Actually... what this means is that you shouldn't use the same password for more than one site. You should use an app that is encrypted and password protected to store all of your login info.
Using 3rd party libraries are always risky, and should be avoided unless it is really doing something that will take you much longer to accomplish.
...unless you want to finish your project in half the time.
Third party libraries, frameworks, and toolkits exist for a purpose: to make your life easier.
Do you program GUIs by manipulating pixels in the video frame buffer? Do you manage files by communicating directly with the file system layer of the kernel? Interpret mouse clicks by talking to the mouse driver?
I bet you use third party libraries all the time without even knowing it.
But then what do I know, Im just a poor schmuck that got genetic diabetis and thus must suffer alone while people who are lucky enough not to get such lifetime diseases can live with their pockets lined with cash. AMIRITE?
In short, fuck you selfish prick.
Too bad I already pay hundreds of dollars each month on health care that refuses to cover even basic office visits, leaving me with $200 bills every time I go.
My pockets are hardly lined with cash, either: I am facing foreclosure and bankruptcy because while I pay $850 per month in child support (on top of over $550 in tax withholding), I can neither claim child support as a deduction nor can I claim my children on my taxes.
The government is literally eating my paycheck alive. I cannot afford to support myself, despite earning twice the median income. I am going to lose everything and have to mooch off family until my children are both emancipated in 15 years.
My pockets may be lined with cash, if pennies count as cash. Thank you, U.S. government.
If they want to do business in the US, they should pay taxes to the US government.
If the U.S. wants to have more businesses, its government should be responsible both with its spending as well as its military. I see neither happening.
Maybe the goverment should try spending less for a change.
I second the motion. All opposed? Oh crap, the long lines of people with the entitlement mentality expecting government checks every month instead of 1. getting a job and 2. planning for the future. I also forgot the non sequitur, 3. stop fighting illegal wars and spending billions on a military that does nothing besides foster a friendly environment for our corporations to exploit the natural resources of foreign nations.
Corporations? Damned thieves can tramply anyone, and everyone, with no repercussions.
Really? If people don't like the actions of a corporation they have the right not to fucking buy that corporations products, and you'll see how quickly the things change.
Yeah, that worked exactly as you envisioned it for Dow Chemical, after their atrocities in southeast Asia (technically the company with which they merged, but they're the same now).
It has nothing to do with my empathy for corporations. It has everything to do with what I feel is best for the US. Abolishing corporate taxes would eliminate tax havens and send many foreign companies our way. The tax revenue can be made up by jacking up taxes on the people who own and work for corporations (us). The tax would be more direct and more efficient. Corporate taxes are about 1/4 that of individual income taxes, and only about 1/6 if you include social security payments... so it's not like I'm talking about huge increases in tax burden. Jack up capital gains a bit, maybe hike the top tax brackets a bit. And I guarantee that tax revenue would go up simply because of the extra business done in country.
I think we either need to abolish individual income taxes or corporate income taxes. The effect is the same, but it shifts the burden on dealing with it one way or another. I say no individual income taxes, because corporations can afford to hire a staff of full-time accountants.
The other thing we need to do is stop spending money on stupid crap like socialized medicine and illegal wars. That would lower the tax burden as well.
You can call yourself a revolutionary if you go after military targets, but if you are deliberately launching attacks on civilian targets to affect change in government, then you are the very definition of a terrorist.
Where do you draw the line? The Pentagon is the nerve-center of the military, and roughly half civilian. Federal buildings contain Department of "Defense" civilians: a military organization containing civilian employees. When I was in the military I worked in organizations that were 2/3 civilian, but I wouldn't doubt for a second that they were valid military targets to an enemy, being located on a military installation.
Again, I don't think the target matters, but the goal. Terrorists wish to sew seeds of fear so their enemies will give in to them one way or another (get out of Saudi Arabia, enact anti-freedom (Patriot Act) legislation, or just plain chaos and mayhem). Revolutionaries love the countries they attack, love them enough to remove the cancerous tumors (the government) even if there is collateral damage.
