poor way to save face.
They really love Apple but they hope that they can rationalize their addiction by attempting to change Apple's domineering behavior through gripes. Fat chance.
Why is an apple sticky...As for the truth of the statement, as much as for some people it is absolutely 'sticky', for others it's too sweet - sugary and unpleasant. I like my computers the way I like my coffee - no sugar.
True, but you can't smoke weed out of a pile of coffee beans. Wait, what were we talking about again?
The fundamental problem with your post is self-evident: "My Computer"...
The fundamental problem with your reply is that you saw "My Computer" and thought, "Oh, a Windows idiot." Then you got up on your elitist Starbucks-induced high and ranted,
iTunes automatically opens when you plug in your device, and after the initial setup syncing and updates are mostly automatic...
If you had read the rest of my post, you'd know that my point was that other devices which use the mass-storage protocol don't require all that hassle to Just Work(TM), even though the majority of them provide an iTunes-like manager anyway, which means that we at least have a choice.
This is why Apple make it in the consumer market - the whole concept of "buy only our products" works - we see Microsoft and Linux fanboys going their respective routes as well (OpenMoko, Linux, Linksys Routers etc.) because they want it all to be the same.
No, no, no. You always have a choice with Linux. One of its greatest weaknesses is also its greatest strength. Imagine that!
When that concept works and the software actually integrates nicely with the hardware
If the software is unnecessarily mandatory, annoying, and sucks shit(iTunes, Quicktime, Safari) on its own platform; then why buy the hardware?
Lotta good trolls in this discussion, but it seems that I respond to only the bad ones.
I love a good troll(actually, that was kinda bad on your part), so I'll bite:
Why would your average Joe Sixpack and his Mom want...another product that is potentially harder to use?
Which is "potentially harder?"
Dragging and dropping media files into the mass-storage device plugged under My Computer in one fell swoop? Or,
Having to open the bloated iTunes, dealing with any update dialogs for Quicktime and other crap shoehorned into your computer, compiling or digging up a library, all the while waiting through the temporal and computational overhead of the process?
And no, you can't cheat with custom firmware or third-party hacks.
Very, very true. While we're tossing around analogies, please let me tell you a fairy tale called The Infantada:
In a house lives a handful of hateful, ill-tempered little boys who are immature even for their young age. They scream and cry and throw tantrums because of their own puerile insecurities, and they are perpetually angry. They are angry even when they don't yell, but the voice of rage is often most frightening when it is spoken softly rather than screamed.
Their Mommy often tries to comfort them while being fair and firm, but they kick her in the shins and throw rocks at her. Then they move into their Auntie's house because Auntie gives them more money and candies and tolerates their bad behavior. They kick Auntie in the shins and throw rocks at her, but she patiently continues to appease them in the hopes that they will show as much love to her as she does to them. Boys, after all, will be boys.
Months later, the police show up to Auntie's house. She is lying naked on the floor, dead, her face disfigured with sharp knives and caustic chemicals found under the sink. The officer asks the little boys what happened, and they all shrug. It had not mattered who murdered Auntie, because all of those boys were equally complicit.
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The sociopaths and other determined criminals will slip through the cracks. If you were looking forward to seeing 72 virgins or having the opportunity to stick it to your arch-enemy, would you not greet them with genuine smiles and cheer in anticipation?
Particularly, it makes me sad when people say that aversion of gaze is an indicator of dishonesty. Autistic or Asperger-types would be treated like crooks simply because eye contact is too overwhelming for them. Visual people may glance away after a question because they are diverting their resources to minimize distractions to use visual memory answering the questions(many people like to say that looking up == honest while looking down == dishonest -- sounds like a lame generalization to me).
Others may glance away because being preemptively treated like a crook is intimidating, especially because dealing with the DHS is often a staring contest. Questions asked are rapid-fire, meaning that a person appears to be in the wrong if analytical or insecure types have the honesty to give a complete answer. Microexpressions are often ambiguous and the interpretation of them is tanted by the subject being under pressure.
In short, it's a dumb idea and it makes me angry.
Wait, so you're saying that the people who used rainbow-logo Macs are not gay?
*Head explodes*
I kinda agree. I could understand if it were a prototype of a new form-factor(like if it were an iPad leaked a year ago), but it's only an iPhone. Everybody knows what they look like and what they do and the new features are hardly revolutionary.
The story is only interesting because of the legal brouhaha surrounding the acquisition of the prototype.
You will wire one million dollars into my Swiss bank account if you want to keep your precious site alive.
HahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!
Okay, so Gizmodo misses out on the industry trade show equivalent of the pride parade. So what?
Even the venerable Cryprome implicitly endorses a conspira-wiki.
Another explanation for the constant buzzer is...radio waves are reflected from ionosphere inhomogeneities. Changes of an ionosphere state can be caused by solar geophysical or seismic events. This method involves comparing a continuous radio transmission which is reflected by the ionosphere with a stable basic generator. The continuously transmitted carrier frequency currently used for this research matches that of the Russian Buzzer (4.625 MHz).
If the ionosphere can change state from seismic events, why couldn't seismic events be changed through manipulation of the ionosphere? It is indeed possible to control large-scale events with small-scale signals with phenomina such as resonance. What of all of the earthquakes which seem to hit the people we don't like, providing opportunities to rebuild and sieze their resources as part of the growing trend of disaster capitalism, the ultimate way to make money and spread influence without declaring war?
And why is there no comparison to HAARP in that article?! From the HAARP wiki:
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance purposes (such as missile detection)...The current working IRI was completed in 2007, and its prime contractor was BAE Advanced Technologies.
