Ahhhhh - that makes it all okay then. The old guy tweets. In fact, he's tweeting the deck cards of daily inspirational thoughts that my granny kept on her kitchen table. Is he allowed to take those sayings that were published by the Sisters of Inane Sayings like that? Yeah - he probably pays royalties on them, so that's probably cool too!
Flamebait? How perverse. Like TheRealMindChild, I'd rather see some effort made to improve living conditions for these people in their own homelands. Why do we NEED immigrants again? Oh yeah - it's politically correct to allow a few tears to be photographed on your face while talking about how bad it is in _____________ (fill in whichever country makes you weep).
If those STEM kids were so smart, maybe they should begin improving conditions at home. If those lesser gifted illegals are so industrious, then maybe they should get to work improving conditions in their neighborhoods.
Instead, we apparently skim off the cream of the crop, leaving the dregs behind to wallow in poverty and ignorance.
Yeah, we're doing the world a huge favor, aren't we?
I take it that the "flamebait" moderators really meant "not politically correct"? I'll remind you that the very term originated in the old Soviet.
WTF? I read "pope resigns" early this morning, before I fell into bed. I read more "pope resigns citing advancing age" after I got out of bed. I look at slashdot, and see more "pope resigns" crap? WTF? I mean, really, WTF? Did I miss the fact that the pope created a new file system for Linux? Maybe he made kernel contributions? Did he even create any apps with which to observe religious holidays? WTF?
Headlines should read, "Some old dotard feels that he is so weak that he can no longer mumble the mumbo jumbo to keep the masses happy, more youthful dotard sought for position." And, it should be filed in the classifieds, not on slashdot.
I'll be reading about that pervert freak who was arrested at his "ranch" south of Texarkana here next. Yeah, he's newsworthy too, but slashdot? WTF? Somewhere between half and three quarters of slashdotters possess no soul that they'll admit to, and the rest aren't at all sure - so we have articles about people sheparding our souls?
Come on, people, give me something at least passingly nerdy. Has this pope ever even APPROVED of a papal app? Does he own an iPhone, or a Blackberry? Dig deep, find some reason to report this guy's senility on slashdot.
In which military, and in what years, did this happen? I find it hard to believe that this is/was common practice in any branch of the US Armed Forces.
Marines guard most of the Navy's gates, facilities, etc, and it makes a marine's day to throw a sailor on the ground, stick the muzzle of a rifle in his ear, and shout "DON'T MOVE MOTHERFUCKER!!" In fact, a private on Adak Island was promoted to corporal after doing exactly that to a Navy Captain. Marines might be slightly more polite to civilians, depending on the circumstances, but I really doubt that. And, being polite doesn't preclude punching a hole through their chest with his assault rifle. When a marine says "Halt!", just assume that you are very close to death.
Smaller commands with no marines assigned are just as serious about security. Even though we all recognize each other, we know each other well, NO ONE moves during a security alert. NO ONE goes into a secure area without authorization. Period.
The Air Force, in my experience, was even more brainwashed than our sailors were.
The Army? I can't speak for them. I had almost zero contact with them while on active duty.
Except, our government is actively engaged in writing treaties to prevent anyone outside the United States having the freedom to do anything other than pay us.
In short, you're an ethnocentric nationalist who easily justifies anything that screws the outsiders.
And, you make a nationalist like myself look bad, just by breathing.
"That is the only honest answer that there is. As long as artificial monopolies like 'regions' are tolerated it will only continue. There is no valid reason why software or other companies should be able to use globalism for cheaper labor whilst denying consumers globalism for cheaper products."
You might find this story interesting.
I think it was 1992, Texas decided to build another prison, located in New Boston, Tx. A Pennsylvania company won the contract, and part of the contract covered employment of local workers. A journeyman carpenter was supposed to get $13.00 or $13.50/hr.
When the company started hiring, they were paying $11.00/hr for journeymen craftsmen.
This obviously violated the contract - but the Pennsylvania company went to court, and successfully argued that because they were working in an "economically depressed" area, that $11.00 was equivalent to the wages stated in the contract. That is, $11.00 in the Texarkana area was equal to the $13.00 or $13.50 in Pittsburgh, Pa.
There is always some imaginary bullshit excuse for ripping off the locals.
