Slightly OT, I know, but just wait until these geniuses get a load of 4chan lulz.
Seriously, what that fuck kind of worthless information is this? Text messaging is a pretty effective as a medium for terrorists for much the same reason. Or ham radio. Or cell phones. All of these can provide quick, (mostly) anonymous communication in realtime. BFD. Saying Twitter could be used as a terrorist tool is like saying the sky is blue, the grass is green, and the sun will blind you if you stare at it too long. Thanks for the news flash, fellas. Somewhere right now, a little old grandma is scared to death of Twitter for no good reason. Hmmm....
And by the way, I don't know if anyone else feels the same way, but I have no idea what the definition of terrorist is anymore. The term is bandied around to blanket such an array of topics, that I feel it has lost its meaning akin to calling every person you know as "human" as opposed to calling them by their names.
The obviousness of the article's main point aside, I want these jokers to clearly define what they mean by 'terrorist'. There is a very big difference between 'Anti-American' and 'Anti-American-Government', for example.
Come to think of it, it kinda makes me wonder who we are fighting in the "War On Terror". Hmmmm...
I don't want a bunch of trusted computing threads watching to make sure I don't dare watch a movie I paid for on a monitor I paid for. I don't want threads making sure the audio I listen to is being played on Microsoft Approved High Security DRM+ Speakers.
I'm not a MS fanboy, but I have been using Vista for over a year. Vista doesn't stop me from watching anything, or burning dvd copies for that matter. Vista has no idea about what sort of speakers I normally use, but it is actually smart enough to switch audio output to my usb headset when I plug it in.
It does the things I want to do on the hardware I want it to. Do you have a real-life example to the contrary? I'm not being snotty, just curious.
Funny, I was positive it was Bush within the same time frame. That the same didn't occur to you as well seems to indicate YOUR ignorance of world politics leading up to that event.
Or maybe you're just being a little hard parent poster. He has a valid point. There was NO evidence at the time to suggest who the perpetrators were, but by sunrise on 9/12 everybody seemed to KNOW it was Bin Laden. I think that's a little fishy, or at the very least indicative of the gullibility of the American people and the power of the suggestive media.
The decision to invade Iraq appears to have been unofficially made in 1997-1998 (or earlier) according to this letter to congress. Notice the signatory parties at the bottom. This Statement of Principles is apparently their mission statement.
The Republicans (or more accurately, those in the Bush family mafia) have been trying to take over Iraq nearly since the first conflict was over in 1991. They tried advising congress on this in the late 90's and failed. But all it took was one good reason for America to say yes, and they took advantage of that fact.
The real question is whether the Bush mafia made 9/11 happen or simply turned on the media spin machine afterwards to brainwash the American public into supporting the fucking mess we've gotten ourselves into since.
I am not sure if you are trying to be funny or not, but there is some truth to this. Installing the windows codecs under Xine allowed me to watch all movies I have under Linux, when not all of them played (at all) under windows. I have always found that to be rather interesting.
With all due respect, I don't believe that you understand what drives your region's 'normal' climate well enough to grok in what way Global Warming is purported to modify that climate.
Cue the "it GLOBAL warming, your region might not be warmer," I certainly expect that response. However, that response reminds me of people who state that Mars' northern icecap is shrinking and the common debunking Global Warming alarmists give for that is that the warming on Mars is just "regional."
That is non-sequitur. Mars' climate has a completely different dynamic that our own. Your anecdotal evidence is worthless because you offer nothing more than an observation "its colder here" and assert that this must logically invalidate Global Warming.
I am no climatologist, but you don't have to be one to understand, for example, that shifts in the Jet Stream can and do dramatically impact a given region's weather. That is 'normal'. Any occurrence that would provide sufficient feedback to the Jet Stream (such as polar ice melting) is going to change the weather patterns of all regions impacted by the Jet Stream. If you are in one of the spots where more dry arctic air gets 'pulled down', you will experience markedly cooler weather, despite the fact that the global temperature has increased.
In fact, if you area DOES experience those 4-5 years of unseasonably cold springs, it would go to further reinforce the Global Warming theory, not the opposite.
That's bullshit. People that hungry are already on the county's teat anyway. I don't see them sending that money to the county to repay their burden.
Its greed pure and simple.
Yeah, so now we have a bunch of dumbshits that don't know how to play their class whining that they can't find a Kara group. So much for progression. Instance attunement is one of the few things they had right. You were almost guaranteed to get some really good blues and even epics before you hit Kara. Now you have a bunch of idiots going fully in greens and QQ'ing how it isn't their fault that the raid can't get past Attumen. Bullshit! They should have left well enough alone. They didn't nerf attunement to please people, they did it to groom everyone for WotLK.
