My criticism was directed at the writing, not the writer's experiences or devastating effects of them. Trauma of all kinds has serious effects on people and the healing certainly can't be done by merely wishing for it, agreed. Sorry if I came off as dismissing anyone's struggle.
The trivial events I was referring to were those that other people have dominated conversations with me talking about. In the article, trivial things like a video game poster are used to launch utterly boring paragraphs of pretense.
I hate crappy writing and I won't stop criticizing it when I encounter it in places meant for public consumption.
"At the very least do your searching through an engine that is separate to your ISP.
A customer of AOL searching through AOL has their searches linked to you as an individual. If you search through google then they get your IP address, and your ISP knows which IP address links to which individual at any one time (open Wifi networks aside). But at least the same company doesnt know both."
I'll take a materialist over an emotionalist any day. I mean fuck, get over your goddamn self (the author of the article)! You may have lost most of your material possessions, but apparently those were the least of your attachments.
(yes, I encounter too many people who go on and fucking on about some trivial event)
"if u want 2 see my resume', chec out my MySpace. ignore the pix of me (hehe, i was so drunk) and the awesome muzic (i wuz 9 when Maroon 5 relesed that song) and clic on the "CLICK ME" link."
Dear lusr1432,
Which of the hundreds of "click me" links am I supposed to click?
If you don't trust Google, then you won't trust their software or malware detection. If you do trust Google, then you will trust both. I don't get the problem.
"[...] the most important thing will not be to make sure that the government can't read what you communicate, but rather have no reason to suspect you're doing anything they don't like. [...]"
In other words, abiding the law will become insufficient; there will be a new set of truely harmless things which will be met with punishment, but without any courts involved or room for defense.
April 2005? That's been going on for decades! Almost every introductory programming text is in on the conspiracy. Always that cryptic phrase, "Hello, world!"
I have a somewhat related situation, that of a neighbor putting their little-but-fucking-noisy dog outside on the porch to bark all god damn day long (9:22 AM through 8:30 PM), for several hours averaging one half bark per second. When I moved here almost two years ago, the neighborhood was quiet and I could open my door during the day. Would the neighborhood association rules be of use in having the neighbor eliminate this sound?
I can imagine it: "After realizing the dishonest nature of his business, Bill Gates is returning all the money to customers in the form of a $5 off coupon for Vista, the upcoming next generation Microsoft operating system."
Funny Castlevania is mentioned, since I love to just pop Castlevania in and play it until I die. Compared to a decade ago, I can get quite far. There are lots of techniques that you learn over time to make smooth runs through the stages. Even the lack of jump control became something I enjoy, since it requires more strategic choice of when to jump.
I also play The Legend of Zelda every couple of years and enjoy every minute of it. Sometimes I even play both quests, as I don't know the second one as well as the first. This is perhaps one of the most solid games Nintendo has ever made.
"Bottom line is that nobody in the whole world can say with any certainty when Vista will actually be released."
Prepeare to be amazed!
Vista will be released at the same time as Duke Nukem Forever. Unfortunately, our sun will have run well before then and the universe's time counter will have run out of bits.
It's still an exploit of a piece of Mac hardware/software. Why should the technical detail matter to an end-user? "Oh, the exploit isn't due to a defect in the Mac OS X code, so I have nothing to worry about!"
We'd like to help you with your experiment in building an Orwellian society. We've already implemented some of your ideas, but we could use some tips as we aren't making progress as quickly as we had hoped.
Slashdot Mirror
My criticism was directed at the writing, not the writer's experiences or devastating effects of them. Trauma of all kinds has serious effects on people and the healing certainly can't be done by merely wishing for it, agreed. Sorry if I came off as dismissing anyone's struggle.
The trivial events I was referring to were those that other people have dominated conversations with me talking about. In the article, trivial things like a video game poster are used to launch utterly boring paragraphs of pretense.
I hate crappy writing and I won't stop criticizing it when I encounter it in places meant for public consumption.
And also +1 funny.
"At the very least do your searching through an engine that is separate to your ISP.
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A customer of AOL searching through AOL has their searches linked to you as an individual. If you search through google then they get your IP address, and your ISP knows which IP address links to which individual at any one time (open Wifi networks aside). But at least the same company doesnt know both."