Which is a big, big military industrial comglomerate.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to change the state of my tinfoil hat into a pipe, so I can put some more weed into it and smoke out of it.
Believe it or not, I actually used to receive lots of mod points back in the day when I meta-modded(correctly) everyday, made every post a high-scoring one, and didn't post anything offensive.
Then CmdrTaco posted something like "testing, testing" in the seemingly redundant beta.slashdot.org introductory discussion. When I saw that he was already modded "troll", I followed suit and modded him troll for laughs. For mysterious reasons, the discussion no longer exists.
I never got mod points after that.
It's more likely that the United States will continue their Middle-Eastern encroachment with attempts at culture transformation, nation-building, and the acquiring of resources. Iraqis and other Arabs will not protest the wholesale theft of their oil while they are watching Arabian Idol, being so engorged on McDonalds and KFC that they can barely get out of their suffahs.
It'll be a "win-win" situation -- Muslim culture becomes more modern and liberal as women and homosexuals gradually gain rights. The CIA can take over the lucrative Afghani opium trade, the United States and allies will reap the obvious benefits of having more oil, and the military will have a strategic entrenchment next to the big commie countries in case the global economic battles get ugly.
But why all that trouble when we could just do what you said? Because there are a lot of people with handsome salaries, windfalls, and bribes that are directly proportional to the success of the American military industrial complex.
Reader grrlscientist writes...it is our ethical responsibility to protect, clean and save these birds, even after they've been oiled, just as we should preserve and clean their habitats
I love it. The BP executives should themselves be forced to help clean birds and other wildlife. It's the grown-up equivalent of writing "I will not pollute the ocean" ten million times on the blackboard.
Yes, just like they had to pay Major League Baseball, the American Presidential Inaugural Committee, and the 2008 DNC to use Silverlight*.
Makes me wonder why Microsoft don't just throw that money at legislators to pass a law which requires Americans to use Microsoft Software. Makes a lot more sense given America's political climate.
* Fortunately, MLB realized the folley of their ways and dropped Silverlight shortly afterward. The other two examples were only one-time events...but to be fair, there were plenty of ways to view the latter two in Flash as well.
4/10. You lose 2 point for delusions of grandeur(God complex), 1 point for excessive length(does every line have to be double-spaced?), and 3 points for lack of offensiveness.
Please resubmit with a few racial slurs or a Mormon explanation of the fate of black people.
People'd use this for the same reasons they'd use BeOS and ReactOS. You're right, though -- they'd probably be able to get actual work done with a Linux distribution.
They've been aware of the problem for 12 years, but the fixes are still working their way through the bureaucracy. Only 34 more reviews and rubber-stamps to go.
You trollin' foo. ATT and Google, the two most infamous data-mining corporations, hate each other like Bush hates rich Arabs.
Being in a relationship, after all, means never having to say you're Saudi.
My point exactly.
Thank you, kind sir.
Only humans are arrogant enough to believe that they're "above" the other animals.
When do you see a monkey choosing cocaine over food in its natural habitat?
Ha, you bastard, you're just like my auto mechanic. When he was in-between jobs, he'd replace a fuel pump for 20 bucks and a 12-pack. Now he works 10 hours a day servicing big-ass diesels and won't even give me a tune-up for any price.
If Microsoft employees can't even ditch their iPods and iPhones, why would they give up teh Google?
That is true. As a bonus, we get instant gratification from being able to play god, constructing life forms as if we were playing with Legos.
Space travel sounded fun when we were young, but it's just not that exciting. So we get a couple rovers on Mars -- but for what? To look at dust and rocks all day long? *Yawn*
Additionally, let's all give Stonelion the glad hand. I am a professional troll, Stoneyboy, but I like you. Hell, you and Pudge can come over to my house and fuck my sister!
Here's why Slashdot's efforts to save face don't work:
True, but you can't smoke weed out of a pile of coffee beans. Wait, what were we talking about again?
The fundamental problem with your reply is that you saw "My Computer" and thought, "Oh, a Windows idiot." Then you got up on your elitist Starbucks-induced high and ranted,
If you had read the rest of my post, you'd know that my point was that other devices which use the mass-storage protocol don't require all that hassle to Just Work(TM), even though the majority of them provide an iTunes-like manager anyway, which means that we at least have a choice.
No, no, no. You always have a choice with Linux. One of its greatest weaknesses is also its greatest strength. Imagine that!
If the software is unnecessarily mandatory, annoying, and sucks shit(iTunes, Quicktime, Safari) on its own platform; then why buy the hardware?
Lotta good trolls in this discussion, but it seems that I respond to only the bad ones.
Which is "potentially harder?"
And no, you can't cheat with custom firmware or third-party hacks.
Very, very true. While we're tossing around analogies, please let me tell you a fairy tale called The Infantada:
In a house lives a handful of hateful, ill-tempered little boys who are immature even for their young age. They scream and cry and throw tantrums because of their own puerile insecurities, and they are perpetually angry. They are angry even when they don't yell, but the voice of rage is often most frightening when it is spoken softly rather than screamed.
Their Mommy often tries to comfort them while being fair and firm, but they kick her in the shins and throw rocks at her. Then they move into their Auntie's house because Auntie gives them more money and candies and tolerates their bad behavior. They kick Auntie in the shins and throw rocks at her, but she patiently continues to appease them in the hopes that they will show as much love to her as she does to them. Boys, after all, will be boys.
Months later, the police show up to Auntie's house. She is lying naked on the floor, dead, her face disfigured with sharp knives and caustic chemicals found under the sink. The officer asks the little boys what happened, and they all shrug. It had not mattered who murdered Auntie, because all of those boys were equally complicit.