Maybe next time you shouldn't try to be clever, and can just get to the point. You know, for all of us who obviously aren't as smart as you think you are.
Come on, this is slashdot. Sitting around (likely in mom's basement) bitching about it IS doing something about it. Getting laid is requisite to having childtren AFAIK.
However invariably someone will google up a contradiction an argument or staement, and insist they are correct.
Which they should, rather than taking your opinion as a matter of fact -- regardless of your expertise in the field. If you are sure you are right -- and you are a part time teacher -- then it should be no trouble for you to rebut the contradiction in a concise, easy to understand way. Which I am sure you are more than capable of doing.
With that said, what's the problem? I can probably find some of your own posts via google. Is the information correct? Hmmm, i see other results in the same search that run counter to what you say. Which one is right? Well, I could just flip a coin and choose one, or I could offer the counter to you via blog or email to see what you have to say about it. Is THAT the definition of stupid we use these days?
Google doesn't make you stupid. You have to ALREADY be stupid to be fooled by misinformation if you aren't going to check facts. Google gives you many avenues in which to do that crucial step.
However, as you pointed out, that does require some level of critical thinking. I'd argue that google helps even those suffering a lack in that department. People tend to develop such skills when they've been repeatedly painfully embarrassed
by their own ignorance. I'd argue that google can speed that process.
Of course, there are jackasses like me that won't learn anyway, but I won't blame that on google:-)
And the penultimate meme, the enumeration of tired slashdot memes. Then a child post will point out the meme of pointing out the enumeration of tired slashdot memes. Then a grandchild post will point out the pointing out of.... er, I've gone crosseyed.
You know what, fuck that. In no parallel reality can I imagine that the USAF or any other military body would have the 'right' to use my computer in a botnet. And if such a day would come, it would be the same day that the president (whomever he or she may be) wipes his-or-her ass with the Constitution. It is entirely against the spirit of that honored document for the military to take control of any civillian resource for any reason whatsoever. Doing so removes the one protection that prevents private citizens from becoming subject to the government. Some of you may or may not remember that the Constitution was specifically written to avoid that sort of thing. So, the day that bullshit is mandated is the day of the second US civil war, near as I can tell. Too bad that most of the brainless citizenry in this country would forsake such security for their next 'economic stimulus' welfare check.
I don't doubt that you are right, but this seems to me to be a terribly antiquated and broken model. If movie-makers REALLY wanted to do it right, they'd offer new releases via on-demand digital TV. Why would any of us bother to go to the theater when we can make our own popcorn and view the movie from the comfort of our own homes? With the ability to pause for pee-breaks, no less? The big-screen experience is far overrated, given the affordability of home surround-sound systems and big-screen HD-TVs.
Or, you know, they could take sheer minutes out of their "busy" lives and actually show up for their meetings and skirt the issue entirely. There is no technological solution for irresponsibility and/or laziness. Period. The poster asked the wrong question in the first place. Don't dignify it by trying to give a reasonable response. They fail and so do you.
Join the club of big boys and girls and actually show up for your meetings. Otherwise make way for people who actually have time to devote to your organization. Obviously you do not have proper dedication to the group.
Brilliant! It would be REALLY satisfying to truly beat the spammers at their own game, especially by using their own botnets against them... pure genius;-)
For starters, I'd LOVE to see Gee Dub live for another 100 years, especially if he does so in jail. Further, it would be impossible for him to serve a third term, so the argument is irrelevant.
And why not stay alive forever? What is your definition of 'misuse' in the context of regenerative technologies? If the technology exists and I can afford it, what is the problem with growing a new cock? People get 'cosmetic' surgery everyday. Perhaps we should ban that as well so that our doctors have time to work on more deserving patients?
If you can see the implications, please enumerate an example of the following:
Moral: What exactly is immoral about regenerating your own tissue for personal use?
Religious: If its against your religion you either don't do it or reassess your belief system.
Military: Well if they use it to clone super-soldiers, that could be negatively perceived, as they'd essentially be property of the military. This could as such be seen as a human-rights issue.
More: More? Like what, exactly? I am genuinely curious.
If you can offer some concrete examples of misuse, THAT post will deserve to be +1 Interesting or perhaps Insightful:-)
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It was probably done on a private server.
Slightly OT, I know, but just wait until these geniuses get a load of 4chan lulz.
