Yeah, but he got +5 and I got -1... so this has nothing to do with the content of the posts, but rather the fact that the mods apparently think mentioning the city that's been swamped, flooded, oiled up, and spat out in anything other than a glowingly positive light is blasphemy and a hanging offense.
"I disagree with you -- eat -1, Troll, evil do-er!"
*shakes head* Whatever... I got plenty more karma to burn stating the truth even when it hurts some delicate snowflake's worldview.
Well what does it say on metametacomments then? Because I think he was being a metadick in a metamassive metaway, if you get my metametadrift.
And since when the hell did geeks follow arbitrary social rules? Geeks are like cats -- they do whatever the hell they want, whenever they want./metageeked
Mods: How the hell is that offtopic? The author is trying to say that because something rarely happens it shouldn't be investigated, and I have provided a relevant and personal example of why that logic is faulty. Just because you don't like the conclusion doesn't make it offtopic!
That doesn't mean that it always goes well, but that's the general idea. You seem to be suggesting that ALL nations are oppressive because some nations are oppressive to thugs. Denying liberty to those who seek to deny liberty to others is not oppression. It's the opposite.
All laws benefit one group by disadvantaging another. What you're calling liberty is just screwing over a minority to benefit a majority, and what you're calling tyranny is benefiting a minority by screwing over a majority. Both are oppressive, the difference is one group knows it and the other group posts on slashdot about how great it is to live in a "free" society.
Repeat offenders should pay for the carpal tunnel syndrome surgery I'll eventually need because of all the writing of long and occasionally tedious posts.
Every opinion eventually reduces to a way to make the author rich. Case in point: asking for unnecessary surgeries and then pocketing it and buying an ergonomic keyboard or hiring someone in Somalia to write your posts for you.
The technical issues: Hurricanes, typhoons, rogue waves, tropical storms... Even if you make your lilies float, what's on top could still be blown over, and how many people want to live with an ocean view that turns dark and deadly every couple years? Oh... wait... New Orleans. Nevermind. The lemmings will pay plenty to drown in the ocean.
Cybercriminals and their blended attacks are having a field day taking advantage of security gaps left open by legacy technologies like firewalls, anti-virus, and simple URL blockers."
Calling something legacy implies that there's something better to replace those technologies with. Those technologies have not been replaced by some revolutionary new technology that does all that and holds your d--- while you piss too. And they were never intended to be a pancea -- they are intended to augment information security, not act as a substitute for it.
In Australia, pics of small-breasted women of any age are considered child porn...
Hmmm... weaponized small breasts. (looks down shirt) Screw this, I'm moving to Australia, and if anyone says my boobs are small, I can have them arrested for viewing child porn.
Unlike everyone here who has all there important documents^Hporn encrypted and hidden with TrueCrypt on six hard drives stuffed in the laundry room and the USB stick stuffed in their mom's purse while tunneling into Slashdot with two proxies on different continents?
No. Mine is in.\My Pictures\private\you're violating my privacy\I'm warning you\bad plan, darling\alright, you found it\my porn stash.
Sigh. They don't want vaccinations. They want their client base spending money on half-baked security solutions. So in addition to the license, you have to pay for a certificate, pay for software certification (goodbye open source), pay for the software, pay for the bandwidth to keep your system online all the time, pay pay pay pay pay....
And nothing will change except you'll be paying more.
I don't understand why I should be wary of this technology in and of itself. It's no different than a fingerprint scanner or a handful of other biometric scanners -- and most of them have the option to enter a password or swipe a card in lieu of scanning your eyes -- they have to. Not everyone has eyes. Or hands.
They don't innovate. They scrape the internet looking for ideas, making products that are "just different enough" to avoid existing patents, and they buy up startup companies just as you describe. Just because Apple has better press management skills doesn't mean they don't have similar business practices. Apple is not an exception -- stop dodging this just to please the fanboys.
Cars powered by natural gas is an already proven technology. Why do we keep inventing more "alternative" energy sources when we've got ones that work now?
Nobody's national anthem begins with "We're Number Two!" So naturally, they believe that they're most entitled to rule over everybody else. However, every country has this attitude. Therefore, nobody will have any privacy until they reject that patriotic sense of entitlement.
First, start by giving up on that "I don't know where to start" attitude. Just dive in. That's how you learned code "back in the day" and very little has changed. You just need to start absorbing information and trusting that after awhile, it'll turn into useful knowledge.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh sure, it's fault tolerant... until you look at it.
Yeah, but he got +5 and I got -1... so this has nothing to do with the content of the posts, but rather the fact that the mods apparently think mentioning the city that's been swamped, flooded, oiled up, and spat out in anything other than a glowingly positive light is blasphemy and a hanging offense.
"I disagree with you -- eat -1, Troll, evil do-er!"
*shakes head* Whatever... I got plenty more karma to burn stating the truth even when it hurts some delicate snowflake's worldview.
"I Nintendo'd that shit." -- Used to describe an act where you alienate people that previously liked you for a really, really stupid reason.
