Anonymous seems to just have its fingers in the wind these days, shifting its sites all over the placewith no real direction or purpose.
Who said they have any real direction or purpose? It's a big amorphous group of whoever wants to participate in whatever popular idea is floating around at the time, they don't have any long-term plan.
The FBI has enough trouble finding random anons, I don't think they need to worry about any religious nutjobs that can only threaten to backtrace them and report them to the cyber police.
Sounds like you got the karma bonus, then got modded down and lost it.
On your user page you should see your karma level, once it's above a certain level you get the bonus and post at 2 (you should have been posting at 1 when your account was new, unless you were messing with the karma modifiers, which only affect how YOU see comments). It's all in the Slashdot help pages.
Just keep it climbing until it hits Excellent and then you won't have to live in fear of the downmod - BUT get modded down too many times, and even if your karma score stays Excellent, you may lose the ability to moderate. That's not in the help pages.
True, the "shit posts" we complain about and berate people for on here are like the average-quality comments on most other sites.
Slashdot's moderation system is the forum equivalent of democracy - the worst system for ensuring good quality comments, except for all others that have been tried.
True, it's just the slogan on the shirts that's really degrading...but no worse than dressing as a chicken and waving a sign around in front of a restaurant I suppose.
They don't, they see it as nothing more than laziness, they believe hobos are only poor because they can't be bothered to get off their asses and work. But a lifetime of privilege and good fortune would make you believe that.
Not a good analogy, you don't *have* to hand a car over to a specialist to fix. If you compared curated computing to their true automotive equivalents, the "lump sum rental" vehicles like the Nissan GTR, McLaren F1 and Maybach, that would be a better comparison, and even if you want to equate the PCs of yesteryear with pre-model-T cars (cars have been reasonably easy to run since the '20s - "peak simplicity" was in the early/mid 80s and they've been getting more complex since with computerized equipment replacing simple mechanical devices), at best we're going from one bad thing to another bad thing that's just bad in a different way. At least with the old bad thing you had the freedom to maintain your own car and choose your own mechanic.
A building pre-rigged with explosives would be a deathtrap in a fire, and the explosives have a limited shelf life anyways. Also the holes where demolition charges are planted structurally weaken the building. There's a reason why access to demolition-prepped buildings is carefully controlled.
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Sure, I just hope you have a wide car :D
Well now we just need a nano track and a shrink ray to shrink you down Fantastic Voyage-style, and you can race in the Indy 500! (millimeters)
I was thinking I could use a tiny violin but it turns out you can get them off the shelf.
Way to over-simplify and misinterpret:
https://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/anonymous-hacks-vatican-website/10567
They don't seem to like Scientology either.
Anonymous seems to just have its fingers in the wind these days, shifting its sites all over the placewith no real direction or purpose.
Who said they have any real direction or purpose? It's a big amorphous group of whoever wants to participate in whatever popular idea is floating around at the time, they don't have any long-term plan.
The FBI has enough trouble finding random anons, I don't think they need to worry about any religious nutjobs that can only threaten to backtrace them and report them to the cyber police.
Freedom of religion is what leaves you free to have no religion.
Sounds like you got the karma bonus, then got modded down and lost it.
On your user page you should see your karma level, once it's above a certain level you get the bonus and post at 2 (you should have been posting at 1 when your account was new, unless you were messing with the karma modifiers, which only affect how YOU see comments). It's all in the Slashdot help pages.
Just keep it climbing until it hits Excellent and then you won't have to live in fear of the downmod - BUT get modded down too many times, and even if your karma score stays Excellent, you may lose the ability to moderate. That's not in the help pages.
It's like Playboy, nobody really reads it for the articles...
True, the "shit posts" we complain about and berate people for on here are like the average-quality comments on most other sites.
Slashdot's moderation system is the forum equivalent of democracy - the worst system for ensuring good quality comments, except for all others that have been tried.
Actually you can click Share and then the little "f".
True, it's just the slogan on the shirts that's really degrading...but no worse than dressing as a chicken and waving a sign around in front of a restaurant I suppose.
McDonald's employees don't have to wear a shirt saying "I am a fast-food serving automoton"
They don't, they see it as nothing more than laziness, they believe hobos are only poor because they can't be bothered to get off their asses and work. But a lifetime of privilege and good fortune would make you believe that.
Not a good analogy, you don't *have* to hand a car over to a specialist to fix. If you compared curated computing to their true automotive equivalents, the "lump sum rental" vehicles like the Nissan GTR, McLaren F1 and Maybach, that would be a better comparison, and even if you want to equate the PCs of yesteryear with pre-model-T cars (cars have been reasonably easy to run since the '20s - "peak simplicity" was in the early/mid 80s and they've been getting more complex since with computerized equipment replacing simple mechanical devices), at best we're going from one bad thing to another bad thing that's just bad in a different way. At least with the old bad thing you had the freedom to maintain your own car and choose your own mechanic.
American Dream has too much grinding and the leveling makes no sense.
Well there's 3.5G which was turned up to 4G by marketers, and then there's LTE which is also called 4G but is a different technology.
So, marketing through bigger numbers.
Craigslist then :-P
But the thing probably wouldn't be much use to anyone else, I'm sure the firmware is locked down tight.
Who says you need to choose between them anyways? Covey your helmet with aluminum HVAC tape, have the best of both worlds.
Aw too bad. My first thought was using the reactors as power plants.
The warp core's pretty unstable too, seems to be some kind of design flaw, I mean how many times have they had to jettison that?
LOL, I also like how flying airliners into buildings is easier than running the documents through a good shredding process.
A building pre-rigged with explosives would be a deathtrap in a fire, and the explosives have a limited shelf life anyways. Also the holes where demolition charges are planted structurally weaken the building. There's a reason why access to demolition-prepped buildings is carefully controlled.
It would be strange to become a doctor for that, there are many FAR easier and faster ways to get rich for those willing to take ethical shortcuts.
Really? Sounds like China is headed down that path today with their prisoner organ harvesting.
If on the DMV form you have an exclude checkbox for organ donation, 98% of population will donate their organs by default.
AKA the Facebook approach :-P