If you think that Bush invented the torture they did in Abu Ghraib, then you're ignoring the last 50+ years that the whole world has been using the Geneva Conventions and other treaties to prohibit torture.
Just like an Anonymous Republican Coward to reduce torture by Americans to some kind of cherrypicked questions. Ignoring US law, military justice codes, training systems, courts.
There is, most unfortunately, plenty of actual precedent for defining torture under US law. Mostly the product of sadists like you who will find any excuse to torture, to fool others into accepting it.
You are a sick bastard who is spouting the worst lies to cover up the fact that your government is torturing people, even torturing them to death, with flip nonsense like "not on the same planet".
Of course you post anonymously, because you fascists are cowards, so scared of your own shadow that you'll torture anyone just to feed your own demons.
Your Republican government is torturing people, including Americans, without trials or even access to secret evidence, allowed to come from secret wiretaps. So anything can go wrong (even worse than in experienced civillian trials), but there's no way to find out, let alone stop or "fix" it.
Congratulations, terrorist. You've got your wish: an America that is different from foreign terrorists and tyrannies only by counting our big bombs and our bank accounts. Well, the big bombs don't work on guerillas, like the ones we face in countries around the world already wise to our torturing ways. And that bank account is overdrawn by over $49 TRILLION.
So you are hellbent on taking our country to hell with you. Because that's where you are going: straight to hell, Anonymous torturelover Coward.
Yesterday Congress passed a law legalizing torture. Remember how Abu Ghraib was "just a few bad apples"? This law, almost as bad as the one Bush demanded to retroactively cover his ass, proves that the bad guys are running the country.
In a month, on TUE November 4, your House Representative will be up for firing at the voting booth. And odds are that one of your Senators is up for firing, too. Take some time to google how they're "representing" you when the Congress asks them whether your government should be able to spy on you or torture you, along with all the other things they do in your name.
if they placed tomato plants near a germinating dodder, the parasite headed for the tomato 80 percent of the time. And when they put scent chemicals from a tomato on rubber, 73 percent of the dodder seedlings headed that way.
The shocking revelation is that 7% of the dodders weren't fooled by the simulated tomato smell. Those dodders are seeing the fake tomato patches as a trick. Those are the dodders to watch.
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. When InfoWorld says the MS product is the worst, an unknown one (Virtuozzo, unknown to me) is very good (because of ease of use), and the open-source one is apparently the best (Xen, both of VMs and OSS), it's well worth reading.
I was at the NextFest last night, and I checked out the exoskeleton. If you think you get a blister when you wear shoes a little too big/small, you'll see how you get several inches rubbed off when you wear one of these contraptions. Maybe by the time they replace our outer layers with some synthetic materials we'll be ready to wear these things all day.
There was a really cool android chick, extremely realistic, which didn't seem to mind at all as the humans grabbed and pulled at "her" body. Now that's something we'll probably have people wearing out more pretty soon.
OK, Republicans don't just splutter about "But Clinton...". Their TrollMods also try to suppress posts that put Bush in his Rushmore from hell with Saddam, Osama and Nero.
OT: That comparison says "Benchmarks run against Xen and VMware show that, in some respects, Xen performs better by almost an entire order of magnitude." I wish we geeks had already gone through the kind of discussion about "orders of magnitude" that we had about decimal vs binary "mega/giga" (MB/MiB). I'd like to know the difference between orders of decimal magnitude and orders of binarary magnitubi. Decimal seems an arbitrary order scale, especially when we usually talk in terms of centissimal orders (percentage). But binary seems most appropriate, self-scaling according to the size of the base unit.
Where's the study/chart contrasting VMWare with Xen virtualization? Those are the two to watch - Microsoft will just copy whichever one (or features) serves MS better.
Verizon is paying $9650 per install on its FiOS rollout. If that keeps up, $18B pays for 1.9M customers. To reach 7M customers, they'd have to spend 2571 each, which is about 1/4. Since most of the cost is pulling fiber to homes, labor intensive, followed by operations staff, again featuring high labor costs, I don't believe Verizon will drop costs by 25% every year for 4 years.
