where have those NASA safety people been for the past 20 years? we lost 14+ astronauts because of those clowns, now they are telling us the Russians are unsafe?
i agree. slashdot has a clear bias against christian conservatives. it goes further than the 'ban on jesus' though. there is also the fact that it tends to discuss stories on Linux to the exclusion of products made by Christian corporations like Microsoft. We all know that Jesus believed in Capitalism - and obviously slashdot is some kind of Marxist plot to destroy both.
a lot of those diseases you mention existed because Eurasians had domesticated cattle and pigs and so forth and so on - which directly led to zoonotic diseases. the Americas did not have cattle nor did they have pigs.
"Eminent SUSY phenomenologists Gordon Kane told the following to the SUSY-hating Marxist blogger Tommaso Dorigo:"
" it's just a flawed idea to ask experimenters - such as the CMS boss Mr Jordan Nash - about "our understanding". He doesn't seem to have too deep an understanding of the parameter spaces of supersymmetric theories. This is not a surprising criticism; he is an experimenter, after all. . . . Mr Ghosh shouldn't have asked experimenters about theoretical questions."
"Maybe Nature abhors the huge percentage of leftists in the current Academia so She won't give them any new and important secrets to be discovered - and She will give the last secrets to the last conservative white males on the periphery of the institutionalized science only. "
"most typical SUSY opponents are old and grumpy hippie assholes "
"Mr Ghosh should splash himself down the drain because his work is a pile of garbage."
i hate to go all Glenn Beck here, but we know the microsoft Standard Operating Procedure. We know how they think. We know how they act.
introducing subtle incompatabiities and crashes into product in order to crush competition is just another day at the office for those guys.
they probably are putting political pressure on Nvidia to give them special access to their internal documentation or something.
this is precisely why 'closed blob' drivers are bad. . . . because it allows the enemies of Linux and FOSS to destroy it. closed blob drivers are a step away from closed, un-sniffable hardware. it is like the story of the WinModems all over again. . if the situation with WinModems was repeated for Graphics cards, mice, keyboards, monitors, etc, then Microsoft could really destroy Linux.
in the fantasy of modularization, different pieces of the computer machine are separated and individual.
in reality, they are all mushed together through undocumented, hacked-together crap. alot of driver-writing is black-box guesswork, and always has been, probably always will be. Nvidia's binary closed blob only makes the problem worse --- you are basically taking unknown undocumented kernel bits and putting them into your linux kernel (IIRC)
there are various ways to get rid of this problem... theoretically the 'microkernel' OSes like Plan9 or the Hurd should not crash with video driver problems... but those plans never seem to work in reality.
lastly, there is the old argument taht linux "crashes" are often not really 100% crashes... if you only had a serial-port terminal, like an old VT100, you could plug it into your machine and log into the linux console, reset the keyboard, video, etc, and get everything back up running. Of course, machines don't even come with serial ports anymore, and i dont know the new version of the argument.
is not included in the cost that the power plant charges you, since power plants dont currently have to pay anything related to global warming, or ocean acidification.
editing wikipedia is rather fun sometimes... the more powerful the entity you edit the page about, the more fun it is. the highest form of fun is when you add boring, banal facts, and watch people go apeshit over them.
we found James Risen doing a similar stunt against Wen Ho Lee... Lee was not in prison though , , he wound up suing the newspapers and the government, and winning.
they wrote things like Gaussian Copula Function code, CDO simulations, and models of mortgage securities for ratings agencies.
these were at the heart of what enabled the massive fraud of the CDO game during the bubble years of the early 2000s. Ratings agencies built shoddy models, and investment banks 'reverse engineered' and 'gamed' those models. They also payed the ratings-agencies managers to skew the results.
