> Even if I sit in front of the TV and just browse YouTube, it is amazing the great stuff I can find. Videos of presentations from various conferences. Class lectures. There is a guy with a great set of videos Introduction to Higher Math. Various tutorials. It's way better than couch potato cable TV.
[sarcasm] Oh yeah, after doing programming all day long and fucking around with docker, asterisk, postfix, nginx, etc. in the meantime, the first thing I want to do when i get home after 8-9 hours of that is do some HIGHER MATH !!!1 [/sarcasm]
I know this is popular on slashdot type sites, but seriously though. Give me Married with.. Children, Seinfeld,... and a beer so I can turn my brain off from constant calculations it's doing half my waking time... or do you not work ?
I used linux (on desktop) since 2001 - actively. Debian, Redhat, Slackware, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Gentoo, I've had all of it... and fucked around with all of their individual quirks to get them to work, etc.
Now I use Mint. It just works (with some bugs here and there, but tolerable) and gets out of my way.. exactly what I want to get my work done.
It also has some quirks, with retarded update policies and couple of other things, but I get why... and It's fine. I can mitigate security concerns the other ways.
> This is mostly the praddle of those that dropped out or never went. Sure, if you want to be a Systems Admin drone, and think that it's the apex of IT, fine. But if you want to be a serious software archatect who understands the global issues and actually builds the future, no, sorry, a high school dropout usually doesn't cut it.
Good system admins that understand the environment they work in, software, hardware and how services work and interact with each other (and therefore are very effective at creating things and solving problems), that have 15 years professional experience (*NOT* corporate bullshit, where nobody is doing anything or there are 10 people so it's easy to get away with doing nothing) are not drones and should be valued better. I know it's common to put everybody in the same basket and judge them like you just did, but it's stupid and just shows your ignorance (ironic that you're modded as insightful).
Some of them that transitioned to programming jobs after working as system admins are 2x more capable of any programmer i've seen, CS grads that have 0 experience especially.
If you combine geekness (passion) with actual opportunity and eventually experience, no school can top that.
I would rather argue that college students are drones. Spoon fed knowledge without experience of trying and failing and trying again, and learning from your own first hand experience what works and what doesn't work and WHY.
Last 3-4 days we saw posts how theater is dying and hollywood not making enough (how greedy can these people be ?) money wise, netflix and people watching stuff at home.
Now this article... looks like PR. Hey, didn't you know ? It's cool to watch movie in theater".
I just love how they got bashed in all the comments here.
I vaccinated my kids because I'm a coward. Yes. This is like saying people that kill themselves are cowards... absolute nonsense. Takes a lot of balls/suffering Try it.
Takes a lot of balls to risk your children's health, and not vaccinate them when the majority of people are pro vaccination + there's (almost) full scientific consensus that vaccines do more good than bad + I myself am vaccinated, and I'm fine (?).
But I do not like vaccines because: 1. I do not trust governments. It's full of sociopaths and psychopaths that do not care about you or your children, and probably would be happier if there are less of us and are contemplating ideas to reduce the population somehow. 2. I do not trust pharma industry, it's full of sociopaths and psychopaths that do not care about you or your children, and probably would be happier if you and your children are sick more frequently.
Lizards. I'm saying this half jokingly (no i do not think trans dimensional lizard people are enslaving us), but as older I'm getting...the more I think everything that matters is run by people that have 0 emotions and care for other people, and in fact look at "us" as inferior and undeserving. Scientific community included.
What's most depressing is that most of what conspiracy theorist "nutjobs" said in 1990s, turned out to be true in 2010+. I'm afraid one day I'll read some data leak about conspiracy of pharma industry to weaken the immunity system of kids while they young so they can sell them more medicine throughout life.
Sounds crazy ? Yep. But fuck it... prove I'm wrong, I beg you, for the sake of my children.
> Americans' need to stand up for what they say they believe in.
They don't believe in it. They're just regurgitating those phrases, because they heard it so many times during their upbringing. It's called programming.
Even if they believed in it, people that make the rules don't.
DId I read that right ? That's just fucking stupid.
