Yeah--that's racism alright, but it's not me whose doing it.
Your next sentence says it all.
Blame Death Row records or something, but not me.
Why not? Because you can point to a few black people who have no business in IT?
Hiring managers can't hire qualified minorities (blacks) if there are none to hire, and the few out there are being snatched up quickly by companies eager to satisfy quotas.
Did it ever occur to you that they're being snatched up because they're qualified?
The blacks and asians didn't found this country did they?
Actually, yes. The first permanent settlement in the US was built by black people. A black man died in the Boston Massacre. Which, in case you didn't know, was the beginning of overt hostility in the American Revolution.
The generic PCs running Mac OS X will be novelties, more conversation pieces than serious work environments.
Don't you believe that for one minute. Remember the Cloners? Apple was getting their asses kicked by Power Computing, Daystar and Umax. If a graphics house can buy commodity PC hardware and run OSX + apps on it, why go with Apple?
There will not be a robust set of drivers, merely what ships on geniune Apple hardware.
That's the beauty of OSS. A lot of driver code is already out there for *BSD and linux.
Apple can break the hack used to get it to work every system software update.
Quite true. But somehow Micro$oft's "Windows Authentication" was evil.
Will they do so, sure, but it will be irrelevant to mainstream users.
The one major lesson we can take from their research is that we should probably not be using Windows.
The OS isn't the biggest problem, it's uneducated users. Computer usage has reached an all time high. We're in an era when most of the people in the world are so busy that they don't have time to learn about things that do not directly affect their ability to earn a living. Most Americans don't understand how presidential elections work. Most Americans don't understand what's in the US Constitution.
Some of it may be laziness, but a lot of it is because it's a complicated subject. If more people were using Linux or OSX the people who don't know any better would go right ahead and enter their root password for any dialog box that asked for it.
I have two vehicles, one is a 20 year old sports car and the other is a 13 year old SUV. My SUV had ABS brakes. When I need to stop NOW like someone cutting out in front of me, I hate them because if I slam on the brakes the ABS kicks in and I don't stop. However, in my car when there's snow on the road just tapping the brakes can lead to a loss of control.
ABS does shorten stopping distances on wet or snow covered roads, but if the road is dry, the stop time will be much shorter if the wheels lock and you skid.
What I would like to see is a steering wheel mounted kill switch for ABS. I know when I need to maintain control and I know when it's more important to lock the wheels.
May be GP2X does not want to release their R&D work and Inventions to the world to use it for free which they invested considerable amount of money to develop.
If that's the case, they shouldn't have used code that forbids just that. They were free to write all of their own code from scratch. But they didn't. They took GPLed code that requires that they share any distributed changes.
The complaint is that the sources that were made available do not match the current binaries. The released source is a pre-release version and doesn't help the people who want to fix the bugs in the current binaries.
Companies love immigration that allows highly skilled workers to get work visas. Because they can pay them less money than American citizens, they can't easily leave for a job making more money and don't complain about shitty treatment.
How's the buff Asian guy next to you going to feel when he and his machine are doused in cooking oil?
Wow, I could take this and run with it in one of two directions. I could laugh at you for implying that either of the two buff asian dudes in the country would be at his LAN party but I think I'll comment on how I'd rather see a hot asian chick get doused in oil. Mmmmmm, oily asian chicks.
I try not to go beyond two years between major upgrades.
A week and a half ago I went from an Athlon XP 2800 to an Athlon 64 3000. My old CPU went into my GF's machine and that processor(which also was once mine) will be going into a machine for the children.
If we had implants, it would add a whole new level of ickyness to our current upgrade pattern. That's one of the reasons why I'm thinking that implanting an interface would be the better way to go.
Another great benefit of ethanol is that it's carbon neutral. The CO2 released by burning it is the same that would have been released as the plants that it's made from decomposed.