Out of it all came massive piles of bad mortgage debt, advertised and sold as good debt. This enabled more and more bad loans to be made, driving up housing prices for everyone, and creating an industry of 'house flipping' and 'cash out mortgage refinancing', all based on nothing more than the mathematical abstractions built by these hackers inside these investment banks and hedge funds and ratings agencies.
that is why unemployment is 10%, why the debt ceiling debate existed, why the european union may collapse, why the Euro may cease to exist, why China and Russia might move away from the Dollar as a reserve currency, etc etc etc. It is why trillions of dollars of taxpayer money disappeared into the basements and palaces of the hyper-rich, the investment bank officers and hedge fund managers who skimmed it all off as bonuses (for 'future projected revenues') and disappeared into the nethers.
this is why honest people working for the SEC were fired by the dozens while the corrupt and the conflicted continued to look the other way, so that they could then go work for these banks and hedge funds years down the line.
That is what these 'hackers' did. To all of us.
Mitnick is a threat? Mitnick is to be looked down on? What planet do you live on? What century do you live in?
13 milion is not enough to sneeze at. they just raise the interest rates on credit cards secretly over a weekend and make 26 million, then laugh about it.
why the hell would they want to hire a security team? let the FBI handle it, throw people in jail, dont spend any money fixing the problem.
oh, what about your customers? most companies are not in business for the customers. they are in business for the shareholders and bondholders.
Goldman Sachs and the others just stole from the taxpayers.
have you seen the recent FOIA files released on the 'secret bailout'? billions and billions and billions. and a lot of it went to pay bonuses to those guys at the CDO and mortgage securities departments at those banks. massive, overwhelming fraud, completely unpunished. and we whine about hackers stealing 13 million from an ATM.
13 million would not even cover a year of a bailed-out bank CEO executive bonus. it wouldnt even be a drop in the bucket of the Boards of Directors payments (many of whom do exactly nothing). 13 million is what John Thain wiped his ass with at Merrill Lynch.
wake up folks. wake up. watch The Young Turks for more info
i dont know if its 'stupidity', but i would call it 'ignorance' and 'lack of education'.
thats what allows best buy to scam so many and defraud so many. and it is wrong.
the objection to the iPod is somewhere along those lines. the main thing it did was integrate with iTunes ---- well, we had this site called mp3.com way, way before itunes,, and it got shut down by legal and corporate assholes for no good reason, based on the fraudulent legal system that doesn't allow you to claim that you own the music that you rightly bought and payed for (but somehow allows record industry executives to claim the own music that they stole and robbed from the artists who created it).
Jobs was somehow able to convince the corrupt music industry executives to let him send content over the internet. That's what the Ipod was about. Great for him... but many geeks view that as a consequence of his ability to schmooze and do smoke-filled-room negotiations... not as any kind of product innovation.
by several times. not 3 percent here or there. everyone gets a raise. like some kind of capitalist Oprah, the janitors got so much money they could dream of affording to buy Ford's products. Nobody on an iPad factory line can dream of buying an iPad.
i agree, it is important to find someone who can stay awake for 14 hours a day, doesn't care if their wages are kept low purposely by their own government to stop inflation (and instead, those wages go to buy bonds from US companies like Fannie and Freddie, which are glorified ponzi schemes), isn't going to kill himself, and won't leak the shape of an iPad to the media... yeah.
People said that slashdot couldn't survive without his inspiration. Boy, were they wrong. It wasn't a week after he left that OneSpot was brought on board, and with it's "Patented community ranking surfaces the best content for your audience" slashdot had "Increased revenue by 5 - 10% increased traffic".
Next thing you knew it, we were able to click through and buy all of our favorite products, right from the slashdot home page. Things like tips on trimming belly fat, and mortgages and student loans to online Military History PHD programs. It was like the shackles were finally taken off, and slashdot could really become what it was meant to be all along - a tech industry juggernaut!
