The fact that this is marked as insightful shows just how bad Slashdot has gotten.
It's rather amusing the level of dumb that the folks who hate 'murrica will go to to fuel their fantasies of other countries destroying us.
Especially when it is a country like NK. A lot of The mouse that roared syndrome. The smaller the country that will presumably destroy us the more engorged their peens get.
When in fact, if there is one thing we are damn good at, it's protecting ourselves.
This even goes for nations like Russia, remember how if Helleree was elected, Russia was going to end up destroying the US in a nookyaler war? It don't work like that homies - cuz the math ain't there. As for North Korea, just possibly - but on the very low end of possibly, they might be able to sneak under our defenses, and just possibly, they might be able to fire a missile, and just possibly, it might actually work. I might do a three-way with Sophia Vergara and Taylor Swift too.
And after this incredible odds defying and semi pointless stunt, if successful, North Korea would cease to exist.
These researchers who keep asking me if I'm happy are making it hard for me to focus on getting my work done...
I wonder if the underlying purpose of this is to try to understand why women aren't interested in becoming programmers?
We have to face it, for most people of either sex, programming doesn't radiate money, glamour, satisfaction or respect. You don't become a programmer for any of those reasons.
All publicity is good publicity, right? According to the assholes at BK., it is. To Wit:
Dara Schopp, BK regards the ad as a success, as it has increased the brand's 'social conversation' on Twitter by some 300%," though he's not a fan of "reaching through your TV speakers and directly messing with your digital devices. You may wish to consider alternate vendors for your burger needs."
All publicity is good publicity. Thus the thugs at United Airlines have just completed the most sucessful and money making PR campaign ever.
Next on Burger Kings agenda - Murdering a reandom customer. Strangle that fucker in th efront of the store. That oughta get their Twitter feed, the undeniable measure of success, to go up by a million percent or so.
Sure they do. My father could kick my ass, and I'd go back outside to do whatever I wanted to do. That's not just getting used to it, it's taking the easiest route. I wasn't really in what wold be called a physically abusive family at the time. Walloping kids wasn't that unusual. though.
In a effort to break the stupid cycle, I made certain not to ever hit my kid. Worked out just fine. Turned out he hated sitting on a couch in the living room with nothing to do except read a book.
Some folks say this won't work, and no doubt there are some children with impulse control issues built in. But for most kids, understanding that they will be treated to a few hours of boredom works a lot better than repeatedly hitting them.
While I agree with you, it's not a game that Burger King can win in the long run because Google controls both their Google Home device and the result of their request.
Google can redirect any mention of Burger King to McDonalds pretty easily.
Sure it's obnoxious of them to exploit such a vulnerability, but it was Google who put that vulnerability there intentionally. The interesting thing is that Google responded by blacklisting only one sound sample... not fixing the actual exploit. That's like someone reporting an extremely common form of SQL injection then the software developer only blacklists a single SQL sample. A shoddy quickfix that does nothing to prevent any other advertiser from doing the same.
You could call Burger King the White Hat Hacker here and Google the lazy (or unwilling) software developer.
Hell with that. Google took a minimal fix, which shouls have been enough to let Burger King know it wasn't appreciated. and Burger King the assholes that they are, decided "Fuck you, We're gonna do it again! We're teh boss here Google, not you!"
nope nope nope
This is like someone breaking into my house, and claiming its my fault because I didn't lock it. Good advice is don't even try that as a defense once you're caught..
Back in my day this was applied by being sent to the corner, with the outside of the palm to the cheeks or with a belt to the behind. Rarely needed more than single application to be fully recovered. Parents these days are soft
Whenever I had the choice, I'd take the hitting. Gets it over with quickly. Now nonviolent methods like grounding, damn, those pissed me off.
If assaulting your children worked, it would only need done once or twice. The parents I know that like to assault their kids seem to have to do it several times a day.
If the kids are controlling their use at home, they aren't as addicted as the ones the article is talking about. If they aren't controlling their use at home, some parental supervision is warranted.
Yeah as soon as Daddy's off Facebook, and Mom is done playing Candy Crush.
The smartphone is the perfect little device for today's families. It keeps the kids quiet, and many people have been so inculcated with safety culture that the parents are happy to keep the children inside the house, playing on their phone, instead of going out in the world, where the news cycle has everyone convinced us that as soon as the child steps outside, they will be molested, then kidnapped, then sold into sex traffic slavery, get hooked on meth, and finally be shot in a drive by. So the child may be a hundred pounds overweight, and never grow up to be an adult, but hey - they are safe.