Of course, "I don't believe Verizon" is a default policy unopposed by any evidence to the contrary. Many of the 7M they're claiming to target with FiOS are people in less profitable areas who Verizon says it will serve, in order to protect the subsidies and monopoly exceptions our government has handed "Verizon" (and its former names) for a century.
I do believe that I will get at least 20:5Mbps in my NYC apartment, maybe 100+ symmetrical, in the next 4 years. A friend in Long Island has his 20Mbps filled with torrents 24x7, so I believe it. But I wish everyone across the country would expect their Congressional reps and president to make an FCC that gives at least universal broadband service, if not quite FiOS yet, to everyone across the country. Just like "universal service" for mere POTS telephone service, the government always has to force telcos to fulfill their promises, so the country can operate in the modern world these telecoms create.
Name 3 cities the size of New Orleans with levee systems and other mitigations like New Orleans had that were 80% flooded in the past 5 years.
Then look at the entire Gulf Coast lying in destruction, and hundreds of thousands of refugees.
And consider what happens when that does happen several times a decade. The cumulative effects on a country even as rich, mobile, flexible and large as the US, let alone the rest of the world.
Then tell me more about "anti-bush crap". And how it's wrong to say you're in with Bush when he's spinning the same "nothing to see here, move along" nonsense as you have.
'"not about programmer productivity," said [Gartner analyst] Hoyle during the keynote presentation, "but in assembling functionality from components"'
That's the kind of stupid "surprisingly clever" gibberish Gartner sells to bosses around the world. Assembling functionality from components, or "code reuse" is programmer productivity. "Buy instead of build" is another 1980s "breakthru insight" that practically every programmer uses, whether their boss realizes it or not.
Even C programming, which practically always calls an API, is assembling functionality from components. Unless you're programming in assembly without an OS, you're not "programming from scratch".
The continuing thriving of Gartner and the survival of businesses that consume their drivel is more testimony to the irrationality of economics. Any rational system would have increased boss productivity long ago by dumping any who wasted any time learning to be clever from Gartner.
You know what does happen all the time, though? The White House kills a scientific report that exposes their demented politics at our expense, this time "a report that suggests global warming is contributing to the frequency and strength of hurricanes".
The last time I was in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, early this year, people in the neighborhood were still finding bodies. None of them showed up on official death counts. And a year later there are still plenty of places that haven't been gone through in that neighborhood and others. You obviously know nothing about New Orleans, but insist on talking out of your ass.
Like dismissing the loss of 300 years of American history, predating the country itself by 20%, as "shit happens". To you, that history is nothing but "information", like your HD full of porn when it crashes. You obviously know nothing about history, but insist on talking out of your ass.
And finally you'll pretend, behind your Anonymous Coward mask, that you're not a Republican. Sure, you're a coward "independent", who votes Republican but is ashamed to admit it now that cunts like you are so obviously full of shit traitors. Or the favorite Slashdot copout, a "Libertarian", so you hope you can shoot someone someday and get away with it.
All you are is an Anonymous Coward with a burning black hole where a human has a heart, shit for brains, and blood on your ballot hands. And we're stuck with you as we save your sorry ass from the consequences of all the bullshit decisions you make shouting in your fantasyland.
With so many PC games using the keyboard for control by the player, I'm surprised that QWERTY is still the only kind that I ever see. What kind of reconfigurable "task keyboards" are gamers already using? Any with reconfig keycap displays to match reconfig commands triggered by pressing them? Any that are smarter, like learning common combos and autoconfig'ing to a single key? Any that work more advanced switching than just press/trigger (like going beyond "Caps Lock")?
These gizmos are the most personal part of a PC, staying in contact with our body much of the day, and representing the most used "user interface" of any mode. Are they really no different from the IBM Selectrics, except cheaper and USB?
When was the last time a city the size of New Orleans got destroyed by the weather? And do you think these disasters happen randomly across the globe, like a dart board? The arrival of a year of more hurricanes than ever, along with the biggest one, is leading edge of a trend supported over several years. That anyone can see, except when they're blinded by denial.
