Let's say that you make some stupid assertions. I point out that they are stupid. Are you going to start a court proceeding against me? FFS The article doesn't even mention bullying or abuse - instead it says the posts were "deeply disturbing". What is THAT supposed to mean? Who defines "deeply disturbing" anyway? Every vindictive little bitch who has a dorky son?
Stupid shit like this makes anonymity software look more and more appealing. Note to self: if ever I post a non-complimentary comment about anyone I know in real life, make SURE to only use the anonymous virtual machine to make the posts.
What AC says. MS's "open source" license is the viral license.
And, as GP said, all MS had to do was COMPLY WITH THE LICENSE. Tell me, WTF did MS have to lose by complying with a wide spread, commonly used license?
I haven't lost anything. I just go to any Linux box and convert DVD or CD to a USB anytime I need to. Did it three nights ago when I couldn't find a CD to burn Karmic. Phhht.
Meanwhile, the difference between my post and parent is, he makes a statement of fact, which may or may not be true. He attempts to pass his opinion off as objective.
I had to go to TFA to find out that it's a 7 METER rock, rather than a 7 MILE rock.
A rock that size would likely have started burning up, then fragmented into several pieces, continued burning and fragmenting. I doubt that very many pieces would have reached the ground. A guy would need to know the asteroids composition to make any sort of a guess. Mostly ice? No damage. Mostly rock? Maybe some limited damage. Solid rock? Probable damage, maybe enough to cause a few hundred casualties if it hit in a city. Metallic? Well - a solid chunk of iron might be something worth worrying about. In a densely populated area, we might be looking at a couple thousand casualties.
Oh well. I didn't see the speed of the asteroid, in relation to the earth. If it was just barely moving along, less damage. If it was zipping along at a couple thousand mph, then much more damage.
That was indeed my meaning. Most pimple faced teens serving burgers at McDonalds are Beck's superiors. He would have some difficulty finding a real peer among them.;^)
You seem to assume that Beck might be competent to do anything other than run his potty mouth, and sling mud at his superiors. Remember, Beck's mommy and daddy were afraid of swimming, so they stayed in the VERY shallow end of the gene pool. I suspect that they might even be brother and sister - though I've not uncovered any evidence to support that.;^)
"China is quietly engaging in it. Sadly, Obama and the dems are trying hard to ignore it, but....."
Those executives who are outsourcing all those jobs to China - are they mostly Democrats, or Republicans? And, what exactly did Herr Bush do about China's undeclared cold war against the US?
I might agree with you if you had simply stated that "American politicans are ignoring the threat of the Asassin's Mace". But, you have to politicize something that both parties are guilty of.
Are you a genius? Not really. People with IQ's well below 100 can manage to make a robots.txt do what they want it to do. But, if we're grading on a curve, yes, you're the genius, and Murdoch is the mo-ron.
"aimed at commuters in cars who travel long distances to work every day"
I have a better idea. Hook those road trains up to their houses, and move the houses closer to work. That will save a LOT of fuel, not to mention wear and tear on the infrastructure.
Heard of DNA? The DNA evidence in both cases I mentioned is already established. The only other evidence that can be almost equally as damning, is a video.
I always love these self justifications for being successful. Yeah, to be really successful, you have to work hard, you have to have some brights, of course. But, you don't mention anything about luck, or inspiration, or maybe taking credit for someone else's work. No - it's the "I'm special, I deserve it" line, all the way.
Yeah, I'm a little bit bitter. Many people are. Maybe some of us who never made it into the big time don't deserve the millions. Maybe we didn't work quite hard enough, maybe we weren't quite bright enough. But, we've also been ripped off from time to time, by the guys who DID make it to the top.
Go ahead, pat your selves on the back. Feel good about yourself. I don't know you, personally, so I can't say if you deserve it or not.
But, please, don't try to convince the world that the system is working right, or that it's self correcting, and that we all deserve to be at the bottom of the food chain.
Remember the stock market crash? Remember the big dudes lining up for government welfare? The "To big to fail" people?