A programmer (for example) with more that 15 years of active experience that spent countless hours learning new stuff, and improving himself, making $200k a year (if he's lucky), cannot even 'accumulate' 1 million in five years... how the fuck are these CEOs making this much money ?
Oh is it underrated ? Poor windows. No attention at all ! How on earth you got modded +5 is beyond me. That nonsense about using Linux because of ideology is even worse than your Windows comments.
For a power user, Windows is a joke. An OS* that people are often forced into using. Less and less thankfully. It's awesome for being disconnected from internet and running games on it though.
* = Slowly mutating to become a locked down spyware/adware, instead of a locked down bug ridden children's desktop toy it once was.
>Gay people are persecuted just as much in Christian countries as in muslim countries, just not in our Christian countries in the West because we're that much more progressive. Ex-soviet regions like Serbia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Russia itself, as well as many African nations and some Central and South American nations that are Christian treat gay people just as poorly.
Just a correction - Serbia is not and was not part of any soviet regimes. Serbia, or more precise... Yugoslavia (in which Serbia was a member state) was an enemy of Stalin's Russia. Serbia is also not Eastern Europe, culturally nor geographically. Geographically it's SOUTH Eastern Europe and culturally it's more central Europe because it's very close to countries such as Austria, Slovenia, Etc. Only Croatia being between Serbia and aforementioned countries, and Croatia itself is the same people with same language as Serbia (and also, a ex-yugoslavian country) just different religion... and funny enough, you don't see Croatia being mentioned to be USSR state... ever.
Staling attempted to assassinate Tito 6 times and failed. Yugoslavian countries freed themselves (yugoslav partisans), without any help of USSR (or anybody else), from the nazi occupation. Tito's funeral was the largest state funeral ever. From wikipedia:
"Based on the number of attending politicians and state delegations, it is still regarded as the largest state funeral in history.[2] They included four kings, 31 presidents, six princes, 22 prime ministers and 47 ministers of foreign affairs. They came from both sides of the Cold War, from 128 different countries out of 154 UNO members at the time.[3]"
I know it's offtopic, it just bothers the hell out of me when people say that Serbia was part of USSR.. or is bordering Russia or any other dumb statement like that.
Regarding how gays are treated in Serbia... not very well. But they are not very well treated anywhere in Europe in reality. Go hold hands with a dude in some parts of London or Paris after 9 pm if you want to test the theory. There is a conflict between gay people and zealot football fans in Serbia, and it happens every time gay people start showing themselves off, but in no way reflects what majority of those Christians you mentioned think.
So if you want to be throwing your *opinions* out there, at least don't make factual errors like this and ACTUALLY read about the things that you're writing about. You obviously have no idea how they treat gay people in Serbia, you don't know anything about Serbia except the propaganda material you heard out-of-context, which leads me to believe you have no idea about Russia or any other countries you mentioned... again.. just what your overlords brainwashed you into *believing*, apparently. You are no better than those Christian fundamentalists you're talking about. They have been brainwashed too.
"Tesla has responded to a recent report from a Model X owner claiming their vehicle suddenly accelerated at "maximum speed" by itself, jumped a curb and slammed into the side of a building while his _wife_ was sitting behind the wheel"
> Does anyone around here remember DRIVING those carbureted, non-computer cars?
Maybe your American cars had breaks failing and stuff like that, us in Europe... well, I drive a car since before I got my licence. Started at 12, never got any of these things you mentioned, nor did anybody else.
I NEVER heard of anybody having their breaks fail (they gradually loose effectiveness, until you fix them). Engine cutting off ? Sure... if something (electrical component usually) fails at the time you're driving - again, not a problem if you're maintaining your car. Happened 2 to me in 15 years of driving a car. Not a big deal. And I'm talking about 15 year old car.. that's how my car was old when I started driving it.
Thing was, 20 years ago, you could fix your car yourself for minor problems, now when you open the hud... you can just stare at it.
I myself don't want my freaking car connected to internet or being "smart" in any way. I'm smart enough for it.
... are extinct. People I know that still have watches, most of them have watches as a fashion statement. It's a jewelry.
