I love how you say "our" response as if the electorate hasn't been dragged along like a bull with a ring through its nose. Keep in mind that having a democratic society depends entirely upon having an informed electorate. Test how informed that electorate is; go out into the world and try talking about economics, politics, technology, or how mathematics applies to any of them. Go ahead. See what happens.
Here is a story about this very concept. The characters use encryption, get a local ISP with indie music sharing bundle to switch to encrypted traffic only in order to conceal their own encryption in the noise, thus inspiring google to make the switch to HTTPs. http://www.craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
This isn't new information. It's been terrible for a long time. Why are you posting it, let alone putting it in the mailout? I've heard catalyst is pretty damn broken for windows too. So I have an ASUS oc2 radeon 7790 for sale. Replaced by my gtx780. Bye bye ati.
Sounds to me that's all they're looking for. In data we already have. Someone's just looking for funding by sounding fantastic. Cloud computing lost its luster so we need to invent new catch phrases. Such as "A fool and his money are soon parted" By 'scientists' making up crazy things.
I feel the points drawn up in this discussion, and by this article are very moot. I've browsed the comments and many are very good, and the topics are broad and far-reaching. I've ignored the article because it is drivel, propaganda, and as many commenters have pointed out, self-serving salesmanship.
But there's a very important point that I'd like to bring up which casts all of this aside as moot:
Everyone is assuming that they want more programmers in the US. Everyone is assuming that they want the US to remain a technological superpower.
I don't believe they do. Example: The University of Florida, a couple years ago, announced the closure of its computer science department, with the intention of focusing more the liberal arts, and on sports. No matter that it was in the wake of anon-ops and similar hacktivist actions which sincerely pissed off the established powerbase.
Sounds to me like they've gotten a call from a now infamous Reverend from Mississippi who called a now infamous radio station regarding the foul language, despite the warnings preceding it, contained within a now infamous record of spoken word by the now infamous George Carlin.
It's no different. First it was radio broadcast, then it was Television broadcast, now it's cable and satellite, video games have ratings and restrictions too. Here comes books, and finally, the internet.
Then there will be nothing at all to stop the Ministry of Truth. Beware the thought police!
We now interrupt this post for the daily two-minutes-hate.
I think we can all agree that a columnist from the Harvard School of Business, where most of the same folks responsible for the crash of 2008 come from, has a bias and is obviously writing propaganda to discourage us from looking forward to replacing wage slavery with a mechanized labor force. I won't even read TFA nor even the excerpt. The credentials of the author say it all. We should be looking forward to a collapse of such a harmful and destructive system.
If total methane leakage—from drilling through end use—is greater than about 4 percent
IF?? It's a lot more than 4% now. Companies are not properly regulated, and do not properly report when they blast a few thousand cubic meters of unprocessed gas straight into the atmosphere. All of your speculation and statistics is for naught. Get away from us. We only want news, not spin doctors. I thought this site was about InfoTech not people stupid enough to chain themselves to a tree and believe its going to stop big business. We all know what dollars can do to an industry because we all see what Microsoft and now Apple are doing to ours. Go back to your tree.
I'll add that if you need a trendy rss feed like slashdot to inform you of this you are most decidedly not an actual nerd|geek|technophreak|politicallycorrectspeakhere but just a poser
I'm having some trouble fathoming how a report like this can ever have a status of "leaked" when it should clearly be public knowledge. Why wasn't this done years and years ago by someone independent? A quick browse through the report shows that data does not appear to be difficult to acquire. In fact, my local authority (bchydro.com) has a lot of this data for their jurisdiction on their website. It makes me wonder if the governments of Canada and the US have this stuff freely available online where one doesn't even have to phone and give credentials before obtaining it.
So why is this report by a thinktank being kept secret? Because they were paid to do so, that's why.
But why is no one outside the paid-thinktanks coming up with any of these kinds of conclusions? Really, do we have to pay people to think now too?
We been sending mail to that address for years now complaining about your stupid interface updates. We keep getting responses back saying we won't answer because we're too busy happily coding your favorite minimalist website presentation into a clown festival of pop culture! Can we take you to german court for it?
Great dad, in my opinion. My kids grew up involved in hunting, fishing, and shooting sports - but a trip to a refugee camp would probably have cured them of the FPS BS faster than anything.
Fortunately, they were never really into videogames.
And everyone who thinks he was wrong is an idiot, who lives in a fantasy world where making sure children are never exposed to violence will produce a world where there is never violence. The only way to stop violence is to be sure that everyone can defend themselves, educate everyone regarding why violence shouldn't be done, and the effect it has on others, and by removing the reasons to do violence in our society, eg scarcity.
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I love how you say "our" response as if the electorate hasn't been dragged along like a bull with a ring through its nose. Keep in mind that having a democratic society depends entirely upon having an informed electorate. Test how informed that electorate is; go out into the world and try talking about economics, politics, technology, or how mathematics applies to any of them. Go ahead. See what happens.
Here is a story about this very concept. The characters use encryption, get a local ISP with indie music sharing bundle to switch to encrypted traffic only in order to conceal their own encryption in the noise, thus inspiring google to make the switch to HTTPs. http://www.craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
Solving the question once and for all of the scientific validity of a very controversial topic: By voting on it!
And they don't want you to know it!
