Lets not forget that Lee Harvey Oswald was a raving lunatic LEFTIST
What does left or right have to do with anything? If the left was drumming up support for protesting the construction of Christian churches, I'd be disgusted and worried about that, too. Wouldn't you?
more recently we have the nut job who took down 32 students at Virginia Tech a few years ago, John Malvo & John Allen Muhammad, the beltway sniper duo, McVeigh & Nicols
I think you and I both know those weren't populist movements. Those were crazed individuals, which is hardly the same thing as an organized protest against a religion, like we're seeing in NYC.
so all these are to be blamed on Beck too?
Should I blame your raving idiocy on this strawman I'm waving about? Shall I beat it with this stick I have, now?? How 'bout I knock it down! Yeah, serves you right!
So I guess the RT rally would be for a non-balanced budget, pro-emissions trade, pro-more complex tax system, anti-auditing the Federal Government, pro-escalating federal budgets, pro-earmarks, pro-tax increases.
Don't forget pro-Muslim, anti-racist, pro-social safety nets, pro-helping the poor, pro-the constitution applies to everyone and not just the people I like...
I don't know the term for the opposite of "comedian", "tragedean", maybe? Whatever the term would be, that's Beck. He openly uses lies and manipulative tragedy to get outrage among his followers. He derides everything in sight, with a double helping reserved for anyone who he thinks his followers might agree with him on.
I believe the term you're looking for is "demagogue":
A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
Exactly. Both sides are assholes which is why neither extreme should be the one holding power.
Sure... and then you get Obama, who's about as middle of the road as they come, hence why no one is happy. The Democrats wish he was more liberal, the Republicans wish he was more conservative, and everyone else wishes he was at least interesting enough to pay attention to.
It's not him you should be worried about. It's his racist, bigoted, narrow-minded, insane followers you should be worried about.
You know, the people who think Obama is both a radical Christian (reverend Wright!!!!) and a radical Muslim. The people who believe all Muslims are terrorists, and who are now setting fires to mosques, or protesting their construction (apparently human rights are only for Good Christians (tm)). The people who believe that the US is now, somehow, descending into hell, and the only solution is to return to some fictitious past that never existed, when men were men, women were women, and everyone feared god and were good and honest and never did anything wrong, ever ever ever, until those damned socialist hippies came in and ruined it all.
Frankly, I'm waiting for the first domestic terrorist attack on a mosque... that should make for an interesting debate, in which I'm sure the radical right-wing hypocrisy will reach levels as yet unseen.
After a Colbert rally, I am quite confident that there will be trash all over the place.
Huh... so I suppose you've done an in-depth survey, and have thus proven that Colbert Report viewers are slobs... or something?
Fuck, I'm saddened, yet unsurprised, you got modded up... apparently there are 3-4 idiots out there who believe that baseless opinions insulting groups they dislike qualifies as "interesting".
Yeah, that's always a good plan: reinventing the wheel and implementing your own encrypted storage solution. I'm sure your average Linux developer is qualified to do that. What could possibly go wrong?
They have known about them for ages (since 1971). However, they have only recently figured out how to actually make them at micron sizes.
Well, no, not quite. The effect was postulated decades ago, but it was purely theoretical at the time (well, okay, it has been emulated using complicated circuitry). Furthermore, it's not that scientists "figured out how to actually make them at micron sizes"... it's that the effect only comes to the fore at micron sizes, which is why it hadn't been discovered sooner.
No, the discovery is the ability to build a very simple implementation of this theorized circuit element, and its a mighty cool discovery indeed (someone linked to a IEEE article on memresistors... check it out, it's a great read, and does a very good job of explaining the theory and mechanism behind the operation of this particular implementation).
Another vote for the Revo, that is a *great* piece of hardware, and perfect for a home media PC. And if you don't want Myth (I'm a Myth user, but let's face it, the UI ain't great), XBMC on Linux is another good option.
Uhhh, acquiring a billion dollar company isn't like buying and selling stocks. Organizations like eBay don't drop that kind of dough just to buy low and sell high. Those kinds of acquisitions are done because they're either strategic (lock up related markets, deprive competitors, etc), or because it adds value to existing business.
eBay buying Skype seemingly fit neither of those molds (unlike, say, the Oracle purchase of Sun), and so its absolutely valid to question why they made the original purchase.
Did it turn out well for them, monetarily? Sure. But it was still a strange acquisition, rendered stranger by their decision to now sell it off.
I disagree. The components that "optionally used a light gun" were a very small part of the overall game (they'd have to be, otherwise the light gun couldn't be optional). As such, I think you can certainly enjoy and appreciate this game in an emulator.
Off-shore drilling was never going to be suspended. There was some talk of a moratorium on *new exploration*, but that wouldn't have applied to this rig.
It's a shame that very few people will experience it.