Other groups I'm aware of are old people who need glasses to see their phone screen, and "some" rich people to show off. Who the f needs a $1000+ USD watch ? Never mind $5k+.
Eventually they gonna disappear all together same as pocket watches did.
It's called evolution. Either you keep with the times or eventually you loose your business and get forgotten.
> I'm not a big fan of government coercion as the solution to everything, but vaccinations are a public health issue where you are affecting more than yourself whenever you sneeze.
How ? Aren't you vaccinated ? If you're vaccinated against flu, and then 5 days later I get the flu and I'm not vaccinated... you still gonna get sick if I sneeze ?
If we throw that argument out of the window, why on earth would you accept governments forcing people into this ? If I consciously decide not to vaccinate myself and my children, what does that have to do with you ? You're already vaccinated, how can I threaten you ?
> I have all ready arranged an explanation for you guys when Russia shows lower rates of disease X and scientists proclaim the "Russia Paradox":
Of course. Because you Americans are all smart, all powerful and always right. No propaganda in your _free_, _democratic_ country. No corruption in your country, you legalized it. You don't kill and commit genocide while you wage war, only Russia and those other "non-friendly" countries do. You are morally superior to everybody, and you're better than everybody !! Right ?? C'mon now, don't pretend you don't think like that.
Fuck your science. It's fueled by money and as long as it is "corrupted" like that, I don't want it to be anywhere near me..and especially not in my food.
One thing is sure. I'll never come close to your country. Really wanted when I was young, but the older I am.. I'm seeing that you people are seriously disconnected from reality and well, just plain nuts. You people are nuts. Thank god there are countries in this world that don't give a shit about what you think and your laws, so I, and other sane citizens of this planet can go. Yes, Russia is saner than you ever will be.
So once more, fuck you, your country, it's laws, three letter agencies, monsanto, militarized police, propaganda machine that's too big to comprehend (everytihng on you tv, hollywood included), politician sociopaths war criminals (every single one of them) I hope you have a FAT life. As I'm sure you will.
Stuff those chemically laced and fake rotten food up in your arrogant know-it-all-all-righteous mouth !
Because it's easy to install and maintain, it has millions of free templates and plugins and it's highly flexible. Because small startups cannot AFFORD a custom coded CMS, themes, plugins or TRAINING. Small startups/businesses in my experience are majority of wordpress users and their money is better spent on marketing, paychecks, and everything else that's needed to get the project off the ground.
I can literally set you up with a site and a ecommerce system in 20 minutes for FREE - that's why. The site that will be functional and professional looking.
The guy I work for now is doing sales of his own brand product. All his sites are in wordpress including the shop site. All of these were made by "clueless" people (in terms of IT knowledge) and he's doing $35k USD a month in sales after 1 year of doing it. It's a small startup, and if wordpress didn't exist - his business wouldn't exist and salaries for 4 people wouldn't exist.
Wordpress has pretty good support as well. Updates are released often, and on dashboard you get notified of those updates - after which you do 2 clicks - done. Up2date, vulnerability gone. If they don't fix known bug, cool - hire somebody to fix it for you.
I know slashdot people like to shit on wordpress, PHP etc., but hundreds of thousands of businesses are on internet because of wordpress. It's a great CMS. Internet is not only geek's playground anymore. Common people are on it now and are running their own internet business thanks to wordpress/joomla, facebook apple and the likes. But I also know average slashdot nerd don't care or understand much about how things work outside of what he does for a living.
Whatever people invent some other people are gonna try to exploit it, and in some cases they will succeed. To successfully prevent people murdering other people you need to treat the cause of that intent. Or at least start thinking about it instead of just forcing another dumb law or trying to put a camera in the cockpit, remote control.. whatever.
In 20 years there will be so many laws and regulations it will be impossible to live.
What's up with people and these retarded knee-jerk reactions ? And you got even modded insightful. This was obviously premeditated. You don't think the guy would be capable of doing the same thing if a clueless flight attendant was there while pilot is taking a leak ? A guy capable of killing himself and 150 other people like this is perfectly capable of knocking the flight attendants lights out before locking the door, and if he really intended to crash the plane... he would indeed punch her/him out first.