Seriously, what that fuck kind of worthless information is this? Text messaging is a pretty effective as a medium for terrorists for much the same reason. Or ham radio. Or cell phones. All of these can provide quick, (mostly) anonymous communication in realtime. BFD. Saying Twitter could be used as a terrorist tool is like saying the sky is blue, the grass is green, and the sun will blind you if you stare at it too long. Thanks for the news flash, fellas. Somewhere right now, a little old grandma is scared to death of Twitter for no good reason. Hmmm....
And by the way, I don't know if anyone else feels the same way, but I have no idea what the definition of terrorist is anymore. The term is bandied around to blanket such an array of topics, that I feel it has lost its meaning akin to calling every person you know as "human" as opposed to calling them by their names.
The obviousness of the article's main point aside, I want these jokers to clearly define what they mean by 'terrorist'. There is a very big difference between 'Anti-American' and 'Anti-American-Government', for example.
Come to think of it, it kinda makes me wonder who we are fighting in the "War On Terror". Hmmmm...
Very informative. Thanks for the info!
I don't want a bunch of trusted computing threads watching to make sure I don't dare watch a movie I paid for on a monitor I paid for. I don't want threads making sure the audio I listen to is being played on Microsoft Approved High Security DRM+ Speakers.
I'm not a MS fanboy, but I have been using Vista for over a year. Vista doesn't stop me from watching anything, or burning dvd copies for that matter. Vista has no idea about what sort of speakers I normally use, but it is actually smart enough to switch audio output to my usb headset when I plug it in.
It does the things I want to do on the hardware I want it to. Do you have a real-life example to the contrary? I'm not being snotty, just curious.
Funny, I was positive it was Bush within the same time frame. That the same didn't occur to you as well seems to indicate YOUR ignorance of world politics leading up to that event.
Or maybe you're just being a little hard parent poster. He has a valid point. There was NO evidence at the time to suggest who the perpetrators were, but by sunrise on 9/12 everybody seemed to KNOW it was Bin Laden. I think that's a little fishy, or at the very least indicative of the gullibility of the American people and the power of the suggestive media.
The decision to invade Iraq appears to have been unofficially made in 1997-1998 (or earlier) according to this letter to congress. Notice the signatory parties at the bottom. This Statement of Principles is apparently their mission statement.
The Republicans (or more accurately, those in the Bush family mafia) have been trying to take over Iraq nearly since the first conflict was over in 1991. They tried advising congress on this in the late 90's and failed. But all it took was one good reason for America to say yes, and they took advantage of that fact.
The real question is whether the Bush mafia made 9/11 happen or simply turned on the media spin machine afterwards to brainwash the American public into supporting the fucking mess we've gotten ourselves into since.
I am not sure if you are trying to be funny or not, but there is some truth to this. Installing the windows codecs under Xine allowed me to watch all movies I have under Linux, when not all of them played (at all) under windows. I have always found that to be rather interesting.
With all due respect, I don't believe that you understand what drives your region's 'normal' climate well enough to grok in what way Global Warming is purported to modify that climate.
Cue the "it GLOBAL warming, your region might not be warmer," I certainly expect that response. However, that response reminds me of people who state that Mars' northern icecap is shrinking and the common debunking Global Warming alarmists give for that is that the warming on Mars is just "regional."
That is non-sequitur. Mars' climate has a completely different dynamic that our own. Your anecdotal evidence is worthless because you offer nothing more than an observation "its colder here" and assert that this must logically invalidate Global Warming.
I am no climatologist, but you don't have to be one to understand, for example, that shifts in the Jet Stream can and do dramatically impact a given region's weather. That is 'normal'. Any occurrence that would provide sufficient feedback to the Jet Stream (such as polar ice melting) is going to change the weather patterns of all regions impacted by the Jet Stream. If you are in one of the spots where more dry arctic air gets 'pulled down', you will experience markedly cooler weather, despite the fact that the global temperature has increased.
In fact, if you area DOES experience those 4-5 years of unseasonably cold springs, it would go to further reinforce the Global Warming theory, not the opposite.
Meh, lame logic. If in the U.S., you don't have to pay income tax weekly, you can wait until Apr 15 like most 1099'ers.
That's bullshit. People that hungry are already on the county's teat anyway. I don't see them sending that money to the county to repay their burden. Its greed pure and simple.