You do know that a lot of MacOS users are just as adroit in Linux.
You are looking at the wrong superset. Most MacOS users don't give a crap about Linux, don't know what the command line is and don't know the systems are similar under the hood. Those that do, fall into the Linux users / experts who know how not to fuckup their system category.
Wow, you accuse me of being dishonest, then you throw in that meme. a lot !=most, and if we're going to use your flexymetric, most Windows users don't give a crap about computing in general.
If that flexymetric meme comforts you somehow, if it fits into your worldview, by all means, enjoy your opinion. At least you know most Mac users. I don't, which is why I didn't generalize. A lot of us are out here doing professional work, using terminal every day. Bashing about makes my video work a lot easier, and sometimes even makes it possible. Others do what I do, and they are using MacOS. That is a true statement.
A whole lot of people on Windows, MacOS - and yes Virginia - Linux, are not experts or even power users. That it bothers you that there are computing adroits on MacOS is a bit amusing.
The last many laptops I have installed linux on have worked perfectly, fully functional. I do a little bit of research before I buy one, but these days it's mainly a matter of form. You can expect your laptop to just boot up and work instantly, including being connected to the internet with sound functioning and 3D acceleration. There are exceptions no doubt. Read the reviews, look for Linux comments. They're pretty common these days. Google for the model number +linux. This isn't rocket science.
Most of the anti-Linux faction in here seem to be spouting memes from the early 2000's. Meanwhile, I have the same experience as you. The installs work.
I usually offer to talk about Windows 1 when the Linux memes get too stupid
"These are the people that dont want to have to do any work to have a good system working" And, what's the problem with that. Do you have to tweak a new car, or do you buy it, set the seat and wheel position, and Go? This is why Apple won so hard, and continues to sell stuff.
So Preferences and look and feel are too difficult? These arguments are bizarre. You can take the defauts on MacOS, Windows, or Linux, and roll with that. Or you can tweak a system until you have it where you want it. It's all good.
I've used many different mice with many different laptops running many different flavors of Linux, and never had an issue with a scroll wheel. Troll above? It does happen. Otherwise, majorly misguided at best.
and precious little time repairing screwups by anyone else.
Inherent bias in your sample. Apple doesn't give people any latitude to screw something up, and Linux users in general are quite technically adept and solve their own issues.
Swap the world from Windows to Linux and all you'll do is change the description of your repair service.
You do know that a lot of MacOS users are just as adroit in Linux. That's because for all intents and purposes, MacOS is just the fanciest version of Linux. And yes, for the pedants in hereMacOS is true Unix, and Linux is Unix-y.
the difference today is that while Windows is busy locking itself down, the meme of the hipster Mac user is not quite true. I use terminal in MacOS almost as much in Linux. But most of my folks who use Linux don't even know what Terminal is. And they giggle if I mention bash. They just use their Linux.
OMG did you even read the comments in the article YOU posted?
Yes I did. I find it hard to imagine that you read my post. Windseer is a scam. This device very likely is as well. At their very best, they are misguided
There are energy issues involved with trying to pull water out of dry air. A dehumidifier or air conditioner use a lot of energy. A lot of people don't understand that, and are easy marks for scammers.
I think the next big discovery is a lot less likely to come from the US than it was a few years ago.
You aren't kidding. Now that we've decided that the laws of physics can be invalidated by a simple majority vote, science is going to be stifled. You never know what research will be politically offensive.
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you're an idiot.
Ahh, the Saturday night alcohol fueled Slashdot ragecrowd. Your rant is almost as satisfying as a conversation, and way more funny.
In other words, you also do not know what you are talking about if you compare the subs of NK with US.
Its their favorite fantasy, and you're stomping all over it, you meany!
The fact that this is marked as insightful shows just how bad Slashdot has gotten.
It's rather amusing the level of dumb that the folks who hate 'murrica will go to to fuel their fantasies of other countries destroying us.
Especially when it is a country like NK. A lot of The mouse that roared syndrome. The smaller the country that will presumably destroy us the more engorged their peens get.
When in fact, if there is one thing we are damn good at, it's protecting ourselves.
