Self-deprecating irony is often too fumulescent to release on a US-centric web site, but it's great that there are people out there who have read the MSDS and can give warning when it's in the air.
Perhaps, but is it really necessary? Some people these days are so badly educated and don't know how to express themselves. Swearing is a sign that you lack the.. you know.. words to be able to effectively say what you mean.
Perhaps English isn't your first language. I said that no individual changes the world, not that I have no accomplishments.
I try to have a sense of proportion about the power of a single human (including myself) and the ability of humanity in general (of which I am part) to act contrary to its nature. You appear unable to grow out of seeing the world in terms of superhero comics...
I hope a primate hits you with a rock.
...which is a fairly typical teenage insecurity, and manifests itself accompanied by anger at the suggestion of impotence.
My arguments are that no-one has changed the world on his own, and that no single change makes much difference.
The only significant changes in the human world are those which change man's nature. The rest are about finding a different rock to bash other rocks or other men with. Primates have evolved to think they're just so great when they've found a more powerful rock.
Man's nature occasionally changes, but not by much, and usually not for long.
Now imagine those sort of arguments happening continuously around the world by an effectively infinite number of people often with nothing productive to do for the rest of the day. Worse, imagine that - unlike in academia (IME) - no-one wears their proud bias on their sleeves for filtering where necessary, but everyone pretends to be fair and balanced.
if they don't want people specifically targeting (or specifically avoiding) their honeypot, then of course they don't want to publish the IP.
And if you want people to actually take any notice of your abuse reports, you'd better identify the target of abuse. "a.b.c.d is abusing us, but we're not telling you who we are," is completely unacceptable. No-one cares about your elite honeypot and the fact that you think you're important enough to run one and be taken on your word when you say it's being attacked.
How do you know you're not addressing the next Bill Gates?
The same would apply to Gates on his own. Even if you consider Microsoft as a whole (which is already not "Gates"), it hasn't "changed the world" except in some superficial detail.
The people with the most _social_ success are raging egotists and shameless self-promoters.
Define, in a way neither shallow, fleeting nor insincere, "social success". Explain how it would make you feel successful in the world.
This isn't 2005. The concept of a VM software decently supporting old operating systems is long gone. They're now just a way of selling something to go with the "cloud" hype, a solution to a problem that shouldn't even exist were it not for awful security and installation policies on commodity operating systems: the need to run more than one instance of an operating system on a single piece of hardware.
Specifically, go on and try various VM solutions and see how many get you a working and stable Windows 98 install. And by "stable" I mean at least as stable as you'd get from good 10 year old hardware. Now what happens if the choice you've already made for all your other VMs doesn't support Windows 98? You going to install two vendor's solutions on the same box and run them simultaneously? Good luck with that.
I have some British ancestry. Feel free to tell me I drink too much tea, my wife's hideous, and I'm probably a repressed homosexual. Our chief Empire export was hypocrisy.
I have some Spanish ancestry. We're a bunch of sadistic bullfighters, overly macho (or balls-chopped feminist, depending on how recently you visited Spain), horribly greasy and... oh, it's too hot, the rest of the sentence can wait 'til tomorrow.
Casual racism/nationalism/whatever sometimes has elements of truth, and just as often conceals another truth or still relevant historical nugget: maybe some of your country's authoritarianism does come from its penal history? maybe USA/Puritanism similar? For both reasons, don't try too hard to oppress it. Even when the denigration (omg is that like apartheid?) has no basis, you are probably going to get by better tolerating a certain amount of teasing or engaging in proud word appropriation, as the whole world won't change for you - at least not when you're not looking. It's better if they say the same thing in good humour to your face than bitterly behind your back.
tl;dr Solve problems in the current world, not an idealised version.
Iceland has a legal age of consent at 15 years. So you can only accuse her of regular rape.
That's what's so great about setting arbitrary lines in the sand: even if she's not legally a child rapist in her own country, in the eyes of America and much of the developed world, she'd be a child rapist. (Not in England, mind. In England, a person must have a penis to be capable of rape. Ah, Lady Justice, you blind thing.)
