ahh, yes. You're right - I enjoyed BE as well. I just felt his incessant use of satire in an otherwise entertaining story was tiresome and spoilt it somewhat.
Contrast that satirical approach with other SciFi which take their subject matter seriously.
No, my guess he's expressing a not unexpected horror that the sick fuck murdered a 4 year old child. Here in South Africa a child goes missing every 6 hours. Most are never found, many are found murdered (usually raped first, naturally). So yes, people (especially parents) tend to get a little irrational where kids are concerned.
Due process must of course be followed, but fuckit, there's something to be said for stringing that fucker up and hearing him gurgle. Irrational of course, but if it was one of my children...
Just like everyone must adjust to expert systems, 4GL, object oriented programming, java, web2.0, facebook, twitter, potter and my grandmother's facial mole with pubic hairs.
now the cloud (cue futuristic sound clip).
for fuck sakes, don't these stupid "tech" pundits have anything better to do? oh, sorry, of course they don't.
I know it's a lame question, but after your stock lost >50%, why didn't you bail?
6 months all I did was get paid >$100K/yr to drink coffee
Otherwise known as the writing was on the wall...
I was in a vaguely similar situation about 12 years ago - got the hell out of dodge the moment I smelt the bad shit about to go down.
Finally, on a personal note, I would like to ask yttrstein why he feels compelled to burden the rest of us with his un-informed opinions on this topic. He could have easily researched the issue, in about 5 or 10 minutes, and perhaps contributed something worth reading.
He's probably 12 years old or 45 and lives in his mom's basement. His mindless gurgle resulted in your interesting post, so perhaps he'll learn something before his 8pm scheduled online/pr0n wank session...
Geez, for a while there I thought I was the only one having this problem. I have tried (and failed) to transfer domains away from Network Solutions. I've given up and stayed with NS (for those domains registered with them in the first place) because I just don't have the time nor energy to fight with them any more.
Registrars like NS have people by the balls because they know there is no enforcement of the rules.
One of the main reasons people in third-world countries have lots of kids is that they need them
um, what?
You are seriously misinformed, my friend. You were doing so well making some really good points, then you stepped into the manhole and bit your tongue asunder.
Psychologists like to wax lyrical about why this behaviour exists among the less fortunate, but to say it's because they need them (many many kids) coughs a SEGV every time. It may be more a combination of inadequate/missing education, cultural imperatives and lack of state assistance wrt prophylactics/family planning, etc.
Anyhoo, I digress. What many people fail to realise about the 3rd world is that they too have become urbanised -- and not "civilised" urbanisation either, think overcrowded steaming stinking suffering squalor. Having 10 kids because you need them no longer holds water the way it did when these folks were in the veld growing their own food and herding cattle.
/disclaimer: I live in a 3rd world kuntree and my family does their bit uplifting where we can
True, true.
However, if this prevents even one rape and/or torture of a little girl, then fuck'n hey. Besides, what's abduction of children (which is cold-stone mind-numbingly serious shit) go to do with unsecured wireless - I don't follow your association of the two?
That's because it's become a warren for sub-29 year olds who use bing.com as their SE of choice and actually brag about it:D.
[yawns/arches back] it's about time for my cuppa tea and afternoon nap.
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So you had things like line validators (checksum as you entered each line)
Wow, now that brings back memories. I remember typing many, many lines of numbers (with the checksum at the end) and then finally having a stick-figure or something dodge falling balls...
Of course, the real fun began when I finally learned what those numbers meant:)
Maybe I'm too much of a man, or maybe I'm sex starved 'coz I'm married (if you're married, you know what I mean), but the title Beautiful Security made me think of something else entirely.
hmm, you must be a have-not. I'm sure you can afford to own a notebook, right? In that case, by your childish have-not logic, you deserve to be butt-hole dry-fucked by a night prowler, then have your notebook stolen.
You deserve it at the very least.
Why is it that people with the wherewithal who simply live their lives are branded as cunts who deserve to be robbed, killed, sneered at and have there decent piece of engineering keyed by pimply-faced have-nots?
I suggest to you, Anonymous Coward, that you are indeed an anonymous coward ashamed of your own simmering mediocrity. You are, furthermore, a fucking communist who bites the very hand that feeds it. Go join Osama bin fucking Laden and his bearded closet gays who enjoy destroying instead of building. You don't deserve to be part of a civilised society which aspires to build, improve, learn, live a productive and long life raising beautiful children and leave a legacy.
I'd like to thank you for reminding me that the world is full of little shits like you who do not deserve to be gainfully employed (I filter out your kind all the time when employing - your thin veneer of civility does not hide the pus in your soul). I enjoy superior engineering, the same way you enjoy your decently engineered notebook. Linus drives an old German merc (remember, these things are all relative) who, by your reasoning, has the money for it, and therefore deserves to have his beautiful piece of human engineering keyed, because hey, you can't afford one.