'course, that's a solvable problem. There are many solid Sega CD emulators out there, and the ISO can be... acquired... if one is so inclined.
Personally, I *owned* a Sega CD back in the day, but had never heard of Snatcher. Fast forward to about two years ago, and I played through it for the very first time. Definitely a solid title, though not terribly challenging (it's basically a choose-your-own-adventure story done digitally).
I'm not sure I quite understand how the rationing (mentioned in the last sentence) would work, though.
They're probably talking about good ol' fashioned traffic shaping. Most routers allow one to "shape" traffic in various ways, based on various metrics. So the network operator, in this case, would be advised to throttle the transfer rate for traffic marked has "higher precedence". That way, while latency would remain low, total transfer rate would be reduced, thus discouraging the user from abusing the system this way. Meanwhile, actual low-latency applications will continue to work fine, as those tend to require less bandwidth.
In other words, what stops an inconsiderate application or user who is sharing a pipe with others from simply marking all packets as highest priority, low latency, high throughput, etc?
Well, in the IPv4 world, those bits are disparate, so you wouldn't be able to set all those traffic profiles at once. Now, DSCP provides a hell of a lot more flexibility, but even so, as a network engineer, you'd probably configure a set of mutually exclusive profiles for specific classes of traffic (eg, low latency versus bulk transfer, etc), and I believe the DiffServ RFCs specify a few default traffic classes which correspond to the standard IPv4 classes.
So there really isn't a lot of room for abuse in this kind of scheme. If a user decides to mark all their packets as low latency, they would end up reducing their bulk transfer rate, and vice versa.
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So... my comment is flamebait... but the OP isn't.
Riiiight. Gotcha.
Yeah, Slashdot is *definitely* the bastion of lefty socialists. Man, I can barely stand it!
Lets not forget that Lee Harvey Oswald was a raving lunatic LEFTIST
What does left or right have to do with anything? If the left was drumming up support for protesting the construction of Christian churches, I'd be disgusted and worried about that, too. Wouldn't you?
more recently we have the nut job who took down 32 students at Virginia Tech a few years ago, John Malvo & John Allen Muhammad, the beltway sniper duo, McVeigh & Nicols
I think you and I both know those weren't populist movements. Those were crazed individuals, which is hardly the same thing as an organized protest against a religion, like we're seeing in NYC.
so all these are to be blamed on Beck too?
Should I blame your raving idiocy on this strawman I'm waving about? Shall I beat it with this stick I have, now?? How 'bout I knock it down! Yeah, serves you right!
So I guess the RT rally would be for a non-balanced budget, pro-emissions trade, pro-more complex tax system, anti-auditing the Federal Government, pro-escalating federal budgets, pro-earmarks, pro-tax increases.
Don't forget pro-Muslim, anti-racist, pro-social safety nets, pro-helping the poor, pro-the constitution applies to everyone and not just the people I like...
I don't know the term for the opposite of "comedian", "tragedean", maybe? Whatever the term would be, that's Beck. He openly uses lies and manipulative tragedy to get outrage among his followers. He derides everything in sight, with a double helping reserved for anyone who he thinks his followers might agree with him on.
I believe the term you're looking for is "demagogue":
Exactly. Both sides are assholes which is why neither extreme should be the one holding power.
Sure... and then you get Obama, who's about as middle of the road as they come, hence why no one is happy. The Democrats wish he was more liberal, the Republicans wish he was more conservative, and everyone else wishes he was at least interesting enough to pay attention to.
Stand on cars...
wtf? I must be missing something...
But seriously, lets not take Beck too seriously.
It's not him you should be worried about. It's his racist, bigoted, narrow-minded, insane followers you should be worried about.
You know, the people who think Obama is both a radical Christian (reverend Wright!!!!) and a radical Muslim. The people who believe all Muslims are terrorists, and who are now setting fires to mosques, or protesting their construction (apparently human rights are only for Good Christians (tm)). The people who believe that the US is now, somehow, descending into hell, and the only solution is to return to some fictitious past that never existed, when men were men, women were women, and everyone feared god and were good and honest and never did anything wrong, ever ever ever, until those damned socialist hippies came in and ruined it all.
Frankly, I'm waiting for the first domestic terrorist attack on a mosque... that should make for an interesting debate, in which I'm sure the radical right-wing hypocrisy will reach levels as yet unseen.
After a Colbert rally, I am quite confident that there will be trash all over the place.
Huh... so I suppose you've done an in-depth survey, and have thus proven that Colbert Report viewers are slobs... or something?
Fuck, I'm saddened, yet unsurprised, you got modded up... apparently there are 3-4 idiots out there who believe that baseless opinions insulting groups they dislike qualifies as "interesting".
Implement your own secure storage strategy
Yeah, that's always a good plan: reinventing the wheel and implementing your own encrypted storage solution. I'm sure your average Linux developer is qualified to do that. What could possibly go wrong?
