In a bar, Bobby unsuccessfully approaches women, including Sally. Finally, a pinball playing girl agrees sharing a joint in his van. Though going hand-in-hand, she objects his moves. Laughing it off, he tries raping her, but Bobby discovers she has stuffed her over-sized bra with wads of toilet paper, and she runs off.
They tried to sue mp3 players out of existence. Rio anyone? Remember MP3.com? Remember their digital locker attempt and RIAA claiming the world would end over it? Who DIDN'T they sue? Even Apple was a target but managed to force it down their throats with iTunes.
I have a 'cloud' hosted site for a work project, I redeived a maintenance notification email saying that the 'cloud server 8' machine that I am hosted on will be down for maintenance and the site will be offline for 30 mins to 3 hours. Apparently a shared hosting account on a cloud is still tied to a single machine/VM based on my host's logic (and the reason we went with the 'cloud' option for more $$ per month instead of cheap-o hosting that would perform relatively the same).
There are so many different "cloud" designations in the webhosting field alone that it shows what a bullshit buzzword 'cloud' is.
All that said, there is one "cloud"esque solution that is working, Google Apps for Business is a hell of a lot cheaper TCO than MS Exchange could ever hope to be for tens of users.
Shouting fire in a theater causes panic, a panicked crowd effectively denies liberty to the individuals that make up the crowd. Someone raping his daughter is denying liberty. We have a justice system for a reason, because nothing is important enough that it takes priority over liberty and freedom of speech, and we have all agreed not to allow each other to deprive others of these as a matter of our (U.S.) civilized society and legal system.
there are 3 distinct reasons why it can't run silently without a user's knowledge that I won't even go into
Bullshit alert.
The java miner runs fine hidden on a site, I played with it a bit to see just how it acts. It can run silently with minimal effort on the host's part. The story is light on technical detail and your smart ass-ed reply assumed it was one particular scenario and you painted yourself as someone who was knowledgeable. I pointed out your glaring omission and now you 'wont even go into' what are apparently '3 distinct reasons'? List them and lets explore why or why not.
Before you smart ass bitcoin miner kids think you know everything, Website Bitcoin Mining.;)
Site visitors do the mining, multiple a little slice of power times x million visitors over x amount of days and your localized mining is tiddly winks. This uses the website visitor's machine to mine coins (and this particular example is terribly inefficient itself but the idea is there, someone with the know how could really go the distance for their own mining operation). This can be exceptionally more efficient that running a local mining op on a single machine/small cluster if you have a relatively trafficed website it is running from.
You are focused on high speed precision mining instead of scaled general mining. A pressure washer vs. a regular water hose, the water moves faster through the pressure washer but put 5,000,000 hoses together and you can push insanely more total water per second than a handful of pressure washers.
You are oversimplifying the argument to support your narrative cause. Your comparison is what is nonsense and if you did in fact read the article you are ignoring what it said. This FBI idiocy is creating terrorists by providing already morally compromised, mentally unsound or emotionally compromised people with terrorist intellectual propaganda, financial support, and material equipment support. They aren't just selling them fake bombs, they are actively encouraging the behavior to instigate the suspects to commit the acts. Terrorism happens for a reason, its not supernatural, its not simple hatred and irrational anger that occurs, it has a cause, it is developed from something, and in this example, the terrorism is encouraged and promoted by government law enforcement. It seems silly to even have to argue this as a legitimate use of justice, we are not in the 1950s.
Entrapment as a legal definition is different from entrapment as a word definition, since the word's definition alone is not a valid legal defense these days according to the courts. However, that doesn't make it an automatic ethical practice on the part of law enforcement. A judge explicitly stated the obvious point I'm trying to make, from a case referenced in the article:
“Only the government could have made a ‘terrorist’ out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope,” said Judge Colleen McMahon, sentencing him to 25 years. She branded it a “fantasy terror operation” but called his attempt “beyond despicable” and rejected his claim of entrapment.
Braces for the 4 digit IDs to show up and shake fists/warn about staying off lawns
Joking aside, after a decade of doing 'IT' stuff, I ended up as the IT Manager for a Marketing/Ad Agency. Companies do in fact hire shills for even chickenshit subtle commenting purposes, and there is an entire market of blogging/commenting shills out there for any and every possible purpose. Its way worse than anything we could previously conceive of, to the point of some weird seemingly orchestrated conspiracy. You can't trust anyone that you don't explicitly know (and even then, grain of salt and all that). The really scary ones are the accounts that have been around a very long time that have turned to the darkside and are selling their services as a 'respected member' of an online community. Astroturfing shills are real and they are creating 'narratives' to direct the flow of conversations on comment boards. Its all part of this weeks buzzword social media marketing initiatives and it stinks of fraud.
