... occasional asshat professors can get away with...
... having both ankles smashed with a ball-peen hammer, in a dark place with no witnesses, by someone wearing nondescript clothes, gloves, and a ski mask?
Was working at some apartment complexes ~10 years ago as head of maintenance.
The general manager would routinely answer the phone and, if the person sounded urban/black/ebonics-ish, she would tell them that there were no vacancies.
There were ALWAYS vacancies.
Last I heard, the mortgage company that held the note on the apartments got wind of it and demanded that the manager be replaced.
There are even recent studies that find that resumes which hint at an applicant being black get a lower response rate than those who don't...
I am a USA-ian. My upstream apes were of English/European descent. I am very glad they didn't name me "Barnaby" or "Horatio". And none of my sisters are named "Fanny" or Mathilda". If we had ridiculous-sounding names, we would have had a harder time of it.
And if my parents had named me "Colton" or "Joe-Bob", or my sisters "Charlene" or "Tamara", employers may have assumed that we were descended from trailer-trash NASCAR-and-pro-wrestling types.
That is simple common sense.
So why do black folk name their kids "Shantiqua" and "Jaeqwan"?
A black guy named "David" or "James" tells me that his parents may have been worthwhile people and good role models.
A black guy named "Laquon" or "Mustafa" tells me that his parents are welfare-check-having malt-liquor-drinking Jerry Springer watchers and the offspring likely share those traits.
Of course the black folk think dark-skinned "David" is "too white", I mean the NERVE of that guy! Having that fancy "job" and being "married" to his baby-mama. How DARE he!
I know those are horrible stereotypes, but the world is a real place and people DO stereotype other people. It is the whole "first impression" bit.
Seems like an intelligent person would realize this, and allow for it while selecting baby names.. ?
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The abbreviated agencies will hire some Israelis with things similar in size to commercial airplanes and crash them into large buildings on a Second Life server, and then blame it on "cyber-Arabs".
The FOX News trash will get all Twitter-pated and the open Internet will become illegal.
We will then see wide support for a new, improved, network called "The InterNot" which will be used to deliver media content and infomercials to Joe Sixpack and his obese family.
The InterNot won't actually be more secure than the previous open Internet, but the FOX News and American Idol crowd will think it is very secure because they have to take off their shoes before using it.
They give you a "free domain", and then when your DNS queries reach a certain number, they suspend your domain for "unspecified reasons" and then make you pay twice the price of.com to have the domain re-enabled.
AFAIK the term is derived from the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game.
In the Dragonlance series of books, the various classes of mage were dressed differently depending on their nature. Good=white, neutral=red, black=evil.
The space between each pair of deck planks in a wooden ship was filled with packing material called âoeoakumâ and then sealed with a mixture of pitch and tar. The result, from afar, was a series of parallel lines and a half-foot or so apart, running the length of the deck. Once a week, as a rule, usually on Sunday, a warshipâ(TM)s crew was ordered to fall in at quartersâ"that is, each group of men into which the crew was divided would line up in formation in a given area of the deck. To insure a neat alignment of each row, the sailors were directed to stand with their toes just touching a particular seam. Another use for these seams was punitive. The youngsters in a ship, be they shipâ(TM)s boy or student officers, might be required to stand with their toes just touching a designated seam for a length of time as punishment for some minor infraction of discipline, such as talking or fidgeting at the wrong time. A tough captain might require the miscreant to stand there, not talking to anyone, in fair weather or foul, for hours at a time. Hopefully, he would learn it was easier and more pleasant to conduct himself in the required manner rather that suffer the punishment. From these two uses of deck seams comes our cautionary word to obstreperous youngsters to âoetoe the line.â
A lot of Pentium 4 machines from 7 or 8 years ago, running a mix of Debian-based distros with a gig or less of ram and hard drives 160 gigs or smaller.
Slashdot Mirror
Seen on 4chan:
I rewted jew.com! All your bagel are belong to us!!!1 LOLK
Those would not be robots. They would be mechanical exoskeletons.
They would also be really, REALLY cool.
But they would not be "robots".
Now go to the office and turn in your geek card.
You beat me to it.
An RC car with a demo saw mounted on top is still a fucking RC car.
Robot = autonomous.
Anybody who thinks Battle Bots involved "robots" is a tool.
Facebook sucks.
More news at 11.
... occasional asshat professors can get away with...
... having both ankles smashed with a ball-peen hammer, in a dark place with no witnesses, by someone wearing nondescript clothes, gloves, and a ski mask?
Now THAT was funny.
I called Mr. Cameron on the telephone and asked what was behind it all.
Mr. Cameron says the new curbs are actually a safety measure to keep all that Internet traffic from running over the cyber-street-walkers.
Safety first, I always say!
I have seen the situation you write about.
Was working at some apartment complexes ~10 years ago as head of maintenance.
