"There is no more helpless a fealing than an email user who cant reply to an automated spam message, to tell the sender to get a life, or stop sending the message."
Oh I dunno... I think struggling vainly as somebody is bashing your brains out on the floor would engender a slightly more helpless feeling than not being able to reply to an automated spam message.
After a few weeks of relatively typo-free story submissions, it's nice to see the/. editors buckling down and releasing one that's just rife with typos and grammatical errors. Thanks for not letting me down; I was starting to get worried.
I just read the bloody article. The parrot taught the science guy the concept of 0.
From TFA:
One of these apparent lapses occurred one day when an experimenter asked Alex "what color three?" Laid out before Alex were sets of two, three and six objects, each set differently colored. Alex insisted on responding: "five." This made no sense given that the answer was supposed to be a color.
After several tries the experimenter gave up and said: "OK, Alex, tell me: what color five?" "None," the bird replied.
So not only did the bird have a concept of 0, but apparently it knew that the science guy didn't know, so it told him what was up.
Your comment brings up an interesting point. Let's just say sex offendors are "only" as bad as murderers. What the heck are murderers and sex offenders doing getting out of jail to begin with?
That aside, there's a myth that child molest have a higher recidivism rate than other criminals, at least according to these guys.
So tracking child molestors by GPS works with the myth to make Jeb look caring.
In my opinion, there's a really good way to make the child molestation recidivism rate 0. Drawing and quartering would be my first choice. Throw a GPS on the mess left over if it makes you feel better.
Does that make them "one of the most important companies in the world" though? One of the top 1000 maybe. If somebody's life is that changed by Blogger and Maps, maybe they need to go outside and look at some local wildlife or something.
No I didn't rtfa, I didn't even get through the description on the front page before I cringed. Most important company... sigh.
In Baja, the typical "diablo" squid story involves a hapless fisherman...
What the quote fails to mention is that the "fisherman" is fishing for Humbolt squid.
Sure they're "vicious" when you have dozens of fishing boats dropping bloody bait into the water as the squid come up for their nightly feeding.
They're also "vicious" as the fishermen begin hauling them up with 6" long multi-barbed hooks that literally shred the squids as they're being drawn up.
However, if there isn't any human squid fishing in the area you can swim with Humbolts with no problem. I wish I could link to the documentary I learned this from, but I can't find it.
Bottom line: you screw with any top tier predator you're going to get aggressive behavior.
So everybody is shrieking: "Jailtime for the vigilantes!"
Well duh. Vigilantes generally break the law to be vigilantes.
But they do it for a reason. I didn't get through more than 90 of the highest modded comments, but I saw very little honestly asking why somebody would choose to go outside the law like this.
Hint: read the definition in the link above.
Another hint: read the part in parenthesis.
Now my question: is it true? Then why can't anybody admit it?
Don't write your sentator, write Burt! Okay so Hubble is about 300 miles higher than the designed limit of Space Ship One, but hey, if we hurry, we can just take it over before it crashes.
Think about it. Private industry bypassing the pork. If the gov't has a problem wellllll let them come up into space and talk man to man.
The secret isn't a big caffeine burst, it the ability to draw out a nice, medium buzz over long hours -- more uniform programming.
So I would leave instant coffee behind and try instead the Power Dream Java Jolt. You'll have to drink about $40.00 of them a day, but you'll be stocked full of good vitamins, minerals, and just enough caffeine to keep you flying.
Government doesn't seem to care, Diebold doesn't care, but wouldn't the American people notice if, say, they go into the voting booth to do their democratic duty and find the latest slashdot poll instead?
Everybody who works in a fish processing plant or fast food joint will essentially get a chance to shake hands. I hope they washed after using the john.
You're right. There's a certain trust in a transaction where you have to sign your name for what you're buying, or count out exact change. It's a transaction, but it's also a contract, between you and the supplier of your product. It's something to take more seriously than just bleeping your finger over a scanner, taking the bag, and walking out.
I've never thought about this before, but it seems to me that the transaction was one of the first conversations ever held. It has continued since we humans have been able to communicate. Lately, despite all the new mediums through which we communicate, people actualy seem to communicate less. Maybe the loss of the transaction as a ritual, is just another step.
