Long story short, he shot a stripper, felt like a sick, sick man, then decided that the guilt wasn't his fault, it was the fault of some even sicker programmer because they allowed him to do it.
Actually, I didn't shoot the stripper. I read about what happens when you do, and then I tried it. But nice try. To tell you the truth, I had a feeling the majority of Slashdotters weren't going to get what I'm driving at. This is the wrong demographic.
LOL. Way to miss the point, Mr. AC. Exactly where did I say that shooting men was OK? If you had male strippers that were shot in the same way, I'd say the same thing. It's all about context and purpose. DN3D basically made shooting sexually exploited women a joke, for no other reason than it was someone's fantasy to do so.
The first game that disturbed me in a good way was the original Doom... even low res, those weird textures that seemed to be based on skinned flesh was just creepy.
The first game that disturbed me in a bad way was the first Duke Nukem, where if you shot the strippers, they turned into piles of money. That's just mysogonystic. Yes, in theory the strippers were taken over by aliens, but that's wasn't the primary reason strippers were shootable. Someone on the team just wanted to be able to shoot woman (and let's face it, if you listen to the guys at the top of 3D Realms, they strike me as men with serious psych issues with women).
Even games like GTA didn't give me a sick feeling like that did. The violence in GTA is in the context of the world. The Duke Nukem thing felt like it was someone's sick fantasy that they thought was funny.
Yeh dern kids today are gawdamn spoiled. Back in mah day, we didn't have these FANcy tahrabyte arrays! My TRS-80 had 128K -- that's right, KAY-uh -- on a floppy! And the operating system took about 40K of that, leavin' me about 85K left! And I was happy to have it! I had tuh use a paper hole-puncher and cut a write-protect tab so I could flip the floppy over tuh get more space! Damn kids these days... -mumble- -grumble-
Exactly my thought. I mean, I know critical thinking skills are on short supply these days, but this just screams bullshit. I mean, yeah, like a freaking INTERN is going justify the use of government resources to call someone at Facebook and request all his records be turned over. Not to mention the story talks about a "mother warning her son". What relevance does the mother have in this tale? It's so obviously manufactured.
I've been critical of Wikipedia in the past, but I do find myself drawn to it to get a summary of some subject, particularly cultural subjects that change often. I've also noticed it getting quoted in mainstream news articles (even sports articles).
I think I know what the big problem with Wikipedia really is... the problem is calling it an encyclopia. That just invites controversy, because it really isn't exactly an encyclopia in the traditional sense, and all the debate seems to be centered around whether it is or it isn't. Who cares whether it is or isn't? It's an information resource, with it's own set of advantages and flaws.
I think that's the whole solution to the "controversy". Stop calling it an encyclopia, and do away with the entire debate. Let it be whatever it is. Call it a Wiki... that's as good a term as any.
People think this doesn't matter, but one thing is for certain, there is no stopping them, Brin and Page will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our customized-767-hammock-flying overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted member of Slashdot, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground server caves.
Now you're going to have to explain to me how Windows is cheaper than Linux.
Linux is only cheaper than Windows if your time is worth nothing.
Or explain how Windows is better than Linux.
Windows is better than Linux in a lot of ways, but especially in the way most people care about. People use applications, not operating systems. Applications under Windows are far more numerous and generally far better.
Or you can go with the third option, which is "faster." You are free to use any interpretation of "faster." (Suggestions: operating speeds, release times, patch times.)
Again, people use applications, not operating systems. Graphics applications under Linux are generally slower and less responsive than ones under Windows, mostly because of the legacy of X11 and the horrible way fonts are handled.
Don't get me wrong -- I like Linux and use it every day. As a server. But for desktop application work, I use Windows.
but I think that consumption purely for the sake of consumption is our biggest problem.
I vehemently disagree. Messes are a problem, not consumption. Why do we have this new puritanism taking over in certain places? I don't want conservation. I want to live in a Utopia of plentiful abundance, and there is no intrinsic reason why we can't have it.