Sorry, but most of us see corrupt sons of bitches watching out for each other. Joe gives Bill huge campaign donations, Bill gets into offie, then Joe goes bankrupt. BUT, Bill now has the power to rob all the taxpayers to help Joe avoid bankruptcy. Now, Joe is ripping off those same taxpayers/consumers to ensure that he'll have money on hand NEXT election.
Meanwhile, Bill and Joe are both hiring illegal aliens, and outsourcing our jobs to wherever they can pay the least money.
Don't worry about us simple taxpayers and consumers. You guys at the top deserve all that money, and we deserve none.
I can understand that many people don't RTFA. In your case, you apparently didn't read the post to which you are responding. Try again. Read. If you aren't familiar with the names, google them.
"Your idea of harm and the surrounding concepts seem to leave a significant amount to be desired."
Let's try to define harm. When a little girl child is snatched from her bedroom in the middle of the night, forcibly raped, then has her throat slashed - has she been harmed? Go read the cases.
And, I'll remind you - the pedophiles that I named are little different than the pedophiles who download all that porn. The BIGGEST difference is, these two acted upon their desires.
I can't help wondering what kind of lowlife modded me down. He probably lurks around the bathrooms at his local park, waiting to get a peek at the little boys and girls.
Did you, or AC above you, even bother to read the NAMES that I typed above? Are you aware of who they are, and what they've done?
Please, show me where I mentioned the 18 year old boy or girl whose special other is 17 years old. Please, show me where I made any mention of Mother sending snapshots to Grandmother. Exactly where did I mention sexting?
Go back to my post. Read. If you really don't recognize the names, use Google. When you are sure of the creatures of which I talk, THEN, please come back, and tell me how and why you agree, or disagree with me.
I would invite AC to do the same - but he lacks the balls to sign his post, he certainly won't come back to discuss anything at all.
Try Helix3. Don't jump up and down, telling me that it's another Linux LiveCD. There is a Windows executable in the root directory to capture system state stuff. When that finishes, you can reboot to the LiveCD for more tools.
They have an outdated version that is free, and if you wish to pay about 7 or 8 hundred bucks, you can get the up-to-date version.
"If it were just diet, farmers would simply change the diet of the animal for the last couple of weeks to change the taste."
Whoosh?
If it were just diet, farmers would simply change the diet of the animal for the last couple of weeks to change the taste.
Canada
The majority of beef cattle in Ontario are finished on a corn (maize)-based diet, whereas Western Canadian beef is finished on a barley-based diet. This rule is not absolute, however, as producers in both regions will alter the mix of feed grains according to changes in feed prices. Research by the Ontario government claims that, while Alberta beef producers have organized a sucessful marketing campaign promoting Alberta's barley-fed beef, corn-fed and barley-fed beef have a similar cost, quality, and taste.[1] ---------------- Note the term "finished". They DO feed the cattle as cheaply as possible, until shortly before slaughter. THEN, they are finished with barley or corn.
Whatever. I feel no shame in demanding the executions of such bizarros as Phillip Garrido, or Dennis Bradford, or any number of other freaks. In fact, I am PROUD that I'm willing to put a predator to death. If ever the state needs a volunteer, I'll step up. I can do the needle, I can knot a rope, I can throw an electrical switch, I can pull a trigger, or I can swing an axe.
Put the dogs down, and they'll never harm another human being.
You're probably the only geek on slashdot who watches or listens to the wench. Nobody here gives a damn how she spells her name. Yet another inane talentless little girl being mass marketed to make the bigwigs rich.
Inbred tribals like things just the way they are being described. Let's remember exactly what a tribe is: Small groups of people who have married within the group since time immemorial. For a youth to even DREAM of marrying a girl from an unknown, and unrelated family is a sin, as well as an offense against his sister, first cousin, or at best 4th cousin. The only way to get any crossbreeding is when they go out to raid, rape, pillage and plunder.
