Narrative depth, not gameplay depth. Any deep thinker will be unsatisfied with a totally unambiguous set of circumstances and characters. On the other hand, those types tend not to play many video games anyway...
It's possible that the IT staff who failed to secure the networks and websites also lack the expertise to detect an intruder. It's certainly not easy, and if they were able to cleanly socially engineer (or perhaps guess) passwords to get it done, there may be no way to detect it at all.
The University of Chicago/Friendman bullshit is only one (ugly) perspective on economics. For stuff that actually makes sense, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations still holds up pretty well after all the years and his writing is really clear and natural to read (if a bit rambling). I think David Ricardo has a similar take on things and is less prone to tangents if you're in the mood for something shorter.
It's not that bad; the code can be ported to a useful language and distributed. It's an extra step but it's far from worthless (as far as software goes).
Work work and more work?? It was the Bolsheviks who standardized the 40 hour work week, gave all workers sick leave, free health care, and education, not to mention equal rights for women.
There's no denying many mistakes of the USSR, but you are a philistine if you do not learn from both the good and bad examples set by it.
You seem to be forgetting that the USSR bore the brunt of Germany's aggression and still managed to rebuild, just as it had rebuilt in the wake of its civil war. The USSR (and the Warsaw Pact, and Yugoslavia, and Albania) rebuilt with a command economy and Europe (and Japan) rebuilt with heavy state investment and trade protectionism (and the USA continued to build with state investment without worrying about destruction back home).
The real lesson here is that a modern industrial state with some reasonable quality of life doesn't come about by the invisible hand; it takes focused, directed work at the goal to get anything done.
an excellent way to bring down beijing,... havana,
People in China are generally enjoying a steadily rising quality of life, regardless of how politically repressive the state may be. Revolutions don't happen because some blogger got arrested or a site was blocked. If anything will cause real unrest there, it will be the sort of falling wages that caused Tienanmen.
People in Cuba are well educated and free from disease and starvation. Unlike China, the internet isn't very prolific and is difficult to use at all. They really can't even use Tor because the USA won't allow Cuba to connect to the fiber, so their only access is satellite (until they finish linking with Venezuela). And, of course, there is no private ownership of computers. Last I heard, there's only about 50 political prisoners in the whole country, hardly the level of police state it is made out to be. Consider Guantanamo; the USA has more political prisoners in Cuba than Cuba does!
Certainly the USA-created governments in Iraq and Afghanistan cause more terror and provide fewer opportunities for their citizens than Cuba. It would take far more than an internet propaganda operation to topple China or Cuba.
Surely being able to do something as mundane as posting on Slashdot (which this may allow) would raise their level of social interaction a great deal over their baseline, even if it tends to be unsatisfying. Not only that, they could do more like search for ebooks to read, build a playlist of music and start/stop it, or even program a sequencer and synthesizer to play their own music. Maybe even after reading the right ebooks someone may teach himself to program or do digital art or learn a foreign language and use these skills to find a job that could be done remotely. There's a lot of things that can be done with just a mouse these days.
It's far from independence and normal interaction, but it's got to be a much bigger set of options than what they've got right now. On the other hand, it's all just conjecture on my part.
Americans don't do those jobs because they pay below a living wage, obviously. The lack of labor protections has already pushed citizens out of that market altogether.
Good summary. Surely you've noticed that with regard to foreign policy, Slashdot is nothing more than a mouth piece of American propaganda. Of course, that does nothing to distinguish it from 99% of the rest of the media in America.
It's always some shit about China this freedom that, nevermind that someone with a degree in computer science today makes the same amount (adjusted for inflation) as someone working in a factory in 1965. As real wages continue to decline, this has got to be an issue on the minds of Slashdot posters.
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According to something I think I read on Phoronix a couple weeks back, it support the binary Nvidia driver already. They say that trying acceleration with any other Linux driver crashes way too often to be shipped enabled.
You're waiting on the driver vendors to fix their shit, not Firefox.
Social relations are replaced by market relations so instead of each person having equal freedom intrinsic in his existence, money itself becomes a measure of the decisions a person is able to make. They've got billions of dollars and you probably have only a few thousand. This is the meaning of freedom created by the marketplace.
This is the nature of all markets: the big ones buy up the smaller ones until there are only one or two big ones left. Occasionally they collapse and are replaced by others, but the diversity never really expands. Deregulation and competition just doesn't work in the real world.
That would be a good metaphor if it included something about huge farm conglomerates manipulating food standards and changing the diets of the public in the same way that military service providers manipulate the government into more war, except then it wouldn't fit in with your poorly informed conception of history because it's actually happening.
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Well, I'm running an Ubuntu server.
jesus christ
Actually, it sounds like your keyboard was what received the sacking
Sure there's a reason; it's called being an insufferable manchild. Plenty of Slashdot users should have firsthand experience with that one...
Socialists want to replace capitalism, not attempt to stabilize it.
If you watch Scooby Doo, don't be surprised if it isn't Dostoevsky!
Not deep enough to catch a joke, eh?
On top of that, of the ones who do play video games FPS isn't exactly their first choice.
