What TFA didn't mention is that the $60 price point goes all the way back to the NES days.
I specifically remember My family shelling out (thanks!) the sixty apiece for SMB 2 and later SMB 3 and Megaman 2 when they were new. I think that the less popular or complex games costed less, but there were some real turds like Legacy of the Wizard which also went for the full sixty.
I've lived on border cities almost my entire life. Even my hispanic coworkers agree(and those poor bastards have to wait hours at the border crossing just to make an honest living) that it's all just security theater, another half-baked escalation to justify the creation of the wasteful, ham-handed gestapo called DHS. It goes without saying that I can still get cocaine or any other drug anytime I want stateside, and that won't change anytime soon.
So they scoop up a pic of child porn or an occasional drug bust and hype the hell out of it in the news, problem solved. A budget for next year, and no admission that the creation of the DHS was a colossal mistake. Of course, they'll have their work cut out for them when the United States becomes the next Nazi Germany and they're tasked with sealing the borders.
I'd rather see uranium deposits closeby. The Ethanol can come second, to fuel the parties we will have on mars after we get a reactor going. Unless we can somehow melt the ice and oxygenate the atmosphere.
Gnome's U.I. is already easily navigable. What Ubuntu needs to do to attract more Windows users (non-gamers, of course:) is ask a new installer if they want to use a "Windows GUI compatibility mode" and then have the system laid out as close to a Windows system as possible, out of the box.
One "start" menu inline with a single taskbar, on the bottom. Combine the items in the "preferences" and "administration" menus into a single "control panel". Alias the filesystem items to things like C: and none of that/dev/sda1 stuff. Streamline Aptitude and enable all repos by default - a Windows convert dosen't give a shit about licensing issues, they just want those graphics drivers. Etc. etc.
They need to embrace, extend, and extinguish. Beat Microsoft at their own game. Maybe even make all that a seperate "Windows compatibility distro" so the purists won't bitch and moan.
Then the RIAA would pay the U.S. Navy to "accidentally" drop anchor on the pipe before sniping the datacenter's operators.
Then the American public would be told some daring tale about how the heroic navy again thwarted those evil "pirates" and they wouldn't know the difference!
...You don't want to have to fix problems that you predicted and warned against ahead of time forever.
I can think of many unemployed grads who would beg for that kind of job security. Keeping a CYA folder documenting your warnings and opinions and use it to deflect unfair blame, then beef up your troubleshooting skills and ingenuity cobbling together broken solutions. You'd be one of the valuable few who knows what the hell is going on when the house of cards begins to fall.
If the situation becomes hostile and/or abusive (as often happens when a single morsel of meat is thrown in a cage with starving dogs), it's lawsuit time. Those with medical insurance could go under the care of a shrink and tell him that the stress of the job is causing them to feel suicidal, then they could have a nervous breakdown and claim disability. Employers will think twice about using hard-working employees as whipping boys when they're paying for 'em to sip Mai Tais on the beach every day for a year.
...Yet another method to insulate schoolchildren from reality.
Wouldn't you rather your kids actually live life than be stuck to a goddamn raster and then cry and kick their feet like babies when their first PHB eats them for breakfast?
Gaming one's life away after school/work is bad enough...
I knew a correctional officer who frequently used stun guns on rowdy inmates. They called it "The funky Chicken" because of the inmates' jerks and spasms which were often so severe that they would shit and piss on themselves.
Stun guns != tasers, but keep that in mind the next time you mess with authority.
Virtue in that case being programmed as faithful servitude of the robot's master. The key is to give the robot only as much complexity as it needs to do the job it was designed to do, and not giving it a humanoid form would also help. Artificial sentience probably shouldn't even leave the lab, unless you want people falling in love with robo-prostitutes. And why should we as humans bring another sentient species into the world when we can't even properly take care of our own?
For almost every person on earth, there is at least one fact about them stored in a computer database that an adversary could use to blackmail, discriminate against, harass, or steal the identity of him or her. I mean more than mere embarrassment or inconvenience; I mean legally cognizable harm.
...And this is the first thing that the author(s) though of regarding data-mining? Okay, but how would this happen? Why go through all the trouble to gather all that data when you could just hire a P.I. or know (or bribe) a law-enforcement official or an ISP employee? It Reminds me of a conversation I had with a guy who bragged that he could get anybody's info because a very good friend of his worked at the DMV. There were a couple semi-profile firings at the State Department because some employees snooped through celebrities' records for no reason other than voyeurism..er..curiosity.
Those types, the ones with the direct access to the info, are the weakest link. They're only human. "Hey, Bob, there's this guy I really hate. Look up his IP logs and tell me what you see!"
It all boils down to voyeurism. People would rather bring others down before bring their own lives up. It's the nature of the beast! Pathetic.
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No, Harry Potter books are chock full of thinly-veiled homosexual metaphor. C.S. Lewis is chock full of thinly-veiled Christian metaphor.
