Animal abuse and a sex offender are in entirely different leagues.
Not if the offense was bestiality, from a conservative point of view, though it's difficult to argue that a male horse or dog was "harmed" by being fellated by a human.
The masses of idiots who are willing to gang-stalk undesirables are known as neighborhood-watch groups, H.O.A. members, Citizens-on-Patrol groups, the "private security" industry, and other mindless but well-paid yuppie doggies.
They are the exact opposite of "not your personal army" and they'll report anybody who mentions "mudkips" to be child pornographers.
Yup. Same goes with medical equipment and everything else: encrypt the firmware uploading apparatus so that the only people who see the firmware instructions are the engineers who create it. Technicians and the public remain ignorant, and fixes are released as "new features" before the public figures out that their gadget is a fire hazard.
But I doubt all that would stop a team of determined reverse-engineers familiar with the microcontrollers used. Enter the DMCA.
Give him the benefit of a doubt. The illimunati were probably so busy controlling the banks and the military that they got sloppy with their choice of presidential candidate.
My last two gigs involved test and repair of very "modern" devices which still used serial ports for communication and firmware uploads. The whole fixed width scrolling terminal thing to check values and send commands to the device. Only recently did one of them update the GUI to a fixed(updating) number of fields instead of outputting the raw data line-by line(which, of course, is more useful when looking for intermittent problems).
And it is becoming too slow to upload firmware to dead devices, as the firmware updates get larger.
Bah, that's only for the loser end-users who can't void the warranties opening the box. Technicians get to use PICkits and PM3's. Much quicker, man.
That means that you got greedy. You tried to leverage your first post to show everybody that you passed Javascript 101. Look at that 5-digit I.D.! You're one smart motherfucker. I bet you design websites that make cool noises when you mouse-over menu links.
But you were modded ever-rated. That means that some chickenshit cocksucker didn't like what you had to say and didn't want to lose future points modding down your most informative post. Infuriating, isn't it? You want to strangle the living shit out of the cocksucker who clicked that. You want to tell him, "say it to my face not online motherfucker and see what happens" before you bust him in the chops.
But that pussy will remain free to mod the rest of your posts down. Come back under a userID with more digits and call that bitch out on his own turf. Make sure that the little fag expends his brownie points so that the rest of us can sleep easy tonight!
1. Networking: find people who are interested into tech and want to HIRE!
Uh, tech economy's in the shitter, nobody's hiring unless you count Best Buy which would pay me less than I'm already collecting on unemployment. NEXT!
2. Geek Gals: find a lovely maiden who will not resist intellectual talk.
They don't exist. Once in awhile you'll find an ordinary attention whore who says she plays Halo now and then just to get the ego-fix from scores of horny losers. Try to talk to one of those about computer architecture. "Lol lets talk about anime instead! Dragon Ball Z is the coolest show*" NEXT!
3. something to do: fighting boredom.
Hence, trolling Slashdot. And no, I'm not Areyoukiddingme, but I do relate.
* Dragon Ball Z is by far the most puerile, retarded show ever made. The fight scenes are retarded, the characters are stupid-looking and wear the perpetual squinty-eyed shit-eating grin of a pedophile watching the swings at the park. Retarded, retarded, retarded.
Ok, as I understood California or some other state had it legalized for medical use. Guess US federal law goes over that.
Yes, unfortunately it does. It depends on where in California you live. San Diego, for example, immediately shuts down dispensaries and it is damn near impossible to get marijuana legally due to the right-wing panopticon nazi religious influence of two massive military bases and crooked crony businessmen-cum-politicians.
And enough rage-inducing articles like these may cause a few people to withdraw all of their money and put it in a credit union instead, like I plan to do when I get my tax refund(I can't transfer money I don't have). Or donate to the EFF or Wikileaks. The articles will have served their purpose with just 1 convert or donation.
You call that realistic? Realistic would be an obese mouth-breathing zit-encrusted neckbeard with eyeglasses taped together screaming "LOL I troll you!" while typing furiously into a sticky keyboard, piss-bottle at the ready, bound in a semen-crusted dragon shirt and yellow skid-marked briefs.
What's surprising is that Hollywood dosen't use the actual stereotype as described above. The truth would be more amusing than the fiction they've churned out thus far.
So long as everyone is just arrogant enough to assume that their own reasoning is pretty darn reliable, this problem will persist...
I just added rightwingnutjob as a friend because the rest of his comments made sense to me, even if I don't always agree with him. Same with Moryath and a few others.