There is one huge downside to ethanol though, it has a higher combustion temperature than gasoline. So in colder climates, either an engine has to burn gasoline until it gets up to the proper temperature or you have to burn a blend of gasoline and ethanol.
Either Amazon changed this in the blink of an eye right after this article was posted (which I find very doubtful), or the author may be looking forward to a peppered letter or phone call from Amazon legal department pretty soon.
Good work. I don't use Amazon and as such have never read their conditions of use, but even so. It's a corporate policy, not a law. Their legal department can make all kinds of noise, but in the end all they can really do to the man is cancel his account and/or ban his IP.
What if the cop who decides YOU are a freak deserving of "special treatment" just happens to be an idiot who barely passed his coursework? What if he's a big, stupid goon and he just didn't like your face (so now he's going to pick on you)?
Or even worse that you're now dating his ex-girlfriend or ex-wife.
Cops in general may be very professional, smart, and trustworthy -- but it only takes one knucklehead to make your life a living hell.
I don't share your positive opinion of Cops. I think that they tend to be unintelligent, dishonest, bigots and bullys by nature. That's why many of them go into the career field of law enforcement. They're very much like a gang that has more firepower than all of the others combined.
For example, say you maintain a Slashdot identity that you don't link to your real name.
Which I *might*.
While no one post of yours may be sufficient to tie your identity to your name, the sum total may be sufficient.
That is true. I make a common typo. I don't always release the shift key before the second letter at the beginning of a sentence. REsulting in the mistake that I have just intentionally made. I suppose if someone were to parse all of the Slashdot comments in history they could come up with a list of possible alter egos.
Yet, If I didn't want anyone to be able to figure out who I am in the first place I'd post anonymously.
Or security cameras. Most people don't worry about *one* security camera, but a lot of people get concerned when they are constantly being monitored by cameras which are tied together by computer to monitor where they go each day.
It's different. The purpose of a wish list is so that other people will know what kind of books you want.
Is it so hard to imagine that a certain fraction of people with that book on their wishlist may either be growing weed, or have it in their possesion?
So what? It doesn't add up to probable cause.
I have all kinds of books that aren't popular. I've never used the information in them to break the law. Sure, I have the recipies for RDX, Composition C1 and Semtex, I know how to construct shaped charges too but I'm not going to make them. I also know how to convert a firearm to full auto. I'd never do it, but I know how. I know how to make a firearms silencer. Once again, not going to.
I've also been visited by BATF agents because they recieved a false report about me. The feds have been aware of who I am for over a decade now. It's not a big deal, if they want to talk to me they have the number. The fact of the matter remains that it's not against the law to know how to do something that is.
Most surprisingly, the process of doing this is completely legal, and doesn't even violate Amazon's Conditions of Use.
It shouldn't be surprising, it's common sense. Why in the fuck should it be illegal or against Amazon's conditions of use to read information in someone's wish list? The whole point of a wish list is so that other people will know what books you want.
When I read your earlier post, I thought that the mods had it all wrong. I thought that your comment was witty and a brilliant use of sarcasm to make a point. Then I read your followup post. I realized that you were not witty. You weren't making brilliant use of sarcasm. You're just an asshole
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You're so well spoken.
Most of the people who read this won't understand that first line, but if you are what you say you are, I'm sure that you will.
Every time you are forced to show someone that they're wrong and you're right, take joy in it.
An intelligent and educated black person (especially a man)is not something that most people in our society have been conditioned to accept.
It seems to me that you are dealing with it. There's really no other choice.
LK
Yeah--that's racism alright, but it's not me whose doing it.
Your next sentence says it all.
Blame Death Row records or something, but not me.
Why not? Because you can point to a few black people who have no business in IT?
Hiring managers can't hire qualified minorities (blacks) if there are none to hire, and the few out there are being snatched up quickly by companies eager to satisfy quotas.
Did it ever occur to you that they're being snatched up because they're qualified?
LK
The blacks and asians didn't found this country did they?
