In ancient Pompeii, brothel visitors used to document their sexual predilections with graffiti on the walls. These have proved to be very useful to archaeologists trying to understand what all those folks in Pompeii were up to.
Maybe if they weren't fucking like bunnies, they might have noticed that a volcano protoplasmic wind was about to turn them into toast.
Anyway . . . maybe these recorded "Remote Sexual Sessions" will be useful to archeologists in the future . . . ?
Well, if you take a look at the Constitution of the United States of America, you won't find anything that explicitly forbids a private company from collecting data about you, which can be sold and used by the buyer for whatever purposes they decide.
Now, if a while back in Philadelphia, you would have floated this business model while quaffing some musty ales with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington . . . they would have all been thoroughly disgusted by this concept.
But then again, the Constitution isn't worth the paper that it is printed on these days, so if even if there was something in there against this practice . . . it would be simply ignored.
I have no idea why that was chosen . . . but I think your "fashion" statement has a lot to do with it.
On the other hand, serious potential blockchain users, banks and insurance companies, are very wary about using such a "young" language. At least with Java, we have spent a lot of time identifying security issues, and programmers have had a lot of time to learn it well.
With Go . . . we'll be just starting with the security issues and other quirks with the language.
So, when is Google going to offer Go as a development option on Android . . . ?
I wonder if there was a horn option in the software.
This is the USA. We have "stand your ground" laws. If another motor vehicle is trying to run you over or back into you, you are permitted to engage with licensed firearms.
Obviously, the Autonomous Defense systems of the new vehicle are not working correctly, or the Self-Driving Shuttle would have flattened the tires of the truck that was attempting to ram it.
More field tests, and plenty of ammo are obviously still needed.
The ultimate Jetsons future is the folding car, where at the end of his commute George pushes a button and his flying car folds up into a briefcase small enough to lie on his desk.
Maybe we just need to pursue an idea from Ancient Arabic Fairy Tales: a Flying Carpet!
Physicists all wish there will be a worse invention in human history than the nuclear weapons they created.
Hawking did not invent any nuclear weapons.
He just invented Black Holes, which just suck up stuff instead of exploding it and irradiating it.
I'm not sure which members of the "nuclear-weapon states" club have Black Holes in their arsenals.
In Poland, right before New Year's Eve, you can buy backyard ballistics at dubious street markets that would take out a German Leopard tank. But I haven't seen a Black Hole bomb offered.
Indian farmers are at the mercy of a few politically connected families who control the commodity markets.
Which is why I would wonder that any Indian farmer would obey government instructions about when to plant described in an SMS.
Who is determining when crops will be available on the market, and at what price . . . ? It seems to me that this "control" over the food supply could be very lucrative to some unsavory business and government folks.
The Duke of Wellington claimed he won the Battle of Waterloo against Napoleon on "the playing fields of Eton".
The big battle for autonomous driving will be won or lost in the tort courts of the US. Who is responsible for the accident? The driver? Or the manufacturer?
Your local ambulance chaser lawyer would prefer to sue the manufacturer . . . simply because the manufacturer has more money!
The first big cases will unsettle the industry, but a sort of fudge agreement will be reached between lawyer groups, the manufacturers and the insurance companies. Unfortunately, the average driver will end up paying for this.
The lawyers don't want to kill the autonomous car industry . . . they want to "milk" it for their "piece of the action".
"Secure" for who . . . ? One of the NSA's jobs is to make sure that any devices used by US government employees are "secure". Gee, if Microsoft wants to sell millions of licenses to the US government . . . guess who gets to show up a Microsoft, to build in the backdoors . . . ?
Yeah, the Microsoft executives and lawyers could squeal a bit . . . but with those National Security Letters . . . those Microsoft folks prefer the Cayman Islands as opposed to Guantanamo.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
In more modern times, Carl von Clausewitz taught us that "No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy". You can firewall yourself up in a Maginot Line . . . but that won't help you when the enemy comes unexpectedly from behind via the Benelux Countries, and bites you in your ass.
More importantly, Clausewitz famously talked about the "Fog of War" . . . when a war breaks out, military commanders are relatively clueless to what is actually going on. Who is attacking? Where exactly? In what strength? International hacking incidents are even more opaque. Are those North Korean hackers? Russian political lackeys? Cash-strapped Nigerian Princes?
Yes, being aware of the threats, and more importantly, having plans and educated staff in place to handle the breach.
But penetrations will always happen . . . even simply with the ageless method of bribing a sysop.
If you ask a linguistic, they will you that English is a butt ugly bastard mix of French and German anyway.
