People think that they can get away with selling their soul because the dudes in Supernatural always find a workaround. Can't you tell that a tv show is FICTION? In real life you can't break a satanic covenant. Duh.
The Supernatural series is like ARV treatment: it makes people careless by letting them believe that there is no consequence for risky behaviors.
If you say so. I've never seen an episode of Supernatural. I thought it was more like Grimm. I didn't know the Christian deities showed up in it.
In real life, there is no counterparty in a satanic covenant, so that statement wasn't risky behavior. It's also why I'm still waiting on my bag of Cheetos.
So, like, creation. That's thousands of years old.
If you mean the Earth, it certainly is thousands of years old. It's also thousands of thousands of thousands of years old. Usually we just say billions because counting all the thousands is tedious.
Since you are such a rational individual and by no way superstitious, you should have no fear to do the following: reply to this post by stating clearly that you hereby sell your soul to Satan for the price of a bag of Cheetos. If you have balls you will also include in this deal the souls of everyone in your family.
I hereby sell my soul to Satan for a family size bag of Cheetos. I include the souls of everyone in my family. And I'll sell your soul to Shiva for an original recipe Twinkie.
My employer does this, using Bluecoat, and doesn't tell anybody about it. Even my colleagues who are programmers aren't necessarily aware of it.
What's bizarre is the Bluecoat proxy will claim in its boilerplate that it's doing it for network security reasons, but.... they issue everyone in the company a laptop and actively encourage employees to take their laptops home at night. None of the new-hires even have a desktop at all, and veterans only get to keep an old desktop if they can prove the OS licensing is independent of the licensing the IT group administers.
So... network security? Prevention of funneling company secrets out through the firewall? Ha.
I would put it past them. This is incredibly small potatoes for them.
That doesn't stop the FBI busting incredibly small potato piracy sites. I know two people personally who were jailed for facilitating copyright infringement by running an FTP site, and a third who was put in a halfway house for the same thing. Total site users? Less than 500, across all three sites. Private sites, not publicized on the Internet at large. The raids were December 11th, 2001, if you'd care to look it up.
Busy little cossacks will get up to all kinds of things. There are a lot of them, and they're as fond of low-hanging fruit as the next guy. I'm not saying these Bitcoin breaches are government-driven, but I can categorically state that no activity is too small if some monied interest with the government's ear is involved, and that's the very definition of the banking industry. (And Hollywood, in the example cited.)
Unable to use an computer without it, runs fine under wine..
It does? Hot damn. I've been spending more time on a Linux desktop lately and after years of Total Commander, I'm discovering that Midnight Commander is woefully out of date and under-featured. Total Commander alone is so very useful. Total Commander plugins make it spectacularly useful.
This is deeply unlikely to happen but it is possible. If 50%+1 or more shareholders get together, they can do almost whatever they want whether or not the board agrees with it.
Not really, no. Most of the time the direct actions stockholders can vote for are very strictly limited by the articles of incorporation. Usually all they can do is vote to replace members of the board of directors. Presumably the replacements would then do what they want, but stockholders aren't generally allowed to directly set policy, even if they're able to muster a majority. Usually stockholders can't even affect who the executive officers of the company are. Only the board can do that. Most corporations are set up with built-in inertia, under the theory that the ability to change direction too frequently or too radically is less likely to be good for the business.
I can do much the same thing in the same number of lines of Perl code. I don't think there are many who would claim that makes Perl a paragon of language design.
If you're going to be building a space elevator, getting rid of the Van Allen belts is a relatively easy task in comparison.
Umm. I'm thinking that just MIGHT have some unintended consequences.
Not much. It would eliminate the aurora borealis, but that's all. It wouldn't eliminate the belts themselves, which are a magnetic phenomenon emanating from the planet. It would remove all the particles chasing around those field lines, but the fields would remain intact, ready to capture more particles. The fields generated by the HiVOLT system are microscopic in size relative to the belts, generating only a very local distortion in the fields, not counteracting them completely.
The HiVOLT system would have to remain permanently in operation, or the particle burden of the belts would simply accrete again. The particles come primarily from the solar wind, which isn't going away any time soon.
Bill Murray did say he'd be willing to do a third, as long as it didn't suck. He had a pretty high bar for not sucking though, which is why it never happened.
