If you think everyone would just sit on their asses and mooch off the replicators, I think you are wrong.
Current status of our welfare systems seems to disagree.
Maybe you grew up at least middle class or better, without ever worrying about what's for dinner. Or maybe you grew up poor and are like some former smokers that constantly berate others that still have the habit? As for dinner, is going to be leftovers again? Good, at least there are leftovers.
I'm curious how the current status of our welfare system is different then it was decades ago when my single mother was doing the best she could to make sure my brother and I had food to eat. So, we got food stamps, we got free and awful cheese from our benevolent USDA overlords, and my mom was working her ass off. Two weeks after I turned 16 I got a job working at McDonald's for $3.35 and hour. I was in the Civil Air Patrol by then doing very good and interesting things, because I had enough nutrition and a damned roof over my head, instead of a bridge and a cardboard box. Eventually I served in the Army, but I was always a geek and so here I am now.
We were poor, you stereotyping asshole, and we weren't fucking lazy all the time. I really wish you people that equate needing assistance with laziness were required spend a few years eating government cheese. Or how about military service in a combat zone for all of you entitled jerks?:)
One of my other favorite Dr. Who 'isms: Any being with awe-inspiring powers must have an equally large power supply somewhere. Find it. Unplug it.
None of this Q nonsense.
Q! I was flipping through channels the other night and saw TNG on BBC America, and what do you know: I found a Q episode again. He is irreverent, amusing in his own sadistic way, but really I wish he'd never been thought of by whoever was high on LSD, whiskey and whatever it takes to make one come up with an omnipotent Q. The humans on trial episode... oh I'll just quit now:)
A fundamental part of the USA symbolism. You have flags and songs and all sorts of symbols, to tell you that everything is true and right and you don't need to look at the man behind the curtain.
Which country or society does not have symbols? Or songs? Flags have been around for ages, too. Sheesh. You want to paint 245 million+ adult people that live in the US as suck-ass consumers, without even pondering how many *want* to look at the "man behind the curtain" and who's guard is certainly not down. You've been watching too many Hollywood movies.
Who believes everything that a government does, being run by humans like us, is always "true and right?" Wherever you're from, I'm sure you can read your own history books and see that your ancestors likely acted in your collective best interest, but not necessarily that of your neighbors. Sorry to say, despite some fine accomplishments, the US's fuckups tend to have far-flung consequences, but I take exception when someone stereotypes such a diverse collection of people as moronic drones. Wouldn't you?
Anyway, I've never seen dog catcher on a ballot. It's an interesting idea though, which perhaps I'll bring up at a city council meeting or, better yet, create a petition on the white house's web site.
I've been trying to find out whether the breach of background investigation info also includes military. I underwent an FBI background check in the 90's, and if there are 21 million records stolen, I have a feeling mine could be one of them. The paperwork I had to fill out pretty much told my life story, and I had to give names and addresses and phone numbers of people I knew. Which the FBI didn't talk to, they asked for others that knew me from those 5. Hell they even interviewed my high school counselor.
Regardless I am not feeling worried. What would the Chinese want with me nowadays?:-) Still a bit creepy though.
And when I'm in a really bad mood and your source IP comes from HINET, I'll just block your entire subnet. Permanently. Because if there are actually any honest people on HINET, they're just lonely little fish in the shark tank.
I outright block smtp connections from them and any hosts that match these. There is nothing coming from hinet worth accepting.
Nope. Sorry. Spam is alive and well as it always was. But more and more companies are switching to mail for sending their bills.
I think you meant email for sending bills. Yes that's a good thing. I still stuff envelopes for those who refuse to get invoices via email.
And no, the spam problem is still alive and well. I responded to a user earlier who said he only gets 1 or 2 spams a month in his inbox, so no spam problem. He neglected completely all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into that excellent result. But there is still a ton of cpu time all over the planet dedicated to filtering that shit out!
While he's largely a TV guy, I'm a big fan of Bear McCreary. He did Battlestar Galactic and likely several other sci-fi shows you watch.
Oh for sure. I mean, it only took the opening scene of BSG to get me pretty hooked and the music just added to the awesome factor. Then it just got better!
And there seem to be many trolls saying this isn't news for nerds and yada yada. But they likely did not watch Wrath of Khan in a theater at first release. I was just closing in on being a teenager. Sometimes the music gets stuck in my head I have so many neurons dedicated to its storage! Hah.
Seriously though, we'll never know now his future compositions. Damn!
