shut up and keep blowing that hot air into the bubble; we don't keep you around for your "conscience" or moral insights. i have a nephew to whom i just gave a modest $10M seed money to get into investing, and he goddam better have an IPO or two within a year.
in the 00s, the FL bar exam was conducted on administered machines with a standard image. i'm personally very surprised that they allow laptops, though i guess i shouldn't be.
(my friend who took the exam pwned it afterward by just booting from a live cd, but hey, at least they tried i guess.)
libraries. basically anything you plug in to a motherboard will have different linux projects which sort of make it work, each of which will have a couple of forks and several subtly-incompatible minor versions and patches. then there will be a bunch of interface projects duct-taped on top of those projects, which are even more muddled and confusing, and the only documentation is hoping that someone has made a wiki page about it.
even free software developers are giving up on distro package systems because it's a god-awful mess that depends on good will and free labor which just isn't there right now.
Linux, as a desktop OS, has failed on its own merits in so many ways, that even though you are correct here, I can't sympathize.
LibreOffice sucks the sewer pipe even if you stick to its native file formats. KDE and Gnome are the result of absurd and unaccountable five-year plans to improve Windows XP (we'll get it right someday!). Audio on Linux is still almost as unreliable as it was 15 years ago, although admittedly, when it does work, it has more features; i am still, however, expected to manually calibrate latency with a slider, i mean christ, really?
i can't say i'm really surprised, but otoh i don't have all that much sympathy.
i also wonder whether the card counters are in more danger from the casinos, or from their "investors". card-counting is financially high-risk even in the best situation, and you need a pretty deep source of funds to absorb losses before the law of averages asserts itself. needless to say, that seed money probably isn't coming from the most scrupulous people. you can always sue Bally's if they hurt you, but Vinny from the docks might just dump you in the Hudson.
The condensed version of the casino's argument, afaiui, is that the state only allows non-rigged games (with some technical definition of "rigged" i can't be arsed to look up), and that since one party conspired to rig this game, the contract should be voided regardless of whether or not the casino specifically agreed to the details. It's not a totally ridiculous defense, given that the regulatory framework exists (whether anyone likes or not).
i suspect that they first ask them to leave, and after that formally evict them, and inform them that they are trespassing. maybe they skip the asking nicely part; that's okay.
but if the silly gits still don't leave, well, yeah, willful trespassers are often treated poorly. this is hardly unique to casinos; i've seen more than a few slashdotters commenting in gleeful terms about how they'd not hesitate to shotgun anyone trespassing on their property.
It really says something that Americans liked it anyway; even if someone doesn't like playing it, they enjoy complaining about it. It worked out to be a brilliant analogy, even if it sucked as propaganda.
As they say, there's a time to reap and a time to sow. Reap plebs, that is! For years, we've participated in more and more intricate and abstract systems to, ultimately, shuffle money from the poor to the rich, where it is ultimately hoarded (i.e. destroyed). Unfortunately a certain number of people had to be paid to achieve this level of destitution! Well, let me tell you, if you think nature abhors a vacuum, the market hungers on stuffing those holes and closing loops. Coming up: riots and automation of the far-overvalued circle jerk that is called the "middle class".
no, that's your question. it's not even the article's question, since no information was deleted; an admin for the site pranked metadata associated to a group on his site which he found silly. many people, including myself, don't consider this particularly newsworthy. i first saw this happen online in the 1990s, and it's probably happened since the second day there was usenet, and will keep happening until the end of civilization.
much more interesting is the availability of a service whereby you can get autistic nutcases to fabricate arbitrarily ridiculous conspiracy theories for you, and then promote them to other nutcases and gullible idiots. this used to cost quite a bit of money and time and have very high barriers to entry, but is now accessible to anyone.
with a combination of technical innovation and forced labor through the private prison system, we could probably reclaim quite a bit from our landfills?
strictly speaking, that's not a pardon. when you want someone to "proactively demonstrate" that they won't press charges, it's called immunity. as one may notice, it doesn't sound as nice, so i can see why Assange didn't say it honestly.
cool, the Verband der Privaten Netzdienstleister (or whatever) can make layer 2 encryption mandatory, and work out a fee structure; maybe a sliding scale where paying a premium keeps your information completely encrypted (to subsidize the costs of implementation), while others can choose a "managed" privacy profile. where there previously wasn't choice, there would now be choice.
I've known Japanese IT workers, commiserated with a Japanese programmer who had his off-time work claimed by Mitsubishi who is now just sitting on it, and seen colleagues run baffled and screaming from Japanese offers once they toured the company.
Yes, on paper, Japan has a lot of employment protections and they even work sometimes. But for high-level professions, you're expected by basically everyone to "voluntarily" put in hours which would have Americans reaching for the torches and pitchforks. Oh yeah, and "high-level" doesn't necessarily mean you're being paid that much more. The Japanese economy implicitly depends on a lot of "off-the-books" work to hold itself together, so no one says no; it just doesn't happen. It's hard to describe, but the feeling i get is that going home after 10 hours would be sort of like tearing an American flag to pieces at your desk in the US. sure, it might not technically violate any rules, but you probably wouldn't do it. The last person I know who interviewed in Japan told me he felt like asking them whether they knew how much more valuable their employees would be in almost any other country. If Japan did outsourcing, they might actually be good at it, but they never would.
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shut up and keep blowing that hot air into the bubble; we don't keep you around for your "conscience" or moral insights. i have a nephew to whom i just gave a modest $10M seed money to get into investing, and he goddam better have an IPO or two within a year.
in the 00s, the FL bar exam was conducted on administered machines with a standard image. i'm personally very surprised that they allow laptops, though i guess i shouldn't be.
