Near the end of CNN's special primetime report on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Wednesday, anchor Don Lemon read a pair of tweets he received from viewers suggesting the plane's disappearance could be the result of a "black hole," Bermuda Triangle or an occurence akin to the television series "Lost."
Lemon then turned to Mary Schiavo, former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and said, "I know it's preposterous, but is it preposterous, do you think, Mary?"
"It is," Schiavo replied. "A small black hole would suck in our entire universe. So we know it's not that. The Bermuda Triangle is often weather, and 'Lost' is a TV show."
Near the end of CNN's special primetime report on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Wednesday, anchor Don Lemon read a pair of tweets he received from viewers suggesting the plane's disappearance could be the result of a "black hole," Bermuda Triangle or an occurence akin to the television series "Lost."
And, it wouldn't surprise me if those tweeters got the suggestion from a blog. I say this because one of my cow-irker repeatedly bombards the rest of us with blogs claiming that the plane was hijacked by the U.S. government to kidnap Chinese scientists, that the plane was then flown to Diego Garcia, and that everyone who was not considered useful is now a slave working in the kitchens of Diego Garcia.
Journalists and bloggers are not the same, but journalists are slowly sinking to the level of bloggers because being a journalist doesn't really pay anymore.
No, it isn't. Go buy a dictionary. You can assign your own personal definitions to words, but no one has to accept them. And, if you want to talk about seeing people as subhuman, I suggest you turn on a television and see how men are portrayed in commercials and comedy.
When was the last time you saw, in a game with "battle thong" women, a main male hero character that wan't an Adonis figure? Generally, if a male character isn't muscular and handsome, he is either evil, comic relief, or pathetically insignificant.
You have faith in thousands silly little books and peer reviewed articles you read , each authored by thousands of independent researchersthat you probably don't even known, even though there is enough information that you could do it... yet you act like someone else believing in a book of stories that contradict each other, established historical fact, and scientific evidence is magically the exact opposite of what you do.
FTFY. Now can you see how your straw man argument is a bunch of bullshit, fuckwit?
You mean the daily bible shows I see on my TV listing aren't "equal" enough for your people? And, do try to say that ID and creationism aren't tied directly to the Christian religion. That is just disingenuous.
We should make video games that are not entertainment but rather socio-political enlightenment tools that show how bad cis white men are and how they oppress everyone else. We should do this by making games about how hard it is to be a woman, homosexual, or race that has been oppressed in the past.
Misogyny is about hating women. Those female characters in "battle thongs" are kicking ass and winning against men who are more dressed and have more muscles that any male player could hope to have. That doesn't sound like hate to me. That sounds like using sex to sell a game. That is marketing to the target audience of 16-29 year old males.
That really goes back to mislabeling the what is happening.
Mquote>Ideally, a program should be written, alpha tested, beta tested, then the version 1.0.0 release put out, which would really be 1.14.102 by today's standards.
No. Apparently, by today's standards, the release would be 0.135.2314
If the dictionary attack were to take an average of 2 trillion years to guess a single password, would it still be "simply idiotic"? Remember that most encryption would fall in that time frame.
If they thought it was ready, they would move it out of beta and give it a version number of one. Otherwise, they are publicly saying, whether they mean to or not, that the software does not pass muster in their own eyes.
A moving target for being "ready" is a sign of bad design and/or bad management.
Many people doing one thing is not a reason nor an excuse to do a different thing. (this is the fallacy that two wrongs make a right)
While you may be right, this is caused by the abuse of the standard version numbering system that is rampant in FLOSS. If you don't want your project to be viewed as immature, beta crap you need to stop labeling it as such and stop complaining that people believe and state that it is just that.
You think it is a hell of a long time? You must be pretty young then. Can you grasp the difference between 6 months and 6 years? If you were considering committing a crime and the punishment would be confinement, would you be more likely to commit the crime if the confinement was 6 months or 6 years? How about 1 year vs 5 years of your life?
The idea of confinement as a penalty is to make the reward of committing the crime less than the possible penalty if one gets caught. And, I know for a fact that it works. I know people who have not committed crimes specifically because I reminded them of possible consequences. And, I know a person who was released from prison who doesn't do anything that could send her back to prison because prison isn't a fun place.
For some people, prison isn't a deterrent. For some, it only becomes a deterrent after they have experienced it. But, for most people, the thought of prison is a deterrent and the longer the possible sentence, the greater the deterrent.
Appearances matter. What does it say that the developers and project managers don't think a piece of software is ready after 2, 5, even 10 years of "we think this release is pretty good, but we want everybody to hammer away at it until we can be sure"?
Why is it that the output of the process is never deemed to meet the design specifications? Is it that the specifications keep changing? Is it that the developers aren't up to the task? Is it that the design is fundamentally flawed? Why is it that the software can't pass muster?
