If the US can't tax it, they'll ban it. Right now the IRS goes after every source of personal income, whether it was earned in the US or in any other sovereign nation. Think about that. You're a US Citizen living outside the US. Any income generated by you is subject to US taxation even though you may have not earned the money in the US and you're not living there. So if Bitcoin can't be tracked and taxed, ultimately the US govt. will ban its use because it goes contrary to their money-sucking dreams.
Oh and you forget, IBM has sold to anybody and in some cases with the Nod of the US government. This includes the Shah of Iran but lots of US companies dealt with the Nazis (Ford, ITT, US Steel etc.) It was just good business back then.
Sad really, IBM once stood for innovation and industry leadership. Now they're all about maximizing shareholder equity and other buzzwords that have nothing to do with being a leader. The board needs to fire most of the C level MBA shit-for-brains and hire some tech talent from within to re-motivate the company before it's too late.
I'm well aware of the bad things Javascript can do. I'm also aware of tools that let you disable Javascript selectively. It's a question of who do you trust and frankly if you can't trust any websites out there, then don't go out. I can't see every website disabling Javascript just "because the NSA used it" or "hax0r x used it for a DDOS" attack. That's why we have Browser extensions that help defer us from malicious sites and for this website I'll just use it, like all others, with a moniker of caution. That still doesn't mean that Slashdot is "da debil!"
Just about as much animosity as you'd have toward an idea to hack your leg off because marketroids at some faraway corporation think they get a few dollars off of your misery.
So you're saying that self mutilation is better than a website? Also remember, Slashdot isn't charging for this forum and the only reason I hang around is that there are articles once in awhile that aren't mainstream news. So I have no beef with somebody making a buck who's providing a free service.
It does not work without JavaScript. Most people here know well why JS should be disabled.
When the other 90% of websites out there turn off JS then I guess that argument will hold up but just because it still uses it doesn't mean that it's horrible. Would everybody have preferred them to write it using asp.net?? Yes JavaScript allows malicious sites to do bad things, I'm not seeing anything bad coming from the Beta site.
It's getting there, though, and pretty fast.
Well I haven't seen any security warnings or people beating down the door claiming that there PII was stolen from Slashdot, but I'll keep my eyes open.
What's amazing to me is that there's soooooo much animosity towards the changes in the new website. It may not be the prettiest thing on the block but can somebody point out some functional deficiencies? I'm not talking that it's "different" but what exactly is broken and has to be fixed vs. a style issue? Other than that, let's not forget it's a free site and like others I've been here awhile myself but I can't see this as a problem, Posting still works, the articles still come in but shit every damn article of late has fuckbeta this and fuckbeta that, such to the point that it's more about bitching than actual substance. It's not like this is the Healthcare.gov site is it?
I watched a BBC News story on this, it's sad that this new Trust is fouling things up with the Computer Museum. I don't see how you can have Bletchly Park without mentioning Colossus and early computing.
I love ACs who make these inflammatory statements without any knowledge on the subject. The German war machine was allowed to grow because of the complacence of its neighbors. Throughout the Nazi regime before there was any aggression there were treaty violations that none of Germany's neighbors did anything about. Was it up to the US to deal with that? If you have a guy building a war machine in the house next door the time to stop it is when you first see it, not let him build it to see how good it looks in final paint. There was also ample time for the European leaders to see just how effective the German war machine was in the Spanish Civil War, did anybody not see the German Air and Armored divisions not go into Spain in 1936 to support Franco? It was all training folks for Germany, live fire no doubt, but still training and when Germany was finally ready there wasn't much that could stop them except a little strip of ocean. That was also 4 years before the invasion of Poland. When war finally did break out the US did lend its support, in March 1941 the Lend Lease act was passed to provide material support for those fighting Nazi aggression. If that hadn't been enacted, what would the outcome have been in Europe?
I think the correct definition would be dual properties comprised of different materials and densities. Other than that you better send like Risperdal or Prozac to the asteroid immediately and sign it up for a guest shot on Dr. Phil.