(my friend who took the exam pwned it afterward by just booting from a live cd, but hey, at least they tried i guess.)
a driver is a binary, unless you're running an interpreted kernel for some reason.
libraries. basically anything you plug in to a motherboard will have different linux projects which sort of make it work, each of which will have a couple of forks and several subtly-incompatible minor versions and patches. then there will be a bunch of interface projects duct-taped on top of those projects, which are even more muddled and confusing, and the only documentation is hoping that someone has made a wiki page about it.
even free software developers are giving up on distro package systems because it's a god-awful mess that depends on good will and free labor which just isn't there right now.
Linux, as a desktop OS, has failed on its own merits in so many ways, that even though you are correct here, I can't sympathize.
LibreOffice sucks the sewer pipe even if you stick to its native file formats. KDE and Gnome are the result of absurd and unaccountable five-year plans to improve Windows XP (we'll get it right someday!). Audio on Linux is still almost as unreliable as it was 15 years ago, although admittedly, when it does work, it has more features; i am still, however, expected to manually calibrate latency with a slider, i mean christ, really?
i can't say i'm really surprised, but otoh i don't have all that much sympathy.
i also wonder whether the card counters are in more danger from the casinos, or from their "investors". card-counting is financially high-risk even in the best situation, and you need a pretty deep source of funds to absorb losses before the law of averages asserts itself. needless to say, that seed money probably isn't coming from the most scrupulous people. you can always sue Bally's if they hurt you, but Vinny from the docks might just dump you in the Hudson.
The condensed version of the casino's argument, afaiui, is that the state only allows non-rigged games (with some technical definition of "rigged" i can't be arsed to look up), and that since one party conspired to rig this game, the contract should be voided regardless of whether or not the casino specifically agreed to the details. It's not a totally ridiculous defense, given that the regulatory framework exists (whether anyone likes or not).
"they harass or physically threaten them."
i suspect that they first ask them to leave, and after that formally evict them, and inform them that they are trespassing. maybe they skip the asking nicely part; that's okay.
but if the silly gits still don't leave, well, yeah, willful trespassers are often treated poorly. this is hardly unique to casinos; i've seen more than a few slashdotters commenting in gleeful terms about how they'd not hesitate to shotgun anyone trespassing on their property.
"The only winning move is not to play." — WOPR, on Monopoly.
fair enough. that's still amusing though.
It really says something that Americans liked it anyway; even if someone doesn't like playing it, they enjoy complaining about it. It worked out to be a brilliant analogy, even if it sucked as propaganda.
this just in: grep considered "sophisticated".
that's racist.
Linux malware is actually just the mindset of the people that use it
Just ask a random user what they think of systemd.
As they say, there's a time to reap and a time to sow. Reap plebs, that is! For years, we've participated in more and more intricate and abstract systems to, ultimately, shuffle money from the poor to the rich, where it is ultimately hoarded (i.e. destroyed). Unfortunately a certain number of people had to be paid to achieve this level of destitution! Well, let me tell you, if you think nature abhors a vacuum, the market hungers on stuffing those holes and closing loops. Coming up: riots and automation of the far-overvalued circle jerk that is called the "middle class".
scenario 2 assumes that i want a fucking pixel phone enough to value it at retail price.
also aren't gift taxes usually paid by the donor?
oh neat, a mod storm. which sub-degenerate wing of 4chan is this, i wonder?
i didn't say it was good behavior; i said it wasn't newsworthy.
no, that's your question. it's not even the article's question, since no information was deleted; an admin for the site pranked metadata associated to a group on his site which he found silly. many people, including myself, don't consider this particularly newsworthy. i first saw this happen online in the 1990s, and it's probably happened since the second day there was usenet, and will keep happening until the end of civilization.
much more interesting is the availability of a service whereby you can get autistic nutcases to fabricate arbitrarily ridiculous conspiracy theories for you, and then promote them to other nutcases and gullible idiots. this used to cost quite a bit of money and time and have very high barriers to entry, but is now accessible to anyone.
most tanks don't work in the ocean.
with a combination of technical innovation and forced labor through the private prison system, we could probably reclaim quite a bit from our landfills?
strictly speaking, that's not a pardon. when you want someone to "proactively demonstrate" that they won't press charges, it's called immunity. as one may notice, it doesn't sound as nice, so i can see why Assange didn't say it honestly.
cool, the Verband der Privaten Netzdienstleister (or whatever) can make layer 2 encryption mandatory, and work out a fee structure; maybe a sliding scale where paying a premium keeps your information completely encrypted (to subsidize the costs of implementation), while others can choose a "managed" privacy profile. where there previously wasn't choice, there would now be choice.
I've known Japanese IT workers, commiserated with a Japanese programmer who had his off-time work claimed by Mitsubishi who is now just sitting on it, and seen colleagues run baffled and screaming from Japanese offers once they toured the company.
Yes, on paper, Japan has a lot of employment protections and they even work sometimes. But for high-level professions, you're expected by basically everyone to "voluntarily" put in hours which would have Americans reaching for the torches and pitchforks. Oh yeah, and "high-level" doesn't necessarily mean you're being paid that much more. The Japanese economy implicitly depends on a lot of "off-the-books" work to hold itself together, so no one says no; it just doesn't happen. It's hard to describe, but the feeling i get is that going home after 10 hours would be sort of like tearing an American flag to pieces at your desk in the US. sure, it might not technically violate any rules, but you probably wouldn't do it. The last person I know who interviewed in Japan told me he felt like asking them whether they knew how much more valuable their employees would be in almost any other country. If Japan did outsourcing, they might actually be good at it, but they never would.
so use a text-mode browser. next!