Avast ye scurvy, this vessel has almost no use! With cameras on every angle she can't go anywhere but Davy Jone's locker without a human skipper. The autonomous flyin' about may look sweet as a maiden but she can't sail her way out of a calm bay at sunset.
The political process that created the Mickey Mouse law 50 years ago is even more corrupt today and is trending toward something even more malign with today's corporations being allowed to campaign directly for politicians without saying who they are. Isn't two generations enough to tell that the system is permanently broken?
I have been looking for an IT job for a year. Any job. I would gladly take one of those soul sucking script reading help desk positions. I'm a damned good computer repairman and I have my certs. And I've been looking for a year. looking hard.
I have applied at every
company in the three towns I have been in. I know all about resume tweaking, interviewing, how companies search. I could write a damned book on looking for a job. The only thing I don't have is a degree.
So I keep reading about how the average salary it 60,000 dollars and the unemployment rate is 6 percent and it smells more like bullshit with every pound I lose.
Unfortunately peaceful protesters can be completely ignored by the government and the following can be suppressed by police officers who already see the world through "us vs them" shaded glasses:
People "resisting arrest". People not sucking up to said authorities. People refusing to turn in their weapons when so commanded. People disobeying any law, however vague or unjust.
Those protesting nonviolently can be ignored and those protesting violently can be shot. Furthermore leaders of protesting groups can be harassed, imprisoned, and framed. and these things are happening right now in today's America. That only violent protesters will likely be attacked by military units is no a comfort to me in a place that has city, county, state, and federal police officers actively suppressing my rights, my voice, and my person.
The press release is fluff
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Intel Buys McAfee
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· Score: 4, Interesting
100% marketing fluff. I really, REALLY want to know what happened under the table, what's still happening under the table, what McAfee has that 15 cheap startups don't, and how this is going to affect Intel hardware in the future.
Then you got lucky. I've seen Windows 95; 98; and, god help me, ME; bluescreen hundreds of times not to mention 2000, NT, and a few in XP (before SP 2)
Forgive my ignorance but besides traditional cryptography what does this proof (presuming it's valid) men for the world? What new knowledge will we have? What equations will this simplify? Will if give us a warp drive or what?
The names you cite in number 4 are an obvious straw man. Wikileaks is not leaking those names, it is redacting them as we speak BEFORE listing those names. so what's in those 15,000 documents? And who is paying you to mislead us?
Intern to troll the interwebs for "violations": $40 Information infrastructure to hand it to a lawyer without thinking about the consequences: $20,000,000 Lawyer to send a nasty letter: $400 Telling MIT how to teach: Priceless
An Enemy in a declared war has the Geneva convention. Those detained around the world by direction of the overzealous and otherwise evil politicians of today have nothing.
But it was in reply to a comment denigrating browser sniffing which wasn't around until there were multiple browsers existing and in serious development.
A calculator is a crutch. It teaches people not to know how to actually do mathematics and only rely on the machine.
I really don't understand why it's even necessary to be sure any but math students understand the underlying math anymore. Since computers can do that stuff for us shouldn't we be using that time to teach our students how to solve higher level problems? And if it's the underlying math we want to be sure they know why are we letting them have graphing calculators in the test?
Either the problem is how to be sure they know how to prove an equation (then test for that, and you don't need a calculator to do it) or the test is to see if they can solve higher level problems once the underlying equations are solved (then let them use all the tools they can bring)
Are we afraid our engineers will run out of calculators one day? Are we afraid that something bad will happen if 80% of our engineering majors can't do higher level math when they have computers to do it anyway? If I can use the Pythagorean theorem why is the proof of it important? Is the real point of all this to just make school more difficult? A rite of passage? If school should be made difficult for its own sake why are we not using the same study time to teach things that are more likely to be useful?
How many of us spent two years learning high level math, five years forgetting it, and then never really needed it except for the novelty of figuring out a particular problem on our own instead of using established tools?
The purpose of America's laws is to benefit the socioeconomic elite, keep everyone else in line, and prevent major social upheaval. The laws are doing just what they are designed to do.
I used the interface to install the Japanese language pack but it doesn't seem to have a way to type in Japanese, only change Windows (I mean the Gnome GUI) to display in Japanese. I don't need that. I googled it (thank you for working with an XP offered DHCP through a wireless router on a different subnet on the first try) and read that pressing both alt keys should work, except it didn't.
I want utorrent because I like it and am familiar with it. I did install a Linux based bittorrent handler but I' m sure utorrent isn't the only Windows program I' ll want to use.