Second thing... there's what.. 100k flights per day for the last 10 years ? That's like 360000000 flights. For one freak occurrence you should not introduce new laws and regulations and shit. That's exactly what happened on 9/11.. knee jerk reactions which introduced dozens of new regulations and laws that basically did nothing but made life more difficult and annoying (security theater). And don't give me that crap how every life matters.. nobody cares really about strangers, ottherwise everybody would be in tears over starving children in Africa and some other places instead of stuffing themselves with pizzas, burgers and beer while reading slashdot and playing Call of Duty or whatever. This is just IN now.. plane crashes. So everybody is commenting about it, talking about it, and falsely emotional about it.
And finally, comment on your post title (This validates the US policy). -- The US has some of the stupidest policies ever. They are like everything else - fake. On the surface (or on the paper) they look cool and effective, in real life they're just a shallow cover or a front for taking away your freedom and controlling your life.
I hope Europeans will actually think how they gonna deal with this instead of doing what Americans are doing. Perhaps incorporate emergency biometric scanner or something like that on the door that can override the "unlock" option ? There are dozens of better systems than.. "oh yeah, we can solve the problem by putting the flight attendant in while pilot is out"...
You know who's to blame ? Common people (includes slashdot). When some of us were seeing this coming 10-15 years ago.. we were branded as lunatics. Now.... I'm so glad this is happening. That's for being too blind(or more probable - dumb) to see it before it happened. And guess what ? It's gonna get worse. They gonna teach your kids through movies, music, mainstream media, *tube thingies to like living in a police state were no rights exist.. only (couple of) privileges.
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> Even if I sit in front of the TV and just browse YouTube, it is amazing the great stuff I can find. Videos of presentations from various conferences. Class lectures. There is a guy with a great set of videos Introduction to Higher Math. Various tutorials. It's way better than couch potato cable TV.
[sarcasm]
Oh yeah, after doing programming all day long and fucking around with docker, asterisk, postfix, nginx, etc. in the meantime, the first thing I want to do when i get home after 8-9 hours of that is do some HIGHER MATH !!!1
[/sarcasm]
I know this is popular on slashdot type sites, but seriously though. Give me Married with .. Children, Seinfeld, ... and a beer so I can turn my brain off from constant calculations it's doing half my waking time ... or do you not work ?
I used linux (on desktop) since 2001 - actively.
Debian, Redhat, Slackware, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Gentoo, I've had all of it... and fucked around with all of their individual quirks to get them to work, etc.
Now I use Mint. It just works (with some bugs here and there, but tolerable) and gets out of my way.. exactly what I want to get my work done.
It also has some quirks, with retarded update policies and couple of other things, but I get why... and It's fine. I can mitigate security concerns the other ways.
> This is mostly the praddle of those that dropped out or never went. Sure, if you want to be a Systems Admin drone, and think that it's the apex of IT, fine. But if you want to be a serious software archatect who understands the global issues and actually builds the future, no, sorry, a high school dropout usually doesn't cut it.
Good system admins that understand the environment they work in, software, hardware and how services work and interact with each other (and therefore are very effective at creating things and solving problems), that have 15 years professional experience (*NOT* corporate bullshit, where nobody is doing anything or there are 10 people so it's easy to get away with doing nothing) are not drones and should be valued better. I know it's common to put everybody in the same basket and judge them like you just did, but it's stupid and just shows your ignorance (ironic that you're modded as insightful).
Some of them that transitioned to programming jobs after working as system admins are 2x more capable of any programmer i've seen, CS grads that have 0 experience especially.
If you combine geekness (passion) with actual opportunity and eventually experience, no school can top that.
I would rather argue that college students are drones. Spoon fed knowledge without experience of trying and failing and trying again, and learning from your own first hand experience what works and what doesn't work and WHY.
Last 3-4 days we saw posts how theater is dying and hollywood not making enough (how greedy can these people be ?) money wise, netflix and people watching stuff at home.
Now this article... looks like PR. Hey, didn't you know ? It's cool to watch movie in theater".
I just love how they got bashed in all the comments here.
> Is this what the UK stands for these days?
Why not ?
