I guess everyone's forgotten. You could make maps for quake. In fact, pretty much ever FPS game used to come with a map editor, and you could make a hell of a lot cooler maps than that. At the time, your game would flop without one. The player made maps were usually better than the ones the game came with. It's sad that this isn't true anymore.
You, apparently, have never been to college. They have classes for everything that could lead to your gainful employment. Including everything you just listed. You have your ideas regarding how reality works, I likely even agree with most of them. But that does not mean other people are not allowed to have their own.
Most of what is taught in modern universities cannot be supported by science. Ever taken an English class? Poetry? Art? Philosophy?
There are a very few limited fields where science gets involved. I think both the creationists, and anti-creationists biggest problem is they even bother with the science at all. "I think God created the earth. I have faith in his power and all your science nonsense is Hooey!" is just as valid of an argument as anything else they've come up with. In fact, I'd say it's even a valid argument. If they are right, and there really is an omnipotent being messing with us, science would be Hooey and we'll feel pretty dumb in the afterlife. Likewise, you don't believe in god and find all of their faith bullshit. Neither of you can ever prove the other is wrong. You're playing different games, with different rules. Logic cannot disprove faith. Faith cannot ignore logic. So get over it.
Which would be fine, but it is a major educational institution with several faculty members who in fact will, at least indirectly, be the targets of these ignorant lunatics.
What the fuck is wrong with the university? What's next, a conference for Holocaust deniers?
They same university undoubtedly has Philosophy on staff as well...
Summary: Most of the value in a sports team is in "intangible" assets. Sure, the stadium can be appraised and valued at X. But what are the players contracts worth? The teams name? How much did the previous owners actions damage that name? Etc... And every owner is going to argue tooth and nail that they lost money on the deal. So much so that the IRS finally just allowed them to claim the sale is worth a flat percentage of the selling price. This way they at least get some money and avoid a decade of legal battles to get it. They do the same sort of thing with dozens of other businesses.
Don't like it? Support a flat use tax. No deductions for loss.
Sure, you can go to another country. But, you are in the USA. Regardless of your opinion on it, you're responsible for paying (or not) your taxes.
Given what our government does with most of our tax dollars, I'd argue you have a moral obligation to deprive them of as much money as possible. That said, the IRS is the scariest, most lawless 3 letter agency we have. I don't screw with them and I don't recommend you do either.
Or, maybe, just maybe... Theology is a huge and complicated subject, and at times some people find it difficult to put into words just what it is they believe. Most modern religions have a long history that's filled with grief and horror. But in every day conversation one could say "Well, I believe in Jedism" And the listener can go look that up (if they care) and understand what it is that person believes without a 2hr conversation or worrying if they are the type of "Christian" that wants 3 wives, or the type of "Christian" that gives to the poor. As of yet, a Jedi hasn't suicide bombed a girls school.
All of that is irrelevant. The police should not be allowed to use any weapons the general public doesn't have. Period. Grenades, flash or otherwise, are complete overkill.
What would have happened had they not been able to enter that building?
There seems to be this idea that the police, in search of a conviction, can put everyone withing a quarter mile radius into mortal danger. That's flat out stupid. Surround the house, get on the bullhorn "Come out with your hands up!" and wait. Worst case, they flush the drugs. But that was the goal right? Get rid of the drugs? Fact of the matter is, pull the toilet and there's plenty stuck in the trap for the conviction anyway.
There is absolutely no excuse for the police to act as violently as they do.
Ok, I'm declaring it. People are no longer allowed to use the word "Monopoly" The general public clearly has no idea what the word means, and like here, completely misuse it.
I couldn't remember our externally facing IP address. The security guy was on lunch. So I went and searched for "What is my IP?" and dreaded eventually ending up at one of those spam laden, ad riddled websites designed for that survive. To my pleasant surprise, Google just offered it up for me. I could still click on the awful links bellow if I wanted all the nonsense.
About the stupidest thing you could ever do is carry and unloaded gun. To an observer you have all of the threat of having a loaded gun and there for become an attackers first target. But in reality, none of the force that loaded gun entails. I'd rather be holding a dildo while waring a clown outfit than being in military uniform while caring an unloaded weapon. That's a death wish.