Do you also look at your grandmothers, with the same speculation on your mind? Thirty years ago, Shrillary was more repulsive then my grandmothers. I can't imagine that the woman was ever NOT repulsive!
My take on the summary is - Apple has a dream gadget in mind, they're talking to Foxconn, and Foxconn is doing the engineering. I'm scratching my head for a second here. Does Apple not do it's own engineering anymore? Have they outsourced EVERYTHING except marketing? WTF?
Time to RTFA - baaahhhh - WSJ is doing funky crap with cross site scripting now? Need to find another source - - -
So, they're talking about a bluetooth watch that connects to the iPhone? Doesn't sound very impressive to me. The "technology" seems to center on a curved glass surface for the thing, and more powerful batteries? Phhtt - we're still years away from a Dick Tracy communicator watch thingy.
The takeaway seems to be that they'll be designed and engineered by Chinese, rather than Americans. Sad - we've gutted our schools, and we no longer educate the people necessary to do this type of work.
That's a bit dumb, really. You're implying that if no legitimate people offered rewards, then the illegitimate hackers would stop doing their thing? That's equivalent to saying that if the police didn't offer "Crime Stopper" rewards, then the crooks would stop committing crimes. It makes no sense at all.
Among odds and ends I found were a "federal building and post office", and several "federal building and federal court". The Pentagon and the US Supreme Court are both federal buildings. It seems that my own definition wasn't very accurate - even some warehouses are classified as federal buildings!
Example, was an upgrade that failed. I then removed the chip to flash it on a USB powered flashing device. I could see the chip, I could see the file, I could "write" the file - but every attempt to do so yielded a blank chip when I attempted to read the finished product.
I gave up, and wrote the original BIOS back to the chip, but that required two attempts to do so.
I don't understand the process or the chips well enough to even try to explain why, but it happened. Maybe it's as simple a thing as, the new BIOS was a few bytes to big to fit onto the chip. Maybe the chip was faulty in some way, but passed QC inspection. Maybe electricity behaves differently in my county. I don't know, but flashes don't always work right.
Use GoogleTalk or similar, and pipe the conversation to a file on disk. If that doesn't bypass stupid laws regarding wiretapping, at least it will confuse the issue.
A: You don't update BIOS unless you find that you actually NEED IT.
1. Similarly, you don't update software unless you find that you actually NEED IT.
B: You make a backup of your existing BIOS, "just in case".
C: Be prepared to revert to your backed up BIOS.
1. Said preparation may involve purchase of a suitable eeprom writing device, some of which will flash a lot of different chips.
D: Consider the age of your hardware before deciding to flash. If it has served you well for two, or ten, or even twenty years, WTF do you want to flash it NOW?
"What Facebook can, and will do to these little morons"
Underestimating your enemy is one sure way to get your ass kicked. Or, the reverse of that, overestimating yourself. I don't think "morons" run these patent holding companies. There are an awful lot of derogatory terms that might apply to them, but "morons" isn't one of them.
"either counter-sue and sue them for years now, bankrupting them with legal fees."
Sue? On what grounds? You're proposing frivolous suits, based on nothing, as a suitable counter weapon against a suit that *just might have some merit? How long until a judge figures that tactic out, and lashes out at Facebook, as well as all of Facebook's attorneys?
* I say "might have some merit", merely as a possibility. On the face of it, it sorta kinda looks like Facebook may have ripped off someone else's idea. But, that is only based on reading TFA, which seems little more than a PR statement from Rembrandt. I'd have to see more to even speculate whether Rembrandt has a case or not.
That would be an odd experience, I imagine. I've had OTHER people to sit on my dick. It's rather similar to having someone sit on your lap, but a bit more intimate. If you figure out how to sit on your own lap, let us all know, alright? Remember, though: Pics, or it didn't happen!!
Not to mention that having children is the only proven route to immortality. With a lot of kids, your DNA is almost guaranteed to survive. With no kids, your DNA goes into the grave with you. It's unlikely that some woman in the distant future will be so desperate for DNA that she'll dig your bones up to try extracting the necessary ingredients with which to fertilize her eggs.
I know, zombie apocalypse fans will probably argue my assertions. Personally, I found getting the wife pregnant to be far more enjoyable than the prospect of lying in a cemetery waiting for nature to take it's course.