But, now I think about it, the boy actually said he was 14. Possibly 13. Sometimes it's hard to recall things precisely on the Internet so I'd better play it on the safe side and say he was around 13. I mean, it could have been an adult just like me who was actually raped, but I wouldn't want anyone to get away with child rape, so I'd better report on the safe side!
and the police to take it seriously enough to warrant an arrest in absence.
Is Iceland particularly well known for not taking accusations of child rape by a possible victim hysterically seriously? Does it have the unique distinction of properly considering an accused nonce innocent until proven guilty? All these questions I'm asking myself are making me confused, and I am beginning to imagine she may have raped me too. Or was she just unfaithful to me? Oh god! I wouldn't want to be holding on to a repressed memory.
Someone on the Internet claiming to be only 15 told me a story last night to the effect that Birgitta Jonsdottir raped him. If this is true, it could be said that Birgitta Jonsdottir is a child rapist. I'm not sure that a potential child rapist like Birgitta Jonsdottir has the authority to speak on allegations of molestation. Indeed, Birgitta Jonsdottir may be trying to deflect attention from the child rape she could have engaged in. Child rapists, as Birgitta Jonsdottir may be, should step down from any position of responsibility or trust.
Anyone else here on/. heard of anyone else she may have raped, especially someone under 18? If we have two accusations of child rape, then it seems appropriate to investigate Birgitta Jonsdottir for child rape, and to drown out all relevant news about her or her organisation in the media while the question of whether Birgitta Jonsdottir is a child rapist is carefully considered.
If you're driving an HGV at 90mph to stop your fruit spoiling, you're doing it very wrong. It sounds like the sort of thing a generic management consultant who had spent zero hours actually working with perishables would suggest.
Shame you don't live close (assuming probability's serving me correctly today). We have an insane excess of apples from the garden alone and you'd be welcome to take some if you're desperate for fruit.
Nah, Geocities had a few quite useful sites by people interested in sharing information but with little care for web site maintenance per se.
Facebook, OTOH, has never offered any useful information to anyone.
This vulnerability is about as shocking as hearing that some bathroom/toilet stalls don't have graffiti-proof paint on them. And as disappointing in terms of humour loss from an otherwise drab experience when someone does something about it.
Yes, what could one possibly market to middle-age women interested in motherhood and holidays? And who could possibly want contact or aggregate information about this atypically independent and hard-to-sell-to demographic?
Now I understand how Debian could afford to take that prime time TV ad slot to announce the Backports service becoming official while big pharma struggled to afford the 10 second "follow-on milk" piece to target the at most half a dozen women who might be convinced that evolution is a failure and breast is not best.
Hail Economy, full of grace, the Businessman is with thee; blessed art thou among religions, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Dollar. Holy Economy, Mother of Trinkets, distract for us workers, now and at the hour of our bankruptcy. Amen.
Oh, now you're talking like a crackpot. When was the last time anyone in the US was arrested for stating a political opinion? I'll tell you, the last time it happened in Cuba was this year.
I guess not everyone's native language here is English, so you may have skipped over a few words. To reiterate: "To make a difference, you need substance and medium." Merely stating a political opinion isn't having substance and medium. The US is sufficiently sophisticated to let any man waste time giving his opinion.
To make a difference, you first need substance to back up your message: something like video footage of abuses in war. Then you need a medium: something like a famous web site devoted to whistleblowing.
The US military, always with a sense of humour, charged for the former one day after Independence Day this year. As for dealing with the latter, see other post.
the only reason you have to persuade 100 million people is because states' rights are vanishing, federalism is dying, and regionalism has become a bad word [...] were Cuba a democracy (or similar) one would only need to persuade 5 million, so the GP's shock impact of 9 figures is really fraudulent.
So, were the USA to have a more reasonable system of government, or were the USA the size of Cuba, what I'd said about the USA would be fraudulent.
And phantomfive's point about only needing to reach out to the voting public betrays his naive cynicism. If I were to present a powerful platform offering an alternative to the government the US has enjoyed for the past 30 years, say, I'd be confronted with campaigns one hundred times as powerful to drown me out. The number of people who choose to vote would go right up.
if you can command enough people for a bloody rebellion to succeed, you can easily gain control with a fair election
This hypothesis has such far-reaching consequences that you're going to have to do more than just make the assertion.