It doesn't "happen all the time". It's happening more and more. Before Katrina you would have said "no, that kind of catastrophe won't happen in the USA". Just like the people of New Orleans who didn't believe until too late - who you probably ridiculed for staying in the path.
If the destruction of New Orleans isn't enough to wake you up, you're going to drown. If you're still sleeping, then good riddance.
How about over a half million refugees, and a city of 3/4 million rendered nearly useless? How about the destruction of 300 years of history?
And how about dropping the bullshit that only 1500 Louisianans were killed? You can't even get the population of the city right, even when it would make your sick comments look less disgusting.
And what kind of Anonymous Coward monster describes the deaths of even a million and a half people, the destruction of a thousand big cities, a half billion refugees as "inconvenience"?
You fucking Republicans should be flushed down the toilet in that demented fantasy bubble you fill with your filthy hot air. You're subhuman. Your screams for help when your local disaster comes calling will be awful, but at least a form of justice. If only we could leave you behind as we save the rest of the world worth saving.
It's not just your ostrich bullshit that's getting really old - all you chickens afraid to face reality are getting really old. Some of you are ancient Africans.
It's time to go with the refreshing wind of truth about our wasteful effects on our environment, so we can do something about it before all I've got for being right is "I told you so".
That's a non-sequitur, but I could match it with one brain lobe tied behind my back with something almost as stupid like "Clinton didn't invade Iraq, either". At least mine would have a point. And be about the person you're talking about, instead of some random person haunting you.
Pretty sad that Republicans, holding the entire government for 6 years, controlling Congress for twice as long, can still only splutter about "But Clinton...".
"Not as bad as Clinton", "Not as bad as Saddam", "Not as bad as Osama"... you're the government of lowered expectations, running the greatest country in history into the ground like a hijacked plane in a Pennsylvania field. You'd better start practicing "Not as bad as Nero", as you fiddle while Rome Jr burns.
More to the point, Bush is actually the person we have to do something about as he's actually running the country, not some retired scapegoat from the last decade. But of course the only language Republicans speak is partisan, not government.
This is the database reported on Slashdot that had bipartisan support among the Congressmembers who planned it, but was blocked by Republican Senator Ted Stevens (R-Tubes). Bloggers and other activists organizing on the Internet are getting the main credit for pushing past Stevens.
I don't give Bush much credit, because he didn't start this legislation, and the only passed bill he's ever vetoed was the one this year that would have funded more stemcell research. The White House didn't "plan" this database, it's just too embattled these days to join Stevens in stopping it. And by including the over $25K budget items "except for those classified for national security reasons" while Bush invokes "national security" to cover any questionable acts he wants to do anyway, he's got little reason to dislike it.
Since the article makes no claim that the White House planned this system, I blame prostoalex for submitting it with that headline, and/or Zonk for publishing it with that headline.
Meanwhile, if this database is populated with real data and actually remains open to anyone, including researchers who can navigate its cryptic depths to compose the truth about our budgets, we may be entering a whole new era of "pin the credit/blame on the donkey/elephant".
You know, the deserts we've got now weren't always there. The Sahara was green 6KYA, before civilization got really rolling across those latitudes. Humans use up the environment faster than species can adapt to the changes we make, and we cope with the changes without adapting. Until catastrophe destroys us.
We've pumped coal, oil and gas that used to lie buried all into the atmosphere as CO2 and other byproducts at industrial scales for over a century. All that stuff used to live on the Earth during hotter climates, converting CO2 etc into themselves, then dying to be buried. We shouldn't be surprised when returning the gas they cleaned from our atmosphere returns us to the climates that preceeded them. Which we did not adapt to live in ourselves. And which have never changed so quickly, far outpacing the rate of human evolution, even if we were still as subject to natural evolution.
All that spells "extinction", or at best "civilization collapse".
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If you think that Bush invented the torture they did in Abu Ghraib, then you're ignoring the last 50+ years that the whole world has been using the Geneva Conventions and other treaties to prohibit torture.
Just like an Anonymous Republican Coward to reduce torture by Americans to some kind of cherrypicked questions. Ignoring US law, military justice codes, training systems, courts.