Maybe we should all practice a little more recreational sophistry in the hope that it will teach us to take our own straight-faced in-earnest theories a little less seriously.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
It's all cute when we're on slashdot and we can mentally masturbate all night long. But while there are people knocking on my door tryng to get me to turn to Jesus, people in congress voting for stem-cell research bans, legislators in my country asking to give creationism and "intelligent" design* as much face-time as evolution in science as opposed to philosophy classes, then I can say with a straight face that religion is a problem more than it is a romantic set of ideas; even if its idealogues aren't bombing my busses.
"This article describes an experiment that demonstrates that people don't put as much weight on facts as they do their own belief about how the world is supposed to work.
Which is why religion and all other straight-faced magical thinking should be abolished. That would reveal a big chunk of the world's assholes who can no longer point to the cross or to the Qur'an as justification for their actions.
The articles wisely cite valid questions concerning real-life phenominae. That's healthy debate, and it's a sign that hummanity is capable of "moving on". But there still a large number of "my god is better than your god" nyah-nyahs whose idea of healthy debate is killing others who don't agree with them rather than thinking.
Abolishment of religion won't solve all problems, but it has the highest ratio of simplicty-of-suggestion to worldwide-problems-solved.
Or, you have Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage which was a bunch of unrelated songs strung together with an outlandish story made up at the last minute. The tactic worked equally well. Check the wiki article for the plot, it's relevent to your interests.
Same, too, with the composition of music. Software like this will help us to understand what it is that makes music 'tick', and lead to better music in the future.
The article:
Finally, Cope's program could divine what made Bach sound like Bach and create music in that style. It broke rules just as Bach had broken them, and made the result sound musical. It was as if the software had somehow captured Bach's spirit -- and it performed just as well in producing new Mozart compositions and Shakespeare sonnets. One afternoon, a few years after he'd begun work on Emmy, Cope clicked a button and went out for a sandwich, and she spit out 5,000 beautiful, artificial Bach chorales, work that would've taken him several lifetimes to produce by hand.
Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that. Sure, he reduced Bach and Mozarts' styles to mere algorithms, but the point is that Bach and Mozart invented those styles. The influence of prior art is not always evident, so when this guy creates his own algorithms, he will be influenced by the styles of Bach and Mozart -- but on an algorithmic level as well as a musical level. Music generated by a computer using a glorified form of cut-and-paste is music, but it is not art. Sure, math explains everything...but some human genius came up with those ideas first. Computer-generated compositions that weren't based on others' styles sound like third-rate outtakes from Frank Zappa's Jazz from Hell album.
The article again:
When Cope played "the game" in front of an audience, asking which pieces were real Bach and which were Emmy-written Bach, most people couldn't tell the difference. Many were angry; few understood the point of the exercise.
Using USB or wireless keyboards as controllers. A wide variety of configurable options such as choosing the difficulty and the programming languages. Unlockable characters like Dilbert, Wally, RMS, Linus, etc. Buyable or unlockable features such as operating systems, case mods, IDE's, and overspecced boxes that add more speed. Coffee and Chee-toes will be analagous to "star power". The "problems" will be in the form of method signatures and comments - the faster you finish your method implementation, the more points you earn.
Just as Guitar Hero features cut-scenes explaining the story, Coder Hero will feature cut scenes like drunken freshmen showing off their e-peens and, later, your PHB sweating about the product shipping in 10 minutes. The final battle will take place against IBM's Deep Purple, the computer which will eventually replace all programmers.
But saying "laptops are useless in high school" sounds a lot like someone 50 years older saying "ball-point pens are useless in high school".
Did you even read my post? I said that laptops do not belong in high school.
Do you have any evidence to suggest that computers are exceedingly difficult to use in a way the benefits high school education?
No, I don't, because they're not exceedingly difficult to use, they're just unnecessary at the high-school-and-below levels. There are things called computer labs and projectors which are good enough. Allowing kids to be tied to gadgets 24/7 sends the wrong messages, one of which is what kids do outside of school is any of the district's business.
Are you suggesting that you've done a cost/benefit analysis and decided that, while useful, computers are not worth the price?
I'm no PHB, but having one computer and a projector makes more sense costwise and common-sensewise than giving every kid a laptop. And, like I said, there are computer labs for those classes where every student needs a computer.
Or are you just some old man whining about how much harder school was when he did it?
I'm less than three decades old. I would have loved to have the technology when I went to high school because it would have been much easier to weasel, cheat, and exploit my way though because I was a lazy, unmotivated pot-smoking troublemaker. Cell phones weren't allowed on-campus and nobody died. Now our next crop of youth are going to fidget and have bouts of seperation anxiety whenever somebody removes the blinkenlights from their chubby fingers.