My first thought matched your post. But - Federal Buildings aren't exactly the halls of congress, or even Janet Napolitano's office.
People enlisting in the armed services traditionally have gone through preliminary indoctrination / induction procedures in federal buildings. A lot of vital statistics stuff is found in federal buildings. FBI offices, ATF offices, federal marshall's offices, and more. The Federal Building in Oklahoma City that was bombed was targeted because the ATF and FBI were located there. Few, if any, of those various federal employees had anything to do with approval of these machines.
Worse, the public is still being exposed to this crap.
Congress needs to just mandate that the damned things are destroyed. End of story.
Congress really ought to just grow some balls, and decide to get rid of TSA and Homeland Security. I've seen nothing to suggest that they have improved on security in the United States. Fund the border patrol, and allow them to do the jobs they have been mandated to do since day one. And, Customs, as well. Keep the Air Marshalls, but put them under the authority of the FBI.
We've gone so horribly wrong, and Homeland Security is the center of all that wrongness.
I suggest you read Davestar's post, as well as my own again. I've disagreed with Davestar. He claims that the failures who ran banks into the dirt didn't get astronomical bonuses, merely unbelievable bonuses. I stated that they did indeed get astronomical bonuses.
I have little idea which language might be your own native language, but respectful disagreement seems pretty obvious to me here. Davestar basically split a hair, and I told him that execs always get the bigger half of the hair.
You might ask yourself, however, how stable is democracy, really? It's so unstable, that our founding fathers decided that we shouldn't have one. Instead, they gave us a republic. A representative republic. And, that republic grows less and less representative with each passing decade.
If we actually had a democracy, life would be vastly different than what we have today. In some respects, it would be worse, in other respects it would be better.
Whatever - it has been decided by the Supreme Court that the police forces in this land do not incur any liability if and when they fail to protect you and yours. The Supreme Court has thus affirmed that only a fool will rely on the police forces to protect him
But, my reason for opposition of gun control is much more pragmatic than your opposition. You see it as valueless. I see it as having a lot of value - to the people who would control us. It has almost zero value to an honest man, or to a law abiding citizen, which are often synonymous. It has great value to a person who assumes the "right" or the "responsibility" to "protect" us from whatever he deems that we need protection from. Especially when he thinks that we need to be protected from ourselves!
As for flamebait - I speak bluntly. I don't waste time talking around a subject. Men and women alike who are strong willed enough to protect themselves, and take appropriate actions to ensure that they are able to protect themselves have "fortitude".
Those with no fortitude would rather sit idly around, relying on a 911 call to "protect" them if something bad happens.
I call it balls. You call it whatever makes you comfortable.
It could be that mods are on LSD. It's also possible that you're out of touch with reality. Reality dictates, as does the theory of evolution, that the strong survive. There are a number of measures of strength, one of them being the willingness to defend yourself, and your loved ones.
The weak want to depend on a subservient police force to protect them. The strong understand that they cannot rely on a police force. Least of all can they rely on a police force remaining subservient. Witness the number of police who are routinely seen in body armor, carrying weapons that are prohibited to members of the public. Witness the conduct and the bearing of said officers in the presence of large crowds of people.
Then, ask yourself who those police forces actually belong to, in this day and age.
For the most part, they take their marching orders from a corporate owned and corporate controlled government. They simply don't give a big damn about your own personal security. Ohhh - they "care", sort of. But, their primary concern is to keep the people who really own them happy.
An armed man, if need be, might defend himself from some of the wrongs committed by a bad cop. He has some chance of being successful, however slim. An unarmed man has no defense. The cops know that, so they want you unarmed. It's as simple as that.
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Ahhhhh - that makes it all okay then. The old guy tweets. In fact, he's tweeting the deck cards of daily inspirational thoughts that my granny kept on her kitchen table. Is he allowed to take those sayings that were published by the Sisters of Inane Sayings like that? Yeah - he probably pays royalties on them, so that's probably cool too!
Flamebait? How perverse. Like TheRealMindChild, I'd rather see some effort made to improve living conditions for these people in their own homelands. Why do we NEED immigrants again? Oh yeah - it's politically correct to allow a few tears to be photographed on your face while talking about how bad it is in _____________ (fill in whichever country makes you weep).