The means are different, but the ends are the same. Innocent people die in horrific incidents. I condone neither course of action, I just think it is important to call them what they are: criminals. "Terrorism" is an emotional term designed to elicit support no matter how draconian the response to the threat: to win votes: to bring solidarity behind one's goals even if those goals are the antithesis of freedom and democracy.
McVeigh and the Terrorists used the same actions to the same ends. Even if the reasons differed, the ends were the same. Therefore: If it quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck.
McVeigh was a criminal, as are Al Qaeda. One uses terror to frighten countries into shooting themselves in the foot (e.g. Patriot Act) to collapse in on themselves, the other actually wanted to remove the government and start over fresh.
Motives are the difference. Bombing civilians is a heinous crime, but the ideology behind it is different. While McVeigh used terrorist tactics, he was not a terrorist. I think since 9/11 we throw that term around too loosely.
except unabomber, oklahoma bomber, eco nuts, black panthers and other pure christian terrorists. but dont let facts get in the way of security theatre!
Except those guys didn't try to commit crimes on airplanes. Also, by "Oklahoma bomber" I assume you mean Timothy McVeigh, who was not a terrorist. He was a badly misguided revolutionary.
RAM compatibility is such a huge problem that I never recommend ANYTHING other than Kingston Value RAM.
I second the motion. Kingston Value RAM is like your mom, who is like the village tricycle, everyone gets a ride... compatible with everything... a socket any chip can fill... etc. But seriously, I have yet to find a motherboard that RAM will not work in. I also agree with not overclocking or tweaking RAM. Nowadays, components such as CPU, RAM, GPU, etc. vastly overpower any demands except the top 1% of games that for most of us it just isn't worth the hassle. Plug it in, take the default settings, and enjoy framerates that about as fast as your flat panel can display. Back in the day that was not the case, but anymore? Meh. I don't have time for this shit. I want to spend my 30 minutes a day of leisure time playing games, not trying to squeeze out an extra 5 fps.
When I ask aptitude to install apache2, I get apache2. I don't get apache2, a download manager, and a toolbar in my firefox browser.
But when you ask the Ubuntu Live CD to install "Ubuntu", what do you get?
Technically, you are asking it to install the Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux. This encompasses the Linux kernel and the GNU utilities, along with other software which you can manually select during installation. Also, among Linux geeks, it is common knowledge that a GNU/Linux system comes with third-party software that most people expect to be present (e.g. Apache, KDE).
Installing an individual application is different. Even with a package management system, you expect that you only get the package you request plus any dependencies, which are enumerated during installation if you so desire.
While the concept of having a full album has been lost, a lot of music is best listened to in album form. For example, while its possible to enjoy Pink Floyd's singles on The Wall album, in order to truly get the message its best to listen to the entire album. A lot of records were made this way before the advent of the CD and now digital singles. Yes, today an album is simply a collection of singles, but once upon a time (and some bands still release them like before) an album was a work as a whole, never meant to be separated.
I agree. Look at The Beatles' Abbey Road, or Sgt. Pepper. While a computer may be able to handle individual songs, I think they're a long ways away from creating albums like those.
No, I see Civil War in China's future. Really messy Civil War.
I disagree. The American colonies were full of misfits kicked out of Britain. They sure had some puritans, but overall had an independent spirit that was not going to put up with shit. Coupled with French aid (they hated Britain until recently, and the two warred every century or so for about 1,000 years) a revolution was born. The second civil war was largely caused by economic concerns with an underlying polarization along the slavery issue. If you look at other civil wars/revolutions (sort of the same thing) such as France, you again had a country full of outspoken individuals who weren't going to stand up to oppression.
To start a civil war, you need two main things. First, an issue, usually economic (e.g. poor people can't afford food), where the poor people who vastly outnumber the rich are finally motivated to do something about it. While this is the case in 99% of the world, you really need that motivation, the kick in the ass to get the ball rolling. That's where the second thing comes in -- a leader. The U.S. colonies had figures such as Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, etc. The French had Napoleon. What does China have? They are ruthless. Why do you think they crack down on dissidents? Even though dissidence is widespread, the rulers know that without a leader, nothing will ever happen. That is why journalists, bloggers, and intellectuals rot in prison while the sheep roam free.