Pigs have often been allowed to forage for mast, then penned up and fed corn and maybe some sweet feed for some weeks before slaughter. Remember that a hog is an omnivore, so free ranging hogs eat some really NASTY stuff! Even today, farmers who slaughter their own hogs for private consumption will replace the commercially prepared feeds with corn. Would it work for rabbits? Probably.
It's the feed. Ever eaten rabbit? A wild rabbit has a taste that is very distinctive. Farm raised rabbit has a rather soapy taste, so I won't eat it. The only difference is, wild rabbit eat what wild rabbits are SUPPOSED to eat - green vegetation. Farm raised rabbits eat prepared feed, which includes anti-biotics, possibly hormonal growth accelerators like they use for cattle - whatever the eggheads believe will grow the most meat for the least money. Farm fisheries are the same. It's near impossible to duplicate their natural diet, and if you could duplicate it, they would be far more expensive than wild fish.
Diet has everything to do with the flavor of the meat.
Is there a DRM that DOES WORK? I've found that anything a person could ever want is available on the web, already stripped of any restrictive code. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough. Maybe there are some schemes that really work. But, it has often times been pointed out that DRM only frustrates legal users.
True - security is a process. But, the process should have reliable results. When the process proves unreliable, then it's called a "failure". Security failures on Windows are common - just tally up the number of banks that have been compromised, then try to make some kind of a wild stab at the numbers of consumers who have been compromised. Some of them are actually pretty savvy, too.
Now, look to the world of Unix and Unix-like OS's. The process is FAR MORE reliable, and requires less user input to be effective. The least secure default installation of *nix that I have ever seen is on an equal footing with the most secure installation of Windows that I have ever seen.
Just to clarify - the clueless bozo can give his information away in a number of ways, no matter how secure his system. We only ask that the system doesn't turn on the owner, and give the information away FOR him!
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Let's say that you make some stupid assertions. I point out that they are stupid. Are you going to start a court proceeding against me? FFS The article doesn't even mention bullying or abuse - instead it says the posts were "deeply disturbing". What is THAT supposed to mean? Who defines "deeply disturbing" anyway? Every vindictive little bitch who has a dorky son?
Stupid shit like this makes anonymity software look more and more appealing. Note to self: if ever I post a non-complimentary comment about anyone I know in real life, make SURE to only use the anonymous virtual machine to make the posts.
What AC says. MS's "open source" license is the viral license.
And, as GP said, all MS had to do was COMPLY WITH THE LICENSE. Tell me, WTF did MS have to lose by complying with a wide spread, commonly used license?
I haven't lost anything. I just go to any Linux box and convert DVD or CD to a USB anytime I need to. Did it three nights ago when I couldn't find a CD to burn Karmic. Phhht.
Reading comprehension 101. Try it.
Meanwhile, the difference between my post and parent is, he makes a statement of fact, which may or may not be true. He attempts to pass his opinion off as objective.
My statement, "it seems", is subjective.
Got links? Is there any objective data available?
""We believe it to be reliable and accurate," Drew said."
Well, I believe Drew is full of shit. My belief is as valid as his. Did I mention that the earth really IS flat?
I had to go to TFA to find out that it's a 7 METER rock, rather than a 7 MILE rock.
A rock that size would likely have started burning up, then fragmented into several pieces, continued burning and fragmenting. I doubt that very many pieces would have reached the ground. A guy would need to know the asteroids composition to make any sort of a guess. Mostly ice? No damage. Mostly rock? Maybe some limited damage. Solid rock? Probable damage, maybe enough to cause a few hundred casualties if it hit in a city. Metallic? Well - a solid chunk of iron might be something worth worrying about. In a densely populated area, we might be looking at a couple thousand casualties.
Oh well. I didn't see the speed of the asteroid, in relation to the earth. If it was just barely moving along, less damage. If it was zipping along at a couple thousand mph, then much more damage.
Citations? It seems to me that most of the people who read things like the Wall Street Journal are 'publicans, rather than 'crats.