This command erases every file in every directory which your username is allowed write permissions. That's a lot of files.
I guess I'll be setting up separate users for my gaming versus other usecases of the computer.
This isn't new information. It's been terrible for a long time. Why are you posting it, let alone putting it in the mailout? I've heard catalyst is pretty damn broken for windows too. So I have an ASUS oc2 radeon 7790 for sale. Replaced by my gtx780. Bye bye ati.
... then you'll notice a star vanishing...
Sounds to me that's all they're looking for. In data we already have. Someone's just looking for funding by sounding fantastic. Cloud computing lost its luster so we need to invent new catch phrases. Such as "A fool and his money are soon parted" By 'scientists' making up crazy things.
I feel the points drawn up in this discussion, and by this article are very moot. I've browsed the comments and many are very good, and the topics are broad and far-reaching. I've ignored the article because it is drivel, propaganda, and as many commenters have pointed out, self-serving salesmanship.
But there's a very important point that I'd like to bring up which casts all of this aside as moot:
Everyone is assuming that they want more programmers in the US. Everyone is assuming that they want the US to remain a technological superpower.
I don't believe they do. Example: The University of Florida, a couple years ago, announced the closure of its computer science department, with the intention of focusing more the liberal arts, and on sports. No matter that it was in the wake of anon-ops and similar hacktivist actions which sincerely pissed off the established powerbase.
Sounds to me like they've gotten a call from a now infamous Reverend from Mississippi who called a now infamous radio station regarding the foul language, despite the warnings preceding it, contained within a now infamous record of spoken word by the now infamous George Carlin.
It's no different. First it was radio broadcast, then it was Television broadcast, now it's cable and satellite, video games have ratings and restrictions too. Here comes books, and finally, the internet.
Then there will be nothing at all to stop the Ministry of Truth. Beware the thought police!
We now interrupt this post for the daily two-minutes-hate.
Hilarious that Boeing would want a self-destructing phone, because a phone that blows up would be the perfect thing to have on an aircraft!
At least, it will raise the sales of Boeing as airlines replace planes that blow up!
Just kidding! Obviously the phone won't physically blow up.
I think we can all agree that a columnist from the Harvard School of Business, where most of the same folks responsible for the crash of 2008 come from, has a bias and is obviously writing propaganda to discourage us from looking forward to replacing wage slavery with a mechanized labor force. I won't even read TFA nor even the excerpt. The credentials of the author say it all. We should be looking forward to a collapse of such a harmful and destructive system.
Find out what Project Prism is. This article is Full of Shit.
If total methane leakage—from drilling through end use—is greater than about 4 percent
IF?? It's a lot more than 4% now. Companies are not properly regulated, and do not properly report when they blast a few thousand cubic meters of unprocessed gas straight into the atmosphere. All of your speculation and statistics is for naught. Get away from us. We only want news, not spin doctors. I thought this site was about InfoTech not people stupid enough to chain themselves to a tree and believe its going to stop big business. We all know what dollars can do to an industry because we all see what Microsoft and now Apple are doing to ours. Go back to your tree.
Let's also remember that the latest two major releases of OSX have cost zero dollars to upgrade to.
Why shouldn't Microsoft steal that too?
And yet the rest of us got it for free. At least if we had paid money we would have the right to complain about how worthless the drivel you spout is.
What? Someone already posted an I told you so comment? Well.... We all told you so.
They're not punny. Outlaw them!
pretty sure if that comet comes in earth's orbit the last thing we will be worrying about is a few kilograms of plutonium on its surface.
To keep the zombies out during next year's fema disaster of course.
oh of course someone else already posted that.
I'll add that if you need a trendy rss feed like slashdot to inform you of this you are most decidedly not an actual nerd|geek|technophreak|politicallycorrectspeakhere but just a poser
I'm having some trouble fathoming how a report like this can ever have a status of "leaked" when it should clearly be public knowledge. Why wasn't this done years and years ago by someone independent? A quick browse through the report shows that data does not appear to be difficult to acquire. In fact, my local authority (bchydro.com) has a lot of this data for their jurisdiction on their website. It makes me wonder if the governments of Canada and the US have this stuff freely available online where one doesn't even have to phone and give credentials before obtaining it.
So why is this report by a thinktank being kept secret? Because they were paid to do so, that's why.
But why is no one outside the paid-thinktanks coming up with any of these kinds of conclusions? Really, do we have to pay people to think now too?
This is the wrong place to ask those questions... email support@slashdot.org
We been sending mail to that address for years now complaining about your stupid interface updates. We keep getting responses back saying we won't answer because we're too busy happily coding your favorite minimalist website presentation into a clown festival of pop culture! Can we take you to german court for it?
sounds like the perfect way to have some combat shocked zealous soldier to invent terminators or other crazy robot evil genius wet dreams.
Great dad, in my opinion. My kids grew up involved in hunting, fishing, and shooting sports - but a trip to a refugee camp would probably have cured them of the FPS BS faster than anything.
Fortunately, they were never really into videogames.
And everyone who thinks he was wrong is an idiot, who lives in a fantasy world where making sure children are never exposed to violence will produce a world where there is never violence. The only way to stop violence is to be sure that everyone can defend themselves, educate everyone regarding why violence shouldn't be done, and the effect it has on others, and by removing the reasons to do violence in our society, eg scarcity.