Uhhh, your ISP sees every HTTP request you make, as in, http://www.google.com/search?q=embarrassing+searc
I'll take a materialist over an emotionalist any day. I mean fuck, get over your goddamn self (the author of the article)! You may have lost most of your material possessions, but apparently those were the least of your attachments.
(yes, I encounter too many people who go on and fucking on about some trivial event)
For those not acronym-challenged (TnAC):
IFOWON WiMAX TPF mobile broadband NGN build-out 4G overlords.
So much for Google's "do no evil" mantra. They're working with pure evil now!
"if u want 2 see my resume', chec out my MySpace. ignore the pix of me (hehe, i was so drunk) and the awesome muzic (i wuz 9 when Maroon 5 relesed that song) and clic on the "CLICK ME" link."
Dear lusr1432,
Which of the hundreds of "click me" links am I supposed to click?
Even something as basic as cropping can be used for a big effect. You never know what was outside the boundaries of the picture.
If you don't trust Google, then you won't trust their software or malware detection. If you do trust Google, then you will trust both. I don't get the problem.
"[...] the most important thing will not be to make sure that the government can't read what you communicate, but rather have no reason to suspect you're doing anything they don't like. [...]"
In other words, abiding the law will become insufficient; there will be a new set of truely harmless things which will be met with punishment, but without any courts involved or room for defense.
April 2005? That's been going on for decades! Almost every introductory programming text is in on the conspiracy. Always that cryptic phrase, "Hello, world!"
Yes, those court reporters and others who record dictation in shorthand, will be the revolutionaries! Hint: Steg
(sorry, just making an obligatory Slashdot-style joke, nothing personal)
A-fucking-men!
These days the mere process of being accused but not charged is itself an injustice that must be compensated for.
When this next-gen gamer looks at it, it immediately changes to a 3D-rendered image with all the latest effects.
I have a somewhat related situation, that of a neighbor putting their little-but-fucking-noisy dog outside on the porch to bark all god damn day long (9:22 AM through 8:30 PM), for several hours averaging one half bark per second. When I moved here almost two years ago, the neighborhood was quiet and I could open my door during the day. Would the neighborhood association rules be of use in having the neighbor eliminate this sound?
I can imagine it: "After realizing the dishonest nature of his business, Bill Gates is returning all the money to customers in the form of a $5 off coupon for Vista, the upcoming next generation Microsoft operating system."
Funny Castlevania is mentioned, since I love to just pop Castlevania in and play it until I die. Compared to a decade ago, I can get quite far. There are lots of techniques that you learn over time to make smooth runs through the stages. Even the lack of jump control became something I enjoy, since it requires more strategic choice of when to jump.
I also play The Legend of Zelda every couple of years and enjoy every minute of it. Sometimes I even play both quests, as I don't know the second one as well as the first. This is perhaps one of the most solid games Nintendo has ever made.
They are also considering an even more beneficial revised version that won't play on any device, Wontplayforsure.
Or this:
The application has been terminated due to insufficient ad clicks.
"Bottom line is that nobody in the whole world can say with any certainty when Vista will actually be released."
Prepeare to be amazed!
Vista will be released at the same time as Duke Nukem Forever. Unfortunately, our sun will have run well before then and the universe's time counter will have run out of bits.
It's still an exploit of a piece of Mac hardware/software. Why should the technical detail matter to an end-user? "Oh, the exploit isn't due to a defect in the Mac OS X code, so I have nothing to worry about!"
"So how do you protect your corporate crown jewels from staff that can so easily be bribed to steal them and hand them over to a competitor?""
Make a backup. Then if an employee steals the data (copies it and deletes the original), you've got your own backup.
Oh, wait, you didn't mean steal, did you? You meant copy. Big difference. A copy doesn't deprive you of the original.
The first thing that struck me was how well-composed the picture is. That's the kind of thing I'd expect in an interview, not a news story.
Dear UK,
We'd like to help you with your experiment in building an Orwellian society. We've already implemented some of your ideas, but we could use some tips as we aren't making progress as quickly as we had hoped.
Sincerely,
U.S.A.
"I'm a data manager in disease research.
We use paper.
We could have gone to electronic forms with laptops, but there are a number of reasons we don't."
I have a question.
Don't take it wrong.
Are disease research people also required to write very short paragraphs?
Thanks.