Swastikas and perfectly legal in all but one nation,
Read.Read again.Read harder. You are wrong. While every single European country allows the swastika (or any Nazi propaganda) to be displayed for "educational" purposes by some definition or another, there are several countries which ban the swastika (or any Nazi propaganda) when there's the remotest possibility that it is being used to indicate the artist's/author's/speaker's support of Nazism.
Porn is completely legal in all first-world nations,
You have no idea what you're talking about. Ignoring child porn, there are many forms of consensual porn banned throughout the Western world. In the UK, the Criminal Justice Act 2008 bans all sorts of S&M. The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 makes it illegal to make a sexually explicit drawing (as opposed to a pseudo-photograph, which was already illegal) suggesting involvement of a human under 18.
the Terrorism Act of 2006 has nothing to do with the US,
I'm sorry, are we only allowed to talk about the US? There's so much coverage here of unreasonable laws passed by the US over the last decade I thought I'd pick somewhere else.
and assange - despite being an asshat whom I'd personally love to see in a pine box
Death as a punishment for speech? Are there any dictators you particularly admire, or do you go more on the uniform?
is alive and well and not facing any sort of sanctions
A country governed by rule of law rather than rule of men would have either shut up or issued a warrant detailing precisely what crimes it accuses Assange of. Instead it's issued warnings, threats, sabre-rattling and open "we're cowards, please share some of the burden of our unjustifiable action" letters to its allies to request cooperation on imposing criminal sanctions against Assange.
To round off, I hereby accuse Obama of raping me. What's that, all important news about Obama isn't being drowned out by my accusation?
Slashdot Mirror
Self-deprecating irony is often too fumulescent to release on a US-centric web site, but it's great that there are people out there who have read the MSDS and can give warning when it's in the air.
"Earn" has classically been the most abused verb in the West.
"Steal" has taken close second place, especially since the recent invention of "intellectual property".
Over the past decade, "terrorize" has been creeping to third place.
Perhaps, but is it really necessary? Some people these days are so badly educated and don't know how to express themselves. Swearing is a sign that you lack the.. you know.. words to be able to effectively say what you mean.
Perhaps English isn't your first language. I said that no individual changes the world, not that I have no accomplishments.
I try to have a sense of proportion about the power of a single human (including myself) and the ability of humanity in general (of which I am part) to act contrary to its nature. You appear unable to grow out of seeing the world in terms of superhero comics...
I hope a primate hits you with a rock.
...which is a fairly typical teenage insecurity, and manifests itself accompanied by anger at the suggestion of impotence.
My arguments are that no-one has changed the world on his own, and that no single change makes much difference.
The only significant changes in the human world are those which change man's nature. The rest are about finding a different rock to bash other rocks or other men with. Primates have evolved to think they're just so great when they've found a more powerful rock.
Man's nature occasionally changes, but not by much, and usually not for long.
You're just not that great.
Congratulations, you've experienced human nature.
Now imagine those sort of arguments happening continuously around the world by an effectively infinite number of people often with nothing productive to do for the rest of the day. Worse, imagine that - unlike in academia (IME) - no-one wears their proud bias on their sleeves for filtering where necessary, but everyone pretends to be fair and balanced.
That's Wikipedia, that is.
It's a conspiracy against the laity!
if they don't want people specifically targeting (or specifically avoiding) their honeypot, then of course they don't want to publish the IP.
And if you want people to actually take any notice of your abuse reports, you'd better identify the target of abuse. "a.b.c.d is abusing us, but we're not telling you who we are," is completely unacceptable. No-one cares about your elite honeypot and the fact that you think you're important enough to run one and be taken on your word when you say it's being attacked.
If you're talking everyone's talk, what does it matter how effective computer security really is?
How do you know you're not addressing the next Bill Gates?
The same would apply to Gates on his own. Even if you consider Microsoft as a whole (which is already not "Gates"), it hasn't "changed the world" except in some superficial detail.
The people with the most _social_ success are raging egotists and shameless self-promoters.
Define, in a way neither shallow, fleeting nor insincere, "social success". Explain how it would make you feel successful in the world.
This isn't 2005. The concept of a VM software decently supporting old operating systems is long gone. They're now just a way of selling something to go with the "cloud" hype, a solution to a problem that shouldn't even exist were it not for awful security and installation policies on commodity operating systems: the need to run more than one instance of an operating system on a single piece of hardware.