Shareholders were so pleased, that the applauded the new CEO in a 10 minute standing ovation at the annual convention. Next came the integration with facebook, and the doing away with this whole 'anonymity' thing - long a bastion behind which trolls and troublemakers hid their identity in order to make pointless First Posts and disgusting comments about popular actresses. Facebooks 'real name' policy greatly increased the level of discourse on slashdot. Noted journalists from well respected networks like G4 were then able to come on slashdot without fearing a mass wave of heckling from the anonymous coward crowd.
It was good to see more actual tech reviews on slashdot. Instead of the political stuff - I mean do we really need another hipster whining about how corporations are responsible for everything from child malnutrition to global warming? - we got actual information about the latest products, like the Olympus PEN E-PM1 Mini or the Xbox 360 ESPN app. That is what I had always wanted in a tech site, and that is what we got more of when Malda left.
Things went great for a while. Profits were up, complaints were down. The site was harmonious, a word I picked up from a Chinese friend. You could finally browse slashdot for a whole day without seeing a single pointless flamewar. vi vs emacs? Who cares - we had all moved on to Eclipse and MSVC, hadn't we? These sort of 'beyond the pale' discussions got put right back where they belonged. Back in the pale.
Those were slashdots 'golden years'. Then Malda won the lottery in 2015 and came back. Oh the horror. It devolved back, back into the same tired old arguments and debates. People disagreeing with each other. Who wants to read that? All I want to know is which new plastic glowing box I am supposed to buy. Is that too much to ask from a website that advertises itself as News for Nerds?
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where have those NASA safety people been for the past 20 years? we lost 14+ astronauts because of those clowns, now they are telling us the Russians are unsafe?
good news for you though. marijuana is now legal in some states.
and we have this little robot scuttering all over mars!
i agree. slashdot has a clear bias against christian conservatives. it goes further than the 'ban on jesus' though. there is also the fact that it tends to discuss stories on Linux to the exclusion of products made by Christian corporations like Microsoft. We all know that Jesus believed in Capitalism - and obviously slashdot is some kind of Marxist plot to destroy both.
touche monsieur!!!!
a lot of those diseases you mention existed because Eurasians had domesticated cattle and pigs and so forth and so on - which directly led to zoonotic diseases. the Americas did not have cattle nor did they have pigs.
soooo the stereotype of neanderthals as hyper violent aggressors doesnt really fit the data?
wouldnt that stereotype be more applicable to, i dont know, us?
This is from the article you linked to:
"Eminent SUSY phenomenologists Gordon Kane told the following to the SUSY-hating Marxist blogger Tommaso Dorigo:"
" it's just a flawed idea to ask experimenters - such as the CMS boss Mr Jordan Nash - about "our understanding". He doesn't seem to have too deep an understanding of the parameter spaces of supersymmetric theories. This is not a surprising criticism; he is an experimenter, after all. . . . Mr Ghosh shouldn't have asked experimenters about theoretical questions."
"Maybe Nature abhors the huge percentage of leftists in the current Academia so She won't give them any new and important secrets to be discovered - and She will give the last secrets to the last conservative white males on the periphery of the institutionalized science only. "
"most typical SUSY opponents are old and grumpy hippie assholes "
"Mr Ghosh should splash himself down the drain because his work is a pile of garbage."
The original link in the Pallab Ghosh article (removed at edit time) was for this story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14680570
"Results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have all but killed the simplest version of an enticing theory of sub-atomic physics."
vomiting crack whores are welcome in the church, they can get counseling and treatment... something they would never find at a linux convention.
i hate to go all Glenn Beck here, but we know the microsoft Standard Operating Procedure. We know how they think. We know how they act.
introducing subtle incompatabiities and crashes into product in order to crush competition is just another day at the office for those guys.
they probably are putting political pressure on Nvidia to give them special access to their internal documentation or something.
this is precisely why 'closed blob' drivers are bad. . . . because it allows the enemies of Linux and FOSS to destroy it. closed blob drivers are a step away from closed, un-sniffable hardware. it is like the story of the WinModems all over again. . if the situation with WinModems was repeated for Graphics cards, mice, keyboards, monitors, etc, then Microsoft could really destroy Linux.