If you ask browser to remember passwords, they will be stored somewhere in plain text or in some form that can be decrypted.
It's called a password-protected, encrypted keychain, and it's hardly new technology.
They have known about them for ages (since 1971). However, they have only recently figured out how to actually make them at micron sizes.
Well, no, not quite. The effect was postulated decades ago, but it was purely theoretical at the time (well, okay, it has been emulated using complicated circuitry). Furthermore, it's not that scientists "figured out how to actually make them at micron sizes"... it's that the effect only comes to the fore at micron sizes, which is why it hadn't been discovered sooner.
No, the discovery is the ability to build a very simple implementation of this theorized circuit element, and its a mighty cool discovery indeed (someone linked to a IEEE article on memresistors... check it out, it's a great read, and does a very good job of explaining the theory and mechanism behind the operation of this particular implementation).
Another vote for the Revo, that is a *great* piece of hardware, and perfect for a home media PC. And if you don't want Myth (I'm a Myth user, but let's face it, the UI ain't great), XBMC on Linux is another good option.
Ask the Californians who voted for their referendum system. Clearly they thought it was a neat idea... in theory...
Well put. It's a classic example of "it's a nice idea in theory...". Kinda like pure capitalism or communism, or pure direct democracy.
Why? Do you want elections to be decided by people forced to participate with no interest in the political process?
Absolutely. If people were forced to vote, at minimum, they would be forced to pay *some* attention to the political process.
Do you want to deny fellow citizens the right to abstain from voting if they feel the choice of candidates amounts to no choice at all?
Then write in a candidate. Or select a third party and give 'em a fighting chance. Or, worst case, run for office yourself.
All rights are voluntary, or they aren't really rights.
Voting isn't simply a right, it's a duty. That's my point.
Anything else is fascism.
So I suppose you feel jury duty is fascism, too, then? Interesting...
Uhhh, acquiring a billion dollar company isn't like buying and selling stocks. Organizations like eBay don't drop that kind of dough just to buy low and sell high. Those kinds of acquisitions are done because they're either strategic (lock up related markets, deprive competitors, etc), or because it adds value to existing business.
eBay buying Skype seemingly fit neither of those molds (unlike, say, the Oracle purchase of Sun), and so its absolutely valid to question why they made the original purchase.
Did it turn out well for them, monetarily? Sure. But it was still a strange acquisition, rendered stranger by their decision to now sell it off.
And then get charged for contempt of court and thrown in jail, as she should've been originally.
Yeah. Good plan!
I wish jury service was a voluntary duty, not unlike voting.
Funny, I wish voting was mandatory, not unlike jury duty.
I disagree. The components that "optionally used a light gun" were a very small part of the overall game (they'd have to be, otherwise the light gun couldn't be optional). As such, I think you can certainly enjoy and appreciate this game in an emulator.
Off-shore drilling was never going to be suspended. There was some talk of a moratorium on *new exploration*, but that wouldn't have applied to this rig.
Which, if true, begs the obvious question (yeah, I used that phrase that way, fuck off pedants): how the hell does a non-producing oil rig explode?
It's a shame that very few people will experience it.
'course, that's a solvable problem. There are many solid Sega CD emulators out there, and the ISO can be... acquired... if one is so inclined.
Personally, I *owned* a Sega CD back in the day, but had never heard of Snatcher. Fast forward to about two years ago, and I played through it for the very first time. Definitely a solid title, though not terribly challenging (it's basically a choose-your-own-adventure story done digitally).
Err, how, exactly, is the PC a "failed platform"?
I'm not sure I quite understand how the rationing (mentioned in the last sentence) would work, though.
They're probably talking about good ol' fashioned traffic shaping. Most routers allow one to "shape" traffic in various ways, based on various metrics. So the network operator, in this case, would be advised to throttle the transfer rate for traffic marked has "higher precedence". That way, while latency would remain low, total transfer rate would be reduced, thus discouraging the user from abusing the system this way. Meanwhile, actual low-latency applications will continue to work fine, as those tend to require less bandwidth.
In other words, what stops an inconsiderate application or user who is sharing a pipe with others from simply marking all packets as highest priority, low latency, high throughput, etc?
Well, in the IPv4 world, those bits are disparate, so you wouldn't be able to set all those traffic profiles at once. Now, DSCP provides a hell of a lot more flexibility, but even so, as a network engineer, you'd probably configure a set of mutually exclusive profiles for specific classes of traffic (eg, low latency versus bulk transfer, etc), and I believe the DiffServ RFCs specify a few default traffic classes which correspond to the standard IPv4 classes.
So there really isn't a lot of room for abuse in this kind of scheme. If a user decides to mark all their packets as low latency, they would end up reducing their bulk transfer rate, and vice versa.