There is, most unfortunately, plenty of actual precedent for defining torture under US law. Mostly the product of sadists like you who will find any excuse to torture, to fool others into accepting it.
You are a sick bastard who is spouting the worst lies to cover up the fact that your government is torturing people, even torturing them to death , with flip nonsense like "not on the same planet".
Of course you post anonymously, because you fascists are cowards, so scared of your own shadow that you'll torture anyone just to feed your own demons.
Your Republican government is torturing people, including Americans, without trials or even access to secret evidence, allowed to come from secret wiretaps. So anything can go wrong (even worse than in experienced civillian trials), but there's no way to find out, let alone stop or "fix" it.
Congratulations, terrorist. You've got your wish: an America that is different from foreign terrorists and tyrannies only by counting our big bombs and our bank accounts. Well, the big bombs don't work on guerillas, like the ones we face in countries around the world already wise to our torturing ways. And that bank account is overdrawn by over $49 TRILLION.
So you are hellbent on taking our country to hell with you. Because that's where you are going: straight to hell, Anonymous torturelover Coward.
Osama, is that you?
How does voting every Election Day, "often", or as soon as you can, like absentee or just when polls open, "early", equal "cheating"?
Or is this some kind of Republican trick question (is there any other kind)?
Er, that's TUE November 7, 2006. TUE November 4 is an even bigger day, but it's not until TUE November 4, 2008. Vote early, vote often.
Yesterday Congress passed a law legalizing torture. Remember how Abu Ghraib was "just a few bad apples"? This law, almost as bad as the one Bush demanded to retroactively cover his ass, proves that the bad guys are running the country.
In a month, on TUE November 4, your House Representative will be up for firing at the voting booth. And odds are that one of your Senators is up for firing, too. Take some time to google how they're "representing" you when the Congress asks them whether your government should be able to spy on you or torture you, along with all the other things they do in your name.
Then go to the polls and do some justice to them.
The shocking revelation is that 7% of the dodders weren't fooled by the simulated tomato smell. Those dodders are seeing the fake tomato patches as a trick. Those are the dodders to watch.
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. When InfoWorld says the MS product is the worst, an unknown one (Virtuozzo, unknown to me) is very good (because of ease of use), and the open-source one is apparently the best (Xen, both of VMs and OSS), it's well worth reading.
I was at the NextFest last night, and I checked out the exoskeleton. If you think you get a blister when you wear shoes a little too big/small, you'll see how you get several inches rubbed off when you wear one of these contraptions. Maybe by the time they replace our outer layers with some synthetic materials we'll be ready to wear these things all day.
There was a really cool android chick, extremely realistic, which didn't seem to mind at all as the humans grabbed and pulled at "her" body. Now that's something we'll probably have people wearing out more pretty soon.
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OK, Republicans don't just splutter about "But Clinton...". Their TrollMods also try to suppress posts that put Bush in his Rushmore from hell with Saddam, Osama and Nero.
Thanks for the helpful kick in the head.
OT: That comparison says "Benchmarks run against Xen and VMware show that, in some respects, Xen performs better by almost an entire order of magnitude." I wish we geeks had already gone through the kind of discussion about "orders of magnitude" that we had about decimal vs binary "mega/giga" (MB/MiB). I'd like to know the difference between orders of decimal magnitude and orders of binarary magnitubi. Decimal seems an arbitrary order scale, especially when we usually talk in terms of centissimal orders (percentage). But binary seems most appropriate, self-scaling according to the size of the base unit.
Where's the study/chart contrasting VMWare with Xen virtualization? Those are the two to watch - Microsoft will just copy whichever one (or features) serves MS better.
Verizon is paying $9650 per install on its FiOS rollout. If that keeps up, $18B pays for 1.9M customers. To reach 7M customers, they'd have to spend 2571 each, which is about 1/4. Since most of the cost is pulling fiber to homes, labor intensive, followed by operations staff, again featuring high labor costs, I don't believe Verizon will drop costs by 25% every year for 4 years.
