I don't get it......Why is it that when a vulnerability is found in FOSS, you people all come out and mock it while ignoring all the incompetence of proprietary software?
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So, I'm definitely not a physicist, but I have a question that your comment seems to be at the root of.
The beginning of the universe does not need to conserve energy, but things as far as we can tell are conserved after that.
As far as I understand it, we're trying to figure out what's happening on the edge of the expanding universe, but we have no idea what is outside of our universe that it is expanding into. It could be something that doesn't follow any of our laws of physics and is inexplicable, all we know is that it not this universe. If we know our Universe started in NotThisUniverse, and you mention the beginning of the universe does not need to conserve energy, then doesn't it follow that energy came from NotThisUniverse? And possibly, once here our laws of physics allowed for the creation of a stable universe? If so, could we explain the vacuum energy as saying that the expansion of our universe into NotThisUniverse is allowing the conversion/transfer/creation of energy from NotThisUniverse "stuff" to our universe stuff?
I don't care about Bennett's opinion on a great deal of things, and I really want to not click on his posts to NOT generate traffic - hopefully thinking that he will eventually if no one is reading his posts. But then, I REALLY like to see people make fun of him in the comments, so I click on the post. But then that adds page views to the post meaning Bennett will do more of these in the future. It's a vicious, ugly cycle. I want to break it, but it's so much fun to make fun of Bennett....
I used to work as a Geologist across the Western US, and I lived in Washington State. I did a stint in North Dakota and I drove through Montana several times. 85 would save a TON of time. I generally drove 5 miles over any given speed limit anywhere (depending on which state I was going to, it was anywhere between 800-1000 miles for the drive). 5 MPH wasn't enough to have the cops pull me over and I would easily save an hour of driving. It doesn't seem like much, but an 11-hour drive changing to a 10-hour drive is AMAZING. Those last hours suck balls. But anyways, I told this story because your point is correct. You have to drive a LONG distance before the speed limit makes a significant difference in time. One takeaway I learned from that driving is that speeding on a short drive makes no sense at all!:)
As soon as I read the Summary, the first thing I thought (and hoped) would happen would be that all the crazy crap politicians would say would get flagged as extremist:D
There's a pretty interesting theory out there that it could be the addition of lead into Gasoline that caused a large increase in crime. When lead was finally removed from Gasoline in the 70s, we started to see a significant decrease in violent crimes over time. Not sure if it's correct or not, but a pretty neat idea!
Well, at the risk of troll feeding, I did say that I wouldn't pay for it if it was through Cable. I have no problem paying for content. Fuck cable companies though.
The reason I posted is because the people of the Slashdot community are probably more than likely also going to be the people with know-how to cut ties to cable while still being able to watch the content they want to watch. Out of this community, of the people who enjoy football, I was curious to see what their response would be if football did move to cable-only. Is football important enough to people who have cut cables ties to go back to cable? I certainly find no value in football, but I thought that, for the people who do, it was a pretty interesting question!
I really, really, don't give a shit about football and never go out of my way to keep up on teams or try to watch games. I like football just fine; if a friend is watching a game, I'll watch it with them and go to their Super Bowl party. For me, this story doesn't matter at all - it won't affect the number of football games I watch this year at all. But considering how people are moving away from Cable, I wonder if actual football fans are anything like me.
I like NOT paying for cable MORE than I like any given show. If there was a show I was watching over the air that I absolutely loved, and it moved to cable, I would not watch that show anymore. There's so much other content out there and I'm not going to pay for cable to watch one thing. Do football fans feel that same way?
We should also clarify: People who want to read reports really don't actually want to read reports. They want pretty colors and lines that they can digest in seconds. Even then, nine times out of ten, they don't understand a typical report without an accompanying 30-60 minute meeting describing what is going on (length depends on how many graphs and/or KPIs are involved). And you are totally right! You can make the most awesome report/dashboard anyone has ever seen. It'll drill up an down through your data from the highest level to the lowest and have all the coolest maps/graphs/charts/etc. But no one in Management will ever use it - everyone likes the idea of an interactive report, but NO ONE actually wants to use it (or even learn how to use it). They want a static report with colors and lines, and they want someone to tell them what it means.
It doesn't mean they're stupid by any means (of course, sometimes they really are;) ) but they really, really, REALLY just don't give a crap about fancy reports.
Maybe that's what needs to happen. Maybe our iPods and iPads SHOULD cost us a little bit more. In competition to lower prices, companies have moved manufacturing jobs overseas. We've become a society of consumers, we hardly produce any of the things we consume. Maybe if our "things" cost a little bit more money, there'd be more incentive to build things here and bring jobs back.
I used to work at the Apple Store and before they released the changes to the in-app purchasing. One day, a customer cam in and was pissed off that his kid had racked up $200 in some scammy game app. I'll never forget this, but one of his main counterpoints was him incredulously saying, "What am I supposed to do? Review every app my kid wants to play??"
I nodded and smiled in commiseration, but inside my head I said, "Yes. Yes you are. You're the adult, that's what you do."
So, yeah, there are definitely predatory apps out there, but there are also a lot of dumb parents.
I don't know if it's the "Terrorist Watch List" but my name somehow got on a list. I remember when I was getting my ticket at the check in stand, the agent took my ID and walked off. For 30 minutes I was standing there with no answers. When they came back, they said my name was similar to a name on a watchlist and in the future, I needed to make sure to add my middle initial to any tickets I purchased. I spaced on that the next ticket I bought and sure enough, the same 30 minute process. Since then I've always used my middle initial with no issues.