> By electing a president of a multinational corporation who staffed his cabinet with globalist billionaires? Yeah, sure, bro.
So you think we're better off with a corrupted middleman ?
Meh.
> Get your damn kids vaccinated, cowards.
I vaccinated my kids because I'm a coward. Yes. This is like saying people that kill themselves are cowards... absolute nonsense. Takes a lot of balls/suffering Try it.
Takes a lot of balls to risk your children's health, and not vaccinate them when the majority of people are pro vaccination + there's (almost) full scientific consensus that vaccines do more good than bad + I myself am vaccinated, and I'm fine (?).
But I do not like vaccines because:
1. I do not trust governments. It's full of sociopaths and psychopaths that do not care about you or your children, and probably would be happier if there are less of us and are contemplating ideas to reduce the population somehow.
2. I do not trust pharma industry, it's full of sociopaths and psychopaths that do not care about you or your children, and probably would be happier if you and your children are sick more frequently.
Lizards. I'm saying this half jokingly (no i do not think trans dimensional lizard people are enslaving us), but as older I'm getting...the more I think everything that matters is run by people that have 0 emotions and care for other people, and in fact look at "us" as inferior and undeserving. Scientific community included.
What's most depressing is that most of what conspiracy theorist "nutjobs" said in 1990s, turned out to be true in 2010+. I'm afraid one day I'll read some data leak about conspiracy of pharma industry to weaken the immunity system of kids while they young so they can sell them more medicine throughout life.
Sounds crazy ? Yep. But fuck it... prove I'm wrong, I beg you, for the sake of my children.
> Americans' need to stand up for what they say they believe in.
They don't believe in it. They're just regurgitating those phrases, because they heard it so many times during their upbringing.
It's called programming.
Even if they believed in it, people that make the rules don't.
DId I read that right ? That's just fucking stupid.
A programmer (for example) with more that 15 years of active experience that spent countless hours learning new stuff, and improving himself, making $200k a year (if he's lucky), cannot even 'accumulate' 1 million in five years... how the fuck are these CEOs making this much money ?
$55 million in severance ?
Seriously. Rasputin ?
This is just part of the show people, don't you see that ?
You have bigger enemies within your own country than Russia will ever be.
The ones that are "manufacturing" these retarded articles/news for a start.
Oh is it underrated ? Poor windows. No attention at all !
How on earth you got modded +5 is beyond me. That nonsense about using Linux because of ideology is even worse than your Windows comments.
For a power user, Windows is a joke. An OS* that people are often forced into using. Less and less thankfully. It's awesome for being disconnected from internet and running games on it though.
* = Slowly mutating to become a locked down spyware/adware, instead of a locked down bug ridden children's desktop toy it once was.
How Come ? Department of _Justice_ ? Hello, anybody home ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You people will never learn, will ya.
>Gay people are persecuted just as much in Christian countries as in muslim countries, just not in our Christian countries in the West because we're that much more progressive. Ex-soviet regions like Serbia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Russia itself, as well as many African nations and some Central and South American nations that are Christian treat gay people just as poorly.
Just a correction - Serbia is not and was not part of any soviet regimes. Serbia, or more precise ... Yugoslavia (in which Serbia was a member state) was an enemy of Stalin's Russia. Serbia is also not Eastern Europe, culturally nor geographically. Geographically it's SOUTH Eastern Europe and culturally it's more central Europe because it's very close to countries such as Austria, Slovenia, Etc. Only Croatia being between Serbia and aforementioned countries, and Croatia itself is the same people with same language as Serbia (and also, a ex-yugoslavian country) just different religion... and funny enough, you don't see Croatia being mentioned to be USSR state... ever.
Staling attempted to assassinate Tito 6 times and failed.
Yugoslavian countries freed themselves (yugoslav partisans), without any help of USSR (or anybody else), from the nazi occupation.
Tito's funeral was the largest state funeral ever. From wikipedia:
"Based on the number of attending politicians and state delegations, it is still regarded as the largest state funeral in history.[2] They included four kings, 31 presidents, six princes, 22 prime ministers and 47 ministers of foreign affairs. They came from both sides of the Cold War, from 128 different countries out of 154 UNO members at the time.[3]"
I know it's offtopic, it just bothers the hell out of me when people say that Serbia was part of USSR .. or is bordering Russia or any other dumb statement like that.