I seriously doubt China will ever have a civil war or revolution.
I don't claim to be an expert but I don't see China growing to surpass the rest of the world. China got to the point it is today by doing stuff cheaply, as far as I can tell they are more dependent on us than we are on them. Our dealings with China are only for cost savings and their dealing with us is their life blood.
China and the U.S.A. have a symbiotic relationship -- saying one needs the other is redundant. We need China to produce our Walmart-quality crap cheaply, and they need us to drive the demand for them to manufacture it. We get crap cheaply, they get money. We build factories over there, they learn from it and build better factories. They acquire our technology because we give it to them, and their students study at our universities and work at our corporations. Then the Chinese government lures them back, where they bolster their own economy with the hope of igniting the spark that will fire them up and reduce their dependence on us.
Right now China is our bitch -- but the tables will turn, and we'll be China's bitch soon enough. Once they are truly self-sufficient and develop their own technology equal to or better than ours, we will be crippled when they start dictating terms of trade agreements to us. The cheap manufacturing will cease. Oh it will be cheap, but nothing like it is today. It will send ripples through our economy, possibly causing another depression.
I cannot prove this, but I have a feeling that the ruling elite in the U.S.A. want this to happen. This is sort of like how the ruling elite in China are powerful and super-rich, while the average citizen is in poverty. The elite want this to happen here in the U.S.A. Maybe if we stopped electing rich oligarchs to office we could reverse the trend, but it may already be too late.
Don't you realize they have us by the balls? Do you have any idea how much of our debt they carry?
And exactly how does this give them any real power over us? More to the point, by wording it as you did, you suggest that there is some sort of individual that all the money is owed to that can make a collective decision on how to behave should we piss the government off.
I think we all know that the debt is owed to the U.S. Treasury Dept. and funded by the PRC Treasury, whatever they call it.
Maybe the Chinese are talking about laws like the Patriot Act, which has secret provisions to make exceptions, so that hacking by the Chinese government is actually legal.
Exactly. The summary says the Chinese government follows the law, but doesn't say what the law is. I feel fairly confident in saying that if the law allows the Chinese government to make people "disappear" then it also sanctions espionage. Given other stories about the Chinese military actively recruiting black hat hackers to infiltrate foreign militaries and governments, I would fully expect the same to hold true for foreign corporations.
The US recently "got away" with launching two wars that have resulted in the deaths of well over a hundred thousand innocent people. Which is, if we're counting, significantly worse than anything China has done to a relative few dissidents. Superpowers play by their own rules, unfortunately, and accountability can only take place internally.
The U.S. got away with two wars that failed to accomplish their stated goals because it accomplished hidden economic goals (opened up the flow of oil). China will get away with what they are doing because of hidden economic goals. China's economy is growing tremendously and will continue to do so: the U.S. and its corporations want a piece of that. Humans rights? Yeah, those are important until corporate profits are on the line. Then they're not.
Pictures like the ones that sent this guy to jail are available right on Google image search.
One search with the wrong keywords will put these in your browser cache, and send YOU straight to jail, too.
I receive forwards of Simpsons pr0n on my phone sometimes. The difference is that while I cringe and delete the sick shit right away, the guy in this story saved it and showed his friends. Remember, this is a criminal case so he gets a trial by jury. What will churn a jury's collective stomach more?
Someone sent me this stupid crap, it sucks, I deleted it two seconds after I got it.
I deliberately and purposefully downloaded it to show friends (i.e. distribute).
Who told you this? Seriously, did you hear this from a doctor or are you parroting something you heard from a friend or a friend? I'm just wondering if you've bothered to even do a google search of if you're just another one of the public that spreads this misinformation like wildfire to the point that it's more dangerous than the disease it's talking about.
The physician that diagnosed my condition and prescribed my medication told me this. Since my degree is computer science and he is a doctor of medicine, I chose to believe him.