In other news, President George W. Bush as extended the Axis of Evil to include the Sun. "This supposed ally has been flexing its nucular [sic] muscles without U.N. oversight for generations. While small infractions can be overlooked, a direct strike at the U.S. will not be ignored."
"....or we could tell Bush there is oil on Mars =)"
Even that wouldn't help. The US is losing so many technological races now (stem cell research comes to mind first) because the US ideology is no longer based on innovation. It's based on getting home from work, popping a beer, and watching Friends over some KFC. We are the Rome of the millennium and the aqueducts have just begun to degrade. Enjoy the slide.
There are more people than cops! I still don't get why people don't just ignore stupid laws. Sure, if I get a summons and I don't show up to court, I get my head dented by some "trigger happy peace clown." But if everybody did it... And yes. I'm listening to punk right now.
That's my kind of protest. Did people cut off their feet to keep from being drafted? No they burned their draft cards! Show some balls software world. Fight. Dirty.
When you call the president a facist, you've pretty much trashed not just the country, not just its leaders, but everything the country is about.
The fact that you can say that (true or not) is more important. That shows what a cool country we can be.
But ask yourself about Guantanamo Bay, the power that the Patriot Act gives our executive branch, the stalling of the the 9/11 investigation, refusing (even now!) to backup its so-called "intelligence" on Iraq. All these things do have a somewhat fascist sound to them. Bush has done a great job of tilting the government's balance of power toward the executive branch.
Let me just present this to you: where was the large anti-war movement in Kosovo.
Clinton was smart there. He didn't send many troops in there -- and few if any reservists. Instead of reserves to take care of camp, provide food, etc., he hired a professional army. He also avoided a bloody, muderous, prolonged stay a la Ira^H^H^H^H Vietnam.
I only got through the first 10 or so highest moderated comments, and I didn't read the article link (if there was one... I have no clue), so take this as a typical/. comment. What little I did read seemed to take one thing for granted:
that as a consultant, one knows the entire context of managers' decisions.
This is probably untrue. Chances are, Consultant, you have no clue what's going on, or the full reason why you've been told to do something.
If you do know the hiring company intimately, and you understand the inner workings that create such decisions, then maybe you can judge the quality of your orders.
Nitpicking to 97% of Linux users out there, but it looks like it's only for the IA32 platform. That rules out my PowerPC. Of course, the card that is under review probably doesn't work on the Mac Platform anyway. *sigh*
Is there an equivalent of Wine for running Mac OS X applications on Linux/PowerPC? How many of the libraries in Mac OS X have equivalents in Linux (how close is GNUstep to Apple's stuff, etc)?
GNUstep works okay with Apple stuff although there are some compile issues because of Aqua. Linux Journal has a neat article about this. You can view the TOC here
Oh, BTW, I run Debian. I don't see any reason for these specialized PPC only Distros, and I don't know why they make news. Why would I want a distribution for one architecture that's different from the distro on all the other architectures I run? Also, why would I want to wait the rediculous periods between yellow dog releases when I can just use debian unstable and have the latest and greatest daily?
Some people will "settle" for mostly latest but ultimately greatest, so that they get the stability they require and the beauty of an up to date system. Also, many computer users (most likely less experienced than you are) are looking for a simple installation that doesn't require an intimate knowledge of the hardware.
With YDL you get the simple installation of a RH-like distro and the power of apt-get to install and upgrade.
And last, thanks to an active user community, updates to YDL are coming faster and faster. This community is increasing in size and aggression as we speak. Go to irc.freenode.net and join #yellowdog to see what I'm talking about.
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...but sometimes /. submissions seem totally senseless.
"Perhaps I should secure my neighbour's wireless connection for him before Windows automagically connects to it and gets me arrested!"
Perhaps instead you should buck up.
"There is no more helpless a fealing than an email user who cant reply to an automated spam message, to tell the sender to get a life, or stop sending the message."
... I think struggling vainly as somebody is bashing your brains out on the floor would engender a slightly more helpless feeling than not being able to reply to an automated spam message.