A glorified bunch of text that points names to ip addresses with a layer of security on top, with a web interface for users + merchant + ecommerce tools. Any asshole with some technical skill and the ability to follow directions could run a domain name registry.
Having been married for over 10 years, I've concluded that porn is awesome and keeps some marriages fun and interesting, if not most marriages.
Lack of communication is what's harmful to marriages.
Porn is generally harmless, its the sexual freedom that is perceived by fear filled conservative and sexually introverted religious people that does not work in their definition of normalcy and acceptable behavior, it ruins the artificial and suppressive rules of societal order among men and women. Moderation can be a good thing, but censorship is contrary to freedom of expression and personal liberty.
I was totally ready to rage on G+ until I read it was MG Siegler, now I'm going to change my profile to a middle finger, but not at G+, specifically at MG S because he's such a two bit whiny douchebag of a TechCrunch columnist. He is the reason I rarely read TC... all potatoes, no meat. I can't fault Google for finding any possible reason to fuck with him.;)
Programming is a different animal in and of itself, immediate 'upper management' in your field does require more expertise than most, however 'upper management' for the programmers is probably a piece of a segregated IT department from the rest of 'upper management' in a company. Your own experience skews your view of the necessities. I bet your own upper management has personal ties among each other that you don't realize or are ignoring to make your argument. Your view is optimal but its not at all reality.
Every single place I've ever worked or been involved in the corporate going-ons. Everywhere. If you drink with the right people, play golf with the right people, sleep with the right people, or have the same rich friends as certain people, you can be upper management. The 'skilled' workers are kept in the trenches exactly because they are skilled and good doing what they do. The few skilled hard workers that make the move to upper management are just the ones that are tired of getting fucked over on salary while they produce everything, so they buy into the management bullshit and mingle with the other wordsmiths in order to make a change in their life. You need more exposure to different situations, try being a consultant for a while, you'll discover the reality real quick if you are even mildly observant.
Its pretty obvious what's going on, CIQ is essentially an NSA (or other intelligence sponsored) front that can be used for, apparently, an insane amount of intelligence gathering with minimal need to work with different providers and other corporations at the same time. Makes perfect sense from their intelligence perspective to have that extra 'last mile' intelligence capability on individual cell phones. They're also playing it smart by letting CIQ pretend to be 'open' to discussion and pushing a network diagnostics angle to throw off the scent of any nefarious activity. Years ago, I would've assumed my own view on this is conspiracy bullshit, but it makes sense from an intelligence gathering standpoint. Hell of an idea though. Also, if they AREN'T using CIQ for this, that's just outright incompetence on their part, whoever is in charge of doing stuff that improves their creation of a controlled populace police state will probably get demoted or fired.
No, all the extensions that I actually use were disabled when I accidentally clicked to 'install' button to upgrade to version 47 instead of clicks ask later.
LOL. Here come the metanationals, you idiot. There will be on licensed group for the entire EU, and the small time broadcasters will have to pay up to this 'middle man' of a sorts for broadcast rights. Prices will be driven up, advertising prices will be driven up, sports attendance prices will be driven up. God bless the free market (even though there is nothing actually free about it).
Perhaps if you had read the previous comments on the previous submissions, the Samsung lawyers were not there to identify the devices, they were there to argue the case, the judge was wrong to directly ask the attorneys about the differences between two devices that employ the same style of technology. The attorneys were in the right to not answer without consideration. But it makes a good bullshit soundbite for astroturfers such as yourself.
I don't think the Windows 8 UI can be considered 'radical', its more of a downgrade to a category of less useful devices. Radical would be holographic touch interfacing or cybernetic interfacing of some sort.
I use the dock the same way I use the start menu, it provides the exact same functionality for me (and add the Applications folder to the dock, set as List format and its like an All Programs menu).
You obviously don't use a Mac on a regular basis. I once had the same opinion you did, but I only used Macs on occasion at that point. I've been on a Mac for work since late 2009 and find the Dock always feels cleaner and more useful than the Start menu, especially the Start menu's tendency to auto-close when you get a notification from something in the taskbar. Also, Launchy is nice, but I don't run DOS anymore, I just use quick shortcuts for the 5-10 apps I use most often.
So wait, now we're NOT writing rich applications to be delivered by the browser and instead focusing on native, platform-based apps? I thought that was EXACTLY what we were getting away from. The only 'platform' apps are iPhone and Android mobile apps due to the screen real estate available, even a tablet has the size and responsiveness to work fine with web based apps. Oh wait, a Windows 8 article, that explains it... this is just Microsoft PR being propped up on the backs of mobile interfaces.
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From the link:
In a bar, Bobby unsuccessfully approaches women, including Sally. Finally, a pinball playing girl agrees sharing a joint in his van. Though going hand-in-hand, she objects his moves. Laughing it off, he tries raping her, but Bobby discovers she has stuffed her over-sized bra with wads of toilet paper, and she runs off.