And please, don't blather about how you cannot compare an old merc to a Bugatti. If you do, then I'm sure you won't even hear the whoosh.
I'm not surprised; these are probably the same class of people who maintain that MS Access is all you need for a high-traffic website backend.
They're also the same class of people who are at a loss to explain why their site/application is so slow under load...
Stupid dummies.
Then again, I haven't RTA, so I'm probably babbling.
Anyway, it's Friday and it's been a long week dealing with fuck'n dummies who don't apologise when shown the error of their ways, so fuckit, fuckthem, fuckemall. Say ghello to my leetle friend...
who the fuck flagged this Flamebait? Probably a closet Mormon or some such.
Anyway, dude, come'n, shaving *everything* off is just creepy. Think Californication and David Duchov's character enjoying a bit of nice thatch.
There is NOTHING more of a turn-on than a nicely maintained thatch; and not a Mohawk either.
I hope they tinker with smaller price tags some day.
That'll also be the day they tinker with the quality assurance dept. In fact, I'm pretty sure their QA dept is already gone, but the effects are only now trickling down. I recently bought two of their notebook style keyboards (it's the "Lenovo ThinkPad USB Travel Keyboard with UltraNav" so google can find it and save some other poor souls some money, effort and grief) since I like compact and notebook-feely keys for programming - anyway, they look right - small, compact, same colour, style, mouse pad, etc - but for fother mucking suck FAKES it's the worst bullshit fucked up plastic-feeling wakky-clacky piece of crap I've ever come across.
I ordered two (yes, 2), thinking "hey, it's lenovo/IBM, I can't go wrong."
Contrast that piece of shit with the Enermax Aurora - not nice and compact, but hell, it types like a notebook keyboard and has half a ton of aluminium under it.
Anyway, I didn't mean to hijack this thread with my latest rant about poor quality from erstwhile quality companies, but there it is.
Slashdot Mirror
async. fastest speed available is 640Kb/4Mb IIRC.
ahh, yes. You're right - I enjoyed BE as well. I just felt his incessant use of satire in an otherwise entertaining story was tiresome and spoilt it somewhat.
Contrast that satirical approach with other SciFi which take their subject matter seriously.
...make a little money, write a book
You'll make a lot more money writing a decent book. His books were godawful.
No, my guess he's expressing a not unexpected horror that the sick fuck murdered a 4 year old child. Here in South Africa a child goes missing every 6 hours. Most are never found, many are found murdered (usually raped first, naturally). So yes, people (especially parents) tend to get a little irrational where kids are concerned.
Due process must of course be followed, but fuckit, there's something to be said for stringing that fucker up and hearing him gurgle. Irrational of course, but if it was one of my children...
IT departments must adjust to the fact
must ... fact
Just like everyone must adjust to expert systems, 4GL, object oriented programming, java, web2.0, facebook, twitter, potter and my grandmother's facial mole with pubic hairs.
now the cloud (cue futuristic sound clip).
for fuck sakes, don't these stupid "tech" pundits have anything better to do? oh, sorry, of course they don't.
Yeees, I think like most of the desperate /. crowd you'd do anything, provided it's vaguely female :)
/hitches belt in a manly fashion.
Myself excluded, of course.
At this point I was worth about $800K
I know it's a lame question, but after your stock lost >50%, why didn't you bail?
6 months all I did was get paid >$100K/yr to drink coffee
Otherwise known as the writing was on the wall...
I was in a vaguely similar situation about 12 years ago - got the hell out of dodge the moment I smelt the bad shit about to go down.
You're either new here, otherwise woooooosh!
No worries, I forgive you too. However, let's not be rude again, shall we?
US Citizens don't have the right to go on military bases, and top secret facilities and publish pictures
Except if it's about UFOs, Greys and/or cattle mutilation, dammit. Where's your sense of duty?
Finally, on a personal note, I would like to ask yttrstein why he feels compelled to burden the rest of us with his un-informed opinions on this topic. He could have easily researched the issue, in about 5 or 10 minutes, and perhaps contributed something worth reading.
He's probably 12 years old or 45 and lives in his mom's basement. His mindless gurgle resulted in your interesting post, so perhaps he'll learn something before his 8pm scheduled online/pr0n wank session...
Geez, for a while there I thought I was the only one having this problem. I have tried (and failed) to transfer domains away from Network Solutions. I've given up and stayed with NS (for those domains registered with them in the first place) because I just don't have the time nor energy to fight with them any more.
Registrars like NS have people by the balls because they know there is no enforcement of the rules.
Nothing will change until ICANN grows a pair.
One of the main reasons people in third-world countries have lots of kids is that they need them
um, what?
/disclaimer: I live in a 3rd world kuntree and my family does their bit uplifting where we can
You are seriously misinformed, my friend. You were doing so well making some really good points, then you stepped into the manhole and bit your tongue asunder.
Psychologists like to wax lyrical about why this behaviour exists among the less fortunate, but to say it's because they need them (many many kids) coughs a SEGV every time. It may be more a combination of inadequate/missing education, cultural imperatives and lack of state assistance wrt prophylactics/family planning, etc.