The real kicker is that my name is in no way unique. It's one of the top 10 most common names in the US for the last hundred years. My last name, while not THAT common, is still very common. I actually like it because no one can ever find me online - you can Google my name - even with my full middle name - in quotes and thousands of people with the same name. It's like saying "John Smith" is on the list, so anyone named John Smith could possibly be that guy. So, if it's anything like my situation, common names may get added to a list - and from what we've seen in the past - it can be very difficult to be removed from the list.
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I don't get it......Why is it that when a vulnerability is found in FOSS, you people all come out and mock it while ignoring all the incompetence of proprietary software?
I see that this is your first visit to Slashdot. Welcome!
The beginning of the universe does not need to conserve energy, but things as far as we can tell are conserved after that.
As far as I understand it, we're trying to figure out what's happening on the edge of the expanding universe, but we have no idea what is outside of our universe that it is expanding into. It could be something that doesn't follow any of our laws of physics and is inexplicable, all we know is that it not this universe. If we know our Universe started in NotThisUniverse, and you mention the beginning of the universe does not need to conserve energy, then doesn't it follow that energy came from NotThisUniverse? And possibly, once here our laws of physics allowed for the creation of a stable universe? If so, could we explain the vacuum energy as saying that the expansion of our universe into NotThisUniverse is allowing the conversion/transfer/creation of energy from NotThisUniverse "stuff" to our universe stuff?
Then he grabbed his mobile device and started blogging again. :)
That's not a very gouda joke
You should get strung up for those jokes.
Someone should hack Sony and then release The Interview online. I'd laugh.
Ha! +1 if I had any Mod points!
I don't care about Bennett's opinion on a great deal of things, and I really want to not click on his posts to NOT generate traffic - hopefully thinking that he will eventually if no one is reading his posts. But then, I REALLY like to see people make fun of him in the comments, so I click on the post. But then that adds page views to the post meaning Bennett will do more of these in the future. It's a vicious, ugly cycle. I want to break it, but it's so much fun to make fun of Bennett....
The fallacy of the false dick-otomy strikes again :-)
Considering how the thread started, I FTFY :)
I used to work as a Geologist across the Western US, and I lived in Washington State. I did a stint in North Dakota and I drove through Montana several times. 85 would save a TON of time. I generally drove 5 miles over any given speed limit anywhere (depending on which state I was going to, it was anywhere between 800-1000 miles for the drive). 5 MPH wasn't enough to have the cops pull me over and I would easily save an hour of driving. It doesn't seem like much, but an 11-hour drive changing to a 10-hour drive is AMAZING. Those last hours suck balls. But anyways, I told this story because your point is correct. You have to drive a LONG distance before the speed limit makes a significant difference in time. One takeaway I learned from that driving is that speeding on a short drive makes no sense at all! :)
I fucking hate when people copy pasta into Slashdot! I don't need any more marinara sauce!
Wow. That really offended you. How dare jedidiah say something so interesting and inoffensive!!!
As soon as I read the Summary, the first thing I thought (and hoped) would happen would be that all the crazy crap politicians would say would get flagged as extremist :D
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27067615
The reason I posted is because the people of the Slashdot community are probably more than likely also going to be the people with know-how to cut ties to cable while still being able to watch the content they want to watch. Out of this community, of the people who enjoy football, I was curious to see what their response would be if football did move to cable-only. Is football important enough to people who have cut cables ties to go back to cable? I certainly find no value in football, but I thought that, for the people who do, it was a pretty interesting question!
Glad to help! ;)
I like NOT paying for cable MORE than I like any given show. If there was a show I was watching over the air that I absolutely loved, and it moved to cable, I would not watch that show anymore. There's so much other content out there and I'm not going to pay for cable to watch one thing. Do football fans feel that same way?
Wow.. this reply got modded down as a Troll? Huh... And I didn't even use the word fuck!
It doesn't mean they're stupid by any means (of course, sometimes they really are ;) ) but they really, really, REALLY just don't give a crap about fancy reports.
Yeah, but it's still our job to make fun of the manager who can't put a simple Excel Graph together. We gotta have standards.
Maybe that's what needs to happen. Maybe our iPods and iPads SHOULD cost us a little bit more. In competition to lower prices, companies have moved manufacturing jobs overseas. We've become a society of consumers, we hardly produce any of the things we consume. Maybe if our "things" cost a little bit more money, there'd be more incentive to build things here and bring jobs back.
And you know what? Forget the blackjack AND the blow!
I used to work at the Apple Store and before they released the changes to the in-app purchasing. One day, a customer cam in and was pissed off that his kid had racked up $200 in some scammy game app. I'll never forget this, but one of his main counterpoints was him incredulously saying, "What am I supposed to do? Review every app my kid wants to play??"
I nodded and smiled in commiseration, but inside my head I said, "Yes. Yes you are. You're the adult, that's what you do."
So, yeah, there are definitely predatory apps out there, but there are also a lot of dumb parents.
The machines have found proof that we have an immortal painter living who's been changing names throughout history!
The real kicker is that my name is in no way unique. It's one of the top 10 most common names in the US for the last hundred years. My last name, while not THAT common, is still very common. I actually like it because no one can ever find me online - you can Google my name - even with my full middle name - in quotes and thousands of people with the same name. It's like saying "John Smith" is on the list, so anyone named John Smith could possibly be that guy. So, if it's anything like my situation, common names may get added to a list - and from what we've seen in the past - it can be very difficult to be removed from the list.