If those STEM kids were so smart, maybe they should begin improving conditions at home. If those lesser gifted illegals are so industrious, then maybe they should get to work improving conditions in their neighborhoods.
Instead, we apparently skim off the cream of the crop, leaving the dregs behind to wallow in poverty and ignorance.
Yeah, we're doing the world a huge favor, aren't we?
I take it that the "flamebait" moderators really meant "not politically correct"? I'll remind you that the very term originated in the old Soviet.
WTF? I read "pope resigns" early this morning, before I fell into bed. I read more "pope resigns citing advancing age" after I got out of bed. I look at slashdot, and see more "pope resigns" crap? WTF? I mean, really, WTF? Did I miss the fact that the pope created a new file system for Linux? Maybe he made kernel contributions? Did he even create any apps with which to observe religious holidays? WTF?
Headlines should read, "Some old dotard feels that he is so weak that he can no longer mumble the mumbo jumbo to keep the masses happy, more youthful dotard sought for position." And, it should be filed in the classifieds, not on slashdot.
I'll be reading about that pervert freak who was arrested at his "ranch" south of Texarkana here next. Yeah, he's newsworthy too, but slashdot? WTF? Somewhere between half and three quarters of slashdotters possess no soul that they'll admit to, and the rest aren't at all sure - so we have articles about people sheparding our souls?
Come on, people, give me something at least passingly nerdy. Has this pope ever even APPROVED of a papal app? Does he own an iPhone, or a Blackberry? Dig deep, find some reason to report this guy's senility on slashdot.
I have your old internet.
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In which military, and in what years, did this happen? I find it hard to believe that this is/was common practice in any branch of the US Armed Forces.
Marines guard most of the Navy's gates, facilities, etc, and it makes a marine's day to throw a sailor on the ground, stick the muzzle of a rifle in his ear, and shout "DON'T MOVE MOTHERFUCKER!!" In fact, a private on Adak Island was promoted to corporal after doing exactly that to a Navy Captain. Marines might be slightly more polite to civilians, depending on the circumstances, but I really doubt that. And, being polite doesn't preclude punching a hole through their chest with his assault rifle. When a marine says "Halt!", just assume that you are very close to death.
Smaller commands with no marines assigned are just as serious about security. Even though we all recognize each other, we know each other well, NO ONE moves during a security alert. NO ONE goes into a secure area without authorization. Period.
The Air Force, in my experience, was even more brainwashed than our sailors were.
The Army? I can't speak for them. I had almost zero contact with them while on active duty.
Sounds cool.
Except, our government is actively engaged in writing treaties to prevent anyone outside the United States having the freedom to do anything other than pay us.
In short, you're an ethnocentric nationalist who easily justifies anything that screws the outsiders.
And, you make a nationalist like myself look bad, just by breathing.
"That is the only honest answer that there is. As long as artificial monopolies like 'regions' are tolerated it will only continue. There is no valid reason why software or other companies should be able to use globalism for cheaper labor whilst denying consumers globalism for cheaper products."
You might find this story interesting.
I think it was 1992, Texas decided to build another prison, located in New Boston, Tx. A Pennsylvania company won the contract, and part of the contract covered employment of local workers. A journeyman carpenter was supposed to get $13.00 or $13.50/hr.
When the company started hiring, they were paying $11.00/hr for journeymen craftsmen.
This obviously violated the contract - but the Pennsylvania company went to court, and successfully argued that because they were working in an "economically depressed" area, that $11.00 was equivalent to the wages stated in the contract. That is, $11.00 in the Texarkana area was equal to the $13.00 or $13.50 in Pittsburgh, Pa.
There is always some imaginary bullshit excuse for ripping off the locals.
Do you also look at your grandmothers, with the same speculation on your mind? Thirty years ago, Shrillary was more repulsive then my grandmothers. I can't imagine that the woman was ever NOT repulsive!
My take on the summary is - Apple has a dream gadget in mind, they're talking to Foxconn, and Foxconn is doing the engineering. I'm scratching my head for a second here. Does Apple not do it's own engineering anymore? Have they outsourced EVERYTHING except marketing? WTF?