It's easy to criticize a low budget spacecraft. "They shouldn't have had a log file overflow". "They should have tested panel deployment under realistic conditions". That covered 99% of the comments in the previous slashdot thread about this thing..
Load up slashdot, audio starts playing automatically -- from an ad! I hit the mute button on the ad and it doesn't work! Audio still plays. I was having some decency in not using adblockers so/. still gets the ad revenue. Now I will likely never return. Screw you slashdot. Then, I have to put up with a terrible article that makes no sense. Slashdot died after Dice tookover, sorry.
I agree the ad load can be atrocious. They tend to slow down my chromebook, and once I watched my router for traffic when I loaded up slashdot, and oh boy was it sending a google of requests to dozens of places.
One solution is to log in and maintain excellent karma, that way you may get a neat little check box that says "Disable Ads". Once in awhile they remove it but eventually it comes back. I have no idea what heuristics they use to determine you're eligible. But I don't get why there are so many ACs around. You all aren't slashdotting from work _all the time_ are you?
Yes, and the first AC was pointing out where you could get it from.
LOL. This thread is funny as hell! It was obvious right away he's asking to have his UID *instead* of his own. But being that the other guy's is just a tad shy of 700,000, it wouldn't be much of an improvement!
One thing nice about Powershell is that you can truncate options as long as they're not abmiguous. So you can make -Recursive be -Rec, or even -R, as long as there's not also a -Recreate or -Recover options. That seems to be a nice middle-ground.
Interesting tidbit. Reminds of the linux ip command, such as "ip a a 192.xxx" instead of "ip address add 192.xxx". There are others I'm sure, but that command I end up using a lot.
In some science fiction stories such as the Ender's Game novels, an ansible is a method of communicating over great distances FTL. Two quantum-entangled particles transmit information between each other. And apparently, from a previous post I just replied to, another author Ursula LeGuin has used the term. And checking wikipedia it seems she coined the term, in 1966. Card must have borrowed the term for Ender's Game.
A fascinating thought. Who knows if such a thing will ever exist.
Faster than light communication cannot be done by any means we know of, so I borrowed an instantaneous communicator from some of Ursula K. LeGuin's books.
Huh. I have never heard of her. Honestly I thought your use of "ansible" came from Orson Scott Card's books. So did he pick up the term himself from one of her books?
Hopefully as people become more aware of such basic weaknesses, vendors will be under pressure to stop shipping devices with default credentials built-in, naively expecting grandma's and grandpa's to actually change them.
That's a big hope:-) When we install new wireless internet service in the various remote locations our customers live in, they purchase a wi-fi router from us and we configure the damn things ourselves. Unless they already have a router, of course, then we check it out and make sure it's locked down. It's the only way to be sure.
You seem to be a retard who can't think for himself. Every civilization in the history of mankind has condemned sodomy and never define marriage as anything but between a man and women.
Every civilization in the history of mankind? I don't know why you're calling someone else a retard.
So-called "sodomy" in many ancient societies hasn't always been seen as condemning someone to live eternity in hell. Ancient Greek and Roman societies, for example, were pretty loose in that regard.
You want to claim every people in history were a bunch of fools, be my guest. But, only other fools will believe you.
It was the same then as it is now; in any random group of humans, at least 1 in 10 are homosexual. And others were born with a gender but in their mind they *know* they are a different gender. I'm happy to be comfortable in my male skin, but small-minded people like you just can't grasp the concept.
It's always been this way and it always will. Get over it.
I agree the keyboard isn't bad at all. A smooth experience all-in-all.
I'm going to be installing Linux alongside chromeos, and have installed ChrUbuntu on another chromebook. I wonder about Crouton vs. ChrUbuntu. My research suggests there are pros and cons to consider for each.
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Current status of our welfare systems seems to disagree.
Maybe you grew up at least middle class or better, without ever worrying about what's for dinner. Or maybe you grew up poor and are like some former smokers that constantly berate others that still have the habit? As for dinner, is going to be leftovers again? Good, at least there are leftovers.
I'm curious how the current status of our welfare system is different then it was decades ago when my single mother was doing the best she could to make sure my brother and I had food to eat. So, we got food stamps, we got free and awful cheese from our benevolent USDA overlords, and my mom was working her ass off. Two weeks after I turned 16 I got a job working at McDonald's for $3.35 and hour. I was in the Civil Air Patrol by then doing very good and interesting things, because I had enough nutrition and a damned roof over my head, instead of a bridge and a cardboard box. Eventually I served in the Army, but I was always a geek and so here I am now.
