It is supposed to benefit law enforcement in their investigations, but has allegedly been found in various nations with poor human rights records, including Bahrain and Ethiopia.
So is it only a problem when repressive regimes use surveillance software to oppress their population? When first world nations use such software, they're also violating the rights of their citizens. Just because it "benefits law enforcement" doesn't excuse its existence. Parallel construction also benefits law enforcement.
if he wants to be smarter than the notirious B.I.G. and 2Pac then here's a tip: once you make your millions, get the fuck out of the ghetto. how hard to understand is that?
Yeah, I'm sure he still lives in the ghetto. Perhaps you should at least check out the guy on Wikipedia before you make some ignorant comment about him. For the past decade+ he's been more of a producer/businessman than rapper and he was the first to leave Death Row Records in the 90s because he didn't want to participate in the stupid gangster shit they were involved in. Dre left the ghetto twenty years ago.
Boo hoo. If people want to kill themselves for stupid reasons I'm not going to stop them. The world is better off without pussies who can't deal with a little hardship.
1:10 where? San Francisco, the United States, the world? I'd like to see an objective source that validates that statistic. I hear people throw it around a lot but I've never seen it verified.
Any organism that actively engages in a behavior that inhibits its ability to reproduce is an anomaly. That's just a basic understanding of how natural selection works. Humans, with our self-reflecting consciousness, have a great tendency to do anomalous things as our behavior is more than mere impulse, so I don't mean it as a disparaging remark. I personally don't want to reproduce because I don't think the human race needs to increase our numbers at this time, and this type of decision makes me an anomaly among organisms.
I can't stand the California attitude that evolution is a hardened fact yet being a homosexual is like being born to a ultra-special race that must be cherished and insulated from anything that might possibly be misconstrued as a slight against their amazing specialness. Do I believe that homosexuals should be discriminated against? No. Do I think they should be able to marry? I don't believe that marriage should be a legal status among straights or homosexuals. Call your partnership with your significant other whatever you want to call it. Do I think that every TV show and movie and video game should have token gay people? No. At a certain point the pursuit of inclusiveness makes a spectacle of those included. It used to be the token black guy who always had something snappy to say. Now it's the token gay guy. I guess next up will be the token tranny.
I see what you're saying. I'm not sure if I totally agree -- I think that the money's there if we're willing to make sacrifices elsewhere (such as that stupid plane, which I believe is only still being worked on because important parts of it are produced in a certain congressman's district), but the political hurdles to make those sacrifices probably aren't possible.
I guess you could say we agree that, for whatever reasons, putting a man on the moon isn't a feasible option for the U.S. government at this point in time. The Chinese, however. . .
I would think the main constraint would be economic. What nation wants to commit so many resources for so little in return. The lunar missions were more important for political reasons (the Cold War) during their time than anything else. Would that thirst for adventure have existed had we not been competing with our red adversaries? It certainly wouldn't have had the urgency if not for the competition.
The main thing the lunar missions gave us was the various technologies that were produced as a result of them. So far the moon hasn't proved to be worth mining and it certainly has no appeal for colonization.
I could spend all my money on a giant diamond encrusted neckless. But my girlfriend would probably be real pissed and kick me out when I can no longer contribute. Similarly, our government could go back to the moon. But the electorate would be pissed because like an oversized diamond encrusted neckless it doesn't do anything but costs a shit ton. I guess it always sounds good to vilify the word bureaucracy and to make fun of nancys who are overly concerned with safety, but I just don't think it's a sound argument in this case.
My sentiments exactly. When did conjecture constitute a study? I've read sci-fi that made more plausible predictions than this 'study.' Someone give Ray Bradbury a posthumous Ph.D in Extraterrestrial Studies!
Try developing a sense of humor. The original post was an exaggeration and a joke, but a like any joke worth telling, it hinted at a truth: Microsoft is known to go out of their way to have nice things published about them. That includes bribing "tech writers" (I loath to call them journalists) and giving customers discounts to say nice things about them. Read all about it on Wikipedia.
You might have a decent point about how support in the FLOSS community can be lacking in a way that's off-putting to some and costly to some businesses, but your hostility is unwarranted and your whining about the moderation system is pretty pathetic. Personally, if I was using mod points on this article I wouldn't mod you troll. Your post is straight flamebait.
