These so-called 'islamic state' assholes? They need to die. Every last one of them. No negotiations, no trials, no 'explanations' -- just fucking KILL THEM ALL, male, female, I don't fucking care, just KILL THEM. Children below a certain age can be de-programmed and put with families that will care for them and raise them to be rational, responsible, sane human beings -- but every last adult that is involved with this uber-asshole 'organization'? They need to be killed.
This isn't even about religion. It's about a power-vacuum that was created in the Middle East, which allowed these assholes to swoop in with their ultra-extremist bullshit and start setting up shop. These assholes are like a socio-economic version of the Black Plague, and like any other epidemic, it needs to be erradicated, completely.
Of course I can't ignore the fact that there will always be violent assholes in the world that will use religion of any kind as an excuse to be violent assholes on a large scale, and as unpopular an opinion as it apparently is in the world, I just wish that humans in general would fucking grow out of this apparently genetic need for a god or gods of any kind. All it seems to do is open the door for more atrocities, more ignorance (much of it willful ignorance), more backsliding, and in general more bullshit. I make jokes sometimes about how 'XYZ is the reason that alien civilizations won't contact us openly', but I'm only half kidding oftimes when I say it -- as is the case with this subject: If there are in fact starfaring alien civilizations out there that have been observing us, they must look at this sort of bullshit (and the Inquisition, and the Salem witch trials, and who knows how many other atrocities that have been committed over the centuries) and feel nothing but disgust and maybe pity for our poor race, that we're so afflicted by such a major flaw in our cognitive process.
Not posted as Anonymous Coward, because I'm not one. Come and get me, assholes. We, the sane, rational people of the world, we reject you and your fucking ultra-extremist bullshit. You claim to be doing the work of Allah? I CALL BULLSHIT ON THAT; you're just a bunch of power-hungry FRAUDS who enjoy killing people, and we will see you all DEAD for your crimes against humanity.It's time for this shit to stop.
I know it must happen to you at least a few times every week, but: The next time someone beats you to a pulp in real life, you piece of shit? You'll have to wonder if it's me.
Sleep well, asshole -- if you can. Guys like you? Your days are numbered, both on the Internet, and in real life. Enjoy living in fear.
Listen, jerk: This is a matter of choice. We won't just blithely give away our abilty to CHOOSE what we want to do or how we want to live, not for something as stupid as 'safety', not for money not for ANYthing.
Maybe YOU endanger the public when YOU drive a car, but I do not. Maybe YOU should sell your car and take the bus or a cab, but I do not have to because I do not suck at driving. Enjoy being subject to the whims of others -- including whatever software engineer fucked up writing that one line of code that sends you to a firey death when your controll-less autonomous car runs full speed into a concrete abutment. Really, you 'autonomous car' assholes can go fuck yourselves.
"Manifestation of personal freedom"! If that's what it means to you, your ideas of freedom and your own self image are damaged beyond repair. If you're admitting you'll never change your mind, you are not being rational, by the very definition of the word. If you're not being rational, why should anyone assume you were rational when you concocted your strange opinion? You essentially just farted on Slashdot, and it made you feel good. Nice. Thanks for that.
Where do you live so I can beat your fucking face in for saying that to me, you little bitch? Fuck off and die, slag. People like you don't DESERVE to be in control of ANYTHING, especially not when, where, and how you get around, you should be on a LEASH and TOLD what to do, you're obviously not responsible enough to be allowed to run around loose.
I drive a small pickup with a 5-speed stick, and I know for a fact that the only control that doesn't have a direct mechanical linkage is the throttle, and I can live with that. I know I can always bring the vehicle to a complete stop whenever and wherever I choose and no automated system can override me, everything still functions even if the engine quit running.
I will NEVER, EVER get in an automobile that I cannot have immediate and complete MANUAL control over. Ever. I will also NEVER give up riding a motorcycle, and you CANNOT 'automate' that. Fuck you, Musk. Driving may be a privelege and not a right, but it IS a manifestation of personal freedom and I'll be damned if that is taken away from me. Others agree.
DISCLAIMER: I don't give a flying fuck if you agree with me or not, I don't give a flying fuck about your insults, and you're not changing my mind, EVER, either, so just don't bother commenting on the above at all, deal with it.
But, they're not the ones driving this process, precisely because they don't know the difference, and don't really care. Also I don't necessarily believe that, because if it was true then why would there even be Chrome or Firefox or Opera or any other 3rd-party browser in the first place?