The solution to all our problems is more technology, not less. You claim to be a "metropolitan technologist", but you appear to be a "guilty metropolitan technologist". Well, I say we shed the guilt and embrace civilization. We just need to make being less messy a higher priority.
That's because black people haven't used white people as SLAVES. It's not about racism per-se, it's evoking the memory of slavery and humilliation of black people in the past centuries.
I'll probably get slaughtered for daring to ask this, but... who cares? What difference does it make that black people were slaves in the past?
I know that many people generate emotion over it, but objectively, it makes absolutely zero difference. There are no slave owners, nor former slaves alive at the moment.
I don't feel like dredging my memory for the proper physics formulas, so maybe some bored physics student can help me out. Let's say I wanted to live in 2x gravity on Earth for a few months (or years), for the healthful aspects.
So I build a huge centrifuge shaped like a bowl, with a track at a certain angle. You'd like to spin the track at a speed and angle such that I get a simulated 2x gravity, while having the angle such that my weight would be perpendicular to the apparent floor. You'd build walls perpendicular to the track (and a parallel ceiling) as well so that things would seem normal.
So how wide would the track need to be, and what angle would you need, so as to have an approximately normal environment? Obviously if the ring is too small, you'll get different forces on each part of your body and you'll notice it. There's probably no good psychological data on what size you "need", so let's see some numbers at different sizes, and see what would seem reasonable.
Also, is there any problem with this scenerio? I've never heard of it being done, which means maybe there's something I'm missing as far as practicality.
I gave this a lot of thought one time. Everybody wants this and thinks it's a good idea, but there's a fundamental reason that it's simply impossible to reform spelling into a logical phonetic system:
People pronounce words differently.
Think about it... would it be to-may-to or to-mah-to? And that's just for starters. Factor in regional dialects and different vowal pronounciations. It simply can't happen.
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In the preface of PHP Hacks, the author explains that he uses the term in the positive sense of creative participation, to help reclaim it from its popular usage in place of the more traditional term "cracking," i.e., breaking into systems.
I hate historical revisionism like this. The traditional word for breaking into systems is HACKING, because breaking into systems was considering "clever", along with other clever usages of computers. Some busybodies decided that it gave hackers a bad name, and thus "cracking" was coined. The word is an abomination and I, for one, refuse to use it.
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What crapola. From the CNN article...
A spokeswoman for Aspen Valley Hospital confirmed that Lay arrived at the hospital at 1:41 a.m. MT and was pronounced dead at 3:11 a.m. MT.
In a statement, the Pitkin County Sheriff's office said a coroner's autopsy is pending and autopsy results will be available later this week.
There goes that theory, unless everyone at the hospital including the coroner is being brought in on the conspiracy.
What's wrong with forcing non-compliant businesses from operating?
What's wrong with killing people who jaywalk?
I'm all in favor of Microsoft opening some of their interfaces, but let's face it -- there is NOTHING that Microsoft can do with their apps that a third party can't. It just requires the third party to write more software that looks like native stuff. Big deal.
I'm not going to cynically call this a cash grab on the EU's part (though, I think that plays a part), I think this is more about ignorant politicians being convinced by angry Microsoft haters to "do something -- ANYTHING" even if it means absolutely nothing.
...everybody on the site seems to love to fuck with their background adding music, pictures and other bullshit making it first of all impossible view to their page correctly, and second the annoy the living hell out of you by playing the same music track continuously.
Sounds like just about every teenager's room. It's a well known fact that your taste is at its lowest point during that period of life.:)
Heck, I could probably adapt your rant above to describe teenager appearance (silly colored hair, silly piercings, etc). It's all about screaming for attention.
Why put up with any of that when you can get the best of all worlds for free?
The best world for my desktop is the one that runs any application I want, and you can argue that the best for that is Windows or a Mac, but it's certainly not any flavor of Linux.
