Never once were the premises of the workplace questioned - why do you need a boss at all? If you have a system that makes it most likely that assholes will succeed, why not change the system? the article is just hand wringing, with a few bits of measly tripe appeals to "the human condition." Not once does this article even mention the word "union."
He fails to recognize it doesn't matter what Apple does, it has a fan base that will buy anything it produces, whether it works or not. I guarantee you it will express exactly who you are, and that's what matters!
btw: you aren't racist if you hate gays. And one might call you a bigot, because you are a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion, such as those who choose to be racist. So you are a bigot towards racists. What makes you any better?
You've got to be kidding. How exactly is despising someone for virtue of being black, brown, gay or whatever now on the same level as despising someone's idea? It is not "prejudiced" to be opposed to christianity or islam, functionalism, capitalism, platonism, or what have you.
Yes - this is a big part of the story; but in general, when all human life is in the service of the economy - of survival - anything which cannnot be profited from, anything which has no teleology in service of survival, gets a real beating.
Hence, desire itself is perilously close to illegality.
Free Software - and also commercial UNIX to a great degree - has the highest standards of backwards compatibility - far more rigorous than anything Microsoft has come up with.
MS' idea of backwards compatibility is hampered by an ever changing filesystem layout where developers are encouraged to step on the OS as well as other apps. It does not work and never has. For MS, backwards compatibility is delusional lip service - but that is what IT managers like, after all.
It all goes back to essentially the UNIX focus on adherence to protocol standards, and the MS focus on profit - and a big part of that is breaking protocols to force obsolesence.
As commonly taken (smoked), no, it is nowhere near as powerful as morphine. Of course, it is not difficult to concentrate; and even so, has virtually none of the harmful side effects of something as dreadful as morhpine. THC is a quite effective pain reliever, though, as it is.
the collar is to prevent chewing and biting, not licking. Most dogs will reopen wounds or otherwise irritate them unless they are restrained. It most likely has to do with a healing wound being itchy. However, it is most likely not neccessary most of the time, as you suggest.
THC has little to no addictive qualities. It is perverse how something one could grow in ones backyard, for free, is of the highest criminality, yet somehow we feel a need to come up with something else - usually not as good - that requires an entire industrial infrastructure. While it is not hard to understand the reasons for this sad state of affairs, it is still... sad.
Anyone who believes anything written in Forbes is either an elitist or some sort of incredible moron.
Richard Stallman disagress with random Forbes magazine pundit. What a revelation.
Stallman is not the most socially gifted, err, person. However, he is correct in his views on software and society. Moreover, he is absolutely correct to take the issue as seriously as he does.
Since my home directories are on an nfs mounted share, and user accounts / groups / mount maps are in ldap, I find it so much easier to simply blow away the old installation and copy everything relevant over from a backup of/etc/. What could be simpler?
If you had any backports (like KDE 3.5.4 for kubuntu) or alternate sources, dist-upgrading is a little messy.
Nice post; cautious optimism is the only healthy way to live, especially for one in the sciences. Whether the device is 100% BS or not isn't the issue.
While I think all persecuted people (nerds included) are prone to developing a "narcissistic wound" over what has been done to them, it is unhealthy in the extreme to dwell on this in forms of revenge fantasy, as in games such as this clearly is. While it is extrodinarily dishonest to write off a persecuted minority as "narcissistic" (as many do), it is also jeopardous for those who are persecuted to dwell on this. Clear thinking people will realize this about themselves.
This narcissism also throws a total lack of empathy with other minorities into very clear relief. Look at how feminists, gays, blacks, nerds & whatever else very rarely show any solidarity with each other at all - this is truly sad.
As a long time Debian user I am not so surprised by this - it is just the reality when you operate a system with thousands of user & shell accounts all over the world. It isn't that big of a deal if the debian admins respond correctly, which they always do, but it looks bad.
The issue that gets me is this is the second time the Debian system has been compromised, and in the exact same way - a local kernel exploit from a compromised DD account. As good as the Debian security team is, they are frankly terrible with the kernel. The Linux kernel has continual local security exploits (I am not in denial about that); these don't matter so much for most deployments but for the Debian system they are absolutely critical because of all the shell accounts. The Debian kernel team really needs to work out something better (though I know the issue is more complicated than that); this is the one thing Red Hat does very well. I cannot for the life of me understand why debian servers kernels are not upgraded continually. The downtime is immaterial compared to something like this.
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What a waste of time reading this was!
Never once were the premises of the workplace questioned - why do you need a boss at all? If you have a system that makes it most likely that assholes will succeed, why not change the system? the article is just hand wringing, with a few bits of measly tripe appeals to "the human condition." Not once does this article even mention the word "union."
He fails to recognize it doesn't matter what Apple does, it has a fan base that will buy anything it produces, whether it works or not. I guarantee you it will express exactly who you are, and that's what matters!
This means nothing. It was never up for debate that security cameras aid law enforcement - clearly they do.
Catching one serial killer is nothing compared to the grotesque infrastructure of spying and social control that is being set up.