Actually, yes. The first permanent settlement in the US was built by black people. A black man died in the Boston Massacre. Which, in case you didn't know, was the beginning of overt hostility in the American Revolution.
LK
You're actually telling us that White gentiles are facing discrimination?
LK
It is racist. Ninja is Japanese, not Chinese. Learn the difference or you will be called an ignorant bigot.
Sub-Zero is a Chinese ninja.
LK
I was thinking of awarding him a medallion for "ETERNAL VIRGINITY".
LK
Because the graphics house is a limited company and it's illegal!
If they purchase the copies of the OS, there's nothing wrong with modifying it.
Troll harder.
Suck harder, fanboy.
LK
The generic PCs running Mac OS X will be novelties, more conversation pieces than serious work environments.
Don't you believe that for one minute. Remember the Cloners? Apple was getting their asses kicked by Power Computing, Daystar and Umax. If a graphics house can buy commodity PC hardware and run OSX + apps on it, why go with Apple?
There will not be a robust set of drivers, merely what ships on geniune Apple hardware.
That's the beauty of OSS. A lot of driver code is already out there for *BSD and linux.
Apple can break the hack used to get it to work every system software update.
Quite true. But somehow Micro$oft's "Windows Authentication" was evil.
Will they do so, sure, but it will be irrelevant to mainstream users.
Apple is irrelevant to mainstream users.
LK
The one major lesson we can take from their research is that we should probably not be using Windows.
The OS isn't the biggest problem, it's uneducated users. Computer usage has reached an all time high. We're in an era when most of the people in the world are so busy that they don't have time to learn about things that do not directly affect their ability to earn a living. Most Americans don't understand how presidential elections work. Most Americans don't understand what's in the US Constitution.
Some of it may be laziness, but a lot of it is because it's a complicated subject. If more people were using Linux or OSX the people who don't know any better would go right ahead and enter their root password for any dialog box that asked for it.
LK
I have two vehicles, one is a 20 year old sports car and the other is a 13 year old SUV. My SUV had ABS brakes. When I need to stop NOW like someone cutting out in front of me, I hate them because if I slam on the brakes the ABS kicks in and I don't stop. However, in my car when there's snow on the road just tapping the brakes can lead to a loss of control.
ABS does shorten stopping distances on wet or snow covered roads, but if the road is dry, the stop time will be much shorter if the wheels lock and you skid.
What I would like to see is a steering wheel mounted kill switch for ABS. I know when I need to maintain control and I know when it's more important to lock the wheels.
LK
May be GP2X does not want to release their R&D work and Inventions to the world to use it for free which they invested considerable amount of money to develop.
If that's the case, they shouldn't have used code that forbids just that. They were free to write all of their own code from scratch. But they didn't. They took GPLed code that requires that they share any distributed changes.
LK
RTFA.
The complaint is that the sources that were made available do not match the current binaries. The released source is a pre-release version and doesn't help the people who want to fix the bugs in the current binaries.
LK
Is when a story that I submit gets rejected but the exact same story, submitted by one of these guyes(AFTER I submitted it) gets accepted.
It doesn't bother me at all that certain users get many stories accepted.
LK
My personal experience conflicts with this. I have discs that I burned 8 1/2 years ago that I can still read.
LK
Companies love immigration that allows highly skilled workers to get work visas. Because they can pay them less money than American citizens, they can't easily leave for a job making more money and don't complain about shitty treatment.
H1-B visas should be cut back.
LK
How's the buff Asian guy next to you going to feel when he and his machine are doused in cooking oil?
Wow, I could take this and run with it in one of two directions. I could laugh at you for implying that either of the two buff asian dudes in the country would be at his LAN party but I think I'll comment on how I'd rather see a hot asian chick get doused in oil. Mmmmmm, oily asian chicks.
LK
I try not to go beyond two years between major upgrades.