But English is amazingly effective in that everyone seems capable of using it. I sat in a company cafeteria in scenic Austin, Texas, and listened to how a colleague from China talked to a colleague from India . . . in an English that would have turned my 8th grade English teacher into a rampage. But hey, they could effectively communicate with each other. The wonders of English!
Capitalizing words in English seems to be a bit of a fad these days . . . we can't blame it on the "hipsters" any more since they are now history.
What are the current counter culture folks called . . . ?
Definitely "Fakebook" . . . yeah, Zuckerberg's Gestapo crew will now be after me, but, when push comes to shove . . . (Especially since he will probably be the President of the USA real soon),
"Fakebook" is an appropriate name for his business. Just ask Russia what the costs are.
As soon as you have to pay a lawyer, you are FUBAR.
He doesn't need a lawyer . . . Trump would not even bother to touch this guy or gal.
When push comes to shove, it won't matter about your political motivations concerning your actions at work.
Skank Donald Trump? Well, he seems to have his team to handle this.
Skank Hillary Clinton? Well, she will declare that she is responsible, but will clearly put the blame on someone else.
The person who did this will need to apply for a change of name. It doesn't matter if you are a democrat or a republican. Someone who fiddles with user ids is unemployable.
Steve Ballmer is laughing now . . . he totally skanked you!
Ok, I actually need to recuse myself here, because I was required to give a deposition for the case . . . along with a buttload of other harmless developers.
I did development work for IBM's AIX kernel, and then worked for their Linux Technology Center. Just about everyone who was tainted with that experience got nailed.
The deposition was ok . . . the lawyer was on Park Avenue in New York, and I live in Europe, so it was just a pleasant phone call. We tend to rant on about lawyers here in Slashdot, but I was quite positively surprised to talk to the lawyer. He wasn't an IBM employee, but worked for a law office that handled a lot of the "grunt work" for IBM. The lawyer told me ominously that the case would drag out . . . and that someone with a lot of money was sponsoring SCO . . . and that some unnamed executive from SCO got a hefty deposit in a bank account on the Cayman Islands.
In the first episode, an outspoken Billionaire reality TV star wins the Presidency against the bitter wife of a former President who believes it's her turn next...
Actually, that would make a classic traditional Twilight Zone episode!
She rabidly rants about all those folks who cost her the election during the entire show.
But at the end, it is revealed to her that she, herself, was responsible for losing the election.
Hey, Hillary! Most people don't like you . . . have you got that yet . . . ?
I mean, losing an election to someone like John McCain would have been honorable . . . but to lose to the joke that is Donald Trump . . . you must really suck!
Lots of folks in Europe live, like I do, in an inner city. I am now privileged, and have an apartment with a garage, but for most folks, they just park their cars on the street, and have no method of charging there.
As an ideal . . . I would like to see EV charging stations to be like gas stations are now: You can stop anywhere and tank up, and just pick a station that has a reasonable price. No proprietary connectors.
When we have that . . . we're there:-)
I walk or take public transportation most of the time, so it is sort of a moot point for me.
It's interesting that Tesla cars are currently the most "American-made" of any of the American car manufacturers, and these tax credits helped drive Tesla's success.
Most folks in the US would assume that Chrysler is an American car manufacturer.
It's not. Chrysler is owned by Fiat. Your good 'ole Dodge Ram truck . . . is an Italian product. What does Fiat mean . . . ?
Fehler in alle Teile.
Fix it again, Tony.
Failure in automotive technology.
Fart in a tin.
Fucking Idiot Assembled This.
. . . and my personal favorite . . .
Fucking Italian Automotive Trash!
No, I've never owned one . . . thank God. But a good friend had one, and got to experience everything that can go wrong with a car.
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In ancient Pompeii, brothel visitors used to document their sexual predilections with graffiti on the walls. These have proved to be very useful to archaeologists trying to understand what all those folks in Pompeii were up to.
Maybe if they weren't fucking like bunnies, they might have noticed that a volcano protoplasmic wind was about to turn them into toast.
Anyway . . . maybe these recorded "Remote Sexual Sessions" will be useful to archeologists in the future . . . ?
Well, if you take a look at the Constitution of the United States of America, you won't find anything that explicitly forbids a private company from collecting data about you, which can be sold and used by the buyer for whatever purposes they decide.
Now, if a while back in Philadelphia, you would have floated this business model while quaffing some musty ales with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington . . . they would have all been thoroughly disgusted by this concept.
But then again, the Constitution isn't worth the paper that it is printed on these days, so if even if there was something in there against this practice . . . it would be simply ignored.
I didn't think anyone was still using GO. 8 years is venerable for a "fashion" language.