Time to RTFA - baaahhhh - WSJ is doing funky crap with cross site scripting now? Need to find another source - - -
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/02/10/wsj-apple-testing-iwatch-foxconn/
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/02/10/wsj-apple-testing-iwatch-foxconn/
"If Apple does ever release a wearable device, it is said that it’ll be integrated with the iPhone, probably connecting with the device via Bluetooth and allowing the two to have a symbiotic relationship."
So, they're talking about a bluetooth watch that connects to the iPhone? Doesn't sound very impressive to me. The "technology" seems to center on a curved glass surface for the thing, and more powerful batteries? Phhtt - we're still years away from a Dick Tracy communicator watch thingy.
The takeaway seems to be that they'll be designed and engineered by Chinese, rather than Americans. Sad - we've gutted our schools, and we no longer educate the people necessary to do this type of work.
That's a bit dumb, really. You're implying that if no legitimate people offered rewards, then the illegitimate hackers would stop doing their thing? That's equivalent to saying that if the police didn't offer "Crime Stopper" rewards, then the crooks would stop committing crimes. It makes no sense at all.
Yes - but you do realize that "Federal Court" and "Federal Building" are not exactly synonymous?
I started googling for more info, and found this PDF:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R41138.pdf
Among odds and ends I found were a "federal building and post office", and several "federal building and federal court". The Pentagon and the US Supreme Court are both federal buildings. It seems that my own definition wasn't very accurate - even some warehouses are classified as federal buildings!
I believe that to be an inaccurate assessment.
Example, was an upgrade that failed. I then removed the chip to flash it on a USB powered flashing device. I could see the chip, I could see the file, I could "write" the file - but every attempt to do so yielded a blank chip when I attempted to read the finished product.
I gave up, and wrote the original BIOS back to the chip, but that required two attempts to do so.
I don't understand the process or the chips well enough to even try to explain why, but it happened. Maybe it's as simple a thing as, the new BIOS was a few bytes to big to fit onto the chip. Maybe the chip was faulty in some way, but passed QC inspection. Maybe electricity behaves differently in my county. I don't know, but flashes don't always work right.
Use GoogleTalk or similar, and pipe the conversation to a file on disk. If that doesn't bypass stupid laws regarding wiretapping, at least it will confuse the issue.
A: You don't update BIOS unless you find that you actually NEED IT.
1. Similarly, you don't update software unless you find that you actually NEED IT.
B: You make a backup of your existing BIOS, "just in case".
C: Be prepared to revert to your backed up BIOS.
1. Said preparation may involve purchase of a suitable eeprom writing device, some of which will flash a lot of different chips.
D: Consider the age of your hardware before deciding to flash. If it has served you well for two, or ten, or even twenty years, WTF do you want to flash it NOW?
E: See A above.
WTF? Like, the other party hasn't been actively selling off bits and pieces all along? Get real!
Battle of Camarón is April 30th!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Camar%C3%B3n
I think March 6th is Alamo Day.
It seems that Mexicans usually win their battles with the tried and true method of overwhelming their enemies by thousands to one.
"What Facebook can, and will do to these little morons"
Underestimating your enemy is one sure way to get your ass kicked. Or, the reverse of that, overestimating yourself. I don't think "morons" run these patent holding companies. There are an awful lot of derogatory terms that might apply to them, but "morons" isn't one of them.
"either counter-sue and sue them for years now, bankrupting them with legal fees."
Sue? On what grounds? You're proposing frivolous suits, based on nothing, as a suitable counter weapon against a suit that *just might have some merit? How long until a judge figures that tactic out, and lashes out at Facebook, as well as all of Facebook's attorneys?
* I say "might have some merit", merely as a possibility. On the face of it, it sorta kinda looks like Facebook may have ripped off someone else's idea. But, that is only based on reading TFA, which seems little more than a PR statement from Rembrandt. I'd have to see more to even speculate whether Rembrandt has a case or not.
Nihilism is alive and well, I see.
"sitting on your dick"
That would be an odd experience, I imagine. I've had OTHER people to sit on my dick. It's rather similar to having someone sit on your lap, but a bit more intimate. If you figure out how to sit on your own lap, let us all know, alright? Remember, though: Pics, or it didn't happen!!