I want live rounds.. not paintball stuff and AFAIK those are pretty much motion detectors on mounts right? This can discriminate so I could hit the specific target I'd want. We have to think out of the box here because just having an indiscriminate killing machine wouldn't be fun, right?
I hadn't thought of this with the Kinect controllers becoming available but with this application it appears we can now build the Marine Automatic Machine Gun from Aliens!, the UA-571C! Should I just Kickstart it or what?
Just what I need to keep those pesky kids off my lawn!
Shit, I guess London got it wrong then since they built the Underground and only being about 49 feet above sea level. I mean, right next to the Thames river and all. Oh wait, Rome does have a subway system because even though it's only about 43 feet above sea level at the Pantheon, it's over 15 miles from the Ocean. The big problem with Rome and public transit are public transit strikes leaving everybody without a car trying to get to work. Strikes are such a big problem, there's even websites warning you about them. But there are hundreds of buses and Intercity trains too, so lack of options isn't really an issue there.
Because they ticket you for any nuisance thing you can do. It's impossible to drive in Rome or anywhere in Italy and not get a ticket for something. It's a revenue stream because nobody is going to argue against it. Why? We all know how good the Italian Justice system is, right? You'd have a better chance arguing your case in the Coliseum in front of a pride of hungry lions.
When driving in Rome the old saying "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." applies otherwise you'll get into an accident but then again, you'll probably get into an accident anyway. True Story: When leaving from vacation in Rome and heading to the airport in a hired car, our driver in his Mercedes did a quick lane change and turned left, cutting a car off. We felt a thud and simultaneous crash of glass, the driver shrugged, looked in his mirror and kept driving us to the airport.
To make the people feel like their Police/Government is listening to them and will actually do something perhaps?
But yes, you can stumble 10 feet in almost any direction and find vehicles parked and abandoned all over Rome. What's even funnier are the motor scooters that you know have been locked to that lamentable light pole or bike rack for months and are damaged or covered in 2 inches of dust. It's like the Owner forgot all about them.
Yeah, You have enough "Ghetto Trash" in Michigan. Folks from Mississippi are down to earth people and this kind of comment demeans the discussion here. Beside they just caught up with the mom there who hacked her son up in Michigan. Did she come from Mississippi?
Uh, what about all the test stands at the MSFC and the new stand? What about the former shuttle engine stand at the JSSC? Those couldn't be adapted/re-purposed to work? It's not just the test stand it's also the logistics surrounding it. We all want the new/shiney stuff but sometimes why can't they just re-use what they already have? That seems to be missing from the dialog here.
The Ghosts of Jamie Whitten and John Stennis live on in Mississippi. Bringing federal dollars to pork barrel projects.
Jamie Whitten was the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee and any appropriations bill that passed by had to have something for Mississippi. Stennis was the same way in the Senate and together they always got something for Mississippi it seems in every appropriations bill. That was true when the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor was mandated by Congress after the Challenger incident. NASA didn't want it but if they wanted to fund the shuttle and other programs, they had to take the ASRM too. Things like having to deliver the ASRM rockets on barges were put into bid contracts to prevent Thiokol (the supplier of RSRM engines for the shuttle) from bidding on the contract. Oh, they just happened to have the site at Iuka MS, which among being the site of a defunct Nuclear Reactor project by the TVA and was also a former weapons depot.
You see that's the problem with the seniority system in Congress, you can get politicians re-elected by people and they just move up the ladder on all these committees and it's the committees where all the power is in Congress. You can't just put legislation on the floor of either the House or Senate, it has to go through Committee first and if you have ranking congressmen and senators blocking projects until they get what they want, then important legislation can be held up indefinitely. It's been that way since our Federal Government was formed and handcuffs well meaning legislation with bad things that garner support from fringe members of Congress to get the votes necessary to pass the whole package.
Even though everybody thinks that Earmarks are supposedly a thing of the past, they're still around. The testing facility in MS shows again that port barrel spending is alive and well and a lot of things still get through, for example with the recent budget deal. Did you also know we have a STARBASE program as well? Well in 2012 it received $5m in funding and while most won't consider it a lot, it's really a glorified recruiting program.