Sounds super classy.
They tried to sue mp3 players out of existence. Rio anyone? Remember MP3.com? Remember their digital locker attempt and RIAA claiming the world would end over it? Who DIDN'T they sue? Even Apple was a target but managed to force it down their throats with iTunes.
I have a 'cloud' hosted site for a work project, I redeived a maintenance notification email saying that the 'cloud server 8' machine that I am hosted on will be down for maintenance and the site will be offline for 30 mins to 3 hours. Apparently a shared hosting account on a cloud is still tied to a single machine/VM based on my host's logic (and the reason we went with the 'cloud' option for more $$ per month instead of cheap-o hosting that would perform relatively the same).
There are so many different "cloud" designations in the webhosting field alone that it shows what a bullshit buzzword 'cloud' is.
All that said, there is one "cloud"esque solution that is working, Google Apps for Business is a hell of a lot cheaper TCO than MS Exchange could ever hope to be for tens of users.
Shouting fire in a theater causes panic, a panicked crowd effectively denies liberty to the individuals that make up the crowd. Someone raping his daughter is denying liberty. We have a justice system for a reason, because nothing is important enough that it takes priority over liberty and freedom of speech, and we have all agreed not to allow each other to deprive others of these as a matter of our (U.S.) civilized society and legal system.
Do you have any forum posts on Ubuntu's forums that you can point us to so we can maybe provide some more help/insights into your issues?
there are 3 distinct reasons why it can't run silently without a user's knowledge that I won't even go into
Bullshit alert.
The java miner runs fine hidden on a site, I played with it a bit to see just how it acts. It can run silently with minimal effort on the host's part. The story is light on technical detail and your smart ass-ed reply assumed it was one particular scenario and you painted yourself as someone who was knowledgeable. I pointed out your glaring omission and now you 'wont even go into' what are apparently '3 distinct reasons'? List them and lets explore why or why not.
Before you smart ass bitcoin miner kids think you know everything, Website Bitcoin Mining. ;)
Site visitors do the mining, multiple a little slice of power times x million visitors over x amount of days and your localized mining is tiddly winks. This uses the website visitor's machine to mine coins (and this particular example is terribly inefficient itself but the idea is there, someone with the know how could really go the distance for their own mining operation). This can be exceptionally more efficient that running a local mining op on a single machine/small cluster if you have a relatively trafficed website it is running from.
You are focused on high speed precision mining instead of scaled general mining. A pressure washer vs. a regular water hose, the water moves faster through the pressure washer but put 5,000,000 hoses together and you can push insanely more total water per second than a handful of pressure washers.
You are oversimplifying the argument to support your narrative cause. Your comparison is what is nonsense and if you did in fact read the article you are ignoring what it said. This FBI idiocy is creating terrorists by providing already morally compromised, mentally unsound or emotionally compromised people with terrorist intellectual propaganda, financial support, and material equipment support. They aren't just selling them fake bombs, they are actively encouraging the behavior to instigate the suspects to commit the acts. Terrorism happens for a reason, its not supernatural, its not simple hatred and irrational anger that occurs, it has a cause, it is developed from something, and in this example, the terrorism is encouraged and promoted by government law enforcement. It seems silly to even have to argue this as a legitimate use of justice, we are not in the 1950s.
Entrapment as a legal definition is different from entrapment as a word definition, since the word's definition alone is not a valid legal defense these days according to the courts. However, that doesn't make it an automatic ethical practice on the part of law enforcement. A judge explicitly stated the obvious point I'm trying to make, from a case referenced in the article:
“Only the government could have made a ‘terrorist’ out of Mr. Cromitie, whose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in its scope,” said Judge Colleen McMahon, sentencing him to 25 years. She branded it a “fantasy terror operation” but called his attempt “beyond despicable” and rejected his claim of entrapment.
Cheers.
I've been here about a decade
Looks at your six digit /. ID
How quaint.
Braces for the 4 digit IDs to show up and shake fists/warn about staying off lawns
Joking aside, after a decade of doing 'IT' stuff, I ended up as the IT Manager for a Marketing/Ad Agency. Companies do in fact hire shills for even chickenshit subtle commenting purposes, and there is an entire market of blogging/commenting shills out there for any and every possible purpose. Its way worse than anything we could previously conceive of, to the point of some weird seemingly orchestrated conspiracy. You can't trust anyone that you don't explicitly know (and even then, grain of salt and all that). The really scary ones are the accounts that have been around a very long time that have turned to the darkside and are selling their services as a 'respected member' of an online community. Astroturfing shills are real and they are creating 'narratives' to direct the flow of conversations on comment boards. Its all part of this weeks buzzword social media marketing initiatives and it stinks of fraud.
Cheers.