One can contrast him to the 19th century robber barons. They at least left behind hospitals, schools, foundations, and trusts as a legacy which persists today.
Isn't it awesome that despite the extreme income inequality in the U.S. that we have bits of charity to placate the masses? Thank you robber barons for your wonderful bread and circuses!
Jobs and Apple represented capitalism in its idealized form. Adam Smith would have loved what Jobs did. Competition breading success for the players involved and increasing the quality of the commodities produced. Of course, if Adam Smith had lived to see the likes of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Hearst, Gates, Zuckerberg, Koch, and Murdoch he may have become a Marxist.
You assume that I think the Koch brothers are dicks b/c of a New York Times editorial? I think they're dicks because they're funneling money into local elections in places such as my hometown, where they've never even been to. Among other things, such as trying to undermine solar energy.
Stop viewing politics through your black and white -- or should I say left and right -- worldview. You appear to be overly concerned with labels -- Left, Libertarian, conservative, white, progressive, etc. The reason our government is so bad at governing is because it's filled with idealist jackasses such as yourself (just in case you're confused, that's an attack on both parties and there was no partisan motivation behind my characterization of the Kochs as dicks).
It sounds like you only read the summary. If you had taken the time to actually gather the facts about this situation you'd realize it wasn't even a case of sexual harassment. It was a case of an employee being more concerned with a crusade of political correctness than actually doing her job. Women like Julie Ann Horvath who intentionally antagonize those who aren't perfectly politically correct (and in this case, her idea of perfectly politically correct is one helluva stretch -- if you think the word 'meritocracy' is sexist then I don't know what to tell you) make it harder for other women to be taken seriously.
I don't think anyone here is saying that sexual harassment shouldn't be taken seriously. They're just saying this crazy bitch shouldn't.
Although I won't be trying this thing out because it's not worth the cost, I can see the advantages it offers. I think your haste to jump to a negative conclusion is a poor attitude, especially on a place like/. where geeks mull over novel ideas such as this.
Personally, I have my reservations about this idea -- it seems like it would be ideal for easy to split wood but the tough stuff not so much. Basically, because of the weight limitation the automatic rotation doesn't seem like it will matter so much. It still has the same limitation of a regular axe - weight. A maul/wedge combo still seems like it would be better.
I'd still like to try it myself to put it to the test. Perhaps if they go into mass production and show up at Lowes for ~$50 I'd pick one up. If it's the miracle axe the video portrays it'd save me a helluva a lot of time and energy. I have my doubts, but I have even greater doubts about your description of a "defective axe."
In my experience that's not true. Practically all cheap (i.e. not dedicated) hosting solutions have Python. I have a small site on FatCow.com and it supports Python without forking over extra for a dedicated server.
I can understand free hosting solutions lacking Python (and perhaps lacking any scripting whatsoever), but anything you pay for should be able to run Python scripts. Python is so common and easy to implement I can't imagine why any web host would lack it.
You seem to forget that Facebook and Microsoft are in bed together. I wouldn't really consider them to be an innovator, though. Facebook's like the internet's Windows '95 -- and they're buying up companies in a fashion similar to how Microsoft did in the 90s.
There are tons of crappy open source GUIs but there's also XFCE and LXDE.
Anyway, the guy you're responding to never mentioned open source. A fair Apples to Apples comparison is OS X, which Microsoft hasn't been able to catch up to for almost fifteen years. It's pretty sad that there are open source GUIs like XFCE that are drastically better than XP, Vista, 7, and especially 8.
The church doesn't have a monopoly on marriage. The courtroom does. I know someone who was married in a church and then they never got around to filing the legal paperwork. Technically, they're not married (which was a good thing as it made 'divorce' that much easier).
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It doesn't matter whether it's legal or not legal anymore, it only matters if you have more firepower (legal, political, or otherwise) than they do.
Anymore? This is the way it's always been. The good old Catch-22.
Have you?
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/B...
It is supposed to benefit law enforcement in their investigations, but has allegedly been found in various nations with poor human rights records, including Bahrain and Ethiopia.
So is it only a problem when repressive regimes use surveillance software to oppress their population? When first world nations use such software, they're also violating the rights of their citizens. Just because it "benefits law enforcement" doesn't excuse its existence. Parallel construction also benefits law enforcement.
