Immortality for your genes isn't worth very much. It gives you a legacy, but you don't get to see it.
I'm young enough that I've a chance, if only a very slim one, that immortality-tech will become available within my lifetime. Body transplant, cryonics that actually works, maybe even the holy grail of mind uploading. It's a long shot, but it's the only chance I see. If not, well... not much I can do about it.
Gingerbread is only 2 years old, and still supported by Google with its first party applications. To put that in some kind of perspective XP was released 12 years ago
To take your analogy and run with it, your copies of Notepad and Paint have been updated, but not your OS or any 3rd party applications.
I had a buddy who used to cut his headlights when he'd come to a blind Y at night in their rural county to see if anyone was coming on the other leg. Woe unto him when he ran into someone (literally) who did the same thing....
>Also: as meaningless as petitions are, they'd be slightly less meaningless if you at least courageously offered those an ability to sign a petition in the opposite direction too. In fact, this should be a moral requirement for all those who ever make a petition.
That's one of the most sensible things I've ever read...am I still on/.?
Now someone can do a statistical analysis of whether houses that own guns get burglarized at a different rate than houses without. My guess would be less cuz if I was a burglar I wouldn't want to be extra ventilated; I'd go for the soft target.
...stories like this just emphasize the major suckitude of the current US space policy in that our current glory is tech from 30 years in the past. What'll we be talking about 30 years in the future?
Um, who cares if it's live, going, or in a pile in a room. If it has valid data on it it is still a viable target and needs to be secured in whatever way is necessary. It's even worse if it was a system that was still online, supposed to be marked for decommissioned and they just didn't keep up on securing it anymore.
No kidding. If it was decommissioned the drives would be destroyed at best, powered off and offline at worst.
Correlation does not imply causation. One can even make the same argument that because Megaupload closed, tiger attacks in Chicago have gone down, too.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't the definition of a PE buyout a mugging where the victim beats himself up?
...get their Most Favored Nation status taken away.
Immortality for your genes isn't worth very much. It gives you a legacy, but you don't get to see it.
I'm young enough that I've a chance, if only a very slim one, that immortality-tech will become available within my lifetime. Body transplant, cryonics that actually works, maybe even the holy grail of mind uploading. It's a long shot, but it's the only chance I see. If not, well... not much I can do about it.
Sheldon Cooper, is that you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history#Android_2.3.E2.80.932.3.2_Gingerbread_.28API_level_9.29
Gingerbread is only 2 years old, and still supported by Google with its first party applications. To put that in some kind of perspective XP was released 12 years ago
To take your analogy and run with it, your copies of Notepad and Paint have been updated, but not your OS or any 3rd party applications.
So is the poster (switched from 2 consecutive Androids to an iPhone 5 precisely for the reasons delineated in that article).
Quality vs Quantity
I'll take 100 corrupt bankers any day over 10 guys with guns raping and murdering at will.
I'll take your stupidity and up it one. I'll take the guys with guns: they can hunted down and commensurately dealt with. The bankers? Not so easy.
Holy UID Batman! If you never got first post when you were just competing against 1,501 other users, I don't think you'll ever get it now.
For all you know there are still only 1501 users!!
I had a buddy who used to cut his headlights when he'd come to a blind Y at night in their rural county to see if anyone was coming on the other leg. Woe unto him when he ran into someone (literally) who did the same thing....
Maybe the Chinese hacked Slashdot, that would explain why this story appears here 12 hours after everywhere else?
I guess the editors were asleep, or they saved it for morning for maximum visibility. I submitted it last night.
Couldn't Schmidt's trip be construed as a violation of the Logan Act?
...video killed the radio star.
So he pirated a few documents and distributed them? Why did this end in his death?
Because he was weak?
>Also: as meaningless as petitions are, they'd be slightly less meaningless if you at least courageously offered those an ability to sign a petition in the opposite direction too. In fact, this should be a moral requirement for all those who ever make a petition.
That's one of the most sensible things I've ever read...am I still on /.?
Now someone can do a statistical analysis of whether houses that own guns get burglarized at a different rate than houses without. My guess would be less cuz if I was a burglar I wouldn't want to be extra ventilated; I'd go for the soft target.
...stories like this just emphasize the major suckitude of the current US space policy in that our current glory is tech from 30 years in the past. What'll we be talking about 30 years in the future?
"In U.S. District Court in California, the presiding judge declared China in default in the lawsuit for failing to respond."
I guess the victim should show up with the sheriff and put China up for auction?
"...but that it was of a decommissioned server."
Um, who cares if it's live, going, or in a pile in a room. If it has valid data on it it is still a viable target and needs to be secured in whatever way is necessary. It's even worse if it was a system that was still online, supposed to be marked for decommissioned and they just didn't keep up on securing it anymore.
No kidding. If it was decommissioned the drives would be destroyed at best, powered off and offline at worst.
Correlation does not imply causation. One can even make the same argument that because Megaupload closed, tiger attacks in Chicago have gone down, too.
Oh, and the obligatory xkcd cartoon: http://xkcd.com/552/
- kill them all
This is the best of all of those solutions. Think about it .. it doesn't take any resources at all to implement
Uhh, tell the Nazis that "kill them all" didn't take any resources....
Coinurl.com? Really???
...the harder part is finding out which one sucks just a little less at any particular point.
I have no idea how the URL got mangled when Timothy moved the anchor text to a different part of the article, but here's the correct link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html?hpw&pagewanted=all
...on my own submission? LOL.
I'd rather have a "you have a low slashdot ID" discount.
Try this link instead. I think the submitter forgot to strip the URL junk...
Exactly. Sorry. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/business/book-reviewers-for-hire-meet-a-demand-for-online-raves.html is all that's needed.