My guess is that the protagonists will stick the magic wooden staff of GapenHolen up their asses and then self-flagellate themselves to death before the evil Crusaders of Cok beat them to it. Larry Craig will make a guest appearance as the Scoutmaster.
That's true. This is a huge mistake of Symantec's because they are tacitly admitting that people are paying them for nothing. "Give us your money and do the job that you paid us to do in exchange for an even slower computer!" Way to go Symantec!
Not surprisingly, it seems that the social aspect of going to school seems to be lost on many of you.
You know, talking to others, playing with others. Gleaning strength through emulation of your superiors, having your ass kicked my the occaional bully, being a mentor to the weak. Learning your strengths and your weaknesses through interaction with your peers. Later in high school, partying and getting laid. All of those are lost on many of you in this discussion.
Does the bad stereotype of the Slashdotter being spoiled, arrogant, silver-spoon trustfund latchkey kids with no social skills hold true here?
Our tax dollars at work. But seriously, I call bullshit. Don't be tryin' to scare people.
Myself and others have talked tons of trash about the U.S. intelligence agencies and leadership on Slashdot and in real-life. The American intelligence agencies would have to be hard-up for funding and job security if they're going to data-mine Slashdot and then go on fishing expeditions to try and find voices of dissent.
I noticed that none of the info in TFA involved plots within the U.S., just "western targets" overseas. Yawn, public plots to kill westerners in the Middle East are a dime a dozen. We see what a fat lot of good that's doing us, in fact our best solution there just to throw enough money at people to get them to turn snitch. All they really want is to feed their families. If you'll notice, that's also the tactic-du-jour stateside: throw money at snitches(many of them already caught and snitching for a break or lower sentence) and proxies just like the RIAA did with MediaSentry. In short, the American intelligence services are a clusterfuck of corporate bureaucracy and dangerous outsourcing and they should be disbanded and rebuilt from scratch. The CIA's resistance to the recent disclosure of their torture techniques on the grounds of "national security" and "harm to the intelligence community" are an insult to our intelligence.
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What TFA didn't mention is that the $60 price point goes all the way back to the NES days.
I specifically remember My family shelling out (thanks!) the sixty apiece for SMB 2 and later SMB 3 and Megaman 2 when they were new. I think that the less popular or complex games costed less, but there were some real turds like Legacy of the Wizard which also went for the full sixty.
It's been said many times before, but conservatives are only about small government when they're not in charge.
That'll teach Mark to eat exploding iPhone batteries.
I've lived on border cities almost my entire life. Even my hispanic coworkers agree(and those poor bastards have to wait hours at the border crossing just to make an honest living) that it's all just security theater, another half-baked escalation to justify the creation of the wasteful, ham-handed gestapo called DHS. It goes without saying that I can still get cocaine or any other drug anytime I want stateside, and that won't change anytime soon.
So they scoop up a pic of child porn or an occasional drug bust and hype the hell out of it in the news, problem solved. A budget for next year, and no admission that the creation of the DHS was a colossal mistake. Of course, they'll have their work cut out for them when the United States becomes the next Nazi Germany and they're tasked with sealing the borders.
What? Where?
I'd rather see uranium deposits closeby. The Ethanol can come second, to fuel the parties we will have on mars after we get a reactor going. Unless we can somehow melt the ice and oxygenate the atmosphere.
Kuato Lives.
Yup, Linux needs more hype.
:) is ask a new installer if they want to use a "Windows GUI compatibility mode" and then have the system laid out as close to a Windows system as possible, out of the box.
/dev/sda1 stuff. Streamline Aptitude and enable all repos by default - a Windows convert dosen't give a shit about licensing issues, they just want those graphics drivers. Etc. etc.
Gnome's U.I. is already easily navigable. What Ubuntu needs to do to attract more Windows users (non-gamers, of course
One "start" menu inline with a single taskbar, on the bottom. Combine the items in the "preferences" and "administration" menus into a single "control panel". Alias the filesystem items to things like C: and none of that
They need to embrace, extend, and extinguish. Beat Microsoft at their own game. Maybe even make all that a seperate "Windows compatibility distro" so the purists won't bitch and moan.
Either way, we shouldn't be afraid. Doomsday "killed" Superman, and we know how long that lasted. Same goes for Captain America's "death".
Then the RIAA would pay the U.S. Navy to "accidentally" drop anchor on the pipe before sniping the datacenter's operators.
Then the American public would be told some daring tale about how the heroic navy again thwarted those evil "pirates" and they wouldn't know the difference!
...You don't want to have to fix problems that you predicted and warned against ahead of time forever.
I can think of many unemployed grads who would beg for that kind of job security. Keeping a CYA folder documenting your warnings and opinions and use it to deflect unfair blame, then beef up your troubleshooting skills and ingenuity cobbling together broken solutions. You'd be one of the valuable few who knows what the hell is going on when the house of cards begins to fall.