Now that a judge has sided with the rest of the world that uses it's brains to choose right and wrong, I wouldn't be at all surprised if a class action lawsuit pops in.
They'll uninstall the spyware and just give the kids the laptops as a settlement.
"Oooh, look what I got! Shiny!"
Which is actually a good idea, because laptops do not belong in high school.
The aid organizations could better help Haiti in the long term by hiring the local companies, one Haitian with close ties to the ISP community said. "In order to help rebuild the economy, it would be better if they purchased from the local providers," said Stéphane Bruno, a Haitian IT consultant who works closely with the ISPs.
Asking for handouts, asking for treatment of the symptoms rather than the illness. Hey, Haiti, you can be every bit as greedy and corrupt as the U.S. when you learn how to wipe your own asses. Until then, "do as we say, not as we do." And stop killing our ham radio operators, you goddamn savages.
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Not if the offense was bestiality, from a conservative point of view, though it's difficult to argue that a male horse or dog was "harmed" by being fellated by a human.
Gave 'em to some of my classmates when I was 16. Pity the fools who still have 'em.
The masses of idiots who are willing to gang-stalk undesirables are known as neighborhood-watch groups, H.O.A. members, Citizens-on-Patrol groups, the "private security" industry, and other mindless but well-paid yuppie doggies.
They are the exact opposite of "not your personal army" and they'll report anybody who mentions "mudkips" to be child pornographers.
Crocodile tears.
Yup. Same goes with medical equipment and everything else: encrypt the firmware uploading apparatus so that the only people who see the firmware instructions are the engineers who create it. Technicians and the public remain ignorant, and fixes are released as "new features" before the public figures out that their gadget is a fire hazard.
But I doubt all that would stop a team of determined reverse-engineers familiar with the microcontrollers used. Enter the DMCA.
Rather that than the enterprise controlling government with an iron fist, like where I live.
Sounds good. Think you could do a cover of "Zophar has Manboobs" for us?
Give him the benefit of a doubt. The illimunati were probably so busy controlling the banks and the military that they got sloppy with their choice of presidential candidate.
Bah, that's only for the loser end-users who can't void the warranties opening the box. Technicians get to use PICkits and PM3's. Much quicker, man.
Haahahahaha!
You were modded 'overrated', motherfucker.
That means that you got greedy. You tried to leverage your first post to show everybody that you passed Javascript 101. Look at that 5-digit I.D.! You're one smart motherfucker. I bet you design websites that make cool noises when you mouse-over menu links.
But you were modded ever-rated. That means that some chickenshit cocksucker didn't like what you had to say and didn't want to lose future points modding down your most informative post. Infuriating, isn't it? You want to strangle the living shit out of the cocksucker who clicked that. You want to tell him, "say it to my face not online motherfucker and see what happens" before you bust him in the chops.
But that pussy will remain free to mod the rest of your posts down. Come back under a userID with more digits and call that bitch out on his own turf. Make sure that the little fag expends his brownie points so that the rest of us can sleep easy tonight!
The distinction is ionizing vs non-ionizing radiation.
Linky-poo, just for you.
Uh, tech economy's in the shitter, nobody's hiring unless you count Best Buy which would pay me less than I'm already collecting on unemployment. NEXT!
They don't exist. Once in awhile you'll find an ordinary attention whore who says she plays Halo now and then just to get the ego-fix from scores of horny losers. Try to talk to one of those about computer architecture. "Lol lets talk about anime instead! Dragon Ball Z is the coolest show*" NEXT!
Hence, trolling Slashdot. And no, I'm not Areyoukiddingme, but I do relate.
* Dragon Ball Z is by far the most puerile, retarded show ever made. The fight scenes are retarded, the characters are stupid-looking and wear the perpetual squinty-eyed shit-eating grin of a pedophile watching the swings at the park. Retarded, retarded, retarded.
Yes, unfortunately it does. It depends on where in California you live. San Diego, for example, immediately shuts down dispensaries and it is damn near impossible to get marijuana legally due to the right-wing panopticon nazi religious influence of two massive military bases and crooked crony businessmen-cum-politicians.
And enough rage-inducing articles like these may cause a few people to withdraw all of their money and put it in a credit union instead, like I plan to do when I get my tax refund(I can't transfer money I don't have). Or donate to the EFF or Wikileaks. The articles will have served their purpose with just 1 convert or donation.