SpaceX has knocked one order of magnitude off the cost already. In a hair over two weeks, they're going to perform a test that, if successful, will point the way to knocking off another order of magnitude. (They're going to attempt a return and (water) landing of the first stage as part of the next Space Station resupply mission.) After that, it's just a matter of volume. You'd be amazed how cheap a big dumb booster can be, and without requiring unobtanium for a space elevator.
But as it is now, hunger is the government's fault because they didn't give you enough food stamps in order to sell half for booze or drugs and feed yourself with the other half.
Blah blah blah are you people STILL beating that dead horse? It was vanishingly rare when it happened at all, and since EBT cards have been in use, it's been nonexistent. That is, for over 15 years now. Give it a rest.
How can you claim it is protecting freedom when it costs something on the order of 10k just to legitimately open a business in government regulation and permits alone in some places today?
What are you on about? I can open a sole proprietorship anywhere in the United States for $0. If I want to do business under a name other than my own, I can do that in my state for $7. I can even submit the form online. Rates are similar in most states. That's if I run it out of my house, which is perfectly legal (and a tax writeoff to boot). If I want an office in the nearest city, it's $50 for the occupancy permit if it's less than 12,000 square feet or $100 for anything over 12,000 square feet. That's hardly unusual, either. Pointing out the prices in Belle Aire is not doing your argument any favors.
Why people like you think laws like no spitting on the side walk is some valiant effort to protect everyone's freedoms or lives or human rights or something.
Because when that law was passed, it literally was an attempt at protecting lives. Sidewalk spit spread tuberculosis and diphtheria. The fact that it was unenforceable didn't mean there wasn't a reason for it.
You anti-government people piss me off. You're always all or nothing. How about we try for GOOD government, which is precisely what we need. We certainly can't exist with no government, not in our current numbers, and we've tried every possible bad government. Maybe we should have good government, for once.
When it acquired NBC Universal in 2011, Comcast agreed to "net neutrality" conditions that prevent it from prioritizing its online content over a competitor such as Netflix. Comcast is expected to offer similar restrictions in its proposed merger with Time Warner Cable.
Were there any penalties for failing to uphold that agreement? No? It was a gentleman's agreement? And they're no gentlemen.
Who's going to lift a finger to penalize them? No one. The members of the FCC want to pass back through that revolving door into a nice cushy position when their commission terms are up.
Even Google needed help in the areas it has come into.
Google apparently didn't get monetary help. Maybe they should have. They had a good idea. Too late. Too slow. The Internet is broken and tomorrow morning, the lawyers from Comcast will be on their doorstep with a bill for YouTube. At their current rate of deployment, they're a century away from escaping that bill, if they ever can. YouTube will be inexplicably slow for Comcast's captive audience until they pay up. And they won't be able to prove it, and even if they could, Comcast's captive audience will still blame YouTube, not Comcast.
Go ahead. Drop your internet provider. Have fun getting your news because printed news is dieing.
Fuck news. Who the fuck cares about news. Have fun getting your bank statements (my bank charges $1.25 for a paper statement). Have fun renewing your license plates. Have fun finding a dentist (my dentist is still in the Yellow Pages, but for how long?). Have fun getting a job (is it possible to get a technology job without Internet anymore?).
I'm fucked. You're fucked. We're all collectively fucked. Most importantly, THEY (the ISP's) know it.
Yes. Yes we are. The champagne was flowing and backs were being slapped all around, and the hookers were arriving by the busload, and the blow was being sucked up by the pound. We are so very very fucked. Thank you Netflix, you unmitigated shitheads. You broke the fucking Internet. Forever.
This is a play by Netflix to demonstrate to the FCC just how dangerous the Comcast/TWC merger would be.
This is Netflix making the long play to make damn sure no other upstart service arises to displace them or otherwise cut into their market share. They are the $22 billion pound gorilla now and they want to stay that way. They are saying to the FCC, "Net neutrality is unnecessary. The market can take care of it." It's a goddamn lie, but that's how the FCC will view it (with the aid of position papers from the usual suspects).
In short, Netflix broke the Internet, and they're perfectly happy to have done so, because it will now be permanently broken in their favor.
If you wanted to manufacture sophisticated stuff like that on the moon, you would need it to be as the last step of a 200 year plan to start mining/industry/living on the moon.