in the fantasy of modularization, different pieces of the computer machine are separated and individual.
in reality, they are all mushed together through undocumented, hacked-together crap. alot of driver-writing is black-box guesswork, and always has been, probably always will be. Nvidia's binary closed blob only makes the problem worse --- you are basically taking unknown undocumented kernel bits and putting them into your linux kernel (IIRC)
there are various ways to get rid of this problem... theoretically the 'microkernel' OSes like Plan9 or the Hurd should not crash with video driver problems... but those plans never seem to work in reality.
lastly, there is the old argument taht linux "crashes" are often not really 100% crashes... if you only had a serial-port terminal, like an old VT100, you could plug it into your machine and log into the linux console, reset the keyboard, video, etc, and get everything back up running. Of course, machines don't even come with serial ports anymore, and i dont know the new version of the argument.
is not included in the cost that the power plant charges you, since power plants dont currently have to pay anything related to global warming, or ocean acidification.
"Seems like it should require almost no effort."
was the problem with the new software that it used too much RAM and CPU?
or was the problem that it didnt support old hardware graphics drivers?
those are two massively different problems.
editing wikipedia is rather fun sometimes... the more powerful the entity you edit the page about, the more fun it is. the highest form of fun is when you add boring, banal facts, and watch people go apeshit over them.
also fun? submitting stories to slashdot.
more fun? FOIA requests.
fun fun fun!
actually got in criminal legal trouble for it. its been a long ass time since i read the story, but im guessing slashdot probably covered it.
we found James Risen doing a similar stunt against Wen Ho Lee... Lee was not in prison though , , he wound up suing the newspapers and the government, and winning.
they wrote things like Gaussian Copula Function code, CDO simulations, and models of mortgage securities for ratings agencies.
these were at the heart of what enabled the massive fraud of the CDO game during the bubble years of the early 2000s. Ratings agencies built shoddy models, and investment banks 'reverse engineered' and 'gamed' those models. They also payed the ratings-agencies managers to skew the results.
Out of it all came massive piles of bad mortgage debt, advertised and sold as good debt. This enabled more and more bad loans to be made, driving up housing prices for everyone, and creating an industry of 'house flipping' and 'cash out mortgage refinancing', all based on nothing more than the mathematical abstractions built by these hackers inside these investment banks and hedge funds and ratings agencies.
that is why unemployment is 10%, why the debt ceiling debate existed, why the european union may collapse, why the Euro may cease to exist, why China and Russia might move away from the Dollar as a reserve currency, etc etc etc. It is why trillions of dollars of taxpayer money disappeared into the basements and palaces of the hyper-rich, the investment bank officers and hedge fund managers who skimmed it all off as bonuses (for 'future projected revenues') and disappeared into the nethers.
this is why honest people working for the SEC were fired by the dozens while the corrupt and the conflicted continued to look the other way, so that they could then go work for these banks and hedge funds years down the line.
That is what these 'hackers' did. To all of us.
Mitnick is a threat? Mitnick is to be looked down on? What planet do you live on? What century do you live in?
13 milion is not enough to sneeze at. they just raise the interest rates on credit cards secretly over a weekend and make 26 million, then laugh about it.
why the hell would they want to hire a security team? let the FBI handle it, throw people in jail, dont spend any money fixing the problem.
oh, what about your customers? most companies are not in business for the customers. they are in business for the shareholders and bondholders.
Goldman Sachs and the others just stole from the taxpayers.
have you seen the recent FOIA files released on the 'secret bailout'? billions and billions and billions. and a lot of it went to pay bonuses to those guys at the CDO and mortgage securities departments at those banks. massive, overwhelming fraud, completely unpunished. and we whine about hackers stealing 13 million from an ATM.