We were poor, you stereotyping asshole, and we weren't fucking lazy all the time. I really wish you people that equate needing assistance with laziness were required spend a few years eating government cheese. Or how about military service in a combat zone for all of you entitled jerks? :)
One of my other favorite Dr. Who 'isms: Any being with awe-inspiring powers must have an equally large power supply somewhere. Find it. Unplug it.
None of this Q nonsense.
Q! I was flipping through channels the other night and saw TNG on BBC America, and what do you know: I found a Q episode again. He is irreverent, amusing in his own sadistic way, but really I wish he'd never been thought of by whoever was high on LSD, whiskey and whatever it takes to make one come up with an omnipotent Q. The humans on trial episode... oh I'll just quit now :)
A fundamental part of the USA symbolism. You have flags and songs and all sorts of symbols, to tell you that everything is true and right and you don't need to look at the man behind the curtain.
Which country or society does not have symbols? Or songs? Flags have been around for ages, too. Sheesh. You want to paint 245 million+ adult people that live in the US as suck-ass consumers, without even pondering how many *want* to look at the "man behind the curtain" and who's guard is certainly not down. You've been watching too many Hollywood movies.
Who believes everything that a government does, being run by humans like us, is always "true and right?" Wherever you're from, I'm sure you can read your own history books and see that your ancestors likely acted in your collective best interest, but not necessarily that of your neighbors. Sorry to say, despite some fine accomplishments, the US's fuckups tend to have far-flung consequences, but I take exception when someone stereotypes such a diverse collection of people as moronic drones. Wouldn't you?
Anyway, I've never seen dog catcher on a ballot. It's an interesting idea though, which perhaps I'll bring up at a city council meeting or, better yet, create a petition on the white house's web site.
I've been trying to find out whether the breach of background investigation info also includes military. I underwent an FBI background check in the 90's, and if there are 21 million records stolen, I have a feeling mine could be one of them. The paperwork I had to fill out pretty much told my life story, and I had to give names and addresses and phone numbers of people I knew. Which the FBI didn't talk to, they asked for others that knew me from those 5. Hell they even interviewed my high school counselor.
Regardless I am not feeling worried. What would the Chinese want with me nowadays? :-) Still a bit creepy though.
I guess I should've taken that $2k offer my 3 digit UID when I chance. It's been a fun 18 years or so, but the future of /. doesn't seem to bright.
Wait, what? Is that for real, $2k? LOL. I didn't come across /. for a couple years after it got really going, hence never had an offer to sell my UID.
As for the future, I'm going to try and be optimistic.
And when I'm in a really bad mood and your source IP comes from HINET, I'll just block your entire subnet. Permanently. Because if there are actually any honest people on HINET, they're just lonely little fish in the shark tank.
I outright block smtp connections from them and any hosts that match these. There is nothing coming from hinet worth accepting.
hinet-ip.hinet.net
.dynamic.hinet.net
.dynamic-ip.hinet.net
Nope. Sorry. Spam is alive and well as it always was. But more and more companies are switching to mail for sending their bills.
I think you meant email for sending bills. Yes that's a good thing. I still stuff envelopes for those who refuse to get invoices via email.
And no, the spam problem is still alive and well. I responded to a user earlier who said he only gets 1 or 2 spams a month in his inbox, so no spam problem. He neglected completely all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into that excellent result. But there is still a ton of cpu time all over the planet dedicated to filtering that shit out!
I'm tired of spammers, seriously tired.
LOL. I'll bite 72442. I'm drinking, too, but somehow manged to tpe ths. Cheers!
Agreed but to be honest I get maybe 1 or 2 junk mails in my Outlook inbox every couple of months or so.
Sysadmins who happen to administer email servers have not forgotten. It's still an issue, big time.
While he's largely a TV guy, I'm a big fan of Bear McCreary. He did Battlestar Galactic and likely several other sci-fi shows you watch.
Oh for sure. I mean, it only took the opening scene of BSG to get me pretty hooked and the music just added to the awesome factor. Then it just got better!
And there seem to be many trolls saying this isn't news for nerds and yada yada. But they likely did not watch Wrath of Khan in a theater at first release. I was just closing in on being a teenager. Sometimes the music gets stuck in my head I have so many neurons dedicated to its storage! Hah.
Seriously though, we'll never know now his future compositions. Damn!
Tagged Orygun to help people get the pronunciation.