Regarding how gays are treated in Serbia... not very well. But they are not very well treated anywhere in Europe in reality. Go hold hands with a dude in some parts of London or Paris after 9 pm if you want to test the theory. There is a conflict between gay people and zealot football fans in Serbia, and it happens every time gay people start showing themselves off, but in no way reflects what majority of those Christians you mentioned think.
So if you want to be throwing your *opinions* out there, at least don't make factual errors like this and ACTUALLY read about the things that you're writing about. You obviously have no idea how they treat gay people in Serbia, you don't know anything about Serbia except the propaganda material you heard out-of-context, which leads me to believe you have no idea about Russia or any other countries you mentioned... again.. just what your overlords brainwashed you into *believing*, apparently. You are no better than those Christian fundamentalists you're talking about. They have been brainwashed too.
"Tesla has responded to a recent report from a Model X owner claiming their vehicle suddenly accelerated at "maximum speed" by itself, jumped a curb and slammed into the side of a building while his _wife_ was sitting behind the wheel"
Wife. Enough said.
Do they look like Mr. Garrison ?
You can query the database without downloading that whole dump and importing 32gb of data into your own mysql..
http://cndezd67wnjzg37t.onion/
They charge $10 to check and retrieve the profile.
> Does anyone around here remember DRIVING those carbureted, non-computer cars?
Maybe your American cars had breaks failing and stuff like that, us in Europe... well, I drive a car since before I got my licence. Started at 12, never got any of these things you mentioned, nor did anybody else.
I NEVER heard of anybody having their breaks fail (they gradually loose effectiveness, until you fix them). Engine cutting off ? Sure... if something (electrical component usually) fails at the time you're driving - again, not a problem if you're maintaining your car. Happened 2 to me in 15 years of driving a car. Not a big deal.
And I'm talking about 15 year old car.. that's how my car was old when I started driving it.
Thing was, 20 years ago, you could fix your car yourself for minor problems, now when you open the hud... you can just stare at it.
I myself don't want my freaking car connected to internet or being "smart" in any way. I'm smart enough for it.
... are extinct. People I know that still have watches, most of them have watches as a fashion statement. It's a jewelry.
Other groups I'm aware of are old people who need glasses to see their phone screen, and "some" rich people to show off. Who the f needs a $1000+ USD watch ? Never mind $5k+.
Eventually they gonna disappear all together same as pocket watches did.
It's called evolution. Either you keep with the times or eventually you loose your business and get forgotten.
well, god save us from developers that cannot figure out virtualbox at first go.
> I'm not a big fan of government coercion as the solution to everything, but vaccinations are a public health issue where you are affecting more than yourself whenever you sneeze.
How ? Aren't you vaccinated ? If you're vaccinated against flu, and then 5 days later I get the flu and I'm not vaccinated... you still gonna get sick if I sneeze ?
If we throw that argument out of the window, why on earth would you accept governments forcing people into this ? If I consciously decide not to vaccinate myself and my children, what does that have to do with you ? You're already vaccinated, how can I threaten you ?
> I have all ready arranged an explanation for you guys when Russia shows lower rates of disease X and scientists proclaim the "Russia Paradox":
Of course. Because you Americans are all smart, all powerful and always right. No propaganda in your _free_, _democratic_ country. No corruption in your country, you legalized it. You don't kill and commit genocide while you wage war, only Russia and those other "non-friendly" countries do. You are morally superior to everybody, and you're better than everybody !! Right ?? C'mon now, don't pretend you don't think like that.
Fuck your science. It's fueled by money and as long as it is "corrupted" like that, I don't want it to be anywhere near me ..and especially not in my food.
One thing is sure. I'll never come close to your country. Really wanted when I was young, but the older I am.. I'm seeing that you people are seriously disconnected from reality and well, just plain nuts. You people are nuts. Thank god there are countries in this world that don't give a shit about what you think and your laws, so I, and other sane citizens of this planet can go. Yes, Russia is saner than you ever will be.