This even goes for nations like Russia, remember how if Helleree was elected, Russia was going to end up destroying the US in a nookyaler war? It don't work like that homies - cuz the math ain't there. As for North Korea, just possibly - but on the very low end of possibly, they might be able to sneak under our defenses, and just possibly, they might be able to fire a missile, and just possibly, it might actually work. I might do a three-way with Sophia Vergara and Taylor Swift too.
And after this incredible odds defying and semi pointless stunt, if successful, North Korea would cease to exist.
Sadly physics gets in the way of Tom Clancy fantasies.
and then
Maybe read Frank Herbert's "The Dragon Under the Sea"
I guess everyone has their own fantasies, eh?
Running out of Mountain Dew wasn't top on the list? I call bullshit.
You had to go there - now I'll have nightmares all week.
These researchers who keep asking me if I'm happy are making it hard for me to focus on getting my work done...
I wonder if the underlying purpose of this is to try to understand why women aren't interested in becoming programmers?
We have to face it, for most people of either sex, programming doesn't radiate money, glamour, satisfaction or respect. You don't become a programmer for any of those reasons.
Dara Schopp, BK regards the ad as a success, as it has increased the brand's 'social conversation' on Twitter by some 300%," though he's not a fan of "reaching through your TV speakers and directly messing with your digital devices. You may wish to consider alternate vendors for your burger needs."
All publicity is good publicity. Thus the thugs at United Airlines have just completed the most sucessful and money making PR campaign ever.
Next on Burger Kings agenda - Murdering a reandom customer. Strangle that fucker in th efront of the store. That oughta get their Twitter feed, the undeniable measure of success, to go up by a million percent or so.
It's not exactly Shakespeare at the Globe, now, is it? You should really just relax.
Well played sir! well played indeed.
Kids get accustomed to physical abuse :/
Sure they do. My father could kick my ass, and I'd go back outside to do whatever I wanted to do. That's not just getting used to it, it's taking the easiest route. I wasn't really in what wold be called a physically abusive family at the time. Walloping kids wasn't that unusual. though.
In a effort to break the stupid cycle, I made certain not to ever hit my kid. Worked out just fine. Turned out he hated sitting on a couch in the living room with nothing to do except read a book.
Some folks say this won't work, and no doubt there are some children with impulse control issues built in. But for most kids, understanding that they will be treated to a few hours of boredom works a lot better than repeatedly hitting them.
Wonder if there is abstinence porn anywhere?
Wasn't that the whole idea behind those sparkly vampires in those books/movies
Oh crap - was that supposed to be porn?
While I agree with you, it's not a game that Burger King can win in the long run because Google controls both their Google Home device and the result of their request.
Google can redirect any mention of Burger King to McDonalds pretty easily.
Now made of 100 percent asshole.
Sure it's obnoxious of them to exploit such a vulnerability, but it was Google who put that vulnerability there intentionally. The interesting thing is that Google responded by blacklisting only one sound sample... not fixing the actual exploit. That's like someone reporting an extremely common form of SQL injection then the software developer only blacklists a single SQL sample. A shoddy quickfix that does nothing to prevent any other advertiser from doing the same. You could call Burger King the White Hat Hacker here and Google the lazy (or unwilling) software developer.
Hell with that. Google took a minimal fix, which shouls have been enough to let Burger King know it wasn't appreciated. and Burger King the assholes that they are, decided "Fuck you, We're gonna do it again! We're teh boss here Google, not you!"
nope nope nope
This is like someone breaking into my house, and claiming its my fault because I didn't lock it. Good advice is don't even try that as a defense once you're caught..
Snot? Damn - that's gotta be close to a rule 34 exemption!
Far from it. NSFW, obviously.
Wonder if there is abstinence porn anywhere?
Back in my day this was applied by being sent to the corner, with the outside of the palm to the cheeks or with a belt to the behind. Rarely needed more than single application to be fully recovered. Parents these days are soft
Whenever I had the choice, I'd take the hitting. Gets it over with quickly. Now nonviolent methods like grounding, damn, those pissed me off.
If assaulting your children worked, it would only need done once or twice. The parents I know that like to assault their kids seem to have to do it several times a day.
If the kids are controlling their use at home, they aren't as addicted as the ones the article is talking about. If they aren't controlling their use at home, some parental supervision is warranted.