Of course, "I don't believe Verizon" is a default policy unopposed by any evidence to the contrary. Many of the 7M they're claiming to target with FiOS are people in less profitable areas who Verizon says it will serve, in order to protect the subsidies and monopoly exceptions our government has handed "Verizon" (and its former names) for a century.
I do believe that I will get at least 20:5Mbps in my NYC apartment, maybe 100+ symmetrical, in the next 4 years. A friend in Long Island has his 20Mbps filled with torrents 24x7, so I believe it. But I wish everyone across the country would expect their Congressional reps and president to make an FCC that gives at least universal broadband service, if not quite FiOS yet, to everyone across the country. Just like "universal service" for mere POTS telephone service, the government always has to force telcos to fulfill their promises, so the country can operate in the modern world these telecoms create.
Name 3 cities the size of New Orleans with levee systems and other mitigations like New Orleans had that were 80% flooded in the past 5 years.
Then look at the entire Gulf Coast lying in destruction, and hundreds of thousands of refugees.
And consider what happens when that does happen several times a decade. The cumulative effects on a country even as rich, mobile, flexible and large as the US, let alone the rest of the world.
Then tell me more about "anti-bush crap". And how it's wrong to say you're in with Bush when he's spinning the same "nothing to see here, move along" nonsense as you have.
'"not about programmer productivity," said [Gartner analyst] Hoyle during the keynote presentation, "but in assembling functionality from components"'
That's the kind of stupid "surprisingly clever" gibberish Gartner sells to bosses around the world. Assembling functionality from components, or "code reuse" is programmer productivity. "Buy instead of build" is another 1980s "breakthru insight" that practically every programmer uses, whether their boss realizes it or not.
Even C programming, which practically always calls an API, is assembling functionality from components. Unless you're programming in assembly without an OS, you're not "programming from scratch".
The continuing thriving of Gartner and the survival of businesses that consume their drivel is more testimony to the irrationality of economics. Any rational system would have increased boss productivity long ago by dumping any who wasted any time learning to be clever from Gartner.
You know what does happen all the time, though? The White House kills a scientific report that exposes their demented politics at our expense, this time "a report that suggests global warming is contributing to the frequency and strength of hurricanes".
The last time I was in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans, early this year, people in the neighborhood were still finding bodies. None of them showed up on official death counts. And a year later there are still plenty of places that haven't been gone through in that neighborhood and others. You obviously know nothing about New Orleans, but insist on talking out of your ass.
Like dismissing the loss of 300 years of American history, predating the country itself by 20%, as "shit happens". To you, that history is nothing but "information", like your HD full of porn when it crashes. You obviously know nothing about history, but insist on talking out of your ass.
And finally you'll pretend, behind your Anonymous Coward mask, that you're not a Republican. Sure, you're a coward "independent", who votes Republican but is ashamed to admit it now that cunts like you are so obviously full of shit traitors. Or the favorite Slashdot copout, a "Libertarian", so you hope you can shoot someone someday and get away with it.
All you are is an Anonymous Coward with a burning black hole where a human has a heart, shit for brains, and blood on your ballot hands. And we're stuck with you as we save your sorry ass from the consequences of all the bullshit decisions you make shouting in your fantasyland.
With so many PC games using the keyboard for control by the player, I'm surprised that QWERTY is still the only kind that I ever see. What kind of reconfigurable "task keyboards" are gamers already using? Any with reconfig keycap displays to match reconfig commands triggered by pressing them? Any that are smarter, like learning common combos and autoconfig'ing to a single key? Any that work more advanced switching than just press/trigger (like going beyond "Caps Lock")?
These gizmos are the most personal part of a PC, staying in contact with our body much of the day, and representing the most used "user interface" of any mode. Are they really no different from the IBM Selectrics, except cheaper and USB?
When was the last time a city the size of New Orleans got destroyed by the weather? And do you think these disasters happen randomly across the globe, like a dart board? The arrival of a year of more hurricanes than ever, along with the biggest one, is leading edge of a trend supported over several years. That anyone can see, except when they're blinded by denial.
It doesn't "happen all the time". It's happening more and more. Before Katrina you would have said "no, that kind of catastrophe won't happen in the USA". Just like the people of New Orleans who didn't believe until too late - who you probably ridiculed for staying in the path.