Specifically, go on and try various VM solutions and see how many get you a working and stable Windows 98 install. And by "stable" I mean at least as stable as you'd get from good 10 year old hardware. Now what happens if the choice you've already made for all your other VMs doesn't support Windows 98? You going to install two vendor's solutions on the same box and run them simultaneously? Good luck with that.
I have some British ancestry. Feel free to tell me I drink too much tea, my wife's hideous, and I'm probably a repressed homosexual. Our chief Empire export was hypocrisy.
I have some Spanish ancestry. We're a bunch of sadistic bullfighters, overly macho (or balls-chopped feminist, depending on how recently you visited Spain), horribly greasy and... oh, it's too hot, the rest of the sentence can wait 'til tomorrow.
Casual racism/nationalism/whatever sometimes has elements of truth, and just as often conceals another truth or still relevant historical nugget: maybe some of your country's authoritarianism does come from its penal history? maybe USA/Puritanism similar? For both reasons, don't try too hard to oppress it. Even when the denigration (omg is that like apartheid?) has no basis, you are probably going to get by better tolerating a certain amount of teasing or engaging in proud word appropriation, as the whole world won't change for you - at least not when you're not looking. It's better if they say the same thing in good humour to your face than bitterly behind your back.
tl;dr Solve problems in the current world, not an idealised version.
Iceland has a legal age of consent at 15 years. So you can only accuse her of regular rape.
That's what's so great about setting arbitrary lines in the sand: even if she's not legally a child rapist in her own country, in the eyes of America and much of the developed world, she'd be a child rapist. (Not in England, mind. In England, a person must have a penis to be capable of rape. Ah, Lady Justice, you blind thing.)
But, now I think about it, the boy actually said he was 14. Possibly 13. Sometimes it's hard to recall things precisely on the Internet so I'd better play it on the safe side and say he was around 13. I mean, it could have been an adult just like me who was actually raped, but I wouldn't want anyone to get away with child rape, so I'd better report on the safe side!
and the police to take it seriously enough to warrant an arrest in absence.
Is Iceland particularly well known for not taking accusations of child rape by a possible victim hysterically seriously? Does it have the unique distinction of properly considering an accused nonce innocent until proven guilty? All these questions I'm asking myself are making me confused, and I am beginning to imagine she may have raped me too. Or was she just unfaithful to me? Oh god! I wouldn't want to be holding on to a repressed memory.
Someone on the Internet claiming to be only 15 told me a story last night to the effect that Birgitta Jonsdottir raped him. If this is true, it could be said that Birgitta Jonsdottir is a child rapist. I'm not sure that a potential child rapist like Birgitta Jonsdottir has the authority to speak on allegations of molestation. Indeed, Birgitta Jonsdottir may be trying to deflect attention from the child rape she could have engaged in. Child rapists, as Birgitta Jonsdottir may be, should step down from any position of responsibility or trust.
Anyone else here on /. heard of anyone else she may have raped, especially someone under 18? If we have two accusations of child rape, then it seems appropriate to investigate Birgitta Jonsdottir for child rape, and to drown out all relevant news about her or her organisation in the media while the question of whether Birgitta Jonsdottir is a child rapist is carefully considered.
You're not that great.
Even if you think you're the best person in your department, there are other departments.
Even if you think you're in the best department, there are other firms.
Even if your organisation's top of its league, empires rise and fall, and so will yours.
There is no silver bullet. You are no Superman. You're not going to change the world.
So shut up, listen and chill. Feel free to do your best, but remember to be nice. Money buys you hookers, but love gives you peace.
He's experimented with fully autonomous flight with realtime data transfer, but only for RC planes IIRC. Maybe you want to look at Arducopter/Aeroquad.
If you're driving an HGV at 90mph to stop your fruit spoiling, you're doing it very wrong. It sounds like the sort of thing a generic management consultant who had spent zero hours actually working with perishables would suggest.
Shame you don't live close (assuming probability's serving me correctly today). We have an insane excess of apples from the garden alone and you'd be welcome to take some if you're desperate for fruit.
To whom it may concern:
Shame this stuff is never covered when it's done by true homebrewing geeks.