Well what does it say on metametacomments then? Because I think he was being a metadick in a metamassive metaway, if you get my metametadrift.
And since when the hell did geeks follow arbitrary social rules? Geeks are like cats -- they do whatever the hell they want, whenever they want. /metageeked
NOT. OFF. TOPIC.
Mod me into oblivion... it doesn't make you right, you dick.
Mods: How the hell is that offtopic? The author is trying to say that because something rarely happens it shouldn't be investigated, and I have provided a relevant and personal example of why that logic is faulty. Just because you don't like the conclusion doesn't make it offtopic!
Hey...it only rarely happens...
So do massive oil spills from deep sea drilling. How do you feel about legislation to stop that from happening again, Mr. New Orleans?
That doesn't mean that it always goes well, but that's the general idea. You seem to be suggesting that ALL nations are oppressive because some nations are oppressive to thugs. Denying liberty to those who seek to deny liberty to others is not oppression. It's the opposite.
All laws benefit one group by disadvantaging another. What you're calling liberty is just screwing over a minority to benefit a majority, and what you're calling tyranny is benefiting a minority by screwing over a majority. Both are oppressive, the difference is one group knows it and the other group posts on slashdot about how great it is to live in a "free" society.
Repeat offenders should pay for the carpal tunnel syndrome surgery I'll eventually need because of all the writing of long and occasionally tedious posts.
Every opinion eventually reduces to a way to make the author rich. Case in point: asking for unnecessary surgeries and then pocketing it and buying an ergonomic keyboard or hiring someone in Somalia to write your posts for you.
The technical issues: Hurricanes, typhoons, rogue waves, tropical storms... Even if you make your lilies float, what's on top could still be blown over, and how many people want to live with an ocean view that turns dark and deadly every couple years? Oh... wait... New Orleans. Nevermind. The lemmings will pay plenty to drown in the ocean.
So in other words, Bozo^H^H^Hezos patented the ancient practice of bait and switch. His mother would be so proud...
but you missed the point!
IT'S SCARY!
AND WE SHOULD GIVE SOMEONE MONEY TO FIX THE PROBLEM!
I'm surprised you can get internet out at your ranch, George.
Cybercriminals and their blended attacks are having a field day taking advantage of security gaps left open by legacy technologies like firewalls, anti-virus, and simple URL blockers."
Calling something legacy implies that there's something better to replace those technologies with. Those technologies have not been replaced by some revolutionary new technology that does all that and holds your d--- while you piss too. And they were never intended to be a pancea -- they are intended to augment information security, not act as a substitute for it.
In Australia, pics of small-breasted women of any age are considered child porn...
Hmmm... weaponized small breasts. (looks down shirt) Screw this, I'm moving to Australia, and if anyone says my boobs are small, I can have them arrested for viewing child porn.
Unlike everyone here who has all there important documents^Hporn encrypted and hidden with TrueCrypt on six hard drives stuffed in the laundry room and the USB stick stuffed in their mom's purse while tunneling into Slashdot with two proxies on different continents?
No. Mine is in .\My Pictures\private\you're violating my privacy\I'm warning you\bad plan, darling\alright, you found it\my porn stash.
It's ThomsonReuters. No P. Jeez. /Someone who works there.
Sigh. They don't want vaccinations. They want their client base spending money on half-baked security solutions. So in addition to the license, you have to pay for a certificate, pay for software certification (goodbye open source), pay for the software, pay for the bandwidth to keep your system online all the time, pay pay pay pay pay....
And nothing will change except you'll be paying more.
I don't understand why I should be wary of this technology in and of itself. It's no different than a fingerprint scanner or a handful of other biometric scanners -- and most of them have the option to enter a password or swipe a card in lieu of scanning your eyes -- they have to. Not everyone has eyes. Or hands.
They don't innovate. They scrape the internet looking for ideas, making products that are "just different enough" to avoid existing patents, and they buy up startup companies just as you describe. Just because Apple has better press management skills doesn't mean they don't have similar business practices. Apple is not an exception -- stop dodging this just to please the fanboys.
Prior Art!
Cars powered by natural gas is an already proven technology. Why do we keep inventing more "alternative" energy sources when we've got ones that work now?
Nobody's national anthem begins with "We're Number Two!" So naturally, they believe that they're most entitled to rule over everybody else. However, every country has this attitude. Therefore, nobody will have any privacy until they reject that patriotic sense of entitlement.
[Insert one thousand opinions here]
The only one that matters: Is it still readable?
We have bigger problems in the world than "one space or two" ... for example, people's atrocious speling.
First, start by giving up on that "I don't know where to start" attitude. Just dive in. That's how you learned code "back in the day" and very little has changed. You just need to start absorbing information and trusting that after awhile, it'll turn into useful knowledge.
Wait, are you saying we haven't rebuilt New Orleans because we *don't know how*?
No, it's because we lack the infrastructure and a marginally skilled workforce willing to work for peanuts.