Why? Because it gets rid of the traditional, local Communications Office (CO) and eliminates a lot of maintenance and infrastructure costs because POTS lines require the local CO to have switching gear and a whole lot of batteries to maintain them. That's why you can still get a dial tone during a power outage on a POTS line. Sure from the CO out it's all digital now but doing this allows them to reduce costs while not providing better service necessarily or reducing prices paid by customers. For example, I have VZ Fios but they still want to charge me $30/month for phone service which is their flavor of VOIP, something you can get for free. All of this allows them to get rid of real estate, labor costs and a lot of older hardware and workers. No COs means less workers maintaining them.
Oh please spare me the "save me save me" rhetoric. People in Atlanta could certainly watch TV, listen to the news and judge for themselves what the risks were. It's quite clear a lot didn't make the right decision and it's time to stop blaming incompetent politicians for the fact that people are sheep and will follow the herd mentality wherever they go; even if it is to the slaughterhouse. It happens everywhere, even when the government says "Get Out" like in Hurricanes. You still see idiots having Hurricane parties or telling themselves that they went through one before and it wasn't that bad. There the ones on the news sitting on their roofs in the aftermath waving their hands in the air for somebody to come and get them. To quote one of my favorite movies: "They knew what they were getting into. I say let'm crash!" - Airplane!
Of course the incompetent politicians can always drum up news to avoid taking responsibility for their incompetence too. Like the former mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin, a truly dumb retard if there ever was one elected to office. He's the guy on trial right now but back after Katrina hit New Orleans to get attention he made up a whopper just for headlines: ""They have people standing out there, have been in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people." - Ray Nagin..
Of course all of it was made up and none of it could be substantiated. Now if I had that "leader" telling me it was "safe" then I'd say "fuck off" and make my own plans. Macho? No, just common sense because none of these politicians and experts can predict exactly what will happen with the weather. You're a fool if you believe otherwise.
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If the US can't tax it, they'll ban it. Right now the IRS goes after every source of personal income, whether it was earned in the US or in any other sovereign nation. Think about that. You're a US Citizen living outside the US. Any income generated by you is subject to US taxation even though you may have not earned the money in the US and you're not living there. So if Bitcoin can't be tracked and taxed, ultimately the US govt. will ban its use because it goes contrary to their money-sucking dreams.
At least they built something.
Oh and you forget, IBM has sold to anybody and in some cases with the Nod of the US government. This includes the Shah of Iran but lots of US companies dealt with the Nazis (Ford, ITT, US Steel etc.) It was just good business back then.
GSD's motto: "Fuck the customers and provide service from a cornfield in Iowa"
Sad really, IBM once stood for innovation and industry leadership. Now they're all about maximizing shareholder equity and other buzzwords that have nothing to do with being a leader. The board needs to fire most of the C level MBA shit-for-brains and hire some tech talent from within to re-motivate the company before it's too late.
I'm well aware of the bad things Javascript can do. I'm also aware of tools that let you disable Javascript selectively. It's a question of who do you trust and frankly if you can't trust any websites out there, then don't go out. I can't see every website disabling Javascript just "because the NSA used it" or "hax0r x used it for a DDOS" attack. That's why we have Browser extensions that help defer us from malicious sites and for this website I'll just use it, like all others, with a moniker of caution. That still doesn't mean that Slashdot is "da debil!"
I'll just let my Beretta Onyx Pro do the talking when it comes to drones. Pull!
Yeah I don't like the real estate issues either but it's not a show stopper, just makes the site harder to read. They need to work on the CSS.
Just about as much animosity as you'd have toward an idea to hack your leg off because marketroids at some faraway corporation think they get a few dollars off of your misery.
So you're saying that self mutilation is better than a website? Also remember, Slashdot isn't charging for this forum and the only reason I hang around is that there are articles once in awhile that aren't mainstream news. So I have no beef with somebody making a buck who's providing a free service.
It does not work without JavaScript. Most people here know well why JS should be disabled.
When the other 90% of websites out there turn off JS then I guess that argument will hold up but just because it still uses it doesn't mean that it's horrible. Would everybody have preferred them to write it using asp.net?? Yes JavaScript allows malicious sites to do bad things, I'm not seeing anything bad coming from the Beta site.