A glorified bunch of text that points names to ip addresses with a layer of security on top, with a web interface for users + merchant + ecommerce tools. Any asshole with some technical skill and the ability to follow directions could run a domain name registry.
I shop at Winn Dixie.
Having been married for over 10 years, I've concluded that porn is awesome and keeps some marriages fun and interesting, if not most marriages.
Lack of communication is what's harmful to marriages.
Porn is generally harmless, its the sexual freedom that is perceived by fear filled conservative and sexually introverted religious people that does not work in their definition of normalcy and acceptable behavior, it ruins the artificial and suppressive rules of societal order among men and women. Moderation can be a good thing, but censorship is contrary to freedom of expression and personal liberty.
I was totally ready to rage on G+ until I read it was MG Siegler, now I'm going to change my profile to a middle finger, but not at G+, specifically at MG S because he's such a two bit whiny douchebag of a TechCrunch columnist. He is the reason I rarely read TC... all potatoes, no meat. I can't fault Google for finding any possible reason to fuck with him. ;)
Programming is a different animal in and of itself, immediate 'upper management' in your field does require more expertise than most, however 'upper management' for the programmers is probably a piece of a segregated IT department from the rest of 'upper management' in a company. Your own experience skews your view of the necessities. I bet your own upper management has personal ties among each other that you don't realize or are ignoring to make your argument. Your view is optimal but its not at all reality.
Every single place I've ever worked or been involved in the corporate going-ons. Everywhere. If you drink with the right people, play golf with the right people, sleep with the right people, or have the same rich friends as certain people, you can be upper management. The 'skilled' workers are kept in the trenches exactly because they are skilled and good doing what they do. The few skilled hard workers that make the move to upper management are just the ones that are tired of getting fucked over on salary while they produce everything, so they buy into the management bullshit and mingle with the other wordsmiths in order to make a change in their life. You need more exposure to different situations, try being a consultant for a while, you'll discover the reality real quick if you are even mildly observant.
Its pretty obvious what's going on, CIQ is essentially an NSA (or other intelligence sponsored) front that can be used for, apparently, an insane amount of intelligence gathering with minimal need to work with different providers and other corporations at the same time. Makes perfect sense from their intelligence perspective to have that extra 'last mile' intelligence capability on individual cell phones. They're also playing it smart by letting CIQ pretend to be 'open' to discussion and pushing a network diagnostics angle to throw off the scent of any nefarious activity. Years ago, I would've assumed my own view on this is conspiracy bullshit, but it makes sense from an intelligence gathering standpoint. Hell of an idea though. Also, if they AREN'T using CIQ for this, that's just outright incompetence on their part, whoever is in charge of doing stuff that improves their creation of a controlled populace police state will probably get demoted or fired.
No, all the extensions that I actually use were disabled when I accidentally clicked to 'install' button to upgrade to version 47 instead of clicks ask later.
So when did Canada start getting Glenn Beck's radio show?
Shit happens, at least they are up front about it when it happened to them.
LOL. Here come the metanationals, you idiot. There will be on licensed group for the entire EU, and the small time broadcasters will have to pay up to this 'middle man' of a sorts for broadcast rights. Prices will be driven up, advertising prices will be driven up, sports attendance prices will be driven up. God bless the free market (even though there is nothing actually free about it).
Perhaps if you had read the previous comments on the previous submissions, the Samsung lawyers were not there to identify the devices, they were there to argue the case, the judge was wrong to directly ask the attorneys about the differences between two devices that employ the same style of technology. The attorneys were in the right to not answer without consideration. But it makes a good bullshit soundbite for astroturfers such as yourself.
I don't think the Windows 8 UI can be considered 'radical', its more of a downgrade to a category of less useful devices. Radical would be holographic touch interfacing or cybernetic interfacing of some sort.
I use the dock the same way I use the start menu, it provides the exact same functionality for me (and add the Applications folder to the dock, set as List format and its like an All Programs menu).
You obviously don't use a Mac on a regular basis. I once had the same opinion you did, but I only used Macs on occasion at that point. I've been on a Mac for work since late 2009 and find the Dock always feels cleaner and more useful than the Start menu, especially the Start menu's tendency to auto-close when you get a notification from something in the taskbar. Also, Launchy is nice, but I don't run DOS anymore, I just use quick shortcuts for the 5-10 apps I use most often.
Actually I don't think thats a valid association. What job LEGALLY requires a MBA?
So wait, now we're NOT writing rich applications to be delivered by the browser and instead focusing on native, platform-based apps? I thought that was EXACTLY what we were getting away from. The only 'platform' apps are iPhone and Android mobile apps due to the screen real estate available, even a tablet has the size and responsiveness to work fine with web based apps. Oh wait, a Windows 8 article, that explains it... this is just Microsoft PR being propped up on the backs of mobile interfaces.