A week and a half ago I went from an Athlon XP 2800 to an Athlon 64 3000. My old CPU went into my GF's machine and that processor(which also was once mine) will be going into a machine for the children.
If we had implants, it would add a whole new level of ickyness to our current upgrade pattern. That's one of the reasons why I'm thinking that implanting an interface would be the better way to go.
LK
I'd settle for an interface. So that it's possible to upgrade the hardware without more surgery.
Can you imagine how much it would suck to be in competition with someone who had an implant that was two years newer than yours?
LK
Another great benefit of ethanol is that it's carbon neutral. The CO2 released by burning it is the same that would have been released as the plants that it's made from decomposed.
There is one huge downside to ethanol though, it has a higher combustion temperature than gasoline. So in colder climates, either an engine has to burn gasoline until it gets up to the proper temperature or you have to burn a blend of gasoline and ethanol.
LK
Either Amazon changed this in the blink of an eye right after this article was posted (which I find very doubtful), or the author may be looking forward to a peppered letter or phone call from Amazon legal department pretty soon.
Good work. I don't use Amazon and as such have never read their conditions of use, but even so. It's a corporate policy, not a law. Their legal department can make all kinds of noise, but in the end all they can really do to the man is cancel his account and/or ban his IP.
LK
What if the cop who decides YOU are a freak deserving of "special treatment" just happens to be an idiot who barely passed his coursework? What if he's a big, stupid goon and he just didn't like your face (so now he's going to pick on you)?
Or even worse that you're now dating his ex-girlfriend or ex-wife.
Cops in general may be very professional, smart, and trustworthy -- but it only takes one knucklehead to make your life a living hell.
I don't share your positive opinion of Cops. I think that they tend to be unintelligent, dishonest, bigots and bullys by nature. That's why many of them go into the career field of law enforcement. They're very much like a gang that has more firepower than all of the others combined.
LK
For example, say you maintain a Slashdot identity that you don't link to your real name.
Which I *might*.
While no one post of yours may be sufficient to tie your identity to your name, the sum total may be sufficient.
That is true. I make a common typo. I don't always release the shift key before the second letter at the beginning of a sentence. REsulting in the mistake that I have just intentionally made. I suppose if someone were to parse all of the Slashdot comments in history they could come up with a list of possible alter egos.
Yet, If I didn't want anyone to be able to figure out who I am in the first place I'd post anonymously.
Or security cameras. Most people don't worry about *one* security camera, but a lot of people get concerned when they are constantly being monitored by cameras which are tied together by computer to monitor where they go each day.
It's different. The purpose of a wish list is so that other people will know what kind of books you want.
LK
Is it so hard to imagine that a certain fraction of people with that book on their wishlist may either be growing weed, or have it in their possesion?
So what? It doesn't add up to probable cause.
I have all kinds of books that aren't popular. I've never used the information in them to break the law. Sure, I have the recipies for RDX, Composition C1 and Semtex, I know how to construct shaped charges too but I'm not going to make them. I also know how to convert a firearm to full auto. I'd never do it, but I know how. I know how to make a firearms silencer. Once again, not going to.
I've also been visited by BATF agents because they recieved a false report about me. The feds have been aware of who I am for over a decade now. It's not a big deal, if they want to talk to me they have the number. The fact of the matter remains that it's not against the law to know how to do something that is.
LK
Most surprisingly, the process of doing this is completely legal, and doesn't even violate Amazon's Conditions of Use.
It shouldn't be surprising, it's common sense. Why in the fuck should it be illegal or against Amazon's conditions of use to read information in someone's wish list? The whole point of a wish list is so that other people will know what books you want.
LK
I got you all wrong.
When I read your earlier post, I thought that the mods had it all wrong. I thought that your comment was witty and a brilliant use of sarcasm to make a point. Then I read your followup post. I realized that you were not witty. You weren't making brilliant use of sarcasm. You're just an asshole
LK