Once again it must be said (and why is this so hard for Linux advocates to understand?): People use applications, not operating systems, and Linux absolutely sucks compared to Windows or even Macs when it comes to normal user applications by nearly any metric you name (choices, ease of use, ease of installation, consistency of operation, etc, etc, etc).
Call me when the major application houses (Adobe, as an example) port their product lines to Linux. Then we have something to talk about.
This is not the first time Microsquash was working on a kill switch to force more sales, and had to back down due to public pressure. Last time, they were going to kill Windows 2000 and force everyone to buy XP or Server 2003.
Please tell me that there isn't someone stupid enough in the world to believe that crap you linked to. Please tell me that you were just being funny.
Yeah, I'm sure that Norton was in with Microsoft on the conspiracy when they updated their antivirus software to remove the "kill switch". Yeah, I'm sure that no one has ever clearly installed Windows 2000 after the kill date.
To extend that logic slightly, Chevy should be required to tell eveyone how their engine control system works so you aren't required to purchase their engine and transmission along with the car; perhaps they should be required to also offer Volvo, Cummins or Ferrari engines. Or they should be required to sell multiple brands of seats.
No, it's more like Chevy selling a car that can take either regular gasoline, or gasoline (that's exactly the same) from special "iGas" stations with have a near-monopoly on the market, which can't be used with any other car. And, oh yeah, Chevy sues anyone who sells kits to modify cars to accept gas from anyone they don't like.
Why do people defend Apple on this? If this was Microsoft, they'd be screaming from the rooftops.
Some of us know he can't do that w/o a warrant and will tell him to piss off.
And most of you are completely ignorant as to what police can and can't do. If they ASK to search your home, you can refuse. If they DEMAND to search your home (which was the scenerio above), you get the hell out of the way. The police can search your home without a warrant in emergency circumstances.
Regarding the first point, if they have a warrant, they won't bother getting your permission; if they ask, and *don't* have a warrant, they can't search unless you permit it, and if you do, you've given up your rights and they haven't done anything illegal.
The poster's words were that the cop "demanded" to be let into your house. Asking to be let in, and demanding are two different things. If he asks and doesn't have a warrant, go ahead and say no. If he orders your ass to open the door, then you say, "yes sir" and get the hell out of the way.
The fact is that you don't know what the cop knows. Maybe he saw a crazed lunatic run into your back door and he needs to get in there *now* and doesn't have time to explain. Maybe he thought he saw something through your window and believes a crime is in progress. Whether he's wrong or not, it's not your place to argue with the man. If there's a problem, you take it up with the authorities later.
Oh really? Well, then, where do you draw the line? If a cop demands to be let in my house without a search warrant, should I let him? If a cop starts starts verbally abusing me, should I let him? If a cop decides to shoot and kill a suspect who's already caught, should I let him?
a) Yes, b) definitely, and c) probably. Again, the cop has full authority to do whatever he needs to do to enforce order. You have your Miranda rights, and past that, the right to take up grievances AFTER the cop has done his job. The "shoot and kill the suspect" scenerio will probably get you killed along with the suspect if you try and interfere. I'm not saying that it should happen, but I am saying that trying to get in the middle of a cop taking down a suspect is not the smartest thing in the world to do.
The only way you could possibly verbally interfere with police is if they were trying to tell someone something and you were yelling in order to drown them out. Complaining to them or even insulting them is absolutely not sufficient!
Bullshit. If I'm a cop trying to do my job, and you're not doing what I tell you to do (namely, shut up and stand still), then you are interfering with my job. Remember, a cop is only one idiot pulling a gun away from death. If you're not doing what I tell you, then I don't know what you're going to do next, and my next step is to gain control of the situation, whatever that may take.
Besides, nobody has the right not to be offended -- especially representatives of the government that are abusing their power!
It's not about taking offense, it's about not obstructing justice, whatever form that might take. You FIRST do what the officer tells you, WHATEVER he tells you. If you don't like it, LATER you complain to your lawyer.