Oh I dunno
After a few weeks of relatively typo-free story submissions, it's nice to see the /. editors buckling down and releasing one that's just rife with typos and grammatical errors. Thanks for not letting me down; I was starting to get worried.
I just read the bloody article. The parrot taught the science guy the concept of 0.
From TFA:
One of these apparent lapses occurred one day when an experimenter asked Alex "what color three?" Laid out before Alex were sets of two, three and six objects, each set differently colored. Alex insisted on responding: "five." This made no sense given that the answer was supposed to be a color.
After several tries the experimenter gave up and said: "OK, Alex, tell me: what color five?" "None," the bird replied.
So not only did the bird have a concept of 0, but apparently it knew that the science guy didn't know, so it told him what was up.
Your comment brings up an interesting point. Let's just say sex offendors are "only" as bad as murderers. What the heck are murderers and sex offenders doing getting out of jail to begin with?
That aside, there's a myth that child molest have a higher recidivism rate than other criminals, at least according to these guys.
So tracking child molestors by GPS works with the myth to make Jeb look caring.
In my opinion, there's a really good way to make the child molestation recidivism rate 0. Drawing and quartering would be my first choice. Throw a GPS on the mess left over if it makes you feel better.
Does that make them "one of the most important companies in the world" though? One of the top 1000 maybe. If somebody's life is that changed by Blogger and Maps, maybe they need to go outside and look at some local wildlife or something.
... sigh.
No I didn't rtfa, I didn't even get through the description on the front page before I cringed. Most important company
at least make a convincing argument rather than resorting to fallacious accusations.
ANOTHER thing I love. Many of these comments are the equivalent of "Well if I were part of this anarchist community I would be really pissed."
Well if you read the comments about the press release from people who actually *go* to the site, you'll find a huge outpouring of support.
People who learned courage from D&D shouldn't try to mock people who are trapped in real situations.
In Baja, the typical "diablo" squid story involves a hapless fisherman...
What the quote fails to mention is that the "fisherman" is fishing for Humbolt squid.
Sure they're "vicious" when you have dozens of fishing boats dropping bloody bait into the water as the squid come up for their nightly feeding.
They're also "vicious" as the fishermen begin hauling them up with 6" long multi-barbed hooks that literally shred the squids as they're being drawn up.
However, if there isn't any human squid fishing in the area you can swim with Humbolts with no problem. I wish I could link to the documentary I learned this from, but I can't find it.
Bottom line: you screw with any top tier predator you're going to get aggressive behavior.
Of course it's a bit low; they're already addicted to gaming. Go read a book.
So everybody is shrieking: "Jailtime for the vigilantes!"
Well duh. Vigilantes generally break the law to be vigilantes.
But they do it for a reason. I didn't get through more than 90 of the highest modded comments, but I saw very little honestly asking why somebody would choose to go outside the law like this.
Hint: read the definition in the link above.
Another hint: read the part in parenthesis.
Now my question: is it true? Then why can't anybody admit it?
Don't write your sentator, write Burt! Okay so Hubble is about 300 miles higher than the designed limit of Space Ship One, but hey, if we hurry, we can just take it over before it crashes.
Think about it. Private industry bypassing the pork. If the gov't has a problem wellllll let them come up into space and talk man to man.
Boy I wish.
The secret isn't a big caffeine burst, it the ability to draw out a nice, medium buzz over long hours -- more uniform programming.
So I would leave instant coffee behind and try instead the Power Dream Java Jolt. You'll have to drink about $40.00 of them a day, but you'll be stocked full of good vitamins, minerals, and just enough caffeine to keep you flying.
Good stuff.
Government doesn't seem to care, Diebold doesn't care, but wouldn't the American people notice if, say, they go into the voting booth to do their democratic duty and find the latest slashdot poll instead?
Maybe that would be a better name for the new group.
(tip of the hat to Gary Larson)
Everybody who works in a fish processing plant or fast food joint will essentially get a chance to shake hands. I hope they washed after using the john.