Educated guess? The sites made up of custom code written before HTTPS was really all that common. It's such a mess that adding it now would require just as much work as just flat out rewriting the whole site. Last time they tried a site redesigned all the neck beards on here started shooting rocksalt at them and screaming "GET OFF MY LAW!!!"
I suspect this site barely pays for itself. I do not anticipate any large site redesigns ever.
I think it illustrates whats happening more appropriately...
Except, it's more like pennies. That's what's hilarious about all this privacy invading nonsense we've been subjected to. It's not valuable. They do not make more money with it. Sure, at first it sounds like a great idea. But the mountains of data it generates quickly become completely useless and you just end up sitting on it all and doing nothing with it. I've dealt with marketing people and seen them install their huge data tracking software packages that they paid fortunes for. Several years later and they just stare at the wall of text the software created blankly.
What I've learned from the data? Most of the sites people visit are by mistake. Out of 10 links visited, 9 were closed within seconds without following another link and the last link was the page with our phone number on it. But all that generated about 100 rows in the table. Multiply that by thousands of customers a day and what do you have? A lot of useless data, that's what. You've no idea which pages they found interesting, dwelled on... were interested in.
They should offer this to the user as an option, where the user has to pay less when tracking is enabled. Otherwise this is abuse of market power to make users agree to being tracked.
No because they'll quickly value this service at $50 a month to force you into it.
They should not be altering my HTTP requests. It's wiretapping, plane and simple.
Personally, I use Verizon and have no other choice for a wireless provider. AT&T has plans to build another tower here in 2021, and it's not like their the champions of my privacy either.
This is boring and their work sounds useless to the world-at-large. We need more world-changing articles by Bennett Hasselton coming up with better algorithms to solve the queueing issues for the ice lines at Burning Man.
Ok, I'll bite. Why are we trolling Bennett Haselton?
Instead, how about we just fix the problem outright....
Setup 3 computers. 1 with a white guy 1 with a black guy 1 with a woman
make sure the appropriate people are logged in, not logged in, have cookies, etc...
Show the price differences. Snap a picture, smiling white guy, sad black guy and woman... Post it to twitter and let the general public make their usual incorrect inference.
Watch the hilarity ensue and the entire idea of variable pricing die in fire.
IMHO, either Ebola is easier to transmit than we are being told _OR_ these Ebola doctors who get the disease are FSKING IDIOTS
if it is so damn hard to get, how the hell do Doctors who should be the best at following procedure can get?
i think people are just morons, no matter what degrees they have
Because they are tending to patients who have the disease, are writing in agony while spewing vomit and blood from every orifice in their body. These people are braver and more selfless than just about anyone you or I have ever met. It's like asking how that Police officer could be so stupid that he got himself shot. Your question is more about your own myopic point of view than about these healthcare workers.
They didn't think it was bad. That's evident based on this story. They wanted Googles money and tried to exploit outdated laws written 100yrs ago to modern technology to try and extort that money. You know, like what every other media organization that's currently dieing because of the internet is trying to do.
I'm a huge privacy advocate... but how far are we going to go with this? You're in a public place. You're connecting to their network at various points. They're using that info to figure out how long it takes for you to get through the line.
How is this any different than them using your check ins with your boarding pass?
"I just dumped the entire contents of my luggage in the middle of food court. I appreciate the offer to help me pick it up bu how dare you invade my privacy!"
Slashdot Mirror
LAX To London Flight Delayed Over "Al-Quida" Wi-Fi Name...
You mean...
LAX To London Flight Delayed due to Authorities being morons...
I guess everyone's forgotten. You could make maps for quake. In fact, pretty much ever FPS game used to come with a map editor, and you could make a hell of a lot cooler maps than that. At the time, your game would flop without one. The player made maps were usually better than the ones the game came with. It's sad that this isn't true anymore.
You, apparently, have never been to college. They have classes for everything that could lead to your gainful employment. Including everything you just listed. You have your ideas regarding how reality works, I likely even agree with most of them. But that does not mean other people are not allowed to have their own.
Most of what is taught in modern universities cannot be supported by science. Ever taken an English class? Poetry? Art? Philosophy?