Pretty much, yeah. I don't see why they even need to bother with any sort of extensive internet browser. Why not just provide a minimal browser, just enough to get you to where you can download Firefox, or Chrome, or whatever other browser you want? Or maybe just partner with one of them instead? It would cost them less money in the long run due to reduced development costs, and most people will get what they want anyway, just quicker.
For what it's worth, a the Major Microprocessor Manufacturer I work for just announced yesterday that we'd all be having Chrome push-installed on us and that IE would be retired. What does that tell you, that they're not willing to wait for Microsoft's next offering?
Anyone remember AOL? If you have senior-citizen parents you very well might know what AOL is, because if they have it they probably still think the Internet is just AOL. That's what Failbook is heading towards according to this story.
Of course I'm also hoping Failbook becomes as irrelevant as AOL, sooner rather than later..
We should be so lucky as to live in a world where something like the YLIP really existed, even with all the conflict and problems in The Diamond Age.. but we don't live in that world. We live in a world where it would just blather on about nonsense, meanwhile everything the little girls say will be analyzed by market researchers for better ways to profit from them, and likely have Barbie say things to indoctrinate little girls into being 'better consumers' (read as: PESTER MOM AND DAD TO BUY YOU MORE STUFF) and for all we know brainwash them into being who-knows-what. Then there's the possibility of someone hacking into them and making Barbie say obscene things or things intended to mislead little girls into doing something horribly, horribly wrong, or who knows what. The hell with shit like this, make it go away. It's not the technology that's bad, it's the fact that you can't trust corporations or anyone else with it these days. In fact let's get rid of Barbie entirely, it's a shitty concept that's at the root of all sort of malodorous crap concerning little girls and their development anyway.
This, amplified by a factor of one million. Why are any of you still using Failbook!? Do you enjoy pain? Do you like being treated like children or inmates?
I don't think 'weak, irrational' or 'nonsense' really captures the flavor of the statement, so if you'll please allow me to indulge myself, I'll take a stab at it:
How about: 'Irrational'?
Unless the genetic sciences have reached a point where we're able to build the genetic code one piece at a time for an organism the size of a horse, and considering that this is a 'clone' we're talking about (i.e., a perfect copy of a previous, 'natural-born' horse), then the animal in question is, indeed 'a quarter-horse', and and the aforementioned quote is, in fact completely irrational, inaccurate, and furthermore reeks of extreme butthurt. It's not like you can turn the poor animal upside down and find 'Made in {insert Asian country-of-origin}' stamped on it somewhere, if you get my drift, and they've misspelled the name 'quarter-horse' somehow, to avoid violating someone's copyright, it is in fact a quarter-horse and genetically indistinguishable from any other animal of it's particular breed. Would they get so pissy about it if it was an identical twin of another horse (does that happen with horses?)
How do any of us know what is happening at the FAA behind closed doors? Do people expect them to have a Twitter account and tweet every little thing they're doing?
At what altitude will these operate? What is their operational ceiling? What safeguards against hacking/hijacking of their navigational systems will be in place? How resistant will they be to atmospheric conditions knocking them out of position? Will they have onboard redundant systems to protect against system faults causing them to move out of their designated position? I assume they're going to use GPS; how resistant to GPS hacking, being one avenue by which these drones may be hijacked, will they be? Will they be completely autonomous, in either station-keeping mode or in general navigation mode, or will there be remote human operators on duty 24/7 monitoring their operation?
These are just some questions off the top of my head that I'd imagine the FAA would be asking about such a device. Being smarter guys than I am I'll assume they'd have even more questions. I have no idea how large these drones would be, but if something so small as a duck could completely destroy a jet engine, then I'm certain that one of these drones could do just as well to take an aircraft down; any such device as these could, in the wrong hands, be used as a weapon of terror; that is what the FAA is considering. Of course this is just considering the possibilities of navigational hazard, I'm not even addressing the possibility of hijacking the wireless payload on these drones for hacking purposes. There are a million-and-one things that could go wrong (or be made to go wrong), and it's the job of the FAA (and planners and engineers at Google) to consider all the possibilities, even the small and unlikely ones, perform a threat evaluation on them, and plan/design/program accordingly. If you're just making a toy to play with then of course it's very simple but they're not therefore the job becomes large and complex and there is much responsibility on the shoulders of everyone involved with it.