You're right. There's a certain trust in a transaction where you have to sign your name for what you're buying, or count out exact change. It's a transaction, but it's also a contract, between you and the supplier of your product. It's something to take more seriously than just bleeping your finger over a scanner, taking the bag, and walking out.
I've never thought about this before, but it seems to me that the transaction was one of the first conversations ever held. It has continued since we humans have been able to communicate. Lately, despite all the new mediums through which we communicate, people actualy seem to communicate less. Maybe the loss of the transaction as a ritual, is just another step.
Sun delivers yet another shot at Earth
In other news, President George W. Bush as extended the Axis of Evil to include the Sun. "This supposed ally has been flexing its nucular [sic] muscles without U.N. oversight for generations. While small infractions can be overlooked, a direct strike at the U.S. will not be ignored."
"....or we could tell Bush there is oil on Mars =)"
Even that wouldn't help. The US is losing so many technological races now (stem cell research comes to mind first) because the US ideology is no longer based on innovation. It's based on getting home from work, popping a beer, and watching Friends over some KFC. We are the Rome of the millennium and the aqueducts have just begun to degrade. Enjoy the slide.
There are more people than cops! I still don't get why people don't just ignore stupid laws. Sure, if I get a summons and I don't show up to court, I get my head dented by some "trigger happy peace clown." But if everybody did it ... And yes. I'm listening to punk right now.
That's my kind of protest. Did people cut off their feet to keep from being drafted? No they burned their draft cards! Show some balls software world. Fight. Dirty.
When you call the president a facist, you've pretty much trashed not just the country, not just its leaders, but everything the country is about.
The fact that you can say that (true or not) is more important. That shows what a cool country we can be.
But ask yourself about Guantanamo Bay, the power that the Patriot Act gives our executive branch, the stalling of the the 9/11 investigation, refusing (even now!) to backup its so-called "intelligence" on Iraq. All these things do have a somewhat fascist sound to them. Bush has done a great job of tilting the government's balance of power toward the executive branch.
Let me just present this to you: where was the large anti-war movement in Kosovo.
Clinton was smart there. He didn't send many troops in there -- and few if any reservists. Instead of reserves to take care of camp, provide food, etc., he hired a professional army. He also avoided a bloody, muderous, prolonged stay a la Ira^H^H^H^H Vietnam.
Why, when you have all the answers, of course.
I only got through the first 10 or so highest moderated comments, and I didn't read the article link (if there was one ... I have no clue), so take this as a typical /. comment. What little I did read seemed to take one thing for granted:
that as a consultant, one knows the entire context of managers' decisions.
This is probably untrue. Chances are, Consultant, you have no clue what's going on, or the full reason why you've been told to do something.
If you do know the hiring company intimately, and you understand the inner workings that create such decisions, then maybe you can judge the quality of your orders.
Nitpicking to 97% of Linux users out there, but it looks like it's only for the IA32 platform. That rules out my PowerPC. Of course, the card that is under review probably doesn't work on the Mac Platform anyway. *sigh*
Is there an equivalent of Wine for running Mac OS X applications on Linux/PowerPC? How many of the libraries in Mac OS X have equivalents in Linux (how close is GNUstep to Apple's stuff, etc)?
GNUstep works okay with Apple stuff although there are some compile issues because of Aqua. Linux Journal has a neat article about this. You can view the TOC here
Oh, BTW, I run Debian. I don't see any reason for these specialized PPC only Distros, and I don't know why they make news. Why would I want a distribution for one architecture that's different from the distro on all the other architectures I run? Also, why would I want to wait the rediculous periods between yellow dog releases when I can just use debian unstable and have the latest and greatest daily?
Some people will "settle" for mostly latest but ultimately greatest, so that they get the stability they require and the beauty of an up to date system. Also, many computer users (most likely less experienced than you are) are looking for a simple installation that doesn't require an intimate knowledge of the hardware.
With YDL you get the simple installation of a RH-like distro and the power of apt-get to install and upgrade.
And last, thanks to an active user community, updates to YDL are coming faster and faster. This community is increasing in size and aggression as we speak. Go to irc.freenode.net and join #yellowdog to see what I'm talking about.