LOL. Argh! You did NOT just say that :-) But, yes you did.
And who buys a touch screen that size?
The producers of "CSI: Cyber." Duh :-)
It's easy to criticize a low budget spacecraft. "They shouldn't have had a log file overflow". "They should have tested panel deployment under realistic conditions". That covered 99% of the comments in the previous slashdot thread about this thing..
You've done well.
Some days later... score 0! Like it, love it, want some more of it.
Load up slashdot, audio starts playing automatically -- from an ad! I hit the mute button on the ad and it doesn't work! Audio still plays. I was having some decency in not using adblockers so /. still gets the ad revenue. Now I will likely never return. Screw you slashdot. Then, I have to put up with a terrible article that makes no sense. Slashdot died after Dice tookover, sorry.
I agree the ad load can be atrocious. They tend to slow down my chromebook, and once I watched my router for traffic when I loaded up slashdot, and oh boy was it sending a google of requests to dozens of places.
One solution is to log in and maintain excellent karma, that way you may get a neat little check box that says "Disable Ads". Once in awhile they remove it but eventually it comes back. I have no idea what heuristics they use to determine you're eligible. But I don't get why there are so many ACs around. You all aren't slashdotting from work _all the time_ are you?
Yes, and the first AC was pointing out where you could get it from.
LOL. This thread is funny as hell! It was obvious right away he's asking to have his UID *instead* of his own. But being that the other guy's is just a tad shy of 700,000, it wouldn't be much of an improvement!
Sheesh! Get over it.
One thing nice about Powershell is that you can truncate options as long as they're not abmiguous. So you can make -Recursive be -Rec, or even -R, as long as there's not also a -Recreate or -Recover options. That seems to be a nice middle-ground.
Interesting tidbit. Reminds of the linux ip command, such as "ip a a 192.xxx" instead of "ip address add 192.xxx". There are others I'm sure, but that command I end up using a lot.
this was obviously on someone's wet dream wish list (it was not so much written as released from the vaults)
My vote for the wet dreamer is the proverbial asshole known as Dick Cheney.
uncle
No one is perfect, bro. How long have I been doing this? Awhile, but still learn something new just about every day. Geek on!
what is an ansible?
In some science fiction stories such as the Ender's Game novels, an ansible is a method of communicating over great distances FTL. Two quantum-entangled particles transmit information between each other. And apparently, from a previous post I just replied to, another author Ursula LeGuin has used the term. And checking wikipedia it seems she coined the term, in 1966. Card must have borrowed the term for Ender's Game.
A fascinating thought. Who knows if such a thing will ever exist.
Faster than light communication cannot be done by any means we know of, so I borrowed an instantaneous communicator from some of Ursula K. LeGuin's books.
Huh. I have never heard of her. Honestly I thought your use of "ansible" came from Orson Scott Card's books. So did he pick up the term himself from one of her books?
Hopefully as people become more aware of such basic weaknesses, vendors will be under pressure to stop shipping devices with default credentials built-in, naively expecting grandma's and grandpa's to actually change them.
That's a big hope :-) When we install new wireless internet service in the various remote locations our customers live in, they purchase a wi-fi router from us and we configure the damn things ourselves. Unless they already have a router, of course, then we check it out and make sure it's locked down. It's the only way to be sure.
You seem to be a retard who can't think for himself. Every civilization in the history of mankind has condemned sodomy and never define marriage as anything but between a man and women.
Every civilization in the history of mankind? I don't know why you're calling someone else a retard.
So-called "sodomy" in many ancient societies hasn't always been seen as condemning someone to live eternity in hell. Ancient Greek and Roman societies, for example, were pretty loose in that regard.
You want to claim every people in history were a bunch of fools, be my guest. But, only other fools will believe you.
It was the same then as it is now; in any random group of humans, at least 1 in 10 are homosexual. And others were born with a gender but in their mind they *know* they are a different gender. I'm happy to be comfortable in my male skin, but small-minded people like you just can't grasp the concept.
It's always been this way and it always will. Get over it.
The submission was unintelligible. It makes zero sense. Who is approving these articles?
Indeed. I was wondering for just a moment if I had time-warped back to April 1.
I agree the keyboard isn't bad at all. A smooth experience all-in-all.
I'm going to be installing Linux alongside chromeos, and have installed ChrUbuntu on another chromebook. I wonder about Crouton vs. ChrUbuntu. My research suggests there are pros and cons to consider for each.