You should know more than anybody else here that controversy grabs eyeballs, illicits emotional response, and provokes people into action.
People have the choice to browse at a high threshold so they don't even see offensive comments. This may come as a surprise to you, but perhaps a large number of Slashdot readers enjoy browsing at -1. There is a reason for that, but you'd best not think about it too hard - you might have a nervous breakdown.
Dark humor is a coping mechanism for dealing with the nasty, brutish, and short nature of life. I understand this because I've lost somebody close to me.
Dostoevsky understands this too, because he lost his beloved youngest son to epilepsy, and if you've read his work it's not about unicorns shitting rainbows and roses.
Finally, a joke - what do you do when an epileptic falls into your swimming pool? Throw in some detergent and your dirty laundry.
The first thing we did to strategize mission-critical web-readiness to expedite wireless users was leverage our dot-com ROI and aggregate robust e-markets. Being able to synthesize cutting-edge channels enabled us to unleash extensible users, which in-turn enabled us to orchestrate turn-key mindshare.
Utilizing our synergistic functionalities, we were then focused towards mesh visionary markets and envisioneering collaborative initiatives with our partners. The net result was the incubation of plug-and-play experiences to transform vertical vortals and utilize cutting-edge deliverables.
Attempting to label his comment offtopic and subtly ridiculing him with the phrase
...because you believe tech companies are paying for sockpuppets...
as well as the term "random rant" doesn't change the fact that corporations and even the government are, in fact, attempting to influence forum participants with astroturfing and sockpuppetry. Just ask HBGary.
We understand why you may feel strongly about this, given that you are a obvious known shill of some sort. Do not attempt to mess with us or we will crap all over your face.
Things don't happen overnight, the transformations are gradual so as not to alarm any target demographics. By the time America has its own version of Krystallnacht, it will be too late. That famous saying, "First they came for the..." saying comes to mind, though of course it will apply to the blanket label "terrorist" and not any one demographic.
There is a trend here, and that trend is certainly heading towards a Gestapo / Stasi-like situation. Taking into account that trend with the assumption that it will be unchecked, where do you think we'll be in 10 years? 20? 30?
Yes, that is indeed true. And it will also be a convenient make-work program for troops returning from war, so they will be fed and have less reasons to betray their traitorous government.
Here is a list of the websites to be monitored:
Social approach, go.usa.gov, wikileaks, cryptome, Google Blog Search, Technorati, Foreign Policy Passport, Wired's Danger Room and Threat Level blogs, Homeland Security Today, NTARC, LA Now, NY Times Lede Blog, STRATFOR, Drudge Report, Huffington Post, BNONews, MEMRI, Informed Consent, Homeland Security Watch(listed twice, heh), Borderfire Report, ABCNews blotter, WireUpdate, RSSOwl, and Twitter.
I'd be damn surprised to learn that it won't end there.
So extroverts love brainstorming, group think and other social work environments, so they think everyone should enjoy it and demand it in others.
You're giving them too much credit. First principles - they enjoy listening to themselves talk, and the others are only waiting for their turn to talk. A "circle jerk," if you will.
I too am against American meddling and believe that we should mind our own business.
However, you must admit that crusty soldiers collectively pissing on dead Arabs is pretty damn hilarious. Somebody should design a bootleg Calvin sticker with a helmet on him and a dead Afghan below. I'd buy it.
...subsystems replaced in boards by new designers not confident enough to remove the old design, etc.
It sounds crazy, but I work with a real-life example, a beamforming circuit board that utilizes a certain technique, but has all the legacy components utilizing another technique that was never even implemented!
In that case, it wasn't a matter of confidence, but probably corporate sloth - engineers are expensive, and so they figure that paying the board-house more for the extra components per board would be cheaper than getting an engineer to redesign the board.
We will hack into your voting machines and pay off your trusted locals, we already are privy to the backdoors.