It's getting there, though, and pretty fast.
Well I haven't seen any security warnings or people beating down the door claiming that there PII was stolen from Slashdot, but I'll keep my eyes open.
werd.
What's amazing to me is that there's soooooo much animosity towards the changes in the new website. It may not be the prettiest thing on the block but can somebody point out some functional deficiencies? I'm not talking that it's "different" but what exactly is broken and has to be fixed vs. a style issue? Other than that, let's not forget it's a free site and like others I've been here awhile myself but I can't see this as a problem, Posting still works, the articles still come in but shit every damn article of late has fuckbeta this and fuckbeta that, such to the point that it's more about bitching than actual substance. It's not like this is the Healthcare.gov site is it?
I watched a BBC News story on this, it's sad that this new Trust is fouling things up with the Computer Museum. I don't see how you can have Bletchly Park without mentioning Colossus and early computing.
I love ACs who make these inflammatory statements without any knowledge on the subject. The German war machine was allowed to grow because of the complacence of its neighbors. Throughout the Nazi regime before there was any aggression there were treaty violations that none of Germany's neighbors did anything about. Was it up to the US to deal with that? If you have a guy building a war machine in the house next door the time to stop it is when you first see it, not let him build it to see how good it looks in final paint. There was also ample time for the European leaders to see just how effective the German war machine was in the Spanish Civil War, did anybody not see the German Air and Armored divisions not go into Spain in 1936 to support Franco? It was all training folks for Germany, live fire no doubt, but still training and when Germany was finally ready there wasn't much that could stop them except a little strip of ocean. That was also 4 years before the invasion of Poland. When war finally did break out the US did lend its support, in March 1941 the Lend Lease act was passed to provide material support for those fighting Nazi aggression. If that hadn't been enacted, what would the outcome have been in Europe?
That motorcycles are now in space?
I think the correct definition would be dual properties comprised of different materials and densities. Other than that you better send like Risperdal or Prozac to the asteroid immediately and sign it up for a guest shot on Dr. Phil.
Isn't turnabout fair play then? Drunk video of her barfing on Youtube = dumped.
I want live rounds.. not paintball stuff and AFAIK those are pretty much motion detectors on mounts right? This can discriminate so I could hit the specific target I'd want. We have to think out of the box here because just having an indiscriminate killing machine wouldn't be fun, right?
I hadn't thought of this with the Kinect controllers becoming available but with this application it appears we can now build the Marine Automatic Machine Gun from Aliens!, the UA-571C! Should I just Kickstart it or what?
Just what I need to keep those pesky kids off my lawn!
Shit, I guess London got it wrong then since they built the Underground and only being about 49 feet above sea level. I mean, right next to the Thames river and all. Oh wait, Rome does have a subway system because even though it's only about 43 feet above sea level at the Pantheon, it's over 15 miles from the Ocean. The big problem with Rome and public transit are public transit strikes leaving everybody without a car trying to get to work. Strikes are such a big problem, there's even websites warning you about them. But there are hundreds of buses and Intercity trains too, so lack of options isn't really an issue there.
Because they ticket you for any nuisance thing you can do. It's impossible to drive in Rome or anywhere in Italy and not get a ticket for something. It's a revenue stream because nobody is going to argue against it. Why? We all know how good the Italian Justice system is, right? You'd have a better chance arguing your case in the Coliseum in front of a pride of hungry lions.
When driving in Rome the old saying "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." applies otherwise you'll get into an accident but then again, you'll probably get into an accident anyway. True Story: When leaving from vacation in Rome and heading to the airport in a hired car, our driver in his Mercedes did a quick lane change and turned left, cutting a car off. We felt a thud and simultaneous crash of glass, the driver shrugged, looked in his mirror and kept driving us to the airport.
To make the people feel like their Police/Government is listening to them and will actually do something perhaps?
But yes, you can stumble 10 feet in almost any direction and find vehicles parked and abandoned all over Rome. What's even funnier are the motor scooters that you know have been locked to that lamentable light pole or bike rack for months and are damaged or covered in 2 inches of dust. It's like the Owner forgot all about them.