"On the one hand they may be Beck's superiors,"
That was indeed my meaning. Most pimple faced teens serving burgers at McDonalds are Beck's superiors. He would have some difficulty finding a real peer among them. ;^)
"get a job as an accountant or burger slinger"
You seem to assume that Beck might be competent to do anything other than run his potty mouth, and sling mud at his superiors. Remember, Beck's mommy and daddy were afraid of swimming, so they stayed in the VERY shallow end of the gene pool. I suspect that they might even be brother and sister - though I've not uncovered any evidence to support that. ;^)
"China is quietly engaging in it. Sadly, Obama and the dems are trying hard to ignore it, but....."
Those executives who are outsourcing all those jobs to China - are they mostly Democrats, or Republicans? And, what exactly did Herr Bush do about China's undeclared cold war against the US?
I might agree with you if you had simply stated that "American politicans are ignoring the threat of the Asassin's Mace". But, you have to politicize something that both parties are guilty of.
Are you a genius? Not really. People with IQ's well below 100 can manage to make a robots.txt do what they want it to do. But, if we're grading on a curve, yes, you're the genius, and Murdoch is the mo-ron.
"aimed at commuters in cars who travel long distances to work every day"
I have a better idea. Hook those road trains up to their houses, and move the houses closer to work. That will save a LOT of fuel, not to mention wear and tear on the infrastructure.
Heard of DNA? The DNA evidence in both cases I mentioned is already established. The only other evidence that can be almost equally as damning, is a video.
I always love these self justifications for being successful. Yeah, to be really successful, you have to work hard, you have to have some brights, of course. But, you don't mention anything about luck, or inspiration, or maybe taking credit for someone else's work. No - it's the "I'm special, I deserve it" line, all the way.
Yeah, I'm a little bit bitter. Many people are. Maybe some of us who never made it into the big time don't deserve the millions. Maybe we didn't work quite hard enough, maybe we weren't quite bright enough. But, we've also been ripped off from time to time, by the guys who DID make it to the top.
Go ahead, pat your selves on the back. Feel good about yourself. I don't know you, personally, so I can't say if you deserve it or not.
But, please, don't try to convince the world that the system is working right, or that it's self correcting, and that we all deserve to be at the bottom of the food chain.
Remember the stock market crash? Remember the big dudes lining up for government welfare? The "To big to fail" people?
Sorry, but most of us see corrupt sons of bitches watching out for each other. Joe gives Bill huge campaign donations, Bill gets into offie, then Joe goes bankrupt. BUT, Bill now has the power to rob all the taxpayers to help Joe avoid bankruptcy. Now, Joe is ripping off those same taxpayers/consumers to ensure that he'll have money on hand NEXT election.
Meanwhile, Bill and Joe are both hiring illegal aliens, and outsourcing our jobs to wherever they can pay the least money.
Don't worry about us simple taxpayers and consumers. You guys at the top deserve all that money, and we deserve none.
I can understand that many people don't RTFA. In your case, you apparently didn't read the post to which you are responding. Try again. Read. If you aren't familiar with the names, google them.
"Your idea of harm and the surrounding concepts seem to leave a significant amount to be desired."
Let's try to define harm. When a little girl child is snatched from her bedroom in the middle of the night, forcibly raped, then has her throat slashed - has she been harmed? Go read the cases.
And, I'll remind you - the pedophiles that I named are little different than the pedophiles who download all that porn. The BIGGEST difference is, these two acted upon their desires.
I can't help wondering what kind of lowlife modded me down. He probably lurks around the bathrooms at his local park, waiting to get a peek at the little boys and girls.
Did you, or AC above you, even bother to read the NAMES that I typed above? Are you aware of who they are, and what they've done?
Please, show me where I mentioned the 18 year old boy or girl whose special other is 17 years old. Please, show me where I made any mention of Mother sending snapshots to Grandmother. Exactly where did I mention sexting?
Go back to my post. Read. If you really don't recognize the names, use Google. When you are sure of the creatures of which I talk, THEN, please come back, and tell me how and why you agree, or disagree with me.
I would invite AC to do the same - but he lacks the balls to sign his post, he certainly won't come back to discuss anything at all.