Yeah, so now we have a bunch of dumbshits that don't know how to play their class whining that they can't find a Kara group. So much for progression. Instance attunement is one of the few things they had right. You were almost guaranteed to get some really good blues and even epics before you hit Kara. Now you have a bunch of idiots going fully in greens and QQ'ing how it isn't their fault that the raid can't get past Attumen. Bullshit! They should have left well enough alone. They didn't nerf attunement to please people, they did it to groom everyone for WotLK.
You're just bitter because you get pwned by the twinks in BG. QQ some more, maybe someone will feel sorry for you.
Maybe next time you shouldn't try to be clever, and can just get to the point. You know, for all of us who obviously aren't as smart as you think you are.
Come on, this is slashdot. Sitting around (likely in mom's basement) bitching about it IS doing something about it. Getting laid is requisite to having childtren AFAIK.
Citation please.
However invariably someone will google up a contradiction an argument or staement, and insist they are correct.
:-)
Which they should, rather than taking your opinion as a matter of fact -- regardless of your expertise in the field. If you are sure you are right -- and you are a part time teacher -- then it should be no trouble for you to rebut the contradiction in a concise, easy to understand way. Which I am sure you are more than capable of doing.
With that said, what's the problem? I can probably find some of your own posts via google. Is the information correct? Hmmm, i see other results in the same search that run counter to what you say. Which one is right? Well, I could just flip a coin and choose one, or I could offer the counter to you via blog or email to see what you have to say about it. Is THAT the definition of stupid we use these days?
Google doesn't make you stupid. You have to ALREADY be stupid to be fooled by misinformation if you aren't going to check facts. Google gives you many avenues in which to do that crucial step.
However, as you pointed out, that does require some level of critical thinking. I'd argue that google helps even those suffering a lack in that department. People tend to develop such skills when they've been repeatedly painfully embarrassed by their own ignorance. I'd argue that google can speed that process.
Of course, there are jackasses like me that won't learn anyway, but I won't blame that on google
And the penultimate meme, the enumeration of tired slashdot memes. Then a child post will point out the meme of pointing out the enumeration of tired slashdot memes. Then a grandchild post will point out the pointing out of.... er, I've gone crosseyed.
...and/or the economy.
You know what, fuck that. In no parallel reality can I imagine that the USAF or any other military body would have the 'right' to use my computer in a botnet. And if such a day would come, it would be the same day that the president (whomever he or she may be) wipes his-or-her ass with the Constitution. It is entirely against the spirit of that honored document for the military to take control of any civillian resource for any reason whatsoever. Doing so removes the one protection that prevents private citizens from becoming subject to the government. Some of you may or may not remember that the Constitution was specifically written to avoid that sort of thing. So, the day that bullshit is mandated is the day of the second US civil war, near as I can tell. Too bad that most of the brainless citizenry in this country would forsake such security for their next 'economic stimulus' welfare check.
I don't doubt that you are right, but this seems to me to be a terribly antiquated and broken model. If movie-makers REALLY wanted to do it right, they'd offer new releases via on-demand digital TV. Why would any of us bother to go to the theater when we can make our own popcorn and view the movie from the comfort of our own homes? With the ability to pause for pee-breaks, no less? The big-screen experience is far overrated, given the affordability of home surround-sound systems and big-screen HD-TVs.
OTOH, I can't make cherry Icees at home...
Or, you know, they could take sheer minutes out of their "busy" lives and actually show up for their meetings and skirt the issue entirely. There is no technological solution for irresponsibility and/or laziness. Period. The poster asked the wrong question in the first place. Don't dignify it by trying to give a reasonable response. They fail and so do you.
Join the club of big boys and girls and actually show up for your meetings. Otherwise make way for people who actually have time to devote to your organization. Obviously you do not have proper dedication to the group.
Brilliant! It would be REALLY satisfying to truly beat the spammers at their own game, especially by using their own botnets against them... pure genius ;-)
Leeroy Jenkins: Samuel L. Jackson
;-)
Healer: Paris Hilton
Huntard: Aston Kutcher
How's that?
For starters, I'd LOVE to see Gee Dub live for another 100 years, especially if he does so in jail. Further, it would be impossible for him to serve a third term, so the argument is irrelevant.
And why not stay alive forever? What is your definition of 'misuse' in the context of regenerative technologies? If the technology exists and I can afford it, what is the problem with growing a new cock? People get 'cosmetic' surgery everyday. Perhaps we should ban that as well so that our doctors have time to work on more deserving patients?
If you can see the implications, please enumerate an example of the following:
If you can offer some concrete examples of misuse, THAT post will deserve to be +1 Interesting or perhaps Insightful