By contrast, in my amateur not-a-doctor opinion and speaking only for myself, the swine flu has been blown totally out of proportion. If I caught it, I'd feel like shit for a few days and then I'd get over it.
I had H1N1 a few weeks ago and lived through it just fine. I took some Tamiflu and Sudafed for a day or two but that was it. I actually wanted to be sick for the full duration so I would build an immunity. If you treat it with Tamiflu right away your body cannot build natural antibodies, and you are at risk for another infection. Anyway, I felt like crap for about four or five days and then I was fine. I have definitely been more sick, but never for that length of time.
Worse things than H1N1, regular flu, sinus infections, or other common ailments can happen. I can definitely see how the young, old, or immune-deficient would struggle with H1N1 though. Having been through it, I can see how the symptoms could definitely exacerbate other conditions.
I so badly want to see the FTC slap Apple with fines every day until they open the iPhone up to apps sold outside the app store without Apple vetting. That is the only action that sets a strong enough precedent that consumers are in charge of devices that they paid for and have a right to tinker.
That's probably not necessary. A few more of these sorts of stories get out and more people are just going to jump ship to Android.
Case in point, I didn't buy an iPhone for precisely this reason. I heard about the Project Gutenberg reader app getting blocked and I decided I didn't want any company telling me what software I can run on my phone, let alone one that has demonstrated such deeply flawed judgement.
I waited for an Android phone that I liked, and now I have a HTC Hero. It rules.
"In a world that doesn't, Droid does."
I will never own an iPhone. I have wanted an open platform ever since I first learned about the iPhone iApp iApproval iProcess. Fuck Apple. I am a software engineer: I will write my own software and run it if I please. Some phone running Android will be my next.
And you are perfectly correct, even 9/11 happened in first minutes of flights, since they were flights leaving from US.
Actually, they were flights leaving from New York and flying to the west coast. I don't remember the exact destinations, but they were chosen very specifically for two reasons. First, they were long-distance flights, so they would have plenty of jet fuel to burn in a crash. Second, they were domestic flights, so security is faster and easier because they did not go through customs.
I take exception to you singling out Republican's here. Democrats, far more often then the big red, seek public outcry to get their policies passed.
You realize that republicans and democrats are the same party, right? They are just two separate factions.
Which party supports freedom? Neither. Each one suppresses some rights while championing others. Which one is not the party of the rich, powerful fat cats? Neither. They both pander to rich, powerful interests at our expense.
I say fire all of Clowngress and start over. Maybe go so far as another revolution.
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...unless you want to finish your project in half the time.
Third party libraries, frameworks, and toolkits exist for a purpose: to make your life easier.
Do you program GUIs by manipulating pixels in the video frame buffer? Do you manage files by communicating directly with the file system layer of the kernel? Interpret mouse clicks by talking to the mouse driver?
I bet you use third party libraries all the time without even knowing it.
Too bad I already pay hundreds of dollars each month on health care that refuses to cover even basic office visits, leaving me with $200 bills every time I go.
My pockets are hardly lined with cash, either: I am facing foreclosure and bankruptcy because while I pay $850 per month in child support (on top of over $550 in tax withholding), I can neither claim child support as a deduction nor can I claim my children on my taxes.
The government is literally eating my paycheck alive. I cannot afford to support myself, despite earning twice the median income. I am going to lose everything and have to mooch off family until my children are both emancipated in 15 years.
My pockets may be lined with cash, if pennies count as cash. Thank you, U.S. government.
If the U.S. wants to have more businesses, its government should be responsible both with its spending as well as its military. I see neither happening.
I second the motion. All opposed? Oh crap, the long lines of people with the entitlement mentality expecting government checks every month instead of 1. getting a job and 2. planning for the future. I also forgot the non sequitur, 3. stop fighting illegal wars and spending billions on a military that does nothing besides foster a friendly environment for our corporations to exploit the natural resources of foreign nations.
Yeah, that worked exactly as you envisioned it for Dow Chemical, after their atrocities in southeast Asia (technically the company with which they merged, but they're the same now).