If the destruction of New Orleans isn't enough to wake you up, you're going to drown. If you're still sleeping, then good riddance.
How about over a half million refugees, and a city of 3/4 million rendered nearly useless? How about the destruction of 300 years of history?
And how about dropping the bullshit that only 1500 Louisianans were killed? You can't even get the population of the city right, even when it would make your sick comments look less disgusting.
And what kind of Anonymous Coward monster describes the deaths of even a million and a half people, the destruction of a thousand big cities, a half billion refugees as "inconvenience"?
You fucking Republicans should be flushed down the toilet in that demented fantasy bubble you fill with your filthy hot air. You're subhuman. Your screams for help when your local disaster comes calling will be awful, but at least a form of justice. If only we could leave you behind as we save the rest of the world worth saving.
Where's your evidence that only natural climate change desertified the Sahara? I've got evidence that humans caused it.
It's not just your ostrich bullshit that's getting really old - all you chickens afraid to face reality are getting really old. Some of you are ancient Africans.
It's time to go with the refreshing wind of truth about our wasteful effects on our environment, so we can do something about it before all I've got for being right is "I told you so".
Most of the world's worst trouble spots, already unmanageable, are based on unmanageable climate change. From Darfur to Bangladesh to New Orleans.
Speaking of which, imagine New Orleans a thousand times over, and describe it to me as an "inconvenience".
That's a non-sequitur, but I could match it with one brain lobe tied behind my back with something almost as stupid like "Clinton didn't invade Iraq, either". At least mine would have a point. And be about the person you're talking about, instead of some random person haunting you.
Pretty sad that Republicans, holding the entire government for 6 years, controlling Congress for twice as long, can still only splutter about "But Clinton...".
"Not as bad as Clinton", "Not as bad as Saddam", "Not as bad as Osama"... you're the government of lowered expectations, running the greatest country in history into the ground like a hijacked plane in a Pennsylvania field. You'd better start practicing "Not as bad as Nero", as you fiddle while Rome Jr burns.
More to the point, Bush is actually the person we have to do something about as he's actually running the country, not some retired scapegoat from the last decade. But of course the only language Republicans speak is partisan, not government.
This is the database reported on Slashdot that had bipartisan support among the Congressmembers who planned it, but was blocked by Republican Senator Ted Stevens (R-Tubes). Bloggers and other activists organizing on the Internet are getting the main credit for pushing past Stevens.
I don't give Bush much credit, because he didn't start this legislation, and the only passed bill he's ever vetoed was the one this year that would have funded more stemcell research. The White House didn't "plan" this database, it's just too embattled these days to join Stevens in stopping it. And by including the over $25K budget items "except for those classified for national security reasons" while Bush invokes "national security" to cover any questionable acts he wants to do anyway, he's got little reason to dislike it.
Since the article makes no claim that the White House planned this system, I blame prostoalex for submitting it with that headline, and/or Zonk for publishing it with that headline.
Meanwhile, if this database is populated with real data and actually remains open to anyone, including researchers who can navigate its cryptic depths to compose the truth about our budgets, we may be entering a whole new era of "pin the credit/blame on the donkey/elephant".
You know, the deserts we've got now weren't always there. The Sahara was green 6KYA, before civilization got really rolling across those latitudes. Humans use up the environment faster than species can adapt to the changes we make, and we cope with the changes without adapting. Until catastrophe destroys us.
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TrollMods can't stand the light of day, so they prefer a thicker Greenhouse layer.
We've pumped coal, oil and gas that used to lie buried all into the atmosphere as CO2 and other byproducts at industrial scales for over a century. All that stuff used to live on the Earth during hotter climates, converting CO2 etc into themselves, then dying to be buried. We shouldn't be surprised when returning the gas they cleaned from our atmosphere returns us to the climates that preceeded them. Which we did not adapt to live in ourselves. And which have never changed so quickly, far outpacing the rate of human evolution, even if we were still as subject to natural evolution.
All that spells "extinction", or at best "civilization collapse".