I tried linux distros various times in the past, each time I gave up after a day to a week when drivers and programs wouldn't install, package managers wouldn't work, and I ended up spending more time trying to fix my computer than getting things done.
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu. I can't install the language patch (click on it in Opera, garbage on my screen. right click and save as, now I have it saved but how to install it??) I can't use bittorrent, (can't install wine because I don't know how to install a package handler because of the above problem)
That said, I find Ubintu easier to understand, more intuitive, and friendlier overall than Windows XP. I've used Windows since version 3.11 and never could positively compare Linux to Windows until today. I will now recommend Ubuntu to anyone who asks and I want to thank the linux community for making this OS possible.
When it's possible for a government to couch new laws in terms of right and wrong and when the People are blinded enough to accept such terms, freedom suffers. When freedom suffers enough. Bad Things happen. I don't care if it was Russian spies, free dealing child pornographers, or Assassinations R Us: there is no justification for silencing speech. and as for Terrorism, I'm not even going to dignify that excuse.
Whether the State can loose and bind
In Heaven as well as on Earth:
If it be wiser to kill mankind
Before or after the birth-
These are matters of high concern
Where State-kept school men are;
But Holy State (we have lived to learn)
Endeth in Holy War.
Whether The People be led by the Lord,
Or lured by the loudest throat:
If it be quicker to die by the sword
Or cheaper to die by vote -
These are the things we have dealt with once,
(And they will not rise from their grave)
For Holy People, however it runs,
Endeth in wholly Slave.
Whatsoever, for any cause,
Seeketh to take or give,
Power above or beyond the Laws,
Suffer it not to live!
Holy State or Holy King -
Or Holy People's Will -
Have no truck with the senseless thing.
Order the guns and kill!
Saying -- after -- me:-- Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth.
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, O ye slain!
Once There was The People - it shall never be again!
Some sounds were more flat, as if generated by heavier and less hard objects but the fracturing sounds all seemed equally realistic. What were they comparing?
I, for one, am far more afraid of the government than some random hacker who probably just wants free wifi. Thats why I have my computers secured and my wireless router open.
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Avast ye scurvy, this vessel has almost no use! With cameras on every angle she can't go anywhere but Davy Jone's locker without a human skipper. The autonomous flyin' about may look sweet as a maiden but she can't sail her way out of a calm bay at sunset.
When I'm 70 this will be an internal augmentation. Go Future!
The political process that created the Mickey Mouse law 50 years ago is even more corrupt today and is trending toward something even more malign with today's corporations being allowed to campaign directly for politicians without saying who they are. Isn't two generations enough to tell that the system is permanently broken?
This comment added just to be silly.
I have been looking for an IT job for a year. Any job. I would gladly take one of those soul sucking script reading help desk positions. I'm a damned good computer repairman and I have my certs. And I've been looking for a year. looking hard. I have applied at every company in the three towns I have been in. I know all about resume tweaking, interviewing, how companies search. I could write a damned book on looking for a job. The only thing I don't have is a degree. So I keep reading about how the average salary it 60,000 dollars and the unemployment rate is 6 percent and it smells more like bullshit with every pound I lose.
is WTF. Large quantities of WTF
Unfortunately peaceful protesters can be completely ignored by the government and the following can be suppressed by police officers who already see the world through "us vs them" shaded glasses:
People "resisting arrest". People not sucking up to said authorities. People refusing to turn in their weapons when so commanded. People disobeying any law, however vague or unjust.
Those protesting nonviolently can be ignored and those protesting violently can be shot. Furthermore leaders of protesting groups can be harassed, imprisoned, and framed. and these things are happening right now in today's America. That only violent protesters will likely be attacked by military units is no a comfort to me in a place that has city, county, state, and federal police officers actively suppressing my rights, my voice, and my person.
*cough*helium*cough
100% marketing fluff. I really, REALLY want to know what happened under the table, what's still happening under the table, what McAfee has that 15 cheap startups don't, and how this is going to affect Intel hardware in the future.
Then you got lucky. I've seen Windows 95; 98; and, god help me, ME; bluescreen hundreds of times not to mention 2000, NT, and a few in XP (before SP 2)
Forgive my ignorance but besides traditional cryptography what does this proof (presuming it's valid) men for the world? What new knowledge will we have? What equations will this simplify? Will if give us a warp drive or what?
I'll see your pi and raise you an e.