I think we either need to abolish individual income taxes or corporate income taxes. The effect is the same, but it shifts the burden on dealing with it one way or another. I say no individual income taxes, because corporations can afford to hire a staff of full-time accountants.
The other thing we need to do is stop spending money on stupid crap like socialized medicine and illegal wars. That would lower the tax burden as well.
Where do you draw the line? The Pentagon is the nerve-center of the military, and roughly half civilian. Federal buildings contain Department of "Defense" civilians: a military organization containing civilian employees. When I was in the military I worked in organizations that were 2/3 civilian, but I wouldn't doubt for a second that they were valid military targets to an enemy, being located on a military installation.
Again, I don't think the target matters, but the goal. Terrorists wish to sew seeds of fear so their enemies will give in to them one way or another (get out of Saudi Arabia, enact anti-freedom (Patriot Act) legislation, or just plain chaos and mayhem). Revolutionaries love the countries they attack, love them enough to remove the cancerous tumors (the government) even if there is collateral damage.
The means are different, but the ends are the same. Innocent people die in horrific incidents. I condone neither course of action, I just think it is important to call them what they are: criminals. "Terrorism" is an emotional term designed to elicit support no matter how draconian the response to the threat: to win votes: to bring solidarity behind one's goals even if those goals are the antithesis of freedom and democracy.
McVeigh was a criminal, as are Al Qaeda. One uses terror to frighten countries into shooting themselves in the foot (e.g. Patriot Act) to collapse in on themselves, the other actually wanted to remove the government and start over fresh.
Motives are the difference. Bombing civilians is a heinous crime, but the ideology behind it is different. While McVeigh used terrorist tactics, he was not a terrorist. I think since 9/11 we throw that term around too loosely.
Except those guys didn't try to commit crimes on airplanes. Also, by "Oklahoma bomber" I assume you mean Timothy McVeigh, who was not a terrorist. He was a badly misguided revolutionary.
I second the motion. Kingston Value RAM is like your mom, who is like the village tricycle, everyone gets a ride... compatible with everything... a socket any chip can fill... etc. But seriously, I have yet to find a motherboard that RAM will not work in. I also agree with not overclocking or tweaking RAM. Nowadays, components such as CPU, RAM, GPU, etc. vastly overpower any demands except the top 1% of games that for most of us it just isn't worth the hassle. Plug it in, take the default settings, and enjoy framerates that about as fast as your flat panel can display. Back in the day that was not the case, but anymore? Meh. I don't have time for this shit. I want to spend my 30 minutes a day of leisure time playing games, not trying to squeeze out an extra 5 fps.
Technically, you are asking it to install the Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux. This encompasses the Linux kernel and the GNU utilities, along with other software which you can manually select during installation. Also, among Linux geeks, it is common knowledge that a GNU/Linux system comes with third-party software that most people expect to be present (e.g. Apache, KDE).
Installing an individual application is different. Even with a package management system, you expect that you only get the package you request plus any dependencies, which are enumerated during installation if you so desire.
I agree. Look at The Beatles' Abbey Road, or Sgt. Pepper. While a computer may be able to handle individual songs, I think they're a long ways away from creating albums like those.
I disagree. The American colonies were full of misfits kicked out of Britain. They sure had some puritans, but overall had an independent spirit that was not going to put up with shit. Coupled with French aid (they hated Britain until recently, and the two warred every century or so for about 1,000 years) a revolution was born. The second civil war was largely caused by economic concerns with an underlying polarization along the slavery issue. If you look at other civil wars/revolutions (sort of the same thing) such as France, you again had a country full of outspoken individuals who weren't going to stand up to oppression.
To start a civil war, you need two main things. First, an issue, usually economic (e.g. poor people can't afford food), where the poor people who vastly outnumber the rich are finally motivated to do something about it. While this is the case in 99% of the world, you really need that motivation, the kick in the ass to get the ball rolling. That's where the second thing comes in -- a leader. The U.S. colonies had figures such as Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, etc. The French had Napoleon. What does China have? They are ruthless. Why do you think they crack down on dissidents? Even though dissidence is widespread, the rulers know that without a leader, nothing will ever happen. That is why journalists, bloggers, and intellectuals rot in prison while the sheep roam free.