Yeah as soon as Daddy's off Facebook, and Mom is done playing Candy Crush.
The smartphone is the perfect little device for today's families. It keeps the kids quiet, and many people have been so inculcated with safety culture that the parents are happy to keep the children inside the house, playing on their phone, instead of going out in the world, where the news cycle has everyone convinced us that as soon as the child steps outside, they will be molested, then kidnapped, then sold into sex traffic slavery, get hooked on meth, and finally be shot in a drive by. So the child may be a hundred pounds overweight, and never grow up to be an adult, but hey - they are safe.
Best friend? I was under the impression that my job's done by blowing a load of snot into some bitch.
Snot? Damn - that's gotta be close to a rule 34 exemption!
You do know that a lot of MacOS users are just as adroit in Linux.
You are looking at the wrong superset. Most MacOS users don't give a crap about Linux, don't know what the command line is and don't know the systems are similar under the hood. Those that do, fall into the Linux users / experts who know how not to fuckup their system category.
Wow, you accuse me of being dishonest, then you throw in that meme. a lot !=most, and if we're going to use your flexymetric, most Windows users don't give a crap about computing in general. If that flexymetric meme comforts you somehow, if it fits into your worldview, by all means, enjoy your opinion. At least you know most Mac users. I don't, which is why I didn't generalize. A lot of us are out here doing professional work, using terminal every day. Bashing about makes my video work a lot easier, and sometimes even makes it possible. Others do what I do, and they are using MacOS. That is a true statement.
A whole lot of people on Windows, MacOS - and yes Virginia - Linux, are not experts or even power users. That it bothers you that there are computing adroits on MacOS is a bit amusing.
The last many laptops I have installed linux on have worked perfectly, fully functional. I do a little bit of research before I buy one, but these days it's mainly a matter of form. You can expect your laptop to just boot up and work instantly, including being connected to the internet with sound functioning and 3D acceleration. There are exceptions no doubt. Read the reviews, look for Linux comments. They're pretty common these days. Google for the model number +linux. This isn't rocket science.
Most of the anti-Linux faction in here seem to be spouting memes from the early 2000's. Meanwhile, I have the same experience as you. The installs work.
I usually offer to talk about Windows 1 when the Linux memes get too stupid
"These are the people that dont want to have to do any work to have a good system working" And, what's the problem with that. Do you have to tweak a new car, or do you buy it, set the seat and wheel position, and Go? This is why Apple won so hard, and continues to sell stuff.
So Preferences and look and feel are too difficult? These arguments are bizarre. You can take the defauts on MacOS, Windows, or Linux, and roll with that. Or you can tweak a system until you have it where you want it. It's all good.
I've used many different mice with many different laptops running many different flavors of Linux, and never had an issue with a scroll wheel. Troll above? It does happen. Otherwise, majorly misguided at best.
Animojo doesn't troll as far as I know.
and precious little time repairing screwups by anyone else.
Inherent bias in your sample. Apple doesn't give people any latitude to screw something up, and Linux users in general are quite technically adept and solve their own issues.
Swap the world from Windows to Linux and all you'll do is change the description of your repair service.
You do know that a lot of MacOS users are just as adroit in Linux. That's because for all intents and purposes, MacOS is just the fanciest version of Linux. And yes, for the pedants in hereMacOS is true Unix, and Linux is Unix-y.
the difference today is that while Windows is busy locking itself down, the meme of the hipster Mac user is not quite true. I use terminal in MacOS almost as much in Linux. But most of my folks who use Linux don't even know what Terminal is. And they giggle if I mention bash. They just use their Linux.
OMG did you even read the comments in the article YOU posted?
Yes I did. I find it hard to imagine that you read my post. Windseer is a scam. This device very likely is as well. At their very best, they are misguided
There are energy issues involved with trying to pull water out of dry air. A dehumidifier or air conditioner use a lot of energy. A lot of people don't understand that, and are easy marks for scammers.
I think the next big discovery is a lot less likely to come from the US than it was a few years ago.
You aren't kidding. Now that we've decided that the laws of physics can be invalidated by a simple majority vote, science is going to be stifled. You never know what research will be politically offensive.
No need for home visits. By then everyone's subdermal chip will record everything for later review.
What fun will that be? Remember, people who want to regulate sexual behavior tend to want to see what they want to regulate.