If you want to run BSD just get a Macbook, since OSX is basically stolen BSD code anyway.
You can't steal what's free.
Dre's gonna be the first hip-hop billionaire.
if he wants to be smarter than the notirious B.I.G. and 2Pac then here's a tip: once you make your millions, get the fuck out of the ghetto. how hard to understand is that?
Yeah, I'm sure he still lives in the ghetto. Perhaps you should at least check out the guy on Wikipedia before you make some ignorant comment about him. For the past decade+ he's been more of a producer/businessman than rapper and he was the first to leave Death Row Records in the 90s because he didn't want to participate in the stupid gangster shit they were involved in. Dre left the ghetto twenty years ago.
But you have no place calling yourself an 'engineer' if you don't have the will and ability to stand up to the boss/client and say 'No.'
Perhaps we have a different understanding of the word 'engineer,' but I don't think that's true.
Boo hoo. If people want to kill themselves for stupid reasons I'm not going to stop them. The world is better off without pussies who can't deal with a little hardship.
Is 1:10 people really an anomaly?
1:10 where? San Francisco, the United States, the world? I'd like to see an objective source that validates that statistic. I hear people throw it around a lot but I've never seen it verified.
Any organism that actively engages in a behavior that inhibits its ability to reproduce is an anomaly. That's just a basic understanding of how natural selection works. Humans, with our self-reflecting consciousness, have a great tendency to do anomalous things as our behavior is more than mere impulse, so I don't mean it as a disparaging remark. I personally don't want to reproduce because I don't think the human race needs to increase our numbers at this time, and this type of decision makes me an anomaly among organisms.
I can't stand the California attitude that evolution is a hardened fact yet being a homosexual is like being born to a ultra-special race that must be cherished and insulated from anything that might possibly be misconstrued as a slight against their amazing specialness. Do I believe that homosexuals should be discriminated against? No. Do I think they should be able to marry? I don't believe that marriage should be a legal status among straights or homosexuals. Call your partnership with your significant other whatever you want to call it. Do I think that every TV show and movie and video game should have token gay people? No. At a certain point the pursuit of inclusiveness makes a spectacle of those included. It used to be the token black guy who always had something snappy to say. Now it's the token gay guy. I guess next up will be the token tranny.
I see what you're saying. I'm not sure if I totally agree -- I think that the money's there if we're willing to make sacrifices elsewhere (such as that stupid plane, which I believe is only still being worked on because important parts of it are produced in a certain congressman's district), but the political hurdles to make those sacrifices probably aren't possible.
I guess you could say we agree that, for whatever reasons, putting a man on the moon isn't a feasible option for the U.S. government at this point in time. The Chinese, however. . .
I would think the main constraint would be economic. What nation wants to commit so many resources for so little in return. The lunar missions were more important for political reasons (the Cold War) during their time than anything else. Would that thirst for adventure have existed had we not been competing with our red adversaries? It certainly wouldn't have had the urgency if not for the competition.
The main thing the lunar missions gave us was the various technologies that were produced as a result of them. So far the moon hasn't proved to be worth mining and it certainly has no appeal for colonization.
I could spend all my money on a giant diamond encrusted neckless. But my girlfriend would probably be real pissed and kick me out when I can no longer contribute. Similarly, our government could go back to the moon. But the electorate would be pissed because like an oversized diamond encrusted neckless it doesn't do anything but costs a shit ton. I guess it always sounds good to vilify the word bureaucracy and to make fun of nancys who are overly concerned with safety, but I just don't think it's a sound argument in this case.
My sentiments exactly. When did conjecture constitute a study? I've read sci-fi that made more plausible predictions than this 'study.' Someone give Ray Bradbury a posthumous Ph.D in Extraterrestrial Studies!
Go fuck yourselves.
Try developing a sense of humor. The original post was an exaggeration and a joke, but a like any joke worth telling, it hinted at a truth: Microsoft is known to go out of their way to have nice things published about them. That includes bribing "tech writers" (I loath to call them journalists) and giving customers discounts to say nice things about them. Read all about it on Wikipedia.