You are confusing a problem fix with a change to cope with improved technology. This is like saying lack of wifi support in software developed before there was wifi is a bug.
That is not a bug fix because it wasn't a bug. That is making an upgrade to cope with technological change. In essence you are saying that the Unix password hash was buggy because technology improvements made it possible to brute force it thus making it necessary to implement the shadow file.
Seeing as you don't know if there will be a major version 34.0.0.0, or if it will be worth waiting for it, you are asking a foolish question akin to "Should I not date this woman because I might meet someone better later?" Does version 28 do what you need and want while whatever version or other software you are using now doesn't? Yes? Then use it. Otherwise, why change? Version changes are solely due to bugs. New requested features, user requested changes to the UI, even changes in standards or outside APIs can cause a change and thus a version number change.
Your argument relies on ignoring the "why" and "what" of the change while asking "should I adopt the change", making the question unanswerable.
So, to you, any imprisonment is torture. So, what do you recommend for dealing with criminals who violate the rules of society to such a degree that they are a danger to others and society in general? How would you punish a murderer? How would you punish a career thief? How would you punish a rapist?
How much would you lose if someone were to publish a way to multiply spend bitcoins, spend phantom bitcoins, or generate spurious transactions using other people's bitcoins?
Staying in the 0.x range for a long time is typical for open-source software -- a lot of packages don't go to 1.0 until they have been in use for many years. It doesn't necessarily imply anything bad (or good) about the reliability of the software.
This is an abuse of the standard version numbering system so that when a critical bug appears, they can say "but it is still in beta so what do you expect". That so much open source software is in perpetual beta is not a good thing, especially when one is trying to sell one's bosses on using it and they see anything under version 1.0.0 as being beta software and thus unreliable.
Personally, I see perpetual beta as an attempt to abdicate responsibility for the software by never saying it is ready for use by the general public. It shows a lack of confidence in the code and the project. And, I see having a major version of zero with a minor version in the triple or quadruple digits as either a failure of project management (via feature creep or failure to keep the project on track), a failure of design (the design is so poor that the software can't pass UAT), or a failure of software development to deliver a product that meets the design specifications.
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Near the end of CNN's special primetime report on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Wednesday, anchor Don Lemon read a pair of tweets he received from viewers suggesting the plane's disappearance could be the result of a "black hole," Bermuda Triangle or an occurence akin to the television series "Lost."
Lemon then turned to Mary Schiavo, former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and said, "I know it's preposterous, but is it preposterous, do you think, Mary?"
"It is," Schiavo replied. "A small black hole would suck in our entire universe. So we know it's not that. The Bermuda Triangle is often weather, and 'Lost' is a TV show."
"Right," Lemon said.
CNN may post "Child Run Down by Drunk Driver,"
Or that a plane was swallowed by a black hole...
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Near the end of CNN's special primetime report on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on Wednesday, anchor Don Lemon read a pair of tweets he received from viewers suggesting the plane's disappearance could be the result of a "black hole," Bermuda Triangle or an occurence akin to the television series "Lost."
And, it wouldn't surprise me if those tweeters got the suggestion from a blog. I say this because one of my cow-irker repeatedly bombards the rest of us with blogs claiming that the plane was hijacked by the U.S. government to kidnap Chinese scientists, that the plane was then flown to Diego Garcia, and that everyone who was not considered useful is now a slave working in the kitchens of Diego Garcia.
Journalists and bloggers are not the same, but journalists are slowly sinking to the level of bloggers because being a journalist doesn't really pay anymore.
No, it isn't. Go buy a dictionary. You can assign your own personal definitions to words, but no one has to accept them. And, if you want to talk about seeing people as subhuman, I suggest you turn on a television and see how men are portrayed in commercials and comedy.
When was the last time you saw, in a game with "battle thong" women, a main male hero character that wan't an Adonis figure? Generally, if a male character isn't muscular and handsome, he is either evil, comic relief, or pathetically insignificant.
You have faith in thousands silly little books and peer reviewed articles you read , each authored by thousands of independent researchersthat you probably don't even known, even though there is enough information that you could do it... yet you act like someone else believing in a book of stories that contradict each other, established historical fact, and scientific evidence is magically the exact opposite of what you do.
FTFY. Now can you see how your straw man argument is a bunch of bullshit, fuckwit?
You mean the daily bible shows I see on my TV listing aren't "equal" enough for your people? And, do try to say that ID and creationism aren't tied directly to the Christian religion. That is just disingenuous.
We should make video games that are not entertainment but rather socio-political enlightenment tools that show how bad cis white men are and how they oppress everyone else. We should do this by making games about how hard it is to be a woman, homosexual, or race that has been oppressed in the past.
Oh, you mean they pander to the fantasies of their target audience of 16-29 year old males?
Oh, and you are using the fallacy of Duke Nukem. Maybe you should check out Skyrim or Mass Effect or Halo.