Let's do THAT. And build the world-girdling strip of solar panels, all tied together with superconductors (easy to use, on the Moon), and use that power on the Moon for the burdgeoning civilization we're building there. Forget beaming it at Earth.
Furthermore, multicast, bitches. It was designed for doing things like streaming video something like twenty years ago.
26 years ago and counting. The first couple of iterations did have a few design problems, but it was mostly killed dead by Cisco's utterly incompetent, buggy, broken implementation, in routers everybody bought.
Quick summary of the linked video: Asteroid 2000 EM26 hasn't been seen since its initial discovery in 2000 and was not seen during this show. The Slooh telescope in the Canary islands that they had hoped to use to cover the close approach is iced over, unable to open its weather dome.
The Dubai Astronomy group took a bunch of pictures of the area in the sky where the rock should have been, but apparently Slooh lacks automated image analysis software, as they were talking about manually examining each of the images to try to find the moving dot. They were unable to complete that examination during the show, and ended it having never spotted the rock they were looking for.
The Slooh Observatory video feed got thoroughly Slashdotted. It's totally inaccessible.
Why isn't there a peer to peer video streaming software package optimized for live video? Asymmetric broadband sucks, but almost every broadband connection can accommodate at least one outbound video stream. Sure, if you were far enough down the chain, "live" turns into "live with delay", but who's going to notice? So why hasn't this been done?
"societies" -- hey, why is there no "edit" button, Captain?;)
Because editing interacts nontrivially with the moderation system, so a long time ago, they punted the problem down the road. The current owners are interested in making the site friendly to fat-fingered fatheads with tablets, rather than cleaning up the remaining problems in this exemplar of the community-driven website.
Never believe an MBA when he says he wants anything community-driven. He doesn't. Communities entertain each other, rather than demanding entertainment for which they can be billed.
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People think that they can get away with selling their soul because the dudes in Supernatural always find a workaround. Can't you tell that a tv show is FICTION? In real life you can't break a satanic covenant. Duh.
The Supernatural series is like ARV treatment: it makes people careless by letting them believe that there is no consequence for risky behaviors.
If you say so. I've never seen an episode of Supernatural. I thought it was more like Grimm. I didn't know the Christian deities showed up in it.
In real life, there is no counterparty in a satanic covenant, so that statement wasn't risky behavior. It's also why I'm still waiting on my bag of Cheetos.
So, like, creation. That's thousands of years old.
If you mean the Earth, it certainly is thousands of years old. It's also thousands of thousands of thousands of years old. Usually we just say billions because counting all the thousands is tedious.
But it does silently undo previous moderation you've done in the thread.
No one knows if this is a bug or a feature.
Since you are such a rational individual and by no way superstitious, you should have no fear to do the following: reply to this post by stating clearly that you hereby sell your soul to Satan for the price of a bag of Cheetos. If you have balls you will also include in this deal the souls of everyone in your family.
I hereby sell my soul to Satan for a family size bag of Cheetos. I include the souls of everyone in my family. And I'll sell your soul to Shiva for an original recipe Twinkie.
Your move.
My employer does this, using Bluecoat, and doesn't tell anybody about it. Even my colleagues who are programmers aren't necessarily aware of it.
What's bizarre is the Bluecoat proxy will claim in its boilerplate that it's doing it for network security reasons, but.... they issue everyone in the company a laptop and actively encourage employees to take their laptops home at night. None of the new-hires even have a desktop at all, and veterans only get to keep an old desktop if they can prove the OS licensing is independent of the licensing the IT group administers.
So... network security? Prevention of funneling company secrets out through the firewall? Ha.
I would put it past them. This is incredibly small potatoes for them.
That doesn't stop the FBI busting incredibly small potato piracy sites. I know two people personally who were jailed for facilitating copyright infringement by running an FTP site, and a third who was put in a halfway house for the same thing. Total site users? Less than 500, across all three sites. Private sites, not publicized on the Internet at large. The raids were December 11th, 2001, if you'd care to look it up.
Busy little cossacks will get up to all kinds of things. There are a lot of them, and they're as fond of low-hanging fruit as the next guy. I'm not saying these Bitcoin breaches are government-driven, but I can categorically state that no activity is too small if some monied interest with the government's ear is involved, and that's the very definition of the banking industry. (And Hollywood, in the example cited.)