Try Helix3. Don't jump up and down, telling me that it's another Linux LiveCD. There is a Windows executable in the root directory to capture system state stuff. When that finishes, you can reboot to the LiveCD for more tools.
They have an outdated version that is free, and if you wish to pay about 7 or 8 hundred bucks, you can get the up-to-date version.
"If it were just diet, farmers would simply change the diet of the animal for the last couple of weeks to change the taste."
Whoosh?
If it were just diet, farmers would simply change the diet of the animal for the last couple of weeks to change the taste.
Canada
The majority of beef cattle in Ontario are finished on a corn (maize)-based diet, whereas Western Canadian beef is finished on a barley-based diet. This rule is not absolute, however, as producers in both regions will alter the mix of feed grains according to changes in feed prices. Research by the Ontario government claims that, while Alberta beef producers have organized a sucessful marketing campaign promoting Alberta's barley-fed beef, corn-fed and barley-fed beef have a similar cost, quality, and taste.[1]
----------------
Note the term "finished". They DO feed the cattle as cheaply as possible, until shortly before slaughter. THEN, they are finished with barley or corn.
"It's completely shameful."
Whatever. I feel no shame in demanding the executions of such bizarros as Phillip Garrido, or Dennis Bradford, or any number of other freaks. In fact, I am PROUD that I'm willing to put a predator to death. If ever the state needs a volunteer, I'll step up. I can do the needle, I can knot a rope, I can throw an electrical switch, I can pull a trigger, or I can swing an axe.
Put the dogs down, and they'll never harm another human being.
You're probably the only geek on slashdot who watches or listens to the wench. Nobody here gives a damn how she spells her name. Yet another inane talentless little girl being mass marketed to make the bigwigs rich.
Inbred tribals like things just the way they are being described. Let's remember exactly what a tribe is: Small groups of people who have married within the group since time immemorial. For a youth to even DREAM of marrying a girl from an unknown, and unrelated family is a sin, as well as an offense against his sister, first cousin, or at best 4th cousin. The only way to get any crossbreeding is when they go out to raid, rape, pillage and plunder.
How will encryption help, when the application that you've been duped into installing is DOING THE SNOOPING?!?!
Pigs have often been allowed to forage for mast, then penned up and fed corn and maybe some sweet feed for some weeks before slaughter. Remember that a hog is an omnivore, so free ranging hogs eat some really NASTY stuff!
Even today, farmers who slaughter their own hogs for private consumption will replace the commercially prepared feeds with corn.
Would it work for rabbits? Probably.
It's the feed. Ever eaten rabbit? A wild rabbit has a taste that is very distinctive. Farm raised rabbit has a rather soapy taste, so I won't eat it. The only difference is, wild rabbit eat what wild rabbits are SUPPOSED to eat - green vegetation. Farm raised rabbits eat prepared feed, which includes anti-biotics, possibly hormonal growth accelerators like they use for cattle - whatever the eggheads believe will grow the most meat for the least money. Farm fisheries are the same. It's near impossible to duplicate their natural diet, and if you could duplicate it, they would be far more expensive than wild fish.
Diet has everything to do with the flavor of the meat.
Is there a DRM that DOES WORK? I've found that anything a person could ever want is available on the web, already stripped of any restrictive code. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough. Maybe there are some schemes that really work. But, it has often times been pointed out that DRM only frustrates legal users.
True - security is a process. But, the process should have reliable results. When the process proves unreliable, then it's called a "failure". Security failures on Windows are common - just tally up the number of banks that have been compromised, then try to make some kind of a wild stab at the numbers of consumers who have been compromised. Some of them are actually pretty savvy, too.
Now, look to the world of Unix and Unix-like OS's. The process is FAR MORE reliable, and requires less user input to be effective. The least secure default installation of *nix that I have ever seen is on an equal footing with the most secure installation of Windows that I have ever seen.
Just to clarify - the clueless bozo can give his information away in a number of ways, no matter how secure his system. We only ask that the system doesn't turn on the owner, and give the information away FOR him!
Reliability. What a concept.