Again, you have to look at it from the cop's point of view. He doesn't know if you're drugged out of your mind. If you're aggressive toward him, that means you're capable of anything. On these issues, I sympathize with cops.
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Long story short, he shot a stripper, felt like a sick, sick man, then decided that the guilt wasn't his fault, it was the fault of some even sicker programmer because they allowed him to do it.
Actually, I didn't shoot the stripper. I read about what happens when you do, and then I tried it. But nice try. To tell you the truth, I had a feeling the majority of Slashdotters weren't going to get what I'm driving at. This is the wrong demographic.
But shooting men is just fine and dandy, right?
LOL. Way to miss the point, Mr. AC. Exactly where did I say that shooting men was OK? If you had male strippers that were shot in the same way, I'd say the same thing. It's all about context and purpose. DN3D basically made shooting sexually exploited women a joke, for no other reason than it was someone's fantasy to do so.
The first game that disturbed me in a good way was the original Doom... even low res, those weird textures that seemed to be based on skinned flesh was just creepy.
The first game that disturbed me in a bad way was the first Duke Nukem, where if you shot the strippers, they turned into piles of money. That's just mysogonystic. Yes, in theory the strippers were taken over by aliens, but that's wasn't the primary reason strippers were shootable. Someone on the team just wanted to be able to shoot woman (and let's face it, if you listen to the guys at the top of 3D Realms, they strike me as men with serious psych issues with women).
Even games like GTA didn't give me a sick feeling like that did. The violence in GTA is in the context of the world. The Duke Nukem thing felt like it was someone's sick fantasy that they thought was funny.
Yeh dern kids today are gawdamn spoiled. Back in mah day, we didn't have these FANcy tahrabyte arrays! My TRS-80 had 128K -- that's right, KAY-uh -- on a floppy! And the operating system took about 40K of that, leavin' me about 85K left! And I was happy to have it! I had tuh use a paper hole-puncher and cut a write-protect tab so I could flip the floppy over tuh get more space! Damn kids these days... -mumble- -grumble-
You forgot the unnamed mother. :) "Won't ANYONE think of the children??"
Exactly my thought. I mean, I know critical thinking skills are on short supply these days, but this just screams bullshit. I mean, yeah, like a freaking INTERN is going justify the use of government resources to call someone at Facebook and request all his records be turned over. Not to mention the story talks about a "mother warning her son". What relevance does the mother have in this tale? It's so obviously manufactured.
I've been critical of Wikipedia in the past, but I do find myself drawn to it to get a summary of some subject, particularly cultural subjects that change often. I've also noticed it getting quoted in mainstream news articles (even sports articles).
I think I know what the big problem with Wikipedia really is... the problem is calling it an encyclopia. That just invites controversy, because it really isn't exactly an encyclopia in the traditional sense, and all the debate seems to be centered around whether it is or it isn't. Who cares whether it is or isn't? It's an information resource, with it's own set of advantages and flaws.
I think that's the whole solution to the "controversy". Stop calling it an encyclopia, and do away with the entire debate. Let it be whatever it is. Call it a Wiki... that's as good a term as any.
People think this doesn't matter, but one thing is for certain, there is no stopping them, Brin and Page will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our customized-767-hammock-flying overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted member of Slashdot, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground server caves.
Now you're going to have to explain to me how Windows is cheaper than Linux.
Linux is only cheaper than Windows if your time is worth nothing.
Or explain how Windows is better than Linux.
Windows is better than Linux in a lot of ways, but especially in the way most people care about. People use applications, not operating systems. Applications under Windows are far more numerous and generally far better.
Or you can go with the third option, which is "faster." You are free to use any interpretation of "faster." (Suggestions: operating speeds, release times, patch times.)
Again, people use applications, not operating systems. Graphics applications under Linux are generally slower and less responsive than ones under Windows, mostly because of the legacy of X11 and the horrible way fonts are handled.
Don't get me wrong -- I like Linux and use it every day. As a server. But for desktop application work, I use Windows.
but I think that consumption purely for the sake of consumption is our biggest problem.