You might have a decent point about how support in the FLOSS community can be lacking in a way that's off-putting to some and costly to some businesses, but your hostility is unwarranted and your whining about the moderation system is pretty pathetic. Personally, if I was using mod points on this article I wouldn't mod you troll. Your post is straight flamebait.
No, Google's aim is to sell advertising. Everything they do is towards that end. They have long since abandoned any higher mission.
Kind of like the news.
One can contrast him to the 19th century robber barons. They at least left behind hospitals, schools, foundations, and trusts as a legacy which persists today.
Isn't it awesome that despite the extreme income inequality in the U.S. that we have bits of charity to placate the masses? Thank you robber barons for your wonderful bread and circuses!
Jobs and Apple represented capitalism in its idealized form. Adam Smith would have loved what Jobs did. Competition breading success for the players involved and increasing the quality of the commodities produced. Of course, if Adam Smith had lived to see the likes of Rockefeller, Carnegie, Hearst, Gates, Zuckerberg, Koch, and Murdoch he may have become a Marxist.
You assume that I think the Koch brothers are dicks b/c of a New York Times editorial? I think they're dicks because they're funneling money into local elections in places such as my hometown, where they've never even been to. Among other things, such as trying to undermine solar energy.
Stop viewing politics through your black and white -- or should I say left and right -- worldview. You appear to be overly concerned with labels -- Left, Libertarian, conservative, white, progressive, etc. The reason our government is so bad at governing is because it's filled with idealist jackasses such as yourself (just in case you're confused, that's an attack on both parties and there was no partisan motivation behind my characterization of the Kochs as dicks).
Here's another one: New Straitsville, OH
No, they're just dicks.
Or are they?
Yes. They're definitely dicks.
It sounds like you only read the summary. If you had taken the time to actually gather the facts about this situation you'd realize it wasn't even a case of sexual harassment. It was a case of an employee being more concerned with a crusade of political correctness than actually doing her job. Women like Julie Ann Horvath who intentionally antagonize those who aren't perfectly politically correct (and in this case, her idea of perfectly politically correct is one helluva stretch -- if you think the word 'meritocracy' is sexist then I don't know what to tell you) make it harder for other women to be taken seriously.
I don't think anyone here is saying that sexual harassment shouldn't be taken seriously. They're just saying this crazy bitch shouldn't.
Although I won't be trying this thing out because it's not worth the cost, I can see the advantages it offers. I think your haste to jump to a negative conclusion is a poor attitude, especially on a place like /. where geeks mull over novel ideas such as this.
Personally, I have my reservations about this idea -- it seems like it would be ideal for easy to split wood but the tough stuff not so much. Basically, because of the weight limitation the automatic rotation doesn't seem like it will matter so much. It still has the same limitation of a regular axe - weight. A maul/wedge combo still seems like it would be better.
I'd still like to try it myself to put it to the test. Perhaps if they go into mass production and show up at Lowes for ~$50 I'd pick one up. If it's the miracle axe the video portrays it'd save me a helluva a lot of time and energy. I have my doubts, but I have even greater doubts about your description of a "defective axe."
Strawmen are so easy to burn.
In my experience that's not true. Practically all cheap (i.e. not dedicated) hosting solutions have Python. I have a small site on FatCow.com and it supports Python without forking over extra for a dedicated server.
I can understand free hosting solutions lacking Python (and perhaps lacking any scripting whatsoever), but anything you pay for should be able to run Python scripts. Python is so common and easy to implement I can't imagine why any web host would lack it.
You seem to forget that Facebook and Microsoft are in bed together. I wouldn't really consider them to be an innovator, though. Facebook's like the internet's Windows '95 -- and they're buying up companies in a fashion similar to how Microsoft did in the 90s.
I disagree. I think kids should be given a good Linux distro and an internet connection. Why do they need Visual Studio and books?
There are tons of crappy open source GUIs but there's also XFCE and LXDE.
Anyway, the guy you're responding to never mentioned open source. A fair Apples to Apples comparison is OS X, which Microsoft hasn't been able to catch up to for almost fifteen years. It's pretty sad that there are open source GUIs like XFCE that are drastically better than XP, Vista, 7, and especially 8.
The church doesn't have a monopoly on marriage. The courtroom does. I know someone who was married in a church and then they never got around to filing the legal paperwork. Technically, they're not married (which was a good thing as it made 'divorce' that much easier).