Anyhoo, I digress. What many people fail to realise about the 3rd world is that they too have become urbanised -- and not "civilised" urbanisation either, think overcrowded steaming stinking suffering squalor. Having 10 kids because you need them no longer holds water the way it did when these folks were in the veld growing their own food and herding cattle.
Australian Police Plan Warp drive Mission
woohoo! finally! ...oh. argh fuckit, dumb ozzies. Oh well, at least they know how to play rugby (even though they suck kangaroo bum at cricket).
True, true. However, if this prevents even one rape and/or torture of a little girl, then fuck'n hey. Besides, what's abduction of children (which is cold-stone mind-numbingly serious shit) go to do with unsecured wireless - I don't follow your association of the two?
This lack of knowledge on /. is sickening
That's because it's become a warren for sub-29 year olds who use bing.com as their SE of choice and actually brag about it :D.
[yawns/arches back] it's about time for my cuppa tea and afternoon nap.
So you had things like line validators (checksum as you entered each line)
:)
Wow, now that brings back memories. I remember typing many, many lines of numbers (with the checksum at the end) and then finally having a stick-figure or something dodge falling balls...
Of course, the real fun began when I finally learned what those numbers meant
Thank God they didn't pull a Branson on themselves and call it "InterGalactic Internet" or some such nonsense.
Maybe I'm too much of a man, or maybe I'm sex starved 'coz I'm married (if you're married, you know what I mean), but the title Beautiful Security made me think of something else entirely.
hmm, you must be a have-not. I'm sure you can afford to own a notebook, right? In that case, by your childish have-not logic, you deserve to be butt-hole dry-fucked by a night prowler, then have your notebook stolen.
You deserve it at the very least.
Why is it that people with the wherewithal who simply live their lives are branded as cunts who deserve to be robbed, killed, sneered at and have there decent piece of engineering keyed by pimply-faced have-nots?
I suggest to you, Anonymous Coward, that you are indeed an anonymous coward ashamed of your own simmering mediocrity. You are, furthermore, a fucking communist who bites the very hand that feeds it. Go join Osama bin fucking Laden and his bearded closet gays who enjoy destroying instead of building. You don't deserve to be part of a civilised society which aspires to build, improve, learn, live a productive and long life raising beautiful children and leave a legacy.
I'd like to thank you for reminding me that the world is full of little shits like you who do not deserve to be gainfully employed (I filter out your kind all the time when employing - your thin veneer of civility does not hide the pus in your soul). I enjoy superior engineering, the same way you enjoy your decently engineered notebook. Linus drives an old German merc (remember, these things are all relative) who, by your reasoning, has the money for it, and therefore deserves to have his beautiful piece of human engineering keyed, because hey, you can't afford one.
And please, don't blather about how you cannot compare an old merc to a Bugatti. If you do, then I'm sure you won't even hear the whoosh.
Don't be a twat. He shared a sad story with noteworthy points. The lady in question could be anyone you know, or will know.
Sometimes people make bad choices, sometimes others make them for us.
I'm not surprised; these are probably the same class of people who maintain that MS Access is all you need for a high-traffic website backend.
They're also the same class of people who are at a loss to explain why their site/application is so slow under load...
Stupid dummies.
Then again, I haven't RTA, so I'm probably babbling.
Anyway, it's Friday and it's been a long week dealing with fuck'n dummies who don't apologise when shown the error of their ways, so fuckit, fuckthem, fuckemall. Say ghello to my leetle friend...
who the fuck flagged this Flamebait? Probably a closet Mormon or some such. Anyway, dude, come'n, shaving *everything* off is just creepy. Think Californication and David Duchov's character enjoying a bit of nice thatch. There is NOTHING more of a turn-on than a nicely maintained thatch; and not a Mohawk either.
yes, but we'll always need their pr0n. There's something about an American accent when groaning appropriately...
I hope they tinker with smaller price tags some day.
That'll also be the day they tinker with the quality assurance dept. In fact, I'm pretty sure their QA dept is already gone, but the effects are only now trickling down. I recently bought two of their notebook style keyboards (it's the "Lenovo ThinkPad USB Travel Keyboard with UltraNav" so google can find it and save some other poor souls some money, effort and grief) since I like compact and notebook-feely keys for programming - anyway, they look right - small, compact, same colour, style, mouse pad, etc - but for fother mucking suck FAKES it's the worst bullshit fucked up plastic-feeling wakky-clacky piece of crap I've ever come across.
I ordered two (yes, 2), thinking "hey, it's lenovo/IBM, I can't go wrong."
Contrast that piece of shit with the Enermax Aurora - not nice and compact, but hell, it types like a notebook keyboard and has half a ton of aluminium under it.
Anyway, I didn't mean to hijack this thread with my latest rant about poor quality from erstwhile quality companies, but there it is.