Unable to use an computer without it, runs fine under wine ..
It does? Hot damn. I've been spending more time on a Linux desktop lately and after years of Total Commander, I'm discovering that Midnight Commander is woefully out of date and under-featured. Total Commander alone is so very useful. Total Commander plugins make it spectacularly useful.
This is deeply unlikely to happen but it is possible. If 50%+1 or more shareholders get together, they can do almost whatever they want whether or not the board agrees with it.
Not really, no. Most of the time the direct actions stockholders can vote for are very strictly limited by the articles of incorporation. Usually all they can do is vote to replace members of the board of directors. Presumably the replacements would then do what they want, but stockholders aren't generally allowed to directly set policy, even if they're able to muster a majority. Usually stockholders can't even affect who the executive officers of the company are. Only the board can do that. Most corporations are set up with built-in inertia, under the theory that the ability to change direction too frequently or too radically is less likely to be good for the business.
I can do much the same thing in the same number of lines of Perl code. I don't think there are many who would claim that makes Perl a paragon of language design.
Clickbait article is clickbait.
I'm sure pirates will like them. In the middle of the ocean, any kind of 'cops' would be days away.
But will they like the pair of Hailfire Droids that went along for the ride?
If you're going to be building a space elevator, getting rid of the Van Allen belts is a relatively easy task in comparison.
Umm. I'm thinking that just MIGHT have some unintended consequences.
Not much. It would eliminate the aurora borealis, but that's all. It wouldn't eliminate the belts themselves, which are a magnetic phenomenon emanating from the planet. It would remove all the particles chasing around those field lines, but the fields would remain intact, ready to capture more particles. The fields generated by the HiVOLT system are microscopic in size relative to the belts, generating only a very local distortion in the fields, not counteracting them completely.
The HiVOLT system would have to remain permanently in operation, or the particle burden of the belts would simply accrete again. The particles come primarily from the solar wind, which isn't going away any time soon.
Bill Murray did say he'd be willing to do a third, as long as it didn't suck. He had a pretty high bar for not sucking though, which is why it never happened.
SpaceX has knocked one order of magnitude off the cost already. In a hair over two weeks, they're going to perform a test that, if successful, will point the way to knocking off another order of magnitude. (They're going to attempt a return and (water) landing of the first stage as part of the next Space Station resupply mission.) After that, it's just a matter of volume. You'd be amazed how cheap a big dumb booster can be, and without requiring unobtanium for a space elevator.
Sorry, I used the wrong verb tense. "for the burdgeoning civilization we would be building there."
But as it is now, hunger is the government's fault because they didn't give you enough food stamps in order to sell half for booze or drugs and feed yourself with the other half.
Blah blah blah are you people STILL beating that dead horse? It was vanishingly rare when it happened at all, and since EBT cards have been in use, it's been nonexistent. That is, for over 15 years now. Give it a rest.
How can you claim it is protecting freedom when it costs something on the order of 10k just to legitimately open a business in government regulation and permits alone in some places today?
What are you on about? I can open a sole proprietorship anywhere in the United States for $0. If I want to do business under a name other than my own, I can do that in my state for $7. I can even submit the form online. Rates are similar in most states. That's if I run it out of my house, which is perfectly legal (and a tax writeoff to boot). If I want an office in the nearest city, it's $50 for the occupancy permit if it's less than 12,000 square feet or $100 for anything over 12,000 square feet. That's hardly unusual, either. Pointing out the prices in Belle Aire is not doing your argument any favors.
Why people like you think laws like no spitting on the side walk is some valiant effort to protect everyone's freedoms or lives or human rights or something.
Because when that law was passed, it literally was an attempt at protecting lives. Sidewalk spit spread tuberculosis and diphtheria. The fact that it was unenforceable didn't mean there wasn't a reason for it.
You anti-government people piss me off. You're always all or nothing. How about we try for GOOD government, which is precisely what we need. We certainly can't exist with no government, not in our current numbers, and we've tried every possible bad government. Maybe we should have good government, for once.
When it acquired NBC Universal in 2011, Comcast agreed to "net neutrality" conditions that prevent it from prioritizing its online content over a competitor such as Netflix. Comcast is expected to offer similar restrictions in its proposed merger with Time Warner Cable.