Yeah, You have enough "Ghetto Trash" in Michigan. Folks from Mississippi are down to earth people and this kind of comment demeans the discussion here. Beside they just caught up with the mom there who hacked her son up in Michigan. Did she come from Mississippi?
Uh, what about all the test stands at the MSFC and the new stand? What about the former shuttle engine stand at the JSSC? Those couldn't be adapted/re-purposed to work? It's not just the test stand it's also the logistics surrounding it. We all want the new/shiney stuff but sometimes why can't they just re-use what they already have? That seems to be missing from the dialog here.
The Ghosts of Jamie Whitten and John Stennis live on in Mississippi. Bringing federal dollars to pork barrel projects.
Jamie Whitten was the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee and any appropriations bill that passed by had to have something for Mississippi. Stennis was the same way in the Senate and together they always got something for Mississippi it seems in every appropriations bill.
That was true when the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor was mandated by Congress after the Challenger incident. NASA didn't want it but if they wanted to fund the shuttle and other programs, they had to take the ASRM too. Things like having to deliver the ASRM rockets on barges were put into bid contracts to prevent Thiokol (the supplier of RSRM engines for the shuttle) from bidding on the contract. Oh, they just happened to have the site at Iuka MS, which among being the site of a defunct Nuclear Reactor project by the TVA and was also a former weapons depot.
You see that's the problem with the seniority system in Congress, you can get politicians re-elected by people and they just move up the ladder on all these committees and it's the committees where all the power is in Congress. You can't just put legislation on the floor of either the House or Senate, it has to go through Committee first and if you have ranking congressmen and senators blocking projects until they get what they want, then important legislation can be held up indefinitely. It's been that way since our Federal Government was formed and handcuffs well meaning legislation with bad things that garner support from fringe members of Congress to get the votes necessary to pass the whole package.
Even though everybody thinks that Earmarks are supposedly a thing of the past, they're still around. The testing facility in MS shows again that port barrel spending is alive and well and a lot of things still get through, for example with the recent budget deal. Did you also know we have a STARBASE program as well? Well in 2012 it received $5m in funding and while most won't consider it a lot, it's really a glorified recruiting program.
Why? Because it gets rid of the traditional, local Communications Office (CO) and eliminates a lot of maintenance and infrastructure costs because POTS lines require the local CO to have switching gear and a whole lot of batteries to maintain them. That's why you can still get a dial tone during a power outage on a POTS line. Sure from the CO out it's all digital now but doing this allows them to reduce costs while not providing better service necessarily or reducing prices paid by customers. For example, I have VZ Fios but they still want to charge me $30/month for phone service which is their flavor of VOIP, something you can get for free. All of this allows them to get rid of real estate, labor costs and a lot of older hardware and workers. No COs means less workers maintaining them.
Oh please spare me the "save me save me" rhetoric. People in Atlanta could certainly watch TV, listen to the news and judge for themselves what the risks were. It's quite clear a lot didn't make the right decision and it's time to stop blaming incompetent politicians for the fact that people are sheep and will follow the herd mentality wherever they go; even if it is to the slaughterhouse. It happens everywhere, even when the government says "Get Out" like in Hurricanes. You still see idiots having Hurricane parties or telling themselves that they went through one before and it wasn't that bad. There the ones on the news sitting on their roofs in the aftermath waving their hands in the air for somebody to come and get them. To quote one of my favorite movies: "They knew what they were getting into. I say let'm crash!" - Airplane!
Of course the incompetent politicians can always drum up news to avoid taking responsibility for their incompetence too. Like the former mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin, a truly dumb retard if there ever was one elected to office. He's the guy on trial right now but back after Katrina hit New Orleans to get attention he made up a whopper just for headlines: ""They have people standing out there, have been in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people." - Ray Nagin..
Of course all of it was made up and none of it could be substantiated. Now if I had that "leader" telling me it was "safe" then I'd say "fuck off" and make my own plans. Macho? No, just common sense because none of these politicians and experts can predict exactly what will happen with the weather. You're a fool if you believe otherwise.