I vehemently disagree. Messes are a problem, not consumption. Why do we have this new puritanism taking over in certain places? I don't want conservation. I want to live in a Utopia of plentiful abundance, and there is no intrinsic reason why we can't have it.
The solution to all our problems is more technology, not less. You claim to be a "metropolitan technologist", but you appear to be a "guilty metropolitan technologist". Well, I say we shed the guilt and embrace civilization. We just need to make being less messy a higher priority.
That's because black people haven't used white people as SLAVES. It's not about racism per-se, it's evoking the memory of slavery and humilliation of black people in the past centuries.
I'll probably get slaughtered for daring to ask this, but... who cares? What difference does it make that black people were slaves in the past?
I know that many people generate emotion over it, but objectively, it makes absolutely zero difference. There are no slave owners, nor former slaves alive at the moment.
I don't feel like dredging my memory for the proper physics formulas, so maybe some bored physics student can help me out. Let's say I wanted to live in 2x gravity on Earth for a few months (or years), for the healthful aspects.
So I build a huge centrifuge shaped like a bowl, with a track at a certain angle. You'd like to spin the track at a speed and angle such that I get a simulated 2x gravity, while having the angle such that my weight would be perpendicular to the apparent floor. You'd build walls perpendicular to the track (and a parallel ceiling) as well so that things would seem normal.
So how wide would the track need to be, and what angle would you need, so as to have an approximately normal environment? Obviously if the ring is too small, you'll get different forces on each part of your body and you'll notice it. There's probably no good psychological data on what size you "need", so let's see some numbers at different sizes, and see what would seem reasonable.
Also, is there any problem with this scenerio? I've never heard of it being done, which means maybe there's something I'm missing as far as practicality.
My mother-in-law does. She's originally from New Jersey. I think it's more common around the Eastern part of the US.
I gave this a lot of thought one time. Everybody wants this and thinks it's a good idea, but there's a fundamental reason that it's simply impossible to reform spelling into a logical phonetic system:
People pronounce words differently.
Think about it... would it be to-may-to or to-mah-to? And that's just for starters. Factor in regional dialects and different vowal pronounciations. It simply can't happen.
In the preface of PHP Hacks, the author explains that he uses the term in the positive sense of creative participation, to help reclaim it from its popular usage in place of the more traditional term "cracking," i.e., breaking into systems.
I hate historical revisionism like this. The traditional word for breaking into systems is HACKING, because breaking into systems was considering "clever", along with other clever usages of computers. Some busybodies decided that it gave hackers a bad name, and thus "cracking" was coined. The word is an abomination and I, for one, refuse to use it.
There goes that theory, unless everyone at the hospital including the coroner is being brought in on the conspiracy.
What's wrong with forcing non-compliant businesses from operating?
What's wrong with killing people who jaywalk?
I'm all in favor of Microsoft opening some of their interfaces, but let's face it -- there is NOTHING that Microsoft can do with their apps that a third party can't. It just requires the third party to write more software that looks like native stuff. Big deal.
I'm not going to cynically call this a cash grab on the EU's part (though, I think that plays a part), I think this is more about ignorant politicians being convinced by angry Microsoft haters to "do something -- ANYTHING" even if it means absolutely nothing.
Sounds like just about every teenager's room. It's a well known fact that your taste is at its lowest point during that period of life. :)
Heck, I could probably adapt your rant above to describe teenager appearance (silly colored hair, silly piercings, etc). It's all about screaming for attention.
Why put up with any of that when you can get the best of all worlds for free?
The best world for my desktop is the one that runs any application I want, and you can argue that the best for that is Windows or a Mac, but it's certainly not any flavor of Linux.
Once again it must be said (and why is this so hard for Linux advocates to understand?): People use applications, not operating systems, and Linux absolutely sucks compared to Windows or even Macs when it comes to normal user applications by nearly any metric you name (choices, ease of use, ease of installation, consistency of operation, etc, etc, etc).