13 million would not even cover a year of a bailed-out bank CEO executive bonus. it wouldnt even be a drop in the bucket of the Boards of Directors payments (many of whom do exactly nothing). 13 million is what John Thain wiped his ass with at Merrill Lynch.
wake up folks. wake up. watch The Young Turks for more info
i dont know if its 'stupidity', but i would call it 'ignorance' and 'lack of education'.
thats what allows best buy to scam so many and defraud so many. and it is wrong.
the objection to the iPod is somewhere along those lines. the main thing it did was integrate with iTunes ---- well, we had this site called mp3.com way, way before itunes,, and it got shut down by legal and corporate assholes for no good reason, based on the fraudulent legal system that doesn't allow you to claim that you own the music that you rightly bought and payed for (but somehow allows record industry executives to claim the own music that they stole and robbed from the artists who created it).
Jobs was somehow able to convince the corrupt music industry executives to let him send content over the internet. That's what the Ipod was about. Great for him... but many geeks view that as a consequence of his ability to schmooze and do smoke-filled-room negotiations... not as any kind of product innovation.
by several times. not 3 percent here or there. everyone gets a raise. like some kind of capitalist Oprah, the janitors got so much money they could dream of affording to buy Ford's products. Nobody on an iPad factory line can dream of buying an iPad.
i agree, it is important to find someone who can stay awake for 14 hours a day, doesn't care if their wages are kept low purposely by their own government to stop inflation (and instead, those wages go to buy bonds from US companies like Fannie and Freddie, which are glorified ponzi schemes), isn't going to kill himself, and won't leak the shape of an iPad to the media... yeah.
it is hard to find good help.
People said that slashdot couldn't survive without his inspiration. Boy, were they wrong. It wasn't a week after he left that OneSpot was brought on board, and with it's "Patented community ranking surfaces the best content for your audience" slashdot had "Increased revenue by 5 - 10% increased traffic".
Next thing you knew it, we were able to click through and buy all of our favorite products, right from the slashdot home page. Things like tips on trimming belly fat, and mortgages and student loans to online Military History PHD programs. It was like the shackles were finally taken off, and slashdot could really become what it was meant to be all along - a tech industry juggernaut!
Shareholders were so pleased, that the applauded the new CEO in a 10 minute standing ovation at the annual convention. Next came the integration with facebook, and the doing away with this whole 'anonymity' thing - long a bastion behind which trolls and troublemakers hid their identity in order to make pointless First Posts and disgusting comments about popular actresses. Facebooks 'real name' policy greatly increased the level of discourse on slashdot. Noted journalists from well respected networks like G4 were then able to come on slashdot without fearing a mass wave of heckling from the anonymous coward crowd.
It was good to see more actual tech reviews on slashdot. Instead of the political stuff - I mean do we really need another hipster whining about how corporations are responsible for everything from child malnutrition to global warming? - we got actual information about the latest products, like the Olympus PEN E-PM1 Mini or the Xbox 360 ESPN app. That is what I had always wanted in a tech site, and that is what we got more of when Malda left.
Things went great for a while. Profits were up, complaints were down. The site was harmonious, a word I picked up from a Chinese friend. You could finally browse slashdot for a whole day without seeing a single pointless flamewar. vi vs emacs? Who cares - we had all moved on to Eclipse and MSVC, hadn't we? These sort of 'beyond the pale' discussions got put right back where they belonged. Back in the pale.
Those were slashdots 'golden years'. Then Malda won the lottery in 2015 and came back. Oh the horror. It devolved back, back into the same tired old arguments and debates. People disagreeing with each other. Who wants to read that? All I want to know is which new plastic glowing box I am supposed to buy. Is that too much to ask from a website that advertises itself as News for Nerds?
look, we all know whats happening here. slashdot is going to get whored out. 5 years from now we can say something like this:
"you have done with slashdot, what your society has done with all of nature's gifts" -- Gremlins