Then your backdoor, AKA your asshole, will be spectacularly broken into. I speak with authority because I work for the NSA. It's so full of morons, you wouldn't believe how stupid we are. Fortunately, we have a big budget to pay corporations like AT&T, Cisco, and Microsoft for confidential data and our own little rackspaces within their server rooms.
p.s. - you nibble your wife's elbows for fun? You sick, sick fuck.
Gotta talk while pissin.' Yes, I've seen that happen. Yank it out, pull the battery and sim, clean them with alcohol if handy, wait in anxiety while they dry.
You wouldn't catch me leaving my TEK 2246 out in the rain, but my former boss who owned a construction company, left his portable corded Skilsaw rotary with a carbide rebar-cutting blade out in the rain. Man, that was one pissed-off corner-cutter.
Old News. I've been playing acoustic and electric guitar with Elixir strings for almost a decade, with customer satisfaction. Any nerd considering learning guitar should also, as they are resistant to Chee-toe residue.
Gripe: can you guys find a way to coat the upper B and E strings?
The barrier of entry is also pretty low because all one needs to learn programming is a computer(and everybody has one of those), lots of time, and the internet. The signal-to-noise ratio of homeschooled coders' skill levels is probably pretty high, but it also means that the good ones are given the opportunity to rise to the top. You can get some kid who writes "hello world" out of curiosity, then moves on to crude GUI applications, then goes on to make thousands of dollars a month coding for the RBN and lurking obscure IRC fora.
Becoming a hardware savant, in contrast; requires an oscilloscope, multimeter, one or more DC power supplies, a signal generator, and countless dollars spent on components and boards. Who the hell has access to all of that at the high-school level?
It's a reference to Lean manufacturing, with the idea that anything more than a few lines of rudimentary Javascript is not value-added and therefore unnecessary for customer satisfaction.
I can see the job interviews now:
What's your alma mater?
Codecademy. What projects have you worked on in the past?
At my last gig, I wrote a program to determine if a number was even or odd...in only ten lines! Wow! So what can you bring to FizzBuzz industries as a software engineer?
Fizzbuzz. Hired.
It's called "fuzzing." In computing, fuzzing is throwing invalid data at a program to see how it responds. In social engineering, fuzzing serves to confound your mark, softening them, so that you can get what you want out of them.
One of the most familiar fuzzing techniques is saying absurd things with a straight face, often interleaving them with factual data. Parents could use the technique to see if their kids are paying attention to what they're saying, and slimy sales-types often use a similar trick to determine gullibility and susceptibility. When you call the latter on their bullshit, they can just say, "Haha, just messin' with you, man," and smile with a nudge or a pat on the back.
I fuzz naturally because I am a schizophrenic and use facial expressions, body language, and gestures that are all incongruent to each other. I can put people in a trance by glazing over my eyes while talking to them, leaving them to consciously forget every word I said to them even though I overflowed their buffer with suggestions.
Eh, it's the internet. Let's hope there's better trolling here tomorrow evening. The toady-trolls here (bonch, DCtech, etc. ) really need a lesson on being offensive.
Jocktroll should be modded up to permanent excellent karma so he can smack some sense into the fuckin' place.
The DS9 episode Little Green Men, shows Quark and Roms' universal translators fail, so we see them picking through each others' ears trying to "reset" them talking in Ferengi while USAF personnel look on in amusement.
DS9 was really good at bringing back that old-skool camp, especially in this scene.
Slashdot Mirror
You should know more than anybody else here that controversy grabs eyeballs, illicits emotional response, and provokes people into action.
People have the choice to browse at a high threshold so they don't even see offensive comments. This may come as a surprise to you, but perhaps a large number of Slashdot readers enjoy browsing at -1. There is a reason for that, but you'd best not think about it too hard - you might have a nervous breakdown.
Dark humor is a coping mechanism for dealing with the nasty, brutish, and short nature of life. I understand this because I've lost somebody close to me.