If the situation becomes hostile and/or abusive (as often happens when a single morsel of meat is thrown in a cage with starving dogs), it's lawsuit time. Those with medical insurance could go under the care of a shrink and tell him that the stress of the job is causing them to feel suicidal, then they could have a nervous breakdown and claim disability. Employers will think twice about using hard-working employees as whipping boys when they're paying for 'em to sip Mai Tais on the beach every day for a year.
KhaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAN!
Not if you plug it into the cigarette lighter socket :)
...Yet another method to insulate schoolchildren from reality.
Wouldn't you rather your kids actually live life than be stuck to a goddamn raster and then cry and kick their feet like babies when their first PHB eats them for breakfast?
Gaming one's life away after school/work is bad enough...
I knew a correctional officer who frequently used stun guns on rowdy inmates. They called it "The funky Chicken" because of the inmates' jerks and spasms which were often so severe that they would shit and piss on themselves.
Stun guns != tasers, but keep that in mind the next time you mess with authority.
Does anyone have a good reason for such a law, other than to protect important people
Yes. The sword cuts both ways.
Virtue is its own reward, as the saying goes.
Virtue in that case being programmed as faithful servitude of the robot's master. The key is to give the robot only as much complexity as it needs to do the job it was designed to do, and not giving it a humanoid form would also help. Artificial sentience probably shouldn't even leave the lab, unless you want people falling in love with robo-prostitutes. And why should we as humans bring another sentient species into the world when we can't even properly take care of our own?
For almost every person on earth, there is at least one fact about them stored in a computer database that an adversary could use to blackmail, discriminate against, harass, or steal the identity of him or her. I mean more than mere embarrassment or inconvenience; I mean legally cognizable harm.
...And this is the first thing that the author(s) though of regarding data-mining? Okay, but how would this happen? Why go through all the trouble to gather all that data when you could just hire a P.I. or know (or bribe) a law-enforcement official or an ISP employee? It Reminds me of a conversation I had with a guy who bragged that he could get anybody's info because a very good friend of his worked at the DMV. There were a couple semi-profile firings at the State Department because some employees snooped through celebrities' records for no reason other than voyeurism..er..curiosity.
Those types, the ones with the direct access to the info, are the weakest link. They're only human. "Hey, Bob, there's this guy I really hate. Look up his IP logs and tell me what you see!"
It all boils down to voyeurism. People would rather bring others down before bring their own lives up. It's the nature of the beast! Pathetic.
No, Harry Potter books are chock full of thinly-veiled homosexual metaphor. C.S. Lewis is chock full of thinly-veiled Christian metaphor.
My guess is that the protagonists will stick the magic wooden staff of GapenHolen up their asses and then self-flagellate themselves to death before the evil Crusaders of Cok beat them to it. Larry Craig will make a guest appearance as the Scoutmaster.
That's true. This is a huge mistake of Symantec's because they are tacitly admitting that people are paying them for nothing. "Give us your money and do the job that you paid us to do in exchange for an even slower computer!" Way to go Symantec!
Not surprisingly, it seems that the social aspect of going to school seems to be lost on many of you.
You know, talking to others, playing with others. Gleaning strength through emulation of your superiors, having your ass kicked my the occaional bully, being a mentor to the weak. Learning your strengths and your weaknesses through interaction with your peers. Later in high school, partying and getting laid. All of those are lost on many of you in this discussion.
Does the bad stereotype of the Slashdotter being spoiled, arrogant, silver-spoon trustfund latchkey kids with no social skills hold true here?
Our tax dollars at work. But seriously, I call bullshit. Don't be tryin' to scare people.
Myself and others have talked tons of trash about the U.S. intelligence agencies and leadership on Slashdot and in real-life. The American intelligence agencies would have to be hard-up for funding and job security if they're going to data-mine Slashdot and then go on fishing expeditions to try and find voices of dissent.
I noticed that none of the info in TFA involved plots within the U.S., just "western targets" overseas. Yawn, public plots to kill westerners in the Middle East are a dime a dozen. We see what a fat lot of good that's doing us, in fact our best solution there just to throw enough money at people to get them to turn snitch. All they really want is to feed their families. If you'll notice, that's also the tactic-du-jour stateside: throw money at snitches(many of them already caught and snitching for a break or lower sentence) and proxies just like the RIAA did with MediaSentry. In short, the American intelligence services are a clusterfuck of corporate bureaucracy and dangerous outsourcing and they should be disbanded and rebuilt from scratch. The CIA's resistance to the recent disclosure of their torture techniques on the grounds of "national security" and "harm to the intelligence community" are an insult to our intelligence.
Sheesh. Typical Mac user. Take your filth back to the bathhouses and porta-potty glory holes, ya sicko.
Depends. In Japan, does autoerotic asphyxiation count as suicide? ;)
Well, will you at least suck it off before you bite it off? I'll save up a thick, chewy one just for you.
They could just use a a telescope and look for the telltale trail of brown unbathed stink mist wafting off of it.
Or, as Toucan Sam once said, "follow your nose", since the smelloscope hasn't yet been invented.
Terr'rism and thinking of the children are sooo 2 years ago.
Now they're checking for stolen banking code and illegally downloaded music.