Yes, this is why I near exclusively play JRPG's, particularly the Tales series.
Narrative depth, not gameplay depth. Any deep thinker will be unsatisfied with a totally unambiguous set of circumstances and characters. On the other hand, those types tend not to play many video games anyway...
It's possible that the IT staff who failed to secure the networks and websites also lack the expertise to detect an intruder. It's certainly not easy, and if they were able to cleanly socially engineer (or perhaps guess) passwords to get it done, there may be no way to detect it at all.
The University of Chicago/Friendman bullshit is only one (ugly) perspective on economics. For stuff that actually makes sense, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations still holds up pretty well after all the years and his writing is really clear and natural to read (if a bit rambling). I think David Ricardo has a similar take on things and is less prone to tangents if you're in the mood for something shorter.
It's not that bad; the code can be ported to a useful language and distributed. It's an extra step but it's far from worthless (as far as software goes).
Oh, I'm sure someone is profiting...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ7FKuYPsQ0
Work work and more work?? It was the Bolsheviks who standardized the 40 hour work week, gave all workers sick leave, free health care, and education, not to mention equal rights for women.
There's no denying many mistakes of the USSR, but you are a philistine if you do not learn from both the good and bad examples set by it.
You seem to be forgetting that the USSR bore the brunt of Germany's aggression and still managed to rebuild, just as it had rebuilt in the wake of its civil war. The USSR (and the Warsaw Pact, and Yugoslavia, and Albania) rebuilt with a command economy and Europe (and Japan) rebuilt with heavy state investment and trade protectionism (and the USA continued to build with state investment without worrying about destruction back home).
The real lesson here is that a modern industrial state with some reasonable quality of life doesn't come about by the invisible hand; it takes focused, directed work at the goal to get anything done.
It's funny how many people point to their monitor and call it their computer.
I use an iMac at work and some people are confused when I do this :-(
an excellent way to bring down beijing, ... havana,
People in China are generally enjoying a steadily rising quality of life, regardless of how politically repressive the state may be. Revolutions don't happen because some blogger got arrested or a site was blocked. If anything will cause real unrest there, it will be the sort of falling wages that caused Tienanmen.
People in Cuba are well educated and free from disease and starvation. Unlike China, the internet isn't very prolific and is difficult to use at all. They really can't even use Tor because the USA won't allow Cuba to connect to the fiber, so their only access is satellite (until they finish linking with Venezuela). And, of course, there is no private ownership of computers. Last I heard, there's only about 50 political prisoners in the whole country, hardly the level of police state it is made out to be. Consider Guantanamo; the USA has more political prisoners in Cuba than Cuba does!
Certainly the USA-created governments in Iraq and Afghanistan cause more terror and provide fewer opportunities for their citizens than Cuba.
It would take far more than an internet propaganda operation to topple China or Cuba.
If you had looked deeper, you wouldn't found an incredible quantity of passwords being sent in plaintext to login to websites that don't use SSL.
Surely being able to do something as mundane as posting on Slashdot (which this may allow) would raise their level of social interaction a great deal over their baseline, even if it tends to be unsatisfying. Not only that, they could do more like search for ebooks to read, build a playlist of music and start/stop it, or even program a sequencer and synthesizer to play their own music.
Maybe even after reading the right ebooks someone may teach himself to program or do digital art or learn a foreign language and use these skills to find a job that could be done remotely.
There's a lot of things that can be done with just a mouse these days.
It's far from independence and normal interaction, but it's got to be a much bigger set of options than what they've got right now.
On the other hand, it's all just conjecture on my part.
Americans don't do those jobs because they pay below a living wage, obviously. The lack of labor protections has already pushed citizens out of that market altogether.
Where's the Android app for this?
Good summary. Surely you've noticed that with regard to foreign policy, Slashdot is nothing more than a mouth piece of American propaganda. Of course, that does nothing to distinguish it from 99% of the rest of the media in America.
It's always some shit about China this freedom that, nevermind that someone with a degree in computer science today makes the same amount (adjusted for inflation) as someone working in a factory in 1965. As real wages continue to decline, this has got to be an issue on the minds of Slashdot posters.
According to something I think I read on Phoronix a couple weeks back, it support the binary Nvidia driver already. They say that trying acceleration with any other Linux driver crashes way too often to be shipped enabled.
You're waiting on the driver vendors to fix their shit, not Firefox.
Does that sound like free capitalism to you??
Yes. Capital is free; you are not.
Social relations are replaced by market relations so instead of each person having equal freedom intrinsic in his existence, money itself becomes a measure of the decisions a person is able to make. They've got billions of dollars and you probably have only a few thousand.
This is the meaning of freedom created by the marketplace.
This is the nature of all markets: the big ones buy up the smaller ones until there are only one or two big ones left. Occasionally they collapse and are replaced by others, but the diversity never really expands.
Deregulation and competition just doesn't work in the real world.
That would be a good metaphor if it included something about huge farm conglomerates manipulating food standards and changing the diets of the public in the same way that military service providers manipulate the government into more war, except then it wouldn't fit in with your poorly informed conception of history because it's actually happening.