You've got to be kidding. How exactly is despising someone for virtue of being black, brown, gay or whatever now on the same level as despising someone's idea? It is not "prejudiced" to be opposed to christianity or islam, functionalism, capitalism, platonism, or what have you.
Yes - this is a big part of the story; but in general, when all human life is in the service of the economy - of survival - anything which cannnot be profited from, anything which has no teleology in service of survival, gets a real beating.
Hence, desire itself is perilously close to illegality.
Pick any random Linux distribution or *BSD and you will find many "30 year old programs"
Stop being stupid - most 16 bit windows software does NOT run on windows XP.
on the surface, this seems ridiculous.
Free Software - and also commercial UNIX to a great degree - has the highest standards of backwards compatibility - far more rigorous than anything Microsoft has come up with.
MS' idea of backwards compatibility is hampered by an ever changing filesystem layout where developers are encouraged to step on the OS as well as other apps. It does not work and never has. For MS, backwards compatibility is delusional lip service - but that is what IT managers like, after all.
It all goes back to essentially the UNIX focus on adherence to protocol standards, and the MS focus on profit - and a big part of that is breaking protocols to force obsolesence.
As commonly taken (smoked), no, it is nowhere near as powerful as morphine. Of course, it is not difficult to concentrate; and even so, has virtually none of the harmful side effects of something as dreadful as morhpine. THC is a quite effective pain reliever, though, as it is.
the collar is to prevent chewing and biting, not licking. Most dogs will reopen wounds or otherwise irritate them unless they are restrained. It most likely has to do with a healing wound being itchy. However, it is most likely not neccessary most of the time, as you suggest.
THC has little to no addictive qualities. It is perverse how something one could grow in ones backyard, for free, is of the highest criminality, yet somehow we feel a need to come up with something else - usually not as good - that requires an entire industrial infrastructure. While it is not hard to understand the reasons for this sad state of affairs, it is still ... sad.
Why was this modded "funny"?!?
It should be "+5, Insightful"
You know it is coming.
No, it is because you are a twit, like the PC guy.
... :)
how is it that the mac guy comes off as elitist?
The "scruffy elitist asshole Mac guy" is actually fucking hot. The PC guy is a boring fat twit. That is more the point of the ad than anything.
I just wish Justin Long was wearing less in the commercials than he is
Anyone who believes anything written in Forbes is either an elitist or some sort of incredible moron.
Richard Stallman disagress with random Forbes magazine pundit. What a revelation.
Stallman is not the most socially gifted, err, person. However, he is correct in his views on software and society. Moreover, he is absolutely correct to take the issue as seriously as he does.
Since my home directories are on an nfs mounted share, and user accounts / groups / mount maps are in ldap, I find it so much easier to simply blow away the old installation and copy everything relevant over from a backup of /etc/. What could be simpler?
If you had any backports (like KDE 3.5.4 for kubuntu) or alternate sources, dist-upgrading is a little messy.
Yes. And we all know the average IQ of marines as well.
Man, it's strange to see someone with such literary tastes on slashdot.
Nice post; cautious optimism is the only healthy way to live, especially for one in the sciences. Whether the device is 100% BS or not isn't the issue.
Way to miss the point - entirely. Slavery is better than death, so ... what exactly are you trying to say? Nothing? I thought so.
While I think all persecuted people (nerds included) are prone to developing a "narcissistic wound" over what has been done to them, it is unhealthy in the extreme to dwell on this in forms of revenge fantasy, as in games such as this clearly is. While it is extrodinarily dishonest to write off a persecuted minority as "narcissistic" (as many do), it is also jeopardous for those who are persecuted to dwell on this. Clear thinking people will realize this about themselves.
This narcissism also throws a total lack of empathy with other minorities into very clear relief. Look at how feminists, gays, blacks, nerds & whatever else very rarely show any solidarity with each other at all - this is truly sad.
Well, if you think that being mere chattel has no price, yes. It could only occur to a male to say something like this :).
Face it, video games are nothing more than a way for severely socially alienated nerds to pass the time (and waste their lives).
Just drop it with the "art" crap already, it's bullshit.
thanks for straightening that out ... I frankly can't believe sysadmins are rolling their own kernels for public boxes, really. Damn.
As a long time Debian user I am not so surprised by this - it is just the reality when you operate a system with thousands of user & shell accounts all over the world. It isn't that big of a deal if the debian admins respond correctly, which they always do, but it looks bad.
The issue that gets me is this is the second time the Debian system has been compromised, and in the exact same way - a local kernel exploit from a compromised DD account. As good as the Debian security team is, they are frankly terrible with the kernel. The Linux kernel has continual local security exploits (I am not in denial about that); these don't matter so much for most deployments but for the Debian system they are absolutely critical because of all the shell accounts. The Debian kernel team really needs to work out something better (though I know the issue is more complicated than that); this is the one thing Red Hat does very well. I cannot for the life of me understand why debian servers kernels are not upgraded continually. The downtime is immaterial compared to something like this.
yes! but have not been active in a few years ... I might already know you :)
Yes. We all know social and economic class in the US have nothing to do with race.