Were there any penalties for failing to uphold that agreement? No? It was a gentleman's agreement? And they're no gentlemen.
Who's going to lift a finger to penalize them? No one. The members of the FCC want to pass back through that revolving door into a nice cushy position when their commission terms are up.
Even Google needed help in the areas it has come into.
Google apparently didn't get monetary help. Maybe they should have. They had a good idea. Too late. Too slow. The Internet is broken and tomorrow morning, the lawyers from Comcast will be on their doorstep with a bill for YouTube. At their current rate of deployment, they're a century away from escaping that bill, if they ever can. YouTube will be inexplicably slow for Comcast's captive audience until they pay up. And they won't be able to prove it, and even if they could, Comcast's captive audience will still blame YouTube, not Comcast.
Go ahead. Drop your internet provider. Have fun getting your news because printed news is dieing.
Fuck news. Who the fuck cares about news. Have fun getting your bank statements (my bank charges $1.25 for a paper statement). Have fun renewing your license plates. Have fun finding a dentist (my dentist is still in the Yellow Pages, but for how long?). Have fun getting a job (is it possible to get a technology job without Internet anymore?).
I'm fucked. You're fucked. We're all collectively fucked. Most importantly, THEY (the ISP's) know it.
Yes. Yes we are. The champagne was flowing and backs were being slapped all around, and the hookers were arriving by the busload, and the blow was being sucked up by the pound. We are so very very fucked. Thank you Netflix, you unmitigated shitheads. You broke the fucking Internet. Forever.
This is a play by Netflix to demonstrate to the FCC just how dangerous the Comcast/TWC merger would be.
This is Netflix making the long play to make damn sure no other upstart service arises to displace them or otherwise cut into their market share. They are the $22 billion pound gorilla now and they want to stay that way. They are saying to the FCC, "Net neutrality is unnecessary. The market can take care of it." It's a goddamn lie, but that's how the FCC will view it (with the aid of position papers from the usual suspects).
In short, Netflix broke the Internet, and they're perfectly happy to have done so, because it will now be permanently broken in their favor.
If you wanted to manufacture sophisticated stuff like that on the moon, you would need it to be as the last step of a 200 year plan to start mining/industry/living on the moon.
Let's do THAT. And build the world-girdling strip of solar panels, all tied together with superconductors (easy to use, on the Moon), and use that power on the Moon for the burdgeoning civilization we're building there. Forget beaming it at Earth.
I am a competent 'cyborg' because I have a goddamn mouse and a goddamn keyboard, unlike all these incompetents pawing at sheets of glass.
Furthermore, multicast, bitches. It was designed for doing things like streaming video something like twenty years ago.
26 years ago and counting. The first couple of iterations did have a few design problems, but it was mostly killed dead by Cisco's utterly incompetent, buggy, broken implementation, in routers everybody bought.
Sad, really.
Quick summary of the linked video: Asteroid 2000 EM26 hasn't been seen since its initial discovery in 2000 and was not seen during this show. The Slooh telescope in the Canary islands that they had hoped to use to cover the close approach is iced over, unable to open its weather dome.
The Dubai Astronomy group took a bunch of pictures of the area in the sky where the rock should have been, but apparently Slooh lacks automated image analysis software, as they were talking about manually examining each of the images to try to find the moving dot. They were unable to complete that examination during the show, and ended it having never spotted the rock they were looking for.
The Slooh Observatory video feed got thoroughly Slashdotted. It's totally inaccessible.
Why isn't there a peer to peer video streaming software package optimized for live video? Asymmetric broadband sucks, but almost every broadband connection can accommodate at least one outbound video stream. Sure, if you were far enough down the chain, "live" turns into "live with delay", but who's going to notice? So why hasn't this been done?
"societies" -- hey, why is there no "edit" button, Captain? ;)
Because editing interacts nontrivially with the moderation system, so a long time ago, they punted the problem down the road. The current owners are interested in making the site friendly to fat-fingered fatheads with tablets, rather than cleaning up the remaining problems in this exemplar of the community-driven website.
Never believe an MBA when he says he wants anything community-driven. He doesn't. Communities entertain each other, rather than demanding entertainment for which they can be billed.