I just moved into a new place, and having bought one Cree 100-watt equivalent lamp to try, decided I liked it and installed them in every fixture in the place. No funny colors (I prefer daylight color temp, and no excessive blueness to them either BTW) no flickering, no waste heat to speak of; what's not to like? I even installed 4-foot white LED shop lights in the garage, they're awesome, and will probably still be working 20 years from now. Anyway: The Cree bulbs I bought have no funny light patterns, are the same form-factor as an incandescent, and weren't terribly expensive, especially considering how long they should last. The bulbs in this article, on the other hand, look like a gimmick, and the tear-down looks to me like the 'power supply' is just a simple bridge rectifier and filter cap, so I'd doubt the lifespan of these units compared to something with a better power supply. In short: How is this 'story' anything other than marketing hype? These don't really offer anything new or interesting, just a cheap gimmick aimed at people still clinging to the idea of incandescent bulbs.
I think I saw some research somewhere showing that the same people who believed this also bought thousand dollar specialty speaker cables, HDMI cables, and specially crafted wooden volume control knobs for their home stereos, 'because it improves sound quality'.
That all sounds completely rediculous. If you follow that thinking then we'd better never do anything to 'disturb the natural order and beauty of the asteroid belt', and for that matter I guess we're being completely irresponsible, wasteful, and littering of the galaxy by allowing space probes like Voyager to wander around loose, right?
I dunno about that, friend, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain aren't looking too fit and healthy these days for a trip to the Moon. I'll go along with the idea, though, so long as no fucktard politician decides that the Moon is a good place to start storing nuclear waste.
Have you seen how much of a shit-fit environmentalists throw when anyone wants to mine anything on this planet anymore? Nobody should have any qualms about mining anything on the Moon since it has no ecosphere to start with. Of course there's the question of it being economical to do so..
..I think the real question on everyone's mind concerning Earth's moon is: Will the film adaptation of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress be good or bad?
In all seriousness: I think this is a positive first step towards humans going back to the moon. We really need to build a permanent base/colony there. Hey, Elon! Want to spearhead this one?
Enjoy being free tech support when their Linux installation has a problem. Or they want to install some new software. Or hardware. "Why won't {insert Windows software name here} work the way it does on my computer at work?". Etcetera.
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These so-called 'islamic state' assholes? They need to die. Every last one of them. No negotiations, no trials, no 'explanations' -- just fucking KILL THEM ALL, male, female, I don't fucking care, just KILL THEM. Children below a certain age can be de-programmed and put with families that will care for them and raise them to be rational, responsible, sane human beings -- but every last adult that is involved with this uber-asshole 'organization'? They need to be killed.
This isn't even about religion. It's about a power-vacuum that was created in the Middle East, which allowed these assholes to swoop in with their ultra-extremist bullshit and start setting up shop. These assholes are like a socio-economic version of the Black Plague, and like any other epidemic, it needs to be erradicated, completely.
Of course I can't ignore the fact that there will always be violent assholes in the world that will use religion of any kind as an excuse to be violent assholes on a large scale, and as unpopular an opinion as it apparently is in the world, I just wish that humans in general would fucking grow out of this apparently genetic need for a god or gods of any kind. All it seems to do is open the door for more atrocities, more ignorance (much of it willful ignorance), more backsliding, and in general more bullshit. I make jokes sometimes about how 'XYZ is the reason that alien civilizations won't contact us openly', but I'm only half kidding oftimes when I say it -- as is the case with this subject: If there are in fact starfaring alien civilizations out there that have been observing us, they must look at this sort of bullshit (and the Inquisition, and the Salem witch trials, and who knows how many other atrocities that have been committed over the centuries) and feel nothing but disgust and maybe pity for our poor race, that we're so afflicted by such a major flaw in our cognitive process.
Not posted as Anonymous Coward, because I'm not one. Come and get me, assholes. We, the sane, rational people of the world, we reject you and your fucking ultra-extremist bullshit. You claim to be doing the work of Allah? I CALL BULLSHIT ON THAT; you're just a bunch of power-hungry FRAUDS who enjoy killing people, and we will see you all DEAD for your crimes against humanity. It's time for this shit to stop.
I know it must happen to you at least a few times every week, but: The next time someone beats you to a pulp in real life, you piece of shit? You'll have to wonder if it's me.
Sleep well, asshole -- if you can. Guys like you? Your days are numbered, both on the Internet, and in real life. Enjoy living in fear.