The Hyperledger Blockchain system uses Go for writing chaincode contracts: https://www.hyperledger.org/
I have no idea why that was chosen . . . but I think your "fashion" statement has a lot to do with it.
On the other hand, serious potential blockchain users, banks and insurance companies, are very wary about using such a "young" language. At least with Java, we have spent a lot of time identifying security issues, and programmers have had a lot of time to learn it well.
With Go . . . we'll be just starting with the security issues and other quirks with the language.
So, when is Google going to offer Go as a development option on Android . . . ?
Because firemen are required to wait and Uber drivers aren't.
Hmmm . . . well, maybe firemen could become hobby pyromaniacs in their spare time, and thus reduce the waiting time . . . ?
I wonder if there was a horn option in the software.
This is the USA. We have "stand your ground" laws. If another motor vehicle is trying to run you over or back into you, you are permitted to engage with licensed firearms.
Obviously, the Autonomous Defense systems of the new vehicle are not working correctly, or the Self-Driving Shuttle would have flattened the tires of the truck that was attempting to ram it.
More field tests, and plenty of ammo are obviously still needed.
The ultimate Jetsons future is the folding car, where at the end of his commute George pushes a button and his flying car folds up into a briefcase small enough to lie on his desk.
Maybe we just need to pursue an idea from Ancient Arabic Fairy Tales: a Flying Carpet!
Just roll it up and tuck it under your arm.
Physicists all wish there will be a worse invention in human history than the nuclear weapons they created.
Hawking did not invent any nuclear weapons.
He just invented Black Holes, which just suck up stuff instead of exploding it and irradiating it.
I'm not sure which members of the "nuclear-weapon states" club have Black Holes in their arsenals.
In Poland, right before New Year's Eve, you can buy backyard ballistics at dubious street markets that would take out a German Leopard tank. But I haven't seen a Black Hole bomb offered.
2. Don't let one company run a cryptocurrency. In fact that's the entire point of cryptocurrencies.
The entire point of cryptocurrencies these days, is to be be something like the "Subprime mortgage-backed securities" of not too long ago.
When it crashes, a US government bailout will be required. And guess who gets stuck with the bill . . . ?
Indian farmers are at the mercy of a few politically connected families who control the commodity markets.
Which is why I would wonder that any Indian farmer would obey government instructions about when to plant described in an SMS.
Who is determining when crops will be available on the market, and at what price . . . ? It seems to me that this "control" over the food supply could be very lucrative to some unsavory business and government folks.
The Duke of Wellington claimed he won the Battle of Waterloo against Napoleon on "the playing fields of Eton".
The big battle for autonomous driving will be won or lost in the tort courts of the US. Who is responsible for the accident? The driver? Or the manufacturer?
Your local ambulance chaser lawyer would prefer to sue the manufacturer . . . simply because the manufacturer has more money!
The first big cases will unsettle the industry, but a sort of fudge agreement will be reached between lawyer groups, the manufacturers and the insurance companies. Unfortunately, the average driver will end up paying for this.
The lawyers don't want to kill the autonomous car industry . . . they want to "milk" it for their "piece of the action".
"Secure" for who . . . ? One of the NSA's jobs is to make sure that any devices used by US government employees are "secure". Gee, if Microsoft wants to sell millions of licenses to the US government . . . guess who gets to show up a Microsoft, to build in the backdoors . . . ?
Yeah, the Microsoft executives and lawyers could squeal a bit . . . but with those National Security Letters . . . those Microsoft folks prefer the Cayman Islands as opposed to Guantanamo.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
In more modern times, Carl von Clausewitz taught us that "No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy". You can firewall yourself up in a Maginot Line . . . but that won't help you when the enemy comes unexpectedly from behind via the Benelux Countries, and bites you in your ass.
More importantly, Clausewitz famously talked about the "Fog of War" . . . when a war breaks out, military commanders are relatively clueless to what is actually going on. Who is attacking? Where exactly? In what strength? International hacking incidents are even more opaque. Are those North Korean hackers? Russian political lackeys? Cash-strapped Nigerian Princes?
Yes, being aware of the threats, and more importantly, having plans and educated staff in place to handle the breach.
But penetrations will always happen . . . even simply with the ageless method of bribing a sysop.
Washington Post has gone down the toilet since he bought it.
Washington has gone down the toilet since he bought it.
Fixed that for you . . .
This is English, not German.
Noch nicht, aber wir arbeiten daran.
If you ask a linguistic, they will you that English is a butt ugly bastard mix of French and German anyway.
But English is amazingly effective in that everyone seems capable of using it. I sat in a company cafeteria in scenic Austin, Texas, and listened to how a colleague from China talked to a colleague from India . . . in an English that would have turned my 8th grade English teacher into a rampage. But hey, they could effectively communicate with each other. The wonders of English!