So once more, fuck you, your country, it's laws, three letter agencies, monsanto, militarized police, propaganda machine that's too big to comprehend (everytihng on you tv, hollywood included), politician sociopaths war criminals (every single one of them) I hope you have a FAT life. As I'm sure you will.
Stuff those chemically laced and fake rotten food up in your arrogant know-it-all-all-righteous mouth !
Because it's easy to install and maintain, it has millions of free templates and plugins and it's highly flexible.
Because small startups cannot AFFORD a custom coded CMS, themes, plugins or TRAINING.
Small startups/businesses in my experience are majority of wordpress users and their money is better spent on marketing, paychecks, and everything else that's needed to get the project off the ground.
I can literally set you up with a site and a ecommerce system in 20 minutes for FREE - that's why. The site that will be functional and professional looking.
The guy I work for now is doing sales of his own brand product. All his sites are in wordpress including the shop site. All of these were made by "clueless" people (in terms of IT knowledge) and he's doing $35k USD a month in sales after 1 year of doing it.
It's a small startup, and if wordpress didn't exist - his business wouldn't exist and salaries for 4 people wouldn't exist.
Wordpress has pretty good support as well. Updates are released often, and on dashboard you get notified of those updates - after which you do 2 clicks - done. Up2date, vulnerability gone. If they don't fix known bug, cool - hire somebody to fix it for you.
I know slashdot people like to shit on wordpress, PHP etc., but hundreds of thousands of businesses are on internet because of wordpress. It's a great CMS.
Internet is not only geek's playground anymore. Common people are on it now and are running their own internet business thanks to wordpress/joomla, facebook apple and the likes. But I also know average slashdot nerd don't care or understand much about how things work outside of what he does for a living.
Whatever people invent some other people are gonna try to exploit it, and in some cases they will succeed. .. whatever.
To successfully prevent people murdering other people you need to treat the cause of that intent. Or at least start thinking about it instead of just forcing another dumb law or trying to put a camera in the cockpit, remote control
In 20 years there will be so many laws and regulations it will be impossible to live.
What's up with people and these retarded knee-jerk reactions ? And you got even modded insightful. This was obviously premeditated. You don't think the guy would be capable of doing the same thing if a clueless flight attendant was there while pilot is taking a leak ? A guy capable of killing himself and 150 other people like this is perfectly capable of knocking the flight attendants lights out before locking the door, and if he really intended to crash the plane... he would indeed punch her/him out first.
Second thing... there's what.. 100k flights per day for the last 10 years ? That's like 360000000 flights. For one freak occurrence you should not introduce new laws and regulations and shit. That's exactly what happened on 9/11 .. knee jerk reactions which introduced dozens of new regulations and laws that basically did nothing but made life more difficult and annoying (security theater). And don't give me that crap how every life matters.. nobody cares really about strangers, ottherwise everybody would be in tears over starving children in Africa and some other places instead of stuffing themselves with pizzas, burgers and beer while reading slashdot and playing Call of Duty or whatever. This is just IN now.. plane crashes. So everybody is commenting about it, talking about it, and falsely emotional about it.
And finally, comment on your post title (This validates the US policy). -- The US has some of the stupidest policies ever. They are like everything else - fake.
On the surface (or on the paper) they look cool and effective, in real life they're just a shallow cover or a front for taking away your freedom and controlling your life.
I hope Europeans will actually think how they gonna deal with this instead of doing what Americans are doing. Perhaps incorporate emergency biometric scanner or something like that on the door that can override the "unlock" option ? There are dozens of better systems than .. "oh yeah, we can solve the problem by putting the flight attendant in while pilot is out"...
Jesus.
You know who's to blame ? Common people (includes slashdot). When some of us were seeing this coming 10-15 years ago.. we were branded as lunatics. Now.... I'm so glad this is happening.
That's for being too blind(or more probable - dumb) to see it before it happened. And guess what ? It's gonna get worse. They gonna teach your kids through movies, music, mainstream media, *tube thingies to like living in a police state were no rights exist.. only (couple of) privileges.