Listen, jerk: This is a matter of choice. We won't just blithely give away our abilty to CHOOSE what we want to do or how we want to live, not for something as stupid as 'safety', not for money not for ANYthing.
"Manifestation of personal freedom"! If that's what it means to you, your ideas of freedom and your own self image are damaged beyond repair. If you're admitting you'll never change your mind, you are not being rational, by the very definition of the word. If you're not being rational, why should anyone assume you were rational when you concocted your strange opinion? You essentially just farted on Slashdot, and it made you feel good. Nice. Thanks for that.
Where do you live so I can beat your fucking face in for saying that to me, you little bitch? Fuck off and die, slag. People like you don't DESERVE to be in control of ANYTHING, especially not when, where, and how you get around, you should be on a LEASH and TOLD what to do, you're obviously not responsible enough to be allowed to run around loose.
I drive a small pickup with a 5-speed stick, and I know for a fact that the only control that doesn't have a direct mechanical linkage is the throttle, and I can live with that. I know I can always bring the vehicle to a complete stop whenever and wherever I choose and no automated system can override me, everything still functions even if the engine quit running.
I will NEVER, EVER get in an automobile that I cannot have immediate and complete MANUAL control over. Ever. I will also NEVER give up riding a motorcycle, and you CANNOT 'automate' that. Fuck you, Musk. Driving may be a privelege and not a right, but it IS a manifestation of personal freedom and I'll be damned if that is taken away from me. Others agree.
DISCLAIMER: I don't give a flying fuck if you agree with me or not, I don't give a flying fuck about your insults, and you're not changing my mind, EVER, either, so just don't bother commenting on the above at all, deal with it.
But, they're not the ones driving this process, precisely because they don't know the difference, and don't really care. Also I don't necessarily believe that, because if it was true then why would there even be Chrome or Firefox or Opera or any other 3rd-party browser in the first place?
Pretty much, yeah.
I don't see why they even need to bother with any sort of extensive internet browser. Why not just provide a minimal browser, just enough to get you to where you can download Firefox, or Chrome, or whatever other browser you want? Or maybe just partner with one of them instead? It would cost them less money in the long run due to reduced development costs, and most people will get what they want anyway, just quicker.
For what it's worth, a the Major Microprocessor Manufacturer I work for just announced yesterday that we'd all be having Chrome push-installed on us and that IE would be retired. What does that tell you, that they're not willing to wait for Microsoft's next offering?
Anyone remember AOL? If you have senior-citizen parents you very well might know what AOL is, because if they have it they probably still think the Internet is just AOL. That's what Failbook is heading towards according to this story.
Of course I'm also hoping Failbook becomes as irrelevant as AOL, sooner rather than later..
Can the rabid un-thining pitchfork-wielding crazed mobs that roam Slashdot now please take a step back and think about the future at least once?
Not until you take off your rose-colored glasses and look at the real world for a change!
We should be so lucky as to live in a world where something like the YLIP really existed, even with all the conflict and problems in The Diamond Age.. but we don't live in that world. We live in a world where it would just blather on about nonsense, meanwhile everything the little girls say will be analyzed by market researchers for better ways to profit from them, and likely have Barbie say things to indoctrinate little girls into being 'better consumers' (read as: PESTER MOM AND DAD TO BUY YOU MORE STUFF) and for all we know brainwash them into being who-knows-what. Then there's the possibility of someone hacking into them and making Barbie say obscene things or things intended to mislead little girls into doing something horribly, horribly wrong, or who knows what. The hell with shit like this, make it go away. It's not the technology that's bad, it's the fact that you can't trust corporations or anyone else with it these days. In fact let's get rid of Barbie entirely, it's a shitty concept that's at the root of all sort of malodorous crap concerning little girls and their development anyway.
Just put a piece of electrical tape over the goddamned thing if and when you have to rent a car from them and forget about it.
This, amplified by a factor of one million. Why are any of you still using Failbook!? Do you enjoy pain? Do you like being treated like children or inmates?
I don't think 'weak, irrational' or 'nonsense' really captures the flavor of the statement, so if you'll please allow me to indulge myself, I'll take a stab at it:
How about: 'Irrational'?