Capitalizing words in English seems to be a bit of a fad these days . . . we can't blame it on the "hipsters" any more since they are now history.
What are the current counter culture folks called . . . ?
Definitely "Fakebook" . . . yeah, Zuckerberg's Gestapo crew will now be after me, but, when push comes to shove . . . (Especially since he will probably be the President of the USA real soon),
"Fakebook" is an appropriate name for his business. Just ask Russia what the costs are.
As soon as you have to pay a lawyer, you are FUBAR.
He doesn't need a lawyer . . . Trump would not even bother to touch this guy or gal.
When push comes to shove, it won't matter about your political motivations concerning your actions at work.
Skank Donald Trump? Well, he seems to have his team to handle this.
Skank Hillary Clinton? Well, she will declare that she is responsible, but will clearly put the blame on someone else.
The person who did this will need to apply for a change of name. It doesn't matter if you are a democrat or a republican. Someone who fiddles with user ids is unemployable.
Who is laughing now???
Steve Ballmer is laughing now . . . he totally skanked you!
Ok, I actually need to recuse myself here, because I was required to give a deposition for the case . . . along with a buttload of other harmless developers.
I did development work for IBM's AIX kernel, and then worked for their Linux Technology Center. Just about everyone who was tainted with that experience got nailed.
The deposition was ok . . . the lawyer was on Park Avenue in New York, and I live in Europe, so it was just a pleasant phone call. We tend to rant on about lawyers here in Slashdot, but I was quite positively surprised to talk to the lawyer. He wasn't an IBM employee, but worked for a law office that handled a lot of the "grunt work" for IBM. The lawyer told me ominously that the case would drag out . . . and that someone with a lot of money was sponsoring SCO . . . and that some unnamed executive from SCO got a hefty deposit in a bank account on the Cayman Islands.
Most areas already have infrastructure for street lighting, they just need the chargers installing.
A city will pay to light the streets. They won't pay to charge your car. The charging stations need a billing system.
In the first episode, an outspoken Billionaire reality TV star wins the Presidency against the bitter wife of a former President who believes it's her turn next...
Actually, that would make a classic traditional Twilight Zone episode!
She rabidly rants about all those folks who cost her the election during the entire show.
But at the end, it is revealed to her that she, herself, was responsible for losing the election.
Hey, Hillary! Most people don't like you . . . have you got that yet . . . ?
I mean, losing an election to someone like John McCain would have been honorable . . . but to lose to the joke that is Donald Trump . . . you must really suck!
Why exactly does the host have to smoke?
Dude, you can't get high without smoking.
Well, maybe you could brew some tea or bake some brownies, but it takes a very long time until they kick in.
Rod Serling did it right, and entertained us while he was going off to the "Magic Kingdom" . . .
. . . now, where did he put his sweater . . . ?
Let's be frank. Carmen Ortiz is evil. I mean, like, Uzbek Evil.
She is a frightening Clintonista who should have no contact with any government agencies.
The Democratic Party will re-emerge . . . after they purge the Clintonistas who are still ruling.
It will be a pleasant experience to see the Democrats return to being a party for the common people, and rethink their base values.
Bernie Sanders gave them a kick, but it is up to them to follow through.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/business/03sweetener.html
Lots of folks in Europe live, like I do, in an inner city. I am now privileged, and have an apartment with a garage, but for most folks, they just park their cars on the street, and have no method of charging there.
As an ideal . . . I would like to see EV charging stations to be like gas stations are now: You can stop anywhere and tank up, and just pick a station that has a reasonable price. No proprietary connectors.
When we have that . . . we're there :-)
I walk or take public transportation most of the time, so it is sort of a moot point for me.
It's interesting that Tesla cars are currently the most "American-made" of any of the American car manufacturers, and these tax credits helped drive Tesla's success.
Most folks in the US would assume that Chrysler is an American car manufacturer.
It's not. Chrysler is owned by Fiat. Your good 'ole Dodge Ram truck . . . is an Italian product. What does Fiat mean . . . ?
Fehler in alle Teile.
Fix it again, Tony.
Failure in automotive technology.
Fart in a tin.
Fucking Idiot Assembled This.
. . . and my personal favorite . . .
Fucking Italian Automotive Trash!
No, I've never owned one . . . thank God. But a good friend had one, and got to experience everything that can go wrong with a car.
It's subsidies . . . all the way down.
When the US government threatened to shut down a while back, I was surprised to learn that we even have subsidies for bow and arrow manufacturers.
Gee, I'd like to see a Website that tracks all the stuff that has subsidies. The content would be both amusing and shocking.