I seriously doubt China will ever have a civil war or revolution.
China and the U.S.A. have a symbiotic relationship -- saying one needs the other is redundant. We need China to produce our Walmart-quality crap cheaply, and they need us to drive the demand for them to manufacture it. We get crap cheaply, they get money. We build factories over there, they learn from it and build better factories. They acquire our technology because we give it to them, and their students study at our universities and work at our corporations. Then the Chinese government lures them back, where they bolster their own economy with the hope of igniting the spark that will fire them up and reduce their dependence on us.
Right now China is our bitch -- but the tables will turn, and we'll be China's bitch soon enough. Once they are truly self-sufficient and develop their own technology equal to or better than ours, we will be crippled when they start dictating terms of trade agreements to us. The cheap manufacturing will cease. Oh it will be cheap, but nothing like it is today. It will send ripples through our economy, possibly causing another depression.
I cannot prove this, but I have a feeling that the ruling elite in the U.S.A. want this to happen. This is sort of like how the ruling elite in China are powerful and super-rich, while the average citizen is in poverty. The elite want this to happen here in the U.S.A. Maybe if we stopped electing rich oligarchs to office we could reverse the trend, but it may already be too late.
I think we all know that the debt is owed to the U.S. Treasury Dept. and funded by the PRC Treasury, whatever they call it.
Exactly. The summary says the Chinese government follows the law, but doesn't say what the law is. I feel fairly confident in saying that if the law allows the Chinese government to make people "disappear" then it also sanctions espionage. Given other stories about the Chinese military actively recruiting black hat hackers to infiltrate foreign militaries and governments, I would fully expect the same to hold true for foreign corporations.
The U.S. got away with two wars that failed to accomplish their stated goals because it accomplished hidden economic goals (opened up the flow of oil). China will get away with what they are doing because of hidden economic goals. China's economy is growing tremendously and will continue to do so: the U.S. and its corporations want a piece of that. Humans rights? Yeah, those are important until corporate profits are on the line. Then they're not.
I receive forwards of Simpsons pr0n on my phone sometimes. The difference is that while I cringe and delete the sick shit right away, the guy in this story saved it and showed his friends. Remember, this is a criminal case so he gets a trial by jury. What will churn a jury's collective stomach more?
The jury of public opinion is against this guy.
I hate to nitpick grammar, but I am pretty sure that "penis" is always masculine singular, i.e. "his penis."
The physician that diagnosed my condition and prescribed my medication told me this. Since my degree is computer science and he is a doctor of medicine, I chose to believe him.
I had H1N1 a few weeks ago and lived through it just fine. I took some Tamiflu and Sudafed for a day or two but that was it. I actually wanted to be sick for the full duration so I would build an immunity. If you treat it with Tamiflu right away your body cannot build natural antibodies, and you are at risk for another infection. Anyway, I felt like crap for about four or five days and then I was fine. I have definitely been more sick, but never for that length of time.
Worse things than H1N1, regular flu, sinus infections, or other common ailments can happen. I can definitely see how the young, old, or immune-deficient would struggle with H1N1 though. Having been through it, I can see how the symptoms could definitely exacerbate other conditions.
"In a world that doesn't, Droid does."
I will never own an iPhone. I have wanted an open platform ever since I first learned about the iPhone iApp iApproval iProcess. Fuck Apple. I am a software engineer: I will write my own software and run it if I please. Some phone running Android will be my next.
Actually, they were flights leaving from New York and flying to the west coast. I don't remember the exact destinations, but they were chosen very specifically for two reasons. First, they were long-distance flights, so they would have plenty of jet fuel to burn in a crash. Second, they were domestic flights, so security is faster and easier because they did not go through customs.
You realize that republicans and democrats are the same party, right? They are just two separate factions.
Which party supports freedom? Neither. Each one suppresses some rights while championing others. Which one is not the party of the rich, powerful fat cats? Neither. They both pander to rich, powerful interests at our expense.
I say fire all of Clowngress and start over. Maybe go so far as another revolution.