The names you cite in number 4 are an obvious straw man. Wikileaks is not leaking those names, it is redacting them as we speak BEFORE listing those names. so what's in those 15,000 documents? And who is paying you to mislead us?
Intern to troll the interwebs for "violations": $40
Information infrastructure to hand it to a lawyer without thinking about the consequences: $20,000,000
Lawyer to send a nasty letter: $400
Telling MIT how to teach: Priceless
An Enemy in a declared war has the Geneva convention. Those detained around the world by direction of the overzealous and otherwise evil politicians of today have nothing.
But it was in reply to a comment denigrating browser sniffing which wasn't around until there were multiple browsers existing and in serious development.
A calculator is a crutch. It teaches people not to know how to actually do mathematics and only rely on the machine.
I really don't understand why it's even necessary to be sure any but math students understand the underlying math anymore. Since computers can do that stuff for us shouldn't we be using that time to teach our students how to solve higher level problems? And if it's the underlying math we want to be sure they know why are we letting them have graphing calculators in the test?
Either the problem is how to be sure they know how to prove an equation (then test for that, and you don't need a calculator to do it) or the test is to see if they can solve higher level problems once the underlying equations are solved (then let them use all the tools they can bring)
Are we afraid our engineers will run out of calculators one day? Are we afraid that something bad will happen if 80% of our engineering majors can't do higher level math when they have computers to do it anyway? If I can use the Pythagorean theorem why is the proof of it important? Is the real point of all this to just make school more difficult? A rite of passage? If school should be made difficult for its own sake why are we not using the same study time to teach things that are more likely to be useful?
How many of us spent two years learning high level math, five years forgetting it, and then never really needed it except for the novelty of figuring out a particular problem on our own instead of using established tools?
The purpose of America's laws is to benefit the socioeconomic elite, keep everyone else in line, and prevent major social upheaval. The laws are doing just what they are designed to do.
Which brings me to my final point, ladies and gentlemen: Don't smoke crack.
!sudo apt-get install scim-bridge-client-gtk
I used the interface to install the Japanese language pack but it doesn't seem to have a way to type in Japanese, only change Windows (I mean the Gnome GUI) to display in Japanese. I don't need that. I googled it (thank you for working with an XP offered DHCP through a wireless router on a different subnet on the first try) and read that pressing both alt keys should work, except it didn't.
I want utorrent because I like it and am familiar with it. I did install a Linux based bittorrent handler but I' m sure utorrent isn't the only Windows program I' ll want to use.
I tried linux distros various times in the past, each time I gave up after a day to a week when drivers and programs wouldn't install, package managers wouldn't work, and I ended up spending more time trying to fix my computer than getting things done.
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu. I can't install the language patch (click on it in Opera, garbage on my screen. right click and save as, now I have it saved but how to install it??) I can't use bittorrent, (can't install wine because I don't know how to install a package handler because of the above problem)
That said, I find Ubintu easier to understand, more intuitive, and friendlier overall than Windows XP. I've used Windows since version 3.11 and never could positively compare Linux to Windows until today. I will now recommend Ubuntu to anyone who asks and I want to thank the linux community for making this OS possible.
tldr: Thank you.
When it's possible for a government to couch new laws in terms of right and wrong and when the People are blinded enough to accept such terms, freedom suffers. When freedom suffers enough. Bad Things happen. I don't care if it was Russian spies, free dealing child pornographers, or Assassinations R Us: there is no justification for silencing speech. and as for Terrorism, I'm not even going to dignify that excuse.
Whether the State can loose and bind
In Heaven as well as on Earth:
If it be wiser to kill mankind
Before or after the birth-
These are matters of high concern
Where State-kept school men are;
But Holy State (we have lived to learn)
Endeth in Holy War.
Whether The People be led by the Lord,
Or lured by the loudest throat:
If it be quicker to die by the sword
Or cheaper to die by vote -
These are the things we have dealt with once,
(And they will not rise from their grave)
For Holy People, however it runs,
Endeth in wholly Slave.
Whatsoever, for any cause,
Seeketh to take or give,
Power above or beyond the Laws,
Suffer it not to live!
Holy State or Holy King -
Or Holy People's Will -
Have no truck with the senseless thing.
Order the guns and kill!
Saying -- after -- me:--
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth.
Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, O ye slain!
Once There was The People - it shall never be again!
Some sounds were more flat, as if generated by heavier and less hard objects but the fracturing sounds all seemed equally realistic. What were they comparing?
I, for one, am far more afraid of the government than some random hacker who probably just wants free wifi. Thats why I have my computers secured and my wireless router open.