Call me when the major application houses (Adobe, as an example) port their product lines to Linux. Then we have something to talk about.
This is not the first time Microsquash was working on a kill switch to force more sales, and had to back down due to public pressure. Last time, they were going to kill Windows 2000 and force everyone to buy XP or Server 2003.
Please tell me that there isn't someone stupid enough in the world to believe that crap you linked to. Please tell me that you were just being funny.
Yeah, I'm sure that Norton was in with Microsoft on the conspiracy when they updated their antivirus software to remove the "kill switch". Yeah, I'm sure that no one has ever clearly installed Windows 2000 after the kill date.
To extend that logic slightly, Chevy should be required to tell eveyone how their engine control system works so you aren't required to purchase their engine and transmission along with the car; perhaps they should be required to also offer Volvo, Cummins or Ferrari engines. Or they should be required to sell multiple brands of seats.
No, it's more like Chevy selling a car that can take either regular gasoline, or gasoline (that's exactly the same) from special "iGas" stations with have a near-monopoly on the market, which can't be used with any other car. And, oh yeah, Chevy sues anyone who sells kits to modify cars to accept gas from anyone they don't like.
Why do people defend Apple on this? If this was Microsoft, they'd be screaming from the rooftops.
Some of us know he can't do that w/o a warrant and will tell him to piss off.
And most of you are completely ignorant as to what police can and can't do. If they ASK to search your home, you can refuse. If they DEMAND to search your home (which was the scenerio above), you get the hell out of the way. The police can search your home without a warrant in emergency circumstances.
Regarding the first point, if they have a warrant, they won't bother getting your permission; if they ask, and *don't* have a warrant, they can't search unless you permit it, and if you do, you've given up your rights and they haven't done anything illegal.
The poster's words were that the cop "demanded" to be let into your house. Asking to be let in, and demanding are two different things. If he asks and doesn't have a warrant, go ahead and say no. If he orders your ass to open the door, then you say, "yes sir" and get the hell out of the way.
The fact is that you don't know what the cop knows. Maybe he saw a crazed lunatic run into your back door and he needs to get in there *now* and doesn't have time to explain. Maybe he thought he saw something through your window and believes a crime is in progress. Whether he's wrong or not, it's not your place to argue with the man. If there's a problem, you take it up with the authorities later.
Oh really? Well, then, where do you draw the line? If a cop demands to be let in my house without a search warrant, should I let him? If a cop starts starts verbally abusing me, should I let him? If a cop decides to shoot and kill a suspect who's already caught, should I let him?
a) Yes, b) definitely, and c) probably. Again, the cop has full authority to do whatever he needs to do to enforce order. You have your Miranda rights, and past that, the right to take up grievances AFTER the cop has done his job. The "shoot and kill the suspect" scenerio will probably get you killed along with the suspect if you try and interfere. I'm not saying that it should happen, but I am saying that trying to get in the middle of a cop taking down a suspect is not the smartest thing in the world to do.
The only way you could possibly verbally interfere with police is if they were trying to tell someone something and you were yelling in order to drown them out. Complaining to them or even insulting them is absolutely not sufficient!
Bullshit. If I'm a cop trying to do my job, and you're not doing what I tell you to do (namely, shut up and stand still), then you are interfering with my job. Remember, a cop is only one idiot pulling a gun away from death. If you're not doing what I tell you, then I don't know what you're going to do next, and my next step is to gain control of the situation, whatever that may take.
Besides, nobody has the right not to be offended -- especially representatives of the government that are abusing their power!
It's not about taking offense, it's about not obstructing justice, whatever form that might take. You FIRST do what the officer tells you, WHATEVER he tells you. If you don't like it, LATER you complain to your lawyer.
Again, you have to look at it from the cop's point of view. He doesn't know if you're drugged out of your mind. If you're aggressive toward him, that means you're capable of anything. On these issues, I sympathize with cops.