Dostoevsky understands this too, because he lost his beloved youngest son to epilepsy, and if you've read his work it's not about unicorns shitting rainbows and roses.
Finally, a joke - what do you do when an epileptic falls into your swimming pool? Throw in some detergent and your dirty laundry.
9/11 was our Reichstag Fire.
Our Krystallnacht is coming soon.
The first thing we did to strategize mission-critical web-readiness to expedite wireless users was leverage our dot-com ROI and aggregate robust e-markets. Being able to synthesize cutting-edge channels enabled us to unleash extensible users, which in-turn enabled us to orchestrate turn-key mindshare.
Utilizing our synergistic functionalities, we were then focused towards mesh visionary markets and envisioneering collaborative initiatives with our partners. The net result was the incubation of plug-and-play experiences to transform vertical vortals and utilize cutting-edge deliverables.
Plus, I have a large cock. That helped a lot.
You are correct. Apple themselves are not obnoxious, their users are.
I don't support piracy at all,
Fuck off, limpwrist. Mommy has a teet for you to suckle.
So like Bonch said:
Filthy suckpuppet, I will compile and identify you all. Fuck off, shill.
...because you believe tech companies are paying for sockpuppets...
as well as the term "random rant" doesn't change the fact that corporations and even the government are, in fact, attempting to influence forum participants with astroturfing and sockpuppetry. Just ask HBGary.
We understand why you may feel strongly about this, given that you are a obvious known shill of some sort. Do not attempt to mess with us or we will crap all over your face.
Things don't happen overnight, the transformations are gradual so as not to alarm any target demographics. By the time America has its own version of Krystallnacht, it will be too late. That famous saying, "First they came for the..." saying comes to mind, though of course it will apply to the blanket label "terrorist" and not any one demographic.
There is a trend here, and that trend is certainly heading towards a Gestapo / Stasi-like situation. Taking into account that trend with the assumption that it will be unchecked, where do you think we'll be in 10 years? 20? 30?
Yes, that is indeed true. And it will also be a convenient make-work program for troops returning from war, so they will be fed and have less reasons to betray their traitorous government.
Here is a list of the websites to be monitored:
Social approach, go.usa.gov, wikileaks, cryptome, Google Blog Search, Technorati, Foreign Policy Passport, Wired's Danger Room and Threat Level blogs, Homeland Security Today, NTARC, LA Now, NY Times Lede Blog, STRATFOR, Drudge Report, Huffington Post, BNONews, MEMRI, Informed Consent, Homeland Security Watch(listed twice, heh), Borderfire Report, ABCNews blotter, WireUpdate, RSSOwl, and Twitter.
I'd be damn surprised to learn that it won't end there.
MS and MSFT are both equally virulent diseases which have resisted our efforts to cure.
If we can grow stem cells in test tubes and then periodically inject those, is that morally dubious?
Absolutely not - but it would exacerbate the problem of overpopulation, at least until we learn to terraform other planets and/or live in space.
The Star Trek: TNG episode Too short a season underscores the pitfalls of vanity-related age reversal.
So extroverts love brainstorming, group think and other social work environments, so they think everyone should enjoy it and demand it in others.
You're giving them too much credit. First principles - they enjoy listening to themselves talk, and the others are only waiting for their turn to talk. A "circle jerk," if you will.
Indeed. It is utterly disgusting and was obviously written by a sick, maladjusted individual.
Heh.
I too am against American meddling and believe that we should mind our own business.
However, you must admit that crusty soldiers collectively pissing on dead Arabs is pretty damn hilarious. Somebody should design a bootleg Calvin sticker with a helmet on him and a dead Afghan below. I'd buy it.
Support the troops!
...subsystems replaced in boards by new designers not confident enough to remove the old design, etc.
It sounds crazy, but I work with a real-life example, a beamforming circuit board that utilizes a certain technique, but has all the legacy components utilizing another technique that was never even implemented!