You call that realistic? Realistic would be an obese mouth-breathing zit-encrusted neckbeard with eyeglasses taped together screaming "LOL I troll you!" while typing furiously into a sticky keyboard, piss-bottle at the ready, bound in a semen-crusted dragon shirt and yellow skid-marked briefs.
What's surprising is that Hollywood dosen't use the actual stereotype as described above. The truth would be more amusing than the fiction they've churned out thus far.
Why not just use one big-ass flatscreen TV?
WahahahahHAHAHAHAHA! But seriously, I'll buy one...when the price drops to $300 or less.
I just added rightwingnutjob as a friend because the rest of his comments made sense to me, even if I don't always agree with him. Same with Moryath and a few others.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
It's all cute when we're on slashdot and we can mentally masturbate all night long. But while there are people knocking on my door tryng to get me to turn to Jesus, people in congress voting for stem-cell research bans, legislators in my country asking to give creationism and "intelligent" design* as much face-time as evolution in science as opposed to philosophy classes, then I can say with a straight face that religion is a problem more than it is a romantic set of ideas; even if its idealogues aren't bombing my busses.
* My nipples, for example.
Which is why religion and all other straight-faced magical thinking should be abolished. That would reveal a big chunk of the world's assholes who can no longer point to the cross or to the Qur'an as justification for their actions.
The articles wisely cite valid questions concerning real-life phenominae. That's healthy debate, and it's a sign that hummanity is capable of "moving on". But there still a large number of "my god is better than your god" nyah-nyahs whose idea of healthy debate is killing others who don't agree with them rather than thinking.
Abolishment of religion won't solve all problems, but it has the highest ratio of simplicty-of-suggestion to worldwide-problems-solved.
Or, you have Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage which was a bunch of unrelated songs strung together with an outlandish story made up at the last minute. The tactic worked equally well. Check the wiki article for the plot, it's relevent to your interests.
The article:
Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that. Sure, he reduced Bach and Mozarts' styles to mere algorithms, but the point is that Bach and Mozart invented those styles. The influence of prior art is not always evident, so when this guy creates his own algorithms, he will be influenced by the styles of Bach and Mozart -- but on an algorithmic level as well as a musical level. Music generated by a computer using a glorified form of cut-and-paste is music, but it is not art. Sure, math explains everything...but some human genius came up with those ideas first. Computer-generated compositions that weren't based on others' styles sound like third-rate outtakes from Frank Zappa's Jazz from Hell album. The article again:
Oh shit, did I just lose the game?
Coder Hero.
Using USB or wireless keyboards as controllers. A wide variety of configurable options such as choosing the difficulty and the programming languages. Unlockable characters like Dilbert, Wally, RMS, Linus, etc. Buyable or unlockable features such as operating systems, case mods, IDE's, and overspecced boxes that add more speed. Coffee and Chee-toes will be analagous to "star power". The "problems" will be in the form of method signatures and comments - the faster you finish your method implementation, the more points you earn.
Just as Guitar Hero features cut-scenes explaining the story, Coder Hero will feature cut scenes like drunken freshmen showing off their e-peens and, later, your PHB sweating about the product shipping in 10 minutes. The final battle will take place against IBM's Deep Purple, the computer which will eventually replace all programmers.
Did you even read my post? I said that laptops do not belong in high school.
No, I don't, because they're not exceedingly difficult to use, they're just unnecessary at the high-school-and-below levels. There are things called computer labs and projectors which are good enough. Allowing kids to be tied to gadgets 24/7 sends the wrong messages, one of which is what kids do outside of school is any of the district's business.
I'm no PHB, but having one computer and a projector makes more sense costwise and common-sensewise than giving every kid a laptop. And, like I said, there are computer labs for those classes where every student needs a computer.
I'm less than three decades old. I would have loved to have the technology when I went to high school because it would have been much easier to weasel, cheat, and exploit my way though because I was a lazy, unmotivated pot-smoking troublemaker. Cell phones weren't allowed on-campus and nobody died. Now our next crop of youth are going to fidget and have bouts of seperation anxiety whenever somebody removes the blinkenlights from their chubby fingers.
They'll uninstall the spyware and just give the kids the laptops as a settlement.
Which is actually a good idea, because laptops do not belong in high school.
Asking for handouts, asking for treatment of the symptoms rather than the illness. Hey, Haiti, you can be every bit as greedy and corrupt as the U.S. when you learn how to wipe your own asses. Until then, "do as we say, not as we do." And stop killing our ham radio operators, you goddamn savages.