Misogyny is about hating women. Those female characters in "battle thongs" are kicking ass and winning against men who are more dressed and have more muscles that any male player could hope to have. That doesn't sound like hate to me. That sounds like using sex to sell a game. That is marketing to the target audience of 16-29 year old males.
That really goes back to mislabeling the what is happening.
No. Apparently, by today's standards, the release would be 0.135.2314
So, what you are saying is that TOR shouldn't free and open ala FLOSS, yes?
Not exactly. They could say it is "A TOR(tm) browser" and be perfectly safe.
If the dictionary attack were to take an average of 2 trillion years to guess a single password, would it still be "simply idiotic"? Remember that most encryption would fall in that time frame.
If they thought it was ready, they would move it out of beta and give it a version number of one. Otherwise, they are publicly saying, whether they mean to or not, that the software does not pass muster in their own eyes.
A moving target for being "ready" is a sign of bad design and/or bad management.
Many people doing one thing is not a reason nor an excuse to do a different thing. (this is the fallacy that two wrongs make a right)
While you may be right, this is caused by the abuse of the standard version numbering system that is rampant in FLOSS. If you don't want your project to be viewed as immature, beta crap you need to stop labeling it as such and stop complaining that people believe and state that it is just that.
Seeing as anything under version 1.0 is considered a beta version, yes. That is the point.
Oh, there are reasons. Pride, standing, "face".
You think it is a hell of a long time? You must be pretty young then. Can you grasp the difference between 6 months and 6 years? If you were considering committing a crime and the punishment would be confinement, would you be more likely to commit the crime if the confinement was 6 months or 6 years? How about 1 year vs 5 years of your life?
The idea of confinement as a penalty is to make the reward of committing the crime less than the possible penalty if one gets caught. And, I know for a fact that it works. I know people who have not committed crimes specifically because I reminded them of possible consequences. And, I know a person who was released from prison who doesn't do anything that could send her back to prison because prison isn't a fun place.
For some people, prison isn't a deterrent. For some, it only becomes a deterrent after they have experienced it. But, for most people, the thought of prison is a deterrent and the longer the possible sentence, the greater the deterrent.
Appearances matter. What does it say that the developers and project managers don't think a piece of software is ready after 2, 5, even 10 years of "we think this release is pretty good, but we want everybody to hammer away at it until we can be sure"?
Why is it that the output of the process is never deemed to meet the design specifications? Is it that the specifications keep changing? Is it that the developers aren't up to the task? Is it that the design is fundamentally flawed? Why is it that the software can't pass muster?
You are confusing a problem fix with a change to cope with improved technology. This is like saying lack of wifi support in software developed before there was wifi is a bug.
That is not a bug fix because it wasn't a bug. That is making an upgrade to cope with technological change. In essence you are saying that the Unix password hash was buggy because technology improvements made it possible to brute force it thus making it necessary to implement the shadow file.
Um, no. You don't understand the term Quantitative Easing if you actually believe that.
Seeing as you don't know if there will be a major version 34.0.0.0, or if it will be worth waiting for it, you are asking a foolish question akin to "Should I not date this woman because I might meet someone better later?" Does version 28 do what you need and want while whatever version or other software you are using now doesn't? Yes? Then use it. Otherwise, why change? Version changes are solely due to bugs. New requested features, user requested changes to the UI, even changes in standards or outside APIs can cause a change and thus a version number change.
Your argument relies on ignoring the "why" and "what" of the change while asking "should I adopt the change", making the question unanswerable.
Your personal incredulity based on your unsupported assumptions is not a valid argument.
So, to you, any imprisonment is torture. So, what do you recommend for dealing with criminals who violate the rules of society to such a degree that they are a danger to others and society in general? How would you punish a murderer? How would you punish a career thief? How would you punish a rapist?
How much would you lose if someone were to publish a way to multiply spend bitcoins, spend phantom bitcoins, or generate spurious transactions using other people's bitcoins?
Staying in the 0.x range for a long time is typical for open-source software -- a lot of packages don't go to 1.0 until they have been in use for many years. It doesn't necessarily imply anything bad (or good) about the reliability of the software.
This is an abuse of the standard version numbering system so that when a critical bug appears, they can say "but it is still in beta so what do you expect". That so much open source software is in perpetual beta is not a good thing, especially when one is trying to sell one's bosses on using it and they see anything under version 1.0.0 as being beta software and thus unreliable.
Personally, I see perpetual beta as an attempt to abdicate responsibility for the software by never saying it is ready for use by the general public. It shows a lack of confidence in the code and the project. And, I see having a major version of zero with a minor version in the triple or quadruple digits as either a failure of project management (via feature creep or failure to keep the project on track), a failure of design (the design is so poor that the software can't pass UAT), or a failure of software development to deliver a product that meets the design specifications.