In that case, it wasn't a matter of confidence, but probably corporate sloth - engineers are expensive, and so they figure that paying the board-house more for the extra components per board would be cheaper than getting an engineer to redesign the board.
We will hack into your voting machines and pay off your trusted locals, we already are privy to the backdoors.
Then your backdoor, AKA your asshole, will be spectacularly broken into. I speak with authority because I work for the NSA. It's so full of morons, you wouldn't believe how stupid we are. Fortunately, we have a big budget to pay corporations like AT&T, Cisco, and Microsoft for confidential data and our own little rackspaces within their server rooms.
p.s. - you nibble your wife's elbows for fun? You sick, sick fuck.
or even dropped our phone in the toilet.
Gotta talk while pissin.' Yes, I've seen that happen. Yank it out, pull the battery and sim, clean them with alcohol if handy, wait in anxiety while they dry.
You wouldn't catch me leaving my TEK 2246 out in the rain, but my former boss who owned a construction company, left his portable corded Skilsaw rotary with a carbide rebar-cutting blade out in the rain. Man, that was one pissed-off corner-cutter.
Old News. I've been playing acoustic and electric guitar with Elixir strings for almost a decade, with customer satisfaction. Any nerd considering learning guitar should also, as they are resistant to Chee-toe residue.
Gripe: can you guys find a way to coat the upper B and E strings?
I Challenge a reader to creat a mandelbrot generator...
How do I creat a mandelbro generator? Is creat that shit that bodybuilders take to make their muscles ripped? OR those folks who have an IQ of fifty?
If anybody actually does I bet his name is Ton.
Legendary dutch classical musician Ton Koopman? Wow!
The barrier of entry is also pretty low because all one needs to learn programming is a computer(and everybody has one of those), lots of time, and the internet. The signal-to-noise ratio of homeschooled coders' skill levels is probably pretty high, but it also means that the good ones are given the opportunity to rise to the top. You can get some kid who writes "hello world" out of curiosity, then moves on to crude GUI applications, then goes on to make thousands of dollars a month coding for the RBN and lurking obscure IRC fora.
Becoming a hardware savant, in contrast; requires an oscilloscope, multimeter, one or more DC power supplies, a signal generator, and countless dollars spent on components and boards. Who the hell has access to all of that at the high-school level?
I can see the job interviews now:
What's your alma mater?
Codecademy.
What projects have you worked on in the past?
At my last gig, I wrote a program to determine if a number was even or odd...in only ten lines!
Wow! So what can you bring to FizzBuzz industries as a software engineer?
Fizzbuzz.
Hired.
It's called "fuzzing." In computing, fuzzing is throwing invalid data at a program to see how it responds. In social engineering, fuzzing serves to confound your mark, softening them, so that you can get what you want out of them.
One of the most familiar fuzzing techniques is saying absurd things with a straight face, often interleaving them with factual data. Parents could use the technique to see if their kids are paying attention to what they're saying, and slimy sales-types often use a similar trick to determine gullibility and susceptibility. When you call the latter on their bullshit, they can just say, "Haha, just messin' with you, man," and smile with a nudge or a pat on the back.
I fuzz naturally because I am a schizophrenic and use facial expressions, body language, and gestures that are all incongruent to each other. I can put people in a trance by glazing over my eyes while talking to them, leaving them to consciously forget every word I said to them even though I overflowed their buffer with suggestions.
Eh, it's the internet. Let's hope there's better trolling here tomorrow evening. The toady-trolls here (bonch, DCtech, etc. ) really need a lesson on being offensive.
Jocktroll should be modded up to permanent excellent karma so he can smack some sense into the fuckin' place.
The DS9 episode Little Green Men, shows Quark and Roms' universal translators fail, so we see them picking through each others' ears trying to "reset" them talking in Ferengi while USAF personnel look on in amusement.
DS9 was really good at bringing back that old-skool camp, especially in this scene.