There are a very few limited fields where science gets involved. I think both the creationists, and anti-creationists biggest problem is they even bother with the science at all. "I think God created the earth. I have faith in his power and all your science nonsense is Hooey!" is just as valid of an argument as anything else they've come up with. In fact, I'd say it's even a valid argument. If they are right, and there really is an omnipotent being messing with us, science would be Hooey and we'll feel pretty dumb in the afterlife. Likewise, you don't believe in god and find all of their faith bullshit. Neither of you can ever prove the other is wrong. You're playing different games, with different rules. Logic cannot disprove faith. Faith cannot ignore logic. So get over it.
Which would be fine, but it is a major educational institution with several faculty members who in fact will, at least indirectly, be the targets of these ignorant lunatics.
What the fuck is wrong with the university? What's next, a conference for Holocaust deniers?
They same university undoubtedly has Philosophy on staff as well...
Slashdots "Eat the rich" attitude alive and well.
Yet, under any serious scrutiny, this makes complete sense.
Direct from the IRS:
http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/...
Summary: Most of the value in a sports team is in "intangible" assets. Sure, the stadium can be appraised and valued at X. But what are the players contracts worth? The teams name? How much did the previous owners actions damage that name? Etc... And every owner is going to argue tooth and nail that they lost money on the deal. So much so that the IRS finally just allowed them to claim the sale is worth a flat percentage of the selling price. This way they at least get some money and avoid a decade of legal battles to get it. They do the same sort of thing with dozens of other businesses.
Don't like it? Support a flat use tax. No deductions for loss.
That mandatory quarantine and travel bans are a good idea yet?
No, nobody has figured that out yet.
The CDC says up to 1,050 people per week are coming into the USA from countries with active Ebola outbreaks.
Explain how you plan to run a rolling quarantine for 3,150 people?
I guess you missed the "travel ban" part.
How well is our travel ban on mexicans working?
Sure, you can go to another country. But, you are in the USA. Regardless of your opinion on it, you're responsible for paying (or not) your taxes.
Given what our government does with most of our tax dollars, I'd argue you have a moral obligation to deprive them of as much money as possible. That said, the IRS is the scariest, most lawless 3 letter agency we have. I don't screw with them and I don't recommend you do either.
Or, maybe, just maybe... Theology is a huge and complicated subject, and at times some people find it difficult to put into words just what it is they believe. Most modern religions have a long history that's filled with grief and horror. But in every day conversation one could say "Well, I believe in Jedism" And the listener can go look that up (if they care) and understand what it is that person believes without a 2hr conversation or worrying if they are the type of "Christian" that wants 3 wives, or the type of "Christian" that gives to the poor. As of yet, a Jedi hasn't suicide bombed a girls school.
All of that is irrelevant.
The police should not be allowed to use any weapons the general public doesn't have. Period.
Grenades, flash or otherwise, are complete overkill.
What would have happened had they not been able to enter that building?
There seems to be this idea that the police, in search of a conviction, can put everyone withing a quarter mile radius into mortal danger. That's flat out stupid. Surround the house, get on the bullhorn "Come out with your hands up!" and wait. Worst case, they flush the drugs. But that was the goal right? Get rid of the drugs? Fact of the matter is, pull the toilet and there's plenty stuck in the trap for the conviction anyway.
There is absolutely no excuse for the police to act as violently as they do.
Ok, I'm declaring it. People are no longer allowed to use the word "Monopoly" The general public clearly has no idea what the word means, and like here, completely misuse it.
Fortunately for civilization, nobody was ever abysmally stupid enough to start a nuclear war so all the space nukes were thankfully for nought.
Don't worry, Pakistan wont let us down.
I like it, and even used it yesterday.
I couldn't remember our externally facing IP address. The security guy was on lunch. So I went and searched for "What is my IP?" and dreaded eventually ending up at one of those spam laden, ad riddled websites designed for that survive. To my pleasant surprise, Google just offered it up for me. I could still click on the awful links bellow if I wanted all the nonsense.
This is good, and all is well with the word.