Not to mention that having children is the only proven route to immortality. With a lot of kids, your DNA is almost guaranteed to survive. With no kids, your DNA goes into the grave with you. It's unlikely that some woman in the distant future will be so desperate for DNA that she'll dig your bones up to try extracting the necessary ingredients with which to fertilize her eggs.
I know, zombie apocalypse fans will probably argue my assertions. Personally, I found getting the wife pregnant to be far more enjoyable than the prospect of lying in a cemetery waiting for nature to take it's course.
My first thought matched your post. But - Federal Buildings aren't exactly the halls of congress, or even Janet Napolitano's office.
People enlisting in the armed services traditionally have gone through preliminary indoctrination / induction procedures in federal buildings. A lot of vital statistics stuff is found in federal buildings. FBI offices, ATF offices, federal marshall's offices, and more. The Federal Building in Oklahoma City that was bombed was targeted because the ATF and FBI were located there. Few, if any, of those various federal employees had anything to do with approval of these machines.
Worse, the public is still being exposed to this crap.
Congress needs to just mandate that the damned things are destroyed. End of story.
Congress really ought to just grow some balls, and decide to get rid of TSA and Homeland Security. I've seen nothing to suggest that they have improved on security in the United States. Fund the border patrol, and allow them to do the jobs they have been mandated to do since day one. And, Customs, as well. Keep the Air Marshalls, but put them under the authority of the FBI.
We've gone so horribly wrong, and Homeland Security is the center of all that wrongness.
I suggest you read Davestar's post, as well as my own again. I've disagreed with Davestar. He claims that the failures who ran banks into the dirt didn't get astronomical bonuses, merely unbelievable bonuses. I stated that they did indeed get astronomical bonuses.
I have little idea which language might be your own native language, but respectful disagreement seems pretty obvious to me here. Davestar basically split a hair, and I told him that execs always get the bigger half of the hair.
Hmm. Another thoughtful reply.
You might ask yourself, however, how stable is democracy, really? It's so unstable, that our founding fathers decided that we shouldn't have one. Instead, they gave us a republic. A representative republic. And, that republic grows less and less representative with each passing decade.
If we actually had a democracy, life would be vastly different than what we have today. In some respects, it would be worse, in other respects it would be better.
Whatever - it has been decided by the Supreme Court that the police forces in this land do not incur any liability if and when they fail to protect you and yours. The Supreme Court has thus affirmed that only a fool will rely on the police forces to protect him
As the Boy Scouts say, "Be prepared!"
I calls it as I sees it. Apparently, you do too.
But, my reason for opposition of gun control is much more pragmatic than your opposition. You see it as valueless. I see it as having a lot of value - to the people who would control us. It has almost zero value to an honest man, or to a law abiding citizen, which are often synonymous. It has great value to a person who assumes the "right" or the "responsibility" to "protect" us from whatever he deems that we need protection from. Especially when he thinks that we need to be protected from ourselves!
As for flamebait - I speak bluntly. I don't waste time talking around a subject. Men and women alike who are strong willed enough to protect themselves, and take appropriate actions to ensure that they are able to protect themselves have "fortitude".
Those with no fortitude would rather sit idly around, relying on a 911 call to "protect" them if something bad happens.
I call it balls. You call it whatever makes you comfortable.
It could be that mods are on LSD. It's also possible that you're out of touch with reality. Reality dictates, as does the theory of evolution, that the strong survive. There are a number of measures of strength, one of them being the willingness to defend yourself, and your loved ones.
The weak want to depend on a subservient police force to protect them. The strong understand that they cannot rely on a police force. Least of all can they rely on a police force remaining subservient. Witness the number of police who are routinely seen in body armor, carrying weapons that are prohibited to members of the public. Witness the conduct and the bearing of said officers in the presence of large crowds of people.
Then, ask yourself who those police forces actually belong to, in this day and age.
For the most part, they take their marching orders from a corporate owned and corporate controlled government. They simply don't give a big damn about your own personal security. Ohhh - they "care", sort of. But, their primary concern is to keep the people who really own them happy.
An armed man, if need be, might defend himself from some of the wrongs committed by a bad cop. He has some chance of being successful, however slim. An unarmed man has no defense. The cops know that, so they want you unarmed. It's as simple as that.