The general manager would routinely answer the phone and, if the person sounded urban/black/ebonics-ish, she would tell them that there were no vacancies.
There were ALWAYS vacancies.
Last I heard, the mortgage company that held the note on the apartments got wind of it and demanded that the manager be replaced.
There are even recent studies that find that resumes which hint at an applicant being black get a lower response rate than those who don't...
I am a USA-ian. My upstream apes were of English/European descent. I am very glad they didn't name me "Barnaby" or "Horatio". And none of my sisters are named "Fanny" or Mathilda". If we had ridiculous-sounding names, we would have had a harder time of it.
And if my parents had named me "Colton" or "Joe-Bob", or my sisters "Charlene" or "Tamara", employers may have assumed that we were descended from trailer-trash NASCAR-and-pro-wrestling types.
That is simple common sense.
So why do black folk name their kids "Shantiqua" and "Jaeqwan"?
A black guy named "David" or "James" tells me that his parents may have been worthwhile people and good role models.
A black guy named "Laquon" or "Mustafa" tells me that his parents are welfare-check-having malt-liquor-drinking Jerry Springer watchers and the offspring likely share those traits.
Of course the black folk think dark-skinned "David" is "too white", I mean the NERVE of that guy! Having that fancy "job" and being "married" to his baby-mama. How DARE he!
I know those are horrible stereotypes, but the world is a real place and people DO stereotype other people. It is the whole "first impression" bit.
Seems like an intelligent person would realize this, and allow for it while selecting baby names.. ?
*** commence down-modding in 3... 2... 1... GO ***
Don't worry, Team America has got it covered.
The abbreviated agencies will hire some Israelis with things similar in size to commercial airplanes and crash them into large buildings on a Second Life server, and then blame it on "cyber-Arabs".
The FOX News trash will get all Twitter-pated and the open Internet will become illegal.
We will then see wide support for a new, improved, network called "The InterNot" which will be used to deliver media content and infomercials to Joe Sixpack and his obese family.
The InterNot won't actually be more secure than the previous open Internet, but the FOX News and American Idol crowd will think it is very secure because they have to take off their shoes before using it.
Haliburton will supply the hardware.
.tk sucks
Their machine runs like so:
They give you a "free domain", and then when your DNS queries reach a certain number, they suspend your domain for "unspecified reasons" and then make you pay twice the price of .com to have the domain re-enabled.
Don't use .tk for anything that isn't disposable.
Sorry, copypasta.
Should have given it a shufti before posting.
If you have a daughter, you can say she isn't Cockasian.
It should be obvious that she is Asian because she doesn't have a Cock.
"whitehat" hackers
"redhat" linux
"blackhat" convention
In regards to the summary, yes, a red team comes from the red team / blue team system.
I was not addressing the submitter, however, in fact my response was a reply to
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3247105&cid=41958715
who expressed curiosity as to the origin of the term "white hat".
Thank you, and have a lovely day.
AFAIK the term is derived from the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game.
In the Dragonlance series of books, the various classes of mage were dressed differently depending on their nature. Good=white, neutral=red, black=evil.
Correct.
The archaic derivation seems to be:
TOE THE LINE
The space between each pair of deck planks in a wooden ship was filled with packing material called âoeoakumâ and then sealed with a mixture of pitch and tar. The result, from afar, was a series of parallel lines and a half-foot or so apart, running the length of the deck. Once a week, as a rule, usually on Sunday, a warshipâ(TM)s crew was ordered to fall in at quartersâ"that is, each group of men into which the crew was divided would line up in formation in a given area of the deck. To insure a neat alignment of each row, the sailors were directed to stand with their toes just touching a particular seam. Another use for these seams was punitive. The youngsters in a ship, be they shipâ(TM)s boy or student officers, might be required to stand with their toes just touching a designated seam for a length of time as punishment for some minor infraction of discipline, such as talking or fidgeting at the wrong time. A tough captain might require the miscreant to stand there, not talking to anyone, in fair weather or foul, for hours at a time. Hopefully, he would learn it was easier and more pleasant to conduct himself in the required manner rather that suffer the punishment. From these two uses of deck seams comes our cautionary word to obstreperous youngsters to âoetoe the line.â
If I had a face like you, I'd join the British army.
Flatfile and SSD.
Is there an ignore list on FakeBook?
My baseline tin is solid gold, baybeeee!
A lot of Pentium 4 machines from 7 or 8 years ago, running a mix of Debian-based distros with a gig or less of ram and hard drives 160 gigs or smaller.
Oh yeah....
VirtualBox.
'Nuff said.
lowendbox for servers, wiki and rsync, database replication, local backups to hd or ssd
oops, totally fucked that one up
"not-for-profit"
no
s/not/non
Two words:
Oolite
multiplayer
Carry on.