About the stupidest thing you could ever do is carry and unloaded gun. To an observer you have all of the threat of having a loaded gun and there for become an attackers first target. But in reality, none of the force that loaded gun entails. I'd rather be holding a dildo while waring a clown outfit than being in military uniform while caring an unloaded weapon. That's a death wish.
Educated guess?
The sites made up of custom code written before HTTPS was really all that common. It's such a mess that adding it now would require just as much work as just flat out rewriting the whole site. Last time they tried a site redesigned all the neck beards on here started shooting rocksalt at them and screaming "GET OFF MY LAW!!!"
I suspect this site barely pays for itself. I do not anticipate any large site redesigns ever.
Step #6 image should have been this instead:
https://doodleaday.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/doodle-1016-money-bags.jpg
I think it illustrates whats happening more appropriately...
Except, it's more like pennies. That's what's hilarious about all this privacy invading nonsense we've been subjected to. It's not valuable. They do not make more money with it. Sure, at first it sounds like a great idea. But the mountains of data it generates quickly become completely useless and you just end up sitting on it all and doing nothing with it. I've dealt with marketing people and seen them install their huge data tracking software packages that they paid fortunes for. Several years later and they just stare at the wall of text the software created blankly.
What I've learned from the data? Most of the sites people visit are by mistake. Out of 10 links visited, 9 were closed within seconds without following another link and the last link was the page with our phone number on it. But all that generated about 100 rows in the table. Multiply that by thousands of customers a day and what do you have? A lot of useless data, that's what. You've no idea which pages they found interesting, dwelled on... were interested in.
They can't inject into secure traffic. HTTPS solves this problem too.
Good idea, I just need to figure out what the http address for slashdot is...
They should offer this to the user as an option, where the user has to pay less when tracking is enabled. Otherwise this is abuse of market power to make users agree to being tracked.
No because they'll quickly value this service at $50 a month to force you into it.
They should not be altering my HTTP requests. It's wiretapping, plane and simple.
Don't use Verizon as your ISP?
Personally, I use Verizon and have no other choice for a wireless provider. AT&T has plans to build another tower here in 2021, and it's not like their the champions of my privacy either.
Right, that's my question. I hate his 14 chapter monologs as much as the next guy. But why were people finally fed up today?
Does it need to be smart? ‘Cause those are kind of hard to come by. You gotta be smarter than them to get it.
- Carl
(from Aqua Teen hunger force when asked to find Meatwad a new brain.)
This is boring and their work sounds useless to the world-at-large. We need more world-changing articles by Bennett Hasselton coming up with better algorithms to solve the queueing issues for the ice lines at Burning Man.
Ok, I'll bite. Why are we trolling Bennett Haselton?
Instead, how about we just fix the problem outright....
Setup 3 computers.
1 with a white guy
1 with a black guy
1 with a woman
make sure the appropriate people are logged in, not logged in, have cookies, etc...
Show the price differences.
Snap a picture, smiling white guy, sad black guy and woman...
Post it to twitter and let the general public make their usual incorrect inference.
Watch the hilarity ensue and the entire idea of variable pricing die in fire.
IMHO, either Ebola is easier to transmit than we are being told _OR_ these Ebola doctors who get the disease are FSKING IDIOTS
if it is so damn hard to get, how the hell do Doctors who should be the best at following procedure can get?
i think people are just morons, no matter what degrees they have
Because they are tending to patients who have the disease, are writing in agony while spewing vomit and blood from every orifice in their body. These people are braver and more selfless than just about anyone you or I have ever met. It's like asking how that Police officer could be so stupid that he got himself shot. Your question is more about your own myopic point of view than about these healthcare workers.
They didn't think it was bad. That's evident based on this story.
They wanted Googles money and tried to exploit outdated laws written 100yrs ago to modern technology to try and extort that money. You know, like what every other media organization that's currently dieing because of the internet is trying to do.
I'm a huge privacy advocate... but how far are we going to go with this?
You're in a public place.
You're connecting to their network at various points.
They're using that info to figure out how long it takes for you to get through the line.
How is this any different than them using your check ins with your boarding pass?
"I just dumped the entire contents of my luggage in the middle of food court. I appreciate the offer to help me pick it up bu how dare you invade my privacy!"