Unless the genetic sciences have reached a point where we're able to build the genetic code one piece at a time for an organism the size of a horse, and considering that this is a 'clone' we're talking about (i.e., a perfect copy of a previous, 'natural-born' horse), then the animal in question is, indeed 'a quarter-horse', and and the aforementioned quote is, in fact completely irrational, inaccurate, and furthermore reeks of extreme butthurt. It's not like you can turn the poor animal upside down and find 'Made in {insert Asian country-of-origin}' stamped on it somewhere, if you get my drift, and they've misspelled the name 'quarter-horse' somehow, to avoid violating someone's copyright, it is in fact a quarter-horse and genetically indistinguishable from any other animal of it's particular breed. Would they get so pissy about it if it was an identical twin of another horse (does that happen with horses?)
How do any of us know what is happening at the FAA behind closed doors? Do people expect them to have a Twitter account and tweet every little thing they're doing?
At what altitude will these operate? What is their operational ceiling? What safeguards against hacking/hijacking of their navigational systems will be in place? How resistant will they be to atmospheric conditions knocking them out of position? Will they have onboard redundant systems to protect against system faults causing them to move out of their designated position? I assume they're going to use GPS; how resistant to GPS hacking, being one avenue by which these drones may be hijacked, will they be? Will they be completely autonomous, in either station-keeping mode or in general navigation mode, or will there be remote human operators on duty 24/7 monitoring their operation?
These are just some questions off the top of my head that I'd imagine the FAA would be asking about such a device. Being smarter guys than I am I'll assume they'd have even more questions. I have no idea how large these drones would be, but if something so small as a duck could completely destroy a jet engine, then I'm certain that one of these drones could do just as well to take an aircraft down; any such device as these could, in the wrong hands, be used as a weapon of terror; that is what the FAA is considering. Of course this is just considering the possibilities of navigational hazard, I'm not even addressing the possibility of hijacking the wireless payload on these drones for hacking purposes. There are a million-and-one things that could go wrong (or be made to go wrong), and it's the job of the FAA (and planners and engineers at Google) to consider all the possibilities, even the small and unlikely ones, perform a threat evaluation on them, and plan/design/program accordingly. If you're just making a toy to play with then of course it's very simple but they're not therefore the job becomes large and complex and there is much responsibility on the shoulders of everyone involved with it.
I just moved into a new place, and having bought one Cree 100-watt equivalent lamp to try, decided I liked it and installed them in every fixture in the place. No funny colors (I prefer daylight color temp, and no excessive blueness to them either BTW) no flickering, no waste heat to speak of; what's not to like? I even installed 4-foot white LED shop lights in the garage, they're awesome, and will probably still be working 20 years from now. Anyway: The Cree bulbs I bought have no funny light patterns, are the same form-factor as an incandescent, and weren't terribly expensive, especially considering how long they should last. The bulbs in this article, on the other hand, look like a gimmick, and the tear-down looks to me like the 'power supply' is just a simple bridge rectifier and filter cap, so I'd doubt the lifespan of these units compared to something with a better power supply. In short: How is this 'story' anything other than marketing hype? These don't really offer anything new or interesting, just a cheap gimmick aimed at people still clinging to the idea of incandescent bulbs.
Possibly. Also, it would be nice if it was the beginning of the end for over-priced pharmaceuticals.
I think I saw some research somewhere showing that the same people who believed this also bought thousand dollar specialty speaker cables, HDMI cables, and specially crafted wooden volume control knobs for their home stereos, 'because it improves sound quality'.
I don't think you get the reference; did you ever see the show we're talking about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That all sounds completely rediculous. If you follow that thinking then we'd better never do anything to 'disturb the natural order and beauty of the asteroid belt', and for that matter I guess we're being completely irresponsible, wasteful, and littering of the galaxy by allowing space probes like Voyager to wander around loose, right?
I dunno about that, friend, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain aren't looking too fit and healthy these days for a trip to the Moon. I'll go along with the idea, though, so long as no fucktard politician decides that the Moon is a good place to start storing nuclear waste.
Have you seen how much of a shit-fit environmentalists throw when anyone wants to mine anything on this planet anymore? Nobody should have any qualms about mining anything on the Moon since it has no ecosphere to start with. Of course there's the question of it being economical to do so..
..I think the real question on everyone's mind concerning Earth's moon is: Will the film adaptation of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress be good or bad?
In all seriousness: I think this is a positive first step towards humans going back to the moon. We really need to build a permanent base/colony there. Hey, Elon! Want to spearhead this one?
"If it breaks can we call you for help?"
Enjoy being free tech support when their Linux installation has a problem. Or they want to install some new software. Or hardware. "Why won't {insert Windows software name here} work the way it does on my computer at work?". Etcetera.