Sincerely,
Dongcopters.
No, no, he's not dead, he's, he's awaiting approval!
Nah, Geocities had a few quite useful sites by people interested in sharing information but with little care for web site maintenance per se.
Facebook, OTOH, has never offered any useful information to anyone.
This vulnerability is about as shocking as hearing that some bathroom/toilet stalls don't have graffiti-proof paint on them. And as disappointing in terms of humour loss from an otherwise drab experience when someone does something about it.
Yes, what could one possibly market to middle-age women interested in motherhood and holidays? And who could possibly want contact or aggregate information about this atypically independent and hard-to-sell-to demographic?
Now I understand how Debian could afford to take that prime time TV ad slot to announce the Backports service becoming official while big pharma struggled to afford the 10 second "follow-on milk" piece to target the at most half a dozen women who might be convinced that evolution is a failure and breast is not best.
Hail Economy, full of grace, the Businessman is with thee; blessed art thou among religions, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Dollar. Holy Economy, Mother of Trinkets, distract for us workers, now and at the hour of our bankruptcy. Amen.
Oh, now you're talking like a crackpot. When was the last time anyone in the US was arrested for stating a political opinion? I'll tell you, the last time it happened in Cuba was this year.
I guess not everyone's native language here is English, so you may have skipped over a few words. To reiterate: "To make a difference, you need substance and medium." Merely stating a political opinion isn't having substance and medium. The US is sufficiently sophisticated to let any man waste time giving his opinion.
To make a difference, you first need substance to back up your message: something like video footage of abuses in war. Then you need a medium: something like a famous web site devoted to whistleblowing.
The US military, always with a sense of humour, charged for the former one day after Independence Day this year. As for dealing with the latter, see other post.
the only reason you have to persuade 100 million people is because states' rights are vanishing, federalism is dying, and regionalism has become a bad word [...] were Cuba a democracy (or similar) one would only need to persuade 5 million, so the GP's shock impact of 9 figures is really fraudulent.
So, were the USA to have a more reasonable system of government, or were the USA the size of Cuba, what I'd said about the USA would be fraudulent.
And phantomfive's point about only needing to reach out to the voting public betrays his naive cynicism. If I were to present a powerful platform offering an alternative to the government the US has enjoyed for the past 30 years, say, I'd be confronted with campaigns one hundred times as powerful to drown me out. The number of people who choose to vote would go right up.
if you can command enough people for a bloody rebellion to succeed, you can easily gain control with a fair election
This hypothesis has such far-reaching consequences that you're going to have to do more than just make the assertion.
Apparently so. Allow me to refresh your memory:
Your post confirmed my assertion.
Swastikas and perfectly legal in all but one nation,
Read. Read again. Read harder. You are wrong. While every single European country allows the swastika (or any Nazi propaganda) to be displayed for "educational" purposes by some definition or another, there are several countries which ban the swastika (or any Nazi propaganda) when there's the remotest possibility that it is being used to indicate the artist's/author's/speaker's support of Nazism.
Porn is completely legal in all first-world nations,
You have no idea what you're talking about. Ignoring child porn, there are many forms of consensual porn banned throughout the Western world. In the UK, the Criminal Justice Act 2008 bans all sorts of S&M. The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 makes it illegal to make a sexually explicit drawing (as opposed to a pseudo-photograph, which was already illegal) suggesting involvement of a human under 18.
the Terrorism Act of 2006 has nothing to do with the US,
I'm sorry, are we only allowed to talk about the US? There's so much coverage here of unreasonable laws passed by the US over the last decade I thought I'd pick somewhere else.
and assange - despite being an asshat whom I'd personally love to see in a pine box
Death as a punishment for speech? Are there any dictators you particularly admire, or do you go more on the uniform?
is alive and well and not facing any sort of sanctions
A country governed by rule of law rather than rule of men would have either shut up or issued a warrant detailing precisely what crimes it accuses Assange of. Instead it's issued warnings, threats, sabre-rattling and open "we're cowards, please share some of the burden of our unjustifiable action" letters to its allies to request cooperation on imposing criminal sanctions against Assange.
To round off, I hereby accuse Obama of raping me. What's that, all important news about Obama isn't being drowned out by my accusation?